skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My grandfather rented a telephone from the phone company for something like 34 years. It was one of those basic beige plastic phones with the receiver that rests on top. When he got old enough to need help managing bills and whatnot my dad noticed it. He called the phone company. They hadn’t had that program for decades but they kept charging him the entire time. He got to keep the phone. Possibly the most expensive one of these ever “sold”.
If I have a paper book of passwords at a desk in an open office environment, sure, that’s bad. If I have a paper book of passwords in a locked safe in a house, and there is perhaps a large German Shepard and multiple able-bodied adults living in that house, I’d say my password book is relatively secure.

Besides, actually remembering your passwords is a security flaw, too. Memorable passwords are naturally less random, and if the password is in my mental memory, an attacker can compromise my password by smashing me over the kneecap with a heavy wrench until I tell them. If I don’t even know my password, that’s probably bad news for my kneecaps but slightly more secure overall.
Great question!

Does Renaissance Technologies count as ML? I honestly don't know where the line between quantitative/algorithmic and ML is - I suspect it's blurry.
There are a lot of browsers that don't and a lot of people that disable it in browsers that do.
Definitely dealing with an ending relationship. It was so hard to square the fact that I really liked and cared about the person but couldn't see a future with them. I've never second guessed myself so much in my life and had never felt so hurtful to another person.
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"Recent scientific research calls into question the value of many long-standing password-security practices, such as password expiration policies, and points instead to better alternatives such as enforcing banned-password lists (a great example being Azure AD password protection) and multi-factor authentication."

MS acknowledges and supports this, yet ad still doesn't support banned lists without serious modification and customization to ad. which no sane ad admin will allow.

I think ms is finally starting to abandon on prem ad, in favor of the less capable, and less tested azure ad. it is a shame that a staple of enterprise it is slowly dieing out without a real replacement.
Lawyers don’t talk like contracts all the time. Nevertheless, it’s usually obvious when they write policy because you get stupid things like this that clearly follow the letter of the law without regards to how they would ge construed.
Same. Hotdog was the first html editor I ever used as a kid and got me interested in creating on the internet. It felt revolutionary to me.
If any point has been driven home over the last several years, it’s that corporate media (ad-driven “news”) doesn’t let truth get in the way of sensation or ideology.
No.

This is NOT capitalism. By putting the value to the product and the shareholders ABOVE the stupid policy, this person is showing discernment.

By finding a politically correct way to signal this to shareholders like me, this person deserve a promotion and an immediate bonus.
It keeps lots of engineers and designers employed.
Incremental reading is very effective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_reading

The proper technique extracts them into flashcards, but you can simply use notes. Don't read from first page to last. Jump to the part of the book you're most interested in, read that, jump to a previous chapter if there's prerequisite knowledge needed. Eventually cover the rest of the book like you'd fill out a puzzle.

Don't force yourself to learn something uninteresting. Retention is very bad and progress can get extremely slow. This is also why people who "grind leetcode" don't get very far. It's easier to instill passion than discipline. Incremental reading is one way to learn passion, as you start with the most interesting bits, which make the rest of the material slightly easier.
They can if the work is related to your position. What counts for that? You’ll figure it out when you sue your employer after they fire you.
That's actually a really interesting question. For a human, I'd guess that it's almost impossible, at least with any precision. But with some kind of ML or AI solution, especially calibrated for a specific person, I think it could be achievable. At least when I whistle I don't keep my mouth rigidly in the same shape no matter what pitch I'm whistling. The higher I go, the more I purse my lips; the lower I whistle, the lower my jaw is. Add in neck movements to factor in tongue and diaphragm adjustments for pitch, and you have a lot of signals to read.
I have shoes I do not untie. For example, I have some mocassins for around the house with a rawhide lace that is basically a decoration. But it comes untied!

So for those kinds of things, I use the ian secure knot:
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm

Actually, with the rawhide nonsense on one pair, even that would eventually come loose so I zip-tied the middle of the knot. :)
There is an opportunity cost to everything.
> event data silently and without consent

It's neither silent nor without consent since you were told about it.
For anyone wondering how this might actually work, "Shadow dynamically loads these libraries to natively execute the application code. Shadow intercepts a selective set of system calls to enable seamless integration of an application to the simulated environment. In this way, the application may be unaware that it is running in the simulator and will function as if it was running in a standard UNIX environment." https://github.com/shadow/shadow/blob/main/docs/0-Design-Ove...

It then uses the an event queue to transfer the packets between virtual hosts, and applies rate-limiting, bandwidth, jitter, packet loss, and TCP stack delays and CPU processing delays, among other things I'm sure. Very cool!
I remember working for a large Fortune 500 company and trying to get them to to let me use ed25519 instead of the RSA-1024 standard they had. Because they didn't know what ed25519 was and their security "expert" had told them RSA-1024 was the best, they said no way that they were already using the most secure algorithm.
All cloud providers offer exactly what you are describing, just not for SQL DBs.

In my experience shared servers for MySQL (and I assume Postgres) never work because I always have to set at least some custom configurations very early into the development cycle.
Since there are other IBM employees listed in the same file it sounds like the issue is with this specific employee?
sounds fun - any links handy on how to have fun w/ this sort of thing on a 'hello world' level?
I'd recommend Megalobox 2: Nomad as a rare gem, much more so than its first season. It takes a classic underdog story then asks: What happens after the hero wins?

It's an adult story. A story of homelessness, of community; of addiction, of compassion; of parenthood, of adolescence. And there's some boxing.
It's obvious everything is going to be running on it down the line.
No need for scare quotes, it is a hobby.
Agreed 100%, but you still are going to get the old-timers who insist that virtualization and containers just make things more difficult and that their old school approach is the best.
Anyone have any good books I can read to learn a bit more about this sort of application? I really like the finance stuff, feels like a natural marriage with DS and ML.

I don't know nearly enough to expand on what I mean.
This provision is useless if you work for a large company, because it carves out an exception for anything that could be related to your employer’s business.
This is a fine example of capital's abuse of rank and file workers, claiming ownership of their activities outside of work hours. IBM corporate policies aren't capitalism? What is capitalism, then?

Reading your comment again, I have a strong suspicion that it is some sort of satire or cosplay as an ultimate-free-market libertarian. It's unfortunate that tone of voice and inflection aren't as easily discerned in text as they are in speech.
Similar app for Android: https://neutroncode.com/apps/player
Ah, so from my perspective that's not a question of whether it's an IDE or not but whether it bundles third-party code or lets you install it using the standard package manager for your platform. In the Unix world the latter is typically considered a feature, especially for a polyglot editor which supports a number of languages and tools which are all developed by different groups on schedules which are not coordinated.
Doesn’t own the work but they can be terminated and even charged with a crime if they were misappropriating trade secrets.
No, they pay you to go home at the end of the day. That's part of your contract.

If you instead go to another job at the end of your eight hours, they'll fire you.

If you even go to your secret other home you haven't told them about in another state (or worse, another country), and that creates tax withholding obligations in that state, they may not fire you, but they will be very displeased.
I quit my job at Stripe
No, they don’t. Otherwise you’d be making under minimum wage if you were salaried and making less than $90k.
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It's like the guy sharing cookies story.
Same with me, I can tell immediately if I am logged in or not.

I use D8D8C0, a slighly darker shade of the background. I find it aesthetically more pleasing than the bright orange bar. Also makes the logo pop.
Yeah, this is the loophole in the law: if you work for a big company, there are very few areas that meet the criteria specified in the law.
This was very helpful. Thank you!
We do something similar for our teaching materials. All lessons are in Jupyter notebooks, as well as cells with inline unit tests, marked with the special comment `# HIDE CELL`.

A build script then runs the full notebook along with tests, and strips out cells (or pieces of a cell) which contain these magic comments.

Admittedly this only captures a piece of what's discussed in the article. Perhaps in the future will construct our videos directly from the notebooks as well, with other special comments containing the relevant pieces of script as well as where the camera should be centered. Then we can generate the notebooks and the visuals automatically, and just send an email to the voiceover person to re-record any script changes.

Very nice ideas in this article, thanks!
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I fail to see the connection to the "big corps" here, nor being allergic to the truth. This is about being nicer, as a human being. Becoming more empathetic towards a person who is showing their product for the world to see for the first time.

Of course it may have perceived flaws. Do you choose to beat the person for doing it that way, or do you want to offer gentle advice in order to help them? The motive behind the comment is hidden in its delivery.

You can say your truth, all of it - but you can say it in a nice way or in a shitty way. How you say it will define you.
This is a good, quick highlight on how to do it: https://playbook.samaltman.com/

If you want a full book, I recommend The Startup Owner's Manual: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/09...

The latter is actually a step by step process, and it's worked very well for me. It answers what you should do before getting funding. Once you've built something people want, apply to Y Combinator (or some other good accelerator) and they'll show you the next steps on how to build a team, raise funds, expand, and so on.
If I type passWORD with capslock on, I get PASSword when I apply the identical shift pattern (I literally just did this in this box!). This way if I have capslock on when typing my password, but I got the shift pattern the same, it'll still go but it doesn't wipe out my case changing patterns in terms of password security.

I'm pretty sure this behavior of capslock is pretty common across most platforms, I can't think of a platform it didn't do this on. It worked just now on a few distros of Linux and Windows, I don't own a Mac so I cannot test that for you. What platform does shift not invert the case to lowercase if capslock is on?
Not to mention if you don’t answer a pager at 3AM when you’re on call
The question mark in the title says it all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

While "we don't know" is not "no" I have found subjectively that Betteridge's Law of Headlines is accurate.
why did that get a lower rating than ian's secure knot?

Is it the security/convenience ratio?

security=1/convenience

EDIT: Wait! I didn't notice this:

"Now, simply pull the loops to tighten the knot. The whole twisted mess of the previous drawing will rearrange itself into exactly the same finished knot as my Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot."
Record low interest rates have a lot to do with it. If they rise significantly that 38 PE will get slashed a great deal.
As others have already pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, one of the exceptions written into the law ( "(1)" in your link) is relevant to this situation.
It's gratis and open source, but they offer some 'premium' features as a service.

I used volumio at home in the last few years and it was good overall. Only annoying thing was trying to get multiroom audio working ... I eventually did, but it took a lot of hacking around. Maybe it's easier now, I don't know.
> Basically, why isn't there just a Postgres-protocol socket I connect to as a user that will make tables on demand for me? No upfront sizing or provisioning, just bill me for what I'm using at some rate which covers your costs and colocate/shared host/whatever it onto the type of server hardware which can respond to that demand.

How isn’t RDS Aurora Serverless from AWS, available in both MySQL-and Postgres-compatible flavors, exactly what you are looking for?
It's a bit harder to do with s publicly traded company, because you have to file paperwork and there's some other overhead.

Try a cryptocurrency instead. It's all the rage right now...
>The posts that I've seen regarding e-ink and patents seem to be very persuasive.

Have you seen any comment that provides actual evidence of causality between e-ink's failure to take off and patent encumberment?
"Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Regis Freyd (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robinhood), who created Monica, posted it as a Show HN 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
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It is very much what I want. But identifying wants - in only single words - without saying anything about how they will be met is not a good trade for my personal info. I am not asking for much.
The article was a smear campaign

The article was the 100% fact based. The facts laid out in it just happened to not line up with Twitter's preferred election outcome, so they silenced it.
lol, that's basically how it looked, funnily enough.

https://www.sakafete.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/maxresde...

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/036/277/mee...
> In the field of particle physics, the concept is known as Hinchliffe's Rule, after physicist Ian Hinchliffe, who stated that if a research paper's title is in the form of a yes–no question, the answer to that question will be "no".[39][40] The adage led into a humorous attempt at a liar's paradox by a 1988 paper, written by physicist Boris Kayser under the pseudonym "Boris Peon", which bore the title: "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?"(Peon 1988)

worth reading the Wikipedia page just for gems like this.
In this case, the contributions in question are to IBM's VNIC driver, which undoubtedly counts as "related to your position". Up until a few months ago, this employee was contributing to VNIC in an official capacity, using their work email. We don't know what changed, but that shows a clear connection that would be hard to dispute.
The top submission says it has 14 comments, but then you click on it and it only has three.

I also find it hard to believe that submissions on this site are already accumulating >700 points, surpassing most HN submissions.

On top of that, there are few, if any, comments for every upvote. One submission has 728 points but no comments?
Google Cloud offers Spanner, which is a proprietary distributed database that uses SQL. Does that fit with the kind of thing you're thinking of?
First, yes, commits is a terrible metric, because it lacks both the nuance of the size of commits and the substance of the commits. Also different projects have different norms around commits. Some people commit each step along a process, some force-push updates to their branches so a given improvement sits in a single commit. There's no good direct comparison between work across projects.

That being said, don't feel like "rather marginal" commits is unhelpful. Support, docs, and tweaks are woefully undervalued parts of public projects, and you don't have to be building core features to be a big part of adding to the long-term success of a project. Don't sell yourself short.
I'm 44. I've been a sea cadet, a rock climber, and a boy scout, so I have plenty of experience handling ropes and tying knots.

I learned how to tie my shoes correctly 2 years ago. I've been doing wrong my whole life.
>If they actually lived up to the name, our government's computers would be secure, and not exfiltrating secrets every month.

The NSA is primarily an offensive organization. They spend almost no time on securing US networks or devices. It's like how the FBI catches spies, not the CIA.
We have no evidence that the first thing wasn't attempted.

Furthermore, from the phrasing of the message (refuting the idea that one can contribute to one's employer's project as a hobby), we have some evidence that there was previous context, unknown to us.

We also have evidence that the employee in question was previously contributing on behalf of their employer, and for some reason, recently stopped: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.g...
Most of those that support it will only show you the headline and maybe the first paragraph

A huge annoyance for me too. It's infuriating to me that marketing people are continually breaking things like RSS. It's unfortunate that there's no way for users to give negative feedback to people who abuse a protocol and render it less useful to everyone, which is worse than not adopting it at all.
Can a non-techie and member of a hunted class share a scenario?

What if a Foundation formed in, Belgium, let's say because of their emphasis on human rights, hands out "charge coins" to those who might be subject to pulling over for, oh, I don't know....air fresheners. Normally, such a person would have no bail money and would lose their jobs, housing and potentially their children to a asylum filled with people who prey specifically on us.

But this Foundation pays the bail, in any currency the court system prefers, and additionally...this "charge coin" gives the bearer access to lawyers. Lawyers from countries were the possibility of innocence is actually investigated, where they actually give a damn about preserving life. A country where 10K citizens dead in ridiculous crimes that even a blind man could tell were genocide were hired and paid to take an interest...
no more kids in a "system" to be corrupted and used, no more nurses losing jobs because they spent days in jail because they couldn't afford bail, no more lost housing because Section 8 recipients are targeted to get them kicked out so that others could take their places.

I think the real issue for all you who spend your days poking holes in new ways of doing things that don't directly benefit you...is that you've had money, privilege and access for so damn long you can't see the forest for the trees. You've been in charge and in power forever...and you have literally no idea what Mr. Nakimoto or whomever he is has really done. The genie isn't going back into the bottle. The ability for under-represented groups to set their course free of your suppression and interference is here. NOW.
C'mon dude, any day now it will become profitable to stop exploiting natural resources, house the homeless, and build towards a future where we aren't completely replaced by robots (see dominos, see boston dynamics, see fruit picking robots)....any day now...bum da ba dum if you believe in magic... /s
The pace of innovation would have slowed. Some projects that didn’t succeed would have thrived and others that did succeed would have failed. I don’t think it would have fundamentally altered the trajectory of technology, just the pace and environment (which is still amazing but let’s keep things in perspective).
Hey, a question about Render — do you run your own base infra/colocate or do you use a VPS/bare metal setup or do you sit on top of a cloud? I love the service but I’m wondering if you’ll expand outside of the two available regions anytime soon. I understand this might be hard based on your infra setup.
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Surprisingly tone deaf email.
You pay in all the behavioral data they get to harvest from being always connected
But OP didn't type iterate_list either. Perhaps he saw little benefit on one and assumed the same would happen in the other. Cython's annotation mode (cython -a) doesn't really help either here, showing both OPs and optimized versions with a strong yellow color, indicating that they would be about the same, but compiling and trying both definitely shows the improvement.

Another funny thing: making a pure python version that uses the sum() built-in results in code that runs 80% as fast as the cython version, but also gives lower error (e-8 versus e-4 error that gets accumulated when the numbers are summed up one by one).
Like others have mentioned this definitely sounds like the last of a long chain of emails.

And it really has the tone of just because you do it on your own time, with your own personal email as a “hobby” doesn’t mean you can use it as a loophole to get around restrictions IBM employees might have.

So, for example, if IBM isn’t allowed to contribute to a specific project for legal or contractual reasons, an employee doing so “in their own time” would not be a defensible argument.
This is so awesome, most interesting aspect for me is fprime documentation is organized, so far.
ARM was already sold to Softbank, a Japanese company. I don't think being American vs Japanese changes the European identity of the company,
Can the community disapprove the pull request and show it to IBM that they don't control the kernel?
Been there. Dreamed that. Built my ideal experience -> https://m3o.com

Honestly I've spent the better part of a decade talking about these things and if only someone would solve it or I had the resources to do it myself. I'm sure it'll happen. It's just going to look different than we thought. GitHub worked because it was collaborative and I think the next cloud won't look like an AWS, it'll look more like a social graph that just happens to be about building and running software. This graph only exists inside your company right now. In the future it'll exist as a product.
The big difference between the roadie coil in your YouTube video, and the folding technique in the parent comment, is the radius of the tightest bend.

A roadie coil produces consistent loops, which are large-radius bends, aka gentle bends. This is what you want for electrical cable, especially high-quality expensive cables you want to last a long time. Tight-radius bends, aka kinks, can cause premature failure.

Folding is fine if the cord is extremely flexible, or for rope.

Folding done right produces no twists at all about the axis of the line, which is ideal. That’s why it is the preferred method for packaging rock climbing ropes. The roadie coil produces alternating twists that mostly cancel each other out once it is fully uncoiled.
If I am reading this correctly he wanted to continue work on this as a hobby. But IBM didn't want him to as he represents IBM.