skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminder that the same government has leaked billions of records so far. More leaks than the people in the entire country.

One example - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/04...

And you can find many. You won't get anyone caring about privacy in government offices. A lot of government workers here are negligent pension parasites. I expect the same in most parts.

I know of a few sites where they don't do any validation on the server side and it's easy to fake being authenticated by sending an additional header. There are quite a few sites with firebase without any granular validation or access control implemented. Some even allow SQL injection attacks using some old php framework. I sent them email but no response. And Frankly speaking, I would be very worried about sending anything security related to government without using some anonymous non traceable email because you might be put into jail.

They can't even handle surges in scale. Most government sites are broken. Any student who has ever had to deal with it knows it. Any business person who depends on those sites for approval knows it.

They also require biometrics to sign in some of those sites now. Absolutely baffling with no alternative.

This is absolutely bad. More so as when they want to release personal protection data bill around September - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Data_Protection_Bil...

Obligatory internet shutdowns - https://internetshutdowns.in/

Jio using sni to block sites - https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/reliance-jio-...

They block more than porn sites including vpns and normal communication tools - https://qz.com/india/1547142/not-just-porn-indian-telecom-fi...

This is a surveillance state in the making.
Ref 3:

1. Prices in USD

2. Quotes Philly Mag. (Philladelphia?)

3. Mentions how generous tipping is required to help servers survive

Yeah, of course one would assume it’s about US. I’m honestly very surprised if it isn’t.
Has this been measured in tobacco-based vape liquid?
If I explain something to a coworker and he doesn't understand it, I think that is because I explain it badly and will try to reformulate or find someone else to explain it.

But it only works because I consider my colleagues. If a random person does not undestand, I will react differently.
Why do you need to install Kubernetes on your local machine?
At my company we use Mesos/Marathon and Kubernetes in production. We clearly need to install Docker on our desk to try out our images, but I fail to see why we would need a local K8s or marathon.
Yet I see multiple posts a day on HN saying they need tons of Ram to run their local cluster. Why is that? What do I miss?
I don't know about any research supporting this (see what I did there) but in my experience the best performing teams provide a safe space - where you are not immediately judged or criticised for mistakes, uncertainty or asking questions - but this necessary to bleed upwards to not holding teams to unrealistic deadlines, to careful assessment of quality of definition of work set, even towards what Incall "outcome driven development" where we set metrics to be changed and then assert commits will change said metrics

Conversely my worst work has been done when i have bullshitted and now need to keep up the lie.
Pro-tip - don't do this

Pro-tip-2 - confidence that you can do something you have not done before, when having a history of success in the field is not the same as bullshitting

Anyway it's hard to measure objectively- but you tend to reward the right people when you do.

And no, markets don't do that nearly as well as you might think
Games that do a good job of keeping the arcade format are a lot more immersive. Fact is, VR today can only put you in a single room. So the entire game needs to be build around that constraint to maintain immersion.

Space Pirate Trainer is another game that did a really good job of this. Before Beat Saber, that was easily my favorite, though wow Beat Saber is _so good_. Blarp is another game that did a great job of immersing you into a single room and making the most of the mechanics.

More "full" games don't work as well, because they have to figure out some way to transport you around the world without breaking immersion or causing nausea. And I don't think anyone has pulled it off well.

I am confident we will have more games that stand up to Beat Saber. It's a platform that requires discarding a lot of the strengths that video games have in order to work well, and developers have to re-learn a lot more from scratch than I think anyone realized when the platforms started.
Ah sorry, of course you're right!
Even cpt. Sisko's dad ran a restaurant on a world where anyone can walk up to the nearest wall and ask for the very best of any food.
I don't think people realize the gravity of what's being done. While google and apple design nice apis which can do contact tracing while maintaining privacy, that's not how contact tracing will be implemented as shown by this app. It requires :

- a mobile phone number
- location and bluetooth, always on
- name,profession

The mobile number part concerns me. Government wants to use it as a way to contact people but the potential for abuse is there.

Installing this app is mandatory for public and private companies. So if you are an employee, you have no choice in the matter. It's like a surveillance state in the making.

They are also planning an e pass feature which will be required to board a flight/metro. Chinese level dystopian shit in the works.

To top it all off, non compliance is a criminal offence. FYI the law enforcement, legal system is a complete joke in India.

Random cops stopping to ensure you have the app installed? Happening. Non complaince? Do situps, get beaten with a lathi. I wish I was joking.

Edit : Manufactures will need to preinstall it on new devices. You can see where this is going.

More reading :

- https://internetfreedom.in/workers-privacy-during-covid-19/

- https://internetfreedom.in/45-organizations-and-105-prominen...

- https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/how-to-us...
awk is a language with multiple implementations, so we can only talk about performance of a particular awk implementation. Which is especially true for awk because mawk (based on a vm rather than being a traditional interpreter) is so much faster than other awks if you can live with its limitations [1]. If you're using gawk, setting LANG=C also helps performance because no utf-8 honoring needs to be done. Speaking of which, I've noticed gawk on recent Ubuntus (19.10) appears broken and/or has regexp size limits breaking awk code with large regexpes (but haven't checked yet thorougly).

[1]: https://brenocon.com/blog/2009/09/dont-mawk-awk-the-fastest-...
The wikipedia article mentions xenophobia but I think things like OCD/anorexia would be quite interesting in this context.
Except that layoffs.fyi which publishes lists of people being laid off together with their titles and linkedin/email addresses lists software engineers in the same companies that post a week later posted in "Who is hiring" looking for software engineers.
Yep! Sorry, I broke that late last night. I've fixed it with https://github.com/shreyasminocha/regex-for-regular-folk/com....

It was fairly unintuitive for someone unfamiliar with the source, so no worries :D
It was the oil exchange traded funds (ETFs) who trade the oil contract that suddenly found themselves trapped between owning oil contracts and not being able to offload them in time for delivery.

Commodity prices are based on the delivery of the physical goods for a given month. If you don't get rid of the contract by the date stipulated in the contract, you are contractually obligated to take delivery.

If you're a financial institution setup to buy contracts from producers and sell contracts to refineries, you probably don't have any infrastructure to take delivery and safely store crude (which is highly toxic stuff).

This is partly why prices went negative. Too many contracts were held by institutions who could not deal with delivery.

IMHO I believe there are other reasons behind negative oil prices:

* Co-ordinated central bank action since 2008 that has led to 'ZIRP'--zero interest rate policy.

* ZIRP leads to the misallocation of capital (US shale may not have happened if interest rates were higher)

* The Petrodollar System (oil is denominated in USD)

* The Eurodollar System (non-US banks make USD denominated loans to non-US firms)

* Geo-politics of the US reserve currency status which is being challenged by Russia (Russia doesn't like the foreign policy constraints that come with the USD being the world's reserve currency)

* Geo-politics of the Saudis not liking US oil production (the Saudi influence on US geopolitics has waned since the US has become the largest oil producer)

* The 'milkshake dollar theory' (the USD will gain relative to other currencies and that will cause systemic domestic and global economic problems).

The obvious thing is to blame it all on the COVID-19 demand shock, but I think it's really a multivariate problem. The global economic outlook and geopolitics were shaky prior to the pandemic.
I can only speak for the UK regulatory environment here, but actually the situation is better than you might imagine. The best example is alarming - there are some common alarm patterns (the pattern you beep and flash your lights) for different priorities of alarm.

My understanding is that these aren't standrards you must adhere to, but because they're 'accepted' using them makes your life much easier with the regulators so everyone does unless they've got a good reason not to.
It is a question of whether it will cost more to store the oil than it does to "sell" it at a loss.

That said, I doubt many producers truly sold for negative prices. The negative prices were a commodities market effect where traders were required to pay to offload their futures contracts in order to not take delivery of the oil. In other words, I suspect the commodities traders bore the brunt of the negative pricing.
Here is the Nokia maps solution right? Is popular with some people I know
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Two telltale signs of a mature mind: if someone readily admits he does not know something, or if someone readily admits he was wrong. Call it metacognitive skills if you want.
Fixed it! Thanks.
Cycles are quite common in IT fashion industry, Microsoft isn't the only one playing the game, others are much worse.

Try to compare the Android best practices across all IOs since Android exists.
I use two, with very different filters. Since I use them for different things there’s not much overlap between the configurations. The total volume of conf is probably larger than if I’d used one client only, but the user experience is also a lot better (for me) since I can use the best tool in more cases.
> She did drug tourism. Does it make the data less trustworthy?

Mmmh... Yes it does?.

Would we build the hanging bridge designed by the drunk engineer, or would take the design of the sober boring guy? This is not much different.

This looks more a quest for social acceptation in the line of "craving to be seen as cool" than about dry truth. Probably fueled by horrible working conditions as researcher or by the pressure of finding something, whatever, before a narrow interval of time expires. Can bring the beacon and even show something new and unexpected, but can distroy also her credibility pursuing a ghost race. Is a treacherous path.

"The first time I went, I found this place that was in my dream. It was just exactly the same as what I saw in my dream. It was the same man I saw in my dream, grinning in the same way as he was in my dream."

This paragraph honestly triggers a blinking red flag for me.

"of course, all plants are psychedelic"

seriously?
Developing a sense of what you know or do not know is a big part of learning. In ML, this is called confidence estimation and is harder than actually learning the task. Most ML models just learn to solve the task and have shit confidence estimations. I presume with humans it takes many years of learning a subject to really know how much you do not know. It's a process of calibration of confidence based on lots of background knowledge on the topic (going from unknown unknowns to known unknowns).
Yeah, I messed that up late last night. Fixed!
Working on a handheld device with fingers requires different approach than keyboard and mouse put on a desk together with the device, the trouble is with the OS and software not with the technical specification. If those are made for one, effective for one, will be crippled for the other. Also try using the same software on both 5" and 32" and with either finger only or keyboard and mouse only, efficiently. Good luck with that!

If powerful processor and plenty of RAM would make a laptop then your Playstation was a laptop too! :)
I don't know about others but in my experience if I get a new hire who doesn't ask any questions there's a good chance they've got no idea what they're doing. Nothing worse than having to constantly prompt someone to let you know that they're stuck because they refuse to say anything.
“Let” is mutable in Basic, too, but the part of the population that is used to that is shrinking.

As to short, equal length options for ‘let’ and ‘val’: one could consider using punctuation. Forth uses colons instead of ‘fun’, and I think, in a concise language, one could get used to using, say, ‘!’ for immutable and ‘~’ for mutable. Unfortunately, they aren’t easy to type. An alternative could be to always assume immutability and only use ~ in the rare cases where one needs to mutate.

So, a simple

foo = 3

or, if one wants to simplify parsing:

= foo 3

introduces a new immutable variable, and

~ foo = 3

or

~ foo 3

a mutable one. If we allow leaving out spaces:

~foo 3

that starts to look like using sigils to indicate mutable state. I think that might be a good option in a mostly immutable language.

I think I would use Forth’s colon instead of ‘=‘. That would make ‘=‘ available for equality testing, allowing us to get rid of ‘==‘.
Idk why your comment is down voted or flagged, the comic is relevant.
There it is! https://refrf.shreyasminocha.me/book

Printing instructions are on the home page.
Buffer stock gets wasted every year or mysteriously stolen. They stock more than they need to for some odd reasons again (oh yeah, they need to have something to sell in the black market).

7k+ people die every day due to hunger in india. If government cared when they could easily solve this. (3k are kids).

So I don't think it's about people.

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Yup - plenty of flat-roofed pubs still out there.
The real question is, after this all dies down, will these apps be repurposed and become the new normal?
If I were him... and stumbled upon some of these zoom meetings I wouldn't even bother covering my tracks... it would make it feel illegal...

As per Zoom's privacy model if you have the link you have the right to join, right? So really... in a way... he was invited.
Secondhand (passive) smoking often isn't. :(
‘Indians should work for 60 hours a week for next 2-3 yrs’: Narayana Murthy
> I should try not to because it takes readers away from our site, and they might not come back.

> I suspect that many sites have the same line of reasoning.

Not your fault, obviously, but FFS: this is the most vapid line of reasoning. If I want to find out more I'm going to leave your site anyway, so surely it's better if I'm not irritated by your lack of citations when I do inevitably go?

Does Wikipedia worry about people leaving and not coming back? No. Do you know why I go back to Wikipedia all the effing time, often using it as a starting point for research? Well, one of the big reasons is that many articles have a decent list of authoritative citations and external links at the bottom that I can use to find out more when I need or want to.

Talk about myopic: even the BBC do this, and it's incredibly frustrating. Absolutely smacks of some clueless senior manager[1] setting up the wrong metrics for measuring site performance.

[1] Manager bashing is a bit of a tired trope here on HN and I'm not trying to make a generalisation but, as with every job, some of them are certainly idiots/clowns.
I was disagreeing with the statement that "Comparing [complexity] to something as fundamental as energy is pure bollocks." There is, in fact, a discipline that studies complexity -- computer science, and, in particular the field of complexity theory. Complexity was, in fact, found to be fundamental and "irreducible". Two people, Hartmanis and Stearns, did, in fact, discover that through a comparison to physics [1] in 1965, and for that discovery -- that led to the creation of complexity theory -- they won the Turing Award in 1993.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1283920.1283949
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I used to get cod liver oil as well: a spoonful a day in the morning, served with half a glass of orange juice for vitamin C and to get rid of the taste :-@

It only helped so much, here I am, just a software engineer, not a millionaire yet :-p
the 'context onself' is americans talking about america. got it.
Sounds like the restaurants need to form their own Visa [1] so that they might retain more.

[1] https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_Inc.
You can easily get sub 2% in the US if you shop around and have ok volume. Just as much exaggeration in this thread as in the article.
Even if this works today, it might fail by next Android update.

Also don't complain if Google eventually removes any app from Play Store that happens to have this library on the APK.
It boils down to supply and demand, though, right?

I think the large number of people who love programming makes getting an "elite" programming job difficult.

But, I think the vast majority of people think they'd hate or couldn't do programming, and so never consider it as a job despite how much demand there is for it. And that keeps our entry level wages safe.
I was under the impression this happened quite a while ago...
Not everything needs to be future proof, being useful right in the moment is good enough.
As lockdowns stretch on, is edtech passing or failing?
I don't think some of that is due to malice but incompetence/disregard for privacy in the IT sweatshops that produced it.
Surely that's an example of how parser-friendly syntax empowers tooling? I imagine that it would be much harder to guess intention and fixes from lookahead and context if those were already necessary to make sense of correct code?
Turn off at the OS level unless you're actively using it, or use a headset with a hardware switch/detachable mic.
You can buy some cheap 3.5mm earphones, cut the wire right in the beginning, and plug it into your microphone slot, and assign that as your mic. If you're on mobile, it'll automatically do it. Basically piping from /dev/null
Learning git bisect starts being worth it if you have more than let's say 8 commits between the last good version and first bad version, and usually you don't (in small projects at least).
This is beyond fucked up! Faraday cages? Fake apps? What's the tech solution for this problem?
Actually I think this is what they call psychological safety in the state of DevOps report https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/the-2019-a...
I agree. Nutritional science is in its infancy but it's impact could be huge in a few years if it's properly funded. Unfortunately there are lots of vested interests in nutritional science not advancing and remaining a gray area. The main contenders are fast food companies, companies that produce unhealthy foods for the supermarket and big pharma who can't patent a food or food supplement.

To be blunt it's just not a profitable business to sell good nutrition, much more profitable to get people hooked on junk food and pain pills.
I've read stories that they just dump fish remnants in a large pot with boiling water and scrape the oil from the top. But it may be FUD spread by the more expensive brands.
Rob Pyke talks about this in more depth here in the Go blog [0]

0 - https://blog.golang.org/declaration-syntax
That may explain why diesel is so rare for consumer cars and SUVs in the US compared to Europe.
> Also, ingested radioactive emitters are impossible to remove from the human body.

I think that’s only true for things we don’t metabolize?
That's what I said though. After saving for a year all I could afford would be like a 10 year old car. That's why I'm saying that buying a new car for cash must be the reserve of someone super rich.
1. If the data is collected anonymously, why is the mobile number required?

2. What if an employee has only a feature phone, not a smartphone?
I used to be a big fan of conventional branches and commits (feat, fix, etc.), but realistically after a few years this scheme has never been useful once. It just wastes precious characters in commit messages.