skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh. I don't disagree. Do what works for you. I've tended towards long tenures--dot-bomb aside--but certainly don't think there's anything virtuous in that. Just what worked for me.
I didn't get the notice - heroku account from August 2019 that I haven't used since then.
Minimum of 16 characters??

Do they not have any fraud screening or rate limiting on these things, 2FA on unknown devices or something?

I've had my same password forever (I'm old) on google without issue) that is scary short. However, when I login from a new device or every 30 days or go to an admin / security page it asks me to stick my yubico key into my computer. Works fine.

Is this same password used for high volume API stuff without anything else? Normally that's with an access token type system (at least on AWS). Those, yes, should be highly complex. The AWS access / secret key combo is ridiculous frankly in length (mixed case + numbers + symbols) * 40.
The future will have to wait (2006)
Totally disagree.

This is a feature that, with govt cooperation , could have led to criminal punishment.

There were already government punishments for COVID in place just not coordinated with big tech.
Practical advises on recommendation systems in production
One approach I like (tell me if I'm mistaken!) is to pass things in the environment but read and remove them immediately on startup. This prevents leaking your secrets accidentally if you spawn another process etc., and has the advantage that you can use a secret store in production but raw env vars in development.
This actually looks really nice
Public Comments on the CMF (California Math Framework)
Yeah, same here. I have accelerated my plans to move to either GCP or AWS. I am evaluating both and plan to move to Kubernetes... even though I'd been avoiding it as long as possible.
None of my previous employers still exist. And I'm close to retirement. (And my current employer is now a subsidiary.)
might be kludgey but i wonder if bash coproc would help, it basically can send stdout to a named pipe that makes it avail as a environment variable fike descriptor.
Unless it's changed in the past hour, status.heroku.com shows a green checkbox and "No known issues at this time."
Trial and error. The velocity of information exchange that happens on the ground from trial and error - compounded by network effects - is far higher than the exchange that is happening in substantially smaller (CDC) groups at the top with slower speed. They don't iterate as fast and have a bias to move slow.

More importantly. Average knowledge is not important. What matters is that exchange happens so that the optimal decision is arrived at and communicated much faster by a large group , even if each individual knows very little information themselves.

This is the same principle that rules over new tech adoption. You don't need to know how to replicate the new tech, or even how to operate it.

You just need to know it works . That's what real (applied?) knowledge is about, at least in the context above.
All you do is keep a history of Password + Salt. When you change the password you hash the password against all historical salts, if one of those matches then you know the password has been re-used.
I'll have whatever this guy is having.
may not be related - and def a tiny little data point -

I sent heroku an email about a week or bit more ago - complaining that I had gotten a very well crafted phishing email - which was seriously very clever in it's timing (or just blind lucky for them, as I was changing servers and dns and things within 48 hours of this) - that made it look I needed to login and do something with server credentials or something similar.. and the link to click to fill info went to a heroku app with a name attached to it..

So I emailed them and asked them to look into it to see if it was overly obvious that user XY was getting clicks and if they had set up some sort of official looking form to phish server accounts or something like that - memory a bit foggy in the midst of so many changes past couple weeks.

Never heard back from them, but maybe my email helped them realize some things were not being used as they should of been authorized to be used for. Maybe not.
The Lore of Large Numbers by Philip J. Davis. Out of print, but used copies available.
Guessing that there was no rake? How were the dealers being paid, though?
> But if you accept a particular quality metric, then you can objectively assess things against it.

I agree, but the scope of your assessments will be very limited, and also you end up writing tautologies (if your objective quality metric is A, then you've redefined "better" to mean exactly A). In particular, the scope of your assessments will be far more limited than the example you give (words such as "easy," "simple," etc. are unlikely to enter the statement without some rigorous definition, but therefore also highly restrictive, underlying it).

> For example, C is objectively better than Brainfuck if your goal is to write software easily.

I would not take a bet, that if you presented Brainfuck and C to all > 7 billion living humans, there would not be at least one person who found it easier to write software in Brainfuck than in C. Certainly I could imagine a hypothetical human for which it would not be true.
I've always been a little amused when I see an entire ESP32/ESP8266 or similar module just sitting on top of boards instead of being a part of it.

I presume it's cost/complexity, but it's a weird thing that ends up as a common solution.
> they can have unchecked power by invoking "science".

I find it incredible that people are capable of discrediting the very process that resulted in the platform for their ability to express that.

The ability for you to press a key, have that intent transmitted to a micro-circuit, have that micro-circuit calculate how to display that character on a pixel grid, and see that result on a display is the result of more than a millenia of an intellectual process called "science." The same intellectual process discovered germs in ~1665, or 368 years ago. Very shortly after we discovered germs we realized that isolation would prevent the spread of germs from one person to another.

People who referred to it as "science," chose to discredit/ignore it and put scientists into the situation where they were trying to figure out how to keep a sinking ship afloat. You know, by doing what scientists have always done: drawing facts from real-world data.

But no, let's rather believe that 368 years ago some rotten fellow initiated massive a conspiracy, which millions of "scientists" for generations to come kept secret, so that in the 2020's the CDC could collect cellphone data for a few months and ruin your insurance profile.

Also, HIPAA.
Except that Dark Forces can change its allegiance. Product search is/was moving towards Amazon.

Hypothetically, if 'Metaverse' or 'Web 3.0' becomes a reality, not sure whether GOOG can do anything much there - as it is they are poor in innovations.
If this doesnt convince you to join a startup, nothing will
Not just Russia, it was relatively common across the Soviet bloc.
I certainly hope that passwords aren't encrypted but run through an appropriately-expensive password hash.
Alice neutered the tech patent race, the pivot to copyrightable content creation and rent seeking via essentially lifetime copyright as everyone alive will be dead, began; streaming services for everyone.

What do you expect from technocrats who grew up on dystopian capitalist cyberpunk? One touch purchases was a capitalist brand itself; Uncle Pauly G has NFT bucks for cyber punks that ship!
Did you even read the article?

They made a FOIA request and got the procurement documents which lists use cases such as "Examination of the effectiveness of public policy on [the] Navajo Nation" and monitoring "places of worship" both of which have extremely negative connotations.

This sort of dataset gets used in all kinds of twisted ways that aren't limited to footnotes on cute graphs.
I disagree, with the exception of the case you link to where half the pixels are outside the viewport or maybe where a sufficient percentage are outside the viewport.

> When two triangles form a quad, the entire area along the diagonal "seam" will be rendered twice

This may be true, but I'm pretty sure that this is more than made up for by the additional pixels in the single triangle circumscribing the quad. In fact, I'm willing to bet that it's a mathematical certainty for any rectangle, although I didn't do enough of the math to prove it.

Instead, I would say that most rendering, especially of hundreds of thousands of 2D shapes, are going to be pixel limited. So trading pixels for vertices is a poor trade.
Don't want to comment too much on this thread as I don't know the exact details of the incident and pulling for the team that is still around as I know this can't be an easy time for them. It does seem like the issue is not good and may continue to be trickle of updates like this for a while. Hugops to the team.

A wow, and thanks for the praise but the credit goes to way more than me. The team around in the early days was unbelievable, I learned a ton on building products and developer experience from James/Adam (founders) in particular, though Heroku wouldn't have gotten there without Orion (the other founder) as well. Byron, PvH, Mark, Noah, Morten, Oren were absolutely huge in so many ways to the leadership and direction of Heroku. And I'm sure I'm going to get messages from 50 others there in the early days that I didn't name drop them, the collective team was an awesome team and pushed each other really well.

At around 2015 it did feel like there was attrition and the technical leadership and vision started to fade. It wasn't me, it was a lot of us moved on to the next thing. At the time it wasn't Salesforce taking control or one person, we'd all put a lot into it and various folks moved on. Adam/Orion/James gave an incredibly amount and were understandably ready to recharge. Still very proud of what we created at that time, what it did for developer experience, and personally (along with that original Heroku Postgres team) trying to do what I describe as unfinished business for creating the amazing developer experience of Postgres.
Tell HN: GCP Offers No Support
So I have a personal project which I pay like 10-20 bucks a month for. I am pretty sure I found a bug but apparently there is no way to log a support ticket unless you you sign for the 30 dollar monthly fee. My company also has gcp, azure, and aws. You can guess which service provides the worst support.

If you pay money for something they should have some support. I use GCP because the service I am connecting to is hosted in GCP which will lower my latency, but GCP support is so terrible.
This is not an excellent he just of the data. And the ways that cdc want to use it is proof the data shouldn't exist.
I don't have a problem with the CDC creating an app to collect such data. An app the clearly says what it is used for.
But to collect the data through some other so and decide if someone broke curfew or visited a neighbor? You think that is ok? Pretty much the definition of Big Brother
Did you mean 2.4kbps? 2400kbps should be able to download an MP3 song in a few minutes.
There we are, the Please Plant A Nice Wall campaign.
> Not everyone has the ability to use school as such a filter

I haven’t thought about this. Thank for giving me this perspective.

> trying to find like-minded people in the real world

I personally find people who base their identity on some number pretty boring. High IQ enables you to be better at other things, and that is where I would look for like minded people.

> modern internet

This is such a broad term. To the point of being meaningless in most discussions.

Tiktok popular feed is modern internet. A niche programming language's Discord with 400 members is also modern internet. Saying something categorically about "modern internet" is like judging the highway system or rail network.

> irony of people disparaging the idea of a group based around IQ

If some community finds IQ -based signalling and IQ-based identity, it should be HN.

Such a test does not measure a person’s true potential or intelligence. It's kinda stupid to base someone's ability or potential around some test.

I love to be with and spend time with intelligent people, but whenever I see someone dropping their IQ or writing it on their social bios, I find it outright distasteful.

It means you have little achievement beyond the IQ test score. That would be a pathetic life.

Truly successful people- never seen them flaunt IQ- ever.
The same idea/designer applied to a web based CRUD app development tool would do well though. If Airtable/Quickbase/etc took some of these ideas, it would be much faster to churn out CRUD apps.
There are some reasonable reasons, like how it may speed up passing regulations. I believe RPi used some integrated WiFi modules that had certification done separately. And yeah, there's a lot of passives in those modules that I would not want to manually assemble
I thought it doesn't matter if it is known you bought Moreno. When you spend it, that spend can't be traced back to you? Wasn't that the whole point of Moreno?
Zint Barcode Studio – encode data into many different barcode formats
Elon Musk Plans to Take Twitter Public a Few Years After Buyout
Usually there are a few deep players Berkshire Hathaway(who happens to own a reinsurance business or two) has about $150 billion in cash just laying around, so they can pretty much insure anything they want and backstop it themselves.

But for those without such a deep bench, they, like other commenters mentioned do a round robin sort of thing.
I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (2020)
I don't know if you're a native English speaker or not, but "The Crypto Executive..." is correct here and a common usage of a definite article. It means "one in particular" rather than "the only".

It's similar to The Fox & The Hound. It doesn't imply that either one is the only fox or the only hound.
I just came up with a new format guys, BCSV!

<pre>

def parse(fileData):
rows=[]

for line in fileData.splitlines():

for cell in line.split(","):
rows.append(b64decode(cell)

return rows

</pre>

Tada!

Edit: I give up, can't figure out hn's code format syntax.
> I recently got to try out an IPTV service on a smart TV and was amazed at the amount of content you get for about $15/month

Which service do you recommend?
Account since 2021. No notice. Transparent as a brick wall, in true Salesforce fashion.
As a side question, any recommendations on how to fake GPS location in Android, preferably through using Fdroid, LineageOS
While it looks really nice, hard to imagine it's quicker to hand draw this than reverse it out of your existing schema. I suppose if you are architecting something brand new then it can make some good sense to map it out quickly if you hate clicking and dragging your mouse around and want something version-controllable.

I would say, however, PlantUML is less pretty but more general as a tool and there are neat tools to make the diagrams directly from your database schema [0].

https://github.com/achiku/planter
When you're talking about an individual, of course. When you're talking about a population - what is replacing that?
We use Subversion to manage CSV files pretty much constantly.
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They have alot of goodwill.
A record 4.5M Americans quit their jobs in March
Tibia is basically the successor to UO, it's art and many gameplay elements are inspired by it.
Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes, only

Willing to relocate: Not right now, but maybe in the future

Technologies: Python, Django, FastAPI, Django REST Framework, APIs, PostgreSQL, Docker, CI/CD, some AWS, some Kubernetes, some Javascript.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdemacedo/

Hey, I'm a backend engineer looking for a new role. I have a little over a year of experience and I am mostly looking for companies with good culture. Programming languages can be learned so, although I have a preference for Python, it's not a dealbreaker if the role requires some other technologies, as long as there is enough time for me to ramp up, of course.
Ideally a separate row and a column delimiter
Hey, a man needs a hobby.
Appreciate the feedback.

RE Specs: Most of our specs are pinned down and listed on the website, with some exceptions.[1] Notable exceptions: battery life is TBD, though targeting ~3hrs; total headset weight is also TBD, though we're targeting ~1000g). LMK if you questions about other aspects of our specs, and I can answer.

RE IPD: we discussed this somewhat in our Friday update last week[2], though we should provide more detail in a blog update soon. But TLDR: we're basically using automatic IPD adjustment via motors and eye tracking.

RE marketing: is there something about our marketing that turns you off, or that we can improve upon?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29699702

[2] https://simulavr.com/blog/review-units-progress/
> Why not just comment below your thoughts instead.

Cowards downvote.
Shared whiteboards have been a thing for a long time in the corporate world. These days you don’t even really need a specialized device - Teams, for example, has the functionality built in so all you need is a large screen (although input without a touchscreen kind of sucks)
Democracy is a popularity contest. That's what it is. Elect implies popularity.
People choose you because they want you to do that job. You can ask them to choose you. And they can like you for whatever reason they please, they can like you because you're smart, or stupid (see Victor Hugo), any reason they want. It comes down to freedom, they're free to decide not only between A and B but with whatever rubric they like the best.

For instance I only vote for candidates if they are heavily slandered. If both candidates, presidential candidates, have a perfect clean slate, neither has had any mud slung on them? Unthinkable. Still vote. Write "Count my vote void."
Lots of big words there, little meaning: Everyone wants a say in how people live their lives, including those advertising companies. The CDC actually does know some things better than at least some individuals, because they spend a lot of money on research while the individual, at best.. well, just look around.

I don't see them believing they have unchecked power, or they would ne enjoying their magical empire right now. And I have no idea what specific harm CDC tracking could enable, even assuming they tried?

This was a public health agency recommending the most trivial countermeasures against the worst acute disease afflicting the world in a century. A three-year old with a LEGO understanding of germ theory and bodily fluids would come up with masks and staying away from other people. As the pandemic ends, so do all countermeasures, and life rapidly returns to normal. It is utterly insane to see this sequence of events as anything but the most obvious, predictable, harmless, working-as-intended storyline.
JavaScript for R
AMD teases CPUs with Xilinx AI engines for 2023
Yeah - ConcurrentHashMap makes the most sense. I left it off just because I thought it would be easier to see the parallel with the Go code.
For the past year or so, I've walked between 1 and 6 miles a day at my local park (weather permitting). Putting headphones on never struck me as an idea, which is strange because I had them in basically constantly when I was wandering the UF campus all day a few years ago.

I enjoy listening to the animals / birds / insects, and tossing friendly hellos to the people walking by. (Actually, maybe that's why -- at the park where I walk, headphones would feel slightly antisocial)
The password reset mail is yet another train wreck.

I received this email. The reset password link in it is NOT https. If I manually change the http to https it turns out that the server, click.msg.salesforce.com, is returning a certificate that is only valid for click.s10.exacttarget.com
This was mentioned in April 2020 ish and no one blinked an eye. It was showing how much people left their houses, how far out did they travel to, did they participate in entertainment venues, did they eat out etc.

The data was never used for enforcement purposes. (if it was.. it wasn't very efficient at all)
Alpa: Automated Model-Parallel Deep Learning
True, but I didn't write any of the Go here. Somewhat out of my wheelhouse
The holocaust had decidedly not "good intentions". No, not even by its own definition, and definitely not in the sense the term is constantly abused as some magic bullet to refute any position that is otherwise unassailable.
That's quite an achievement, and I'm even more impressed he was able to do so in the textile industry that suffered so much in the mid-nineties in the region.

Context: I'm from the Itajaí Valley (where Brusque is located), which has a strong textile industry - one of the main drivers of the local economy. It used to be much stronger until the disastrous Collor government caused a number of them to go bankrupt or severely reduce their production due to some serious mismanagement of the Brazilian economy.

Edit: His original employment contract can be found here (in Portuguese, a bit difficult to read): https://www.brusquememoria.com.br/acervo-imagem/2057
TPMS is fairly difficult to track. You need to be either very close (inches/feet) or have a very high gain antenna (which means you have to aim it, can't get signals from every direction) plus they don't transmit continuously.
Reminds me of a time that me and a co-worker stayed in late on a Friday night figuring out how to make our email alerts seem convincingly human through “random” typos in alert messages by performing human like keyboard adjacent miss-presses, extra key presses (either duplicate or keyboard adjacent), and occasional whole word omissions for things like “the” or “and”- but only for alerts sent between midnight and 2am on weekends. This of course, only after dissecting and trying to characterize what kind of typos we thought were common by drunk people using QWERTY keyboards.

It was a simpler time, before autocorrect errors dominated, and it was also a fun Friday night. The somewhat regular “Adam bot” in “party mode alerts were just little bit more amusing to be woken up by late at night when things were broken.
> (a) Trump decided that his followers should treat it by injecting bleach

Never happened.

Boy. I sure hope Biden Admin’s misinformation dept gets out there and puts this one to bed.
Yep that’s exactly it.
I don't like planning walks. In fact I think it's best to just go out and see where curiosity leads you. This only really works in urban environments, but then you can also drop the supplies and instead just take money with you.
We still do.

Alcoa is the largest employer in South Australia, and operates the world's largest integrated bauxite mining and aluminium refinery.
The edge-triggered misunderstanding (2021)
The author doesn't like any of those tradeoffs and wishes to make another one, what's the problem with that ?

You don't believe the design space is exhaustively explored by the designs and protocols you mentioned, do you? there is always another local optimum to be found.
they have added it
Aptible (though geared more towards Healthcare/Compliance space).

^ Note: I use to work for Aptible
I might be in the minority, but I don’t care if it was used to make macoroni art.

I also don’t care how harmless or good the CDC might be to someone. A government entity should not be a using tax payer money to purchase privacy sensitive data of citizens.