skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done this several times with my own design because otherwise I tend to get lost tweaking colors for hours. It's been a good technique to get me unblocked and moving forward.

At the same time, I've found that when I circle back to add color to the resulting design, it gets even harder to choose an interesting palette. I get used to seeing it monochromatic and adding vibrant colors looks "wrong" to me, so the end result is often less saturated than I really prefer.

Much of this is probably because I'm just not very skilled at working with color.
Some creepy tracking, but curious why you think it’s a scam? I understand how payday lenders can be considered scams, but it seems like Earnin makes all the fees optional.

I haven’t used the app, just read their marketing pages, BTW so I may have missed something.
The Ping Page (2007)
How is the CO2 capture for redwood (250t over 3000yrs per tree) compared with other trees ? Would be interesting to know if the lifecycle of those short lived trees (compared with redwood) have better efficiency regarding the carbon capture ...
GitHub Classroom and Travis CI Improved Students’ Grades
I’ve been playing around with a thought lately, that religion is to philosophy what engineering is to science - the practical application of otherwise esoteric ideas about the world in which we live.
> In a "normal" system, you don't trust third parties to create transactions to begin with. Third parties use a centralized system to create the transactions and you trust that centralized system.

For example as a merchant you don't have to trust PayPal with your money and trust them to process credit cards from the buyer and then send it to you.

You can just accept payments digitally directly like if they gave you cash in person.

> This really only applies if you're actively trying to lie to the government

I value my privacy and I don't want my transaction history to be sold to advertisement companies and the like.
They’re a relatively high percentage of vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-bicycle collisions, though. Very important for a pedestrian-oriented city like NYC.
NgIf Else in Angular and *NgIf Else Async Pipe Observable Example
My DR procedure was to automatically restore the mail server, DB server and file server once a month with automated fail back to the live servers if they failed.

These would happen outside heavy operation hours, and if successful, the restored servers would become the live servers in most instances.

These were done using scripted vmware instances, mostly restoring from StorageCraft Shadow Protect backups.

File server was the most resource intensive and the most prone to complaints about downtime, but usually the trade off was fine.

DB server was usually fine due to the out of hours restore, and the ability to master - slave - replicate - handover.

Mail server was usually transparent as you could set up smtp transfer rules for incoming, and outgoing didn't really care.

The trickier ones were things like IBM I Series servers that usually require periodic full system saves, restores and tests. These couldn't be done automatically without excessive licensing fees and much manual baby sitting.

If you get to the point where you have automatic scheduled DR, you can be pretty confident your backups are working.

It the automated DR fails, you roll back, learn whatever lesson the failure taught you, and change the system so it doesn't happen again.

Summary: schedule DR, not backups.
Cool. Any decent implementation for client side forth in the browser so I can do some good old Asynchronous Forth And staX?
When I bid on coins I NEVER bid the actual maximum on ebay; I just use gixen.com and place my actual willingness to pay there.

The reason is that for most goods (luxury goods, stuff with resale value, stuff where you might now all the details, etc.) you are actually dealing with a common value auction, so you DON'T want to reveal your cards before hand.

For instance, suppose I see an auction with 5 existing bids.. I stop and say wait that's probably something interesting, and start doing a bit more research on the value of the coin.

Similarly, I might do some quick research and decide that a coin is valued at $10, but if I see bids at $100 that means that either my prior was wrong or the bidders are wrong, and thus I do a bit more research and try to see if there is anything special about the coin (e.g. the quality is actually higher than what the auction description says).

Then besides all these rational motives, you have the irrational ones. A lot of people bid on things almost like gambling (bid the maximum+1, if that doesn't make them the highest bidders, then keep bidding). If you don't place your bid out there, you prevent this problem altogether.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_value_auction
While the UI is not exactly polished or anything, it is really refreshing to see someone actually care about efficiency and storage.

Nowadays a simple calculator app takes like 30 or 40 megabytes of space.
I'm not sure if you realize how dangerous it is to carry around cash in Venezuela. It has an extremely high crime rate and in many cases carrying around that much cash would simply get you killed.

It is very hard to get USD in Venezuela. Are there black markets for USD? Of course, but you have to go through all the shady dealers you can imagine to get it.
Yep. In a hundred more years there'll be a tear-jerking piece about how NIMBYs in SF resisted new housing being built.
It isn’t about will power. Will power can and will fail you. This is not a proposed solution to depression. Though, you will find, these same ideas I sketched from Stoicism are at the center of CBT, which is one of the few modern therapies that helps improve depression. This is more about having a framework for coping with negative emotions and positive emotions. I understand the biological issues with depression, this is just dealing with life from a relatively well adjusted starting point. If you are clinically depressed, life philosophy is important for maintenance and staying out of the hole (IMO). You certainly can’t get out if you are caught in a cycle of self defeat and the brains chemicals are out of whack. There is no universal advice that will work for everyone. But Stoicism is a powerful tool that has helped people endure unimaginable circumstances. (Stockdsle, Vietnam POW, concentration camp survivors, etc).

Final thought, depression is about recognizing the thought patterns of depression. Having awareness of thought patterns is a key part of how psychology treats modern depression.
You might be gender biased if you think of a list of gender-biased behaviors, and they're all examples of men behaving badly towards women.
Success for OEMs vs success for individual consumers/developers mean different product strategies. Focusing efforts on a limited set of popular consumer boards seems like a better use of resources. I bet OEMs have their own private channels to get custom system images for their own hardware.
>that backup has to include an offline component

I'd balance this (and arethuza's reply) with the basic fact that we have to balance all backup advice with practicalities of a given individual or organization's situation too. A backup is also no good if it's not used, consistently, or if someone is told "if you don't do X might as well not even bother" and gets discouraged because X requires more capital expenditure or expertise then they're actually capable of. Any decent backup is in fact better then nothing and can help with at least some failure scenarios. More expansive backups can deal with a wider range of threats, but tend to be more expensive too. I don't want anyone to ever be discouraged from getting the ball rolling. Just using a direct simple cloud solution or plug-in USB drive even is definitely objectively better then nothing.

There is also room for hybrids and considering where, exactly, the offline bit should come in. It doesn't necessarily have to be the physical storage. There are cloud storage providers that offer WORM capability, or can separate delete/over write permissions from append. So it's possible to have a system that is backing up to that independent service through a restricted permission account and then have all management done from a minimal dedicated set of notebooks that are generally kept locked in safes. Another dedicated isolated system could be responsible for pulling a sample of backup files down and doing some simple watchdogging (even just a tripwire or entropy check). The backup is automatic and offsite, but it'll still have some additional resistance to remote attacks on the main site by virtue of system independence even if it's not tapes in a vault. And it's more practical for a small or less technically competent org.

I don't deny the value of tapes in a vault or similar, just recognize the capex and the difficulty of many places in making sure it's sufficiently consistent. Resist the finger wagging urge is the main thing, at least not without considering the cost/value equation for the specific situation.

Edit: to be clear, in this specific case there is definitely a reasonable argument that after decades and with a reasonable number of users they should have built up to something heavier duty. It did have paying users apparently after all. Even if it took a few years to save up for a better backup system that should have been done. But then again even just using Amazon Glacier and creating some custom IAM policies for API restriction along with Vault locks may have been enough to prevent this particular attack.
One mans "criminal" is another's political activist living under a dictatorship.

I'd argue that a majority of the world's population currently live under what could be described as an authoritarian regime.
> On the other hand, I usually try to talk people out of becoming a professional pilot: one health hiccup and your medical certificate is in jeopardy.

Is there insurance coverage for this? Something akin to disability insurance for this specific scenario?
Not the original poster but I would point to the Shiller PE (i.e. CAPE) ratio as a useful indicator of potential over-valuation. The increasing cost required to make the same in earnings is disconcerting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically_adjusted_price-to-e...

http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm
or you can just turn it off in new firefox...
The problem lies on enough: the overhead of static typing has to be lower, in the lifespan of a project, to the time spent fixing bugs like this one.

(Other things, like liability from bugs and crashes, may give an edge to static typing. The age-old debate is how much)
> There were no dangerous cars, just bad drivers.

i remember reading about airplane accidents almost always being labeled as "human error", as it's cheaper to replace pilots than it's to replace whole airplanes.
Regular tests are fine. Restoring every single backup is unwarranted paranoia. It doesn't prove that your system is failproof, because nothing is.
well, the task of distinguishing cats and dogs is vastly different from the task of what defines a dog and a cat. You don't need to learn the underlying data-manifold, but just a decision-function between those two data-manifolds. We can't really build scalable models for the second problem yet, but have made great progress for the first one.
While there is a level where it becomes a masturbatory exercise I think caution is well advised with messaging applications in particular.

Sure Slack/Discord are black boxes, but developed by companies that have time and capital invested in proving they are not doing malicious things.
The design of this paper (rgj.com) is filled with many either unintended bugs or serious anti-patterns. It's almost impossible to read.
This story is from December.
I'm confused. Why does the number of restores affect how much space you need?
Like our chief pilot used to say: "All regulations are written by dead people".
What I believe is that if you want to use an inflationary currency, then that should be your choice.

And if you disagree, you should also be free to use a deflationary currency.

Both groups should be able to choose which currency that they want.
Thanks so much for the reply! I’ll use this as I go forward to hopefully make the right decisions. I wish you the best of luck with your venture, it’s an amazing idea and I believe in you both :)
Bulleted changes from the article:

- The pre-sale, which is like the early-bird sale for tickets, will be moved until after the directed group sale, which is for burners who are "key contributors to Black Rock City (theme and mutant vehicle camps, art collectives, and core teams)."

- That directed group sale is also growing by 10 percent more tickets in an attempt to boost "meaningful participation."

- The application-based Low Income Ticket Program will grow by 18 percent.

- The organization is also reducing the number of high-priced tickets available by 30 percent: "Higher-priced tickets will now be limited to 2 per person instead of 4 per high-priced tier, and buyers in what was formerly the “Pre-Sale” will no longer be able to participate in subsequent public sales," Goodell wrote.

- The limited sale will also be eliminated this year, which for the past two years allowed burners to purchase $1,200 tickets into July, according to the post.

It's interesting to me because most people who get tickets via the directed group sale contribute very little to the event beyond the camp dues they pay. Most full theme camps are planned and run by just a few people. I really think they should increase main sale tickets rather than directed group sale. Prioritize people who really are radically self-reliant and still want to contribute and aren't just paying dues to a camp and using their infrastructure.

Of course everyone will complain about the tickets no matter what they do though. Cool they are trying to improve.
Oddly, most of the complaints against lisp just don't acknowledge that they have actually had type safety for a long long time. Not just in racket's types. But common lisp has had valid compilation steps for a long long time.
So I just checked my heuristics at chrome://media-engagement/ and zdnet.com has a personal MEI of 0.0 with 7 visits (for comparison, YouTube is 0.76), and the stated threshold at the top of that page for allowing video with sound is min 0.2 max 0.3.

So just ugh. Disappointed in Chrome that zdnet.com is somehow considered high enough quality to play videos with audio automatically. :(
How did you know if the pg_dump finished running? In my experience, there doesn't seem to be any way to find out if it finished, or exited prematurely. The only hack I came up with is to write the output to a log, and then grep the log for the last alphabetical table, and ensure it was in the log. That usually meant it backed up all the tables.
There are cases that I'm all for bashing Google when they don't give the company they're targeting enough time to patch something (recently, seems mostly directed at Microsoft). This isn't one of those cases.

They seem to have waited until Apple had a patch ready, they disclosed it to Apple and gave them an adequate amount of time to patch the vulnerability, and users are better for it.

So in this case and others similar to it, kudos to Google.
Not STEM, but rather science and medicine.

Instead of this clickbait article, how about linking to the actual Lancet issue: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol393no1017...
This is what everybody has been working on for the past ten years.
I see it more as a stop-gap. Reducing some of the damage transitioning to renewable energy over the next 1-3 decades. And optimistically doing my small part.
I work at Ericsson today. Unfortunately, the environment is very much like the one described by the OP: open plan office, noise, chit-chat, interruptions, daily stand-ups (which are mostly a waste of time), scrum meetings which take place far too often, retrospectives which turn into blamestorm sessions. All of this makes the office a rather unpleasant place to be. Which is a shame, because whenever I get to actually sit down and get some work done, I tend to enjoy it.

You'd think I could cope with this by working from home, but that option is limited, too.
I mean obviously you have to trust that the Bitcoin network works as it should.

And you're right, Bitcoin is broken. It's only an implementation of a cryptocurrency though and using it to dismiss cryptocurrencies in general isn't right.

See for example Bitcoin Cash (BCH) which isn't artificially crippled like Bitcoin (BTC).
Swedes have lots of real natural resources. Check your facts.
You can just call them Indian numbers. "Arabic" didn't contribute anything to the number system except using them.

Calling them as "Arabic" numbers is as dated as words like "Orientals", "Indians" to refer to native Americans, etc.,
> Is there ever a way for a customer to be sure a company isn't misusing their data?

I'm interested in this too. But I don't have a practical answer. In terms of knowing if a service is misusing their data, I guess you could have a trusted third party do an audit? Though that doesn't really solve the problem of changing over time. Just because a service isn't misusing your data, doesn't mean they can't then change. And there's the issue of who to trust. An auditor that specialises in these things would have a serious conflict of interest issue to address. That all sounds terribly expensive.
This one is in Fort Collins and defaults to WWV.

http://n6gn.no-ip.org:8073/
what do you mean by ruled? there is no ruler. thats the point
Sounds a lot like our infamous drop bear.

https://australianmuseum.net.au/learn/animals/mammals/drop-b...

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/04/drop-be...
Launch HN: Zeta – a money manager for couples
Hey HN - I’m Aditi, the founder of Zeta (https://www.askzeta.com/a/hn), a free web + mobile app designed to help young couples manage money together. We learned that most couples use spreadsheets to manage money which are painfully tedious and often used only by one person. We really think tech can automate money and take over the chores we all deal with (paying bills, account monitoring, etc).

To tell you a bit more about the product: couples can link their accounts, set budgets and track their spending as with many PFM apps. But we’ve added “couply” features like keeping track of split expenses, personal/shared views of your money, shared goals and memos on individual transactions. You also control what your partner sees. It takes 5 minutes to setup, which is basically the same amount of time you’d spend deciding whether it’s your turn or your partner’s to buy the groceries. :)

Some things we’ve learned:
- Transaction accuracy is still a big problem in personal finance. Even with of AI/ML, we still see a lot of transactions mistagged. We’ve invested in building a database that drives that accuracy and found ways to include the user in helping us solve for the rest (curse you paypal/square/venmo). Internally, we call this tinder for transactions.
- The multi-platform approach is definitely working (web + mobile). We are finding different usage patterns between the CFO persona vs. the passive persona and having different ways of accessing Zeta is a big need for our users.
- A shocking number of users don’t share their personal account info with their partners. We definitely expected to see this for folks earlier in their relationship but are seeing this for people married and with kids. This totally surprised us.
- People want to pay us a monthly fee. We haven’t rolled out a paid product but a handful of users actually asked to pay us this week. That felt like a milestone.

All questions/feedback much appreciated.
I'm with you. On that day, I assume everyone in the world except me knows how to exploit my system, and the vendor is racing the clock.
Wow, how much I'm paying and how little I could have been!
Very cool idea and well executed.
He failed because sales for JC Penney fell, but in a sense perhaps he succeeded in preventing people from purchasing clothes they didn't necessarily need?
Seems like your objection would be solved by the proposal.

Towns would no longer have this bullshit revenue source, and might actually set the limits to a reasonable level instead of one intended to make you screw up.
Doesn't it depend on the terms of the arbitration clause inthe contract?
pay 2% of its value in taxes/year? In a mere 50 years

<pedantic>
More like 36 years.
</pedantic>

There's a quick trick to a good approximation for this. The rule of 72 says that you can estimate the time it takes a compounded investment to double by dividing the interest rate by 72. 2% for 36 years will double the investment (or, since your actual statement was going the other way, strip it to nothing)

See, for example, https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/what-is-the-rule-72...
And yet, they are responsible for millions in extra top-line revenue for massive companies. These guys are good at what they do :)
LTO-8 tapes can store 12TB (uncompressed) for about $300/ea, which is about 30% less than a disk, with supposedly a 30-year life. The drives start at around $5000.
I regularly work in a statically typed language (Scala) and a dynamic/gradually typed language (Python.)

I never find that static types force me to plan more – it's pretty easy to change them on the fly.

I frequently find that static types let the IDE highlight an error the second I write it, instead of waiting until running tests. And every codebase I've worked with has taken at least a few minutes to run tests (and sometimes much longer), so this is a pretty substantial savings.

Or in other words, static types free me up to be more creative, by requiring me to spend less energy & attention on certain types of errors that were common before.
I don’t see that much has changed. Life events unfold around us largely out of our control. We have a few scraps of knowledge and can frame our place differently, but nothing fundamental about human existence has changed. We live a bit longer. We have some cool gadgets. But we still die. We have not spread beyond earth. People still murder and kill and conquer and the only way to save ourselves is through ourselves. Call it a creator. Call it life. Most of it, we have no control over, just like the ancient Greeks. Until we radically alter the human condition, not much changes.
> I'm using it as a descriptor for people who make arguments against semis.

Doesn't change the point: "back in my day, we used semicolons everywhere..."

> Yes, but it's clearly there as a corrective measure for people who mistakenly omit them. So, the spirit of the language spec and all signs point to: use them.

I think you're projecting quite a bit here. If you're interested, here's a ticket from TC39 proposing directly discussing possible issues with ASI: https://github.com/tc39/ecma262/pull/1062/files

Point being they're not advocating for using semicolons, but making it clear what the possible edge cases are.

> But anyway...why do you not want semis?

Because I don't want the noise. Yeah, theoretically they might save you some time debugging once in a few million LoC but including them everywhere adds a whole lot of pointless characters.