skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but it seems like you've worked in very low skilled teams. There are sometimes two different solutions to a problem, but they come with different pros and cons and you need to decide which to choose based on balancing reasons, not based on having different understandings of how git works.

For instance, when you have lots of parallel work, you have to decide whether to merge-commit each into the mainline or wether to rebase them. The first is an honest view of what happened, but might be harder to read. The other is easier to read, but might not represent well what actually happened. Git doesn't work one way or the other. Both is fine for git. And you should also be aware what it does under the hood for both options.
Aren’t they supposed to be toys? I mean, I need a smartphone for e-mail and maps, but I don’t need something that’s more powerful than an iPhone 5 for that, and yet I’m typing this on an iPhone XS while I’m on my commute to work (election preparations).

The reason I have the XS was mainly because I wanted more screen space for things that fall in the “toys” category, things like hackernews, and I’m certainly looking forward to playing the Harry Potter Pokemon go. I also wanted the better camera to take better pictures of my newborn, that I share with our family in Tinybeans.

I don’t see a problem with that at all though. I did turn notifications off from everything except the e-mail where I get alerts. I use todoist, a todo app, to schedule a lot of things, but even that doesn’t allow to alert me, not even with a little red number on the app icon.

I suggests this to everyone. I did it at a suggestion of my personal-efficiency-coach, but once the apps stopped reminding me to open them, it instantly freed up hours of daily time. Now I check them when I want to, like right now, where the alternative to my smartphone is quite literally staring at the open train bathroom across me. This had the added advantage/side effect of making me realise what apps I didn’t actually want.
> I will try and switch to a simpler phone Cat B35 to see if I can cut out smart phone addiction. The Cat B35 uses KaiOS which is a Firefox OS clone. I will also carry a pocket camera like a Sony Rx100 for taking good quality photos.

I've been working on a similar project for a while, in order to see what the viability of reused Android hardware is if you make a minimal AOSP-based system. I'm trying to wean myself off of current-generation hardware as much as possible because honestly it's just not needed, and I don't want to feed the consumerist machine.

I'm using a Nexus 5 I bought used for $40, with the Nexus heavily underclocked for power usage and only the simplest required apps on it. The biggest problem I have had with this phone is that battery life on earlier smartphones is abysmal. I did replace the battery for $7 and it's made a big difference, but there's a level at which the old phone hardware just can't keep up with app bloat if you're using some newer applications.

For photos, even the old Nexus is fine for most use cases. For real photos,I just take along a used DX-sensor Nikon Coolpix A I bought on Craigslist.
One of my ex-gf's mother is German. She drives her totally crazy with the complaining. And the older she gets the more she has to complain about.
The Payments Race: Round the World in 2 Weeks Paying Only in Cryptocurrency
That looks nice, but it’s no match for LaTeX in the academic publishing world, simply because virtually all technical conferences and journals only provide Word and LaTeX templates.
The relationship between greenhouse gas concentration and heat transfer is logarithmic, not linear, so it's not surprising that we don't see a linear relationship between CO2 concentration and temperature rise. Also, once again, greenhouse gasses affect heat transfer, which affects the rate of change of temperature, rather than temperature directly. That's my basis for the claim that the full effect of the gasses being released now is yet to be seen. Finally, temperature is noisy and in the short term is impacted by many factors, so looking at a short term (in geological terms) graph, an increase may not seem large compared to the noise. However, if you look at the recent increase on a longer time scale, you can see that it is unprecedented. And it is entirely consistent with what is scientifically expected based on atmospheric CO2 levels. If you'd like to understand why more deeply than my outline here, this is a good primer: https://skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enha...

I'm always open to new information. I'm no expert in this stuff, so I can certainly learn more—learned a couple of details while reading to try to fully answer your question actually. And it's a reasonable question why the temperature increase over the past 100 years (in particular broken into two periods) isn't proportional to the C02 increase over the same time. I think I've fully answered it now though; is there anything specific that I wrote above or that's included in that link that you dispute?
Brings to mind a lyric:

My guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect

Deceived me into thinking

I had something to protect

Good and bad, I define these terms

Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.
For a real account of how people are going to use smartphones - look at teenagers. they're always glued to their phones, they edit photos on their phones, they make plans on their phones, they write poetry on their phones, kids even do homework on their tablets/phones now.

The dirty truth is app tool makers have been slow to adopt smartphones/portable screen as input devices as a dev tool. Apple refuses to put xcode on ipad and refuses to put a touchscreen on a mac(but have included that godawful POS touchbar), google hasn't made ANY real take the charge forays into a drag and drop android app creator and microsoft doesn't have a clue.Indie app creators aren't incentivised to make dev tools for smartphones because adoption is low since hardware/software makers are trying to artifically push a "phones are for play, laptops are for work" artifice(apple/google/microsoft).Ironically Samsung dex is an actual vision of a realistic phone as primary computing tool future but Apple is too focused on profits to adopt this paradigm.

The moment we see actual real "native mock to deployment" tools on mobile devices is the moment the distraction moniker will go kaput.

it's not that phones are distracting us from our work, it's that our whole world is on the phone, the social bits the communication bits and the entertainment bits - except for the bit of the world that deals with making things.
> The term `checkout` is multiplexed to do more things than I would've guessed.

Do you mean `pull`?

> The staging area is totally unnecessary IMO. I think git would be easier if we didn't have it.

It's an interesting POV. Especially since you can easily amend and rebase -i before pushing without any consequence. Thanks for the idea. I implement a git-like for a special use case at the moment and will certainly consider this.
You would have to wrap the call in a g-fu prim [0] for now. As for dynamically loading libraries, the plan is to implement g-fu libraries that call out as plugins. I have yet to dig into reflection to see how much effort an FFI would take.

[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/blob/master/v1/src/gfu/abc.go
Avexis spent ~$700M on developing this drug. But drug prices don't just cover costs for developing the drug. They also have to cover losses from other failed r&d projects, and also cover the cost of capital

money isn't free. If for profit companies didn't fund this research, no one would. Opportunity cost of money is a real cost and it is reflected in the price of any commercial good -- drugs are no exception

Is there profiteering in some cases? Yes. Is there in this case. Probably a bit. But it is not realistic or fair to think drug companies should price solely based on a cost-plus model, ignoring losses from failed research efforts and the cost of capital

However, cost of capital is a huge driver of costs and reducing it would be very valuable. The question is how to do that

If you're curious to see how these different things affect drug price, I made a tool where you can play around with different drivers of drug prices (incl cost of capital) to see how they affect price: https://www.baybridgebio.com/drug_pricing_calc.html
But you could also review the commit before pushing and then modify it instead.
That's who we're talking about in this thread, though. vonmoltke posted the actual list of companies doing buybacks. Apple is #1 and Oracle is #2; the remainder of the top 5 is rounded out by Wells Fargo ($253B in cash, albeit as a bank), Microsoft ($133B in cash and short-term investments), and Cisco ($46B in cash and short-term investments). Together they're responsible for over 20% of the $800B in 2018 share buybacks. The top 20 is responsible for about 45% and includes companies like JP Morgan, Bank of America, Facebook, Alphabet, Starbucks, Pfizer, Citigroup, etc.

Arguably they're buying back stock now because they believe it's undervalued. The other prevailing narrative in the media today is that corporations are too powerful and are bleeding the American consumer & worker dry. Which is it? If they're actually bleeding the American consumer dry you'd have to be an idiot not to want a piece of the action, while if they're overvalued and about to collapse there's no reason to be afraid of them.
Prospecting for natural resources is a global lottery: The largest oil field in Mexico was found by a fisherman who noticed noticed slicks on his boat back in the 70s.

It took world class geologists to characterize/pull it out, though. And I think Pemex gave him a cushy lifetime job too!
I agree with what you wrote, my iPhone has all notifications off and the only person who can make it ring is my wife.

But

> staring at the open train bathroom across me

I have since found that this sort of time wasting is pretty powerful way to let creativity recharge. It’s like disengaging from screen let’s my mind work at it own rhythm.
Full email address in profile?
Just learn all ten and be done with it. You wouldn't work in a factory with professional tools without learning to use the tools either. So why not just learn this professional version control system in and out. It's not that hard either.
We have JMeter to pump the data to InfluxDB and then visualise them in Grafana.

Additionaly, you can see results while JMeter is still running.
This has been my modus operandi:

• No push notifications (except for one human, and that too via SMS).

• No "social media" accounts (never had it on the phone to begin with; and removed my FB account 5+ years ago).

• Use gray scale (this turned my phone into a very peaceful device). On Android, this can only be enabled via the "Developer options" (and then select "Simulate color space" --> "Monochromacy")

• The "apps" on my phone are most practical ones: Maps, English & Dutch dictionaries, Orgzly (Org-Mode-based note taker), Spotify, Signal, WhatsApp, a couple of train look-up services, Firefox and an OTP generator.

This has been instrumental in making sure that my attention is not splintered all over the place. And lets me retain the ability to concentrate and read books in 2-hour, undistracted blocks. Go me!
Typically I’d agree, if I was seated next to a window I’d be looking outside. That’s often how I get my best ideas, but the bathroom is just too boring. Especially because it’s the same bathroom I look at every day.

I sit on folding seats in the conjunction between carts because I commute with my folding bike, and it’s just easier to sit out here, but I do think you’re absolutely spot on. I think “wasting” time is extremely valuable.
Government tends not to opine on ethics in official communiques
Oh I read plenty, currently I'm on a financial interest reading through books on technicals and options. I agree a lot of what people call "smarts" is just a lot of time spent truly understanding what interests you.

It's just interesting to hear it from another person. Reading isn't all that special just gotta do a lot of it and keep yourself engaged.
The socioeconomic benefits from stopping drug companies from acquiring a larger and larger chunk of the economy would mean greater equality & more societal resources that could be directed towards other purposes than medicine exclusively for the rich.

If rich people don't want to die they can always subsidize medicine for the poor more than they are now. Then everybody could be a winner!
It can using plugins from what I've seen. I'm not aiming for a regular Lisp though, g-fu is designed to be embedded in and complement Go first hand.
Gatsby can pull content from WordPress[1], so nothing changes for your content workflow but you get all the speed and security benefits of a static site. It's a pretty common workflow these days.

[1] or dozens of other sources.
But muh stock value = money value

If he sold 100% of his stock like he was cashing out TSLA wouldn't be worth as much.
it was about keyboard/mice :-)

I'm pretty much switching between stuff using keyboard, and mouse is mostly for "fine" scrolling, selection of bookmarks, and links, in most cases just page up/page down
I've used hostus and alpharacks for multiple years at that price range.
> Early rocketry experiments used it as an oxidizer and it’s generally considered too unsafe.

Wasn't Carmack's rocket company Armadillo Aerospace using hydrogen peroxide for the oxidizer?
From the first dot com crash, I learned that a given stock can always drop another 10%. Until it hits zero, that is.
> When you poke at your repo on the command line, you never get to see it as a unified whole. All you can do is try a command, see what it prints out, and try to make a mental model of what this all means.

Or simply learn to use the git commands right. Then it shows you everything the UI tool would show.

I recommend everybody adding this to their ~/.gitconfig

[alias]
lol = log --oneline --graph --decorate
lola = log --oneline --graph --decorate --all
lols = log --oneline --graph --decorate --all --max-count=10

Then you can simply do a `git lol` or `git lola` to get the same result as your fancy UI is showing you. And it also works via ssh. If you've manually typed that alias in a few times you will also remember it and have it readily available when you ssh into a customer server etc.
What makes it intrinsic you think?
We all know the wall is going to be built, this is just stalling and showing the judge is putting his personal politics first.
`git amend` and `git rebase -i` are two core features of git. It's okay if especially interactive rebasing takes some time to get used to. But it should certainly be part of every users standard tool set.
Haha wow! Yeah sure, here's an example of what I mean: https://imgur.com/a/eX2BcIC

I'll refrain from elaborating on the difference between those (it's probably best if I don't), except to say that my jaws will probably shatter the floor if you tell me you don't see the difference. :-)

(Probably worth saying that I have the same issue with PS; it's not just DVI. I do sometimes wonder if I'm the only one who sees these.)
Yeah I'm trying to get Great Western Rail to honor a delay compensation claim. What an awful company.
There are groups (on Discord, Facebook) where people sell Amazon gift card codes for less than the value of the gift card. Sometimes they are real codes that have been bought with accounts that have been hacked through email phishing, and sometimes they are completely fake.
https://posteo.de

Based in Germany. 1 euro/month for 2 GB. Green energy. 3 aliases included. Anonymous payment with a post letter. Comprehensive encryption.

(happy user)

Upd: Free Javascript as confirmed by FSF: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-javascript-guideline...

Other recommendations by the FSF: https://www.fsf.org/resources/webmail-systems
That's not how networking works. Incoming connections are usually blocked which is what this is for. It punches a hole through your firewall by using an established ssh tunnel to forward traffic over. You don't need to allow incoming anything to use this service
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Take a look at https://tiddlywiki.com
Another option is algo using wireguard with port forwarding.

https://github.com/trailofbits/algo
I've always been curious how that 700M breaks up? How much of that is FDA trials and how much is paying 1000 phds to work on designing drugs for 7 years.

Of course the follow up question is there any way to get that number lower.
I use magit-forge for emacs then you can have a local copy of the pr's and issues.

https://github.com/magit/forge
The most important for me is quick storage and retrieval, so everything must be keyboard based. To make a note, I press a global hotkey, an editor window pops up, I write the note then close the editor with a hotkey.

It makes it very seamless to make new notes.

And for retrieval I press another global hotkey, a prompt pops up, I start typing and it immediately lists my matching notes (the search query can find the typed words in any order of course), I select from the list with enter and the note is displayed, and can be edited too if needed.

So finding something takes usually at most 5 seconds (pressing the hotkey, typing, selecting). A mouse-based system could not beat this efficency.
It’s easy to see how - when you’re not in the know - this would be seen as a UFO...
The low-down on home routers – how to buy, what to avoid
I keep coming back to this: we keep underestimating our coworkers, users, bosses etc.

Even as an engineer people keep on underestimating me (although sometimes they overestimate me : ). Here are some examples:

- telling accounting a number of times that they've forgotten a rather large PO.

- telling a network vendor they have a huge hole in their firewall only to be ignored until I contacted one of their huge customers which I also knew. They could have saved themselves a good deal of embarassing attention I guess.

- etc etc

Last year at JavaZone theee was an interesting talk by someone who was an early employee at a crowd funding company. He was a non-dev but talked about how he enjoyed being able to update copy in the web app (not just front page IIRC) directly after the devs had set up git, an editor and explained the basics.

If you are making the next google you'll want things to be extremely easy-to-use.

Making a google.com level UX for business apps might be smart. Or it might be insulting.
You should take the average human being into consideration.

"heh, they put this ridiculous warning of everything, bunch of p..." will be said very, very often, and then disregarded altogether.

It's a good starting point, at least, but we need more. But I can't figure out a way that will make people do better decisions for their health AND leave it entirely up to them. Both of those conditions can't hold in the same time, as far as I can see.
Tiny suggestion: GIFs showing someone enter “a”, “b”, and “c” as their tasks tell me that this is more about the system and tech than what it’s like to use it to handle tasks in a real situation. Surely there must be a good example of a real world scenario where moving things around in a hierarchy is useful?
In my experience, Amazon will underpromise and overdeliver if they can.

I don't think they purposely sit on orders so that delivery takes longer just because you didn't pay extra.
If your order can go it will go, but those who did pay for guaranteed faster delivery will still have priority.

You just seem lucky to live in an area where they usually can fit your order in fast.
That’s a beautiful bit of UI design that almost manages to make the intrinsically unintuitive feel actually intuitive. I doff my hat to you.
Correct me if I'm wrong but EVC targets 4x complexity of AVC with 20% improvement. So it has more to do with being royalty free but nothing to do with inflection point on the complexity / efficiency curve of H264.
What about keeping Wordpress under the hood to manage and update the pages, but then generate static pages off that?
"Fix: Run code on all inputs"

Another way to think like this is to approach testing using fuzzing, but in a way that is designed to have 100% coverage of invariants.

Basic fuzzing generates random inputs looking for a crash, without asserting invariants along the way. Invariant fuzzing, on the other hand, is concerned not just with the inputs to a function but also the outputs.

For example, if a function is expected to throw exceptions for bad inputs, then use invariant fuzzing to test that all exceptions are thrown for a variety of bad inputs. Writing an invariant fuzz test like this often takes less code than writing hundreds of unit tests, which have significantly less coverage.

Another example, and this is how we found CVE 2019-1543 in OpenSSL [1]. For all the AEAD ciphers in OpenSSL that we wanted to support, we fuzzed [2] and round-tripped various combinations of {key, iv, plaintext/ciphertext, aad, tag}, comparing against an independent interface, while also randomly corrupting bytes in {key, iv, ciphertext, aad, tag} to ensure that AEAD authenticity invariants were being kept by OpenSSL. We needed the "A"s in the AEADs so we tested them.

Adding this AEAD authenticity invariant test to our fuzz test took 25 lines of code and found the CVE in literally a second.

After the CVE was found, OpenSSL added a test vector. This was 8 lines of code, and tested authenticity only for a single test vector, without covering the entire range of IV lengths, which was the root of the issue that the CVE uncovered. All this effort, for little gain, when the whole spectrum could have been tested across a few thousand vectors in the same amount of code.

If you are interested in this kind of thing, Guido Vranken is taking the same approach to the next level for multiple crypto libraries [3].

[1]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1543

[2]: https://github.com/ronomon/crypto-async#tests

[3]: https://github.com/guidovranken/cryptofuzz
I'd also note that there are CMSs for static sites like forestry.io or Netlify CMS which gives more of a WYSIWYG for non-technical contributors.
WSJ article from yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-commissions-for-p...

> In the wake of revelations about Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, senior leaders at the company debated whether it should cease running political ads entirely, former employees familiar with the discussions said. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg made the final call to stay in the business, though changes will be made to how it operates, one former employee said.
Curious if there are numbers for other languages in high performance applications.

I am learning Clojure so I would like to know if anyone knows of the highest performant applications written in it.
Nope. I checked.
Yet if you take that view then by sharing in the mortgage payments partner A may have become landlord to partner B and renter’s protection might apply to partner B.
Same for me recently. Now that Instagram IS Facebook, maybe Facebook doesn't make a difference between fake Instagram accounts and fake Facebook accounts in the report ?

I have both fake Facebook accounts and Instagram accounts (like 3 or 5), and Instagram deactivated a recent account I created for "suspicious activities". I only liked one picture of an actual person and sent one private message with that account... Meanwhile, my other 4 Instagram accounts and Facebook accounts are fine, even if I sent and liked total garbage