skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ~10 downtime per month. What is happening at GitHub?

They belong to Microsoft. Reliability was never a feature of Microsoft products.
Mark Cuban is co-founding a podcast app similar to Clubhouse
Remotion – Create motion graphics in React
Yeah good point, probably better to include the screenshot than an icon.

Will do.
They answer any question put to them. The defense has to ask the right questions of course.

I know expert witnesses. They are of impeccable character, and will seek to educate as well as they are allowed.
It's a little concerning to see Huawei involved so closely in Rust, given the concerns about them silently including spyware in their products to give access to the Chinese government. I don't think I'm being a total conspiracy theorist; for example the UK, US and Sweden all ban Huawei equipment from their countries' mobile phone networks. Hopefully since this code is all open source there is sufficient scrutiny to avoid any shenanigans.
I mean none because Gmail's spam filters are pretty good these days but I take your point. I'm not at all saying people should be trained to vote via unsolicited email. You would have to ask for digital voting when you register. And you would of course be able to check that your ballot was received through the same online form that already exists for mail-in ballots.

Right now you already give election officials your email for mail-in ballots and if there's a problem with your ballot they'll email you!

I think we could do a lot better than this when it comes to online voting but as a baseline optionally replacing the transport from physical mail to email I don't think would be the end of the world.
That was the express reason I chose to read these specific novels.

Makes the changes more disappointing.
The board's vote seems to be heavily biased in favor of large corporations, with half the seats for them, 2 for the community, and 3 for "project areas." Contrast this with the governance of GCC, which has all of them as community members or project areas.
> We opened those intestines up like it was Christmas

No-context quote of the year?

Strangely, I'm pretty sure I've read or heard before that wombats have triangular sphincters, and that determines the shitshape.

Also:

> The marsupial then stacks the cubes - the higher the better

Now that must be quite a cartoonish performance.

(Judging by YouTube's search suggestion, I'm not the only one to take interest in seeing this acrobatic act—however the search results are disappointing.)
Don't ever agree to move up unless you are paid more.
It does seem like when IDFA goes, apps will be struggling for identifers, at least on iOS. I've seen a few articles suggesting they will be back to trying to fingerprint devices (in manners that break the App Store terms of service).

I agree entirely - it seems that the solution going forwards is to prevent any access to any kind of persistent identifier that is part of the runtime environment. This might get in the way of some security mitigations (which seem pretty weak to begin with) and some monetisation models (i.e. enabling pervasive tracking across apps), but the end result feels more "clean" and like users would expect - the app runs in a sandbox where there's no access to anything to distinguish the app from any other instance of it.

Clearly keeping this up at the network level is far harder (and some app developers will probably fall back to using the WAN IP and other factors), but perhaps there are even solutions here - perhaps TCP relay servers mix user traffic (while leaving it HTTPS-protected) to prevent services from seeing user IPs, and a virtual network interface internally in the runtime ensures apps only see an IP of 10.0.0.1.

It seems a worthy goal to try to ensuer that runtime environments are indistinguishable, at least to end cross-service ad tracking once-and-for-all. Handling it within apps probably comes down to policy - not sure any technical mitigations can prevent this while apps can remain Turing complete (as they can simply store their own identifier).
> Seriously? It's monopoly over the ideas and culture of our society. It's monopoly over the speech that the citizens consume.

People don't get information from their friends, television, Twitter, blogs, news websites, email, or radio?

> The culture and ideas that people consume on daily basis obviously affect their actions and ideology.

I agree here, but the only conclusion that can be drawn is "words matter", which is sort of generic and not super relevant.

> we all know that means my ideas are effectively unheard, when compared to facebook being able to instantly reach millions of people

Freedom of speech, not freedom of reach. Also, I am someone who doesn't have a multi-million person audience on FB, and doesn't have the budget to pay for one: am I being censored? Not everyone on FB has that kind of reach - if "being heard by millions of people" is an important criteria, then I am being censored by HN, reddit, and every other comment board where I don't have high status standing / reach.
Repeat after me: That sounds stupid, I’m buying some just in case
That's the point, they are delaying the second dose. The original vaccine tests were based on 2 doses 3 weeks apart.

It's a big gamble that it won't lead to more vaccine resistant strains.
Is it impractical to read the cited sources in order to validate the science writers interpretations?

It's not uncommon for scientists of comparable prestige to arrive at two very different conclusions while looking at the same data set.
This reminds me of a joke about a violist who finds a magic lamp and asks to become a better musician. Promotion depends on perspective.
You'd probably do the same thing that powered ships do: build extra time into the schedule so that you never arrive late. This ship probably needs more padding because it relies on the wind, but the whole concept seems to be that that's an acceptable tradeoff for the environmental gains.
I've always found it difficult to come up with OKRs (goals - insert company BS euphemism here) that were acceptable but didn't force me towards a management position. It is just assumed that the goal in any company that a person should want to herd cats as a living.
So the solution is easy: don't use it anymore.
> On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about. And it’s hard to be totally happy/fulfilled in life if you don’t like what you do for your work.

Here's a trend I see repeating itself. People in their 20s and 30s tend to say things like: "work on what you love."

But if you ask people in their 40s, 50s, even beyond, the advice is: "Learn to love what you do, no matter what it is."
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Not really - if people own guns for home defense, then it’s reasonable not to buy one for each person in a household, and yet those people are still part of a gun owning group that happens not to need one each.

I presume each family member in such a household doesn’t each own their own vacuum cleaner or stove, either.

It’s not reasonable to count all these people as ‘gun owners’ in their own right, but it’s also not reasonable to pretend it’s binary.
If you look outside my office you will see 200+ cars in the parking lots. Each one of them has a cord plugging them into a dedicated outlet. But not one of them is charging. There is probably more electricity going into our parking lot outlets than to all of our computers and lights inside.
Testify does not equal independently certified. Also, double-blind testing is not really subject to faking. Its the standard of science.

Responses to my comment are all around 'how it is now' which seems not to be very reliable. A responsible testing/certification process would address that.
Bitcoin ATMs usually spit out hard cash in the local currency but https://coinatmradar.com/bitcoin-atm-near-me/ doesn't show anything nearby.
In the preface, I discuss a bit the topic of how algorithms are taught in the universities versus how they are actually used. I made a choice to lean heavily towards the "practical" approach. So, from the perspective of a student, this shouldn't be your principal manual, the theory isn't presented in the best possible way, to say the least. (As a manual I'd recommend Skiena, or you can use Cormen etc.) But if you read the book as supplementary material it can give you a different perspective on those theoretical concepts and, hopefully, you'll get more value from studying them as you'll see where it all leads and how you might be using the obtained knowledge in your further work.
As for Lisp, I don't think that picking it for any smart student should be a problem.
I just don't understand how Google Play could've let this slip. Was this like the cyberattack now to long ago where they were able to infiltrate the CI/CD process to slip in updates? Is this the fault of the developers not securing it or is this willful neglect or incompetence at Google Play store level?
Oooh, you detest my attitude. I'll watch out and be more careful with my word choice next time!

Right, so I agree with all of that. But maybe you should use the proper words to describe what's going on, instead of using alarmist word choices that purposely obscure what the point of the conversation is about.

This isn't a "free speech" issue. It's a wealth equality issue. It's a captalism-gone-amok issue. But it specifically isn't the government out to get you.
Np! Some additional info -- the site I mentioned, I also installed/configured the PicoEdit plugin for them so they can use a fully web-based interface to create/update content. They've been very happy with this process and were glad to move away from creating raw HTML files and FTP'ing them in. For non-tech users, it's a lot easier to use a CMS system like that instead of SSG and git workflows. (Netlify CMS could help with that workflow, but I have to play with it more to learn about its quirks)
Deal: Parole for a year.
If not, full resources of the government to convict you, jail time in the decades. Evan a failure to convict can ruin you for life.

Even innocent people with a good alibi are going to take the deal.
To come up with a definition of freedom, I'd say we have to start from the premise of a certain degree of reliability. If we take into account all the ways you can lose everything or die early, it will always seem like a meaningless concept. But in practice, these things don't always happen and many are able to live long lives as evidenced by actuarial tables.

It's true that wealth can become a trap but it all depends on your inherent personality. Many would have no problem forgetting about the grind and be content using their newfound wealth to do what they want in their own zone. It just so happens that a propensity to be content is probably negatively correlated with amassing large sums so you hear about those people less often despite their great numbers. So I'd say that yes, a significant but not absurd amount of money can already go a really long way towards letting a person be free in a sense we'd all recognize.
Related: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/02/08/mozilla-welcomes-th...
That's right. They do know better. While the luminaries of the past were great for their time, their techniques are those of laymen compared to us, as ours will be to our grand-children. We take from the past what designs were good then and we throw away what no longer suffices. This is the nature of progress, and why road transport vehicles today share very little in common with those of the preceding millennia.

Remember, that it is not just those who say "this is new, therefore good" who are fools but also those who say "this is old, therefore good".

Old sailboat designs are old, but no longer competitive.

Old communication media (printed text, for instance) are old, but very competitive.
You can't just hand wave it away like that. Having regulation on a resolution process for account recovery is absolutely needed. You can't just tell people to move away from Google where their entire digital life is on it. At the very least, it should restrict your account to a read-only state and make it possible to download your data.
not all software developpers work in the US.
> It's a bit strange to think a nebulous "consumer bill of rights" is going to protect you when the actual Bill of Rights is routinely violated.

The Bill of Rights were written over 200 years ago and could really use a rewrite for modern times, but passing constitutional amendments is much more difficult than passing laws. Moreover, the issues involved in the Bill of Rights are much more contentious, whereas pretty much everyone is annoyed by Google's complete lack of customer service.

I also find this statement to be somewhat at odds with your later statement: "These are solved problems, we just don't enforce the laws on the books or modernize them appropriately." How does your Bill of Rights analogy not also apply to your own argument about antitrust?

I would say that consumer protection laws that can be applied in an ongoing, daily basis are better than antitrust laws, because antitrust enforcement is a monumental task that at best can take years to achieve, only comes into play when problems have already gotten out of hand, and may not have the desired results, as you mentioned. Better to try to prevent some of the problems from occurring in the first place, with laws that apply to all companies without exception, instead of trying to just go after a few of the current biggest troublemakers.

And Google is far from the only company who pulls this crap, so at the very least we would need multiple successful antitrust actions.

Right to repair is a similar issue. So, breaking up Google and Facebook might help somewhat with the account suspension issue, but then we also have to break up Apple. And John Deere! And other companies. Or... we could pass right to repair laws. Antitrust feels a lot like Whac-A-Mole to me. Not that antitrust is bad, but you knock down one BigCo, and another arises. Why not more directly address the abuses caused by the BigCos?
That would be implying that the prosecutor would prefer taking the life of an innocent rather than having it hurt his career, making the prosecutor kind of a criminal.
We were a really low volume AWS customer. We had an account representative.
>>"That's a fine perspective, but it seems like it comes down to semantics. You need both capital and operators working in concert to make things come to reality and fruition."

Just curious, do you consider bankers part of that equation. Because for either bootstrapped business or years ago prior to VC existed, bankers are the only channel of capital.
It is still doable if you want to take the time to figure out the clothing. Modern clothing technology means you can even be comfortable when doing so. I live in one of the scary red areas on that map (-31C) and spent a fairly nice couple of hours out walking around this morning. ... and yes, there was significant windchill... which mostly made for some weirdness with ice on my eyelashes.

Running is different in that you might manage to freeze your respiratory passages and then have a cough. Walking is pretty much hazard free.
I don't think there was a post-70s winter. There was just not enough 'there' to over-hype; it was toy problems that did not even try to masquerade as real solutions other than in sci-fi and popular culture. Luminaries in the field definitely made a name by pumping out speculative paper after speculative paper, but IMHO there was more of an ember waiting to spark than there was a fire consuming all of its fuel.

By the late-80s and early-90s you have venture-backed companies, big institutional efforts, grifters who had honed their pitch in academic tenure-track positions prior to moving to richer waters, and the first real claims being made regarding just-around-the-corner deliverables that would change everything. Maybe I am jaded from experiencing that same winter, but from what I recall the prior decades were more consumed with people making broad claims to try to establish intellectual primacy more than making claims about what could be delivered.
Ask HN: What stupid interview tasks have you been asked to do? bonus for refusal
I just read this comment and had a laugh:

> About a year and half ago I was applying for a software engineering internship at Goldman Sachs and they made me take a Pymetrics test. One of the tasks was to press the spacebar as many times as possible in 30 seconds. I didn't do the task and withdrew my application.

My own stupid task:
I gave my friend my CV for a referral to his company. I received a generated email from some third party service requiring that I record videos of myself giving answers to a list of behavioral questions.

I apologised to my friend for wasting his time and never entertained the task. I thought, this company hasn't even reached out to me and they want me to do a little performance for them and hand over that information to some random/separate company. No thanks.
My friend thought I was crazy for refusing to do the task.
On the contrary, that's what the American justice system is entirely based upon. Fair judges, juries of peers and so on. Its the bedrock of justice.

Engineers have some notion that it can all be replaced with science. In so far as science can certify the reliability of tests, that is good. But in the end one has to trust the humans between those tests and the courtroom.
Yup, you're right. The "store of value" aspect only accounts for the price minus the premium, and the premium is typically large, especially on vintage watches.
Good for you.

I was in startups for 25 years, (except for a few years in an acquiring company), and I had this ongoing debate with myself and my bosses for many years: Should I stay on the technical side (developer, architect), or go into management?

On one hand, I thought that I "should" go into management because ... that's what people do, right? On the other hand, I loathed management. Even as a team lead, meetings made me literally sick to my stomach, (well, once).

I kept torturing myself with this decision over the years, until my boss cleared it up for me. He said that if I hated being a manager, that I would suck at it, and be constantly miserable. So don't do it. It was so obvious once he said it. So I didn't become a manager, and I never worried about it again.
I'd agree with you in the sense that it isn't a magical force-multiplier or anything.
I doubt there's any system in the world where it's officially the job of a prosecutor to "convict someone at all costs". It certainly isn't in the US. Nevertheless....
Sounds like it works perfectly to me.

People gotta get over Firefly.
Would you support the government preventing other companies from entering the social media space? Generally utilities have a government sponsored monopoly.
It is possible that they could have well supported their assessment with evidence and still been wrong.
A new Alzheimer's drug: From advisory panel to FDA – what's at stake here?
I’ve been thinking about going the other way (developer->something else) and all I have to say is holy shit being in software is in many ways a godsend. When I look at other fields and the credentials required/pay it’s somewhat a marvel that some uneducated kid with barely no experience such as myself was able to get into what’s considered a high paying technical field.
What about it makes you insecure? It's about someone who changed jobs because they decided they'd prefer to do something else.

It isn't one of those "in six weeks I turned my side gig into a Nobel-prize winning web site and now I'm a billionaire" clickbait articles.
I'm truly sorry that hearing a prayer is equal to hearing of someone's shit to you. When you hear it, please understand that it's merely a show of support by them. Their culture probably doesn't think it's unkempt for such a personal display to be made to another person.
of course he is not giving btc away. A public statement would not help that much because when someone tweets , only a fraction of their followers will see it. So this means that the PSA will only reach maybe 10% of his followers, at best unless he were to tweet it over and over, which would be annoying. He should make an announcement anyway. I think Woz and Brad Garlinghouse had the right idea of suing Youtube when scammers targeted them.
Yes, they sure do have a motive - to send spam via a 3rd party service.

Like in this case (GitLab) - create a fake "issue" with spammy links in it and then "notify" thousands of users.

In our case - we are a helpdesk ticketing app, so bad actors sign up for a trial, then add "users" to their account and then, say, create "tickets" on users' behalf (customizing the email template by inserting spammy links).
That's the guaranteed 10 minute block cost.

A lightning transaction currently costs $0.000432200 but you would have to have an existing channel open (which would make sense for a heavy user to have already)
This article is from 2018. Coincidentally, about a week back, I heard this on the Curiosity Daily Podcast[1].

1. https://www.curiositydaily.com/why-do-wombats-poop-cubes/
The Hanseatic League was a collection of city states and a naval power which wasn't too unusual and tended to be a regional norm - look at all of the Italian city states like Venice, Florence, and Milan. They could be called a northern counterpart to the Italian city states. By definition they weren't conquered by kings.
The map editor (called Soldat PolyWorks) is also FLOSS.
It is written in Visual Basic 6 and uses DirectX 8 though.

Might need to rewrite it or use one of the other community made map editors in the future, especially when people on other Platforms want to start mapping.
Yes they are distorting GPS signals, and protecting Putin will be the tip of that iceberg
There's still the significant risk of being stranded, or equipment failure. Your life literally depends on those boots and gloves. Most folks do not value a walk enough to take that risk?
I have a pixel but i don't have qr scanning built in to the camera. It was at one point built into the "google vision" thing, but i haven't seen it in the ui for a while.
Would this work with Bitcoin though? I mean cash-to-cash, not just the digital transfer.
Well, hw is the top contributor to linux kernel in 5.10. https://lwn.net/Articles/839772/. I remember it was discussed in HN before.
Similar here. I took a 50% cut from a Director at an NGO to junior frontend developer (with a 8-month no earnings interval while I studied software development). Now, 4 years later, I am earning 6 times that pre-dev earnings.
Outgassing is a known phenomenon.

Alien probes are not, thus far.
There are only 118 elements. Obviously this is only for small groups of servers.
I think it was announced in Google I/O 2018 but here is a link [1] talking about in in fall 2018.

[1] https://medium.com/turunen/built-in-qr-reader-on-android-696...
> The transaction can take hours to clear, you need specific forms of ID to open an account, and the fees are insane.

This is for exchanges, right?

You can have a confirmation with Lightning for like less than 1/100th of a penny and there's no ID requirements for Bitcoin.
It is kind of funny then how we got beat in Vietnam and are being beat in the Middle East by people with rudimentary technology, and perseverance.
Worst case for your Protonmail account is losing access to your email (which you can almost fully mitigate by using your own domain and having backups).

Worst case for your Google account is losing access to hundreds of Google services and anything you paid for, like apps or movies. And Gmail doesn't even allow you to use your own domain, other than by paying for G Suite which is clearly not targeted at individuals and doesn't work well if you try to use it as an individual.

If in the future Protonmail extends into other areas like Google does, and you start using these new services, it would absolutely have the same risks.
that's a cool idea, who would benefit? consumers I guess? They'd be able to compare or even just understand what they're about to pay for (either direct or via insurance).