skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mmm it's not only "telemetry data". It's that (e.g. Scuba) and other types of logs, and not only Facebook (e.g. Instagram as well).

Basically, everything that needs logging and post-processing by both real-time systems (e.g. Puma) and batch processing (e.g. all of the data that's ingested and sent to the data warehouse) goes through Scribe.

(disclaimer: I work in Scribe)

Scuba: https://research.fb.com/publications/scuba-diving-into-data-...

Puma: https://research.fb.com/publications/realtime-data-processin...
So how many millions of VPN users please?
Deceiving, tricking and pressuring users into taking actions.

For example, LinkedIn having a flow that has an e-mail and password box, which will get a less attentive user to just re-enter their LinkedIn credentials. But it's actually a phishing form for your e-mail, so if your LinkedIn and e-mail password is the same, you have now "consented" to have your address book scraped and your contacts spammed.

Or, in the case of Booking.com:

* Every step has items designed to pressure you to book NOW because it'll be too late otherwise:

- "booked x times in the last x hours" on the listing, or

- "Only 1 room left!" (they now add "on our site" after they lost a consumer protection lawsuit)

- Showing booked-out listings "You missed it"

- Various notifications like "last booked X minutes ago" and "limited supply" popping in while you're scrolling to raise the pressure

* Misleading or deceptive claims

- "Jackpot, this is the cheapest price you've seen" (emphasis should be on "you've seen", this will be shown even if you look at overpriced properties)

- They seem to have stopped the "one person looking at this property" thing (to make you think that it may be gone if you don't book now - that one person is you), probably after being forced to do so by court

- a misleading rating system (the lowest possible rating is 2.5/10, and you rate category-by-category, which means that if the staff is friendly and the hotel is in a good location etc. but the rats and cockroaches ate your luggage while you slept, that's an 8/10 property - in practice, you should assume that anything below 8 is not good, below 7.5 is bad, below 7 is catastrophic, below 6 you may not survive)

- I'd also assume that they mess with the reviews in various ways, like showing mostly positive ones etc., but I haven't verified that.

Overall, I like to compare the booking experience with a drill sergeant yelling into your ear to convert (book) right now, NOW, DO IT, NOW, YOU MAGGOT! They seem to have improved significantly over previous experiences with them, probably due to a combination of me getting used to ignore the yelling, or because they realized that such a bad experience pushes customers away, or because their practices got banned one by one.

It's a shame, because other than the drill sergeant, their site is great.
Honestly kind of surprised they didn't just build a subtle Windows 3.1 wrapper that would launch to run 16-bit apps, combining the view-of-the-system virtualization approach of WOW64 with ABI translation ala Rosetta.
echo "$(($(date +%Y)+1)) is the year of the Linux desktop."
You're probably getting additional downvotes because of the bilious bits about how HN is degenerating and being manipulated, none of which is on topic or interesting. Also, adding complaints about downvotes breaks the site guidelines and guarantees more downvotes.

Edit: also, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for ideological battle. We actually ban accounts that do that, because it destroys intellectual curiosity, which is what this site exists for. There's lots of past explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site more to heart?
The ability to hit a shortcut key and run mini applications in a separate layer was part of Apple’s GS/OS for the Apple //gs back in the mid 80s.
> ISIS conducted public executions, crucifixions, desecration of cultural sites and enslaved people for a labor force.

you mean things which "recognized" states do all the time?
> Ryzen processors have 80MB of L3 cache

The new Ryzen "only" has 64 MB L3 cache but it's split into 16 MB chunks per 4 cores. You can add in the L2 cache since it's exclusive (at the cost of more access fragmentation) to get 18 MB/72 MB depending on how you want to count it.

The new Epyc is the same design, just more cores so you get 256 MB. Still "only" 16 MB accessible per group of 4 cores though.
I don't disagree with you that cars have their usage. But it's funny you give links on some very rare incidents about a robbery and girl who got stabbed by a needle, but totally ignore the number of people who die every year from car accidents... (fwi, https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/#targetT...)
It’s some sort of crazy hack mess that converts calls from DirectX to Vulkan, and then from Vulkan to Metal.
>The meat-eating utilitarian vegetarian tries to pick meat from larger animals over smaller animals. Since you get more meat per unit of pain inflicted.

By that logic, the endgame would be an animal bred so it can't experience pain or suffering. After all, if it can't suffer, you can treat it however badly you want, right?

relevant Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri quote:

>My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?
Whistleblower talks banned at Australian cyber security conference by govt
Ah, you're right, I forgot about that. Meanwhile, the road is half torn up :-/.
You're breaking the site guidelines with comments like this. Please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Seems strange to go for something like Z80 from the 8-Bit
home computer age, when the goal is simple manufacturing.
Should go with the PDP-11 line instead which had a long history spanning different technologies, going across large and simple to manufacture to more integrated and miniaturized, faster, with more memory, with a standardized set of peripherals and instruction set architecture.
PG&E may cut power to 30 Bay Area counties for 'severe wind event'
> It's not a huge deal if this only blocks people from accessing Adobe Creative Cloud.

It is a huge deal, as remarked elsewhere in the thread, because given Adobe's near-monopoly on the graphics design market, this essentially kills several industries in the country.
Things like ATMs, industrial machinery, SCADA, real-time, embedded, etc. likely have a number of kernel-mode device drivers.
Introduction to Higher-Order Functions
buys stock in gimp
It's specifically a macos issue. 32 bit softwares run naturally on 64 bit hardware on any platform, Windows, BSD, Linux, without any maintenance.

It's just an Apple trick to force financial turnover for owner of 32 software.

It's not that there softwares are not compatible anymore, it's MacOS which block artificially 32 bit software.

It's for the same reason MacOS block sidecar for device older than 2016,even if they are capable to run sidecar in the first place.
If they could/wanted to do that, they could also use it to not deactivate non-governmental accounts in the first place.

(I can believe they could have wanted it, but it would take time, and I suppose getting compliant with an executive order of the President is something you want to do as fast as possible.)
Worth it to build a PC for remote software engineer?
Question for remote software engineers/software developers who use their own custom built PC for work:

- Do you find you get a reasonable performance uplift from a desktop over a laptop?

- What's a good sweet spot in terms of price?

- How do you negotiate with your employer so that you can use your own hardware for work?

- How do you deal with switching between your PC and an employer provided laptop?

- Do you write of the expense on your taxes?

- How often do you upgrade?

I'm contemplating building a Linux-based development machine (gaming is not a consideration) for doing back-end web service development.

EDIT: fix formatting
Keep in mind Adobe owns many other companies and brands

How does this affect Magento for example?
Download and Play the Games of the 2019 IFComp
This is another reminder that we should not have corporate gatekeepers to the apps and content on our devices.
> Couldn't Adobe take this to court?

Sure, they can take anything to court. The question is can they expect to win, such that their failure to comply would not have massive adverse consequences.

Executive orders imposing sanctions under the same provision of law this order relies on are not uncommon and have been litigated. What novel challenge does Adobe have that makes it worthwhile to fight this one?

> It's seems to me the smart move would be to exhaust legal avenues before shafting legitimate customers.

Not taking immediate action to comply, whether or not they are also challenging the order at the same time, risks criminal prosecution of both the company and the individuals involved.

And when the government seizes their license servers as part of that criminal prosecution, a whole lot more “legitimate customers” are screwed.
Yes and it was debunked by no less than Chris Lattner himself on the Accidental Tech Podcast.

https://atp.fm/205-chris-lattner-interview-transcript
I believe the Office-idiomatic approach there would be to create one Excel file containing multiple sheets, and then OLE-embed a view of each sheet into a Word (or Publisher) doc. Lets each tool do what it's good at.
Was the Roman Empire a country?
Thank you, that book looks interesting. I'll check it out.

IIRC, I scored ~115 on test many years ago but never made much out of it. I think domain knowledge is also important.

But I do seem to be the guy in the room asking the deep questions nobody asks and often don't want to answer.

For instance, we'll be discussing moving to a new platform and I'll ask if anyone has any plans to migrate the old apps to it.. and silence ensues. Or I'll question the choice of using some technology written in a language we don't have expertise in and it looks like that question never occurred to anyone.

Or I'll ask our director if there's a roadmap about our migration to containers and will get a lame answer.

I don't know if I could do their jobs better but I always try to be on top of mine and it annoys me a lot that others don't have as much passion for this field as I do. I know it's just a job but... Oh well.
Happens more often than you think with larger tech companies. Especially if one has hot keys.

However yeah, 99% of all deployments could get by with SQLite/MySQL/Postgres performance amounts.
> Western companies simply gave up and didn't learn how to scale content moderation until the last few years when social media had to deal with the same violent extremism that China did during the Tibetan and XinJiang riots that lead to FB/Twitter ban. As evidenced by current Youtube debacles, Google still can't / refuse to get human content control right.

First of all, I don't want them to do "human content control". That is stupid.

I will happily concede that China is better at nightmarish Orwellian censorship policies, congratulations, big accomplishment. I hope America never catches up.

How uncivilized must China be, if they need an army of censors to edit what everyone says? Americans have gotten along well without that. Based on how Chinese government treats its people, you must conclude that Chinese people are monsters that are constantly plotting violence. I choose to believe that the Chinese government is just too authoritarian and controlling.

Any American corporation that kowtows to the Chinese government's demands has nothing to be proud of.

It should be illegal for American companies to facilitate the evil that the PRC government commits. I don't want Google making money sending ethnic minorities to "re-education" camps.
You're assuming that there is just one location, and if so, it is cheaper to buy a Cloud Key than use a service like this or https://hostifi.net

The benefit comes in when you have many locations, and can replace a bunch of Cloud Keys with a single server, and have someone else manage updates for you and help with support questions.

At HostiFi 90% of my customers are IT service providers who use the service to replace a ton of Cloud Keys with the single server.

Ubiquiti's cloud offering is very expensive ($299/year base fee + $199/year for each +10 devices), and from customers who have told me about it before they switched to HostiFi, the support is not good, they don't keep the servers updated, and you can't get access to use a custom domain name/modify some of the stuff under the hood.
You made few mistakes:
1. Beijing won the civil war at 1949.
2. UN has recognized PRC at 1971 and abandoned Taiwan or ROC.
And till now, only very limited countries in the world (17) recognized Taiwan as independent state
That might be it. I've considered quitting IT altogether or going all in: getting a IT manager job or starting a consulting company, or... But I don't feel prepared.
> progressive

I really don't want to get deep into this topic on HN of all places, but limiting the government's ability to interfere with new construction is not progressive.

And in before someone says that the opposite is "conservative" because "NIMBYs" want to "conserve" the status quo, such a transparent abuse of language. People figured out that supply/demand applies to housing too and now want to pretend that allowing markets to lower the price is somehow progressive because progressive means good.

It's almost bordering on "Orwellian", where a word can become nearly meaningless, you can just start calling anything progressive to justify the policy rather than thinking about the functional principle of what is being done--limiting the government's interference in the market, in this case, and that's not to say that is always a good thing.
Microsoft is the one that has to prove it has a valid license, not the other way around.
This sounds like something that in most other languages, would have become R v2 (non-backwards-compatible)? Why does R retrofit instead of enforce best practices?
Magnolia residents love to argue in bad faith, anything to not straight up admit they don’t want to see poor people.

They’ll tell you they can’t pay more taxes because they never get anything out of it, then shoot down every proposal to build more transportation infrastructure in their area because it will bring in people, and use that as an excuse for why they can’t build more buildings. And then complain about how it’s the city’s fault.
> What I don't like about that is that I generally shy away from doing any sort of "if then" based on browsers' user-agent-string.

Can't you just base it on the "Accepts" header? That's the whole reason it exists, after all.
Did you test out ARDB [1] when you chose SSDB? I've been considering these for a while since I know I'm going to hit that choice point though that's not happened yet.

[1] https://github.com/yinqiwen/ardb
There's quite a lot of perl about. It seems to have a strong niche in accommodation booking platforms (booking.com and others), and recruitment software (ziprecruiter and others). As well as big chunks propping up various enormous companies (think banks and tech).

Perl lacks uniformity of syntax which is sort of a problem, but it does excel at helping to manage the mess that is real world problems.

Personally aside from getting sucked into ~ 30% devops over the last few years, I've had trouble finding decently paid work that isn't perl. Last time I got laid off I had an alternative offer within an hour.
https://twitter.com/Thomas_Drake1/status/1181301190983704576

https://twitter.com/SueletteD/status/1181314052376559616
A nice middle ground would be free public transport for people under 18 and $1 for adults. $1 a trip is very little for almost everyone but it still discourages randomly taking the bus just for fun.
I remember when everyone was a Google, Facebook and Apple fanboy, and those tunes sure changed. I also remember when the whole Open Source/Free Software community loathed Microsoft. Maybe the lesson in all this is, don't assume what a ginormous capitalist corporation will do based on your feelings about their brand.
They list 30 shows on their site [0].

Wildly assume the number of shows in that list that aren’t being produced anymore (but are still creating revenue) is equal to the number of shows they’re currently paying to produce, but haven’t released.

How do you spend $4M+ every year per podcast?

And not to take anything away from them or their valuation—the ongoing value of the library they’re creating and IP they can license is huge—just want to understand the expense side.

[0] https://gimletmedia.com/shows
I think they may have meant the narcotics police.
The people who publish books on Amazon have the option of them being DRM-free or not. The books I publish on AMZN are DRM-free.
Agreed. Also I hope it brings the end of the Apple security-by-obscurity methods that allowed that one iPhone to be cracked by a third party hacker. If you know what's in the hardware a 4-6 digit PIN is fine for deterring casual onlookers but is never enough entropy to secure data.

People should learn to use real passwords if they want their data secure.
Based on this framework it doesn't seem entirely clear to me Taiwan is a de facto nation. Do they have the monopoly on violence over their land? From my understanding (which admittedly isn't great) they at best of a duopoly on violence in their land shared with China, and China might have a better claim to that monopoly than they do. That being said, I completely agree with your broader point De Jure nationhood is a stupid game, and it's much more sensible to simply look at reality and make your own judgments about who is and isn't a legitimate state.
How good is becoming disabled because some driver was checking their phone!
Kind of an odd comparison considering most people don't have an intuitive understanding of the size of a polar bear.
Thankfully many international treaties have been made in the last few thousand years and civilized nations wage war differently now. I was expressly disputing the parent poster's claim that ISIS did not use terrorist tactics, which is a statement I find difficult for anyone to really take issue with.
Can we redirect to the original article [1] please (linked in the submitted article).

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-isnt-worried-ab...
Between this and the NBA's capitulation to making the Rockets' GM retract his statements on Hong Kong, at what point does appeasement just become acceptance of China's behavior? Sure, from the individual business' perspective they don't want to risk alienating the Chinese government and losing the Chinese market, but if China sees that they can get their way by simply threatening foreign companies then it will just embolden them to push for more concessions down the road. Quite frankly this all stinks of 1930s European appeasement policy and we all know how that turned out.
For the most part, it's not a technical issue at all but a cultural one : pro audio users are notoriously, almost pathologically conservative when it comes to software upgrades.

You'll find plenty of threads on forums like Gearslutz, asking for tips on how to downgrade brand new Macs to an older version of macOS that doesn't even support their hardware. Or 2019 threads asking if it's now safe to upgrade to High Sierra. They're typically 2-3 versions behind. Why ? Older is just safer, better in their worldview.

In that context, audio developers know they have customers on their side against "evil Apple that's always breaking everything for no benefit", and every year in September/October they get away with emails that read like Apple just unexpectedly dropped a huge bomb on them out of the blue, and it'll take them 6-12 months to get ready, like WWDC and 3-4 months of developer betas never happened.
now that everyone carries a far more powerful phone

Power is hardly relevant in this day and age, as any device with a decent firmware should be able to handle a ton of files and formats (this wasn't always the case, hence the need for rockbox).

Smart phones have versatility, but you sacrifice a lot on the music side. The audio hardware within the smartphone isn't as good, and it took a lot of years until there was an android player that had the bare minimum of features required by an audio enthusiast, namely lossless support (flac), replay gain, and gapless playback. Additionally, there are now players that run android and have all the "fruit", so the benefits are dimished.

But don't overlook the versatility of a standalone player, because relatively cheap devices like the Fiio X3 II that I am still running have other advantages compared to phone. It supports big sd cards (wasn't always a given on smart phones), has long battery life, has physical buttons (so can be operated without removing from pocket), and also functions as a USB DAC. So, lots of wins there.
Your software doesn't run in isolation. It needs services of the operating system. Apple has to spend resources maintaining 32-bit software and consumers would rather they didn't do that.
ESS disabled this behavior by default a couple releases ago, so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.
Not OP, but I do prefer how Windows handles high memory loads (by not becoming utterly unresponsive and forcing me to force reboot my system). It’s 2019. I don’t get how this kind of OS behavior is acceptable. Linux is the only environment where I have to micromanage my memory because I’m afraid I’ll hit that memory limit where everything stops working.
It's interesting that we spend our outrage at companies that are following the directives of our governments.

I didn't see any outrage when these sanctions were put in place. Certainly not on HN.

If you think about it, we're outsourcing the job of fighting for our rights to these companies. And they mostly only care about profits in our capitalist system.

Should we be putting all these pressures on such biased proxies? Is this the new norm?
It's not about being unable. Readers here recognize sarcasm, but they also recognize what happens to a web forum where it is allowed to proliferate. That's why https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html asks commenters not to be snarky on HN.

Lame internet humor tends to grow like kudzu, and the users who post it underestimate how lame it is, as scott_s pointed out well long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7609289. Sarcasm isn't quite the same but it's related.
"Due to copyright and other legal issues, this South Park episode cannot be viewed in your Country"

So yes, banned in China (Hong Kong)
Ask HN: What would America look like if there was less government?
When I think of the public sector, I think of:

education - student debt crisis; uneducated people stuck in poverty

gas/oil/electricity - global warming/climate crisis

healthcare - obesity crisis, diabetes crisis, people dying in the streets due to unmanageable healthcare costs

law enforcement - police brutality/abuse of power; mass shooting epidemics

What would the country look like if some of these responsibilities were shifted to the private sector? Famously, UPS/FedEx are better than USPS. What are some other examples of the private sector being more efficient the the public sector?
well... okay... it wasn't 40 years ago from TODAY, but from the date this story was posted.
Eh, our current ecosystem is such a mess I wouldn't miss it. I worked on cross stuff for Nixpkgs in part due to a more optimistic take: Let's bootstrap all the good stuff en masse onto freer hardware.
This is like in 1984 and what the Minitrue is doing.