skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Clinton outspent Trump in 2016.

Do we have any any hard numbers how much was spend by various nation-states to benefit the Trump campaign?

To be fair, there are so many loopholes in campaign finance laws that it is hard to get accurate numbers of spending, beyond what is self-reported, for any candidate.
I’m still waiting for the $45 million spent on color.com and colour.com to pay off...
It is only subvertive if people let it be so. But if his spending is subvertive then ALL like spending is subvertive. He is just more upfront about it.

I do think you have a valid argument here assuming the process was not already subverted.
Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss
They address this directly under the section entitled "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution":

SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from unknown persons.

In other words, the reasoning is that since the code is released to the public domain, they want to ensure they can continue doing so without encumbering or confusing future releases with tainted contributions. Quite admirable.
If google embedded the top fonts in the browser this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t understand why the font selection in browsers is so limited.
If you are interested in a reasonable and effective proposal to this problem I recommend you read chapter 3 of Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl. They propose that every citizen be able to sponsor a migrant themselves.
I came here to say this. It succeeded because it's an extraordinarily high quality piece of code!

The 'lite' is even a bit of a misnomer. Properly tuned I've seen 1TB+ SQLite databases work just fine. It doesn't scale horizontally with CPU cores as well as a "real" database but it can perform very well with large data sets if there's only one or two writers.
It's unfortunate that they bowed to pressure and removed their original monastic code of conduct.
Disclosing if something is sponsored/an advertisement is important and necessary. It fully changes the trust dynamic between parties.
This is way more stringent than I realized (especially the buried in hashtags part) although the example at the end of doing #BrandNamePartner seems like it could be used disingenuously, like would #TeamMike satisfy the FTC requirements?
I don't know if they were being sarcastic, but I'm willing to argue for the position.

There are life altering medical conditions that can make you go blind, for that "vision coverage" as part of medical coverage makes sense. I'm excluding that from the below because by "vision coverage" most people mean "insurance for routine checkups and purchasing glasses".

For routine eye appointments and glasses - their is no high unexpected costs that need to be spread out over a large population. The costs are low and predictable. The majority of the population needs them. So the typical benefit of insurance doesn't exist - i.e. you aren't spreading large unexpected costs over a large number of people so they average out to a small consistent cost.

Meanwhile insuring these things just means that the people purchasing the product no longer have an incentive to keep the price down, and adds bureaucracy, both of which increase the cost without providing a better service.

So - why do you need vision coverage?

I'll acknowledge some counter arguments exist. Encouraging people to get frequent enough eye appointments, spreading the cost of bad eyesight to the minority of people who don't need eyeware, if government supported - subsidizing the basic need of eyeware for poor people, etc. You can make an argument in the other direction to, but I don't think either argument is obviously better, and in the end which side you agree with basically comes down to what your politics are like.
Discussed in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=715395

2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888638

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8063192

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7522539

2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12048945

Smaller threads from a year ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19014278

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18737380
The notion that only serious work can educate someone is something I hope future educators can dispel and build engaging platforms (edutainment).

I learned about game theory, communication, teamwork, strategy and business from gaming and sports. These topics would have been quite dry to learn in a sterile educational setting. In the same vein, I hope we move to a more experiment/physical based learning of science and technology over rote learning, since a lot of learners hugely benefit from that.

I commend you on what you're working towards!
The biggest thing about them this month was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22366474 which while its bad that they do a poor job teaching isn't really something someone would clear their social media over
Without VC money Lambda would have had at best 10 students and you wouldn't have heard of it.

There are real beefs Lambda will have to sort out on how it runs things, but running with VC money isn't one of them. Also, weird to have that opinion in HN, made by an incubator that sells startups to VCs.
I hope you're right about the tech world...Because we need valid options.
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Actually, speaking as a diabetic, fruits are something you have to be careful of.

There is a _lot_ of sugar in fruit. A medium sized apple has as much sugar as 8oz of Coca Cola.

The sugars in fruit are very simple, which is good and bad. They tend to spike blood sugar very quickly, but also drop back to baseline fairly quickly.

Now, there is lots of good nutritional stuff in fruit also, of course, but you could absolutely develop diabetes from eating fruit.
How to track everyone, everywhere.
> When the centralized monopoly is all for raising prices, it becomes clear that market forces ceased to exist.

> In free markets, pricing is controlled by the markets themselves, not by any single actor.

I want .org name prices to remain capped at $10, and I want its stewards to take steps to ensure that there isn't a profit motive. That's a big part of what this uproar is -- lots of cash-strapped organizations whose Web presence depends on .org continuing to be operated as it was would harmed even if the prices of .org names were set by an idealized free market. This is not something Handshake addresses.

> I agree with this. Again, free markets control this. Consider the difference between the market for gum (market controlled) versus the market for patented drugs (single actor controlled).

The "free-ness" of the market is orthogonal to the problem at hand. The problem here is corruption and rent-seeking. Handshake not only fails to address this, but also arguably makes it more prone to happen.

> If the community collectively decides to fork, it can fork.

If the problem was as easily solved as setting up and running an alternative DNS root, we wouldn't need Handshake. We'd just run an alternative DNS root, but with a governing charter that is less prone to corruption. No need to introduce a blockchain to solve a fundamentally social problem.

This approach would also be highly disruptive and would hurt a lot of people over the course of its execution. Why are you so adamantly opposed to simply stopping the sale of .org to rent-seekers? Stopping the sale is, by far, the least painful and least disruptive solution.

> Thanks for pointing out these questions and allowing me to directly address how Handshake solves these problems, and please keep them coming as it helps us to better understand what information isn’t well explained, and explain it!

Except, you haven't addressed a single one of my problems.
Being open source and being open to contributions are pretty much orthogonal. SQLite itself is every bit open source.

This isn’t even a particularly strange arrangement for open source. See The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
The documentation is very clear than SQLite over a network isn't a good use case, for reasonably sized data. Item 1 from "Checklist for choosing the right database engine" [1]

> 1. Is the data separated from the application by a network? → choose client/server

> Relational database engines act as bandwidth-reducing data filters. So it is best to keep the database engine and the data on the same physical device so that the high-bandwidth engine-to-disk link does not have to traverse the network, only the lower-bandwidth application-to-engine link.

> But SQLite is built into the application. So if the data is on a separate device from the application, it is required that the higher bandwidth engine-to-disk link be across the network. This works, but it is suboptimal. Hence, it is usually better to select a client/server database engine when the data is on a separate device from the application.

1. https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
Bill has owned a lot of Porches. It was his first big purchase:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/20/the-first-big-purchase-bill-...

https://www.motor1.com/news/76136/driving-a-porsche-959-in-t...

I forget if that’s what he was driving when he was arrested:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_mugshot...
MacBook Pros of recent years have "2K" (2880 x 1800) displays, that renders at 1050p with extra pixels used for "sub"pixel aliasing. Plain 1080p on a laptop is pixelated for text viewing.
What is the underlying storage structure that scales to TB+?
And if you always use Cloudflare (or at least are sure you'd have days-weeks not minutes-hours between making a decision to cease using Cloudflare and actually executing) then it's actually safer to tell them you'll use their Origin certs rather than a public CA as well as likely being easier.
How about an offline app that stores snapshot of the bookmarks periodically as well? I've been needing a bookmark organizer, but I agree, by itself it's too limited of a feature.
I personally cannot see any near term replacement for what SQLite offers. In my world, SQLite became the way in which I now manipulate a scope of structured data on a single logical disk. I mostly view it as a very reliable and friendly layer on top of basic file IO which also happens to be compatible with virtually every computer on earth. I can copy a SQLite database out of an embedded microcontroller environment and directly open it on my x86_64 workstation, edit some values, and then copy it back down without any fears of compatibility issues.
I guess there is no support for printing.

print site:fyne.io

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viewer for Gerber RS274X files (for PCBs)
> It's just typing it out for the component at hand.

You and I have very different approaches to design.

Before I type out the actual component, I will write the Enzyme via Jest test cases first to ensure I clearly understand what the actual component should be doing in the first place even if I am beyond sure I have a good grip on the requirements.

Real world experience has taught me that the ability to bang out code matters way less than the ability to ensure and verify that the code actually, in reality, behaves as expected by the customer.
This sounds like your basic configuration management tool plus a service discovery tool.
Reducing Docker Image Size
It's already painful to get Let's Encrypt set up in a web farm scenario. This won't make it easier.
That sweet, sweet traffic data.
Tbh that's what most real time video/audio applications will do.
Reordering adds latency and that is worse than the occasional dropped frame.
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Eh, while this happens its getting rarer and rarer. Execs know that if a cybersecurity issue is brought to them they kinda have to take it seriously (in 2020 anyways) or be the next Experian.

Edit: whoops Equifax, not Experian
one connection per logical operation sucks for SQLite

How is this typically handled? Using OS file locking primitives?
Mostly that deciding when it's a legitimately different subsidiary and when it's just a shell for a corporate tax dodge seems difficult and with billions of dollars at stake for the largest companies there's a lot of incentive to make or find and exploit loopholes where FB Ireland technically qualifies as a legit division instead of a tax dodge shell.
Volkswagen and Toyota clearly do things other than making intellectual property, and some of those things are taxed.
Timelapse of 3D printing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJUlzVLmhSk
Can you back this up with... anything? I'm not denying the Russian interference, but the numbers include PACs:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2016-presidentia...
Strongly disagree with this. I know 50 people that think they can learn to do Data or something with an Udemy class and end up doing nothing.

I think the negative picture painted by the author masks that the company is placing 50% of graduates which mostly paid nothing for the education they received. Lambda is not high quality education, but its super cheap and higher quality than just reading a Knuth Book, or Skenna's algo book which has no completion rate.
I'm not set against browsers at all. But I didn't know V8 had any problems with async/await. Tank you for highlighting this.
I work with a F500 oil company from time to time.

Half of the devs from there that I was in contact with were not capable of:

- googling a solution to a problem efficiently. When they hit a wall, they turned to me with an empty look like they were lost.

- read an error message to troubleshoot. A stack trace is utter mystery.

- use effectively the UI of their laptop. Some can't even Ctrl + S to save, they look up the "save" entry in the menu.

We are talking about people writing code every day, in several programming languages: fortran, c, c++, java, Python...

Because I'm a freelancer, I don't care. I'm paid extremely well to be very nice to them and solve all their problems.

But I'm very glad I don't have to be held responsible for anything those people end up putting in production. And I have no reason to believe it's different in their security department.

However, and this is a good lesson to all of the geeks like me that think work is about doing the right thing: the output they produce is good enough in our society. Its cost/value hits the sweat spot. Business is not about doing things right, it's about being profitable.

If you have one scandal a year, but it costs you less than making sure you have a secure system, and you are not legally challenged, then you are golden.

In fact, the chances to have even one scandal are very low. Actual risks of failure or attack are low. And consequences in case of crisis are low too. People don't care that much about privacy, cyber-security, etc. And policy makers won't enforce their laws anyway, at least not to any extent that will endanger the company.

So if the software allows people to do their job IRL at a reasonable price, under an acceptable deadline, good enough.

In fact, David Goodenough is a very funny French meme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho4W5LnFl6s
I know SQLite's SQL query engine is implemented as a VM. Are there ways of optimizing repeated queries, similar to compiling a query to avoid the VM churn? Perhaps more importantly, have you ever been disappointed by the query engine's performance?
The other wasn't a weak cohort. It was the most recent data.

Also if you were an institution interested in disclosing information fairly you would simply list all cohorts and let the consumer decide.

But they aren't doing that and instead claim a single number.

By the way, having had recent experiences with a number of bootcamps through friends I would say that the 50% number anecdotally is accurate. That's also not taking in to account the drop out rate. If you look at people starting the bootcamp to placement it would be even lower.

If you have 465,000 customers and you want to round that up to 500k - ok, not exactly true, but whether you have 465k or 500k isn't going to change my decision about using your product.

Telling me you place 80% of your students and actually placing 50% is a big deal. 80% means I have a 4 out of 5 chance of being successful. 50% means I have a 1 out of 2 chance of being successful. Those odds are very different and certainly part of the marketing push to get people to sign up.
SAML is its own nightmare on top of the OAuth/OIDC mess. You're probably in the worst of all worlds right now.
There's an entire industry of psyche meds already. And they all have 'trials' proving their efficacy. Do those pills not work? Is it all a sham?
The top fonts aren't the issue for page loading, they'll be cached 99% of the time. It's more obscure fonts that actually hit the server causing the issue.
Is it really that sleazy? Any service-based company is built on charging their customers more than what it costs to actually do the service. In this case, the service is finding a locksmith and directing them to your location. If someone can find a way to get in front of customers for that, then more power to them - that's the business model for any directory.

Google itself is doing much the same thing and profiting from it. They have become the go-to source for many people looking for a locksmith, when there are other ways to find them.

Maybe there's more to this than has been described, but on the surface, it seems like a common business model.
No one who is grounded in reality is seriously questioning that. You are just being hyperbolic.
How do these studies control for social encouragement?
Also, being a hacker in those dial-up times was possible even by accident. Many ISPs honored the finger command, exposing the usernames of other customers who were online. Many passwords in those times were just the same username, or words like "password". It was customary that your ISP hosted your email, so it shared the same password.

The jails would have overflowed if those kids had been adults instead.
All regions go to $50k if you up the property coverage, thanks for the feedback on the UI we'll adjust to make that more obvious.

In the renters insurance market our ALE numbers are pretty normal (or better!), so wanted to get a sense of what you think is needed here.
A similar effect occurs when using infra-red LEDs near the face to prevent video recording. The problem is that many phone cameras now have a UV/IR filter - I can see microphones having a similar setup to improve sound quality in the future.
Outline VPN from DigitalOcean – Making it safer to break the news
Wouldn't it be fun if you were basically saying "AMD support on Linux is great, unless you are using GNOME or KDE"? :D
The real cheap filament style bulbs are a rectifier, and nothing but.
Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. The vote-count statistics in high-minority districts do not back up your suspicion.
There are 3 people on the planet who can make changes to it and one person who can work on their custom made source control system. Single points of failure are not sustainable.
> I do not subscribe to the 'they are basically children, we have to protect them'.

He is paying you to leverage your reputation and trust networks, and you are extending your reputation and trust networks to him for a fee.

It doesn't matter that you think you don't subscribe to belief about people you posited above, because if you don't believe in Bloomberg's message, you are effectively deceiving those in your trust network.

Now, perhaps everyone in your trust network is in on your deception, but realistically the vast majority of humans, as social (vs. antisocial) beings rely on trust networks as a strong signal for forming opinions and taking actions.
Plenty of classic databases were missing all of those. In fact arguably many of the recent nosql ones fit the description..
Please make your legitimate points in ways that don't break the HN guidelines. Personally attacking the person you're replying to isn't part of the legitimate point, and is easy to factor out if you want to. For example, your second paragraph there could be reduced to "the interviewee discusses the very things you're saying he omitted", and to make it more helpful, could have included specifics about where and how he discusses those things.

> in a way that is very difficult to explain if they had read the article

It's easy to explain: people remember completely different things in the articles they read, based on their pre-existing feelings and assumptions—just like we see very different things in the world in general. When your feelings and assumptions aren't the same, it's too easy to jump to conclusions about other people, especially online, where we have so little information to go on, and inevitably make up stories about each other to fill in the blanks. (Not talking about you personally—we all do this.) Because these effects lead to stuck, repetitive, and ultimately nasty discussion, the site guidelines try to mitigate them, and commenters here need to follow those.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That isn't sexism, similar things happens all the time in gay relationships. Similarly men murdering women in relationships is not sexism, since gay men murder their partners at a higher rate than straight men. So it isn't sexism, it isn't about men hating women, it is just about men committing a lot more brutal violence on average. Or in this case, it is just about men being a lot more forceful about sex than women, even when they are proposing to men.
One is a real car you can buy, the other isn't.

That's ignoring Tesla's historical issues with fit and finish/quality control.
I say S-Q-Lite except I pronounce the S and Q in Portuguese and the rest in English...

Luckily I code on my own, so nobody hears this abomination out loud
> It's so unbelievably stupid it's hard to actually comprehend that these people actually are capable of being programmers.

As a general technique, when that happens, you can try to imagine a context wherein their POV makes sense.

> As you can see from the sources I pointed out, some of them even thinks it's a good thing.

What do [you think] they think is a good thing? "self-hatred"? "sexism against men or racism against white people"?

> This disgusts me ...

Okay.

> ... and makes me not care about sexism against women.

How does that follow?

If sexism (or self-hatred or racism) is bad then it's bad, right?
I think community colleges are great, and if you can get one on one instruction anywhere it is fantastic. The challenge is that bootcamps are really designed for people who are changing careers. Which means they have already gone through college or actively working. So it becomes an issue because they are reliant on income to survive and they aren't living with their parents.

Basically it's unplanned and so much harder to able to commit two years.

Certainly do-able, but challenging when you are thinking of it from a consumer perspective. Spend two years working towards a career shift or get it done in 6 months.

Maybe community colleges can do a better job of marketing themselves.

But ultimately I think the fact that computer science isn't a requirement in all education is criminal. We study "Math" and "English" in school. "Computer Science" is the equivalent of math 100 years ago, it needs to be a mandated requirement.
I understand that sending email in plaintext is a design issue for email. And that PGP is outdated.

However, I think it’s possible to have a system completely in the open and still be secure. Bitcoin comes to mind. I don’t think the problem is with email, but with the lax encryption models and the lack of support by email clients and servers alike. Wouldn’t you agree?
Last I checked, browsers don't come with fonts. Browsers use the OS's fonts if a webpage doesn't have them. I'd rather browsers not maintain their own fonts.
Did you use WAL?