skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google* isnt really an enterprise focused company. Getting talent and management to work on it must be tough, and internally I've heard it is sort of looked down on. They have a pretty poor partner network as well. I think if they beefed that up theyd do well.
Stadia is a brute force attempt to grow GCP revenue
What if you attached a band to the glasses, like this https://www.amazon.ca/Croakies-Eyewear-Retainer-Kryptek-X-La... and then put the sticker on the band?
Or a better idea, use it at Amazon but only from sellers that you think are ethical.
I wouldn't like proposals that banned semiautomatic weapons with detachable or high capacity fixed magazines, either, but I'd concede that such proposals make a rational distinction in potentially dangerous functionality. My problem specifically with this proposal as well as subsequent ones that include feature tests and the like is that they fail to make any rational distinction.

You're entitled to your opinion that the bill in question is a "sane and straightforward" approach in contrast to subsequent proposals that aren't because of irrational feature tests. I just don't think that's a defensible one. Giving the Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury wide latitude to say "this semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine is ok but this other one isn't" is just as arbitrary as later feature tests. And if anything, this proposal is worse public policy: one administration could add every eligible semi-automatic rifle to the list and the next one could make the list empty.

Either ban semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines or don't. Maybe exempt rimfire from any ban or don't. If there's a rational distinction beyond that to be made, make it.
FYI, there's a patched Make providing (among other things) an interactive debugger:

https://github.com/rocky/remake
My team uses it since a year, it works flawlessly for what we need.
The article talks about Hipchat as a competitor but HipChat was shut down by Atlassian and HipChat users were strongly encouraged to adopt Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack
100% with you that messages are a better way for microservices to receive their input. I don't see how a service could receive its input over HTTP and still retain its autonomy.

A message store like Message DB can at the same time serve as record of system state and communication channel. Writing a message to the store is the same as publishing it for consumers to pick up. Messages are written to streams, and interested parties subscribe to those streams by polling them for new messages.

The store itself isn't aware of which components are subscribing or managing their read positions.

So to your question, the first action of a component receiving a message is do whatever it does to handle the message and then write new messages (specifically events) to record and signal what happened in response to the original message.
Pretty sure there are places online where you can sell/exchange gift cards.
Who has the last word on if something is fake?
I ordered coffee that I commonly get at the grocery store. I just got a cardboard box filled with loose k-cups, with no expiration information. Not sure if the paywalled article mentions this, but you can’t return food products. I did leave a 1-star review and ended up drinking them (coffee is less of an expiration issue) but I still wasn’t happy about it.
This reminds me of a saying I picked up from some (very much) older engineer:
Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

I feel like information overload is like this sometimes. Which is probably why I try to reduce information that shows up automatically on my phone...
It's incredible watching tech people in this thread assert that she wasn't fired for union agitation but if she was, that's okay too because she should have known not to be "inflammatory."
Regarding Logitech Mice, I have the Anywhere MX and the Anywhere MX 2S here. I rarely used the old AMX but still, I got a defective left button switch after about 5 years in which I used it probably less than 500 hours total. Changing the switch is needlessly cumbersome, you have to remove rubber pads and battery stickers (which can't really be removed without destroying them). But the AMX feels solid and the on/off switch also functions as a protector for the laser. You can also store the USB receiver between the batteries.

The AMX 2S is an absolute downgrade: Much cheaper build quality, no more protection for the laser, no user removable battery. The old AMX came with a leather pouch for transportation, the AMX 2S doesn't. On top of that, the Bluetooth connection of the AMX 2S is terrible. I have frequent minute long disconnects from my MBP at 20cm distance. Sometimes it won't connect at all. And the battery doesn't last as long as the rechargeable batteries I put in my AMX 1.
I've been a Prime member for over a decade (although I've recently cancelled my Prime membership), and I've made very few complaints over the years. But one of the many things that has soured me on Amazon is that the last three times I needed to do a return (in every case because the item was damaged), it's been a huge pain in the butt. And once, Amazon even claimed they never received the return at all, and recharged my account for the ($20) item.

I know that others have a very different experience than I, and I don't know what the difference is -- but Prime vs non-Prime doesn't seem to be it.
It’s a one time thing, just do it
Last I checked, they weren't that different. But I found OCaml's syntax more intuitive. Subjective, I admit.

Truthfully though, both languages have similar pains. You can do one thing in 10 different ways in both, for example, which isn't tempting.

But OCaml seems more terse, and its compiler is lightning-fast, so that tipped the scales for me.
I’m not sure you’ve ever driven in rural areas or even the outer suburbs of US cities. Things are so spread out that you can easily have visibility of the entire 100 yard radius around a given intersection from more than 1000ft away.
In her account, she says,

> For example, someone changed the default desktop wallpaper during the walkout last year so that the Linux penguin was holding a protest sign. The company has never reacted aggressively in response to a notification such as this in the past. It’s always been a celebrated part of the culture.

Is this accurate? If it's culturally acceptable to change everyone's desktop wallpaper (including of those who were anti-protest) to a pro-protest image, it seems reasonable that this falls in the lines of culturally acceptable too.
Consent is not freely given if it's a requirement for something else.
Thanks for this. With stories like this it's always hard as an outsider to really discern what's going on.
Yeah, I was thinking about this, my happiness didn't change much between making $10k during college versus $100k later in life, in major part due to my balooning living expenses keeping me in the wage-slave category.
>If Bloomberg could point to some outside source, anonymous or not, I don't see a way that Supermicro could meet the standard of proof necessary to sue them over it.

I guess that would be up to the courts to decide, wouldn't it? Considering they said Apple and AWS were compromised, that's a lot of firepower.

I'm skeptical that "some anonymous source told us, and we choose to believe it" would pass legal muster, especially when you are publishing something as a major media source. But anything is possible.
I personally quit using CMake years ago; great promise but underdelivered in my opinion. I’ve moved back to hand-rolled (BSD) make files for my own projects.

To your point though - I don’t think the fracturing of (often poorly developed) build systems supports the thesis “GNU Make everywhere”.
What happens if you bought Enron?
Gift cards are taxable income, but if you point this out to HR it probably won't make them happier with you.

https://www.shrm.org/ResourcesAndTools/hr-topics/compensatio...
Well as I said those numbers are based on Sweden but I lived like that at those costs (actually 20% lower than that for a couple of years) and that savings level or higher for many years.

It wasn't glamorous but I managed to afford a small apartment, I kept my food budget at an average at $100 a month including a restaurant visit or two by good planning I could keep most meals under $1, I would take the buss out to wholesale food retailers and buy semi bulk, I went to the cinema every now and then, I had internet, smartphone (with some data), computers, furnitures, I went out drinking every now and then, I only bought high quality clothes on sale and no cheap wear and toss from H&M, I traveled to other countries once or twice a year for vacation and visited family across the country every now and then (would go when prices were low or buy cheap tickets 10 minutes before the train departs with leftover seats). I had a good (and frugal) quality of life in the countries second biggest city of the country and didn’t experience any significant difference in happiness from living on twice that now. Main difference is that I travel more (less flexible and more expensive) and eat dinners at Michelin restaurants every now and then.
Can you re-sell it for cash at a slight loss?
It is still good design to do the polling only at the lowest level where you must. Higher layers should be reactive.
They're both excellent mice, I really wish they would combine the best features of both:

- battery life of the mx master

- scrollwheel of the mx master

- multi device of the mx master

- bluetooth of the mx master

- gesture button of the mx master

- extra buttons of the g700

- data-over-usb of the g700

- AA battery support of g700

- on-device memory of g700
If you think this is "shockingly simple", I'd like to hear from you again in 10 years as your environment has grown, as your number of operating systems explodes, as you have to deal with restrictive network policies, as LetsEncrypt has been replaced a few times with new up-and-coming latest-and-greatest solutions, as bugs have been found, as clocks have skewed, as domain ownership rules have changed, as domain ownership verification policies have changed a half dozen times...

If you think something is set-it-and-forget-it, you haven't been around long enough.
It's ads for their own products, not third party ads. (It's a little sidebar you can close).

Anyway, no one is forcing you to use it, but it seems a reasonable free choice for now (teamviewer and splashtop, for example, don't allow free commercial use...and commercial means connecting to your own work laptop, not just using it directly for money making activities like paid support.)
Uh, if it's a non-insigninficant amount, then I'd spend it, but make it clear to HR that in future you'd like your bonuses in regular currency.

You could also possibly re-sell the gift card, exchange it for something (I know there's a market for cryptocurrency exchanges for gift cards) or gift it forward to a family member or friend.
42 years in the future your $4 million has deflated in value to the equivalent ~$1.4 million worth of buying power today assuming 2.5% inflation rate. Which isn't really worth much in the U.S., certainly not enough to recover from a major medical disaster.
Comments on the Modern Web
Rural WV here. My internet in July of 2019 was upgraded from 8/2 to 25/5. Happy days are here at last.

No evidence of it, but I think the FCC definition of broadband changing had a lot to do with it.
Well the velocity argument is a factor of it being a rifle, thus can hold a larger charge and are designed to because the bullets need to go further without losing accuracy due to gravity and air resistance, etc. This is a something it has in common with any hunting rifle. Yes you can knock someone down, certain hollow points can do that too.

Yes, we all know the AR-15's are made by the same people and 90% similar, but the part that matters, the part the ATF cares about, the part that makes it ready for military use or an assault weapon is whether its automatic or not. Take that away and its no more capable for military use then any other hunting rifle. You say its designed to broken down and repaired in the wilderness, that doesn't make it inherently more deadly or more military/assault style. So is a Glock, having a simple, reliable mechanism that's easily repaired and doesn't break down is a good feature to have, it doesn't make it militaristic, its a design a hunter would want who will spend days or weeks at a time in the wilderness (watch Meat Eater), or a safety feature as gun failures lead to accidental discharges, which is a factor on the range. It's not the first thing to be designed based on a need in the military, that applicability to civilians (like GPS) being designed to be easy to repair. The thing that makes an M16 militaristic is automatic fire, which a soldier needs for suppressing fire or hitting an enemy with multiple shots. Everything else you described is a feature of any other rifle. It's like saying a Humvee shouldn't be driven by civilians because the military uses Humvees and some have turrets (which are removed in the civilian version), when every other feature of the Humvee can be found in other civilian SUVs (just as every other feature of the AR-15 exists in other civilian use rifles). The aspects of the gun you're complaining about exist in other rifles that are not military rifles.
Nope. I work for a major corporation that owns its own entire office building for headquarters and operates in over 30 states.

None of those projects contributed to still being around 2 years later, but one of them (if simulations based on prior years' data are assumed to be reasonably accurate) would've improved revenue on one of our sales channels by approximately 30% if it had actually been put into production....
Previous one was faked https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6522267/NASA-engine...
Smart lock security flaw could leave your door wide open
Thats a terrible best case. With a beater car you can deliver pizza and make $1500 a month in most metropolitan areas. Put aside a small emergency fund. Pay off debts, smallest to largest to build psychological momentum. Once debts are paid, start saving for home if you want. And put 15% in a retirement plan. People go to college paying their way while doing this. They live frugally now and benefit later. They major in lucrative subjects. And they earn good money after (and sometimes before) graduating with minimal debt. It can be done.
GP was referring to approval for code review and organizational approval of security extension notifications, not the right to organize or unionizing activities.
Shouldn't any breach like that automatically be treated as data breach? I mean, maybe the crooks wouldn't publish the data, but they certainly had access to it and could resell it to whoever is willing to pay anyway, even if you paid the ransom. There's no way to ensure that doesn't happen.
How many systems have you ran into with world readable /etc/shadow?
I definitely think the frugality can get baked in for a bunch of reasons. Also, I'll often do stuff myself because the "administrative overhead" is worse than just doing it. I had a problem with my oven and called 5 places. 3 didn't service my area and 2 didn't service my brand. I ended up just buying the part even though I would have preferred to have someone else deal with it, but I'm sure that wouldn't even occur to a bunch of people.
There are sites where people exchange gift cards. You can try trading it for a store you like. You can also sell it for a % of value.
UBI is supposed to supplant the need for a job. The $1000/mo proposed by Yang is poverty and it’s still in excess the of $10k cap. Are you starting to see why the numbers are so vastly off?
There is research that found the massive local population extinction after America conquest was linked to the planet cooling in that period, so I'm quite sure reducing human population either literally (by limiting growth) or virtually (by reducing consumerism/consumption, which is the key for limiting pollution) or both! will help a lot

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-47063973
> This is not a fact, this is a theory. This is common in 'science' that scientists believing something 'should be happening' and then attempt to pencil in details after-the-fact to explain something that doesn't fit their preconceived model.

This is exactly how science works: if something doesn't fit your theory, you adapt it so that it does or replace it with a new one. Everything in science is a "theory".

> If you heat something, it's going to get gradually hotter. If you increase the amount of energy you use to heat it, it's going to get hotter still.

> The cooler parts of the room are going to accept the heat faster than the warmer parts of the room. Why should the planet be any different?

Unlike your room, the planet can radiate heat away. Actually, that's precisely what the greenhouse gas effect prevents.
Not sure I fully understand though do appreciate the communication.
The sun varys from year to year, but its variability is a lot smaller than you imply and solar irradience has been directly measured to be decreasing for the last 40 or so years while global average temps have climbed to levels not seen in 130,000 years.

Along with direct observation of decreasing solar output solar has been ruled out because the stratosphere is cooling while the troposphere is warming. This is consistent with greenhouse gasses not allowing heat to escape to the upper reaches of our atmosphere. Solar forcing would warm all levels of the atmosphere not just the bottom.

Also night time temps are increasing faster than day time temps. This is the opposite of what you would get with solar forcing.

Basically bringing up solar as an alternative hypothesis betrays that you do not have the requisite understanding to attempt overturning an entire field of science. Don't feel bad most of us don't.
It’s interesting seeing the rapid turn-around of opinions on HN. Before everyone said GCP offered the best experience and disregarded Azure. Now people bag on GCP and praise AWS and Azure for their customer/service support.

People are quick to grab their pitchforks.
Property taxes do.
How many of your servers actually have jokes in /etc/shadow?
Yes. But they give me a regular paycheck and extremely generous vacation and sick days, and nobody else I've interviewed with or been contacted by recruiters for can match those benefits... so I stay. At least until my RSUs vest.
This is an old labor issue, but it used to revolve around handing out union flyers at work and posting on company physical bulletin boards.[1] That's generally allowed by law for labor activity, even if the employer doesn't like it. How this translates to online activity isn't entirely clear yet. But courts will make that analogy.

An employer who tried to pull this in 1970 would have had a picket like outside the door the next day. Union truckers wouldn't deliver to their loading dock.

[1] https://www.jacksonlewis.com/resources-publication/employers...
Half of that criticisms applies to Microsoft now. :/
So, in looking at this from not just the "this year" problem point of view, but a "how do we set up society" point of view:

What is the failing here that our current system doesn't address and we need to correct it with these one-off bills?

Why is it that the farmers can't make the right choices or put pressure on the manufacturers (by not buying their stuff if they don't agree with it) to make the equipment easily maintainable?

If farmers are choosing with full information to value the cost more than maintainability, why is it a problem that rises to having to put in a right-to-repair bill? Haven't they made their choice clear? If the farmers wanted to start an equipment company that served their needs as this bill seeks to do, they are free to do that in this environment.

I'm not sure why people's clear choice needs to be counteracted with a patch on the consequences of their choice.
> Is she part of the company’s legal team?

If that's was an actual requirement, can you make or point to a statement in an official Google capacity that states the notices displayed by the tool she maintained had to be written or pre-cleared by Google's legal team? If you can, was the requirement for legal team involvement established practice and not some post-hoc rationalization for her firing?
I never heard of NextDNS.

I am appalled.

From their site: https://nextdns.io

> See what's happening on your devices with in-depth Analytics and real-time Logs.

> Protect your kids and control what they can access online.

Their pricing page is also extremely troubling.

> We may adjust this later on based on actual costs at scale, but it will follow this logic.

What the hell is this Mozilla... This is not a company you should be dealing with. They tell you up front that they log and monitor... They also aren't at scale, and have to learn lessons the hard way with outages.

Mozilla is dead to me now.

Edit:

As others have pointed out, Mozilla's own policies: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy

Transparency Requirements, section 2.

Where on earth is a transparency report for NextDNS? They were started in March, and I would think that Mozilla would check their requirements before giving the 'lets add them.'
I am skeptical that one takes $200 million and it's still more about the contacts. After you've gotten the contacts, there's still a $200 million elephant in the room.
Isn’t that what GCE is? https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing
You can convert gift cards at a slight markup. You can also buy prepaid Visa gift cards on Amazon. I'd compare those options, see what has a lower transaction cost, and then use that to buy elsewhere. Amazon will still get business as a result, but it's a bit better ethically I think (if you go the Visa gift card route it's a low margin good that's easy to pack and ship, if you trade on an online marketplace presumably the person you trade with might buy a little more because of you but was going to buy on Amazon anyway) plus you avoid the quality issues.
It’s certainly better to use it than to just let it sit around, since then you're Just giving the money to Amazon.
Could actually be a major factor yes. Surely contributing. I'm still unsure Amazon was ever profitable without the new practices, being a private company makes it even more difficult to figure that out.
Well, according to the post, obviously not....
Not sure that randomizing is going to do anything useful.

Randomizing over three providers will give each of them one third of your requests, but they would just need more time to get a (near) complete list of the domains you resolve. Eg, if you resolve hackernews once a day, they'll each have that information in approximately three days.
Your CBA might be accurate. If that's the case, they're digging their own coffin. Maybe Bezos should dump .com and go all in on AWS.
yes. And "trusted partner" just means they have preconfigured settings in the drop down. It's also possible to specify a custom DoH provider (or disable DoH).
(1997) 1.5M https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles/165476.pdf
> When I'm unhappy, I'll seek out those opportunities, but when I'm happy I'll let them come to me.

This sums it up perfectly.
> Now, you probably won't like the source of that information, and I'm sure it's all been 'debunked,' but the other side can say the exact same thing.

I don't like that source of information because it redirected to an ad that tried to make me download malware and filled my history with junk. Couldn't even read it, literally, because they were too eager to exploit me.

Follow the money, indeed.
>If it's false, what's likely is that either their sources were either mistaken or dishonest.

So where is the retraction or followup reporting? Do they still believe it to be true? That's interesting in itself, is it not?