skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you. Look, all this is voluntary. We live in a capitalist system where businesses amass capital and take risks with that capital. The owners of the business “centrally plan” what will happen.

The goal of this to try a free-market approach to get closer to employee-owned companies. Ideas can be suggested by anyone. They can be even given a budget to go do it. If they succeed, they get a share of the revenues.

Many of us are so “whipped” by full-time employment that we commute long hours to work, neglect our kids and do what the boss says or get fired. QCM is closer to Adam Smith’s ideal of everyone being a free agent. Read this and tell me why no one should ever voluntarily agree to it:

Imagine, as a developer or designer, coming across a SaaS company whose product you are very familiar with, that openly publishes its metrics. They honestly reveal that some metrics could use improvement, and you have a great idea for how to do it. You get in touch and – instead of hiring you to for some full-time position doing mostly drudge work inside the company – they agree to pay you for your contribution, if it works out. $1,000,000 / year x (C–1) for every factor C that you improve a certain KPI metric.

Since I have written this, I have found that paying people in cryptocurrencies for their time may be a better way when it comes to time-based compensation. But for results-based compensation, I have found that this works quite well, and is closer to the ideal of “to each according to their contribution”. Just because I started a for-profit company doesn’t mean I have to take all the risk and reap all the reward and compensate employees at my whim. That’s how salaries stagnate.

Certainly, this isn’t for everyone. It attracts a certain type of person: independent, results-driven, and turned off by the bullshit in full time employment. There are plenty of people who contribute to open source and wikipedia and science FOR FREE. This is for compensating those kinds of people.

PS: in a society I wish we’d move towards, everyone gets enough UBI and health insurance indeendent of working for any corporation that they would voluntarily choose to learn guitar or contribute to a company’s bottom line. Then software and digital projects would have far more contributions from free people around the planet. Until then, many people have to keep their head down and conform to get that steady paycheck, and risktaking like this is apparently … derided! … even on a site which is hosted by an accelerator for entrepreneurs. I truly feel we are living in Plato’s cave here. (But then again, I remember HN’s traditional snarky character towards anything unorthodox and realize people may not actually be so against free humans choosing to have their contributions measured by a consistent system that attempts to be fair.)
I think you could reasonably look at WireGuard as a repudiation of previous VPN protocols, almost from root to branch.

For instance, WireGuard reconsiders what the role of a VPN "protocol" actually is, and in WireGuard the protocol itself delivers a point-to-point secure tunnel and nothing else, so that the system is composable with multiple different upper-level designs (for instance, how you mesh up with multiple endpoints, or how you authenticate).

Another reasonable way to look at WireGuard is that it's the Signal Protocol-era VPN protocol (WireGuard is derived from Trevor Perrin's Noise protocol framework).

Notably: WireGuard doesn't attempt to negotiate cryptographic parameters. Instead, they've selected a good set of base primitives (Curve25519, Blake2, ChaPoly) and that's that; if those primitives ever change, they'll version the whole protocol.

If you haven't played with it, WireGuard is approximately as hard to set up as an SSH connection. It is really a breath of fresh air.
> What? Who wants to share their what now with whom? Why would they do that?

Barclays will send banking data directly to FreeAgent[1] which allows you to categorize the transactions and upload receipts. FreeAgent uses this information to calculate how much VAT and Corporation tax I owe to the government. Couldn't be simpler.

[1] https://support.freeagent.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360006470520...
Once the Tether tap, built on assets that do not exist, is turned off - I don't see how this is possible. Bubbles only work when there are new buyers.
I noticed that as well. Typical for the Feds when they deal with technology, unfortunately. Read about the old "operation sun devil" raids way back when to see how long they've been overreaching.
Warship positions faked including UK aircraft carrier
> I'm pretty sure that numerous Quicklisp users can't program either, but Quicklisp is manually curated while NPM (AFAIK?) isn't so their code won't end up in Quicklisp.

This interpretation of GP’s comments strains credulity.

As for the rest, I edited and expanded my unnecessarily glib response. The technical ability you mentioned is nice, but I will remain unimpressed until it sees wider use. This is a shortcoming in the CL community, not a shortcoming in the CL language.

I’ll change my opinion once I see evidence of the CL community coming together to value shared, reusable code to accomplish common tasks.
PBS should be privately funded.
On Blankfaces
The Cambrian Explosion shows that life can do all sorts of divergent things. The similarity of many current life forms (e.g. fish that are totally unrelated but work about the same) has more to do with environmental pressures producing similar results, that it has to do with what's possible?
Musk tweeted an amazing photo of the fuel lines being welded in. This was taken 3 days ago.

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I mean access to your investment portfolio, model portfolios, accounts, your transaction history, trades, pension plans etc.
The rinds of the Cheese Shop menu
Some functionality I mentioned is built-in, some is done via packages:

- google-translate

- mw-thesaurus

- gucong/emacs-sdcv

- emacs-grammarly/lsp-grammarly

To make Org mode take care of versioning of attachments for you:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Automatic-version_002dcontrol-wit...
The UK had a perfect storm of factors contributing to the severity of the Covid pandemic in that country: highly internationally mobile population, highly internally mobile population, a global travel hub, high population density, culture of close social mixing, no culture of mask wearing, colder climate leading to more indoor living, higher than average levels of elderly people, obese people, and of the ethnic groups most impacted by the virus, low appetite for strict enforcement of lockdowns, and low levels of government control over everyday living.

Other countries had some of these factors. Few if any had all of these factors.

What happened next? The vaccines turned out to be really effective.
ITT: bunch of tone-deaf middle class folks who don't have the slightest understanding of the myriad of systems in place to keep poor people deprived, defending shitstain companies like DG.
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So when comparing Sweden why doesn't anybody look at Deaths and Cases per 100k for Norway or Finland compared to Sweden. Seems like they probably have similar climate and geography maybe population density. things that might have an impact on those numbers besides policy. because from what I'm seeing those countries have like 4x better outcomes.
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SQL I can do in my sleep. Still haven't ever needed to write sorts (other than ORDERY BY).
The attack surface is larger if there are also third parties with access to your account data.

Attackers will breach the weakest link. Right now there is only one link: your bank's website.
They're helpful if you use portfolio aggregation tools like Personal Capital or Mint. Tracking your overall portfolio balance when you have many different types of investment accounts with different banks is difficult to do by hand.

Without open banking APIs, these tools have to collect your authentication information and impersonate you on your banks' websites to collect your account balance information.
They will divest when they already think a company is a bad investment but use climate change as the justification.
Okay Mr. Facts, show me the breakdown of vaccine rates by different groups. And then tell me about how all those groups lean Republican. Because in my state it is groups who overwhelmingly vote democrat who make up the vast majority of unvaccinated. But I have a feeling that bashing Republicans for not getting vaccinated is a lot like publicly pronouncing your hatred of pineapple pizza. Just something the cool kids do.

And when you say complete disregard for the virus/vaccine, show me some facts that back it up. Like "complete disregard" means no republicans got vaccinated? None of them said vaccines work and to please get vaccinated? Like share some of these facts that you base this on and show me it isn't your political bias.
Feds allege that about every unregulated crypto exchange of any kind.

It does seem like this particular business was relying upon legal hacks and obscurity more than following the established rules for financial firms, probably for ideological reasons.
So, now that we have seen a 90% reduction in mortality ... ?
Did you try to buy preinstalled Linux?
Another useless article from the NYT, written by a snob.
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There's something to be said for leaving your phone at home, driving to a park, and just walking around for a few hours.
secure_ec2: CLI tool that helps you to provision EC2 instance securely
An interactive wizard for launching EC2 instances that simplifies applying security best practices, by automatically creating limited security group / instance profile with SSM access to prevent misconfigurations.
> Diving 'inside' will obviously not solve the lack of skill or lack of other resources - turning more and more inward would be absolutely wrong way, searching for fears and blowing them up.

Agreed. This is the issue I am pointing to. Which is why teaching people to view themselves as ‘resistant’ is harmful.

If you are afraid of something, you are afraid of something. If you are ignorant, you are ignorant. If you lack skills then you are unskilled, etc.

There is no point in using the meaningless proxy concept of ‘resistance’, which raises the question “resistant to what?”. In each of these cases there is nothing being ‘resisted’.
Even if they donate more that won't happen. It's antithetical to the premise of the whole project. WireGuard is fine where it is, it's amazing.
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I wanted to say this. I hate how small the world has become and how we're supposed to be "reachable" all the time.

Some of my friends will freak out if I don't text back in as little as 5 minutes. A particular needy friend once tried to get me to "promise" that I would always return her texts within 10 minutes.

I said "hard no" explaining that it meant that it meant that I could never watch a movie uninterrupted, read a book, take a nap, etc. Also, Driving. I don't answer texts while I'm driving because I literally got in an accident texting (it was a freak circumstance, but these things do happen).

I have purposefully started training my friends by being erratic with my texts/messages/e-mails.

I have another friend who always calls on his commute home and gets offended when I don't answer. The idea alone that someone is obligated to answer the phone is insane. What if I don't want to spend an hour shooting the shit with you because I'm doing something else?

I miss the days when I could just walk away from contact.
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Intel integrated video tends to have the best success in my experience.
> In my opinion this is way too much gate keeping.

> Who defines which tools are "basic tools of the trade" and which are just bland infrastructure?

Well, if so many people routinely have so much difficulty with it as these comments witness, it can hardly be called "bland."
I think that the question isn't slow or fast, it's exponential or not exponential. If you are getting 9 infections for every infection then that's a bit exponent. But, 2 for every infection is also an exponent - just a smaller one. Once you get below 2 for every infection then you are in the territory of slow growth - but not for long and not everywhere. The UK had a patchy delta wave, my guess is that when the non herd immune demographics and areas started to get herd immunity (drop below 2) then the breaks really slammed on.
A blind girl, standing in front of tech Twitter, asking you to describe images
Did I categorically say that the vaccine doesn't prevent deaths? I simply cited a study which shows no effect, and scolded the journalist for making a claim that doesn't seem to have solid scientific support. I'm not making a statement about vaccines, I'm making a statement about journalists playing fast and loose with science.

> That may be from some other variable and not vaccines, but I’m not sure that I would be able to suggest an alternative cause.

This is why we do science. Your lack of imagination about causal relationships is not evidence for or against any particular causal relationship.
oh no... http://afrotechmods.com/doom1.htm -> 404

this was the Doom Monitor project
Lets be honest, any malicious endpoint can easily bypass those 'endpoint security' checks.

All they're good for is checking that unpatched (but not yet exploited/evil) endpoints can't connect to the network, which is of marginal benefit compared to allowing them to connect but requiring they patch before accessing risky resources (like the internet or email).
How is this project going to protect the environment?
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bad guy is a just not a term that should be trusted when coming from politicians at this point. "bad" is an opinion in the sports of politics and power, because they are worried about their own hind end, not that of the state at large.
I agree - it's probably not nice/elegant/whatever to use hints, but my opinion is that a query planner cannot probably cover 100% of all possible combinations of layouts/queries/data => not having the possibility to use hints is for me just a huge risk.

Additionally in PROD environments you have the "time"-factor about fixing something; often you cannot afford a week of deep analysis trying to understand why the planner does not work as expected respectively what changed about the data that made it think in a different way etc... .

Having said this, I just installed PostgreSQL last week, hehe. I did it only after somebody on HN mentioned the extension "pg_hint_plan" ( https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html + https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/hint_list.html ) => downloaded & built & installed it on Debian 10 for PostgreSQL 13 => it seems to work (but so far I did only few initial tests). But it's still a bit a risk as it's an external dependency.
Senators Introduce Bill to Help Agencies Counter Deepfakes and Deceptive Media
If it makes you feel better, imagine if the worker started their own startup and then approached us with a business proposition. How would we fairly pay that startup, versus exploiting them?

“Wrap” the person in a startup since you feel that only companies should be entrepreneurial. I don’t mind. Then let’s look at the QCM again.

This is exactly about attracting the most productive people and giving them a share of the company’s revenues. If you want to do it via stock grants - sure, pay the QCM out in that!
Simulating office reopening for sales teams
Oh, I'm not about to claim that these licensing exams people in other professions take once and then never worry about again (bar exam, medical boards, etc.) compare in difficulty to a typical SWE interview.

But, here me out here:

Suppose the CA bar exam were changed in format to be more like a SWE interview. That is, instead of being a 2 day affair consisting of 5 essays of 60 minutes apiece, a 90-minute performance test[0], and 200 multiple choice questions, let's shrink it down to a format that fits in one day and under 5 hours.

Now, let's nix the performance test right away, because it would be incredibly difficult to shoehorn in any kind of real, practical task in under 90 minutes.

According to [1], it looks like 100 multiple choice questions are allocated 3 hours worth of time. So, basically, our cut down format could be 100 multiple choice and 2-3 essays. So, that's about half the amount of testing that's done currently, more or less.

Now, if you have half the amount of testing available, you have a choice: you can cover half as many areas of law, you can cut down the depth of coverage in each area, or some combination of the two. In any case, what you've done is increase the variability in the test. In other words, passing is now more likely to be influenced by exactly which version of the test you get.

If there's an area of law you're weak in (say, bird law), it might not even be covered. Conversely, if you're a real expert in bird law, you won't get as much of a chance to shine in the new format. That means our new format both allows somewhat more marginal candidates to pass, and gives up some sensitivity in detecting people who are really, really good.

So, in summary, the new format omits any sort of practical task, increases the variability of the test, increases the probability that marginal candidates will get through, and decreases the ability to distinguish truly excellent candidates.

Seems to me that's sounding more and more like a typical day-long SWE interview, isn't it?

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[0]: Interestingly, this is essentially a work sample test, which is the thing proven to correlate best with job performance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_test_(bar_exam)

[1]: https://www.tjsl.edu/academics/bar-prep/california-bar-exam
> The data that the client uses to make those heuristic predictions is the same data the cheats,

No, it's not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Make_clients_extrapolate

> plus youve added an intermediate network hop for your remote rendering

I never said anything about an intermediate network hop. It's not that expensive to cull a few tris, diff the geometry and then send it – especially if you can compress the information, which you can, because you control the client and server. (In fact, you likely don't even need to go down to the tri level to get the effect; all you need to do is turn locating obscured players into a computer vision problem.)

I don't know where this “intermediate network hop” comes from.

> spending thousands of dollars on secondary rigs

Think €60. An HDMI splitter, a USB HDMI capture card, a Raspberry Pi and a USB cable. Not that expensive.

> but right now the cheat vector is people running cheats installed inside the kernel.

It's functionally equivalent. Your “anticheat” is taking control of other people's computers, stopping a lot of people from being able to play the game entirely, because it was easier for the developers.