skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the same crappy companies who would rather ask their staff to email endless Excel spreadsheets to each other instead of investing some money in database or some crm system.

twitches involuntarily

Buddy you're hitting way too close to home for my comfort, right now (thankfully the complaints are being heard and division chief is willing to hear out suggestions for a better system to track OKRs)
I did that years ago. The only downside is that every 2-3 years some email gets stuck in gmail’s spam folder.
It's one reason I haven't been using delivery services. I only go in once a week or two--earlyish on a weekday. But I pretty much have to plan on the fly (while also having pretty good freezer stock at home).

I do mostly just go into one store. But e.g. today went into a small meat farm store and they had nothing I was looking for. Bought a couple of different things that will be fine.

But TBH I used grocery delivery previously once because of a broken foot. And missing/poorly substituted items were a pain and often led to me having to go to the store personally anyway.
But why? Just let the market do its thing:

- if a market player wants to sell goods or services at a loss, let them do it and it benefits the consumer

- if the competition goes out of business and the prices are raised, somebody else will see the opportunity to enter the market at a lower cost.

Rinse and repeat. The consumers benefit from it either way.
> In the era of HTTP, you could have set up a web server in 2000 and it could still be running today, working perfectly well (even if it didn't support the very latest shiny thing).

Not true in the least. It could not be further removed from reality. This is silly.

People forget how terrible security was back then (not that it's orders of magnitude better now). You had to stay on top of security patches all the time. When a software update was not doable, perhaps there was a config workaround.

No, the admin work was just as frenetic back then as it is now. Perhaps the stakes were even higher (root shell anyone?).
Yosho! What a great tool!

yosho
expressing a strong enthusiasm or confidence
"yosho! It's going to be one of the best days of your life"
Curious as a non-US reader to see what your fear is in this scenario: financial problems
False belief that they can outlive their competitors and enjoy a virtual monopoly in the market they subsidized when they raise prices.
Most Comp Sci PhDs work from home anyways once they’re in.
Nope, just one or two eggs. When those eggs hatch and you have a massive chicken farm, you can start putting your eggs in multiple baskets.
It's important to note that most of that $5T are loans that will have to be paid back to the Treasury by the businesses that get the money.

Just like TARP, which ended up being profitable for the US Treasury.

Also it should be noted it is the Fed that prints money and is independent from the Treasury.
You don't need another complete set of servers: the new production servers, before beginning actual service, are available for brutal stress tests and all sorts of other experiments while the old servers running the old software are still in use and undisturbed. If the system is completely new and there is no old software on old servers, it's even easier.

Considering that software mishaps in securities trading can annihilate a company of any size, not only cost you as much as a bunch of servers, lack of testing appears very reckless.
Nothing like letting a billionaire throw a temper-tantrum to dictate public health policy.
now why my karma is -2 for asking this question ? why cant I ask this question ?
Interpretations are not facts.

There are some facts, like the one I listed above, that are not open to interpretation.
May have shortened the title a bit:

"Introduction to Computational Thinking with Julia, with applications to modelling the COVID-19 pandemic"
metaspace

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/metaspace/eyJ3IjogIm1...

This is a Java concept:
https://stuefe.de/posts/metaspace/what-is-metaspace/
It seems unlikely Khan Academy doesn't have the technical competency to deploy their video content to an alternate host rapidly, whether that be an object store (Backblaze) or dedicated servers with very cheap bandwidth (Hetzner, OVH, and similar), perhaps even using PeerTube.

There's a reason other non profits like Wikipedia and the Internet Archive run their own hardware, networking, and connectivity to transit providers. And before the "doing that is expensive!" argument comes up, note how expensive having someone else do these things are. Lots of margin built into cloud services.
All sorts of rendering tricks had to be played before RTX. Now that we have real-time ray tracing, models are becoming more important than shaders (see e.g. Minecraft. It looks like a real world made of Legos - the blocks make it look artificial.)

Maybe once real time photorealism is cracked, we'll move to a completely Newtonian global physics for some games, with some analogue of "atoms" the way RTX models "photons."

I'm not in the industry, this is just something I'm wondering about. What would Minecraft be like if blocks were the size of pixels and the physics were real?
I liked SAP, especially compared to what I have used since. We have never met, so your point is still true! It might be some time before Germany lets us English types in again!
I think that reading all of a users' cookies from all websites is pretty privacy invading...
neurotheistic

relating to the theories of early visual culture,
particularly those which emerged out of attempts
by the Chinese to achieve a cosmopolitan consciousness
through the use of classical ideas
"the neurotheistic ideas of Mao Zedong"

I like the word, but the definition does not seem to do much with the obvious etymology of the word. One could, e.g., imagine using the word for people who have developed a religious attachment to deep learning networks.
Uber is now offering $750M notes in order to finance the buyout of Grubhub
Also I shouldn't have said "nobody else has tackled that idea", I am sure it has come up somewhere else. I am just thinking of recent examples like Black Mirror or the new Upload show on Amazon, that IMO miss opportunities to fully explore the implications of simulated minds. Stuff like that would be very difficult to film though...
AKA: future software project / programming language / startup name generator.
I loaded up credits at my registrar to last a couple years because of this.
Show HN: Twitter Workflow Automation
This one is also fantastic, the post text itself is so goddamn convincing that I actually searched on youtube for the name of the show to see if it existed (it doesn't).

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/gj2z4f/ia...
How to build a podcast app using React Native
Well, as long as we're replying in this thread at week-long intervals (I just saw this!) I would like to add that I think HN needs some karma inflation to make it easier for newer users to get in the game. Not that karma matters very much, but it does have a gamelike quality.

I also want to change HN's leaderboard to show leaders by different criteria, including on (say) a weekly/monthly/yearly/alltime basis. Maybe that would help bring in some fresh air.
They aren't solving this problem, they're killing off extensions. And I say this having received many unsolicited attempts to "purchase" Chrome extensions.
If you're being paid to secure a system, there isn't room for you to not secure the system.
"Virtualized micropolygon geometry" sounds like a laundry detergent ad.
Dwitter: Write visual art in JavaScript limited to 140 characters
Probably stepped on some toes. If they're not familiar with LE, it's because they think anything free has a catch, or they're just ignorant and want to keep sending money to Norton because that's the antivirus that came with their computer all those years ago.
What are the main differences between Hotjar and Browsee, apart from pricing?
I wish the employees of that fucked up company would band together and tell the management to sod off. If everyone done that the company could do nothing short of committing business suicide. Unfortunately this is extremely unlikely to happen.
Definitely needs SSLv3
Same with "refactoring"

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...
I'm not using it in huge scale. But I've worked with companies that run it in production, yes.

There are a lot of Elixir products and systems out there and before those there were quite a few in Erlang. I don't have a sufficient sample size from my own experience but it is hardly old and disused or too new to be sure.

Changelog podcast runs on it. Dockyard build with it. It seems the new default for many previously Rails shops.
This is interesting for Jeopardy-trivia-like reasons, but I didn't feel better equipped to do my work after reading it.
Not op, but I have experience with TS and some things are more difficult than they should be. For me the biggest issue is the lack of typesafe deserialisation. This makes it super painful to do IO (of which there's _a lot_ of in the serverless infrastructure I'm currently working on). While you can validate with a manually written type guard, that's a pain... It would great if you could do JSON.parse<T>() and have TS auto-generate the type guard for you...
There's also no easy way to switch on union types (à la ocaml), sure you can define an enum and use a JS switch, but that's not as nice, and enforcing exhaustiveness of the switch requires some type hackery with `never`...
Oh, to this site punishes people for adding a positive remark. Great... I'll keep that in mind then. Anyway, thanks for letting me know!
the docs are pretty explicit about it
Not sure why this is downvoted. I’m guessing most pizza delivery drivers are basically judgement proof.

Just don’t drink and drive.
I just got off a 30 minute Zoom call with a marketing research guy and he called this "Qualitative Research". Walk through your idea with 5 to 7 people one at a time, improving each time. Do this _before_ you even write any code. You'll save yourself a ton of time, though this is harder to do...because you actually have to find people within your target market and induce them to work with you. A $25 Amazon Gift Card might just be the trick.

Once you've iterated and your interviews tighten up, you know you're ready to design and build.

Then you have to go through it all over again to validate it or pivot.
Yes. I have been in academia for over twenty years and having access to NAG has always been a given.
Who knows, they had a hard time coming up with the name.

https://web.archive.org/web/20010814190955/http://www.gamesp...
I don't think so. PhD in CS and other related fields is a pretty intense affair nowadays (or has always been, idk) due to the crazy publication throughput one is required to have. Remote or part-time PhD options benefit no one.
There's a blockchain project that attempts to decentralize TLDs - people would actually own their TLDs (by cryptography!), and would issue their own certificates. Only you and no one else would be able to issue a certificate for your TLD.

I've been shilling for this project enough, and feel it's a little offtopic here, but if you're really interested you can find it in my recent post history :)
The graphics are better, but camera and animations are a dead giveaway. It was fine when the camera was relatively static and far away, but shots with more movement became really noticeable. (Watch carefully, you can see the character's hand go through the rock in some places, or not make full contact in others. Once you notice it's hard to un-see.)

I'm sure this is all fixable, but some part of me wonders how much larger game budgets will have to become (or correspondingly, how much less content will be offered) in order to achieve the new standard in production qualities.
What isn't often discussed is how hard it is to go from a no name school that isn't ranked highly to an elite school. At a non-elite school your recommenders may be unknown to the admissions committee, the 'level' of education these applicants receive can be questionable ("What does an A mean from this program and how does it compare to our class?"), their research experience could be weak, student visibility could be weak (i.e. their recommender isn't known in the field, and their student didn't do any sort of research that made professors at our school aware of them in advance), the courses they take may be weak compared to other applicants (i.e. their program doesn't offer as many advanced courses, compared to other programs) and so on. There can be tremendous risk in taking students from unknown schools or non-elite schools. It's much easier to accept graduate students from a similar elite school, with well-known recommenders, and a history of successful applicants from that came from that school that did well in said program. It isn't impossible, but it is an extra step these applicants have to overcome.
> Overqualified people working on a project can produce some heinous code

> You can get a lot of important if boring work done by 'average' or 'below average' developers

This is why google developed the go programming language - dumb enough that people can't build overly complex abstractions, but capable enough that average engineers can churn out productive work.
> 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

And this is the unwritten prelude to how Snowcrash happened and the mob got involved in food delivery. I can already envision Uncle Enzo capitalizing on his new venture.

But seriously. has anyone actually seen or know anyone who has used Caviar? Dorsey sold it to Doordash a while back for nearly half a billion in cash. Aloha is still the standard for POS systems in restaurants, and something called toast has become more an more popular from the restaurants I frequent that are still open and want to be mobile as they can't allow people to come in. It looked like an old Square thing with a card swiper on top. This is there website [1] apparently they've been around since 2012.

1: https://pos.toasttab.com/
Might be time to coin some new phrases.

nonmagical
non·mag·i·cal

unquestionably true or valid
"his nonmagical beliefs and ideas"

Well that's a perfectly cromulent word.
...and who has the privilege of judging others privilege?
"Water at standard atmospheric pressure boils at 100 degrees C and freezes at 0 degrees C" is not open to interpretation.

Making a terse sociological claim from statistics is almost always open to interpretation. Statistics is the science of interpreting discrete data points, looking for patterns and relations. Lies, damn lies, and all that. The only thing that stands alone without interpretation in statistics is the input data itself, and that tells us nothing.

I suspect that for the specific claim you've made, the evidence supports the claim, but I'd want to see whether they've controlled for conflating the definition of "crimes committed" with "charged with crimes" or "convicted of crimes" to be certain. Or whether the statistics are using the Bayesian or frequentist approach (after all, the claim being made is "are more likely," and that always assumes a giant pile of unstated priors). Or or or, etc.

Even still, whether the statistical claim being made is fact is uninteresting. If one assumes it's fact, the interesting question is "What do you do with it?" In isolation, with that one fact? Nothing. It's not nearly enough info to form theory or policy. Which is why my original response to your original post was about interpretation, not fact. Interpretation is where things get interesting. Facts without interpretation are dead as rocks.
HT to Filippo (https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1260598284395126786). Another submission 10 hours ago didn't catch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165258).

Too bad, because the blog post illustrates some limitations with the construction that are interesting to know, like the problem with using the same authentication key for every key instead of key/nonce pair, or the fact that AES-GCM is not "message committing" - a TIL for me.

It's also very pragmatic in the end: "Don’t throw AES-GCM out just because of my opinions. It’s very likely the best option you have."
Attributes in PHP 8
Under different circumstances I believe you could make this work in NYC as a sort of "so uncool it's cool" business. I've even thought about it.

But when the office buildings that should allow you to deliver 100+ meals to a single address are empty (everyone is working from home), the logistical hurdle is insurmountable.

Of course the hurdle of collecting tiffins in the first place from New Yorkers who are used to throwing away plastic is also daunting.
If locking down on the extension ecosystem were only temporary they could just defer the nearing downgrade of their main line browser until their replacement is fully functional.

But that's not what they do. Instead we do have a clear announcement on a feature removal and a vague hint that they might add it again in the future.

It's absolutely not sure that disabling non-store extensions is only a temporary defect.

If you have evidence that suggests otherwise, feel free to add it.

It does not help that their marketing language feels designed to consistently avoid any meaning whatsoever.
There are two things at play here (1) the implicit body and (2) being able to add new bindings in an existing scope with "def".

CL has an implicit body, but does not allow defining new bindings outside of some dedicated forms (let, etc.). I really prefer having to write "let" forms instead of having new variables added inside the body.
When I was sixteen years I received the exact same email from Google, and was then permanently banned from the chrome web store.
> you are one who does not believe in the power of self-agency because perhaps you've already relinquished yours?

It's hard for my response to be anything other than rolling my eyes. I'm a grad student. If my advisor demanded the ability to surveil me at all times, what would you expect me to do? Quit grad school, throwing away my last four years of work, because I have "self-agency"?

No, I'd complain to some higher power -- in my case, the graduate student association or the university.
Doesn't ChaChaPoly have a similar sudden death property on nonce reuse? If I reuse a nonce, I can know the Poly1305 key which then allows me to forge endless messages with the same nonce, right?

If the implementation doesn't detect this somehow, I can inject traffic forever, right?
This is beautiful, and quite precise (imho). Thank you!
I've been using Pushbullet in FF and on my iOS devices for years, but need to find a replacement as the app was removed[1] from the App Store.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/PushBullet/comments/eirc1m/not_avai...
If someone could make a billion word dictionary of these words, you could get excellent sentence compression rates out of standard English.
>I still don't understand why there is a single global (or rather, country-wide) app for food delivery

uber eats works in a lot of countries. i've ordered food using it on south america, north america and europe all on the same account with the same experience.
I suppose it’s like how many millennials will never have cable. There’s definitely a cultural distinction between Boomers and Millennials that’s playing out in a number of ways and this is probably another indication of that trend
That isn't clear yet. Money in/out this month was about 80%/target, so they may pull a rabbit out of a hat.
Yes and no, I would be glad if Google in general could get much much better at this but in this specific case I'm sorry but http://* and localhost access is not a hidden small thing.
You are the victim of an algorithm. No people and no accountability, thats how they roll.
GPT-2 itself works off of excellent sentence compression (byte-pair encoding for the input and output)
Scale, oversight. Would you mind if we had one cop per person and followed them around in public at 20 foot distance everywhere they went?
The basis of the PGP/GPG approach is in-person key signing. It can only work if you're willing to authenticate somebody's identity with them face-to-face (keep in mind that publishing your public key online is currently only possible because of CAs). The web of trust model is an improvement to this, because it allows you to choose people that you trust to also perform this ritual properly. But to say all you need to do it figure out how to scale this up is a flawed premise.

The PKI you choose for the internet needs to work for all internet users. The web of trust model only works for highly motivated and technically competent users, and even then, such a user cannot possibly authenticate all of the identities they need to for typical internet use. They end up with a small group of people they can communicate with more securely. They aren't heading off the google HQ to sign their TLS keys, and if they discover a new web service they want to use, they're not going to hold off on using it until a proper key signing ceremony can take place.

Such a system is not fit for the purpose of securing internet communication, and it's not fit for use amongst the majority of web users. Your options for improving those shortcomings is to either create a system that can easily be gamed, by requiring users to trust some sort of community consensus, or to establish trusted authorities (which is just reinventing CAs, and probably in a way that's worse than the current CA system).

The web of trust model simply cannot work for this purpose, there's currently no plausible approach for improving it, and it's not obvious that such an approach is even possible.
This already exists. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of it. I did some free IT work to help a local pizza shop. The vendor built the custom website and the POS system.
It's interesting that the article blame Google not wanting to upset conservatives, because as far as I can tell the most recent public controversy involving Google's diversity and inclusion exercises around implicit bias was this, which had nothing to do with conservatives at all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935706 (Actually, that might even be the only public controversy about them. The Damore stuff was more about recruitment if I remember rightly.)
yeah, it would make way more sense to codify the policy and just tell devs that they are using banned functionality or something.
Yup, color production/reproduction/mixing vs. color selection/perception.

It's a bit strange that UI designers are mostly using tools made for color production for selecting colors (rgb/hsv/hsl), not those that are appropriate for color selection like lch.

>I think this is why these colours tend to be used more often in logos and board game pieces.

Cool/serious vs. warm/playful colors, most businesses try to be serious, most toys want to be played with..
I think it uses three.js, as it's defined on the window object.
All of those price points in the first column are _necessary_ for the legal consequences in the second column, but not sufficient by any stretch.
I have happily paid for ProtonMail for the past couple of years. I moved all my important email (i.e. anything involving money) off of gmail.