skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, Fastmail rocks! Only problem is that people don't know what it is and and as I don't live in english-speaking country I often have to spell it out.

I should buy "fastmile.com" and use that as an email alias - would solve a lot of problems, lol.
> PHP has had a "shared nothing" architecture since the very beginning, that includes DB connections. It helps it to scale (think micro-services being stateless in a modern context): nothing is shared between requests, again including connections, by design.

A bit ironic that you compare it to microservices, because that exact property of PHP makes it massively unsuitable for microservices and scaling, because it requires another layer in between the microservice platform handling the scaling, and the actual application.

PHP has it's uses, but I wouldn't go beyond a classic monolith or "backend/frontend" style application with it, with very little, manual scaling. If you go beyond that, you could probably manage to do that with a proper architecture and doing wonky stuff, but would it be a good fit? Absolutely not.
"They're clearly going for a gradual changeover to the new UI"

this has been going on for about 8 years with no end in sight. I wouldn't call that gradual.
If you're creating the cash buffer as a way to stay afloat during hard times, that's a bad strategy, since the market for shares (including yours) will be weak precisely when you need the cash.
Here are some [0] and if your submission is not on there, pls consider PR'ing it. OP is right, we need more alternatives.

[0] https://github.com/ZYSzys/awesome-captcha
AWS EC2 m5d.2xlarge (8 vCPU / 32 GB / 300GB nVME SSD) for a 3 year term is $4,466.

That's enough for 3 HP ML10s equivalently configured plus the power to run them for their entire lifetime, which is well over 3 years.

You are paying out the nose for the fancy-pants deployment and administrative features that the cloud gives you, and for a lot of use cases, that isn't needed.
I thought for a while that the most likely situation was that these two guys in particular were caught up in something else. A "wrong place, wrong time" thing. Maybe they were down there on an ill-advised vacation, or maybe they were hired to train some private security force. I would have even bought that they were hired to train a group that intended to stage a coup, whether they knew it or not.

... but then I find that the CEO of Silvercorp has claimed them, and has been tweeting about it.

I can't think of a single reasonable circumstance that fits all the facts we know about this. As crazy as it all looks, I can't come up with a theory that seems more likely than "the Venezuelan government is telling the truth".
Good. Now stop clarifying and start enforcing. Pick a few large players and make examples of them. Just demonstrate how this law can actually be applied to actual cookie wall cases.

So long as any company thinks "I'll just use this dark pattern until we get complaints, everyone else is doing that and I don't want to lose ad income for no reason" the law is broken. The example has to be so clear that it is percieved as better to have the company die from lack of ad-revenue, than to put up a cookie wall.

Companies should think "Ok we'll just have a discrete and compliant opt-in and hope that people will actually use it, and if this kills our business that's still better than the horror story that happened to FooCorp when they tried to pull that cookie wall stunt."
I was on a mainstream site yesterday (can't recall now which) it had a cookie dialog with no options checked, and a "accept and go to site" button, so I assumed it meant "accept the above settings". Nope, it fills in all the unchecked options, then "accepts" those settings and goes to the site. It was so incredibly devious I was almost impressed as I immediately closed the tab.
"And it's hard to take Microsoft UI frameworks seriously when they hardly use them outside of the core Windows apps. VS Code, Teams, even the VS installer are all Electron apps.
"

that's the problem. How can you have faith in their frameworks if they don't use them themselves?
navigational elements like menus or app bars are often fixed to the top. If you plan to actually navigate to different pages on the website, you've removed your ability to do that.

It's also possible that the creator of the site did some weird stuff and the entire body has fixed positioning for some weird reason. You can't predict how people will use innocuous CSS rules, and randomly deleting elements just because they have a certain style is easy but wildly imprecise. Seems better to just set everything with position: fixed to be position: static and unset any overflow rules.
There is the z/PDT, which is an emulator that runs on your PC. It comes with a software pack that includes z/OS, z/VM, and few other things. It runs $900 a year, not sure if there is an initial cost.

http://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/adcd/adcd.shtml

However 900 a year is still out of reach for most individuals. They should make it free.
"The people of that time thought a lot about the discomforts and idiocies of plane travel."

sounds legit.
Any text longer than 3 lines must go through multiple edits. This rule must be applied to all forms of textual communication including slack or teams chat.

PS: I would be thankful if you can make my post succinct without any loss in the information.
Dropbox cancelled its internship program, so not sure if they're doing "fine"
The TechCrunch website is really bad.

Opening the link causes the back button to break. I need to double tap it before the redirect kicks in (hint: don’t push this to HTML5 history, please).

Once you scroll down to the end of the article, it closes the article back to the list view and does a bunch of awkward scrolls just to leave me at the bottom of their list.

iOS Safari
It all comes from walking back the changes in Windows 8 without acting like they made a mistake. Nobody was prepared for Metro UI and it was widely disliked by users. But going directly back to Aero would make them lose face.
UTM: Virtual Machines for iOS
They did? I haven't noticed a change in many years or using it. If anything it's gotten better with the availability of extra functionality through cookie autodelete and built in container tabs.
> What benefit do you get out of going to a cloud provider instead of a cheap VPS solution or a colo if you’re not using any of their managed services?

It's impossible to use a cloud provider without using any of their managed services; if you are using EC2 or a similar IaaS as if it were just a basic VPS, you'd probably be better off (cost for the use) with a basic VPS, but you'd also probably be better off with Amazon LightSail, which more closely approximates a basic VPS service.
I'll look into doing that with uBlock/Privacy Badger, thanks!
Is it me, or does this landing page for a UI platform contain very few examples of what that UI looks like and how you might use it?
We were always doing things by hand. I was the only one doing any kind of IT automation, and I failed to account for the learning curve of my tooling when trying to expand its use. At least now, the entire team—not just me—is doing a better job of documenting what they're doing by hand.

The reality is that devops toolchains are really complex. For example, to use SaltStack the way I had things set up, it meant learning:

- SaltStack's domain-specific programming language, which amounts to writing Python in YAML

- their macro preprocessor, Jinja, which has completely different syntax and semantics than their DSL

- a programming text editor that supports YAML and Jinja

- Git and GitHub

- secrets management (and there were huge risks here)

- the general concepts of IT automation and infrastructure-as-code

Learning (never mind teaching) that tech stack is really hard. For example, the Google IT Automation with Python certification on Coursera is an 8-month-long course. That's just one bullet point on the above list, and that list doesn't include all the things I wanted to do on top of SaltStack, namely the continuous integration/continuous testing stuff, which would involve learning:

- the Chef InSpec DSL, which is based on Ruby

- branching and tagging

- release engineering

- test-driven development as a software engineering methodology

- software engineering methodology in general

We were struggling with even just writing good documentation, but there I was asking everyone to write good code. That's orders of magnitude harder. It was too much, like asking somebody to run a marathon without any training. I don't care how fit you are. That's just not going to happen.
Airbnb is the only unicorn in that list. Lyft and Uber are publicly traded corporations now.
No - just the ones that focused on physical services. e.g. Notion (valued $2b) just raised an addl $50m and no major news on layoffs
No, not all Unicorns are taking this kind of hit. Most obviously, Zoom was a unicorn before this started and...they are doing fine. I'd expect a fair number of enterprise or B2B unicorns to be okay but consumer-facing ones to be more likely to be hurting. Atlassian just had their earnings call and beat targets, for instance.
I asked about the child's motivation, not his ethnicity.
I disagree.

As I've outline elsewhere in these comments, there are tons of things that make absolutely zero sense about this.
I used to experiment with a Hercules MVS (my first real computer job was sysop at an institutional datacenter with an MVS) on my eeepc on my second tour in Iraq. Doing convoy security, of course we never had any network connection of any kind (it being the middle of the desert and also having active RF-jammers on our guntrucks), and there was always a long wait for the MWR computers at whatever base we'd stopped at for the night, so we were left with only whatever data we could pack before each mission. I spent hours and hours hacking on that thing. It was a pretty absurd situation, but I had a lot of fun.
That may have more to do with the difficulties of hosting remote internships though.
This is actually a really fun read. I agree that the standard assumptions about aliens are vastly negatively biased to the point of absurdity. Though reading this does highlight how an alternative approach may come across way too speculative for academia.
Sure, but large portions of the internet do it this way. They'd just stop serving EU users if it comes down to it.
Have you met my friend Ubunto 20.04?
Previous reCAPTCHA discussion, with some alternatives https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158386
The consent should really have been implemented at the browser level. That would keep all sites honest.
I did the video, and I was lazy: you can type Ctrl+arrow (as indicated in the tooltip) to insert more placeholders, no need to use the mouse. and then references are inserted with \A, etc.. Anyway you can define VIM modal keybindings ;) http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/a-very-tiny-vim-in-texmacs/176/7
But there is no inherent reason the business itself is the locus of responsibility to the worker (other than obvious things like worker safety on the job.)

Why not, for instance, make the loss of a job be covered by saved union funds that are generated by the union as a whole? The only reason the business is tagged as the responsible party in Europe is historical cruft.
gimp is a lot less polished than inkscape, that's what surprised me about inkscape low profile
Sounds good! What has been your experience with protonmail?
I have been looking into NixOS also, but not for phone - are there any ongoing projects?
Org-mode is also something I maybe one day learn to use especially if I make the jump into emacs!
Vaporwave, despite using a lot of 80s samples, is generally more associated with the 90s. Vaporwave is all about the simultaneous apex and decline of mall culture, consumer excess in optimism of the post-Cold War, and early WWW aesthetic.

70s/80s would be Cassette Futurism and Sythwave.
Is that because of financial straits, or because they didn't think they could support an impactful and valuable internship program remotely? I could certainly understand the latter...
For those of you who read "The Prince" and are looking for a little more context, I recommend Machiavelli's "The discourses".

It's been a while since I read it, but I found it to be an interesting romp through roman history through the lense of Machiavelli's sometimes cold, sometimes compassionate analysis.
Isnt vue.js a MVVM library with 2-way data binding? It works well. As far as I know, Aurelia is also a modern mvvm library.
Well, would you rather the site just not exist then? Because I'm pretty sure that most of these sites already aren't making much money. If you make it much much much harder for them to get money then they won't survive.
I expect it to be the leader 3D software in a few years. Blender is in the right path. Next version will add some of the tools that made Sketchup popular. Their bet in Python was also fortunate and they are starting to cash in.
What is Copy on Write and where is it used?
Not to worry, I had a paid subscription and they still tried to track me constantly with 3rd party cookies on top of being able to track me from being logged in (and paying over a hundred dollars a year for the privilege).

Just use NPR and donate the amount you'd willingly pay for the paper to your local station.
Does this signal the start of something like a recession in tech?
> there is a small but noticeably distance when I first start dragging a finger before the cursor moves

This might be https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/34... or https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/28.... The latter is easy to fix by commenting out hysteresis activation if you know your hardware doesn't need hysteresis. A proper fix would be to improve the wobble detection but neither me nor Peter apparently have time to work on that. :-/
Good chance that your other VM software can't co-exist anyway. Many other technologies, Windows Defender among others, leverage virtualization through Hyper-V.
Demand for plant-based meat soars amid coronavirus
How do you properly start your first Node.js server in production
Who's "we"? Uber?
EitherMouse – Multiple mice, individual settings
Cookies consent should be build in to browsers, just like all other permissions – auto play, camera, etc.
This would save a lot of money and annoyance.
I'd guess stabbing with a polearm.
Logins are a common enough use case that browsers should simply support it directly, and drop support for cookies entirely.

There's no reason we can't have sites set an auth token, and send that in under the Authorization header. And then when you want to sign out of a website, you can have a button for that in the browser. The tooling already exists in the HTTP standard, it's just that it's only widely used for server-server communication.
This should've been what was done from the get go. Browsers have given us control over cookies for a very long time now. But hey, it's the EU, there's a reason the EU has a lack of tech companies. I'm sure that when they finally do what you suggest they'll screw it up somehow as well.
They haven’t.
There's a limited number of web apps that I use. That changes rarely and they can be whitelisted. E.g. I can assign some privileges to Google Docs or something like that, but it's perfectly reasonable to treat all random web links to new sites as "not-a-web-app".
I assume it's going to ignore the system-wide autocorrect settings, and lack any option to disable spellcheck, which is one more reason to use the web version. With Teams I just rename "node-spellchkr.OFF" each time it updates.
'overflow: hidden' is often used to make the content of a page unscrollable on less technically adept news sites where the content is still present on the page.
Yet to find the first company in London which really offers a guaranteed bonus ️
OK, so you've air-gapped that PC. Now, about the data-leaking power supply unit
Yeah, same things with non-unicorn tech, market downturns are traditionally bad for some sectors, but you spend money on automation, reduction in staffing costs to get the same thing done, and reducing waste - software can help you with that.
Maybe NJ government should hire this guy
Not even them. Amazon and Grubhub sell "physical services" and seem to be doing great.

I don't know that this is so mysterious at all: Uber and Airbnb sold transportation and travel, which are two segments disproportionately affected by the pandemic.

It has nothing to do with their "Unicorn" status at all. Uber is suffering for the same reason taxi cabs are. Hotels are getting pinched along with Airbnb. But taxis and hotels suffer in traditional ways, whereas startups show up on HN. But there's no "startupness" to this analysis at all.
Thanks for giving it a name, I love this stuff. Old visions of the future are amazing. I love the German film "Richtung 2000" (towards 2000) from 1972 [0] (should be understandable auto-translated). It's great to get a sense of the situation at the time (oil crisis, the aero train just having been announced) and evaluate what of it has actually happened.

They were right (albeit about 15 years off) about many major things: Home automation, shopping and talking over the internet, a lot of work being automated away, the psychological issues these innovations cause ...

Sadly they were also wrong about many of the great things that should've happened by now. Space exploration has barely progressed (damn, I'm glad SpaceX exists!) and we still don't care nearly enough about our environment/quality of life to have electric vehicles and good local transit.

It's weird to see that so many of the things going on today were so predictable. It paints a concering picture of our future.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4U2zW4IPDY
For several years, I too have used just Linux + Steam for gaming. But lately I have some misgivings.

Recently I've noticed that some games running under Proton don't reliably save: "X-Com 2" and "Strike Suit Zero". And I can't rule out that happening with other games running under Proton.

The frustration of lost saves makes gaming less enjoyable for me. So now I'm considering running Windows 10 in a guest VM.

(I'm not interested in Win10 + WSL, because I'm not open to Win10's unavoidable-updates and forced-telemetry.)
Still disappointed they got rid of the Classic view setting in win8.
Buddy, I'm pointing to an existing article. It's not my job to explain the whole contents of it in my pointer to it; I was just giving a quick summary of the piece. But just to indulge your apparent inability to get what I meant: When I said GM, I meant GM, not the joint Toyota/GM venture. And I didn't say managers, I said management, meaning the the whole of the GM managerial structure.

I disagree with you that this (or anything) proves "both sides need severe restructuring". It's not like GM's managerial apparatus had a spiritual breakthrough, made deep internal changes, and then worked hard to change the worker-labor hostility that they had spent decades building up. I do agree that starting with a closed plant and bringing back workers made this easier for Toyota to sort things out, but there's no reason to think it would have been an impossible task if they'd started before the plant closed.

As the TAL piece explains, GM never really tried. They ultimately preferred their poisoned relationships and lower effectiveness, just like they had for the decades that Toyota kicked their asses. Toyota's higher per-worker productivity and greater quality goes back to at least the 1960s (per Rother's Toyota Kata), and this became a keen problem for the big 3 starting in the 1970s. GM's managerialist culture means that the managers had all the power to fix this. They never have, even though they were on the road to bankruptcy.

You can't take a system like managerialism, or any system whose purpose is the creation of a power imbalance, and then blame "both sides" its failures. With power comes responsibility.
Their cookie wall is definitely not GDPR compliant, I am not sure why this is not reported yet.
Regional media is dropping Trump's name in particular.

For example: https://twitter.com/telesurenglish/status/125749192310910976...

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@NicolasMaduro
: Among the terrorist captured today they were 2 U.S. military officials from Texas. According to a member of the band they are "intermediaries with Trump's head of security". Their names are Luke Denman and Aaron Barry, members of the company Silver Corp.
Society, I imagine
> I find it somewhat ironic that IBM is struggling so hard to find cheap COBOL programmers to keep mainframe alive

Fixed that for you. There are lots and lots of former Cobol developers that have been laid off over the past 20 years due to offshoring. There is no shortage.
Planning for an American bankruptcy epidemic
Honestly, this looks terrible. Even though Windows hardware has gotten much better over the years, and Windows 10 is a much nicer OS, you can tell that the developers in their UI frameworks don't sweat the small details.

All of the screenshots are lowish resolution. In the second screenshot, the spacing on the icons is funny (more bottom margin than top). Blue on dark gray is hard to read, even for someone with young eyes like me (I cannot imagine my parents enjoying looking at that). In the first screenshot, the code isn't syntax highlighted (I also think the font is not monospace, which is just appalling).
That's because "bringing value to the business" is confused with "increasing quarterly profits."

The problem is poor valuation. All of the above can be process lubrication. The actual value comes from the process that goes on top of them. But if they're not in place, process implementation is going to have a lot of unnecessary friction, which reduces the eventual value of the core business process.

Some businesses get this, others don't.

For those that don't, it helps to explain the effects with real financial metrics. If your product is six months late and customers hate it because it's full of bugs, your process has failed to "bring value."