skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's not one-sided. There is an incentive on both sides to come to a reasonable agreement.

I believe that there was no agreement to be made. O'Connor put the domain up for auction, so MS was bidding against other buyers, not O'Connor.

> But the fact is, if Microsoft walks away from the negotiations, he gets nothing

I expect that the domain still would have sold, although not for price that MS now has paid.

Regardless of who O'Connor would have sold to it would have been a nice payday and he knew that. It was just a matter of waiting for the right moment to put the domain up for auction.
They are colors traditionally used in Japanese art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_colors_of_Japan
Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus
What Silicon Valley doesn't understand about inequality
Same with govt agencies.

They will whitelist super old known insecure java versions / windows versions etc that can NEVER change. I remember having to downgrade to windows 7 to access one VPN setup (yes - to get through the security firewalls you had to downgrade the entire stack to something the "security" firewall handled). I think this all was in part because they don't patch / update, so some stuff (flash / activeX etc) just doesn't work well on a modern machine

Ironically, they also would let their key domains expire but thankfully folks just would call a helpdesk and get an IP address to use (but these domain endpoints were 100% being hit by downgraded / unpatched machines so if someone had purchased the domain it would have been bad news).

For some places that were not inside an agency we had had to keep the "secure" machine separate from the actual network because it was the most vulnerable.

Thankfully, the help desk was so overwhelmed with calls about this horribly fragile system that they would reset anyone's password over the phone, so user lockouts were easy to handle, call up, ask that so and so's password be reset to XXXX and done (virtually no authentication other than knowing what number to dial). This was critical because the passwords had to be changed every 30 days and were insanely complex - we had lockouts even though folks thought they'd written them down properly right next to the machine (cap / lower / number / letter confusion issues?).

Meanwhile, my google account has proper two factor authentication, can be accessed from most any modern device, rate limits and screens login attempts in a smart way, and I haven't had to change my password in 15 years (so I could pick a hard one I don't use elsewhere).

Fun times!
Credit Union Forms: National Credit Union Youth Month Benefits for Member Growth
I think you’ll appreciate ColorHunt, a wonderful 4-tone palette library (no relationship to the site, just a happy user).

https://colorhunt.co/
Simulations show extreme opinions can lead to polarized groups
http://randomlyunique.com/category/plancky.html

It's a web comic series exploring physics and math in a non-introductory format.
Firefox 75 arrives with revamped address bar, Mozilla sticks to 2020 schedule
yes, itch.io handles the donations
Smart Toilet Will Know You by the Shape of Your Asshole
https://leerob.io/blog

I write about web development, tech careers, and a bit about my personal life. Lots of JavaScript, React, Next.js, and UI/UX related topics.

Fun tech facts on my site. It's a hybrid Next.js app implementing the JAMstack. Static pages are served from the cache and APIs add additional functionality after the page has loaded (view counts, newsletter subscription). The best example of this is my "personal dashboard". It uses Next.js API routes to fetch data from a variety of sources (Google Analytics, Unsplash, GitHub, etc) while still serving a static shell -> https://leerob.io/dashboard
It’s still a ways to go for non technical users. We tried Jitsi to mixed success. Some people had it work flawless the first time, others had to switch browsers, still others couldn’t use it at all, probably because of some privacy or cookie blocking extension.

Open source software needs to be as easy to use and configure as the alternative if they really hope to gain wise adoption.
So, I run uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and with this combo, I got no redirect.
Sadly many schools etc probs won't use this since most schools lack proper it-staff.
The Economist is my favorite reading material when flying, which I don't do enough to sustain a subscription.

I wish they (and others!) would release an essentials podcast w/ a reasonable subscription -- a succinct (1-2h?) presentation capturing the important articles' facts, theses, and arguments.
Title Junk
Nice. It reminds me of how compilers generate the optimal sequence of ADD+MUL for a division by a constant; in that case, the algorithm is simpler and has been synthesized in closed form, so the compiler can simply implement the logic (it doesn't need to "bruteforce" its way to it).

This is for instance Go's implementation which is readable and well documented:

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
I find that if random people on the internet like to use what I'm working on, that's the most motivating thing. Think of it like fishing for startups. If you get a lot of nibbles on a particular idea that you test out, best to keep going if it's working, provided that's it's the best idea you have. If random strangers are happy to get on the phone with you to ask you questions about whether they can use your product because they want to learn more and have a problem, that's a good sign too.
So, I run uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and with this combo, I got none of that popup stuff.
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Filecoin Is a Security: The Conclusion from Analysis of Telegram Injuncti
The article is entirely about papers coming out and company press releases, not about hospitals actually using these tools. As someone in the AI community (who rolls their eyes every time it's called "AI"), I've been frustrated at all the "I trained a covid model with 98% accuracy" self-back-patting.

Here's a perfect example: https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/fni5ow/d_w...

Now, there's real work happening in the space, but I have yet to see much evidence it's being used in the real world, and when an article about its deployment only talks about its deployment via '“I wouldn’t use this as a primary screening tool, but I would use it for opportunistic screening,” such as flagging suspicious CTs or X-rays on patients who received imaging for unrelated medical reasons, says Lungren,' or talks about actual real live deployment today via
'it's totally being used some places in Korea and Brazil (according to this company's press release on their website),' I'm skeptical about the value it's adding.

There's serious work happening, but it doesn't seem to be useful to the real world (yet?), and this headline is 99.9% bullshit.
The “Oddball” mode in Halo references the “Kill the guy with the ball” mode in Marathon 2, one of Bungie’s earlier games.

> Objective is to possess the ball (which is actually a skull) for the longest amount of time.

http://marathon.bungie.org/story/manuals/Marathon-2-Manual.p...

(page 18)
Mine's here: http://www.fmjlang.co.uk/blog/Blog.html

It isn't updated very often. It covers a variety of topics: programming, philosophy, the Voynich manuscript, lepidoptera, Kalman filtering.
Are you proposing that the majority of users had their IT department remotely install the zoom application? I'd imagine there's a significant amount of people who downloaded the application from their website.

Additionally calendar invites often have a link to the zoom site, which then launches the app. So someone who is connecting via the app would still hit the website.
It depends. At work we decided to not support IE11 for a product and all the users understand that they need to use something else than IE. So the breakdown is pretty much 0% for IE.

It's another story if you are selling, but if the users must use your application, they will click on the other blue e icon.
Never mind the author's credentials, there isn't even any citation for the statements of fact, particularly the premise of the essay, that the mechanism causing death has been misidentified.

> [The evidence is] not only piling up but now leading to a general field-level consensus backed up by a few previously little-known studies that we’ve had it all wrong the whole time.

Pardon my French, but name the studies or GTFO.
To answer your question: My site still works in IE8, but with minimal CSS. It works in IE7 and IE6 with, albeit without CSS (except for my online resume), so it gracefully degrades. I have been phasing out IE8 support through the 2010s; in 2012 I went to a lot of effort to make everything look nice in IE8 but phased out that work as I updated the site.

It’s also perfectly readable in browsers without CSS and Javascript, including Lynx. Dillo and Netsurf both have CSS implementations so broken, some versions of those browsers have rendering issues unless they disable CSS.

It is possible to make a website which renders in Lynx, which is perfectly readable in IE6, which can be read in a browser without CSS or Javascript.
Can't forget taste.
Continuous delivery pioneer CircleCI scores $100M Series E
Does anyone know how they are scaling so gracefully?
That's pretty much exactly the broken window fallacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
> I have a hard time seeing how this (college being a great time in your life) is disheartening. For many, it's a time that a combination of

That you're mentally setting yourself up for be stunted for the rest of your Life is inevitable if you reach your apex by 22 and is incredibly sad; personally speaking, despite that phase of my Life I really didn't know how much more joy I would get out of Life until I turned 26 and saw how my skill set enabled way more opportunities as I got to travel, work and collaborate with People outside my discipline.

Learning the 'Game of Life' via the University lens is what makes the 'academic' trope so astonishingly laughable: making 'safe spaces' a norm has to be the most infantile notion I've ever heard of. What part of Life, outside the perversions of a FAANG like corp where you're pretty much vetted for social regression/immaturity, accommodates that?

And as we saw with all the cancel culture and mob violence mentality that has been created (mainly on University campuses): it is cancerous. If you cannot see a problem with this, then I think you are the Problem.

I'm so glad I got out as that phase of campus life was starting to became the norm.
I started a YouTube channel for making “theory” classes in CS easy as possible
I am a professor of computer science. Since I left my home university (ASU), my public page has disappeared, and so the PDFs of all my homeworks, labs, recitations, tests, etc. are all gone. I do have them all saved on my computer, thankfully.

I have created a new Youtube channel, Easy Theory (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3VY6RTXegnoSD_q446oBdg), to help students with the "undergraduate theory" class, to understand concepts from that class in the easiest way possible.

I would appreciate if you subscribe, and even if you don't, I hope you and others will benefit from this effort to help students in CS Theory who cannot benefit from my course materials any more.
Quibi Launched at the Wrong Time
Bit of an odd place to ask .. surely most of American history has politically charged ambiguity to it? The least controversial bits are the two world wars and the War of Independence itself. Everything beyond that is up for grabs, in the colonialism vs. post-colonialism struggle.

The civil war is the main contended issue, right up to the present day. To a much greater extent than it is in the UK outside of the few areas of sectarian Catholic/Protestant fighting (mostly Northern Ireland, Glasgow). Even there the central figure is more likely to be William of Orange (a few decades later) than Cromwell.
Pentagon launches fellowship for STEM grads to help Congress, DoD on tech policy
Does diabetes even exist? At some point these labels are more a matter of semantics than clear binary clinical determinations. For example, the current guideline is to diagnose a patient as diabetic if their uncontrolled hemoglobin A1c is over 6.5%. But the reality is that it's a spectrum with no clear dividing lines, significant fluctuations from day to day, individual genetic variations, etc.

Likewise depression is just a convenient label for a bundle of loosely correlated symptoms. Some patients are clearly having a rough time and need treatment. Because it's impractical to deal with subtle differences between patients at scale, psychiatrists have defined some subjective criteria to decide who should be treated as depressed.

https://www.medscape.com/answers/286759-14692/what-are-the-d...
I have an original NES, and an original NES controller that still work. Also, the zapper gun works, but I have not CRT to use it on.
That's the oldest tool in the Java dev toolbox... but it only shows heap usage and metaspace. Also, after Java 9+ they seem to have retired jvisualvm and the tool to use now is https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/jmc/Main
SEEKING FREELANCER | Singapore | Remote

Turn wireframes for 4 pages in web and mobile form (8 .ai files) into a responsive static site. You will not need to host or deploy the site.

Please quote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wUSuOzWWvHmv7GiffyXYeU5IEHT...
How does fake treatment work in a clinical therapy test setting?

I'd think I'd either figure out that the person giving me therapy was talking nonsense pretty quickly, or their 'placebo' therapy is indistinguishable from actual therapy, in which case am I still a control?
35M Americans could lose health insurance due to layoffs from coronavirus
See there is a double edged sword here because outstanding recipes are thesis papers explaining the motivation, concepts, prior art and research, history, experiments, methodology, equipment, and then finally, optionally even, the reipce. They should be long and verbose. You should learn something by reading a recipe.

The problem of course is that search crawlers can't tell the difference between between the two and so long but empty content is treated the same.
Is the stock market going to crash?
Why isn’t it both? There are earthy cultures around the world that don’t have a concept of ownership or the strict boundaries of western life, living in different places and cultures is easier for some and you can easily make the critical case against the western world, ill or not.

The trouble with a social intervention like therapy is the fundamental attribution error in sociology. Which character is the problem and which is the solution played out in a battle of the minds in an enclosed space. The government employed brainwashing therapist seeking to downplay any eccentricity that destabilises a social norm, or the poorly functioning client who blames others for their problems.

Therapists have a habit of dumping the responsibility for generally unsolved philosophical questions about social interaction onto the client. Where is the line between internal and external social stimuli? Who do you attribute your problems to? What is the value in a diagnosis label? Answer these questions for yourself and you’ll cure many different ailments. Fail to find the answer and remain pathologized?

Therapists routinely underserve the amount of education and philosophy required to heal. The diagnostic categories are a descriptive mess that are used as tools, yet people use them as definitions far too often.

I recommend anyone interested in therapy and ideas to see Jordan peterson’s YouTube video Self-Deception in Psychopathology (from before his fame) where he gives a quick rundown of a view above the current running mill of therapy. It tackles briefly some philosophical problems with therapy.
Given enough money, this isn't terribly difficult to accomplish with most cloud service providers. All of the major players offer automatic scaling based on load and multiple region support. There are still some gotchas at scale, but it is much easier to build out scalable infrastructure these days.
> That's only http traffic to the website ...

I suspect a good portion of that 700MM was simply people searching for Zoom to find out what is was, after hearing about it from others or in the news.

> Worldwide, I suspect around a couple billion people have recently used Zoom.

I recall seeing the number 200MM mentioned and I think that came from Zoom themselves (a blog post or something, maybe?) but don't hold me to that.
To be fair if I was Microsoft I’d probably just do a Windows update that adds 127.0.0.1 corp.com to wherever they keep the hosts file on windows :-)
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The links between Zoom and the Ministry of State Security (Chinese CIA) and the PLA are pretty profound. See this post I put together here: https://blog.12security.com/zoom-and-some-china-stuff/

In particular the company Bizconf, a Zoom sister company, is led by an executive from the Harbin Institute of Technology. Probably the most prestigious university in China (not well known here though) and the only one to be funded by both the MSS and PLA.

Interestingly, their apps load with a quick screenshot of a Mao quote..."the world will be ours".
The greater panic creates bigger revenue this time.
Some other treatments appear to be effective, at least in reducing symptoms, for some patients some of the time.
It’s a feasibility study. As the paper says, since the results are so promising, they are following up with a more statistically rigorous (I.e. expensive) study. I think it’s great to communicate ongoing developments and promising research tracks to other scientists. That’s completely different from sensationalized media reports, which is the real problem here.
Well, the URL I wanted wasn't available and I'm just as hopeful that I'm not being stung as I am that I'm interesting.
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Hey, thanks a lot for this really valuable advice

Because of my personal needs, I am using this small program that I start when I start working. I asks me some basic questions like did I meditate, did I exercise, etc and show a list of long term goals. It runs for 8 hours (if I don't stop it with ctrl+c). It logs all that info in a json file by date for me to see in future. As long as it is running I am less likely to deviate from work. It would also tell me to drink water every hour. Wonder if there are other people out there who try to be strict with their days this way?

But, I don't really prioritise my work as you have suggested (tricky things in the morning, mundane things for later), I would definitely start doing that.
Fun fact 2 - aoi and midori are not exactly blue and green.

Fun fact 3 - google for Russian blue color
> And the only effective treatment is time

...? Depression does not improve on its own, at all. It has to be actively managed.
Aesthetically, two-column proofs are miserable, but they have the advantage that the logic is very clearly laid out. There's no chance to hand-wave when every step of the proof needs to be explicitly justified.
Until they can't find vendors who will do the thing, I suppose. If every vendor says, I can't do that, they've got a problem.
> Why would you add code and become pigeonholed into one framework when you could archive the same using vanilla CSS?

It's open source and can be forked and modded to your heart's content. How is that being pigeonholed?

Most developers don't work at companies where they roll their own UI components, and have QA and accessibility experts that can determine if their in-house accordions, modals, etc. are ARIA compliant.

The business case for switching over has to go beyond "it's vanilla CSS", especially if time can be better spent improving the user experience or product features.
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You didn't specify where your software is running. I'm building software that my users install and run on their own hardware.

I send errors to Sentry.io when the error contains a novel stacktrace for the user and the user hasn't disabled error reporting. I also send recent log messages and some other info, like the OS and hardware architecture (so I can reproduce it on my end). [1]

PhotoStructure uses a SHA of the stacktrace to discriminate between different errors. This certainly can group different problems together, but in practice those problems are related.

Only sending novel stacktraces prevents a user from clogging up my Sentry dashboard, and from wasting my users' bandwidth. PhotoStructure imports huge libraries, and before I added this squelching, I could have a single user send tens of thousands of reports (when the "error" turned out to be an ignorable warning due to the camera they were using writing metadata that was malformed but still parseable).

If you're building a SaaS, and you own the hardware you're software is running on, just send all errors to Sentry.

Sentry does a good job in helping me triage new errors, marking when errors crop back up, and highlighting which build seems to have introduced a novel error.

Keep in mind that the stacktrace may not be relevant if that section of code or the upstream code is modified. I use automatic upgrading on all platforms to keep things consistent.

[1] https://photostructure.com/faq/error-reports/
I'm not a fan of having the source (a.k.a. the domain) in the title, but I realize that people feel it's important for SEO purposes.
Hi staflow,

Our goal is certainly not to list overpriced SaaS if there is a FOSS equivalent that is just as good if not better. So if you have any specific examples you saw please let us know here and I will make those updates ASAP!

The use case for this is targetted towards people that don't even know what to google to get started. Us tech people have the amazing luxury of being around these products on a day-to-day basis and being able to at least be informed on what the SaaS landscape that's available to them looks like, but if you are moving remote for the first time, you don't know what you don't know, and you might not even be able to kick-off that initial google search.

That is who we hope to be able to help, at least kick off the process of understanding what types of tools are available to them to make that remote experience a little be better.

Cody
In motorsport wiring they use crimped connections instead, due to it's mechanical strength compared to solder. It withstands the vibrations and movement better. You can get really small crimps so you should be able to find some that fit. If it's soldered to the PCB I haven't got much advice sorry. One option might be to mechanically support the wires near the solder, maybe hot glue the battery or wires in place so they can't pull on the solder.
May I please have localized left to right reading?
Homeworld really felt like an amazing achievement when it was released. A true 3D RTS, with amazing atmosphere and storytelling.

Years later I still pull up the cutscenes on Youtube from time to time.
Is it really so obvious that small N is statistically insignificant? Stat sig is a method to empirically improve knowledge. Well, if it's intuitive that you need high N to get empirical knowledge, let's try an intuitive example.

Say you're a tribal chieftain. One of your men (one among thousands) finds a berry bush. Another eats a berry from the bush. He promptly dies. You're a scientific tribe, though, and you know N must be high before you conclude the berries are poisonous. So, one of the other guys eats another berry. He, too, dies immediately. The process repeats until it's you considering the bush. How does the situation change if the number of people before you was 19 vs 21?