skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Foxconn can break the deal, why can't Wisconsin?
You should have an offsite backup. If for some reason you don't, you have options to secure a backup host.

You can harden a backup host to prevent most every conceivable method to destroy the backup. You can lock down network access to prevent any connection but one to the file retrieving service itself, and prevent operations such as deletes or overwrites. You can use an append-only filesystem. You can use a SAN or NAS to allow a backup host access to one particular mount to dump files, and a different host can then move files off that mount onto a different mount that the backup host has no access to. Or you could even have "rotating backup hosts" that went effectively offline for a week at a time each, giving you several weeks worth of offline backups in case one backup server got compromised.

But probably you should just do offsite backups.
I am one of those people that buy into the Apple way.

That doesn't mean I expect them to review every single internal enterprise app that every company on the planet builds. I simply expect them to police the App Store so I am not wasting my money or destroying my phone/tablet.
that's exactly how I found him...
Did you major in Econ or something?
Please don't take HN threads in flamey directions, and especially not by getting personal about it.

Your comment would be fine with just the last paragraph.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I replied to you in the other thread you started - according to one university website I read, you're not estimating the cost by half in that. Even here you're not counting food in your calculation, nor any other money for books or supplies, or any spending money. Also, you're working 30 hours a week basically all year long, that's a lot of work come exam time.
The autoplay blocking involves a complicated set of heuristics involving the domain name and your past behavior with that domain...
This article is claiming that globalism and free trade are responsible for all the world's ills, when in fact these two principles have resulted in the longest period of peace and prosperity the world has ever known. Millions of people have been risen out of poverty due to global flows of capital, goods, and people.

I posit that the author is blindly blaming all of society's ills on a scary word, and that the author is merely a nationalist seeking to advance their own interests above the rest of the people on the planet.

This sentence is particularly absurd: "it is reflected in the neoliberal hostility towards the poor, the weak, the destitute, the ' losers', expressed in its denial or abnegation of responsibility for their plight or welfare, and its project of dismantling the welfare or providential state." Neoliberalism, in fact, seeks to expand parts of the welfare state via policies like universal basic income and to help the poor, weak, and destitute thrive. It also seeks to regulate markets well, so that they serve the best interests of society while incentivizing growth and progress.

Here's what neoliberalism is actually about (via https://neoliberalproject.org/about-us/):

* We believe in free markets, and the power of markets to alleviate poverty and generate unparalleled economic growth

* We believe in strong institutions, which are the precursor to unparalleled economic growth

* We believe in intelligent regulation and redistribution - the state has a role to play in regulating markets where they may fail, and ensuring the gains from free markets are widely shared.

* We believe in the classical liberal freedoms - freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, of assembly, etc.

* We believe that all people, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, etc. have equal rights and deserve agency.

* We stand for the creation of a new, revitalized liberalism - neoliberalism - that can guard the open society and guide it into a prosperous future.

If that sounds good to you, and you live in the Bay Area, sign up to be notified of our next meetup: https://neoliberalproject.org/san-francisco-neoliberals-regi...
Not sure why you were downvoted here. This is my exact concern. Batteries don't last forever, and they're expensive to refurbish or (more common, I assume) replace at the sizes necessary for an electric car.
Wow. That app is creepy. It tracks your location so it knows when you got to work and left work. It tracks your bank account so it knows when, how often and how much you deposit. Etc.
When your sample size is 5, claiming your algorithm has a 100% success rate and no false positives isn't saying much at all.
Fleeing Venezuela with your wealth intact

Do you have real world examples of this? The only ones I’ve found involve literal fistfuls of American dollars, not crypto. I remember a play on the “crypto for Venezuela” argument was that it worked as a better currency than the Venezuelan currency, but of course it turned out that they were just using dollars then too.
The author followed up with another post, "Uber Tells its Side of the Story in Mass Arbitration Fight with 12,500 drivers": https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-otc-uber/uber-tells...
Many new condo buildings in Toronto are built this way as well. My building doesn't have a 4th, 13th, 14th, 24th, 34th or 44th floor.

Part of me wonders if it's also in part so they can sell the 39th floor as the "45th" floor.
I tend to just use json-stable-stringify to get a consistent representation of JS objects. Then can hash or compare that.

Browser:

const crypto = window.crypto || window.msCrypto; // IE11
return window.crypto.subtle.digest('SHA-256', stableStringify(obj));

Node:

require('crypto')
.createHash('sha256')
.update(pwd)
.digest('base64');

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/json-stable-stringify
Designer myself.
It very often helps to visually communicate this as a draft. That means: show them a drawing, or a nice rendering with Copic markers – even if you designed on the computer.

When they see some cleanly designed draft printed out (or worse: on the screen), most people cannot see that it is a draft, even if you tell them.

I firmly believe that communicating the right thing in a strategic way to the customer giving them what they need and making them realize that they want it, is what seperates a good designer from a bad one.

Another way than actually drawing is to give them many drafts, so they focus on the differences. This however depends on the job (sometimes multiple drafts are not a thing you can afford time wise).
As far as pricing, I think one way to combat the manipulation is to put prices on your shopping list and never buy anything just because it's cheap, unless it's already on your list.

Another strategy is to ignore prices altogether and just skip items that are too expensive before the final checkout.
I'm glad someone made tech that can scan my card with the numbers on the back, thanks! Hopefully all the vendors I use start using your product. I'll also be looking into it for my own product!

Regarding your fraud models, I actually used to work in this area (I'm pretty sure we know a lot of the same folks at Uber!) and I'm curious where you're getting your fraud model data from? Do you have partners you're working with? Until you have enough transaction volume, how will you train your models?
This is a great thing that will pay increasingly high dividends for decades and centuries: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12914
This is a pretty good idea. Credential stuffing style CC fraud is a massive industry. Scanning could significantly raise the bar on fraudsters and give them much headache when it becomes widespread. Good luck!
Well, that reasoning seems absolutely contrary to what you would do if Android Things was a success.
There is one polysyllabic number from 1-10 in English (7). There are 2 3-syllable numbers from 11-20 (11, 17). After that everything is 2 or 3 syllables (X7s excluded) until 100. IDK man, doesn't seem like that much of a mouthful.
Video: To make 1997’s Blade Runner, Westwood first had to create the universe
Life on the edge in the quantum world
Any word on what apps included these exploits? I'm guessing there was at least one since they say "in the wild"
I understand anther part is, they can't afford to have unemployment either, especially in the restive uighur and Tibet regions.

Having millions of unemployed young men, without a political channel to air their grievances would surely spell trouble for the regime there...
It’s good to test PostgreSQL backups (or basically everything that is constantly doing reads and writes)... some pitfalls in my small experience with a RPi and some cheap SD card:

* If you backup the whole file system while the database is running, you may end up with an inconsistent (maybe unrecoverable?) backup. You need to use a file system with snapshots like ZFS or BTRFS, or use PostgreSQL’s own tools.

* Similarly, if the underlying file system experiments corruption, it will also seem to keep working for a while before, and after that you may be left with a bad database and backup. You have to be able to restore multiple time points or ensure your backup is good.
1. Yes trains in very dense areas or connecting dense areas make sense - that's why my comment says "nearly all" trains

2. Everywhere else, even in dense cities, cars are very good at delivering people from where they are to where they want to go, without a large investment in single-purpose facilities like passenger railroads.

Especially in the US, it makes almost no sense to send passengers on rail when it would be more time efficient to fly between dense areas, and use the railroads for transporting freight - a task where they excel.
I don't think so... these look like privilege escalations for apps, not a way to unlock the phone.
WWV is funded for FY2019.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43908
> it's a good first step

No, it isn't; it's whatever the locality decides is a good setpoint for a revenue source. Most "speed limits" have nothing to do with safety.

Even on interstate highways, where the "revenue source" motivation is the least, many speed limits are still too low given the improvements in vehicle handling and performance since the 55 mph rule was arbitrarily selected in the early 1970s. Of course, that argument assumes that 55 mph was reasonable for early 1970s cars--but if the primary purpose is safety, well, there are still traffic deaths at the current speed limits, so why not lower them further? Why not stop people from driving at all, if nothing short of that will eliminate traffic deaths?

That kind of argument leads down a rabbit hole. I think a much better way of viewing things, as I said in another comment upthread, is in terms of a principal-agent problem. If you are driving yourself (or flying yourself, for that matter), you can make your own judgments about safety (and take the consequences). But if you are flying (or driving) other people for money, then you have to abide by an explicit set of standards because it's no longer just you who takes the consequences if you make an error of judgment. And the more people who are endangered if you make an error, the more stringent the standards should be.
It would make me ask why you need a one time use struct at all and probably remove it.
Don't blame one person's poor implementation of a feature for an entire language.
Brand Building 101
Regarding your last point: it’s different because it’s relatively trivial to create as many wallets as you want and or use a form of ring sharing. That allows an individual to express financial visibility and transparency in the way they see fit.
I mean, the whole point of that issue was that the FBI wanted Apple to develop tools that would make it a lot easier for the FBI to do it later if they wanted to. It probably cost them a lot of money/time to do it the way they did. Plus, wasn't that the suspect's work phone anyway? So there really couldn't even be much that would have incriminated him on that phone. The point was setting a technological precedent.
Hmm that is an excellent point. Thank you! I do not know if I have the data consistency to reliably provide a theme for every poem, but some sort of "at a glance" feature would be valuable.
With the suggestion that "evolutionary psychology" isn't involved in men seeking higher income jobs, why is there an extreme correlation between income for men and having children, but not for women? Why is it that society reward rich men with larger social network, while women has on average larger social network than men that is not associated with income? perhaps, as people say, "Poor men aren't as attractive"...

> So I'm going to stick with sexism because it is most likely the correct answer.

Personally I am sticking to the incentive model. A woman who prioritize other aspect in their work and personal life over income does not have fewer children, has the same social network size as other women, and get similar respect in society at old age. For men the opposite is true, where a man who make the same choices would end up (statistically) at the bottom of society, alone, childless, with no respect in old age. As a result low income men also has a lower life expectancy. Pretty strong incentives if you ask me.
I think the point is that he has an Android, but he can't update, while Apple users can.
There has to be something better than tape, I know I'm just a single data point, but I've had _terrible_ luck with tapes over the years.

I've tried various options over the years but I haven't found a simple OTS non-tape offline backup solution. There's a lot of potential here for a solution.
Installed it and it doesnt redirect from slack auth window. Uses around 300Mb of RAM for this. Going against electron is a massive undertaking!
yes! that one was a doozy.
Who predicted the contrary?
Database as Filesystem
Having done something similar for the Long Beach, CA area in college, one of the most interesting takeaways was the relative spatial distribution between fatal and non-fatal accidents.

Non-fatal accidents clearly clustered around high traffic areas, but fatal accidents didn’t reveal the same clustering. Instead they appeared to be uniformly distributed across the city.

I’m sure there is an explanation in this, and this was only 10 years data for a single city, but it always felt a little spooky that these accidents were equally likely to happen anywhere (though most likely later in the night).
Why is it a scam? Seems better than a payday loan if receiving paychecks daily instead of biweekly makes the difference
I see it being somewhat like McDonalds. You don’t trust them to care about your health but you like eating there because you don’t value your health all that either. At least not enough to think it’s doing any harm.

A lot of people shrug at the idea of Facebook and Google vacuuming up all their data. They don’t think there’s anything about them and their data that’s all that interesting.
Environmental damage that takes money to reverse (that is, to reverse while maintaining living standards). Environmental damage in the sense of damage to the urban environment that industrial workers live in, not just to wilderness areas - unbreathable air, toxic rivers, etc.

It’s also a matter of being able to grow enough food for 1.3 billion people, and in the absence of that, experience extreme dependency on foreign sources of food. Part of that is down to local pollution and mismanagement, but part of it also a matter of global climate change and desertification. It’s hard to be a superpower if you depend on your geopolitical opponents to feed you.
Yeah, "theft" is the wrong word to use, and this is basically Expedia's bag of crap.

The larger story is correct, though. Companies leave a lot of money on the table by not looking for basic problems with their websites, apps, and other similar systems.

I regularly move away from (or never even start with) businesses that have these sorts of problems. It could be that in all of these cases I'm a unicorn, and no one else is having trouble, but I doubt it.

(I once thought of starting a consultancy that would simply examine websites for issues like this. I realized quickly that businesses simply wouldn't pay for such a service.)
Gov. Newsom Abandons Plan for High-Speed Train from L.A. To San Fran, Cites Cost
Yeah. The North American "indigenous peoples"[0] transformed huge areas of the Midwest from savannah and sparse forest to open prairie. Basically, they burned every spring. It improved habitat for their game of choice, and made hunting them more convenient.

0) Rather, the first known settlers. But then humans have arguably been settlers everywhere, except for particular parts of Africa.
Neural networks has greatly been influenced by insights into the human mind. Hence, also why it's called "neural".

So yeah there are research groups actively into this :D Usually, researchers at universities.
American AI Initiative
Very interested to see the direction this all goes. Good luck.
Where are you getting the US$46 billion? In the article you linked to they have $10 billion USD in debt, and other recent articles have similar numbers.
Hopefully this leads to better temporal priors for machine learning models. Sequence encoding frequently uses position coding[0] but the typical approaches (e.g. low frequency sin waves) are fairly naive. In reinforcement learning we have (somewhat obvious) works that show that providing explicit time representations help[1]. Simply throwing a recurrent model at a sequence may pick up simple ordering but improving the temporal representation would improve data efficiency.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00378
> Is there any proof of developers having higher average IQ than other career paths or are we just assuming that because we're developers we're naturally more intelligent

I don't think the poster is claiming that programmers are smarter; they're claiming that what IQ tests evaluate, and what programmers do, are similar. But IQ isn't the be-all and end-all of intelligence. If you're a programmer, you might score high on an IQ test, not because of how smart you are, but because the skills being evaluated align. You might not be very intelligent at all, just good at IQ tests.
Thank you. Assuming you buy something that requires shipping, there would still be some sort of paper trail though, right? If so, this assertion would only stand when the goods were digital or counterparties were physically present and wearing masks.
At some point will blink/node need to be expected parts of the operating system to undo this mess?
"now that it has proven to be largely a failure with half a billion Chinese living in poverty"

What?

China has risen to superpower status, and become one of the biggest economies in the world in the space of a generation.

Are they as rich as the US per capita? No, but they're on the right trajectory, and getting there quicker than most other nations did.

Don't forget nearly all these city dwellers are first generation, if they don't remember living in a wood hut, without electricity, running water or toilet, their parents do.
Remine raises $30M to build the next generation real estate platform
The only reason they get away with that is because you're willing to sign up and pay at an external website that you can find on your own. Most apps would lose most of their customers at the "now go find our website and how to pay without any help" step.
I missed that, great stuff!
They say no and will reject your contract. Now you have to find another project. When you're freelancing there are times when it's very hard to say no because you don't necessarily know when the next job is coming.
Indians would probably be biggest migrant group in Britain
Types because they can be checked mechanically, simply enough that a programmer can understand the checking process and why it fails or succeeds, but are expressive enough (given some relatively cautious/widespread advances - HKT and some level of dependent typing) for every invariant I've ever needed.
> Not all people of female biological sex have periods, either.

Sometimes for emotionally charged reasons.
This is charming. A microframework in a scant 480 lines of code, plus a postmodern manifesto on historisity -- what's not to love!

I can't wait to read the slew of "Why we switched from <web-framework> to 1991" blog posts.
Just speculating here, but perhaps there was a party very interested in destroying data on their infrastructure. Maybe to erase evidence of wrongdoing, or something else entirely.
I think "everything" is an exaggeration, but it's not entirely wrong. The main sectors to experience runaway inflation have been health care, college tuition, and real estate in major cities. Housing is a necessity while the others while not absolutely non-negotiable are pretty solidly in the "need" category.
I refuse to acknowledge that C++ is clearly more flexible than Rust. My favourite counterexample is Rayon. Even if you are able to implement something similar in C++ (I tried it), the job of the C++ compiler with understanding when it can inline functions without overhead gets so hard (vs the Rust compiler), that it becomes inpractical.

Generally this has been my experience with higher order programming in C++ actually.
You can’t exactly have it both ways, though? Either you involve the client and the client’s clients in iterations, which means they must occasionally see nasty, inconsistent, less than half-finished sketches, or you waste most of their money making the wrong concepts look nice.

There’s nothing awkward about not using color. It’s smart and makes you focus on the right stuff in most of the design process. That’s something any reasonable client will understand perfectly well.
No but you can release an Android app without Google. You can't release an Apple app without Apple.
Enjoyed that writeup. Definitely got me thinking about the general notion of a life philosophy, and the utility in adopting one. I am guilty of literally rolling some dice for major life decisions, since, most of life to me appears random anyway.

That said, Experientialism would have been great to adopt when I was 20. Maybe I would be filming a travel channel on YouTube or something. Nowadays, I need to adopt a life philosophy that helps me to regular, focussed, great work. Not sure yet what that is...
Yup, the investors are going to lose their money. So what. This won't start cascading bank failures though because the PBOC can print as much money as they want to recapitalize the banks without burdening the taxpayer. This is a fundamental difference between the western and european systems and is why China hasn't had a Japanese style deflation, even though it has been predicted every year since the early 90s.

Analysts have been getting it wrong for almost 30 years, yet they refuse to question their models because credit cycles are believed to be physical laws of the universe, when really they are artifacts of western financial policy.
Namely, fractional reserve banking and all money as debt which the Chinese government doesn't follow.

I know what you're thinking now. "Fractional reserve banking" and "all money is debt" is a dog whistle for libertarians. Thus, this guy must be a gold bug, etc. No. I am saying that this is fiat currency, and that's ok. It's just not managed in the screwy boom-bust way that we have in the west that's specifically made to separate people from their assets every 8 or 9 years. Not everything China does is a good thing, but their financial system hasn't crashed in decades, so empirically it is a lot more stable.
An alternative hypothesis would be that who you know/ access matters more than good ideas.
My take-away isn't 'switch to Vim' rather just how rewarding it is to master a smaller set of powerful tools.