skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Weather Underground Organization (WUO)... was a radical left-wing militant organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan ... Weatherman organized in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground

There are a number of books about the group (some by former members) that are worth reading, and there's also a documentary:

-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343168/
This is the whole consulting business in a nutshell unless you are the rare client they don't believe they can risk.
Some of the first comments on Reddit were complaints about the site going downhill in almost exactly the same terms people use today: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_no...

Nostalgia is powerful! The key has always been to unsubscribe all the “front page” (once “default”) subreddits.
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On the one hand, while homeless, being white very much helped protect me most of the time from things like simply being thrown off the premises. (Though certainly not always.)

Just as poverty isn't about lack of money per se, white privilege mostly isn't about money per se either. As you say, the money (or lack thereof) is really a symptom.

On the other hand, I also have a predominantly Caucasian genetic disorder classified as a dread disease because of the horrors it inflicts upon your life. So being white absolutely comes with a very huge downside for me.

I mostly don't get a lot of sympathy for that. I mostly get attacked and told I'm making crap up.

I wish we could default to seeing each other as spirits in a material world and try harder to find solutions, not scapegoats.

/2cents
And on top of that my insurance premiums for a family of 4 is constantly being increased by at least 20% year over year, and that considering that we have not visit any doctors with my wife in the last 3-4 years and only do regular checkups for kids once a year ...it’s getting ridiculous to pay 1300$/month for the cheapest possible insurance of family of regular size. And we still have to pay ~$100-120 for each visit and have a 7k deductible ...
Ask HN: How can I start a Paas like Heroku?
Even though it sounds silly I'm legitimately curious how can someone start a business like Heroku. I'm not an expert on DevOps but I'd love to have a proof of concept running. Maybe something like Heroku Postgres could be a fun start. I mean the technical details. Is it run on VMs with Kubernetes on something like AWS/GCP/Azure? Thanks!
Tomorrow their earnings report is due... this should be reflected if indeed true.
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> Completely socialized

No, unless words lost all meaning the US health system is far from socialized, it would be if the cost structure was under government control, it's quite the opposite, for-profit insurers and healthcare providers set their rates as they please. Medicare maybe makes it subsidized, not socialized.

> having worked in the industry, it's the only "good" solution I see

Well, that's quite surprising for a professional to not know that there is a whole bunch of countries that do things quite differently (actual socialized healthcare) and that don't have anywhere close to this sort of problems (See: Europe).
And Usenet still exists.
/r/dankmemes, /r/bikinibottomtwitter, /r/teenagers are also meme heavy and make it to the top of /r/all regularly, not to mention the variety of spin off meme subreddits (lotrmemes, dankchristianmemes, etc.)
As someone who works in the pharmaceutical industry, Apotex is a HUGE player and Barry was very well known for being an aggressive and shrewd businessman.

His death came as a shock to a lot of people.
It takes a lot more than a few to provide support. It would take years to get near the support that Red Hat provide now.
Every now and then when I access Reddit not logged in from somewhere I get reminded of this. If you curate what you are subscribed to it will be much better. About a year ago I wrote a little Python script in about an hour or so that subscribed me to every single state-level or above location-based subreddit (there is a webpage that you can go to that lists them all, I simply scraped that). I have learned so much about different cultures just by reading posts from people around the world posting things about their area.
Unfortunately it probably will want to have itself loaded as a kernel module, if they ever were to decide to even begin supporting it.

Anti-cheat has been one of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of gaming on Linux for a long time.
That's true. But also every platform eventually gets bad and dies... probably?
No, it hasn't. This is a lie which serves the interests of those who would harm open source. This language is important. You can't take the argument of "every word means what I want it to". The burden is on you to be understood, and by misusing terminology like "open source" you are either ignorant or deceitful. I wouldn't expand the definition of decongestant to include adderall because the former sells better and I'm a pharmacy that needs to get rid of my stock.

You might disagree with the principles of the definition, or think that the definition isn't useful. But that doesn't make it any less of the definition. If you want to do something different, you need to call it something else or you are lying to people.
> People who come forward almost always lose in very tangible ways -- even if they win. That's why coming forward is so difficult and why those that do are so incredibly brave.

I agree. The point is, refusing to pay Rubin and going to trial would have made the victim lose even more. She'd lose her privacy, for one. And if the case is lost she may lose her reputation and live the rest of her life branded as a false accuser.

Do you know if the accuser wanted to go to trial? If not then we have no business talking about how Google didn't act with the victim's interest in mind.
Oh, thank you for posting that.

Your point about protocols and multiple implementations nailed down the reason I was frowning after reading that review.
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How does synchronization or the lack of it carry over and translate to WASM based threading?

I’m assumming all the typical threading problems are inherited by design such as the potential for deadlocks, memory corruption, priority inversion...etc?

Also I’m assumming these threads will allow true parallelism to occur?
where I live (NZ)

Ah, there's the disconnect. Where you live people are a whole lot nicer to each other.

I've have 4-letter words and middle fingers given to me when I ask niced for them to ride in the bike lane. I've had people threaten me, as well.

but that's not the fault of the scooter they're riding on.

Did I ever say it was?
The famous ruling "I dont know what pornography is, but I know it when I see it"
Awesome, signed up. Travelling through SF in mid-Nov, would love to try it out!
Since the recent redesign, I get a custom front page full of wholesome goodness and I never see r/all. Perhaps the GP has a similar experience?
Whenever I hear about things like this, I always believe that only a fraction really care about the issue. The other half are saying “Wait... we can skip work and not get in trouble? Count me in!”
Do you mean it generates code? That's still a "DRY" violation. And if you mean it only looks at the RDBMS table, then it has insufficient info. Describing a field well often requires more info/meta-data than what a typical RDBMS schema has.

Here's a list of typical attributes: db-field-name, type, display-name, form-sequence, list-sequence, relation-type (primary key, foreign key, etc.), reference-table, min-length, max-length, default-value, help-tip, bootstrap-column-width, grouping-filters/codes, search-form-type, and other optional do-dads.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of svgo before
But... Wire has both! With generics, you introduce complexity into the language that everyone has to understand, but that's obviously not true when it comes to having accounts that aren't tied to phone numbers!
Meta 1: I enjoyed his review. It got me interested in learning more about all these concepts I've never heard about: "Level 3 Software? What's that?". It is not clear to me if a lot of this terminology is of his creation or if it comes from literature.

Meta 2: What better way to establish yourself as an expert than disagreeing with a currently recognized one? Not saying he did not back up his claims. In fact, I want to read more of his materials now to check that up.

Meta 3: This reading also gets me excited about investigating model driven development more. In this post, he talks a bit about the value of strict types related to such modeling, but lately I've been reading and writing some Clojure code and I'm slightly swinging back to more dynamic typing as a more flexible way of writing modular systems.
"leans"
And parents are transferrable. OFDM was huge and important. Without it multipath becomes a problem. Shouldn't the inventor get some value?
The problem is that none of that is even alleged to have happened. The burning man guy was not Andy Rubin. According to the report, the coercion bit was from a woman he had a multi-year consensual affair with, after she decided to break up with him. So, it is not that simple.
I think we'd all like to see contracts meant to prevent those abuses honored. It's only unfortunate that more of us don't have such contracts.
Yeah, this thread is a bit out of date. Those southern counties bring in hundreds of millions through a combination of bedroom households (people who commute into the northern suburbs or into Milwaukee) and tourism.

Go take a look in the marinas in the counties between Milwaukee and Chicago. A lot of Big City money floating in those communities (and in condos/houses along the lakeside).
Google doesn't put you at war with your friends, family and the general public
(bless her heart)
I thought the $90 million was required by a contract. If not, and Google made the decision to offer the money after the accusation, that's different.
While there are some nice tidbits, end-user software tends to have a different profile of needs than infrastructure software or middle-ware. I guess what I'm saying is that I'd focus more on end-user software in such a book.

That's not necessarily the same as UI design, but for example, less about generic API design to be used by a million other developers, and more about in-shop API or stack design for say 20 developers.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with a coworker six or seven years ago. Dude comes to me to get me to help him spec out a web-based "tool sharing" service. I told him that what he was proposing, first and foremost, automated discovery for would-be tool thieves and politely declined to involve myself in his project.
innovative is removing features
I tried searching does anyone know if this is available in Firefox yet?
My understanding is its Apple's designs and Intel just manufactures Apple's designs which infringes on Qualcoms patents, this is a very dangerous game to play.
That's a big question but let me start with a prediction: Notion is a fantastic product that will take off more than Evernote.

The reason Evernote became so popular is that they build a great product for the time. What Evernote was capable of 10 years ago (rich editing of HTML, storing PDFs, search across notes) was unique and very hard to do.

Additionally they quickly adopted their product to mobile explosion, made iOS and Android apps.

The reason they are loosing ground is because what they do is no longer so hard to replicate and they software stagnated and even got worse (my personal opinion of e.g. their redesign of web UI).

Notion showed what a note taking application built with modern technologies can be. The model (nested pages vs. flat collection of notes in Evernote) is better and they are more ambitious (see e.g. table integration). Notion is just getting started while I can't name one important improvement in Evernote in last 5 years.
Large companies and those who run them can be both ruthless and amoral. I think it’s a mistake to think the average person’s intuition would apply here.
> But it's misleading to claim that they include the vast majority of Wisconsin's Republicans, as the GP comment did

Oh, I misinterpreted the parent post's comment. Yeah, that's not true.

2016 was strange across the ballot in Wisconsin. Clinton was not a Wisconsin-friendly Democrat. The 2018 and 2020 elections will be interesting to watch. In general, it's a good rule of of thumb that getting things just right in WOW is one path to victory. There are other paths, of course, depressed turnouts being one of them.
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Exactly right, everything sharing the same sharedarraybuffer will have all those same issues and will run in parallel. It's a space that I suspect newer languages like go, rust, d, etc will start to really make a mark on wasm because of the concurrency models and other safety features that they contain.
> There can be no growth because contractors don't scale.

Except of course that when you employ 300K of them it does scale. The mistake many software people make is that only software scales, but IBM (and others) has successfully built a scalable model around consulting.
> I know that's not really a solution with the scale of today's online games

Most of these games have not scaled up. "Scale" is not the issue here.

The issue is that companies want to provide their own server hosting, and charge users for the privilege of hosting games. This leaves no room for community moderation.
> They do plan to document it fully later:

> > Is APFS open source?

> > An open source implementation is not available at this time. Apple plans to document and publish the APFS volume format specification.

They claim to plan to document it fully later.
>When your boss is sleeping with one of your co-workers, how do you know that they are not in a quid-pro-quo relationship?

And as I've said in just about every post I've made, he should've been fired for sleeping with a subordinate. There are countless reasons that's not OK. I was responding to and quite obviously referring to the guy making a big deal about him telling someone he "owns them" - or whatever terminology he used. Do I think that's disgusting? Sure. But that's between him and whomever he has that relationship with. If she's consenting and willing, so be it, not my place to judge.
Or get bought by patent trolls. They're big enough that that future is hopefully a long time off.

It is the last stage of any large company anyway: IP vulture.
I'm not sure what was unclear about my summary of what Signal is doing. Here, let me put it differently for you:

Signal's goal is to make all the messaging in the world that currently uses phone numbers as identifiers --- which, by a long ways, is most messaging in the world --- cryptographically secure.

Hope that helps. You are welcome to have and to advocate for different goals. Please don't pretend your goals are Signal's, though.
It looks like the technique relies on the beam from a transmission electron microscope in the 200 kV range. These voltages, in turn, require very high vacuum compared to (e.g.) a more-common scanning electron microscope that's within reach of smaller labs and serious amateurs.

The sample must be maintained at cryogenic temperatures, presumably to make it stay put at the molecular level. Last but not least, they apparently need to rotate the sample stage to keep the sample from being blasted to pieces by the electron beam.

So unfortunately, the hardware isn't going to be easily packaged into something that consumers can afford.

If I had to come up with a drug-identification device, I would probably look into low-field NMR. You aren't trying to visualize the structure, right, just figure out what elements are present in what proportions?
First off, why do you assume I am american? And my point is that this kink of his, which involves dominating and "owning" his employees, should raise alarm bells considering the accusations levied against him.
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This comment is precisely why I have a ton of respect for the people who develop visualization algorithms like in Graphviz. Given a DAG or ERD, the logic to properly render that as something that makes sense to your typical developer is HARD. Mad props to the people who tackle that problem.
I have found that Twitter has been pretty muted for the last couple of years at conferences. Seems like more of the conversation goes on in a slack (that you have to be invited too, or know about).

Kinda sad.
Wire is a perfectly legitimate option. I'd only ask that you keep in mind that there are other privacy tradeoffs involved in using it.
One of the hallmarks of recent Reddit growth has been its mobile redesign. It aggressively nudges you to download their mobile app and it takes a few seconds longer to open any page (used to be instant with the old design). I presume they're doing this because their app has better user tracking (hard to disable tracking inside an app) and far less people are using ad blockers that work for apps too.
Darwin's XNU is not a microkernel, in spite of there being a microkernel version of XNU. While Darwin does support FUSE, performance would almost certainly be inadequate, given the constant transitions between user and kernel space.
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No, if Germany would switch to the US voting system, those two parties would quickly absorb all others on their respective "sides". [0] is a 6min youtube video for those unaware why FPTP voting is bad. And just like in the US today, we'd end up with a vote for smaller government also be a vote against brown immigrants. Yeah, i prefer our current system.

Or any system were politicians have to pander to a large block of voters in the middle instead of to extremists.

Yes, the swastika is a touchy subject as a result of what happened under it. I have little problem with it being banned. I understand it can be annoying, especially when the cut version of the game only includes german audio. Thankfully the USK seems to ease up a bit on swastika usage recently.

I'm sure there are lots of cases of stupid law leading to stupid situations. Then press will report about it and the law gets improved... hopefully.

But you were claiming "In Germany, they ban ideas.". With they exception of rewriting ww2 history (as mentioned a touchy subject), what is an idea I'm not allowed to communicate a civil manner?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=s7tWHJfhiyo
Nope: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389458

WebAssembly threads mostly depend on SharedArrayBuffer, which was yanked by everyone for security reasons. Chrome rearranged their browser memory model and re-enabled it, which let them deliver this feature while everyone else still has blockers.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=sharedarraybuffer
Reduce your meat consumption or go vegetarian or vegan.

A major cause of deforestation is to grow corn / soybeans to feed to livestock. The forests, natural carbon sinks, are lost, and the livestock increase the amount of methane in the atmosphere. It takes 9 times the amount of land to make beef vs. growing plants. It uses a lot more freshwater to grow the food, and much more to give to the animals.
Have they fixed their scheduler? For 5 years nothing has improved in the process of launching VMs. Sometimes it just barfs and goes to hell, requiring contacting support to terminate provisioning.

No joke, at one of the previous places we’ve implemented a task which would raise a support ticket via API if provisioning step was hanging for longer than x minutes. This is the case for years!

According to some people from IBM, the reason why IBM purchased SoftLayer was so they could tell their customers who were looking to move to the cloud „you want cloud, we have cloud” ... and keep the hefty support contract runing.
> I really dislike it when people deal with blocks of people as if they are a monolith. As if all white people have some innate starting advantage, all black people have some disadvantage, etc. It’s a brutally racist mentality that is very common.

Dislike it all you want, but observing realities that are often shared within blocks of people (as opposed to randomly distributed across every slice of every group of population) and daring to discuss them (out loud!) in a moderately visible venue should not be seen as problematic, and certainly not as "a brutally racist mentality".
(1) it depends on what else was in the contract, I haven't seen the contract but 'being fired for cause' usually triggers a whole pile of clauses that have serious consequences.

and

(2) Google went on to invest in his new venture, which I highly doubt was in the contract no matter when the whole thing went down.

As it is one arm of Google decided to let the man go for cause and give him a golden parachute, and another arm of the company decided to invest in his next venture.

Neither of those read like something bad happening to Andy Rubin. You could fire me any day for any reason you'd like to pick if you gave me 90 million.
Billionaires might be too big at that point. I think you'd be more likely to find hits taken out on the regional couple dozen millionaire businessmen.
I wouldn't trust FOSS patents and the author Florian Mueller as far as I could throw him. He has a long history of being a paid shill, lying about it, and being flat out wrong.

(Paid by oracle) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120419070127103

(Paid by microsoft) http://techrights.org/2012/08/18/vile-lobbyist/

(Paid by apple? I can't find other/primary sources to back up this claim though it does seem likely.) https://mrpogson.com/2012/08/21/apples-paid-shillconsultant-...

(More examples of him being wrong) http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120820111527257

Refuting legal arguments takes time and expertise I don't have. He's good at his job, and I have no knowledge about this case. So while I put no faith whatsoever in his analysis I can't tell you how it is wrong, and yes this is an ad hominem.
> the effort it takes to find that save in your old windows filesystem, then place it in the new location in your linux filesystem is actual quite substantial

That shouldn't be an issue either. Steam ought to be handling game saves anyway.
I’m not saying that most contain that info, I’m saying it’s not hard at all to include it. It’s just a “Let me know if ...” line and the usual “Made with love at 123 Blah Street, Foobar, Elbonia” footer.
>Signal's goal is to make all the messaging in the world that currently uses phone numbers as identifiers --- which, by a long ways, is most messaging in the world --- cryptographically secure.

This is a better explanation. However, these goals do not protect privacy. If Signal's main goal is to protect privacy, then they need to change their secondary goals to accomodate it.
I thought it was a mixture of OSFMK and BSD, which is why I said it can act like a microkernel. Don't know more than what wikipedia says, though.
What? Why is sms considered "elite secure messaging", as you put it? They don't have to "solve every problem" but just not asking for a real-world identifier like a phone number. Just ask for an email. It isn't that hard. The whole phone number thing is a massive turn off. Everyone has literally been using email since the advent of the internet. No all of a sudden we have to get sms involved for a service that provides secure messaging? Replacing phone number with email doesn't suddenly make it "elite".
Yeah, but where did this happen?

I mean, what city? and when?

I'd just like to read about what happened.