skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have this same predilection and I have thought a lot about it and I am pretty confident I know where this comes from for me:

When I was young, after opening my first checking account, I fat-fingered a transfer from checking to savings online and the bank software interpreted this as me trying to transfer more than I had, so it happily proceeded to give me a large cash advance and then charge me $75 for the trouble, and another $35 for the NSF fee.

Now, maybe because I work in software, and maybe even moreso because I have literally written checking account software - I do not use online or mobile apps for non-trivial banking things. I call a person. Or I walk up to a person. I verify everything they are doing before they do it, and by acting as my agent during more complicated tasks they assume liability if they fat-finger something or mess something up (so far).

For the curious: the online form had separate inputs for dollars and cents, and some JS regex removed punctuation marks. So when I typed "1,0,period, 0, 0", instead of trying to transfer $10, it transferred $1000. I absolutely breezed through the "verify the amount step".
> While these three arrests all involve people lying about their ties to China, they took place at different universities and are not related.

Isn't that completely in line with what the article says?

Title of the article:
"Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases"

The article doesn't mention covid.
That's a point of view, and a pretty cynical one.

I would like to point out that regarding moderation, tech companies have been asking for guidelines and new laws for a decade now. Ageing lawmakers have been unable to provide them and we start to see shy initiatives from the EU regarding privacy laws but roughly most of the water in which tech companies operate are still no mans lands.

All that make me think that even tough you're right that the end result will not be democratic, I wouldn't throw them the stone and accuse them of acting in bad faith.
No, it is a common myth that Linux, or many other bazaar-based projects are made by a thousand small, unpaid, helping hands, — perhaps because it sounds romantic.

Most of Linux is indeed the fruit of paid, professional labor.
> Finally, for companies that don’t yet have policies written, we help customers create and manage them, and charge separately (kind of like Clerky, but for security policies).

And with that, you likely just won my company as one of your earliest customers.
I know I am in the minority, but for me async is an anti-feature.

I'm not sure who is it for, but if it's responsible for Pin and it's related unsoundness issues, that just makes me dislike it even more.

A language with BDFL could have, took a more principled stance and said no async until we prove Pin is safe.
so you think he should stop? (answer: no)
If I make an error, I eat it. If the banker makes an error, they eat it, or at least you have some ground to stand on.
Anecdote: As a young intern at a German bank I was sent to talk to an older colleague (probably in his 50s, no idea for how long he already works for the bank). I needed him to look up some account number or ID in a data export he had.

1. He opened the data export in Excel.

2. I told him the number for which I needed some additional information.

3. He started scrooling in this 1k + entries Excel file.

4. …

5. I ask: Can you press CTRL + F and type in the number?

6. …
Just because people drop elderly relatives off to go on holiday does not mean that they'll be dropped off for euthanasia.

As with all irreversible decisions (death) there's going to be plenty of paperwork - and rightly so.
Not to mention being closer to the Silk Road trade routes through Asia.
How do we give feedback?

I think Twitter should allow trusted/editorial account that shows prominently (even part of the tweet itself) on world leaders tweets.

This will be NYTs, Washington Post, etc... of the world.

The big plus here is we return the editorial part of these institutions. Imo, these used to be net positive on the society (see Watergate during Nixon)

Twitter will pick the list of editors (kind of what they currently do with the verified account) The bar to be an editor needs to be high and a trusted source of news.
Another one deserving of a shoutout is FreeCol[0], which is based on Colonization, rather than Civilization.

Colonization is one of my favourite games of all time, and I still play it on occasion even after all these years!

[0] http://www.freecol.org
I wasn't implying execution without judgment. What I meant was "immediate dismissal after confirming what happened". My point is that if you do any of those things you might not get a second chance at the same company. While for something like performance issues you should be given feedback and opportunities to improve instead of being immediately fired.
My questions is why was it posted on HN? Especially today. Unless OP gives a compelling reason, I have to assume it was to further encourage that rumor.
You are clinging to generic fictional arguments and refuse to acknowledge that every case is individual.

What's your definition of "palliative care"? Should the goal of palliative care be to maximize the vegetative lifespan of a patient? Or should the care focus on making a patient's last few hours/days a meaningful experience for all involved?
The only reasonable policy is to ban all world leaders from Twitter. As world leaders, they can speak elsewhere.

If someone is accused of being a world leader, and you have adequate identification, it's fairly easy to confirm or deny. In the case of a disputed election, maybe both candidates could be considered leaders until the dispute is resolved.
What if a business legitimately makes its revenue by polluting the air around it?

Maybe that business should fail.
I suggest you look up the history of Kazakhstan's capital move. Capital moves are often used by authoritarian leaders to consolidate their power by using the move as an excuse to punish and reward underlings, isolating themselves from threats to their power, and using geography to keep politically influential people under their control.
You're joking right? At my previous job we had dozens of devs who worked with Windows WSL2 + Docker just fine.

From what I remember the only requirement was that the dev environment stayed inside WSL2. Performance was native-like. With VSCode remote extensions it just works.

I still prefer Linux as a general development platform.
There are almost NO moving parts in this video - where a group of pixels could be predictably shifted on the screen between frames with minimal changes - and the frequency that color and intensity are changing means that nearly every other optimization (aside from color-space compression) is thrown out.

It is an impressive display of how much video compression optimization is dependent on the fundamentals of the things we are recording/producing in the real world.
This seems to be a common theme, that these problems are easily solved with just a few extra dollars. I used to subscribe to this conclusion thinking government/people just didn't care. Then I found out NYC spends $3billion on the homeless problem every year! Yes you read that right, billion with a B [1]. Granted our numbers are a bit bigger, around 80k [2]. But if you think 10k could easily be solved in SF, then 80k with a 10 figure budget should do the trick no? Yet walk the streets and you'd have no idea. I still can't figure it out. You could build a massive sky scraper every year for $1B and house several thousand of them.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-citys-spending-on-home...
[2] https://www.bowery.org/homelessness/#:~:text=people%20are%20....
I think the streamer you're referring to was just the focal point and scapegoat for a lot of the outrage over the very unequal and sometimes disturbing way Twitch moderates content.
That’s pretty cool, going to give it a try.
How would this work? (I do really think this is the right model, I'm just trying to figure out what that model is, exactly. :) )

Let's say I have code like this, in Python asyncio:

class ShardedDBClient:
async def query(self, key):
tasks = [self.query_shard(key) for shard in self.shards]
results = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
for partial_result in results:
if key in partial_result:
return partial_result[key]
return None

How do you run this without an executor?

The obvious way to make it not be "async required" is to say, we get rid of the async/await keywords - but what do you do with that "await asyncio.gather" instruction? Do you call each of those callbacks serially?

Generally, even in Rust (perhaps especially in Rust), I would expect this to use some OS facility for waiting on multiple sockets (possibly even just boring select(), but preferably epoll/kqueue) to send a bunch of database requests out in parallel and then wait on all their sockets to handle responses as they arrive. I would expect that even if my own code doesn't involve async/await at all.

The easy way to implement that is

def sync_query(self, key):
return asyncio.run(self.query(key))

which creates an asyncio executor just to run that one function.

This is going to be a lot faster than querying those shards one at a time! And it also can semantically change how the library behaves - imagine that there's a timeout parameter, and I set a 100ms timeout. I probably mean that to be 100ms for the entire operation, not 100ms per request, but I probably also don't expect my calls to always fail if each query takes 10ms and there are more than 10 shards.

The downside is that this library is quietly using asyncio without you knowing. But how exactly is that a downside? I already expect the library to be using select/epoll/kqueue without me knowing. And in a language like Rust, the executor should basically compile out - it should be a "zero-cost abstraction" compared to writing the event-handling code by hand.
That's what the west does all the time.

Blackmail poor countries into selling all of their assets to foreign capital, just to gain access to foreign credit.

See what's happening in Cuba. See what Vietnam had to do after the war with the US, see Greece with Europe recently, see countless more.

The WTO, IMF and the World Bank are the colonizing arm of capitalism.

It's a relatively new form of supernational economic warfare that turned out to be very effective, especially when combined with embargoes and economic sanctions. It's the famous "offer one can't refuse".
More likely, it's because Lawrence Kasdan wasn't involved in the writing of the prequels.
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If you refer 10 other board members we'll send you a shirt :)
You probably have a 'tell' when asked about your previous job that makes people uncomfortable. I recommend 2 things:

1) practice interviews - to find what you are doing

2) volunteer job (must be relevant to your career) - put distance between your last job and the prospective new one. That way the questions can for volunteer work and not the one where you had issues.
Plus there's value in just making things better! Not everything should be viewed through the eyes of capitalism.
This viewpoint ignores the experience of the person actually wishing to end their life. I reject the notion that it is always immoral to do so. The fun thing about the universe is that all life is the same. Sure, there are different physical configurations, but life is life. Nature doesn't care one whit about life as something sacred.
ah, darn, thanks!

So for anyone reading for the correct details: the block_on I was thinking of is part of the futures crate, which is not in std, it's not an "official library".
What? None of the big 4 banks in Australia charge you for going into a branch?
Reminds me of this interview with Elon Musk, where he talks about Conway's Law and how they mitigate it at SpaceX: https://youtu.be/cIQ36Kt7UVg?t=206

It's very hard to design an efficient system when the people writing the requirements and the people implementing them don't really understand or talk to each other.
I've often wondered, don't the people who are homeless have family who are not homeless? And if so, why isn't their family taking care of them?
Sometimes the genocidal rhetoric is not subtle, but sometimes they market it as "protecting minorities" (Assad, who is decimating the Sunni Muslim majority), or "liberating women from being baby factories" (Chinese Communist Party, on forced sterilization of Uighur women).
The point is, you build a process that encourages the outcome you want. A six-week release cycle makes it easier to do the right thing. Even with the six week cycle, we do this, with const generics being the latest example. But it's much, much easier to say "hey it's just six more weeks" than "hey it's just three more years," not just on the folks making the decision, but on the folks doing the work, and on the folks excited to use the feature.

> shipping less frequently encourages features to be shipped fully baked and matured,

Right, but this is just a view. A significant part of the industry believes that shipping less frequently discourages this. We've found that shipping more frequently allows us to take our time and fully bake and mature features in Rust.
Young female Japanese biker is 50-year-old man using FaceApp
Wait until you hear the term Data Lakehouse - the combination of data lake and warehouse :-)

That said, both lakes and lakehouses are very valid ideas and not buzzwords !
Yes, it'd break compatibility, but mostly compatibility of components added after chroot if I'm not mistaken? Would escaping chroot and/or rooting by tampering with /bin/su(-do) have been possible on these older unices?
If you invoke Legitimate Interest, you do not need consent (assuming your Legitimate Interest is valid). There are many common misunderstandings of GDPR, and one of them is that consent is always required. It is not.

To process data under GDPR, you need a Legal Basis. Consent is one Legal Basis. Legitimate Interest is a different Legal Basis. There are four others.

Consent is opt-in. That's the defining feature of Consent as a Legal basis, since that's what "consent" means. It can also be revoked.

Legitimate Interest is opt-out, as is Public Interest.

If your Legal Basis is one of the other three, then there isn't even an opt-out requirement. Which makes sense, because those cover essential or non-optional processing: Legal requirements (e.g. retaining credit card records), processing necessary to perform a contract the Data Subject has signed, and "Vital Interests" which means "literally life-or-death situation."

Note that cookies are regulated by the ePrivacy Directive in addition to GDPR. The ePD requires consent for cookies and does not have a concept of Legitimate Interest. If a company invokes Legitimate Interests for their cookies, they are Doing It Wrong.
Indonesia’s ethical hackers take on perceptions and the government
"Hackers have a real image problem."
It is no doubt that Kubernetes is popolar and powerful, even some folks believe Kubernetes is the next-gen distributed operating system. But the most challenging thing is the high learning cury for Kubernetes novice. I would recommend an open source Kubernetes platform solution for novice. https://kubesphere.io/
I meant that they just shouldn't sell the Pro with 8GB. I know that the meaning of 'Pro' is somewhat debated, but if they want to address professional developers and creatives, 8GB is just too little.

Also, 8GB additional memory is not expensive at cost price. They could use the different amounts of baseline memory as a differentiator between the Air and Pro, especially now that the delta between the Air and Pro is so small (same SoC plus one more GPU core, Touch Bar that a lot of people hate, better screen).
Although now I question my original statement -- is a single logic gage made out of crabs clearly less complex than a crab? I mean, it's made out of multiple crabs, how can it be less complex than one crab?

As a software engineer I'm so used to thinking abstraction, that I just sealed it off as a "a logic gate, don't look below the covers".

A logic gate made of crabs is a "leaky abstraction" when the crabs start dying, need to be fed, etc.
This is always my take on Hans. If anything, this is Disney subverting their own trope of "instant true love". They literally make fun of it for the entire movie. I think every single major character has either a serious (Elsa) or flabbergasted (Sven [sic]) response and openly and directly derides her for it.
In the video below, he mentions they are gas powered driers.
Probably a clear sign your young one has seen too much screen time.
We recently enjoyed some chocolates made in Ghana from a company founded by a Ghanaian-born American immigrant:

https://us.midunuchocolates.com/
The whole "website asks" thing seems like a stupid political answer to a technical problem. If the browser denied cookies by default (like it does with location, or webcam access etc) then the problem would be solved.

I suspect the reason Chrome doesn't do that already is that user tracking is essentially Googles business.
Why then the huge queues on certain days? It could be luddites asking to withdraw their pension payments, or of course it could be business owners needing to deposit cash takings, or getting till floats for the day's trading. While I personally am in the same position as you, I feel that banks are listening to this kind of comment and shutting up physical stores.
> Rectifying The Situation: 80 hours per week should be considered max capacity

That's not tone deaf or anything.
Touring a Barn with Robotic Milkers
>I know people in their 50s who pretend that "they don't need this technology" or "I can just go to the bank if I need something". Sure, if you're in your 80s you might want to dodge most of the digital stuff. But in your 50s? You're gonna have to live with an increasing digitalization for multiple decades.

I'm in early 20s and I almost never used smartphone nor I'm not about to get one

I'm SE.
Framing is a really important part of mitigating the damage of this story.

For example, make the story about where the laptop came from, and avoid as much as possible the fact POTUS son has incriminating photos and videos (and more?) of himself in the hands of our foreign adversaries.
Glad our product resonates!

A couple points of differentiation:

1) First-shot completion: Our system typically gets 90%+ of the questionnaire completed with no user involvement. I don't think RFPIO (or other RFP-focused platforms) do that.

2) Guidance & Support: Some of the stickiest parts of RFPs are the questions that are either WTF? or that you answer "No" to and determining how to manage that. Does it actually matter that you don't have a WAF (depends on the rest of your architecture)? Does it actually matter that you're still using TLS 1.1 (probably want to change that)? Should you fix those things? RFP systems don't help with that; ours does (largely because we've put a human in the loop).

What I've heard from our customers using those systems is that RFP systems help (after you've spend time on curation) with ~30-60% of questions. If the questionnaire is 200 questions, that still leaves you with somewhere on the order of 100 questions to answer.

Ultimately, RFPIO provides a software tool only; we're providing a software-enabled service.

The time your team spends on questionnaires is reflected in that.
I have done and still do all my development on a Mac and deploy to Linux.

I run 3-5 rails servers, redis, postgreql, mysql, jetbrains ides, slack, meet, spotify, vscode, and probably two or three other apps I forget now. I do all this on either my 2014 15” MBP i7 or my 2019 13” MBP i5. The only thing I lack is drive space.

I have reinstalled my 2014 OS never, and I have a truckload of usb devices (mostly music production) attached.

You simply cannot match that with a Linux laptop. I love Linux, but not for desktop use.
Somewhat related, I got a new computer this week, and had to boot into windows so I could partition the HD to install linux. This was the first time in 15 years I have booted into a brand new "consumer" windows install (it was windows 10 pro). The "setup" was basically just 10 minutes of them asking in different ways if they could collect my personal data, track my location, send back telemetry etc. Office 365 is the same. I find some new thing every day that I have to opt out of to prevent them stealing my and my business data. Its like they have given up on trying to improve their products (which are basically stable) and shifted into finding more ways to steal data. As much as I dislike google for this, I realize I'm the product there, with Microsoft I thought I was paying to get business tools, not to be spied on. (To be fair, I then installed ubuntu which also wanted to send my data back to canonical)

Another example, I bought a car recently that defaults to stealing my personal information and sending it to the manufacturer. I had to call, and provide more information to them, to opt out (and I can only assume they are still stealing information they have deemed critical in some way)

Anyway, I'm reminded of all of this because I think the obfuscated cookie consents are just one facet of how hostile consumer tech has become to users. Aided by complex and ambiguous regulations, companies are able to stay within the letter of the law while making it impossible to just be left alone with your purchase and not be tracked and marketed to.

If there is a regulatory solution, it has to focus on clarity and spirit, not on just more rules. I'm not aware of an example of something like this working elsewhere.

One idea is a heavy tax on advertising. I've argued before that there is a lot in common between environmental pollution and the effects of advertising on the public value of the internet, and I would say this extends to tech generally. Charge a 25-40% tax on ad revenue, and make it less economic for companies to pollute.
Do you support a kind of internal "yes, but..." note so that opportunities for improvement can be drawn from the questionnaires themselves and tracked? I always wanted that to be way easier.
I've tried and failed many times to explain this phenomenon to women and I can't get it through. Everything these women do that makes them believe their relationship desirability and thus standards in men has increased (education, career) is actually decreasing their relationship desirability (they're older and have less time and energy to devote to family).

That's great that women are doing what they want to do, but they also need to accept that when it comes to dating the 30s high achiever ranks far below the mid 20s waitress who wants to be a full-time homemaker and adjust their standards in men accordingly.
I like the comparison to unclaimed land. While other industries are heavily regulated, requiring legal compliance and investment, Internet publishing is still largely open. In my view this is one of the reasons why the online service economy is booming in the US, where others are in decline.
The key is that even with places with some wiggle room, like type inference, we take care to try and break as little as possible, sometimes not accepting changes we technically are allowed to, sometimes by adding warnings and waiting a long time... that said, you're right that breakage does sometimes happen here, though we work hard to minimize it, and we don't get tons of complaints that this stuff breaks people's code often.