skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"at this scale even very unlikely bugs do show up with some frequency" exactly! In the past I've worked on systems where "this will never happen" occurs because "this will never happen" really means the probability of this occurring is extremely low. But when you're dealing with millions of possibilities that low probability event starts occurring every day. And when it occurs for one of your largest customers it's no longer "this will never happen" but "why is this happening?"
On the one hand, Congress is out of office on January 3rd. On the other, technically the Speaker of the House doesn't need to be a member of Congress, so would presumably continue to hold the title?
They are so incredibly large in user numbers that they have the ability to reach almost anyone in developed countries through their platforms.

It's not the product but its magnitude. That's the disruption IMO.
SAT Solvers are used in software that is used in creating the very complex Silicon Chips. Known as Formal in the semiconductor design industry.
> They aren’t true UBI (because they’re a tested cross-section of people, not everyone in a society)…

They're also time-limited, and the funds come from outside the test group. An actual UBI at scale would need to be effectively permanent and self-funded.

What the tests have shown so far is basically that if you pump a bunch of outside funding into a small community it tends to make most of the recipients a bit happier. Which isn't much of a surprise. They take the opportunity to improve their employability because the experiment is going to end soon, leaving them to fend for themselves. Who can say whether that effect would still be there if the extra income were guaranteed for life? That certainly doesn't seem to be the case for many lottery winners, and many people who inherit wealth from responsible parents end up spending it frivolously.
I posted it in the beta notes on the site, but forgot to add it to my comments here.

The Popular search results are currently supplemented by a variety of hand-picked source feeds because the site is new and there is not yet enough traffic history to generate an accurate list of popular content, but that will change once more people start using the site.

Of course people will not be happy with some of the sites selected if the target site has a political bias that they disagree with, but it is only temporary until traffic starts to grow more on the site.

I already have it built into the engine to ignore the supplemental sources once the activity level hits a certain level.

That said, it will still come down to the users. If a lot of users are viewing specific content, it will likely find its way to the home page.

On a side note, you can change your default home page via the Settings page to avoid the popular search results.
You have to revalidate your assumptions from time to time.

I proved to a vendor they had screwed up CSPRNG seeding by doing a scatterplot of the first result from a large number of seeds. It ran so fast I bumped the loop counter up to max_int and it still ran in a minute or two on a laptop from 10 years ago.

When you can fit everything in cache, a CPU can sure run a lot of arithmetic in no time at all.
Article addresses that:

> SIM swapping attacks are a legitimate concern, but if that was the only problem with SMS-2FA, my opinion is that would not be enough to dismiss it.
> Basically answered that it depends on the project ...
it all depends

Sounds like a good judgement thing to reply :)
Anecdotally that is totally the case for me - I’ve been spending money on lots of tech and random fun items. Despite my purchases though my spending is overall down because I’m not eating out, going on trips/vacations.
Somehow only Alphabet had a decline in revenue...
the field is getting pretty crowded. there are probably better things to do at this point for pure career advancement and money, for the amount of effort you would have to spend to get viable professional-level skills. i haven't touched the job market recently though.

however, it remains intrinsically very interesting and can be fun to learn about. more so than most resume items.
Yes, but the government buying essentials for people in need is "stimulative" in the same way. Money goes to farmers for food, manufactures for clothing etc. People in need are still choosing and buying things in a market, but is a subset - just the essentials.

The point I was trying to make is that you don't have to upend the entire economy to help people in need.
Well, yeah, for sure. Outside the "monochrome, mostly text, on US letter or smaller paper" use case, lasers get pretty wild pretty fast.

For photos specifically, I haven't recently had the chance to compare, but I would not expect any even remotely consumer-attainable laser printer to produce results on par with inkjet. A lot of the reason inkjets have gotten so good over the last decade or so has been trickle-down of tech developed for the professional market, I believe thanks in no small part to the gallery market for "giclée" fine art prints. For color management as well as print quality, I just don't think laser can get there, and even if it did, I'd expect a comparable result to cost an order of magnitude or two more.
Looking at the numbers, both iPad and Mac sales exceeded estimates, iPhone was inline.

Seems likely a lot of this came from laptop and iPad sales for work-from-home, and home education respectively, as opposed to frivolous luxury consumer spending.
"The F-150 carries a base price of $28,495, which is below average for a full-size pickup truck." This is just a quick search from Google. I think ppl might have different opinion of the word "luxury". But generally I would personally not categorize things that's widely sold like F-150 or iPhone as luxury.
The saying we had when I worked on this was that we weren't trying to stop fraud, we were just trying to be a slightly harder target than eBay.
I'm surprised to see you say "most people," as Android is what, 85% of the market?
We did require some of them[1]. Esp. painful were Transfer-Encoding quirks, and some dances around old HTTP/1.0 backends and request buffering.

Compared to NGINX though, it was relatively easy to push these fixes upstream. Community is very welcoming to outside contributions.

[1] https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/how-we-migrated-dropbox-...
The Speaker for the House doesn't need to be a member of Congress (though always has been). It's not clear to me that we would not have a Speaker.
Adding a Ubiquiti UniFi AP AC Lite to my home network setup
I had more faith in the medical infrastructure of the US and common sense of the populace!

How wrong I was! I had no idea how woefully underprepared hospitals were for ANY kind of emergency.

Who in the actual world has a coronavirus party? The lack of policing when it came to stop crowds (ironic right?), the strange refusal to wear a mask, the bizzare and blatant apathy.

I could list many things but I have to say, the federal and state governments completely dropped the ball when it came to tracing and enforcing quarantine.

I was reading how Sweden, Germany and South Korea handled the initial pandemic. Now even the hardest hit countries like Spain and Italy are faring very well.

Sweden didn’t close the country at all and relied mostly on voluntary confinement/quarantine though the strategy has been criticized for not protecting elderly but there isn’t a total economic shutdown or untamable level of pandemic.

US got the worst of both worlds mass unemployment, screeching slow economy and uncontrollable intensity of pandemic.
Vix doesn't seem to move much this week
Philosophers on GPT-3
Across all retail in the US Amazon makes up 5%. Walmart makes up 15%. Shouldn't the burden of the question be reversed in light of this? While online retail is growing relative to brick and mortar it is either premature to call it "too big" in absolute terms when a largely brick and mortar competitor is triple the size and not a monopoly seems farcical gun-jumping until it exceeds a max non-monopoly. Whatever the legal standards they should be consistent.

Age of Amazon is just a narrative which is no way to decide monopoly.
Really unexpected that YOY revenue is up for Mac 22% and iPad 31%. Also unexpected that service revenue growth seems to have slowed.
This is a good example of why studies need to be well designed in order to avoid being useless.

The headline suggests that this will tell us something about social media, but I really think it just tells us that people who spend time and energy on being informed are more informed.

People who get their news primarily from social media are, by definition, people who don't seek out news in other venues. The study does not seek to ascertain if they are seeking out news on social media (i.e. they think social media is sufficient) or if they simply encounter it on accident in their non-news-related use. It seems like, if the goal is to understand how social media impacts understanding of the news, this study asked very bad questions.

In fact, if you remove nearly everything about social media, I think this piece gets clearer and the study stronger. People who don't seek out news coverage and encounter news on accident are less informed and somewhat more likely to believe in conspiracy theories.

It's interesting that techcrunch talks about demographic weaknesses (which are also good to note) but doesn't really dive into what feels like a more basic problem.
cool, let's stop paying programmers then. You can write and maintain software for free. Because you'd do it without pay right? I mean, why are authors the ones who don't have to get paid?
That’s how Amazon was until recently. You could rent a movie in your web browser and then watch it on device, or watch anything with your prime subscription, but otherwise it just told you videos weren’t available on the device.
iPad Pros for non-business use may be luxury devices, but the 'regular' iPad is down to $329 now, solidly low end- especially now that iPad OS has mouse support built in and Safari supports requesting desktop mode pages.
This idea is mind blowing!!! We can make Github more fun, like giving users options to attach audio, or video along with the commit. World nowadays is no longer text-based, it needs more context!
What would have been a way to find out s/he had that mindset, before having the interview?
DHS threatening Netflix filmmakers not to release unflattering footage of trump
> In the meantime attackers are going to automate telecom hacks.. why not?

A lot of telecom hacks are social engineering, which often leaves an audit trail, and is hard to automate (if they're using the same text to speech engine that makes spam calls, good luck!)
Sounds like a very strange approach, those LibreOffice Calc scrollbars ;-) Sometimes it's useful to give a minimal width/height for a scrollbar thumb, so that it remains visible and selectable. A tiny scrollbar thumb might be "realistic" when it represent the viewport vs document dimension, but it always looks a bit stupid.

How come you know so much about scroll bars? Did you make your own spreadsheet app/component?
That's not my problem as an interviewee. Competence is expensive, yes, and compared to an actual salary a few days' work is nothing.
When you say iPhone, just consider you are speaking about a product which starts at $399.
It's not a feasible solution for _everybody_. However on the net, by giving that option to _all_ renters, you will discourage the population of landlords from increasing rent in general.
Newspapers say anyone who gets the news from their competition is stupider. Film at 11.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
-- Thomas Jefferson
You purposely set them very low, then "beat" them and watch stock price go to the moon.
> The reason people in the first world can even produce the thought of wishing for less work is because all of the heavy lifting needed for them to exist was outsourced to third world countries. That is why the number of people working globally has increased, even with automation, not decreased.

It's not because the number of people existing globally has increased? People in poor countries didn't work at all until developed countries started shipping their work overseas? What did they all do then?
Market cap is an irrelevant measure. It's simply the price of the last sold share * number of shares outstanding.
Right, I agree that this is probably the fundamental reason. Just not something I'd have expected going into this crisis.

I'm glad for it, though, we're going to put ours on the market in a couple weeks after our last planned camping trip for the year, a strong market will be good for resale. Hoping it weakens a bit over the winter, though, because before next season rolls around I'll want another.
I just bought a used laser printer for 40 Euro when i was a student. Many years later I bought a new toner for 20-30 Euro. The printer is one of the best investments I ever made. It rarely gives me any trouble and when I need to print something it just works, even when I haven't used it in months.
> Consider the values: We link AGPL software and there's an x% chance we have to spend 10 billion dollars in litigation, engineering effort, and fines to keep our stuff closed source. At what value of X do you make this rule?

That X% is at most the same for using proprietary software. AGPL does NOTHING beyond an ADDITIONAL license grant beyond that. You can pretend AGPL code was Copyright (c) All Rights Reserved. Google ought to ban all software not written in-house under that argument.

In practice, since you've set the bar at $10 billion, that X% is 0%. There is no AGPL software in existence where damages would go over a few million dollars. If you're gonna swing around paranoid conspiracy theories with 10 billion dollar numbers, as you seem prone to, you should build all your data centers underground in case aliens form Mars attack. At what X% does that stop making sense? You're risking a TRILLION dollar business.

> Punitive damages exist. They're a thing. Why are you pretending that they aren't?

You're clearly not a lawyer here. You're confusing copyright law, normal business law, and tort law. Can you please name a realistic scenario where Google might be at risk for punitive damages under the AGPL?

https://www.leagle.com/decision/1983925714f2d2111873

In a worst-case, if the copyright violation is intentional, which is astronomically unlikely, you'd be looking at treble damages. Which goes from peanuts to 3x peanuts.

re: last comment. I apologize I accused Google about lying. Never confuse malice for stupidity. It's very possible Google is just being grossly idiotic. I still have vague memories of the old Google which used to hire smart people, so perhaps I just overestimated the company.....
I don't think that's true. Or maybe I misunderstand you?

The US GDP in constant dollars [1] went from $19.0 Trillion in 2020Q1 to $17.2 Trillion in 2020Q2. The number for 2019Q2 was also $19.0 Trillion.

Isn't this a 9.5% decrease from both the previous quarter, and the same quarter in the previous year? Is there a way in which this read as a real 32.9% decrease?

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-constant-pric...
Autoplaying back-to-back videos on the web using a Media Pool
We've deployed nsjail for our file conversion pipeline (i.e. ImageMagick) and it's been great -- very nice configuration language and strong isolation properties, with a manageable performance hit. Definitely easy to write a configuration that would not securely sandbox you, though, which seems like a strong point towards Docker or other more high-level solutions.
I can’t imagine working on software that could have such potentially disastrous financial consequences, so kudos to you and all of the developers who do this kind of work.
They offer that, but I do not have a Digipass. So that is something I cannot use just like their app
I worked at one that didnt... Then they did.
That correlation disappears once you control for wealth. People go for instant gratification once they've learned that they can't trust that the thing they're delaying gratification for will ever come. People like to make fun of people who pick 100 dollars today over 200 dollars a month from now, but for the "other half", 200 dollars a month from now might as well be an eternity from now. And because wealth tends to be heritable and have other knock-on effects, what the study is really testing for is how trustworthy a child thinks adults are with offers, which is affected by whether that child is raised in the kind of environment where nothing can be guaranteed since an entire paycheck may have been entirely used up.
Invest in building luxury housing in areas with high quality of living in order to lure people who can now afford better apartments and are no longer tied to a particular area?
I believe EU salaries are usually discussed after-tax, so 2400 / month take-home pay. That is probably the main confusion here.
It does seem to be a thing with younger developers, who want to stay wfh and just work on jira tickets.

Any sensible developer learns early on that mostly the coding is the easy stuff - what Is the problem I am solving here?
Rebuttal of The Haskell Elephant in the Room by Founder of Cardano
Hard disagree. TBH had great disruptive potential -- it was huge in middle/high schools. If someone else acquired it, FB was looking at possible a re-run of the Snapchat playbook, where a younger audience not yet on FB was lost to them.
If you're not already listening to the Revolutions Podcast, treat yourself... (You can skip the American and maybe British "revolution", and start at the French Revolution if you're not sure this is for you)

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/
> Why is saving the password in your web browser or any application on your machine - that can also be hacked - considered secure?

So you consider SSH (which normally relies on a private key stored locally) insecure?

(Sure, the SSH key can be further protected with a passphrase, but so can the browser database of passwords. On a modern Mac, it requires unlocking with touch ID.)
How do they prevent people sending the problem to a friend or a paid advisor and, thus, letting someone else solve it for you?

"The same happens with time-constrained problem-solving. That’s not how real life happens. People need time to think and reflect on the problems they face to build the right solution. Because of this, we do not artificially limit time for solving a challenge."

sounds very critical in that regard. If you have lots of time, that makes it much easier to get outside advice.
>consumer spending on luxury goods is pretty remarkable

The vast majority of Apple products and services are no where near "luxury" prices.
IIRC the ability to delay gratification as measured by the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment is quite heavily correlated with "food security in the household" and whether you are involuntarily hungry as a kid. Half the correlation goes away in replication studies that controlled for social background.
What gives you the impression that he will refuse to?
Ye. Making up quick sort sort on the fly without ever seeing the solution would be really impressive, but reciting it from memory doesn't say much. If someone would implement "max sort" on a interview at-least you would know he didn't practice for the "IQ test".
One thing to note is stock price dramatically impacts the price of options.

For example 1 option contract for Amazon (over $3k share price) can easily be $4,000. In comparison, you can buy 1 option for Apple ($400) contract for $200. After the stock split, option contracts will be 1/4 the current price.

Lower stock prices make the options market much more accessible to people investing less money (for better or worse).
The only issue is that iphone revenue was not up but mac and ipad was up considerable. So people are actually buying more computers and tablets.
That's called inflation. Its not her fault that properties became so expensive. All she wants is a 3 bedroom house. Downsizing is not ridiculous no, but we do generally consider it unfair to push old people out of the houses they lived in their whole lives for ideological reasons.

I would rather we deflate house prices by making it unprofitable to own a home that you don't live in, and have a massive oversupply of new homes.
Thanks, we really wanted to get the scrolling right so I'm glad it shows.

> We eventually rolled back the change, restored the native scroll bar

Doesn't it feel good to remove a bunch of "hacky code" and just go back to native? Even if it's not 100% like you imagined, at least you know that the other "perfect solution" never really existed.
Damn, you're hacking the rules... no hacker would do that!
"The good thing about platform monopolies is that there are so many to choose from"
What hoax?
Money laundering costs a ton of money crypto is increasing the profit margins of human traffickers by like 80%. Not that the rest of your argument isn't insane. You can't hand someone a million dollars in cash anonymously.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't the case for myself :) All the new stuff also drains me and I'm a lot more motivated to hack up stuff in PHP and jquery for these side projects. I think you shouldn't let "the modern way to do things" stop you from hacking up prototypes in whatever way you want.

I'll say though, after having done a few side projects with modern SaaS/stack -- e.g. Netlify, Heroku, nodejs -- it does start to look like to me that it's a time trade-off. When I embrace the JAM stack with static site gen (with Svelte/Sapper) and an API layer (nodejs on Heroku), what I'm doing is trade the time to get started (more time/effort) with less maintenance and deploy effort later. But if you have the passion to hack up something right this moment and can't deal with that drag to kick off the project, and you don't know if it's a product that'll work out and get traction anyway, by all means hack it up in PHP and jquery.
You can't change IQ (You probably can, but it's not simple)

But you can change the second biggest life impacting testable factor in people, conscientiousness.

Seems like learning music is a good way to learn conscientiousness.

This article is really bad advice.

But it does raise the question do people in the United Arab Emirates think most Americans play the banjo or are they self aware about the ironic-ness, or does the 44C weather temperate that day mean it's just to hot for them to think much about the article they wrote.
I feel this. When I was younger, I would focus more on just getting something working, and now I feel more the need to do things "the right way" since I know better. I think I need to get back to just getting things working.
There is only so many trillions to be invested in stocks (because, where else?), and they have already been invested. Stock markets have for so long had a totally irrational relationship with day-to-day news, that they probably won't move the needle much.
Ask HN: Having powerlevel0k throws up some errors in macOS terminal. Why?
Hi. I was looking for some help regarding powerlevel10k. Could you please help me with this error in my terminal? It was working just fine a couple of days ago.

Last login: Thu Jul 30 on ttys002
/Users/useruser/.cache/p10k-instant-prompt-useruser.zsh:local:28: key: inconsistent type for assignment

_p9k_dump_instant_prompt:217: parse error near }'
_p9k_dump_instant_prompt:zcompile:331: can't read file: /Users/useruser/.cache/p10k-instant-prompt-useruser.zsh
_p9k_dump_state:53: parse error near )'
_p9k_dump_state:zcompile:23: can't read file: /Users/useruser/.cache/p10k-dump-useruser.zsh

The zshrc file is https://pastebin.com/aPdhwGpq .

I installed powerlevel0k by

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ~/powerlevel10k
echo 'source ~/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme' >>! ~/.zshrc