skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Trade wars, a cold war, economic war, proxy wars all seem plausible, but the type of war this article seems to be going on about doesn't seem to make sense. How would a war like that even happen without devolving into nuclear warfare, which surely neither country wants?

I have to admit I'm pretty naive about geopolitics, though.
Things to consider when writing your next blog post
Interactive Brokers. They have an API. I started 10yrs ago back when they were the only player in the market to offer $1 trades. Making money is hard though, and probably not worth the effort if you account for your time. But it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I imagine if I did it full time, I could be more successful.
I felt this way about the first Lord of the Rings movie. I was young when it came out , very excited, and totally hated it. I’ve softened since then - and genuinely like Peter Jackson - but those movies never quite jived for me.
My default ipfw ruleset is very restrictive - no ports open.

The command that gets run when the (correct) knock comes in is an ipfw command:

/sbin/ipfw add 01021 allow tcp from %IP% to 10.0.0.10 22,443 setup

... so now the knocking IP can see TCP 22 and 443 (and nothing else).

I then have a cron job that runs every night at midnight that deletes those rules:

0 0 * * * /sbin/ipfw delete 01021

... so I am required to knock daily.

The following is a little lame, but I want to see who has knocked so far today (should just be me and my own IPs) so I do this every minute:

* * * * * /sbin/ipfw show|/usr/bin/grep ^01021 | awk '{print $7}' > /tmp/.knock_list

... and then cat that list to myself every time I log in ...
Stop using Ruby?
A law is in the pipeline (first reading in Taiwan) to remove that claim. I call it one-china law. Taiwan Finally recognise china as the Sovereignty of the mainland. Total cut off.

The china strangely you may think object. It is like British is passing a law finally to give up USA and USA object. But china do. And they know once cut off the USA can recognise Taiwan, unlike in the past it is a bit of conflict. What is Taiwan - oh the whole china. Now what is Taiwan? An island ruled by an independent state from at least 1949 (or legally from 1911 one should say). It even has a us-Taiwan act link even after 1979s.

It is good timing to try this move. But before that ...And hence all civilian infra is moving out from china by their allies and USA may have to think about getting key assets duplicate from Taiwan.

No one Outside china want war. But you have to prepare for it and avoid a total disruption of you own country and life. Chip is strategic. And the skill set not just the tools.

Higher post same idea as my previous post. Taiwan need a deal as USA cannot be trusted in international conflict. It is ok for Korea and Japan perhaps, but would USA gave up Taiwan when the first USA soldier died. We are talking about a country that has nuclear bomb and the means to bomb USA mainland.

Some deal needed.
For Photoshop, a big part of it is inertia. Companies worked with PS for years, and changing costs money. So students are taught what they’ll use (which is PS), and the cycle continues.
4PLYMAG.com

A data-visualization magazine for skateboarding.

Super niche, but super fun!
Interesting. Wow.

The lady keeps warning and erasing your work if you try to draw penises.

However, after a while she seems to had enough, the lady goes furious and cursing, and she keeps drawing hundreds of penises for you.
hey.. 5 man. be cool.
No, I can’t.

I can acknowledge it might be true for some of those people. But there are a whole fucking lot of people.

But when it comes to this, I’m not going to be so arrogant and self-centered as to say something that I believe applies to all of them.
I drew a penis facing right, and the detection works. But if I draw a penis facing left, it keeps congratulating me for drawing a rifle.
> Of course you need to know roughly what the data will be used for ...

Can you talk about how you figure this part out? As you imply, this seems like it is your actual first step, not designing the database.
Why not just agree that pow(a, b) is discontinuous at a = 0.0?
Woah ho ho, the rumors were TRUE!!!
Sort of.

The fees are baked into quoted price ("the spread") but the execution cannot be worst than the NBBO (National Best Bid Offer).

They are making money on the spread for sure, probably crossing some trades internally as well. They also make money on the margin rates.
They picked a city that took 10 years to build a 4 stop subway.
I recently replaced my physical garage door buttons with arcade push buttons (my kids love it) and I was thinking...."this box could hold a pi".
This is awesome.
Reach out to me sometime if you want help moving from plotly to a more web-based visualization (Eg D3), I’d love to help :)

jdwlbr @ google’s email
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I mean quarantining /r/wuhan_flu was the signal for me that it is no longer a friendly space for free speech.

Whether or not you think Trump acts like a drunken sailor, the fact is the quarantined an entire part of the website because it hosted people talking about what’s now on the news every day.
I'm pretty sure I recall the "Generic / Text-Only" printer driver from Windows 3.0 days.
IT'S REAL! https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?actio...
Very nice, been looking for this! Thank you. Out of curiosity, where do you get the data for this?
Cortado seems like an OK service, and I get that it wants an email address since it works over email.

But regarding "signup friction" – the best way to reduce signup friction is to eliminate the need for signups.

I'd like a version of Cortado that was hosted and just used a URL rather than sending junk into my inbox. Maybe call it Cortado Reader or something.

Or better yet, some sort of syndication protocol (we could call it RSSS for Ridiculously Simple Syndication System) for the web.
I like this quote [1]:

> Since the late 1970s, a key idea in Western science fiction has been that Japan represents the future. Japan's "weird" culture is a figure for an incomprehensible tomorrow.

which I found here [2] (titled "Cyberpunk Cities Fetishize Asian Culture But Have No Asians").

Cyberpunk cast (Asian) megacorporations as the architects of a dystopian future with American cowboys (essentially) fighting back (see [3]).

[1]: https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-do-westerners-fetishize-japans-f...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb7yqx/cyberpunk-cities-f...

[3]: https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/57/nixon57art.htm
Because it is right. Why would you need any other reason, isn't that enough? Do you believe being honest is the correct and right way?

I think that's the only reason you need, just like you can't have a reason to justify doing what you believe is wrong. Of course these are goals I would aim for, I simply mean that if I fail to live up to these standards then I am failing,not that I claim to have succeeded.
Society exists to serve people, not businesses. Businesses are a tool to that end, so business purposes are only relevant when they don't run counter to human needs or cause human suffering.
Are you kidding me?

You’re willing to say that to someone who lives with an incurable and life-altering disease that I fucking hate? I cross the same bridge every day. When I get up. When I go to bed. When I’m asleep and every moment in between.

My suffering is because I’m not learning with life? That’s my mistake? And that it’s not a byproduct of something 100% out of my control?

No offense, but that’s pretty fucking arrogant of you.

So go ahead, give me your tips for learning with life and overcoming my mistake.
Except that's totally wrong. Mines are already electrifying!

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a...

Tell me, why do you think this vehicle cannot be made even larger? Are you thinking that batteries for such vehicles have to consist of larger cells?
Why the Google Meet button is so big
My NodeJs app running inside a Docker container which is running inside a Linux Debian OS running as one of the VMs inside a Windows OS installed on a rack-mount server module housed with other modules in a server cabinet. The "atomic" structure of cloud infra.
In fact, I would argue that engineers tend to be people with stronger pattern matching capabilities, because that's exactly how most engineering problems are solved.
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> What?! How do you see that?

The key word in my comment is "additional", which was intended to indicate that I was replying to "and shall protect each of them against Invasion".

I have to admit it's also partially my fault since I didn't notice at the time that you are not the same person who made the original comment I replied to, so I left out some context.

Otherwise I agree that it is just a list of commitments.
you liked fury road?
Perhaps I misunderstood. The tool shows any ads on political and social issues, which should cover all the ads you mentioned (e.g. Exxon, Koch, insurance cos.), but won't cover Jellop ads.
How do you build your service layer first but your APIs last? Aren't APIs part of the service layer? The interesting thing about DynamoDB single-table design that I'm really starting to like is it forces you to start with API calls. I literally start with an excel spreadsheet of API declarations and corresponding HASH/SORT keys.
Oh, neat, looks like this debate has reached ad hominem attacks.

VSLAM is computer vision. Full stop. Here's an article about it in a Springer Computer Vision guide [0]. I don't know what your personal definition requires for that to be the case, but if it doesn't include point recognition and persistent tracking by an integrated RGB camera, then I think it's unreasonably out of line with that of the rest of the field.

Which, just so we're clear, is the eighth reputable primary source I've presented you with directly refuting claims you've made.

Yes, I understood your point that you feel VSLAM is less than lidar. My point is that it's like stating that the moon is purple. Comprehensible, but wrong. And not in a "beside the point" way, but in a way that directly laid out why a core piece of your argument regarding how you try to compare VSLAM with lidar is invalid. Pretty sure that's not pedantry.

[0] https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0...
In case you haven't read anything else, and for other people here, yes his books are projects.

I really liked Seveneves though. And The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. has been good so far!
This seems like a good way of promoting your extension nowadays. It’s no big deal. I got this message too for https://2fb.me all you have to do is go into the privacy tab and list all the reasons why your issuing the permission as in what problem it’s meant to solve. My message stated something about not future proofing. I just resubmitted it.
I recall reading long ago of Gibson overtly expressing that he used Japan as the Other. He knew that if he actually studied the culture and learned the language that it would become as prosaic as anywhere else. He wanted to keep the dream that it was a place of the future. If anything, I don’t think it was xenophobia as much as it was embracing cultural alienation.
Project was canceled last week.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN22J2FN
>> It's only relatively recently that this is understood to be a bit of a con

This go-around, there is a lot of private capital, so companies stay private for a decade or longer and lock employees out of liquidity events (meanwhile, founders can negotiate to take some cash off the table during a financing round.) The incentives are skewed. In the 90s bubble, companies with a $50M valuations could go IPO -- you could hopefully sell after your lockout. (Oh, and houses cost a tenth of what they do now.)

This go-around, there is HN, Quora, Blind, and so it is harder for people to get suckered into starry visions.

That said, it is still worth considering working at startups for the high-learning, low-BS environments you can find as compared to big companies.
Seventh Amazon employee dies of Covid-19
Oh, that second one is cute. I read up on bryophyes (moss and friends) for an exceedingly brief stint back in my undergrad days. Pronunciation similarity to bio made for many "bryo" puns.
That is brilliant casting.
The link was always too small anyway.

Now if they would work on the Meet UI...
you didn't?
Just a bit of devil's advocate here, but is it possible that the problems they were solving were much more complicated than those on the AI team? Obviously I have little insight into the actual work, but there are some hints.

Long timelines indicate difficulty interesting features into an already complex codebase. Leaving the office early can indicate that low quality hours had a higher downside risk of introducing problems into a complex situation. Pure speculation here, but I know that architecture can look overcomplicated when it's actually just solving a complicated problem.
I love it when a business makes the world better and turns a profit. They can use those profits to keep making the world better, instead of (for example) running out of money and shutting down.

Or, to make it more concrete: I got some really tasty bread from a bakery this morning. I'm happy that the bakery made a profit from that, because otherwise they would have shut down years ago and then I wouldn't have been able to get fresh fancy focaccia. I wasn't exploited; I was fed.
> slogging through Leviticus, plus an astronomical amount of suspension of disbelief.

Plus?
As someone else mentioned in the other thread, it's a bit odd that they're aiming for 5nm production at this fab in 2024 because 3nm should be ready to go by then. You'd sorta think that since they're already breaking ground on their 3nm fab in Taiwan that any other new builds would be 3nm as well.
The listing of cadmium there should be a tipoff. Cd is used in CdTe, which is a small and shinking fraction of the PV market (most is Si, which does not use Cd; CdTe is also limited by the availability of tellurium). And I already explained about lead.

The projection there that c-Si market share will shrink seems very dubious. c-Si market share is growing, not shrinking (displacing multi xtal Si).

The waste from PV is largely glass, plastic, aluminum, and steel. All these will be in small quantities compared to what is produced elsewhere in the economy.
> the country’s top infection disease expert, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci,

I see this with nearly every mention of Fauci. In my experience, there is never a "top" expert for a broad topic such as "infection disease".
It’s not quite accurate to say they paid zero in taxes. While we do not actually know, they claim to have paid 1.2 billion in taxes.
I think a highly effective strategy is an outward-in somewhat recursive iteration from high-level details towards a polished, robust solution. Of course, the first step must be some sort of sketch, however minimal or vague, of the user-facing functionality -- "user" can mean a number of things here, depending on the application -- or else you have no idea what you are doing.

Something like:

1. High-level, low fidelity sketch of the user stories and the UI

2. High-level, low fidelity sketch of a possible database schema

3. Refinement of UI and user stories

4. Mid-level sketch of possible API

5. Refinement of DB schema and backend models

6. First pass implementation the UI

7. First pass implementation of the backend (db + models + API)

... A few more iterations, bug testing, and voila! Of course, minor variations of this could also work well. For example, 6 and 7 could probably be easily switched.
Guffipedia: Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense
What are ENV files and why as an industry should we move away from them?
Now how about The Diamond Age!
knockd is pretty easy to setup and use. I used it in a security lab class in college in the late 2000s and nobody could figure out why we didn't have any open ports!
An alternate explanation is that this never occurred because if people lose their passwords they would be completely out of luck.
I also drew an elephant. It said it was a funny horse. Sad drawing skills.
The application of science to history that seems to work is to notice patterns that repeat over and over. So if you were studying cats you might notice that they tend to meow, chase mice and get in catfights. Likewise with humans they tend to form political coalitions, try to gain power, have wars with neighbouring countries and the like. If you read the history of Europe it's pretty much ruler of A gained power over B or was overthrown etc. repeated about 3000 times. As to exactly what happens when you can't tell really. Some of the patterns of behaviour long predate humans - birds build nests, defend their property and go out to work getting food for the offspring, chimps conduct war like activities against their neighbours and so on. It's mostly rooted in evolution.

Another thing you can predict is long running technical advances along the lines of Moore's law which will probably have notable effects during our lifetimes - more powerful computers, cheaper solar and the like.
Well that's the quickest I've ever seen reality prove itself stranger than I could have ever imagined:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186174

I'd be taking bets on how quickly this is going to turn out poorly, but my last tiny ember of faith in any corporate actor being capable of rational thought just got extinguished, so I could be really wrong!
> The ephemeral nature of this.. Trombone?

Yessss... Trombone...
What is happening with imgix lately?
http://archive.is/ev78u
Wow this is the kind of comments I'm visiting this site for. This includes your parent comment as it made you write the comment :).
> Does it exist? Definitely.

I am unsure how you reached this conclusion?
I don’t get why you like it.

You’re saying that a setting up a system where founders share confidential information (monthly!) with an investor who has zero timeline for providing any kind of feedback, let alone an investment decision, is a good thing?

Who benefits from that exactly?
Some indigenous Americans had a wonderful octal counting system based on the spaces _between_ fingers
which becomes exponentially more awesome when you hold small twigs, string, grass whatever between your fingers as placeholders in your manual abacus.
To your last comment, I bought Snow Crash, based on a lot of recommendations, and hated it, for the stated reasons. It completely put me off Neal Stephenson. Then, much later, I relented and got Cryptonomicon, and it is one of my favorite books ever.

I have since dabbled a bit with Stephenson, and amazingly his other books fall along the same divide for me. Zodiac is amazing, the Victorian sci-fi series (Diamond Age?) are unreadable. One book, Seveneves, the first part is amazing Neal Stephenson, the second is lazy, naive and dumb Neal Stephenson. Super puzzling, almost as if he has (really bad) ghost writers.

I have since gone back to Snow Crash (could not finish it the first time), and with some overbearing, it is not entirely unlikable.
The proportions would be different. Minorities in US are, well, minorities - but if Wikipedia is to be believed, the category that is targeted for affirmative action in India constitutes about 40% of the entire population.
> Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese

No, it was a not-at-all veiled dystopian vision of neoliberal capitalism as both domestic and global policy trend, along the lines of Thatcher, Reagan, the evolving WTO regime, etc.

> but we're now living in that future and it is of course nothing like the dystopia predicted.

“Nothing like” is a pretty big exaggeration, though certainly Cyberpunk largely didn't address how the retreat of state control over corporations would turn the state into a powerful vehicle for corporate power, preferring to paint corps as overtly replacing the State. Plus, the technology was too optimistic in lots of ways.
It was critically and commercially successful, most people liked it.
One can use "port knocking" for more than remotely opening ports. It is a crude form of messaging in its own right, that can be based on some pre-determined code, like Morse code. The "secret knock" need not open any ports. It can be simply a message to the person (or program) reading the logs, to be translated according to the pre-determined code. Actions might be taken in response to the message, or not.

It is possible to do similar things with haproxy. Configured to listen for TLS connections on a large number of ports, look for a secret combination of custom headers and values, then, if found and matching, forward to a localhost ucspi tcpserver on the backend. The tcpserver may then execute some program, for example sshd or pfctl.

http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html
An SSL cert that is valid for any and all domains and all levels of subdomains
Epidemic Forecasting: Pro Bono Custom Forecasting from Oxford Researchers
> Your.. Garden, has greaat personality

Bush detection, check!
There are definitely similar such needs at basically every company, but allocation of resources is not perfectly efficient (and often far from it).
An interesting take for sure. I too read it as a coming of age story - also strangely comforting - but see the part after the plot proper begins as an allegorical coming of age story as well, recapitulating (and I think I can say this without spoiling the back half) the development of our understanding of mathematics and the natural world post-Newton. It's a bit like he transitions from a personal coming-of-age story to a societal coming of age story: what happens when you grow up and realize that the world is incomprehensibly weird?
Immutable data structures tend to use a lot of pointers see how Haskell executes, even in other paradigms halving pointer s can have a significant impact on alignment (tags, enums, etc).

V8 sandboxes WASM by placing them in a dedicated OS process, this buys 64 bit pointers, but comes at a cost. We can chose for a 64 bit processor to buy us in process memory isolation, by masking pointers or we can have 64 bit pointers.
HN won't let me have a smiley face emoji, but it will let through an Egyptian penis.
I implore you to read the US Supreme Court opinions in its full glory: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/19
You can invert it by becoming a market maker, though you'll need some heavy tech for that.
Superb! The HN reader is really good.
I’m working on Postpone, a Django/Vue.js app for scheduling Reddit posts at the right time. https://www.postpone.app/
And yet the streets of Bladerunner were full of asians; and for many written works, the ethnicity of those on the street were whatever you imagined them to be.

When reading Vice/Gizmodo/Kotaku/etc: assume they are projecting.
I mean it wasn't in the script so why would she?
Good points. The problem with asking the same coding question makes my brain lazy until I get an interesting response that wakes me up (~10% of the time).
I am toying with the idea of asking coding problems for which I do not know the answer (I did not try to solve it yet) so I can get engaged. This has obvious risks of course...
it's easy to signal by saying this but how many men who say this would actually want their sister / mom / daughter participating in any sort of sex work? it's both the oldest job and the oldest taboo for a reason
I haven't actively thought about Khan Academy for several years and only just remembered its' existence. I do think that it's all sorts of brilliant and that's why I just signed up as a volunteer translator. I hope some of you other people here will so the same.