skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure where in the provided link you found that, but I am not doubting you found something FX-related in there with $1 billion as a relevant number, since they serve lots of different professional populations.

But yes, they can exchange even a dollar or two. I've exchanged five figures a few times there between CAD and USD, as an American living in Canada and actively using a US credit card.

So far I've found them to be much more affordable than TransferWise, but equally, they are a very complicated broker to use, and it may not be worth the hassle just for FX. They have other benefits that make them worth the tradeoff for me, like good margin interest rates and the ability to provide tax forms complying with both the US and Canadian tax systems each year.
Really nice, genuinely felt like i was in a theater.
The difference is that GC provides so much more value than a VM. For example, without GC, functional programming is practically impossible, unless you consider linear types the solution (I'm not aware of a FP language that uses them instead of GC, so I can't really comment on their viability).
Pretty interesting:

>"The dependence of intuitionism on time is essential: statements can become provable in the course of time and therefore might become intuitionistically valid while not having been so before."
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/
Man, I remember thinking that Elixir was going to take the world by storm about 5 years ago. I was so excited for it. I hope it does though, it has a lot of great things going for it, and I'd love to see it adopted.
Yeah, we found AWS to be helpful throughout the cost optimization process. If you think about it, AWS probably also benefits from happier customers with more sustainable bills since it makes them less likely to look for more cost effective alternatives. It's better for both sides from a long-term perspective
>would you have opted in?

Yes.

>For what feature or benefit?

By the time I pull into my driveway my garage door has opened and the lights in my hallway have turned on.

If I'm working from home, my thermostat stays at its "comfy" setting. If I leave the geofence between certain hours during the week it goes into "ultra cheap-ass energy miser" mode.

When I am at a meeting, and I have another meeting in a different location, my Maps application checks the traffic to the route and tells me if I have to leave early due to congestion. This is especially useful for dentist appointments made six months ago that have slipped my mind.

When I turn on my car and my phone connects, it knows if I am likely to be heading to work or if I am heading home and will suggest the best of three routes to take depending on traffic.

If I am somewhere and have an idea, I hold my smartwatch up to my face and ask it to "remind me when I get to X to do Y" and then when I get to X a notification pops up to tell me to do Y.

I get hyper-local weather notifications. Just 5 minutes ago on my smartwatch a notification popped up saying that rain was starting. It then started raining. There have been times when I have been outside not expecting rain, had my watch say "oh man rain's a-comin!" and then I looked around at the clear skies and said "nuhuh... I looked at the forecast today and there's no rain" but then I went inside to check on the computer again and it started raining.

While driving I can just ask: hey give me directions to the nearest gas station, and it will. No looking at screens required.

>With what risks?

None. There are literally zero risks. Evil Ruskie hackers could haxxor all of my data and know that I go to work every (non-quarantined) day and go to Safeway every Sunday afternoon, and it would not change or endanger my life in any way whatsoever. Anything they could do with the data, they can do without.
> Have you ever tried to use a command line? Exactly. It’s a terrible way to work

Not the best line. Don't see the point in marketing a p2p network to people who can't even use cli.
That's just a question of where one software ends and another begins. Essentially, for lawyers to decide.

But that's also why LGPL exists.
Logic is not the highest truth
Yes, my comment w.r.t. the hash is that it's inherently a bad final implementation because it's visible to the server via malicious Javascript.

I really hope that it can be as simple as "share a password with someone"/"send an invite link to someone" because as the parent effectively said, this would be a complete UX nightmare.
I am a senior software architect. My job is to balance performance against complexity.

If my system is slow, it's my fault.

If debugging or expanding the system is too difficult, it's my fault.

If someone wants to know how the system or business works in depth, I am the one that they should come to.

I spend the majority of my time chasing down, enforcing, and simplifying the universal theory of our business (the core of our software solution).

The universal theory of our business is a living collection of concepts, designed to accurately model non-virtual concerns in virtual space. If there are too many edge cases, it is a sign that the universal theory is inaccurate, or not robust enough in some areas. If there are too many bugs, it is a sign that the universal theory has not been communicated or enforced well enough, is inaccurate, or is too complex in some areas. As our business grows, or our understanding of the business expands, the universal theory will change; at times dramatically. Malleability (the ability to adapt our software to these changes effectively and efficiently) is one of my top two concerns; the other is latency (how long it takes for any one request to get a complete response).

The theory shrinks and becomes better documented as it evolves; the goal is to move from describing behaviors as correlation to describing them as accurate causation. To fill in the blanks.

I should mention here that this does not mean every line of code in my projects is easy to understand. Writing a fast system of high complexity requires at least some components that are written exclusively for the computer's benefit (that is, highly optimized and inherently difficult to read). These components should be written with clear documentation, clearly defined public members, written discussions of why it works the way it does (and common ways to accidentally break it), redundant ownership, and regular auditing to ensure code rot is avoided.

I have yet to meet another architect that sees their job the way I see mine.

If the system you're working on defies complete understanding, you can probably blame your architect.
I think that they realized that many/most of us are using Bluetooth headphones on the plane even in airplane mode. Airlines do allow Bluetooth so no reason to shut it off in airplane mode.
I work in DS for a car insurance company, from the inside the returning of premium seems more of a 'pr goodwill' type of thing than anything else. As soon as one company did it, they sort of all wanted to follow suit in order to preserve optics.

There really isn't a limit to profits such as, 'we can only make $500 off of this policy anything over that we would have to refund'
Nah, it's similar to IG in that regard so TikTok-ers go the standard sponsorship route or try to direct people to, say YT, for more consistent revenue.

However, TikTok is has a pretty substantial adult audience. There are quite a few niche communities that have just organically moved to TikTok: cosplay, makeup, and digital art are some obvious ones.
> I do not understand your "confused deputy" attack. Can you outline it in more detail?

I'm literally referring to "the iMessage attack".

If you recall, iMessage did ECDSA(AES(m, ek), sk) without an intermediary HMAC. Libolm does have an (albeit truncated) HMAC, so the attack doesn't apply at all here. But it's still a design smell.

If I could extend their construction (which looks like the setup to the iMessage attack, without the punchline) into a real attack, I would have just disclosed it to them and not commented publicly.

How the attack I envision would work if their HMAC suddenly got erased from the protocol: Establish a multi-device setup, flip bits in ciphertext you want to decrypt, sign with Ed25519, observe padding oracle.

(A truncated HMAC does prevent that in the real world, but at a 32-bit security level rather than a 128-bit security level.)

These are (somewhat nitpicky) design critiques, not security vulnerabilities. :)

Edit to add: Also, the iMessage attack had some other weirdness that isn't relevant for what I'm describing, but was very relevant for iMessage being broken.
Show HN: TBH.today: Platform to anonymously view and share disappearing thoughts
And in the intersection of mutability and immutability you have fantastic experiences like live editing and time travel. /Where/ the interface for mutability is located is essential.
It's a self-deprecating joke, it's funny to me. Relax :)
> long-term risk in the form of long-term loans collateralized by their properties. The system doesn't work unless someone is willing to take on that risk profile. Stop scapegoating landlords.

Implicit in the criticism of landlords is that the majority of this long term loan is for an arbitrary asset valuation created by artificially low interest loans. Most of the cost of real estate is not in the building or upkeep itself, which is why everyone worries (or hopes) that real estate values will drop when the debt treadmill slows. Like NYC taxi medallions, it's an overfinancialized setup that taxes real production for the sake of the financial industry.

So yes, looking at the individual landlords they are indeed working to fill a market niche. But looking at the emergent system taken as a whole, it's preposterous.
QEMU Ioctl Hooks
> This is going to get worse, and for other professions not generally getting news coverage.

Flight attendants. Airline baggage handlers. Hotel desk clerks. Hotel maintenance workers. Bus drivers. For that matter, truck drivers. I'm sure there are others.

Other than grocery store workers, truck drivers might be the one that scares me the most. If the trucks stop, this is going to get really ugly.
This is describing Smalltalk and Lisp Machines?
The press release seems very strange.

It announces that the plant is closing, yet in the statement by the CEO seems like he doesn't want the plant to close... but was forced to maybe?

I wonder if maybe their business liability insurer threatened to drop them if they remained open or something.
Buhari Extends Lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and FCT by Another 14 Days
Could it be because companies are cutting advertising budgets and freezing all non-essential spending?
We've changed to that from https://forum.dlang.org/post/wntuwcsudlzrmkwrsdxe@forum.dlan.... Thanks!

(I also detached your other comment so that it can float to the top and get more attention.)
> The whole advertising industry is imploding during this pandemic. I mean, it was falling apart before with privacy regulations and browsers fighting an industry that put all their eggs in the "personalized targeting" bucket, but performance is exceptionally bad now.

You couldn't have said it better
Yeah, I appreciate that. It just turns out my team's looking at integrating anti-cheat in the very near future so I happen to be in the market (and feeling lukewarm about EAC and BattlEye), and it's a topic of personal interest besides. So thanks!
“Mission... reset the balance of power”

Does any of the real economic activity want to reduce its power and influence? that’s the opposite of a startup
> We had to move back to a 'standard' Linux distribution and now all those old habits are creeping up

That sounds very relevant: Why did you have to go back?
This is the main reason why a lot of people believe the numbers are underreported. A lot of people are dying without ever having had a test and are not even counted as a COVID-19 death.

Oped on the matter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/corona...
Docker For Mac / OSXFS - steaming pile of garbage...
Sometimes they support countries in some ways but not others. For example, as of when I last checked, they support sending Canadian dollars south to Mexico to be converted into Mexican pesos for delivery there, but not the reverse transaction.
It is curious. I feel that Danes have a strong sense of social, collective responsibility. High education levels, generous social security net. In a pandemic my observation is that these things can play a strong role in stopping the spread (or an authoritarian stance).
Part of a previous internship of mine involved teaching Scratch to kids in 2nd to 4th grades. We taught Python to kids around the 7th and 8th grade. Scratch is much better suited to younger children, imo.
No. Even N95 is even a joke considering the airborne contagiousness of covid19. N95 literally means non-oil-resistant, 95% filtration efficiency. I'll continue to wear my P100 safety mask while the lazy minded cling to the word N95 like it is some panacea or bastion of protection, whilst being statistically trashgutter. Most people have no idea what N95 even means, treating it like some model number. I'm pretty sure that the seal on a mask that secures like a party hat is not good enough when an airborne contaminant is in play..

Let's all just keep using rubber band party hat masks while the intelligent among us sport the P100 eliteness. /s

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/factsheet...

https://i.imgur.com/cPTZf6h.png
At this point, Chrome, VSCode or Eclipse. I can't open all 3 in my laptop. All these 3 consuming soo much CPU. At this point, Opera is better and instead of VSCode going back to sublime and I have a terminal window separately open.
Yeah, it's a mystery to me why this is so hard. Put a barcode on all receipts "order this again". Go online, scan in your barcode to place the order, bam problem solved. For 90% of people this would satisfy all the normal grocery shopping since we tend to just buy the same staples over and over. As for the rest, well, yes there would need to be a small army of staff to deal with corner cases. But why this is unobtainium is beyond me.
Two small caveats: there are more people in Wikidata than on the English Wikipedia, and Covid deaths are certainly underreported for the world's poor. Comparing the number of living people from the US or NYC with respective entries might be interesting.
This is where the US government could step in. The federal government should mandate a certain level of production and guarantee purchase of those masks, if folks abuse these bids we should pursue them hard in court like we did in WWII... I mean, if the courts are going to actually hold folks to account, that's the big question.
A more interesting and intellectually honest article would flesh this out a bit, maybe with actual evidence.
Check out flu deaths vs. COVID deaths in New York for the past couple years:

https://i.redd.it/u3fx3aw1n6s41.jpg

That's with a complete lockdown. What do you think that chart would look like if people were just 'left alone to get a bad cough'?
Google Sheets and Apple Pages/Keynote, for me. They work so much better. I don't have any facts or list of features to back this up, they are just less stressful to use and don't bother me about licenses or corrupt files.
Mine's not paying the bills yet, but I'm getting a couple new customers a week which is surprising.
> develop a container runtime that would allow a Kubernetes node to run pods that specify Nix expressions directly in the image field

Do you really want to give kubernetes the added responsibility of building your images?
Life is turing complete, so there was no need to “reverse engineer it”, they built a computer that is simply simulating life, in life.
Silicon valley discovering advertising is pro-cyclical. Which may not have been obvious in 2008 when the big tech companies were ramping up their platform in the middle of a crisis.

The other thing that is known to be pro-cyclical: luxury products. I am looking at you Apple. Again 2008 was the ramp up of smartphones, I don’t think it informs us much on how high margin smartphones will do in a severe recession.
That's a bit too generous. Their primary concern when reading the article was, "too much fear mongering". I don't assume they were malicious so much as detached and overlooking things that they shouldn't.

"It's a War Zone" is incorrect, but "As more of them die" is not. The former is a dumb metaphor, the latter is just a correct description.

Given worker conditions, it is plain that they are being put at unnecessary risks and that these risks are fundamentally exploitative - folks have to either put their lives at risk for corporate profits (no PPE provided, frequently) or potentially become homeless, lose their insurance during a pandemic, etc. Estimating the numbers is something to go do, sure, but it doesn't change the dangerous material conditions on the ground and the dark nature of our response. Look at who bears the burden and why they do it.
Mexico President Faces Threats of Tax Revolts in Some States
Citation? Every major grocery store chain I am aware provides health insurance to their full time employees, and many like Publix and Lidl also provide to part time workers. I know many part time workers aren't getting health insurance, but they aren't a vast majority of grocery store employees.
Except it's not good enough. Every JVM project I've worked on had to work around the unpredictability of the VM: doing things like on a new deploy hitting all your endpoints a 100 times in order to warm things up. Or the curious cases when a trivial change in one part of your program somehow affects the performance characteristics of another. VMs don't provide enough benefits to justify the large burden of actually using them effectively.
Knew a girl who complained that her computer was too slow. As it turns out, she had added every add-on toolbar to Internet Explorer she ever came across. Her usable window was about two inches tall. Yet, it was the speed she complained about, not the utterly unusable web browser window.
While I think having the equivalent of the Professional Engineer (in the US) for software or hardware/electrical is probably a good idea for very critical products (self-driving cars, medical devices, planes, etc) distributed to the public, a blanket requirement would significantly impair a lot of the economy.
The Developer Culture Test: What Defines Places Where Developers Thrive?
MUDs, in my teens.
I tried one. And the screen did not seem any faster than the "EInk Carta" one in e.g. the Tolino Epos readers. I assume they fixed the issue with software being in the way of latency, and seem to make extensive use of partial refresh. And, yes, they did seem to integrate on a much lower level than any other recent consumer HID->screen drawing pipeline.

Back in the days of the C64, it was normal to have sub-frame average latency with +-0.5 frames jitter, due to low-level control that prevented artifacts when drawing directly to the framebuffer.
The UI toolkit (and for me, the theme, but possibly that's just due to gtkrc settings)

I can't go back to edit at this point.
Thanks! Yes, 17% is from ads, and 83% from memberships.

It's mostly non-recurring memberships because I don't really like subscriptions as a customer myself either, and most people go nomad and actively need the site only for the first few months and then go off on their own, and a subset of those stick around. Which is fine with me. I don't like to create a very addictive product. I think I have a healthy balance of new people and long time members right now.

Ad deals are really hard to predict, usually a VC-funded company (ironically) asks to promote their remote work or nomad related product and they'll pay anywhere from $5k-$30k/mo to promote it on my sites. But those deals can last just a month, to 6 months for example. But ads are not stable income like memberships are for me, so I try not to rely too much on them.
Yeah, the worst type, who has never faced/complained about/belabored whitespace issues in over twenty years. Because they are shown trivially in any editor. As opposed to the hysterical type who needs hours to fix a text file.
I live in an apartment complex, and my mailbox doesn't have a slot in it.

All of the junk mail I've received has come via the USPS, however since this all started happening I have received almost none.

The drop-off of junk mail delivery has been both welcome, and a sign of troubles for the USPS.
"A company that does this extraordinarily well is Amazon, who issue their vendors quarterly report cards grading their performance against the contract and expectations. Getting great results from vendors requires managing them. If you neglect them and get bad results, that's on you."

- Gives JIRA a report card on them as a vendor to your business.

- Is largely ignored because my business is not Amazon scale with all the power that holds.

tldr; this only really works if you're one of the whales for a vendor.
Agreed!
Questions though...
about two... is this two where two comes from 0,1,2 ?

Also, on a relational note,
what kind of “and” are you using?

‘Could be my isolation talking, but the further I look into this comment the more dad/logic jokes I see. Caveat: am dad.

Eh hem... I will see myself out.
Who's getting these hundreds of billions in government aid?
Is it really? It seems like an enormous amount of effort for a prank. 18k commits on the main repo, tens of thousands of words of explanatory blog posts and documentation, etc.
Static binaries do not have any dependency, and those that are not static typically depend on libc etc., regardless of the language being C, JavaScript (the browser) or anything else. So we don't count them as "dependencies".

But my point above was to counter the "C compiler is a dependency" claim. Nobody counts that way when discussing running programs, and that was my point.
And I'm impressed at the speed they're implementing new things I didn't even know I wanted (Handshake TLD, more blocklists, etc)
Isn't it a little weird to tell people to do major surgery on a crypto design, especially in ways that depart from the well-regarded design they derived it from, on account of attacks that don't work against that design?
My experience is solely at work where we use Splunk Cloud and it's slow as molasses.
They absolutely are underreported, but I believe every country (except maybe South Korea and Singapore) is underreporting cases, even Canada isn't doing great in this regard.

That said the US seems to be doing even worse in terms of testing and unfortunately has a spokesman that constantly lies to the world.
Sure. We've changed the title above.
A neural network can help spot Covid-19 in chest x-rays
If people were sheltering in place by choice, the lockdowns wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.

People were going to bars and restaurants in NYC and the Bay Area up until the lockdowns started. I think a lot of people would start living relatively normally again -- health officials want the lockdowns extended because they know that.
This pretty of close, but a little off. You are correct that they are heavily regulated because auto insurance is mandated by law, but mainly pertains to what they are allowed to charge for. In the US, each state has a DOI that checks over models that car insurance companies use to charge people. There are a lot of rules about what can and can not be rated on. T̶h̶e̶r̶e̶ i̶s̶n̶t̶ r̶e̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ a̶ l̶e̶v̶e̶r̶ f̶o̶r̶ 'I̶ w̶a̶n̶t̶ t̶h̶i̶s̶ m̶u̶c̶h̶ p̶r̶o̶f̶i̶t̶' o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ t̶h̶a̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ b̶a̶s̶e̶ r̶a̶t̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶y̶ c̶h̶a̶r̶g̶e̶. Edit: (The comment below me is correct. I was getting a little hand-wavy. In general every part of a insurance plan will be scrutinized and has to be well supported. Insurance companies need to justify why there is a surcharge for some characteristic of a policy, this is what stops companies from just raking in money) They have to make an argument to the DOIs for why their base rate is what it is, so they cant really increase it for no reason.

The other comment in response about loss ratio is correct
What channels are you drifting away from?