skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How+to+get+Connection+String+from+App.Config+in+C#
I wasn't aiming to disprove the hypothesis, merely looking for strategies better than my own.

In this case, I was also the person dealing with the person reporting it. Having had to close it with "cannot reproduce, won't fix" would have been a pretty disappointing outcome, and would make it really hard to discern between a 10x engineer and someone who's just bad at debugging...
The recipes are optimized for AzureML but the implementation can be adapted to any cluster. --aagarg [MSFT]
An Iron Throne
> there is no such thing as a bulk power regulator. this is a BUCK POWER REGULATOR

No, in IBM mainframes, the rack component that takes the mains AC and starts doing something with it is, indeed, called a "bulk power regulator". For example, IBM part number 6186-7040, "Bulk Power Regulator".

> that should have been your clue to hire an electrician

Note in the article he did say "I confirmed the wiring scheme with some friends I have that do the power installations at Dreamhack, and even had them do the wiring as they have all the qualifications needed to do so safely and legally."
I was working in embedded, on an LTE base station and remote radio head, mind you, on a set of teams that comprised about 30-40 engineers in total, when Fabrice released details about his software LTE/NR base station [0]. It was absolutely mind blowing to me. It is still absolutely mind blowing to me. The level of specialized knowledge that we had in-house to accomplish this work... We're talking about dozens of people who held advanced degrees, had decades of experience in the industry individually, let alone what we had combined, all of our knowledge of the standards, the various pieces of project/product management behind the work, all of these very talented software and hardware engineers... It's just truly something else to behold when you realize this one person exists who can do the highly specialized work of so many.

IMHO, he stands alone where he exists in terms of his productivity and his immense knowledge. I hold a small smattering of engineers in high regard but he is leaps and bounds ahead of that pack.

[0]: https://bellard.org/lte/
It's more like a mixture of context and client-targeting (referer for example)
If I understand what they're proposing, this is a method of ad targeting that I don't actually object to. It doesn't involve spying on me, identifying me, or tracking me (either on or off the internet).

It's closer to, but not completely, how ad targeting should be done -- based on the context the ad appears in rather than trying to figure out my own personal characteristics.
Build a Realtime Tic Tac Toe Game in React Native
I'm sorry to say, but I have no sbcl experience.

However, the 'general experience' is just like with other scripting langauges (like Ruby/Python/Shell), albeit it's a Lisp.
This is amusingly similar to the old chestnut "I have a rope of nonuniform thickness, and it will take one hour to burn its entire length. How can I measure half an hour?"
To slow decline, newspaper print editions should act their age
"the poorest spend at least half of their wage on rent"

Now that I believe. Similar situation in the US for sure. Hard to find places less than $800 a month in most places and those places usually aren't great. If you're making 20-25k a year, that's easily close to 10k on rent (40-50%) and doesn't generally include all utilities.

It wasn't even all that many years ago that I was in my first job out of school making substantially less than I am now. Even though I was well above poverty level, I was still spending around 22k on housing (I bought a small house which cost $1800 a month for mortgage + property tax, not including utilities). So it was still in the 40-50% range for me and I had a job way above minimum wage with benefits at a major corporation.
...paywall...

You can read it if you turn off javascript.
As I said, I've been using it since its release. It's not any significantly better than it was back then.

Snapchat's are also very similar in quality. Before this whole craze about the old filter, people trended on the gender change filter. That one was on Snapchat and quickly became a meme. It was even more amazing since it was a video filter, so you could move around and stay as your opposite gender.
The scenario is assuming you have a working HSTS setup but then become unable to serve HTTPS for some reason (e.g. cert expires and you can't acquire a new one, or the provider just drops support for SSL for some reason, or you are forced to change providers to one that doesn't support SSL)

HSTS can't be enabled on plain HTTP so it's not possible to create the problematic scenario if you never had SSL enabled to begin with. The problem is switching from SSL to non-SSL, not the other way around.
Thanks for the report. Both I and Cloudflare[1] are interested in any updates. If you know your connection is being MITM'ed by your ISP or your government please do the test again if it is safe to do so.

[1]: https://twitter.com/grittygrease/status/1151921809417048064
Key takeaway point: "Dynamic Languages have fewer language limitations, less need for bookkeeping objects and classes, less need to get around class-restricted design. Study of the Design Patterns book: 16 of 23 patterns have qualitatively simpler implementation."

Or as someone else once put it, "design patterns" might more accurately be called something like "palliative idioms for pain points in static manifestly typed class-oriented languages."

That's a little bit unfair, given Smalltalk's place in all this, but one of the wastes of time over the last 20 years has been the ways in which some dynamic languages cargo-culted practices from, say, the Java world because Design Patterns™ were The Mark of A Professional™.

The fact this happened in JavaScript with Angular is particularly atrocious.
Unfair Employer practice to force Employees to move
One of my friends mentioned to me about his employment situation in which they are forced to relocate to Texas or couple of other Southern states in US or asked to leave the company. Company has a big presence in NY city and they are doing cost cutting via relocating. He has been part of the company for 15+ years and now across multiple teams they are giving out notices which are pretty much like either relocate or leave the company. In-case they choose to leave they do NOT get any severance package. They are presenting impossible choices to people in most of the cases people in his company are just forced to leave as it is really hard to move, sell homes, setup kids schools and all other things in short 3 months notices.

My question for HN community here is - are such unfair practices allowed to dodge severance pay? Also is there anything people can do legally to stand their ground against unfair practices?
> Your comment is how things "should work", but really not how they do. At least in the U.S.

Since this is a comment on a thread about the possibility of building the infrastructure required for highway lanes reserved for autonomous cars, i.e. a thread about how things "could work" I see no problems with giving my self the same leeway for the established technology as the parent does for any future technology.
Yeah that's mostly what I do, and it generally works well. Sometimes there are cases like this, however, where the observed effect has hundreds of possible edge cases causing it, and I just lucked into observing the right one on my own machine.
Non-paying users? These are the people and the businesses creating the most interesting and valuable content on the Twitter platform. They directly make Twitter as a platform more valuable and enjoyable for end users.
> Contextual advertising works, but much less than behavioral targeting.

There is credible evidence on both sides of this particular debate. But to me, that's not a relevant issue. The issue is what is right vs what is wrong, and behavioral targeting is just wrong.
> (...) is just like, I don’t know, like maybe half of the features (...)

Some editing would be great to readability.
Or as I've heard... Mr Coffee's are coming back into style these days.. aka Automated pour over..
Wow! Google needs to be broken up.
The ethical problems of having "truth arbiters" seems pretty simple when it comes to flat earth stuff. Or anti-vaxx stuff. Or maybe even climate change.

But once established - the power to control society we're handing over to a handful of corporations is immense and it will bleed into subjects that are a lot murkier.

It's worth it to compete. B/c centralizing and handing over authority to a handful of tech companies to determine what is and what isn't allowed to be said .. this is something that goes way beyond all the freedom of speech stuff where people are merely offended.

This is dangerous territory. And it's more dangerous than allowing idiots to spin their wheels with their stupid ideas.
The RAW file is analogous to the latent image on film. It's before most all developing and processing. A big difference is a metric f ton of non-linearity in film, and for practical purposes the RAW file contains linear data.
Its a terms thing, in a one year lease, let's say you sign it in December, and pay for the month of January. Now each month you make a payment for the "next" month, so in November (month 11) you make the final payment for December.

You have made 12 payments but the last one was in month 11. The first payment was made in month "0" :-) it happens "outside" the lease range.

In a 99 year lease (the more common ones) you make your first year payment and then the lease starts. Then you make 99 more payments and at the end of the last year the least ends. Which will be the 100 year anniversary of the start of the lease.
iOS is tricky because of its weird rules regarding TLS libraries and web views. If you are sure you haven't any rogue CA certs in your applicable trust stores, it's probably a false positive.
Who cares? Why does it matter?
The contributors to the site have been begging for changes like that for more than five years.

The operators of the site refuse because it would limit their advertising reach.

Both sides have become more entrenched over time, and the result is a unhappy disintegrating mess.
Speaking as a PhD, I can assure you that just because PhDs research ways to make a thing work does not mean it does. Nor are they, or those hiring them, immune to presenting their results in the most optimistic possible way.

I am personally acquainted with several active fields that have been trying to make things work for 20+ years with very moderate success. They present their results which amount to "barely better than nothing" in order to keep funded. They also make the same arguments you do, "it stands to reason that it should work", to keep the money flowing.

There is the drug industry, which is chock full of new drugs that are barely better than placebo or generics, if they are at all. The results are hyped because it keeps the cash flowing. It would not be entirely true, but nor would it be too far off the mark, to say that almost the entire drug industry is based on fraud and exaggeration. And that industry is far more transparent WRT data and superficially altruistic than the advertising industry. This example is perfectly parallel because no one denies advertising works, just like no one denies antibiotics work, but the difference between new and old drugs, just like new and old advertising methods, seems to be greatly exaggerated.

Google built its entire empire based on contextual advertising, not behavioral targeting. With Facebook you may have an argument, but Facebook has a very special dataset not available anywhere else, and I would also add that Facebook makes the same amount of money whether behavioral targeting really works, or if they've just convinced their advertisers that it does.

I am neutral on the subject of whether it works because I have never looked into it, but "lots of self-interested people say that it does" is not convincing, and the fact that such an argument is so frequently made makes me think there is no actual proof.
America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births
> What was different about Huawei? Except that it was a Chinese company.

Well that and they blatantly steal from other companies, disregard copyrights and patents, and have the backing of the Chinese government protecting them from any real repercussions.

They don’t even try to hide it with their product naming. Take the “MateBook X Pro” for example - https://consumer.huawei.com/en/laptops/matebook-x-pro/
I had a similar experience, I asked a question. It then immediately got moved to a different stack overflow site where it was promptly closed as not relevant. Which is correct, it wasn't relevant to the site it had been moved to, but was relevant to the one I had posted it to.

I still sometimes post questions in the hopes of an answer, but 99% of the time the question is too subtle for the site and I either get no answer, or answers to a question I didn't ask.

Personally, I don't like SO and I'm not convinced we're better off having it around.
This article should say - you can't compete with google using google.

The "final blow" was adsense being cutoff. Their revenue model to compete with google was ... adsense. OK.

Their traffic model was google search. Ok.

Between the lines it sounds like some aggressive SEO, and maybe the network click bounce thing (you click on one video, and then it clicks through to another site etc). Be curious what their content moderation story was.

Seriously, if you are building a google competitor, you probably need to use something other than adsense. And a reminder, adsense is a key revenue generation value add.

The paying of creators definitely anti-competitive. I do think there will be a youtube alternative (small scale) eventually.

The problem is a lot of these "competitors" get filled with absolutely trash / hateful content right away because the first people to use them are the rejects from youtube and the moderation teams are so glad to have someone show up they don't moderate heavily enough. Checkout some of the reddit competitors, total disgusting trash.
> The concern here is that you're just selling a camera that they were already going to buy. So the ad agency wins, Best Buy _thinks_ they win because they register a conversion, but you didn't actually create any value.

I agree. The industry is (too slowly) moving towards measuring the actual causal effect of ads to remove the correlation/causation leap that has unfortunately been the norm. But it's much harder to implement given the very fragmented ecosystem, and big players in a monopolistic situation at this point have little incentive to do so.

In reality, it's not uncommon for the causal ad effect to be 10x smaller than the claimed correlational effect.
I can also recommend the BBC podcast “13 Minutes to the Moon”, great listening for the commute
I used PL/I in about '68 to do transmission line calculations. It was great for the task because it had a complex float type and a full set of complex math functions. It was a lot better than Fortran or Cobol at the time. I think it did not succeed because the PL/I compiler was too big and slow for the first generations of minicomputers in the '70s. There may have been intellectual property issues that kept it from being more widely used as well.
>They will feel validated regardless. That is the nature of conspiracy theorists.

What are you going to define as a conspiracy theory?

Should we not talk about the JFK assassination possibilities?

The Gulf of Tolkien incident? MK Ultra? The Business Plot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot)

Where are you going to draw the line between conspiracy theories that are probably false and ones worth exploring? Who's the arbiter of that?

is the fact that Trump may have raped a 13 year old sex slave a conspiracy theory? Or do we only use that term with Alex Jones rants about false flags?
When did saying you don't like something become shaming?

Said: "Hey if you are tight on money and you are spending $1200 a year on an optional purchase, you may find it benefits you to not buy that thing“

Response: "what are you saying that I don't deserve to be happy? That I'm not worthy of drinking coffee?"

Thus the outrage machine slowly grudges forward.

I've personally come to associate a high impulse to outrage more closely with low general intelligence and poor emotional stability than any other thing I could judge a person on.
Alright, so in this case, the bug was produced by querying open tabs for a tab with the property `active: true` (not our API). Apparently, that produces not only the currently focused tab, but the tab that's in focus in every open window - another search param was required to narrow it down to the focused window as well.

What lessons about our architecture could we draw from this? What kind of test suite should we write?
I feel like this is a bit light on data, since it's only 11 people from 3 companies using 1 (non-English) website.

The takeaway, though, is consistent with what I've seen... people like code examples! Most people will scan until they see one, and start there. The heavy focus on API Reference in this study makes me think either the tasks were too specific, or the tutorials weren't comprehensive enough. For a good documentation site, most use cases should be covered by topical guides. Going to the reference guides to learn an API is like reading a dictionary to learn English. There's not a lot of context.
Amazon's most ambitious research project is a convenience store
I wonder to what extent this difference between the perceived cost of food in the UK vs US is driven by the relative difference in amount of food imported vs grown locally? As far as I could tell the US is a net exporter of food whereas the UK seems to import something like 50% of its food [0].

Plus a lot of fruit/vegetables don't grow well here meaning oranges will be from Spain or Israel or somewhere. Its not uncommon for fresh green beans to be from Kenya or Mozambique or Peru. I'm not sure if the lower cost of production offsets transport and tariff costs?

[0]: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/food-statistics-p...
Shrinking Linux Attack Surfaces
Your own citation doesn't support your own argument
It's just another example of the latest trend in UI/UX "experts" trying to create an "experience" for users, instead of letting the user create their own experience through customization of the UI.
I think it's more likely that this is a user-hostile feature to prevent scraping or styling scripts that might mess with ad views.
No, I was wondering whether this task was of category X, or if it was of category Y and there's some strategy better engineers than me employ that I can learn from.
One of our ("tech people") main failures was that, while we made a heavy push for server authentication, we didn't make a similarly strong push for client authentication. With client certificates, MITM like that is not possible, unless the server also trusts the MITM CA to authenticate its clients (and uses a CA for the client certificates in the first place, instead of a direct mapping between users and their certificates).
Well, Chrome does make it evident. That wasn't my point. My point, and the point of the comment above, is that it doesn't matter to almost anyone.

If HN still wasn't using https, we'd still be here. Virtually nobody really cares day to day.
What do you think the animals eat ?

Now, follow the causality chain.
Okay, say you live in Kazakhstan. You stop using the Internet.

Do you think the government will care?
Yes, you have to disable “multiple devices”. You just have to remember to re-enable it if you want to install Authy on a new phone and reinstall from backup.
Then tax and cap rent increases county wide on every building no matter when it was built or if a tenant moves out. Then again, I'm pretty far left on housing issues. In my ideal world, the rent formula would be:

monthy rent = 0.3(minumum hourly wage * 160 hours) * n bedrooms; with studios being n = 0.5

That way if landlords want to lobby for higher profit margins, the only way to do it would be to also ensure the working class can actually afford to supply those higher profit margins for the landlords.
If it should be a new device, I would buy a Lenovo ThinkPad T490s, which is the most valuable Notebook i came across in the last 5 Years...

Thinkpad X1 Carbon is really high end, you won't need to spend this amount of money.

If you would like to save some money, you could either buy a used T4x0s (the lower the x, the lower the price but the older the device).
More alternatives (not as good as the T4x0s Series):

Dell Latitude 7x90

HP EliteBook 840 Gx

HP ProBook 440 Gx

And check for educational discounts, if you are student, you'll probable save a lot of money.
anecdotally (and not GP), most of the women I am friends with have several good friends in the area where they live and easily make new ones if they ever move to a new place. for many of my male friends, I am the only friend they have in the area.

I don't think I can generalize to entire genders from my experience though. it could simply be that it's easier for introverts to make same-gender friendships, so I only have a set of relatively outgoing women to select friends from.
Yes, that's why I'm hesitant to call this move unambiguously good. But it does seem better than most.
Opening in React devtools shows a number of hints[1]. "React Native Style Editor" section. "View" components with numeric "style" props. And the classname prefixes "css-" and "r-" match the generated identifiers from react-native-web[2].

[1]: https://imgur.com/lFUvL7P

[2]: https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/blob/45f94eb43da...
Afraid ? Like afraid, afraid ?
What? Criteo is worth 40% of what they were prior to the safari change.

That is correct - My previous employer spends $30k/day on programmatic ads, and they spend $0 on safari. Worse targeting, worse performing.
Sure, but then instead of the government saying "hey, run this thing or else your app won't work," they can only say "your app doesn't work now." Spying on you is still prevented.
Agreed! Try not drinking alcohol or caffeine and your places to meetup disappear.
This is one of the websites that think you're using a private browser if you use the iOS 13 beta. I wonder if it is because of new privacy features, or just because they don't recognize the user agent.
Because they are giving you a real credit card number with real charge capability. What if you use the CC to make an actual purchase?
I'm not really making a point, more wondering whether this is a scenario that has room for a more effective approach. Like most programmers, I'm sure, I approach most errors I encounter relatively confidently, and they usually don't have me struggling for hours.

This one had me baffled for a bit, though, and I was fearing having to spend a couple of days on tracking it down - or having to give up. Sometimes those happen, and it'd be great if there are ways to have that happen less often.
They were mostly united under the Roman Empire.
More importantly we have legislation and public support that has been pushing companies like Snapchat to change. Such as they say they delete photos now. As an American I think I have some influence in Europe, but at minimum I think Europe has similar values to me. With their democratic processes I believe things can change and will, same with America. Look how GDPR changed things.

Conversely in Russia and China they are authoritarian and the cultures don't tend to speak out as much about these things. Hence where they are at. FaceApp might just use my data for advertising, but I don't know that. It's harder to find out post hoc. There is no legal means for me to ensure things are done properly. There is no way for me to push for data to be used in better ways. There is no accountability.

And that's the big difference. Accountability.
Also, how "exciting" is it?
Idris 2: Type-Driven Development of Idris – Curry On 2019 – Edwin Brady