skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the backend of it (I was on the team for it) Even with our "light" load, Matrix/Riot is a overbloated product overall. To handle the scale of Defcon would require hardware I don't think exists
A large part is an imbalance of housing production vs job creation.
This reminds me of the tragic situation where if you process XHTML locally using XML tools that incidentally fetch the DTD, then things block and become absolutely dirt slow, because the W3C sysadmins are permanently pissed off by that: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13865692/82
I'd be curious to know the split between newer / more tenured employees. As someone who has just started a new job, the process of building relationships across the company has been much harder than at previous jobs. Even with things like donut and social slack channels, it seems like theres no easy substitution for the types of casual interaction you get while working in the same location.
The NZ border is, for all intents and purposes, completely closed. They're largely only letting in NZ citizens (a bit of nuance there, but that's more or less the case).

Those 23 cases are in managed isolation or quarantine, and New Zealand is otherwise back to normal.

I'm trying to get to my partner in NZ. She's having meals in restaurants with friends, working a non-essential retail job, going to pub usergroup meetups.
Well, maybe they did fix it; they closed my account a while back for lack of use.
Not to mention the simplicity of a chalk/marker and a board.
I love love love this feature. You rock! Thank you. I’m lost on systems that don’t have this feature, and crap apps like Word that hide everything in the UI.

I’d give you a billion upvotes if I could :)
The Death of Environmentalism (2004)
Sigh, biology. We spend years working on the disease with no progress, and don’t manage to work out the cause before it starts going away by itself magically...
First laptop I ever used (or saw for that matter) was a Toshiba T1200. That thing must have weighed 10lbs, but it was a marvel at the time.
Do you think they make enough money to provide support?
> The employees revolted so strongly the project was cancelled.

Exactly - the buck stopped at company leadership beholden to internal/public reputation, rather than a central authoritarian government with the power to make you disappear.
How soon before someone opens a Scihub-like pirate site for all court documents?

This feels a lot like scientific papers that are paid for by taxpayer dollars, and then yet again charged to taxpayers to access them.
This is a false dichotomy. The reality is that having one app store to fit everyone's needs at the same time makes us less secure.

If I'm a parent, I would love to be able to enable an app store that sells human-curated child-friendly apps with no advertising and strict controls over tracking. I'd like that store to be a heck of a lot stricter than Apple's is.

Apple can't offer me that level of quality, because the same store needs to serve multiple demographics. Sure, they can flag some apps as mature, but the fact that they're balancing that distinction to try and come up with a set of standards that will be acceptable to everyone across multiple continents means it's very difficult for them to make gut-level instinctual choices or take hardline positions on what they consider acceptable.

The same is true for security. Apple has standards about what info apps are allowed to access, and they'll throw apps out for requesting permissions that are unnecessary. But I'm going to be honest -- their standards are lower than mine are. If I was building a privacy-respecting app store, it would be way stricter than Apple's.

Having choices gives you the freedom to opt into stores that are strictly regulated and curated on a quality level that Apple will never be able to approach. No single app store that's designed for everyone will ever be as well moderated as a set of distinct stores that are serving specific niches.
Absolutely, that's one of Sysbox's main use-cases, we usually refer to it as 'docker sandboxes'. As you mentioned, the idea is to have your entire dev environment within your fully-customized container, which would allow you to take that environment wherever you go, you are not tied to a particular hypervisor or cloud service-provider. We have heard of people already using Sysbox in Jupyter ecosystem.
Compare that against the alternative - horses. Horses were a huge sanitary problem - manure and dead horses. Horses also simply killed a lot of people, as they are big and strong and not always controllable.
>why does that matter if the outcomes are comparably despicable

How are they comparable? The black incarceration rate in the US is around 2.3%[1], meanwhile the incarceration rate for Uyghurs is estimated to be around 10%-15%[2][3].

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_re-education_camps

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China
Colony Siege
Where I work we try not to work like that. We break up work into manageable chunks. If someone is sick they take sick leave. If a project is too big for two shoulders it has probably been broken up anyway. Treat work like it’s the teams (although each item has one owner at a given time). Also avoid fake or real deadlines, but do provide estimates. This all fits into knowing your velocity and working standard hours such as 40h.

Outside of work, choose to relax, which might mean leaving a lot of stuff you should do go. Maybe the house doesn’t need to be tidy, or the kids can watch tv without you feeling guilty. Or use ubereats instead of cooking, or pause the side project, skip the run etc.
Mainstream press is quite willing to carry water for the CCP as well: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinese-ambassador-c...
Personally happy non city dweller and for real estate purposes hoping what your saying is true.

For me not fan of city dwelling and even more now with cities having the highest cases of Covid, at times there are not so peaceful protests and it's more expensive to live in close proximity to others.
Card not present transactions are ridiculously insecure, but that's totally different matter. That is complaining that EMV doesn't protect against transactions not made by EMV.. of course it doesn't. And these can be chargebacked easily anyway.
Unfortunately politicians are a strange breed: they actually listen to the Twitter mob. Virtue signalling to the mob is a great way to get publicity.
And the opposite is true too. Why should apple decide the porn, cryptocurrency, or the Hong Kong protest app can’t run on an iPhone. It’s perfectly reasonable that they don’t want to sell those things because of their brand but they shouldn’t be blocking anyone for making and consuming those apps
Me too. But I was distracted by the author saying at the end "Before that we thought we were mostly us."

Idk what conventional opinion would be, but the mass part is a lot more important in my mind than the number of cells part. We're still be 97% 'us' by mass. As an off the top of my head example, Jupiter is mostly the big gas planet thing, not the 79 or so moons that orbit it.
They're pretty good but try toggling back and forth between two windows from different applications (NOT ENTIRE APPLICATIONS JUST TWO DIFFERENT WINDOWS)
RECAP.
Google’s customers want to serve you ads so they could buy your products. There’s nothing that they could do to you that is remotely on the scale of what Data Collection in China is capable of doing to you.
Saluting the Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandumbic [video]
On a judicial system that covers a lot more than the US Federal Judiciary. Most cases in the US are run by state judiciaries.
Show HN: A narrative style podcast about DevOps, Kubernetes and Cloud Native
Hi HN!

My name is Aymen, and I'm here with Kenichi. Some years ago, I launched a side project. A newsletter called DevOpsLinks, then a 2nd newsletter (Shipped), then a third one (Kaptain). These 3 newsletters are now part of a bigger project that I called FAUN (https://faun.dev). We have newsletters, a Slack team chat, and a job board, but I had a feeling that something is missing... it's a podcast, right :)

Last year, I discussed the idea of creating a podcast with a member of FAUN (who is Kenichi btw), but we were not really ready. That's why it took us some months to start working on it. A few weeks ago, we released our first episode, then the second, and so on... The upcoming episode is the 7th.

We made an unobtrusive launch simply because we were somehow testing the idea, but since we received positive feedback from many of the community members, we decided to talk about it in HN, share it with you, and, if possible, have your feedback. It will really help us!

The podcast is called The DevOps Fauncast (https://faun.dev/podcast), and it has a narrative style, we try to focus on both people and technologies, and if you listen to it, you'll realize that it's different from other podcasts.

We published 6 episodes, and we discussed many topics like the first crisis in software engineering, agile methodologies, DevOps, the story of computing "From Abacus to Containers", the history of containerization, Kubernetes, observability, the 4 golden signals, SLI, SLO...

I learned many things when working on this podcast, most importantly I realized how much time and effort a podcast can take.

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In detail perhaps - but vaguely the answer is that it's not that much money. Microsoft pretty much willed Bing out of thin air and while adoption has been quite an issue it does have pretty reliable results. Microsoft has a ton of money to throw at things but I think - from the ancillary manner in which Bing was launched - that it honestly isn't that expensive on a day-by-day basis to run that sort of large scale search. I do suspect there is a lot of economy to be saved by already having a wide coverage of the globe with computing resources though so I'd guess at the market being hard to enter and easy to sustain costs once you're in.

I suspect Google works hard to keep from letting out how severable and independent their search business is in a large part to keep monopoly breakup calls from getting too much momentum.
People are different and they have different needs and skills. Working in meatspace is different from working remotely so those needs and skills may better match one model or the other. That is, SWEs aren't bug tracking robots that only need to communicate online using emotionless text.
I have no love for most of our media and find it deeply corrupt, but that is an opinion piece and is clearly labeled as such. Not saying your wider point is wrong by any means though.
> Later on I unfollowed 90% accounts and stuck to those accounts which strictly tweets only about programming, math, history and other such stuffs in robotic manner (I.e. without any hidden agenda or connotations). I unfollowed everyone who have even a slightest chance of tweeting about politics. Also I stopped tweeting and replying to anybody.

I bet you still see politics trending every day in the "Whats Happening" Section. It feels like Engineers at Twitter are working overtime to promote their political agendas, and don't care that some people may not be interested in politics, or their opinions. I deleted my twitter for this reason.
I was a barista at a pretty successful shop, where we did a LOT of business. It could be fairly back breaking work at times. Despite winning a few awards (excuse the brag), I don't think I ever made more than $44,000 a year in a high cost of living metro.

But yea, being young, working with my hands, and having significantly less after work mental baggage was all awesome.

Doing painful physical labor 40 hours a week, but barely being able to afford rent and having no sick days or health care makes it a pretty poor trade in the big picture.

There really are two Americas, and having lived in both, it is much better in the bubble than on the outside.

Everyone is different so ymmv, but that is my experience.
> Apple is the most valuable company in the world and there's only one way for them to go from here.

Just for context, Apple became the most valuable company in 2011.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/09/apple-most-valuable-com...

Microsoft was the most valuable company in 2002 and as of today, it’s #3. It could easily become number one again since it has much higher margins than Apple.

Of course eventually Apple will fail. But who knows how long that will take?
Massive, no. Maybe a modest deflation.

Will probably see a substantial rebalancing between metros though, with people fleeing super expensive ones to cheaper ones.
I wish the open source tools were better, the gap is just too wide.
I work live in Bangalore (India) where most IT companies are. I could go back to my village and save money and work remote. it's just good and easy on paper but very hard. A city like Bangalore offers a heck lot of things starting from the Tech community / vibe, weekend meetups (after Corona hopefully), Uber, Next day Amazon delivery, Online food deliveries, Work/Job Market, Side gigs opportunities.

I might be interested to moving to a nicer city probably stay slightly away from the expensive side but moving completely away from City is difficult for a lot of families who have enjoyed that life and its perks.
Did you notice the part where you can't use alternative clients and Discord scans all your messages?
Windows fibers and the fibers Gor Nishanov rants about as being bad in C++ have very little to do with user-mode threads in managed runtimes like Java or Go despite sharing superficial similarities. In particular, a managed runtime knows exactly how code uses the stack and understands its representation, and Java does not have pointers into the stack. This means that stacks can be moved and resized very, very cheaply. The constraints and capabilities that matter the most simply don't transfer from one language or environment to another.
Youtube? Netflix? How are they approved?
Jacobin describes itself as socialist, not communist.

> Jacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.
Excellent, added to my queue, I really appreciate it. I'm curious how much of an impact the importation of talent had, I've not researched this subject much so any direction is welcome. Have a good weekend!
I believe in treating people with justice, which means to treat each person as they deserve to be treated.

So long as I believe a person is merely mistaken--that is, they lack evidence or the proper method of thinking, but are otherwise virtuous--then I will forgive them a thousand grievances and "acknowledge [the] love" in them. If they are important to me and I don't have to give up something more important, I would be willing to invest the time to bridge our differences. A relationship is the earned reward of the participants' virtues.

But if a person consciously takes a single step toward evil, they are a threat to my life. It would be self-destructive for me to try to see the love in the thug mugging me at gunpoint. It disrespects the people I admire and destroys the value of those positive relationships. Such a person might work to reform their character, but I have no obligation toward them.

I've come to the conclusion there are people in this world who act out of hatred for life and fear of living.

There are soldiers who fight for evil causes, and they are evil. Robert E Lee was offered a senior role in the Union army, but chose to fight for the Confederates. Some might say he fought for love of southern culture or his home or family or any number of other inessential factors; they evade the essential that Lee fought to preserve slavery.

There are soldiers who fight for good causes, and they are good. Sherman fought slavery and he obliterated everything in his path that supported slavery.

To equivocate between the two rewards the wicked and damns the good. Any ethical method that fails to distinguish the essential difference between the two is at best useless, and at worst a tool in the service of evil.

Minimizing conflict is a standard that is anti-life. We should be in conflict with evil. The test I apply in online discussion is to ask myself "What is this person advocating for? If this person achieved their ideal outcome, what would that look like?"

The opinion I've come to regarding comments like jameshart's is that they actively advocate for nothing--nihilism. I don't see any evidence indicating they want to replace something bad with something good. In this case, they want to replace a sentimental anecdote with silence.

By the way, I know these views are radically different. If you are curious about other applications or how it might apply to family interactions, PM me and I'd be happy to chat.
The FBI Is Using a Travel Company as a Global Surveillance Tool
Correction, NZ is a 2 (it is a CDC level 1 advisory, which makes it a State Dept. level 2). Still, only Taiwan and Macau have level 1 (the safest level) advisories, so the State Dept. is calling NZ one of the safest 11 countries in the world, rather than the safest 3.
Both "cities will thin out because of covid" and "cities will remain the same despite covid" are pretty reductionist of much larger and more complicated trends I'm sure.

I'm aware I reduced the two sides in summarizing them above haha.
yeah my feeling (this doesn't excuse atlassian of course) is that JIRA is fantastic if and only if you have a full time JIRA wrangling PM that is competent. Otherwise it's a dumpster fire.
I got one just for that reason, what about the whiteboard software though?
The images show up just fine for me? If you're like me and don't like Twitter, use nitter instead; it works just fine without javascript (the entire thread is there on one page)
To a first approximation, people who are ok with Bash as a scripting language do not know enough Bash to safely use it as a scripting language.

I see many insane constructs that accidentally work. I also know how much time it would take to explain expansion rules. And people don't even want to hear it because it shakes their simplistic (and inconsistent) understanding.

So yes, I hope we'll see something like crush replacing Bash. But I don't see how it will happen.
I'm so used to choosing between monomorphization and dynamic dispatch myself that I never thought of the possibility of a compiler being able to choose. Is the point to avoid monomorphization during dev to have faster compile times, and then enable monomorphization for release builds? That's a neat idea.

That makes me wonder what Java does these days. I haven't used Java much since about v1.6. Java took a different approach than C++ and Rust. I remember when generics were introduced, they were basically syntactic sugar for type casts (for backwards compatibility). That implies that Java at the time didn't monomorphize generics. I think the language has evolved a lot since those days, so I wonder if it does any monomorphization today.
This isn't "randomly" talking about fallacies at all. The very definition of a slippery slope argument is the assertion that a relatively small, perhaps not so controversial, decision will lead inexorably to a horrifying conclusion:

> Begin by banning his poems not because you object to them but because you object to him, and you will end, as the nazis did, by slaughtering his wife and children.

That is absolutely a slippery slope argument, and I would argue it is, in this case, also fallacious.

Auden's argument here is "the Nazis did thing X, you are doing thing X, therefore you will commit horrifying atrocities the same way the Nazis did." But when restated that way -- and I will absolutely argue that it is a fair restatement, if much less poetic -- the argument's weaknesses become a bit more evident. I'd also argue farther than Auden's argument is unsound, in that his first premise is extremely shaky: by saying "because you object to [Pound]," he is rather explicitly drawing a comparison between objecting to someone because of their actions -- e.g., supporting fascists who were literally at war with America and its allies -- and objecting to someone because of their nature -- e.g., because someone is Jewish.

I don't doubt Auden's earnestness and sincerity here, but I'm absolutely not persuaded that a publisher dropping an author over outspoken political stances they vehemently disagree with is a first step toward totalitarianism.
> Why restrict it to silicon valley?

1. Silicon Valley is a metonym and does not exclusively refer to the companies in it.

2. Silicon Valley is where the most important and powerful new-era data collection companies are.
It’s interesting to think how fundamentally impossible it is to parse a sentence without a background corpus of knowledge about the world:

> I dropped the hammer on the table and it smashed

> I dropped the vase on the table and it smashed

Exact same grammatical structure but if you switch the noun the way you parse the sentence changes. This is why machine learning with huge datasets wins in NLP, translation etc.
I think that the 3 posts above are quite biased. I do not doubt that the conservatives are doing a lot of lying but this is true for the other side of the camp as well. Take Snopes for example, or people systematically mis-quoting certain historical figures (such as churchill) or even modern figures (such as stallman or damore), or the propaganda against wikileaks and snowden, or the anti-science sentiment that goes regarding research results that they do not like, etc.

> If you moderate by common decency values, massive chunks of conservative voices would be off Reddit, FB, Twitter

So would the far left. People do not particularly enjoy being baselessly accused, cancelled, and have people call for violence on them.

(not to mention that in the past certain things which we consider as decent such as homosexuality would be considered indecent)

> but right now social media firms are forced to treat outright conspiracy theories at the same level as science and research.

They really are not. More like they are being pushed to censor posts based on what a 3rd party deems are wrongthink or incorrect.
It is increasingly hard to decipher. I haven't checked recently, but a lot of camera factories were still operating in Japan around 10 years ago.
How do you propose to pay for the infrastructure?
It's not clear to me precisely what you are intending to communicate.

Are you scoffing at the idea that Alzheimer's symptoms could reduce intellectual engagement?

Or just at the idea that experts could have missed it in favor of the opposite relationship?
Their lowest price is $500/month billed annually. So it's $6000 day one. And that's the cheap plan - the other two are "contact us for a custom quote". https://www.quickbase.com/plans-and-pricing

Airtable (and Stacker) at least let you build for free, then upgrade to monthly accounts at launch.

Not affiliated with any of them.
Not really the same situation, but I would love an App Store where there were no free ad supported apps and the only way for monetization was by paying for the app or the service.

I’m not saying that I think Apple deserves a 30% cut of every service.
"copy propagation" sounds like he's got two things mixed up: Copy elision and constant propagation. Each one of these are important for zero-cost abstractions, IMO.
Show HN: Enhanced GitHub Extension for Browsers
> part of tit-for-tat action aimed at getting China to accept and enact more aspects of the bargain for joining the global free-market economy

The President has spent his term undermining such concepts.
This is a great contribution to the container/K8 ecosystem.