skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing about anything they're doing that's actually going to be different.

Here's the thing: the best browser is one I don't have to think about, at all. It should fade away and just let me use websites without ten million little buttons and addons and bits and bobs of annoying functionality. I don't want half the crap that's in my already-minimalist browser; I want it to be fast and secure and get out of the way.
Some fun facts..

Andean Condors in Peru glide from 14'000 ft up in the andes of Pampa Galeras all way the down to sea level at the Guano islands in the coast of Paracas. All to get stuffed eating crushed sea lions babies carcases..

After eating , Condors can't take of from the ground by flapping.. they got to "hop" up a hill to be able to launch into the incoming air to get some altitude.

Then they fly back up to 14'000ft by a combination of dynamic lift, thermals and wave induced lift when available.

A few years ago, a group of top paraglider pilots tried to recreate their journey up the mountains, but it ended with both pilots pretty badly injured after encountering nasty turbulent winds on the mountain canyons.
Facebook ads are sold as an auction so the discount on ads is already happening. It also tends to produce the type of tempting situation which makes it impossible for brands to resist going back in if they can sneak an advantage in over their competitors.
Would this data have been disclosed without the law?
Impressive case of Poe’s Law here.
> As long as the articles remain available from the original publisher, the newspaper, the "right to be forgotten" has no effect on access to the information.

Only in the technical sense. Being removed from google results will kill most or all of the traffic, especially for stories that aren't front page news. Citizen sleuths might be able to unearth it, but I'd wager that unless the person is running for an important position (eg. congressman), it's not going to turn up. With the way local news is dying, I'm not even sure whether journalists at local newspapers would be able to turn it up. I fully expect political candidates at the local/regional level to use this to suppress "bad" stories about them.

>If "right to be forgotten" were the law of land worldwide, then perhaps it would put evolutionary pressure to develop innovative methodologies and mechanisms for web users to find information on the web without using third party middlemen, e.g., ad-supported web search engines. Currently, we have continuing evolutionary pressure to centralize all web access through a few third party websites, e.g., Google.

So what, everyone runs their own search engine?
I'll take sales tax over income tax; it's unconstutional in more than one way and an astounding waste of resources. RIP Aaron Russo.
I think you touch on what might be an easier example to demonstrate with here:

"GEAR NOT DOWN"

So the plane has determined you are close to the ground, but the landing gear is not extended.

What is the proper course of action?

If you're trying to land on a runway or other normal surface (i.e., 99 cases out of a hundred type of thing) the appropriate action would be to extend the landing gear.

In that other case though, extending the landing gear in preparation for something like an emergency water landing is certain to take something which has a surprisingly good survival rate and turn it into a mass casualty event.

So we're left with the choice between "do the usual thing automatically, and rely on the pilot to remember to override it in the rare event of an emergency" or "alert the pilot and rely on them to evaluate whether it's the right thing for their current situation and conditions".

I would definitely argue for the latter. Especially in this specific example increasing cognitive load during exceptional situations to make the unexceptional more convenient is probably not what we want to do. The plane is not aware of the actual situation the plane is in. The pilot is.
Tiktok' parent is bytedance is incorporated in Cayman islands. It has a US and a Chinese subsidiary. Chinese subsidiary runs douyin is subjected to the intelligence law. The US subsidiary runs tiktok and is managed by US employees and is not subject to the same law. The intelligence law would be problematic if bytedance is incorporated in China but it's not. The data and the code for tiktok is stored in the US and Chinese subsidiary cannot view that data.
My usual strategy is to write PRs for the end-to-end functionality of a deliverable (meaning they can get quite large), but with many small commits that can be stepped through during the review process.

When I'm ready to submit the PR, I rewrite the commit history so that each commit is an independent and easily consumable chunk of code - many of them might be isolated additions of helper methods, etc. One commit may be a database migration, another the REST API to talk to the database, each one having full tests for that discrete chunk of code.

The result of this is a PR possibly with 30+ commits for a large feature where each commit could be independently merged to master that, when stepping through one-at-a-time, tells a logical story of how every commit combines to deliver the full feature. Each commit message also provides a detailed explanation of what I've intended to do and why.

This means that when I'm near delivery for a feature I have a lot of administration work to do, but I think that the small, discrete, and clearly explained commits provide great value when trying to reason about the codebase down the line.
Most ISPs don't require this -- you can use your own equipment if you wish. Most customers take them up on the rentals, though, either because they don't know any better or because it's easier than buying and maintaining their own equipment.
My supercharged V8 5.0L Jaguar would be an absolute disappointment to anyone expecting much in the way of engine noise. The sound dampening in the engine compartment is far better than any car I've had before, and the cabin has adaptive noise canceling specifically for engine / road noise.
If you buy Tesla or Musk’s promises on when FSD will arrive, then I have a bridge for sale. They’ve been promising that “soon” for a long time now.
Is that 2.5 minutes in Belgium or worldwide?
I think it’s in Goldberg91.
The frequencies they're using get attenuated pretty hard by moisture in the atmosphere (like clouds and rain).

However I don't know if that translates to no internet, slow internet, or just higher power consumption at the terminal.
I'm personally not a big fan of sales tax either, but I do concede there are two good arguments for it.

First, it's the main tax foreigners pay when visiting (hotel taxes being the other). And since foreigners are benefting from local roads, police, and everything else just like citizens do, there's an argument they should contribute local taxes too.

But second, that sales taxes are aren't necessarily regressive, and could be made progressive. You don't pay sales tax on necessities like rent and supermarket food, so that's already a progressive aspect. And sales tax could be made more progressive if it were higher based on product categories (e.g. expensive cell phones, etc.). Many countries have a huge number of sales tax brackets by product category for this reason -- but they're built into the price, so stores know but consumers don't see the difference.

I do personally think it would be simpler though to just set sales tax to zero, fund local taxes with income+property taxes mainly, and jack up hotel taxes (in a highly progressive way) in destinations with so many tourists that they actually make a big difference to local infrastructure costs.
Alibaba has a whole 2 regions in the US, and they’re much smaller than AWS/GCP regions. They are not a significant infrastructure player outside of China, and an app like TikTok is high bandwidth and latency sensitive. It’s not feasible to host something like that entirely out of datacenters in China.
I stand corrected. Awesome. Thank you.
I would add: "Because we keep punting on our tech debt, and our infrastructure is so bad that after I spent 2 minutes writing the code, it took 2 days to get it tested, committed and deployed and deal with the fallout"
Many, many years ago I used to build distributed content delivery infrastructure for K-12 education systems, state and national.

I remember one customer (a state department of education) in particular had a server at each school with reasonable private bandwidth but unreliable routing and dismal internet connectivity, so we used the BitTorrent protocol for eventually-consistent asset distribution between their sites.

See also: using NNTP as your pub/sub message bus.
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The submitted title breaks the site guidelines by editorializing. Normally we'd change it to the article title, but in this case every single comment in the thread would become meaningless, so I'm going to downweight the submission instead.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do so in the comments. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
This is an inherent problem with need-based things -- they are ripe for abuse. If you have universal things, the abuse is part of the design ;) IOW: if instead of PPP being only for certain kinds of companies or institutions it were all of them then a) there is far less to administer b) they get more support and c) you dont have moralistic temptations or arguments. UBI vs SSI, universal healthcare vs medicare, etc etc.

Yes, this means wealthy people will get the same checks as the poor -- but that is a feature, not a bug. Sorry for the soapbox.
Like a quieter volume - even though normally the concept of a volume to thought words didn't even apply.
At least in Germany they are higher. A friend who is still in college got an offer as a new grad for ~75k. This offer is probably in the top 10% though. I don't know a single friend from college who starts with less than 45k as a new grad. Those who get 45k usually don't have internship experience.
5G is the line in the sand. It's basically the point of no return, we're fully and firmly in the "cyber era" or whatever we want to call it. Where (when) even the backup and disaster recovery plans are (at least partially) Internet dependent.

Going forward this kind of infrastructure will probably be more important than any other kind (because this will control all the others too).

Will this finally move the cost-benefit needle toward verifiable computing (open chips, open fabs, open *ware)? Who knows. But so far it seems the power brokers of the old era (eg. countries) are trying to maintain control.
Well, well, well. But how did YOU know it was child porn? File names don't count, as there have always been malware, and junk, and even law enforcement traps on peer-to-peer networks. You seem to have some experience to distinguish the real deal. Why don't you have a seat?

It's a joke, but nothing protects you from being officially asked that.

The state of moral panic in which everyone is supposed to agree that “protecting the children” is a wild card which only complete deplorables dare to question resulted in what has been predicted decades ago. All around the world, governments and corporations have lobbied censorship infrastructure for themselves in the name of the children. It's written right there in the laws, as if straight from Four Horsemen of Infocalypse Wikipedia article. In addition to that, Internet is subject to semi-legal de facto “agreements” based on ever-reaching US laws. It's because of these agreements between dealers on the shady side of the net (and their connections elsewhere) you don't see child porn advertised just as often as regular porn. A lot of people wouldn't hesitate to make lots of money on the hottest topic.

That's something they have in common with other professionals. Murder (of a person of any age) results in a couple of regular news flashes, some mentions on roller captions, and that's it. However, add sex (or sex with children!), and you'll have a media goldmine. And, of course, there will be some politicians proclaiming it's the right time to ban encryption. But they can do it only because everyone react the way they react.
If you like Chomsky check out What's Left (podcast) if you haven't yet. It's very good and will only deepen your skepticism of the corporate press.
Yes, exactly. The larger the team, the more likely someone is a front end expert and wants to use latest cool framework, which will by its nature require a build step. Even for something simpler, you'll probably want it for cache busting, minimization, etc.
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Skubana, TradeGecko, Zoho Inventory, Infoplus, Dear Systems, CoreCommerce, Cin7, DSCO, Nexternal, and Unleashed are a few that immediately come to mind, but there are tons more out there. There are lots which are also an ERP or WMS rolled into one, but since Stitch Labs was not that I tired to list ones that were mostly or exclusively similar to Stitch Labs.
According to the BJS data sheet linked in grandparent, the leading causes of death in prison for 2016 are:

- Cancer (1,128)
- Heart Disease (1,025)
- All Other Illnesses (525)
- Liver Disease (260)

Cancer and Heart Disease are also the leading causes of death for people not in prison. I don't think this is at all convincing evidence of an "atrocity."
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Tales of both men’s greatness diminish rapidly the closer one got to them too.
I think the point is that the data isn't being disclosed under normal circumstances. With our without the law.
In Italy a senior dev would often get less than half of that (pretax). Basically just in Milan salary are higher but a junior would not get more than 30k
Look I don't Dang either.

I feel like he nukes all my class war against the rich posts, but you have to realize I have personally accused of him fostering a white nationalist site for promoting assholes like you and also for hiding all my pro-communist comments.

So only one of us can be right, is dang a commie or nationalist?....or maybe everyone is complex and not entirely composed of a single ideology and also he was chosen to curate this website and that will ultimately anger both of us?

Anyway, here's the tea :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23400445
This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. He also praised Mao’s policies shortly after they caused the worst famine in human history.

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2003/5/the-hypocrisy-of-noam...
Non autopilot cars crash into parked police vehicles too. It’s common enough that officers are trained a prepared for such an event.

Is this maybe a reflection on the inherent safety risk of parking on the side of the road?
“ The (ε+1) expression is commonly found in compound interest and annuity calculations. The result can be simply converted into a value in another logarithm base by including a scale factor in the ST(1) source operand.”
https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/fyl2xp1
why not rebase the currency /100?

two upsides:

* we can do counting on our fingers again for shopping

* large numbers of C-list celebreties are no longer millionaires
The subsidiaries of these companies are subject to the intelligence law and whatever data these subsidiaries owns. If apple keeps US data away from the apple subsidiary in China then Apple is physically impossible to hand the data to Chinese government
Yeah. Computers have a pretty high skill floor and if you aren't using them enough to stay above that level, you will stop using them entirely and your skills will degrade to zero.
Yes, that makes sense.

As for speed, Intel has neglected to keep up the x87.
Yeah, GraphQL seems like a cool piece of tech that's overkill for 90% of the places it's used.

I'm a bit confused as to how it's become so popular for normal development when it seems to have a lot more boilerplate and setup than a simple REST API.
The SLA normally covers only the cost of running the VM, or a small multiple thereof. You can negotiate a better SLA, but you’re unlikely to get it.

A better alternative is insurance. There are many insurers that offer contingent business interruption coverage for failure of cloud infrastructure, among other causes.
Thanks for sharing, this is awesome. When I inevitably lose my eyebrows, I'm blaming you!
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yes, 64-bit
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Ooh yes those big extruded aluminium ones with the huge round button. I never had one of those :)

I have to admit I kinda enjoy my 'skyline' of flickering lights in my network 'cabinet'. Switches, modems (fibre and 4G backup), a unify router, my home automation raspberry. It really makes it feel like stuff is working away there.

But these are all red, orange and green. I have a special hate for those harsh blue LEDs. For some reason they really irritate me.
Complaining about an open source project changing technologies because you can't be bothered to learn them is a bit rich.

Fork Swagger v2 and make your own improvements. No one is stopping you and it's what open source is all about after all.
Unfortunately it’s all pretty theoretical now that YouTube and others use a content ID system that goes well beyond the legal requirements thanks to all the lawsuits years ago.
edit: Microsoft was developing their 64 bit Windows
What cockpits are these? Analog dial cockpits have been standard since WW2 if not before, and consist of:

- Attitude indicator (no needle, horizontal when straight and level)

- Altitude indicator (vertical at 0 feet)

- Airspeed indicator (vertical at 0 knots)

- Turn and slip indicator (horizontal when straight and level)

- Directional Gyro (always vertical, numbers on rim rotate)

- Vertical Speed indicator (horizontal when neither climbing or descending)

I struggle to come up with a single instrument in which vertical is a desirable direction to indicate, during flight.
Not going to lie, as a tech savy software engineer I often just phone telco's.

Most of the time I'm calling because my internet is down and I can't go to the website. Or I'm calling because I forgot my password for a website used once every N years.

90% of the time I'm calling, I wouldn't expect the website to have the information I need. Looking at Comcast's website I'm not inclined to look around and find out.
VR Apps (Alt Space and others) can solve most of this issues right now. The soon coming generation of VR googles actually read your face expressions and replicates them online. IMHO, At the current pace of development, in less than a year, this will be the new reality.
Spain is Customer of NSO Group; President of the Parliament of Catalonia Hacked
This deal is from May 2019, well before anybody was talking about banning TikTok.
For a time, it was a really convenient thing, generally located right at the grocery store. It was easy to grab a movie and return it the next time. It was also pretty easy to copy things.
Hi, thank you for admitting in your first sentence you're not qualified to comment on the subject at hand, yet felt compelled to share your two cents. Here's the context for your totally uninformed opinion:

I was a major contributor for etcd 2.3-3.2 at CoreOS. The people who extended etcd to support gRPC included the original etcd author (hi Xiang). gRPC support was necessary for good performance; we had benchmarks to justify the decision. Likewise, v3 brought about a key-value model change that was incompatible with v2 to better support binary data, ranging over the keyspace, transactions etc. A v2-style gateway for v3 with a pretty JSON API was planned but never completed due to lack of resources; the ugly gRPC json gateway turned out to be good enough for most people. Similarly I wrote a proxy to run v2 requests over v3 instances, which does support the v2 JSON API. This isn't as if a new group of people showed up and ruined the software without caring about existing users. None of us were "Xooglers".

It seems what you're proposing is what the author both argues against and wrongly believes is what happened. We constantly pushed back against k8s influence. If we didn't, etcd would be a k8s sub-project right now. I'd also like to point out that removing the people who do the difficult work of actually writing the software from the decision process is incredibly insulting and devalues their labor. How dare you.
I attended a university-based martial arts class in the late 1990s. A somewhat-elderly Asian lady (probably mid-50's) began attending classes and progressing through the ranks. She was kind of. . . well, a goofball. Transgressive sort of humor. Made jokes about people's girlfriends. Laughed through demos.

The only time I saw her utterly serious is when the instructor showed off some knife-defense techniques he learned at a seminar. She got a weird look on her face at the overly-styled techniques we were being show and very clearly said, "We did it like this in Cambodia." She grabbed the rubber knife from the sensei, seemingly teleported behind his back, clamped a hand over his mouth, and drew the knife across his throat. "So they no hear any noise," she explained. As a bunch of 20-something kids, we looked on in horror. She seemed to remember herself and looked embarrassed. Left early from class and never came back.
Youtube is longer format, so the difference makes sense. People just don't consume as much.
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I’ve always been under the impression your taxes are also very high, so what does your actual take home salary look like?
The big issue here is Schneier is arguing for "smart regulation" or "Goldilocks regulation" - just the right amount of inefficiency in just the right industries. But like old generals, regulations are usually there fighting the last war. There is talk of remving NYC zoning laws that demand certain square footage for bathrooms etc. But those regulations were put in place to halt spread of TB through slum dwellings.

I think what I am saying is asking for better regulation is like saying something must be done. We agree, it it's the specific trade offs that matter - so don't ask for better regulation but a better environment to be informed about regulation - supply chain verification, direct democracy and so on.

this is a meta problem

Tim Bray quoted this a few days back but i e to see it on his blog.
My client use paid GitHub services for the new projects they work on. But we (devs) really hate it because it slow us at lot (can't push/pull, Github Actions not working, "crash" our CI/CD server, ...) because of instability of Github servers! Their status page look like a Christmas Tree! Not a single week without issues.

I don't have control on my client decisions (not my business), but personally I'm done with GH.
Yes, to extend democracy to the economic sphere.
But my brain works in silence, is a stream still entertaining without the audience interaction?
When NeXT got acquired by Apple and Steve went back to Apple he tried to get Adobe to make premier for the new Mac-OS. Since Apple hadn't been profitable for a while Adobe declined, so Apple made a deal with Macromedia to which became Final Cut. It's known that he held grudges and would base deals on how able he was to make demands or phone calls and it seems to be the case here too even if it was the right call technologically. This was related https://bgr.com/2016/12/12/steve-jobs-iphone-adobe-flash-tes...
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