skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business still has obligations to file tax returns and other annual and potentially quarterly documents, even if it has no assets and was never involved in any transactions. If you have such an entity, definitely find an accountant and get them to help you sort it out because the late filing fees are likely accumulating whether you're aware of it or not. Someone's name is on those articles of incorporation and the government isn't just going to forget that entity exists. From what I understand, California is even more aggressive about these sort of fees than the federal government but I don't know that for a fact.
> I don't get why people think Elixir is like Ruby. Other than some syntactic similarities, I can't think of any substantial similarities.

The creators of elixir were rubyists. As someone who used to Ruby and now Elixirs, a lot of the joy of the platform (relevant to gp's comment) has made it over. Elixir is legitimately as fun to program in as Ruby, if not more so. I think that the developers of elixir care about the user experience in a way that basically no other language seems to.

I could of course be biased because before Ruby I used to program in an actor-like C++ framework, so everything just feels like I'm coming home to a home I never knew existed to me.
In fairness, I suspect the author would agree that it was a mistake to use Django in the first place. I think that's what he was trying to get at!

> Python 3 was first released in 2008. Python 2 EOL is 2020. If I built an app in 2010 using a Python 2 stack you have to know by 2019 you're going to have to rewrite it completely using a new stack or modify it heavily (assuming Django would move to Python 3 and be active 10 years later).

In 2010, the conventional wisdom was still, "nobody uses Python 3, there is no library support for Python 3 so just use Python 2". Django itself didn't support Python 3 until 2013.
Isn't it fairly standard for browsers to stop autoplaying videos?
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No, thank you. I've seen how HN reacts to this stuff. It's always some protectionist nonsense about making sure you have the right degree and training, making sure no immigrants can move to America, all that sorts of crap. That's what a union would look like too.

You try it. Make a union at your workplace. See how many people want to join your company after.
Think of it like a phone vs a scroll bar. Which option is "correct" is largely a result of personal preference.

On a phone, you drag the page so when your finger moves up, you are scrolling down. MacOS has had this be the standard for a long time.

Changing the direction makes touch scroll act like you're click-dragging on a scroll bar. when your finger moves down, you scroll down.
The HP48 is programmable and designed for scientific computation so I'd be astounded if someone hadn't already tried to mine coins on it.
Isn't it fairly standard for browsers to pause the autoplaying videos?
One thing that’s been nice since the Libra announcement is the number of knee-jerk reaction “cryptocurrency is 100% useless and look at this NIST blockchain flow chart hurrr hurrrr” comments have mostly disappeared. It seems like crypto is not totally useless after all, but the biggest threat to humanity ever created... or something...
But harvesting lettuce can be fun - in your own garden on your own time of course. Not back destroying wage labour...
If what you say is true, why not support the project and buy shares in the 28 controlling entities?
>I keep touching other people's screens out of instinct.

Please, don’t do this. I get palpitations simply when people start getting their fingers, or worse, a pen, too close to my screen. I warn them. I try to be cute: “there’s this thing called cursor, you know? You can use many devices to control it”.

When they do, eventually and inevitably, accidentally touch it, I get visibly upset and make no effort to lighten the mood. High paying clients, I don’t care. I’ll get up, get a cleaning cloth and take my time until it is, hopefully, pristine again.

For all the amazing things that touchscreens brought to the world, it also made people who already loved smudging monitors suddenly feel even more authorized to do so.

It’s not the same with my phone, you could even drop it, I often do.

But do not touch my computer’s work screen.
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Why isn't zoom running fully in the web browser at this point? Meet does this, and as far as I can tell the quality is indistinguishable from Zoom. Can someone with a better understanding of the underlying protocols shed light on why Zoom continues to ship a separate desktop app?
They're explicitly arguing against equating effort (labor) with value.
People might notice but just not saying anything. I notice when occasionally someone is not on FB anymore. I rarely point it out. Because the reason is always the same one or two reasons.
> 1. The US Mint creates the supply of currency in the US, which is literally governed by the government.

This is wrong in a couple of ways. The mint creates coins, not dollar bills. Those are federal reserve notes. But who literally mints the money doesn't matter - the Fed has always had control over the money supply. That's the power that matters.

> 2. It's literally governed by presidentially appointed officials.

This is also true of the supreme Court. This doesn't change the fact that the Fed can operate independently of the government. As an analog, how often do you worry about what your hiring manager things of you? Once you have the job, they don't have any power over you.
Or may be, well, not everything current administration is trying to do is bad.
When I clicked the PoC link in Safari, it launched the Zoom app using a URL scheme. ("open in ...?" dialog put up by Safari)
Once you deleted the localhost server they have running, they actually fallback to using the protocol.
Exception to the rule
Sub is unusual, with depth of 2500m (6000m in article). Made from several steel spheres.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Losharik
Sounds like autism
>We demand constant growth in the economy which won't play well with a rapidly shrinking population.

That ridiculous and frankly insane expectation of constant growth is the reason we're in this mess in the first place.

Also, a "rapidly shrinking population" has never happened so who knows what the effects might be.

>Personally, I am OK with waves of forced mass sterilization but I understand, because human nature, it will be just as poorly implemented as any war draft so I can't promote this idea.

I wasn't suggesting either genocide or mass sterilization, but lets not go too far the other way and pat ourselves on the back too hard for simply making more people, and making vapid statements like, "All the accomplishments of humanity stem from having children".

Those billions of accomplishments are rapidly destroying the only planet we have, so clearly on average every extra person is a net negative.

I haven't had children myself so the effects of all those accomplishments won't be my offspring's problem when I'm dead.
I have been looking at trying out things like Vimperator to get a feel for no-mouse web browsing. But that looks even neater, I'll definitely give it a shot. :D
Is it tho? or is the OS just too relaxed on security?

Think old Windows that people always ridicule, the publicity was rare on calling out bad practice/intentions, it has always been the fault of the OS.
What do your competitors say about market size?
I don’t get Mozilla and Chromium’s responses. I can think of few cases in which a website should be allowed to issue requests (CORS, img, or otherwise) to an address on the local network and none whatsoever in which a website should be able to contact localhost.

The fix seems straightforward. Require user permission to access the local network (subject to appropriate heuristics as to what “local” means). Require a config option and user permission to access localhost. Problem solved.
How can you do occasional visits if you don’t live nearby? A lot of people I know live across the country or in the middle of America or outside the US. Even seeing all of them occasionally would be very difficult. Unless you mean every few years? But that’s barely anything.
<subjective thing> is better than <subjective thing>.

Oh thanks, that was so useful.
Or you have standards of discourse. I was on a moderated email list at one point that had extremely strict ones, including that anyone could call on you to produce primary sources for your assertions at any time. You could post further until you did so or you withdrew the assertion.

It also had forbidden topics, including religion and politics. Very specific topics that verged in those areas could be discussed, but general positions were simply not acceptable discourse on the list.

The list was pre-moderated, mind you: every message passed through a moderator before posting, and might be returned to you. It was extremely labor intensive and basically had a full time moderator.
Hardly seems like "pilot error" when the crew that died didn't know how to deactivate a system they were never told existed.
‘Our Duty to Fight’: The Rise of Militant Buddhism
Re: performant code, the developer writes the code once, it is read many times, and it is run many many many times. Several orders of magnitude more.

Yes, making code that is easy to read and less bug-prone is good. But at the end of the day the customers are going to be running your code millions of times a day, and if you need to make the code slightly harder to read to improve performance, then by all means do so.

If your code is only going to be run once and must be reliable, then you can make a different trade-off.
It inverts the direction (up swaps with down and left swaps with right) from the previous trackpad scrolling behavior.

Before 10.7, the scroll behavior acts like you've grabbed the scroll bar and your fingers drag it, so moving your fingers down makes the scroll grip move down and the page content move up. Moving your fingers left makes the scroll grip move left and the page content move right. The scrolling paradigm is that your fingers grab the viewport and move it with respect to the content.

In 10.7 and later, it instead acts as though your fingers are grabbing the content and moving it around within a stationary viewport. So moving your fingers up pushes the content upward. So the scroll interaction is like the direct interaction on a touchscreen, but via a trackpad instead.
Dylan Tallchief is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIu2Fj4x_VMn2dgSB1bFyQA/fea...
Would the magnetic field be provided by an auxiliary station adjacent to the rotating foundry? Or could the structure propel it's own smelting vats somehow via the field on arms attached to a central bearing?

It would seem more efficient with a field rather than constantly ejecting usable material.

How is the inverse squared law applied to space fission? Ease of cooling?
How does blockchain help? Why do I want "consensus" (let alone distributed consensus) on any of those histories?

It's easy to create data that can't easily be destroyed. Back it up. You don't need a cryptographic, anonymous data mutation algorithm to do that. Just copy it to more places.

And as far as not having one gatekeeper... none of those things have one gatekeeper anyway. Who is lamenting that there's a single gatekeeper for their health history? If anything, people are lamenting the opposite -- that it's such a mess where multiple people have to cobble it together from disparate records formats.

To paraphrase something once said about JavaScript: the useful aspects of blockchain aren't new, and the new aspects aren't useful. Immutable (aka append-only), distributed, encrypted databases are useful! They are not blockchains, though.
Waymo offers free music and WiFi to make its driverless taxis stand out
The dichotomy is real and a reflection of Dev vs Ops dichotomy. DevOps made Dev and Ops collaborate but didn't blend the roles & skills. Ops appreciate logs but require consistent metrics to identify and root-cause the problem. Dev appreciate metrics but require logs to debug and fix the problem. Opinions on what is more important are informed by role and experience; the author makes it clear that as a team, we need both.

> For many of the services I run, I haven't looked at logs in months, because the metrics tell the story. If service is degraded, I can usually correlate it to another downed service, a network failure, or a recent change. No logs needed.

Good point, echoing Brendan Gregg, the author of "USE" method commented:

> The USE Method is based on three metric types and a strategy for approaching a complex system. I find it solves about 80% of server issues with 5% of the effort,” (http://www.brendangregg.com/usemethod.html)

Solving 80% of issues with 5% of effort is commendable; the rest 20% goes to developers where the other 95% of effort is spent debugging and fixing the problem, primarily by reasoning about the logs.

So:
- "which of metrics or logs is more important?" is a relative and moot
- "can metrics be extracted from logs?" - yes; "is it practical?" - it depends: likely NO for DIY. The fact that ELK is not making it particularly well doesn't mean that other products can't / don't do it.
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> US Supreme Court is appointed by Congress/President.

And have life-long appointments.

> You wouldn't say that is it "literally governed".

Your conflating two ideas. I would actually say that the Supreme Court is a government entity. You said:

> independent of the government

It literally depends on the US government in order to function. Calling it independent by any stretch of the definition is disingenuous.

> And the central bank model applies in most countries not just the US.

You missed the point. Libra is offering a coin on a global scale. To compare this to one central bank is like comparing apples to oranges.

Honestly, I really don't understand your overall point. You genuinely think the Fed just sits on some island while it regulates US economic policy without any influence or dependence on anything but itself? Think about that for a second.
I think one reason why people like to write supposedly clever code especially on the realm of software development is due to lots of these developers want to get acknowledgement of what they produce. And hearing someone say "Oh, this is a very clever implementation" sort of fix that inherent need to be recognized. I haven't heard (particularly in corporate environments) where a praise in the line of - "wow, this was a very clear and simple implementation" trump what managers and people deem as superior when the term clever was attached to it.

I've challenged far quite a lot of implementations where understanding a piece of functionality has required for the developer to jump between more than 23 files across 8 different projects in implementing a very domain specific functionality. Splitting code into single independent parts introduces simplicity, only and if only you are reading that part by itself, but when you layer it overall to get the functionality it delivers and it becomes a web of tangled mess of code, then that clever solution was not really clever after all.
Very nice! This reminds me a bit of Michael Fogleman's 3D Line Art Engine [0]. His project was motivated by a desire to make vector art for a pen plotter, so not quite the same goals. I appreciate how you've woven together images, code, and explanatory text in this post.

[0] https://github.com/fogleman/ln
It’s great for people who went in on Snap at its bottoming out. But Snap itself is volatile. A year ago or more it had an earnings where it rose 50% on the day.

The stock was in an insanely bad spot at the beginning of the year. It’s either an anomaly or shows again that Snap is really volatile, but not volatile enough to get really high for long. Also a lot of stocks were down (though not that much) at the time. Snapchat stock is doing okay. It isn’t going triple again or anything. It’ll be lucky if it stabilizes at IPO public opening price ever again.

Edit: I do think it’s entirely possible Snap goes up 50% again or something from where it is now for a short period during some earnings. I don’t think it’ll stay at that level for long any time soon though.
AIUI, all it would take is an act of Congress to effect change on how the Federal Reserve does business — whereas changing the function of the Supreme Court is somewhat more constrained by the constitution. I believe "governed" is still appropriate, even though the Federal Reserve can act independently, it is only able to do so because Congress permits it.
Anyone who downvotes this go fuck yourselves.

We knew about carnivore, echelon, and priism years before it was revealed. Let me ask you a question; where the fuck is Palantir these days, or the other NLP spying tech companies...

Fuck all of them.
Because you only have time to write a little code for a little problem.

You can't spend two hours just setting up the tasks to be performed.
The default is that the box is unchecked - i.e. the Zoom client will, by default, automatically turn on your camera when you join a meeting. You can opt out of that behavior by checking this box, but that behavior is the default.
Why Erlang is among the few true computer languages (2018)
> I believe, to some extent, outsiders want to see prestigious organizations fail

Or perhaps the 99% doesn't like these "prestigious" organizations live above the law?
This seems like nothing but fearmongering. We don't any reason to expect that libra is going to displace "real" currencies.

Why the hell would the governments of the world give up their power over currency? It is a huge power they hold that they do not want to lose.

Have you ever heard the term "legal tender"? You are legally required to accept USD as payment in America, and every country has a similar law. The government can literally force you (with guns if need be!!) to use their currency. Is that better than what FB is doing?

Sometimes I think people get so wrapped up in dystopian fear mongering they don't analyze the current situation.
I only bootcamp back in once in a while to play games but can't help but notice that font rendering still doesn't seem to have improved since the early 2000s. Anti-aliasing is all over the place and UWP, websites, installers, Java-anything, winforms all render at seemingly different 'native resolutions'.
I’d say the Unix-like workflow or I’d mention the specific OS if appropriate (like Ubuntu or whatever).
Probably. I live in Seattle and people seem to frequently complain about having to see homeless and other "undesirables" in their neighborhood. I love it when their posts also include stealthy photos of the offenders in question. /s I've seen neighbors who live in my same building posting this sort of crap. Obviously there are a lot of issues to address in the city, and people should certainly find ways to do that, but I find it really maddening when people pile on and and take out all of their frustrations on a single person.
I fear that within another 10 years it won't just be airports. I wouldn't be surprised to see this type of "security" at train/bus stations, stadiums, movie theaters, churches, etc.
Unfortunately in this case "uninstall it immediately" does not actually mitigate the vulnerability, since it will just reinstall itself if you come across a triggering link.
Those people write laws for their boss.
Ok, so the article says

"According to the Zoom team, the only reason this localhost server continues to exist is that Apple’s Safari doesn’t support URI handlers."

Which is simply wrong. macOS (and i*OS) have supported custom URIs forever. What feature are they wanting? Do they want random websites to be able to install URI handlers?
The Europlug is only supposed to be used on double-insulated appliances - those with an insulating outer shell enclosing all live components. Appliances like that do not require a protective earth as a human is not able to contact the live circuitry under normal circumstances. Same reason as light bulbs are not earthed.
Correct, this behavior is well-known and has been around for 20+ years. Leading spaces are removed and additionally other spaces or dots are converted to an underscore.

For this reason, many frameworks ignore the default $_GET structure and instead access the raw URI query in $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].
macOS and iOS both support custom schemes, and have done forever. What feature does Zoom actually want?
I like both depending on context. CAD and gaming, definitely a mouse. But for general use I like the trackpad better. Scrolling is smoother and Apple's multitouch gestures for window/desktop management are really fast and natural.

Once upon a time I had an 8 button mouse with several of the buttons bound to Exposé functions, but I don't think I'd go back to that from Apple's trackpads.
There is probably more you'd agree on, but only the inflammatory stuff really makes the news. I see that the news did actually cover Trump going into North Korea last week, but it sure was buried -- did you see that it happened?

Also regarding drug prices, Trump is trying to do a sort of most-favored-nation status for the prices, and/or allow reimporting. That too will be fought in court I'm sure, even if it goes through congress. If it survives court challenges, then Americans no longer pay more for drugs than the rest of the world.
> I am reluctant to believe someone has mastered simplicity until after they've mastered complexity, hence the complex interview does have value.

While I buy the premise, this seems like a strange conclusion. If a mastery of simplicity requires a mastery of complexity first, then testing for an ability to be simple tests for both kinds of knowledge, whereas testing for an ability to handle complexity tests only one–so what's the point?
Hmm...

I like this theory...

Its innocent but id like to see data behind it.
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If 100 miners meet at the same country club and follow the same government's laws/nudges that's as decentralized as one.
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What's your price range?
Isn't this what block and mute are for? Or simply posting a better, more persuasive argument. Not sure why a top down censor is needed.

My own wish is that the tools social networks can use to change what we see would be democratised - I want to be able to choose the algorithms that define my feed, from anything goes to chronological to safe for children to only "authoritative sources" etc. Power to the people.
Did you find anything for the golang part?
There's a board game based on Turing machines too, while we're at it.

https://www.turingtumble.com/
I attempted to read the first section expecting that this is something that reduces the complexity of software design, and I'm completely lost here. They don't really explain what is data-oriented design in a single summed up paragraph. So I turned to Wikipedia and I found this:

In computing, data-oriented design is a program optimization approach motivated by efficient usage of the CPU cache, used in video game development.

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><img src="http://localhost:xxxxx/launch?action=join&confno=492468757"/...

So a browser allows a random remote website access to stuff running on the localhost interface? Is this a good idea? Stuff like camera access I can at least disable...
Have your checked for similar vulnerabilities in competing products such as GoToMeeting and WebEx? They have the same basic features.
A quick start to apply signalR service to build real time web chat room app
Yeah. That's why I bought a webcam cover. I highly recommend if you don't have one already.
An app developer being able to uniquely identify a device across applications has been considered a privacy violation for well over a decade. Even Microsoft in the Windows CE days made it hard for an app to uniquely identify a device.
HyperNormalisation, by Adam Curtis
Some of my favorites include:

Professor Leonard - math

NancyPi - math

EEVBlog - electronics / electrical engineering

3blue1brown - math

Lex Fridman - AI