skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From using gnuplot of a few versions ago for tasks involving rather many plot generation, I felt that the gnuplot syntax and commands are rather unintutive and hard to remember, perhaps in some way aesthetically jarring. Also the interactive plots it generated was rather barebones.

Plotting from a pandas dataframe seems more convenient way than using gnuplot presently.
Except transaction costs are a thing (e.g. the closing costs for the purchase, and the commissions on the sale), and often eat up a lot of the gains.
Indeed. But Matrix seems in a much more dangerous place in that regard then Linux.

That being said, if MS does in good faith embrace Matrix for Teams, that would be amazing.
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Another reason is that you have a single place to store your secrets shared between multiple services. Now you only have one place to update when the secret expires/is revoked.
Ask HN: What distinguishes Hacker News culture?
I miss Flash
(1) I know you're a security researcher.

(2) I'm a software developer at Fly.io.

(3) Latacora, my previous security company, did no work at all for Apple.

(4) I have no idea what you mean by "server security"; you are probably thinking of someone else.

(5) I'm not asking whether you think it's OK that Apple sued Corellium. Most people in software security are not happy that Apple sued Corellium; I'm not going to be the oddball pissing into the wind this time with a contrary take.

If we agree, we agree, and it sounds like we do: one might not believe that the SRDP meaningfully improves security research on the iPhone, but it's hard to make an argument that the SRDP _harms_ it.
Mix the DNA info into a machine learning insura-bot and you'll never be able to extract the evidence.
Ask HN: Which technical guides or cheatsheets are a must read for a developer?
I was reading WCAG's accessibility success criteria pages and the OWASP cheat sheets and they both ar e something that one needs to read through atleast once.

What are some other documents that are a must-read?
> And that the country was happy with a much higher death rate. Sweden has less than half the population of Australia and they have had 5,667 deaths and Australia has had 128.

When Australia went into the first lockdown they had essentially no community transmission.

It is unclear that the lockdowns had any impact at all.

Now that there is significant community transmission in Melbourne we can see if the second lockdown is effective.
By the way, it's Swartz
“No overview available.”
I don't use MS Office, 365 or otherwise, but my understanding is that there wasn't an option to set it to not install teams on initial install.
According to their own FAQ, Nebula uses a lab in HK. In current times, that may be of concern.
You exist and you’re hard to find among a sea of “Take existing tech, apply to new business domain” product startups.

Ergo what GP said

> The concern is that there is zero real R&D or product development spending.

PS if your R&D is in AI that does not fall under my original comment on “web/mobile stuff”
For years and years the internet has been full of "something something is going to be the next economic disaster". Sometimes that's Obama or Trump elected. Sometimes it's high corporate or government debt.

Always thought they were along the lines of even a broken clock is right twice a day, at best.

But this, makes me worry for the first time
The morality of which clauses? Can you be more specific?

Arguments about the legitimacy of Apple's locked platform are among the most boring we can have on HN, and date all the way back to the origin of HN. But arguments about the specific terms in the SRDP, or even Apple's bug bounty, are super interesting.
Ya but who wants to use COM/XPC/DBUS/Binder?
If there is a nearly harmless coronavirus going around, whether it is a common cold or previously unidentified virus (as the article suggests), that provides partial immunity to COVID, what is stopping us from purposefully infecting people with a less harmful illness to protect from COVID? Isn’t this how the first idea of vaccines came about with Cowpox and smallpox?
From an ethics standpoint their's something to talk about here...

From an individual standpoint I really don't care about someone out in the public knowing my genome. It's not like I store my passwords on my genome, how is this information going to be used against me?
It's just a punitive tax on the producers of heavy emitters, with the proceed going to Tesla instead of the government. Tesla is treated very generously as their cars count as emitting 0g Co2, which is not the case unless they are recharged with renewable energy.
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Yeah that’s a huge oversight. AS3 was in fact the highest paid language in the industry for some time, and it was all of the social games. Then we all mostly jumped ship to mobile or PC or VR or whatever.

But it was a very significant industry, every major games company had divisions building FB games, we had games hitting 20+ million DAU overnight, it was big business.

I made Flash games (among other things) at Sony, Disney, PopCap, and Amazon. I’m not sure people understand how widely it was used.

Now... I also saw the writing on the wall and made a hasty exit in 2012 because it was clearly dying. But for a while it was a vibrant and well-paying niche.
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scott wasn’t an unnamed source; from the sound of it this was in large part an article about him, eg the journo was going around and asking questions about him specifically. i guess we’ll see if those sources are named.
It'd be very cool if someone who thinks that this is a horrible idea (and there must be some) would explain why. Just sayin'.
Not every school has TAs (mine didn't)
A lot of restaurants don’t really make much money
I think only Toyota, VW, and Tesla have market caps over $50B. I know market cap isn’t everything. But still, Nikola appears far too big. Not sure what these car companies could spend, but even $5B seems too much for an investment. Nikola has to drop 4x at least.
Protobuf can be converted to (and from) JSON for readability
Fair shake, this time I cropped the image too so that it wasn't looking at any of the boundary to identify it either.

Here's the original image: https://imgur.com/a/Td4rhoy

And the cloaked: https://imgur.com/a/cPCiCZo

These were both saved as JPG with compression level 8/12. I searched for the cloaked crop (96.jpg) first this time: https://imgur.com/a/FSehQWO

And the original crop (10.jpg) next: https://imgur.com/a/yx4jF0B

This time, Google reverse image search did better at identifying the name of the singer in the cloaked image, instead of just giving the band name for the uncloaked.

Not super scientific since we don't really know what's going on behind-the-scenes with Google reverse image search, but it's certainly one adversary that doesn't seem to be easily fooled if there are other images of "you" out there for it to find. I also tried these small crops in Google Lens with less success (I got unrelated portraits for both images, cloaked or not).
you type into your glowing device connected nigh-instantaneously to a hefty proportion of the world.
This is what I figured would be the reason to remove comments, because they would hold some other non-human information. It's unfortunate that people do this. The main reason for comments for me would be for config files, which maybe shouldn't be in JSON anyways.
I imagine that many businesses do not retain earnings quarter over quarter because it can often be better invested in the company itself via expansion and such.

However, especially in the case of restaurants, their profit margins are very thin, making them susceptible to swings in business.
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Because it's simple, straight to the point, doesn't have any distracting images, perfectly aligned, light, ...
Almost all these guides are written from the viewpoint of investors. Here's a brief one from the viewpoint of the person seeking funding.

You are selling a product to a single customer (or small group of them). That product is an investor story that can sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if you tell it ably enough, so it's worth putting in the time in to tell it well.

If necessary, you can even write a little toy website, and entice people to sign up for it, in the service of that story. If you can get yourself to believe in the story, you will be all the more persuasive in convincing that key customer.

But never forget that your primary focus is that customer—your investor. Learn their interests, learn to speak their language (perhaps by reading posts like the parent), learn how to flatter their sense of self until they feel like a genius visionary for finding you.

Startup investing is a luxury lifestyle product for the very rich. The art of selling that product well is pretending that the transaction is something different than what it is.
so mRNA vaccination is an offshoot towards technology which was created about a decade and a half ago to make more efficient monoclonal antibodies for the lab. The process is to extract B-cells from a challenged organism (almost always mouse) and then fuse them as 'hybridomas' with immortal cancer cells, select single cell clumps that show an immune response out of multi-well plates, and then use those immortalized cells to make that one antibody forever.

So indeed the mRNA vaccines come from technology that is highly optimized to elicit a B-cell response. (Not to say that it doesn't stimulate T-cells, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't).
modern medical ethics. lack of efficiency is a trade off made to protect agency.
> Assume they stay there

Hopefully that assumption doesn't hold. Quoting from the earnings call:

"Our cars are not affordable enough—we need to fix that. We are making progress in that regard. We need to not go bankrupt, obviously, but we're not trying to be too profitable. One or 2 percent, it's not too crazy. Slightly profitable and maximize growth, making the cars as affordable as possible"
This is not taking advantage of a disaster (taking advantage of people's suffering), this is supply and demand. Supposedly, Tesla's are in high demand and as a 'luxury' good they could charge as much as they wished without consequence to their reputation. Indeed, it may even increase the desirability of their cars. Which begs the question, why haven't they? Instead, they've consistently slashed prices..
The reason I imagine this comes up as a thread of discussion is because Apple promised they would do this long before Corellium existed--at least four years ago: the meeting I was at--and I heard it had likely even been shelved!... but it has seemingly now become something to bother with doing, and as far as anyone can tell it is because Apple's lawsuit with Corellium non-trivially tries to claim that Corellium can't use certain "obvious" defenses because their emulator somehow competes with and carves into the market for Apple's promised security research device program, which is in some sense the Daikatana of this community. So to people who might otherwise think "oh, Apple loves security researchers: look at this program as proof!" the real thought should be "Apple is likely only doing this at all to help them win a lawsuit and injunction against a company which provides the tools used by a lot of security researchers" (a lawsuit which also wants to push through Corellium so they can attack their customers).
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I'd be most curious if there is DNA that can predict if you are susceptible to marketing/propaganda.

Easy to figure out- line up anyone who accessed the site with an Apple product and do data science/machine learning on those users.
If you truly are in a position where you can have live off (non retirement I assume) savings for more than a year, you are in the tiny minority of the American population. Likely true for other countries.

And just like you, very few restaurants are in the position to put that much in savings. Running restaurant is crazy hard for all but the few top percent

Margins are thin. Competition is tough
This is very easy to do when you are a person

When you are a company (I speak as having worked in a trillion dollar company, a $10 billion one, and running a startup right now)

1) Office leases which you can't get out of

2) Server costs and subscription services to keep the company running

3) Salaries for everyone

4) Marketing. This is a Catch 22 situation. You cut on marketing and earnings go down. However, money for marketing becomes scarcer and scarcer

5) If you have any debt you have to service

6) One time costs - Coronavirus CREATES costs also

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No one can plan for a Black Swan type event because it is a Black Swan type event

*

Also please keep in mind that it is a competitive situation

You can't be super careful with money if all your competitors are throwing it away

Think about what competitors of We Work, Uber, Tesla ($423 million in carbon credits + $1.49 billion Accounts receivable + taking $36 million out of Full AutoPilot Driving revenue in this quarter) have to do

Can they be conservative? No

They have to compete

Then this (CoronaBlackSwan) happens

Now no one has money and lots of companies die out
I'd rather live with the risk and enjoy the freedom than give in to the authoritarian corporations whose main goal is to achieve complete control over their users, and advertise it under the guise of security.

Personally, I find it a bit sad and disturbing that people will so willingly and eagerly help --- even for free --- these companies put tighter nooses around themselves and others' necks.

(I'm not "Stallmanist", in that I'm not necessarily advocating open-source; but I am a strong proponent of being able to control what one's computing devices runs, regardless of source availability or even legality. In that sense, what Apple does with its walled gardens is really a strong DRM.)
The virus spread quite well in Wuhan and the South Korean church though. Why do you dismiss the significant policy differences as a sufficient explanation?
I just tried it on myself and it produces some wierd colour distortions, particularly around the eyebrows, even with the default 'low' setting (50 iterations, threshold 0.003), so I'm not sure people will be happy using it. Kind of looks like I've been attacked by a bad eyebrow pencil. Also looks a bit like a picture printed on thin magazine paper (something trashy like OK! Magazine) held up to the light, so the image from the other side bleeds through.

If you tweak the values a bit lower it doesn't look so bad, but of course I haven't tested it with an array of DL algorithms.
The US has been exiting lockdown, which is a factor. I don't know what it means - there isn't a true control where we can say X is different.
Getting placed at the scene of a crime applies to everyone.

Remember that once you do it, it’s out there forever. So you can’t just rely on “I haven’t and won’t break any laws that exist in my country right now”.

Having certain characteristics that show up in your test could be illegal in 20 years time. You don’t know.
In the presentation itself, it was towards the end
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Pluto is inclined at 17 degrees to the ecliptic plant.

Haley's Comet is inclined at -18 degrees, and is highly elliptic which means that most of the time it is south of the ecliptic plane.

The Kuiper Belt and Scattered Disk have a lot of objects inclined to the ecliptic, you can see a distribution here [0].

This [1] list has some even more inclined objects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_disc#/media/File:The...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exceptional_asteroids#...
DNA sequencers are not that expensive [1]. And I’m told the actual lab work is not that hard or dangerous (high school level?).

I fact, the database correlating millions of people’s DNA with their medical history and migration history is probably the hardest part.

But the potential market is there. I’d gladly play $1000 to have my sequence, even unanalyzed, with the knowledge no one else does.

1 cursory look at eBay. I don’t know if those sequencing machines are good for human DNA - I hate bio.
I think authorization is the most important part to avoid randos flood your "database". Otherwise, why do not just use the Google Sheets API.
Sure. I think we're all on the same page about this.
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Apple hires economists to argue App Store commissions aren't anti-competitive
They also mentioned pre-release hardware in the “undisclosed location” — if I recall correctly it was before they did a demo of virtualization.

Well, after Googling, I can’t find the exact quote that referenced new hardware in live blogs, but it’s telling that just before they did a demo of virtualization, Maya and so on, they said, “All of the Big Sur features demonstrated earlier were being run on the development platform” according to Anandtech — meaning the earlier Big Sur demo was on the A12Z but the next part would be possibly newer hardware.
I was just wondering if this one leak would spur a hike in organ thefts. Or a spike in abusive husbands and fathers, pedophiles and rapists tracking down the victims that escaped them.

Even if this doesn't happen, the future is a devious thing; I think we will eventually get to a stage of gene oppression; We have went through periods of oppressing and persecuting religion and ethnicity. DNA seems even more vulnerable to this kind of prejudice. And even if we can secure some legal protection, to the million peoples families, that won't matter now.

I don't know what will happen in the future, but i can imagine how much smoother the holocaust would have went if DNA were public.
Fire does it better
No, this couldn't have been avoided. You simply cannot shutdown the economy for four months and not have a disastrous outcome. Somewhere in the economy, people will feel the effect. All you can do is shift the pain from someone to another.
And what about ssl?
White papers don't have to be 10 pages each. Some things are two pagers, some need 5, and some really beefy topics need more.

The problem is that in addition to the clay thrower, the shotgun comes equipped with a scope and a 300 meter paper target. Yes people are fools for misapplying the tool, but the manufacturer is to blame for misleading their customers to the tool's capabilities.

The problem is that bad writing is immediately obvious to fluent speakers, but bad powerpoints are not. Powerpoints are also susceptible to institutional styling (look up the face-melters that the American DoD designs).

I would wager that a busy boss will pay more attention to your ideas if they're presented as a tight page or two. Good writing is hard to do, and takes time for almost everyone. Presenting topics in a way that makes their complexity evident helps people allocate their attention correctly.

White papers don't solve the problem, but at least they don't make it worse.
Don't bring the Unix-Haters Handbook into this. A fun, self-consciously curmudgeonly romp like that has about as much in common with the systemd debate as P.J. O'Rourke does with Bill O'Reilly.
There is a very interesting article on how App stores lead to the prostitution of developers

I can't find it at the moment. If you can then do read it

He speaks to points very similar to what you are saying

Every free market with infinite/near infinite competition goes the same way

It's happening in games and books also
Fair enough -- I'm probably still a bit prickly from raising a hard-tech seed! (For which, if it needs to be said, most of the dynamics described in the article do not apply...)
I started on IRC not too long after it was invented, and I saw, even in the terminal days, lots of "regular" people use it, once SLIP and PPP became popular, things like mIRC made it pretty easy for most people. Microsoft even made comic chat for it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat But open systems got overtaken by walled gardens.
Isn't this their business model?

/s (kind of)
Lots of relatively large companies have whole lines of business based on buying dark web account dumps, and, last time I looked into it, the conclusion I reached (I'm not a lawyer, just someone who nerds out on this stuff) is that you're legally safe buying with the intention of recovering your own stolen data. You're probably crim-law safe regardless of whose data you're acquiring, as long as you're not a party to or have any kind of durable relationship with the people stealing the data.
Imagine the BLM protests (since that will probably be popular with the HN crowd).

There’s video footage of a guy in a mask spitting on the ground after throwing a rock. He’s wearing a mask.

His second cousin did 23 and me.

Actually, statistically many of his second cousins did 23 and me.

Therefore we know who he is.

If only one second cousin did 23 and me, we’ve narrowed the suspects to, perhaps, a few hundred. Filter by apparent height, gender and you have a very narrow set of suspects.
Any of these you would pay for too?

- Better Archives

- Tiny Sends Queued

- NPS For Emails

- Growth Dashboard

- Directory Maker

- Email Courses

- Lead Magnet Manager
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In this limited management context it seems like sound advice.

In a broader view I think most people err far too much on the side of order. A greater respect, tolerance and appreciation of chaos and it's utility is something almost everyone could stand to learn and benefit from.
Re: not writing “edit”

Learn the rules of trolling people in comments on the internet, you should be frantically refreshing your browser tabs to see all updates, and taking screenshots to make sure you have receipts.

I can’t help you with your LEGO brick problem, but if you need help learning how to be a better troll, and you are interested in subscribing to the “Punch Up” philosophy that I offer, please let me know,
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A lot of your auth and session architecture depends on if you are doing a multi-page application or a SPA. If you are doing an SPA, I would just use a JWT and keep it in memory, don't put it in a cookie.

If you are doing a MPA, I would only use a session cookie and set the secure only flag as well as the same origin flag for the cookie. Obviously any auth and session management should be done via TLS (and only allow the last few latest and greatest, don't let the client downgrade you to something that can be exploited), if they compromise TLS we all have bigger problems than the fact that they got your cookie and a user session. If the client is owned by a hack there is not much you can do, as they already have the client, you just have to protect your endpoints from that client exploiting your server for more than that users information or privileged escalation attacks.

But honestly the best thing to do, is not roll your own. Use an existing auth solution. Httpd is pretty hardened and they are plenty of auth solutions for it, if you are using it.
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