skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At Google or Facebook that makes sense. If you encounter much larger scale than pretty much any other company, it's hard to find libraries that work for you. So the observation was correct but they should've concluded that this is just a result of scale and complexity, not a general strategy.
Umash: A fast and universal enough hash
They do, this is an argument about how they decide when it is OK to sign that code.
Q from QAnon proves his identity using DES and a 2 character salt from password
Removing .la files, for dum^W uncertain people
AWS London – Network connectivity issues?
Nothing on status board, but having serious issues with EC2/ECS Fargate and Network connectivity.

Can't start EC2 instances, and failed tasks for multiple production accounts in London.

Anyone else experiencing issues?
So that implies that when companies keep the same revenue, their offering will become more expensive (Nobody needs 5 iPhones).

This also implies that the ones that are able to buy an iPhone, will pay significantly more for it. Which will make the ones that can afford it even more narrow.

There is something wrong with the reasoning that losing a big part of the market has no influence on companies and consumers that are still able to afford things. This impacts everyone, there is no question about that. Maybe some more than others, but everyone will feel it.
I did read that, and 40% is still a pretty low bar.
> The concept of an application 'supporting a (specific) file system' sounds slightly ridiculous to me.

Clearly you weren’t around in the days when NFS was a thing.
It might be more accurate to say that he writes about what he feels is the human experience, which of necessity is specific to him. After all, he can't really know what other people feel and think.
My other knowledge is in biology, but bioinformatics seems to pay less than normal software engineering.
additional context: https://nitter.net/bcrypt/status/1297970470214483968#m
Even if that's the case, a legal and economics competition between those block owners sounds like a positive thing! A more dynamic market is what I want as a developer and consumer.
And you don't plan IPOs depending on polls. They're way too expensive and complex for that. You can accelerate the process or delay it if markets aren't receptive but the general decision to IPO won't be made because there might be an unfavorable election.
The 'addicting' aspect of what the tech companies have created and the behaviours they are willing to go to get their 'users' hooked is why the 'user' comparison to 'drug users' makes sense.
Art can be a form of entertainment. One thing that art definitely is not is a thing that needs to have more gatekeepers.
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught" --H.L.Mencken
>an article isn't going to convince a political party supporter to switch sides for example //

Why not? Are you suggesting articles can't carry information that changes peoples opinions; that people are wedded too much to Party identity; or perhaps that only one article wouldn't do it?
The tools are. On-device testing isn't.
I'm seeing issues with multiple services.
Slack uploads also not working, not sure if related.
Maybe a surge in IPOs for HN crowd? An IPO of a construction company won't make the front page but Asana does. Maybe VCs increase pressure to cash out or management is motivated by other successful IPOs of the recent past.

I don't know any hard evidence to say if overall IPOs increased but the examples named in this thread are very biased towards tech.
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What is the connection between data science and artificial intelligence?
Blocking Epic from developing Unreal Engine is a threat to anyone using it.
Yes it is, Netflix didn't hide code and then later enable it to support another payment option inside their app. They tried to redirect users to a website when signing up for premium.

What Epic did was hide code and later enable the feature.
Depends on context and competition
I have issues with Slack also, people not receiving messages in channels.
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What are they 'selling'?
> A detailed inventory of hazardous chemicals around the Ship Channel remains difficult to come by, thanks to a Texas law that restricts public disclosure of information that could be utilized by terrorists.

Am I the only one who has to immediately think of the Beirut explosion disaster when reading this?!

> At an estimated cost of $5 billion to $7 billion, the project would be far cheaper than either the Ike Dike or the cost of recovering from an epic natural disaster.

And here we have the classic game of political incentives: whoever sponsors it now will be out a couple billion dollars even if the specified event never hits, so as there is no incentive for preventative work, why should it be done?
As this apparently has been around for a while, hows the security of this server?
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You can offset your short with a long in a competitor. That takes out the market beta. However, it isn't free and it can take a long time until a bad company goes under (not saying Asana is one, haven't used their product).

Wirecard laundered money over years and the FT reported on it, it still took a long time for it to collapse.
The Mountain Ash trees of south east Australia are similar in that the bushfire helps release seeds. These are also one of the tallest tree species on the planet.

https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/static/interplay-with-fire
I only do a handful of things on my phone, and I need it to do those things reliably. My new laptop, on the other hand, opens with a Philips head screwdriver and almost everything can be replaced or upgraded. Different priorities for different needs.
Chernobyl is like terrorism - pretty much everything is more damaging if a risk adjusted data-driven comparison is done.

It is hard to describe a major disaster that is less damaging then Chernobyl. There are train wrecks that are comparable to Chernobyl by deaths [0]. On that note; wow, what a horrific rain wreck that must have been.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_disaster...
This is huge news. Wonder why it hasn't reached the front page. Europe-first launch? Undescriptive title?
I alsways explain it to new students as the shell being the equivalent of "under the hood" but for computers instead of cars. If you go to a car mechanic with engine problems and they won't even inspect under the hood, it's probably not a very good mechanic.

(The last few years have not been too kind to this metaphor because of computer-based analytics, but still)
For researchers, accessing data is one thing. Assessing its quality another
People who don't fit the "average user" have no other choice than to move to the command line because UIs are no longer designed for them.

Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyr...
Both S5 and S6 are great (actually there's not much difference) as long as you don't try to mop the floor with it (I haven't).

Setting up red zones with the app is the most important part of making them useful.
Your stance seems nonsensical to me, given the fact that Epic was clearly able to sneak something that violates the rules past Apple's review process.

It's clearly not possible for Apple to actually check all functionality of every app, particularly as it's so easy to hide it or to put it in an embedded web view.

In this case, Epic managed to put an alternative payment method in - but they are a trusted brand, so there's no real security issue overall.

But could some other developer do the same thing and harvest payment details? Of course.
But those aren't mutually exclusive. You can stay in the walled garden if you wish, and people who are comfortable with the risk can go outside. Choice; something Apple thinks its users are incapable of making sensibly.
they are related because apple plugged one process into the other.

but there is nothing intrinsic to their operation that requires it, and apple could un-plug it.

this is like apple arguing that IE is central to the fabric of windows, and can't be removed during the european antitrust suit.

it's dishonest, but apple will likely make the same claim.
I'm seeing issues with EC2s and with our ConfluentCloud service.

We are getting timeouts all over the place, even when connecting to CCloud locally.

We are also seeing unresponsiveness with Slack.
Surely the lowest of the low are "why is this on the front page?"?
What are the main differences. I just found it to be pretty much similar and what I find really confusing is my current and last company both had both of them one for business and one for devs. Both doing the basic kanban board and nothing else as far as I could tell.
This is especially important when working at an international company with many non-native English speakers.

One of the software engineers (an English major) I worked with at a previous gig could not get his head around the idea of writing in plan English.

He would write English at such an elaborate level that when he announced his resignation to the company via email, most people did not understand from that email that he was resigning!
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If the aim is to get a point across, why use complicated words and sentences, when simple ones might be better understood?

If an idea can be expressed in the same way with "Plain English", how would this make people 'congnitively simpler'?
Ti be clear the point was: if my Android phone breaks or is stolen and I am on the other side of the World I can enter any store buy a 50$ replacement, put the SIM in, sync my contacts and call back home

With Apple phones that's not possible

If you develop Apple apps you need Apple HW, another hidden tax to be paid to be part of the ecosystem

I think a company shouldn't be allowed to sell billions of devices that people rely on for daily activities, but that owners cannot control

Even if life can go on without smartphones

Life can also go on without refrigerators or washing machines, but if you buy one vendors don't lock customers in
And if you take the value of land into account? Chernobyl displaced a lot of people and cost a lot of money

In direct deaths, Chernobyl didn't cause that many but I have seen estimates of the cancer toll that are a lot higher than most accidents
Firefox Daylight (new Firefox for Android) launched in Europe
See: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/25/introducing-a-new-f...
Bad news for you: https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-and-the-blockchain/
English vs. business English.

Pre-boarding is just boarding.
Pre-booking is just booking.

Pre-prefixing everything. Sigh.

"Please revert" - you mean 'reply', not 'return to a former state'.

"Ping me" - ugh.

And my favourite.... "Learnings" - you mean lessons. "What drivings have you been on?" ... "What journeys have you been on?"
Yes, having major issues getting into any London based EC2 instances here (fargate) and seeing connection timeouts to third party services from those instances. Slack not handling image uploads too.

They've since now posted:

3:21 AM PDT We are investigating instance connectivity issues in a single Availability Zone (euw2-az2) in the EU-WEST-2 Region.
I'm not sure there's a limit, it's just perpetual shifting of value from people with savings to the government and financial institutions.
> Sure, and that rationale works OK when your code operates in a limited, specialized domain.

There are a lot of domains which do have a deep impact on society but are completely underfunded. For example research on ecology and declining insect populations. Or research on education. And domains like epidemiology, climate change research, cancer research or such are not known to earn better salaries to scientists as on average. Most scientists earn a pity.

> But if you're modeling climate change or infectious diseases, and you expect your work to affect millions of human lives and trillions of dollars in spending, then you owe us a full accounting of it.

What one can expect from scientists, in whatever subject they work, is honesty, integrity, a full account of their findings. What you can't expect is that they just turn into expert software engineers or make their working code beautiful. You can't expect them to work for free.
What the academic system demands from them is that they work on their next paper instead, so if you want pretty code, you need at least in part to change the system.
But it is effectively the same company though; controlled by the same principals.

That would be like Google in Mountain View claiming that they don't avoid paying tax and they are the good guys, but Google SA Netherlands & Ireland who are the assholes who scam countries out of their share of tax revenue (The Dutch Irish sandwich tax loophole that they use).
My impression of Aral was that he was a startup founder but in the FOSS / Privacy world. He stood out for that reason. I saw him talk at a very small conference in the UK and he seemed to be genuine and believed what he said.

In other words startup founders evangelise to attract attention to grow fast and to try to get lots of VC funding. FOSS / privacy folks are more humble and quieter so it's very rare to find the loud enthusiasm more common to be found in the valley. Often there is no need to sell the idea and to stoke the hype up when it comes to volunteer organised open source projects. FOSS people tend to be in it for different reasons, in it for the long haul, or in it even if no one is interested.

The risk with any startup founder is that to be "lean" they have to be able to drop their products at a moments notice to try another one. The Small Web idea seems to be an minimum viable product idea and like any idea isn't without value but its possible that it might be more risky to invest time into it compared to a traditional open source idea? (or is it, maybe it will get more interest...)
The comment was a joke but I still suggest rereading it because even if it wasn't nowhere in it did I suggest the presence of an inappropriate title.
No it really doesn't. Are library users called users because the library preys of their patrons addiction to literature? This is a very weak wordgame, that at best muddies the point about tech companies.
I would have to ask an expert but the article is careful to not actually make the error you're seeing. L-39 might have some spare parts interchangeable with a MiG. They only call the spare parts "MiG spare parts", then later call the Albatros a Czech plane.
If only you had read the sibling comment and my answer there...
Japan facing credit card number shortage
AWS eu-west-2 outage
Instances won’t start/stop/restart. Load balancers returning 504’s, lambda issues. Service dashboard showing no issues...
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> BEGINNING about 1,100 years ago

When systematic deforestation and massive logging started?
Wirecard: The frantic final months of a fraudulent operation
This is a quote from the letter that Apple sent to Epic;

"If your membership is terminated, you may no longer submit apps to the App Store, and
your apps still available for distribution will be removed. You will also lose access to the
following programs, technologies, and capabilities:"

[...]

"- Engineering efforts to improve hardware and software performance of Unreal Engine
on Mac and iOS hardware; optimize Unreal Engine on the Mac for creative workflows,
virtual sets and their CI/Build Systems; and adoption and support of ARKit features and
future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team"

That is a statement that Apple made saying they will stop all help they give to Epic getting UE running on all Apple hardware. With the other stuff in the letter it makes it very clear that the problem is not just one for Epic Games, but all of Epic.

You can read it yourself - https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/epic-v-apple-8-17-20-768927327... (Apple's letter starts on page 51 of the PDF)
FYI some of the python imports in the README are like: `from djns`

I think that's a typo?
Yes, Epic Games International's accounts were (threatened to be) closed. Yes, it was wrong of Apple to threaten that.
> from a software freedom standpoint, and the same goes for how difficult it's become to build native software from scratch, thanks to the shift from autotools to a whole new set of competitors like bazel, cmake, ninja, gin, etc.

Every single one of those programs you listed is FOSS licensed.

Autotools was originally developed as a compatibility layer to compile code on proprietary UNIXes.
All I want is Notion with data privacy like Bear.
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That's a bad example of how to express age limits. If I've just had my 60th birthday, or perhaps today is my birthday, which applies, or do I have to fill in both forms?

Also, is it my age at the time I sign the form, or my age at the time the form is received, that matters? Arguably that's a problem with the rule itself rather than how it's expressed. It's better if you can write something like: "If you were born before 6 April 1960 ... otherwise ...". Note that "after 6 Apr 1960" is arguably more ambiguous than "before 6 Apr 1960" because there's a slight risk that someone could interpret "6 Apr 1960" as meaning 1960-04-06 00:00:00.

This problem is vaguely related to the insurance policy renewals that leave a one-minute gap between the old policy and the new policy, and even more vaguely related to the ambiguity of "midnight on the next day".
Thanks. Based upon the comments and downvotes no one else did, but honestly I'm not surprised.
Well, in many countries in Europe, 14 years of age is considered age of consent.
Somebody should do a startup that just confirms money in a bank account.
I'd rather have 50,000 displaced than 5,000 dead. Being dead is pretty bad vs displaced. I move around a lot; although I can see the argument it is bad it is not a fate worse than death.

If Oroville Dam had given way back in 2017 that could easily have been America's Chernobyl. It made for exciting news.
I like computer games too they are good to play
pacsave/pacnew is how arch deals with some of these problems, but i wasn't talking about anything arch specific
How else would you describe seven red lines?
Too dangerous!

Your JS/Python/Lua code could do plenty of non desirable stuff (infinite loop, download trojan from the internet...etc).

Dhall lang for example forbids all this, but still allow you to write simple functions to avoid repeat yourself.
Finding your creative zone of genius
It is however undisputable that Sun (and Oracle later) chose to write their own license for some of their opensource efforts, when there were very established alternatives already available. It's hard not to draw the conclusion that they made things awkward on purpose (i.e. to keep it away from Linux, the dominant OS in Solaris' market).
Urbit is now not a good alternative to decentralized applications.
Lack of realistic choice. If you are the average consumer looking to buy a smartphone, you have the choice of either Android or Apple. You get more choice with a PC, to an extent - the average consumer is going to get to choose between Microsoft, something like a chromebook, or apple. (Most folks buy mainstream, widely available products that work out of the box). I'm not sure the market for non-standard products is that high. A non-significant number of folks wouldn't put anything on their computer that hasn't been approved for fear of "bad things".
Crazy losses, and I've not heard of one of these companies. Some people have. Cool.

You can employ 1000 people at 50k Euro a year plus infra without hitting these losses, and one on one thousand is surely to come up with something. Not that I'd jump to do that without having a revenue plan. Niche products of products burning a lot of cash doesn't make a lot of sense.
Yes they care about that, with the pool and filesystem versioning, Michael W. Lucas talks about that in this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmaHZBwDKho
This is no longer true is it - everyone wants engagement so they salaciously trail some upcoming new fascinating wonderful surprise until the headline is an outright lie, the body of the article is meaningless and the surprise is a disappointment.

But at least someone made some money.
https://news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1545589-20200824.h...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24260152
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You take snapshots when you want to take snapshots, and a snapshot allows you to view the data as it was at the time the snapshot was taken. Not entirely unlike a git commit.

The snapshot refers to the storage blocks/records on disk, not files as such, an important distinction since ZFS can expose block storage (zvol) as well as a "regular" file system.

Since ZFS is copy-on-write, the only storage you pay for with a snapshot are the blocks that have changed since the snapshot was taken (plus a little overhead). Thus for data that does not change much, a snapshot is almost "free".

The blocks are reference counted. Once a snapshot is deleted, ZFS decreases the reference count of the blocks referenced by the snapshot. Any block with a refcount of zero is considered free and thus that space is reclaimed. This happens when the block has changed since the snapshot was taken and there were no other snapshots referencing that block.

ZFS itself has no automatic deletion of old snapshots AFAIK, but there are tools built around ZFS that allow for periodic snapshotting and cleanup.
Learning Vi at an early stage in career has been a life saver for me. Having to do a lot of my work on remote shells over many years could have been more difficult had I not had some degree of command over a text editor like Vi.

And then there are other advantages too. Editing code in Vi/Vim is akin to touch typing if you are really good. Programming becomes so much easier and so much fun.

And last but not the least, there are still loads of things to learn about Vi.
“Ping me” really threw me for a loop the first time I heard a non-tech say it in an obvious non-tech way.

It literally has no other meaning outside of the ICMP echo utility; and the onomatopoeia of hitting glass.

How did it enter the Business world?
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Netflix hid code and later enabled it to redirect users to a non-Apple payment method. Epic hid code and later enabled it to redirect users to a non-Apple payment method. They did the exact same thing.
Or a back garden with a pool, if they were referring to land area.
It makes no sense to turn this into a purity contest. "a company once provided a room for an event", "they provide service credits for all open-source projects that apply" or something like that does not invalidate a movement. In the same way that I don't support going through the sponsor lists of the events Aral talks at to call him a hypocrite - as long as it is peripheral it's sometimes hard to avoid and sometimes very useful support you can grab without any commitments.
I think I saw this in a zombie movie once