skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
25 billion on a 1.7 trillion dollar company is very little by percentage, and in turn the company is implicitly backed by a state that has unlimited funds. This makes me question the point of all this.
He mentions keeping a knowledge base up to date. That's a great idea, but I've never found good low-friction methods/tools for getting knowledge from peoples' heads into a knowledge base. Any suggestions?
The tech won't exist In a vacuum though. Suppose this eventually gives the Chinese an edge in precision medicine, your hands might be clean as far as the messy work but unless you ban citizens from visiting how are you going to regulate the health products that will emerge eventually? We can bury our heads in the sand but eventually the rising tide will get our socks wet unless we have the foresight to prepare a little.
How plausible is it to sidestep iptables and inject the rules yourself directly to the kernel's interface? That gets rid of the dependency on a tool which adds friendliness you don't need plus a lot of baggage.

It seems as though (correct me if I'm wrong) the CVE requires an attacker to know or guess the target's IP on the VPN, they'll find out if they're right but they don't get a hotter/colder type feedback. So that opens the possibility to play a randomisation game. On IPv4 this is a very marginal benefit. But if a WireGuard client has been given a random 64-bit suffix for some particular IPv6 subnet then unless I misunderstand the attacker needs to probe all such suffixes until they find the correct one, and they can't realistically do that even on a fast network. If I'm right that's a pretty good mitigation (on IPv6).
Even buses are using batteries to move away from the trolley bus model. Maintaining those overhead lines is a pain, and they go offline all the time. I expect these will just go away outside of true rail usage.
Germans speak pretty good English though, the young ones that I've met basically seem like natives with an accent.
Your assumption is that Govt benefit starts coming your way the moment you need or ask for it. From limited personal experience AND from what I read, applying for and getting any kind of government benefit is very time labor intensive and involves long waits.

And many don't get it because they don't meet a threshold.
And those who get it, have to not work (aka not make money), in order to keep getting it.
And is probably paying property taxes which are the specific tax paying for the fire engine in a lot of US jurisdictions.
Used cars are a thing. Albeit not identical, dealerships definitely do sell other vehicles and will almost always push the new model of their brand over the used model of the other brand.
This looks fun. I'm stuck on the first one though. "Verify" says my solution works, but when I submit, it says my code failed a test case. Is this intentional, and I failed some hidden test that isn't given in the examples?
This would be great if every store didn't have a different uniquely bad ui
I never tried googler, but I have used lynx before. Far from a productivity boost, all it really did was help me look busy to the untrained eye while reading HN.
This is just an advertisement for the company. It doesn't really say anything substantive. "Google bad, we better!"
You're in all likelihood correct, but that's the sort of policy I would hope for.
Hmm. HuffPo ran a front-page hatchet job on Buttigieg disclosing that he's ex-McKinsey. Coincidence?
That's the spirit! Downvote! Downvote! Downvote! Downvote!
Clearly it is. The hospitals are suing the government to prevent the rule.

A massive amount is about to be spent on lawyers, so clearly they see this as a huge threat.

[0] - https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/12/04/55...
At least the hospital could provide health care at a discount?
Wow! I was asked by a friend if dead/flat batteries were weighing less, since I was working a little bit with batteries. Back then I dismissed it as utter nonsense. But I still googled the question because you never know right? and I stumbled upon either this article or a similar one: https://www.quora.com/Is-a-charged-battery-heavier-than-a-de...

After finding and reading an answer that agreed with my initial assessment I never continued to investigate why my friend would make such a claim, but now I guess it was related to this phenomenon. Guess I owe somebody an apology. Crazy how somethings seem so outlandish that I did not even ask myself if this was possible or what fundamental differences there are between batteries of different states of charge. Also it would have been quite easy to test this in retrospective...
Note to myself: I should be more careful and curious in the future!
I get the impression you're over-simplifying this and grasping for whatever assumption you need just to try to make your point.

While some of us have run with my oversimplification, there are plenty of comments in this sub-thread about down-selecting. Your answer to that is a giant assumption on what the article (which again is rigorously sourced) 'implies'.

> The article also implies other contractors are also listed, although they don't get similar preferential price treatment.

In fact, the IG report[0] that is cited in the selection of the article I replied with has nothing to do with McKinsey, but a different contractor altogether. Reading comprehension is your friend here: "In 2013, the GSA Inspector General traced a similar situation with different contractors."

Agencies aren't necessarily selecting the more expensive item. As you point out, in most cases they have a mandate not to. They're awarding the bid to an already-short list designed to generate the highest IFF possible for the GSA.

Which is what the article's about.

[0]https://www.gsaig.gov/sites/default/files/audit-reports/A120...
The only time I really remember someone rich and famous going to jail was when Wesley Snipes tried to avoid paying income tax.

And I feel like that was more to send a message out to the general public that it doesn't matter how much money you have, if you try to evade taxes you will get thrown in jail. It wasn't so much a personal case where a good lawyer could get you out of having your only life ruined.

Then again, I don't watch the news or follow politics at all. In any case, it's messed up that money drives something as important as your freedom to live your life.
Hmm, once you mentioned it, I'm not 100% sure why I wrote it. I certainly speak with starting sentences with "I mean", but I use it mostly as a filler?
"Windows ain't done 'til Lotus won't run."
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Everybody needs a &^%$ job once in a while to reset their empathy scale.

Walmart does something interesting for their software development process. Say a developer is working on a warehouse automation system -- that dev. is then trained and works in the warehouse for a month. Same goes for checkout/cashier, or customer service, or whatever. You WORK that job for a month and you'll understand just how trying it can be to struggle with lousy software on top of a sometimes difficult public. You'll know the trouble spots and the workarounds, and can take that education back to a nice safe quiet desk where you can then go on to help solve the problems.
oh sharon!
Hopefully it will be enacted in 2021 as planned. My money is on Hospitals making it a constitutional issue and dragging it out for a decade though.
Right now it's 9 states that have 50% of the population. In 20 years it will be 8, but this is very much a today issue.
It's most certainly a plug for privacy-focused products. We're as surprised as you that this ended up on the front page.
Profiling the Airflow Scheduler
Certbot 1.0 Is Released
The cost of ethical science is well known, and still proper democratic countries deny themselves the ignorance of human rights that is prevalent in China. Your comments read like quoted from Nazi Germany medical research in the 1940s. Welcome to the present.
I think we’re going to see a lot more innovation in indoor “gps” when we get access to apples U1 chip, which uses ultra wide bands to get positioning down to 10cm.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/10/11/u1-chip/
Nah, #Firefox4life ;)
Having worked several years in both retail and waiting/busing tables (full-time, not just as a part-time college job), I have a great deal of empathy for folks stuck in these minimum wage jobs.

That said, if I could get a retail job that paid what I make as a dev, I’d definitely consider it. Retail was grueling, but at the same time much less psychological pressure, and much less mentally exhausting.

I always say I’m not going to let my next dev job take over my life, and maintain work/life balance, and things always start out well. But inevitably, pressure builds, I cave, and things get bad again. I realize that I share the blame for this situation, but at the same time, this situation seems to be more common than not among software devs.

I never faced this kind of pressure in retail jobs. Work was grueling and at time abusive, but when the work day was over, I was 100% able to relax and forget about work. I struggle to do that with a software job.

But at the same time, my compensation is considerably higher than most other jobs. So I’m both grateful for my job and yet still wish there were another way. Like a part-time software development job, which seem to be unusually rare.
They may stop being distracted at some point, but I can assure you that it's not when the light turns green. Every single day I see many people staring at their phones while hurtling down the highway at 70 mph.
Show HN: AI Dungeon 2 – AI-generated text adventure built with 1.5B param GPT-2
Surely you need data on the rate of assault and lost economic security to make this assertion.
This! The reason Germany has a high level of proficiency for a country that doesn’t translate media (movies, tv shows etc don’t act as language learning agent), it has a deep and well trained set of teachers. How? Famously the last German emperor insisted that every kid learn English in school. Over 100 years later and this has lead to well trained teachers, who can teach kids properly.

I guess the take away is that teaching a whole country a new language takes time and is hard to accelerate.
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Shutting down after investing and$130K in glitzy marketing
Thanks for catching that, I'm a GitLab team member, I'll open a quick merge request to fix that now.
In 2017, McDonald's had 235,000 employees and paid its shareholders $7.7 billion. Compelling argument, all right.
Less safe languages are not more popular at all. Memory safety was a huge selling point for languages like Java, Python, etc.

The cost in those cases is performance. The cost is offset massively by productivity.

It's less about direct costs and more about constraints and priorities.
...or they've taken Amtrak out of NYC. :-P
> Without their monopoly search position no one would be forced to adopt amp

It is used by the major search engines in every major market, so yes, they would be forced to adopt AMP. Compare to Apple News, which gives the publisher even less control.

Once again, how is it abusing their monopoly position if all their competitors get to benefit from it for free?

Finally, how do you propose to enable safe prerendering on the web that you would be fine with? RSS enables the same thing but takes even more control away from the publisher, but you're presumably fine with that. Not a single person in all these AMP rant articles that pollute HN has ever proposed an alternative, with 99% of the ranters, including this one, not even understanding the basic fact that prerendering is the thing that AMP enables.
I'm glad this is making the rounds on HN. I saw the update dialog the other day and wanted to know what other people thought about it.

In my mind Dash 4 didn't really add anything useful to me other than a slightly different UI. In fact I upgraded to Dash 4 mainly because the update notifications were annoying me and it was only $15 and I like Dash. Now I'm getting hit with a $20 upgrade fee and I don't really feel like any of the new "features" are really worth $20.

That coupled with the developer leaving a bit of a bad taste in my mouth in regards to couple years ago there being allegations that the developer used to produce a ton of shovel/crap-ware and Dash just so happened to take off. Their apple account was banned [0] at one point for fake reviews (both positive on their own apps and negative on competitors apps) and there was a whole back-and-forth [1] [2] [3] between Apple and the Kapeli. My memory, albeit potentially unfair/incorrect, of the event left me with the impression this developer was a bad actor.

All that to say: Is there an alternative to Dash that people like and/or am I wrong/misremembering the situation (re: Dash/Kapeli)?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646919

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680131

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12684265

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680597

Edit:

Timeline

Oct 5th, 2016 - Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12646919

Oct 6th, 2016 - Apple Has Removed Dash from the App Store: Update -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12654093 (same webpage linked but different comment thread)

Oct 10th, 2016 - Apple Responds to Dash Controversy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680435

Oct 11th, 2016 - Dash and Apple: My Side of the Story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12680597

Interestingly the articles from the developers blog, while still online, are no longer listed in his archives: https://blog.kapeli.com/archives -- Personally I find that odd and potentially suspicious.

You can see sentiment on HN change from anti-Apple to anti-Kapeli over the span of this saga. I'm not saying that was correct necessarily but it is what appeared to happen.

Lastly I stumbled on this which seems to be a good reference so I'll leave it here: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/10/apple-and-kapeli-respond/ -- This was also covered on ATP and The Talk Show I might go back and re-listen to those episodes...
It does help, thank you! I guess I have to stop postponing diving into it... at least a little.
'Couple' is a word that in some contexts means two specifically, but in other (informal) contexts means a small number. Generally when somebody describes three or four things as a "couple", they're being informal and a correction isn't warranted.
A kickback is when you personally get reimbursed for your decision, which isn’t the case here. A government office is being funded by a fee on services rendered.
You appear to critique the premise that most security comes from using the right programming language and observing a few patterns, like validating all inputs.

I was saying this is most probably not the premise of the course. That just like you, they don't believe they're teaching a panacea, just something that will help.

That assessment could be wrong, though. Unlike you, I never discussed security with university professors, and I know nothing of their misconceptions. Could you offer a gist of what they teach, and most importantly what they should be teaching instead?
But if you offer to pay people who keep their cars plugged in during the day, probably more people would do it. Also, while car batteries are likely to be lower in the evenings, they're probably not completely dead. They could feed the remaining energy back to the grid at that time, then charge up later at night when the load is lower.
There is a belief among many that the current situation in Hong Kong is caused by the housing situation in Hong Kong. Part of why taxes are so low in Hong Kong is that the government profits from the housing situation(by owning most of the land and/or having arrangements with those who own all the land).

Additionally your two examples are both high density countries, and may not generalize to a country like the UK. Also worth noting that these countries give up a fair bit in civil liberties.
Hexing the technical interview (2017)
There are plenty of countries where the majority of cars are manual transmission and trust me, there's still plenty of people texting whilst driving.
Propaganda tries to force you to believe something. Debate and discussion tries to present evidence and allow you to draw your own conclusion.

The article may not be effective at the latter, but it is not the former.
Washington state USA and Qinghai China are in similar positions (getting mot of their power from hydro), with similar populations to Norway.
He means he imagines that skilled trades people are absolutely willing to pay random people off the street to learn instead of working for companies who want people who have already spent 10s of thousands to pay schools to learn.

He thinks poor people could be electricians helpers tomorrow instead of mcds cashiers if they only applied themselves.
That is unfortunately most Simon Sinek material for me. I think he is a super sharp thinker, but I always come away feeling like his books could have been a blog post and his blog posts could have probably been a tweet.
> Is your proposal then that Mozilla doesn’t actually use this database unless individuals opt in? In that case it’s worthless.

.org consists of many projects that themselves build Internet infrastructure. For example, Debian could ensure their ability to keep using debian.org in the face of "Ethos" shenanigans by making it so all their infrastructure used the new-world resolvers. And could even do the same for the repositories and apt, if they wanted.

> don’t know why you’re being dismissive of this as if it doesn’t matter

It's not that it doesn't matter, but that I see it is a good thing if there were competition between registries. In this scenario, what is actually happening is that Bob and the legacy registry are attempting to lay claim to a name that has already been claimed by someone else and recorded at the new registry. So Bob and the legacy registry can't claim the already-registered name in some universal sense - a registry of deeds does not own the plots of land that it keeps records on!
People who aren’t sociopaths, maybe.
Wesley Snipes also made the bad decision to not be white.
Not only English: we had subtitled French, German (with English subs mostly :) and English when I grew up; I watched a lot of English (BBC) and German tv which made me quite fluent in both from
a young age. French less so as I did not like French programs (now I do); I still understand most and when I am in France for a couple of weeks I can make myself understandable. Also; because I picked things up from listening, my pronunciation is good especially after spending some time in the region.
Wild guess here but maybe those specific types of batteries went up due to popularity of vaping as they're standard in most mods.
Maybe I am in Spain because I am a Spanish citizen? Maybe I want to do R&D there because that is where the expertise is that I need? Maybe I thought my tech was going to be much more successful in Spain when I set it all up, but found out that the market wasn't there but was in the US?
Don't you see, it goes from the fog to the animals to the ground, man.
The chance that this train will cost just $50b? None. Look at CA HSR. The price started out with a $40B cost and now it’s trending towards over $100B, with reduced coverage and service compared to what voters expected. It will probably end up being 4-5x its original cost in the end, if the original promise is delivered. I have higher confidence that the road will be significantly closer to its original cost estimate.
I’ve had the card I use for AWS expire in the past, so I’ve got the billing notifications from them. Basically they start emailing you as soon as the charge fails and give you a couple months before they shut off your services. As long as you pay the past due charges by then, there are no complications. Based on the wording in the emails, it seems like they will just shut down the account if you don’t pay the past due charges. Which feels like the right outcome to me. I suppose they could send you to collections but companies that do that tend to be more upfront about it.
> ...at the expense of piston rings and other expensive, hard-to-get-to items. And, an educated guess here, probably increased emissions on the overrun.

This seems like a bad tradeoff. Increasing wear on expensive, hard to replace parts (your engine and transmission), so that you can save on relatively inexpensive, easy to replace parts (your brake pads)
> Good public transport or even bike lanes would massively improve conditions for a lot of people.

Bring up public transit or bicycling to people in nearly every non-urban part of the United States and you'll get a million reasons why it won't work.

Car culture is so engrained in America that people have convinced themselves there is no alternative. "I'd get sweaty", "Oh but I have to carry...", "Walking to the stop would take...", "My kids...", "I don't want to sit next to people..." . Even the rare people who actually have to drive refuse to understand why they should be among the strongest proponents of alternative and public transit.
I find it very interesting that most people assume it should be the employer's responsibility to provide for the employee's wellbeing. Call me naive, but I think it should be society's responsibility. What about Hedge Funds, Technology companies, Law Firms and every other company that hires primarily 6-figure white collar employees. Should they be completely off the hook, just because their business model only requires small numbers of white collar workers? What about yuppies and millionaires who eat at nice restaurants, shop at Whole Foods and cook our own meals, instead of buying from McDonalds. Should we be immune from minimum wage increases just because we can afford to pay for the finer things in life?

Minimum wage laws are fundamentally a tax on low-margin businesses and the low-wage workers who frequent them. There's a better option available. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). It can ensure that workers take home $15/hour, while also ensuring that the cost is borne by the entire society. Not just a few specific industries and the specific demographics that rely on them.
> the privileged and the poor seem to enjoy abusing service workers at about the same rate in my experience.

Agreed. When I worked retail and waiting jobs, I got grief from both out-of-touch wealthy people, and bitter poor people (although there were also kind people from both of those categories).