skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a 45 minute / $75 flight from Walla Walla to Seattle. Spokane and Pasco both have flights all over the country. So it's super easy to live here and still get all the amenities of Seattle. As you note, the drives to Seattle and Portland really aren't that bad for about ten months of the year.
> Assuming good faith is not prudent when dealing with people who want your money or data. We have enough collective experience at this stage to say this conclusively.

Well said. This ought to be taught in schools.

Being slightly pedantic I'd change it to "when dealing with companies that want your money or data" rather than "people" (though I've pretty sure that's the general meaning you intended anyhow).
Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?
Thanks! Installed. 6 friends?? You must be an extrovert.
We do corporate finance consulting, and here's how we present the "productized" version of our offering: https://www.fivecastfinancial.com/core-financial-package/
Right-wing ideology isn't inherently authoritarian either. In fact much of right-wing ideology favors federalism and other forms of decentralization.
Fits in with the rest of windows 8, and later 10. Lots of rewrites and new UIs, many of the replacements are not up to par with the original.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246170
Do you mean something on top of the journalists and newspapers being threatened/sued?
Tech and China go hand in hand. It would be absolutely bonkers to read hacker news and expect to see nothing about China. The work of technologists has enriched their country, and that is a moral hazard that many businesses must increasingly consider.
How often does the CEO change though? What would the alternative strategy be? If you feel that the CEO is likely to get replaced or that the CEO is likely to change strategy isn't that a good signal that you should be looking to work at other companies?
Yes, I was responding to the apology. This should have been part of it, and is part of the lesson to founders. If you are in position of responsibility, mistakes are inevitable, and so is having to correctly apologize. (I learned the hard way.)

This incident is about a self-inflicted customer data breach. As it surprised the CEO, it suggests a full-company culture & governance issue, and is hard to be reactive about. Even when things are going well, customer responsibility & data protection should be a constant and non-obvious responsibility for everyone as soon as anything like marketing, sales, engineering, hiring, delegation, etc. gets interesting. A lot of people are involved in a major move like this and the governance structures that inform them. Think their VCs / VPs / managers / etc either signing off... or not caring.

And again, I'm writing this more as a warning for other founders. Building a culture is a constant marathon, and it's way harder to fix one. (For the CEO: I'd consult with a few folks knowledgeable about communicating apologies ASAP, esp. before any further unvetted public comms, and for longer-term, get regular external advisors + directly responsible internal leaders for fixing culture + security, and rethink why multiple internal leaders failed in both. But that's super generic.)
I would start with your immediate boss and maybe his skip-level. For the skip-level come with a precise explanation of what Slack is doing well, what your experience with Slack seems to show for negative and some potential remedies :)
Sure but I guess the whole point is knowing that it's an original. This is the new "autograph" and you could always fake one if all you wanted was to give it as a present to someone.
The small business buys AS/400.
IBM configures it.
Drop it in a closet, forget about it.

If something goes wrong it will call for help, before
you even know something was wrong.

It depends on what you define a small business as though.

Back in the days these were extremely reliable.
I have seen them in closets, covered with everything else you
would find in a closet.

Used by everyone day in and day out, nobody knew where it was
or what it was.

It also, in my opinon, had a nifty operating system with a lots of
inventive ideas when it came out.

I wish they had released the OS when they discontinued the line.
Jamulus is another take on this. It's server based and uses lossy compression (opus). People host public servers and the software has a server browser.

http://llcon.sourceforge.net/

http://llcon.sourceforge.net/PerformingBandRehearsalsontheIn...
Geiser+Guile does work quite fine under Linux for me. Speaking of Scheme and Slime, I have heard of Swank which is for using MIT, Ikarus, Larceny, and Kawa Schemes in Slime.
url has random text at the end, should probably be https://www.sciinc.com/remotevms/vms_techinfo/vms_news/OpenV... (and if that was a password, you should change it! - flagging this to hide it if so, please resubmit with fixed url)
That's correct. Typing 'com' with the keyboard set to Hebrew results in 'בםצ' (which is not even pronounceable) not 'קום'.

The Hebrew keyboard layout has no relation to QWERTY in terms of phonetics.
I can't handle more than an hour at a time inside a VR headset before I start to go cross-eyed. I couldn't imagine trying to work that way.
Coupon Collector's Problem
At least it would be self-descriptive! :D
Google's definition of socialism

"a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."

Private enterprise isn't the community. I'll admit that the state isn't the only way these things can organize, but it is probably the most common (excluding groups like the Mennonites)
That's a mostly fair and accurate summary of the "this is a big scandal" position imho. Quite representative of people holding that position in all aspects including tone, length, and content.

FWIW I am not a PiS supporter, have never voted for them, and likely will not vote for them in the forseeable future.
I think your missing the point of the paper clip maximiser example. All it’s for is to show how complex reasoning and intelligence are, and that strong AI has to be about a lot more than just solving problems.

Arguing that a strong AI would have to be smart enough not to make a mistake like that is really the purpose of the example.
Something I discovered the other day, while looking for a high-wattage Dell USB C adapter to use with my older XPS 15 (which came with just a old-school charger, so it doesn't get full juice out of most other USB C ones) is that the new 130W Dell USB-C charger only shows up as 90W on an older one like mine.

Looking around, stuff like this isn't uncommon. Apparently a lot of HP's won't work with non-HP USB C chargers at all, for instance.
It depends on which ethical framework you subscribe to, but if I were in your shoes using my ethical framework, it seems like the small cost to me to purchasing an available domain (making the assumption here it's a standard buy and it's not one of those "make an offer for $10k" domains...) to mitigate a lot of potential hurt to other people would make me lean toward just purchasing the domain myself, or at least making the correct people aware. An equally valid counterexample would be a framework where you didn't cause the harm, so you have no obligation to intervene.
Study claiming Covid-19 can be transmitted by people without symptoms was flawed
- Don't be in a hurry to deliver anything. You will not enjoy surroundings and only be irritated by the inconvenience.

- Try to shift your work so that when you work outside you can do things that are easier on your eyes, don't require a lot of typing, good internet connection, etc. For example read documentation, do some concept work, etc.

- If your family is close by, ensure clear expectations before you start. Set ground rules (ie. when you are working and when you are available). Try to make it up for them.
Four Penny Coffin
> BSD peoples like the BSD2/MIT/ISC/FreeBSD-License, but have no problem too import the CDDL the Apache or the GPLx (at least in the pkg), whatever works.

If by "BSD peoples" you mean the FreeBSD/NetBSD community, then yes. But OpenBSD devs deem CDDL to be unacceptable:

http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2015/asiabsdcon/mgp00020.html

https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD
Side note: integrated batteries are still replaceable if you're handy. (Though not quickly swappable like you're suggesting for more energy capacity over a single day!)

On the MacBook Pro I'm typing on right now, I replaced my the battery myself a few months ago. It took about an hour including a thorough cleaning of the laptop internals and I documented it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAYFDDxUxHA . That's still 59.9 minutes longer than it would have taken if had a modular battery, but about the same price in dollars. And a fun little weekend project.
Just one thing is important: fuck the new york times.
Hydroxychloroquine Update
Imagine sex dolls in Toy story
To try and fail than never having tried.
If you went through the process that the comment says, you might find out that you do not simply know the facts and that you are in fact biased. Do check your sources, their agenda and how that affects their framing of their reporting.

But whatever, enjoy your day.
MongoDB support is a work in progress for them too but otherwise a fun library.
The inability to reuse database connections would be a huge performance hit.

In a traditional webapp backend, you have a pool of connections to the database. User01 hits your service, and grabs a connection off the pool. User02 does the same, and so on. These connections get put back in the pool for reuse once a user is done with them.

In your design, every time a user hits your service, a new connection, specific to that user, will have to be made. This will incur network traffic and the overhead of logging in to the DBMS.

If you're thinking about using something like SQLite, you will hit a hard wall when the OS isn't able to open any more file descriptors, as well.

Like you said, DB administration will be a huge pain in the ass. Rather than having Flyway or Liquidbase or whatever run a migration on one database, you'll have to run it on thousands of databases. There will be significant downtime when your databases are not in a consistent state with one another. There will also be bloat from the migration tool's record keeping, which will be duplicated for every user, rather than every database.

A lot of the tools a database gives you for free will also need to be implemented in application logic, instead. For example, you might want to run a query that says "show me every user using more than 1GB of storage," but under your schema, you'll have to log into every user's database individually, determine storage used, and add it to an in-memory list.

If you ever want to allow users to collaborate, you will end up replicating the owner_id field type metadata anyway, and the entire benefit of this schema will evaporate.

Most frameworks are not set up to handle this style of database access, either. I don't use Rails, but Spring Boot would fight you every step of the way if you tried to do this.
See also:

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15679205 - particularly https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/duffs-device.html

2016 (a bit) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758686 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10830744

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175901

2015 (in Go) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8990742

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360306 (note the personal anecdote)

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1896643

2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761177

2008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=195763
I think there are some options for ssl-stripping proxies so you can still use old browsers

for 10.4, check out tenfourfox
> Hated being assumed that I’m a dumb foreigner.

I believe they assumed you were not dumb, but that you were willing. That's what I told myself, at least.

And since the prices were about about half of what I would pay at home, I was totally OK with that.

Some markets are only open to foreign currency, and if that currency is worth 25x more to someone else than it is to me, and they're selling a product to me at what feels like a 50% discount, then I am a willing participant in that economy!
Yes, this is basically the standard reading of history around the period in question, and was a huge factor in India/China (in the mid-late 18th century, you had armies of a few thousand British/sepoys beating armies 10-20x but by the 19th century, native-ish Indian forces were starting to catch up...I say "native-ish" because a lot of the forces in what we would call India today, weren't from India).

From somewhere around the War of Spanish Succession until probably the Napoleonic War there were huge changes in military technology/organisation, and the ones who innovated fastest ended up winning (also, guns were one of the first products to be manufactured in a factory system...so there were spillovers). There was, of course, innovation after but this period was when the modern military really took shape.

However, it is also probably true that the military was often an output of economic strength, not a technological input (in the way that we might think of technology/knowledge today). A big reason why there was military innovation was because of the huge growth in govt borrowing and creation of financial markets in the 18th century. So you saw countries start to take power that could innovate financially (i.e. Dutch Republic, Spain) and then you saw these countries implode when they couldn't keep pace with France and Britain (France is kind of tricky because they frequently imploded through the 18/19th century, always making a miracle comeback...usually through dint of having such a huge population i.e. Napoleonic Wars).

To give a concrete example: one part of British dominance was the Navy (which was in part a technological advantage), another part was their ability to subsidise pretty much every other country in Europe to fight France...there isn't really one without the other.

In terms of the 20th century, it is probably true as well. Like Britain in the 19th century, the US has kind of guaranteed security and freedom of trade around the world...and to do this you need to have the resources to bash some heads every once in a while (and btw, the US has done this in a far less evil way by seeding multilateral institutions). And, as you know, that investment is the reason why we have Silicon Valley so there are definitely spillovers from military tech still.

Pretty meandering answer but there are quite a few threads here because the military has never been easy to separate from the rest of the economy.
I have been seriously considering building one of these: https://fabiensanglard.net/the_beautiful_machine/index.html

The appeal of having _zero_ noise on my desk is climbing along with pre-summer heat as my gear starts blowing even more air around...
So is triple byte safe to use after this ? Or should I just use another service?
I still have to get dressed and drive there.
Wasn't Vista where they went all-in with animations and blurs, like Windows Aero?
The Demonym for US-Centeredness
Pardon my ignorance, but what insight or experience leads you to this conclusion?

Venture capital is quite the opposite of passive investing. I guess everyone on here is well aware investors are not doing it for fun but first and foremost for protecting and, ideally, multiplying their assets.
SF spends $45k per homeless person?!
The fact that it got to this point I think would be concerning:

a) No one thought this was a bad idea, or

b) people who thought it was a bad idea didn't want to say it was a bad idea (why?), or

c) people who did say it was a bad idea were not listened to (feedback was not acted on).
small anecdote, saw couple years ago - a woman with a dog leaves the dog park and pulls the dog to follow her toward the parking, the dog pulls into opposite direction and is pretty insistent, after some moments of mutual pulling the woman finally "Oh! you're right! I parked there today!" and follows the dog to the other parking.
Pet Peeve: they break the back button on the browser
This list mostly corresponds to my personal experiences as a native Russian speaker, and I've heard 70% used in the wild. To fill two of the ?'s:

ёбнуть = to f*ck

ёбнуться = to stumble or injure oneself

What's interesting is that this whole list only uses one root word, of which there are 3 more
WOAH! NEVER HEARD THAT ONE BEFORE!!!

HOLY COW! I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE YOU JUST POSTED! REALLY GLAD YOU'RE HERE ON HN TO FILL US IN ON THE OBSCURE THINGS THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN DISCUSSED HERE ON HAVKER NEWS NOT EVEN ONCE!

WOW! NEWS TO EVERYONE! GLAD IT'S YOUR FAVORITE, SO COOL!!! <3
Same problem. Same site. For the past several days. Version 85.0.4153.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
Make sure your screen is really clean and you’ll be surprised how much less glare you’ll experience
Ho-hum :) I'm slightly torn between admiration and horror:

> The key is to wrap all the potential line breaks (inserted via ::after pseudo-elements) and hyphens in <span> elements that are hidden by default with display: none;. Media queries are then used to selectively show the line breaks specific to a given column width.

Doesn't look like you compared with simply inserting soft hyphens - last I looked, that made columns bearable in browsers, although still not as good as proper line breaking.
There is a Hebrew phonetic keyboard layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard#Hebrew_on_stan... it's built in on Android, windows, Linux, etc.

Usually used by non-native Hebrew speakers.

> 'בםצ' (which is not even pronounceable)

Sounds like a new snack from Osem :)
True, but it also takes away some pain you'd otherwise have. I used to be in the 'Kubernetes is unnecessary overhead for most cases' camp, but since I actually started to use it I think it's a good base for even smaller setups, and I find myself prefering it to other ways of reproducably setting up infrastructure/services. Maybe that's not the case for the people posting here, but often times it seems people who argue against Kubernetes have never really used it and don't have more than a shallow knowledge.

Its hard to put into words without writing a blog post, but in my mind the 'everything is a resource' design introduces a simplicity that counterbalances the complexity that comes with it. One still has to make an informed decision, of course, and sometimes it really is not the right tool ...
> The solution we had was to give one Space for each team/department in the company

This is the single biggest tip I would give any company who uses Confluence. For some reason, most companies I work for that use Confluence insist on using minimal separation of Spaces. I.e. IT in general has a Space, and my team has a folder nested 6 folders deep in some path that I can never remember and have to bookmark.

It makes search effectively useless. If I search for "X api documentation" I get 10,000 results ranging from meeting minutes that some unrelated team put up that just happen to use those terms, to pages from other teams documenting how they use the API.

A Space should be treated the same as a Jira project. If I had my way, I would create a Space every time we created a Jira project.

And my biggest request for the Confluence team would be better markdown support (I should be able to indicate that I want to type Markdown without having to click through a giant list), and a way to set up a space to sync from Markdown files stored in Git. Some of us don't want to use the WYSIWYG editor, and I would love to be able to use an MR review process for documentation changes before they go live.
> I was inspired to investigate the original HELLO.C for Windows 1.0, a 125 line behemoth that was talked about in hush tones.

Should that have been "125k line"? Not to get too pedantic, but the units seem needful for "behemoth".
Who writes this shit? No one expects you to work from the hospital waiting room while your mother is in an ICU.
The energy is proportional to both the height and the mass. The mass is proportional to the height itself. Hence the energy is proportional to the square of the height.

If the fill level is h, so the weighted average of the mass is at h/2,then

E = m * g * h / 2

m = V * r

V = A * h

E = A * r * g * h^2 / 2

m2 * kg/m3 * m/s2 * m2 = kg m2 / s2 = J
But it's not like a self service portal, it goes through review and would probably be rejected for obvious reasons.

There are guidelines provided by icann

http://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-en.htm
> The right to own property is an extension of our right to own our own life.

Not at all. It's a benefit of modern nation states and the contracts they extend to their residents.

A monopoly on violence [1] is a fundamental step of the legitimation process of any sovereignty, whether an anarcho-capitalist homestead or a modern nation state.

Property rights (including property held in common by the state) are a benefit of the state contract and are enforced by the same monopoly on violence. If you expect your property rights to be protected, you must engage in the contract (via residency and payment of taxes) with an authority that backs them up those rights. Otherwise, you will have a scenario like Afghanistan, with fluid internal sovereignty and where property rights frequently are managed through violence.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence
Something else that can also help cost and quality is EasyBroadcast’s viewer assisted streaming in addition to Fastly. Adding a JS to the player pages enables cdn offloading by making each viewer act as a potential source based on QoE/QoS metrics.
Disclaimer: I am one of the cofounders. Happy to help.
Many of the gTLDs charge exorbitant yearly fees for "premium" domains as a means of recouping costs. I pay $300/yr for {myFirstName}.dev. It's extortion, and I might drop it.

With many of the common domain suffixes now becoming TLDs, branding seems much more difficult since you have to buy multiple domains. Is it audiotech.com? audio.tech? tech.audio? Who knows.

I don't think that I would call this better.

My opinion is that Google wants to erode the open web and is using gTLD proliferation to make it confusing to consumers. Instead of remembering a URL, just Google for it.
I grew up in the Soviet Union though. As they say in Russia, "не учи отца ебаться".

My parents have never been inside a Beriozka, nor any of my relatives. Shopping there presented an economic impossibility: you either had to have foreign currency (outright illegal for Soviet citizens, with severe punishment for possession, so that meant you'd be a foreigner) or convertible rubles ("invalutny ruble", not illegal, but impossible for a regular Ivan to acquire due to the aforementioned illegality of foreign currency). 99.999% of soviet citizens _did not_ receive income in "foreign currency", and by definition "invalutny ruble" could only be bought with foreign currency. Or just handed out to a party apparatchik through other mechanisms. Those folks weren't suffering at all, best everyone else could tell.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB...
Given that there don’t seem to be actual business repercussions from the internet mob’s displeasure, and the internet mob’s displeasure, once roused, cannot be quieted by apologies, changes in behavior, or explanations, it’s unclear to me that we’re actually “instilling” anything in companies, other than the lesson that it’s not worth bothering to pay attention to the internet mob.
Actually, it’s a lot more about standardization and pricing. Apple’s assistive tech is excellent.
I don't think that's true. The midwest was buying trucks long before manufacturing left for China.
It’s all relative. Philadelphia sports fans are also considered some of the most passionate and loyal out there. I state this as journalist-reviewed fact :) https://www.npr.org/2018/02/03/582876687/despite-colorful-hi...