skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's important to have internet access as a safety net, but building a whole municipal network for that seems like a waste of public money. It would be much cheaper to subsidize commercial 5G service for those folks who can't get wired broadband.
Ask HN: How do you address unjustified compensation inequality?
Just for the sake of argument let's assume that there's no doubt about the fact the a coworker has no good reason to have a higher salary/more stock options than you. You both started around the same time and have the same title in the company. Let's even say that your contributions even had a higher impact on the company. You find out about this inequality in terms of compensation, what do you do? How do you address this?
The Australians did exactly that, some binary wasn't scrubbed and pointed directly to their HQ
Something similar we did for an internal Microsoft hackathon in 2017. https://utkarshsinha.com/blog/microsoft-oneweek-hackathon-20...
Fixing laws starts with awareness. This is it, were more aware and discussing as a result.
That sounds like a Firefox/Chrome extension waiting to be written ;)
I always thought it was cool that Stross posts on HN.
America's present ISP situation is worse than almost any alternative. Presently, the best-run municipalities are exploring municipal broadband. Their experiences will be positive. But not all municipalities are well-run. And today's well-run municipalities turn into tomorrow dumpster fires.

Publicly-owned infrastructure rented to private provider-maintainers is a proven model. It isn't a fire-and-forget solution. But by dividing power between the municipality and private operator, it provides a rudimentary balance. Remember, we got here because municipalities gave ISPs local monopolies. I don't get why we suddenly believe they'll now be totally competent and benevolent.
The decency of the FBI (never thought you'd read that phrase, right?) toward the sons/brothers amazes me. If I got caught up in something like this I would fully expect the FBI to make my life hell and escalate the situation possibly resulting in bullet holes in members of my family. I guess times were different back then or maybe you get treated nicer when you have information they want.
Thanks for the feedback.

1. Yes, you have to restore a backup on exactly the same version of GitLab and then upgrade that version. If you restore it to a different version the database scheme isn't correct.

2. You can restore a GitLab backup anywhere https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/raketasks/backup_restore.html as long as it is the same version. I think the output is a single file.
You could probably easily render it in a regular browser using JS as well. Instant universal deployment.
" If you work at a temp agency, they pay you regardless of whether you're bringing money"

That's never been a thing I've seen. Cite?

"they do technical training and career advancement work"

I've only seen that in the sense of "we'll test your MS Office proficiency and offer you generic resume tips"

The temp agency model exists solely to enable large corporations to avoid having layoffs and reorgs: firing 49% of Google's staff would have a terrible effect on the stock price, and telling the temp agencies that they won't have contracts next quarter boosts the bottom line, instead.
This is surprising. When did you last try it? A fresh install of 6.4 feels very lean and mean although a little sluggish when browsing the web for example. OpenBSD just feels really solid and simple, but powerful if you want it to be. The whole system feels very well integrated, nothing out of place. For my purposes I much prefer pledge to seccomp. It is much easier for me to use one of pledges' system call subsets, risking allowing a little bit more than necessary, than doing the equivalent in seccomp. Sure it might be more fine-grained, but I won't bother. I guess nothing stops developers from adding their own pledge syscall subsets to their kernel and recompile it, thus getting closer to seccomp control.

However my box doesn't feel as snappy as a lean Debian 9 install with xfce4. You have to decide if that's a dealbreaker :)
When I worked at Salesforce we had these. I loved them. Especially when I had to do something like writing test coverage. It was great being able to just focus on work and walk for an hour or two without even realizing it. There is definitely an adjustment period, just like if you were trying a new keyboard.

If you have the ability to work on something uninterrupted and you get into that 'flow state' I'd say yes go for it, well worth the investment. Phone would be fine though if you have a handsfree setup.

That being said, if you work in a noisy environment with alot of distractions, walking just becomes another added stressor. An additional downside is that you can get sweaty if you forget for how long you've been walking!
I agree. I switched to DDG years ago, and brought several people with me. I never have any problems finding what I need.

I’m as de-Googled as I can be. I caught a lot of slack (?) from some people over it. But it’s a relief for me.
If the Supermicro story is the only example where Bloomberg has been inaccurate then it still has a far, far better track record than any other press outlet on Earth.
What is ethically objectionable about rich people gambling against other rich people, and some of them winning? It's not like these funds stole money directly from normal people.
> discover inside information

>prevent trading based on non public information

You completely misunderstand what inside trading means. Inside trading prevents company insiders from trading with the company they work for. Insider trading laws are there to protect shareholders.

It's completely fine to use non public information about world events to trade.
> Seems concrete and useful to me.

It sounds useful. But Westheide followed this methodology, presumably put time and effort into it, and yet made completely wrong technical decisions. So I don't believe the method can possibly be useful; he'd've got better results by saving his time and flipping a coin. (Put another way, this methodology doesn't outperform a placebo)
I would be interested if you might be able to share lessons from this experience that could be used to shape the building of tooling to help workers organize at scale. Email in my profile.
They made sure that will never happen again, is what.
Cite: every technical consulting firm that W2s its employees and invoices its clients.
What struck the most was this chart in the article: https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/13608056/a...

No wonder Bezos wants to be close to DC, the government loves Amazon.... and Amazon could even figure out how to support other highly valued institutions on those charts. For example, AWS and cloud contracts for the military and police; Amazon Student and Amazon Smile for colleges and non-profits.

Amazon can figure out so many ways to intertwine its roots into people's lives, that is has a higher confidence than many branches of government. That's pretty insane of a feat to pull off. Is there any new precedent for deciding the separation of corporate and state?

What's also a bit baffling is that Amazon has managed to separate themselves from being lumped in with other "big corporate" Major Companies or tech companies (Google, Facebook) that are lower confidence institutions despite seemingly fitting both profiles.
Take a look at the recently announced phoenix framework live view
> She is not working for pay.

If the transaction was formalized so that she was receiving a salary and then paying the same total amount for rent, food, insurance, etc., what difference would that make in practice?

> Her freedom comes from the man she is dependent on. And many feminists found when they tried to work that the job market was, surprise surprise, not welcoming to women.

You are referring to the job market in the early 20th century. This is obviously no longer the case, given that a majority of working-aged women do in fact now work for money.

The argument you would have to make now is that homemaker is a specialized profession that doesn't translate into another profession. Leaving aside whether that's even true (it's easy to prove you know how to cook and there are such jobs in many diners etc.), how is it different than many ordinary professions? If you have ten years experience as a calligrapher when you decide it isn't for you, you can't just instantly jump onto the middle of the career ladder as a mechanical engineer.

Nor is someone who prefers to be a homemaker tied to a specific person. There are many other men (and women) willing to enter into the same kind of arrangement.
Note that breaking even over 20 years in this town requires 72% of households to sign up, according to the article. Even if someone managed to cut costs by half, that's a town that can only ever handle two ISPs - maximum - with their own infrastructure at once with everybody signed up.

You could think of a system by which multiple ISPs could sell service over the same city-owned infrastructure, but there's no real benefit to that. (And I say this as someone living in a country where that essentially happens.)
Browxy lets to create and release online programs in less than 3 minutes [video]
I've wondered for a bit as to why they chose such an unrealistic number. Maybe because they knew this would bait the media into reporting on it again, now that his "whistleblower" case has effectively fallen apart?
> America's present ISP situation is worse than almost any alternative.

I strongly disagree. Have you ever been to Germany? All the infrastructure we have in the U.S. is shit compared to Germany. The roads, the trains, etc. The one bit of infrastructure in the U.S. that isn't shit in comparison is broadband.
Back in the day when I actually had an office a guy from across the hall would come and lean on the door jamb and talk at me, endlessly if I let him. Mostly cynically about the company. I came up with my solution: After a couple of sentences I would just look back at my computer and start typing, and not respond. He'd go back to his office and play Tetris.
Several billion are being carried around right now in people's pockets, actually: the baseband processor in mobile phones use ATDT/Hayes commands to talk to the host processor(!).

It's quite interesting how the command set has been extended for modern needs, for example see: https://www.u-blox.com/sites/default/files/u-blox-CEL_ATComm...
It is a 'profession' as in occupation, sure, but it is not a Profession like a doctor or (real) engineer.
Seems to me law enforcement having access to our internet activity (presumably moderated by the courts) is better than private companies just selling that data to the highest bidder
Privatization has been a disaster for US broadband. I'd love to know which local governments you're talking about, especially considering that all cases of corruption I've heard center around bribes from private capital to influence public policy. If anything, public internet infrastructure would reduce corruption given the number of local governments that grant statuatory monopolies to telcos.
> effectively cutting your cache size in half

Only if the cache is full of pointers, and not the numbers you're crunching :)
I wish everyone used DDG for the sake of privacy, but I cannot. It just doesn't give me answers that I am expecting. It reads my mind less than Google and that's a problem.
A lot of guys have their own businesses that they use for contracting
Isn't that just for swap and not "normal"?
Allianz GI CEO: ‘Outlaw Crypto-Assets’
Direnv
How can you buy them back? What if the person you sold them to doesn’t want to sell?
Google hearing sees 'idiot' trending
> Norwegian here.

Just curious.

Is 'unnamanøver' used in Norwegian in figurative sense, like, for example, to describe action of a fiction hero which got into difficult situation and performs a sudden creative action which leads to a success?

Is 'unnamanøver' is a relatively uncommon word which is not frequently used?

I suggesting it because it can explain the mistake of google-translate based on AI. If in a course of learning AI met this word just a few times and in all occurences word was used not in the direct meaning but in figurative one, then it can be confusing. It can confuse not just artifical intelligence, but a nature one also, Though human probably wouldn't miss that 'unnamanøver' contains 'manøver' which brings associations with 'maneuver'.
> Nearly all US universities are so flush with cash that they're constantly rebuilding to attract customers (ie students).

Isn't it the really old historic buildings that attract people? After all nobody can build an old building. Being able to say your uni is 800 years old is something, no?

If you look at Oxbridge, all the new buildings are the ugly ones.
Not sure I follow your argument. How would you put information about the semantic meaning of a series of commits into "the commit body"?

The only point I'm making essentially is that "the commit" is too granular to capture all the information you need about your work and its history. You need some kind of grouping mechanism as well. It doesn't have to be merge commits, necessarily. But as I understood it, your original argument was that "there is no need for anything higher level than a commit." But there clearly is imo.
ISPs are cheap. They use contractors rather than do the work themselves. Keeps them blameless.
In the early 1980s, I had a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer For storage, unlike the C64, the CoCo used normal, consumer level cassette machines, with their associated cassettes.

I was quite busy with that system, and ended up building a library of several dozen tapes, containing off the shelf software, but mostly software and data that I'd created and saved.

The problem I had was tape reliability. At the time, I estimated that each tape had about a 2-3% chance of becoming corrupt per day. Having more time than sense, I ended up going forward with an intensive, structured tape backup/duplication scheme, not unlike tape backup rotations I'd end up administering professionally some years later.

With the gear that I had, a tape duplication took 30-40 minutes, so this was a time consuming process, but it worked.

Why did my tapes go bad so frequently? In retrospect, there were two factors:

1. There was a high voltage step down transformer on a power pole about 20 feet from my room. I remember as a child that this transformer had problems at least a couple of times. In one case, it spectacularly sprayed sparks down on our back yard, and the electric company came out and messed with it multiple times besides.

2. In the other direction, our neighbor had a very tall CB antenna. Probably 30 feet or more, and the base of this thing was only 60 or so feet from my room. We know that he transmitted on illegal frequencies. (We sometimes heard his voice on our TV, I'm totally not kidding.) It would not surprise me if he was using illegal power levels too.

Good times.
It doesn't have to be. I put together my own. Here is what I purchased:

Jarvis Stand Desk Frame Only ($445)
Home Depo Door ($60)
Confidence Power Plus Motorized Electric Treadmill Black ($200)

So total of $700~ for basics.

Additionally, to make it look nice I added:
WireTamer Cable Trays ($20)
Shelf and Drawer Liner Wood Grain (x3 for a total Of $27)
LED Lights ($20)
Drill-able Cable Clips (x2 for $10)
Belkin Power Strip ($22)

Since the higher position meant I started getting hit by the AC stream and I also didn't like people being able to see me through the windows when standing, I added:
Frost King Air Deflectors ($10)
Gila Privacy Window Film ($30)
It's not the second screen, it's the primary screen. The TV is just background noise for the phone/tablet usage.
> Imagine the olympics where there is no gold, silver, bronze. Is it undignified to award the highest performers?

The Olympics is a competition, not a group of people working towards the same goal. It would be MORE like giving one member or a relay team a gold medal instead of giving it to an entire team when they win.
Not every poll is a push poll.

Push polls aren’t even polls. They’re just advertising.
*flack
This is why the US and other liberal democratic countries can't have nice things. Anytime a company starts to produce huge returns for the economy in the form of export revenue, it is chased out of the country by unionization and other wealth extraction schemes, rationalized by maximally viral populist ideologies and narratives, like anything based on class resentment.
I think much of Europe is like this, not so much Britain.

Matt Levine (highly recommend) spends time discussing this type of thing.

A recent somewhat relevant article
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/inside...
To offer an alternate experience, I use DDG for nearly everything and have for many months. I have very few issues with it. For the more esoteric searches, I do find Google to be slightly better, but for 99% of my everyday browsing, I have zero issues with DDG.
I am amazed by "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs".
Unbelievably good on the technical side and all around a nice introduction to programming, highly recommended
The reason for this is probably that if they treat vendors the same way, then they are not justified temp or vendor positions but should be FTE. Which of course Google wouldn't wont. I'm sure there is also a time box on how long they can be a vendor, e.g. a max of a year or two before they have to move on. Microsoft got into trouble I heard because they treated vendors "too nice" a couple years back if I remember right.
Buy any instance of that share back, not that exact one.

And if no one wants to sell it, the price has gone up...meaning your bet was wrong and you lose money
> Back to the straw-manning, I suppose. I never made those claims.

Not overtly no. You just heavily implied that anyone working for minimum wage or even simply earning less than you are has somehow lived a life of bad decisions and moral inferiority.
I have found that DDG often gives me better answers than Google does. I attribute it to DDG not trying to read my mind, but the query string.
> the source of truth is not git itself, but wherever the pull-requests are.

And you think storing that source of truth separately from the code is... a good thing?
How Does MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) Work
I don’t understand how those incentives would work. Could you elaborate?
*flak

see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flak
So what you're telling me is that a company that can't pay its employees has issues making money???
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Inspiring experience! Do you pay your subcontractors by hour or by other measurements?
Seriously, I envy you. I would give so much to be able to forget all I have read, just to read it all over once again.
Its from googolplex, the name of a very large integer that is equal to 1 followed by 10100 zeroes
Some things tend to be outside the competence of government departments. Face-to-consumer business tends to be one of them.

Public telcomms were the norm in most of the world (sans US) until the 80s-90s. It wasn't good.

What an ISP is is customer support & infrastructure. These sorts of ideas make ISPs less infrastructure, more customer facing services.

Btw, this is not some untested theory. It's been done a bunch of times. Work's well enough, done right.
I'm a customer, but half the time I'm using your tutorials it's for home projects not my VPS.

Really great job!
What exactly is captitalism serving if not the intersts of humans?
Thanks!

One question: Who do you borrow the stock from? Why do they agree to lend it?
The basic rules should be documented in the style guide, design system, and/or libraries. What would be interesting is to bridge the gap between the Invision Specs and what you expect.

Indeed, I ran a survey on 8 devs, and I've been monitoring how they typically use it over the years (Invision, Zeplin, basic screenshot hosting...). Some Devs won't use the specs at all, sometimes delivering something off. Others, love it since it will reduce the back and forth during audits.

You're right, specs will only be usefull to provide the dimensions and colors. However, this part is automated on the UX side, it prevents us from writing it down, which would be a waste of time: Mockups always change, we'd have to manually update the said specs so many times... This wouldn't scale well.
As if that's a recent thing? It was "coopted" from its creation. It was created to protect Ma Bell (later the "daughters bell" ATT, VZN) and that's all it has ever done. ILECs don't want small WISPs to succeed, so FCC works against small WISPs. (I'm not talking about MNOs, because of course all the FCC protection allowed ATT and VZN to buy and steal their way into that.)
Intel shows off its next big chip plans for 'architecture era'
Yes and that does not happen with Ublock Origin :)
> Somehow, I was not the usual target of this person's attentions. Unfortunately, my neighbor and friend was. He'd get the brunt of the blather and had no way out of it.

Of course, the guy could also be punished for the same behavior
I hate Comcast with a passion and have always fantasized about living in a progressive municipality that provides fiber to the home. However, a few years ago I bought a home and it’s only been over the last 6 months or so I’ve realized how horribly corrupt and mismanaged small city governments can be. We’re being sucked dry by our mayor who hired her cousin as city manager for an exorbitant compensation package. They had no problem spending millions on extravgently updating the city offices but have come to residents with their hands out begging for money through special assessments to fix our roads, storm water drains, and water mains that are unusable for firefighting (and the city does not have a tanker truck).

My point is simply that I’m not sure a purely municipal broadband is the panacea we all hope for. In some cases it may be better to stick with the devil you know vs the horribly slow, beaurctatic devil you don’t.

I hope that over time we find a municipal model that works well and serves residents with cutting edge broadband. Until then I’ll continue to attempt to vote these clowns out.
Does it have an optical drive? Use it as an airgapped PC for signing software packages.
youre using java oops
open a thread in 4chan's /g/ and ask them about it, many have a screenshot of his quora's post there
> Have you ever been to Germany? All the infrastructure we have in the U.S. is shit compared to Germany.

As a Swiss New Yorker, I get where you're coming from. It doesn't lightly occur to me that our subways were almost entirely built by private companies. (With heap loads of public funding, albeit.) We have ISP competition in New York, which is how we get superior service. That isn't the case in much of America; letting municipalities be that competition is, to me, better than letting Comcast et al retain their monopolies.
> why do i pay extra for a $400 bottle of wine?

Because you can afford a $400 bottle of wine. It’s a wealth-based sliding scale.
I'm pretty sure that even without a house or kids, you're still going to die. Why is "I'm going to die over there" better than "I will most likely die here"?
I guess if you can afford a thousand dollar flagship phone, you can afford a good bluetooth headset that will die in 3-5 years. I'll stick with my headphone jack in the meantime.
Using React Hooks to Manage and Organize Application State
Almost as if capitalists understand that they require an exploited underclass in order for their system to work.