skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kelsey Hightower had a good take in https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/12963119515307048... "AWS Controllers for Kubernetes is pretty dope. You can leverage Kubernetes to manage AWS resources such as API gateways and S3 buckets. Think Terraform but backed by Kubernetes style APIs and "realtime" control loops."

An in the thread he mentions Crossplane as the cross-cloud way to do this https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/12963213771342315...
Shared struggle can generate cohesion regardless of locality. Happy to hear this anecdote.
Server should never trust client input

How would it make that determination?
In HFT firms algorithm developers are front office as much as traders. (And in some firms, traders don’t even exist as a role.)
yeah, I found an existing chat and responded. I waited a minute and didn't see a reply so I moved on. Maybe I'm just impatient. If the intent is for not all chats to be realtime, maybe something to remind folks to check back may help until you hit critical mass. If not, maybe some kind of indication that the other party is present and waiting for a response.
It makes you wonder why they valued this stuff so much in the first place.
I didn't know about strings and I've been using Linux for years now. I like that there's lots still to learn.

I mean, there's a lot I don't understand about macOS but that's somehow less fun
Downloading Xcode at least used to require enrolling your Apple ID as a developer. I stand corrected if it doesn't now.
There's a small clue at https://blog.chromium.org/2016/10/making-chrome-on-windows-f... :

> To gather this data, the nightly build process now produces a special version of Chrome that tracks how often functions are used.

It doesn't say how Chrome is exercised (what pages are loaded, what user actions are simulated) during the nightly build. It seems like it must be some kind of fixed test data.

But that at least eliminates the possibility that they're gathering the profiling data from production builds used by real users, so the privacy concerns shouldn't be an issue.

(Also note that info is from 2016, so it could have changed.)
I used to have three "spaces": work, home, and a non-work place (exercise club in my case). Now I have one, home. It was fine for awhile, but I'm finding I really need the three spaces back.
I don't write in E-Prime, but I think it raises a valid point: you can often clarify and strengthen your English sentences by avoiding the verb "to be".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
> Latest release appears to be 4, what does 5 mean?

There is an alpha version of Bootstrap 5 effectively dropping jQuery and IE 10/11 as a dependency (https://v5.getbootstrap.com/)

> Admin? Admin of what, a website? Some other platform?

Maybe we can work on the title, it's supposed to be a web interface for managing stuff like users, messages, statistics and so on. Think of Heroku Dashboard. Or Cloudflare dashboard. Stuff like that. Yes, it's a website template.

> Is this a website template, with some built-in asset management mechanic like Wordpress?

It's just plain old HTML, CSS and Javascript but with Sass and Gulp as some extra features for higher customizability and Gulp mostly for the compilation of the Sass file and some other commands like minifying the files.

> Components? As in, web components[1]? Or is it terminology from some other web framework, maybe React or maybe some language feature in e.g. TypeScript?

Components meaning buttons, form elements, alert elements and so on. So they are HTML + CSS + Javascript web interface components.

Do you think we should drop the "admin" part from the title then? Thanks for your input though!
I think that's a pretty interesting approach.
Judge has issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Apple from restricting Epic/Unreal Engine from Apple’s Developer Program. This is only in effect temporarily, until the court makes a longer-lasting determination on a preliminary injunction (about which there is a hearing on Sep 28). The actual case is expected to begin trial next year. The judge's order is at https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/21814075/c...
Well, your single personal experience can't be a proof of what treatment is working. Even more when we know that you had a 99% chance of recovering
Eden (YC S15) has launched a suite of new workplace SaaS
They test people's behavior not the spread of the virus any participant is tested beforehand (and won't participate if infected) which makes it it likely less dangerous then the daily public transport commute many have to do.
I imagine that Google would not be happy if they ever were to offer such a proxy service.
As others here have mentioned, the British government maintains similar guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/writing-for-gov-u...

As does the US federal government:

https://plainlanguage.gov/
The subtitle of the article is a better title for the HN post.

> A refinement of O'Neill's colonies.

Basically just increasing the robustness of an O'Neill colony by removing the windows and giant mirrors. Also bolted on the power generation and cooling requirements that the original design mostly overlooked. I'm not sure the cooling requirements have been fully considered however, since it involves pumping hot coolant through 32+km of pipes. As described the colony is going to have a hot side and a cold side.

And honestly, the O'Neill cylinder is going to be covered in gold foil. I fully agree that the windows and gigantic mirrors are not a good idea. Electric lights run off of a massive solar array avoid many of the problems of the original design.
That risk is much lower if it takes 15-minute to get the test results, as opposed to tests that take an unknown amount of days/weeks to get results. The linked article does not discuss in depth what kind of testing took place, only that it did.
Seems like your symptom resolution was about the median for most patients infected with covid.

http://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm
I have no idea if hcq is effective, but I'm not sure that study you linked was meaningful.

FTA "The first randomized clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine as an early treatment for mild covid-19 found the drug was no better than a placebo in patients who were not hospitalized."

So, maybe hcq has no effect on outcomes on mild cases. This does not mean it couldn't have an effect on severe/hospitalized patients.
More infrastructure being built by the coast would cause damages to go up, even if storm severity remained constant.

Edit: Found an article which says just that.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/us/hurricane-damage-cost-coas...
No, I mean like a pull down menu. Like when you click “File” or “Edit” on $desktopOS
So it’s better to have yet another avenue for shady developers to take advantage of “whales” via loot boxes and in game consumables - the very thing that the government is going after?

What jury is going to care that Epic can’t sell useless virtual currency and make a larger profit?
Off a tangent but whenever I hear OCaml I can’t stop thinking about F#. I started dabbling in F# in my spare time but time didn’t allow a deepdive. From a few months of playing with it it seems like a solid alternative to other languages and codebases appears to be easier to follow though I never used it in the real world. Does anyone with real world experience have the patience to write about it? Does using F# make coding fun again? Also, does it look like F# will pick up in popularity anytime soon? Thanks
I've never been especially happy with any browser PDF viewer and always use something else. On Windows I mainly use SumatraPDF, which is super lightweight.
Well, the thread is about fires in northern California. These particular fires were not at all started by arsonists, but by a lighting storm.
I’m on my fifth company of my career. Every job I’ve joined as an IC.

My first job I got because I interned and they wanted me to join full time.

My second job I joined as a straight SE.

My third job was via an acquisition of the second company, and I started as an IC and became a Sr Director.

My fourth job I was a co-founder that did a little of everything.

My fifth job I joined as a senior IC, and basically pitched where I could have the most impact during my first week and then have just run from there.

The only thing that matters when joining a company is really your salary, as they are unlikely to fix that quickly. Role, title, focus, manager, etc, can all be changed quickly if you present a solution to leadership that makes sense to them.
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I bet some of their customers won't be able to build the engine. Or just switch to something else with less friction involved.
I thought you were trying to counter the F-22? Moving the goal posts?

If drones are going to be used for CAS, then they need a control channel or Skynet AI. Any control channel in use will depend on LOS, and will be jammed to oblivion in a real war.
What's more scary is not that a single company or group of companies will be a permanent fixture but rather that this model of computing will be permanent!

If you would have told me 20 years ago that the creator of an operating system would take a 30% cut of every piece of software sold, I would have thought you crazy. If you would have told me Apple or Microsoft would dictate to me what software I could run, I would have considered that a massive invasion of freedom. But today this model is considered totally normal and encouraged.

We aren't seeing other companies competing with this model on price or freedom -- we see companies wanting to enforce their own control and get their own 30% cut. Microsoft has tried it. Google is doing it. Oculus does it. Apple will certainly bring it MacOS.

As software developers and users, is that really what we want?
It is an open secret that Apple cannot build secure software, that its sandboxing is subpar and that the app store compensates for its failings — kind of how a totalitarian state with weak internal structures compensates for it through inflicting violence.

Where the pedal really hits the metal is with the cost of buying zero day exploits. iOS exploits can be had for much cheaper than Android ones.
> The job market is imploding around us while we work cushy tech jobs. Abject misery abounds as people lose their loved ones and their livelihoods.

This is also the case for people at Google, etc but they still manage to find time to complain about not being able to expense their lunches [0]

Overall I don't disagree, but the path to JS or equivalent companies seems to be astonishingly narrow given the fact that I didn't join there out of undergrad and I'm currently at a company that Jane Street recruiters don't consider to be impressive or noteworthy.

> And don't be so hard on yourself. If you've made it as far as you have, you definitely have successful characteristics. You're not special, and that's OK. But just because you're not special doesn't mean you don't have successful characteristics.

I'd say I'm exactly as hard on myself as society is. Everyone else gets constant external validation - all I get is signals to say I'm stupid.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/google-tells-employees-not-t...
Water does not just flood rapidly back to the ocean on its own. It forms rivers, streams, creeks, flood plains, ponds, and lakes.

Humans have built channels and storm drains as well as laid down substantial amounts of non porous ground cover like pavement and concrete.

If you really care about using freshwater resources, start restoring rivers and side channels.
No, because it's a mental practice. That said, you can use a template.

https://untools.co/second-order-thinking
Beautiful observation, I for long claimed, and been looked upon like a madman too for that, that the universal access to communication will for the first time allow for creation of a "supranational" state, and obsoletion of nation states.

Take a good look. Back in 2012, people were genuinely thinking that Zuckerberg was going to run for the election. And they rightly though that if facebook was for example post "Go Vote Zuck" on the frontpage, he might've well won.
It would also be nice to be able to easily leave a conversation so it doesn't fill up the 'my conversations' window. The conversation could then go back to the main list to be fulfilled by someone else maybe.
I think it's a disservice to even mention btrfs and zfs in the same breath. ZFS is a battle tested, enterprise ready, production grade filesystem and lvm.

BTRFS is a science experiment by comparison. They tried to copy zfs features because Oracle won't release it under GPL and did a fairly poor job of it. The fact we're this many years later and their RAID5 code still has total data loss bugs pretty much sums up btrfs.
The problem is preventative maintenance seems to fall under the ADA, or at least no one has challenged it.

I can see both sides. On one hand if no one was forced to do anything many people may never be able to leave their house. On the other, Hardvard was sued and took down a bunch of freely provided lectures because they had no tractable way to caption them.
I was watching the Joe Rogan podcast, and one of his friends who had covid was asked by the doctor what his political leanings are, because some patients refuse to take HCQ because Trump said it was helpful.
If you leave "zpool create" to its defaults (enable every feature).

There's two levels to consider though if you create a pool with explicit consideration for a system with an older version of ZFS: "-o version" and "-d"/"-o feature@...", both of which can be used to fine tune exactly what the pool can and cannot do.

I've made a list to help out doing it between ZFS-on-Linux releases. It shouldn't be hard to look up FreeBSD feature lists and do the same: https://chungy.keybase.pub/zfs-features-table.html
> This seems like good news. Is hydroxychloroquine currently being prescribed widely?

Sort of. Since Trump tweeted and mentioned the drug, hydroxychloroquine has become politicized.

Some scientists and doctors say it might have some use.

But the media is critical of it because Trump mentioned it.
I know it's a hard time for the engineering team at Mozilla right now, but just wanted to put it out there: You guys are truly awesome! Thanks for everything.
Sorry to hear about your experience.

I have to ask: Who gave you the verbal offer? Was it an internal recruiter, external recruiter, or the company's HR department?

I mentor a lot of college students. They're always very nervous about the possibility of rescinded offers despite how rare it is in practice, so I'm curious about the details of your situation.

When mentoring people, I always advise people to never assume an offer is a done deal until you've received the official offer letter with compensation details and a start date. Unethical recruiters are notorious for misleading candidates into thinking the job is a sure thing in order to discourage them from interviewing elsewhere.

When mentoring hiring managers, I emphasize the importance of never misleading candidates into thinking they have a job until we send the official offer letter. It's common for new hiring managers to get so excited that they give the candidate too much information too early. Even simple statements like, "We were really impressed with your performance and now I'm going to work on getting you an offer" can be disastrously misleading to candidates who don't realize that their interviewer/recruiter isn't the only decision maker in the process.
on macos, you can just use the built-in preview app. it's similarly not as advanced as acrobat, but a little better than firefox's pdf.js.

i also like opening pdf's in a separate app, as they're usually not part of the main "stream of thought" of the page from whence it came.
Working for me, but it’s also on The Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20200825170553/https://www.privac...
Oh, and regarding what type of companies. For me the primary factor right now is remote. I plan on being remote for the rest of my career. That’s my number one priority when looking at companies to join.
A Practical Guide to (Correctly) Troubleshooting with Traceroute (2009) [pdf]
https://c19study.com/

This site has a good summary of all the studies that have been done on HCQ treatment of Covid-19.
I was under the impression Firefox used PDF.js -- javascript rendering of PDFs -- as its native PDF viewer. I could be very wrong. But if so, would explain the performance issues.

PDF.js is known to be built into Firefox, I cannot think of why it would be, other than for the purpose of functioning as the core pdf viewer. But I am not that imaginative!

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Ques...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF.js
How did it compare to the other time you got COVID-19 and didn't take HCQ/AZT/Zn?
Exxon Mobil replaced by a software stock after 92 years in the Dow
It might be telling that the article linked to two separate studies?

I'm not sure if you read the whole article.
Then we're going to have to agree to disagree; because the next Solaris release went all the way to 11 ;)

As for 11’s security is indeed improved as they took what was already done of crossbow, and implemented it, then cancelled the rest. -- that's shortchanging an incredible amount of work that was done that was not related to crossbow at all. Crossbow, while great, was hardly the largest or most important project that was being worked on although it was certainly one of them.
It was. Long before the bulk of the studies even processed, the media had flipped right over to "hcq is the devil and a hoax". This, from what I observed, was essentially independent of any actual scientific research or result.
Samsung’s Find My Mobile app can now locate devices even when they’re offline
Linked article says it will be available starting August 27.
Ha. I was involved with MIPS in 2004 or so and worked with them on their China strategy. They were very worried about going to China and losing control of IP. My counterpoint was: MIPS was basically an also-ran to x86 & ARM and survival was the big question. The chances of survival without presence in China was basically zero so: MIPS should maintain their market in the US and fight for presence in China; if they got into China, then they could focus on the larger war and on defending IP in China...; if they didn't get into China, they were dead anyways.
I really don't like style (2). It starts with a false/incomplete statement.

Diffusing bomb model AX72 steps:
- Cut the blue wire.
- But first cut the red wire.
Plus once they adjusted for the multiple variables the effect is not huge. This will probably be more valuable in a much larger meta-analysis.
Down dramatically from what reference period? Over what region & time period? According to what source?

(I grew up in Houston. I'm skeptical of those with short memories, new to the concern, who impressionistically consider every report of a hurricane as "so much bigger & more frequent than before", without actual analysis. But I'd want to see numbers, and a theory of causality, for any claim that they're "down dramatically".)
It belonged to great-great-aunt Thelma, what is there more to explain!
I think validation is more about whether or not someone will pay for your solution than if it actually solves the problem or not. Sounds like the same thing, but it's not really.
Bitwarden, as an app, can fill password in any app, including web sites viewed in firefox.

It's not as well integrated as an extension, and has some bugs, but it's a decent workaround.
Making a Fortune by Wagering That Drug Prices Tend to Rise (2005)
Kindle's privacy FAQ[0] says:

> We also use it to develop and improve products and features for all our customers and to gain insights into how our products are being used, assess customer engagement, identify potential quality issues, analyze our business, and customize marketing offers.

Targeted marketing is, in itself, something that's reasonable for someone to want to block regardless of whether or not there's a mustached villain tracking you. Privacy is about more than stalkers, it's about the effects of data usage. For some people, targeted advertising is a harm regardless of whether or not the company knows their name.

To go a step farther, I also don't understand why it's LARPing to be worried about a company who is actively being investigated for misusing seller data.

I bring this up every time that one of these threads/stories gets posted, but there's (appologies, but for lack of a better word) some kind of weird gaslighting that always happens in these situations. Before it broke that Echo and Siri queries were sometimes listened to by 3rd-party contractors, if I had posted that suspicion on HN people would have called me paranoid. Once the story broke, the argument then shifted to, "well of course they're doing that, how else would you improve the service?" That kind of thinking applies to Amazon as well.

I don't know that it's likely, but I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that Amazon might use this information in the future to help target pirates, change book rankings on their store, perform highly targeted advertising and book recommendations, or turn it over during government subpoenas. Those are completely reasonable usages that their privacy policy leaves them permission to do.

Similarly, I don't know that it's likely, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that this information might get sent to 3rd parties with less responsible data practices, or that employees might be given direct access to it in an unobfuscated form[1]. It's not something I'm losing sleep over, but I wouldn't be shocked to my core if someday all this information got leaked publicly and correlated to people's email addresses.

These are all situations where privacy matters regardless of the original intention. The "I only want to make my service better" defense applies to basically all data collection that most companies do. Even advertisers use that defense. It's reasonable for people to want to avoid being a part of that.

Of course, it's also reasonable for people not to care, to say that hacking is a risk they're willing to live with, and that they don't mind targeted ads, and that the books they read aren't sensitive. But it's not LARPing if someone has a different opinion on whether or not they want to tolerate that stuff.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...

[1]: See, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2017/12/12/creepy-net.... Is it LARPing for me to be weirded out by a marketing department trolling over my reading/listening/watching habits looking for viral tweet material?
Not disagreeing with you, but you should probably include the next sentence:

> patients in the HCQ group appeared to be sicker as reflected by the higher frequency of radiological pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ICU transfer within the 24h after admission and invasive ventilation support as well as the higher frequency of elevated LDH and CRP levels.

But yes, it does not look good for this study that the HCQ group tended to be younger and healthier.
Significant majority of gig platform workers prefer the contractor model
Would make a good script for a Wolf of Wall Street type of movie
If Uber shareholders thought that they were walking away from all revenue in the state of California their shares would tank. We all know this is brinksmanship. I know it. You know it. They aren't leaving CA. The goal here is to get the "other side" to blink and adjust the rules so they can continue to operate. But at the end of the day Uber isn't abandoning the California ride share market to its competitors. Be real.
Fun fact, I wrote the first version of this code as a Google Intern. Imagine my surprise when I saw that they're still using it, and it's been developed and fleshed out!
Evince can fill out PDF forms and even re-export as a read-only PDF with those forms filled.
Sorry because it's been jailbroken you are forced to use alternate stores on iOS. Or you could just not use it.