skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If advisory of German specialists from the either side will make the internet in the EU anything like the internet in Germany, in any regard, people will be really pissed. Kindly bugger off and let decide those from the places were the internet works.
Indeed. https://xkcd.com/1200/
I think requiring mandatory insurance against "cyber-disaster" for qualifying types of companies would be the best way to accomplish this.

Insurance premiums of all types are based on risk factors, so the policy would be written against a checklist of best practices.

Similar to how having a fire extinguisher in your kitchen reduces your home insurance premiums by small percentage, the same could be said for each security practice. Encrypted passwords: -2%. Mandatory 2FA in place: -3%. Etc.
What's your support volume like right now? Just email, or also chat?
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It's nice when it does offer that specific error, but I've burned many hours over the years when it fails to recognize that as the issue.
This is why I rarely shop amazon now. I became an amazon customer because I am cheap and want to get the best deal. However, I have been remodeling my house for the last 8 months. I found that many things are just more expensive on amazon. People create businesses around buying cheap and reselling on amazon.

I also started to prefer actual physical stores. I am not dependent on amazons mercy when it comes to returns. Some items I can return for free at Kohls, some items I had to pay shipping and amazon customer service could not tell me WHY. Some representatives told me they no longer work with kohls, some told me "not all items are eligible", yada yada. In other words amazon is not a good company with clear guidelines.

To be honest now that I wrote this I will probably just cancel my membership.
The Life Extensionist’s Guide to Logical Fallacies
"Fun fact: he predicted singularity first (as a point in human history that we approach)"

Arguably, this was first predicted in 1863 by Samuel Butler[1] in "Darwin among the Machines"[2], where he wrote about a coming time that machines evolve to replace humans.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_%28novelist%29

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_among_the_Machines
It's probably https://github.com/kpcyrd/sn0int
It's based on Snabb, a user-space networking platform, so it'll need direct hardware access and supports only a few specific NICs. But in exchange for that, it should be really fast.
Causing year 2119 problem for Linux?
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you should watch the movie, it's actually very close to Feynman's remark, and the point is that you can actually kind of die twice...
Everyone should also get paid more then. Also, if 33% of your job is answering support emails, should we still call it a "Software Engineer" position? How about being very clear about these expectations as-part of the job interview process?
I mean, Democrats have tried it in the past.
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To say that "the most common pattern" in the "vast majority of similar reports" is one of making starkly contradictory complaints, appears utterly self-serving - a convenient distortion designed to make it look as if there are no valid issues.
The point is that if you open a file with a different editor it was created with, its very easy to mix tabs and spaces without any kind of indication that that's what is going on.
Where do you find this “signup with email”? I don’t see it, but I may be looking at the incorrect place
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One of the American marvels is their library system. I've been to NYPL libraries, they are awesome, especially the bigger ones. The public libraries in smaller towns aren't that good (their book collections could be small/uninteresting), but they are still hubs for various activities - movies, free classes, kids stuff etc.
> While reading the article, I got a feeling that reading support emails is only one step away from answering support emails - and here you are, suggesting just that.

I didn’t get that impression. The article mentioned reading these emails for 30m a week. Going from there to doing tech support yourself as a CTO is...

It seems to me that a CTO doing tech support either understand something I really don’t, or really fails to understand something I do. Superficially, it sounds like the sort of low-level digging around you get from engineers that got the CTO title but never got comfortable with the transition.
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> Most Americans have to check their bank balance (if they have a bank) to see if they can afford to get more essential things like toilet paper and laundry detergent

Is that really true? I am not American and have never been there, and I don't know, but I wouldn't have imagined things were like that. I'm interested to know.
Perhaps it's a bit late for this now, but one very easy to remember Windows 95 key was "111-1111111"
Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 7
Oh yeah, that's ridiculous (they won't be getting back to you in a couple of hours after 4 pm). I'm sure it's a result of a institutional momentum, and nothing to do with actually capabilities.
Not the OP, and I don’t disagree re: the nightmare Medium has (predictably) become. But I’d love to know what platform would you suggest?
Dragan's productivity and documentation keeps bringing me to Clojure. I love Lisps, but had stayed away from Clojure, but these ML and GPU libraries are very easy to understand or learn with the quality documentation he builds around them.
That's the true-to-life sound of the monochrome monitor. Bonus points for added realism!
We already do.
What is their problem for not simply following semver?
There’s fresh evidence for what happened to people who survived Vesuvius
That sounds correct, don’t pay ad placements, but do charge advertisers. Right up there with usual adtech morals.
Someone needs to write how much deep sleep you need per night!

I'm a light sleeper and with recent chronic pancreatitis, I have trouble sleeping...

Articles like this only dial up anxiety and make things worse!

For example. My hear fit says I get 3h30m of 'motionless'.. is that enough deep sleep? Apparently, not very clear since trackers aren't really accurate enough
Sidekiq in Practice: Idempotency Solutions/SQL Locks over Redis Locks
Rented more quickly and never returned.

Source: I work in a library.
This is a pretty dumb article.

Like, no shit don't build more infrastructure than you need. If you're a one or two man team you don't need anything more complicated than 'push container here, pull down here' or 'push code here' et. al. Once you get above that having a repeatable process (repeatable by someone besides the person who built it) becomes valuable.

The 'every second spent on infrastructure isn't spent on features' line makes me think I'm going to have to blackmail into working on security updates or paying down technical debt. And the picture you picked is cheeky.

I will agree with this statement, "You need the most simple, least time consuming infrastructure that gets you to that point." But that WILL become more than just 'throw it on a linode instance' after you get some customers and more than 2 people working on whatever uber for dogs project you have going on.
Square's guides and libraries in particular were a great place to start when last I worked on Android (2017). They filled in a lot of dumb gaps in basic, common functionality, and their guides and blog posts on Android topics generally left me feeling more confident in them than in Google's Android team. They were among the ones calling "the Emperor has no clothes!" over fragments, for instance, and they described and built alternatives.

It does look like they've abandoned a couple of their big view-related Java libs, which makes me wonder what they're using now. Seems they've switched to Kotlin for a lot of stuff.

Don't remember their blog being on Medium (ick) but it is now, looks like:

https://medium.com/square-corner-blog
This was always my favourite and started me off on the path to good UX.
Save the Pixel:
http://benhunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/STP2-1d.pdf
That’s a great idea :)
If you can't update your virtualization software at work, you are probably running a huge security risk. Do you not have a patching process?

If this isn't about work, then curious as to why you can't upgrade?
There must be more discrimination than that. Then wouldn't the library be full of porn and romance novels? The two largest volume of new publications per year.
My only quibble is that this:
"Therefore, it’s important to bring the information you’re there for to the forefront, and minimize distractions. In practice, this means that the first thing on any page to grab your attention should be the thing that brought you there."
...is just as true for any restaurant, store, or even social network webpage as well. But that appears sometimes to be a lost battle, at least for the moment, so I appreciate that there are at least a few corners of the internet still styling things in the way that helps you to use the page, rather than the way that makes it look more impressive in design meetings with executives or clients.
And the artist is so old he's unlikely to live much longer, he's probably years past the point where he cares. He probably doesn't even know how to use / care about the Internet.
The New York Public Libarary has an annual budget of over $300,000,000...and is one of three library systems in New York City!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Public_Library
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You would have to know where to look in some specific process memory or have a very convincing prompt to trigger keychain unlock. Doable, sure; but not trivial, and very targeted.

As an aside, any app that triggers gratuitous keychain prompts (I’m looking at you, Skype and Outlook for mac) is a weapon of mass-miseducation. People should think long and hard before authorizing keychain access; if you keep firing prompts at them, they’ll end up clicking/tapping without reading what it’s for, which is a recipe for phishing.
I'm quite surprised to learn this. It's not (yet?) that way in the UK.
I'm pretty interested in how you installed this; I am very dissatisfied with the default KDE crap they put on the Pinebook.
Webpack, Webpacker and Modules, Oh My How to Add JavaScript to Ruby on Rails
Does anyone know why this disassembler might be a good choice over another open source option like Medusa or Radare?

I’m very interested in this stuff. I tried getting into IDA before I had a good understanding of programming and it was a struggle. I have been thinking about trying my hand at it again lately.
Could you share some places you use to buy numbers like that? Do you just set them up to forward, or do you have more control than that? I've always been interested in this, but apart from Google Voice, I haven't found a good way to get started.
Jailbroke my kindle to prevent updates from Amazon permanently. I download epubs (from apple and libgen) and wirelessly transfer them to my paperwhite.
I guess these posts generate a decent amount of revenue through the referral links.
Results released by direct-to-consumer genetic tests show 40% false-positives
By "largest volume", do you mean number of distinct titles published, or number of copies sold? I think it's the former, which wouldn't translate into customer/patron demand.
To be fair, s/he was responding to "Today you have to download and understand a stack of tools and languages before you get anything printing on the screen."

It is true that people don't generally ship code written in devtools, but then most of the programs shipped on the Commodore 64 were not written in basic. (Unless you count hundreds of peeks and pokes as basic.)

I do miss the immediacy of the programming experience, but I also think the correct modern day analog of that is the browser.
Open Letter to the Mobile Developers
The end of GPS is here; the future of global positioning is vision-based
The attention they're receiving continues to decline. Ratings for the Oscars have been on a long downward trajectory, and that seems likely to continue as long as the show is more about political virtue signaling than it is about the art of making movies.

Heck, they couldn't even find someone willing to host what used to be a plum gig because the political climate in that tiny crowd is so toxic.
Does it really matter if the ransomware is easy to remove? If you remove the ransomware, your files will still be encrypted.
Excellent policy. A couple of other operational "eye openers" that have worked for me:

- If you run a business targeting the enterprise, have everyone on the management team go on a sales call once a quarter. Often the CFO will not actually understand what the product is, much less how customers think of it.

- If you have sales people making cold calls have management listen in on a few. Again, you'll see how people think of your message.
It’s true, transactions in MySQL work great. But once the change is committed, the previous value is overwritten permanently. If the user wants to undo five minutes later, or I want to audit based on the value a month ago, we’re hosed unless we’ve jumped backflips to bake versioning into the schema.

I think Hickey’s comparison to git is apt: we don’t stand for that in version control for our code, why should we find that acceptable for user data?
Yes, using Twilio’s lookup service it’s trivial.
Are C++ Modules Dead-on-Arrival?
No, the point is that in physics you isolate systems and get rid of all the messy stuff.

Compare particle physics to cell biology, for example. Of course the first has complicated math and a lot of ressources thrown at it, but in essence these isolate the thing to measure. How would you even do that with cells?

A vacuum or laser lab may be complicated or finicky and capricious to work with, but it is nothing compared to a bio lab and the influences on the organisms you try to study.

At least bosons don't react differently when you look at them funny or with the time of day (we assume). (addendum: Like lab mice that change massively depending on the handlers.)
Nearly every astronomy photo you’ve ever seen of a planet, nebula or galaxy is “fake” because they use multiple exposures and filters and software to process them. Does that make them any less amazing or less real. I don’t think so.
This.

You wont find the real popular books on the shelves. It's not unheard of having books that are never shelved in their lifetime. As they are reserved even before they are purchased and continually reserved by other patrons. Until they are weeded due to wear.
Andrew Carnegie was a huge supporter of public libraries and endowed over 2500 public libraries world wide with most of them in the United States, Canada, and his native Scotland around the turn of the 20th century. Part of the requirements to receive an endowment was that the operations needed to be paid with public funding and that the library would be free to use for everyone.

These Carnegie libraries are basically the model of the modern public library. They were some (maybe the first?) of the public libraries that had open stacks. A lot of the original libraries are still in use or have been expanded. Most of the buildings that were once libraries are now open museums or other buildings that are cultural and art centers open to the public.
It's easily reconciled, to the point that the conclusion is hard to avoid, even: Huawei could have been trying to embed its personnel with their nationalist agenda into Motorola. This would have furthered that agenda tremendously.
The benefit of unlimited for employees is less the long vacations, but the ad hoc needs for the off due to kid being sick, yourself being sick, etc.
>While I am reviewing the signals, a black cab driver pulls up to see what I am doing. He’s worried that I’m lost and wants to see if I need any help. It’s times like these that I’m reminded how odd I must look to others when I stand looking at traffic signals for a long period of time. Once I explain what I’m doing and how I’m trying to improve the timings, we talk about all of the traffic signals in different parts of London. He knows a lot and gives me some recommendations of where we can make improvements.

In surprising news someone that is on the road all day knows a lot about traffic signals and their quirks.
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You acknowledge that biometrics have some issues they don't solve. Not being easy to steal is one of them. The problem is that you leave your fingerprint all over the place, including all over your phone, there are likely multiple pictures of you publicly available that can be used to construct a model to fool Face ID etc. Most biometrics only provide really minimal security, and the ones that provide anything more don't provide much and are inconvenient.

I use my fingerprint to prevent people casually browsing my phone if I leave it on the table while I pee, but I wouldn't rely on it for more than that, and neither should other people.

You need something else (a key, password or something) to secure most things as well as just your fingerprint.
So I use capstone regularly. This sounds like a ui layer on top?
Will try doing it. While it could be a problem, I'm leaving in another country so the language is still the problem.
What would be a breaking change for Linux that would justify a major version increment? Linux doesn't break userspace, and there are no stable internal APIs or ABIs.
Israeli Researchers Produce Sustainable Bioplastics with Seawater Algae
In that case it might still be detectable by measuring timing of storage and retrieval?
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The thing I'm considering is quit my jobs, accept playing games and doing nothing for month together with working on my side-project.
I still find it handy for some things like: ebooks, physical books, some [small] electronics, odds and ends. And frankly just plain niche stuff that is difficult or time-consuming to find locally.

I went out on the weekend to find a replacement for a sink drain stopper lift rod's ball rod part (ours rotted at the end and failed) at my local hardware store. They only sold an entire assembly for $24 (plus whatever ancillary plumbing materials I don't have like putty).

The entire drain assembly would have cost me over an hours work—if I didn't make a mess of anything. The part isn't urgent. Just until we get it we have no sink drain stopper. I was able to find the single part I needed online for less than half the price of the entire assembly, it will arrive on Friday, and replacing that part will take me all of five minutes.

Now if I wanted a replacement assembly, I'd probably shop locally. The same assembly on Amazon ranged from around the same price to $100.

You really want to know what you're looking for! For what it's worth, I'd never consider a dash button, either. But the online shop still suits me for some items. Also quite looking forward to them advertising similar sink parts to me for the next few years...
Fuck, sounds awful .
I was part of the team that built an editorial admin panel for the most read news site in my country. The initial development phase ended around three years ago and it's been in a sort of continuous development mode since then. A whole bunch of people have added features to the codebase (and upgraded it from 0.16 to 0.17 and 0.18) after me and the other original devs left.

It is still going strong and is so reliable that there's no need for dedicated developer for that project. I honestly can't imagine any sort of JavaScript project could have survived through the years that well.
Plug for a related tool that I use constantly.

It's called Swiss Army Knife for SMTP, or "SWAKS" for short.

http://www.jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/

This tool is one of the best tools I've ever seen. It's well thought out, well designed, and the documentation is very usable.

(Full disclosure: I have no affiliation with the author or the tool.)
The skill and experience is not in the company anymore as such the promise they make to customers can not be met. They are currently building support teams in India
I can't tell if your comment is serious or not but in any case you're completely missed my point.

I'm talking about people who assume version 2.1 means something different from a version 1.2. Developers can bump version numbers in any which way they want and while some projects to have a documented standard for versioning; most projects do not. So consumers of software shouldn't base judgements solely on which digit is incremented in a version string.
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Really? I've been able to do this for pretty much every version I've ever downloaded, at least in a VM but also on my old K7. It's unstable but not that unstable.
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And I'm also a fan of IDA-like environment.

REDasm is a project that tries to mimic IDAs interface and shortcuts but with a nicer, modern API.

About the quality of x86-64 binaries: it should be pretty good (but far from perfect).

Obviously with more binaries and test cases the quality of the generated listing can be improved!
Sensible comment getting downvoted by alarmist HN. What a surprise.
I don't see the notion of wellness repeated anywhere in the Quran. "ok you can eat pork in this situation" is not the thing I've had in mind. Neither is the requirement to stay dehydrated for extended periods of time.

The whole idea of halal meat is disputed (since almost all of europe, china and american continent as well as australia thrives on pork) so I am beyond a doubt convinced it is a middle eastern bubble of safe-space where any opposing idea triggers people.

Anyway what I mean by wellness is a holy book commandment (not skme hadith) to stay healthy without emphasizing afterlife, djinns, devils or angels. Would be nice if you have another two minutes to write a dissertation about that.
Even the small libraries are great because of intra-library lending. There's a robust network of libraries across the nation that lets you get almost any book you'd like. In most states the public university system is also part of the lending network and any library in the state can get books from there.