skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Once you taste it, it's nearly impossible to go back to such controlled, desk-equated productivity environments.

yes, i've found this as well. the reason is that employer-based constraints on your schedule are always arbitrary, rarely compensated for in full, never equitable across power structures, and only tenuously negotiable in your favor.

in other words: your life becomes theirs to control in spirit, if not entirely in practice. it doesn't matter if they expect you to be at work from 9 to 5 or whatever else. if your employment is contingent on holding their schedule, they effectively hold control over the rest of your life's schedule.

and they excercise that control to the detriment of your life as a matter of course, routinely, ruthlessly, without hesitation, and without consideration, in nearly 100% of cases -- yes, even in the "cool startup" you're working for.

remember, you need to ask them to take time off to care for your sick relatives. you need to ask them for permission to not be at work to spend time for yourself on vacation. you are explicitly their property for however many hours per day, but they also own enough of you to implicitly dictate where you're allowed to be and when, and for what reasons.

i guess some people find it a good bargain to trade their autonomy for a wage. it's very hard to respect that kind of thinking a lot of the time, but i've learned to do it simply because most people accept the bargain and it'd be too isolating to behave otherwise. for me, it's an intolerable situation to bear, even for a moment.
I used to provide devops consulting services exactly because nobody but large organizations "hires the builders full-time for continued maintenance" for dedicated servers any more than for cloud, because it takes really large systems before you need hardware intervention very often.

Even when working clients that had multiple racks of hardware they owned, I spent on average a couple of days a year dealing with that.

On the contrary, clients with cloud setups "hired the builder" for far more hours on average than those with dedicated setups. For my billable hours it'd have been far more beneficial if more people went to cloud setups.
What wireless beacons? Do you mean the lighthouses that mark ‘no go’ zones?

For the record I’m quite happy with mine.
> To reduce memory usage, you can use in-place operations like +=

btw, I think it's a design flaw in python that `a += b` is not always equivalent to `a = a + b`.
US-government issued phones run 'Chinese malware'
Another advantage is that scooters place less restrictions on how you are dressed. Dresses, shoes not meant for exercise, etc.
Maybe because Americans treat the bikes poorly compared to the civilized folks of Denmark ;)

The JUMP bikes are just better made by a wide margin and seem to handle the abuse well - https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/london-electric-bikes-tested...
This, along with political ads, is a pretty amazingly good example of how facebook was wrong - they can't deliver advertising to customers at higher efficacy and lower cost than traditional media... what they can do is fail to properly vet ads for cheaper than traditional media spends vetting ads.

I feel like this problem should start the sounding of warning bells around the efficiencies tech companies create. A lot of good value is created in tech, but along with that value is the movement to accomplish a solution for most of the problem for far less of a cost. If you can managed to eschew portions of your product that are unimportant (creating a DB tuned to reading that does reading really well and slows way down during writes) then you might have the beginnings of a great business, but the portions of the feature set you're eschewing need to actually be optional. Building a peer to peer trading website without building in support for all those onerous requirements around preventing human trafficking and other black market dealings isn't a solid business - the government will shut you down and your product isn't groundbreaking and paradigm shifting - it's half-assed.

I reeeeally strongly suspect that a lot of web advertisers are feeling the pain now that HUD has started watching web advertisements for housing discrimination, now that the impact of politcal ads is becoming accepted and now that slimy businesses are exploiting FUD to push homeopathy... Preventing these has always been a requirement in the field of marketing, and your business isn't disruptive and edgy because it ignores them - it's living on borrowed time until a huge lawsuit drives it out of business.
Dr. David Sinclair on Informational Theory of Aging
> The ad doesn't contain misinformation, merely opposition.

Can you show me a formulation of "vaccine opposition" that does not require misinformation to be credible?
Hello, I am interested in the bioinformatics developer role! Where can I apply? Or you can email me at tmille59 (at) uwo (dot) com
Sweet T-Shirt
It is a nice t-shirt
Do you happen to know if there's a LIDAR system (I'm aware that many of them just use LEDs) that operates at UV frequencies near the transition to visible?

I'm looking for a LIDAR that can provide basic terrain and obstacle mapping underwater.
You do the same mistake as the other guy in the twitter thread, you mix Simple Hosting snapshots and the Cloud hosting volume snapshot.

Here the right one which state that they are backup: https://docs.gandi.net/en/cloud/volume_management/volume_sna...

Here's the one that you quote (which isn't the same service):
https://docs.gandi.net/en/simple_hosting/common_operations/s...

Be careful next time judging with that little knowledge of the issue.
Your comment made me remember, the first time my extension took more than 3 weeks in review was when the description was "improved". There weren't any code changes, it's totally insane and as you said, it makes developing chrome extensions unpleasant.
Gandi has never been a low cost option, they've always been on the high to extreme higher end of things for individual cost...

Especially for random ccTLDs, they're often significantly more expensive than the alternatives.

Random selections for domains: .ru is $1-3 most anywhere else, Gandi is $18.
See your doctor if you experience smug overweening superiority over your fellow developers greater than 6 hours at a time.
If the only option with e-assist was Lime I can see why you'd like them :) However if you have JUMP available it's no contest - https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/london-electric-bikes-tested...
As someone who has never used Python seriously I have to ask... why not?
NB security breach of betting industry, BtoBet investigates customer data breach
I think the fact that this was actually made speaks to the fact that a lot of people are no longer able to do what they were actually hired to do. While I hope that not a lot of people will use the app, I do hope that i sparks some conversations about how our time is spent while at work.
You're right that I shouldn't have said "absolutely not true", but I stand by my general message. Regular locks are inconveniences for thieves, not deal breakers.

> In most neighborhoods seeing someone crouched down playing with a door lock would attract attention and likely calls to the police.

Not if that someone is wearing a hi-vis safety vest (perhaps with "Cory & Trevor Locksmith Company" or something similar written on it).

My point is that the effectiveness of locks primarily comes from laws and economics, not from their physical properties.
What are the incentives or driving force behind anti-vaxxers? I am amazed why someone is putting money and efforts on anti-vaccination. Personally its hard to believe it become a big thing without some sort incentives/driving force.
Forget the analogies having to explicitly misuse the system to violate customers privacy creates a strong disincentive.

All accesses to customers data should require multiple people not by policy but by mandatory access controls.

The fact that employees could hack their employer is true and not meaningful.

The number willing to commit felonies is less than the number willing to risk termination.
LiteDOM also seems very promising:

https://litedom.js.org/
I recently saw a quote that said "Enterprise software is free as in puppy" which sums it up pretty accurately.
What happens to passenger-driver confidentiality?
Systems providing such services exist; they aren't as popular.

https://tresorit.com/, for example, may be a useful litmus test to monitor for this use case. They've had to implement soft deletion because "The option to recover files has been among the top feature requests we’ve heard from our users and customers" (https://tresorit.com/blog/file-restore-launch/).
> “The happiest people are the people who are away from Facebook. The more unhappy you are in life, the more you are going to spend on Facebook,”

Quoted for truth.
Exactly what happened at the company I'm talking about.
>Citation needed

Here's one supporting piece of evidence:

>Lime shuts in 12 markets, lays off around 100
The ad's destination URL contains the misinformation.

Agencies play this semantic cat and mouse game with policies that are clearly targeted at preventing this type of content from proliferating, so it's not as cut and dry as you believe it is.
For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past?
I suspect a human gets a dump of them and decides which to pay the $10 for.

For example, asdasdahbdajsdbajdbhsbdahsdd.com... not worth the $10

ireallylikechicken.com... maybe worth the $10?

(ireallylikechicken.com is available, go squat it and get rich)
I think Azure is so relatively popular because Microsoft is the only consultant company who owns a cloud.

Generally speaking, for any piece of software -- cloud infrastructure, (managed) database, CRM system, operating system, office suite -- Microsoft has it and has consultants you can hire to help implement it in your company.

That's why Microsoft is doing well, as car as I can tell.
I'm surprised no one has brought up the weight of the node modules on the system in the last section on their site, "See what takes space:"

It's quite beefy for such a tool.
It was supposed to prove BeOS is a good idea. A problem they ran into with the BeBox and again later is that Be had lots of _fans_ rather than developers.

Fans think they're helping. If there's a hardware product then as a fan I should buy it right? Well, no, that's a subsidised development toolkit. Every unit that ships is VC sunk in the hope you'll write like Photoshop or Mosaic or 1-2-3 or something and create a market for this new system. When you instead compile two demo apps, call the support line to ask how to plug a mouse in, and tell all your friends to buy one as well, you are in fact not helping.

This is also because Be's original plan says competing with Windows is suicide (it was). They're going to build a system which is NOT a competitor for Windows, it's a whole separate environment. Maybe you have a Windows PC to do billing and surf that new Web, but in your studio you have a BeOS system and it doesn't matter that it can't print because that's not what it's for.

Be shouldn't have made it to the turn of the century, nowhere close. In 1998 the investors should have said we're sorry, there isn't money for this to continue Jean-Louis, better luck next time, and turn off the lights. BeOS gets sold off to whoever is in the market for pennies. But they got "lucky" they were in the right place at the right time. In 1999 you could raise an IPO for a dog turd so long as the offering paperwork said "Internet" on it and you were based on the US West Coast. The institutions got out, those fans who'd squandered the company's money and opportunity years earlier got in to replace them, and they all lost their shirts. In the process Be Inc. bought itself an extra couple of years runway.

(Edited to fix name)
GP has used Lime e-bicycles, but you've used Lime scooters.

Example Lime e-bicycle: https://road.cc/content/news/252967-london-gets-its-first-do...
No, you get local prices adjusted to 1.90$

As much as I love Döner, half of one isn't nutritionally complete.
Depending on what you compare it to you get different answers.

We don't have patents or copyright for math. It is not that we want mathematicians to not get paid, or that we don't value math, or that there is no room for both paid and free math. It is that math is such a fundamental building stone that allowing rent seeking in that space would cause significant harm to society, including the advancement of science.

Some software is like a book. You buy it and consume it. You don't buy a book and build a better book. You do have the problem with schools in that children would be harmed if they had to pay for it, so we have libraries and school that buy the books for them so they become "free" for the children. Some nations, like Sweden, also have laws that demands that book publishers send books to libraries and the money the copyright owner is set by the state.

If we treat software as math then it should be free. If we treat software as books it should be semi-free for those that needs it and can't afford it.
nice post!
NearlyFreeSpeech?
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He also livestreams on Twitch; recently he's been streaming the archival of Apple II floppies.

https://www.twitch.tv/textfilesdotcom
I like the idea. How would it stop someone releasing a free version of a paid development tool though? It relies on people downloading the free tool to be honest enough not to use it on commercial projects?
I mentioned this library in a previous comment, but LiteDOM might be interesting to you as it is somewhat similar to Vue:

https://litedom.js.org/
The comment he meant to reply to seems to have been removed. It was something like "would you rather we let Iran kill Americans" or some BS like that.
I fail to understand how a combination of GPS and Machine vision could not overcome the need for a dedicated telemetry system.

I mean yeah if you don't want to build a machine vision system to handle this I guess.... But my John Deere hardware has GPS support for crops and the accuracy is pretty damn spot on.
It could work and that plus an IMU is what we were doing at my now recently defunct lawnmower startup. For us to have the precision we needed we had about a 3500$ setup to do so.
I don't think anybody thought it was a guaranteed win, but it was cheap enough to enter that a bunch of VCs went in for it.
Gandi has an API and lets you download entire zonefiles if they host your DNS.
I think e-bikes in certain markets will be profitable as a division of bigger organizations like Uber/Lyft. For example I spent $6 on two JUMP bike rentals last night to get to and from a Meetup. It was convenient and the bikes did the job handily. As a company that only does the bike share, I don't think they will be able to compete with the likes of Uber/Lyft etc.
Yep. Labeling things milk that resemble milk is not a recent trend and I think it's a shallow excuse for people to attack non-dairy milk. Those people have no problem with milk of magnesia, milkweed, or milk thistle.
That is how it works in real life, you buy additional travel insurance to cover the things that the airline isn't contractually or legally obliged to cover themselves. You just made my point.
Seems like "both libraries make copies of the data, which means you’re using even more RAM." is a assumption (that copy data leads to more RAM usage) and I'm guessing the libraries (haven't used them myself, nor python, so not sure how feasible this is) can be implemented like a persistent data structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure) and therefore get both immutability (which leads to less bugs, no mutability) and not that high RAM usage. Clojure is a famous example of something that implements persistent data structures.
Wow! Thanks so much for working on BeOS. This was a super fun OS to use.
The Battle for India's Founding Ideals
Sharp eyes!

ACE is included in the feed, but we did not include it in the animation. We don't currently have geometries for the route alignment (the train tracks), so we'd be drawing straight lines between the ACE stops — didn't look that great in the GIF, so we left it out.

[Note: I'm an Interline staffer]
Here are some estimates:

https://oversharing.substack.com/p/shared-scooters-dont-last...

These scooters are already at a fairly decent economy of production. Chinese factories are producing these in the thousands and companies are buying wholesale.

The core technology (batteries especially) is expensive, full stop. I’m curious where you think they could save money in larger scales? That’s not even to mention to get larger scale, they need more consumer adoption. I don’t have reliable data for this, but anecdotally I’ll say consumer interest is stagnant, and that’s already at unprofitable/heavily incentivized margins.
Gandi is the absolute worst.

The last time I tried buying a domain through them, they took my money and then demanded "identification" via government ID (citing some bullshit in their ToS). I refused, so they closed my account and took the domain with them.

Based on that, I'm not surprised at all by their CEO's response to this incident[0]:

>If we led you to believe that you had nothing to do on your side when warned multiple times to make your back ups, then we'll have to make it clearer, and stop assuming that it's an industry wide knowledge.

[0]: https://twitter.com/StephanGandi/status/1215287619938062342?...
personal freedom of movement, that's an awesome phrase
The purpose of a map in the abstract is not merely to answer questions about how to connect two points within a specific transportation system, the subway. Other possibilities include: connecting two locations above ground, understanding the connections and relationship among various places above ground, and even simply enumerating some of those places.

New York City's map shows a variety of out-of-system features which the designer's map doesn't bother with: railroads, avenues, major cross streets, major bus corridors (the original identifies airport link stops but not routes), local commuter rail corridors (LIRR, Metro North), regional rail corridors (Amtrak), ferries, road bridges, tunnels, the Roosevelt Island Aerial Tram, and many more parks.

The MTA map this more effectively answers more-general questions about New York. It can tell you to walk through the park between the Natural History Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This does come at the cost of interfering with several of the more-specific questions you identified.
Many though not all passive energy designs do require a substantial ground-up redesign. The notion that single standardised designs can be spread across continents without consideration for local conditions will likely pass.

Retrofits are possible, though with compromises to both extant structures and building envelope and passive energy systems.

Since efficiency of storage scales with size, community-based (neighbourhood-scale) thermal storage is an option. This allocates storage across a number of local structures, at the scale of tens to hundreds of structures per storage structure.

Similar notions apply to electrical storage, e.g., neighbourhood battery facilities. This works well for battery designs (e.g., liquid metal, molten salt), which are too technical and risky for safe household deployments, but could be deployed in clustered units with dedicated technical expertise.
Two other reasons:
1) They have the consultants and more than likely an existing business relationship for Windows, Exchange, etc.
2) They are not likely to compete with you - Amazon is trying to compete with everyone and nobody wants to fund their own demise.
> Our policy is to ban ads containing vaccine misinformation

Well, ok, so the only ads they ban are ads that say "Vaccines cause autism!". How useful is that as a policy? By the same metric a "Find out the truth about the moon landing!" would contain no false information about the moon landing even though the link is chalk full of it.

Has anyone ever seen or produced an ad that actually runs afoul of this policy? If not, it is a useless policy, they are still aiding the spread of misinformation on a very important health topic.
Echoes of Marshall Brain's "Manna": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

He posits a future with micro-management of service workers via headset, down to the minute, from an automated system.
> Stallman keeps saying Free of OSS is "Freedom of Speech" not "Free Beer". However, the "Free Beer" part is also important - there won't be any startup if every software (open-code or not) required big license fees.

Just wanted to point out the problem with this reasoning - "big license fees" are not necessary when the software is not Open Source (TM). One counter-example is Commons Clause which is not Open Source (TM), but still allows users normal use freedoms (self hosting, inspecting code, repairing and improving it, sharing modifications), but doesn't allow re-selling the product to 3rd parties. The irony is that it got a lot of bad press. I think Richard Stallman / FSF called it "particularly nasty"? Unfortunately, with all the good that FOSS has done, the zealotry that comes with it makes finding an optimal solution very difficult.

I'm not suggesting that Commons Clause (or BSL, or Fair License, or any other hybrid licenses for that matter) should be used everywhere, but they do solve a real problem in a user-friendly way (as a user, I would actually prefer a hybrid license to open core).

Congratulations to Sentry for choosing the BSL, I hope it serves them well!
Iranian Hackers Have Been ‘Password-Spraying’ the US Grid
I don't like vi, but that's besides the point - I'd fight it exactly because I'd see it as a pointless restriction that indicates dysfunction, and I'd see that as reason to protest it in itself.

If the point of the course had been to learn vi, or the teacher had given a compelling reason for why specifically vi, rather than less specific instructions, then I might have accepted that if their reasons were good enough.
A lot of people have fallen into the FUD wholesale and are resolute believers so it might be mostly driven by momentum at this point - but somewhere under all of that is a slimy snake-oil salesman who is raking in the money for sugar water... traditional medicine and such never take off unless someone can make a buck.
> You can really see the effect of this in San Diego, which at first welcomed the bikes and scooters, then reversed course and banned them in a lot of places

I'm in San Diego, and that's exactly what happened. I live downtown, and at first, scooters were my favorite way to get around.

Then the city forced the scooter vendors to configure no-ride zones, 3mph speed limit zones (seriously, you can walk faster), and no-parking zones inside their apps, and geofence them. Overnight, the downtown scooter market just dried up. I stopped using all scooters downtown because of this, not just Lime, and since the regulation kicked in, I can't see any scooter company making it in downtown San Diego. The scooters just disappeared.
The Russians could just buy one if they were so inclined; I don't think HIPAP devices like the one pictured are under export control. (The HIPAP is just the yellow pipe - the orange thingy looks like flotation whereas the glide pads on the sides are to make launching the device simpler.

(I haven't worked on such kit myself, but my customers do and I encounter them several times a year.)
Zuckerberg's Goals for the Decade
Not remotely the same, but we use Swagger on the test servers.
http://archive.md/5Ypmm
I was addressing the lock analogy itself, but going back to the original topic, I believe this line of thinking still applies to an extent. Setting up hoops one has to jump through to do something nefarious is as much about the difficulty of jumping as it is about the very act of jumping. If you have to work around some security features to access customer data, you can't defend yourself by saying you've accessed it "somehow" or by accident.
Making Fast Incremental Compiler for Codebase