skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Brave by default collects telemetry data.

Firefox does too.
I would discourage you to try Scala, AFAIK it doesn't default to immutability.
I'm not sure that is an accurate reflection of the pandemic control measures used by China and other asian nations.

Not only was there a high degree of voluntary compliance with mask wearing and social distancing but the power of the state was engaged in ways unthinkable in Western countries. To take one example, the government mandated that entire neighborhoods in Beijing be completely closed with movement outside only allowed during certain hours of the day. You can disagree with the policy on other grounds but there is no reason to think that extreme steps like that wouldn't be effective.

As for 'quarantine hotels' the point isn't that they are entirely fullproof but they are significantly more effective than the alternative of asking positive cases to self-quarantine. The same point applies to temperature checks.

China's record may be exaggerated for propoganda purposes but other nations with similar policies like South Korea and Japan have had simliar outcomes.
How many people out there are willing to commit to a terminal text editor that isn't either emacs or vim? I feel like, if you're committing to a steep learning curve, you may as well commit to a steep learning curve that has a real payoff at the end.
> he's very smug about this models but they often enough don't work out.

Taking all of the Presidential forecasts together, there's too few to really generalize about that. Taking the down allot results though, the odds have been pretty close to what he's forecast.

So I'm not sure what your basis is for saying they “often enough don't work out”.

> His sports models are -especially- bad

Maybe, but his political models are especially good.

> I know there are a ton of Silver fanboys, but surely you can agree he has a pretty big ego

He's never really come off that way to me, not that whether or not he has a big ego has any bearing on the quality of his models.
Can someone explain where a system would fit which breaks off large chunks (auth, profile, shopping cart, PDF generation) but doesn’t go as granular as per-function services?

Aside from PDF generation (which is always a mess) I can’t see why anyone would think a more granular approach would be better in basically anything that’s not amazon and ebay.
Sure you can, but you have to use a trick. You can fake it by modifying the background color of the cell where the cursor is located. Many terminal editors have support for multiple cursors.
People aren't moving out of homes in the bay area, they are moving out of apartments in the bay area to where they can actually afford a home.
Making a repo that is incompatible with another hosting system is not a GPL violation.

There are all sorts of compatibility issues that can arise from platforms doing dumb things. For example, a repo with the files README.md and readme.md in the same directory would break on certain Windows machines due to case sensitivity problems.
> Basically the administration turned the tables on Big Tech. They primarily import H1Bs to dilute the employment pool to let the market take care of wage depression.

Not really, Big Tech pays H1Bs competitive salaries (https://insights.dice.com/2020/05/19/google-apple-amazon-oth...). What this mostly affects is IT consulting firms like Tata and Infosys.
Oh wow, TIL about the “don’t fragment” bit and all the stuff that comes with it.

Thanks for sharing, I learned a lot from that blog post.
If a country now decided that the Linux kernel violates law and bans it I don't think the kernel would violate their license just because it's now illegal to distribute it in that country.
But FreeBSD is an operating system. The userland and kernel are developed together, in the same source tree AFAIK. With Linux you have to glue a user land on to use the kernel, which is a "distribution" which is actually an operating system.
The first point of failure is that if you are a US taxpayer, then you are already taxed on your worldwide earnings, including the earnings of your wholly-owned foreign subsidiary. Even if you could borrow domestically against your foreign earnings in order to finance your lifestyle, you would have already been taxed on those foreign earnings, as an individual.
Basic economics would predict that H1B visas drive wages down. Anything different would be surprising, and would require extraordinary evidence.
Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwitch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
Wow! My escape plan was to leave Sydney and chill out in NZ with a remote job, looks like it’s getting on par with Australian cities? Makes sense
RIP earth
Rust deserves negativity, though, just for balance’s sake.

Nevertheless, this project is somebody learning Rust on an intermediate/advanced level. Nothing wrong with that, and people deriding it because it cannot compete with real text editors with millions of man-hours behind them are behaving bit silly. Who knows, one of these exercises might become a great editor some day.
> if they increase supply so much that housing prices fall, a lot of people will be upside down on their mortgages

That doesn't make the house any less suitable to live in. You're still paying exactly the same price for exactly the same house.

The only people that will hurt are those who have gotten a mortgage on a property, rented it out to someone, used that rent as leverage to get another mortgage, rented that out to, and so on, and those people are all absolute scum directly contributing to mass homelessness and a generation who can't afford their own roof to sleep under, so I have absolutely no sympathy for any of them.

Not a hugely tenable position politically, but I can't pretend to give a toss about someone who profits off of contributing absolutely nothing to society undergoing the same hardship they've caused their fellow citizens for the past several decades.
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the thing that annoyed me was the telemetry in the mac installer before you even did an install.

Additionally they made it hard to do a personal registries, which is what's going to happen now anyway. I think they tried to keep themselves in the loop too much, because it's valuable for business and monetizing was a long term goal.

here's the thread I saw:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33054369/how-to-change-t...

pointing to this:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/7203

and also there was this comment:

"It turns out this is actually possible, but not using the genuine Docker CE or EE version.

You can either use Red Hat's fork of docker with the '--add-registry' flag or you can build docker from source yourself with registry/config.go modified to use your own hard-coded default registry namespace/index."
A 100* heat wave in LA only clocks like 82* in san diego. Then again on that 100* LA day it is still only like 85* on the coast.
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> Steam is somewhere between 95-105m real MAU, and publishes only real numbers on its games. I know lots of Steam users, many more than 5. I know zero Brave users. Really, there's no way it is anywhere near as popular as they claim.

Alternative explanation: you live in a bubble.
Kotlin for Interviews – Part 3: Numbers and Math
Same situation exactly. I tried emailing them to dispute it, or at least try to figure out what supposed "commercial use" they suspected, but nobody ever replied. Plus, I think I may have only ever used it for like 20 minutes a month to do stuff like move a recipe into Dropbox so I could share it with a coworker, or start a Steam game downloading. I guess those 20 minutes a month must have been judged to be critical business use, sufficient to earn a threatening email.

I don't miss them or their service.
They don't want to get rid of copyright, it's just about creating a less punitive system. I don't think there's much downside for them if they really cared.
> Brave removes ads "pre-render" so it is the fastest experience one can get.

Doesn't Ublock Origin remove ads "pre-download" which is obviously faster?
Sounds about right. We have 95% of our infra on AWS but then early this year one team needed something specific from GCP and started using that. A few months ago, a client insisted on having their services delivered from Azure as they have a lot of other related services already tied into Azure. 95% on AWS and the other two add up to just 5% - but, hey, multi-cloud!
I really like that inspirational editors are mentioned. For one, there were some on there I didn't even know existed. Second, you might want to try out some different ones before you settle on the one you like. Personally I rather liked Micro, for instance, but now I'm definitively going to give Ox a go too.

I think the negative remarks come from people who are probably both very knowledgeable and experienced, but also entrenched in "their" editor, and perhaps they didn't feel the blurb gave "their" editor the justice it deserves, while this isn't an editor that purports to be the "best" out there, or even the most advanced.

Personally I've never been a fan of using the terminal for anything else than reviewing code, so Micro is enough for me. It has text highlighting and commonly known Windows-esque shortcuts. To compare this to Emacs, which I've given my best shot, it just turned out way too complicated for my needs, and there's a ton of extra stuff to learn that I just wasn't motivated for on top of learning to code.

Once I saw the high treshold for getting into Emacs, I just opted out. Perhaps it is better in many ways, but I was instead lured in by Sublime Text, and I've stayed there ever since. Is it "better"? IDK. It's what works for me.
It's a bit more subtle than that. Almost every language has a sliding scale of discipline rather than a binary one.

E.g. you could decide to write extremely mutable code in OCaml, but it's highly discouraged and the happy path is generally to default to immutability.

So you need comparatively little, although not none, discipline to have a pervasively immutable codebase, since there's nothing preventing you at a language level from introducing crazy mutation everywhere.

Haskell goes further, where you have to use functions named "unsafe*" to introduce mutability. Something like Elm goes further still, where, barring bugs in low-level libraries or heavy abuse of the JavaScript runtime (e.g. redefining prototypes of basic types), you essentially have to fork the compiler to introduce mutability (Dark moved away from Elm because, as I understand it, it actually became too restrictive on this front).

On the other hand, in something like Java, you need a lot of discipline to have pervasive immutability and you have to go out of your way to avoid using otherwise common constructs (e.g. if statements since those are statements rather than expressions) that require very kludgey workarounds (encoding an algebraic data type as a fold and using that in place of if statements).

Kotlin is in the middle. If you don't use certain parts of the standard library and don't use things like var, you have pervasive immutability. At a language level this is quite similar to Scala (Scala has a more immutably focused standard library than Kotlin does).
You can emulate it visually with white-background text.
Why would you leave a server running that long? Is that best practice? I'm by no means a sysadmin but I do monthly scheduled reboots, because on monthly reboots you test that reboot gets you a running server that correctly comes back, and you get a more thorough fsck.
What’s so great about Go?
Yeah but that's not a realistic usecase for most users/developers. I haven't measured if Ox is faster or slower, but for me startup time and ability to quickly open files under 10MB are more important.
Our climate is on the ropes -- if 'blue' hydrogen (ie, fossil hydrogen with carbon capture) is a convenient stopgap, I say we go for it. Sure, it's not renewable, but it also would be carbon-neutral (assuming the carbon is 100% captured). We shouldn't let ideological issues get in the way. So what if fossil fuel companies benefit from it instead of battery companies?

If we were to implement a carbon tax instead of picking winners, 'blue' hydrogen would come out ahead of 'green' hydrogen for at least the next decade, but hydrogen fuel cell vehicles would probably still loose out to batteries for most automotive applications.
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I was just reading the pale blue dot and he mentions that Voyager 2’s scan platform jammed after its encounter with Saturn.

Voyager 2 emerged from behind Saturn (as seen from the Earth) in August 1981. The scan platform had been moving feverishly—pointing here and there among the rings, moons, and the planet itself during the all-too-brief moments of close approach. Suddenly, the platform jammed. A stuck scan platform is a maddening predicament: knowing that the spacecraft is flying past wonders that have never been witnessed, that we will not see again for years or decades, and the incurious spacecraft staring fixedly off into space, ignoring everything.

The scan platform is driven by actuators containing gear trains. So first the JPL engineers ran an identical copy of a flight actuator in a simulated mission. This actuator failed after 348 turns; the actuator on the spacecraft had failed after 352 turns. The problem turned out to be a lubrication failure. Good to know, but what to do about it? Plainly, it would be impossible to overtake Voyager with an oilcan.

The engineers wondered whether they could restart the failed actuator by alternate heating and cooling; maybe the resulting thermal stresses would induce the components of the actuator to expand and contract at different rates and unjam the system. They tested this notion with specially manufactured actuators in the laboratory, and then jubilantly found that in this way they could start the scan platform up again in space. Project personnel also devised ways to diagnose any additional trend toward actuator failure early enough to work around the problem. Thereafter, Voyager 2’s scan platform worked perfectly. All the pictures taken in the Uranus and Neptune systems owe their existence to this work. The engineers had saved the day again.

Our hacks are nothing compared to the hacks of these old school nasa programmers :)
Silver has such an army of fanboys that it’s impossible to even remotely criticize 538 without getting downvoted into oblivion. It’s a weird sort of fanatical statistical religious belief.

The fact of the matter is that election polling is not really accurate anymore. People are afraid to publicly admit their support of a certain candidate, even in a supposedly anonymous phone call. Considering that people have been doxxed online for this, I really don’t blame them for being skeptical and private.

That’s not even mentioning the social aspects of the media. Even if Trump were ahead in all the polls, do you think Silver and other journalist-statisticians would report it as such? I doubt it.

Pundits seems to consistently miss larger geopolitical trends, like Brexit, offshoring of jobs to east Asia, rise of right wing parties in Europe and India, and so on. These qualitative trends will end up being far more influential than a collection of polls.
It'll be a question of how many reposts they see. If enough people keep reposting with throwaway accounts, they will have no other choice but to start scanning automatically.
I have no faith in AWS executing on this successfully. I'd imagine an offering like the suggested one would have some kind of: a) UI to inspect the state of other clouds, b) provisioning capability that allows creation of resources in other clouds.

On the UI front:

- AWS UI toolkit has aged by this point and each day it feels more dated

- CloudFormation, as their main cloud management UI is particularly bad (e.g. limited info on what caused a problem, not displaying ARNs of resources belonging to a stack systematically etc.)

On the provisioning front:

- Terraform and Pulumi are so much better than anything AWS offers, and that says something because even these tools are not great.
Show HN: KeyBERT – Keyword Extraction with Bert
Forgetting to run the formatter before git committing is not that big of a deal.
Hello, I was planning to move to Protonmail (free version). Can you explain more about trying to lock users in?
Or we could just tax carbon. sigh
The software is fine, but the BAT ecosystem disturbs me. As someone who has been involved in the affiliate space, accepting a token issued by an ad network seems like a terrible idea. Separation of concerns is important in this case.

Instead of the ad network facing the consequences of chargebacks, unfulfilled obligations, fraud and abuse, everyone holding the token will be on the hook. With all of the horrible things that go on in the ad/affiliate industry experienced publishers should be wary of this.

Also, as an expat the KYC stuff has generally been insurmountable. Hard to square that with the privacy angle.

However, I do look forward to innovation in this space. Brave/BAT has issues, but at least they're doing something.
Does it?

I have no horse in this race, but with the rarity of a unicorn, it could be what amounts to luck.

Out of billion people flipping a coin 30 times, a few of them may guess correctly all 30 times; but the books they write on coin flip guessing amount to meaningless drivel.

My point is that success or failure in such a complex, edge-case, luck-based world may have very little to do with knowledge.

PG, if you’re reading this, of course I mean no disrespect and I know little of the topic and nothing of this person at hand except that he seems to have run a failed hedge fund.
So true. Saying China did a good job is like saying the USA should suspend the Constitution and do the same thing:

Wuhan death fog
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/fears-thick-dea...

Wuhan protests: Incinerator plan sparks mass unrest
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-48904350

Chinese woman describes Wuhan virus patients being burned alive
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3881683

Video shows interior of new Wuhan 'hospital' resembles prison
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3870468

You Can Now Go to Jail in China for Criticizing Beijing’s Coronavirus Response
https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/chinese-residents-face-jail-if...

Video appears to show people in China forcibly taken for quarantine over coronavirus
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/video-appears-show-people...

"They treat us like we're the virus": Africans evicted from housing in Chinese city
https://observers.france24.com/en/20200413-coronavirus-niger...
Editors are practically a religion. No surprise OP is called a heretic.
Am I being unfair for expecting to see organised crime on the list?
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It depends which market you look at. Git hosting in general, especially for enterprise, Github has no monopoly. Gitlab (esp self hosted) is very strong there.

But for public repositories, OSS development and to a certain degree even job applications, Github does have a monopoly.
The rage-part might have been a slight exaggeration. But why would I use a platform that doesn’t work? The whole point of the damned place is to sell stuff, and recently – this wasn’t an isolated incident – I’ve found it to be markedly bad at doing that.

Me personally I can’t stand to give people money for a shitty service. eBay has become, in my opinion, a shitty service.
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So, CTO-ing and consulting and generally making sotware is possible, but i'm mostly interested in mentoring people, a team or more, about programming and life. Max 20-25h/week. Something like playing trainer, within the team and the project.. coding is only the ink of software, made by people, for people.

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I think this is hyperbole for the majority of people who do not have existing respiratory or other health conditions.

Air quality in SF proper was only bad (by which I mean Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups or above) for roughly a month this year. That certainly doesn't warrant having HEPA filters and P100 masks now in October/November (again, for most people).
Why's that? I've been using it for a while (on prem) and like the interface more than Github by now. I never problems in either Firefox or Chrome.