skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They should release software with known security problems, that they have said they won't be fixing? Please no... Botnets are large enough as-is.

Plus a lot of people under-estimate the cost and difficulty in releasing the source code of previously proprietary software. You don't just slap it onto Github and everyone goes home, you often need a team of lawyers to look at third party licensing and go through the code file by file looking for potential liabilities.

Code that started out open source software has to narrow third parties to only specific licenses/waivers. Code that has for tens of years been closed source may contain licensed source code (e.g. decoder libraries) that they don't own the license to publish for just one example.
That's a pretty jaded view of the world. Most tech I would guess goes towards increasing value in the company: improving their offerings, making new technology which solves problems for people/companies, etc.

Very few people have the time and money to fund tech and engineering purely to influence elections. Most money coming in to tech is going to be from customers and investors, the latter being in interest of making money off of the business getting more customers.

Companies like Cambridge Analytica are a very very minute minority compared to the swaths of B2B, consumer tech, etc.
Awesome! Glad to hear it!
Weird how a social conscience or civil rights hurt certain businesses and get interpreted as anti-capitalist.
By any chance did you get inspired from this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24157180
So cool! Had a weekend tinker a few weeks ago that needed this use case and a quick search didn’t produce any useable light solutions so did it by hand.

One tiny data point for y’all.

Good luck!

Edit: assuming eventually your schema transformation unlocks at least partially and you have at least some flexibility outside the default 11 column approach?
Are there no lines the op, or you, would not cross in the pursuit of your engineering work? Perhaps you're okay with Coinbase's mission specifically, but are you saying that you're okay with _literally anything_ in the pursuit of good engineering?

Perhaps you and the OP would be quite happy, say, writing code for a lab that makes novel fentanyl analogues for the express purpose of including them in black-market knockoff heroin powder, which in turn leads to a number of deaths (accurately cutting in your microgram-potent meds is hard, and sometimes your downstream supply chain makes a hit that's got too high a fentanyl analogue/cut material ratio, go figure!), or an industrial system that captures unsuspecting babies to then drown them, strip their flesh, and harvest their valuable bones (not really that realistic in our normal reality, but per http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=25967.0 it works great in Dwarf Fortress! or it did, anyway, until that got patched out because of said bone harvester), or hell, let's just Godwin on it and say you'd be perfectly happy writing automation tooling to make Treblinka 10% more efficient.

The respondent, whom you so readily chastise, has a quite valid point that we can't separate our engineering work from "politics" (ethics, really, but there does seem to be a side in this debate that prefers to say "politics", since that evokes more the admittedly annoying horse race electoraliasm and doublespeak-driven world of actual politics and takes away from the thrust of the issue, which is ethics, which happen to often overlap with politics but are very much their own thing) ever. That's an important thing to recognize, especially in an industry that has persistent issues with laying ethics aside in pursuit of "great inventions" (let's be pragmatic, it's mostly in pursuit of profit, with some good inventions as an occasional byproduct).

What I think the respondent may be getting at is that there is a significant population in the industry that probably does have some lines they won't cross, but is privileged and willing to cross a great many lines that won't affect them personally. You perhaps think that's a laudable stance, and you can hold that opinion if you wish, but you should do so with the recognition that there are a number of people that will see that less as a commitment to honorable professional detachment and more as a willingness to trod over the rights and wellbeing of the less fortunate so long as it doesn't injure you immediately. I'd argue that it's important thing to at least consider in an industry that often speaks of changing the world for the better--perhaps that was more it drinking the consultant kool-aid about what millenials value in their work and deciding it needed to work that into messaging, if not action, but hey, if it wants to say that, it ought to put its money where its mouth is.
Small homemade rockets with a camera do not go to 35k feet. My brother is into high-powered rocketry. It takes hundreds of dollars just to purchase the motors to get that high.

If you heavily optimized for weight and left out parachutes/trackers/cameras it might only be 100-200 dollars instead of 300+.
Optimization: Making Rust Code Go Brrrr
It was indeed that comment.
Agreed :). I mean I think it’s both. When learning new social norms, or, in certain environments there is a game-like aspect.

But I don’t use the word game as a pejorative.
Can you give an example of what you have in mind? I must admit that, being
European, I don't really have a good grasp of the history of American worker
struggles.

Here in France I can't quite think of something really similar to Silicon Valley
activists. When I think about worker-led revolts I think of Germinal or Mai 68,
when the proletariat (and, in the case of Mai 68, the students and then the
proletariat) fought for better working conditions and more rights.

I don't think that's very similar to the time of activism we're talking about
here. For one thing IT workers are not exactly the lowest dregs of the
proletariat, it's a very privileged position with much better working conditions
that most. Beyond that the fight is not usually for the direct benefit of said
workers ("higher salaries!" or "fewer hours!" or "better food at the corporate
restaurant!") but more ideologically motivated. An obvious instance of this is
the very polarizing firing of Brendan Eich from Mozilla (that's still making
waves all these years later). Doing that didn't directly change anything
material for Mozilla's employee, it was motivated by ideology. The only thing that comes close I think is videogame devs complaining about their bad working conditions, but I don't think that's what we're talking about here.

Conversely the 1984's UK miner strike wasn't triggered because the National Coal
Board had said something homophobic. It's just not comparable, IMO.

The lack of violence is also easy to explain: violence is the weapon of those
that have no other way to be heard. Developers in the silicon valley can make
themselves heard without having to burn their company-provided MacBooks and
taking their managers hostage at the next SCRUM Sprint planning.
Good quote and just want to say that his philosophies are some of the most difficult sounding topics, but with he himself appearing to live a life that is true.

I would also say look up James Bond Stockdale (yes that is really his name) - we was a POW in Vietnam for seven years. He refers to Epictetus and Stoic philosophy as the reason he survived with his mental health.

I’ll see if I can find a link to two papers of his that are public source
I was looking for a response in general to this and I think your comment nails it for me. If you want to drive societal change you need to get off the bench and commit, and please do because the world needs more people to be engaged.
There seems to be an obvious counterexample in the rest of the Western nations (ie Canada, Australia, most of western Europe) that have experienced a similar reduction in organized religion but have not seen a corresponding rise to political division. Certainly not to the degree that the USA has.
How can I query the new HTTPS DNS type, the RR Type 65 entry?

It is `dig blog.cloudflare.com -t TYPE65 @1.1.1.1` ? That is returning some odd values.
>Last night he was given the chance to unequivocally condemn the Proud Boys and instead told them to "stand back and stand by

Let's be honest here: if Trump had "unequivocally" said "I condemn White Supremacy", what would have happened, practically? Do you think for a second that the media would have suddenly "let him off the hook"? Problem solved? No more white supremacy talk?

There is footage of him disavowing the KKK, and David Duke, going back 20 years, believe it or not. Has it made a difference?

The fact that question was even asked demonstrates just how far the US political system has fallen. Kind of embarrassing. The fact that Trump doesn't simply repeat the condemnation -- for whatever that's worth -- is sad and polarizing. But let's not pretend it changes anyone's opinion on anything.

>He doesn't condemn, he validates with just enough deniability

Much like many Democrats did with regards to the looting and burning of cities.
> 2/3s of the reduction from living car-free

The number you're quoting is car-free for a year, so 1 return flight ~ 8 months of car use.
That was a decision that the leadership of that company made. I don’t see how that justifies employees bringing their irrelevant politics into an environment.
I dunno, but I bet in the long run the mattress company that allows internal debate outperforms one that silences it.
Since when is “repeatable process” a requirement for not being qualified as “lucky”? Maybe the OP is just a talented and dedicated person who delivers high quality work, and because of their dedication, was at a place where they were ready-to-go and seize the opportunity when iOS 14 arrived.

Someone much wiser than me once said, “dedicated people can force luck to happen”, implying that it’s only a small part of the equation.
How did this post even get to the front page of HN? This looks like some kind of obvious manipulation.
Or compared to Vietnam, which has 100 million people and less than 40 deaths.

People have just hung their hat on Sweden’s approach out of some ideological attachment that’s completely independent from how countries across the world have performed.
This may sound like a troll, but how do we delineate what politics belong in the office and what do not?

As I noted elsewhere in this thread, I think it's more ambiguous these days, not less.

As a few concrete examples:

* Say I refuse to buy Chinese-made goods because I oppose the treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. What do I do if my employer considers doing business in China? Should I not mention this, because it's "political"?

* What if it's 1933, and my employer is IBM, and the customer is Nazi Germany?

* Say I oppose H1B visas because they take jobs away from American citizens, and my employer considers expanding the H1B workforce. Should I speak out against it, or hold my tongue because my motives are "political"?

* Say I believe in equal rights for gay couples, and my employer is considering expanding health coverage to same-sex partners. Should I speak out in favor of it?

In each of these examples, it seems to me there's a spectrum of options, ranging from:

A. No constraints on in-office behavior; I speak out about anything.

B. In the office, I am purely a shareholder-profit-maximizing robot.

I don't think either of those extremes is very satisfying—I expect many of us would say it is noble to oppose selling adding machines to Nazi Germany, but that we'd have many more questions when it comes to some of the other examples.

Unfortunately, I think that means that there's no simple answer here. "No politics in the workplace" can result in ghastly, amoral outcomes (selling adding machines to the Nazis).

But "every culture war, all the time" is a great way to be a dick.

I think my personal code here is, "try not to be a dick." Past that point, I don't think there are easy answers.
Yes, humans have created harm "just doing their job", such as purposefully making addictive apps like youtube or social media sites like Facebook that make people depressed, or gathering vast amounts of personal data for targeted advertising.

Except this has nothing to do with that. It has do with a group of people that insist that everyone get behind their pet cause and use their job to promote whatever activist belief they have - and negatively affect everyone else who may not agree with them.

I'd stand behind anyone who wants to protest their companies business model - like the executive at Amazon who protested the treatment of a union organizer (which was racist and absolutely disgusting). I'm not going to get behind the culture of activism which has nothing to do with civil disobedience.
There's still a soft ban on some terms like "slave", "whitelist", etc., but "guys" is allowed again.
I don't know how this isn't illegal. We were going to book flights for my in-laws to go back to China...some tickets are like $5000. Some were $1000. Upon investigation, the $1000 hasn't flown for weeks, or that airline is not event on the approved list. China has limited who can fly there, and how often.
Curious, how do they enforce this? Or is it just assumed in good faith?
It's because they loudly didn't do what experts recommended, and things turned out okay.

Just like sometimes when you drive drunk, you don't die in a horrible accident and actually get home safely. Doesn't mean you did the right thing.
As promised: https://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/Stoicism2.pdf

He has a couple other books and collections of writings. If you are looking for real world applications of Stoicism, there isn’t much of a better person.
I would. Mental illness shouldn't be glorified.

And has for trans, 84% attempt suicide and all of them cause hell for everyone around them.

Thank the Jews for pushing this bullshit on us! Just like everything else
You're misunderstanding the concept. Individual freedom means you're free to make your own choices and then take responsibility for those choices. This freedom is protected by your rights granted by the state.

Corporations setting workplace rules have no impact on your freedoms. You're free to work there or quit, or suffer the consequences of breaking their rules.
it was non judgemental
I love that I wish my company and more companies would be totally apolitical and now I'm very interested in working for Coinbase so kudos.
Just to give a little insight, the "containment" isn't about safety, it is about squeezing everything together. It goes away, so does the reaction. It fizzles, it doesn't blow up. The fusion in the sun is essentially gravity+mass applying so much pressure that stuff fuses. Fusion hypothetically is by far the safest means of getting power we will ever work out.

Global warming isn't about heat generation. The sun (the free fusions reactor in the sky) sends more heat our way then we could ever hope to produce. It is heat dissipation that is the problem. Greenhouse gasses prevent the sun's heat from dissipating. This is the problem, we will only make it better by stopping greenhouse gas emissions.
Critical thinking
Thank you. One way I look at it is, imagine working for somebody who pays you in political campaign donations to causes of your choice, then takes the rest of the money you've made for them and doubles that contribution for the other side. It's really a no-win situation for the worker.
There are plenty of cases where plausible deniability allows bad actors to continue to exploit loopholes.

In this case, the health insurance industry could use statistical tricks to counter the allegation that they are discriminating at a significant level.
The comparatively higher death rate was mainly elderly in care homes. Some are simply OK with sacrificing the elderly to avoid restrictions on the lives of younger generations. Others would hold that, yes, failing to protect care homes was a screwup on the part of the Swedish authorities, but the avoiding of a lockdown still seems sound.
Quote:

McBride and his co-authors estimated that individuals living near coal-fired installations are exposed to a maximum of 1.9 millirems of fly ash radiation yearly. To put these numbers in perspective, the average person encounters 360 millirems of annual "background radiation" from natural and man-made sources, including substances in Earth's crust, cosmic rays, residue from nuclear tests and smoke detectors.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
The post doesn't argue for converting companies into political parties, merely that it's natural for workers to be politically active at work, given the continued atomization of modern society making the workplace a default place for political activity, especially since so much of day to day life and social activity takes place there.

It's also a straw man to talk about corporate execs leading the activism, the post was talking about the workers themselves.
Today many devs build a "service layer" that exposes an API that covers up the database. Somebody might write that in Java, Node.js, .NET, etc. or they could implement it in stored procedures.

If a transaction BEGINs and ENDs in the stored proc, you eliminate a huge amount of waiting time in which a tx could conflict with another tx. A tx inside the database can't possibly mutate some global state which makes it no longer be a tx. Presumably some SQL expert writes the stored proc and they've got a better chance of getting the details right, etc.

There are toolkits for managing stored procedures in version control and stored procedures can be highly productive for coding certain things. I've worked on Microsoft SQL Server projects that used lots of stored procs and thought we were doing OK.
I agree it will be some time, but even if they never get sat to sat links they can solve the Pacific ocean problem via relays on ships - it wouldn't take that many.
ah, I completely mis-read that, thanks!
Which was not a common target for UNICES.
Woops:

> Some of them can withstand extremely cold temperatures down to 1 K (−458 °F; −272 °C) (close to absolute zero), while others can withstand extremely hot temperatures up to 420 K (300 °F; 150 °C)[36] for several minutes, pressures about six times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches, ionizing radiation at doses hundreds of times higher than the lethal dose for a human, and the vacuum of outer space.[37] Tardigrades that live in harsh conditions undergo an annual process of cyclomorphosis, allowing for survival in sub-zero temperatures.
Agreed. Putting Coinbase on my shortlist for sure.
By that logic, you can't use any open source software...
Placing language in an integrated understanding system
I find it hard to take someone seriously when they define themselves by what they are not. Its defining themselves by their opponent. If there was no opponent who would they be?
Had to track down a friend with a Mac, but Mumble appears to have an RNNoise option there.
JIT bugs must be horrible to debug because they happen in full running programs and might not always result in crashes. RyuJIT of dotnet had a bug a few years ago which caused certain calculations on certain specific conditions to go wrong.
I love hobby platforms like 68k, but I definitely agree with you.

It's become unthinkable in the open-source world to not have "one X to rule them all" (in this case X happens to be "compiler", but you see this effect with other tools).

Hobby platforms, especially long-dead ISAs like 68k, should be easy to integrate with LLVM (perhaps through a plugin system? I'm pretty sure both GCC and LLVM have that... you install `gcc` and then you install `gcc-platform-x` or something...) but requiring LLVM core maintainers to think about your obscure arch is not worth it IMO.
Is that a problem, though? A major component of success is in fact luck. Doing the right thing at just the right time, with enough prior planning and skill to be able to follow through if it takes off. If making a bunch of money somehow with few hurdles was reliably repeatable, everyone would start doing it. Until the market is saturated and then it stops being repeatable.

First mover advantage ties into this here, as does discussions on the free market, and other interesting economic theory.
Not even that but, you can't change icons. What you can do is create a siri shortcut, assign an icon to that, and make the shortcut just open an app. Everytime you click it, it'll load siri, then siri loads the app, visibly and with a delay.

It's painful to use and look at, all of which was described in the video, and people paid $28 for it. Pretty insane.
Tesla != Starlink/SpaceX
> if you can't see the flight on the airport's online arrival boards or on flight tracking websites,

Seconded. I learnt this lesson the hard way. Fortunately the interaction with the airline (KLM) was surprisingly pleasant and I was rebooked on an alternate flight from their partner airline (Air France). I monitored that new flight’s schedule like a hawk. Only when I boarded the final leg of the journey was I sure of reaching the destination.

With kids in tow and all the paperwork it’s extremely painful fly now a days. I guess this just about rules out all the tourist travelers for next one year at least. And with business travelers getting used to Zoom I really don’t know how will airlines recover to pre-COVID levels, if at all.
I just don't see how yelling about complex and emotional social issues could help a company build good mattresses.
I think that the OP's point is that they are emphatically not OK, and worse in every way.
No. I haven’t see that thread before.
I have thought the problem for a long time and just got the idea(use ssh to sign keys automatically) three days ago.
You ever wonder why "politics at work" has flared up so much in the last 4 years? Have you completely lost sight of the timeline of events, or do you refuse to acknowledge it?

Do you think it's a reaction to something? Or did it just spontaneously instigate itself one day? Just uppity libs getting bored?

People are speaking up because people feel existentially threatened. Because people are being existentially threatened. This threat permeates peoples' lives. It doesn't get left at home when they "go" to the office. Asking them to turn it off at work is asking them to TURN IT OFF. And now we're in gaslighting territory.

DARVO. You know it?

We're in the phase now where the person under threat is the problem, the victim is being attacked for speaking up.

Extinguishing politics at work is not some "rational man" exercise. "I just want to be free to ply my trade, dude." It's asking people to pause their very real own pain. It's asking them to deny it, deny its effects; to pretend it's not real. To think they're the problem, not the person who's threatened.

This has never been about "ooh, should we, or should we not, discuss supply-side economics at work?" Broad segments of the population are under threat. That's not politics. That's just violence. Asking them to switch it off at work is just perpetuating and enabling the violence.