skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively from Jay Krebs [1] a much more thorough and nuanced discussion that is probably the best send-up on this topic.

"So is it crazy to do this? The answer is no, there’s nothing crazy about storing data in Kafka: it works well for this because it was designed to do it. Data in Kafka is persisted to disk, checksummed, and replicated for fault tolerance. Accumulating more stored data doesn’t make it slower. There are Kafka clusters running in production with over a petabyte of stored data."

[1] https://www.confluent.io/blog/okay-store-data-apache-kafka/
The Flutter engine API has no platform specific dependencies, has a stable ABI and is available in its entirety in a single C header file [1]. It's ideal for embedding.

[1] https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/080fbcb1759e5916f0d6c...
People need to eat and pay rent. New developers are doing everything on web/cloud and see no reason to invest time in open source on “legacy” on-prem systems, despite the fact that those are what underlie all of those higher level tiers. Since new developers are not stepping in, the older guys who started the projects just want to get away from the relentlessly thankless activity of giving stuff away for free, or maybe retire.
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Using Cloudflare with DoH is documented here: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

You essentially run a little proxy server on your pihole setup, and configure pihole to use it as your upstream dns resolver.

E.g., a proxy server running at 127.0.0.1:5053 which uses the Cloudflare ipv4/ipv6 DNS over HTTPS endpoints. This can also use other DoH endpoints as desired:

/usr/local/bin/cloudflared proxy-dns \
--port 5053 \
--upstream https://1.1.1.1/dns-query \
--upstream https://1.0.0.1/dns-query \
--upstream https://2606:4700:4700::1111/dns-query \
--upstream https://2606:4700:4700::1001/dns-query
Scratch that then. Try out "Music in 12 Parts", which is about 4 hours long :)

Glass' early minimalism makes EotB seem almost conventional by comparison, at least to me.
This kind of bug is only exploitable in the sense that you can deny service.
Speaking of training and the military, the best trained personnel (Special Forces) are the ones least likely to pull the trigger. They are trained to hold back until they cannot anymore, and they are confident in their abilities. Very different from regular police. Even though the SF personnel are faced with situations far more dangerous.
The point is a “bend” implies a spot like an elbow, where suddenly diminishing returns kick in. Exponential growth is a clean curve with no such spots. Move x units right, you’ll always get a y% boost.
> Also, narcissistsic sociopaths can have a high capacity for empathy in the sense of knowing what others feel and think while also ruthlessly manipulating

I initially thought this wasn't considered empathy, but TIL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy#Classification:

> Empathy is generally divided into two major components: ...

> Affective empathy, also called emotional empathy: the capacity to respond with an appropriate emotion to another's mental states.... sympathy and compassion for others in response to their suffering.... self-centered feelings of discomfort and anxiety in response to another's suffering....

> Cognitive empathy: the capacity to understand another's perspective or mental state....

> Affective and cognitive empathy are also independent from one another; someone who strongly empathizes emotionally is not necessarily good in understanding another's perspective.

However, I think when most people use the term "empathy" they're almost exclusively referring to affective empathy.

I like Wikipedia's translation of the German term for empathy, Einfühlung, as "feeling into," which captures the meaning pretty well for me.
That is the most hideous source control system ever.

Do they really need to be developer hostile just because Github is owned by Microsoft? I mean seriously, who has time to commit to a project with a random set of tooling.
> the last time I used TeX; which worked absolutely fine.

I've heard that original TeX is the only software in the world that doesn't have any bugs (no one found so far).
> I don’t know why 3rd-party widgets would bother with fluent design when the 1st-party offerings (e.g. WPF) don’t.

Sounds like an opportunity.
I think GP means that in the near future, significant tech advancements will only be able to be done by the tech giants.
It even supports prefers-color-scheme which is very neat. I have a macro to switch between dark & light themes quickly on mac so its great when sites support it.
Fedex and UPS have suspended their on-time guarantee since March (my company focuses on auditing Fedex and UPS; most disputable mistakes are late deliveries)
Or is it perhaps because users don't want to use it unless they have no choice (in terms of software alternatives released under other OSS licenses)?

20 years ago GPL was the only thing most users new to OSS knew about. Since then they have learned there are better choices Meanwhile GPLv3 was the final nail in the coffin of the bossy OSS licenses.

One thing I don't get is why the OP proclaims love for GPLv3. It's the worst GPL license out there. I avoid it as both a contributor and user.
> Different people will assign different meanings to null, and it's a real headache when trying to write generic code.

This is a legitimate concern, but my experience has been that it is a surprisingly rare problem in practice. We software engineers are trained to believe that any system that supports 1 of something is obligated to generalize and support N of them. But you'd be surprised how far just one sentinel value gets you.

I mean, one of the key observations underpinning having nullable (and thus non-nullable) types is that most places in your code need zero of these sentinel values. Most type, around 90% the last time I tried to count, don't permit null at all, so needing two distinct absent values is quite rare.
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> what made me turn from non-allergic to very-allergic suddenly?

Indeed, one day I took a Lemsip and then face swelled up and I developed a rash. I was suddenly allergic to an ingredient in it.
In the UK there are 4 figures

1) Died within 28 days of a +ve test

2) Died within 60 days of a +ve test (in England, but not elsewhere)

3) Death certificate mentions covid

4) Excess deaths above that expected

Then there's the "date reported" and "date of death". The date reported is the day the notice reaches the death registrar. That can be within an hour or so of actual death, or can take months. Most are done within about 5 days.

For November, in the UK, there were an average

418 deaths occurred per day in the 28 day after a +ve test and 396 deaths reported

410 deaths per day on the death certificate

In England alone

28 days: 354 (occurred), 335 (reported)

60 days: 380 (occurred), 358 (reported)

Excess deaths: +251 (5 year average), +310 (vs minimum), +191 (vs maximum)

If the majority of those deaths were people being hit by a bus, you'd expect the 60 day number to be about double the 28 day number
then it should be argued as a trade problem, and with conditions laid on table, instead of a trade problem disguised as a security and privacy problem where its implied to be nonnegotiable.
Deleting the queues is an operational decision that I made to be able to put the system back online after the network device was replaced (the important part was the uptime/SLA). From a quick analysis of the logs the percentage of bad messages was ~90% (there was a ~50% chance that the original "touched" bit was 0 so no change was done, but the messages had multiple "touched" bits at fixed intervals).

There was an escape hatch, but the conditions to hit it were a bit complex. Implementing new message filtering of this kind at 2AM while the system was down was not feasible.
Something like RHEL 6 is running on a 2.6 Linux kernel, all security patches has to be backported. That is an EOL kernel. Almost all versions of the software bundled with RHEL 6 have been EOL from upstream providers during it's ten year lifetime. Of cause you're free to try to attempt to applied any patches yourself, you don't have to pay.

If RedHat promised to keep CentOS 8 around for 9 more years, then yes, that is very disappointing. It was a stupid promise to make in the first place, but still disappointing.
Elon's true brilliance shines through in the fact that he rightfully questions the official covid propaganda.
I don't really understand, how going through this will get you a phone interview? I mean, it doesn't change anything on your resume...

Source: I'm a new grad, I went through almost all this, but my application wasn't shortlisted.

Not a native speaker, so maybe I just don't understand what you're saying.
Oh I just missed it :)
Avianca Brazil is no more. Latam and Azul are Joint-venturing on flights during the pandemic.

And calling the variants -7/-8/-9 kinda makes sense (MAX 7/MAX 8/MAX 9 are more "official").
an OS Google can control. Open source just like Go is open source - you are free to download and use it, but Google controls it.
Well said. The "confusion" was probably only in Redhat, when developers were confronted with explaining to executives why they provide RHEL for free.
Get a bigger chair and arrange things so that you can wriggle some; curly legs under you or straighten out, lean left or right, etc. Static for too long is the problem; we're meant to move more but that need not require a lot more space.
> Dropping off at a depot is not really how this bit of the industry works – the courier collects from the distribution centre in almost every case.

I am aware of this. The posted article is referencing merchants with 3000 shipments to send out, which is not insane scale. If FedEx wouldn't pick those up at your door, it is possible to get those shipped out still. Obviously, yes, you may need some new logistics coordination, and it will be more expensive, and yes, it could make a lot of business margin's no longer work. I am definitely not saying that I agree with any action that FedEx/UPS is alleged to be taking here (especially without reasonable notice).

But that is not the same thing as "FedEx is refusing to let us ship more than X boxes per day". And it's a distinction that the article should get right.
As shown in the article with the excerpt from Google's policy, I think you'll find the FAANG-type policies are all similar... any GPL* requires specific approval from legal, whereas the common liberal licenses have simplified approval.

The GPL2 linux kernel may be treated as an exception and allowed, but it doesn't mean GPL2 anything else won't be treated like leprosy.
It's funny that you use that example, we actually cited that in an earlier draft of this post. Despite the seemingly opposite title "Queues are Databases", that note actually makes many of the same arguments, that message brokers are missing much of the functionality of database management systems and this is a problem.
I was a CTO for a little more than two years. When I joined we had 3 people as direct reports which grew to around 12 when I left. Besides hiring people, all I felt like I was doing was product manager work with talking to clients about their requirements and putting those into stories, tasks etc. Additionally I would pull together discussions on the evolution of our stack and handle the finances around the cloud implementations of our technology (on Azure). What else does a CTO do? I deeply disliked it because I was working for 14 hours a day most of which was dead time but communication was frequent enough that I couldn’t do anything else.
I did, thank you!
Ah, that’s funny! We had traveled to TN somewhere around ten years ago, and assume that’s where she was bit. The lone star tick has apparently made it as far north as Wisconsin though.

Glad you’re over it now. My mom recently has had very small amounts of meat products without issue.
It’s hard to judge the price accurately without also knowing how long these will last before they need to be disposed of due to the wear and tear caused by regular use.

If they cost $550 and last 1-2 years, that’s quite different from them costing $550 and lasting 3-5+ years.

Edit: Relevant, AirPods Max Ear Cushions are attached magnetically, and replacements will cost $70.
I believe you only get special audio with paired to an iOS device which also includes an accelerometer. So basically iPad and iPhone. Any third-party devices don’t get special audio, as far as I’m aware.
procedural-gl-js is very cool tech! It's unfortunate it doesn't work globally, above 60 degrees north (yet?).
"Design belongs to management" is definitely better than "no design at all". But this needlessly conflates leadership and management. There is no reason that the most capable at design would also be most at home doing all the other management tasks like performance reviews and inter-team communication that are typically the managers' domain. Also vice versa btw: I've seen multiple times how people wanting to grow as people managers would have to make deep technical decisions (on the spot, no time to ask the team about it) about things they had very little experience with.

An even better spot in the solution space would be to separate people management and tech leadership into different roles to be filled, though for this to work a high level of trust between the types of leader needs to exist.
Related: https://twitter.com/system32comics/status/131319474720949862...
I think it's more about who makes the task tiny.

Currently my manager gives me tasks like "so and so needs something, you should talk to them." That eventually becomes a bunch of tiny tasks, but I don't receive the work pre-chewed.
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Is it just me or is the dark mode too dark? My eyes are having a hard time finding things.
I like that they are working on spatial audio. The AR applications are interesting.
Good question! It's been a long time and I don't remember much, but I think I remember complaining to a friend that Bond seemed invincible. He could automatically do anything, and so there never seemed to be any real danger.
If you think of them as being just over half the price of a monitor stand [0], they're actually quite a bargain! ;-)

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand
Well designed Bluetooth audio can be indistinguishable from wired. There needs to be good codec support on both ends and strong signal quality. All Bluetooth codecs are lossy, but the higher bitrate ones should not be perceptually different from lossless. Most of the problems with bad Bluetooth come from the SBC codec(degrades badly with low signal quality) or bad implementations. One advantage Apple has is that their AAC codec can transmit without any recompression if you are using an AAC source file. I have a Fiio Bluetooth dongle that uses LDAC with nice headphones and IEMs and I can absolutely not hear a difference with wired.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/what-you-need-to-kno...

And by the way, the Bose and Sony's are considered top of the line for noise canceling wireless headphones. You absolutely lose sound quality from the noise canceling though, so that feature is a trade-off. Airpod Max may well be a contender, though it is not out yet, so it's premature to give it the noise canceling crown.
I'll love to use proper RHEL everywhere on my personal non-commercial projects. I'm using it on my NAS, but I'd love to use it on VPS as well.
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I believe it originated in music first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee_pop
Well, VCs do sometimes get options -- that's what convertible debt is. Usually options are not treated as compensation, though.

It is likely that Rabois has a mix of compensation from his firm, as a practical matter, and some of it is likely to be options -- but even if not, Rabois and people like him have paid a lot of taxes in California. A lot more than they would have paid in most states. When you consider how much they paid relative to how well the state government has provided services -- taking other states into consideration -- it's hard to see how the people moving are betraying anyone. They paid and paid and paid.
Do you think SRE talent isn't needed for cloud?

There is an incredible number of metrics around every AWS service, and the decoupling of things via queues, topics, APIs etc. mean there are a lot of moving parts.
That changes things. I know that DHL express is doing this all the time during Q4. Until now I thought it to be a pickup issue. Now that is more like a general capacity issue. Do these limits impact your overall shipping capacity or do you manage regardless?
I do recall an article from a few years ago about how the basic McD burger was arguably the most bang-for-your-buck in terms of calories per cent, and I agree it's hard to beat (though not impossible, e.g. the costco hotdog combo costs a measly $1.50 and packs ~3-4 times more calories)

But yeah, a lot of the McD classics and new offerings that one might purchase for a "normal" meal are actually quite expensive nowadays. On a side note (pun intended), I suspect that there are some pricing structure shenanigans going on, because fries are clearly marked up way more than burgers.
Likewise, smart watches used to cost in the neighborhood of $100 until Apple Watch came on the scene and now everyone thinks it’s normal to pay $300 for a smart watch. It was ridiculously overpriced when it started, and it’s still ridiculous now
We did think about that, but our economic model is to focus on income for SaaS collaboration through TerminusHub. We are a distributed revision control database - so the model is a bit like git and github (only they piggy backed on an already successful open source project and we have to build both open source and hub!).

We really don't like the 'traditional' open source economic model - with a community version and all the good features in a proprietary enterprise edition. The community version is almost necessarily weak and you end up annoying your users. We'd prefer to keep as open as possible and have a commercial SaaS or open core model.
Whaling is much more humane than industrialized animal farming.
Redhat just reneged on its commitments regarding CentOS 8. When has this happened before?
> so maybe you can gather some statistics on that

Here's what a quick google search turned up.

This link [0] shows that US police kill over three times as many people, per capita, than Canadian police. However, I think there are other issues, like easy access to guns, that affect this stat so this isn't really a very useful stat for our discussion.

This group [1] has been collecting info on arrest related deaths but a quick look only showed me links to how they collect data and not the actual data. It also looks like they stopped their surveys in 2012.

This paper [2] has some of the most relevant stats I've found for our discussion and covers use of lethal force by police between 2009-2012. From their numbers, 83% of victims were armed or believed to be armed (this includes toy guns, etc) and over 93% of the deaths were from firearms. If we assume that the 7% of deaths were the police didn't shoot all apply to unarmed victims then 10% of the people killed by police were unarmed and shot. Their stats also show LEOs being killed in less than 2% of these incidents. Their numbers do show 9% of these cases resulting in an injury to LEOs but we don't have numbers on non-fatal police caused injuries so I don't want to compare apples to oranges.

[0] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
[1] https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=82
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
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I've never worked at Google, but I've used Gerrit not infrequently at jobs and on projects--it isn't "random" even if you've never run into it before. Gitiles is just a hat on top of it; it's not pretty but it is fast.

It's not "developer hostile" to not use Github. Git works everywhere. It might mean that to contribute to an operating system a developer may have to learn how to use something that isn't Github, but honestly if that's a bar to contribution for somebody they probably weren't gonna anyway.
Very very cool :)

Three observations:

- Why have a vertical limit when rotating in 3D? I have to click on 2D to look directly top-down. This would be the natural result if I simply tilted the camera all the way downward, but instead it maxes out at some arbitrary angle. (Same the other way, I want to look at the horizon, but I guess there are bandwidth issues involved.)

- Scroll zoom is waaay to slow. I have a mouse with an inertial wheel, so I can just let 'er rip, but this must be frustrating with a regular mouse wheel.

- +/- keys don't zoom, like I'd expect them to.
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Google uses GitHub for a bunch of things, I suspect it is more that the people working on it want to use Google's internal tooling as much as possible, and public user experience is considered less important than that.
Sad, but accurate.
Packages are RPMS, managed with zypper. You may also use dnf but you will miss some of the advanced features provided by dnf (e. g. the concept of patches vs updates), there was a zypper vs dnf thread recently in the openSUSE mailing lists.

It does support flatpaks.

There is no free openSUSE LTS. The LTS is called SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, costs some money (unless you are a developer, in that case you get free subscriptions) and the LTS lasts for a minimum of 13 years.
Really cool to see github implementing this and hyping it up with a nice video :)
I had the same experience with iPad and iPhone and with my MacBook... sometimes. Mohave, at least on my machine, had buggy networking stacks, and sometimes the bluetooth would just stubbornly refuse to work, WiFi as well, and it would take a reboot to fix it.

Happened every week or two, and I've never seen this problem with Catalina, or in fact any previous OSX.

And I still get the thing where a device only picks up one AirPod and I have to stick them both back in the case to get stereo.

Dramatically better than any bluetooth speaker I've had? Of course. But not perfect.
You could've made the same argument 15 years ago about the original iPod and its scroll wheel.

The difference between a good product and a premium product are the experience. Sometimes that experience is the most expensive part of the product.
Is FIPS certification a good thing? Does anyone actually run in FIPS mode?

I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it lets you check a box on PCI checklist; but only people who are forced to use that checklist.
Interesting. I wonder what goes wrong for you. I’m always astonished that mine gets it right. I have the occasional mishap but it’s quickly and easily corrected.

We have some google nest speakers and wow, they get it wrong so often despite being stationary. They can connect to one person, not another, drop connections, vanish for days until I care to reset them and get them back online. Sometimes the voice changes, haha. Airpods though, I can share them with my family and they work great between each of our devices.

It’s one of those things where I consider myself lucky. As a software developer I don’t subscribe to the “no adults in the room” attitude, but I know this stuff is hard. I’d expect more people to have problems.
I'm summarizing my perspective on the AirPods Max and their price tag and on which conditions I'd be willing to purchase them, by comparing Apple's claims about them to specific problems I had elsewhere.
Most newest gen premium headphones can do that, Sony MX4 included.
> and comfortable across many head shapes and sizes

I have what is, evidently, a pretty large head, given the fact that I've only been able to find one hat ever that is large enough to fit me.

And yeah, lots of high-end headphones are painful to wear, because they went for the "standard-size" head.
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