skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the peak of red scare, McCarthyism it quite likely there were people who left because such concerns, so it possible.

Plenty of people from the tech world have had unpleasant experience with US security apparatus, leaving them hesitant take a job in the states. The maintainer of curl project comes to mind notably
They already did. This is the return of an existing feature.
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I can't imagine how much work that must have taken.

Amazing work, it's video series like these that get people hooked on programming.
The fact that this post doesn't appear to even be hosted on gemini or even available as a flat text file goes to show that they aren't taking their "Lets abandon the web" seriously.
Oh, I have a better example! A longitudinal trial that follows up with participants for 10+ years.
Have you tried sitting him down in front of Khan Academy on the evenings and weekends? Does he stick with it for weeks and months at a time with little supervision?

Maybe try that and see how far he can go before he gets bored or starts losing interest. If he genuinely blows the doors off of everyone and spends his nights and weekends doing math and he's good in the other subjects, the school would probably be fine with just bumping him up a grade.

Or, if he finishes everything way before the other kids, just start sending him to school with problems out of Morris Kline's Calc book or something, and he can work on them while the other kids are catching up.

It's possible he'll slow down, maintain his pace as he progresses through school, or he'll figure out that he has a burning passion for theater or oil painting or the 300-meter-dash or something.
Good one! Thank you for pointing that out. Hm, ok I looked at that page, it requires me to sign up for a membership. I will contact him out-of-band and ask for his IBAN so I can wire him money directly.
> Built-in YubiKey integration

And OnlyKey support too!
What, and then become a victim of U. S. foreign policy?
That I would agree with 100%. It'd be nice to have a panel of all the shortcuts and their present meaning available, with the option to rebind them or remove site-local bindings.

The user could get the option to prevent (by default) changes to bindings, with the option to permit them on a site-by-site (or even page-by-page) basis; or to allow them by default and then deny them on a site-by-site basis.
(Nevermind, I see this was answered elsewhere.)
It is hosted on Gemini:

gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/10/22/Firefox-the-embarassment-of-FOSS.gmi

It's posted on the web as well because users of the web is its intended audience.
Disclaimer: Hearsay

One thing a colleague mentioned about bitwarden that might be good is that you can basically "share" parts of your password store with external users.

That could be great if you are the IT guy that convinced people to use a password manager but sometimes still needs access to passwords.

For my usecase that never was important which Is why I am sticking with keepass which is pretty great
Hey there, I work on the infra team at Contentful and wanted to expand on the caching. Polling AWS Secrets Manager often can incur considerable costs since it is priced by API calls. We've tried to alleviate this by caching the list of secrets and their values in the process.
Yes, let's all switch to a new protocol that's barely implemented and doesn't allow for the things we've come to rely on because Mozilla made a few side projects.

Sorry, but that's not how the world works. The web is here to stay and practically nobody cares about your silly little gopher clone.

Mozilla is the best failed project open source has to offer. Nothing comes close in terms of popularity and brand awareness. Perhaps people know of GIMP because of its funny name, but that's about all the open source tools any layman is able to name, if any.
Isn't QUIC/HTTP3 a protocol that improves the performance of pipelining which is something that very bloated webpages benefit from? Isn't that something we should move away from?
Doesn’t it improve efficiency? Squeezing electrons through a string of exhausted batteries require current over a longer time and therefore more losses.
Loved your summary, really appreciate your input.
I am CTO for just 1.5 years now and can relate to a lot of the points mentioned, although of course not on your level.

I still need to learn to cope with your second point about taking care of many things. It sometimes feels as if everything "technical" by any definition is handed to me by non-technical people.

Any suggestions on how to handle that? I (and I guess some others as well) Would really appreciate your advice!
You can change what? How many companies are giving away SSL certificates?
Because it's hilarious to quantify and state. Why ask ridiculous questions?
Thanks, that's very interesting! And yes, I definitely agree about seeing your doctor. We're often unreasonably embarrassed about things like this, but a good doctor will have no problems putting people at ease. And obviously the outcome can be really bad if something serious goes undetected.
> It's the same file being delivered, they don't switch to just audio.

Youtube has separate audio and video streams available on almost everything. I'd be very surprised if it wasted that data, and a quick search suggests it doesn't waste that data.

> Even if they did, the ad revenue without video playback is 0.

Sounds like they're doing something wrong in the sales process.
Depends on the model, for T420/T430/W420/W430/X220/X230 there is this:

https://hackaday.com/2020/09/02/building-an-open-source-thin...

https://beta.aceparent.me#/battery
I’m here for the Agenda vs Sidekick flame war.
What makes you think it was removed? It's currently visible but nobody seems to have commented on it.
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Not all password managment is for one person only. Sometimes you want something that can serve a whole team with some sort of granular level of who is allowed to see what. And from what I understood bitwarden is way better for that usecase than keepass.

I use keepass myself, because for my usecase it is the appropriate thing to use. At least I think it is.
I might have some time tonight to read the sources I found, and maybe even watch a TED talk even though I don't like TED talks after watching one on a topic I am well informed on. I think it's more fruitful to just read the source material directly.

Can you point out to me what rhetoric in the submitted article is culture war rhetoric? And what do you mean by culture war? I live under a rock.
I'm a bit confused about this "SUV's kill pedestrians" hatred.

Don't buses, vans and trucks kill people too? How about solving problem of mixing pedestrian and car traffic to begin with. Also slowing the streets themselves to the point you're comfortable cycling next to traffic? Make parking spots smaller so that it's just inconvenient to use ${car_type_I_dont_like}.
It's not yet to be determined. Cases misses most infections because they're usually mild. Science knows how many people were infected as a result of serological studies that constantly reproduce the same rates of surveillance (cases) and infections (reality).
Conversely, our CEO signed a five-year lease last year and is trying to get everyone back in the office under specious pretenses. Always ask for a force majeure contract clause!
None of that sounds like microdosing to me.
That's not strictly true. In Russia, unlike US or Europe, you have to show your passport to leave the country, and you can be prevented from leaving by court order.
Did you mean Minesweeper?
Sometimes the solution to a problem that you should not have only gets in the middle of solving the root issue, giving some people fall for the motto "problem solved, look the other way" where the initial problem gets completely forgotten.

This is the reason why i fear that if we dont act fast for some things, younger generations without the proper historical context, will only follow through a path that treat them like human cattle, only to serve the feudal FAANG rulers.

The cloud + dumb web/app clients duo is really dangerous to us all, and unfortunately this is the path we are heading to.

No control, no freedom, no power, no voice, working as a dumb colony of mere tech consumers.

Centralization should be the enemy of anyone who fight for those values.
Rich text editing doesn’t demand a mouse: it’s the same number of keystrokes to press cmd-b as it is to do shift-8. But if the intended output is rich text, then wysiwyg is a better interface for editing, yes. Not everything needs to degrade to a teletype.
I was introduced to markdown via RStudio. But what I really use the most nowadays is markdown for making notes during meetings etc, using a minimalist editor (Typora). I just wish it weren't so complicated/ugly to copy/paste markdown to/from other tools, like Outlook or Confluence.

I use only the basic and common syntactic elements (lists, headings, italics, links). IMHO the beauty of markdown is its simplicity, and trying to do complicated stuff like diagrams and tables is best left to other tools. (Another problem with the more ambitious uses is that they tend to not be standardized across markdown implementations.)
Electric cars 'as cheap to manufacture' as regular models by 2024
Yup, also generally same cost by weight.

My kids eat a lot of creamcheese sandwiches. Block cream cheese just destroys sliced bread.
Since the domain is apps.apple.com, that part is implied. (From the HN guidelines: "If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.")

The bit about TestFlight is certainly interesting but the best way to communicate it is not via the title but via a comment in the thread...like you just did!
Should also have the `[video]` tag and probably a more appropriate title.
This nonsense started the moment that we shifted in to licensing models and thus away from ownership models.

Change my mind.
Do you think it is possible that developers are paid more equally around the globe?

No, I am skeptical of that. Each location has external factors such as cost of living and supply and demand that will not allow a global uniform rate to be set.

What if developers are being paid based on hard- and soft skills only while not considering the avg local salary payments?

There is more to it that strictly programming skills which are notoriously difficult to judge/measure. There are time zones and language proficiencies and cultural pressures and expectations. That is just the tip of the ice burg and assumes that a manager is even capable of managing a remote team of freelancers. In my experience very few actually are.

I'll give you a real personal example. We have several teams of predominantly South Asian devs who chronically and wildly over promise and under deliver. This so prevalent, I now (perhaps in a racist way) assume that this is culturally ingrained and is not malicious at all but a way to save or gain face. After years of working with these teams I know "I fixed the issue and it is impossible that something like this will happen again" does not mean to me what it does to the devs making these statements.

Additionally, if this was indeed the only (and somehow perfect) criteria, supply and demand would dictate that a global race to the bottom and rise in worker exploitation and nation-state gaming would occur as happened with many forms of manufacturing.

Imagine a developer in Finland being paid the same as one in Romania or the US.

If they got paid the same as a Romanian, then they would either be daft and live in poverty or be constantly looking for a job with appropriate regional pay. I don't know how Finnish pay compares to U.S. pay. I'm sure that in some regions the results would be that they were wildly overcompensated but that would be true if I paid a dev in Scranton PA the going rate for one in Palo Alto.

What's your take on this HN? Would you use a 'skill-appraisal' service that tries to accomplish that?

No, never. If I wanted to know what my going rate was I would start with Stack Overflow's survey. It seems to be in the general ballpark for the U.S. and can be negotiated from there (particularly with respect to cost of living)
SaltStack is famous for their NIH syndrome and various high severity vulnerabilities that have resulted from that.

I've used both Ansible and SaltStack a fair bit and would agree with the parent. In most cases, Ansible w/ Mitogen is the way to go.

SaltStack is really only sanely deployable in a Masterless setup. Also the real secret sauce of SaltStack that almost no one is using it for is its Event Bus & Reactor System to automate maintenance/incident runbooks. There's a ton of untapped potential there.
> This is your problem.

No, my problem is that Apple keeps changing the terms. The Mac that I purchased is no longer the Mac that I have.

Apple now only provides 3 years of security updates for the OS that came with your Mac. You can't even buy an extended service contract! So then you're forced to "upgrade" the OS or else live with a bunch of known vulnerabilities. But every new version of the OS locks down the Mac even more. That's not what I paid for.

Moreover, it was Apple's decision to start shipping major new OS versions on a yearly schedule. That's not how it was in the past. Mac OS X Jaguar lasted 14 months, Panther 18, Tiger 30, Leopard 22, Snow Leopard 23 months. But then Steve Jobs stepped down for health reasons, passed away, and Tim Cook "altered the deal".
I thought you generated the key pair on your device and never sent the private key, not even to WhatsApp? Isn't that the idea behind the Signal protocol, which WhatsApp uses?
I think mcv may have meant that the single Microsoft account could give access to both versions.

Currently I believe if you have Mojang account for the Java version, you cannot use that account to access the Bedrock version.
There is going to be a lot of pain but overall I think this is very good for the economy. Rents that went to landlords will be redirected to more productive purposes (or profit, which when distributed to shareholders will be reinvested).
Very cool! Thanks for the details. Totally agree on lag time for rolling out ECH.
Literally no one contends he defected for the purpose of helping Russia's PR, so you calling it out as that is deliberately slanderous.
You own the hardware, but not the software. Re-read your EULAs.

The hardware is fine, you can (still) go and install Linux or maybe the open-source Darwin on it. Then you'll have the complete control, and also the complete responsibility.

The idea of iOS, and increasingly macOS, is that it's like a hosted service controlled by Apple, but on your local device. This allows for various valuable security and usability guarantees, and for an ecosystem for which commercial vendors are willing to develop software. It works exactly because much of the agency is removed from the user, and given to Apple, which has both different expertise and incentives.

I like my distro's package manager more than App Store, it gives me more freedom and a different set of choices. Most people, who are not versed well in computer internals, won't be happy to trade App Store to a package manager, and limit themselves with free software.

Freedom has a cost, and for many people the cost of a particular piece of freedom is too high.
What youtube APIs does peertube need? Does peertube need youtube? AFAIK it's its own service with no youtube dependency.
I've never been a big proponent of remote work. I've always had bosses who were "butts in seat" (with accommodations every now and then) and that's how I've always been. But the past 9 months I've been working from home and I've enjoyed it. But as soon as the vaccine is widely available and I've taken it, my butt will be back in my office seat, provided it's still there.
how profitable is it?
I'd say: John Gruber and Aaron Swartz created Markdown.
This process is well underway in SF where formerly booming business districts have turned into veritable ghost towns. Winter is coming for commercial real estate.
> Tesla has done well to design away the ICE front grill

I thought consensus was opposite.
You're describing a mild trip. More can take you into other worlds where your brain can make you believe you're in tune with the universe, or black out and scare yourself because you can't remember how or why you got where you are, and everything in between. But definitely more intense than you describe.
You think rich people are paying those kind of taxes? Why wouldn't they leave if this wealth tax were suddenly imposed upon them?
You can change if and who you get a cert from.

If you're really that worried about Let's Encrypt turning evil, you could stop having one when that actually happens. Or get a free one from many DNS providers. Or pay $5 for one. There is zero lock-in, and keeping traffic encrypted is a good thing.
Calling fast food workers monkeys won't make you look any smarter.
I'm pretty sure Nginx isn't interested in open-sourcing any more code than they have to at this point. Most of their development seems to be closed-source these days.
Brainfart. I remembered the 3, and misplaced it.
I mean the attribution to Whewell. Turns out he coined many other words too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whewell

Since the coinage of "scientist" was in a review of Mary Somerville's work, that claim doesn't seem far-fetched. It's true that the OP should have quoted Whewell, though, and not only secondary sources with current agendas. Surely the original text is out there somewhere?

Edit: ah here it is https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/sciencecomma/files/2015/04/whewell_... - thanks to cbkeller (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863646).

The relevant part is on p. 59.

Edit 2: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_uWsJAAAAQAAJ/page/n67/mod... is clearer, plus you can zoom. Thanks to bitdizzy (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24863611).
det(e^A) = e^(tr(A))

Pure magic.
The biggest problem, presumably just like Plaid, is that its institutionalized phishing tricking users into giving their online banking details to some 3rd party.
Nice! Now everyone can create his immersive space! Good job OVA!
You gain nothing.

The password is compressed into 256-bit key at the end so you gain nothing. Argon2 is used to derive the key, so all you need to worry is good password and maybe use keyfile if you want more security.
Why I think offices will just catch back on is because they will come down in price and because those who work closer to the people at the top of the company will be those promoted, this will make the pressure of working in an office greater again.

Maybe this move is also the end of middle management and traditional CEOs?

I hope I’m wrong about office life catching back on because of all the emissions being saved by remote work...
Ask HN: How do you manage your photo/video collections?
The question is mainly about photos/videos from friends and family. In the recent years I always dumped the photos from my mobile phone onto some external hd every few months.

But I notice that things get complicated because they are not really accessible anymore.

Further more, if you have a family, how do you join the photos taken from different smart phones of your family members?

Do you burry them in WhatsApp?

Do you choose a cloud solution, dropbox or google photos?

Do you care about privacy and self host something, or do you not care at all and just print them into photo albums on paper?
There are plenty of medications to deal with all of the issues that "micro dosers" claim are solved through taking acid. I think it takes a certain amount of arrogance mixed with naivety for a person suffering from mental health issues to intentionally consume a mind altering street drug in the hope it will solve their problems.

If you are a mentally healthy person and want to take a trip to possibly open your mind up to new ideas and empathetic feelings, have at it.

Also the whole idea of micro dosing is a misnomer as the way acid works is by setting off a chain reaction along neural networks very simmilar to how the black widow spider's venom works. It is possible to suffer from or enjoy a chronic condition from micro dosing LSD simmilar to how second hand smoke or air pollution affects you but that is a real stretch.

I would like to know. Are there are any "micro dosers" out there that have NOT also at some point taken an larger dose at some time? I bet they don't exist.
Congress also gets to decide their own salary hikes.

political jobs were meant to is how sports was a century back.

Being a pro was actively frowned on in many competitions, you were supposed to play part time and still excel.

Political office never paid well, most politicians had farms and other businesses to keep them afloat. Presidents were famously responsible for hosting functions at the White house, some died broke . Also travelling between d.c and your home state was a significant effort for many so extended breaks was needed.

The rules made sense then , they don't now, however given congress makes laws and it's own rules not much can be done to fix it without constitutional amendments.
Middle-Click...Middle-Click...Middle-Click...Middle-Click...Middle-Click

That's the wheel, for you guys coming from a two-button-mouse Operating System.
How Trump’s Twitter account was hacked – again
The irony of this is so great it must really burn the usg. Russia protecting freedom in 2020...
I've worked in Houston (and have driven on the I-45 during rush hour) so I know what you mean.

I've also been to NYC many times so I know the other extreme too.

I think a good urban environment accommodates mixed-mode transportation, with a preference for mass transit but also reasonable accommodation for motor vehicles. I live in Chicago where mass transit is a big thing (an anomaly in the midwest) especially downtown and the north side, but the driving experience here isn't that bad either. The congestion -- even pre-covid -- is never really too bad (at least not by LA or Houston standards), and parking is expensive but not astronomical.

I guess in Chicago there are options. If I want to get somewhere quick by car (and am willing to pay for it), I can. Or if I want to pay way less and use public transit, I can too.

Toronto is similar.
Oof, no I missed that and had the version requirements for RDS IAM auth in my mind. Thanks!
Tesla putting 'self-driving' in hands of drivers amid criticism tech not ready
Does debian have a peertube instance of their own?

Nice gesture though. Even if they reached the stretch goal, I did my part and donated a few tenners. If you haven't yet, now's the time!

They have much more developing to do https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap
Why do you say it affects paychecks? My understanding is that these tax breaks almost never translate into bonuses or pay wages rising. Often times it goes to shareholders, which don’t represent a significant portion of the population, and only really benefit an even smaller group (because they have enough skin in the game to make a diff).
https://archive.vn/ev3kN
That’s one word to describe it.

Personally I find it to be in spectacularly bad taste.
well we lost most of our contractors when the pandemic hit but the new move has been to outsource and starting with support groups. since they own their buildings it may not be as simple to dispense with the added space but this does not mean they cannot simply shut down entire floors to save money.

The fallout people keep missing is the loss of tax revenue. Either the direct property tax as values drop to in some cases income taxes shifting to other locales. Throw in the reduction in spending at local associated businesses like restaurants and stores which also results in lower sales tax revenue and eventually staffing. It is quite the cascade effect that will happen.
spiffytech: "The bigger issue is that vendors get to set whatever rules they want"

nine_k: "Re-read your EULAs."

Missing the original point.
So this is to compete with Envoy? If Nginx can solve the documentation and the "why the hell do I need this" problem, it might be worth looking into.