skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only a few weeks ago they wrote a letter (https://blog.travis-ci.com/oss-announcement) that said "Open source accounts, as always, will be completely free under travis-ci.com."

Their home page at travis-ci.com still says:

> Testing your open source projects is always 100% free!

> Seriously. Always. We like to think of it as our way of giving back to a community that gives us so much as well.

That is simply not what's going on. As far as anyone can tell, they are offering some OSS which meet specific criteria (including no company funds any part of it, including paying people to work on it(?!)) free minutes in fixed monthly allotments, which you have to keep asking for every month. And there are only so many total minutes they are willing to give out, which apparently have now been frozen.

How can they have written a letter only two weeks ago saying "Open source accounts, as always, will be completely free under travis-ci.com"? How can their home page still say "Testing your open source projects is always 100% free!"??

At this point, it is hard to explain it as anything other than intentional manipulative dishonesty.

I don't understand why they don't just say "Yes, we can no longer provide free open source accounts." They aren't actually fooling anyone, I mean people notice that they don't have free accounts anymore, right? It is a weird attempt at some kind of reality distortion.

I guess you could try replying: "Credit allocation"? I don't understand, Paul Gordon wrote on Nov 24 "Open source accounts, as always, will be completely free under travis-ci.com." Is this not true?

I'm kinda curious what they'd say, but I guess it's just torturing poor support staff whose jobs probably aren't going to last either.
> The rockets on Starship re-use the gas that drives the pumps, pushing them into the combustion chamber

How is that possible? From a total layman's point of view, the pressure in the combustion chamber should always be greater than whatever the pump can put out, thus leading to a pump stall... what am I missing?
It was one of the most complicated pieces of malware at the time of its' discovery, much less its' earlier release. It wouldn't have been found had parameters been updated to work on more hardware variants.
The channel has many videos with pedestrians such as in front of a Costco or busy stores, Waymos encountering weird construction setups sometimes leaving no full lanes available, and might have encountered bikes. Also, there are some during busy times instead of sleepy suburbs though admittedly not New York-levels of crazy.
My issue usually has been with random indie games just refusing to work. Like Party Animals, which either refused to launch for me or my friends or had horrible performance. Among Us as well.

Also any multiplayer competitive games that use anti-cheats are impossible to play. Valorant, for example.

IMO it is well worth it to maintain a dualboot for windows games.
If need be you could always just define a lisp interpreter.
The Russian version simply adds a CSS section for JS developers and an extra page at the end of the first section, I don't know if the content of the chapters differs from the English version.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot! Definitely going to read some code as well, which I suspect will also provide more insight!
What would you know about production networking, Jeremy?

I'm in the same boat. If the dozens of IT pros who are complaining about this can't get AT&T to swap out a single router card, what hope do most folks have?
I tried Stencil a couple of years back in order to move away from vanilla web components which can get pretty complicated fast with any level complexity. Unfortunately, I found the build tools messy and far too opinionated, so had to abandon it. Ended up going with lit-element and the work being done at https://open-wc.org/, which I found is a nice middle ground.
As in to actually sign up to be infected?
The counterargument is that Apple is not at fault for its own success, and it would be anti-competitive to hamstring Apple simply because its ecosystem is profitable. The company clearly does not have market control in personal computing hardware, and competes with Samsung and others in the mobile device market, so what exactly is the reason that Apple can't try to convert its platform into a conduit for services revenue?
I grew up with electric, and I've used gas a fair bit in my adult life. I feel like if I could choose only one, induction would be the winner for almost everything. The one exception I can think of is my wok - I'd have to start using a flat bottomed wok, and couldn't tilt it to move the heat onto the side, or lift it a few inches to lower the heat level.
god forbid infra has some infra on it
If you have AT&T fiber, run the script in the linked gist:

https://twitter.com/bmastenbrook/status/1335400747794530304

It loads http://example.com and https://example.com and compares the result (should be equal) in a loop, and then reports if it finds a difference. I'm seeing multiple bit flips in the unencrypted version, and having a lot of issues loading web pages, presumably because a corrupted packet in a TLS handshake is an error and the connection dies.

Tech support, even when Twitter accounts with a lot of followers message them, is completely useless, they just say that they don't show any outages at your location. They need to be flooded with complaints for someone to look at this, or maybe someone from AT&T is on here that can get it looked at...
same. unfortunately my wife and now the kids do not :-(
Same issue here, thought I was going crazy with speed being WAY down and random websites giving me errors.

Also found a Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/k87h2f/psa_att_fib...) about the issue that advises to contact the executive service customer support (https://investors.att.com/resources/contacts#customer-servic...) if your calls to regular customer support don't fix the issue - I did, we'll see how it goes
I will never again doubt what "purchase by private equity" means again, it is clear.
Near misses are fairly common in all large navies, that says little about the British capacity for warfare. For example both the USS Fitzgerald and USS John McCain actually had significant collisions yet the US Navy is generally considered by far the strongest in the world.

Similarly, military aircraft crash vastly more often than their civilian counterparts, but consider extreme safety simply isn't what militaires optimize for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
I live in NYC and feel the same but a lot of people just don't. They don't want culture or liberalism. In fact, I've seen a marked rise in conservatism and racism in the industry.
Agree. I wasn’t very clear: I was talking about replacing cheap meat with veg/fungal alternatives. Vat meat has an uncanny valley problem.
No need for the personal swipe!
I'm an engineer in Austin. We definitely get bonuses and I have RSUs at my current company.
Microsoft (and other large companies, surely) has a huge problem dealing with issues where multiple teams share responsibility. There's no supported way to use DirectX (or Direct 2D or DXGI or ...) from .NET. They know there's relatively large demand for it, but the .NET team says "I'll forward that to the DirectX team" and the DirectX team says "we just do C++ over here." The default response to cross-cutting concerns should be that both teams take responsibility but right now neither team will take responsibility. Another corollary to Conway's Law.
Good point, I haven't played games much since the late 90s and I'm returning to gaming only now (partially thanks to Proton), so my experience with multi-player is based mostly on modem or LAN parties with friends, where the social aspect helped to prevent cheating. I guess it's very different now when you can play with random people on the other side of the world.
> However, the whole "marketing, exposure and time to defend their work to the depth of the deepest reddit thread" trope is hilarious, given Matrix's marketing department is... me, the project lead?

At this point you've probably realized that it's still immensely more than what XMPP-the-protocol has ever done: a voice that is present on all fronts to talk about it and spread the word about our Savior :)

When you want to "get into" XMPP you have to choose between NN clients, and pick a proper provider among the YY that can give you an xmpp address. When you're starting with Matrix there's a server that is "right" for beginners, with a client that is the flagship so every standard feature can be expected to be there and work, there's a company that funds its development...

You might be the only person in Matrix's marketing departement, but I guess it works this way because the way the ecosystem is today, one person is enough !
Nice ad, shame about the planet
Yet all my instructors tell me that I shouldn't check out from the entire semester even if I'm capable of getting it all done in a week.

Too many old professors think I'm a slacker cause I can do all their assigned work in a week at the start as opposed to cramming in the last week because I was lazy.

College instructors need to just not care more...
One the qualities of what you are describing is that the overlay networks do not have to be large. Almost every "LAN over IP" project you will find on the internet tries to be able to scale to infinity, so most of them are not appropriate for what you describe. However there is at least one I know of that does not try to scale like that and it works well. It is easy to segregate "LANs" (family, friends, colleagues). Each one can have its own TAP interface.
They all used to work from the office which had great connections. Another fallout of wfh
It depends on what "disproportionate" means, I guess. I'm assuming "five" is still okay.
Recent convert to Linux gaming here. A small tip to any other potential new linux gamers - if you encounter painful input lag, check that Vsync is turned off! For some odd reason, Vsync on Linux feels much much much worse to me than on Windows.
And when are self driving cars going to start driving themselves around and pick people up? Certainly not within 5 years.
There was a bot playing NetHack in 2015

https://github.com/krajj7/BotHack

Assume it was playing 3.4.3. It was using pudding farming to get legitimate wins, which is glitchy.

I’m way too old to know this stuff. But I played roguelikes in their day on a UNIX PC, so maybe it’s OK.
> How will the Uber employee unvested stocks get paid out (or not) in an almost no cash deal?

There are two types of sales that are beneficial to a companies bottom line: selling something of value for cash, and selling a liability for little to no cash.

Uber did the latter of the two. Effectively taking a business unit that was 5-10 years behind Waymo and Cruise and dumping it off on someone who might be able to turn it in to something in exchange for a piece of the future upside. But the real win for Uber shareholders here is that it isn't costing Uber R&D dollars anymore.
Now you have to tell us how much money so we have an idea what unixhero boldly confesses on a forum where the A+ players hangout.
As a former IBMer you missed nothing.

IBM is a terrible work place if you are technically inclined, if you are a slime ball of a manager it’s perfect for you.
This line is getting really boring, especially on HN, which should be at least a bit more tech savvy than the regular forum.

I got a laptop. Removed it from the box. Installed Ubuntu, tweaked the dock drivers a bit. Everything works as it would on a Windows machine and no I don't need to downgrade Chrome to have Netflix, Spotify, Facebook, HBO or whatever work. Zero, zero compatibility issues and I can't be the only one since millions of people use Linux daily.
Just to add a bit more color on size: Starship itself is about 50m in height, somewhat shorter than the full Falcon 9 stack (70m). Starship has a much larger diameter though, at 9m vs 3.7m for Falcon9.

But Starship is just the second stage. That's what's being tested tomorrow.

Eventually this will sit atop a massive new super-heavy booster. The full stack will be 122m high, nearly 2.5x taller than Falcon 9, and with a dramatically larger volume.
Hardly just another one, and hardly fragmenting. It’s absorbed the vast majority of effort previously dedicated to Flow (the fragment in its own target space), and has continually gained in the JS community proper. It’s not just (or intended to be) a “compile to JS” language, it’s (almost) just annotated JS where the annotations provide additional tooling value.

The resistance in the JS community isn’t to “yet another language”, it’s to the perceived complexity of TS strictness/appeasing the compiler. I’m saying this not based on polling so obviously take it with a grain of salt, but I routinely search Twitter, GitHub and rando blogs for TS content and that sentiment represents nearly 100% of the anti-TS content I encounter.

And largely I find that in React-focused communities. Which having spent the last several years using TS on Node in production, and the last couple months working on a web project in React, it’s not remotely surprising. React and many libraries built on it have ridiculously complex types. That’s not because of TS but interacting with and satisfying those types at compile time is extremely frustrating even to me as a seasoned TS dev who has built libraries that take advantage of many advanced features in the type system (I just don’t expose that complexity to the API consumer).
@dang: Correct title: "How Credit Card Payment Transaction Processing Works"

Reality, this is just an ad for a virtual card service.

Virtual cards are a crap fix (security through obscurity).

In reality, we need a new financial endpoint identification scheme for the masses that is not run by a cabal of self-interest laced with debt-usury dating from a period in US domestic history where interstate-interbank was a challenge (basically things ran on telex). We need to completely unbundle endpoint identification (ie. card number) from information visibly requested or exchanged for authentication (as proof of authorization to pay). Discussions of the status quo need to occur with the recognition that these systems are effectively, foremost, massive global intelligence gathering and economic sanction and seizure platforms and not just payments facilitators. China has completely surpassed the west in payment efficiency because they jumped credit cards straight to mobile payments like they jumped wired telephones straight to cellular. China is opening banks all over the world at a lightning pace.

Europe and much of the world is charging ahead with IBAN which is IMHO well conceived and facilitating settlement systems often ~instant and free. Years ago in the early days of Kraken I proposed an internet form IIBAN compatible with crypto settlement and arbitrary financial endpoint registrars. Unsure if it is still in use at Kraken, however, in general it seems big crypto is now against interoperability as like traditional incumbents - re: government sponsored regulatory ingress means their money now comes from gatekeeping. China meanwhile are creating their own digital currency system and have maintained interbank clearing directly run by the state, with existing digital payments via a tiny number of proxy commercial entities (ring any bells?). It's efficient and effective but comes with the issues associated with such a configuration: primarily "eat it or wear it", re: innovation. Still, it's light years ahead of the US in terms of the consumer: no debt, instant approval, foreign participation welcome, global reach, zero cost, totally pervasive, no cards or snail-mail required, friends-as-reputation, none of that card not present bullshit, none of that 'tell us if you travel' bullshit, none of that 'points' or 'annual fee/waiver', or 'full personal and economic profile including n-months of local income to play' bullshit.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-stanish-iiban-01
The market exists because swiping is the easy route. But that does not necessarily imply a higher rate of success.
Susan Sontag sums up the ultimate social achievement of the artist well. It's about the Aesthetics of Silence. The more withdrawn an artist becomes, the more celebrated. The ultimate level according to her, is not communicating, and not even creating anything.

> So far as he is serious, the artist is continually tempted to sever the dialogue he has with an audience. Silence is the furthest extension of that reluctance to communicate, that ambivalence about making contact with the audience which is a leading motif of modern art, with its tireless commitment to the “new” and/or the “esoteric.” Silence is the artist’s ultimate other-worldly gesture: by silence, he frees himself from servile bondage to the world, which appears as patron, client, consumer, antagonist, arbiter, and distorter of his work.

– Susan Sontag, The Aesthetics of Silence
Perhaps that's the intent, similar to a warrant canary. It's fortunate that they're even allowed to talk about being forced to comply.
Even the best typesetting systems don't do it perfectly, and require some hand correction. On the web, where you're relying on the browser, and can't be certain of the display, you're better off not doing it.
The complexity of the malware has no bearing on the complexity of the operation.

You could develop and test it completely independently which means absolutely no risk to you or your key assets.

You then could use expendable assets to get it into the network or more likely compromise a 3rd party like the Ukrainian engineering firm that worked on at least one of the enrichment projects and had its own computers infected by Stuxnet which is how it slipped out and started infecting other machines world wide.

As for the malware itself it wasn’t as complex as you think but rather extremely well executed which is the best signature you have for western state sponsored origin.

Stuxnet was a by the book sabotage operation, simple, safe and deniable it’s literally the classic example of an operational plan that will be greenlit immediately.
Although the whole thing is ridiculous, he would've nearly had me at they're in communication part with me imagining some laser communication method. The Mars story just took it too far. Come on people, at least make sure your conspiracy is plausible.
If it musters up the energy and political will to get municipal fiber going as a utility, I’ll call it a win.
Prior to this deal, Uber had a couple of billion (at the value of this deal) in a self driving car company named ATG. After this deal, they have a couple of billion in a self driving car company named Aurora.
Did these people also have github accounts or example code they've written before?
I had AT&T via Sonic's FTTN in an effort to avoid Comcast/AT&T directly, especially since Sonic does not have data caps despite running on AT&T's network and actually respects their customer's privacy. Unfortunately my experience was so terrible and unreliable that I decided to give up and finally sign up with Comcast, and just have to mind that 1.2TB data cap.

The Bay Area of all places should not have such terrible ISP infrastructure, but here we are.
Parting of the Waters
Garbage. Don't waste your time reading this article, just go listen to some Wagner instead.
Car crashes are a top cause of death for humans
Yeah, amusing in a perverse way.

Years ago I had gotten an "ATT fiber coming soon" notice, but still not here. In the end its simply the usual issue with internet access in the US -- ISPs have zero incentive to invest/improve, there's no meaningful competition. With everyone WFH its even worse -- oversubscribed networks are causing trouble all over (esp if you use a cable ISP).

When a city (or someone like Google) brings fiber in a meaningful way, it only then lights a fire under the incumbents' ass. In theory cities with non-buried lines (like Mountain View) may be easier to upgrade; but it still depends on ATT granting pole access (which they promptly slowwalk).
Here in Germany we bury everything. I don't even want to imagine how long it takes to rebuild all of that when some drunkard crashes his car into one of these poles or a lightning strike hits.
It's not even a valid comparison and disingenuous because software products now don't need to be sold through any retail outlet, and can be sold directly to the customer through the internet. There is absolutely no need of any app store as a middle man here.
I honestly think this is the price that people pay for using proprietary software.

The license terms changed and boom now you're out of service.

If such OSS projects were running on Gitlab (either gitlab.com or selfhosted) then any of the members could have donated spare computing resources by running a gitlab runner on their prem.

Many people have PCs running 24/7 and could spare a vm to lend to their favourite projects.
Not in my case, Sonic laid their own fiber to my house (and neighbourhood) in San Mateo.
As long as the rubber stays soft, yes!
I believe the article says it was prompted by the recent discoveries of these characteristics in platypuses and wombats
>I don't believe humans to be in any kind of "constrained environment"

I probably didn't do a good job of explaining that I meant "constrained environment" in the operations research sense. Everything rooted in the real world is constrained. Why don't we each take a private jet to work everyday? Because we're constrained on money. If we're not constrained on money, we're constrained on time. If it's not that, we're constrained by the amount of carbon we can release and still have a reasonably favorable environment for humans.

One of the reasons the Space Shuttle became somewhat of a boondoggle was because of this. They had a constrained budget but had to meet the demands of multiple, often competing, stakeholders. Musk knows this; he knows that NASA has constraints he doesn't. He doesn't have to spread his facilities across multiple States to help ensure support from as many Congress people as possible. He doesn't have to expose himself to the same level of political risk that can change every four years. He can optimize under a different set of constraints, but it would be a mistake to assume he's unconstrained.
Do you mind if I ask you few questions via email?
On the Moral Collapse of AI Ethics
Re: The same things that make Scratch easy to learn also make it an unproductive environment for more serious programmers. For a professional, programming with drag and drop is way slower than keying in code — that’s just a fact.

I would say the best tools allow one to switch back and forth between visual/drag-and-drop and code as needed. Web-based UI's never seemed to get that to work well. The stateless nature of the web is a productivity kicker in multiple ways. The same number of features could be created and managed by fewer programmer hours in IDE's from the 90's than modern web stacks in my observation.

Web stacks are so bloated that orgs need layer specialists to manage it all. "Separation of concerns" (SOC) is to fit the shape of dev staff, not the shape of productivity nor the domain. It just creates busy-work interfaces between all those layers; a time drain. The older tools were closer to the domain such that it was less code to do the same thing, making SOC not worth it. SOC is symptom of bloat, not a solution. Concerns naturally interweave; the forced walls are just to serve Conway's Law.

The counter argument is often, "yes, but we have choice". Sure, but you pay dearly for it.

I believe a stateful GUI markup standard could help bring rank-and-file office-oriented CRUD productivity back to 90's levels. One could then spend time on domain issues instead of gluing bloated buggy stack layers together. I can't say it will help all domains, but one-browser-fits-all is failing CRUD, if productivity matters.
This must be, partially, why the Mennonites and Amish are the wealthiest and fastest growing demographic in the USA.
No real income to speak of just immense capital gains. Must be nice.