skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If all you want is a rails thing but with a Clojure twist I'd keep an eye on https://youtu.be/jkx9F-RIFiY

I agree there's a sometimes frustrating lack of branding and documentation for the one true way of doing things

But I'd be careful what you wish for, Clojure is still fertile land, nothing has come along and crushed all alternatives yet and I think our community is right to think long and hard before promoting the new one true way because most of us are refugees from other languages where it's already happened
Which is enabled by cars, so it's really a non issue. People who fetishize public transportation fail to see that there are many community types in which cars make perfect sense. In big cities congestion is obviously an issue, but in smaller cities and towns cars are really great.
> At least the Wi-Fi still worked.

Did it at least send you a message that it was leaking? Heh.

I'm a big proponent of 'dumb appliances'. The less they do, the better. All this IoT-ification of everything is madness. It just introduces points of failure, attack surfaces and privacy intrusions for no benefit for the consumer whatsoever. Oh, and they're nearly impossible to repair because everything's DRMed and microcontrollers actively prevent you from fixing things with 'unauthorized parts'.

My household still has 15 year old Maytag appliances that still work perfectly and have no DRM in them. I plan on fixing them until the day I die because I really don't want to deal with this new mess.
The fact is that you must not run enter the intersection on a red light. If a green changed to red abruptly, it would be impossible not to do that.

The purpose of yellow, with a decent interval, is to make it possible to stop on a red, provided a vehicle is in good condition and not egregiously speeding, and the driver is sober and alert

Word semantic games about how that is expressed in the language of the traffic code do not change how it works.

"STOP but grace if you can't" wording makes it appear as if under some circumstances, it is a violation to enter the intersection on yellow. It creates incentive for police to bust people who go through yellow lights, on the premise that the judgment of what is an acceptable way to proceed through a yellow light is some objective standard that can be accurately policed.

I got a yellow light ticket by a cop who went through the same light, some 15-20 meters behind me! I remember thinking, "I was totally okay, but that driver behind me was pretty late; was it still even yellow?" Then that car put on police flashers.

I took it to court and prepared the defense that, if a vehicle A has time to stop on the yellow, then any vehicle B that is behind it must have even more time to stop. If the driver of B judges that he has no time to stop and proceeds, but claims that A ahead of him had plenty of time to stop, that is an inconsistent, double standard. (Actually, that was my back-up argument; my main argument was that I didn't want to be rear-ended by the car behind me, which clearly intended to proceed. And I would call as the witness the driver of that car who happened to be fortuitously present in the courtroom.)

I never got to present my argument, because that officer testified as having no evidence, so the case was dropped.

Anyway, sure, people will only change their behavior, but only due to being worried for being ticketed for going through a yellow in a manner that some officer doesn't like.

Here is a thought: if you are certain you do not have time to stop, and you're below the legal speed limit, why shouldn't you accelerate, if you feel like it? Say I'm doing 35 km/h in a 50 km/h zone (maybe I just left a parking spot, or turned a corner), and I'm 1 meter from the intersection which is green. It turns yellow. Why wouldn't I accelerate, or continue accelerating? Accelerating, by itself, doesn't prove that you had time to stop.
And indeed, https://proxy.jmap.io/ demonstrates a JMAP proxy to IMAP servers—though note Bron’s comment downthread concerning this (jmap-perl).
Of course they do. The whole idea of these external costs are that you don't feel them yourself. Driving your car everywhere and having massive parking lots and highways connecting them feels great, your feeling is reinforced by 80 years of advertising and media that this is supposed to feel great, while hiding the fact that you are scarring the earth in the process for this lifestyle to be possible for you.

You never see what was underneath the highway before it was laid, what used to be where that parking lot is, where the metals came from that were used to produce your car, what oil field your gas came from that day, and how all of these pieces parts from around the world were moved to that spot in front of you in rural Oklahoma. It's all hidden from view by design, but that doesn't mean it isn't there, causing collective damage under the guise of a false idea of personal freedom.
Don't get mad because it adequately explains the truth.
> You get paid by market rate;

I love how people dismiss injustice with an appeal to "the market" as if the market was a force of nature rather than a manmade and human manipulated entity.

Markets are created by a handful of people and affected by laws. And supply and demand is also an man-made creation. For example, by creating laws allowing seasonal migrants, you could affect the wages of farm workers. The same thing with work visas like H1-B. Also, laws favoring employers' rights and workers' rights can also affect wages. And of course "credentialing" and artificially limiting supply in the case of doctors affects wages.

> Universities are a competitive business, too;

Not really. Pretty much all the top universities stay at the top because of legacy. Also UC Santa Cruz is a public university. Very little chance it is going to be out-competed and put out of business.
Useful to me here is John Cutler's notion of a "feature factory": https://cutle.fish/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-...

Basically, it's where an executive idea flows through an assembly line that involves marketing, design, product, and eventually software developers. There's no real feedback loop with users; everybody just builds the executive vision for a long time until launch. And then goes on building in a top-down, do-whatever-the-boss-says way.

A lot of Google's failures to me feel like some high-level executive getting high on their own vision and/or their desire to conquer a particular market. Which might work if they had the experience, the humility, or the discipline to focus on really serving a specific audience.
Interesting bug, but even better it's nice to see encouragement of people to get involved in open source. The walk through of the process was great.
As long as there are plenty of other grad students to fill the spots behind them, of course they will get fired.

It’s easier for UCSC to find backfills than for these students to find new schools.

Even if the school is sympathetic to the cause, it’s easier for the school to call the bluff on 54 grad students this year than 540 next year.
Donate to Gene / shahit
https://www.gofundme.com/xinjiang-victims-database-testimony...
This is due to revolving door lobbying inherent in the political system, which is why states have started banning contracts with private prisons.
The normal one true way for most commercial companies right now is reframe, there's a nice ecosystem there and it's teachable
TL;DR: COVID-19 appears to have been present but undetected ("cryptic") in the Seattle area for the past six weeks.

Submission is a compromise of clearest headline vs. most direct / complete source.

See also:

Trevor Bradford, research at the Fred Hutchisen Cancer Research Center in Seattle, 8:20 PM - 29 Feb 2020:

The team at the @seattleflustudy have sequenced the genome the #COVID19 community case reported yesterday from Snohomish County, WA, and have posted the sequence publicly to gisaid.org. There are some enormous implications here. 1/9

this case, WA2, is on a branch in the evolutionary tree that descends directly from WA1, the first reported case in the USA sampled Jan 19, also from Snohomish County, viewable here: nextstrain.org/ncov?f_divisio… 2/9

This strongly suggests that there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks. 3/9

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1233970271318503426

STAT, a good source with poor headline writers, cites Bradford's Tweet, with additional context:

"‘Speed is critical’: As coronavirus spreads in U.S., officials face daunting task of tracing case contacts"

By ERIC BOODMAN, MARCH 1, 2020

This weekend, as it became clearer and clearer that Covid-19 has been spreading stealthily through the Pacific Northwest, the task facing health officials has become more and more monumental. To try to stop the virus’ transmission and restrain the outbreak, they need to identify every single person with whom patients have come into contact, isolate those at risk of harboring the illness, and monitor the entire network of people for symptoms....

By Saturday night virologists had sequenced samples from one of the mysteriously acquired Covid-19 cases in Washington State, and found that the pathogen looked like a descendent of the virus swabbed from the first reported case in the U.S., identified way back on January 16. But there was no known contact between the two patients.

“There are some enormous implications here,” tweeted Trevor Bedford, a researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, who studies how viruses evolve and spread. “This strongly suggests there has been cryptic transmission in Washington State for the past 6 weeks.”...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/01/speed-is-critical-as-cor...
What happened with your grades in those classes? I read the university systems release and this article and couldn’t glean the details. Is that course’s grades still just up in the air?
I have zero credibility to make this statement, but:

I feel like we might run into a Mythical Man Month dilemma if we toss TONS of money at it.
Ask HN: Full SaaS vs. Boutique Consultancy
Suppose you have an industrial market interested in your r&d services but firms want a SaaS product instead of your direct expertise. On the other hand, implementing a full SaaS would be an unaffordable bloodbath, also considering it would almost surely go unused at large. How would you design an effective sales pitch to get the cake and eat it? My current take: an Excel optimiser.
Of course only Steam-based DRM (not that you need them to do it - removing steam DRM is fairly trivial and a shutdown would rapidly spread the tool for removing it).
I don't doubt there's a lot of great content on YT but it sucks for exploring and finding it.

Do you want to recommend anything on your list of good content channels?
Shameless plug: the hak5 community[0] is super nice and while there are "can you hack facebook" people around there is also a dearth of super kind people who are willing to put in the time to teach people about computers.

I have been watching their shows since season two and recently was granted the proud responsibility of hosting their IRC these days[1]. (which is the shameless plug)

Obviously it's built for newbies but that's part of the charm and a lot of the content gets new people interested in security and computers in general. :)

[0]: https://forums.hak5.org/

[1]: ircs://irc.hak5.org/hak5
In general I’ve viewed any 3 or 4 letter acronym (MSCA, MBA, CISA, PMP, etc) to be a bad signal. It’s as if they’re signaling a lack of depth.
I think you're going pretty easy on Oklahoma, perhaps just because you like it for other reasons. Oklahoma would put people in prison for consensual same-sex relations as recently as 2003. The law remans but the US Supreme Court struck it down. Ask yourself if a state with a statute against "detestable and abominable crimes against nature" has a prevalent anti-LGBT attitude or not.

There are people alive today who survived a white-against-black race riot that killed hundreds in Tulsa. There are people alive today who were imprisoned and threatened with sterilization for being gay. There are followers of Islam alive today who needed police protection after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building instantly became an anti-muslim witch hunt. Oklahoma is objectively one of the most backwards places in America. It might be better than it was, due largely to federal preemption of their theocratic laws, but it's still incrediby intolerant.
Red teaming; see Kali undercover mode [1] (screenshot only [2]).

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-ad...

[2] https://www.kali.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/kali-underco...
With time, the supply of graduate students should fall. Nobody should want to accept such a deal when these folks could go work in industry and make far money than the UC system will ever pay them. Getting 50-some replacement graduates could be a challenge for UC Santa Cruz. Usually enrollment is on an annual cycle.
There was recently a forum thread where this was asked and the answer is no [0]. I don't think there is much incentive to do this either because last I heard the app stores on those platforms still have agreements that are incompatible with the LGPL [1], which means you can't use them to distribute GTK programs.

[0] https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gtk-4-and-android/2808

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/11/22/vlc-lgpl.html
Thanks for your work in this area. A couple questions.

How is this different to the wilduck webmail api?

Would it be hard to abstract away the wildduck storage code to use a datastore other than mongodb?
I'd personally ditch the monitors and go with (however many) "pocket projectors" then just project them onto a wall or something. Some of these projectors screw into light bulb sockets so you don't even need to worry about a mounting system. There's also a company that was trying to make monitors that could be folded and that was all just based on fabric that expanded as a projection surface. If they ever shipped - that may be a more ergonomic option since you can line that up easier with your eye level in the same way as a regular monitor.
My dad has a 40-year-old puke yellow Kenmoore refrigerator and 35-year-old Maytag washer & dryer.

There's 2 axises of goods to think about that differ wildly:

1. the specific brand and model - some models may have regressions or design defects

2. the model year, manufacturing date and location - quality, reliability and cost-cutting measures vary with revision, manufacturing experience and who put it together (QA/QC doesn't catch every possible contingency)
Test Suites as Classifiers
Proji: A powerful cross-platform CLI project templating tool written in go
Hypothesis 1: things break down because they're cheap (and therefore must be made cheaply to be profitable), not because they're from bad brands. There aren't really any truly-awful brands; only some brands that are willing to cater to lower price-points than others, by producing cheaper (⇒ less-long-lasting) products. Holding price constant, an appliance is going to break down at pretty much the same rate no matter who you buy it from. There are no real fly-by-night manufacturers capturing more profit by making things cheaply and selling them with high margins. The market is too competitive for that.

Hypothesis 2: landlords and condo developers will buy the cheapest appliances they can when furnishing units. Thus, they'll end up buying them from the brands that offer the lowest price-points.

Take 1 and 2 together, and you might see an outsized number of complaints about appliances from certain brands breaking down, specifically from tenants of furnished homes/units; while other owners of appliances from those same brands might be confused by the claims, given that their appliances that they bought themselves (at more reasonable, non-bottom-of-the-barrel price points) have served them fine.
I had a different impression, which is that they had cards and deployed them poorly. They seem to have whittled the holdouts down to a point where the impact wasn’t so great. But I’m kinda curious if UC doesn’t make grade reporting more incremental now.
Agreed, for sure. If you're into martial arts, you're probably good for Karate or TKD or MMA/BJJ, but something like Sambo or Capoeira is gonna be hard to find.
There's holding a different opinion based on reasoning and analysis, and holding a different opinion due to bigotry and hate. Putting the latter on the same pedestal as the former is what has polarized this country more than anything.
The most disappointing aspect of this is how many people are locked out from these opportunities because they don't have or come from the family wealth to support living in a place like Santa Cruz while studying full time and TA'ing at such low wages. Something's gotta give, and only people with the means to do so can take the financial hit.
Thank you so much for the response!

Number 3 has me totally stoked; since that's incredibly valuable-- or like a dream to me to be honest, could you speak more about how that works? Is it just from using re-frame (which I'm looking at as I write this)? Is it able to test for visual regressions because of the pure-data UI? Or like how have you found that testing functionality in practice has it been saving y'all a lot of bugs and headaches you think?
I paid for the Founders Edition, eagerly awaited its release, played a couple games for a few hours and haven't touched it since.

I want to play games like I watch Netflix, free with lots of variety. Indie game makers would keep me coming back for no other reason than I want to try new things regularly and I have zero interest in paying $60 for titles I've already played or had no interest in in the first place.

Dr. Kate Compton articulates what I want well in this twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/GalaxyKate/status/1197227916158996481
I was thinking the same so I checked and they removed the duplication:

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/3d9c02364db62a6d8e2794...

They also fixed the whitespace handling that let something like "RandomHeader: hello host:8080" mistakenly set the flag.

https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/56cdbe63c24b86c2f1d60b...
There’s a lot to dislike about Tulsa, but the entire country is culpable for those kinds of problems. The biggest cities in the US _still_ systemically oppress black people.
Isn't there a conflict of interest? They want you to buy as many games as possible but play them as little as possible. This will mean that they will primarily allow short games on the platform. Something like Skyrim or Rimworld could be a guaranteed loss.
If you have bad code you'll eventually feel the cost of that bad code, if the code lives for any significant length of time. Something will make you feel that pain, either a new feature you need to develop or a change to the ecosystem, or something else entirely.

If not py3, then something else. Specifically, the tooling ad ecosystem isn't dysfunctional, you're just unable to maintain functionality among changing requirements. "We must use py3 for our codebase" isn't particularly different from "we must now support Japanese users" or "we need a new endpoint that allows us to view data along a new axis". All 3 changes had the potential to cause you developmental pain. You just hit one prior to the others.
Not sure if you've ever tried to load such a large dataset into any rdbms, but it takes hell of a long time to create the index.
> When asked to recall the manufacturer of the appliance that broke down, Kenmore was named more than any other brand, accounting for 21 per cent — or about one in five — of all appliance breakdowns in Canada.

The above makes me wonder if they understand probabality and statistics. Kenmore is an extremely popular and long-standing brand in Canada. Of course a popular brand is going to have more breakdowns on an absolute basis than unpopular brands.

If they had said something like, "Kenmore owners named Kenmore appliances as breaking down more often than owners of other brands", then I'd have more confidence that they corrected for the popularity, but they didn't say it that way.
>"Getting 50-some replacement graduates could be a challenge for UC Santa Cruz"

It won't be. UCSC is a globally renowned research institute. One of the top public schools in the nation. Not to mention being situated in one of the most beautiful places on earth. There are literally thousands of equally talented people waiting to take these spots. As much as I sympathize with any workers' struggle, these people have no idea how privileged they truly were.
I did something similar when I wanted to search the HIBP database and if you are okay with some false positives you can do better than your results, both in terms of speed and size.

If you are okay with false positives, you can use a bloom filter and tune the number of false positives you want. I chose a false positive rate of 1 in a million so my data structure was still very accurate in determining whether a password was already hacked.

It only took 30 microseconds to determine if a password was in the list and for size, was at the theoretical limit of 22 bits per element or ~1.5gb.

I originally used a bloom filter which made it 2gb but given a bloom filter was just a sequence of 0s and 1s, I was able to use a golomb coding to shrink it down to 1.5gb.

The time to process the original 24gb however, is something that I could have improved, but I kinda lost interest once I already had something that was at the theoretical minimum size, as well as able to determine a password exists within 30 microseconds.

Anyways take a look if you're interested in trying a different approach: https://github.com/terencechow/PwnedPasswords
He/she talks about negative selection, probably
I think they're referring to the Imgur mobile website, which no longer allows uploads, requiring you to download the Imgur app.
Sure. Nevertheless, it's natural for people to discuss what feels like blockers for themselves at least.

And in this case, it does seem like it's relevant to building up a tech scene. That's how preferences are starting to skew.
> (2) if yes, can I just rent them wherever I'm headed,

Sounds like there's a very boring but likely profitable business waiting to be spawned here. The fact that there isn't an obvious choice for renting electronic goods for digital nomads on the go is a pretty big flag.
Right, people should spend some time in areas that they are considering moving to and decide for themselves.

I only commented because I recently took a long driving tour of the US looking for places away from major cities and near national parks/forests to move to, and Eastern Oklahoma sticks out in my memory like a sore thumb.

But the things I consider to be important in a new home are different from the things that other people might value. If there were a stipend for remote work in a town like Provo or Buffalo or Santa Fe, I'd be all over it. I also found the Ozarks to be very accepting and laid-back, and that's practically next door to Tulsa. But my experience is anecdotal, and peoples' perspectives and priorities are all different.
> this is typical musk spin

Note that this was said at a conference before the unscheduled disassembly... the timing is coincidence not spin.
> Also UC Santa Cruz is a public university. Very little chance it is going to be out-competed and put out of business.

Where do you think UC as a public institution would be if it lost political support of the faction allied with organized labor? It already doesn't have support from the opposing faction.
To me it seems easier to buy a monitor at my destination and give it away than to deal with traveling with and risking damage to a 27" iMac.
To curb Covid-19, China is using its high-tech surveillance tools
I could just as easily say these students went on strike because they are ideologues who were brainwashed by delusions of importance.
Spanish Flu: A Warning from History