skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Assange did not "decide to confine himself" anywhere. That's like saying that if someone has threatened to beat you up if you leave your house and is waiting outside all the time, then you've "decided to confine yourself to your home".

We'll never know how things might have gone differently had Assange turned himself in for questioning upon the first investigation in Sweden, because he absconded, claiming that it was a set-up. The bell cannot be un-rung, and the way that things have played out now cannot be a priori "proven" (if indeed they had, then his fears would have been justified, but that is _entirely speculative_).
Because I, a potential consumer of Apple's other products, shouldn't have to think about whether I fall into this strange grey-area where it is apparently ok to be gouged.
"[...] you have to individually fix every heading on every page."

You should have utilized a template engine in the first place. So you'd only have to change the layout/partial/component that is responsible for rendering the heading. Moreover, you could also have extracted the component with css by creating a .title class and using @apply.
I'm making preparations, but I think I'm going to have to make even more. Having one child under two, and another just about to be born, I really can't afford their exposure, when they'll still be in a developmental phase that leaves them especially prone to permanent damage.
Elsevier: Friend or foe in humanity's fight to survive COVID-19?
I just want to know if the govt will come and weld apartment entrances shut in NYC. Can't imagine how the city will be if it gets hit. Smh
Meh, I'm in Italy and there's not much going on: some small panic in some parts of the population, school closed and stuff. Nothing worth preparing for. All the deaths were very sick people

Edit: apparently OP by "other countries that are affected" meant "the most badly hit places in Wuhan" and thinks it's going to happen everywhere in the world. I repeat that in Italy there's no apocalyptic scenario going on
> They demanded he be extradited to Sweden to question him

This was all for show. https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
Getting tailwind to work properly with Vue CLI has been the bane of my existence.
Manifesto for Self-Managed Software Development
Sorry, did I miss something? WTF is the "techlash"?
You also leave more time for ICUs to be overrun and not being able to take you.
Just like during Soviet times, people felt safer, but crime still happened. It just wasn't talked about, because it makes the state look bad.

Poor example. The anarchy that attended the collapse of the Soviet system brought about a dramatic increase in crime. And while reported petty theft was arguably a reporting problem, the dramatic rise in homicides was not.

For the record my mother-in-law lived in St Petersburg at the time. And her anecdotal reports were that crime that she and friends experienced rose dramatically.
Considering the aesthetics of multicoding with the classic esolang Chef
Big N isn't a startup. The risk to reward ratio between RSUs and first stage equity/options is very different. The environment is very different. Everything is different. I guess you could try to compare compensation between the two, but it's not a true comparison.

I worked for a startup that got funded in that ballpark. There were seven of us. We sat at a couple folding tables at an incubator for six months or so, and used a vacant space (no power, no heat) to build and test our hardware. We eventually moved into a bigger incubator with more office and lab space, then our own office.

We weren't in SF. Location matters less every day, and you have to make sure the higher costs associated with various locations make sense. It's pretty amazing where you can find a machine shop that can make prototypes for you if you need it. Cloud service providers will give startups $10k/mo or so in free time to start with to get you hooked, so you need very little infrastructure.

It is possible to run for a while without a huge initial round if you've already confirmed there's a market, have built relationships with potential customers, and have a team who understands what they're getting into, and is motivated to delivering the first few milestones, whatever they are.
I remember that JSF(java faces) used the same __VIEWSTATE approach to preserve the state, attaching the state to every request. It may also be a great source of security vulnerabilities.

Luckily neither .net WebForms, nor JSF are popular nowadays.
I just had this with "Malwarebytes" despite the fact that both I and they are in California and this goes against California law.
Vaccines are biological in nature. It's very possible that time will be a much more meaningful factor than people or equipment in producing enough of a vaccine to cover sufficiently many people so "massively parallelizing" the process may not help with the lead time to vaccine availability, only with quantity when it does become available (assuming an effective vaccine is found).

Having said that, I would expect that in most Western countries, sufficient quantities to cover the most vulnerable people (older people and those with existing heart or respiratory conditions - ie largely the same people selected for annual flu vaccines in many places) will be available by next (Northern hemisphere) winter.
Right now Microsoft is the lesser evil.

Reducing Chrome market share is something we all should strive to achieve.

I personally use and recommend Firefox to everyone.
They don't publicize it too much, and there are some tricks to get it working as needed, but the documentation is below.

https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview

Just a note, it does not return identical results to the Google web search, it is a slightly different search index. Although now there are several companies that sell directly scraped Google SERP results. I believe that they do operate in potential violation of Google's TOS though.
as an American struggling with some business attitudes here (versus EU mainly) .. I find a "rush to FOSS" to be troublesome.. There is an unfortunate overlap of "Free-as-in-Beer" and "Free-as-in-Freedom" which is not just disappearing! If you want to make enemies quickly, you can reinforce that notion that "software is free (beer)" towards Newspapers, freelance tech writers, independent medical professionals, clerks or any other of dozens of business types that are failing and going out of business in the Internet age.

.. with nature abhorring a vacuum and all, what you get instead is lock-in monthly fee structures and massive feudal-style companies controlling those.. while the chances to earn a living independently get slimmer and slimmer.. at least here in the USA, it is very much happening..

Software freedom -- YES; absence of citizen commerce, NO
Speaking of what you characterized as being paranoid...

Here's a dose of reality for you:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australians-in-italy-s-coronavir...

This could be reality in one or more US cities in days, weeks or months from now. Would it be better to take the time to be ready for this before people panic or just wait and wing it? Maybe go door-to-door betting for food and supplies? Sure, that sounds like an excellent plan.
Coz vs. Sampling Profilers
I agree with most of this post. But there's one part he's wrong about. The most precious commodity is not talent. As he said "That year, probably over 1,000 photo sharing startups were funded". That means, when that original photo sharing startup was hiring, it could have filled every position x1000 times, if they could find all those candidates. That's an indication of a vast oversupply of talent.

The most precious commodity is Opportunity: Market opportunity.

And, I know, human desires are endless. But, (legally) solvable problems are not endless, they're currently in very very short supply. this is why we end up with start ups like juicero. out of desperation, entrepreneurs are forced to take on problems that aren't really problems because all the real problems are blocked by legislation/legality/monopoly: education, housing, transportation, medical insurance.
It is public knowledge who the judge is married to, and what Wikileaks has published about him. The world socialist website's bias can further sensationalize the story, but the conflict of interest is undisputable.
Shortages of what? Supermarkets in northern Italy have been restocking without problems, there is a shortage of N95 face masks on amazon, but they're not even proved to be useful for healthy people
It is structural to American journalism. (edit) a trope, maybe?
Glad to hear it. That's such an amazingly weird behaviour though, just fire off the balance to the account of the last payment in. I just can't imagine being a developer writing that code or being a customer service agent and executing that payment
That's what I like about reading technical books. I have 3 books (textbooks, really) that I'm reading right now, and I don't feel like I have to finish one before picking up the other. I can read whatever I feel like reading.

Even though I love fiction, I couldn't pick up a second book from Stephen King without fully finishing the first. I'd lose interest in the first one otherwise.
> 2. They demand full support from game devs, despite only making up an absolutely tiny fraction of the customer base. They routinely make up less then 0.1% of sales (!), but cause 20%+ of support tickets[0]. No sane business in the world would sink 20% of their support budget into 0.1% of their revenue.

There's also the opposite story told by some indie devs, where linux user actually make up a significant portion of sales and also provide very technical support requests/bug fixes.
I'll see if I can find the article where I read this somewhere.
That's a good question, because "Casa da moeda do Brasil" is the "company" that actually prints the real money in Brazil. It's controlled by the state since forever (although the definition of 'state' changed wildly in the last 500 years, between colony, empire, dictatorship, republic, etc).
Health Insurance options for startup founder
I am a single founder living in California and don't have the option to fall back and enroll in my spouse's health insurance plan.

I am in my 30's and reasonably healthy and only visit the doctor's office once or twice a year. What good health insurance is out there that doesn't cost me an arm and leg for early-stage startup founder?
True today, but it won't be long until Edge Chromium. (Assuming Windows 10, that is.)
I don’t recommend people use the CDN, it unpacks with a huge payload.
Found some benchmarks here - https://rickyhewitt.dev/blog/2019/10/scaleaway-vs-digitaloce...

Overall DigitalOcean looks very promising, both performance and product wise.
Human brain is the most advanced pattern matching engine there exists, so the titlein itself may be true, but not helpful.
Yep, most middle east and eastern cultures have very low hygiene standards.
> failure in safety protocol could have led to an accidental release of research samples into the real world

Geez. Now you’re just spreading conspiracy level nonsense, to find a convenient way to peg this on China’s government.

HN moderators, you need to filter this guy’s Reddit-level nonsense.
Most common is 2% management fee and 20% carry
It's turtles all the way down bro
I think that depends on what you're looking for. Technical books are always evolving. There's always new fiction. Self-improvement and business books, especially the best ones I find, are quite old.
Such as? The biggest issue I've ever had with GitLab documentation is that one time I ran across a case where the docs for a few feature were published (by accident) before the feature was. Support figured it out and I had to wait no more than a couple weeks for the feature.
NTSB Blasts Tesla, CalTrans, and Nhtsa for Autopilot Death
It totally depends on when you did try Firefox.

Two years ago Firefox was such a downgrade I concur.

One year ago the reverse was true and I switched to Firefox without regrets.
That's not true at all. If you roll dice and only land on empty properties and corners, you'll have nothing to negotiate with. Negotiation only works if both parties have something of value and the dice determine whether players have something of value.
I thought this would be the case, but I have most of my WiFi-enabled devices using WireGuard, and don't have a problem accessing my self-hosted services, nor with casting. This is the case even with phones using WireGuard. I can cast, use Jellyfin, and cast from Jellyfin just fine. edit: I should mention that I don't have an internet-only DMZ, just WireGuard for the LAN.
Fascinating, and also probably painful to live through. Thanks for sharing that story.
I look forward to the day when one time pads are the norm for general encryption.

A scifi novel I read, "A Deepness in the Sky" described how the pads themselves were a valuable item of trade. I don't think it's farfetched to imagine purchasing OTP data to use with internet browsing, the way we buy yubikeys to use with passwords. It would be a far simpler encryption scheme than those we currently use, and that simplicity would make it easier to catch bugs like heartbleed in the future.

How hard would it be to extend the ssl protocol to allow the use of OTP pads, where available?
This is the typical stuff we discuss at https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
Selfie, hypster, mipster, monster... these names are great.
“If you have a thick skin” classic hacker news. Never fails to disgust me.
I find posts like this simultaneously heartening and disheartening. Heartening because it means a lot of behaviors that are billed as "genius" or "high IQ" or what have you, might just be an individual unconsciously drawing upon years, maybe even decades, of experience that is layered on top of each other. The most obvious example of this, for our community, are actually codebases. The more you work on it, the easier it becomes to debug and figure out issues, sometimes without even looking at the code. When I was first starting out as a junior software engineer, I was shocked at how quickly some of the seniors could figure out bugs. I was upset because I thought that they might just be smarter than me, from a raw intelligence perspective.

But now, some years later, I've become that person, at least in my current company. I can debug issues pretty quickly, and my brain has a store of literally thousands of bugs and snags that have come up over the years, to the point where if someone says, "This feature isn't returning the right variables", I can usually point them to the fix without even looking up from my laptop. It sounds like magic, but really it's just localized expertise.

That's the heartening part--that all it takes is years to do it. The expertise is available to everyone, perhaps.

The disheartening part is the other side of the coin--what if you've started late? Does this mean that software engineers who start late, in their 40's or 50's, for example, might never reach the heights of software engineers who started early? That isn't true--there are examples to the contrary, I hope--but maybe they have a much steeper hill to climb. Or they have to figure out a different approach to getting up the hill, maybe combining years of experience from a different field.

I love essays about these topics: expertise, pattern-matching, your brain being shaped by what you do, etc. If anyone has any others, I'd love to see them.

EDIT: Some grammar mistakes.
3 ways of cloning an application and a database per git branch
You can't believe any numbers coming out of china. They are having to build new hospitals. Watch what they do not what they say.
Usually if you think you are fcking someone in the stock market, you are usually the one being fcked
This essay made me think a lot of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
I wish people stop calling that Spanish Flu where it's totally unrelated to Spain...
Yes I agree with you, I am concerned with the elderly & infants. As these are the demographics which usually have higher fatal outcome both in diseases, and even adverse effects from drugs/surgery.
Online Course Planning Checklist: Plan, Build, and Launch [Google Doc]
I'm not clear what you mean by limiting "not only particular document but database". As far as a document changing in pouch and rejected on the server, that's one of two scenarios.

1) The client you wrote is bugged and generated bad data. This scenarios can occur just as easily using Postgres and an application server. What does your app server do if a client tries to send bad data? (Answer: Whatever you told it to do. Most likely throwing a 500 when your databases refuses the incoming data.)

As for what will happen when pouch syncs to couch the server will let everything else sync, but not the bad document. The return value from the API call will tell you what documents didn't sync.

2) Someone is intentionally trying to shove bad data into your database. In this case it's worked as advertised and rejected the bad data. What do you care if a malicious client breaks?

What kind of "expensive" query are you envisioning? Mango queries don't support joins, and only simple equality filters, so in general the worst thing someone could do is send a query that doesn't use an index, but why are you letting the client query the server in the first place? Just have the client sync and query client side. Or don't allow access the the _find endpoint and restrict them to the map/reduce view you handwrote.

If you must let them send arbitrary queries (which to me implies a relatively trusted user, but let's pretend their not), then run the query with a limit of 1 or 0, and examine the execution stats to see if they are using an index, and check their query to see if their limit is reasonable. But at this point you've now entered into a scenario that's going to be very difficult with a custom API too.
> > I am always using the US-EN Firefox version

> Wait, so you want the US version of Firefox to be tuned to EU legal policy?

It is not the US version. It's the US language version - or at least that's how they market it.
Nitpicking here, but Rome was a backwater for a long time. That business evidently bootstrapped in the Middle East and is continued today as the Orthodox Church.
> We'll never know how things might have gone differently had Assange turned himself in for questioning upon the first investigation in Sweden, because he absconded, claiming that it was a set-up.

1. We now know it was indeed a setup.
2. We now know he did indeed make himself available for questioning.

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
I agree as a population we need to reduce our energy usage but I will point something out.

> CO2 neutral civilization essentially only has the energy available daily from the sun to sustain itself (unless you include nuclear). This is orders of magnitudes less than our current energy usage.

The solar energy hitting the earths surface (forgetting what is absorbed in upper atmosphere contributing to winds) is really quite large. An example is I grew up in a territory/state that is 1.421 million square KMs in area. Taking the global average [0] of solar radiation hitting the surface of the planet the amount daily energy hitting the ground in just that area is 1,421,000,000 (square meters) * 6kWh = 8,526,000,000 kWh or 8.562 TWh each day (on average)

Yes we can only access a small percentage of this through technology and practical land/sea use but that is an awful lot of energy in a relatively small part of the globe (NT Australia). But while "those promoting complex/high-tech solutions" are not always promoting useful things, the history of renewable energy is one of incremental improvement and small gains to efficiency. I agree it won't happen over 10 years, and no single technology will hold the solution to all our problems, but I do believe a combination of social change and iterative technology improvements can work together to greatly reduce us making the problem worse over the coming decades.

Better communication of the science and engineering of what is possible is absolutely needed, but so is communication of the science predicting how bad things can get if we don't do anything.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Irradiance_on...
As one of the factors probably, but they don't recommend random people who are nearby. There has to be some actual connection (friend-of-friend, address book, in the same group etc.)
>integrated in the national community because they speak French, they eat our foods, think mostly like us, and follow our laws and traditions

Jesus. Moving to a country isn't joining a cult. You shouldn't expect people to 'think like us' - I mean, what kind of fascist ant colony are you going for here? People's thoughts are their own. That's the the 'liberty' in the liberty-equality-fraternity thing, and you're kind of spitting on it with your small-minded chauvanism.
A necessary condition for this ranking is that the business' offering was valued from the time it started to the present. Good food and a nice experience is apparently a timeless product category -- although that's far from a sufficient condition to have a long-running and profitable business.
I can't get any casting to work when my phone is connected with WireGuard. I have exclude private IP's on for the one I'm connected to. It'll show for instance in the YouTube app but not actually be able to cast. Disabling VPN and retrying works immediately.
Stockor ERP system – Affero GPL 3 license
Wall Street will catch on and come around to set a trap
I'm pretty sure Facebook used to suggest people who searched for your name as a "Person You May Know".
"Thus, while Betelgeuse may explode tomorrow or any time in the next few 1e5 yr, the unprecedented current visual faintness is unlikely to be a harbinger of its impending core collapse."
Just fascinating. I spent some time goggling at its absence this weekend, glad to hear it should(?) return to prominence
Would Japan qualify as authoritarian? Yet it is safe to leave things out without watching them, except for umbrellas. There are even places in the US where it is safe enough. I doubt these places are more authoritarian but instead allow such social safety because of other reasons. Authoritarianism can, to some extent, replace those reasons if they are lost, but it replaces them with some sort of mutated social structure that I find has far more problems that the original once you look past the surface.
Your wording "especially in networking" strongly implies that Azure was worst on several counts, but especially so on networking - but that is not the case, they were only worse on networking.

- On CPU performance, Azure absolutely smashed it!
- For storage read and write, Azure came second behind AWS
- For TPC-C perf/$ all 4 providers had similar pricing for similar tiers. Note that Cockroach labs say this only takes into account on-demand pricing, so reserved instance pricing may differ
Actually last year a few pharmacies in France told us they were short of some pills. Then we learned that only a few brands were manufacturing them .. so almost a single point of failure.
> “The evidence is overwhelming and clear,” the expert [a medical expert accompanying the UN Special Rapporteur on torture Melzer during a visit to Assange] said. “Mr. Assange has been deliberately exposed, for a period of several years, to progressively severe forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the cumulative effects of which can only be described as psychological torture.

https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?N...