skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> very left-wing sources like NY Times and Politico.

Not disagreeing with your overall claim that CA does in fact have budget problems, but citing the NYT and Politico as "very left-wing" is a pretty hilarious example of just how far right "center" American thinking has gone.

NYT is a classic example of a centrist/liberal publication that is widely reviled by anyone on the left.

edit: If you think "liberals" are the same as the "left" you are about as confused as someone who thinks that JavaScript is the same as Java.
At a previous job, a significant percentage of the feedback we received was about the feedback prompt itself. Users just want to get what they came for and then leave the site. They rarely do anything that doesn't directly benefit them, unless they're really happy, or really angry. For everything else, there's analytics.

Analytics answer questions like "is this content worth translating", "is that element a good use of screen real estate", "is this browser worth supporting", "how do people find this page (and what are they looking for)". You can't get that out of a feedback form.

> which is not vital

Not every website is run as a charity.
A few years back, I used a few tools piecemealed together to make a living wallpaper from Ferrari's waterfall piece.

I'll now gladly pay to have it done properly. :)

Edit: Curses, no parallax! The version of waterfall I made has parallax scrolling, I worked very hard getting that working! (By which I mean I found one strange wallpaper tool from a Korean developer that is the only tool that worked to pull off parallax animated GIF wallpapers). On a 21:9 screen. waterfall is about 3 screens wide...
I guess I'm lucky then. We upgraded all my Macs at home and all the Macs at the office to Big Sur without bricking any of them.

Or maybe you're just being contrarian...
Thanks for the pointer, I was unaware about the bad batch and will very much attempt to get a replacement. Not very hopeful as it’s been nearly a year now and unfortunately I’m not anymore in the same country where the Apple Store I bought them at is.
My point is that he must have meant that, for his argument to make any sense. I agree he probably didn't mean that, and that his argument is nonsense. He admits he didn't even bother researching and evaluating the evidence, then he jumps to an invalid conclusion, that there's nothing shocking about Mother Teresa's behavior, only Christopher Hitchens' criticism of it.
I would love an internet that provides content as JSON in a consistent format. No longer are we restricted to the often awful UI and UX choices and unnecessary stylistic overhauls that make everything more difficult to access. No more pop up banners. No scroll jacking. It sounds like bliss.
As long as you aren't relying on it as backup, it doesn't matter for most use cases.

I'm about to build a zpool consisting of nothing but 3-wide raidz1 vdevs. I can tolerate one drive dying. In the ~8 years or so I've been running a NAS, I've had precisely one drive failure. I am fully aware that survivorship bias is a thing, and anecdotes aren't data, but it's good enough for me.

Anything important is backed up locally and to the cloud. Everything else is merely annoying to have to download again.
https://archive.is/xuT19
> Debian plus an automation system like Puppet, Chef, etc works extremely well.

Eh, it does until it doesn't. Sooner or later you run into pitfalls around the leaky abstraction of pretending your state is truly idempotent and path-independent. E.g. spinning up a new instance works fine, but the existing instances that need to uninstall a previous version to upgrade to the newer one end up breaking. Or vice-versa, existing servers work fine but then when you need to launch a new one your realize the config no longer works on a clean install and you hadn't noticed it for weeks.

Container-based systems certainly have their own problems, but it is really nice having a model where you don't allow long-lived implicit state and cruft to accumulate on your application servers in the same way.
For a major product sure, the ASML devices. Ericsson and Nokia are pushing 5G.
Supply and demand is a separate thing. People stockpiling these mask has led to this shortage. What you are suggesting with regard to protection is a universal right.

And yea, if a Dr is so scared of contracting a disease in a profession specifically putting them in this situation, they should also quit their job. Certain jobs require a strong stomach for risk. Don’t take it if you can’t handle it.

Also let’s not forget she not only didn’t teach her son to check who’s at the door before opening it, she can also very easily defend herself using her second amendment rights. Just like the rest of us.
I used to use DoorDash, and tipped very well since I knew the workers could really use it.

And then I learned that the company has been stealing tips from the workers who need it, so that they can make their finances look better in anticipation of this IPO.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/20/20825937/doordash-tippi...

I haven't used the service since.
It's not so easy to establish the fair market value of something that never goes on the market.
I don't know why you were voted dead for asking a question. I vouched for your comment.
I think a great use case for this is for working with files locally. I had to change the script tag to use a relative link, but then it opens up fine as a local file. Now I can share those files via DropBox or the like, so it's very end-user friendly.

If you were writing a desktop application, you could be saving user data as this JSON-HTML quine (JHQ?), so it's automatically accessible on any device, but also still accessible to e.g. the jq utility.

Since any modification is liable to move the "_" field, you might address that by using an array envelope instead; [{"real": "data"}, "<html><footer>"]

For a production site, I think you ought to, server-side, check the Accept header and pre-render the conversion.

Another note: if I do Save Page As in Firefox, it saves the page as standard HTML, losing the JSON.
I think thats the right way to frame the bet. Paying for it now with future growth, health and improved revenues coming our way.
"Eat less" is the correct advice for weight less just like "don't drink" is for alcoholics and "don't think of him" is for someone going through a breakup. It's just basically useless advice totally lacking empathy. People are different. They have different bodies, different psychological dispositions, different experiences, etc. I think more people should ask themselves some basic questions. What would need to happen in my life to put me in the position of being 100 pounds overweight? What type of person would I be? How would it feel to try to fight my way back? How can I gain a bit of perspective?
I just measured an uncached page load of facebook.com and it takes 3.5s which isn't stellar.
If people are interested in getting more data on why monopolies and monopsonies are bad I'd recommend "The Myth Of Capitalism" (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40751646-the-myth-of-...).

It made a compelling case for breaking up large corporations in the interest of reducing inequality (via more competition and reduced consumer prices). However, it's the only book I've read on the subject so am unsure if it's a widely held and reliably informed view.

For commenters that are wondering what world we'd be living in with functional anti-trust laws, the book suggests we look to the US between the late 1930's and the early 1980s.
It's questionable whether such a law is actually enforceable, and I'd hope it wouldn't hold up in court. That said, I can't blame Musk et al. for being worried by it.
I feel like this is a pretty standard feature of most earbuds but I don't think there are many headphones/cans that do that. I agree that it's a neat feature and wish more things did that (while also giving the option to disable it).
Cancer isn't caused by abnormal methylation patterns.

The ctDNA are just fragments of DNA which have been shed by the tumor and are now circulating in the blood stream.
I wish there was a FOSS license with a clause along the lines of:

- if your company makes >X revenue a year, give us some of it.

Ofc, they (FSF/OSI/DFSG) would have to relax their FOSS definition(s), but with more projects dying in this way hopefully more FOSS organisations will take heed and think about this.

Ofc, the wording of the license has to be precise enough to avoid something like fobbing off the servers to technically be controlled by subsidiaries with 0 revenue.
Except when your Puppet/chef whatever aren’t set up carefully to be self-contained to be able to bring up the system to the correct state regardless of whatever interim state it might be in. It’s not impossible but it’s also not an out-of-the-box thing, it’s complicated to pull off, and usually requires constant expertise rather than being a playbook you hand off to whomever (even with expertise you can have bugs, you just aren’t in as big of a hole because you’ve ratholed on the assumption that you always have version 0 or version N-1 to get to state N).

Doing this is hard and there’s nothing in the ecosystem I’m aware of to guarantee that. Nix maybe? That’s part of the problem. The other is that docker has a conveniently large set of configs and things “out of the box” so there’s familiarity and documentation.

It’s not impossible to accomplish but building that community of doing things a sustainable way that actually addresses the pain points (rather than just dismissing it with “you’re just using the old tools incorrectly”) is what you need. If you’re going after docker your solution will have to support devs and devops. If you’re going for a niche community of enthusiasts/experts (probably more defensible and easier to grow), then focus just on a single niche use-case that general solutions could never outmatch (but don’t ignore growing it carefully if your niche solution is meaningfully better - listen to your users that you trust).
I get similar timings for my website on a DigitalOcean VPS. It's not that difficult, as long as you can cache your content.

A few other things: GZIP and HTTP2 help a lot
Europe has actually been rather successful with IMEC, their semiconductor research organization.
If you read the "Feral concurrency control" paper I linked above, particularly section 7 on conclusions, they make the case that serializable is the only isolation level that's actually safe with naive coding styles on frameworks like Rails and Django which do application-level validation. If you do validation in your application and don't use serializable isolation, then you have to be careful about manually locking, OR just be sure that your usage pattern isn't vulnerable to the anomalies that you're introducing by using a weaker isolation level.

If you're building a financial ledger, you absolutely must use serializable isolation. If you're building a Twitter clone, sure, use something weaker that will gain you some performance.

I'd make the case that we should be recommending the use of serializable by default unless you have a reason why you think it's OK to use something weaker, rather than having the default be better-performing-but-unsafe. The sort of concurrency validation errors that you get if you needed Serializable and used Read-Committed instead are really, really hard to reproduce, debug, and diagnose.
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> The solution isn't censorship. It's becoming more credible.

This is great. Is it a quote?
I’ve always loved how Japanese art generally doesn’t shy from being cute and colorful even when it’s targeted for adults.

Also how Japanese games almost always have some animation in their UIs.
I think we can knock them, or at least I personally would not sleep very well if I worked there. RH is making it incredibly easy (and addictive) for naive investors to access complex financial instruments and is selling their order flow at a high premium to the most advanced trading firms on the planet. That does not unsettle you?
Chrome Dev Summit Adventure
What always bugged me about QR codes is that they're not human-readable.

I'd love if there were a standard where you'd simply have a human-readable URL plus some markers at the start and end to help with OCR. And you could standardize the font too.

For example:
|: google.com [|

(edit: hackernews removes unicode...)
College loans are privileged, because it’s unsecured debt that is issued to young people without any income or assets. I would be totally for discharging student debt if it worked like, say, car loans — that is, if it was backed by private companies who can refuse extending credit to people whom they judge are unlikely to pay it back, and if upon bankruptcy, the degree is “repossessed”, i.e. records of attendance are scrubbed, and the bankrupt debtor is not allowed to claim they had held that degree under criminal penalties. Then sure, discharge student debt, I don’t care.

However, in the current arrangement of federally backed student loans, the incentives are completely misaligned. The taxpayers are shelling out tens of thousands of dollars to fund ever-more-expensive universities, which can keep jacking up the prices because there will always be feds who’ll write the check with few questions asked. Then, if you could just discharge it in bankruptcy, why wouldn’t just everyone do it first thing after graduation? Sure, you’ll have mangled up credit score for a few years, but for most people it’s worth the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars saved, and if everyone does it, credit score companies will have to account for it to keep the scores informative, so it likely wouldn’t even cause any problems for you at all.
Even if you read only American news it does not seem like a good place to live in. This is coming from an immigrant who chose the EU over the US by the way.
Then let the courts decide that. There's no need for Google to get ahead of it. It's not like Youtube is running out of space.
I believe that is not entirely accurate.

IIRC the main maintainer had started working for RedHat (and didn't disclose that) before CentOS became a Red Hat community project.
> Nobody will ever remember the rejected error handling or genetics proposals; but people will definitely take notice if the eventually accepted one come attached with Google names.

I guess, but my point is that many of the rejected ones are attached with Google names. Also it's unclear to me that the reason for not remembering is due to who proposes and implements the things -- it seems more likely that this is due to a huge volume of proposals over a long span of time. WRT generics, it's also very clear that community feedback is being incorporated.

So this is why I think the issue is really rejection. Nobody's really upset about how error reporting or generics are being handled because it's clear that community feedback is being honored, and it's clear that the core team is holding themselves to the same standard the community is being held to. Those two properties aren't as clear in the packaging situation.

That's why I think Fuchsia having a documented community process and also having been working within that process for some time is important. We're already holding ourselves to the standard we're asking of the community.

> I believe it takes extra concerted effort.

This is absolutely true, and it's why I'm here trying to make sure that folks know there are people involved in the project who care greatly about its open nature.

Many people have pointed out that the existence of open source doesn't necessarily make the project accessible for contribution, and that's I think the more difficult problem to solve in the short-to-medium-term.
That's a good point. But then it immediately brings up the question: if that's the case, why would the FSF have been in communication with the Linux kernel peeps with regard to license compatibility and potential upgrade? I can understand getting input from them on the upcoming GPLv3, but not an effort trying to convince them to adopt it.
I happen to like MS Teams a lot... was very happy to see Linux getting proper support earlier this year, similar for o365. If you run a company with more than a handful of users, worth the price of entry imo.
Yeah, and only one business model is dead. There are others and will be. Use open source the smart way and you can make money.
Can they build in a mechanism to mitigate baseless flagging?
> Some people just want a place to put their thoughts out, and don't really care what anyone else is doing.

Not being snarky: this is what personal journals are for.

It's difficult for me to reconcile "I want to put my thoughts out, but for as many people as possible to see them, and without caring about impact". At best, it feels like void navel-gazing, and at worst it might be a source of so much thoughtless/marginalizing content on Twitter: because the author did not care what their words will do to the reader. The feedback loop is essential not only for enriching the overall community, but for enriching our own understanding.
Nah, some European systems can be very much “letter of the law” too. It’s more of a political thing, typically (how many people are exploiting this, and are they rich/famous/powerful enough to be troublesome?). This guy is an outsider to the system he exploited, so the system will throw the book at him.
Seems like a catchy way of saying what needs to happen for you to lose weight: calories in must be lower than calories out
A lot of this depends on your CI/CD environment. In ours, every single push to every branch on the remote repo ends up building a testing/building a full container environment that is ready for deployment in the cloud - with no differentiation between production/development in terms of completeness.

It's fast enough, that some (obv not most) developers don't even set up their local docker environment, and just use the CI/CD deployments to test their work. With the advantage being that if it looks good - single deploy moves all of the production environment to it.
It took me to about level 12, 13 or 14 to become .95 confident that I had learned to solve any solvable puzzle consisting of a 3-dot region and a 4-dot region using only 2 slices. (My probability that I had learned started rising fast 2 or 3 levels earlier, but it took a few levels to reach .95 confidence.)

I.e., my curiosity over whether I had learned a general solution to that class of puzzle kept my interest.

But more importantly, I enjoy purely perceptual tasks. There is almost no cognitive skill involved for example in piecing together a jigsaw puzzle or playing a game of billards. (At very high levels of skill, maybe billards demands significant cognitive work, e.g., leaving the table in a state designed to exploit weakness in one's opponent's skills, but that does not apply to the game under discussion.) Maybe the difference between you and I is that I enjoy purely perceptual tasks whereas you do not.
Here is the thing though - it's not just a "few extra points".

By my calculation its 13.3% more living in California in state income tax savings alone. That is a huge amount of money for Elon, but is also a huge amount of money for people working on a SV salary. It could be more than a mortgage payment. There are probably additional savings with less regulation etc

California is not a state anyone should want to do business in in 2020.
> it suggests to me that a national program to strengthen an industry isn't guaranteed to be a failure

"Isn't guaranteed to be a failure".

Sorry, I struggle to interpret sentences like this. English isn't my first language.

Please clarify?

Are you saying that "it is not definitely a failure"?

I can't figure out if it's the above, or if it is this:

"won't necessary fail"

More specifically, I'm not sure if the implication is optimistic or pessimistic.

I hope that makes sense - the nuances of English are a delightful journey of exceptions; something my programming brain struggles with at times.
The EUV source inside ASML's lithography machines is from the German optics company Zeiss, and the lasers used in that system which generates EUV wavelength light by bombarding tin droplets is also from another German company, Trumpf.
That never made sense since the bulk of Kodak's chemical manufacturing prowess was spun off decades ago into Eastman Chemical.
ASML comes to mind. Dutch company building large lithography machines being used to create semi conductors.

The tech scene in mainland Europe operates completely differently from what you might be used to from Silicon Valley, but there is lots of stuff going on. If you only look at the European car manufactures and the endless amount of small-to-medium sized businesses involved in the supply chain. Lots of stuff going on.
Illinois had a governor arrested while in Office just 12 years ago for corruption. They've had it repeatedly over the last 60 years. Seems like a trend, and not just limited to 1929.
Unpatched LPE Vulnerability in Psexec
The problem is not just that the Russians tried to interfere with our election. It's that President Trump openly invited their illegal meddling and likely conspired with them and then tried to drop sanctions on then after the election
Scientific Linux[0] is still maintained ( Although, by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and not CERN )

[0] https://scientificlinux.org
That doesn't even make sense. There are all sorts of things a court won't strike down that practically nobody thinks Google should broadcast on Youtube. Go look at the Youtube content guidelines and see how many have anything to do with what a court thinks.
Agreed - I think one of the things most depressing about the misinformation narrative from the current govt and the far right narrative is that they are hurting their own voting base the most. In that rural counties that should have the lowest rates of transmission and mortality because of the amount of space are actually getting some of the worst outcomes per capita.

All of it much more manageable and probably many fewer businesses would have had to have been closed, jobs lost, people dying if we just adopted some straightforward measures at the beginning. Super depressing.
Pretty interesting to see this move makes people so salty. There does seem to be a trend of people fleeing California, I dont know enough about the situation out there to comment on whether or not its valid. I suspect something must be going on for several high profile folks moving out. And before you bash Texas, its not perfect. But its pretty diverse, and it seems that folks with opposing viewpoints can still coexist here. I like that...
So many companies cashing in on IPOs this year, good for them.

I still cannot support a company that pockets tips intended for their drivers, it's pure greed.
You know, if we could just go back and make that un-happen, we probably would have built an actual internet application platform. That probably would have been a lot better than the layers of hackery that we deal with now, but ok, that's pure speculation.
So how's their business model different from Deliveroo/Just Eat?
is this liability growing over the years or shrinking? Why do you expect that it's going to shrink at least 35 billion/year over the next 30 years? At some point every debt has either to be paid by the debtor or to be "forgiven" at the expense of someone else's livelihood/savings.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/305287/california-state-...
But what's their point? Are those odd TSLA shareholders?
AWS announces Amazon Forecast Weather Index to provide 14-day predictions
Maybe! The real problem is to help people avoid people they want to avoid, not banning clients on technical grounds. A genuine attempt at solving the problem wouldn't be based on universal bans. There could be groups who have their own blacklists. Find the groups you agree with and tick boxes to subscribe to their ideas of who should be banned.
Good to know!

I think I mixed up discussion of a wealth tax with income tax. Or maybe that was somewhere else.

Thanks for straighting it up for me! :)