skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure it's a "buzzword" but OP was claiming "Once those checks are cashed they drop everyone and move on to the next buzzword", as though IBM does not have substantive capabilities and investment in the hybrid cloud area. This is the opposite of reality. The phrase "inserts a bunch of people into existing processes and resources and claims credit " suggests IBM is not actually providing the service as well, also not the reality.
My Condolences. RedHat was an awesome company and helped make Linux and open source a success. I hope the bluewashing goes slow and you are able to have a good experience there for quite a while.
The messaging needs to not say "wayland replaces X11", but instead "GNOME or KDE replace X11" & if someone wants to use a different compositor it's up to that compositor whether they want to match X11 features or not (& then the rest of the software ecosystem to implement support for that compositor's features)

Then it becomes a question of whether GNOME/KDE have feature parity between X11 & wayland. Then other compositors can go about implementing the interfaces they've setup to be GNOME or KDE compatible
I worked in a role in healthcare for a few years where I was the lead engineer and sat in on most customer meetings, and even did some field observations. It was an invaluable experience. It was super useful for disabusing me of certain notions I had about which features mattered. I learned a lot about product work from the experience and started asking myself and the team different questions during the development process.

I got to see a broad swath of users with pretty different needs, and learned a lot about how their clinics worked. It was really good for thinking concretely about tradeoffs.
I was one of the first customers when http://softlayer.com/ started, loved the company, low prices and best technology. IBM buys it and drag it down. Now I am with Digital Ocean.
Well, that's grim, it's a webpage about a missing person (Google Translate confirms).

I wonder how that got resolved, 24 and a third of a year later..
Funny, i toyed with it a since some time and think about abandoning it. They just removed the most interesting feature which is scale to zero from the open source version.
Dependency inversion, or: how to write better code
Part 2 of my How to Write Better Python Code series introduces the concept of dependency inversion. Dependency inversion is a very useful design principle that helps you write code that’s a lot easier to maintain and extend. The idea behind this principle is that instead of having modules depend directly on each other, you use an interface or abstract class to remove that direct dependency. I made a YouTube video where I explain the concept in detail and go through a Python code example that shows you exactly how it works.

Let me know what you think. This is something I’ve been applying more and more in my code and it helped me a lot in writing higher quality code.
something like storing a blog text for thousand years, especially after the author passed away where the blog could not be maintained by the author.
It's actually slightly more work to break things. Line 6:

https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386/blob/master/hom...

Also the site totally works in Netscape Navigator 2.02 and renders nearly identical down to the pixel

Careful observers will note the Easter egg :)

I'll bring the Pentium 90 up if people want, I moved the main site to a raspberry pi just for power reasons

Edit: i brought it up. The link on the main page works. I'll probably not being back the twitch stream unless there's demand though

Edit 2: brought the ssh and telnet back up as well

Edit 3: The source for the image browser: http://9ol.es/pre.php?url=apache-img.php
How did Trump persuade a mob to attack Congress and interrupt the official certification process? He only said stuff like 'fight like hell' and 'the election was stolen', but no direct orders... Manipulate people's emotions here and there, a bit at a time, and let things snowball as they will..

But what Trump did for the past 4 years ever since he said 2016 was rigged, it is basically a pump and dump. In 2016, there were social media posts about how the 2020 election was going to have to be suspended because of all the illegal immigrants who voted in 2016. yes, seriously.

It is a distributed form of propaganda that leverages the power of social media and an understanding of how mobs form. None of this is really new, but things are such now that manias like the Tulipmania can be easily kicked off without any centralized planning by a small group of conspirators or as organized like what the Nazis did.

I haven't read anything of DFV's old posts - I thought the general thesis was a valid one, maybe GME will turn itself around... but if he did periodically promote how well he was doing to a group of people primed for this like WSB is, then yeah he is guilty of something. Or maybe everything got out of hand, but he is still posting about his 23 million dollar gain...
Squeeze to click is such a cool idea for this. If it became a real product I could see myself buying one.
6 River Systems (part of Shopify) | REMOTE | https://6river.com/

6 River Systems is making fulfillment faster by building solutions to power winning warehouses of the future.

The team I lead builds the user interface that runs on all of our hardware in the warehouse. We have plenty of interesting problems to solve and we use all of the normal stuff (React, TypeScript, Testing Library, Cypress) along with some less common stuff (LitElement, lit-html, Emotion).

We are hiring an architect with front-end experience. Apply here: https://grnh.se/05890e6c2us
If the goal of abandoning Google is about privacy, surely picking Yandex is counter-productive? Unless you make the conscious choice of having one entity keep the information from the rest, which I agree can make a lot of sense.
I remember this hit the Varnish Cache project about 7-8 years ago.

We've spent endless hours trying to identify leaks before we finally tried a few alternative allocators. We switched to jemalloc and the positive effects where huge.

Its a bit weird that this is still an issue.
I keep a small collection of applications where I think blockchain applications actually make sense. So far, most involve things where transparency in a distributed network is very important:

1. Running a lottery over the Internet. There are a lot of people who would be happy to buy a share in a typical national lottery as long as they could be sure they were not getting cheated. I don't care if e.g. 10% of the money goes to fund schools, as long as it's fair and transparent.

2. Internet gambling. If I bet on something, I want the odds to accurately reflect the bets of all the players, and I want to be able to get my money out if I win.

3. A currency for use in online advertising. A lot of the money that advertisers pay mysteriously disappears into the hands of middlemen before it gets to the sites that host the ads. There is also a lot of fraud. Having a transparent and accountable system would make it more effective for people who are not parasites.

Anything else?
It's also in front of Atari in the phonebook.
hence, 3DES is still in active use in industry.
NASA did rocket landings on another planet with 1970s technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_program#Entry,_Descent_...

>At an altitude of about 1.5 kilometers (5,000 feet), the lander activated its three retro-engines and was released from the parachute. The lander then immediately used retrorockets to slow and control its descent, with a soft landing on the surface of Mars.
>We've got kids and try to keep their likenesses off the public / data-slurping internet (Google, FB/WA/Insta, etc) by sending photos to friends and family via Signal.

We use Tinybeans for this
You mean, after Microsoft spent a fortune “convincing” them?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=LiMux&oldid=99256...

Also, it seems that they have now switched back to Linux again:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-i...
>Governments and politicians should always fear the people. Not in terms of violence (although I do understand why BLM felt the need to resort to violence, given that police has undeniably committed grave acts of violence specifically against people of color for generations)

Why are people so myopic in their blame for police, when its politicians who are ultimately responsible for creating the drug war, mass incarceration, and police militarization?

The current POTUS has a long history of being a major champion of the drug war, the military police state, and voting for wars resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent "people of color", and yet he is seen as a hero by many people who hate the police and claim to care about "people of color". How is that not deeply ironic?
I thought about making something like this once. Seems incredibly useful, thank you!
Machine Learning Systems: Security
> And it's not like it's difficult to avoid hard coding

There are upsides to hard-coding the escape sequences that you aren't mentioning. Using terminfo or ncurses requires an extra dependency with a clunky interface. Using tput requires spawning a process, which gets slow if you have to do it repeatedly. But simply hard-coding the escape sequences is dependency-free, as fast as printing, can be done in any language, and is going to work for at least 99.9% of the users out there.

I'm usually a big fan of "use a standard interface rather than one particular implementation", but I haven't found a solution, other than hard-coding the ANSI escape code set, that I'm happy with.
Ironically, tying a cryptocurrency to a real-world use case like paying for storage is the fastest way to throw cold water on price speculation.

Once people can price a coin in terms of real-world assets like storage, it becomes easy to see when the coin is overvalued.

IMO, this is why Bitcoiners aren’t actually interested in making Bitcoin easy to use for payments. They only want two use cases: Buying and holding. Selling or spending will only drive the price down.
On a specific layer of your keyboard. For example, using QMK with compatible keyboards, you can have you're right/left mouse click on a specific layer. You can imagine this kind of trackball integrated with a split keyboard.
I’d rather trust the imbeciles than a bunch of unelected technocrats in Mountain View.
Wow, copyright 1995. Was this borrowed from Matt's Script Archive?
A private blog for sharing photos is great, but the suggestion it's a Facebook replacement is questionable. People now use Facebook not only for photo sharing/status updates, but buying/selling stuff, communities, and (unfortunately) news. Notifications such as "Friend A commented on Friend B's post" is pretty impossible in this framework, and it's not really possible to recreate this in a world where everyone self-hosts. Projects like diaspora try a decentralized approach as the next best thing.
My wife is a financial advisor at a name you've heard of. Maybe I can translate a bit ;)

The idea with an advisor is that you create wealth targets, and use the market to optimize your saving to hit those targets. Then other stuff like college savings accounts, taxes, what happens when you die, various financial vehicles to optimize your saving while limiting your downside.

You don't really care to beat the market, because all you need is, for example, 8.5% returns to hit your wealth goals.

It's really complicated, and hard to do alone. Just by the sheer knowledge required in so many different areas.

That's what that means - or should mean.
Ahh, so it has a built-in prank mode. Don't leave your workstation unlocked :)

show_icon: false
show_notifications: false
What are server components and will you need to use them in the future?
Mario Cart is self driving on the easiest settings. So there’s that
Extract URLs in texts with a high accuracy
Google and Facebook are so powerful that it makes sense to err on the side of anything that could decrease their reach.
Not intended as a rhetorical question, can you describe the dynamics of a long-term successful team where the PM had more business expertise than the engineer?

I agree with the division of labor you describe, in principle, but I've never had the opportunity to observe it in practice. Maybe I've only worked at places that are not old + big enough yet.

In the (relatively few!) teams I've known, the PM's business expertise has usually been strictly less than the most experienced engineer on the team, leading to a typically never-ending, and eventually abandoned game of catch-up.
CodeSandbox for Teams
There's value in making private only and anything you post is seen by followers the default case. Mostly when marketing: if I don't ever want to publish publicly a landing page that says this:

> Haven is about sharing privately with friends and family. There is no option to make your blog public to the world. You get to create an account for anyone you want to have access.

Is more compelling than one where grandparents have to register, find my blog, I have to approve them, and for every post I have to set permissions levels.
Not bad, but for self-hosted blog I would use https://ghost.org/ - much more features and nicer UI.
The most lucrative jobs I've held are always working on boring, boring, boring, boring shit. The most interesting work is rarely all that well compensated, because supply and demand, and stories about the exceptions reek of selection bias or selective framing. Nobody wants to actually talk about the boring stuff or the non-spectacular failures, because they don't make for interesting stories. So we forget that Notch basically just won the lottery, except that he bought his lottery tickets with time instead of money.

But it's still worth picking something you at least don't mind, because then, even if you don't get rich, at least you didn't also hate every second of not getting rich.
Some americans went insane after Trump won in 2016 and the media fed that insanity for harvesting clicks.

As a reaction, the "with me or against me" mantra was increasingly strong for the last four and a half years.

I hope people calm down again now that that its over.
Without providing sources or backing, it would be useful to be a bit more explicit. You could mention the myths that are being re-inforced, that would be interesting.
Historically the glibc allocator had a number of hooks as well as support for unexec(). I think unexec() has been killed (thankfully) but the glibc allocator API is still not exactly equal to other allocator APIs.
I somehow missed/forgot IBM bought Red Hat. Reading OP's comment, I certainly didn't had the impression we were talking about a 34 billion dollars acquisition.
> I literally take the money and run, it what happens?

That can happen regardless, there are many scammers who did this with or without shorting. Shorting is not required to keep things in check, that's the job of law enforcement.

Taking a step back it's really quite simple. Shorting is literally a bet that provides no value other than that some people will profit at the misery of others. This is unethical and immoral. Furthermore, done at a large enough scale, it will cause harm to specific companies or firms. You bring up scammers that will take the money and run, yet don't discuss what happened with GME where the shorters piled on it like sharks to drive it down, it's literally a scam in the opposite direction. We shouldn't fix one wrong with another.
Super /VES
Block chain is just a frozen link list database. It has its uses and every big software company has it and can offer it.

It can support all sort of permanent registry stuff and protect against tampering.
When CodeSandbox launched we wanted to make it easier for creators to build and share their ideas. We started helping individual developers by creating superfast development environments for rapid web app development in a web browser, which are optimized for frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular. The result was amazing—millions of developers now use the platform to prototype ideas and experiment with code, creating amazing things they would never have if they were still using their old tools.

It became common to see folks using CodeSandbox in their own time and then trying to take it to work. But at work, your needs differ. Collaboration is paramount, but current tools make working on code with a team a slog. Prototyping something new is a jumble of tickets, mockups, and meetings. It's challenging to share running code with others because environments and tooling limit access. Iterating can be slow as you all wait on builds and deploys to see your changes. Meanwhile, feedback comes in from all over the place—DMs on Slack, emails, Google docs, and issues.

So we created Team Pro to remove these bottlenecks so that you can use CodeSandbox at work with your team, too. At the core is a shared workspace for your code, apps, and templates so your entire team can work on sandboxes together. Then we've built specific features to really get you all building faster together, like support for private packages, code and preview comments, and flexible permissions.

Let us know what you think!
> Supply chain is still reasonable, because you can't really trust any part of it

But the part you can't trust is in the physical realm. The fanciest blockchain won't tell you if the package's contents have been tampered with or pilfered.
Thank you kindly! After I issued

xinput set-prop "HID 04d9:a088 Mouse" "libinput Button Scrolling Button" 3

it works, because this trackball does not have the default button 2. All with precise and smooth scrolling where it's supported. I'll enable smooth scrolling on Firefox to make use of it. Now I'll only figure out if there is a setting to keep it enabled by default - to inverse the scroll button behavior.

EDIT: Issuing

xinput set-prop "HID 04d9:a088 Mouse" "libinput Button Scrolling Button Lock Enabled" 1

Changes the scroll button behavior to a toggle. So it is exactly as I wanted. Perfect! Thanks again!
Property deeds. It is amazing how bad counties are at such a simple charge, I know three people (in three different counties) who had to deal with the local government losing records - one of them only learning this after a neighbor tried to annex a chunk of his land.
Terribly. I do not want to be in their place when they face God.
I embed username and password in the URL; each user gets their own dedicated RSS Url. Support for this among feed readers is admittedly spotty, for example Inoreader requires you to be on a paid plan and Feedly doesn't support it. If there's traction/interest I plan to build a lightweight feed reader right into Haven.
Just reading the headline, seeing no mention of cost, size, and durability. So it is lightweight, extremely bulky, made out of fairy tears, costs a gazillion €, and breaks after the second charge?
Plausible deniability? Emphasis on could, which is not an exaggerated statement, nor misleading; it happened.
The supposedly enlightened democracy is currently heavily polarised and the British society back then was not.
IPFS: https://ipfs.io/
Filecoin: https://filecoin.io/

blockchains are all about decentralization which will make more and more sense in the age of de-platforming (facebook, robinhood, twitter, AWS with Parler.. you name it), it makes sense why nobody would want to work on this technology for IBM, completely defeats the purpose.

There's so many other interesting applications for cryptocurrency too. In terms of gaming could you imagine in-game tokenized economies? What if Blizzard built a World of Warcraft token and had a real-time in game economy. What if Rockstar did it with Grand Theft Auto? All of a sudden these IP's have real world value tied to them in the form of a cryptocurrency - it really is interesting if you think it through.
my current job is company with 1B in sales, with code base of one of the the main products started about 20 years ago, few additional acquired and semi integrated companies/products, high hiring rate of young and eager developers that know how to code very fast but don't know how to keep thing from blowing up in production environment.

what i do spans from feature set and scope negotiations with product (because devs don't have either patience or knowledge to do so), design reviews of any semi major changes or additions, helping with designs, revamping sre/devops practices and company infrastructure, figuring out what land mines we got in our systems in the past and how to remove them and more generally what changes in architecture are needed in order to carry company forward given it's rapid growth.

in overall I participate or oversee activities of few hundred developers across few continents and equal amount of sre and infra/tool people and use three spoken languages in order to do so (could use another one, but never got to learn it.)

hence, i am not musk or ford that don't know how to weld. i know welding, it's just not the best way to use me. my job is to make sure that rest of assembly process will be smooth and car won't explode when it hits the road (and it's not something that welder does).
Calc handles CSV far better, period. Excel has language-dependent unconfigurable separators, quoting problems, whitespace problems, charset problems, BOM problems, weird expansion problems (like interpreting stuff as dates randomly), etc.

I cannot understand how anyone uses Excel with any nontrivial amount of CSV data without going mad...
This is a woefully incomplete analysis. This is likely largely the fault of poor reporting of homicide details or at least no uniform data structure that makes it easy to aggregate categories between cities, but most homicide is domestic. The obvious hypothesis as to why homicides increased while burglary decreased is people were home more and under a lot of stress. Thus, they're less likely to be burglarized because their houses aren't empty all day, but they're also more likely to murder each other. Proactive policing can't stop this unless the police are randomly going into people's houses.

This isn't necessarily the actual explanation, but you can't decide between this and competing hypotheses without analyzing the nature of the homicides that happened. Were the increases mostly due to gangs and ruffians shooting each other on the street? Or were they mostly due to people at home shooting their spouses and kids?

Don't forget the huge jump in unemployment as well. Unemployed people tend to commit more crimes. So why not burglary? Well again, if people are home, it's a lot harder to burglarize them. Why not drug crime? A whole lot of drug use was legalized in the past year, so you don't want to look at drug crime, you want to look at drug usage.

There's also hospital overcrowding. An increase in murder can just mean the same number of people shooting each other as normal, but more of them died. Did attempted murder also increase? I don't even see that question asked.

I obviously don't have any answers because I haven't done the analysis either, and I'm not going to because I'm not a journalist or analyst and already have a job, but the people whose job is to do this kind of analysis should at least do it correctly.
Discovering alien tech in an interstellar vessel would be an unprecedented technological breakthrough bigger than anything we could be making now. Bigger than GPS for sure. It doesn't even has to be more advanced than ours.