skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, we've continuously built stuff on top of older protocols and have made them very usable.

It seems shortsighted to say email as a whole is a disaster for security and privacy.
Go spend some time with PLC/automation engineers and you'll find the same thing.

Safety stuff? Done then right way with the proper attention.

Rest of the production line stuff? Hack on hacks in order to get things online ASAP. At least that's my impression from the outside view I've seen.
Very cool! .. so does that also mean the remote worker can't / doesn't save? Also are the changes reflected locally for both users for e.g. testing / compiling or do you rely on compute of the remote host like VNC? How about tracking changes?
"You're definitely missing something, because private lenders are perfectly free to charge interest. ZIRP applies only to federal debt."

As I understand it, the Canadian Federal debt is held through a variety of instruments, quite a lot of it domestically. EG, Royal Bank, TD Bank, etc.

Whether it is bonds, or some other instrument, they all pay interest. That debt exists, is owed, and yet you're saying "Just don't pay that interest"?

I don't think that's what you mean. I think you're being somewhat terse in your responses here.

For example, maybe you mean "As time passes, and new debt replaces the old". Or, "Stop issuing debit in way $x, and instead, do it in way $y".

Yet the GoC surely does not pay interest for zero reason, or cause. Clearly, there is some reason for using these instruments, such as, getting lenders to ... lend.

If you are advocating an entire policy shift, with massive ramifications to the overall method in which the GoC raises, and treats debt ; OK.. fine. Yet entire economic model shifts aren't easily conveyed by the terseness I'm seeing here.

And the articles you are pointing to, aren't really helpful, nor describe precisely what shift-in-thought you're referring to.
Except profits re up for all the big tech as people buy computers for Zoom U, working from home, etc. Amazon got a huge cut of commerce generally because it’s delivered during shelter-in-place, and Netflix became the thing to do when everything else is canceled. In this environment, it’s clear that people are fleeing to safety and these are the only companies growing... plus they’re known brand names.

I don’t think it’s fair to say the Fed introducing liquidity is the reason why. You’d need to point to real data to back that up.
Review: Razer and Humanscale 'Pro' ergo kb and mouse are a dream for the office
> 'Home-sharing giant'

Oops they misspelled 'parasitic rentier gentrifying monster'
You can do ad-hoc distribution, depending on how many users you are supporting.
This is pseudohistory at best
Trees form out of thin air.
Fleet in Being
Depends what you mean by legacy.

If you mean well written c or Java code, that is well tested and clean. Then I'd prefer to then a modern JavaScript application without tests.

Legacy to me means applications that has turned into a mess with no tests. This can be a recent application or old.
As long as they allow for users to install applications onto their phone, including other stores, then I don't think anyone will have a problem.

Every pre-installed Apple app has a better 3rd-party alternative, it would be no different for the store.

Undoubtedly if Apple allowed other companies to handle app discovery, the experience could be one or two order of magnitudes better, for both consumers and developers.
It's not just the source code, it's also the tools to edit/build it, the directory structure, the operating environment (OS, network shares, servers) and more.

Example: You can still buy a copy of Visual Basic 6 on eBay. Does your laptop even have an optical drive to install it? Do you have the patches that were released for it?
Computer simulated fireworks with the program called FWsim. This is how fireworks show was supposed to look during Olympic.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBhfC2CpmXc
There is one driving your car too. :)
Microsoft Flight Simulator could push PC-hardware spending to $2.6B
Works well if your startup is filling in a niche within an existing industry. Does not work well if your startup is creating a new industry. There is a reason why the failure rate for the latter situation is abysmal. But that is also the reason why the returns are so large and sought-after for that situation.
I bet a lot of ios games are gonna slip through the cracks. Take the general lack of giving a damn with regards to archiving their source that game companies have, and multiply that by having the games distributed entirely digitally - and limited space on phones/tablets/etc that means people tend to delete old games that don't get updated.
This whole discussion feels like I‘m not getting an obvious joke.
My experience: I proposed a thesis to an advisor who deemed it unlikely to work. He ran it by a colleague who came to the same conclusion. I went to a different major and pursued the same thesis and invited the previous faculty who initially turned it down to the defense because it was relevant to their field.

It was frustrating to hear them voice their opinions in the defense that they felt, “of course it world work.” After seeing the data, they took the exact opposite side claiming it was obvious to the point of being of limited publishing value.
Not always, but sometimes they do.

When it comes to clear cut cases of survival, do whatever you have to do.

The problem is when the scenarios are not nearly so clear cut - even if they may seem to be to the people in the scenario at the time.
Except Sullivan was also Deputy General Counsel, making the legal team his team.
Uber & Lyft are just about as perfect an example as I can think of, of the fact that wealth isn't zero sum. You seem to be implying that it is.

How in the world could you argue that they didn't create markets or job opportunities? There are probably 10x more uber/lyft drivers in almost every city in the US than there ever were taxi drivers. People simply take more trips, or have someone else drive them when they would have previously driven themselves, now that Uber & Lyft are so prevalent. People order delivery food from restaurants more often instead of cooking for themselves. This is new money added into the economy, yes a big slice goes to the corporations, but only ~30%, the rest goes directly to drivers for whom this is a newly available source of income. Apparently 80% of drivers do it part time as an additional source of income, which they wouldn't have a way to generate otherwise.

You seem to fit very cleanly into the category I just mentioned above, you're so angry about some perceived injustice of Uber & Lyft merely existing, that you want them to be punished more than you care about any other part of this outcome. And this is not a slavery ring, nobody is being exploited, so you should take a deep breath about that too. In polls drivers overwhelmingly express a preference to remain independent contractors rather than become full-time.
I think I need to get an advanced degree just to be able to read that wikipedia entry.
A 393-years old Greenland Shark is the oldest living vertebrate known
Even a Geo orbit is an orbit. I guess you could drop out at a Lagrange point.

Of course depending on hour your Sci-Fi FTL engines work you could build up speed by stopping up high in the gravity well, let the planet accelerate you to orbital velocity, then jump sideways into an orbit once you're moving fast enough.
I don't know enough either to be honest. They are a US govt contracting company on the east coast. A… staffing company as you put it. They are small and not prepared for CA employees, I'm the only one.
What if I am a few light-seconds away from the desk, so nobody "there" can confirm it exists "now"?
> Don't you think people should know that?

PeerTube literally displays the warning when you start watching a video. How would people NOT know?
Yeah, this is a pattern I see a lot. Rather than discussing solutions to an problem, there is a tendency from some people to just throw their hands up in the air and say "it is what it is, can't do anything about it!". When it comes to...

> Public Transportation... if future pandemics pose a danger, what can we do to implement transport options that will be safe during future pandemics? How can we better design our cities to make individual transport by bike/foot more possible, rather than by car? etc etc. Let's listen to urban planners and public policy experts.

> Election Security... if voter fraud is an issue, what security measures can we take to ensure that every citizen can safely and securely exercise their right to vote? Let's listen to cryptographers.

> Wealth Inequality... how can we ensure that all children have a safe and nurturing home environment, along with the opportunities for school and work that they need to achieve upward social mobility? Let's listen to educators and economists.

> Healthcare... how can we reform hospitals and private/public insurance to provide both urgent and preventative medical care at a fair price? Let's listen to medical health professionals and economists.

There are many possible answers to these questions. I would love love love to debate actual solutions. But it's hard to even agree there is a problem! Often, the reason is that national+local news networks are all fed their talking points by wealthy individuals who personally profit from a broken system.
For machine reading/writing, not much.
For human reading/writing, sexprs (or Prolog terms) are much nicer as you don't need to quote everything, for example. However, (traditional) sexprs don't have defined literal map or vector/array syntax that's different from a list - for that you need an extension such as EDN format defined by Closure, but usable elsewhere.
Ah, Obelix! The original One Punch Man.
I’m not sure what you mean. My library has a `TypeOf` type that lets you extract static type information from validation functions. And calling `toUpperCase` on undefined already results in a TypeError.
It's being made more difficult. Increasingly technically more technical savvy is required. At the same time that apple increasingly pushed their app store on macOS. The fact that at this point in time savvy users can still run arbitrary software doesn't negate a general trends that might be moving away from that direction.
> Where is the open equivalent of the PS5?

Raspberry Pi w/ RetroPi or Batocera. Perhaps sometime in the future it'll be Batocera on a RISCV.

You won't get better because without huge corporate dollars, as is the case with the Linux kernel, Gnome and KDE, you won't be able to fund the QA and devs necessary to do the bullshit boring work that is essential to making certain that consoles are a polished experience; from the operating system through to every game you purchase.

TCRs and TRCs are a thing, after all. You cannot ship without meeting a certain level of minimal tolerable quality.

> And even if it did: I bet many competitive game would exclusively found in the locked down version.

Yes. Of course.

What's in it for the developers when consumers demand anti-cheat measures, which are hideously expensive to maintain, and active and pervasive moderation which is, likewise, hideously expensive to maintain? To say nothing of the _total absence_ of any strong example of a FOSS video game performing well enough to fund a AAA-quality title.

> You'd take the same hardware, and run it in two modes: the open mode, and the signed mode.

Sony has done this twice. There was the PSOne's Net Yaroze, and there was the PS3's ability to run Linux (only for the first few iterations). Consumers didn't care enough for Sony to bother with it again.

IIRC, Xbox One indie developer licenses are still basically almost free.

Your idea is still locked down, though; you cannot run arbitrary code because you cannot cross the signed/unsigned boundaries.

> DRM for the people.

Browsers have this in the form of media extensions.
That is fascinating. A gallon of gasoline weighs 6 pounds, so it probably must be using 14 pounds of oxygen.
Where you used the word "problem"
Naive question: the "storefront" piece seems like it's a static page. Why does it need SSR? Even so, it could be SSR'ed to static _once_ (kind of how NextJS does this from 9.3+), then have it served by CDN/edge. I'm probably missing something here.
Data offers diminishing returns, and at sufficient quantity introduces vetting and validity problems --- see Amazon's reviews crisis or fake Yelp reviews, as examples.

Data quality and relevance matter far more.
I'm constantly surprised that people think Google/Alphabet is bleeding money and making no profits.
And game developers have a choice to not develop for iOS, but they do anyway.
How so? That may be part of a given employment contract, but nothing in the legal definition of employment says it.
Great teams should be visible because they produce great products or services, and because they have their pick of top people because word gets around.

Big companies will have multiple teams, maybe hundreds at companies like Google and Apple. Some of those may be great to work with, others dysfunctional. Adding more people can push the “greatness” in any direction because interpersonal factors are first-order drivers of team productivity and job satisfaction.

So it’s not impossible to identify candidate teams but I think it is impossible to predict how you might fit and what you can get out of it.

I think word of mouth through referrals and contacts works best. Some companies have reputations for building good teams, others are known for dysfunction, but those generalization don’t necessarily predict what an individual will experience. Even Google has unhappy employees.
Good points.

It does make sense that the job is simpler with everyone's history and inputs, if you can keep PII out of it. Are there any good references on recommendation aggregation algorithms?

Here's a simple proposal that keeps everyone's stuff anonymous and allows a rec service to pay bills.

Distribute the pool of everyone's watch histories/prefs/etc using IPFS, which is a DHT with static names and some storage. User clients put the share data into IPFS and register into a public pool. The client remembers their own hash. Rec services (there can be multiple) pull everyone's sets periodically and aggregate/indexe them. Users can then retrieve a batch of new recs by sending a small fee to the service of their choice along with their hash and the server will place some new recs into their bucket. If the recs are not suitable, they can try another service.
foodback-atl was the equivalent of that, for one brief, shining moment. It started a classic reply-all barrage.
srveale, the ENTIRE point of UBI, is:

- universal
- basic

Basic costs met. Paid to EVERYONE.

Part of the "cost saving measures" are "not using complex schemes to determine eligibility to programs".

Further, if all you're wanting to do is guarantee a minimum income, that's not UBI! Not even remotely! It's simply a form of welfare, and shifting taxation under the guise of UBI.

Further, the whole concept of "I'm on EI, or I'm on welfare, but if I start working my income will drop, so what's the point" is another core concept of UBI.

When you start whittling away at these core concepts, when you bring back in the 'should this person get it' judgement and work to evaluate, prosecute if fraudulent, side of things? When you bring back in "Your income drops if you have other income" side of things?

You're just invaliding the entire point of it all.

It's not UBI.

So when people discuss UBI, please don't start talking about something entirely non-UBI.
Ah, missed it.
> I was not an employee of the soccer leagues, I was an independent contractor

Actually you were an employee, just misclassified. If you took them to court you would likely win.

Being able to set your own hours, working part time, working for other employers, quitting at any time - these are all possible in an employee relationship.
One of the more attractive things about Rust for me is that I can easily write portable code. I distribute Windows binaries for a certain Rust project and they've kept working despite the fact I haven't tested on Windows in years.

I'm not sure I would even know how to build any of my C/C++ projects on Windows.
I expect there somewhere someday there will be a company that focuses on just buying failing SaaS software to have their code as an asset quickstart to a real market solution .

kind of like buying a bankrupt generator company as the basis of starting a car company. You need a liquid fuel engine design anyways...

(Edit dont get pedantic about the analogy's shortcomings)
I think this is an over simplification. Software teams are forever trying to find a balance between getting value to customers and getting the code, tests, architecture, docs, etc right.

If you have nothing to sell you’re done. If your legacy cruft becomes overwhelming you’re done, but likely via a slow death.

Good teams are always struggling with this balance and there is no way to be right, but hopefully you can find that balance and be good enough.
What do you mean? Redwood City is not that far away which has a proper Caltrain stop. And—just like Marin—Atherton in an incredibly affluent community.

Sure, I will admit, California has some problems when it comes to their public transit projects. But pointing to the richest communities and how they are not getting trains is not a good example of those problems.

EDIT: Previously wrongly stated that there was a BART station close by.
No More postman just use cURL and vim
Profiling Doesn't Always Have to Be Fancy
Is it based on any kind of evidence? Just wondering if we have ever measured this kind of number in any way.
As an aside, I was curious how on a few of the trailers they feature out of all the places in the world - Warrnambool (Victoria).

Given, it's a picturesque place (having grown up and gone to school there), but maybe not as interesting as say a low level flyby of the 12 Apostles about 10min flight time back along the coast.

Was there a competition to get your town in the trailer, or one of the developers grew up there and slipped it in?
It's exercise that causes the brain growth.

(the famous rat experiment with the "stimulating environment" and brain grown was later attributed to the exercise wheel)
I think evolution does take morality into account in a certain way. If you're a utilitarian, in one formulation, you'd say that the good is people being able to satisfy their desires. People form groups, build things together, etc., in general, to satisfy their desires collectively. We are able to satisfy more desires by working together.

My point is that barring genetic engineering or drugs or something else causing us to change our motivational system fundamentally, there will always be some people that are a bit greedier than others. Even if we are collectively materially rich, there are always more things to be acquired, and even if we had unlimited material wealth, there would always be scarce goods like the time/attention/respect of others.

Would you, for example, advocate that one should spend their time with others that they don't like, or even people who behave abusively, as long as these people get a lot of pleasure out of the interaction?

On your second point though, people generally do act morally, and that moral behavior is an evolved trait of a group, because moral behavior promotes the interests of the group. Compared to, say, 50,000 years ago on the savannah, the amount of concern that people show for one another's well being is far higher.
Electron apps contain an entire headless browser. How anyone ever thought this was a good idea blows my mind.
No More postman just use cURL and vim
How to write Well-documented api and easy to use and share with your team with simple tools cURL + vim + git (optional)
the blog

https://dev.to/22mahmoud/no-more-postman-just-use-curl-vim-2...
Especially since Google gives a fairly strict 90 day disclosure deadline themselves.

https://www.google.com/about/appsecurity/
The contrast between the two perspectives depends on the relative emphasis between human understanding of the domain knowledge and accumulated domain knowledge in pre-existing code.

Biased by the domains I have worked in, I feel that we undervalue the human ability to figure things out and create good solutions, and overvalue code that is available for “free” even though it addresses a problem only tangentially related to what one is doing. My comment pertains mostly to such situations. In situations where the opposite is true (the domain in mostly static, and the old code is a good fit, and we don’t trust human intelligence to figure things out and solve problems), “stable” code is certainly valuable.
Funny I upgraded to ubuntu 20 from 18 last night. Ruby sass wouldn't work anymore. Why? Well just read what the maintainer said...

"When Natalie and Hampton first created Sass in 2006, Ruby was the language at the cutting edge of web development, the basis of their already-successful Haml templating language, and the language they used most in their day-to-day work."

The page continues...

"Since then, Node.js has become ubiquitous for frontend tooling while Ruby has faded into the background."

https://sass-lang.com/ruby-sass

So I installed the nodejs version. And in a few years I'll move over to the next fad....
Just write a isBetween(low,middle,high)
The mode is meaningless with such a huge continuous range. A huge chunk of people are right at that income level because of minimum wage. 50% of the people still make more than 50k.

Look at a distribution graph to help visualize it: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/dist...
Yes. Academic publishing is a bizarre market. Editors and referees volunteer their time. Authors pay to publish. Libraries pay for subscriptions so that researchers can read. Publishers handle distribution, but in a digital-first era that's mostly pure profit.
It sounds like you're making it a requirement that a language should be tightly coupled to a specific application framework (or at least a specific event loop and fat standard library).

Is that correct?

(If so, it's a perspective very alien to me because it seems like something that would limit the language in the same way that PHP is limited by its historical tight coupling to the task of request-lifecycle'd HTML templating.)
They are finding that prior exposure to other coronavirus infections (common cold, animal viruses) leaves behind t-cells that are activates for covid-19, as long as 17 years. And that a large percentage of the population has these t-cells. [0]

Perhaps that explains why we have appeared to reached herd immunity in places like northern Italy, NYC, etc. The tests for b-cell antibodies don't detect t-cells.

Worst case predictions are just not panning out for this virus. It is like other coronavirus infections. It was expected to decrease in severity and become endemic, perhaps another common cold variant of something that comes up like a bad flu year every once in a while [1]

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2598-9

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
FWIR the R.S. universe wasn't planet centric and the books literally span one side of the universe to another, with timescales from one lifetime to entities measuring their lives in galactic rotations. Are you talking about Chasm City maybe? Anyway, it's about time for me to re-read -- I've been holding off as a treat - it's been 18 years since I read that first book!
Mathematical skills, to find a job.
If there is a shortage of them, clearly there is a more attractive alternative, even if it’s a $30k retail job.

Money is the tool used to incentivize people to do things.
Because colonialism is about a mindset in the first place. Here, you assign a mindset where it might not exist. Which is ridiculous.