skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to be mean, but you definitely had observability into the expiration date of your certificate. You just weren't monitoring it yet. What you are doing now with Prometheus sounds good.
If you still use it on multiple sites, and one of those sites is storing it in plaintext, you'll still have the same security issue. Its very rare that someone has broken a password through character-by-character brute force.
"Enterprises sometimes base their buying decisions only on the required business functionality, however, and tend to overlook the application's overall reliability."

Only sometimes?

As someone that has worked in that field for around 25 years, that's a very generous phrasing. I think another way to look at it is that the soft costs that accrue over time and are the result of technical issues are often times just invisible or under appreciated by those most involved in making decisions (certainly at the low end) and by the dynamics of the system selection consulting engagements at the middle and (perhaps) higher end.

Also, its fairly frequent that the people in the enterprise technology department, the people that should really help to navigate these issues, suffer a couple problems themselves. One they tend to be defensive, overly demanding on these counts, and simply seen as a roadblock... conversely you also find IT management far under-qualified to participate in this, too. Sure there are many very really solid professionals out there... but I think it's only "sometimes" you find the right coincidence of business and technical understanding of the full picture, including longer term cost of ownership.

[ADDITION]
Of course, it's not just poor hapless enterprisey/businessey types that sometimes have problems with the long game in technology.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21782156 I think is the same basic message and hits the nail on the head in principle.
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Google is a company that sells multi hundred dollar clicks to lawyers, locksmiths, insurance companies, and brokerages. Plus a lot of cheap ads to everyone else. It is not very romantic to be writing software to connect people to the DUI lawyer they are looking for with incrementally improving efficiency.

It's not nuts to create a romantic narrative to motivate your employees, but it is more than a little dishonest to try to convince investors that they are buying into something that's heading into a better direction than the digital edition of the Yellow Pages. However, you can't say that investors have not wanted something to believe in -- and Alphabet was more than happy to fulfill the desire for tech stock fairy tales. Despite this the fundamentals of selling search ad insurance leads to insurance salesmen is a great business from a numbers perspective.

I think it's sort of an open question about whether or not it makes sense to burnish corporate brands with saving the world fairy tales, but the smartest people in America have decided that fairy tales are what works, so that is what they put people to work in burnishing and promoting. Obviously it has worked pretty well for a lot of companies, especially considering that they are competing with companies that sell candy, toothpaste, and fizzy corn syrup fluid for investor attention and acclaim. Even McDonalds is now saving the world with burgers or something, and that's because these kinds of spiritual fables have been so successful in helping companies to stand out from the pack.

Your Yahoo comparison is a good one. Google at the end of the day is a marginally improved iteration of Yahoo with a slightly broader product offering and better core services. However, Google's brand fluff makes it appear to be something so much different and more grand than Yahoo 2.

For what it's worth I think the old Google statement that they were here to organize the world's information and to make it more accessible and organized is a big enough goal as it is: they don't also have to be a rocketry and car navigation system company.
The surge of negative articles about McKinsey lately seems to suspiciously benefit a certain Democrat running for President at the expense of another. Call me suspicious but this all seems like a politically coordinated hit job.
The password requirements at my job are, in my opinion, insane. It has to be a specified length (an exact number of characters, no more, no less), can't contain any 3+ character words found in a dictionary, and a few other requirements like at least one capital letter and at least one number. And it has to change every three months. So yes, when I have to change my password I end up changing a single character or digit and calling it a day.
Yes but you can protect your password manager with one incredibly secure password. For example, 20 characters.
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WIMPs?
Work as hard as you can at your current job to maximize your income, then donate the money to GiveDirectly.
I've always wanted to see his analysis of the behaviour of the router in terms of PDEs.
It's crazy the extent to which for big companies this experience is different.

The large tech company that I work for has AWS developers& support lingering in dedicated Slack channels on our company Slack where they will help talk you through any issues and keep you updated on feature requests/bugs moving through the Amazon system.
I can of see a difference though. I am not condoning some of the ways I have seen Linus handle threads but it at least always seemed that there was a valid reason at the root. Maybe it was not communicated well but there did seem to be a reason. In the case of Pipenv, there were broken workflows that would have made this tool unusable for a large portion of the community and the response was just go pound sand? That specific case has been resolved since then but I dropped using it after that thread came up.
This is the same sort of bias I witness in Facebook.

>Built a whole lot of cool stuff that’s helpful to the world, but doesn’t make money(Maps, for example).

Through your lens, perhaps, from my perspective you made a series of sophisticated data harvesting apparatuses for one of the biggest advertisers on the planet. You conflate the work Google has done with something like OSM.

The fact that open source Android is corrupted by Google Play services belies the idea that they work for anyone but themselves, one of the largest businesses in the world.
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I mean, you're right on all points, yet I confess I would be a lot more willing to give Slackware a try again if it would return to having a more-or-less annual official release, like it managed from its start in 1993 up through 2013. (Mast years prior to 2000 it had more than one release a year!)

There are things I (dimly) remember genuinely liking about Slackware in terms of its philosophy, but as near as I can tell the official installation method is "install the most recent ISO, then update from there," and when the most recent ISO is three and a half years old, that's not a great look. We've now gone the longest length in Slackware's history without even a point release.

I wouldn't demand Patrick make a new release, but I don't think it's wildly unreasonable to expect one by now. Bringing it back to the original article, I think the same can be said of pipenv.
Agreed 100%. As a massive reddit fan, this makes me mad. I can't see how this won't kill their growth long-term.

Several people I know (me included) refuse to use Pinterest because you can't browse without an account.

#NotMyInternet
Sorry, I've already been asked to memorize a 32-character string, so the slot has been filled. Coincidentally, it also starts with Z.
I'm maintaining a fork here that incorporates all of the valid open PRs from the original repo + some more updates: https://github.com/contra/JSONStream

It isn't published on NPM (you can use it as a git dependency) but if people are interested I can.
> A lot of times they're hitting pause because they want to read what I'm typing in the terminal.

In the DOS days the Pause button on your keyboard would actually stop the text being scrolled (if you had a multi-page output). I wonder if Windows (or well any desktop OS) can have a feature where that button would freeze frame the display.
By having the subdomain, they're endorsed (possibly transitively) by whoever runs python.org. If they want to _not_ endorse whatever PyPA is doing, they need to not supply the subdomain.
I've always assumed it was mostly spam, and the bulk of new users preferring other discussion formats.

I appreciate the correction.
Here is also the article which makes me discover that impressive atlas:

"Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0300-6)
I saw these folks talk at a conference last year and demo some of this work. There is a strong push towards asking computers to do tasks that humans and animals do in psychology and neuroscience experiments: navigating a maze, finding a platform submerged in water, etc. Many of these tasks require memory (see also: playing Montezuma's Revenge). Part of the goal is to reach parity with humans on certain tasks. Another part is to help understand how cognition works by building it from scratch and cross-referencing results with human/animal results.

By using Unity, they can create a virtual environment that mimics the real physical experiments. I think this is good, as one big 'cheat' in many AI projects is representing the 'state' of the system in a way that implicitly captures expert domain knowledge - i.e. about what parts of the environment are significant with regards to performing the task. Letting the agent 'experience' a virtual world in a 'raw' form allows it to figure out what's salient - what it needs to remember - which animals also have to do in experiments.

Plus, Unity videos demo really well.
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I volunteer as a tutor for an organization that provides academic help to students experiencing homelessness. It's not restricted to people working in tech but my anecdotal impression is that there are relatively few tutors who have strong technical backgrounds and a genuine love for math/science-type subjects

If you have such a background and enjoy working with kids you can be quite helpful by (1.) helping students keep from falling so far behind in school that they're unable to pass their classes (2.) providing an example of what it looks like for an adult to be passionate about math and science topics (I think many of these students don't have many such examples).

I'm not sure it's the highest-impact thing I could be doing (i.e. maybe I could have a greater positive impact by donating the hourly value of my time to some charity) but if you're interested in boots-on-the-ground volunteer work that involves in-person work I'd highly recommend it.
yeah but Enterprise level support with TAM's cost upwards of 15k a month. That's pretty prohibitive for most small startups
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> Personally I much prefer `apt-get install libfoo-dev`

So, what do you do when different projects need different versions of libfoo? Right, you download and build it locally inside the project tree and fiddle with makefiles to link to the local version rather than the one installed by apt-get. So basically you do your own dependency management. Good luck with that.
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Almost all AGI projects use symbolic AI.
It is a misconception to believe that connexionism has won, it only leads narrow tasks that help to build the higher level thing that is AGI.
Pro tip: With a history of 9 passwords, change your password 10 times every time you change it until you loop back to the original. That way you can use the same password indefinitely.
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I'm not sure if it's YT or the channel creators, but I've noticed a lot videos are popping up the 'Also check out these videos' thing at the end of their videos (as an overlay, not part of the video), and it covers up the actual video content with no way to hide/remove it.
Bret Victor wrote an article about this a few years ago - a lot of it is still relevant: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
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Gibberish.

If there is no activity on the repo it doesn't mean that someone is not maintaining it.

Oh, like framework developers always know which LEGO block to include in their framework. Like Rails had no vulnerabilities in the past.

> If someone isn’t maintaining it, don’t use it.

Well, good luck with not using 3/4 (or even more) of software in existence. I bet the kernel that is running on your laptop depends on the software that hasn't been updated for 30 years.
IDK about the other cloud providers, but if you have the support on your AWS account for businesses the support is excellent, skilled and fast. We have had support doing TCP dumps and other advanced troubleshooting whenever we've had a problem with their services. Google for their free* services is terrible yes. Which I don't use their services for anything important. I'd imagine they are better with GCP.
Amazon will be the most important company of the 2020s
Maybe, but I see a lot of the censorship and demonetization on YouTube getting attention first from conservatives and second from lesser liked candidates like Tulsi, the antitrust investigations in USA and EU, and some of the Facebook and Twitter criticism being rightly shared by Google. I would say “fuck Google” is extending beyond geeks.
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I don't doubt that. I'm not a mathematician, just a guy who took some classes in college. For a noob like me, this is all cool to see for the first time.
Not a dream. https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/9/16/167
Yes and sites that force such changes deserve to get shit passwords, get hacked, and go the fuck out of business. If they are too stupid to understand security, they shouldn't run a website. That includes companies like Microsoft and Amazon that force people to change pw through systems that generally don't work, fail randomly, and have different criteria for what constitutes a good pw (depending which m$ server you get, it'll allow proper long passwords or not). If people are using pw managers changing pw is never necessary. If they are not it's useless. Either way, it's a nuisance that exists only because of idiots implementing stupid shit they are too dumb to understand and forcing the rest of us to jump through their dumb rituals to get LESS security than if they didn't do any of this stupidity in the first place!
What org?
I thought so on first glance too, but from what I've heard from someone who worked there, it's working software and it makes a lot of money. That's the opposite of a pipe dream, even if far short of AGI.
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Well put - that's exactly how I feel.
Because it's literally "news", in the sense that the definition of news includes something that is newly discovered, regardless of how long it's been happening?

So maybe the better question is: why was it newly discovered now? The Internet makes the details of investigations and court cases easier to disseminate and systemically track, for starters. Another factor may be that the company has recently entered an era when it has significantly expanded its influence, and/or has trended toward the kind of performance that becomes controversial and litigious:

https://twitter.com/i_m_m/status/1202641126362091523

Some excerpts from this Twitter thread:

> The first crack came in 2009 when the SEC charged a colleague I liked, Anil Kumar, with insider trading. Anil was a partner; the partners fired him immediately. The following year he pled guilty, paid a huge fine, but never seriously repented.

> The Firm went into crisis mode. In 2014, Dominic Barton became Managing Director. He set out to clean up the scandal and fix the professional culture that tolerated felonious behavior among senior partners. How has that worked out

> As he took over, a book exposed bad McKinsey advice. At Enron, a former partner was in jail. The Firm-advised Time Warner AOL merger was a disaster. The advice to GM re Japanese competition had failed. The Internet? Mobile Embarrassing.
It's not just memorizing it, it's typing it every single time for every transaction that you want to do, if the administrators require it. The recommendation on one system I use is to force ssh and auth with username/pw for every git transaction. Because Security!
it really is fantastic how simple it is to express, i sketched in the console as i was reading the article

n=>n-1?n%2?c(n/2):c(n*3+1):1
I’m tracked around the web against my will. I cant tell Google to stop, I can only try and prevent/corrupt their attempts. That’s despicable behavior.
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The problem with putting keys on the keyboard that radically change depending on context is that you cannot use them from memory just like the other keys. Of course CMD+C doesn't copy when you didn't select anything nor will CMD+W close a tab in a tabless application but when I want to lower the volume on a TouchBarless Mac it's always the same key in the same place while it might exist or not exist depending on the application I'm in.

Perhaps in Final Cut Pro I'm not able to lower the volume anymore because there's a video scrubber in the place of that key instead. So I cannot depend on that key anymore.
I used to be annoyed about that, but the particles we currently think of as “fundamental” could well be emergent too. So reserving the word “particle” for only fundamental ones isn’t practical.
Eternity?
If all we do is waiting...

Almost nobody is really working on AGI and this is the main issue.
A notable counter example is the recent reconversion of John Carmack.
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Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't want my employer to be so closely associated with medical files that hold the results from genetic disease screenings.
That maps api was used by all kinds of hobbyist websites. Once they pulled the plug on free, all those sites bad to scramble to find alternatives.
Joke's on you! You just cut my brute force attack time in half! Only 1 billion years left!
> those savings probably won't even pay for more than a quarter of a [developer]

So you're assuming that configuring nginx properly, once, takes 3 months, every year? If it takes the developer (or sysadmin) less long than that, you're already saving money.
Actually, I had a great experience with Google Firebase support.

Suddenly, my apps were unable to connect to Firebase, after making sure that it's not me doing something wrong I contacted support and they came back to me in minutes, Together with the support engineer we debugged the issue, turned out that it was a configuration deployment error on their part and got if fixed.

What I am terrified of is having an issue with a free service that I depend on, like Gmail.
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That‘s arguably what many people use it for, though.

Regarding the street names. I usually approach the service from these 2 directions:

- Address or name of place is known. I use Maps to find out where it is and how to get there.

- Trying to find places in a certain area (Laundry, restaurants, shops, etc)

Only very rarely do I need to know a street name specifically. Not saying it‘s not important for other people though.
You can pay $100/10% a month on Amazon and get good support. They will debug and guide you on. Hiring someone with the expertise you get would cost magnitudes of order more. And if your enterprise is at the level where it warrants 15k a month support, it is still worth it. Considering that still would barely get you only one skilled person hired.
There's still no complete explanation on why it is a failure.
What are the technical difficulties they can't overcome?
Right. Unions have their problems, but they provide considerable protection against arbitrary actions by management.

Here's The Animation Guild, Local 839, IATSE, which represents Hollywood animators at the major studios.[1] Disney, Pixar, Warner, etc. This union is all creative people. They have salary floors, but not ceilings. Most usefully, they have overtime rules. Beyond 8 hours, time and a half. Weekends, time and a half. Crunches, double time. In Hollywood, management tries hard to avoid crunches, because they have to pay for them.
The Animation Guild has a pension plan, which has, they point out, outlived all but two animation studios.

The Animation Guild tried to organize game development companies. They got Pixar, but not EA. They used to send a labor organizer to Bay Area SIGGRAPH meetings.

That's what Silicon Valley needs.

[1] https://animationguild.org/
Tried this as a kid. It didn't work because nobody in the vicinity knew anything about my hobbies or had any interest.
> safety and correctness features

You can achieve safety and correctness features for node via good lint rules and typescript/flow.
Employee of Cycorp here. A few thoughts:

- At least right now, we have a good amount of common-sense information about the world (I don't know when "last time" was for you).

- That said, we have a lot of highly specialized knowledge in various domains, so if you took a random sample of the knowledge base (KB) it may not be as common-sense-centric as you'd hope. But the KB is also incredibly large, so that doesn't mean we don't have much common-sense, just that we have even more other stuff.

- Often for contracts we get paid to construct lots of domain-specific knowledge, even if the project also uses the more general knowledge, so this biases the distribution some.

- Information that's already well-taxonomized is low-hanging fruit for this kind of system; its representation doesn't take nearly as much extra thought and consideration, so it's a faster process, which also biases the distribution some.
I think they are questioning the “self-destruct” claim.

My understanding is that the aim was to have the centrifuges return erroneous information rather than obvious sabotage like self destruction.
it has a nice comparison to pipenv
Yes, the "limited audience" is for students, the audience in question. The value of a textbook, or a newspaper, is not the paper. Are you under the impression that a rented textbook, and/or a digital version of it, is trivially cheap?
Without researching traffic stats over time, what gives you the impression that reddit is dying? I'm under the impression it's only become bigger and bigger over the years. It's one of the top sites on the internet.

Also,for me, it's still a great social media site that lets me talk anonymously about almost anything.

The beauty of reddit is that serious decline and toxicity only seems to happen within subs. If a sub becomes really bad, you just move on to other subs that are less toxic. Still plenty of great subcommunities there.
Any recommended Garmin model? When I check the OSM site, the information seems some what sparse.
Not dead.
https://github.com/pypa/pipenv/issues/4058#issuecomment-5655...
That's the point of the hard version.