skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this particular individual has already had to walk back false statements: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-area-prote...

> The Seattle Police Department walked back its claim, widely repeated in the news media, that denizens of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone are extorting businesses.

> "That has not happened affirmatively," Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best in a news conference Thursday afternoon, adding that the police department had based earlier claims on anecdotal reports, including in the news and on social media. "We haven't had any formal reports of this occurring."

> That contradicts earlier statements from the police.
Goodness, that random zettel is hard to grep.

My own zettelkasten of random thoughts and casual ideas that pop into my head certainly aren't going to be compiled into a chapter of a sociology book, but I still find value in being able to connect ideas from HN posts and YouTube videos.

The products of those types of notes for me are just blog posts and interesting dinner conversations.
Very nice drawings, what tool was used ?
Basically. Between covid masks and the music, nice weather, art, co-op style stuff it looks and feels very Burning Man. Which is a popular event for folks here anyway so perhaps unsurprising.
Yep, but that's simply how the linux kernel works [1]. As a programmer you need to essentially load up all your modules/libraries/data/etc that you will need into memory before the fork, and treat the forked() processes as read-only as much as possible from a resource perspective. If you modify anything from the parent, you get your own page as soon as that happens. [2][3]

[1] https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=368650

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(system_call)
> The grafana dashboard they set up is super cool also.

Here's a handy link for that:
https://dashboard.satnogs.org
Is he going to be writing a similar letter to Apple?

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/28/17055088/apple-chinese-ic...

https://sneak.berlin/20200604/if-zoom-is-wrong-so-is-apple/
Fire tablets are trash that can barely show books and streaming.
Want to tell us about a good book on the basics in the mean time?
Pinephone from Pine64 with 2 GB RAM currently performs like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8

Upd: if it's too slow for you, consider this: http://media.lrdu.org/sxmo_pinephone_demos/sxmo_demo_0_allfe...
Sounds like they aren't worth billions of dollars anymore.
I just listened to "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Leave It To PSmith" on the Classic Tales podcast.

Both were very amusing.
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Lots of absolutes and zero sources. I never claimed it was to drop customers, sounds like you are in an argument with yourself.

Unions could absolutely have an impact on racial discrimination and wealth disparities.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment.

“building a solid platform for dev and ops taking code to production” => great, that is a big focus for us!

We already have invested a lot to make this easier, including environments, feature flags, and more. Our direction is on https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ops/#release

What is the top feature you would like to see?
I guess we can wait for their response to find out. I’m genuinely curious to hear about the merciless shutdowns the preview.
> telling to shut up because they used the word "privilege" is not very conducive to conversation

I don't like it because it's an all-purpose "shut up" card itself. It discounts opinion and argument not because of any merit or logic, simply because of the arguer's socioeconomic situation - which is not even known! I feel it is a very lazy way to conduct a conversation.

I'm sorry if my original post came across sarcastically, i was just trying to "reductio ad absurdum" some of the arguments i've heard in the past.

What I hate about "privilege" is that it is an invitation to introduce the notion of personal virtue into what should be a dispassionate discussion. It turns into a competition which has nothing to do with the merit of the point. It is a personal thing, much like race, and it's not useful. When I hear "you wouldn't understand because you're privileged" i can just translate it to "because you're white" or "because you're asian" or "because you're X". Well great. Where does that get us? And since you're talking about me, let's look very closely at you?

I don't deny privilege exists. Of course it does. I daresay I see it more than most, living where I do. But like racism it is not to be tossed around lightly, or it will basically kill any discussion.
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Great article.

I would point out, though, that the disadvantages listed against Secrets as a Service need not apply to Hashicorp's Vault:

1) Single point of failure: Vault Enterprise offers high availability solutions that should be able to mitigate much of this (at a cost, of course).

2) Codebase must be changed: Vault (and Consul) really shine here: Consul Template -- and Envconsul -- can be used to seamlessly integrate legacy code with Vault.

3) System-level access must be protected carefully: Well, this is always true, but Vault gives you more options than many others here as well: based on risk assessments, you can choose to limit the secrets you issue, particularly when you're talking about system-level access. You can have very short TTLs, one-time-use wrappers that limit the exposure of said secrets, etc.

(I don't mean to sound like a shill, BTW. It's just that these points easily jumped to mind, having just certified as a Vault Associate. YMMV. :-) )
Even if true, "people are foolish" is never the source of a problem, and it's not something that can be directly addressed. (Except maybe with education, over the course of generations.) Unless we want social unrest, we need immediate systemic fixes.
They have said that orders for people who opted for the faster DHL shipping option had already shipped out 6/5 - 6/6 and would be given a tracking number and contacted by DHL, yet there are some of us who have still received nothing in terms of updates.

Here we are, a week later, and even after their update 3 hrs ago, the Pine team has yet to acknowledge this.

Ordinarily I would have shrugged it off, but the shipping carrier needs to reach out to collect their taxes before we can get our devices.

E: offtopic, but there's no need for the namecalling. We like to think we're classier than that 'round here.
I'm with you on the appetite suppression. I got into making decent coffee recently, probably from being stuck at home, and it's interesting how strong the effect is. Especially when coupled with a walk round the local park (e.g. 5k) I often don't feel hungry until mid afternoon. There is also the other reliable effect that I won't mention here!

One other thing I realised post-lockdown is just how much I relied on exercise to keep my back/posture in check. I used to climb regularly, though I slacked off on the cardio. Since quarantining, I've done a lot less resistance exercise and it really shows. One day of poor posture - e.g. hunching over a workbench, or working from a non-optimal place like bed or the couch - is enough to cause quite a lot of backache and it only really goes away after doing some exercise (far more effective in my experience than icing/heating/NSAIDs). My plan is to get back into bodyweight/calisthenics ASAP.

(Very interesting article by the way, the subway map would make a great poster)
My company starts new programs in C++ because everyone knows C++ already, we write modern C++, our libraries are written in C++, and our bugs are mostly not memory safety issues.
Oh, yea. I agree. I suffer from panic attacks and general anxiety and when I picked up lifting/running a while back one of my friends asked if it helped and I gave him the same, honest "uh..not really.", which he was kinda bummed for me about. But I learned to enjoy those things on their own. Or, at least, I enjoyed being able to pat myself on the back after running for 4 miles straight.
Zoom blogged about it... https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/11/improving-our-poli...
Austerity? Monks in cells? Really, none of that makes any sense?

Hell, switching your Amazon account to one of those smile accounts will do more good than signalling.
Do you think that there will ever be reified generics on the ABI boundary?
It appears they charge by the byte, so it'd only be efficient to use SMS if the payload is greater than 512KB
Police used tear gas on my college campus after we were celebrating winning the national football championship. If the army did that, it would be a war crime.
That has nothing to do with it. Similar letters were written when Activision/Blizzard punished a Hearthstone player for supporting the Honk Kong protests.
Kinda funny that it's ok for zoom to become a platform for US to monitor it's own civilians but then complain that it's cooperating with Chinese law.
Seems to me senator wants zoom to pick sides alright, but it has nothing to do with values or principles
> users want a doorbell that will easily connect to WiFi and a nice phone app, that includes not only movement alerts but also a miniature social network

I think "users" is a stretch here. Having worked at a couple $MEGACORPs and Unicorns, the bar for a feature being successful is very low. Most of the time, features are driven by Product Managers on product teams that come up with ideas. Validation of the success of these ideas (unless they are highly visible and core to the business), in my experience has been minimal (was there a regression? no, then great!), and don't even get me started on the numerous methodological issues.

> We're building stuff for people, not other geeks

I think computing is unique in how much we (the royal "we" here, and I have nothing more than anecdata to back these observations up, so take them with a grain of salt) focus on trying to hide the internals, almost as if it stems from an embarrassment with what computing is, as something only for "geeks". How often do you hear of musicians receiving censure for not making music that "other people" listen to, or artists receiving criticism for art that "regular people" consume? Obviously, business needs necessitate a tradeoff between beauty and functionality in any field, but despite the ubiquity of tech, it feels to be one that is uniquely embarrassed by the art and technique behind it. Maybe this is just an outgrowth of the "nerds are weird" culture of the '80s and '90s?

I think the reason that users put up with such bad software is twofold:

1. Computing is new, and the general population doesn't really understand what it means to be good at it yet. The general population has enough education with things like woodwork to understand what a shoddy table is, but not yet what shoddy software is. That said, I know several non-technical users that prefer using the iOS ecosystem because it has lower perceived input latency and higher perceived stability (much like the OP of the article), so users are certainly not blind to the problems of software.

2. Software as a field is deeply embarrassed about its technical internals. The fact of the matter is, we don't need to be worried about "our grandparents" being able to use our software anymore; the vast majority of young folk in industrialized countries have spent their whole lives growing up using technology. Yet, we are still obsessed with the creation of a dichotomy between "graybeards" and "normal people", or "geeks" and "average users". We need to stop treating users as these opposed forces, hidden from the innards of the technical beast, and instead embrace them as part of what it means to create a successful product.
That was the news story of the month. This has barely been talked about in most of the media.
Each device has a code, the manufacturer knows the code for each device and what device is being updated and the firmware is modified to need that code to update/work. It is more secure because if you crack the code you only have it cracked for one device - which is still bad but it is less likely to lead to an exploit that bricks all the devices.
I honestly don't know how my grandparents ate. Between their generation and my parents', a lot of traditional food knowledge was lost. My maternal grandmother made all sorts of things from scratch--but I can't recall my mom making anything that didn't come in a box or a can.

I've had great success losing weight and keeping it off with food logging (shout out to Cronometer, the best food logging app I've used), trying to adhere to a keto diet, and time-restricted feeding (18 hours fasted, 6 eating). If I tried to do an ancestral diet instead, I'd fail primarily from ignorance of just what that might be. (Also, I'm from the southern US, so it's not like that ancestral diet is necessarily good for me anyway.)
Github inherited it from git, which inherited it from bitkeeper, the DVCS that Linux originally used and the one that inspired git. Bitkeeper used a master/slave architecture that git dropped.

https://github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper/blob/master/doc/H...
Gotta walk before run.
If you help this version succeed, the hipdi version will likely be developed sooner.
I can certainly believe that lots of 'dark modes' are not well implemented and could lead to eye strain &c. I'm not sure that this demonstrates that dark mode is a bad idea in general.
I'm sorry, but 5 miles a day is just not possible for, I'd say, the vast majority of people. As an average chump, I can barely do 2 miles every other day.

Any exercise does make me feel much better, so that alone is a good reason to do it, but for weight loss, eating less is the fastest way.
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> Using wildcard commands like git add *or git add . can easily capture files that should not enter a git repository

No they cant, because of .gitignore
This is true as far as it goes, but is not testing the (very common) areas where async shines.

Imagine you're loading a profile page on some social networking site. You fetch the user's basic info, and then the information for N photos, and then from each photo the top 2 comments, and for each comment the profile pic of the commentor. You can't just fetch all this in one shot because there's data dependencies. So you start fetching with blocking IO, but that makes your wait time for this request proportional to the number of fetches, which might be large.

So instead, you ideally want your wait to be proportional to the depth of your dependency tree. But composing all these fetches that way is hard without the right abstraction. You can cobble it together with callbacks but it gets hairy fast.

So (outside of extreme scenarios) it's not really about whether async is abstractly faster than sync. It's about how real developers would solve the same problem with/without async.

(Source: I worked on product infrastructure in this area for many years at FB)
Walked though it yesterday, wearing a mask. The majority of people are also wearing masks and seem to be peaceful. Mostly a bunch of protestors and people milling about. There was one argument right by the speaker, but it didn’t look violent. Here is a link to my video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8kktcXopLDdFKbQP9 IMO it will last a month or two then engine will get bored and it will fizzle.
you can use their normal programmable wireless for that. I did and pay $1/month to have a sim sit in a $30 Nokia dumbphone that the kids can use when they ride their bikes to the park.

There are ... quirks. Turns out the SIM cards have a "real" phone number that you don't know about, so even though you're routing calls and SMS through your twilio number and outbound dials only show as the twilio number, you will still get random calls that don't hit the twilio network. My sim's "real" number is a detroit number, and I used to get a handful of collections calls on it from the previous occupant of that number.
> Police are safer than cars,

For whom and per...what? Encounter? Mile traveled with them?

> The only violence I’ve seen from police that doesn’t seem like an anomaly is violence that protestors incited by starting a conflict with the police.

That suggests to me that either your perception of provocation or of anomaly is skewed (or that “anomaly” is used in the software sense of “behavior out of line with spec” rather than the more general sense of “behavior out of line with what is normal”.)

> So, empirically,

You just recounted what is, by the terms used, your subjective impression, and termed your conclusion built on that (which go far beyond what is justified even if that impression was undisputed fact) “empirical”.

That’s...not what that word means.
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Or perhaps shareholders will be more interested in long term profits and start a lawsuit when the short term profits dry up as their paying customers leave them due to censorship and security concerns.
I would argue that it would most likely become another bureaucracy where people jockey for position and power with efficiency being given little more than lip service. Such bureaucracies are difficult to kill or replace.
They can. Public officials spreading damaging falsehoods may violate the fourth, fifth, and sixth amendments. I believe that is the issue being discussed.
I really just don't understand this pushback. I posted a comment about eye strain. I've been using computers for almost 30 years. Do you really think I haven't tried turning down the brightness? Is it that hard to believe that there are people out there that sincerely, legitimately, prefer light-on-dark text (possibly due to physiological differences in the eyes or brain)? Why this need to "correct" people? Just let people do what works for them!

(If you meant your comment to be "I found this works for me: ..." or "Have you tried ...?", then write it that way. The imperative mood is off-putting.)

FWIW: On my laptop, which I use most of the time these days, I adjust the brightness continually, probably 20+ times a day, and keep it pretty low. (I buy Thinkpads partly because their minimum brightness is so low.) On my desktop monitor, which is more annoying to adjust, I actually keep it at 0 most of the time, and bump it to 35 when the sun is out.
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I feel that we as software engineers need a hippocratic oath of software development. One of the commitments should be to write efficient and responsive (responding to user input) software.

I feel both angered and embarrassed at software inefficiency. Trivial Electron "apps" require 1-2GB + of ram. Seconds of Input latency like typing on the keyboard or when pressing a button. Not to mention the gigawatts of electricity and gigatons of CO2 being wasted server-side on poor code , logging, encode-decode & other nonsense.

My desktop experience peaked on Windows 2k and has been declining rapidly for the last 10 years.
Hm maybe I'll just have to write it as a Haskell eDSL. Should be straightforward and you get a better RTS & generics for free.
It's true, I felt it was a bit of a strong word even when posting it. But naked imperatives ("Fix it before you launch") come across as aggressive in casual English nowadays.
There's no civil unrest in London, a few marches and protests in the city centres
I just read their demands.. anarchists who want government healthcare?

Reminds me of might makes right mentality rather than anything coherent.
The optics are quite different. A foreign government exerting influence domestically is troubling from a national security point of view. I don't think you could say the same about BLM. I would expect the Democrats to launch an equally robust defense of BLM in that case.

Also, you could easily make a statement about why no Democrats have, to my knowledge, pressed Zoom on this? So far, three Republicans have:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-zoom-video-commn-privacy/...
While I think we do need better digital access to books, it was only a matter of time before something this extreme got killed.
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Seriously sick of hearing this.

The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room...

Kiddies in a game can't hurt you. Worry about the important shit, like being killed or thrown in a cage by law enforcement.
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The idea of having individual employees choose which union they want sounds a lot like the idea that consumer choice drives change (which usually does not work except in the case of huge boycotts, which are limited in their effects). Unions are about democracy in the workplace. If everyone is in a different union, there can be no legitimate democratic decisions on behalf of the workers.

EDIT: There's a bit of an exception. For example, in universities, sometimes graduate students have a union and faculty have a union. It doesn't make sense to place them both in the same union because the faculty boss graduate students around. However, it would make sense for the two unions to cooperate against the administration.

EDIT2: Another reason unions should be as concentrated as possible is so they form a united front against the bosses. If every employee is in a different union, how can they achieve anything without great difficulty?
I wonder if the performance of those tablets would improve if android was removed and run pine linux instead.

that said size of the screen is actually a big factor in price, also you need more powerful processor to push pixels on that screen and bigger battery for power draw. all those costs add up. plus they maybe following razer blade model.
> So the simplest answer is actually: protesters benefit from police using force.

I'm struggling to see the equivalency here. In one case you have cops, getting paid to protect people and property and ignoring that responsibility (or actually participating in mayhem) at no cost to themselves. Lots of incentive to act poorly, little personal consequence.

On the other hand you have protestors who might collectively benefit from police using force at the cost of taking a club to the head or pepper spray to the face.

Not seeing how the two are comparable.