skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at an internship in college (large consumer electronics company) one of my daily tasks was to take an export from the ERP system, format it in a specific way, save it to a shared drive and email to a few different people. it was really repetitive, fairly simplistic and the report from the ERP was very consistent.

after about 2 weeks of doing this every day i thought there had to be a way to automate it, so I did. i set the ERP report to be emailed to me, set an email rule to save attachment to desktop with a naming convention (from the specific sender), then my excel macro would identify the current date's file and run roughly 30 min after the report's usual sending time and format it as required, then send to an email list.

this was supposed to be the first hour to hour and a half of my day. once i was confident it worked, i let it rip and enjoyed hour and a half breakfast every morning, or roamed the office talking to other interns, etc.

a couple months later i mentioned to my manager that maybe automate it and save some time but they had no interest and brushed my comment off. so i kept enjoying my breakfast and free time for the rest of my time there.

my "automation" wasn't complicated at all, just took some creative thinking and a bunch of attempts to get it right. sometimes people either a) simply dont want to believe things can be automated because it "devalues" what they do or have done in the past, or b) are happy having tasks like this assigned to underlings so they "know" and can easily explain what that person is doing at any given time.
$90,000 per year is more than enough to max your 401k, an IRA, and live anywhere that isn't a coastal city.
> I'd say…

People do say, but without program measurements…
I agree. I dislike Meta the company and yet the Australian government has managed to make them look good.
> For quite a few sites its the only cookie you actually accept.

If true, they don't need to show the popup.

> google is going to punish you in your rankings if you do not use their integrations too.

If you have evidence of this it would be the basis of a massive antitrust case. (I'm not disagreeing and would not be too surprised, but - real evidence is thin unless you include the AMP carousel which is not technically part of "rankings".)
We know our mRNA vaccines are safe and they worked great against Delta. Also Omicron is not a vaccine-optimized Delta, it is completely different strain that has evolved from an early variant.

A vaccine targeting Delta probably wouldn't have fared better against Omicron. In fact, it could have been even worse.

While making a new variant-optimized vaccine is easy and takes about a week, and maybe they have already done it. But it still takes months to test it and to produce it at scale. One thing for sure, it wouldn't have been ready for the current wave.

I think one reason we don't have an omicron-specific vaccine underway is that we came out lucky with this variant. It is less deadly and vaccines are still effective against severe disease. If anything, the spread creates natural immunity. My guess is that the next big wave, which I hope will never happen, will not be Omicron but instead a new variant that escapes immunity offered by an Omicron pre-infection or vaccine.

I think people are now looking for a more generic anti-coronavirus vaccine, capable of protection against all variants of SARS-CoV-2, and possibly other coronaviruses like SARS. But it is not as simple as copy-pasting the genetic code of the spike protein like with current vaccines.
Compare these two sentences:

> Having such a marriage in this day and age is truly a luxury, reserved only for the deepest of lovers.

> Having such a marriage is truly a luxury, reserved only for the deepest of lovers.

One contains a positive claim that something is worse now than it was before, which I think invites dispute and is entirely unnecessary anyway. It's a fine sentiment without the judgement.
I think we need the government to decide exactly what technical parts should be produced with the production of semiconductors. Maybe they can make a 5 year plan for exactly what parts to produce and who gets them. Then we don't have to worry about any newtech coming in and disruping our current lives! /s
I use a map-maker app for creating game levels, the data is stored on a central server when it's saved.

A 4kx4k map layer section, in RGBA is 64MB. Each layer on the map has multiple types of mask applied (brushed alpha, brushed noise-function,...) so there's another 64MB of XXXX data per layer. A map can have (say) 10 layers on it, so we're up to 1GB, and then there's the data for ephemeral layers ("stamped" images at co-ords and scale, alpha,rotation). The stamps themselves are usually stored in an 8kx8k layer so that's another 256MB

When your 'save' action is 1.5GB of data, a 10Gbe network is much preferred over a 1 Gbe network...

All of this is rendered down for production of course, but during development, each layer is kept separate along with its masks.
I reckon the opposite will happen - no single government will be able to implement unreasonable censorship, because there will be a higher bar for accepting blocks. Or are you arguing that Orban and Kaczynski have more control in Bruxelles than at home? Because that's definitely not the case; if anything, they are more isolated at European level than they are in their own countries.
What made it reallyclick for me is understanding the internals and how git works. Then all the terms like head, branch, parent, commit, tree, etc. made sense for me and the way git commands work is intuitive.

I still have to look up the order of arguments for commands like git rebase, but overall, it makes complete sense.

I can really recommend "Pro Git" by Chacon and Straub. I got a printed version, but it is also available under the CC-NC-SA here: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
They're plainly against any work at all right now. If they shift towards better working conditions and pay, then great.
Clickbait title. I hoped for an actual story of a nine-year-old kid who pulled this off.
Since they're claiming the tried and true "Won't somebody think of the children!" past work on the matter seems relevant.

https://nypost.com/2020/06/10/how-facebook-helped-feds-catch...
Energy is not on a free market in many places

If there weren't subsidies (& in fact, a carbon tax), I'd agree with you
I've started three businesses in the EU and I can't say I share your feelings.

Regarding the Impressum ("imprint"), the information you need to put on your website is already public, since the address of your company is recorded in the commercial register when you incorporate it. It can be annoying to have to use your home address, I agree, but there are plenty of coworking spaces or even just mailbox services that can solve this problem.

Regarding Google Analytics, I don't find it a competitive disadvantage to have to host analytics software that is less detrimental to user privacy.

Are there any other issues or annoyances you ran into that contribute to the impression you stated?
You could try Project CARS - Pagani Edition on Steam; it's a free (sponsored) version of the racing sim Project Cars "1". Whether you like the controls is up to you, I found the VR experience quite good. Without any Gs however, it is lackluster even in comparison to my not-so-powerful "real" car.
I guess I’m gonna be a little teary eyed this morning. Fantastic writing.
I always thought it was a little strange given that layers are easily CDN-cacheable indefinitely. That said I'm sure they're using something like a CDN but even the cheapest bandwidth gets expensive at level of scale.
The highest average bandwidth shown was 73 mbps. You probably need 150mbps to comfortably play 1 4k move, but once you are looking at the effect 4k movies have on higher bandwidths, average bandwidth becomes more relevant. You could pretty easily stream 10 4k movies over a 1gbps channel since the odds that all of them will be over 100mbps at the same time is low (and even if it happens briefly, it will be handled by buffering).
> Even if you can tell a compelling story about how they carefully encrypt everything right now, you're always a silent update away from it all being dumped on the internet.

This is also true for your operating system updates, browser, browser extensions, compilers, the infrastructure for your email service provider, any libraries those things use etc. Not to mention your local password manager. Even if you don't accept push updates, do you evaluate the code? What if the vulnerability was timed to pop a few weeks after release? What if it was included in an update that patched a major vulnerability so you went faster than your normal process afforded? Even if you have a local firewall that stops external connections from unrecognized programs— what if it's a whitelisted program or the operating system or the firewall itself?

Why would you a password manager's encryption less than you would trust your email service's encryption? I'd bank on the password managers' being a lot more robust.

What about RATs that could access your local password database? RATs are a lot more common than cloud service breaches.

And as I mentioned previously, Dell shipped a hardware trojan in 2010.

There are tons of single-point attack vectors in this chain. I'm not a security expert, but storing encrypted data in cloud storage seems less likely than others be a viable target.

> Having your main email account compromised seems like an absolute nightmare where you potentially lose control of every single service that you subscribe to (banking, utilities, cell phone (so maybe 2fa is even broken), medical portals, social media, etc).
> Having your entire set of passwords compromised is like that on steroids. Rather than your attacker having to use your email to get to each of those services one at a time, they just have them immediately. And who says you'll even know that your stuff was compromised?

Let's say they did compromise your email account. Since only a few of your accounts are genuinely consequential to nefarious criminals, the number of password resets they'd need to execute might set them back, what— 5 minutes if it's not scripted? And all of it is moot if you use a 2FA method aside from email? Beyond that, considering how much more frequently email accounts get compromised, singling out the storage location for password manager databases seems pretty arbitrary.

I just don't see how the opposition stands up to a comparison of attack vectors.
> And in return, basic operations like merge/rebase start breaking in unintuitive ways.

I just haven't had the same experience at all. Could we work through a specific example?

> I rebase my changes. I have changes in RobustToolbox that are only visible in Git Bash. Other Git clients show no changes.

That's because git-submodule doesn't really interconnect across repos (not much anyways). A submodule is a completely separate repo, with its own stage, commit history, etc. It doesn't even know that it's a being used as a submodule.

Committing/merging/rebasing in your submodule doesn't change the parent. And committing/merging/rebasing in your parent doesn't change the submodule (aside from maybe what commit is checked out).
I was expecting a piece on boston dynamics...
Which is a good read if anyone is interested in robotics/ros/drone stuff
Looks like your form is restricted to org members only
As a 1password user on Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox, and Android, dear god I hope that doesn't happen.
Very neat primitive. Congrats on getting it out!
They keep lowering blood requirements. Lots of mexicans claiming to be parts of tribes when in reality they genocided he california natives. Federal government wants to dilute the blood line to eventually take the reservation lands.
They aren't really exploiting the system in any meaningful or clever way.

This is akin to ripping down all the posters in the hallway. It's not a thing to be thankful for - it's a thing assholes do.
> On average, renters are behind three months’ rent and owe $2,550.

850/month, what a dream. I haven't seen that rate in a few years and I'd have to give up in-unit washer/drier to get that.
Atomic (YC S20) Is Hiring Senior Back End Engineers (Golang)
Is there any practical way for anyone but the user to access any of the stored info?
This is the first interesting thing thehustle has put out in... 24 months? Years ago they mostly did interesting, somewhat silly, stories like this. Then they doubled down on the same blogy micronews content every other company pushes out and became one of many. They got acquired so I guess it worked out, for the founders at least.

Nice to see them returning to form.
This is why I've always loved the Expanse series of books and the TV show. AI is there, but its not up front and central. In fact, its never really even mentioned in any of the books. It's just treated as ambient expert system software in the background. It's just there and not discussed.
So with other word, schools cyber security is garbage?
Are you sure the boss would agree, if he would fully know and understand the situation?
I'll take "Acquisitions that Google ran into the ground" for $800, Alex.

Answer: They used to be the leading restaurant review book, pre-internet. Google bought it in 2011, and has now sold it off.

Question: what is Zagat?

Let's continue for $1,000.

Answer: This Schaumburg, IL company was a pioneer in electronics before the smartphone era. Google paid $12.5 billion for a division of it in 2012, and has now sold it off.

Question: What is Motorola?
https://cronhub.io (a project I just took over). Makes about 1k/month for now.
I'm generally in support of website owners having to publish a certain amount of information about who operates the site. Especially when the site is commercial in nature or collects visitor data.

If you're publishing ads, sending people to affiliate links, selling products, whatever, you're operating a business. All businesses should be held to a minimum standard of accountability.
Lab-Leak Whitewash 'The Death of Science' – Prof Who Found 'Fingerprints'
Most indie makers build their product first and only incorporate if it becomes big. If ever.
What has worked for you to make timeblocking actually effective?
> The site was created in 2006 with little knowledge of security, so passwords were stored in md5() hashes without salt

Read as: In the last fifteen years we couldn't be bothered to fix our glaring security hole.
I watched a similar thing happen once. A greybeard was brought in to whip things into shape. He did so. Automated everything and made 100+ linux boxes run like a top. New owners came in, and they weren't the nice kind. He got stressed out and had a heart attack and was gone for several weeks. Things hummed along while he was gone, and his perceived value went down because things "ran just fine without him", ignoring that it was because of him.

They ended up firing him and giving me his responsibilities, which was a laugh because he and I had drastically different jobs, and he was far more experienced and capable in system administration and automation than I was. I too left less than a year later.
1984 was an instruction manual. Orwell based it off of his experiences writing propaganda for the BBC during WW2. At the time his wife was a censor for the Ministry of Information. He was writing about 1940's Britain, not a hypothetical 1984 Britain.
2021 – YC Year in Review
SpaceX’s bus route to LEO continues
There is so much wrong with this. There are legal processes for the US gov't to request that data legally. Any other means of obtaining that data is illegal even if it is done by an entity within the gov't. This isn't the CCP.

Google Analytics isn't better at anything other than their marketing has convinced everyone that it is a must have. If you believe 100% of the data from GA is accurate, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Thanks! We are excited to have it out in the world, and I've really loved using it myself. I never did timeblocking/timeboxing effectively before, but it really has changed how productive and focused I am each day.
Its 2 countries, based on the site (which honestly seems low) I would say its pretty insignificant to be anything but an ad.
3 buck per month? Family sharing for 5 buck? Nah, this is the typical bait&switch strategy (same as Netflix). It is cheap now. But it won't be cheap in the future.
Cobra Kai was the only youtube original I watched. Time to time I checked the "Originals" section, but it's seem all contents are/were about US-centered social justice stuff...
Sadly the UK took that hit for the others, making the disadvantages of leaving very clear. So these guys will continue staying in the tent while pissing inside of it, sadly. But sooner or later a reckoning will happen, either in Europe or in their own countries.
Ask HN: Is my DropZap World game good enough for a v1.0 release? [video, beta]
DropZap World is a falling block game with lasers.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUGJO1t7abA

TestFlight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CdEXgjst [iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/macOS]

All 100 levels are unlocked to facilitate beta testing.

Any feedback would be appreciated!
Are you able to keep a shelter over your head and food in your belly without work?
This exchange has been the long drawn out version of:

> > Story

> r/thathappened

r/nothingeverhappens

---

Where subreddit "ThatHappened" is a sarcastic one, a response to far-fetched and unlikely sounding stories, implying they are not true. Such response has been overdone enough that subreddit "NothingEverHappens" has become a reply implying that unlikely sounding things actually do happen.

And all of it is a real-world version of the joke "a person walks into a bar, and hears one of the regulars say 'number 38' and the other regulars laugh. A bit later another one says 'number 17' and they laugh. The person asks a regular what's going on, and they say 'we have all been here so long and told the same jokes so often that we know all the same jokes and just refer to them by numbers. Try one yourself'. The person says 'number 22'. Nobody laughs. The regular shrugs, eh, it's the way you tell 'em".

But suggesting that joke plays out in real life might be r/thathappens . But it does happen, and people do laugh.
FSD is not involved in this case.
I believe they are looking for something like PiHole, but a fully software solution. Not sure whether they are looking to go the open-router-firmware route or the route of some ublockOrigin config though.
Just in the sense that a job was displaced by automation, so the worker is collecting a check from someone wealthy that benefits from said automation.
They are completely different things, and where available should be used together.

SELinux is a policy system where policy is enforced via labels.

Labels are applied to processes which classify what the process is.

Labels are applied to files which define the what classification of process can access the file.

The application of labels happens automatically based on policy. Such policy would include the location of the file or the label of the parent process.

As an example, the default policy for httpd would prevent httpd from accessing /etc/passwd even though the process is running as (or can be) the root user.
I believe you could also do interesting things like prevent httpd from opening a socket on a non-standard port if you wanted to.

SELinux is very powerful but complicated. Ideally you use this with distro packages which should have policies already configured for you.

Critically it is not one vs the other. Use both if you have it.
Twitter had a venture led Series A in July 2007

https://techcrunch.com/2007/07/29/more-information-on-that-s...
That would be sweet if I mixed this up! Will have to look into it. Thanks!
Suspect in Anne Frank’s Betrayal to Nazis Identified
Given the way people wax lyrical about Immersed.com on the Quest, you might find that anyone who does a lot of terminal work gravitates towards it. That's not a small market. I can see the attraction: if both the computer and the screen are head-mounted, that's a lot of boxes and wires that can just go away.

It does depend on the environment implementation, mind you.
How does that work for their web based browser extension?
F-Droid lists at least 4 Keepass-compatible password managers (KeePassDX, KeePassDroid etc.).

Is there one which is best for most users?
FreeBSD 13.0 Base Jails with ZFS and VNET
Agreed. It's beyond nuts evaluation at this point.
> Excellent passthrough: I want to interior design my rooms with VR

This is a tangent, but i wish this was a thing now, even without VR. The last few years of iphone and ipad have lidar, which has led to pretty solid 3d scanner apps. In five minutes, i have a whole 3d model of the interior of my house. I wish there were good consumer apps to use that and design in.
In the old world, a company would build the television, another would broadcast shows, another would measure the audience and another would measure sales to compare with media investments.

Which of those steps Google does today? All of them, from browser to
YouTube to shopping to audience data and sales measurements. This is not a case of "old people ranting about how the old world was simpler and better", it's a case of conflict of interest. But this isn't something new, everyone in the industry has been seeing that for two decades now, it's just something no one cares enough to pick a fight.
For an organization with effectively infinite money, Google is very stingy when it comes entering a new space. Netflix sunk hundreds of millions of dollars on originals from the start. For every hit like House of Cards, there was a flop like Marco Polo, but this is still what kept Netflix relevant to this day. Meanwhile, the only YouTube Original I've heard of is Cobra Kai, and even that seemed relatively low budget.

The same goes for Stadia too. The platform is good enough, but there just isn't much incentive for people to join it.
It's incredible the amount of, "VR was bad for me when I tried it" comments that show up on every VR post. It's an emerging technology. Desktops now vs desktops 40 years ago ate ass.

I'm not ready to spend all day in a vr headset but I'm glad some people are.
A simple DDoS isn't a cyber security issue.
I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner. It was obvious for a long time that they were not interested in making any substantial content investments. Which is a shame since no one was able to make video streaming experience better than Youtube. And I think Google Stadia will have the same fate. They dissolved their own studios, almost stopped investment into 3rd party games and, likely, won't be able to keep up with xCloud and Geforce Now if they don't radically change their strategy.
My guess is there is something in right traffic that they aren't allowed to fly over, or there is terrain/tall buildings potentially making it dangerous in inclement weather
I'm not sure I agree that history is "naturally" a series of diffs. Recording snapshots is natural enough for me; you just store whatever the state is at commit time. Diffs are generated by comparing two different states. No version control stores all the changes you make between two commits, only an approximation of them to get from one state to another.

Git's "problem" is that you can get identical content via different routes, but due to the way git fundamentally works, history is part of the snapshot and two snapshots with identical contents but different ancestry are not the same. Actually implementing a system that handles this properly is far from trivial, and git makes the tradeoff in favour of implementation simplicity.
Assuming the story is true, they're preying on ignorance. You're describing normal employment and service contracting. The law firm has a huge misconception about the complexity of the task and the human labor required for normal and exceptional operations. Even the spreadsheet sanity checking could probably be automated. This is a few thousand dollars of consultant time to setup, and maybe a few thousand/year to maintain.