skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The decision maker is a product manager. The person has an agenda. With Unifi that seems to be: let us build a proper remote management interface and new fancier UI at all costs (and with some evil thinking a subscription service). Over time they become so invested that even of the become aware of the real customer need they cannot jump of from what they started.

Other example: the other Ubiquiti product manager check offs feature lost: IDS check, firewall check, pppoe check. Seeing that they are half baked he ignores.

I do not think that Ubiquiti problems is the engineering they outsourced. It is the product management they screwed up. They are not listening to what user wants. The indian IT guys are delivering.

And honestly: it is an ad. No ad network. They know our network better than us by their cloud management ... They do not need to analyze us. When they want to be an ad network they could do much worse things (like the telcos do).
"Attending" means that you will lock time in your schedule to actually watch the sessions.

For most people "watching afterwards" is just another way to say "I'll watch it when I have time".
Yes, print() and breakpoints are different tools with different uses and there's cases where one is superior to the other. This is why some tools now offer logpoints, which are basically print() inserted via a breakpoint UI rather than in your code where you can forget to remove them
Climate change is a political issue and has basically nothing to do with science.

The unusualness of 2015 is because that's when Obama lost control. Republicans had control of senate and house. Then also paved way for making Trump presidents just a couple years later.

Let's just assume for a second climate change is the equivalent to 4-5 hiroshima bombs per second. Which is the political assertion that we are about to go extinct every 12 years. The problem with politicization of climate change is that if it's true, we cannot act in time anymore. Then again Al Gore(politician) made a ton of claims in his movie that were quite false. According to Al Gore florida is pretty much entirely under water right now.
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Can I just say that I love how transparent Daniel is about curl's security status? I have never gotten good at using curl, nor have I ever used libcurl, but I am tempted to put some time into it, just because of that transparency.
I have.

The number of people killed by the US government in the last 50 years dwarfs that of people killed by Facebook by many orders of magnitude.
No it wont, server need to return JSON format itself.

Your example doesn't work. It needs to be:

irm ipinfo.io/json

Your other example can be get like this:

irm http://checkip.dyndns.org | % HTML | % body
Ah, I read that as the opposite way around - wanting to avoid their own currency because of volatility. My bad.
I'm currently touching the plan 9 email tools a lot, and recently rewrote the acme mail client. There are warts, of course, but the ones you've discussing are either related to the underlying communication and not the format, or are easy to deal with.

I'm not sure why you say emails are hard to search. Extract the text and put it into an engine like lucene. There are the usual small corpus problems, but these aren't dependent on format.

As threads are fundamentally a graph, so complaining that the structure matches the structure of the data is... Odd.. to me.

Including the time zone in the date is a small wart. Add an extra specifier to the format string and move on. Base64 is similar: a bit annoying, but decode and move on. And use RFC1652.
I don't like the online conferences.

When I go to the in person conferences, it is easy to say I'm out of the office those days, and focus on the conference.

With the online ones, I always end up getting pulled into stuff, but it's ok because I can just listen in the background.
User interviews – Why is it so hard to ask why 5 times? Why, why, why, why, why?
"about enough to drive 5 miles in a standard-size vehicle."

Are you accounting for the fact that the alpha romeo would no longer have the mass of a separate battery pack? Might it be 10 miles?

Still needs improvement! Would it work out better in something like an aptera?
I prefer the kitten: https://ipkitten.com

(And this ifconfig.co doesn't seem to actually, you know, work which is a big hindrance)
There's value in in-person meetings that online classes aren't good at or simply can't provide so it becomes a trade off.

Cost isn't much of an issue. iOS developers tend to be paid well and even then it's often a reimbursed expense. I'm obviously not speaking for everyone here.

Most notably it's a means to network with other developers. One can recruit, find out more about other companies, meet the people working on their favorite open-source project, etc. Hands on technical support is significantly easier than doing it remotely, especially when external devices are involved.

Lastly, for many it's a chance to unwind and take a pseudo-vacation. The San Jose area has lots to do, there's plenty of evening events, and there's plenty of people who you'd have something in common with to socialize with.
Same as the "now you should wear 2 masks" bullshit, right? Tell them to wear 2 because that means they'll at least wear 1, right?

These "white lies" are why I'm done with it.
Clang writes a subset of LLVM IR, and other types of IR are supported but very poorly optimized/tested/etc. The LLVM docs say you should generate what Clang generates to avoid regressions.
It's been possible to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in one's PayPal account for months (including right before buying something with the resulting balance in fiat currency); what seems to be new here is that one can have PayPal handle the conversion at checkout without first having to click "sell" or paying added transaction fees (simply selling would incur a hefty 1 or 2% based on the amount sold).

It is true that one cannot transfer cryptocurrency holdings into or out of PayPal.
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The nucleotide sequence is obviously important, but people also sometimes forget that DNA and RNA are real things with 3D structure too. That matters too: it’s as if builders make errors where the blueprint rolls up or pages stick together.

The whole thing is absolutely fascinating and wild.
OK, so there was no new iPad in March and there is not announcement for an event in April yet.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp buys Lord of the Rings and G. Orwell in $349m deal
> What more could they have done?

Oh this one is simple. Be transparent in your communication about the limitations of what you've done. Be clear whether this is early research or something likely to find its way into products any time soon. And above all: Avoide terms like "breakthrough" unless they're really deserved (which is exceptionally rare).
None of this is refuting to my core claim, that the concept of free will is always either (1) too poorly defined to be arguable, or (2) that humans are indistinguishable from other animals.

You are alternating between both of these problems, sometimes with references to higher cognitive function (itself poorly defined) other times by suggesting things where human and non human animals are passing and failing the same tests.

In particular:

> Why don't you?

Language seems neither necessary nor sufficient. If it was sufficient, computers would have it. If it was necessary, it would be denied to anyone who grew up alone in the wild, which happens occasionally.

For extra weirdness, given that language is notoriously difficult to pick up as an adult (both for such Wildermensch and for everyone else) if language learning structures was the test of free will, adults would necessarily have less free will than children.

> If higher cognitive functions are not necessary, than a virus can have free will.

There are many layers of cognition between these two things. Cognition is not Boolean.

> and how do you know it's not merely imitation? btw, insects can learn too

This demonstrates my point. All learned behaviour does. In fact, I would go further and say that the ability to copy another entity implies a mind has a model of itself as a separate entity within the world, and of the same category of entity as whatever it is copying. Certainly a limited model, and yet, again, this is no different from humans as we do not have perfect models of each other or ourselves.

> (the effect exists, but it doesn't show lack of free will at all)

Because the concept is too poorly defined to be testable, perchance? Because people keep trying to go “Well actually humans are special so that’s not what I meant” after the tests are done?

> also, not until they will be able to reconstruct their past history and of the entire universe by observing and studying remains, without any prior knowledge of what they are

Any single human would fail this test. Humanity collectively only just about passes, except for all the gaps in our history and the fact QM and GR are inconsistent with each other.

> where's the freedom if the reactions have been engineered through training?

Identical to humans. We have demonstrable biases towards the society — nation, religion, sports teams, languages, political parties, laws, cultural norms — that we grow up with. We have school precisely because we don’t spontaneously invent everything from scratch, and our instincts can be bad and need to be trained out. We are incapable of overriding other things, e.g. sexuality, and we don’t really even understand when and how sexuality becomes concrete.
The answers to this are so numerous and the logic so obvious that we as citizens may be to close to even see them.

Pretty much every bit of advice in the health sciences has been changing over multiple generations (lead and xrays are two easy examples from over 50 years ago)
We definitely have an African component in our flora, yes. This makes our ecosystems (and our kitchen) special and our nature much more interesting with lots of African endemisms. Spain is (probably [1]) the European country with a higher biodiversity. Italy comes close in that rank also.

[1] excluding Russia, that is a special case (being Asian and European at the same time).
Loved reading about their journey on HN. Here's a 5-year-old thread about their costs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11519085

Unfortunately the original link is down (and I could not find an archived version). But here's relevant material from the comments:

> $18k is a lot of money to spend each month. Understanding the scale of Unsplash though can help explain the costs.

> So at a cost of $18k per month you are getting 30M pages served, 140M API calls, 2.2M background jobs and 143TB of bandwidth. That sounds like a lot of bang for your buck.

> The biggest chunk is the bandwidth charges from imgix. They do appear to be giving you a break on their published pricing, but not a huge one ($0.075/GB vs $0.08/GB). The CDN they are using appears to be Fastly, which also has a published price of $0.08/GB. So, there doesn't appear to be any overzealous markup on imgix's part.
I'm going to instead see this as an opportunity for something better to emerge.

My biggest problem with Unsplash is that they did not use a standard license that would easily be compatible with a Creative Commons or open source licensed work. If I incorporated images from Unsplash, suddenly I couldn't say "you're welcome to do whatever you like with my work." In fact, they used to use a CC0 license, but then changed, because other sites were copying them. As a user, this was a feature, not a bug.

I would far prefer to see the community band together and produce an image sharing website with CC0 as the default license. Creative Commons image search right now is in need of some TLC from an engaged community.
I think this is childish for a company of googles size.

Next time google goes down should Microsoft make fun of them? That’s what google did here.
It wouldn't be impossible at all to pull in locations of all ships and render them, though.
Presuming that the "in-EU" is actually meant to refer to "subject to most EU legislation, and in particular the GDPR", then it's incorrect in the opposite way for Norway: it shows false.
I don't do much Python, but logging is a problem that's been thoroughly solved in just about every other language I've used. Why on earth would you reach for a half baked homemade solution?
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Chinese incursions into Taiwanese airspace have increased in the past few months.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/26/taiwan-reports...

It's speculation, but China appears to be building up normalcy bias in Taiwanese defenses, get them used to seeing Chinese aircraft and making them more complacent.

Add the fact that China's national victim mentality is driving it to restore itself to it's perceived state before the "west" messed it up (includes regaining Taiwan), and that objective being one of the socio-political foundations of the CCP's power, and the CCP being well aware that China will start running out of young people in next decade due to one child policy (makes military adventures harder for both manpower and economic reasons), and Xi consolidating more power under himself and his cult of personality than any Chinese ruler since Mao...

Yeah if I was Taiwan I'd be subtly building some extra "tourism infrastructure" on the beaches and quietly stepping up training requirements for reserves; and give the US whatever it wants in exchange for a couple of carrier battle groups if needed.
Joshua's blog is great for stories like these. It's too bad he took down a good percentage of his posts after opening his wealth management firm.
If that is the case, then it's incorrectly showing false for Norway, who as an EEA member is subject to the GDPR.
Ive been using bitcoin since 2011ish i think, one of the first few people on bitcoin-otc first trade was $40 for 10 bitcoins (paid with paypal transfer funily enough) i must have bought and sold hundreds over years, still have few dozen

In some cases yeh bitcoin has not lived up to initial promises, literally first line of satoshis paper is no longer valid, but it could yet be like early internet and take off (or something similar)

i wouldnt write it off but yeh you are also right its not what we thought it be, the whole store of value thing these days instead of currency
What every developer ought to know about timezones wrt calendar files (2011)
Interesting, I wonder how many other photographers will delete their photos. I'm curious, can you and will you be uploading them elsewhere?
Very engaging style of story telling here. I could try to explain this good writing, but I just recommend to read it. It is truly a good piece.
Off-topic re: OP blog's and domain name.

These are nice and subtle nods to the tetralogy of the Book of New Sun. House Absolute is the palace of the Autarch, the ruler of the Commonwealth, a southern hemisphere nation in a far future when the Sun is dimmed.

(If my memory serves me well...)
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Why does it put “ic | ” at the beginning? Branding?

Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems unnecessary
I believe what this post is describing is two different integration patterns and not two different workflows: continuous integration[0] vs long-lived branches.

Martin Fowler has a good post on the subject: https://martinfowler.com/articles/branching-patterns.html#Co...

tl;dr: if you make big feature branches and take a lot of time to integrate them it's a painful process.

[0]: <https://www.thoughtworks.com/continuous-integration>
I see, wow, then this sucks
No problem for me in Firefox Nightly 89.0a1.
Retailing is an extremely low barrier to entry industry, especially online retailing. Predatory Pricing may have worked in the era of railroads, which have an extremely high startup cost, but it does not work work for online retailing. Amazon cannot achieve ~100% permanent market share by lowering the prices and then raising them.
I completely fail to see this mindset. What is it that makes people with tech related jobs feel like they're superior to others?
They are, google loopring or zksync
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/03/starship-sn11-spacex...

That link is the best coverage of the next flights SN15, SN16, SN17 and BN1, BN2, BN3. The aspirational schedule has been confirmed by Elon
Psychology study needed.

My favourite is when people reply-all with “please remove me from this list”
Thats why I pay for my individual full jetbrains package. First year was $250, next year $199 and the next $149. Quite an investment the first year ok. But now I own my tools, and it turns out I also use them a lot for personal projects so I'm happy with that as well. I would not work for a place that doesnt let me bring it or offer it to me (because I can afford saying no).
There's no way to legislate self-control or common sense.
Usually because the company already pays an AWS bill. No one will care if you add another Lambda function, but to use an alternative you’ll have to get past some gatekeepers.
Coding Aventure is one of my favorite intellectual(?) exploration channels, along with Primer, who's had a great string of genetic/evolution simulation videos exploring the emergent evolution of society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goePYJ74Ydg
The design space for long-duration energy storage in decarbonized power systems
And the price goes down over time, third year is $150...
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We continue to disseminate this type of news by linking to university press releases or technology news sites rather than the paper directly.

90% of the time press releases oversimplify results and overstate the research impact when the actual paper strives to be on point and accurate.

I appreciate it's hard to stay true to the original research and explain things in a simple but engaging way. On the other hand it sometimes feel like creative freedom in second hand reporting does more harm than good.
With "big" companies coming in on the Crypto bandwagon is Crypto really worth anything? I don't understand (and maybe someone can explain it to me) how Crypto is for "the little guy" when those who started out at the beginning have "all" the crypto already. There is no way I am going to be able to "mine" more crypto than those who started years before me or those who have more "traditional" money than me currently to buy crypto. It's still money. It's still a bond, a promissory note; it's not real and is only worth what the big guys (whether traditional or crytpo big guys) say it is worth. But I am no economist or financial expert. So why should I use crypto? I'm still at the bottom in that game.
Imploded, no, but the Japanese economy basically peaked in 1991 and has yet to really recover (the so-called Lost Decade, although it's been well more than a decade now). As I understand it (this is before my time), in the 1980s, there was a widespread consensus that Japan was on the precipice of upstaging the US, much as there is a similar consensus nowadays that China is on the precipice of upstaging the US. That Japan failed to do so should augur difficulty for China to do the same.
No, it's not. You can deploy a very minimal Linux while also keeping the services that are actually good for security, like logging, IDS/IPS, certification compliance tooling, monitoring.

Unless you are running unnecessary daemons exposed on the Internet, 99% of the attack surface is from your application and the kernel itself.

Both parts that you can't remove.
If it was the main reason, wouldn’t it have made more sense in more politically stable regions, like Germany or France, which are in good term with the US as well, and first level EU access as a bonus.
Elon Musk on the SN11 landing burn failure: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1376889786762428421

> At least the crater is in the right place!

> Looks like engine 2 had issues on ascent & didn’t reach operating chamber pressure during landing burn, but, in theory, it wasn’t needed.

> Something significant happened shortly after landing burn start. Should know what it was once we can examine the bits later today.

Q: After cleanup, will you roll out SN15? Perhaps BN1 too?

> SN15 rolls to launch pad in a few days. It has hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics/software & engine.

> Hopefully, one of those improvements covers this problem. If not, then retrofit will add a few more days.

For posterity, here's a link to the full 16 minute official SpaceX launch stream (obviously quickly wrapped up after the failure): https://youtu.be/gjCSJIAKEPM?t=86
Hi HN, I’m Michael, cofounder and CEO at Prismatic - https://prismatic.io

Prismatic is an embedded integration platform for B2B software companies. It gives teams a better way to build integrations and provide a first-class integration experience to their customers.

At my previous software company, integrations were a never-ending pain point. We were spending a huge percentage of our dev capacity on integrations rather than moving our core product forward. (Writing bespoke integration code, standing up special infra, dealing with auth flows, wrangling customer-specific config and versioning, struggling to troubleshoot issues in production). Those same challenges exist all across the B2B software world.

We discovered that most integration platforms on the market were designed for enterprises automating their own workflows and don’t work for B2B software companies that need to provide integrations to customers: They lack the concept of customers (and their configs, credentials, etc.). They lean too hard on a “no-developer” mindset. And they don’t fit into software companies' existing infra and processes well.

So we built an integration platform designed specifically for B2B software companies. Prismatic gives software companies a better way to build integrations and also a better way manage their deployment to customers. It includes:

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And it does this in a way that gives every person involved exactly what they need:

- Devs get the power and flexibility to extend the platform to fit your product and the way you build software (strong custom component support, fully exposed API, robust CLI)

- Non-devs use a low-code designer, tailored by your devs to fit your product and industry, to build reusable integrations that can be deployed to multiple customers with different configs

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We’ve placed a huge emphasis on developer experience and designed everything in the platform to be flexible and extensible at every turn.

We announced general availability today, and you can read our full launch blog post here – http://prismatic.io/blog/announcing-prismatic-general-availa...

We’re super passionate about better software integrations and helping software teams solve their integration challenges. We’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback.