skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an absurd sum, both in the fees:rewards ratio, and in the total amount ($22,500 might as well be nothing for all of the people involved).

That said, I'm a bit surprised to see a "Rake them over the coals" attitude on HN. They leaked a DB with hashed passwords, user data, and last 4 digits of credit cards. That happens to even the most responsible websites all the time, even with seven years of best practices to build upon. I know it would have absolutely happened to the awful, framework-less PHP I was writing back in 2012.

Without letting Zappos off the hook for not taking security more seriously, it seems to me that substantial, non-ridiculous monetary punishments should be reserved for instances of deliberate recklessness, or at least clear, preventable negligence.
What happens when you need to scale up or if one or more of the gurus quits? Do you think Haskell will still be primarily used when you grow?
VNote an excelent app to taking notes
Reverse DNS isn't configured or blocked? Some people disable it for "security" reasons :/
Very true because I don't want any file icons on my wallpaper.
Btw, i use this https://irvue.tumblr.com/
have you tried both? the oracle eula prevents disclosing performance stats. pg allows user defined indexes to be added to kernel and integrated with optimizer, creating some pretty sophisticated optimization techniques. we have the text search index easily handling 20mil+ pdfs with the rum index from postgrespro http://github.com/postgrespro/rum.
>It seems RMS is stepping out of the way. I know Linus did.

When and how did Linus step out of the way? Are you referring to this event (quoting Wikipedia):

>On Sunday, September 16, 2018 the Linux Kernel Code of Conflict was suddenly replaced by a new Code of Conduct based on the Contributor Covenant. Shortly thereafter, in the release notes for Linux 4.19-rc4, Linus apologized for his behavior, calling the personal attacks of the past "unprofessional and uncalled for" and announced a period of "time off" to "get some assistance on how to understand people's emotions and respond appropriately". It soon transpired that these events followed The New Yorker approaching Linus with a series of questions critical of his conduct. Following the release of Linux 4.19 on October 22, Linus went back to maintaining the kernel.
Not too long (~9years), and getting used to the absence of passion. Unfortunately. I disagree that passion (if you have one) fades in this industry. There is so much going on! All the time! It touches every domain you can think of! Passion here is rare, but it never fades, its not marriage. You are free to create, and to explore, and to mentor, and to contribute! It’s certainly never boring. And oh boy those passionate discussions, even something as simple as tabs vs spaces, can be so much fun!

Picture marriage. But not an ordinary marriage, an extraordinary one! Imagine marriage where you are married to all attractive men in the universe, and you are free to experiment, and have full access to every single one of them! That’s how software development works for me.

Eh, I should probably cut a bit on exclamation marks, but I can’t, I’m passionate!
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Two problems, first is this would either end all class-action lawsuits, or spawn way too many of them. If a lawyer is guaranteed an hourly rate to work any case, then why wouldn't they? Currently, there's a natural limit on class-actions based on the validity (chance of winning) of the case. Since most people can't pay for the hundreds (or thousands) of hours of work necessary, they're all on contingency. If contingency is no longer possible, then how would class-actions be regulated?

Second issue is that there is a huge variance in the skill of lawyers and that skill has huge impacts on the outcome of cases. It'd be just like fixing the pay of software engineers in terms of results.
Yeah, pre-built dlib and opencv models are similarly not realistic for real world applications. We ended up needing to train our own version of MTCNN and separately train celebrity face recognition.

Especially when detecting in images with many faces, these legacy off the shelf things built on Viola-Jones type models or HoG feature extractors are just not acceptable by comparison with deep learning models.

And even at that, you need to fine tune the model to your own specific dataset with appropriate weights to reflect asymmetry in false positives vs false negatives. Simply using any off the shelf model, even a deep CNN model, virtually never works in practice. Unless your real life task is well approximated by the academic data set used for training (and it never is), you’re going to need a computer vision engineer involved.
I prefer Mark Text because is powerful and free as in freedom :)
I work in data collection for speech recognition systems and would love to work on this project full time. I wish they had openings.
>...Paying the salaries of a law firm (including paralegals, and through any number of appeals up to the Supreme Court) over the course of 7 years is going to be really, really, expensive.

According to the document:

"...Both sides agreed to a settlement to avoid the uncertainty and cost of litigation, ..."

>...In light of that, $1.5m is probably an overall loss for the law firm.

I don't think there is any evidence that this is an overall loss for the firm.
Jean Machuca is announcing QCObjects is under Amazon Web Services!
But think of the resources involved to execute this, it's so impractical! You need BOTH a screen protector AND something that registers on the capacitive touch screen!
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Whoever wrote the web interface to "p4 blame" at Danger called it "See who made these codes," which always sounded super weird to me
The guidelines ask to use the original title in the submission https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In some cases it is better to use the subtitle, or a relevant sentence of the article (whatever is less linkbaty).

As an indirect consequence, if the article doesn't say UFO in the title or the body, don't use UFO in the title of the submission.
I have tried this a few times and always been spooked by being asked up front to enter too much information including passwords(!!!????) for some products
> "We made clear that we were being asked to fire him, by the Chinese government, by the parties we dealt with, government and business," Silver said. "We said there's no chance that's happening. There's no chance we'll even discipline him."

Okay fine, but thus far it’s felt like the overriding concern here is the financial fallout. I don’t know how else to explain LeBron’s behavior recently. Maybe players are acting more independently now, hoping to get their own China deals and that the Player’s association would back them up?
I believe the context of his employment and role completely strips the value from the statements.
AFAIK they use Anycast for the multihoming [0] - It follows the normal routing process, but the anycasted network is announced from multiple sites instead of just one.

AFAIK Google have ~19 data centres, and DNS / 8.8.8.8 is probably being served from all or most of them. So it is indeed very reliable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anycast
You are advocating for crypto insurance. With regard to banks, if a thief withdraws cash from your ATM card, that money is gone. The bank has lost it. An outside insurer (or, if a large enough bank, self insurance) pays out the bank the amount they lost. Same is true if a thief is able to do a wire. ACH transfers may be a bit easier because typically the receiving bank won't allow withdrawals before the sending bank's chargeback period, but if they do, then their insurance will compensate for the loss.

I agree that crypto doesn't have a solid financial system backing it and that is necessary to be a replacement for the current one.

I'm not a huge crypto-believer, but I do think your criticism here is ultimately not really a criticism of crypto itself, but the financial system around it. Plenty of real-world currency suffers from the same lack of solid financial system. For example, I imagine you would be hard-pressed to find the same guarantees from banks dealing with venezuelan bolivars.

That being said, I think the best use case for crypto is still not one where every single person runs their own wallet. Rather, most people would use depository institutions who could run settlement on the blockchain. The main contribution and innovation is removal of red tape that is typically incurred when one wants to become a depository institution (mainly obtuse technical interfaces, slow clearing houses, etc).
You've provided information about yourself and your situation (including your boss), I haven't.
Doh is a terrible idea.
Never that term, but that seems like it is even less likely to be used than "bricks."
I guess the downvotes tell you how other hackers feel about your opinions.
> In 1969, the labor force participation rate of women was 37.8%

I would not call 38% participation "barely" in the workforce. And the point of noting the first female Fortune 500 CEO in 1969 was to highlight that while it is a shame it took so long, women would have been in senior roles well before 1969 to make her promotion possible.
I wonder if the technology has advanced enough to make this feasible for a (large enough) private org. Maybe not exactly for a kickstarter campaign, but for a group of wealthy sponsors who would donate several dozen millions each.

The cost of the space launch went down dramatically. Many components are standardized and thus less expensive. CAD systems allow a much smaller number of engineers to design the custom parts. New materials, like maybe carbon fiber, could help make the thing lighter weight. Computing the orbital mechanics with great precision is within capabilities of a laptop.

This seems to be just on the brink.of achievable.
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>technology executives

I've always wondered what the upper limit for this is. How high up on the social/wealth ladder do you have to go for there to essentially be no chance that the person is an intelligence officer?
Don't we have stable populations of people consuming artificial sweeteners for like 50 years now?
Your idea is great for people who make good money and are able to set aside money into a savings account.

But it doesn't work for low-income people that are already living paycheck-to-paycheck.
You seem to be operating under the absolutist assumption that all people who discuss politics at work have some kind of malicious intent to entrap or brainwash their colleagues. That is not the case.

All that the OC pointed out is that there are situations at work - and diversity and inclusion programs are one - where the discussion of issues deemed to be "politics" can be in the interests of improving the workplace.

Obviously if an employee is disruptive, that is a problem. Your hypothetical preacher is disruptive. Your hypothetical diversity advocate who bullies their colleagues is also disruptive. But both of these are straw people. Bullying is clearly not appropriate at the workplace. That is separate to the issue of discussing politics.

I would be very surprised if the "indifferent majority" feels that inclusion programs containing some political discussion is tantamount to workplace bullying. If that were the case, it would be observable in the metrics. At least engagement and likely also productivity would take a hit if the majority of employees felt bullied. I am quite sure HR and People Ops professionals would adjust their programs if they were received that poorly.

I think the reality is that the majority of people truly are indifferent. That is, they don't care about diversity and inclusion one way or the other. They do the trainings. They hear that certain groups feel oppressed in society. They stop describing situations as "gay" or "retarded". They let women speak first sometimes. Then they get on with their day because really what difference does it make? It's just work.

Please understand that I do know there are people who are very offended or unhappy with the idea of politics in the workplace. I read HN. I can see lots of them like to comment here. These people's feelings are important to consider too, and HR professionals do exactly that when thinking about how to implement their initiatives. It's a delicate balance, and whatever they do may upset someone. But trust that they are working in good faith, and they are doing their best to try serve the interests of all employees. That is their job, after all.
Ask HN: Which code collaboration website could you recommend?
I want to teach programming.

Looking for your best online code collaboration website. Preferably sketching/drawing pad integrated too.
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> The dataset started out as a Microsoft Excel file, presumably in Windows-1252 encoding. This was converted into a CSV, then loaded into the R environment for adding additional information required by GBIF, then exported from R as a text file with the command option fileEncoding = "UTF-8".

Quite a journey. The ultimate culprit was an R text cleaning function but I wonder why the Excel sheet was in Windows-1252 encoding and can't R import Excel files directly?
> The interface to the CPU is imperative. Each core (or thread for SMT) executes a sequence of instructions, one by one. Even with out-of-order and speculation, the instructions are executed as if they were executed one by one.

That is, in the traditional model of declarative programming, the semantics given are guaranteed, but the actual order of operations are not. So, in a sense, the CPU takes what could be construed as imperative code, but treats it as declarative rather than imperative.
>Domain names provide the internet much more user-friendly way of referencing servers

Too bad some people decided that this "friendly name service" should also be the centerpiece of all encryption on the web, as well as the only thing that prevents websites from reading each other's client-side data.
Produces a wonderful artistic effect! Great project Daniele!
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Manga and anime - get some exposure.
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I don't exist for your amusement but you may find this interesting:
https://silvarecord.com/2019/01/26/metamaterials-not-from-ea...
I was surprised to not find a single instance of "fear" or "accountability" in all the comments. The major driving force in "Big Enterprise" is putting a price tag on "are you prepared for something to go wrong." Either with bad actors, stupid mistakes, or lack of resources. The overhead and settings required to increase or decrease how much exposure the customer is willing to take is what drives the indu$try. That being said, I don't disagree with a lot of the comments. There is definitely the case of over engineering, but that is a bi-product of a business having to decide between making money or turning away a customer. Great companies have kept it simple while steered their users toward simplicity (which drives down cost and errors for all parties).
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I agree. Note that this is an email from "Tom DeLonge" to "John Podesta". I'd be more impressed if it were an email form "John Podesta" to "Tom DeLonge".
Super interesting. On a side note the disappearing / reappearing top bar on the science site is incredibly annoying.
USA minimum wage is $7.25/hr which is only $15K/year if you work full time, and we've got people that will refer to 140K and prepend it with "only".
Re: the $30M, hindsight is 20/20
Many of my friends use Twitter and we regularly comment on and retweet each other's tweets. I've recently been added to a Mastodon group which feels much more tight-knit. I've been playing dota 2 for the past few years and I regularly play with the same group of people. I also have a few discords I've been added to. I tend to lurk on bigger websites like Twitter, Reddit, HN.
Last.fm and Sonemic community are interesting in that they're entirely music based. The discussion revolves entirely around rating and categorizing music which is lovely if you think about it.
That error message is easy to understand.

Explaining why a language can't handle print 2 + 3 is priceless.

It seems like an interesting language to learn for the sake of learning but introducing this to a beginner is not fair.
Stop Spamming. Thank you.
Here's what I'll do, I'll change the title to something closer to the original PR title, then the haters can rest, but I'm not changing my comments.
For a more hopeful picture: Ending Aging, by Aubrey de Grey. He organizes that long list of disparate problems and propose a possible path for their solution. Doesn't make it sound any easier, but at least it is a hopeful reading.
Which is why I have zero interest in things like 23 and me. I worked in a genetics lab and the longer I worked there, the more I realized how little we understand.
Why do you pollute the new page like this?
I think you're overestimating how difficult it is to setup a smart device with something like Nabu Casa's Home Assistant Cloud.
Look, I sympathize with you because Haskell is not easy to learn by any means so I understand someone not liking it. If I get time later I'll go item-by-item and explain. There's a lot of questions there but it's actually just a few fundamental concepts.

But I've seen engineers with only C/C++ experience get onboarded and write code with the same concepts & more complicated ones as the link shortener above. The key was onboarding by someone who knew Haskell well. Haskell companies need a culture of learning _and_ teaching to truly thrive and counteract downsides of the language like hiring pool and learning curve.
Where would the spoiler alert go if it's in the title?
If it's a decision between wired or wireless, wired is always better. Period.

Luckily I have FIOS but my parents are stuck on really crappy DSL or mediocre cable.
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To be honest I'm finding the endless repetition of this debate with different actors tiresome.

But if you go and read the updated Gitlab document, it's easy to imagine how it would apply.

> We firmly adhere to laws including trade compliance laws in countries where we do business, and welcome everyone abiding by those legal restrictions to be customers of GitLab. In some circumstances, we may opt to not work with particular organizations, on a case-by-case basis. Some reasons we may choose not to work with certain entities include, but are not limited to:

> Engaging in illegal, unlawful behavior.

> Making derogatory statements or threats toward our community.

> Encouraging violence or discrimination against legally protected groups.

So yes, I read that the Ugandan in your example advocating state murder of sexual minorities (what the current bill is) would be kicked off of Gitlab. I imagine they would have to be prominent enough to attract attention for their views or explicitly using Gitlab to advance that goal.

I'm not sure why you expect people to be tolerant of that. Tolerance and a diversity of opinion is one thing, but I think you'd find many reasonable people would not extend that to cover violence, physical oppression, including the murder and elimination of classes of people, especially when the other side is just asking to exist.

Same goes for the debate about hosting white supremacist, anti-semetic etc style content.
A credit card means you’re spending your bank’s money, so having your credit card hacked means basically nothing because by law you aren’t liable and it’s not actually your own money that is being spent.
cool yeah the crypto balance moving networks also work pretty well without the semantics

scale to millions using it at the same time? nope! and no solution available yet! not holding my breath

cool if some teams solve it, cool if they don't

still using it myself
I don't particularly approve of anything the CIA does. I downvoted because it's pretty silly to imagine that anyone could get all the way to CIA field agent training without already knowing that the job can be gruesomely dangerous.
However, the pressure has to have been exerted before humans outcompeted other hominids. This might seem too obvious, but you can't have an effect preceding its cause.
Cortex: Deploy machine learning models in production
It's pretty hard to use Google assistant on an iPhone. The integration just isn't as good, and I suspect different speech models are used given that on device models depend a lot on hardware. It'll be nice to try it on a pixel phone and feel the difference yourself, but I don't know how you can do that without buying a new phone :) I switched to Pixel 3a initially for its camera and also I'm holding off a premium phone purchase until 5G comes about. I'm impressed with what Pixel 3a does with camera via better software. But what's genuinely surprising is the google assistant speech model quality and integration. I ended up buying a home mini and am planning to buy a smart display to get more of that. I'm unusual in that I don't really care about data privacy issues with Google. The convenience is worth it for me personally. But my main point is the processor benchmark matters, but it's not the only thing that matters :)
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I’d argue it’s easier to setup TOTP as you don’t need to sign up for anything (ie SMS delivery).

Plus it works on a locked down intranet. Just don’t forget to run ntp!
To make people think about polarization and its triggers, hopefully.
What a thoughtful essay. Kuhn clearly pored over those words most carefully.

> The question is whether an organization should have a designated leader who is on a sustained, public campaign advocating about an unrelated issue that many consider controversial. It really doesn't matter what your view about the controversial issue is; a leader who refuses to stop talking loudly about unrelated issues eventually creates an untenable distraction from the radical activism you're actively trying to advance.

The inability to differentiate between "acute" and "chronic" plagues our day.
That's fair and I respect your lack of desire to spend a lot of time on minutiae. Sure.

That being said, you can always release the repos and just archive them right away -- thus disallowing PRs, issues and any public commentary in general. And whoever wants to dabble further can just fork and refine them.

It's your call of course. But this is what I would do I weren't interested in further changing the repositories.
I have used minikube before. Back when it was using localkube, it was ok. It isn't as much now. (Now, it uses kubeadm to bring up the full suite).

microk8s might not give as much gains.

k3s from Rancher actually cuts out a lot of code, and from I hear, can run fine on Rapsberry Pis.

I have not heard of "kind", but neat.
Once parallel execution became part of every design discussion that had a performance concern, the vast majority of programmers stopped caring (and consequently talking) about compilers. Who cares if you can do 36k requests/s to my 18k if I can do 36k across 2 or 3 machines? I pass that on to the customer. Why try to hire for or wait around for an optimization trick to double performance (that will likely never be realized or discovered) when there's business to be done? The post-optimization is pure profit and can be quantified, so might as well wait and let some specialist (who does care about compilers) handle it if the product ends up being valuable enough to hire them. This is how development and hiring works today.

> At some point in history, people stopped worrying about not understanding compilers

> This part is misleading too

Not in the least. Interpreting that to mean "all people stopped worrying" is deliberate misinterpretation.