skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With regards to your link, that's very well-written and I agree with almost everything you said in that link. This is particularly important to remember:

"The unfortunate consequence is that software vendors — including browser vendors — must not be blindly trusted. Not because such vendors don’t want to protect user privacy. Rather, because a law might force vendors to secretly violate their own principles and do things they don’t want to do."

And that doesn't just apply to the NSA forcing you to backdoor your own software under threat of arrest. It also applies to major sources of funding forcing you to backdoor your own software under threat of defunding you.

I want a browser made by people who would shut down their business rather than compromise users. And so far in this conversation, it doesn't even sound like you've considered that possibility or believe it could happen, so how can we trust that you'd do that?
Yes! If you haven’t had an operational issue with a service in a while, you should force one on a testing to stack to make sure it fails like you expect, you can recover gracefully, your monitors work, etc. (lots of folks call these “game days”). A service that hasn’t had an ops issue in a long time is a ticking time bomb: when it does fail, nobody will be very familiar with it, and environmental assumptions might have changed, which could result in taking a much longer time to recover.

When I design services these days, I try to design them so these failure scenarios are constantly exercised. Eg if I care about multi-AZ resiliency, I try to design it so that it’s forced to fail over to other AZs all the time. Or at the least, write tests for the scenario. Exceptional behavior or code paths are dangerous.
> I'm constantly surprised that more people in my kind of position don't relocate to Mexico

> After a couple years I got fed up with the pollution

You addressed your surprise
Well "ton" is not very accurate. University teams (some of them) are legendary in how far they get on how little funds. You'd need a used motorcycle, a garage (which will be donated), time from 4-5 AI PhD students (again donated), test space (supermarket parking on sundays or at night), actuators (bad, recycled or donated ones), time in a metal shop (let's say 2000-3000$), various parts and ... (let's say $1000), travel and ... expenses (let's say $10k), ...

It doesn't have to cost much more than $20k or so. Budgets went into $x00k range for the first Darpa challenge (x < 3 or so).

Who paid for it ? DARPA. Also known as the US military.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXE1Iu5E3o
Data aggregation. Scores, stats and tv listings from multiple suppliers covering almost all sports worldwide. As B2B for people who don't want the hassle of doing it themselves
us-east-1 is the most likely to have any given new service first.
> several less common filesystems

Better make that all the popular non-ext4 filesystems, 2 of which are default filesystems on the 2 major Linux-distributions out there (Red hat & Ubuntu).

What on earth were they thinking?
It's called active perception management and forum sliding.

I'll just leave this here.
https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Sure. But it's not the question asked in the headline.
Sometimes it's the difference between all travelers looking at and being suspicious of each other in transit, perpetuating macro-level conflict into every strata of everyday life, and a group of strangers coming together, and momentarily sharing the unique opportunity of traveling together, and being able to freely exchange in an environment of goodwill and camaraderie, and to be assured of unity of action through dissolution of fear at having to react to defuse violence on behalf of the traveling group.

Ironically, in the months after 9/11 I experienced the latter comraderie flying. It was the beat time to fly, IMO, if you could look past the soldiers w/ automatic rifles loitering around. In fact, the soldiers were quite peraonable once engaged, as well. Go figure.
There are many negative responses to inappropriate content, and with regards to the subtopic of "breaking", addiction is one. Addiction can exacerbate other responses such as depression or anxiety, but I wouldn't rule it out as a response.

As for increased number of addicts, I think the fact that there are technology addicts where there didn't used to be (before tech), should be a sufficient logical claim.

Speaking of which, do you have data on your specific claim on the resilience of human psychology against negative tech/media experiences?
Seems dropbox keeps dropping features or adding irrelevant stuff, when was the last time dropbox added something really useful?
> Those who have cars and can afford the fine consider parking fines to be a cost of doing business.

I don't. if the fine is $50 and it costs $5 to park, I will pay unless I suspect enforcement is so lax that I have a >90% chance of getting away with it.
Being on AWS is also easy to explain to customers about downtimes - AWS was down and customers are pretty understanding in that case and don't demand why you aren't multi AZ etc ( of course YMMV based on sensitivity of your business)
The article is paywalled, so I may be off-base about the article's premise, but my take is that the "brilliant jerks" of our industry (first ones that come to mind are Steve Jobs and Linus Torvalds) not only get a pass because due to results, but that their personality is worth emulating. The idea I think is that we need to push back, and call being a jerk what it really is: a character flaw, not an asset.
> People like Levandowski, Travis Kalanick, Parker Conrad, Elizabeth Holmes and Andy Rubin

This is a really weird grouping. It's mixing people who have built incredibly valuable things (Rubin) with those who are famous for failing to do so (Holmes); and people who broke the law by committing fraud (which seems like an unusual use of the word "jerk") with those who have been accused of sexual misconduct.
I Hired 10 People on Fiverr to Design Random Absurd Products
Brownout detection isn't sufficient. There are many other sources of "instant stop", from simple hard-crash bugs to bit-flips in RAM that either cause a crash or multiple-bit ECC fault, take your pick because they will all turn out the lights without warning.

For consumer devices there's ESD testing, where devices are subjected to several kilovolts of zap in certification tests and are required to survive. Typically this means the device will reset and recover, but it needs to be in usable condition afterwards. If a surprise reset results in a toasted file system and a brick, you won't be able to sell the device in markets that require this testing, which is most of Europe and (I think) the US.

The right way to do a persistent store is to expect the lights to go out on any arbitrary bus cycle and design around that.

I've written a few of these. They're fun.
The coolest use of a botnet I’ve seen in a while!
I think you misunderstood how this is considered 13/20 of these items point to employees with several others like Level of instruction being arguable as it’s highly directed.

Anyway, these are employe: Amount of training, Degree of business integration, Extent of personal services, Control of assistants, Continuity of relationship, Sequence of work, Requirements for reports, Method of payment, Realization of profit or loss, Work for multiple companies, Availability to public, Control over discharge, Right of termination

For clarity:

Work for multiple companies at the same time: Not simultaneously, Uber actively excludes people from working for multiple companies while logged into their app, so this counts on the employees side. Even just penalizing people for rejecting rides is treating them as employees.

Realization of profit or loss Uber pays people based on the trip in such a way people can’t become significantly more efficient and thus increase profit for a trip.

PS: Degree of business integration is one of the most damaging, Uber has zero business model without drivers. But even Amount of training suggests employees as you don’t require a training course from your plumber you expect them to be able to solve your problems not work as part of your system.
Conjecture about identity of complete stranger: check.

Ad hominem attack based on conjecture: check.

Non-sequitur: check.

This comment shows all the symptoms. I regret to inform you that it is officially retarded.
AWS best practices involve using AWS for everything, which is not actually a best practice.
Thanks. I am not sure I understand the suggestion. Do you mean I could build the API with Laravel/Lumen/Symphony and bolt it on top of WP-Core or WordPress options or even directly the posts table (for example) ? (In this particular case the WordPress CMS is non-negotiable but I have no problems considering bypassing its REST API to interact with it if it brings significant advantages).

I admit I am a bit nervous in regard to opening WP with REST endpoints considering its reputation.
What makes you say use1-az6 is the culprit? I only ask because none of our workloads in az6 have experienced any issues. ....yet. We run critical workloads across 3 AZs thankfully, but still.
"This cherry picked example exactly confirms my preconceived notion!"
I will be brief, as replies growing ever longer is a bad condition. Also I do not want to argue about imponderables.

I’m aware of Namecoin, whose Wikipedia page says

“A 2015 study found that of the 120,000 domain names registered on Namecoin, only 28 were in use.[12]

Onename co-founder Muneeb Ali on 12 September 2015 at the Blockstack Summit 2015 stated that the Namecoin network is not decentralized and the mining group Discus Fish controls 60-70% of its hashing power.”

I was at the 2015 Blockstack Summit and can vouch.

I already noted we will distribute if not decentralize publishers verification. Namecoin can’t do YouTube or other UGC accounts, as we do. Handshake might pan out for domains, we are in touch. In our current Gemini phase we have to comply with laws, but we won’t kick out or unverify a site or channel based on legal content it hosts. Our rep would be trashed if we did.

This may be where we part company. I’m well aware of conflicts of interest and the difference between intentions and outcomes from Mozilla and prior experience. Brave nevertheless has put its reputation at stake, with open source and incremental work to decentralize as much as possible. We may fail for lots of reasons, but going bad and trying to steal from our users is highly unlikely. It would be quickly defeated. This is by design.
AFAICT the relationship for Scratch is that Google wrote a new VPL (Blockly) and the MIT Media Lab released it as Scratch 3.0.

I guess the "thousands" is from https://opensource.google.com/? In a few minutes of browsing, I couldn't find anything besides Bullet that wasn't just Google releasing something as open source.
everyone should be a contractor anyway. Health care should be decoupled from employer.
Note that the etcd project ignored this report of a data loss/corruption bug on MacOS:

https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt/issues/124
If you're actually a genius, you understand that people dumber than you aren't idiots. They're normal.
Fair enough. This stupid language can be confusing.
Another reply mentioned that many MCUs don't like it when power is applied too slowly. Here is a version I just made as an example that uses two MOSFETs and a resistor divider to delay application of power to the MCU and flash memory. It relies on the N-channel MOSFET turn on voltage along with the resistor divider to set the turn on voltage, and when it reaches the threshold the P-channel MOSFET turns on.

Note the resistor R4 provides hysteresis -- after the P-channel MOSFET activates it acts to keep the N-channel MOSFET active unless the voltage drops below some level set by R2, R3, R4, and the turn on voltage of Q1. You just need to tune them appropriate for your components, and granted of course it adds some amount a bit to your BOM cost. But if you need it you need it.

So basically, R2/R3/Q1 set your turn on voltage (experimentally determined or maybe with Spice) and R4 sets your turn off voltage with R2/R3/Q1. The MCU probably uses under 500mA so these parts are pretty cheap... the capacitor is about 5 cents (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/kemet/ESK477M6R3AE...) and the MOSFETs that looks appropriate are in the 6 cent each range.

https://i.postimg.cc/Df9N8fM5/delayed-turn-on-circuit.png
It doesn't dispute that he and others are brilliant, but whether that excuses the behavior of a jerk.

It doesn't.
Cognitive Performance in First-Degree Relatives of People with Depression
Yes, it’s endemic. A greeting card developer on app engine recently put me through the wringer. To what end? Could have done the job with one lobe tied behind my back.
If that’s true about the article, then claiming the headline is misleading is a gigantic understatement. The title would be so egregiously misleading as to seriously call into question the ethics of the author and make me very disinclined to bother reading it (even apart from the fact that writing about SV elites being jerks is hardly interesting, useful or newsworthy).
Firefox Nightly now supports WebSocket debugging
What's the best way of figuring out which zone it could be in my account?
If the 2FA doesn't contain the actual transaction detail, pretty simply.

When user tries to transfer $1,000 of cash from user's investment account to user's bank account, instead, initiate transferring $100,000 to EvilGuy's bank account. Rewrite elements so it appears that $1,000 is being transferred to user's bank account, and wait for user to receive their 2FA code and authenticate. This may be as easy as string replacement both ways.
Max MSP is definitely an inspiration of mine. Tree Notation is just a format, however. It could be an ideal way for a program like max to store its documents in, as opposed to an xml or a Json. It would allow dual visual / source editing. See our ohayo beta for an example. (note to self: add ohayo demo video)

Large complex code hasn’t turned out to be too difficult yet. The key is well designed tree languages for the task at hand. Also, sublime text helps :). Have some code bases in the 6 digits loc. It’s all about tooling though. I don’t really use folding yet but perhaps that would be another feature that can make things easier, good suggestion. Things like type checking, syntax highlighting, auto complete, are essential.
Relevant heading: Network.

> WebSocket Inspection (GSoC project) – This feature is enabled on Nightly by default (devtools.netmonitor.features.webSockets)

Another interesting addition is inline variable previews in the debugger. Still behind a flag: devtools.debugger.features.inline-preview
"Well, actually..."

Lots of companies are very flexible about employees setting their own hours.

Lots of companies in the service business do not care whether an employee has a second job with another company, even a "competitor."

The issue around getting paid for jobs completed is absolutely a non-issue. Lots of employees are paid for piece-work, or equivalently have paid-for-performance structures.

The issue is whether such payment can drop below minimum-wage laws, and the answer in law is, "no."

So, frankly, while Uber and Lyft are certainly doing their best to act like their drivers are not employees, the criteria you give here do not disqualify them from being considered employees, as there are a non-trivial number of companies that have arrangements like this with their employees.

I'm left to think that it is certainly reasonable for a court to consider all these issues in aggregate and make a determination. It does not strike me as "obvious" either way.
When you say "cheaper than living in a house" are you talking about one with a mortgage or one you own and just pay taxes and utilities? Because the later is hard to beat.
First Thoughts on Alexa Skill Flow Builder
Not saying these types of videos (or the ones they lead to) are trending, but you're asking for inappropriate.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-prob...
You should ignore the headlines because they're usually junk.
Vector – Open-source Rust utility for logs, metrics and events
Yep. I call it the "AWS Chicken Pox Party."

We got lucky this time, RDS, ELB, EC2 and Lightsail instances all in US-East-1 across multiple accounts and no issues (knock-on-wood and understand that we'll get it the next time). Especially happy as I had a two-day running neural net training job running and it's still going, that would have been depressing. Phew.
Not brilliant enough to realize that being a jerk is a shitty way to live your life and negatively tinges all your work.
And that's all well and good ... but his role isn't about preventing future incidents, it's seeking restitution for the victims and their families, nothing more, nothing less.

It is the job of regulators to figure out how to prevent future incidents, and it seems that the EASA will be taking the hardline lead on that as there seems to be a general mistrust of the FAA this side of the pond.
Indeed. Our company's core business occurs in batch, background processing, that needn't be real time. If it doesn't run right now, there's literally no damage to the business or our customers if it runs in an hour. We have a customer-facing website, but there's very little there that can't be served by a cache.

tbh, I can't recall a support request from a customer that was caused by our infrastructure vendor and not our product.
Paternal Postnatal Depression Associated with Offspring Depression
My experience with highway construction is that a lot depends on the highway inspectors (who are employed by the highway department, not by the firm doing the construction). If they're lazy the highway will seem fine on day one, but will be quite rough within a year. If they're diligent it will remain smooth for a long time.

So, it seems possible that the military bureaucracy doesn't do a very good job of supervising the work done by armaments manufacturers, while the spy-satellite bureaucracy does an admirable job. I'm surprised!
I don't believe this is the 'most' intuitive. A spreadsheet is a directed graph but that's not how people think when they use it--they just write function expressions.

Svelte 3 does a better job of making it intuitive.

[0] https://svelte.dev/blog/svelte-3-rethinking-reactivity
>>"[..] makes sure employees aren't being taken advantage of, but also makes it possible for these companies to continue. "

Sounds good to me. Only that, maybe, the most important innovation of those companies, is that they found a way around the existing laws.

If that is the case, both, protecting the employees and making possible for these companies to exist are contradictory goals.
This is a good point. When building a raw xml parser, these would be 2 different things.

I think it’s a fair analogy to say tree Notation is just a much simpler XML.

At least 2x as simple:

<proof></proof>

proof
> Your full time w2 job comes woth exact the sane flexibility - you are allow to show anytime you want to, take breaks as long as you want to and do whatever task you want to.

What full time job do you have that allows you to show up whenever you want, work as little hours as you want, and do whatever you want? Sign me up.
I almost cried when I saw the word return_array. Then I realized my mistake. Return_array is the name of an input parameter.

How I long for the day I can return multiple values from an excel lookup function. Few users know of such a thing. But it is amazing. So far I have gotten it to work using the most complex formula string I ever made.

Link: https://www.get-digital-help.com/2009/10/25/how-to-return-mu...
+1 works well but long calculate times
Exploitation of children is an important but separate issue that I would argue falls on the parents. I would argue that while the scenario you describe is a gotcha moment, after two or three times it’s really on you to understand what’s going on. Either way, it’s driven by innumeracy. It may still be exploitation so I’m not really disagreeing.

I do think you’re wildly off base thinking that people don’t drastically overspend at physical stores for physical goods though.
I suspect you have suspected incorrectly: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/we...
> quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs and blah blah blah...

This quote has haunted me for quite some time until I realised the best way to solve the Dropbox problem lay in the UNIX philosophy with at least: a storage component + a sync component + a web UI component

At that stage, it becomes a game of lego in a healthy ecosystem of tools. As I was just missing the web UI component, I built it: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
^ These are some of the reasons why I start in this industry. I’m a minority who is self-taught and hates wearing suits/business-wear every day (also, it’s so damn cool go from having an idea to having it built and seeing it in the wild in the span of a few weeks to months).

One of my most popular HN posts [1] is about how the job search sucks so I empathize a lot. However, I have little interest in working for “top” companies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16127697

[1]: https://blog.webb.page/2018/why-the-job-search-sucks
Without defining what you mean by corruption and how to measure it, your comment is useless.

If you cannot somehow show that Brazil, Russia, the UK and Denmark have the same level of corruption, I call your argument bullshit.
I've read it, and while it starts with a request for a double-blind study, it immediatelly moves on to listing a subset of interviewing techniques. It is by no means exhaustive.

If the focus was to be on evidence, it would provide a framework for such a study. It generally sounds pretty hard to do anything of the sort.
> Lots of companies in the service business do not care whether an employee has a second job with another company, even a "competitor."

Absolutely none of them will let you be on the clock with a competitor at the same time you're on the clock with them.
> Regarding your last paragraph: when I call AAA for a tow, I have no control over which tow driver or tow company shows up. That doesn't make the tow truck driver an employee of AAA.

By the same token, neither does that establish a direct contractual relationship between the tow truck driver and the owner who called AAA. Neither third party may negotiate the conditions of the service provided.
> They can refuse any trip if it doesn't pay enough.

And refuse a few trips and you will be unable to get any trips at all.
Perhaps .. But what processing was enabled that could not have been done without camera surveillance?
Always interesting to read the final sum-total précis of what political people accomplish when they burst into a technical china shop with good intentions and not a clue. An unbelievably slow VM is an inevitable result, no matter the field. You could be doing laboratory science when a politician explodes through the door, and a year later, somehow end up with a scripting language that runs in a VM implemented in Perl...
Not intended as a correction, it's just how I english.
Yes, but that works for both parties, though.

The expert more capable of conveying their message will be the one who gets the most credibility, and this often (though unfortunately not always) aligns with the expert telling the factual truth.
Sorry, I was misremembering stories about things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun%27s_meteoric_iron_... -- the point being that as an iron alloy (iron-nickel not steel) it doesn't rust away quickly in graves like early human-smelted iron does.
Even in the UK, where guns are a rare instrument of suicide, men kill themselves 3-4x as often as women.
,, In response to concerns over the lack of end-to-end encryption in RCS, Google stated that it would only retain message data in transit until it is delivered to the recipient.[16]''

At this point I'm thinking that the only solution is to recommend iPhone for everybody.