skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's coming from the mega cap FANG companies. There never was an organic open source evolution of SPA's or front end JS frameworks because offloading compute to the client is an optimization that only a handful of companies on the planet need.
As per the post, this policy change only affects free users (so, users who aren’t using a credit card to pay GitLab).

They also do support multiple FIDO2 tokens as well as recovery codes.
It's designed for 3 sea level engines and 3 vacuum engines to be installed in a radially symmetric fashion... But they only installed 1 sea level engine on this prototype.
Yes, this is the correct term.
here is how white collar crime is punished:

756k in restitution. 95k in fines. “theft” of 800k+. gets him a 1.5 year sentence

75% of robberies are for less than 10k. 3% over 250k. yet average sentence is ~10 years.

https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
You are very right. We need to use every tool at our disposal over the next few decades if we are going to avoid a climate disaster, and afforestation plays a role in nearly all routes to avoiding that disaster [1].

But that leaves it in the biosphere, and new forest is vulnerable to rapid deforestation and conversion to CO2 (fires, cultural change, etc.). We would ideally shift some of that highly mobile bio-sphere sequestration to far less mobile geologic sequestration. Most likely with technology that we haven't yet invented.

[1] chapter 2, afforestation is part of AFOLU carbon dioxide removal (CDR) https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
To me it seems the problem is the very concept that some orders pay better than others.

Seems to me they should adjust the pay scale so that all orders pay similar when graded by time+difficulty.
From Dan Abramov from the React team yesterday https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1290289129255624706

> We’ve reached peak complexity with SPA. The pendulum will swing a bit back to things on the server. But it will be a new take — a hybrid approach with different tradeoffs than before. Obviously I’m thinking React will be a part of that wave.

Combine that with NextJS's new features in server side rendering, I think we are going back to that. My React site is server side rendered.
Nice. The only thing that makes me hesitant to ditch Adobe subscription is After Effects. There are replacements for Photoshop, Illustrator, but not for AE.
What were the tradeoffs? Genuinely curious.
Well according to Matt Levine, everything is securities fraud...
Instacart could wipe away this feature in one afternoon if they wanted.
I have heard of Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm a few times in the past six months or so.

Today I finally decided to read the Wikipedia page and figure out how it works.

Really neat. Uses the fact that you need `k` points to uniquely define a `k-1` degree polynomial.

So if you want the secret to be recoverable by any `k` pieces, you just need to define a `k-1` degree polynomial and generate a series of points along that curve, with the secret at a known location on the curve

Basically it sets your secret to the polynomial constant term (i.e. the y value for x=0), generates random coefficients for the rest of the polynomial factors, and then computes however many points you requested. The shares are just encoded (x,y) pairs.

There is slightly more complicated math it to better obscure the secret, but in essence that's all it is. I thought that was really neat.
I mean the logic is pretty straightforward, your servers will never have the computing power of all client devices combined, and the slowest part of any webpage is going to be communication between server & client. If you are writing a web app with such intense JS that people can’t run it that is an indictment of that app, not all client side rendering.
> Look, this is what I was able to get with a mix of clientside and serverside... does it load fast?

That's a resounding 'no' from me: [0]

It takes over a full minute to finish loading the page. As to when the titles for the calendar events, the interesting part, first appear, that's about the 30sec mark.

For comparison, this page I'm writing from loaded in 216ms.

[0] https://sixteenmm.org/personal/yang.png
2012 mbp15r, maxxed out specs at the time (16GB DDR3, 500MB SSD), daily driver for eight(!) years, and has maybe 5 tiny dead pixels as the only sign it's the worse for wear. Current gig requires use of client-provided 2019 mbp16r with approximately the same size, weight and perf. I don't hate it, but it's hard to believe my ancient personal box is about as capable. They really don't make em like they used to.
> What I don’t understand is why the 10,000 hasn’t been adjusted fir inflation.

Because the law, like the $20 threshold in the 7th Amendment, isn't written with an inflation factor, so it would take Congress actively reconsidering the threshold to change it (but, again, that's less than it takes to change the 7th Amendment threshold.)
Beirut blast: Dozens dead and thousands injured, health minister says
Corporate politics likely came into play - he was sidelined at Chauffeur and didn't show up to work, if you read the bloomberg articles. Likely he just wanted to make a difference and politics or corporate stupidity got in the way. The irony is that all these tech companies talk about changing the world. Reality is lawsuits and corporate politics.
Yes, I believe that's the product. The exact failure is in electronic lab reporting. The state is already contacting labs to work on an alternate conduit to get the backlog dealt with, but it will need a lot of manual entry. Most of the counties relied on the state system because it was much less work to do so and cases had to be entered into the system anyway. In the meantime the only cases reported locally are the minority that do make it, or are manually entered from physician reports and small outfits not required to participate in ELR. I don't know the situation personally in Santa Clara County, so I couldn't say.
Oh wow, thanks for that link, I have never come across that!

Also, when I google with your phrase, there are no hits like that on the first page. I wonder if google is customizing my searches away from what I want...
Ask HN: What are the biggest challenges faced when making data-driven decisions
I’m doing customer research for a small product that I’m building.

A few months ago I built a visualization library to allow devs to more easily create dashboards.

Since then, I've pivoted. I'm now focusing on helping people to get access to their data using a common semantic layer, smart-workflows, automation and data-visualizations.

The intent is to make it easier for people at different levels to make decisionS faster based on insights in their data.

Given above:
* what tools are you using to help you make decisions?
* what are the challenges that you still have when it comes to turning insights into decisions?
Interesting - my understanding of the walled garden was the Omar Khayyam style of a luscious oasis walled off to allow only a few people to enjoy it whilst keeping most out (the implication that you had to pay to be one of the few).

Neither definition actually makes much sense when talking about incompatible protocols.
That’s the paper. Mainly thinking of how control flow could be separated and isolated from other parts of the program.
Yes I certainly did, thanks for the catch.
If you mostly use a desktop or laptop, purchase two different FIDO authenticators that match the form factor you need.

If purchasing a new laptop (or having one purchased for you) and you run Windows or Mac OS consider fingerprint devices that can turn it into a "Platform Authenticator" able to prove that the person with the authorised fingerprint and the machine authorised are together and wish to sign in.

If you mostly use a phone, look for a newer iPhone or for select Androids (e.g. Google's "Pixel" series) with fingerprint readers, again these function as a platform authenticator.

Unfortunately for the latter case U2F isn't an option. Sites should be migrating to WebAuthn (and please people do not implement U2F instead of WebAuthn in 2020, for the same reason you wouldn't build a new Flash video site, nothing new supports that technology any more, stop it)

Today GitLab is U2F only, there is a logical upgrade path to WebAuthn, and they seem to be working through a bunch of patches to land it, but for now it's less compatible with a site with WebAuthn (e.g. GitHub). So that means if you use the site largely or exclusively from a phone hardware tokens do not buy you much yet.
Vikram visited the deep learning team I managed in the UIUC Research Park. A very nice guy, and when introductions were made and I heard that he co-created LLVM, to say I was impressed is an understatement.

+1000 karma points for people like Vikram who stay in academia and continue to teach.
On the money! and the game is like being in the matrix...you’re always trying to bend the spoon even though reality tell you otherwise...in the end, you start believing the spoon is bent, when it’s not
The original tradeoff was mega-cap FAANG companies trying to offload processing power to the client. There never was an organic open source push for SPA's or front end JS frameworks. They add a ton of tech debt and degrade the UX. Premature optimization and anti-pattern for everyone but a handful of companies, imo.
> Nothing will change until they make it a felony to pay a ransom.

It already is a felony to pay ransomware attackers in the US, depending on who attacked you.

Many of the principal ransomware gangs are listed as OFAC [1] restricted entities. If you pay them, even indirectly, you are as criminally culpable as if you sent sponsor dollars to ISIS or another terrorist or organized crime entity.

Garmin’s execs are in for a big surprise when the Treasury agents come to visit.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Foreign_Assets_Contr...
What in the world is this?

"Informal settlement" suggests someone's trying to hack the system, that is the social / legal / administrative system for real estate, as in physical land and buildings. But I don't quite understand the purpose, motivation, and mechanics of the hack.

Are these enterprising individuals that built houses on a vacant parcel they don't actually own, hoping the real owners would stay away for 20 years or however long they need to establish squatters' rights? It seems like an incredibly gutsy gamble with an awful risk/reward profile. Surely if you have the resources to build that many buildings, it would certainly be within your means to simply buy the vacant land outright, you know, before you built a single structure, and then maybe build 2/3 as many houses in case your bankroll was stressed by buying the land?

Or maybe they do own the land, but are hoping the local zoning board is more likely to grant forgiveness than permission? So they build houses where they aren't supposed to be built, and hope to get away with it since no one will want to tear them down once they've been constructed?

Maybe it's some kind of tax scam where they don't tell the government the land's been improved and hope to pay property tax on empty land while collecting rent from all the houses? But surely tax assessors will drive by at some point and notice that, y'know, there are buildings there now which sure doesn't match what's in the records? And whoever built them will be in hot water for lying about the tax status of an entire housing development, and owe not just back taxes but fines, fees, interest, and maybe even theoretically be liable for criminal tax fraud? Or maybe they plan to sell the houses and get out of Dodge, the inaccurate documentation's the buyer's problem, the contractor's long gone by the time the authoirities catches up with them? But then wouldn't the sale go amiss when some buyer, y'know, reads the deed for the property they're spending tens of thousands of dollars on and notice it doesn't accurately describe the structures on the land?

It's not exactly out in the countryside, it seems like it's right in an existing suburban area. So it doesn't look like they're even trying to keep it secret from people at street level. Explain again, why do they need satellites and AI image analysis to find this?
> a queue system is just the most fair option

There are lots of systems better than first-come first-serve for logistical systems. Hiring someone with a background in queueing theory and financial market microstructure would be a good starting point for Instagram (EDIT: Instacart). It would likely improve customer outcomes, too, to boot.
> Most employment lawyers would be very reluctant to take a case like this for 5-10k.

We don't know the actual value of the case. The defendants seemed to think that it was worth hiring "the most expensive defense firm in California".
There’s no arguing against server rendering being simpler - it objectively consists of fewer components. But to say that it is more performant by nature? You can’t actually argue that. There are plenty of performance downsides to rendering a full page in response to every user action. Don’t forget, an SPA can fetch a very small amount of data and re-render a very small part of the page in response to a user action. There is a noticeably performance benefit to doing that.

Performance doesn’t only boil down to the first page load. Hopefully your application sessions are long, and the longer page load time gets amortized across the session if interactions are performant after that.

Note, I primarily work on enterprise apps where the sessions are long, and the workflows are complicated. Of course page load time matters much more for a static site or a blog / content site.

But to claim that SPAs are all cost with no benefit is just disingenuous. Of course they have their own set of trade offs. But there is a reason people use them, and it’s not some conspiracy fueled by uneducated people. Server rendering isn’t some objective moral higher ground.
My fluid mechanics prof told the class that a scientist in the 1940's published the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. Since this was top secret, he got investigated. But he showed how the yield could be calculated from the film of the explosion - how fast the blast radius expanded.

So I imagine the yield of the Beirut explosion could be calculated the same way from the video.
Sounds like he stole a bunch of trade secrets and gave them to his new job, and he got the new job because of his ability to do this. This may not be completely accurate, I haven't been following it too closely, but broad strokes.

You must know this behavior is completely different than simply switching jobs?
It is zero sum because it adjusts, no matter what you do. If you pump more oil from the ground, the prices will fluctuate until they reach the new zero-sum level that takes into account the new production level.

A pegged dollar is the same, it only takes a little longer. When they print they dilute the value of the current dollars in circulation but not immediately, because of the peg. But eventually, because it is zero-sum, so much pressure is pent-up trying to maintain that non-zero-sum peg that the system begins to crack and they have to re-peg it. Which happens often with pegged currencies.

This does not mean there are no winners and losers, personal finance is of course not a zero-sum game. And because the adjustments are not instantaneous there is a lot of room to profit if you know what is happening, which gives the impression of it not being zero-sum.
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It just proves that if you want to do a crime, do the white collar crime. White gloves treatment will ensue, if you get caught.
I was confused too. I recommend updating the text to be more clear. Congrats on a slick looking product.
Subscription model forced on a local password manager customer? A little sleazy.
I wouldn't say you can never . Because I went to Italy and even the first year I started to see the difference between my country/culture and theirs and what business opportunities could benefit one or the other. It's so simple. 5 years is enough especially for someone with an entrepreneurship mindset.
I didn't know 21.5' is not user upgradable. Only 27
https://support.apple.com/guide/imac/install-memory-in-your-...
> modern laptops have very slim lids, so you can't really fit decent optics (a phone is a good bit deeper).

What about the iMac?
Murder might be for 0 money, but the sentences for that are even higher.

The harm of robbery greatly exceeds the monetary cost. It's right and proper that violent crime should carry much higher sentences than nonviolent crime (and that's before we get into how much less clear-cut these white-collar cases usually are).
> The more modern style of heavier client-side js apps lets you use software development best practices to structure, reuse, and test your code in ways that are more readable and intuitive.

This reads like vague marketing speak. In reality SPA/front end JS frameworks do the exact opposite - violates all kinds of software best practices like duplicating logic server/client, creating brittle tests, conflation of concerns, etc, etc. SPA's front end JS frameworks are an anti-pattern, imo.
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Physical robots that poke touchscreens exist, of course: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/31/tapsters-robots-are-built-...

The analog hole stikes again.
you don’t think google has changed the world??
> I'm saying that perhaps trade secret laws are good for billionaires, bad for everyone else.

Sure. In a certain, short-sighted sense, so are any property rights. Trade secret law is important for anyone who wants to invest in the creation of high value intellectual property that won't be protected with patents. Without such protection, there is much less incentive for investment. Billionaires are one group of people who conduct such investment. Startup founders and early employees are another. Another group that may interest you is anyone who invests through the public market in companies that derive value from trade secret protections. And of course anyone who finds value in the purchase of such goods, or any employee of such a company.

I know I personally would not attempt to build high value intellectual property if there were no trade secrets. If I had an idea I thought would be valuable but depended on the scheme, I'd leave and do the work in a country that supported my intellectual property rights.
A thoroughly-validated canonical example problem hasn't emerged just yet, but there are many intersecting domains...

Temporal graph analysis of "evolving graphs" is an active research field with some strong motivating use-cases, for instance: profiling networks of fraudulent transactions across N bank accounts with data pulled from M source systems. This paper discusses the analysis of research citations over time, as another example: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/110b/0db484a1303eda30aa7e34...

That said, Crux's indexes aren't optimal for making all kinds of analytical time-range queries efficient just yet. Instead Crux is currently focussed on point-in-time queries, but the temporal R&D is still happening as it feels very ripe.

Looking for examples more generally, I think wherever you have a meaningful use-case for a graph database you probably, eventually, will want to capture and model history. If you then find yourself with two or more such databases that you want to integrate, then you will greatly benefit from a bitemporal graph DBMS.

As a fun example, I like to envisage integrating our two federated evolving knowledge graphs. Imagine a tool for "networked thought" like Roam Research that could allow us both to visualise the evolving connections between our independently recorded thoughts, before, during and after this conversation. Graphs of knowledge encoded in time.
Support Manager (and person who wrote that line) - it's certainly not meant to be dismissive or tongue in cheek. If you've got some suggested wording to help take away that feeling, I'm happy to submit (or merge) and MR to the blog post to make it feel less that way.

We actually do want (and care) about your feedback and wanted to provide a clear way to give that. In the past we've gotten support requests, tweets, comments on GitLab issues and a myriad of other creative ways of voicing thoughts, opinions and ideas.

My hope was to streamline feedback into a single place that GitLab support and our community teams are actively monitoring. There's been some helpful discussion there (and here) already.
This is literally legal theft in up to 70% of cases - who knows for those. It would seem more more weird but bribery is also legal (“lobbying”), which is a bigger problem
Lucrative orders are mispriced orders, no ifs and buts. That's how efficient markets work.
It's made with proper craftsmanship and care on the Mac (which is primarily where I've been using it for years).

The Windows client is much better after the last major release, but it's never been as slick as the Mac version (the biggest wart now is the system tray/browser extension popup).

1Password X looks nice until you try and use it, and all the company reps on the forums are very argumentative about any feature request (look for the pushback they give about resizing their super-cramped browser extension popup—and the issues with hires screens stemming from how they built it, which assumes a fixed size).

I've also got a chip on my shoulder about the "feature" they added that showed the most recently used websites in the iOS app with no way to disable it (they finally allowed setting the number to zero months later). The reps on their forums all come off with this attitude of "this is the best way, and you're wrong if you don't like it" for just about every issue that comes up.

I like the app and will continue to use it, but if my main platform wasn't macOS/iOS I would have bailed long ago.
Er no. It is. The losers were Chinese banks/investors. Chinese banks created a ton of financial products linked to oil futures, they didn't know what they were doing and left it to the last minute to roll (afaik, none of the products in the US blew up).
> > I'm not a front end dev

> But I am.

So am I, and I disagree with you.

Here's an actual benchmark that you can run[1] (why did you not share an actual benchmark?). I get, on my old and slow Android, 500k ops/sec for querySelector.

At 60fps, that allows you to do ~8000 selections per frame, assuming you're not doing anything else. In reality, any app I've ever encountered probably has a few hundred querySelector calls, in total, and if the app is well written, the majority of these are cached meaning they only get called once, not once per frame.

[1] https://www.measurethat.net/Benchmarks/Show/2488/0/getelemen...
Hey, nice job! The tool looks really cool and seems like it would save a lot of time for people who are not into video editing but want to add cool effects.

All the best to you!
Curios on how you are creating disposal number? I need one.

I know there is Google Voice, but it I don't want my disposal number to be linked with my real phone number.
This is what I do. I write INSTACART on it. Everyone loves cash.
> Sounds like he stole a bunch of trade secrets and gave them to his new job

His “new job” was a business he cofounded and ran, until he sold it to Uber.
I don't know the exact formula, but they get tipped on the price of the order (like a server at a US restaurant would). Instacart customers are charged a flat delivery fee, so multiple orders also seems like a factor.