skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If our instinct is to jump from allying with a nation to being at war, we have accepted the most violent countries' axioms of how the world must work. Bush Jr's "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" mentality and policy have certainly sown some seeds.
SMT-COP: Defeating Side-Channel Attacks on Execution Units in SMT Processors
Perhaps if your doctor is Dr. House.
Show HN: Same Day Tech Support for Your Parents
Help Button is a marketplace that connects folks age 45+ who are having trouble using software with digital natives who can help them.

So when your Mom asks you how to create an Apple Photobook, you can send her to www.gethelpbutton.com, where she'll push a big blue "help button" and get a call the same day from a digital native who'll help her out over the phone, by screensharing, or by remotely controlling her desktop.

www.gethelpbutton.com
I think the part that is hard to grasp is that React essentially has it's own runtime tangled with JS. With the introduction of hooks, there are non JS things going on, which is why React relies on the quirk of having the same order and number of hooks in your component. It also has Suspense which allows you to exit from the render function and return to that spot, which is definitely not a feature of JS. So yea, it's weird. I think the interesting question is trying to figure out what this means for the next version of React. I would like to see if it takes a page or two out of Svelte's book.
I miss it too. Pretty ridiculous that they banned 4loko but I can still pound rum/cokes or vodka/redbulls at the bar all day long.

Incidentally, one of the deaths that precipitated the ban wasn't even a case of alcohol poisoning; it was suicide. The guy shot himself in his head and the family blamed the beverage. He was 20 years old; below the legal limit.. but not a child. As far as I know most of the fatalities were college students, not children.
Ah, it seems to be based on Visa.
Interesting point, would love to know as well. And I echo meddlepal’s sentiment since there are so many options it can feel overwhelming. But for someone who still have services on bare metal, would folks agree that this is a good product to explore?
I work remotely from the Midwest as well. No company (including FANGs, or SF based startups) have ever offered even HALF that number to me. It was always sub 'market rate' for the midwest, even.
> Consumerism, over-consumption, and the economic growth these behaviors drive are impossible to eliminate without crippling the global economy.

Then let's ask the question. What are the medium (5-20) years and long (100 years) consequences of such crippling in your view? I am not an economist so any insight from an expert would be good.
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire is another in-depth look. Part biography, part history, part math.
> it's unusable for large changes and large files. On large changes it sometimes won't even show all the changes.

Improving the performance and scalability of merge requests is the priority for the Source Code team right now, and we are starting with progressively loading the diffs over coming releases. See https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1816. Currently we load them in a single request which is a serious bottleneck.

In parallel we are exploring a range of UX changes to streamline and improve the code review experience. If you have any specific ideas please let us know, or create an issue!

> Also, merge trains for FF-only repos, please!

Absolutely! We are iterating towards this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/58226!
I've used Shodan. But seriously, please give me a list of real resources if you think you're up to the task.
This is especially important if you're a visible technical leader; you serve as an example for what it takes to get there, so set an example that you can do so without regular overwork.

I love what I do, but I don't ever want to give people the impression or example that becoming a technical leader requires working 50+, 60+ hour weeks. I maintain a work/life balance, and I want people to see that you can maintain that balance at all levels.
I think that many people who work in ad tech are in favour of GDPR. They have seen the mishandling of personal data on a massive scale first hand. This is true in my case.
It's just a standard Visa card with chip+signature and contactless. It works everywhere I've tried it!
Right now it just loads whatever the subreddit returns. I'm working on adding an option for that. If you want to browse a SFW one you can just pick a subreddit you know is SFW:

https://3dforreddit.com/r/aww
So... this is pretty much saying they will now analyze all links now, irregardless of "nofollow". Previously they outright ignored "nofollow".
So you do this, but don't even use Uber to do it..
Hmmmm...
In contrast with frequentism, in Bayesianism it makes perfect sense to attach probabilities to one-shot events, such as who will win the next election, or even past events that we’re unsure about.

Does frequentism really require actually performing the experiment? Or is imagining doing the experiment good enough? I would say

»Candidate X will win the next election with a probability of Y percent.«

is just a shorthand for

»The following sets of states and possible evolutions of those states are
compatible with my knowledge about the world and in Y percent of the cases
candidate X wins the next election.«

which seems not to different from a coin flip where the different outcomes are also due to imperfect knowledge of the initial state. The difference is that it is easy to sample the set of initial states for a coin flip by just repeatedly flipping a coin from slightly different initial states due to human imperfections in doing this task. Sampling the initial states of an election in the same way is obviously not possible and I have admittedly no real clue how people arrive at a meaningful number in practice. A similar example seems to be the probability of rain at some place some time into the future in which case it is possible to sample the set of initial states by running a weather model repeatedly.
My wife is from the South, and she decided not to have a southern accent either, even though it occasionally comes out when she spends a week visiting family. She did grad school in Maryland, and she's told me about college professors assuming she was stupid once they found out she was from the south. She rarely lets people know that she's originally from the South if she doesn't know them well.
How does the law define the hiring entities business? A general contractor is in the business of building things. Uber is in the business of transportation. The GC contracts out the actual building tasks to sub contractors. Uber contracts out the actual driving to sub contractors.
I bet this particular luxury SUV had all the cameras and park distance control system to see every child around.
Is it possible that the existence of companies themselves is subject to more volatility? How can they provide stability when they themselves have unstable sources of income?

I've only been around for a little more than 3 decades, but I've seen many markets and businesses be transformed. Vastly fewer numbers of travel agents, many retail establishments, tv channels, secretaries, hotel front desk, self check out are needed. Not to mention the effects of a drastic drop in birthrates.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/04/business/shrinking-stock-...
People's first question is always "What do you do?" at parties and at events.

I've found that to be a coastal thing, not an American thing.

In Denver, "what do you do?" is likely to elicit a response like "I rock climb" and not "I'm a developer."
see if you can drop to part time work for a few months, see if you can get anything going in the interim period on your off days (you can work weekends too to get 3 days on personal project, 3 days at work, 1 day to rest)

if you cant make it work in 3 days a week, you probably cant make it work in 6 days a week.
Part of securing your stack is not sharing with everyone exactly what you have, or do you not study security at all?
"Professional Sock with 8 years of experience in the advertising industry - AMA."

A personal favorite.
I don't think the data supports that statement. People who identify with vaping as a part of their lifestyle, perhaps, but the casual smoker?
For convenience:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190910010756/https://krebsonse...
Show HN: List of helpful words for naming variables
In theory it shouldn't be a problem. HTTP is supposed to be stateless, and some users will inevitably change their IP pretty frequently anyway when hopping between mobile and Wi-Fi networks so it's not like that sort of behavior is unheard of.

In practice though, I have no idea. It's entirely possible there's some subset of websites making bizarre, incorrect assumptions about the relationship between users and individual IP addresses, and that dividing HTTP and HTTPS requests between different IPs could break them.

If it turns out to be a problem, as a mitigation you could set it so that once you make a plaintext HTTP request to a specific domain without the response immediately redirecting to HTTPS, any future requests to that domain happen over the proxied connection for some period of time, regardless of whether those requests are HTTPS or not. That way full HTTPS sites would benefit from not needing to go through the proxy, whereas mixed content sites would not.
Copying content like this is ugly. :-(
What? There hasn't been significant child mortality in developed countries since the second world war (when there was a spike due to the depression and war). In the 19th century, child mortality wasn't because of lack of regulation, it's because modern medical science was in its infancy.

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
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Every contract job I've ever done had a negotiable rate. Obviously in some cases they say 'I can't go higher than this', and then you say no. That's part of any negotiation: The implicit assumption that either party will just decide to end negotiations. That is not part of driving for Uber or Lyft because everyone gets offered the same rate, there's no negotiating up/down. It becomes 'take it or leave it', just like being an employee where once you're hired there is no negotiation involved.

In a few cases my contract negotiations actually involved choosing between hourly or weekly, with differences in effective pay based on overhead for both me and the employer.
Low Cost Adventures or How to Travel Cheaper
We all pay taxes for schools so there will be engineers to build the airplanes, cars, dishwashers, etc., that we do use. Likewise, we pay for roads so that trucks carrying our dinners can get to the store.
great, but what the site needs is mostly a HN-esque text interface
It's hilariously broken on Safari Technology Preview, but I think that's because it's using WebGL calls that Safari doesn't support correctly yet.
It's not you, but the implicit idea of trust. How are three people I know nothing about going to give me better results than a known name? Best of luck establishing yourselves though.
I think the idea is that you should try to prepare for disasters and be able to mitigate them.

Basically, the reason most of the dinosaurs went extinct is because they were foolish and short-sighted and didn't bother to develop a serious space program so they could detect, track, and then intercept inbound asteroids. They lived at a time when there were surely more asteroids hitting the Earth than now (the system was younger, so there was more debris flying around), so they surely had more warning than we do: craters, smaller impacts, etc. They ignored all this, so when a really big asteroid came along, they had no way of redirecting it, or even detecting it beforehand.

We're not doing much better.

We can detect some asteroids, but are we able to intercept and redirect them? No, because we haven't bothered investing much money in a program to develop that capability. Yet we've had plenty of impacts and near-misses. One hit in Russia a few years ago, injuring 1000 people. One flies by pretty frequently, and I think one is supposed to come extremely close this month. Where's the program to intercept these things well ahead of time and redirect them?

Climate change isn't that different, except that it isn't just some natural occurrence, it's something we're mostly doing by ourselves. So we're studying it some, we've made predictions about what the effects will be based on evidence from earlier times, yet we absolutely refuse to make any real changes to attempt to avoid this fate.

In short, we really aren't much smarter than the dinosaurs.
Yup, water is evil, and tritiated water is even worse. Can enter in the body when eating or drinking water; is assimilated easily by the lungs and will be taken also by the human skin when it rains or if there is fog.

There is a lot of things that can kill people but I doubt that Fukushima's people will find any relief adding one more risk to the list.
NetCAT: Practical Cache Attacks from the Network
Canada has been capping interchange fees. 1.5% in 2015, 1.4% last year. They're the main way the card issuers pay for the rewards, so it makes sense that as they get limited the rewards go away.
I dig the museum layout style.

It really popped on r/gonewild
Stripe was first to market with a simple payments API. It established their brand. But I don’t think anything else they’ve done is different than the status quo. Getting a credit card, loan, or incorporated is more or less the same at Stripe vs elsewhere.
From the stream:

Lauches September 19th.

Interesting approach: one subscription for 4.99/month (for "the whole family"), with a set of arcade-exclusive releases. Seems like a good way to generate continuous revenue, no?
Apple TV+ subscription service
making your own vape liquid necessitates handling nicotine in dangerously high concentrations (ie, a lethal dose just from spilling it on your arm). I think it's fine for informed enthusiasts to do this at their own risk, but it would be extremely irresponsible to push the median vaper towards blending their own.
Their competitors were profitable before the recession...
The point is you're trusting the company to not screw you over and refuse to reimburse you or pay the bill, for whatever reason. Everyone has some horror story of waiting months to get reimbursed for something from an employer. It's less annoying if it's very occasional or the amount is small, but when you're racking up thousands a week there's a non-zero risk.
This is the same guy that thinks an adult cannot make their own decision on the size of soda to drink: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/03/11/th...
Using a public Wi-Fi as an argument for VPN in a point of history when you can hardly find a site without https is getting ridiculous.
The project is currently only driven by the community, we have yet to raise any funding.
If you say the revolution was just bad, instead of having gone better, you're condoning what came before it.

Just because you aren't even prepared to defend yourself doesn't you you can't be questioned. That the sophistry to defend totalitarianism relies on force, censorship, and is done by people not one of whom can look even one person in the eye, much less the millions they sweep under the rug, is very telling. And a lot will have to be said about this, preferably in tribunals.
What’s wrong about SUVs? People love them, carmaker produce them. Tax heavy cars and powerful cars more, people will stop buying them. Tax more fuel, people will think twice before driving these 2 miles in the city. Very simple regulation.
Or...interrogate the messenger when he tells you something that not even he is supposed to know.
Poster is taking a guess to mine karma. Flagged.
> If Adam provides an opportunity for his investors to make their “ten billion,” why would anyone object to his self-dealing?
Why do we, for that matter?

There’s one aspect of some sort of ethical wrongness because I suspect there’s an eventual chump who will lose out not having full perspective when this thing falls apart.

But, for me, I have a tendency to feel uncomfortable when things are “obviously” wrong. I find it curious about me, and I’ve met others, who just don’t like it when things are off. The simple act of making the world more correct is pleasing. I’ve found it pretty helpful in debugging and system design. I find it really annoying in domains where there isn’t really an objective right and wrong, or it’s not clear to me what’s right, or where they aren’t fixable. And it’s pretty common in politics or religion where people point out wrongs.

So I don’t think money or technology is neutral. I think they both as information have certain innate needs to grow in the most efficient way possible. Money is like a river trying to flow to the ocean and actions like We took and is taking are the equivalent of trying to build a harbor in shallow water or some other illogical act.
Do you think they US will play along when they have nothing to gain from SA anymore?
I'm just reiterating now:

Sure, the underlying structure of math and computer science may be entirely logical. But to delve at that, we develop a language of terms and a culture of understanding that is inherently human and inherently fuzzy - which yes, connects to things like ethics and religion. The choices in how we study logic, which areas we care about, how we represent it and how we use it put our fuzzy cultural signature all over it - which is rife for study.

Now, can math and logic be defined without some arbitrary cultural signature? Maybe. But I've yet to see it, and as I've pointed out it would be quite hostile to human understanding - at least until we could define human understanding in logical terms. Also there's the no-self-defining Godel thing (sorry, just meant "made famous in Godel Escher Bach") which I'm pointing out might also imply that you can't really define logic without using our inherently fuzzy language and understanding as a parent.

The baseline I'm talking about is our human understanding (or ability to understand) - which is inherently fuzzy. Fuzzier still when we pass it on through education and it picks up all these unique cultural characteristics.

The baseline you're looking at is the foundational rules of how logic and mathematics work in a defined system, which we can glimpse at through our cultural lense.

Now, can your baseline exist independently of mine? Does it exist at all? I do not know. I certainly won't try to challenge that here - though I know it has been argued before. What I do know is the educational subjects of Math and CSC as they stand today are highly enmeshed with the fuzziness of human historical understanding, rife with choices that are based on human opinion, and pulled from particular moments in time and cultures. Ethics would study those choices and how they affect society. Religious studies might conclude the culture being created has its own similarities to worshippers of the past. We are unfortunately inescapably enmeshed in culture, and the choices we make inherently affect everything else and leave us open to alternative interpretations - we can't just claim we're free of Ethics because we (try to) study foundational logical rules without injecting human opinion. That's simply not true.

Though personally, I believe you're right and there is something unique and universal underlying logic - which probably reveals a fundamental property of the universe. But I think we have to admit at least that there's a strong observer effect where trying to look at it inherently imprints our fuzzy cultural understanding on it - which unfortunately is the only state we have ever really known as a species.
Its cool that the whole SDN thing is finally getting the traction it deserves, but I really don't see these various one off service mesh solutions solving the core networking problems in play here.

Maybe I'm totally off base, but ever since NSX-T (and to a lesser extend ACI) has started to include their own Istio based service mesh solutions for containers, while also having the ability to virtualize the rest of the networking infrastructure up to (and including, kinda) the core, I just can't seem to think of a use case for another one off service mesh provider.
XRP's weekly transaction value rises 60%
block javascript. works for most paywalls
I'm in tears reading this and his wife's account (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/all-remains-dr-jessica-brande...) - I didn't realize how short life was until I realized I only had 52 weeks with each of my one-year-old sons, and stories like this are a reminder about what's really important.

A friend said it well when I was feeling guilty I wasn't putting more time into my work, "No one has ever looked back on their life and said 'I wish I spent less time with my family'".
I speak as a CEO and manager, the principle of a 1:1 meeting is of course valuable, but not like was is described in this article.

Forcing everyone to explain what he is doing, getting feedback that is very often unwanted and unnecessary is a huge waste of time and will quickly cripple the autonomy of your team.

If you have to ask them what they did last week, that's because you're not paying attention. If you have to ask them if they are struggling, that's also an issue, you should know better, this is your job.
Shocking but true: In some countries you aren't allowed to Just Leave, and some people aren't welcomed in other countries. The US has a highly inaccurate list of people who aren't even allowed to visit!
Apple Arcade launches later this month for $4.99/mo
> If you are a big amazon spender (products, not AWS)

The Amazon Business card from Amex is great for Amazon spending, products and AWS included.
Yes, because that's what happens in high schools all over the country - the scourge of bathtub gin is real
Does CAN-SPAM Apply here?
Employees cannot be paid a fixed rate per deliverable. They must be paid an hourly rate, or be paid a fixed salary per time interval, regardless of the number of hours worked.

But the employer can mandate when and where an employee works. So, for example, they can require that you are on the road a certain number of high demand (surge) hours. They can also require that you respond to a call to pickup a specific passenger within a certain time period, etc.

So the result will be their algorithm will ensure the hourly rate they are paying a driver is covered in the long term by the rides they are serving, or they could simply fire that driver.

In a complex system, you could specify time slots which you would promise to be available, their system would determine a subset of those slots where they wanted to hire that driver which would work out to be profitable enough for them. Their system could suggest an alternate set of (partially overlapping) times to make a counter-offer of when they could hire you. If the driver didn't show up for work on the peak hours they really needed you enough times, the driver would be terminated.