skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not very familiar with machine learning setups, but in general with hosts you trade SLA for pricing. You trade the 99.999% uptime and data consistency of hyperscaled hosts for cheaper pricing at smaller hosts. Assuming you can backup your data at checkpoints, consider running it on a setup like this for very cheap, and then back it up every hour/day to a consistently reliable data storage. AWS EC2 is very expensive for computing, but S3 is relatively cheap for storage. Backblaze B2 storage is also even cheaper, but with less guaranteed reliability than S3. But the odds of both this going down on you and Backblaze failing at the same time are pretty low.

I run a credit card processor on AWS, my important personal websites on Linode, and my fun time websites and video conferencing on a small Chicago host called Genesis Hosting with a website out of the 90s and dirt cheap pricing (but excellent support). Match your price and SLA with how much pain it's going to cause you if it goes down, and don't put pay extra to put all your stuff on the same 5 9s host if you don't really have to.
I honestly suggest watching some videos on YouTube,where they videoblog about their lives on that station: the daily challenges from using the toilet to making pizza to entering different country sections. It's fascinating and also humbling knowing how far we've gone despite it all being so fragile.
I'd start here:

https://twitter.com/_mg_?lang=en

Guy does some insane hardware hacking. See who he follows and who's following him. Look at who he's working with. Find out where they hang out online.

Like all things these days, you really have to do some research and dig to find the good stuff. MG is a great starting point.

Hope it helps. . .
They just released a new issue: http://store.2600.com/collections/2010-2015/products/new-iss...
>Agent Orange is somewhat harmless

It was a toxic chemical agent used as a weapon on civilian populations. The US has used that as an excuse to coup other countries. Why are we not held to the same standard?

We know it increased birth defects, cancer rates, and other health issues, which is why the VA pays US soldiers that were exposed. There's a reason we weaponized it, and it wasn't because it was somewhat harmless
My point is that the link is not very relevant.

It’s just an interesting piece of metadata. Like a certificate of authenticity saying which gallery a piece of artwork was first shown in.

You could even make the case that the original storage company ceasing to exist increases the historical value and rarity of the artwork since it becomes anchored to an era which is now past.
The entire org reports to a non technical person. That's how almost every company operates.
I overall agree with the broad message here. If GitHub, Microsoft, other tech companies cared so much about diversity they'd have an entire recruitment arm for women-only bootcamps and HBSUs.
Sandbagging. Also an opinion. You're being inconsistent and defending your ego rather than being open to the bigger picture.

Then you're a technical lead and a technical manager; don't conflate the two as the only possible configuration.
Not UK layout; shift-3 is £ and # is next to enter.

\ @ and " are in their proper positions on a UK layout as well. :|

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...
That's why WoW is down probably.
A classic, been around since 1985.

https://github.com/deadbits/Zines used to be an archive of tons of similar ezines, the repo has been disabled ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Some of the zines it used to have include HITB, PhineasFisher, TeaMp0isoN, ZF0, anti-anti-sec, anti-sec, b4b0, dikline, el8, h0no, htp, owned and exposed, phrack, pocorgtfo, uninformed.

On a more modern note, https://pagedout.institute/ is great.
It's amazing. The best part for me was

> “I went from being on a very hot seat to having one of the safest jobs in Texas"

Some serious "seconds from disaster" energy there.
yes, great idea but they could have smoothened the transition when it loops a bit. Nevertheless, thanks for the good 30 minutes!
Same experience on my GNU/Linux zealot days, eventually I settled back on Windows, macOS and whatever Linux distributions do by default.
Read a little deeper into that history, things haven't changed all that much. I can offer a Quora answer I wrote some time ago as a jumping off point: https://www.quora.com/How-did-America-become-a-country-of-tw...

Leftism is, generally speaking, those who want to move the needle especially rapidly towards "power to the people". Those on the right generally want to keep power with the established power base.

This can be contrasted with liberalism, which is the belief in a core platform of liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law. Though liberalism is often conflated with leftism, it's not, and neither is it the opposite of conservatism.

Many Americans today have forgotten what these terms mean, but that doesn't mean they're meaningless. They still are relevant, people just aren't really understanding the political philosophy.
As a WASP, also from the south (the deep south, below the Gnat Line), I'm constantly reminded that I have an implicit bias however I've never seen nor heard of how to identify or measure such. It's really just that 'if you think this way then you have it', which is overwhelmingly unsatisfactory if it's indeed a problem I should solve. I should have awareness of what the conditions are measurements are so that I can address them appropriately. For instance if/when my doctor tells me to lose weight I need to know how much.

But this escapes me and no one seems to have a good answer. Until then I have to categorize it as an emotional response and handle it in the same way, which is basically just empathizing, consoling, and not necessarily fixing the root of the problem. I need to know what to measure and how to fix it: I've been through the corporate unconscious bias training a couple of times and it did none of that. Until then I'm a skeptic.
I really thought this game/book was lost in time. Glad to know there's a fellow pig herder fan.
Formal Methods for the Informal Engineer 2021
AKA Windows now includes Windows Terminal by default.
Also LinkedIn android app
WoW is self-hosted, or at least they were a few years ago. Racks and racks of HP blade servers.
Funny how we keep using technology to recreate dystopias.
In this case, personal "flappers" ala Swift's Gulliver's visit to Laputa

Can you imagine a world where politicians could have headphones tuned to cancel out non-approved voices 24/7? Protesters could camp outside offices and scream as much as they wanted to no avail
Its only good once a year but I'd love a Halloween version of this.
> I wonder if he thinks the days of the dollar's reserve currency status are numbered.

That's what he's been saying in his book "The Changing World Order". I believe it's not finished yet, but the chapters are published on his LinkedIn newsletter one by one:
https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/principled-perspectives...
>I've known college taught programmers who struggle with basic CSS

During my 5 years studying Computer Engineering (BSc, 5 years is the normal amount of time if you don't fail any classes where I'm from), the total amount of time someone taught me CSS was 30 minutes.

Go back a few years and Web Programming would have been an optional class, meaning it could have been 0 minutes.
s/reporting/is reporting/ ?
Never said that. Then trade with them or help them.
Uber grants UK drivers worker status after losing major labor battle
Sure, but what’s more likely to be reliable: GCP/AWS or a colo?

It’s also embarrassing (and can cause stress for your customers) when your status page is down.
All Apple policies make Apple more money. Not releasing a schematic, software to diagnose shit and forbidding selling of parts does not contribute to your device not getting stolen. All it does it make Apple more money because instead of having a thing repaired for cheap you are forced to either pay a lot of money to repair your stuff or buy a new product,

As I said I am sure the Apple car will have the tires DRMed , the excuse is to prevent stealing but the reason is to use only Apple tires, installed by Apple geniuses on your Apple car(probably will require also Apple only oils and even the water for your windscreen must be installed by a genius and be a special Apple water).
Makes me think of a calculus word problem:
As the things Google cannot afford approaches 0...
I used to think Google was the last company I could possibly want involved in my healthcare

I stand corrected
The state of internal tools in 2021
A lot of people in this industry are not going to like it, but this post needed to be written and is 100% spot on. Wake me up when I can go to an "about our team" page for any of the companies posted on here and not see virtually the same exact team picture, from a diversity perspective, for nearly every company.
These seems very similarly priced to AWS Spot Instances. But you're guaranteeing uptime?
> Poland,

Please, don't. Putting PRL anywhere near Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba, or even Hungary is very, very wrong.

We had no mass murders here. There were some deaths during workers' protests. There was censorship, and political dissidents were put in prison, some others were denied employment. There was a lot of surveilance. And we had a martial law declared for a while in '81.

On the other hand, millions of people were educated (even if Marxism-Leninism was a part of curriculum and some parts of history were erased (like mass-murder of Polish officers by NKVD near Katyn)), millions of people got a chance to work (as long as they didn't publicly criticize socialism or the party too much), to own an apartment; the children got to go to vacations by the sea or in the mountains. Millions of people were lifted from poverty. The pubic infrastructure (roads, trains, hospitals, schools, etc.) improved so much that comparison with the state before war would be a joke.

Czechoslovakia and Hungary had Soviet tanks roll over their protests. That was bad. Nothing like that happened in Poland (arguably the '81 was done to avoid such an intervention).

So, don't use Poland as an example of how horrible communism is. Because in Poland - it wasn't. Not to mention, even the official propaganda wasn't saying we lived under communism - it was called socialism, and was deemed a first stage before world-wide communist revolotution. Which somehow never materialized, and nobody cried because of that.

EDITED to add:

> I don’t believe these are coincidences or implementation issues

These are not coincidences. This is what happens under authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. As I said already: it doesn't matter what ideology was used to rise to power, once the power is unchecked, it will be abused. There were decidedly anti-communist regimes in South America and parts of Europe and Middle East which murdered people left and right, too.

You seem to want to see communism as bad, because people you call communist did something bad to you and your family. I'm sorry, but that's wrong way to look at it. Some people with psychopatic tendencies got to use an ideology (which they probably never understood, nor cared to understand) to seize power and abuse it.

Also, I really didn't want to use this card, but maybe there was a reason (other than them being psychopats) for what they did? Maybe they hunted people who collaborated with Nazi forces during the war (you know there were quite a few, right?) Maybe they were afraid they'd be hanged on street lamps (like in Hungary) if they didn't put out the dissent quickly enough?

History is not black and white. "Communism is bad and makes people do bad things" is very wrong way to look at it.
Tolstoy:

In their present condition men are like bees which have just swarmed and are hanging down a limb in a cluster. The position of the bees on the limb is temporary, and must inevitably be changed. They must rise and find a new home for themselves. Every one of the bees knows that and wishes to change its position and that of the others, but not one is able to do so before the others are going to do so. They cannot rise all at once, because one hangs down from the other, keeping it from separating itself from the swarm, and so all continue to hang. It would seem that the bees could not get out of this state, just as it seems to worldly men who are entangled in the snare of the social world-conception. But there would be no way out for the bees, if each of the bees were not separately a living being, endowed with wings. So there would also be no way out for men, if each of them were not a separate living being, endowed with the ability of acquiring the Christian concept of life.

If every bee which can fly did not fly, the rest, too, would not move, and the swarm would never change its position. And as one bee need but open its wings, rise up, and fly away, and after it a second, third, tenth, hundredth, in order that the immovable cluster may become a freely flying swarm of bees, so one man need but understand life as Christianity teaches him to understand it, and begin to live accordingly, and a second, third, hundredth, to do so after him, in order that the magic circle of the social life, from which there seemed to be no way out, be destroyed.

But people think that the liberation of all men in this manner is too slow, and that it is necessary to find and use another such a means, so as to free all at once; something like what the bees would do, if, wishing to rise and fly away, they should find that it was too long for them to wait for the whole swarm to rise one after another, and should try to find a way where every individual bee would not have to unfold its wings and fly away, but the whole swarm could fly at once wherever it wanted. But that is impossible: so long as the first, second, third, hundredth bee does not unfold its wings and fly, the swarm, too, will not fly away or find the new life. So long as every individual man does not make the Christian life-conception his own, and does not live in accordance with it, the contradiction of the human life will not be solved and the new form of life will not be established.

My note: Tolstoy's Christian concept of life is quite different from what most people think of Christianity. He places emphasis on Jesus' teaching of non-resistance to evil by force and was against organized religion.
There's no such thing as internet permission. The only way to turn off this "juicy permission" is to not use any internet connection.

Though you can get away with firewall-ing any app you don't want connecting to the internet using apps such as netguard or afwall+.

Open source keyboards you've mentioned are probably your best bet if privacy is your main concern.
Companies do whatever they can in order to avoid being criticized. Nobody really cares about the root cause of things. The thought process is simple: "Company A did this, so we'll do the same, because otherwise they'll blame us for NOT doing that, so we may lose partners and that will affect our revenue".

A great example is advertisement. A lot of tech companies suddenly started to work with black/asian fashion models. This change is obviously driven by movements, similar to BLM. It's not a natural change, not an honest idea coming from a production team. They do it purely from the perspective to shut everyones mouth, so to speak.

These days, everyone expects diversity, except that if you are thinking differently or having a different opinion, then you'll be taunted, banished and then canceled from everywhere. This is not good and goes against principles of innovation. People are scared of being different.

My personal take on master branch thing is that GitHub had to either stay quiet and do nothing OR, if asked to change master to main, say "f*ck you, go build your own company and name things however you want, we are not going to change foundational things just because YOU think master word is offending". Because, what if in 5 years someone is offended by branches being named `main`?
I think perhaps not everyone that would want to participate had their career in software security though, and I can imagine some other software sectors where they might look unkindly on the relationship. E.g. Someone working deep in the bowels of some company in the financial sector but their hobbies are more diverse.
and Huxley, big time Huxley (didn’t I just see a post about baby mice grown in fake wombs?)
Good time to take this to an auction and sell as an NFT :)
Interesting. Wonder if this conflicts with the idea that human brains grew as a result of eating more meat. That instead human brains grew due to evolutionary need of harder to catch meat sources.
Earthlings that liked this link may also enjoy: https://www.astrobin.com/iotd/archive/

(massive archive of amateur astrophotography images + equipment/processing details)
That's why I quoted that chunk of text: it seems to indicate that the nitrate-metabolizing endosymbiont is almost as completely integrated as mitochondria are. Hence my confusion.
We are working on having a bot come up with results to stackoverflow/documentation based on the questions being asked. If it finds a “good” match, reply with the top X results.
Sure, but I'm disagreeing with the claim that there is no retailer monopoly and that there is an Apple monopoly.

Landlords have exclusive use of land, a limited resource. If I am running a clothing brand and I want to have a store in a particular city, my options are to build a store on empty land very far from the city center, or to negotiate with the person who has the land.n If I want to have a store in a mall, I certainly can't just built on my own, and in many cities, there's probably not even another mall to provide competition.

Apple is charging for use of the Apple App Store platform. They are not charging for the Android Play Store platform. They are not charging for anything happening anywhere else. There is no exclusive resource like land involved, as demonstrated by the fact that Android was able to build the Play Store.

I don't think it makes any sense to say that Apple has a monopoly over use of their own product, since a monopoly is about control of a market. But if we're going to make that claim, we should definitely say that each mall owner has a monopoly over use of that mall! That is at least as sensible as saying that Apple and Android both have monopolies over their respective competing products.

And I think that the concern people have isn't whether the price has been decided by the market - it clearly has, and tons of participants are willing to participate even with the 30% cut - the question is whether the price is fair in a moral sense. I do agree with the answer that it is not. But I think you have to ask the right question to get the right answer.
iTerm has great behavior here — it allows painless pasting of things without newlines, but prompts for pasteboard contents that contain newlines.
second this - get a Fritzbox whenever possible. Stable, very long updates (even newer features) and easy to use. They seem pricy, but longevity will make up for that.
A patient’s medical record isn’t useful when the only groups being advised not to take vaccines are children and people with past allergic reactions to vaccines. A doctor has no more information in this regard than the health regulators.
On top of that 1Password is quite pricey, albeit fully featured. I probably wouldn't use it if not for my family's plan.
I hope you have better experiences with product orgs in the future, because based on what you're saying, you have worked with some really bad ones.

Requirements gathering is the main job of the PM, and it's most definitely not technical (or at least not remotely to the level of technical knowledge required to actually write code).

For example, a PM at Twitter defined that Tweets should be 140 characters (at least in the olden days). That's a fundamental requirement of the platform, but it's related to the company's objectives, user engagement and other things that have nothing to do with writing the code. There's zero reason that engineers should have anything to do with that. Once it's been decided that Tweets are 140 characters max, then that requirement gets handed off to the engineers to actually do the development.

Obviously all oversimplified, but the point is that if you think requirements are technical, then you're probably dealing with bad PMs who aren't drawing them up particularly well. The irony is that when this comes up, it's usually because the PMs used to be engineers and don't have the experience to separate the two roles.
hmm you are right :

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-life-journey-exercise-ra...
Yeah makes me wonder if they will use this to hammer your warranty claim if they detect “aggressive driving”.
AI Can Now Debate with Humans and Sometimes Convince Them, Too
I replied elsewhere a longer form argument, in the form of concrete examples, why I feel being able to ship code confers benefits to engineering managers. I'm not going to argue about titles. Titles are useful for internal political signalling and are basically minimally-transferable cultural norms, but less useful for determining how to best take care of your responsibilities. For the purposes of this discussion I consider an engineering manager's responsibilities will be to maintain the velocity, mental health, and general happiness of their reports. People who argue about the role a person has and what they ought to focus on based upon their designated title, or in this case derive it in the opposite direction, to me, are mistaking the map for the territory.

Also, if you think I'm writing this to defend my ego, you ought to become a psychologist since you are able to read minds over the internet.
"because it provides more value to the company"

This is the basis of literally every transaction.

If you buy bread for $2, you do so because it has subject value if $2.5. If the bread cost $2.51, you wouldn't buy it.

If you hire someone for $13/hour, you do so because you're willing to pay $11/hour and you've gotten $2/hour of benefit on top.

There's zero transactions anywhere where the value to the company (or individual) isn't higher than what they're paying for it.
I'm going to need to see an in depth analysis of the privacy policy before I touch this one.
My first PC XT clone also ran Hercules with an ambar monitor. SIMCGA FTW! I still feel very nostalgic about that look & feel. I programmed my first real graphics using that hardware.

(I started with a Commodore 64, but I was too young and didn't really manage to output graphics with it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILIkmLiT6d0

wherein a black musician explores the idea of master/slave ownership in the recording industry.

EDIT: So confusing to me why this was voted down. Please help.
So looking at the screen shots on the site, i see 1.3k cred, 3.4k cred etc list next to profiles...

But I have no idea what that means. What is cred in this context?
> But other than that, doesn't it all boil down to the same thing?

> Actors serialize access/modification of state through ordered messages. Locks serialize access/modification of state through acquiring the lock. And when you have complex access or modification patterns in your code, the actor model doesn't help all that much. To me it's like each message acquires the lock to the actor state.

I think yes and no. The big thing for me is it's easy to mess up locks. I've locked one thing and modified another, or read outside the lock, then locked to write, and the value changed. I also just did something similar except there's a mix of locks and atomics (kernel side of pthread umutexes needs to use atomics to mark the mutex as contested).

Actors serialization of work via mailbox (and its implicit locking) makes it hard to make basic mistakes. Of course, complex flows are still complex.

We're definitely in agreement on re-entrant actors. On the plus side, if it doesn't work well, I expect they'll change course.
Actually the simple rule is choose apples so sour and hard they can barely be eaten raw, smaller the better.

Oh and De Morgan's theorem.