skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look at the amount of vitriol Caddy got when it originally announced telemetry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16958674

It's not a stretch to say that other projects didn't get as much hate for it. It really hurt the project's momentum when there was such a strong reaction against it.
> IP addresses and User-Agent headers

I expect the NYT will just find thousands of comments written with IE6 from AWS IP addresses.
Wasnt there a story about a graybeard who, upon being turned into a gamafied LOC programmer, ended up changing 2 lines and removing 2000?

He put -1998 lines on his daily email?

And I think that hits to the core of Goodhart's law:

""When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.""
I think 80% for heard immunity is a pretty high count.

IFR is a guess and yours could be right. It is lower than NYC but the developing world is much younger than the west so they might have a much lower IFR unless their lack of available health care hurts them too much.

Hopefully IFR will drop as well as we learn to protect the elderly better.
I fully understand both the cases for and against having net neutrality rules. However, I cannot for the life of me understand why a bunch of comments on a website has somehow become the battleground where this is being fought. What is going on here? As far as I can tell, the comments have about as much sway on public policy as the average youtube comment – none whatsoever.
It sounded like the price would be different if you used a certain network provider, which is not-net-neutral.
> They want all the benefits plus a healthy refund.

Is the benefit the college credit (which you seem to imply), or the education? Because they're not getting the same education. Your argument seems to be "well they'll still get credit, so what's the problem?".
And the string "2-3" is not the same as "-1"; that doesn't make `sum ::= term '-' sum` correct.
Glad to see smaller publications putting out good journalism and being recognized.

High quality reporting is, still, one of the most effective ways to speak truth to power. Unfortunately the internet has decimated smaller journals and local papers, so local issues might never get reported on. I wish that trend would reverse, but I have no idea how one would do that.
This is useful.. to someone. They are just collecting a lot of passport information.
I Decided to Run a Tor Relay
Not every "pro" needs huge amount of ram. I'm living fine with 8GB as a web developer. Though thinking to go 16GB on the next machine, just because.
The touchbar is for sure a gimmick, but I found some use for it in PyCharm. There’s a lot of commands you can run from the menubar in pycharm so its kinda useful to skip a complicated hotkey and just add it to the touchbar. Maybe in video editing programs theres some use?
Well, for starters, you hear from a lot of women who feel like their safety may be at risk because of behaviour of certain individuals they work with...
It's a universal basic income. It requires a passport.

Those two assertions are contradictory. Not everyone has a passport, a lot of people (especially lower-income, which UBIs tend to be pitched as being the most beneficial for) don't own passports.

I suppose it's more a proof of concept than an actual serious attempt at creating a cryptocurrency.
Multiple Trailing Closures in Swift
The Lunar Starship is pretty weird. If Orion is late, yes it can probably land people on the moon from the Earth's surface. But it can't come back without its heatshield. If you need it to come back with people as well, then it's no longer the Lunar Starship, but just regular Starship. Even if SLS slips, that's still probably quite a shift for all involved, unless SpaceX is already doing Apollo 8 style missions in 2 years.

The answer might actually be "Delta Heavy". Orion can launch on Delta Heavy, so if Lunar Starship can get people back to LEO, they can land using Orion. But then, why not just use Starliner or Crew Dragon to get people to/from LEO, then use Lunar Starhip LEO-Moon-LEO?
the cool part is, eventhough it needs refueling in orbit it is still cheaper by an order of magnitude than all the other options... some guy on youtube calculated an upper estimate of the cost to about 2000$ per KG - if i remember correctly.
That's a big reason why we have an annual D conference. The D community is distributed world-wide, and it's a huge benefit to simply have a beer with people you'd otherwise only know by their online handle. It's amazing how disagreements just vanish.
go watch some tv.

get properly angry at the amount of bullshit and disinformation that thing spews out regardless of stated or implied affiliation.

compare with herds of people who don't trust science but can't stop themselves from telling everyone about their favorite kind of youtube shaman.

realize some people have it worse. nothing to be happy about except that it could be worse for you and it isn't.

figure out a way to fix democracy and reconcile free speech with the internet. or help humanity go to mars or fix climate catastrophe.

wield data and algorithms against forces of evil. with luck you won't think of yourself as a cog.

or take up gardening. freshly picked strawberries are my favorite.
I read somewhere that they are not important and that is good enough source for me. It could have been written on a post-it for me to support an eradication campaign.

I hate ticks.
> Aerospace doesn't run Linux on anything I've ever even heard of, that would be foolhardy to the extreme.

It will shock you to learn that most stuff out there now works on Linux and soft RT Linux. For hard RT where Linux does not fit the bill, specialized operating systems are used.

> Android is barely Linux

It is actually 100% Linux.

> the rest aren't desktop operating systems at all

Luckily not everyone working on about half a dozen of them thinks like you!

> You call Linux the "third" desktop operating system by default because its desktop share isn't exactly zero.

1% is "near zero"? So millions and millions of desktops are "zero"?

We should be telling Canonical, Valve, Microsoft and hundreds of other companies that depend on "desktop" Linux to work!

> And yes, I'm in the US. I'm not sure that really matters that much.

As I explained, the market share in the US is wildly different than in the rest of the world.

> You don't use a Mac, so your worldview is that they aren't a thing.

Hah. I have used Apple systems and Xcode for many years. I own (have owned, my last was right before the Touch Bar debacle) several Macs in my life. That is why I know a decade ago they were on top of their game and now the ecosystem sucks for devs.

In another thread I said I think the culture of the Mac died with Jobs and the company switched to the profitable part too much (the iPhones and such).

> Until Linux has MS Office running natively on it, it will never have a desktop market.

Desktop market != Office market. Of course Linux has almost no market on typical companies with employees doing Word and Excel 8-5.

> And Xcode is a perfectly usable C & C++ IDE. Why wouldn't you use it for firmware?

Because everything else is just plainly better, or open source, or free, or cross-platform, or...

Yes, Xcode is perfectly usable for C++. SublimeText + plugins is perfectly usable, too. I can also do my job pretty well with gedit or vim or emacs. And if needed I can do it with bloody Notepad too. That does not mean I choose them nor that they are the best.
I was just about to pull out my rsync.net pitchfork before I saw the username. You should throwaway next time so as to not deprive me of the pleasure.
An attacker with physical access could install an LTE-controlled power outlet and then remotely turn it on and use it to mine cryptocurrency whenever you aren't around, stealing your electricity. Ok, maybe that's a stretch...
> You know nothing of whether the hedge worked, because you don’t know what it’s long term cost is outside some cherry picked return claims.

If you've studied the issue, as I have, you'd see that the claims being made, make sense. There isn't reason to question them unless you have some specific evidence to present (which would probably require you to be a client of the fund).

You seem to have an unusual perspective. You are super bullish about the market, to the point that you think this kind of event only happens every few decades and you think long-term investors are guaranteed to make money. Yet you are so anti-hedging that you compare it to a lottery and totally denigrate/downplay it. I don't know where that perspective comes from.
I guess this is kind of interesting but what's the value in holding the coins? I do all of this to hold monopoly money?
At Oracle everything uses Oracle DBs. Their bug DB is a thin layer on top of an Oracle DB. Their email server too. Everything that can be a thin layer on top of Oracle... is.
There's also a IQ != skill.

But I believe your specific example here fits the "depends purely on a skill that can be developed, as opposed to natural talent/advantage that few people have".
> Except for Pluto.

You mean Mercury.

> The math for Pluto's orbit didn't add up until special relativity came along and frame dragging could be taken into account[0].

You mean general relativity.

> the more we learn, the less likely it becomes that everything we know is entirely wrong

Exactly.
Please consider an Asia/Pacific data center. I am from India and my company was not able to use B2 due to high response times even from European DC. Even a DC in Singapore will be helpful for us.

- Thankful Personal Backup Customer
I am in the same boat. 6 months ago, I quit my job because the management and engineering team I worked with were extremely difficult to work with. I had poured my heart out in the company. Grew the team from 1 to 6 developers. Worked extreme long hours because I enjoyed building the product.
I knew I didn't want to code after that. I enrolled in an online business management program. Joined a two people company as an intern two weeks ago. I am finally getting excited about building something new from scratch and I am learning quite a lot at the same time.
Take a break and spend time doing the things you love. You are extremely smart and aware about the problems you face. Learn that thing you always wanted to learn. You might get disinterested and may want to quit it but it's very important to keep at it.
If you join a team, I would advise you to join a small team with less or no politics.
I swear I couldn't find that page... been looking for half an hour.
The Making of the Tech Worker Movement
I think the parent was a bit tongue-in-cheek. It's in reference to the keyboard layout vi was developed with and the fact many vi users are obsessed with keeping their fingers on/near the home row (much like, "a /real/ vi user doesn't use the mouse"). Ctrl-[ is an equivalent to ESC on American English keyboards.

https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/21/the-here-is-key

https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Avoid_the_escape_key#Avoiding_th...
I get what you mean. It's hard to let go of these realities we see. I see it all the time in my corp. And I am convinced, too, that it's hard to do fun/interesting things in technology. It honestly baffles me at times, how we just throw away our time so recklessly, so soullessly. We spend years and years in some place, and eventually all that we used to have dissolves. No more friendships, community, family, everything is just ulterior motives.

Instead of seeing what did happen, let's look at what may happen again. Maybe you find it hard to start coding again for you enjoy the collaboration part the most, and yet you imagine most people willing to rip your spine out for some money instead of making something cool for this time we have left.

Maybe it's fear of embracing the unknown. The reason people are in the golden handcuffs is because they always want to hold onto tomorrow - a tomorrow that may never come. And it's easy to forget we all disappear from this place someday. Money helps forget that. But the unknown is where the excitement is.

Either way, I think instead of ignoring those 'cants' one may want to instead avoid them at all costs. I can see why they seem like a reality, and because it often does become a reality. People are so vile, greedy, self-centered - even ourselves at times. The best way out is to forget all the incidentals of making a company. Maybe you can try doing bootstrapped stuff, so VCs don't exploit you.

I believe the spark can only alight through forgetting all of the larger goals. If you push yourself away from the premise of making money - maybe doing open source software - then you can avoid these people that prop up this disillusionment.

The cynicism you'll have to struggle with is finding the people worth the time. I have the same trouble. It's extremely hard. Only through a willing heart can you find those people that don't just want your money. We're going to be alone a lot, so it's about finding what makes you fine with the silence.

And most importantly, a long, long break from everything will help you find your flow again. Most of your day is sunk into another job, and it's hard to make sense of anything when most of your time is spent elsewhere.

These are just my conclusions. And to not appear like I'm all talk, I am in the same situation. I haven't even opened my work laptop today. I just don't care anymore. I'm looking forward to being fired.
I recently got an 11" ipad pro with the new keyboard/touchpad. After using it for some time, I don't think I'll have a need for a personal mpb anymore. I have a tower with windows/linux and a 1080ti for heavy lifting when needed. There's just a freeing feeling to getting a device with a small form factor that can be just a screen if needed.
The 'prisoner coin flipping' puzzle: tidy simulation in R
If you are using Cloudflare you could use a Worker script to automatically retry the origin pull and only cache it on success.
> I'd say that's reasonable if and only if the university saved money as a result. Not only did they not save money, it cost them more money to shift formats.

That would be part of the reason universities are getting money from the government through this, as compensation for their efforts, and for taking care of students. For all that has cost the school, they've also got a lot less costs (residential utilities, food, campus entertainment).

And business continuity would behoove them to have had _some_ contingency in place. Alas, my partner, who works in university administration, has seen just how little many universities have had, if any, for having to shift to remote learning, partially or completely.
The NFC chips have static processing capability and do not scale with difficulty like a bitcoin server farm.

How does increasing the mining difficulty affect the time it takes to scan a passport in line at the airport? It seems counter-intuitive to make passport processing take longer for higher-frequency travelers.
I've long wondered about this as well. I think asking questions would be an important part of any self-editing process.
But they don't need to distract the population from the coronavirus crisis.
I've a feeling that Oracle succeeded by accident. They won the race to win mindshare without understanding that that's what they were doing, and have since rested on their laurels and high pressure salesmanship. You see their lack of attention to mindshare in... everything they do.
You need to think about the motivations behind all of the parties you’re interacting with. Why did those investors give you money? Because they, and possible their LPs (their bosses effectively) wanted to make more money with their money. That’s it. That’s their whole job. Had you known this, you wouldn’t have been surprised when they acted how they did in order to return any capital possible once it was clear they were not making a return.
We adopt then abandon online safety practices – University of Michigan News
This is basically a repackaged "no true Scotsman" fallacy. We're talking about a laptop here. Most people that bought a laptop are using it because they need something portable and self-contained. On top of that, the Touch Bar isn't meant for "essential" functionality just like the F-keys were never meant for essential functionality. They were meant to be shortcuts for commonly used functions.

I use an external keyboard with the Touch Bar all the time. Pretending like you have to use one or the other is disingenuous.
Because that's the old documentation, from early betas of Caddy v2.

The official documentation at https://caddyserver.com/docs/ is up to date, and not deprecated.
More like their past press release; here's some text from their newish 16" MacBook Pro page (https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/):

The 16-inch MacBook Pro takes workflow efficiency to a new level. The new Magic Keyboard features a refined scissor mechanism with 1 mm travel for a responsive, comfortable, and quiet typing experience. The Touch Bar puts powerful shortcuts front and center, and Touch ID provides fast authentication. A dedicated Escape key allows quick switching between modes and views. And the inverted-T arrow keys enable fluid navigation whether you’re flying through lines of code, navigating spreadsheets, or gaming.
is food free for a month at walmarts expense, or nobody can buy food for a month?
There is nothing wrong with allowing employees to protest (voice their opinions). This would be like protesting that you want to bring a gun to work - not bringing your gun to work. Amazon is not allowing the conversation to even happen - and even then, there is no collective bargaining power given to these employees. They have no way to ensure that their voices are heard.

The only downside to this approach can be that democracy has its faults and a simple majority-rules approach can prove problematic (see elections going wonky these past few years while ignoring all the shady stuff going on). Its worth it.
Developer Velocity: How software excellence fuels business performance
Yes I think the mods should rename this to something more general like “List of kubernetes resources.” The awesome-* lists are not “curated” but rather a dumping ground of links one or two edges away from the core theme.

Curation in the context of Kubernetes is even more laughable because the community is a dumping ground of projects all trying to solve the same problems in slightly different ways. The CNCF Landscape is probably my favorite example of this. I don’t think they’ve ever seen a project they didn’t like.
Very valid points. But your example of bringing guns to the workplace is just the worst. Thst benefits no one, and maybe satisfies a few. There's literally no one that would straight out reject better work conditions.
You might be thinking of https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
The idea that physical labor being unskilled work has been perpetuated for thousands of years in class based systems despite the fact that any kind of work can involve both physical and intellectual skill. If you've ever worked in a warehouse, you would know that there are plenty of skills to learn and refine.
What social media can reveal about a community’s well-being
Seems to be this one:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/supreme-court-ru...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/13-433_5h26.pdf
I don't think it's really that the comments matter all that much, the judge explains it pretty well I thought:

"Here, disclosing the originating IP addresses and user-agent headers would help clarify whether and to what extent fraudulent activity interfered with the comment process for the FCC's [net neutrality repeal], and more generally, the extent to which administrative rulemaking may be vulnerable to corruption. This serves a vital public interest because of the importance of public comments in agency rulemaking," Schofield wrote.
Maybe it would increase warehouse costs and thus increase automation. That’s good.
Robots with 3D-printed muscles are powered by the spines of rats
The comments are the proof that the Ajit Pai and the FCC went into the process already planning to axe net neutrality and ignored the real comments put forth by net neutrality supporters in favor of fake comments put forth by net neutrality detractors that arguably constitute identity theft. [1]

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/dead-people-amon...
Ad blocking with Raspberry Pi and Pi-hole
It's the second link in the top-left of the docs sidebar! I'm surprised you found that difficult to find.
> Cool, so why not set the limit to the heat-death of the universe and be done with it?

Presumably SCOTUS would say that an effectively-infinite timeline is not "limited" within the Constitutional definition of the word. Eldred v. Ashcroft basically tried to argue that continual decades-long extensions amounted to this, but the Court was not convinced.
Pop!_OS looks interesting. Thanks for the recommendation. I’ve been using Linux since switching from MacOS and have been finding the additional setup and configuration an extra hassle I don’t want. Although not enough of a hassle to drop $1,500+ on a new machine. I might have to give this a spin.
Are you guys apprehensive at all that supporting S3 might bring in more lower margin customers (ie higher transfer GB/store GB ratio)?

In any case, thanks for B2 (happy customer) and good luck. Sounds like an exciting time.
Maybe I'm not a "power user," but I'm using the Finder for graphical file management roughly every day and it's just not a super big issue for me.

These "Macs aren't for power users" threads always kind of fascinate me, because it's so clear how differently people define "power user," and at times it feels like a lot of people define it as "this system has defaults that I don't like" or, even more often around here, "If I ever feel like I have to touch my mouse the system is crap." Whereas for me, I want a launcher/workflow runner like Alfred, which very often is my "command line" for a lot of functionality. I can assign a keyboard shortcut to anything in any menu in any application at the system level. I can wrap Unix scripts in Automator actions and put them in the Service context menu, so I can highlight text in any application and run it through a filter with a single click. I drag the proxy document icon in the title bar of windows to perform actions on that file all the time. To me, these are totally "power user" things, while I've never once thought "man, if only I had a mouse-free tiling 'window' manager that just split the screen in multiple sections with no overlapping windows I would be so much more productive."

Also, I'm typing this on a 2020 Macbook Air and it has a terrific keyboard. With the release of this 13" MacBook Pro, AFAIK this eliminates the butterfly keyswitch from their lineup.
Is technology the reason to wake in the morning, or is it curiosity that drives you?

Technology is a great place to find something new and interesting. And hey, there's lots of money to be made, and hopefully you've done well already. But curiosity can be for anything. Step away from technology. Find people doing things you don't understand, but look interesting. Try planting something. Read about history, archeology, psychology, philosophy. Visit museums. Technology and your relationship with it is like staying too long with someone you were in love with. Only over time can you rekindle the friendship, but for now your post is screaming out that you need space.
Most people who get in don't indeed finish college.

"The official four-year graduation rate for students attending public colleges and universities is 33.3%. The six-year rate is 57.6%."

Most MOOCs have poor retention because there's no commitment. There's no reason to continue to apply oneself.

I've had a great deal of success with Coursera and a small in-person study group to keep us committed.

I spent 4 hours yesterday on Kahn Academy remembering my calculus so I could help my daughter.

MOOCs are invaluable resources, but those alone are insufficient. Support and study groups are an important adjunct.

*: https://www.cappex.com/articles/blog/government-publishes-gr...