skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> fraud isn't purely limited to gains. Where the heck did you get that from?

The common and legal definition of "fraud".
> The failure and successes of the response should be distinctly studied to determine a better course of action for the next pandemic.

For sure. I bet the authors agree. But wouldn't one necessarily need to answer "Did X meaningfully change during the pandemic?" before answering "How much of that change is attributable to which specific causes?"

This is a finding answers the first question and makes it a lot easier to fund research into the second. Every political strategist, economist, sociologist, historian, epidemiologist, and public health official wants answers to the same questions as you -- even while some anticipate a different answer than you might.

It just takes a minute to get there and there's some preliminary research to publish along the way.
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I suppose offline access is nice. I think I'd rather pay for the ability to just download the whole site in some officially supported way. Priming a PWA baked into browser storage is a little roundabout. I want it to be grepable.
We parallelized 600 Pandas functions with Modin
Am I an outlier or does their head of product not really appear to have a bead on what developers actually want?
Hackers Provide Livestream of Dozens of Cameras Inside Russia
Wow, why is that the only alternative?
I’ve used both Bionic Reading while on Reeder, and the Open Dyslexic font while on Kindle, for several years to similar effect.

My personal finding is that it makes the work my eyes need to do to keep on the line, and move from line to line easier.

But I will note that the largest increase in reading speed for me, up to 800 words per minute, came from single word focusing. There are tools, such as speed reader mode in Emacs, or an old browser extension called Squid, that take the readable text and put it all on one line, then move the text through a window that stays fixed on the screen.

By training yourself to relax and not read the words aloud, I was able to increase my reading speed from around 200 wpm to over 800 wpm. The trick is to slowly ramp up the speed, and not just jump up to the fastest speed possible. It’s also important to remember to blink.

Alternatively, text to speech works for to in a similar way, and I’ve found that I can handle 2.5x - 3.5x speeds after a few hours of training. As a bonus, nobody else can decider what you’re listening to, and you get some funny looks.

Let me know if others have found similar techniques to work for them.
There is some space to earn money by providing "curriculum" for self-taught devs.
All these features are available using other existing tools. This is just a nudge to donate to a worthy cause.
> and better privacy/security than a webapp.

Can you elaborate on this?
Yes, but they warm up every day and keep their skills honed. And the reed players spend many hours making reeds. edit: there are also many hours of score study and listening to recordings involved. And there are often 3 or more concert sets of different music to learn each week.

Young musicians and professionals often practice in excess of eight hours per day if/until they win an audition for a group that has enough salary to sustain them.

Most professional orchestras rehearse 3-4 times for what's usually called a "Masterworks" ie the usual subscription concerts. Only something like a pops or light classics concert will be one rehearsal and a show.
Tell him to try kratom if he hasn't.
Indeed, without clicking into it, my first thought was "why would anyone pay for free documentation?", but notifications in itself are actually pretty useful for web developers to stay on top of the landscape.

I've also never downloaded a PWA before, but using it for docs actually makes a lot of sense. I like to look things up on my phone as I think about them throughout the day when I'm not at the computer, and a PWA should make this a lot faster and reliable.
I feel like that sometimes.
People who criticize Apple for forcing their users to spend tons of money on new phones every year (via forced obsolescence) should be cheering this decision.

The techno-libertarian wing of HN will be incensed about this decision, but this move by Apple is clearly within their thoughts about reducing their environmental impact through reusing more of their iphones. When a user wants to upgrade, they can just return their phone to apple without the friction of having to resell it.
“One cringes to hear scientists cooing over the universe or any part thereof like schoolgirls over-heated by their first crush. From the studies of Krafft-Ebbing onward, we know that it is possible to become excited about anything—from shins to shoehorns. But it would be nice if just one of these gushing eggheads would step back and, as a concession to objectivity, speak the truth: THERE IS NOTHING INNATELY IMPRESSIVE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE OR ANYTHING IN IT.”
― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Mozilla ought to consider offering a bundle, at the moment they have several scattered offerings.

Mozilla VPN (Mullvad)

Firefox Relay

MDN Plus

Mozilla Pocket Premium

Any others?

Though I can see why it's currently scattered, it's not necessary that a VPN user cares about MDN or Pocket.
I won't blame them -- It seems to be the hard-to-customize youtube embed that's breaking it.
Ah yes, the think of the children argument. This is why other nice things like chemistry sets and science fiction / fantasy books are also banned.
Honestly, this movie is the most realistic fictional depiction. It's time range is before, during and after:

Threads (1984) via https://youtu.be/5Srqyd8B9gE

And if you want to know how the world would like after the movie Threads, read the following book:

A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz
How would knowing about a popular text editor discredit a “security guy”
Who ever said the response to the pandemic was supposed to be without painful consequences? If the response to cancer is chemotherapy, that can be way more painful and inconvenient than the cancer itself, at least in the short run...the hope is to solve the problem so it doesn't end up killing you.
> This makes it operationally challenging to reuse host names. If prod01.example.com has a hardware failure, and it’s replaced with a new host using the same name, host key verification failures will ensue.

A new machine should just have a new name. If one really wants to pretend that it's the old one, they'd better really copy it, including the keys. But even skipping that, sorting this out doesn't seem like a big deal (at least at a small scale; I suspect the article makes more sense in some scenarios than in others).

> Curiously, OpenSSH chooses to soft-fail with an easily bypassed prompt when the key isn’t known (TOFU), but hard-fails with a much scarier and harder to bypass error when there’s a mismatch.

Seems to me like a sensible behaviour for TOFU, not sure what's curious about it. Sounds like it implies that an unknown key is at least as bad as a different-than-known key, but that sounds wrong in context of TOFU.

> Once the user completes SSO, a bearer token (e.g., an OIDC identity token) is returned to the login utility. The utility generates a new key pair and requests a signed certificate from the CA, using the bearer token to authenticate and authorize the certificate request.

So the weakest point will likely be the SSO and the related infrastructure, instead of SSH and actual keys, and you'll probably depend on third-party services and/or custom/uncommon self-hosted infrastructure. Likely with a SPOF too. Doesn't sound good in general.

It probably does make sense in some organizations, but this particular setup doesn't seem to apply to all SSH uses, and to justify the title.
Which is why I installed openssh-server on my OpenWrt hosts. However, due to a bug [0] in openssh-server package in the latest 21.02.2 release of OpenWrt, OpenSSH doesn't allow you to login in failsafe mode on an OpenWrt host. Because my OpenWrt host lacked a recovery mode, it was essentially soft bricked.

I was able to recover it using the serial port but even after all this, the comfort of using SSH certificates on all of my nodes was enough to keep making me use it instead of Dropbear.

[0]: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/17833
There is a potential benefit to them for having smaller vouchers. But such a program would need to be framed as such and the merits of that program would need to be debated. Current voucher programs use the artificially inflated size of the voucher to argue that low-income students are the prime beneficiaries. My sneaking suspicion is that a program designed predominantly for middle income individuals at the expense of low income ones wouldn’t have the broad base of support necessary to become policy.
Looking happy and dancing around like that is also part of what they are paying for at the gig.
You're correct, but also, "the pandemic" in that sense is so broad that it's not super helpful. It often feels equivalent to saying "the culture of the 60s produced Jimi Hendrix". What culture? What about it? Just artistic trends, or economic factors, or political factors? (which are themselves hand-wavy terms, and not all inclusive). It feels lazy
if guy had never heard of Vim id be a little taken aback.
however it is a very investigative stance, to say "No, I dont know what vim is, perhaps you could tell me about it."
The market does not price in externalities. That's why they call them that. Nuclear has significantly cheaper externalities than fossil fuels. You should prefer it, and subsidize it in kind.
Agree that both are expensive to scale on multiple node. But keep in mind, you can use it with a single node (like others do with a database like mysql).

Just don't go multiple node if not needed by the project. But when you will need to, with Kestra you can go multiple node and scale.
This is Russia we are talking about right? A country that has had countless uprisings of literal serfs with farming implements replacing their government.
I find that serverless is often so much slower than my $5 VPS. I like making Next.js apps with backend API routes. When I run them on Vercel they're verrry slow, even once you get past the cold starts. Running it on my own little droplet makes it incredible fast and snappy.
It depends on whether that cost is higher or lower than the value you get from paying customers (plus goodwill)---i.e., it's a customer acquisition cost. And whether this particular method of customer acquisition is more or less cost-effective than other methods.

Since they're doing this, I assume they've done the analysis and determined this is no longer cost effective for them. But I'm surprised, because (a) they'll lose goodwill, and (b) what's their alternative plan for customer acquisition? I don't think Gitlab has grown to the point where they can afford to cut their growth, but I don't see how they're going to avoid that on the path they're going down.
Collections seems completely redundant when we have the ability to use favorites/bookmarks within our browser.

Unless i'm missing something that makes collections significantly different/better.
No, I haven't "constructed something, labelled it the natural numbers and derived axioms from its properties". For me, the negative numbers are an aspect of nature and I came across them by observation (well, other people did this and someone told me about them when I was a kid, but I can now observe them). Similarly to how I might observe trees and see that there's a property of greenness to their leaves, and then come up with a word to describe what I see. I think we're working on a different ontology of what mathematics is.

Saying you "found something in nature" doesn't really relieve you of choice here, because there is more than one way to create a system of "integers" that contain negative integers, just like there are several different systems of natural numbers.

I think you're talking about something like a non-standard model of the Peano axioms? My understanding is that this can only put in new 'numbers' c such that n < c for all natural numbers n. So, sure I've chosen a specific model of these axioms, but the model agrees with all other models for every finite number.

Either way I don't really see why making a choice here detracts from my argument; numbers exist as a part of nature, and we can describe them with Peano axioms and a choice of model. I didn't assume any (specific mathematical) axioms in the first place, I assumed that reality exists and that anything that can be conceived of is a part of reality. I personally confirm for myself that this is true by observation, although you may not have done so for yourself.

But it's not inevitable in the sense that introducing additive inverses into your system of numbers forces you to conclude that, say, negative numbers satisfy the distributive property.

I don't really get what point you’re making here
Not to be mean, but I did not understand anything from the landing page about what the product/service does. So confusing...
The key role ‘visibility’ plays in healthcare’s cybersecurity resilience
Lots of fun. Then I got to level 12... :)
Are they going to rehire all the dedicated editors and staff they laid off?

Or is this really just charging money for all their now open source contributed content...
Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood
Ah yes, children building X-Ray machines and pulsejet engines without parental supervision, of course.
On the plus side, there’s not much sifting to do. The OS ran in 256 kilobytes of memory, and shipped on five 5¼ inch floppy disks.

Given the size of the code, once you’ve found the dialog, I guess backtracking to see how it can get called isn’t too hard (a fuzzer that you can ask “give me a series of inputs that gets this procedure called” might even answer that question for you)
Someone is gaining from wind farms claiming power output numbers they don't produce. This website is grossly overestimating the output of wind farms. Seems plausible there's a relationship between those.
The trouble is that disagreeing with someone always has at least two effects: Changing viewers' confidence in the original claims, and taking some of the status of the original claimant as a person who makes correct claims.

It would be nice if human communication had some sort of predicate whereby you could remove the second effect from your argument. But AFAIK it depends almost entirely on trusting the audience to decouple the argument from the arguer, which only a very few audiences can be trusted to do.
The harm done is very clear: the indented implication that Ukraine is controlled by Nazis is intended to justify Russia's illegal and unjustified war which is about control by Russia, and helps no one in Ukraine.
AFAIK they can't even handle USB3
I know and use both. I use Delphi for desktop GUI applications and C++ for backend servers. Works like a charm. I use other languages / frameworks as well. Trying to stick to a single tool / tech is possible but not very wise.
2 days to flatten the curve
I generally favour the Rogerian approach of always looking for the
most generous interpretation of common goals and values that night be
separated by language, assumptions or unfortunate experiences that
have become crystalised into generalised anecdotes. Other thinkers
who've suggested similar manners to Rogers are Jurgen Habermas and
Paulo Freire. These boil down to:

- Be truthful

- Use pragmatic epistemology, don't over-intellectualise

- Expect and offer sincerity

- Aim for universalisation/inclusive and non-self-contradiction

- Always assume good faith

- Use concrete rather than abstract statements

- Good, careful humour, but don't soften hard truths

- Make contributions relevant and timely

- Beware self-deception and rationalisation

- Use the minimum facts necessary to make any point

I think if one keeps these in mind, it's always okay to offer
arguments without warning, seeking permission, treading on eggshells
or feeling the need to credentialise or excessively qualify a
response.
It's a real shame that they threw away Firefox Send. It would've been a great addition to that bundle.
> ACeP seems to handle 16 shades of ink for each ink, CMYW - like usual monochrome E Ink -, for a total of 16 bits for colour definition - 65536 options ("colours").

where do you see that stated?
If the typical private school admitted student costs a district $6000 while the average student costs $9000, it seems like a $3000 voucher helps the public school funding situation rather than harming it, while simultaneously allowing some middle-class families to elect private school who couldn’t pay the full amount.
Cool. But please fix that light gray text on white background in the demo (or make it even paler for more avant-garde :)
I know at least one person who's using openbsd _precisely_ because it is a low-maintenance and relatively safe option that still supports their i386 hardware.
>this one activist, Masuda Sultan, said we could just release some funds -- $5M or $10M -- and see what happens.

Afghanistan can swing that much almost overnight by selling few MD-530s left by US https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58393763
That won't go to the firefox team, since the Firefox team is under the Mozilla Corporation whereas donations can only go to the Mozilla Foundation.
I build a desktop data IDE that helps you query files, APIs, databases; script the results; and graph/export. It was important to me to be desktop-first so that you can try it out at work without needing to go through the rigmarole required of a SaaS data analysis product. It'd be as hard to get permission for as installing Sublime or DBeaver.

If I got funding or this becomes sustainable I'd be interesting in building native versions.

https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
Combining scripts and DSLs is Kotlin’s most underrated feature
> if I were asked if it was justified to seize or destroy an oligarch supporting Putin's property or yacht or whatever, then I'd say absolutely.

Those are targeted actions taken against specific individuals, not an indiscriminate attack.

Causing indescriminant harm to random people as an attempt to protest is not acceptable. Targeted harm has to be assessed on a case by case basis.
I am a big fan of using the CDM to understand and explain things clearly. I especially liked the graphic in this post that shows the awareness levels and the boom within the CDM.
I'm more at contemplating what level of "kingpin" could run technical operations that tight and also move a buncha drugs. I think the stress might ruin my stomach in a week.
It's not just Wordle proper, though, it's all the variants...Nerdle, Worldle, Heardle, Dordle/Quordle/Octordle/etc...
The Land Before Binary (2018)
Additional couple GBs of RAM is not expensive. Especially for something you use professionally to make money.

It's like a carpenter using a hatchet because a bench plane costs more money.
This might be true for social media but for a news app, they control their own pace.
The business of making movies means that people in the industry are constantly having to find new work. Having their name advertised is probably helpful in landing a job on the next film.

Software development is supposed to be a more steady career, so the need to constantly advertise yourself isn't as pressing. That said if you want to move up and get bigger paychecks it definitely helps to get your name out there.
Two other big upsides to SMR's, which I don't see mentioned:

- If 'most all of the expensive parts are shipped in from the factory, very late in the construction process - then there's far less construction debt to float (vs. traditional reactors), while years of regulatory, NIMBY, etc. legal crap drags out.

- If your modest-sized country (think of Europe) has a bunch of SMR's...that's a sort of "our lights will not go out" energy security which recent events has made far more attractive. Gas pipeline from now-untouchable Russia? Natural gas wells in Texas that stopped working in cold weather? Massive spikes in wholesale energy prices? Solar or hydro-stored power from a country that "seemed stable and friendly when we cut the deal"? Calm & cloudy winter days, that you didn't spend enough $$$$ on storage to get through? SMR's sound like an insurance policy against a whole lot of nasty surprises.
Isn't that just saying that impressiveness is not objective?
I work in the banking industry which has a bit of regulation, and is a bit risk-averse. People are expected to engage in risk management at all levels. If sabotaging became more common, OSS adoption would likely become unacceptable at these organizations. Mine already blocks Github and you need to request permission just to view it, and even then you can't pull code via command line.

Putting in code that is destructive like that, for any reason, is a good and fast way to scare management away from using your code. If you are going to insist on doing that stuff, just engage in hacking on the side lol.
That still doesn't sound right. There is a homeless problem in the UK but in terms of people living on the street that number is quite small. Food bank usage on the other hand is huge. The situation in the UK is quite different to what we hear about the US.
You're right that it's possible, and electron development isn't free, but it's significantly easier for a team of two than it is to maintain native Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

One way I think of Electron is that it's fine if it's a primary app I'm using, but when it's a side thing that I have to leave open (Spotify, Slack), it can annoying. I agree that I'd rather native apps for better performance and resource usage, but I understand the developer's plight.
I believe these all rely on MDN under the hood for their web docs
We've had "Gay Rights", the "Trans Rights / etc" people are being all militant, is it finally time for the zoophiles to discover their political power? Turtle Fvckers Liberation Front, anyone?
I looked at maybe a dozen of these decks. The only one that made any kind of sense to me was AirBnB's.

I've never raises funds, or even watched it happen. But given how these decks are so varied, how important are they? Is there any kind of rhyme and reason to the art of deck building?

If any thing, each seems to be a one-off meant for a very narrow audience.

If so, then the takeaway lesson is "Know your audience"?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Tale as old as time. Give a free tier to get people to store their data with you and then pull the rug when they’re too committed to leave. Should be illegal.
You can add: photonicinduction. Everybody looks crazy until they're next to this dude. The dimensions involved scare me, and his "goes to 11 is not enough" attitude makes it even worse.
That would create an explosion of code to handle edge cases that should never happen when interacting with the DB, or worse, pretending everything's alright and letting everything blow up in your face later.
Just got off the phone with AWS, they say no they won't take payment in "customer good will"???
I'm currently creating a forthcoming desktop app for Windows and Linux, a special kind of project management software. It's in early alpha but already has features that no web app could possibly have such as loading a directory tree with hundreds of thousands of files within 700 milliseconds (and it's not even optimized yet).