skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can anyone clarify?

Is this a vulnerability of all My Book drives or just ones that connect to a cloud / online service?

I have one of these but haven't plugged it in for a while. However, I don't remember using any online service with it. It just had a bunch of movies.
Would you mind offering some examples? I'm a beginning learner and my assumptions are based on the character mappings I see in Pleco, and having toggled HelloChinese between simplified/traditional. I would love to study areas where character meanings change.
Interestingly, also published today: Why Do We Work So Damn Much https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

"...hunter-gatherer societies like the Ju/’hoansi spent only about 15 hours a week meeting their material needs..."
One thing to consider is that taking notes in a meeting is not about recording all information that is communicated. The key is to summarize the high-level point ("we cannot take approach X"), who stated it ("according to Bob"), and why ("because X will slow down Y"). This gives you sufficient info to reconstruct the main message and to know who to ask for more detail if needed.
That's not how I see jQuery hate.

jQuery promotes bad development patterns, AND brings a cost for end users. Developers will do themselves and futures devs a favor by not choosing to use it. Is it really gatekeeping to expect people to be aware of commonly used 10 year old features?

I assume developers who share YMNNJQ are just sick of inheriting messy projects built with jQuery. I know I am.
I do too and love it. Drives my coworkers nuts though.

"Can you send me the word doc source for that PDF so I can make changes?"

"Uh, it's actually markdown with this hacked together rendering pipeline."

"..."
It is not anti-vaccination or anti-medicine to say that it's not someone's business to verify anything. People can go about their own business in the form of a vaccination, a mask, staying at home, or all three until the pandemic is over. It's not someone else's business. That's just how it is in the States, sorry but not sorry. You know that Florida has been back to normal for a long time and covid cases have been consistently declining there? And other states too. Without any such expectations around nosey moral busybodies trying to get people's personal information for "verification"
in America, the vaccine is referred to as the "Pfizer vaccine" in the majority of newsletters. I understand this varies based on what country you're in, but this isn't unique there and is common practice for this vaccine's name.

Pfizer is easier to type than "Pfizer BioNTech" (there's 3 capital letters in that second word, 2 next to each other).

Laziness wins.
That's good Elon Musk after the recent story on how Elon Musk is living in his office and after knowing he sold everything to support his dream. Competitors will be there and new one's will join but as Darwin said "Survival of the fittest".
If back in 2008 you thought you'd be doing pretty well as a gay Asian nerd, you won't be happy to find out that gay men are the new white people, Asians are the new white people, and nerds are the new white people. There is a silver lining to this, which is that since there are plenty of successful black people they will eventually discover that black people are the new white people. About the time black people become the new white people is when this whiteness thing will call it quits. Maybe by 2030.
According to some of the comments here: yes, yes it does. One do the snippets on the front page has a bug, don't remember which, but that was written by someone here.
Many non-profit corporations distribute things for free?
I get this too.

Meanwhile, I wonder: are talks even worth it? A blog post can reach orders of magnitude more people, can be edited to perfection in advance, and is much easier for most people to consume (supports searching, skimming, quoting, out-of-order reading etc.). Even the Q&A part is much better conducted on a site like HN than live.

It seems to me that a good blog post is strictly better than a talk. Yet we're willing to spend way more money and effort on talks, for some reason?
So someone who isn't you should pay for its development cost, manufacture, quality control, shipping, storage, and distribution? Or should the people who do those things be conscripted into labor for the glory of these heartfelt convictions?

Prior to 100 years ago, this conditions would have just been fatal. That you can keep yourself alive today for less than the cost of your mobile phone bill is a pretty good value proposition. I just don't understand the outrage.
I disagree with the comparison. This isn't abstraction, it is syntax completion. As if you typed the first four bytes and GitHub (mostly correctly it must be mentioned!) completed the remaining.

Unlike an additional abstraction layer, the readibility is not increased.
There's no Pfizer vaccine. There's only a Biontech-Pfizer vaccine.
>highly paid execs, insane amount of money spent on marketing

I don't understand how not-for-profit orgs are supposed to succeed when they are constantly hampered by being expected to pay theirbwmployees low wages and not market themselves or spread the word because if they spend too much money doing these things then they are suddenly "bad" organizations. If not-for-profits are not allowed to compete in the market with for-profit organizations by offering competitive wages and utilizing competitive marketing budgets, then it's no wonder that charity is generally so ineffective. I suspect that the average armchair marketing executive might not be a good judge of what an "appropriate" marketing budget is.
Awh man, brilliant idea!
Pfizer's CEO literally called the vaccine a "durable revenue stream" and talked about boosters through 2024 in the last earnings call.
What about privacy. Does the AI send code to GitHub?
This reminds me of Kite
>Every American is in a whole myriad of government databases form the federal level on down...

The park might be full of needles but that's no justification for further litter.

Why do we need yet another database? People have enough problems with the no fly list and that's a short list. A DB that has 1/3 of the country flagged would cause mayhem from false positives and inconsistent data.
I've got a folder on my family NAS called "notes." We store Markdown files and images in there. It's been a great way to organize loose information and media. Infinitely portable.
I think that there's a division between "productive" developers and "meticulous" developers. I know that I'm not the first one. My best days are when I'm removing code. I'm very wary from using frameworks and huge libraries. I learned few frameworks and libraries, I've chosen few that correspond to my style and I'm very careful when it comes to adapting new ones. I prefer to spend a week coding auth layer rather than installing some SaaS connector and call it a day. I prefer to spend few days reading source code and developing my own solution (or just discarding the whole idea) rather than quickly google something and move on.

May be I'm just unprofessional, I don't know. I get my stuff done, may be not as fast, but at least I understand every bit of my code and I rarely have unexpected surprises. I understand that there are other approaches, but I just don't enjoy that way, so I follow mine as long as I can find work. And I actually like things that other people find boring, according to this thread. Withing "business code" - hate it, writing "auth layer" - love it.
PG says:

> There are three ingredients in great work: natural ability, practice, and effort. You can do pretty well with just two, but to do the best work you need all three: you need great natural ability and to have practiced a lot and to be trying very hard.

I think that's the fundamental secret to success at anything. If you want to compete at the top level you have to have all three. It's not sufficient to just work hard, or just have natural ability. You need to fully apply yourself aligned with your natural talents.

Hard work is a necessary but not sufficient requirement.
PowerPC and the Western Digital My Book Live Debacle
Maybe their internal research shows significant benefits to the short chunks of lecture content.
Dependency Injection frameworks. It's not very difficult to manually build your composition root and a composition root makes the codebase easier to understand and navigate, especially for new people.

Letting `null` into the program. I really hate having to consider whether some value can be null
Don't feel guilty.

Once I realized my company wouldn't promote me and the work was easy because I became an expert, took a second job without telling them. They never noticed. If they don't notice, then telling them can only lead to manufactured problems. I worked a fulltime job (40-50 hours) with an hour commute each way, then got a second job as an associate at Lowes (16-20 hours).

I only quit my job at Lowes when I was forced to switch technologies and need the extra time to learn things.
> Maybe we should require the vaccinated to keep getting more vaccine shots until science shows they're at par with natural antibodies, lowest hanging fruit and all...

Why would we do that when the vaccines are safer than the actual disease and effective enough to contain the spread?
That's not true at all, several of our lists already limit constitutionally approved freedoms.

The No Fly List and felony registration for gun ownership being 2 examples.

edit: before the downvotes start, agreement with those lists does not negate that they are restricting freedoms based on activities that added or removed someone from a list
It's unclear where the original data source is. It was my understanding that (clean) data was very pricey and hard to come by. Is this changing? Following the links, all I could find was references to Rapid API and not the source
> Years later, having tackled anxiety problems that had plagued me most of my life, I came to recognize that my relationship with hard work during my college years was not healthy and that this deep seated desire to do more work is not a positive thing, at least not for me.

This resonates with me.

I would often try to outwork depression, anxiety, grief...basically any difficult emotion. Work was my coping mechanism and all external signals were positive about that--i.e., "he's a real go-getter." The pathology of all this became apparent after, well, becoming a parent.

Fast forward to now, I still sometimes struggle with those "alarm bells" but for the most part I can solidly state that I am not defined solely by my productivity. Contentment is an active practice, I suppose.
Reporting seems hyperbolic. What happens if your hardware doesn't have a camera? OS won't load or boot?
> What problem does a domestic vaccine passport solve?

The same problem the Yellow Card [1] solves. Right now, I have a New York State electronic passport and a CDC paper proof of vaccination. The former works in New York City. The latter works across the U.S., at least now. (At least, it worked in San Francisco and Atlanta.) If I travel abroad, I may need to get the latter re-certified since it's trivial to forge and not independently verifiable. Having a single, authoritative document fixes all this and makes socializing and commerce more frictionless.

If we don't want to go into another lockdown when the Delta variant hits, we need to be able to isolate the vaccinated from the vulnerable. The former can continue mixing and mingling with reduced (though not zero) risk of causing a flare-up. The latter, I don't know, ideally they'd stay home but we know that won't happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Jaune
Yes. Obviously.
Well, who doesn’t want to be seen as the hero in their own story?

What I suspect is that it’s a case of “all of the above”. Yes, gates got lucky, but he was also talented, and he worked hard. To be an outlier you have to defy the odds, and luck, talent and grit are different ways of defying.
Create some sort of entity that hands out money to people who agree to pay the money back in the future, plus some percentage interest.

If anybody figures out how to do this, they could make a lot of profit.
No, that was a joke.
I’ve had experiences ordering through a QR code in San Francisco which were even more seamless: pre-pay for your food with Apple Pay right off the website, tip included. Scan again if you want to order something else. Everyone at the table can order separately.

I don’t hate it, but I don’t love it. It was like a custom web-DoorDash for one table with only one restaurant option. Probably someone could run with that and scale it up to a food court without much difficulty and a willing mall partner. Efficient, but if I gave a damn about the economics I would cook at home and this definitely removes some of the hospitality of the hospitality business.
I built myself a little note-taking / wiki app that uses Markdown. The main issue I find with plaintext is that the minute you need anything like rich metadata on a document, it gets very clumsy, so the MD files are stored in a SQLite database which also holds any needed metadata.

I like the idea of plaintext as a least-common-denominator for many things, but it becomes difficult to use it beyond a small, constrained set of applications.
How Airbnb uses server drive UI to drive its mobile and web apps at scale
It applies to the "My Book Live" version.
I hate this obsession with "hard work".

"hard" is a weasel word, it means nothing concrete, it's not quantifiable, and even as a quality it's unclear, what is the emotional feeling attached to it?

"work" has two meanings:

1. activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result

2. a task or tasks to be undertaken; something a person or thing has to do

So what are we even talking about when we say "hard work"?

If you take the first definition, adding the "hard" qualifier makes no difference, because what makes an activity "hard" is that it requires mental and/or physical effort to accomplish. So in that sense, work is inherently effortful, and thus "hard". Maybe what people mean when they say "hard work" is sustained effort exertion?

If you take the second it makes more sense, but then it would imply that "hard work" is about the choice of task you undertake. If you choose to do harder tasks, you'd be "hard working". The issue here though is that it's not clear what makes a task "hard". I think the risk of failure is possibly the best way to qualify it here. If you're likely to fail the task, it is thus "hard" to you. But is that really what people mean when they evangelize "hard work"? To always work on tasks you are likely to fail at?

Since PG's example was how Bill Gates took no vacation in 10 years, I'll conclude that he's trying to suggests that "hard work" means have a "high rate of work per week".

So he seem to imply "hard work" is when most of your week is spent exerting mental or physical effort towards a result or purpose.

And that's where I hate the framing of "hard work", it's just "work", adding "hard" is just a pretentious qualifier.

P.S.: I really doubt Bill Gates success is attributable to not taking 15 days of time off per year for 10 years. That is not a lot of time, maybe if he worked 80 hours week, but as research shows, real physical and mental effort is unsustainable beyond some level, and rest is needed.
Just casting around ad hominems and absurd comparisons doesn't make you right.
Randomly Guessing Bitcoin Addresses
I want one-shot learning for refactoring. I.e., show the editor once what transformation I want to perform, and then the editor takes over.

Autocompleting code in general? Sounds like a bad idea, imho.
Reading the their privacy policy: as much as Microsoft wants.
So you can probably expect all your codebase to be uploaded.
> how to work toward goals that are neither clearly defined nor externally imposed.

This is the crux of the entire article, in my opinion. Still haven't figured this out after all these years.

How?
Good luck with that https://old.reddit.com/r/blackmagicfuckery/comments/kaxn0j/s...

Also good luck taping up the microphone.
What's a hiring day? A quick search found nothing.. Is it a LI initiative?
Wood is cheaper up to certain scale, less environmental impactful, and flexible in the face of dynamic load changes and construction.

For larger construction, pumped concrete is cheaper to build. It’s generally (but not always) more fireproof without special measures being taken.

You think that concrete is stronger because it looks solid and heavy. In many cases, concrete or other masonry buildings are actually clad buildings with wood or other framing. Also, generally speaking a small scale, poorly built concrete structure will be more solid than a poorly built wooden structure.

I live in an urban house in upstate NY, it’s a wood frame house built in 1925. It’s not a luxury or high-end construction, but there’s no structural reason that it won’t be standing in 2125. Keep a roof on it and control storm water and you’re good to go.
Gah, at least it's not Salesforce. That year I spent in a Salesforce shop I earned gobs of money and nearly slit my wrists. I took the following year off. Learned to play ukulele. What a shitty platform. God bless the devs who thrive in it.
Ringbuffers and thread-per-core architecture is great for low latency transaction processing systems, like exchanges and trading systems.

Sometimes you don't have time to do things perfectly and might use a spinlock when initializing some cache on first use... Only light contention, not great not, not terrible :).
I'm not sure if that's true. I find jQuery much easier to maintain than vanilla or even some modern JS libraries.

> $("#button").on('click', function(){
> $(".modal").slideUp();
> });

Obviously a simple example, but this is really easy to understand - even for a non-programmer! The equivalent vanilla JS to do this is honestly pretty nasty in comparison.

The only problems I have seen when maintaining jQuery is when someone wants to drop in a bunch of custom functions they have designed in vanilla JS - or try to treat it as a replacement for a front-end framework.

But for it's intended purpose of adding interactivity into HTML content, I think it is still the king.
+1 on Analysis Patterns. The notation is a little dated, but the book is still a good read.
I'd say religions in general have been falling out of favor and are being replaced by science and secular support systems. (In contrast the environments when the big religions started)
Shopify drops app revenue share on the first $1M/year
The wild emotionalism that has overflowed during Covid, is unlikely to go back into the container, unfortunately. It's a hellish birth child of the lunacy of the social media era meets rampant pandemic hysteria.

Software engineers (engineers in general actually) aren't special at all when it comes to being rational. They just like to think they are because of their field. It's identical to Stephen Hawking thinking he had special insight on politics, because he was gifted at one thing; or a famous actor thinking they have special insight on politics because they're gifted at one thing. Engineers are just as prone to failing to control their emotions properly, bouts of subject irrationalism and failing to strive for objectivity as is the typical person. Your typical software engineer on HN is no more rational than the typical plumber, the plumber is just likely more honest about it and less full of their self. You see it in every thread on HN, yet the rational engineer myth persists, amusingly.
I feel like you're neglecting to mention all the people who need to build and maintain this AI. Cookie cutter business logic will no longer need programmers but there will be more highly skilled jobs to keep building and improving the AI
I disagree. It seems unreasonable to hold not-for-profits to such an extreme ethical standard. They're already doing charitable work, why must they also be expected to lead the charge on unrelated social matters besides the one they chose?

I agree that executives are paid too much, but I don't expect a Soup Kitchen to be posting on social media about how they are fighting against discrimination of purple elephantfolk in Norway.
The reason I use plain text is that nobody has made a similarly universal format for multimedia, and nobody has made tools for that fantasy format like Emacs and Vim. I'd love to use still and moving images at times.

The FOSS world thinks it's innovative but it's stuck in the 1980s. And because of that, ordinary people (and tech geeks) don't have a way to personally utilize and store their copious multimedia - it's all tied to some company's servers. For example, there's no good way to backup your Snapchat or Facebook page, or even better, to create an equivalent locally.
Was likely done in development by a developer that was sick of seeing the same password prompt 50 times a day, and who later forgot to un-comment it. There's absolutely no way this should have made it past code review.
This looks like part of their push to passwordless. Decent camera plus TPM means that FaceID style unphishable FIDO2 credentials can become default moving forward.
How do you guarantee it doesn't copy a GPL-ed function line-by-line?
Same. I love the phrase "give myself the permission." That's probably the best way I've ever read to express that feeling.
There should not and will not be a centralized way to document any such thing in the USA, and we will not in the USA tolerate the idea of keeping "certain spaces for the vaccinated only" unless you're referring to hospitals only. We will not restrict entry into normalcy on the basis of status, be it vaccination or antibody status.

Florida and other states have been open for a long time and the numbers have been consistently improving same as anywhere else, without any need for documentation or such mandates lol.
The main problem with search today is the lack of organically appearing "curation" found on the early internet.

Today everyone knows the value of a link, so it curation via links doesn't happen organically any more like it used to... yet this is still a major/the primary part of Google's Search results.

Until the "curation problem" is solved I am not hopeful of a search engine producing excellent results like Google did before 2010.

Stoked to try this out, but teaching a machine to curate is hard.
Geez, We can barely predict anything within 5%.
i've seen enough installations that this is not the fault of kubernetes, but that they think this should work automatically. this has to be implemented to count as well.
Yes, it is possible to accurately detect antibodies with certain antibody tests (primarily, blood draws) administered by certain parties. But now you have a complex patchwork of antibody test exception standards formulated and enforced to satisfy the preferences of a small number of individuals, most of whom simply object to vaccination on ideological grounds. These folks should just get vaccinated.
It's worth noting that not all states in the United States require a prescription to buy insulin. To me, this raises questions about the statement in the CNBC article:

"Starting this week, the retailer will sell an exclusive private-label version of analog insulin, ReliOn NovoLog, to adults and children who have a prescription."

What's the implication for those who live in a state like Pennsylvania and do not need a prescription to buy insulin, much to the dismay of many in the medical community.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/42769372_Murder_by_...

And finally, Wal-Mart has been driving this agenda through low priced insulins for years and deserves praise for that effort to affect change. Can we expect the same from Amazon now that they've chosen to enter the pharmacy business?
Are you suggesting Google to make all unfixed vulnerabilities public after 90 days? Would that be even if the finder does not want them to become public? Or just as an opt-out type of thing.