skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus, its comments like this that will stop future developers from documenting their stories honestly or even having an About Me page.
As already pointed out, Plaid takes care of this not the dev. Sheesh
I do believe a license plate counts as a tracking device, which GP suggested not taking with you.

Here's a US-based criminal defense attorney saying that not only is that good advice, it's also practicable (in the US):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

Do not talk to the police. Under any circumstances at all. (But especially if you're innocent!)
Although to be fair, I also follow Mark Blyth. He has interesting comments now and then.
Your book is great. Finally someone writes a book for Hy on top of some very great examples. I will purchase your book and work through it. Thanks a ton for your efforts, this book makes my day.
Isn't this a one-sided story, though? Maybe that person believes you didn't make good use of the money (i.e: diverted company funds for your own gain) which is way you weren't able to pay him back.

He might be an evil ass-hole but also he might be thinking that he is the one getting screwed here.
>reason why we add milk to coffee - it neutralises the acid

This idea is prevalent and I don't get it. It may mask the taste of acidity, but milk is itself mildly acidic. It shouldn't change the pH any more than water.
There is a screensaver that does Matrix rain with GitHub's latest public commits: https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
I love this comment and link! All asset class yields will eventually arrive at zero, it's just when.
Perhaps that market incentive only exists when competition is a small/limited factor (say near monopolistic cases)?

There are a lot of businesses I'd happily set up if I knew I'd have limited to no competition. When competition is more fierce, it disincentivizes me to even try.

If I was guaranteed the lionshare of say, local coffee goers across a large area and didn't have to worry about Starbucks, Peet's, etc. I'm pretty sure I could make it successful and my life would be pretty easy, all things considered.

A lot of rural ISPs can operate this way because it's not viable to compete with their infrastructure foothold in a lot of cases and barriers to entry are high/capital intensive (similar to pharma).

I work in a research environment and there are a lot of funding opportunities/solicitations out there that fit our internal capabilities that we don't even bother writing proposals up for because we know how competitive and unlikely it is to be successful compared to certain other opportunities. Instead, we choose our battles where we suspect we have a higher probability of success: less competitive options. This leads to higher ROI for our time. It works fairly well and I imagine most businesses try to operate under a similar perspective (or more dubiously where they also try to actively stifle their competition).
The developer himself states it's better to use that than in combo with umatrix.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/706xrr/umatrix_vs_...
uMatrix is quite labor intensive.
I was referring to the “respect violation” David references below.
Did teletypes not have rollover? The most annoying part of this was waiting half a second after each keypress…
Yes, exactly! After reading through the replies here, I am dumbfounded by many people's lack of understanding of this basic concept of economics (especially given the usual level of intelligence among the HN crowd). "But the natural effects of supply and demand aren't fair in this situation because..."

Letting prices rise is the most fair and overall beneficial reaction in this situation. Even for those who can't afford the inflated prices in the very short-term (who wouldn't have access to them anyway due to limited supply), the rise in prices will help give them access to these goods at reasonable prices in the slightly-delayed short term and in the future when similar shortages occur.

I'm seriously blown away by the level of virtue signalling and mental gymnastics going on by those who don't get it, and it scares me that many of those same people hold positions of power to influence public policy.
Maybe I'm mistaken. I thought a pay it forward system like what we have here is pretty unique. So workers do not pay for pensioners directly then? At any rate it can't be much what they're paying because the rates are too low.
Maybe... although most people send a lot fewer emails than they receive.
The objective is not fairness among companies. The objective is to keep the market competitive for the benefit of the consumers.

If you can afford a 5 year lease on a slot you won't actively use, you're still stifling the competition. And since EU prohibits EU-governments to subsidy airlines, this paves the way for non-EU countries with deep pockets to eventually control the EU air travel market.
In practice you can use tools like Webpack to process npm imports as a build step, and Cloudflare's own tooling (Wrangler) can run Webpack for you automatically.

However, it is true that npm modules that require Node.js-specific APIs won't work.

(Disclosure: I'm the tech lead for Workers.)
Signal is actively working on removing the phone number requirement. It's a hard identity problem.
Thanks! I took them from pexxels for now, but that looks pretty good!
>given a "respect violation" because I asked a woman on a date in an email

That seems like an extreme response. But I have no idea of the context or the nuances.

If it is just what you say it is (and you can back it up) then I would hope most software companies wouldn't hold it against you.

Lots of demand for programmers with good maths skills in computer graphics, machine learning, data science and any number of other areas. I suggest you create some software that demonstrates your skills. IMHO that would make your more employable than someone with a degree and no project to show.
I still don’t understand why VCs (or anyone else for that matter) consider unprofitable unicorns “success”.
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I've seen 6 people in the last 2 weeks on wallstreetbets gamble away their student loans.

The sad part is one guy will post their success of doubling their student loan, and it will just cause a bunch of younger inexperienced 19 year olds to lose tens of thousands to their own gambles.

It's really sad. It's an addiction
Facebook still makes it easy to target ads to cancer patients, Muslims, etc.
Universities are clearly not worth the investment, given my situation. If they screw me over once, they will do it again.
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Is there a ELI5 about this somewhere?
> Bonds and stocks have been fairly non-correlated over recent years, but this hasn't always been so. It's great for modern portfolio theory (i.e., holding a portion of stocks and bonds and rebalancing periodically). There's no guarantee that it will stay this way.

This is true. This correlation has held for 30 years so we are conditioned into believing this is a sure trade - but it is not.
The point I was trying to make is that the most extreme content (i.e. literal terrorist manifestos) typically is _not_ full of racial slurs or similar content. Look at the manifesto from the Christchurch shooter, for example. Not a single racial slur.

In fact, it's entirely possible that, as a place becomes more serious/more political (and thus perhaps more dangerous and indeed "extremist") you will see the speech use fewer slurs or offensive speech. Thus if you wanted to detect actual extremism you'll have to do much more in-depth analysis to try and infer meaning. Probably with human analysts rather than a script counting the number of n-words in a given week.
Again .... that might be the best solution for your company, or it might be introducing complexity where it's not actually needed.

It all depends on the situation and needs of whatever problem you are trying to solve.
Teletypes have metal rods and springs instead of rollover!

I love how the mouse wheel (back in reality) scrolls the paper up and down and it overprints.
As others have pointed out, production is a bit slower to scale. The more immediate effects of letting prices rise are increased distribution, which can scale very quickly.

For just about any consumer good, a large amount of stock is sitting on shelves somewhere that doesn't ship anywhere, and definitely doesn't ship globally. Letting prices rise a bit will create arbitrage markets, which will get the product to where it is needed.
That's a question of market timing, and of you try and time the market, you'll either be broke or lucky. Maybe stocks are insanely undervalued and we're on the cusp of a bull run. Or, maybe the markets are going to crash and the dividend rate isn't going to hold as we move into future as companies go bankrupt and stop paying dividends. Unlike treasury bonds, dividends aren't certain, so this one data point alone isn't enough to really conclude either way
I'll try to make this as short as possible using all the acronyms!

Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi with LTE/3G, GNSS, BT and Wifi.

Boot and request Wireguard enrollment over TLS (human acknowledges in Slack to verify inventory), configure WG tunnel, start gRPC producer.

Hop the 2.4 Ghz spectrum at 250 Hz, gopacket sniffs MGT frames for probes and beacons, collects SSID, MAC, RSSI and a ton of other really neat data from the GPS and system itself (temp, procs, load, mem, modem signal strength, carrier, nearby bluetooth peripherals).

Push these events in real-time to gRPC consumer over Wireguard. The ETL aggregates and stores summary data in NoSQL, the raw request is marshalled to JSON and stored in ElasticSearch (in the event of a disaster; also it's fun to use Kibana to find new interesting metrics to report on the customer dashboard).

It's purpose is to determine how many humans are within potential viewing distance of a moving object which may or may not have some form of communique - these devices are installed in vehicles.
I was surprised how many websites actually work without changing anything... (and loading a lot faster without all the javascript bloat.)
Once you understand how uMatrix works, it's 1 click to temporarily whitelist a site, which i hardly ever use while browsing the web/reading articles.

Note that I do 'online shopping/purchases' in another browser, though.
Mentioning the heavily slot controlled airports would make more sense. The airlines aren't really at fault here. The airports that take your slot when they don't get their takeoff/landing fees are.
... none of which contradicts the point that the protocol does know about scrollback. The aforementioned developer, Petr Písař, got the implementation wrong, note.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/375784/5132

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/nosh/guide/commands/setterm.xml
> Drop out of larger society for most of the year, doing your thing, then for a week each year you get indoctrinated in all of the crap everybody else is doing and thinking.

Why do you think that getting that indoctrination is in any way whatsoever valuable? I don't watch television or listen to the radio, and don't read or watch the news. I don't miss any of it at all, and I am not in any way whatsoever harmed by it.

Most of that stuff is just distraction from the things in life that are actually important, like the people around you, or the fact that our society is explicitly designed to rob and oppress billions of people.

Getting all of that stuff out of your face and head really lets you think and focus on the things you can actually do to enrich yourself, those around you, and the world/future generations. Reject mass media and focus.
ha - maybe passenger service but not freight in north america!
I'm right in that age category and use both Reddit and HN. I would say your guess is right that most people my age use Reddit as their Slashdot. Both provide good insights but I feel the discussion is usually more useful in HN, although this depends on the subreddit.

Generally I go on reddit when I'm looking for a quick distraction and HN is for when I'm looking to read things a bit more deeply.
eBPF right now issues fence instructions before computed address loads, in order to manually shutdown speculative instructions. They also do a cute trick to compute the address with a mask so that if a speculative access does happen, the speculatively computed offset is still in the valid range.
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Not because that's the system call to eat a carriage return?
You're misunderstanding the tool. It's only calculating a small part of total costs. "These values account for only the O&S costs of units (not acquisition costs or other costs)."
They probably just need a temporary way for the airlines to pay to keep their slots directly, versus having a minimum number of payments tied to takeoffs and landings.
Psychedelic therapy has a sexual abuse problem
Should we play them the saddest melody on the tiniest violin in the world?

US police and prosecutors have a track record of bad faith prosecution.
What do you propose to replace it? The simple fact is that at this moment in time there aren't enough masks. How would you allocate them, and how would you persuade the guy with a box of masks in his basement (he bought them months ago) to let them go for cheap now?
For some, it is addiction. For others, they simply cannot fathom the risk they expose themselves to. They have no concept of the time, effort, and stress they will cost themselves over the course of their lives as a result of their error.

Try explaining to a teenager that the 50k bet that costs them their chance at an education is actually them putting 1m+ at risk if you compound the effect over the course of their life.
The way Brave is doing it currently though makes it look worse than snake oil. Why would they advertise a fingerprinting if it actually makes your fingerprint more unique? Why would they advertise Tor although using it inside Brave makes you instantly unique???

If this wasn't the case I'd not have a problem with it. This way it just seems like a huge scam (which considering you can just use Firefox with some add-ons it probably is Mr. Brendan Eich)
As an Eastern European with some experience with autocratic government I quite look up to the U.S. as to a champion of democratic culture, but among two major things that baffle me (healthcare being the other) is why there is such a high cost associated with litigation even for the innocent party. In continental Europe, the "loser pays" principle seems to hold quite well, while also having the benefit of discouraging people from frivolous lawsuits.
>Could be because of GDPR :/

I can get to that page from Italy, so no, it must be something else.
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Well, yes, but the context is that a railing covered with a layer of sticky crap isn't much better than no railing.
This is WHY they didn't go after him anyway. If your goal is to turn resources into results the best roi is to punish anyone they can plausibly accuse and threaten into taking a plea.
In theory, this is why there are stages with increasingly-high standards. Hearings, grand juries, etc.

In practice it doesn't always hold up very well.

Do you have an alternative suggestion? Would the government always pay for the entire defense? Or reimburse if the accused is acquitted?

This is also why gun violence restraining orders are bad. Large costs to the defendent with no standards or hearing or even an accusation of a crime.
Being dependent on that for jobs is a lousy thing of course.
I am just a hobby developer and don't need to discuss things like that, I just have to look out for bugs and solve them myself if needed, as I do not redistribute I care less about giving back solved code.
Success with your job(s) further.
Weird. Maybe it was misspelled?
Since the author is using Twitter, I guess he'll get the purpose of stories once Twitter launches its new “Fleets“ feature.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/04/twitter-starts-testing-its...
> On their own, but there is more than 1 way to insert BPF programs.

And the recursion, even tail recursion, in BPF is limited for that very reason.

All eBPF programs have a statically verifiable worst case execution time.
Sure, but it would be simple to add, and perhaps then useful for lots of small reads from bigger files. Or things like /proc/pid/mem.
I don’t think you should. A safer bet is to let your house ride, and either sell it or rent it as part of your retirement.
The neuroinvasive potential of the SARS-CoV-2
Some really interesting comments in the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13647098
As a halfway answer to this, I ask if specific plane types are required on these routes. If not then swap out current craft for smaller vehicles so that your pilots can maintain proficiency time while still moving cargo and the reduced number of passengers. Flying isn’t like riding a bike and pilots can’t sit in simulators ground-side indefinitely. You won’t be swapping in a Dash 8 for an A380 in every case but smaller Embraer jets in lieu of the Airbus heavies could help keep the training/proficiency side going.
Even with a vaccine, if it spreads enough and the mutation rate is high enough, new strains of the virus (that the vaccination doesn't protect against) will spread every season.
I have been interviewing candidates regularly for over a decade. What the candidate says on his resume and the actual level of his skill is not at all correlated.

I have met many very good candidates that were obsessively worrying about gaps in their knowledge. At the same time poor candidates seem to be very confident thinking they are master developers but can't solve simplest task on a whiteboard.
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I don't get how it's a hard problem. For many years we got by without using phone numbers as identifiers to communicate online. Why not usernames? Or any other one of the myriad of phone number alternatives
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I recently cashed out a Canada Savings Bond I had from when I was a kid and I after taking into account inflation I made about $8 while the government had my money for 20+ years.
The implications are unclear to me. We already know how to prune models for inference. For example https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01878, along with earlier work (and more recent work). There's also work showing that you can take advantage of the sparsity to achieve practical speed gains: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09723.

We can also train networks that are sparse from the beginning of training (without requiring any special knowledge of the solution): https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.11134. It remains to be shown that this can be done with a speed advantage.
But typewriters (at least the one I have tried–I think it was a Selectric?) have the same thing and can support rollover…
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Yeah, but it cost him several thousand dollars to fight something he shouldn't have had to fight.

Would we be ok if the police just randomly fined people $2000 bucks for no reason? That is basically what happened here.
I think there’s a lack of understanding of markets as well.

Great, you can toss 10k towards at it if you burn your student loans. GP might be able to toss 100k with a refi and investing his home equity.

Market movers have plenty more zeros at their disposal. We are bugs and the best thing to do is to make decisions that don’t make us end up as splats on their windshield.
I don't think he is an asshole but rather a not very social person. He can't deal too much with people. (the wood shop thing) But once you figured out how to become his friend, it didn't bother him to help you out.
Because either their unit metrics are positive, or they're grabbing market share and can bring down other costs later, or more cynically, they can dump shares on other investors while the hype is still going.
The pidp-11 project is also cool. A miniature and functional PDP-11 replica. https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
The respect violation is not something that can be taken seriously, it's just something petty people did to me because they dont like my existence. Any employer who takes these things seriously is somebody I dont want to associate with.
>The whole situation is asymmetric given that investigators, courts, and prosecution don't have to spend personal funds to conduct investigations and try people in court.

It's worse than that.

Litigation is literally what puts bread on their tables.

They are rewarded financially for inconveniencing the layperson and making them jump through the hoops they have built.
UMatrix will block everything by default(more or less). Ublock will use pre defined lists that block known advertisement networks and similar.

This means umatrix will break most websites by default and require you to check what elements are required and allow them manual but offers higher security because you essentially audit every website you visit.
As features go, this didn't prove to be super successful (it's no longer shipping with Firefox).

I do still think it's a valuable interaction style for being able to activate less-frequently-used features all from the keyboard. It's possible that the fact that web browsers also have the JS Console is just too much, because the JS Console has a command line that people are familiar with. The interaction model is very different, though. GCLI made it quick to type commands, whereas the JS console requires valid JS.
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Fines are not a solution. When you hear about fines, it is typically some government trying to save face on the media:

- The collected fine will not be used to undo the damage to the market/competitors.

- The fine won't ever exceed the profits gained by the company because of the infringement. Or else the company will contest it as unfair.

That's why you read "EU fines Google with 5 billion" and Google doesn't really care. They will go through the moves of pretending they care, maybe try to shave off part of the fine, but at the end of the day, it's business as usual.
> Also, why is this a cryptocurrency at all?

Do you even need to ask? Because they have minted a bunch of SIA coin and this is their effort to give it value out of thin air, making them all millionaires. Using someone else's currency, despite its obvious benefits, means no huge pre-minted pool under their control = no lambos.

Every single ICO project is like this.
An adiabatic quantum computer is equivalent to the gate model. D-Wave do not have an adiabatic quantum computer, so there is indeed no reason, even theoretical, to believe their hardware provides computational advantage. The word "quantum annealer" is just a confusing term used differently by everyone, occasionally meaning "adiabatic quantum computer" and occasionally meaning what D-Wave have.
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Prices are exactly how information about supply and demand are transmitted to the market!!!
The nice thing about xv6 is it gets a lot farther to be a full OS. User mode, ELF loader, an ascetic but usable system call table, etc.
Finra obscures brokerage data that could protect investors
FYI: When Virgin Media said it leaked 'limited contact info', it meant p0rno fil
archive.org shows that it seems like the domain registration seems to have expired and likely changed hands mid-decade or so.
delete your google account.

don't use android (or iOS really).

don't carry a smartphone.

I mean, it may seem inconceivable but you're not forced to carry a spy in your pocket =).