skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Venezuelan, it is interesting to see how the Castro's used the CUC to save face from the defacto dollarization they had.

Also, it's interesting to see the parallels with the Petro. I'm thankful that it mostly failed, minus some money laundering by the government and pensions (this is Maquiavelian, they pay part of the pension and bonuses in a controlled electronic currency to elderly people who mostly don't have access to the internet and maybe even electricity, but good for propaganda). From the last quarter of 2018 we went from talking about dollars being illegal to a heavy push towards defacto dollarization where a lot of party and army people opened bodegones (mostly imported good stores, they pay 0% taxes by presidential decree) where they mainly accept USD (sometimes EUR) and sometimes Bolívares (the official currency). The government tried to push the Petro to them, but failed to convince even it's own people who want hard currency and not useless monopoly money. And now even some state run stuff is marking prices in USD (some elite government places stopped accepting Bolívares)
It's not in-class interactions (party? Networking? Labs?) versus being alone in a room watching lecture videos.

If students don't have to live on campus to get the credits and the degree, it opens a world of possibilities. They can work part-time/intern in a real company and network while completing their online courses. Receive salary at 18, network with other interns and older employees at the company, participate in industrial grade lab experiments if that happens at the company.

Say Google would open "3y part time internships" allowing students to enroll in a credentialing University and complete courses and get a degree online while working at the company. The in-campus experience doesn't sound very compelling now.
> It seems strange to me that so many people are on board with privacy most of the time, but when it comes to financial privacy anybody who doesn't want their government to know which books they buy is somehow a villain.

There's a difference between privacy for an individual, and privacy for a company.
Where are you from?

It doesn't seem a strong reason enough to fire where I am from (European country). In the law there are examples of reasons one could fire over and they all seem a lot worse than that. For example if you are drunk in the workplace, but even then employer must warn you first, so it seems like once it is okay.
"has probably had more to do with the growing inequality between the 0.1% and the rest of us than anything else."

I disagree. The growing wage inequality between the rich and poor has many other factors. Tech companies are just one small part of it. Before 2004, most of these big techs did not even exist. But wage gap has been increasing for almost last 45 years or so in the US if you look at the data. Take Walmart for example. They employ plenty of Americans but look at the shit wages they pay. They can still get away with it because our politicians have tipped the scale heavily in favor of large corporations. Visa or not, large corporations can get away with almost anything because they are "too big to fail".

"ignoring a company's responsibility to pay back the society"

I agree with you on moral grounds but that is not how capitalism works. A private corporation's highest priority is to serve its shareholders and executives, period. It does not care about paying back to society. Should they care ? Yes I think so. But by definition of capitalism, they are not obligated to. Unless we change the thinking and mindset, it won't happen. Offshoring/tech visas are again a small portion of it and gets blamed way more than it should.
> If we get hung up over the fact that physical lectures are not happening, and is now being delivered via digital tools, then that says a lot about the value of that program, that it loses it’s power soon as we modify one simple parameter.

> We can adjust that one parameter for probably over half of all degree programs, and keep the requirements for necessary physical things like lab work.

That's not the only parameter you're cutting out, though. You're also removing the "hallway track" to use conference parlance. It's definitely possible to make friends online, but it's much easier to make friends with people you spend a lot of time in person with.
That completely depends on the RAID controller/software.

Smarter ones, with sufficient slots will leave the "failing" drive online long enough to assure that should a sector fail to be read from the remaining drives an attempt can be made to read it from the "Bad" drive as well. In cases where the drive is being kicked for excessive SMART relocation, or hard read errors this could be the diff between the array going offline and the rebuild succeeding.

For something like mdadm, you can simulate this by upgrading /reshaping from RAID5 to RAID6 (or similar) and then pulling the failing drive and reshaping back to raid5. Or as did a few times a decade+ ago when we had a really bad batch of drives, pick the bad sector off the failed drive, compute the corrected sector "by hand" and write it back to the drive with a read error.
Quite right. Control plane traffic is punted to the CPU, and a Raspi CPU cannot really handle that volume of traffic at enterprise scale.
Building Habits
Key learning from James Clear's Atomic Habits book
The drop-down mouse-select calendars themselves are nonideal.

They require that you select full Y,M,D in that order even though random choice is implied and possible.

If you try to enter DEC 31 1999 you get 2020-12-31 [0] before there is a chance to select the 1999.

If you notice that situation, then try to correct only the year, there is complete failure to update the data entry field, correctly or otherwise.

Not every century can have the most advanced UI/UX.

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[0] this date is illogical because it is in the future and in the future it will not be possible to party like it's 1999.

Any date subsequent to the date of the database snapshot should not be admitted into the field.
Americans have weirdly exhibitionist toilets.

(But then they think German sauna is weird.)
Sure but it's still tiny. If every single byte of it were a full line in a high level language it would still be still a tiny, fully externally-analyzable program. I don't need to make that kind of theoretical argument, though - the entire late stage of serious DOS software was completely dependent on DOS having been taken apart and understood, bit by individual bit.
Shopify actually has a program like this: https://devdegree.ca
The better you are at quality and support the more money you’ll be paid to stick around and protect.

If only that were true?
The 'Elephant in the Room' is 100% Fidel Castro Inc. and his militarized island empire, and totalitarian suppression of everything and everyone.

A more extreme but reasonable comparable would be North Korea.

List of dictatorships [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regimes
The root comment actually cites a section describing the First Opium War, and then says that British imperialism pushed China from capitalism to communism. Although they do not say specifically say that the period before the First Opium War is what they mean, they don't offer other clues as to the time period.
D's differs in that:

1. you cannot "goto" out of the nested function

2. you can declare them "static", which means they don't have a static link and cannot access the enclosing function's variables

3. if garbage collection is enabled, you can pass a pointer to the function out of the enclosing function's scope and still safely access its variables

4. they work in `extern (C++)` functions, too
Fragmentation in what way?
Is there any need not to have, online, in person discussions and learn for yourself, mixed to suit you and the institution? I think not.

Neither a one size fits all online lecture nor a physical lecture with a lot of students, is tailored to the individual student very much, or interactive. I'd prefer to see education that is personalised.
Is it a bad code smell (see the old refactoring book)? Yes. Can there be rationale why no one acts on it? Yes. Is that okay? Yes.

Code purity is not everything. It is a single metric. Maoni maintains this file for the .NET Framework, Silverlight, .NET Core and nowadays Mono. She and her group will have reasons.

And honestly, all accounts from her co-workers describe her as a wonderful person with incredible insights. They talk about her in deepest respect and friendliness. Calling her crazy is the opposite of reality.
that defyccc link was from a comment in the OP's post, there are other links from the same source site:

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/24/doubts-abo...

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/hydroxychl...
Yes, the popular story about the 30-odd bystanders was broadly unfounded. In fact there were two calls to the police.
I worked on the Danish government electronic invoicing project, and lots of people at the time I hung out with, being government people, knew what it was.

About a decade later I worked on the JavaScript implementation of NemID, NemID being a security thing in Denmark that basically every citizen has to use.

A coworker said to me (paraphrasing): "It's great to work on NemID, because everyone knows what it is, so it's easy to explain at family dinners" which is true. very true, everyone knows in Denmark what it is.

To which I thoughtlessly replied "Oh yes, it was the same when I worked on eFaktura", his face got the momentarily shocked and dismayed expression people get when they realize they are talking to a crazy person or an idiot.

About 5 minutes later I thought to myself "what the hell are you thinking, nobody knows what eFaktura is, fool"

I think the household name status of Slack or the guy who co-founded it is sort of like the household name status of eFaktura in Denmark.
Is it me or is the real problem that someone wrote a package and quickly wrote use “import ...“ instead of writing “const x = require(“...“

Node works fine out of the box from the command line, modules just need to have the correct instructions for the README.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Work for ICE [video]
There is something about immersion. Not everyone has the discipline to study independently for hours a day.
The proper term would be a remake, I believe.
In a hydro power plant, the water turbine constitutes the "friction" so, if there were no other losses, the half of the energy "lost" from the system is precisely what your generator gave you.
AI generated AI startups. Why not?
I think of my life on Earth as a temporary thing, which will seem evanescent in retrospect. This viewpoint is common to people who cultivate spiritual lives.
> be careful what you install and read the source code to understand what it is doing.

That’s the reason why I started to love pika.dev ‘s package search. Webpack still sucks and will ruin your day with hours of unnecessary configurations and fixes.

On the other hand, when setting yourself a rule to use plain ESM only without any build system, coding has been a joy.

The only thing that still sucks is UI frameworks, because all major frameworks still require a shitty babel workflow in one form or the other. Vue.js has an ESM module which is useless without babel (due to the .vue file format), and Angular/React are still in the lets-invent-our-own-language fatigue.
Probably an individual useless course doesn't harm the world too much. More recently, though, these are starting to pile up. A nearby college offers core credit for a course in "How to Watch TV".

Far more importantly, there are whole degree programs that are essentially bullshit. Someone with one of those degrees has no chance whatsoever to economically recover the cost of the program. Faculty won't tell them that because they need to justify their own existence. Graduates typically go on to jobs as embittered baristas or waiters, or perhaps proceed immediately to the dole.

We have "truth in lending" laws. There should also be laws disclosing the expected salaries (and college loan payoff durations) for bullshit degrees.
> Poland is just a young democracy

Please, it's much older than the US. Better examples of young (and failing) democracies would be Russia and Central Asian -stan countries.
I’m a big fan of running proxmox on a desktop machine which makes running hundreds of containers super simple
Curious where you found this. I used to hand-set lead type and I don't remember any ligatures that combined quotation marks with periods.
Even if you're doing business, it's always good to have a hard skill under your belt, so I'd say there's definitely no harm in mastering CS on the side! Good luck! :D
there is always the other python binary hidden somewhere in the depths of the filesystem...
Backstory on Facebook's 2009 down round
This is one reason I'm so excited about Deno. It's basically like browser, but for (ESM) modules. Solves so many of node's problems.
How Art Can Be Good (2006)
China Pumps US$22.5B into Its Chipmaker SMIC
If it makes you feel any better, I'm male, and this was pretty much my experience, too.
Correct. There’s also a value in getting away from where you’re from and meeting entirely new people. The prices are too high, but I can’t be convinced that it’s possible to replace that kind of immersive experience with the internet.

Besides, after two months of running virtually all communication over Zoom, does anyone still think video for everything is good enough?
Modern disks are like cd's they have layers and layers of ECC (both spinning and flash at this point) and a certain assumed BER.

What you describe is the usual case with an unscrubbed drive. As it slowly bitrots everything appears just fine, until that day you happen to read a file on a part of the disk that hasn't been accessed in a couple years. The suddenly the controller's ECC can't correct the error and you take a read fault. Then you start listing the directory and discover that yah there are bad sectors everywhere.

So, sure you can have catastrophic failure, but the usual case with a well scrubbed drive is a corrected/relocated error once in a while. As long as they remain intermittent your fine, if suddenly you get 100 errors on one scrub and then the next one gets another 100, you better replace that disk fast. Or the other case is that you go from just fine, to pretty much nothing can be read in a single scrub cycle. You don't really have a choice in that case, the controller will likely just kick it out.
> Godhelp you if your application tries to use weird ALSA or even worse, OSS features.

What's a weird ALSA or OSS feature? What do you expect in its place?

OSS as an API was really dead simple. open, ioctl, read or write... That interface is still working fine on FreeBSD.

There is an OSS to ALSA compatibility driver.

I'm sure whatever you're expecting (pulseaudio? yech.) can fake being an ALSA device enough to fool anyone.
Got it! Thanks guys - Iwantmyname actually reached out to me but I wasn't sure how legit they were since I've never used their product, but after you guys' testimonials, I think I'll add them to the next version of One Word Domains! :D
Here I'll give you one: If you want to change a property of the database that will give your specific use improved performance, you have no way to transactionally apply that change. Rolling back becomes a problem of operational scale, rolling out as well.

What if you need to release some feature, but that feature requires a database feature enabled? Normally you enable it once, in a transaction hopefully, and then roll out your application. With this style you have to wait for N database servers to connect, enable, validate, then go live before you can even attempt the application being deployed, much less if you get it wrong.
They should be using Noise along with it.

https://noiseprotocol.org/
Analiti – Speed Test WiFi Analyzer
> You can always take a multi-tenant system and convert it into a single-tenant system a lot more easily.

This is not true if your primary keys are int or bigint.

It's also not true if you have any sort of unique indexes that are scoped to a table.
> Something has to fill that vacuum.

There’s always the military or a peacetime national service program.
What percentage of digital threats could evade your digital protections by having physical access to the hardware? Almost all of them. What percentage are likely to ever do it? It seems like it would be much smaller, but maybe I'm missing something?
Explain msdos now, article is well written
>It's a silly hypothetical, and not worth addressing any further than I already did.

You haven't given a _reason_ why it's "silly" and "not worth addressing", you just declared it so. That's not how civilized debate works and not how intelligent, honest, people disagree.

>You've now admitted you're not even in the situation, so why debate for it other than internet gotcha points?

Because I believe in privacy, ethics and get some enjoyment out of vigorous and fair debate. Sometimes my mind gets changed, sometimes I change other peoples minds. Other times, there are people who just aren't up to it intellectually and cover their ears and spew childish nonsense.

So let's cite some sources shall we?

1) According to a specialist in employment law at Dilworth Paxson LLP and author of the online law blog “The Employer Handbook” it is sometimes advisable for employers to terminate an employee looking for other work.[0]

2) According to hundreds of professionally employed developers on HN. "We feel at risk of this happening to us."

3) According to internet user jkl275. "That's silly because it doesn't match my experience. And if it is true, the company you work for is shit. Therefore your concerns are unfounded because.. well... I'm not sure. Why are you even arguing with me!?"

[0] https://blog.shrm.org/workforce/caught-in-the-act-employees-...
This whole story is pretty interesting and so far removed from almost every new thing we see today, but that 50's-ish TournaTrain promo reel with its outlaw country soundtrack, it's just... chef's kiss
Yeah, there are certainly a lot of really cool products out there that does this...namelix.com is one of them as well. But damn, I really love Zilpa's UX! Thanks for sharing! :D
Maybe there are two elephants in this room?
Eterna empowers citizen scientists to invent medicine through molecular design
I have a friend whose daughter had a baby while in high school, was allowed to graduate early (i.e., got kicked out), and enrolled in online college. It was an online program from a state university.

According to my friend, her daughter's biggest challenge was the boredom: Sitting all day long in front of a computer in a small rural town.

She graduated with a major in some meaty subject like biology, and has made a decent life for herself. But I can see how there's a lot of attrition.
The most valuable aspect of university for me wasn't going to lectures and learning things, but learning how to get myself to important classes on time and other "adult" stuff.

When you get to uni you've spent 13 years in the education system, but you're probably only just starting to be responsible for yourself. Learning that in a slightly more forgiving environment is useful and missed by online classes.
Not really, we apparently accept that Chinese companies are privately owned, that's the stated legality.

That 'all large Chinese companies are controlled to a greater or lesser degree by the state' - is a matter of fact highly suppressed and obfuscated by the state for purposes of aggressie control and statecraft.

Nobody cares that much that there's a degree of 'central planning' to grow the Chinese economy.

People care a lot that Huawei states they are 99% employee-owned, but in reality we don't really know who actually holds the power and that it seems more likely that the state has deep levers of control.

It would be more transparent to just accept that Zoom and TikTok can and will be used as tools of the CCP.

As far as Google and reviews ... it's going to be important that they remain very transparent and above board in such issues given all of the relevant factors.
Just a quick heads-up that Joseph Redmon isn't working on the development on Darknet any longer, and the YOLO fork by AlexeyAB [0] (now on YOLOv4) is one people should also consider using moving forward[1].

[0] https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/pjreddie/status/12538910781821992...
Not if you take into account that they also want to deter future cybersquatting.
Venom: All Terrain Autonomous Quadruped
Schemas should be approached with extreme caution. They still suffer from the same issues as multiple databases, but now also you have to juggle search path and when I used schemas our databases backups were insane. This is because two same name tables with same name indexes can't be compressed together, as I understand it.

I would also be very careful about using roles this way as it makes connection pool formulas a lot more magical and less deterministic.
I agree, not sure why this was downvoted. Peter Thiel (not someone I admire) had a good point about this - when Michelle Obama (someone I do admire) says that community college or your state school are fine places to get an education, it isn’t advice meant for Sasha or Malia.
There are already successful lower-level tools than Zapier, though.

Look at IBM's NodeRed platform, for instance. More importantly, go look at the user-contributed examples and use cases. It runs in all sorts of small custom implementations, like home one-off home security systems and small town public utility monitoring setups.

You just don't see those because they don't have a reason to publish their stuff on Github or write a Medium post and link it on HN.

I assure you that anyone who is proficient with Zapier could be graduated to handling raw APIs, direct database transactions, and rendering the output with modern javascript frameworks in a few days, tops.
Surely the key issue that makes this untenable is network latency. That's a hard physical limit no matter how far our technology evolves to work around the myriad other problems with having servers in such an inconvenient location.

Maintenance is not a small problem though. Even if you were able to design servers to be robust for 40+ years, your users would have to be content with using 40+ year-old server tech as opposed to the latest and greatest. That's going to be ok for some use-cases but relatively few.
Met my wife and most of my best friends in college. I can’t even fathom the hole that a purely online experience would have left in my life.
Hmm... What is this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Socrates
But like, every database is easy to shard/horizontally scale until you get a big enough customer. Why do the extra leg work?
> Nobody is distributing that library anymore.

There exist plenty of archives of old Linux distributions. "Nobody" turns out to be quite a lot of people/servers.

> Whereas an equivalently aged binary on Windows will load today without extra dependencies.

I wouldn't go so far. The 64-bit port of Windows dropped support for all 16-bit applications, whereas they still run flawlessly through Wine.
SARS-CoV-2 RNA in municipal sewage as indicator of Covid-19 outbreak
Pls don't quote opindia as a news source. They've been caught intentionally spreading fake news like a 100 times. Pls don't.

Edit: Adding a thread which gives just one example among the hundreds. https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1262108843464486914?...
I frequently toy with the idea of creating a platform like this using Raspberry Pi or some other SBC where every customer gets not only their own database but their own app server and everything else on a small piece of hardware. Due to heavily localized data and application code you can likely get away with the puny hardware and the cost per account is very sensible even with a pretty high spec SBC.
I used one of these for the implementation of Siphash in the Linux kernel, if you're interested in a real world example: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...