skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least it’s an ethos…

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

[Edit: Gah, 'viburnum beat me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878691]
Ah, you mean "Scrum of Scrums" where the people with at best half a clue lose that half.

I distinctly dislike my job (and am looking elsewhere, interview monday).
If u follow history of RN , you will find that main advantage is that your JS devs can ship to mobile ios/android so it helps smaller team to ship.

Of course if u want to build in native tech than the app will be higher quality, but the disadvantage is that your devs probably wont be efficient in catching kotlin or swift so fast as RN.

In the long term i do agree but 90% ideas for a product fail anyway, iif you know it will succeed then go native
Not really sure what your point is.
I've never designed games beyond tetris, could someone explain in a few words, what the architecture of a RPG looks like?

Some assumptions that may be terribly wrong:

- The user input loop (keyboard, mouse) is still the main loop somewhere at the very bottom. Or is it different in RPGs?

- Spawn threads each with their own inner loop, for each complex agent. Not necessarily an OS thread, but something that has its main loop and a stack.

- Objects that don't have a "brain" don't need a thread, e.g. the ball in the tennis game. All such objects are managed from a single thread.

- There's a rendering loop, possibly with its own complex multithreaded architecture.

I don't know, did I come close to what's actually happening in complex RPG games?
How do castes work? Can you tell what caste someone is by how they're dressed?
Dublin banker sells island off coast of west Cork for €5.5m
Though this article is not recommending removing tracking, but rather triggering your tracking from the backend or edge, because that way the user can’t stop it from working! I confess that in some ways I prefer tracking to conventionally happen on the frontend because then I can block it.

(Yet even so, backend-triggered tracking is probably less privacy-intrusive than frontend-, even if you’re sending the data to Google or Facebook or whoever.)
So if a decentralised solution picked up, but it’s model was advertising based would you still choose to block ads?
What Are the Benefits of Using Social Media for Business?
Ah ha, This probably explains why my internet stopped working for a bit. I had the 1.1.1.1 app from Cloudflare installed on my phone.
https://slack.com/intl/en-in/pricing
Maybe they should subsidize innovation instead.
As noted downthread, these points don't particularly point to it being engineered (point 1 applies in spades to SARS and MERS, for example). Most scientists believe the evidence [0] indicates it's of natural origin.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/the-new-coronavirus-could-have-...
A couple of corrections, if you don't mind...

Vulkan is not hardware-specific, it is an open, cross platform standard like OpenGL.

Direct3D is not standard, but it is so well supported and used (even in Linux!) that you can consider it one.
We Shouldn't Call Michelle Obama's (and Joe Rogan's) Exclusive Audio a 'Podcast'
This is pathetic. How the hell did a comapny as rich as Twitter not have a break-glass around accessing this data. No one person should have had this level of access. No TWO people should have had this level of access. Unbelievable.
Multigate Device
I've seen lots of terrible open source software - nobody is purchasing it, and the people who would normally make purchasing decisions aren't involved at all, so the software quality has no impact on whether it gets bought.
Wait... How did they remove emit? Didn't they just make it an instance level export, like props?
> I only wish these services did 1 thing differently - and that is, release a live video stream of their server farm's rack

This is security theatre. Anyone wanting to surreptitiously access the server farm only has to stream an alternate video to defeat this.
>"Dual-gate MOSFETs are commonly used in very high frequency (VHF) mixers and in sensitive VHF front-end amplifiers."
One thing is that it might be trying to get data from OG names to easier guess their passwords?
2 years ago, about 1 in 3 people in the UK were watching England in the World Cup.

Towards the end of the game, a CDN the bbc used crashed, taking a million people’s live streams offline.

Traditional TV with its 20 million plus viewers worked fine.

A 15 minute global outage during the World Cup or Super Bowl is not acceptable in the world of boring old TV

Meanwhile github has been down how many times this year?

IT is still a terrible industry of cowboys. It’s just hidden under the veneer of abstaction, microservices and outsourcing. Other industries like the national grid or water of radio have outages that affect a local geographic area or a limited number of people, but they are far more distributed than the modern internet. It’s ironic a network designed to survive nuclear war can’t survive a typo.

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-iplayer-crashes-in-...
One could also easily argue that the CCP has very little to gain from ruining almost all of their customers financially.

So far, it also looks like mainland China was hit hard, while Taiwan got off easy. The CCP would most likely not strengthen a territory that they hope to eventually absorb.

And lastly, I would assume that with Trump, the CCP could just bribe their way into Washington.

So I see very little for them to be gained from starting this. And you yourself also conclude that India is benefiting more than China.
I think this example is why the appearance of a conflict of interest should be the standard for navigating ethical concerns.

If a guy owns a company, I don't doubt that he believes it's the best at what they do. The one thing most CEOs I've met have in common is they ridiculously overestimate how great their companies are. This guy probably genuinely believed his security company was the best choice. It's "not invented here" on the scale of companies instead of git repos.
Yes, F-droid, which NewPipe says they support.

If the app crashes with a Java stack backtrace, it's the app's fault.
Quite a passive aggressive reply. I'll donate to creators and support them directly if I wish. Not running ads on my system is my personal decision and suggesting otherwise is not a great argument. Whoever wrote this comment also mentions YT APIs coming into play here, which further takes away any air of authenticity the author had to begin with.
https://twitter.com/appledry05/status/1256316190403764226
” That is my interpretation of the story so far anyway. And i didn't mention OpenGL ES which is OpenGL in name only but not in anything that really matters”

You might be mistaking the OpenGL es 1.0 for anything modern.

ES2.0 and above is a true subset of the desktop OpenGL, some limits are less and support for things like Geometry shaders are optional, but that’s pretty much it.
Mexico’s only real chance is to raise a middle finger to the USA and legalize drugs in their own country. How can you enforce law and order when a foreign country is funding criminals in your country with more money than exists in your own budget?
faeyanpiraat's point, but also, despite this failure, let's not dismiss the fact that Cloudflare brings unique (i.e. difficult to replicate) features (hence their success) a/ ability to identify threats at a global scale using a massive aggregation of data b/ ability to stop malicious actors close to their sources thanks to their large grid of POPs & their use of the anycast routing model.

Sure, anyone can scale my localized infrastructure for the traffic of 100,000 IP Cameras. Can anyone do it for 10,000,000 pwnd devices? Sure, but it'll likely start not being so practical without multiple POPs. Do I want to hire a dozen network & threat detection engineers to build/maintain that, complicate my processes, and pay for the infrastructure moving forward for a once-in-a-year event? Not really, no.

The way I see it, Cloudflare acts just like an insurance policy. Pay for a fraction of the actual cost, get your back covered, and profit from the expertise when it hits the fan.
Tricks with Pseudorandom Number Generators
Hi! Geffrey from … geffrey.io here. Thanks for posting!

That website is a bit wonky, sorry for that.

Thanks again!
> There was a general shifting of position and a group clearing of throats.

> 'What about mercenaries?' said Boggis.

> 'The problem with mercenaries,' said the Patrician, 'is that they need to be paid to start fighting. And, unless you are very lucky, you end up paying them even more to stop -'

(from the book Jingo by Sir Terry Pratchett).
I was CTO at a SaaS company with a whole host of companies you've heard of relying on us as a core part of their business. They absolutely would and did accept "AWS was down, soz" as an excuse, where they were much spikier about fuckups where we were to blame.

Tangential: nobody got fired for buying IBM
First issue: “Please delete this repository”
I share a Javascript library and in the first issue they tell me to delete it because it makes HTML dirty. What happened to the freedom of Opensource and giving room for innovation? I am deeply disappointed.

https://github.com/tanrax/FFNM/issues/1

I don't know if I'll ever share new prototypes or keep them to myself.
The classic alert sounds in macOS Calatina and their replacements in Big Sur
https://tkacz.pro/vue-js-why-event-bus-is-bad-idea/

https://dev.to/chenxeed/be-prepared-to-migrate-your-vue-app-...
Most people never ever think about suicide.

You might consider if you fit with "complex PTSD" or "childhood emotional neglect". This seems common among high-achieving tech people.
Chemical Vapor Deposited Hexagonal Boron Nitride as Transistor SGT/Dielectric
Can you please explain this comment?
The problem here is that abstraction comes at a cost, and that cost is so great that we need even crazier abstractions to be able to work around it... and now the suggestion is, as you say, work with a whole engine. Ah, now I can draw a pixel on screen! I see it as a lot of wasted potential (even if maybe not that much wasted commercial potential).
I generally agree with your point, but I disagree that legislation and regulations are the problem. Once you reach high level politics, the fact is that anything but utterly blatant criminal behavior will be a political issue.

The solution is that politicians need to be held to a much higher standard than the letter of the law, by their voters. It boggles my mind how many politicians have such obvious conflicts of interest that manage to retain approval of their constituents.
You might want to consider setting up a Pi-Hole. Not sure how well those work with chromecasts though.
Mistakes happen at all companies. I’m not sure it’s possible at all to have 100% uptime forever. Since it’s not possible (or at the very least, extremely unlikely) to never make a mistake, isn’t it much better to try to understand each other’s mistakes?

Certainly, cloudflare, could be lying to us. First, this seems super unlikely to me, but in the event that they are, it’s still a situation which would literally cause the described issue if it did happen. Therefore it can still be learned from in the same way. Again, it feels unlikely for it to be a lie considering the specificity and lack of other viable explanations.
Newspapers are not a reliable source for news.
If they promised no logs why did they take the extra steps to log. That's the opposite of a lazy mistake.
I don't think looking at someone's post history qualifies as "nasty, underhanded tactics". That user's post history is a nearly uninterrupted string of defending China (occasionally interrupted to attack India or the US on matters related to China).

If noticing unusual posting patterns is bad for some reason, perhaps you should explain why. I read your current post as an insult and think an explanation would be both more appropriate and more productive.
I don't think they "accessed" any data directly, rather they used the support access to initiate an account recovery (which I assume is very common, to help people who have lost their 2FA), and from there were able to take over the account. I do agree that there should probably be higher limits around initiating password reset for some very high value accounts.
Ah, either perfect capitalsim, or centally planned economies, nothing in between and no shades of grey, exactly as promised in econ 101.

Oh boy... Well, at least you know how to attack straw men as well!
The wet market and lab are not the only two options. The millions of people who come into contact with animals infected by novel coronaviruses on farms or in nature every year are, by far, the most likely origin of the outbreak.

One the one hand, you have a handful of highly trained technicians basically wearing spacesuits, and undergoing strict decontamination procedures.

On the other hand, you have millions of people in the countryside who live around bats (a few percent of which are infected with SARS-like coronaviruses at any given time), or who live around livestock that are potentially exposed to bats. You have people who go into bat caves specifically to collect guano (i.e., bat poop). And there's evidence that a few percent of people in villages near these bat populations have actually been infected with novel bat coronaviruses (based on serology).

While you worry about a few people in the lab, there are millions of people in far more risky everyday situations you're ignoring.
For "starter" you could also substitute "Persuading Officer".
My advice is dont listen to the woo, just practice. Your back’s health is more important.
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before!
I have always seen its goal as providing the means to create different user libraries for different specialized purposes on top of it.

Then you also get implementations of other APIs like Direct3D on top on Vulkan, which is amazing because you can reuse all your code and tooling and run everywhere.
With RavenDB, you cannot setup a unsecured server unless you are _really_ trying. And we worked on getting secured setup to be a click through process with under 10 minutes to setup a whole cluster.

You can see it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-2iZ_lJVag

That was done explicitly because of issues like that. Security isn't a feature, and the fact that your product keep leaking details is not the fault of the user the 100th time this happens.
Is DuckDuckGo Down?
The search doesn’t seem to work at the moment saying Oops, there was an error. Please try again later.
Must be the classic, "assumed rough upbringing due to the color of their skin" trope
I did some big game dev for some years 10 years ago. The loop was (there was only 1 loop):

delta_t = time between last frame and now

fetch input status

for each entity:
entity.think(delta_t) (for example, if a monster is in the state of moving towards me, it will move speed*delta_t units)

Render()

Never saw loops with real threads, that looks like asking for trouble.

If it was a multiplayer game then the think part was on the server and the client would just ready entity state from the network, sent input to server, and render().
I think this is a very good summary. The number on your paycheck is not representative of how good your quality of life is. You can almost never compare salaries 1:1 even in different cities of the same country. It was mentioned on this thread as well, but €60k in rural Germany, €80k in Berlin and €120k in Munich are quite similar in terms of what you get, cost of property/land and stuff. All 3 are basically very much upper middle class in those regions.
A friend of mine did the same thing, I did a small project in his framework and it was really fun.

https://github.com/ruphin/gluonjs

I'm not sure if he still maintains it or it's just done, it grew to about a hundred lines but it's quite comfortable. He used it himself to create a quite amazing portfolio page that unfortunately is down right now.
I think there is always an assumption that the JS devs will thank you for not making them learn Swift and Java Kotlin, and that time will be saved by doing so. In both cases I think the assumption is wrong however. Devs love to learn and this will speed up development overall and produce a better product.
World faces staggering jobs challenge, says Microsoft president
I am planning to go to Vancouver, do you have any tips for job search in Canada specifically (not the glassdoor and such) ? are there any platforms like hired.com or talent.io ?
But chromecast lets you mirror your screen. Why not do that?
Yeah, Musk spends a lot of time on Twitter, his DMs are def loaded, but I also agree that Bezos' is definitely empty. Still, I'm sure there are some verified accounts they would've downloaded the data from if they could, so it makes me think they couldn't easily.
Can you point us to the conditions for which the strong evidence of efficacy exists?

Isn't it a bit backward to enter an industry when the entire basis of efficacy is highly suspect? You mentioned that the mechanism of action was that hypnotherapy 'focuses people so they are more open to new ideas and perspectives'; how is that supposed to assist in the treatment of IBS?
https://youtu.be/UDfAdHBtK_Q?t=476
For the moment there are none, they still on with the immigration process.
DuckDuckGo confirms it has suffered an outage across multiple countries.
Official Confirmation: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1284408766822113280

Service seems to be restored in Chicago.
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Just all things considered, the silly cases referenced above are only a little example of the many ludicrous cases referenced all through the Primal Grow Pro site, and should disclose to you all that you have to know.

http://wintersupplement.com/primal-grow-pro/

https://about.me/primal_grow_pro

https://twitter.com/primal_grow_pro/status/1283984280952041472

https://youtu.be/869k192TUwE

https://www.facebook.com/Primal-Grow-Pro-Reviews-101210431680793/

https://www.facebook.com/Primal-Grow-Pro-113936097067500/

https://www.completefoods.co/diy/recipes/primal-grow-pro-pills-full-reviews
What was his duty and is it recognized by law? Who would prosecute him?
Also, 75k as a new grad is even more unlikely in a startup. This salary as a new grad might happen if you apply for a job at Microsoft in Düsseldorf or Salesforce in Munich, but it’s definitely not the norm even for large companies.
Something Is Wrong with DuckDuckGo
> some natural phenomenon vastly accelerated its mutation

Natural recombination [1] vs gain-of-function lab work. Some of the lab work leverages natural recombination by artificially co-infecting lab animals with multiple viruses and studying the resulting chimeras.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant_virus#Natural_re...
Kind of weird that there's a review for the IBS app on the Mindset page. Also, when you tout what percent of reviews is 5-star, that actually made a flag go up in my mind. Reviews are notoriously easy to game, and app devs don't usually brag about reviews for this reason.
The article says new tests, is that a test for a new person. Or simply a test in a certain time frame

I assume it is the latter, which means the stats can be skwed somewhat. I can't say what degree it would be but I've had 8 tests. Which means I show up in the testing stats 8 times. My situation is somewhat unique, but I'm not alone. Hence the distinction I am curious about.
done the amazing dude that add by `mistakes` adds in his standarjs library(that is just an amazing config file) to make some money, got with pants off and tell us it was just a test...

https://github.com/standard/standard/issues/1381

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20786981

i love javascript.
Still not working (East Europe)
Twitter may not have the corporate ability to care about things beyond the horizon. IIRC the first time they posted a profit was less than two years back.

Google embarked on their BeyondCorp/zero-trust initiative after the 2009 Chinese APT breach. The teams working on their internal security had firepower and support from the very top of the organisation - and it took them seven years to get from "we want to make entire classes of attacks impossible" to "we can now enforce it".

The disappointing truth in tech is that - apart from a few exceptions - security gets only superficial attention, because doing it right is a long-term investment. You need to be reliably profitable for that.
Wow two logical falacies in one sentence.
This is completely unrelated, but I remember your blog about dotnet development. I followed it about 10 years ago and remember when you started with RavenDb. I haven't done any dotnet development in about 7 years, but you taught me a lot about programming properly. Thanks.

I'm glad RavenDb is still going well.
As far as I see, they have no statuspage, which would be useful during an outage. Others say it's resolved now, but I still cannot get it to work.
For those who don't like videos, Michael Mina has also made an op-ed in the NYT (mentioned in the TWIV episode linked): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests...
> and I would never fire anyone to increase my own salary

How about this instead? Your company is overstaffed due to a massive drop in sales. You will run out of money and will have to fire everyone including yourself in one month. Your other choice is to cut 80% of the staff immediately and your business will make enough to pay everyone’s salary who remains.

The better choice for everyone is the surviving business, and that’s the one that puts more money in your pocket. Letting people go is a business decision and it’s very often the correct one. Good business decisions lead to making more money.
Official Confirmation Post: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1284408766822113280

It briefly went offline but seems to be back up here in Chicago.
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,,We became aware of the attackers’ action on Wednesday, and moved quickly to lock down and regain control of the compromised accounts.''

They don't write about the fact that they let the scam going on for hours destroying lives of people. Locking down the accounts actually helped.the scammers, as the owners of the accounts or other Twitter employees weren't able to delete the scam messages.
My point was a term such as 'unencrypted' would probably be the word I'd use to explain the concept of a 'plain text' password to a non technical user.
Yes, it's still down in Europe I guess.
AWS RDS Pg_dump Error Lock Table in Access Share Mode for RDS_superuser
I’m not sure, but my goto blog for reference on Narco news is: http://www.borderlandbeat.com/

Maybe they have more info?
They are simply stating a relevant fact, you seem to be reading a jugement that's not there.
> The minute Cloudflare seems problematic, make it 0% 100% to bypass Cloudflare’s infrastructure completely. This should be tested periodically to ensure that your backends are able to scale & take the load without shedding due to the lack of CDN.

How do you justify the cost? I'm seriously asking - I have had a hard time making this pitch myself, I am curious if you have (recent!) experience with this.
JPEG XL isn't from the same team as WebP 2.0 and arguably AVIF is. It's a combination of the team behind Brotli/Guetzli/Brunsli and Jon Sneyes, inventor of FLIF.

JPEG XL is simple enough to be written cleanly and largely from scratch, instead of being based on a fork of the crusty VP8 codebase.
> the fact that they let the scam going on for hours destroying lives of people

Source?
Anyone got photos or screenshots of it running :-) I am quite curious.
Sounds like regulators have found Herbalife to be fraudulent after all, even if it hasn't affect it's stock price too much.

https://dealbreaker.com/2020/05/herbalife-fined-for-china-br...