skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's quite rude to put words in my mouth which I didn't say, then make up some things about what I have or haven't done and use them as an insult against me.

"I'm amused by X" != "X is true"
I just branch my kdbx file every ~4 months to withstand dB corruption. Appending -$date suffix on the filename. I also sync the database (using nextcloudpi) between mobile (keepassdx) and desktop.
> "OSI license"

What is that even supposed to mean? There is no OSI-approved license that goes by that name, nor in fact any license at all with that name as far as I can find. Incidentally the GPL is an OSI-approved license.
You are donating a lot of money to your employer’s shareholders if you knowingly work for below market rates. I hope you have an excellent work environment but even if you do you should interview at least yearly to see if there’s anything really attractive around. Other companies have end users too.
Almost every consumer product is sold and marketed on the basis of emotional connection.

More likely than not, you're just not aware of it, which is normal.

FYI the emotional connection is not just made 'via tooltips', it's usually a package affair.

The article is a good example: the product (gas) and price didn't change, one could argue cleanliness was changed but that's a little doubtful unless the old station was disgusting. What changed was probably brand, colours, lighting, atmosphere, modern appearance - all pretty superficial stuff that has nothing to do with the actual product - gasoline. And yet it makes a big difference to most people, probably including you and I. We probably don't notice we were more likely to pull into the big, lit, white, modern looking gas station with the brand we recognised - over the off-brand gas next door, which is identical.
Show HN: Owwly – Share your product's progress with creators like you
Out of curiosity, I wonder how Gawker compares Breitbart News. They sits at the opposite side of the political table, both claims to be media companies, and both got targeted by activism by people who want to shut them down. Both also seems to have walked a rather thin line between legal and illegal.
iOS 13.3 is what's required (not "13 beta"), and 13.3 was released a few weeks ago.
Exactly, "it stops working when it becomes an interview question". I mentioned that I think it is in intriguing question, but in the blog post, it is presented as an effective interview question. It seems just very unlikely that the interviewer will be persuaded by my "true" position; after all, most other people strongly disagree. And we can assume that "most other people" means "most highly skilled people in position of influence in the given domain" (otherwise, the answer will be too obvious). Strategically, it makes more sense to present a position that is close to the one the interviewer has; then the interviewer will also find my arguments more reasonable, even if they somewhat disagree.
In a hardware token, there's generally a single master secret and private keys are derived on the fly for each website you register/log into. So you can use 1 single hardware token with an unlimited number of sites (note that you prob want to register at least 2 tokens per site, in case you loose one, but this is a different story).

The standard also define the concept of resident keys (RKs), that you can use for passwordless authentication (typically with a PIN on the token, to avoid theft). In this case of course each key consumes a bit of storage, so the number of sites is limited. For example, a Solo key can currently store 50 resident keys. To the best of my knowledge, apart from demo sites, the only "real" site supporting resident keys is microsoft/outlook.com, so this is currently not a real practical limitation.
Ask HN: How good is facial recognition at large scale?
Facial recognition in public contexts is routinely in the news, especially when it is being conducted by authoritarian regimes. But I have also heard anectodally that current techniques are brittle and lead to large numbers of false positives at large scales. Can anyone point to good papers on the topic of facial recognition at population scale (hundreds of thousands of faces)?
Golden Ratio Drawn by Hand
It may be fascist, it may not be, but what he's arguing in that piece isn't strictly wrong. Representative democracy has largely failed, and, like Thiel said, is incompatible with maximum freedom. However, whether maximum freedom is desirable (I don't think it is) is up to the reader.
That Hackaday article is a little odd to me.

Speaking of the 500, it says, "There was one task from that era you almost certainly wouldn’t have done on your Amiga though, and that was connect it to the Internet... Later Amigas received Internet abilities..."

The first Amiga was the A1000 — two years before the 500 — and was perfectly capable of internet communication. It's where I first saw a web browser. Sure, the connection was dialup, but so was everyone's back then.
Yes. In the Parcel and WebPack threads I was reminded shiny new things often have edge cases that are unknown, not well known or known with no solution ( yet ). And I simply dont have the time and energy to deal with those, much better to wait for it to mature before jumping in.
I met a guy who made biochar on the woodlot of someone he had an arrangement with - woodlot owners are always looking for new ways to monetise their lots, you may be able to tinker with biochar production/sequestration without the big upfront investment, this guy did it with a few weekends (and free labour from people who wanted to learn the technique) a year.
Check out Flutter too. I recently dove into React Native and found myself completely switching gears to Flutter for many many reasons.
> he's arguing not against socialism as much as against mere limits on capitalism like we saw in the New Deal. ... and it is not wild and crazy to describe that as a fundamentally fascist viewpoint.

FDR admired fascists, specifically because he saw commonalities between their policies and the policies he pursued in the New Deal. "Fascist" does not mean "pro-capitalism", and strictly speaking it doesn't even mean "authoritarian". All fascists are authoritarian, but not all authoritarians are fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Franklin_D._Roose...
One bad thing about the cycle is we never get to stop dealing with the problem. Because we’re in a cycle of destruction and renewal, applications rot as the infrastructures under them become incompatible.

Where people stopp trying to make “pluggable systems” and “platforms” and instead tried to actually solve problems with finality, and to create procedural interfaces that cover a clear cone of responsibility, the result is mature libraries that stop changing, and become bedrock under applications.

I won’t say it’s “bad” not to strive for that. It is a unique challenge you may or may not wish to tackle.
You may disagree, but where are you getting the resources to push your position?
Oddly enough I also quit reading American Gods (rare for a Gaiman book), but I don't remember it being difficult. I just kind of lost interest.
Data Structures and Algorithms open source GitHub project in C#
Its hard to believe that Dan Luu can’t pass algorithm interviews.
That's not actually true.

He's stating that that was compatible with what he wanted. He's not claiming in that essay that we should go back to it. He doesn't want democracy, that much is apparent, because he thinks it's incompatible with freedom on a long time scale.
Top top top athletes know how to harness their fascia for "super" human strength. Bruce Lee and the 1" punch is the best example.
Allowing the billionaires to set the reasonable taxation rates of this discussion is a testament to how brainscattered people are on this. 10% would still leave an enormous amount of money left over and far more than he would ever need. His great great great grandchildren would still be multi-billionaires.
I'm an Eng Manager and half of my learning time in 2020 will be focused on developing better management/leadership skills. It's something I've found comes with little mentorship opportunities in tech and is also hard to find others to reach out to / network with for mentorship opportunities.

The other half / pure tech - taking on some of the stack that has largely been abstracted by other teams as I've worked, namely CI/CD/Ops/Monitoring for distributed, containerized systems.

I'll probably build something with:

- Go on the backend

- Typescript + React (maybe Vue) on the front-end

- Postgres (really want to master this)

- Redis for caching

and get it built and running on AWS with Kubernetes. Don't know what I want to do for logs/monitoring/dashboards etc. as I've experience with ELK (don't enjoy it), Splunk, Sumo and others but it's not as important a choice to make right now.

Depending on how well that's going I may write a mobile app with Flutter or React Native for whatever is built to round it out.

I have to say though, and I don't know how many others here feel the same, I am getting some sense of anxiety over having no knowledge of or practical experience in ML/DL. Is that justified? Part of me is tempted to invest the entire other half of my learning time into ML/DL for at least the first 6 months and I'm still talking myself down on it.
> You apparently believe that private philanthropy is better than government, but you want the rest of us to give our hard-earned money to government?

That's not his argument at all. This argument is poorly written. Income tax != wealth tax.
Well, with step functions you can have auto retry with exponential back off in case of failure. But you had a lambda that couldn’t upload a 20Mb file to S3 in 15 minutes? Whatever the issue was, you would have more than likely had the same issue with a VM. A lambda runtime environment is nothing special for all intents and purposes but a Linux VM with well known constraints - a 512MB /tmp storage, and up to a 15 minute runtime.
Seems that Prettier.js has been able to hang on step 4 and almost avoid 5 and 6 (so far) :-)

I think that is precisely what makes it so desirable in any project, no more organizational fighting about insubstantial stylistic matters.

I would love that ClangFormat was the same. If you leave the door open to interpretations, interpretations will enter the room.
They are ex-Nordic cadres. You can note, they keep their own key tech cadres incommunicado :). Unlike business people, they have not a single bit of their contact information listed on their page.
> It seems like whenever I hear people talk about politics, they speak as though they’re persecuted lone wolves going against the current, but they tend to have opinions that something like half the country holds, which I would define as very mainstream.

Half the country and probably most of their social circle.
>can only be a negative

Your argument is noy exactly true. If the value of finding a similarly open-minded individual outweighs the low probability* of finding it, then it makes sense.

Put another way if given a utility function with terms (utility of open minded individual) (probability of OMI) > 1 then it is rational.
One person’s bedrock is another person’s pile of anachronisms, cruft, and poorly designed abstractions held together with duct tape.
I guess it is not a coincidence that this is a perfect interview question:
By construction people cannot cram 'right answers' from some preparation website because the answer would become repetitive. Applicants have to reveal their own original thought or at least prepare by talking to somebody with original ideas. At worst you get somebody who cannot come up with good ideas on his own but who at least can recognize good ideas.
What helped me a lot getting away from being limited by ORM capabilites while on the job:

- Get the raw SQL of some slow or memory intensive queries the ORM produces and try to optimize them by hand. Try different approaches to get the same result, measure and understand them by using 'explain' and visualizers like http://tatiyants.com/pev/

This works great together with libraries like sqlalchemy where the ORM is optional and build upon a abstraction of SQL that you can use directly. This way you can use the ORM for the 80% where it works just fine and hand write the rest in Python without having to deal with raw, fairly inflexible SQL in application code.

- Try moving workload from the application to the database. In the past I often ended up doing ORM queries to get a large numbers of objects and then further process and even join them in Python. In Most of these cases doing it in the database is way more efficient and lets you get away with a slow language, synchronous requests running on small servers for a surprisingly long time.

- Do business intelligence type queries for reports and monitoring. Through doing this I discovered a lot of database features that I didn't encountered commonly in web application development but that nonetheless came in handy several times for it. Also since you often need to combine data in ways that it wasn't necessarily originally designed for, you really need to start thinking about how your data is structured and how to get it in and out efficiently.

- Don't immediately dismiss relational databases for tasks where they might not be the infamous "best tool for the job". Chances are, that the relational database you already have in place is good enough for your use case and that it will safe you headaches of setting up, understanding, synchronizing and maintaining a entirely different db system. E.g. Vanilla Postgres for timeseries data worked just fine for us for years before moving to a more specialized solution with TimescaleDB. Also used it with success for non-relational data, simple graphs, key/value stores and for queues.
It's amazing how this keeps generating something news worthy. As I understand it it is entirely symbolic and not really something that carries the described value?
Dhall – Year in review (2019-2020)
I was going to mention QT. Though most their locations are in the Midwest. The only chains that even come close to the same quality and consistency are Racetrac or _some_ circle K's.

I pretty much always choose to stop at a QT if I can just because of all the little things you mentioned that they do better than every other gas station.
As an undergraduate in political science I declared that the United States invaded Iraq because of Iran. My foreign policy professor told me I was misguided and blinded by war no gering rhetoric. Eight years later I got my PhD on that same thesis.
I manage a team of Tech Support Engineers. Learned the basics of python/requests/selenium. We work primarily on web applications though. Back end would be ideal.
Decentralised Finance (DeFi) in practice: when you have a spare ETH to play with
I absolutely love that first picture of the girl wearing the iron mask. An early example of worker safety, in interesting contrast to the very nice clothes she's wearing. Plus the specially manufactured iron face gear to protect from broken bottles, or possibly just a fencing mask, still I love the early 20th century industrialism of it.
I see a lot of comments of people interested to test it out.

If you have a hardware token with NFC, you can now test it everywhere: Mac, Windows, Linux (), Android (all browser), iOS (Safari iOS 13.3+). This is a big achievement as less than 1y ago the story was sooo much different.

If you do NOT have a hardware token, here are some options:

- Windows with TPM or Hello

- Mac with touchID sensor, you have to use Chrome

- Android phone, Chrome mobile, should work with fingerprint and face recognition

- An Android phone itself can be used as a bluetooth hardware token, with Chrome on your laptop.

Hope this list helps, please add if I forgot anything.
Ignoring the author’s pretty simplistic argument (government bad), Bill Gates doesn’t suffer a whole lot from a larger income tax, vs a wealth tax or higher capital gains taxes. So it’s hard to say he has skin in the game with this recommendation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map

I was not familiar with Karnaugh maps. For the curious, they are a visual, 2-d representation of truth tables using Gray codes.
Keep reading! I felt the same way but ended up really liking it when I (finally) finished it. His style is tough, especially in that one. The Crying of Lot 49 would be an easier way to get into Pynchon, if you haven’t read that one yet.
Not at all, what the "30 year" commenter did is even mentioned in the HN guidelines. See the section In comments:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. [...]
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How does the buyer make any profit at such a price? Or is just some rich person buying it for themselves?
Show HN: Sdfgh – Encrypted notes. Don't trust it, just read its 65 lines of code
> There is nothing more inefficient than government.

You can stop there. There are valid arguments on the topic but they’re not here.
>If we want to reduce our use of CO2 producing energy sources without massive declines in quality of life or vast environmental damage there’s only one choice, nuclear.

Unsubstantiated claim detected.

Solar, wind, hydroelectric, and geothermal are all cheaper than nuclear (and even coal) for new generation capacity. That includes capital, operation and maintenance, and transmission costs. See tables starting on page 8 for the numbers (https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....).
I attended a service at St Mary's, and the people were both friendly and compassionate.
I find it a real shame that they replaced Tsukiji. I found it very charming. The new market is a bit sterile in comparison.
I recently implemented this in a library (https://pypi.org/project/django-webauthin/), and Firefox mobile (at least for me) won't log you in if you're using resident keys. Registering the key works, but not authenticating. It's odd.
It took me a few years and having to grapple with a few other authors in the postmodern canon, but once I pushed through, the novel "clicked" and it's now one of my favourites. Brilliant book.
>Sheetz has 600+ locations and does $8b a year. All corporate owned and operated

600+ seems like a big number until you consider that there are 168,000 gas stations in the US. Large chains have a LONG way to go until they are more than a statistical blip, and this doesn't even take into account the fact that the federal government has, for over a century, cast a very jaundiced eye at any single entity using its market presence to drive competitors out of the retail gasoline business via undercutting on prices. Looking at the FTC ruling on the acquisition of Sunoco's fuel retail locations by 7-11, they monitor competition in fuel retailing VERY closely, to the point of mandating a certain degree of competition in specific markets.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2018/03/ftc-a...
Well, the article mistakenly (to pedants like us) states:

> All fires have three primary contributing causes – heat, fuel, and oxygen.

When what they really mean is that fires have three requirements: initial energy input, fuel, and oxidizer. The input energy doesn't have to be heat (though it almost always is outside lab settings), and the oxidizer doesn't have to be oxygen (though it usually is outside lab and industrial settings).
I've never heard anyone say that either, but it's not uncommon for O(n^2) algorithms to creep in and cause problems. Sometimes these issues don't actually "bring the site down", but still cause headaches. In my experience, I end up finding and fixing a problem like this about once per year on average, and I've been working as a software engineer for about 10 years.
Even the wiki article is pretty clear that connections between FDR and Fascism are specious.
That certainly hits the buzzword bingo. And maybe it’s worth while and replaces Android.

Or more likely, Google abandons it in favor of smaller safer incremental improvements.
Reminds me of the epic SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
Nuclear solves nothing. It has its role as a stop gap but renewables are cheaper safer and easier.

The main challenge in a decarbonized energy sector (including heat!) is not week to week or day to day variability but season to season. That's best solved with power 2 gas and storage whether the major source of energy is nuclear (leaving nuclear reactors on idle for half the year is expensive) or renewables.
They say, "Too much sugar, per se, won’t give you diabetes."

The "per se" makes it plenty clear (to me at least) that their point is that sugar does not DIRECTLY cause diabetes.
Hilarious, but you can just option click the notification center icon to silence all notifications. No need for a standalone app.
I feel that pain, yeah.
On the other hand, at least the error messages are often helpful with Webpack.
Correction, resident keys are used for usernameless authentication (you don't need resident keys for passwordless).

I recently (last week) wrote a Django library for WebAuthn (https://pypi.org/project/django-webauthin/) and use it on a few of my sites (https://www.pastery.net, https://www.eternum.io and https://www.deadmansswitch.net, if you want to try it out).
How old are you? ;-)
'Iran Cyber Security Group' hacks US government agency as chilling image put
Wealth and Taxes
"Compatible with X" != "Is (or isn't) an X position"
Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
right, a lot of python code either doesn't result in libraries (or even documentation), or library APIs often tend to focus on dicts or integral types. successful libraries like numpy and pandas focus on a very small set of well-defined objects and leverage duck typing for containers (and runtime casting for interop with native code).

I'm not saying arguments in favor of static typing and annotations are invalid, but rather it's a mindset that can make much of python look very foreign. the norvig spellchecker is a key example of swath of python code where static types are essentially irrelevant.
Does anyone else cringe when they read "blazing fast" X? Seems like "blazing fast" is thrown around too easily these days.
Some power tools take more than a day to learn. Deal with it if you need the power. If you don't need an RDBMS, don't use one.
Chrome beta on mobile didn't work for me with either fingerprint or any other method, the call to navigator.credentials.create just fails. Firefox half-works.
No one who wants the job and isn't an idiot would answer this truthfully as most answers would be misunderstood and in many cases would lead one to not get the job. It's one of the stupidest interview questions in a sea of stupid interview questions, one that reveals absolutely nothing about whether a candidate would be good for the job. It reveals a lot of information unrelated to how the candidate will perform that can be used to discriminate against and not hire the candidate: aka a "cultural fit" reason to discriminate and not hire.
Boy I disagree with this article. It doesn't make a concerted argument for lower taxes and instead just attacks Gates for not giving more volunteraliy to the government which isn't even really an argument.

Then it totally ignores that there might be reason to prefer some types of taxes even if keeping government expenditure the same.

For example sales taxes are inheriantly regressive because the fixed percentages that take out of consumption result in much larger impacts on the poor. Estate taxes are also good because they help prevent a permanent upper class from forming.
SEEKING FREELANCER | 100% REMOTE | SHORT-TERM | REACT NATIVE

I am looking for someone who can evaluate the viability of a full-stack React Native + Node + Mongo application.

More specifically, you would be writing end-to-end (E2E) tests and reporting the test results.

This is a short-term project with a fixed-price compensation structure. I am looking for someone ASAP!

If you are interested, please fill out this very short form: https://forms.gle/psHxc3aCE9RL9yKq5