skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As usual Matt Levine has a helpful take on this:

'Saudi “domestic investors could probably provide enough support to achieve that $2tn valuation.” Those domestic investors will probably pay the $2 trillion out of some combination of enthusiasm and, uh, “enthusiasm”...

'Look if WeWork could have ordered banks to lend money to investors to fund share purchases, and if it could have threatened people with arrest and torture if they didn’t buy shares, then I am pretty sure its IPO would have gone well. Aramco more or less can, which means that (1) there is a chunk of pretty inelastic demand at $2 trillion and (2) even if you are a foreign investor who thinks that the $2 trillion number is laughably high, you will be very diplomatic about expressing that in meetings with Aramco officials.'

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-28/effici...
Interesting, from Wikipedia: There are four main sources for the commercial production of hydrogen: natural gas, oil, coal, and electrolysis; which account for 48%, 30%, 18% and 4% of the world’s hydrogen production respectively.

All the hydrocarbon sources are apparently processed by steam reforming.
I mean the German thing isn't that surprising: Europe is the home of electronic music these days and Germany really kicked things off and still to this day has the thriving performance and retail scene that keeps it all going, a lot of it centered around Germany (specifcally Berlin and Hamburg). Not that it doesn't happen elsewhere in the world, but it's like a religion in a place like Berlin.

Interesting what you say about players and tweakers. Personally I think that's a bit too binary, but it is interseting to see softsynths with more intuitive UI's finally coming out, like Pigments from Arturia.
The Fearful Mind
There's an official Ada binding for POSIX.
Why do you say that it requires significantly more resources? Running a public recursive resolver has never been something to take lightly - keeping your resolver immune to DDoS, cache poisoning, general security bugs (depending on which DNS server software you run) etc has always been a major undertaking.
Not for еDNS, but I've seen such reports about HTTPS when it was in the process of wide adoption. In case of DNS, not only more CPU is consumed on encryption, but more memory too, since it's stateful. And all this both with client and upstream.
Good luck with your project!
Hungarians are not really slavic.
Yes, when they are mere displays, no problem.

The scam I talked about only works when adding up larger number of items (like a table of 4 at a restaurant) but there it is pervasive.

With honest traders I never had a problem, neither in Africa nor in South America: Calculator on the table, reset in front of me, slowly, step by step, add up the items so I have time to punch it into my own calculator/phone.
I've been using this for months now, it's great to quickly transfer files via WiFi on the same network. Right now, I guess it received the HN hug of death.
Indeed, good point. I'll add a set of regular expressions for bugs related to overflow, double-free or alike. Don't hesitate to make a pull-request or open an issue if you see anything missing.
The manager’s schedule is holding remote work back
You really shouldn't need any server-side at all for something like this these days (thinking about firebase).

Webtorrent should be mature enough.

We did something similar back 5 years ago for our BSc thesis project, using a DHT and Namecoin for distributed key exchange. Abandoned and obsolete, but in case anyone's interested: https://github.com/rymdjs
If a crash occurs, you can ask to send a report. Maybe after a restart of the application. This is the way I do it and many other software vendors as well. It is a non-excuse for default active telemetry.
We're the biggest dropshipping suppliers, wholesalers and distributors
Jesse would be happy.
Maybe if they paid their due tax, those ideas wouldn't come up.

Also why are you standing up for ultra rich? They have enough power and influence to stand up for themselves.
Somehow they never stand for the poor.
Package Managers Visualization
Snapshot from the current gentoo repo:
https://pastebin.com/6U5SFFJV
That's a good idea. Already many privacy protecting extensions disable it, because it can leak private information [0].

[0] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Prevent-WebRTC-from-l...
Kitboga

YouTube.

Very entertaining.
The simplest IT education truth: nothing can beat autodidactism and risk taking. Schools and unis mostly benefit themselves.
It isn't? There's a difference between dropping 32bit libraries from your OS (after a lot of time in which Apple clearly said "we will drop support!") and banning for using unauthorized APIs inside the MAS.
From countries suffering social unrest caused by climate change, electing populist leaders proposing to solve the crisis in their borders by expanding their "living space" and so on.

History is a circle...
Straight to the point; nothing but the good stuff! These days I am happy just that something is presented as text and not a pointless, time-sapping video.

Given the paucity of free time, I would much rather spend it reading books like those listed here than listen to someone mumble and umm-ahh to deliver in 10 minutes what I can read in 1 minute.

On his list of books itself, perhaps I am a bad judge of character but I assume someone who reads a diverse range of books will have the mindset to take on board a diverse range of factors in their technical work. Perhaps the vast scope of the C++ language reflects this!
Care to elaborate, comrade major?
Ok do you want to pay for that
Dates Declared for Ethereum Classic Hard Fork
Bite the Bytes, WarpScript bitwise operators review
Hmmm. I think we're in a timewarp. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17117896
Wow! racism!
thanks for the detailed explanation. Do you think it'd be feasible to add this to Fastmail's help page about Security?
Theresa May – IPv6 and the 7-Layer ISO-Osi Network Model
Over 60 spacecraft manufacturers producing satellites between 0.1 – 150kg
This is only the list of satellite manufacturers. We also have companies like Planet, Spire, etc., who are service providers who also produce their own satellites.

Begs to ask the question, if we are in a massive bubble or if space is going to be a highway with a lot of traffic!
This is a fairly obvious thing to try, and indeed one of the commenters writes that he discovered this already sometime after 1982 (too bad he is not more precise).
>if they were, you wouldn't be able to access them from a new device after authorization with a password.

Telegram isn't great but if your password was used to derive the encryption key, that feature would be entirely feasible.
There's a clone at https://snapdrop.net/ which loads a little faster and works a little more reliably in my experience.

FAQ: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop#frequently-asked-ques...
Apparently Apple silently whitelisted Electron for some time.
There's only of the order of a billion values to check. It's known to be true for all those values.
Wait until you see the skew in the teaching and nursing industries. Oh, the horror.
What is the current workaround to read for WSJ articles please? The Web button above isn't working.
Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming
Yes, though not routinely... but if you need help with something and we need to see your data for that, our support team will ask for your permission and then take a look for you.

Also: if we have credible evidence that your account has been misbehaving (e.g. spams, scams, etc with the headers that show they originated from your authenticated connection) then we'll investigate to see if you're a bad actor breaking our terms of service or just some poor soul who had their credentials stolen.

And if your account is the subject of an Australian warrant, and a judge has been convinced that there's cause to access your individual data, then we don't place ourselves above the law. We consider ourselves good citizens of the world, and that includes working with law enforcement where they have a warrant.

What we don't do is sell your data or profile you in order to allow you to be targeted by those wishing to exert undue influence based on knowledge gleaned from your private communications. That's the privacy that's being bought and sold by many in the current world, and leading to poor consequences. We stand firm against the sale and manipulation of people's private electronic memory.

We don't snoop on you, but we'll help you fix your account if you mess it up, and we'll get your access back if you forget your password (a friend of mine lost her entire email history when she forgot her password while using one of the heavy encryption services... oops. Security is about availability and integrity as well).

Our support team is on your side, because we only have one paymaster, and that's our customer.
How to find a good Learning rate in Tensorflow 2
Maybe you should read more about "protectionism", "nationalism" and "discrimination" - not just definitions, but how they affect economic.
If you downvote this it would be nice to know where I am wrong.
We already have 'open borders'.
Seems plausible - the support team is in the middle of a revamp of a bunch of the help pages - I'll pop them a ticket.
97.5% of teachers are women?
Bloodhound's 461-mph speed is big but team eyes bigger record ahead
You missed the /s sarcasm tag in my post. You can, in fact specify specific versions for conda without any external plugins and people who are serious about their build being reproducible do.

In fact, they also specify a specific gcc for extensions that need it, because relying on the system gcc is not reproducible. How do you do it in pip/vent/pipenv/poetry?
Yes, for source separation. Denoising is generally a separate task. A denoising network would take in a noisy signal for a single source and outputs a cleaned up one. It would be trained on the specific source type, for example vocals.
New radar allows scientists to peer inside California wildfires
That was roughly the reading of this issue that I assumed initially too, but in fact the liability/reward situation is reversed here, I think.

GitLab are considering making this change in order to satisfy the requirements of a potential customer[0] - i.e. the reward is for adding the restriction.

And in turn, making the change itself could increase liability[1] since it doesn't seem to be based on a legal request or existing defensible GitLab policy.

[0] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5555#not...

The thread reads like a case of the compliance arm of the business trying to keep the ship steady and non-discriminatory (which is in-line with GitLab's stated goals, the intent of the law, and likely in-line with their prospects as a long-term global employer), while a sales part of the organization tries to close a deal.

Putting in additional engineering effort to allow the customer to specify their own policy on SRE/support access to data -- which they'd be responsible for defending if there were any questions -- seems like it might be a way forward. Whether the sales team and customer would wait for that is another question.

It's remarkable and very progressive to see this discussion in the open; it's also interesting to note how many side-discussions and different opinions emerge in the comments and in discussion here, while the core communication continues between a small number of participants in the merge request.
Intuitive Interfaces–and ML–For Design, Creativity and Making – Talk at Harvard
Been using it recently to try and run a large serverless app offline for dev purposes, it kind of works but the experience is ok...not great.

They seem to be piling all their energy into creating mocks for new (paid) services when it might be worth consolidating as the original mocks have a lot of issues.

- Documentation is non-existent, expect to trawl through github issues to work out how something works as it’s quite opaque (api gateway invocation)

- CloudFormation implementation is completely broken (no intrinsic functions) so unless your stack is simple you’re pretty much required to use any AWS api based devops tools (e.g. Terraform)

- API’s are not fully complete, means terraform either breaks on redeploy when it tries to get a resources status or at best case triggers redeploy of certain resources each time (the most exotic thing we’re using is SNS)

- Test suite is...light, seen a few things go through their CI and break it

- There’s a bit of non-consistent behavior - you’ll set an env var and find it’s not implemented for a certain case and be left scratching your head

- Expect to have to make pull requests yourself to fix things

This isn’t a winge, I understand it’s partially open source and you can just fix the issues yourself when they come up like we are doing. But just a heads up for who may naively look at it and think it’s a silver bullet...you’ll have to go through all these steps.
I've been using Tailwind for a few months now and this is the perfect example of how flexible and powerful "functional css" can be.

Components truly encapsulate everything, by including all styling in the HTML, the only dependency is tailwind.css.

Although the markup looks messy (at first), you get the advantage of high portability of components, high flexibility and super fast development time.
Pure CSS – Lace
YC might yet disrupt the Berkshire Hathaway model. Like other commentators point out, it has a long way to go before it replaces higher education. May be the closest it comes is replacing the MBA programmes.
Brain Invents Morality
> My company is now moving to putting their docs in confluence, which
I hate.

The only good thing I've found so far about Confluence is that you can
kind-of-sort-of escape its WYSIWYGness by pressing the small “<>” (“Edit
Source”) button at the top and just paste your XHTML, that you've
written like a normal human being, in there. But of course it only
supports a subset of XHTML, doesn't support anything CSS beyond very
basic styling, and it makes it very hard to work with tables of contents
and other extensions.
The Big Number: Americans consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar daily
by staying you fight it already, better be passive - not being insane is already a lot
What are you talking about?

They literally do it regularly, public APIs get deprecated then removed and consumers have to rewrite their code.

This article is literally about Apple making 3rd parties rewrite their code just to access the app store.

And before you or someone else points out "Firefox is directly distributed", I say: Exactly. So they can use the internal APIs as they please, then Apple can remove then as they please and break Firrfox and... make Firefox rewrite their code.

Apple is not Microsoft. Apple does not work towards not breaking existing software, they actively break it with each macOS and iOS release, sometimes not even releasing the tools needed to fix them before general releases

Making an internal API people are already using public literally does nothing but optionally allow Apple to give a heads up about deprecation. Apple could literally slap "public" on every internal API, break them every release, and the result would be no different than the current status quo because of the overarching rule of App Store admissions... your app has to work, regardless of if an "internal" or "public" API is changed.

Honestly for most developers that wouldn't seem to different from the current situation: see iOS 13 where basic UILabel stuff was breaking.

And again, apps that don't use the App Store already use internal APIs and can already break all the time.
So let's strip education of its value in learning things (replaced by Lambda or MOOCs) and its value in teaching the various ethics (I don't know what replaces that).

YC is not so much unbundling the Ivy league cartel as much as it is competing with it. Even though YC has a better track record in expanding its student base (in response to demand) compared to universities, it's still an elite institution creating a zero-sum game of vetting the "future leaders". The monetary incentive is not really "negative", as it still costs for people to move to SF for YC - and it raises the prices for everyone there.

I'd say both universities and YC have to be unbundled/disrupted. Presumably by some publicly traded entities whose profit depends on the productivity of the people they educate or vet (a publicly traded lambda or YC with research divisions etc). Then the public can invest on entities that benefit the overall productivity of their society instead of the ego of some academics.

Or probably a combination of both Lambda & YC: Education should be free, or even be paid. After all , it IS work. Incubators should be competing to attract the best candidates to educate.
How about stop trying to take shortcuts and have an actual rigorous progression? It sure would help out on problems of statistical errors in scientific literature, Sure not everyone might be able to pass these classes, but that is kind of the point. Why do we want to just pass through students with weak to no understanding? Ah yes tuition fees.
>For a short period, OpenDNS also redirected the domain name www.google.com to a different search engine. Within a few weeks, Google launched their public DNS on quad 8 and based the service on absolute integrity of both positive and negative responses in the DNS. A ‘trustable’ DNS tat undertook to never lie.

>Oddly enough the result is that Google’s public DNS offering is now totally dominant in the open resolver space. If this was a three-way struggle between infrastructure-based DNS, Open Resolvers and Google’s Open Resolvers, then it looks like Google won that round.

https://xkcd.com/1361/ now sounds more true than ever
> Up there with "Windows" everything and absurdities like ".net Passport"

.NET Passport went thru series of rebranding: Microsoft Passport, Windows Live ID and of course the current Microsoft Account. In some places they also tried to roll everything under MSN brand which later was replaced partially by Windows Live and then again, once they managed to combine their services, MSN applications were bundled with Windows 8 and 10 (News, Weather, Sports etc.). Not mention all GUI changes across the years...

Microsoft trying to figure out what's its brand identity it's like a kid who tries to combine a single image of various jigsaw puzzles sets, periodically smashing pieces together to fit
The World Is Not Going to Meet the Necessary Emission Reductions
I wonder now and then as to what's the format and tech to use for docs that need to include same chapters in different pages, to be published in several formats, etc. Afaik Docbook was used for this in the unixlands, but I guess the key word is ‘was.’

Should I just go for Tex once I get the irresistible itch to do this sort of stuff? What's the web-first solution that would still permit to also support the godsend Epub and the pathetic PDF? I'm also up for sacrificing some of my life on the altar of Lisp―is there anything like Butterick's ‘Pollen’ with any popularity?
The Lycurgus Cup
Good thing the drums tend to be stainless steel which is non magnetic otherwise that might have had completely different effects.
Monday: Reading and Hearing the Law
I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score
> The author seems to be saying outright that universities are inefficient primarily because the education obtained there has little value.

The author mentions that the value of college measured against alumni's wages does not follow a knowledge path (as if the skills increase your income) but a signaling path (as if other people can imagine what you are worth). Thats the spiel about the last semester being the most valuable one, regardless of its content.

There is no doubt that signaling is huge: as the recent scandal of admissions into top universities revealed, even though some parents bribed officials to enter college, the kids had no issues passing the classes. It would be cheaper if only going through the admissions process gave you accreditation, since that is the actual valuable part students compete for, and then let the curriculum be free for the alumni (graduating in 2 years instead? Not doing a bunch of classes you wont use, etc).

I agree with the author that the value of education is way overblown, but certainly not 0.
The problem with the decoupling you propose is that the elites will still want real education for their children, so those programs will also be filled with careerist strivers craving the stamp of upper-class signalling. Meanwhile, your "skills-based" programs will be devalued as a worthless trade school for wannabes (for an example of this, see employers who consider things like A+ cert a negative hiring signal).
Smoke Shops in San Antonio
I worked in a government job that demanded strong technical expertise. We got two kinds of people: those who knew they could make a lot more money in the private sector but took the civilian job out of a sense of duty or a desire for stability, and those who weren't smart enough for the private sector and knew they could get away with half-assing it in the government. The problem was that people with valuable skills and expertise got lumped in with the paper pushers at the DMV every time a politician lined up to kick the "overpaid government workers" football, so Congress wouldn't let them pay industry rates. Result: the "best and brightest" took advantage of lucrative programs like student debt forgiveness, got some good experience on their resume, then left for industry and literally doubled or tripled their salaries overnight.
Associations of sleep duration with HDL and LDL levels (2008)
Thai Beef Noodle Brew Has Been Simmering for 45 Years
Missing link for this item: https://medium.com/@tomaszs2/do-pro-software-developers-memo...
ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
While I am sure that people will be using this, this product simply and completely disregards what Tailwind was designed for: Rapid development by building from utilities in just HTML and extracting into CSS components later. To quote from the Tailwind website: "Instead of opinionated predesigned components, Tailwind provides low-level utility classes that let you build completely custom designs without ever leaving your HTML."

You can agree or disagree with the paradigm -- but if you disagree, there really is no point in using Tailwind :)
The interesting question is: Has someone "harcoded" a clever optimisation specifically for Collatz conjecture? Or did the general optimisation techniques figure this out of their own?
A friend of mine runs a public DoH server at https://doh.li/, and is "currently handling ~220k req/day with a $10/mo DO instance, no optimisation at all, CPU load is at 20%" so I don't think running a public resolver is at all beyond the reach of a hobbyist.
Daylight time can make you less productive, less ethical and prone to injury
I've lived in China for some time, and have sources of information other than just 'Western media'. Are you saying the article I linked in, for one example, is not accurate? Are you saying the UN is wrong with their information? I have no doubt the Chinese have a different point of view; they have much less complete information on the subjects I mentioned, and others.

But, yes, of course the point is that the poster likely isn't doing anything as they are partially funded by the Chinese government, and also are benefiting from all the aggressive actions their government is taking inside and outside of China.
Slavoz Zizek on the Movie Joker
The Exclusionary Language of Pregnancy Apps
Who else is adding this to an already huge list of "To Read" items in their "To Do" list?
Yes. Not completely, but they will be proficient in the ones they use regularly to the level of going weeks/months without checking the documentation.
Are you looking for remote engineers as well?
Lone Bitcoin Whale Likely Fueled 2017 Price Surge, Study Says
Microsoft Japan Says Four-Day Work Week Boosted Productivity 40%