skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporate structures are highly controlling in ways that governments could never get away with -- controlling their employees time and expression as well as their access to basic services such as health care

Tell that to all of the people locked up because of the “War on Drugs”, civil forfeiture without a trial, and government using eminent domain to take property and give it to a corporation.

A corporation doesn’t have the force of law - and military weapons (SWAT) - to enforce compliance.
Both cache invalidation and naming are easy on the surface but surprisingly complicated and prone to error.

Cache invalidation has a risk of both false positives (something got evicted from the cache but shouldn't have) and false negatives (something should have been evicted but was not) and the effects of errors can be invisible, annoying, or disastrous, depending on the situation. Incorrect cache invalidation usually results from incorrect dependency management.

Naming is hard because names have a conflicting combination of requirements: names need to be short (they will be repeated often), expressive, accurate, unchanging, and easy to remember. It's often quite difficult to find a name for a concept that fits all those requirements. My company has spent years finding the right names for certain core concepts, but that is time well spent.
> and perhaps hivemind motor control) by a Central Overmind.

I volunteer to be the Lead DevOps engineer who looks after the Central Overmind.
There's no country in the world that provides, to the same degree as the USA, extraordinarily broad freedom of speech (and association) and the right to keep and bear arms.

And, to the extent that citizens of other "western" nations enjoy legal rights typical of republican democracies, it's because the US set the trend in the 18th century. At that time, the concept of a creedal nation obtaining its legitimacy from a governing document, in it providing checks & balances to limit the power of government, along with a bill of rights that guarantee broad protection of rights pertaining to speech, bearing arms, impartial trial, privacy (searches and seizures) — was truly unique to the US. That it is now commonplace in the West is a testament to one of America's many lasting contributions to the world.
> making a start by not choosing the ego-project of procreation would already make a huge difference.

In general, it is procreation that makes humans think about the long term. The truth is, no matter what you do, you will be dead in a hundred years. Wanting to leave the world a better place for your children and grand-children is a much more powerful motivator than abstract philosophical principle.
Meh that sounds like less fun.

More fun is toss a flash grenade into the hospital room, rush in with shields and body armor after beating a hole through the wall with a battering ram, throw the guy on the floor and shout "Stop Resisting" while beating the heck out of him and shocking him with tasers, burn down 2 adjacent hospital rooms, terrify the staff, shoot the bing machine because it is causing you to fear for your life, then find out it was the other hospital on the other side of town and have a high speed chase over to that hospital running red lights and causing three fatal accidents along the way, repeat the whole process with no consequences whatsoever then high five each other and recount the salient details all the way back to the station.
Imagine Germany successfully putting pressure on American movie makers to make Jewish figures in their stories be no longer Jewish, because in it's official German policy that Jews do not exist, they've always been just Germans or something else.

You can split hairs and say that's technically not pro-German, but anti-Jewish or whatever, and put "they" in quotes all you want; nobody who cares about the actual individual people and not just sophistry in a vacuum will be moved by it.
I worked as a cook for years while I was younger. There was always a radio on (this is like 1980s-90s). Typical blue collar environment with tons of noise from machinery, raucous people, and the radio.

While doing prep work for the next meal time the music didn't bother me at all (so go through various fridges and the menu and make lists of tasks to prepare then execute on the list interrupted by deliveries, dishwashers quitting in the middle of their shift, and so on - peel carrots, chop onions, clean squid...).

While working the actual rushes on the line (preparing individuals meals to order as part of a team, timing courses to go out and maximizing throughput) the music was extremely annoying to me. My coworkers literally would go crazy without it so it stayed on but it was a major problem for me.

I eventually left cooking for comp sci (long story involving a health condition and a privileged life allowing me to do this) and discovered "psytrance". Finally, I understood how music could make you more productive. Since then I've gotten better at tuning out music with lyrics but it still bugs me when coding or writing.
"Economists need to be part of the planning, so we can determine exactly how many deaths is best" is the worst take anyone has ever had and you should be ashamed.

You're literally saying that someone deserves to die so that rich people can continue to extract wealth.

Name them. Name the people who get to die for your economic prosperity.
Ah, a world without nuance. I think you're part of the problem (this is my "direct criticism") - you want polarized, this side or that, media, in a world that is increasingly complex. Not everything can be reduced to broadside attacks.
This is hindsight bias. That those steps alone would be sufficient was not established in March (and could be argued even now).
From what I’ve seen, the protocols are there but conformity is lax among some personnel —not speaking about intel in particular.
Then why is HN acting like he took such a bold stand?
When Figma isn’t enough for product teams
You can also mitigate it by including in the session token something from the server side that is sent by the client as part of the HTTP request but not as part of the query, such as a hash of their user-agent.

I did something similar to this in the early 2000s, when setting a cookie lasting longer than 24h required approval from SECDEF: [0]

This was a cookie-less FTP-over-HTTP browser, where you had to agree to the terms of service, and copying the link to someone else wouldn't mean they agreed to the terms of service. It was just a prototype.

[0] https://rkeene.org/viewer/tmp/wwwftp_cgi.c.htm#line182
We looked at it and found it to be very unstable and buggy.

Eventually we gave it up in place of native SGX programming.
Maybe it wasn't a great sacrifice. But how many powerful and well-off people do nothing at all? Maybe if more people like him took action, even if the personal cost is relatively modest, more things would change for the better.
The opening is: "As hospitals were overrun by coronavirus patients in other parts of the world, the Army Corps of Engineers mobilized in the U.S., hiring private contractors to build emergency field hospitals around the country. The endeavor cost more than $660 million, according to an NPR analysis of federal spending records. But nearly four months into the pandemic, most of these facilities haven't treated a single patient."

The motivating event is that we're starting to decommission these facilities, but the author instead chooses to emphasize how much they cost and how few patients were treated.
Why what? If you're asking why being subtle that was just rhetorical. My actual thoughts on this is that there's nothing wrong with self-promotion. I love it when people show their stuff here on HN or other places.

I just think that in this particular case it feels kind of disingenuous when it's coming from an account named UseberryPR. It feels more like an attempt to get traffic (potentially backlinks, since front page HN posts are replicated across many places) than to share something useful and intellectually interesting.

Again. I have nothing against self-promoting but the quality of this website relies on the fact that people are genuinely sharing interesting stuff, not expecting to get some profit out of it, or because they are doing "PR".

It's just my opinion though.
GPU mining. You should be able to burn through that in a few hours.
Better design would be not allocating any memory based on the message content and do parsing with callbacks or iterator approach.
In any first world country, it would be. In the USA...meh.
Yup agreed, what i had in mind for proper version, price and pic are absolute must.
Self-destructing cookies make sites usable but denies them use of an easy tracking tool. It would be nice if Firefox added this as an optional built in feature to complement the 3rd party cookie blocking. 99% of the cookies you receive don't need to be persistent so why keep them around.
That’s too bad. He could have used this opportunity to promote a platform different then youtube. I believe most of his videos include how much he dislikes YouTube. So, there must have been quite a financial incentive to stick with YouTube. Or, he worried about losing his fan base.
It looks a lot like the new Twitter. I guess the new trend is just to show multiple tabs from the mobile app at once as the desktop site.
I wish it was that simple.

Solar and wind are less than 1% of world energy consumption and not expected to grow substantially.

It's nothing what so ever and there is a reason why a lot of funding for renewables died out in the beginning of this century and only countries with a political agenda is left.

China reduced their investments into alternatives last year too.

With regards to storage until we have proper fuel-cells that are mobile and easy to fill up we aren't closer to anything useful than we are to fusion or Thorium, in fact Thorium and fusion might be more likely to happen.
> The funny thing is that some of these companies outsourced to the Ukraine and India and the rates didn't change. I would have thought that we would at least see some of the cost savings.

Why would the rates be lower if the market is one where demand for labor exceeds supply? It's not like lowering the rate is going to allow them to sell more hours, since they are still constrained by human capacity. If the quality of the work was not good, that's a different issue.
Miquela, CGI Virtual Influencer, signs with one of the biggest talent agency CAA
No but just like tech workers virtue signaling that people are stupid for wanting to go back to work so they can pay their bills while we sit at home because we can work remotely...
I’ve seen it covered only by the NY Post and several tabloids. There are a couple possibilities in my mind. Of course editorial discretion is one, but what if they looked into her story and couldn’t confirm basic facts? It’s hard to write a story around that unless the underlying thing gets a lot of currency. Sometimes newspaper ombudsmen are interested in finding out why a story wasn’t reported. Perhaps send tips there?
Just worked for me.
in the US we still aren't even following these simple rules consistently (even in NYC where I live). I agree with your point, I blame the guy in charge of everything who's repeatedly tried to downplay the severity, causing the rest of the system to seemingly overreact to compensate for people refusing to follow the rules.
that's over 20% of every person (including children and the elderly) and the wikipedia page doesn't even mention software.
> The other takeaway is that, backup, and backup often

I feel like that's the bigger takeaway. I've had issues with MEGA and Dropbox not syncing things correctly or getting caught in weird loops. I started using Syncing and now I have three tools.

Always do regular backups with something like duplicity. duplicity + backblaze works pretty well, and put a calendar event down to try a manual restore every month too. You can tell duplicity to discard older stuff and it will organize your snapshots correctly.

I need to do this myself too.
I always write // XXX comments that mean there's something here I'm supposed to remember but I don't have the time to write it down right now. It's always fun going back over those and trying to reverse engineer what the hell I was thinking at the time.
‘Not Zoom’ Doesn’t Mean Better for Your Privacy
Or at the very least have leaders who are brave to disclaim dramatic actions like constructing field hospitals as precautionary and say that the models may not come true in from the start. Instead we have leaders that use the worst "scientific" projections as received truth to get public support, then cargo-cult their policy without being frank about it (china did X, south korea did Y, so we must). That is what I think causes backlash.
Great write up. Glad to see they're making some changes as the current interface still feels like 2005 with the main feed at 500px wide. And as always, dark mode is welcome.

I really hope this helps performance on the site. In the past year or so I've been noticing that when the page sits in an unfocused tab for a while, clicking back usually takes 20+ seconds to actually load and I'm stuck at a white screen. It actually locks up the tab pretty well too, so navigating to other addresses and such takes a pretty long time.
young children self-motivation, goal-formation, critical-thinking, personal-responsibility at the expense of traditional academic knowledge

But do those things really require decades of exclusive instruction to form? Or are they mostly something you pick up on the way, as part of your study habits?

If a child reaches adulthood without learning any reading, writing, or arithmetic then it is a terrible tragedy. As a mature student in my mid 30s studying math in university I would not recommend this life to anyone. I’ve lost the better part of two decades of my best working years for building wealth. I’m going to need to do extremely well after graduation if I ever hope to retire.
In Texas you don't need reasons to fire someone.
Strongly agree with this. Utilisation of water to irrigate animal feed, deforestation of land to support growing that feed, methane expulsions from cows themselves.. it’s crazy to think about the environmental impact of beef, when eating chicken or fish would be far better for the environment (not to mention healthier).
No, and it never will be until:

Open source creative and professional tools are on par with proprietary tools (MS Office, Adobe) in terms of function and UI,

GUI applications are written for every conceivable setting a non-technical user would need,

Gaming is easier (it's getting better)

And, Ubuntu, Mint and other popular distros streamline everything even more so that even an idiot (and lots of people are idiots when it comes to tech) can use it.

Once those things happen, there is a chance we'll carve out more of the market, and create a snowball effect. If 10% of the market starts using Linux because OEMs preinstalled it to cut costs, software devs will notice, and it will only get better from there as more popular programs are ported to Linux.
> “manager” means absolutely nothing

do you know a better name for "window manager"? i don't mean to hold that up as a paragon of great naming, just genuinely curious what you'd call it.

like, i'm no fan of AbstractFactories (or classes for that matter), but i never quite got this sentiment. to me, "manager" suggests that you have a bunch of resources that should be centrally managed (created/freed, whatever), and theres's something (perhaps an object) that handles that.

ofc it's really generic, and a more concrete name should be used if possible, but i wouldn't say it's meaningless
I heartily encourage this!
Moreover, consider mason bees or leafcutter bees. Solitary bees are easier to raise (very easy, in fact), some species are 80x as effective in pollination as honey bees, they are very very docile, many may also be native to where you live (which I don't mean as a doctrinal requirement, but it suggests suitability as well as providing some good opportunities to study and experiment... we live in the Pacific NW of the US).

We've had mason bees for the last 4-5 yrs, which help with our backyard permaculture orchard/garden. I involved my kids (daughter about 7 at the time, son 10). Both loved it and learned a lot along the way.

Cost to start is low. Time investment also low.
Check out Crown Bees (no financial affiliation) or search around for more info.

(disclaimer: we're just starting with leafcutters, but I've heard similarly great things about them)
"Raise my taxes by 10-15% (by increasing the tax rate at the upper brackets) and put that money towards taking care of people who aren't employed."

That might be viable in states like Florida or Nevada.

However, the most populous states have upper bracket state+federal rates that exceed 50% - so that well has already been tapped.

California, as you may know, has identical treatment for simple income and capital gains income, so even that avenue for tax expansion has already been opened up.
I'm not particularly sure what your point is. I don't love big private organizations. I'd prefer a world with medium sized companies that fail fast. But I don't hate them, not a lot - they have two big things that separate them from governments: you can always go to another, usually just by crossing the street and going into a different shop. And they can't shoot you or throw you in jail.
The obvious drawback is that the global security level is the security level of the weakest lock.
> Going from amazon to Shopify is a good step. [..] WooCommerce is a decent choice given the unlimited flexibility of the platform

Just took a look at both those sites, and on the consumer side I don't see how these are even remotely comparable: I don't see any way to search for products. They seem geared to creating independent stores that must be linked to from some other location.
I just remember that AMD and Nvidia canceled their plans to use 20nm for GPUs and skipped straight to 14/16nm.
Reverse-engineering JetBrains DataGrip to work with our open-source SQL server
Experiences with monetizing on Google Play Store (2016)
That's not the result of having "forgotten". It's the dual squeeze of pitiful government response for workers (a single $1200 check vs. near full-benefits in Europe) combined with a hysterical "we gotta open up" corporate funded protest campaign from the extreme right.

Don't forget the gaslighting "100k people dead is doing a good job" BS.

People are being hoodwinked while they're scared shitless.
Personally, I like to use Decoupled (https://decoupled.app/).

* Supported formats: FLAC, Ogg, Opus, Apple Lossless, MP3, AAC, WAV.

* Music sync through USB, via iTunes File Sharing or
via FTP, WebDAV and a simple Web browser.

* Includes Dark mode.
Google, Facebook make statements to staff about working from home for 2020
I love how we're slowly bringing The Fifth Element into reality.
I have heard that Albany Medical Center is taking cases from a larger area. I don’t know the specifics.
Right. This obsession with government is austerity is part of why we're in this mess to begin with: A more robust response in January and February would have saved tens of thousands of lives and could have greatly reduced the scale of any lockdown measures. It would have meant spending tens of billions of $$$ towards testing and tracing infrastructure which in the age of trillion-dollar bailouts seems like a bargain.
Free Database Schemas from DrawSQL
>The percentage that is overhead will vary, but only by so much. Otherwise, someone will come along and find a way to undercut your prices and take your business. It's reasonable to assume that if one hourly cost is double another, the developer's pay is higher.

That's really only true if you assume that all of these dev agencies are equal. In reality, a lot of them have different specialties (both tech wise or industry wise), better (or worse) reputations, or certain partnerships. All of these things can greatly change the amount that the dev agency can charge.

I've personally seen plenty of agencies charging $100/hr while another agency with a different "specialization" (but otherwise similarly skilled and paid devs) charge $250/hr. The bill rate hardly ever corresponds with salary, IME.
You claim that we should listen to the economists but you don't seem to have any clue what the economists are actually saying and are just putting words into their mouths.

Basically every economist is acknowledging that you can't get the economy back to normal until the health crisis is under control. You can lift the ban on people going to movie theaters and restaurants if you want, but no one is actually going to do it if they don't feel safe doing so. Example: air travel is down 95+% even though there are no laws against flying places.
"When one teaches, two learn."
> Isn't that literally the point?

Ah, yep, you might have a point there!

Dunno how I missed that. Seems obvious now.
These kinds of discussions tend to overlook that using tools that you enjoy using and are familiar with can be a virtue in itself.

I doubt that any of the editors/IDEs under discussion make it impossible to do the work we need to do. And I'm willing to bet that forcing an employee to use a tool they don't enjoy will have a much higher impact on their productivity than any marginal differences in functionality between that tool and their preferred option.

I use vim because I enjoy using it and it is sufficient for the tasks I need to do. The idea that this reason is not enough and I need to justify my choice by proving it is a more productive option than all other editors/ides strikes me as deeply odd.
This is 100% incidental complexity. It's painful to consider that this level of sophisticated engineering is needed to render a website quickly in 2020. What went wrong?

I'm personally excited about things like turbolinks and phoenix liveview, which may provide a path out of this mess.
I have been using Facebook for like +10years. Facebook used to be reference for speed and usability.

I left it ~4 years ago.

Last day I entered again for curiosity. It's so sad. Strange interface, slow, unresponsive. It's sad.
As a fellow Python user, honestly I think you're fine. Rachel's issue with gunicorn stems from the gevent stuff, which you probably don't need and I would avoid unless you do.

I'm a bit mystified by Rachel's use case—A green thread hogging the process for so long that another request times out on the client? That means that requests are doing large amounts of processing and latency requirements are super tight, which sounds like a very specialized use case.
They haven't been apple to apples in over 20 years. But being stuck on one feature size for more than 2-3 years is still a major roadblock to performance improvement.
Using Drones to Fight Covid-19 Is the Slipperiest of All Slopes
Was it? It sounds like the franchise agreement that they signed was fairly straight forward and was never really in contention, based on what little I’ve read about this story the last couple of years. Are there any references or news stories that support your claim that google had to be “pressured”?
I assure you I'd never propose to change emacs bindings at all, merely have a switchable alternate set. I think that would be possible? But even if you did so, there's too much else, far deeper that couldn't be amended. I think we agree it's not a credible proposition. I suspect emacs' enormous toolkit can't be exposed consistently without making it inconsistent. I can live with emacs as it is, very happily.
Indicators of Compromise Parser
When companies miss their revenue by 5%, the stock plunges. We're in a reality where whole industries are nuked.

I'm friendly with the guy who owns a gas station franchise -- his business is down 90%. The oil company, CocaCola bottler, candy distributor, Frito-Lay franchisee, gift card network, etc are all feeling that.