skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The AppArmor + vendor-provided profiles doesn't work, because it means that you have to give most applications access to the user's full home directory.

It works fine. Its purpose is to solve a different problem than this.

> macOS solves this by using a privileged service for Open/Save dialog boxes.

There are circumstances where this can be useful, and it would be fine to implement this on Linux for applications where it's appropriate, but it doesn't work as a universal rule.

For example, suppose I have a music player app, I choose open, I get the dialog and choose a playlist. The playlist file is just a list of paths to music files which were never selected in the dialog. The app still needs to open all the music files. And the same thing for office documents with links to images, source code project files etc.

And what about background services? If I install an app to make regular backups of my home directory then it needs access to the whole thing, and not just once. Likewise anything that does indexing, malware scanning etc.

So it's still really the same thing. You have an app that asserts it never needs access to files outside the open dialog and then it can be restricted to just that, but other apps need to do different things. You need somebody to identify which apps can do without certain capabilities, the average user is not equipped for that, so it falls to the author or the packager.
I think universities are protecting their turf, and people who spent quite a lot of money and effort for in-person college are also to some degree. There are a significant number of people who do not want online bachelor degrees to become credible.
The Culture Series by Iain Banks, quite a good scifi series in my opinion.
Seriously. "Here are some rumors..."

C'mon with that.
Some may do that, but if we don’t offer loans or bailouts to many companies (as well as bolster unemployment for the individuals) companies will surely lay even more people off, no?
I loved HPMOR even though I have a difficult time reading fiction generally. And I have no familiarity with the Harry Potter universe.
I’ve loved every book of his I’ve read. SevenEves is my favourite book of any I’ve read (I actually loved part 3) but for a series nothing beats the Baroque Cycle
Is the Stock Market Selloff Over?
I'm not rejecting that completely, but there needs to be some healthy dialogue.

By which I do NOT mean our cancel culture hogwash where anyone disagreeing with the globalist orthodoxy is an -ist -ite -ism of the worst sort.
btw, for narrated powerpoint, you can actually use Video Puppet directly with Powerpoint files - just put narration into speaker notes. Here's more info on that: https://videopuppet.com/docs/powerpoint/
I don't live in a rural area, but have friends who do. They all seem to have informal social networks spread through the area, family, relatives, friends - with whom they regularly meet and exchange information or goods.

Any business transaction or social activity at local events, churches, banks, schools, grocery stores - are all potential infection vectors.

Combine that with much lower and slower access to healthcare - meaning, a low threshold for overwhelming the system - makes rural areas as risky as urban centers. Well, less risky due to population density, but enough to warrant a social distancing policy (in my non-expert opinion).
Any idea how Canada is fairing during this crisis?
> My opinion is most people are going to buy thing they don't need.

That's... kind of a large part of the point as far as I understand. It doesn't matter where the money gets spent (rent, necessities, luxuries, hobbies, whatever) - the important thing is to keep the economy moving. When large portions of the economy are disrupted all at once (jobs lost, businesses failed) there's the potential for a domino effect.
Definitely! And tooling. Java is verbose but IntelliJ writes a lot for me.

`main` turns into[1]:

public static void main(String[] args) {

}

Because of this and Lombok I don't find Java particularly taxing to write. I often prefer writing Java as my IDE can provide me better information about the code.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/using-live-templates.htm...
People built bone circles at the edge of ice sheets
If enough people demand them it could become a competitive advantage in the already-cutthroat cloud hosting market
Think about this: Khan Academy is asking for increased donations right now because of their success. Any other for-profit company in their predicament is benefiting very naturally from revenues increasing with higher demand for their product. That is not true for a non profit structured at aiming to provide a free service.

Should a ceo reduce his income because his company is succeeding? The unfortunate element here is that their fundraising does not scale (or scale well enough) as a function of additional reach.
If taxpayers could get vouchers for the money going to education, I'd send mine to KA instead of public schools. It would be money much better spent.
On a plot of log(cases), per capita is just an offset. It shifts the line up or down on the plot, and doesn't make a difference. In a post upthread, mzs reminds us of the math:

log(cases/pop) = log(cases) - log(pop) = log(cases) + C

Log plots tend to visually compress relatively small effects such as these, so you don't really notice it, but it is much of why the lines aren't completely on top of one another.

In other words - a per-capita plot should look the same, but the lines would be harder to distinguish, because they'd be mostly right on top of one another.
So, you're just assuming other jurisdictions are going to have a curve that looks like Wuhan's?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Farr#Law_of_epidemics
Which is a shame since our country continues to shame and discredit real whistleblowers, instead of giving them job loss immunity (or at least some form of protection that is equal or higher than the monetary loss that could befall them for speaking up).
£1bn of UK taxpayer cash to help foreign countries buy British arms
TLDR More than 50 percent of US small businesses only have roughly a month of cash reserves on hand (based on JPMC’s data from small biz accounts).
What we need is a credible credentialing system where you can demonstrate you've acquired knowledge comparable to a bachelors degree. Instead of just adding more walled gardens of degree granting institutions.
Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi - I recently started reading manga again and had heard about the series. It's an amazing feat of visual storytelling, jumping genres all the time, an incredible and vast world, and complex characters you can't help but love or hate. On the surface it looks fun and lighthearted but that facade is quickly thrown out to explore mature themes, ultimately culminating in an exploration of the morality of humanity and depression.

Others would include:

The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - I read this when I was a kid, even got all of the books autographed by the author! It was the first series I read that I remember deeply moving me. The books subvert the traditional "chosen one" protagonist, and even the hero questions this. It's fun reading, he has a huge ego that constantly gets taken down. As a kid reading along wanting him to be this epic hero, almost self inserting myself into the fantasy, I fell in love with all the Greek mythology and characters. It's been a long time since I re read them, but I still think back with nostalgic glasses. It probably won't hold up as well going back, but I think they're timeless enough.

Sherlock Holmes - I've always been a fan of mysteries and well...it's Sherlock Holmes. Between all the copies and collections I own I either have them all or multiple copies of the same stories. I know I definitely have duplicates from different publishers with slight variations. But loved it as a kid and made me interested in science.

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
For startups that "might take off" I would use a dedicated virtual private server as a good alternative to unreasonable bills due to provisioning mistakes. You could be spending that time coding rather than than figuring out if you're making a mistake provisioning. There are too many stories like yours out there.

Here is my referral code for the one I use:

https://crm.vpscheap.net/aff.php?aff=15

(I previously asked Dan, the mod here, if I can share in this way and he said it's okay. I don't have other affiliation with that company and have found it good.)
"Do things that don't scale." -- Paul Graham.

It's funny how well this principle translates to things other than triaging startup ideas.
Public companies have the stock market and private companies have VCs. What do you mean?

VCs are talking about how no net new deals are getting done, and the stock market is touch and go each week.
Are there enough buyers for stock to make that useful right now? (Non-rhetorical question; I have no idea either way.)
We just sanitize everything that comes into the house. Anything in a package gets wiped down with Clorox wipes d anything else gets washed with soapy water. Bags to into the garbage the kitchen gets Wiped down with Clorox wipes once it’s all put away. It slows things down but it’s the only safe way I can think of to make sure you aren’t bringing anything home from the store. That goes for delivery or self shopping; you have no idea who or how many people touched the products you bought and are bringing home, so better be safe then leave it up to guess work.
I've been reading "Rockets and People" by Boris Chertok from this collection, and would recommend it. Chertok was a high-level engineer in the Russian Space industry, and its a much different story than the American side of things, with engineers having to work through a constant churn in the leadership caused by the purges, and than having their factories literally packed up and moved to avoid the German invasion, and than the scarcity of the post-WWII years.

(on the downside, Chertok really likes pausing the narrative to map out the exact bureaucratic flow-chart of the different agencies and departments involved in rocket development, which is pretty tedious, but I've found I can just skim those sections without losing the ability to understand the rest of the story.)
Ask HN: What are best machine learning and data science certificate?
I find some helpful links
https://digitaldefynd.com/7-best-machine-learning-training-certifications/

https://hackr.io/blog/machine-learning-certifications

Any comments on those courses/certificates?
I wouldn’t be so cynical.

It’s important there are vocal leaders showing the sacrifices they are making — otherwise it’s easy for others to pretend it isn’t possible to make the same sacrifice.
Don't quote me, it is ages since I had my economics book open last time, but if I recall correctly, there is a confusing terminology here. Zero profit means in the context of economice profits that exceed risk adjusted return. That is, even in a perfect market, in the models you are allowed to pay a decent return to your capital, but not more. These extra profits are called almost as confusingly "rents" in economics. That's why "rent-seeking" is considered bad even if it is fine that your landlord collects rents from you. Two different things and one word.
people in this forum pretty much control if any SaaS live or die.

if we care enough we can compile a simple list of layoffs happy companies to boycott.
The cost in your example is far, far more than $10 USD a month. If you can set this up, your time is absolutely worth something and even if this is your area of expertise, you are now personally responsible for a critical piece of your internet browsing infrastructure.

There are tons of important details to keeping a critical service up and running almost all the time - even if you are competent in this, that is still time every month making sure it's running, secure and functional.

The only reasons in my opinion to DIY a solution would be a) learning, hobby or for fun or b) you have requirements that can't be met another way, like privacy goals.
Woman who sleeps in $500 EMF-blocking sack wants area-wide Wi-Fi limits (2019)
> I cannot help but feel that articles like this are a subtle form of social manipulation; especially for younger, less experienced programmers.

Indeed, I'd go as far as saying this is straight up managerial tautological BS like I've heard many times.

"If the software doesn’t do what you need it to do, it’s useless.", said Captain Obvious. Well, of course it must solve the problem, but that's not enough, far from it.

And then the article promotes things like wordpress and webflow... well, I for sure know what code base I won't have to deal with when a bad plugin will break the "best code is no code" mantra.
From the research I've read, it seems that it can survive 2-3 days on plastic, and potentially a lot less on other surfaces. The cold air in the refrigerator probably does extend its lifespan a bit. I normally wash produce anyway, so it's more of an additional precautionary measure than a single line of defense.
Ever studied how economies have behaved in real MMOs?
I did not downvote you, but paying people more is not a zero-sum game. The pay rate of an employee is not necessarily contingent on the salary of a CEO. More money can be attained through the creation of value in an economy - this value will add wealth - this added wealth could allow for both the employee and the CEO to be paid more.
Did you try switching your interpreter to PyPy?
I'm kinda curious what role Gamestop would be considered essential when you have alternative ways to purchase games such as Steam, XBox/Playstation stores and just simply Amazon.

At this point it wouldn't be worth the risk to allow people to get games at a slightly better price because it is used at Gamestop.
OpenBSD in C: A panic room made out of knives.
But you're harming people. People have lost their livelihood based on Google's 'jokes'.

And you're annoying many of the people who you aren't harming.

If you learn that what you're doing is harmful or annoying to people just don't do it.
> At its best, the government does it better, cheaper, and longer-lasting than anyone else

Can you cite examples and explain factors that you think lead to the government working at its best?

As much as I like free market competition, I think you’re probably right, at least when it comes to projects/pieces of projects where the only customer is the government. But when there’s a problem not well suited for competition to solve efficiently, that doesn’t guarantee a good government result: there’s a ton of variability in the quality of government responses.

My basic theory is this: the success of large government engineering projects depends primarily on whether or not everyone involved in the project believe it to be of existential importance (military projects during the cold war), whether its something that they will personally use and want to feel pride in (golden gate bridge), or whether or not the problem has some novel/interesting element that attracts the best and brightest.
A co-worker created a website for a charity and got some free Azure budget for it that would have been plenty for a year. After half a year, though, it was gone because something innocuous that he'd accidentally activated ate up all his budget.

Sorry I don't have more detailed data than that, but it certainly alerted me to the fact that you need to be really careful with these cloud services.
The oil glut is filling up the world’s supertankers fast
So from a legal point of view, in democratic countries, it would not be feasible or wise to say “you’re shut down indefinitely”. The normal practice is to say “til date X, but restrictions will remain beyond that and we might extend”. Nowhere but the US is anyone promising an end date (and even there it’s just the wacky clown-President; in practice the civil service is implicitly contradicting him).
wonder what most "US small biz funds" (required on most 401k programs ) are doing these days
I find his works a mixed bag. I thought “A Scanner Darkly” was quite good. I really liked the crazy, out-there nature of “Ubik”. But then I found “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, and some short story collection I read, to be pretty ordinary.
It's a common optimization in Go. The benchmark tool that ships with go allows reporting of bytes allocated per call. Many webserver frameworks in Go strive for 0 allocs so as a user of the library, you know it won't cause extra garbage.

https://scene-si.org/2017/06/06/benchmarking-go-programs/
Stories of your life and others - Ted Chiang, this book taught me about compassion.

Animal Farm - George Orwell The character Boxer made me rethink about authority, change in view for the better.
Refrigeration ?
Don't use pipenv, you don't need it. Seriously.

Edit: you don't need poetry either.
Where do you think the California unemployment filers came from?

The SF company I worked at (public, $B revenues, familiar name) laid off all contractors one week into shelter in place, two days after their quarterly financials investor call. There’s been zero press about this particular company and their cuts.

FTEs, not yet... but those contractors, working for contracting companies (and some, like me, corp temps... so employed by said SF company) are all eligible for unemployment benefits.

But still, laid off.
How does that help the GP?
So, I have not yet seen any informed analysis of how this is impacting the solar panel and wind turbine industries. I assume it would be bad, but I don't know how bad. If anyone has knowledge of that, feel free to chime in.
Player of Games is amazing.
Thats pretty easy for them, they are all billionaires.
Or at least one friend whose parents aren't tech savvy, and aren't home.
If you only ever offered the players to switch if they picked the car, they'd soon realize this and never switch when they're offered this chance. Also, players that picked a goat at first would have no chance of winning the car.
For those interested in doing an online degree, I highly recommend the Open University. They accept international students, and their degrees are accredited in both the US and EU:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University
Is the switch to ARM going to be for cost savings, or are the chips actually faster than current Intel?
> The impact that ad hoc conversations and events with peers and professors have is profound

Not everyone indulges in "ad hoc conversations and events with professors". Some maybe, but most people just get by with minimal work.
These Companies Enriched Themselves. Now They’re Getting a Bailout
Python packaging is now a solved problem.

Use Poetry. Resolves all your dependencies and manages your virtual environments.

Also lets you build and publish your own projects with a few commands.

https://python-poetry.org/
That’s a straw man. Big corporations that love regulatory capture and government bailouts rarely make free market arguments. They tout things like important regulations for their industry and how closely they work with the government to ensure a safe society or whatever.
It is a good idea. And may be telling the waiting list number or queue number will help. Because otherwise the buyer has to every-time visit the page. User acknowledgement through queue token or waitlisting number will help.
I wonder if a terraform provider for gmail would make sense.
Yeah same in Clojure, you spend most of your time messing with/writing interop and trying to get it correct.
This looks cool. Something I have looked for on and off without create success would be a fully scriptable NLE

Something like this that would support simple fades, transitions, and maybe animation. The kind of stuff you can do fairly easily in a video editor, but with lots of fiddly clicks and zooming in and out of timelines.

I'd like to have a script that let me specify when different source media start, when to apply effects, etc. All written as a basic text file.

Anything obvious out there I've missed?
Even in the real world the idea that "companies exist to make profit" sounds wrong. Companies exist to ideally output goods or services, and profit is a tool to ensure they can continue making those goods or services. It can be hard for a company to exist without making a profit, but not the reason they exist.
Do you mean "small business" or "small cap"? "Small cap" publicly traded companies are bigger than "small businesses"
FWIW this is satire on brogrammer culture.
The booze epidemic: with no boss in sight, workers can drink from home
Poetry and mypy are fine. Postgres works on pypy. But generally.. yeah you're right.
Live Status: India Crossed 1000 Covid19 cases – Death: 27 – Recovered: 96
Yes, because without them knowing where your infrastructure can be killed/what can be deleted in order to reduce costs without completely destroying your business there's no way for AWS to do this for you.
Brokerage app signups soar amid coronavirus stock volatility
simple transitions are already supported, and I plan to add a lot more transitions soon.

you can set transitions globally in the document header, or on individual scenes. for example, just add

(transition: crossfade 0.2)

for a 0.2sec cross-fade transition between scenes

video segments (different source media start) are also supported. You can do something like:

(video:
file: stopwatch.mp4
segment: 00:02 - 00:04)

Check out video and transition sections here for more info: https://videopuppet.com/docs/format/
For those who are not up to reading manga, the 2011 anime version is an amazing adaptation and a decent introduction to anime in general.
That is a great insight. It is incredible how fragile the economic system is. This is one of the weak points if the economic system that can destroy decades of work.
I hope your choice of Cthulhu doesn't mean reading the book will drive you insane!
How would that be different than a "learn at your own pace" school?
Very cool and interesting thanks for your response!
Films You Shouldn’t Watch During Isolation
New 3D-printed device enables a single ventilator treat up to four patients
Still hoping for a 13/14 inch intel macbook refresh with the revamped keyboard before too long.

Or I was, now that I work from home all the time my need for a laptop is much reduced.
Because the Pi-Hole doesn't run untrusted code, like a personal computer does (e.g. Javascript, installed applications, etc.). Same holds for smartphones.
The fewer system parts running "if" statements in delivering your service, the better.

The use case of delivering the service to a consumer of the service happens all the time, the use case of "oh, I didn't understand how this works and foot-gunned" is relatively rare.

AWS can eat that cost less expensively than maintaining the "if" statements inline on every request.

The most reliable code is code you don't write at all.
Password Store is still being developed. Master was recently updated to support Android's Autofill.
So set a lower limit
Amazon doesn’t really want to kill startups using AWS even when they fuck up. If you had made some phone calls / worked LinkedIn / Tweeted / written a blog post you could have gotten that refunded in a week.
then there is no point switching

Why not? Your chances of choosing the correct door were 1 in 3 from the start. That doesn't change with the fact that the host opens the doors at random.
Have you read The Stars My Destination?
Yes, I do. I was not aware of the implications. I appreciate the heads-up. I have now educated myself. Thank you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/ev0lit/archivetoda...