skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
State communism might not be voluntary, but there are plenty of forms of communism that are voluntary: employee owned companies and cooperatives are literally communist.

And I don't really consider it voluntary if I am to believe the consequences that they teach: the threat of being ripped from and permanently separated from your family for eternity is just as coercive of a punishment as the threat of being sent to a gulag.
With a large organization like Microsoft, people who understand this don’t have the power to make this happen. And people who the power will WTF this for 6 months. By the time they make the decision, it will be too late. I doubt Satya will read this.

It took me half hour to understand what is going on. Imagine an MS executive
Thanks for the info, I’ve obviously not been following this close enough!
I have been using FSNotes for the past year, but feel ready for something more polished; so now I am trying Bear. Thanks for the tip!

Did you look at FSNotes before switching to Bear yorself?

My own note taking is too fragmented right now, being split between org mode, FSNotes, and Apple Notes. It’s a bit like having clothing with too many pockets: I am too often unsure where to look for a particular note.
I have tried every productivity app in the world, yet keep falling back to the iOS/Mac "Notes" app for daily use, so can definitely relate.
Me, too! I got started with both CoreOS and kubernetes using their kubernetes-in-vagrant repo (before it went to the abysmal rkt runtime:
https://github.com/coreos/coreos-kubernetes/blob/v0.4.0/mult... ) and I shepherded that v1.0.6 cluster all the way up to v1.10 when I left. It was a highly educational process
There are so many times where I think think to myself, "We shouldn't be doing this in 2020". Just mundane stuff like checking for null values and stuff. You'd expect we'd have this covered by now
I read a nice explanation on LW. Imagine you need goods X and Y to live well. And imagine that in the ancestral environment, X usually came with Y. So evolution could get away with giving you the drive for X, but no drive for Y (though lack of Y would still make you suffer).

Now switch to modernity, where goods can be obtained more independently. For example, you can get tasty food (X) without some necessary nutrient (Y). So you end up suffering for lack of Y, but your drive is only for X. Moreover, as the market tries to provide X cheaply, it has an incentive to drop Y. I don't know how many such Y's we're missing now, but probably a lot.
What Microsoft should have done was read and implement https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1535 and apply a bit more learning from others and a bit more foresight when they were setting up this disaster in the 1990s.

I have a small bit of sympathy for them, because when Active Directory was first learning how to do domain names, they cost $100 per year and required a huge amount of bureaucratic nonsense. MS wanted to be able to sell their software to businesses that might never connect to the Internet. But they could have done a much better job.
It’s a minority view that is of little relevance today and which will become even less relevant as Asians, Africans, Chinese, Latin Americans, and Indians rise to cultural and economic dominance.
I am totally OK with the sale of this domain to anyone. He owns the domain and he has the right to sell it.

Perhaps the fallout would be good for computer security, as it would stop corporations from making boneheaded security decisions. Pain seems to be the only way to make corporations evolve anyways.
I'd say the number of unreported cases tends to be way higher than unreported deaths.

Of course, but that doesn’t mean that mortality will be lower. A much smaller number of unreported deaths can shift the rate upward. At a 2% mortality rate, you only need one unreported death for every 50 unreported infected to maintain the same rate. That might be laughably high or laughably low. We just don’t know.

But the people in the best position to know, the Chinese government, seem to be taking this pretty damn seriously.
If I recall correctly, fiberglass is a pretty decent heat insulator. Wouldn't be possible to cut those blades into tiles, then reshape them to be perfectly flat and use them as heat insulation panels in non critical industrial applications?
my dog cares that his back isn't facing the open, that is about it. lol "study"
Set up an email alias that cats (appends) your note to your org file.

Then, just send your notes (via sms) to the email.
Using Aurora MySQL for over a year now in prod, purrs like a kittycat.

Just don't use the AWS Database Migration Service if you can help it, that thing has a couple of badly documented pitfalls. (Fe. tables can't have ENUM fields)
What people don't know or forget: You can always start minimally. For personal projects, it turns out a text file works for 99% of use cases. Text editor, vi or emacs? Doesn't matter, as long as it's just text! You can have more text files for different stuff. Invent ways to use flags, prioritize, assignments, etc. It's your ad-hoc format, and easy to evolve. Heck, for personal hobby, I've had success with such TODO-lists at end of such sourcecode.

For more structure, I've found Freemind cool to use. It works like a text-file, but you put everything in a graph and can spread through different files. Can even use links, colors and text formats if you like.

What doesn't really work, is other people's tools, like so-called collaborative tools, SM, and whatnot. One day they'll just delete everything, migrations will fail, it's slow and unreliable. Email seems to work well enough personally, though less so with the advent of "cloud computing" (other people's computer).
Fujifilm will discontinue its Fujicolor film-packs by the end of March
I was a kid in an Apple ][ pirate user group in Okinawa, Japan in the early 80's. My Dad was a schoolteacher on a military base there.

We'd meet once a week on Sunday afternoons in the High School cafeteria, everyone lugging in their computers and boxes of blank disks. And what did we do? We copied.

The club had massive binders full of hundreds (thousands?) of 5.25" floppies. You'd "check out" a disk by replacing it with your membership card, make a copy, and return the disc. More experienced members could help you get around thorny copy protection, and people left helpful notes of which copy program worked best.

They would also organize bulk purchases of cloned computers. My first computer was referred to as a "Happle", i.e. a clone from Hong Kong. IIRC we got the computer, a green-screen monitor, 2 slim disk drives, joystick, paddles, some games, and a 9-pin dot matrix printer for $1000. At the time, a regular Apple 2 cost that much for the computer alone. Our clone also had helpful modifications like lower-case letters and built-in keyboard shortcuts. E.g. ctrl-6 would turn into "PR#6" which was how you booted from disk.

There's no way my parents could have afforded non-clone prices at that time, let alone purchasing software. So I'm very grateful for that club, and all the amazing software I got to try and learn from. I learned so much programming from Beagle Brother's tools [1] and had my mind completely blown by the Pinball Construction Set, which Steve Wozniak rightly called "the greatest program ever written for an 8-bit machine."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
The industry that finds bosses is more powerful than ever
I'm curious how many NeXT machines were on campus? Where did they end up (which depts)?
Chase tried to do this a few years ago with Chase Pay.

It was inconvenient and rarely accepted. Maybe updated PoS terminals will fix where they went wrong (IMO using QR codes), but it’s difficult to get people to switch from a card swipe/tap or phone tap.

I think Chase Pay ended up getting cancelled.
> Not parent poster, but I use zsh-histdb [0] to keep my history in an SQLite database

Why? A file is easier to grep (even if you have to pass `-a` to it after the file starts to be in the MBs, right now it is 7.4MB).
I love having eternal command history in my zsh, and I wonder if I miss something out by not using SQLite for this.
Just a note on leaving the church: when you leave you leave all the people you have known all your life. Since you spend so much time in church activities fellow members become your extended family. When you leave you understand that the only reason you had contact with your extended family is because of the church. You become the lone man out. It's extremely hard to rebuild relationships outside the church. I don't think most shun you but some will. The members don't work to reach out unless it's to ask you to return to the church. It's very hard to leave.
Oh. So it really will save space, but as a FOD you won't be able to install notepad offline. (On a system by itself.)

I find that worse.

> Choices of which product features are supported are orthogonal to the Features On Demand platform technology.

On a technical level they're separate. But on a "we're trying to deprioritize this to get people off of it" level, they're both worth considering.
RDS/Aurora does do autoscaling, backups, georeplication, encryption etc. It's more a matter of time & convenience rather than skill. Sure you could do all of it yourself on an EC2 instance, but at some point it becomes a big chunk of your job, and you would rather be spending your time on other things.
I see this as a negotiation between man and machine. The machine in this case was bad at negotiating.
Documentation.

Far too often when I want to learn something new I either find there is not much documentation or find that there is a large mass of documentation that probably has everything I need but is so disorganized that I can't figure out how to approach it.

Another documentation problem, especially with open source projects, is that development and documentation are often loosely coupled, if at all. The people doing documentation usually don't have the resources to keep up with development, and so even if there is good well organized comprehensive documentation it is usually obsolete.
There is always heroku until your app is actually popular. Fake it till you make it.
If it matters, hire a lawyer. It's a good test. Rolling your own TOS provides more opportunity to avoid the hard work of finding users and generating revenue. And if you really need TOS, then you really need a lawyer too. Enforcing TOS is an even bigger distraction from business fundamentals than writing them. Good luck.
Vehicle that broke through the ice in the 18 March photo described here:

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146220/baikals-gian...

"This particular ring was more than just a scientific oddity; it posed a serious hazard because Russians often drive over the ice to get across the lake in the winter. In fact, a few weeks before the satellite image was captured, a van broke through and sank along the edge of this ice ring; the driver and passengers escaped and were rescued. A few days later, a second van (photograph above) broke through and got stuck along the eastern boundary of the ice ring."
At least in the open source world, other people can continue maintaining the project under a new name (dependent on the specific license). I wonder how Flatcar and Fedora CoreOS will converge/diverge.

Also, was rkt not open source? Or was it just depreciated?
10 separate xlarge instances pgsql and never had a single issue in 3 yrs of heavy use. What stories are those?
It’s a nice piece on breaking out of the conditioning of society and gratefully embracing our time on earth by living fully and taking risks.

Some nice quotes from wise people:

> But as Alan Watts once reminded us, “This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

> In the words of Henry Miller, “the aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

> “If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire.
DO IT. DO IT. DO IT. All the way
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It’s the only good fight there is.” - Charles Bukowski
MakerDAO https://makerdao.com/

Ethereum https://ethereum.org/

Cosmos https://cosmos.network/

Augur http://www.augur.net/

Binance Coin https://www.binance.com/

Basic Attention Token https://basicattentiontoken.org/
Could someone tell me in what world this sort of assumption could have ever made sense?

Why in God’s name would you design a system that redirects your requests like that? Are the security implications not painfully, frustratingly obvious?
Thanks so much for the mention. It's indeed a lot of work, but we've done so much with such a small team and it's only accelerating as we layer all of our solutions on top of each other. We're solving one problem at a time with focus on patterns and abstractions that makes it easily extensible and could support virtually any language.

With the Universal Package Manager (https://github.com/replit/upm) we're trying to encode the best practices in package management behind a single easy-to-use interface. One of the most fun features is that you can `import` or `require` a package and we'll just guess what you want to do, install the dependencies for you, generate a spec and lock file.

With prybar (https://github.com/replit/prybar) we're trying to create a universal interactive programming experience that behaves roughly the same for every language.

And, to be open-sourced soon, our window-tiling manager and workspace (https://repl.it/blog/ide), we're trying to build a framework that makes it so easy to build complex, plugin-based environments, such as IDEs, very easy to build.

We also leverage a lot of awesome open-source projects and standards, like the Language Server Protocol by VSCode/Microsoft, that abstract over language features and makes it easy to provide an amazing experience across languages.

Edit: if it's been a few months since you tried Repl.it, give it another try, we've made a lot of progress since then. Multiplayer is now out of beta, we have Git integration, and we've done a lot to make it faster and more reliable.
UI development is still very clunky on any desktop OS other than windows. (and I have not done UI on windows in a decade, it used to be pretty good back in the day).
iOS is good,
I mean like you want to create a utility to do a job for yourself, not a big project.

And I know there are lots of html / web based things you can run on desktop but they are even more complex, for me at least.
Building a Slogan Generator with GTP-2
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I agree completely, but it's worth pointing out that a big reason for this is that Cambridge and Boston have vastly fewer and worse connected VCs than the bay area. I did try to pursue VC funding for a hard-tech startup (thin film deposition for making solar panel conductive pastes), but there was really only one VC group that was relevant so there wasn't exactly a surplus of opportunity money-wise just waiting for a good use.

Personally I think bootstrapping is way better for startups that intend to be acquired or don't mind growing slowly (or don't mind never really growing much at all). Nothing wrong with "lifestyle businesses".

After a few tries, now I have a consulting company that helps people develop their weird scientific equipment and commercial prototypes. I don't really care about funding with that model, and my salary went up 3-fold in one year versus a job at a startup in Oakland.

I'll probably create a product soon, I have a prototype about done and I'll definitely try to make a business out of it -- but because most of my income is consulting I can also afford to move slower, do it right, and not have to hire anyone to help with it unless I actually find traction and need help with manufacturing them.

Short plug: I'm making color changing strobe light art pieces that use the ganzfeld effect to cause vivid geometric illusions -- not novel in the concept, but the implementation is really good after a decade of casually improving it over time. If this sounds awesome to you do feel free to send a note so that I can let you know when they're ready =)

http://neltnerlabs.com is the website, I haven't mentioned the art piece on it yet since it's not done but here's a youtube video of the basic hardware before being put into a frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFte1ggIVjM
I am what you would call a freelancer developer, I am fairly new to this cyber security systems
Anything can be explained away depending on which variables you take into account.

Some people like heated toilet seats. Maybe most dogs like some warm sunhine on their behinds while pooping.

Or maybe they want to face upwind for other reasons.
My newest laptop is closer to that than any computer I’ve ever had since 1984. Mostly because of SSDs I guess, but Windows boots in a few seconds. Usually takes longer to shutdown than to boot.

10ms response is a bit on the fast side. Aside from pros doing sports or music, we (humans) don’t register most kinds responses that fast. Plus a 60hz display is 16ms anyway. These days browsers, editors, and OSes really do usually try to meet this goal for the most common workflows, though there are plenty of demonstrable exceptions. It’s a good goal, I agree with it, but maybe 100ms would be a more reasonable worst-case response time?
As cynical as I may sound, but cybersecurity threats like this will continue to be ignored until they sufficiently escalate into consequences.

And that statement, while obvious, is darker than it seems. Companies going under aren't sufficient consequences (many ransomware cases). Universities going offline isn't enough (look for the uni giessen). The bureaucracy of cities going offline isn't enough (e.g. New Orleans).

This is just going to continue to escalate until something really really ugly happens and kills many people. And then we'll be presented with some grand legislation that I don't look forward to.
If I recall correctly, fiberglass is a pretty decent heat insulator. Wouldn't be possible to cut those blades into tiles

The physics of insulators, like fiberglass batting. Basically, it works the same way as down feathers or fur. The material traps air into many, many somewhat separate pockets. This interrupts convective flows, which drastically slows down the rate at which heat can move through air. Since air is the opposite of dense, not much heat can be transmitted through air which does not move.

Fiberglass tiles aren't going to have the same insulating property, just because they're also fiberglass.
I really prefer DC/OS to K8s. They both have strengths and weaknesses, but I hate we're not this k8s monoculture now. There need to be more container orchestration systems .. and don't kid yourself; few shops are using nomad.
That sounds good in theory, but what I’ve realized is that diversity is meaningless if everyone subscribes to group-think anyway. The idea for inclusion is to promote an environment where everyone is heard, and varying opinions and contribute to thoughtful discourse. However, from my experience at a large credit card company, diversity is meaningless for 2 reasons:

1) Candidates are either recruited from Columbia or Cornell only.

2) The large Indian population at the company favors Indians, and thus the new diverse hires look elsewhere after 1 year.
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We do need to find solutions for blade-waste. Ideally it would find its way into new blades.

On other hand, how does blade-waste compare to energy- and non-energy- waste sources? Until that solution arrives:

" municipal and commercial dumps will take most of the waste, which the American Wind Energy Association in Washington says is safest and cheapest. 'Wind turbine blades at the end of their operational life are landfill-safe...' [The group] pointed to an Electric Power Research Institute study that estimates all blade waste through 2050 would equal roughly .015% of all the municipal solid waste going to landfills in 2015 alone."[0]

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turb...
I think languages which bolt some trait / generic / role system onto an object-oriented system are generally a bit too bloated, non-opinionated, and confusing. Typeclasses not only encourage an elegant separation between data and functions, they allow you to design guarantees about how your functions interact with each other into your program — basically, not only data inheritance but also functional inheritance. Object oriented syntactic sugar is an easy add-on to a typeclassed language, but not the other way around.

Beyond immediately reducing bugs, I think widespread use of this sort of language designed with a good type system from first principles would allow many more programmers to write programs with some provable security guarantees.
I'm still pretty New
Maybe daisy chaining is the problem then? It has something to do with the order the devices are enumerated.
The Swedish company Klarna is a good example. It’s now so common among Swedish consumers to have a Klarna account that it’s probably the most frictionless way for customers to pay online.

I have a colleague who worked there like five years ago. She bought as much stock as she could. Once it IPO or gets acquired I suspect she’ll get a hefty contribution to her retirement.
Interested rates are 25%/yr. People are carrying a balance either have a low balance or we bankrupt and don't pay. Meanwhile fees are on every months spending. If you spend to your limit every month, that's 12x the carried balance.
This reminded me of this article in the BBC of

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-51281856/electrosensit...

and related studies behind it

http://www.utdallas.edu/news/2016/2/3-31891_Study-Uncovers-H...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/mar/18/humans-earth...

Basicaly in nearly all Hindu texts, when praying or doing Yoga they tell people to face East/the sun, so that your magnetic field is aligned as unaligning it risks disease.

The team say modern environments would likely interfere with this “sense”, while there is no sign as yet that such a system is linked to human consciousness, or that it influences our behaviour – although the team say it remains a possibility, and are planning experiments to find out.

I wonder if dogs almost feel a need to align with field in the right way to feel comfortable.
You can’t bank on backups to fight ransomware anymore
Rust isn't aiming for formal verification, is it?
It might be a stunt, but stuff like that happens. Many years ago I used to work for a large European company that ran a booking system for several hundreds of airlines. The system was used as a back-end by more than one famous online booking site. Currency rates were updated automatically. Once, on a new year's eve, at midnight, a glitch slipped into the Canadian dollar conversion rate, setting 1 CAD to 0 EUR. All of a sudden, all Air Canada flights were for free for European customers, at what might be the worst time of the year :
"- so, this year's resolution : we take time to travel.
- hey look honey, Canada looks cheap.
- deal done, book right away, and let's open one more bottle of champagne !"
I don't know how many AC flights were booked before someone realized and an on-call guy fixed the conversion rate. However, I know that all those free bookings remained valid, and were offered by my company who payed all of it directly to Air Canada.