skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people will listen to or see this one. Rogan is very popular.

https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-top-30-u-s-podcasts-accor...
> You say that serverless will cost more "to prevent noisy neighbor effects"...but that is an abstraction most cloud providers will already give you

I actually wasn't talking about serverless at any point - I understand that term to mostly mean FaaS and don't map it to things like k8s without extra stuff on top, which is closer to where I'd position microservices - a service is a combo of data + compute, not a stateless serverless function. But I agree we're not quite talking about the same things. And unfortunately I don't care enough to figure out how to line it up. :)

Org factors rather than cloud compute costs are why you go microservice rather than monolith was my main point, I think.
> If channels, accounts, online storefronts, followings and content were recognized as belonging to users, it would substantially change the dynamics around deplatforming, as well as anti-competitive activity by the majors.

Why should these belong to the users when the software hosting them, the servers running the software, and the infrastructure running the servers are all owned, operated and maintained by a third party?

That's like saying I should own my table at a restaurant simply because when I walk in and sit down, they serve food to me there. Using a service has never entitled you to an ownership share of the establishment.
It seems like you understand very little about systems collapse.

A huge portion of our farming is currently unsustainable. Yes, we are producing more right now, but this production is on a clock. Even without any change in climate we are screwed. Look at how many places in the world are currently undergoing water system collapse. California, a huge crop producing state, has areas that have sunk nearly 30 meters because of pumping too much water. Those same areas are highly dependant on bringing in water from long distances away. Now add unstable weather patterns the the propensity for longer droughts and tell me what you think will happen?

We are not dealing with a climate change problem. We are dealing with

A long term water supply problem

A soil salinization over vast areas problem

A soil decarbonization problem over vast areas

Increasing temperatures that are pushing our current high yield crops to their limit problem

A globalized transportation system that will quickly spread crop diseases problem

Humanity is playing russian roulette with these issues. We will get a perfect storm one of these years, for example across the midwest US being hit by a drought and crop rust and we could see a near complete failure of our corn harvest. We are talking about the potential loss of 750 million tons of calories that will rock the world to its foundations.
> some football coach who had enough name recognition to win his primary

Wait, who is this? I know representative Jim Jordan was a wrestling coach and current senate candidate Tommy Tuberville was a football coach at several places.
The $160 is value to the advertiser I don’t see how it would have anything to do with the value to the user. Since FB is free if it gives you even $1 of value you may as well use it.
You-get – another video downloader with YouTube support
Linking to an article by Greenwald about how Greenwald was right all along is pretty spurious, to say the least. Even more so when there are plenty of non-Greenwald sources, like the ones involved in the Special Counsel investigation, which state exactly the opposite. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/04/complete-...
Google makes ads generic: "Google is so dumb it doesn't even know my language"

Google infers your language and other information about you and serves specific ads: "omg Google is so creepy."
> I think you are in quite a rare position if you have not heard of Zoom but visit sites like this in 2020.

I've heard of Zoom. But that doesn't mean I know their entire business strategy especially when it comes to open/closed source software.

I've also never had any reason to try it: I don't have any kids (so no school, etc.) and I lived most of my life too poor to afford health insurance, and I'm afraid to leave my house during the pandemic, so I still don't have a family doctor or anything of the sort to talk with. I work from home and use Slack for everything work-related (but Telegram elsewhere because that's where the furries all hang out for reasons I find wholly unsatisfying).

> Do you usually not perform a search query before you read a paper?

I'm curious: What precisely do you mean by "a search query"?

My search queries are usually of the form:

site:github.com zoom encryption

So if I was supposed to find something more enlightening on the subject, my search habits probably weren't conducive to discovering it.
I fear that the (likely) Democrat government will be completely unchecked. Too many in the media are completely bought in to a Biden presidency, and will never admit his faults.

That is not a recipe for good government regardless of political affiliation.
I do, but when the alternative is starve or come up with systems that exist outside it could be the cheaper option.
Writing a "perfect" encryption algorithm which doesn't actually support any of your existing clients or services would be bizarre. What they have done is standard software engineering.
Will definitely check this out. I find books that take a 50,000ft view of human development deeply insightful even if I don't entire agree with their theses.
I think that "nonfunctional" is a bit of an undersell. I've used Confluence for years and while I don't think the search is great by any means, it's certainly usable once you figure out its quirks. I think we are all spoiled by how great Google is about edge cases and deriving meaning from your queries and we are too quick to judge other search offerings.
> you can always buy an Intel Mac up to and including the day the ARM machines drop.

You can, but when you know they're about to switch architectures, it's a pretty good guess that what they're not about to do is announce a whole new slate of devices using the old architecture. So even if they still sell them in two years, they'll probably still be the same specs, and without a price cut so as to discourage people from buying the existing one instead of the new one. So if you know you're going to buy the existing one, there's little reason to wait. Especially when they have a record of claiming they'll sell them for two years and then stopping after six months.
The thing about the moral side is that we already have a bunch of jurisprudence around the 1st amendment.

Yes, companies aren't bound by it legally, but it'd be a great moral guide to follow if that's what they're after.
Does GCP revenue include G-Suite subscriptions?

edit: Googling indicates it does which would means like Azure you don't know how much is from GCP vs. office suite.
Files Inspector PRо 1.40 is available as a Giveaway
It's to help us see through all the liars in power.
Ask HN: What browser plugins do you use?
I hit a wall, then hit the ground, then got up but now I seem to be hobbling along fine enough with my attempt to use Doom. It’s just that there’s no simple intro to the emacs paradigm so I find myself almost constantly confused when something doesn’t go as expected. It’s been... a month or two now?
I do like the spacebar leader key though.
But doesn't that change, or limit, the content that's available to them?
For Sale: The Entire Spycraft Collection of New York’s KGB Museum
Am I missing something here too? Redmond seems to have only inter-city busses.
OK, you are right, he is using "color" in a funny way to reflect the idea that the violation is somehow in those bits. But in my opinion, the violation is in the channel as a whole (the ciphertext, the one-time pad, and the instructions on how to decrypt, shared for the purpose of distributing copies), not because of "colored bits".
Ask HN: How do you cope with career burnout/stagnating?
I recently discovered how to break a tough cycle that held me back professionally so wanted to share (in hopes of helping even 1 person like me) and to see how you all manage.

I had a bad habit of working until I would burn out, in hopes that I would serendipitously learn a few tricks/hacks and grow. This went on for years. Yet every time I had a moment to reflect, I would realize that I wasn't fulfilled, I learned a few meaningless skills, but wasn't anywhere near my personal / professional goals. So I started doing the following things and it has changed my life:
1) write down how my day went every day
2) document why it went well, want went 'not so well', and what i learned
3) systematically gather feedback from peers and mentors i trusted

I now have a couple of months worth of data and can systematically tell when i'll have a great/good/bad day and where i need to focus to grow (e.g., my communications skills). I feel much sharper and more growth and goal oriented - it sounds cliche but i feel like i have found a new lease on my professional life.

Curious to hear HN friends how you guys manage it all.
Details are missing in the linked techradar article, but covered in its source [1]. To summarize, futex2 (for faster Windows-style locking) and syscall user redirection (for supporting odd DRM constructs) may land in Linux 5.11.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Extendin...
That's a different concept of abandonment to what's happening with the Xorg server code today.
For sure I’m not a denier just a (semi) optimist. I certainly hope we can figure out a way to get around it but I’d wager we’re looking at the next Bronze Age collapse except the people will be fleeing from the equator this time.
I was talking in general , not just censorship. Despite of what some Americans may think the Nordic countries are not utopias, there is plenty to criticize about them.
Once more and for the last time in good faith, it's the trend line that matters. The earth hasn't experienced even remotely close to this rapid a change in temperature in the 20,000 years captured by that chart.

To take your example from the gold smithing era. The earth warmed from -.5 -> +.6 degrees over the course of about 4000 years. We've warmed that much in the last 100 years.
Data > hearsay. Get a meter.

I've found that running my bathroom exhaust fan for ~30 minutes per day keeps CO₂ levels well under 1000, but you'll never know unless you measure it.
>Climate hysterics want to avoid responsibility for the economic damage that their carbon-neutral policies are going to have on society.

imagine heating the globe until humans can't survive and being upset about economic policies. get that myopia checked out.
A "conspiracy theory" is when one believes in hidden events without evidence. For example, the idea that Trump and Russia "colluded" [what would that even mean?], of which we've never seen any verifiable evidence. The most solid backing for that theory is anonymous leaks. The skepticism of Taibbi or Greenwald is the opposite of that.
Why is the post littered with unrelated and revolting humanoid dog art?
An Earth-size planet is careening untethered through the galaxy, scientists find
Regarding your first point, it's to a degree, subjective. But I would classify Bay Area transit to be pretty bad. Have not been to DC, but I live in NYC, where Newyorkers are often fanatically proud of the subway system. But I think the NYC subways are disgusting and horrible compared to say, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, etc. which while still imperfect, are the shining examples of what good, proper, public transit systems should be like. Various European cities also have far better subways.

Then again, many Newyorkers think the subways in those cities are horrible and unusable just because they don't operate between ~1-5AM.
I'm skeptical that no level of taxation can support the government. Bill Clinton was able to balance the budget, and that wasn't so long ago.

The government collects trillions of dollars a year in taxes as it is. A significant percentage increase to the level of taxation against top earners would make a huge difference, and it is difficult to fathom what operation the government could run to remotely approach that level of increased revenue generation. What do you have in mind?
"Indefinitely" does not mean "forever"; it means "the end is not defined". The end could be tomorrow, or in a thousand years; its just unknown and not communicated at this time.

This is a similar misconception to the word "infinite", which many people believe means "an unending amount" but actually just means "not finite"; an amount large enough that it can't be quantified, but still an amount nonetheless. This comes into play in mathematics when talking about some infinities being larger than others.

If you take a nihilistic view of the universe, then everything is temporary, and thus even the DVDs you've purchased should have been advertised as a temporary rental. That's not very useful, though.
I'm biased since I work at Google, but, seriously, my YouTube Premium subscription is the most bang for the buck out of everything I subscribe to. My YouTube experience is delightful. I never see ads, and my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests.
Yeah, just use vimtutor!!
I stopped using Google's AdSense AutoAds
Print magazines aren't attempting to moderate 2-10 novels per second either. Isn't it much more commonplace for print magazines to exercise editorial control over every piece of content, conferring on themselves in some sense (at least as far as these laws are concerned) a degree of accountability?
I transitioned and faced tech’s bias against women
When interviewing juniors, I make them install a new-to-them-language and the job interview exercise is "do this one thing". Since they're juniors, I give them a bulleted list of things to do (so there's no trick). I'm testing to see if they can

1. read and follow directions

2. read other people's documentation

3. ask for help

4. poke around and try things
To be fair it was usually small, inconsequential things, not major parts of the curriculum.

The only major one I remember is that water is conductive by itself. And that "C++ is the best programming language" (hah).
Alternatively, us & them = 2
Or the whole taste bud taste map of the tongue.
Yes and no? Is there not an argument to be made, particularly here where the focus is Section 230 and mostly just FB/Twitter, that it's such an issue because Congress allowed these tech companies unchecked growth and consolidation? Outside of more typical news (CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc), what you see on the internet has come down to the whims of Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey. Even Instagram is still just Zuckerberg. There's no room for competitors anymore and I think a large reason for that is Congress's continued inaction.
I'm a Rails newbie, not a software newbie. I was brought in as an engineer with no Rails experience but deep Cloud experience to help break a large complex monolith and yes, we're running into the same "DHH's way or the highway" quagmire that infests the Rails world, as mentioned in a sister comment.
I struggled with a power supply for the pi all the way up to the pi 4 - always getting the low power indicator.

I struggled with the pi SD card - extremely slow and always the possibility of corruption.

I struggled with pi graphics - none of my projects every had accelerated graphics, not even blits.

I struggled with pi USB - at first it was power and speed, now it might be in better shape but not all the way there. The pi is still limited to ~ 15w.

When you get to the pc ecosystem, and it's really just a bit more expensive, you get a step up in capabilities. You get all the voltages. You can get a 300w or a 1500w power supply.

You can add a graphics card.

You can put it in a case that has room for more than just the board. Say, I/O?

I wish the pi had a nice metal case that had a 2x the width allowing for an enclosed breadboard or the like. Or a case with all the connectors on one side.

> Pi 4 has pci-express, no?

really? where is the slot? (I said not compute) ;)

btw, I'm not anti-pi, the opposite in fact.

Maybe I could say it in another way -- what if you could have an itx form-factor pi? I think that would be very exciting.
There was an interview somewhere with Satya Nadella where he mentioned that one of the things he had tried to change for Microsoft was to stop chasing immediate metrics because most long term advantages of companies (like good image) aren't measurable in the short term.

Lately it feels like that's the issue with most tech companies, they will do anything to see the uptick in random metrics (engagement, etc) without realizing they are creating miserable experiences by destroying other areas that are less measurable.

Yes, I'll click more in your button if you place it full screen over the main content of your app. No, it's not making me more engage in what you're showing me, it's just forcing me to go through some hoops and now I hate you for it.
> If it "sounds" bad to work towards the most accurate understanding of an issue

Nobody is making that argument. The issue is that the most accurate understanding of an issue can not be realized until the issue is fully actualized. In other words, if we wait for the global atmospheric temp to rise 1.5 degrees Celsius to ensure our accuracy, it is far too late to do anything about it.

Uncertainty exists, yes, but that uncertainty is mostly in timescales and consequences of environmental outcomes, not the environmental outcomes themselves.
Sidebar: is there an age limit for ageism?

When people complain about how old congress is, it's not like saying a 50yo can't code. It's more complaining about 75, 80 year olds who live off of name recognition rather than anything they actually do anymore, and some of them are clearly losing it. They could retire and live a great life, nobody's trying to take bread out of their mouth.
How much of the global warming can be explained by this increased sun activity?
> Those are unpaid volunteers. If Mozilla robs them attribution for work (and yes this is work), then what's left?

Warm fuzzy feelings? The knowledge that people read your article thousands of times every day?

Honestly, while I agree that it’s a bit sad to lose the attribution, I find it hard to be sympathetic with people who get salty over losing internet points.
What spectrum? The actual database types are relational, key-value/wide-column, document-store, graph, etc.

NoSQL is a meaningless buzzword but one good outcome was more attention to non-relational systems and where they can be a better fit, as well as creating more progress for those systems as well like better usability and APIs to match the relational dbs.
In related submission that I see today:

The Sun is more active now than over the last 8000 year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24937001
That's surprising to hear. What do you use for this purpose then?
I have to admit that I felt that the title wrote a cheque that it failed to cash.

I'm not sure who the intended audience is. It's light on crypto and it's light on furry stuff. I think both audiences will feel short-changed.
Buer Loader “malware-as-a-service” joins Emotet for ransomware delivery
He is being optimist or he is talking about the new normal.
check spectrum https://spectrum-os.org/ ;)
> There we go.

Why did you not believe the first side you heard but you believed the second? Or is your conclusion making sense of both?
Someone already asked, but I imagine it's the same reason one might put women in lingerie or men in underwear in their blog posts.
In a related news here today:

The Laptev Sea hasn't frozen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24932466
If they get too efficient with signals folks are going to push back because ads become too targeted and feels their privacy is at risk.

I personally feel the best solutions are either ad-free services that are paid for either one time or through a subscription.

If something is ad supported, then the way to guarantee privacy is to take a pool of candidate ads from an ad network and rank them locally based on a personal profile stored locally as well and pick the top ad to display. These locally stored personal profiles need to be also synced across personal devices with automatic merge conflict resolution.

As you can see it requires quite a bit of infrastructure that doesn't seem to exist
I think some of the oddities can come from looking at sha256 as a way to make variable length data fixed length. Hashing the context and message before signing has the fingerprints of starting with RSA and pivoting later to ed25519. Janky for sure but really not bad at all. HMAC is cool and all, but from a practical standpoint you can do with concatenation if the message is prefixed with length, or you are using an algo such as blake2 where the keyed mode is prepending the key and the internal state does not allow for extension attacks.
Surely there’s overlap between the users? Or was that factored in already.
A bar
If your potential employer is so skeptical of you that they don’t trust you when you tell them you wrote certain articles on MDN, they’re not likely to hire you in the first place.
AWS Application Load Balancer Support for End-to-End HTTP/2 and gRPC
The next pandemic: where is it coming from and how do we stop it?
Paywall: https://archive.fo/sOzr2
is a social media site really comparable to a newspaper? a newspaper has an editor who decides what goes into it, there's no "user generated content" outside their control
Your feed is not the same as your compatriot's feed. _The Social Dilemma_ explains how this leads to splintering.
https://www.atlassian.com

https://tara.ai

Your branding is awfully similar to Atlassian. Not saying it's intentional, but considering you are pitching yourself as a Jira alternative, it would be wise to differentiate yourselves a bit more.

Specifically talking about the logo and color.
https://radicle.xyz/radicle-link.html

It frustrates me that they use the relation "on top" backwards, but otherwise it's a good read.

Radicle provides a network overlay and gossip protocol, on top of which they run the git smart protocol (they describe it the other way around, which makes no sense).
I mean the argument is not well thought even as presented. Scientists go through great lengths to explain climate phenomena due to other factors, el nino being one that most people are aware of.
Almost every modern Rails app runs containerized. Heroku is containerized! What are you having trouble with?
I think a lot of them have only been solidly disproven in the last ~15 years, and it takes some time for that science update to propagate through the world.
Darko Suvin: Cognitive Estrangement
Yep, most people get burned by other gems that aren't as thoughtful.
'Support is the real long term investment'. Well said
Except for the part where YouTube at some point just enabled mid-roll ads for essentially it's entire catalogue, even if previously disabled:

https://twitter.com/GamersNexus/status/1280566684483543043

This is of course an old classic with anything Google: yes, you can "opt out", but expect your choice to randomly reset at the whim of a PM looking to show "traction".
https://i.redd.it/ptxs168d2gn51.jpg
Especially if you live somewhere where the sun heats it over 50ºC! Then you get huge ruts from the trucks and potholes...
Shipping’s Moment of Decision to Stay on Course for Net Zero
I'm sure you could make the argument using some definition of best. Perhaps best in it's impact via software created in it rather than the language itself. Although then I think C would win over C++ because of Linux.

I'm imagining a slightly tongue in cheek 'best' alongside an implication of subjectivity. But given this was a highschool teacher I wouldn't be surprised if it was instead a multi choice test question with a single "correct" answer? Which of course would be ridiculous.