skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a similar story. Year is 2014 and client was using a very specific payment processor because the client was part of UK government and credit card processing was to be done using only that processor - you know, politics and stuff when dealing with government.

So the payment processor, after absorbing a good chunk of this organization became a behemoth, with a lot of political power and overnight they decided to charge additional license fees if you are throwing more then 5 connections/second from same IP to be processed.

Of course the client was upset and asked me if there is a solution before shelling what was possible more then a few million pounds (GBP, not the weight) per year in those fees. My solution? Made them just increase their pool of IP addresses from internet provider and additionally made an intermediate proxy which had the job to gather user requests and spread them to up of 4 requests/second to said processor. When waiting for your card to be processed usually the end user doesn't mind waiting extra 10 seconds, seconds that gave my proxy plenty of time to balance the requests. AFAIK it works without hiccups to this day. And of course, client only thanked me like government thanks to medics in COVID nowadays, all talk and no extra dime (apart from what we agreed upon). Oh well, I take pride in a job well done.
Yes. Another source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03609-x
You appear to have it installed somewhere. Open up scan-build in your favorite text editor if you don't believe me.
Why Postgres/ Cockroach
I was going to say the "humility" went north to SF, that's when SOMA became big and SF went from a banking center with a hippy fringe to a software center with a hipster fringe. Through it all, the old money has lived on Nob hill and shopped at Union Square (the local Nieman Marcus), but look at the gentrification of everything else. The sense of style and fashion of the newly-rich in SF drove the hipster look, which had its own issues but least it was nominally independent and not all about buying flashy brands at stores.

I do love the Stanford campus and Palo Alto downtown, but I do think they were marred by the big money. For example, Stanford literally has a luxury fashion mall (probably with a Nieman Marcus store) on campus (and it probably is the most profitable part of the endowment). As for Sunnyvale-Santa Clara-San Jose, they just chose the suburban sprawl development when the money rolled in.
You can't address the business model if you can't explain how you would change how an individual case plays out.

The standard of evidence in civil court is "the preponderance of the evidence". Would you propose changing that standard, so that a debt collector's unchallenged word isn't good enough to prove their case? What exactly do you propose to do about the fact that most people default?

Should we make participation in civil cases mandatory and issue bench warrant when defendants fail to appear? Should we reduce how much income can be garnished so that garnishment is effectively useless? Should we require that every update in the case be personally served by a process server?

The business model would collapse overnight if debtors began challenging creditor plaintiffs en masse. I don't see how the failure of a defendant who has been properly served to defend their case reflects a systematic failure on the part of the courts or the law.
Not necessarily. Unemployment at 20% in the US at the moment; not all of them will find another job.
And they cause cancer!
I recently tried to design a table that had a sticky header row AND a sticky first column. I couldn't figure out a way that worked well on both desktop and mobile. All the solutions I found were janky in one form or another.

Anyone have good tips for this?
And we don't burn just any coal. Of course it's brown coal, the worst kind of coal when it comes to pollution.

But that's the price we pay for rapidly switching off all our nuclear plants and heavily subsidizing low efficiency inland wind farms.

That's the result of too much ideology in energy politics.
The bit that stuck in my head (from Code Complete or something like it) was the phrase, "Watch out for people who look more productive than they actually are." As in, not writing tests, or making bad decisions that take 10X the original effort to fix, or that write systems that fall apart in corner conditions, or . . . (the list of problems is large).

I like to think that most big-ish products can be divided into three equal parts, each consisting of 90% of the work. It's that third 90% that separates the decent products from the great ones.

[Yes, I can do math. I mean that you get to your original 90% goal and realize you've still got a LONG way to go.

"Problems worthy of attack / Prove their worth by hitting back" -- Piet Hein]
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I could have been clearer, you are right. I was trying to engage in a thought experiment. In union = failure axiom, there can be contradicting explanations as to why. My OP implied “unions make things fail” (and I assumed due to commonly assumes reasons like inefficiency), I construed the idea that “unions might be exposing a dependence on exploitation”. I don’t necessarily ascribe truth value to either premise, just wanted to expand the possibility of explanations. I wasn’t clear on that, apologies for the confusion.
There also seems to be concerns that 5G may interfere with weather satellites: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03609-x
Emacs breaks assumptions of the operating system; vi does not.
on the other hand, it was actually usable by somebody who isn't a privacy advocate.

the trend exists because "pretty UIs" and usability are actually valuable features to users, and the existing open ecosystems tend to fail at that aspect.
Kubernetes – Pod Security Policies
When it was written, there were no widespread GUIs. Standardized keyboard layouts on computers were just starting to be a thing. Many of its users were using terminals, not workstations or PCs. So they adopted, and probably more often invented, terminology and conventions for a world that predated almost everything people today know and understand.

So it's not user-hostile, it's just really old. The knee-jerk answer would be 'well just update the conventions/terminology'. The problem is, update it to what? There is no timeless terminology they can use. As the tech industry increasingly resembles the fashion industry, they'd need to slap a new coat of UI paint on it at least every 10 years to keep up... as what was 'user friendly' terminology today won't be in not too many years. So now the developers are spending a big chunk of their time 'modernizing' it rather than actually making it better... not something most developers are interested in doing for a passion project.
> If someone first makes a false accusation, then post a “correction” only to double down on a lesser yet still false accusation, I’d say it’s reason enough to conclude that they’re arguing in bad faith and attempting to slander.

You aren't listening to what he's saying: "If you have reason to be concerned about the CCP undermining your communications infrastructure, it's a distinction without a difference.
The reason they brought it up remains valid with the correction."
> A hammer does not have [an agenda], and that does not make it a less useful tool.

Sure, but by default all software has a copyright agenda built in. We can remove copyright, but there are two approaches:

- Remove copyright so that anyone can use your code, but then they can re-add copyright to your code and sue other people for violating their copyright.

- Remove copyright so that anyone can use your code and ensure that nobody can re-add copyright to your code.

I used to be in the former camp, but I've slowly moved to the latter.
Every time I look at GCC's bugtracker, I feel a mix of disgust and astonishment at the state of such a foundational piece of software. I'm amazed it works as well as it does.
This reminds me of when Lastpass was bought by Logmein. It went downhill very fast after that. I hope history does not repeat itself.
Thanks for that I'll have a read.

Is there any discussion about other countries using this NHS app (the repo says MIT license)?

Each country could customise the alert heuristic but it seems like a waste of resources for each country to code their own app for a global problem.
Not sure what the EFF is trying to get at here.

After the decision, it says rejections rose 31%, but now they have fallen back down.

The EFF contends this is because the Patent Office is ignoring the law, but they don't offer any evidence to back up this assertion. Another likely explanation is that patent applicants are adjusting their applications to be in line with the decision, and thus the rates have gone back down.

This assertion by the EFF would only make sense if patent applicants didn't know about the rule change. But applicants do know, and have adjusted their applications accordingly in the intervening time.
Germans are scared of them, decided to just burn lots of coal instead.

I think it's less about being scared and more about the eye-watering cost of storing waste responsibly.
> Well, it would be like splitting a company into two parts competing with each other.

Presumably you'd have to design the A/B test around this to get much use out of it. However, when you're just starting a service and not sure how consumers will view the value of it, the benefit is obvious.
However, the direction in France seems to be to replace part of nuclear with renewable. But building wind and solar power (hydro is already maximized to my knowledge) means the nuclear plants have to reduce their power output when there is wind and sun, so basically they are used to save uranium. But uranium is cheap, what is not is building the actual plant. So it just increases nuclear price per MWh since they have to produce less over time to make room for wind/solar power.

So basically by building renewable we are reducing nuclear power's viability on the grid. Since there does not seem to be viable storage option (if there was we'd be building that instead of gas power plants everywhere), running only on renewable is not possible. So I really don't see the point in using renewables as we do when electricity is already low-carbon.
Intel 4004 – The Making of the First Microprocessor [pdf]
When was this time? In BSD, which introduced select(2), most network servers ran from inetd. I got a stern talking-to from the computer security folks for running a process in my .cshrc that would repeatedly finger someone at another university, where their fingerd ran from inetd, because I was making their shared VAX run unacceptably slowly. Early versions of httpd included instructions on how to run it from inetd, along with a note that you would probably regret it.

Are you thinking of, like, CICS systems from the 1970s connected to SNA or something? I mean they didn't have select(2) but they did serve many clients in a single process.
would also like to just leave this here:

https://www.photopea.com/
How does your intuition square with a country like Sweden's response to the virus who would be classified as not just a "late mover" but a "non-mover?"
A Home for Results in Machine Learning
> A need has been identified that can't be met by v3, it's time to start working on v4.

Software-as-a-service under GPLv3 isn't required to provide source code to remote users (AGPL acommplishes exactly nothing in this regard), so there definitely is such a need, but I don't know if RMS is actually working on that.
"...examiners practically never make final rejections based on Alice. "

I beg to differ. I have seen cases that get multiple final rejections based on Alice. Usually based on garbage reasoning.

Alice was such a terrible holding -- it was based on a crappy patent so we got bad law. Well drafted and well prosecuted patents don't often end up in court, let alone in the Supreme Court.

Over coming Alice is/was easy if the patent application was drafted after the first Alice based rejections came out. That is an indication of the weakness of the holding, including meaningless details or structure in the form of "magic words" often could get around early Alice rejections.

Until recently, the main driver for stubborn Alice rejections were particular art units that seemed to have an informal policy to never let anything through.
vscode has entirely replaced any ssh+tmux+vim I’d do. I can download or even preview remote files, share my session with coworkers, and their onboarding is amazing. You can use the editor from the very first second productively, and get constant reminders of the shortcuts.

vscode completely fixed all the things that annoyed me when working with remote machines.

Great to see another update!
> I agree that it was simply easier to coordinate as a function of low number of agents in the game. But I doubt the convenience of it was the motivating factor.

Well of course the motivation was to suppress wages so they could make more money. All companies have that incentive. Which is why that's illegal independent of unions -- it's an antitrust violation.

> I take your point regarding culture and other contextual variables, but there is hardly an macroeconomic reality that makes unions unworkable as you generalized.

Let's put it a different way though: Do union software engineers in Finland get paid more or less than non-union software engineers in San Francisco?

Because it's possible for a union to make its workers globally competitive by accepting lower wages to offset the cost of dealing with the union, but that's obviously not what we're after, right?
No, because Iceland is a sovereign government, and if they can't find an agreement with drug companies or suppliers, they always have the option of nationalizing them or ignoring patents.

They also aren't reliant on funding from the U.S. Federal Government, which is a big deal in this case.
Is there a reason you’re so actively hostile in this thread? You’ve been belittling people in nearly every comment.

You were willing to apologize to well-known contributors, but everyone else can stuff it?
New York can FORCE Pharma providers, Hospitals, and doctors to accept its single payer insurance plan. These drug companies and medical suppliers would have to either cease to operate in NY or go out of business. The resulting vacuum from doing so presents an opportunity for new Pharma entrants, either other incumbent competitors, or new homegrown upstarts in NY. The demand doesn't go away, an there's revenue to be made.
The simplest rule is people should cohabit peacefully. AFAIK there is no evidence that this is enabled by more exposure. People assort themselves by IQ for a good reason: Most people have a natural desire to dominate and the lower IQ person would always loose which is no fun to them.
My current thinking is that sometimes deadlines are needed and Scrum can make that happen. However, the deadline you get from the engineers is going to be vastly slower than if you'd let them just do the work and tell you when it was finished.

I know marketing lines to pretend that they can't do their jobs without hard engineering deadlines but marketing is overrated anyway. Ask yourself if you really need a deadline or if you're just slowing down engineering with your incompetent management.
Can you elaborate on what concerns you so much that it warrants deleting your account right upon hearing the news?
> It is valid to be concerned about the Chinese government exercising control of some sort over the local development team to put in a backdoor, just as our government seems to want to do to US developed products.

Chinese companies legally cannot refuse a government request for data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Internet_Security_Law

Comparing that with US/EU private sector protections is absurd.
I highly doubt cars are the actual killer app for wireless charging. At the end of the day, they're usually parked a good amount of time, and are comparably tolerant of extra weight, which makes some form of battery much simpler.

I'd look for applications where a system cannot stop moving, otherwise isn't in physical contact with infrastructure / cannot be accessed, or absolutely can't tolerate additional weight.
New York is also a sovereign government and can operate a State-run drug company or supplier, just like they operate State-run universities, and the State-run MTA transportation system. New York can, by law, force companies to accept its prices in the same way that it can enforce Uber and Lyft to charge minimum prices, or employers to pay minimum wages.

> They also aren't reliant on funding from the U.S. Federal Government, which is a big deal in this case.

Besides Federal highway funding and Medicaid, neither is New York. New York's single payer system can be funded entirely through an increase in its own state tax rate — there's a lot of room to increase taxes back to WW2-levels, and a lot of room to raise the middle class tax-rate to Europe-levels.
"Whipping something up and then seeing what it's capable of" in simulation or prototype is also known as "modeling and analysis". Prototypes and testing are definitely a valid, even central, part of engineering.
Because there are only 2 parties. It would be undemocratic to restrict who is allowed to run in them. More practically, the parties are not homogeneous, and there will always be factions that align more closely to groups outside the party.

The most relevent legel precedent I am aware of is Smith v. Allwright (1923), which ruled it was unconstitutional for a political party (the Democrats) to restrict primary voting to whites.

>When, as here, primaries become a part of the machinery for choosing officials, state and federal, the same tests to determine the character of discrimination or abridgment should be applied to the primary as are applied to the general election

> We think that this statutory system for the selection of party nominees for inclusion on the general election ballot makes the party which is required to follow these legislative directions an agency of the state in so far as it determines the participants in a primary election. The party takes its character as a state agency from the duties imposed upon it by state statutes; the duties do not become matters of private law because they are performed by a political party.

Granted, in this case, the court was looking at racial discrimination by the parties, which introduces direct constitutional concerns, and so has a lower bar to warrent governmental interference. However, the principle that "private" political parties are not actually private is fairly engrained in US politics (although the exact legal boundaries are still unclear).

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/321/649/#tab-opi...
I do not see emacs interface user-hostile. The UI even has a menu and a toolbar for discoverability.
Bottom line either billionaires (in general and Jeff in particular) will be somehow forced to either come up with a COVID vaccine so people will go back to "normal" or will have to shell serious money to protect the workers. Either way I see this as a win-win situation.
I've been using gunicorn quite happily without the gevent stuff that Rachel ran into issues with. Running 2-3 workers per core is enough for my application to make full use of the CPU. It is a "waste" of memory, but memory is so cheap and plentiful I've never had an issue with it.

bjorn is fast because it has a minimal feature set. No threads, no multiprocessing, no nothing. If it works for you, great, but it's never satisfied my requirements.

I'd avoid uWSGI, it's performance is good but it's so complicated with so many features that I never felt confident using it.

Never used waitress except in development, but people seem to have had success in production.
> It took 20 years for the park board to even listen

On that sort of timescale, that's less down to "things move slowly" and more down to "you can't get anything done in the wrong political climate, so you have to wait until appointed officials die and/or an entire generational shift in your municipality produces a sea-change of political views."
> As someone who's neutral (not even supportive) about the CCP, I can only hope that they become that competent within a decade.

You don't sound very neutral.
Zoom is, or was, collecting a list of running applications on machines. Keybase requires that you run it on multiple devices for security. It would be reasonable to expect that Zoom would love to embed such data harvesting in the Keybase client.
That's factually incorrect.

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-on-the-rich-1950s-not-high/
US medical costs will only come down if the the middlemen (Medical Insurance Companies)are prevented from having an influence.

The medical insurance companies have deep pockets and lots of lobbyists.

Never going to happen.

I LOL a lot when I hear that the US can't afford to have single-payer healthcare, when lots of tiny countries can, and do afford it.
Code Factoring and Requirement Diameters
I would imagine the job of an elementary school teacher is primarily to have a relationship with their kids and teach what general skills they can, whereas a university or even high school teacher is pulled in more directions (curriculum, standards, research, admin, etc.).
You are wrong on both parts here.
But this ostensible "Signal's servers store no contact lists at all" policy also incurs several serious risks:

* The Signal client regularly re-sends your complete local contact phone numbers to the Intel SGX contact-intersection code on Signal servers. So, potential flaws in that process would mean Signal servers continually receive, & could possibly log, far more metadata than competing systems that upload all your contacts' phone numbers.

* Signal leaks that your phone number has enrolled with the Signal service to anyone who chooses to query it.
Measuring the performance of Wikipedia visitors’ devices
marketing, finance, ad tech. My point is most fields propogated by modern technology is propped up by VC and finance...

I have friends in healthcare as well, and I don't hear things are much better too, in regards to the business ethics of the healthcare system.

My overarching point is that anything that involves finance is likely to be corrupt, and VCs are just one segment of them, but there are a lot of more corrupt financial entities with way less transparency and as a result, way less criticism.

It's not really a fair comparison to match factory work, cutting hair, and being a cashier to being a hero of honesty in relation to finance related jobs. Take cashiers for example, their job is to accurately ring up listed prices decided by a much more complex decision making system, leaving very little decisions for them to mess up at that point, and anything they do unhonestly, is likely to be relatively black and white in comparison to the unethical lobbying behaviors multi billion dollar corporations that bankrupt farmers that farm the seeds they make to monopolize food markets, that the cashiers are ringing up.

Yes, VCs are able to lose alot of money and not really be accountable for it, but so are many other industries related to finance...

Not sure why you are so convinced VCs are the one evil entity in the thousands of permutations of finance, but if I had to call out evil entities in finance it would be the credit market, corrupt government, wallstreet investors, but atleast somewhere at some point VCs gave value to some entity you can track other than transiently through a stock from an algorithm to maximise their profits, but I get it, you hate VCs.