skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it seems to also require that you turn on "Spoof <noscript> tags" in uMatrix.
Don't be shy, shame the carrier - let us know which company allowed this.
What scenarios/filesystems lead to these kinds of conflicts?
> a baby born in America white and male is among the luckiest babies in history

Where can I go to get a refund on that deal?
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While this is clearly true in general, it's exceedingly unlikely that attributing wealth mostly in the places where it is taxed less is really supported by the types of interactions you are talking about.

International development is complex, sure, but let's not pretend particularly with respect to Ireland that corporate structuring for tax avoidance isn't actually most (by $, not effort/people) of what is going on in practice.
Thanks for the nightmares! :-)
Never expected to see cheese and electronic teardowns mixed.
I've owned two linux-friendly laptops I've really liked, and are the only laptops I've been productive on

1. 2012 System76 -- as Drew mentions they are overpriced for their performance but expensive is different than "non-existent".

2. 2016 Dell Latitude e7450 -- modernish performance, works seamlessly with xUbuntu, though I've never used the fingerprint sensor, and only $250 or so refurbished.

I have good experience with Dell Latitudes in general, and I think they're an excellent Thinkpad alternative, not sure how this pans out for post 2016 models.
Thanks for the advice and the links! Also, I came across a book called Designing Data Intensive Applications. It was very highly rated on Amazon and on HN as well. Do you think it would help me? It explained a lot of concepts but after reading for a while, I found myself not following it. So, I decided to tackle each topic from scratch.
Based upon this article were the retail costs of a cheap flickering LED bulb is approaching the single dollar mark, the cost increase to use a proper AC/DC converter could be orders of magnitude more expensive (at a rough minimum).

Honestly it's starting to feel like a most cost effective long term solution is to build homes with a master AD/DC converter (or several depending on sq/ft) and simply wire 12v outlets and light fixtures. The energy savings of swapping all incandescents or compact florescence bulbs with cheap LEDs with cheaper power converters is starting to scare me knowing just how shoddy and fire prone some of these power converters can be.
Thanks for publishing it! It takes a lot of courage to go against the "who's hot in the valley" zeitgeist.

Also, CoderPad was life changing when we started using it at Airbnb. It made phone interviews so much more effective, thanks for creating it.
Why can’t we create a --server mode standard where every language can be started up in that mode and serves a standard API with standard linker types (where possible)?
Transformco
My bother in-law got a pretty nasty ticket for one of those. The officer made him remove it on the side of the road before driving off.

By "remove it", I mean "smash the plastic face" since there were no tools handy.
I realized a few years when I started habitually reading ingredients lists that palm oil was showing up in more and more foods, but it wasn't till I correlated it with an upset stomach that I purposefully stopped buying food products with it. I've been trying to cut my sugar intake, so I don't get these anymore, but one major place you might notice a difference is if you use coffee creamer. Most of the cheaper ones have palm oil. The good ones don't, and the differences on the body are noticeable to me at least.

Sometimes pragmatic choices can lead to ethical results.
Then why do I still see them with my verified 600/600 connection :)

The problem is just that there's too much javascript running in the browser and it's too poorly written (loading each post individually in Reddit by example instead of batching them). Reddit's redesign in particular is really really bad. At least they offer the old site but it looks so bad. I'd love to have something looking more modern but without the javascript overload.
But the dossier was literally fake, and moreover, paid for by the Clinton campaign.
I have my certs issued to a VM this is not accessible via HTTP(S) anyway, just DNS. It runs a small DNS server which answers to _acme-challenge.* requests "forwarded" via CNAME. As that is the only part of is visible to the rest it has a very small security surface to worry about. It then pushes out the keys & certs to the places that need them (directly in the case of local machines, less directly for some others).

I set that up originally for a wildcard, as http validation is not supported for them and I didn't fancy mucking about automating updating the main bind instances, but it is convenient for the others too and will be unaffected by these changes.

Not a perfect solution for everyone of course, copies of all the keys are in one place for one thing, and it all in one place could be bad or good for maintenance (single point of failure, but single service to monitor & maintain), but worth considering if you expect problems with http validation.

> some countries and their IP ranges just need not access my server

I'm guessing that they won't be using locations that are commonly blocked in this way anyway. And if they do happen to use one, you may be fine as only two of the three external checks need to be responded to.
I don't think you mentioned that the student doesn't have to pay back Lambda after 60 months of deferred payments. That seems important. From the Lambda site:

"The income share agreement has no interest. It's a flat percentage that goes away once you've reached the $30k payment cap, you've made 24 payments, or after 60 months of deferred payments (even if you haven't paid us anything)."

But you wrote in the article:

"Students with no safety nets experience real financial pain from the nine-month hiatus from work, in addition to the looming dread of possibly having to pay Lambda $30K one day."
> to a much wider audience and are much more usable now.

Doctors hate their life because of computers: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-ha..., but maybe you'll think the article is too old to be true or maybe you will quibble about the headline. Why not believe something true instead?
In my experience Windows 10 runs well enough on even the shittiest of hardware as long as it has an SSD. I can't tell you how many people (both personally and professionally) have asked me to troubleshoot slow Windows installs, and almost invariably they are running Windows on an HDD. Many times they got it because "well it was the bigger storage size, so that must mean it's better, right?" - In the premium segment that might be true, but in the value segment where most people shop they're still trying to offload inventory of HDDs, I guess.

Mac OS isn't much better, I had a 2011 MacBook Pro w/ the best CPU for that model which was borderline unusable until I put an SSD in it. That was HFS which was designed w/ spinning rust in mind, I couldn't even imagine running APFS on top of spindles for an OS volume. CoW & the features it brings is awesome on flash w/ lots of IOPS, but painful on anything else.

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That all being said though, Windows 10 is just crap. I'm not convinced there's any amount of hardware you can throw at it that will make it feel as snappy as Windows 7 did, because it's evident to me that the developers just don't care anymore. I initially installed Windows 10 on an i7-6700K w/ one of the fastest consumer NVMe drives and one of the best GPUs available at the time. The start menu lagged perceptibly on a pristine installation. That was before all the "feature updates" shoveled Microsoft's ever increasing amounts of managed code, adverts, and online crap into the start menu.

If the developers gave a shit about UI latency the Start menu wouldn't require internet connectivity[1] and the task bar wouldn't make hundreds of thousands of IO calls.[2] Even if you can come to accept the speed the start menu, the functionality just isn't there. It routinely feigns ignorance of plain text files sitting in the root of my "Documents" library; even if I type the exact file name. I would gladly welcome the Windows 7 file index service back into my life.

[1]: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-s...
[2]: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/taskbar-latency...
I don't know how the Taycan compares to a Tesla, but Top Gear has had an anti-Tesla bias for a very long time, going back to when they did a negative review of the Roadster that was entirely fake and staged. So take its reviews with (un)healthy doses of salt.
Reading code before you run it. No fun in that.
The Supreme Court will deviate extraordinarily from its normal process and decide a matter in a very short time when national politics are at stake. For example see Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000). The whole case took only a few weeks, and the court delivered its decision just one day after oral arguments.
Not easier, but probably not harder either. Everyone suffers.
I love that they fork-bombed a bridge!
I think the "vote with your dollar" is already working. How many 737 MAX contracts have been cancelled?
>Isn't it true that a sale of IP should model the value of the IP over its lifetime in some reasonable way?

There aren't any "correct" way to measure it, but most of these IP are likely on percentage based. Sort of like 5G patents where they collect percentage of revenue. So the value I guess they did in 2010 were calculated based on ( projected ) 2012 ( its IPO ) figure. I think judging by majority of comment most people forgot how Facebook perform after its IPO, how its growth wasn't there, how Facebook Gaming Saved it, and how Mobile Internet ( aka Smartphone ) really took off, how they went to Mobile ( App ) First before the term was hyped by SV, and how it has grown possibly beyond most people would imagine. And that is not just Facebook itself, but also Instagram.

That is why I said comparing the value in absolute terms and not on relative terms doesn't make any sense.

At least that is judging from the limited amount of information given out by this FoxBusiness article. So again lots of assumption involved.
> a DOS-era POS still offers orders of magnitude better UX than current-era browser POSes, or than most web apps for that matter.

As someone who helped with the transition from crappy text-only DOS interfaces on POSes to graphical interfaces on POSes, I have to disagree. Learning those interfaces was terrible. I don't know where the author gets the idea that even a beginner had no trouble learning them. I worked at NCR during the switchover from the old system to the new one that used graphical representations of things and the new system was way easier to use and for beginners to learn. And that's not just something we felt, we measured it. (Interestingly, it was still DOS-based in its first incarnation, but it was entirely graphical.)
QtWebAssembly: Calling JavaScript from C++ with Emscripten
New Sears; owned by Edward Lampert's ESL Investments hedge fund.
Sure, but google shouldn't be able to get a generic gTLD like this. Why is google's interest in owning "dev" more valuable than everyone else's?
By this standard OCaml and Lisp aren't functional either.
Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models, Use Interpretable Models [pdf]
A lot of confused hearing aid users.
garbage link.
real link is https://polyverse.com/
Don't you get banned if you automatically swipe right everything?
> how would that extra hardship manifest

Increased likelihood that their failure to respond to a cop's orders due to, let's say their deafness, results in them being shot dead.

> wouldn't that be illegal?

You'd think so, but no.
Stupid question: What are "OT" and "IT" in this context?
Paramedical Tattoos
Found the ADSL user.
Congress' unprecedented barrage of subpoenas force the administration's hand here. You may find it "absurd", but unprecedented animus requires unprecedented defensive measures.
It's pretty easy to build a lossless learned encoder. Encode the image with your model, then apply a lossless encoding to the error. You can also include a measure of the entropy of the error in your model's loss function.

The model should make the errors small, and including the entropy measure of the error in the loss function means that the model produces "cheaper to correct" errors.

A nice keyword on this front is "bits back argument".
Weird timing that Dec of 18 they forced a password reset to most of its Sharefile "customers." (aka including anyone who has ever received a file from someone through sharefile, and accidentally signed up for a service they didnt want.)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/a-breach-or-just-a-force...

“This is not in response to a breach of Citrix products or services,” wrote spokesperson Jamie Buranich.

I want to know if they knew already in December, and if they lied to the public and their customers. Maybe they could argue that "yes a breach happened, but this password reset was completely unrelated" but thats a load of livestockwash, if thats the case.

Edit: maybe i should read the article. Looks like they were in back in October! Jamie is likely just a sacrificial lamb, who is there so they have a head to roll, but somebody on the executive team should be in trouble for that kind of lie, unless there were government gag orders.

>Citrix’s letter was prompted by laws in virtually all U.S. states that require companies to notify affected consumers of any incident that jeopardizes their personal and financial data.

Excuse my French, but thats fucking bullshit that they are just admitting to this a year and a half later.
I've never had an issue altering or deleting columns in SQLite. Grant it, I've used both Sequelize and SQLAlchemy as ORMs.

But if you're using SQLite for simplicity there's a good chance you're not interested writing raw SQL statements either.
Thanks! Iteratively improving and adding features seems the most natural way how a software matures or ‘becomes complex’. I guess I just have to start building something small and learn how to add features that require learning a new concept.
Working on it _internally_, in depths of google sea. There is not much to follow that progress other than following small bubbles from that submarine raising to the surface here and there... (imho, ymmv)
Tell me about it! A company I recently did maintenance for pays several thousand € each year for possibly the worst, most broken accounting software, despite not actually having an in-house accountant. The reason: one (1!) person in the company uses the software's (barely functioning) inventory feature and refuses to use anything else.

They're currently considering my offer to develop a custom, pixel-identical system and just replace it without telling her. I could probably do it in a week because she only ever interacts with like 4 out of the at least 100 views the app has, but I suspect she'll catch wind of this and stop it. I don't actually know what she does there besides inventory, but she seems to have more power than anyone else below C-level.
Would you please clarify your meaning? I seem to be missing a lot of context. Race to the bottom of what? Selling tools to do what? People who won't conform to what?
And your thoughts on the latter half of my comment, where I suggest the entire tone of the post was to invite a negative response to confirm his martyrdom syndrome?
It’s Bill Gates ... let the man have his Porsche.

Regardless, the Taycan is a hell of a machine and is going to have better fit and finish than a Tesla. It’s also the hot new thing, whereas the Model 3 is old news.

Assuming you can afford both, I can’t think of anyone who’d take the Tesla over the Taycan.
infinitely more! :P
I’m with you I have China completely blocked from my servers. There is no reason for anyone in that country to access my apis
Local maxima are lower effort. You can more easily convince yourself and others that this is as good as it gets.
> happened 500 years ago for example.

I think you should Google when it became illegal in the USA for a man to rape his wife.
In a way, I'm saying that:

1. I want a project like Handshake to be successful as well, and I agree it has a long way to go - the trade-offs are numerous, high-magnitue, and (sadly) opaque.

But also,
2. Having seen first-hand how these things take shape over long periods of time (the second decade of Bitcoin's existence is just getting started), Handshake needs help, is designed to be flexible, and you can help. In fact, I'd argue you already are helping, and in ways the average crypto-native community member trumpeting blind-eyed optimism - is not. :)
To win the grocery delivery wars, companies may need to stay small
I suspect that multi-cellular life is the art form of unicellular life.

We are art made by microbes. (I like to think.)
Funny that you broke it down like that. I think since forums like this aren't for formal arguments, it's fair for the questions to be seen as more than suggestive, especially with your phrasing.
Out of curiosity, what about schools and the popular culture do you think cause brain damage? What would your idea of an ideal education be?
Not to mention that the "wasted" energy of incandescent light bulbs, might actually not be, at least not entirely - since they pretty much work as electric heaters...
Not disagreeing with your overall point about SQLite's feature set, but IIRC, `ALTER TABLE RENAME` was added in 2018, for version 3.25.0: https://www.sqlite.org/releaselog/3_25_0.html

(I chime in only to remark that I myself am constantly surprised that SQLite continues to add these kinds of features – e.g. WINDOW functions were also in 3.25 – long after I had accepted their absence as a fact of life)
This is something I can do! Thanks, I will try to go to some meetups.
But they get two different X chromosomes with (hopefully) no correlation between them. Mutation interactions are complex.
Were smart meters about saving energy? I sorta assumed they were just there to make things easier on the power company. Although I suppose if it means that a person doesn't have to drive a car to every meter every month, that's probably a win.
Las 10 mejores Librerías y herramientas de JavaScript UI / UX
Ignoring 'complex power' concerns, the AC voltage driving a tungsten filament bulb is a sine wave at line frequency (60hz for the US). Because it is a sine wave, and because the tungsten filament is a resistor, the current through that resistor rises and falls in sync. with the AC sine wave. The current will be zero at the zero volt crossing point of the wave, and maximum at the peaks of the sinewave.

The varying current through the tungsten will result in a varying power consumption (varying at a 60hz rate). The varying power consumption will result in a small amount of varying temperature on the filament.

Now, the filament does not cool down instantly, so the result is its temperature will vary by a few degrees, but likely not enough to ever be perceptible to human eyes. But with a sensitive enough (and fast reacting enough) temperature probe, one could likely measure the temperature rise/fall of the filament that is synchronized with the line frequency.
Check the books of Architecture of Open Source Applications - http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
In my opinion, people have had their expectation dragged way down by shitty web apps so Figma feels good. It doesn't beat what tools like Photoshop used to feel like before their UI got rewritten in HTML and whatever fuckery they're doing now.
We used to catch them by the wing by slowly approaching. Interestingly, medium ones were easy, but the big ones (different species, much rarer) wouldn't let me approach at all.
First nonlinear camera to capture hi-res solid object interiors w THz radiation
Beluga, open source software to build your own ecommerce site
Could the US simply impose a tax on all corporate profits, including international profits, for any company with any sort of nexus or business activity in the US? US citizens are basically already treated this way as individuals.

I imagine it would allow the rate to be drastically lower since the tax base would be so much larger. And while megacorps would obviously grumble, it would still be a profitable decision to pay the tax and remain in the US market given how lucrative it is. It would end all these country-to-country shell games once and for all, and would also provide some natural advantage to smaller homegrown companies that haven't gone international yet.
Suggests 6x less risk of infection. Potentially 55x if taping to achieve better fit on the nose.
Their protocol for fit testing is confusing and I suspect wrong.
Inert particle test should be disregarded. The machine measures between 1.2 and 0.02micron and infectious aerosols are above 1micron for influenza A.
Influenza and coronavirus have similar dimensions of around 0.1micron.
If Roger Stone were a narco, he'd be in the clear
> Aside from Uber drivers, SV types, and wannabe road warrior squinters, nobody uses maps for their daily activities. People know where they're going and they go there without consulting technology. That's why we have traffic jams.

I might know where I'm going but I don't always know how to get there so I use Google Maps all the time. I don't use it for my daily commute but if I'm going to a friend's or something I'll usually use it.

When I sit in my friends cars we also use it all the time. Often we're going to a restaurant or some other location that we don't often go to.

For exploration my friends pretty much just use Yelp or Google Search. I sometimes but rarely use Google Maps for this because I find that the reviews are usually much lower quality and Google Maps is too slow (I have an old Pixel 2)
>Companies used to have Ombudsman; literally a board member who did nothing but listen to employee complaints and help them e heard. This tended to lead to unions, which reduced company profitability,

It sounds like the ombudsmen didn't work out too well or else they wouldn't have resorted to unionizing.
I don't disagree...

but in the old days, I hardly ever remember having more than 1 to 2 apps open at a time. Maybe 3 if was feeling crazy.

...Right now, I've spotify, Word, Excel, Exchange, emacs, slack, mattermost, pycharm, and matlab, acrobat, and firefox (20+ tabs)... all open at once.
Have a listen to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/podcasts/the-daily/boeing...

Sharp debris in the airframe close to electrical wires and the very wires that control the airframe in planes that left the factory are not a theoretical risk. Imagine your airline gets a "quality controlled" factory new plane and you find they forgot a whole ladder (!) inside the hull — if this shouldn't raise concerns — what would?

Or must it crash first? Oh wait..

The software problem alone was bad, but combine this with a lack of effective oversight and a bad company culture and it looks far more bleak
Starving bats. Bats keep moth and mosquito populations down in some areas. They use ultrasonic acquisition of their prey.

Rodents less likely to nest near you may be a positive thing.
Habits of an Effective Developer
We implemented OAuth about a year ago with Okta, and it's been an absolute nightmare. We have a couple of clients that have their own IDP, and they want us to let them use SAML to authenticate. I can't figure out whether the difficulties are inherent to SAML itself or because of Okta, but I hate it either way.
Allow me to reply to your complaint about tweet threads with a tweet thread. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html
What if I’m not inclined to just one of these? I like learning things and figuring out why which is why I see myself fitting into every category.