skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was reading an interesting article about investment banking recently, it was quite clear that the further up the greasy pole bankers climb the less hours they work. The people at the top were only doing half the hours of those entering the profession.
Vaccination has minimal risk and substantially increases immunity even for people who have been infected.

It is following the science to make them get vaccinated.
Just let me block foreign carriers entirely. I have some friends and family outside of the US, but we communicate on non-telephone platforms.
That’s not really a justification for a financial crime.
REST Web API in Practice: Naming Endpoints, Filtering, Sorting, and Pagination
Why not just say "sorry, it looks like your situation is too complicated for us at the moment" to edge cases? Would still help many people.
Even if it wasn't true, drilling out locks or cutting them with tools is a pretty standard way of dealing with a lock you can't open. In an emergency where lots of things were broken it would be a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Also a news source with a nontechnical reporter might say the wrong thing that would indicate somebody was opening a server chassis with a powertool.
You are totally wrong. I too love my M1 MBA and I have a huge pile of other notebooks. The weight, the battery lifetime, and all this with stellar performance. It is literally the best notebook I have ever owned.
Aha, here's the actual interesting bit:

The intensity of industry opposition to CalFile has not gone unnoticed in Washington, D.C. In February, IRS commissioner Mark Everson told Congress that he was reluctant to set up an IRS direct e-file system in part because of the bruising battle he witnessed in California...And that leaves federal taxpayers with little prospect of a direct-to-government e-filing system anytime soon...In fact, the industry already ran Big Brother-themed ads in California when tax authorities there were setting up CalFile, a direct e-filing system for state taxes. Lenny Goldberg, the head of the California Tax Reform Association, says Intuit is leading the charge against direct e-filing.

But looking at https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/inde... , it looks like I can file my taxes for 2020 via CalFile, so what is this about then? ReadyReturn?

Well, according to

https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t...
There is one program in America, however, that provides some taxpayers with completed tax returns. Since 2007, around 80,000 California taxpayers each year have paid state income taxes this way under a program called ReadyReturn.

ReadyReturn survived corporate lobbying for one reason: Joe Bankman decided to make easy tax filing his personal mission, and he spent $30,000 to hire a lobbyist to counter lobbying by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax software.

but here's something more interesting:

Since 2015, the tax preparation industry has persuaded lawmakers to include a line in the annual appropriations bill that bars the IRS from offering pre-populated returns to taxpayers. The Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Bill approved by the Senate last month extends that ban another year.

The codification of Free File in the Taxpayer First Act and the extended ban on pre-populated returns in the appropriations bill are steps in precisely the wrong direction.
Title should be American Open Source Tax Software.
Light moving in another dimension?
Interesting read. I also live off-grid and repurposed an old shed to be a workspace of sorts but my solar power is only for lighting and the laptop (the inverter is just 250W) which is sad since we get lots of sunlight here. Worst part is the internet, I use shitty 3G, often can't stream even videos lol. Planning to get Starlink when (if ever) it comes to rural Africa. Inspiring post, thanks.
Hello HN humans,

This lets you share devtools pages over the internet using a secure proxy.

It came out of a need to offer simplified and secure access to devtools over the internet. The project actually proxies securely the entire protocol so you can connect to a secure web socket to instrument remote browsers say by puppeteer you don't only have to use it to view the devtools page but doing that cross browser is a nice proof of concept. Please take a look at the readme for more information.

Remote debugging or the DevTools protocol for JavaScript is normally served insecured via --remote-debugging-port option on browsers and Node runtimes. This project adds a secure HTTPS and secure WebSockets server proxy to that endpoint, plus authentication, to let you share and expose these endpoints over the internet only to intended actors.

Also the devtools front end (in other words the UI when you open the inspector in Google Chrome) is written with the intention of it only needing to work in Chrome... so if you try to run it in other browsers it doesn't actually work.

This project makes some minimum modifications to add polyfills for things to enable it to work cross browser. Seems to work perfectly fine in Firefox but their still appear to be some bugs and missing features in Safari.

This is a self-hosted free open-source product, that you can get on npm, and use it to run a secure proxy server to make browser DevTools securely accessible remotely.

It adds HTTPS, WSS and authentication to --remote-debugging-port to automate, open the inspector, and debug from anywhere and collaborate securely on bugs by sharing the unique login URL.

This means you can serve the DevTools inspector frontend from a secure HTTPS server with authentication, as well as connect to all the normal devtools API endpoints and target websockets, but they're now encrypted and authenticated.

This project is also a simplified unbundling of a capability included in ViewFinder Pro, the closed source Enterprise version of my open source RBI (remote browser isolation) platform.

This is the only comment I'll make on this thread. For questions feel free to email me cris@dosycorp.com
Running Windows 7 is completely irresponsible as it is EOL-ed and not receiving security patches. You can rant and rave all you want but you're a security risk to yourself and to your company if you bring that machine into work.

If you hate the direction Windows took and can't bear to run a version that isn't EOL then it's time either to move to a Linux distribution or switch to macOS. You were never in control of any product made by Microsoft (and you won't be if you switch to macOS). Yelling at them isn't going to change that.
what do you mean? it was an asset, a long-term investment. it's just supposed to be able to sit there growing in value. why is it gone, that's not supposed to be possible unless credentials were gotten and funds stolen
https://archive.is/dq02B since they're not open to inter-faith marriage just like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_Israel
Designing a RESTful or REST-Based Web API
Actor Pleads Guilty to Running $650M Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Why is 2000 a magical number?
> Upon what dosage do you base that on?

The recommended human dosage. The one that hasn’t been a problem, ever, not in the millions and millions of people on it. Unlike the extremely common liver damage people get from Tylenol every year.

> or does it increase mortality?

I have never seen anyone claim that. Do you have a link that makes that claim? If you bring up a possibility without evidence. I guess that will make for spirited comments soon.

> Many doctors are in the US pushing Ivermectin and HCQ as "safe and effective" even though the #1 call to many poison control centers in the US concern Ivermectin poisoning.

Number one call would not mean number one poisoning. It has unbelievably high media attention, and discussion is being censored. People seem to be calling to ask because “officials” why wouldn’t they? If you have a citation that shows mass poisonings please post it. I could only find two confirmed poisonings in the USA. Whole tubes of horse paste like idiots.

> It's snake oil at it's worst form, and reduces trust between patients and doctors.

Good thing this has been the only example of that! I agree though, if there were questionable truths, policy decisions on 1/2 baked theories, changing and shifting narratives, that would be harmful for trust. That to me would be epic failures of policy work and would probably cause a backlash in a lot of areas.
The ethics here rests on two essential imperatives: the free and informed consent of the volunteer and the evaluation of risk verses benefit to the volunteer and to the country. NASA astronauts train for 18-24 months before their first space mission. McAuliffe's selection was announced in July 1985 for the shuttle mission in late January 1986, giving her about 6 months of training, again, with no former military or aviation experience. She gave free consent, but arguably, with her lack of experience and training, her consent could not be informed of the massive risk. I'm not all that clear on what possible benefit to her person jump-seating a Space Shuttle mission could be to her, and less clear on what possible benefit there could be to the nation, and not merely the politics of President Reagan. Contrary to your findings, there really is no latitude here in the question of the morality of the Teacher in Space program, nor any initiative to send lay volunteers into space, because it is not possible for informed consent to be given by a lay volunteer, and there is no clear benefit to society risking amateurs for a joy ride. The morality issues only deepen if the volunteers become paying customers.
For that kind of money I think we're going to be seeing a lot more employees accuse their employers of racism.
So overthrowing the French monarchy was a mistake? That’s a pretty ironic metaphor you got there…
Same here, thought Starlink would be low power. Still, 100W is acceptable I suppose
I think I disagree in several different ways.

I am personally highly domesticated. I accept that without society there are a lot of things I would not be able to do ( engaging with random strangers on HN come to mind -- in a lot of ways, it is pleasure and a privilege to have time to engage in an intellectual discussion ).

But I disagree with your definition that the defining aspect of domestication is surrendering one's capacity to do violence. You may be applying the meaning of the word as that referring to a farm animal, but, if you permit the pun, we are not on animal farm. We live in an odd 1984 dystopia, where we hashtag about room 101, but we are not on animal farm yet. In that sense, we are not domesticated.

You could argue, a lot of us have been lulled by the comforts of the lazy life, but meaning is somewhat different from the one proposed by you.

To your point about violence, I want to note that no one really surrenders it. If US news are any indication, it is, at best, temporarily suspended.
It’s not going to catch on. Everyone in HN could switch and MS wouldn’t notice. Normal consumers don’t care enough to not submit to normal windows.
My experience is similar:
extract process -> raw data -> clean/merge -> model

Normally you extract from source, then load to destination. There is no business logic in this process.

From raw you do all of your transforms to get clean up and merge and then get it into a usable model. With big data sets I've done wtih Hadoop and then moved the clean/merged data to a standard or MPP DB for analysts. For normal sets this can all be done in a standard DB.

The other part is all the data is available from raw and clean/merge for analysts to use and is kept. With the thinking the storage cost are extremely low and heading to zero. Whereas in traditional DW analysts used only the modeled sets and depending on the data earlier sets are deleted as they are for operational purposes only. Storage is considered expensive and limiting.

The move to ELT and using a declarative dataops tool has been mind bending and has been a multiplier in terms of speed to get to something usable. I don't want to see another DW again.
Well as you get older, you are just more likely to be surrounded by the moan and drone crowd. Its just life.

Upto you to get out of that space now and then. Go watch the communities where kids are developing games, unity, webgl, godot, twitch streamers, VR/AR etc etc. That same energy and excitement of the blog and website era still exists.
> If you type `using x`, chances are you actually want to use it.

In my case, at least half of the time, the issue is that I forgot to switch to the right environment. (So it's nice that the output also shows the current environment that we'll be adding to.) I'm also just used to the convention of 'n' being the the default, for eg. with Linux package managers.
Absolutely! My number is from a city I haven't lived in since 2012. Anyone I know who calls me from that city is definitely in my contacts. Everything else is spam or politicians (also spam, but less so as someone who had voted in local races).
Also the author cites Palestinians and Israelis both relying on WhatsApp as justification for breaking down and regulating Facebook. Pray tell, if nationalized, how many nations would be impartial enough to let both sides continue to use such an (apparently) essential communication platform?
I think you didn't totally read my comment.

No more vendor lock-in because of removal of egress fees. Means they can actually obtain the first-mover advantage and they don't really need a complete offering.

I can't say that i know the impact on AWS in only 6 months. No one can, so they question seems somewhat ridiculous, since it's too little time.

+ The global cloud market is still growing.
These drones are used for light shows.

I'm guessing they tried to run the show too long. It looks like they all start attempting to land before their batteries run out, around the same time...
Is that guaranteed to not leave the package environment in some messed up state?
It looks like they retracted/corrected the angle grinder thing but they didn't use a retraction yet for the "access to office" info, maybe that means that was correct? (for a section of the FB workforce, of course).
A San Francisco judge heard the case because this happened in Fremont (just a handful of miles away).

So OP's point still applies.
10 years ago I had some special tax situation that the two tax preparers I consulted were not familiar with. They took the safe route in preparing the paperwork. So I called up the IRS support line and a specialist talked with me in detail about my situation and told me the proper way to do it and it saved me $5k in taxes.
Sure, but the US also generates about 40% of it's income from personal income taxes, compared to ~25% average across OECD

https://files.taxfoundation.org/20210217111150/Sources-of-ta...
from https://taxfoundation.org/us-tax-revenue-2021/

My guess reading this (and my experience growing up in India) is that many countries simply ignore income taxes (if you're the average schmoe with a regular job and salary, you pay taxes. If you are a business person of some sort, you simply accept cash, hide your income and pay no taxes) and the country makes for this shortcoming with a 20% VAT.
This guy says the people he worked with called him racist names and he saw racist graffiti in the bathroom. It's not like Elon Musk was burning a cross on his lawn.

Rather than worry about the billionaires you might worry how companies will do business if they are subject to massive penalties for racist word use among their employees. "Hey boss, wanna call me racist names for a bit, write some in the bathroom, and split a hundred million?"
I meant specifically the software from this particular article; Illumos and CDE are active open source projects. I'm painfully aware of all the cool tech we've lost over the years, unfortunately.
Awesome info, i will use this config for all servers asap
That's only if you measure success along a single axis (income).
Sir, I would ask your wife if it is OK to share all the usernames and passwords of all websites she has signed up to a stranger. And if she says NO, ask her if she wont share what she know are in her field of view, how can she be sure about the things/data she don't know about knowing big corps put money over your interest at first?

Also - https://www.privacytools.io/
At least among those that can land a jury in San Francisco.
I have been thinking about this problem. The 30 year problem.

Long term key storage, something that can never be forgotten. Hard drives can be stolen, damaged or lost ink on paper can fade away.

But if your key is protected by something timeless and unchanging as long as you remember the formula you can get it back.

A global constant that you can be sure will always be publicly known and unchanged.

Here are some simple examples that you should not use

.com register - two or more long random domains blended in a certain way.

Old letters from famous people

Passage from a Classical book, music ect.

For long term cold storage as soon as you have written it down you have lost it.
Signal, Telegram mint millions of new users on Facebook outage

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/10/5/signal-telegram-...
Even users who know how generally fail to properly store, transmit, and authenticate key material.

https://youtu.be/9k4GP3Evh9c
Zuckerberg Loses $6 in Hours as Facebook Plunges
> but during autorotation the terminal velocity is still much lower than if the blades were fixed

it's not that straightforward, whether or not braking or freewheeling causes more drag depends on the prop.

[1] https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?3753127-Freew...

[2] https://www.peter2000.co.uk/aviation/misc/prop.pdf
Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral Current ∆ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE
The argument is the same for both photon and matter-couplings, but it is easier to think about for photons. If a particle has a photon coupling and has a lower mass than the energy of photons inside the Sun, then there is a chance that a photon can radiate one of those particles.

Have a look at the CAST experiment for one of the standard examples of searches for such particles.

For the layperson (and perhaps everyone), "new light degree of freedom" = new low-mass particle.
Laser printed paper that is thermally laminated should last an entire human lifespan.

There are also little metal punch tools that let you record a BIP32 seed phrase onto a fireproof metal card, which should last at least a couple centuries.
It seems like it is coupled in Facebook:)
You are thinking as a young person valuing money a lot because you like to spend more money. At 90s, people think differently. He played a spaceship captain. He now can be one. And if he died during the trip he will be immortalized for centuries to come.
I bought my first Linux distro in a box on a shelf in a store.
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It's kind of amusing given that employers are usually pretty easy to deduce based on comments…
Croatia to Launch Digital Nomad Village with €520 Monthly Apartment Rentals
Add (2021) to the title?
Interesting that you are asking for the dirt given that DiRT stands for Disaster and Recovery Testing, at least at Google.

Every year there is a DiRT week where hundreds of tests are run. That obviously requires a ton of planning that starts well in advance. The objective is, of course, that despite all the testing nobody outside Google notices anything special. Given the volume and intrusiveness of these tests, the DiRT team is doing quite an impressive job.

While the DiRT week is the most intense testing period, disaster preparedness is not limited to just one event per year. There are also plenty tests conducted througout the year, some planned centrally, some done by individual teams. That's in addition to the regular training and exercises that SRE teams are doing periodically.

If you are interested in reading more about Google's approach to distaster planning and preparedness, you may be interested in reading the DiRT, or how to get dirty section from Shrinking the time to mitigate production incidents—CRE life lessons (https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/shri...)
and Weathering the Unexpected (https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516).
You could make the same argument for any columnar store. Getting fields from one is fast, though, independent of the table they belong to. Joining together row-based tables has more moving parts and much more runtime cost.
This highly illustrated a point for me this morning.

My oldest friend is in a foreign country and has no support network. He left his job yesterday and was overall having a terrible day. He desperately needed me to call him, and WhatsApp has been our primary contact medium since he left the US.

Fast forward to this morning and literally in between “I’ll call you in a few minutes” while I was finishing up morning stuff, WhatsApp suddenly switched to “Connecting…”.

Error messages that appeared were generally along the lines of “you aren’t connected to the internet” although clearly I was.

Meanwhile I was completely separated from my buddy who needed someone to talk to. Until news popped up that FB was having issues I had no idea what was happening.

Personally this reflects poorly on WhatsApp’s design. The error messages don’t make sense and are inconsistent. Clearly their devs aren’t testing for this situation.

More alarmingly, it initially looked like chat was working during the outage. I haven’t confirmed this yet, but I sent sent multiple chat messages that locally appeared to go through while the video/audio connect options were hidden by the “Connecting…” text.

Luckily email still works and I was able to get confirmation my friend was ok, and we had a good lengthy conversation a few hours ago once FB systems came back up.
Texts are super expensive and don't always work between countries, and are even more censored than WhatsApp, and can't always attach images or video or voice (or are even more ludicrously expensive if they can).

It's madness.
Right, there are definitely lots of very normal software projects going on. But it is worth noting that this is a new way that software is being managed and it will be up to some developers to work within it.

I don't agree with the article by the way, I don't see SaaS/cloud computing eating software at all levels.
IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
All the $137M award says is the Jury found itself really pissed off at Tesla. It's basically a notice that Tesla might consider settling these types of claims in the future instead of wasting the Jury's time.
This is a signal that the jury believes Tesla's people are remorseless and/or the violation was especially severe.
More people need to use these services and explain to the operators "I don't have WhatsApp".

Silently caving and giving your data to Facebook perpetuates the status quo.

They will offer alternatives if a few percent of people simply refuse to agree to the Facebook TOS.
> it was an asset, a long-term investment. it's just supposed to be able to sit there growing in value

Did the promise of free money for doing nothing not seem slightly too good to be true to you?
> the billionth reason not to use whatsapp as the de facto phone and text messaging platform

Serious question, what do you suggest the general population should use? Something that still works on a 5-year old Android phone with no software updates in the last 2-3 years (at least), all free of charge.
The kind of tail you’re talking about is baked into DNS at least.

I don’t know enough about BGP to make an informed decision; but at the point the outage is noticed it’s entirely possible that the system has been unavailable for quite some time already.
This is like the hot coffee lady. The purpose for the large fine is to punish the company and prevent them from being able to just carry on as they were with a small amount set aside for lawsuits.
Shit, time to start recording interactions with everyone, I guess. Would've gotten enough evidence for a bunch of cases over the past 6 months alone lol
Thanks for your effort!