skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paying ransom makes it profitable. If you make something profitable there will be more of it as there is an incentive for individuals to continue those attacks.

Honestly lack of back ups is unacceptable. I can accept it if its a young start up handling some basic data and passing payments to an established business. However, any SE, DBA, IT director/admin with some experience should know about backups and push management for them. If management fails to pay for cost of backups, that individual should note it(preferably with a paper trail) and bring it up when shit hits the fan.

I will write SQL statements prone to injection, I will hack things together when I have to due to circumstances but I inform management of risks and they make the decision to proceed in a certain way knowing the risk. If they try to light my ass on fire 2 years from now, I will open the email and say "told you so". I have actually done that multiple times already and never got burned.
the scope of which begs a complete understanding of the possible
The Power of Persistence
[Me reading the article]: Hrmm, I'm not sure I understand the point of this article. Seems like vague hand wavy advice and platitudes (I mean c'mon "run towards your fear"? Cheese-factor 1000).

[Me gets to the end of the article]
Oh, Ben has a new book coming out so he needs to shill it. Makes sense.
They've certainly gone to similar lengths in the past: see https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/meet-the-cias-disguise-art..., for instance.
It was proprietary for much of its life.
If you wanna make it work; this is sadly the only way until Docker Compose is patched.

Rename .env to something else and reconfigure autoenv.
But that building will be locked into current rates for a long time. So property taxes might hike from $500/yr to $50,000/yr, each rising by 3% pa, but revenues could spike from $40,000/yr to $400,000/yr rising at like 8-12% a year. In 30 years, a $100k/yr property tax bill will be peanuts compared to the $7,000,000 in rent revenues they'll be earning.

Developers understand this, they want to build, but they are having trouble getting the permits to replace low density SFH with medium- to high-density housing.
I don't like leetcode, but at least leetcode problems are actual algorithmic/programming questions. What I was talking about in my comment is the "Why are manhole covers round"-type questions that used to be endemic but have fortunately mostly vanished. A pure mathematics question like in the linked video, with no connection to algorithms/CS, would fall under that definition to me.
Plan 9 was intentionally not a product. They later tried to productize it with Inferno, but that failed primarily because it came a decade too late.
The Czech map service Mapy.cz is also really good for hiking. For example, this is the same location compared with Google Maps (if you have a high density screen, I recommend setting zoom to 75% on mapy.cz):

https://mapy.cz/turisticka?x=15.7287144&y=50.6908445&z=13

https://www.google.com/maps/@50.6967232,15.6888516,12.89z

It's owned by the guy who made Windy.com.
Not transitioning into a non-binary gender in my teens and instead in my mid-to-late-twenties where I am now.

I internalized a lot of rhetoric from other people that I simply had to accept myself or feel comfortable with a narrative of being "natural". Ultimately, after having a breakdown and taking effort to change my body/appearance did that prescribed self-acceptance finally happen. It just didn't happen on other people's terms.

The biggest takeaway I learned was not to lie to myself and not to accept other people's convictions too much. It was a lesson in individualism and boundaries.
Arch Linux’s pacman-5.2 to use zstd compression
> the point op seemed to be making

Wait, are you talking about me?

In my post I don't even hint at anything even close to that, I don't have any bias against Facebook, the company or the website. I'm not even talking about the future of Facebook AT ALL in the post. I'm just stating some metrics we gathered at my last workplace that might be helpful for people using social media.

Are you sure you're not projecting, or being over-defensive?
How Adyen predicts and monitors payment volumes with Spark and ElasticSearch
Your last argument is actually not true. It's kind of the opposite, actually - high-earning people move to California and less-wealthy people leave because they can't or don't want to pay the cost of living anymore. See [1].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-census-mig...
I've been trying to get the capsule form of it for gut repair, but there are only two companies that make it and they are always out of stock. BPC-157 is certainly interesting and I would love to try it.
I was curious how you reach 600 to 1000 upvotes
Yeah, growing a business takes time.
I think you should read up a bit more on the technical implementation of Face ID. The data never leaves the phone and, even if an attacker had physical access to the phone, they could not get the information. Apple is getting no training data from it.

> If it weren't for the novelty factor I am confident most people would not use it

I think this is really incorrect. You really think everyone is using Touch ID and Face ID only because of the novelty factor, and not because it's significantly more convenient (and, at least in many cases, more secure)? That if it wasn't "fun", everyone would be completely okay going back to entering 6-digit passcodes?
Injucted by several circuit courts: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/11/769376154/n-y-judge-blocks-tr... Heading to the Supremes.
Wow, this isn't the one I saw, but good demonstration of potential results
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/18oy72/before_after_pi...
I'm sure the ads exist. I'm questioning their value. If nobody sees the ads unless they go looking for the ads, then what value are they?
This argument doesn't make any sense. TLS SNI hostnames should remain unencrypted to help user privacy?
And you are a special case that does truely need an accountant to fill out their paperwork. Majority of people do not.
Yes we should trust your judge of character o great one.
I would use Blazor ;)
Rankd SEO backlink database has reached the 500 mark
> I can't fathom a world where JavaScript is less efficient than Haskell.

You can't fathom a world where a compiler can more easily produce efficient machine code from a statically typed language with very few semantic corners than from a dynamically typed language with lots of sharp corners plus reflection? I think you may need to meditate on the task of compilation a for a bit.

Unless you mean efficient for the programmer, in which case you are mistaking the up front effort of getting things to type check for additional effort. Usually it spares you the same number of iterations in debugging and testing, and the type checker is a lot faster than running unit tests. Plus the first time you make a major refactor to a program by making the change and then fixing everywhere the type checker complains, and that turns out to be it, it all works, it feels like you just mutated into a superhero.
Regarding the solidity of this technique, these days a lot of indoor climbing holds are made of fiberglass held together by epoxy, with a thin layer of textured plastic on the outside. These are generally called fiberglass volumes.

The material is so solid that a meter-wide hold is actually just an empty shell with a thickness of a few mm. This easily withstands a heavy dude jumping onto it sideways (in fact, that's what it's there for!)
garden.io is what we're replacing docker-compose with.
Yes, I saw that and it definitely made me rethink my theory. Either it's trapping a fingerprint under the protector or this is not the first run with the screen protector and it's "tainted" with a fingerprint in it now.

I'm unusually eager to know the full story!
> 1. Last time they tried to do what all of you ask, a ready return. TurboTax and others hired bunch of lobbyist and put so much pressure on people here and killed the project. People are still afraid and don't want to do too much to grab the attention of their lobbyist!

This is insane. Where are the actual citizens at the negotiating table?
”unless I pay them $1000 to publish the name of my LLC in two public newspapers for six weeks, one daily newspaper and one weekly newspaper”

Reading that as “one daily newspaper and one weekly newspaper”, that would be 6 (weeks) times at least (6 + 1) = 42 adverts in a newspaper (I can also read it as “2 public, one daily and one weekly”. That would increase the number of adverts). Price per advert would be about $25.

I guess most LLCs get incorporated in an at least somewhat large city, so the circulation of the paper will be somewhat high. $25 per advert then doesn’t sound that bad to me.

I know zilch of advertising prices, though, so let’s google it. Reading https://fitsmallbusiness.com/newspaper-advertising-costs/ (a link that google gave me, but that I don’t know the quality of), I see the price per “column inch” go down from about €18 to about €13 when you advertise more often.

⇒ it could well be that $1,000 is a fair price, giving the higher price you would have to pay and the amount of work you would have to do if you did it alone.

(Still seems a weird law, though. I can imagine that one should give people to object if your company will be noisy, stinky, or the like, but then, the city, IMO, should require a permit)
You broke their rules by not adding a trademark symbol after the word LEGO. You'll be receiving a C&D letter from their legal team shortly. :)

Some of their rules are ridiculous, for instance I have to use all upper case and am not allowed to use the word as a noun, for instance to call them "Legos" (I must say LEGO™ bricks, even though many of the pieces are not at all brick shaped).

Sorry but no.

That said, I'm surprised anyone would think it was a good idea to name their OS "LegoOS" and include pictures of LEGO™ bricks.
Yes, 100% agreed.
While I agree the opioid crisis hasn't helped much, the main problem before the crisis was the gentrification of many of the urban areas in California. Skyrocketing rent and an influx of dot com companies pushed a lot of people in these communities right back onto the street.
Some of these are expected, but it was a surprise to see Brazil having 'Hunsrik' as it's third language; I thought this was certainly an editorial mistake.

It's not! It's the german dialect all countryside people speak in the south, the one I've been hearing growing up - I just learned that 'alles gut' is not exactly standard German. This is the wikipedia page for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riograndenser_Hunsr%C3%BCckisc...
You don't really need insider info to know that they would obviously not be running a game this big if they made "no money".
> There is a whole cottage industry of methods for your discipline of choice: Clean, SOLID, TDD, etc.

I'm not a big OOP fan, but I'm pretty sure Clean and SOLID are principles (or sets of principles), while TDD alone is a practice. I'm also not very familiar with Clean or SOLID, but I'm pretty sure they apply to Haskell as well, and I would expect that Haskell enthusiasts would ordinarily boast that Haskell allows (or encourages) them to write code that is more SOLID with less effort than other languages.

My criticism of Haskell is that there tends to be an obsession with writing the most SOLID/DRY/etc code possible at the expense of productivity. It's a code golf / ego culture.

Yes, this is cultural and not "built into the language" (quotes because I doubt there's a clear distinction between a programming language's culture and the language itself, but that's a debate for another time), but you can't unplug from the culture, because you need the ecosystem to solve any nontrivial problem (so you still have to interface with overly clever code).

Further, even if you could unplug from the culture (perhaps by writing everything in-house under your own improved culture), there are still no 'rails' that encourage naive, flat-footed, dumb code, and that's the kind of code you want 99% of the time. As far as I'm aware, there isn't even a clear standard for writing clear, naive code in Haskell.
They will fly off the homepage quicker than you can say “repost”
I think you can do better than calling something you disagree with “rubbish” because your team didn’t have problems with it.

Here’s an example of people finding functional programming unnatural, maybe you can leverage your experience to explain why he is wrong:

Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird https://probablydance.com/2016/02/27/functional-programming-...
What you say is technically true, but given how easy it is to pivot nowadays, and the fact that YC prides itself on accepting teams even pre-product, this "billion dollar business" line seems like a great way to reject anyone they want for any reason.
I'll readily admit that attacking my stream of consciousness postings is like shooting fish in a barrel :)
This might be because I’m running on a half hour of sleep but I legit thought you said you were a Google Fan as if Google makes smart ceiling fans and you were somehow talking to me.
Ah, this.

1. Please ignore almost all the mail you get initially. There are public companies that troll NYS business registration logs and send TONS of false and highly misleading if not illegal advertisements. "You totally need this $900 OSHA poster you can just print for free and paste on the wall". "Ignore the fact we copied NYS' letterhead but aren't a governemnt entity", etc.

2. The NYS tax department will send you one real piece of mail as a questionnaire.

3. Yes, the newspaper requirement is real and fucking terrible. It's a very old holdover however politicians don't want to get rid of it because quite literally, it's a handout program for newspapers. It would make alot of "local" papers nobody reads, close up shops.

4. Shop around, there are a few ways to save money on it.
Honestly, I made a LLC 2 years ago in NYS and haven't even used it business wise. I have yet to do the publicatinon requirement. You just can't legally do business until you do so BUT it doesn't give a deadline.
Gensim Topic Modeling with Python, Dremio and S3
Counterpoint: learning your first language and learning languages later in your career are very different processes and learning Haskell with a background in OOP languages may be harder then learning it as your first.

> Arguments over programming languages often become emotional and skip past many of the practical business concerns that make programming languages valuable in the first place
I did pop over and take a look at katacoda (which is also a pretty cool platform I didn't know about before, thanks for the tip!). Walking thru the first couple steps of their getting started with k8s, if I hadn't already been thru what I'd done on MSB theirs would have been a lot more confusing :)

I totally agree that the interactive visual layer was a huge bonus for my understanding, and the ordering and transparency of what the commands do in the intro lesson on MSB was a lot better. That said, katacoda seems to have a much broader focus on many more technologies.
LEGO trademark registration https://trademarks.justia.com/745/93/lego-74593028.html registers the trademarks also in all the major categories where software can fall in, and so it's upon LegoOS to demonstrate that there's no way that an uninformed consumer might confuse and think that they're related (which is IMHO impossible, given a single look at their homepage).

It also explictly lists that the trademark is used (among other things) for educational computer programs, computer accessories, entertainment services in the nature of providing facilities for playing computer games, conducting workshops for instruction in the use of computer software, etc - and that's true, I personally know a bunch of software products with the LEGO™ brand.

As the trademark is both used and registered not only for plastic bricks but also in the field of software, naming a product LegoOS by itself would invite a trademark claim, and putting a red brick (that's not registered, but definitely does create an association for the average consumer, which matters very much in trademark claims) on the homepage just removes any maneuvering space; IMHO it'd be a slam-dunk guaranteed immediate injunction if LEGO sends a C&D that gets contested. And the practice of trademark law means that they pretty much must sent a C&D, not doing so would be quite bad for them.
What do you mean by "stimulating your brain"?

If you mean being mentally active all the time, in the long run that'll make you less productive, not more.
MS Windows manages to be binary backward compatible with win95 and in some cases even win32s. The graphics model is mostly the same as windows 3.0 . So MS has backward compatibility in spite of security.

Otoh, wayland has gaping functionality holes that MS windows has not: Screen recording is basic, normal usage. UI automation isn't that weird of a use case either.

I can't believe that this is unsolvable with some security model in wayland if the political will would be there. If a lot of people have the same complaint, and they are ignored, that's really unfortunate. Basically, Wayland should deal with reality or it will stay in limbo.

UPDATE: This post has a more harsh tone than intended. Sorry for that. I did my share of X11 programming,so I agree that something better is needed. And wayland is after years and years of no advancement a great initiative. But it pains me to see it stumble a few meters before the finish line, because of a stupid self inflicted wound.
Yeah, everyone knows means are lying, especially in super-unequal societies. No-one cares about the mean, you want to look at the distribution
Not enough to build a startup to remove them. Actually sometimes they help me to stop procrastinating. These occupying entire page or with some usability issues are effective dopamine circuit breakers.
Ask HN: What's your worst undefined C story?
We've all heard the ghost stories about undefined C programs that delete hard disks or set the computer on fire.
However, usually, C programs with undefined behavior either crash or seem to be working.

So, has anyone ever experienced behavior that went beyond that?
Potential Impact of Switching Off 2G in the UK
I've been out of the Haskell game for a while, so I hadn't seen Polysemy. Another thing on my reading list...
I'm also a GAFAM engineer. (Personal opinion ahead etc..)

I agree with you that nobody is listening and it isn't valuable data even if they were.. My biggest issue is that the devices are a black box. Nobody knows if they're hacked or compromised which is why hardware disabled buttons. More transparency is critical. I think I should be able to monitor all of my smart devices' activity with as much done on device as possible.

Apple and (now) Google have made strides with on-device ML lately - I hope things continue down this path.
I've read of people preparing the injectable form with bacteriostatic water and syringing it directly into the back of their throat and swallowing, or into a capsule for swallowing.

Definitely do your own research before forging ahead - these are uncharted waters with inherent risk - but it is supposedly stable in gastric juices so I don't think encapsulation necessarily requires anything fancy.
There are plenty of people I know happily employed in the entertainment industry in the largest city in the state. "Completely dystopian outside of tech" is a total exaggeration.
Exactly. I'm in Arizona, and in part of the summer, when I'm at a bus stop I look down and see foraging ants haulin' it on the concrete nearly as fast as the ones in the article. I'm guessing if I took a feather and lightly held one in place for a few seconds it would probably die from the heat.
I'm optimistic, we might have to take a few steps back every now and then, but overall, I think things will improve. Whether that will happen fast enough is anybodies guess...
While there are obvious exceptions, much of the time the majority has some empathy with traditionally oppressed minorities and votes for politicians who make laws to protect them.

> Under democracy, a majority of people can decide what laws there are

Also worth pointing out that under most democracies, this isn't true. The people decide which people should decide what laws there should be. It's an important difference.
SMS 2FA includes the negative energy of "we have this, so we don't need TOTP or something better." It may well be a net negative.

The corollary to don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good is don't let the barely better be the enemy of the substantially better.
These people are going to be easily outcompeted in society while they find terror in every corner and box shadows. On the Internet, this shrill outrage may pass for conversation but in real life people will walk away.
People managing AirBnB checkouts in cold, remote areas appreciate being able to check and adjust the thermostat remotely.
It's not a notice in just a paper. It's a notice in the paper of public record. Which in the UK is the London Gazette, that you are almost certainly never going to see in a newsagents. There are laws requiring notices in that publication, and IIRC it's still government owned.

They publish notice of all laws, all insolvencies, all changes of name, new holder of certain public offices etc. I don't think there is any news or anything beyond the UK.

I bet it would be 5x more if you had to take out an ad in the Times or Telegraph. :)
Nor is there any evidence whatsoever that deficit spending harms overall growth. In fact, deficit spending is utterly indispensable for optimizing growth.
USPS has also lost a massive amount of money due to being required to accept shipments from China at extremely low rates.
"Many people paying a little bit" certainly works but it's really hard to pull off without funding, an extremely compelling product, or some kind of brilliant viral growth strategy because you have very little room to spend on user acquisition. That's why investors in a product like this want to see early growth metrics that are on fire. They are looking for something that can rocket up into millions of users, so if your growth slows down too much as you reach 100k users or whatever, investors will start questioning whether the market is big enough or whether the product is appealing enough to go the distance.

If you make something people will pay more for, it's just a very different calculation because you then have the potential to sustainably convert capital into growth. It allows you to grow more under your own power through sales and marketing rather than relying so much on virality.

For this reason, the GarageBand comparison isn't really helpful. Sure Apple could make a lot of money with that strategy because they could easily market it to millions of people. A new unfunded startup doesn't have that ability.
Scientists and Politics?
Trademark, not copyright. These are two very different things with quite different rules.
2017-2018 A8125
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/a8125

Unfortunately the numbers are year specific.
Normally I would dismiss this as trivial, but the GDPR was intended to make a point. Both as a bit of a slap to American tech companies, and to claim that, "We in EUrope take privacy seriously!" If you are going out of your way not just to pass a law but to vocally chastise companies, it is reasonable to expect you have gotten your own house in order first.
Part of Python's strength is in its ecosystem related to machine learning. That, and it is a popular language to teach to kids these days.
> How is this different from buying baseball cards, pokemon cards, etc.?

You can trade your cards with other players, or buy/sell them with local vendors. This gives you the option to pay money to get the exact cards you want.

You can't do the same in most games with lootboxes. If I have an extra item that you want, tough luck. You need to continuously give money to The Man in hope that you'll get the item you need.
Oracle patches 218 security vulnerabilities