skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America's Disastrous Drug War Is Finally Unravelling
> I've been using version control since Apple Projector (in the late 1980s)

Never heard of Apple Projector before. I've always been interested in the history of version control systems, so I would like to learn more about it. But when I search for the term, almost all I find is stuff about using projectors with Macs/iPhones/iPads/etc. Can anyone point to any information sources on it?
Also consider the inverse example of Twitter: SF offered tax breaks to companies setting up on mid market street, and low and behold startups moved in and gentrified the area.
API gateway is optional though - it's poorly documented but most workloads are just fine without it.
I can't speak to the particulars, but this is basically what MA and VT do. I can't see any good faith reason to do anything else.

Ohio, the only other state I've voted in (many years ago) had electronic machines that produced a paper audit receipt. The problem I see with that is that now you have two sources of truth, and no easy way to count one of them to reconcile them.
You'd be fairly well boned on obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Any brilliant plan you think up in the course of a few seconds will be likely to run into the fact that the common law has a thousand years of collective experience.
It may be that we are using the word in different senses, but I would say that Pluto has no hidden state whatsoever. The comments for cell ordering control what you see, so they are the opposite of hidden state. The execution order is determined by a static analysis of the dependencies among your code cells, and is determined only by what you see in those cells. There is no hidden state anywhere.
I think they don't want to depend on oracle.
This is abusive behavior by Proctorio. Unfortunately they're not the only bad faith actors using DMCA inappropriately.

We need desperately something akin to an anti-slapp[1] defense to fight back against these abusers.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_pu...
Base the company out of a conservative State. The employees can work wherever.

The other issue is how much complying with this regulation is going to cost. California is already very very anti business after all
Ten years ago was 2010. VMs had already taken over everything by then. Some were convinced that VM images would take over application distribution, because it solved all dependency problems. Others weren't convinced and pointed to problems with insight and integration.

Resiliency or scaling wasn't any easier or harder than now. It's not 1985 we're talking about.
I don't believe it, if you have postgresql package update can't be a breeze. Every major version you need to manually convert the database
There’s a row in PA listing Biden with 104.3% of the vote in a block with 1285 votes (the differential increased by more than the total number of votes). Data error?
Looks most likely that the government can keep it unless someone files suit to contest the seizure.

https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/white-collar-crime/asset-for....
You'll never hear me say that git's interface is good, but this seems to be blowing things way out of proportion. I haven't seen someone blow up and recreate a git repo in maybe a decade.

I've definitely pulled out the BFG here and there to clean up credentials but that's an issue in any VCS.

Maybe I'm biased because I'm "better able to get a repo out of a broken state", but for the record it's definitely not because I've "memorised a few more commands".
we need a new standard for human design that emphasizes the simplicity and intuitive aspects.
In all places. Laws, programming, etc.

If it is too complex to readily use it and easily debug it, then it is bad. It is bad not because it is complex, but because it inserts overhead, and overhead in time spent solving problems is always exponential.

I am for the idea of using ipv6 as a sort of nation-level NAT for big corporations and countries to expose part of a private address space over a section of ipv4, while each country gets most of ipv4 to itself along with a section where you can route to other countries, in exchange for a small fee. Say 30% of the ipv4 space is globally shared by everyone and the rest is local to your own country. Also IOT local mesh networks all would be on auto configured tunnels with only certain gateway systems hard coded- systems you can block at your router.

That’s the most sensible solution. It will be a real shame if it is not the reality. Arrogance and “hurr durr i’m so smart and i spent 40 hours this week setting up this brilliant ipv6 network topology for my company that will require five manuals to fully explore and retain me in my job for a minimum of 10 years to keep it all working”- meanwhile the rest of us will suffer.

The biggest most canally disgusting thing about ipv6 is that it will render dns based ad blocking a thing of the past. If you want any kind of blocking you will have to go with curated WHITELISTS, instead of blacklists. And that may be more secure but it will also be a lot more work, which, again, the ipv6 nerds will love to do but will present a hassle for the rest of us. You won’t be able to manually check the dns list anymore. you will simply have to accept that the overhead and the security risk of trusting all of the 35 million addresses in the whitelist is a cost you are willing to accept.

Say no to ipv6.
I have already blocked it on everything and will never adopt. it is the ethanol of internet addressing.
Nice

Who's up for adding simple graphs to this?
Keeping a Shared Decision Log
Senior Full Stack Engineer (Gardena, CA) partly remote – 85-100k/yr
Hiring a Full Stack Engineer in Los Angeles area that has high knowledge in Spice - https://www.spice-space.org/
This appears to just target salaries, not SBC. [1] Considering how large a role SBC plays in executive comp, it seems like this law will not be as impactful as if it looked at total comp. Am I reading this incorrectly?

I would note that it would be difficult to assess the FMV of different SBC for the purposes of these calculations. For example, engineers might get RSUs, and the CEO might get options with a particular strike price, or different amounts of RSUs based on hitting revenue/profitability targets. It wouldn't be simple to value each of these things a priori, and companies wouldn't just accept whatever value the SF govt employees come up if it means huge amounts of additional tax.

1: https://ballotpedia.org/San_Francisco,_California,_Propositi...
And the fact that android devices are generally patched slower, so an exploit can give you access for longer.
Barr gives them to Trump to help pay off some of his debts before he flees the country
I have no idea how far fetched this is, but there are clearly ways to price options given current share price, the stock price, expiry, etc. Black-Scholes comes to mind, but I am not an expert at this and don't know how reasonable of a valuation you could get this way. Just pointing out that there exists a mathematical framework for option valuation, which is presumably what Wall Street uses as the basis for pricing call/puts on the open market.
Seeing this reminds me of the question: "why do we have an <img> element? Why not an <icon> element? Or an <include> element?" [1] Back in the olden times shipping a feature like the `url(path:)` above was enough to have it become a defacto standard!

Meta: link [1] uses text-fragments [2] that seem super useful to me but apparently are not implemented by Firefox (yet!)

1: https://diveinto.html5doctor.com/past.html#:~:text=original%...

2: https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/
The other thing to consider is that doing a binary diff on the OS before/after patching puts a big red arrow right at the location of the bug, which means that there's no reasonable expectation that it will remain unexploited after the patch.

It's not really that important, really. It's either being exploited yesterday, or tomorrow.
per Wikipedia page:
With Neal Stephenson's permission, Garrett Birkel responded to "In the Beginning...was the Command Line" in 2004, bringing it up to date and critically discussing Stephenson's argument. Birkel's response is interspersed throughout the original text, which remains untouched.

http://garote.bdmonkeys.net/commandline/index.html
Folks are doing take-home exam wrong.

Caltech had tremendous success with a culture of honesty and take-home exams.
Mass school closures from Covid are driving new wave of student surveillance
https://archive.vn/hbQB8
Half the time the link preview picks the wrong picture and sometimes even the quote. Twitter and Facebook would both be improved by disabling it. Hell, it might even stop people from thinking they need a hero image for their 2 paragraph medium shitpost.
Trump vs. Biden: how people are talking about the candidates on Twitter?
I also see 3 blocks in PA of 25k+ votes with 90%+ Biden (one is 97%) - can someone better at statistics tell me how likely that is due to chance given the other values (assuming the data is reporting accurately)?
Comparatively, no. Android phones generally get a maximum of 3 years of security updates from launch, not from last device sale date. So, within mobile phones, it's more informative to compare it to their competition. It shows you just how much better Apple is at mobile device support compared to everyone else.
Well, I think you're being overly alarmist, at least in the short term: DRM on Video has not really caught on, at least on-line; Non-Chrome browsers continue to have a significant share (mostly on Desktops); and ad blocking remains rather effective.

In the long run, I'm definitely worried: Capitalist economies tend to see a concentration of capital, generally and in most sectors individually. And this seems to be a real danger with computing technology. Coupled with mass surveillance and the pushing of people to have their personal information held by those large tech companies, a dystopia is not inconceivable.

PS - By AMP, do you mean Amazon Prime?
If it's at an overseas brokerage, you'll need to report make FinCEN report each year.
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Developing Macintosh Software with Lisa Workshop Pascal (2018)
>> It will work out well fiscally because giant companies will suck it up and pay

I think that if companies do suck it up and pay, it will be declared an effective law and then...the there will be proposals to expand it. It might dip down to also include SVPs, then VPs, and so on
Yes. When I talked about this topic with some left leaning friends they were surprised that the requirement of an ID was taken as voter suppression in the US.
I believe WebKit integrated FreeType2 years before Chrome project even started.
I know someone that is quite popular in VRChat and they said most people they know are ditching their Oculus and going with Vive because they don't want their VR to get bricked if they say the wrong thing in a game or Facebook.
For non-hindi speaking states both hindi and english are the same. At least with english it give jobs and enriches lives.
Wow what a great example. I hadn't heard this story before but I will be certainly be referencing it. Thank you.

Article I found about it: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-07-02-01...
I feel like it's nothing to do with the language. The quality of the team will reflect on the quality of the codebase. Period. Quality of teams/codebases is always going to follow some type of distribution.

Engineers are perpetually keeping mental tallies and notes in search of data on which tools, methods, and technologies will help them reach the promised land. I think really the majority of that is noise.
> after several community driven libraries have materialized, maybe include some interfaces in the standard library, that allow users to choose which community library the want without having to hardcode too much to that library.

That's what Elixir did with calendars and timezones. Worked great.
8.0 which was released in 2012 is no longer supported, with the last updates landing in early 2016. [1]

8.1 on the other hand _is_ supported until 2023. [2]

The majority of 8.0 users immediately upgraded to 8.1 (because 8.0 was slightly terrible), so you're mostly correct. 10 years of support is pretty standard for Windows releases.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/lifecycle/products/windows-...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/lifecycle/products/windows-...
We use kayako.com and it is excellent!
As it turns out, not everyone who works in tech in SF is an opportunist. There are plenty of kind folks who just want to make a life for their family, but like any boom, it also attracts a multitude of people who are just here for the money and don't give a damn about the city or region.
Wish they would have factored in things like performance impact; Zendesk for example is by far the largest and longest-loading script on my website. I hate it. As soon as I find a truly lightweight live chat solution which doesn't suck balls, I'm gone.
Disagree. I would say that even antifa is a loss of trust in the system - they don't believe that the legal and political systems will do the job of containing fascism, so they have to take it to the streets.
Your response seems quite cynical to me.

Quantopian has been around for a while. They scratched the itch that a lot of programmers have of building an automated trading system and beating the market. Quantopian allowed them to test their trading theories without acquiring the backtesting data and building the test infrastructure. I'd imagine it kept some people from "gambling" with real money.
Ask HN: How can I make my startup's website ethical?
I am building the website for my startup and I think it's very important we pay a little bit more attention to the ethical side of how we do business. We're a very small team of 3 co-founders and the other 2 have been very supportive of me pushing in this direction.

I'm already committed to a few things:

- Not to use Facebook Pixel for marketing or any other similar social media mechanism

- Not to use Google Analytics and switch to a self hosted alternative

- Avoid any design dark patterns

- Don't store any data that is not absolutely essential and for the data that we store, always ask for permission clearly and using clear language

What are other mandatory items that I should add to this list and commit to?
> 1.) wealth/income inequality is inherently wrong, so redistribution is automatically good. private property is theft!

There is a version of this that doesn't care about "right and wrong": Wealth inequality may happen for good and natural reasons, but too large quantities lead to a worse society for wveyone, and so redistribution is one way to reduce it.
Being remote certainly helped Australia, but I think this "island" line is a massive cop-out.

Mainland USA only has land borders with Canada and Mexico, right? Do you believe that if those borders were impermeable that they'd have COVID beaten? And the only reason the outbreak there is so large is due to cases sneaking in from Mexico and Canada every day? In reality, the vast vast majority of USA's COVID cases came from the exact same place as the majority of Australia's COVID cases - people flying in, and community transmission.

Yes, Australia has had a few advantages when fighting COVID. But hand-waving Australia's success away as "it's an island!" just serves to ignore the lessons that could be learned from Australia's response.
And you don't need to continue your subscription unless you want continued updates. My PyCharm 'subscription' lapsed around two years ago, and I'm only planning on purchasing a new fallback license for the upcoming 2020.3 release because their excellent vim-mode plugin finally supports jump lists, but requires a newer version than the one I originally paid for - and I'm honestly happy to pay them again.
The majority of polling in the US occurs using either DRE with paper trail (called VVPAT) or paper-primary precinct tabulation systems. DRE machines without a paper trail are relatively rare and appear to be becoming rarer over time, although it's hard to get statistics on the issue. As mentioned in the article most DRE machines were purchased as a result of the 2002 HAVA and seem to be slowly going away as jurisdictions replace their equipment --- although there are certain stubborn hangers-on to DRE w/o paper trail.

Many states conduct a mandatory sample audit of machine tabulation, either by hand or using an independent machine. I would urge those concerned about election security to lobby for this requirement in states that don't have it, as it is a practical and readily achievable improvement in election integrity.

In many states which use machine tabulation, machines are tested using a reference ballot set as part of the commissioning process, immediately before being sealed for delivery to the polling place. Once again, a requirement that should exist in those states which do not have it.
Female big-game hunters may have been surprisingly common in ancient Americas
The World’s Most Influential Values
Agree with it or not, at least this will add some data to the discussion. I have a feeling the result will be somewhere in the middle of the speculation and have both good and bad consequences that weren’t intended.
It doesn't matter if it's done country wide or at federal level. The US is a very developed country that could do that if those in charge were willing to do it.

It's not nuclear physics.
Calibre, ePub and epubcheck: the curse of editing XHTML
Big Govt thrives on bloat. All unionized public sector employees rely on unfunded pension liabilities after their retirement. To continue with the pyramid scheme, you need more people to keep voting tax increases. That group is cultivated in public schools from when they are kids and then with social programs for the youth.

If we socialize education and then young people and then the middle aged who can’t find affordable homes and yet need to be home owners and then the retired public sector community. And then special groups. Who is left? I guess the ones who are actually paying more into the system than they are taking out. It’s like the oxen that plows an entire field with the poor farmer whipping it’s hide. Why not?

All the jobs out there except a handful are fluff jobs with no real production value. Yes, I am glad someone is making my latte at Starbucks but at the end of the day, I am also paying for that. To maintain jobs so that everyone can be employed. As the pandemic proved, we can do without Starbucks. The value of most of the non productive job is to provide the public a wage so they can be consumers to purchase from the producers. Like smart phones. Or a car. See the pattern?

So all this cultivated vote base need to be cared for and fed. This is when you bleed the tiny tech community by injecting them with guilt and self loathing for being b productive and wealthy. This is usually done with clickbaitey articles and outrage porn publishing farms and social justice yellers.

Now you have a large vote bank that will keep voting yes to taxing the tiny little taxable sector(many of whom probably don’t even vote if tech employees come as immigrants and are not voting citizens).

San Francisco keeps throwing money at problems that don’t get solved because it’s not their money. When there are 12 people in the room and the vote is yes or no for taxing just the top two wage earners in the group, why should it be surprising that it’s at least 10-12 for YES on taxation.
I’ve got 5 nodes (one remote VPS, 3 Raspberry Pi’s, and a NAS at home) and I still just use Docker Compose. Compose is just way less verbose and far simpler.

The advantages of Kubernetes seem to be adding an overlay network, config and secrets management. None seem particularly useful for me though. Generally, I care which host a service I’m running is on, so tacking affinities to everything is additional work and doesn’t help with scalability. Since services are already pinned to a host, configuration is easy to manage by deploying it to the server. And, since most traffic is on the local network, an overlay is not really useful. I use a set of containers that form an SSH reverse proxy to expose some home services to remote services without exposing them to the public.

All this is orchestrated with Ansible. My config are still not published online yet, but I have an older blog post about it. https://blog.iamthefij.com/2018/01/21/docker-orchestration-f...
If only that were true. The FBI usually goes with the policy of "might makes right".

Especially for relatively low-value items (like laptops, phones, et c) stuff that the state seizes cannot be cost effectively retrieved, even in the absence of a charge or conviction. You're looking at a minimum of $10k USD in legal fees to begin demanding your stuff back.

The "innocent until proven guilty" policy is mostly a myth in the USA.
> Isn't there the assumption in this article that tasks will come in faster than one person can deal with them

Yes this is an assumption. This isn't important though - you use a queue when you think tasks will have some level of build-up anyway i.e. the chance of the task being above your processing speed is non-zero.

> Because two ppl working on tasks coming in will be able to respond in the minimal time, rather than them banking up

No - that's not what the article is suggesting at all. It's saying that when you have two workers, the relative probability that both workers are queued up at the same time, causes the loss of the quadratic relationship between latency and N (see formula at the end).

EDIT:

Clarification on the first part. It is not that they will come in faster than the processing speed, but they that they can.
There is no two sources of truth - the paper trail (VVPAT) is the single truth. It is generally used for a sample-based audit of the machine tallies and depending on recount procedures can be used for up to a complete recount if necessary. Where VVPAT and machine tallies disagree, the VVPAT is correct.
According to noted election expert Ioseb Jughashvili, such scenarios are extremely likely under certain sets of circumstances. He's said it's nothing to worry about.
There were rumors back in the day about 8C Ice Lake-S but who knows what Intel would have charged for it.
Right. It's very unclear just what "breaking up the tech companies" really means. There's a few interesting ideas, for sure, but structure change could very well make it worse, not better.

They could start by not putting themselves in the position of being arbiters of information. As Gurri said, a little humility would go a long way.
True, but none of these things exist in isolation. Culture is created by people, it is not a geographical feature like mountains or lakes.

The Silicon Valley wasn't nominated as the tech hub overnight, it became one through an organic process thanks to a mix of good weather, access to capital, a pool of talented employees etc.

Don't take any of that for granted (well except the weather I guess, but with Global Warming and earthquakes who knows).
Not sure if this was sarcastic, but this law will absolutely be loop-holed.

Prediction: Many lower-paid staff will be outsourced (Think Apple and Foxconn; Think big companies and their outsourced cleaning company).

Currently, typically things like cleaning staff, internal mail, dining get outsourced. Expect customer support to also start getting outsourced. The unfortunate thing is that now there would be a middle-person also collecting a spread from the company/worker (but to the company, the spread will be lower than the tax.)
Yah...you're right. I'll see if I can scare it up. It was integrated into MPW.

UPDATE: It gets a brief mention in the "Legacy" section of the MPW Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...

It's obscure for a reason. It was the best back then, but was still a nasty bear.