skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll actually argue that it very much is.

First, there's the historic precedent of collected information eventually making it into the wrong hands. The Preussian "pink lists" are a classic example, but essentially everything that ended up as PRISM can be taken as a more modern example.

And yes, putting power into government hands so regulate the collection of that data, and then arguing that it's dangerous because of the government might seem a bit contradictory. It's not in my mind. These types of legislation are supposed to disincentivize the collection by private entities after all. Government and intelligence services are (too) close but they are distinct.

And then there's the very real [1] ([2] if you want it more juicy) possibility of corporations targeting individuals for one reason or another directly. Here in the west, this sort of thing would result in your Uber becoming more expensive or unavailable, but imagine being a government critic (or activist against e.g. organized crime) in Brazil right now. All that data going god-knows-where, with the express intent of the collectors to sell it to anynone? Not a great outlook.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyball
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23529035
Just wrote some code and shared it on github, feeling pretty, may delete it later I dunno.
Turn your phone into a wireless webcam
(They're called 'enums' in Rust though, your parent is correct.)
Mathematicians tried to prove how hard The Witness is
Web front-end/back-end took the brunt of the impact of the commoditization of software developers and is rapidly on it's way to becoming the McJob of tech. Everything you said is why I stayed away from web technologies as much as I could in my career. Head over to work at a platform company (e.g. Salesforce, Atlassian) where they care more about reliability and maintainability than rewriting everything in the latest hot framework. Another option is to head over to IoT, embedded development, or some other area of systems development. Fundamentals still matter, evolution of technologies is benefit driven rather than fad driven, and experience is considered a positive.
One of my favorite mini games at my job is rewriting classic algorithms to run in batched mode on gpu/tpu. The speed improvements often improve model training time by days, and it's always a lovely intellectual challenge. (The basic challenge is to rewrite the algorithms in terms of matrix operations which operate on many examples of the problem at once, while eliminating all branching.)
Very exciting times! Author of blog post here I'd be more than happy to answer any questions about this release.
What's the use case here that isn't solved by configuring your browser to prohibit third-party cookies? Obviously browser fingerprinting and all of that can be used to try to extract the information, so browser should be strengthening their anti-fingerprinting measures.

But it strikes me that this is almost entirely a client-side problem. If a server wants to give me a cookie or put something in local storage, or serve me URLs with a tracking parameter in the url, so be it -- there's no privacy violation unless they can ask another website if they know who I am, and blocking third party cookies stops that.
> The slowdown is intentional.

Yes, it appears to be. If you check the network tab of your browser, you see it makes about 8 requests. Then it waits for about 5-10 seconds and makes again 5 requests.
My two favorites for this are 'Becoming a Technical Leader', Gerald Weinberg, and 'Making Things Happen', Scott Berkun.
Sorry. I was in a bad mood. While I do often disagree with your comments, that's no reason for being mean about it. So again, my apologies!
A Safer RuboCop, Part Deux
It was bots will.
Exactly, reliably streaming video is much more complicated and expensive than given credit for. YouTube being $0 does not actually mean it's free, it just means the creator/publisher isn't paying for it directly in money, but in skimmed traffic. The viewer pays by exchanging personal data on what they watch and are interested in, as well as their time in watching commercials.

All of these costs are much higher than anyone actually estimates as people incorrectly valued them while YouTube arbitrages the real value in this.

We created an alternative to YouTube for those who have discovered the real value of these costs at Swarmify[1], but there are other options as well depending on needs/wants.[2][3]

[1] https://swarmify.com/ - No code/low code easy YouTube migration option

[2] https://mux.com/ - API based option

[3] https://vdocipher.com/ - Enterprise DRM option
> What "tech lead" means

That roughly translates in my head to ‘terrible youtuber’
Setting up remote usability studies doesn't have to be difficult
Interesting read. They're basically proposing that our anti-rational behavior came out as a type of 'hyper-socialization'. I can believe it and, if true, would point to why things like changing the Overton window [1] and other mass public perception shifts change individual perception.

I don't think it's the only way to change peoples minds and I hesitate to dive into "just employ emotional reasoning" as that seems dangerous.

From personal experience, another effective way is to change people's minds is by giving them "skin in the game".

I've tried, over the years, to convince friends of the solution to the Monty Hall [2] problem. After explaining the solution and them either not believing it or not understanding it, I then play the game with them with 100 doors and revealing 98 after the first pick. Once this game is played a couple times, they understand the solution much more readily.

My take on this is that they suddenly have a personal stake in the game, even if it's weak. There's a personal cost that takes the form as social shame or loss aversion, even for a game that's played between friends with no money involved, that gives them a stake. Once they start wanting to actively avoid losing, they're much more willing to listen to reason.

The article points out that our anti-rational behavior is at odds with survival but I would bet there's a level of abstraction below which our survival minded rationality kicks in and above which we don't have enough of a stake in the answer to use our rationality to good effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
> Write some code, go to the browser, check it works (assuming it's a web app).

That's a test. It's called manual testing, and in reasonable organizations there'd be a list of what test actions (as a checklist, often) should be done in this fashion.
The best book on leadership I read was Jocko Willink's Extreme Ownership[1]. He was a career US Navy SEAL and bring a lot of great leadership approaches from the SEALS and correlates them to the business world. His principles lead back to the idea of taking extreme ownership of everything related to your team and the "mission". I really liked his no nonsense approach.

The best lesson I learnt on leadership is to listen to and believe in your team. They are the experts, not you anymore. Your job now is to clear the path to their success. Different people need different things to succeed, it's your job to figure that out and try your best to provide it.

What I recommend: Figure out what kind of leader you want to be. Read as much as you can and talk to other leaders inside and outside of your company to see what works and doesn't work for them.

Finally, make sure your team has a crystal clear definition of what success is and the milestones to get there. Ensuring this understanding will help your team move in the same direction.

Good luck!

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownersh...
What would be the copyright status on something like this?
Is this not by default true of any company operating in China that has sufficient size to be deemed a state-asset?
Another suggestion is to simply hold a small amount of ad revenue for review for larger channels.

The given channel was estimated to make $4 per video. Just holding a small amount of revenue for review would pay for the human time.

Losing $10 is vastly better for the monetized creator than losing the channel completely.
Here's two really good articles, not books, on the subject:

* https://www.hashtagcoder.dev/blog/director-of-engineering

* https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feedi...
Do you believe that the vaccines contain mercury and aluminum and that those metals are causing problems in people who take that vaccines? Because that's a fact they contain those metals and they hurt people. I have a daughter who went from speaking to requiring 5 years of therapy to start speaking again. I not allowed to sue about that and no one in the medical establishment would acknowledge that the only cause of my daughters sickness could have been the vaccines. The medical establishment is a joke, I'm through with giving them any trust. There is propaganda about vaccines being harmless and it needs to end.
The Slack Social Network
I want my Lady's Illustrated Primer ASAP
you can get pdf of this book free from http://cdn.oreillystatic.com/pdf/Debugging_Teams.pdf (legal)
Pre 2.0 there were a few bugs with SRV discovery, maybe they adopted early and got bit? Just an anecdote but we've been using it since 1.9 without issue. Massively different scales though.

Pre k8s and before srv support we used consul template in prod as well but it always scared me, seemed like too many moving pieces for what should've been a simple system.
Correct you can’t process personal data based on it. And the underlying implication is that none of the consent you’ve obtained via a cookie wall is valid because you haven’t given any users the opportunity to “refuse without detriment” (because their options are to consent or see nothing). So the information you’re processing on behalf of users who clicked “I agree” - even the users who do in fact knowingly and willingly agree to the information processing - might be lacking a legal basis.
The problems I see with "open your browser" for quick testing: 1. it's short gain, the team will be slower (will they know how to test it?) 2. how much code needs to be written so that you can even use the browser to test it?
Additionally, in "mental state B" it (the fresher/hipstery the project the more) often appears that the documentation is either non existing or horribly outdated, and same for any code samples on Stackoverflow.
I have tried using various BSD OS’s but they always seemed to require a lot more work if you wanted a desktop GUI.

Am I correct in thinking that BSD is meant to be used “headless” for security reasons?
It was not of the government, but munipal/city.
One of the skills of a tech lead (or parent, or anyone) is recognizing when a person may just be seeking recognition and politely playing along.
I remember reading an article a while back about how professional photography has become a commodity. You can find and license any imaginable photograph, for pennies, in minutes. From the best photographers in the world. So from a business perspective, photography as a pure art has been devalued to almost nothing. Nobody pays you to take the very best possible photo.

So why do people still hire photographers? To put themselves or their product into a photo. Most photographers are no longer paid to take the very best photos, but to make their photos specific to what the particular client cares about. That's something that can't be commoditized.

I think that's where software is now as an industry. Very few of us these days get to innovate at a "pure art" level. Instead, we get paid to pull together a bespoke solution that's sensitive to a given business and its needs. It isn't novel at the macro-level, only at the micro-level.

This can be kind of depressing, but it's also a little comforting that those micro-level solutions are so hard to fully commoditize. As long as the real world is messy and varied, the leaves in the software tree will have to be too, and there will be work that needs doing.
Now we need something for Microsoft Teams as well of course.
I'm not a macOS user, but aren't macOS applications installed by just copying the bundle (which appears to the user as if it was a single file, instead of a directory)? Making the same application bundle work on both architectures means that a user who upgrades from an Intel macOS to an ARM macOS can just drag-and-drop the applications from the old system to the new system, and they will work.
In my experience, ALB scaling is opaque, and constantly lags behind herds of traffic. This is very noticeable if you're running services that experience sudden spikes, there's a noticeable lag of ALB scaling.

That said though, it does do it's job for the most part.
Not really. 10x per MIPS, otherwise 486 CPU consumes about same number of watts. The whole PC though...
Assuming that I'm so stupid as to honestly believe that a papercut is equivalent to burning down a store is absolutely an insult to intelligence.

You'll find that people are more likely to engage with you when you don't treat them like an absolute idiot.
Yeah, it’s something I catch myself doing all the time too, confirming a bias I have but then just moving on anyway. As if confirming the bias somehow made it okay to just have it.
I only managed to grasp Z80 on the Speccy after getting hold of that book on the local library, unfortunately by then I was already getting into 8086 Assembly, so it felt like a lost opportunity.

Using hexadecimal monitors wasn't that appealing to me, specially trying to find out why a checksum row wasn't correct. Much worse than finding errors on BASIC listings.
Thank you, this is a well balanced comment and it's highly valuable to have this type of viewpoint in our world.
> just a shame it cost them many millions of pounds

It's not wasted if it goes to your mates as a kickback.
It's the official solution created by Interactive Advertising Bureau and as the standard way to opt-out for all the companies in this organization:
https://github.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/GDPR-Transpa...

There are serious doubts if this is a complaint way to handle cookie consent.
but let's not forget the non-material nature of software allows this, hardware will always be a physical (material) artifact.

however the line does blur when talking about blueprints and designs.

in any case, I think that free software movements are a sociological anomaly, I wonder if there is any academic research into this from an antropological or an historical economics viewpoint.

also, it seems to me that in some sense the entire market works in cooperation, just not very efficiently (it optimizes for other things than efficiency and is heavily distorted by subsidies and tariffs)
I think this is a much more solvable problem than people think, it just requires not considering everything in such a centralized manner. We don't have to build "their own YouTube", content can be shared peer to peer - the torrent community has solved many of these issues already.
Whether you're looking for SoftwareModernization services, architecting for
Ripe for some innovation maybe...
Mobile-Only Analytics Product?
I am looking for inspirations for mobile-first /mobile-only analytics product. Domain/function agnostic, but prefer it to support iOS.

The current analytics products that I use all render pretty poorly on mobile.
Comment said nothing about overlap. Blind was quite literally created for that type of thing (quite literally). OP will get more answers there as opposed to using a burner on HN (as evidenced by the stat of this thread)
That's a government.
Novavax Covid Vaccine Gets $1.6B in U.S. Funding
Seeing how the top 2 comments present completely opposing views, now I just HAVE to watch this.
Again, there is a misconception that test prove that a given module works. No, they don't.

Test may serve as some kind of "persistent REPL" to make sure you didn't miss some edge case. But, at least to me, the real value of tests is confidence for refactoring.

Otherwise it is so easy to "simplify" a function but break code due to some implicit type cast, or making it work only for positive values, etc.
> it costs exactly the same whether there's one house or two houses or a 4-plex at that place.

In your specific example:

+ More cars parked on the street

+ More existing pipes under the asphalt to avoid or repair if you damage

+ More traffic on the street so you have to work more condensed hours and limit the time the street can be closed

+ Typically more density means less open room for moving machinery/workers/equipment

Ripping out a street and running a new main is endlessly easier in the middle of a small town than it is in downtown NYC, from getting the equipment in place to doing it safely.
I tried to help monetize Open source projects. People hated it
Hello all,
You might already know that codefund.io shut a few days back. Most of the OSS developers only rely on sponsorship for their projects yet don't make much money. Being a full time OSS contributor is a difficult path to move forward. I attempted to help monetize OSS packages by building a marketplace (privjs.com) for "PRO" nodejs libraries where OSS developers could release a PRO version of their existing libraries and help cater the paid users better. Posted it on reddit and it was flooded with hate comments.

I just do not understand - what's wrong in monetizing OSS? And, why is it so hard to monetize? Why do people hate paying for code that saves hours/days of their time?

-Prasanna
Cookies that aren't used for tracking don't require consent though (except for weird corner cases). That only leaves us with "tracking without cookies" which is technically already solved by the "do not track" header (though of course in practice it isn't really solved, mostly because of how browsers implemented it)
Well, given that it was published in the New Yorker 3 years ago, it clearly wasn't written primarily for us.

Given that it is discussing the results of actual psychological studies (that I have seen talked about in a number of other places), it is vanishingly unlikely that it is in some way intended to study anyone's gullibility.
I did not make a threat. If you think you need to write paragraphs and paragraphs to explain why I did, you are probably just off base on this one. I am also not calling for anyone to be censored, so most of your post is irrelevant.
Indeed, as you can find out by magazines like RetroGaming, many were using 16 or 32 bit machines and then deploying into the Spectrum.
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FDA approves Abbott's Bluetooth-connected pacemaker, defibrillator implants
"Abbott has secured approvals from the FDA for its new generation of connected pacemakers and defibrillator implants"

Does this concern anyone else? My experiences with bluetooth haven't been great. Beyond issues switching between generic keyboards and mice. I have intermittent connection issues even with the newest apple products which use their optimized H1 and W3 bluetooth chips+stacks. I wouldn't want to be stuck in the ios bluetooth menu turning it on and off to access my pacemaker.
How Did General Trading Market Shift to Crypto Trading?
Perhaps "totally gross" binary would be a more specific and direct terminology?
First world living standards, for one...
Can anyone recommend some resources for jumping into asic design to take advantage of this offer?
> ...they'll create abstractions with no meaning on their own...

As if that doesn't happen with inheritance!

The dark pattern is using inheritance as an alternatve way of implementing composition. Anyone who thinks that "inheritance bad, composition good" is the proper response to this is probably as confused about the issue as those making the mistake in the first place.

To be clear, you are clearly not making that claim yourself, but you are invoking it to make a straw man argument.
Honestly, to me I feel the entire concept of 'apps' has been an abysmal failure. There's no evidence to suggest they've helped in any capacity. I think any contact tracing system is far more effective than using BT which was never designed to be used in such a capacity and feels more of a best-case 'hack' with current smartphone technology.

History will look at these 'apps' and will make conclusions based on their effectiveness, and the ones that are more privacy preserving will likely not rate highly on impact or usefulness.

If anything, this pandemic has enabled authoritarian regimes the capability of monitoring their populous 24/7 with wearable gadgets and apps that collect location/contact and other information.

To me, it highlights the importance of not using apps where possible and further highlighting how smartphones are spies for the governments around the world.
The problem with bandwidth is that its cure is largely political.

Legislations and agreements that prevent competition, community run ISPs... Help YouTube.

On more thought, bandwidth isn't the major politically caused road block. It's copyright laws.

Facebook and Microsoft are both capable of building YouTube clones.

But Microsoft has limited itself to cooperate video hosting.

And I believe Facebook has intentionally bad video discovery mechanism to keep copyright sharks at bay.

Porn hosting is pretty much triving in part because copyright laws / enforcement is weak there.

YouTube started aggressive, automated takedowns because of copyright laws.

Fix the laws and the tech will take care of the rest.
Don't get me wrong, but I can't see why anyone should use something except mainstream OS like Linux? Taking into account that fact what OS is no interest for people itself, it's just a platform for applications.
This is interesting considering the direction standards/advisory bodies like TM Forum have been heading into. The telco industry was always big on standardisation, but paradoxically interop was a constant challenge when I was working in 3G rollouts...
> I wouldn't say that being found in nature means that something is not made up.

Then define "made up".

> For all I know the noumenon could be dealing in something else entirely, and math might just be a really useful tool we came up with (like classical physics, and probably modern physics).

Suppose it is merely a useful tool. This tool then necessarily has a structure that's isomorphic to part of the structure of the noumenon, otherwise it wouldn't actually be a useful tool.

Therefore, whatever structure it models is itself mind independent, as I said. The symbols and formalisms we use are interchangeable, but the structure revealed is not.
I'm seriously considering making a reddit competitor with some significant tweaks to the karma/voting/mod system
this guy is hilarious.
Maybe, though again I would expect an alert for the process being dead would also not uncover this particular issue. It's possible someone would notice that there was insufficient alerting then go back to add something which would have caught this but it's far from certain. OTOH it's also possible that at this stage in the game, when the code and systems are EOL, that something like chaos testing is the last chance to catch this problem.

I'm not totally against chaos testing. I just haven't seen it done well and think it's actually pretty hard to pull off (particularly the non-technical aspect of convincing people it's okay to let this thing go mad). I'd love to see how effective it was within Netflix.
Relevant Study examining different types of banners and their impact on interaction: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3319535.3354212 (Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.02638.pdf)
How to Win Friends and Influence People is a good book to read. It was written before people spoke about EI, but it gives good, actionable advice.
The styling of the site is so on point, nicely done!
I don't use a bookmark manager but I currently host my bookmarks in csv file and serve them as an api. Then I wrote a simple flask app that uses that api to display those bookmarks

[1]https://github.com/mraza007/useful-bookmarks/tree/flask

[2]https://bookmarks-flask.herokuapp.com/