skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What?

At every one I have been to (not a lot I admit, maybe 4 in my life), I had to both provide insurance card AND pay my copay before a doctor would see me. Without payment, they send you to go to the ER.
I get it, you got rejected and are bitter about it now. Your feelings are very common among those who didn't make the cut, but they're far from universal. Better luck next time.
Indeed. PHP has been trying so hard for so long to be a dynamically-typed Java I don't know why they don't just rebrand as DJava or something like that. I've never known any commonly-used language relinquish its own identity the way PHP has.
Client data confidentiality. I know it's a weak argument, but if the contract requires that we store data in-house, there's no choice.
A private cloud is potentially on prem.

But besides that it's a about how the infrastructure is manages, in the classical way. Or with somethings which allows easy setup of new "containers" and similar like Kubernets. This doesn't necessarily means VMs. It can be more lightweight containers, e.g. based on Linux namespaces. Nor does it means you can sidestep the IT ;=) But normally it mans you can much easier spin up new services or change scaling between them.
The onus is on the "website" to find an ethical business model, not the people who have been (rightly) trained that the web is free.
> But Gitlab is an example of a company that is moving too fast

I've studied GitLab's code history for a while, and they have been moving at a very fast pace for years now. Below is a one year window (from today) into to their gitlab repo.

https://imgur.com/HOh5Zrr

https://imgur.com/snU8UfY

https://imgur.com/DDxD3lN

Some points of interest are:

1) 15k commits are merge commits.

2) The vast majority of the code churn is ruby, which is expected.

3) Based on the bus factor, a lot of files that are iterated on, have less than 10 unique contributors. And there are a handful of files that are iterated on a lot, by a lot of people.

4) A lot of the code changes are 10 lines of churn (lines added, changed, deleted) or less, which indicates incremental improvements/bug fixes/etc., as opposed to adding new functionality.

Something that I'm not doing right now, is mapping the churn, to the number of unique contributors. It would be interesting to see if there is a pattern to their churn vs number of contributors.

GitLab is definitely moving at a very fast pace, and it would be interesting to map this to their issues, but their API is extremely slow, so I've never bothered trying.

Edit: For the scatter charts, the x-axis represents the number of files. And the y-axis is number of contributors (bus factor chart) and churn size (churn chart)
I work on two projects, neither of which use cloud.

For my day job, it is privacy and legal constraints. I work for the government and all manner of things need to be signed off on to move to cloud. We could probably make it work, but in government, the hassle of doing so is so large that it is not going to happen for a long time.

In my contract project, it is a massive competitive advantage. I won't go into too many details, but customers in this particular area are very pleased that we do not use a cloud provider and instead host it somewhat on-premise. I don't see a large privacy advantage over using the cloud, but the people buying the service do simply because they are paranoid about the data and every single one of them could personally get in a lot of trouble for losing the data.

Not my project, but intensive computing requirements can be much more cheaply filled by on-premise equipment (especially if you don't pay for electricity), so my university does most of its AI and crypto research on-premise.
Certainty
I was raising money and met this zen style investor for lunch to talk about some issues we were having, basically complaining and blaming and things like that, he interrupted me and said -

“Be careful the stories you tell yourself because they will eventually become true”

It hit me that I really was telling these stories of how the company was or where the business was going in a negative light and things were simply becoming more and more negative because of me. So be careful!
Time is the absence of balance
> specific instructions on interacting with it safely

What does it mean to interact with a bot safely? I don't see how a chat bot could harm me in any way.
You can find specifics and the research at https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/12581744339796254... for more information. Let's continue the discussion here however.
I guess the bar for what qualifies as a startup has come down.
What the heck are you running? Ouch.
i don't think there will be much pressure from people wanting to leave. there are plenty of alternatives to go on holiday. how would that work anyways? people could complain or protest against local issues, but against a foreign country? which one? everyone wants to go somewhere different. rally up, pick a target and stage a demo infront of that country's embassy?

pressure is only going to come from inside from the tourism industry that is loosing out on income.
> I just hope we spare some time to consider what other uses could come from what we enable.

Not to make you feel like you overreacted at all, because this is a fantastic reply and I desperately wish I saw more awesome thinking like this around tech and ethics, but I read the OP as a shitpost, and was replying in kind.

The only reason I can give stark commentary like that is because I've done a lot of ethics work on this field (first hire at my startup with an ethicist who helped craft our project mission statement and philosophies), and yeah, it could get REALLY, REALLY bad in terms of labor, privacy, and many other contexts.

If you'd like my full perspective on how/why I build this stuff, I gave a lecture at CMU last year that goes over a lot of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43u-iFPfMI

Specifically on the affective state in technical development, I do think biometrics is interesting there, but absolutely not in a way that could be harnessed like I was joking about above (even though it would be because who are we even kidding these days). I did some work on this stuff around 8-9 years ago, a project I called the "Quantified Coder" (I was involved in the whole QuantifiedSelf thing for a while):

https://youtu.be/52Ml_zax4A0?t=768

Please note that this talk happened before the current ML craze of "your face can tell us if you're a bad human" shit. It sounds FAR different now than I did then. There's neuroscience researching doing really great work on affective state of developers these days (like Chris Parnin, who came up here a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23046429) that I think will be legit helpful.

Anyways, my reply was just riffing evilly on those ideas as a joke.

Apologies though, forgot I was in an setting where that reply DEFINITELY might not have come off as (extremely stark) humor.
Ask HN: Are there any privacy first alternatives to Google voice?
People care because some folks put their ethics above their wallets.
One thing I'm not seeing happening is surveys and epidemiology related to impact of various measures undertaken, to keep the ones most effective and lose the others that are superfluous.

This could be done by comparing measures taken in a big random sample of confirmed cases with big random sample of general population.
Actor-observer asymmetry. Briefly, it's the idea that when we observe others, we're more likely to attribute their behavior to the nature of their personality than to their circumstances or situation, and that we do the opposite when judging our own behavior.

Example: You drive your car faster than the speed limit. You're probably doing it because you feel like you have a reasonable need (you're late for something, etc), not because you just inherently like to be a jerk and drive too fast everywhere.

On the other hand, if you see someone else speeding, you're more likely to think they're doing it because they're just an unsafe asshole, and less likely to think they're doing it for a legitimate reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93observer_asymmet...
well said. in the end nothing lasts and yet impermanence is one of those things that always seem to catch us by surprise
A Japanese Newspaper’s Social Distancing Message
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman. One of THE greatest of human works. Look it up. :)

Wait.. not enough? How about Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, et al.? Some of the most influential writing in the last 300 years. Where have you been all your life?

And, if you haven't read "The Story of the Glittering Plain", by William Morris, regarded as the first modern fantasy novel, you should.

Oops! Almost forgot this gem: https://www.amazon.com/Phantastes-Lilith-novels-George-MacDo...

I used to have a first edition, but I lent it to someone, and it ended up being attacked, poetically of course, by mold, and was discarded before I could reclaim it.

Both of these stories are ABSOLUTELY freekin amazing !!! (written coincidentally just about the time my grandmother was born, in Nashville, TN.)

I grew up hearing G.M.'s childrens' stories, The Princess and the Goblin, et al., and didn't find his more serious works until just a few years ago. Brilliant stuff.
Amazon “reviewed and approved” a blank book
Yeah, I was merely responding to the naive "why are there arrows?" part of that. The true story is more complex and probably mostly unknown at this point.

That said, at this point, I'll take the arrows and my six feet, for starters. When I'm in a store, which I've done once in the last six weeks...
I'd like you to demonstrate how capitalism will solve warehouse workers' problems in this scenario.
The vast majority of indian immigrants in the us spend some years in higher education in the us where most of those British English/Indian English phrases are trained away. And, only the cream of the cream of the crop is really able to immigrate, especially with current immigration policies. So, when you're referring to incompetent coders that say "do the needful," the only way that makes sense is if you are referring to second rate outsourcing companies overseas. It wouldn't make very much sense to imply that the problems in Facebook's SDK arise because of a group of highly skilled immigrants and second generation american born desis with graduate training from top universities, would it?

Would it?
So what? They're an enormous engineering company with many millions of lines of code. Bugs are expected.
There's already a good solution to this: usbip is supported in all major Linux kernels and has drivers for Windows as well.

The source code of usbip was merged into the staging tree, and finally has been moved to the mainline since Linux-3.17. For Windows, the precompiled client-side program is available from the project page. You need a Linux machine (could be raspberry pi) for the server side.

Link: http://usbip.sourceforge.net/
For me, learning came when I was on an IBM RT/PC (pre RS-6000), in something like 90 or 91. I used IBM's editor from the console, but one time I had to edit something from a terminal back in the shop. Which didn't have full support for the IBM editor (Ined I think it was called), due to the way the keyboard was mapped. Something about left cursor was the same as backspace (ctrl-h).

Well, that did it -- I went back to my desk, and pulled up vi-tutor.txt, then never looked back.
“ a new chatbot that it claims is able to demonstrate empathy, knowledge and personality.”

I’m not sure Reddit is the right place to learn any of those things.
Indeed. It doesn't make much difference to me if the pop-up I'm clicking out of is talking about cookies or offering me hot redheads in my area.
Spotify is actually using Facebook for login, though, so they don't necessarily use App Ads. The original commenter only said that it's the reason most (but not all) apps use the SDK.
Desktop Browser Market share as of April 2020: Chrome: 67%, FF: 9%
Guess Joma was right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR4n-0KYeKQ
I've always wondered what happens if you take a bigco like Ubereats to small claims court over issues like this.
I work in R&D for a telecomms/optics company.

All servers are on premises. Not allowed to have a laptop. No access to emails/data outside of the office. No USB drives, printing documents, etc.

Reason? Protect IP. From who? Mostly Huawei.

Good and bad: When I walk out the door... I switch off. The bad is that working from home isn't realy an option. Although they have accommodated somewhat for this pandemic.
I hear suggestions like this occasionally, and I don't get it. Apparently sentences like "Did you like the movie?", which sound to me like perfectly neutral questions, actually have a slant.

Which way is this question leading me to answer? How can I tell? "Yes" and "No" seem equally acceptable answers here. I don't see how either one would "displease the asker", without knowing more about the situation.
But it's also much more than that - he's not just a guy, he's one of just a few guys that put in the effort to do their job well and honestly. And that positive daily effort had profound effects on the lives of people he cared about. (And conversely, those that did not put in that effort did not create profound and positive wakes).

And that idea can be paid forward. There are plenty of times one doesn't get to go back and thank their mentors and those that inspired them. But that practiced and daily support of others really can lead to outsized positive effects - that we might not ever hear about.

And if you step forward with the idea - the more people that work to support others in their daily routine, even without obvious immediate benefit, the more those wakes can become entire waves that lift everyone upwards.
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I am not sure whether there could be anything worse than the current situation of a free-for-all with customers' data.
To be fair, even Aaron Franklin's bad barbeque is some of the best BBQ you'll ever have.
For 0.0001% of the round amount, I suppose you could find out...
Mutated Coronaviruses Strains Are No Reason to Panic
Can you explain why this is fair? I might misunderstood your point.
> It's certainly no secret.

There is no easy way to tell whether an app shares data with third-parties without setting up an MITM proxy or a packet capture. As far as the majority of users are concerned it is a secret.
A half-hour a month seems like a lot of maintenance for a server.
Finance space, under 100 people. Most servers are either latency-sensitive or 24/7 fully-loaded HPC. Neither case fits the cloud model. We do use cloud for build/test, though.
The good news for Australia is that you are probably eliminating the virus and will be able to reopen everything soon, safely. The key point of the comment you are responding to --- "If hospitals are empty, it's time to stop sheltering in place, because it means it's working too well" does not apply to Australia, because it assumes a "flatten the curve until we reach herd immunity" strategy which is not Australia's strategy.

The real problem in the USA and most other Western countries is that there is no clear strategy to defeat the virus. The actions being taken are mostly consistent with "flatten the curve and wait for herd immunity", but that pretty much guarantees crippling economic damage and mass death.
> If you believe there's risk in passing someone, I think you also have to believe that there's risk in standing 6 feet behind them for a needlessly prolonged period of waiting.'

There is risk in both things. There's risk being in the same room, typing on the same keypad for payment, risk in being near people outdoors.

So we take calculated measures to reduce the risk. The advice is maintain six feet, but that's not some magic number between risk and no risk.

I don't feel assaulted if somebody passes by me either, but I'm not aiming to voluntarily increase my risk by intentionally causing myself to come close to other people if I can just hang back or go another way. I don't care what the majority of the behavior is, we all have to do what seems reasonable to us.

I'm lucky enough that I can almost completely avoid being in the store at all, or anywhere else that has groups of people, which I do since that's the lower risk approach.

My partner has a respiratory condition, we have elderly relatives that we bring food to, we have to try any practical steps we can do not pass on the disease to other people in our lives, who might have a very bad time or die if they get it.
I was a director around that age and didn't notice anyone questioning it. I do tend to look older than I am, so that may have helped. Maybe start using "A Touch of Grey" in your hair :D

In all seriousness, no business owner wakes up thinking they want to hire another expensive middle manager. Filling a director role means that a business decided to pay a significant salary for management of something important to the business. That means something on a resume, and is totally worth keeping there to showcase your skills.
That is definitely not the case for the ~10 relevant apps I have worked on.
Your admins need to known and maintain the systems anyway, no matter if they're in AWS or on premise. Sure, with AWS they might have a bit less work, but that would not necessarily reduce costs, a smallish company still need the same number of admins to cover the shifts and replacements so a switch to cloud would not allow to reduce any employees.
i don't think any country is concerned about people leaving, only people arriving.

the reason the border is open for residents is because you can't reasonably stop people from returning home.
> because we have lots of fancy redundant infrastructure that we can't rely on from cloud companies)

Haha. This can't possibly be true.
Sharing dissenting opinions is useful and by no stretch a waste of time.
According to Wikipedia it can increase efficiency by 25%. By the time this method becomes practical (if ever), that 25% might provide a competitive advantage. In fact, we should hope it would, as it would mean that other launch companies met or exceeded the efficiency of SpaceX.
I’m not sure I understand. If I were in their situation I won’t want that to be applied to me. What about you?
I am in the same position though I am not justifying this spying by any means. I have probably a handful of third-party apps and rely on built-ins as much as possible (Apple Maps, calendar, mail, etc) and use most third-party services through the browser with AdGuard to block spyware.
We moved all AWS servers to a colo. Saving 80% of the cost.
Thanks for that insight!

For me, it also stems from Buttplug being my playground to find some of this stuff out. This started as a way for me to work on research ideas both about sex tech, and about building and maintaining projects in a long term manner. For planning specificly, I went from "I can do it outside of bugs" to "Nope let's just use bugs" to "Nope that was a bad idea too let's go back to the original idea but store it next to the code". We'll see where that puts me.

Of course, now that this is trending HN, everyone gets to learn with me too. :D
Unions are run like a representative democracy. The comparison with protection rackets is asinine.

It sounds like you have zero experience with unions.
This is not about TypeScript per se but about providing a more standards-based alternative for the Node.js JavaScript eco-system for non-browser environments.
First thing they're launching is a laptop though?

And honestly, I'm a bit tired of the arbitrary computing distinctions between what gets to be a real computer and what doesn't.
If you already have a IT team which needs to handle 100+ Linux&Windows desktops systems, 40+ Laptops, WIFI network switches and firewall for all this as well as a few conference rooms and a few servers for local storage/backups(1) and similar. Then adding a small number servers isn't changing much in the workload for
the IT. ;=)

(1): Available even if internet is down.

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Also frequently doing most scientific computing tasks are _much_ cheaper on-premise (if you have space for it). Especially given that some have setups like multiple terabyte of RAM.
But that’s not their fault to blame?
I have one similar to this. I don't think it is an R900, but it's an older 1U rack mount. I forget if it's a 12 or 24 core xeon, but it was dirt cheap, came with 72 gigs of RAM, and sounds like a jet engine turning it on. I recently built a Ryzen box with 128 gigs of RAM and it's much quieter...
Hopefully they’ll eventually provide an S3 compatibility layer like everyone else.
> Of all the people who read that quote and nod along thinking, “yes this is me” how many are actually right?

Those who actually fight their way through their creative difficulties as the quote suggests, as opposed to those who read the quote and think "yup, no one recognizes my good taste, screw em".
I don't think you should be downvoted, because you speak truth. The comment/quote is factually wrong: not everyone who gets into creative work has "good taste", nor is Ira Glass correct that you just need to plow through it. Go peruse an end-of-senior-year art exhibit or dance recital at your local college. Bless 'em, they worked hard and gave it their best, but usually the raw creativity and talent isn't there.
You can implement Facebook login server-side with basic oAuth. No requests to Facebook are necessary until the user actually wants to log in with Facebook.
Hey I’d love to pick your brain about what it takes to do this kind of work coming from a web/systems engineering background. Shoot me an email at samheutmaker at gmail if you’re open to it.
> Is that "spyware"?

This seems like much less of a damning claim than openly supporting an ad network.
Yeah, that's very, very true. Spent way too much of my career not knowing that.

Once had a real bastard of a boss, back in the early days of the web. I put together a prototype web site, carefully describing it as such and as never even tested with multiple users. Without telling me, he put together a demonstration that involved 20 big-wigs hitting it at the same time. Without doubt he was hoping for a major failure. Was too dumb to see that coming.

Take it from me: One whiff that your boss doesn't care for you? GTFO--immediately.
Interesting. We're allowing death threats to stand on HN now.
Interesting. For me, it's involved a sharp decrease in stress, though that's overlapped with quitting my job and having a substantial financial cushion.
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look
through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in
books,

You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,

You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.

I've got chunks of ancient epics, medieval poems, some reniassance works, not much that's restoration or romantic or victorian, and a healthy dose of 20th century stuff. Mostly all in english -- it's my only real natural language.

I just tried to make a comprehensive list, but I don't think it's productive. Things surface as they're needed, I think.