skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the answer changes depending on if you're talking about your Netflix Login or the login to the production work server
Exactly, these are crazy, never-before-experienced times. In the short term there will be compromises. We should recognize that and give ourselves a break.
> And since SSNs already existed and were guaranteed unique,

Yeah.... about that: https://www.cio.com/article/3004596/a-tale-of-two-women-same...
I'm doing JS (vanilla and with React), Android and native (well Qt) myself.

It's just funny when pure JS devs go all "no you won't convince me to compile my code / use classes with lifecycles / etc, that's against the natural order!!!"
wget https://backend.unicorn-nest.com/investor/csv

They purport to assert some undefined kind of intellectual property rights over the data using a clickwrap contract. I modified the DOM to say "Disagree" before clicking. In the US, I'd think Feist would protect you from any copyright claims on the data, although I haven't looked at it in detail, so it might be creative.
> My biggest gripe with DDG is that if I search for a business, even when using the exact name, it will almost surely come back with a couple Yelp results (which is like getting a link to a 2005 MySpace page) followed by a dozen Facebook profiles that vaguely resemble the name of the business I was searching for.

I've had this same experience. Looking up businesses is pretty much the only time I use Google.
You can have e2e encryption without registration and you can have registration without e2e encryption - they are orthogonal to each other.
Yes.

At a basic level, most small companies still need a firewall/router and some switches in a closet. Maybe a local backup server? And a UPS to keep it going, and now you need to worry about the temperature.

Do you own the building? Probably not. Does the building landlord keep the HVAC going on nights and weekends? Probably only at a level sufficient to get things back to normal around 8AM the next work-day. So even if you install your own A/C: do you have sufficient power? Where does the exhaust go? Do you have a drain for the water you take out of the air, or a bucket? A nice bucket full of slightly oily water next to your machines? Better make sure there's nothing on the floor.

Add a few temperature sensors and flood-detectors, too. Rig an alert system.
I took a bunch of communication college classes while I was in high school. High school and K-12 are essentially glorifies day care and much less about the education. I was learning a lot faster with the condensed college classes than the high school classes which dragged on for the whole year.
Linux kernel bugs seem to have the greatest required level of expertise to debug. I've been programming for a few years, and kernel debugging is definitely not in my toolkit, and I know very few people who would know how. Currently, I'm facing a wifi kernel bug that keeps spitting out call traces to the system log, that I have absolutely no idea what to do with.
Plenty. A subroutine is a service. A library is a service. A Windows daemon is a service. The vendor I just inked a contract with provides a service. A web service is a service.

I really hate that word when used without further definition.
I thought Wire seems to suffer from the “Electron curse” (of being sluggish) on desktop. Then I realized that the app is slow on all platforms, including mobile. Any chat that has more than a few images brings the client to a crawl when scrolling. The company behind Wire also focuses on paying users (the solution targeted for teams and companies). So getting support is close to futile.
Help me test an astrological theory: need data
Learning Vedic Astrology is one of my covid activities at home. I would like to be able to test astrological theories. We need massive data sets. How do I go about this?

Example: one theory says that the significations of the sixth house and the planet in it from natal moon placement would indicate that the native carries ‘pending karma’ from a past lifetime. And in their 22.5 year, they would have shed tears about it. And when that emotion has been expressed, the karma gets cancelled. (I don’t know why it’s only tears, but it’s very specific).

I tested this with five people and their charts..and it was remarkably accurate. But that’s too small a sample set. I would like to be able to reference this with thousands and thousands of charts. I can’t stop studying astrology now.

Could predictive astrology be a hack to a future machine? What if we are all living in someone’s simulation and astrology is the hack and/or manual?
All conferences should be virtual in a post-coronavirus world
> My question is how much, if any, social unrest this will lead to.

My question is how many people have absolutely no ties to the stock market? I'm pretty far from any definition of rich, but I still have a 401k, so you're not likely to see me rioting because the S&P 500 is in the green.
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A warning to those who would abolish the bar exam
QQQ was a good growth bet, but so is pure AMZN. 50% of QQQ is FAAAMIN (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Intel, Netflix, with Cisco right below but they dont fit the acronym.)

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/backtest-portfolio?s=y&t...

Investing in Amazon is almost as profitable as a 3x leveraged parity risk bet on QQQ. I get what you are saying, "buy when people are fearful", but do you really think it will be more profitable than betting on the top 6 tech stocks?
I imagine that's true sometimes.

On the other hand, hypothetically, if it were the case that we were missing a key definition that's needed for some proof, and someone didn't believe that proof, then maybe we would't quite know enough yet to decide that the person is in mental kindergarten. A better first step for us might be to supply the missing definition.
Of course. 4x to anualize a quarter. To guesstimate for just one month, we need 12x, i.e., multiply by another 3x. And of course, all this ignores compounding, seasonality, etc. The point I was tying to make -- and evidently, I did a poor job at articulating it -- is that the annualized rate of GDP change for the quarter understates the economic shock in the month of March. And April is likely worse than March.
> you need good words to describe the objects/systems that you are building

Totally agree! And I would add, once you have come up with a word (or label), stick with it. There is nothing worse, in technical writing, than an author who keeps using different terms for the same thing in a single document. It leaves the reader with the task of keeping track of what is being described, and thus makes the doc harder to read.

I think there are several reasons for this:

* authors showing off their extensive vocabulary

* authors trying to add novelty by using new synonyms

* authors who haven't checked other parts of the doc to see what was said elsewhere.

In technical writing, the author's job is to communicate as consistently as possible to reduce the cognitive burden on the reader.
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My experience is exactly the opposite. When forced to use Chromium on Linux, I find it slow. The dev tools are lacking basic functionality that I came to depend on, and they are unreliable (missing requests in Network tab). When testing CSP protections about a year ago, Chromium allowed many of the requests that should have been blocked (and were, in Firefox).

I think it comes down to what one is used to. We probably learn to sidestep problems with any browser we use, but using a different browser inevitably leads to frustration.

Of course, this is not true if you are using Google services. Google seems to put an extra effort in making sure that their pages are as slow as possible in Firefox... I don't care much myself as I don't use them, but it's a good reminder of how (non)non-evil they have become.
For the global economy, the Baltic Dry Index. It's a benchmark for the price of moving major raw materials by sea. Surprisingly, it's at about the same value as last year at this time - so not horrible - and seems to have bottomed out last month. Good news overall.

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/baltic
Managed database services (for mysql and many others) for one are very popular
A team per microservice? That sounds really wasteful. How many microservices need constant evolution?
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Sure, and I agree that people can't afford to consume as much right this second. The question is what it'll look like in 3 months.
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I wonder if FreeBSD can saturate 1Gbit/s with the TUN wireguard driver. Linux's native driver is likely faster.
Anybody know what the benefits of a BSD jail might be over a VM?
Looks slick, great job on launching!

Any possibility of a way to purchase outside of the AppStore? I appreciate this is extra effort for possibly little extra reach but I have managed to survive without signing into my icloud and hopefully won't ever.
Still wont boot properly on Uefi whereas Ubuntu can. Why is that?
I don't get this. IPv4's address space is so small I can trivially scan any internal network, and there are a ton of ways to gather that data covertly from behind the firewall via maliciously crafted web pages or apps, abuse of any number of P2P apps or protocols (VoIP, video chat, WebRTC, etc.), and so on. IPv6 actually makes scanning harder since the address space is massive. E.g. if I have a /64 routed internally I have to scan 2^64 addresses to find internal hosts!

If knowing internal IP addresses is a security risk, then IMHO you have serious security problems. I used to do netsec too and the cornerstone was internal scans for unpatched or rogue systems and services and keeping systems patched and locked down. A network is only as secure as what is connected to it! We also had smart switches and APs where you could lock port to MAC and IP and thus could prevent rogues.

My personal rule was: any system that would not be safe to directly connect to the Internet without a firewall is insecure and needs to be fixed. The only exception is backplanes for things like internal databases/services or testing/dev, and those were separate networks for that purpose only. Separation was either physical or virtual/cryptographic. Back then we didn't have stuff like ZeroTier so we did that with IPSec and it was ugly, but we did it. Those nets could sometimes access the Internet (with restrictions) but could not even see the controlled internal LAN. They accessed the net via a port to outside the DMZ.

Next up was auditing software installed on internal systems. Next up was monitoring network traffic to detect anomalous activity. Firewalls are always the last line of defense. NAT is not a security feature at all.

I never once worried about keeping internal IPs secret (why?) and we ran IPv6 internally without NAT because IPv6 NAT is dumb.

We had two incidents when I was there. Both were the result of phishing to get malware onto personal PCs or phones.

My very strong personal opinion is that security people worry about the wrong things. They worry about network security and firewalls when what should really terrify them is phishing, auto-updating software made by who-knows-who, popular apps and SaaS services that are invisible security dumpster fires (Zoom anyone?), and of course barbarous demonic evocations like "npm install ...". Your firewall will do very little to save you from any of that, and NAT won't do crap because once again NAT is not a security feature.
The difference is the word own.

In all the examples given earlier, the words "I have a datacentre" (or the approximate "I have my own datacenter") vs "I own a datacentre" (or the approximate "I own my own datacentre") have very significant differences.

In the UK, many people would say "I have a flat in this district" and that would be understood as being a renter, since some UK neighborhoods are just too expensive, and renting is the norm rather than ownership.

Similar in North American cities "I have an apartment in a brownstone in Manhattan" - does not necessarily mean they own it, but it could mean ownership or rental or lease or rent-controlled/stabilized tenancy (which could go on for multiple decades/generations of inhabitancy).
I definitely don’t understand anybody who is working towards a goal other than not having to work a job anymore. Being free to spend your time in the way you deem best, free to help those around you in whatever way you see fit sounds pretty nice to me. But freedom can also be terrifying, especially if you don’t know what you want.
The crux of the problem with agile. Agile has poisoned the industry, we got many products launched before agile without problems. It wasn't waterfall either. People had areas of ownership, you might give a rough time estimate so the stake holders had some idea of how long it would take. Or you were hired for a contract where you had a set of requirements and a 6 or 9 month length of contract to complete them. Under agile you attempt to micro manage when the managers are technically clueless by design its the worst train wreck ever.
Onetimesecret worked well for me. Can also be self hosted.
That's kind of the point of inflation though, isn't it? If you accept that money exists to facilitate trade and improve on the barter system (not necessarily a reasonable assumption, especially since money is flexible enough that it could very well serve other purposes if we wanted and allowed it to), then it's a bit odd to let it hold its value in perpetuity because the delayed nature of such transactions no longer represents the barter system that money was meant to replace.

As a simplified example, suppose that 1 duck is generally worth 2 chickens and that monetary prices reflect this (e.g. ducks are worth $10 and chickens $5). I sell you a duck for $10. Time goes on, and the relative values swap -- ducks are worth $5, and chickens are worth $10. I buy two ducks from you for $10. Those two _monetary_ transactions if compressed in time into the bartering that money was meant to replace would represent me trading one of my ducks for two of yours, which assuming no other hidden variables is an unrealistic trade that would never happen.

The relative values of goods shift constantly, and arguably a dollar yesterday really isn't conceptually the same thing as a dollar today -- even though they can both be represented with the same slip of paper. Inflation is one strategy to align money more closely with its role as a medium of exchange.

standard disclaimers -- opinions are my own not my employer's, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an economist, the above is a simplified model and blatantly ignores huge swathes of fiscal policy, ....
Me too. My "dev" script compiles regardless of type check (often I do have it display warnings/errors), and the "build" script explicitly does not compile unless it passes all type checks. It works well for my workflow, sketching quickly until it shapes up, then fill in the details to edit and refine.
April 1 was basically the bottom point for the market, so everything's up on rebound since then, but only because it all crashed starting on Feb 20.

I don't think any of the market growth from this month reflects actual economic growth, most just optimism or perhaps reined-in pessimism.
That would only really happen where workers are actually getting compensation commensurate with the value of their work. That hasn't been true for years (if ever) in the US.

Also essential doesn't really mean their more in demand now than before in all industries. Mechanics for example are essential and still at work but cars if anything will be needing less maintenance now than before because so many people are out of work and not driving anywhere for vacations.

Additionally the places where there is simply an increased demand and need are a lot of 2 types of job 1) warehouse workers or 2) manufacturing. Warehouse workers don't have that strong of a bargaining position because places like Amazon are already used to constant turnover, surge by up to 200k a year already, and only really need warm relatively able bodied people of which there are loads right now that'd love a job. Manufacturing people are in a slightly better position as it's harder to just throw bodies at it but factories have limited ability to ramp up. Grocery store workers are kind of (1) employees where it's very easy to replace workers so it's tough for ununioned employees to demand hazard pay or raises because it's very easy to find replacements, especially so now when there's so many other service industry jobs that are out of work right now.
Your activity in public spaces is PII, it's as unique to you as your face.
Doesn't the Hessian take O(N²) space in the number of independent variables? Like, if you have one dependent variable and a million independent variables, isn't the Hessian a trillion-element matrix, albeit a symmetric one?
Using a lambda to route requests to other lambdas would result in you effectively doubling your Lambda cost, as your routing lambda would sit idling while waiting for the target lambda to return a result. If you're using API Gateway, it has a canary deployment option which can route percentages of customer traffic to different Stages, which gives you the gradual rollout capability that you wanted.
You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Dues
That's an interesting view of it, I did not consider it. It is essentially the way we are using credit cards - we are not increasing our leverage, but at the same time, we are building a credit history for the company. Just sent you an email about your offer :)
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Implementing while loops in WASM using binaryen.js
Unless you provide any numbers I think most people would rather enjoy life than think how many nanograms of CO2 they’re releasing when sending an email.
Ahh, I didn't read that parent comment with a sense of sarcasm.

As long as I have breath in my lungs, I will do whatever I can for the least of my brothers.
Someone should tell them that you don't need Flash to implement "Copy to Clipboard" anymore.
Maybe, but

lack of motivation

unable to enjoy things you previously liked

disinterest in the future

constant low energy

Are classic signs of clinical depression. Nobody gets diagnosed with clinical depression based on brain chemistry, they get diagnosed on symptoms. And these symptoms are basically the same ones.
There's more to inflation than CPI. For example, the entire stock market is being inflated right now with these dollars. We should be experiencing deflation because many classes of assets should be crashing harder than they are. Keeping things steady when they should be deflating is still taking my money through inflationary forces.
I think this is cool. Not going to bother anyone just yet. For any VCs reading this, do you like this sort of thing or is it intrusive? Feels like your inbox would get powerbombed with shitty dealflow.
All major application platforms have decent support for RTL, but more often than not it's up to a developer to use the built-in tools (or develop new ones if they had chosen to use a non-standard UI implementation). It might seem that supporting RTL is as easy as flipping a switch and calling it a day, but it's really not. Developers have to invest resources into supporting foreign (from their point of view) layouts.

Interestingly, the issue seems to be similar to that of missing accessibility features. I believe the reason here is the same — if you don't expect many users who would make use of the feature, it gets overlooked.
Yes - there seems to be an assumption that they have jobs until the money runs out.
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Hashicorps Vault has a feature called wrapping, this allows you to share a secret in a way that it can be opened once (with an expiration date as well)
What does interaction with shopkeepers, tradesmen, and people of all ages and all walks of life have anything at all to do with homeschooling??? Kids can (and do) go to school and do all that too.
For those that want to use this dataset for analytical purposes, research. Use this link:

https://backend.unicorn-nest.com/investor/csv

No terms are required to be agreed to if downloading directly.
> note that if you make $40k/yr you're in the top 1% of humans already

Ok but $40k/yr in Mississippi or Africa is markedly different from $40k/yr in a place like the Bay Area...
Guns don't kill people, people kill people. With guns.
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> why did it become idiomatic to pass pointers and lengths separately in C?

I've read that it's because there used to be binary interface issues with structures. They can be returned from functions and passed as parameters but it isn't immediately clear how that happens: is it on the stack, in one register or in several registers? Even today there are compiler options that affect the generated code in those cases:

-fpcc-struct-return

Return “short” struct and union values in memory like
longer ones, rather than in registers.

-freg-struct-return

Return struct and union values in registers when possible.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#ind...

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html#ind...

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Incompatibilities.html#in...
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obviously untrue since you can't be "objectively better" on subjective criteria, of which there are many.

i'll tell you though, the #1 subjective thing i hate is that single-click in the Chrome (Chromium) omnibar doesn't honor OS selection convention. unless you're on windows, where single click selects-all. having this behavior forced on Mac is jarring and awful and no amount of pleading would convince the dictatorial "my way is the right way" attitude of the gatekeepers. they refuse to even have a hidden flag to control this behavior. it's actively hostile.

the incongruity can be seen by clicking in any form field. eg chrome://flags search field. Note that single-click merely places the cursor on mac in a form field. then go to the omnibar. single-click selects-all. ARGH!

I had hoped Edge would fix this, but alas, no. (Also Opera keeps this behavior.)

Fast forward to newer behavior of hiding the protocol from the omnibar, until you click on it. Now when you click (or click-drag, the "proper" way to select less than the entire URL in one stroke, thank you oh overlords), as soon as you release the text changes and your mouse is no longer at the selection point. ARGH!! so awful.

I can't tell you how much I hate this poor implementation choice. However it's not enough to push me to FireFox, which is subjectively very much worse than Chrome.
> My question is how much, if any, social unrest this will lead to.

There is deep rot at the heart of the American system, and something is going to have to give. The economy has been broken for the lower 50% for a long time now. This course is unsustainable.

I try not to get explicitly political on here, but Bernie Sanders was, as far as I can see, our last shot at reversing the trend from within the current system. He is the only person on Capitol Hill with the motivation to make the real changes that desperately need making. Joe Biden will just pretend the problem doesn't exist for another four years. Trump, as a leader, is just an agent of chaos with no ideals and no plan. I can't totally blame people for taking a chance on that over the continued, slow march of rot.

I think we're going to start seeing escalating social unrest until something breaks. All we can hope for is that something breaks sooner rather than later, and that we get whatever new deal needs making before things get too bad.