skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I've never seen that anyone has been able to document this claim.

Are you aware that the French ministry of environment justifies closing Fessenheim because nuclear emits too much greenhouse gases ?

And that some heads of EELV, the "green" french party, don't know what a life-cycle analysis is (or purposedly pretends not to know ) and asks for closing nuclear plants to be in line with the Paris 2015 climate deal ?

This helps figure out how rational the current moves against nuclear are.
Yea, gonna call BS on that. P2P is significantly easier to architect than an SFU/MCU.
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Corona Labs is shutting down in a couple of weeks. While they're releasing everything under a permissive license (MIT) and turning it into an open source project, the future is very uncertain.
We also should not propagate the caricature of the developer. You know, the all I need is gallons of coffee and I’m off grokking code all day in a hoodie. I’m off to my Kubernetes meetup! Whoops, just dropped my giant math is fun textbook.
It's a choice from the author. I understand that some might not like it but they can just skip it too. Same as with a technology you don't care about or an article riddled with buzz words.

Anyone asking themselves this, do you expect the answer from the author to be something different than 'because I wanted to'?
Agreed. I thought Alpine was superb until I ran into an issue mounting NFS shares that seem to be mountable just fine on every other Linux machine I've got lying around. No idea what's wrong with Alpine's NFS.
Romysa talks about her love for her craft and more
Those are probably the only reason Python still exists.
Interesting site, added a new header for volunteer and put a link.
Condolences on your loss.
Might be cheaper for you to open a EUR account somewhere with low fees and do 2x transferwise than paying $35 per transfer
Amazon VPC: The Picasso of Software Defined Networking
I find TW amazing but it doesn't ship debit card to my country (due to my over complex government's legislation). Does anyone knows a bank (can be a fintech) that allows me to open an account all online?
I get it. I think I had the misconception that you could branch in FHE, but as I think about it this would by its nature reveal quite a lot of information about the plaintext.

Would it perhaps be possible to create a weaker form of homomorphic encryption that could branch? It would not be strong enough for the most serious security use cases (authentication, financial, etc.) but would perhaps be usable for cases where you just want to protect data confidentiality e.g. processing PII. The processor could probably infer the structure of the running program but not necessarily its data if appropriate constant-time comparisons and other constructions were used.
This is a completely legitimate comment (which was 'dead' when I saw it). PGO really is less powerful than JIT.

A compiled language with a "micro-JIT" (e.g. for v-tables) seems like an interesting idea to me.
Don't share it.
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> And though you could probably get the cost down to where it was before, the cost of renewables and storage is dropping very rapidly. It seems likely that renewables will reach a price point that nuclear could never catch up to, way before the cost of nuclear will be reasonable again. And since renewables will be so cheap, most countries will want at least 50% of energy to be renewable. And that will make covering the remaining 50% with nuclear more expensive, since you'd need more advanced and expensive load balancing power plants to support the renewables.

Without nuclear, with what life-cycle kgCO2e/kWh result, and when ?
Ok, well, I'm not from France or India so I was only commenting about what I know.
>Also sloppy literary self indulgences: "And whether they were there or not, I choose to believe in the wolves"

I'm baffled by this statement. I really think you must be fundamentally failing to grasp the genre of this particular piece of writing. It's not a lonely planet guide.
Off topic for this conversation, but I agree with you on LibreOffice. The only reason I use it is because I want to use an open data format that’s more likely to exist for a longer time. I hate its ’90s style UI, the UX, the fonts, layout, menus, keyboard shortcuts that are very different from the more popular proprietary alternatives, etc. The worst of this is that it doesn’t have a working copy paste I can rely on. It seems to have its own clipboard that dislikes the OS clipboard. All these experiences make it impossible to sell it to someone who doesn’t care much about proprietary vs. open.

P.S.: I donate money periodically to The Document Foundation, the organization behind LibreOffice.
Why is it so hard to convince people to care about privacy? (2015)
Getting Started with MariaDB using Docker and Node.js
The Wisconsin election should have been nullified and rescheduled rather than attempting to change the rules at the 11th hour. Even allowing for late ballots would not have enfranchised those without a ballot.
Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies (2011)
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The problem is it's not the (gaming) companies abusing trust but the users abusing trust.

An iOS model could help but not because it limits the legit app makers but because it limits what users can easily do, like a gaming console.
Google: a search engine for the world wide web (www.google.com)
Oh! I hadn't seen the CC license. That's great.

I just saw the link on your edit! Going to give these two a try later today. Thanks
VSCode: Persistent Undo/Redo Stack
Nice and thanks for sharing your setup. The footer is very informative, but I use GitHub style markdown, need to check if there's some workaround. For epub customization, this article [0] might help. Good luck for your book.

Here's how I generate PDF with pandoc+xelatex [1] I use gvim as my editor and have mapped a key (which then executes a shell script) to generate the book.

[0] https://cmichel.io/how-to-create-beautiful-epub-programming-...

[1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c...
What If Jeff Bezos Tries to Acquire the Struggling U.S. Postal Service?
Since TFHE does the encryption at the binary level, it looks like it would need to also work on the float level to be useful for a lot of data science/machine learning use cases. I could be wrong though.
I actually left IBM to become an IBM subcontractor. I was treated better, paid better, and had better benefits.
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It would work in all 3 of them. A (huge) project like stalker does not fail because of engine choice, I would guess (the custom programming required for such a project is so enormous that any game engine peculiarities are dwarfed in comparison).
I tried using Luminus once and got super super super super super confused since I am new to Clojure development. I ended up learning the basics with Ring, Compojure, and Component.

I felt like learning these things separately vs. learning something like Luminus was way better to understand what was going on "under the hood". I bet if I went back to try Luminus now I would enjoy it but from my experience it was not very beginner friendly.
Oh no, it is #ff6600! I didn’t realize that I had customized my topbar color to a different orange.

hopefully the masses can figure it out and correct it.
I don't know much about the broader context, but to this part:

> If all you have is the URL, then the server sees the encryption key.

Not necessarily. It's possible to put the key after a "#" in the URL, which allows client-side code to use it without sending it to the server. This technique is used at ZeroBin, among other places. (Edit: This is actually done in the video in the OP as well.)
Well done. Thanks for sharing your process! Looking forward to the completed book.
the fact that 99(.99?)% of modern unix systems are linux systems makes it the rule, not the exception.
Définitive guide to run cron jobs in Docker containers and all pitfalls
It seems a bit overblown to suggest that iOS is hiding this, when it openly warns you what it's doing when you use those Control Center buttons (messages shown quoted below) and leaves the buttons highlighted in a non-disabled state (in contrast to the disabled state that Airplane Mode usually displays one centimeter above):

> Disconnecting Nearby Wi-Fi Until Tomorrow

> Disconnecting Bluetooth Devices Until Tomorrow

Apple made a point about how these new toggles meet their users' needs more effectively than the pure on/off toggles available in Settings > Wi-Fi / Bluetooth, and they've been right for all of my use cases since then.
A wave-powered ferry aims to forge a new path for shipping in the Philippines
Amazon to add 75,000 more jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
Owner here of a TM3 here.

To me the issue is that Tesla seems to be shooting for the moon, trying to do it all in one shot, rather than its on rails method that we have seen from other manufacturers. By on rails I mean only on very accurately mapped routes with no deviation.

I would not trust my car with my eyes closed, I do however trust it with supervision which still is a major relief from the stress of driving.

One issue that seems being dodged is, my current software and hardware allows the cars too represent stop signs, traffic lights, cones, and oddly trashcans. Guess what is missing, speed limit signs. The suspicion is that MobileEye holds the patent and either Tesla won't pay for it or MobileEye won't license it. So how you can have a self driving car that cannot recognize speed limit signs is not evident to me; road data is not complete.
Hey, this is Damon, initiator of Lonely Dev here! This community was born in the quarantine period of Covid-19. Lots of people are working from home. Previous IRL social interactions are gone temporarily. That makes me to build a community where you can share your day in a short video, also see each other, help each other just like a family. The community is still very small, but I hope you like it
Russia spans 11 timezones

USA spans 6 timezones (as many as the entire African continent)

China spans 5 timezones

Europe spans "only" 3 timezones (as many as Australia)

But if you say "it happened on French territory" it could be anywhere in the World

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Fr...
Hi HN!

I wanted to introduce a project a couple of friends and I have been working on for the past few months.

It exists because of a simple fact: freelancers spend roughly 7.5% of their time chasing payments, and another 7.5% doing work that they won’t be paid for.

I used to manually ‘broker’ deals between freelancers and clients, meaning I would introduce parties and make sure the project got done as planned. After some trial and error I found a process that seemed to work for me, and Freelancer Protocol is just a web app enabling anyone to use this process:

1. Projects are broken down into intermediary steps - we call them milestones. A milestone has a deliverable and a price, as well as a start and end date.
2. We charge the client when each milestone starts and pay the freelancer when it ends, given the deliverable is uploaded by the deadline.

I’ve found that it keeps most of what usually goes wrong with a freelancing project from happening - namely the freelancer getting paid late or not at all, or client having to commit too much too early on.

We charge 2% for this service (by default billed to the client but the freelancer has the option to cover costs).

We do ask for a quick on-boarding call with freelancer before letting them use the web app, as it enables us to get to know our users and understand their needs better.

We'll be happy to hear any feedback you may have about the landing page or the actual product, thanks for checking it out!
I love immutability it makes things ten times easier. This isn't really immutability? It looks like an infrastructure refresh on deploy. If you are refreshing something by definition it's probably not immutable. I guess the author means getting rid of the mutation of state.

I'm just waiting for the day they can make the database immutable. It'll probably look something like git.
but don't you think its a fair guess that someone who hobby is X might be better at X than someone whose hobby is Y.
Google vs. Amazon compared [comic/pic]
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> you could use your auth cookie to scrape them

Seems that Twint does all it's work unauthenticated so it may not be possible.

I suppose I could try using the API but I don't think I care that much.
I'm definitely a digital hoarder but not on the level of the people in the subreddit. It started when I was in grad school and a web site I wanted to reference went down before I was able to archive it and it wasn't in archive.org and youtube wasn't a thing. So I started downloading copies of anything I thought relevant to my research. I know I have some rare stuff that is gone from the internet. One of these days I'll get around to posting them on archive.org. Until them I practice 3-2-1 backup to make sure I don't lose anything.
A fair point. An example would be something like

take 10 (map (+1) [1..])
How AirPods generated $6 billion dollars and gained 50% market share in months
But how do you transfer between countries? The fees for wiring money or securities with brokers are higher than normal Bank transfers, at least where I live
As a professional programmer I spend almost all of my free time NOT programming, but I do spend it taking care of my family and social obligations instead. While I love what I do I would love it less if I did too much of it.
I saw the videos, they are helpful but I couldnt make my project work somehow.
That's a really decent example, because if you forget your house keys, you aren't forever denied access to your house / your house doesn't collapse into a shower of noise, never to be reconstituted.

If it did, you can pretty much guarantee people would either stop using house keys completely and just leave the key in the lock all the time or would come up with schemes to make it impossible to lose the key (such as locking the key in a tiny box, and then that box is secured with a key that doesn't cause the box to burst into flames if the second key goes missing).

In non-digital life, we make the tradeoff of less-than-perfect security for convenience, backed by the law (i.e. any competent locksmith can break into your house, and the things that keep them from doing it are (a) a general societal understanding that cracking open someone's front door without consent is a really dick move, and (b) if you do it, you're trespassing and can go to jail).
Things about software development that would surprise the coders of the past
Will take a look, tks
Even that is arguable. Competitive multiplayer games without competent anti-cheating measurements are unplayable in that the only winning move is not to play. Is there any value in being free to play what is unplayable? I suppose "something else" could include playing with yourself but then none of this even applies.
The Million-Dollar Scammer and His Many Mormon Marks
"ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL"
"AUTOMATION IS DEADLY"

... wait, what?
SCOTUS did not shut off extended absentee voting. They weren't even asked to comment on it. They were asked to comment on a decision by a federal judge that went above and beyond what the initial question to that court was. No one asked the district court to extend the election date, but they did anyway. SCOTUS said courts can't do that. They can only extend the date if they had been asked to do that. No one asked. Please don't twist the truth. SCOTUS explicitly stated that they're not answering the question of whether or not the date can be extended.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/19a1016_o759.pdf

This is good. The powers of the Supreme Court are -- and should remain -- limited. We should not welcome authoritarianism simply at the service of convenience or even safety.

What should have happened is the Wisconsin state legislature should have met and extended the ballot. They are the sole entity that is blameworthy in this fiasco. Their decision would have been unquestionable in front of any court. We should stop expecting the courts to be able to rule by fiat. That is not their purpose, rightly so.
oh ok. Any thoughts on why scala conferences have this "Describable, typesafe computations for the less monadically inclined" but python conferences don't ?
Scaling SQLite to 4M QPS on a Single Server (EC2 vs. Bare Metal) (2018)
When I was there, the big money was in submitting the patent, and the filing bonus got revised way down, from like $500 to $100 or something. What is it now? Probably not worth getting worked up over.
> [From the preceding article] how were teams split, tasks delegated, and projects managed throughout Sprints?

> Did they use Agile, Kanban, or Scrum? How long was their Sprint?

How about asking whether they used sprints, or formal agile methodologies, at all? Why assume that every engineering org has drunk the kool aid?
Interestingly Inkscape started as a fork of Sodipodi, because its original author didn't want to merge UX improvements, IIRC.
> despite actually being personally quite to the left on economic issues usually.

in my experience with internet comments people often say this to pander. so: could you elaborate?
Because our contractors provide us a 1-6 month, non-full-time, packaged, isolated service by an agreed deadline for a lump sum, they're very far from the definition of an employee in all countries, so it's not a problem with us. However, if your company starts directing tasks, or otherwise starts creeping toward the fine line, then what happens is out of my expertise, sorry. My useless advice is to stay far from the line, but of course some businesses might not be able to easily do this.
I say this play with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.. basically the highlight of my life.
I wish I had any design ability. But the template was free and it looks easy on the eyes to just deliver content.
Can confirm that Transferwise is the best option out there for cross border commerce. Also stay away from Payoneer if you can. They eat 1-3% of the gross money transferred as commission, depending on the target currency. Also Payoneer's exchange rates aren't the best in the market. This is ridiculous when compared to TW.
> I'm just waiting for the day they can make the database immutable.

Wouldn't event stores with CQRS effectively do this?
You could have been better received if you didn't:

* Use the pejorative "fanboi"
* Propose a strawman that manned-spaceflight enthusiasts think it is all about entertainment

Now that we have the rude parts out of the way:

Yes, there were many conflicting priorities in various manned-spaceflight programs through US history. Yes, we have had many achievements due to researching human life in space. Yes, a long term (more than a presidency) goal should be sustainable human life on another rock. Yes, we can do both manned- and unmanned- space research simultaneously, if we can attempt to de-politicize it a little.
I'm a good enough developer who has worked on enough projects that if someone tries to tell me that I need to show them personal projects I'm working on, then that ends the interview. I used to be a recruiter, I know how to conduct an interview and sit on the other end of that desk, and I know what I won't put up for in the workplace.

My personal time is my personal time. If there's a good work-related reason for me to put in more hours, fine. But you get none of them that you don't pay me for.
Jenny Holzer is an artist who’s work contains a lot of text and this text file is lifted from some of her work in the truisms series. It might actually be the entire text of the series.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=TRUISMS+(1978-1983)+JENNY+HOLZER
On the one hand, yes, but on the other, if it's remote anyway, developers in Eastern Europe/Asia/Africa should also be able to earn Western European/American rates.
After Peacetime – Navigating uncertainty as an independent
> truism: a statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting.

Just scanning through these I wouldn't label all of them "truisms." For example,

> ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL

and

> AUTOMATION IS DEADLY

I wouldn't consider either of these "obviously true."
The names of colors like "#ff38a1" are also unique, so what is that post about?
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> This isn't really immutability? It looks like an infrastructure refresh on deploy.

The title says 'erase' rather than 'refresh', and does acknowledge they're 'mutable systems'.
I believe C++ does special-case that, as *foo when foo is an empty lvalue and it’s trying to assign that to an rvalue that is undefined.
It's all about obscurity when dealing with this type of malware. They are advanced rootkits used by malicious users tampering with distributed systems that must trust the client to a high degree or they simply will not work. As soon as obscurity is used by either side it inevitably becomes the tool both sides are forced to use.
You can also use C#.
Other than that one page I don't plan on adding any more. So much in your face I agree about. But it feels almost irresponsible to not link some information at least acknowledging why we're in the situation?
I work on the team developing VECTR at Security Risk Advisors. VECTR is a tracking and reporting tool for information security testing activities. It supports MITRE ATTACK Framework methodology plus additional industry metrics. From the heatmap to historical trending users have access to different views for analyzing the results of testing activities. The intended audience is mature organizations performing or contracting regular red team or purple team activities. However, it’s flexible enough to work for smaller teams just getting started. I believe anyone seeking to measure their organization’s defensive response over time can benefit from VECTR.

We have documentation here https://docs.vectr.io/
Interactive Brokers is by no means a replacement for TransferWise. It doesn't even permit you to send money to an account that isn't in your name.

That said, its currency conversion is the real deal. If you have an account with them (I do), you can convert as little or as much as you like and withdraw it to your own account elsewhere.

I wouldn't recommend opening an account there just for currency conversion but their brokerage offering is fantastic so I'd consider currency conversion a nice benefit that comes with that.

If you want a more direct comparison, Revolut does conversion for free if your amount is under 6k/month.
That was a chemical plant, not a power plant.
Again -- "Walk into the fire, Morty. Embrace the suck."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22601623
Thanks for sharing this work flow and also for writing this book! I sometimes think I would like to write a book about microcontroller basics (which I've collected knowledge from countless blogs and white papers) but I know it's a huge project!

Also it is cool that you can run draw.io yourself! I've used yed for documentation but this looks nice and is capable.
I don't use iTerm2, but I have a global hide/show shortcut via Hammerspoon (https://github.com/cweagans/dotfiles/blob/90764db6146383a92e...). I could extend this to pretty much any app, but the only one I regularly need it for is my terminal.

I like this method a little more because it's not a single session, there's no animation, etc. It just pops into existence exactly how/where I left it, and then goes away again when I'm done with it.
I don't think anyone should "love" Google. Sure I enjoy using some of their services, but at the end of the day they will sell every single detail they can gather about you to make money. That's not something to "love" even if they are using it for other interesting things.