skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "What exactly is the point of all of your long codes of conduct and community guidelines if the primary use for your language is the creation of a nightmare surveillance state?"

That is a weird point of view, but unfortunately not all that uncommon (when applied as a general worldview) right now. I think it's worth noting that it's generally anti-open source and free software, as it generally boils down to "you should control this thing you created as a group" as opposed to "we all created this and anyone can use it for anything, but maybe we require you to share changes so it's self perpetuating".

In my personal opinion, it's the worst type of small community social pressure taken to unhealthy extremes brought wholesale to the internet age. That is, poorly rationalized, aimed people that associate with the target rather than the target, and in this case "associate" is so tenuous as include the people that made a better hammer because someone used it to build something objectionable.

When I find this I find myself wondering if these people even really believe this, or they just express this as a strategy to influence people? I don't know enough about Dielh to know what I think is more likely.
I can do one better: I can mention a hugely popular and commercially successful writer -- whom you know of, at least by name-- who used to live from paycheck to paycheck, really struggling when he started (before succeeding enormously, of course) and who wrote in the introduction to one of his books:

"Painting. Sculpture. Composing. Singing. Acting. The playing of a musical instrument. Writing. Enough books have been written on these seven subjects alone to sink a fleet of luxury liners. And the only thing we seem to be able to agree upon about them is this: that those who practise these arts honestly would continue to practise them even if they were not paid for their efforts; even if their efforts were criticized or even reviled; even on pain of imprisonment or death."

He struck gold, of course, but note the sentiment he expressed. By his own admission, had he never been paid for it, he would have kept writing anyway, because that's what he does. And when he was starting he had other jobs -- and a family to support -- and really struggled with money, but kept going anyway.
‘Ancientbiotics’ team tests medieval treatments for modern ailments
I didn't ascribe any virtue to Walmart's position, but it helps to illustrate how Amazon is able to be much more effective at corning the market.
Microsoft just wanted to be paid its OS and apps, not so different from anyone else selling a product. Sure, they wanted dominance but who doesn't? Google certainly can't credibly claim that.

Google is inserting itself into every aspect of communication and information retrieval on the Internet to build a profile of people so that it can better cram targeted ads into their faces. Both the privacy aspect and the advertising aspect are troubling.
No because it can't protect itself from water or run away from a lion. It's extremely limited in the range of environments it can adapt to.
Yeah, eventually someone made a 3d printable item that could bypass it, but it sucked.
As others have mentioned in similar responses, needing security vs supporting security don't always come hand in hand. That said, the technical security jobs are out there, pay well, and aren't receiving much in the way of competition.

To me, that's a fantastic situation as a job seeker. It gives me the luxury of choice. Knowing some companies don't value or support their security teams means that it's something I can screen for ahead of time. If I fail to screen appropriately and end up somewhere that I'm not happy with, I can just start looking again.
Step 1: Say something impossible to get people to click out of curiosity and confusion.

Step 2: Back peddle in the article once you have what you wanted.
> Why are you doing this?

I can't stop laughing at this line.

Honestly though 75 is a few years away from death for the average person. Go throw a baseball with your offspring.
Perhaps rather than complaining that people are unable to see the rather inscrutable analogy that you made, you could help them understand it?
Up 7% after hours. That boycott! Mark must be quivering in his sweatshirt.

Or, actually he knows it was just cheap PR for marketing budgets making cuts anyway (and apparently, not even that many at all).
A NASA manned Mars mission would cost far more than $100B, because they will require transporting all fuel for return trips, and each pound of fuel will cost over $100,000 to send to Mars using cost plus contractors, ie the SLS. And that’s likely only to land a half dozen astronauts. A SLS can only accelerate 25 tons of payload to Mars intercept orbit, which means at max 10 tons to the surface..

A Mars Direct like mission, as SpaceX is planning for Starship, will send hundreds of astronauts to Mars for less than $10B by leveraging in-orbit refueling and in-situ fuel generation.

Using in-orbit refueling each Starship is designed to land 100 tons of crew, supplies and equipment on Mars.
The takeaway for me was this:

"The deal, announced in December 2017, also allowed Amazon’s video service to integrate with Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant, Siri, and the iPhone maker’s TV app, which launched in 2016."

To me this means that development for Siri is partly bound to whoever's willing to pay Apple enough money. This is really disappointing from the accessibility side.
Benchmark video: Testing new deployment of Second Life running on AWS
Because they find enjoyment in it. Neither Larry nor Sergey probably set out to be CEOs of megacorps when they started. But many do, and many love it. Nothing wrong with that. Retirement is boring. Different strokes for different folks.
Apple announces 4-1 stock split
From Idea to App in 7 hours
But why?

Reality is not at all like Mr Robot. Building a side project in real life doesn't involve rapidly typing memorized boilerplate code to blaring techno background music.

Reality is sitting alone in the darkness staring at a screen all night piecing together code that doesn't do anything yet and won't do anything for days until it's complete enough to be debugged and even then it certainly won't be fully functional or bug-free on the first execution. Reality is discovering your assumptions were wrong and huge parts of your code need to be scrapped and replaced. Reality is tediously testing your code to discover why the performance is so bad and what needs to be optimized to fix it. Reality is discovering that the tools and languages and platforms you are using are all complete crap with undocumented bugs that you will have to do original research to work around if you ever want your project to work as intended.

Reality isn't a TV show and it doesn't fit neatly into a vlog. Unless you're a poser who doesn't code.
Yeah, the freedom clips, that's a throwback.
Apple reports Q3 results
Your rate is determined by what you do and how much work you get.

People will always try it on with sob stories. Coming from a large, global company to one contractor it sounds pathetic, really.

If you do not need to lower your rate to get work, don't.
That's a very subjective opinion and pointing out a completely different issue.

I remember going to another country to get pasta and rice by the bag - so that we had something to eat... just 25 years ago. That has little to do with poor growth distribution in US.

Having lived in a post-communist country and gaining wealth, I can see now in US that it's drastically harder to be better off here. It's a case of "everyone starts as poor" comparing to "poor have a lot of obstacles in holding onto wealth". You need at least $1mil in generational benefits to be well off in US.(either cash, quality education or other means)

The worst part for US - even moving to a rich place like NYC will not give you the necessary boost anymore(median NYC income is below national median)
Probably goes for anything children are forced to learn.

But this doesn't mean you shouldn't send young children here and there to TRY stuff... just stop early if they don't like it.

Iirc my parents sent me to do music, football, computers and martial arts. Two of them i HATED, two of them i stuck with for my lifetime.
Amazon earnings blow past Wall Street expectations
There are plenty of HKers who want independence, though from polls I’ve seen it does seem to be a minority, more like 20% of HKers than 50%. Higher among protestors I’m sure.

One of the core demands of the protestors is sort-of “independence light”, though. They’re asking for their leaders, including the Chief Executive, to be democratically elected by HKers, without interference from China.

Regardless, the question I was responding to said nothing about a majority of HKers. It was just saying, for those who do want independence, how do they see it happening? And I was speculating that they could be looking to wage a long term battle of public opinion/annoyance, where China might eventually give up, vs. any sort of military conflict.
This completely ignores the defence in depth principle. Yes it is good that users use strong, unique passwords, but we know the password store can get compromised. A second factor provides additional protection, but it is not foolproof. The network analogy of this post: why use a network firewall, we just need to keep our devices patched and up to date!!
Linters – unleashing the power of Static Code Analysis
This looks interesting! While I may not be the in target market it somehow validates something I've been mulling over.

Where I come from we have mobile money solutions but they aren't yet integrated to allow you to pay for something online. It's a different problem but the shared element of manual verification for payments has encouraged me it's something worth looking into much more seriously now.

All the best and thanks for the 'motivation'.
Why the GRUB2 Secure Boot Flaw Doesn't Affect Purism Computers
MacKenzie Scott has donated nearly $1.7B since divorcing Jeff Bezos
Even moving somewhere else within the same city is a lot less hassle if you are less concerned with immediately having the work part of the equation figured out.

I am not a young graduate, uprooting now would be a big deal for various reasons. Neither are my friends in their 30's raising families - some of which are living with their parents for the kind of reasons you describe.

My point is that without being so close to the financial edge all the time, even less well off families can take a step back and make decisions that work best for the future. The stress associated with risk (like quitting a job) results in a scary amount of lock in for many people I know.
Any modeling approach can be implemented/used in an incorrect way. The so-called analytical approaches also often make very specific assumptions on functional forms to be able to obtain analytical solutions. By performing extensive sensitivity analysis one can reduce the drawbacks you mention. Of course, this needs to be done, and you are probably right that many papers don't do this. But that is hardly a problem with the modeling technique, which can be quite effective if used appropriately.
Employers seize on slumps to purge more expensive, more experienced workers
> how can people with no concept of technology legislate it

Here's how I would counter: What many of these Congresspeople understand is business. And these are technology companies, but ultimately, they're companies using illegal business strategies. Congresswoman Jayapal explained for instance, how Google's ad market is effectively an example of insider trading, because Google controlled the buyer side, seller side, and the exchange itself, drawing on her experience with Wall Street. Technology didn't matter there, but business did.

And more intriguingly, the most common response from the tech CEOs there was "I don't know". If there's one really good case for breaking up big tech, it's that nobody running them understands the details of the operation well enough to be responsible for it. Their business models have bad effects on society that their CEOs don't know about. Their businesses make illegal decisions that their CEOs can't vouch for.

Big tech is a runaway train.
2021 Internship Guide and Salaries by Levels.fyi
> and also because those hospitals get to write off the discounts as losses for tax purposes.

If they're following accrual accounting, they earned income (at list price) when they performed thr procedure. If later it turns out they accept less money for it, the discount should be subtracted from their taxable income to reconcile. Most business don't use cash accounting.

It's not rational to be excited to write off a discount; yes, it reduces your taxable income, but only because it reduced your actual income.
Google's ads revenue is down a lot, but they will try to make people not pay attention to it by focusing on other stuff. The reality is that Google's almost all revenue is from ads, period.
Obligatory:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/regulatory/pci.html
I have a different interpretation, and mine has more to do with the naturally monopolistic nature of these platform economies, coupled with a legislature that has lost its teeth (turned into massaging fingers, maybe!) when it comes to economic problems.
Exactly. A cryptocurrency is driven by speculation. A treasury system helps manage flows of capital in and out of a business. Said company pays to use the proprietary system. Sure, they're both backed by a ledger, but Adjoint isn't turning profit by encouraging or even allowing people to speculate on the future value of their platform. They're selling a service.
As an interviewer homework loops are easier for you. Of course. It requires significantly less of your time time. You don't have to actually confront a human being in front of you, understand the thought-process they went through in doing the work, answer questions about yourself, projects, or the company. You can say no by typing a bit.

You've taken all of the leverage and one-sided information, given nothing to the candidate, and you expect them to be okay with this without payment. Good candidates, myself included, will not jump through arbitrary hoops or suffer such foolery.

I have ample github history, 15 years of senior-level experience with good companies, and the ability to discuss solutions at every level in a tech-stack. I will not coderpad on my own or do unpaid homework. I will pair-program for an hour with an agreeable potential-colleague, but not with somebody who's hiring for other teams.

When you say jump, I say jump with me or I'll see ya later.
Last time I checked - Apple’s Mac and iPad business alone is larger than McDonalds. Cook admitted before that the Watch business is larger than the iPod was at its peak and analyst believe that their headphone business is as well.

I’m not talking about market value. If market value was a good stand in first sound business model neither Netflix (with negative cash flow) nor Uber or Lyft would be worth as much as they are. I’m talking about profit.
United States vs. Microsoft Corp
I mean, most of the people I know don't bother to own any kind of printer. What I'm saying is, except for a very few who, like me, optimize for maximum photo print quality and are willing and able to pay extra for it, those few I know who do bother to own printers have lasers, because they're no more expensive to buy these days, and a whole lot cheaper to feed.

I've never been a college student, but I've been plenty broke a few different times in my life. If anything, the relevance of being flush would seem to be in not having to worry about operating costs. I sure as hell would never have considered buying a photo printer that eats three bucks in ink per print, and God knows how much in cleaning cycles, if I wasn't lucky enough to be flush these days. Sure, I got it cheap with a rebate, but so what? It's the running costs that kill you, if anything does.
That's not true for SMS-2FA, since text messages are often delivered to the device with the browser. Safari on both macOS and iOS will offer to automatically fill in the code received from SMS.
They do, but direct debit is only allowed to “large” companies that move a lot of money in my experience. Usually you have to consent to allow direct debit, sometimes in the paper form, sometimes just by entering your account number. My startup tried to add direct debit via Stripe but our bank didn’t allows us to do because we don’t move a lot of money through our banks accounts also we’re not known. I think a lot of financial things in Europe are based on trust.
I see this as a substitute for spreadsheets. I work in Business Intelligence and we spend a fair amount of time importing data from user spreadsheets that need to be incorporated into data warehouse and reports. It is a nightmare of a process because so many things can go wrong. I would jump at opportunity to substitute the spreadsheets for database tables.
The Kindle edition does not include DRM. I think that's true of all ebooks from the publisher, Tor.
> academics ultimately rely on universities for their income

In my decades at it
(digital side of bioinformatics)
the cash flow is in the other direction.
Yeah it usual is. Not just by bigots in the classical sense but about anyone that doesn’t “pattern match” for any reason.
Docker promised containers like we knew them from the past, and improved building and packaging procedures.

In the past, we never had an easy way to package various applications (including all needed resources and executables). Each language ecosystem invented their own ways of packaging, distributing and installing the application, and this always relied on pre-existing environment.

With Docker you don't care what versions of language runtime, or dependencies, each application runs, you can run them on the same machine. There are no incompatible dependencies between multiple Docker containers, everything almost always works.

Same goes with building, image layers made building of images a lot easier, and doing incremental changes is fast. Of course there are downsides, image size can really grow if you are not careful, and you need to regularly rebuild images from the ground up, to ensure everything is patched.
People did mention it but then you get all 'citation needed' and get downvoted or plainly flat ignored. So much so the outrage is heard more than the fact.
I’m not saying it’s LIKELY, or at all feasible in the short term. Just that, for those HKers who do want independence, they’re probably not envisioning gaining independence through military conflict, but more by shifting public opinion and causing annoyance/costs over a very long term, to the point where China eventually gives up.

It’s a long shot, but I imagine this is a more common dream among HKers who want independence than winning it in a war. Obviously they’ll never match China’s might.
The publishers concern is exactly that IA could do that, since the number of copies they were lending wasn't actually tied to anything they owned or were licensed to lend.
It's the other way around. Amazon didn't want to be integrated since that means you're just in a bucket of content that Apple controls and Amazon has no opportunity to control the user experience or offer additional upsells.

Part of the deal for the reduced cut was that Amazon _had to_ do these integrations, not that they were allowed to.
Solving a maze problem or fixing a gimme CSS or unit-test bug is significantly different development from what even junior-level engineers do on a regular basis after a few months in. The kinds of code you get on any sort of interview or one-day homework assignment are significantly different from what you'll see in 3 months. If not, as you say, something has gone horrifically wrong.
I'm the highly downvoted parent that said this is possible.

It's only 45 years of video per day. That is very, very possible to save. That's roughly 600 terabytes of storage space a day. Which means that per month you're generating a long term storage bill that is about $18k more per month.

So after a decade of operation your monthly bill is about $2.1m which is far, far, far cheaper than what we spend on plenty of things. Like I said above: This is not impossible. In fact, I bet the NSA is probably already doing it. At least for public videos. This truly is peanuts.
I assumed that they must come down to nest, of course, but this quote

> They mate on the wing. And while young martins and swallows return to their nests after their first flights, young swifts do not. As soon as they tip themselves free of the nest hole, they start flying, and they will not stop flying for two or three years, bathing in rain, feeding on airborne insects, winnowing fast and low to scoop fat mouthfuls of water from lakes and rivers.

really made it sound like they don't touch the ground at all for two or three years. I suppose this is possible if they only feed on insects, don't need to land to sleep, and can rest their bodies while flying.

EDIT: I found an article which supports the idea that they might stay aloft for months on end (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.09.014). They do land, just for very short periods of time and less than 1% of their time outside breeding season.
There is an in site IDE at gif.com.ai and I was thinking about recording a few demos of how to build gifs using it. But I thought it would be better to contact existing computer graphics bloggers who post videos. It’s hard to both build an app and vlog about it full time. It’s not like you can just stream your screen.
Ask HN: Reporting Phishing Attack
Hi HN, this one might be a bit mundane but I’d like to prevent others getting scammed. My girlfriend has just received a phishing email that contains all her contact details, and asks her to sign into (what appears to be) a fraudulent website to track an order that she has never placed. I suspect that this is related to the easyJet breach earlier this year, as there are relatively few potential sources of this information. I’ve checked haveibeenpwned.com and her email returns no results.

I’ve emailed the domain registrar reporting the email. Is there anything else I should do?
This is one of the best "We're not thinking critically about cryptocurrency" articles I've read.

What's more surprising is it didn't get flagged to death. Maybe because the title isn't attracting attention?
Maybe something to do with the taxicab numbers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TaxicabNumber.html
Apple Q3 2020 earnings
That obviously would be covered by the fact that I said the word "sideload".
As Faisal mentioned, it's most likely the first two, but it could also be:

* User having JavaScript disabled

* Users leaving before page and JavaScript loads, or before GA request is sent (CF would track the visit, GA not)
How about discipline?
But it sounds as if there is a big chunk of their life cycle (years long) during which they never do come down?
The Lessons We Learned Developing the UK Contact Tracing App
In a world where neural networks can ramble like a human, and will be incentivized to do so by search algorithms, terse writing will be prized.
Hey! Thanks for the comment and support. Glad to provide any motivation. Building is part of the fun :-) Best of luck with your project, and reach out if we can be of any help.
The US is looking down at an economic cliff, and the stocks keep going higher. Amazing. This won't end well (for the vast majority of people).
Hardly ever on the ground though. I'm assuming that's what she meant, since she mentions the nesting locations. A swift on the ground is probably a damaged bird. Which is why throwing it in the air (which is sometimes recommended) might not be a good idea.

https://www.birdspot.co.uk/bird-brain/is-it-true-swifts-cant...
For content distributors whose margins are far less than 15%, it's a death sentence that means only Apple is allowed to distribute content.
Amazon announces second quarter results