skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ultimate -parent- hack is to only buy colored clothes (no whites... And if you happen to get any just wash them with the colored clothes anyway) non shrinkable clothes. Dry on low - "damp dry" so they don't all get fried. One load every 5+ days. The thicker clothes hang around the edge of the clothes basket (sweat pants in our case).

Oh and I guess just by normal kid clothes (cotton/polyester) so they don't have special instructions.
Which means either they mislead the IRB, or the IRB also needs reform. That investigation should take a while either way to figure out how that is possible.
Different countries have different ways of wasting money, but glass houses.

In the USA, wasted money mostly goes to execs and shareholders rather than workers, but I doubt the scale is less. From today's news...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/politics/emergent-john...

> Federal Inspectors Fear More Vaccines Were Exposed to Contamination

> Last month, up to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine had to be discarded at Emergent’s factory in Baltimore. A new report says problems were not fully investigated and other doses may be compromised.

> …Though the government gave Emergent a $163 million contract in 2012 to ready the Baltimore plant for mass production in a pandemic, the site remained largely untested, and the company did not meet a requirement for demonstrating its rapid-response capabilities… Nonetheless, the government went on to award Emergent a $628 million contract last June…

>… In another finding, the F.D.A. regulators wrote that the Bayview building “is not maintained in a clean and sanitary condition.” Nor is it “of suitable size, design and location to facilitate cleaning, maintenance and proper operations,” they said.

> …Throughout 2020, its founder and chairman, Fuad El-Hibri, cashed in shares and options worth over $42 million, and the company’s chief executive, Robert Kramer, was recently awarded a $1.2 million cash bonus.
Many people don't have a clue what "30-fold" even means, and therefore it sounds big and scary. Basically, it's just one of the tools in the sensationalist headlines toolbox.
Always glad to see better citation tools! Some feedback about the site:

After clicking through all the links on the top navigation bar as well as some of the links in the footer, and I didn't see anything except for marketing fluff and testimonials.

I was hoping for some screenshots some kind of "features" page, with a section for each major feature of Citationsy, and an in-depth explanation of how it compares to other tools, plus a screenshot of actually using that feature.

Did I miss something? If I did, please make it easier to find out what Citationsy actually does!

I also tried logging in, but your free trial also demands that I enter my credit card info. Big red flag, no thanks.
yeps.. we had an 8mb 386/33 at around this time, which is why i'm still amazed at my 1991 vaxstation with 80MB and 40Mhz

though in those days it was def. a different class of machine
> I guess it's relatively easy to do

This is a very hard problem to do the right way and probably would need some changes on the RDBMS itself. You would need to monitor all tables that might affect your query for changes and how these changes affect your query (say you're just reading a value, aggregating with sum, doing average with count of rows, the list goes on). Add more complexity on top of that if you want to support querying from other views that also aggregate the data on your query.

As pointed on another comment there's DB Noria [0] but I'm not sure how production ready it's right now. You an idea of the complexity of the task on a interview with one of the project leads [1].

[0] https://github.com/mit-pdos/noria
[1] https://corecursive.com/030-rethinking-databases-with-jon-gj...
That does sound like something I'd say. Well spotted!
Text requires translation into thousands of languages.
...and a steady supply of humans willing to be treated like cogs, because they desperately need the money.
> And we don't really have "forever jail": it's 20 years I think and can even be shortened if prisoner show in jail that he's ready to come back to society (except if it would be a trouble for the society).

20 year is the maximum required in case of non-premeditated murder (or manslaughter on minor i think).

In some cases (murder of a minor, group manslaughter of a state agent, premeditated murder of a state agent and one other case i can't remember), the criminal can be given "incompressible" perpetuity. After a minimum of 30 year, on a judge decision (often because the murderer is dying or very, very old), the "incompressible" part can get shafted.

Also death penalty is expensive. More than keeping prisonners locked up.
I can’t tell if the Godot team is serious about commercial viability.

My company cannot afford to wait until Godot 4 to build product. And since we’ve got a big investment in prior work, there is little chance we will switch that work over to a platform that will be brand new in a short period of time.
At least he wasn't slowing anyone down. I have been in several meetings with "Project Managers" who waste everyone's time asking for dates and estimates for their spreadsheet even after I have explained that this is an iterative process and we cannot expect to know in detail what tasks will be complete on which days and that we should give general updates with a rough ETA of completion every 2 weeks instead.
This is essentially how the young lady's illustrated primer works in The Diamond Age.
> The expense isn't justified for 10 students, since this may well be the only year that course is offered online.

So instead you'd rather waste money on a barely-functional piece of software that actively invades your students' privacy?
Hard to tell in detail, but not as much.

The primary cost factors are instrument development, ground segments, staff (over years, e.g. 5-10 years development plus ~5 years primary mission plus extensions), testing, and building (no economy of scale here).

The most counter-intuitive observations is that the cheaper your launch-costs, the higher the portion they represent w.r.t. total mission cost. A "cheap" (e.g. sub-50 million dollar) telescope for example would have launch costs come in at up to 50% of the total cost when launched on a medium-sized launcher or with a second payload.

It's a multivariable optimisation problem and the best solution depends on the variables that you want to optimise for.
As do cryptic and unreadable symbols.
> You do realize that, because the total number of bitcoins is limited, it will get harder and harder to get bitcoins?

while I don't really agree with the bitcoin maxi mindset of the comment you are replying to, do you know that you can buy as little as 1 satoshi? (0.00000001 BTC). Yes, eventually all BTC will be mined (in about 2140) but considering 1 sat is currently worth 0.0006 USD, there is still quite a bit of room for very small amounts of bitcoin being widely accessible (fees being a different issue that will improve with time).
>Discoverability is the thing. How would anyone know your videos are there?

But is "The YouTube algorithm" really a good answer to that question? At the end of the day there's a lot more to building an audience. I agree that YouTube helps with that, but I think it has more to do with the user convenience rather than discoverability as such.
mkdir -p foo && cd $_
I have an acquaintance who goes to work at a pretty boring 9-5 IT job for a local insurance company. Sits down at his desk for a bit in the morning, then gets a cup of coffee, puts it on his desk, hangs his coat on the back of his chair, and leaves. Heads over to his real day job as a salesman for a local Mercedes dealer. Towards the end of the workday he heads back to the office, cleans up his work area, and goes home. Every day, like clockwork.

Sometimes I wonder how often stuff like that happens and we don't hear about it.

It isn't lost on me that I can (and sometimes do) accomplish a completely satisfactory amount of work for my job in a couple hours each morning. Now that we're remote, if I were so inclined I bet I could hold down a second job and not go over 40 hours of total work time.
I appreciate the response and you answered my next question about the networking specs!
I definitely agree that a religious adherence to testing takes the fun out of writing software, for me at least.

It’s also driven up the cost of development or slows the time needed to release. That may be an obvious but I think because of the religious aspect people often make the leap to trying to get 100% code coverage instead of focusing on their original objectives.
Paywalled. Is there a non-paywalled article about this?
Prioritise the Highest Order Bit
Untold Secrets of Startup Boards
Twice I've tried to love Pulumi but wind up going back to Terraform because the Terraform provider docs put clear usage examples front and center
But Snapchat has fixed computation needs. If they figure out how to run everything on 50% of the power, their emissions go down by 50%.

BTC has no such property. Make it 1,000 times more efficient to compute hashes and you just hash 1,000 times faster. No change in power use.
A WebVR Code Generator
Isn't it obviously to lure unity users?
Which position are you taking? The OPs comment isn’t going to make income inequality any better. Does “respecting” people by not saying they are a cog when it is not true help or hurt income? I’m sure your sarcastic comment is pointing to one of these.

I personally don’t enjoy giving some one no additional money or perks but pretending they are not cogs like OP is saying. You’re treating them like cogs by not paying them much.
Incremental Static Regeneration with Next.js
Yes, and there are a lot of Americans on this website. Does that bother you?
I once thought about how to make Minecraft multithreaded. There is no way its going to happen without a from scratch redesign and a massive increase in code complexity.
Short story shorter: Terry Gou is a serial bullshitter

https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wi...
Repl.it: Some Quirks
I recently tried repl.it's bash repl to do some non-bash related programming. (Free account version).

Their bash repl has node/npm installed. So, I created package.json file there; added a couple of dependencies to check if they install. My goal was to have the node_modules folder generated and see whether I can zip it, and download that zip.

The answer is NO.

Although there is a feature for downloading your project as zip, the files generated in a bash session don't appear to available.

I hope others can also verify.
I don't mean what I say negatively, but in consulting it's important to remember that contracts are only as good as you can litigate and you can be fired by the client at any time.

By that I mean, you need to bring your A-game every day and essentially always be selling to the client (and always billing). There's no room for you being in a rut or having off days consulting and at a client site. Take your sick days rarely. That's great for some people but doesn't work for everyone.
Wait, now I'm confused. I have:

mkcd() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_"; }

Can someone please detail the differences between $! and $_? (Apologies if I'm missing something obvious)
There's also a PMBOK (project management) https://www.pmi.org/pmbok-guide-standards

You can find the PDF via your favourite search engine.
Disclaimer: I work at Materialize.

This is the exact problem that we are solving here at Materialize! I wrote an example blogpost that details to how to subscribe to a SQL query in practice: https://materialize.com/a-simple-and-efficient-real-time-app...

Regarding your comment about "focus on streams", it's true that we first focused on extracting event data from other sources (Kafka, Debezium, direct change data capture from external databases such as Postgres, S3, etc). Over time, however, we plan to add additional features that will allow users to also treat Materialize as a general purpose database.

Hope this helps and happy to answer any questions!

edit: I was imprecise in my usage of the term event streams. Materialize supports inserts, updates and deletes at its core (the topK query shown in the blog post above shows this). Materialize is a more general solution than something focused on append-only event streams.
Oh, I agree. It's just that the article reads as if everyone is using WSL only for text based apps today. I was initially confused by that.
Not sure if all of these are bugs, but:

- I was able to purchase a property for only £1100

- To buy without mortgage, you should explicitly enter 0 as mortgage amount

- This purchase didn't appear in my current account as a transaction, only the balance decreased correctly

- The property didn't appear on Property tab (but I started to get utility bills)

- No interest on pension account
Understanding email design pt.2 – The design
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Issues with a Stalker
They had hacked my phone and was able to spoof my number, they also hacked 3 other “burner” phones I had purchased to secure my information before disconnecting the phone.

Well they made damn sure that was not possible. They had also been able to hack my computer. Took me over a week to finally get secure devices.

I had changed my number and when I did that I attempted to gather some back up codes from my old device and they forced a factory reset through.

They tried to have my phone download something but I was lucky that I keep a metal lockbox in my car and drove out of WiFi range.

The person who did this may have also drugged me and is not this smart. They do know someone who is though. They had been in my phone for over a year with not doing much until recently.

At one point they sent me some files, basically a backup of my phones files. But they messed up and sent me a vCard, with their first name and username.

I am just asking for help. They have had an entire year to plan this and are moving forward. I don’t know what they are planning. They had already made me homeless and stolen everything I own, including my cat and dog, forcing me to start over.I have been working hard to get my niece and two nephews setup with a saving account so when they turn 18 they can get a better footing in life.

Trying to contact the cops who are not able to do anything about it.

The compromised phones were a Samsung galaxy s6 and 3 Motorola e6 phones.

Any help at all would be appreciated, even if it is just basic information on what they did.

They have put me in the hospital twice over this last month, and I’m just scared of what they may do next, as they just moved in next door.

I don’t care so much what they do to me, but it seems they may be targeting my friends and family next.

Please, any help at all on what Incan do or just information, or even just some supporting words would be helpful.

Thanks for reading this shit show of my life.
So, just think of your future self (let's say, you when you are around 50 years old) and see in which place you would like to be when it comes to applying for a job at company X:

- applicant A: 20 years of experience. Bachelor and master degree in Computer Science

- applicant B: 23 years of experience. Bachelor in computer science

- applicant C: 26 years of experience. No degree

In the long term, all other things being equal, a degree gives you a boost (because, really, what's the difference of 20 vs 26 years of experience?). I'm not saying this is good or bad, it's just simple maths. Now, sure if you have skills other people don't usually have, sure perhaps you don't need a master degree in Computer Science to be competitive. I'm just exposing the usefulness of a degree for the average Joe.

Now, if you are asking this question I think it's because you are thinking about getting a degree just for the sake of it. If you wanted to do the degree only for the sake of knowledge, I think you wouldn't be asking here on HN :)
I guess what I was thinking of is “human smuggling” according to this page.
Very appropriate. Until yesterday I was happy to have a CS degree from the UMN. Now that is tainted and I want to hide who gave me the degree. I have to wonder if they taught me some things that were unethical that I'm not doing without knowing better. I wouldn't hire a UMN grad because of their reputation.

For now I'm assuming that my degree was more than 20 years ago, and things change in that time (most of the professors I remember best are dead...). However this is doubt in my mind.
Do you also think the claims that dogs can talk or that humans can fly are unfalsifiable?

All we are discussing is a biological system, and biological systems are things that may be investigated.
"some antivirus software would wrongly classify X as malware" is true for any X (except malware, then would not be wrong)
Hard Drive vs. Solid State Drive: Pros and Cons of Using Each
I keep at least 3 in my aliases. So I go up up to 3 levels, and if I need to go further I type it in again.
Coercion is a fact of life. Claiming otherwise is naive. Legal prostitution means that your future daughter might have to choose between losing her unemployment benefits or taking a job selling sex.
If you consider misleading headlines to be misinformation, then you must have very few sources you trust. By this definition the NY Times, the Washington Post and pretty much every “trusted” source of news provides misinformation.
Beware that using "$@" there might not be what you want, as it passes space-separated arguments to mkdir.

What does: "mkd foo bar" do? It creates both directories, and cd's into "bar".

Might be worth checking that only one argument has been passed, or use "$*" which instead would treat all arguments as one parameter, and "mkd foo bar" would create a "foo bar" directory instead (and cd to it)

YMMV.
Have you heard of https://railslts.com/? They provide security patches for old Rails versions
Libertarian Rex
This reminds me of a project I found by Antirez (the creator of Redis) recently called shapeme: https://github.com/antirez/shapeme - which uses simulated annealing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing to approximate an image using triangles. It took me down a really interesting rabbit hole: "The name of the algorithm comes from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and reduce their defects."

I thought it was really interesting that a useful algorithm like this was created and possibly influenced by a natural process. I wonder if this repo uses the same type of algorithm?
What Are the 7 Deadly Sins in Order? – Gospel of God
About busybox: if you want a small container, you don't need the posix tools at all, but just your binary. No shell.
Can't wait to use this. This should allegedly be widely available in 21H1 which should not be too far away.
I don’t disagree but the focus on Tories is somewhat misleading. At the end of the day, the last PM to effectively fire the BBC Director General (and the board) because of a report that he didn’t like (while being likely correct) was Tony Blair.

The Tories would love to dismantle the BBC, rather than controlling it, but both parties like the grip it gives on propaganda.
Good article on the subject: https://www.theverge.com/21507966/foxconn-empty-factories-wi...

My take it was probably mainly a political stunt, lcd was never really possible (slump + wages + supply issues) and then they didn't know what to do.
> I hope you don’t seriously think that there is a mafia entity that is going around chasing people who casually claim to be part of it.

Absolutely, that is the case.

> Except for the higher-ups, the mafia is just a loose social network of people who don't mind using intimidation for personal gain.

You are not right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Ndrangheta - tightly organized, hierarchical organization that controls about 3% of Italy's GDP and ruthlessly enforces its dominion with brutal turf wars.
"The EU is attempting a planned economy because the amount of doses depends on how well the production tool chain works". I don't think that follows? Is there a missing link here?
There are enough of us here that have heard about this as to make a UMN degree worth less because we will trash a resume with that name on it.
This sounds..not good. You know how I know how much of a cog some one is? How much they are being paid.

Putting a bow on top of work that pays peanuts is worse in my opinion than being honest. Your tactics appear to try to manipulate underpaid or lowly paid cogs into not believing they are what the company and managers truly see them as - just that.
Politics. Political capital. There are international advantages to having the US president endorse you, your project and your company. Those photos were probably worth the hassle.
Response to Qlocker Ransomware Attacks: Take Actions to Secure QNAP NAS
Well, you don't even need a shell.
Improving My Time Online with Timers
This move was predicted here on HN when the news of limited ad tracking in iOS 14.5 first surfaced.

Let this be a reminder to all of Hacker News that “no corporation is altruistic”. Always assume “evil” by default, until proven otherwise.
This is accomplished with the zsh hash table I believe. `hash -d myproject=~/projects/myproject` will set up the same thing for ~/projects/myproject

$ cd ~myproject

$ pwd

~/projects/myproject
Really enjoyed Rossman over the years although the quality of content has gotten, umm, distracted lately.

His series on electronics basics is the best I’ve seen, for the reasons he states. Simple language, no college level theory and big words.
This sounds like a fair description of how software engineering and computer science has progressed over the years so maybe it's a fair term ;)
Of course, no PR person with anything would allow such a thing into their statements. The UMN is far too big to allow someone without some competency in PR.
I will second DBeaver. It can connect to anything and has made massive improvements since I started using it years ago
As an introduction to software development processes I recommend Steve McConnell's Software Project Survival Guide. You can get a used copy for small money.
Intel defeats VLSI Technology in $3.1B patent trial
Condescending tip - synthetics are for engine oils, not clothes ;)
> In their analysis of the device, Signal researchers also found that it contained packages signed by Apple, and likely extracted from the Windows installer for iTunes version 12.9.0.167. According to Marlinspike, this could be a copyright violation.

Cellebrite will need a good legal team. I expected them to have some deep exploit but it looks like they’re just using Apple’s own code against them.
I skipped Prisma when I discovered that you were supposed to toss your schema in a single file. There's some ways to get around this but amazed that this is the official way