skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop these positions from being political hires. The IT head had a political consultant, and was the highest paid person in the city government. He was hired by the former mayor who is now under FBI investigation.
Their argument from the introduction that software can slow down a business by making changing/evolving the systems difficult and requiring programmers at every step, is an interesting one:

http://blog.aquameta.com/introducing-aquameta/

Obviously this is has been the panacea goal in business software forever and there's a long trail of failed companies or projects who tried to do this.

IMO it's always going to require specialized knowledge of a certain level of abstraction above the machine, it will never be as simple as pushing buttons in a GUI. The question is making the languages/frameworks simpler and lowering the bar.

In practice these sorts of things work great for simple scenarios but are very brittle one you start to. Just like Excel spreadsheets used like databases it will quickly turn into a hacky maze of things forced into places where it shouldn't be.

I'd also never think 'PLpgSQL' when it comes to simplifying things. I'm genuinely curious to see if they can pull it off... eliminating the file system part is also an interesting idea.
Inability to make controlled experiments certainly makes science harder but you can still test scientific hypotheses. Cosmology and astrophysics are very much sciences.
Sounds sort of like what AT&T did with Plan 9 back in the day.
Apart from HN, reddit my new favorite is https://dev.to
Certain religions that require slaughter to be paired with a certified religious leader praying over the animals often save money by just looping a recording of one in their stead.

I find it fascinating that people find it easy to believe in an almighty god that is so easily pacified by human machinations.
I’m pretty confident every one of those articles attacking the ad knew exactly what they were doing and knew it only showed Biden’s own words, and took advantage of the fact that the vast majority of readers will never research this themselves and are happy to believe lies they wish were true.
Reminds me of a client's system I was on a few years ago.

They had a backup script on their server that was written some time in the 90's by the looks of it. Used ye old `cpio` command to write to a tape drive; someone's job was to manually go and eject the tape every morning and replace it.

For verification, the script simply checked the exit status of the cpio command, and if it returned 0, it wrote "BACKUP STATUS: SUCCESSFUL"-- or 'BACKUP STATUS: BAD" if non-zero--to a log and sent an email.

At some point we had to try to restore something, and spent several hours trying to figure out why their backup tape was empty. Some quick digging into the script discovered that the command would indeed write some kind of tarball to the backup tape, it was just zero bytes.

IIRC, I eventually traced it to some problem with the cpio command erroring out if it tried to copy a file larger than 4GB. Suffice to say, the client was a little shaken that they had gone god-knows-how-many-months without an actual backup.
Imagine if they get a C&D from Lego, and they rename it to BrickOS[1].

1. http://brickos.sourceforge.net/
"Complicated" and "weird syntax" are pretty subjective measures to define how good a programming language is. C++ is weird and complicated to me.
"open source marketer and community manager"
Hot Online Bank Startup Leaves Customers Without Access to Their Cash
And where are you going to trade your Bitcoin for Ethereum and vice versa?

It may not be traceable directly through the blockchain(s), but the exchange destination will be, and they're almost certainly going to be complying with local laws which means they'll respond to a subpoena for data and give law enforcement whatever info they have on you, and most exchanges require KYC verification to handle any significant amount of funds.
To be fair, the CIO was only on the job for 1.5 years when the ransomware hit. It's not known whether or not he had the budget for reorganizing all of the data, etc. Maybe it was on his list of priorities, but it didn't have the funding, etc, and it was pushed off until the next year. I'm not absolving him of this because backups are a first order object when you're dealing with IT, but it could be part of the reason why it wasn't implemented yet. This is the reality of working in a bureaucracy like city government.
It is 100% a-ok that you don't want to do such a large project. It would also be a-ok if you wanted to. I've observed that for some people, obsessing over a software project is as natural as breathing. Not me though, I have completely stopped doing side projects and exchange code for cash.
there's an anecdote somewhere about how software security is almost never directly "cracked", but instead bypassed
Needing flash is an annoyance, I wouldn’t call it “extremely difficult” (especially on HN) though.

Luckily Citi still offers the service. It also requires flash. However the feature is worth the inconvenience. I’ll run a small windows vm for the purpose if I had to.
You still need two hands to play the trumpet: one to hold the instrument up, the other to operate the valves. If you used only one hand to play and hold it, effectively the entire weight of the trumpet would have to be borne on your thumb.
No great fan of docker and on a train with a demo laptop and no way to install it to test, but I would expect that

> docker-compose --env-file /dev/null

will get it to not read a .env file.

Will test later/tomorrow.
The video is not so much about the problem solving process so it's not good for hints. The visualizations alone makes the problem a lot easier off the bat.

It's mainly about showcasing a problem that is objectively hard (based on IMO competition results) then revealing the simple thought process that will lead you to an "obvious" answer in a few short minutes. The main point is that there are problems where once you know the "trick", you can't accurately judge how hard the problem is anymore.

I think people would appreciate that point a lot more if they struggle with the problem for a bit first!
Maybe it's good advice to address what you fear most first, but the problem is you're never sure that what you fear most is what's going to get you!
Arthur Whitney, creator of A+, K, and Q, launches new platform
tbf, that IRC channel may not exactly be super canonical.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/www/index.html?rev...

"remove freenode channel from index, it lacks any form of sensible moderation."
The last time it came up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21020024
I've noticed a lot of "public notice" laws. Either a physical sign on the property or something published in the newspaper. I'm not quite sure what the digital equivalent would be--a government run "announce" page that gets indexed and archived? Not really much different from press releases governments and businesses already do required by other laws.

I do see the value in publicly announcing things, but I do see newspapers as archaic.
Speaking as a semi-famous artist. Art is a feast. After the feast you poop. Then the collectors come and hoard the poop for all eternity, occasionally lending the precious stuff out to students.
Isn’t that a little bit overly reductive? Facebook is also where likely >90% of political discussions happen, and Facebook’s own self interest is aligned with societies if they promote free speech.
Jagged, Ragged, Awkward Arrays
If the fingerprint somehow gets embedded into the screen protector, is it possible that the screen protector is "tainted" with the fingerprint from previous usage?

I'm not dismissing the claims, but I would like to see if the behavior can be replicated with a brand new screen protector.
So nothing related to the actual legOS for Lego Mindstorms.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/legos/
> When I ran an escape room business, my fill-rate on weekends was typically dependent on whether or not I was spending money on Facebook. Google ads were second.

It's funny because I was going to comment on that about the escape room of my SO and about how Facebook in her case was quite ineffective. I was taking care of her campaigns because she isn't tech savvy at all. I was spending 150$ a month on Facebook and the same amount on Google Adword, but we had a much better return on Google.

There wasn't much advertising for escape room on Facebook for our area either, so that may explain why. There's quite a bit of them on Google Ads, but we only have ads on Google Adword for now.

I'm not the best in advertising though and didn't spend that much time on it, so we could most probably optimize that quite a bit and maybe then Facebook could be better. We are exclusively on Google now and I did optimize it a bit to reach 4.75% CTR. I have an hard time tracking correctly the conversion with Resova (we are going to migrate out of them too, so I won't spend too much time on it either) so for now CTR is good enough.
Ok, again. Let's play this all the way through. Let's say they get $1. If I choose to sell you my kidney for $1, because i'm desperate and I think that that $1 is worth more to me than my kidney, where do the problems start?
It requires flash. It’s annoying but not enough to stop me from using it, as it has saved my ass countless times.
Taxi Medallion Owners Demand a Bailout
It is clearly the qualities of the participants that allows this to work out at such a wild unsecured risk. The group and individual personal characteristics of the participant cohort make up the dark matter of why this system can function without disaster.

I know that goes against what people want to believe that we are all the same, but fact of the matter is that most people are in fact not at all the same outside of a confirmation bias bubble that people often are not even aware they are in. Exhibit A are the several liberals that have been slaughtered while proving that muslims are not violent by hitchhiking or hiking through muslim lands.

It is easy enough of a thing to test and prove, even without putting the actual art at risk. You could just reproduce fake art and provide it to various different groups of people, including at various costs, to see what happens. It would surely show either that we are actually all the same, or that we are not all the same. Cue the subsequent rationalization and excuse making when the results contradict the cult doctrine.

I find that an extremely interesting study. The more screaming and preemptive hedging and excuse making you encounter, the more you know you will find heretical results.
Dapr is definitely not Microsoft's answer to Istio (see e.g. [1]). But if you are looking for something like Istio but that actually works out of the box (zero config), I'd highly recommend checking out Linkerd.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21283956
I am using DuckDuckGo too, but to be fair the first result in Google on that exact query seems relevant: https://computergraphics.stackexchange.com/questions/340/spl...
Jet.com

https://medium.com/jettech
Studio Ghibli movies will stream exclusively on HBO Max
The mentioned $2 fee was just a test. Check out the offical statement from meetup.com (linked in the posted article): https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges

>We are not, I repeat not, in the process of making a massive payment change for our existing customers.
The confusion was triggered by a limited test to a few hundred groups in two U.S. states. The payment options shared on social media will only apply to organizers who are part of this test. We apologize that the language on the page caused alarm and confusion. We would never make such a change without giving our customers advance notice.
If you believe that, you’re believing in straight up racism.
Optical sensors will drift over short timescales so you will never have a repeatable "zero" point. it would probably work for small organic shapes but anything more geometric would not turn out well.
Haskell Style Guide
Does the GDPR actually require a company to be able to provide all that data when the copy has been requested and sent to a state entity? I doubt the EU is going to require companies to do that either way though.
That system was the result of asking the system one question "How likely is this person to be arrested?" and taking the answer as an answer to an entirely different question "How likely is this person to commit the crime again?"
> A major surgery like that isn't low risk - the chance of major complications is quite high. You're asking people to put their lives at risk in a very real way to make a quick buck, which probably isn't actually solving any long term problems as it's a single cash infusion and not any sort of actual revenue stream they can rely on.

So, you think people are incapable of making this decision for themselves? Or perhaps that, in general, the government should step in to prevent people from taking undue risks in exchange for money? Should we therefore criminalize dangerous jobs like alaskan crab fishing too?

> And, as I asked elsewhere - how much money are you expecting these organs to be sold for? There are far, far, far more desperate individuals than those who need kidneys - it'd be a buyers market for human organs.

a) It doesn't really matter what the equilibrium price ends up being.

b) We don't need to speculate. Iran has a legal market in kidneys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_trade_in_Iran Their equilibrium price is about $4,000.

$4,000 seems like a perfectly reasonable and fair price for someone to undertake the risks associated with kidney donation.
> Why am I being downvoted?

I can't speak for all of those who downvoted you, but the comment you responded to mentioned how SMS based 2FA would be better than what they do today (i.e. nothing).

This is a fact. SMS 2FA, regardless of how bad it is, is still another hurdle an attacker would have to overcome. An additional hurdle, no matter how small, is still better than nothing at all. Therefore the assertion that SMS 2FA would be better than what they do today is simply an irrefutable fact.

If you left off the "Oh god please no." portion of your comment, you may not have been downvoted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259697 made it to the front page of hackernews. Title of the post was "You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services". Today we have this news.
He did push hard on open-source some neat products like PowerShell, Visual Studio Code, etc.

IMO, I would have never guessed 10 years ago that Microsoft would acquire GitHub.
CM-200 Connection Machine – Shorthand Social
Virgin Galactic Details 2020 Space Tourism & Hypersonic Flight Plans in SEC Doc
You probably haven't met Warren. She's a force of nature. She's data driven, and extremely tenacious.
Youre right, but for an advertiser it's important to know where to spend the money. From their perspective FB and Insta are not of equal value.
Of course it starts with the actual bigots and racists. It's how they forever expand the meanings of various terms to "anyone I don't agree with" is when it starts getting ridiculous and dangerous. It's a predictable outcome with plenty of evidence supporting it.
Running towards your fear is generally a good strategy even if you're not a CEO running a company. It's particularly relevant for young adults just starting their careers out of college: there's a very strong tendency to not want to make hard choices about what you want your life to look like, which avenues will you close off, and what you put your effort into despite not knowing whether it'll ever pay off, but people who avoid those choices get to 40 and then find that not only has their life not amounted to much so far, but everybody they meet expects that their life will never amount to much and writes them off.

The reason it's a good idea is because it forces you to really confront your feelings, examine the present moment, and identify which are rational and which are assumptions that you were just raised with. If you run away from your fear you'll always be boxed into the path that you were on in high school; if you run towards it you have the option to really decide what you want your life to look like.
Careful, you are skirting wrongthink, citizen.
Airbnb’s Q1 Loss More Than Doubled, New Data Shows
The approach to solving this problem looks very elegant to viewers with/without a mathematical background and the author's use of visual explanations towards solving it step-by-step helps untangle the ambiguities in this puzzle.

Correctly proving this without assistance is one thing, but explaining it to non-mathematicians via a YouTube video sounds so difficult that some I.M.O candidates may struggle with this. Even so, I think the author is perhaps a professional/skilled mathematician or both which greatly helps explain this proof in a concise fashion.

On the other hand, I find that problems like this may be (ab)used in the future for technical interviews at financial/asset/investment management institutions for software engineering roles. Over the top indeed, but I think it would very difficult to justify using mathematical proof questions in interviews.
To add to the parade of horrible, California also has the highest poverty rate in the country once you account for cost of living: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio.... It’s also one of the poorest states overall—the median Californian has less purchasing power than the median Mississippian: https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2018/11/1....
I would strongly disagree. Trumpet music is MUCH simpler than piano music, as piano music is highly polyphonic (many notes at the same time), while wind instruments are only one note at a time (excluding a few VERY advanced techniques that are rare).
Wow. It's impossible to google, and on MacOS, `man command` is useless.
Interestingly, that site is completely blocked by default on my browser. I think 3 of the top recommended extensions for Firefox block it (uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and NoScript).

I imagine this impacts their data.
The article is correct that fiber connections can provide a higher bitrate than cable and 5G, but it fails to explain why that makes it a better social or economic proposition.

My 200Mb/s DOCSIS cable connection is well below the theoretical maximum, and is good enough for streaming 8K video, downloading a Linux distro in seconds, downloading a game in a few minutes, etc. The social effect of having this, versus 0.1Mb/s connectivity I had before is huge, but greater bandwidth would not greatly change my experience.

If the aim is to improve the lives of as many people as possible, it takes more to justify a more expensive project, than just: it will be faster.

My primary concern as a politician would be which solution can be affordable and adequate for the largest number of people who do not currently have something adequate.
I am not going to say what part of my body I managed to add as a registered fingerprint, but I'll give you a hint: whether unlocking worked or not depended on my level of arousal. (I don't know if this is being downvoted for being crude or because of lack of proof. ;P)
The article is full of excuses to argue California has simply experienced lots of bad luck, burying the lede. Really, its just that California’s spending has been and continues to be unsustainable and it’s primary efforts to raise revenue - raising taxes - has the side effect of encouraging those with mobility (citizens and businesses) to relocate elsewhere.
I understand where their coming from, but adding useless paperwork just inhibits business growth. I'm more sympathetic to writing a check, like you say, but people are horrible with budgeting--which is why you pre-pay quarterly instead of just paying a lump sum at the end of the year.
Ivan Sutherland: 6 Legged Walker: CMU 1982 and 1983 [video]
When you say "orders of magnitude" slower, are you referring to specific measurements you made, or are you just saying that Firefox seemed a lot slower?
Plastic bottles vs. aluminium cans – who'll win the global water fight?
Adobe has upped their scumbag strategy recently. I needed to use Acrobat for one task, so I signed up for a free trial. Of course, I forgot to cancel it and got charged $15. I then went to go cancel my subscription completely and found that they wanted to charge me a $30 early termination fee on top of that!
I read the article twice in under seven minutes and also didn't have to put up with a grown adult pretending to be a cat.
Science-Based Trials of Rowcrops Integrated with Prairie Strips
Imagine trying to understand biology like we try to understand what we code day to day. I would need a brain at least 100x as large and efficient.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted -- I don't agree with your conclusions, but many of the sibling posts are making grand statements about "biometrics are usernames" while disregarding the threat model entirely.

I do disagree with a couple of your conclusions though, because the attacks you describe are all targeting you as an individual. There's a much broader class of attacks that should be worrisome -- adversaries seeking _any_ compromise of _any_ individual. Like getting a dump of passwords from neopets or something and trying all those passwords on Chase.

For that kind of adversary, password is vulnerable, and biometrics is secure. And that kind of adversary is by far the most dangerous and prevelant. Especially biometrics in the Apple secure enclave model, where the key material is secured by the biometrics but is very strong -- far stronger than a password can be.
It is not open-source. It is free and runs on the major 3 operating systems.
Crusader Kings 2 is now free-to-play
I find this position rather irreconcilable. If you don't want the collectors not to hoard your poop, then don't produce it and especially don't sell it to them.

Why would you have this mentality?

If you don't want people to support your work with their patronage and appreciate your work as the "hoard" it on display in their house, why sell it at all and not just donate it and produce it for free?

No one is stopping you from creating art for these types of programs to rent out art. Why not start a public version of that and stock it up so that everyone can just get low cost art for their homes that you produce for free … of course to avoid people from hoarding it.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=770368584
I don't suspect that his "dark" feeling came from prescience about the impending dotcom crash. Locking a fledgeling business into a $30M lease should feel dark in any economy.
It doesn’t need to be mandatory if someone makes them fashionable. We have plenty of other colors besides Pink and (RED), for instance.
Google’s Pixel 4 face unlock
Facebook suppresses free expression every day — by consistently promoting clickbait above factual content.

Ranking algorithms constitute editorial intent, for which Facebook is responsible.