skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we can probably agree on appropriate limits to free speech.

Libel and slander are easy limitations for us to agree on. It seems pretty clear to me that we should offer protections to individuals on truthfulness of others speech.

What about package labeling? Company's are required to post truthful listings of their ingredients and labels if their products are shown to do harm. Is this an appropriate limitation of speech?

I suspect we could also agree that there are missinformation and disinformations that if distributed at a wide scales can also be seen go cause harm to individuals. Holocaust denial for instance is a fairly obvious rhetorical tool used to discredit the Jewish experience, promote anti-semitism, and recruit people into organizations seeking to do harm to Jewish people.

Anti Vaccine propaganda also does harm to members of our society as it reduces the efficacy of our public health programs and promotes the spread of deadly disease.

So my last question is only to ask what is the appropriate line for us as a society to draw? It appears Etsy has landed on "harmful falsehoods". This seems relatively sane to me, and I would expect most of the argument to lie in the word harmful rather than falsehood. I worry however that you're implying we might also be arguing about falsehoods.
So glad to hear someone else feeling that way :) Thanks a lot for sharing - feel exactly the same way. We'll surely get there, fingers crossed for that happening sooner! :)
What length PIN would you recommend in light of what commercially-available equipment is capable of cracking? Is an actual, honest-to-god password supported on latest Android?
You can also block cookie notices with the plug-in "I don't care about cookies".
True! We're working on that and we'll provide them once they're done.
Super cool. This feels like the music behind realizing Goethe's quip, "architecture is petrified music." Started my early morning with a snow storm and Max Richter's "Sleep," and practising some Yann Tiersen on guitar, and then stumbled on this. Going to be that kind of day. I think with lockdowns even though I live really well, it's the serendipity of finding bits of beauty has been suppressed, and with it, the natural sense of relief it brings. Thank you for this.
Valora made it easy for me to donate to a typhoon relief effort - https://doni.app/c/36/. The onboarding flow is well thought through. Valora is the first app that for me, feels like a crypto currency system that's usable by normal people. I suggest checking it out if you've interested in crypto but haven't given it a try yet.
Artificial Intelligence Is Now Shockingly Good at Sounding Human
Fair enough, but that's not my point. My point was more about persecution, not outright killings. That's an extreme that many governments won't reach for, even in the third world.
> the leader will appear to condone substandard work

That lazy S.O.B. almost never works unpaid overtime, is often unavailable for conference calls at 10 PM, and sometimes leaves the office at 5 PM to spend time with his family!
It goes past 100... I'm on 102 now. I will stop now. Good luck to all the other warriors who persist on to defeat the sliceophobic blobs
Node.js – v15.4.0
That's how teams does it, yes.
Weird, both my shops get paid weekly since the start, and one isn't even in my native currency, which I opened a few months ago.
What is your definition of a "big tech company"? Do you only mean very young startups? Going by valuation, Revolut is pretty small. ASML is 40x larger than Revolut and 4x as large as ARM. NXP and Adyen are both about as large as Spotify at 50-60 billion.

The startup scene is less vibrant: valuations are typically lower and funding is not as easy to get as it is in Silicon Valley, but you shouldn't discount established players that innovate and mature startups.
There is an important point about reasoning here which is worth stating explicitly. You can reason perfectly about the things you have thought of and know, but they things you didn't think of and don't know might still change the correct answer.
I personally love Airtable’s frontend. That’d be a project I’d love to work on.
IEMs are very-high-end personal monitors that are custom molded to your body to fit perfectly in your ear canal. Your ear canals on your left and right side are different sizes and shapes, so you'll have quite a bit of difference between them.

Most importantly, rather than using speakers like headphones, they use a technology called balanced armature drivers which have incredible properties.

An example manufacturer is https://alclair.com I have two sets of theirs, one for master studio tracks, and another for live music that's more geared for guitar and bass playing.

They block out nearly all outside noise, some up to 28db of protection, which is wonderful.
Maybe they tapped the same developers who built the Google Ads web app, a UI so slow they have time to display tutorials while everything loads.
Common Landing Page mistakes and how to avoid them
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> Pfizer has said people with a history of severe adverse allergic reactions to vaccines or the candidate’s ingredients were excluded from their late stage trials, which is reflected in the MHRA’s emergency approval protocol.
If it's done with Wix they may or may not be able to control those.

Full disclaimer, haven't used Wix before, so maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is.
Much like how cosmic inflation after the Big Bang is postulated to have left pockets of normal space, I think the exponential expansion of computing power due to the Moore's law left several scales of computing which are relatively unexplored as a discipline.

Besides the meso-scale identified by the author of the linked article, I think there's another little-explored island at the scale where programs are bigger than what we built for 16-bit machines, but smaller than what we tended to build for 32-bit machines. Certainly most extended memory DOS games and early Windows programs could be argued to lie in this range, but I'm asking what would we build in this scale using modern tools for contemporary applications?

For example a GUI program in the 50Kb - 500Kb scale would probably be written in C/C++ and use #defines for Windows message constants. A program in the 10Mb - 100Mb scale might be written in Java or C# and include a 10's to 100's of megabyte runtime framework. (I'm including the framework, not just the user code, in the scale here.) What about the scale from 500Kb - 10Mb? I could imagine a program, still written in C/C++, using Sqlite (which didn't exist 21 years ago) to define its Windows message constants.
Because you are supposed to load it once and keep it forever. Loading a web app is like installing a software program.
There are several third-party repos to install up to date software on CentOS.
I think you mean does not*?
Besides not wanting to work/live in the US/Canada for cultural reasons (I personally don't want to raise children where school shootings are so frequent that not all of them are even reported in the news anymore), there is also the visa situation, natural disasters (earth quakes, raging wildfires on the west coast, hurricanes on the east..) and then some.
As someone who regularly uses other e-commerce front ends, I find Amazon to be quite cluttered and messy. Also it‘s surprisingly difficult to quickly find a specific product.
Slow and clunky is also unreliable, it's did it go through?, did I click on that? Is it loading, or is my connection having troubles? Is the browser again?

Some of the ugliest Gov and Gov adjacent pages (e.g. tax collectors, some DMVs) are fast and prompt zero second guessing. They just work.
...or any other similar vaccine?
Not too complicated at all. US banks are pretty fully PSD2'd at the moment, Whether they wish to roll out to you is different.
And there I go, reading it for the umpteenth time.
The MDFTs are almost certainly using exploits to access the data. They're not going to disclose them, because it would stop their tools from working.
Not in this article, but in the BBC article[0]: "Both NHS workers have a history of serious allergies and carry adrenaline pens around with them."

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55244122
$ cargo install cargo-watch
$ cargo watch

Not built in but accessible :) there’s a bunch of flags too.
The puzzles make sure you can write the O(good) algorithm, knowing the coefficients is a question of experience and knowledge of the shoulders your code stands on.
Well yeah this is deduction vs induction
They excluded people in this group from the trials.
Mirror pools are dangerous if you have a failing power-supply. All it takes is to lose the wrong two drives together (which are often in the same rack) and you lose a portion of your dataset. You should use mirrored raidz2 sets
Allergies to what?
If this is indeed a deliberate dark pattern then it is ingenious. The problem is that very so often mistakes are more common than deliberate “malice”.

Hanlon’s razor is often the case at smaller companies.

Deliberate “mistakes” are more common at very very large FAANG type companies where a groups P&L rests on deliberate dark patterns or strategy taxes or being anticompetitive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
There was even a restriction on the community edition to not release bug fix releases (just one was allowed). So if X.0.0 was released then X.0.1, X.0.2 and so on were not allowed. Without these bug fix releases the community versions started seeing X.1.0, X.2.0 and so on which included additional enhancements/features and weren't merely bug fix releases. As a result, the stability that the community edition of the server was known to provide (previously), no longer existed.
This all boiled down to one thing - the sales team couldn't convince customers that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for the enterprise edition was a good thing when the community edition was equally good and well maintained, even if by volunteer community members.
That's not true. It's hard, but not impossible as many people think: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o...
s/does/does not/
This is the answer. It’s the “never use inline styles” of ops: A rule that was once taught for good reasons, and is easy for people who know little else to call out and enforce. Never mind that times have changed and the reasoning that caused people to create these rules in the first place no longer makes sense.
Why the Cover Slide Is So Important in Pitch Decks
Makes sense. But what changed in practice that made scenario 2 more likely?
Amazon retail website ruthlessly optimized for latency as they discovered the slower it is, the more likely customers are to abandon their carts.
Not sure what you mean by "an untested and unnecessary immune response" (are you suggesting that covid is 'fake news' or not serious enough to be vaccinated against, or have I simply misunderstood that part of your post?), but I certainly agree that there's nothing especially unexpected or alarming that a tiny minority of people with a history of serious allergies should have a reaction to this vaccine.
Electric Vehicles' Dirty Secret: Lithium
Mere listing... no. But once you add quantities and a specific order or preparation, a list becomes a copyrightable work. The mere list reference is to the simple content lists we see on product labels.
Is there something Angular can do to help improve the performance before creating the page?
Well... that's one way to find out if I have a vaccine allergy, I guess. If the first shot goes bad I'm definitely not getting the second.
Well, its not all Mad Max. In a stable post-warlord community bikes would rule for a century. Tiny metal investment, fuel efficient, fast and adaptable.
No idea why this is being downvoted. This is precisely what Apple does.

Case in point, Apple develops better protocol for wireless headphones for their phones than standard Bluetooth and instead of allowing others to develop for it, they lock it down for themselves forcing users to buy airpods for the “seamless apple experience”.
QR Code in Minecraft
Smells a little bit like what some of us (developers) occasionally do when under pressure. As in, trying to save some crucial time in a rush, by focusing on testing just the things that were specifically worked on, instead of running it through the entire test suite (or QA dept) before deploying. If something comes up, user feedback will certainly bubble through quickly enough and can be worked on. Which, to be perfectly frank, often does work out just fine.
I would draw the line at semantic indexing. If the data is only accessible through immediate metadata (filename, sequence number, datetime, etc) then it's just a data_store_. If the engine also maintains indexes derived from the data being stored, then it's a data_base_. In that regard, Kakfa would not be a database since it has no knowledge of what it is storing.
Elon Musk moves to Texas
Europe has lots of young men doing nothing because they aren't needed.
The messaging thus far has been, "it's perfectly safe and highly effective." So it's quite important to share this info now.

Also, what do you mean by 'untested and unnecessary'?
> But letting the praise stand alone can encourage them to think that everything they do is outstanding. Connect your positive comments to other things you want them to address. For example, you could say, “Now that you’ve done so well with the ABC presentation, for the next one, I’d like you to also [do the next thing they need to improve].

If I haven’t heard that a thousand times. Nothing kills my productivity more than a insincere “good job” while also being handed more work.
>Most competitive chips in the world are produced by machines made in the Netherlands at ASMI/ASML

AFAIK, ASMLs fancy EUV tech comes from a Bay Area company they acquired a while ago and not from the Netherlands.
Can Substack CEO Chris Best build a new model for journalism?
> Cloud service providers aren't really optimizing for the same thing that the average website is optimizing for. They're attempting to maximize their velocity, maximize their API stability, and make programmatic usage of their system as easy as possible.

Yep, already covered that under incompetence and cluelessness.

> GCP's UI? Yea it's pretty bad. GCP's terraform provider? It's really slick. Probably the best one of the bunch (Azure, AWS, Oracle, OVH, ...).

In that case, I would assume that backend team indeed consist of competent people, as opposed to web team. But TFA was about front end experience which is abysmal.
I solve the pairing / unpairing problem with a Jabra Link 360 or 370 dongle.

https://www.jabra.com/accessories/jabra-link-360#/

It looks to the PC like USB audio, but it talks to the headphones over Bluetooth.

If I want to transition from the Windows 10 laptop to the Linux laptop, or desk-side PC, I just move the dongle.

Signal is solid. Has an LED on it so you can see whether it's talking to a headset (blue), playing audio with mic umuted (green), or playing audio with mic muted (red). (Amazing feature for Zoom calls!)

The retail price of it seems a bit high at $56, but you can find them used with Jabra Evolve 65 headsets on eBay for $45-$60 as a bundle. (The headset sound is pretty good, actually. Fragile if you don't pack it flat in a backpack, alas.)

Sorry I sound like a commercial, but it really makes life easier. Seems like the frustration saved was worth the $$$.
While I do read non-technical books, I don't read fiction for the same reason. It does feel like a waste of time when I could simply watch TV/surf the net instead :)
1 in 1,000 people in the UK have died after contracting COVID (this number is rising).

2 people out of thousands vaccinated yesterday had an allergic reaction that they recovered from (both people carry EpiPens and have a history of allergic reactions).

Monitoring systems mean we know about this, so bottom line is everything is going well so far. We will obviously want to continue to monitor.
> We’ve learned that it will be possible for us to transition away from using this cookie to detect bots.

They could describe better why the cookie is not needed anymore
It's always about health insurance. It's the one defining characteristic of nations. The narrow mindedness is incredible.
TFA suggests using mirrors instead of RAIDZ. There is no case in which RAIDZ1 is more durable against data loss than a mirror is.
I used to think Google hires only "top" developers. Lately I think they mostly hire average or below-average people which resulted in products of average or below-average quality.
The original gmail design was so fast, beautiful and minimalistic. It had vi key bindings and was close to perfect.

The new one had a bunch of useless white space and the app has a loading bar!

Wtf?!
Every Google SPA is slow. It’s compounded by poor animations that are all a little too long, and Material UI.
using referrer to detetect unique visits is standard trick of those privacy-oriented analytics services (plausible.io, Simple Analytics). I also do it in my own counter script - https://tildegit.org/severak/millions/src/branch/master/mill...
Don't raise money with equity is the message in the blog post he referred to. Equity is expensive and these days, debt is cheap.

Know your WACC.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wacc.asp
I's say the government issuing that debt in the first place is already counter to neoliberalism.
Honestly, in engineering, it's usually a lot more likely that the manager doesn't understand the value of individual employees, and only sees an underling who has a strong sense of self-worth, but not enough knowledge to understand why.
I personally hate Debian because of APT and the fact that it tends to do way too many things behind your back, things that sometimes backfire horrendously as soon as you stray too much from the path Debian dug (Ubuntu is the best example of how APT can self implode as soon as you start adding weird repositories and the scripts that keep Debian afloat start breaking). I've had to recover way too many Ubuntu installs to tolerate using APT any longer (in its defense, I understand it was designed by Debian, for Debian, and often Ubuntu abuses and misunderstands it), and while YUM/DNF aren't that much better, they're miles ahead APT in reliability and solidity, especially since RPM is arguably more reliable than DPKG, IMHO.

You may well say that Arch Linux and the like, compared to Debian-based distributions, basically leave you in the middle of nowhere with just a knife and a rope, but at least you know what you signed for. Relying on fancy shmancy automatic configuration systems is often a recipe for disaster, especially if you plan to stray a lot from the defaults, because it's guaranteed you won't have any idea of what's happening when everything has turned south.

For these and other reasons,I think that systems like BSDs are much, much more pleasant to use than Debian and Red Hat, but I understand why they might not be the right choice for everyone. Still, I can't but recommend everyone to give a shot at FreeBSD if your needs allow it.
This one feels like the article actually addresses it perfectly. I have had an issue with this literal problem. I had a 'consultant' we would farm out to other organizations. She was phenomenal with work quality, but her organization was garbage, and her billing was always late/inaccurate.

Here's what I did (and what the article seems to agree with):

1. Be clear about your expectations. Have standardized forms, and clear deadlines the two of you discuss. Also discuss and agree to consequences for not meeting expectations for timeline and accuracy. You WILL have to explain why this is important; to most of these folks who are rockstars, the work is important, not the follow-up.

2. Work through the documentation process, and find the pinch points. How can you help with that (provide resources).

3. If you have set consequences, follow through on them, or change the process to suit the person if they are valuable enough.

In my experience, being bad at ancillary things isn't malicious. It's either not a priority, or it has never been called out. Super high performers won't understand why it matters (especially in the tech sector where 'the work' is all that matters). It's up to you to translate why it's important, and what the impact is for the team. Be open to solutions you hadn't though of.

Good luck.
A combination of timestamp and referrer becomes the "Unique" ID instead of IP or Cookie.
Fingerprints are definitely not the only way to know if a binary has been tampered with.
> So why is it OK for Amazon to get a fee, or any physical retailer? Aren't they unnecessary middle men too?

Amazon or Walmart or any other online or offline super market doesn't prevent either the manufacturer to sell directly to the consumer, or me as a consumer to directly buy from the producer / manufacturer.

Apple does precisely that with its restrictive app store on ios (and soon will on the macOS too), denying the buyer the right to buy an app directly from the developer and avoid the unnecessary burden of the Apple Tax. Due to this same restriction it is also able to charge the developer an annual recurring fee, again unnecessarily raising the total cost of an application for the user.
Granted this is anecdotal, but I found Nomad to have much more reasonable resource usage compared to K3s on my pi cluster
I'm very interested to see how this sort of situation will align with the increasing number of countries/airlines/music venues/hotels/theme parks that are stating they will only admit people who have been vaccinated.

It will probably take careful legislation to prevent those who can't be vaccinated from being relegated to second class citizens alongside those who won't get vaccinated. At the end of the day both groups still pose an infection risk.
> Nope, IBM, Azul, Amazon, Red-Hat, Alibaba, Twitter, Microsoft also seat at the Java table.

I know Java has stakeholders but, what I'm trying to say is the table is at Oracle's HQ, not somewhere else.

> Should I also start listing the dark sides of each company that seats at ISO C and ISO C++ table?

A primer would be nice, actually.

> Python working groups also need money from those corporations, and Python is yet to provide the performance levels of Java, so much for free beer development.

I've never alleged that Python takes no money from corporations and, Python doesn't aim the performance of Java. Their byte-code even doesn't get optimized. Instead Python prefers native libraries for performance. SciPy, NumPy, PyTorch and others obtain native performance on any system they run and, it's enough for Python.

No need to move the goalposts and compare apples to oranges. Python is never meant to replace Java. Java is not meant to replace system programming languages like C/C++. You may like Java and it might help you to pay the bills but, pushing other languages around just because they don't fill your needs from your point of view is not the correct stance.
Running Simple SpringBoot App on OpenShift
I think the next paradigm shift in programming is the shift from local to cloud IDEs.

I see a lot of backlash against that idea these days, but it seems inevitable.

I don't think we can predict the full consequences of that, but one I see already is massively lowering friction. If the cloud knows how to run your code anyway, there's no reason why the fork button couldn't immediately spin up a dev environment. No Docker, no hunting for dependencies, just one click, and you have the thing running.

The next generation of programmers (mostly young teenagers at this point) is often using repl.it apparently, and building cool stuff with it. This is definitely promising for this approach, as the old generation will pass away eventually.