skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this. I do read quickly, and I typically get 2 hours or so a day to read.

FWIW I don't read slower when I need to absorb serious content, but I do reread repeatedly -- flipping back and forth to make sure I understood the argument, critiquing it in my head, and so forth. Pleasure reading doesn't get that treatment unless I catch the author doing something egregious.
That's not how justice works; damning quotes determine guilt; not the magnitude of guilt.
A reasonable reader will implicitly understand that the proteins have not, in fact, acquired sentience.
What compiled data reveals about an “urban exodus.”
Do you tip your doctor? Plumber? Daycare provider? Cashier? Mechanic? Resturant employees when there is counter service? Hotel housekeeper? Physical therapist? Batista? Cook? Walmart greeter? Ferry crew? Person who sold your tickets? Person who checked your ticket? Usher? Travel agent? Real estate agent? Brewery employee? Winery employee? Tour guide? Hardware store employee who makes you a key? Can driver? Medicab driver? City bus driver? Tour bus driver? Shuttle bus driver? Pharmacist? Pharmacy assistant?

It's extremely arbitrary which service employees "get" tips and which do not. Not everyone agrees who society "expects" to be tipped. The whole thing is absurd and profoundly unfair.
> There are speakers from the 1960s and 70s that are worth owning and using; there are lots from the 80s and 90s that are not.

There is so much to expand on there, too. Commoditization, while democratizing in some senses, loses the plot often.
Microsoft will probably have much of the high-quality engineering talent upstreaming work from Edge. Maybe Google will fork it, but nation-state actors haven't compromised Firefox (to our knowledge) even at its peak, why would they have more luck with Chrome?
Anyone else tired of the word 'product'?
VS Code is great but I'm concerned about there being a single canonical "app store". It would be nice to see an equivalent "F-Droid" that's usable side-by-side with the MS marketplace. I believe code-server (VSCode in Docker over a Browser) does something like that for OSS extensions but it's my assumption that the VSCode codebase only supports one store at a time.
No mention of latency improvements?

Seems crazy since oversea transit (tcp & single-channel) is usually latency (or loss) bound.

I would expect it's better than going over public transit and legacy subsea fiber, but it would have been useful to see some comparison tests between POPs.
Elon Musk admits Tesla car quality flaws, says mass production is “hell”
Apple and Hyundai-Kia pushing toward deal on Apple Car
Facing influx of Capitol siege cases, DOJ issues 'urgent' internal plea for help
Less than 5% of their revenue. I'm sure they learned their lesson.
Maybe ethics and morals should be mandatory trainings?
This isn't Matt Levine style, or calibre, but it covers the basics:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/070915/how-n...
For everything? I was under the impression they still ran all the big stuff on their internal cloud with Borg and all the other infrastructure tooling they built.
The point is precisely that the Powers That Be want you to take out MAXINT - and then unload it on the wider economy as cheap loans to stimulate the economy.

Whether that second part actually happens, or banks just use this extra cash to stuff their balance sheets, well... it's a bit of an open question, to put it mildly.
Heavy elements have all sorts of interesting properties thanks to having so many electrons.

For instance Thorium compounds are used for the mantles of gas lights because the are a "black body" for visible light but not so emissive of infrared.

There are also uranium compounds that are ferromagnetic and superconducting at the same time, something which isn't supposed to be possible, but it is.
The argument in the linked post is not that Privacy Sandbox is "unacceptable to privacy-concerned folks which don't trust Google" but "unacceptable to ad tech companies who want to be able to continue to use third-party cookies".

> the solution is basically putting trust in Google

None of the privacy sandbox proposals require trusting Google: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
I heard somewhere that one of the reasons consultants are brought in, even if the business owners know what to do, is to shift the blame to them. As in, its their idea, we are following the experts.

Not sure how right it is.
You’re spot on. Most of the cables are either laid on the sea floor and up to a beach, or buried underneath beaches. The following link has some good background on what goes into laying cables and how they terminate.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables...

As for physical security, there isn’t much on the sea floor. There are various instances of nation states tapping cables due to the ease of access when it comes to actually “listening” to the data. Obviously the issue there is getting to the undersea cable.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/th...
> They're not 'gimped' by any sort of conspiracy.

It bothers me when people go around labeling random stuff conspiracies like that's a legit dismissal. If they were 'gimped', they wouldn't be the only hardware. GPS is still gimped and will shut off over a certain height and speed specifically to prevent use in missiles. And the precision used to be regulated, not by expense, but to give the military the superior tool.
Truth: The body of real things, events, and facts.

This is me immediately and strongly denounce the things done in the name of "truth" that I think shouldn't be. I said "It's not always completely knowable".

You're turning the conversation towards fringe cases of "truth" when I'm talking about simple shit like claiming the sky is falling when I can just look out the window and clearly see that it is, in fact, not.
You at your years-of-experience most likely don’t yet find it painful to learn.

The folks with one to three decades more time at bat who are hiring you most likely do find learning and change literally painful. Not because of age, but because of “number of trials” at the change experiment, where often someone gets burned.

Reading, learning, thinking differently, hurts the ego, as it makes clear you were less informed before, and puts you on unknown ground where you don’t know if you’re failing or not. This is hard for a lot of people, ironically especially hard for folks who started out as high performers in spaces with “known knowns” knowledge available (aka, school and textbooks, where learning isn’t an ego problem, it’s expected that you didn’t know).

You haven’t yet developed the instinct to yank your hand off the stove, and you don’t have to stick around long to see if your hand gets burned anyway, so you’re valuable to these folks.
I've seen lists of "dual use" technologies which are export restricted, and INS is one of those.
Medium is on its way to become the one stop place for long form content consumption. Bringing Pragmatic Programming onboard is certainly a step in the right direction!
Yes! You 100% dont need a front end framework like React to achieve dynamic UI effects. I’d argue they’ve degraded the user experience over time, complicated development process, and slowed down the web experience for most people.

The fact remains client side JS frameworks did not grow organically from the open source community. They had to be pushed into the dev mindspace by the mega-caps tech cos to offload processing power to the client. For the vast majority of companies (all but a handful), front end frameworks hold an org back.

I’ve had this unpopular opinion for several years, and have yet to meet/work with a startup who didn’t regret choosing Angular/React/etc.
I see a lot of these fiber lines pop up on tiny islands throughout the pacific. What’s happening at these places? Are there people who work there and if so what are they doing?
”Bringing in consultants is, among other ways, a way to bring in people who can get shit done, moving bricks at lower levels of the org with the political mandate of the top”

It seems more likely that it’s a politically expedient way to get cover for a decision (in other words CYA insurance). If the plan fails, blame the consultants. If it works, take credit for having brought them in. It also puts more pressure on exec to make a decision (we just spent $10M on this strategy plan, are we really going to it on it?). It’s genius, if it didn’t highlight the utter dysfunction of a firm.

McKinsey scandals also aren’t confined to Opiod work. It’s also been involved with Enron, corruption in Africa, peddling of mortgage backed securities during ‘07-‘08 crisis and I’m sure many more that they’ve done a great job at hiding from the public.
Some interesting links, to be sure!

Yes, fpdebug definitely looks like it is the better written code of the two...

I will definitely have to grab myself a copy of its source code and play around with it...

>It has some minor errors in the Rex decoding though, if I remember correctly....

By Rex, you mean Regex, right? Well, it having issues there wouldn't surprise me one bit... If I used it, fpdebug, I probably wouldn't use it with all of the bells and whistles turned on -- I'd probably pare it down to only the most essential source code...

But that being said, I think that having that source code to refer to -- could be highly beneficial...

See, there's this problem in Software Engineering, which looks something like this:

Let's say I want an open source library (and in Pascal no less!) whose purpose is twofold, on the one hand to translate raw binary x86 machine code sequences into readable text, and on the other, to translate the text of an x86 assembler instruction, into binary.

OK, so now, the $64,000 question is:

Who (or what) -- is the absolute source of truth for that library?"

See, even if that library were written by Intel themselves, I guarantee that there will be mistakes...

The mistakes are not due to documentor and/or programmer negligence (Intel or otherwise) -- so much as they are due to instruction set complexity...

You see, I'll bet, pound for pound, line of code for line of code, that any assembler/disassembler routines for say a RISC instruction set (RISC-V for example) -- should be much, much shorter (and more elegant to boot!) than Intel's "everything but the kitchen sink, we keep expanding it because it gives us the competitive
edge via patent and other legal protections" constantly-expanding-the-instruction-set approach...

So the issue, at least in x86-land is,

"Who (or what) -- is the absolute source of truth with respect to the x86 instruction set?"

Also, remember that Christopher Domas (Google him, you'll find a whole lot of interesting stuff) -- discovered that x86 processors typically can and do implement all sorts of undocumented instructions:

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter

>"Typically,

several million undocumented instructions on your processor will be found

, but these generally fall into a small number of different groups. After binning the anomalies, the summarize tool attempts to assign each instruction to an issue category:

o Software bug (for example, a bug in your hypervisor or disassembler),

o Hardware bug (a bug in your CPU), or

o Undocumented instruction (an instruction that exists in the processor, but is not acknowledged by the manufacturer)"

Anyway, thanks for the link! (The second one! <g>)
I'd suggest to send them a more boring but traditional approach first to DOM/CSS/JS. That way they will understand way better what problems React solve.
It’s a negative interest rate for banks to keep their money with a central bank. It is supposed to discourage banks from hoarding money and stimulate the economy by giving out more loans. Like all things economic there are debates about if it works or not.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/12/do-negative-interest-rates-w...
What's New in Husky 5
I worked on this project to get the Prags over to Medium, so I think I can answer. It's not an either or. They still do ebooks and also print books. For a lot of people, the proper book format is still going to be preferred.

However, there's some things being on the web does that ebooks don't do. The top is that being on Medium makes them Google searchable and that unlocks the reference value of each of these books. You can come in, find your answer, and leave. Most people won't ever buy an ebook just to read one section.
> Their due diligence of the term took great trouble to make sure it had not any undocumented previous use.

Doesn't mean an organization should be able to just take a self-descriptive phrase, say purple icicle, and assign a very specific meaning to it. Every self-descriptive phrase has an existing usage. Because one day you'll see an icicle that is purple and say "hey, purple icicle" only to have a horde of people rush and say "thats not a purple icicle!" (literally what happened in this thread).

> They then failed to secure the trademarks they wanted, but not because the term had any documented previous use.

No, of course they didn't have any documented previous use. "Documented previous use" being reserved uses before. You know why? Because it is a self-descriptive phrase that is too broad, ie descriptive mark which aren't granted. They chose a very basic self-descriptive phrase (frequency of previous use doesn't matter) and literally could not get it trademarked because it is self-descriptive and broad, but YET CONTINUED ON even after being swatted down by trademark offices around the world. Absolutely bonkers.
Honestly my impression is that management consultants don’t need to be above average to add value, they (or more accurately, the people who implement their recommendations) just need to be empowered to actually do stuff. The recruiting from top schools is primarily because the people hiring them want to think their problems are hard and unique (that’s why they need consultants!) and therefore necessitate the best and brightest.
Banks' investment/trading arms get substantial tax breaks and one condition is that they have a certain number of UK retail accounts.

That's it really.
Agreed, but to the last point, if anyone is trying to make the comparison that Twitter is a free speech platform they are a complete lunatic.
What Dust from Space Tells Us About Ourselves
Nobody knows. Probably not.

But Snowden showed us that a lot of it is scooped up and warehoused. Maybe they can see your traffic in a decade or two?
"Politics" is how someone would treat you if they didn't know you.
Exactly. I called this “decision insurance” elsewhere in this comments section.
Their original "don't be evil" motto was always a little hypocritical, but now it represents a level of irony previously reserved for slave owners and religiously motivated genocide.
As much as I want google to have competitors, I can think of no argument that disabling third-party cookies is anti-user. It is inevitable that these cookies will be blocked. I'm all for the news industry coming up with a counter-proposal but trying to keep the current, bad system is not it.
A nominal zero or negative rate can still be a positive real rate.

It depends on future inflation/deflation. While it's easy to point at M1, M2 money stock figures (or the UK equivalent) as indicative of inflation, sometimes deflationary pressures are greater than the inflationary pressures from increasing money supply.
I haven't heard of him before but his wiki has this line in it which was extremely similar to comments I've heard about another recent person in the news. Complicated for sure.

"While bragging that he served in his many public jobs without compensation, he lived like a king and similarly enriched those individuals in public and private life who aided him."
I don’t think a VPN will fool them into thinking you are from the EU when you’ve submitted, say, a California ID.
So here's the unambiguous version of my original question:

Why are we guessing about trade secrets in a pandemic?

Seems to me that an advanced society would have the sense to say that while trade secrets are obviously an important part of the economy, in the case of a global pandemic we can suspend them specifically for the design specs of the bottleneck in vaccine production.
Social Cat(egorization) Revolution
It was a negotiated settlement, there weren't any pre-set rules on how the amount was agreed upon.
Thanks, just did the change :)
In practice though, unless you have some very specific needs (and the people I have met who thought that they did, well,... didn't :) ), you should still "just use CRA".

There are folks who like to live on the bleeding edge, and for those using something else (or ejecting) might even make sense... maybe. But for any production app you should just use CRA, otherwise you will find yourself explaining to your new hire all the obscure choices you made a year or two ago. Believe me, I've been on the receiving end of these explanations and it sucks.
Invest in safe-making companies.
> how are they physically secured

Multiple nations have specialised subs to tap into them. I doubt you'd find anyone willing to make such a guarantee. They are impossible to secure in any way and you need to rely on security assurances at different layers instead.
Absolutely! I evaluated a bunch of migration management tools recently and was very disappointed. I needed something to develop and version stored procedures and just didn't find much. Ended up using graphile-migrate which has been great but also tightly bound to other parts of my stack. Would have expected more options from a 30+ year old technology.
I've got to reference Patrick Wilson's "How To Speak" course from MIT OpenCourseWare here[0]. An hour of life well spent!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY
First, so many tutorials give you terrible information. People don't know about "-m", the "py" command, are told to use sudo and not --user.

The current situation is actually not that bad. With my students, the topic is quickly explained and mastered. But it's not a common occurrence.

However, it is true that it's still not as easy as it could be. Some reasons.

- Python is older than java.

- Python is shipped as part of MacOS and Linux, but using the system Python can cause issues, so it's a trap.

- Python deals with a lot of compiled extensions. Scipy embeds C, fortran and assembly. It's a hard problem.

- The Python project has *tremendously* less resources than java.

- Politics. Lots of it.

- Debian et Red Had packagers made a mess by splitting the python setup in many small packages.

- Python 2/3 transition took attention span from the problem during a decade.

- You often install many python versions on the same machine, which makes things harder.

- Python is used by a huge number of non programmers. Much more than java. This shows in the reported difficulties.

- There are way too many ways to install python. So many combinations of failure modes.

- Microsoft screw up with their store not packaging "py" or the core dev by not packaging it on Unix.

- Anaconda brings as many problems as it solves, and is popular because of enterprise limitations.
yep that’s happening to me. I’ll email you a little later
Couldn’t they have done both? A verified status for the same reasons Twitter does, and properly handled the information. It should have been a verified account once and complete destruction of the submitted data. It obviously should never have been kept indefinitely and unencrypted.
See also: liquidity trap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidity_trap

It's when, despite low/negative rates, borrowers prefer to hold cash than to take out loans.
Writing Tests Will Highlight What You Don’t Understand About Your Code
Recommendation of the Covid-19 vaccination and the corresponding rationale
Ask HN: What is the safest way to put an Email address on my website in 2021?
Yes, but the polarizing figures on one side are mostly random people on reddit, on the other side, it's the party leadership...
I wonder if there's an analysis of negative interest rates available across different economies.
That's literally what the article is about.
I'm not sure what you're talking about.

Its a build-from-source system. Akin to ports, or emerge. Where they do the fetching of sources, compiling and installing of global symlinks for you.

No, it doesn't write your config files for you.
How is the difference precisely political when all claims of a fraudulent US election were proven to be false?

Facts are a matter of opinion now?
Possibly even more apropos is the example of Julius Caesar. In his first consulship his supporters were able to intimidate the other consul into silence, essentially making him a temporary dictator. Once he came back from Gaul, the senate gave him unprecedented honours because they were scared of his supporters, and he effectively started ruling as a dictator (once he got around to actually declaring himself dictator for life, some senators did assassinate him).

It's hard not to see this through that lens; terrify the legislative body enough, and they'll break the constitution for you (in Caesar's case, make you sole consul, sidelining the other properly elected consul, give you a highly unusual command in Gaul, then make you effective permeant dictator; in this case, overturn the election, for starters).

If you want to be hyper-pedantic, it's maybe not a coup; it wasn't the military. Nor was Caesar's first power grab, though (and arguably not the others either; Caesar's supporters were likely a more immediate personal threat to the senators than his army).
Interesting! Would you be able to give us a few examples that'd be in the ship-specific section? I'm curious on what sorts of things would be permissible/acceptable/expected in a ship work environment but not necessarily called out off-ship. Perhaps safety and emergency procedure information?
No, I meant a single pore with two readers. So the same molecule is being read at 2 positions. Movement might be detectable in one, but not the other because it's full of repeats.
Google: Proper patching would have prevented 25% of all zero-days found in 2020
Building the first 3D printed school
Ethics and morals get in the way of increasing shareholder value.
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> hear this all the time, sounds like an urban myth

I didn’t hear it. I’ve spent years as an L3 (CEO is L1) of one of the largest enterprises in the free world, interacting with other enterprises at that level, and collaborating with all the top consultancies’ teams that work at that level.

My take is while not always the case, the higher level the committee approving the consulting spend (because even that choice/decision is diffused), the more frequently this is involved.

At the end of the day, the CEO works for the Board, who are external and most definitely do not get paid enough to go to jail. Everyone involved needs decision insurance.
Heh, like the msexchange manager icon on your microsoft exchange server... :D
It depends on how much political clout they have.

Redirecting blame is a lot easier when you have an external party. More interestingly though is it forces a conversation/decision on a particular problem, since you’ve already spent exorbitant sum of money on the consulting fees.
The No-Good Nasty Remastering of the Lord of the Rings
B8ta closes SF Store due to crime