skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I find this kinda funny. Why are you worried about this in SQL but not for other code? It's not like it's hard to chuck Python, JS, Ruby, ASP, etc code straight into prod, you just don't do that because it's stupid. Don't do it for SQL either. If you really want to, build out user permissions that only allow your CICD system to change them.

2) TBH we never built anything complex enough to need this, and I would tend to think that if you do need this you're probably overcomplicating your DB. But you could probably do something that creates a temp DB, populates example data, and then runs tests.
Apparently an unfounded smear campaign against ProtonMail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...
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Donald Kennedy, Who Led Stanford in 1980s, Dies at 88
It's $350 million in economic activity brought to or generated in the city, not in tax revenue. You can see the breakdown here.

https://explore.sxsw.com/hubfs/2019%20SXSW%20Economic%20Impa...
This also applies to offline solicitation. Someone came to my door and asked me to sign on to switching my gas supplier. He said it is a supply chain change and will not affect anything beyond I getting a smaller monthly bill, still coming from PG&E. I told him that it sounds wonderful but this is the first I'm hearing of such a thing and I need to research online what it is about before signing anything. He said he has all the details in his paper folder and I can read it. I insisted on doing my own research. He said the deal is off once he leaves and it is my last chance. I told him, "so be it, such is life".

Did a quick Google search the next day and figured the process is legit but people out there have gotten higher bills than before.

Moral is to fight the human-interaction pressures and be adamant on doing your own research. No shame in that.
Hey, I'm one of the hosts of the podcast (zi).

I co-host with Specter (and sometimes Anti, a friend who works in threat intelligence) and we both do vulnerability research and exploit development. Neither of us are world-renown security experts or anything but we do get our hands dirty at a technical level, a perspective we think has been missing in other security podcasts. Specter's best known for his work in the PS4 scene, whereas I've been quietly working in appsec doing manual security assessments for most of the last decade, and was a magician turned developer before that.

I'd be the first to admit that there are some individuals where who on HN that have forgotten more about this than I've ever known. None-the-less we thought there would be some interest at least within our little niche in hearing the thoughts and discussion from a couple of guys who are in the weeds of exploit dev. We make mistakes and are open to being corrected.

Most episodes have three rough sections, we start off talking about news and some soft-topics. This week, a bit about a ransomware campaign, a "$500k" Zoom vuln and Binary Ninja's new decompiler/HLIL. Then we move into talking about exploits released or detailed in the past week, this week included some stupid issues like an OTP disclosure ("the request which sends the OTP also returns the OTP in the network response"), and some lower-level privilege escalations impacting Linux, Windows, and Solaris (whodo/w buffer overflow).

Ending with some research, often fuzzing or exploit mitigation related but really on a whole we just talk about things we find interesting.

We are available on all the major podcast platforms if you search for dayzerosec, but we also stream it live on Twitch (@dayzerosec), Mondays starting at 3 pm Eastern and take questions from the chat as we go.

I'd love feedback on all levels from content to distribution and quality issues.
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And it should be almost tautologically obvious, but this is extremely common for music festivals, which adds in the additional challenges of low sleep and immunocompromise caused by drug usage (drugs like mdma are thought to be immunosuppressive in recreational doses)
YMMV but switching from laptop OS X to desktop Linux has been a gamechanger for me. Far cheaper, and the power / UX of a mid-range 2020 desktop blows my 2019 Macbook Pro completely out of the water for my usecase. Code is a joy again. When I do use my Macbook on the go, I generally use VSCode remotely connected to my desktop because it's so much faster.

I also use Regolith Linux, which is a noob-friendly tiling window manager version of Ubuntu, and it feels so slick with multiple monitors.
Lol, the best of billionaires. Billionaires shouldn't exist.
Goes further back than that. I used to refer to the Powerbook G4 as a liquid cooled laptop -- where the liquid was the user's circulation.
Middle click still works to open a post in a new tab.
Only some phone systems in the western part of the US had far-end supervision, so far as I am aware. (This is why movies and TV shows from in and around Hollywood show conversations where the caller hangs up and the callee hears a dial-tone. The phone systems in most of California had only far-end supervision. Tom Scott has a good video on this[0].)

Most of the US uses either near-end, where the recipient hanging up will end the call, or both-end supervision, on POTS/landline systems.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIiUXvnkUQ - This video was filmed at the excellent Museum of Telecommunications in Seattle, located in a CenturyLink switching office. When travel is available again, I encourage all phone geeks to come here and check it out.
I don't consider anything that's pay-walled to be high quality. If I can't read it, it has no value to me.
Harvard Is Offering Free Online Courses for Students and Form Four Leavers
You made absolutely no counter argument, and used way too many words to express your core point: "I'm a jerk."
Wealthy mortgage borrowers face cold shoulder from lenders
Wonder if they are on Microsoft's Azure now?
I find that the TwelveSouth Curve does a much better job at taking heat away than the Rain mStand - I'd guess this is because of airflow.
Xcode is not doing much in this direction at all.
It was extremely irresponsible for them to make statements about community transmission without any solid facts.

Edit: by default we should ASSUME community transmission
I hear stories from a friend who works in a hospital (though not a doctor). One of the striking parts is that there seems to be a real reluctance to simply "just say no" to pay cuts by switching employers--certainly more so than in tech.

Hate to say it, but the only signal that truly matters is leaving.
“This is to help people view photos in Instagram and understand how to have the best experience on the platform, be part of the community, connecting and interacting with people and the things they love”

How does blocking access help people view things? How does blocking access help people understand how to have the best experience? Access is a better experience than access denied. Creating an account and lurking does not help anyone be part of a community. Most online communities are almost entirely lurkers. Creating an account doesn't lead to interaction. There's no way instagram isn't aware of these facts; I'm not a professional social network product manager and I know these things. There are other motives here than what instagram claims.
A lot (Most?) credit card/banks/etc have separate direct dial fraud lines.

Example:
https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/help-center/faqs/credi...
I haven't used iterm2, but after another comment on HN suggesting Tilix as a replacement on Linux, I switched full-time to it a few weeks ago.
One-time PIN for the curious
Big part of the problem is the AMA which sets up all sorts of barriers to entry into the profession
No, Tether isn’t pumping Bitcoin, new academic study claims
All I am saying people there breath the NYC air every single day. Can't possibly be good for them, especially in the light of some chronic pulmonary inflammation induced deaths.

The point on the lower bound of 0.2% is informative. I did not know that.
I'm sorry, I don't know much about medicine so maybe you could clear up what those studies found. If I understand correctly, they both looked at COVID-19 patients and the first one found 83% had detectable antibodies and the second one found 163 / 173 had detectable antibodies? Or maybe I just completely don't understand it.

Also it looks like they chose people with symptoms (i.e. "COVID-19 patients"). Would we expect the amount of detectable antibodies to be less, more, or the same among asymptomatic/mildly symptomatic people, or do we not know?
Does it mean that the brand of Amazon is better than the likes of Safeway or Target who sell their own products to compete with more name brand ones? Or it could also be that the brands on Amazon such as the top voted comment here might be smaller brands without enough name recognition to gain the attention of a buyer.
Because they are using money gained by the exploitation of the masses. That is why its bad. It is a misuse of resources and unfair.
Its out of the box configs are horrible. They use Courier New.

Although I haven't regularly used SSMS in a while (thanks to Azure Data Studio), the first thing I used to do was change the fonts to the "new" (15 year old) ClearType fonts. Like Consolas everywhere.

Then it looks way better.
Instagram does exactly this. You can interact with it's site via browser and open a few links until shows a popup saying you have to login (which you can't close).
Incidentally I’ve noticed tons of people talking about having come down sick at the beginning of January in the US and assuming they must have had covid. It’s like people forgot how many different respiratory infections are out there.
Weird, I created an extra account earlier this year and didn't need to associate a phone number or FB account with it.
Since 1980 the consistent message in the US from one party is that its objective is to shrink government until it can be drowned in the bathtub. Because of this we are unable to act in common, since government is the closest thing we have to common action.
I see many of these same problems in large companies. Every one just tries to avoid being blamed. Those best at avoiding blame while assigning it to others rise up. Its politics.
The article discusses projects that fail despite large budgets. Eg.

"Marc Dunkelman spent years cataloging the many failures to revamp Penn Station, a number of which came complete with hefty doses of federal funding. Each time, the story was the same: Plenty of people who wanted to build, and plenty of money with which to build, but too many people with vetoes who simply didn’t want the building to happen."
Same with my bank. They should be fined for this, because they will refund 0 if you fall for this, and they’re encouraging this behavior
> because it was destroying their relationship to one of the strongest brands in the world. No one wanted Coke to be New. They had Pepsi for that. They preferred Coke to be their connection to the golden age of all their past good times.

I don't believe anything resembling this kind of thinking process goes through a typical customer's head, even subconsciously. It doesn't pass the smell test as a rationalization, and sounds to me like something people in advertising industry write to each other in reports to justify their high salaries.

I propose a simpler hypothesis: customers have already self-selected themselves into preferring Coke or Pepsi. New Coke didn't introduce any new value - people who would like it were already drinking Pepsi. At the same time, its existence was received as a threat by Coke customers, as a New Coke seems like something that's going to replace the good ol' Coke. People don't like change; in particular, they don't like when a product that works for them is changed, because that change is almost universally for the worse[0].

The difference between the above and what you described is that my hypothesis doesn't require from a customer to have anything other than a "Coke = cola drink that hits the 'sweet spot' for me" relationship. I don't see the reason to believe consumer brand perception to be anything more than that. Especially not consciously thinking about how a brand reminds one of the past, or something.

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[0] - Short-term. Sometimes it's worth to e.g. mix up user interfaces in software to enable further improvement. But with soft drinks, there's nothing other than short term.
The closed-access traditional publishing field fears the loss of their business model in favor of open access, in which researchers and the public can read articles without a paywall. To do this, they have tried to focus the attention of the public on low-end obscure open-access journals which they term "predatory journals" and hope that this discredits the idea of open access in general. The problem is that while bad open access journals certainly exist, so do bad closed-access journals.
> Call me crazy but doctors are over paid and given too much status in American society.

That's insane. You can google symptoms, but you can't google context. Doctors are paid to interpret not to regurgitate. As an example, let's talk airline pilots as an example, Air France Flight 447, the crash of an A330 over the Atlantic. The computers were giving incorrect airspeed readings because of frozen pitot tubes. The pilots, reacting based on the computers, ended up stalling the airplane. The computer gave erroneous information, the pilots (trained to fly the "Airbus way" -- i.e. the airplane knows more than you do,) reacted exactly as the computers told them to react.

The "doctoring by computer" concept, while can be beneficial, can't replace the judgement of a human, just like highly automated flight decks, can't replace the skill of experienced pilots.

Google also is a search engine. It only surfaces results that "rank" -- not necessarily results that are correct. And certainly not results that are necessarily correct for the specific combination of circumstances.
"Crypto AG was a Swiss company specialising in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018.[1] With headquarters in Steinhausen, the company was a long-established manufacturer of encryption machines and a wide variety of cipher devices."

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

Basically they were world's leading manufacturer of encrypted phones & fax machines for military use and it was revealed that they were controlled by German and US intelligence all along.

My suspicion for ProtonMail is only that it's too good to be true: A small amount per month to solve all my privacy/confidentiality needs w/o really inconveniencing me? I'm in!
Wuhan’s Lockdown Is Over. Its Economic Pain Is Just Beginning
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First of all, it's not 99.5%. A naive interpretation of these numbers is a 1% death rate, not 0.5%. 15,000 dead, out of an estimated ~1,680,000 with antibodies.

Second of all, deaths lag infections, and the actual death rate is closer to double the current death rate.

Third of all, you have no idea that if someone has antibodies, they are immune. As far as I know, nobody has tried infecting antibody-positive people... Or released studies that followed up on them, compared to an antibody-negative control group.

Fourth of all, World War II 'only' killed 3% of the world's population.

And lastly, if you lift the lockdown, and everyone gets sick all at once, the infection rate will spike dramatically. Because when hospitals are overloaded, people who can be saved are left to die. Not to mention that you'll be killing thousands of doctors, due to the high viral load they are exposed to.
If there's a person who won't be playing (let's call them moderator) then you can instead have everyone play rock-paper-scissors against them at the same time.
It works pretty well for large crowds.
Everyone draws at the same time and if you don't beat the moderator's hand then you sit down.
And then you just keep going until there's only one non-moderator left standing.
“The funding problem for SMEs is very urgent,” says Luo. “They don’t have capital flow.”
The point is to catch as many infected people as possible with limited available resources. When someone is found to have the virus, then contact tracing is used to identify even more infected people and to shut down local outbreaks asap. Only a minority of people with mild symptoms actually have the virus.
Nope, even 10 rpm is a big change. Going from standing air to any movement is a remarkable change in thermal conductivity.
As someone who sells on Amazon India, we made huge money on Amazon India.

Our process is rather simple.

Buy 100 units of some new promising product from Alibaba, list it on Amazon. Work on our marketing copy.

If it sells well, optimize packaging and sales copy, increase price and order 1000 units.

Then rise and repeat.

You'll be suprized how low is the competition on Amazon India and how high is the volume.

It seems local sellers are clueless for now.
The PowerPC G3 and G4 were great chips. The G3 was much better than competing x86 chips, and G4 beat contemporary ones consistently too.

The G5 wasn't great though. When Steve Jobs announced it, Apple already showed it only trading blows with the then-current Pentium 4 (a Pentium 4 - they sucked!). And a few months after the first Power Mac G5s were launched, they were already resoundly beaten by the new Athlon 64s [1].

Add to that the G5 was basically a POWER4 server chip, and IBM was only building server chips in the future, Apple basically had no choice. Nothing really to do with PowerPC vs x86, but more to do with what kind of processors their suppliers were willing to build.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20050605023250/https://www.pcwor...
Apple has been moving towards this direction for years so while I find it sad I don't think anyone will be surprised.
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It's not fixed. Many, many apps go haywire for me in HiDPI.
User agreements of these entities are onerous and impossible to challenge. They shield the companies in ways you cannot even fathom and allow many to steal your work and use as they please.
Don't forget performance. SquashFS has terrible IO performance and you pay that price every time you open an application.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/squashfs-is-a-terrible-storage-...

There's an even bigger security hole with Snaps. If a library is compromised on apt, they'll push the update and your applications will be updated. With a Snap, every single snap developer must somehow come across the error (which could be in a sub-dependency), find the fix, then deploy again. Very few (if any) dev teams are that well connected to the development of their dependencies. In contrast, the developers of those dependencies will be very well connected.
There's, frankly, probably not enough reagents and consumables on the planet for the US to achieve 500k tests a day. As far as I know no country anywhere has managed this level of testing. Germany - who've been doing the best at testing lately - have been stuck at about 50,000 tests a day for a few weeks now, maybe even decreasing slightly. If you take into account the difference in population, that's only the equivalent of the US doing 200,000 tests a day - and of course scaling up to a larger population is harder. That doesn't stop the American press making it sound like not achieving those 500,000 tests a day is the result of some uniquely American political failing though.
You should read the article to the end where he explicitly disavows that. Or for that matter, the beginning of the article, where he blames progressives for overly-empowering public consultations.

Ezra Klein is indeed left of center by US standards (which means he’s a centrist anywhere else). But he’s making a different point.

I listen to his podcast, and with characteristic understatement, he’s been saying something like “I think the government should be able to enact a program, and have voters judge if it’s a success.” He believes that because of vetocracy that parties now escape accountability as well, they never get to fully implement their idea so they gain electoral success by demonizing or blaming the other group. Klein is saying that he’ll even take a right wing idea (like education vouchers) as long as they get to really do it and own the success or failure. Over time he thinks we’ll get better policies that way & less empty ideological posturing.

(I believe I have fairly characterized Klein’s views here. They are not my own.)
I agree, but this is not universally believed. Many people argue that hospital capacity is not what matters, and we must continue lockdowns even if hospitals won't be overloaded to eradicate the disease.
Where does that say private hospitals shouldn't exist? All it implies, and which the article explicitly states, is that private hospitals will have to deal with making lower profits under M4A, which is obvious.

You're reaching. Why are you trying to push a right wing spin on M4A, when studies show that it would reduce costs and increase access to care?
> Printing money does not create goods and services - it merely decreases the value of each dollar relative to everything else.

Consider that during a recession, factories have surplus capacity to produce more goods. But people don't have money to spend, so the factories don't use that existing capacity, or increase their capacity.

Printing money can stimulate demand and thus increase production of goods.

> If I had a machine that could create an unlimited amount of gold at zero cost, the price of gold would approach zero if I made and sold enough of it.

Well, they haven't created an infinite amount (yet). What if the demand for your watches grows as fast as your machine can produce them?

> why does the monetary base increase?

Has inflation kept up with the growth of the money supply?
The problem with C++, for a lot of people, is not that it's impossible to do it right, but that it's easy to do it wrong.
That's a great point about user/organizational sophisitication. Hmm. I'll check out LOCKSS.
Which model and what fatality rates did they predict?
> accept that there is no confidentiality anymore. It's just not realistic to have a "secret" group with that many members

You do have a point, especially when it's a group where people are in their free time. However, if they are present for work they are less likely to leak information. Also, encryption should give a default level of privacy to build on.
One ridiculous thing I ran into was that USB-C hubs can block Wi-Fi that is on the 2,4ghz band. Solution? Wrapping it into foil somewhat works but I had to buy a new Wi-Fi access point. Sometimes rotating the USB-C adapters works too.
My standard response to that sort of thing is, "Sorry, but my personal policy is to not make any decision without sleeping on it first." That usually gets them right to the "deal is off" phase quickly, since there's really no good rebuttal for that. Or they leave their materials. Either way, they leave me alone.
I have wondered the same thing every time this question comes up. It seems the difference is that the companies that put products in grocery stores are very large companies that spend a huge amount on marketing themselves (e.g. P&G, General Mills). So, the "house brand" is less recognizable to consumers and sells at a discount to the known brand that is often a larger company than the grocery chain. The grocery stores need the name brands because shoppers come looking for them (and Safeway gets the benefit of all the marketing they do). In Amazon's case, they are serving as a distribution channel for many, many small brands, none of which are known as well as Amazon (whereas Kellogg's cereal is better known than Safeway). That changes the power dynamic in favor of Amazon.
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