skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IRS also only accepts faxes for sending documents directly to an agent. If you have a fax machine maybe it’s secure, but the internet services are very shady and using a local store I’m still concerned the machines store the documents in memory after sending them (not 100% sure if that’s the case but I see no reason for the manufacturers to care to wipe them).
Twilio, Stripe, Pure Storage, Nutanix, Slack, Dropbox, Box, SpaceX...

Some of these companies could never have started in Boston, because finding capital would have been impossible. It isn’t always technological advantage that wins, but UX or biz model, or any number of other things related to execution.
GitHub Actions Using Node.js
This is a good start. Like any nascent operation, there is plenty of room for efficiency improvements.

What would be really cool to see is an offshoot of this tech for greenhouses, or rooms with piped in sunlight, or leveraging geothermal energy, etc. Micro machines for apartments... So many possibilities!
I independently came up with the same pun just last week! I'm disappointed to learn that I wasn't the first after all.
I work in healthcare and in my office we likely receive 100-200 pages of faxes everyday. Every single microbiology report in my large urban hospital prints out (including preliminary results. This includes a cover page for every single fax. It's a huge waste of paper. Luckily we are moving to Epic and all results will come through that system instead.
And how would one use the cert on a server for a secure connection without the corresponding PRIVATE key exactly?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353686
Software and Plastic
The one place where I prefer stacking window managers is that I can have a transparent terminal/editor floating over the docs. Stacking things on top of each other while being able to see all of them is pretty nice.
It should work perfectly with native Wayland apps.

However, Xwayland apps will be blurry. This is a harder problem to solve, but KDE is working on a solution which would work for sway too.
Yeah, I've been frustrated so many times over my career when people get fixated over the sticker price of some SaaS/PaaS and instead insist on wasting rediculous hours building something or gaffa-taping some open-source solution together that then has to be maintained.

I've been in meetings where the combinded cost of the time taken to discuss if we should use a thing was more than the cost of the thing. Utterly infuriating.

Even when I worked for an agency there seemed to be an automatic discounting of the cost of people's time vs spending actual cash (and cashflow wasn't an issue).

I appreciate that there is often good reasons to DIY, but when there are not I will always favour something off-the shelf unless it is significantly more expensive.
Metrics for Markup Quality?
I'm going to post a job on Upwork to create static HTML+CSS from Sketch designs. I want to be able to say in the job description: "must achieve FOO rating on BAR code quality test."

It's good to use automated metrics as a shared baseline for a gig like this, because the client and dev hardly know each other, and because that lets the dev know how they will be graded.

Can you recommend any metrics we could use?

Google Mobile Friendly is the kind of thing I'm thinking of. However I'd like something which applies to code quality.
I dunno that it can't inform our decisions; because real decisions don't usually have the same constraints (but sometimes lose approximations of those restraints), the optimal solution to the abstract problem isn't necessary real-world optimal to even the best-fit scenarios, but it's often a good solution and better than a naive solution would be.

It's also the case that the problems that best approximate it's constraints, and for which it offers or suggests a good solution, are probably not usually the familiar problems with which it is usually associated. (Though I can see places that are decent fits that could exist upstream from those, like seeking a parallelizable approach to filtering resumes to get M interview candidates from a pool of N resumes while doing holistic comparison of resumes rather than scoring against an abstract rubric.)
Some windows are more efficient to use when they are a certain size or shape, such as where text is made to wrap at a comfortable width for reading. Efficiency of screen pixel usage isn't the only factor affecting efficiency of the interface in practice.
Google Cloud Console Incident
That's an incredibly good point. Good enough actually to inspire a modest little conspiracy theory in my head that it's actually a disguised push from the data giants.

Another serious counterargument: when a company is making billions from billions of users, how much could one reasonably expect? Revenue per unique user is tiny.
So it turns out the US Postal Service is very easy to trick. You merely fill out a simple form with no real verification and get them to forward somebody else's mail to your address, which enables all manner of profitable fraud.

HOWEVER doing that is a hardcore crime. You can be sent to federal prison for years for doing that. So the USPS is not secure in any sort of mathematical sense, but in practice most people trust it most of the time, because security isn't just about technical implementation details like encryption.

Similarly wiretapping telephone lines may be straight forward, but you'd have to be exceptionally daring or stupid to actually do it.
>Fax machine -> fax machine : secure

Great in theory, until you realize that most people don't have fax machines, so they use some online fax service that's probably less secure than sending email.
A Front End Does Not Have to Be Rich
I was buying it until he said that profit is “capped” at 100x of initial investment.

So someone who invests $10 million has their investment “capped” at $1 billion. Lol. Basically unlimited unless the company grew to a FAANG-scale market value.
Makes it a non-starter for me as well :/
This is my motivation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Drew Houston's Show HN post (Dropbox) that, you guessed it, got a ton of hate (on HN of all places). I don't believe for one second that money brings happiness, but a decade later, Drew's the one laughing all the way to the bank :)
The Idiocracy hypothesis you're basically expressing is false.

I only follow US data somewhat closely, so this is a US-centric claim, but I suspect the same is true elsewhere.

Teenagers, the poor, and the less educated are seeing much sharper fertility declines than the wealthier or better educated.

Teen births are down 55% since 07.

Statistically poorer minority groups are seeing the sharpest fertility declines, more than double the decline that White or Asian groups are seeing. (I can't find income-based data, just racial)

Likewise, fertility has fallen for the college-educated (bachelor's degree) by only half as much as for the less educated.

Birth rates are getting less like the "Idiocracy hypothesis" than they were before, not more.

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I don't agree with many of the political views of this organization, but they do wrap up all the data in a nice article with good graphs here:

https://ifstudies.org/blog/baby-bust-fertility-is-declining-...
it wasn't meant in a literal sense, maybe some quotation marks around his would have helped.
But they aren't making an OS. They're making a window manager. Why are you comparing a WM to an OS?
'Do no evil'

'We're connecting everyone'

I admire the will to want to do things differently, but the lack of self awareness of some drinking the koolaid bothers me - I don't know the word for it exactly.

A 100x cap on returns is simply not a non-profit, point blank. Any investor, with any risk profile, in any industry, at any stage - would be super happy with a 100x return.

I also don't doubt the 'market reality' of needing to have such a situation in order to attract investment, I mean, it'd be very hard to bring in money without providing some return ....

... but this is called 'capitalism'.

i.e. the reality of the market, risks etc. are forcing their hand into a fairly normative company profile, with some structural differences which facilitate mostly PR spin.

Companies are not 'for profit' because they are inherently greedy, it's just a happy equilibrium for most scenarios: you need investors? Well, they want risk-adjusted returns.

Also implicit in the 100x capped returns is the implication that the company gets to keep the money! The money goes into more staff, capex, higher prices to suppliers, or lower prices to consumers. But within that framework is just massive payouts to employees as well, in a very cynical take.

I love the motivation, but I wish we would be more objective in terms of 'what things really are' these days. Photos of 'families with babies' don't make a company 'better'. We all have families that we love, workmates we like (or not sometimes).
はい、Swayでibus+anthyはできます。Mozcはできないと思いました、でも今から変わったが可能性です。Swayを楽しんで！
We demand this level of conscious awareness and control of 4-5 year old children in our society but machines that carry dozens of lives are not held to such a standard of attention and interaction. This might be something that AI can address, but most current offerings still lack features we consider essential for even very young children.
Discussion from just over a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16487440

They took the closed XPack code and put it into the open source Elastic repo, but under a commercial license. It muddied the waters for anyone looking to use or contribute to the open source.
The commercial entities associated with the most popular open source technologies are taking measures to protect themselves from Amazon simply taking their software and turning it into a service, whether it's introducing proprietary components or new licensing. Wouldn't be surprised if we saw AWS do something similar for Redis, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.
I like the idea of tiling window managers but never got the use for it.

99% of my time is spent between my browser, my IDE and my terminal. A half-size browser is painful to work with, I need it full screen. Same for IDE. Same for terminal, I do need multiple terminals but I want them together.

I also have another workspace for chat stuff (browser with whatsapp, slack, messenger) and another for random apps (spotify mostly)

So I end up having cmd-tab set up to switch between browser and IDE (don't even get me started on the default macOS behaviour) and have a drop-down terminal mapped to shift-space, so I'm always one keystroke away from the app I want to use. For the rare case I use another app (some excel file containing data), I can afford the manual window switch.

And for the tiling terminal, tmux is my friend. Also allows me to see the same set of terminals between workspaces (multiple terminal windows on the same tmux session)
Ah, I probably did not correctly catch the news:

> Unfortunately, since June 2018, we have witnessed significant intermingling of proprietary code into the code base.

And you mean the x-pack stuff?

https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/LICENSE...

Interesting, wasn't aware of it.
So, you're a science denier? Or do you have specific refutations of the linked GP paper to the NIH?

I also linked to a valid area, and asked if there were human studies in synthetic estrogens and plastic byproducts. You know... Science.
There's a huge legal precedence loophole in the GPL, where one can essentially white label a piece of software and resell it as their own product.

For example, I could build a multi-site WordPress instance, white label it, and resell it as a custom blogging platform.
AFAIK there's extensions for about every platform and language at this point... You go through the pain of automating once, and let it self-update. From IIS to NGINX and Apache, there are integrated extensions. There's even solutions for reverse-proxy apps/appliances as well, from Caddy to load balancers.

Just search for: TECHNAME let's encrypt

You should be able to find something. With libraries, you should be able to roll your own. If you're distributing keys to a cluster of servers, you'll need to integrate your own solution, or terminate at the LB and trust your internal connections, or use PKI behind the LB.
Spending less time carrying a device that can call an ambulance in minutes would have serious consequences.
Anyone is free to package it for macOS. I guess no one cares enough.
Elon musk is african american and he founded OpenAI
>So the industry (in terms of people experience) is bottom-heavy in the work pool. Places that can afford it are top heavy in talent+experience, and everyone else is bottom-heavy in low experience, and neither type of place is doing anything to really address their problems long-term.

When I came to my company I was a junior front-end engineer with no CS degree. A few months in or so in I'm apart of a post-work discussion near the keg where the IT Admin head is going off on how the programming industry is getting flooded with low-skill juniors and how it's bad for the industry. He seemed entirely shocked when I pointed out that: (1) The ubiquity and availability of the browser meant there was going to be a continued need, so the problem isn't just going to go away; (2) This problem is one of software engineering pedagogy being woefully underprepared, which it is.

In that same range of time, on proffering a solution that seemed above my level, my technical lead, a much older former hi-frequency trading developer who prided himself on his C++ code (our team was Java/JS), inquired on how I got the idea, which had come about from doing reading/research on the subject. His reply was: "You read it out of a book?". Me - "Yes, [insert tech lead's name], that's how learning happens"

As someone who was coming from a background in humanities academia and training and coaching high schoolers in competitive debate, it is very very apparent that the industry is dominated, perhaps not by a type, but by an _attitude_ that is presumptuous, arrogant, skeptical of difference, and just straight up missing a certain relationship to social reality.

A year later, when said tech lead totally led us nowhere and quit, we had this rock star consultant come on who was making crazy money running the team and bucking all the organization's process in exchange for "results". Dude was rude and offensive to everyone who didn't lay before his eruditeness and efficiency. I remember his off-hand comment, given in an mentor-like role, on how it takes a certain type to excel in this village and how there are "too many guys who just like playing with symbols, they're usually into music or something to, it just doesn't work out". Like, wow, whole lotta absolutes coming out mouthes without much empirical basis behind it.
Today? Yes, I'd fly on one. Next week? We'll have to see.

We know very little about the Ethiopian Airlines crash (and yes I've see flightradar24 data). The speculation is worried it is related MCAS like the Lion Air crash, but until we know that even in a preliminary way it feels a little knee-jerky to boycott 737-MAX 8s.

Assuming the flight data recorders are recoverable, we'll hopefully learn more and can discover if there's any similarities between the two accidents. If they are both MCAS related I suspect we'll see a international grounding of the aircraft class.
Looks great, and the only thing I could ask for is a way to request that more sources be added.
That was kind of obvious from Zuckerberg's statement. It's all about messaging privacy. All this is to push for Federal preemption of California's new privacy law, which takes effect January 1, 2020, and is a lot like the GPDR. Facebook is screwed if that takes effect.
>Turns out the reason is rather simple: the law explicitly requires phone lines to be confidential in terms of eavesdropping. (You need a warrant, else it‘s illegal). While all other means of transport are not covered by this.

What about VOIP? Cell phones? WIFI calling?
This is some flat-earth level misinformation right here.
As and outsider, can someone explain the "synergy" (god I hate that word) for the companies? It looks like Mellanox is primarily a network equipment company. What is the "fit" for that within a graphics/AI chip producer?
Also worth noting that they have only built 350 737 MAX aircraft so far. 2 already destroyed out of 350 doesn't seem like a plane I want to fly on, regardless of industry-wide stats regarding accidents per billion miles travelled.
Noveau sucks, unfortunately. Performance is bad, and you can't load custom firmware like you could with older cards (signing problems). I respect the effort the developers have made; any other driver would be of excellent quality had this much effort been put into it. But Nvidia keeps on being a jerk about it. Easy to say don't support Nvidia, but at the present moment they have the fastest consumer cards on the market.
The real Cyrano de Bergerac
Personally for the most part I only have one application per workspace, and switch workspaces frequently. I often have several terminals on one workspace, though. I don't regularly use any GUI applications other than qutebrowser (web browser) and alacritty (terminal emulator).
Does Traduroa use a workflow engine/library? Or did you develop your own?
They are looking to raise billions and cap returns at x100? That means the returns will be capped at the "trillions"? So if they raise $5bn, they need to generate $500bn for the money to start pumping to the non-profit organization.

More like: If we make enough money to own the whole world, we'll give you some food not to starve.
Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who Has the Largest YouTube Channel in the World?
I'm mildly concerned with how many people that aren't directly involved with my medical care could read those reports. It's not like they have to break open an envelope or a filing cabinet or something either. Just another piece of paper to be casually picked up and scanned for filing.
Science Denial Won’t End Sexism
The problem with the workplace is you have a limited amount of control over it. Companies change strategy, get sold, have turnover... and sometimes even though you're sitting at the same desk, you find yourself holding a different job.

As I've gotten older I've found that what type of work I'm doing matters less and less. It can be the most interesting project in the world, but if your teammates are all assholes you'll be miserable. Meanwhile, the cleaning crew has a solid working relationship with each other and are having a great time.
This is a great response.

I think I probably could have caveated a little better, and said something like:

"People are throwing around the word 'toxic' far too freely. I'm worried about over-sensitivity and censorship. Because of these concerns, I'm apt to push back on characterizations that words and ideas are harmful, even if the ideas themselves are flawed and open to criticism. Specifically, flawed ideas that deserve to be criticized can't really hurt you in the way that 'toxic' implies."
Infiniband is actually a standard and Mellanox became the go to supplier. However in the early stages there were many more suppliers.
lol. They also have SSO through facebook, and google... which of course allows those companies to track users across different websites.
Sailing west is easy with passat wind. Sailing North to Europe would require sailing far into the ocean in NW direction and turning East when you catch westerlies at 30 deg North. That would require lots of courage or prior navigational knowledge.

It is almost impossible to sail North along the coast of Africa even for ships that can go strong against the wind.

This is what most people misunderstand about Columbus. He did not discover America, he discovered the way to go there and back which required sailing first South looking for passat and returning by sailing North and then catching western winds.

Columbus knew that (from studying reports) before he left on his first voyage, he repeated this four times as all sailors who followed in his steps did for 300 years.
I think a program like this would have to work to build relationships with organizations, and it would be an uphill battle.

Perhaps focusing on very specific skills, like test coverage and documentation would be more amenable to an organization than DB Admin.
I tried it once but found it way too sophisticated! It would probably work, but it would probably require hours to learn, whereas with Kdenlive I could get up and running almost instantly with a 2-minute YouTube tutorial here and there to clarify certain functions.
I think it's prison to prison.
I find it unfortunate this is how you classify people attempting to better their local environment they exist in.
First, I'm a father (i.e. "he").

It's heavily about time management. On Monday and Tuesday nights I don't have my children. So Monday I wake at 4am, do 3 hours of uni, spend 30 minutes getting ready for work and have 30 minutes to travel to work. I work 8 hours but I have an hour for lunch (which I study in), getting home takes half an hour. That leaves me about an hour of free time and 3 more hours of study. 7.5 hours sleep.

So Monday hits 7 hours of uni, so does Tuesday. I also have Wednesday morning and 3 more lunches so now I've done 20 hours. Since I wake at 4am I can get 2 hours in the days I have kids and now I've hit the hours needed easily. If I have a lot of work due I can take a day of leave (maybe twice per semester).

I also have Sunday nights free and one Sat night + Sunday day free per fortnight. That's a lot more hours. I typically get most jobs done when I'm parenting. Parenting is actually really busy because after school pickup I have dinner, cleaning dinner, baths, homework, etc.
The tobacco in ready mades is sprayed with saltpetre among other things.
Fair, but still a matter of degree regardless.
> a sysadmin (of humans)

Lol, that's a terrible way of putting it. A sysadmin has a lot of power over the systems they control. A therapist is like a consultant brought in to evaluate, but with no actual power.
Interesting way to think about it:

This is equivalent to saying:

"If you put 10m$ into us for 20% of the post-money business, anything beyond a 5B$ valuation you don't see any additional profits from" which seems like a high but not implausible cap. I suspect they're also raising more money on better terms which would make the cap further off.
> Fax machine -> fax machine : secure

Fax-to-fax is completely vulnerable to all kinds of attacks (even before considering situations where what seems to be fax-to-fax involves one end or the other actually being a gateway to some insecure system that pretends to be a fax machine), because:

(1) phone number hijacking is a thing,

(2) phone lines can be eavesdropped on,

(3) fax lacks authentication between endpoints,

(4) fax lacks encryption.

OTOH, in HIPAA environments it's often preferred because fax is not considered “electronic media”, so it is not covered by either the transaction standards or security standards that apply to transactions conducted via electronic media.