skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It capturing the minds of youth way faster than .NET did

It's because of hype. When analyzing things objectively, the unsubstantiated claims of the golang team quickly collapse. This is coming from someone who saw the mess that golang created in real production systems, which would not have happened in languages like Java and C#.

Mono isn't .NET. Using nuget in Visual Studio or IntelliJ Rider is a breeze.
> Only someone like Apple could have pulled it off and forced all of their customers to change the way they use their devices but now we are better off because if it.

They didn't force "all" of their customers to change. Some of us left their ecosystem entirely. My ThinkPad now suits me quite nicely using my devices the way I want to.
Compensatory conspicuous communication: Low status increases jargon use
Government as a VC, Vaccines as Startup Investments
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 During Long Flight
Thank you for taking the time to share that warning -- I'm new to this process so it's great for me to have the appropriate amount of caution.
I am addressing the idea that the plane type would make-or-break someone's decision to fly. If human error is the larger factor, then why would you make the decision based on a smaller factor?

I wouldn't get off a MAX8 operated by Quantas and instead board an A320 operated by PIA
yeah, I just tried it. It's pretty good!
Great article. Related to charge more: don't dismiss a higher price point outright as "probably being high-touch only"; it's worth testing. We have a $999/month plan for example which we still sell on a low-touch model.
So? If I get to pick how I waste my time, then that time is not really wasted.
My grandmother called me in a panic the other day because she thought rioters burned down my neighborhood in Chicago. An hour long conversation and I still couldn’t grasp why she thought that.
Probably not in a business setting. But often I wish I'd taken better notes during doctor visits.
StartPage Started Blocking Access via VPN?
I've run into this three times now, over the past couple of days.

When accessing StartPage through a VPN, I get this message telling me my access has been blocked and inviting me to email them to explain how I'm trying to access their service. [0]

Has anyone else seen anything like this recently? I've been using StartPage for years and fairly often use a VPN. This is the first time I've ever had anything like this happen and, as I said above, three times now in the past two days.

It doesn't exactly do StartPage's claims to be the "most private" search engine much good, if they've suddenly started blocking IPs belonging to VPNs.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/MgxL7GT.png
There are tradeoffs, but I think binary, non-TLV encodings are superior. TLV encodings are notoriously difficult to encode but add no real value on the decode side. With TLV encodings you get a measure of implied extensibility that requires explicit support in binary, non-TLV encodings. But it turns out that you want to have explicit extensibility even in TLV cases anyways, since it helps the code generator, and for security reasons.

Even ignoring the zero-copy advantages of flatbufs and Cap'n Proto, TLV is bloaty and redundant, and redundancy is one mother of serious bugs in hand-rolled codecs.

Perhaps the best example I have of trade-offs is PostgreSQL's JSONB, which is optimized to be compressible and fast to traverse. To my knowledge that's the only binary JSON encoding that does that. (Specifically, it encodes lengths of array and object elements, and of object keys, but every N it encodes an offset, and the lengths are of the value encodings which are themselves concatenated. This allows similar lengths to be compressible, while the never-repeating offsets are not but also they're few and far between, and it also allows for fast indexing.)
The next “Moore's Law” could explain why Nvidia wants ARM Holdings so badly
“ Huang's Law says that the chips that power Artificial Intelligence (AI) more than double in performance every other year; this improvement can be credited to both software and hardware improvements over time.”
Maybe it enhanced velocity, but I can tell you that for sure it did not improve quality for Office, Windows, or Visual Studio (not Code). I work with all of those products, and have worked with them before and after the big layoff. The quality of those offerings took a serious hit when they outsourced QA to their customers.

I try to submit feedback and half the time the feedback tool itself fails to work, the other half of the time my bug is closed or ignored so that the team can 'focus on issues with a broad customer impact'.

Is there any evidence that Microsoft's product quality has improved recently? The only way I can imagine justifying that point of view is if you divide by the cost to get that quality, which is a useless metric to me as a customer.

Maybe I just experience bugs that no one cares about, but I no longer recognize Microsoft Office or Windows as solid software given the massive increase in the volume of bugs I experience.
Sktime is more like "Scikit-learn for time series data", which notably lacks any time series methods.
“.0” versions are the only versions that would have a major performance change. Anything else would be a fix version.
The movie Contagion was surreal for first few months during this pandemic. Whether it is due to survival bias, or any other reasons, the script writer managed to be so accurate.

Hitting several high notes in one stroke is not an easy task. Most of us are lucky if we can even hit even one in real life. Those people in academics are called genius, while in tech world are called 10x programmers.

Thanks for the 'I for one... overlords'. Learn something new today, :-)
I used to get gigabytes of logfiles from the SSH probes, but that has stopped since moving the port. That was the only reason for moving.
I agree that public funding is a great way to fund free products and services. The issue is that getting public funding is a major pain right now. It can take months of paperwork. And it's not really "we" who decide what to fund - it's one or more government employees.

I'd love to see Participatory Budgeting take off. It would be awesome if we could all vote on which products and services deserve public funding. And it would be even better if we could use technology to decide what to fund much faster than we do today.
By now, it would have been cheaper to put in a proper triple or quad redundant flight control system and have pilots retrain for the type than to ground the fleet and lose orders.

The bad decisions that led to this are well known. Southwest Air has a business model based on having only one type of aircraft, the Boeing 737. They insisted that the 737 Max behave exactly like the other 737 models, and not require that pilots be trained and rated for two different aircraft. So Boeing tried to make Southwest happy.

A deeper bad decision is that Boeing doesn't have a 737 replacement. The original 737 is from the 1970s. By now, Boeing should have had a new plane out in that size range. Airbus does. COMAC is coming out with one, if it works well. But Boeing guessed wrong on the sizes of aircraft airlines would want. They thought the future was widebody, not mailing tubes full of seats. The 767, 777, and 787 are all widebodies. So, of course, was the 747. The 757 was a great airplane for passengers and pilots that airlines didn't want because it cost more and used more fuel. So Boeing had a huge lineup of widebodies, and no good competitor for the Airbus narrow-body options.

Hence the 737 MAX, a 737 with engines too big for the airframe and a software kludge to compensate for that.
False. That proves you have not looked at the current MB Pro design. You are also blithely assuming there is space inside the case to just randomly add backwards-compatible shit that we all need to move on from in order to enable and promote more capable interfaces.

If you have "tens of devices" you need to plug into your computer at once, then stop buying laptops or get a USB hub. This isn't complex. No laptop ever designed, in history, would allow you to plug in that much USB-A stuff at once without buying adapters or a hub, etc.

So stop bitching at Apple about irrelevant stuff that Apple isn't to blame for.
If you had put a couple of millions into a company you'd probably expect to get your money back, no? Would you be happy giving your money away?

Another point you are missing is that not all companies work that way either. Many people start their own business with their own money and don't have to answer to investors. Look outside of tech: restaurants, design studios, stores, etc.
When I was in pharmaceuticals, QA and QC were notably different processes. I wish software would embrace this. A common maxim was "you can't test quality into a product".

Quality Assurance is (by analogy) design and code reviews, coding standards, and design for success.

Quality Control is testing -- just making sure things are as intended.
You can do both, and in general most management teams should be at the very least using ssh configs if not full inventory management ala ansible/et al.

Whitelisting IPs may work with your corporate vpn, it most certainly does not work for hobbyists on consumer ISPs.

Moving the port deflects a lot of low effort attacks, and if the ssh server is otherwise still well secured then provides no harm and real benefit.
Tell that to employees at Lockheed, Boeing, Honeywell, Booz Allen... the list of private enterprises or people engaged in government work requiring clearance is large and varied.
> baseless insults

Such as...?
Security through obscurity is a free way to increase your security stochastically. It eliminates low-effort attacks, lowering noise, allowing you, the security professional, to focus on detecting high-effort attacks. Of course we shouldn't implement some security through obscurity and call it a day, but people who dismiss security through obscurity as not worth implementing at all are also foolish.
Maybe someone can explain what he means when he said "We didn’t have slavery in the U.K., except when we were the slaves of the Romans and then the Normans."

I was under the impression that America didn't have a monopoly on African slavery [0]. Is Cleese wrong or am I misunderstanding what he's trying to say?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Enslaved_Af...
I mean people were also "fine" with washing clothes by hand until the washing machine came out. Just because it was done one way that was accepted, doesn't mean there isn't a better way.

Having navigation on my little device I can fit into my pocket and work pretty much everywhere is a huge convenience. I no longer have to plan trips carefully, drive around hoping I get to the right place or stop 3 times to ask for directions.
Some of the guides have affiliate links.

> "This guide contains affiliate links. When you click those links and buy something, I make a little money. The income allows me to work on All About Berlin full time. All my recommendations are genuine. I want to keep this website useful and neutral."

https://allaboutberlin.com/guides/moving-to-berlin
USPS sends out address change info that you submit to them. Just like junk mail, this is a profit center so they won't stop doing it.
Don't forget ipv10 [1]

[1] - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-ipv10-06.html
I have similar doubts, but only thinking of the kind of work meetings I regularly have.

I think something like a non-technical interview "meeting" has a much higher information density.
No it’s about their remote access being revoked after it was approved. The special expert observer is status denial is a separate other issue.
I'd love to see RangeInclusive fixed in the manner described. Part of what's blocking such a fix is that we have hard backwards compatibility guarantees. We'd have to do some kind of edition-based transition, where ranges start desugaring to a different type in a new edition than they did in the previous edition. We could do that, and there are various discussions going on to consider such approaches, but we're somewhat hesitant to go down that path.
I feel like this is an example of what Jonathan Blow calls a "Big Idea" or a "100% solution". His thesis is that when you make a feature of a language too abstract and usable in many different contexts, eventually there will be so many corner cases that the result will almost certainly be clunky and full of footguns.

He claims that language designers should aim for "80% solutions" instead, which cover most common usages but limit themselves enough to avoid complexity. This runs in contrast to a lot of commonly accepted language design wisdom.
This is essentially just me shouting into the void but I really hate that for me (a common netizen) there is no realistic recourse against these constant attacks.

I understand the technical issues involved but it is really disheartening to me that when it comes to malicious actors attempting to access and abuse other people's property the entire net's general response is basically "shrug can't win, don't try"

By that I mean, I would not expect much to come of me submitting logs of constant penetration scans to the police.
Block this:
https://github.com/ggsava/block-this

Invizible:
https://invizible.net/en/

Blokada:
https://blokada.org/
Covid-19 Open Data
Advancing NLP with Efficient Projection-Based Model Architectures
> high quality healthcare

In the life of a big-tech worker this is a rounding error.
A long time ago, my boss at the time taught me a valuable lesson: every meeting needs an official record(/log/minutes/whatever) documenting all noteworthy decisions (D), tasks (T, with deadline and responsible person), and information communicated (I), with that record being sent to all participants by end-of-day.

The reasoning being simple:

If anything of consequence was discussed in the meeting, then the official record is a valuable documentation (and the basis for the next meeting).

If nothing of consequence was discussed in the meeting, then the meeting was a waste of time and should never have taken place in the first place. Somebody wasn't prepared for the meeting they scheduled.

Like a good commit message, an official record as described above is cheap (doesn't take more than 2-3 minutes to write) and often delivers a fantastic ROI.
Overwatch is pretty successful.
Tesla’s next-gen Roadster to take on the Nürburgring, confirms Musk – TESLARATI
They want to steal this seat for a reason
You also have to keep in mind that SpaceX pulled this off 40 years after NASA created the Space Shuttle. I'm not sure if that invalidates the example per se, but it seems a little like giving Apple credit for inventing the modern GUI, when they basically took it from Xerox PARC.
Bethesda was already trending this way however this has deep implications. Ultimately I think it's going to slowly kill the core of the modding community as modding is forced into the platform and new users are displace the modding culture.

The modding will no longer be able to truly edit the engine itself through some reverse engineering and be forced to utilize the APl/scripting framework. Third-party tools will be locked out. Obviously this has happened already on the console platform. There's still the PC platform but that could be locked down further as well.

Think about the time and fostered talent that it took to make some of the communities amazing tools. For example script extenders for elder scrolls series. As mods are now centralized in official 'the store' the community grow around which will never allow mods like the script extender for developers to make advanced innovative mods. Even if other modding communities like the Nexus allow for that It's going to continue to fragment the community and the talent which is foster within the community. Then you throw paid mods into the picture... Thus begins the death of the open source pillar in modding.
So Troy Hunt is advertising for NordVPN now. I see.
Yes, that's why we only get 90% from renewable. 10% is not.

Out of interest, what percentage are you at?
Also, if coverage were broad and the principles of open justice were respected, thus providing ample records on what looks like an important trial touching aspects of freedom of the press and the disclosure of war crimes, then AI would not be as interested in seeking to monitor it.
I wholeheartedly agree that most meetings are a waste of time.

In fact, a decade ago I made a very simple game for Windows Phone as it was launching called Meetingz, where you clicked on buzz words that you heard during a meeting to avoid going insane (while looking productive). After the meeting, it tabulated your BS index and compared the results to previous meetings.

During its short lifetime, the app had over 11,000 downloads: http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/killercodingninjamon...
On a related note, I remember watching shareholder meeting like events from Tesla on youtube where Elon Musk admitted that the first roadster prototype didn't work and had to be cooled after the demo. I can't find it any more. Is this still public?
>I know this is not something major, but still, how do these people sleep at night?

Easily and without issues. Humans are very good at making sure they do not feel themselves to be evil. A mass murderer will blame everyone except themselves or rationalize their actions as just.

Things which come to mind in 30 seconds:

"The regulation is draconian and it is just to fight it in any way possible."

"Our business helps people and working around this helps our business and thus helps people."

"If people really wanted and weren't simply mindlessly clicking buttons this won't stop them so we're actually helping user's enact their will."

"We put all this effort into the business, it's evil for the government to interfere for wishy washy reasons."
How can you be sure of that? The 1% own airlines, cruise liners, factories that produce buses and cars, etc. The other 99% ride on those for enjoyment and business. The problem with your argument is that you somehow believe that the 1% is warming the planet and the only people benefiting are the 1%. This is your flaw. The 1% are rich because they add value to the other 99%. Without the 1%, you wouldn’t have air travel or buses!
I don't see much difference between your "products" and "plans with different feature sets", except yours is priced per use instead of as a subscription.
Just because it has been debated extensively doesn't mean it's not a wart.

Having run into the "reverse range does not contain what you obviously expect it to contain" before and wasting a few hours on it, like many other people have and will continue to do in the future, definitely makes me want to call it a wart.
Changelog++ Launch Thoughts [audio]
They promised with last-gen Xbox One, and have followed it up, that all first-party games that launch for Xbox will also launch for PC. (Originally this extended to all games, but some late releases were xbox-only.) There are no xbox-only games for Xbox Series announced, from any publisher, that are not available for PC.
How to Launch your Agency and not get hung up on stuff that doesn't matter
Thankfully Microsoft experimented with the real money payment for sort of the "spin-the-wheel" equivalent in the mainline Forza Motorsport series (off hand I can't remember if it was 5 or 6 that was the absolute nadir), and learned enough from that failed experience (and a similar one in I think it was Gears 4 and Halo 5) that it never infected the Horizon series.
You're using whataboutism on a colossal scale to argue against the attack on a single bad actor.

It's not possible to address all bad actors simultaneously. Some bad actors will be sorted out quicker than others. The order in which they get sorted out is not intended to be fair.
This implies that the same level of crime, mind you, was completely acceptable when it was perpetrated against outsiders. Cry me a river, San Francisco.
The articles summarizes

> It’s where you keep the mechanism secret, not the key.

I think this can be, as you write, defense in depth if the secret of the mechanism is not the only defense.

As example the block cipher for the Common Scrambling Algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Scrambling_Algorithm has been secret.
As it seems that has delayed the analysis of the system for about 8 years, but not damaged the procedure.
Three years should be enough for a decent project to go from inception to production. Realistically you will join a big project in mid-progress so three years is def enough.

I agree with grandop that 5 years is prob the time limit before moving becomes very important unless (1) you are in organizational leadership (you drive vision and with success get fu money) (2) you are being continuously rapidly promoted in a large company.
Since when did "high quality" become impossible? lol. Thats news to me. The fact you think Sears was "high quality" is telling. Maybe you have never bought or been exposed to "quality" in the first place?

I totally disagree with your assessment. 20 years ago it was harder to find quality products than it is today. I am a person that buys "quality", I support local & US companies whenever I can. There are so many excellent boutique companies for just about everything outside of shitty mass produced electronics. I just do not see your world at all, but then again, I don't mistake garbage retailers and company branding for quality.
Why would they want it removed? It's free advertising.
Thanks for the feedback! I was going to edit it but looks like I can't.

Regardless, the main idea is that I support greed as a motivator because financially sovereign teams don't exist nor scale enough to support a given cause (especially if it's a very difficult problem).
It’s also an extremely well established legal standard for important humanitarian trials, covering many decades across every developed nation on the planet.

Saying anything like “oh Amnesty International is just some NGO to be treated same as the general public so who cares” is completely unrealistic and just fails to be relevant in any way.
Although not with StartPage specifically, I've noticed CreditKarma (a free credit score tracking site) doesn't allow me to login when behind a VPN.
A position with a defense contractor that requires a special-access clearance can pay very well. The problem is that you very often need to have the clearance to get the job. Getting a special-access clearance for an employee can take six months or more, and there may be some costs involved. Also, there would be that time waiting for the clearance before you could start working on a special-access project. Many (most?) defense contractors would rather pay extra to get someone who already has the clearance.
>I am saying, in general, if you are going to get on a plane today, you are much more likely to be killed because of human error than any other reason.

Sure, but the issue with the 737 MAX in particular is that the aircraft is unsafe from a design perspective, so I find your arguments that US aircrews are less likely to make a mistake to be both nonsensical and irrelevant (from a 737 MAX perspective).

The 737 MAX is flawed in a way that was not only concealed from the operators, but in a way that causes a failure mode that is not easily avoided or averted because of Human Factors, even by an aircrew that "knows their shit".

Your faith in the MAX 8 flown by US operators is unfounded.
How to Design a Good API and Why It Matters – Google TechTalks
The temperature and pressure near the center of gas giants is crazy high. For Jupiter [0]:

> The temperature at the core boundary is estimated to be 36,000 K (35,700 °C; 64,300 °F) and the interior pressure is roughly 3,000–4,500 GPa.

It's similar to why you wouldn't be surprised to find diamonds deep underground in a mine, but if you found tiny diamonds forming in clouds that would be a major revelation.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter#Physical_characteristi...
If you blog in detail about how did you complete your setup then I'll enthusiastically read it.