skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Can I get my Twitter handle back?
For a few years I was very active on twitter. It's a fantastic resource and I had made so many connections.

I also suffer from crippling anxiety. It has stiffled my educational and professional programming career.

At the end of 2017 I had a severe anxiety attack and I closed my account (amoung other things).

Over the years I stalked twitter-search for my industry news fix.

Eventually I got my anxiety under control and registered for a new handle, to get back to my connections, but it was taken. It has been taken for over a year and is inactive.

Twitter's own policy states:

To keep your account active, be sure to log in and Tweet at least every 6 months. Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.[1]

I made another handle on a different email address but i feel like a fraud using another handle like that. It feels off since all my other accounts and my website use the old handle.

One ray of hope is that twitter was said to wipe inactive accounts [2] but I don't know when this will happen.

Should I reach out to this inactive account and ask for it if they are no longer using it?

[1] - https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/inactive-twitter-accounts
[2] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/27/20986084/twitter-inactive-accounts-usernames-memorialize-deceased-users-not-removing
Why would it matter? The bytes aren't inline, this is just a struct with two word-sized fields.

A possible tiny advantage for this layout is that a pointer to this struct can be used as a pointer to a pointer-to-bytes, without having to adjust it. Although i'm not sure that's not undefined behaviour.
I don't follow. That's quite obviously not a proper fix.
I taught myself C from just reading code and trying to contribute to a few projects right out of high school, no books, no school.

So I don't think C has a very high learning curve, C++ on the other hand...
Good work. Scrolling was tricky in mobile.
Oh great, another study. Thinking for 2 minutes... The same applies to non-refugee people living in poverty. This study shows absolutely nothing new (not already known). And does not state a few things that would make it appear foolish.

1. The impoverished are usually the ones who end up as refugees in the first place.
2. Poverty is highly generational.
3. The impoverished are generally lower IQ/cognitive/resourceful/creative/motivated/entrepreneurial (genetically pre-dispositioning wise)
4. Impoverished aren't exposed to the things that successful people were as children. Not just educational and culturally, but also habitually. Learning good skills and habits such as being organized, working smarter, not harder, finding solutions to propel ones self upward economically ETC. People pass these things down to their children.
5. Other naturally born "privileges" such as being taller, stronger, more attractive are genetic and contribute to being impoverished, leading to being a refugee.

There, save the study...
Hard work is the price of the lottery ticket. You still have to win to get the jackpot.
How to get a Letsencrypt TLS certificate without exposing your server?
Likely if you make intelligent investments you don't need to market yourself :p
Seed companies can't keep up as more Americans turn to growing their own food
I'm curious as to how good the bandwidth estimation is. That's something that can certainly be improved from TCP, but it's also something that has a lot of corner cases and is not usually done super well in UDP protocols (e.g. WebRTC)
The way I see it, in the right city somebody with our skillset can step outside and trip over an offer with a very comfortable salary. In that context, I don't think there's much excuse for going out and choosing to make the world a worse place, even if you'd get paid 2x that very comfortable salary.
The in depth pros and cons are one of the most valuable bits of knowledge I find on HN. Everyone including Chief Databaseologist Andy Pavlo recommends starting with Clickhouse for you OLAP needs
(in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPMc7FZ3Gqo&list=PLSE8ODhjZX...).

When this is the case, Druid needs strong arguments to secure mindshare in the future. It is crazy to write a comparison of Druid and sth else these days and not mention Clickhouse at all.
You can buy extra build minutes. The missing 7k minutes would cost $56, which means teams with 12 or more devs who are using the full 10k minutes will be better off. Smaller teams using more than 10k will be worse off.

It’s probably great news for the vast majority of teams.
SAML is a technology problem, on top of all other problems.

The messages are under specified and overcomplicated, doing incredibly obscure stuff (XML signing and canonization for one) that nobody can understand and implement. That's mainly why it's so hard to use and there is so little support from libraries.

As security researcher, we could nitpick all days on security being hard, no matter the solution. It is factually true but it doesn't help developers, fact is, developers would be better off ignoring SAML and going with OIDC instead.
I love Pulumi. It's a joy to use a proper programming language to manage infra.

I wish more tools would adapt this. I find it mind boggling that it is very hard to use ansible modules in a Python program for example. That would make things much easier to compose.
Yes, I know that this is the most disruptive out of the three.
The implicit parameter more so than the va_ptr() intrinsic (in my opinion), but I understand that changes like these are not very well motivated (except for a slightly nicer developer experience).
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What on earth are you talking about? Do you know what is meant by"equity"? Are you following the context of this article? It seems like you're just spouting random phrases without a clue what we're discussing.
> if you want a dialect of C with arrays that know their length, you can use C++

C++ doesn't have arrays which know their length.
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is there a good postmortem/source somewhere for this "rewrite everything guy"? i understand its a little personal. but i'd love to learn from things like this, without blame.
I will point out that here in Michigan we are prohibited from buying seeds as well as gardening supplies by order of the governor. Any other state have that same prohibition?
Did support improve recently? On Mojave with a MacBook trackpad, it's super janky.
Normally we'd change the title to be less confusing, but in this case it's a bit tricky, for reasons I've explained here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Then again low cognitive function leads to poverty.

Do they try to disambiguate that at all?
Understandably so. I'm working remote for 7 years now, and before also for over 10 years. I'm at least 10x more productive. No interruptions is the biggest cause. And only asynchron communication, in written form.

Also I do much longer hours, because it's much more fun, and I can take a siesta nap when I need it. I'm an extrovert btw.
I've read that more than half of government/regime changes that happened in the 20th century were the result of some kind of coup. In other words, conspiracy is the norm.
Since the headline is somewhat click-baity, the answer to "here's what it tells us":

Caterpillars, dragonflies, certain ants and other animals provide a way to investigate the potential disadvantages of long-lasting symbiotic relationships with live-in microbes; such disadvantages tend to be difficult to measure and test.

A microbiome might theoretically enable the caterpillars to manufacture additional important nutrients or go after more nutrient-dense vegetation, but the insects can make up for quality with quantity.
One could interpret that pissing at ones employers leg expecting no repercussions shows a certain detachment from real life that comes across as obnoxiously arrogant.
I've looked at Cognito in depth, and it seems like an abandoned service. Hundreds of open issues that got rolled into the Amplify issue tracker, with little to no response. It lacks some pretty basic SAML capabilities, like IdP-initiated logins. If your customers want to put you as an icon in their Okta dashboard or whatever, can't do it. They reported that as being "on their roadmap" in 2017.

It does work for the basic use cases, so I would still consider that an better option than rolling your own for the average service provider.
(disclaimer: also a WG14 member)

1. I want this too.

2. Here is my proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2366.pdf

3. Yes, variadic functions should be improved.
+1 for the first point. Every major compiler can do the lambda-lifting transformation, either because of C++ lambda or OpenMP support. It's frustrating doing this manually while knowing the compiler supports it internally, but does not expose it natively.
I don't think the book covers strict aliasing, at least not in detail.
From someone that is not an ML/AI evangelist, how is this great work? None of the images I've seen remotely look good. I have yet to see something that a real life painter not suffering from a stroke would be willing to have released.
"Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project" --- seems like a pretty accurate summary to me
IMHO, most people ITT who are against the apps are American and have a different mindset when it comes to balancing individual liberties and communal wellbeing. Even the CCC has never said that such apps are bad per se, if done right.

We don't have to wait 6 months. Those apps are easy to develop, there are several candidates already and others are being developed by the authorities themselves.
That’s different than what your article claimed. It said it was all luck.

I have no trouble believing that there is someone theoretically more talented than Warren Buffett who a less lucky life. I have great difficulty believing Buffett is untalented.
Maybe we should rethink this idea of billionaire presidents.

The proposition is that their immense wealth makes them immune to pressure and corruption.

To the contrary, they have much, much more to lose than any normal citizen.

What would President Bloomberg, or any other billionaire president, sell us out for to protect their pile and its increase?
> That does not rise to the level of a MITM.

You're not gaining any ground by claiming the existence of "levels" of MITM. A MITM vulnerability is failing to validate who you're communicating with. The Steam App did this. Thus Steam is vulnerable to a MITM attack.

> In that scenario the store would never believe it is talking with one of its user's because the traffic was relayed to an alternate location. Therefore its an impersonation and not a MITM.

I don't understand what this means? The Store (store.steampowered.com) believes that the user is anyone who can produce the user's credentials. The App represents the user by holding the user's credentials. The App tries to connect to The Store and believes that the world is thus: The App -> The Store. But The App fails to validate this and can be tricked into the world where: The App -> Attacker -> The Store (this is the MITM). The Store never has any more information than 'Someone with The User's credentials is connecting': Someone (with User's credentials) -> The Store. The Store's picture of the world is identical in both cases, it cannot distinguish a true user from an attacker if both have the user's credentials. This doesn't have anything to do with The Store and everything to do with The App.
Yeah they made an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour based on that scam. So it's a golden oldie.
They’re refunding pro-rata.
> If you're doing that, you're not using extended-nonce ChaCha

This is not the case at all.
Take a look at any of Greg Kroah-Hartman's comments on patches that screw up ZFS.

One of the biggest ones was removing exports of kernel functions that ZFS used for encrypted datasets: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154689892914091

I'm fine with this sort of stuff in general assuming it doesn't affect LTS, but this specific patch was backported to LTS kernels even though it has nothing to do with security or bugfixes. I had several zpools I had to apply custom kernel patches on the machines for no other reason than because somebody is mad at licensing.

Bcachefs isn't even stable enough to use in production. Btrfs is okay, and I've used it before, but it's also a minefield of killing your data depending on what features you use. If you use all the features you need to make it on par with ZFS you may as well dump your data in the trash.

ZFS 'just works' and none of the features are incomplete or have asterisks attached that compromise data integrity. Yeah it has architectural problems, doesn't do stuff the Linux way, and has a license that makes devs angry. It's also never lost a byte for me in production for almost a decade of use.

I know the Linux devs don't owe me anything and I'm not really angry or anything about this. It's just a fact that it's frustrating to have to deal with political problems just to run a server.
appreciate you giving your side of the story. thanks.
Privacy during a time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Reading through the paper in (3) above. If I understand the text on page 26 correctly, you predict that quantum computers will not be more efficient than classical computers:

"The class of problems that can be solved efficiently by quantum computers should be identical to the class of problems that can be solved efficiently by classical computers: More precisely, we predict in this appropriately coarse-grained case that P=BQP, where P and BQP denote the complexity classes of polynomial time and bounded error quantum polynomial time, respectively."

And:

"In other words, in order to maintain a causal invariant representation, the observer must perform a sufficient level of coarse-graining to ensure that any apparent advantage obtained through the use of a quantum computer over a classical one is effectively lost."

Am I missing something fundamental (most probably)? Are you predicting that quantum computers will not be able to, for example, factor RSA keys much faster than todays non-quantum machines?
Linux also has the unusual extension of: if sun_path[0] is NUL, the path is not a filesystem path and the rest of the name buffer is an ID. I don't remember if that can have embedded NULs in that ID. I believe so.
The power imbalance makes it easy for Amazon to act like this. Even if they get sued and lose, they have billions. It's like when Google got fined by the EU, and it was just a day's profit. Amazon is a shredder; so large that it just wipes out swaths of businesses, leaving broken employees in its wake.
What on earth are all those empty office spaces going to be used for if they are vastly underutilized?
I think Henry Baker argued otherwise saying that at the circuit level a stack processor can be designed to operate faster (like shorter path, less clock cycles) compared to register ones.
Coronavirus: Suspected phone mast attacks over Easter
Looks like a really great resource. How snappy is the build process? I like markdown because it's lightweight (of course this isn't always possible for professional typesetting)
Probably not very smart to use this feature, since your so-called "private" repository is an exploit or a leaking employee away from becoming public.

Instead, use a self-hosted Gitlab instance or similar, preferably with an external firewall preventing outbound and non-team inbound connections if feasible.
Switched from nixops to pulumi, found it much easier to use.
ahaha "muh freedom!"
As an ios dev too, do you have any favorite actions you can recommend?
My current problem is that I write Javascript/TypeScript at work and have come to absolutely loathe every aspect of it because I've been working with much, much better languages at home for hobby projects (Elm, PureScript, stuff like that).

While I have not really lost the love for programming, I've discovered the sheer amount of work one has to do in JS/TS for the smallest payoff. Sure, the languages I'm using for fun might require a lot of study before they can be used effectively (PureScript especially, since it's practically Haskell), the productivity gained is phenomenal.

At work now, I feel like I've got the pedal to the metal but the wheels are spinning the the movement forward is measured in inches per hour, or sometimes per day.

But that's just what every frontend dev job is going to be. There are a few here and there using something better than JS/TS, but not in my area, and they are so few and far between that I probably cannot compete with their other candidates (who, for example, likely have a degree while I do not). So instead of burning out on programming, I've burnt out on the stagnation of the whole market. I'm certainly not the first and of course I will not be the last, but it's really killed my motivation to go further in my career despite still enjoying what I actually do.

I don't want to be a manager, I don't want to run a business, I want to be a programmer.
> In the code above, is there any sense in which INT_MIN is the "right" answer for any typical problem domain?

There is no answer different that INT_MIN that would be right and make sense, i.e. the natural properties of the + operator (associativity, commutativity) are respected. Thus, by want of another possibility, INT_MIN is precisely the right answer to your code.

I read your code and it seems to me very clear that INT_MIN is exactly what the programmer intended.
I saw him live on that tour as well. Like the NYT article's author, before the show I wondered if I would be leaving the venue regretting the decision. I did not.

He and his band absolutely killed it. They're incredibly talented, and have a crazy energy. It was one of the best concerts I had ever seen, in no small part due to the fact that it seemed like they wanted to perform, and were happy to be there.

The world needs more Weird Als.
Because there isn't enough raw material (e.g. reagents), and even if we did have them and the planets supply chain is messed up.

What makes you certain that it is possible to manufacture billions of tests?
I read about append only storage when I was studying log structured file systems. Is it somehow similar?
From my observations (total anecdata, I am aware), those pro-specific-party people also usually don't tend to participate in politics on more local levels at all (county, state, etc.), despite the fact that those are imo way more impactful and can lead to changes "trickling up" all the way to the national level. Most of the people I personally know who vote in county/state elections can be best described as independents.
I do not hate it despite its limitations
Biotech is a weird space for "tech" like ventures.

Generally actual tech startups don't have a lot of patience.

Biotech research as I understand it is naturally highly iterative and immediate payouts are rare.
What are the differences in the sensors?
How long are people expecting these companies to stay in business?

I think people are just buying in now while things are cheap and that's leading to a "recovery". Particularly given the longer the run the more risk averse cash you attract while prices are discounted. I bet there's another "crash" coming.

I'm not sure enough to short my money where my mouth is though, so to speak.
This is very cool. Thanks for posting.

How does this set of tools compare to something like Prince XML? I have put together several user manuals with it, and I've personally found it very easy to use.
Thanks! I would like to know if there are any projects working on this. I found this thread discussing how it could be done over SSB

https://github.com/ssbc/ssb-db/issues/202
Logical probability and the strength of mathematical conjectures (2016)
> Also, being fluent in a human language involves not only reading and writing, but also talking, which as you pointed out is a considerably more complex skill.

I would push back slightly on this. I don't consider the ability to have a conversation in french to be a greater achievement than reading (and understanding) a latin text.
Alpha Vantage API showed inaccurate results from time to time and their customer support is nonexistent.
Wrong, reasoning like yours has caused so much pervasiveness of poverty and other problems. You probably reason that abortion and birth control could help the US black population also. Unintended consequences of thinking like yours has done so much harm to society (especially by politicians/government) and could sadly have easily been avoided by simply seeking solutions from truly creative problem solvers with analytical minds.
I remember in high school, some of my peers participated in the 30 Hour Famine, to help get a better understanding of this.
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 protects employees rights, and Google had to settle with the NLRB on precisely this issue. There is one little difference, I am not a lawyer so I don't know if it is crucial for Amazon or not: in this case the fired employees were protesting other employees' working conditions, not their own.
It's already there. It's called C++ templates
I think with some common sense and understanding of the sport you can probably narrow down things quite a bit.
I have no stake in this at all and (I literally just learned what "Wolfram Derangement Syndrome" was by reading the comments that you linked to). It looks like you've said several times in the past that the people talking about Wolfram's self-obsession are practicing a "counterversion" of the same thing, but you've never explained why or how; to me, it seems obvious that being obsessed with another person who you don't personally know, like Wolfram, is the exact opposite of being obsessed with yourself.
It’s probably implemented in Mathematica, so probably not.
The only technical detail this article lists is that they use self-signed certificates to authenticate client. No details on how they do it across devices, handle revocations, etc.
1) You can be thrown into jail without any explanation whatsoever.

2) You can be shot without any explanation whatsoever.

3) Your possessions can be taken away, and sold off without any explanation and without recourse.

Links about each of these claims:

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/innocent-people-who-plead-gu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/09/11/how-cops... (also applies to, say, cars)
Have you looked at listennotes.com?

As many podcasts are mp3's under-the-hood you could potentially implement this using chapter markers linked to your own copy of a file.
Russian state hackers behind San Francisco airport hack
Apparently Vermont has a similar restriction.
What's the closed-source SAML library you're thinking of? Every SAML integration I've seen has been done with an open-source library.
MDM or endpoint tracking, and then it gets diverse.
Arrays are pointers. If they aren't pointers then you need to copy the data when you are giving an array as a function parameter. that's a lot slower. Being able to prepare an set of data in an array and then giving a pointer to a function is very useful. You could add a second type of array on top of what you have in C that includes more stuff, but if that's what you want you can implement that yourself with a struct.