skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did mean Cohen, not Manafort (Cohen was Trumps lawyer, Manafort his campaign manager) -- The GGP said "How many other criminals can avoid jail time right now due to the Covid threat?" and having recently seen an article about Michael Cohen being out of jail on furlough due to C19 (linked in my original post) I posted the link; from TFA:

"Cohen was released to furlough in late May as part of a release program undertaken by the Bureau of Prisons to address the coronavirus pandemic."

However, as dragonwriter points out, turns out Cohen 1) was writing a book possibly damaging to Trump and 2) had been out at restaurants in NYC possibly in violation of his furlough; again from TFA:

"A photographer from the New York Post captured Cohen dining at a restaurant near his apartment with his wife and another couple in early July. Cohen said that didn't violate the terms of his release."

The controversial part is that the DoJ put him back in jail, but it seems it might have been to prevent him from completing his book (and the ACLU successfully sued to get him released again).

This is the link I should have posted regarding his original release in May due to C19:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

(but good point, I didn't know that Manafort had also been released).
That's the thing right there: I go to the news for news, and when I need a break to look at cats, I go to TikTok.
That's survivor bias though, isn't it? Hard to see the world's best self-driving engineers when they're not getting caught stealing trade secrets and forced to reveal compensation.
I think it means orders which will result in higher tips.
The Hidden Wealth Opportunity Lurking in Almost Every Business
Personally, I think Guangzhou or any other tier-1 Chinese city would be a great place to live if China wasn't a police state. I know a lot of people see urbanity as something to be minimized or mitigated, but I think well-designed huge cities with robust public transportation are an absolute delight. Sure it's nice to get out every now and then... but people who live in the country also sometimes like to get out and visit a big city where they have museums and theaters and 12 kinds of ethnic cuisine within 5 blocks walk.
Note that the distinctive orange color is probably a large volume of nitrogen dioxide at pretty high concentration. If it was an ammonium nitrate explosion, the orange cloud supports the idea it was accidental. The explosion would have been easier to set off and more powerful had there been a fuel (or more fuel) mixed with the ammonium nitrate.
In general, fraud is a criminal offense in most countries.

This is rightly so. Defrauding others of possessions or money is sufficiently aberrant that any criminal justice system worth its salt should bring prosecution.
Always impressive to me. And I know that people will say "Yeah, basically the only thing 'new' here is the engine" but there are also a bunch of other things that struck me;

It did the hop 'off balance' (the final version expects to have 3 raptor engines working together) so the engine out scenario for landing still seems pretty safe.

There is something like four more advanced vehicles in the warehouse section at various stages of completion. So scaling up making them seems to be working out.

It looks "small" in the images but when you see people working on it you can tell its grain silo big. That is a heck of a thing to fly overhead.

Rockets taking off and landing vertical has amazed me ever since I saw the DC-X do it once.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d533KZsnVvY
Intelligence screening essentially tries to select for more financially conservative people and in the cases so far people only go that far due to extenuating situations like divorce, addictions, etc. rather than standard American Greed motive. Until relatively recently people didn’t make $500k+ / year as individual contractors or founding random boutique firms. As such, one of the oddities of the US IC demographics is that a really high number of them are Mormon. It helps explain the Salt Lake City presence and investment when most other sectors of technology are relatively lukewarm there.
Its funny but the article doesn't actually mention that the international competitions for lockpicking that occur every year.

TOOOL.NL run one at LockCon in the Netherlands
TOOOL.US runs one at LockFest in the USA
OzSecCon.com/TOOOL.COM.AU runs one at OzSecCon in Australia.

In addition to lockpicking competitions, there are actually a wide variety of ways, tools and techniques to open locks such as impressioning which is also a competitive sport in these communities.

I highly encourage people to give it a shot, it's good fun. And once things are back to normal, check out a local meetup or start one yourself, it's a good way to relax and have fun with some new friends!
The unsatsifying answer is "there's a grey area and a judge and jury decide" but the Levandowksi case is 100 miles beyond the grey area.
Repository and Unit of Work pattern in .NET core
Seriously looking forward to this movie. Jessie Eisenberg maybe?
> Look, this is what I was able to get with a mix of clientside and serverside... does it load fast?

6.60s for me, on desktop.
It's been accidentally disclosed a few times over the years. IIRC at some point someone offered to sell the recipe to Pepsi, and they refused on account of the legal mess it would put them in and perhaps a sense of honor
US-UK-CA Investing Stock Markets
Awesome now they can afford to pay London rents. :-D
Yep, pretty much every rocket is much much cheaper than the often one-off launch infrastructure.

From what i remeber some Soviet rockets had after a string of pad destroing failures any abort commands disablee for the first 30 seconds of flight - regardless of what happens, it must not hit the pad, or Barmin (the chief designer of most Soviet launch complexes) will be angry and you don't want that.
500k ops is ridiculously slow for accessing the DOM on any modern hardware. It sounds fast when aren’t comparing it to anything. Compare that to a similar approach that makes use of the standard DOM methods and no selectors. The only thing querySelectors do faster is allow accessing elements by attribute.

The reason I refuse to post numbers myself is because:

1. I provided a tool where people can run any manner of discovery for their own numbers and see performance differences in various approaches.

2. People, when presented with a valid comparison will irrationally ignore results that challenge their opinion.

EDIT:

I looked closer at the measureit experiments and it seems there is some sort of bias. If you run the same experiment using an element already present in the page the results are the same for querySelector but 50% greater for the getElementById approach. Other perf tools I have tried did not display this kind of bias and they also reported substantially higher numbers for all user agents, most especially for desktop Firefox.
I don't see that as ironic...the more time we spend looking outward, the less time we have to spend looking at ourselves. I'm not sure that human civilization will collapse out of a lack of understanding of human nature, but rather an inability to prevent human nature from succumbing to its baser instinct to destroy itself.
On Diversity, Silicon Valley Failed to Think Different
There's a story about Feynman estimating yield by dropping pieces of paper and seeing how far they'd travel in the shockwave
I found this discussion thought provoking and a bit frustrating. I think I may have had some gaps about the severity of this problem but I think there was only a bit of a throwaway consolation discussion to privacy advocates. I think there are a lot of great reasons why privacy might trump crime prevention, but those reasons we not addressed here. (Freedom from government presecution, protection from data breaches/hacking, abuse of systematic image or video scanning for irrelevant purposes, employee misconduct etc.)
Yep, and in addition to both of these, Starship is also designed:

* to be fueled / ignited such that it can be refueled in-situ on Mars & then launched back to Earth, without advanced rocket fuels or the TEA-TEB chemical igniter.

* to be able to refuel from another Starship in-orbit

The combination of all of this, if they pull it off, will be the ability to send truly massive payloads to Mars, faster and cheaper than anyone could have imagined just a few years ago.

To me it does really show the benefit of taking a systematic approach, working backwards from the goal "get to Mars and stay" in a resource-constrained environment. They've very strategically targeted the technology/engineering required to bring the costs down to something reasonable, while NASA's approach for 50 years has basically been versions of "can you give us one trillion dollars?" (or "we can put a couple humans on Mars for 3 days for $100 billion")

Today's Starship hop is getting very near the nail in the coffin for SLS. I still have some concerns about their crazy re-entry flip, but the speed SpaceX is moving is leaving everyone else in the dust.
To be fair, the comment he was responding to didn't have any value. All it basically said was "I don't understand why people like this", which, in my opinion, is a lot more obnoxious than the response.

People who create and put things out into the world deal with these sort of comments all the time. I think it's fair to be critical of them.
They are testing on a path to be able to land from orbit. Starting with short hops by prototypes that get iteratively improved is the same methodology that allowed them to be able to land their currently operating Falcon 9.

They are the only one to ever achieve this. It's a big deal because everyone else builds a $100M rocket and then throws it away because it can't land. Reusable rockets have the potential to make açcess to space much cheaper.
Its worth noting that Datomic has an analytics adapter which supports SQL and Metabase is of course a first-class citizen:

https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/analytics/analytics-concepts....
#hurts
Somehow the world outside walled gardens exists and it's not a danger-infested world. What's worse, you can't really argue for the quality controls of walled gardens such as the App Store because they are not transparent -- at most you can guess with trial and error.

You haven't explained how the user has more control with walled gardens, a bold and unsupported assertion (I believe we both agree the author has less control with walled garden, at least).

> It’s impossible for more than a few authors to develop a reputation, and even those that do face impersonation.

The first part is a matter of opinion (and I disagree with you). As for the latter: do you really believe the only technical solution to author impersonation is a walled garden? No other form of establishing trust is possible to you? Interesting.

> I’d go as far as to say that you are certainly wrong about this and you can trivially verify this by even the most cursory examination of software threat models.

That isn't an argument. That's just you saying "I'm right and you're wrong".
Why do you think that the release of NO2 makes it an accident? Nitrate based high explosives only release NO2 during an actual high-order detonation. Ammonium nitrate does this with or without sensitizers such as fuel oil.
Using a bumpkey repeatedly will actually result in you permanently locking yourself out of your place. Repeated use wears down the internals to the point where it will eventually no longer work.
This depends on the key materials being used etc, but generally speaking, you'd be better off stashing a key in a well hidden place instead.
It very may we’ll be. When I was at CMU (MISM) part of our curriculum discussed distributed systems. Some took it as another tool in the kit, but many came away thinking it was taught to us because it should be how we do things in the field.
A vast number of nonviolent inmates have been released in California:

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...
This is pretty much the standard definition of monads, just everything is being talked about in terms of domains and sets rather than functions and values. Maybe that's clearer to some people; I find it less clear than talking about what a monad does pointwise.

> This is my best shot. What I don’t understand is where the side effect comes in. The other monads I’ve discussed don’t produce side effects.

This is putting the cart before the horse. The goal is to have a sensible way of modelling computations that have side effects, to be able to talk even slightly denotationally about (side-effecting) computations. An element of D* is a side-effecting computation that produces a value that's an element of D; this isn't something that comes out of the monad model but something we put into it, because the point of the exercise is to talk about side-effecting computations that produce values.

The point is that such computations are monads in a very natural way: d* is the value d (or, equivalently - in a very concrete sense in Haskell, since it's a lazy language - a computation without side effects that produces the value d), f* is composition with the pure computation f (so f* (x) has the same side effects as x: it's the computation that consists of executing x and then applying f to its result). The sum of two elements in D* x + y is executing x, then executing y, then summing their results (and thus its side effects are the side effects of x followed by the side effects of y), and the collapse from D* * to D* is that we execute a computation and then execute the resulting computation.

The advantage of this is the same as the advantage of modelling anything else as a monad: we get a formal representation of side-effecting computations that has some useful algebraic properties. The monad is a means for working with the effect we want to work with, whether that effect is partiality, nondeterminism, streaming, or general side effects. We shouldn't be surprised that side effects come out of using a monadic model of side effects, any more than we should be surprised that nondeterminism comes out of using a monadic model of nondeterminism.
It is most likely a result of an echo chamber of students with no or little industry experience. It doesn't help that the younger people generally own client devices with more up-to-date specs.
While it does not look that way without the pointy nose cone, this is the prototype of the second stage.

The first stage will be a bit longer than this & its build enclosure is already being uilt.
I'm on desktop.
Does anyone else get super depressed by this?

I did some great work today. I coded something pretty cool and useful. I built a little deck to explain it. My coworkers loved it. My job security went up. I enjoyed it. The journey is the reward.

But these guys are making rockets in tents.

Should I be rethinking life? Because that's how it feels. I love it. I admire them. But it feels unobtainable. I want to make that kind of a dent in the universe. And yes I know it's thousands of people working there.

But still.
IMO YMMV etc but wide lens distortion can drag down what people would call “image quality”. 50 or 85 would work better for portraits if you can afford the distance.
Fair enough. I wasn't considering non-single family locations. At that point, you wouldn't know if it was a rando walking down the corridors let alone an actual delivery person. No good deed goes unpunished
Not really, I can say that for example Karpathy is at the same general level as Levandowski and he hasn't been caught stealing trade secrets.
Context matters too, though.

A 10- or 100-millionaire stealing IP to get an n^th bomb-ass house/yacht/whatever might be heavily deterred by prior examples of imprisonment. Or, at least, certainly more deterred than a hungry thief.

If he goes to jail, people might be deterred from this particular type of anti-social behavior.

Why? They can be convinced that fame/n^th houses/yachts is not life.

But! If a food thief goes to jail, no one is deterred.

Why? Food is actually literally fucking life. You cannot deter someone from anti-social behavior that results in a cessation to hunger.

So, respectfully, I think you have things exactly the wrong way around here. Jail is a GREAT deterrent for white-collar crime, but a TERRIBLE deterrent for a many other crimes. We need fewer poor people in jail for sure, but we also probably need more rich people in jail.
FAANG is slashing software engineering jobs during Covid-19
How to speed up the Rust compiler some more in 2020
I don't think that's true. Because they were already being compensated very highly.
It's not just the fuel but the way it's burned. The older Merlin engines don't burn all the fuel, by design. The new Raptors do, and it's actually quite an achievement. More information than you ever wanted to know about it is here: https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
Unfortunately, the latest model is where the users are who habitually spend money on new stuff and are likely to pay you for anything.

If you're optimizing for money, rather than good use of system resources, it makes perfect sense.

The underlying platform purveyors unfortunately have the same view, which means that anything before the model before the current model is not supported any more. It probably has an outdated version of the OS. The current OS won't fit. The APIs are changing, and so supporting the old device requires maintaining a separate stream of the code that is backported. Someone has to test it on the old device and OS. And for what? Someone who won't pay.
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This looks very polished. Good work, man.
He doesn't just pick locks - he also looks at difficulty of using bolt cutters, hydraulic cutters, angle grinders, etc. to break locks where relevant.
Was Gmail always an SPA? My recollection is that it was a regular web site when it launched, and went SIA when everyone else did.
Yeah but in all that -- you get in a car crash, police look up your info, go to your partner's house, tell them that you're in a coma in the hospital, he or she freaks out and drives down to the hospital and is sitting next to you in the ICU while that machine beeps every 2 seconds... is everybody going to be on top of their email?
Not at all, rather I see every step on their journey as making easier for people who like space and rockets to get involved in the future, without having to win the "astronaut lottery".
I think it's ironic if you consider the fact that all of the "outward observations" are ultimately meant to advance human civilization. If human civilization collapsed what was the point? I don't think anyone (99.9%?) is doing any of this simply as a means for other civilizations to eventually discover our failed civilization and the knowledge we managed to obtain...
I’ve seen this happen before in a totally different industry. Now I wonder how many opportunities there are for companies to do this and I wonder how often they get away with it.
Shower thought: An online password manager is equivalent to password reuse, because there's one password behind all your passwords.
I wrote my own using the official HN API. It's about 100 lines of JavaScript. It keeps track (using localStorage) of which articles I've already seen, so I won't see them again.
https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hn.html

Source is also on GitHub. Feel free to fork, open a PR, etc. https://github.com/gabrielsroka/gabrielsroka.github.io/blob/...
Trade Secrets were not protected under US law until 1996. All of the upsides of trade secrets you list are benefits that they have, despite a complete lack of government enforcement, as it should be.

Coke protected its formula for over a century with NDAs and effective security measures. They went through enormous effort and expense to protect the secret, because the law until 1996 said that they were responsible for their own secrets.

Some of Google's algorithms get leaked and they go whining to the government demanding that people be thrown in prison for espionage. It's a bastardization of the purpose of intellectual property.

There is nothing wrong with trade secrets. There is something very wrong with government underwriting the risk involved in building a business reliant on trade secrets. Patents exist as an incentive to publish: you show us your work, we let you have a total monopoly on it for 20 years.

Trade secret protections break that deal. If the government will now give you a monopoly for the rest of eternity on any invention that you label "secret", then there is no reason to publish anything ever, the state of the art stagnates, and the technology industry becomes dominated by uncontestable monopolies with the power to throw you in prison if you look over their shoulders.
Ammonium nitrate does not release nitrogen dioxide unless it undergoes high-order detonation.
If you are concerned about locks being picked, look at Abloy Protec2 locks. Not cheap (also not the most expensive by far). But they come in whatever shape and size you need and they are more or less considered 'impossible' to pick.
The more serious concerns will end up being what type of padlock and chain will you be using.
e.keyUp...c'mon man, don't need a whole library
But isn’t it true that that software developer salaries in many countries in Europe are much lower than the U.S.?
Yep, but that only takes you into the range of 100s of KBs. To get above 1 MB is possible, but at some point before you hit a 5 MB initial page load it becomes the fault of things other than the technology you're using.

EDIT: For reference, https://www.tmz.com/ with no ad blocker is 19.22 MB (7.51 compressed) and takes 19.99 seconds to load, and they only use jQuery. I don't think the underlying technology is the problem for them.
The more wood you use, the more inefficient your building methodology given the amount of energy needed for transport, construction, etc, as well as air conditioning, etc. The less wood you use, the less space you create for regrowth. (Indeed, the space taken for building a house is often space where trees could grow, so there's a very simple space trade-off at play.) And none of this factors in the huge amount of wood from demolition that we scrap every year, requiring energy to tear down, and much of which will decompose even in landfills.

Plus, a place like the United States has 0 population growth absent immigration. Are we supposed to start tearing down houses just to build new ones? That's the kind of math that begat corn ethanol.

The dynamics here are just horrible. Can we slow emissions growth this way? Sure. Can we stop growth this way? Eh... okay, maybe, since we're pretending. Can we reverse global warming, removing carbon from the atmosphere? Not a chance. The only way to turn the dynamic from zero sum to positive sum is with other, major technological advances, at which point playing games with trees and home construction would very likely be the least meaningful use of such new technology.

EDIT: Here's a study that looks at various different models for wood processing and disposal. TL;DR: See figures #2 and #3. 100 years post harvest there's at best 5% net carbon sequestration, while most models show 0% net carbon sequestered. https://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/Fi...
More like The Way of Shielding Assets From Creditors
Well said, i thought i was the only one who doesn't like RH chart.
There's a great reason for it: profit! Apple knows their customers will pay because they don't have a choice - their computers are bought for them or their software only runs on macOS.
That reads like a total 'just so story'

Once decision makers are Mormon, of course they're going to hire more and more Mormons. They don't even have to be doing it corruptly, thats just how networks of humans work.