skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There’s definitely closed platforms both hard and soft but the web still exists and general purpose computers are still available... The romanticized “old web” was just a product of massive selection bias that still exists. If you want that experience it is still out there.

Honestly, I think this is somewhat of a misnomer. You're correct that you can decide to host your own Mastodon instance if you like. But on what?

If the open web really depends on general purpose computers, then it's somewhat disingenuous to suggest that people should just spin up instances on some cloud provider, because that locks people into that cloud provider. The old web didn't have that property - if you used a colocation provider and wanted to switch, you drove down, picked up your hard drives, and left.

The real reason why the internet centralized was because decentralization was never truly feasible. ISPs almost never granted static IP addresses to residential customers. Today, even residential fiber connections often don't offer symmetrical speeds. And why not? Because regulators never required it of residential ISPs. You can't sell a networked appliance that preserves user ownership and control on a remote-access featureset if your market doesn't have access to ISPs that will permit that! Is it any wonder that most "smart home" appliances and gadgets connect out to a central remote service to offer access outside the home?

The old web may have seemed decentralized, but it was never democratic. It had many "centers" that were non-corporate (and so, never aspired to reach the size of Facebook etc.), and with a strong selection bias for people willing to deal with colo-providers and shared hosting. Forget the decentralized web - we will never have a democratic web until people have been empowered to treat service hosting the way we think about our other rights secured under the Fourth Amendment - our persons (i.e. biohacking), houses (i.e. home appliances), papers (i.e. our personal data), and effects (i.e. wearables, automobiles).
“Vitamin D” Research
sshhhh... don't leak our plans for the fusion powered orbital rail gun platform - its top secret!
The OP mentioned the doctor firewall. I don’t live in the US and have the same firewall.

It’s not a uniquely American issue.
Doing my own in Perl5 for the sport!

Gl.
Unless that's a pointed jab at me not having read the article or comments (which I have) I'm not sure what you're getting at.

The article mentions plenty of places where web viewership is effectively gone. So what is the point in trying then?
Wonder how he'd hold up in a modern programming interview.

I'd say 75% chance he'd be thrown an obscure curveball and be completely written off by the hiring company.
FYI, lots of freelance and professional digital artists who draw for a living are using the $50-150 models which don't have displays to great success. I have one of those (old Wacom Bamboo Capture, no longer sold) and it's more natural than it sounds to make drawing motions with your hand that are rendered on your computer monitor.

Unless you have reason to believe the person who made the Christmas request expects a present with $300-$5000+ price tag or specifically wants one with a display, they're probably thinking about the screenless ones (especially if they don't already have a drawing tablet). In that case, they'll likely be very happy with any Wacom model - Wacom Intuos is currently the popular one.

As for the price and functionality - the really expensive ones are targeted towards full-time corporate professionals who sit in a room and churn out art all day, and their company will happily shell out $5k for top-tier equipment for them (the artist version of a Bloomberg Terminal haha). The $300-500 ones with screens are priced like regular tablets because that's kind of what they are, just specialized for drawing with a pen. The $50-150 ones focus on the pen input itself and don't deal with the complications of having a screen, making them simple tools that enable digital drawing (it's much more tedious to draw with a mouse than a pen). Their price is the baseline for this category of tooling, as even those basic tablets have a variety of features like pressure sensitivity, high precision, side buttons, etc. which mostly justify the price tag.
I save a history of comments with a few contacts simply because new share a lot of links or references, so it's valuable to have that history. Most conversations don't matter but l search for a conversation that happened two years ago on a regular basis. And quite frankly it might be faster to ask the person again, it's also a way to annoy the hell out of them
The thing that has really surprised me is that public health officials are expressing so much confidence that masks work, despite the evidence being quite meh [1]. There have been many attempts to demonstrate that masks prevent transmission of flu and overall the results are weak/negative. The focus on masks has trade offs. People have finite attention, so the focus on masks diminishes the attention we apply to other interventions.

[1] https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/co...
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Interesting I don't have a degree, job title/paid as SWE but don't think I can call myself one(lack of degree) so I identify as SWD used to be "full stack" but idk anymore. Eventually I'll just be "hermit in desert".
Thanks for your kind words, made my day :) Glad to hear you liked it!
I know from a mathematical perspective this works in order to ensure that the company can be profitable at some point but a part of me wonders if it’s really necessary.

I’ve never had a positive interaction with a sales person.

But I’ve had countless positive interactions with customer support reps.

One is over paid, the other under paid. If companies just created a sales team from their highest performing customer support reps and didn’t give them quotas or bonuses I think the model would still work as well from a revenue perspective, drastically reduce costs, and also lead to less irritated customers as no one i know looks forward to any sales call, ever.

Ok, broad generalization but you get the idea.
Is technology more into business or to help humans achieve greater discovery?
does technology has been a business rather than a tool to improve for the human beings ?
I can't say I really love any of them. But I think my favorite is "dev" because it is short and pretty unambiguous (afaik). The problem is it isn't a widely used term outside the industry, so when I talk to acquaintances who probably wouldn't know what I mean by "dev", I say "programmer", because most people seem to have some idea of what that is (even if that idea is very different from reality).
Hey, so, I get the sentiment, and I want to thank you for that.

I also want to point out that that sort of thinking also is what traps people in abusive households etc..

If anyone is reading this and all you have is a roof over your head and food on the table, that doesn't mean you have to be happy like that.

(Sorry if I'm overstepping).
> Isn't Africa doing surprisingly well?

I've always wanted to ask someone personally: why is the fact that African nations haven't been overrun by COVID-19 surprising?

I mean, I live here and I'm certainly very pleased that we've had such positive outcomes. But the constant tone of surprise from foreigners was funny at first but is now mildly annoying if I'm being honest; not you, obviously, but I've read one too many op-eds that seem somewhat upset that we aren't dying in droves.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdiSanGogSQ

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Look past the formatting and design and there’s a very well researched and referenced resource here for those new to the benefits of Vitamin D3
lets just say you can't put your hand near it or you'll get a pretty bad ouchie
There's a reason medical tests aren't made easily accessible. The science of when regular testing something helps is complicated. If you test for things that are rare you might cause more harm than good by doing mass testing, because you might overwhelmingly treat people with false positive test results.

There's a lively debate around various cancer screening initiatives, which often don't have any good evidence that they overall do more good than harm. The same mechanisms are true for lots of other medical tests.

Ultimately a medical test should be treated like any other medical intervention: Only do it if you have scientific evidence that it helps the patient.
That one time will also need to be consensual.
I'm not saying the term is incorrect at all, but my worry would be that others would consider it pretentious as their first impression.
Could AI be the future of bike race coverage?
Even after watching these videos and reading lots of articles on the topic, I still find the full C++ memory model extremely hard to understand. However, on x86 there are actually only a couple of things that one needs to understand to write correct lock free code. This is laid out in a blog post: https://databasearchitects.blogspot.com/2020/10/c-concurrenc...
This is an example of why I cannot take tech journalism serious anymore.

Not only can it name privacy and camera surveillance in a sentence without any further comment, it also blindly praises "innovation".

The ID service is nothing special, maybe the idea about tokenized mail, but even that is not that much of a feature. As a developer I don't need to save a mail the user used for registration, I can ask the ID service in question when I need it. Of course you could implement a permission request for the user to allow such access, but that is neither innovative, nor very practical for most services.

> Apple’s work with camera providers is also unique – providing actual on-device analysis of footage captured by third-party partners

Privacy...

> That’s going above and beyond simply protecting your data

This is either satire, the wording suggest as much, or just bad lying. The author did work for Apple PR. Allegedly that is not currently the case anymore but the article is from 2019. Or maybe the "training" is forever.
It's more like shouldn't than can't. Legally, you are not supposed to. However, many people do and enforcement is not as strict as you might expect
I completely agree with that but my angle was slightly different. Burrito monads are the prime example of what not to do, but my university course on category theory didn't start with the lecturer throwing out definitions, it started with an explanation in plain English (well, it wasn't English but you get the point :)) of what the theory is trying to accomplish. I'm completely behind the Dijkstrian viewpoint that computing is a radical novelty in itself, but I don't see why trying to explain the purpose of what you are doing is bad.
To make a more low-level example, pretty much every explanation ever of the concept of R-module started with 'we are trying to generalize the concept of a vector space to sets that have a ring structure but not a field structure', not 'here, have a bunch of axioms'.
Apple's angle here is that everybody who needs a Mac has to buy or rent one. That seems super obvious.

It also happens to align them with people who are in the business of selling or renting Macs, sure. But the point is not to screw AWS or MacStadium's competitors. The point is to sell Macs.
Engineer if I'm working on backend/hardware as it's my actual education and experience. Programmer if it's frontend / system admin as I'm really just winging it as required.
The design of ITER was finished in 1998. Technology have changed a lot since then,although no one have built any near the size of it because of the expenses that are pretty much guaranteed to not give any money back.
This is interesting. Forms are somewhat pain always. Formspree is pretty good from my perspective, but for more simple use cases. Have to keep in mind that Keenforms is out there as well!
I’m not sure what line of work you are in, but I will humbly suggest that you probably have not worked with a good sales person.

Good sales people (perhaps mostly from good orgs) are typically very welcomed into an org because they will help solve problems or point you to solutions if they don’t have it themselves.

These are the sales people I know who make the most money, and it’s fairly effortless for them since they know their business well.
The reactor Five at Chernobyl with a drone
Interesting piece on Overwatch. Never expected to see a danluu and Overwatch crossover. I am an ex-top 500 player in Overwatch. When I think back on it to become really really good (top 500 good) you need to just grind it out and win more than 50% of your games. Then, in the long run (I played thousands of games) you will become the best. You just have to improve and keep grinding. Every game should learn you a new lesson which you should apply to your next one. That's how I became top 500 :)
The disagreement fundamentally is about whether there is grave danger.
> Sure Intel and AMD may simply begin to sell whole finished SoCs. But what are these to contain? PC makers may have different ideas of what they should contain.

There used to be many competing CPUs with different instruction sets. I personally used z80*, 6502, 680xx, 80xx, Alpha, one from HP and who knows how many others. Add PowerPC and was Itanium a not x86 CPU? Then we almost standardized on one for a long time, plus ARM lately. No reason for we won't standardize on one SoC. It could be everybody buying only Apple computers (unlikely) or some company winning the forthcoming SoC wars. Or business as usual and stay on the current general purpose architecture forever, which is also unlikely given the optimization advantages of a SoC like the M1.
In German, "Entwickler" (developer) seems to be most common. Avoid everything with "code" particularly if your, say, aunt asks what you do for a living because code sounds like "Kot" which translates to "shit". (Example: "Today, I had to delve deep into someone else's code.")
Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever
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I dropped out of uni to become a professional developer or programmer. Many friends and coworkers who did similar things call themselves engineers, but personally I find it a bit pretentious since CS / computer engineering education is almost purely theoretical in my country (it's more of a maths degree with a couple of programming subjects).
Software laborer (or software day laborer if you're a contractor) - without a governing body calling yourself an engineer seems disingenuous, and developers develop film.
Software Developer as per company internal title, although I am a professional engineer inscribed in the Engineering Order of my home country, where it is illegal to pimp up oneself with engineering on the title just because one feels like doing it.
Calendar Driven YAML Engineer.

I saw somebody else say this somewhere, it felt fitting.
It’s valuable if you learn something. But not in the eyes of employers.
You won't see the mainstream media publicize any non-vaccine solution because they're in the business of fear-mongering and because they have a chummy relationship with big pharma.
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Evidence is not provided since it's not dying. With the sentiment that the title suggests is really easy to attract attention compared to a happy and optimistic title which says the everything is fine.
Russian civilians can be asked a few easy questions, like - what happened in February 2014, or what happened in August 2008, or what is administrative status of Crimea. And this answer will help you understand should they be hated or not.
Most of them, even highly educated citizens living in a capital, even those who hate their so called "president" and asking for reform, they still approve russian invasions and occupation of territories. Basically the "Empire" part is just fine, they only wish to be left alone personally.
Apple expands partnership with RED to combat HIV/AIDS and Covid-19
When doing recursion (Postgres recursive CTE) I keep a path on the latest edges and check to see new edges aren't already visited, so same nodes can appear in multiple branches but not on the same branch. Works flawlessly.
Why doesn't Disciplined Agile use the term “predictive”?
This is not Twitter. Please do not make personal attack on others.
Aren't rural areas also the ones with more murders per capita and more shooting deaths, mostly due to large prevalence of guns and bad economic situation?

As in, the urban ghetto is often stated, but rural parts do come up in stats quite a lot too.
Well, but it was over 20, maybe over 30 years ago. I understand your anger.

Imagine, the UK would adapt this rule.
But it does exist.
I get the general premise but in reality when it comes to software or hardware sales I’ve never experienced that personally.

Cofounder of Digitalocean, so I’ve gotten pitched by hundreds of sales folks on the tech side of things.

On the consumer side I did happen upon one or two great car sales folks that followed that model of a great sales person.
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The Web itself remains, and so does the freedom to write compatible code.

This wonderful, miraculous platform has remained stable enough over this time for me to be able to plan ahead and not be caught off-guard by something like “we’re deprecating version 2.0, please use new version 3.0 syntax” or “your platform is now obsolete, please switch to the new HTML.NET”. The W3C gang tries, and they fail, because HTML is stronger and bigger than them. The Web is stronger and bigger than all of them combined.

Many have tried to contain it, to own it, to be the main one calling the shots, and HTML laughs in all their collective faces. All thanks to its basic concept of “be strict with yourself, and accepting with others.”

Mosaic was the first browser for which “best viewed with” buttons were used. They failed to own the Web. Then came Netscape, “Mosaic killa”, and they managed to kill Mosaic, but they failed to tame HTML, because HTML will not be owned. Netscape was destroyed by Microsoft-IE, who also wanted to tame and own HTML, and they also failed, because HTML is not ownable.

Then Firefox came and fucked up IE, and things were good for a while, Mozilla was a decent steward. Then Google came and took ownership of Mozilla, and together with Chrome they also tried to tame HTML. They will fail just like the others. HTML cannot be tamed or owned. The Web was built for freedom.

If you want composable, future-proof GUI, open up your notepad.exe and write this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello, World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
<p>
This is demonstration of
proper composable,
future-proof, accessible GUI.
</p>
<form action="/">
<input type=text
size=80 name=comment>
<br>
<input type=submit value=Go>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This GUI will work as expected and render in 25+ years worth of platform. And it could have been composed by a 10-year-old.
I vividly remember a video interview with Steve Jobs from a long time back when he was clear that Apple is not a hardware firm, it’s a software firm, and admitting that it took him far too long to realise that.

So this is hard to defend other than gouging.
I disagree.

I'm pretty sure that MacStadium didn't limit their rental to one customer per hardware box out of spite for their customers, but because that's what Apple expected of them. So their were being held to a higher standard than some of their competitors, who had much higher profit margins by putting multiple customers on one machine.

So I think he is justifiably happy that Apple created a fair competition by clearly spelling out the legal rules for everyone.

The fact that Apple's official rules are close to what they were doing adds additional credibility to this interpretatio, because it suggest that they were following Apple's guidance before it became legally easy to enforce

I wouldn't put any blame for how these rules look like on MacStadium, because if Epic cannot negotiate with Apple on eye level, I'm confident that MacStadium never will. It's probably more like they received their future laws as dictated by their fruit-shaped God.
> And black people are disproportionately impacted by COVID.

Only on America. You say it like it's the case in the whole world.
M1 is an awesome processor, but it does not "reset the bar" for high performance systems used by creative professionals.

Sure it does.

The article I previously posted talks about Hollywood studios replacing high-end hardware with M1 Mac minis.

For editing 8k video with FinalCut Pro, a 16Gb M1 Mac mini is going to be faster than machines that cost 2-4x as much.

That's a big deal. Remember, video effects and graphics editing software uses the 16-core Neural Engine, which the software professionals use—FinalCut Pro, Logic, Affinity Photo, etc.—take advantage of. Adobe's apps aren't far behind.

And that's on top of the 8 core CPU and 8 core GPU which rivals dedicated graphics cards.

A college student now has access to the kind of video, graphics and sound production and editing capability that required a $4000 or $5000 workstation a few years ago.

However you want to phrase it, these Macs are in the process of changing the game.
Apple PPE donation helps Zambia in the fight against Covid-19 and HIV
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this.
Show HN: LPLiquidSwiftTabBar, an animated iOS tab bar built in Swift
QEMU Advent Calendar is still open for contributions! Check out the announcement for details on how to add your disk image:

https://www.qemu.org/2020/11/26/qemu-advent-announce/
That argument alone should suffice. Down that path lies trying to lock down other people's devices, people complaining that they deleted a message but others have screenshots, etc.

Once you've sent a message, the message is sent. Once it's on my device, it's mine. If you don't want someone to have a message, don't send it.
I second this. Even though it's an out of tree project, ZFS on Linux has always been much much more stable and reliable than Btrfs, as far as my experience goes. The only time I really managed to screw a ZFS pool was because of the buggy controller on a dirty cheap SSD.
Building and growing a crypto job board [audio]
Afaik, personal conflict and relationships are most common reasons for murders. It is less likely to be business nowdays and more likely that someone violent with poor impulse control got angry at friend again.
and one prominent topic where it is obvious is mask usage.
"shell=True"? Sloppy, mate, sloppy. Get in the habit of never doing that lest you find yourself vulnerable to a shell command injection attack one day.
What It Was Like to Be Mark Zuckerberg’s Classmate at Harvard (2015)
People suggest, often, that Signal is the usable successor to encrypted email. If it loses data by default, it isn't a viable replacement.
The human side of AI for chess
Finally, this means we've a way to share "real" filesystems on both FreeBSD and Linux. The only other filesystems you could open without issues on both are FAT and NTFS (thought NTFS-3G), both of which are less than ideal for data you care about.