skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People actually enjoy being useful. We actually enjoy work which preserves dignity and has visible benefit.

This idea that people only do work because they must is flawed. Most citizens are happy when they are doing a reasonable amount of work.

Basic Income is crucial because not all useful work is fairly paid. From parenting to housekeeping, (early) innovating to art - so many beneficial activities suffer because the stress of financial security grinds them out of existence.
User-friendly secure authentication mechanisms (like Windows Hello or fingerprint readers) was just broken. The TPM keeps the user's own data secure, too, after all.

How is that not absolutely disastrous for users?
This is also mentioned in the article
Sounds like fun but a lot of work and luck.
A U-haul truck starts at $20/day + $1/mile.[1] Where are you getting $100+/day from?

Not to mention the difference in operating costs between a truck and a more modest hatchback could easily by $100/month. How often is someone hauling something that can't fit in a U-haul truck?

1. https://www.uhaul.com/Reservations/RatesTrucks/
"Trunk based development"

It is fine, unless you do a lot of back ports or bug fixes for older releases, at which point the version branches are very useful.
Is it not enough that Facebook and Zuck tread all over their customers privacy on their own platform? Now they want other companies to do it for them with their own customers as well.
This is just another attack on privacy and due process in order to strong arm companies that have services like WhoisGuard which is intended to protect millions of customer’s privacy.
I'm in a similar boat, only my eyes are wide, glazed over, and I'm lost in the word salad...which only seems to be getting worse.
Corollary: it becomes more and more difficult to open doors and get out of vehicles in shrinking parking spots designed only few years ago (at least where I live in Europe).
OK, mesh is doing something very cool and unusual. I've never seen that before (in my defense, it is a 2019 academic paper). It still has its limits, as it can only merge allocations which don't overlap modulo 4096.
No way! I use The Old Reader and it's a great way to kinda deal with FOMO; having feeds in one place from various outlets. It's only annoying when some news sites don't have RSS/Atom feeds.. meh
Wouldn't function annotations be an API break, too?

And I'd imagine checked exceptions would get a decent amount of pushback due to Java's implementation.
Unfortunately the pharmaceutical industry has become corrupt.
I don't know about nationalizing it, but something has to be done to bring the industry to heel. Please read Bottle of Lies, Katherine Eban's incredible new book about deadly corruption that has ravaged the generic drug industry. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JG49BQW/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...
That's called pi-hole and having it network wide is a game changer. 30% of all dns requests are blocked.
I don't think either absolute is the answer. The decision to outsource anything often depends on a particular company's operational strengths/efficiencies.

Maybe it makes sense for a software company to self-host some software, but they might hire a paving company to pave their parking lot. Likewise, it might make sense for that paving company to pave their own parking lot, but use SaaS software.
The code is maybe at: https://github.com/felsabbagh3/Vortex
TEE is practically used for mainly two things in current smartphones: DRM and hardware key storage.

DRM lets users watch Netflix on their phones while on an airplane.

Hardware key storage significantly decreases the attack surface for malware trying to extract them, compared to storing them on the application processor.

How is the average user being fucked here, exactly?
> there already being a process for this

It's not clear at all what the process is. Can you elaborate?
Do you mean LoopBack 3 or LoopBack 4?
I remember those days too, the lack of a good GUI toolkit felt like such a big deal. Funny that nowadays I find myself using applications that don't use a UI toolkit, Emacs (compiled without toolkit), st, mupdf, games that do their own UI. The only application I have running that uses GTK is chromium.
wow, it somehow looks a lot better than previous GAN paintings I've seen. And there are weights of this network, shared by the author in twitter.
https://mega.nz/#!TCgSVCTa!ZmcV381soxyqiQyHO4p60F5ogoHcaO1Pq...

StyleGAN2 takes 512 dimensional vector as an input. Would be neat to attach some physical input device, like a matrix of dials... And encode your own painting with it :)
Future of Billionhood
You are ignoring a very prominent aspect of the American psyche: aspiration. It’s the reason why people who do nothing more than email and Facebook buy MacBook Pros. It’s the reason why suburban dads have garages full of tools. And it’s the reason that Americans drive more car than they need: they want to need more.
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You're describing my dad perfectly. He worked as much as I do (plus he was doing hard physical labor...) until he died of cancer in 2009. He's the reason I dedicated myself to work as much as I could as early as I could, so I could get myself to a point of financial independence. He never got to enjoy his retirement because he sacrificed his life to adopt me, so I feel a sense of urgency to enjoy life as much as I can in his honor.
We don't really think of ourselves as an app (although we use an app to facilitate the service right now.) It's direct, personal support that provides the value; the app is the access mechanism.

We have plans to offer different access mechanisms in future to make this accessible to more people.

Our hope (and belief) is that all types of parents will appreciate having access to someone with expertise - how they access them can differ.

(That felt like a very odd way of responding but I hope it makes sense!)
I don't think the problem is people at the executive level. It's that all kinds of teams across the org are paying for Saas products and it adds up over time. The other problem is that 15 teams might be paying for small group Slack (insert Saas here) licenses when they should be on a single corporate plan. Ironically I believe there is a startup that looks at accounting and located duplicate licenses.
Wouldn't he be more successful with UBI, then? He would likely overall save the corporations he's being employed on and off by money by reducing their turnover. Also, it's likely most low wage jobs would have their wages increase because there would be less fear of unionizing if striking meant that nobody would be going hungry.

Thus, UBI can reduce the degree of low wage exploitation at both the worker's side (getting laid off asap for unemployment) and the business's side (exploitative policies countered by stronger unions and more incentive to unionize) while at the same time providing a fixed rate cost and less bureaucracy needed compared to the current welfare systems

Just saying, seems like a win-win to me.
One argument I never see in UBI discussions is that some people are just bad with money. If you give more money to someone who doesn't budget, save, live within their means, etc, it won't help. There are people who spend beyond their means and then get payday loans. So while it would help some people who would spend wisely, many would not.

You would have payday loans 2.0 where people would borrow against future UBI payments, spend on non necessities, and then be in an probably worse situation compared to the people still receiving UBI.
How have space requirements for families increased when average family size has decreased?
I don't know if everyone that hauls stuff absolutely needs a pickup truck. MMM literally builds houses from the ground up without using one.[1]

1. https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/12/08/turning-a-little-...
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It's not just a bit unfortunate, especially as we learn more about how jet lag isn't just about being tired but also can damage metabolic health.
It's difficult for some managers to measure the productivity of knowledge workers and unfortunately they resort to tracking the number of hours there are "butts in seats". If your organization is like this you'll see people who are at work to be seen being at work, even if they're not being productive.

Japanese salarymen are the pathological example of this but I'm sure it manifests everywhere.
I believe the discussion of encoding ampersands is as relates to printing them out in the text of the page, where you would indeed want to use the HTML entity encoding.
Cisco offers free Webex licenses to deal with coronavirus
I have been fitting a little under 1000lbs of sand / gravel in my hatchback (elantra gt) a few times this past week. It can also handle 10' 2x4s for short drives. Given than I only need that a few times a year, it's a no brainer. Also, Home Depot rents trucks/vans for $30 for 75 minutes; U-Haul is better if you need them for the whole day.

I sometimes wish I had a small dumpy pickup so I could put bulk stuff in (and full 4x8 sheets), but mostly it's fine without.

Related: my dad looked to replace his 92 Dodge Dakota, single cab, long bed (which was a great, functional truck) and could find absolutely zero similar size trucks out there (short cab, long bed, no ladder required to get to the front seat). You can probably design them on the manufacturer site, but no dealers will have them in stock.
Smaller vehicles do have "superior" gas mileage, which sadly many Americans don't seem to care about. Also, trucks and SUVs are simply not safe to others, especially to cyclists and pedestrians. This is more serious issue than people acknowledge.
It most definitely still helps. I drive a CUV, which isn't as tall as a SUV but I can properly see through the window of an SUV and see quickly when red lights from the car in front of him come on so I can start slowing down ahead of time.
This website does an absolutely terrible job of explaining itself. The layout of the homepage is awful and starts with a random video, then a request that I start "folding at home" - whatever that means, followed by more nonsense language to anyone who, like me, arrived at the site with very little context.

The first thing on your site (after the navbar) should be an explanation of what your product is/does in as few words as possible.
Why are you reacting strongly to the topic of Mars or maybe Musk in general? Fixing Earth and going to Mars are not mutually exclusive and beside that there are a lot of billionaires doing far less useful things for humanity. Complaining that they could do something more useful would be more understandable, imo.
How do you feel about the federal response to the corona virus? Do you feel like they've done a good job, or does it more seem like incompetent fumbling? And if it's the latter, why do you think they'd do better at running the pharmaceutical industry?
I really appreciate articles like this that call out our how off the walls absurd American car culture is. As someone who bikes to work, almost everyone I've met that bikes has developed a deep hatred (and fear) of car drivers (whose sense of entitlement has gone off the rails). Biking to work, you will on a regular basis encounter drivers that yell at you, try to run you off the road, floor the car by you (even when there is a red traffic light ahead)
It would still be an enclave of sorts, but white box cryptography is generally trying to achieve a similar goal as trusted computing, without relying on trusted hardware.
It is not really about what you want, but about how to migrate the DB* to another location while also minimizing its downtime/slower-ness.

You need to instantiate a secondary DB replica somewhere else and start the DB migration. Since there will be "two instances" of the same DB running, you will also need to set up a (temporary) proxy for routing and handling the DB requests w/ something like this:

1) if the data being requested is already migrated, request is handled by the (new) secondary replica.
2) Primary instance handles the request, otherwise
2.1) Requested data should be migrated to secondary replica (asynchronously, but note that a repeated request may invalidate a migration).

Turn the proxy router off once the whole state of your primary DB instance is fully migrated, making the secondary replica the primary one.
That's really just a napkin recipe for completing a live migration, though.

* We are now getting into the distributed transaction world because you can never be 100% sure that writing to 2 databases can succeed or fail at the same time. There is this talk from this guy who deals with similar problem you have: http://www.aviransplace.com/2015/12/15/safe-database-migrati...
First, peoples’ satisfaction is primarily influenced by the visibility of the inequities immediately around them.

Second, who said anything about the rate of change going to zero? Even if productivity suddenly dropped to 1948 levels, it’s not like we’d be living in 1948. It’s not a time machine.
In 2003 SARS was a catalyst for Taobao in China. Will Coronavirus be good or bad for your startups?
Has there been any country on Earth which has been this hypocritical?
Multicellular life is easy, it has evolved independently more than 25 time on Earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular_organism

I think that the step from Prokaryote to Eukaryote is much more difficult. (Feel free to disagree. Nobody is sure.)

[Assuming there was an ocean in Mars, and assuming there was life.] The problem is that the ocean disappeared, probably due to geological reasons that neither a unicelular or multicelular lifeform can solve. Sometimes you are just born in the wrong planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_ocean_hypothesis

Moreover, it's probably easier for an unicelular bacteria-like or archaea-like lifeform to survive. Some of the one from Earth can extract energy from some rocks or volcanic fumes, so they can survive in weird places.

Edit: Fixed "Eukaryote to Prokaryote" -> "Prokaryote to Eukaryote"
I am not even opposed to pickups but the sheer size of a lot of them is just obscene. You could get most of the benefits from a much smaller pickup.
That RIP goodtimes presentation is eerie to look at right now.
Another way to look at it would be - the person is not rich enough to own several types of vehicles therefore owns the most universal one.
I'd be interested to hear what you are using.

Obviously the web browsers are a big requirement.

...but I've had trouble with the defaults for almost everything I've tried: xterm, libreoffice, browsers. Under KDE the menus are too small by default. Under non-Gnome-or-KDE window managers or desktop environments almost everything is rendered too small.

The chances are that I can't just install an application with `apt-get` and have it do something sensible by default without a lot of fiddling and customisation.
That requires a lot more effort, and it’s error prone.

You don’t want to get it wrong because you may corrupt people’s data
It is a risk to do so. I guess she’ll be fine though, she typically is a controversial figure.
I don't know, this post was so vague that, although it was technically in public, it's impossible to figure out exactly what's being said or what happened (other than that Rachel by the Bay quit a job after about a year).
Tangential question: what are the chances that, if namecheap disclosed the identities of registrants, facebook would be able to do anything with it? You'd expect that if the domains were registered with the intention to do Bad Things, that they would be registered with fake information. You can use a throwaway email addresses, fake mailing address (doubt they would validate it), and pay with cryptocurrency.
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This is why tagging is useful. Anything cards I added for United had the tag of the class it was from. You can then do a custom study session with just those tagged cards.
I'm curious, where are TPMs being used to screw people over in your opinion?
Effectively, your model is about to get real world stress tested. Depending on your vertical, or your target market you're going to see out-sized impacts either positive or negative. Either way, set a good runway for cash and stay vigilant.

Personally I think a situation like this is a fantastic exercise and a great time to be building a company. Not that I would wish it on anyone, but these kinds of constraints breed an incredible set of solutions. 2008-2010 created a bunch of interesting companies.
I think this problem must be just for enterprise software, where there is huge lock in. I'm sure for nearly every super expensive subscription out there, there are countless fewer cost competing SaaS that are being completely ignored because the costs of switching is simply too high.

But, I'm really surprised to see them complaining about it and labeling it as a "problem". I've always though that most software companies are incredibly insensitive to cost and that cost almost never matters. That has been the narrative for a long time
I don’t think the enclave you’re describing exists, nor do I believe there is an enclave that is untrusted hardware.

Do you have an example of such an enclave and how it would operate without a remote attention service in the model where a user can trust that a distributed network they don’t control is safeguarding their key?
I think we're waayy to early for that but I hope we get to the stage where this is a question :)

My first reaction is that our goal is to support parents and we'd want to be very careful before doing anything with their data. BUT if we can support the field at the same time as being 100% transparent with our families it would be great (e.g. they'd have to explicitly opt-in.)

But again, a great problem for the future :)
I have not looked into AMDs efforts in this area recently: Is there an AMD-equivalent to, for example, Intel TXT?

If so, is it actually more secure, or has it simply not been scrutinized as much as Intel's version by security researchers?
Some of my very first consulting gigs were around access and excel automation with VBA. They paid well for being a 19-year-old kid still living with mom and dad.

Now most of my consulting now is:

- Bringing web-apps up to date (mainly by getting rid of a lot of jQuery that could just be JavaScript, or shockingly common could just be CSS)

- Refactoring hard/impossible to understand 2000+ line methods (least favorite - so risky)

- And cleaning up the dead-code and inaccurate comments that accumulate over the years from the ghosts of contractors past.

I'm basically a janitor for "enterprise" software code-bases.
Receptor Recognition Mechanisms of Coronaviruses: A Decade of Structural Studies
Depends on the context, I guess. I'm generally more comfortable with lightweight things - like GitHub projects for software and Trello for everything else.
> The Starlink constellation, so far, is not respectful to people who want a clear sky for instance.

How do the feelings of a few astronomers trump connecting the rest of the world to the internet?

You're blowing things way out of proportion as well. You fell for all the aggressive attack campaigns. I've seen all the articles you've read, it's not a real issue.

> I just think it has to be framed in a more global and long term context.

What message from SpaceX did you take issue with exactly? I don't think anyone is suggesting we'll all be living on Mars in a few years.
An argument for non-interactive semantic html is an argument against the front-end/back-end dichotomy. That is to say your application should directly generate the page you want the user to see and you shouldn’t need to spend all your time designing custom JavaScript for it.
Completely agree. I default to JS-disabled, and will sometimes enable it. More often, though I just move on. Of course if you want to use FB or other surveillance sites, this won't work well for you.

What methods are there to exert more control over the JS engine in Firefox? Screw performance, I'd have a lot of fun writing my own hooks/wrappers to overload certain method calls.
Perhaps cryptocurrency isn't "future tech" but just a massive hype cycle?
The average size of a family member has increased?
Similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22168451

Also see: https://coronavirus.app
I just wish SUVs and pickups to be taxed proportionally to all the damage they cause, either to the road, or to others (higher accident rate with pedestrians and fatality rates), and that's besides the pollution.
Luxury Safes Will Hide Your Expensive Watches in Plain Sight
I just use tramp for this.
> It's not clear that managing and drilling on so much information offers a significant improvement over what is likely the most important intervention mentioned: reading widely and with purpose.

I think you're in agreement with the original article. The individual is reading widely and with purpose. He uses Anki to assist in remembering. And that's the general guidance with Anki (or spaced repetition generally): learn first, recall later. You read, develop an understanding (at least partial), build your deck, and study with the deck while continuing to read the later material and building the deck up further.

And you don't try to remember everything, again from the article:

> When I come across something in a book that seems useful to understand and remember, I will highlight it on my Kindle and add a note to it with the text: “.flash”.

He doesn't highlight everything, just things that seem important. The importance is that many things are outside your particular field of work. But you have to interface with people who work in those domains (or want to), or you just want to have more knowledge to draw on. If you aren't using the information frequently, it won't come to mind when you need it. So with Anki you can have a relatively lightweight way to keep the jargon of another field re-callable, or to have the history of a place or people at hand.
What do you think of the V instead of SOS? Is it better? Should someone do both?
My life with Oliver Sacks: ‘The most unusual person I had ever known’ (2017)
Pi-hole is on my TODO list for quite some time. Yeah, its definitelly a portal I should get to fast (summon, not get to, hence the TODO entry). Currently using uMatrix and friends but its not network wide and that sux a lot.
I think org-drill is just better overall since it's all stored as plain-text at the end of the day and each card is really editable and accessible. Anki in my experience has a clunky, slow GUI. It can't beat the creation and editing speed from vim keybindings and macros.