skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is dumb enough to install employer spyware on their phone? If the company mandates such insanity then simply don’t bring your phone to work. The only way this could make any sense is if they provide you the phone AND pay for the service plan.
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Those strange naming choices definitely still have a cost but a lot of effort has been invested in documentation and alternatives to lessen their cost.

The mixed typing is... honestly, it's amazing. You really need to try it out for yourself in PHP7 or 8 - you can lean on really strict type checking in your application, go the old route or generally adhere to strict typing and relax that for entry points and library calls.

Lastly, PHP has come down hard and actually introduced backwards compatibility in a few key places to address some of the biggest WATs, I've been pretty impressed by the balance of the language stewardship.

It does definitely have warts, but there are warts on everything that people actually use in industry.
Forum share, maybe, but it's been and remains an extremely popular language.
If you have a good product new engineers will learn whatever language it is in. This very article is a perfect example. I'm sure Slack isn't hiring kids out of college with extensive PHP experience.
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Thanks for pointing this out. I read this article as "PHP is bad, use Hack instead"
The pushback on ESNI was...telling
It's the equivalent of haggling of the flea market, and being told to give back the goods you are holding because there is no agreement on the price.
I'd say she faced the consequence of not being elected President.

It's true she didn't face jail for multiple reasons (partially including the obvious unfairness of jailing only a former Sec. of State for what, at the time and before, appeared to be something like best practice for the upper echelons of the Executive), but the public appears to have passed judgment on the topic.
Merchant ships are actually pretty cheap. If you think about it, it's mostly steel supporting empty space and a really big engine.

It's not at all unusual for the cargo to cost far more than the ship that's carrying it.
Interesting project but I think others do it better. More contributes is great for the long run though.
It's astounding to me that Thomas Wuerthinger presented this a the JVM Language Summit back in 2009, and a decade later we are still restarting the OOTB JVM on breaking changes.
If the money is never spent, it is worth 0 and doesn't effect the rest of economy.
If Mr Bezos begins to buy every yellow plastic duck at $100, you surely will see their price spiking, until then nothing happens. Same goes with whole economy.
Another way to see it: if Jeff is only allowed to spend $100K/$1M/$10M a day, how his total worth is effecting the whole economy ?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kayak-and-tripadvisor-offering-...
In this day and age I'm not really sure you are free not to do business with them.
The Growing Generational Wealth Gap (1989-2019)
The other problem is that when the short goes underwater (in other words the stock increases) it inevitably leads to them having to purchase the stock at a higher level to pay back the short. That squeeze ends up self-perpetuating.
Such a decision would also screw over EU airlines that still depend heavily on Boeing.
What I meant is, “cancer” mice are carefully bred / engineered to develop cancer. You can imagine their disease dynamics are very different from the normal population of mice who get cancer more rarely (and presumably are eaten first by something else).

Whereas aging, you just let the mice get old. They have “real”, “natural” old age, not an artificial one.
Yep, sorry, didn't meant to suggest otherwise, just fascinating to me.
This is a blast from the past. I remember using at least two of those skins. Winamp had easy to use advanced features. I remember choosing it over the windows player. I eventually picked up a Gigabeat and needed to use both players.

I still don’t know if I would go back to self managed music collections. There is an impulse to do it but I enjoy the near instant satisfaction from Apple Music. The desktop Apple music player however is lacking features and speediness.
This was a super useful article, thank you!!
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No because if you start later you’ll be done later. The vulnerable population is a really small part so the first batch is already big enough to cover that.
From the HN guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Twitter/reddit-style accusations of 'blind passion for [x]' doesn't come across as substantive discussion. If you want to persuade people of your vision for the EU, begin by not casting aspersions on those who disagree with you, the very thing you complain others do to you.

I believe that if you have something worth saying, it's beholden upon you to say it the right way, not beholden upon others to tolerate trolling in order to eventually come around to your point of view. It makes for better quality conversation, something the HN community as a whole takes a certain amount of pride in.

Instead of martyring yourself by welcoming a shadow ban, state your case, back it up, show data, give examples, post news links from verifiable sources, cite relevant reports. You'll convince more people that way. It's easy to throw accusations but harder to make people take them seriously — this is true of any matter, not just the EU.

If your goal is not to convince anybody then feel most free to ignore this olive branch.
Ok, how about governing ourselves? Are we doing a good job?

The U.S. sits atop the world economy, and politically we've been divided over issues like gay marriage and walling off Mexicans. Nobody trusts congress, yet the federal government grows ever more powerful. Corporations have manipulated us into a culture focused on consumerism and greed, half the country loathes the president, health care is a god awful mess, Americans pretty much have no clue imperialistic their country is, we've invented the internet and are along for a ride, at its mercy, etc. And given the unprecedented complex interrelatedness of all this we can make really big mistakes really quickly.

So much of this stuff is effectively already out of control. We are reduced so often to reacting, putting out fires, and more concerned about who to blame. Theoretically we could address any of these problems through reasoned action, but human nature being what it is we don't even seem to agree on what the problems are.
It's true. When one person has a career of public service and the other has a career of real-estate grift, the court of public opinion weighs their actions differently when concrete evidence is lacking.
I think there's a difference between "intent" and "only intent". I don't think Google's M.O is to snoop through all its employees' phones, trying to find reasons to fire everyone.

BUT, I don't doubt that if someone high up at Google wants to fire you (like they know you're union organizing - for example), then they /could/ query your data and /possibly/ find an excuse.
LNG tankers are today’s energy equivalent of station wagon full of tapes. In the future we might do the same by liquefying hydrogen (or ammonia) to distribute energy from renewable-rich countries to renewable-poor ones.
So he doesn't like Linux just because of systemd? In my opinion, that's pretty ignorant. If you look beyond all the drama of systemd vs no-systemd, systemd is actually very useful, powerful and conceptually simple service manager. Yes, it's a "monolith" and "not Unix-y", but from a user perspective it doesn't matter. All that matters is that it's simple to use and reliable. Having been accustomed to systems with systemd, I often struggle to manage Linux systems without it as efficiently. And I don't even have a deep knowledge of systemd, just the basics of service management commands and the structure of unit files.
> Wow, so Apple was ahead of Amazon's Sidewalk with AWDL.

Not exactly. The wording in the article implies that AWDL forms some kind of multi-hop network topology, but it doesn’t - it just enables nearby devices to communicate with each other directly at Wi-Fi speeds without the burden of pairing (like Wi-Fi Direct) or being associated with the same Wi-Fi network.

This is used not just in AirDrop but also in the Multipeer Connectivity Framework, AirPlay 2 and the Continuity framework. The standard discovery mechanism for these services is mDNS over AWDL, so for a device to browse for or advertise these services, it needs to be aware of other nearby AWDL neighbours first. (For example, you can browse for and discover other nearby AirDrop devices even if you don’t allow incoming AirDrop enabled yourself.)

It’s also worth noting that Apple devices very strictly do not send or receive AWDL traffic when they are locked/asleep, and will often even stop listening on the AWDL social channels when there are no services being advertised or in use.
Really cool, got deep in to this theory 15-20 years ago when I was learning to juggle. There was a Java applet visualizer of some sort if I remember correctly.

Now, here's a web-based visualizer for different patterns: http://ydgunz.github.io/gunswap/
Whether or not you realize it your vendors probably do business with Google, so that statement isn't really true.
Sorry, I didn't mean to reject anything.

> Great Britain may have been named after one of the isles

Great Britain is the largest island of the isles. The UK's full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; ie there's no political entity of Great Britain (and never has been).
As someone who can't stand Yarvin and suspects that Urbit's obscurity is a manipulative tactic to dress up ideas that might not seem so interesting (and a product that might not seem so attractive) if they were easily accessible, I still find this comment interesting. Right or wrong, it has some plausibility, and I don't see why it should be buried.
As a category, American companies are the most profitable in the world, so they’re doing something right.
It's not even that natural; with a new baby in the house I've really grown to dislike Alexa just for how much I have to yell at it. We're not a loud household, but talking to Alexa is like talking to my grandfather without his hearing aids. Everything has to be said at least three times, in increasing volume levels.
In your specific example, the company is very interested in the ensemble average of their products growth rates, because that represents their rolled up revenue growth rate at a point in time (weighted by sales of each, of course).

An alternate example is the ensemble average of all corporate bonds in a particular ETF. People who hold that ETF are very interested in this number, because it represents the interest rate that they're earning when they hold that basket of bonds.

In both examples they are also interested in the geometric (time averaged) growth rate as well, because that represents their steady state earnings over time. What they really care about, in both examples, is the time-averaged rate of the ensemble rates.
Group of U.S. Representatives unveil stablecoin-focused legislation (STABLE)
No, I don’t think the UK is cutting any more corners than the EU. That’s not the same thing as being ok with cutting corners.
Subsides for the green energy were/are significant factor in energy prices in CA. If we got to the point that the green energy is price competitive we should see the decrease either because we do not need to subsidize or because the generation is cheaper.
Assuming pi is normal, the odds are 59.3% for any run of 5. The odds of two specific runs of 5 in 100,000 digits is (rough guess) between 3.5% and 10%.
There's no reason to expect a forum to be separate from the division in the larger society.

Fora are populated by people, after all.
>Are you kidding? Salaries have never been higher in tech. Senior engineers make more than $400k (sometimes way more) at Google and other large companies.

and they would be even higher if google and apple didn't conspire to force them lower.
How hard could it be to find? Can't you ask your friend who's a business owner to tell you the rate?
As with software, restarting from scratch can introduce many, many bugs.

Boeing planes are super safe from millions of flighthours and the learnings and failures from before. The older aircraft annealed into a state of safety and reliability from known-ness.

"fully redesigning," introduces a lot more risk.
...there is still a tiny bit of cleartext access, because some clients have URLs embedded in spreadsheets and support would rather not hear from all of them at once.
No, the idea that everything is an "opinion" is dangerous. This feature was workplace surveillance. Donald Trump lied about winning the election, he did not "make misleading statements" or the other weasel words I've seen some newspapers use. That VC on Twitter is "rich," not "privileged" or "fortunate."
Ruby on Rails lives inside a long-running application server. In development, it has dynamic class loading and will reload on file changes, but in production an app can have a lengthy startup time. It does have the memory problem, but I have never seen the server crash outright as a result of an exception while handling a request.
Yes. Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay.

Apple's involvement was particularly egregious: they threatened to destroy adobe with spurious patent litigation unless they participated. Google executives also explicitly acknowledged that there actions were illegal and directed staff to keep discussions about it out of email.

The companies basically got a slap on the wrist: the settlement was a tiny fraction of direct saving the cartel members enjoyed from wage fixing. Almost no incentive to not do it again, just next time don't leave emails explicitly acknowledging your criminal activities.

Their actions didn't just hurt their own employees, they depressed wages industry wide. After the scheme stopped these companies reset their pay scales. I got a substantial increase in pay even though I was not working for a participating company and worked on the clear other side of the country (I worked for a company HQed in Sunnyvale and who heavily competed in that job market).
Tim Cook likely has a human Siri.
OK. But you should have said Bing
It's real. You can find the former CEO on LinkedIn.
I bought some great carbon steel knives from a little 1-man shop called Shigeharu in Kyoto a few years back. Supposedly dates from pre-1390. Feels like owning a piece of history. Was very much wondering what would happen to the shop in the future as the owner/knife-maker was quite elderly.

https://openkyoto.com/real-kyoto-knives-aritsugu-knives/
The address space is scarce (not dissimilarly to ipv4). Ethereum is used to map address space to owners and activities like transferring ownership. Urbit processes listen to an Ethereum gateway to learn about ownership changes and address lifecycle events ("breaches"), there aren't other "transactions"/fees involved in the protocol/implementation.

This part of the project is called Azimuth - and can be used for other things: https://github.com/urbit/azimuth
Workflows Are the Future of Automation
On the other hand, what does "real contrition" even mean for a corporation?

A corporation isn't a person. Decisions are made by 100's or 1,000's of individual managers, each of whom join and leave over the years. CEO's enter and leave. Board membership changes.

Accountability comes from people not buying a product. Or from a government fining them $$$$.

I'd ask you, why do you think a voluntary statement of "contrition" from one of a corporation's single employees means anything at all?

(I'm playing a little bit devil's advocate here, but I think it's worth remembering that corporations aren't people and shouldn't be treated as such.)
> Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health.

Well, I think state corruption was already prevalent before COVID-19, but point taken.
Depositions don't assume you are honest.
The source of that problem was the price for consumers was fixed by the government, while the utility was obliged to pay whatever the wholesale price was.
I've used a lot of PHP in my life and now feel Go is better suited for my needs. My gut tells me Go libs are written by professionals, while there is a ton of PHP code written by amateurs to contend with. I'll know more once I get further into Go.
> In one system you get to be crammed into a little train car with dozens of other people, in the other system you have some privacy and personal space and a seat...

If you have enough money for both options, then it's not surprising that the option which costs at least an order of magnitude more provides a slightly more comfortable seat.
For PDFs, how does it (does it?) deal with for example, when phrases get ripped apart by the layout? Like if you search for a multiple word phrase, it's often foiled by word wrap or being in a table.
I, for one, would 100% support honorable people staying instead of quitting to minimize the damage Biden does.

When a President is a leader and not a demagogue, that is called "Surrounding oneself with a good team."
Do you have a source for that? I’m pretty sure the EU got the same information in advance, they say on the EMA website. Why would they not?
> This fishing practice has been banned in New Jersey

No, non-medical fishing is banned, they are still harvested in NJ for crab blood.

If we switched to using the synthetic alternative, fishing would be allowed again and we'd be catching them to grind into bait and fertilizer like in the old days.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/coronavirus/2020/09/2...
Rooftop solar still have 5+ years ROI. Recently utilities changed billing plans to make it even less attractive.
Ahh well I would say that while Philips Hue (name brand) does work well, it is too expensive for the value provided -- by about 2x to 3x. If they were half their current price then I would recommend them to affluent friends and family. If they were a third their price I would recommend them to even the less affluent friends and family. Even then it's significantly more expensive than a plain light bulb (even LED ones) but for that you gain colors and ease of remote use.

I have some colored lights from Eria that have about as good color spectrum and integrate with Zigbee base stations. They were about 1/2 the price of Philips Hue. But the downside is that they don't integrate with Apple Home. Apple Home (and Siri) only recognizes the expensive Philips Hue lights even though the Eria ones are connected to the same Philips Hue base station. So with the Eria lights I just change the colors manually with a third party app on my phone.

And as a bonus as a developer: Philips Hue has an API to work with the devices connected to the base station. It's super fun to tell coworkers about a script that sets my lights in the office (and visible in video meetings) to red because the server in the living room is having trouble. ;)
Yeah but what is solar energy? Nuclear.
Isn't that very close to how a normal electricity marketplace would work? The consumer mostly doesn't care if they got their electricity from renewables or not, so they pay the same price.
That seems like a rare reason for the story to seem suspicious. Predating the religion that they mostly work for. I bet they started out as a general purpose carpentry/construction company (I mean it was 588, they probably didn't need civil engineering licenses), and specialized to what what was getting them money.

"Not sure if this new religion will work out, but we could always go back to making tables" - Them, probably.
I wonder how communities like the Amish fit into the larger scheme of things. It seems like they've decided to ignore anything later than the 1700's technology. Are there other groups with different technology cut-off dates? If not, any theories as to why not? Do you need a religious component to keep you cohesive over the generations? I think I might be OK with regressing to a 1980's level of technology. I wonder how large of a group of people would you need to be mostly self-sufficient at various technology levels. It seems like you might need a lot of people, if you wanted to have even very old-school integrated circuits. Probably quite a bit fewer if you only had discrete transistors. It seems like sustaining at a previous level should be easier than inventing it in the first place, since the knowledge is already available. And you could siphon off a bit from the more advanced society (e.g. you can potentially use scrap materials left over from the advanced society, instead of maintaining your own mining technology, etc.). And you could still have some (lopsided) trade between the societies (anyone want a bespoke Walkman produced by a skilled 1980's artisan?). Any thoughts on the estimates below?

- 1700's, 100's of people in your community (crude metalworking)
- 1800's, 1000's of people in your community (machines needing more metalworking and machining skills)
- 1900-1940, 100,000 people (radio)
- 1940-1980, 1,000,000 people (TV, automobiles)
- 1980-2000, 10,000,000 people (personal computer, mass air travel)
Do you have a version that works with DOS pipes? I have to resort to an older grep version if I need to do something like:

dir *.c* | rg somesubstringinfilename
The idea is that they're serving as passive, dispassionate observers. They tell you what their sources told them.
The DNS encryption efforts only protect part of the DNS query/response transit across the Internet, the packets from the recursive resolver to the root servers are still unencrypted.

In addition, IP addresses are unencrypted and that can reveal a lot of information. Basically the planned SNI/DNS encryption is only going to be useful for websites hosted on global CDN providers and other centralised hosting.

"What can you learn from an IP?" https://irtf.org/anrw/2019/slides-anrw19-final44.pdf

Edit: then of course there is the whole BGP thing.
And well done for you, I use Azure. Let's give us all a pat on the back.
Is it intended that the website of the bank has several typos? And yes, I do mean the real website. "Correnspondant" and "sreamlined", for example.
When it comes to organizing Sprints, I want to get automation maxed out there. Managers usually want to do things "their way" but I think the mechanics of Sprints are well enough understood to just go by the process and enjoy it.

On the other hand I think it's good to have a manager to talk to, also someone that deals with conflicts at work and someone who is able to reverse toxic dynamics. No way this can be automated in foreseeable future and neither do I see that "self-organized teams" find any way to solve this. Also dealing with product requirements is hard to automate.
> Somewhat unrelated comment, but the fact that PHP got so good and most people are still not willing to give it a second chance goes to show how hard it is for a language to regain market share after people left for greener pastures.

I guess some of the reasons why some devs would not chose PHP (horrid syntax, std lib mess, stupid error reporting system, language inconsistencies, the very existance of php.ini, overreliance on C extensions for speed ...), haven't changed. As companies move to single page applications backed by javascript and REST API, PHP CGI style classic execution model provides no advantage, when it comes to generating or serving web content.