skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gosh, it's amazing how they just refuse to make this tool powerful. Still can't set a custom date range, or add technical indicators. I mean these are like 2003 requirements for a decent site let alone 2020. Just off the top of my head..historical data, SEC filings, better volume data, options pricing..
> We have been advised

Their advisor was smart enough to call it so.
Yeah, you'd have to host them yourself. So suppose you have a basic webapp with users logged in a DB:

Vercel(Frontend -> Serverless functions) -> DB
I would bet my life savings that most of the people concerned easily rationalized it, just like the FAANG engineers do it here along different arguments.
Reminds me of smoking companies.
I've been using linux for over a decade and never even _heard_ of this or something similar happening. AFAIK the only typical way to configure these things is through the BIOS, well below the OS level. It sounds like something got borked and the computer repair shop decided it was easier to blame linux than to figure out or explain what happened.
Umm... “snowflake” is mostly used as a slur nowadays against progressive liberals. I think the preferred term have been “aerial ice” for a while now.
You need 200 upvotes to unlock it. I suggest just following the hive mind for a bit if it’s that important to you.
I would set up all new customers over something secure.

I'd have some flag so that new customers can't use something insecure.

If my service was used for private data, I'd force old customers to migrate. If not, I would advise them via a service bulletin, but let them carry on with their insecure setup.

I understand that in the world of business, security risks are like any other risk, and a dollar value can be put on every security improvement, and sometimes that dollar value isn't good value for money.
That's kind of horrifying in itself, considering I don't think there's a viable alternative for (WORM) mid-to-long term data storage most people have access to.

Of course, in practice with optic media you may stumble upon varying forms of bit rot, scratches or recording errors so it's definitively not the be-all and end-all, but still, I've got CDs recorded 30 years ago I can still read in modern systems and that I won't wipe by accident.
You're supposed to use other hosted database vendor or your own database server if you need it. I don't think they offer any database service.
>>The easiest way to avoid YouTube ads

I found the actual easiest way to avoid YouTube ads, and maintain support for content providers whose services I enjoy, is to get a Premium subscription. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, like is this guy trying for an intentionally nutty story, like the old Weekly World News, or is he actually kind of disturbed in a clinical way?

And the fact that some people think it could be real is not encouraging.
They were certainly better at it than the current administration.
This looks pretty similar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZwz-y5rlLc

$60 https://www.thermaltakeusa.com/engine-27.html
Rectangle (the spiritual successor to Spectacle) is a great MacOS window manager. Highly recommended. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
Just for lazy devs. :-) Use https://github.com/jehna/ga-lite to add Google Analytics to your page JS bundle and then proxy calls to the magic pixel so they look like they're first party. Nobody does this I guess because the rate of analytic blocking is low enough that it's not worth caring, but it's pretty easy to do.
Yes, which is the reason for my question (last line of my post).
What exactly does SaaS mean to you? Sounds like nothing but a buzzword to me.
The website in question is already software and a service.
I also recommend a milder version, a stepping stone, before jumping to SICP, Simply Scheme. The book is available online for free[0]

[0]:https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ssch1/showing.html
Right now I have two columns. Wide, left with Idea and right with 3 terminals vertically. I can switch to any terminal with single key press, without needing to look for it among other windows when alt-tabbin. I also have multiple tags and on other tag I have a similar arrangement for another project that I keep an eye on. On second monitor I have 3 fullscreen apps on separate tags - zoom, slack and spotify and each one of them has a dedicated shortcut.

When I was using mac, I had similar setup using snap and keyboard maestro, only I had to ctr-tab in iterm like crazy if I had several projects. Not anymore.

Overall I feel that I manage all of it way less and have to go through way less stuff to find what I need.
I'm a huge fan of tig. It maps really well to my way of thinking about git repos and it is super quick way to see the graph of everything that's going on. In the Top 5 of command line tools for me.
Great to see. I used Octave heavily the two times I took Andrew Ng’s machine learning class. Great to see the graphics and web services improvements.
I don't mean to bring back the forum lifestyle of the 00s, but this is just plainly FUD. Linux does not cause hardware issues like this with any high frequency (of course it may occasionally, but any software will damage that hardware eventually). I've installed Linux, and helped others install Linux, on dozens of machines over my life. I've worked with others who install Linux on everything they touch. I've literally never heard of a story like this.

So it is POSSIBLE that Linux might have caused your issue. Your computer repair guy, however, is probably just wrong. And I would personally guess that your damage was due to power or environmental issues rather than Linux.
This is a bit off-topic, but personally, I believe it to be a matter of when rather than if.

For now, the EU does have indirect ways of enforcing EU-wide legislation, as individual member countries will implement EU directives and enforce them. Thus, laws written in Brussels could result in people getting arrested, even if it ended up being a Dutch or Polish police officer doing the actual arresting.

The EU does, however, tend to stick to things that result in economical sanctions and fines, rather than incarceration.

Apple, on the other hand, has no such legislative powers.
Probably going to have a massive radio campaign next as well to keep up pressure.
I've been an i3 user for a few years. (I discovered Ratpoison many moons ago and found the tiled approach an efficient way to use a laptop.) My configuration is nothing special, but here are a couple things I've found helpful:

1. Opacity follows the focus (see compton's "-i" option). If I look at a window and see my wallpaper showing through, I know that whatever I type won't be going there.

2. A generously sized terminal window lives in the scratchpad. Since I'm on a laptop, I sometimes find myself bouncing among workspaces fairly often--yet the same terminal is always a keystroke away.

Also, not i3-specific, but having a key binding for opening a specific notes file in an editor ensures that I make notes much more often.
It's bad enough when they go into an unbalanced spin cycle here on Earth, but it does seem that could seriously affect the stability of a space station's orbit. I was surprised this wasn't mentioned even in passing in the article.
Ask HN: Facebook engineers, what keeps you at Facebook?
This is a legit question and not a rhetorical/troll question. My own opinion is negative of them, and I wish they did not exist but that does not mean others are not allowed to work there or do not have different opinions. However, I am curious, is the work interesting? Is the pay too good? Or do you feel that there is no negative impact of Facebook on the world and humanity in general or that its positive influence outweighs the negative?

Id love to hear why people stick it out there when there are many other companies that could pay as good or provide more fulfilling (again, subjective) work for less pay.

Edit : For context, I thought of this when I read about the ad Zuckerberg put out against apple recently, which is obviously far from the truth/false.
Facts not mattering seems to be a more common thing. At least that was a take away I had from reading Kahneman's book Think Fast and Slow
NextJS supports export for 100% static site generation (like Gatsby). Unlike Gatsby, it _also_ supports a server runtime and SSR, and everything in between. Its magic is the good kind that decomposes into sane primitives. Respectfully, it sounds like you might have needed to spend a little more time with the docs.
wasn't even an SFTP I guess?

good old FTP
This type of thing can happen easily with Git. We just submit a directory, and every damn file in that directory gets submitted.

What I do, is have a file that aggregates my sensitive stuff (like server secrets and whatnot), and call that file something like "DoNotCheckThisIntoSourceControl.swift". I then add a git ignore line, on that name.

I'll also sometimes store it outside of the repo root (I use Xcode, so I can drag files in from anywhere).
If it's not hard to deploy on your server, then it's also easy to switch when you have to.

In the meantime you get faster, free hosting, better builds and spend zero time on ops.
any tips on getting i3 and xfce to work together?
Audits don't involve fine-tooth-comb review of everything - PwC does not go through your git commits line-by-line. They tend to verify specific critical things and verify process for everything else.

To the extent your processes don't match what is reported, your audit is a work of fiction. And of course things will always fall through any available cracks, people skip process for various reasons, etc.
> It's a dumb status symbol and nothing else

If trillions of tracking dollars with a measurable boost on valuation and trading [1] and thus a measurable reduction in the cost of capital [2] is “nothing else,” then yes.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138641810...

[2] https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/handle/10453/130246
You have to pay for food. That doesn’t mean that eating isn’t important or that a society wants people to go hungry. By your logic, the private market would just be the domain of luxuries and useless trinkets. The government here provides health insurance for the very poor and subsidizes private insurance for the somewhat poor.

Police and fire are public services because they would not work as market systems. Fires spread from house to house, for example, regardless of who pays or doesn’t, so private fire brigades would have to protect non-payers in order to also protect payers. That’s a classic market failure that can be solved by public services. (Potentially, that problem could have been solved by requiring fire coverage, but then there's the further problem of a row of houses, each with different fire services, some better than others, with the better ones still needing to protect the houses insured by the worse ones to protect their own customers. Not to mention that
a single house fire can lead to a whole city burning down. It's just not a service that the market can effectively provide in most places.)

And no, of course people don’t completely waste care in other systems either. That’s because it’s rationed by the government. Elective procedures have long wait lists, access to specialists is specially guarded, etc. Limited resources always have to be rationed by some mechanism.

Our system in the US is far from perfect: we let the doctor’s guild limit the supply of doctors, we are too uncomfortable with ending care for the very old and terminally ill, and the whole hospital and medical device industries could use an antitrust shakeup.
There are a lot of classics such as SICP and The Little Schemer, and I dearly love them all and consider them all to be canon that everybody should read at least twice. But, for an easy/fun on-ramp, I think that there are three new contenders that are much better for getting a feel for things. Pick one according to your tastes, or burn through them all in a couple weekends and then decide.

If "functional programming for the enterprise" sounds good to you, read Clojure for the Brave and True.

If you're more interested in a truly mature language with a more academic community, read Land of Lisp.

If you're looking for a simple language that's easy to learn, or if metaprogramming is really your jam, read Realm of Racket.

As far as editors go, just start with whichever one you personally like best. They're all fine. I wouldn't bother spending much time worrying about that until after you've confirmed you want to stick with it.
This is the wrong answer (and maybe a little condescending) because the product is targeted at the widest of tech audiences.

Vercel is failing on communications a little bit.

They don't have some highly specialized tech that 'nobody should understand' - they're literally making tech for the front-end masses, basically 'tech commoners'.

There are literally a handful of people on this page saying 'what does this do?' - how often do you see that on an HN page?

Anyone in tech, should be able to plainly understand what every other tech companies does, within a few sentences.

Some of it might need to be abstracted, and some of it may not fit very well into a sentence - but at least the Wikipedia version should be clear.

Explaining Next - the frame work in slightly more mechanical terms, and then, separating the notion of 'hosted service' would be great. (If that's what it is, because frankly I'm not even sure).

If you go to vercel.com - nowhere does it really say 'what it is'.

The introduction is 'Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.
Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work.'

That is 'bad communication' because it's completely not informative.

Sometimes marketing speak lingers on 'why it's great' - fair enough, but that statement above isn't even that, it's secondary jargon.

'We enable teams to do their best work' <- no place in communications unless you really need to fill a panel with something.

It needs some work.
Zuck just painted himself with a bullseye, running full page ads in major newspapers complaining about Apples privavcy enhancing efforts ? Forever an idiot, go pout at your Hawaiian compound Zuck where you while your time away nailing up more no trespassing signs illegally along that stretch of oceanfront that you don't own and never will . . .
Show HN: These Cats Are Not Real
Best way to force(convince)company to use APA tools (Ateryx, Knime)
Hello everyone,

I'm trying to convince my company to use Alterix or Knime but they aren't open for new things and suspicious.

Does anyone has similar experience and what are best ways to do it (convince my superiors)

What to do :)
You end up with the same problem, though. When you only partially implement libertarianism, money and effort creep out into other domains. Like other idealized systems, the internal logic is foiled when it's limited. There's no way to isolate one aspect because people can move both in space and in activity. You always end up with some hybrid system which obscures the merit and faults of the experiment.

For example, the American health care system is "more libertarian" than those in other developed countries, and it's widely considered worse than any of them. People want to experiment with both more libertarian and less libertarian systems. They agree on only two things: the current system is bad, and the badness comes entirely from the other guy's system.

Healthcare is a case where less-libertarian systems have been clearly successful. That would make a more-libertarian system an interesting experiment, but potentially a costly one. And worse, the costs are likely to fall on people without money and therefore less influence to call for change.
The reason Mailinator is blacklisted in many sign up processes is because websites want to have users real email addresses, not disposable ones they don't care about.
Yes, thank you. I confused myself.
But are they using Facebook Ads for this or simply using a page/group? Nobody's trying to ban FB pages and groups, it's the insitious tracking and data sharing.
If you add bit errors to the picture then the check after shuffle spuriously passing has a significant, potentially much higher probability than a bit error introducing new, previously impossible random shuffling and producing a sorted sequence. So in a significant portion (maybe most) of the non-destroyed universes quantum bogosort returns an unsorted sequence due to bit errors.
Can I read SICP while learning Clojure? Is lisp very different?
Something like Nebula, a group of YouTube creators coming together with their own service that costs less than Netflix, but subsidizes their content. It's mostly education/engineering/science based creators, but it seems to be a decent model.
I founded a company that provides AI development services for startups and companies. We have operated for more than 3 years already. I can't say that we earn huge money, but it's enough for a comfortable life and we can do what we like to do (research, deep learning/computer vision/NLP).

I started the business after defending my PhD. The main reason for this was the lack of interesting job opportunities and I didn't consider relocation. That is why the only way to work on interesting projects was remote work in startups.

Anyway, I think it makes sense to experiment with different business models to check the market/diversify the risks.
For e.g. we have started the development of a SaaS platform (video analytics) and plan to launch it in the next year. Don't be afraid to experiment.
My anecdotal experience as a teacher is that when tasked with implementing sort, students go for selection sort.

However when asked to do it in real life on a bundle of graded exam sheets, if I ask them to sort alphabetically, they will do insertion sort, if I demand to sort by grade, they will bubble sort. The number of sheets may also change their method.
Hey! oso cofounder/CTO here.

You're right, and this is something we've discussed a bunch. Our current view is that:

1. Allowing teams to standarise on an _approach_ and a library in the first place is a huge step up from individual ad hoc implementations.

2. If you have shared logic between applications, you can still write language-agnostic policies and share those between them. If there are parts that are specific to an application/language, its easy enough to pull these into separate rules and add shims.

3. We intentionally wanted to keep the language lean to lower the learning curve. But we're considering adding a standard library in the future, powered by the Rust core, to provide common functionality. The nice thing is that you're not limited by how fast we add those.

We're interested in hearing from folks who are working in those environments to hear what would make the most sense for them.
That just seems like an opportunity for competition in the space of website builders for small business.
Do you have some references to this and to the process used?

I was not aware that signatures are compared electronically.
Maybe you don't need to spin at all because reducing air pressure would allow evaporating all the water at low enough temperatures?
Not if you use TruffleHog and GitGuardian.
You made the straw man argument by waving off all of economics with a hand wave

> if you ignore that they're built on a metaphorical foundation of sand.

And you're making another strawman by saying we need water regardless of the price. As though water is some substance belonging to one person and a fixed supply (no collection, desalination, etc)

What part are you uncertain about in regards to focusing on my original argument that we should focus on revenue as opposed to idelogical arguments like such and such pays a rate of X and i don't like it
> so I deleted it

I wonder if FB actually deleted it. FB, LinkedIn, etc maintain profiles of non-users as well, both to sell ads off property and, ahem, “to provide a better experience for new members”.

I think very few people realize that those “share” buttons on websites provide tracking info to the respective sites simply by exposing them.
Mandatory plug: https://magit.vc/
Florida Is Open, New York Is Closed, and the Latter Has More Covid Deaths
It looks fantastic. The only downside for me is that it lacks a headphone jack.

How easy is it to port contacts and texts over from the Google ecosystem?
Which is the case for the vast majority of IPOs
it's used by ROOT at CERN, so it's unlikely it's "alpha quality software" since it's being used for production science at scale.
I don't know how the used market affects the creators' pockets, but let people who want to pay, pay. Enough people still need to pay to make it worthwhile for the creators to publish the content.
Nowadays, you can get VSCode support for Clojure pretty much out of the box with calva[1] extension working together with clj-kondo [2] almost without any configuration. It works great - I've switched over from Cursive and I'm not looking back.

[1] https://calva.io/
[2] https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/editor...
Yah, I do not defend it in any way - it's security theatre to me; they also wholescale block entire TLDs (more than one) under the same umbrella, block access (HTTP) to any domain less than 30 days old as well. It is in my experience that most companies of size implement compliance checkbox solutions and do not really care about internal user experience, you (me, we) are expendable and replaceable. Comply or face sanction/termination of employment, compliance is what matters to the business.
It has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with earning potential.

Did Scott co-found Amazon? I was unaware of that. I agree that when partners are also business partners and share equally in generating value, it makes sense to split the value generated 50/50.
Fair enough. I appreciate your response. I had gotten a very different impression from your previous comment, FYI. Maybe I was too angry when I was writing myself.

While some journalists in Portland may be actively engaged as you describe, I think it's inaccurate and unfair to expand that into a generalization of most journalists in Portland.
I wish these insights would also be extended to FAANGs in the minds of lawmakers
What I'm getting at is that we're misconstruing a storage system (git), with a user-friendly interface. Ideally we get the ubiquity and interoperability of git with a WYSIWYG editor. A website that lets you edit files in the browser and is backed by a git repo could be helpful. But maybe in edge cases, it'd still be too complex. Using git here seems like overkill.
It would be truly impressive if the thousands of developers of the Linux kernel had, over the course of 30 years, managed to create an operating system that physically destroys your computer. I've half a mind that this comment is meant to be humorous.

Anyway, sounds like your computer repair place was looking for a quick buck. At the very least, they have no idea what they're talking about.
Still missing transaction tracking. Hopefully it will come back some day. I migrated to https://wallmine.com/ when Google Finance announced it was neutering itself. However, I've noticed Wallmine's listings are not always complete. As a couple examples: the insurance company Root isn't listed, the label for JAMF isn't correct.

Haven't looked at what is out there in a while, any other alternatives people are using?
That’s exactly what Apple is planning to implement, and what Facebook opposes.

When given a choice, 70% of people opt-out. This is terrifying to Facebook.
Those are "close the barn door after the horses have run away" solutions.

The best solution is to plan ahead.
I have found a LARGE social media having a similar kind of vulnerability. Downloaded some data as Proof of concept. There's no way to reach their CEO and no security contact.

How should I report it in your opinion?
Except it was not FUD: see WinRT machines, which used Secure Boot and didn't allow neither MOK enrollment nor disabling Secure Boot.