skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>With cryptocurrency, there's nothing new or interesting you can actually do, no meaningful human connections to be made. It's just speculating on a made-up growth story, like penny stocks you can trade 24/7 — but we already had penny stocks and boiler room scams.

You really should look into that tech (Blockchain, DLT) a bit deeper. This sounds exactly like the "It's just a toy it's never gonna change the world." that people said about literally anything that changed the world. Yet that toy is here since 10+ years and it's not going away anytime soon. (Not talking about Bitcoin that could still end anyday)

The speculation/trading/scams etc. are the "kids" playing with the toy. One day value will move like data and people will question why it took so long to implement this. Exchanging data for value will be normal and young people will ask how it ever could work without that. Kids will aks if it's true that back in the days people who inserted data into the internet had to pay for it and not the people who consumed the data. The internet really works backwards because we do not yet have the "internet of value". The whole internet runs on ads instead.

As always when it comes to this topic I suggest David Schwartz's speak at We are Developers - World Congress Berlin https://youtu.be/Lxqz_NlX3GI
I feel like I would love to pay for a video service that didn’t support surveillance and mass data collection. Or that provided user transparency on what they did track (obviously some level of user tracking can improve a service meaningfully). That said, I don’t for example pay for Vimeo so I suppose there are network effects. I’m on YouTube because everyone else is. That said I regularly publish YouTube videos but have not enabled monetization. Not all youtubers can afford to do that but it’s a small thing I can to do help.
Why? Time and I/O speed isn't as relevant for everyone as you might think. I sure don't want a system without flash memory, but I know not everybody is me and not everybody will care.
Dividends was listed before bonuses. It is clear that the primary role of the bonuses is to generate outrage at them giving themselves bonuses for such bad performance.

Dividends have been very substantial, and evidently outcompeted maintenance. The lawsuits will collect more data in discovery.

Make no mistake, the outage and the threat are attempts at coercion, trying to force California to indemnify them, for free, against their own very deliberate negligence.

If PGE does not want to be a public utility anymore, California should confiscate their assets and turn them over to someone who does.
I can't wait for the day when I can walk to my local dump and move into a mcmansion somebody threw out because the paint was the wrong color... And I am only half joking.

Go into your local thrift store and try not to gasp as you walk past $300 pair of designer jeans after $400 dress, some of them still with tags on them as they've never been worn, and most all of them in seemingly brand-new condition.

It's a consumer's dream world out there, baby.

And we can't seem to get enough.

Storage units weren't even a thing 75 years ago. Now they're ubiquitous.

The idea of paying rent to store things you'd never use to our grandparents was insanity. (It still is imho).

I'm going thrifting right now, actually.

To everybody else in the world, if you could take a break from buying more brand new clothing, to consider why you might not need to buy more brand new clothing, we would all be a lot better off imho.
Google's cold potato is very good though.

(Also, they offer the option to use hot potato and pay them less: https://cloud.google.com/network-tiers/docs/overview )
Ready to Pay $30k for Sharing a Photo Online? House of Reps Thinks You Are
It sounds like you're referring to a specific subset of problems, namely ranking and retrieving web documents.

The "searching" section of TAoCP is about search algorithms [0]. Some of these (finding by keys, hashing, etc.) are part of what makes a search engine.

Some parts of what make up a search engine aren't related to searching at all, though. PageRank, for example, is about ranking.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_algorithm
I am not convinced every sysadmin could ‘easily’ script around init issues on the servers they manage, but I’ll give you that.

The real issue isn’t with servers, it’s with desktop systems and laptops. When users plug in a USB sound card or plug their laptop into a dock, they don’t want to (and likely couldn’t) “easily script around” that; they expect an audio device, network connection, video card to be created without any user intervention, and go away when devices get unplugged.

Making a set of init scripts (and surrounding unload and reload scripts) robust against insertion and removal of any of many different devices isn’t easy even for init script gurus, and would lead to duplicated code for detecting and handling the various load/unload conditions.

That, I think is the primary reason Apple went with launchd. Systemd took that idea. There’s nothing wrong with that.

The main issues with systemd, IMO are a) initially it was buggy, and b) tremendous scope creep.
FWIW, many (most?) audio developers[1] are advising that folks wait to upgrade to Catalina for legitimate reasons.

[1] https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2019/9/...
> I'd happily wear a DS9 or First Contact era Starfleet uniform all day. They look great! :).

So what’s stopping you? Copyright law?
The problem you described is real, and is visible to some degree at all publications. But you're either misinformed or are being disingenuous if you think you can credibly claim that the Washington Times is in any way comparable to other more reputable publications in this regard. They are a clear outlier with a motivated bias.

The Washington Times does not skip research to get their publication out first, they deliberately craft misleading and false stories in order to serve their conservative narrative.
"My point is, I’ve been into technology for more than 30 years, and I feel that Apple’s software culture has become progressively more user-hostile than it used to be."

Supporting the upgrade process at an enterprise level is especially difficult. PPPC's must be created to get anything connected to the camera, mic, keyboard or screen. The walls to the rose garden of macOS are higher.

Could OS software be built like Ubuntu? With LTS in the model for 5 years? + Security patches when necessary?
This sounds crazy to me. If you're a funder / owner, sure, you don't count hours and it can get crazy. But if you're an employee... Most of my hires now are 30 hours a week, a few at 35h. I don't have anyone at 39h anymore, although that was still the norm a few years ago. Paid stayed the same, just reduced the hours. People are just way more productive that way, and they have two half day free on top of the normal Saturday Sunday.

Probably doesn't work for all position, and in fact the worse the job the more likely it doesn't work for it, but uh yeah you can totally reduce to 40h...

(France, 35h is the legal work time for a full time contract here, but you can absolutely have a contract with more or less hours, you just pay extra social charges for hours above the 35th)
A little feedback. I had to read your opening sentence three times before I understood what you were trying to say. Either make it three sentences or cut the fluff and just say "Receive 15 new jobs in your inbox every day." Then farther down the page you can talk about how my information will stay private. If I'm getting jobs to my inbox, then I obviously am not spending time applying to jobs, so that's a given.
Well, you can access it over the \\wsl$ shared drive. But that share can only do about 4k IOps.
India moves closer to regulating internet services
My iMac Pro went into reboot loops every 20 minutes. Even after a clean install. Then I lost a lot of mail even on a clean install.

Its pretty much crap. I'll wait until 10.16 is out and then upgrade to the 10.15 that isn't crap.
Yep, sed supports that syntax (substitute).
echo 'There are ~250k employees at JP Morgan, not employees.' | sed 's/employees/engineers/2'
I always wait a minimum of a few months after major updates are released to install them. Nothing I hate more than having my dev environment hosed because some binary I depend won’t build correctly or something in my stack starts throwing runtime errors. A couple months usually all of these type issues to get ironed out.
For everyone one of those, there are a hundred folks scraping by off Blizzard IP.

There’s no good solution.
I will reinstate why I did it:

1. Politically incorrect guy in a left-leaning social network it was a pain. Both relatives and FB bullied me. FB made me delete a post because it was controversial (I cheered that abortion law was ditched in my country) and relatives because they're not conservatives, they're more kind of USA's democrats. So it was really hard to me to express feeling without being insulted my everyone.

2. Continuous use of the social network and watching stuff that was useless. I came to realization people on FB are just part a big echo chamber. That's why I moved out and it was better.

3. FB plays with my data, bias me in the background and try to sell me progresive ideas all the time by banning the opposition by all means.

4. The battery of my phone lasts 4hs more.
In fact it highlights the difference too. Cloud services companies own the hardware they rent. Human rental services are pass-thru accounts. Cloud services are more financially successful.

A similar thing happened with eBay and Amazon: Amazon owned the products they sold (initially anyway) and eBay was pass-thru. Amazon was more successful.

So Bezos is currently thinking, how can we own some Amazon humans and provide them for rent?
Until you compare your salary and expenses to that of someone who was working blue collar 40 years ago.

My dad made enough to support a family of four as an appliance repair man. He got a new car every so often, built a shop and had a home mostly paid for and we went on vacations. Going to the doctor wasnt a big deal and no one worried about being bankrupt from a hospital stay/

I am supporting a family of four and we get by. My car is 18 years old with 260k miles on it and I am hoping to get another 3-4 years out of it so the kids finish college. (community college, I am not rich and cannot afford anything else). The family is one major medical incident away from bankruptcy and I have good insurance

You tell me how good you have it and I will reply that is because you dont know how good it could be.
Need incentive to buy less clothing, especially fast fashion?

Watch The True Cost, available free here: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDx711ibD1M
Yes; by 2036, 78% of the earth's surface will be composed of Mindstorms.
Also: this is the part that was most helpful in helping me understand what you actually do "Yes, we parse and read all incoming emails to your @alcamine.com email address. That allows us to rate it against your preferences, score it, and pull in relevant information for you when viewing it. Once you find an opportunity you’d like to learn more about you can “Take it Offline” and continue the conversation from your personal email. We are here to help you find a great job and maintain your privacy, not exploit it."
> How am I supposed to know how quickly your yellow light changes on this street?

Does it matter? If you're a tourist/newcomer, simply don't try to make it through a yellow light just because you can. If you can stop, do so.

In Oregon, it's not absurd to be safe only when out of the intersection. As a "restrictive yellow" state, the yellow cycle time includes the time to completely clear the intersection. IOW, the yellow cycle time is longer than it would be otherwise.

Yes, without understanding that the yellow times are longer, it would seem absurd.
Signal Android bug: users can still share media with a group they left
> the jacket B'Elanna Torres wore at some point (VOY)

That was added to hide Roxanne Dawson's pregnancy, which I guess sort-of addresses the point about the standard jumpsuit uniforms not being the most flattering.
> No one was ever going to be able to read your emails

As long as no one practiced a trivial mitm attack on your network and that you have a browser that does not try http first when you type in your webmail.com or that no one rubber duckied a custom CA certificate in your browser ...
Seems reasonable to me.

50 mph is 264000 feet per hour.
This converts to 73.3 feet per second.
300' means you need to signal about four seconds before turning or changing lanes.
>Then in all went downhill, quick.

IME things started going downhill when UberLyft started reducing driver payouts, which led to drivers starting to game the system.

Makes sense too in a way. Driver now have no inventive to make the service pleasant.
Aight then i'm sorry for their lack of accountability.
Google's annual profit is something like 100,000 dollars per employee. Not exactly a small pile.
> They generally get higher salaries for their employees, no?

Unions typically (almost always) bargain to improve the compensation of the average employee. Outlier events are flattened by definition, meaning it is harder to be fired, and harder to make outlier money.
Author hasn't tried Catalina, and their biggest complaint appears to be that the email app allegedly has a new UI--but I don't think it does. Mail app looks the same in Catalina, doesn't it? I can't say I noticed any differences.

Either way, this is an extremely long blog post to say basically just "I don't like change, and I'm not willing to see change as a potential improvement to try to accept it".
Is not having your face scanned and matched/uploaded/sold to any number of databases/orgs when you just want to go to dinner an unreasonable expectation ?

Maybe the applicable laws involve stalking
Restaurants treat wait staff like straws, cheap, of no value and easily discarded and replaced.

Using surveillance to track the efficiency of people who are poorly trained, poorly managed, and poorly paid is the hallmark idea of a consulting company trying to prevent a company from sliding into oblivion because their food is just not that compelling.
> And 40% of the population is chinese:

>> 40% of the residents of a large portion of Southeast Vancouver are Chinese.

So... 40% of the population of Vancouver are not Chinese, as you seem to imply with your intro to a quote that specifically contradicts your implication?
Would it be okay for someone to casually propose medical interventions while claiming they're a doctor, when really they aren't?
Walmart uses resellers and I’ve had problems with them recently.
It looks like this is a case where a process is holding lock A while waiting on lock B; and every other process is waiting on lock A. That's normal enough, though it seems like there are two mistakes:

First: Never spin waiting on a lock for 3 seconds. If you expect a lock to be released very quickly, you spin K times and then, if you still don't have the lock, try something heavier that can deschedule your process. K should be small enough that your time slice is unlikely to expire while spinning, otherwise, it just causes confusion and wasted work because it looks like your process is doing work when it's not.

Second: It seems dubious that using a feature like system restore causes all Write calls to wait for a lock held by a process in the middle of I/O. I'm sure there are some cases where that must happen (like if out of buffer space to hold the writes), but I would think it would be harder to hit.

EDIT: Rephrased my comment in terms of two problems rather than just the first one.
NewPipe is free.
> Most scientists today would say that below a threshold, there is no negative effect to radiation

Every time I was enticed to look up more about hormesis, I see the same issue: an intrinsically linear effect of a factor is studied, with a precise linear generator of the factor, but outside of the generator there is a background component to the factor which is ignored, which causes a misinterpretation of non-linearity.

A concrete example, suppose you have a light sensor in a "dark" enclosure, then at large enough intensities the current through the photodiode is linear with the incident illumination, but if there is some light leaking (or alternatively thermal radiation, and hence temperature, and hence dark current) then as the light generator is set to lower and lower levels, the light sensor will no longer linearly approach 0, since the signal starts to delve below the noise floor (so it will allways be measurable, but require more and more oversampling to decrease the noise floor). To confuse this effect which has nothing to do with photons getting converted to electron hole pairs, it is a misinterpretation to consider the effect "non-linear" close to the noise floor, and an even bigger misinterpretation to consider it "beneficial". Sure even high levels of ionizing radiation can be beneficial to the offspring of a colony of bacteria, fungi, or plants as a group, but it most certainly is harmful to the the individual bacteria, fungi or plants individually.

In the case of the light sensor, the current through the reverse biased photodiode will still be ideally linear with the total incident illumination, just no longer linear with the illumination of the non-dominant light source.
And while we're at it we can count non-Caucasian Americans as immigrants /s
I don't necessarily think you're wrong, but I think you're missing the point.

Situation: some manager is tasked with updating some antiquated COBOL monstrosity. They're given twelve peanuts, some shoe string, bubble gum and a little bit of duct tape. The experienced staff have all been aged out, quit out of frustration or laid off and replaced with fresh college grads for half the price which was a great deal and significantly reduced costs for several consecutive quarters, earning a well deserved healthy bonus. Unfortunately reliability of the system has been suffering and the young engineering team unanimously agrees the old system should be replaced.

Option 1: do it in house with the young team of rockstars the manager has been bragging to management about. Unfortunately, the manager secretly has reservations and has doubts about the team's experience, let alone skills. It's too risky. Not too risky to the company who can easily absorb the loss and move on, but too risky for the middle manager who will look bad and possibly get fired.

Option 2: outsource the entire thing to IBM or Oracle. Tempting, but not in the budget. Also, significant parts of the old system are on IBM anyway and the cost of hiring IBM people to fly out has been increasingly expensive after the latest round off layoffs saw Scott put out to pasture. No, it's too risky. Not risky to the company who can have uptime guarantees in the contract, but risky to the manager who will look bad if he comes in over budget.

Option 3: The Cloud. It's the 'in' thing. FAANG are all all in on it, and if it works for them it could work for us. Much of the new team used AWS for their web dev class in college, so the skills are fresh. There's very little risk to it. The staffing requirements will be dramatically reduced so costs will drop. The manager will be able to deliver an awesome demo next quarter and the S3 instance they'll host it on will only cost one or two of their peanuts. The only risk is if the manager doesn't get promoted before the problems start, which shouldn't be a problem because AWS has such great onboarding programs. It is slightly more risky for the company though, who may find themselves no longer in control of critical infrastructure.

Risk for the company isn't the same as risk for a mid level decision maker. Small fuckups carry the same penalty as huge fuckups. (you get fired) From my fake story, doing it in house has a relatively high chance of being a minor fuckup, and AWS has a relatively low chance of being a major fuckup. The manager is going to choose the low probability risk, even though the low impact risk is the company's best interest.

And let's be honest... a remarkably large fraction of small IT shops are really bad at certain basic competencies, notably backup reliability and timely application of updates. AWS is pretty good at sysadmin and accounting 101, even if it stumbles at 201.
I second this. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software is also very ethically pleasing.
Unfortunately Apple has lousy backward compatibility, particularly for games. Dropping 32-bit is going to kill a bunch of games.

On iOS it seeem even worse, with yearly releases breaking many apps; Apple's aggressive ABI changes offload a large maintenance burden onto app developers, who have to keep updating their apps every year just to keep them working the same way.

Windows seems to do a lot better, and game consoles do even better: with the exception of multiplayer games whose servers get shut down after a year or two, most games keep working indefinitely across firmware revisions.
I applaud that part; seeing the upside is admirable and not everyone can do that. What I still don't get is when they get mad when others try to hear again. It just doesn't make sense. My perspective could certainly be off here, but it sounds like someone being mad his neighbor has a fancier car and yelling at him about it.
I use Emacs, but at my last few jobs I was just about the only one.
Well, by hardware I meant its maintenance as well. Doing so still leads you initially to the sale of bandwidth, not a bidding system.
I’ve been using Elm for about a year now. It’s my go to for most UI work these days. However, my main concerns have been around:

1. How community contribution is handled. I’ve been following the compiler repo for a year now, and the number of bug reports (and PRs) that remain open is concerning. I get it - they want to move slow and be deliberate in the way it is developed. But fixing well known compiler bugs shouldn’t take a year. Makes it harder to sell to dev teams.

2. Using private packages. I know there have been workarounds (including multiple src directories tracked via git), but they feel hackish.

I’ll continue using Elm for personal projects, but it is still a hard sell.
I would demonstrate my sympathy for their desire not to be a public utility anymore by confiscating their assets, firing their management, and turning their assets over to someone who does want to be a public utility.
Not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but all of this seems like a cheap strategy to make users move to iPadOS.
> sports player unions

Probably one of the worst examples. The MLBPA is currently the biggest joke regarding negotiating power, and the NFLPA settled a concussion lawsuit where the NFL is lying about player health and got away without admitting guilt about it.

Pro sports unions are inept at battling management and their members are suffering for it - in the case of football, literally dying for it without adequate compensation (if such a thing exists).
I stopped with Facebook because of spying and narcissism. I stopped with Twitter because of selective tweet promotion and targeting - you're effectively giving a group power over your life guiding you what is right to watch or be concerned about. I don't ever want any media or pseudo-media company doing that. Presently I search a list of different sites with totally different leanings and try my best to capture the truth without the slant.

None of it is easy though.
"np" is being treated as a country code, like every other two letter string. xy.reddit.com also works. Country codes were meant for localization.

Somehow moderators decided to start using it for "no participation", and many subreddits use custom CSS to disable commenting and voting on np.reddit.com/r/whatever. But np.reddit.com with custom styles off works just like normal reddit.

I'm sure Nepal is very offended.