skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned about this trick from the same blog post. I tweaked a little to suit my needs. But wow, it is such a game changer. This means all you need to write in auxiliary docs is 'make help'. That's it.
Great mice but I’m surprised no one has mentioned weight. The master 3 is 141g! That’s a brick!

I’ve been hunting for a mouse with this kind of scroll wheel that was less than 90g or so forever. 141g would kill my arm in a few hours.
They would cease to exist due to starvation - that's the reality under capitalism.
3M from 1 earnings call
Hmm, I never actually signed up. It works without sign-in.

The commercials aren't great. I wish I could pay to have it cut to the (cool!) Pluto.tv splash screens rather than see ads.
Absolutely. I like GCP more than AWS or Azure, but I don't use it because I don't trust that individual services will be available long term. Meanwhile, AWS sends me emails about minor service changes that may affect me well over a year in advance. (MS has a reputation for long term support, but the Azure UI was just so terrible. Maybe they've changed it by now?)
We have XMPP for 1 to 1 messaging, IRC for group messaging and SMTP for store and forward messaging.

All are way easier to set up local instances of than setting up a PBX. The difference is that there was a whole lot of money to be made by installing and maintaining PBXes.There was no good way to monetize phone services by advertising or privacy violation. The equipment and trunk lines simply cost too much. Every PBX had proprietary phone sets, but the companies that made them could not get around the fact that the phone trunks were standardized by what was in the end a government enforced standard. So it was an example of forced federation of proprietary systems. It is interesting how well that worked.

We have a weird situation right now where the cheapness of communication is inhibiting standardization. Everyone can afford to do their own thing and fund it using super marginal revenue streams.
Excel is the issue because it hid that dependency in the right most column (ABB) on the 4th sheet of the excel file.
His Secret Obsession. “Don't View This Website”
Oh please, cherry pick all you want. Healthcare is expensive in the US because of government, not just the industry. From certificate of need rules to conflicting regulation at nearly all levels and unreasonable coverage requirements that do not take the patient into account.

throw in the simple fact the US Congress cannot even be shamed into fixing the Veteran Affairs health system nor the Bureau of Indian Services and people dare suggest we let take more control?

fixing US health care will require a lot of work but the first step in fixing it is realizing all the bad players involved and that simply comparing to other systems isn't helping anyone.
I recently did some consulting work with a trucking company who is modernizing their mainframe systems and moving to the cloud. They made the decision to cancel all their AWS migration plans and go 100% into Azure due to Amazon moving into logistics and basically becoming a competitor.
I, for one, know what Silicon Valley is but have never heard of Palo Alto Networks before. So the title as written is much more meaningful to me.
You're citing an interview with Coolio, which doesn't reflect Weird Al's experience. I don't have a citation on hand, but the story I've always read is Weird Al asked Coolio's label, got a "yes" back, and believed that the label had asked Coolio. Ever since then he made sure to get the answer directly from the artist in question.
You're correct! I've never thought about that before but when they killed the RSS reader it really left a bad taste in my mouth. Now that I _do_ have the ability to make decisions at the company now, the bad taste did transfer over.
This is similar to my experience a few years ago. Wasn't as fun as I expected it to be due to (1) language barrier (I do understand kindergarten-level Mandarin, but technology is another world) (2) it's overwhelming on multiple levels and (3) as an obvious foreigner many of the vendors aggressively latched onto me as a bulk purchaser for overseas business, which led to nothing but frustration on both sides.

Shenzhen itself kinda feels like Blade Runner at night. I dig it in small doses. And I haven't been anywhere in China where people have as much patience for horrible laowai Mandarin skills so it's probably a good place to learn the language.

Guangzhou is lovely though. Hope I can make it back there someday.
Greetings!

Yeah I haven't done much with Package managers (PKGBUILD, brew, etc) and thinking this project might be my excuse to start learning them.

Thanks for your kind words and offer for a PR - I'll keep an eye out for it !
This sounds like the most reasonable conclusion until you actually start experimenting.

An example taken from another thread: Fire a laser of polarised light at a polarised filter angled at an offset of 30°. Measure the light on the other side of the filter and you'll see it's 75% as bright.

Now, you could say "We have worlds splitting independently for each photon that goes through or doesn't, and we're on all of those worlds," but that isn't explanatory -- it doesn't tell us why it looks like three quarters of the photons went through, as we always measure.
It was also about speed. For example, going through BIOS for video was slooooow, so most everyone went straight to the hardware, which buggered up anything that wasn't an MDA/CGA/EGA/VGA video adapter or near identical (like those with a NEC 7220...there were one or two). It meant things like the Wyse 700 (high-res mono video adapter) had to have application specific drivers.
Detect False Sharing with Data Address Profiling
A couple years ago, Berkeley Breathed also decided that making comics was pretty enjoyable if he didn't have to meet deadlines. He's been posting new strips intermittently on Facebook. https://facebook.com/berkeleybreathed/
I semi-seriously wonder if they just brought back Google Reader and seriously supported it how much goodwill they'd regain. Not that they haven't killed hundreds of other products, but that one just sticks out so much.
Nobody is fighting over whether you're going to be doing site-by-site blocking, because that's too exhausting and people know that.

That's why companies have to exercise moral taste when they do a blanket ban on moral obscenity, and that's precisely the kind of product that people mean to purchase -- curation and tastefulness. It's also why it's interesting for people to fight over this, because they're fighting over a policy of scale as opposed to what goes on in one single home.

And presumably this company would later be interested in dealing with schools and other big institutions, which means their product takes on yet another critical dimension, which is the re-allocation of responsibility for making morally tasteful decisions.

In both B2C and B2B, the refusal to exercise moral perspective, taste, and curation is missing the soul of the product. But of course not all areas of tech is for everyone; some people don't wish to work with advertising companies, and that's fine too, but advertising companies likewise make policies of scale and must exercise moral and political taste.
>How do you see the risk of the most greedy company bidding the most to get privileged access to the data, and coming up with a cure that out-prices you or your family if you ever end up hit by the disease?

Is that preferable to an alternative where no company can bid on such data, and therefore a cure either never exists or is delayed N years (where N is probably significant)?

Consider also that all medicine often starts prohibitively expensive to offset R&D, and predictably lowers in cost over time.
> Adopting similar controls in your organization

> Figure out how to manage third party code.

> Many of the CI/CD controls we describe in this paper are placed where your code is developed, reviewed, and maintained by one organization. If you are in this situation, consider how you will include third party code as part of your policy requirements. For example, you could initially exempt the code, while you move towards an ideal state of keeping a repository of all third party code used, and regularly vet that code against your security requirements.

I don't know how much third party code is in use at Google these days, but I'd be curious to know if there is a formal effort at cataloging most-often used / most-sensitive third party code and prioritizing reviews of it.

I've thought about the problem of vetting programming language packages (pypi, npm, rubygems, whatever) off and on. It seems like the only two tenable strategies are "don't pin anything / always use tip of master" and "freeze deps, vet transitive deps at that frozen point, vendor the corresponding deps, and if you ever need to update a requirement for a feature or bugfix, go through the process again".

The latter seems like it could be out-sourced to a certain degree, if you trusted other organizations to "vet transitive deps".
There is at least one species named as an homage to Gary Larson, too.
I must admit robo is clever for using YAML where I built an entire parser to do somewhat the same thing :)
I take the standard of tomorrow any day. Or at least would dare to experiment with it more with putting a small team to make a module with it. Rust has enough steam now, it would be irresponsible to bet against it.
That is not they way the courts see it I believe. My DNA is mine to do with as I please.
Judging a decision based on its outcome is a very good way to get articles into the Harvard Business Review, and a very poor way to evaluate a decision.
Sadly those are from the 90s Reading Rainbow, not the original 80s series.
If your use case is staying safe and alive, and you already own a gun, my recommendation is that you seek out psychological support every now and then.

Obviously, this is difficult in a rural community, which is probably one of the factors that makes committing suicide by gun a much higher risk amongst men in rural communities than murder.

Also, regardless of whether police are 45 minutes or 10 minutes away, that's not going to help you during a meth-fuelled knife attack.

But, putting all that aside, a gun won't protect you if someone sneaks up on you.

If you're in a cabin in the sierras, you probably aren't encountering thousands of people, so your risk of getting stabbed is considerably lower than someone in a city.

If someone's far enough away from you a bolt-action is probably good enough to protect you. They're legal in Australia - you can own one if you pass the licensing requirements. Presumably you haven't shot anyone yet, so I'm pretty sure calibre isn't a concern.

So the real scenario you're worried about, in your mountain cabin in the Sierras, is someone being close enough to stab you, or too drug-addled or foolhardy to care about being threatened or shot with a 22 and not sneaking up on you.

My question to you is why you see that as more of a risk than suicide? Is addressing the use case of defence against violent crime worth the excess risk you are exposing yourself to? Not many people expect to be struck with depression, but it happens, particularly in rural communities - and there's a lot of evidence of that, too.
If you don't believe that DNS query data has any value, then you shouldn't have any opinion about where you send it. Your argument doesn't make any sense.

I'm not sure what you think NetFlow records contain.
It depends on how you see your career evolving. If you pick computing you will have to shift gears, eventually - which isn't to say you will switch OUT of computing, but rather you will eventually need to ADD to it.

Right now, computing behaves both like a trade and like a profession depending on the lens you use. You just so happen to be able to get a job based on tech stack at the moment (like a trade), I believe the trade aspects of it will go away as tooling becomes more sophisticated (10+ years), leaving the profession bit.

I believe this is already happening; the distribution of compensation has become far more bimodal in the US since I started in 2009. I often meet tech professionals not living in sf/ba that don't even believe me when I say a 200k/yr+ comp package for a non-executive is possible.

Either way, in computing at the moment, there's no licensing or regulatory body, and the obligatory cartel that manages it, so it's hard to predict the specifics around what the profession piece will look like in 10 years. I'll attempt it, if you excuse the conceit.

I suspect as tooling matures, the industry will decompose into larger numbers of smaller firms, in which a smaller number of people will be needed to create and maintain more and more specialized applications. The differentiating factor in comp and career growth will be business domain knowledge, as opposed to deep knowledge of particular technologies. It's already the case, for example, that firms don't have to field an ops team of 5+ just to get a good deploy process going.

The idea that I can get handed a fairly comprehensible spec and just write code all day may go away but computing as a career won't.
> Expert Vim and Emacs users do not take two seconds to decide which key to press

Many times when editing in emacs I just "do the thing" without consciously knowing what keys I pressed.

If given a keyboard with no keys labeled, I would not easily know what each key was. Just the same, I could look away from it and type the alphabet. Magic.
The price of helium can go up by several orders of magnitude before it starts impacting the price of mris.
I'm not a big fan of apps automatically initiating connections to any 3rd party website. If this leads to an increase in sites that remain functional without javascript and won't complain about a lack of a referer header I'll be glad, but I suspect that while 'microbrowers' today aren't usually running javascript and try to protect user's privacy, eventually we'll start seeing website previews being used to hack devices and steal user data.
If that was actually true, employee abuse would be essentially non existent, especially in large successful companies, and unions would have little reason to exist.

Its not true.
Usually it leads to unemployment. People want to do the same things as each other, but we can't all be football stars. We can't even all teach kindergarten or nursery school, and the low pay of such jobs is the natural result of many people wanting those jobs. People enjoy getting BA degrees in psychology, then discover that they do not enjoy paying the student loans while working as unskilled labor.
There are lots of good local food/cooking shows. They are cheap to produce and popular with viewers.
May I recommend reading Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life as a practical and pro tech guide for managing tech distraction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKQDSgBHPfY

DEF CON 25 - John Sotos

"Genetic Diseases to Guide Digital Hacks of the Human Genome"
Moral? I'm not seeing one.

I think it's a clever way to support free and open source projects. Free edition is for everyone, trials, demos, etc. Paid enterprise version is for companies that are happy to pay to get some extra value. Build it yourself enterprise version is for people who don't want to pay, people that get less value from the product than the price, hobbyists, etc.

Caddy (a web server) used to do something similar.
If anyone here has ever prepared earnings reports, how is that process usually handled?

I'm guessing it's just a spreadsheet on some finance person's computer until it's certified for release?

Are there best practices for making sure data doesn't leak ahead of the official earnings report?
I haven't been exact enough. I mention manufacturer because I guess that vendors just copy the manufacturer's warranty statement for the European market, but in reality it's the vendor that has to provide the warranty. I don't think consumer rights laws care whether the vendor has a reliable manufacturer to back them on this.

If you buy from cheap-electronics.example.nl and they order crap from China, it's still up to Cheap Electronics B.V. (or whatever they're registered as) to provide warranty. If there is no clear chain of custody, the vendor should have thought that through before deciding to buy from them. The vendor is legally not allowed to redirect you to the manufacturer: the vendor has to handle warranty, not send the customer to the manufacturer.

(I know a thing or two about our warranty system because a company tried to screw me out of a few hundred euros that I only got back after half a year of weekly nagging, and not before I had sent a letter outlining exactly what the law is and which steps and fees would be leading up to a court case which they would definitely lose. As a student, I didn't have the money to pay a lawyer for that stuff, and the law allows for self-representation in small claims so that's what I prepared for. I should also give credit to the ACM/Consuwijzer that have excellent documentation understandable for anyone.)
GoCardless introduces first global network for recurring payments
Opening a trading account, putting a bunch of money into it, and naked-short-selling a single company's stock right before the release of disastrous earnings sets off so many alarm bells at the SEC, that you'd have to be an absolute idiot to do it.

Fortunately, the world has never had a shortage of idiots.
That’s a good thing not to tie in to proprietary api’s, indeed every cloud provider is doing it and after Google’s recent management shuffle to bring in management from Oracle making them alike.

Try using apache-libcloud to make your deployment and programs cloud agnostic. Also try using smaller alternatives like hetzner or scaleway.

Once you go down this cloud rabbit hole you will be hold hostage to whims of these providers, where they can shutdown any service at their will or ask to pay an arm and leg. Also try to have non USA cloud providers as another backup option in the long run.
i don't have a Prime subscription, as I found it wasn't useful to me. But for a while I did.

What I found is that on "Amazon Prime Video", almost everything I wanted to watch needed to be paid for because it wasn't part of "Amazon Prime (Video)".

It took me a long time to realise that "what you can get on Amazon Prime (Video)" and "what you can get on Amazon Prime Video" were completely unrelated things, and that I could access exactly the same things that I wanted, at the same prices, from "Amazon Prime Video" while stopping my subscription to "Amazon Prime (Video)".

Amazon's documentation and labelling from the set-top-box app did not make this especially clear.

The Expanse last seasons were a notable exception. I'd already seen the earlier seasons on Netflix a long time before, and it was very annoying to be unable to watch the second half of the story So I was delighted when I looked on Amazon, and watched them just before cancelling my Amazon Prime (Video) subscription. Now I just watch Amazon Prime Video.

It is quite possible I've got the names of these things completely wrong. I don't really pay attention, because I very rarely use Amazon's consumer services, except via set top box. (I use AWS but that's completely different.)
I’m wondering when Java 2 comes. Java 12 is actually 1.12...
> I also hesitantly recommend installing Baidu maps. It’s basically malware, so uninstall it upon leaving China

Anyone have more info about this? What does/can the app do with the permissions it has?
Random website, but just an example since many refer to the "Advanced Degree Annual Cap" as a separate pool from the normal H1B:

https://redbus2us.com/all-about-h1b-visa-cap-basics-regular-...
If it was for the same headphones, maybe you should throw them away if that keeps reoccurring.
Original article: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+2019+Teardown/128922
What's still in it for Google then?
Apple shareholders set to vote on human-rights policies
The argument is that you didn’t just agree to the terms by signing up, you checked a box saying you did.
well the easiest way to not get caught is to not commit crimes. In general, criminals aren't especially smart. Or the ones that get caught at least.
I'm shocked SHOCKED that an Internet-of-Shit device has poor security.
</sarcasm>

I'm still waiting for an I-o-S device that has good security.
Let them do CS, let them become coders for the love of money, and even support them. Meanwhile you keep coding and become good at it. Then when their employer(s) will hit hard times, present yourself using the network you developed through your friends. And do contractor jobs, for real money. They will get paid good money, you'll get paid real money. They will sell their souls for money, you'll rack in the dough. Welcome to the freelancers club, best there is.
Ask HN: Are there technical reasons ISP support experiences are often terrible?
I'm astonished by how often ISP support starts with wasting time walking through a script, often by someone it isn't clear knows much, culminating in asking for a traceroute when the script allows.

Today I tried jump starting things with Frontier Communications by just pasting a few sample traceroutes into a chat window. All of them pretty clearly enter 3-missed-response territory several hops into named Frontier infrastructure, likely right on the boundary between them and whoever their upstream provider is.

I might have hoped that a CSR could look at that and say "Oh, hey, yeah, that does look like an issue, we'll get someone to look at that, thanks."

But instead they went straight into the script, and eventually we ended up stalling out on a 3rd piece of authenticating info I don't know anymore if I ever did, which I can see might be needed if I was trying to change service, get money, or play global thermonuclear war, but not to try and troubleshoot an interruption of service.

Maybe ISPs don't care if tech support is good, and it's a cargo cult crosswalk button isn't designed to do anything other than let the customer feel like they've given input. Maybe simple reboot fixes comprise 95% of issues and so that's what support does. Maybe good support is much, much harder than I think it is?

Sometimes I think: ISP, you have hardware in my home/business. If it's working, you can tell. If it's not, presumably you can observe the absence of activity. If to troubleshoot further you need a client reaching out from my side to some service on your network designed to evaluate things, then pretty much all of us have web browsers which not only do HTTP but have evolved to do socket-level communication. Why do I need to answer any questions? Shouldn't this just be "reboot and hit diagnostic page"? And authentication... you've got my physical and network addresses, you know I'm on your network or I'm not.

Am I missing something? If so, what?
It’s time for Georgism. We’re all victims, even the corporations and the mega-rich. Capitalists and socialists alike ought to be able to get behind it at least as a vast improvement over the status quo.
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Have you read my book, Indistractable, @techstrategist? Would love to know what you think of it! I spent 5 years researching and writing a tech positive guide to the deeper psychology of distraction.
I think the zoom level could be fixed by chopping off some of the newer map. The MBTA map you linked has way less of each regional rail line.

My bigger complaint with the newer map is I'd rather a map do better at showing geographic landmarks, like rivers as they make it easier for me to locate where the station is in the larger city. For example: https://geoawesomeness.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Geoawe...
It really is quite incredible the unrewarded, often thankless (except that which we're doing now) effort that must go into that.

I had an issue recently with missing drivers for a network card (my fault, I deleted the kernel modules, it had been and now is again working), and it just made me think exactly what you're saying, how glad I am that someone's provided this.