skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a.) The term "GDPR Compliant" does not exist. All software can be "GDPR Compliant" and still do fingerprinting it there is consent or necessities (hard to do). What they mean is that you do not need to get consent from your users to use Plausible.

b.) They don't store IP addresses. Information they gather are not stored in a way to build user profiles or do fingerprinting.

It doesn't look like the articles author took a look a the Plausible documentation or source code.
Aliens on 1k nearby stars could see us, new study suggests
I see either 1 of 2 things happening. Either these large companies will lobby Congress for laws forcing all companies to offer full-time remote, or half these workers are back in the office by 2022.
Load Testing Guide: How and When Should It Be Used?
The people you know are likely constraining their search to only the kinds of places white collar urbanites find "nice".

There is no shortage of non-dilapidated double wides and 1500ft^2 houses in rural areas.

What there is a shortage of is recently constructed nicely optioned turnkey 1500-3500ft^2 houses. Basically if you're looking for the kind of house you find in an inner suburb with good schools in BFE it'll either be hard to find or expensive.
Seems like everyone has a notebook of ffmpeg commands: https://hhsprings.bitbucket.io/docs/programming/examples/ffm...
Disruptive.
Sometimes there are absolutes, as in this case. If ads benefit customers, they would seek them out. But obviously they don't value that "product awareness" and branding.
There's probably also the matter of competition. If something is considered significant and important, there won't be much low hanging fruit. If something is considered silly or insignificant, there are fewer people working on the same thing and an increased likelihood you'll be able to contribute something substantial.
Don't buy Apple, don't build for Apple. Problem solved.

I know it is hard to believe but the solution really is just this simple.
On the KM, the rear engines are the ones used in flight, and they're mounted well above the ground. The front engines are more of a booster to get it airborne, but they are indeed incredibly vulnerable.

You might be able to get it airborne without as much boost if you had the help of an intermediate phase of acceleration as a hydrofoil. The Orylonok uses a ski in this vein.
Just what I needed to jump-start my productivity today!
I think underlying that there is actually a similar root in both cases: the old adage "It's not what you know, but who you know" (or perhaps more precisely, who knows you).

In the son-of-a-general instance, the son is born into those connections. But if you are able to associate yourself with high-level decision makers in a relevant low-status role, that can pay off.

I've done this twice, once as a marketing intern at a news startup where our CEO connected me with some decision-makers in the journalism industry (though I decided I didn't like the journalism industry), and again when I got my foot in the door as a customer support rep at a tech company to leverage my software development skills into a dev job with no relevant professional experience or education.
My point is that money is fungible. It's weird to me to see this complete disconnect between science funding and the trillions being created and pumped into the financial system. She/we are treating science funding as zero sum, yet completely ignoring the trillions being wasted (relative to spending on fundamental research) by central banks.
I've seen companies decimated by refactors to new shiny technology. Security, scalability and ease-of-use is practically solved in PHP.

PHP is inherently stateless, making it easy to scale up. Facebook has had pretty close to a 100% availability rate since launch and PHP is still responsible for large swathes of their functionality.

Most people attacking PHP read a snarky article written in 2012 about PHP's limitations and cannot actually provide reasoning for why it's so awful.

Wikipedia, huge portions of online retail, forums and Facebook. Are these things inherently less secure or available than companies with a "modern" stack? Not really, in fact pretty much the opposite.

I'll let you in on a little secret: your customers could not care less about your shiny modern stack. As long as it's not preventing performance, security and new development then they don't care.

My PHP endpoints respond in <100ms, which to my customers is perceptionally instantaneous. They wouldn't benefit from any shiny modern language at all (but I do use them).
Funny, my experience was the exact opposite. I enjoyed A Fire Upon the Deep and I didn't even finish Deepness.
So you’re basically insinuating that I’m a paid apple shill.
Is there somewhere that lists which features are enabled on which instances? We were thinking of switching to Graviton2 RDS instances but not being able to use Performance Insights would be an important factor in making or not making that switch.
I usually watch series like this one not, only, because of the knowledge content but looking for inspiration on methodology, workflow, thinking process, solution ideas, etc.
Perhaps. But the trends are not encouraging.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/social-mobility-upwar...
That took me back to the fun days of the late 90's. Thanks for this I really needed it. The internet can still be fun.
It's complicated, really. Some drivers drive like 80+ hours a week. If they become employees, they will not be able to.
Those aren't new ways, it's already being done by astroparticle physicists. You can look at Ice Cube, HESS and Pierre Auger Observatory for examples. Dropping accelerators simply leaves a hole, and those experiments all rely on cross sections from CERN for their predictions by the way.
There's also a bit of explanation about this at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/guides/t...
Thank you. Check out this recent AMA from a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University: https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/jcxsb1/...
Exactly. And let's not forget that the "training" is actually new scholarship, not just learning an existing skill, so even if the PhD doesn't do anything after earning their degree, human knowledge has expanded ever so slightly thanks to their years of effort.

This diagram neatly sums it up. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures

It's the equivalent of learning to code, learning a modern library or framework and its best practices, and then adding a bug fix or new feature.
Rent is absolutely not nationally priced. It can vary 10x.

Because we don't want to set a baseline unemployment statistic which counts people as unemployed when they are earning enough to live in a decent apartment, while the same wage would leave them homeless in a city. By setting higher minimum wages, we effectively raise the cost of living everywhere, as the price for the slow changing supply of housing rises. As the cost of living rises, the comparative advantage of goods produced in the USA is further reduced in comparison to countries with lower costs of living. This results in less manufacturing occurring in the country, and eventually more real unemployment.

What we should be doing is allow for the creation of more low cost of living areas, where what is globally a decent salary is sufficient.
Depends how you look at it. If you want to build a search engine that avoids annoyance like paywalls and JavaScript-only sites, then this isn’t so much of a hindrance.
I'm not disagreeing with you in the long run, but for now the Stratolaunch company is prepping a hypersonic vehicle to be launched from their carrier.

https://twitter.com/Stratolaunch/status/1319342246186020866
Urghk. I had no idea, but then again I would never use .srt myself, it's a terrible format. I'm always using .ass, because then you can get proper left-aligned subtitles, proper font, and a proper box around them.
I think it depends a lot on expectations - I have had different managers who have had different expectations even in the office! I even had one manager who said I was walking from my desk too much and I definitely don't miss that (maybe schedule less meetings??)

With WFH I generally don't respond at all off hours. I keep track of my hours on a pad of paper for the week for both my timecard and for my sanity, so when I get to 8 hours I am DONE!
> The process is wrong in that HRMC should be doing its job without having people pushing it to.

Sure, but when they fail to do their job, any retrospective adjustments should be in favour of the taxpayer not the government.

Imagine if a policeman stopped and searched your car (legally), and then later came round to your house saying "I didn't have my glasses on, so didn't search well enough. I want to search again".
Harvard/Stanford/MIT Researchers Find Secret to Success, and It's Not Talent
I think it would be better for the EU to fund existing open source solutions than to create EU-controlled proprietary ones. Fund Firefox so Mozilla doesn't have to take funding from Google any more. Fund Linux kernel porting to mobile devices. Fund LineageOS, Replicant, postmarketOS and the myriad GNU/Linux mobile OSes. Fund yaCy and searx. Fund RISC-V implementations.

PS: it sounds like there is some sort of EU plan for this:

https://fsfe.org/news/2020/news-20201023-01.en.html

They probably also need to fund an alternative to TSMC.
They were acquired for $300m, could have put that in that title? https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/05/indias-byjus-acquires-whit...
As far as I can tell, it rates a 4 on Mohs scale, i.e. "one big lie" - the idea that the speed of light varies with the distance from the center of the galaxy.
Dev. here, using PHP for 20 years. Short story: I'm working on a system that peaks at 200k rps. Using PHP with Swoole.
If you're not familiar with the origins of bongo cat: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bongo-cat
Some people don't like that he doxes people.
As opposed to what?

Nobody has ever just suddenly become good at something with 0 practice. Usually, there's a strong correlation between time spent on something and expertise.

If the discussion is about quality vs. quantity, then this is a strawman. You can make a 100 shallow todo list apps, and they'll all be worse than one you focus on and polish over time. That story about the art class is most likely not true and most likely not applicable to other examples. But maybe part of that polish is experimenting with smaller prototypes.

The point is to always use advice like this as a principle and not a singular source of truth.
Voltage is an energy gap between on and off state of the transistor. There is also random noise on top of that gap. And that noise can sometimes cause the transistor to flip randomly, which results in an error. More voltage means system is more stable and has less random errors. But in gaming people often don't care if there is an error or two now and then, so they can tradeoff stability for lower power usage. Companies don't like that, because that means more technical support when programs randomly crash.
Among Us is now a “Topic” on Twitter
Generating Photoshop Images with Python
> The fact that it is worse doesn’t make it bad.

That's correct. It turns out that it's also bad, though. People don't like to hear it because I'm "just a hater", and maybe one or two of these issues isn't a deal breaker. And yes, you can write real, useful, applications in PHP, but it's a terribly awkward language with a lot of missing features and sloppy dynamic typing nonsense.

* No (real) async or threads (pthreads never worked on backend and is deprecated anyway for those who always mention it in response to me)

* No generics

* Interfaces must be complied to at class definition
(leading to verbose nonsense like the "adapter pattern")

* No const or immutability

* `array` is a shitty hybrid of an actual array and a dictionary and it sucks at both

* No other native data structures beside the shitty `array` mentioned above

* No ability to typehint callable function params

* switch statements use loose equality checks, so you should avoid them

* foreach is broken and leaves a dangling reference

* `array` keys are automatically cast to int if they can be, which is broken and insane. (E.g., if I use `array` as a dictionary and one of the keys is the string "123", it will NOT store the entry as key-value pair: "123" -> $data. It will instead store $data in the 123rd slot of the "array". Iterating this `array` with an index will end in a bad way).

But surely someone will drive by and say that none of these things matter and that an experience PHP dev would never be bothered by any of these things, etc, etc. "You can write bad code in any language."

But... you can always just choose a better language if you have the choice. I feel like people get Stockholm syndrome over their tech choices. It all sucks, but some suck worse than others. Don't tie your identity to shitty stuff like programming languages: "I'm a PHP dev." "I'm a Rust dev." Give me a break.
I’m sorry if that wasn’t clear.
I've come to the opinion that there is no solution to the high cost of real estate problem in "HCOL cities." No amount of YIMBYism will make real estate affordable if all good upwardly mobile jobs must be crammed into about five giant cities. There is not enough space. Cities with higher density are still not cheap anyway, and when people have kids/families they really start wanting a lot more space.

The solution is to actually use this Internet thing we have built and make place far less relevant. The only blessing so far from COVID is that it has forced this issue and overcome probably a generation of institutional inertia, helping people escape the unaffordable housing trap a lot sooner than they otherwise could.

The US has no housing problem if you broaden your hunt to the entire country. There are tons of really nice small to medium sized towns, and if you like having access to something more urban there are also numerous medium sized cities with functioning downtowns and affordable housing in decent neighborhoods.
You need something the size of the KM or larger for the sort of waves you get on the calmest day in the Gulf of Mexico. Small ekranoplanes don't work so well in actual oceans.
Less than 1. Universities are reducing the number of tenured positions.
> if I would change to work 6 hours a day my productivity would be at least what it is now.

> It's just hard to make an argument why they should still pay me the same amount

You have already put up a valid argument.

If you continue producing the same Value in same Time, your pay should actually go up :D
It doesn't sound like they used the DMCA at all. They used copyright takedown requests across various platforms. They never actually filed a DMCA complaint.

You could argue that those takedown requests only exist because of DMCA, but they should exist, regardless of the law.

The problem here wasn't even that this company filed the takedown requests. It's that Youtube/etc complied with them when they shouldn't have. And to make it worse, blamed the victim and refused.

That is, until Forbes got involved and made it higher profile, and then Youtube looked at all of it and realized the mistake.

There's nothing here to indicate that this situation won't continue to be the norm for takedown requests, though. They haven't apologized or said they'll improve their processes. They just swept it under the rug.
It's funny this should some up, as I'm about 3/4ths through Inktober. The idea is that you make an art piece (traditionally an ink illustration but I've been using water color and the community is surprisingly not super gate-keeping about it) everyday and share it on social media. There's a prompt list the guy who made the idea popular puts out each year that's optional.

I've painted more this month than I have the rest of my life combined and I've learned so much.

Also self-promotion say what? instagram.com/amtunlimited
I'm struggling to see the link between status and working on something obscure. Working on something you like (or even having a choice of things to work on at all), even if it's something others find trivial or pointless, still seems like a privilege.
Yes, it was completely online. The comparison doesn't make sense.

Also, next time it's IRL the numbers would seem to indicate a huge setback, so I wouldn't use those :D
It's expensive for professional users too, in a good chunk of Europe a designer might be looking at €1000 a month in income.

The €50 a month is sizable. If you're working with it full time and the client requires it, well fine, otherwise it's €50 to save.
Well, I had to use mocks when interacting with a device through Bluetooth Low Energy. It's a hardware device that can't be in a CI/CD pipeline.

I pushed the hardware part into a class, injected it as a dependency to client code so I could materialize the BLE connection whenever I wanted.

The binary encoding/decoding wasn't tied to the class and was handled by a codec I wrote to decouple packet handling from the device. You only had to feed it a YAML file I wrote to model the device communication protocole. I read the manufacturer's specs and came up with a schema for rx/tx padding, etc.

When we changed devices, we just had to give another YAML file to the codec and the code worked.

All this to say that it was really hard to test before code refactoring and loosening the dependency on the actual device.

Once we had a nice interface, you could write a MockBLEDevice class even by inheriting from the real class, just changing the actual BLE connection to return something else and keeping everything else the same.
We should be smarter about what foods we "produce". No more meat subsidies, or better yet no more meat at all.
I’m 32 and planning to attend a PhD program. I don’t have kids I am single and I’m fine living off a graduate student wage. I find research much more satisfying than what I’ve done in industry and am looking forward to the opportunity.
Seconding your recommendation of At The Existentialist Café.
How cool. Author posts directly on Sci-Hub to avoid paywall BS
Do you genuinely believe that you are refuting my arguments here? My points are not complicated or difficult, and your responses are facile.

Linux is strong on servers and phones.

This is, in part, because you can deploy tens of thousands of servers (and tear them down again) at very little cost, and Google gives Android away.

No software licensing.

Being cheap to do means not much money goes into Linux development as a result. Google is doing it to weaken Apple.

Always follow the money.

Windows still dominates desktops. This makes MS money. Not from Windows, but what goes on top: Office and Exchange and Server licences. Evidence: MS gave Win10 away for free in order to get it established.

If Linux development slows and stabilises, then it will be easier to run Linux binaries on other OSes that merely emulate Linux. (Examples: WSL, FreeBSD Linuxulator, Joyent SmartOS.)

If MS manages to make WSL a better Linux than Linux, then it strengthens the market for Windows running Linux workloads, which weakens Linux.

There are multiple markets here. You have to consider all of them and their interactions.

No, E&E is _not_ about standards and protocols. It is about money.

Netscape was free for non-commercial use. In business, you had to pay. Also, Netscape sold one of the leading web servers. That is how Netscape made money.

MS made IE free, but free is no good if the product isn't as good. So it built IE into Windows, and IIS into Windows Server, and gave them away for free, including upgrades. To make them desirable, it added some snazzy interactive stuff in the form of ActiveX (client-side) and ASP (server-side).

Result: Netscape couldn't sell its pro products any more and went broke.

Ubuntu is big on servers because Ubuntu is a good desktop, and when it came out, the other decent desktops -- e.g. SUSE -- cost money. Ubuntu took their market share but didn't make any money. Within a decade, most young techies knew Ubuntu first so they chose it for server stuff too, and servers make Ubuntu money.

Ditto Red Hat and SUSE (now). Give the desktop away for free, make money on servers.

Follow the money.

If Windows can do that better, nobody will bother with Linux. The money goes to MS instead, then RH & SUSE & Ubuntu will die, and I will be out of a job.

It is not about standards. It is about money.
More Cowbell!!!
F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F F

Thanks for the fun distraction for a few minutes :)
Hey, I use it at work. It's really just a fairly stable way of documenting APIs. Sure you can try do fancy generation of it from one side, and generate code on the other, but treat it just as a standard way of talking about requests and responses and you'll see the benefits.

If you do want a good benefit, here's a testing engine that'll run through an OpenAPI file and confirm the server's adhering to it correctly: https://dredd.org/en/latest/
Indeed, I forgot to define `e` on the same line, cheers.
Hackernews seems to like two kinds of posts. Interesting posts that get into the weeds of a specific topic.

And the kind of pseudo-inspirational posts you see on Linkedin
Well, there was the guy that outsourced his own job to China [1]:

"The software developer, in his 40s, is thought to have spent his workdays surfing the web, watching cat videos on YouTube and browsing Reddit and eBay.

He reportedly paid just a fifth of his six-figure salary to a company based in Shenyang to do his job."

...

"Authentication was no problem. He physically FedExed his RSA [security] token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average nine-to-five work day," he added."

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
My interest in reading this was to see how he went about writing. I did read some of it (I 'owned' it in Adobe PDF form) before getting sidetracked, then my copy turned into a pumpkin when Amazon retired the Adobe DRM servers shortly after they introduced the Kindle.

Anyone interested in Vinge's annotation scheme can get a sense of it from this interview with Norwescon [1], which includes a screenshot of his working draft for The Children of the Sky. Short answer: he writes in Emacs, and uses a convention to incorporate reviewer comments, annotations, and his own tags intermingled with the actual text, and has a set of text processing tools for navigating it.

Edit: I just remembered a bit of trivia some readers might find interesting: there was a whole minor character he cut fairly late in writing, who survives in fragments 'commented out' in the annotated version. I think it might have been one of Ravna's fellow librarians at Relay, and he cut the character to streamline the storytelling. I think there might have been notes from his early readers supporting the decision too.

[1] http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...
Does this mean every business can now deduct VAT at 20% from every Uber journey taken for business purposes?

If so, pretty much every business in the UK could be submitting revised accounts for the last 5 years...
> I don't know what it is. I don't know how to fix it. But there's some very, very, very wrong stuff that happens when richer people move in. It shouldn't be that way.

Can you go into more details? I feel like this is a dangerous kind of statement because it is hard to draw a line for people to say what shouldn't and should be.

Here is why the statement feels dangerous, it doesn't make arguments directly related to the group and can easily be expanded to: "But there's some very, very, very wrong stuff that happens when [people of color, poor people, lacking education, etc] move in. It shouldn't be that way."

Perspective is always valuable even applied to what would be the unpopular opinions.