skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm thinking of a plane built from the ground up to never be piloted by a human. A missile like drone really.

I'm not sure if that would work. Missiles can put a lot more stress on the airframe because they're literally single-use disposable items. Something that takes the "plane" role would probably be larger (so missile solutions may not scale) and would have to account for things like fatigue over time.

I'm reminded of the Mig 25: the planes are capable of flying at Mach 3.2, but doing so wreaks the engines. If it was a missile, it'd operate a full speed no question; but since it's a reusable plane, it's operationally limited to Mach 2.8.
It’s not a caste system, rather a capitalist imitation where the capital is impact factor and grants and first authorship in nature and science. In this system software creators are just means to an end, and good software engineers are an irrational cost given the PhD student that can churn out working code for same impact factor for less money.
My argument is that some harm does befall at least some consumers. You might judge that harm worth the other tradeoffs, but it’s not zero.
Are you "depressed" that you are on the 99th percentile of world income? You make more in 2 years than my grandfather made all his life, in over 50 years of hard hard work. Or alternatively, you also make about as much in a month as I do in a year, at a very competitive PhD program.
My central point was the fact that articles and studies like these are a dime a dozen. I even mentioned that this one does seem like an honest article, but there's technically no surprise among those who can actually do anything. The limiting factor to any hurricane protection is funding and resources, not knowledge. FL does seem to take things more seriously, but I won't blame the other gulf states when they may have bigger fish to fry. We (Florida) may just have more open resources than let's say Texas. I dont know and it's not right for anyone to judge otherwise unless you're actually apart of the process that does any good.

It's super easy to cry out that the sky is falling and a disaster is coming. Which, again, all gulf states are told, "A hurricane will kill you all this year" every single year. It's a whole different story to pony up the cash and time to do something about it.
I acknowledge that the forests of California are more than 12000 years old, yes. We have very little information on what those looked like [and some of that was systematically suppressed by the people who wrote the history books]. What we have is documentation of forests that were already under active but low-intensity cultivation for almost 10,000 years before someone with pen and paper saw them [and decided that a superior race would put them to much better use].

ETA: some unspoken colonialism that is the puppetmaster in this play. I am a systems thinker. You cannot address systemic problems without at least acknowledging how they started and propagated. False histories of false histories just make the problem worse by trivializing the scope, leading people to half measures.
No layoffs mention in the release notes.
Yeah, I don't know how to change a diaper.
Firebreaks are a long-standing fire management technique. The problem is that with an intense fire, it's possible for the flame to leap across the firebreak, even very wide ones when there are windy conditions (which an intense fire can exacerbate).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebreak
Yeah, we perceive "brightness" on a roughly logarithmic scale, and most people don't intuitively understand what that means.

In a total solar eclipse, it takes an hour or so to go from full sunlight to totality, but the majority of the apparent change in brightness happens during the last minute. And in turn, the majority of the change during the final minute is compressed into the last few seconds.

If you're just a few miles outside the path of totality, those final seconds are what you're missing, and the difference is literally night and day.
And now because of the laws making freelance harder, truck drivers who want to stay freelance are having to move out of California and some writers who are doing freelance writing are also finding it difficult.

Companies shouldn’t be in the position of offering “benefits” to employees. No sane first world company ties health insurance to your employer.
When I was first starting out, one of my goals was to manage a team. I thought no one would hire me for that role since I didn't have the background for it.

Instead I started freelancing, got a few clients, and eventually hired others to help me.

Looking back, when I impressed clients with my work I was regularly offered various forms of management responsibilities. I probably could have found other opportunities like that if I had pursued it.

If you demonstrate good results in one of the main skills required for a job and explain how you would build up the others, you might be surprised at who would hire you.

People who can do well in several areas and effectively manage projects or other people are always in short supply.
"Rent is bad" is itself political ideology.
Why would browser users care about the layoffs?
One person might say that the common factor is not being frightened of doing something challenging and unconventional that allows you to achieve extraordinary things.

Another might say it was a weakness for snake oil.
Most of the time my Kindle is on airplane mode - does anybody know if my Kindle will still send this data later all at once, when the wifi is on?
Yeah I agree. There is a specific audience of beginners that want to "do this exactly this way," but the vast majority of random internet readers want to see a quick overview and the final product in action before digging deeper.

At the very least if you want to only go with the first approach, provide a little time demonstrating in the end for everyone that skips ahead.
That's my point. The data is both A) Invasive and B) Pointless, unless trying to do things they shouldn't on your network. But they still collect it for some reason.
Wrappers that aim to simplify another technology always make me nervous, especially with a rapidly evolving project.

Yes, this makes it easier to get started -- but when something goes wrong, now you have to hunt down bugs in two layers of software. And, since you've intentionally isolated yourself from the underlying layer, you have less experience with it!

This is why I like Helm. If you write your charts well, you can write your k8s yaml once, and do the things you need to do on a daily basis by adjusting your chart values
his little brother
FPGAs too, though I don't know how widespread this technique is:

https://www.eetimes.com/altera-uses-redundancy-to-boost-yiel...
It’s no game. Uber didn’t like the rules of the state - it’s leaving the state. That’s a perfectly logical thing to do.
Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment
The easiest tell is the size of the perpective/identity, stage red/orange very single-human self-concerned where as higher stages, green yellow, turquoise have concern for the environment, animals, all humanity. If you check out a brief overview of spiral dynamics you can see the scale of levels of consciousness. I'm not saying it's the only model but it is quite useful and it is a scientific model developed by Clare Graves.
Probably true - I’ll snatch it up the moment color e-ink is a thing, color is vital for most of the papers I work with and for books I prefer a smaller form factor so from my perspective it sits in kinda an odd part of the market.
Taking a company like Amazon to small claims would absolutely result in you being blacklisted - your rights are null and void as far as they're concerned. And yes, it is grounds for a lawsuit but at that point you should be talking to whichever government body is responsible for enforcing consumer protections.
Hmm I see your point. My question should then have been: qui prodest?
That's a really beautiful photo btw
I think you may be misunderstanding the fundamentals of the case.

This was a moonshot by Epic, mostly about the court of public opinion than the actual law.
Start=start conversation. It redirects you to the chat window. Should I name the button "start chatting"?
Sure theres similarities, but game programming is usually at the bleeding edge of computing compared to most other areas. Its like saying engineering a space craft isn't/shouldn't be different than engineering a car. Sure, there's overlap, but the fundamental requirements differ so much that a lot of it is _not_ applicable.

I'm not a game developer, but I like to keep an eye on how its done specifically because it is fundamentally different from how I typically do things in SAAS / mobile app land. Its a good way to get a broader view on development, and I learn new things _constantly_ by looking at game development.
Twitch asks the court to close case over a large number of half-naked streamers
California Fire Map
and high intensity hurricanes have been devastating the region for decades.

here's just one example for the Houston/Galveston area:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

Here's a list of previous storms that have hit the New Orleans area:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_preparedness_in_New_...

Once-in-a-lifetime is both incorrect and hyperbolic.
From that story's author, they added it after publication, so the first few dozen commenters wouldn't have seen it. Doesn't change your point for later ones.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/04/guns-in-the-home-lot...
After Atomic Bombings, These Photographers Worked Under Mushroom Clouds
>>Both my neighbors sold in the last 3 months.

Lots of people leaving, but since their properties sold it also means that people are, by definition, also buying and moving in. The key is not "how many people are leaving" but the net outflow.

I think there would be a more serious problem if property owners are trying to leave the city but cannot sell their units. But the property sales volume (i.e. completed closings) seem to be picking up again[1] in the city.

[1] https://www.propertyshark.com/Real-Estate-Reports/2020/08/25...
It's unfair you've been downvoted. This is an excellent question and the responses were likewise excellent.

We need to encourage more of this :)
> I would much rather see BaseCamp (Hey) or the company that was selling virtual workouts with real trainers take them to court.

I wouldn’t, because they’d be crushed. I’d rather that if someone takes Apple to court, it’s someone with the resources to make a dent.

> I’m surprised (not really) that people are defending Epic but would never defend King (Candy Crush) or the makers of FarmVille.

Even if you think they’re equivalent, the difference is the former is taking an action that—even if for selfish reasons—can have a positive impact on independent developers.
> But isn't that like 'forcing' the readers to the full length of the article?

Yes. Personally I don't see a problem with that if you are trying to achieve a certain level of good response.

Maybe an alternative would be to let the presence of the "magic" word/phrase alter the ordering of the comments displayed to other users, or even "shadow delay" responses without it for fifteen minutes.
It's the Xeelee Sequence, by Stephen Baxter. The focus on the late-Anthropocene "Bottleneck" is in the volume called "Transcendent". The end of the age of farming is located near the 27th century.

After they restored the biosphere (or did their best) though, more dire events take place in the Solar System and on Earth (but it's not only the fault of humans, so maybe not technically an Anthropocene again).
There is no circumstance where tactical nukes will be acceptable in a global conflict between nuclear powers. One nuke goes off and everyone will assume it's no-holds-barred. The potential to escalate to a full-on MAD scenario is just too high.

If you can develop a drone swarm that can totally own an airspace then chances are you can develop drones that can beat them.
Thanks for creating this! Very useful.

Do you know what's preventing it from working in Firefox Focus/Klar? "Get Started" button does nothing unless tracker blocking (4 detected) is turned off. All tracker blocking options plus web fonts blocking are on, JavaScript is allowed and Cookies are allowed excpet 3rd party.
Thanks for the info and context.

> The other large-scale events you mention aren't related to each other at all

They are not directly related by cause, however they are all happening at the same time - so the effects of those events could influence each other.

COVID cannot cause a hurricane, but it could e.g. make evacuation plans more difficult.

Effects of modern industrial society on the planet could be a common cause in an abstract sense: It causes climate change, which could influence the strength and frequency of both hurricanes and wildfires and it seems to be responsible for increased likelihood of zoonotic diseases due to loss if habitat. It's also one (of many) points of contention in the political situation.
> As far as malware, I’m not sure why it would be more of an issue on an open platform than it would on Android.

> I use Linux as a daily driver, and as long as you’re getting software from trusted sources, it’s not much of a concern. I don’t see why it would be different on mobile.

Not sure if that's true – doesn't Google keep the Play store mostly free of serious malware? Apart from stunts like sideloading Fortnite, I'd expect the vast majority of Android users to get all their apps from the Play Store, so that should be reasonably safe. Of course, Google can pretty much force everyone into the Play Store by denying access to Play services and their huge customer base if you don't, so it's a one-stop shop for next to everyone.

But if every company, publisher, developer may host their own, including their own OpenPlay Services, how do you tell what is a trustworthy source? How do you tell if OpenRando Store is trustworthy when a Google search tells you it has this TokTuk app you've heard of? This isn't like server Linux, where most people are reasonably careful with what they install, sources are relatively few and policed well, and people tend to be at least somewhat knowledgeable, so tricking them is quite hard; this also isn't like desktop Linux, which doesn't have market share. This would be a reasonably large mobile platform used by everyone and their grandma to run a large part of their lives.

I'm quite sure most people wouldn't want to have to have a thorough understanding of how apps, app stores, installs, updates, the OS, typical malware, scams etc. work, just so they have a chance at noticing when things are off in some way. I've next to no idea how iOS works, and that's fine with me, and I'm someone who runs Kubernetes clusters for fun. Whoever spares people from having to have that knowledge and do that work and actively manage their phone like a piece of complicated corporate IT equipment will get all the users; they'd get me, for sure. My phone really just has to work and be secure.
Hi everyone, I'm Jorge, founder at Bridgefy.

We're acutely aware of this conversation, and know that we must prioritize the safety of our user base. All of the issues reported on the article are already being fixed, and we should have updates published in the next few weeks.

Here's our blog post: https://bridgefy.me/bridgefys-commitment-to-privacy-and-secu...

As always, we're available to keep the conversation going; please refer to the email address included in the blog post.

Thanks!
Looks like mitmproxy -- https://mitmproxy.org/posts/releases/mitmproxy5/ .
> and too much tolerance for it is bad for an organization

Passive again! "An organization tolerating it too much is bad" is active :)
World income is irrelevant since I live in a nice part of America, not the world. And yeah, I do make about as much as your and my grandfather made over the course of their careers. Unfortunately, if I'm making an apples-to-apples comparison with people doing equivalent work (perhaps not at Jane Street, but definitely at Google or Facebook) I'm making about 80% or less. That means I'm worth 80% in the eyes of the fair labor market - I'm 20% less human.
Understanding and Optimizing commit sychronization for maximum performance
>That's not a purchase or ownership at all.

Well no, it's not. You're purchasing a license to consume the content, conditional on the terms of the license. What gives you the impression you're buying the book?
I guess in that case Catalonia is also a sovereign nation?
I really like the simplicity of the Firefox pdf viewer but sometimes it absolutely butchers printing. It also still needs fill able form support. Come on Mozilla!
I think you are conflating several distinct concerns.

1. Using a file format that depends on a particular engineer

2. Static vs dynamic configuration

3. Volume of configuration

For example, you can reduce your configuration to a minimal set of files which use a standard dynamic configuration format (e.g., starlark).

Note that The principle of lesser power should guide your decision between static and dynamic config format; however, if you find yourself building dynamism atop YAML (e.g., CloudFormation) or doing text templating of YAML (e.g., Helm), you’re misunderstanding the principle and suffering unnecessarily.
How easy it is to shape a narrative
LiquidHaskell Is a GHC Plugin
We were given a test like this in school once. The first instruction was to not do anything until you'd read all the questions. The 'questions' were all stuff like poke holes in the corner of the paper, some math problems stuff like that. At the end of the test, the last question was, don't do questions 1-9, simply write your name in the corner and turn the test over.

The test was supposed to be about your ability to read and follow instructions, few people in my class passed the test. As soon as the test started you could see people poking holes and writing things.
What are the steps to do this?
Okay lets rephrase it as:

"Large corporation collects massive amounts of data, including data that could only be useful if trying to do something malicious on someone else's network."
Yes, thats an option.

I specifically meant that I wouldn't be surprised of someone had made a HN-specific extension already.
Hmm, maybe that's why collections doesn't work for me. I might enable wifi for a bit if that will help.
Why is this so downvoted? It seems pretty inoffensive.
It's helpful for your mental health to not take anecdotal "salary reports" on HN seriously. Whenever salary comes up, everyone here knows someone whose brother's roommate pinky-swear definitely makes $400K at Facebook, therefore this must be "normal salary" there. I've worked for a number of companies talked about here and have never even made close to the "HN Quoted Average Salary." Voluntary online salary boasts from random people are going to tend to bias high. You're probably doing fine.
"Firefox can now be set as the default system PDF viewer."

Neat. I loathe every time I have to install Adobe Reader for something. Unfortunately, all browsers PDF support for things like form filling and stuff tends to be pretty lacking.
> _further their own gains_

That was what made me think you were refering to selfishness.

High consciousness by definition resists ideology. Ideology is a limitation of consciousness.

Trolls that are harassing, doxing, and SWATing, are doing it for selfish reasons, even if their excuse is something external.

Intimidating and silencing critics, classic stage red, sound like any presidents you know?

I don't disagree that trolling is effective, the majority of the population is somewhere in stage red/blue/orange, very few of us are green or above.

I understand what you're explaining, I think having an overview of the model will help you understand what I am pointing to.
The act of extracting that labor more efficiently levels the gradients, though, which self-limits the problem.

When I first started my career in software in 2000, you could hire 6 Chinese engineers for the price of one American engineer, or even 2 for the price of an American high-school student. Nowadays, the good software engineers in China (the ones who work for Google etc.) get paid just as much as their American counterparts. Similarly, the good American engineers have largely maintained or improved their salary - hell, L7 compensation at Google (and the equivalent at Facebook/Snapchat/Apple/Lyft/etc.) is ~4x the highest compensation I remember seeing 15 years ago. Wages for mediocre software engineers (say those whose only skill is building PHP webapps by copying code from StackOverflow) have marginally improved in China and have fallen significantly in the U.S. We replaced a geographic wealth gradient with a skill-based one, which IMHO is significantly more fair but probably doesn't feel like it if you were on the losing side of the gradient.
https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin
Another thing the HN orthodoxy rejects is that professional investing and trading can make money above monkey-dart levels, despite the abundance of evidence that it does.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/i2xom1/firefox_81_...
It's strange to you people care more about their autonomy than your convenience?

Telemetry can tell you what users are doing. It doesn't tell you why.
Larry Hillblom (the H in DHL) did just exactly that.
Spring over servlets

This is not actually true. Servlets were never complicated. Documentation, specially the Javadoc, is terrific. I/Os and API are pretty simple. Problem is that there's a lot of boilerplate, and you ended up with a lot of copy-paste. But repetitive doesn't mean complicated. Spring solved may of these issues by providing the boilerplate.

k8s is actually complicated. Both conceptually, and in implementation.

I don't think it's an apt comparison.
I tried to read the first link in the article, the link in the sentence

"There have been cases of Amazon removing specific books from customer accounts (and kindles)."

It redirected me from:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-th...

to

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from...

So it seems I am not allowed to read up about this reference.

Or some underpaid developer messed up the redirects.

Either way this issue about data collection is interesting in its own right, but this other issue of global redirects also feels important, but I only say that as someone who tried to follow the news here.
One can partake in the hacker ethos while not being a conspiracy nut - albeit I admit those sometimes go together.
I can't wait to go back to the office. Everything about my job is harder from home. Harder for me to focus on work, harder for me to separate work and life, so so so much harder to forge the actual human connections that make tech work feel at all worth doing.

ETA: Interesting that the above has resulted in high controversy in both up/down votes and replies. I can tell this is a very emotional issue for people. To be clear I'm not interested in forcing people to do anything, just trying to share my experiences. I would be disappointed if my job went permanently remote, and would probably start looking for a new one.