skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does FreeBSD have a BDFL?

We don't have enough data points to determine if what you are saying is correct. I have also seen lots of BDFL projects smoke out.

Is the lesson that actual dictatorships only survive long term if 1) the dictator is a nice person and 2) they eventually get managed by an open democratic process?

I think you are actually describing the two clocks problem. Lots of BDFL projects have their own Cascade of Attention-Deficit issues, the project only goes in the direction the BDFL actually cares about.
You're just as screwed if you make a typo in your bank transaction, though.
I always assumed someone like DHH would have better things to do with his time and a more level head, but looking through his responses on the GitHub PRs and Twitter has really changed my mind about him. To me it looks to me like you made a good faith effort at open-source
contribution, and DHH weaponized his followers against it because it wouldn't be good for his business. It's certainly a weird situation. Unless you want to get into a Silicon Valley-esque David-and-Goliath fight I'd just call it a day and leave it alone. You tried.
If you have that in your history, you can highlight that entry in the search results (e.g. using the up/down arrow keys after typing "weather") then press Shift and Delete to delete it from the history. If you don't want search results, you can go to the options/preferences, select search, and uncheck the "Provide search suggestions" option.
Twitter’s Reliability Journey
> Make a typo in your bitcoin transaction, and you're screwed

Not really, bitcoin addresses have checksums.
But the argument there is also quite reasonable - the UX of popping up boxes for this stuff is terrible, it annoys people and they just start clicking "Yes" all the time or "no" all the time.

And this is because, while there clearly are good and valid web apps that use this functionality, the web is also a cesspit of abusers who will use any means they can to track, trace and infiltrate.

I don't know what the solution is, suffice to say I haven't really seen a good one yet, and until such time as one comes along I am happy using a browser that either lets me turn this stuff off in a blanket fashion or flat out doesn't include it.

Mildly lower friction on payment apps is not enough of a trade-off
And I'm confident that there's people dedicating a lot of processing power to try and determine its private keys (and anyone else's private keys if they happen to stumble across it).

I'm sure it's one of those tasks that'll cost a lot more than all the available energy in the universe kinda scale though.
That sounds like a good area on which you might work! :D
0.0.0.0 is localhost, which is a great way to allow other software running on your computer to take the data and send it elsewhere. It's not a great IP address to use for "invalid".

Yes, 0.0.0.0 really resolves to 127.0.0.1 on Linux at least. Try it.
I'm grateful to Antirez for inventing Redis in the first place and putting in all the great work he's done since. However I'm worried about the implications of this change for the continued existence of Redis as open-source in the public-goods sense.

What does it mean that Yossi and Oran are taking over as maintainers - are they doing so in their personal capacity or as employees of Redis Labs ?

How are potential conflicts between the business interests of Redis Labs and the interests of the community to be identified and resolved ?

Who will own the copyright over the newly submitted code and are there any safeguards against future versions of Redis being released under licenses more restrictive than the current one ?
> All that matters is the content, not the way it is delivered to the user.

I think it matters for the creators, though.
Some is still better than none, no?
Have you not heard of M-Pesa? Very popular mobile phone-based money transfer service, low fees (far less than $3 or the 30% you claim), you can even pay companies directly with it
1. that's ethereum, not bitcoin. bitcoin core specifically has checks to prevent transactions with unusually high transactions fees from being broadcast https://bitcoin-rpc.github.io/en/doc/0.16.0/rpc/rawtransacti... (see the allowhighfees parameter)

2. In all likelihood this is someone manually crafting a transaction. It's not going to happen to your typical user (eg. your granny). A better analogy to this situation would be someone's trading bot going awry and losing thousands/millions on the market.
Huh? Their posting was never consistent. They had a gap from December 2018 to June 2019. Their last post was in December 2019. It's likely they just don't post in the months leading up to WWDC.
Is the voter suppression that happens in the US, or the fact that the party with the least votes keeps getting into power because of an antiquated system that gives “former” slave states more power feel like democracy to you?

Does the concentration camp network for refugees or muslim ban which was just extended to the end of the year feel different to China’s treatment of Uighurs to you?

Why?
The author states what he feels is holding native apps back: they’re harder to build in a cross-platform way and they have to be installed. Then the author discusses the current state and the future of those two issues.

I feel that discussion was valuable for not merely pointing out issues but thinking of solutions as well.
> I started by quoting his "extremely rare" and replying "Is it?" (as is "is that really extremely rare" because he is as he writes "incredibly annoyed" in his comment to dexamethasone effects) and showed the numbers.

He said "strokes are extremely rare", you showed numbers on ICU admissions. Those are obviously two very different things.

> Note that it was never about "strokes" alone, which was your original claim, but about dexamethasone.

The words "extremely rare" only appear in conjunction with strokes. The word "organ damage" also appears later, as "not significant quantities", which is still different. Dexamethasone does not appear in the comment at all.

I don't know where to go from here. This seems to be the hill you want to die on. May you rest in peace.
If you want to do ML/AI or scientific computing then it's a pretty useful skill to have.
100% slower seems like a lot.
It depends highly on the journal. In my field (optics) for a 'high impact' journal (which a paper claiming to show a way to curb the covid-19 pandemic would certainly qualify for) the accept rate is about 10% after multiple rounds of review/revision.

After your paper gets rejected from a top journal you apply to a mid-tier journal (usually for reasons related to impact, but this is tied to your claims that are not watertight being struck out in the review) which has about a 50% accept rate after you remove the unproven claims.

Then when you don't get accepted there you go to a 'just publish my paper' journal, which comes in 2 flavors:

The respectable move is to publish in a technical archive (nature scientific reports is a good example of this) where you only have to satisfy that the work is technically sound, so you remove all of the unsubstantiated claims (title goes from 'we cured covid' to 'statistical analysis of covid patients--results inconclusive') and publish your measurements and methods.

The less respectable way out is to publish in a journal with a fast-track review process that just accepts anything as long as you pay the fees. Usually people in the field are smart enough to ignore papers in those journals, but bean counters and media aren't.
Hmm, I don't think so, but I'll look into it, thanks!
My own feelings echo this.

I've been working remotely for several years. I changed jobs in March, right at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic really impacting daily life. As a result I've never met any of my colleagues in person. I often feel like I don't have a good feeling for how they feel about a given topic and spend far too much time and energy trying to manage those relationships.

I'm looking forward to being able to travel again so I can meet at least some of them. In the past, I've participated in "team building" events where the entire (small) engineering group rents out a beach house somewhere for a week. That time is spent split approximately evenly between regular work, brainstorming/planning for the future, and social engagement. I didn't see the value of it before experiencing it, but now I'm 100% in favor of it.

If I ever get to the point where I'm leading an engineering group at a funded startup, semi-annual engineering retreats will definitely be a priority for me. They don't have to be "rent a beach house for two weeks in the Outer Banks", either. I live in rural Arkansas, and there are large cabins on the Buffalo River and White River that go for ~$200 / night or less during the offseason and can comfortably sleep 35 people.
Exactly! And the latest version (which is not officially out yet) is even closer to Elm that the first version ever was.
depends on the nature of the transaction & the parties - 'transfer/transaction taxes aren't the only issue

Sales or gift taxes could apply. So could import /export taxes depending on the endpoints. Could it appear as income/gains to one party or another? etc...

of course it can often be structured to avoid such taxes, but it requires forethought.

I wouldn't even think of making a $multi-million move without first consulting a very high end attorney in the appropriate field.
> We're sharing our revenue with you, not the other way around!

Gotcha. So, what's the value I'd get as a creator, i.e. why should I not charge through another platform?
There is privacy-focused crypto like Monero though.
> It took me half an hour to read the KDE documentation on how to contribute, then set-up my workflow, learn how to use arcanist; to only then, submit the pull request.

Couldn't the same argument be made for having to learn a language in order to even contribute code to a project? Learning how to collaborate using different systems isn't really different than having to learn different languages, conventions, or code styles to contribute to different projects.
Very neat. Anyone know why

curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 't2'

would work, but

curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 'm4'

does not? Both commands work if I write the curl result to a file, but when I pipe from curl, the pattern `m4` matches all instances of the number 4.
AsyncAPI Initiative Status Update (week 27, 2020)
Said UI could protect the user from it though, by not accepting a 'fee' value more than 10% over the current average (for example).
Tcl leaps to mind. It is very easy to embed, too.
Libertarians would argue that this is where insurance comes in.

Insurance in this example has two functions:

1. Protecting you from losses

2. Applying standards to Bitcoin exchanges etc to help prevent losses. A good example of this is fire insurance. An insurance company will require a potential customer to have fire alarms, use specific materials etc before they decide to cover that company's building.
Optimizing for a test is an issue if the test is not well correlated with the desired outcome. By and large that doesn’t seem to be a big issue for crash tests.
I guess it would be interesting if you re-wrote your website in PHP and wrote a blog post about it with the title 'Why I Moved From Ruby to PHP?'
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> Are you trying to argue that a financial transaction - a service provided by a bank where THEY take all the risk and responsibility of said transfer - should be free of charge?

I think that they are making the point that they actually are free of charge. Fees for moving money at banks are negligible. They might not actually be entirely free, but wire transfer fees are ~$20, and I've moved a million dollars this way before. I don't know if there's much of a difference between a million and a billion in this context.
Hate to be cynical, but I feel like they're just releasing a new one every week just to stay in the news.
Well, kinda. Feature list does look like basically random assortment of vaguely related things (or "toolbox" if you want to be nice).

But... things that are also just useful often and for what you'd need to spin off a separate service for, or make suboptimally in whatever (No)SQL you use to store your data.

So it is perfect if you just want to prototype whether given approach is viable, and "good enough" for many apps.
Yeah seriously. What do you think are the downsides for moving home? Do you have a gf?
Is there a difference between expressing moral support for a terrorist organization and sending them $1 million? I was never very compelled with the "money = speech" argument when taken particularly literally.
>> I have a decent amount of my notes on my other laptop that recently had a motherboard failure and the majority of that data is on the laptop's SSD. It's a macbook pro, so recovering the data isn't exactly super simple.

Isn't it an excellent sample of "the cat ate my code" excuse?
You do have to trust yourself to have 100% flawless security because one slip and you lose that $1B to a Chinese hacker with no hope of ever getting it back.
Can you draw what you visualize? Can you recall a face exactly and draw it? As an amateur artist, I don't think there is as much "mechanical skill" in art, as there is clearly imagining what you are trying to draw. Any time anyone claims to be able to visualize, I ask them this question.

To be clear, I am not "challenging" you in any sense, but it's a good reality check.

Anyway - I am the same with maps, I can easily see the route in my head, but that has to do with being aware of where north is and a vague notion of where I am.
Thank you for all your work on Redis. As you already know, it powers so much of the internet.

Wishing you the best in whatever you do next.
Those are two questions, not an opinion.
Hey, yes it's 100% open source.

https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop

The reason it check `curl` agent is because it share the same endpoint (root url) for both of `curl` page and browser version(the one with dropdown, grid etc)
> Your house has to be registered to someone and you have to declare who lives in it, if it's yours.

I don't think this is true in every jurisdiction. You can certainly have a property registered under a corporate entity, and there are jurisdictions in the US that allow for anonymous corporate ownership. Further, I'm not aware of any requirement where you must declare who is residing in a property. I've had family members from abroad reside in my house for over a year without informing any authorities, for example.
Ampere was founded (and presumably name registered) in 2017, Nvidia's Ampere announced in 2020?

Ampere had products on sale in 2019.

If there is a case I can't see Nvidia winning it.
I've actually had a ton of these the past few years in the city. Of course more dates are always welcome.

Figure maybe 1 year of living clean and reducing the stimuli in the late 20s could be good.
Ah crap, yes, going to update it.
Builds taking too long? Memorize a poem while you wait
This was a very interesting article. I’m curious if auto makers knew about the new tests being added, and if so, how far in advance? It certainly seems that if they did know about the new tests, it was far too long into the vehicle development to make changes.
EDIT: I misunderstood the post, and what I describe below is not true!

I'm incredibly excited about FIDO2, but this is quite underwhelming honestly. I'd like to SSH with a credential on my Yubikey, not by a credential or configuration already stored on my computer that is unlocked by my Yubikey. I'd like to be able to plug in my Yubikey anywhere and go. My Linux desktop, my Macbook, my Windows desktop, my Android phone.

- Yubikey with GPG/PIV for SSH: your Yubikey stores your private key. You can take it anywhere, plug it in, [have to go through all the setup required for your computer to talk GPG/PIV], and log in.

- Yubikey with FIDO2 for SSH: your Yubikey stores a symmetric key to unlock your private key on your computer. [You cannot take it anywhere], plug it in, don't have to set anything up if your client and server have this (eventually), and log in.

FIDO2 is solving a lot of authentication convenience problems, but not this one I think. I get that this pretty nice when integrating with Windows Hello or Apple's TouchID, but I don't think FIDO2 USB key with SSH is that great.
redis complexity has been increasing a lot lately (module, stream, multi-thread,...)

not that i don't like it but antirez has been hesitated about adding those before.
Insurance on BTC... I wonder how much would that cost... It would dwarf any transfer fees for sure.
I'm thinking of using this 1 year to kind of reduce the stimuli and recenter. Have def had my share of these experiences in the city. Not drinking alcohol for 2020 as one of my ways of resetting.
Before this article influences more discussion, I want to point out that it provides no research relevant to the claim that "video chats short circuit a brain function essential for trust."

The only research cited show that face-to-face contact is more effective at soliciting donations than email [1], that non-verbal cues are important for feeling trust [2], something about sunglasses affecting theory of mind, and (ironically) that credibility assessments are stronger without visual cues [3]. The only sentence that actually applies to video chat is Frances Westley's complaint that "the quality...and satisfaction of the interaction...is diminished."

1: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00221...

2: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/095679761244879...

3: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jcrim/2013/164546/
No Keys to the Kingdom: New Single Sign-On Algorithm Provides Superior Privacy
If Product Owner is not providing you with the bigger picture he is not doing his job. Product Owner should make sure the end result is crystal clear at all times.
I do not think in terms of maps at all. I do think in terms of choosing to go left or right.

You have probably heard directions like, go straight until you get to the big tree, take the left path towards the creek...

Basically, I remember what choices to make at different spots. I used to be a pizza delivery driver. I could work out where houses were based on the street and number. But it was always an iterative process. I will remember what sequence of things should happen at points. And going to new places is always harder, because maps don't help me much.
If I owned bank B and someone was going to send me $1B from bank A, I would pay the fees that bank A was charging the customer.

Source: I've worked in banking and seen this even on the personal level (not at the $1B level of course).
All banks in Greece charge a fee. The fact that plenty of people do SEPA transfers for free means nothing for the other people (e.g. the whole population of Greece) that can not do SEPA transfers for free.
But at least there is hope.
I can't close my eyes and imprint a picture over my closed eyelids as if i was watching a movie. If you could imprint an image over your closed eyes, logic dictates you would be able to do the same in a dark room since light is the only difference between open and closed eyes. But I don't think people are having vivid and realistic hallucinations in the dark.

Regardless, the way journalists talk about aphantasia, or more specifically, the opposite of aphantasia, has led a lot of people to believe this is possible (at least, I believed it based on what people have said they can do).

Maybe I am just exaggerating then, but i think this whole topic has got a lot of people worried that they are not normal. I don't think it's good for the mental health of hypochondriacs.
Calling nationalities and cultures that arise from a group of people being forced to live together a "ghettoization" is a bit of a stretch
Memcache is what saying no to changing the use-case looks like. Redis is what saying no to changing the architecture in order to implement features looks like.

Redis has stayed the same, architecturally, from the beginning: it’s a keyspace where the values are arbitrary in-memory objects owned by their keys, and where commands resolve to synchronous function-calls against the objects (or ref-cells) at those keys.

Anything that can be done without changing that architecture, is in-scope for Redis. (Though if a data structure doesn’t have wide use outside of a domain, it’s best left to a module.) Anything that cannot be done without changing the architecture, won’t be done.

Much of the “fun” I’ve personally had in watching Redis evolve, has been seeing how Antirez has managed to solve the puzzles of getting features that intuitively wouldn’t be a good fit for this architecture, to fit into it anyway: changing technologies that are implemented one way everywhere else, into something else for Redis, that still work, are still performant, and still solve isomorphic use-cases—if not with the same steps you’d use to solve them in other systems. (E.g. using Streams vs. using a regular MQ; using Redis Cluster vs. using regular RDBMS replication; etc.)
The change in Ireland has been significant, it's made contactless be the default way to pay. I think it has removed the idea that something like a cup of coffee was too small to pay for via card/contactless. I don't think I have actually used cash in a number of months.

Before COVID one of the main banks AIB was to introduce some extra charges but they stopped that charge increase https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/aib-...
Wow, thank you for the feedback. I'm going to implement lot of features suggest in this page.

Since I cannot edit original comment, yes, the site is open source: https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop
> See the books of Edward Tufte, for example.

Better to see his manifesto on slides: "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within." https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
I think we always have to be a bit skeptical of articles in this genre. A decline narrative ought to imply different or at least refocused policies, where some important things aren't relevant to the decline and other less important things are. When an author ties every problem in the country to the decline, and their proposed solution is enacting all their preferred policies, it really comes across as more of a manifesto. Will investors really "abandon the U.S. and the dollar in large amounts" because gun violence is high or the subways are poor quality?
Introduction to UX Writing
Baidu joins Open Invention Network Linux patent protection group
I'd suggest double checking it in such instances and not doing it drunk at 2am like a wall street trader.
A (software) dictator is not necessarily good. But let me double down and say that a community cannot create a product as good as a single head at the top can do, for the single reason that people care only about their own garden, and integration needs someone to oversee and be responsible for all parts.

There is no Steve Jobs in a democratic committee.
But reversibility is provided by the intermediary, and isn't a property of the currency itself. For instance, if you're dealing in cash, there's zero reversibility. Likewise, I don't see the difference between a bank reversing a transaction for you, and the marketplace platform reversing the transaction for you.
They do not, around 7 Euro will arrive (depending on your bank, but all Greek banks charge a fee). I am a Greek expat in Germany, I do those kinds of transactions very often.
Wow. So the argument was first successfully used to jail peaceful socialists and anti-war activists, but was later overturned for benefit of the KKK.
Hahha, this is so hilarious.
Volvo was always marketed as a safety product years ago. Seatbelts, seatbelt warning lights, airbags, and daytime lights — a requirement in Sweden — all spring to mind.

I had assumed that Volvo lost that edge this century so it’s good to see them at the top of the list.