skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I opted for the credit monitoring and later my wife opted for the $125... since we have all the same accounts, we should be covered either way. But how do we check the status of the credit monitoring? I didn't receive any emails or anything...
I just submitted my claim and it let me pick the $125 option. All I see on the linked website is that they added an FAQ saying that everyone will get less money if I ask for the $125 and that free credit monitoring will add up to being worth more than that.

I don't believe them. So we'll see. I already have credit monitoring from another breach.
Bingo. About 2 weeks is the sweet spot for me when not pressed for time.
This may be what the "How do I tell the Court that I don’t like the settlement?" clause is for. Apparently the court still needs to approve the settlement, so if you're angry about this, it might be worth writing to the court.
None, zero, zilch, because it's highly unlikely that you were the first to think of it and that it will remian the same as it was at inception.

Ideas evolve with the company and it's execution that matters most.
Show HN: Arc – a declarative data transformation framework
Thanks for your comment. To address your questions:
-no the timer does not start until you hit 'start' button!
-you are coding in your own environment an uploading a zip file once you're done
-Naturally, we have definitely a large in flow of candidates from bootcamps. We don't have any formal partnerships yet though. Would love to eventually see how we can partner with online programs as well.
This model (fire fast) works pretty well for Netflix, though I personally never got used to it during my time there.
At something like 0.25 c hitting interstellar hydrogen becomes a major source of gamma radiation.
Hi everyone
I would like to show the project we have been working on for a couple of years: Arc, an opinionated framework for defining predictable, repeatable and manageable data transformation pipelines;

- predictable in that data is used to define transformations - not code

- repeatable in that if a job is executed multiple times it will produce the same result

- manageable in that execution considerations and logging have been baked in from the start

- MIT licensed open-source and cloud agnostic

We have seen that it is hard to scale data engineering teams in a code-first environment. Arc solves a lot of the problems we have seen data engineering/science teams struggle with. It:

- makes data engineering accessible to audiences outside of data engineers - you don't need to be proficient at Scala/Spark to introduce data engineering into your team

- has a Jupyter Notebook based development environment to quickly build logic

- provides a clear path to production for machine learning (via MLTransform, TensorflowServingTransform or HTTPTransform for models as a service)

- has a plugin system allowing federated development for any features not in the base framework

Currently it uses the Apache Spark execution engine but due to its declarative nature can be executed against future engines.

Please let us know if you have any feedback/suggestions.
Why did you stop supporting remote employees?
It's not just the monitoring that they're saying is worth more than that, it's the monitoring plus the $1M insurance.
What's the last piece of software you'd expect to spy on you?
Space is big.

It's extremely unlikely to get close to any object while randomly passing through its orbit.

Unfortunately, space becomes a lot smaller once you want to park yourself in a similar orbit to another object. Don't get me wrong, it's still massive, but since orbits trace out a path the problem becomes figuring out if two paths intercept rather than if two points intercept.

This is why access to 'space' will not really be impacted in the case of a Kessler cascade; you can go through low earth orbits on the way to somewhere else, but if you tried to stay in low earth orbit you'd almost certainly be hit by something.
Yeah I know about their AT&T piggyback DSL service. Yeah, it isn’t a good deal, but $40 for fiber internet is unbelievable. What’s sad is that I don’t live that far away from you. Thanks for your post though. It reminded me to talk to Comcast again. Now I’m paying $140 for 1 gbps
Indeed, that would be a 2nd incorrect thing about the title.
They should follow Forbes and start “Councils” that professionals pay to belong to. That should more than offset the revenue issues they have if people still value the brand.
What’s more likely: that they didn’t realize that more than 0.1% of the 150 million people affected might sign up for this, or that they don’t give a shit?

This all sounds terrible but there are going to be zero consequences.
I believe that nutrition science is pretty dubious because it mainly relies on epidemiological studies. The extraordinary claims that are touted as fact are numerous. This is why we get many conflicting studies on cholesterol, fats, carbs, etc. It's very, very difficult to isolate one variable in nutrition epidemiological studies and attribute them to correlations in population outcomes. The one major success story for epidemiological studies was smoking and lung cancer. Of course, difference there is that smoking is binary: one either smokes or they don't. They may smoke more or less...but the variables are pretty low. Whereas dietary intake is diverse and no two people eat the same exact diet.
Note: I am in no way affiliated to balena, only a happy customer.

As a long time customer of balena, I can assure they are a ton for what you pay for.

* faster development times: git push and your code is built and compiled in their cloud (with real ARM servers), and downloaded from your devices. Doing CI/CD for iot is a great experience with balena.

* the support is tremendous: several times I found very specific use cases that failed or wasn't what the balena APIs where expecting, and after contacting the support, they even put me directly with the developers in charge of those areas to discuss if it makes sense to add it as a feature to balena, or if they can provide me a workaround

* again, the support: I have around 10 years of experience with Linux derived systems, but some things still are black magic to me (like debugging problems with aufs partitions). The support of balena goes to the deepest level possible to solve your problem, even if you aren't in the private support tier. You just enable access to your board to support and they get inside and try to find the problem. It's truly amazing. They are even open to discuss how to improve what they are giving you or the tools.

* total control of your fleet: need to set a flag for a client? Just set an environment variable from the api or the dashboard and each device will update its state when they come back online

* amazing tools: the balena dashboard feels as polished as their other projects, like etcher, if not even more. Any kind of need you have (remote access to the device? Proxy to a port in the device? contact the supervisor of the device from a proxy inside their VPN?) they give to you.

And even more, but this is already a long post.
Yes, laudable in theory, but the current government hasn't delivered anything close. They should be at 184 million by now. They claim they are at 110 million. They estimate based on how many seedlings have been sold by nurseries, include seedlings "tranferred", which is a pretty sure way to overestimate. You'd think they would only count trees that the government was involved in planting, not trees that would have been planted anyways, but they take credit for everything anybody does.

They do have a programme to pay land owners for planting trees, but in minumum one-hectare units, and it's financially a loss. I own and live on farmland in NZ. I could turn a hectare into fully native bush and get their maximum one-time payout of $4,000. But the costs of native trees are expensive and the labour to fully plant up a hectare properly is not insubstantial. The $500 top-up payout for fencing doesn't cover the cost of fencing. Then I'd have to give up about $500 per year in farming income, permanently. It would feel good, but there is still a significant financial disincentive.

The government isn't really in a position to increase payouts. Taxes are about as high as the economy can handle and the government has lots of other projects to fund. If this is going to happen, it's going to be on the backs of individuals acting out of their own good will.
It's not that weird. If your score is, say, 750, 50 points is about a 7 percent change. My finances very easily vary 7% from month to month!

50 points also isn't likely to make much difference, especially if your score is already good. Loans basically go off tables. Essentially if you're between A and B, you get this rate for this losan, C and D gets this rate, etc.

Once you're past 700, you're already getting good interest rates and banks will fall over themselves to loan you money if your income supports the loan size. When I was at 780, the loan officer couldn't give me a lower rate on a mortgage - I was already getting a fraction of a percent over prime.
At the same time employers are saying "Don't ever pay, at all, without getting at least some work first, ever."

On the whole this is how the world operates. Work then pay.
> I get that most advertising is not supposed to reflect reality...

It actually is supposed to. A lot of companies just seem to get away with not.
When a function returns a function, you rarely just call it immediately in Go. But even if that were common (and maybe it would become common with generics? I'd have to think that through) it is uncommon to have a type name as unrecognizable as 'x'.

I've always been a big advocate for unambiguous, clear code, especially in Go, but I don't see a big potential for confusion here.
Why would monitoring 147M victims cost $2B? Isn't a computer doing the monitoring at least until something actually pops up?
Credit reporting companies should burn.
Poll and select predate linux. The issues with epoll were in the 2000's and kqueue has been very stable by comparison.
A genuine alternative is to be able take your custom to one of the MANY other providers who aren't forcing you agree to conditions that are ridiculous. As soon as there is no alternative it's an industry cartel and we need to look at regulating. What is appropriate to determine credit worthiness? How about a blood sample? How much melanin do you have? Who did you vote for and we'll need that verified with a photo of your ballot. There's a million more totally unreasonable ways of determining your credit worthiness, some legal, some not but should be and you would choose not to submit if you could.

You have agree to pay interest, on time and pay the loan back. -- ok that's not something you can reasonably opt out of and hope to get a loan.

You have to agree to to have your life ruined on a whim or by incompetence because you borrowed $1k and paid it back in full with the interest? -- no, definitely not ok.

In between the extremes are all the cases that need looking at. This is a standard case of market failure where you as a consumer have zero market power to effect your preference and your preference is more than reasonable. The GFC was one occasion where such a market failure really came home to roost. There are others, some are trivial, some are huge, most in between. Where it can ruin your life, utterly needlessly and the lives of others, possibly systemically across the whole economy, we tend to want to regulate it so that doesn't happen. There are many such examples in finance which is why we have regulated it in so many ways for so long. Sometimes the regulation will be effective, sometimes not, sometimes it will be fair, sometimes not, sometimes it will be captured by the powerful, hopefully mostly not. Without it, eh, we head for some big trouble, at worst class and civil warfare.

(Separate but somewhat related note: "You need to agree to all future changes to this contract by your counter-party in all circumstances" - OH HELL NO that's not ok and should not be considered remotely legal, yet there it is in every single click through you've ever bothered to read and fail to understand on the internet because the click throughs (not contracts for mine) are simply not capable of being understood without the assistance of layers of courts, lawyers and judges - the law on them is not settled anywhere on earth as far as I'm aware. Unconscionable conduct in such things is the norm, pretending otherwise is silly no matter how libertarian I want to be about it and life in general.)
Would be really interesting now to see a successful experiment with an electric solar sail to get some idea of how the technologies compare in practice - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_sail
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Unlike Lightsail 1, Lightsail 2 operates at an altitude where the atmosphere is negligible.
Oh that would be so great lol
I wonder why Edsger Dijkstra didn't agree with you, or, rather, with what you insist.

Fact is, it's all ultimately about getting a machine to do the operations needed. What varies is how much effort you have to waste, on top of actually telling the machine what it should be doing, and how much wasted activity the machine has to do because you couldn't direct it more precisely.

Every program, in any language, strikes a balance. Some languages force the balance toward one side, others the opposite. Better languages minimize the total.

Functional languages, as Dijkstra complained, tend to force wasting time by copying unnecessarily. Mutating languages make program transformations by the compiler -- optimizations -- harder, but most potential optimizations are to make the machine do more mutating and less copying.

The machines keep getting faster (less so, lately), but the problems grow to match. At all times, over 70 years, the mutating languages have got more useful computation out of the machines where it mattered most.

When the machines get too complicated to understand, the balance might change. Nobody knows when that might happen, if it ever does before the whole topic becomes moot.

In the meantime, programmers sort themselves out neatly between those who prefer to waste machine cycles for what amounts to esthetics, and those who find ways not to, without actually suffering for their choice. That is where we have been for decades, and may still be when civilization collapses.
It's only the wanky number plate I'm commenting on.

You're not doing anything wrong by driving a Tesla, and it's preferable to an ICE.

But you aren't doing more for the environment than someone who only takes public transport, which is practical and quite common here.
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Market is efficient. If underwriting wasn’t efficient, a company could utilize better algorithms and offer better rates and better determine risk to minimize default. This a multi billion dollar opportunity. People don’t care about who is underwriting their car or home loan, they care about rates.
Yeah, it's ambiguous, but be realistic: how often are you calling a function with a function return just to invoke that directly?

You usually won't see much of either sinice the type argument is only necessary when it can't be inferred.
Second LA Times related article I’ve seen on here recently. The former was published by the LA Times: a piece on global warming with a corresponding game. I’d say the HN commentary was quite positive.

I have a friend working there as a SWE/data viz contributor, and he’s really excited about the editorial and data viz staff.

That being said, it does sound (from article and friend) like they just got out of the technical woods with the release of their revamped website. They obviously still have work to do based on these churn numbers.

The price is high though. I subscribe to NYT, so do I need another?
Thank you for this reply, very informative and personally, I love hearing about design decisions and tool choices.
> The only people who still use/listen to/watch these things are dinosaurs who haven't moved on to streaming radio (or just buying your own music), cellphones, and streaming movies

Or people like me who drive cars that predate the widespread availability of AUX jacks (which I've worked around by using one of those cassette adapters, but I know of at least some people who drive cars in that awkward phase where cars had neither.
Gravity is exponential, which makes lifting fuel off of Earth a losing strategy for long-distance travel. Anything that is fueled by something already in space seems incredibly promising.
If you were talking about the difference of a few minutes, then sure I'd let it pass. But hours? No, that's ridiculous. How long does it take to check if the destination email address of an outbound email has been unsubscribed? If it takes long enough to make it so you can't maximize your rate limit then you're doing it wrong.
It's not a user pointer, it's a pointer to the kernel stack that's constructed here:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/kernel/futex....
Where I was living in SOMA, it was resold U-Verse that wasn't even FTTN. It was several thousand feet of copper back to the central office. No one knew the exact length, as those records were lost.

Was ecstatic finally moving away from that place to somewhere else.
Last year the L.A. Times was offering a 3-month subscription for free, so I signed up. I wanted to support “independent journalism” so I let it keep renewing until last week — honestly, though, I just forgot to cancel it in February. Anyway, I finally cancelled my digital sub this week.

If you live outside of L.A., this paper has no actual value to your news intake for the day. IMO it seems their entire focus is California and that’s it — yes.. it is the “LA TIMES” but they have many different sections.

For example, if you visit ~/Science/Medicine, you’ll see they went almost an entire month without one post on this topic — June 26th to July 15th.

Do you want to see what’s happening around the world? ~/World section was recently stripped of all subsections — Mexico, Middle East — and instead all posts fall under the general umbrella on the main page.

Not to mention, a lot of their articles are borderline tabloid-TMZesque. Do you want to read about Heidi Klum’s Bel-Air home she recently put on the market? The business section is prime reading for you.

In all reality, once the L.A. Times’ formed their guild, many writers found employment elsewhere, and those that have stayed are constantly bailing water out of their sinking ship.
it's an industry cartel and we need to look at regulating

There are ALL KINDS of regulations around banking and credit reporting. All of the wacky things you mention are already not allowed.
It does exist but a lot of times regression to the mean is wrongly identified as placebo effect. Its rampant in observational studies.
The term backcountry is a generic descriptor for areas of a park unit outside of highly developed front-country zones.

http://npshistory.com/publications/wilderness/white-papers/4...
I don’t think it’s particularly onerous for a relay service to have an API for ‘remove all outgoing emails for this address’. It can even be hashed, because it doesn’t really matter what the address is, just that you know what mails belong to it.

I’m fairly certain that’s something postfix will do for you too.
> It works by pushing against the surrounding medium.

Not really. If a fan was able to blow air in a vacuum it would produce thrust as well. Basically a rocket does that. It's just blowing gasses out the back.

It's Newton's law of motion, "every action has an equal and opposite reaction".
The contract you agree to for credit cards or other forms of debt you choose to take on will specify things like late fees and that it's up to the company's discretion whether they report you a late payment to the agencies. If they didn't have this clause, you'd just be complaining that they report everyone indiscriminately rather than giving people a break when it seems appropriate.
illegal exclusive line ownership agreement that my commercial landlords signed with AT&T.

Exclusive, yes. Illegal? Not really. Every apartment building I've lived in has had an agreement with one provider. They don't want to rip open the walls for every company that wants to put in a line. And these days with the way internet providers come and go, I don't blame them.

If you rent, you don't own the building, so you have no say in the matter. If you own a condo, then you can at least influence the board. If you want more control over your home's internet service, buy a house.

The only way around it is to go wireless. Back when WiMax was a thing, the building I lived in had an exclusive deal with AT&T, which could only supply 768k DSL. I got around that by going with ClearWire's WiMax.
Because it’s the equivalent of a stationary space ship being shot by a projectile traveling at the speed of the original space ship. If that is any remotely relativistic speed, duct tape is not going to fix the problem, because your space ship is now a hot gas.
I was told Taler is anonymous - for the customer.
Another possible mechanism that I have heard of are dough conditioners. They make bread soft and fluffy without the need for cultures or letting the bread rise. But bread cultures (such as sourdough starter) feed on the gluten (and make gas bubbles) during natural bread rising. So the gluten doesn't get broken down in "commercial" bread the way it does in "artisan" bread (in quotes because those are two broad categories). So we end up eating lots and lots of gluten in a way that our ancestors didn't.
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Thank you for the quick reply!
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I had Comcast out recently due to intermittent connection issues. The very first thing he said when he saw my SB6141 was that it was not on the approved list and that it was likely the issue. Of course, he tested the line and found the real issue (their line and connector outside). After he left, I looked it up and my modem is in fact still on their approved list for the 60Mbps that I pay for.

I seriously dislike the state we are in with all the consolidation of communication companies. It's just mind blowing that this has been allowed to happen.
That doesn't seem relevant to the question of whether credit scores are statistically useful.
What is more unfortunate is that we're just okay with these practices.
Windows has a ton of subsystem specific hacks each with their own drawbacks.

Which brings me back to my main point against the GPs

> They should just bite the bullet and implement WaitForMultipleObjects instead of having all these disjoint APIs
Not that poster, but I believe what they're saying is that because we heavily use the law to structure society, it's time to use the law to remove an undesired aspect: default opt-ins.
I did find that quote funny. No kidding it's a win for you, by not exercising due diligence you got 25 people to work on your game for free, and you got to walk away with their work and the rights to the game. Talk about a windfall!
I only test in Firefox, because FF is my browser of choice. Everyone else in the office only tests on Chrome because that is their browser of choice. We all know it is wrong, but cross browser compatibility makes it so much easier to forget that there are subtle differences.

Fun fact, we recently found a performance issue on one of our products which I was completely unaware of because it didn't affect. Even now, we cannot get Chrome to match FF's performance especially (of all things) for Google maps. Just goes to show that basic assumptions that Chrome is faster than Firefox are not 100% accurate. Like most things, it depends.
People with riskier lives

Glad you phrased it that way, because a lot of the people who want me to pay a tax for eating a cookie probably aren't imagining themselves paying a tax for going Whitewater rafting, or for driving their car multiple times a day.