skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I'm more familiar with the Nordics, so it may be my view is somewhat tainted by the expensive end of the spectrum.
Pretty light on actual details about the terminal. Anyone recommend something more in depth?
Just another result of everyone wanting everything faster, cheaper & easier. The greedy urge to get more profit drives companies to work against people.
Also keeps CRLs as short as possible.
I'm not offended by a Santa hat, I'm just fed up of everything trying to shoehorn Christmas into everything for what purpose exactly?

I'm from a tradionally Christian country, and I'm not in the slightest bit religious and for the last four years I've gone China in December so that I can avoid most of the festive period in peace.

I don't need every single product and service telling me that Christmas is coming, I'm aware of the fact. Stop using it to sell your products!
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I wanted to make a pre MVP leads landing page this week. Researched new static site builder and templates. Choose one, ran into a build problem, then saw that docs were not up to date... all in all half a day with no hard, ready to launch outcome.

Took a step back, what is the most minimal thing I needed.

Took html5 boilerplate, copy&pasted the index.html, put normalize.css inline.

Got rid of everything else. Minimal Html, an image, form mailer. Done and launched https://www.securrr.app on Netlify in less than an hour.

Overengineering is real. Choose a goal, use the most simplest solution to get there.
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You should go to Paris, then.

Order a taxi during "peak hours": 5 EUR.
Then they charge you with an "approaching fee". Basically, they make you pay for the distance they traveled on their way to pick you up.

So last time I took one, I jumped in and was already charged for 21 EUR before the ride even began. The ride itself just cost 10 EUR...
Hmm, so he published originally to Greenwald about 9-10 k
docs - so you are saying about 9-10 docs contained illegal stuff?

Or are you counting all the documents he downloaded and looked at but didn't publish??? Maybe you are including every book he ever read as well?

Remember the leak as a whole was essentially that the US ( and it's allies ) were hoovering everything up it could - phone and data, via any means necessary - often illegal means, just in case it was useful, with no respect for either national or international law.

Whether you think it was necessary or not, common knowledge or not - it was illegal at the time and people like the director of national intelligence lied directly to congress about it happening.

Yep it's not as bad a Turkey or North Korea - but that doesn't make it ok...
to anyone else wondering: they are now calling it 737-8200 apparently [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48995509
Hmmm, now I'm curious but couldn't find a generic answer.

Here is a figure for the waters around Antarctica though:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/ocean-convey...

>An estimated 35 million to 45 million cubic meters (between 1.2 billion and 1.6 billion cubic feet) of water per second are continually moved from the ocean bottom to the surface.

That's over a huge area though and still no real idea of speed.
I played with the concept a couple of years ago (mathfood.com as a proof of concept / toy / abandoned side project); and for me it was easier to build a meal I wanted to eat; plug it in; and it would tell me how much to eat PLUS what I was short on macros. Those, I would plug with supplements (protein powder, fish oil pills, fruit). Not fun, but you hit your macros...
overregulation

Or just normal non-unbridled-capitalism regulation.
They had time to deal with the santa hat issue so clearly they have a lot of free time on their hands.
"The last time I came across a difficult problem and overcame it was ..."

"The thing I enjoyed working on the most was ..."

"In five years time, I see myself ..."

"If I could choose to be any animal, I would be a ..."
From a European point of view, US tech companies are not even close to being regulated.
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The level insidiousness needed to use asylum as a way to undermine India's secularism is something only the BJP(right-wing hindu nationalist) can have.

People fleeing persecution can obviously be sheltered in a nonsectarian manner.
> What parent mean is that there may be holes in the sequence of primary keys.

Are you sure that's what they mean? It's not what they said. "Monotonic" means "strictly increasing" (or decreasing) e.g. 1, 2, 5, 7 is monotonic even though it has gaps. "Contiguous" means "without gaps".
Just a reminder that Comparitech "pays" security researchers for "data breaches" and most likely encourages people to report these things to them without getting servers patched: https://twitter.com/securinti/status/1196850409924681728

No offense, but if you need to "pay" for your researcher, you're probably not that ethical and are most likely behind some intentional offensive hacking, so people can make money off your back.
It seems they replaced the c code by optimized assembly, and improving the existing assembly that was there.
I think loop-unrolling is one of the things they did, but am not sure:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=a...
The person.
I find it amusing that someone would recognize the Santa hat as a religious symbol. All that I associate it with is the season of intrusive marketing. Never would I associate it with Christianity itself regardless of my thoughts about the religion.

Of course, thanks to the association with the ads for products I find the image kitsch and repulsive, so wouldn't mind if it disappeared from software as well.

Regarding the Jewish issue, I have no opinion.
Should've just called it a Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) hat. It's a Russian version of Santa Claus who is completely secular.
Honestly, in almost all places that monospaced fonts are used, they’re purely a stylistic choice. (The remainder is mostly ASCII art, or plain-text representations of tables—in which case alignment is important, not the font—or something where tabular figures are desirable for number alignment.) I don’t say that that makes it useless in any way, but honestly monospaced text in code editing is overrated. You can live without it easily, and will probably get used to it very quickly.
I was at a financial startup ~ 2012 and remember getting a couple of these to play with. They came in the form of 1U servers (HP I think) running RHEL5 that each needed a public IP that was open to bloomberg. I think the client app was windows only at that time, I wonder how much has changed
I am European myself, but I tend to have more libertarian tendencies when it comes to this.

Funny how right after posting this, I just read the news that France fined Google (again) [1] for arbitrarily banning a company from Google Ads and promoting its own services (unrelated to the other company). This is the kind of thing that doesn't fly in the US: If I own a platform, I get to decide who can use it or not, and it is not the governments place to fine for me if I decide to promote my products in my platform (as long as there is no discrimination taking place).

I think this kind of bureaucracy and "overregulation" (inference in private business affairs) is part of what makes it impossible for European tech companies to be among the top in the world.

[1] https://www.elmundo.es/economia/empresas/2019/12/20/5dfca947...
Databases such as postgresql will effectively issue a buffer of keys to each connection, meaning in some circumstances the sequences will not be monotonic with respect to time. Also that usually long running transactions will use the timestamp the transaction was opened, regardless of how many seconds have passed between then and when the statement is executed.
Boeing isn’t too big to fail, it is too important to fail.

The author raises a valid point that the financial engineers on the board beed to go.
Tech company or not, we desperately need new regulation/legislation for platform economies. Entire markets are being captured inside a platform run by a single company, with rules that are made up by that company. I'd rather have my market regulated by the government, thank you.
Mmm. Maybe. There is a plausible theory [0] that our coal deposits came from the era between when plants learned to produce lignin but bacteria didn't know how to break it down.

Given that lignin eating bacteria are now quite common, it is unlikely coal seams will form of the same quantity and quality.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Formation
Disclaimer: I work for Kopano. So if anybody reads this and has questions (not related to CERN) to ahead.

To answer your question: In europe there is currently a push to get more independent of (us) cloud providers. On top of that Cern has decided to embrace Open Source and companies supporting it, so in the end its not really about cutting costs, but getting more control.
Are you really likely to hire this candidate? Asking him to commit even more time when he's started off so poorly seems like an (unknown to him) poor use of his time.
> That's not a matter of confusing flight modes or computer behaviour - pretty much any aeroplane will stall if you pull the stick back all the way (and what else would you expect to happen?)

As far as I know, on the normal flight mode (normal law) the computer behavior of an Airbus is that it will not stall if you pull the stick back all the way - it will go as far as it can before stalling, and no more. But that depends on the sensors which had failed, so the computer had to switch to a mode which didn't have that protection.
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That's a cultural thing in the company I work for (or maybe broader in Germany, dunno), where some people think that if they start to negotiate, they might lowball candidates, and then they leave after half a year or so.

We try to hire more long term (we aim for 5+ years retention), dunno if that's related, or if there is any evidence to back this procedure.

I find it a bit weird myself, which is why as a candidate I'd like to know about it :-)
It would have seen the same outpouring of outrage. What's your point?
What's so surprising about that? Comparing these two doesn't make sense.
> On geological time-scales (tens of millions of years) fossil fuels will be replenished.

Will they? My understanding is that we have abundant coal thanks to the Carboniferous period, during which trees emerged but no organisms had yet adapted to break down lignin, causing massive fossilized tree deposits -- coal. As far as I see, that was an unique period in Earth's history that will not take place again.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
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Interesting. Although to be fair, in this particular case, the qualifier does make sense, exaclty because it is a one-time event. It means "the first time we build a Quantum Computer that is capable of doing something a classical computer isn't capable of, thereby proving it really is Quantum, thereby proving Quantum Computation can really happen in our universe". It really is a one-time event to prove a specific hypothesis.
US (and not only US) tech companies are heavily underregulated in comparison to the rest of economic actors in EU economies. That's an unfair advantage and probably will be diminished, but not completely lost, in the future, with new and updated regulations and rulings such as this one.
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Why do you call this 'overregulation'?

In both cases the regulation is far more relaxed than many EU citizens would like it to be. It merely tries to minimally protect society from the overall race to the bottom in terms of employee rights and in terms of zoning and safety regulation.
Yep, IIRC even Adolf Hitler implemented something very similar in the 1930s.
Seriously, what a ridiculous comment by TechCrunch. Facebook is openly hostile to your privacy, don’t give them an inch.

It would be great if journalists stopped sharing the PR snippets from companies and focused on what they actually do.

Actions should always speak louder than words
Yep.. The Sky is blue too..

I'm not sure what was to be expected here. I do really like how they point out the fact that it makes it plain as day too that the property owners are not employees in any way of AirBnB however its quite hard for Uber to claim the same about their drivers.

I am looking forward to the IPO of AirBnB.
This is pretty neat for getting into a focused mindset. I'm sure James Joyce would be best pleased!
>My guess is it's one of those things that are simple to understand for the guy that wrote it but inscrutable for everyone else.

Or, one could just read the code instead of guessing - it's not that hard to follow, similar to Bloom idea + XORing the hashes.
> Only downside is I'm dependent on Evernote, but hopefully it manages to stick around in some form for a good while, and if it ever doesn't, I expect I'll be able to migrate to something similar.

I have used Evernote and OneNote, but have finally, after a long interim period, resorted to using only markdown.

I have a "Notes" root folder and organize section groups and sections in subfolders. VSCode (or Emacs), with some tweaks, shortcuts, and extensions, provides a good-enough markdown editing experience. Like an extension that allows you to paste in images, storing it in a resources folder in the note's current location (yes, I see small problems with this down the road when re-organizing, but nothing that can't be handled).

For Firefox, I use the markdown-clipper extension the few times I would like to copy a whole article, it works well enough. Or I copy/paste what I need; mostly, I take my own summarized notes.

For syncing, I use Nextcloud, which also makes the notes available both for reading and editing on Android and iOS (I use both).

Up until very recently, I used Joplin, which also uses markdown, but there were two things I could not live with: it does not store the markdown files with a readable filename, e.g., its title, and being tied to a specific editor.

If you are mostly clipping and not writing your own notes, I can imagine my setup won't work well, or be very efficient.

I want to use a format that has longevity, and storing in a format that I cannot grep is out of the question.
RDS is expensive, but for a small team of 5 devs (my current setup) it is an amazing solution.

Scaling up and down the database is as simple clicking a button on the UI, which we used quite effectively when our services saw a sudden spike in the load. We were able to scale down the same way after the spike dropped.

We still had to tune our queries and indices so that we weren't paying the cost over the long term, but the peace of mind that comes with not having to figure out why your database went down when there is no one in the office is a huge win-win.

We currently also manage an OLD version of Cassandra and Elasticsearch and we are also looking to migrate to the new managed version of Cassandra. At the end of the day, the extra cost for RDS even for small teams, is much lower than the cost in terms of developer-hours * cost per hour for developer.
Matrix is asynchronous. You send a message into a room; other people can receive it later or respond to it subsequently - it's not like the data blocks the room somehow until it's read, or that messages disappear after reading.
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There is an old observation that I found striking at the time:

Newer methods of storing information tend to be progressively easier to write, and progressively less durable.

(The following is not really in chronological order)

You'll never look at stone tablets the same way again. As primitive as they are, their longevity can be amazing. Ancient emperors and tyrants knew what they were doing. Trajan's column from 113 AD is our main source on roman legionary's iconic equipment.

Cuneiform tablets were heavy and awkward, but they were 3D so there was no paint to worry about.

Parchment tends to be more durable than papyrus, and paper. Perhaps the best known among the Dead Sea Scrolls was made out of copper.

Iron Age culture artifacts are harder to find than Bronze Age one, because bronze is more resistant to corrosion.

CD's, especially(?) from home burners, are reported to oxidize after several years. That may still be better than tapes, hard drives and other magnetic media (SSD?) which can be wiped by an EMP pulse. The internet era information storage appears to come with an upkeep cost! Slack practically doesn't archive messages by default. Until Gmail, it was typical for email servers to delete old messages.

People get used to novelty and things being ephemeral. Capitalism supposedly requires low durability goods so people keep buying them, including tools and clothes. Houses are poorly built break down pretty quickly.

I find it amazing people used to decorate their homes, tools, clothes with ornaments, engravings etc. You'd be a fool to do that today, you don't even know how long that thing is going to last.
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i think that is was scientists are doing now :D
The ECJ is half-assing it. They should be heavily fining and taxing AirBNB, Uber, and every other US tech company which has established monopolies in the EU, and using those funds to help develop local competition.
Thanks!

Btw you have a bug in your HN profile, it shows "Karma 158422", which seems to be about two orders of magnitude off? ;)
The question is, is everything that uses the Shopify API an application?
I posted an answer to this question below. I can understand your point of view, I just think that this makes it very hard for European companies to compete. I completely understand the need to regulate when it is needed to protect people's rights, but I think sometimes Europe goes a bit too far, and it makes it hard for European companies to compete at the same level as US companies.

EDIT: Also, my post was not meant specifically for sharing-economy platforms. In those cases I can see the need for some specific regulation (and even then I think Europe goes too far), but just tech companies in general.
AirBNB does suggest prices, however.
You did what? There’s obviously no delete on Facebook, only an isDeleted column in the db.
> renters deal directly with hosts throughout the process

Hardly. You pay Airbnb, insurance is in theory done through Airbnb, disputes are done through Airbnb. It's quite possible to have almost zero interaction with a host (host just messages a code that unlocks building and apartment). With Uber you are dealing with the driver as much as you are with a Taxi.
How do you know they are non-conscious?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

For example, I'm assuming you're conscious, because you posted a reply that was on-topic and coherent with the conversation above it.
It’s not libertarian to value corporate rights above those of the individual citizen.

Hell, when companies become more powerful than actual governments, the least libertarian thing you could possible do, is to give their kingdoms free reign.
There was an interesting write up done recently about Swift ABI features that enable this and why Rust doesn't/can't do similar things due to different design goals.

https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/
docker and docker-compose with the project root mounted as /app usually does the trick for me.
We are using docker-compose with mounting your local files inside of the container. You can either switch do docker or mount your local folder in VM via vagrant. Not sure live reload will work with the latter solution, but works pretty well with docker.
Seems to me the same as was done by Christian: mistaking the Santa hat of 2019 with whatever happened before.
> This, and the cost, is why I opted to go with Pine Phone over Purism Librem 5

I am now considering purchasing a Pine Phone and the cost is definitely motivating. I only wish that the PinePhone had hardware kill switches like the Librem 5 has.
fair response. Setting aside the terminology, why should these transactions be regulated in a special way (over the level of regulation on giving a friend a lift for free)? I think collecting taxes on the earnings is fair, but why anything heavier? what makes it so special?
No, I trust HTML and CSS to stand the test of time far more than Markdown. Do you know how many different variants of Markdown there are, how they affect the interpretation and appearance of the content, how they can break surprisingly much? And when it comes down to it, as soon as you want to do anything even remotely interesting in Markdown, you have to drop straight HTML in there, and pray that the Markdown engine will do the right thing, since the rules of how it should all work are insanely complex, and vary widely by engine, for all that there’s a general trend towards CommonMark which at least specifies the madness and folly. (I’m sad that Markdown won over reStructuredText, which was actually designed.)

HTML is a quite acceptable authoring format, one that readily lets you do interesting things if you desire—though making it possible can certainly be a footgun. CSS is a reasonable styling language.
I'm really looking forward to a good electronic replacement for paper.

After a long search for an e-reader that can handle academic papers, I came up empty handed. There just isn't a good solution right now since most devices have a screen that's too small and ebook conversion isn't a good workflow. Additionally, my field has lots of colorful figures that are hit or miss when converted to greyscale. The readers that are big enough also seem to get pretty mixed reviews.

What I really need is a dumb A4 sized e-ink PDF reader. That way I can stop printing out every article I want to read.

I'm sure that someone could make a killing on this product if it was at the right price point since most of my friends have a similar need. I was kind of surprised that nothing exists yet.
J Cox did some analysis of the dumps, writing:

"I just ran these in a script I wrote to process them through HaveIBeenPwned in bulk. Every single email except ~20 was already compromised. These Ring dumps going around (+Buzzfeed prob) are highly likely password reuse; not evidence to suggest internal DB"

source https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1207864924459978752
I don't care about ECC https://blog.codinghorror.com/to-ecc-or-not-to-ecc/

I had hardware raid 5 before and it failed, because I used similar hard drives ( 3 drives failed within a month, wasn't expecting that).

Working on redundant deployment though ;)

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My quote still stands as I said it
Uber sets the price. That's the point.
Can confirm. I did some fuzz-testing of random scripting languages a while back, and reported bugs in things like GNU Awk.

Here's a trivial example:

/usr/bin/gawk 'for (i = ) in steve kemp rocks'

I found fuzz-testing like this very very useful when writing my own BASIC interpreter, and playing with scripting languages though. It's almost magical how quickly problems are found!
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all right, fair. Could you explain why it is (why it should be) forbidden by law? What's any reason to do so?
I wouldn't mind this at all. Am I in a hurry? That car that's three times the usual price 100 feet away is great.

Do I just need to get an 80 mile trip? Ah well I guess that clunker 10 min away isn't that bad for half the usual price.