skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporate business leaders here in America tend to be obsessed with trying to apply military-style terminology and doctrines to their business. In their minds, business is war, and "lives are at stake" gets translated to either "jobs are at stake" or "revenue is at stake," depending on the person. There are so many war-isms in business it's impossible to list them all. "In the trenches," "boots on the ground," framing sales territories as battlegrounds...

In short, these things sell because American business leaders fetishize these sort of ex-SEAL types.

It's all a little much for me. Not to mention unfortunate, because the sort of leadership that works best in the military is decidedly not the sort of leadership that works best in business. The military demands that soldiers immediately and unquestioningly follow commands given by their superiors (particularly during combat). Lives are literally at stake, so any hesitation for even a moment could spell doom.

Meanwhile, in business, I strongly believe leaders need to be in more of a team-servant role -- yes, motivating, providing vision, etc., but also cultivating a sense of "your voice matters," if that makes sense. Being a 'force multiplier' in business requires a different mentality than in war zones.
Consumption taxes are paid every time you consume something. You buy an ice cream and eat it, you paid VAT on it.

Now with a house, the consumption is living in it, and while you own the house, you pay for that consumption at some rate.

A bigger, more expensive house corresponds to more consumption, and thus you pay more tax on it.

Consumption of a house is basically the product of house value and time, and that's what you pay tax on.
Safe Use of Unsafe.Pointer
Wi-Fi 6 hits 700Mbps in real-world download tests
> and loads of people see "ask for location data" and say no

Do you have any non-anecdotal evidence for this?
Because in the wake of 9-11, you would have been very pressed to find any US adult who didnt support torturing terrorists in custody to prevent more attacks. The Patriot Act passed almost unanimously.

You have to remember the _emotional_ impact of 9-11 to properly judge the people in charge at that time.
Then you may be interested in Rudy Rucker's lifebox concept.
It happens in Japan much more often than it happens in the USA per capita. They have a 99% conviction rate so you know things are very messed up there. https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c05401/order-in-the-c...
I've been using Safari and Duck Duck Go for the past six months. I've also moved my email to Fastmail. Happy to become less reliant on Google.
I had a Pre also, spectacular device, very usable. Super tiny by today's standards, with inductive charging, and running WebOS. One of the best apps was X-Plane, very smooth. In many ways, we have lost ground and not regained it.
Stop Saying Driverless Cars Will Help Old People
No, I'm well aware that that's what it's "about," just like I'm well aware that the search engine is mainly about advertising. I just don't care what it's about so long as the results are beneficial to me -- which they definitely are. When I see the AMP icon I know the page is going to load much faster
Atlassian scrambles to fix zero-day security hole accidentally disclosed Twitter
"vertically flat"

Yah, by the mid/late 1990's when I had a pile of them at work/etc they were mostly "flat" screens because that was sort of the default for a midrange+ monitor in that timeframe.
Did you bother to check what exactly were the components? I actually looked at the list, not related to "adware", basically stuff that Microsoft probably replace with their own stuff. (spell checking, form fill, translate etc etc.)
I looked around at a few, tried Pelican, got annoyed by it, switched to Jekyll for Ruby, and found it more enjoyable.

I am a long-time Python developer with essentially no Ruby experience.
I’ve wondered if it’s shaped after a snake as the sound matches up (“sssssss”).
IMHO, the best one.
> I think plenty of people have found Mozilla to have made some poor decisions over the years.

It kills me that someone would be pissed at Mozilla for adding pocket, Chrome comes with so many damn Google centric plugins, and one little useful utility you can remove is what makes you lose it over Firefox? Come on.
National Journal (Atlantic Media) | Senior Front-End Web Developer | Washington, DC | ONSITE | https://www.nationaljournal.com

National Journal serves government affairs professionals with the journalism, tools, and in­tel­li­gence they need to save time, in­crease ef­fi­ciency, and de­liv­er suc­cess. With a focus on actionable research, insights, and custom content, National Journal keeps members informed about key movements in people, politics, and policy, including elections and campaign finance. Election years are huge for our members (and for us) and 2020 is going to be busy and exciting.

Tech Stack: We're ramping up a new project that calls for a modern framework (a departure from our current jQuery-based website frontend) and that's where this new hire comes in. We're evaluating both React and Vue and will look to our new front-end hire to help recommend the best fit and get started. Our other devs are full-stack and spend most of their time on back-end work in Python/Django, but this front-end hire won't need to be a Python/Django expert. Other things we work with routinely include Postgres, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Neo4j, Pandas, and Less.

We're a small team with good people, solid work-life balance, and interesting problems to solve. Other parts of the job involve building new functionality around vendor integrations (Salesforce, Marketo, Google Analytics) and ingesting data from API providers (FEC, Vote Smart, KnowWho), as well as building out custom pages and dashboards for our public-facing site and improving our home-grown CMS.

https://atlanticmedia.applytojob.com/apply/gEi3WORKZz/Senior...
> Call me when Edge is on OS X

Sure, when's convenient?

https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download/

> or Linux

We'll chat again in a few weeks when that's released.
High Output Management by Andy Grove, Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz would be my top 3.
I assume it's like plagiarism, and if you rewrite the code "in your own words" you've copied the functionality but not the individual expression.

Also seems that copyright regarding code and the whole world of copyleft is still a grey area in the courts.
When they made Yahoo! the default search engine I had to stop recommending it to non-tech folks, as I'd also have to explain how to change that.

That was quite a while ago, but that kind of thing does stick with you.
I get the feeling that most consumer software is consolidating on a single universal platform (the web). Whereby soon the web browser will essentially the gateway through which most users do their computing.

Rob Pike wrote Systems Software Research is
Irrelevant [1], which I recommend you give a read based off the question.

[1] - http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf
Do you know if you use !g whether or not the request routes through DDG (not removing tracking, but hopefully reduce ir(?)) or it's like going on Google.com?

I use DDG and "bang" myself to better results if DDG fails me. Love the amount of features.

My only complaint is it sucks at helping me spell words, especially in other languages than English.

Sadly we use Google mail at my work so probably can't avoid it completely.
The defenders choices are all like this: you can fix some aspects with each, none are sufficient alone. By choosing a non-footgun you eliminate some classes of problems. It's still important to do it.
As a wiki content contributor, it seems like the only easy entry-level approach is to find a category that's interesting to you and largely abandoned. For example, any non-famous books by your favorite author are likely to have stubs or no articles at all.

Of course, if the article doesn't exist at all, you risk a war with the deletionists who've decided certain turf shouldn't exist. And occasionally there's a one-two of one user shredding an article as "excessively detailed", then another nominating it for deletion because it lacks content...

But overall, I've found it a more approachable way to contribute than trying to change or extend any article with an opinionated 'owner'. (At this point, I suspect Wikipedia's factual errors are less likely to come from "anyone can edit" than from possessive and mistaken writers actively restoring errors.)
If you can, watch the documentary "General Magic". I got it off Showtime. Hadn't finished it yet, but what I've seen so far is great, if painful. By "painful", it's easy for a developer to put themselves in their shoes. Imagine putting your heart and soul into a product, knowing you're making something great and world-changing, being right, then watching it fail. Then later be vindicated by other products on the market.
Art 4.3 Released: ASCII Art Library for Python (+ Font Typo-Tolerance)
FYI the most recent edition of the book has a new title 'Debugging Teams: Better Productivity through Collaboration'.
I don't know, but the probability that an HN article discussing a misunderstood chronic disease is 100% likely to attract at least one snarky dismissive comment such as your's.

A better use of your time might be to thank god/providence that you haven't been cursed with such a condition.
Just FYI your search input goes over your header on mobile, looks a bit odd. Give that header a z-index :)
It's a surprisingly common prejudice against The Economist.
That's not what people use the term "self-hosted" for. It doesn't really apply to websites that you created yourself. It rather applies to off-the-shelf software that you use as an alternative to SaaS offerings.
Yes but Mozilla is lazy, badly managed and dumb. They were too late on mobile, and if it weren't for Chrome, Firefox today would need 64GB of RAM to run.
This holiday season I'm putting DDG and FF on all the families machines. Flipped some over the summer. They hardly notice. The icon for "internet" is now orange and the search still finds all the stuff they are looking for.

The big G makes money off our non-tech associates, not us, so moving them is, IMO, more important than me and tech-folk moving.
> They really have no way of knowing that you're selling/giving away the phone, so they can't have the phone tell you to unlock.

They have a way to contacting the owner to remove the lock. Why don't they do allow that? That would even allow to get back the device for the original owner.

The issue here is that Apple doesn't works toward making it harder to steal, they works toward making it harder to resell.
How about a list of famous/well known cities, for comparison purposes? Also, how about a quick stat telling me number and average distance of the sensors used to make the determination?
Agree, that is the why I said among other reasons, and corruption is another one. Is more a general feeling of working class paying the bills.

I am not positioning myself about how European social system works but it seems something has to change, specially after the crisis. Also this is obviously happening in the weakest economies in Europe.
Mmmm... I realized a few years back I can have both! A Gibtini? Yum.
I see comments praising they can now use new ECMAScript proposals, e.g., nullish coalescing. If you hadn't been at the mercy of an abstracted build tool, you could've upgraded your build system yourself. I don't like the idea of running my projects like that. If I want something in my project, I get it. There's none of this "waiting around" for it.
irccloud.com (needs a paid account) will provide an BNC interface to a slack - been using that for a while to talk to customer slack setups, works really nicely.
Firefox has “hot code replace”. At least in Nightly as of a few months ago when I first used it.
Not really. The parts are smaller and less standardized but generally speaking you put the screws in the holes and it turns into a phone.

Moreover, isn't this article about Macs anyway?
Despite job boom, more men are giving up on work
> it will not become irrelevant anytime soon unless there is a better end user product.

Most of the end users today never made a conscious choice about this, in the same way most people didn't question Windows as "the operating system" years ago. Google is pre-configured almost everywhere, its brand name is synonymous with web search and most people never even try anything else. IOW, it's not the superior quality of the end product that decides the market share today, it's sufficient quality and no good reason to switch.
There were lots of people arguing against it, in public discourse.
‘Ultimate’ MiTM Attack Steals $1M from Israeli Startup
You can excuse anything in the US if you scream "patriotism", "terrorism" or "freedom" loud enough.
Snibgo's ImageMagick Pages (2014)
WebAR to Wearables: AR's 2020 Outlook
>the working poor and now, even many working middle class Americans.

The fact is that many of those middle class people are now poor but just don't want to accept it.

I'd always define myself as working class because while I have a STEM Masters degree I am entirely dependent upon my salary (which isn't that high, we don't have US level salaries in tech here in Southern Europe) and I have no other sources of income or wealth (real estate, investments etc.)

I think the insistence of many people that they aren't "working class" is bad as it prevents them from seeing what is really in their best interests.
Dutch Politician Could Get Three Years in Prison for Hacking iCloud Accounts
Do you actually use firefox for your personal usage?

FF Quantum hit the stage two years ago. Performance is now a moot point; they've had plenty of time to recoup on any market share losses from that with the new Quantum branding.

And they've been releasing dope features for the dev tools with almost every release. Check out this especially feature-rich release: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/firefox-71-a-year-end-arri...
It might be just me but I don't get why people on here tend to be critical about DDG's usability. I made the switch a year and a half back and I seriously don't miss anything. There are some niche cases where it doesn't work, you can just use the bangs in those cases.

The trade-off, like you said, is well worth it.

(Upon typing this, I realize I'm just echoing your comment. Either way, leaving this up to provide one more voice in support.)
You bring up a good point. I think the reason I feel this way is that Google's screw ups didn't inconvenience my usage of Chrome, whereas Mozilla's have inconvenienced my usage of Firefox. What made me initially switch to Chrome was the UI change in Firefox. Years later I thought of swapping back to Firefox and I found out that Firefox doesn't allow me to run my own add ons without their approval.
'anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law'. This sentence police say condemns the us system to a game where the objective is to beat the opponent. It's ingrained in the system every step of the way, even with a person's supposed 'rights'.
Do you have any data that Google's services were the actual cause of the slowdown of websites?
> god help you if you ask a question without showing that you've "done the work" up front

I think that's different. It's not about puritan work ethic or whatnot, it's about showing the minimum respect for the people you're asking to make an effort for you. Questions which don't show any effort [1] are shunned in tech circles, and this isn't something particular to StackOverflow. And there's a good reason for it: many are asked by "help vampires" [2], people who will burn honest answerers with pointless, ill-researched questions with no follow-up, no useful feedback or even a thank you. Extreme help vampires will even ask the same question repeatedly, apparently too lazy to even see it has been answered already. Some of them just want people to do their homework for them, free. Once or twice may not seem much, but if you don't cut them short, they'll overrun your community.

The mere act of thinking how to phrase a question well, showing you've made all the research you could before finding yourself at a dead end, is often enough to actually find the answer for yourself!

So the StackOverflow community may be a bit trigger-happy, but I completely understand why they'd be upset at people lazy enough to not even bother to formulate their questions clearly.

[1] "How to ask questions the smart way": http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

[2] "What is a help vampire": http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
Given that HN has had articles on the decline of the insect population (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations) and the decline in bird populations (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/science/bird-populations-...), I am surprised that food supply is not listed as one of the causes of body changed.
> But they plummeted because of Activation Lock and similar features.

Activation Lock != kill switches

A kill switch is a switch. It's an action. The activation lock is always there, the action is required to remove it, not to kill it.

Kill switches are fine, because then the issue only happens when it's actually stolen.

Activation lock aren't fine because it also happens when it has been sold.
What did you find annoying about their checkout process? Seemed smooth to me.
I think leadership stems from engineering cultures. So I guess you may find Netflix Culture Code interesting [1]. It's introduced by Reed Hastings, the CEO

[1] https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/reed2001/culture-1798664
> Our engine is capable of streaming

A bit misleading given that decoding can't be streamed yet.
I actually am using Brave and Chrome. They're similar enough that they more or less feel interchangeable.
Works fine in Firefox 70.0.1.
Somehow that was even more disturbing than the president orchestrating it. It indicates that the CIA is a rogue* agency that is insulated enough from the political system that it can basically do what it wants, and what it wants is rooted in base aggression devoid of even evidence based approaches (their own data showed torture didn't work).

If the president doesn't know, doesn't authorize programs that are this controversial, it means they are a decoration and the political system is a sham.

* rogue meaning autonomous from political control, not necessarily that it is doing anything to contradict the imperatives of the empire.
This is just a sliver of the perversion created when you rely on advertising for profits.
Everyone thinks free stuff is great but it means you're the product and an entire global economic ecosystem is being built on that.
Odd typo in the headline, unless it's an outbreak of software inspired by Fela Ransome Kuti[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransome-Kuti_family
Is five minutes of email followed by 25 minutes of Twitter a style?
Note that Steam only dropped XP support 4 years after Microsoft did.

Software, even sprinkled with art, is not a usable fuel or a perishable good.

As I said elsewhere, I have no issues with software companies deciding to drop support, but they should also then forfeit their copyright (earlier than normal) and release the source code.

For a store/launcher like Steam, they should remove the DRM. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, Gabe specifically promised to do that when Steam was first introduced, to assuade the fears over DRM !

EDIT : I stopped reading what passes for "communication" on that link on the first page. Note also that I'm raising a somewhat different issue : Steam dropping support for an OS, which OS is the only one that some of the Steam-sold games are working on. (This is certainly going to concern many more games for Win7 than it did for Vista, XP, 2k(?)...)
Rainforest Dwellers and Urbanites Have Consistently Different Microbiomes
nobody does that though. And that was the simplest example.

Once you get into more complicated types things get even harder to understand.
It just 301's you to Google so they'll still be tracking.
> I'm selective about the tools—pens, paper, folders, and so on—that I use.

Lol. I haven't had a piece of paper on my desk in 5 years.

Also they labelled me a planner who always has a to-do list even when I specifically answered that I never do that.
Can We Identify Invasive Species Before They Invade?
Flowchar looks pretty straightforward to me. Nothing I'd categorize as complicated.
I dunno, I did an install using the k8s install instructions, and got to a point where I could access the containers locally but not from other nodes in the cluster. I could see a bunch of routing and iptables rules, but I didn't have any model for what it SHOULD look like, so I was at a loss for untangling all that spaghetti.
You may not believe this, but humans are like that (and have been throughout the entire history). Makes me sad to be a human, but things are probably better than how they were, say, 300 years ago.
Thank you for mentioning this. I was wondering about the credibility of this website after regretfully reading the comments section. Turns out they just scrape other websites and place a "source" link at the bottom of the article.

From their about us page:

"ENMNEWS.COM is a company that collects the most important news from around the world and stores them in one place to be easily and quickly available to our readers. All articles that are not ours have a source and was automatically downloaded."
This comment is for anyone like the OP who is looking for resources beyond books.

I run a free mentoring service for managers, and most (but not all) tend to come from the tech side of the world. My sessions are 45 minutes long, and I did over 120 in 2019.

I’m currently on hiatus till January as I just had a baby boy I’m spending time with (actually sleeping on me as I type this out!), but feel free to grab some time in January if you’d like to talk to someone live.

https://freemanagermentor.com

A lot of people in comments below have talked about struggling with the “How” when it comes to taking the concepts they’ve learned and putting them into practice. This is the value of a live conversation with another human being, where we can talk through specific examples, play around with the scenarios, and either prepare for a future challenge, or come up with a plan to address the current one head on.
No idea, never discussed it.

Out of interest, why not let the migrants build their own houses? It’s not like houses are a finite resource.
> The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities

The irony is not lost on me that the man in this anecdote is bringing untimely death to the hare, to distract himself from his own.

Death probably feels just like you felt before you were born.

Why not celebrate that there is anything to experience at all? It seems so improbable.
BPF is an awesome VM. A huge thanks to Brendan on the work he has done to make it usable outside the kernel.

We built a whole rust tool chain around it.

https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-sysroot
https://github.com/solana-labs/rust-bpf-builder
Germany’s Oldest Street-Legal Car: 1894 Benz Victoria
Perhaps we need a new term or two to distinguish between "services I provide through providers" and "services I provide with my own metal" (except ISP and power, 'cause I run my services but I'm not buying a power plant).

At the moment people, myself included, use "self-host" for both.
That's called erosion of rights, and it only goes in one direction. That's why we should be very doubtful about these kind of laws/acts/&c.
Cannot download from Italy. "forbidden". Apparently only with Chrome (FF download properly)
Reading all what has been done also makes me sad but on the other hand I remember lots of families who suffer and traumatised because of the terrorist attacks.
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