skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean from China. It was investigated and pretty conclusively linked. Is there a chance that it wasn't China? sure. But there were specific reasons that China would want to know what this company was working on, and it was more than just an IP address cross reference that pointed to them. Now don't conflate this as "US=good, China=bad" that isn't what Im saying here. Im saying that Chinese state sponsored hackers accessed their computer systems, with reasonably credible evidence.
A lot of states have laws against office and living spaces being in the same building, if I recall. Maybe someone else has more expertise and correct me.

This would obviously make it difficult for someone to rent out their living room to $Startup, for example.
Neither of the things I mentioned are because of government, strictly. They are results of social changes from technology and job market changes from technology - sprinkle in some helicopter parenting and too academic focused 16 year olds.
> This is wrong. The bank will have $1.90 + interest.

Dude, check your damn math! The bank owes me a dollar. At the time of the loan, it has 10 cents and Bob has 90 cents plus an obligation to pay it back with interest. At the end of the loan, the bank has the 90 cents back plus some amount of interest nowhere near enough to make the total add up to $1.90 (unless Bob takes up a ridiculously high APR and term just to loan a dollar).

> But if stopped, the bank would eventually have all of its cash because it has all of its reserves covered in debt.

This ignores that Bob has deposited his money at another bank which has used it as a reserve to make even more loans. The system can't stop, it would collapse.
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A future integration/compatibility with NextCloud will be awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextcloud
I don't know if there is a way out of that for them. There are probably more people who associate being unfashionable and eating unhealthy snacks with using Linux than an old fashioned hat.
Wake up naturally when rested. Your "sleep inertia" is your body trying to get a bit of the sleep you deprived it of back.
I'm doing a lot of hand-waving but the two topics aren't orthogonal nor are opinions.

I don't see how a person can be taken seriously if they are claiming there is an extreme risk from climate change and not fairly radically pro-nuclear. I've seen mass protests about climate change, they don't tend to be chanting "nuclear now".

The times might be changing now, but for most of the environmental movement's history nuclear has remained by far the most cost-effective choice. If they were serious about the risk of climate change then there would be massive pushes for nuclear power coming out of the green factions. I havn't seen it; only in isolated cases (tending towards engineers and scientists who care about the environment). The mainstream environmentalists tend to be in favour solar and wind.

If there is time to let perfect be the enemy of good enough then the threat can't be that urgent. The right wing is perfectly reasonable in dragging their heels. Look how successful that strategy has been so far; solar is almost economic on its own merits.
I'm sure someone does - I mean I have a friend whom I can hand a network diagram with specified cisco devices, and he can write cisco configs by hand, from memory - whereas me, I struggle to recall any of the regex I learned the last time I needed regex.
Good on them for bringing attention to how much space is wasted for parking in cities! A clever way to raise awareness.
These enormous underground projects are so interesting.

I've been following the Chicago Deep Tunnel project, which is nearing completion after half a century of work.[1] Because Chicago was built on swampland and next to the lake, rainwater used to be a huge problem because it didn't have anywhere to go when it rains, except into sewers - which used to be well under capacity for burst rainfall, which led to basement flooding etc.

So the city is building (and almost finished with) a set of huge tunnels across the entire city that regular sewers will drain into during flash floods, and then pump the water out to reservoirs repurposed from abandoned quarries on the edge of town. The target capacity is 17 billion gallons, which is apparently the volume of twelve football stadiums stacked together? [2]

I'd love to tour that construction. Not sure they offer public tours though. :)

[1] https://interestingengineering.com/chicagos-deep-tunnel-proj...
[2] https://www.mwrd.org/irj/portal/anonymous?NavigationTarget=n...
read the news ;-)
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Reliance is all set to launch World's largest e-Commerce Platform
It would be problematic for an agency established in 1970 to get "their temperature records" from 1918. Unless you mean another specific agency that existed at the time, but I don't think that's likely. If you want research from NOAA and other sources, it's been linked already.
It's partially an off the cuff response, but like all good off the cuff responses, it's meant to cause the reader to think a little bit deeper about the message. I'm glad that you didn't find it beneath you to respond to it as it was not intended to be dismissive of response, nor was it thoughtless.

Many of the FAANGs have pushed for diversity in hiring. I don't have a problem with that. I think an ideal workplace would hire people regardless of their circumstances of birth and lived experience as long as they are qualified to do the job and they, in fact, do a good job there. That's actually the crux of my problem.

When companies have pushed to remove names, genders, and races from resumes before the hiring process because they find that people are treated differently in hiring due to unconscious bias in that process then it smacks of hypocrisy to then blanket filter incoming resumes unless you went to a short list of approved schools or have a buddy on the inside juicing your chances. That sounds like the complete opposite of trying to be diverse in recruitment. I don't think that Lambda School is that great of a response to this - it just adds one more "acceptable" school to the list.

In fact, to a cynic, it sounds like virtue signalling of the highest order to please both Wall Street and the public.
(BTW, not me doing the downvoting)

I don't think that only allowing the purchase of tether to retail really meets their original plan.

The whole point was meant to be that anyone could take their coins and go to tether and get exactly 1 USD for each one. It was designed to solve the problems people were having cashing out from exchanges. The idea was that you sold your bitcoin on poleniex or wherever for USDT the then took that to the tether website and got your USD. Safe in the knowledge that your USDT would be exchanged exactly 1-1, with no bid/offer spread or moving price. The reason this was needed was because most exchanges were really struggling to get their banks to allow the USD processing.

In reality, you could never really do that. And now exchanges have been able to get the USD payments working, so the USDT<->USD exchange market has picked up the slack and now serves the purpose that the tether website never realised. Although it's now not quite 1-1, there is a market and a spread and prices move.

As others have mentioned, the likely reason they never have is that they would hit exactly the same challenge all the exchanges did with their bank and the KYC rules.
Just trying to find things like washers online had been a nightmare for me before -- how can they list the external diameter and not internal, how can they not say what material it is, or the thickness!??

I ended up trawling a few local plumbing supply stores and was really surprised how few washers they had, about the fourth store had a few random open boxes they let me rummage through and we agreed a price. It was unexpectedly difficult.

I've found similar problems getting screws I want (for a ceramics kiln). Gave up and used the best thing I could find in Screwfix (which aren't that good).
I imagine the margins for balloon shops incredibly good.
Where is this and how do I see it ?
My local police force won't even answer burglary or theft calls any more. They have an automated service which gives you a crime reference number over the phone!

"Press 1 for a burglary crime number... press 2 for a theft from the person, for example a mobile phone... press 3 for the loss of an item..."

Option nine is "Minor assault against the person".

The non-emergency number (101) just give you the phone number for the automated service...

Did I mention it's a premium-rate number?
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Examining Carlos Ghosn and Japan's System of 'Hostage Justice'
Interesting to hear Hy mentioned in a production context. What advantage do you expect to get, besides the cool factor?
Head of Let's Encrypt here.

So far as we can tell, there is no viable plan for mass adoption of S/MIME. It will remain a niche system whether or not we participate. There is no opportunity for impact that would justify the effort and expense on our part, no vision for the future of S/MIME that we're excited about.

There was a viable plan for mass adoption of HTTPS in a reasonable time frame, that's why we chose to execute.

A fundamental difference between those two ecosystems is that the burden of HTTPS is almost entirely on server administrators, end users don't have to do anything. The HTTPS user-agent ecosystem has been solidly in place for a while. In the S/MIME case individuals need to be more participatory, and it's hard to get end-users to do anything, let alone correctly.
"I can improve the server architecture by automating a lot of the common maintenance tasks with Puppet or Chef."
No I assume it doesn't exist yet. Indeed, the scraper would require the user to be logged in. Therefore, the scraper should probably be installed as a browser plugin.
I've gone through similar scenarios... you hire employees with fantastic experience which includes config management. Everything is optimal until low level problems occur. A good example of this is software raid failing, and the best playbook/manifest writer doesn't know where to begin(without google).

The solution is really really simple. Don't hire people without an RHCE, or that haven't had one in the recent past. Feel free to substitute the RHCE for a comparable certification, which are few and far between.
Yeah, live for the day because you might be saving for the future that never comes, for all sorts of reasons.

Well, a bit flippant, but still that is the other side of the coin.
A few million
That makes me wonder what else you could repurpose as an office in places where offices are disproportionally expensive. What about a climate-controlled storage unit? A quick Googling tells me you can get a small (but large enough for a desk) climate controlled storage unit in San Fran for about $100-150/month. That's vastly cheaper than a co-working space. I know you can get storage units with power, they're pretty popular as practice spaces for bands around where I live. You'd need a mobile hotspot for internet, and no windows might be a bit depressing, but for the price...
Presumably the attacker has some external command and control infrastructure they must use to get in and out of Citrix's networks, which is presumably what the FBI was tracking.
I was thinking of the Sony rootkit, and the Starforce and VAC exploits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
A Facebook request: Write a code of tech ethics
exactly what I was thinking, e.g. "need a working space anywhere? just use the app and rent a one of our free spaces or share one"

I could definitely see VC money going into this, maybe even an existing company doing it.

the parking spots could have temporary structures to make it more like an office, have plugs, internet, etc.

then it could expand globally and it's no issue if it's outlawed in one city/country, just go to the next city/country.
I remember something about a capital register appending instead of overwriting -- is that only for saving (with no influence in execution)?
That is the actual plot of the SheWork episode in Broad City.
Can’t tell if you’re serious but this was a joke/stunt. The point being to show how poor of a use of space it is to have street parking lining every street in an expensive and crowded city.
I don't trust incremental builds (whether via Bazel or any other tool) for an actual deployable build - I've seen them go wrong too many times.

For the local edit-test cycle incremental builds are great, but any decent IDE will do them in the multirepo case just as in the monorepo case.
agreed, I never believe a yes until the money is in the bank.
Your entire reason for calling people not doing what you do "bloody idiots" stems from your opinion that static typing is superior.

It isn't, you're just contributing to a flamewar that has been going on since computers have been a thing.
Those links all just say that there's Li in Afghanistan. Calling it a "conflict mineral" is a particular term of social justice that implies that its extraction is directly related to the exploitation of some local population, not just that there's a putative "conflict" nearby! You just seem to be using the term to argue that people near wars should be economic pariahs who we never trade with. That's harmful, not helpful.

An of course, the overwhelming majority of Lithium production and reserves in the world are in Australia and Chile, which are notably conflict-free.
Gravitational searches for Lorentz violation with ultracold neutrons
They should invest in getting those large collapsable umbrellas for shade, working in 'on-road parking' during summer doesn't sound practical.
> Poverty: It is now known that there is a rising gulf between subjective and objective well being. A majority of millionaires do not think they are rich. I think this psychology will make it impossible to solve poverty.

I'd argue (and I'm not a millionaire) that being worth less than 10M isn't really that rich. A long-term pet peeve of me is that most people don't realise how poor they are, if you treat everything as being relative.

For most civilians, access to wealth and being able to access debt (and leverage) is tied to house prices, and a lot of house prices in high-paid areas are beyond the reach of most people. Thus, by extension, access to wealth is not easy for most people.

Trying to have access to wealth AND having at least one stay at home full-time parent? Even harder to achieve in this day and age. People born between the 50s and 80s basically were able to both get on the wealth ladder AND afford for one parent to dedicate themselves full-time to parenting their children.
Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux’s Dominance [pdf]
Needing to remember is a sign of mismanagement, because if you have to remember it or look it up in third-party docs you might pick a different method than you did last time and create a subtle problem that might be time-consuming to debug. If anyone recalls the old days of having a handful of expensive servers that were configured at different times, often by different people, this was a common source of inconvenience and outages. The right way is to have it automated or at least recorded, for example in his presumably version-controlled config management system.

Of course this creates the pitfalls of automation, but I think it's unavoidable if you desire reliability and efficiency. Bypassing automation and typing in commands from memory or from man files, even if it's a one-off experiment with a fresh server, is going in the wrong direction to address the pitfalls of automation. If you're worried about not understanding the configuration commands your automation uses, a better way would be to call a meeting with some junior engineers (or a rubber duck) and talk through the configuration process line-by-line.
Milwaukee, WI is building a Deep Tunnel project as well. It's certainly not as large as Chicago's, but the need is similar (city built on swampland). They are, after all, neighboring cities on Lake Michigan.

https://www.mmsd.com/what-we-do/wastewater-treatment/deep-tu...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sewer-diving-milw...
From the Wikipedia article supplied:

“Large variations in the claimed death toll have fuelled the controversy. In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for the Dresden raids, and death toll estimates as high as 500,000 have been given.[15][16][17] The city authorities at the time estimated up to 25,000 victims, a figure that subsequent investigations supported, including a 2010 study commissioned by the city council.[18]”

It’s a tragedy none the less but that figure doesn’t seem actuate ?
The irony is that all the companies and startups work on internet companies which could happen anywhere with internet access. It's not like there is a gold mine under San Francisco streets that requires on site mining. And before you say "the people are the gold mine", those people could be interacted with remotely quite easily.
Yes, the US has a messed up healthcare system. It's terrible, but it's not something that tech can fix. It's a political problem, so this is politics and is disappointing to see politics at top of HN.
Pretty interesting that the roots of Evernote begin in Early Modern Europe.

I've been doing this for years (on paper, no less) without knowing that it had a name.

Edit: Here's an article that gave me some good ideas about different things to do with my book.

https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/08/how-and-why-...
The reality of developing serverless apps is seriously painful for anything that's not 'hello world'. Non-trivial functions very quickly go over the size limit for directly uploading your dependencies, then you have to start doing stuff like extracting your python packages into a zip file and pushing it to an s3 bucket, and then every small code change requires a new upload. Testing and debugging tools for serverless are distributed logs that are mixed in with all your other logs in your VPC.

I'll take a look at this the next time I'm required to use serverless, but I really don't know what the people pushing this as the future of web apps are smoking. It's never been anything but pain for me. How anyone can try to use this for real and say, "This is sooooo much better than all that old shit!" has never actually used that old shit. That old shit works really, really well. It has for a very long time.
How to automate a router reboot when the internet stops working.
While I am saddened by this decision I hope he now is able to get proper medical care and fight the case against extradition. As long as he is not on London streets the US can't just snatch him up. [1] [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Omar_case
If you are on android 9 you can set a Private DNS that will stop loading of most ads on the whole system.

the one I use is dns.adguard.com
Operation ShadowHammer Exploited Weaknesses in the Software Pipeline
What they did was despicable but that's not really fair either. If defective aluminum they sold was direct cause of 2 billion bridge collapse would they be liable for that amount?
the website: https://www.wepark.us

the original twitter thread (first test drive): https://twitter.com/VictorPontis/status/1121521771633500160
I'm not saying it, the people using them all the time are saying it.

I'm happy with the generic HP keyboard I'm using at the moment, circa 2014, and my T410s old style thinkpad keyboard.
Deferred prosecution is fairly new in Canada but that's what we're going through now with a company called SNC Lavalin. It's a Canadian-based world-wide engineering company famous for bribes, hookers to win contracts, possible mafia involvement. Yet the executives are escaping prosecution because the company employs so many people.
Buddy of mine breaks his collarbone, gets some pins put in. They drop him a bill for $25k.

He says "I'll give you $1500 now, or you can send me to collections."

They took it; now I use this technique all the time.

They make up a number which is how much they hope to get out of you, and you should return the favor by make up another number. Then scream at each other on the phone for a few hours before coming to terms.

Sad that it's come to this, but medical billing is a shell game. You can play it too.
Those are the examples given, but that wouldn't explain the huge numbers claimed elsewhere - nearly a quarter of phones in the US. Pardon me for not assuming that a data gathering corporation has my best interests at heart.
I mostly agree. Just notes:

Classic example in favor of monorepos is shared internal library. You should be able to change its API in one step, because that's the way to not having to care about compatibility at all. Compatibility concerns only happen if there's a time difference and with atomic company-wide update, this just doesn't need to happen.

In my example, backend and frontend can be deployed together. And we can discuss whether they should -- I would say there is little benefit of maintaining such single-purpose, wide interface just for getting the ability deploy frontend changes only, but this would depend on care the team put into configuration of cluster orchestration.

Contract testing is good, but not as good as testing against the real thing. Very much depend on the circumstances though.
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Algorithm Design (2006) [pdf]
Met a guy in DC that actually lived inside a warehouse storage unit. He had installed lights, walls for multiple bedrooms, a kitchen/bar, and a lot of cool art. I'm awful at estimating distances but I'd guess the main room was about 800sqft and the bedrooms/bathrooms were divided from another 400sqft. With a little love, any place can become a home.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Yes, I understand that, I just don’t see this bitfinex situation much different from what is generally accepted as normal in banking sector.
Has the US ever “snatched up” someone from the middle of London?
This is an excellent idea! Letting out the entire apartment or most of it could make for a better experience, since part of the appeal (for many) is the community and a break from solo working environments. One could make an app where users could see coworker profiles etc - might appeal to people looking for inspiration or motivation.
Programmers/technologist often work for those who only work money... ethics generally do not work in such places...
May they throw out the key
It's been going on for sixty years (something the defenders of both paradigms often seem to ignore) and will never end, you'll die.
But is that legal?
Marriott private home rentals signalling the death of disruptors like Airbnb?
"signatures", but how good were they? I'd not be surprised if you could do much better than random guesswork, but I'd need to see a lot more data to accept that this is good enough to be scaled up population-wide.
>so this is politics and is disappointing to see politics at top of HN..

Huh?

There's always politics at the top of HN.
> Sad that it's come to this, but medical billing is a shell game. You can play it to.

All irregular billing is a shell game.
There was never any standard though. sshd.conf is one hand-rolled DSL, smb.conf is another, httpd.conf is another...
Well that’s just a touch melodramatic.
Which satellites? I presume OCO and some other one?

And how do journalists so frequently fail to include core facts in their articles?
Political problems are mostly communication problems, and communication is tech.
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