skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built Tracktions as I had hard times to remember how long has passed since some actions that I repeat from time to time.

Lets say I want to read more and by default I feel like I am reading a lot, but the timer shows the real situation. I read every 3 days. The goal here is to keep intervals between occurrences as short as possible.

Another usecase I found useful — write down notes about workout. I keep traking what I have done to see progress and adjust my next workout.
Yep, it's a pain; took me weeks to jump through the hoops to enroll.

I really recommend calling them.

https://developer.apple.com/contact/#!/topic/select

Membership and Account --> Program Purchase and Renewal

Choose the phone option.
Most likely in part due to a majority of current company leaders simply being a product of the MBA degree-mill where they have no new ideas and are taught how to optimize what’s given to them.
> nobody's making the author upgrade to the gRPC-based etcd v3.

They're stating that the v2 API keeps being slated for termination. Surely once that happens they won't be able to use it anymore, and will have to either use an unmaintained etcd, fork it entirely, or be forced to use the v3 API?
Are you putting it together purely to help people? If so, why are you charging for it?

When I make a website and put ads on it where revenue exceeds the costs, I don't try to put forth the work as a philanthropic effort, that's all I am saying.

To address your other comment - what makes these separate topics? Either you are doing this philanthropically, for revenue (or reputation / career aspirations), or both. There is nothing wrong with doing both, but presenting it as purely philanthropic is a cheap marketing tactic.

Anyway, let's end this - I didn't mean to single you out, and I apologize for seeming that way.
Ah, good to know I “misinterpreted [it] as pro-Beijing” when it’s actually just “broadly pro-establishment” and put in place by the establishment in Beijing. Totally different.
>The implementation of "right to be forgotten" is problematic. It forces service providers to take down content on the request of a complainant, without going through judicial approval

How's that any different to DMCA takedowns?
Where immediately is generally measured in seconds (with the exception of perhaps autoland). Normally the autopilot will have the plane trimmed at all times, so the plane will continue flying its current course for some time without control inputs.
>But Musk as a human isn't so great.

I would be very hesitant to criticise someone who has arguably done/will do more for the continuation for humanity than anyone else who has ever lived.

Maybe it's your definition of "isn't great" that needs re-calibration.
Studying human history and philosophy provides much greater insights into human affairs than reading click bait or partisan propaganda
"That’s not true about YT wormholes pushing viewers into far right content."

What measure of proof do you require?
I wish I could award you several upvotes for answering my question.

I really like FT myself. I am not in business so much but I think business news sources often get at a lot of interesting angles that others miss.
> OR that low level employees are so expendable that it literally any reason can get them fired if enough people complain.

It's mostly this. When you're a small-medium business, the last thing you want is negative PR and people canceling or DDOSing you because one of your employees wrongthinked.
If your standard of truth is the narrative of the week at the NYT then Fox News would seem to be dishonest and untruthful.
Bari Weiss is bringing politics into her behavior- she was tweeting insults about her own co workers during a meeting about the journalistic direction of the company she is participating in the journalistic direction of. If this came from anyone else she'd be fired immediately.
The YouTube alt-right pipeline is well documented.

ACM study: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3351095.3372879

MIT Technology Review summary of the study: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/01/29/276000/a-study-o...

NYTimes feature: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/yo...
I've said this before, and I'll say it again:

Stop trusting outlets. Find journalists with integrity and follow everything they do, no matter the outlet.
Communism division of work, central planning for college-level education?

Worker cooperative can be more efficient than traditional company in some sectors, did you ever read any piece on that?

I mean, the two time i went in the US, i was in really liberal and even socialist environment, and very few seems to even have heard of worker cooperative, so it would be surprising, but HN always surprise me positively, so why not.
> tend to skip even very important titles.

huh, I'm not shocked. The only book that I've found interesting out of those mandatory books was Ferdydurke ^^

>Gombrowicz himself wrote of his novel that it is not "... a satire on some social class, nor a nihilistic attack on culture... We live in an era of violent changes, of accelerated development, in which settled forms are breaking under life's pressure... The need to find a form for what is yet immature, uncrystalized and underdeveloped, as well as the groan at the impossibility of such a postulate – this is the chief excitement of my book."
The OP changed his username in github less than a month ago to to the name of an inactive account? Perhaps the previous user is complaining.
The Microsoft solution uses Intel SGX and all it gives you is access to a machine that has an SGX-enabled processor with some SDK tools pre-installed to use it. The SDK is C-based and reimplements parts of the C standard library -- having non-standard arguments and return types in some cases (like say unsigned instead of signed.) In this case: you have to write all the code yourself and manage the secure processor features to use it. It's application-level, same host / OS.

Googles offering is more intuitive. Google Cloud already stores data on VMs encrypted to disk and handles decryption to be able to start the VM. But once the data is in memory its unencrypted and could be read by other processes. On a bare metal machine there may be more than one VM using portions of the same processor with physical access to the same memory range. So compromising this at a higher level would effect other customers. With the new offering it supports encrypted memory isolation for a virtualised VM. It's on a VM-level or 'whole operating system' meaning there is no need to write any special code to take advantage. You just tick a box. Tech is by AMD and not Intel.

Both of these options support different use-cases, IMO. Microsofts confidential compute allows you to manage untrusted applications on the same host with a high level of control. You can prove to other machines running the same app that you're doing this 'securely.' The Google solution doesn't give you the same level of granularity but is much, much easier to use for those who just want to take advantage of better memory protection and integrity checks.

My thoughts on this are mixed though because:

1. While the products are clearly very different -- Intel's SGX tech has already had numerous security vulnerabilities and that doesn't make me very optimistic AMD will have magically solved those issues.

2. The general advice in finance for highly sensitive data is not to use VMs, period. Since privilege escalation on one VM could potentially lead to access to the bare metal and hence access to the other VMs. Some of these risks still seem relevant even if memory protection is being used. I.E. it's better not to use VMs if you care about security. Trying to attract more highly sensitive data to 'the cloud' makes me nervous, to be honest.

3. I like the concept in general. Even though it's not a silver bullet it's nice to be able to have access to this option.
Beaches are just unrealized silicon chips
Good luck and have fun!
purchased it, looking forward to reading it later
This is what I was getting at. Eventually, we're likely going to give teachers the same treatment as doctors and essential workers.

> You are essential!

> You are a hero!

> You are giving your life to teach these kids!

If it's any repeat of the last few months, teachers would be expected to return with districts refusing to hand out hazard pay or anything else that actually matters. I guess putting one's live on the line is payable via thoughts and prayers?

Sorry, if the people in charge really thought these things, they would be paying them more for danger they're being put in.
What's the first principle that says "only women have cervixes"? It's medically false and objectively wrong.

Now who is peddling in "amorphous relativism"?
> Cloud providers aren't very intelligent security layers.

I think I lost track of what you're trying to discuss now. I'm not arguing cloud providers are a security "layer" in any sense, just that they take responsibility for some things you otherwise need to do yourself. If you got that from my post I apologize. Even if I said something like this, I don't know how your Google Voice example (which is an application/service) applies to cloud infrastructure.

> Which is to say, my engineering regiments will always be more capable than my cloud provider's engineering regiments, because mine know my system and my customers and my use cases.

Good for you if true, but I've personally never seen an environment where such confidence on the part of infrastructure engineers has held up. At least not from a security perspective.

> I'm paying engineering regiments either way, so I might as well pay my own.

If it turns out the equation favors you, then great, those companies exist. But I don't think the equation favors many, at least not when including all the items you need to have for self hosting.
I've never heard of facebook or snapchat or any of their major stakeholders being involved in mass (or any) industrial espionage.

The same can't be said of the Chinese Government. That seems like a pretty distinct reason to be more OK with FB/Insta/Snap than TikTok.
A Zero-Capital-Required Business Idea
One practical problem I've had is with journald. The log files are useless outside of the system they were generated on. They could have just used a simple text file and avoided major headaches.
Would you have done the same if he said there were too many White people in the Bay Area?
I mean, who are these newcomers we're talking about? There's basically never a reason to roll your own web server. I guess if you want to compete with Nginx, sure, the barrier of entry is a higher now? But that's an incredibly niche case.
And the nickel, and the dime... and maybe the quarter
“Ghost Houses” Haunt a Rapidly Aging Japan
When she was a sophomore in college, in the early 2000's, right? It strikes me as certainly somewhat hypocritical, but on another level due to a large time gap and context. Did we have Twitter mobs and nervous HR departments in 2005?
QB64: https://www.qb64.org/portal/

And

Color Maximite 1/2: http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

Are two interesting takes on modern BASIC
>But autopilot is explicitly a term for hands off operation.

I see you've never skippered a boat.
I feel the author's pain. Earlier today I literally said "modern software makes me wish I was dead". Things are so unbelievably bad now, and nobody in a position to do anything about it seems to care, and the kids growing up with this garbage think it's normal that it sucks so bad. No, it's worse than that, they celebrate it! It is now at the point that I no longer want to work in this field and am actively seeking alternatives. I just can't deal with the bullshit anymore.
You can create a more robust version using nvidia jetson nano/xavier instead of raspberry pi.
On one hand, this is fantastic and desperately needed. I've wanted something similar for years.

On the other hand, I've been an open-source developer (one of my projects has 7.5k stars on GitHub) and the constant stream of negativity towards that the work I put hundreds of hours into for free was pretty psychologically draining, to say the least. And it's actually a pretty well-liked project! By making such a service you take on a lot of responsibility here.
That's a great choice. I am curious if as an FT reader do you really hate the NYT or do you think FT is better but if it wasn't available NYT is readable.
You picked Irish men (note your stereotypes: all male) because they're reasonably elite in modern US society and so this seems harmless. Repeat the analysis with jokes about women ("so emotional"), blacks ("criminal"), mexicans ("rapists" -- I think someone tried this once, even), arabs ("rag heads"), republicans ("nazis"), etc... Tell me you want all that stuff on your website.

But because you and your Irish buddies feel immune, everyone else needs thicker skin?

I mean, this really should be morally obvious. Laughing with someone (which is how you imagine those Irish drinking jokes) is having fun. Laughing at someone (needless to say there were no welcomed trans users on those banned subreddits) is being an asshole. Reddit banned a bunch of assholes.
Crowley also mentioned it, very likely others before them too
I love live coding streams. It's my personal opinion that the best programmers are the best debuggers, and that's something that's often language/domain specific and gets significantly more difficult as the codebase grows larger. In other words, it's hard to learn how to debug if you don't already work on a large project or within a certain language.

Watching people debug on twitch has definitely changed the way that I approach bughunting.

You guys should definitely check out Jordan's stream if you like the idea of watching someone fight the good fight against the dark-side of Go's opinionation.
Probably a mix of manual and automated. I know where was a big stink semi-recently about them manually removing content from "ugly" and "poor" people.

I guess no way to be 100% sure of the validity of the claims, but here is one article reporting on it: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
Preservation of largely hereditary status quos. The Russian Revolution was a major threat to Anglo-European order. Tired from WWI, they failed to strangle it in its crib, but all cooperated in order to try.

America was very much not involved in this, and had mixed feelings, but after WWII it was an easy prejudice to glom onto in order to antagonize the nation that was the only significant threat left to its newborn hegemony. Helping countries around the world murder all of their communists (and anybody who was sympathetic to any form of sharing) was the best way to guarantee that the "self-determination" of those cleansed nations would bring them within US orbit.

This couldn't work in most of Europe for obvious reasons, so the US allowed them to have (or even imposed) extensive social democratic policies to "prove" that European capitalism would have the safety net of socialism without the privation (or the Stalin) of communism, and its intelligence services put almost every public intellectual, writer and modern (the less figurative the better) artist on the payroll either directly or indirectly in order to pump out some sort of liberatory anti-communism to contrast with the Socialist Realism and recapitulation of Hitler's "Degenerate Art" thing that Stalin was imposing over the USSR.

Internally, however, the US had no interest in allowing any more social democratic policies (other than what FDR had done after the Russian Revolution had proved a success.) Labor strength would slow the growth of US companies. Instead, a rise of transfer payments to the professional and management classes in the form of subsidized homeownership and education would create a barrier between the working and middle classes that would protect the ownership classes from any sort of restraint. Another factor was encouraging (or forcing) stock investment among the middle class, in order to tie their interests to the interests of the very, very wealthy. The trick to control the middle class was (and is) to overpay them, then overtax them. They would live in the lap of luxury, but be constantly insecure. The luxury they would ascribe to the success of the company they worked for, and the companies they invested in; the insecurity they would ascribe to taxes, which would be completely ascribed to transfer payments to the poor. A large proportion of those taxes would also be refunded in the form of middle class subsidy, though, while another huge and increasing portion would go to the military, in the name of preventing a socialism that would take away their suburban luxury through increasing transfer payments.

> If socialism "doesn't work" why fear it?

The US as an institution has never been interested in what does or doesn't work for people in general, just in preserving and expanding the interests of the people who make its decisions (just like every other institution.)

edit: Yes, it really is amazing what you can read on the internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_intervention_in_the_Rus...
If you really take the time to think it through you should conclude that the forcing FTDI to back off is actually as anti-consumer as you can get. It guarantees long-lasting harm to consumers as counterfeiters now know they can continue to push their devices --of any kind, not just FTDI-- without suffering any consequences.

In other words, when viewed with a long term perspective the mob actually succeeded at protecting the counterfeiters rather than consumers.

That's what people disagreeing with my perspective are missing in this argument.

Show me a legitimate scenario where giving counterfeiters a free pass leads to long term (decades) protections for consumers and there might be something to argue about.

My quote is far better, BTW:

"A man holding a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way" --Mark Twain

Most everyone voicing opinions on this thread has zero experience manufacturing products at scale and perhaps even running a non-trivial company. Nobody has held any of these cats by the tail and yet everyone seems to think they understand market and business dynamics.

As my wife puts it (she is a doctor): A google search isn't a medical degree.
I don't teach, but I wonder why people use Zoom and not BigBlueButton, which at least was made for the job. It also presumably doesn't have whatever the privacy implications are with Zoom that students have to accept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coders_at_work
Unum (Number Format)
Microsoft Warns of a 17-Year-Old ‘Wormable’ Bug
What is AS?
Plowing you into an obstacle is what you get when you maintain your existing course and speed without regard for what's in front of you. "Forward" is a direction.

And whether you call it cruise control or not, the definition still matches a thing the car actually does. It has lane keep assist too.
I have a problem with diving into rabbit holes and spending more time on "being efficient" than sometimes just doing the work. Two things that have helped are

1) recording a "session" (I use snagit, but any screen recorder that lets you narrate works), where I describe what I'm working on, what the goal is etc. It seems silly, but even if the only person that's going to watch the video is me it somehow helps keep on task. And the video journal aspect is actually interesting.

2) Focusmate.com - this worked for me for a while, but I'm a secret uber-introvert, so I dreaded the introduction part of the process. But telling someone "I want to accomplish X in the next hour" and then having them watching over my shoulder really works.

Maybe you should try the live streaming, but just leave out the streaming part? :-)
I consider the static site generator [0] I wrote done. I don't plan to add new features (can't think of any). I have no idea if there are bugs left in it; I have been using it for 476 days to generate a tumblelog [1].

[0] https://github.com/john-bokma/tumblelog

[1] https://plurrrr.com/
That actually raises the oldest question in open-source engineering:

If the HTTP API has value, why not fork etcd and maintain a version where the HTTP API is the primary interface and gRPC is an afterthought or missing?
The Windowless Room
> Also we know how to deal with 20% unemployment

We absolutely do not. Many states have been backloged with unemployment requests[0]. Tens of thousands of people are going back to work now, but were unable to get unemployment for 3~4 months. I've read about people spending 5~8 hours on the phone, told to fill out some other forms, and still get a letter saying they're entitled to $0, while others get more money than they got while full-time employed. Those that are going back to work, may never have the time to fight with the state to get the money they were entitled to.

At least in America, we've completely and totally failed at dealing with unemployment.

[0]: https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/05/04/gov-pritzker-says-th...
I somehow the law could prevent the employer to fire without justification. That's what happen in my country.
It's more of a social media thing. If you're the type to make posts on Twitter, FB, IG, or whatever, saying something "wrong" could earn you some backlash.

However, in day to day life, there's a good chance no one will care about your political leanings, unless you live in Portland or something.
6 yr ruby dev here. There’s still a pretty good job market for ruby depending on your location/willingness to go remote. I have noticed that more ruby shops are tending to build new services in languages like Elixir and Go, usually out of scaling necessity. It does seem like fewer new apps are being built on ruby these days, but’s that’s largely my personal observation, and the data may say otherwise.
You are aware that SGX is also extremely broken, right?
That's exactly what they said later in the post.
> What do you do when the massive amounts of disinformation campaigns remove any sort of international solidarity from you?

Have you talked with anyone who lives there? The problem is not propaganda or poor PR.

Same goes for Venezuela nowadays.
I think it’s poor for “autopilot.” That word has a long history. It really is the best existing word to use.

But a fair ruling for “autonomous.” And I think the concerns HN people have with “autopilot” are in part due to the fact that the terms have not been properly contrasted by Tesla. Being more careful with “autonomous” and “self-driving” would help a lot with the confusion with the word “autopilot.”
There's a fantastic Slate Star Codex essay (which unfortunately I can't ironically link to, because that blog was cancelled by the New York Times) about the very point you raise.

Basically anytime someone famous and successful comes out against cancel culture, the standard rejoinder is it can't be so bad. Doesn't seem to have stopped your career, so why are you whining?

And the point is for every high-profile person criticizing cancel culture, there's a vast dark matter of nobodies who's lives and careers have been ruined. Nobody's reading there op-eds. Things are that bad for Bari Weiss, practically a household name, and not even that conservative relative to the median American. Now imagine being an entry-level associate reporter, and a self-identified Republican.
Judges in Germany generally aren’t elected. The few that are cannot be re-elected and have fairly long terms.

The voting population in this case would consist of politicians in the legislative branch.
Perhaps the people who treat CoreOS being called bullshit as dispositive of the entire thesis, and an inclusion worthy of disregarding the author and thinking of him in any way other than making an argument, aren't the intended audience.

Pull the snark out and there will remain any element of this post that kicks off a violent HN centithread that conveniently avoids the core issue. You know it, I know it.
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