skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Quite possibly, if one shows one's work on how one arrived at that statement (statistics can be bloody slippery things, and while individual data points are facts, the analysis, interpretation, and summarization of them starts to wander away from "fact," especially when one begins to do curve fitting or assumptions about population distributions).

Any and every statistical study ever done on race and crime supports the FACT stated above. Per capita, it's an indisputable fact that they commit more violent crimes, raw numbers alone, no curve fitting or extrapolation.

>And if one runs with that fact alone and tries to build behaviors on it, one's likely to fall into a similar trap to the one the phrenologists fell into: assuming that a single fact is descriptive enough of the world to dictate theory or practice.

Which brings us back to my original statement. Are facts racist and sexist?
> Their methods are literally to take worldometers data ... and plug those values into a t-test calculator.

I have seen more papers like this recently. It seems to have become a popular format in hypothesis discovery, usually followed up by others with better methodologies.

They become a problem if the popular press takes the results to publish out of context, or if they enter meta studies.
With the first process, they would leave an e-mail and then author would reach out to them maybe a few days later and maybe a few weeks later telling them they could sign up.

With the new process, they go through the signup process immediately.
This is an awesome idea. I ended up doing it without this tool and just using pulseaudio-ctl.

1. figure out the keycode for key you want to use. for me this was Scroll_Lock, so it looked like:

keycode 78 (keysym 0xff14, Scroll_Lock)

2. Add the following to the i3 config:

xset -r 78 # no repeat for scroll-lock
pulseaudio-ctl mute-input yes # mute at startup
bindsym Scroll_Lock exec pulseaudio-ctl mute-input no
bindsym --release Scroll_Lock exec pulseaudio-ctl mute-input yes
Anti-cheat through obscurity on the other hand is absolutely a thing.

As a metaphor, there’s a damn good reason you can’t just pay an Olympic anti-doping facility to test your urine; it would be trivial to develop protocols that evade the tests if you could do that.
That's exactly what lit-html does:

html`
<ul>
${items.map((i) => html`<li>${i}</li>`)}
</ul>
`

...so I don't understand the critique.
My kids are 1 and 3, going to work at the office was definitely the easier part of my day before WFH started! I consider it a good week now if I'm mostly attentive in all the meetings I have and get a modicum of actual work done.
> Weather forecasts are public information, so what level of safety is provided by HTTPS to the point where it should be not just a default, but the only option for developers?

Even if it's public information, you should protect against an attacker modifying the payload to exploit a weakness in your browser/application, and to protect against any any other kind of unauthorised modification of the payload. (I see Cthulhu_ already mentioned this.) We've discussed the non-obvious advantages of HTTPS before. [0][1] There's a reason Netflix encrypt video streams. I agree it's probably not worth breaking existing applications to encrypt the weather data, but it's worth doing going forward.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933774 (Forgive me linking to my own comments)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912817
Yes, but there's still an increase in the attack surface - it's a lot harder to convince a registrar to turn over gmail.com than <my domain>, for most values of <my domain>. It's not a deal breaker, of course, but it's something to consider when looking at the risk factor.
For the most part, nobody really cares or notices... our CI/CD and test environments run Linux/Docker but for the most part, the devs don't notice... it's still a lot of SQL and the UI is React+Redux+Material-UI.

I still get the occasional question when something breaks. That said, it would be nice if more understood some of the underlying stuff... I've had to champion a lot of the changes myself.
Another important aspect of this is that a lot of talented high school graduates may not understand or fully believe that you don't need a in web development. Anyone who is involved in tech enough to believe and understand this can probably find their own way into the industry (though dev degree would still be a good option).
All is missing is a link to register a domain with generated word.
Agreed. Luckily it has never been a problem where I live, in Europe.
How does a tech bubble explain the fact that we see negative effects in industries outside of tech and far from the reach of VC funding?

I enjoy the cynical take on tech as much as the next software engineer, but people have been calling this a "bubble" for years. It's taken an extraordinary event to actually pop this "bubble", and yet the pop has affected things far beyond tech. To me, that screams the problem or "bubble" wasn't just the tech industry.
Good to know. Such programs should not be part of any modern workplace. Hire whoever you want ,fire whoever you want,
At least the in-house grocers are more familiar with the layout and product offerings. From a process perspective, couldn't supermarkets process the delivery orders during stocking?
Out-of-the-Box Lead Generation Ideas
Pushbullet doesn’t need a Chrome extension to tell their server to make a web request. But, their server doesn’t have your cookies, so there’s no security concern.
> This ignores AR, VR, and other recent genres.

They sounded promising but they did not made actual revolution in games. They are not mass product used by most players.

> No Man's Sky come out doing exactly what you describe. Other procedural infinite space games exist.

I said "able to have huge zoom ability + ability to handle more than 30 000 players on the same map". There are no games that have those both at the same time. Only those 2 in one game is what I am saying.
Aside of youtube and search I am not using Google at all. And Chrome is on my computer only for testing.
Fellow extension developer here as well. I've been trying to get an update approved since February or March.

Submitted an update in late February and decided to update my screnshots. Remove the screenshots and add new ones only for Google to tell me "you can't add screenshots while you app is in review", fine, add them later after the review.

3-4 weeks go by and I check the approval status. Status has been rejected because....no screenshots provided. I've since updated the screenshots and resubmitted for review. Currently still waiting on approval.

I've been planning on doing a Product Hunt Launch but that's been put on hold until I can get an updated version in the chrome web store (the current version is very old and buggy). I've even looked into distribution outside the store but turns out chrome will no longer let you do that.
Traffic signal cameras for traffic light control are common. They used to be dumb monochrome analog cameras connected to simple "non-pavement object detected in box" processing units. There's been considerable mission creep since. Here's the promo video from Econolite's current product.[1] HTDV, WiFi, car, truck, bus, bicycle and pedestrian detection, connects to control center if the bandwidth is available.

CALTRANS has most of their highway cameras available from their web site.[2][3] CALTRANS has been at this since the 1980s, and the cameras are mostly somewhat old and low-rez.

[1] https://www.econolite.com/products/detection/autoscope-visio...

[2] http://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/streamlist.htm

[3] http://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm
YouTube Discontinuing Support for Safari?
You have to take into account weekends and days off too.

Anyway, using the DOL's standard of 2,087 work hours in a work year, we can do the following calculation: 2,087 / (365.24 * 24) = 23.8% of your total time spent at work.

Let's use a generous figure of 8 hours of sleep per night: 2,087 / (365.24 * 16) = 35.7% of your waking hours spent at work. The rest is your time, to spend however you choose to spend it, whether that's commuting, cooking, chores, errands, hobbies, whatever.

And we haven't even factored in vacation and sick days -- the 2,087 work hours figure only includes federal holidays.
> the Patriot Act should just die unrenewed.

I'm confused as to why it doesn't. It seems like there is largely bipartisan opposition to it among the public, why is it still receiving support from both parties in congress?
Liquid nitrogen boils below room temperature though. I once strillated a squirrel on top of Mount Everest because the pressure was so low...
You can likely land a pretty decent job as it is. People with advanced math degrees who can also program are in demand. Or at least that was the case pre-virus. If you want to take it easier and apply for a job when you feel ready, that's a fine choice too - you will do as well as anyone can in the current circumstances.
Damn that sounds like crazymaking :(

Dunno why they can't be more explicit which part of the code is the issue
If you like math, study math. But I don't think refreshing your math skills is the best return on investment if your goal is job hunting.

If you're looking for an ML job, the bar is mostly set by coding skillset and ML knowledge, which is a narrow area of math compared to what you might cover in a graduate math program. That said, it is important to be comfortable with the math that's relevant to ML.

Without direction you could spend a lot of time learning things that aren't going to help in your job search.
Just make a reference to 1984 or Brave New World, or copy-paste that Ben Franklin quote about trading liberty for security, that's what's usually done.
It's not anti-competitive if you're a relatively small player or trying to build a market.

Comparison: when a new restaurant opens, it's very common to hand out coupons in the neighborhood for discounts or free meals. Those free meals will be sold at a loss, with the goal of building a customer base. Think of it as marketing.

EOD, "anti-competitive" is evaluated on the outcome -- does the success of the company running the discounts make the market more or less competitive if they succeed? If a company is already the dominant player in a market, it's anti-competitive to price dump to keep new entrants out.

But if the company is new and trying to disrupt established players (or trying to create a market where one didn't exist), it's very hard to argue that there's less competition due to their success.
I must have expressed myself poorly, my point was not that I don't think it looks good, my point is that I feel like all this effort is focused on a single metric, making stuff look good in trailers.

Remember when HL2 was announced you had this super fancy physics engine? How objects would bounce and realistic react with each other, how you could stack things and come up with puzzles that would just use the physics engine without hardcoded scripts? HL2 was gorgeous looking but it was more than bump-mapping and complicated light models. You couldn't port HL2 to goldsrc and have it play the same.

Meanwhile almost 2 decades later we're back to fully scripted puzzles, mostly non-interactive environments and AI that's generally limited to a glorified A* algorithm.

This tech demo doesn't look decent, it looks really good, there's no arguing about it.
You simply can't WFH with young children at home and no full-time caretaker. My wife and I tried alternating 6-hour shifts of work and childcare, 6 days/week, and finally gave up and hired a nanny.
> just downvotes without the courage to provide an alternate view/retort

It's not about courage. It's usually that someone else has already provided the same alternate view/retort, so there's no sense in starting a new comment branch.
I’ve been writing how pre-internet era companies started their businesses, got their first clients, competition, etc

I’m primarily doing it because I like to read more how companies behave before the Internet. It also helps improving my English writing skills.

What do you think?
FD orders come from their warehouses. With Amazon WF, a shopper goes around the store picking your items. The last time I was in a WF almost half of the people in the store were Amazon shoppers. That's why their inventory is not up to date. It's also less safe during this pandemic compared to FD.
Trump extends order on U.S. telecom supply chain security until 2021
'U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday extended for another year an executive order signed in May 2019 declaring a national emergency and barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk.'

'The order invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president the authority to regulate commerce in response to a national emergency that threatens the United States. Members of Congress said Trump’s 2019 order was squarely aimed at Chinese companies like Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE Corp.'
So, which ones are the good registrars?
Looks like they did. The logins weren't there earlier. Would love to see the frantic email thread that led to that. Still worth noting that none of those sites appear to have any sort of TLS enabled.
Tech companies whose efficiency depend heavily on the physical world (outside of servers) are not tech companies.

How long could the product run in theory if every human left? If it’s days/weeks then you have a tech company. If it’s not you don’t.

True tech companies should have a high GAAP margin.
Nah, dude. Fuck that localhost access. Sorry, but I wouldn't install something that's running listeners on localhost:80 (or any other port) just because they want to route data from a browser extension to an installed program.

That's a pretty bootleg hack, to be quite honest.

Would you dare touch my /etc/hosts mappings too?

Guess again, Mark Shuttleworth! You wouldn't ever even get installed in the first place. You DON'T have root. Not anymore. [0]

Google is correct to reject you. Localhost belongs to the individual.

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/44512
Without a doubt, these food delivery services have been a godsend for many during these crazy times.

Whether these services can become sustainable businesses or not, we should feel grateful for their current existence -- and for the willingness of their backers to subsidize the cost of delivering food to our door.

These services and their backers deserve a big THANK YOU!
Proposed bills rarely go anywhere, so we mostly treat them as off topic on HN (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...).

Is there something about this case that warrants special treatment? The article seems to be from an advocacy source, which is fine, but means it has an incentive to make this sound more likely than it is. The title is an example—"Congress to" is much stronger than "amendment introduced". (Edit: submitted title was "Congress to expand Patriot Act access to browsing/search history without warrant". I've changed it.)

Edit: after reading the article, I can see that this is more than an ordinary bill proposal. But I still can't tell if it clears the bar to be on HN's front page. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172319 below.

Edit: after all this, another article ended up taking the story to the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23172870. That was probably the best outcome.
How/do the robot delivery companies change this?
While I largely agree with most of the points made, I strongly disagree with the objections made about APIs. In general, that section seems to have been written with the assumption that the web application is the only client an API can have.

This ignores mobile applications, desktop applications, third party services, webhooks, SDKs and maybe even command line interfaces. The more standardized the API, the easier it is to create multiple clients for it; it's one of the principles of the clean architecture even.
The legislation to block this was defeated by a single vote -- notably, Bernie Sanders was absent and could have voted to defeat this.
Why AES-GCM Sucks
I have never used the ULP-FSM, the new docs for ESP32-S2 are fascinating. My S2 is on its way, I don't yet have the hardware in hand.
Your view on this is far more negative than average. There are plenty of people who have been working at companies for a long time and are content there.
if anything, the "catch" is that I believe they're only taking about 20 students a year, and that was after a recent expansion. They also standardize wages in the first year, so some students have to make a tradeoff between the program and making more money with more variety of jobs in the US. (tuition is covered too, but Carleton tuition is something like 10k CAD or 7k USD, usually 7k CAD with grants/automatic scholarships)

(disclaimer I worked at Shopify for a while, but this information is from when I applied for Dev Degree)
This does open up an opportunity to offer an easy self-driven delivery services for restaurants. You probably can't take a % cut, but you can probably treat it like a SAAS and offer to own the delivery software and hardware so that restaurants can keep their own delivery staff, take orders online and handle issues.

That entire value proposition is predicated on offering the customers a good experience and offering the restaurant staff a good experience with no hassles.

But as you say, that's not what the VCs want - they want to lock the restaurants in and profit as a middleman.
My idiot brother shot a county Sheriff during a traffic stop many years ago. The entire thing was captured on a dash cam so there was no doubt who did it. He immediately ran and was never captured.

These camera types were placed around his house from the power poles. The neighbor actually filmed the install.

I suspect this is standard le practice for various scenarios.

it’s been 9 years and my brother has never been seen since that night. I suspect he killed himself in the expansive, Wild, thick forests the area is known for.
Except for those of us who are finding out about it only via a Hacker News comment. As happened with this user, who seems, you know, sufficiently a power user to need that info. Even a "if you know this site to be safe, please read this knowledge base article (link)" and buried in that, amidst all the reasons you shouldn't use untrusted certs, are the instructions.
Alternatively, set your prices based on the actual supply and demand and your costs, not by trying to manipulate the market :)
You're saying that they block the features of the extension for free accounts? Strange.
2.5x is a surprisingly small jump for having all of your brick and mortar competitors shut down for an indeterminate period of time. Either Khan academy had amazing penetration into the education space, or the follow through rates for kids educating at home is abysmally low.

Disclaimer: I don’t have children, so I have no real world experience with Khan.
I've used auto-renew ... but it turned out my biggest risk was actually the expiration data on my credit cards
I agree; you should have both HTTP and HTTPS, rather than disallowing insecure connections entirely.
It's really hard to tell (this is very confusing: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/13/politics/senate-vote-fisa-aut...) but it looks like the amendment by a pro-privacy senator (Wyden, D-OR) failed, not the overall authorization of the Patriot Act, so the concern on behalf of privacy is still valid
The Nuts Reply
you show great courage stronglikedan!
If you're gonna ask a quiz question, it helps if the topic to which that question pertains has more to it than "coming soon".
I know that there are other companies trying to be a middle man in this way. It’s going to get rid of even more of Door Dash’s profits
Wait can some one please simply explain to me whats gong on here? I'm new to this but I absolutely love it! and I paid for it too. Why do all good things have to be taken away?
So some of us think the govt is no longer serving the public.

That would play into this
> Used Haskell but missed dependant types.

They're coming :)
I was using Google Ads for a pet project of mine. I lost the password to one account, and then decided to set up another. Using the same CC (which is also my personal CC) on both accounts triggered something and they killed my account. I explained what happened, and told them to check the first account access patterns as they had abruptly stopped due to the loss of the password. They didn't care in the least.
Try emailing the mods, they do this occasionally.
Raise the price? For Uber/Lyft the only thing keeping the price low at this point is competition with each other. So as soon as one buys the other they can raise the price. It's not like anyone wants to go back to using a taxi.
Xcode is free, Interface Builder is free, all the documentation for everything is free. I'm trying to get into Windows development and don't use Apple devices, but I agree $99 a year for everything Apple gives developers is not expensive considering the value and the cost of these tools on similar platforms.
I suspect the average person would actually find that a much worse place to work than most modern white collar companies. You wouldn't want those main characters as your boss, especially not if you're a woman.
Proposal for an epoch-based organization of Boost libraries
This is my third downturn. So far this one doesn't look much different than the others.

A lot of businesses that could only survive on VC money have/will collapse, and the good businesses will stay good, albeit maybe with slower growth or smaller margins.

The large companies will power through, and maybe even hire up some of the really great talent that was at now-defunct startups.

Some new businesses will spring up to address our new realities.

The lockdown will end one way or another. Maybe some things will be forever different, like after 9/11. Maybe we'll have to wear masks in public forever. Sounds like a great opportunity for a fashion brand. Maybe we'll have to take our temperature to enter a public place forever. Sounds like an opportunity to make rapid temperature scanners that work on crowds.

In the grand scheme of things, this won't make a huge difference to the business cycle.

Some companies will die, others will be born.
In Europe I get 1.90 delivery for a 10eur pizza. No hidden service fees/taxes/expected tip or anything. 11.90eur is the final what I pay. When I visited US however this shit with hidden fees was terrible. Where I live I never cook nowadays. I don't even shop. I only order in. Couldn't imagine this to be a possibility without food delivery apps.
generating code during runtime is rather common in Java frameworks.
Most really popular frameworks use it. Spring for AOP and Hibernate for "bytecode enhancement".
There's a number of libraries, like CGLIB and ByteBuddy designed explicitly to make this easy.

There are limits to how much you can change in existing loaded class code, but if you are just loading up new dynamically generated code you can do pretty much anything.

Its a big reason why some of these Java frameworks are so fast. They can generate highly optimized code on the fly, load it, and have it running alongside the existing app code within a few hundred milliseconds. And the Java JIT will optimize it as if the code was there the whole time.

This makes performance optimizations easy that would be impossible in AOT languages like Go, C, C++, Rust, etc
Don't bother, WHOIS is pretty much useless 9/10 times nowadays.