skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This might be a separate issue! :)

Many good companies enforce a no-origin-branches policy, with rare and well-justified exceptions. Because, used as you describe, a "feature branch" is just a future massive diff in disguise (when it's eventually merged), and massive diffs are a big no-no because they're a huge pain to iterate on via code review.
Just please watch out: the polarization you see on the internet (no matter where you see it) is rarely a reflection of the face-to-face reality. There is much more kindness and tolerance when people are face to face. Always has been.

The danger, the reason I point this out, is that when people see too much of it on the internet they start to lose faith in humanity, and they start projecting that world view on to the face to face interactions.
I wonder what happens in more literal languages, where "center" doesn't mean "main area".
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The Confederates in the civil war were fighting to own black people as slaves.

As a symbol for part of the Confederate army, it's still racist even in its first use. Some of the people fighting might have been conscripted against their will, but the symbol itself is still one that promoted slavery of black people
> It's a nationwide disaster that people are simply not ready to deal with. Many people here have no idea what suffering is and therefore, they don't know how to suffer or how to get through such times. Suffering is externalized onto minorities and other unwanted people in society so that the well off don't have to deal with it. Now everyone's suffering and many simply can't cope with the suffering or with the additional suffering.

These are hard times, for all of us.

My background: grew up in the USA, with typical public school education. When I was a kid in school, we (briefly) covered times like the protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Suffrage, and such. But it all seemed distant to me back then. I knew, at an academic level, that the people fighting for change had a hard time... but we (as a nation) got through it, and made things better (well, maybe not really, but that's another discussion).

We are living through history, right here, right now. I can now see it from the other side. I can see a little more clearly what those people in the history books were going through. I now don't have the benefit of reading in a book that it all worked out in the end (that women got the vote, that civil rights laws were passed, etc.).

It may seem like it will never get any better. That the struggle for a brighter, better future for everyone is futile. That hate and stupidity will drag down this country, and that we'll never recover.

Do we all have the courage to continue on? In the face of unfairness and injustice? What will the history books say about us 50 years from now?
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At my company we’ve taken a stand against cancel culture. We do not believe that anyone should be compelled to sign away their freedoms as part of our working relationship. The right to free speech is just that—a RIGHT. There’s more than enough legal precedence to manage our workforce effectively.
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Has anyone here been in an organization where maintenance work was rewarded? How was it set up? Often times, maintenance is invisible, and people learn quickly what the incentives of an organization are.

Of course, the value of maintenance varies depends on the stage you're in. If you don't fully understand whether this is a market or not, then it's better to write quick sloppy code. If you understand the market and customers, then maintenance will reap rewards. How to convince your team to switch from one mode to the other?
This isn't an either let all businesses fail or prop up the entire stock market with cheap cash choice and your framing of it as such is intellectually dishonest.
It's a good thing. Also please uninstall IE6-11, old Edge automatically. :)

Anyway, you can write the exactly same article about a random DLL/service you never asked for somewhere in C:\windows\* running in the background or hooking into apps doing whatever.

This is what you get running a proprietary OS.
That's the requirements for the program, but in practice anybody can get it.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cerb-pandemic-opioid-addict...
> I am saying this as gently as possible: the majority of bigots don't walk around thinking or saying "Wow I sure am a bigot!". They mostly just think of themselves as normal people with normal values.

This argument tends to make me agree with the southerners who want a symbol of their own.

Q: What do you get when a San Jose doctor has a Google engineer over to dinner?

A: Lively conversation about how stupid everyone is in Alabama.

I'm not making that up. Here's the conversation piece (a piece of paper) a family friend brought over for dinner with my parents:

M R DOGS
A R NOT
O S A R
C M P
L I B
M R DOGS

As he delighted in explaining to everyone, this is the "Alabama literacy test". You're meant to read it as follows:

'em are dogs
'ey are not
oh [y]es 'ey are
see 'em pee?
[w]ell I be!
'em are dogs!

The southerners responding to this sort of sentiment are doing exactly the same thing Mark Knopfler did in Money for Nothing:

That little faggot with the earring and the make-up
Yeah buddy, that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane!
That little faggot he's a millionaire!

The "faggot" in question is of course Mark Knopfler himself, responding to his own haters with an implicit "screw you".

Spend enough time telling a group of people that you hate them and everything about them, and they'll start developing cultural elements specifically oriented around flipping you a middle finger.

(And for what it's worth, it seems like a safe assumption that the use of the confederate battle flag as a symbol of southern culture derives from its use in that role on The Dukes of Hazzard.)
That's a couple of thousand years later.
Then I think you should read my post again. It's pretty clear none of what I said was to be taken literally. If that's the case then you're suggesting that the average US citizen's ability to perform reading comprehension is even worse than I thought and I simply do not cannot believe that.
So for 1 million records, you need to spend $1k/month. Hmm.
> People could leave King Louis XIV’s France

Refusing to use a single product is not nearly the same as leaving a country. Drawing a similarity between the two is like comparing apples to nation states.

The reason private markets generally work pretty well at delivering goods & services is because people have variety, and exercising choice is generally feasible. Anti-trust law is generally rooted in rectifying situations where this ceases to be true.

> Another would be a representative body elected by users that has the power to appoint board members.

What you're describing here is a government agency — and if your argument is that a government agency can run a software product better than a private corporation...it's a bold claim, even if it's a coherent argument.
WHO has predicted hundreds of millions of people will risk starvation this year due to the economic ramifications of lockdowns.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pandemic-could-mean-260-mi...
While some of the industry changes in the article are clearly just a result of the pandemic (like air transportation, performing arts and spectator sports, amusements and recreation, etc.), I feel like a lot of these are actually just condensed timescale changes that were happening anyways. Recessions tend to do that, this once was just incredibly abrupt and compact.

Industries like movies, travel arrangement services, museums, etc. were all on the decline and now will simply be reduced to a minimal existence. Supercenters, couriers and messengers, postal services, etc. were all increasing in importance due to a more digital consumer pattern and increasing economic inequality. Now their growth is rapidly accelerated and the cultural shifts that have gone on for the last decade have been amplified.

I'm curious to see how this all plays out. The divide between the "haves and have-nots" is growing and this pandemic has just amplified how screwed a large class of workers are.
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This website uses Python in the browser instead of JavaScript to render
Here's a website I made that uses Python in the browser to client-side render instead of JavaScript. It uses the Pyodide project, which ships a WASM compiled Python Interpreter to the browser.
I've actually been reassured by how many of my more thoughtful friends have appeared on Signal (and other less well-known but more trustworthy tools) recently. Sure, lots of people are just using something like Zoom or one of the Facebook-owned privacy invaders, but I get the feeling that with so many more people relying on these tools for both personal and professional reasons because of the virus situation, awareness of the issues is at least in moving-the-needle territory now. It's not much, but it's still progress in the right direction.
> depriving them of their opportunities to grow their character by overcoming adversity

I'm not a fan of that sentiment. There will still be plenty of adversities to overcome, but just not the ones removed by the do-gooder. For example, being able to eat a healthy meal every day and then competing through all the other adversities on a more level playing field.
I mostly try to reduce dependencies, both direct and indirect, regardless of the programming language in use.
I bought it, but I only read a chapter of it, after seeing it in a bookstore. Nonetheless:

Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics by Paul J. Nahin

It sounds like it's at about the right difficulty/knowledge level, and it has interesting stuff, isn't a boring textbook.
In Need of an Enemy?
> I'll keep that in mind next time I read a thread about tech consulting shops or ISPs...

ISPs are as they are as a result of government regulations. I don't know what the problems with "tech consulting shops" are supposed to be, but they sound like something people should stop doing business with until they go away.

> But really only in the same sense that you, too, could get a graduate degree in a STEM field and immediately emigrate to another country.

Except not in that sense at all, because emigrating to another country -- which may not be any better -- is a dramatic high-cost change to your entire life, whereas not investing in or working for a particular company is the default state that happens if you do nothing.
Ending qualified immunity is a red herring. As long as police unions keep their corrupting power, they'll just demand indemnification from the city as part of their contract.

And it's pretty irrelevant here, as I don't think the victims are successfully suing the various cities for killing their dogs. What really needs to happen is 1. actual criminal charging and prosecution of police officers, by an independent prosecutor that doesn't rely on a working relationship with police department for the bulk of their cases and 2. proper civil putative and emotional damages for pet deaths, rather than the legal system's current tendency to write it off as a petty loss.
For me the secret to happiness is to produce things. Or said another way: be productive. Make something. If you have a job where you make things you are good to go. Homes, cars, ships (in my case in my youth). If you sit at a desk all day processioning forms or work in a call center, find something to produce in your off hours, often called a hobby, but it could be a side gig. Write some code, write a book, paint a mural, whatever.
Wanting the damn virus to die out and accepting that getting it spreading again will cause a longer pandemic. They expect patience to be rewarded by it staying gone like countries who did it right and are opening up borders selectively.
Yes, 777 (X or BJ) is also capable of the longest max range of any US jet, so I imagine that would factor into an AF1 decision too. Longest range or loiter time without refueling.
History Channel says the only possible answer is aliens.

Or maybe it’s an adjacent possible thing and the ancient world was far more connected by trade than we often think. It’s easy to forget that these were “just” neighboring countries/kingdoms back then. A lot like today.

The illusion of linear progression we get from history class is largely an effect of “You can’t learn everything at once”
You're right of course, but we're treating developers (and developer spaces) as being professional settings.

Gone are the "underground hacker" days, as Antirez put it, so I think it applies.
Anyone know if the data is going directly to their servers or the reason they're doing this on every keystroke?
> Next, his problem was that the database would get corrupt sometimes when something bad happened in the middle of writing the file.

I'm not sure i understand how this can happen... unless you try to update JSON in-place (which is a very bad idea for any text-based format), what you do is encode/write the entire JSON from scratch. So either the file is written properly or it isn't written.

Honestly from the entire message it doesn't sound like JSON was a bad idea but that your coworker didn't know what he was doing and if he was doing something else then he'd still be doing big mistakes.
Microsoft Teams does this in the chat box for every keystroke. It says "Pasting from device" on each press. I filed a RADAR with Apple before the TikTok report but now I feel stupid.

Apple is doing the right thing. These other companies appear to have the issue.
Would you incorporate again in Estonia?
This is actually how "weeaboo" became a word (outside of the Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon[0]). There was a filter on 4chan that turned "wapanese" into a "weeaboo", and pretty soon the former was completely forgotten and the word that is actually in use in "weeaboo".

[0] This comic is the original source of the word: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/weeaboo
If you're flashing an "OK" sign in clear view, I would understand that to mean things are okay. If you're flashing the sign below the waist so very few people would notice, I would understand that to mean "I'm giving this sign to very few people and only those in that community would understand what I'm saying".

Context matters.
You're going to tell me this one guy "brought the company into disrepute" to a point that warranted firing him, when Equifax can expose the financial history of almost every American adult, and nobody gives a shit anymore? The guy worked for the power company. What are people gonna do, stop paying their electric bills? Buy electricity and gas from another supplier?
The original "long" 737 variant was 30.5m; the 737 MAX 10 is 43.8m long. Many of the problems with the 737 airframe are rooted in this growth, along with it being originally designed as a regional jet with needed compromises (being low to ease airstairs, which caused problems with engines since the first re-engining with the Classic series).

Note that Boeing was trying to sell airlines on a clean-sheet aircraft when Airbus launched the A320neo, and _quickly_ started gaining customers, including those that had been loyal to Boeing for decades. Boeing needed something to counter the A320neo, hence the MAX had to happen—and soon.
It is interesting that PETA doesn't seem to say very much about this. Does any organization?
Without respect to the facts, it's funny as hell to see this called "a new low" when browser bundling is what got them sued by the United States 20 years ago.
"Don't make unnecessary trips" isn't the same as "don't see your doctor for necessary medical intervention". Call your doctor, find out what they recommend, and/or use Teledoc.

Regardless, if there was no lockdown, and medical systems were overwhelmed, like in New York, would you have been able to see your doctor then? Would you have wanted to go to an overcrowded ER or Urgent Care and wait for hours surrounded by infected patients?
> A side effect of covid19 is that drugs have become more scarce and expensive due to the border shutdown. This may be having an impact.

Wait, less drugs, more overdoses... what?
Must the United States Demonise China?
> Back when this started I made the claim that the long term consequences of lock down would exceed the short term benefits .

And yet the USA will both have their cake and eat it too. You get both the full brunt of the virus alongside economic collapse.

Instead of discussing the very real results of a demand collapse and how to address that, we get borderline eugenics posts attempting to throw more meat back into the grinder. Its all so incredibly abstract, these lives you want to sacrifice at your local Applebee's. But, hey, you're just worried about the long-term results--you're the caring one here. Those of us who want lockdown, were the ones causing the harm. Not the lack of a safety net, not the collapse of consensus, not the completely incompetent response, and never the fact that the copper has been so thoroughly stripped from the global supply chains that you couldn't even get enough masks into the country with a several months headstart.
Could be good for things that are often read and rarely written. As soon as multiple people try to update the same file though just use an established db
I am not sure, if it is agreement or disagreement with my observation. And while I assume some people may genuinely be scared of the infection... It is hard not to notice that while the lockdown started the beaches were flooded with people. And I will not blame someone flipping burgers for preferring free money to their job. Having a low paid, boring job I would definitively prefer the free money and the free time. And I would probably even actively support the status quo. But it is nonetheless in the long term very harmful to the society and to the economic perspectives of normal people. The free money will be paid for in the years to come and it will be a long lasting burden. Maybe there will be some technological revolution, a great advancement in productivity that will help us mitigate this cost. But if not, the future looks painful.
yawn

Choose your opinions, present them as fact. Back them up with nothing.

I worked on a dig in Israel. It was interesting.

Among other things I learnt about archeology, history, facts, opinions, and bias, is that that most what is in popular press is grounded in belief, not fact.

And that Finklestein is not respected by his peers. This article doesn't make me think any higher of him.
Am I alone in absolutely loving Edge? It has finally unseated Chromium for me. It has all the benefits of the latest Chromium build without having to rely on sketchy binaries uploaded to some website, or giving Google total ownership of my web browsing. Sure Microsoft now fills that role, but they already own my OS anyways, so I'd rather reduce my "privacy surface area" as much as possible. Plus it has great built in privacy features like automatically deleting all browsing history after every session, and built in adblocking. I agree that the behavior outlined in this post is annoying, but the reality is that heavily managed automatic updating is the future for consumer grade software, and for good reason. If you're not a fan, just use Linux or an LTS Windows release.
I'm not sure that's true, I've successfully dispatched SMTP mail from their platform without it getting blocked or tagged as spam.
> So the solution here is for a developer to add a bunch of code to their codebase on at least 4 platforms just to get to the same exact functionality and level of privacy, but with a worse user experience?

You need to support letting the user change their email address anyway. Letting them change it from the privacy forwarding email to something else is no different. And that shouldn’t even interfere with using Sign In With Apple going forward because surely you’re using the user’s unique identifier from Apple to associate the sign-in with your service’s user.

Also FWIW you can use the Sign In With Apple JS approach on non-Apple platforms. This is obviously useful for web, but Apple’s developer site says it’s “for web and apps on other platforms” so you could use this from Android too, it will just take some more work.

> As a user, I find that functionality to be incredibly clunky by comparison (on all platforms).

As a user, I have never connected with someone on a service by typing in their email address. Not only do people routinely have multiple email addresses (e.g. work and personal), but people also often use unique addresses for services (e.g. plus addresses), so it’s not at all a reliable mechanism.

> If I'm using a computer and I need to manually copy a link, open my email client, compose a new email, type the subject and a message, paste the link, and hit send

Why would you do all this? The service can offer a mailto: link that pre-fills the body, so all you have to do is click it, type in the recipient’s email address, and hit Send. And this lets you customize the message as appropriate. Better yet, on Apple platforms you can use the built-in share functionality, including on web with the Web Share API[1].

And if you really don’t want to do all of that, you could have me enter an email that you send a special link to rather than looking up in your user database. That’s still not great for me as a user because it means I’m giving you someone else’s email address, which I don’t want to do, but it’s better than nothing.

The simple fact is, if your sharing mechanism requires me to know the email address someone else has already used to sign up for your service, it’s a crappy sharing mechanism.

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=web-share
Encrypted DNS support in iOS 14 and macOS 11
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The overage fees are also a mystery, the FAQ only says:

"If you exceed your committed usage, there are overages that will be charged."
So basically, if someone murders another person we should ban them from murdering people but not put them in jail. They should only go to jail if they commit multiple unrelated crimes.