skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone I know rather well is their sysadmin, and their site is still up: https://dailystormer.su/

Admittedly, they’ve had a hell of a time, but the hard data is that it continues to run. I don’t condone domain names or hosting accounts getting shut down based on content (ANY content) but it appears that it is still at least a little bit possible to host the most extreme of incorrect/offensive content, it’s just not convenient.

I imagine they might even still be on Cloudflare if they hadn’t promoted the (incorrect) theory that Cloudflare not canceling them was actually a dogwhistle endorsement of their content. Cloudflare cited this incorrect claim as the reason for their termination.

That said, large hosting platforms used by majorities of the population (eg YouTube, Facebook, Instagram) should absolutely have to carry data uncritically, just like the phone company, or at least as long as they are actively trying to kill the federated open web with things like censored native app stores, censored browser extension indices, censored and surveilled messaging platforms, and AMP. Things would be quite a bit different if our hardware didn’t forcibly opt us in to dictatorial censorship of native apps.

It also grinds my gears that they call it “community standards”, which are weasel words to pretend that their userbase likes being forced to watch only what their dictator approves of. They’re unilateral, and invoking the term “community” is a dishonest, unprofessional move.
well that very same attack vector aka "visiting a web site" is what everyone had against Flash

how convenient to consider that "pretty slim" now
Heck, I don't even know if it has to be per-article; I would like the option to pay for this month and only this month, since most subscriptions are ~$5 these days.

US consumer laws don't require good, hassle free ways to end subscriptions and the main reason I haven't subscribed to any is the utter lack of desire to spend hours hashing out a cancellation with a call center employee.
One in Four Tyson Foods Employees at NC Plant Test Positive for Coronavirus
That the experience that many of us are having, where companies had to rush into supporting remote work by necessity, and where your home and personal life are affected greatly by factors other than not working in an office, is not necessarily a great indicator about whether the general idea of "working from home" is a good fit personally or professionally.

And all of the medium.com thinkpieces and "COVID made me realize I don't like remote work" comments are based on a an experience heavily colored by these other factors.

My person preference is having flexible work-from-home a couple of days per week. Often on those days I compensate by taking more walks, or going to a coffee shop for a snack and some time outside the house.

The last couple of months of working from home AND having additional societal restrictions, spouses and kids in the house, stores and restaurants closed, and limited social interaction outside of work aren't representative of what working remotely might be like during normal times and by choice.

Heck if you were a full time remote worker by planning, you might choose to life in a different place less constrained by the highway commute time to your office. Somewhere closer to walkable shops and restaurants, or on the other end of the spectrum somewhere with yard space where you can have a garden outside.

On the professional side, a company that mostly worked in the office that had to pivot and adapt to remote work in an emergency situation is not going to be the same procedurally or culturally as one that has been based around remote work from the beginning, or adapted to it long ago.

TL;DR: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/QuarantineWorkIsNotRemoteWork...

Edit: If it wasn't clear, I'm agreeing with your original point that the naysayer comments on every WFH related discussion are off track, repetitive, and lacking context.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
RPI had this, too, and I remember taking full advantage of it oh so long ago.
I believe the point OP is making is that you can be accused of libel for speaking the truth.
And if you have kids but they aren’t yet in school, you’re likely juggling watching them while working.
> the average risk I expose myself to per mile is indeed higher, but this doesn't imply that driving to the grocery store is any more dangerous than it was before.

It doesn't mean it doesn't either. Someone would need to do the science to show it either way, and that hasn't happened.

I don't see how you get from there (which you could have said in like 5% of the prose as "the variables aren't independent") to your point that the news media shouldn't ever report on scientific results if there is the possibility of a confounded variable.

The standard you want applied would effectively mean that the media can't report on experimental science at all. So I'm going to go back to my original supposition that what you really WANT is for the media not to report on inconvenient facts, and you're hiding behind scientific pedantry to make the case.
A huge part of modern software updates seems to be bait and switching your users.
Yeah, I agree with you that the production app likely had an async process, i.e. queuing submissions and processing them first-come-first-serve, which would help explain why Dave didn't get the failure email until well into the next day. Seems safe to assume there was no process for (good) input validation upon upload.

And now that I reread the passage about Dave, I realize it's not necessarily true that Dave tried to upload HEIC, then got an error message, which led him to then rename the file. But he may have actually read the instructions about PNG/JPG being required, then thought he could just rename his file, then uploaded it as his first and only upload to the demo app. And whether the demo app actually did the upload, it apparently didn't do the parsing (I still think that was stubbed out; I can imagine an engineer thinking it'd save a headache if they disabled the parsing module for the demo server)
Ask HN: Why do fintech salespeople refuse to communicate except by telephone?
I do feel like HN is having a rehash of a conversation we've had many times this past month. I'll post my favorite comment [1] on the matter of remote salary adjustment, which captures a key market effect we all seem to forget (Bay Area specific):

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"Cost of Living" adjustments are a red herring, what they really are is really "competition density".
There are plenty of tech companies paying great salaries in the bay because they have to, otherwise they would just go work for someone else. On the other hand, if you lived in Oklahoma you aren't going to say no to $LOCAL_OFFER+10k just because bay area salaries are $LOCAL_OFFER+90k.

As long as this disparity exists, I forsee bay area salaries and CoL still being high. Until companies move headquarters out of the bay, the trend will continue.

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Similarly, in this thread, Consultant32452 states [2] that the real argument is between those who can demand a high salary regardless of geography, and those who can only demand a high salary _because_ of geography.

The mistake is many people in the latter group think they are in the former.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23162855 by hn user nemothekid
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23265158 by hn user Consultant32452
Interesting - thanks for the info! It's a good personal reminder to always vet my sources and keep reporting outlets accountable.
Anytime something doesn't fit the narrative we're all supposed to submit to: bots.
Oh, hey! First of all, kudos for already having the career site reflecting the transition to "Digital by default". Just yesterday I was looking at the site and there was still different sections based on location.

My question is about the "Expression of Interest" positions that are listed. Are they used mostly as way to collect CVs from no-exact-match candidates, or could this be the channel for someone that, e.g, is working on an open source project that might align well with Shopify's interests?

If you prefer to answer by email, feel free to write me, lullis at google's mail.
Apple pushes employees to return to work as Silicon Valley goes remote
Because supply-side is what provides the country with the best economy in the world.
That's really interesting to hear, I had always wondered how bad things can really be. I guess the answer is "as bad as money can buy" which I should have expected. Thanks.
Well, duh. How else do communists exert control and power?
Yeah I think there’s definitely a class element.

You don’t see people bulking up and lifting heavy, it’s all time intensive endurance sports that make you thin.
Third of coronavirus deaths in England's hospitals linked to diabetes [video]
V8 is 1/3 faster than the JSC on Apple Hardware
Not in the desktop/server space but there are a few products like this. Xilinx has the Zynq line with 1-2 Cortex-A9 cores paired to an FPGA. Microsemi has their Cortex-M3 based Smartfusion line and is supposedly launching their Polarfire SoC with 4 RISC-V cores plus an FPGA later this year.
Hedge Fund Chief Says It’s Time to Go for Herd Immunity
Go work on embedded stuff. There are lots of jobs where you work primarily with electrical engineers. It is pretty much the opposite of front end work.
Why on earth does this have to be compared to China? And Falun Gong?!

This is long form journalism with establishment figures such as university professors.

YouTube censors clearly overstepped their "mandate" here. And Unherd has other ways of publicising this particular interview and drawing attention to YouTube's censorship.
Here is the link to the research mentioned in the video:

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 related mortality in England

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/type-1-and-type-2-dia...
I agree the research isn’t there to the same rigor as other fields. Thus I too don’t like to rely too heavily on it. My experience is N=1, anecdotal, but the subjective difference is astonishing. And although correlation != causation, it can imply it.

It took a few months of eating consistently to see results, and taking detailed logs daily with subjective rating system made it as close to “scientific” for myself, to review change over time.

Alas that isn’t true science, and I’m not sure how we can truly test nutrition, ethically. Studies in other animals have similar effects as epidemiological studies: they point to variables we should casually test.
These huge web sites are using public right-of-ways and wireless spectrum to transmit their data. It'd be like the phone company censoring your speech. The 1st amendment ought to apply to them unless they are using a fully private means of distributing their information.
That's terrifying. Is there any auditing done by Mozilla to get an extension published? Or is it a free for all?
One of the big benefits to companies of WFH is dramatically reduced real estate costs (plus all of the support services required - cleaning, security, maintenance). If you still need your office capacity to support 100% of the staff in the office at a given time, you lose most of that benefit.
I guess it depends on your definition of widespread. It is relatively common, but it's also far from universal, and there are companies that use on call which have a vastly different experience that what many people at Amazon report. In fact it seems like even different teams inside of Amazon have drastically different experience of on call. Treating it like a fact of life, like the weather, leaves you in a frame of mind that makes it impossible to advocate for change. Your own phrasing "be the change you want to see in the world" could as easily apply to on call as much as it does anything else -- but you won't take that stance if you think it's inescapable.
I’ve never been able to find it there’s been much research in communicating with dolphins. Especially with all of the latest machine learning and translation research. It would be so cool if they could open source a data set of dolphins recordings with context. (Maybe sound and video)

Does anyone have the sea world connections to make that happen?
Marvin purports to fight distractions and procrastination.

And yet it lets you customize and tweak things to get it "just how you want." Sounds like a dream and a nightmare in one for OCPD people like moi.
Not sure, but i refuse to talk if salesman don't want to send me email before the sign up.
The "public interest" is often a very politically sensitive subject to define. While I'm sure that works great 99% of the time, is that last 1% worth the sacrifice?

Personally I prefer the default to be legality, and make exceptions for things we want to be illegal, rather than reverse.
Was this because you would have to plot it line/pixel-by-line/pixel?
Good luck to you too kind stranger!
An exotic peripheral rarely seen in the wild: The Cauzin Softstrip reader
I think the evidence is high that existing higher plant photosynthesis (Photosystem I + Photosystem II) is a merger of purple photosynthesis with Chloroflexus photosystem (possibly via horizontal transfer). IIRC Photosystem I is derived from purple, and PS 2 is derived from chloroflexus.
another tool in this space, https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian

delta would be less ootb policies (though lots of github repos with examples re awesome custodian lists), and more user defined policy as code (dsl and gitops style) with integration into serverless provider platforms for continuous monitoring, along with remediation support and platform integrations (security hub, google cloud security command center, etc).

other tools in this space on the detect and report side (albeit aws specific)
https://github.com/toniblyx/prowler
https://github.com/jonrau1/ElectricEye

on the gcp side forseti,
https://github.com/forseti-security/forseti-security
>Some people are lying to themselves to justify why they have lost so many hours of their life in an office.

Sounds needlessly aggressive, just straight up dismissing any valid points the other side could have.

Do I like working from home? Yes. Does it give me more flexibility when it comes to my personal life? Absolutely. Would I want to work from home every day? Definitely no.

In a perfect world, I would love to work 3 days a week from home, with the remaining 2 days in the office (not necessarily back to back, e.g., I would prefer working from office on mondays and wednesdays.
sounds cool! how big queues are on your setup? how big mq instances (servers) are? do you use HA, replications/failovers?
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Weekly, but either of us feel free to cancel if we need the time back

My direct report is our product manager, and has his schedule packed with meetings. Keeping a 1on1 on the calendar means I can nab him with questions during a busy week without sending another fifteen emails to an already overflowing inbox. Plus, it makes us both pick our heads up at least once a week to socially engage, which we could both easily forget to do.
> it turned out it would be effectively a 3x salary decrease

What do you mean by 3x decrease? X/3 ?
It's happened twice in the last week. Is it some sort of filter? I've never had a question that couldn't be answered in a few sentences. My questions certainly haven't risen to needing to schedule a phone call yet that's all salespeople ever want to do.

Is there some sales manual that says you can only close people if you talk on the phone?
Politics mainly. It's already hard to convince people to give up part of their wealth for their fellow citizens. Good luck convincing them to give it up for non-citizens.

Also, logistics. If immigrants can get the UBI, then people would flood in from all over the world just to get UBI. You'd either have a ton of expense, or you'd have to make legal immigration nearly impossible.
If nothing else it just makes it look like they’re hiding something and encourages more interest.
Is it accepted on tests?
Trust your own aesthetic ideals: can you use your anger to help push you in a positive direction? I agree there is a lot wrong with the React ecosystem, and its complexity. I wish I could suggest something unequivocally better than doing front-end work to earn money, but other options just have different compromises. Good luck.
How many teams and what's the average team size?
Wouldn't having one representative from each team going to these meetings be better? Meetings with large number of people dilute individual contribution,focus,and deprive those attending from time to do the actual work.
Not really. It made it harder to sue for defamation and easier to defend but it still doesn't remove the burden of proof from the defendant.
Stock motorcycles aren't noisy. Crack down on the fools who install straight pipes and insist on gunning it through neighborhoods at night.
I don't see what WSS would do to stop the local websockets dev server from serving a remote client. A remote client could just accept the connection without verifying the signature, yes?
Dropbox and OneDrive allow you to sync HEIF instead of JPEG.
I'll vouch for Tree Style Tabs. It's a killer extension that changed the way I work and made Firefox into a serious productivity workhorse for me. I can easily manage 10x as many tabs as I could before without ever feeling like I'm getting lost in them.
when I disable websocket with network.websocket.max-connections = 0, then whatsappweb doesn't work, so perhaps someone can develop a related attack here?
Beautiful quote. Thanks for sharing.
Consider that it is far easier to spread misinformation/disinformation than it is to educate, and that over time there are going to be even more powerful forms of disinformation in the form of deep fakes. People have a hard time distinguishing real from fake now, it's only going to get worse from here.

On one hand you can say that nothing should be censored and the onus is on the viewer to critically evaluate information. But the reality is that misinformation/disinformation is causing real harm to people, populations, and civilization itself.

For example, propaganda on Facebook in Myanmar has fueled mass killings against the Rohingya. Anti-vax misinformation is lowering vaccination rates and causing a resurgence of diseases that were almost eradicated. Should companies like Google and Facebook just turn a blind eye to all of that and watch brutality and backwardness thrive and tear down progress? At what point should the line be drawn?

Make no mistake, there are malign actors out there who are weaponizing misinformation as we speak. If we choose not to do anything about it, they will have an out-sized role in shaping the future to their ends.

It certainly is a very difficult question to figure out where the line should be drawn, and even then it's a moving target. But it's a question worth wrangling over, and ultimately if mankind is going to meet the challenges of now and the future, the threat of disinformation has to be met one way or another.
It would certainly be challenging to be a non-citizen resident if you have to pay the same taxes as everyone else, but are cut out of such a major benefit.

Basically a gigantic extra tax for not having citizenship.
Oddly enough there is nothing to be seen about this on the reddit frontpage.
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Being the most popular platform doesn’t make something a monopoly.
"pretty soon" is when? garbage trucks are giant, quarter million dollar machines with giant forks on them that could demolish thousands of homes in an accident before someone shoots its tires. this seems like one of those things that will still be done manually for years after level 5. imagine a self-operated crane constructing a skyscraper. it's not that it's inherently more difficult than self-driving--the stakes are too high and one disaster could undo decades of savings from not hiring people.
To their credit, Mozilla does have an approval process, but it's pretty opaque what actually happens during that process. They also have a "Recommended Extensions" program which does more thorough vetting, apparently. Chrome is more of a free-for-all.
I remember entering high school and picking up this book from the library in 9th grade. It was honestly not my favorite. It being called “Calculus Made Easy” had me feeling frustrated. I went to put it back and there was a book next to it called Calculus and Pizza. Within the introduction I got the intuitive feel for differentials and limits. I was able to play with the difference formula and take a much more enthusiastic high level trip through both differential and integral calculus. A big bonus was Calculus and Pizza allowed me to check my algebra in the back of the book and forward those questions to my algebra teacher. That was a few years before I was able to officially take calculus, so I kept re-reading chapters because they were fun.

A book with an easy approach really needs to make the chapters super easy to restart and spiral through concepts. Stories and characters didn’t hurt to have too though.
> Where are the cyclists, the surfers, the skiiers/snowboarders, dirt bikers, rock climbers, etc etc in these threads?

I'd say they are out there riding bikes, skiing or climbing, not discussing WFH arrangements for the third time this week :D
Of course he should be censored! Despite his probable decade of medical training, he believes the wrong thing.
> you can mitigate by using connection pooling

Can you do connection pooling to Postgres from cloud functions?

I know there is a Node driver that does it for MySQL [1] but I've never seen one for Postgres.

[1] https://github.com/jeremydaly/serverless-mysql
I also got my first queue set up and running within a reasonable period of time with celery. I have no idea of the internals of RabbitMQ and took longer with celery really (back on python 2.7) but that system has been in prod for 6 years now without really needing any maintenance
As Shopify? 35b (SQ) market cap vs 86b market cap (SHOP), SF vs Ottawa HQ, guess 4000 vs 6500 employees (based on linkedin numbers) is fairly close, but Square and Shopify are quite different.
Homepage of a computer scientist who devoted over 20 years into whether P=NP
$5Bn is a lot to spend on a campus that nobody wants to come work at. On the other hand, plenty of space to hide from each others' germs!
Learned about midnight lizard thanks to this post. like it a lot. some websites take a while till they are rendered in midnight mode. However, my laptop is not very powerful.
Without getting into what's right or fair, the reality is that it supply & demand that defines price setting behavior (in this instance, the company is optimizing for its consumer surplus)

Maybe another way to think about it is when some innovation drove the price of a car down by 10% (because production costs are lower, the car maker makes the same profit). Would you say "Hey I was happy paying the car full price for the value it provided me, so let me pay its old, full price, I'd be happy to do that"?
Rails has active admin and a couple of similar options.

I've built quite complex apps with activeadmin, it's worth looking at.
Let me offer a bit of anecdotal evidence in response. Where I live, there are about 4 major competitors "Uber" services, and everyone that I know that regularly uses them, just uses whatever is cheapest at any given point. Usually it is to do with what campaign or promo code has been given most recently.

My observation is that, yes for the general public there may be only "Uber" or traditional taxis, but those are the people that never use it in the first place.

> Platforms win out because of user familiarity, not because they're necessarily the cheapest option.

Uber is not a platform for the user. It is a service for basic transportation that costs money, and all car hailing apps offer similar enough experiences with different price tags depending on how fast the company is throwing money away.