skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, LINQ can be translated to C# 3.0 without LINQ, so I guess it is syntactic suger but for C# 3.0. To implement it in C# 2.0 one would need to replace expression trees with “home made” query specification classes. It would be a lot of work, it would not be standardized, and it would not be integrated in the language.

So the real new feature in C# 3.0 are the expression trees. LINQ is only one place where expression trees are used.
I’m glad someone else pointed this out haha

I’m all for content marketing like this but if your competency is creating culture through design at least make sure the reading experience isn’t painful
> What I've done is, first, to block the HTTPS port from going anywhere except to my proxy. If you want to use HTTPS in my network, you have to install my cert.

But there are a very large number of potential HTTPS ports (a reasonably well behaved system could, as well as 443, use anything that isn't well-known or registered, or which was registered for the particular use, even if the underlying protocol was HTTPS.)
With a combination of Pi-Hole and uBlock Origin, I never see ads on YouTube.
For odd reasons, the Dems and neocon Repubs are the ones wanting to remain in these alliances and engagements whereas the current admin wants to withdraw.
Organized religion sure, you could make that argument.

Anthropologists and historians often argue that religion and spirituality - in their purest forms - are actually a coping mechanism that humans evolved into. Think of the hunter gatherer cultures - or even before language was invented. Every moment not spent hunting and gathering and reproducing, they would spend worshiping the sun, or trees, or turtles, anything. An expression of wonder and albeit servitude to the mystery of life. It wasn't until Pharoahs that we started to worship humans (which could be where we screwed up =/ ). Nonetheless, this is how people have made sense of their existence. Still in present days, even absurdists (myself) or atheists/agnostics are just doing their best to apply logic to an existence that doesn't make a lick of sense. We're still searching for a concrete reason for being. I think it's hilariously unlikely, and so amazing that a billion years of wandering stardust turned into an organism that strives to question where it came from. Just wow.

If I could convince you read one book, I would choose "Be Here Now" by Ram Das. It is by no means ordinary english literature - but it's a fantastic journey inside and outside of yourself.

I've read all your comments in this thread, and it sounds like you've spent quite a lot of time in despair - and I want to share my sympathies with you. Love will always be able to bring us out from those dark places. Hey...Obi-Wan Kenobi said so.
Should a person be able to delete an email they sent to someone else after the other person has received it? How about a letter you mailed? Should you be able to go into their house and take the letter back? It’s like trying to unring a bell. Once you send it, you no longer own it; the recipient does.
Outline:

https://outline.com/UxAEdH
Taxes are mandatory, so thst's a distinction without difference.
What if someone wants to get paid ?

Well they can't because all of the other intern positions are only available for those to do it for free. So maybe don't act like interns have any real choice here.
But sand is not normally made of eroded granite, or it does not contains only granite. A lot of sand is made of shells or coral. Most beaches should have much lower levels of radioactivity.
> And if you ban unpaid internships, you’d likely have no intern positions at all.

Based on what evidence ?

Let me guess. None.
What do you mean by this?

Any charges made against any payment card or account that you don’t recognise should be swiftly investigated.

If a bad actor charges a bunch of cards a few dollars each, and some portion of them don’t investigate / dispute the charge that could net them quite a sum.
I don't find that. Logging into my Pi-Hole and disabling it temporarily takes about 10 seconds, and with how infrequently it happens it's a non-issue.
At work I once proposed a solution to address 6. Basically we want to accept either a short password with many different character classes, or a long one with just lower case (or something similar). We tried a prototype where we used zlib to compress the password and measure the compressed length as a proxy for its complexity. I really liked this solution but we didn't adopt it because it's literally unexplainable to normal users.
Disabling copy paste on the field that specifies the resource isn't a solution though, as that only increases the risk of typos.
The judge would decide. If the app was on a secure platform (android/ios, non root/jailbroken), you could argue that the logs are genuine because the platform prevents you from manipulating the logs. The onus would be on the other party to prove that the logs were fabricated. I wouldn't count on it to secure a criminal conviction, but it would suffice in civil cases.
You need to chill bro
I agree with this, despite the resistance it seems to be getting.

There should be a very high bar for making illegal any activity between two consenting parties where there's no obvious and severe externalities. I don't see how this harms anyone outside of the intern/company, both of which should be free to make their own decisions.
Can we just push deadlines back to December? That's around the same time as most college apps are due, and they're basically the same process.
Most children don't get such an experience because their parents aren't terminally ill. I think you'd agree that's fine. If the mother weren't sick would it be a big mistake to not fake the experience for the kids' benefit?
Lolwut? Seriously, what serious exploit would be stopped by this.
> [2] Speculation that a blob of melted core material would just keep melting into the ground until it "got to china"

Are people seriously considered that's a possibility? Even if the melted core went through the earth unstopped, a little bit of physic would conclude that Earth's gravity would pull the melted core toward the Earth's Core, and passing that, it would just be pulled back in the opposite direction, oscillating back and forth until stopping at the Core.
Differences in for example, NFC or NFD forms of text, which is relatively common. And even for UTF-8, certain platforms don't properly encode code points beyond the BMP; they do it by encoding to UTF-16 surrogates and encoding the surrogates separately.
The last time I checked IPFS is a joke. There are only two implementations of IPFS protocol and both come from the same group of developers.

On the other hand, there are so many BitTorrent protocol implementations from totally independent group of developers.

Also, the namespace system of IPFS is just beyond stupid. They openly recommend relying the traditional central DNS to resolve the human readable name to hash.

I didn't bother to examine the Dat, but it looks like worse than IPFS.
We'll grow food where it makes more sense. California has to pipe in water for those crops, and because migrant labor is getting hard to come by, the produce rots on the plant. The Colorado river is drying up south of the border because so much of it is being used. That farmland is gone. There is plenty of farmland that doesn't have to be in the state. The crops can be grown else where and shipped in like bananas. If there is enough demand. We always have bananas in season because they are grown around the world and shipped in. The US is also a net exporter of food, we grow plenty enough to feed ourselves either way.
The QZ article says that

>In the mid 1990s, . . . from a place that would come to be known as Silicon Valley

In the mid 1990s the name Silicon Valley had been used in mainstream media for at least a dozen years.
There is, but, percentage-wise, the seasonal swing to the number of people in town is much bigger for Traverse City, MI than it is for New York, NY.
"cloud-connected"
Hacker News is not the best* place for nebulous cumulonimbus commentary.
Or where drivers:

- could refuse service based on factors like customer's race without repercussions.

- accept nothing but cash as payment.

- take the "scenic" route when they realize you're from out of town.

I'm not happy about the way Uber got here but I also don't want to go back to the world before it.
> His wealth is almost entirely in stock, which the valuation of is heavily dependent on how Amazon does quarter to quarter.

Maybe, but it's "real" enough to borrow money at low interest. Or fund vanity projects like Blue Origin.
There are physical rockets being built with fake wealth, so in practice that wealth is as good as cash.
> [1] It is too radioactive for that to be literally true

They walked up to it anyway

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-elephant-foot-of-the-ch...
Why? If it’s an alternative to owning and parking a car in a city, it seems like something that could be a rational decision especially in the absence of good transit options.
Almost every protected class can be targeted with these circumspect catagories. Facebook makes sure of it.
There should honestly be a Common App for internships: one application, a standardized coding challenge, and then interviews. TripleByte seems to be trying to do something similar for full-time, but they don't cover internships.
Yeah the disabling of paste into the password field is super annoying. My work around is to open the developer console and paste into a js one liner that sets the value of said form field. For me it’s slightly better than the tedious manual entry and I get to wave my fist at the screen in self righteous indignation: “no one tells me when I can and can’t copy/paste!”
Ah yes, you're right. It definitely seemed like they attempted to portray themselves as some kind of non-profit if memory serves.
The combination of your home and job, coupled with the surveillance and likely TOS aspects. It’s not a perfect analogy, but in some ways it’s even worse.
Now, from the people who blew it in fiber to the home, another infrastructure project.
How else would he attain status a la Linus in the mailing list world?
Serious question: what games would you fine folks recommend to get my kids started with modding? The oldest loves Minecraft, Zelda BoTW, and Smash Bros on the switch.

I’ve built a Raspberry Pi Retropie NES clone and they’re all over super bomberman, and old school Pokémon.

The last game I modded was OpenTTD before my kids were born.
I disagree with all of these insights. I checked a lot of boxes, had great scientific output, managed underlings well, had an excellent pedigree (including top tier undergrad and grad schools and Nobel laureate as my immediate postdoc supervisor), but failed to obtain a tenure track position.

Looking at the peers who made it and didn't (including ones that were slightly less deficient), I realized it's because you need to have one of those PIs go to bat for you. It was something as a leader I did for my underlings (I arranged for both of my interns to have one-on-one lunches with a Nobel laureate and a his buddy that didn't get to win a prize in spite of inventing site directed mutagenesis - an experience that I haven't even had myself). As soon as I realized that my high profile bosses had checked out and would never go to bat for me or anyone really (still love them though) I got out of dodge.

Anyways, that my advice for anyone who wants a tenure track position. 1) Table stakes are a top tier postdoc (ideally a top tier grad school too). 2) Table stakes are 1-1.5 (ideally 2) publications a year. If you don't have these it will be VERY hard. Don't feel guilty for giving up, don't let anyone trick you into thinking it will be easy. Most most most importantly, work for someone in grad school or postdoc who will network for you.

I'm in the tech sector now, and have performed well enough that my CEO seems to think of me as a performant employee, so we'll see where that goes. Maybe I'll get really rich and pay for my own science. (doubtful, but at least I get paid well enough to not worry about my future).
And doesn't have to provide more services for the extra people.
I never suggested blocking 8.8.8.8, I'd think you're replying to the wrong comment but you directly quoted part of mine. I criticize Google and I get called a hypocrite for things I never said...
There's no need to be a jerk about it.
Maybe you should just permit people to say "what are you talking about" as a form of "you seem to be confused" instead of trying to dictate which colloquialisms people use to express themselves. Your position on this is overbearing and absurd. FYI you have a history of being condescending over nitpicky nonsense to the point of incivility.
That rule is strictly enforced for employees. It is meant to avoid fake accounts. The work accounts (known as Workplace accounts) are created on a separate service and namespace. They are clearly considered distinct. You can toggle between them when authenticating, not unlike Google and Google for Business.

The particularity of Facebook is that the service emerged from internal use, so Facebook internal (a subset of the main Facebook) was (or is) tied to Facebook Workplace. The technical implementation was… hacky when I was there. I hope it’s cleaner now.

Every company that uses the service has a service that is clearly distinct from Facebook (with black rather than blue branding). I’ve worked for four client companies with their own, including two (subsidiary) at the same time, so I have my own personal account, the Facebook Workplace account is deactivated but my comments are still visible internally; three more deactivated accounts and my current one. I used to have to toggle between three accounts and that was rather seemless.
We hit that point a long time ago when having a large amount of cash with you became a justification for civil asset forfeiture.
Step 1. Don't over-think - somebody gave me this advice a few months ago in a very offhand and almost sneering way, but I couldn't thank them enough for having "don't overthink" finally seared into my head

(especially since a lot of these phones are returnable, the decision need not be wholly life-course altering!) - you can almost always guarantee that flipping back and forth between opposing decisions is pretty much the worst course of action (when dealing with potential actions that don't consequentially affect your life in the short term - if you are deciding between crossing the street while the bus is coming towards you or waiting, that would be a counterexample to this, for instance)

Step 2. Optimize for minimizing regret. Afterwards, getting stuff done.

Most day to day decisions are inconsequential, and if not, you can improve on your initial choice - doing so eventually you get an accurate picture of the landscape of potential outcomes. Basically, for a lot of things you don't have to consider all the outcomes at the start, you pick up information as you go along. This can considerably reduce one's decision anxiety. In more technical terms, look up ergodicity; check out this guy's twitter: https://twitter.com/ole_b_peters

Step 3. Solve your anxiety.

You seem like an anxious person. I was anxious like this too. It was totally exhausting, just totally exhausting. I've found that spending a little extra money is well worth reducing the headache of unwanted and exhausting contemplation. Your time is worth so much more than zero, and so much more than whatever your wage is.

You know what tends to work well enough, most of the time? Getting the long-term consistently-popular device, the one that works great for both techies and non-techies alike. Instead of looking down upon people who didn't know how to even begin doing their research, I know look up to them for being able to make a good choice with almost no effort.

A good example of this is that I myself also recently had to pick out a phone for myself. I spent a while researching different Android phones that had specs that would be at least as good as the top iPhone. But then the day before I made the decision, after years of being a committed Android guy, I just said fuck it. I'm getting an iPhone. And it vastly exceeded my expectations, and it made me realize my preconceived notions about what I actually want were pretty wrong. For a case, I just typed in the model of the iPhone + ' case' on Amazon, sorted by most popular, and got the Amazon choice one. Whatever, it worked great just fine with almost zero consideration.

Brain time is valuable! We're knowledge workers! Let's make it easy on our heads.
This happened to me days ago and I wasn't charged for the cancellation, as far as I can tell. Not sure if it's because I called and cancelled sooner, there's no reason to wait to call if you see them driving the wrong way. Either that, or they detect a driver not making progress towards the pickup location when they decide whether to charge for the cancellation.
I really think it's counterproductive to downvote posts such as this one. Effective security absolutely must be based around user experience - your application needs users, and if you give them friction, they will vote with their feet. It's not about an emotional decision or stubbornness or unwillingness to learn, it's a statistical inevitability.

I'm confident experienced security professionals know this idea well: I'd posit that no one hates passwords more than the person who has to design the training explaining to everyone why they need to use unique passwords, of a certain length, of a certain complexity, and how the risk behind those changes in different environments. I hope mostly everyone would agree passwords are a terrible security solution. So if somebody wants to post that's how they feel about this, and their experience with a solution to get away from passwords, or minimizing them, let's have a discussion about what better options are out there (as some have already done in this thread).

In my view, the most important posts in the discussion of user-accessible security management are these posts that identify what makes every user need to be a hashing expert to select and manage the ever-expanding repository of account credentials we have today.
router passwords taped to the back of the router is about as sophisticated as the “password management” gets for mine (or hand written on a random page of a 99 cent spiral notebook)
Eliza in GnuCOBOL (2017)
That's still pretty low. In the us at a top tier, which you'll need for most tenure track positions you're expected to have about 5 first authors in five years as a trainee and moving forward into a postdoc a pace of about 1.5 to 2 would be good. Strategic timing by having a really high profile paper come out from grad school around when you're finishing your postdoc probably also helps.

But as I indicate in a direct response I don't think any of that really matters either
Progress won. It is infinitely easier, more affordable, transparent, convenient, and the overall experience of riding uber is hands down better than any Taxi experience I've ever had by a an extremely long shot, anyone I've spoken to agrees. Sure there are still improvements, but all in all, as a frequent user, I have to say getting a ride is hands down better with uber than before it.
I will never install that cert, so it stops there for me. IT security theater be damned.
I've only recently become aware of risc-v, but it was in the context of FPGAs. I've been following FPGAs for years, and recently the open tooling is good enough for cheap FPGAs that I'm seeing a lot of projects starting to use them. You can get an FPGA that can simulate a risc-v for $6 in small batches. While you could probably get a much cheaper ARM cpu that is way more powerful, you have an FPGA that can do things that no comparably priced cpu can do, and change it without replacing the chip.

Personally I think having a license free cpu will be an integral part in continuing to make FPGAs more and more viable, and I think we're going to start seeing them in places that no one ever really imagined 15 years ago.

https://hackaday.com/2018/12/25/how-a-microcontroller-hiding...
Country Collapsing? Let Them Eat Bitcoin
> I do find GANs brittle. I use them for generating numeric/categorical spreadsheet data, not for images

I’m interested to hear more about this. Care to elaborate?
Uber sues to overturn New York City’s cap on new ride-hail drivers
That’s because the transformer model used has memory.
@neonate I am interested in knowing how am I being a "jerk" here.
I didn't see any talk of self-driving cars here. I think they're coming sooner than we think, and I suspect not having to pay drivers has been baked into the valuations by some of the firms providing those sweet sweet capital injections.

I also wouldn't be surprised to see Tesla enter this space, given their advanced self-driving capability (frankly the one that has come closest to a normal consumer as myself).

Re: Lyft vs Uber, I go for the cheapest usually, even though I know there are other differences. Many people who really care about the difference are mostly drivers. Many friends of mine who use both apps mainly use it to price differentiate.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, can you be more specific please? you don't have to use WoT if you don't want/need it.
In Germany, it's "you can't say that", which is I think what he's talking about. Germany is probably the most extreme in the Western world in that regard - they have e.g. a court that can ban political parties if their platform is "counter to the free democratic basic order". Not to mention minor censorship, like excising swastikas and mentions of Hitler (ironically, a recent example was with a game about how Nazis are bad and you should fight them).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie
grab some ambien - you’re going to need it!
The implementation was lacking, but the concept is nearly identical.
Building new reactors costs a massive amount of money, more than pro-nuclear advocates realize or are willing to admit.

Shutting down reactors doesn't save much money; they've already been built. They also weren't built when renewable energy was developed into the very cost-effective solution it is today.

The worst thing about building new reactors using existing technology (which would really no better than the existing ones) is the waste of money compared to alternatives, AND you get all the risk on top of that. Delicious government-subsidized risk.
Regarding auto-fill, I second this. Password managers are great, but I would go so far as to advise against using password manager browser extensions entirely. You're adding several more vectors to be compromised, and imo the risk is not worth it.

Navigate to the site, open the password manager, copy and paste the username and password into their respective fields. Yes, it's less convenient, but as we know convenience is the bane of security.

With authorization we have a few things available to us - something you know, something you have, something you are. To remain secure you will always use at least two of these when authorizing with a service.

The login information for my password manager is stored in my brain - something I know. The 2FA code I enter from my phone is gathered from not only something I have (my phone), but must be authenticated to with something I am (my face (although they could probably just brute force my pin)). I take it a step further by storing the 2FA codes for my most valued accounts on a completely separate device that I leave at home. /protip
And to expand on that a bit:

It seems that transit in the Bay Area serves multiple purposes.

1) Getting you from point A to point B.

2) Mobile climate-controlled shelter for homeless people.

My claim is that purpose 1 is at odds with purpose 2. I’m all for solutions to the problem of not enough shelter. I don’t think the SFMTA is the solution, or if it is, then we should accept that companies like Uber are going to take its market share for purpose 1.