skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m aware of that but there are very different details here. They’re not implementing an API compatibility layer, they wrote a one time migration tool. Beyond that in the case of Oracle vs Google the source implementing the API interface was copied directly. WSL, Wine, and SQL do not do this.
Oh I managed to misread the title, and was wondering how the common fruit can be so dangerous
It took me years but I finally started my own company
It's income
"ESP8266 with AT modem firmware, 2 – STM32F05106 ARM Cortex M0"

Wow, it needs two 32bit CPUs to make my coffee.
The judge gave the illusion of actually stopping the ban. It's for show. Do you really think that Trump was like, hey I'm going to ban this TikTok app due to national security reasons and then a judge in California was like no you can't do that and he just sat on his hands about it?

There's way more going on behind the scenes here than is apparent. Trump could within the hour, literally within the hour, ban TikTok and nobody could really do much until/unless Congress decided to do something about it. Unfortunately, in America we've given the president too much power under the guise of national security. For that I blame Congress, of course, because whenever their team is in power they conveniently forget about restricting presidential authority.

With that being said, I do want to see Chinese social media companies banned from the US until/unless US companies can operate in China freely. There just isn't really a reason to let them operate here.
I think his main point was he was using copyrighted content under fair use but because he can't afford a lawsuit, he has to accept to their ridiculous terms and if he accepts their ridiculous terms, it's difficult to proceed like he is currently because it's too much admin costs involved.
I didn't say we'd need black holes not any celestial object. Either we'd need a transmitter with as much mass or energy as black holes, or we need to improve our detection by many orders of magnitude.

Sure it's theoretically possible, but it doesn't seem very likely any time soon.

As I said in my post you replied to:

> there's going to have to be some significant developments to make this practical.
CDN support out of the box isn't essential, most sites will never achieve the kind of traffic that merits a CDN. However, to add to your list: database migrations, task queues, middleware, form validation, templating, dependency management, unified plugin framework, etc. No lack of callback soup though.
Cellino and Barnes, injury attorneys, 800 888, 8888!

Glad I'm doing better in life than these veritable celebrities!
Some Thoughts on Better Interviewing
I've been on both sides of the interview fence and I have some (provocative) thoughts I'd like some discussion about
It doesn't matter.

There should be nothing an end user can do without disassembling the phone that can make it catch fire. If there is, then someone will do it. And personally, I wouldn't think twice about connecting the HDMI without connecting the power, for five minutes, to get hold of some document.

I don't own a Pinephone, and from the looks of this debacle I never will. It doesn't seem that OSS is safe to run in safety-critical contexts.
what are 3rd party packages? maybe code from github that isn't packaged?

I have been running Debian sid for many years for various scenarios and not once had an issue with stability or that I got bitten by a bug.

In production I want stable at all costs. For anything in between building from source is always an OK compromise.

The premise that Debian sid has poor quality packages is a blanket statement that is wrong.
No, it is not. At least as long as you don't want to get there too fast (which we can't do anyway currently).

Dust is taken care by an ice shield in front of the craft.

Radiation is taken care by a water jacket. Radiation is only a real problem in the vicinity of the star. The atmosphere we have on Earth is only necessary to block radiation that comes from Sun either directly or through solar winds. The radiation from sources outside solar system might be high energy particles an photons but has very low flux.

The funny thing is, everybody focuses on technical issues where the biggest issue is most likely non technical and it is mostly about human health, physical response to lack of gravity and psychological to isolation.
AWS Lightsail Deep Dive: What is it and when to use
I once asked the author of “Magical Objects” - a book proselytizing about the future of IoT - about security. He blew it off, saying something along the lines of “Security isn’t really necessary for these devices, but I’m sure someone’s working on it.”

And thus we are here. When the evangelists don’t care about security, the industry won’t care about security. Well, maybe it’s the other way around. In either case, nobody in the industry cares about security.
Also, Statamic is free for personal use now. If you've got some time download a copy and play around with it a bit. It really is the most fun I have had building a site in years.

Anecdotally I have heard that many clients prefer Statamic's and CraftCMS' editing experience over WP.
Most of what I've seen says that the problems with the 737 MAX flight control software were were with the specification, not the implementation. The coders, wherever they were, implemented correctly what the specification said they were to implement.
> Universal and agnostic: compatible with all languages (not only Haxe) and game frameworks in the world

Does anybody who is experienced with game dev understand how exactly this is true? There must be a lot of engineering work between parsing the JSON and having a playable level in ones engine, no?
> capture it in Earth orbit as a lower moon.

If it's below geostationary orbit, tidal forces will eventually bring it down. This is happening with Mars' moons for example, which are probably (naturally) captured asteroids. You would be committing the far future inhabitants of Earth to the impact, if they didn't have the means to boost the orbit.
Same tax treatment as if you watch ad-supported broadcast TV. De minimis value rules come into play if nothing else applies.
They're not NYC, they're very far upstate. I used to hear their ads in Rochester, 5 or 6 hour drive from the city.

They have an interesting and sketchy history, though I can't remember a lot of details, it has been a while since I knew anything of that.

They recently went national I think. I saw their ads on buses in San Francisco.
I wish I had kept maintaining my port of Ruby to the IBM BLue Gene/L, "Blue Ruby". It scaled to millions of cores with MPI. Had distributed versions of familiar Ruby data types. There was no fork() - restriction of the BGL kernel not supporting it - only green threads - making parallel operations truly parallel with independent Ruby VMs and passing code to data instead of data to code.
Hackers Drain KuCoin Crypto Exchange's Hot Wallets
I cannot convey how much I miss OLGA. My first taste of irritating copyright laws over art was they came for Napster, but I was still pretty young so I didn't feel it much. When they came for OLGA, I was skipping school to play guitar 12+ hours a day. It was around my 15th birthday. I'm pretty sure I cried. I still have a precious folder of printouts from <2006 - I don't play guitar much now, but it only just occurred to me that OLGA is probably somewhere online... :D
The work cited is Murphy, Kevin M, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert W Vishny. 1993. “Why Is Rent-Seeking So Costly to Growth?” American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings 83 (2): 409-414.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/shleifer/publications/why-rent-s...

A quarter century old at this point.
How Amazon Conquered Italy in the Pandemic
To answer my question, yes, you are in the valley and you got offers from 6 large companies including: Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft (LinkedIn), Amazon.

Thus it is utterly inapplicable to anyone not living in the valley (or not having that many offers at once). The offers were tightly packed and half of the companies dropped off rather quickly as you noticed. You should understand here that there isn't that much room to negotiate when dealing with 2 companies that ain't Google/Facebook.

I think you give too much credit to yourself for negotiating while the outcome actually had fairly little to do with that. Don't get me wrong, it is great that you managed to get the job and it's fantastic that you wrote about it =)

They are standard offers in the area (the cost of living being insane). On a rather low to mid level actually? Looks like one of the company decided to bump you one level and that's why you got a better offer in the end (you both worked hard for it AND you got lucky).

Given how great you are doing at interviewing. You should go at it again within 1-3 years for the level higher (maybe L5 at Google/Facebook, ICT4 at Apple). Think of what you're having now as a stepping stone =)
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Well, the country is reliant on tourism.
But bad apples are everywhere, I think such people need to be held against their will until they are no longer dangerous to others.
In the book analogy it's closer to transcribing an audio book.

In the film analogy, it's closer to Shrek Retold[1](ignoring parody).

[1] Shrek Retold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI
> Wait, what has Windows achieved?

It has achieved Linux on the Windows desktop without dual booting, all unified, download whatever distro you want.
Climate warning stripes for different regions
How to properly manage SSH keys for server access
My Messy House Says Something About Me– But Don’t Judge Me for It
You can only say that the likelihood of a red ball is at least 1% and the likelihood of a green ball is 99% or less.

We can say the universe can support life because here we are. We can say nothing of how common it is other than it has occurred at least once in 10^24 planets over 10^9 years. It’s difficult to overstate how insignificant this amount of data is in a statistics sense.
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Move fast and break things !

I recall once a co worker said they'd never use Android again since it froze when trying to call 911.

Gives Apple more ammo in their fight against Epic, users expect their phones to work , which Apple can't guarantee if anyone can run whatever binary they find.
> the famous OLGA On-line Guitar Archive[1] was previously shutdown even though the guitar tabs contributions were made by volunteers for no money.

And then, to further the travesty, those freely contributed tabs were hoovered up by commercial sites and became only available there.
To summarize many comments:

A debt is something that gave you value in the past. If nobody ever got value out of it (in comparison to an equally feasible debt-less solution), then it was just a mistake, not a debt.

A debt is something you pay an ongoing interest on. If your proposed solution to the technical debt is not provably reducing the ongoing costs, then you're not actually addressing a technical debt.
Context for non-Canadians: income above CAD$220K has a marginal tax rate around 53% in Ontario [0]. It's similar in other provinces.

[0] https://www.taxtips.ca/taxrates/on.htm
https://decoded.avast.io/martinhron/the-fresh-smell-of-ranso...

Original link from the article, perhaps a better source?
How does that reconcile with Covid-19's supposed R0 of ~5.7? (Honest curious question)
> How much do upper management of utility companies get paid?

Competent, cheap and limited power. Pick two.

The executive of Boeing, public or private, will control vast resources. If you underpay, you will get an idiot who follows the rules or someone who makes up the difference in undesirable ways. (Someone competent motivated by a sense of duty has better options in terms of executive staffing.)
> But anyone that needs one probably isn't a position to self-host

From what I've seen, almost all hosting providers now offer one-click installs for WordPress.
What is the point when you say enough is enough?
OpenMined Privacy Conference Livestream
That is arguably the best approach, especially if they think there is no usable defense. The storm always passes.
Debian-Testing is the worst of both worlds. It doesn't get updated as frequently as -unstable and doesn't get security fixes in time like -stable. e.g. firefox-esr was on 68.11.0 for two months until in the last few days it finally switched to 72.3.0. So users were running a vulnerable version all that time [i.e. they never got even 68.12.0].

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
Back then people called it Fisher Price.

Probably my fav was during the betas before they added the intense blue/green "Luna" theme.
"The unknown wallet address has also received over 150 Ethereum-based tokens worth more than $150 million, the Etherscan address information shows."

Is this the largest crypto hack in history?
Never heard of Statamic, but that's a really cool landing page!
Sure, but I think the sentiments of the general public are the free variable here. Electing only kind hearted politicians seems like an infeasible strategy.
> Beyond that in the case of Oracle vs Google the source implementing the API interface was copied directly.

This is incorrect. It was not. All* the source was rewritten.

* Minus a dozen lines or so, but that was found to be deminimis copying and not copyright infringement.

> They’re not implementing an API compatibility layer, they wrote a one time migration tool.

Writing a one time migration tool however does involve implementing a version of the API... I'm not sold on this distinguishing feature being of any importance, and I think the onus is on you to make a legal argument for why it is of importance (since proving the non-existence of a valid argument here is basically impossible)

Suppose, for example, Google had implemented there vm by creating a one time translation tool that translated java std lib apis to an internal google std lib apis in the bytecode, would that have changed the suit?
Does anyone else find the "recent" files section in the Debian 10 (XFCE) file selection dialogs to be significantly less useful than in previous Debian releases?

Recently created files just... don't show up. This is a hard one to do an internet search for, and saves a surprising amount of time for some workflows if it works consistently.

1000 internet points to anyone who knows how to make it work as well as it did previously.
Create a Board Games Section in Craft CMS
No.

They sell you 32 bit CPUs to make your coffee. It's more profitable that way. You don't need any IoT nonsense to make coffee.
What makes you think such a "cultish and abusive group" is especially uncommon?
I think when 1984 was published (1949) it was generally assumed most people had a pretty good idea how to create a surveillance state.
Sorry for the rant but I think it's several wonderful (/s) mentalities coming together in the design of those IoC things:

- hw engineers that don't know much (almost nothing I'd say) about internet security. Or all the gotchas of sw developments

- "nodejs/docker/systemd" mentality who thinks of uptimes (what's uptime?) in terms of hours instead of years and "just reboot" as a solution to any problem

- "Monetize all the data", hey your coffee maker has a gdpr popup with only an OK button, that's fine and dandy right?

Every device should be factory resettable with a button. Allow upgrades? Sure, but the upgrade runs after the base code ran. It does not override a fixed partition.

Everything that doesn't need to be plugged in shouldn't, and conveniences quickly turn into inconveniences if they can't be maintained long-term.
The latter was covered in the answers by Eugenia Cheng, linked in the article: http://eugeniacheng.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/gracie-tw....

TL;DR: they were curious, they saw some patterns in their daily experiences, and tried to generalize them.
With respect to China and Chinese social media companies I'd rather be much more careful. There's a reason they don't let US social media companies operate in China.
Commercial use makes it harder for this to be fair use, and he's a commercial user.
if I create subtitles for a film in a different language, who's the author?
What if they had black hole bomb capabilities?
Good point. I stand corrected. I still don't think Apple is doing this intentionally, but rather as a side effect of it's ecosystem. Thanks for your insight
Indeed. If you have 4 kids in BC, your effective marginal tax rate could be as high as 33% (Federal) + 20.5% (BC) + 1.95% (BC health tax) + 3.0% (pharmacare deductible) + 9.5% (Canada child benefit clawback) = 67.95%.
"Hey Google! How can the net amount of entropy of the universe be massively decreased?"

See how good an answer you get.
The West never ever wanted regime change in Syria, as corroborated by Ford and others. The entire purpose was to keep the rebels in leash, and the bloodbath was the expected result.
> Later in the story, the "Poe" head is asked to deduce Batman's identity. Fortunately, Alfred (Bruce Wayne's butler) manages to throw a monkey wrench into its card reading slot. This causes Poe to malfunction, as depicted by assorted "pop", "crackle", and "bang" sounds, and it decides that Batman is actually Alfred.

With some careful wording of the question, I'm almost certain you could get GPT-3 to say the same thing haha.
I think he was asking the other way around. Unless you are getting a sales commission, of course - then it does make sense to go with Oracle because of the cost. :)
Oracle has enough lawyers and resources to make it so even if you ultimately win a suit, you lose.
Smells like someone is already brewing up a Doom install.
Ha! If 1984 were instead of a book about government surveillance, a story about the malaise of working remotely for a nebulous and shadowy but well-paying "platform company" and was instead written in the year 2020, I feel like you would have just captured the soul of the entire narrative with what you've just written.
Is there something hacker-related to this story? I read the first few paragraphs, but didn’t see anything, and couldn’t force myself to go any deeper into this lawyer drama mind candy.
Agreed, if people are in different roles, an extra pair of hands can be fully productive. As soon as the fifth person is eg working on the same codebase of the previous four, there arises necessary overhead and stepping on each others' toes.
Feels like an empty threat. That’s a lot of First World data to give up and Zuck’s wet dream is to know the intimate secrets of every human on the planet. If he will lay transatlantic cable to get to Africa, he’ll get compliant with EU regulations.
Here the start of the interview with Noam Chomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZTQW8gQV0&list=PLsR05wo5Ny...

Interesting to see that progressive.international depends on youtube for distribution of their video material, unlike media.ccc.de or video.fosdem.org who host their own videos and use youtube as (sort of) a backup.
Singapore will become the first country to use facial verification for ID system
I've noticed a movement with newspapers and other media sites to go one farther with a pop-up overlay begging for subscription where I have to hunt for the close button.
> major interfaces changes on a regular basis, each of which we have to spend time walking our clients through

I worked in web development ~15 years ago. As part of my job, I was tasked with another developer to transition a major client from a 4D system to PHP/MySQL. The other developer was keen to change how the admin interface worked. The client was keen to keep it the same for this very exact reason. They did not want to have to spend the time re-training their rather sizable staff.

The other developer won the argument with the boss. The new interface went in. The client eventually dumped the company. That's a lesson I've never forgotten, and it seems like a lesson too many technical people don't understand.

I knew the same thing would happen when they pushed Gutenberg. I'm convinced it was never about improving WordPress. It was about competing, via WordPress.com, with Square, Wix, and others.
> maybe code from github that isn't packaged?

which is, you know, where most of the useful stuff is in 2020
Statistics, distributions, outliers. R0 is just the average value.
Extremely Slow and Barely Usable
Can we crowdsource home addresses of advertisers who do this, and mail them shit daily until they stop? "People will be absolute dicks if we make the user experience better" is not a good argument for making the user experience worse. If the fuckers keep escalating the badness, more people will use adblockers. And if adblockers are not enough, then it's time to start mailing them shit I guess, and escalating from there.
Just curious, what year did that conversation take place?
Yes, I see humanity engaging in games and LARPing as an interaction between those who are aware of the game being defined by arbitrary rules, and those who don’t. Most don’t realize it’s arbitrary.

I’ve thought about what you said recently and it comes down to “well-defined” being relative. Usually to those that are defining it. It’s not objective. Additionally that’s enforcing or coercing a game unto others that they may not wish to engage with or may not be able to conceptualize it.

Some people prefer characteristics over others. Have predispositions to likings and not likings.

Using a language is in of itself agreeing to a game.

If a thing requires consent of will to proceed as a rule, it’s a game.

Language, or any system of rules would be part of agreeing to a confined space of possibilities and “game-space”

Interesting to ponder nonetheless at a different abstraction. I keep trying to go “deeper” behind the language itself, I arrive at signal and then we’re in a puddle of discrete and non discrete values. Fun.
Sure we can measure something else to keep a track of whats happening and fit our definitions, but the math remain true, isn't it? It is still 1 river and 1 drop and 2 sticks.
Sure, but at that point the user is now paying for web hosting rendering the cost issue moot. And when they do run into issues who are they going to turn to? With the exception of WPEngine my, and my client's, experience with support from web hosts is garbage.

Aside from that, what's the UX like for a client spinning up a new WP site on GoDaddy or Bluehost vs. a new Wix, Weebly or Squarespace site?

In the end most of this is pretty subjective. If you like WordPress keep using it and recommending it. I used to love it and don't anymore. I think my clients get a better value using Statamic or one of the other options I've pointed to.
Is this of all time? pretty sure you don't want to see all time download stats of Windows 10 on desktop...
The journal issue it’s published in has a date, surely.
There are a few things to keep in mind - and I'm probably forgetting a bunch of important factors.

First think about solar wind. light shining provides a real force on everything the sun shines on, not much, but not zero - an 800m^2 sail is about 5 newtons. about as much as holding a full pint glass above the bar, constantly, forever. It takes some effort to overcome that force. Smaller things, smaller forces - but the force is always there.

Second, think about a marble in a bowl - the object at the Lagrange point. it'll sit at the bottom of the bowl. but if you constantly move the bowl in little circles the marble will little by little pick up momentum, go a little faster and faster, then start to climb the walls of the bowl. (this is like the sun shining on the object at the Lagrange point. eventually, it'll go so fast the marble gets kicked out.

A big heavy ball bearing will take a whole lot longer to pick up that momentum, and may never get enough to escape. I'm not sure how much friction there is in space (or stuff that acts like friction) but I'd believe the big heavy rocks really can't get kicked out by just solar wind, thus natural trojans.

Anyway - this is pretty hand-wavy but the math is the same. The sun is constantly applying force, you gotta deal with that somehow. small profile from the point of view of the sun, and high density probably work out great.