skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society's view of climate change has shifted over the past 50 years; I think that individual actions contribute to shifting society's view on things.
In a world of space architects and ignorant cargo cult practitioners, this post is a breath of fresh air. While some might find the style vitriolic and “toxic” it’s nothing but honesty peppered with salty experience.

Having said that, the guy represents the old guard of tech, the kind of people who ask “why do you want to do this” instead of trying to help you, and usually follow this up with a useless suggestion for an alternative that sort of does what you want but not really. Thanks, I guess. They have a very concrete idea of how things should be done, new ways of doing old things are frowned upon, and anyone challenging their “authority” is seen as an imbecile.

I had the dubious pleasure of working with such a man a few years back and while I couldn’t but admire his technical expertise and competence, I grew to hate him to a degree that would rival that which the author of the blog post hates Google.
Get off our lawn, old geeks! You’re not the only ones with opinions around here.
>when Rogan just shuts his mouth and listens

I disagree and believe some of his interviews with Sean Carroll would've been much improved if he had stopped Carroll every time Carroll had gone on for 4 minutes without saying a single thing he understood and asked Carroll to simplify.
Isn't airplane autopilot only used when there's no traffic around. An analogous autopilot for cars would never be used unless if you're in an empty parking lot.
I assume they would be redeemable at banks for nickels.
I'd like this dumb trend to price things with #.99 to go away. It's so annoying. May be dropping pennies will help that.
I think the issue is that there is only a small minority of consumers who (1) care enough and are knowledgeable enough to want to micromanage their finances, and (2) aren't wealthy enough to just pay a CPA to handle it.

I am definitely in that minority, and use GnuCash since I can tap directly into the database backend and automate whatever I want. I do a lot of complex cryptocurrency arbitrage trading, which of course requires "real" accounting to determine profit/loss. I'm also very, ahem, "creative" with my credit cards and like to take advantage of various offers and hacks to get low- or no-interest liquidity. Double-entry bookkeeping is absolutely essential to ensuring that I'm not just wasting money on all my complicated financial maneuvers, as well as seeing where and when I need to move my cash.
Thanks for sharing these links. I think the second video was the most enlightening. Even the security guard had the insight to think "why would someone fake a $2 bill?".
Sounds like great project for some specific scenarios, like malware analysis and application sandboxing.
It will be worth it. After all, COVID-19 vaccine is priceless. /s
I don't think this is an appeal to authority. if a sitting US senator says something about an event that's already a national news story, isn't that newsworthy?
You can see this directly on Reddit, or even here, thanks to the downvote button. It doesn't matter how right you may be, how many sources you may have, if it angers a sufficient people to lead to your post being downvoted, no one will be able to read it.

And though the points are made up, it's always annoying to look at a post you spent half an hour typing and researching just to have it get down to -6 with no further comments.
Hospital are frequently overwhelmed already even without this "pandemic". Many thousand deaths per day are normal situation even before this.
I am not defending the situation except to point out .. people at the lowest rung of the social ladder need to eat and have work with dignity. This is a complex issue. I'm glad I don't live in a developing country anymore so don't have to come face to face with it. I would like to raise awareness that you , I and a bulk of people on HN live in absolute abundance compared to a wide swath of the population in places such as Philippines, Indonesia, India and Pakistan. It is better not to judge others like the original poster (who may be providing people with dignified labor opportunities).
Coin-only laundry machines are probably the biggest drivers of persistent cash usage in most of my acquaintances' lives. I'm guessing that apartment buildings big enough to have in-building laundry rooms but small enough to not be able to justify a cashless payment system may just end up shifting to not charging for laundry.
The thing is: Cruise control maintains the speed without human supervision. Lane keep assist does not keep in a lane without human supervision (hence it is only assist).
I'm still mad that I cant buy the Ryzen 3600E processor (45W TDP) as it's reserved to OEMs. I know i'm sacrificing performances, but I want an energy-efficient processor.
No, it really isn't even a little bit of a leap. Can't tell if you're trolling or severely misinformed.

>Following the shutdown, ByteDance announced that it would give preference to Chinese Communist Party members in its hiring and increase its censors from 6,000 to 10,000 employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
Wow, the stories of Mary and Bob was truly eye-opening. And don’t even mention poor Fred...

Guess I’m on team Huawei now!
Look at what's driving the shift: data centers are a major capital investment up-front plus a significant amount of staffing to operate and secure them. If you have enough proven need to justify that, you can easily beat a cloud provider — especially if you can simplify the problem in some ways that a generic service cannot.

For most organizations, however, it's hard to justify investing millions of dollars up-front in the hope that at some point you'll be saving enough to make that pay off. If that's not your core business it's often easier and safer to outsource it so, for example, you don't end up with a data center full of 50% utilized hardware which you bought to have capacity for growth which wasn't quite what you expected — or a big crunch when you have more demand than capacity and now need to double that investment to handle [currently] 10% of your usage.
I think it's the people who benefit the most out of the current system. They pass down that dogma and shove it down our throats. The reality is a bit different though, the US is a mix of both capitalism and socialism, but they'd never want to plainly admit to that, they'd rather bash socialism as the biggest strawman they've ever made. Not to mention that for them the terms of socialism and communism are the same thing, conflated with other feared ideas.
Yeah, I assume the vast majority of paying maintainers would be SaaS companies (for services like monitoring or logging), API companies, infrastructure companies (DBs, etc.)

I do think the vast majority of these companies already have packages, since they need developers to integrate with their services.
i guess if i wanted windows, i could use windows... right?

edit for tone:

sry, that sounded saltier than i wanted. i actually went to linux because i was convinced that was the better way to do things, and i wanted to do things the better way.

i trust neckbeards over most others.
This is the case for PayPal and Visa debits, but not credit cards IIRC.
I say we slap a warning label on all opinion pieces "likely to contain misinformation, inaccurate dialogue, or in summary fake news."

I could care less if they're earning less money from it.
> Bari is bad, only wants speech she likes to matter.

I am not at all familiar with the author of the letter, but could you elaborate on this? I didn't get that impression reading the letter, or what I assume is quotes from the author in your comment.
The engine isn't the problem. The indices are. Google has massive amounts of data to index over, and they've been collecting it in useful form for longer than anyone else still in the game.
Performance Reviews Deserve a Review
This is about carrier equipment, not phones. In fact, phones are exempt from this decision.
"The gateway accepts a JSON mapping for etcd's protocol buffer message definitions."

Was a "JSON mapping for etcd's protocol buffer message definitions" the original "HTTP API"?

"A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm" (https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e125/57a7582881a62040eee68b...)

"A Note on Distributed Computing" (https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...)
Maybe you could let people put bounties on issues, and pay the developers.
I have no clue how The Great Firewall is not considered a straight up blockade.
Yes, but be honest, how many people can easily get their own AS? The barriers to getting an AS number are by design higher than the barriers to getting hosting with a random provider. If I can prove I have hundreds of hosts I want to connect to the Internet, I can probably successfully get an AS number and get in line for a slice IPv4 space when one becomes available. Joe Random probably can't.
> Same TDP spec as the existing non-pro threadrippers - 280W.

The current 280W TDP Threadrippers are 24, 32, or 64 core.

These new Threadripper PRO parts have 280W TDP even down to 16 and 12 core parts.
Where is the cultural critique of Weiss coming from?

Is it this contribution, on the Joe Rogan podcast?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo3GM760a2s&feature=youtu.be - 11m, 2019 - Weiss talks about Tulsi Gabbard (?) as a sycophant. (YT person asserts dishonesty and hypocrisy.)
> I'm sure it's possible to create a consistent system but I'm also sure it's not practical. No one does it.

Billions of dollars flow through fully consistent systems every day. The basic IT concept for smaller hedge funds is "buy the biggest MSSQL machine available on the planet and move on." The big ones have custom frameworks that resemble Frank's arguments here, though the abstractions are different.
I'm reminded of this Russell Brand quote, which points out a similar Catch-22:

“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
Have you driven a modern ICE? I rented a new Honda Accord this weekend. Besides the Model 3's crazy acceleration, and automatic lane changing, I think the Accord matches or exceeds a Model 3 in every single way, and it's roughly half the price. This isn't to say Teslas aren't impressive, but I do think they're overhyped.
Build REST API with Go and PostgreSQL and TDD
I am aware they are not elected, I wasn't implying that judges would do it just get re-elected. I meant it to say that the judge could see it not only as some lobbying effort, but also as a move to protect interests of the working people they are serving.
> That's peanuts compared to a similarly popular sitcom.

Is it actually? Do you have particular sitcom(s) in mind? I tried to look for this myself and couldn't find much (beyond ratings for anything beyond the top ~20 highest rated shows in a given year).

I know very little about this, but I'm a little skeptical because I feel people tend to vastly overestimate how much money the average person they see on TV makes. The stories of the outliers (like the Friends stars making $1M per episode) really skew the perceptions of this -- the vast majority of professional actors (if not regular TV actors, but maybe even then) make less than the median Bay Area software engineer. A salary on the order of $200K a year for a non-headliner regular actor in a sitcom with viewership around 1M people (which I think is more than a typical episode of Mythbusters would've gotten) doesn't sound that far out of the ballpark to me.
>Because he has had some alt right people interviewed on there

People paint him that way not because he has them on there, but because he almost always lets them spew their nonsense without any push back because he isn't an actually good interviewer.
I use little bits of gaff tape instead of electrical tape, for less sticky residue. If I still want an indicator, I poke a hole in the tape with a pin. Stickers are probably a better idea though!

Of course I've done this to myself too. "This network switch would look cooler with purple LEDs". oops.

FWIW electrical tape transmits infrared. Not a concern here, but it can be if you're expecting it to trigger an optointerrupter!
This generally isn't good advice and can result in your call being dropped, marked as "hot," etc...
You hit the nail on the head with tool chain complexity. Transpiling adds yet another layer in a stack that's already deep. Web isn't my field but it looks like from the outside that obsevability[1] is also lacking. Some friends that are in web programming mention a lot of younger engineers don't realize how bad it is.
WSJ: 'Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers'
Probably stream to both simultaneously until you figure out which one works better for you.

If you get Twitch affiliate or partner I believe you can stream on both YouTube and Twitch still just not simultaneously, at least that is what I have read. Not sure many big streamers have tried so not sure on the details.
This one touches on the 'what do you call something without giving it a label' category. When it comes to physical conditions people are comfortable with the phrases healthy or unhealthy. Saying that somebody is mentally healthy seems ok, but calling someone mentally unhealthy seems off. I have seen people react badly to the term mental illness. Equally saying that I 'suffer from' xyz strikes me as negative ('suffering' is too negative, ‘experiencing’, ‘dealing with’, ‘enduring’ are more personally more apt /applicable but are such odd phrases that using them in conversation would stigmatize things further or make people suddenly start walking on egg shells).

Which leads to the question – What is the best term to use when it comes to discussing mental health (mental un-health?) issues with prospective employers?

Personally I am fortunate that in my area of industry I’m required to list any and all prescription medications as part of background checks. This allows me to steer the dialogue at an early stage of the process (‘what are these for, why do you take them, what impact do they have’ etc.) Most have been extremely understanding and supportive. A very, very few have run for the hills so having that discussion at the start of things saves time all round. As with all things in life, your mileage may vary
I would check 18 U.S. Code §331 (fraudulently defacing currency) before doing that.
SoftBank Said to Have a Buyout Offer for ARM
James Bennet, the Op-Ed Editor who had hired both Weiss and Stephens is Jewish. His brother is Colorado Senator Bennet. Their mother was in the Warsaw Ghetto and was sent out as a child by her parents just before the Nazis shipped the entire ghetto to the camps. She has an on-line oral history in the holocaust museum.

Both Stephens and Weiss are not only Jewish, but pro-Israel. Weiss had even written an entire recent book about anti-Semitism [1]. Many in the far left support the anti-Semitic Boycott Divest Sanction (BDS) movement against the only Jewish country in the world. China invaded Tibet, puts 3 million Muslims in camps, taking their DNA and facial recognition but no China BDS.

Bennet had also been Jerusalem Bureau Chief for NYT for 3 years and thus would be knowledgeable about the situation there. He may have stopped inaccuracies printed about Israel in his role.

Bennet was the likely candidate to be elevated to Exec Editor when the current one retired in a couple of years. I believe a lot of the staff didn't like Bennet because of Jewish/Israel stance and the idea of him being the Exec Editor frightened/angered them.

I believe that an external inspector general type figure should evaluate the entire situation. Weiss's complaints are consistent with a toxic work environment that nobody should have to deal with. She said the source of some of the harassment she experienced was on an internal slack channel and thus easy to investigate.

Readers of HN are analytical enough to realize that when something obvious isn't mentioned it may well be the underlying cause.

[1] Weiss: How to Fight Anti-Semitism
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P51KC9Z/
UK Bans Huawei 5G Equipment, Orders 5G Kit to Be Removed from Networks by 2027
> In 2015, an unrelated tool called Kubernetes was released by Google (but, really, by Xooglers). I would go so far as to say that Kubernetes (or, as the "cool kids" say, k8s) is the worst thing to happen to system administration since systemd.

This, I think, is the key to understanding this whole rant. It is entirely of a piece with the anti-systemd crowd, and I think understanding what was really going on there helps explain this rant, and a lot of other agita in the community these days.

Like, if you followed the drama on the Debian mailing list, it could sometimes feel very surprising that they were willing to go to war over the least sexy thing ever, an init system. Part of the reply is that systemd is more than that, it's a bunch of low-level plumbing all lashed together. But, who cares about low-level plumbing that much?

The answer (other than 'the exact sort of people who run Debian') is this. Linux started off as being written by hobbyists, for each other. It was very often a labor of love. Even the people making money off it weren't doing so in Big Business sort of ways. Linux and the associated stack around it is being taken over by a lot of big corporate interests: Intel, Red Hat, Google, even Microsoft. Are they bad? That's a matter of opinion. Are they inept technically? Probably not, but a lot of it revolves around how you measure things.

But what is absolutely happening is that people who are paid to maintain these projects on the behalf of large corporate interests are more plentiful, both in headcount and in personhours, than people who are maintaining these things for each other. For people who were used to Linux as this anti-corporate space, that's a huge and distressing change. And they can feel powerless against it, because it's really hard to reach a critical mass of people who feel the same way as you, and are willing to do all the things to not just support a fork but to keep the rest of the ecosystem they live in open to the fork.

It's not about any one piece of software, and it's not _really_ about pure technical merit. It's about the culture and the system of values and the way that decisions are made and it's about who's in control. The author's complaint isn't so much that the Google style is bad (although I'm sure he believes that very strongly), but that it's harder and harder to find somewhere to escape its reach.
Instacart Is a Rip Off?
As it stands, the version with a gRPC API has to maintain the HTTP API.

If the HTTP API has value, the cost to maintain it should self-justify, right?
the real kashmir massacre 2019
nobody cares unfortunately
What makes this really ugly right now is that the New York Times thinks that the coronavirus pandemic is going to get Trump voted out of office, and their need to push hard on the idea that it's all his fault has really done a number on their reporting about the biggest crisis facing the world. Especially once it turned out all that the success story countries they pointed to as proof America could've done better if not for Trump weren't succeeding after all, and once America went from having a terrible testing program to one of the best to no avail despite the supposed vital importance of testing playing a huge part in their blame-Trump narrative.
> The group of folks that screamed to high heaven about the rise of "facism" in 2016 have become the very people they purportedly despised.

I find this downright angering to read given the recent shenanigans with SDNY and the Stone commutation (plus everything else that has happened... oh... once a day over the past few years). And you have the gall that the left are the real fascists?
Why does it use SHRQ, ANDQ & MOVB, instead of a BT & SETB ?
Why Startups Should Launch Quietly
So I haven't done any live coding streams in a long time. But I recently recorded a completely unfiltered version of myself coding for a co-worker who is learning to program. I wanted him to see all of the ups and downs. All I did was turn on the recording and just went about my day like I normally do, all cussing and fiddling in my terminal like I normally do. Once you're on for 30 minutes or so you forget you're even recording.

It could be interesting to take this approach then "stream" it as well so you can provide feedback to people watching and also laugh at yourself a little bit.
You seem unfamiliar with the mystical energy force that always ensures the direction of "progress" is always positive for everyone. It's very un-techy to not believe in this, you need to immediately forget enough social science subjects so you can get back to the purity of ignorance.
It sounds very unfortunate and a difficult lesson to learn, but there's 2 key takeaways. Never mix your personal and work things, second always have backups or a redundant place information is stored especially if it's irreplaceable.

My understanding is that linking personal and business accounts in Dropbox doesn't give the company any access to your personal account. Therefore if the business one was cancelled it should not effect the personal one. It sounds like he wasn't switching between personal and work diligently when storing personal files.

Now the touchy area. If the ex-employee cancelled the account maliciously there maybe some legal recourse. This would very much depend on the communication. Because his side maybe that he was contacted after termination and told to cancel it because it wasn't work sanctioned.
Go 1.14.5 and Go 1.13.13 are released
One should not forget that a big corporate is not made out of great people, but actually only of normal sized people... just, well, a lot of them!

If you hire a lot of people, they all will need to occupy a space each. To deserve that space, everybody needs to be either quite good... or good at faking being good.

Truly innovative things are done by great individuals. And corporates are not the natural habitat for great individuals.
I feel you.

I heard from several maintainers about this phenomena, where at first all you want is your package is to be popular and have many users, but after a while you notice having more users is becoming a burden, with so many requests, issues, and opinions.

But I can see what you mean. We're still small enough, but I would assume if Openbase becomes a success we take on a lot of responsibility - in terms of making sure maintainers rewarded (not necessarily monetarily) and not punished for their good work.
I was thrown into the deep end of the bookkeeping pool when I began managing an establishment owned by three CPA's. It proved to be a valuable and highly transferable skill that served me throughout my working life...
> the service censored #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd

I feel like this claim isn't well substantiated. TikTok claims it was a bug where 2 billion+ views were shown as 0 views. That specific number - the limit on a 32 bit signed integer, makes me think that it was a bug.
Clojure Library for Discord Bots
In older telco gear they used fuses that were basically a spring held down with fuse wire, that when blown, made contact with the fault circuit. They effectively where a fuse activated switch.

When doing the led across the fuse trick, you need to make sure that the few mA passed is not harmful.
You never heard, obviously. Look up Niantic
News agencies (Reuters, AFP, AP, Bloomberg, etc) and without (or at least with a lot less) pontification and political bias.
Same with commands with no output in nominal execution - output only happens in case of error