skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way that the AccessData job I had would exist today. Most services are online, with data encrypted in transit and stored in the cloud. TLS security has improved dramatically over the last decade in response to attacks like BEAST and BREACH and CRIME and POODLE. Google drops (? is going to drop?) your SEO ranking if you don't have proper certs installed. Nowadays, it's rare to find an attack on the connection from the browser to the server. Instead, it's either malware on the client or hacking into the servers, where the operators have terrible security practices like storing data unencrypted at rest.

The field of cryptography has grown tremendously, and there's still a lot of research being done. There have been many competitions for developing strong cryptographic primitives. There's a lot of work being done on zero knowledge proofs and verifiable computation. Cryptocurrency has encouraged lots of bright young minds to get involved.

One thing we learned from the Snowden revelations is that crypto works where it's applied, so every little bit of crypto helps. Run a Tor node if you can.
Brick houses don't fare well in seismic areas (think California) and they're more costly/time consuming to fix in areas frequently visited by tornadoes.
Yeah, he knew it was a long passphrase.
> isn't in the middle of Washington DC though

1) the speedway is far bigger in overall size than Circus Maximus

2) They likely didn’t have the same concerns over safety, noise (which is far louder with cars than chariots), traffic flow in/out, etc

3) didn’t likely have the same NIMB issues we’d have today
That 40% does not mean 40% of the US population is mortgage or rent free. Few people care if their renting from someone that has a mortgage or not.

Currently ~67% of the population owns or lives with someone that owns their home, and 30% of those homes are mortgage free. So, ~80% of the population has a mortgage or pays rent, which IMO fit’s almost all just fine.

PS: Many people are paying rent or have a mortgage while owning a home, but that’s less of a problem.
This parallels some of my experience traveling in Mexico, where salaries are high enough and prices are low enough that the middle class scrapes by, but many things are unaffordable (like a new car). There’s also a large peasant class in Mexico that feeds and houses itself but has no way to earn money. A remittance of $100/month goes a long way for that group.
I want to know the password too. If it was machine generated looking at that algo might have been useful.
Seeds are not dead. Seeds are alive because their cells are alive. If too many of the seeds cells die then the seed can no longer germinate. That's why seeds can survive long periods of frost and stay active over very long periods, it is their cells that ensure they will be able to react to changes in the environment that suggest that the seed could germinate.
Number of pieces isn't strictly the source of complexity. The complexity of the pieces matters too.
I can switch the database with ease

In my experience an organisation is far, far more likely to switch operating systems or hardware platforms or programming languages than they are the database. But no programmer bothers to code in a clever but restricted syntax that would be a valid program in both C# and Java. Or restricts themselves to a core set of OS features or hardware instructions just in case. It really is quite bizarre to watch.
I’m an American who’s visited Armenia for fun. I had a lovely time and think your country deserves more tourism and understanding. Yerevan is a very unique city, and I hope to visit again one day. While I understand it isn’t the wealthiest country, I would rather struggle there than other unwealthy countries (The weather in Armenia is comfortable and the views of Ararat are really nice)

Outside Armenia, this article was a fantastic introduction to immigration to USA and as I’m working on that process with my wife now, I think what I’ve read here can help me better explain what to expect to her. Thanks for writing this.
I think he ended up only spending around $5-10K on compute. I'd have to check with Nash.
It is not a surprise, it is already happening. You can turn it off, but AFAIK if you don't it collects this information even if the Google maps application is not open.
> I don't think <strong> meant <em> but more so

I guess it was an HTML 4 thing, the standard at the time of Markdown, https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.2.1

<em>: emphasis.

<strong>: stronger emphasis.

I see that HTML 5 has tweaked their descriptions, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/text-level-semantics....

<em>: stress emphasis

<strong>: strong importance, seriousness, or urgency
Curious - why food? Why not clothing for a year, or transportation, or the cost of raising a child, or a night at an inn, or what it cost to bribe a Senator? So many simple comparables besides food-for-a-day.
> But in America it seems that everyone, poor and rich builds extremely fragile houses.

Not everyone. In "flyover country" there are a lot of solid craftsmen doing solid work.
No the one who doesn’t pay rent is subsidized
Depends. Maybe, for example, you're doing some competitive price analysis and never plan on exposing scraped things like product descriptions...you only plan to use those internally to confirm you're comparing like products. But you expose it accidentally. Avoid that.
I appreciate seeing multiple articles on the front page. It’s an important issue right now, and some of the articles can be dense. I like reading multiple presentations of the same information to see what different authors emphasize.
One day you might be sick and having a opinion will be important.
I definitely don't know that the parameter is where SpaceX wants it to be, or even more importantly where SpaceX should want it to be given the information available to SpaceX. That's why there is room for disagreement.

I do have some hints that it's probably more or less where SpaceX wants it to be, some hints that they have chosen this parameter rationally, and some faith that they aren't stupid. For instance, Elon often discusses future tests failing as acceptable, they've declined to put in place more stringent QA efforts, they're still mostly building the hardware exposed to the elements, Elon has discussed that currently their approach is building a lot of starships to iterate on the manufacturing methods and to help them make an easy to manufacture design - he has signaled fairly clearly via his tweets that actually flying the "ships" is secondary, and so on.

My prior is that the parameter is as likely to be set as too high as too low. The testing failure at this stage in development is weak evidence that it is too low, the rest of the information I've just talked about is more convincing evidence that it is an appropriate value or too high, hence I think the post I responded to is "probably wrong".

An example of where I think the level of caution was probably too low (or there were other issues, but let's pretend for a second that this is the only knob management has, as I said it is an over simplification) - the recent CST 100 orbital flight test failure. That test was intended to demonstrate they were ready to fly humans, instead they suffered a series of serious failures, failing that sort of test is pretty strong evidence that they weren't careful enough. They've indicated this type of failure was unexpected and that it will cost the company slightly under half a billion dollars, which is also pretty strong evidence that they weren't careful enough. Moreover I know that they neglected to use procedures such as end-to-end software simulation that would have reduced this risk, and that they were in fact contractually required to perform. Meanwhile I don't have any real evidence that they were careful enough with regards to that test. So starting with the same prior as above, I quickly fall to the "they probably weren't careful enough side".

> Or was at an optimal point for SpaceX in general

The optimal point is definitely not a global value for all of SpaceX. Human spaceflight programs have obviously set it very high instead of very low. As they progress from experimenting with manufacturing to flying payloads it obviously gets turned up. Etc.
That was way too subtle
When you step out of the wood frame and asphalt roof mold, construction is considered specialized and costs go way up. You could use, for example, concrete masonry units or aerated concrete panels, and a metal roof. Your costs probably just doubled per square foot.
I was told it would cost $80,000 to redo all the windows in my house.
> Look into Bitpay and others.

I already mentioned Bitpay and made the distinction there.

> Ever heard of buying a sandwich with stock shares?

Well no, stocks aren't currency. That's my point. Bitcoin sucks at being a currency.

Unlike stocks, it also sucks as an investment, because like gold, it doesn't do any work, a Bitcoin stays a Bitcoin.

Unlike gold however, it also sucks as a hedge, because there is no intrinsic value to it.

So, what's the point of Bitcoin? Price speculation. You can speculate on the price of anything, like Beanie Babies or Funco Pops or trading cards.

At least a Bitcoin doesn't take up space on a landfill, should it become worthless. On the other hand, the electricity cost of producing is immense.
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Please be specific? I looked up "Germany ministers wiped phone" and saw a story about how the overall Defense Ministry wiped a phone of someone related to military contracts. What does that have to do with COVID-19 and data collection?
What are some techniques/tips for speed-reading?
What's interesting is that this looks like a service anyone can use. API and everything.

https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/
Transparency does have its pros & cons. One of the reasons for the whole Florida Man meme is because of Florida's powerful Sunshine laws that make police reports easily accessible to the public
Even a home for which the mortgage is paid must still pay property taxes, order 1.5% give or take. There are maintenance costs as well, assuming they wish the home to not decay.
A lot of permaculture seems like bullshit science. It’s hard to tell if what they recommend actually does anything and certain technique that have been recommended are actually proven harmful and ineffective. Because of that I really have a hard time getting behind the movement.
Zoom and Gloom: Use It to Your Own Peril
I have two thoughts:

1) I generally take the higher paying gigs but mostly so I can accelerate retirement
2) Even in the crappiness of high paying jobs (I often think I'm essentially being bribed to put up with all the BS) I can generally maneuver myself into doing interesting work. It takes about 1.5 years of concerted effort, but once I understand how stuff works, I can generally start nudging stuff in the right direction, and can eventually find some form of fulfillment amongst the BS.
We put together our own setup for training. It was a pain in many ways, but I would probably do it again.

We had six boxes with three gpus each, 24 cores, 64G ram. Was all consumer grade stuff so we got to be our own amateur ops people since the professionals wouldn't touch it, understandably.

But it was cheap, and there was something really nice to knowing that the hardware was all there waiting for us to leverage -- rather than thinking we had to get our models and hyperparameters perfect before using up precious per-hour resources in the cloud.

Once we were happy with each next model, we'd ship to production where we had a small active/passive setup on real hardware in a real data center and that was enough to easily handle the query load.
I have never found an answer to this question, especially given the thermal efficiency costs. Homes in Crimea have meter-thick walls and hold insulation really well, that's actually a huge point considering how high my monthly electric bill is.

Anyway, ONE reason is that the drywall home is more pliable - you can adjust the layout and change out the wiring / piping with relative ease. Of course, at that point you don't have much house left, other than a few supporting structures.

The American home is really the cement basement/foundation (outside of Florida), a carrier beam or two across the basement (metal) and a few wood carrier beams on the upper floor / floors. Insulation is typically fiberglass. After that, there is not much substance to it. The brick on the outside does not bear weight.

They do last a decent amount of time when maintained though. Then again, maintenance is high.
I highly recommend it, dexador is much much faster than drakma
It is probably a pun the author could not resist. Dramatic? Perhaps. Amusing? Definitely.
As an American that has spent years living in various ex-Communist countries: perhaps the single ‘greatest’ aspect of living in the US is that your income has virtually no upper limit. A software engineer, a lawyer, and most other professional occupations can easily earn $200,000 a year a decade or two into their career. This is absolutely impossible anywhere in an ex-Communist country and rare even in Western Europe.

While you do have to pay for healthcare, education, etc. I’m not sure it actually ends up costing more when considering the increased amount of income. Theoretically the best plan would be to work in the US then retire/send your kids to school in Europe.

For better or worse, the reality is that many of the problems listed in the link become manageable if you have money. As I often tell taxi drivers, America is great if you can and want to make a lot of money. For an average person, the quality of life is likely better in Europe.
Parallel Text Datasets for Machine Learning
Having worked in the public sector in the U.S., email conversations are sterile for the fact that they are always potentially accessible through Freedom of Information Act requests. No one's having thoughtful and personal conversations over internal emails.

But there does need to be a warning to the public that their emails are going to be public. Just so they aren't surprised and can schedule a call instead of going into detail via email.
There is no reason you couldn't implement rate limiting under the "longer ID" scheme.
We took the simple solution of running haproxy to handle ssl, and then using a woo server behind that. This is that setup: https://graphmetrix.com
"The rate of growth at a given day is the number of new cases on this day, as a percentage of the number of cases from the previous day. The rate of growth is constant for an exponential evolution, and is 0 when there is no more growth. (Mathematically, it is the derivative of the function divided by the function itself.)"

I don't think that's the curve they're talking about flattening.

I think 2 months is just the lower bound.
Because it's a compile time flag, not a init or config parameter.

I agree it would be nice if the page size was more adaptive to just not have FS page size alignment issues.
The number of ITU standards is HUGE and some of them are good, and some of them are even still in use. Given the volume, they are necessarily quite heterogeneous and designed by distinct groups of people. Likewise for the IETF RFCs.

Both attempt to address lots of layers of the stack, but I'd still consider IETF as more of an high level thing, and ITU more low level. At least where they succeeded, if only for a time. And given the development history, this is logical.
Google absolutely harvests phone GPS data to enhance things like AGPS (mapping of wifi MAC addresses, or celll towers to location coordinates), and it does this regardless of the location setting in the system UI.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/16684818/google-location...
Waiting for Telegram to add video calls and conference calls. Or Signal, that would be so much better.
I am temporarily living outside USA in a concrete walled apartment. The concrete cracks constantly, tiles fall off the walls, and the door fitting seems to be totally variable based on temp and humidity.

I miss living in houses made of wood. And how easily central air systems are installed in wooden homes.
"All of which makes xenobots amazing and maybe slightly unsettling — golems dreamed in silicon and then written into flesh."

'Golem' is the right word. Something about seeing these artificial "organisms" thrash about bothers me.
This isn't even restricted to email.

I have a paper letter here from my dentist, the purpose of which is to explain that they've cancelled all routine appointments, because duh, of course they have.

The letter addresses me as "Mr" in some places and as "MrNicholas" (no space) in other places. But to be fair it also claims the problem is COVID-9 (not COVID-19) so I'm guessing that correctness was not the number one focus of the person typing it.
It is a really useful service! I used their email service to get updates on potential travel destinations in the past months when Covid-19 started to be a thing.
As an American now living in Russia (in a region with 30% Armenians), I can confirm this. Our construction quality of our house in the US is trash. It's made out of cheap pine and plywood and has terrible thermal properties. We recently had to replace all the siding because it just rotted off. Meanwhile the places in Russia are smaller, but generally higher quality (which I prefer). Also, many Russians don't take on mortgages and pay for property with cash - which is amazing considering how low salaries are vs the West (they're huge savers - at least the older generations).
Natures pentest, red team edition.
Gaza’s New Conflict: Covid-19
I do wonder whether the western refusal to wear masks is more cultural & political rather than rational. Cultural because we don't have a culture of wearing masks and so changing our culture so you aren't judged is difficult, political in that it's politically difficult for public officials to say both "Masks do help stop the spread of this disease" and "We don't have enough masks, and we need them all for high risk workers & sick peeople so please don't try and get masks"
This feeds back into OP's point - the costs are loony. There's maybe 8k worth of materials and labour to double glaze a house (and that's still on the really high end), not 80. If the average Armenian can afford it, there's no natural reason why the average American shouldn't be able to.
Building with insulated concrete forms costs about 5% more.. So it is really not unaffordable to build a durable house in the US.

Everything is done to minimum standards in the US because of paradoxical markets like banks competing to give mortgages. The bank that wants only houses that will survive the mortgage let alone second buyers mortgage (for the threat to resale value) loses.
The entirety of the American West is subject to seismic areas. We're still having aftershocks from a magnitude 6.5 earlier this week in Central Idaho.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/#%7B%22autoUpdat...
You may have been told that, but that is not a good offer.
For one thing most of America is at a much lower latitude than most of Russia and Kazakhstan. Houses don't need as much insulation to be habitable in the winter.
the blog source: https://github.com/pomber/site

the post source: https://github.com/pomber/site/blob/master/posts/build-your-...
He Needs Jobless Benefits. He Was Told to Find a Fax Machine
> As a public official in a small town, I have thought about doing this before. The legal issues always come up.

There shouldn't be any legal issues since it's already all public, but regardless there is some possible middle ground here:

- All conversations regarding public policy and/or the allocation of public resources get published on the web by default. (With the possibility of making redactions on anonymizing folks, at the discretion of the public official.)

- Things like emails from constituents asking for advice about personal issues and bulk newsletters would stay private unless FOIA'd.

- Anything redacted or anonymized at the discretion of a public official can still be FOIA'd, and in the FOIA'd version of the email things would only be allowed to the redacted or anonymized to the extent allowable by law.

This is similar to how NYC's proposed algorithmic transparency legislation would have worked, where software involved in allocating public resources needs to be public but the rest of the software does not.
> ... stop playing the game of "in our country it's going to be different than in China" ...
These terms[0] are, in general, legally binding (especially as you're a business signing them and not just a person), and it's obvious bad-faith to do this, making any sort of lawsuit hard to fight. While they most likely won't actually take you to court over this, you risk suspension of your main GCP account.

> 3.3 Restrictions.

> Customer will not, and will not allow third parties under its control to: ... (d) create multiple Applications, Accounts, or Projects to simulate or act as a single Application, Account, or Project (respectively) or otherwise access the Services in a manner intended to avoid incurring Fees or exceed usage limits or quotas;

0: https://cloud.google.com/terms
True, but even relatively efficient windows are like holes compared to insulated walls. If you have a whole wall that is losing heat, fixing that is cheaper and more effective than upgrading a few square feet of windows. The best (triple paned) windows are still only equivalent to R-5.
It's an absurd nitpick and still upholds the article's original point that you need to learn about one's living situation before making comparisons due to America's decentralized governance.
Couldn't she just have kept wearing the mask and if she got fired sue for wrongful termination?
I'd be curious to see some examples of what you mean!

I think there are definitely cases where DB needs to compensate for bad architecture, but then even competent developers can profit from the flexibility of being able to ad new features ad hoc to an existing db schema/architecture and the DB just magically bailing them out.
There are other more valid ways to make a curved line.

If your data points are equally spaced in time, look into 'sinc interpolation'
AVGN (Angry Video Game Nerd) has a fantastic episode on this video game.
https://youtu.be/15pi8vrUx9c
Birmingham and Merseyside masts torched over 5G coronavirus claims
Yeah. Telegram is my favorite messenger as well.
WTF? Are they all non-standard sizes so you’d either need custom windows or extensive framing work? Usual replacement cost is more like $200-300 per window, installed, maybe somewhat more if you want something fancy, but not... thousands.
Building a notification system in Ruby on Rails
Nordic noir
Almost every town has some code that says you can't do that.

Or the house is already built, and tearing it down to make a brick one is $$$ plus permit maybe will be denied.

And most homebuilding companies only use wood.
Potential coronavirus vaccine developed by University of Pittsburgh scientists
I imagine part of it is that we want big houses in the US, so cheaper materials allow a bigger house without a linear increase in costs. Also, I believe lumber is cheaper here. Wood houses are also popular in Norway, where wood is cheap.
Florida gets a lot of flak but this is good. Transparency is the only way to fight corruption. The only real downside to such absolute transparency like this is that most people don't want to be accountable.
Should have gone with:

The World’s Great Photographers, Many Shuttered Inside, Snap
Bandage-like coronavirus vaccine shows promising results in mice
I really don't mean to be snarky, but if this counts as an innovation worth writing about, I am severely undervaluing my worth.
Debugging Node.js Inside Docker
Yep, also living in former soviet block. This is also what I tell people with illusions about America (don't get me wrong, America can be great).