skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the kind of privacy initiatives we need. While we argue in America about deplatforming, Iran, China, and other authoritarian countries around the world are actually suppressing and punishing free communication. Kudos to Signal for this initiative.
Coal will be gone from US power by 2033 – Morgan Stanley
It's not that much in the grand scheme of things. A couple of data centres will saturate the link easily.
AFAIK all relevant court cases were dismissed and didn't go into discovery. There is an opinion that all of the cases were baseless. There is an opinion that judges saw where the wind blows and took an easy way out. Since we're not going to see any serious investigation, you can pick whichever you like.
Mozilla Mixed Reality Blog – A New Year, a New Hubs
Podcast with Andrew Hedges / Zapier
I wonder what McKinsey's profit on this gig was - if >= $573M, then this is just the cost of doing business, no problem, do it again and make some more $$.
Really? That is interesting, although I can't say it would be preferable for me. I've had plenty of times when 4x10 was a good fit for my lifestyle. I've got a co-worker who currently does 3x12 and really seems to like it.
At some point, the easier option is for there to be a revolution or some sort of governmental change.
The Secret Parameter, LFR, and Potential RCE in Node.js Apps
No, just the normal utility that first "appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX." It uses Bing by default but you can specify a translation service in your cat.conf. Use like this:

$ cat -L "en/us" /tmp/french-file.txt
IDEA has a language-server plugin: https://github.com/gtache/intellij-lsp

Personally I hate using IDEA because it's too sluggish for my taste. With language servers I can pick whichever IDE I want (which for me means VSCode, which is about as snappy as it gets outside of text-mode editors) and still have rich language integration.
Are you really coming on HN to try and blame immigrants for this?

Do you know the kind of contributions immigrants have had in this industry? Do you know how important open immigration has been to the rise of tech?
Yes, not that there's a large difference. Best Buy has pretty large markups, especially on short CAT6 cables.

You can buy subsea cable for $10-$20 per meter.

EDIT: the cost depends on how many layers of armoring you require. Deep sea cable requires less, shallow sea cable more.
Thats the point of the comment, to show counter argument/view.
This is slightly different (SI/Mgmt consultants vs Strategy consultants) but my experience with SI consultancies was that mid/lower consultants were rewarded based on chaos and fixing chaos not on avoiding chaos.

So if you oversaw the build-out of a system and everything went smoothly, good, but nothing to talk about during promotions.

On the other hand, if there were difficult issues faced and you fire-fought, sent out late emails with decisions to clients, came up with memos documenting tricky situations, awesome! Promotion material!

Of course, sharp consultants figured this out and the sharpest ones looked the other way when design documents had landmines -- just so they had known manageable issues to "manage" and "save the day" with.

Bad incentives, bad outcomes.
Wouldn't Briar be a good choice? https://briarproject.org/
Maybe it's bullshit jobs all the way down.
> Censors just use signal domains and non-signal domains to test your proxy.

If the censor already knows about your proxy they would have no reason to test it... The whole point is that there isn't a central list of proxies for them to easily block.
Yes, but where? Mine rotates that spot on a weekly basis.
Context: They are the maintainer of Krita[0], a really popular open-source painting program.

[0] https://krita.org
It's also not even remotely true. Check out the IIHS crashing a 60s bel air into a modern malibu.

"They don't make them like they used to" has always been a nostalgic crock of shit, like the people who think the NES was the golden age of video games, despite the vast majority of the 700 or so releases being utter trash for $60 that sometimes didn't even work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_r5UJrxcck
Yes, but the notion of an existent, burgeoning "Alt-left" is due to fully attributable for folks being divorced from reality as a consequence of consuming lying media sources (especially those promoted on Parler). Also, "Antifa" isn't an organization. So classifying what white nationalists call "antifa" as boogeymen is surprisingly apt.

What gets blocked on Parler is more appropriately called "not supportive of white nationalism." That way you are sure to capture the entire space of content, whether Alt-right or not, instead of narrowing the universe to Alt-right and things the alt-right is encultured to fear but don't appear in reality.
Are Your Software Project Timelines Reasonable?
Changing complicated software is hard. Especially for companies that haven’t worked remotely before. This post explores what it takes to create good software changes and whether the timeline expectations for such a project are reasonable.

https://blog.taylorbuiltsolutions.com/sensible-expectations/
Well... except in Iran, hence the strategy of decentralizing proxy servers.
AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs)
Aliens could be sucking energy from black holes. That may be how we'll find them
Another recommendation in this vein is Arthur C. Clarke's "How the World Was One", it provides some fascinating historical context for how we got to where we are today (or rather, where we were in 1992).
Did they separate out search profit? My understanding is they don't separate out anything so by following your logic no divisions at google made a profit.
Even if the project is 'dead' it still runs, particularly on Windows.

I'm running the final release of Winamp as I type this. I organize my hard disk with the 1.0 of Spacemonger, which was free before it went paid. I edit audio files with Sound Forge 11 (up to 14 or so now) and before that I had a pirated copy of 6.0 that worked pretty well. I have a 'programs' folder full of stuff that runs without installation, some of which hasn't been touched in 5 or 10 years, and everything still runs when I try it.

Code is eternal.
Every time you would tip $10, go give it to a homeless person instead. Your money will be spent more effectively, and you won't support the tipping mind-virus.
Let’s keep 80s music out of this ;)

Looks like I need to resort to ASM for visual c++. Might do.
Consultants are not expected to just know the answer. They're supposed to figure it out by talking to people in the company and looking at data. A 20 year old with full DB access and a python script can tell an executive a lot of things they don't know.
Not agreeing or disagreeing with this take, but it's not an uncommon one and shouldn't be so downvoted. Bernie Sanders himself was singing a similar tune for most of the last 20 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/16/years-ber...
> But even Panic says in their blog post that they were not too concerned with competitors using their code either, mainly because it would quickly become outdated

And the legality bit? Big companies who aren't Uber know this isn't worth it, but even with smaller companies, if someone internally notices, the company could be in a lot of legal trouble. I haven't worked anywhere that would even consider using a competitor's code.
8 hours of work already mean about 10 hours dedicated to work, including commute and preparation. It’s 18 hours if you include sleeping and you only have 6 hours left for “recreation,” which must also include personal errands, cooking and cleaning.

If you work 10/12 hour shifts you have no life. No wonder people await the weekend like it’s air.
I sympathize with these workers. But if this can be seen an indictment of American culture, then all in all, maybe things aren't so bad. I worked a construction job for a summer in Chile where we had 12-hour shifts, 5 days a week, and every week we alternated between day (8am-8pm) and night (8pm-8am) shifts. And I had it easy, because I lived close to the site - a lot of the other workers had 1+ hour commutes each way.
You can spin in any way as you want, the farm law is a progress in the right direction. People in general are supporting the farm laws and it’s not surprising why
Oh, of course, it just hadn't occurred to me to consider op-eds a meaningful participant or representative of the public discourse.
Data Protection for the Cloud
I had 300 baud, which had a switch on the side. I would call a BBS and flip it on when it made the handshake beeps. I tried to host a BBS of my own between the hours of 7pm and 9pm, but my parents were not happy with it.
Cars today may be harder/more expensive to fix, but they do seem to last a lot longer before they need it, and as pointed out down thread they tend to last a lot longer in the absolute sense.

As a kid, we had a van that made it to 150k miles and my parents friends were amazed it was still on the road. I've personally owned 4 or 5 vehicles older than that, all in better shape than that van at 150k.
And it is always local. I18n the cat would be something to see.
Setting Up Time Machine on Ubuntu Server 20.04
flynn.io was the product I used found when I wanted a little better scalability than Dokku. This was a few years ago when I tried it, so unsure of the current landscape.
4x10 is almost as bad as 5x8. 4x8 would be a real improvement.
Except America, the most dominate economic power in the history of the world, should be compared with other first-world developed countries, not Chile.

Having the American middle class move backwards is not exactly an accomplishment.
Yes. Even more than McKinsey is responsible for the opioid crisis. Instagram built the evil product, McKinsey just told someone how to better weaponize an already evil product.
The Swerve: On the out-of-nowhere story endings to our pop culture artifacts
So I have some experience with this. I decided to add BLE beacons to my vehicles and bicycles, and an RPI to listen for the pings and retransmit them over mqtt. The idea was I could setup some Home Assistant alerts for things like "multiple vehicles are absent at once" or "vehicle went from home to away at odd hour" where "odd hour" is something like 12AM-5AM, a time when I wouldn't expect me or my vehicles to be departing.

The way I implemented it was to have each beacon transmit on I think 1s (might have been 5s to save power) intervals, and some python code on an RPI that listens for them, with a timeout for each. If the listener gets a ping it immediately forwards it to mqtt as a "home" ping, using the beacon id to set the topic. If it doesn't get a ping within the timeout then the rpi generates and sends an "away" mqtt message for that beacon. My expectation was to have it alert me within ~2-3 minutes of a vehicle going from "home" to "away". In practice:

- BLE beacons aren't very popular really, most of them are made by small foreign companies who don't sell them in places like Amazon. The ones Amazon does sell are kind of crappy. Setting them up usually involves downloading a vaguely-sketchy app to your phone (I haven't figured out how to configure them from the rpi). They all seem kind of janky honestly.

- Bluetooth and Wifi use the same (some) hardware on an rpi, meaning if you start rapidly scanning for BLE tokens your wifi performance will drop to the point of the rpi being unusable (ssh sessions timing out). I fixed this by buying a separate USB bluetooth dongle, although even that was a pain to get working in the pybluez module - in general bluetooth under linux along with the python bindings are finicky and crap out easily, it seems.

- I have my dmesg and syslog spammed with "Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected" when using bluetooth scanning, I managed to find a couple bug references to it and other people complaining about it but no fixes over multiple system updates.

- It's just... Not reliable. I don't know why. I've tried really hard to make it reliable, and maybe the problem is the RPI-as-bluetooth (maybe if I used a microcontroller as the receiver it would work better?), but I've tried all variations of scanning windows and such and dug down into the code for Bluez without figuring out either what I'm doing wrong or where the issue is. Beacons will supposedly not ping for minutes at a time despite being on a 5s interval no matter what I do, and this is for beacons maybe 6 feet from the receiver (although ones further away do timeout more).

The last thing is what finally killed the project for me. I had it (still have it) all setup in HA with notifications and schedules and such, but I just turned off all the automation for it until I get a chance to tear it down. Failed experiment.
Polymer is used by real people... even more-so if you include the spiritual successor to Polymer, LitElement. That's not to say either are incredibly popular, but still, that seems intentionally demeaning.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@polymer/polymer

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/lit-element
See also [1], a research collaboration that did this basically 12 years ago... Iirc they also had a project where they tracked cats across a town... But most of their "experiments" were just tracking interactions between pupils and not so much the location tracking... Though I remember the original hardware (was open sourced) had this as well.

[1] http://www.sociopatterns.org/
This is a great example of how labor laws in the US are weak (deal with this sudden, dramatic change to your schedule or you're fired). It is also an example of how employers take great advantage of those weak labor laws. It is not, however, an example of how big corporations are evil. There's plenty of examples of that out there, this just isn't one. But for some reason is is surprisingly common for people to blame companies for following the law instead of blaming the actual culprit - the (arguably) bad laws made by (arguably) bad lawmakers. You see this everywhere, but for some reason it's especially common on HN.
Growing Old Well – “On Old Age”, with Cicero
“One of the fears from management was that a big company like Google could take our code and build a competing service.”

Google, or any other respectable company, would not touch source code without a permissive license with a ten foot pole, least of all if it was retrieved as a result of improper access.
That's how I still refer to them in my head.

I'm still baffled why they didn't do that.
This is going to be a game of cat and mouse...

And if you're the mouse, you really don't want to be hobbled by not having an auto-update mechanism in your proxy servers...

At the very least they could have made it load the config from https://signal.org on startup, or made an apt package that sysadmins can easily update with everything else.
There's a bit of a write-up here:

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/the-cost-and-complexity-o...

In their benchmark, calling a `func() {}` in Go vs a `void foo() {}` in C (via CGo) is almost 100x faster.

$ go test -bench . -gcflags '-l' # disable inlining for fairness
BenchmarkCGO-8 10000000 171 ns/op
BenchmarkGo-8 2000000000 1.83 ns/op

EDIT: And then you still have the extra overhead when using `C.CString` and `C.GoBytes` if you're passing those sorts of arguments to C.
I don't think that Naur was arguing that it has to be a single developer who knows everything. It could also be multiple developers, where each one of them has loaded a sub-problem of a bigger problem into their head.

Usually in OSS projects you have a handful or so of contributors doing the bulk of the work, right? Imagine them all going away at once for one of those projects you mentioned. I feel the project would be in pretty bad shape.
The US HC system basically runs as a "skim" operation. Since skim is fundamentally percentage based, the more money that flows through the system, the greater the absolute amount that is skimmed. Thus, no one has incentive, in the long run, to reduce costs. Short term, insurance companies might benefit from cutting costs, but they know that ultimately, when costs go up, they can justify proportional premium increases, which increase their skim in absolute value.
> Microsoft says Viva Insights will include data for managers and leaders to monitor work patterns and trends, but that privacy will be protected. “This means personal insights are visible only to the employee, while insights for managers and leaders are aggregated and de-identified by default to protect individual privacy,” says Spataro.

That's not protecting, you can't de-identify work that's done by a single person, even if MS magically could do this is completely meaningless metric made so that managers can look busy doing "evaluation".
> Just like IBM, if a strategy fails, nobody gets fired for having hired McK. There is value in that.

This is it right here. A shocking percentage of corporate boardrooms are McKinsey alumni — by hiring McKinsey to develop or even just validate your strategy, you buy credibility from the people who sign the checks because they know and trust senior people at McKinsey.

Consulting is a relationship business. The other purpose of consulting at the boardroom level is to enable companies to sidestep laws around collusion and insider trading — the SEC occasionally charges somebody, but it’s largely symbolic given how pervasive it is. It’s not unheard of for CEOs of companies that are direct competitors to have regular calls to discuss strategy, all while using consultants to create a paper trail that says the strategy was developed through rigorous analysis.
Do I hear 3x6? How about 2x4 or 1x2?
There Are Spying Eyes Everywhere–and Now They Share a Brain
Hey, fuck you & your useless friends
> 4x8 would be a real improvement.

3x7 is where its at.
It’s a blood draw, not brain surgery. It sounds like you have problems with a for-profit healthcare system run under capitalism, however.
Just because there are ordinary employees at the bottom doing ordinary boring jobs, doesn't mean that this is not a company that has done all sorts of damage.

Most of the huge profits don't go to people like you, but there are huge profits.

The opioid crisis has caused untold suffering and death.
The amount of money they were fined is a joke that couldn't make a tiny dent in what fixing this.

It's small enough that it it's unlikely to stop them being involved in something similar in future.
Presumably IDEA plugins have to be written in JVM languages, and use specific language-level bindings, and I would bet they're not very well decoupled from IDEA itself (which would make it really hard to write adapters to other editors).

Language servers are just that: servers, exposing a very unopinionated API. They run in a separate process, can be written in any language, and can even be hosted from any machine. That makes for a much more open and flexible standard.
Agreed, I think that argument back then was just bad.
> The healthcare system is not a free market.

You hit the nail on the head. Compared to buying a car, computer or apartment I'm not choosing to have a particular disease or accident. It just happens to us (yes, we can prevent some). Once you have a medical condition you are forced to "shop" for a solution in a "free market" so you can escape that situation. This is when people become vulnerable and the US healthcare model takes full advantage of their position.
Because both parties -- whatever their outward platform is -- have sold out the working class over time. This leaves the working class with few options, especially in geographies w/o a deep pool of jobs.

People are taking these jobs because it is the least worst job.
"Worthless" is an exaggeration: any significant body of code running a critical business process would be missed---and expensive to recreate---if it were lost. But I think the article does make a good point about the value to others. Unless you have a dev team whose head is in that code, and a business team built around that software workflow, just having the code won't be of much value to you. The value of software is inextricably linked to the team that has shaped it. So while it isn't worthless, it is certainly of much lower value without that team.
I don't do lots of bad things, even though I have the legal right to do so. Is it so much to ask the same of Amazon?
With inline hints you can get something somewhat similar, although they can get very annoying with complex types. But extremely useful in long method chains.
I believe what I'm writing, and it's not the company line. I'm explicitly not giving the company a pass. I strongly disagree that providing approval for unethical or unpalatable decisions are what the company does. I would not work for McKinsey to serve, e.g. an oil and gas company personally, no matter the topic. But I feel good about what I do.
The vehicles with the cameras come to your doorstep.

Here's a little tongue-in-cheek thought experiment:

If I place a big sign at the end of my driveway saying "By entering this property you agree to the following terms and conditions..." which then goes on to ban videocameras and lay out fixed penalties as liquidated damages, can I sue Amazon for breach of contract?

How would this be any different from the ToS buried on their own website? (hey, at least mine's posted in big letters where you're sure to see it!)
Jsonnet – data templating language for app and tool developers
Go calling C is expensive compared to the normal function call overhead, but if the called function does significant work, should not introduce too much overhead.
AutoDock Vina[0] is one of the most popular molecular-docking softwares used (if we go by papers citing it). It was last updated on May 11, 2011.

I personally hold the opinion that if the project is not being maintained, giving away the source code allows someone else to pick it up.

[0] http://vina.scripps.edu/download.html
Not at all - perception is reality. These items influence the the leaders' decisions on who is an experienced developer through their implicit biases.
Ok, then we're in the same boat because I also don't understand what you mean.

You're asserting that "killing 3rd party cookies is not anti-competitive". You presented no proof about this, it is just an opinion. Your entire point about what the valid options are is based on this assertion.

On the other hand, several US states and a US house committee apparently think otherwise, and the UK regulators think it at least merits investigation.

And yes, when evaluating whether there is regulatory risk from "killing 3rd party cookies", obviously the group from the previous paragraph is going to matter more than yours.

I am not "accusing you of the thing you're against". I'm not even sure what "you're against" or what the accusation is supposed to be.
Attacking Kubernetes clusters using the Kubelet API
Yeah, I agree. Hopefully labor conditions can improve in the rest of the world as well.
Enrollment != graduation and licensure.

More people may be interested but nobody can practice until after residency, and you have a large pool of hopefuls basically in a lottery for residency slots.

You can get all the theory, but not be able to get the requisite practicum. Even if you do get a slot, you also get treated like a stevedore from what I have heard.
Genuine question, could you please explain how? Most people in my social circle are strongly against them so I only get views from one side regularly, and I would love to understand the other.
I’ve worked the following:

4x10 - desk job overnight

3x12 - desk job overnight

5x8 - manual job

4x10 - manual job

5x8 - desk job

4x10 beat 5x8, regardless of workload. I wish I could do it now.
Wallstreetbets Is Being Taken over by Long Inactive Mods
In the long run, starlink will make it even harder for autocrat regimes to censor the internet. Russian authorities already try to ban connections to Starlink.
maybe because pretty much every office is closed right now?