skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> would the person being bombarded by strangers be able to distinguish?

If it's via email you could see the domain in the email address. Back before email, journalists might contact people via phone, and I'm not sure if it's so easy to tell then. I assume the email/phone call/facebook message starts off with an introduction saying something like "I'm a journalist with such and such a newspaper..."

> does it matter if they could distinguish if the person reaching out is saying they're going to put all their personal information online in an even more digestible format so that more people will harass their parents on Facebook Messenger?

Do you think the personal information is irrelevant to the story? Do you think this is a story that shouldn't be covered? I think it's an interesting story, and giving some info about the characters in the story helps make it more interesting. It's generally considered proper form to contact the subjects of your article, so I would think it would actually be worse if the journalists didn't contact the people in the story. The purpose of putting the info about the characters is certainly not so that people will harass their parents on Facebook Messenger. It's not like they included their email address, phone number, link to a Facebook profile, or physical address. I don't consider stuff on my Linkedin profile to be creepy. My Linkedin profile is my brag page; it would be great if journalists were writing about stuff on my Linkedin profile.

> grifting creeps.

Are they worse than journalists 50 years ago? Would you consider all journalists grifting creeps?
Ask HN: Is it better to consult behind a business name?
I'm planning to start consulting and trying to work through the best marketing strategy.

What are the pros/cons to promoting my personal name/brand vs consulting as an individual behind a business name?

I'm leaning towards the business route as it offers something of a veil of professionality. It's also more flexible in that, if I decide later to bring others onboard, there's no need to later rebrand into a business.

However, it does add a level of obfuscation and I find it more difficult to speak directly to my experience and what I have to offer. I can state all the same things, but the content is buried deeper.

What do you think?
Very interesting idea. Did you come up with it yourself? Would you know how difficult it would be to do right now?
wait why THREE?
This series explains it all

https://youtu.be/p5Wny9TstEM
Most other tech firms make a specific effort to recruit Black people, promote them, and support causes Black people support. Coinbase's position is that while they support those things they want to focus on their cryptocurrency mission. Given that, the expected outcome would be 0 Black people working at Coinbase. If you were black, you'd much rather work for the firms actively trying to recruit and promote you.
My girlfriend is incredibly intelligent, but doesn't care much for computers or programming the way I do and just buys Apple stuff for its "just works" factor.

That said, I was having trouble getting sound working on a Linux laptop one day, and it turned out to be because my user didn't belong to the "audio" group and so didn't have permission to play sound. I explained this to her, and she told me she understood why that would make sense, and why someone would want to design a system to work that way, even though it is not a system she, personally, would use.

Aaaand this is why she is my girlfriend. :)

Not to take away from your wife, I'm sure she's lovely. I'm just glad to be with someone who's both smart and empathetic enough to understand why I do what I do, and why I like the weird computer shit I like. (My girlfriend on the Amiga 500 I bought: "I like this. Why didn't this take over?")
Building a Pandoc filter in Python that turns CSV data into formatted tables
Little yes, little no.

The set of x86 instructions people actually use is sufficiently small that the (ignoring the amortized cost of the rest of the ISA - it should be considered, but we can't really know how much space it actually takes up on the die) the two architectures have, to first order at least, converged such that the tricks are now all in the details like memory ordering and scheduling than the actual instructions as per se.
Not just that but if you live in an American city an eBike can get you closer to that classic "walkable feel" of an older city or a college campus. With my eBike I can get to so many places that are about a 10 minute car ride away.
A destination needs to be 30+ minutes away by car before the eBike just doesn't make sense or if it is raining.
They’re cheap, buy two.
In the context of discussing disabling SELinux:

> NCSC quite rightly state "rooted/jailbroken devices are a threat to sensitive data"

He discredits himself by parroting this, even though he's right that disabling SELinux is a bad idea.
>> Desktop computer systems, especially those based on Linux, are way more complicated than typical personal computers in the 80s and 90s.

Because in the 80s things would boot to a DOS prompt or a basic interpreter and you had to know some commands to type to get anything to happen. Today they boot to GUI with useful applications to run. Well, except for Windows.
They have to be taught, and normies learn about things like this the way they learn about much of the world: through marketing.

If the enormous hypetrain behind Windows 95 did one thing, it was to make "operating system" a household term -- because in order to care about Windows 95, people had to care about operating systems.
Honestly, I have no idea why you would think that, or why you would expect "why don't you come up with a proposal?" to be met with anything other than incredulous fury.

People come up with proposals on how to fix the system all of the time. If you haven't heard of them, that's due to a gap in your reading, not because proposals don't exist. The issue comes down to actually getting people in power who want to make these kinds of changes, something that doesn't happen very often.
Conspiracy theory time: That's not a quirk with our language, there's a deliberate lack of distinction between the country and the people. During the Cold War, you could say "Soviet" instead of "Russian" to clearly demarcate between the nation and the nationality. We don't have a modern equivalent for the PRC, and that's because someone wants it that way. It'd be trivial for a new term to be pushed through media, but it's not being done, even though we clearly need one.
But you can get keyboards for your iPad. I’m using one now, a Brydge. It’s pretty decent. It’s not quite like a full-size desktop keyboard, but typing stuff like this is just fine.
The OP has a "How it works" section that explains they run a (single) Mac OS System 7.5 VM running actual copies of Stuffit Deluxe versions 5.5 and 3.5.

It doesn't sound like any reverse engineering happened.

Is this illegal in some way? I mean, it's not a copyright violation if those copies of Stuffit were licensed and not pirated. Is it some kind of shrinkwrap license violation to put it on a VM that accepts jobs from the public online? I dunno. Probably not? Does it seem likely that a company that no longer makes software for this format is going to come after someone for providing a translation service online for a pretty niche hobbyist audience, that they are charging no money for? Doesn't seem very likely to me, I don't know why they'd do that.
Query search-(“Gayle long” Facebook)
> He just never had any interest in learning about things like file systems and so forth.

Most people (especially today in 2020) don't know what a file is. And that's okay, or great even. A filesystem is a leap yet beyond that.

Apple takes great pains to hide the filesystem from the user in iOS. And that was probably a really, really good move. They have the freedom to change how the internals of devices use files and may have gotten some security benefit as well.

Mobile computing provided a great opportunity to enable some cool tech that breaks backwards compatibility. Like signed bootloaders, indexed-database-as-filesystem, permissions/capabilities. All of these were available on desktop OSs but haven't found a wide audience. Or hadn't, until much more recently. Sorry- bit of a tangent there.

Point being: way back when, in order to be productive with a computer you had to know more about its design. But today, many things "just work" without need to understand how/why.
I’d say they are past cheap VM territory and would be a tier two “cloud” provider, wouldn’t you?
Completely absurd. There is absolutely no evidence that "racism is endemic in the US". These kinds of blanket characterizations, are baseless fearmongering, and are incredibly irresponsible.
They're not journalists because they published too much info? It seems a lot more like journalism than a lot of stuff I see published such as "Top 10 x for you to y with", or simply restating a bunch of facts from a different news article. This involved independent research.
System 6 was pretty much the pinnacle point for combining ease of use with space for tinkering. Something like that (which is what the author seems to be longing for) combined with solid, multitasking underpinnings, would be a welcome player in the current landscape.
Not yet.

"I used to be dismissive about tech issues; I started caring when I realized that tech is where the power struggles of this era will take place." -friend of mine

I love sharing this quote because it is so prescient. Sleep too long, and we may wake in chains.
A salamander growing from a single cell
I was excited for Unity's input system rewrite and hoped that it would allow games to put input events on the wire to the opponent/server as soon as they were received, independently of the game loop. I asked the developer about it and he said "no, it only does part of what you want, and input events for some devices are still processed on the main thread anyway." So it seems like I have to wait decades for Unity to catch up with the kind of thing one can hack into love2d in an afternoon.
> Government usually pays well-below-market salaries

That may be true for base salaries, but if you take into account overtime and pension/health benefits that is not the case. If what you say is true, gov't emplpyees would quit en masse; however that's not happening. I know from personal experience people that get government jobs and act like they won the lottery.

> Public sector unions have almost nothing to do with that, though, since the labor is almost entirely contracted-out (so, private sector unions, to the extent unionized), and anyway the main cost drivers aren't labor costs but MTAs horrible contracting process and NY State contracting rules.

In NYC at least, public projects like subway construction use by law or by convention only union labor. That's a huge cost driver. You are right that that's private unions when it comes to construction, however when one considers the enormous operating costs of the MTA (the other side of the same coin) that's all public unions driving costs up and resisting any modernization that would make the system more efficient.

You are also right that contractor oversight sucks and that's also a cost driver; both are valid issues.
I'm not sure what dreamland the author lived in. Computers today are relatively about the same hassle wise as they've always been. The exact problems may have changed, but I find myself experiencing roughly the same amount of problems with computers as I always have which is basically:

Enough that I always realize they're there and sometimes they annoy me but overall, having a computer and having access to all the awesome things computers can do is worth the hassle.
You had extension conflicts all the damn time. There was a utility called Conflict Catcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_Catcher) that would identify the culprit by doing basically a binary search and turning off half the extensions and rebooting (many times) and noting if there was a crash, and deducing the problem extension that way.

It was kind of like "git bisect" before that was a thing.

This craziness is no longer necessary.

I mean... when you DID get like 20 extensions all running together stably though, it was AWESOME.
I've spoken to multiple people employed at tech companies that believe they were 'token' hires, I can summarize their thoughts as thinking the situation was "awful". Biased hiring practices are in quite a few cases hurting the people they aim to help.
Windows is absolutely more stable now than it was in the 90s. Not even comparable.
Interesting, thanks. I have to admit that it's a bit confusing: GB, UK, England.
All of this is within the context of the "apolitical" statement by Coinbase and those who engaged with the post, which was by and large only the tech industry. I'm not looking to go on a full analysis of "racism in the world" in HN comments today lols
It's Apache licensed and on github, which is substantially different from a lot of systems I see described in papers.
Except when hydro isn't working, and they use filthy diesel generators which are worse than coal. [1]

This is pure fiction.

[1] https://www.hydro.com.au/news/media-releases/2017/09/15/inst...
Correct, I was working in exchange where all of the teams and orgs working on that worked out of a single large repo and never touched other products.
> Will Tasmania outlaw new combustion vehicle sales like many other jurisdictions have set deadlines to?

I'm not sure if they have legal authority to do that. In Australia, vehicle emission standards and design rules are set by the federal government, not the states. If a state tried to set more stringent standards, there is a risk the federal government might argue in court that is invalid as contrary to federal legislation, and there is a decent chance the federal government would succeed.

(Although both Australia and the US are federations, and the Australian constitution is heavily influenced by the US constitution, the balance of power between the state and federal governments is different in each country, so just because a US state can "go-it-alone" on some issue doesn't mean an Australian state necessarily can.)
When does this problem crop up when only dealing with pure ints?
K6 is my go-to for performance testing. What drew me in is that you can convert Postman collections to k6 scripts (https://github.com/loadimpact/postman-to-k6) if you already have Postman collections. If you don't have any Postman collections, you can just start with k6 and you can have a simple script up and running in under a minute. I've used k6 at work and for personal projects testing Scala, Go, and Python (I guess the language you're testing doesn't matter b/c you're just hitting http endpoints). If you're doing testing that requires getting an OAuth token, there's a flow for that. I've had nothing but good experiences and would heartily recommend k6 if you're looking to performance test!
Woah that's incredible!
"The Hennepin County medical examiner said that Floyd bloodwork showed a “fatal level of fentanyl,” according to court documents, but he didn’t say this killed him."

Seems a bit pedantic and disingenuous to say that the examiner didn't attribute the death to an overdose, without providing the above context.

I'm not here to defend the knee-on-the-neck arrest of a handcuffed suspect, but the evidence as it stands holds it as a possibility that he died from the drug use, which still wouldn't justify the completely reckless/inhumane way in which he was restrained.
Thanks for the reply. It's good to see concrete progress away from coal.
Legally, I'm guessing manslaughter. With enough count (thousands!) the distinction fades.

There are laws on the books to charge individual officers for corporate actions, practically never used. They could have been used on paint company executives, who had forestalled a ban, in the '40s, on a promise to phase out lead, and absolutely did not, and tobacco executives, who actively sought to addict children. Arguably, sugar industry executives merit such treatment for actively suppressing research indicating sugar has been directly responsible for millions of deaths, and for heavily marketing to children.

But any bozo who shoots up a bus station apparently merits overwhelmingly more attention, so the executives directly responsible get to retire unbothered to their yachts.
Good idea essentially but what's to stop the scalpers from simply offering them for a fixed high price? As "Buy it now". You can only interfere with those by actually paying.

So I don't think it'll help much. They'll find a way to sell if there's demand. The problem is people paying these prices.
Yes. But mostly due to shielding assets from liability claims. Form an scorp or LLC. Speak with an accountant to understand the tax implications of either choice.

Marketing won’t change much initially. No harm in revealing that your company is still just you.

Good luck!
ah, I would spend hours colorizing icons using resedit 2.1.3. Instead, I should've been out playing balls. lol.

re: the article, as much as I have a lot of fond memories of System 7, I don't think today's modern OS seem that bad.

MS has been trying to abstract away legacy complexity bit by bit, it's very difficult to just throw everything away, the worst one being flaky file sharing functions.

But over time, I'm sure we'll get to better place.
Reading this comment thread from the top, for a moment I thought you were using this oatmeal cream for coffee. Do you? How do you make oatmeal milk (steps, duration, etc.) and what do you use it for? I’m looking for variations that people adopt and how they fare.
You are making my point so well that I'm worried people are going to think you're a sockpuppet.

Obviously, my neighbor should not be called on to answer whatever sins you think the culture has incurred.
the trader
One point in favor of the eBikes is that no matter how hot it got here in Arizona I was able to do some riding every day of the summer. So long as I had enough water and covered up my skin it seemed OK to hit the trails when it was 115 degrees. On a normal bike I stop attempting rides at about 104.
He was obviously sarcastic.
> It would seem foolhardy to lug a crazy-expensive, fragile carbon fiber bike up a stairwell on a regular basis. It would be easy to damage it that way.

Spending $4500 on a bike that would be my daily driver is cheap compared to the car it's displacing.

Not sure where you got your intel about the durability of modern carbon fiber frames, but it would be just fine.
It does not hijack it. OP simply contains bbc.co.uk link, which gets redirected to bbc.com, so when you press "back" you get back to the bbc.co.uk link and immediately get redirected back to bbc.com. By pressing the button twice fast enough you will get back to HN.
I think you could have saved yourself some breath and shown a little sympathy for those who are getting hurt by racism. You can do better. We all can do better.
If you're just going to say "you're a liar", why waste so many words?
Neither the parent nor the GP said anything about Coinbase violating laws. I’m not sure how the legality of their actions is relevant to the discussion.

I don’t think employees recounting their personal experiences while at the company is rumors or hearsay. And the article mentioned many of them had to sign an NDA in exchange for a severance package so I don’t think “reparations” are the goal.
For "TFA", see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

> so could torrent clients, not sure what's different really

This is precisely why the developers' attitudes do matter. The difference is that the BitTorrent community has a well-established permissive attitude toward copyright violations. This is what gives me a high degree of trust that my next distro update won't bring in any new content blocks. I don't have that high degree of trust in the IPFS developers, given the explicit statements made in favor of upholding existing copyright law.

> anything that is linking to IPFS Desktop could easily link to their own distribution of the client as it's all open source

Sure, but getting people to migrate isn't easy. Look at how many people are still downloading OpenOffice vs LibreOffice, for instance: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html
Would a dna testing company based on Europe offer better data/privacy protection?
If only they could make the tires easy to fix when you get a flat. Some of these high end tires are nearly impossible to change when you are out on the road.
Fwiw, in the UK it doesn't get redirected to bbc.com, and "back" works fine.
I am very much in agreement here. At interview time, no prospective employee should care very much about your company; if they do, it's either insincere or pathological. If you're asking them for loyalty at interview time, that's a big blinking sign that you don't know what loyalty is.

But by all means, do hire people who give a shit: people who give a shit about their professional skills, about their self-respect, about the quality of their work and about being good people. Eventually, if your company is good, they will give a shit about that, too. You'll know it's working when they try to change a decision because they care more about doing the job right than they do about your feelings.
News media. See e.g.:

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/news-media/r...

for more information.
The absolute state of Google swe interviews in 2020
How to Study Philosophy as an Amateur
I did come back and see this, so thanks for taking the time to write it up! That's very interesting and useful.
Seems to have had the kiss of death:

Warning: Unknown: Unable to allocate memory for pool. in Unknown on line 0

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Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent in /usr/local/www/mediawiki/includes/WebStart.php on line 63

[..]

Seems kinda weird this stuff isn't cached?
It’s become the go-to load testing tool at my company. Personally I’ve only used it lightly, and enjoyed the experience. And others at my company who do heavy load testing rave about it.
After reading this, I then wanted to reread the response from Coinbase.

It feels very unfortunate that Coinbase's response on Medium has turned off commenting. There is no way to ask questions such as what is the third party firm that investigated and are those results public.

It is funny that Coinbase says we talked to our ColorBlock ERG (the internal diversity group) to hear their comments and questions. Then, the very next sentence says Brian told them what he thinks, but nothing about what they think or had questions about.
Tech is incredibly diverse.. The racial representation in tech is roughly proportional to the racial representation in Computer Science. i.e. it's not racism that is keeping black Americans out of tech, and suggesting otherwise with zero evidence beyond the observed racial disparity is extremely irresponsible.
if the legality is not questioned so what are we talking about?

Public shaming? Making the world a better place via baseless accusations and media witch-hunt?

Coinbase is pre-IPO, considering early 2021 public debut.

This case stinks of extortion of settlement money via very well timed smear campaign.
A short technote on digital state-variable filters
BBC should be doing a 302 (or 301 if you assume people never change countries) redirect. Then the there would be no back button problems. Currently they're serving a page via a 200, then doing a Javascript redirect.
Actually I think what the other poster did is disingenuous, which was to repeat a (false) claim that Floyd died from an OD, and not mention the fact that the medical examiner conclusively ruled he died from a heart attack caused by suffocation, and ruled the manner of death a homicide.