skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only did the PM announced a new full lockdown in a TV address, as others have already said, but he also specifically gave a gov.uk URL as way to check details and rules.

Huge audience plus that equalled massive traffic spike.
Gauging a size of a directory available via Apache webserver index
> GitHub should get flak for that in the same way Paypal regularly get flak for randomly freezing accounts.

If GitHub freezes your account, this is obviously serious and can impact your business to a greater or lesser extent depending on what your business does. But the data is not lost, and you'll likely have a copy of at least some of it (the actual repos) and maybe all of it if you were being careful.

If Paypal freeze your account then any money in it is simply lost (and your loss is Paypal's gain!). There's no way you could keep a "backup" of that money even if you were being careful. It's completely incomparable.
Problem is that EU is not comparable in any manner to the US. For one, where do you suggest the Silicon Valley of EU is? London would've been a decent bet except that they just bailed.

As someone else mentioned, capital is way harder to raise (meaning slower to market) - and then an underrated factor which is equally important is how easy or difficult is it to sell as a nascent startup. At least in my industry (cybersecurity) it has been very hard in the EU vs US in the earlier stages of product maturity.

Much like the parent comment, I don't see this changing anytime soon and I'm fully betting on the fact US will keep their dominance in tech.
One of CPI's big limitations is that it only considers consumer goods and services (the "consumer" part of "consumer price index"). But "consumers" themselves spend a good deal of money on other things, namely health, education, and housing. SlateStarCodex had an article about that: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...

Do I think those who stay wealthy in real terms are able to do so via "what amounts to fraud?" No. Nor do I buy your 15-20% hurdle assertion: if your annual salary of say $100,000 was worth just 10% less each year (as in, real inflation of 15% minus 5% worth of nominal income growth, a generous income growth assumption) $100,000, over just five years, it would be worth the equivalent of ~$60,000 in year 0. It seems like a stretch to suggest that everybody but the rich are seeing their real incomes almost sliced in half every five years. Use the 20% number or a more conservative assumption for income growth and the numbers start to square even less with reality.
This formula `pool size = Tn x (Cm - 1) + 1` is really interesting. Any idea how it's derived or what branch of math this is from?
If the employee was Iranian, then yes, GitHub would be required to do this.
Engineering Ladders – A Framework for Engineering Manager
Well, it's kinda like the whole "if a misbehaving app crashes the whole OS, whose fault is it? The app's? Or the OS?"
Sorry to hear that. I've heard a saying that "rejection is protection," and the way that you rationalized your experience lends credence to that.
Does that mean that we shouldn't address any of the smaller problems?
Isn't this a little unimpressive, given that these are static pages served by a CDN?
Maximizing the risk-adjusted returns on the business is the top of the agenda. Sometimes this means shedding risk, particularly at well established companies; sometimes this means embracing it, particularly at younger ones. If you don’t have revenue yet there’s little need to protect it.
A lot of places in the world get healthcare right.
The us is failing miserably to provide its citizens with affordable healthcare. And they are actively trying to export their failed system.
Too bad they're also top rate marketers.
Yes and it also has had a security audit.
> It's common sense that most people are from the same country their parents are from, given what we know about immigration.

The legal concept you're referring to is called "ius soli". The legal concept which serves as a basis to determine someone's allegiance by their ancestry is called "ius sanguinis". [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis

So, no, it's not "common sense" to make that assumption.

Moreover, there's also the concept of "right to return" in international law. Many nations have implemented this in their nationality laws in a way that extends surprisingly far.

For instance, if you're of Luxembourgish descent through the male line of your family, you could just claim Luxembourg citizenship - and by extension E.U. citizenship - under Article 7 of their nationality laws. Something which was recently pointed out on Reddit. Even if you weren't born in Luxembourg or never have set a foot in the E.U. proper. [3]

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/izkwzk/ysk_t...

I'm pretty sure some people might be surprised to discover they have a right to citizenship in another nation simply because they took the time to dig into their ancestry, their history and nationality laws.

> Interning people based on predicting their behavior due to ancestry is a whole different ballgame.

Of course it is.

But, why discuss someone's citizenship or ancestry then if it - apparently - doesn't matter in this discussion at all?

The only other theory that explains why this person got his access revoked from Github because he visited Iran, regardless of the reasons why, nevermind his citizenship or his ancestry.

If citizenship and/or ancestry matters, as is seemingly implied but never voiced in this discussion, then bringing up the implications of how policies reflect on that assumption clearly is relevant given the historic perspective.
How long before someone gets an Iran VPN so that their company is knocked out and they get a day off.
> I expected to have to do gamma correction when making a gradient recently, but in the end it looked like I didn't have to

If you don't explicitly specify the color space you're working in, then you're using some implicitly defined color space in which case you basically need to know what that is (at least roughly).

So traditionally in Windows, way back, when you created a bitmap, wrote some data to it and then drew it, there was no explicit mention of a color space. Instead it was implicit, and it was de-facto non-linear.

These days you can specify[1][2] the color space you're working in, and Windows will then transform the colors into the specified device color space. So then you can specify if you want to work in linear RGB space or say non-linear sRGB.

Unity has something similar[3], which affects how you write shaders, how your textures should be saved etc.

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/wingdi/nf...

[3]: https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LinearRendering-LinearOrGamm...
If you just want to spoof location, you only need to use the setting in developer options, but this is detectable by apps. For example, Ingress or Pokemon GO will refuse to work when it is enabled, so to actually spoof location on some apps, root is needed.
Yep!

"One click" fork + "one click" pull request are its killer features.
> You can spend a decade developing a provably-anonymous cryptocurrency (which we have indeed now done)

Looks like I've been out of the loop. Which cryptocurrency are you referring to?
Have you submitted the requested bug reports?

Also, it seems the FAQ answers several of your points:
https://element.io/help
FBI found Ghislaine Maxwell using mobile-phone data
Thanks for contributing from a Smalltalk perspective.

Yes, you're right: as I've repeated several times, when I say "repl-driven programming", I am not talking about a repl window or a command-line shell. I'm talking about the actual read-eval-print loop, the runtime feature that reads input, evaluates it, and presents results. I'm talking about a language and runtime that is designed to be modified while it runs by evaluating incremental changes offered interactively by the user.

It's not about a prompt in a terminal. It's about a software-construction system that is designed to be modified interactively as it runs. Smalltalk is quintessentially that.

It seems like some folks have encountered a repl UI with a prompt in a terminal and jumped to the conclusion that this specific kind of UI is the repl. It isn't. It's one particular kind of UI for a repl. There are others, and there have been others since forever. For heaven's sake, Smalltalk 76 had other kinds of UI for its repl in, well, 1976.
> companies (and people) should be free to ignore all law?

Yet you continue with your strawmans. Nobody said that. The crucial word in your sentence is "all", with which nobody has agreed here. Of course nobody is above law. But sometimes, in exceptional circumstances, a particular law turns out to be immoral. In that case, and only in that case, it is wrong to follow that particular law, and it is right to do the illegal alternative.

If a company is found to have followed an immoral law and performed harmful (but lawful) acts, it is right that society punish that company later (e.g., when the law situation is solved). More so in this case, when the company is overzealous in its application of that immoral law.
I found it, and it seems like for the the feature is "opt in", as I have to click it to make myself visible.

But I also see a lot of folks on it....so it us concerning if it isn't opt in for non-F-Droid users?
SAP Developer/Customer here.

Does that mean most people on HN work for companies either too small for or too competent to outsource an ERP system?
it scans your SMSes and pastes the OTP automatically into the payment page

The Apple ecosystem has done this for years. Do Windows and Android not have similar features?
The design looks good but what a strange way to see you life !
If you need to write down 'Do 10 minute Meditation for 200 times' maybe you don't like meditating that much and should stop doing it instead of forcing yourself to do it.
Well, we shouldn’t just assume that Silicon Valley has to be a place. The lockdown showed that numerous companies can operate 100% remotely. And I got the impression that there’s always more money than startups.
Paraphrasing another movie quote: "with everyone criminal, no one will be".
Interesting paper. The exploration Vs exploitation payoff measured.
JPMorgan says Bitcoin could rise to $146,000 long-term as it competes with gold
Eh, it's the UK government. Any lack of fuckup is a surprise.
> that a company should not keep track of their individual sales? just some sort of large running grand total?

We're talking about the payment processor, not the merchant. It makes sense for a merchant to keep track of this information, less so for a payment processor. I'd expect the processor to delete/anonymize all the data past the chargeback/refund period.
European Unicorns
I would imagine it is high-performance within its own domain: soft microprocessors. There isn't much danger of something like this being used outside of domains where it is relevant, so just calling it "high-performance" gets the message across fairly well to anyone who would actually need it.

I can't comment on how well it performs myself without testing it, but a quick skim of the paper reveals that it apparently performs well in comparison to its rival open-source out-of-order soft processor.

Comparing soft processors to other soft processors is fairly easy if they can both run on the same hardware, but comparing them to real silicon is inherently kind of meaningless, as they don't really compete at the moment, and the performance of the design in absolute terms will depend on the FPGA it is implemented on. Nonetheless, you could compare the raw numbers presented in the paper for curiosity's sake and see that indeed, it isn't very fast compared to modern silicon processors.
Failure to edit wasn't what he was accused of.

US government secrets are not expressly protected by UK law.

Consider this absurdity: you could be extradited to South Korea for having some North Korean songs on your phone.
Well most of the planet wouldn’t know how if you paid them to
They Never Gona See Numbers Like That. Forget It. Time Spend.
Away. Better Don't Think. They Have Just One Aim Gold. If They
Could Have More Aims Then Yes. But They Have Gold. May Hold
What Have.

Big Mind Who See Chase. But Make Safe.

Competition With Gold Gona Tard To Get Them Bitcoin Price
Like This Many Years Aprox 96 Years. If Work Each Day By Half
48 Years. Non Stop. Wake Up Grab Laptop And Work And Sleep
Close Laptop.

Ratchet Me Mine.

Is Big Thing You Can Find Laught And Serious Word's Here.

Dificult That They Look Alot They Have Work And Look
Bitcoin In Microscope Don't Release.
You've also missed passive erosion. Obviously, specific numbers can't be given because the effect varies with the specifics of each beach. But it's not really rocket science, at least if you have ever lived close to a beach.

To preserve a beach, you need the waves to leave behind as much solid material as possible. In an open beach, you can observe much of the wave being "absorbed" by the beach rather than "pulling back" in the sea. When the wave is "absorbed", any solids carried by the wave settle on the beach.

If you place a wall on the beach: (a) you prevent the waves from reaching further inlands where they have been attenuated so they can be "absorbed" and leave the solids they carry behind, (b) you force them to "pull back" while they still carry a lot of energy, which will also carry away some of the existing solid material on the beach.

Or, if you prefer a mathematical explanation, the waves shape the beach so that its vertical gradient is a continuous function. If you force a discontinuity (wall) in the gradient, the waves will shape the beach so that there is no discontinuity. I.e. either the wall will be destroyed, or the beach will erode and the waters will become deeper.
Its being used in production [1]. I am also using it in Internet connected servers without any problems.

You could argue that it is not mature, but its much more than a curiosity.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/b9gd10/mesalink_10_op...
This morning I made myself a sugar free bananasplit whipped cream latte.

For lunch I shall have sugar free iced tea or diet pop. Both have lots of caffeine.

But I have a rule, no caffeine after lunch. Prevents any trouble with sleeping, not that it matters at all.
Yup, 6 months is a write-off. I'm guessing you had the luck of joining a new project, or a company doing very small projects very fast. I personally only know one developer who seems to be able to onboard himself in a week or two, and that's in frontend webdev.

In my experience, even if all the bureaucracy and ops goes smoothly, any kind of reasonably sized existing project will take weeks to months before one can reach anything approaching full capacity. Learning the structure of the codebase, abstractions used, testing and deployment pipelines, the who's who, protocols for dealing with issues and customers, etc. takes a lot of time, and often can't easily be batched (i.e. you won't learn as much as you need even if you read the codebase end-to-end, you'll also be learning as you do your first tasks).

I had one experience with one-day-to-full-speed onboarding in the past. That was when I was briefly borrowed to a kind of bottom-feeder software house, whose job was to take garbage projects that were outsourced to way too cheap and unskilled labor, and beating them into something mostly working. At that job, once I got necessary accounts provisioned, it was just one unending stream of pushing items on a Kanban board at high velocity. You didn't have to own anything or care about anything, just do the fastest possible change that brings some aspect of a project up to customer's spec. Ain't particularly proud of that one (though I didn't have much of a choice here, their boss was a friend of my boss and needed a favor). Ain't something I'd even consider a proper software job.
> you and every one of your coworkers would be financially secure enough to quit at the drop of a hat

If i worked at Google, where SWE's are earning above 120K at a graduate level. I would hope so. I don't earn that sort of money, nor have that level of a safety net, so therefore, I must compromise and continue to work.
Which James Clear articles did you like the best? There are a lot to choose from.
GitHub seems proudly american with their support for ICEs, the US concentration camps.
Looks like it didn't become better adapted. Already was. In lots of species, it's less well adapted. This is a non-story.
Well, maybe God wants the government to lock you up. How do you know?
Iranian company uses VPN service to get around the block - VPN goes down and their requests to GitHub go directly - GitHub blocks those requests; the Iranian company continues using them once the VPN is back on - US government finds out - Bye bye GitHub
> I'll bet that some of those that I named above are now deprecated or superseded by others.

All of them are in common use.

> if I understand correctly you are making my point by stating that a PhD thesis is not the level where you already make language extensions

I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say. I thought you were trying to say that many things that people depend on in Haskell are merely the result of a PhD thesis, i.e. perhaps a messy body of work designed by an inexperienced person. On the contrary, language extensions are well designed and thoroughly thought through.

On the other hand, sometimes people get the idea that Haskell can encode everything in types. It can't. They get stuck and get into messes. Nonetheless the ability to encode some things into types makes Haskell by far the most practical language I've used.
This made me do a double take: "The key board on Macs has artificial clacking?" but of course this actually mutes your microphone, not your keyboard.
Well I guess they're assuming the operators are more physical than theoretical and they should conserve things (so I think they're limited to hermitian operators). But yeah that sounds about right.

Not that I mind that they're looking for a different foundation but you can't just gloss over the problem of explaining statistical physics without statistics...
What's your real name policy?

And there's probably a typo in your FAQ, "We do not allow sexual of adult content or any kind."
Programming languages: Python rules while Java dips
Not as per the letter of the law.

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...
I was pretty salty at Google at that time. But in hindsight I'm really happy it panned out that way. I'm now in a lot more comfortable situation with respect to having much wider options of what I can do professionally than it would've been had I stayed on that course.
I have only played for a few hours, but all the violence (so far) has been communicated via sound effects during blacked out cut scenes (no visuals). The sound effects in the game are really well done and visceral, but otherwise you just see the low res frozen time ‘results’ of these cut scenes (e.g. a dead body under a cannon, a skeleton crushed and distorted, etc).
I think that's just arithmetic. The fundamental idea is that you have enough connections that you can guarantee that at least one thread has all the connections it needs - because if it does, it can proceed, finish, release its connections, and then another thread can pick them up and gets to proceed, etc.

If a thread needs Cm connections, then Cm - 1 connections is enough to be one thread short of what you need. If you have Tn threads, then Tn * (Cm - 1) connections lets every thread, in the worst case, be one short of what it needs (if the connections are not evenly distributed, then at least one thread already has as many as it needs). So Tn * (Cm - 1) + 1 connections means that at least one thread definitely has enough connections.
Do they keep an up to date database on who's dating whom?
>> 2FA should be bypassable after some longish lockout period.

> Nope. No backups, no sympathy, simple as that.

My two sim-cards were lost at the same time. Impossible, right? Now I cannot access my Github account anymore. Perfect security. Nothing important is lost and backups are there. But what about the account itself?
Good News for Noting
i have to do a test and if you do mind :)
It's not an unreasonable question. But my own guess? Selection bias applies.

Viruses grow by the millions, billions, and mutations occur frequently. This virus's ancestor might have hopped around civets for months. Then, a few random mutations on one got lucky and made it really good at infecting humans. That's when it made the leap. We don't see the billions of attempts and mutations that sucked at infecting humans. We see the one that did.

Now, my own bias is that my honours thesis was on evolutionary algorithms and I spent a lot of time being amazed at how well random mutations can lead to optimal answers.
Deigin conflates RNA samples with viral isolates that can be used to infect lab animals. Weinstein seems to be stuck on bat respiratory disease that spreads in roosting caves. He does not consider gastrointestinal infections spread by bat guano at night in their feeding range which is shared by nocturnal/arboreal pangolins and palm civets. Bat to human direct infection is also just as plausible near the horseshoe bat’s natural habitat.

The Barker article is confused about a 7-hour train ride not being compatible with a 4.5 day average incubation period.

I see no mysteries to explain just the hard work of animal surveillance required to connect the dots.
A couple of examples of Snopes intellectual dishonesty.

Mixture
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-smash-phon...

Mixture
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/harris-believe-biden-accus...
Yep, users usually expect a (eg.) 1km gradient (less than 1km, 1km, 2km,...), and not precise location.
I mean, vote for government which invests in science and not in aircraft carriers. This way we’ll eradicate all disease much faster.
Well, you posted a Show HN thread about a markdown editor, but the link provider doesn't link to said markdown editor or shows it in action. I assumed it was a simple local markdown editor that allows you to publish articles/blog posts directly to your domain. I felt click-baited by the title.
Is it Big Sur only?
> Force people

My god.

Even on LinkedIn it is optional.

I was out of work for a year and a half for personal reasons, and I conceal that fact from clueless tech recruiters by having my previous place "2013-2016" and my next as "2017-now". As soon as service "forces people" to fill their form as "tech recruiters" designed, they can just go south.
Exactly. Somebody who wanted to do this could simply book a flight where Iran in an intermediate destination.

And then they would say "I had 30 minutes of waiting time in transit and I just wanted to add a comment on my Pull Request".
It's a bit of a wobbly tower of reasoning to causally go from "you used node.js" to "you overwhelmed your cloud providers DNS service and not even dnsmasq can dig you out".

There are a ton of interventions you could do on that journey and I don't think it makes a convincing argument against picking X in the first place.

I spose it is a good example of unforeseen resource constraints that big successful systems encounter. In my limited experience almost all commonly used software breaks under massive load and you have to radically modify or write your own at the largest scales. But by then you are rich so it doesn't matter