skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To circle back to the original point, no COBOL committee would break commonly running COBOL programs like the Python 2-3 transition. Using COBOL in an example with Python is just wrong. Maybe the break is justified, maybe it isn't, but some languages do a lot of work to make sure things continue to work.
Thank you very much for checking it out and providing feedback!

If you mean the main site, that uses an animation library that uses WebAssembly. It's faster than plain js but does lean on cpu directly. Lots and lots of dom updates to run the animations too, which is expensive.

Other pages like the test page and docs page don't have animations and probably don't tax your cpu very much. Buuut I'd be curious to hear if your system/browser disagrees on those pages too :)
We don't need the datacenters at all. That's the difference.

No facilities. No hardware. No bricks, mortar, shipping, mining of metals or rare earths. No replacing of millions of obsolete machines every three years. We tread lighter than any datacenter owner can ever dream of
Interesting - so do you think it would be possible to have a JS/HTML5 app refresh at 60FPS?
> The point of failure wasn't "using a non-gmail address," it was "using an untrustworthy registrar."

But wasn't his point that gmail.com is much less likely to have its MX record compromised than any domain you could possibly register? So using your gmail.com address removes the issue of registrar trustworthiness completely.
You sell about $80,000 every 5 days (nearly $6 million annually) and you registered your domain with NameCHEAP? And your surprised that NameCHEAP hires CHEAP eastern european help? And you didn't pick a registrar with token-based 2FA? Or any security beyond knowing your name and DOB to start transferring domains out (which I don't believe).
Pumping nutrient rich water from the deep ocean to the surface is one proposed way of increasing ocean productivity to repair fish stocks and sequester carbon.

This volcano has provided a natural demonstration of this effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fertilization
It might make you feel good to write that, but there are much bigger lies being told. For example, tons of people believe that CO2 released by human activity does not cause global warming, and tons of people are promoting that idea. Arguing over just how much photosynthesis the Amazon is responsible for seems like a stupid article in light of that. Perhaps we can be selective over what we argue about and what we pay attention to. On the net, the claim "the Amazon is the Earth's lungs" being true or not is not really meaningful. We still shouldn't burn it down, and climate change is still bad and getting worse. Creating debate over trivialities is usually the aim of these types of pieces, and it's best not to allow ourselves to be manipulated so easily.
> underserved by tech

Are we just calling "California hipster marketing" "tech" now?
Nice, I assume this give Stripe the ability to shortcircuit Visa/MC on a payment between a Stripe card and Stripe as the processor and capture more of the revenue without needing to share it.
Your clocks are beautiful, and a very clever idea.
What is it like to work remotely as a software developer?
+1 for nearlyfreespeech for privacy, registrar and DNS hosting, although for one of my domains I'm using cloudflare for DNS.
Catalan would lose free movement in the EU by leaving Spain.

HK would lose movement to the world by being absorbed by China.

If Spain were an authoritarian regime like China the Catalan would have been extinguished, punished and redistributed to other parts of Spain, while they and their family were observed for insubordination for the rest of their lives.
I use wireguard on:
- Linux
- Mac
- Windows
- Android

And it works pretty much the same way on all platforms, and it recovers seamlessly from switching cell phone towers and wifi APs.
“This Is the Most Lonesome Job”: Ride with a 'Hot Shot Trucker' in Texas
Till theft, the physical act of counting it and securely storing it, screening counterfeits, securely transporting it to the bank, etc. I don’t have direct links handy, but there have been some good insightful comments on the topic on this site previously. Hopefully they will turn up without much difficulty with a search. Sorry to have to pass the buck on a more detailed answer.
>Mobile phones continue to work during a disaster as long as the base station batteries hold out and that’s with cheap base stations serving very large amounts of idiot users

Maybe? There are numerous accounts of inoperable service when incidents like 9/11 or the Boston bombing occurred. So in cases where the system is flooded, it might be a crap shoot.

The only way this would work is with dedicated frequency and possibly infrastructure, similar to FirstNet.
Wow. https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/d2357i/tr...
Wait, how do these cards work, then? The corporate cards I've used (eg AmEx Corporate) did indeed require a personal guarantee and a personal social security number from each individual who had an account.
GitLab PM here. As part of 11.10, we introduced the ability to disable Auto DevOps at the group-level (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/#at-the-group-l...). This will disable it for all projects under the particular group.

We are working to make Auto DevOps smarter and only run in cases where it can add value (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/57483).

I agree with you, we don't currently cover all the use cases we'd like to, but we're working to expand the feature set and technologies we cover.

If you had a particular use case that was not well covered, I'd love to learn more about it so we can evaluate related improvements. You can reach me at daniel at gitlab dot com. Thanks.
> but at the cost of a much smaller overall workforce.

That's what people predict about minimum wage increases too. Yet the effect has always been smaller than predicted, sometimes even non-existent.
Canada PLEASE
The contextualized word embeddings you get out of BERT are still generated from fixed per-word vectors. And while you get one output vector for each input vector, that doesn't mean they correspond to each other. The model could arbitrarily reshuffle information between outputs, so long as the output as a whole reflects the input sufficiently well. So BERT embeddings are not "word embeddings" in the usual sense.
Automation makes everything easier, better to control these machines and all companies must pay taxes to people for every automation they made in a specific rate by voting
Security researchers expose another instance of Chrome patch gapping
> gleefully supporting the investigation because it threatens Google's future.

what about gleefully supporting the investigation because it will create opportunities for competition, create room for other small companies to have at least a fighting chance at success?
Couldn't you simply require Uberlyft to run potential drivers through a quick course on depreciation, injury risk, opportunity cost?

That's really not a bad idea generally. Give them full information and then treat them like adults.
Ah. I now understand a bumper sticker I saw 2 days ago, to the effect of:

"No on AB5.

I own this truck.

AB5 will put me out of work."

It was on a heavy double trailer dump truck, the kind that hauls dirt and debris to/from construction sites. I guess his thought is that AB5 will limit the ability to subcontract, forcing independent haulers of this type "out of business". As the services are still actually required, why the hiring company can't employ these folks rather than sub them out, I don't know. It might be fear of change.

In my own (limited) 10 minute reading, and from https://www.mulfil.com/dynamex-borello-prepare-umbrella-stor..., ISTM that the existing law governing this is based on "Borello", and I guess that for uber/lyft, "Dynamex" (ABC) would apply instead. AB5 has an explicit carve-out for the construction industry, where the existing Borello test would continue to apply.

If that reading is accurate, I don't know why this dump truck driver would have such a sticker on his trailer. The law doesn't change for him.
They are all the same category of things - making it illegal for a person to work in a job that they are volunteering to take. Maybe it's illegal because the pay is below minimum wage, maybe it's because they are doing something without following the safety requirements of OSHA. Some people think this is a sign that minimum wage/child labor laws/any such restriction should be removed. Others, like myself, think that it should be possible for everyone to have better options available so that nobody does want to work for scraps.
It's only a warning if you are betting on the frauds. If you are betting on real businesses it's a relief.
i hope they get the pricing right, which by my estimation is probably 2-tier pricing (on top of the free browser). an inexpensive base tier, maybe $3/month, and a premium tier at ~$10/month.

diversity of donors/customers has long-term benefits (better market insights, for example), so that lower tier is important to attract the less affluent. the higher tier is for techies like us who can better afford to support a more free and open internet.
They seriously had forced summer camps? WTF?
I'd take that as a signal that VCs need to do a better job of evaluating their bets. If a company make gargantuan losses year upon year despite getting billions in funding, the secondary markets don't have any obligation to bail out the CEO and his VC benefactors.
> But they certainly are the 900 pound gorilla in this space

They are very much not a 800 pound gorilla. That would mean that they could dictate the market, but with some of the most expensive prices for a mediocre offering in comparison to the competition, they can't really do that.
Multiple Ways of API Integration in Your JAMStack
What is the current status of WireGuard being added directly to the mainline Linux kernel? I know there was a push to do this awhile back, but as far as I know it has not been added—is that correct, and is it still planned to happen sometime?
Their business model already is unsustainable.

As for driving for multiple companies, under conditions devoid of government interference, you being able to "life hack" your way around low pay in either of the companies you drive for means there's no pressure preventing them from lowering the pay even further.
Show HN: Apollius – An educational math game to strengthen mental math skills
I googled WeWork when I needed space, but a Regus place popped up closer to me.
You absolutely can create abstractions where a hook calls another hook. It is perhaps the single most useful change hooks have given me.

Of course you need to follow the same rules in the hook (always call every hook it calls, in the same order, so you don't mess up the order above).
https://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Revolutionary-Th...

The reason a hologram is interesting is that each of its parts contains the whole. Above book by Michael Talbot is a good introduction to the topic.
Analyzing the Wikipedia DDoS Attack
1) I would doubt the future of something that does a complex task like that without charging money. The premise is certainly simple, but the execution will no doubt be difficult.

2) Why? you are taking your time and building something valuable... why wouldn't you want to get something back in return? ...Furthermore, since you have the skills to do something difficult like this why wouldn't you apply them to something that could provide you with more money create more value in the world with?

Certain causes are certainly non-profit worthy. But this doesn't seem like it would create the most value for the world with a non-profit approach.
When did HIPAA grow teeth?

I worked on some exchanges in the mid-2000s. 5 exchanges, 80 orgs, 100s of data feeds, including govts.

We had to do HIPAA "training" every year. It was just corporate CYA.

Those of us working on the systems resigned ourselves to the fact that disclosures were inevitable. Even if we could technically secure stuff (encrypt all data at rest, PKI for all access, RBAC, audits, etc), we'd never be able to get all our partners up to speed.
You can have named users or you can have (conceptually) a role account, like saas_subscriptions@example.com.

We recommend businesses set up the latter for recurring purchases on e.g. infrastructure that aren't tied to a particular person, for the same reasons that you don't want your logins for all of your SaaS or infrastructure to be under individuals' email addresses.
I never had a corporate CC, so I'm curious: do those rewards count as personal income for tax purposes?
I think he means that outside of Google, advertising revenue has shrunk for the publishers and others in the space, and that Google has consumed and controls the lion's share of the advertising revenue.
It definitely would have been interesting to see what a properly planned and executed Brexit would have looked like.

But the referendum to leave was essentially pitched as “we will maintain all of the benefits, have more money, and get rid of those immigrants”. It probably would not have gotten nearly as much support if it were pitched honestly as “we will lose 10% of our economy, lose free movement to our nearest neighbors, and will lose tremendous leverage in international negotiations”
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Look up "Bradsher Bars." They're designed to make sure in a collision with a car, the SUV frame will catch the car and not overtop it, which would be even worse for the car's occupants. BUt they also mean less crumpling because the bars have to connect directly with the frame.
> It might make you feel good to write that, but there are much bigger lies being told.

if you held the opposite position in this debate, you would probably call this "whataboutism".
People already don't believe the truth and I struggle to think of a time in history when they did.
> The positional order seems like it would be easy to work around if they allowed you to pass in a key. Not sure why that isn't available.

IIRC it's because they implemented their own method lookup table (!) to associate with the Component object (!) but as a FIFO queue, more or less. I assume either for ideological (that's how they wanted it to work) reasons or because they (probably correctly) reasoned that loading down React apps with more strings at such a basic level would risk performance/memory problems. Plus if they did that then it'd really look like a method lookup table and be more obviously Rube-Goldbergian than it already is.
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Is targeting advertising based on health data a violation if the advertiser is a business associate and is not directly exposing the data to any non-covered entities?
The farmers actually have doubled down on Trump and believe conspiracies that the USDA is just out to get him.
[1]

Never thought I’d actually witness the emperor has no clothes.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/reuters-america-many-u-s-far...
Its not just one anecdote. I grew up in that level of poor. It is a culture
Not with that attitude, you can't.
"Is this person going to say idiotic nonsense that tanks the case because the judge or jury thinks they are just awful?"

Weev may have been a good test case if he wasn't a white supremacist.
CCPA is already a thing in California and is, nearest I can tell, actually stricter than GDPR. Not a national law -- far from it -- but a first step.
Robert Frank Is Dead
The key here is that it success doesn't even have to be likely for VCs to jump in on something that everyone/everyone from a very large category (workers) might end up using e.g. Uber, WeWork, electric scooter sharing. That is, the demand is clearly already there. Rather than working from profit and trying to scale demand they are working on profitability of a huge market as the technical problem.

They have more money than investment targets, so they basically fund a few moonshot projects that look like they have a 1%+ chance rather than a 0% chance.

I suppose the thesis is that once one of these eventually wins, the losses on the rest will be more than recovered. You just have to do enough 1 out of 100 projects.
Four Kinds of Scoping in R
All the Ubers/Lyfts I've used (between 30 and 40 as rough estimate) are people in what looks like their own cars. There's never been any cab insignia anywhere on them.
I'm also, like, 90% sure that when you are using your custom domain on Google, as a business user, the "recover my email via phone number" option goes away, because you are your own "administrator" and if your "users" lose their password they just have to go to you.

(Which closes that gaping hole in your email security.)
Current State and the Future of Hydrogen
My grandmother used to give me her old computers, starting with Windows ME. I would tinker around on them and explore. I learned about what GNU/Linux was from a friend in 9th grade & started distributing-hopping and breaking stuff. It should all come naturally. OP, they’ll need to be curious. That’s how we all got into this in the first place. Curiosity.
Can you be more specific? What governance processes counteract or prevent that failure?
It is illegal in the US to have volunteers do work that would otherwise be done by a paid employee. That's why unpaid internships are, by default, illegal - to be legal they must replace the payment with school credit and valuable experience, basically.
He is not just voice acting, he is presenting. And a lot of astronauts (Chris Hadfield is the only one I can remember right now). I haven’t finished watching though.
Yes, probably.

That is actually how most (sub)contractors in the construction world currently have things set up for legal reasons.
Spotify Player – “Can It Be Done in React Native?”
I would guess it's because their labor is not worth minimum wage plus all the extra overhead costs of a full time employee. It's people trying to get by despite stupid price controls that don't reflect reality.
Looks like he was saying that it's stupid to go against a weirdly shaped group like SUV drivers. Yet there're some problems with driving that are not related wether the car is SUV or not.
Does Cloudflare have the same sort of legal restrictions that Comcast or other ISPs, which are regulated by the FCC, have? [PS this isn't a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious]

I understand that the current FCC is basically intentionally toothless, but that wasn't the case a few years ago, and doesn't necessarily need to be the case a few years from now.
How do the Partner Benefits work?

Are they only valid if we are not an existing customer of the partner, or is it for any spend with those vendors we put onto the card?

Do we work with the Partner to get that discount or is it automatically applied on the Stripe side while processing charges we make to the card?
Characterizing 6% of the oxygen supply as “more or less zero” (as the author does) seems to signal approval of deforestation to me.
What Have the Last 10 Years of School Food Policy Taught Us?
Yep, Stripe are also investors in Monzo. This is the obvious long term play and there is no way the incumbents can keep up. It would also allow massive innovation in payments too.

Visa and mastercard should be very worried about being displaced.
Their competitors have long term leases with the tenants that we doesn’t have.
If we increased the cost of transportation from far away producers, it seems that we kill two birds with one shot. I'm not an economist and I don't know what ramifications this would have, and not exactly what form this "increase in cost" would take.
Do we have time to do it "just a few cents extra every half a year or so"? From what I read, that would have worked if we started in the 80's or so.
https://stripe.com/docs/corporate-card/faqs

> Am I personally liable for purchases made on the card?

> No. Only your business is liable for purchases made on the card.
> For example, this useRef / useEffect combo mystifies me even now: https://stackblitz.com/edit/react-ts-zhvuha

On this particular point, the reasoning is that refs are meant for values that don't need to trigger a rerender[1] -- an escape hatch, rather than something you reach for by default.

In that sandbox, you can accomplish what you mean to accomplish by using state rather than a ref.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/14387#issuecomment-...
The main export destinations of Brazilian beef are Hong Kong, China, Egypt, Russia, Iran and Chile.

https://www.datamyne.com/blog/markets/brazilian-beef-exports...
Which is why emergency phone calls can be made anywhere you have coverage in the U.S. or Canada, whether or not your subscription is current.
Rainway for iOS Enters Beta. Raises $3.5M
Oh, I didn't know this. Cool!
That’s a pretty good rewards rate and there’s no annual fee. Reading up a bit, you don’t have to spend it as Uber fun bucks either. You can claim the rewards as cash.
My biggest issue with gitlab code review is that it's unusable for large changes and large files. On large changes it sometimes won't even show all the changes.

Also the auto-collapse size is far too small, and the fact you can't even see the diff for some large changes in infuriating. It makes using it for code review a struggle. My company is trying to move us all to gitlab-ee, but the lack of features and polish to the code review tool is preventing some teams from making the jump.

I feel like the code review portions are more like a half-circle, and not a heart. There are so many deficiencies that make it unusable for large projects.

If I were gitlab I would look at gerrit for inspiration on what you should use for code review. It's ugly, but it's very functional and performs quite well on meager hardware.

I know there are feature requests to make code review more usable but I can't understand how you could dogfood that code review tool and not go insane.

Also, merge trains for FF-only repos, please!
I wonder which REITs have the most we exposure?
It seems like he got his account back one month later:

Tweet:
https://mobile.twitter.com/N/status/438426408721735680

The verge article:
https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/25/5448392/victim-of-twitter...
Awesome project, I want to build something to try it out! A few comments:

- very high resource usage (animation meter and my system monitor confirms high CPU usage)

- hovering over examples lines of code and displaying a description is very cool
>Right now you own nothing but some promise in some database controlled by bunch of potentially corrupt individuals governed by potentially repressive institutions.

Are you describing Bitcoin or fiat currency?
Is it harder getting hired if you have too much experience?
Some of the people on this website are insanely cloistered lol holy cow. Those dang desperate (read: poor) people ruin everything!
No, lying is bad and for whatever critiques you can have of my point, it's not whataboutism. You can say it's cynical, but I believe people lie all the time and I should be economical with my precious time when arguing on the internet. But if you think the categorization of the Amazon as the Earth's lungs is above that criteria for you, then I will not stop you even though I will think it's ridiculous.
You are highlighting insurance. I am highlighting hospital administrators. They're not the same people.
Usually I'll let the points sit and use them when I have to travel - so the points never touch my bank accounts. I'm not a tax expert, but for that reason I don't bother reporting any income on it