skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) then why didn't they force them to use input from both? Why give this shitty design green light? Why outsource parts of the certification process to Boeing, the same company who's plane is to be certified?

Because of 2) obviously. All the money is gone. No budget for rigorous testing and validation of specs.
Into the Sun of course!
Sometimes it is a necessity to accommodate for various networking gear as load balancers, wireless controllers etc as RSA may be the only thing that they support.
I recently passed the AWS Certified Solutions Architect exam. I used acloud.guru to study mostly. Not only are their focused learning tracks based on the different exams (Solutions, Security, Big Data etc.) but there are also more in-depth tutorials for specific services and architectures.

It's a bit pricey at $39.99 a month, but I think for the quality of the courses and the overall number of courses, I think it's worth it

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with acloud.guru
No, under greed it is never enough. The greed of the rich and powerful is never sated.
healthcare should really be the nail in the coffin of the efficiency argument. the reason it's more obvious that it works better provided publicly is basically that it's way more extensively studied and the US is such a great negative example of how privatization destroys it even in the middle of extreme wealth.
Rails doesn't scale, or more accurately described as Rails does not scale easily or cheaply. A lot of people doing consultation may have heard their client ask if they should switch to something else because Rails does not X, or Y or Z. ( Normally the standard reply is But GitHub and Shopify is using Rails as well, which should settle the argument )

Rails, by default is still viewed as a Server Rendered Only Framework. Although its API Mode could be used with any front end such as Vue.js, it doesn't seems to be well known or gaining any momentum.

I am wondering if Ruby Rails will ever pick up something similar to liveView [1], instead of sprinkle of Javascript, LiveView could get rid of it. It fits the narrative of Ruby Rails, and for those that don't like it could still use it as Rails-API and some other front end.

Edit: Turns out there is something similar on Rails called Fie. [2]

[1] https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...

[2] https://fie.eranpeer.co
Yes, but why can't we add an API, all the way down to the lowest levels of the hardware, that says "once I say this write is done, it will be readable again even after power-cycle".

Achieving that guarantee is not impossible, but it needs to be explicit. It can't be inferred from other API calls.
I totally agree. 4.6 as a cutoff is insane.

I regularly rate things 3 if it's good, 4 if great (on Google Maps).

What Uber should have is:

Rate your ride:

5 - great

4 - bad

3 - really bad

2 - awful

1 - shouldn't be allowed to drive ever again
I've always wanted to visit Brugge after watching the movie In Bruges. Maybe this summer I'll get to it :)
Or behind the fuel door (Volkswagen; took me months to find it).
I think his point was that the loosening of standards wasn’t because of anyone had a good heart, or because of the reinvestment act, it was simply the shortsighted greed of the lenders.
Of course its serious. Did you read my comment in the context of the subject of this post and the comment it was replying to? Because it seems like you didn't.

> First, the land that's being covered is mostly a desert, where no one wanted to live anyway.

So you're fine if we put nuclear plants in the desert then right? That would certainly be more environmentally friendly to the wildlife that live in those areas.

But even ignoring putting nuclear plants in the desert, we should compare the lost utility of land by Chernobyl and Fukushima weighed against that of all hydro and solar, on a per megawatt basis over time.

When showing concern about the lost land to Fukushima and Chernobyl the parent I was replying to exhibited, we should also look at the lost utility of land to climate change vs how much worse it would be without nuclear power in the mix, and how much better it might have been if we'd not substituted nuclear plants for coal and gas over the years. I'm pretty confident the small loss at Fukushima and larger loss at Chernobyl are peanuts on this scale.

> Second, it's being covered in solar panels so that we can generate electricity without emitting CO2, which is rather important given that our planet will be turning mostly to desert in the next 30-50 years.

You do understand that nuclear power does not emit CO2 right?
> But giant geographically, economically, ethnically diverse polities like the US have a much harder time.

I've heard this refrain from a number of otherwise sensible people and it always makes me shiver. Not only does it imagine all the world's non-US megacities are quaint "tightly-knit" monocultures, but the dog-whistle "ethnically diverse" component is particularly repellant. To give the benefit of the doubt: that's probably not intentional, but I really wish we could end this meme as to why the US has inadequate public services.
A storefront making a profit is perfectly fine as long as they aren't the only storefront that can exist.
Oh man, the cringe.

Most do. You can’t sell to Amazon or Walmart retail without entitlements. They are literally called entitlements. Try to establish a relationship with a big box store without agreeing to entitlements—it’s damn near impossible. Maybe massive brands like Nike can do it, I don’t know.

Damage is typically an entitlement. It’s usually called “DA” or “Damage Allocation”. It’s around 2-6%, depending on category. It’s usually deducted from each payment, or sometimes aggregated and deducted separately.

Many companies will take a marketing entitlement. Amazon Retail does this at 10%. It is negotiable, but depends on category. Most but e-commerce retailers now have an entitlement like this. Marketing support for product/campaign specific needs is separate.

“Liability” will sometimes take the form of an entitlement for high risk goods. For example, gift cards, fragile goods, and jewelry. It’s never called liability explicitly, but will have a variety of names depending on industry or category.

I don’t doubt your clients, but I’m guessing you work at a level that would not expose you to this stuff. Ask your clients about their entitlements, if they are willing to share that information with you. It might be eye opening for you.
When discussing the safety of nuclear power most comments seem to focus on the number of deaths. While death count is tragic in itself, it doesn't capture the full extent of human drama.

Consider this

Fukushima

"the nuclear accident was responsible for 154,000 being evacuated"

"In December 2016 the government estimated decontamination, compensation, decommissioning, and radioactive waste storage costs at 21.5 trillion yen ($187 billion), nearly double the 2013 estimate."

Chernobyl

"In 2005, the total cost over 30 years for Belarus alone was estimated at US$235 billion; about $301 billion in today's dollars given inflation rates."

"between 5% and 7% of government spending in Ukraine is still related to Chernobyl"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
I'm not arguing for or against computers vs humans, but your argument is puzzling to me.

Computer systems are accountable, changeable, and cross-examinable. Arguably more so than humans.

I do stipulate that computer systems can be racist or otherwise biased and can be "just wrong".
What keeps it rotating?
How would you feel if it was a single system used by all retailers?
I think in Uber Pool, the driver is automatically assigned the rides with no confirmation step?
You are aware that AI programs reflect the prejudices of the organizations that develop them?

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6334/183.full
DIY facial recognition for porn sparks concern
My own definition does not matter. Swiss law matters:

'The order may require real-time surveillance to be carried out and the handover of the retained secondary data of telecommunications from past communications (retroactive surveillance).'

https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20122728/...
>> There's legitimately no alternative, "secure" way to access someone's banking data other than by asking for a username/password

Not so true under Open Banking and other systems. Open Banking uses OAUTH2 style stuff, and a variety of certificate schemes (Open Banking's own, and EU ETSI qualified certificates) to allow participants to be delegated various forms of access and roles, in a much more granular way.

>> As a commenter on the issue says, there is no oauth-esque mechanism implemented by banks.

There is in the UK, and PSD2 solutions are rolling out all across the EU. Australia is also getting in on the action.
the issues shouldn't be related.

the point of UBI is to maintain liquidity of goods and a baseline level of demand for goods amidst a financial environment of increasingly extreme economic inequality which would otherwise cause sharp contractions in demand as a result of the public's lack of money.

if public services expand, each UBI dollar goes that much further. expanding public services alongside UBI creates a virtuous cycle in which a larger portion of each UBI dollar can be spent on non-essential goods, stimulating demand and subsequently funneling more money into the tax fund.

if public services contract, each UBI dollar has less purchasing power because a larger portion of its value is earmarked to purchase substitutes for essential public services. for instance, if your municipality slashes its water purification services, you'd need to purchase more bottled water than before, so you'd have less spending money because you'd still be paying the same amount of taxes yet you'd be forced to take on an additional expense as a result of the cuts. this situation completely undermines the economy as a whole because the cost of private sector substitutes will rise with every additional service cut until they are unaffordable, at which point demand will finish crashing and be incapable of recovery.
It was on this week's BBC Click program, there was a full room of IoT devices with wireshark showing their packet traces.
So if Uber taxi drivers made their own decision based on a aggregate score history you would be fine?
Why Advanced Nuclear Reactors May Be Here Sooner Than Many Imagine
I think we simply need to look at the iPhone as a platform on its own. Sure, they own a sizable chunk of the market, but so does Android. People are free to develop on Android, it’s just they don’t as often because Android made some platform decisions that for whatever reason caused people to not make App Store purchases.

There is a choice in platforms — but the monetization situation on the Android platform makes it unattractive to developers for whatever reason. Why are users more willing to spend money buying apps on Apple’s store than Google’s? I suspect it is because of Apple’s stringent App Store screening process. Yeah, it sucks ass for developers but again, this is Apple’s MO. Apple takes care of their end users, Google takes care of their business partners (and this is a pretty consistent theme across both companies and apparent in their approach to product support).

I often find this is useful if followed up with another question: Is there a market for tablets, or is there just an iPad market? Would the entire model have been as successful without Apple’s approach? Remember, Windows tablets and netbooks had hyped and fizzled long before the iPad. Would it have gotten off the ground before fragmenting the user experience into a thousand pieces?
It isn't a myth, I was flat our rejected for no less than 1-dozen jobs last year that could have been described as 'entry level' with the specific citation "we are looking for applicants with at least a bachelor's degree" or some similar statement, sometimes with the alternative of "or that have worked on an important project".

Edit: here's the exact wording from the one that rejected me, without an interview, for not having one when I had twice as much experience as years they'd been in business:

>Hope all is well, Ryan! I wanted to extend a virtual wave and thank you for your interest in joining our team. You obviously have many of the skills we're looking for. However, for the Customs Brokerage role we require a BA/BS degree as well as previous experience in a broker role doing entries and customs classifications

I'd literally been writing entries and doing customs classification for TWELVE YEARS at that point. I even have multiple awards for it, which were reflected on my CV.

Trying to get out of this field I applied to dozens of of jobs last year that were 'entry level' or minimal learning curve with any previous office experience and I think exactly 12 replied (the rest never heard from, even after trying to follow up), all of them stating lack of degree as a disqualifier.

One included:

>We'd welcome another application in no fewer than 12 months - the best way to stand out is to complete a major project or produce an important result in that time

Which was obviously copy paste from other job positions as none of that even makes sense for the listing I bloody applied to! It was an entry level assistant job and even then they said MASTERS preferred but no requirement.
So what are these “current trends that will soon be outdated”.

Java? It’s been a go to Enterprise language since 2002.

C#? It was a popular language at least as far back as 2005.

JavaScript? I saw jobs wanting JS experience and knowing “Ajax libraries” back in 2008.

C/C++? There are some jobs advertising for that still. My first job in both were back in the mid 90s.
The context seems relevant to plug my own take at this "problem" (aka. finding an alternative to a full-blown Python ORM), which involves talking to Postgres via only builtin data structures:

https://github.com/cjauvin/little_pger
I dunno, but I do know when I was standing in a crowd of 1000s at the Desert Trip concert he couldn't even muster a single "thank you" for those of us who paid and showed up.

Considering the lineup, he appeared to be a giant dick.
Zamia Speech: Open tools and data for cloudless automatic speech recognition
If you're going that path, you have to be careful. Double and triple check that your target University is going to accept the credits you think they're going to accept, at the values you think they're going to accept them. Preferably ask them directly, by specific course, and getting it in writing might not be out of line.

I've personally known people to pull off the 2+2 as well, but I've also personally known people who basically had the University look at their two years at CC, pat them on the head, and told them they get basically no credits because they didn't accept the level of courses involved.
MS Build? I was there too! Great conference.

This fact about Angular doesn't surprise me. It uses TypeScript which is a Microsoft joint, and the architecture feels rather similar to the MS standard MVVM. Two way data binding in the UI, a "code-behind" in the component. And TypeScript lends a sort-of C# flavor to the framework. It takes some "enterprise" and puts it in the front-end, which can help make the transition from ASP.NET MVC or whatever to Angular a bit easier (especially as compared to something like React).

If you're already doing .NET stuff, and you need enterprise-grade front ends, Angular seems like the natural choice still. One thing about Microsoft shops (of which my employer is one) is they tend to use Microsoft for everything, and despite Angular not actually being Microsoft, TypeScript makes it close enough. I'll be curious to see if the eventual production-ready release of client-side Blazor changes the dynamic at all.
apple -> ample
I expect some mistakes. But I don't expect every interaction I have with protonmail to be dominated by them. As a customer I ran into tons of issues as well.

And some mistakes, like their incorrect directions for ProtonVPN that gave them power in perpetuity to SSL man in the middle every single Mac user? I find those to be unacceptable failures of basic competency. Especially since they have NOT to my knowledge emailed every ProtonVPN Mac user warning them to downgrade the trust of that installed cert. I used ProtonVPN on a Mac and certainly never got such an email.

How many times does a company handling your sensitive information or material get to say, "Whoops, how clumsy of us" before your trust is damaged? How many bad customer experiences do you have? How many far-fetched and misleading claims do they have to make before you worry their marketing and custrel folks are out of touch with the tech?

You tell me your threshold, okay?
> arbitrary SQL cannot be combined or reused in a way which leads to compositional queries

You can do this, look into arel. Here's a blog post:

https://blog.codeship.com/creating-advanced-active-record-db...
If on macOS openSSL is replaced by LibreSSL isn't OpenSSL's fault, and I also think that the title "The sorry state of OpenSSL usability" isn't right since it's actually talking about LibreSSL. By the way I've just ran "man openssl" on a Linux box and got the manual for OpenSSL, so I'm thinking that this could be more a problem of macOS than OpenSSL. Of course I agree that the online docs should say if something is deprecated or is using a default value that is no longer safe, but the rest of the article doesn't seem well made to me
And to me as a continental european, Plaid always triggers
https://youtu.be/LU8seZlfhw4

;)
I did go to check this and you are right, I am from the UK, so should really know, I guess I just auto (in)corrected the non English pronunciation?
If I’m spending $10s of thousands of dollars to get a degree in computer science - that is my world and I want a positive ROI for it.
Teller is a system which relies on screen scraping and taking your passwords (AFAICT, though the comment below says they use the mobile APIs, it's much the same regardless).

In the UK this is no longer necessary and FCA accredited organisations (Or qualified organisations from across the EU) can gain access to Bank APIS which allow much easier, programmatic access with much more granular access and far fewer security implications.

IIRC teller have also been subject to blocking and possible lawsuits from various banks for their scraping activities and are not well liked in the industry.

(--edit-- I am rate limited here so cannot respond below, just to say that if OB APIs are not performant, that'll likely be down to the participating banks. I would expect them to improve over time.

I'm not trying to say teller is illegal - I doubt very much that it would have survived this long if it were illegal - simply that the security model is not so great and the banks don't like it and continue to try to block it. 'Stevie' would probably do well to get himself accredited before the banks find a way to keep him out permanently.)
Take it from someone who’s worked with client apps making ten times as many downloads at similar price points: if you want to be successful in the app business you need to look beyond optimizing App Store search terms. You need to be marketing and promoting your application across multiple channels to a wider audience. It does not sound like this developer was doing that, so while it is sad he has had revenue slashed in half overnight he could have avoided this kind of big hit if he was reinvesting some portion of revenue back into promoting his application.
The strange case of psychoanalyst Masud Khan
on a generic openbsd machine :

OPENSSL(1) General Commands Manual OPENSSL(1)

NAME
openssl ? OpenSSL command line tool

SYNOPSIS
openssl command [command_opts] [command_args]

openssl list-standard-commands | list-message-digest-commands |
list-cipher-commands | list-cipher-algorithms |
list-message-digest-algorithms | list-public-key-algorithms

openssl no-command

DESCRIPTION
OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Transport Layer
Security (TLS v1) network protocol, as well as related cryptography
standards.

[...]
> 4. Apple didn't make LibreSSL. Other systems besides Apple use LibreSSL, and the authors complaints about their lack of documentation are relevant regardless of what Apple does.

No, this is specifically Apple's fuck up. The documentation is right there on OpenBSD! It pretty much always was. I have a live system running OpenBSD older than this rant, and the man pages are there. The default modulus is 2048 too.
ProtonMail will almost certainly send mail you receive from a non-protonmail sources to law enforcement if they're required to.

They're pointedly not denying they do so in every otherwise detailed response they've given on the subject so far.
Visualization of AR and VR Perception on a Spectrum
Curious to know how one could feel compelled to write a statement such as this after reading the article. I despise CNN as much as anyone and think they are no better than a tabloid, but nowhere in the article does it even remotely imply anything resembling the above.
I agree. I completely avoid any locally installed software that's subscription only (e.g., Adobe Photoshop CC) because in most cases, I don't need the continual updates. I'm perfectly fine using a single purchase for years and just buying the update when the OS upgrade triggers it.
Meanwhile Microsoft is porting all of Office to React and have released React Native for Windows.
NLS: On-Line System
But the drivers (and some customers) are who wanted the tipping system.
Think more broadly about what an "exchange" could be. You're thinking crypto forex, but consider a crypto-kitty bidding platform or a virtual game item marketplace.
Interesting blog post and theory.

A core counter argument to their base premise is that learning effectively is done in person, as part of a social group, in a physical space dedicated to learning, with hands on practice. It certainly seems to be the core takeaways of Waldorf/Montessori/constructionist/etc. approaches.

> When our kids were in school and struggled with a class/teacher/subject, we would get them a tutor to come to our home in the evenings.

In other words, there's a reason they paid the tutor to come in person, and not tutor over Skype or the phone.

The author speaks of their intent being to open up access to education, and replace the "outdated tech" of physical schools and classrooms. I need to be convinced that successful execution of this plan (and its inevitable percolation into policy if it makes financial sense - which I have no doubt it does, for a VC to take interest in it) won't result in a two tiered system, with students from poorer families getting free, public education over video lessons, and students from wealthier family being able to attend private, more expensive, in person schooling.
I really like their model as well. I think the really novel part of it is that, when you decide to stop paying the subscription, you keep the perpetual license for whatever was current a year ago. So if you just updated to the latest and greatest, and you love it, then you need to pay one more year subscription in order to "buy" it out right.

I think that's clever
I agree with you on this. I find it difficult to imagine a scenario where this could reasonably be enforced, but I agree with the sentiment.

I would also extend it to social media. Like Uber and Lyft have more or less become forms of public transport, Twitter, Facebook, etc have become the new "public square". Private companies being able to ban someone from the public square without due process seems to be a scary precedent as well.
I understand your point but to be fair, if we cherry pick all the terminology from React it also looks bad:

JSX, components, props, context, error boundaries, forwarding refs, fragments, higher-order components, container.

Once you add in concepts from the other libraries commonly used with React like mobx or redux I think the comparison isn't as clearcut.
Interesting to understand what you imagined the objectives of such an expansion would be?