skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fair; it does make sense to re-evaluate the whole thing and find the most generic of solutions, but the issue that triggered this discussion was a sort of regression on systems that do have disks.

Right. On those kinds of systems, persisting some saved state between boots is your best first option. (As other commenters point out, you really don't need very much! 256 bits or 32 bytes is basically adequate.) Any additional entropy you get from device interrupts or machine-dependent random sources like RDRAND are good to mix in.

(I don't think the adversarial RDRAND thread model is a reasonable one, and that has been adequate addressed elsewhere in this thread by tytso, tptacek, and tedunangst. Any adversarial CPU that can defeat cryptographic digest whitening of entropy sources is so sophisticated/privileged it already fully owns your operating system; game over.)

Linux systems already do this, kind of! But Linux has taken the stance that entropy you can't delete from the boot media at the time it is fed into the CSPRNG as entropy doesn't count ("credit") as far as initial seeding, and that decision is what moots its utility for early CSPRNG availability. It's not an unreasonably paranoid take, but not an especially practical one (IMO). I suspect the net effect on security, holistically, is negative.

> (Your point also raises the question: on systems that don't have disks, how are requests for early-boot entropy handled?)

Depends which subsystem you ask and how you ask it, right? And whether or not a jitter entropy scheme is enabled in the kernel. (I might be misunderstanding your question, sorry if that's the case.) If you ask /dev/random or getrandom(~GRND_NONBLOCK), they'll block until the CSPRNG is satisfied enough entropy is available. If you ask /dev/urandom, it just spews unseeded and likely predictable garbage at you. If you ask getrandom(GRND_NONBLOCK), it returns -1/EAGAIN.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Cheney the one that basically pushed the war? When is this quote from?

From the Wikipedia article:

> Following the US invasion of Iraq, Cheney remained steadfast in his support of the war, stating that it would be an "enormous success story",[90] and made many visits to the country. He often criticized war critics, calling them "opportunists" who were peddling "cynical and pernicious falsehoods" to gain political advantage while US soldiers died in Iraq. In response, Senator John Kerry asserted, "It is hard to name a government official with less credibility on Iraq [than Cheney].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney#Iraq_War
E*Trade got a bailout from Citadel back during the mortgage crisis in exchange for selling order flow.
This was a great read, thanks for sharing!
It still optimizes overall network efficiency much more than enough to negate 0.001% inefficient cases using polling? I would say this is a right prioritization of optimization engineer headcounts, which is pretty scarce.
* Azure means cloud and cloud means no

* It didn't exist at the time, but there was an on-prem that MS offered a few years back. It was forced on another department with no version control experience. It lasted about two weeks.
National Affairs dot com is published by the extreme right wing think tank The Claremont Institute, started by the man who came up with Barry Goldwater's line "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice."
The political capital is being spent to stop the banning of plastics. Banning straws should really be a simple issue, but there are people opposed to the ban not for actual reasons, but because straws are first. They falsely argue that the ban will eliminate the straw, they use pleas of emotion feigning concern that the law won't have carve outs for legitimate use, they mock the minor efforts, snuggly knowing that all their distractions are making straws into a huge issue that now becomes almost poisonous to approach.

Just Ctrl+F for straws in this thread. Two top comments are taking shots at straws and once I post this reply, those two comments will have pushed the word straw to 97 counts.

Lastly just for fun, just a tally of the most common words on this page:
447 the

230 to

224 a

221 of

182 ago

174 and

172 hours

170 reply

170 in

158 is

150 that

103 i

98 plastic

91 it

81 you

79 on

78 for

76 are

67 not

67 be

62 we

60 this

57 but

55 they

55 straws

52 with

51 it's

51 if

51 have

50 all

49 or

43 use

39 was

39 more

39 as

38 so

38 at

37 about

36 don't

36 can

34 straw

34 people

34 from

32 them

32 fishing

The article is about merchant and fishing ships.
The answer to all your questions is "with a nonzero but acceptable amount of scrub" ;)
How are you guaranteed to make random uniformed trades? Moreover, you said above that you are only “probably” screwing yourself. And you’re right, unless you love investing and deeply care about making alpha, it’s probably not for you.

But the markets aren’t a random walk and even if you are just buying indices, you still have to actively manage them. Namely you have to decide asset allocation, leverage, industry, country exposure, etc. Also you have things like style exposure to consider as well. As such, there’s really no such thing as passive management.

Also, actively trading beta isn’t exactly the hardest thing in the world. Even though some players move extremely quickly over market news like Trump tweets, trade war announcements, etc, it still takes a couple days for all investors to react to the news. In fact, retail investors are often better positioned to quickly react as the slippage on their trades is non-existent for all but the most illiquid names.

In short, I wouldn’t recommend actively trading for most people. But those people are still going to need to choose some allocations and rebalance once in awhile. For those that are interested, retail alpha isn’t that hard to find, especially with leverage.
In a practical sense, yes, there are innumerably easier methods for determining the presence of a a person within a building.

On a legal basis, however, in some states it's illegal to even look over a privacy fence without a search warrant. I imagine this approach is less accounted for by lawmakers of the past.
IB offers fractional shares.
Florida man arrested for cutting electric scooter brakes
Congratulations on making something and seeing it through to the end (launch). I love posts on HN like this, people like you out there hacking away, learning, and make something useful/fun/cool like this.
Bravo!
The social costs of the US directly meddling in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and elsewhere, along with the subsequent fallout that came from this meddling, has not fallen on the USA.

It has fallen almost solely on Europe. If the US were providing adequately for its victims, the Middle East taking in their fellow Muslims, and China showing some semblance of humanity in offering a home to some, we wouldn't be seeing the rise of nationalism in Europe that we now are.
Do you mind sharing it with me as well?
In my country we have a two main employment contracts. One with full benefits and one with partial benefits. Second is usually used for your first contract or for hiring students on half time job.

In my IT department, everybody gets two monitors, unless of course, your contract is a "partial" one. Then you get work with one monitor, regardless of doing the same job everybody else does. They buy you second one, after they sign you with the full contract...
So, uh, you know that there are other employers who pay well for developers just now, right?
> How do I convey that I badly want to keep this job but those new terms are a non start?

You don't convey that you badly want to keep the job. You keep that under wraps. The terms are a non start. End of story.
Lol if you look at the link I provide and scroll down you can take the full test. I can assure you it is pretty straight forward to someone of sound mind. It isn't really meant to trick and some times you have to adjust it a little. Like if I hear you lived along the equator you whole life I probably would ignore the fact that you don't know the seasons well. I guess these tests are not perfect but do shed some light.
OTOH: Polling is stateless and easy to scale. It is not the most efficient, but presumably it can be improved versus the worst case by exploiting browser caching effectively, and via connection re-use.
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Worse is better, forever.
Yes, it is a prototype, but in a press conference like this, one must assume that anything not specifically said doesn’t make the project look good. Because if that, I have serious doubt about that ‘promising’.

That it catches plastic IMO isn’t that surprising; main questions are at what rate and how close they are to having a reliable device that they can leave for years at sea.

I have my doubts about that reliability, too. This prototype set sail about 100 days ago (on June 18; https://theoceancleanup.com/milestones/system001/), and now they show what it captured in “a couple of days”. If they had it working for a month, I would think they said it, so we must assume it only worked for about a week so far.

Part of the difference is moving the device to its location, but they don’t give that data, either.

Perhaps not surprisingly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocean_Cleanup#2019 has more info than this press conference:

”In mid-June, after four months of work, the revamped system (001/B)[32] was redeployed.[33] This too failed. In August, the team announced that after trying multiple alternatives, a water-borne parachute attached to slow the boom and expanding the cork line used to hold the screen in place would be tested.[34] In October it became clear that the new system successfully holds plastic, and even microplastics.”
I wouldn’t hate it. They’d be doing me a favor if there were more mouths than mine to feed.

A company merger resulted in lots of engineering talent leaving with multiple unfinished projects and very little documentation. We’re at a point now where only 2% of the original team remains.

I was hired to complete these projects and clean up the technical debt left behind. That priority shifted to work on new products. That priority changed again. It changed a third time. Now I’m being tasked back with coming back to cleaning up the technical debt and security mitigation’s I was originally hired for after a weekend outage that affected the wrong client. Suddenly the critical infrastructure weaknesses I pointed to needed our full attention and system reliability became the first class citizen I long argued it should be.

Except every time I make progress on patching up and stabilizing one system, a new hole springs in the dam.

I’m the Dutch Boy of DevOps at this place.

Despite recent increase in funding, management refuses to backfill any of our open vacancies, project management refuses to budge on timetables, and as a result we’re putting out fires daily with water guns and spray bottles.

Meanwhile we’re on our third VP of product in two years, and our second Director of Infrastructure.

Two years more later and I’m well beyond the threshold. Hoping there’s an offer letter coming soon after interviewing the last few weeks.
What do you mean by "possibly worse execution"? The price you get is required to be at least as good as the NBBO.
Find the other things these people do, start doing those things and make friends with them. Eventually you will find yourself in a conversation where they're asking you for your work. The key is to not form the relationships solely based on the business connection. Take genuine interest in people and it will happen automatically. I think this is why likeable people do so well in business. Being a good friend sort of opens the floodgates.
If you're 18 and already know why version control is a good idea, you're very hireable in any number of cities/remote!
I think this is getting into the same territory as the difference between owing a bank a hundred bucks and a hundred million bucks.
Perhaps teaching jobs tend to be easier to get compared to other "high skill" jobs?
Location: US

Remote: Yes, looking for remote only positions at this time.

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: React, Ember, JS, Rails, Bootstrap, CSS

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asmcneil/

Email: amandasmcneil@gmail.com

Hi!

My name is Amanda McNeil and I’m looking for a fully remote position where I can continue to learn and grow as a programmer. I know that I have a lot to learn, as I’m mostly self-taught and the breadth of my tech knowledge/skill is greater than my depth in most areas, but I will be an asset to any team as I am a positive, considerate person who learns quickly and enjoys creating things.

I’m a former high school teacher (M.Ed) who decided to leave the teaching field a few years ago to become a programmer. I started with a position as an IT coordinator where I checked reports/backups, helped manage workflow through Slack, and assisted clients with software and hardware issues. Soon I was coding solutions for issues on the site and assisting with site changes. I was promoted to a junior programming position and then followed the tech team when they formed their own company.

Working fully remote on primarily front-end projects, I used a combination of React, Ember, JS, some Rails, and of course HTML/CSS and Bootstrap. I was responsible for most of the responsiveness in the sites we built and I was charged early on with building our company’s website. Because of my background in education, I was also tasked with creating educational documents for clients as well as working with some of them to learn how to use our products. And, due to my artistic talent, I also assisted with some design and graphics work.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and please contact me if you feel that I’d be a good fit for your team.
Video of it in action - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
This has worked no where in the world that I know of. Sneakernet in Cuba might be close to the concept in practice.

It's been tried multiple times in stable environments with plenty of time to get it to work using experts.

Meshes might and should have a use, but I'd like to see it outside of libertarian dreams.
Wouldn't Co-Authors just be a footer/trailer?
I agree that the NCAA is terrible. But imho a much better solution would be to ban schools from making money on sports, rather than letting students profit.
Any paper put out by an extremely ideological think tank is going to present statistics in the most biased way possible, to try to prove their point.
You're describing every project where its been outsourced to a foreign contracting firm for bottom-dollar really.
Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: You can set up automated transfers to your investing account. In order to set up automated investments, you must submit a paper form, which can trigger recurring purchases from your account's cash balance, or from direct deposit.
Agree Schwab is an awesome bank account.

Their one and only flaw that is a killer for some is the ACH hold policy — they hold all incoming transfers for at least 4 business days in many cases.

You can get in a pickle if you don’t realize it and have a tight timeline to transfer funds at tax time or whatever.
Feel free to start writing device drivers for 1000s of individual SoCs and figure out a way to solicit testing. I agree hardware-specific drivers are a solution for the SoCs with RW media of some kind, but it's not as trivial as you paint it. And (AFAIK) there are still SoCs without RW media. I think jitterentropy is a better and more easily tested use of developer hours than implementing 1000s of SoC drivers, but it's open source; work on what you like.
Tried that approach and got told I was condescending.
is that right? because FTA:

> Now, any startup, regardless of funding, can create a Brex account to store cash, explains Dubugras, and all companies using Brex Cash will be immediately issued a Brex corporate credit card

so is the article correct, or is the email correct? because to me "regardless of funding" reads "we don't care how much you have on hand" but that does not seem consistent with the gmail exchange.
So what is payment order flow at the ELI5 level? If I sell at a limit $10, what happens? If I buy at $10, what happens? Does that make me uninformed? Does someone buy my order and fill it because they have stock at 9.99 ? Is this a function of level 1 vs level 2 quotes or ?
I didn’t see any contact info on your profile but if you’re looking for a Rails gig, let’s chat. Ping me at my profile email.
And Visual Source Safe and TFS did previously.
If windows 10 is not a desired option, what is the next step? As another poster noted, is desktop linux a serious consideration? I'm genuinely curious when enterprises take this approach - which admittedly i believe is fully rational - because it feels like MS sort of causes business to paint themselves into a corner. Ok, maybe that's not a fair portrayal, but nevertheless it creates a tough environment.
Sure, the time cost it's not free, but it's not large enough to be a meaningful barrier of entry. For me, filing basic company taxes took like a couple hours per year.
You just have to lower the blinds and stay quiet when the GDPR Gestapo comes near your office.
I do! I work at a failing startup. I find the direction and strategy of the company lacking. My advice is often ignored or they wait years and then claim it as their own. Sluggish sales. Sluggish revenue. Haven't been profitable in the 5 years I've been there.

I'm looking for a job but I rather just be laid off and collect unemployment for a while. I've been working for 17 years with no employment gaps. I'm tired.
Getting fired from a bad job is like having the best sex of your life but with the worst human being ever.

Feels amazing for a brief moment but you need a very long shower and a doctor's appointment after.

Then confusion and anxiety sets in because you're afraid you'll never have that high again and some part of you wants you to go right back for that perverse rush even though your smart brain says "HELL NO".

You see all your friends working for their dream companies and wonder not if you'll ever have that, but if ~anyone~ will welcome you again and you long for that filthy job.

You're spiraling into darkness and come to HN for the Who's Hiring posts and see all the other depraved lunatics and that's when you realize - you are not alone and you are not special and that you're gonna be downvoted just like everyone else - and it feels like home and it's ok that you're a miserable aspiring founder like everyone else who isn't happily employed.

(I say it with love from past personal experience)
Well, in other first-world countries you don't.
Worth disclosing if you are an advisor or investor. From your Twitter feed it look like you might be?

I’m not affiliated with either, but from the looks of it Brex has no fees for wires unlike Mercury and offers a higher APY than Mercury as well. For a startup thinking of using Brex it seems like it’d make more sense to use Brex for banking needs vs something else for simplicity.

It actually makes me wonder why Mercury chose not to do YC? I honestly think an unrecognized risk here is that if you’re a startup in the business of selling a product to other startups it seems like you have more to gain (and a lot to lose) by not going though YC since you lose out on a lot of customers that’d use you just for being in YC. Now that there’s a YC company that is competing with you as a non-YC co you will lose every time to win that business.
Semantic Graph Parsing with Recurrent Neural Network DAG Grammars
Single use lids are next.

We're destroying the environment because we can't be assed to take a break to have a drink.
P. Aeruginosa T6SS Delivers Periplasmic Toxin Lysing Bacterial Cell Morphology
either that or he'll make HN
Using the real-time clock makes your test impossible to reproduce. Using a mock clock leads to reproducible tests. Same with calls to PRNGs: these should be injected so your test failures can be reproduced.
It's additional data that is definitely worth knowing.
Don't take it personally.
I think because of train tracks everywhere
DisplayFusion is one I've used for years for splitting screens into virtual displays. Plus altering what elements show on the taskbar for those screens.

(Commercial product).
I struggle to connect this to market facts. What big consumer SaaS tools exist? You could argue that Spotify and Netflix count. I disagree, but fine. You have networks like Tinder. You have a few tools companies like Carbonite, Dropbox, 1Password. These are niche.

In the enterprise... Slack, Twilio, Stripe, Okta, Qualtrics, Datadog, Zoom, I feel like I could name 10 more easily.

Enterprise is where SaaS companies get paid. Slack makes like half their revenue from 500 companies.
The Vernacular of Climate Disaster
> democrats in the US up until Bill Clinton, were staunchly opposed.

That's a hell of a caveat.
Anyone use meteor? Seems like it got steamrolled by npm, react, mongo. Going your own way on each component doesn’t seem like the best strategy.
how was schwab better than simple? simple offers better checking interest by a lot, as far as i can tell; i'm tempted to switch because of that, keeping schwab for foreign ATM usage
> Personal bankruptcy rights has been consistently er

Was there more to your post?

This is a hilarious example. Also, bankruptcy exists for a reason: the injustice of debtor's prison.

Student loans should also be discharged in bankruptcy.
I translate "losing hundreds of millions each quarter" to "using hundreds of their millions to get entrenched for the approaching Market Share Wars".
I should have made clearer that this view is now dated.
So basically gait analysis using WiFi power levels. At present requires making the user walk through a specific choke point to measure the gait, then can compare any other captured video to compare. Pretty neat!
Warren wants the federal government to CONFISCATE your savings at gunpoint
> Are you in a position to know about that, though?

I did proceed my statement with "As far as I know", meaning I'm willing to be educated differently.

> I mean, would you expect to be made aware of whether these

> changes were financially efficient to YouTube? Or are you

> just presuming they are not?

Again, I'm willing to be told differently, but the big advertisers that I was aware of were Disney, Coke and Car Manufacturers, none of which ever seemed to return, despite Youtube bending the knee in trying to get them to return.

As another comment says, Youtube loses money delivering content without adverts. As the number of demonetized videos increases, so do the losses from those videos.

My point is essentially that they although they made these changes, it doesn't appear to have benefited them. The number of "controversies" increases regardless of what they do, but now all that happens is that they hurt the communities they want to protect (such as LGBT) and annoy others.
Thank you for your perspective. This is a perfect example of the difference between theory and practice.
The Duo is the Android phone.

I am one of these weirdos that has been waiting patiently for many years for Microsoft to release a new phone and would have been first in line to buy one, until I received this news.

There is just no way I am going to buy a Android that broadcast everything back to Google. Microsoft have completely missed the ball on this one. At least towards the Microsoft users that are not comfortable with sending everything towards Google.

Windows 10X on the other hand sounds like an amazing OS. I would have loved to see that on the phone (with android app support to get the app ecosystem going), instead we get a two screen device with a huge bezel in the middle so the screens cannot appear as 1 screen.

I am sorry Microsoft, but my money stays in my pocket.
Thanks to this thread I bought TI-36X Pro myself. While I don't have constant needs to calculate thing, I was looking for a good calculator that I can keep in my bag. This seems to be a perfect calculator for that purpose, price and feature wise.