skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I clicked, pleasantly surprised and expecting a post-mortem. Instead it's a corporate PR admission of guilt and non-apology. If your audience is developers who implement the SDK, a more detailed explanation is the only respectful option.

Moreover, the actionable advice to upgrade the SDK is a complete non-technical non-sequter seemingly put as a distraction:

- They admit it was a server side change that caused the crashes. SDK version doesn't change that.

- No breakdown of which versions were affected (or was it everything?).

- Is a newer release safer? Were changes made that we would get by upgrading?

Did anyone by chance MITM the server payload to understand the bad code/bug?
Sorry, nothing that's so good for the general public, but the general gist is that the goal for a test is something that is simultaneously small, fast, and reliable.

And that by following those three principles, it kind of drives you to writing testable code. Because if you don't, you might have tests that are only small (simple integration tests), or only fast and reliable (testing unfactored code with lots of mocking) - and that the only way to do all three is by refactoring to write testable code that has good layer separation and therefore minimal mocking requirements.

There was stuff in there about how mutable state and concurrency leads to non-determinism and therefore unreliable tests, which is part of what justifies pushing towards pure functions that can be easily unit tested without mocking.
He was duped, did you never order something off instagram at 4am?
Got it. So it sources data from a whitelisted set of sites and updates every hour. If the curated list can scratch my itch, I would love to come back.

You mention you used some sort of NLP (mention of nltk before) - is it for summaries or reducing noise, or for bringing context to search terms.
I forget where I had read it, but the spotters were also picking up and recording conversations. Inadvertently, of course.
Damorian shits himself

Hey man maybe you shouldn’t shit yourself.

Damorian: Hey if you don’t like it, leave.

I will never understand this line of thinking
You're right. My bad. Tripped up by privacy.resistFingerprinting forcing it to `light`.

Edit: And I believe dark mode should now be working across all the major browsers.
Not a book, but I’ve been really liking this blog post. https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/
Amazing. I was just about to ask how this is different from Pika This sounds great.
What will this do to American competitiveness in the global race for talent? Most developed countries are doing a lot to attract and retain them.

Talented people have good memories. They will remember this and tell their friends and people who go to them for advice for years to come.

“Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI

The president’s executive order to temporarily suspend H-1B visas exacerbates the US’s precarious position in the global competition for AI talent.“

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/26/1004520/trump-ex...
The tickets get applied for the following week's contest. You should see "100 pending tickets" on the home screen of your app. If not, shoot me an email and I'll get it resolved asap!
Thank you for the suggestion, I will give it a listen.
Yeah, seriously. “Everyone” can’t be correct when the Sentinelese don’t even have Internet.
I have a feeling schools will figure out a straightforward loophole out of this. I'm also thinking that the USCIS/DHS might not have the ability/will/power to fully enforce something like this.
The whole point of moving to Appalachia is not having to deal with city problems. :)
>What I find facinating about 3d printing is how much unexplored area of research there is.

I spent about 2 years working on manufacturability analysis software during grad school. We were looking at machining, 3d printing, casting, and die casting, with the intent to give feedback to the design engineer.

There are indeed an incredible number of opportunities when it comes to additive manufacturing. And when you start dealing with integrated CNC/AM machines, you get an order of magnitude more possibilities.

The lab I worked in got one of these machines and I toured the lab last year. They were working on things including:

* Fast 3d printing of big parts. A demo part ~24x12x3 inches was printed in about 2 hours, which would have typically taken a couple days. The nozzle was much larger than most 3d printers, high precision and accuracy weren't required, but the demo part wasn't easy to manufacture with traditional subtractive methods

* Switching materials mid-print, enabling plastic and metal to be integrated in way which are otherwise prohibitively expensive or impossible.

* Integrating machining and 3d printing. Fixturing is traditionally a big challenge with machining, and every time you reset the part in a machine, you add variability to the part. 3d printing features then machining flat surfaces (for later use as datums or functionally) really cleans things up for better assembly, part function, and later fixturing.

Manufacturing capability is growing very fast in neat ways, and I'm excited to see how things will be in 5, 10, and 50 years.
Robust search.

Sorry - not the platform, but capability.
Seems to me that the international student business is about selling a path to American citizenship.

How expensive can it get before the millions of students stop coming? How bad can the education be? How bad can the politics be?

I think the answer is a lot worse. USA is still attractive to billions of people on the planet.
I think I've read about several schools doing just that.
The fact that you have the ability to openly hold a critical opinion like this without severe repercussions is a part of this "respect"
Criticizing the institutions doesn’t mean you hate them. You’re making a cognitive error when you assume people hate the U.S. when they describe its problems.
What a joke. Paper isn’t a suitable container for long term storage of liquid. Paper straws are also a joke. I carry a big bundle of plastic straws in my car now.
You can buy closed circuit cameras for the past 40 years. People buy Ring to avoid the in-home infrastructure.
Sorry, wrote that quickly and wasn't super clear. What I meant was ranking. The S&P 500 is what's called a "cap-weighted index", where companies are ranked 1 through 500 by market capitalization, which is share price times the number of shares outstanding. Share count isn't meaningful, because (generally) increasing share count on the same company will just decrease price, and vice versa.

In most cases a company lifecycle is like, we launched a company, it's private for a few years, then it goes public. Either shortly before going public, but maybe a few years after, it becomes profitable. It then grows and grows etc, and joins the S&P by virtue of its size getting larger than the 500th-ranked firm already in the S&P ("size" here is market cap).

Tesla is different, because Tesla went public and was unprofitable, then got ~big and was still unprofitable, and now for (largely unknown) reasons would be, if it were included, the 10th largest company in the S&P, but is still unprofitable. They may cross that threshold later this month, but this process--joining the S&P at rank 10--is highly unusual.
Well, primo is an SSG, but some advantages over other SSGs: no setup for Tailwind/PostCSS, no setup for js modules/libraries, reusable components, coding from the browser, encapsulated component styles, developing components in isolation, wiring up components to fields in seconds, and a CMS your mom can use. More to come by version 1.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine

It would go against this and lots of legal precedent supporting it, so definitely an uphill battle.
I am not clear on what you are saying. Can you rephrase? I _am_ asking what I may be missing given so many people seem to like her. What are you saying I should have asked instead? Thanks.
1) Absolutely. This could be something we do in the future.

2) Yes - some people have emailed Evolve directly. If you email them, they'll confirm the partnership.

3) We have a system where we send them an encrypted file that has all the picks. We can't alter that file after we send it to them.

4) Thanks for this feedback. Yes you could stay anonymous on winning the jackpot.

5) Thanks for this feedback as well. We will be considering both of these things.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
Gives any rational human being the shivers.
Is there a country that is a more dependable country and that has the means to project power and influence around the world?

China? If we are worried about the US becoming "America first", I think China is even more nationalistic than the US and looks through a prism of does this benefit China.

India? Has no interest in foreign adventures. Especially under Modi, has become more nationalistic

Russia? See Ukraine.

Japan? Prevented by its constitution from foreign adventures

UK? Brexit

France? Actually, partially exited NATO decades ago. Very nationalistic.

Germany? Doesn't have much ability to project power. Depends on Russia for vital natural gas.
I remember app.net

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net

It seemed like it got enough hype and got a lot of tech media journalists to sign up and then.... It was just them complaining that it was just journalists on there.

I think that was a telling tale about what their incentives are .
If I design a city whose main artery is a highway where traffic grinds to a halt for two hours every day at 6 o'clock, I'm going to see frequent incidents of road rage. The takeaway there isn't "people are toxic", it's just "people can be toxic when they're stuck in traffic"

People behave in predictable ways in specific environments. Social media brings out the same side of human nature as does a blank wall and a Sharpie in a gas station men's room.
Here's what this look like without a robot: https://www.teralink.ru/index.php/ru/navivka-vols-vl/navivka...
Oh, definitely. But no one in their right mind would use emacs lisp. Or any dynamically-by-default scoped Lisp.
That's what it looked like to me as well, but I didn't spend long enough researching ASPI to feel comfortable making the claim.

Thank you for doing more where I didn't have time.
It's far easier online to find and follow people who have the same opinion as you, and block out people with views that you disagree with. And before you know it, you're sucked into an echo chamber with only news that confirms your views.
Depends.

-If you're aiming for high level developer jobs or a job at one of the FAANGs, well, they don't require a CS degree but they often do require that you know most of the things that a CS degree would teach you to be successful.

-If you're aiming for an average (or below) job just cranking out websites or backends, well, currently you don't need a CS degree because they tend to be pretty rote. People have been successful in the past getting jobs without a degree. Will the future be like the past? Long enough for you to get your career launched? Long enough that you remain competitive for enough time to earn enough to retire? Only you can answer that question. (By the way, have you heard that an extended recession is likely real soon now, meaning there will be lots of unemployed developers competing for jobs?)

-The software developer career path requires literally a lifetime of continuous learning just to keep up with changes in technology and changes in tools and frameworks. If you're highly self-motivated to study, you have a better chance of succeeding without a CS degree.
This article really hit home with me. My girlfriend is an international student, so I'm all too aware of the ridiculous things these people have to deal with even in normal times. With COVID-19 and current politics, the immigration system has gone from slow to glacial, and now they're trying to cut staff. We've had to worry about work authorization in the past -- i.e. that my girlfriend might not be able to get a job after college because the approval is taking so long and that she would be forced to leave the country if she couldn't get a job within the allotted time. Right now, she can't legally drive (!!!) because her work authorization renewal, which she applied for with ample time, hasn't come through yet. In a couple months, we'll be back to worrying about job loss and deportation...

It's so stressful to worry about your transportation, your income & career prospects, your education, your friends & loved ones, and your entire life in the States being taken away because of politics that change with the whims of the current administration. My heart goes out to the people who have lost the chance to attend great universities, work at great companies, and live in the States because of this. Hurting them only comes back around to hurt us.
Hope primo works for you. Would love to hear if there’s anything it’s missing the mark on.
Thanks for this. It seems some people have reached out to Evolve and Evolve has confirmed the partnership, so it's probably just a different agent you got that pointed you to Synapse. We do partner with Evolve through Synapse.

Good idea on the blog post. I think we will do a post like that.
> here was a running joke back in the day on slashdot about "BSD is dying"

Lol. I used to read Slashdot when I was in college and that time the running joke was "Had Netcraft confirmed it?", right?

> Now it's running in AWS so certainly not the same Solaris server.

Hmm. Would they have maintained the site to run on modern software stack or would they have just used legacy emulator like this: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/re-hosting-sparc-alpha-or-o...
> The bar world wide is not set very high.

Erm, actually it is set a lot higher for almost every developed nation. Yes, European countries have been involved in some atrocious crimes but post WW2, the US is the only developed nation that engages in such things.

Becoming a world venturing power does not imply that those atrocities are necessary, or justifiable. Most of these things are totally avoidable. Putting immigrant kids in cages, imprisoning minorities in large numbers and persistently denying affordable healthcare to citizens is something the US can absolutely choose not to do without compromising its status as a world power.
No, actually not. I found that quite refreshing and occasionally useful.

But I was used to different and exotic conventions from the obscure languages I played with over the years.
I tried connecting to NordVPN and loading up this page. Hundreds of results show up, and surprisingly less than half of it is pornography.
Aren't you tearing him down because of politics right now?
Warrants are extremely easy to get, basically rubber stamped. It's so bad that LE will put in things they know are outright unconstitutional, knowing the magistrate won't really read it or care about citizen's rights.
I had a look at some of the data posted about this leak between reporters and researchers. A few highlights:

1. The FBI does appear to have been a subscriber to Mr. Troia's services. Two FBI emails to agents appear among the list of subscribers that is not very big. Also Europol, Amazon, and the Dubai Police also appear...

2. The MGM Grand appears to have grossly understated the amount of users who were hacked in the 2019 breach. This hacker is claiming well over 100 million, instead of the 10 million or so MGM claims.

3. The most relevant paragraph I think is the below:

> DataViper contained several undisclosed breaches . MGM Grand Hotels is included in the dataset with 142 million entries and was imported by Vinny on November 30th 2019 . This number is very different to the 10.7 million number that they stated were affected [1] . This indicates that MGM knowingly misreported information regarding this data breach and that Vinny is aware of this misrepresentation . FiveStars is another data breach that is in DataViper but not publicly disclosed . It was imported in November 2019 . It is unclear where it was reported to them and they failed to notify their users or if Vinny did not notify FiveStars . The same is true of Zumiez.com (160 million), Avito.ru (30 million), Mamba.ru (13 million), MyVestige.com (11 million), LocateFamily.com (11 million), and others .

4. I forked the entire list of domains hacked, provided by the original reporter I believe at ZDNet, to here: https://gist.github.com/danvau7/337b0ac71db8c7298e712ed5ba3a...

5. Vinny Troia claims a PhD, but it comes from the not very well respected / for-profit "Capella University" in the United States.
Russian version of this article says the name translates from Pashto as "little bee" (althugh the sentence is built such that I'm not sure if they mean the name of the weapon itself or of the warriors - zemburekchi)

> Считалось, что артиллеристы на верблюдах, которые именовались "зембурекчи", способны были досаждать неприятелю подобно пчёлам (отсюда и название (в переводе с пуштунского - "маленькая пчёлка").
The monthly savings bonus also counts towards the $600
And our company (80,000+) showed us the finale live from the US. Paid for of course.
Yeah, pretty much.

I'm using nltk for - generating most (not all) of the summaries, and for building most of the tags that get attached to each article. It's also being used when searching the text of a summary.
> My bet is we see deaths and disabilities skyrocket through the end of the year

That'd be a pretty bad bet as far as bets go. Look at the trends that are _not_ affected by increased testing.
> UK? Brexit

As anti Brexit as I am, how has this made the UK an unreliable partner?
Facebook coerces victims of fraud to upload birth certificate, voter ID card
In addition to the big risk, hassle and cost of flying back to your home country and having to find housing for an uncertain amount of time, all amid a global pandemic.
I think this should now be resolved.
They are funky. The source of the “19% had heart damage” is 19% of those hospitalized.

We know that approximately 10-20% of all cases are hospitalized. So that 19% is actually 2-4% (19% of 10-20%).
This "vulnerability" requires "able to set an environment variable on a Python execution environment" and "opening a browser leads to RCE". Once you have that level of control over a system, I don't think `antigravity` will make or break an RCE.
Rethinking Architectures Based on Power
Bonhomme Richard, fate uncertain, would be one of largest ships Navy has lost
Hacker News said the same bearish things about bitcoin (ETH partially excluded) when Bitcoin was cheap, exorbitantly expensive, and all in between. Hacker News, RealVision and any -news are permabears. Fund managers and financial advisors are permabulls —- or as they say: eternal optimists.

Who do you want to be like? Choose wisely my friend but you’ll find that few people with publicly voiced opinions remain in the middle.

If you have a source that you think is a reliable source, please let me know!!!
Isn't this a considerable security issue?
It was the possibility of security vulnerabilities that made software companies (more specifically Microsoft[0]) eschew easter eggs.

...and yet there are plenty of horror stories about Win10 coming with lots of other "surprises" like Candy Crush installed by default, ads that fetch resources over the Internet, etc. I can almost hear a PM somewhere say "but they're not easter eggs, because they are documented somewhere." I'm sure people would be far less surprised and disgusted by a "real easter egg" that did something simple like developer's credits. Corporate bureaucracy at its worst...
So... don't import antigravity, an obvious joke module.
Funny, Hannah and twilight zone in my building too. Wouldn't surprise me if they have some titles sprinkled through where they have no content
So no student loans? Most 19 year olds have no collateral.
What if someone pirates it after 100 people already watched/bought it, and now you got 500 more loyal fans who might also buy your next movie?
That may be true, but that doesn't seem like the important takeaway to me. The important takeaway is "In contrast to cardinality estimation, the contribution of the cost model to the overall query performance is limited". Actually, the paper itself says "This improvement [the 34% one you mention] is not insignificant, but on the other hand, it is dwarfed by improvement in query runtime observed when we replace estimated cardinalities with the real ones".

Optimizers are weird.
> International students, however, by and large, pay the full ride in most schools in undergrad and in master’s programs. Very few schools offer any scholarship to international students, and of those that do, the terms are often not as comparable.

In my experience this is almost completely false. They do have to pay out-of-state tuition to public schools, and they generally aren't eligible for taxpayer-funded need-based aid. But we don't blink at giving scholarships to international applicants just as often as domestic. Often international students dominate the applications to master's programs, and get all the scholarships too.
I don’t even look in the eye face to face unless trying to do so. If talking technical I need to look at the ceiling to think.
> Is there a country that is a more dependable country and that has the means to project power and influence around the world?

What's the purpose of the question? If you are looking for a place to work, live or do business with, the dependability is important, but I couldn't care less about whether eg Switzerland projects any power when making any personal or business decisions.

(Now, if I was the head of a country and looking for allies, that would be different. But I doubt many people are in that position.)
I guess I just don't believe the notion that ICE made this decision to try and force universities to reopen. It just makes so little sense. I understand that this administration's is interested in returning to normalcy, but surely university's aren't high on their priority list?

Meanwhile, we have now four years of evidence that at every moment where they can reduce the number of illegal immigrants to the US, they make that decision. Whether it's banning people based on their religion or kicking out people who have been legally living here for decades as refugees. It just makes far more sense that the administration's real goal here is to reduce the number of foreign students, not to force universities to reopen. The director of homeland security just doesn't want to admit it.
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It's incredible the quality you can get in that price range. I bought a PRS SE Custom 24 for $700 and it is like a museum piece compared to what $500-700 would have bought when I was starting out 20 years ago. Absolutely awesome.
Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?
There's a post from 2015 with the same title. It's been a while. Who are your favorite poets now that it's year 2020?
The parent comment was very sloppily written. Words have meanings, so the corrections are:

> while operating a global network of torture prisons

No they don't. My understanding is during the Middle East wars they requested prison space in foreign prisons, but largely they were not facilities operated by the US.

What complicates this situation is that many of the detainees' countries did not want the detainees back afterwards. So it's not like the USA was unilaterally involved in what happened then or now.

> now, domestic concentration camps for both adults and children

Those are facilities for illegal immigrants. It could be done differently, but something is necessary for border control. I'd like to see the US find a way to not detain children, regardless of expense.

> and while imprisoning 20x+ of its ethnic minorities, per capita, compared to China (which has, by various accounts, 1M+ in labor camps).

A prison is not a concentration camp, and trying and jailing somebody first for a senence period is different than rounding up one ethnic group and putting them in a concentration camp forever.