skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 things I got out of this,
first is how I see the same names showing up multiple times. KKR and Platinum Equity seem to have a niche for obscure monopolies.
And also that is seems to be a viable strategy to start a port-a-john business to be acquired by Platinum Equity's United Site Services port-a-john empire.

Also Dana White hasn't been run out of town yet and everyday I wonder how that is still possible.
I have been trying to use google search less but the difference in quality between google results and bing/duckduckgo results is ridiculous.

Google basically always finds what I'm looking for (or what I think I'm looking for). Bing gets it maybe 60% of the time, and DDG is even less.
List of S&P 500 companies and their financials
I don't remember a power cut since I moved to my flat in a big city 11 years ago. I would most likely notice because I run my server almost 24/7.

Every month sounds very bad, even when I lived in a countryside in the least wealthy EU province (Lubelskie, Poland) it was never this bad. Maybe once a year (and usually with a warning that it will happen).
Well,

2/ you probably can't change the credentials just by changing the ENV anyway: there will likely be some kind of restart/reload to perform on one or many components (and such actions better be well logged and tracked, which happens with a redeploy)

3/ your production DB shouldn't be accessible directly with the password, otherwise you have a bigger problem

4/ it's not harder, it's just an if/switch away from you (instead of another set of tools)

It's good to have secrets managed, like API keys, private keys, ... but most of the time it more of hiding them, which is not sufficient! And as the article says, it is very easy to let them slip through logs/dump, as well as let some code treat them in a insecure (or even malicious) manner.
Amazon to list Marketplace seller names and addresses to combat counterfeiting
This isn't too much of a surprise TBH.

Google's business is stagnating in US/EU. They need to find a better place to grow.
> This all can be made to work but in the "cos its Turing complete" sense rather than the language helping in any meaningful way.

I had to LOL. You have very nicely put into words an experience I bet many have had.
And wasn't Athena JPMorgan's attempt at re-creating something like Slang and SecDB?
Google knows 2 out of the 3. The same with text captchas, they knew 1 of the 2. It assumes if you got one right, you got the others too. So they key is guessing which one is unknown, picking the correct ones, and picking a random one for the last
And I suppose you voluntarily pay more tax than you need to?
Debunking the Myth of 10% Brain Usage
That doesn’t have anything to do with the tech being standard and easy to implement.
The thing is the "cookie banner" is not required simply because you use cookies. Consent is required for any processing of PII regardless of the technical means through which you get it.

I don't know if "privacy" is just a marketing tactic but I have definitely seen a lot of misplaced good deeds based on not understanding the regulation correctly.
Series A/B capital for cloud infrastructure and enterprise software
> Before then, you couldn't throw a stone without coming upon CP(I avoided it like the plague but knew it was there), you could buy literally any drug on the Silk Road safely, and you could easily find bomb-making and asymmetric warfare information. Nowadays? Not so much.

I'm sure CP existed and exists on the dark web, but I think it's an exaggeration to say "you couldn't throw a stone without coming upon CP". A few years back I spent quite a bit of time on tor (research purposes), and thankfully never once just stumbled upon CP - I'm sure it's there, but you're going to have to go looking for it.

While Silk Road isn't around any more, other drug marketplaces pop up as soon as one dissappears - it's still very, very easy to buy any drug you want. Next day delivery of heroism? Easy. You've 3 big threats with buying drugs on the darkweb though:

1) The site pulling an exit scam, dissappearing with all the escrowed funds
2) Your seller pulling an exit scam, taking money for as long as possible without sending any drugs, then leaving the market
3) The site being compromised by the feds - it's actually quite difficult to run a watertight site on the darkweb, so this does happen
I have to search what the #60sscoops was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixties_Scoop
> social media offerings with built-in tools to enable censorship and information manipulation

ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, Zuckerberg likes to have a word with you
The Internet Archive is very active in the distributed web space. Have you gotten in touch with them?
Not appropriate for an interview, but more a long-term thing to play with interns.
Those jobs are not really coming back, there are too many specialised things in China.

And then you have the 'raw labour' - you still need factories with workers making very little, treated like crap.

The bottom 10% of Americans will not do that. For what it's worth.

Now - there is the possibility for 'full automation'. Sony Playstation in made in Japan by this amazingly automated assembly line.

America could feasibly do this if they wanted for some things, but it will take innovation.

The revolution will be: a 'pair of hands'.

When robotics and AI becomes sophisticated enough that you can buy a 'pair of robot hands' for $100K and very easily train them to do 'anything' ... then this will enable automation in rich countries and it could really damage the entire developing world economies.
Executive summary - the LibreOffice ecosystem is trying to find a path that ensures and improves the commercial viability of the various commercial players (who account for >90% of the actual programming work that goes into LO), whilst remaining vendor neutral and open-source.

Not an easy needle to thread.
Kapital was also rewritten in Java and survived in a few successor places ('Derivatives Studio' at CSFB). There it was my introduction to 'thunks'.
Do you have any proof that tor is compromised?

There's a lot of evidence to the contrary. I don't mean to be rude, but your assertion sounds quite hollow and baseless. I'm certainly interested in any evidence you would have that shows tor is compromised.
If your database is accessible by everyone, then this is your security concern.
Conversely, every home router or NAS can act as a node in the mesh.
Lessons from TikTok: The Dangers of Building a Brand on Any Single Platform
Thanks. Yes, I clarified some points in other answers.

My message was intended to be as simple as possible, because a healthcare worker won't be even questioning all these facts after six months of life/death struggle.
My last company ran Ubuntu in the cloud, so I ran it locally to be the same. Since then, I still use it out of habit, but I have one machine running manjaro since the rolling release aspect is appealing. So far, zero stability issues, but some software isn’t configured to work with it as well as with Ubuntu. The community repositories usually have some adapted version you can download that works but then you have to trust a stranger

I don’t like Lts Ubuntu because gnome was extremely slow and was sped up significantly in 2019 or so. It wasn’t worth waiting for the next lts version to get that update, but I suspect I could have updated gnome separately.

Use gnome tweak tools a lot and find some gnome extensions you like.

Also, Ubuntu used to support full disk encryption better than some other sisters, but I think the arch variants do it better now?
If there was no India before the British, then

a) what was Christopher Columbus looking for?

b) what was Vasco da Gama looking for?

c) what were British/Dutch/French East India Companies looking for?

d) what did Alexander's ambassador Megasthenes write about in his book Indica?

e) where is Mahabharata set? Bharat is still one of India's official names.

India has had a shared cultural history for a very long time.

That it wasn't always called India is a moot point.
I'm not sure Apple will be able to exceed Ryzens[0] performance (as perceived by the user). They could get to match it, and of course having tighter integration between hardware and OS will give them opportunities to optimize and tune beyond what Windows and Linux can do having to support a wider range of hardware.

[0] I'm considering Zen 2 "the best performing x86" (with a small grain of salt). If Intel wants to take that crown with Tiger Lake I'm all for it.
Not questioning the validity but saying they don't understand and requesting further detail.
Or, they are simply gaming H1B and/or employer-sponsored Green Card application process that requires submitting a proof that they couldn't find a US citizen.
Poor logic. I never said I don't value Linux or freedom. Last time I checked, nobody dictates what you use. I don't understand why making profits is shunned as such a problem? And takes away your freedom?

You are free to not use products from companies you don't like. Trust me I do value Linux, currently typing this from my Ubuntu machine. I hope it speeds up in development, but without the proper incentive, it simply is not happening. Only companies I see in the desktop space are valve at the moment who have vested interest on the gaming aspect. I don't think every developers are going to say kumbaya and develop for Linux without getting any kind of financial support. O.o
> I haven't had any issue with Microsoft products

How old are you? Where you using tech during the Win95 times? BSODs, office dying on you (Norton crashward anyone?) , plug and pray? Hotmail eating all your mail without a warning, Internet Explorer malware, NetBios worm (which infected your pc as soon after you installed windows) and oooh so many more.

There is data about this, which makes it more than pure anecdotes.
Show HN: Extract and validate email patterns in texts
I really wish misanthropy were met with the same response as racism, misogyny, etc.
The most surprising thing to me on that list was the AAA emergency road service membership card for $70.

Why would this be so valuable? Stealing somebody else’s free emergency tow? Isn’t a membership itself only like $120 a year?
It's like any framework: once you learn it's idioms, you can be insanely productive. Unlike other frameworks, enterprise Java is all about flexibility, so in Spring land, it's often in incredible easy to tune or replace lower level components like connection pools, etc.

As such, I'd describe it as a good combination of highly dynamic architecture with lots of manual control. Of course, all of this is enabled with copious amounts of magic, which is usually why people don't like Spring.
It can't grab the Chinese shares without angering China, and anyone in the whole wide world would rather anger any billionaire than China.

> Under what pretence would they grab Ambani's property?

If there is no existing law, government can make laws. I mean the government did nationalize so many banks at once right? The government is sovereign. The amount of power it holds over it's own people, even the richest ones, is far far higher than what it holds over another strong sovereign state.

Anyways this was all about power. There are so many other reasons for ensuring someone in the country holds the wealth rather than your competitor.
Executing code virtually during an interview
Why Doesn't Anyone Answer the Phone Anymore?
According to Wikipedia it was also 1,800m. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde#Cabin_pressurisation
I was positively surprised that Slang was actually quite usable. I had expected much worse.

I suspect the Common Lisp influence was beneficial.

The weirdest thing, language-wise, that I noticed was scoping. It's neither dynamic nor static scoping, but weird scoping. (But there are work-around to get something like static scoping.)

Outside of the language, the whole CVS-based version control and review process was weird. But understandable as a product of the late 1990s, when review-before-going-into-permanent-history must have been way ahead of its time.
Signal's new pin feature worries cybersecurity experts
On the same theme, there are several videos on Youtube related to schizophrenia. This is a particularly frightening one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lHuGMbscU
30-40 is the high of consumption. marriage/kids mean house, car...etc. you start to pull back after 60 and try to save your money to last you into old age. health care along is not going to drive the consumption based economy like when you are in your 30. you can see that in baby boomers. Gen X never carry United States like baby boomers did and Gen Y will carry America for the next few decades.
I thought it was easy to read...
I'm probably missing something here, but I don't really understand how service providers in an anonymous marketplace can discriminate based on race - how would they know the race, gender or any other attribute of their buyer?
Wait this is a thing!? I always thought it was just me :O

My whole life I’ve been swapping 2 and 5. Or I go to write 6 and 5 comes out. Stuff like that.

Only numbers tho. Letters are fine.

One trick I’ve found when checking numbers is to compare them both forwards and backwards as a sort of checksum. This has become less of an issue now that you can almost always copypaste but still comes handy
I would have guessed they do have a strategic raodmap laid out which involves estimations on each of the spendings. It is just not public yet or wont be in the coming months at least because the long-term strategies are designed to be subjected to change. The actual investment scales may never be released to public and one can only make assumptions based on a chnages in the ecosystem of Indian infrastructures.
Once you get over the learning curve, you really begin to see the productivity gains in your day by day to the point that any language without those capabilities fall short. Combine that with a world where most jobs seem to place a higher priority on other things than programmer productivity such as programmer fungibility, and your left with very few choices of places to work that allow you to be at your most productive.

Say only Common Lisp had floating point arithmetic (or first class functions, or...) , and most other languages only had integers. You'd probably feel a bit hamstrun when tasked to do certain tasks in those languages.
The API stuff is nice. I wrote a Perl script back around '08 that read a MySQL schema and turned it into Mediawiki documentation. It was really handy for providing visibility into a database which had never been documented.
Stability is often more important than performance.
IBM Expands Their IBM Q Program with New Hardware, Software, and User Programs
If you think that putting secrets in ENV is bad, you probably shouldn't take the advice of running 'docker service create --secret="secure-secret" redis:alpine' either!

Putting secrets in a command line makes them just as visible, in fact more so, to other processes. It also makes the secrets available to anyone regardless of permissions, since everyone can monitor the currently running processes and their args (e.g. a 'ps waux' or 'cat /proc/12345/cmdline')
Sure, you can get this data, but you also have to test what credit cards work and what don't. You can't just go to an ATM and start working through 50 credit cards you stole until one worked without something noticing. I'm assuming a lot of the cost is sunk to just testing if the credit cards even work and how well their fraud detector/max purchase limit is set up, which is very costly, so labor cost might be very high compared to the raw $25-per-number.

Some time ago I accidentally stumbled upon how some organized crime ring determined which credit cards worked. Someone in my party asked the Uber driver one night what other gigs they do for money. He said he uses this one card to get 40% cash back. Of course I asked more questions being the only one in security at this party:

He starts talking saying he goes around to different, small, local businesses - but never visiting the same place twice - and uses this card to pay for his friends' food, splitting the bill, but keeping the cash back rewards. Sometimes the card is rejected and he has to keep trying until it works finally. The actual credit card has to frequently connect to his phone by pushing a button on the card to sync with his phone to make purchases. Of course what his phone is doing is downloading a backlog of CCN's which then is sent to the credit card to change the magnetic strip dynamically - completely unknown to him he's testing if credit card numbers are working and getting paid for it. Genius scam, but that's what this one specific crime ring has to pay in order to check the availability of stolen credit card numbers.
Your last paragraph and your fourth paragraph are the big upheaval.

If you ask me, Apple is going to make a ~$700 passively cooled (sealed like an iPad) MacBook Air with similar/better performance to the current model.

Most importantly, it will have the same build quality and “expensive” feeling.

Sure, there are plenty of laptops now with similar build quality to Macs, but none of them are actually cheaper than a Mac. Load up a ThinkPad X1 Carbon or XPS 13 with a high DPI display and comparable specs and you’ll see what I mean.

But now you’re going to have Apple saving $200 compared to every other computer by not giving Intel a dime. The A13 chip is a $10 line item in the component cost of an iPhone.

This barely even costs Apple R&D money since it was already a part of the much larger iPhone and iPad business.

Literally nobody will be able to touch Apple on the value end of the spectrum unless they go into bargain basement territory. Are customers going to buy a $600 plastic 1080p laptop with big fans, keyboard deck flex, and 5 hour battery life or will they buy a $700, thin, fanless, retina aluminum Mac with the same performance, 10 hour battery, and a much better fit and finish?

If this all sounds a little unrealistic, I’ve got an iPad Air to sell you!
How to Run / Execute Raw SQL Queries in Django
The difference could be that files are managed by the devs and env is managed by the ops. Depends on the team structure you have.
One of the linked articles references Magic Wormhole, which appears to be just the file transfer tool I have been missing all the recent years.

https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole

summary and example -> https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/magic-wormhole-is-a-clever...
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Remember that the alternative would’ve been a couple of massive Excel sheets held together by a few shell scripts and an intern.
Thank you. The amount of experts who want to suppress that they lied about masks is so powerful it's easy to doubt one's own sanity on this point.
This goes back 25 years. It is even more so if you are the first in your family to go to college. There will be a huge shortage of teachers and there already is a HUGE diversity problem with most minority groups do not go to school for teaching as a profession.
I hear Gillette is going to offer 4 colliding black holes along with a free galaxy.
You get an advance. And in the past it used to be possible to get a royalty stream too. In the 80s and 90s, some authors made fortunes like this.

Today, you'll only get an advance - or maybe small royalties on low-volume sales and no advance.

If you self-pub, you have to consider the market very carefully. If you look at the Leanpub best-sellers they're mostly senior-level niche performance/career dev topics in mainstream corporate languages - like specific performance tweaks in Java.

The bigpubs usually do broad-brush topics like "How to Visual Studio". They're aimed more at beginners and side-movers. They have the marketing links to sell into the big physical bookstores, but for tech that market is smaller than you might expect, so they're unlikely to make anyone rich.

But... it's worth considering all of this is just another example of product/market fit. You get the best results from growing a customer base and giving them what they really want, just as you do for any other business, but with some added complications around product creation and distribution.

You might want to write a fun book about something creative and unusual in tech, but even with a following it's unlikely to sell many copies.

With selfpub you have some control over the big picture. Bigpubs just do what they do. Upfront money and your name on real shelves in a real bookstore may seem sweet, but there are huge costs to authors down the line, and mostly they're not a good deal now.
They can't out-CPU Intel.

They can out-CPU Intel's 10nm.
>an "intensive" regimen of essentially n-back training prescribed by my care provider.

can you describe the treatment protocol to us in brief or link us to additional resources on this topic? this sounds very interesting and potentially very helpful.
> I'd expect most lisps to suffer in the same way.

Why? Eg Scheme or even the uglier Common Lisp are quite disciplined. And Clojure ain't too bad either.

As far as I can tell, Lispers don't usually go around monkey-patching things.
Facebook is very very profitable, they pulled in almost $20B in net income in 2019.
Big discussion 2 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23800032
Soreness Is Good and Scales Are Pointless: The Biggest Myths in Fitness
I think you misunderstood the parent poster's point. They are talking about India the nation, while you are talking of India the concept. India the concept existed. But India the concept is similar to America the concept or Europe or Africa the concept, not Germany or France. Also, before the British, the last empire to rule over almost all of modern day India was Ashoka, more than 2000 years ago.
PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C
"an advertising marketplace as an alternative to web search"

To the large portion of the population who doesn't understand that the "top result" on a Google search is an ad, this is already where we are at. The subtle but impactful changes to make ads incrementally less distinguishable from real results has brought us here.
I understand (at some level) what induction is. But the example given in the explanation of induction in the bottom is fundamentally different in that it does not assume anything. It simply calculates the formula for 1 and n+1 and both fit it.

> Step 4: We can do this by showing that (1) for any k where it is true that "within every group of k people everyone has the same age," then (2) showing that it necessary follows that "within every group of k+1 people everyone has the same age."

Try as I might this only looks like circular reasoning to me.
Any other Publix fans here that thought this was referring to their sub sandwiches for a second?
https://youtu.be/vcyQBup-Gto?t=2739

Jonathan Looney, Engineering Manager at Netflix, claiming their primary reason for choosing FreeBSD was GPL avoidance and that subsequent performance testing (which was not the basis for their choice) is not exactly fair because they did not do the same amount of engineering work for Linux as they did for FreeBSD.
Although it is a valid point, you are missing that it's Microsoft who prevents everyone from doing it [0].

[0] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/osor/case/complex-sing...
This is very interesting. Thanks for the insight. You go into more depth than I've seen before.

Have you ever looked at the 65C832? It never made it to production but there are detailed specs and a datasheet; probably enough for someone to implement one on FPGA or something. I'm curious if it would have fixed some of the issues you report.

https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Electronics/CPU/WDC%2065...
Which would be the state of corruption and bribery happening literally everywhere in the world. Maybe different countries, different companies and different people have different scales of it, but the idea is the same.
Teachers have been the enemy for decades.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-america-demonizes-its-tea...
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