skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you fed for all the free money. You guys really improved the economy and reduced inequality. Keep inflating away my wages and savings please. We need companies like WeWork to stay afloat.
Trains into London are being gradually replaced with electrics and hybrids - see the Class 800/801/802 ("IET", "Azuma"). These will use diesel nowhere near London.

Dragging trains into/out of London with an electric loco would pretty much kill the frequency of the lines. This isn't the US where we might get five long-distance passenger trains a day - London King's Cross and Euston are busy, with service patterns at breaking point as it is. There's nowhere outside the city where trains could stop and wait for a locomotive, anyway.
It could be argued that coming up with the original model was easier done in Haskell by the expert Haskell developers. Translating it to another language is more or less mechanical task. Then the maintenance and further development can happen in a more commonly known language.

In other words languages like Haskell, Lisp etc. are precisely good for modeling the problem and its solution, so it can make sense to use them for that even if later development is best done translated into a simpler-to-use language.
> Furthermore the vast majority of traffic circulating in C. London traffic all day are busses, Taxies, phvs and commercial vehicles. Not private vehicles.

Isn't that proof that the Congestion/ULEZ charges are working effectively?
Basically all of the offshore devs I've had the pleasure of working with are at the very beginner end of the spectrum, bar one or two. Even had to teach a "senior" developer how to write a unit test the other day... it's ridiculous.
That was a really awesome read! What're you planning on doing once your cloud services are out?
I recall them blocking London Bridge in 2018 that is the bridge leading to a major London hospital - unbelievable how this is allowed
We need a new UNIX-like moment in OS research. BeOS had interesting ideas in the 90s, but every single new OS now has to be "crippled" by POSIX to support *NIX, or else it has no critical mass to grow.

I'd like to see a MIT-licensed non-POSIX OS with a capable enough POSIX subsystem that would be eventually discarded as all software gets on board.
Fair point re: conmon, and yep, even in the strictest sense of the word, it is a daemon now that I read up on how it executes the container.

I guess it's better to say that only a monitoring daemon is required with this setup (rather than all of the additional daemon services that docker provides).

Re: rootless podman, it looks like there's a good resource to track progress here: https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/v1.6.2/rootless.md - that must be a common ask, could be interesting to track.

(I'm definitely guilty of being overoptimistic about these tools, but do hope they improve because the principles behind them seem very sound)
Cool, now close London City Airport for some serious noise pollution reduction.
I believe this is the actual article

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i...

Broadly it seems to be less extreme than Bloomberg’s summary and more nuanced to particular conditions.

I like how exhibit 6 is rotated to encourage reading it from either direction. Haven’t seen that before in charts.
this makes the password - "password" look like a complex password..
I'm using that headline as our thought of the day in group chat at work. Because that is just egregious and negligent.

Nobody thought to raise that? to anyone?

Although I can understand. I have several people who now call themselves DevOps on a project who have practically zero experience with systems operations _or_ development, and have done some utterly incomprehensibly stupid things. It doesn't matter how fancy your cloud tech is, if someone creates VPCs with default ALLOW ALL rules, stuff is going to get compromised. Worse yet, some are _fighting_ against changing the ingress rules because that would show that they were wrong! I'd at the very least rotate them out and replace them if I could. (rant over)
Are you being serious? If a bank "locked" its vault by tying the door closed with yarn, would you say "at least they locked it"?
Doesn't surprise me in the least. What incentive do they have to not be negligent?
IPO are the new ICO
Most people don't see the future coming. That's why we're so amazed at the people who do (and they make a killing doing so).

When they revealed the iPad I was in an industrial design class in college and we relentlessly mocked it, sure that it would be a flop.
Usually they rely on some other mechanism for security. Like you can only access the portal admin page from the intranet or a few IP addresses. That has failed, not the fact that they didn't change the password.
It happens quite a lot - nowadays services are deployed into the cloud where people are more security concious but when people deploy on-prem they are often more negligent
Except for the actual card technology issues (which are frustrating, though that glacier is slowly moving), those are all matters of how those transit agencies are run, not issues with the payment system.

As for cashless technology, there is significant political backlash to cashless systems. See the efforts by NYC to force businesses to accept cash as payment. I don't think the glacier is going to move much faster until that political resistance is addressed.

Edit: s/cars/cashless/

Android predictive autocorrect is worse than useless these days.
Excellent use of copy paste from another thread. Upvote!
Really? Myself and most of my friends have never taken a black cab and will never do. We always go for Uber, much cleaner, less expensive and friendly drivers.
I just noticed that you linked the summary of the report, the actual report is here: https://www.deltares.nl/app/uploads/2019/03/Zeespiegelmonito...

The researchers state (page 68 - my translation): "We don't see the worldwide acceleration observed by Nerem et al. (2018), within the 1993-2017 record. A correction for the eruption of the Pinatubo and El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) was needed to find that acceleration. These corrections
we do not apply in the sea level monitor."

I must say I'm currently on the fence about the role of CO2 in global warming. I've read enough to confidently say that the consensus claimed by the media is not there, so I'm not done reading yet.
Why has Zen Buddhism had so many sex scandals?(2013)
Something similar occurred at a previous employer. They were counting on the admin port being blocked on the firewall. This was 15 years ago but even nowadays network guys tend to manage firewalls with spreadsheets and manual updates rather than something like Chef so it’s unsurprising that it got missed or overwritten in an upgrade or something.
Depends on how you set up your space. :)
Why is Equifax still a thing?
I'd be very surprised to see evidence to the contrary, as it's just an obvious fact of life that people generally feel less confident about entering a community that lacks anyone else like them. Have you never felt intimidated/uneasy when entering a group situation in which every other person was a particular race/gender/age group to which you don't belong?
Headline: "WeWork's Adam Neumann will reportedly get a $1.7 billion deal to step down from board."

First paragraph: "Former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will get about $1.7 million in stock, cash and credit to walk away from the company and give up his voting rights."

Which is it: billion or million?
Yes and you can have your monads too, in JavaScript
Security only really works in layers. So yes, the password should have been changed too.
Lovely website, simply gorgeous.

No idea what the package does. I'm busy, no time to excavate speculatively.

Closed ... things to do.

Edit: Re-reading this, there will be people thinking "That's Harsh". But readers are busy people, there's always more to read, there's always more to do, and if you don't make the cost/benefit balance clear, people will just walk away.

Make the benefits clear, make the benefits obvious, connect with your reader, draw them in, make them start to think of how this would be useful.

And having said all that, I need to re-write my most recent post to take my own advice.
Same announcement on mailjet website: https://www.mailjet.com/mailgun-acquires-mailjet
A Japanese VC fund that funneled billions of Saudi Sovereign Fund money into American real estate owners pockets. The circle of life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=21322892&goto=item%3Fi...
"$185 million consulting fee"

Now that's a steep consulting rate, wonder what he bills per hour
Would you recommend Estonia for setting up a freelancing business -- as in establishing a legal entity for self-employment?
Ask HN: What are some of the tools you need but are not available?
/s usually indicates sarcasm.
I noticed that too, kept reading, pretty sure its billion
Funny to read through the comments going back and forth on definitions of journalism and the details of extradition treaties.

Did you not read the article? The convoluted legal language and system are used to explain away the reality that there are no rules really.

If you mess with powerful interests you are in trouble. No legislation or rights or specifics make the slightest difference at all. It's uncomfortable, but that's reality.
Heathrow has higher flight density, no 3rd runway.

The real issue is that they put east-west airport runways due east/west of the centroid of population. It’s almost as if they wanted the airports to maximally affect as many Londoners as possible.
Guessing it's the same reason they have Eric Schmidt but no ESR, and staff from HRC's presidential campaign.

It's the extent of the photographer's personal network, not a broad selection of people important to open source software.
The supporting collateral was linked in the article. Copying here:

https://www.london.gov.uk/WHAT-WE-DO/environment/environment...
Some would argue it causes "inflation" in financial markets like the US equities market
It's important to clarify that the SCO Group in the Linux disputes was not the original Santa Cruz Operation, Santa Cruz Operation sold all Unix business to Caldera Systems in 2001, and it was Caldera Systems's CEO who started a bunch of lawsuits, suing everyone, Red Hat, and various Linux users, they even sued Novell for the Unix trademark, and obviously got a notorious reputation and turned SCO into a dirty world. And of course, it almost lost all cases and turned SCO as a company into an utter piece of garbage.

Seriously, what was the CEO thinking about?! I guess Caldera Systems purchased SCO and they suddenly found the days of commercial proprietary Unix were ending and the purchase was a mistake, and this is how they started its assaults.

Unlike the SCO Group, the original SCO didn't have such a bad reputation. Quite a few hackers in the Unix world worked with the original SCO. Also it used to hold a Unix conference, speakers included Linus Torvalds.
so did trotsky, he preferred infiltration to fighting
That's so true! Semantic annotations in the HTML header are a missed opportunity for web standards. I'm not meaning Dublin Core (https://www.dublincore.org/ -- declined somehow with SEO engineering), but relational data:

<link rel='prev' href='..." title="Previous page (about X)">
<link rel='next' href='...' title='Next page (about Y)' />
<link rel="copyright" href="..." title="Our imprint and contact infrormation">
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="..." title="Our Website title">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="..." title="News from our website" />
<link rel="alternate" href="..." hreflang="de" title="German translation of XYZ">

From these six examples, modern desktop Firefox/chrome only displays adding the search engine (when clicking in the search/omni box). RSS died a long death (the availability was removed in Firefox a few months ago). And all other information was only ever displayed by the good old Opera browser, who had a special symbol bar for relational data and even overloaded the prev/next browser navigation buttons with prev/next header suggestions from the page.
Fix Like No One's Watching
FOV: AR and the View of the Real World
Wish it was no-pictures as a rule
A Public List for Those Who Want to Be Relocated in Tech
I actually thought about this while I was scrolling. I have the impression that women are over-represented, just for the sake of being politically correct.

According to Wikipedia:

A 2002 survey of 2,784 open-source-software developers found that 1.1% of them were women.[3]
A 2013 survey of 2,183 open-source contributors found that 81.4% were men and 10.4% were women.[4] This survey included both software contributors and non-software contributors and women were much more likely to be non-software contributors.[5]
A 2017 survey of 5,500 contributors to projects on GitHub found that 95% of contributors were men and 3% were women.[6]
These security nightmares begs the question: Why don't databases use asymmetric keys and authenticate & authorize access? Why are we still reliant on password based authentication? If it's simply the question of key management and distribution, that's a solved problem.
The "key point" seems to be in error. The body of the article makes billion the only reasonable option
We definitely could have built our product using more mainstream languages.
I wouldn't, however, say we required a team of wizards, just good developers that prefer to work in Haskell if possible.
I'm confused why a factually accurate post was down voted. anyone care to enlighten me?
It has been that way for a decade.

They are saying over a recent six month period that that this ulez has reduced something by 33%. That's pretty much impossible as private vehicles largely affected by this ulez program are a fraction of the circulating traffic (which are vastly more pollution/no2 producing vehicles.
What an amazing twist if true. In my opinion, Neumann is a conman. That he got away with taking out $700 million pre-IPO, that We is close to bankcruptcy just weeks later, that he now gets an additional $1.7 billion … it’s just jawdropping. I don’t understand why he is not afraid for his safety.
Yep, they get about 80 miles from the battery and the rest (~300 miles) using the range-extender.
Just slightly better than sa/null.
I was hoping to use them for an application, but their API pricing is orders of magnitude higher than Google's and Microsoft's. I guess they must be focused on the web application primarily.
> SCO is synonymous with evil old school unix.

The full name Santa Cruz Operation only refers to the original SCO company (which sold itself in 2001), not the SCO Group which purchased SCO and turned its name into a dirty word. Unlike the SCO Group, the original SCO was old-school commercial Unix, but it didn't have such a bad reputation. Quite a few hackers in the Unix world worked with the original SCO.
Where was that database located? If I had a database in an offline computer with that username and password, it wouldn't be a problem. I'm not saying this is the case, but perhaps it had a whitelist of hosts that could connect to it, which were "properly" protected?
If you read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.... Stallman states that Free Software doesn't have to do with copyleft vs permissive:

"Another misunderstanding of “open source” is the idea that it means “not using the GNU GPL.” This tends to accompany another misunderstanding that “free software” means “GPL-covered software.” These are both mistaken, since the GNU GPL qualifies as an open source license and most of the open source licenses qualify as free software licenses. There are many free software licenses aside from the GNU GPL."

The Open Source Initiative sees the GPL as Open Source, and the Free Software Foundation sees the ISC (OpenBSD license) as Free Software. Neither group's definition depends on if it is copyleft of permissive.
what are the main differences between nixstats and other tools like datadog?
Given that WeWork has already raised $13B, and the new premoney is $8B, why isn’t Adam wiped out by the preferences on the old investment?

Was Softbank buying common shares in some prior rounds?
Interesting point. Does having physical access to the hardware make people feel overly secure?
Yes, the country/countries where your physical office(s) is/are located (or rather, where people - founders or employees - are doing the work that is the basis of the revenue on which you're generating a profit) will likely want a piece of the pie.

Certainly, a decade or so ago, it was popular to register a limited company in the UK whose physical presence was on the continent. Invariably, this meant dealing with both tax authorities.

It seems to have lost its attractiveness after laws for GmbH and similar were relaxed in various countries. Brexit has pretty much killed any remaining demand, at least for real companies. (As opposed to shell companies for tax evasion or money laundering purposes, for which the UK remains as popular as ever - and which are a major reason for big money backing Brexit, as the EU has been looking to crack down on the practice.)
WTAF? Funny and Sad.
“Soft skills” are freaking hard
What I meant is that an improvement is always a change. It may not have worked for a specific person but it was intended to address an issue for others.

Backwards compatibility does not come for free. At some point people refusing to use new features have to be cut off.
>Pizza Hut’s and Domino’s pages from the mid-90s are more blind-accessible than the meth-addled versions of today. We’ve somehow regressed.

Google wasn't dictating how websites are developed/optimized back then.
How short can Git abbreviate? (2013)
$1.7 Billion [0]. $1 Billion in cash for his shares, $185 Million consulting "fee", $500 Million line of credit (which is what Mr. Neumann had from JPMorgan).

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-to-take-control-of-wew...
It depends on which part of their approch you focus on. I'd expect their machine translation model to be sufficiently general to support basically any language given enough training data. Yes, the languages you listed have some edge cases, but so do languages they already support fine. For example, the lack of spaces separating words in Chinese and Japanese can be handled by the same word-piece segmentation they need for German compound words.

The bigger problem is likely to be lack of training data. Unless they have a pile of cash to pay professional translators to produce a parallel corpus, the alternative is to scrape translations from the internet. Basically, crawl the same site multiple times with different Accept-Language headers and try to align the results. Crucially, this depends on an existing ecosystem of bilingual websites with high-quality human translations.

According to DeepL's website they're a spin-off of Linguee, who provide a search service for exactly that kind of parallel data. So before DeepL starts supporting any given language pair, you should expect it to appear in Linguee first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguee

Edit: It took me a while to figure out how to select a different language on https://linguee.com (Their UI seems broken using mobile Firefox Preview.) Appending /english-chinese and /english-japanese to the URL shows that they already support those two, and the alignment of translations appears reasonable to me. No /english-arabic, though.
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The hard truth about "Soft Skills" in the workplace by Gallup: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/267254/hard-truth-soft-skil...
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Paul's answer to Is Californication a real thing or just a song and TV show?
It happens pretty often. $thing is installed, individual user accounts are created, and the default login is forgotten about. Nobody uses it, so nobody noticed it.

Another variation is not even knowing default accounts exist. i.e. where there is a CLI command to add a new user, which was done during install.

This obviously isn't always the case - but it happens a lot.
Yeah, and they're probably going to be doing that for quite a while longer after the Government killed off plans for rail electrification on most of the currently-unelectrified parts of the network.
Why a wooden spoon prevents pasta from boiling over
Speaks more about the quality of the management/leadership then haskell itself.
Yes this is a better distinction, I suppose the problem is that inactivity tends to be equated with lack of maintenance - regardless of whether there are still people around that care but have nothing to do.
An international body (which included multiple organizations) who didn't want to favor any particular language. We could use more work and thinking like that these days.
How to tokenize a real-world asset
People in wealthy gated communities often don't lock their front doors. Similar principle.
>>less expensive

Demonstrably false. I have taken an Uber while my friends jumped in a black cab, both going to the exact same destination(because stupidly you cannot order 2 ubers at the same time), and yes, the "base price" for uber was cheaper, but the final bill was a good few quid higher than the black cab.
That is positive, but it's hard to say if that positivity has outweighed the negativity that came after. It's also hard to say If one can preserve such positivity in the absence of stronger moderation. In fact, as you indicated, one of 4chan's failings was a lack of proper moderation after moot left.

History has indicated time and again that you cannot trust a "benevolent dictator" model for sustained positive outcomes, and the consequences when it breaks down can be terrible and tragic.
tl;dr - the English acronym would have been CUT, and in French it would have been TUC, so they picked UTC to avoid favoring either one.
And meanwhile they are not firing ppl because they can't afford their severance packages.

How is this not criminal?
Security is a cost and nuisance. It's the first thing to be cut.

To keep high security at all times you need:

1) Process aka bureaucracy. Mandatory checklists. Checklists are returned and inspected by others. Anything missing or uncertain is checked again and fixed.

2) People who are responsible for security are independent from other concerns. They can have adversarial relationship with people responsible for getting things done if there is conflict of interest. People responsible for security must have status and power to enforce it.

Consider a scenario where you need to take the system down and fix something quickly. It's completely reasonable to allow dummy password few hours when people are around fixing the problem until the system is back online.

But if there is no process in place to remove security temporarily and then restore it something is always forgotten. People who would order password to be changed is not using it and forgets the whole thing. People who use it don't say anything and it becomes new normal.

You need to mandate checklists. You force people to use them and return them. It's costly and makes things slower.
What is "classic Namazu stuff"? I have never heard that phrase.
Does that justify using bus lanes though? Are they providing enough of a benefit to everyone, like a bus does?
From the full report: "All TfL buses operating in the zone meet the ULEZ standards"
I'd say that both of those mechanisms failed.
Let's take a function that produces normally distributed random variables. Let's run this function at every moment in time starting at t=0, and then sum it with the prior sum.

You can use a function that sort of looks like that to simulate a lot of different processes (a random walk, brownian motion etc).

Here is a more mathematical write up of the properties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_process

Now I can run this "simulation" -- even though the inputs and outputs are well understood -- many times and say it represents:

1. A stock price

2. The random motion of a particle given the kinetic energy of the particle

3. The wealth of an individual given intelligence and hard work