skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't equate codify and automate. That's sometimes a piece of it (automating state changes), but more specifically I'm thinking about all of the validations, human processes, etc that go into customer and sales management. I'd need to think about how slack can "codify communications", but I'm sure there's some people that already have answers for this.

SFDC has one of the most robust APIs I've seen...you can export pretty much everything. I actually really enjoy working with the soql rest API, because it's simple, effective, and discoverable.

The lock-in is instead in their integrations. It is almost guaranteed that there won't be another platform that has all of the integrations you need, so you stick with SFDC. You add more integrations over time and the lock-in deepens.
I can't tell if you're joking, but I'm not confused about my terms nor do I think they are achieving this with thermonuclear bombs.
I vaguely recall a presentation from Leslie Lamport on TLA+/formal modelling. I might get some details wrong here, but a member of the audience asked 'why not describe a system by examples' (implying it's easier to see some example interactions to start with), and Leslie's reply was it's not rigorous precise enough (not to mention he was visibly angry at the question). I agree it's not precise enough, but for someone starting, an example is good enough rather than choking on rigor. Sure, rigor does matter, but allow me some toehold first!

Just like 'no taxation without representation', there should be 'no formalization without insight'.
Nitpicking the Hillel quote, the message is correct but to prevent misinformation spreading on the web I feel like correcting. Hillel is quoted in the Mishna[0] as saying,

"If I am not for me, who is for me? If I am for myself, what am I? If not now, when?"[1]

If Hillel said "if not you, then who?" I have not found a source, but I believe this is a common interpretation of his first sentence. Then again, maybe he was talking about self care and not taking responsibility. I don't know.

[0] Avoth 1.14

[1] Translation by me, the wording is terse and open to interpretation so I tried to be faithful to the text and not inject my own interpretation
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I am a life-time fixer of things. And I support right-to-repair. However, I agree with everything you are saying. Your cellphone example is excellent. I grew up in the 70's and recall how HUGE anything electronic was. Sure, they had piles of discrete, reparable parts, but there is no way anyone would go back to that old tech. It's a wonder how cheap the modern stuff is today... I remember the $4K 1Gb HDD... and now it's pennies. People want cheap and easy and small. The form factor these new things come in form a huge part of their general utility...it's not just good enough to work... it needs to be small, and portable, and pretty, and cheap. In the end, I think some things (like the lawn mower or compressor) can be optimized to be fairly easy to fix...and building them otherwise is just assholery. Some things...well, they are gonna stay disposable. Vote with your wallet people.
A Covid-19 Lockdown Inspired Me to Start My Business
I'm not sure if fraudulent is the word but there seems a trend to apply physics like models (you apply energy x to an object and the temperature increases by y say) to human behaviour (increase interest rates by x and spending increases by y). But human behaviour isn't like that - people do what seems a good idea the time which is a way more complex thing.
Indeed there is no mystery: the article even mentions that the bulk of the effort at NIF is for testing nuclear weapons. Same as it ever was.
and this is whats disclosed to the public
Why are degree requirements so high for nurses? What's with this artificially imposed supply shortage?
At what point does FSF loose it’s credibility? After forcing stallman out or after they release video conferencing, like the rest of the open source world after seeing zoom’s explosive growth?

I have nothing against building a conference system. I’ve done so in the past. What strikes me though is that this is coming from FSF, a foundation about privacy and freedom, not software and services. Am I missing something?
and this probably works with my institution's zoom license?
I've been using MacPorts instead of Homebrew. It seems further ahead on the Darwin AArch64 transition. About 80% of things that I've tried have worked without trouble. Unfortunately, ffmpeg wasn't one of them. I got that working yesterday with libx264 and libx265 integration. Oddly, libx265 installs fine under MacPorts but libx264 doesn't. But I was able to download the latest from git and build it and copy it manually to /opt/local.
But with both the soldier and the doctor/nurse, there is an expected status quo for work vs compensation.

A soldier is aware that the US has been a state of low-level conflict, with sporadic bursts of intensity, since 9/11 (or before). Even in a state of peace, there are dangerous deployments (anecdotally, almost every retired Marine I know has some sort of permanent injury from training - most are of the annoying variety - surgically repaired knees - but some are worse).

A pandemic the likes of which we haven't seen for a century is a change in that status quo for medical providers. It also brings a level of work and stress that simply isn't sustainable, regardless of compensation. A human simply can't sustain 80 hour weeks, no matter how much we pay them. Nobody wants to be stressed out all day long because their patients are being even more moronic than normal (see also: South Dakota nurses who deal with COVID-deniers who are literally dying of COVID).
Whenever I see anything about whatsapp, I can't help but think of it's rather unenthusiastic reception when it launched

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...

And especially his post in 2014 how the takeover deal was interfering with his award ticket

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/952359-tho...
Mainly insuline.

I'm taking semaglutide (brand name ozempic) once a week and it raises your insulin secretion, reducing hunger and fat storage.

My visceral fat was high even though I don't appear fat. This fat is bad for pretty much all metabolic functions.
The labor force isn't a frictionless system. If we decided to double nurse's pay worldwide right now, how long do you think it would take until we have more nurses?
Thanks! I decided to create a new post since we received more information since then, especially the fact that they consider Colombian economy as dangerous or risky as the Venezuelan economy, which is completely nonsense.
It suggests a lack of conscious effort to conduct and observe thoughts and actions in a constructive way. To fall into observed patterns of behaviour without intention is no one’s fault but the one behaving, I would think.

That’s not to say there’s no such thing as influence or persuasion. And those can be powerful. Ultimately we can all decide how we engage with our family, person to person, regardless of how the USA or anyone in the USA indicates.

It’s incredibly important to be aware of that and act accordingly. If mainstream media from another country can change your relationship with your sister, it seems to me that something is wrong. Negative external influences aren’t about to go away, so it’s on the individual to be cognizant and vigilant about responding appropriately.
Nope, just build straight from XCode.
Anyone know how it works? Does it create a virtual camera source that Zoom can source from?
Man, this thread really bringing out the worst of Hackernews and its so disappointing but unfortunately not surprising to see the complete lack of capacity for empathy from some of the other heavily downvoted commenters. Almost everyone who participates on this site is well educated and fortunate enough to understand that people have been putting their lives on the line for months on end to help people through this crisis.

They did not sign up for this an in most cases probably don't really have a choice but to keep working. Health care has always been known as a high stress field, but the last year has completely changed everything even for the people not directly working with Covid patients. Hospitals in America continue to treat employees horrendously while the executives hide out and rake in the big bucks. Maybe a small minority of nurses are earning this "5-10k" but there are probably not as many as you would think. Not everyone can just leave home and everything else behind and work 5-12s in a week.
Good for them, I just use XCode.
The parody "Church of Maradona" (yes, this is a thing!), or Maradonian Church might mark today as a black day, year 60 DD "Después de Diego" or "after Diego" ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_Maradoniana

Poor Maradona holds the record for suffering the most number of fouls in a World Cup – 53, during the 1986 World Cup. He has a tattoo of Che Guevara on his arm, and a portrait of Fidel Castro tattooed on his left leg.-

Controversial figure, certainly to be missed by many ...

He had complete mastery of the ball. When Maradona ran with the ball or dribbled through the defence, he seemed to have the ball tied to his boots.

Discovered at the age of 8, the scouts asked for an ID, thinking they were being had. He played like an adult. Like very few adults, even then.-

Here's someone born with a special gift, of which he gave freely - and, expensively - twice the record holder for the most expensive transfer ever ...

A life well lived. RIP.-
Paddle checkout is down as well (connected to this outage): https://twitter.com/PaddleHQ/status/1331659286649466881
> To achieve anonymity, data needs to be redirected across multiple people so the sender and recipient can't determine who each other of them is.

>

> Redirecting stuff across a longer path than necessary slows things down.

That's skipping past a lot of details. There are still choices there. Freenet traded speed, efficiency and scalsbility for a specific security model. There are anonoyminity systems (e.g. tor) that are much more efficient but have different trade-offs.
> There is a whole lot of citation needed on this reply, not to mention you’re talking about consciousness as something that can be clearly defined and measured.

With sentience it's speculation, and that's part of the point I'm making. I responded to an ethical claim on the basis of sentience (no citation) by bringing to question what it means to be sentient when some beings e.g. insects demonstrate it.

Notwithstanding immeasurability, our perception of this level of sentience is relied on to determine our moral standing. We see this through actions we take for granted.
Apologies—I couldn't tell, and I had that exact misunderstanding. That is an interesting question, though.
It's just something about Matrix. I don't know what it is. I've never opened the app after logging in.

It has a good UX which is rare for open source apps. It seems to be based around a decent community. But I don't know why I don't use it.
RIP Slack
I imagine the fact that it is a facility mostly for nuclear weapons research at a site that does mostly nuclear weapon work means the exact budget is somewhat opaque.
You're taking this to mean far more than it obviously is meant to mean.
Imagine someone trampling kittens and sending the result to random strangers. Sure, you can ignore them... but the kittens would still keep dying. So you report it and hope for the best.

Now change "trampling kittens" for any kinds of unwanted messages.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. And with 2020 shaking up to be one of the "worst years" in history, it is important to remember what we can truly be thankful for.

Tomorrow, give a moment to thank the hard working nurses and doctors who have done what they can to save as many lives as possible in this year. That's what Thanksgiving is all about: even in the worst of times, we need to give thanks to the people who made this year just a little bit less shitty than it could have been.

That's absolutely something to be thankful for. For the 80-hour weeks, for the endless stress, for the worry of contracting COVID19 and spreading it to the ones they love. The frontline workers: be they paramedics, doctors, or nurses, have put in extra effort this year. Their work is usually seen in a negative light (# of deaths), because its impossible to see the converse (# of lives saved).
In the US, the typical citizen commits an average of a felony a day. The legal code and associated regulations are so lengthy no one can read all of them. The tax code alone is 2,600 pages and associated rulings 70,000 pages.

When you have so many laws, they can be applied selectively depending on your political status, or to benefit the regulators or their friends. We just caught the sheriff of Santa Clara extorting citizens for tens of thousands of dollars to get concealed carry permits, which is why many people carry illegally, just like criminals.

Creating a law where non-disclosure of the smallest feature opens you up to government regulators harassment is another avenue for graft and corruption. Like when the EU selectively prosecutes US companies, or US regulators selectively harass companies not in lock step with the current administration.

I think if you really need a nanny state to protect you from your own decisions you should be required to give up all your decisions to the state.
Metadata is more useful than data in the sense that data may be “encrypted” using a different unknown scheme between every two users (e.g. a hitman may discuss “a job”, a bribe might be described as “a gift”, a non public stock tip might be “weather is going to be good tomorrow”).

However, metadata is always what it is. If you have someone who is distance 2 from 20 people who died unnaturally, but not distance 1 - that person is likely related to their untimely death.

The reason metadata is useful is because, unlike the text, it is generally required to be unobfuscated to 3rd parties for the communication to be useful to the 1st and 2nd parties.
Some jobs are hard and extremely strenuous. The least we can do is pay very well for them and make sure that anyone doing the job is well informed of the risks, is a consenting adult, is making the choice freely and not under coercion like threat of being fired.

Very good pay is absolutely an “upside”.

The personal and emotional attacks against OP are totally unwarranted.
This feels both useful (should I need to do desktop FreeBSD) and like a walk down memory lane (from when this was how you had to manage Linux, too). Thank you for both.

And thank you to all the countless developers who have made this level of fiddling mostly a thing of the past. At least this blog did not have to mention modelines.
Cruising along. One issue though is that the integrated knowledge workflow is complex.
From where do you get the energy for indoor farming? Is it more efficient to turn solar radiation with photovoltaic cells into electricity to then turn it back into light before it reaches the leaves of the plants?
I wholeheartedly support nurses and nursing assistances walking away. Because society has shown that we don’t value their work enough to pay them enough to attract people to the job. Nursing homes are run on shoe string budgets, those people changing bed pans are well in their moral rights to strike and demand better pay. I don’t see anyone lining up to do their job.

It’s also a bit rich for people who don’t work these important, getting your hands dirty jobs to judge people walking out on them. It’s society’s moral failing to not properly allocate resources to them.
The opioid epidemic was caused the the corrupting influence of money in the medical profession. And your solution is to remove the only countervailing force - regulation - and turn the whole thing over to money-driven incentives?

I'm sure you're right, and without regulation doctors would be paid less. They'd make it up in direct sponsorships from pharmaceutical companies though.
A domain with a DMARC record specifying a strict DKIM checking policy and an absent DKIM record can't realistically be considered a legacy domain.
There is a keen difference between the Socratic method and infantile requests that you be spood-fed everything.
Is the iCloud bit true?

I've read HN comments about it, but when I've tried to understand it by searching around it looks like it is encrypted end-to-end and in iCloud backup (as long as you're not in China).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209110#:~:text=We%20design....

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

Is there some subtlety I'm missing?

That said, on this particular issue I think FB is striking a pretty good middle ground. Keeping things encrypted end-to-end for users, but allowing users to voluntarily report decrypted messages from their end is a good way to combat child abuse imagery and other illegal content without giving FB or governments back door key access.

I have a friend on the data science team at whatsapp and his team is responsible for combatting child abuse imagery groups on whatsapp - it's a huge problem.

A related comment I wrote when this came up previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553997
I'm referring to the fact that there was no national policy, enforcement and only a waffled set of guidelines. And moreso that the experts were pushed to the side for political expediency. As an aside, I'm a U.S. citizen and will publicly state that I'm going to do more to isolate (and we've already been on the more extreme edge of isolation). We should ALL do more.
It’s a question of the message sent to others: if the unpleasant parts are omitted or excused, there’s a good chance that some people will conclude that those things don’t matter if you’re successful enough. That attitude has negative effects on society since the bad behavior happens even if the success never does.
> The hospital I work for will pay me time and a half to come in after hours and do anything that needs done (moving patients, feeding patients, cleaning rooms), and I'm in IT.

I think it's more along the lines that it's probably cheaper to pay you time and a half given hospital IT pay compared to paying qualified nursing staff to do the same.
Everytime AWS goes down I have to remind people, it always goes down. Diversify your sh*t or be exploited and unavailable. http://tuxlabs.com/?p=430 wrote about in 2016, beware of the centralization.
It’s even funnier when you realize that this was some 4 years into English classes for most of us and we could barely understand the lyrics.
Somehow Zoom made the jump to being a consumer brand because of the pandemic. I never expected it either, since I had only seen it used in the corporate world up to that point.
At least they haven’t messed with Heroku.
A fun read. I do think it's possible to learn this lesson too well, though. Sometimes it really is better to just cut your losses, and the only thing stopping you is pride.
How amazing would it be to grow (regular, not magic) mushrooms in lithiated water? Or have bottled water from a source that contains lithium?
PTSD in healthcare workers is going to be a silent secondary "pandemic" for years to come.
Wish I was in a random bar in Barcelona when that happened. Always a huge pleasure to rewatch it.
I worked on that new Jira UI (codename Bento) and it was a constant source of embarrassment for me. I pushed hard to get the powers that be to focus more on performance and payload, but it was a Sisyphean task. It was perhaps the most demotivating job of my career because I disagreed with virtually every decision that was ever made with regards to that UI, from technology choices (the inane choice to use RxJS despite literally no valid use cases, the 5+ Redux stores in the same page, etc) to UI layout decisions (insane whitespace, the baffling choices about which things go in the right hand gutter...).

The components were mostly handed down to us from a company-wide UI team whose main design goals were to bring commonality across all Atlassian products. This is a worthwhile goal, no one thinks that it makes sense that Atlassian has different editors and even markup languages between (and even within) products. But the result was dog-slow overweight components like the Atlassian editor which tried to be everything to everyone. So when you need to bring in a monolithic highly-customisable 12mb+ component for every text edit field then things spiral out of control quickly. One cool thing, though, is that these components are open source[0]. And it looks like some performance/payload work has been done since I left, thank god.

In my new job I use Jira Server which hasn't been infected with the updated UI, and it's a shame because other than that terrible UI there have been big meaningful updates in Jira. But I'm dreading our inevitable migration to Cloud.

[0] https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlaskit/src/master/
That documentary is awesome. Probably the best player ever and an unique character
> Nothing's ever enough for vegans.

Causing zero harm to animals is enough.

It's totally within reach, too. You just have to take responsibility and DO IT.
As long as it has an OS SDK to make it relevant for tier 1 systems programming.

Meaning coming in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, AMD, NVidia, random IoT OS vendor SDK, with bindings to all relevant OS libraries.

So far, Rust/WinRT seems to be the only thing into that direction, and given how C++/WinRT tooling support turned out, I rather wait and see.
Not sure about the downvotes either. Your comment doesn't read as being any more "spammy" than similar comments hocking self-made projects on HN as alternatives to existing things. This fits my use case - having a team lead that can code and speak fine but has difficulty writing intelligible sentences in English. Sounds useful for e.g. slightly-less distracting pair programming too.
I've been lamenting the increasing difficulty of fixing phones, tablets and ultrathin laptops, and I just concluded that since I can't change anything, I might as well get more advanced tools.

It used to take a few screwdrivers and a soldering iron... well, newer tech is much more complex, so you just need better tools. A heat gun, thermal glue, prying tools, magnifier, a rework station, and you're good to go.

Everything being soldered on one board is a real travesty - a failed system board on a new laptop means you throw away the CPU, GPU, RAM and even the SSD.

That just seems insane to me, a laptop that's a few mm thinner is not worth it, I'd rather have the CPU socketed, GPU, RAM and storage slotted.

People with laptops that use MXM slots are upgrading from Kepler GPUs to Maxwell, Pascal and newer, everyone else is buying whole new machines. What a waste.

But that might actually make it cheaper to fix or upgrade BGA chips since you can buy the whole failed system board pretty cheap. Just gotta have the right tools.
what about steers?