skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t work with one of my employer’s products, rather a few IT systems used by most of the enterprise. It’s a big support platform with a portal used by almost every customer.

However, I feel pretty bad when I have to do a hotfix after a deployment. My boss told me this is just a part of developing software and partly due to the lack of support with have during testing. Coupled with a huge lack of defined processes and documentation by the end users.

I’m looking to transition in the next year to working on a revenue generating product that’s not off the shelf. I hope my worries don’t increase but they might for a time.
Which large company was it that recently acquired GitLab Inc.? I must have missed that.
> <disclaimer: founder of a GitLab competitor>

IMO, if you want to compete with GitLab, you should introduce some higher pricing tiers targeted at businesses. These should be comparable to GitLab's pricing tiers and should not have "hacker" in their names. I also suggest that for these higher pricing tiers, you make it explicit that using the service for closed-source projects is OK.
Maybe brutal in the sense of cold and foggy when people expect it to be sunny and warm.
> Maybe if it was far from the center and if it was done in a way where you would be 100% sure where nobody was exploited, then yes

All kinds of low and high paying jobs are exploitative and hardly anybody cares. But as soon as some degree of sex is involved, everyone is suddenly peculiarly interested exploitation. Why is sex treated so differently?
Seems like you are being the haystack instead of the needle in this case.
Oak Tree asks the CUcommunity to “roll-up” sleeves and donate blood
> But maybe I'm wrong and the friction is higher than what I expect.

It may be for a lot of users. But some people are GitHub refugees and only started using Gitlab relatively recently. I am one of those, and haven't been using Gitlab for long enough to have any serious friction against moving away from it.
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg: Crafter of Communities
> it is indicative of exploitation

In rich countries a lot of low paying jobs are performed by foreigners coming from poorer countries. I'm sure almost nobody enjoys any of those jobs but they do them because they need the money and have little choice.

And by the nature of these low paying jobs they only attract people with no other options, foreigners dreaming about a better life, completely unaware of the risks. This opens the door to abuse. I'm certain that plenty of locals (whatever country we're talking about) would do this job if it payed really well.
Wait, why not? Knowing who votes for what content, when, and in coordination with whom else seems like it would be extremely useful indeed! Aren't techniques like this already used by FBI etc on Twitter when investigating illegal content and coordination of its' dissemination? Bot networks are taken down on Twitter and other sites all the time using voting data.

Social voting data is a rather sizable and useful dataset for surveillance agencies. HN has a high concentration of current-high-impact and future-high-impact individuals and is therefore a reasonably interesting trove of information.

I realize all this is indeed tinfoil-hat-ish stuff. But I'd be shocked in NSA/CIA/FBI etc was disinterested in online social voting habits of users.

Also, you latched on to a single example I gave. HN may have your email address privately (if you gave it to them) and they also have your IP/access logs. This is all stuff that they save but is not publicly available information.

I'm sure there's more as well. It's not just "internet points" and reducing the discussion down to simply dismissing a single one of my thoughts isn't going to get us anywhere.
I am glad they took the responsibility in the 1850-1870 to not burn/chop down most of the forest in Norway. A lot of the places still don’t have trees because of wind and to much water in the ground.
I have my favorite empty county roads. No houses for miles, great visibility. I prefer going to the south and driving on old banked mountain roads, though. Most people can't even get to the speed limit safely on those.
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Exactly. There will always be people doing drugs and paying for sex. I think Amsterdam is in a unique position to try and come up with ways to make this all work. It's definitely new ground, and won't be an easy task to say the least!
The intention wasn't to "make it weird"; he simply serves as a prominent example of a) someone with an implanted medical device and b) someone who probably spent a lot of time in SCIFs.
Scorchingly hot summer is just a few hour drive away though
Exactly. This appears to be an iPhone, so it would be all 7s.
I had idea to make something like that, thanks for the link it's awesome! :)
IMO, the most important Vim keystrokes for editing code are:

* %, which lets you hop back and forth between ()/{} pairs. Extremely useful when working with, say, Flutter.

* F/f/T/t (and ;/,), which let you jump to a specific character in the line, ahead or behind. This greatly sped me up, as I no longer needed to count out "okay, hop 16 characters to the left."

Also, another important thing is that Vim makes editing fast, not necessarily writing. There's not really much you can do to make writing faster in the first place, as you eventually have to type anything you write at least once in some form. But for editing, boy, is it great.

EDIT: Attempt to fix god-awful formatting
and it won't matter at all!
from gitlab:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/34833#note_23515...

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We've heard your concerns and questions. There were many more concerns than we expected. We’re going to process the feedback and rethink our plan. We will not activate product usage tracking on GitLab.com or GitLab self-managed before we address the feedback and re-evaluate our plan. We will make sure to communicate our proposed changes prior to any changes to GitLab.com or self-managed instances, and give sufficient time for people to provide feedback for a new proposal. We'll work in this issue.[1]

Here's an MR updating our blog post accordingly: gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com!33289 (diffs, comment 235139590)[2]

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1 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672
2 - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/merge_requests/...
It's disappointing that Gitlab seems to be embracing the dark side; I've been recommending people use Gitlab if they're uneasy about Microsoft's purchase, but now it's giving me pause.

I suppose I could run me own Gitlab CE, and maybe I'll have to. That or I finally have an excuse to build a competitor :)
I like your future. In mine, we use CRISPR to reduce aggression in select animals, resulting in people riding zebras to work.
Unfortunately the demo crashes for me:

Error: Out of executable memory in function at index 31948
Please don't take HN threads into political flamewar.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21344785 and marked it off-topic.
>good jobs

This specifically. I think that for a lot of tech workers the valley is a great security blanket. They know if their current gig falls through there will be another one waiting just around the corner. No need to uproot and move. It's actually sort of strange on the surface. There are a lot of engineers in the valley who move around to various companies fairly frequently which looks on paper like they don't have a lot of stability, but in reality the sheer number of available jobs is providing that stability, even if their longevity of employment with any one company does not.
I feel like HN is becoming more explicitly political and I think that this is a poor direction for the site to move.
> didn't Elon try and shoot for a battery swap station similar to a gas station and Tesla deemed it unfeasible?

It was developed and demonstrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY My understanding is that it was deemed more unnecessary than unfeasible. That it would change the battery ownership model would also create administrative complications too.

Supercharging improved to 250kW, bringing down charging times. That people need to recharge their Tesla at intervals when they should probably take a break from driving anyway, on the occasions when they take long road trips, makes it hard to justify a battery swapping program.
Well, I guess that would be open to interpretation - I don't get from the sentence that the "very specific circumstances" refer exclusively to the paragraphs above. Otherwise, they would have written "outside the circumstances mentioned above" or omitted the brackets entirely, IMO.

I believe they phrased it this way so some discretion can be exercised if the original title doesn't give the full context. Another example is the recent Tesla story - original title is "Q3 2019 Update", story title is "Tesla Q3 Financial Results". The HN story for when MS bought GitHub is "Microsoft acquires GitHub", while original title was "Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers".

If there wasn't such a leeway, most acquisition stories would be titled "Our incredible journey".
It's not okay. PG&E should be nationalized and the infrastructure properly managed and invested in (including burying distribution and high voltage transmission lines), instead of profits being syphoned off for shareholders while the electrical grid crumbles. But we're not there yet (political courage and whatnot), and these are the options available.

If you have a better idea for those who want to remain in the state (disclaimer: not a CA resident, no judgement), propose and implement it.
If you have any camera (FLIR or otherwise) "looking over your shoulder" the method of secret entry is irrelevant.
Even better you can start Firefox with the profile manager and have one profile configured for TOR and the other for normal browsing.

That said, it's generally better to run the official TOR Browser instead. It has security nerds working over every aspect of it to make it as anonymous as reasonably possible. Deanonymization is shockingly powerful in the age of big data.
Broken health care system is causing rampant burnout among doctors, nurses
Use what you're comfortable using, learning new concepts and a new editor will slow you down and frustrate you.
Turn fridge and heaters off? How do then keep food fresh, or heat homes?
It’s not how it works, in Lebanon you pay the generator “company” a monthly fee independent of your consumption, but dependent on max amperage you wish to get.
The electricity already cuts off (circuit breaker) if you go beyond it (e.g. use a hairdryer).
Some people “cheat” that system by pouring saline into the circuit breaker causing it to rust from the inside, this it would never break.
I think that's the point. Most retailers do exactly what you describe, and I prefer buying things at those stores instead of Amazon because of it. But that's just me.
Now put two rats frolicking in the back sit of a tiny Chevrolet for a full de-stressing treatment.
In mine, we use slugs to clean windows and squirrels to harvest crops.
Please don't take HN threads further into partisan flamewar. Nothing good can come of this here, if you define 'good' as what's expressed by the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Chances are you'll still benefit. If the US approves the plane, but the EU rejects, that's substantially more information than you'd have under the old regime, and it's likely Boeing wouldn't fly the plane even in the US if that happened - the liability and PR risks would be incredibly high.

The second point - that Boeing's ability to have their own engineers act as the FAA's representatives is likely to go away or curtailed - protects you, too.
Most of the time they are exploiting Eastern Europeans from poor countries. Many times they are trafficked by mafia types and have their passports/documents taken away.
I bet this could be extended to mice scale mechs where they learn to (without harm) battle each other in arenas for treats while you stream it on the darkweb and take bets.
I'm guessing because opt in doesn't generate enough useful results while opt out does.

Let's be real here, the difference between opt out and in is probably several orders of magnitude worth of data. It's like, would you rather have a Megabyte of telemetry to analyze or a Gigabyte?
> if i replaced just the logo in the upper left hand corner to the github logo instead of the googs logo would you be able to tell the difference between this screenshot and github proper?

I think I could easily do that.

And I'm a backender-at-heart who doesn't even have full colour vision.

So, not a copy I think.
Novelty seekers sample the space of ideas and solutions that are unknown to the group, essentially generating hypotheses that the group then tests against its own objective functions, whether those are functional or aesthetic.

The group must necessarily generate surpluses in order for the novelty seekers to have the time and energy to generate new hypotheses. On the other hand, novelty seeking itself must be grounded in some minimal way with the experience of the group, else it will lose its meaning to the group. There is always a tension between the two. The cutting edge of such novelty seeking is probably in controversial forms of modern art.

Of course nobody knows the conditions that give rise to novelty seekers. The old adage "necessity is the mother of invention" is probably a fallacy. Necessity is more likely the force that chooses the most optimal inventions that were themselves generated using surplus time and energy.

Another way to think about this is as Novelty Seeking rather than Novelty Seekers. Novelty Seeking means we don't discretely divide groups into one type of person or the other, but rather, we allow a portion of anyone's time and energy to be dedicated to Novelty seeking, depending upon their propensity and desire for such pursuits. Arguably, this would get a large enough group the broadest and most diverse set of hypotheses.
So what's the trick to install add-ons right now? Either I break things or it works, won't use it without add-ons anyways.
Power and Politics in Today’s World
I think it's important to have at least a passing understanding of the cosmos, to keep things in perspective. That's not specific to psychologists, though, really applies to anyone.
WeWork plans to lay off 4k staff
It's a non-original title, but Wiktionary for example lists "presenting an opinion as fact" as a necessary requirement to call something "editorialized": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/editorialize#English
It Depends
I do not deny that such things have happened. But by your logic, every time a light bulb burns out in Tierra del Fuego, it's logical to conclude that it's a CIA conspiracy, because of the long history of CIA intervention in Latin America. That is, while such things have happened, far more things have happened that were not the result of the US government's nefariousness.

What I wanted was an independent account of the hearing. I know Assange is locked up and isn't able to give interviews. But his friend was able to attend the hearing, so reporters should have been able to, also. Where are their reports?

And, in particular, the US is requesting extradition, so of course US agents are in court requesting stuff from the judge. I'd like to hear from an unbiased reporter whether what happened at the hearing was normal, or whether it really was US agents improperly controlling the court.

As I said, this article is so clearly biased that I cannot accept its judgment on this question. Where are the mainstream news accounts?

> If you want 'independent verification' before you're willing to believe the state would do this to its enemies, maybe you should look at the long history of other enemies of the state being chemically lobotimized once they are held in secret conditions under the control of agents of the very military-industrial complex institutions whose crimes against humanity are being revealed.

You're making the claim. Cite some sources (preferably creditable ones).
> If they're complaining that it's 119 instead of 120, then maybe I can see a little bit what you're getting at.

This is indeed the complaint. Apologies it wasn't clearer.
I have been living in Amsterdam for the last 25 years, here is a bit of background.

25 years ago the red light district was a no go area for except for people looking for sex or drugs. But in the recent decades that has slowly changed. At some point it became fashionable to live in the old city centre and in the red light district housing was cheap.
As soon as those 'normal' people were living there they started to complain about all the noise and the shady figures that were hanging around. And the city government listened; now the policy is to make the Red Light district a normal neighbourhood for families and what not.

>> But the real issue is that none of the girl prostitutes are locals.

This has a simple reason: the red light district is all window prostitution, and as a local girl you wouldn't like to be standing there when your uncle or some friend happens to be passing by.
It’s also inconvenient for the generator mafia in Lebanon to have people generate their own electricity.
If "the site" was a building on a military base you'll still have no idea where the exact location is.
To be precise, the flyback transformer produces a sawtooth waveform, which generates the raster scan (lines are actually a bit slanted, dropping from left to right). While there's a preset frequency, a TV set will synchronize with the input signal – and there's some robustness in this. E.g., most 50 Hz CRT TVs will happily display a 60 Hz signal (as may be seen in the PAL/60 pseudo-standard). Horizontally, screen activation is directly bound to signal intensity, hence "analog TV", therefore only limited by the signal response of the phosphor used and by the amplification circuitry (for a character display, you'd want your signal ramps not to become too shallow). Also, there's some flexibility in the overall number of lines displayed. (E.g., while there are nominally 262 scan lines in a NTSC field, Atari VCS games historically varied between 238 and 290.) There are no hard specs for a monochrome tube, especially, when driving it directly, w/o going through modulation/demodulation stages. However, there will be a visible vertical separation, if you're just using odd fields as in non-interlaced video (due to the sawtooth waveform generating the raster scan), resulting in visible scan lines. Notably, most of the constraints resulting from this can be addressed by the type design of the display characters.
"We" didn't. A majority may have. Many, many people consider Windows a dead product.
Assuming you're using Racket to go through the book:

* https://crash.net.nz/posts/2014/08/configuring-vim-for-sicp/
* https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Vim.html
The State of Mozilla (Fall 2019) with Mike Hoye
I'm not the original commenter but I'm familiar with policies like this. I grew up in Lynchburg, VA, where the Naval Nuclear Fuel facility is, operated by what was B&W. It had identical policies: everything that goes in, stays in, no one allowed in without clearance, no paper or electronics leave, air gapped computer network, etc. Not the monitored bathroom breaks, though....
Hope you like solving CAPCHAs, because you're going to be doing a lot of that. And you can forget about searching with Google. Also you'll learn to hate Cloudflare as they straight up block you from so many websites.

And don't even think about trying to sign up for some free service like an email account or game account. Your account will be flagged before you finish thinking up your username.
It wasn't a daily thing. It was a rare event for anyone to make that trip.

Most of the time we worked with traditional commercial customers that while some were secure, were nothing like I described.

Nobody seemed to have any concern with the policies / security.
> Like, how do I know any of those links aren't the NSA?

No communication channel can be guaranteed to be 100% secure in the broad sense, i.e. even One-Time Pads can be stolen, recipients of messages can be watched to see what they’re up to, etc.

Users of Tor should assume that the whole channel (not just the Tor part) can be compromised by a willing and capable adversary, and take additional precautions if they feel it’s necessary, e.g. “tradecraft” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradecraft
Probably a few reasons, it often involves very vulnerable people, people who were coerced, people who were tricked (we have student jobs for you, hand over your passport though), etc. People are similarly uncomfortable with migrant manual laborers in the ME who are also coerced and tricked, though many do it knowingly because the alternative is worse. Initially trafficked sex workers tend younger than initially indentured migrant manual laborers, so they can be taken advantage of easier.
Can anyone elaborate a bit on why this PR has such terrible compile times? As someone with only a passing familiarity of Rust (I do most of my work in C/C++ and generally expect sub-10s compile times), I would naively expect that writing more C-like code which uses fewer of Rust's language features would compile faster or at least not considerably slower. What's going on there?
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VTEnc, a new inverted list compressor
How about LA?
Protein linked to autism may help birds learn songs from elders
In mine, we use a tube full of parrots as a telephone line... and then we implement the internet on top of it.
It’s literally my job to keep Grafana real. Our budding UX team is getting a lot of training on SRE as a discipline and we run weekly internal UX feedback sessions where all of engineering can join and course-correct. Same with weekly feedback sessions with our existing user base. Get in touch with david at grafana if you’d like to participate.
I think the purpose is to force users to "agree" to the new terms due to a sense of urgency.
When pigeons guided bombs:

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/08/25/pigeons-guided-bom...
Right - because say, there's obviously no nuance required between "rough sleepers are still people" and "let's add spikes to the building entrance so we don't have to look at rough sleepers in the morning".

It's really just a bunch of hippie hypocrites, slurring their "maaaaan" and pretending everything is alright until they call the cops, and you're certainly not projecting your own view about the world, making spurious connections between sex work and horrible drug abuse to avoid putting forward any real argument besides internet outrage.