skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oof, you’re going to have a hard time using pretty much any technology then. Especially if the EARN IT act passes.
Any written set of laws or system rules are incompatible with morality. Morality cannot be formally described - there will always be ways to be true to the letter of the rules and still act immorally.
The problem is not directly with the wires, its the addition of the quasi-DC induced currents in an AC transformer. Even the addition of a small DC current can lead to unwanted harmonics or in extreme cases spot heating (this is what you think of when people say 'knocking out a transformer').

If you want a very in-depth review:
https://doi.org/10.1002/2016SW001501
Unions are primarily useful for workers who don't have the ability to negotiate their salary before accepting a job. By banding together, they're able to negotiate wages that more closely align with the value of their work. Knowledge workers are expected to do this for themselves on an individual basis as they're not really interchangeable.

I do wish people pushed for more democratic decision-making in their places of work, though. I've read that in Google's early days people were mainly promoted by peer-evaluations, and there was a mechanism to remove a manager from power if they lost the confidence of most of their subordinates.
> you will see that Apple does keep track of at least some of your location history

That's not Apple keeping the data, that's your phone keeping the data. And that data isn't accessible to Apple - only you and your device.

From page 6 of https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/Location_Services_White_P...

"This data is not shared with third parties, is fully encrypted, and can’t be read by Apple."
Does this mean I can use awscli to interact with b2 by specifying some backblaze server with --endpoint-url? What is the endpoint I would use?
Everything We Learned from Boeing About Its Game-Changing Loyal Wingman Drone
Honestly, it's not cynicism, although it used to be until I really thought things through. It's just the truth. I have a great life, I have truly been blessed, and I am very thankful. But to me the glass is already broken. Things may come, things may go, the only thing I control is me, and I am at peace.
Sure, if you think querying a database is the same as shooting someone.

If so, please don’t tell me you’re a DBA.
I'd add open office plans to this. It's awful. You never quite get to focus, you don't build the rapport with your team, you don't get to customize your physical environment. Development really became a white collar version of the assembly line.
So basically this takes instructions like

add %r1, %r2, %r3

along with their C code implementations and generates specialized 0-parameter instructions like

add%r1%r2%r3

This gets really hefty really fast. While many instructions can be eliminated (e.g., add%r1%r2%r3 == add%r2%r1%r3), the upper bound for an instructions set of m instructions (each taking 3 parameters) and n registers is mn^3. For an architecture with 50 instructions and 15 registers, that's 168750 instructions, which would require 18-bit opcodes. Interestingly, the optimal index-based implementation would use 6 bits per opcode and 4 bits per register, also for a total of 18 bits per instruction.

Something I'm unsure about is how it handles literal parameters. Are unspecialized instructions left exposed in such a case? Do all literals have to be copied to registers? Even more instructions be introduced?
Volcano: Static web framework with hot code reloading
The tree in vim is weird and hidden. Basically there is an operation to go from a state to the state from which it was derived (“up the tree”) and an operation to go forward/backward in time (of state creation), which is basically navigation in changenum space. Ie if you make some changes:

A -> B -> C -> D

Undo:

A -> B

Make some other changes:

A -> B -> E

Then undo takes you up the ABE chain but if you use g- and g+, you navigate through the list ABCDE
I'm missing it. Where's the typo?
This is some serious revisionism. Tom Wheeler was vehemently against NN and even after backflipping refused to enforce his own standards against ISPs.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/net-neutrality-ru...

"The ruling in favor of corporate broadband providers [...]"
I think because of coronavirus fear.
> Their tools are just easier to use and more expressive.

And that's the problem – they're giving governments tools that let them more easily and effectively infringe on the privacy rights of their citizens. Privacy isn't invaded when the data is collected, although that's a necessary step; it's invaded when a cop or bureaucrat queries that data to see what a citizen has done. Giving them that tool is morally complicit.

~ "That's not my department," said Wernher von Braun. ~
A silver lining for the failure of PWAs: they can't really be used to get around the appstore requirements and defraud people.
I don't particularly want to live somewhere other than where I live right now though, I want to live here and only go into the office 3 times a week.
Thank you for writing this. You put exactly my thoughts in words. Just because China delayed telling the world about H2H transmission for 6 days from Jan 14 to Jan 20 does not make them culpable for 70000 US deaths.

It is not that once the US learnt of H2H transmission on Jan20th and knew that the virus was in US, it shut down all public events.

The US still proceeded to have the Chinese New Years parade in Manhattan, the LA marathon still happened on March 8th.
Low jitter is a luxury for the document web, but if approximately all human social interaction is going to be through digital video for the foreseeable future, we might start to care...
In terms of technical competence, I trust Google and Apple 10x more than I trust most governments.
I think the middle ground can be a great place to work in tech, all it takes is one other person to work with that is willing to care about the things you achieve together.

Typical examples include our dysfunctional regression testing days. Tedium and pain when given the task alone and the person in change is just waiting to hear it's done. Bearable and in fact a shared challenge when you work through it together, with some small elements of process thrown in, and ended with credit given for getting the painful but necessary task done.

Even if a different person sitting near to you is checked out. I actually like to take my job satisfaction and rub it in their face a little.
The Democrats nominated a literal career telco lobbyist to this position last time. Why do you have faith they'll fix this?
Another alternative is AdGuard Home. They've come a long way since they announced it. I switched to AdGuard Home some 6 months ago and it has been great.
ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language (Stanford University, 2007)
I posted my anecdote here the other day if anyone’s interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22959688
Hmm, command-line clang accepts a --analyze option here ("Apple clang version 11.0.0"), and this seems to give additional output over the regular warnings. I'm not sure if that's the same thing as the analyzer integrated into Xcode, but some sort of static analyzer seems to be there.
I just tested it out with MS Word and the variable fonts do not show up in the list of available fonts within Word.

Boo.
I wouldn’t put much weight on this. They looked at about 15 stored samples (actually 80 depending how you count) and got one positive. As far as I can tell that forms the entire factual evidence. Contamination/false positive works out to be a large concern. Clearly they wanted the result as well.
I think that reveals the motive: they don't want the line to be fast.

Isn't the purpose of the screens less about catching bad actors and more about cultivating a culture of fear/suspicion, and hopefully getting a few effective informants out of the thing?

If the lines go to 2 minutes, or I get paid while in them, where's my incentive to rat out a coworker?
That is true but more likely they try to push back against every request that isn't simply zip up files or documents and deposit them.

They are using the "defense" that it may be difficult to do, but their aim (avoiding the more sinister possibilities) is to stop precedent for other unwieldy requests.
That’s a bit disingenuous when short commutes are literally not affordable to some of the people we’re talking about.
Technically you can open that logfile in Notepad and Ctrl+F the thing. If I was the judge and you pulled that argument someone at your agency would now be using that method instead of "researching" a grep query.
All accurate and objective and good for everyone to know early rather than late. Moving a bit further from the specifics, it's worth noting that this is not a natural state of affairs. Humans evolved to be in groups of about 30-100 people who they knew their whole lives and thus making catastrophic deception nearly impossible. Likewise vast sums of wealth did not exist nor total social and fiscal isolation surrounded by the complete opposite that characterize our city streets and daily life.

My point is that human psychology did not evolve in the context of our current world and will have enormous difficulty dealing with its bad sides. Although the specifics will vary, the number of people in the poster's position is undoubtedly enormous, with the vast majority too tired or ashamed of discussing it or just blaming themselves. This being the case, it would be nice to have serious study of it and resources to address it more effectively. Not to criticize any poster, but it is unfortunate than seeking advice from the web is currently the best one can do.
He didn't enforce net neutrality even one time, despite flagrant violations under his tenure.

You're just posting his marketing speak. Tom Wheeler was vehemently against net neutrality and spent his entire career fighting it, both as a lobbyist and as the FCC head.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/net-neutrality-ru...
So your idea is, that some YouTuber, who wasn't there, who doesn't have all the data, and who doesn't work with those advanced systems, somehow knows, from a low resolution video, how to correctly identify the objects, when the Pentagon, and the Navy, and the pilots, with all their experience and data, still are okay to call them unidentified?

That's a good one.

It's almost as if, the possibilities opened by it being unidentified are so scary (why?), you need to distort and pervert the normal faculties of reason and logic and kowtow to faith in a YouTube prophet who's gonna spin a nice story to make it all sound okay.

BTW, if you are feeling confident and like you can out-identify your defense forces, at least pick a theory that fits the data, rather than selectively ignoring inconvenient data.

I notice that all these prophets/conspiracy theorists, like Ms West and Mr Thunder, ignore that the aviators and radar tech have stated that there were fleets of these objects, coming in for days at a time, dropping from above 80kft to see level.

So fleets of weather balloons, space birds, or bird shit storms, that's really where you're going with this?

Good luck.
Can you opt out of installing an app? Is that actually what you're asking here? If so, yes..
It is very valuable information, why would they let you access it if they dont have to?
The Australian one seems to follow the spec pretty will. Uses rolling random IDs and BT RSSI to check for proximity to infected people. “Infected” is declared by the patients getting the hospital to input a private key when they’re diagnosed, which then uploads their last x days of random IDs to declare them as infected.

Source code is public and has been shared/audited on twitter etc but no formal audits that I’ve seen yet.
I'm not sure about Amazon exactly but 30 minute lunches with barely enough time to eat is pretty realistic. There's many places where lunches are from buzzer to buzzer period, whether you've eaten or not. If these places are large enough, and it seems they're pretty large, then yeah, every minute you've got to walk to your food is a minute taken off your lunch break.
Again, that's a very healthy mindset to take no matter what the human condition is, but you don't have to take a scorched-earth perspective on life to adopt such a frame of mind. And for most people, who haven't developed such a frame of mind, that scorched-earth perspective can be really destructive.

Additionally, the part about relationships goes further than simple nihilism. Plenty of relationships are real and go further than transactions. Not all of them, but many of them. Again, I don't know who hurt you to make you take such a perspective, but your perspective is deeply skewed.
I have no idea how to predict the UK public anymore. When it comes to the snoopers charter it went by with barely a whisper from the populace and yet when it comes to the 18+ filter on broadband something like 93% of people had opted out on their home broadband. It's exceptionally rare to find so many people do the opposite of default. I can't work out if the Uk public do or do not care about privacy and their security or what but they surprise me with their actions at times.
`#![no_std]` really means that sysroot isn't available for your platform and you gotta roll your own.

Project I'm working on right now is `#[no_std]`, but my own sysroot covers 90% of real `std`. Which is why I even export it as `std`, so I can use pretty much all crates I would usually use. Because if your platform has an allocator, doesn't matter where it came from, then you can add `liballoc`. `libstd` = `libcore` + `liballoc` + locks + allocator + threads + a few other things that usually depend liballoc. Which means that you have nearly entire libstd available to you if your target platform has an allocator.

Most `#[no_std]` crates that depend on allocator clearly state that they depend on `liballoc` and that you gotta provide one. What I'm trying to say `#[no_std]` doesn't mean embed, it just means sysroot isnt' available for target.
It's understandable.

Look at pre 2012 SV. All the ping-pong tables, all the beanbag chairs, the free beer, the free laundry, the sleep-pods, the cafeterias, etc. 'Cynical' people thought that these accruements were meant to keep you there and working all the time. People got rid of their apartments, set up Winnebagos in the parking lot. Intents do matter, but still, if you were that kind of person, the one that thought Google was just college 2.0, well, yeah, quarantime is not going to be good to you.

This pandemic is resetting a lot of things. Expectations of intimacy are another thing on the list.
> Most importantly, know that the future is bright and that our best days are not only ahead of us, but always will be.

I've read (and watched) everything on your list of recommendations. Perhaps I should reread Deutch's chapter on optimism, but I don't have the same conviction that you do. Where does your conviction come from?
Is it a realistic expectation that we have no one working on smart bombs/weapons technology in general?

I’d love to be in the utopia world where there is no war and the entire planet gets along. But even the US has political bipolar disorder, so we’re a looooong way from global peace.

I do think we spend an absurd and inappropriate amount on defense, but as long as we are forced to develop weapons due to the global geopolitical climate, I’d consider it preferable to work on making them more targeted.

My problem is I don’t like or agree with the people picking the targets, but that’s a whole other argument.
But what is the value add for Caddy here? Like how the out of box and auto SSL defaults with HTTP.

Apart from memory safety, can the SSH version of caddy impose better defaults that OpenSSH doesn’t right now? Maybe TLS certs, security key support, etc?
Yes, CES is the biggest consumer electronics trade show in the world, and it was held in early January. Lots of Asian companies presented there, or were there to make deals. It was Jan 7-10 this year, just before travel restrictions went into effect.
ffmpeg.exe -i input.mp4 -c copy -movflags faststart -y output.mp4
Thanks for assembling and sharing that report.

Did FERC do anything with it, or was it ignored?
That is true to some extend for the employees’ motives, but the reality is that most just clearly don’t care beyond their paycheck or resume building.

Even the leadership doesn’t want to do what is best for the company/product, but what is best for themselves. It’ll be dressed up nicely of course, but that doesn’t change the reality of the thing.

> Instead you blame the process and fix it methodically.

You blame the process, but are unwilling to really change it, so you just keep repeating the same kind of fixes ad nauseam.
What brand tires do you buy?
Ask HN: Why does software demand stay consistent when there is unlimited supply?
I understand essential goods like food are constrained by both demand and supply. But, why does software demand stay so consistent? For example, my addon [1] gets 40 - 50 installs per day like clockwork. When I was a newbie, I used to worry that everyone will install/uninstall my software on the same day during launch and I will run out of users sometime soon. I learnt it doesn't happen that way. But, I haven't figure out why. Why is that 40 - 50 people discover my software everyday consistently, when there is no supply constraint?

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/marketplace/app/formfacade/743872305260
EWD almost certainly wrote these on transparent film, because he gave his lectures on overhead projectors. Such film allows easy correction of mistakes because overhead projector markers are water-soluble.
This seems like a textbook burn-out case.

What you need is detachment.

Real world is ... what it is. Good intention is not enough for good things to happen. Our system seems to be programmed in a way, that it can go worse it will, until it hits the brake.

So relax, the world is what it is. What needs to be changed is our perception. Plus, tech should define a person, it can be part of identity, but don't let it take hold of it. After all, technologies are just manmade tools, they are fancier but no different than knives and sticks. Why let a tool define what you are and what you should be?
even without location tracking it’s creepy. what happens when the govt contact traces a man with his mistress and then blackmails him?
When evaluating a specific matter through specific factors, do you really then have to go through all the other possible factors to make sure they are equally represented in the outcome?
Nintendo suffers leaks including Wii source code
https://youtu.be/5V7me25aNtI?t=16
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/12/uk-government-...
No, people with guns and uniforms cause genocide. People with pens and typewriters have never harmed a hair on anyone's head.

To disagree is to argue that human beings are nothing but programmable devices. If that's your position, fine, but we'll have to disagree.
Bailing Boeing Out
> Correct, but note that they don't really support the idea that the virus was accidentally released from the lab either.

Let's suppose we had to decide between two scenarios, which one of these two sounds more probable?

A virus endemic to bats from southern China was first transmitted to a researcher working at one of two specialist centers in central China, while performing research on bats and/or bat coronaviruses, under a questionable safety regime.

A virus endemic to bats from southern China was first transmitted to a human in the wildlife market in central China where no bats are sold, presumably through an intermediate host such as a pangolin.

Which of these two scenarios is preferable to the ruling party of China?

Which is feeding the narrative that "human encroachment on nature is dangerous" (bad thing is dangerous), as opposed to "scientific research can be dangerous" (good thing is dangerous)?

> The article you cite notes the much likelier cause: the long incubation period means that those who did come into contact with the market infected others.

How is that more likely? The finding is that there is no epidemiological link to the seafood market in 13 out 41 patients, including the earliest known patient.

Your interpretation is the opposite of what the paragraph regarding the incubation period says:

"Lucey says if the new data are accurate, the first human infections must have occurred in November 2019—if not earlier—because there is an incubation time between infection and symptoms surfacing. If so, the virus possibly spread silently between people in Wuhan—and perhaps elsewhere—before the cluster of cases from the city’s now-infamous Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was discovered in late December. “The virus came into that marketplace before it came out of that marketplace,” Lucey asserts."
In comparison with other webservers it is slower. For me it's okay but metrics!
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No, that’s not the only evidence. The patient also presented with the relevant set of symptoms:

“ He presented to the emergency ward on December 27 2019 with hemoptysis, cough, headache and fever, evolving for 4 days. Initial examination was unremarkable and the performed CT scan revealed bilateral ground glass opacity in inferior lobes”
Ask HN: Pre-Covid, what job markets have been improving for entry-level?
Job markets can be soul-crushing for inexperienced people and people on the bottom, but it doesn't have to be. What are the job markets and industries that have been on the up-and-up for inexperienced people- the ones that are a buyer's market for entry-level applicants?

I'm not necessarily looking for answers that are very tech-related. Even in the supposed "hot" software market, too many companies are putting entry-level devs through the grinder at interviews. I'm curious which at which markets and industries are the opposite (pre-Covid times anyway), where entry-level applicants are having an easier time and holding most of the cards.
In South Korea, I suspect that the big difference is the specialist tracing teams they are using combined with the random testing of the public to find new potential sources really quickly. I am sure the app helps but it is probably not the route to normality. It requires thousands of contact tracing teams and high amounts of random testing on very low numbers to work, it is a small piece a combined set of policies that work together.
A company I was working with, also did this. Their excuse? The Oracle licenses were very cheap because the CIO is a genius negotiator. Never mind that PostgresSQL is free and much better product. Either they are really stupid or they are getting something from Oracle under the table.
I’m fairly confident the Stanford study will never die, no matter how many stakes are driven through its heart.
Uhm, docker is just a wrapper around linux's kernel features, plus image format. Image format being just bunch of tarballs that needs to be mounted by _something_ layer by layer.

You can write it any language that runs on OS with linux's kernel. There are similar things written and damn bash. Does that make bash a system language?
Whats completely anecdotal-- your counterargument here?
Does anyone have any good suggestions for blacklists? I've only been using the default and am wondering if I should add some more items to the list.
Thanks.

It sounds like this only applies to Google's own exposure notification service and would not apply to standalone contact-tracing apps such as the one being proposed by the UK government.
Ruby on Rails is opinionated. JavaScript is the exact opposite.

The data access layer in JS leaves a lot to be desired (especially compared to Rails)

React almost felt like a winner for single page apps, but there was never a great "flux" pattern to use, and now they've completely ruined that ecosystem with Hooks.

Also SPA's have become so big and bloated it's time to go back to something that you can build progressive web apps with like jQuery.