skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's something that makes me very uneasy about companies and individuals having to go on the record saying "Black Lives Matter" or being ostracized. It feels like a shibboleth, like kids reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, like the Parsley Massacre, like a kid twisting another kid's arm saying "Say uncle! Say uncle!"

That said, I don't think Armstrong's blog post made a strong argument against these kinds of mantras.
Talks that might be informative for the curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0mhvd3-60Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxv62QQajx8
For those looking for a suitable alternative, we are building https://supabase.io

We're open source, just came through the last YC batch. We use Postgres for the database, with an airtable-like editor in the dashboard. Since it's Postgres, migration is easy too - just dump your database and take it elsewhere
Or perhaps Apple doesn’t want to have to build and support a complicated alternate signing mechanism that virtually none of their users want? I don’t see how a company should have an obligation to offer you exactly the product you want, particularly when there are tons of viable alternatives (which I’m guessing you’re using right now to type these messages).
Same here. I went to a fairly good state school and never received any English grammar but got some French grammar. The French language teaching was terrible - hours and hours of memorising irregular verbs. I passed all the exams but still can't speak the language.

I have taught myself Swedish listening to Sveriges Radio, reading and translating news articles and following a series of short Swedish lessons on youtube. I pick up grammar as I go along rather than learn it formally. I don't use flash cards, duolingo or rote memorisation. The key thing is to read, write, listen and pronounce - form sentences and use the language rather than work on memorising vocabulary (that comes naturally).
Probably because none of these things exist in a vacuum. Simply because we give a title to an "area of political focus" doesn't mean that it exists in it's own silo, unimpaired by decisions in any other area of political focus.

What happens when your area of political focus crosses tracks with another area of political focus and you're faced with a trolley problem? Do you simply steam ahead regardless of the overall impact or do you consider the overall impact?

"That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen" [1] applies to all policies, not simply those undertaken by states.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
It’s been largely figured out already. The actual work is going into A11’s enclave at the moment.
The more people use X, the more developers will focus on X and not on Y. From there, even fewer people will use Y and the downward cycle continues.
I assume this market is global, do other countries and companies felt the effects as well. Why do other country’s justice departments not fine them as well?
Will definitely try this
For our use case:

- Lack of schema makes it really easy write bad data without realising it. I inherited a 3 year old firebase/firestore codebase and database was FULL of inconsistent data. This was not helped by our application being in JavaScript meaning bad data could roundtrip all the way through our without triggering any errors. Only later causing obscure and hard to debug issues.

- Lack of query flexibility or joins make some use cases either impossible or very inefficient

- Connecting directly from client apps makes it very difficult to make backwards compatible changes. You can fix this by making everything go through backend APIs, but then you lose realtime which is the main benefit of firestore in the first place.

We're halfway through a port to Postgres+Hasura, and our app is much more reliable and responsive now.
"employees should always feel free to advocate around ... violations of law"

So generous of him, he could have run it like a drug cartel.
Extraterrestrials in existential trouble might be easiest to find
Is it possible to search in my own hn favourites or I have to organize myself to webscrap / use unknown api to do the job?
On some Macs (typically Radeon equipped ones) you can enable hardware encoding. I'm not at my machine, but it should read something like "Apple hardware accelerated $FOOBAR"
Best Practices for CKA Exam
Happens every year around this time. Teaching events.

People who left university and are now starting to work autonomously make more mistakes, it’s only natural.
Apple cannot update this away; the vulnerability goes down to the very lowest levels of the software to the code burned into ROM.
> SAX parsing of XML is pretty cheap computationally.

SAX parsing is also very complex programatically. Who wants to switch on various SAX events when handling a XML document? No, we want the full thing parsed into an object.

I've spent a decent amount of time in the XML world and I've only seen people use SAX when performance was a large concern or when parsing enormous XML documents.
Not to be stickler but he said come close, not beat. Not that it's any less impressive.
Is this the first self-hosted PaaS solution also running on Kubernetes? As far as I know neither Dokku nor CapRover do, which always deterred me from these applicationsas I'm running K3s at home.
We do not live in a free market capitalist system, which is blatantly obvious from things like government bailouts of big banks during GFC and huge encroachment of government within areas such as healthcare.

And so for better or worse we're actually in some socialist capitalist system. Blaming capitalism for problems that are often rooted in bad government is often just wrong.
That, and lots of companies. Everything thats old and not COBOL is FORTRAN.
Well, the reason that's happening is that a lot of people benefit a lot from a widespread culture of white supremacy, and the systems, to use the popular terms, need to be actively dismantled, because they were actively designed and have been (and continue to be) actively maintained.

Disambiguating those who haven't thought much about it simply because it doesn't affect them from people who actively don't give a shit about human rights and would prefer things stay as they are is a critically important thing to happen in our society.

Additionally, in the cryptocurrency space, there are a lot of cryptoracists (i.e. from kryptos: "hidden") who are just sort of skating by, assumed to be decent. An analogous situation was when the POTUS was asked recently to commit to a peaceful transition of power following the election. Not saying anything, posed that question, is saying something quite loudly.

The very plain statement that sums up this situation nicely is:

> If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

I think that's plainly true, and anyone who doesn't see a massive problem with the status quo is, at the very least, a little bit of a contributor to that problem.

Pretending that the way our world works is someone else's problem is not tenable whilst hiring and building things in that very world. You're moving in a direction, and the effects of that direction cannot be ignored as they exist within a moral and ethical framework.
As someone who works for a mostly apolitical organization - it depends on the issue.

For example, the company refuses to take a stance on:

- Brexit (even though it will negatively impact them)

- Elections or any vote (even though again, this impacts them)

But for example actively campaigns on:

- Agricultural issues (It's in the food industry)

The company VERY strongly supports LGBT rights and minority rights, and will raise money for charities, but typically this does not transfer into support of individual political policies or parties.

The view is effectively that the company has lots of customers, and we shouldn't alienate them if they have opposing views, and that taking a strong political stance outside our industry can look like we are not respecting opposing viewpoints that our customers or competitors may have.
A lot of media (audio, video) compression methods are based on that though they usually use more sophisticated filtering methods.
What is the intent of an algorithm register? And why Amsterdam? Isn't this more something that should be on an international level?
So here's one thing I've never understood about such measures to treat drivers as employees: how do you handle drivers who drive for multiple companies at once?

It's fairly well known that drivers will sign on to multiple apps and choose which rides they take. Like they don't know the destination but still. What if a does 2 rides for Uber and 1 for Lyft in an hour? Who pays the minimum wage here? Both?

It seems like this would be incredibly hard to police and strengthens the argument that drivers aren't employees.

EDIT: to be clear I'm not talking about, say, alternating days for Uber and Lyft. I'm talking about drivers who are signed into both and take the first that comes up. They'll also accept rides on one app while still doing a ride on another. This is really common.

This is not a "multiple part-time job" scenario.
I wonder if the real goal is to foist problematic employees onto competitors.
> I honestly cannot find a laptop with the combination of 64 GB RAM, a non-NDIVIA GPU, and other premium hardware like its market-leading trackpad at this time

Only 14”, and perhaps less performant, but here is this one: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/.
> The myths you write about countries you've clearly never been to and like to write fanfic in your head about are quite amusing

I was born and lived there for the first 30 years of my life ;-)

Your ability to change tune and deflect are next level so I'm gonna let you "win".
Okay, so why do your preferences for the device take priority over the majority of users who don’t care about what the T2 does and the ones who do and actually want it? Why should it be illegal for a company to make a product for us instead of you?
That does not factor in the money you make with the solar panel. I.e., if having a solar panel nets a profit of 10% of the cost of the solar panel, than installing one now makes more money than waiting a year.
The timer display is to keep people relaxed and to reduce unnecessary revving the throttle due to impatience while waiting for the red to turn green.
Structuring a simple Go app using Domain-Driven Design
hropenstandards.org it used to be called hr-xml.
We have plenty of lithium. All D-T fusion designs breed tritium from lithium, using the high-energy neutrons from the reaction.
Value doesn't have to be custom coded
The only way to rationalize this terrible broken promise to employees is by comparing it to a country renown for its bad labour practices. It’s terrible. Plain and simple. Even if the US is worst than that.
It’s the checkra1n BootROM exploit, yes. T2 does have a SEP processor like every modern iPhone but that’s been recently cracked too (interestingly enough because Apple tried to run some trickery to “patch the unpatchable” using it).
I believe that social cooling is a thing, and I also believe that the observations you're making are legitimate. Three points that might reconcile these ideas:

1) social cooling is a long-term, slow-burn, bring-pot-to-boil-so-slowly-the-frogs-don't-notice problem. Pointing out some social heat to discredit it is analogous to people discrediting global warming because they've experienced an unseasonable cold snap in their town.

2) By your own description, there are knowledge gaps inside the "social fire" crowd - they don't understand (potential, future) consequences like housing discrimination, work prospects, etc. I don't think it will take more than one generation for these realities to become common knowledge.

3) Finally, people who consider themselves hopelessly marginalized will be susceptible to 'social fire'. People who don't have anything to lose are prone to this (eg, what factors go into someone's decision to get on board with looting?). More solidly situated members of the public, with reputations (salaries, ongoing business concerns, etc) at stake, are likely to be more careful.
There’s no alternative; something needs to bring up the chip when it comes out of reset.
But we're not talking about McDonalds workers? We're talking about Coinbase.
Oops, correct!
Geneva to raise minimum wage to £3,500 a month
SPARC uses molten FLiBe salt as both coolant and breeding blanket.
Where are you getting that ITER budget range? From what I can tell, it is much closer to $20 billion. That’s for a project that began in the 80s and will finish in 2045. 20 billion over 60 years is a pittance compared to the 15+ TW the world spends on energy.
And B) at what point will the industry acknowledge the need for atomically precise manufacturing?

I think we are already there, some of the layers already have thicknesses of only five or so atoms.
Apple Removes RSS Feed Readers from Chinese App Store
You can try https://www.goatcounter.com if price is an issue :)
Conservative unease with science is global, but extreme in the US
Virtually every meaningful task humans have accomplished has been a result of groups of us putting aside our differences to unite and focus on solving the problem at hand.
Microsoft's Xbox App for Windows has a comically bad UI
Is this solving the same problem as CloudFoundary for K8s? https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-for-k8s
How do I get a replacement though?
> How much has that fractal expanded?

In terms of actually useful mathematics, not much. But, that’s missing the point. 100 years ago people studied chess as hard as they could, without machine assistance they didn’t become as skilled but that doesn’t mean chess somehow became more or less complex. Lawyers are dealing with roughly equivalent legal systems, and so it goes.

Mathematicians may have discovered say more digits of pi through useful tools, but at the core mathematicians are about as intelligent and still working just as hard. We have more mathematicians today in large part because global population has increased 4x in the last hundred years. However, go back 100 years and most people didn’t understand what hyper specialized work was being done.
Yeah, I thought it was a great idea, but when I actually started looking for a couple in Hindi (using Amazon's 'look inside' preview) it seemed like they give you pretty complex grammar relative to the uselessly basic vocabulary.

Which does make sense for children, in English for example learning as a first language 'and on the dog's log, a cat was sitting gracefully' (mental block for a more basic adverb than 'gracefully' here) might be perfectly natural and simple, but for an adult ESL learner... it's not great. At the point where an adult's learning vocabulary like 'dog', 'log', (which er.. actually I don't know in Hindi) and 'cat', they don't want awkward grammar like past continuous 'was sitting', less common adverb position, subordinate clauses. Better would be 'a cat gracefully sat on the dog's log' grammar, but with more interesting vocabulary. Not because you won't ever say dog or cat, but because by the time you're reading to advance your second language you already know those words. It's easier to learn a different language for an idea you already know a way of communicating than it is for a child to comprehend meaning at the same time as learning the word.

And also more simply, they're targeted at children, and not interesting. It would be great if there were easy-reading second language books aimed at adults (in terms of subject matter / story line, and vocabulary as above) - but I suppose it's just too niche, especially for less popular second languages.
Outsourcing "unique identifier that costs some money to game yet can be immediately used for interaction" to cellular network providers is known to be a reasonably effective and generally globally scalable solution.

WhatsApp relies on it. Apple accounts and I suppose therefore iMessage relies on it. I hear Signal relies on it too. That alters the graphic somewhat...
Neutral is still neutral by the definition of the word. Your logical conflict comes from your metaphorical misuse of the word "support", which literally means to apply force to hold something in place. There an important distinction between someone applying such force and someone not doing so, just as between that person and someone applying force to topple the status quo. A person refusing to take sides is not applying force either way. I'm not "supporting" a scaffold if I don't help you cut it down. The fight remains only between you and the ropes.
Almost everything listed in the Features page is not relevant to the typical PIM end-user. The page seems to be designed for the IT guy, who plays only a tech advisory role in the decision process for selecting a solution like this. What product information management problems does this solution promise to solve?
A couple of years back I ran into a JDK JIT bug during a project. The code ran fine until I ran it through benchmarks, which triggered JIT on a method causing it to return incorrect results.

Took a long time to find, because there were no errors, just wrong results (a specific if statement taking the wrong branch).

Trying to get assistance from others were mostly met with responses along the lines of "It's probably a race condition" (in single-threaded code) / "very unlikely to be a bug in the JIT". I did end up finding a way to disable JIT for the specific method, which solved the issue, and never got around to finding the root cause. I do believe it has been fixed in the meantime at least.

I haven't run into major compiler bugs since then, but often have to dive deep into libraries to find obscure bugs (database drivers and web servers most often).
What if I just want to use the auth module? With firebase, I get it for completely free.
Sorry if it wasn't clear -- this is an idea on how to capitalize on people picking Firebase and then wanting out later. I think there's a similar business here for getting people off of some other famous data stores (particularly in the document storage space) as well -- not limited to firebase.

Trying to convince everyone in the world to use the right solution for their actual problem the first time (and effectively going against Google's marketing machine, momentum of the general project, discounted plans, etc) is not my cup of tea.

IMO the right database for the overwhelming majority of startups is Postgres, vertically scaled until it needs read-replicas. The extension ecosystem, burgeoning support for configurable table access methods makes it a no-brainer. I don't have sufficient experience to back this statement (I haven't run that many startups, I don't run an accelerator/VC, etc) but I'd love it if some else that could refute it would show up.
Oh come on. It is a similar issue with network locked terminals - networks fought tooth and nail to keep the unlock codes away from the people who finished their contracts. In the end, it costs them nothing to provide the codes, but real money to lose customers.

The "none of the users want it" is circular reasoning. If unlock was possible on a mass scale, developers would build for the unfettered iDevices and a market would emerge separate from the one Apple controls. Then users would want it, since it provides value for them - cheaper apps, legal apps that are banned in the Store etc. Of course Apple will fight to the death to prevent such a thing.
Oh, prepare to be mind-blown. Let me tell you how it works. Someone goes to the US (such as a direct flight to NY or ATL), they hop off the plane, load a backpack full of laptops, then fly back and resell them without paying import taxes or VAT. It works even better if the person flying is flying for work and someone else buys the ticket.

It's not scalable, but works pretty good when a group of friends purchases them.

Cost of MBP in the US: $2,799 (€2,390)

Cost of MBP in NL: €3,199 ($3,746)

Cost of plane ticket from NL to US: (pre-covid) ~€600
Coming from the east coast (and maybe a little from an earlier era) I also find the attitude on this stuff a little mystifying.

"In my day" -- it was just poor form to bring up that kind of stuff at work. If you did so at all, you usually tried to avoid being "that person". You don't get to choose each person you work with, so it pays if everyone puts in a bit of extra effort to not give anyone else a hard time.

I think some of these work politics issues--in particular around the bay area-- is partially a product of extremely homogeneous work forces (at least politically), partially poor work-life balance cultures (no life outside work), partially social networking (massively increasing the visibility of your co-workers out of work activities), and <???>-- I don't feel I really have a complete understanding of what is going on.

Maybe a factor is a breakdown in our wider culture's ability to see people who disagree as being people who are still good people with reasonable points but just have different understandings or priorities (or even just to patronize them as stupid or uninformed). But instead perhaps there is a trend to rapidly decide people we disagree with are irredeemably evil just based on a soundbitized version of some insanely complicated political trade-off (or maybe even just by association)... But I'm not really sure how much that breakdown is actually happening compared to the appearance of it happening in the reporting funhouse mirror ("Reasonable people do a reasonable thing" said no headline ever).

Some of it might also be due to a transition from products to services-- people seem a lot more willing to view product sales as anonymous and totally transactional, while they seem to view a service as something more akin to a marriage.

A big downside of reactions like coinbases' might be that in what I would consider the traditional regime there was still an opportunity for employees to bring a little bit of their politics to work-- so long as they were professional and not obnoxious about it, or in places where there were genuine interactions with work ("How about lets not buy the toner cartages made from clubbed baby seals?") ... but if you can't count on people to control themselves and you're forced to set bright line policies then there is probably a lot less room for people to be reasonable.
For what it's worth, Coinbase must "allow" those discussions by law in the US. In my mind, that's the kind of thing you say in a staement like this to protect yourself from a lawsuit.

I doubt Coinbase thinks employees advocating around pay/conditions are desirable for the company.
While the internet is fairly reliable, I see a value in having alternative that doesn't depend on the internet.
What's the difference between strongly supporting LGBT rights and strongly supporting remaining in the EU?

Both likely affect the company significantly, both are (unfortunately) political issues, both (unfortunately) alienate people.

It seems the only distinction here is that Brexit is a closer call in the UK. Is there another way of looking at it?
Having two jobs versus one job and with a minimum wage would just have your hourly rate increase on both jobs to the minimum rate .

Just because you have two jobs doesn’t mean that the law doesn’t apply .

What just happens is the ride share companies have every hour a driver is working and if it falls below the minimum wage then they would have to increase it to the minimum.
Yo, Canberra here. Yep.

I always find these posts from Americans amusing. “Yeah right, nice vision of some ideal world there, but it can’t possibly exist.”

Get a passport, kids.
Yes, but what's the reason to believe that Coinbase employees can impact the Coinbase culture more than McDonalds employees can? In the case we're discussing now, they tried, and the CEO told them "don't let the door hit you on your way out."
Probably also worth noting how the rich today do not use social media the way the middle classes use it.
In Europe, notify the Data Protection officer. They happily apply the 50000 Euro per individual case fine for GDPR violations.