skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have a 3.9% ("green") tier without a high-risk fee, but I don't think the adult companies qualify that one.

I could be wrong, but I didn't find a clear breakdown of who qualifies for each plan on their website. I'm guessing the 3.9% plan and their non-profit plan are there so they can present as a normal payment processor.
exactly. i think most manager are clueless as to how to really handle the team. it is sad though. managers also need handholding sometimes.
Very little of what I learned at university was taught in classrooms.
I don't think the electric grid follows a traditional supply-and-demand curve. Every kilowatt used must be generated at the same time. Generation comes in tiers: cheap baseload (coal or nuclear, each with their issues), expensive peaker plants (nat. gas), and cheap but unpredictably intermittent renewables. Prices are highly regulated and agreed to in long-term contracts that take into account peak usage and minimal generation capacity. If demand increases, it is really expensive to supply until the level is enough to build a new baseload plant, but even those are expensive now.

Big users such as Google with its datacenters will of course negociate their own electricity contracts. I think renewables are the cheapest to buy right now, so by moving load around to be able to maximize use of cheap renewable electricity, they will definitely save money.
I would say it is quite mature. The ecosystem is a bit smaller and younger, so sometimes you'll find an insufficient library somewhere or no library at all. But I've never had a show-stopper in that regard.

I've done plenty of Django and Flask and I'd rather work with Phoenix. I still like Django plenty but only time I'd pick it is if I think the admin might save me copious time or if there is something else tying the project to Python, such as machine learning.
Would anyone older care to confirm or deny a related observation? It seems the Great Recession shattered many employeer minds to become absurdly entitled to the detriment of even their own direct earnings let alone society.

Things like demanding a pegasus-unicorn canidate after they consolidated two jobs into one with the exact oddball combination of skills and experience - and not just seeing it as a bonus target to ask for but holding out for months or years looking for them when they could have been making money by hiring two realistically available competent employees.
Patreon just laid off a ton of people under the guise of Covid-19 despite doing even better during this situation.
Another reason is that the states run a very real risk of running out of unemployment funds. Mitch McConnell made clear today that he is fine the states going bankrupt over this as opposed to giving them federal funds. So its going to end up with no one getting unemployment, everyone out of work and the federal government sitting on its hands while blaming everyone else.
> Instead, they should be testing _against_ their assumptions to prove their theory wrong.

I think this mindset should be taught explicitly starting in grade school.

If you have an idea, think how you'd disprove it, and test it. If you can't think of how you'd disprove it, that's a strike against the idea. If you can't test it, that should at least make you suspicious.
CS != software engineering, too.

Like your chemistry example. There's chemistry, and then there's chemical engineering. Chemists worry about the properties of atoms and molecules, and reactions that move from one state to another, and about the energy differences in reactions. Chemical engineers worry about how to efficiently make the stuff in multi-ton quantities without blowing up the city. It's related, but it's really a different set of concerns.

In the same way, CS worries about the efficiency of algorithms, and about what things particular language features make easier or harder to express. Software engineering worries about how to efficiently construct and maintain larger programs that adequately do what is needed. [1][2]

The thing is, almost everyone who graduates with a CS degree is going to be employed as a software engineer, not as a computer scientist. I fear that their education is mostly preparing them for the wrong thing.

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[1] Or perhaps, "construct less inefficiently" - there's inefficiency no matter how well you do it, but you have to control the amount of that, or it will destroy you.

[2] Note that I said that they "adequately do what is needed", rather than bug-free. Larger programs are never bug free.[3]

[3] Well, almost never. You can get there with formal verification, if you have a bug-free specification, and if the formal verification covers every relevant category of bug. But that's really difficult to do, and we're back at the "less inefficiently" issue.
How is this different from twitch?
Anything published without a copyright notice still has a copyright.

> Until March 1, 1989, a published work had to contain a valid copyright notice to receive protection under the copyright laws. But this requirement is no longer in force — works first published after March 1, 1989, need not include a copyright notice to gain protection under the law.

https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-protect...
Researcher discloses four IBM zero-days after refusal to fix
Through licensing and/or certification requirements. Large companies take compliance serious.
Windows Terminal Preview v0.11 Release
While I agree with your point, did anyone except the inventor and the marketing team think Segway was going to revolutionize anything? I seem to remember all the revolution talk coming from Segway people before they had even unveiled the thing. It was just a big hyped secret that would "revolutionize" the world.

I remember being extremely underwhelmed when they unveiled it. It seemed like one of those things that had never been invented before, because why would you invent that.
Create a hardened Raspberry Pi NAS (2016)
Popular Mac calendar app mined cryptocurrency in the background
Space X doing their thing
you mentioned the prohibitive size of the vectorizations of documents -- what role, if any, have matrix/tensor decompositions or tensor networks played in helping the search community with this?

for reference: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/06/introducing-tensornetwork-...
Epidemics are relatively common, but a global pandemic of this magnitude hasn't happened in 100 years. Maybe we'll see more of them, maybe we won't, but no company is going to invest in hedging against a once-a-century risk.
So mall-cops are all going to be using Magic Leap tech in a few years?
I disagree. Do homeowners want to be renting out property on AirBnB if we still have social distancing in place? Professional AirBnB landlords are going to have serious financial trouble soon if they continue to have no or very low bookings. How long can they stay solvent? AirBnB could have a big supply problem before this is done.
>fuelling a lot of agendas.

The ability to make a living(or have income) to sustain through these periods of challenges, is an agenda now?
If there is a peer-reviewed article, this newspaper article does not link to it.

Edit: This article is speculating what might be discovered even before the people doing the research have found something:

>... by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC.

sigh

Edit 2:
For context: The era of the proto-indo-european language family is dated to start around 4500 BC somewhere near the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

4500 BC would imply a culture that co-existed with the Harappa civilization. Such a discovery would have made news all around the world. This newspaper article would not be the first place to mention it.

I'm not convinced by any claim made by this article.
I’ve had that exact opinion of him for years.
The current Xi'an walls were built in the 1370 during the Ming dynasty.
Borg has concepts of quota and priority which function as the internal market you are talking about: Verma, et al. "Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg".
That's a fantastic idea. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.
Version numbers work great as schemas. You could have v1.proc and v2.proc.

Also, for an API schema, only exposing views + stored procedures and hiding tables in private schemas makes the SQL easier to refactor. This is something we recommend at postgrest.org: http://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/schema_structure.html#schema-...

Sharing in case this is useful to you.
I'd argue a lot of the jobs, if not most, that are asking for comp sci majors are actually asking for code monkeys.
Unlike Magic Leap, wasn’t Segway the first personal transporter with self balancing technology? Ie. Setting a new bar. Hence others followed from that new standard.
I’m not aware of Magic Leap setting any new bars.
I've played with the ML and HoloLens and they are comparable. As someone who was raised on 8-bit games, it's mind-blowing. But really none of them are sharp enough to make you suspend disbelief that you're seeing something that isn't there. And I haven't seen any remotely compelling use case that would make them worth spending even $500 on. VR is much further ahead. Not quite mainstream, but it's got a real consumer niche and some really fun games and commercial uses.
30th anniversary edition of Making of Prince of Persia journals stripepress
on point! agree with you!
Our product lets users create animations in minutes. Here is an example of Siebel of Ycombinator rejecting us :-)

https://toonclip.com/player?key1=530f95331f
Ah, yeah, it does seem to still do that. For some reason I thought that those APIs had been made public, but alas no.
Airbnb is a successful company but why are you comparing it to a company that is literally printing money? Have you worked at a big company before?
Ooo I wonder if this will be the standard for African EHR and PHI
Which would you say is easiest to learn, for someone with a little programming experience?

I'm currently planning a SaaS project and had settled on go, but this discussion is making me wonder if perhaps Elixir is the better choice.
Well, I'm 31 and what helped me was a girlfriend who was brought up with this stuff and dragged me to every opera and classical music performance in town (I exaggerate a bit, but you get the idea). Forcing yourself to getting a lot of exposure is a method that, albeit uncomfortable, worked for me.

Dvorak is a favorite of mine as well. I'm a fan of Dumky. I haven't listened to Stravinsky while knowing it was him, so I'll have a look!

Edit: listening to the soldiers tale of Stravinsky. It sounds like video game music that could almost be in a Zelda game.
Including this one :)?

Our business had seen its robotics and automation sector picking up before the pandemic hit and as other verticals have paused development plans, robotics and automation continue to press ahead.

The view here is momentum for automation already existed and the pandemic is seen as one more justification for continued investment.
What does it have to be integrated in one app? Every git client (of the ~dozen I've used) stays synchronized. I regularly use a git GUI, terminal, and a client integrated in my ide, and it doesn't really matter where I do an operation, they all update near-immediately to show the new state.
> they would have released a toolkit or an application that lets each individual do what you've just described

Where is this individual going to store their data? On the unreliable hard drive on their personal computer, which they never back up?

A toolkit or an application isn't hardware. Solving the problem of reliable long-term data storage requires hardware. Hardware costs money. Basically this service is competing with my ISP, my hosting company, etc. to be a long-term data storage provider.
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So: NDA, exclusive demo, controlled environment.

It makes it sound to me more like a Séance (with its usual implications) than anything else. Or, for an easier to understand analogy, selling a Disney ride as if it was real.
But who gets to decide when its safe? State governments are pushing to open back up (Georgia) when the public doesn't seem to want it.
This article is from 2018.
Your question may have touched a nerve, if he was getting older and no longer could see sharp.
That is my main problem too. And it doesn't get easier when you're using multiple layers, such as when you quote and escape for the shell to pass it to sed or grep.

Over time, I find using r'foo' in python's re.match() or re.search() has been more precise and less of a burden than I thought compared to languages that integrate regex's directly
Anytime I've seen public VR demos they had a disposable cover. A quick google search brings up [1] as one example, and I'm sure cheaper alternatives exist too.

1: https://www.amazon.com/Vive-Disposable-Hygiene-Cover-Starter...
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5-10 years? They are selling the standalone Oculus quest for $400 right now. At least, they would be if they could keep it in stock.

Seems cheap enough for mainstream. Considering the game console price point.
> Is it a ton of extra work for them though?

Anyone who attempted to obtain a PPP loan from their local bank knows that yes, it was a ton of extra work for them.
I don’t care and that’s why I use raw sql lol. I don’t want to learn some orm bs
I'm not a marketing person, but constantly alluding to something amazing without revealing details is a hack that stirs up a lot of curiosity and people discussing what it could be.

If you reveal the thing then that dies down (or worse knowledgeable people know that what you're dong isn't possible), but if you keep it secret while giving content-free little hints about it you can keep it going longer (and maybe raise more money by letting people in on the secret?).

I have a strong dislike for this kind of thing, but that doesn't mean it's not effective.
Show HN: OpenFaaS (0.18.17) – multiple/parallel asynchronous queues
Graphic Design -> Web Design -> Wordpress Sites -> Front End Dev
> And once you start thinking in terms of functions, you just won't touch any of those terrible OO programming paradigms

This sort of absolutism does nobody any favours. Functional zealotry is every bit as bad as OO zealotry.
Smart Meters and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) still have about half of all meters to go in the US. Real time pricing for the customer requires cutting through a few intermediaries designed to keep the grid and utility bills stable, much at the cost of the environment.

Texas energy markets are where all the fun on this front is really happening.
CVE-2020-11008 – Git can be tricked into sending private credentials
Airbnb hosts decry $250M relief fund as a 'publicity stunt'
What prevents a disgruntled employee from deleting or altering the data?
most companies have orientation sessions or something of this sort. I am doubtful if there is really a platform where managers are given full disclosure of the problems they will be facing. software is there to lighten the burden.
> From this key we derive a 128bit key using PBKDF2. We use the room name as a salt in this key generation. This is a bit weak but we need to start with information that is the same for all participants so we can not yet use a proper random salt.

1) You do not need to use a password-based KDF if your key is a random bytearray of >= 16 bytes. I expect that most people would use their feature by copy/pasting the key in email or whatever channels they're using to communicate the room link.

2) I'm not sure about IV generation, maybe somebody with more knowledge on SSRC/etc. can look at that

3) decryption error do not kill the connection, that's untypical but I think that should be fine
if they write their SSN in the tool and it gets recorded in the mouse movements, how is that not PII?
Not the original commenter but I agree that no service is permanent. That's why any service marketing themselves as such raises an eyebrow from me.
Unusual and hard-to-predict events are going to more on everyone's minds. Insurance coverages will be increased. People will be more cautious and expecting the worst for 5+ years.
The patches are sent as pure data and a small client-side Javascript library (morph-dom) patches the DOM accordingly, so the template itself doesn't get sent.
I would also encourage anyone in the Bay outside of San Francisco to look into your town and county politics too. San Francisco draws a lot of attention in the areas scene, but the outlaying areas are often more suited to quick change. Those actually in the city, get familiar with your local supervisor. Some of them are very accessible, if yours isn't vote them out.
*> My assumption is that "sharing" means sharing with family, etc. as opposed to publishing.

You don't have to make any assumptions. It's right there on the web page that was linked to:

"You choose what files or folders you want to share, who you want to share them with and what level of access that Archive should have."
As the old quip goes: A real computer scientist would not work with anything less portable than a #2 pencil.

And at the risk of explaining a joke that applies to both the weight and the applicability of the results to ALL computers.
I did not choose this path and so far I have not regretted it. Additional responsibility empowered and accelerated me. For the most part, the critical limiter on my growth is what people trusted me to do. The more they trusted me with the better I became, the smarter and more capable I became. That's still happening.

I'm pretty sure that if someone gave me the ability to be CEO of Google for a year I would be a vastly more advanced person than I am today. I would take that job unpaid in any respect. I would even gladly take the job of guy-who-is-defacto-CEO-of-Google-but-no-one-knows-it-and-he-is-under-NDA-to-never-reveal. i.e. it isn't the signaling value. It is the responsibility. This is continuous-approximable all the way to a job like a janitor which you'll have to pay me in the ballpark of a million dollars a year to do and I can't see myself doing it for long. So obviously there's some intermediate-value theorem type result where one of the benefits crosses in value over the other.

Ideally, I'm operating around that space.
ah! TIL:

MYSQL - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/449346/mysql-auto-increm...

POSTGRES - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2095917/sequences-not-af...

thanks!
I would very much prefer this and the ability to spec what happens on overflow.

There are a lot of arguments back and forth because there actually is no 'right way' to handle overflow.
In theory, that's the scientific method, but aomehwt we've evolving this weird grade school science project "scientificky" method in it's place.
> Unless you got yourself into a situation where you were expected to set up a whole office with the same speed and expertise as a full-time network engineer based on some gross misrepresentation of your skillset, I don't see how this story is particularly relevant.

Taking a job as one of a business's "computer people" puts you in the path of a whole lot of interesting tasks, even if your main job is programming.

> Maybe it's a good cautionary tale about presuming that SoHo is the limit of networking?

It's certainly that, but I want to expand on this a bit: SoHo is the only stuff most people can play with. For example, I can make programs and package them in Docker containers and run them that way, but I don't know how I'd play with Kubernetes in a realistic fashion. There's whole genres of technology most people can't get realistic access to without some institutional support. It's an effective ceiling on some kinds of knowledge.

As far as learning how to learn, I agree with you. I think a lot of it comes down to vocabulary: Once you know the terms the experts use, you can bootstrap effectively and learn more terms and bootstrap even more effectively. Plus, words have a way of coming back to you at odd intervals, effectively dropping you hints when you see something you vaguely recognize.

Maybe we should all have Word Of The Day calendars.
I have just built an app that is meant to build motivation by getting the remote teams to know each other better. aboutsnack.com
Complementary. Silverblue’s immutability may be aimed purely at stability and therefore may not have strong guarantees, but if it did then the next attack vector would be from root to kernel (in memory), and that’s where lockdown comes in; it’s designed to prevent attacking a running kernel as root.
I feel like there is some sort of weird world now where in some companies "hiring someone" is sometimes held hostage / run by people who despite their job title, made it their job not to hire people.

At least for me when I worked at a very large company hiring someone and getting the go ahead was this opaque system that went back and forth with recruiters and HR and involved a lot people who did not know anything about the job...

Later on I was looking for work and found myself in recruiter hell or corporate HR hell talking to these people endlessly on the phone about jobs that they clearly did not understand in any way and wasted my time endlessly.

By the time I got to talk to someone at a company that was technical... I finally understood what the job was in a few minutes, they knew who I was, and after a sensible interview they offered me the job.

Side note, big company I worked for was broken up and I was told I should apply for my old job back. Mostly because I liked my coworkers I applied ... and never got a call back because I didn't have a CS degree (folks inside the company figured that one out), for a job that very much doesn't need a CS degree... and a job that I did for 15 years and my coworkers all wanted me back...

That seemed to confirm my theory that hiring has sort of lost its way / gone off track in a lot of ways.
Gotchas, probably some of those. Both in Elixir and Phoenix. It is an entire language plus an entire web framework.

A lot of people find Elixir more approachable than Erlang. But I wouldn't be surprised if Erlang is technically simpler and as such potentially easier to learn. The syntax is quite foreign to most people coming from more conventional languages while Elixir reads and writes fairly conventionally.

Now Phoenix LiveView does a lot for you, so I wouldn't dismiss the claim of having some magic in there. But once someone starts to get familiar with the stateful approach the model is fairly simple and the "magic" is less mystical. A lot of the things you don't need to pay attention to would be optimizations in markup and templates and how the JS does its job. That's where a bit of magic happens.

Most of the things you mention sound like things about the language. Which I found to be very approachable and the onboarding documentation to be great.
> And yet, you stay in your apartment, even though there are cheaper apartments.

> I.e. money is far from the only factor motivating you.

Transaction costs are still money (or equivalent). Same for risk.
Look up the function of the thymus in T-cell development and selection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus#Function
Airpods as a Platform
I'm an avid Twitch user and it's such a different experience (as a host and as a viewer). The main difference is the content. Twitch is geared towards gaming and Stream is geared towards virtual events. Another is how broadcasts are portrayed. Twitch defaults to a public livestream that anyone can view. Stream intentionally adds another layer and gates the Zoom event for privacy.
sounds like a great idea!
'Many customer workloads perform better on Amazon Linux 2' firm claims, but wher
This [episode of Android Studio Backstage](https://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2018/08/episode-97-blu...) has a lot of fun details about the Android Bluetooth stack and all the problems they have faced with it.