skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, you are directing your disdain (about pfSense) toward us.

I don't think I am; who's us in that sentence?

> To what end? What is it you want to achieve?

I'm scratching an itch. If Netgate can screw the community that helped pfSense gain popularity then surely it is perfectly acceptable for a member of that community to express a little disdain.
I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that it’s more than that: see https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512 - infringement covers not just that you have copyright but also that the user doesn’t have a valid right to use it, which includes fair use.

Diebold lost a case where someone published internal emails and they used the DMCA to try to get them taken offline, and a judge agreed that this was fair use:

https://www.eff.org/cases/online-policy-group-v-diebold
Gmail Added Scheduled Send (2019)
Once upon a time had to use google experiments to get schedule send in Gmail. I didn't know it was added sometime back in 2019 as standard feature. Just wanted to share with everyone who missed the launch of this feature.
When dry salt is disolved by water, it is brine.
Ask HN: Would you buy a disinfection robot for your office?
Obviously people care about disinfection now, while COVID is still fresh. But do you care if your employer disinfects the office? Or is it enough for you to just go to work and have some hand sanitizer on your desk?

What do you think the post-COVID world will be like, in terms of people's behavior regarding disinfection, or even government regulations with disinfection?
It doesn't make it valid at all. I can still access my Android phone without a SIM card, and in fact I used one on nothing but Wifi as my "landline" for quite a while. The only thing that should break when you remove or damage a SIM card is your ability to connect to a cell network.
Oh yes, I wasn't saying Oracle was good. It was the usual mess of conflicting systems (e.g. two different ways to do network ACLs...that conflict?).

I personally wouldn't consider them for anything serious. If folks need a free box for something lightweight, those free tier VMs on Oracle are pretty much the only good thing about it. (I have a VPN and a few small services running on it for my own consumption)
No, it didn't go to "the rich". The generated wealth went to funders, investors and employees with stocks. That made some of them rich.

But today anybody can own stock in companies so I guess everybody had the opportunity to enjoy those gains.
A US law mandating right to repair could really improve domestic electronics knowledge and capability. So much of that work is out sourced to a foreign manufacturer, as rebuilding is cheaper than repairing. If consumers or even a handful of specialized shops had repair-level knowledge in micro electronics, it would set the stage for all sorts of innovation and new products.
The X1 Nano seems like a great buy. I think I will hold out for 9th gen X1 Carbons to drop in price, however, because I want to bump up the RAM to 32gb and keep the laptop for a long time, lessen the chance of my workloads outgrowing the machine. Or I will wait for the T series to get the 11th gen Intel chips and 16:10 screen

Plus the extra battery life in the Carbon. But the X1 Nano beats my 2020 intel macbook air in battery life from the benchmarks I've seen, which could be longer I have not found lacking
I used to think the same, but I received a sorta dodgy SD card from Amazon last year. By dodgy I mean that the graphics on the sticker seemed off compared to my other cards from Sandisk, and it was slower than advertised. It still worked just fine, and I don't want to imply that this is widespread, but it has happened to me.
If at any point I see any evidence or warning that the products I purchase from Amazon cause any material amount of risk to my person or property, I'll reevaluate. In fact, there definitely are some things that I prefer to buy outside of Amazon for such reasons, like climbing gear or medicine.

But as for stuff like chargers, I've had more experience that the easily-frayed genuine Apple Lightning cables, or the classic exploding Samsung phones, are more of an electrical fire risk than anything I've bought from Amazon, counterfeit or not.
TiDB Hackathon: Reducing Cross-AZ Data Transfer Costs by 89%
"due to the way they calculate their payouts": yes, I'm sure that's the real issue, but the solution isn't a penny per stream. The solution is definitely to redistribute money according to what people listen to, but I doubt the big labels will accept these terms: they are the ones who negotiated, they are the ones stealing from indies.

Best case scenario: indies will get enough pennies so they stop complaining, big labels will continue as today, Spotify will allocate some of its own money to music creation...

and the problem will remain unfixed at the roots.

remember who forced Spotify and others before it, to negotiate a deal at all cost with the Majors or be declared illegal?
Most of Europe does now. Governments aren't keeping the locals or other foreigners safe because of blatantly racist policies. But it's wrong to simply say 'anti-immigration', it's for a more screened immigration process for places from where people are seen to have trouble fitting in. Almost everybody (95%+) is totally accepting of people who (intend to, even) speak the language and accept the laws, regardless of what they look like. Moreover, the sentiment is shared by most demographics. They respect their homes and don't want abusers here simply because of some skin-color in common. They love their children and don't want them stolen and prostituted.

The UK has actual rape syndicates now. Thousands of people running human trafficking rings. Left almost unmolested (hah!) and undocumented because of the origin of the predators. This is fact. The people on the ground just want their kids to be safe but by reporting the crimes they're accused of being racist. It's really a religion problem, and only the sort that comes from a few of the worst countries, but racist is a better slander word and costs the accuser nothing (ie, burden of proof) in today's climate.

Worse, the government that fails to say 'Muslim Pakistani males' is willing to say 'South Asian rape gangs' which slanders a lot more innocent people while totally denying the problem. This lie makes Qatari men (also Muslim) look bad despite generally being as civilized as anyone, as well as non-Muslim Indians and Balinese, etc. Literally 1/3rd of the world, to avoid naming and fixing the problem.

And then there's the "criticism of islam" thing. Nobody is willing to accept more of that since the recent attacks in fall 2020.

Americans just try to see everything through a racist lens.
Different Leadership Models
Lately I’ve been reading and hearing that leadership is about being a facilitator. And that may be true at some level but it sounds shallow. I want to dig deeper and share with you some of the leadership models Lick used during his career that inspire me in my day to day.
And when they can't get full compatibility, it literally causes the exclusion of those outside the walled garden:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411931
I can’t see that defence standing up if it is brought before a judge. The law isn’t always about enforcement of smallprint technicalities in favour of the unscrupulous. Equity law exists.
The argument about musicians rings a bit hollow, as most musicians nowadays make their living as performers and shopkeeps, which I do not think is good for the state of the art at all.
Wikipedia used the word "theoretically" because it is not practical to use them as a source of dispatchable power.

Unlike gas.

Does a business that delivers a meal to you only with 24 hours notice count as a restaurant? Theoretically yes.
Politics is informed by data, but it's not a science. There is no "right" answer (though arguably a lot of wrong ones).

Think of stuff that programmers do argue about. Type systems, databases, architecture, agile development, etc.

Logic is a great tool, but it's also more limited than people realize.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but does your argument reduce down to "some people could possibly do things wrong, therefore we should give monopoly-power to Apple to fix our products, and trust that they won't overcharge us"?
I'll give you a bit of advice I give to engineers I mentor. Go to a tech jobs site like dice.com, and put in a technology you're curious about. So, put in java for your zip code. See what jobs are available. Are they back end? desktop? Then you'll find out where java (and any other tech) is used, and how popular it is. For example, how many jobs are there for PHP compared to Java?

I'm not saying you should adapt a technology based solely on the number of jobs...but we all gotta eat. And on the flip side if you see Java jobs decline over the years...time to learn the one that's increasing :)
Up here in the Fox Valley we've been using brine and selectively salting roads to reduce salt usage. There are concerns about sand usage adding sediment to storm drains and into Winnebago, but I think the same applies to salt as well.
HOAs are a US thing. Would you be surprised to know that high density housing exist elsewhere, with common areas, which are not maintained by HOAs?
It’s calling for a village rather than just nuclear families. But somewhere someone reads this passage and their instincts tell them that traditional families are being attacked.

What is your vision of traditional black family?
From [1]

> This is a Virtual Vault release of HP-UX, providing enhanced security features. Virtual Vault is a compartmentalised operating system in which each file is assigned a compartment and processes only have access to files in the appropriate compartment and unlike most other UNIX systems the superuser (or root) does not have complete access to the system without following correct procedures.

It's cgroup + chroot, in the closest form.

I took it as a very technically incorrect implication with "I was already doing containers with HP-UX Vaults in version 11 back in 1999." Docker is an development product that removes OS as the core concept from application development process. This is at least a milestone as fundamental as VMware's VM tech.

The commercial failure of Docker container is unfortunate.

But if the technology community cannot appreciate its significance, and let the VM-driven mindset belittle it, that's a true tragedy that puts off the drive to innovate.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX
TLDR: Elsevier caved, big time.
This is a big win for open science, imo.
> I'd be happy if you steelman Sowell for me.

That's not at all how a steel man argument works. You're supposed to commit to building the best form of your opponent's argument and verify that they themselves agree with it. You don't ask someone to do it for you.
Hopefully. The fact it's never migrated to any other project outside the 'Pro' laptops seems to point to an obvious conclusion.
This is great. It's amazing to be able to get more insight into how companies work -- I imagine that at most companies, many employees don't even have this kind of knowledge around what is happening in their own business
I'm still using Docker Swarm in production, and it's great! You write Compose files (which are succinct compared with k8s), with an optional smattering of just a few extra functions (such as for configs and secrets). You can easily specify how many replicas you want, constrain them to certain nodes with labels, use health checks for auto restarts etc.

If you can write Compose files, you can do Docker Swarm - it's so wonderfully simple!

I am increasingly nervous about Swarm support staying in Docker though, and plan to at least look into Nomad for my next project.
I also place the blame on Sakari. I headed Engineering for a company that allowed you to bring your own landline number for business, and our automated flow for non-toll-free landline required receiving a code via telephone call (to avoid the situation of compromised SMS routing) and entering that as part of the signup process.

For toll-free numbers, it was a manual process where we received written LOAs and verified ownership via the SMS/800 database (ironically, SMS here has nothing to do with messaging and is purely coincidental).
Didn’t know there were ternary operators in 2001 JS
We're still on 8 at <bank>
Oh yes, absolutely.
Just being able to upload to Spotify does not make a sustainable career. You need marketing, and you need to build up a wide and loyal following of people who will buy your stuff.
I have the Dell G5 4800H (AMD iGPU+AMD dGPU), there are a couple of graphic driver issues under Linux. I'm using the USB-C connection which is connected to the iGPU.

* Locks up on suspend/resume

* Locks up when inserting an external USB-C monitor

* Requires a recent kernel to work properly (5.8 or later)

* Locks up without amdgpu.runpm=0 kernel command line

* dGPU can't be turned off, so increases power consumption

* Locks up with vsync on with the dGPU

* Kernel warning on startup, but doesn't affect stability

Besides these issues (which can be worked around), it's very solid.
You have a point. A product can be 10x better only in one or two aspects. And there will be downsides in other dimensions.

But usually that suffices because the other dimensions don’t really matter or have ceased to matter (like MS Word’s advanced features).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26289716

And people accused me of "gatekeeping"

Sure
Fuck knows, I only remember it starting as a telegram group.
Does the Docker company even do anything to stay relevant?

* The popularized containers but their core tool has been replaced by superior alternatives like Podman.

* They sold their enterprise registry which wouldve earned them actual money.

* The consumer registry has tons of free/cheaper alternatives like github's container registry, something from gitlab and on the enterprise side, there is Red Hat's quay.

* Docker Swarm is dead compared to Kubernetes.
I guess I don’t remember things the same. In my state, the most extreme restrictions (basically, everything is closed that isn’t remote or essential work) were lifted after a bit. I don’t recall ever being under the impression that restrictions would ever be completely lifted until the vaccine was rolled out. I recall at the time there being a lot of worry about how long that would take. I also don’t recall anything about vaccine passports, other than China doing it. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention to the rhetoric surrounding that.

There were shortcuts taken in all countries to get the vaccines out. In the US, there is no FDA approved COVID vaccine. Every “approved” vaccine is actually under an emergency use authorization.
This is the gaming industry we're talking about here. I wouldn't have been surprised at "a box of swag" level of compensation. Although given what's en vogue right now, maybe some NFTs would've been more likely (not to mention potentially more valuable, at lease for awhile).
> actually helped them attract the kind of people who were super enthusiastic about building really good stuff with a good technology, so it actually made recruiting for them easier.

Sounds like a strong case of selection bias.

There is no shortage of people who are super enthusiastic about building really good stuff with good technology, and it's hard to believe that it's easier to hire Ocaml engineers than other languages.
The effect of Amazon is that at least for now, there's never been a better time to order things online in general

This is so true.

When I first started shopping online, it used to take ten days to two weeks to get stuff. Amazon changed that.

Then I remember that before the internet, "Please wait four to six weeks for delivery" was so normal that it was a catch phrase.
Creating those decent conditions costs money, implying in effect a higher reward, even if not in salary form.
I said "difficult" not expensive. Once you assembled the packfiles (much like they do today) it should be roughly the same cost.
Sure you can't take every test at face value. How you approach the results of something that isn't 100% accurate is important. A potential false positive should mean a follow-up test, not a full diagnosis. Or even just holding onto the information until it can be part of a bigger picture with presenting symptoms. You don't even need to tell the patient what the results MIGHT point to, so you don't encourage hypochondria.
That link is 2.5 years old. Not sure when it changed but it's not the case right now AFAIK.
Andrew Yang Isn't Doing UBI Right
+1 Assembled is a great product and customer of ours. Grateful to be working with them
> play mainstream artists, mostly, but throw in a few songs from unknown artists that play similar genres

Isn't that just "radio"?
Hi Peter, good to run into you again :)

I agree, formulating open benchmarks is great work, and there's nothing suspicious about performing well on benchmarks you write. It's just worth keeping in mind: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog/work/2017/03/09/biased-bench...

My initial remarks were a little careless and overly provocative! I don't doubt that there are cases where a true "array database" provides value. I do think the use-cases are less clear for arrays than they are for tabular data, because the users of arrays tend to be more sophisticated.
> AFAIK DDG may be doing all of those things too.

Except that DDG explicitly says they are not:

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
Other countries, notably Japan but others that escape my memory, have stronger property rights because the government has weaker power of eminent domain. This has more details, see the section about Japan - https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/02/02/civil-service-...
> Ironically, "run anywhere" isn't much of a requirement for backend development.

If you’re using Java, you can develop on macOS, deploy on Windows Server, then switch to Linux on AWS Graviton and M1 Macbook. Without a singe recompilation.
Would buy in a heartbeat if it had a 4k display. Hard to go back to 1080p after six years of Retina and 4K displays.
I am not a github employee, but my 2 cents.

An object store lacks an index which your typical FS will provide with a relatively high degree of efficiency. FS's can be distributed to arbitrary write velocity given an appropriately distributed block storage solution ( which will provide the k/v API of an object store that you're looking for ). Distributed FS's are conveniently compatible with most POSIX operations rather than requiring bespoke integration. Most object stores are optimized for largish objects and lack the ability to condense records into an individual write (via the block API) or pre-emptively pre-fetch the most likely next set of requested blocks.

In the GitHub's case the choice of diverging from GitCLI/FS based storage APIs could lead to long term support issues and an implicit "github" flavor of git rather than improving the core git toolchain.

Object Stores are great, but if you need some form of index they get slow and painful really fast.
If you can't store tires in the living room you're dating too high up the socioeconomic ladder.
But it's worth contrasting with focused ultrasound[1] which is used to either heat or shatter tissues, at higher frequencies and amplitudes.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_focused_ultraso...
It's clearly doable, and we recently saw that soundcloud moved to this model of calculating
Since I didn't explicitly say it, I'm not okay with giving out browsing history and 100% stand behind privacy controls and laws that prevent this completely.
Your sentiment is precisely why I prefer Docker Swarm. I have heard good things about Nomad. I'm not sure if it's as simple, though.
i'm not up on my political references; what does "pull an Andrew Yang" mean?
This is a very subjective evaluation. You could look at # of files versioned, total bytes of the repository on disk, # of logical business apps contained within, total # of commits, etc.

For me, its any repository where I would think "damnit im going to have to do a fresh clone" if the situation comes up. There isnt a hard line in the sand, but there is certainly some abstract sensation of "largeness" around git repos when things start to slow down a bit.
I followed this road until the device was locked. Make sure you have a backup of stuff like photos and emails which is not Apple-managed.
Successfully completed tasks are paid out in stablecoins, DAI being a primary example, as backbone of the CryptoTask is AEternity blockchain with DAI having highest liquidity on AE.
CTask has a different utility and you may read about it at https://cryptotask.medium.com/ctask-token-utility-d4aac4ca69...
Thank you very much. Polybox is a fork of your great work Piku (credited in the readme).
It doesn't quite go into "watching someone sign the paperwork" levels of detail, but money/permitting problems are frequently at least 5 minutes of each "Grand Designs" episode.

My favorite was where someone built a house in the middle of a block, in previously unused land between the houses, and had to get permission from 17 separate future neighbors to tear down and rebuild the back walls of their gardens while digging the foundations of their house.
If you leave stuff as-is then you are probably right.

But what if technology can solve that issue aswell?
> That would be a one time boost and then it'd be gone forever (not a recurring revenue)

I'm not sure it has to be non-recurring. Right now the 1% (just the 1%, not all non-labour wagers) takes home around 20% of national income in the US. If this was in line with the historical 10%, that's a significant yearly sum.
Our company has decided we no longer need whiteboard interviews as we just contract with Google for candidates' search history (filtered for technical issues only of course!).

(In case anyone thinks google sells search history retail: this is a joke...at least for now).
While I think some of their talking points are reaching, this one is not. One of the most damaging things affecting the Black community today is the lack of fathers in the home. A lot could and has been said about why that is (over-incarceration of Black males is one), but the purpose behind the statement in question, i think, is to try to make the best of reality. Try to adjust society in a way so that children of single parent homes can still thrive and not feel inferior because they weren't raised in an "ideal" family.

I think we can do that without disavowing the traditional nuclear family and I don't read anything there that implies that.
What about podman?
You know, the Obama administration approved construction and loan guarantees for two nuclear plants in GA, which were the first expansion of the US nuclear fleet in many years, and I believe the plants come online this year.

But I have never heard any nuclear advocate give them any credit for this. It required a fair bit of political capital, given then (then) recent meltdown at Fukushima. Maybe a little less complaining about 'green zealots' and a little more humility about nuclear's negative externalities would improve cooperation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
That's actually a really nice idea. Do you have a specific app that you use for that?
> but your Java .class files are portable.

No, they aren't, they regularly have non-portable dependencies or assumptions about the environment.

For example, it's more or less impossible to write a Java program that runs on Windows, Android, and iOS - the 3 most popular OS's. You have completely different UI support between Windows & Android, and there's not really any JVM for iOS (there's AOT, but now you're not even pretending to run a .class file)

So to make a "portable Java" program you're already stuck compiling it 3 times for the 3 major OS platforms, but without anything helping you to actually specialize for a platform like exists with C++. Making Java less portable in practice than C++.

Toss in that other popular platform, web, and the "portability" of Java gets even worse compared to others like C++.
Small Moves Make All the Difference