skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The program offers github enterprise for free. The credits are in addition to that and can be used to e.g buy cloud CI/CD time.

Running your own infrastructure doesn’t cost nothing.
https://twitter.com/nyt_diff/status/1228059729391476736

The NYT changed their headline after publication.
Should be a factor. Guy involved in the JEDI decision was pursuing a job at Amazon.

https://theintercept.com/2019/06/03/amazon-defense-departmen...
I read a great book, "Designing Your Life" by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, that said "A problem you can't change isn't a problem, it's a truth and you have to accept it". I think that mental reframing helps process effectively immutable events.
These posts are great for history, but regular expression implementation has moved on considerably from early Thompson implementations whether backtracking or NFAs. There is a considerable body of literature about regex implementation, including many quite convincing implementations and alternate formulations, some of which weren't even done by people at, or from, Bell Labs!

We seem to have something of an Eternal September of regex implementation knowledge (abetted by Russ Cox's amazingly selective bibliography in his posts introducing RE2).
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Fast.co Got Ride of Job Descriptions
And they have the balls to tell me that my cynicism level is high.

I mean, they're not wrong, but gosh.
This article is specifically about free access to `GitHub Enterprise` the self-hosted GitHub instances.
I quit about a month or two ago. I'm not sure if I am happier or not, mostly because everyone around me is still on it (including my wife). So perhaps there is a bit of FOMO going on. I think I would be happier if everyone I knew quit.
Oh, no, don't get me wrong. I moved to the UK over a decade ago, and when I first moved here people couldn't understand me. And even after having been here for a year I still occasionally ran into people that I just couldn't understand at all. Even once you get over the accent, there's just an endless list of things that have different names.

But you have but to drop yourself in Iceland or Denmark or Germany or France to realize how close all of our languages really are.
DoorDash forced to arbitration over 5k claims
The crossed out parts of failed revolutions of tech migration was brutal to read. It really underlined the article's message.
Playing devil's advocate here (hey, it is hellbanning, right?)

What if a user pays for the content directly? Indirectly, they pay via ads.

And if applied to networking with say QoS it is suddenly net neutrality though
Do you have some of that data available? I think his data does seem off, but all these always on devices have to be costing something right? Curious what that cost actually is.
These American companies thought that having them sign a confidentiality agreement would mean they would actually follow through with the agreement. It wasn't just a "send em the plans and get our widgets for cheap!"
The problem are mostly with images and javascript.

That is why I wish the next generation image format to push the quality and size ratio. I think JPEG XL currently has the best chances at succeeding Jpeg.

We should have faster Internet (5G and Fibre ) for everyone, and better Image compression for everyone. Hopefully in 5 to 10 years times this problem will be a thing of the past. Assuming we dont bloat every website into WebApps that tries to download 10MB before it even load.
I've been avoiding news as well since the last Presidential election. I can appreciate that this is terrible advice in general, but for the sake of my blood pressure, health in general, and mental well-being it's the best choice for me.
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To calculate the math more correctly, a 1W smart plug is contributing $0.09/month to the $400 electrical bill quoted. This is a stellar example of a micro-optimization, in programming terms.

Focusing on big spenders like "anything with a pump" and "anything that generates heat" would contribute significantly to reductions.

I once upgraded video cards, reducing my computer's power draw by 180W and lowering my electric bill accordingly. This was back in the early days of CFLs (they were terrible) so it may not seem like much, but it was on 24/7 and that was the power at idle. I think it worked out to something like $10/month of savings, which was quite noticeable for my total bill of $50 or so.
Hey, Mike from Mushino here.

It's no legal in the US or other first world countries but I can refer you to a great VPN provider if you'd like.
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"Hey guys, isn't it funny how so many people have no idea what's dangerous or not because we, as an industry, do an absolutely shit job of helping people understand computing in any meaningful way?"
> That isn't universally accepted as part of the definition of 'acronym'.

That's the general sentiment of this thread -- that it's not universally accepted.

I'd refer to the Oxford English dictionary, but your citation from the Merriam-Webster contains what I understand is the defining feature:

> "a word ..."

With three examples of words (ie. pronounceable strings).

The addenda of 'also: ... other things' is a bit of a cop-out. This is the distinction between a dictionary that strives to provide definition of language, versus recording popular (mis)uses.
Charlie Munger warns 'lots of troubles coming' due to 'too much wretched excess'
Yes the important stuff is public record, but it's also hard to analyze the primary sources. Bills tend to have misleading names, mixed content, and non-obvious agendas. Context is important; it's not uncommon for someone to oppose a weak bill because politically the alternative is a stronger one, not inaction. The FEC database is hideously formatted anomaly-filled MS Access stuff. I generally let someone else do the analysis, but then that's "news" (or at least subject to the same pitfalls?).
Corporations are people mainly when it’s convenient. I am not aware of a company being sent to jail or sentenced to death. Regular persons can’t always settle things by paying a big (or small) fine.
as long as the Irish data protection authority continues to halt or stall any investigation into FB and co. no GDPR fines will be issued.

I hope the review of the GDPR this year will change the one stop shop principle.
I'm sure the quarterly reports looked good though!
I predict the next Chief Architect will stall (or begin a rollback of) HHVM at Slack. Too much time wasted migrating onto a nigh-proprietary platform for a now ambiguous value proposition.
Can someone ELI5 on what this is? What are Name Auctions on Handshake?
>Charges also Reveal Huawei’s Business in North Korea and Assistance to the Government of Iran in Performing Domestic Surveillance //

Surely evidence would reveal that, but this DOJ press release doesn't appear to be concerned with that.

>As revealed by the government’s independent investigation and review of court filings, //

Mwah-ha-ha-ha! They know how to tell 'em.

>the new charges in this case relate to the alleged decades-long efforts by Huawei, and several of its subsidiaries, both in the U.S. and in the People’s Republic of China, to misappropriate intellectual property //

Aren't new charges a new case? Aren't these extending speculations rather leading for a case that is in process, shouldn't they make the allegations and present any evidence - if they wish - rather than make extended claims bracketed by "allegedly". I can't believe that this has been written as anything other than a chance to make unsubstantiated claims ... have the courts hear the charges and then expound at length about the conviction.

I thought these sorts of things from one of the main parties involved (the USA government) were strongly decried by courts as they tend to colour juries and judicial bodies; aren't the DOJ perverting the course of justice here with such a diatribe?

>"Huawei’s efforts to steal trade secrets and other sophisticated U.S. technology were successful. Through the methods of deception described above, the defendants obtained nonpublic intellectual property relating to internet router source code, cellular antenna technology and robotics. As a consequence of its campaign to steal this technology and intellectual property, Huawei was able to drastically cut its research and development costs and associated delays, giving the company a significant and unfair competitive advantage."

That may all be true, but if you're currently prosecuting a case and have to determine if it's true it would be nice, as a DOJ, to not making statements that -- despite legal ass covering -- is clearly intended to presuppose the guilt of the defendant.

When USA decided to go after Huawei to bolster their own telecoms companies, I wondered if they realised they'd end up stooping so low?
This raises an interesting question. Let's say I have a data-set that contains a lot of photos of people, but I don't know who; or maybe I think I know who, but there's 20% chance there are people who are in these photos that aren't successfully tagged.

Now, lets say someone who I don't have on my list asks for the data I have of them, and I tell them I don't have any, but really they're one of the untagged people. Have I broken the rules? Presumably not.

What if someone requests the info I have on them, I tell them nothing, but then later on I realize that one of these photos actually was a picture of them. Should I then try to follow up with them and make a correction?

I'm curious. I think the GDPR is great. These are important problems.
Yeah, exactly.

My own totally unscientific theory of burnout is that with scarce positive reinforcement and lack of progress towards some higher goal your lizard brain just stops understanding why on earth you continue to expend energy on this job thing. Of course your job pays the bills but this may be hard for the lizard brain to understand (and in case of volunteers where even this positive reinforcement is absent, burnout hits them especially hard).

Many corporate jobs share this dynamic. Support, obviously. But every position where there is a lot of routine maintenance and lack of any kind of satisfying milestone ahead carries the risk. Also, opensource maintainers (Unpaid? Check. Never ending stream of maintenance work? Check. Lack of some higher goal? Well, their project is already popular, there may be no other definite goal.)

Startups are better in this regard because growth provides positive reinforcement and the possibility of an exit provides a higher goal. But what if growth stops and the satisfying exit never materializes? Burnout will hit you like a hammer.
This can't be true. I work on that block and haven't heard you.
>RICO

>Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

A corporation is an organization. Also, if you go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru..., there's list of instances of companies and even government agencies being charged.
Pretty sure this was used years ago here since it happened to me. If it happened to me now I would slowloris the hell out of the site. But years ago I didn't know better. :P

(Yes I know I'm banned with this account as well)
In remembrance of the dial-up time where, during load, you'd decide if you liked the content you thus far saw. Or, where you'd load some websites and disconnect internet to read offline.
I don't think so. People who prefer light lagers will always be in the majority, and everyone else will just be unhappy all the time.

Imagine having to pay a municipal tax to get Bud Light piped into your house. Ugh.
How cool! Sorry to ask an unrelated question: I saw something about how people shouldn't perform airdrop claims on Handshake mainnet yet because transfers are still disabled, is that still true?
> "help [ -e" doesn't work. The [ documentation also doesn't tell you what options are available

Well, knowing that `[` is the same as `test`, you can `man test` to see the available options.

Personally, I avoid `[` for `[[`. To see the options for that, I do `man bash`, then type `/\[\[`, hit Enter, and press `n` a few times until the list of options appears. It's in the "CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS" section.

Almost everything shown in this site is available in bash's manpage.

GNU's `ls` has most of its documentation in `info ls`.

There's no need to turn to websites. All documentation is available locally from the command line. If anything, it just requires a bit of skill in searching. With `man`/`less`, you search with `/` like I showed; in `info`, you search with <Ctrl-s>.

Also, `command [ --help` does work. It's not the same as the built-in, but it should be mostly the same.
I feel like the cynical malaise is maybe more healthy to go in with, and also what your impression of everything turns into after getting burned out because you went in with a ton of personal investment (passion or whatever)
Handshake's a new blockchain based DNS replacement, and auctions are the way people buy domain names (actually domain TLDs) on it.
> With TLS and it surely not mitm-ing connections, that's all it can do correct?

Unless it also acts as a web-proxy, yes.
Even if it was accidentally set on, one sees [dead] against shadow-banned, greyed-out comments.
It's sounds like a cop out, but everyone's experience is different. Being bullied in middle school can be vastly different experience if your home life is pleasant and supportive vs. unpleasant or unstable, if you're academically gifted vs. prone to struggling academically, if the school is well staffed and safe vs. otherwise.

I grew up in a loving home and attended good public schools in a fairly upper middle class school district. Both my brother and sister were subject to some serious bullying, and there is no question that it made their school life miserable for a time, but it was not the formative episode of their youths.

On the other hand, its not hard to see in a worse situation how easily it could be.
> personally I think our only hope is MegaMaid

That's just ludicrous.
While they may not actually save money over lifetime, its possible they do reduce your carbon footprint over their lifetime. I am actually curious about that side of things. The devices obviously cost some amount of resources and money, does their electricity savings every offset their initial creation.
Not so much the yearlies, but the quarterlies!
I wonder if, in the near future, we might not need blinkers¹ for internet, like we put on horses to keep them focused on the road, or conversely not distracted or scared by things around.

Basically ad/js blockers elevated to content selectors, somewhere halway between full functionality and reader mode of the core content of a page.

I see a literal tsunami of tiny projects like that on HN and various other places, and I suspect it's quickly gaining the characteristics of a product category — how much would you pay, or give away, to reclaim a distraction-free highly-focused web experience? Not sure about individuals (most mainstream users), but in businesses, offices, on the clock? That makes a stupid amount of sense. ("stupid" because, heh, it's seeking a solution for a problem we created in the first place, businesses deploring the consequences of things whose causes they cherish, should we say champion in modern lingo.)

[1]: not that kind! https://www.pictorem.com/collection/900_Pawel-Kuczynski_blin...
can someone remind my why people still use facebook?
IIUC, the proposal is for a government agency that would take enforcement action on behalf of aggrieved citizens. I'm skeptical that it would achieve those goals, at least for most citizens. Consider the FCC under Ajit Pai.

I'm guessing a better solution is this combination:

(a) legislation similar to the EU's GDPR, and

(b) legislation that prohibits consumer-oriented products and services from requiring EULAs or other licensing terms that give up the rights granted under (a), and

(c) grants private individuals the right to bring lawsuits for violations of (a,b)
But a job switch could help the burnout.
" of course you're affected when the government decides on a new policy ... but how does knowing about it on the same day or in the same hour mitigate that?"

It saves people a nasty surprise when the policies they relied upon fall out from under them, or to try and head off future issues by calling up their representatives. For example, I was able to call up my representative regarding changes in immigration policy. Because other people aren't paying attention and don't call their representatives, I actually have an outsized voice and influence on the matter!
And, as you can see from the breakdown at the bottom of this list, the majority of that growth is in places like .NL, where DNSSEC is almost compulsory.

It's not hard to check this for yourself. Just start with a list of the top domains on the Internet; I used the Moz Top 500, but Alexa will do fine. Create a flat text file with one domain per line, then do:

for N in `cat file` do; host -t ds $N; done

You'll see what I see:

First, dozens of .GOV sites have DNSSEC delegations because, until a couple years ago, DNSSEC was mandatory in the USG; that mandate has since been rescinded.

Second, excluding those .GOV sites, the entire list of signed domains in the Moz Top 500 is as follows:

000webhost.com
addtoany.com
berkeley.edu
bund.de
cloudflare.com
cmu.edu
europa.eu
example.com
foxnews.com
icann.org
ietf.org
mediafire.com
mozilla.org
one.com
paypal.com
pixabay.com
stanford.edu
themeforest.net
time.com
welt.de
xfinity.com

I note with what I hope is plainly evident glee that while PAYPAL.COM is signed, none of Paypal's subsidiaries, like Braintree or Venmo, are.
b-b-but America bad! /s
Hi ktpsns,

As far as I know it is currently difficult to get API access as an individual. The APIs are available to third party developers as is required by European regulation, but they have to go through a procedure to receive access to production data.

We have several teams working on improving our open APIs, including availability. If you reach out to me by email I will ask one of the teams and let you know when we expect to be able to offer what you're looking for. You can find my email in my profile.
"Steal" isn't quite the right word. The Federal Government does collect more Social Security than they require, and uses it to fund current projects. In theory, those projects are all about growing the overall economy, which means more tax revenue later on.

That was something the Baby Boomers inflicted on themselves. They knew that there were fewer children behind them, so they needed to do something to ensure that they didn't run out of money immediately. So they raised their Social Security tax rates to collect more than they needed. And they had to put it somewhere. Long-term federal bonds were a pretty good place to put it, since they pay a bit more than inflation. There was talk about putting it into the stock market, but that would have been a pretty heavy thumb on the economy.

That was in the 80s. That started coming due about a decade ago, and now is in full swing. We always expected that "trust fund" to come down... but for a variety of reasons it came down faster than they bargained for. And for a variety of reasons, the government took that demand for its bonds as a sign that it should grow, a lot -- and somehow managed to borrow yet more money, even though it had a captive audience of bond buyers.

Maybe "steal" isn't the wrongest word. But it's helpful to understand just what they were thinking. (As a Gen Xer, I'd say what they were "thinking" was that their goal was to screw us and our children, which they've done a great job of.)
It can possibly access all your activity, contacts, microphone, and camera... Hard pass from me at the moment. :/
>Now you're just making things up. But it's OK, I understand. People who are being bullied will grasp on to any excuse they can to keep themselves from changing their lives

Nice ad-hominem.
I'm not being bullied but I've seen many of these scenarios playing out in real life.

Your victim blaming is now here in full display for anyone to see.
Growing up I had problems fitting in and also experienced this sense of loss; not having the same shared experiences as people around me. I wonder now how other kids who "didn't fit in" for whatever reason (orientation, intelligence, economic status) feel? Or is everyone alienated to some extent, and just hides it?
Would you have a profile or two handy that I can take a look at? I left showdead on for a while but found it useless in terms of coming across interesting comments from such users. Thx.
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I get, and appreciate, where you're coming from. But for me, I really care about promoting and encouraging use of Open Standards and that - to me - means eventually dropping my hypocritical usage of FB and the like. And I don't see any reason to think that people have to "be in tech" to use XMPP, IRC, etc. But to the extent that there is friction to using Open protocols, as opposed to closed ones, I see part of my personal mission to be helping to reduce that friction.

I don't ever want to be the guy who's not there for his friends

Same here, but I don't see that being tied into being on FB or not. My family, and real friends, all have my phone number and/or email address and can always call, text, or email. People that I only interact with via IM are typically not the people I am closest to.
I'm partial to Sufficient Velocity[1], which is focused on SF and Creative Works.

It's a niche space, but it's a niche space I enjoy, for all of its faults.

[1]: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com
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I have found the facade of control that technology presents is easily punctured by a few days outside of cell range in rugged wilderness. Being alone in emergency situations also reveals our total lack of control over the whims of fate. Basically, when it comes to dealing with substantial, immediate personal problems technology is still pretty useless.
I doubt it as the meeting is pointless bullshit for the managers like all scrum meetings I've ever been part of. Also, there is no need to be alert or mentally present for it. The engineering team is ok with moving it, but management isn't. Also, I'm talking about 10:30 or 11 instead of 9:30. It's not exactly a huge move. Starting the day off with the most unproductive task possible, is a terrible idea. I'm not a morning person, but I do get decent work done once I'm awake. I bet it's even worse for morning people to have half an hour to an hour at the start of their day be a pointless, monotonous meeting hearing about other people's projects that one simply does not give a fuck about (every scrum meeting ever).