skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but at a large company the ratings don't matter too much in the end because it ends up being a spreadsheet game focused on hiring for the lowest cost while maintaining a level of support that's barely 1 notch above "horrible support".

So if you end up hiring someone who produces a bunch of 1-2 star ratings, you just fire them and try again with someone else until you get someone who produces mostly 3s+.

In the end you would think this would result in better support but it never does. You just end up turning over a lot of support employees, and the user experience for the customer is still bad because you need to first get through a robot menu, then talk to an entry level support who will happily let you pour your soul out on the details of the problem for 5 minutes, and then at the end they are like "oh, I can't do that, but I can forward you to someone who can".

And now you get to be put on hold again, anticipating by coincidence you'll probably lose the connection, and if you're lucky now you get someone who is capable of understanding the problem and you get to re-tell the whole situation again.

Before you know it, with wait times included you're 20 minutes into this and you just barely got to the point where you might get help for the issue. Businesses could solve this problem, but they don't. Instead of hiring better support folks for more money, they put the burden on the customer to have to wade through a bunch of BS and essentially train their entry level support for free -- and it's worse than free too because you're paying that company money for their service and you're trading time from your life to do it.
My favorite Erlang program (2013)
Apparently, screen reader users do not deserve to be able to learn about the future of the web Mozilla is envisioning.
I have my roots in Germany and Italy where it’s pretty common to either have or know people who have “historically notorious” surnames, and therefore the whole idea of “burning names” never caught on (fortunately, I might add).
I have to admit, AWS isn't easy.

I did two associate cers, just because, and after getting them I had the impression that I vastly underestimated the difficulty of using AWS.

If you really know what you're doing, AWS is probably much better and often even cheaper than everything else, but most people simply can't put in the time.
This site sometimes feels like the Truman show, where each user has to pretend they're not just recycling the same three scripts.
Ahh but later on in the article, there are bunch of linked videos and follow on commentary, that only work for right-handers. If we're going to fix mobile UI, please let us left-handers at least flip the button from the left to the right of the screen. Having a fly-out menu button in the bottom right is great for right-handers, but impossible to reach for left-handers.
How can you do that as a Harvard Professor? Easily if with Tenure as it isn't given to people for them to keep their heads down.

He is right, the outrage over "manipulation in tech" is both hysterical and deeply hypocritical. Politicians and advertisers have been doing it for centuries. It is just that when "nerds" and "science" do it. Radio has been used to promote genocide multiple times over centuries and nobody states a need to put the Genie back in the bottle because it is largely in the control of power. Nobody makes the tool a moral outrage that needa categorically banned - they recognize that being a sicko who promotes genocide is the wrong.
> It's not really that Russia was aiding the Western powers in a single fight;

Setting intentions aside, as mentioned by the OP, the Eastern front is where Germans lots the most blood and resources. If not for that, the resistance in the other theaters would be fierce.
that's only if you find it in the code
Ideology aside, most proprietary compilers (mostly for Forth, Pascal and Lisp) I have used are of _excellent_ quality.

A lot also provide you the source code once you pay. AllegroCL is one of them I think.
It's a bit more complicated and a result of:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-playboy-copyright/play...

Basically, if you post a link and know it links to illegal content, you are in violation of copyright law. If you do not know, you're not in violation, but upon being informed, you do know and have to take down the link.

In case of Sci-Hub, it would be reasonable to assume somebody who made a website with the purpose to link to the ever-changing Sci-Hub domain, that is ever changing because of copyright takedowns, then I'd think a court would find it reasonable for you to know you're linking to something violating somebody else's copyrights and thus are in violation of copyright law yourself, in EU jurisdictions at least.
In my case my private parking spot was used by a stranger and I blocked that car with my own car. My car was completely on private property doing so. I did block my neighbours car too but it was also a private parking spot and I had permission from my neighbour to do so.

The police officer rang my doorbell and ordered me to move my car, as blocking someones car would be an offence (disabling personal property).

I asked the officer to give the offending car a ticket but he couldn't do that as it was on private property and thus a civil matter. It was also not illegal for the car to park on my private spot as I don't have a gate which makes the apartment driveway an extension of the public road, and thus usable by everyone. Dutch law is complex.
It's amazing what 'visual beings' we are and the lengths we go to to image things to understand them.

Here are some more visualization related ideas:

Maybe it is possible to get an intuitive understanding of relativistic effects by exposing oneself to relativisticly raytraced environments in VR. Realtime rendering instead of video playback might be crucial to create a feedback loop between the own movement and the changes it creates in the view.

Also an intuitive understanding of higher dimensions might be possible when projecting e.g. 4D (higher might be too confusing?) space into 3D (or rather two times 2D) and then interacting with it (translations, rotations) in VR. This should be rather easy to create.

There might be the danger that messing with the perception of space and the sense of vision so much has permanently damaging effects, though. That should mean that unlearning basic things like walls do not warp might be a bad idea in general.
The fun part is that this seems to have been copied from an HTML FAQ and a link "see relevant documentation here" has simply disappeared in the process.
The Linnstrument looks awesome. I am the happy owner of a Roli Music block, that actually looks like a small and cute version of the Linnstrument.
In the grander scheme that I'm discussing, the solution you're asking about is to gather no more metrics than the off-the-shelf tools allow and spend the engineering effort on fixing the simple bugs that prevent customers from getting cars. Why do they need a perfect ton of metrics while they can't fix simple things such as:

- the car icon doesn't move as location updates come in (as evidenced by the route line getting shorter)

- the on-screen keyboard does not allow me to type anything after the first message (no other app on my phone has this problem)

- after I rate a driver, the app shows a map and none of the UI. I have to kill the app and restart it in order for it to be usable again. Picture this: I'm trying to get a ride, I open the app, I get nagged to rate the last driver. I agree just to be nice to the driver. (I should skip instead and get back to my task of getting a ride). After putting up with the nagware, the app fails 100% and I cannot complete the original task!

Alternatively, if they demand the collection of so many metrics, why don't they collect the metrics that would show them just how pathetically broken their Android app is?
Qpage.one Sounds great. I guess it would become one of the most professional ATS that is going to be created
Poland fought Germans in 1939, so the USSR wasn't "alone in their own war with Germany". It was just that the USSR decided to invade Poland instead of joining the fight against Germans in 1939.
Well their free tier is a list of free amounts you can consume of various services. Azure and GCP require you to switch to a Pay as you go scheme if you want to spend money. But AWS from day one you can consume things that cost money.

They say you get 30 days of free usage but with a 5k a month cost, no way I'd risk it with my card.
https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/pricing/
Eating of meat and sugar are responsible for much more. No need to vilify those whose vices you don't share.
Corona vs. Plasma: a comparison between surface treatments
What about having choice? Hard limit and alert? I’m been bite by overspending accidentally on Azure (only ~30€ but still) so the hard cap is a real reassuring thing.
The Most Trivial Markup Include Pre-Processor
It even seems to break inline links, like in the "split-horizon" section:

> System administrators can find relevant documentation here.

I'm pretty sure "here" should be a link, but of course that doesn't work when the marketing department uses a PNG instead of HTML.

I'm also surprised that Mozilla / the CDN don't optimize the PNG. `zopflipng` reduces the size from 285K to 153K.

And of course it's named "Final-DNS-over-HTTPS-05-1.png".
There are no "survivors" that never leave their basement , play video games and watch porn all day. Take care of yourself is relevant.
Good point. As a single data point from a left-handed person: I primarily use my phone with my right hand.
As an iMac Pro user I can relate to this review a lot.

- The iMac Pro is beautiful. Really. The space grey and black around the screen are both discrete and stylish. I absolutely despise bright colors on my computers and this machine ticked all boxes for me.

- Insanely quiet. A month ago I was working at about 4:00 AM and everything around was absolutely quiet. Then I heard a slight humming noise and I thought this might be the time I actually hear the iMac Pro. But no, it turned out to be my external HDD. To this day, after owning the iMac Pro for ~4.5 months, I haven't heard its fans, not even once.

- It's of course powerful. Haven't seen it glitch or lag once. And the rare cases I did it was definitely a software issue (like the Mac AppStore mysteriously refusing input for some odd 5 seconds sometimes). Anything that can actually use the hardware works fast. I am little worried about the SSD promised performance though; it says it should support 3.3GB/s writing speed but the very best PostgreSQL `pg_restore` performance was 1.6GB/s; I am guessing it's the quad-memory channel that might be the bottleneck, as several reviewers in the past claimed. Overall, everything just works fast.

- The iMac Pro's power highlights how flawed are so many software packages. They simply can't make use of the 10 cores I have, or that much RAM, or the insanely fast SSD. We finally arrived at a point when hardware is more than capable but software is stuck in the past. Having the iMac Pro really did drive this point home for me.

- macOS however leaves something to be desired in terms of stability. One of my external HDDs practically ruins the sleep of the iMac Pro and I often found it shut down in the morning. And one dual-rack box where I keep two old SSDs in RAID 6 configuration is always disconnected after I wake up the computer. It's weird. One time I even had to do safe mode reboot. But hey, this might be hardware vendors not fully complying to specs. Wouldn't be the first time.

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Overall, I am extremely satisfied with the iMac Pro. But I do wonder if I should be buying a Linux workstation with the 64-core Threadripper in 1-2 years; practically only very specialised software packages can make use of such monstrous hardware.

We the programmers have to start using multicore-friendly technologies like Elixir or Rust's rayon library. We can't slack any longer. Powerful machines which will sit idle because of our crappy technologies and programming languages are coming.
What would be the incentive for the browser company? I would think they would do what ever it takes to keep me in their browser-platform...

Maybe they would release the browser for free, but create a market place for premium extensions and skim money off the transactions... This would lock you into their browser...

Oh wait that's already happened with Chrome/Firefox...
I suspect it halfway there and will at best be like statistics in that regard - a source of insight but easy to fool yourself and others accidentally or otherwise.
glass houses...
kubectl port-forward my-lisp-pod 4005:4005

then M-x slime-connect localhost 4005
I think 1 is about OS defaults, not stuff users must know to do. People knowledgeable about privacy could always bolt things on, and that's quite orthogonal to this discussion. Rather, this is all about the people who do no installation/configuration beyond an OS and a browser.
That's what you get for ignoring flawed security reports.
I really don't think this is a UX problem. It was pretty clear that there were two options, production-ready and free. If you want to be picky, I suppose you can be upset that RDS is just a couple of VMs that you can't run other things on, or to question how much performance benefit a certain number of provisioned IOPS gives you. I don't think that's a dark pattern so much as "we don't know what your workload looks like, you don't know what your workload looks like, so just provision a bunch of IOPS and hopefully we never speak again."

I am less surprised that the mental model fell apart. I guess a lot of people think cloud resources are something that is efficiently shared (consider S3, you pay per byte you store, store 0 bytes, pay $0). But that's actually a rare case, most of the time you are provisioning something for your exclusive use; if you have a database server it costs you the same whether it's doing 10000 transactions per second or sitting completely idle and never logged into.

(Incidentally, the true sharing model used to be popular. Shared hosting with no isolation between tenants predated AWS by a decade. You got a chunk of a computer and shared Apache, MySQL, and PHP with hundreds of other randoms. Very cheap!)
It looks like it takes a memory dump of "physical memory" and it mounts it like a FS for you to inspect as you wish. You can just navigate through folders to find the objects you're looking for.

Interesting...
Make it easy for me to hire you: What I look for in tech recruitment
Yeah, but that doesn't drive any kind of lock-in.
It Doesn’t Matter If Anyone Exists or Not
Does this mean we're to be ignored? If so, I am insulted.

There are approximately 2% of people in wheel-chairs in the UK and approximately 3% of blind people, would you ignore them in your accessibility design? No, of course not. Then why should 10% of left-handers be ignored?

And before you say 'left-handedness is not a disability' try living as a leftie for 1 week, and see the problems we have to deal with every day.
Exactly. I'm constantly needled by the fact that there isn't a single Youtube reviewer who is a full-time programmer. Or at least someone not in the "creative" domains.
At least none of the big names are. It's always Nvidia this and Premiere Pro rendering times that and SD card slot whatever.

Fine, but where are the people who will spend ten minutes talking about the different keyboard options they considered for their daily driver? Where are the people who have to read code for a living and will openly mock 16:9 with it's pathetic vertical space? Talking about how easy it is to dual boot Linux on the machine?

If anyone knows of such reviewers, please drop a link below. I'm sick of wathching MKBHD.
Vue.js Documentary [video]
I'm interested to know why you transitioned away from IT, if that's something you can share :)

Reason: strongly considering this for few months already.
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Could someone give me an example of when I would use it? It seems to me rather complicated by reading the text even though it promises a simple decentralized solution.
AWS Budgets is a much better tool for this. It’s simpler to set up, no futzing with CloudWatch, and also alerts you when forecasted usage will exceed a set amount, so you are much less likely to overspend.

https://aws.amazon.com/aws-cost-management/aws-budgets/
Thanks! Nothing would be more awesome than Lisp (or Scheme, I don't care) with easy transparent access to modern libraries.
General public isn’t scared of those things, so they would’ve made a poor example.
It's interesting that he thinks UI will be 'the first to be automated,' but in my experience the variation and creativity, constraints and rules – not to mention the animations – that are emergent from a UI design are so varied and complex that although this seems intuitively correct, history has told us it's anything but.

Arguably the best way to describe an interface is through a declarative programming language, and unless we're saying that 'creativity in UI design is superfluous to our future requirements' it seems like this will remain the case for the foreseeable future.
AWS Business Support is only $100 / USD per month where you can call in 24/7 and be connected with a Cloud Support Engineer within 5-15 mins. If you don't like the engineer, hang up call again and get someone different. That's incredibly in-expensive, saves me hours or hiring more devs.

You can get this Business Support for free a year if you join StartupSchool and get 3K USD credits with the business support.

If you can't afford it, maybe you are just hobbying around but AWS offers lots of ways to support you until you have a substainable revenue.
Except Hitler.
What about using something like mosh for latency?
So you have a "solution" that doesn't really solve the problem, and also create a new privacy problem (now cloudflare has your data too). Hence it's actually a privacy loss.
This question should be upvoted more.

Under unix in general (linux, bsd and, I assume, OSX) you can change your system resolver as you please. DoH is supported by several implementations to a various degree already. You can switch right now, for everything running on your system if you wanted to!

But browsers nowdays basically live under the following assumptions:

- the users are dumb, and "we know what's best for you" (well, to be fair this has been a consistent trend for everything in the industry)
- the OS cannot be trusted for anything, the baseline being the lowest common denominator of any old/broken version of android/osx/windows/linux they want to support
- the users cannot change the system resolver even if they wanted to because the OS is locked down (android, ios, and windows with group policies)

I think all the above reasons are detrimental, but at the same time they're all sadly true. Because browsers essentially are now not far from operating systems, they abstract themselves above everything, including the resolver.
For 1, you're spot on.

For 2, the one thing that's missing from here is that we _know_ many ISPs are selling your data. I'm really uncertain why people are so determined to villify Cloudflare - who don't really stand to gain that much more useful info about you from this than they already have - and give a totally clear pass to their ISP despite years of proven bad behaviour. Yeah this (by default) uses CF's DoH service - note that you can change this if you want - but in my view that's strictly better than continuing to allow your ISP to to sell your browsing history.
In other words - a bit of by-default centralisation is in my view an acceptable price to pay for the increases in privacy and security (especially as it's trivial to switch away from CF if they behave badly).
I'm dated on my cloud vendor costs, but a 2core for a day is 500? Most of the cost the license? Windows server?
They only enabled it by default for US users, so at this time it doesn't really matter. shrugs

When they roll out in the EU, I will pay close attention to how they are doing it, what partners they use under what jurisdictions etc.
You can buy just the chip on eBay these days. Depending on the model laptop they send you a different chip and they pre-load a BIOS on it for you.
Ubiquiti products aren’t reliable. I live next to the ocean and the cameras last about a year. I had a POE switch in a conditioned space and it only lasted 2 years.
As somebody who deals with AWS professionally on a daily basis, I will 100% admit that it can be confusing for people to figure out pricing and scale. I have to talk with engineers every week about design decisions and their cost impacts, and the implications of the things they want to run, and it's clear that AWS doesn't give enough guidance in the UI or documentation structured in a way that a layperson could find what they're looking for quickly and easily for that information.

That said? This article rubs me the wrong way. The suggestion that this problem is caused by "dark patterns" and Amazon being misleading about "pay as you go" screams FUD to me. The screenshots provided right in the article clearly show that what was being done wasn't eligible for free tier. And not understanding that launching a resource, regardless of whether or not you're interacting with it, is consuming the service which launches the resource is a problem with the user, not the marketing. Yes, the author admits that they didn't scrutinize, but that doesn't excuse the position of the article that AWS is somehow doing this to intentionally bilk people.
Sounds like a perfect use-case for skynet: https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34
Yes! This is great news. I have long been a fan of Swarm over Kubernetes for its ease of use.

It always provided such a nice growth path from Docker to Swarm.
It is harmful to people to suggest that, because they might have novel or different ideas, they are not "pragmatic", or "goal-oriented".

This kind of ad-hominem attacks on their character has no place in evaluating the value of a tool or a concept.

Please consider evaluating ideas based on their merit with regards to context, rather than delivering blanket considerations about people based on your prejudice.
Finding pwned passwords in Active Directory
I've been using Revolut to transfer money between countries because of its near-perfect exchange rate on weekdays, but I fear the day my account would suddenly be locked for weeks because I hit some secret anti-money laundering limit, or because I'm suddenly seen as a customer who is just making them lose money.
I guess what you mean is, after we have liked someone's work for a while we should stop.

Because I tend to think he has a lot of great ideas. Is that the beginning of a personality cult?

This new psychology of thinking that someone who is successful is nothing but lucky is very dangerous. Obviously the opposite is dangerous too--that luck plays no part.

If that's "all you gotta do" what are you waiting for?
For some (large, especially) sites, the IP address maps to the entity you're trying to contact. For others (small, especially) sites, the IP address is shared among many entities... not just shared origin hosts but also the massive reverse proxies of the world (Cloudflare, etc.).
Because they are open-source, those modules have been ported to VCV Rack [1], a virtual instrument aimed at recreating the Eurorack experience in digital audio workstations. Obviously, using a mouse/trackpad is not the same as tweaking real knobs, but it's much cheaper.

[1] https://vcvrack.com/
+10000

Mathematics is a user interface. Black ink on white paper is the medium which we've been using to communicate complex concepts/ideas for thousands of years.

In 2020 there are better communication mediums. Interactive mediums.