skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that a managers job is (or should be) defined by "meetings". A mangers job is to facilitate certain aspects of shared work, for example alignment on goals, ensuring availability of resources (financial, time, expertise, ...), recognizing and possibly removing obstacles. Meetings are one tool that can be put to use, but they are not an intrinsic goal. The same holds true for a good QA engineer - their goal is not writing a test suite. The same should hold true for a programmer - the code is not the goal. Removal of useless code is a good thing. However, there are people that fail in all of these professions - I've seen enough coders that write complex code for the love of complex code, DevOps folks self-managing kubernetes where a simple virtual machine would have been sufficient and managers hiring people just to increase the headcount of their department and increase their perceived standing.
> And some of them work in tandem, apparently.

Yeah, that's called a fork. Now, if you don't like them you can switch to Yuito, Mammut, Ivory, Mastobone, Stegodon, Fedilab, or the web client of your instance, or develop your own.

> Would you not consider it problematic if Google blocked accessing websites because some engineer doesn't like the opinions published on those websites?

They're already doing it, in China for instance; or on Chrome if a website is on their safe browsing list.

And no, I don't find it problematic. Google is a private company, I don't have any say in what they do with their property as long as they follow the law.
What is unclear from this article, and perhaps manufacturer specific, is if a vehicle has a telematics system but the owner does not have an active subscription is vehicle data still being collected?
Indeed, we should start warming up to both, because we see what's happening when every other technology is accelerating and creating a dangerously overconnected world while biotech has not caught up.
Yes, the small treasure here is the story of Paul Otlet's ideas and work. The 'lessons learned', not so much.

It's a sound concept to learn lessons from the failures of others, even, and perhaps especially those others who otherwise excel in their field. However, as this piece shows, it's easy to draw the wrong lessons from singular biographies.

A better approach might be how failures are investigated, analyzed, and cataloged in various fields such as aviation and rock climbing. Those seemingly dry failure reports can make surprisingly fascinating reading, and the collections that bring them closer to data than anecdotes can provide powerful insights.

So, maybe some kind of Institute For The Study of Career Disasters? Not entirely joking, it'd be genuinely helpful to, for example, go beyond just the "90% of all small businesses fail in X years", and provide actual analyzed insight (not just more anecdotes) into what makes the difference between success and failure, and what failures have good prospects of successful restarting (i.e., their death was more likely just bad luck /Force Majeure vs pilot error)...
Self-driving Tesla hits Michigan State Police car on freeway
Baidu Raises $3.1B from Second Listing in Hong Kong
> She joined up with ISIS not the best example to bring up. She gave it up there and then.

While I do see your point (not British myself, but in Switzerland we had a few ISIS cases as well), I'd like to offer a different viewpoint as well: Our countries messed up at some point in their life - education, mental healthcare support, whatever; something went wrong when one of our citizens feels obliged to join something as heinous as ISIS. After all, we also feel like that with every other terrible criminal - murderers, rapists, etc.; our societies believe in their right to find the right path again, why not someone who joins ISIS?
Right. But you would never even know that another company existed reading their PR piece about how they're doing it for the developers.
The article makes the point that bonds don't even achieve this. At best, they decay in value less fast than cash in an inflation scenario. But because of yield rate fluctuations, they're significantly less liquid than cash (if you don't want to lose extra on top of inflation losses). Which is an issue because if the inflation rate is suddenly 7%, you can take your cash and put it in something much safer like real estate or foreign currencies. Holding long-term bonds mitigates inflation, but also makes weds you to it.
There remains a lot of opportunity in current-day finance and banking for automation of manual processes.
I had a non-standard monitor (mid-90s) which will not work with xf86config out of the box. Spent a nice summer trying various settings and was such an aha moment when it worked.
Makes sense, it is still a very early stage ecosystem. I wonder how this evolves in future:

1. It's a bummer if your NFT URL is bust even if you have a copy. I wonder if there would be a way for owner to append NFT URL information with non-broken URL. This way owner could ensure source files availability.

2. Playback options are very limited and often require derivative formats. It seems there is an opportunity for a service that indexes NFTs and provides convenient access to their owned content. Wallets are too limited right now. I would like to have an Apple TV app that showcases my NFT collection.

There are many negative things about the current NFT bubble we're seeing however it does feel that blockchain is finally taking off and we'll be be seeing a lot of interesting dapps in the upcoming years.
Read the comment again.

> Many labourers (both skilled and unskilled) see it as a slight for someone who is brought up here and have lived here their entire life to display a flag other than the Union Flag of the St. Georges Cross.

That's not anti-foreign culture, but it is insulting to be born in the UK and not see it as your homeland. Or would you be okay with me raising a British flag in India and claiming I was British, if my parents happened to move there before I was born?
> I don’t know what country you are from, but I’m guessing the “free” vastly outweighed the “ad supported”. Furthermore, given the low ad revenue in developing countries, an organization seeking money probably could have gotten just as much by seeking a government grant or funding from a non-profit/NGO, and the whole process probably would have been easier in terms of securing revenue as well as app design (i.e., not having to design the app around ads).

I agree, a hypothetical universe with paid apps subsidised for students and for people from developing nations would be better, but I haven't seen this happen in practice (and it's difficult for the reasons I mentioned before - it's hard to ensure that it isn't abused.)

> I appreciate what you are saying broadly, but google ads doesn’t seem like the optimal way to facilitate this type of information creation and dissemination in developing countries.

I said nothing about Google Ads in my comment - the best example of an ad subsidised service that helped in this context would be Stack Overflow, who, AFAIK run their own ad network.

> Furthermore, Google has shifted from having “don’t be evil” as part of their code of conduct to straight up doing evil things. Trying to dress these actions up as being a boon for the developing world is approaching if not reaching the level of being a corporate shill. Again, there are better and probably easier ways to do this other than kowtowing to the Googlith.

I just wanted to share my personal experience here in the hope that folks here take the users I mentioned into account - whether that's through an ad supported business model, or subscription based business models that are affordable for them.
The Carta Safe for Seed Rounds
With Quantitative Easing to numb the pain of a downturn stocks, real estate, and other assets can literally only go up. The Fed will directly purchase other asset classes to ensure that this remains true.

Now every stock market jitter leads to the Fed announcing an asset purchase program.
Don't disagree exactly, but asking people to be aware of their biases assumes the presence of those specific biases. That's easily weaponised.
When countries build multiple nuclear power plants, instead of one at a time, costs are significantly lower. E.g: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taishan_Nuclear_Power_Plant

South Korea's nuclear plants are also much cheaper, for the same reason.
It sucks, too. I am super progressive but rather critical of solutions. Which is to say, i agree with an assessment of almost all problems and want to discuss solving them. BUT, discuss, is the key there. I'm interested in peoples views. On what actually can solve the problems. Racism for example i believe as a series of mitigation strategies and a core principle of education and standard of living.

Yet, i don't discuss this stuff with anyone interesting. Just my core group, and my core group has had this conversation to death.. nothing to be gained anymore.

So i don't grow on these subjects. I don't feel more progressive. I don't feel like i understand the problems better, or the solutions, and certainly don't know which areas i'm motivated to help in.

Because i want to discuss, to critically analyze the problem space and try to question and verify solutions, i'm terrified of being labeled an -ist.

This isn't a "woe is me" post. Rather, this is my explanation that in my eyes i am _less progressive_ as a result of this culture. I _act/help less_ in this culture. This culture shuts me - a self identified very progressive liberal - down.
Yikes! There's no hiding around here!

I'm happy to see developers looking at security as pervasive: "everything encrypted" is important since an intruder may be inside the system. Or as Shannon wrote in this paper, "assume the enemy knows the system being used." (He then writes about the importance of key selection.)

Warm wishes - Cliff
I'm pretty sure that I don't completely understand anything.
For those unfamiliar with Common Lisp there is also Babashka which allows for Clojure shell scripting without the JVM startup time.

https://github.com/babashka/babashka
The beauty of a free society is that people can live life according to their values. You can adopt instead of having kids since you care so much about orphans, and people who care about the DNA thing can have their own kids. Forcing people to adopt would be as bad as forcing you to have kids via copulation.
Do you have recommendations for how to go about 6?

I've been moving into a more manager-like role and your list makes me a bit worried, though I was already considering this to be somewhat temporary. So far it's been a valuable experience though (harder than I thought).

About 2 - I actually really enjoy relationship building. However, if you have issues like nepotism or problems around equity in the organization, I think it can be really hard to have to work with people who make decisions that you find distasteful. That's the main thing that makes me miss the solitude of coding.
Greensill Didn’t Just Finance Supply Chains
I know nothing about crypto mining, but why wouldn’t this be allowed? How would you stop it?
It has a distinctly HDR-y look to it but no meaningful sharpening. I think the grain is just a fruit of having noisier sensors back in 2009
How are these activated senses different from our normal senses? How do they differ from psychosis?

Could you offer some terms used to describe them so I could look more into this subject?
I don't understand the outrage/surprise.

This is just people laundering some money. Nothing more. It happens in the art world as well.

It's not random joe paying for a meme in hopes they can sell it for more (okay, maybe there is some tiny percentage of NFT's where this is true). But the majority is money laundering. Occam's razor.
> However you need to realize that _that question_ has been used, probably verbatim, in bad ways against her or her peers...

And how do you know? You have direct knowledge of it or are you just pulling out a factoid?
I'm not a developer of either OS, but I use both.

Pro FreeBSD:

- ZFS, the best file system. Its fully integrated into the OS so it always works and its always there. I've always run into issues using ZFS on linux like cache not getting freed causing processes to get killed when I should have had ram available.

- VNET Jails. I can give each light container (FreeBSD would be jails, Linux would be docker/lxd/nspawn...) its own networking stack so it can bring its own network interface up and down, assign its IP address, get an address from my router over DHCP like any other computer, and run its own firewall. The firewall bit is particularly helpful for running brute force protection like fail2ban/sshguard/blacklistd.

- Additionally, I can delegate a ZFS dataset to a jail and let the jail manage it itself. This lets the jail create sub-datasets with control settings like transparent compression.

- After using pf (its a firewall) on FreeBSD, using iptables on Linux makes me want to walk into the ocean.

- Its really trivial to build everything from source on FreeBSD. The base system comes with everything you need to build the operating system so rebuilding FreeBSD and installing your new build is just a couple of make commands away. For packages, FreeBSD has a tool call poudriere which is the best package builder I've ever used. I use that to compile packages with custom options and CPU optimizations enabled for the specific processor in each of my machines for multiple versions of FreeBSD. It also makes debugging and modifying FreeBSD a breeze. For example, at my previous company we had 802.1x authentication for our ethernet, but I wanted to run a container directly connecting to the network so I had it behind a bridge. Turns out in the 802.1d spec it specifies that the ethernet frames used for 802.1x authentication should not be passed over a bridge, so I found the part of the code that did that filtering, commented it out, rebuilt FreeBSD, and everything started working!

- Bragging rights

Pros for Linux:

- The Arch Linux wiki is really top-notch. The FreeBSD man pages are better than the man pages on Linux but I much prefer the Arch Linux wiki over the FreeBSD handbook.

- You get a lot of features from systemd that aren't in widespread use in FreeBSD. For example, you trivially get process monitoring/restarting and stdout/stderr capture for every service. You can get the same functionality with a built-in tool called "daemon" in FreeBSD but its up to each service to call daemon as opposed to being built into the init system so its a lot less common. Essentially, I have to write custom service files a lot more often on FreeBSD.

- systemd user services

- steam
This is a matter of perspective. Creating awareness is usually the first step to changing things. Your take here only really works of you believe that burdening people with awareness is the end goal.

To use the standing example, it's like saying that Parks's goal was just to get arrested to burden people with the knowledge of inequality.

If you accept that racial privilege exists, and that it's causes are correctable, even in part, then raising awareness of those helps. This is doubly true if you think that stone of the causes are social cognitive biases, where awareness and mindfulness directly address the causes.
Interesting. I've definitely felt that the SEO-optimized review sites (Wirecutter and Strategist) tend to be lacking in their quality of suggestions.

How do you monetize in a world where affiliate commissions, especially Amazon's are dropping? [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/14/amazon-slashes-commission-ra...
unless those species are dying because of human activity, why would we want to save them?
> If something is "black and white", there's a clear right and wrong. In our language, "black" is synonymous with "wrong", and yet this word with negative connotations is used for an entire race of people.

I don't think most people think like that. Black and white in that meaning is used in very specific contexts, not in general. Nobody thinks that a "black and white film" is about moral issues. In German, "black on white" (schwarz auf weiß) refers to (usually black) ink on (usually white) paper and nobody has race on their mind when they say it. We're not wearing black at funerals "because it's wrong that somebody died". Black numbers are good ("schwarze Zahlen schreiben" = "writing black numbers" = earning money), red numbers usually aren't. Waving the white flag isn't great. Black/brown bread is delicious, and so is Schwarzbier if you're into stronger tastes in beer, and you can get black-out drunk with enough of it. There's really no association with Africans with that usage of "black".

I have a feeling that a lot of people believe that first came racism and Europeans looking down on Africans and then came "black = bad" associations in language. There was no European colonialism back then, Northern African slave raiders regularly went on slave raids to (mostly Southern) Europe etc. The use of black in that sense is, at least in German, at least 1200 years old, long before significant contact between Central Europe and Africa.
i really like my https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-ar750s/ : comes with a GUI on top of openWRT that allows easy static IP assignment from MAC, wireguard config as either server or client, etc. you can always drop into LuCI as well, or reflash with latest openWRT. plenty of storage for additional services and packages if that's your thing.

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Ah the best few minutes of anyone's day.

"Every Irish Pub ever." (Absolutely hilarious)

https://youtu.be/Hy2AYdBtzBo
I thought Squeak was jited already. Or at least Pharo, its descendant I'm more familiar with. See https://stackoverflow.com/q/65267392/14813970

Smalltalk is awesome. Hope it makes a comeback. The greediness of people at PARC really hurt the language in its cradle, stunting adoption. If we had a free software / open source implementation early, the software world could be a very different place today.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26488090.
I'm using openWRT on a Zyxel Armor Z2 router. Today they are $170 on Amazon.

The flashing process was exactly the same as the factory firmware. After that I had to configure it just as I would any new router.

It's better than the factory firmware in every way except user friendliness, but even that isn't bad unless you are trying to something more advanced.

The CPE from Comcast was so much slower and worse in every single way. Now it only acts as a modem for the Zyxel.

An important part of my experience is that I deliberately set out to buy a good router that was very well supported by openWRT, because in the past I have had experiences similar to your post (but with dd-wrt in the long long ago).

I really believe if you plan the project like you would a production project you'll have an extremely good experience.

That said, I did have a number of non-standard things I wanted to do on my home network without paying thousands for enterprise level hardware so it was worth it for me to do that work. If I was just getting on line with a couple computers, phones, and tv's I wouldn't have bothered to flash with openWRT.
There are blockchain storage projects; NFTs will probably move to on-chain storage at some point in the future.

Even with this though, the data will likely need to be cached somewhere more "traditional" though. Accessing on chain storage likely wouldn't be free.
I believe Ecto is largely inspired by LINQ from C#, but I wouldn't be surprised if SQLAlchemy was an inspiration as well.
Uber agrees to classify UK drivers as 'workers'
The SP500 was around $950 in Sept of 1997. It was also around $950 in July of 2009. I would say the stock market went no where for 20 years.

I don't think it is fair to call 2001 and 2008 "blips". Their combined effect was we lost 20 years worth of potential growth.
As a black man in tech, I can say its always frustrating to me when a company tells me what I should be offended by. The master word has never even crossed my mind in that way, I've always thought of it as in the music term. Its one of those settle racist things that I've noticed time and time again in tech. Its as if a bunch of white people come together to prove how "not racist" they are to their other white friends. They start to try to out do each other so much It starts to have the opposite effect and alienates people that just want to be treated normal, not like former slaves.
The last African American former slave died in 1972. This isn't ancient history for some people. Given that, I think yes, it is very different if someone deep in your family tree was enslaved versus your parents or grandparents.

I mean, the mere fact that you can trace your lineage back that far is indicative of the difference. Many people find their identity through their culture, and often times that perspective is gained by tracing their origins back generations. The foods you eat, the customs you share with your family, even your name.

Some people can trace their lineage back through dozens of generations. Other people can't see past a few levels up the family tree because their history was destroyed by a more recent slaver society. For some people, the traditions in their family are the traditions of their enslaved ancestors. The songs they sing were sung on the fields their ancestors were forced to work. The names in their family are the names forced upon them by their oppressors. Their family cook book contains recipes their enslaved ancestors used to make the scraps they were thrown palatable. Theirs is not an organic culture, but one that formed out of necessity due to the conditions forced on them by slavers (relatively) recently. So yes, I think it does matter that even if a person has never met a slave themselves, they can still feel the reverberations of slavery quite strongly.
What a toxic little website. Do not follow the advise here. Do not label your co-workers. Trust them, listen to them. If you see them exhibit traits you perceive as negative (and fall into these crude buckets) - talk to them, and give them feedback. Chances are, they will appreciate it, and your working relationship will improve.
If people don't want politics to be racialised, they need to get better at shutting down the blatent racism of the press, police, and major political parties.

Some of it is imported, but the UK is quite capable of its own characteristically British racism, most recently directed against Poles and Romanians.
During the Covid market crash my bonds barely changed. If I had rolled it all into small caps at the bottom there I could have doubled its value by now. (And then rolled it back into bonds at the top here.)

Additionally for bonds, the percent of earnings looks low on my positions statement but a few times a year I get some fat dividends on my bond holdings which I do not think it reflects.
I just want to quote because in my opinion your last sentence is right on & bears repeating: "The FTA points out how Microsoft is changing the name of master with their right hand, but supplying facial recognition software to police to identify protesters and mistake Black folk for Gorillas with their left hand."

On an individual level, I don't find it useful to get too worked up about name changes. Pronouns, names, whatever -- if someone's got a strong feeling I'll use what they want. You know why? (rhetorical HN you, not imbnwa in particular) Talk is cheap. Follow the money, though, the actual money, and supplying crappy facial recognition software that allows mass surveillance and leads to unsupportable arrest of innocent people is $$$. Selling a shitty "AI" program to screen resumes that uses a model that tells you a name like Jared is the best predictor for getting hired is $$$$. Perpetuating inequality through crappy AI/ML design is $$$$, and then noting that it exists and charging to "fix" it is $$$$$! As the beauty and pharma industries know, the best way to make money is to introduce a problem and then introduce a "cure" six months later.