skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has failure written all over it. There is no way government can out innovate either Google or Amazon. Or quite frankly Sears ;<).
In the 80's, I put a Z80 card in my Apple 2, just so I could run CP/M and Turbo Pascal. This.. wasn't that unusual.
Good question. At least one for me is that I'm only interested in variables that are usefully measurable up front. So if somebody starts a business before the factors that make it huge are reasonably discernible by people at the time, I'd call that luck.

I also think things that are outside of the control of the actors are reasonably called luck. E.g., I'm in software in good part because my dad happened to get into software in the 1960s. He only got into it because his dad was well placed at a company that wanted to automate a lot of then-manual appraisal calculations, and they pulled him in to figure it all out. A couple years earlier and he'd have been too young. A couple years later and he would have been gone from his home town.

That's why Warren Buffett talks about winning the "ovarian lottery": https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/warren-buffett-says-the-key-...
If the NSA rids the web of google captchas, it will have fully deserved its budget and all past mistakes will be forgiven!
Sure that's all fair enough. I'm not advocating being sloppy either - just be pragmatic about the effort/reward.
I'm curious if this is a (temporary, unsecure) way to use google if you're in a place that google is currently blocked.

Small chance, but in case anyone on HN is in a place google is blocked, would be an interesting test to run.
Just use whatever you use to monitor your production systems in the first place. E.g. we use nagios.
ICE captured 56% of the market despite a 100% tax disadvantage. To me that indicates ICE is alive and well.
Datadog does that
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitor-tls-with-datadog/
...and?

This whole idea that stock buybacks are necessarily bad needs to die. Can they be bad? Sure. But there are valid reasons to pursue a strategy of buybacks vs. dividends.
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Given that we had do to this extra work, what advantage is gained from having two backends, instead of consolidating onto a single backend for both CryptoKit and Swift Crypto? The primary advantage is verification. With two independent implementations of the CryptoKit API, we are able to test the implementations against each other as well as their own test suites. This improves reliability and compatibility for both implementations, reducing the changes of regression and making it easy to identify errors by comparing the output of the two implementations.
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Yes, when I put things in words, it becomes a monologue with words. I can start it, but especially with fiction, it quickly becomes impossible to keep it in my mind. For lack of better expression: words are secondary to me. They are the labels that are needed when I communicate with others, and on rare occasions with myself. But most of the time it's a stream of concepts, rather than words.
Wow, nice. Ever closer to a tipping point with electric cars and infrastructure.

Certainly confidence is increasing. Tesla's stock still soaring, breaking another milestone today (>$700).
I find result and option types compose nicer using monadic style composition.
> because these counter notices set a ticking clock of ten business days during which the copyright holder must either sue the Youtuber for copyright infringement or the complaint will be cancelled.

What about damages to the target of the claim? It doesn't seem like there's a penalty for bad-faith claims that wouldn't ever lead to a suit.
I didn't fully appreciate RJ45's failings as a connector until I had to put terminate some cables myself recently. I have a new respect for network techs, because wiring those things is a massive pain.
What about the ability to create exploits with the intention of being malicious to foreign actors?
I love articles like this in hacker news which teaches something specific
Erlang has a very different execution model compared to those other languages you mentioned. In fact, Erlang's culture in many ways encouraged to program less defensively than you would be expected to in other languages (ever heard of "let it crash"?).

That's because the whole expectation of exceptions/errors is built into the system unlike pretty much anywhere else.
Colder climate hurts range on electric vehicles.

On the plus side for EV adoption in colder climates, they've got outlets everywhere for people to plug in the block heaters on their cars, so they're totally ready in terms of public slow-charging infrastructure.
Yes, but will your company remember to fill your job when you leave?
To build on what user "munk-a" said below...

Back up a little bit. Start from the premise that you should never ever know the user's password. Period. Consider that a liability. This is the beginning of a mindset. With this in mind, erase the statement "we need a program to send a username and a password". That is the wrong mentality. (IMHO)

Now, you want your user, who you have authenticated, to be able to access other services that you don't own, am I correct? E.g., like IFTTT or Gmail?

If that is the case, you need to use an authentication mechanism (e.g. Oauth2) that allows the user to approve authentication to a service. Then you store the token returned by that service and use that to obtain access. If it is not a big-name platform, then you need to work that platform service to implement OAuth (or Auth0, or Cognito, or some other token-based authentication system).

If you are trying to access a service that does not support a token authentication system and only supports passwords, you should not allow the user to connect.

This may damage your functionality value proposition, but IMHO it is more secure because you minimize exposure of the user's password.

I wouldn't use a service that stored my plaintext password and logged in as me. To me, that's a no-go.

Again, all my opinion.

In fact, I'm eagerly reading this thread because I was in this situation years ago, and went with Auth0 (actually Stormpath before they were bought by Auhto0), but I had to argue for budget to pay for the service because I faced exactly the same pushback: "Just save the password!" I'd like to know if I missed something obvious.
I opened a ticket with Mailgun kindly asking if there was any solution for people like me (small email senders, much less than 1000 email/month) who use their service for personal emailing, if they would provide a new plan that would be like Flex but include routing.

The response, aside the almost-automated one from the first ticket, has been that there might be an add on purchasable for the routing, in case anyone is interested.

I've always been happy to pay for my email where possible, the problem is that the pricing has never been balanced. $5/month PER ACCOUNT is excessive. For a family of 4, that's 20$/month for sending emails.

Mailgun is going to have the flex plan ($1/month basically) or the foundation plan, $35/month, nothing between those two. I hope they implement something for smaller companies and for single person
Then there's what's often called "privilege" (circumstances of birth). What are the consequences to you of taking a risk on being lucky and missing?

For some people, dropping out of college and spending a few years working on a project that might pay out spectacularly is negligible. Sure, it's a few years of lifespan, but you learned some stuff and your future trajectory isn't going to be dragged down by a failure in your early 20s.

For others, one shot is all they'll ever get. If they don't get the degree and the right job out of college, the trajectory of their life will be permanently inflected downward.

Circumstances of birth have a huge impact on what chances are rational to take.
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is there a limit to the number of teams or team members that this service can support?
I don't think so. For most asteroid impacts, we wouldn't even need to build subterranean shelters for the species to survive. It isn't enough for the species to survive. Our civilization, particularly our very technological civilization, must survive as well. Without such a civilization, we'll be trapped here until the Earth itself dies. Our long term survival depends on the short term survival of our civilization.

The relative habitability of Earth and Mars may actually have a converse effect on the survival of a technological civilization. On Mars, such a civilization would be necessary for continued individual survival for what may be geological time scales. On a recovering Earth, humans may salvage civilization, devolve into a new and indefinite dark ages, or give up on civilization entirely and the species will still go on.
Frequencies are a nuance. The claim that the new network is making ambulances more effective is not a nuance, it's a lie.
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The really big criminals and tax evaders will ever find a way around this kind of restriction.
This is useful to control the smaller fish. But, also, the cynic in me thinks that the big sharks have lots of friends in high places and politics and public administration and that those restrictions were never intended to catch them on the first place.
I don't pay attention to video games at all, but the outrage over the Warcraft remake is so spectacular that I've seen it in almost every community I frequent. They seemed to have made dozens, if not hundreds, of mistakes. It's impressive.

(Also, OP, you have a typo in the title.)
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https://ohdear.app does that.
How is the state of developing Swift application on Windows? Last I checked it was using Linux on Windows to compile Swift code.

With Linux and Windows support, Swift can become viable for cross platform development.
For those who don't follow stocks very closely Tesla is up another 17% today to $757. This has almost tripled in a few months. Insanity.
> the vast majority of e-waste is being generated from simpler failures than tin whiskers

I can't assert or challenge this conclusion because we simply do not have the data. This is yet another reality of this issue: Tin whisker failures in the consumer domain are nearly 100% unreported.

Consumers are certainly not in a position to conduct the forensic work required in order to determine failure modes. My guess is that the large majority of devices are thrown out upon failure, which means we know nothing about why they failed.

Companies, on the other hand, frankly, have little incentive to conduct that research other than to use best practices during design. If a product survives a couple of years they are good. This isn't due to some dark profit motive, it's just a reality of business. You simply can't ask every single customer to send you their failed hardware for expensive --very expensive-- forensic analysis no matter their age or condition. This would mean having to manage a process involving forensics of millions of devices per month or year, depending on scale.

When I was investigating tin whisker mitigation options I explicitly sought out data from the consumer electronics domain. I quickly discovered there was none, at least nothing useful. This is why I don't think a statement such as the one you made is neither right or wrong, it simply has virtually no supporting data in either direction.
Yes Norway has invested in public charging infrastructure, has tax incentives that penalize ICE's, cheap plentiful renewable energy, etc. etc. etc.

But still, seeing stats like this shows the electrification of transportation can be done if a country makes it a priority. The technology is different, not inferior.

In the US where infrastructure investment to create a conducive environment is shouted down in favor of "well, customers aren't demanding this so we're not going to build this", what's promising is this Sunday was the Superbowl of the EV ads:

- GM Hummer EV teaser: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6EPPJHaCtw

- Audi E-Tron: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEAklsAAts

- Porsche Taycan: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=92sXWVxRr0g

- (Apparently some markets also saw a Mach-E ad)

When car companies are finally spending millions on their EV offerings at one of the largest automotive advertising debutant balls, sentiment is beginning to change.
I think you made a very fair interpretation of what I mean. But then, I saw the Matrix seven times in theaters the first year (1999-2000). Then I saw it many more times on DVD/streaming. But it took until I was about 40 before I realized that it was about something more than just the story. My meta-cognition seems to have been stuck in the early teens level until my 40s.
Cold climates reduce EV range. However, cold climates also reduce mileage for gas cars.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/coldweather.shtml
This article includes the IPCC predictions, which are a very thorough consensus based on a range of models.
You can breathe and find sustenance in Fort Bridger if you have human skills that have existed for dozens of millenia.
2015: A Chevrolet Camaro (3.6 litre V6) is over 156,000 dollars here in Norway (if I were to import). Why?

Value-added tax = 9,000 dollars
Tax for the weight of the car = 15,000 dollars
Engine tax (horepowers mostly) = 27,000 dollars
CO2 tax = 72,000 dollars
N0x-tax (nitrogen oxide) = 1000 dollars
First-time registration (to get license plates, don't know what this is called in us) = 115,000 dollars
In case you want-to-scrap-your-car-tax = 400 dollars

Total taxes for a Chevrolet Camaro V6? 125,000 dollars.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/2iql6h/how_and_why_ca...
unless you're trapped in some escherian[1] world?

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher
Glacier covered volcanoes and snow around hot springs?
It's hard to understand why the stock is soaring. I don't think it has to do with sales.

Is it from inflation of USD due to the federal reserve? Is it a bubble with current owners fomo?

I really don't think it's Tesla being Tesla. They just aren't competitive in the luxury market or for a 35k USD car.
About the "carbon foot-print" of meat, that is far from conclusive. Most of the crops are NOT raised to feed cattle. What goes to cattle is the waste after these crops are processed, mainly to remove the vegetable oil, starch and some proteins from soy and corn for human consumption, mainly for: fast-foods, candies, fake food (milk, burgers, etc), tofu, soy sauce.
The scientists are actively trying to tone down their climate change models and your response is that they are overestimating?
For those unaware, ICE vehicles are taxed at something like 100%+ their sale value. Whereas electric vehicles don't pay that and don't pay tolls and many other fees that are common in Norway.

It's not a surprise that electric is taking over there. They're incredibly cheap compared to ICE.
> Anyone who asks is just trying to get leverage.

How so? As in, "you're out of the job market for a while, so you seem sketchy, and thus I'm going to pay you less"?
Electric cars are always doing that in Norway:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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Yep. Google is evil, like most other big companies. So it goes.
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>I would like to know if it is know if this was some files on his laptop, or was in his browser cache or browser history or an USB stick

That kind of stuff will never be released though.
The post is an essay about how the government has historically misdirected private resources by poorly assessing threats in times of crisis. Why does that make you think that government should be more involved in healthcare?
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Snapshots are always good.
The real problems with exceptions are that they have a large performance overhead, and that they differentiate poorly between anticipated errors and truly exceptional situations.

The performance overhead comes from grabbing a stack trace and constructing an object that lives on the heap, and then unwinding the stack. (Some assembly experts can probably explain this overhead better than I can.). When your code handles an error condition that it anticipates, that overhead is wasted CPU cycles.

(This is why Exceptions aren't for flow control.)

What we really need are languages that differentiate better among success / error / exception. Go has panic / resume, and Java has compiler-enforced exception handling, unless it's a runtime exception.

What I want instead is something where I have optional and convenient syntax to handle lightweight errors; or the ability to automatically convert errors to exceptions if I don't handle them.

TLDR:

Think of the query to lookup a record by ID case. If the record isn't found, it's an error that doesn't have a stacktrace or an object on the heap. But, if my code doesn't handle the error, then it's a full exception with a stacktrace.
Doesn't it hurt range, but increase battery longevity?

ISTR hot climates being more problematic for EV owners in terms of premature battery wear.
Down could be a single quarter. Down and to the right implies many quarters or a line angled down.
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>> You have a bus driver with a smartphone connected to the internet

>> [Y]ou have the passengers(who have booked seats on the bus) with smartphones

Any smarthpone can display a QR code and all can read them. No internet required.
Indeed. I was remembering the behaviour of average off the top of my head.
I think most monitoring services will let you know if your certificate is about to expire. For example, I use https://checklyhq.com and it lets you configure how far in advance it will alert you.
See the sibling comment. Basically every statement to the gov is material.
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C++ exceptions are only good if you use them like signals from C or panics in Go. This means you have to use error values for 99% of errors or you lose this benefit. The fact that the STL sprinkles exceptions everywhere doesn't help this.
C++ exceptions are so non-deterministic and slow that every real-time system disables them just to be sure.
It was literally 26 seconds from the teaser trailer in 2 13 second chunks.