skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you use 4K currently with Linux? If so what screen resolution / scaling and what WM / desktop?

I’m using pop_os and I desperately want scaling to work and it doesn’t.
Protobuf actually has a canonical text format. It's easy to produce in C++ or Java https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/referenc...

The format has much less extra syntactical noise than JSON.

For example,

name: "vii" # comments allowed!
id: 23923373

Pretty nifty as it allows readable configuration files with structured data.
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We have plenty of scientism already, but scientists are only listened to when it's convenient. See: vaccines, nuclear energy, starlink, and climate change. Besides, the interesting questions that drive politics aren't scientific ones.

Science rarely speaks authoritatively on moral questions.
Vuejs 3.0 RC
Becausr none of these countriest are telling you corrent mortality number. There are openly fuzzing the numbers and actively suppresing domestic jounalists with laws that protects the government from criticisms. This is atleast true for Bangladesh (where I am from), India, philipines and vietnam. To the best of my knowledge. There is absolutely no reason to believe that something magical is happening in this part of world. People are dying, infection rate extemely high. They are being highly under-reported.
Related earlier post / discussion from Mozilla side: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23908137 ("Safely Reviving Shared Memory").
Probably a practical and financial reason such as the Catholic Church not allowing priests to marry and have children as a form of preventing priests passing on accumulated wealth or power to their offspring.
If you're working against a schema that means presumably there is a schema, and that defeats essentially the whole purpose of using a self-describing format like Ion. At that point, use something like protobuf that is schema-ful.
Do you find 4K in a 15 inch screen worth it? I’m in the verge of buying a 4K one, but I’m not sure if it’s worth the battery consumption in such a small screen.
Thanks. Repositories are stored on an ext4 filesystem. I do backups every 12 hours currently. No additional replication is performed but it is something I want to do.
You need to implement expiring tokens that are refreshed, otherwise there’s no way to revoke a token.

Embed a time stamp in the encrypted token, extract the time stamp and if it’s been longer than X minutes check the DB to see if the session is still valid, and if so issue a new token.

Otherwise a leaked token is good forever.
Another option you can look at are bug bounty programs such as bugcrowd or hackerone.
Speeding Up The R&D Metrology Process
it's hard not to see this as the wasted potential of 10,000 human minds that could otherwise be solving real problems and needs. i'm curious to hear how alexa (and google assistant, et al) can be justified beyond small novelties that would be completely adequately serviced by non-cloud and/or non-voice means. i'm aware of the trickiness one can accomplish with a rube-goldberg-esque system of custom triggers, custom hardware, and carefully spoken phrases. i remain unimpressed by the segment and coupled with the significant privacy issues it feels like such a net-negative.
Hahaha ... yes. :(
Except these don’t regularly turn up fraud. Wells Fargo kept it going for years. Bernie Madoff kept it going for years.

People knew about both.
I dont mean they should do it, I am saying their protest is in vain... because that is a factual reality.

The security ship has sailed, this is the Black Mirror episode.
It doesnt require them to do anything illegal... Pretty sure that they can already buy that information
Just wrote about something similar and what we can learn about GPT-3 inputs. Applicable for lots of domains but written to product managers.

https://productsolving.substack.com/p/openais-gpt-3-will-cha...
There are two different strains. An older one based in Asia that appears weaker. A newer one found in Italy.

This research came out months ago but no one is mentioning this.
Just because people are pushing for them doesn't mean they are needed. I have no idea what your needs are, so maybe they are needed at your company. All I can say is, I've never come across a need for them but I have met a lot of people who just want to try things out because they think it might be cool.
The majority of online courses suck.

But a minority are far better than in-person.

Toss digital scaling in, and it's not a question of if, but when and how. There are real problems people haven't solved, but most of those have to do with how students discover and find good courses, accreditation, etc.
Ask HN: Junior engineer being considered for lead engineer
I have had great experiences sharing on HN so I am somewhat comfortable to share vulnerably about this issue. I have 2 years of experience in writing software but about two decades of experience in professional work in other industries. To be honest, I had not been professionally successful and this has been a great source of suffering for me. Recently, I spoke to a hiring manager of a particular team at a large non-tech corporation, and expected to be considered for a mid-senior job like SDE II or the like, but the lead recruiter sent me a listing for "lead software engineer." I am a little confused. Flattered and ambitious, of course, but also cautious and wondering if it was a mistake. At the same time, I am not sure I can actually do the job, although I am excited about the project and I performed well at the first contact with the hiring manager. I literally felt possessed by a very intelligent person and spoke very well. Afterwards when I looked into the topics being discussed, I knew I had many days, weeks, or maybe months of studying to do to really know what I am doing. Does anyone have any experience with this situation, and if so, what happened then?
We’re over a decade in and there’s no evidence supporting your assertion: almost nobody would have an impact on their daily life if blockchains suddenly disappeared.

In 10 years, the web went from a curiosity at CERN to transforming the global economy, and blockchain applications have much lower barriers to entry than 1990s computer hardware or network pricing. Digital computing went from Alan Turing’s papers to being a decisive factor in WWII over the same period, and similarly had much greater entry requirements.
There is an interesting sci-fi version of Mormonism's baptism of the dead & Tipler's Omega Point in Charles Stross's Accelerando: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

> The Church of Latter-Day Saints believes that you can't get into the Promised Land unless it's baptized you – but it can do so if it knows your name and parentage, even after you're dead. Its genealogical databases are among the most impressive artifacts of historical research ever prepared. And it likes to make converts.

> The remaining faithful of the Latter-Day Saints are correlating the phase-space of their genome and the records of their descent in an attempt to resurrect their ancestors.

> ...the panopticon-logged Net ghosts of people who lived recently enough to imprint their identities on the information age, and the ambitious theological engineering schemes of the Reformed Tiplerite Church of Latter-day Saints (who want to emulate all possible human beings in real time, so that they can have the opportunity to be saved).

That results in a a fun version of the simulation hypothesis where we're all simulated beings in some Mormon-Tipler Heaven.
As for what is stopping us:

1. Actually finding, isolating, and harvesting that virus, and

2. Proving that getting that virus doesn't cause some form of immune enhancement syndrome that would cause subsequent infection by a different coronavirus strain to result in more severe symptoms. (e.g., getting infected with one strain of Dengue fever causes lifelong immunity to that strain, but it also typically results in far more severe symptoms if you then catch a different strain). Immune system issues were identified with some earlier SARS vaccines but researchers discovered a likely way around it.
Not meant to offend but im about to ditch my macbook 2014, can this machine run windows10?
The closer you are to the screen, the more resolution matters.
That VMWare tech preview ran in Beta 2 already which didn’t have this framework yet.

No kernel extension required
Terrifyingly, I discovered recently that Plaid’s API uses floats instead of decimal. For example, security prices:

https://plaid.com/docs/#security-schema
I was thinking something more subtle.

This looks creepy but effective:
http://www.urmesurveillance.com/urme-prosthetic
It’s not Stallmanism, it’s ignorance and thinking that you’re the only person on planet. It’s pretty much common thing here.

Apple doesn’t secure and close down by default their devices to please/upset bunch of nerds on HN, they do it, because normal people don’t know a damn thing about technology. People who “willingly and eagerly help” to find bugs and patch them are heroes. Just like that.
Noted. I think the path I'll be taking is documentation and providing a bash script for those that would prefer it. Thank you for the feedback!
RadioLab did a great episode on Henrietta's story

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/segments/91716...
Central Banks Have Become Irrelevant
I had a good chuckle at :

> message: "Do not write a SQL injection vulnerability please"
Snyk is not open but has a free tier.
Totally agree with you. Oddly enough I am currently doing a market research project on commercial applications for Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) and also Constrained Binary Optimization. Anyway we were talking about UPS, and just for reference if I search my 3 degree network on LinkedIn for the combination of CPLEX (an IBM optimization package) and UPS I got almost 400 hits. Now admittedly some of those people used to work at UPS, some work there now. But there are clearly many, many computer scientists, operations research scientists and mathematicians working on these and other optimization problems at UPS.

On the other hand the grandparent comment just illustrates how even with all those optimization resources individual "decisions" may still be stupid in the moment even though the overall solution is "good enough".
This is the problem with everybody being leveraged to the hilt.

I suspect some small fraction of property owners, however, are unleveraged, absentee, and likely willing to grant rent forbearance for quite awhile. For example, older people holding onto real estate for their children, or who simply really like their tenant and are committed to the community. Restaurants lucky enough to have such landlords, or similarly situated landlord-restaurateurs, are probably counting their blessings right now.

We wouldn't have a very dynamic economy if everybody operated this way, but at least there's some heterogeneity to help us bootstrap things. No comfort for the huge number of people who have effectively lost their life savings, though.
Letting a Satellite Breathe
> I sent an email to legal@ demanding my account be removed and to follow up that it had been done. The support emails stopped but I never heard from Instacart after that.

I must've send close to 50 of these emails to different companies / services I've used in the past. My request was always the same; a dump of my data, removal of my account and confirmation that my account was removed.
To nobody's surprise, I never received a response to any of these requests.
What say Does Your Favorite Coffee about your personality?
This is incredible. My only suggestion, make a hotkey (optionally toggle / push to touch) for the hover to play
This is very interesting. Is there a plugin model for tools not covered or tools that come up in the future?

Is it strongly tied to AWS or is that abstracted away?
We should standarize these "UI themes" so that other frameworks don't get left out (e.g. easy for Angular/Vue to use this). In Java world, it's called SPI (Service Provide Interface), like API but the opposite.
That's the whole point; they intend to baptize everyone living or dead, and theoretically even the dead get to decide whether to accept.

Genealogy is a side effect of this, I have the vague impression that they need to know who you are to baptize you; however, everyone on the planet is a member of the same "family".
That sounds like a great idea, not only to just black hole the content, but to have people who are less prone to have adverse side effects from watching such material be moderators.

Thanks for sharing that part about being in that kind of place, I have a feeling many could relate.
This is why I did my DNA sequencing several years ago with a fake name, a sparkling brand new email address, at a unique domain registered for the purpose, with a fake name as the registrant, paid for with a prepaid card, via a VPN. I downloaded the results and let all of it lapse; other than the DNA itself, it is utterly disconnected from the rest of my digital records.

It's a shame that one has to go to such lengths to safely use health-related electronic services.
Do you have a concrete example of such a time?
Was the research peer reviewed? Published in any journals? Rigorous? Documented?
This is a very optimistic presentation of design docs. The flip side is that these documents can become a touchstone for bike shedding or and excuse to make slideware in lieu of software. A lot of administrative bloat can creep in through design docs.
I find it absolutely worth it, whenever I see a 1080p laptop screen I find myself continuously noticing how blurring the fonts are and how little I can fit on the display, high resolution monitor screens have meant that I find myself needing an external monitor far less often.
Don't know if you are sarcastic here, but yes, the destruction of documents and "evidence" or traces is certainly expected. What isn't is the method in which it is done. The fact that they had to make a fire indicates they were cought unprepared, which is a position you don't want to be in. You want to have enough intelligence information from sources so you can destroy evidence without a rush or with your pants down like this.
This is certainly seen as an embarrassment. Not more or less.
I haven't had any issues with display scaling using Fedora for quite some time.
> what is stopping us from purposefully infecting people with a less harmful illness to protect from COVID?

Something like will be illegal in (guessing) 4 separate ways.

It's too far outside too many boxes. Sit down!
More recently there were 2k cuts on 3 and Y and major cuts on S and X.
You could get a laptop with windows and a dual boot linux. Did that with mine a few months ago using Ubuntu and it's been great.
New Study Shows That Hydroxychloroquine Saves Lives
New Zealand is also in big trouble if we anger China. Our economy is heavily reliant on China. Even our universities rely on Chinese students to help pay the bills.
Not the person you asked, but I use a lightweight window manager and set the screen DPI correctly using xrandr, and/or set the font in each app I care about.

I’ve found this works well across high and low DPI machines.
Why do you feel that characters that together compose words are adult, while characters that form an image conveying human emotion are not?

Is a laughing emoji not the most efficient way to convey that you're joking or think something is funny?
Congratulations on the launch! The external developer use case is one I didn't even think of -- I assume this is something like helping people make products that look and fit in with the feel of your other offerings.

Please feel free to amend/improve my definition of design systems above -- the term has meant so much over the years inside and out of the strict boundaries of pure graphic design -- I am not a designer/UX person by trade (I do it only when there is literally no one else), but write frontend code and have had some friends bellyache to me recently about trying to get design systems implemented in a local mid-large size company with a startup-like environment.
All the rants and objections aside, isn’t it exciting that we get to see something new and complicated to tear apart and burn down? Because otherwise we’ll just be paying $250/yr for New Core i2000-100006000086 for coming decades
Ask HN: Will GPT-3 bring a worthy competitor to Google search?
While I understand what GPT-3 achieved is not a full-fledged service like Google search with all its distributed computing infrastructure, but since GPT-3 has achieved the algorithmic part of the story, does it mean the infra part of the story is where the innovation lies to bring a competing search engine to Google search ?
Golang hit 1.0 in 2012. Rust hit 1.0 in 2015. Rust is only 3 years behind golang in maturity.
a lot of "LEAN" is about making work pieces smaller. This not only reduces waste, but allows quicker reaction time when you do need to change something.
Thrilling Fashion Brands That Have Existed over 70yrs – Citywearsblog
Fun fact: Ion is used heavily in KFX, the book format for Kindles.
I have it on my xps 13 and I'd say it's worth it. Everything looks amazing. There are two factors though, not all software plays nicely (im looking at you adobe) and it depebds in the additional cost.

It's an adjustment going back to a 1080p screen for a bit.
The data reported across certain countries may not be directly comparable due to differences in testing, reporting processes and other discrepancies.

Most of my asian friends believe mask wearing and willingness to self isolate (sick, so stay home/wear mask/try not to spread) are a factor when comparing to western nations.

Vitamin D may also play a part. I recall there were studies indicating that Vitamin D deficiency could be a problem for those who get sick. I have no data here but I suspect westerners are far more likely to be Vitamin D deficient.

I would not be surprised as well if general health across populations has a relationship (diabetes, obesity etc).

Aside from that, regulation and enforcement matter. Australia kept cases under control early on but their recent delay in locking down hard with new cases has meant the spread continues out of control. New Zealand on the other hand had a very strong lockdown and try to enforce quarantine and case management. So far cases are controlled and limited only to those returning from overseas. Community spread was eliminated (to date).
wouldn't a normal vaccine classify as "super human" immune performance?

I take your point, but what's sci-fi is always a receding horizon :)
While this is an interesting datum, I don't see how it's pertinent to the comments section.
> Since not just anyone can be approved, I don't think I"d consider that "anyone".

I took the parent to mean you "just need to be approved" to do debugging via this program, but not to use other means to do debugging, which you don't need approval for, hence anyone can do.
The problem is if you feel like you will be judged for how you vote, it may change how you vote.
Are you rewriting same functionality but in a brand new project or are you adding react components to an old project?
What's the reason to do it now?
I feel like Black Mirror Bandersnatch gets closer to the promise of interactive video. You get choices which lead to meaningfully different endings. And you get a little reward for playing it through multiple times. :-)
Still no good 13 inch options with ryzen 4000. Waiting for the thinkpad.
At my previous job, we made pr-merger[0] which is a little utility that allows you to merge all possibly mergeable open pull requests in your GitHub repository. Using this tool, we always build a full stack preview of our app before merging things to master branch.

[0] https://github.com/cloudaper/pr-merger
If you're not doing fractional scaling it works well. But fractional scaling is still rough - in particular all electron apps are blurry
It's easier than that. You simply modify the special phone to broadcast the unlock PIN being entered in realtime. You set the background to the same wallpaper as the target's phone.

You swap it physically for the target's phone on the table, netting you the target device.

Moments later, when they pick up a phone that looks just like their own and enters a PIN several times, you now have both their phone (from when you swapped it) and the PIN to unlock it (from the broadcast), allowing you full use of the device, offline, at your leisure. The target is now confused why their phone isn't unlocking, and may not detect the attack for hours.

Apple really should put these audit devices in a big, boxy, couldn't possibly-be-mistaken-for-an-iPhone case.
>What possible justification can you have to force another being with feelings to suffer?

For one, that "beings with feelings" make decisions against their better judgement all the time. Others who can see more clearly, like e.g. lawmakers and society at large, could help guide them towards better decisions.

Second, that "suffering" is the ultimate thing to avoid. Death can be worse.

Third, there's the justification that some degree of suffering is inevitable, and people should just accept it.

Fourth, the idea that people should "not let people to suffer" is a moral one - not some law of physics or inescapable logical proof. In the same sense, the idea that you should not just let "people kill themselves" is also a moral one (that is, belonging to a moral system). The decision which of those ideas should prevail, is thus, also a moral one - there's no ultimate answer. And this society chose that just willy nilly allowing people to kill themselves and giving them the means is not OK.

Fifth, "when psychological suffering is caused by the environment and there is no way to escape the environment" -- well there are people in the same environment (or even worse ones) who are still happy and fine with themselves, so it's never just the environment. It's how people see it, and that can change.
There are many reasons why Tesla is not optimal. If you get into an accident, your car will be in the shop for months. Literally months. I have a Tesla with a minor trim at the bottom of the car got damaged. It took 3 months, and they had to take apart the entire car. Literally even the back seats were taken apart just to change the trim on the bottom. It cost over $10,000.

Tesla's quality has dropped so much that JD Power's latest survey ranked it near the bottom in terms of quality. Everyone that has a Tesla says that they are fun to drive (they are) but they feel cheaply made.

The European car manufacturers are coming out with electric cars and I think they're ability to create a luxurious feel will make a big dent to Tesla's sales. Case in point, the Porsche Taycan looks amazing and will be a competitor to the Model S.
They have been relying on "other people's tech" like Linux Kernel, Apache Mesos and now Kubernetes to power their own systems for decades now, doesn't seem to burn them in the slightest. It's all about controlling users for them.
Just tangentially related but recently I tried to buy something from an online store called Adorama and when I tried to place an order I got the notification of the charge from my bank after clicking the order button but the page didn't do anything, initially I though "well lets just get in touch with customer support, pretty sure they can see the charge and let me know what happen with it" oh boy was I wrong, their customer support only has access to orders not transactions, so when a bug in their website charged me without creating an order there is nothing they can do at all; all they did is recommend me to ask my bank to do a chargeback, but my bank says I need to wait 30 days after the transaction to so. So yeah, my lesson was the same, I should have had stick with Amazon because smaller stores just can't be trusted with handling purchases correctly.
The "everyone does it" is true in console gaming though, so the argument actually could apply them. Apple is the only mobile platform that it doesn't do the same as others (Android)