skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should consult therapist as you are in danger of harming yourself.
Back when I still spent time reading books, definitely. There's still a lot of knowledge I have from those books. Keep in mind I was reading those book some 20+ years ago, times have changed, and I get everything online today.
Completely agree on just using a server instead of the various lambda-style systems. All modern languages have great web/app frameworks that make it incredibly easy to build, whether it's a single endpoint or a giant app. The ability to just include whatever code you need and deploy it atomically is massively underrated. Also agreed on scale, servers are fast and cheap and the savings from Lambda rarely pays off in the extended effort. When you do scale, Lambda becomes more expensive anyway.

I do recommend using Docker though. Containers are more portable and easier to deploy and replace on a running server, along with the ability to run multiple instances, mount volumes, setup ports and local networks, and eventually migrate to something like ECS/K8S if you really need it.
It depends on your threat model. If you're worried about sophisticated attackers physically breaking in to your place to steal a Yubikey to steal your accounts, you should also worry about them physically tampering with your computer to install malware, and thus need monitoring for that as well.

If you can't do the monitoring, and you face very advanced attackers like this, it's probably best to only use a laptop that you physically keep with you at all times, and then you can keep your Yubikey with you at all times too.

If you just want to protect against an attacker sophisticated enough to steal a Yubikey but not enough to install malware, then maybe instead of a second Yubikey in the safe deposit box, you could have an encrypted recovery code in the safe deposit box, and either memorize the password, or store the password on your computer.

I've never heard of attackers stealing a Yubikey though. More likely is the attacker will social engineer the website's support into giving over your account.
This implies bankers are good at banking - the same bankers who famously opened millions of ghost accounts for customers [0][1], laundered money [2], or let rogue traders exploit moral hazard [3].

Public banks would institute things like transparent charters that would be voted on by the citizens of the cities and communities - to decide what kinds of investments would be allowed and not. So you could divest say your teachers pension fund out of vehicles that fund ICE detention centers.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-09/wells-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_account_fraud_scan...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-usbancorp/u-s-bancorp...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_UBS_rogue_trader_scandal
Right now to verify a vote is legitimate, we can check the information on the voter registration. Do they still live at their address? Does their social security number belong to them? Are they at least 18 and a citizen?

It's still unclear how voter ID would improve this. Yes, the people at the polling place can check your face against the ID. But if the results are already in and you suspect fraud, what extra information does the ID give you?

This is not a circular discussion to me, because it's clear where to start. The claim is that voter fraud is a problem, so that's where the burden of proof lies. We don't start with an assumption and then ask people to disprove it.

> Also if we did enact ID checks, and zero fraud happened (perhaps because it preemptively prevented it all), how is that not a good outcome? Considering it went from non-zero to zero, yes that would be an improvement.

A reduction from 0.000002% to 0% is basically meaningless. In order for it to be a good outcome, you need to measure it accurately and show a causal relationship, and also not damage the election in some other way such as significantly depressing turnout.

> If the right to bear arms is not infringed by background checks, then it follows that the right to vote is not infringed by ID checks. Do you disagree with this statement?

We curtail people's Constitutional rights all the time when we think the benefits to society outweigh the consequences. Child pornography and obscenity laws infringe our right to free speech, gun control laws infringe our right to keep and bear arms, felony disenfranchisement infringes our right to vote, exigent circumstances infringe our right to be secure against unreasonable searches. I simply disagree that it's in our collective best interest to infringe on voting rights in this way, given the rarity of voter fraud.
I wonder if this person siphons gas or steals candy from self serve gas stations as well. People are tremendously bad at change.
Interesting perspective about column v.s. cell oriented spreadsheets applications.

Someone has opened an issue on GitHub for something related. I'll be investigating how to get the best of both world with proper integration of Pandas column oriented world view and the ability to directly edit individual cells!
>But will building affordable housing be profitable? And if not, will the project be able to repay the loans? (Or if so, why are banks not willing to finance it?)

That's my gripe. Nothing will stop the landlords from just jacking the prices. And if they don't, no one competent will run it since they can't make money. Really, the problem here is that critical industries should not be eligible for more than reasonable profit margins.
Some of the AWS built-in roles are an absolute car crash, no idea how they got through review (EMR is a good example). I use the built-in roles by default, but only after thoroughly reviewing the policies, I create my own based on that if I find anything I don’t like.

It’s not restricting amazon’s access that I’m worried about, more privilege escalation (e.g non-constrained iam:PassRole in combination with anything is a good one)
You probably won’t get $125 from the Equifax settlement
Apple has made two transitions while retaining compatibility, in one case with emulation of the old architecture being around the speed of the previous (68k to PPC) and in the other with emulation being faster than the previous architecture (PPC to x86). There's no ARM that's fast enough to emulate an x86 in the same power envelope, so right now any transition would either require all performance sensitive apps to be ported or would result in machines that were slower for many tasks.

Bear in mind that both previous transitions were due to the processor line Apple was using being effectively EOLed (explicitly in the case of 68k, more implicitly in PPC - nobody was interested in making CPUs that had the appropriate performance/power ratio for consumer machines). Apple is doing great things with ARM, but they're not /that/ far ahead of the rest of the industry that they can pull off a seamless transition in the near future.
On the other hand, banks that operate in private are likely to invest in stupid and unpopular projects that are doomed to fail.

Of course, in theory, private banks have incentives not to invest in projects doomed to fail, and the invariably upright careful professionals staffing them have similarly aligned incentives.

Which is why we can't think of any high profile examples of private banks needing to be bailed out by taxpayers, right?
The Bank of North Dakota is a state owned enterprise. It operates ~$8B in assets. In 2017, it recorded record profits for the 14th year in a row. It survived the 2008 financial crisis and is serving its citizens just fine.
There’s definitely some common threads with this and Apple’s push to have apps use bitcode. It would make this duality a lot easier from an app distribution perspective without the need to have an emulation layer. My only guess as to why Apple hasn’t required bitcode by now is the sheer number of 3rd party libraries out there that aren’t built with bitcode enabled.
> Sparkasse is big, slow, and burocratic. Maybe that is just the size though.

It's not just the size, but also it's decentralized governance and high turnover. A friend of mine who worked for them as an independent project manager for some marketing related IT-changes had to travel all over the country to get buy-in from the regional Sparkassen-groups for the project. Mind you, those weren't some earth shattering changes, but nevertheless he was the ~7th PM on that project which had already been in the works for 3 years.
> Does mindfulness work for everybody?

Deepends on your karma.

People who start meditating often get on a pink cloud and they mistake that for a proof that meditation is working for them. As this feeling washes away with time some people get disapointed and give up while some try chasing it. Sort of like chasing runners high.

[meditation as any other sport attracts certain number of narcistic over-achievers with compulsion for controling reality]

But some people - no matter what attracted them to meditation - make suprising progress.

Also some people had been meditators in past lifes so they are naturals :-)

PS. Bear in mind that insight meditation / mindfulness is styling itself as millenia old practice but in fact had been created in 2nd part of XIX century as reaction to British colonialism.

First teaching of fan-down meditation for laypeople took place in Rangoon in 1911. Silicon Valey took it recently to next level with 10 minutes a day mindfulness apps.

Does it work? Well there are also 7-pushups-a-day apps. Do they work? Do they provide same benefits as professional years long athlete training?

https://tricycle.org/magazine/meditation-en-masse/
Or, you could get 35 cents. Depends on how many apply for the cash reward, because the number of injured parties vastly exceeds the amount of cash in the settlement.
It's been launched quite long ago and is still pretty ~private.
Guess I've seen this talk at 35C3 in 2018. https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9462-what_the_fax
Obvious question, but have you learnt a Lisp and something like Haskell or Scala? Can introduce you to a totally new way of thinking, not just another language.
Martial Arts Kata comes to mind. Explosive.
4 things:
1. It doesn't use p2p discovery
2. It uses php
3. It polls
4. We have to call functions

Nonetheless, this is a good idea and the first version works! That matters :)
I’m a bit taken aback by the answers here. Everyone is throwing around terms like knowing, evaluating, observing with the assumption that they are in a position to be doing these thing effectively? What is the epistemological foundation your espousing?

I think one post asked the rhetorical question “who is in a position to know yourself better than yourself?”

To which I might reply: “Anyone but your yourself — especially your present self?”

There seams to be a ton of hubris and confusion of goals and objectives here.

Most of these posts don’t talk about growing but conquering. They use mindfulness as a tool to “learn about themselves” so that they might avoid themselves.

This might feel great, but it’s delusion.

The best way humans have figured out how to know anything is reciprocal accountability coupled with objectivity.

That either means opening up about your emotions honestly and presently with another person you love/trust, or writing down (or otherwise recording) your observations so you might evaluate them later over time.

We are more than ourselves, part of a collective, both presently amongst ourselves, and in time.

The measure of knowledge is how well our evaluations resonate with others and ourselves in time.

Mindfulness just allows us to make observations, not communicate them, or judge them accurately.

Frankly, the best way to communicate an emotion is often to embody it. It can also be the best way to observe it.

That’s how artists make art.

What matters isn’t what we feel but how we respond.

Mindfulness is a defense mechanism we use for short term relief from our emotions. It gives a vantage point, not the vantage point. It is a tool, and one that comes at the cost of using other just as valid tools.

Ultimately the measure of our well being doesn’t reside with our present selves alone. We err in so far as we forget this in my opinion.
Quote from the article you linked:

Despite the
modest conclusion, these results are important because
they falsify a claim often made by the critics of the
“testing movement”: that the positive relationship
between intelligence and success is just the effect of
parental SES or academic performance influencing
them both (see Bowles & Gintis, 1976; Fischer et al.,
1996; McClelland, 1973). If the correlation between
intelligence and success was a mere byproduct of the
causal effect of parental SES or academic performance, then parental SES and academic performance
should have outcompeted intelligence as predictors of
success; but this was clearly not so. These results
confirm that intelligence is an independent causal
force among the determinants of success; in other
words, the fact that intelligent people are successful is
not completely explainable by the fact that intelligent
people have wealthy parents and are doing better at
school.

In other words, there are two models:

1) Your parents being rich makes you rich and also makes you good at IQ tests.

2) Heritable intelligence makes you rich and also made your parents rich.

The article says the first model is falsified in favor of the second. That's pretty much the opposite of what you say in your comment.
I don't know when this happened. Give GKE a try, it's really amazing. Blows EKS out of water. As per the flexibility is concerned, once you learn how to use Google Services, you can get the flexibility with simplicity. AWS services are too complex and even things like billing require a PhD degree in finance to optimize for anything non-trivial.
That is what is required. Great work! Keep experimenting. Never get discouraged no matter what anybody says. And keep collaborating :)
Another website Easter egg I enjoy is the scissors to the left, just above the footer, on kickstarter.com...
Some of the feedback I've gotten was along the lines of: make a SaaS version to make it easy to run (i.e. not having to install it locally).

I'm happy with it just being an open source project but I recognize that a SaaS hosted version could be interesting to some people who want to run it in the cloud without hassle. And second, it could provide me with some income to be able to continue support/develop the open source project in the long run.

I've set up an initial version https://dashboard.gridstudio.io based on an API integration with DigitalOcean droplets.

All feedback is very welcome! If someone has a particular love for pen-testing, let me know if I dropped the ball somewhere ^^.
J'aime l'application
Whilst the security lapses are infuriating, I think this is really a domain for independent insurance cover.
The short answer is that since RISC-V is open source, it's a bypass around all the IP restrictions that are coming from the US-China tradewar and all the Chinese silicon companies want everything to be RISC-V yesterday and it's a strategic priority.
On the one hand, I agree with you. At some level the libraries and frameworks matter less and less. It becomes boring since you know what you want and the only question is to do it with the current tools.

In the other hand, I'm still fascinated by programming because it is the closest thing to magic we have: We utter some arcane phrases and a nearly unlimited set of things can happen. Most of Harry Potters magic is not impressive compared to our technology.

I have not found that in other activities yet.

It is still magic even if you know how it's done. -Terry Pratchett
Socioeconomic status (SES) _is_ primarily your family's money. Where it comes from might easily include your family's genetics, e.g. genetics for intelligence. The parent's point, I think, was that controlling for SES in studies of the effect of intelligence on outcomes is likely to be a mistake, because SES itself will be caused by parental intelligence, which correlates with own intelligence via genetic (and other) pathways.
A Bank of California might make sense, and be a good place for the State and local governments to park their funds, in addition to offering private banking, so long as it has a mandate to be profitable.

A network of credit unions across the State to handle community finance and banking, that might make sense; it’s for residents or people of a particular class (police, students, teachers, or people who reside in a particular county) to park their accounts. I mean it’s essentially community banking with a shared interest group, and having enough of them endorsed by the State would take political pressure off the Bank of California to expand into areas which would be unprofitable.

Postal Savings Unions, as a kind of last resort for people who can’t open an account anywhere else, to encourage savings? Why not. As long as you don’t have to go through Congress, the State of California night even be able to enter into a contract with USPS to provide that for people here, and maybe even use the post offices around the State as a backbone for a new ATM network, better if we can eliminate ATM fees for these institutions.

Take all of these together, and you’ve got the workings of a pretty decently sized network of local, publicly interested banking and savings institutions and hopefully none of them too big to fail or too small to be profitable.

That said, city run banks? I love my city, as much as I complain about it, I grew up here, and I would not trust the Board of Supervisors to stake the creditworthiness of the City and County of San Francisco on a Public Bank. Doing it at the State level is still risky, but it might be a risk worth taking since California isn’t a monoculture much as our critics might think it to be, and that is a much larger pool of funds that wouldn’t be enriching large private national and international banks. There might be real savings to be had for taxpayers there.

I don’t believe that to be true about San Francisco. We might be bigger than North Dakota, but I think it is a poor fit for our city’s culture to get into banking. At least a credit union (there are several here already) funded by residents is a lot more insulated from our own political machinery, even if the constituency is mostly overlapping.
It's not silly. It proves you are a very creative person and I love it :-)
Good to hear that it's something you want!

I have to say, it's been quite the emotional ride to release this project. Even now I'm constantly embarrassed, it's stupid how bad I feel about so many parts of it (incompleteness, code quality, lack of proper parsing grammar, list continues ad infinitum).

Release early release often they say, that's definitely easier said then done!
OK, but operating a bank is not particularly different IMHO from regulating the hell out of the banks with branches in your territory, which again all 50 US states have been doing for decades. (Very small US state governments with no particular opinions on how to regulate banks will probably have copied the regulations of a larger state government.)

My question was whether any European city operates (or regulates) a bank.

(I'm almost certain that at least some of the larger European and US cities run their own pension funds, but I want to know if the government of some European city offers bank-like services to people other than its employees.)
Ask a Hindu sage, the word mindfulness is literally as the article describes, a watered down version. The same has happened to yoga, it's all commercialised but in Hinduism yoga has a different purpose and use but it's been stripped of its best values just as a physical thing. Mindfulness is bhakti in Hinduism, a type of mediation but it's been taken by the west and made into something different
> Nothing will stop the landlords from just jacking the prices.

The only thing stopping landlords from "jacking the prices" is vacant supply.

> Really, the problem here is that critical industries should not be eligible for more than reasonable profit margins.

Price controls for food: it'll work this time!
What else do you do every evening? For me, its working out, doing chores or Netflix, podcasts and video games. There is nothing else I could do. Too tired to learn new things and I need to recharge.
Why would you give a weight in a combination of imperial AND metric units?!
Can you explain what you mean by "DivisionRing? Really?"?

I see this doc regarding the Eff rows IO change, which must have happened after I last used Purescript https://purescript-resources.readthedocs.io/en/latest/eff-to...

For me personally using something heavyweight and bolted-on like GHCJS for Purescript's typical JS-replacement use-case's seems to be a far worse option. Even if Haskell is more mature and refined as a language. Particularly the real world production examples of GHCJS-backed apps I've seen people post on /r/haskell have all been bloated, slow, non-web standard, and obviously designed by backend programmers not designers/web developers... so I may be biased. Although that stuff has as much to do with community as it does technology.
Why visualizations in Health don’t work
This doesn’t answer my question.
I would want to buy that insurance from the bank. If I buy the insurance from somewhere else, then the bank doesn't really have a financial incentive to keep my stuff safe.
You don’t need a price “control” per se. Just tax landlords’ profits progressively, with very steep top marginal rates.

If it seems controversial to use that money for some other purpose, return the money as rent subsidies equally among all resident renters.
You can check to see the key is still there but you can't check to see if anyone has copied the codes. The key is meant to be not possible to duplicate.
The Unfold Truth about Streams (Scala)
I'm seeing more and more articles about online ads popping up. I also use an ad blocker (unlock origin on mobile, umatrix on desktop) for all my browsing just to make it bearable.

But I also see a lot of people saying they'd like to contribute to the sites they visit frequently. I built a proof of concept website to let everyone do just that:

https://www.propup.net

There are several similar concepts (Mozilla with Scroll, quid, even patreon et al), but I think mine reduces friction because signing up is as easy as on HN. Oh, and there's absolutely no tracking or selling of information to third parties.

Any feedback is welcome.
Canada’s Forgotten Rainforest
The 737 MAX is a new plane, they hacked the type certification process to get around that.
Tools to Develop Vue SFC Quickly
There are many ways to make it easy to see things have been tampered with.
> I'm just saying that if passing the requirements is so time-consuming and expensive that companies start cutting corners to get around the approval process

You don't get to stay in business in a regulated industry with an attitude like that. What's next? Medical device manufacturers cutting corners because the regulations are too onerous? Regulations create a level playing field: all entrants get to abide by the rules. Or at least, that's how it should be. The FAA turning a blind eye here is as much a part of the problem as Boeing.
I was just responding to this: "intelligence is a good thing, but the question is about whether there is a set of genes that are “best” for producing it. At the moment it’s unclear which genes those are"

Basically just noting that we now know at least some of those genes.

Many more will be found. Some will have other deleterious effects, and we'll figure that out too. The cause-and-effect of genotype and phenotype will be slowly decoded. It's just a matter of time; there's nothing unsurmountable here at all.