skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the pages have "Contact Sales" as the first call to action.
There's a saying I'm fond of that goes something like, "Python isn't the best language for anything, but it's the second best language for almost everything."

But if I had to pick one thing to point at to explain its rising popularity, it would be data science, as others have mentioned. I wonder if Travis had any idea the impact he would have when he made numpy.
Well usually, Microsoft is on the receiving end of the "vulnerability found" game. To me it would appear as if they're making sure that every single thing they discover requires media attention.
perhaps a minute or two less of running the engines?
Saudi Aramco bond offering attracts $100B in investor interest
>but here there's no evidence that the vulnerability wasn't simply a mistake.

So what, you want proof that the backdoor is deliberate? To do that, you'd either need some sort of internal directive from up top (good luck finding that), or the backdoor was comically bad (eg. if (signed by PLA) return true;).
So far it looks like, at least in the US, renewables are being used to expand energy capability, not replace fossil fuels. It's also worth that 45% of US "renewables" are biomass, so biofuels and wood burning.

Even if we do see replacement we still haven't solved the problem with wind and solar which is that they are intermittent power sources. You seriously cannot have a majority solar+wind for the foreseeable future, the storage necessary for a majority wind+solar grid is not a solved problem yet.

Then you haven't touched on the transportation energy problem, which is a much bigger problem. Efficient transport of resources around the planet is the essential ingredient in global capitalism. You need high-energy density fuels to do this (otherwise the fuel becomes the cargo). We have absolutely no solution for this currently.

Finally the fact that any suggestion that sustainability necessitates a drastic change in quality of life gets immediately downvoted is further evidence of how much trouble we are in. If, on HN, in a discussion of climate change, you can't say "maybe our lifestyle is inherently unsustainable" just shows how impossible the change necessary is to achieve.
Electrical/plumbing is a great idea. The ultimate job I think is robot repairman, because by the time that is automated we're all screwed anyway.

But consider exercise. Society automated a lot of manual labor and people still need to exercise, even though it's a blatantly wasteful use of energy. It's even more inefficient than digging holes and filling them again, because it's not even good for the soil. But it's important for people to do it.
If you are having G Suite in mind (not GCP) I think you are talking about how you can manage some group policies only with organizational units and not with groups (this does not indeed scale well at all). If my assumptions are wrong please do elaborate your original post.
Weekly, as noted on that spreadsheet.
Improve the accuracy and speed of typing code on the keyboard
XSS
This is a test <script></script> tag for API check.

<script>alert('Hello')</script>

XSS Check
That's more like the many Japanese train-driving games.
This has been happening for a while now [1]. The Chinese government always intervenes if someone acts in a way that is threatening to their ideology. It's interesting to follow because sometimes they will resurface with them apologizing to the media and how they were missing because they were getting medical help from the government (which makes little sense). Kind of reminds me of Lake Laogai from Avatar - The Last Air-bender.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-24/missing-b...
It's the same with car drivers, right? Illusory superiority
Mostly unrelated, but instead of turning off automatic deployment when you're working on something that isn't ready to deploy, why not just work on a branch other than master?
The Smarter Every Day YouTube channel is doing a series on platform manipulation
Some of the content is really basic, but he's put out several videos on it so far. He started with talking to a 4 star general who alluded to cyber and psychological warfare being at the forefront of modern conflict, and has done videos on Youtube and Twitter manipulation, and is doing one on facebook next. I'm really enjoying it so far. Curious if any of you have more in-depth looks at this, especially more technical ones.
Looks great! Any thoughts on adding humidity?
This is the biggest problem with attribution in network security.

If Huawei wanted to do this the smart way they would implement a backdoor that's VERY tough to find but could also be justified by stupidity.

This way they have plausible deniability.

"We're not malicious. We just screwed up!"
Regarding the most dreaded languages, 3 (C, Objective-C, Assembly) of the top 4 probably my favorites actually. I find working with and developing in C (Objective-C in iOS/macOS) and doing assembly the most fun I have had and look forward to. Maybe it's because right now I only do it for hobby.

What makes it the most dreaded? My only guess is having to maintain legacy code that's hard to understand or poorly written or another valid reason. I'd love to get into an embedded C / assembly role. I got pulled into web development early on, but I had a friend who was stubborn and held out and ended up coding games for casinos in C/C++ in Linux and SDL. I'm so jealous.
Paywall and outline does not work.
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole – Veritasium
What's the Bitcoin adaptation rate in Venezuela?
Others have answered about the performance, and it is incredibly efficient. But for me it's the community - /r/rust and discussions on here about Rust have always been pretty friendly and understanding, which hasn't been my experience with other programming language fans (looking at you, C++).
It should read GeV (giga) correct?
Related, I've been fascinated by this plot of 'social thresholds achieved' at the cost of 'biophysical boundaries transgressed' - https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk . I find it a more level-headed analysis to frame arguments around what resource usage it takes to be a 'happy' country, rather than just aggregating various happiness metrics alone.

"No country in the world currently meets the basic needs of its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use."

(summary article: https://theconversation.com/is-it-possible-for-everyone-to-l... )
Maybe I'm not easily triggered enough but generally speaking when one says "the Chinese" or "the Nigerians' or "the Russians" in a discussion that's about international relations, geopolitics or similar, I tend to think they're talking about the nation and its government, not the people themselves.
Fun fact: the Houston-Sugarland Metropolitan Statistical Area (“MSA”) is 50% more dense than the San Francisco-Oakland MSA. But the former is still vastly more affordable.
Yes, in the public system, insurers negotiate fees with "public doctors" (Kassenarzt), but the government has the right to override (which admittedly it hasn't used).

However, the prices that doctors are allowed to charge patients (private or out of pocket) are set by the government through legislation (GOÄ). There is no negotiation. You simply can not charge what you see fit, as a doctor, in Germany. Otherwise, why leave for Switzerland? You could just become a private doctor, the demand is definitely there.
How is being aware of and concerned about the activities of a government racist?
Right, but you still have to convince the target to load that code willingly (directly or indirectly) so it's still harder than email. I except these shady networks to be mostly used on shady websites, so you can block them "at the source" so to speak.
The current trope I see going around is that lock in centers (almost) 100% around identity management and access control, if you control that, you control your customer’s destiny. You can move a key value store anywhere on a whim.
> So what, you want evidence that the backdoor is delibrate?

If the title of the article is "backdoor found", then yeah. I'm of the opinion that it was an intentional backdoor too, I think that was a pretty clear possibility to anyone who saw the initial writeup. But to come out and claim unambiguously that it was a backdoor is masquerading an opinion as news.
These are just timepass surveys. Also it depends on who they ask the question to.
Have you reached out to: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/

They should be able to give you a pretty large chunk of credit (I assume it'll cover support as well). It should also give you folks to contact and help prevent the latter issue.
The content at the link is simply a poor adaptation of Tufte CSS. The text block has been made too narrow, lots of bloggy little headers and footers have been sprinkled everywhere, and marginal notes are used in a frenetic way that competes with the text.

The original design of Tufte CSS is good, but even that won’t convince a reader to take a super bloggy blog seriously (and I’m a fan of super bloggy blogs). The design has to match the ideas and the writing.

For comparison, here’s a one-off article of mine that I published using Tufte CSS: https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/posts/web-books....

It’s my own thing, so obviously I’m biased. But I can say objectively: A) I didn't dick around with the original Tufte design, B) I rewrote it for a year until I felt it was telling a coherent message, C) to me it is much easier to look at than the above (why would that be?) D) it was very well received E) in the 3 (?) years since I wrote it, I haven’t written anything else for which I felt like Tufte CSS would be a good fit.

(Another thing to consider: the ET Book font in Tufte CSS just doesn't look very good on low-DPI displays.)
Yes, it is a lot less racist actually. Are you serious?
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It is fairly easy to calculate the support, after applying the voting rule[1]. Nonetheless, the decision is now in the hands of the EU Council. It is also irrelevant, whether or not there were any mutually beneficial exchanges between the Franco-German alliance to revive this directive, to be passed into law.

[1] https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/voting-system/...
The fact that national governments aren't to be trusted is not racist. Your implication and terribly bad misapplication of the word "racist" is more disturbing than someone not trusting said foreign government.
I think you're assuming some positive intent here that's definitely helpful to the conversation, but may not actually exist in this specific case.

For our part, I think us sane people can all agree that it's the PLC that we are suspicious of, whereas the people of (and from) China are wonderful people.
How many backdoor styles are there?
And even then I get "recommendations" on sites for "Best Rap Right Now," which is about as generic as it gets, a simulacrum of a science that was perfected in the 1950s.
Nassim Talebs case against Nate Silver is bad math
Fabric and TurboModules – the React Native rearchitecture, explained – part 3
Is this any different than any other jailbreak bug that has ever been discovered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking#History_of_ex...
Wow. That's even worse than the US Electoral College (where California has approximately 700k people per vote while Wyoming has only approximately 200k people per vote).
Fun fact, I'm also training for a marathon! https://twitter.com/andy_kelley/status/1109906861241847816

There are 8 people on the Zig team, all with significant contributions and deep understanding of the project. https://github.com/orgs/ziglang/people
The Collapse of Antiquity
I mean... All of the major governments do that, it's just IPs of botnets always tend to be Chinese or Russian since those tend to be the unpatched systems.
The Mystery of the Blend (2009)
Announcing Building Git
Finally a serverless technology that is actually serverless to the developer ($0 when idle).
The data shows that the U.S. lowered emissions in 2017 and 2018 more than other major countries. A fraction of the <10% of emissions that personal vehicles make up isn't worth focusing valuable attention and effort toward.

https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/04/us-carbon-dioxide-emissio...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-...
Native Polyglot APIs in FaunaDB: GraphQL Now, CQL, SQL Forthcoming
In theory I'd agree with you. In practice so many people hold so many beliefs directly contradicted by completely unambiguous evidence that "it fits" is already a substantial step ahead of many individual's views. But more importantly, it's important that some people can and do hold divergent views rather than everybody all adopting the one most probable view.

The reason is that most probable does not mean right, and those who hold divergent views can help progress society by pursuing research in things that others would find to be a waste of time. In cases where they happen to be correct, the introduction of compelling evidence (beyond "it fits") can help reshape our understanding and ultimately change what the 'most probable' view is!

A tangent on a tangent, but if people required their views start with the standard of "it fits", I think that'd be one giant leap forward for society as a whole!
This is absolutely brilliant. The only barrier I see to these new visual languages is the initial barrier to learning the language. Either way, I hope more human interface research starts exploring this avenue.
Its also very neat, that placing a capacitor near a heat source, one can move the bell curve of failure, to a peak just after the end of warranty.
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I say this without even the slightest hint of snark: are you sure you really know what that word means, and the dichotomy of race and government?
GCP Community Slack is a great place to get access to both Googlers and non Googlers using and understanding platform.
Link http://google.com/
Hello World
I don't have a recommendation of what to use, but I sure a hell can steer you clear of the CRM we use... Which is Swiftpage's ACT!.

It's not cheap, and it's honestly the worst program I have ever had the displeasure working with.

You can really tell that they don't care about the development, aesthetic, quality of life, or any other aspect of the software other than making sure you'll pay them your subscription.

Any features you would expect by default is most likely a 3rd-party addon (that you have to buy separately) that is in a completely unregulated market (no vetting of developers at all) and there are some really sketchy addons.

Even the small quality of life things are done in a maddingly frustrating way. I haven't been keeping a list, but things such as the back button (which, when it works - wont work as expected), the fact that it prompts you to input your own phone number every time you launch, the arcane way of setting up sync for remote workers....

I have a lot of pent up rage against ACT. Our work refuses to get rid of it, because they are scared of the migration. I think thats the only reason ACT has business anymore... Corporations would rather pay thousands for an abysmal product than spend a couple weeks to prep and transfer to a different product.
Ads have a function, but they don't produce anything. They either divert customers from a competing business, or try to convince people to purchase something they so far haven't.

Instances where they provide useful information are comparably rare - with the exception of notifying people of a new business or kind of product, the yellow pages, word of mouth, or a search engine are much better, from a consumer's point of view.

With how information-sparse most ads are, it's hard to see them as anything but a drain on society, economically and socially.
Yeah, it was about 75%.
wait you can run wordpress on netlify? That would be so useful
A bipartisan group in Congress wants to make it harder for you to do taxes
The survey provides specific numbers on this, no need for the pinch of salt: 41% of respondents have fewer than 5 years of professional experience, and 68% have fewer than 10.

A better question is whether or not this experience distribution is representative of all software engineers. It almost certainly isn't, because it's only surveying "people who respond to stack overflow surveys", but it's hard to know how different it is.

All that said, there is no need for the quip about trends and buzzwords. Of course younger developers are more interested in new technologies - they have a whole future career they need to plan for. One might just as easily and meanly say that old developers refuse to learn new things because they're just going to retire in 10 years.
This is why government should use open source.
Do not expect the chinese government agents to understand all that.
Of the bugs I've reported in the Mozilla Bugzilla, zero have been fixed so far I think.
Reminds me in spirit of https://thebestmotherfucking.website/
She was pushed out for her support of the DOD deal. Once she made this “mistake in judgement” the writing was on the wall.
How to Get into SRE
I’m curious if anyone has used both Netlify and AWS Amplify and if they can do a quick compare and contrast? In some ways they seem very similar, but their messaging seems fairly different.

Disclaimer: I’m a JAMstack n00b and the last real web app I built was “old school” where we did crazy things like keep a session token around and server the HTML, CSS, and JS from a web app. As such, I may be slow on the uptake.
There's a world of difference between the wild claims re: bitcoin pushing global warming above 2°C and bitcoin causing lots of CO2 emissions.
The first "programming" I ever did was when we had computer day in third day, I bet a kid I could get to a higher level of Nibbles than he could. I read a BASIC book from the library, found the script and changed the START_LEVEL variable from 1 to 100. 20 some years later, I write code for a living.
That's very intersting! Thank you very much for sharing.

You might think about pausing to consider that you have described what economists call the lump of labor. This is the idea that there's a finite amount of work to go around, and it can only be distributed among various people or machines. Some might opine that there could be something to be gained by investigating writings and studies on this exact subject from the past century or more. Wikipedia can be a great starting point - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy

I have had a very different experience. I see the conversation you call for going on constantly. I see it among dozens of people I know personally, of many different ages and races and education levels and careers. This is enough to lead me to think that your idea is so good and so wise that it's already been adopted en masse!
For me, it's hard to quantify. Writing Rust feels different from any programming I've ever done in the past 12 years. It reminds me of the first time I dove into functional programming. You pay so much of the development cost up front in both time and frustration. But once it works, the guarantees you're left with provide a level of security and confidence that's unmatched in my experience. Somewhat similar to having a high quality unit test suite and strictly following TDD Kent Beck's way. The process is weird, but I love it.
Ask HN: Why do you dislike about Medium.com?
My dislike for Medium has grown with time for personal reasons. What's your reason for disliking Medium?
People in the Middle Ages took great care over cleanliness – except the clergy
Indeed. I always wonder if programmers smarter than me don't go on SO as much as I do and therefore don't participate in the survey. Maybe more people are using Haskell than reported. :-P
There’s two issues here.

First, the logic doesn’t work. Let “has fiat currency” be A, and “has a large army” be B. You’re asserting “If A then B; therefore if not A then not B”. This is a formal logic error called “denying the antecedent”, which means the argument is invalid.

(You also don’t support A well, but that’s a side point because your logical assertion doesn’t work).

Second, there are plenty of examples of rich fiat countries with small armies (Switzerland, 0.7% GDP defense spending) and non-fiat countries with massive army expenditures (Roman Empire, harder to calculate due to history and lower productivity, but at least 2.5% GDP and 80% of the entire government budget). The presence of both indicates that the form of currency a country uses is secondary to other intangible aspects when it comes to the formation and maintenance of large armies.
What exactly is an "NSA-style" backdoor?
Flagged for title: there's no evidence it was a backdoor rather than some subtly insecure driver programming.
Thanks for the heads-up/correction
Jetson Nano Developer Kit
You've put significant effort in defining monoply classification or suggesting workarounds, instead of calling Apple out on unethical behavior. Maybe it's better for Apple's customers for Apple to show some empathy, and not unfairly lock down their hardware. Macs have been secure enough without this new lockdown, so any argument made for security seems like a cover for their true greed
There is a notable difference between the images you link. Apparently [1] the drought/heat wave in Belgium started on July 13 2018 (and ended on 7 August), so the image-pair you link was near the beginning of the event. The data on the nifty pair-viewer you link to is sporadic, so it's tedious to find other matches.

But another story centered on the same theme already found matches:

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-images-shows-whole...

It shows a bunch of 2017/2018 image-pairs from places like Sweden, Denmark, and Germany with features from the drought.

Surely we are not arguing that there was no drought during that year, or that it's somehow not visible from remote sensing data?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_European_heat_wave
From one perspective it’s web hosting from the 00’s using git repos instead of FTP, and adding a couple of neat APIs as add-on products. Your build process can also be codified into Netlify instead of doing it all locally and pushing your final assets.

But that would be missing the point. It’s the promise that they’ll handle things for you. You don’t need to know how to configure a web server, ha proxy, systemd, firewalls, set up network topology or failover, nagios, collect logs, update servers, pay attention to security announcements. You just need to write your thing and commit it to git, and they got you from there.

You may want that for a bunch of different reasons. Maybe you legitimately have no idea how to do all of that yourself and don’t want to learn. Maybe you can do all of that yourself, but you don’t want to… there can be a bunch of reasons for that from cost/benefit to not wanting to bother maintaining a server for a one-off project.

This space isn’t really new, dotCloud in 2010-2011 I think I did the same thing — they supported a lot more backend languages, there had been some Ruby on Rails ones that were similar ‘git repo to production site’ hosting services, but I forget their names.

One feature they have that particularly made me go, “Oh… you guys are smart,” is https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/ Any random small site usually wants some kind of contact form, and they’ll capture some POST endpoints for you and handle that. I imagine over time more and more things along that line will be added.

I don’t normally do JS stuff, but I’ve been learning recently. My friend, John, records videos for YouTube where in one recording session they make a half-dozen episodes. He’s been going on about wanting an app that has a global timer aligned with the video recording, and then a sub timer aligned with the episode with play/pause/flag/comment/delete functionality. I made it to learn VueJS and give him a good birthday present.

I got it set up and deployed in under 15 minutes with Netlify, it has SSL, is speedy, and with Netlify I don’t have to maintain anything or think about it any more: https://timer.onthebranch.com/ so it was a big win for me there.