skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These BRICKS and MOONS are ERC20 tokens which means they can be traded with other users on things like Uniswap, used as collateral for loans on Compound, and integrated into games such as Cryptovoxels. Being a token enables a lot more use cases than simply being another number in their servers.
Im building the webapp for PyATL (python Atlanta group). Progress is slow but steady. Streaming it on https://twitch.com/pyatl (the stream might not be for everyone). Code is at https://github.com/pyatl/big-peach See it live at https://pyatl.dev Note that this is a super bare bones web app right now.
I already know what's going to happen:

1. They will launch.

2. They will find out that Ethereum doesn't scale.

3. They will move to an off-chain solution.

On the plus side, the extra demand generated by Reddit will boost Ethereum transaction fees to insane levels which is going to make the Ethereum price go up (because higher fees = more lucrative mining). Then the Ethereum/Reddit insiders who organized this elaborate corporate scam are going to cash out.

I can't believe how quickly people forgot about CryptoKitties. Surely Reddit developers know about Ethereum's limits.

It seems that we have entered into a new economic era. It's called "Let's use cryptocurrency as a way to collaboratively fool our corporate employers for personal profit".

1. Find a big corporation whose managers are naive enough to agree to participate in some hyped up and non-scalable blockchain project.

2. Convince your managers to start such a project and do it in such a way that this project is going to boost demand for cryptocurrency X.

3. Employees buy cryptocurrency X.

4. Project launches, cryptocurrency X struggles to handle the load and as a result, transaction fees skyrocket, sharply driving up the token price.

5. Employees sell their cryptocurrency X at the peak.

6. Users complain about high fees. Employer realizes that this is not going to work and abandons the project.

7. Price crashes back to what it was before. Corporate employees are pleased with their profits. Corporation has no clue that they've just been scammed by their own employees. End users of the service who had to actually pay for the transaction fees paid for most of the cost.

Companies should be launching their own blockchains, not ERC-20 tokens; that only benefits Ethereum.
Double precision has been the mainstay of scientific computing for decades, and no, it's not because all those scientists are dumb.
Just creating a decision tree based on your understanding would help a lot. A programmer would need this anyway. This can be in text format
I'm building a search engine to find free web services.
https://freeplan.app

It's a week old now and I have around 2000 services listed.

This services rose from my own need to understand how to build something as cheap as possible. Working on this gave me the understanding how many services gives you a free plan which is good enough to solve a problem you care.
The executive branch (under GWB, Obama and Trump) has argued the law is ambiguous. Since congress just considered this amendment and rejected it, it will be harder for the Supreme Court to rule that the executive branch misinterpreted the law when it concluded that 100% digital surveillance is OK.

We already have secret courts and indefinite pre-trial detention in the US. This is another small step in the creation of a police state.

The precedent this vote created only took 37 votes in a chamber that is skewed much further right than the electorate. It would take about 55% of the vote to get the senate to be 50% democrat. That would give them enough procedural control to stop this sort of thing (if they bothered; they didn’t under Obama...)

This is not democracy in action. This is democracy in its death throes.
You may also look at Kotlin coroutines in VertX, that we are using and seem to work just fine.
> Another one of the servers isn't based on Apache at all, it's a compiled executable (yeah, .exe) running on Windows. It starts off of .ini files.

So? If you think any of what you've said means Certbot can't be used: again, it's pretty clear that you don't know what Certbot does.

Certbot works anywhere you have a command line and an internet connection, and can be automated if you have cron or a cron-like utility.

There might be a bit more complexity if you have to open a port for callback or store the certs in memory or in a database, but we're still talking < 20 lines of shell code.

> CertBot doesn't work everywhere for everything that has ever served HTTPS in the history of computing. This shouldn't be something I have to mention but I guess I have to do it.

That may be true, but so far all the examples you've given are just examples of you not knowing how Certbot works.

Really dude, I don't know why you want to have an argument about Certbot without knowing anything about Certbot. Anyone who spends a few minutes reading the Certbot docs can see you haven't researched it. Probably nobody is reading this besides me, but if they are, you aren't impressing them, and you aren't persuading me. There's nothing wrong with not knowing anything about Certbot, but it's a bit silly to pretend you do when you don't.

If there are technical reasons you can't use Certbot, you certainly haven't said any of them, and the things you think are reasons just demonstrate a lack of knowledge. Again, there's nothing wrong with not knowing things. But seriously, this would save you so much time! Why wouldn't you at least look into it?
I agree with you. When there was a SpaceX article about bazel, it'd be a bit unfortunate to see a top comment be something about an exploding rocket.

(In reality, there were zero comments, so w/e)
Pascal also invented a few mechanical calculators[0] which might considered in a way precursor to modern computers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_calculator
All true, but there is also a lot of interesting stuff on the site, because there are a lot of interesting people. I don't really care if YC startups get to post at #6 on the front page occasionally. Plus, they're often interesting, so it's "targeted advertising" but done the right way.
I can't tell if you are trolling. I'll assume good faith.

We show ID to enter bars. We show ID to buy certain products. I provide identifying information when I pick up tickets at will call. Some items (like houses, cars, guns) you have to register the purchase with a government authority

Asking about contraband was totalitarian because they were trying to control what information people had and made certain thoughts/books verboten. Customs/border patrol has asked for ... ever? what you are bringing into the country.

I'm not saying the government would get an automatic transcript of every purchase I've made. I'm saying individual restaurants could collect a list of unique but meaningless numbers on a piece of paper or wherever they want. If the restaurant gets tagged as a place where COVID is believed to be spread, then the government now has a way to contact everyone who had visited the store.
I've discovered the world of fountain pens! I purchased a TWSBY pen, Pilot ink, and a notebook with Tomoe River paper. I feel like I have been missing out on a truly wonderful handwriting experience for my entire adult life. I had no idea pens could be so enjoyable.
Just stay in your house without paying the mortgage. The court system is going to be completely overloaded once it opens back up again, so it's unlikely that they'll be able push a foreclosure through anytime soon, let alone an eviction. It'll probably be at least a year before they can push the paperwork through to actually take possession of the property, and by that time there's a good chance the issuing bank will be bankrupt.

We're rapidly entering an era where possession is 9/10ths of the law. Hold onto physical possession, because you can't count on the law still being there.

(On second thought, as someone looking to buy a house in the near future - please do vacate the property, and leave it in good condition, so it can be sold for cheap in a foreclosure auction and I can buy it. </haha-only-serious>)
Watching porn is healthy and normal. Like any form of entertainment it can be abused, but there isn't a moral panic about binge watching Netflix or video gaming. Like anything, it's best in moderation.
Good point. I would say that even if we know how funding works we cannot predict the future. We do not know what circumstances will prevail at the time actions/decisions need to be made. With the best of intentions it is still possible to have to renege on a promise made. My argument is don't make promises. But even where they are made we should just read them as a general statement of intent. As an example a certain government promised to conduct 100,000 covid-19 tests per day by a certain deadline. When the deadline hit they only got as far as 80,000+ or so. They got hammered for failing to meet the target. But I'm thinking yes they missed the target but we're a lot better off than when the promise was made. If they hadn't made any promise and achieved the same result the press might have celebrated it (probably not).
You are absolutely right, which is why I was "hoping". I just had an awful experience with a power tripping moderator on a mental health related subreddit. I have no recourse, I just had to move on.
Having done both for a long period of time, having the “face time” really makes a big difference for communication type meetings. However, it’s not as useful for instructional or co-working type meetings where you really only care about the screen sharing.
I've looked at doing something involving a roux but I'm always somewhat nervous of burning the shit out of it which I really shouldn't be.

I remember seeing Isaac on Binging with Babish once, I'll definitely check him out. Thanks!
Looking for devs willing to evaluate an API product and give honest feedback
The product is an object store with custom metadata schema and additional functionality, delivered as a service. I'm trying to better understand where developers see value. Compensation based on experience.
> The US president has the power to unilaterally order a nuclear strike on any point on the planet at any time they choose, ...

Not likely. The U.S. armed forces would not carry out such an order.

The President has a lot of military and foreign policy power, but not a lot of domestic policy power. This thread is about domestic policy.
> So we need to protect … the old and sick … and the rest of us need to get back to work.

Since you are quoting Sweden as a benchmark for wherever you may be, allow me to add another: in Africa (well South Africa at least) 40% of the fatalities are under 60.

[1] https://corona-stats.mobi/en/ZA/national.php
I mean, there are easier and more universal ways to break signup forms without needing a service. If that is what you are into.
Apple's identifier can't be turned off; you can manually change it as often as you like, but it involves enough clicks that I bet few people do.
There seems to be a problem running the example under python 3.6 used in the docker container. Investigating. Please ping us (tiledb.com for contacts) and I will let you know when the docker image is updated.
Wastewater Could Help Track the Spread of the New Coronavirus
In my opinion Mastodon lost its only value proposition (to be censorship free) when people started hunting for ways to block Gab, with ruthless social media harassment against admins who refused to block instances. They also adopted a 'server covenant' (https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/05/introducing-the-mastod...) that automatically takes political stances that are incompatible with open discourse.
As written here: https://github.com/l3nz/SlicedBread - "the over 400 rich pages of "Java concurrency in practice" show how hard it is to write and debug a good-mannered multithreaded application in standard Java."
> Same thing with build systems. Bazel, Buck, Pants, Please,

It's worth noting that none of these were (really) NIH. Blaze wasn't open source originally, and Buck, Pants, and Please were all essentially reimplementations of the closed source Blaze rebuilt by xooglers who went on to work at FB, Twitter, and presumably thought machine, though IDK if it's the same.

Then/concurrently, Google open sourced Bazel, which is mostly-blaze.
Thanks, I didn”t know about this one, the tiles they have are really nice. But still no control over avoiding larger roads or what to prefer as a fallback. I still get some larger roads selected, but it’s definitely an improvement over google maps.
I'm in the UK and we don't pass on said government ID to a plethora of private businesses so that they can turn around and hand it back to the government for tracking.
There is no "we".
I would say that selling nudes is pretty nice work, compared to farming, fast food or roofing.

If anything real pornstars and prostitutes are leaving their professions, because they make more money as streamers :-))
It is worth seeing if these negatives outcomes actually occur and of so they are not counterable in some way. If these risks can be mitigated then what is left is perhaps quite a useful tool - a metric for community contribution that can be used to make sybil-resistant governance decisions and monetary reward within a local economy.
Dynamic Stylesheets and Yew
I would also add that everyone is evaluating the tech stack of these companies in today's context. Google was founded in 1998. Facebook was founded in 2004. Uber was founded in 2009. Microsoft was founded in 1975.

Amazon EC2 was first offered in 2006 and was super new and immature for a number of years. Kubernetes was first released in 2014. Mesos was a research idea for a number of years starting in 2009 and didn't reach version 1 until mid 2016. Etc. Etc.

These companies generally invent their own solutions because the solutions everyone here thinks they should be using didn't exist or were not stable at the time they had a problem they needed to solve.

By the time those new solutions exist and are stable enough, it requires quite a bit of investment to migrate to the newer solution as these companies already have much of their tech stack stable and bringing in revenue on their in-house solutions.
Zoom CEO sold all of his common shares
Something will happen so that he can keep them secret. Too many people in power have made Trump's infallibility into the source of their power to let this data out.
The fact that Trump has consistently stonewalled release, and fought as hard as possible against laws that demand its release would seem to indicate that something is fishy about his finances.
There was a post on a photography forum I frequent, a month ago (so factor that into the timeline):

"I know of a couple operating a local photo business that are gonna go that way. One of the owners had a $100k Mercedes SUV and his wife has the white one. They have a huge mortgage on a huge home up in the foothills, their kids in private schools and are in deep debt. Everything they have, including the photo gear, is owned by their bank. Their hired domestic help and Nanny long gone. I was talking to her last month. They're giving up the house. Kids are going to do the public school system. They left the silver one (his) SUV at their bank's parking lot yesterday. Her white one is tomorrow. They have no savings, owe local, state and federal taxes on top of everything."

If we want to talk about living beyond your means, there's your example. Perhaps if they'd held off on private school for a semester, or could have survived without maids and nannies, they might not be in the dire straits they are now.
Thank you, I'm really curious where this will go. The reaction so far here on HN has been very inspiring.
This assumes the “+” is not a trick to see if they are stripping the “+” from the username of the email address; which then is automatically flagged as SPAM. Of course this assumes you’re creating a new email per contact, not just using a feature that was never intended as a anti-spam tool.
It's also a risk mitigation strategy. As your company's size grows, so does the liability of your dependencies that you don't control. If you can throw a few engineers at a problem and save yourself tens of millions of dollars in risk, it's worth it.
I think the key problem is that it's very old; almost certainly the core code dates from NT, possibly earlier.

Longer analysis: https://windows-internals.com/printdemon-cve-2020-1048/

The core is:

a) you can set up a printer port that prints to a file

b) no admin privilege is required to do this, just a check on the ownership of the file

c) the ownership check is in the wrong place, so you can just create a port that prints to a DLL in system32

d) a second export forces Windows to load that DLL and run a specific function as SYSTEM, at which point game over
Large saber-toothed fish-eating anchovies 45m years ago
3M more unemployed, as real jobless rate soars to Great Depression levels
The Go tool builds Go on a package by package basis. It won't help you with anything else. As soon as you need to build anything that isn't Go, or you need to do some pre/post-flight work, or you need to push artifacts etc etc etc the Go tool can't help.

As the blog post notes, Makefiles are the usual weapon of choice for Go projects of any sufficient complexity, but these are quickly outgrown.
But do companies care about that stuff? Nowadays, it seems everyone is just interested in your ability to solve leetcode problems on a whiteboard, plus some system design. After that, just make sure you're not an asshole, and voila, you're in.

I've long been in finance tech (i-banks, hedge funds) and still am in the industry (though trying desperately to get out). At the start of my career, I made some effort to learn the business domain. After a while, it became apparent that very few people (including hiring managers) cared, and that it was a total waste of time as far as furthering my career - even if I wanted to stay in finance tech. Better to just study leetcode.
Installed and run the REPL deno, hit TAB twice there is nothing, node REPL give you auto-complete but there seems no for deno, not beginner friendly unfortunately.
The problems here are many.

There is no consistency in how loan forbearance will be addressed with customers.

Allowing someone to not pay their mortgage for three months and then requiring a balloon payment isn't really a solution for the crisis, and will just kick the can down the road.
I’m not sure how far you can take that. If they’re so substandard that they might as well be PM2.5 masks, are they still substandard KN95 masks?

Under that assumption everything could be substandard and precious few things would be fake.
> if we do wish to reduce various biases

Again, though, the desire to do this is based entirely on marketing, and not on merit.

> judging someone to be incompetent based on the reputation of those of the same ethnicity is unfair

Sure, but mandatory hiring of people of particular ethnicities in order to boost some arbitrary "diversity quotient" (read: non-white quotient) is potentially just as unfair to other qualified applicants.
Facebook would be so much better with fact-checking. It seriously would improve the state of the world.
You can deal with this by using subdomain tags on some providers. user@tag.domain.com rather than user+tag@domain.com.
Send it in. The butterfly ones can be fixed under warranty. It's not going to be perfect but will solve the sticking key issue. I just use a Magic keyboard with an external screen 90% of the time though.
Tech workers consider escaping Silicon Valley’s sky-high rents
GPUs have gone far beyond just SIMD these days. To effectively program a GPU, you need to program it like a GPU, not a CPU. In particular, while most people are aware that GPUs don't like branching at a high level, branching can actually be fine as long as each block (small group of processors in the GPU) take the same branch. Block 1 taking the branch while block 2 not taking the branch will have little impact on performance. Additionally, the memory hierarchy is completely different for GPUs with blocks sharing cache and a huge number of registers per core while having very little memory for a typical stack.

Sure, treating a GPU as a SIMD blackbox may work for many problems as a suitable abstraction, but in doing so you also overlook many of its capabilities. x86-64 can emulate many of the SIMD aspects without too much trouble, but the aspects like huge number of processors with many registers is not something that is able to be reproduced without a large number of tradeoffs.

The only way that I see it as being possible to have a true CPU/GPU hybrid that is effective would be to basically have two separate chips for the GPU and the CPU, maybe multiple chips. I think the reason why such a product has not really taken off is because at that point there really isn't a point over using it versus a separate GPU and CPU. Maybe if hardware designers figured out how to greatly improve CPU to GPU communication in such a setup over having the motherboard in-between it might be worth it. CPU to GPU communication is a bottleneck for many applications.
It saddens me that this is the way things have gone.

With 20+ years in the industry I can say that I never encountered this kind of thing until fairly recently. I know it was out there, especially with the BigCorps, just not that common when I was looking for work 10ish years ago.

It would be hard for me to stomach an interview like that without just walking out. I do not code on whiteboards.
Ruby is definitely not new and shiny. There are plenty of long-lived Ruby on Rails projects that need to be maintained.

Makes sense not seeing React, though. It is far more complicated and fragile to get SEO-friendly pages rendered with React (and there aren't many legacy systems that use it, either).
This kind of abuse has happened even before COVID-19 and contact tracing. The issue here is not just the guise of contact tracing used to collect information. Many businesses collect customer information insidiously (sometimes with offers to win a prize or for a discount). Once they collect it (usually phone and email), all bets are off on employees misusing the information.

In this case, it’s beyond anyone’s imagination as to why the home address would be collected. There was absolutely no need for that except someone who imagined it to be a well thought out solution (solution for what I don’t know).
Isn't Alex Ionescu also the chap working on ReactOS, a clone of Windows?
In fact if everyone was given the tools and training and means to fish, there would probably be extras.
The page also advertises flash games. Old school.
Indeed, in their paper from 5 years ago Google claimed 300000 commits per day across 9 million source files, compared to this article claiming 10000 commits per month on 70000 source files at Uber. Whatever the differences are between blaze and bazel, it must be the case that the former can easily scale to this size of repo.

I like to look at Google's GitHub commit messages to get an idea of the pace of their revision history. Yesterday they committed something with a Piper revision of 311324901. A month ago it was 306514102, and a year ago it was 248381230. That's about 160k revision numbers per day.
because they're an advertising company and advertising isn't based on facts?
No longer accepting new signups, which is disappointing :(
And I quoted exactly that line. In my first post.
That's the issue, while a lot of people are saying "Oh, you can get your mortgage modified", a lot of lenders are saying "We're giving you three months deferment. At the end of that three months, the next mortgage payment is due, plus the three deferred payments".
Where I'm at they've replaced nearly all of our diesel buses with natural gas. They certainly look a lot cleaner driving down the road and I'm guessing they are cheaper to operate as well. Something like that might be a good intermittent step for a lot of these places while the cost on electric buses comes down.