skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve seen these types of systems before and I always wonder how well thought out this is - either on the part of the hosts, the company or the client.

A couple of questions I have right off the bat are:

How do we know how secure this solution is?

Even if it were incredibly well secured - what are the laws around this setup?

If someone stores illegal materials on this system who is responsible? (The person who stored it? The company? The unsuspecting host?)

What happens if the hosts lose interest or it fails commercially? Does the data get lost without warning when hosts start uninstalling the software?

The problems with these systems is almost never the technology - it’s finding a way to negotiate the millions of different implications storing information on other people’s behalf brings.
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>You don't even realize how bad the boilerplate is until it's all gone

I 100% agree with this, I also started out working with Redux in the fairly early days of React and while I do feel that I did learn a lot from it and have used Redux-inspired patterns for certain parts of applications since then, the productivity gains I got from switching to MobX for state management can't be overstated.

Sure, you could argue it's less "clean" or whatever, but honestly 99% of the time it just works, and I'm happy to have the 1% of time where you're debugging where you forgot to add "observable" or whatever in exchange for the 99% productivity boost.

Svelte does look really interesting and follows a similar kind of model to how I work with React and MobX, and does away with some boilerplate/gotchas.

My main concern using it would be around maturity of libraries... while it does seem pretty batteries-included, I have got used to being able to just pull in a library for x, y or z in React and I'd be worried if I started a big Svelte project, I might find myself kicking myself down the line e.g. if I need some component (data table or whatever) that has a mature option available in React. Perhaps people who've worked with Svelte professionally can comment on whether this is a valid concern?
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Technically if you’re being investigated and the companies hand over your info, you may not be a criminal at that point. You remember the concept we had for hundreds of years that people are presumed innocent until found guilty by a jury of their peers.

Also, for hundreds of years, police could not just nicely ask a third party to turn over all of your data, at least at the scale of something like the data google keeps on everyone.

I’m amazed by the number of people apparently just fine with this being the norm.
If drivers get hired on inside IR35 contracts, they won't have to be paid minimum wage whilst being treated just like regular employees. They legally won't have any employment rights. The changes in law come to force in April.
The fun thing is that it's not just sea trade, but also internal rivers. Checkout all the ships between Rotterdam and the Ruhr Area, for example.
Agreed. People's reluctance to actually talk on the phone or to manage uncertainty is often overlooked in the popularity of apps like Uber, Deliveroo, Just Eat, et al. People will, to an extent, trade extra money to not have the ambiguity of human communications placed in the middle of a transaction.
And sufficiently fulfilling a software requirement is like being mathematically correct if not actually correct.

But I fear you’re being over constrained by this specification. My larger point is it’s important, very, to not draw too many lines and wind up with a “polite party” of 0.
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How much free space do you guys have ? If a big customers comes and stores 50PB, what do you do since you don't have servers ?
> This argument about code inspection does not make sense to me.

It's about doing things in public. Not many people fit in a public courthouse, but court reporters can write down what happened and broadcast it to the public. Compare that to the FISA court.

> I don’t know if Free software makes software less secure but I don’t see how it makes it more secure

Without the source code, one can't even have an opinion on whether it's secure or not. I simply have to take the vendor's word for it.

> The author suggests greater use of code signing could help.

This is probably part of the solution. But who is signing what, and why? If Microsoft gives me a signed binary, all that tells me is that Microsoft vouches for their own binary.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/return-of-stallman-to-fsf-spar...

>Kat Walsh, a FSF board member and technology attorney tweeted, "for whatever it's worth, I did not support the decision to reinstate RMS. I made my arguments and placed my opposing vote; while I was glad I was able to do that I regret not being able to turn the decision the other way."

I wonder what the next step will be in the corporate takeover of free software? If they're all just gonna leave that seems like a suspiciously good outcome.
Huh? This one says "11 hours ago", the other one says "9 hours ago"??? Or is that the time of the last edit (by you, presumably)?
> to suggest that people use something because they're lemmings

That's not what I intended to say, of course that's not the only reason people choose React, but I think they are valid reasons to help you decide.

For example let's say two libraries are technically different but equivalent productive and nifty, choosing the one that has a bigger ecosystem is a totally valid choice.

Many people had to sell React to their bosses, and the fact that there was a presentation by Facebook, helped a lot, I don't see how stating the obvious is calling lemmings to anyone.

At the end of the day, it depends on your goals and motivations, I can't talk for everyone, I was actually saying some of the reasons that helped me decide on choosing React.
If someone is skilled enough to work on surface-mount/BGA components, they likely already know what they are doing. Board level repair vs board level upgrade is a very similar process (to the untrained eye such as mine, at least).
It's a bit more complicated than that:
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Look at the map here: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_dialekter#/media/Fil:De...
> I couldn't have done a better job in giving them a good feel for the situation and the pressures, the ideas and personalities involved.

Sincerely, I do defer to you for your opinion of Turing's personality - but when I saw the film it was so very disappointing that Turing was written as a lone-genius type - while it didn't drive the plot, I understand it really wasn't what he was like as a person. Come to think about it, I can't think of any mainstream cinema production that portrayed a leading academic as a _normal person_ - they invariably fall into stock character tropes, and The Imitation Game was no exception. That's what disappointed me the most.

Additionally, like many other historical biographies, the film condenses multiple people - or in this case, entire teams of people into single characters. I can understand that for budgetary and storytelling reasons, but the film's decision to substitute Turing's circle of literally a handful of characters for what would have been hundreds of cryptographers and researchers (out of a Bletchley Park workforce of almost 10,000 people concurrently in early 1945!) was enough to break the film for me - and even if that fudging wouldn't have made me take issue with the film the scenes where Turing-and-Chums single-handedly make moral decisions about the handling of high-level intelligence certainly did. Those scenes added nothing of historical value and would have added emotional tension only to viewers entirely ignorant about how military intelligence gathering and analysis works - which, unfortunately, seems to include the film critics.
We are pay-as-you-go and charge per GB, so you can store 1-10GB and pay nothing, 13 GB and pay $0.01/month, etc.

It scales up and handles PB of data as well.
It's a limitation of TS, not react. Flow for example can type elements more accurately.
There are many valid criticisms of the present government including in human rights areas, but considering it to be morally culpable for the legally-sanctioned harassment of a gay man before most of its MPs were born (and before the actual PM backed his party's pro gay-marriage faction and its MPs passed a law to formally pardon people convicted of Turing's "offence") simply because it respects its predecessors' debts is absurd. And exactly the same standard is applied to corporations, which is why we don't consider German CEOs to be Nazi war criminals.

Governments are composed of people: people inherit money and associated debt but they don't inherit guilt.
David's reddit account, for those interested in seeing more from the source: https://www.reddit.com/user/doranchak
> I'm glad I never had to learn English as a foreign language though.

For reference, English is one of the standard examples supporting the theory that languages which are learned by a lot of adults become simpler and easier to learn over time. (The other standards being Latin, Mandarin Chinese, and Swahili.)

The implication is that if you did need to learn a foreign language, English is one of the easiest ones.
We all need protection from all governments that would grow more powerful and influential at any positive rate (even 1% annually) forever.

The seat of power must remain with the people, not corporations and not governments for people to have meaningful freedom.
That's a corner case, though. Anything is possible if you can get enough people to simultaneously adopt a new intersubjective[0] belief.

In reality, changes in laws happen when a small group supports them and, small opposition notwithstanding, vast majority of people do not care. One of the easiest ways to make the majority care - and oppose you - is to push your changes in a way that violates existing legal framework, particularly important things like a constitution. As long as you don't do that - as long as you take things slow and don't raise people's alarms - you can boil the proverbial frog.

That's what these clauses are meant to protect from. A series moves, planned or accidental, that could turn the country into dictatorship.

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[0] - I.e. the kind that's valid as long as enough people believe enough other people believe it's valid. Like a constitution. Or money.
Right or wrong, all these are completely irrelevant. FSF is not a government, they don't HAVE to serve the majority of peoples want. FSF is not a corporation that has to remain relevant for the benefit of it's shareholders. FSF stands for whatever FSF stands for and whoever agrees can sign up. If one disagrees they are welcome to move on with their lives (or kinrly argue about what would be better). What we see here is an attempt to hold FSF accountable to some arbitary standards in order to paint them inadequate, allowing us to conclude they are irrelevant. This is a fallacy. However, this attempt goes even further. So what if they are irrelevant? So what if they have stagnated? What if they are out of touch? What's the harm to society? Why does the author need to compile a bunch of false and childish arguments to put them down?
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> AND the historic employee classification

that "historic" event isn't what many people think it is.

1. there is a difference between worker and employee in the UK. they're not the same thing!

2. the UK Gov is fixing this whole situation by establishing a no-rights employment under IR35. as such, deliveroo and uber workers will not be entitled to employment rights, pensions, etc.

> blindingly obvious scam

what's the scam?
Great explanation! And keep fighting the good fight pushing MobX ;) Pretty much everyone I know who has tried it has ended up loving it, but it can be hard to convince people to give it a go (because of FUD around "mutability" or "magic" or whatever...).
G722 was also available on some ISDN phones in the 80ies.
I share your feeling that the author is throwing a lot of BS onto the wall, knowing that some of it will stick. I believe this is a well-executed tactic because I don't think this article is written for software developers, it's written for slacktivists and the public at large. There are just too many parts where he tries to hide behind generalized statements designed to garner superficial agreement.

The fact that this got a lot of exposure should serve as a warning sign though. The FSF is vulnerable and struggling to maintain relevance. Both the re-hiring and the controversy around RMS illustrate that in my opinion: whenever the discourse gets diverted away from Free software, it's a distraction they can ill afford.

Either they didn't know that this would happen or they wanted it to happen. In any case, they're now even more vulnerable to these kinds of hit pieces, and I'm afraid the RMS issue could generate enough public interest for larger publications to execute successful strikes against the idea of Free software itself.
> this discount is valid only for the first invoice and it is not reoccurring

So it'll double in price after that. And that's on top of having to round up to the next terabyte or two. But if you want more bandwidth then it looks like it's worth considering.

Side note: It's interesting that above 2TB the deal gets steadily worse.
I don't know about grandparent but I do think that we have become soft and accepting of circumstances our ancestors would not tolerate. How many people live pretty sad lives distracting themselves with toys, electronics, crappy content, and self-medicating with marijuana or even opiates.

There are even biological signs of this shift. Like dropping testosterone levels in men.
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It's actually very simple. React devs choose to write code in code. People of other frameworks write code in code and templates, which, to react devs, is complexity.
I don't live in the USA and have never listed to a single Trump speech.

From my experience in international [1] software projects I can fully confirm that the infrastructure is controlled by pseudo-Maoists; Mostly rich white males (their terminology) from Google, Microsoft, Instagram and Bloomberg who don't code much but pretend to be woke in order to keep their cushy positions.

These people have established a reign of terror. The business model is to attract large contributions, love bombing new contributors and then drop them like hot potatoes if they ever slightly go against the power structure.

[1] The work horses are in Europe and Asia and the nomenklatura is in the USA.
thanks! I resisted redux-toolkit when it came out, but looking at the website, it might be the time to update the stack :)
> If this loophole exists it probably goes against the intention of the lawmakers and would be struck down by supreme court.

It's Common law not French/European law. The intent of the lawmakers is, in common law, more or less completely assumed to be present in the text of the law. French/European courts looks to the context the law was made in and other documents produced; common law judges mostly don't (but do look much more to precedent.)

And there is of course the problem of judges in the US being fairly strongly partisan politicised (since all power in the US is partisan politicised), so the interpretation will depend on which party has lately stuffed the supreme court.
What's the point of notifying about government looking at data, if nothing will realistically change? By analogy, the sales tax is printed on every single receipt for a product, yet nobody clamours to reduce the sales tax. It's "just the way it is" because people have gotten used to it.
It mostly does, though.

That's the magic of intersubjective beliefs. Laws may be words on paper, but as long as everyone expects that everyone else expects everyone to follow them, they're mostly followed. Same with money - it's just pieces of paper and numbers in some computers, but by virtue of shared belief, it has real power.

To the extent making something illegal doesn't prevent it from happening, there are enforcement structures - but those could never actually police everyone. Their job is to catch the occasional person who wasn't convinced by the "words on paper", and by doing so, reinforce people's belief in the "shared delusion" of laws. Because when people stop believing, society disappears.
>> The delivery company hopes to be valued at up to £8.8bn when it lists its shares in April.

Does anyone realize that high valuations are not in the long term interest of a company? That only benefits current investors. Never the employees, suppliers, or customers.
In my EU city, it is quite clear that these exploited workers are the major delivery service of food to the masses. The curfew means that even while I want to, I am not allowed to pick up pizza from the spot down the block from me because the restaurant is rightfully afraid of the city fining them. (But that restaurant-bar can serve beers so long as they sell some dry meats and cheese.)

All the while, deliveroo and others have started deciding who stays open after curfew, ostensibly based on sales — but who is so naive to think this isn’t crude extortion? Neighborhood restaurants suffer while fast-food chains and more leveraged restaurants thrive. This will have long-term effects for everyone.

The city knows what’s happening and does nothing, in part because what can they do? They already lost control on the pandemic situation long ago. So who bears the weight? It is primarily a migrant population working illegally and for crumbs. It’s astounding. And what am I to do? I want to help the small restaurants in my neighborhood, but even they are squeezed by these greedy companies. I refuse to be complicit, but I know that hurts independent restaurateurs.

A friend of mine runs a café and gets charged 30% per order by deliveroo. Recently deliveroo started a subscription service that provides free delivery. My friend sells a cookie for 3.5€ and has it delivered to someone nearby. The benefit of the doubt says that this person has an excellent reason. The pessimist in me indicts the state of tech and startups.

The sooner investors, such as the two mentioned in this article, stop pumping up these short term profiteers with absurd capital, the sooner we can start investing in long term projects that improve lives. Instead, companies like deliveroo profit by exploiting illegal workers (with the complicity of the state) and encourage only the worst of human aspirations: deliver me my matcha cookie, and don’t be late, or I’ll give you a 1-star review! My worst fear is that more logistics services like this are on the horizon. The social fabric and environment in my city can’t handle it. We need long-term and sustainable investment and not another app for lazy people.
No. The browser is a document viewer, and that's what it's actually good at.
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Only if you bought it recently. Most people don't buy more until they've basically run out.
Doesn't work if you have an oily complexion... Even if you can stand the unpleasant feeling of your face being covered with grease all the time, you'll be shining like a lamppost, which looks unattractive to other people.
I think they realize that and that outcome would be a feature, not a bug, for the author.
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Also many of these design attacks still work http://sakurity.com/oauth
Presumably they are mostly okay with the sales tax and may not be okay being spied on.
On the other hand, expanding a term to fit anything that somewhat resembles it really dilutes the meaning.
What kind of "tech" is Deliveroo exactly? Did they invent some kind of new graph theory or search algorithm that enabled their business? The only "tech" seems to be in working around employment law. This is like calling a sweatshop "tech" because they "innovated" a way for employees to be paid below minimum wage.
Hi ossusermivami, thanks for finding this book interesting.

I hope that it will help your niece!
Im like 80% sure Scottish notes are not Legal tender even in Scotland. Legal tender has a fairly narrow definition. They are accepted, and legal, but not 'legal tender'... Well that was my understanding at least. There is also no obligation for shops to accept _any_ notes as far as I know. Especially when they have no idea how to tell if they're legit (Scottish notes are incredibly rare in England and Wales).
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Thank you sir, you just reminded me why I need to make a donation to fsf.
Actually the FSF (in the form of the FSFE) have achieved rather a lot. Governments in Germany, for example (federal government general and the governments of the states) have been successfullly lobbied to use free software to create public documents, and to adopt the use of free software in general by their staff.

And why does the free software movement need a legislative agenda? I've never seen legislation concerning software that wasn't horribly flawed. Legislation is the product of lobbying and the ignorance of legislators. If the FSF promoted a "legislative agenda", then I for one would have much diminished confidence in it.
A mild body-funk odor is less offensive to me than someone that uses excessive perfume, cologne, or scented soap.

These body odors come from a combination of factors that include diet, physical activity and clothing. And the perception of body odor is heavily conditioned by culture.

If you work out regularly, your sweat isn't going to stink as much. Also, certain fabrics promote bacteria growth. Polyester is the worst, cotton is bad because it retains moisture too much. The best base-layer fabric to manage sweat is fine wool, the lack of odor is noticeable compared to anything else.
He was likely paid to write that article.

There is so much disinformation from an apparently knowledgeable person, that it has to be intentional. No way an ignorant person would create all those falsehoods in the article by a random chance of being mistaken.
Ever since I've blamed myself in Scotland in 2019 when I tried to pay for a group of friends and the restaurant had a random "no foreign credit cards" rule, cash is and always will be king when it comes to the UK for me.

In many countries, accepting cash is legally required. Unless a foreign national can pay with their credit card reliably, such a rule should be the required fallback payment method.
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15 years? I knew the man was trouble when I met him over 30 years ago. I couldn't understand why people didn't see the man over their excitement for the movement. People seemed to like him simply because he was disruptive.
We've been storing data like this for several years and have kept hundreds of PB and 10's of billions of objects without data loss despite having many nodes in areas affected by large regional outages. One recent example is when Texas was affected by blackouts.

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Well, I had the opposite experience here in the North East - when my dad came over to visit he had a bunch of £50 notes he got from the cash exchange office and we literally couldn't spend them. He wanted to buy some jewlery for my mum and the store wouldn't take his notes. Few other places around the town wouldn't either. We literally ended up going to the branch of my bank and changing them for £20 notes and suddenly it wasn't a problem anymore.

It's just dumb. UK government should definitely drive a larger adoption of the £50 notes, it's so bizzaire to me that the British population treats their own banknotes like something from the moon.