skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people are trying to skip it in fields where it isn't really necessary. why waste time and resources if you dont have to? my buddy spent 6 years in higher education now he's clicking things in excel and pasting snippets in Apex. I'd argue that these 6 years were mostly a waste of time for him.
The marginal cost for most extra users is tiny, so, nothing happens. Freeloaders welcome. But please pay; there are some pretty serious costs.

If a user does start using an inordinate amount of resources, perhaps they can be throttled. Or asked to pay a little more than they had been paying.
> could you elaborate or backup this claim

I'm pretty sure they can't. The preceding paragraph contains 3 links to references, which is a pretty transparent attempt to make it seem like the incendiary sentence that follows isn't completely made up hogwash.
Yep! They do. But the book-universe has largely landed on similar definitions for what a "work" is.

E.g. here's GoodReads work id (in the url): https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/69741-the-old-man-an...

Here's works/editions in schema.org: https://schema.org/CreativeWork (work) ; https://schema.org/Book (edition)

Here's works/editions in Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47461344 (work) ; https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3331189 (edition) (e.g.: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19320911 )

All of these are loosely based on the FRBR model in librarian science, where a work is a work, and an edition is called an "Expression": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_Requirements_for_Bi...

And yeah, there's no isbn-analog for series; each site has its own identifier.

Also as a side-note, ISBNs are very inadequate as a unique identifier for an edition; there are frequent cases where an ISBN will be re-used for books with different covers (Dover classics does this a bunch); some modern books published in odd ways are not given an ISBN (e.g. all of these books: https://sorted.club/books/ ); and, most importantly, books published before ISBNs went into effect (~1970) have _no way_ of being accessible when using ISBNs as a unique key.
Whilst rarely on release, a lot of Codemasters titles ended up receiving Linux support which seemingly was 1st party. The games ran well and just worked, unlike some other Linux ports. Since coprorate buyouts usually look to trim the fat, I expect Linux support to die off quickly. As examples of this happening, look at Occulus and their Facebook acquisition.
Have you ever seen how we do conventional agriculture these days?
the point of making a philosophical argument about it is to avoid the inevitable practical problems posed. We're there already, too. Adtech data has been bought by the Pentagon for use in targeting individuals overseas for military operations. This is quite literally not a drill.

Whether or not you believe you have nothing to hide is immaterial, too; there are some people in the world who might disagree with you (for religious, political, or moral causes) and they could potentially be very interested in your data. Do you think the people who worked at the world trade center felt they had anything to hide? how about the folks at the Olympics in Munich? Hell, I bet the people we (US) drone strike don't feel like they have anything to hide; after all, they're the good guys, and those invading Americans are the aggressors.

This is far more complex than "I'm not valuable". Perhaps, philosophically, if you lived a perfectly saintly life and never made any enemies or had an opinion that upset anybody ever, you could say you had nothing to hide.
The 2011 Dropbox incident that Tom references: https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...
I would generally agree, but I don't see solving the problems caused by "cash crops" as very good and not unlike solar and wind solving the problems of extremes first.

If it can replace the 5% of food that is currently handled terribly and has an enormously oversized footprint then that is great.

I am not horrified by the ramifications of my staple rice coming from Asia on a slow boat which I then consume 100% of. I am horrified by all the trozical fruits that are being airmailed and then largely discarded.

Once they are done experimenting, they will want to focus on what pays best and whether they mean to or not, they will be replacing terrible with better, while still not competing on very low cost/resource staple food.

I think there's no reason we can't eventually really beat plants on achieving higher density resource usage given seasons, light spectrum conversation, wind, etc, but it is a mistake to focus on how far off that is as a reason not to begin the process.
The difference is that it wasn't hard to work out the claims were nonsense. WMDs are hugely expensive, and the Iraqi economy was running on fumes at that point. That combined with US belligerence against Iraq made the claims improbable.

But Russia actually does have a strong black hat culture, with links to the political establishment. Putin is a technologically savvy kind of despot who likes sneaky low-cost high-return actions. So this fits the profile - both as a workable hack and also as a proof of concept for future attacks.

Consider the cost/benefit. Instead of physically blowing up infrastructure and security systems you can cripple them, possibly permanently, for the cost of - what? - 20 or 30 specialists, some PCs, and maybe some supercomputer time. Although even that may be optional.

It's unlikely conclusive evidence will be released, because that might reveal too much information about defence strategies. So circumstantial evidence will be as good as it gets.

But whatever the cause, clearly - clearly - all countries and larger orgs need to work much harder on security. Some decorative pen-testing isn't going to be nearly enough in the 2020s.
You put a [0] but you forgot the link: https://github.com/jonhoo/fantoccini
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> Depends; do you get 48 months worth of education in 6 months? I doubt it.

Depending on your university, focused education vs scattershot education, this actually sounds about right.
As replied by someone else, by 'random' I did not mean really 'randomly', because the machine is determinist and follow a logic.

But more that there is so much magic and abstractions that it is very hard for a dev to have a clear view of what is going on and what to expect. He has to 'guess' instead of just read the code. For that, I guess that it is similar to the current question of accountability of decisions made with deep learning algorithms.

As an example of my point, I would refer to the 'garbage collection' issues of a language like 'java'. GC will happen at a logically defined point like 'dirty mem > 100m' but from the developer point of view, his logic could suddenly lag unexpectedly in a middle of a simple operation because the GC was triggered by internal magic. It is very hard for a dev to be able to determine the memory usage at different points of the code and so have a certitude of when this operation could happen.
Visa and MasterCard made Pornhub remove millions of unverified adult videos
What I really want is a terminal that puts the prompt at the top, aka in reverse order to what most terminals are doing today.
A rather perfunctory post in my opinion, it doesn't offer much insight into how we should think about privacy.

If you don't mind a heavy-going read, I recommend these papers by Solove: 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy [0], Conceptualizing Privacy [1], A Taxonomy of Privacy [2].

See also this HackerNews discussion on the nothing to hide argument from a few months back. [3]

[0] https://ssrn.com/abstract=998565

[1] https://ssrn.com/abstract=313103

[2] https://ssrn.com/abstract=667622

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23707411
Anytime you securitize an asset like that credit quality gets heavily scrutinized. From a working capital perspective you can cause a real liquidity crunch if you’re simultaneously a) growing and b) deteriorating factored asset quality leading to lower advance rates on subsequent tranches in the SPV. Restated in English, if you’re taking payday loans and your income is declining you’re about to have a bad time.
Even? Tim Berners-Lee tried since day 0 to make the web decentralized. One of the initial requirements in the 1989 proposal for a global hypertext system included "Non-Centralisation" where "new system must allow existing systems to be linked together without requiring any central control or coordination". See https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html for the rest.

While it went OK-ish for the internet, we massively screwed it up for the web.
I would generally agree, but I see solving the problems caused by "cash crops" as very good and not unlike solar and wind solving the problems of extremes first.

If it can replace the 5% of food that is currently handled terribly and has an enormously oversized footprint then that is great.

I am not horrified by the ramifications of my staple rice coming from Asia on a slow boat which I then consume 100% of. I am horrified by all the trozical fruits that are being airmailed and then largely discarded.

Once they are done experimenting, they will want to focus on what pays best and whether they mean to or not, they will be replacing terrible with better, while still not competing on very low cost/resource staple food.

I think there's no reason we can't eventually really beat plants on achieving higher density resource usage given seasons, light spectrum conversation, wind, etc, but it is a mistake to focus on how far off that is as a reason not to begin the process.
ECommerce is at least 150 years older than the internet
Someone wants something done, and it has certain value to them. The person delivering it values their time, and they might want money regardless of their feelings about that work. Maybe the money is part of what makes them happy to do the work.

Still, there certainly is a lot of unpaid work happening - open source projects, indie games, personal learning projects...
A lot of people in tech believe that technology, by itself, will free people and bring democracy. Apple probably believes that its security features will help activists in other countries escape persecution. What they don't seem to understand is that a phone is easily hacked with torture.
> Bertrand Russell was an amazing logician and mathematician. Albert Einstein was an incredible physicist. I would trust none of them to handle economics.

You guys need to stop pretending that economics is 1. something really really hard that only the most brilliant economists can understand, 2. something fundamentally objective like physics. It was in large part of history even referred to as political economy for crying out loud.

It is true that the study of economics is primarily concerned with the current system and not particularly imaginative with regards to any sort of alternative. Furthermore the incentives are in no way encouraging to challenge the current way of things, if anything the direct opposite. This state of affairs just can't be ignored when evaluating the objective nature of a certain field of study.

> including that it generates decent outcomes in many cases.

For the wealthy. Most of the world is still used as cheap labour for the privilege of the West.

> Re: economics and crashes - I fail to see how the existence of crashes - which is predicted by many economic theories, be they mainstream or not - invalidates anything.

If a majority of the involved "scientists" are surprised that a crash shows up, it strongly suggests that it's largely based on speculation and external motives rather than objective science.
Non-Hallucinogenic Analogue of Psychedelic Ibogaine Developed for Treatment
I went to a traditional in-person bootcamp (not Lambda School), and I believe it accelerated me into a job ~4 months earlier than what I could have done on my own. The bootcamp had several key advantages over self study:

- Easier to put in 40-60 hours per week in a structured environment vs having the discipline to do that at home week after week
- Less time wasted on figuring out what topics you need to study in the first place
- Daily access to a senior engineer that you can ask questions to
- Good advice on how to land the first job

In my case I think those benefits were absolutely worth $20k+. Yes, I could have gotten the same result on my own given more time to study, but every job and promotion I've had since then would have come a few months later.
> ... then immediately monetize that ISAs by selling them with a discount to a 3rd party

Is that really true? If so, this is shocking to me. If LS sells the ISA, then, obviously, they are no longer "aligned" with their students' success. What's the point of their "revolutionary" arrangement then? This makes perfect sense out of the jumble of anecdotes I'm reading.

From further below: https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/12/21135134/lambda-school-st.... In other words, yes, this is what's happening, and it's a disaster, for exactly the stated reason.
It only supports the chrome devtools protocol[0]. chromiumoxide is therefor more like a (limited) puppeteer rust port. Support for javascript page injection is currently being worked on

[0] https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/
> I recall another study showing that it was more carbon efficient buying frozen mutton from New Zealand in London than it was buying local fresh mutton.

I wouldn't mind seeing that calculation!
Red ocean not a blue ocean.
Not apples to apples. Splunk can do way more than Solarwinds but is also slower to ingest the data and produce an alert.
It’s basically the fucking fly episode in breaking bad
And this also exists with insurance and consultants for dealing with ransomware
Let's hope tailscale swoops in and creates a no-gimmicks, highly usable, private internet for everyone.

They seemed to have figured out the hard parts already.
Europe is cheaper than most people think. My family of 3 spends less than 20k/year including renting a house in Spain, 100 meters from the shore
Stunning images of snowflakes captured by Nathan Myhrvold
It can be efficient, particularly in smaller companies, but that's where exactly this rule should be applied.

In some industries, security and customer requirements will at times mandate that developer workstations have no access to production. Deployments must even be carried out using different accounts than those used to access internal services, for security and auditing purposes.

There are of course good reasons for this; accidents, malicious engineers, overzealous engineers, lost/stolen equipment, risk avoidance, etc.

When you apply this rule, it makes for more process and perhaps slower response times to problems, but accidents or other internal-related issues mentioned above drop to zero.

Given how easy it is to destroy things these days with a single misplaced Kubernetes or Docker command, safeguards need to be put in place.

Let me tell you a little story from my experience;

I built myself a custom keyboard from a Numpad kit. I had gotten tired of typing so many docker commands in every day and I had the desire to build something. I built this little numpad into a full blown Docker control centre using QMK. A single key-press could deploy or destroy entire systems.

One day, something slid off of something else on my desk, onto said keyboard, pressing several of the keys while I happened to have an SSH session to a remote server in focus.

Suffice it to say, that little keyboard has never been seen since. On an unrelated topic, I don't have SSH access to production systems.
Rescue time, tag at the application level (obviously not fantastically accurate), and sub tag in chrome based on website.

It’s directionally correct at best, but still helpful.

Would also do a secondary form of manual evaluation by paying someone to text or call with a daily list of questions, but only have about 1.5 of years of data there. I ran the regressions and they are highly correlated in a time lagged way. In particular, sleep, for me, drove a lot of everything else. But from there it’s hard to say what the causality is (were you tired because of work to begin with? Or were you unproductive because of sleep?)
I would generally agree, but I see solving the problems caused by "cash crops" as very good and not unlike solar and wind solving the problems of extremes first.

If it can replace the 5% of food that is currently handled terribly and has an enormously oversized footprint then that is great.

I am not horrified by the ramifications of my staple rice coming from Asia on a slow boat which I then consume 100% of. I am horrified by all the tropical fruits that are being air-mailed and then largely discarded.

Once they are done experimenting, they will want to focus on what pays best and whether they mean to or not, they will be replacing terrible with better, while still not competing on very low cost/resource staple food.

I think there's no reason we can't eventually really beat plants on achieving higher density resource usage given seasons, light spectrum conversation, wind, etc, but it is a mistake to focus on how far off that is as a reason not to begin the process.
Reddit is buying TikTok rival Dubsmash
I imagine they have the elusive and ever present "arbitration clause" where they don't actually have to actually sue their students.
None of the people whining about "plastic" ever really define it.

Cellophane? No worse than paper. Poly Ethelene? Probably fine. PVC? Maybe not. ABS? No.

Sometimes people who say "plastic" really mean paint. We could probably cut down but communicating precisely would help.
Labor Theory of Value:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/labor-theory-of-value.a...
If the carpenter does everything correctly I don't care if he doesn't keep everything in memory.
It’s behind the paywall, but my local library lets patrons access the WSJ through a service called ProQuest.

Excerpt:

There's just about no limit to the earnings, sales and productivity gains technology companies can generate.

Tech companies aren't subject to ordinary economic forces, such as interest rates.

A tech company's prospects are more important than its earnings.

These were some of the guiding principles that millions of investors embraced as they created the historic surge in tech stocks that started in late 1998. The hottest stocks were pioneers of the young Internet. But they weren't the only highfliers buoyed by a widespread faith that a new set of rules applied to tech stocks.
I've got another bit of anecdata like that - know a guy who never changed the plates on his French registered van.

Had the misfortune of going somewhere with him once and he was doing 80mph in a 50mph average speed camera bit of motorway - said the police never bother to chase up foreign plates so he just sped everywhere and never got a fine.
Once big companies buy enough competitors and get big enough, they can afford to make offers politicians can't refuse - lobbying.

Then, there are no more competitors, and you have no choice but to buy from them.

Do not give in. Find another way.
Maybe, could have just seen a dropoff in upvotes once the issue was resolved also
I'm reminded of the quote from Thomas J. Watson:

> Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
I mention that in a comment in the source, it wouldn't quite work because I intend this to work as a library and reaping children I didn't spawn would be problematic. Also mentioned in the source is that I could do a non blocking waitpid on every child I have, that just strikes me as slow and not clean code.

Of course if I want to deploy code like this in any serious way I'll have to implement another solution than non blocking pidfds...
Can't get any more ambitious than Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

If only ambition correlated with competence.
It uses async-tungstenite [0] for the websocket part. At the moment configured only with async-std-runtime but since async-tungstenite also supports tokio, the option to use tokio instead of async-std will be added as well.

[0] https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite
Probably varies by person. Also blood glucose and overall cortisol seems to matter. And if burnout is at play then that’s a meta aspect as well.
Failure to disclose phone messages to Kenya's government could lead to a fine
Leaked files expose infiltration of UK firms by Chinese Communist Party
data science is still a lucrative field with plenty of opportunity, which is why universities continue to add data science programs to their curriculums.
It can also be used as the equivalent to a try/catch statement in most Germanic languages (including English, though Ingveonic, really) when ending a sentence with it.

"Do you like pizza, or?"

Depending on the exact statement, you might catch more or less flak.
Show HN: Reddit-style comments on all web pages(like Spotify podcasts)
With pomodoro, I can get 8-14 hours of work done in a day. This is the app I use to stay focused and take short breaks between coding sessions: https://tomato-timer.com/#
That makes sense to me. Organizing and documenting feels a lot more creative for me than the wtf-am-I-doing orienteering-type stuff. My attitude can definitely come down to, "Okay, either me and the computer get square, or me and the people get square about what I did with the computer. But I'd like to sleep in-between those steps."
I don't know how different Germany is, but here in the Netherlands, it's hard to find farmers who understand what good soil and the meaning of an ecosystem is. They are, apart from a few, industrialists operating a biotech factory for which they've learned the 'recipe' for growing and selling particular crops or livestock.
Kudos! What do you use instead of YouTube? That’s the main product keeping me on the franchise
I can work for 8+ hours (close to 14h), but there are a lot of caveats and the output is noticeably worse. Also, I can do it for a week or two, but after a while it takes a toll.

The number of times I spent hours on an issue in the evening only to find the solution after 30s in the morning is embarrassing.

So honestly, it's just common sense. As much as everybody fetishises long hours and 100h weeks, I don't think that's really achievable for most people.
Vista acquires IT education platform Pluralsight for $3.5B
This idea was inspired by Joe Rogan's post last week(https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/k9ah72/joe_shoute...) where he mentioned he wished spotify had comments.

So I made a chrome extension that adds reddit-style comments to every website for free.

Install the chrome extension, then push the circle icon to open the comments for any page.

It's possible to give site owners admin tools like moderation and the ability to sticky posts.

Feel free to suggest anything that might help you use it, and I'll build it asap.
I did work briefly work for a small consultancy that decided to take on juniors, even though it was anticipated that for probably a year they woudln't be billing enough to cover their salary; because there weren't a lot of qualified applicants anyway where we were located, and as a sort of intentional public service to help people get into the field (especially underrepresented people etc).

Of course, the most skilled juniors quickly left for higher paying jobs elsewhere around when they started to actually make back their salaries in billing. There were no hard feelings, the company knew that could happen and could afford it, and of course, why wouldn't they? (I mean, I guess it was hoped that sometimes they would prefer working for the consultancy for a while). But it was a kind of experiment, and indeed the experiment showed it was not really a sustainable model, I think they stopped doing that.
Our entire library of video tutorials disappeared for a while. I was not happy, and the thought of losing our email.. Currently working with the team to make backups of absolutely everything off-site and off-Google. A good wake up call for us.