skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Crazy times...

Are they? Mercenaries for hire have been a thing for centuries. And ultimately, mercenaries are selling a service, and need to market to their potential customers, like wealthy CEOs of huge corporations.

Today, possibly owing in part to the growing inequality in the world (though not specifically in Ghosn's case), wealthy individuals are looking for ways to protect themselves from a restive populace. One way in which they find out about the availability of private defense/security purposes is by that industry marketing themselves in some way.

Mercenaries have been marketing themselves for offensive or defensive purposes to people with a lot to lose like this for centuries, whether the medieval Hashishin (from whom we get the term assassin), or the Swiss Mercenaries (whose modern continuation is the Papal Swiss Guard of the Vatican).

Sadly, this re-privatization of mercenary services appears to be more of a reversion to a historical norm that was only brought under state control in the late 19th through mid-late 20th century.
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Sounds to me more insane than pure
the grown-ups moved to postfix a long time ago
We should also acknowledge the desperate lengths to which the US government has gone to soil any honor accrued in any previous wars.

On the recent anniversary of the fall of Auschwitz, The White House twitter account claimed it as a victory of ‘The United States and UK’. Supposedly the already-dishonest ‘Allied Troops’ is not cutting it anymore.

(The Red Army liberated Auschwitz)
I remember during 2009 IETF meeting talking about using end-to-end, and the response I got back was that DNS resolving must be a simple caching server at the ISP end because companies has shown that for every millisecond slower a website loaded there was a noticeable loss in sales, and thus anything that impact performance would not be acceptable.

Under that mentality you could not do much with the last-mile, and you can definitely not do any serious security that protect confidentiality between client and server. You could do something DNSSEC because it did not cause a 10ms lookup to go to 11ms, and thus no one was screaming bloody murder over it.
Assumed it was due to the article yesterday on Facebook "embracing" Shopify.
I bet I'm around 12-13 hours more days than not. Maybe higher. And my phone addiction/dependence is moderate compared to some so it probably comes in a distant 3rd after laptop (easily #1) and TV (all movies, shows, and video games combined)

> Lets assume another 30 minutes a day for getting washed & dressed, bio-breaks, brushing teeth, preparing food + drink etc (30 mins seems low, but I'm being generous), so 15.5 hours left.

Laptop on the dresser/counter playing Youtube. Phones are waterproof—read news or catch up on morning messages in the shower. Laptops that aren't giant bricks and have battery life good enough that you aren't constantly hunting for an outlet and towing your power supply around, plus (even more so) smartphones, have changed everything.

Also depends on how they're counting screen time. Kinda like TV-watching stats. My parents leave their living room TV on probably 15+ hours a day. Does that mean they're "watching TV" if they're making lunch (good view of the TV from the kitchen) but half paying attention to the TV? Or I've come over and we're talking but the TV's on and you (or at least I) can't entirely ignore it?
I think it's a bit more like going on to a shop and trying to open all the doors, cupboards and drawers to see which ones are locked ;)
>> Even visiting the ISS is a form of "going down a gravity well."

That's my point, though. If they're negligible as gravity wells, what's the point over just a space station? Working isn't any easier. We can't choose its location and orbit so easily. Resources to extract aren't significant. What else?
A brain dump on better code reviews
YES, it is indeed wednesday... my dude
Massive turbofish! :-D
- VSCode is open source, so I'm not sure how that constitutes lock in. Switching text editors is pretty easy.

- GitHub has some special things like issues and pull requests but in general you can just switch your origin URL to another Git repository that isn't GitHub and boom you are off GitHub.

- NPM you can just point your package.json at any Git repository you want, no need to use the NPM package repo.

- VSCode Online: like I said, just use a different online editor.

Not too much lock in going on here. Integrations and seamless workflow? Sure. But lock in? No I don't think so.
"the simple tactic of bekken taiho – arrest, or re-arrest, for a different crime. The police arrest the person on a different or trumped up charge. At the end of the 23 days, the police rearrest him on another charge, keeping him in detention, and so the cycle goes on. Though evidence gathered through this method is prohibited in theory, and is at times struck down by the courts, law enforcement has been known to keep suspects in daiyou kangoku for months before indictment."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/06/02/japans-authoritarian...

I recognize there are reform efforts going on, in law school there were some Japanese judges and prosecutors observing some criminal procedure classes I was in.

For example, recently a limited form a plea bargaining has been introduced before this plea bargaining was not available. However, plea bargaining is limited to a few crimes (mostly white collar crimes) and only if a defendant offers evidence that implicates others -- this encourages false testimony against others.
dropwatch is great, I've used it to debug why our router firmware drops packets. It has some issues (I really need to verify which are still present and file them) but it works.

You can also achieve mostly the same effect with perf via the skb:kfree_skb tracepoint. This has less performance impact, better post-processing options, and doesn't require the dropwatch specific kernel config option (NET_DROP_MONITOR).
And that was the day the Care Bears let their stares full power be known.
I know that.

I'm referring to the electric company discharging my battery without my knowledge.

Just think of what will happen the first time someone plugs in their car overnight and then the battery isn't full in the morning.
That's an awfully pessimistic view of things. I've studied some fairly obscure corners of computer science and the Internet has allowed me to get instant access to mountains of scientific papers, a huge variety of books (many of which are out of circulation), incredibly high-quality courses on maths, DSP, algorithms and the like.

Previously I would have had no way of accessing any of that information unless I happened to be at the right university with the right department, or in some high-level research institute.
Apparently OSM and routing libs for OSM in general (i.e. Graphhopper I guess?) make use of elevation. I keep being surprised by elevation graphs for routes in OsmAnd: it somehow finds more variation than I've seen, in this city that's “flat as a liftman's joke”.
Testing, testing new conversation settings
Having read some of the histories of NASA and spaceflight, I think you're dramatically mistaken.

Kennedy committed to the lunar landing shortly after Shepherd's suborbital flight, and the idea from NASA was that they'd orbit the moon. Kennedy thought a landing would be more spectacular, but it took NASA quite a while to settle on lunar orbit rendezvous, let alone the Saturn V architecture.

Kennedy was on the verge of cancelling Apollo when he died, and Johnston was anything but a space expert. Johnson was definitely responsible for ensuring no American woman went to space until after he was out of office, the evidence is clear on that one.

The single person most responsible for getting America to the moon was probably John Houbolt (or perhaps Konstantin Tsiolkovsky).

There is also a lot of debate as to whether the ISS has been successful; this really depends on what your objectives were/are.

[1] John Logsdon's Bibligraphy

[2] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/factsheets/Rendezv...
One word of caution with battery powered mowers is they tend to weigh about 2x as much as a gas powered or corded electric mower.

May be a non-issue for you, but bit me hard when I tried to go that route. My lawn has poor drainage and never completely dries, and the added weight of the battery-powered mower led to constant rutting and mower-wrangling.
Home Chef confirms breach after 8M user records found on the dark web
> Here - https://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-.... - some arguments for space exploration in general.

I don't think anyone is against using space, but that's quite a different thing from human space exploration. The only specific example he gives of the direct use for space - using artificial satellites - don't require human space exploration. Neither do the more indirect benefits he mentions - international cooperation and having high level challenges. There are plenty of high challenges (even if we just look at space), many that would also have much more tangible benefits in addition to being a high level challenge.

Talking about our natural curiosity isn't a great reason either - we're already doing much more robotic exploration of space than most cultures historically did of their surroundings. And this exploration doesn't necessitate humans.
> My guess is post-industrial economies require next-level abstraction which is more mentally demanding and hence requires better rest and nutrition. Back when "produce more stuff more efficiently!" was the mantra it was easier to focus on incremental gains. Now the answers aren't so easy.

That's overstating the Work culture in either situation, in my opinion; in Japan its typical to have to stay only until the boss leaves, and the drinking culture that follows is mainly to curry favour with the higher-ups to climb the corporate latter. If that counts as 'abstraction' to you, I'm not sure what to make of your 'post industrial' POV.

In the US corporate World, which is the only one I have any experience with, 'playing the game' is often more important than actual skill or merit. Which is why I despised my time within it.

I'm not hired to be your drinking buddy or be a confidant, I'm a hired-gun for your project and only really there to offset my living expenses and bootstrap the more cool and interesting things I do in my Life.

Making work be or seem anything other than 'work' requires a lot of de-compartmentalization for me and encumbering a person to a do so seems hardly 'abstract' to me and the more it becomes remote the better. That isn't to say I don't drink the Kool-aid for the things I'm passionate about, but that is hardly, if ever, found in the Corp World--this is pretty much how I left so disillusioned at IBM, despite being a Thinkpad fanboy.
roughly how many is "small"? 10? 20?
Sorry to hear this! Can you share what went wrong ? I’m really interested in the “DevOps for ML” space and I would love to hear what you think was the greatest difficulty or problem with your approach (if you are willing to share that).
What if Apple never launches an XR device?
PayPal's micropayment fee for a $1 transaction is already 10c
Right. That clarifies things a bit. The only "pension" I've seen in Australia (and apparently UK, as my father's situation implies) is a fairly minimal "pension" payment to all retired citizens, and then huge incentives for people to pay into their own "Super" (short for Superannuation) plan, which is fairly similar to your 401K it seems - but they actively encourage paying more into it.

Is the cap on any payment into the 401K or just the employer's contribution?

I've not heard of nor experienced anything similar to the 'pension plan' concept you have, and my first job was in State Government, from whence I still have a Super plan... somewhere.
He who controls the definition of "disinfo"

controls the world.
Protip for everyone, since I've done a lot of research on this:

If at all possible, cut the blue from your screen at all times.

I use flu.x [0] and even during the day I set my color temp to 5800K instead of the standard 6500K. You won't notice the change much, but it will make a huge difference on how tired your eyes get.

I also go down to 1850K at night (candlelight basically) to both ease strain on my eyes and not mess up my sleep. It makes a noticeable difference.

[0] https://justgetflux.com
As someone who's been learning to sing mostly on my own (though I've taken a few local workshops that have helped a lot), here are the things I've found most helpful:

* commit to the notes you're singing: singing tentatively makes it harder to evaluate yourself

* sing along with a recording and emulate the singer--every ornament, every nuance in timing--you can find your own voice (so to speak) once you know what you're doing

* repeat a song or even chorus or line over and over, especially singing along with a recording

* record yourself: everyone hates doing this, but again, it's much easier to evaluate what you're doing

* if you're having trouble with a specific line, find the notes on an instrument and sing along (though make sure you're not just locked in to fixed pitches--a lot of the beauty of great singing is exploiting the marvelous glissando capabilities of the human voice)

* drink water and don't hurt yourself
> Has anyone asked them?

We did. And like most things in the UN, it's NATO+clients vs the rest of the world.

https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources...
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2019...
Just use SVG for your favicon, it supports media queries so you can change the fill color when dark mode is detected.
Given current events, the argument could be made that it'll also throw you overboard the minute it hits turbulent times as well. Rough seas ahead, somebody is going in the water.
Hate Inc. is a decent read.

I'm reminded of the statistic about crime on the local news channels: crime across the US has dropped, consistently, since the 1960s, but reporting of crime has gone up 400%.

As a result, people are more alarmed and afraid than ever even though this is one of the, if not the, safest time in history.

"Perception is reality"
Not those kinds of templates :)
It's not product segmentation. They cut the NIC price to $2 and increased the speed by 2.5x. This is really the only part of the platform that is dramatically faster than it was two years ago. Most of the AMD motherboards are coming with 1gbps ethernet, no matter how many nonsense words are in the product name.
Air coolers can do a better job than AIOs depending on the situation, for sure. I use a Noctua air cooler on my 3900X, and it's great. But when I had the same cooler on a 2700X, it was awful, and moving to a Corsair H60 (120mm radiator with a single fan) was a huge improvement.

...because the 3900X is in a full-tower Fractal Design case and the 2700X is in a cramped 4U HTPC case by Silverstone which is rackmounted into a Gator traveling case. There's just no airflow inside the case and the AIO specific heat transfer is critical.
The key here is simply to stop caring about MS office documents, and use open standardized format for information exchane. That is, OpenDocument, a native format of LibreOffice, which is available on any platform out there.

My company never ever sent out a single file on MS Office format since it was founded in 2007, and I assure you that business can work just fine without ever using .doc(x) / .xls(x) files.
I think the Shadowrun adage is applicable here: "Watch your back, shoot straight, and never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon."

Microsoft is the dragon here. Even if it appears friendly you still don't cut a deal with it, or you become a pawn in its game.
Test Driving Coherent
The US military has only been around for 250 years and look at how much the country has changed in that time. The idea of the welfare state would be totally incomprehensible to the founders[0]. I think the idea of the military as separate from the rest of the state is contingent on that state operating in the interests of the people. Or at least, not against the interests of the people. And history shows that no society has been able to do this forever.

[0]: I'm not saying we shouldn't have a welfare state, it's clearly necessary in the modern world, but the America of today is nothing like the America that was intended, for better or for worse.
It's not for us to judge what sort of information constitutes knowledge.
I've worked at two different places that had very specific 2 factor apps they used. I wouldn't be able to authenticate anywhere without iOS or Android.
People are good at inventing analogies that support their point of view.
I'm not sure about that. The topics I want to dig into I usually find it's harder to get the level of depth I want on a topic in book form than I do than to find videos on YouTube.

Some random examples:

- I'm interested in turbine engines, AgentJayZ has a while host of videos taking real turbine engines apart, talking about obscure features like compressor variable valve vanes etc.

- Plumbing, almost everything I've ever needed to know about plumbing has been available from PlumberParts / dereton33.

- Woodworking, I basically learned everything I know from watching people like Matthias Wandel.

- Recently I've been digging to electronics, I have an excellent book "Practical Electronics for Inventors" but every now and again I need to hear a different take on the same things and invariably there is a good video or article which clears it up for me.

What's more, to get the level of detail these guys show for free in book form would mean investing in some seriously expensive books, most of which hide the interesting parts under a lot of uninteresting maths.
Daryl Bem proved ESP is real. Which means science is broken. (2017)
I'm going through TNG right now, and the stories still hold up very well. There are a lot more useful lessons in them than I remember when watching as a kid. I really do like the humankind aspirational nature of the show also.
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That's a bad analogy. It wrong because you can see what doors, cupboards and drawers are available for the public. Doors that are in-reach but that shouldn't be used by the public have signs like "restricted access" or "employees only". You can't do that with the internet. You can't see that a port is not available to you until you try it.

If you want to continue using that analogy, then you have to consider that everybody is blind and deaf, and checking to see what's locked is the only way to know if something is available.
I think you underestimate a few things

- How great it feels to make dire predictions about the future. Only I can see how terrible M$'s latest move is going to be. The other sheeple can't. When I'm right I'll tell everyone I told them so.

- How satisfying it is to educate these younguns with their JS frameworks. They don't have my wisdom and experience so I'm doing my duty to society and HN by sharing with them. I will paste links to wikipedia wherever necessary. Like so -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

- how smart I'll look by talking cynically. Every action that someone takes will be followed by a cynical analysis which assumes the worst intentions. Wide eyed optimists will look naive to any person lacking context.
the most obvious modern use case that comes to mind is maps or more generally geospatial visualization tools
When I first did this, I ran into problems because PayPal didn't automatically allow more than one of their accounts to be "linked" to the same external bank account. I got written approval for that. Recently I had to update my information with them (after a long-distance relocation), and they were entirely fine with the two account state.

The stories about PayPal freezing everything on a hair trigger are indeed worrying, but after using PayPal to collect the majority of my income for 12-15 years, my attitude is that these stories are just another example of how the internet magnifies the bad/abnormal and buries the normal. There's no doubt that they happen, but in the context of the total amount of activity that PayPal is involved in, my sense is that they are a tiny, tiny fraction.
One thing I learned from working with startups in the space (and other B2B verticals): There is little correlation between how nice the site looks and how well the company is doing as a business. In the consumer space: maybe. But not in enterprise software.
Due to the changing nature of the web I'd even say that the sum total of useful information is actually decreasing year over year. I believe we hit an inflection point a decade or more ago when the number of people with specialized knowledge and skills who were publishing information about their domain online was surpassed by the new "content creators" whose primary goal was to optimize for clicks and ad revenue. This is unevenly applied across different areas of knowledge, the amount of information about computer and media related topics has increased but other areas seem to have realized a sharp decrease. I don't have any hard numbers to support this, only the feeling of it becoming increasingly difficult to find expert information in many areas. More and more I have to resort to public domain books as the only substantive source. There's just a general sense of something deeply wrong with the current state of the web.
Meta comment, but I would love for there to be more insight into the sociology of Hacker News. I feel like in the last couple of years we've seen a stark decrease in the frequency of "What to expect when you're expecting (to be a millionaire founder)" articles and a stark increase in "Enterprise Patterns" discourse. The latter is oddly at pretty serious tension with PG's ideas about development and Scheme.

I find the "Liskov Substitution Principle" is an awkward way of pointing at the idea that your usage of subtyping should not render the type variance in your system nonsensical.
Awesome! I was just looking at integrating Omnifocus and Notion to keep better notes and history of tasks, letting Omnifocus focus on just the task management side of the world.

It'd be cool to link up a script that takes a new task in Omnifocus under the right tag, and push a template into Notion for the note taking, and sync a link back into the notes field of Omnifocus for quick access.
Mac App Store Sandbox Escape
Microsoft has a history of anti-competitive practices that crippled the industry. In either case, serious objections are justified and severe handling of one case doesn't invalidate the handling of the other.
”Should I file a small court claim?”

I guess that’s your best bet...? AFAIK it’s not worth suing somebody for this kind of amount.
We (TimescaleDB) spent a lot of time analyzing a variety of open-source business models, before deciding the one for us.

In case it is helpful, here are the results of our study: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-open-source-software-mak...
The problem is that you need a cold fusion reactor to make it, and that technology is still too new.
Jetbrains. Gitlab. Deno. Aws. We're in a world where there's healthy competition in _all_ of these domains, excepting possibly VS online/GH codespaces which both feel like products too young to have yet found a market.

In what world is a 10-year-old locked in to the MS ecosystem any more than they were in the days of win32 and IE6? If anything, I'd look askance at Apple for Safari's hiding of `view source` by default...
Apple Releases iOS 13.5 with Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
And the Deno team moved from Golang to Rust for their implementation. Maybe that will result in some interesting developments.
Why simply waiting for herd immunity to Covid-19 isn’t an option
Well,yes,it is tough,but then again,if someone's pulling $400K in total comp writing code, that's not something that just lands from the sky. Outside of tech industry you'd need to be a VP, or even a CEO to clear that kind of money,so yes, it's expected to be tough.