skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wanted to hate the article because of the title, but it actually taught me some neat tricks...
Yes, and the legal frameworks for people to pool their data and _license the pool_ are now being explored. One such framework is the so-called "data trust" (trust as in legal entity).
"better serverless?"
I've got it on good authority that most Instagram "models" are actually escorts. As one finance asshole I met at a bar so eloquently said, "we flew them out to Dubai, degraded them and destroyed them."

The only Instagram professional I know is a social marketing consultant. Spends more time behind the camera than in front of it.
There's a popular growth hacking and viral marketing book that talks about how to leverage outrage mobs to create publicity for your releases. The tactic described seems to be used regularly on many social media platforms, but the author went the extra mile and helped organize physical protests against the product he was tasked with marketing.
I strongly suggest people skip this re-hosted article, and instead read the Reuters one here:

Title: Boeing software under scrutiny as Ethiopia prepares crash report

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-softwar...

I have numerous problems with Arstechnica's re-write, but suffice to say that nuance is lost and questionable conclusory statements added.

I will say in the case of BOTH articles, it sounds like we need to wait and see. Neither article has an answer for how auto-trim was re-actived, be it the pilots or something else. The answer to that question may have wide reaching implications.
Ignoring the silly stuff the parent poster wrote, the facts available indicate that by millions of people's analysis the US is the best country on Earth. The US naturalizes a million immigrants every year and has done so for the last thirty years. There are more than forty million non-citizens living in the US. No other country has that number of immigrants. Plus there is no country to which more Americans emigrate than from which people immigrate to the US.
For the same price in Europe you'd be in a 10-20 person dorm.

That's a good deal for a beach resort.
I would imagine this is what it's like to work at any organization where developers are second class citizens.

I work in Tax Accounting and it is similar, because teams are minimal, and the applications and processes only support the 1st class people at the firm.

I would imagine quant hedge funds and market makers like Citadel have a developer culture that is much better. Of course, this is just a guess. Anyone have comments from the quant, HFT side of things?
If you time it right, it just slowly drifts to the ground and lands vertically with a slight jolt.
> He started this linux thing for free

In 1991 as a college student. The situation has changed drastically. I'd guess his primary source of income matters greatly if it were to disappear or drastically shrink.
not if you're playing bullet!
Flexible demand doesn't go far enough. There are very cold weeks with little wind or sun (the sky might be clear, but because of angles there isn't much sun anyway). We would have to heat our houses to over 100C to keep the pipes from freezing before the end of the cold spell. Similar problems exist in summer.

Demand can help a little in that we can heat houses warming in the evening while the wind is blowing and let the house drift down all night.

Of course better insulation is assumed, but then you need an air exchanger which needs power to run as well.
I am perfect find on people being offended. What I am not fine with is that the notion of being offended translates into anything other than the person simply being offended.

EG, offending somebody -- because it is so subjective -- should simply be that, they are offended. END OF STORY.

But right now being offended is as if you walked up to somebody and spit in their face, or worse punched them. And the actions being taken by those who "offend" are on par with actions you would take had somebody physically attacked another person.
> On privacy, Zuckerberg has become an exponent of Europe’s behemoth rulebook, known as the General Data Protection Regulation. That approach is badly flawed in its own right: It undermines innovation, burdens companies, annoys users, and offers few benefits.

Outside of the authors' views on Zuck.co, this is a myopic view of GDPR. In reality, GDPR empowers, rather than annoys users, and the regulations actually gives EU citizens some degree of control over their data - which is of increasingly huge benefit, especially their interactions with Orwellian companies like Facebook.
"Does someone high up in Google have an embarrassing usenet history?"

To me it's a lot simpler than that: on Usenet one could find people exchanging opinions about a product while on today's web searches all we find is companies selling that product. Just try searching for anything and see how deep you need to go until you get something that resembles a legit conversation about something rather than people selling it.
It was about monetizing every search results page, and that goal became clear to me when they removed the discussion search option from the search engine; that was the final nail in the coffin for the Internet as we knew it.

Some background:
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-filters-gone-1799...
I was thinking the only true way to prevent side channel information disclosure is to ensure x microseconds are spent encrypting/decrypting each byte in a message and using an external timer source as a reference clock to enforce the constant time interval.
There is one major manufacturer (First Solar) that makes CIGS [edit: should read 'CdTe'] thin-film panels which do have Cd, etc and need a waste management strategy. I believe First Solar guarantees waste recovery for their panels [1].

But you are correct, the vast majority of panels are silicon-based and have no significant environmental disposal issues. Leaded solder use is already quite low and is targeted for zero content in the near future.

[1] http://www.firstsolar.com/-/media/First-Solar/Sustainability...
Maybe she does also some gigs on the side, such as a escorting.
My take...
For most "influencers" it's just a hobby. They just like posting pictures of themselves in cool places. Maybe they have a monetization plan, maybe not. Either way, they make/made their money elsewhere.[0]

For a few, they're the modern equivalent of niche hobby and fashion magazines[1]. They publish some free content on Instagram or Youtube, maybe get some ad revenue, but also publish premium content on a subscription model, or have actual business arrangements with companies. But, they're working hard to do what they do.

EDIT - I didn't really address the original question, which was about one specific woman. I have no idea. I doubt she's being paid by resort owners. Either she has money, friends with money, or she's an escort. Or maybe something else I can't think of.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4SXMZsFPZMFN5-3UuF-k6w
Trent Palmer does a lot of airplane stuff, but earns his living shooting drone footage for movies and commercials.

1 - https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-lonely-life-of-a-yac...
Alex Jimenez has business relationships with yacht brokers and gets paid to generate content in order to drive clients to lease/buy mega-yachts.
What is a swan song pattern? Google thinks it's a quilting style.
>By that same token there is no reason to complain about how difficult it can be to enter the U.S. for certain individuals

Well, yeah, entering the US as a non-citizen is a privilege granted at the discretion of the US federal government. Border control is an essential function of a sovereign state.

>I also find it a bit disturbing how easily you apply law & order in the name of a country that was not involved in deciding the validity of that decision or the circumstances behind it.

It's disturbing to not want criminal elements freely entering your country? If they're a not refugee and they can't follow the law in their country of origin, why should any other country be obligated to let them in?
I am not really qualified to answer that question but I believe it's the combination of licensing fees and support
Is it? We've had tabloids here in the UK for years, and it seems the more extreme ones have generally had higher circulation numbers than their more moderate rivals. And the media here have been aimed at partisans for a long time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
UTF-8 History (2003)
poor people will have to sell. rich people won't. poor people will have to sell cheap.

Anne Frank didn't think that she had anything to hide. Anne Frank didn't have anything to hide. Anne Frank got killed. Why? Because Anne Frank's parents disclosed their religion to the Dutch census. The Dutch government was benevolent, liberal. Bigotry was rare in Holland. Then Nazi's.

This can happen to you. Anne was a child. This can happen to children.

Privacy, for privacy's sake, is one of the strongest arguments that I have ever come across.
I think that particular type of patronage is fairly uncommon, but popular projects might have a couple people like that each. That's still a very low number if I'm correct. I know sometimes there are foundations for languages that aggregate donations and fund grants to do specific work (e.g. part of the The Perl Foundation's function, I believe).

I think the majority of companies that give back do so through developer time and effort. If there's a non-profit to push money through to fund work, they at least get to write it off easily, so whether a language has one like the one I referenced above might greatly affect whether there are dedicated people working on the language specifically or not.

Does anyone know if the "Rust organization" he references is meant to refer to Rust as a whole, or is a specific non-profit with a goal of funding Rust advancement? I'm not finding anything specific. Mozilla probably isn't equivalent, as I imagine only a fraction of anything donated to them could be expected to go directly towards Rust.
Bad UI: macOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes
Uber spent $2M to help push through Manhattan congestion pricing
On the flip side,
1. the local Sheriff is much easier to get rid of through elections for not keeping himself or his officers from such behavior
2. the local Sheriff can be impeached, meaning there is a higher authority to appeal to when abuse happens. If the highest authority is committing the abuse, what recourse do you have?

In general, it is always better to let the lowest possible authority level handle something. If parents can handle it, the city shouldn't take it over. If the city can, the state shouldn't. If the state can, the Fed shouldn't.
Sounds about right. It is really pathetic, instead of learning and becoming a marketer and mastering a skill, you can just post half baked pictures of yourself at various resorts and hotels and call it work.
Altaba to liquidate and distribute its assets to shareholders
Boeing deserves to get nailed for this. You can't tell me they didn't know it was the MCAS at fault after the first crash 6 months ago, and decided to do...nothing.
Autonomous Farm Robot: ‘See DOT Run’ at Demo Day in Arizona
So were are back to "if you offend me, I take your job away".

He clearly has added value. He has run one of the MOST successful projects EVER. Most CEOs are never this successful, to so say he is not doing something mostly right is weird to say.
Or any life form, really.
This looks like a recruiting post, but the type of people you're pitching to are the kind of people who are quite passionate about the specifics of functionality and workflow and architectures. Are you planning on providing more information than "software tool" to help developers decide if this is something they want to help build?
> PassivHaus standards

The PassivHaus stuff is a really good example of the derangement you get when people try to optimize for only one metric. PassivHaus's are expensive, mandate the use of petroleum based insulation (you're living in a plastic burger box), prone to water intrusion mold and sick building syndrome and the supposed efficiency gains disappear when you open a window.

Telling is the PassivHaus nutters response to builders wanting to use solar panels to build houses with low external energy needs. AKA why spend $100k on insulation when you can put a $20k worth of solar on the roof and a ground sourced heat pump. PassivHaus response is to get regulators to ban that option.
Several comments note that the headline is perhaps a little misleading; I agree, and I don't think any of us (I'm one of the cited people in the article) would've made such a strong claim.

Ignoring for a moment the fact that this is an alpha release (and that as such, a handful of minor proofs, e.g. mundane facts related to endianness conversions, have yet to be completed), there are several limitations of our work.

- Our tools themselves are not verified, so there could be a bug in F, z3, the kremlin F-to-C compiler; or a bug about the C compiler itself (unless one uses a constant-time fork of CompCert). We consider most of these to be theoretically unpleasant, but still an acceptable tradeoff.

- Specifications are extremely hard to get right: one might introduce a typo when reading an RFC, or, say, state an endianness conversion wrong. So, even before implementing an optimized version of anything, we audit and test the spec first. This is usually a good sanity check, but certainly not bulletproof (note that this is a general problem of software verification, not specific to us).

- As noted near the end of the article, our models do not account for Spectre and Meltdown; and there might be new classes of attacks that we can't guard against, for the simple reason that they haven't been found yet.

As to whether this is an attempt to get free security audits, I guess we weren't intentionally thinking of it! But we certainly would love it if people could test the code and give us feedback on what to improve to make this an even more compelling choice for whoever needs a good cryptographic library. I've written a bit about this here: https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2019/04/02/evercrypt-alpha1.ht...
We're revealing very little about the technology at the moment. For now, I can say that it's a single tool upon which you can build nearly your entire backend. It will be kind of like Hadoop or Storm in that it's infrastructure that you deploy and then program your applications using a Java API.
She's the only person who knows for sure if she is really getting compensated in some way or not.

Asking her directly may not get you a real answer.

The inside view and the appearance to outsiders always differs some, no matter the topic.
I don't think any half decent establishment would fall for the Instagram "influencer" nonsense.
The concern for energy efficiency died in the mid 1980s because there were a lot of badly done improvements. Many houses were insulated better - with a foam that had hazardous off gas problems. New homes were often insulated well and rotted away because the insulation trapped moisture. Heat pumps sounded good, but were useless on the cold days and so people paid huge power bills in January for electric heat.

None of the above problems are inherent in energy efficiency, but they did give the whole field a bad name.
If I had to guess what OP is trying to say, what is "american", is that maybe you should have been afraid of the government before it got to this point. Which means it's possible to be better prepared by knowing your rights.

> Surely that kind of "show of force" could only be justified in response to a credible threat?

Justified, of course not, but have you ever encountered bored cops, or bullies? No matter where you go, there are always corrupt individuals, and unfortunately some of them are in positions of authority.
Expect you are wrong. Its like having a party of 20,000 guest over and a hand full of them are complaining. I have read enough comments to know that nowhere the majority of people seem to care what Linus says.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/ethio....
From the methodology of the cited Danish study where the data comes from it includes those who left work outright and this represents a wage of 0. That is going to be quite the reduction in wages no matter where you start, to drop to 0. The charts don't seem so dramatic considering that. And the conclusion is no surprise either if you factor that in, of course wages drop when you are not working. No mention of that in the article though, doesn't fit the narrative I guess.
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You don't have to have separate dockerfiles. If you use multistage builds, you can name the specific terminal stages and then invoke them with 'docker build -t stagename', which will reuse the build cache as you'd expect. I've done this to export multiple app containers from a monorepo.
> Again, let me make that clear: I'm not arguing that every company in the tech industry is staffed by angels, but that intentional bad actors in tech are the exception, not the norm.

Just to be completely clear, are you arguing that the opposite is true in finance - i.e., that the norm is to be intentionally malicious?
We're still keeping the technology mostly under wraps. We're hoping that the strong track records of everyone on our team, as well as our amazing group of investors, will interest people in applying.
Uber and Lyft are not ridesharing
Enough seem to have a problem that Linus thinks that, to be a better and more effective leader, he has to improve his behavior. Nobody made him do it. He listened and reflected and changed. That's what a decent leader, and a decent human, does.

Why does that have you, to use a Linus-ism, so hot under the T-shirt?
Companies have started to use this tactic in advertising. Nike and Gillette's recent advertising are two examples.
For the lucky ten thousand: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/faq.html (scroll to "What's the exact citation of your oft-cited comment about bugs?")

Meta citation: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Congrats on the launch and sorry if my question is not directly related to your announcement.

I’ve known you as creator of Apache Storm and author of the manning Big Data book, and was impressed by what you achieved, so impressed that I was wondering for the past years what was the stealth startup Nathan Marz is working on, and whether it will introduce a new paradigm the way Storm was a paradigm shift towards streaming.

What is your advice to someone who just started his career (~2 years xp) and not sure how to invest his time, to be able to reach your level of mastery in the next few years?
Should one focus on the basics, algorithms and data structures? Or should one try to be very proficient in one programming language? Or try to learn a bunch of technologies/frameworks/databases etc and become most productive with them?

Thank you.
Depends where you are: in a lot of places, it only gets cold when a weather system moves in, which means lots of wind power available.

The backup power could be propane, but electric-resistive is still cheaper.

The other issue is that air source heat pumps should really create blocks of ice from municipal water and then dump them in the yard, instead of trying to squeeze heat out of cold air.
Uh well I was really just using it to mean "I don't like this take, and I think that we will have significant problems if too many people adopt the same point of view." Like just that that kind of point of view can cause problems in a community, because giving someone like Linus a free ride to say whatever he wants "because it's his house" can lead to a large portion of people feeling alienated or otherwise unfairly put-upon.

I was unaware that the word "problematic" had so much extra connotation for some people. I'll seek to find an alternative way to phrase similar sentiments in the future.

My immediate alternate choice would be "troublesome", but then that sounds patronizing (because kids are often seen as "troublesome"). Do you have some suggestions, maybe?

(I know that sometimes when I write things like this people think I'm being sarcastic or antagonizing. I want you to know that this is not the case: I'm sincerely interested in finding another way to phrase these thoughts that will be less likely to cause these kinds of reactions in the future. I want to be understood clearly, but I don't want to mischaracterize my own opinions by using words that people may interpret with some nuance different than what I'm used to.)
They took Kickstarter money too.
From a legal standpoint, shipping a "fix" could be used as evidence of guilt, though.
Three ways cities can help feed the world, without costing the Earth
just look up swan song
Does anyone know how switching to DNS-over-HTTPS affects adblocker apps on Android like Blockada, DNS66, etc.?
I think the word you're looking for is "personality". Sure half the sites were blinding and had background music and blinking crap and were pretty terrible, but it perfectly reflected the person that built it, however shoddily.

Now, everything is sterilized. Run through a million filters to be picture-perfect, work on everything beautifully, etc. This is great for the bulk of the web (businesses and web apps and what-not), but personal websites disappearing was a _huge_ blow to the personality of the internet. Heck, MySpace pages were a disaster, letting users run arbitrary HTML and CSS everywhere, and when Facebook came along everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief that _finally_ we'd be free of those horrendous MySpace pages.

Now, looking back, I miss the crap out of those pages. I also ditched social media entirely but I consider everything I just mentioned as playing a large role in that. No charm, no personality. Rigid. Walled gardens. It's like a microcosm of the state of technology in 2019.

And I mentioned personal sites disappearing, and I still stand by it - yes, of course there are blogs and what-not, but they're not the same. They're hosted, fast, efficient, and typically use approved themes. If you want to get down and dirty and actually make your own site, it'd be looked at as a gigantic waste of time. Technology has come too far for it to be practical to build a fancy site out of pure flat HTML files that looks like the worst 90s sites. Why do that, when you could just have an out-of-the-box Wordpress or Tumblr site?

Plus, no one would visit it anyway. If it's not spammed or marketing, no one's visiting anything these days. It's just too saturated.

The average internet user visits a tiny fraction of the number of websites they used to. Typically, aggregators. Reddit and Facebook and whatever. Worse yet, aggregators that pull in only things they agree with, shared by people they agree with. And that is their version of the internet, and not to mention, the world. No dissenting opinions, nothing original. It's depressing and I hate it.

I grew up learning to build websites from copying source code into Notepad and running it locally. It was a hot mess, but so much fun and super rewarding. The 90s web, even early 2000s until ~2006 or so (when I personally consider it went "too mainstream" to put on my hipster hat, and everyone was suddenly on it), I miss it all.

Sorry for the rant but this all hits close to home and, as a web developer who got started in the mid-90s, I'm subjected to the "modern web" for many hours a day, and I'd give anything to see it regress.