skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1 for Max. I'm a backend dev who got thrown on the frontend, and i enjoyed his React course and also the CSS one with some other guy.

For $10, these courses are a much better value to me than the somewhat absurd process for tech books from Manning and O'Reilly that are often $50 and will be out of date in two years.

I used to be a huge tech book fan and would spend hours at Barnes and Nobles and Borders during their heyday, and they had massive sections devoted to programming and IT.

I'd hoped ebooks and cheap publishing would have brought down the price of books, especially those related to some software version that will be outdated in a short time, making the book worthless. But the industry refuses to give up their old pricing model, so maybe Udemy and similar sites can provide an alternative.
Who exactly is being dismissed here? And who's doing the mismissing? Because we're talking about Trump voters only caring about "owning the libs". That is dismissing a massive chunk of the population. Yeah, of course liberals don't like that, but you don't see them going on a destructive rampage, they just want to elect better politicians who are going to fix the country. Their complaints are entirely legitimate.

Politics isn't a game, it's about running an actual country where people live.
Sure, but it doesn't make you a pedophile, and having sex with a 40 year old when you're 60 isn't the same as having sex with a 10 year old when you're 30.
Sure, it's just not the only way like you implied.
+1 an used laptop might use a bit more power but it has an enclosure, built-in UPS, cooling and SSD, has an x86_64 CPU and probably better specs. An all-around better choice for many many purposes.
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I worked for a small nasdaq company about 15 years ago. A private equity firm bought them and two other related companies. They’ve kept them running and private all this time. I presume profitably.

I usually assume PE buyouts will result in a teardown situation, but in this case it was positive for customers and employees. I left for unrelated reasons before the sale completed but friends there say they are happy.

I’ve also worked for firms that got bought by PE and were stripped down to just a few bodies doing bare minimum maintenance and only collecting maintenance fees from existing customers. I’m not sure what this is called, but it seems “coasting” can be very profitable for enterprise software with an install base that has high switchover costs.
You can do a very simple experiment that AFAIK doesn't have a good classical explanation using 3 polarizers taken from cheap 3D movies glasses.
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Hashimoto Gaku, Ministry of Health Vice Minister, has since objected to that account on Twitter[1] -- with a picture of what seems to be supposed to be a decontamination hall or a hall used as a hallway, with two parallel entry and exit marked as "decontaminated route" and "contaminated route", separated by barriers, guess what barriers, fucking queue barriers. Checkout line ropes. Classy ones, yeah. Coronavirus are respectable beings, you know. After questions as to whether this is a novel method of self-whistleblowing started to mound up, Vice Minister deleted the picture.

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2002/20/news123.html
Normal homes these days have quite a bit of competition for wifi. Hell even today's watches these days have wifi. Add a kindle, a few security cameras, a few laptops/tablets, a few phones, etc. Then add some crappy/noisy LED bulbs, a cheap microwave, and various consumer electronics and wifi is far from a sure thing for streaming 4k video over... especially for hours at a time.

I had some network lag/dropped frames, turns out my stereo receiver was downloading a quite large firmware update. Had me freaked out a bit, I hadn't recorded the mac address. Didn't figure it out till I turned the TV on and saw a dialog asking if it should upgrade.

So, yes, generally I'd recommend that anything that's going to consume hours of 4k video be put on ethernet if at all possible.
Can one breed bees? I wonder if we could selectively breed pesticide resistance.
SFTP shares only those three letters with FTP but is otherwise a completely different protocol.

It's also a counterpoint to one of the OP's points which is that trying to secure email is a dead-end that we should give up on. It may be possible, though very difficult, to transition to secure email. But it would have to be a brand new protocol not tacked-on to the current system. The way that SFTP is the appropriate upgrade path for FTP and not FTPS.
that a particle behaves at the same time as a wave and a particle is the mystery
> Can I apply the same logic the the one that added the UK to the EU?

Yes, and you must — otherwise the vote to leave isn’t legit in the first place.

> I didn't describe remainers as "wrong", I responded to a comment describing leavers as "wrong".

What I wrote was “…only an idiot would hold a referendum on something important where the wrong result was possible” [added emphasis]. That’s not leavers being wrong, that’s leave being wrong. Politically, it was the wrong move for the PM and you can tell by him resigning immediately. I think that alone is sufficient to call him an idiot for having called the referendum, which is what I was doing. Him and his successors being idiots is the main reason why I think this is going to be much, much worse for the UK, not the mere fact of leaving the EU, the departure from which is something I estimate to be a “economically bad but if you want it that’s your call”.
IMHO, Matrix currently has the best shot at becoming the standard for the open internet.

Those who value the freedom of choice should push for Matrix before Signal becomes the de-facto standard and is acquired by one of the tech giants looking to lock down control of communication.
Michael Bloomberg has taken Andrew Yang’s place as the cryptocurrency candidate
Yes, exactly. Despite the fact that my domain is not listed anyone online, cloudflare dashboard says they blocked 1000s of attempts last month.
I could be missing something, but this sounds like a horrible idea. I've had two accidents in my life. One of them was caused by inattention--hooray that self driving cars have the potential to wipe this cause out. The other was caused because I was a new driver and I predicted what the car in front of me would do and it didn't do it. It was in my first year of driving and fortunately it ended up being a very minor collision, but I distinctly remember that my conscious takeaway was that I shouldn't try to predict what other cars will do.

If my car is driving, instead of trying to predict the behavior of other objects I want it to do something like a minimax search and do something that will be safe in the presence of the unexpected, not the expected. Prediction sounds like the complete opposite of good driving practices like the rule of following at least 2 seconds behind the car in front of you, which is specifically there to prevent accidents in the rare case where the car in front of you on the freeway does NOT behave in the predicted way of continuing to go 70 mph in the middle of the lane.
How big is the market for that vs streaming 9 GB on demand?
A demo of a flask app with basic web push notifications support
Which engine(s) are you using? I thought only Snowdrop was this way.
The vulnerability in Netscaler was an old bug in a web server that let you trivially break out of the virtual directory.

So you could navigate to <URL>/vpn/../path and read/write files.

The device is a freaking load balancer. It took the company a month from public disclosure to push out a rule to workaround to stop most exploits on some devices, and 6 weeks to patch it. Something went horribly wrong.

Netscaler was a potential spinoff product awhile back — my guess is that they stripped the division in the anticipation of a sale to make the numbers look good.
Long time lurker but had to create an account when I saw no one gave the correct answer when replying to this.

The cookie pop-ups is definitely not GDPR - it is a separate thing called the ePrivacy Directive and came about many years before GDPR.

GDPR and ePD are both wonderful for consumers. I am fairly annoyed that the implementation and skirting by 90%+ of websites is due to them not being able to monetize our data or track us.

I suspect the rate of non-compliance is closer to 99%+ considering most of the annoying cookie banners I see pop up are actually not following the guidance.

Cookiebot seems the closest to me (defaults to only required cookies, etc.)
It only failed on older gen1 MobilEye hardware. So this particular vision problem has been solved for a long time.
I said the other thing profitable, i.e. the thing we don't want them to do, I didn't say another.
BlurHash: Algorithm to generate compact representation of an image placeholder
Without passing comment on the contributors in this comment string, I think we will find more often either a jarring or nostalgic reaction to design elements depending on if your formative technology experiences were on Apple II’s, DOS, and Win3.1 or iPhones, iPads, and Alexa.
Photons and gluons are bosons. Also black holes are in the almost completely separate theory of relativity, which IIRC doesn't even have "particles" (at least how they are defined in quantum mechanics...)
The use case is to get file specific icons, rather than just type specific. One thing is thumbnails, but a lot of applications and games on the Amiga for example have custom icons.

Of course that doesn't require it to be in the inode (it isn't for the Amiga - it's in <filename>.info).

On the Amiga the ".info" file can also contain additional information, such as startup instructions, as well as snapshotted location in the UI - the Amiga Workbench was close to a reasonably spatial file manager (and I really miss that..).

Security implications certainly would be different than they were at the time, in that you could trick people to start executables instead of loading the file into an application they trust, but that really is best handled by warning people on execution of "new"/downloaded files anyway.
UK Google users could lose EU GDPR data protections
> read an error message to troubleshoot

okay going to play devil's advocate on this one and say that some error messages could be improved. that's all.
I guess the feel-good part is remembering that Larry Tesler was a good person inside of and despite that environment.

And I think it's a polite way of reminding everyone that being an asshole is not required to do great, world-changing work.
As a side note, there are all the "as seen on TV" things.

Typically they are US $3-8 worth (price) i.e. US$ 1.5-4 worth (value/cost), advertised on TV as the "ultimate whatever" with a "shop price" of 50 $ but - only for tonight - 29.99 and sometimes (big offer) we will send you two of them for only 39.99.

Then a few months later you can find them on e-bay (or similar) for anything between 3 and 8 $.

For some strange reasons I am fascinated by some of this crap and tend to buy it (when I can find it at the lowered 3-8 $ price), and - surprisingly - it is actually IMHO good for the 3 or 8 $ you pay.
This comment[1] made it clear to me what exactly was going on. Also, on the author's GitHub, there's a link to a similar project,[2] which runs interactively in a browser, making the concept a bit more accessible.

Imagine you were dropped into a familiar setting, but were blindfolded. You know this place literally like the back of your hand, but you're only allowed to observe your location in a very limited sense -- say, every 10 seconds, you can reach out in the four cardinal directions to feel what, if anything, is around you -- but you can otherwise move around freely. Given enough observations, you can slowly establish your location precisely.

What was bugging me is the use of a maze. Mazes are meant to be "solved" and this doesn't solve the maze -- in the sense of reaching a goal point -- but rather only allows the robot to localise itself within it. Given that the robot necessarily has an internalisation of the maze (a map), it might have been nice to see it simultaneously solve it, while getting its bearings, rather than just wiggling about, seemingly at random.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878928

[2] http://www.claudeonthe.net/ai/particle_filter/particle_filte...
If email served the same purpose as messaging, if the messaging apps were as capable as email, this also wouldn’t be an issue. Email is the “easy” route to encryption because there are no alternatives.
And what alternative do you propose? Public equity? Ever heard of NSA, Australian government, UK, etc, and that's just the "democratic", "free" world?
The Headline needs to add (2016).

I think some of the criticism to bitmap may no longer be valid. Such as Disk Space, Access Time with Modern SSD, along with added computation required for Vector Drawing instead of Bitmap. That is also assuming vector can do low level detail hinting as good as bitmap.
Microsoft does a mediocre job with RDP because windows pc was the cash cow. Pretty sure that Citrix invented RDP and licensed it back.

Now they are changing, and are partnering with Citrix and VMWare in Azure. Eventually, they’ll crush both.
I haven't actively used stripe more than half a year, and I've really enjoyed it so far, except for some translation issues on stripe's checkout page. This change makes me somewhat uncomfortable using stripe.

Nordic countries has really good consumer protection laws and users can ask to cancel the purchase for any or no reason. Its also not allowed to charge the customer the fee, so this can become a issue.

It also sucks that the pricing for Norway is 1 % higher than our neighbours.
My issue with Udemy isn't their constant "sales" or the way they treat their tutors.

It's the 95% amount of crap on the platform. It's genuinely difficult to sort the good quality courses from the tons of bad courses. Especially the ones that have got tons of 5 star ratings but only because the tutor promised them another free course if they rate 5 stars.

Just because everyone can upload a course to Udemy, doesn't mean that they should and the platform suffers for it
A bit late, but...

Does it work? Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps you get some fantastic candidates (true positives), and perhaps you get people that are very god at gaming the system (false positives).

The process, as it is, is kinda like trying to select potential mathematicians on the basis of how well they solve HS AP Math problems. It is fully possible to rote learn every kind of integral and derivative under the sun, if you just solve enough - without actually understanding the underlying principles. It becomes a pattern recognition problem.

There are tons of anecdotes from seemingly false positives, when it comes to tech hiring. The web is filled with "I was very lucky, because they re-used problems I had just solved".

BTW, when I say false positives, I don't mean incompetent programmers / engineers - I just refer to those that do not master the subjects they're being tested on, but average candidates (on the subject) that luck out on getting asked the right question.

I still think Goodhart's law stands true for this trend.

People game the system, because they want to earn more money. Companies make the system more rigorous and robust against gaming. People still find ways to game the system, and it essentially becomes a race to the bottom. Along the way you start losing out on terrific candidates, because they refuse to partake in the increasing demands. So you end up with a mixture of very talented engineers, and very able test-takers.
Godot still has a lot of issues for which workarounds don't exist, doubly so when working in a team. Issues we've run into:

The way references are handled in scene files makes it easy to get conflicts when working on the same scene. In Unity, solving these conflicts is a lot easier (from personal experience, only an issue working in teams).

Animation files sometimes empty themselves when using a composition-based approach. If the object you reference no longer exists (e.g. you programmatically decide what weapon a player uses and don't instantiate anything preemptively) the animation player will opt to rewrite the animation as if that component never existed, resulting in loss of work.

Low level oddities: drawing lines using the drawing system doesn't work if the point is outside view of the screen. You can't specify whether to draw the segment that would be visible if possible.

There still isn't a whole lot of support to release on some specific platforms, and some popular programs don't have a support plugin yet (e.g. Live2D).

The object-oriented structure of each node type can be severely limiting towards a composition-based approach. Minor gripe as it is possible to work around this or implement your own entity-component-system framework or Unity-like GetComponent/AddComponent structure.

It is definitely a great engine and regarding 2D, I'd say it is at least on par with Unity. For 3D and general-purpose, it is still subpar to Unity and definitely subpar to Unreal. Of course, the easy solution to each of my problems is "why not write it yourself?", but that requires time saved when using Unity. On the other hand, I do find Unity to be particularly cumbersome on the final 20% of the project, whereas Godot is much easier to finish a project with.
I'm currently in the process of setting up a HA Hashicorp stack (Vault/Consul/Nomad) + GlusterFS cluster in my free time at home with Raspberrys and some other small-board computers. Completely overkill but it's great fun. My goal is to see just how self-reliant I can be in terms of digital services. Right now it feels completely reasonable to get to a point where the only external services I really rely on is a CA and domain registrar. Possibly DNS, and external endpoints to front traffic. If the HA part works well and I can make a failover region somewhere, self-hosted e-mail doesn't seem that unreasonable anymore.

There are several attractive alternatives to RasPi (Odroid already mentioned, beware though as most of the small boards are 32bit only. Also Khadas VIM3, FriendlyELEC NanoPi, Rock Pi. Many people also seem to like Orange Pi). The earlier generation Raspis are honestly quite disappointing from a performance perspective, mostly because of the shared bus between Ethernet/Wifi/USB/storage. The 4B is actually the first to hold its ground, and still does price/performance-wise compared to the above. Honestly it feels like the market's stagnated a bit around the RK3399 and Allwinner H5/H6, hoping there's going to be a new wave of interesting stuff during 2020.

A really nice feature of some of these ARM boards is that you can go so much more free (as in libre) than with x86 chips. Raspberry Pi excluded, unfortunately.

If you're open to x86 and want a bit more power, Intel NUCs have been around for a good time and AMD is pushing out Ryzen NUCs now. First out is ASROCK. I've also been very happy with the PC Engines APU2 router boards - they are great as small-form-factor servers or NAS builds as well.

Note that even if Raspbian is 32-bit only, you can totally run 64-bit OS's on the 3B+ and 4 series.

For 3B+ there's even a pretty stable UEFI bootloader: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2494...

For Raspi 4 you can just rebuild the kernel for aarch64 and change the config a bit. Or if you're lazy, sakaki- is providing weekly builds here: https://github.com/sakaki-/bcm2711-kernel

I have both 3B+ and 4B running vanilla 64-bit Debian Buster.
As soon as everyone started going to $0 commissions overnight I feel like consolidation was inevitable.
If you're living in an apartment (like a sizeable chunk of the world's population does), WiFi is absolutely not an option for anything even remotely traffic heavy.
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Structured data can be streamed too, and indeed there is software that does it at scale. Data with much more complex structure than audio frames.
Stop adding email tracking links to phone numbers
Huh, electrons ??
I'm pretty sure that we've been first taught in high school this duality with photons... (and got told that it worked for any particle later)
Yeah, you’re gonna want Ethernet for a server. Both ends of a connection being on wifi is asking for flakiness even if there aren’t any problems with the server’s hardware or software.
Watching TV helps birds make better food choices
Believe it or not, I largely agree with the sentiment expressed. I suffer no illusions in that regards.

That said, riddle me this as it may yield some interesting answers. Do you believe there is such a thing as too much power in one set of hands? If so, is one Bloomberg too much?
That sounds congruent with both GP’s point, and the intent of the author.
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While cheapest options are likely to be among least reliable, I doubt more expensive options are always going to be more reliable.
that to me is the real reason behind this service. it might not make money, but the statistics and insight they get are worth way more than money.
That was the first Udemy course I bought, and was fairly surprised by the quality. Anthony Alicea hasn't released anything for a while, so I'm wondering if the relatively immense success of his courses has made him financially independent.
And this is the (now defunct) Panos restaurant, on Hills Road:

https://i2-prod.cambridge-news.co.uk/incoming/article1345494...
As an example from 29 Feb 2016, for lossless compression you can go from 8 to 3 bits per color according to Table 5 here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.06759
I found that the slack desktop application works WORSE than the browser app in limited connection scenarios.

The browser will attempt to slowly load while the application outright refuses to attempt, and claims it has no connection, even the the browser is loading
Udemy stuff is always on sale for ~2 years now. Maybe 5-10% of the time they aren’t.
Hah, the UK media got the candidate they tried to elect. Blame them.
The last one was in February 3rd: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225313 (it is visible but read-only now)

There will be a similar one in March 2nd.

Just wait and post a comment with the offer inside that automatic post.
encountered malfunctions and other mishaps, solved problems & persevered

The big difference is, cars back then were far simpler, and more importantly could actually be fixed by anyone with a bit of mechanical skill, which wasn't in short supply at the time.

Modern cars are so complex and computerised that even if you own it, you are still mostly powerless to do anything if something goes wrong, and it could even be deliberately designed to thwart repair by anyone other than the original manufacturer.
Wow, that makes a lot of sense. Clearly, my imagination was lacking. Thanks!
Context matters. For example, at an intersection, both the context of what is happening with others at that intersection as well as what has happened to the vehicle coming up to that intersection matter. An intersection near a soccer field at 4PM has different dynamics than at 4AM. An intersection following a highway exit has different dynamics than an intersection in a neighborhood.
> Now we just need a file format that combines all this. :)

TTF?
I haven't been on Pluralsight in a while, but always found it to be high quality. Has anything interesting come out recently?
You can make people install engimail, but there are problems with email enigmail does not solve (this article), problems with with PGP it does not solve (our other PGP article), that have directly resulted in serious vulnerabilities for Enigmail.
I don't (it wasn't my project) but I've emailed my housemate (seemed polite, since we are talking about him).
It's the right thing to give an error that some process has the file open but never tell you which process that is?
Sounds like their recognition model wasn't tested for false correlations...
Both Android and Windows does not support HEIF by default.
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