skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not looking for anything in particular really, just curious. Both absolute and relative numbers would be interesting to see.

For example, if a language has 10 users and 5 stops using it, that's interesting. If a language has 10000 users and 5000 disappears, that's also interesting. If a language has 3 users and 1 stops using it, that's too interesting.
+1 on the great name and thanks for the reference link
UniPDF v3.6.0 features a new JBIG2 encoder
Bread and circus.
Depending on what a black hat could do with the data in your database, it might absolutely be worth it. I understand that 350k is way more than bug bounties usually pay, but 3.5k is taking advantage of people's ethics to outsource your security.

Let's put it another way: The team who discovered this has skills WELL worth 350k for a year's worth a work. How many security issues would they have to catch for it to be "worth it"? Maybe more than 1, but 100 show stopping vulnerabilities for 350k is crazy to me.

edit: ESPECIALLY slack, if it was possible to use this to get access to any chat logs.
People forget that even Tim Apple is just a regular person who may want to help.
Googler here, but opinion is my own. Google's problem is that we have too many powerful internal engineering tools, many of which overlap in functionality, and so often its hard to know at first which one to use to solve a problem.

Thankfully, there is nearly always an overlap period when one solution gets deprecated and the replacement is launched.

The COVID19 office shutdown has really focused attention on our internal IT tools (most of which are also offered externally). So far, they've worked pretty great, in no small part because things like BeyondCorp [1] were designed from the start for distributed workforces in zero-trust security environments.

It wasn't always like this though. Corp-Eng, as it's called at Google was for a long time seen as a dead end career-wise - disconnected from Google's marquee products. However, a number of developments, including the rise of the enterprise and cloud computing businesses, have bolstered its internal importance, and with that have brought excitement and talent to the organization. It's now an important source of product feature ideas that eventually make their way to customers.

That said, a lot of things not core to Google's problem spaces do get solved with outside vendors' software, and some of that software is great. For example, I just used a site licensed version of the Chrome ScreenCastify [2] extension to make a video demonstrating a feature I'm developing. It worked perfectly.

1. https://cloud.google.com/beyondcorp

2. https://www.screencastify.com/
At least at Apple, in the groups I was in, this was never an issue.
Seems like only one side of the story from a very non-balanced source with an agenda. I would take this with a grain of salt.
Ok but he’s held very intellectual conversations with physicists so I can only infer he has a basic fundamental knowledge — despite the ego and fantastical colorful language.

And I heard about the 3 generations when I was a freshman in HS in AP physics and I wrote a sci-fi story on it. Obviously it’s a widely known problem, I assumed people would understand me.

I’m defending the public sphere, promoting thoughtful ideas and intellectual adventures. Most people still don’t know who Elon Musk is yet it seems like they would. I want the average person to know the great open questions in physics.

Other professionals, hackers and those with PhDs in mathematical physics can contribute something novel and true to the future of understanding physics. No one owns mystery or the right to explore it.

Even if it’s just an artist or mathematician inspiring a physicist to understand an idea that could lead to something unrelated but true. Or public support to increase scientific funding.

I also work with a physicist who probably would criticize my perspective here. He has analyzed and critiqued pseudoscientific claims for national security reasons. So my experience here isn’t non-existent.

And I’m not a software engineer. I was a hacker. I like to reverse engineer things and understand the world through first principles...
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I had a discussion with another developer about HTTP status codes, and he said he also had questions about the meaning of life.

The meaning of life is 100 Continue. Life also involves a lot of 300 Multiple choices and 402 Payment required. Sadly life ends with a 410 Gone. Mostly, however 218 This is fine.
> What a tool was being used for 2 months ago isn't relevant

It is very relevant. These face shields wouldn't protect anyone from airborne/aerosol pathogens or viruses. They have a very specific purpose and that isn't one of them.

If you're talking about adapting construction grade shields (like used for painting, etc) for medical use -- sure. But you aren't going to use a face shield as a replacement for a face mask, which is what it seems like you're arguing for.

If you're saying that you should wear a face shield in public to protect yourself from aerosolized virus -- that's not the point of a face shield. The particles can travel around the sides of the mask too easily. If you want to protect from small, airborne particles, you need a mask.
https://xkcd.com/1468/ "Worrying"
> I think Istio gives you mTLS for free if you add it to your kubernetes cluster.

Yes, Istio was the service mesh I referenced above that we can't install for different reasons:

>> It was a huge PITA tho without a service mesh (which we can't use for different reasons)

If you have Istio then you don't need MeTaLS (unless your client comes from outside the cluster or something, and even then I think there are ways to make it work).

I don't know that I would agree that it is "for free" as Istio still needs to be configured, and it isn't trivial from my experience. I could also see situations where something like MeTaLS where you place a few env vars for certs and you're done is nice to have. I would definitely recommend Istio if you can use it though.
Uber Moving Away from Microservices
I'd be best described as an ML Researcher/Engineer and I'm not in the private sector so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but my understanding is that many DS roles require application of the scientific method.

A lot of DS can be boiled down to some sort of statistical testing or inference (A/B test email marketing for example) or applied ml (classification, regression). I'd argue thats science (if done right).

Data Analysis, the plot a few charts and put it in a slide deck kind? Totally agree with you. Definitely not science.
Fascinating to see an article about IS&T, definitely not something I ever expected to hear about on HN!

I was part of a team inside Apple that developed internal-facing tools for the retail teams. Our team was formed because of the extremely high cost in dollars and time that IS&T wanted to charge to develop some fairly straightforward tools. My team was taken from the departments that used the tools, and we developed things that were very custom-fit to what those departments needed.

Eventually politics overcame us, and IS&T finally managed to take over our team. We all became contractors in order to support the migration to their infrastructure, and continue development of the tools. A bit later we all became fired as our project was outsourced to contractors in India, managed by IS&T PMs who had no idea what our tool was used for and had never been inside a retail store. The tools all died shortly after that, some killed by IS&T, some petered out due to lack of use now that they no longer worked correctly or were a good fit for the users.

As far as we could tell, IS&T was run as a unique company inside Apple, which did it's fair share of price gouging in order to make itself money to keep going. Its purpose never appeared to be helping Apple customers or Apple employees, it was simply to get bigger, absorbing more money and power wherever possible, with no apparent reigning in from the parent org.

Although my experience is several years old, everything in this article rings true. The contracting companies they had us working for were taking a huge cut, the quality of the code they produced was dismal, (as soon as we were no longer allowed to re-write their code major things began breaking almost immediately) and people getting transferred around constantly and having no time to understand any one project was common. (rkho's comment about their hiring process seeming like it was simply a beard for a nepotistic contractor conversion was something we definitely saw a number of times.)

All in all it was an extremely eye-opening experience. Considering how "do it the Apple way" every other department we interacted with was, being in the IS&T buildings was like landing on an alien planet.
EyeMask
What's remarkable is how this is a clear case study of the amount of wealth destroyed _by gutting government_

If I were to try to be pithy: Capitalism destroyed by the incompetency of libertarian ideals.
The public roads in Washington State run at massive losses, yet we don't blink an eye at it - why should we treat ferries any differently? For anyone living on an island, they are the only 'road' in or out.
This whole thing frustrates me so much. It's like people are just spouting off random opinions not substantiated by any data or real-world experience...at all.

I just looked it up. WeWork has 848 locations globally. These locations aren't in houses...they're in gargantuan, tall office buildings, worth tens/hundreds of millions of dollars each. If Adam Neumann is a billionaire, AND if he has most of his wealth in commercial real estate (I'm sure he doesn't), he might own...5-10 of these. The rest are owned by REITs like Simon Property Group, Thor Equities, CB Richard Ellis (CBRE), Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), and others.
This site would be better if anyone who submitted an article to Engadget (or similar) was prompted to instead submit an outline.com link.
I work for a B2B that deals with very large customers and we do exactly as OP of this thread describes--We offer zero support for IE.
How does anyone apply for this job if they know all these skills ? Covid19.nj.gov does not seem to post the Job at its site.
Can someone help with where did you apply or saw the JD?
If they weren't making money off of it, they wouldn't sell it. Price gouging is exactly what is needed in a crisis. Once the demand signals become incorporated in the price, more and more companies will start making it.
You're not wrong. What you are missing is how much complicated web development (and software development in general has become). Even if you are doing a simple Static website it's more complicated than yesterday. If you are using Git to push your changes, you already need to push to Github and then SSH into your machine, make a pull request.

Oups. Now Nginx is still serving the old version through cache. So need to clear cache, restart, shut this, reconfigure this, etc... After a while this gets tiring.

Docker is not the perfect solution (one can wonder if it's actually a solution) but it's a symptom of the real issue rather than the issue itself.
Do you need an Apple Care subscription to get one?
Video Conferencing Zoom Jitsi-Meet
Personally, I'd prefer it if both typing and classes was not in JS, as the problems they solve can also be solved in other ways. Now I already lost the battle around classes but if types somehow becomes mandatory in JS proper, I'd probably leave JS behind me. Now, mandatory typing will never happen in JS and I already kind of left JS behind for ClojureScript, so guess I'm in luck there.
Why is this an LLC and not a 501c?

Can someone comment on if this is truly charitable in nature? Or something else?

edit: thanks for the alert on mixing up my acronyms
Who said it has to be impressive? It's simply something fun that relates to the deeper dive he takes in the video.
Contracts that "hide" things in them tend to get invalidated by the court if you refuse to pay. Courts take a dim view of attempts to trick consumers.

If you didn't read the contract before you signed it, though, next time you should.

When I bought a house, they gave me a stack of paper about half an inch high to read, including a document for me to sign that said "I have read and understand the documents." So I sat there with the agent and read every word of it. She was clearly quite irritated with me "wasting her time" by reading it, but too bad for her.

A couple issues I was particularly interested in was what happens if I default on the mortgage, and what happens if I prepay the loan.

BTW, I recommend reading the fitness club contracts first. They are negotiable, but if you don't read them you won't know what to negotiate, and will be paying the "sucker price".
https://twitter.com/aleph_one/status/1247639362147254272

:)
"This improves the stock value for investors"

Not really. A stock buyback is essentially the same thing as the company parking the money in the bank. It's almost the same financial thing. Shareholders 'own' the $1 in the company's bank, or they 'own' it if it's paid back to shareholders.

Stock buybacks or dividend payouts should basically have a null effect on the value of the company. They are kind of 'neutral' exercises.

Edit: 'null value' obviously taking into consideration fewer shares, i.e. if the company buys shares from the market at market prices, it shouldn't directly affect the value of the other shares it's financially neutral.
This is a lot like "waifu2x".[1] That's super-resolution for anime images.

[1] https://github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x
Wait till you get into some Dutch surnames "van der Kleij", "van den Bosch", "de Jager" which are not patronyms. They would still fit into "first name, last name" pattern. Because you assume what is last name can have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tussenvoegsel

Though a lot of pages in NL have separate field for it.
Next version will remove the strap and people on HN will complain about how their current bands are useless and they don’t want to change as the older ones are warmer.
In the Bay Area, Maker Nexus (a maker space in Sunnyvale) is coordinating production of these: http://makernexuswiki.com/index.php?title=3D_printed_face_sh...
Add your new user account to your rooms, leave with old user acct.
Use third normal form. - Till your system gets 10 year old and linking your user's first name to their address requires joins on 10 tables having millions of rows.
If you're in California, what are your thoughts on how the California DMV is run? Would you want your air travel experience to be similar?
Scrolling on iOS browsers is an utter pain due to rubber band scrolling. It can be solved with -webkit-overflow-scrolling and hard work.
It is a good core business. The press is just trying to spin this into some big exciting story as they are wont to do, this time playing up the "How the mighty fall" and "David v Goliath" angle.

I am a paying wework customer as well as a person who owns commercial real estate. There's not much to see here. Some investors paid too much. Let's all let them take their losses and move on. I'm tired of hearing every tech-hating, New York Times-reading, "in the know" person having some huge opinion on this.
I was thinking it would be a video counting from 0 to 1 million or whatever. Combined with a service to redirect you to the video at the correct timestamp using YouTube's "t=1m23s" parameter.

But 10 hours of video with 1s timestamp parameter resolution would only get you up to 36000
JFrog provides free access to DevOps tools for the projects fighting Covid-19
If it's around your forehead, how is it shielding you?
It says that there's massive inequality?
I think its still better to have some competition between a few private airlines (even if de facto subsidized by gov't) as opposed to one behemoth national airline that faces no competition and therefore has no incentive to innovate.
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You're just farming more downvotes by clearly being affected by them and then complaining about them.

If this is how you respond to pointless vote counts, I would avoid revisiting comments after you leave them for the sake of your mental health.
"If they don't want to play a fair game,"

The government interfering existentially to shut down their business isn't quite 'fair game'.

Put another way, the government could ban travel, in which case, the airlines could theoretically offer the flight, but the consumer would have to then cancel their ticket and pay a charge, or not get anything back. Point being the government interference could run both ways.

So it's going to be a big problem clearing all of this up.
Chicago Tech Startup Launches New “House Painting in Place” Technology
Square's business model is to allow small, local businesses the ability to let people pay with a credit card easily. They service a lot of restaurants and food trucks. These types of businesses are not doing to be doing well for the immediate future.
> why should we treat ferries any differently?

Because history shows they can be run at a profit with the same fare, at no cost to the taxpayers.

> For anyone living on an island, they are the only 'road' in or out.

Evidently this wasn't a problem when the system was a "mosquito fleet" of private ferries.
I'm not an expert in this, but maybe the LLC is easier to setup and since it doesn't have fundraising, the money isn't taxable so it doesn't need to be a 403b.

In other words, its more like a trust than a non-profit. To expand, non-profits are created to raise money for a cause, not just give it away.
The IP protocol is full of security gotchas so you better use a higher level protocol. Spoofing, arp attacks, TCP session hijacking, etc.
It's the EyeMask.
The next Playstation controller is called DualSense, looks like a cool robot
+1 for "name", though you may want different fields for different display purposes: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
> But what the fuck are you gonna do, rig up your own ISP or charter a boat across the Atlantic? No, you're going to get reamed in the ass and keep living in the 21st century.

Or we can globally live within our means. It is apparently barely sustainable for people to be able to fly anywhere on a whim and a salary. If the globe being able to do this means that airlines must operate at constant arm's reach of bankruptcy and bailout, then we're living beyond our global means and society is ill-structured.
Although I do agree with the general notion of your argument, I believe in this case it is being applied too abstract.

Yes, both can be done. Yet it is not the scarcity of intellect I'm criticising. It's the researchers time that is being spent (or wasted imho) that is the focus of my criticism.

A single RFID, QR code could've worked. Would take about 5 minutes dev time.

I can't think of having to classify the images
Spending $1B on sexism is incredible commitment to being a piece of shit. You almost have to respect it.
What Is Enterprise Software?
> A web app with several megs of JS is most likely being developed and pushed to production on a schedule (daily, or weekly, or something). So you're probably re-downloading the whole thing every few days.

That's a fair point that I hadn't considered. But still: native apps get updates too. I've been annoyed by really frequent update prompts. Maybe the web streamlines the process to a point where devs may not notice the overhead it's causing for users, but that still comes back to being a UX issue, not a technical one, IMO. Maybe continuous-integration isn't a good idea when it comes to client software in general. Maybe releases need to be artificially slowed to a weekly or monthly cadence, for the sake of the user experience.
A buyback has the added effect of reducing the number of shares, increasing their Earnings per Share (EPS). Since EPS is a widely-used metric for valuing a company, it's not quite the same as a dividend.
That's unnecessary. The slower the view count updates (and it's very slow), then the more likely the title is to be correct.
Or the Percona tools, which support stuff like online schema change.
I've had nothing but excellent service in every one of my interactions with the California DMV. If every company I interacted with lived up to their standard I'd be thrilled.
You store it in your home, then wear it when you go line up for food in case the person next to you turns and coughs or sneezes.
403b is a tax shelter, similar to a 401K... LLC is a corporate structure, more in line with C-corp.

Maybe you meant 501c?

There are a lot of articles out there arguing that non-profits are pretty heavily restricted and to make strong change you need a for-profit company, probably related to the rise of "Impact Investing"
It's a painful situation. There will be pain, suffering and A LOT OF economic loss. Somebody will have to pay for that loss. Guess who? The people! There's literally noone else to do it... how to distribute the burden? "fairly" (each person has a different idea what that means) ... at least people who afford air travel probably have a bit of money they can lose without suffering too much.
Considering the politics of the third party candidates, you can hardly say they disliked Clinton more than Trump.

The popular vote is highly relevant, because it shows Clinton was more popular than Trump, revealing much of the criticism about her as BS. There was no objective basis to think Clinton would have been a remotely as bad president as Trump. At best you can call that wishful thinking.

And there have also been polls that Third-Party voters do regret their choice by a significant margin.

Coupled with the unilateral voter depression and to a large part even suppression, all of these factors where necessary for Trump to eek out a narrow win. Just a bit more voter participation here or a bit less third-party-voting there, and Trump couldn't have won.
Just buy a cheap link cable online and cut the end off
This seems like a huge PR risk just to have people tell you that times are tough out there, if you aren't retaining the individual data points.
Slack Technologies, Inc. Prices Upsized Offering of $750M
Not necessarily; it's possible for the certs to be copy protected.
I can’t speak for the rest of the companies, but GE is a pitiful shell of its former self and I am not sure that they could do anything well.

I caught a small glimpse of GE fading away when I worked there.
I've worked with a number of education non-profits in America.

What's interesting is quite a few of them will target girls specifically; despite the fact that by most measures girls outperform boys at all levels of education in America.
vary helpful. Thank you!
I believe the only difference would be whether income is taxable or not. If there is no intended income for this fund -- that is, it's completely prefunded by the founder -- then there's no advantage to jump through the hoops that are necessary to get 403b status. That status is not freely handed out to everyone who walks up and claims their a non-profit. There's quite a bit of work that goes into it.
resubmit all good but (2010)