skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That looks like a rendering bug in the application. There's no fundamental reason they should have either horizontal or vertical gaps, if character cells are rendered at the correct size.
Google needs to be reined in. They're running wild. Too arrogant, too powerful, too much influence.
And actively evil.
> unfettered right to free speech in America

I’m not aware of anyone calling for “unfettered” freedom of speech. Harassment is a crime and is illegal. Inciting violence is a crime and is illegal. Etc etc, yelling fire in theater, etc

When I think of free speech, I mean that people should not be persecuted for singular statements that are somehow synecdoche’d into trying to say a person is bad.

I’ve seen artists fired because they liked a tweet and someone said it offended them and then there was a spiral.

I’m not saying that we should allow people to say anything, but that we should not spend so much time trying to change people’s speech to what I want it to be like.
Your clarification made me wonder:

Is the single process deployment only doable via a container? Or will we actually have OS native process as well?
Well considering the sheer extent and breadth of influence that Amazon has, I'm not sure how narrow it really is to write on Amazon's abuses.

Besides, you're comparing apples and oranges. It would be a better comparison if there were loads of attack articles on specific employees of Amazon instead of a giant multi-national company engaging in aggressive union busting behavior that is one of the largest employers in the world.
Yeah, I find it really irritating when a build system doesn’t respect this interface. Really, cargo and all these other tools should have options for generating a configure script and makefile: they could be relatively minimal and just invoke cargo with the appropriate options, but it would make it much easier to build arbitrary projects from source.
What did they see beyond realizing they could sell the shovels and collect fees?
Yup, they've taken rare public domain images from the vaults of museums around the world, claimed the copyright on them, and charge thousands of dollars to use them. Fuck Getty Images.
I think I need to order one of the posters of this.
Can you name an equivalent of Kung fu?

I can’t — so I found it necessary to dig into the old program and port the concepts.

I would argue that more people should do that, even when they don’t immediately understand the old model well enough to port.

Both in software and martial arts.
So, a lot of database systems aren't using EBS for many reasons: that's why the local I/O instances exist. And so, yes: you don't build out like that unless but you are prepared to just scrap the instance and rebuild it from WAL logs or have replication or whatever, but knowing "this is a 30 second fix with a serial console" really makes taking all of that cost in stride painful.
Not really. Looking at the doc for that function:

"There is no way to convert the pointer back to its original value. Typically this function is used only for debug information."

(In CPython, you can e.g. stash a PyObject* away in C globals.)
At least a handful of Glassdoor reviews verify this sort of micromanagement. How awful and what an asshole.

That's a company that needs to be re-worked from the top. All C-level management fired, no golden parachute.

edit: Robert Pera owns 75% of the company, looks like C-level mgmt will never get fired. If you are at this company, just leave.
you also don't have to worry about those kinds of configuration gotchas if you use confluent cloud!
as someone that has lived in other states for many years and now recently returned to California, I am finding this out the hard way as well. The issue is that the toxic environments simply don't realize how toxic they are. They think they're doing good and changing the world and most laughably, "smashing the patriarchy" by simultaneously reaping its benefits.
This is "mah free market" perspective where 'freedom' is the law of the jungle.

They somehow think that this brand of 'freedom' without regulation will not decent into rule of the strongest and basically tyrany, just like it has every time in history.

They have not heard about standard oil market manipulation, railway monopolies, the Phoebus Cartel and others

They do not understand that regulation is what stands in the way of other people taking your freedoms.
The prices we are comparing against are Meraki, Aruba, Ruckus, etc. I would be shocked if Ubiquiti was similar in price to those even in the UK.
My very last dial up modern had a volume knob, which was great when trying to sneak on to the internet past bedtime.
Whilst it's interesting to think about your points, they feel somewhat orthogonal to my point about the word being adopted into English (so it can have a pronunciation the way native speakers feel comfortable with, which can vary to a degree from the original unadopted word). Was it meant as some kind of rebuttal or merely an interesting observation? (eg with the Italian names)
Now I argue on HN instead.
Wouldn't they fall out like baby teeth do if new teeth grow under to push them out?
What will the report achieve? Will China put an end to their Uyghur genocide now?
Disclosure: I used to work on GCE (and even helped push our serial console access years ago).

That’s a good default posture. What sucks is when you’re trying to debug a system that has OOM-killed sshd and then is behaving generally poorly. If you replace your instance with another one, you just get another OOM kill.

At this point, without interactive serial port access, you get to replace whatever you’ve got on the box with more logging statements. That’s a totally reasonable approach, but with interactive serial ports you can poke at it and root cause a lot faster.

Edit: Also, Linux seems to always kill sshd first. (Part of this is survivorship bias, of course).
It makes debugging the construction of instances way more annoying, particular if you are dealing with any local networking on the machine. The turnaround time for testing something goes from tens seconds to multiple minutes (at best) without a serial console.
Astronomical events like eclipses get recorded and can be extrapolated backwards to precisely line up historic calendars. Similarly, major events like huge earthquakes can be correlated between different historic calendars.

Eventually you go back far enough and this breaks down, but we are talking recent history here.
Points I found most valuable from the article:

> Introducing the report, Secretary of State Tony Blinken said President Biden would put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy.

> The report finds that more than one million mainly Muslim Uyghurs were held in detention camps in China’s Xinjiang region, with some subjected to forced sterilization, rape, forced labor and torture.

> He also acknowledged that the U.S. had work to do at home on human rights, including in combating systemic racism, but would face those challenges in the daylight, unlike autocratic countries.
Pulsar also requires you to run ZooKeeper and BookKeeper, so TFA has at least one reason you might choose Kafka.

(That said, unlike many I consider depending on ZooKeeper to be a positive sign. "We wrote our own consensus protocol" belongs in roughly the same bucket as "we wrote our own crypto." Using ZooKeeper doesn't automatically mean your distributed system will work but at least you'll have a fighting chance.)
Timothy Leary and the CIA (2009)
Narrator: What they didn't know, was they were about to solve a mystery that would save mankind.
dork finds a thing he doesn't understand, begins to understand 25% of it, and then decides to "fix it" like it doesn't have centuries of history and learnings around it that impacted the decision, write your own metaphor
One nice thing about confluent cloud vs MSK is the minimum cost of a confluent cloud cluster is far, far cheaper than the minimal cost of an MSK cluster
Which is like saying the world runs on chemistry interactions. Technically true, but we're losing practical meaning the deeper we go.

Because everybody likes tangentially related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/
LowRisc.org has some Rpi folks on their team, and they seem to be chasing features (minion cores, for example) that would be good for the Rpi.
Boy who said he developed narcolepsy after swine flu vaccine settles court case
While I agree with the no-Easter egg policy for many of the reasons cited in the article, some of the cited customer concerns just rubbed me the wrong way. Take a more serious sounding one:

> Is this what MS developers do when they should be concentrating on security?

The presence or absence of an Easter egg is not an indicator of the time spent concentrating on security. Claiming the Easter egg can introduce bugs that impact security or erode customer confidence due to the presence of hidden features are legitimate concerns.

Why do I bring up the differentiation? Hyperbole attacks the credibility of the legitimate.

As for solving the Easter egg problem, the incentive would be diminished if credit was given where credit was due (e.g. a documented credits screen).
I would like to know more about curl, I am guessing it is a linux command?
I don't understand the hate for Zookeeper.

Setting up a Zookeeper ensemble is not that hard, they're light on resources and and basically zero maintenance.
It is false accusation based on fake news. Advise you read China Daily or a book https://www.laroutedelasoie-editions.com/notre-catalogue/ess...
"How Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma" by Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I
There's the possibility that localized suppression would be possible. Even if not, any scientists working on this will be well aware to check for potential health complications before human testing was even started.
Hello friends...let us test this one, shall we?

God bless. :)
So, just to pick one of your accusations there -- forced sterilization in China is a global policy if you have too many kids. It's not ethnically targeted, and until recently, minority populations were allowed to have more kids than Han Chinese.

This is easily verifiable if you talk to anyone from China. Too many kids, you get sterilized, them's the rules (unless you're rich/connected, of course). So why do our media always report cases involving minorities out of context, creating unfortunate assumptions? Who benefits from that?

You'd think the free press would surface the most accurate story, right? Just like the awesome judiciary shouldn't lead to world-leading incarceration rates. This set of gaps is what I'm talking about, not China's sins or virtues.
Apple expands Independent Repair programme to New Zealand and 39 other countries
> The broader Kafka ecosystem has features like exactly-once support

No. No it doesn’t. It has at-least-once delivery with client-side deduplication. That’s not new, it’s what TCP does FFS. Why would you lie to people about supporting something long established at best and demonstrably impossible at worst?

> Finally, I work at Confluent....

Oh, that’s why. Never mind then. Continue selling digital snake oil.
You got a good response from someone else below, but here is an example of insanities Jones Act leads to. There have been companies running LNG vessels, sailing from Russia to Northeastern US, selling Russian natural gas there, and then sailing south to buy American natural gas in southern states for much lower price, and than sailing back east to sell it in Europe or further east. Northeastern states buy expensive Russian gas instead of cheap American gas, because there is no vessel that could ship gas from south to north: because of Jones Act, it would have to be American built American operated vessel, and such vessel quite simply does not exist.
Don't be sarcastic.[0] Beyond that, it's a bit hyberbolic to assert hundreds of millions of any sort of migrants. (Climate change seems to be this generation's nuclear winter.)

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Pulsar is fighting a massive up-hill battle. Kafka is everywhere (and for good reason).
Even in Japan, VW is considered as one of the most reliable import car brand. Of course Toyota is different level.
Close to 50 years.
is it true that MySQL scales much better than postgres?
for example ServiceNow is using customized mysql engine to store and search all data for all its clients.
Doing something like that in pg is probably extremely hard. Would love to hear people's thoughts on this
So the US doesn't have the balls to sanction Xi Jinping when he directed this "genocide" on Xinjiang?

Okay, maybe it'll sanction the Chairman of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region - Shohrat Zakir[1]? Again, nope.

I'm curious, how does an Uyghur genocide his own people?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shohrat_Zakir#:~:text=Shohrat%....
Exactly, no workflow for terraform or CLI if you have U2F (Yubikey) 2FA.
Saving the world is a thankless task.
> China Daily (simplified Chinese: 中国日报; traditional Chinese: 中國日報; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rìbào) is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

Maybe this comment is a joke, but just in case, the user is advocating what is essentially just the writings of the Communist Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Daily
Not made in a lab != Not leaked from a lab.

You are confusing two very different things.
Until Louis Rossmann is able to buy any part he needs to repair any Apple product, this gesture is just corporate posturing.

(Seriously: if you don't know who Louis Rossmann is, look him up on YouTube... you're in for an education while being entertained!)
I wonder why Russia and China are enlisted. Is it because the gov wants to see this result or Blinken's team is doing the research with a high bias?

AFAIK, the main issue of China is the high price of housing, which Chinese gov is trying to control. And these researchers just turn a blind eye to it.
I'm glad you mentioned that. so much time is spent attacking Apple for "not being repairable" but many people seem to forget just how common the practice is, and that Apple most certainly didn't pioneer it.
> it's taken into consideration

Since the paper doesn’t say this, I assume you’re one of the researchers or associated with them? Do you mind sharing some details about how it’s taken into consideration?
I suppose one might argue that if they [prism] then they don’t value user trust, and therefore user trust wouldn’t be a reason for them to not [easter eggs].

However, that would seem to be based on an idea of valuing which is absolute, and which accepts no trade-offs. Conceivably they could value user trust (at least, instrumentally value it), but value what they would get out of doing [prism] more, per amount of lost user trust, then they value what they would get from [easter eggs] per amount of (somehow?) lost user trust.

(Words in square brackets are abbreviations for the activity relevant to the words in the square brackets)
Agree.
The account is almost certainly manned by an employee that works in public relations and not making any operational decisions within the agency.
Furthermore, OPM still has all federal employees on “maximum telework”.
With most daycare centers inside the beltway closed or restricted due to COVID-19, maybe we should find a little humanity in this situation. That a public servant is trying to do their job in extraordinarily out-of-the ordinary circumstances, and that this parent’s small child pounded out a few characters on their phone while they were dealing with any of a million things that involves trying to work from home and be a good parent. Something, I think, many people around the world can relate to right now. This government For the People, is absolutely made up By the People; and have real issues, just like everyone does these days.
Also, regardless of what some one-term Presidents have done in the past, Twitter should not be taken so seriously.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037167
Sure! But now we’re working with what we want to work with, how many inches on mobile vs how many inches on Desktop. Just like you want a different size chair for a dollhouse vs a real house, but we still agree on the units! But on computers we have this separate confusion of units with no static meaning.
I found this hard to read. Principally I was looking for sources and I found a lot of statements with no easy footnoting of sources.

After looking at the Grayzone/ModerateRebels video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZkxaEC1xjY about the very odd and weak claims about China's behavior in this regard I was hoping that some more diverse, specific and accurate sources would be present in e.g. https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-...

If only a fraction of what Blumethal claims in the video is correct then this is singularly unhelpful and definitely smells a bit.

I look forward to the call for sanctions on the USA by the USA, backed up by appropriate force to support the workers in the gig economy suffering in the same way as the ones in China cited at the end of the report:

Workers in the gig economy were considered contract workers and not under the protections of the labor law. There were reports of app delivery drivers injured or killed on the job. On September 9, the magazine Renwu exposed how online platform algorithms created dangerous conditions for delivery drivers, including by shortening delivery times and issuing penalties for delays. The report prompted two major delivery firms to extend delivery times and reduce penalties for late deliveries.
I did the same cca. 2001 to a fellow female coworker. She had a big Excel document that day and was under pressure to finish it from her boss (well, our boss). She went to toilet and that's all it took me to set it, then maximize back her Excel document. She unaware worked for next hour and then when she finished she called the boss, which was across the room on his desktop, to verify it. The fun part came when I asked for something from her desktop and she had to minimize Excel. She went red in the face and the entire office burst in laughter for next 5 minutes, the boss included. After that day she learned WIN+L.
I mostly agree except for the fact that I don't really think the gaming community are that dangerous to antagonise for a company at all considering that Activision and EA together are some of the most hated companies in both the gaming community and the world in general yet sell the most games.

It's not about the medium or even the message here. It's all about the product. As long as you control the product, it doesn't matter how much grumbling gamers do under their breath, they will still fork over their cash.

Activists on the other hand do not have a product to offer. Instead they make you think uncomfortable thoughts and try to get you to reconsider or reflect on your viewpoints or biases. That's a lot harder than buy and consume product. That's a difference that even god-tier PR is not going to easily be able to overcome.
Thanks to an act of Congress, nobody in the United States can sue the maker of a vaccine after being injured by that vaccine.

Think about that... and then ask why.
Can you tell us more about your setup? Sounds quite cool
My problem is that I can't get a replacement battery for my broken 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" A1398.

Apple says it's obsolete, but my cells expanded and the replacement third-party battery I bought fried my logic board and now I don't know who to trust.

I'm trying to figure out whether swapping the cells with the original battery PCB will work, and make it not kill my GPU again.
Used Chromeboxes are inexpensive, and pretty close to a NUC other than the BIOS. But, people have figured out how to get them to boot Linux, Windows, etc, now. There's also pretty nice used USFF boxes from Lenovo, HP and Dell: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... The older ones, like a Lenovo M72 tiny, can be really inexpensive.

To me, they aren't always a better fit than an Rpi, but they often are.
If only it worked on Linux. It's Windows-only: http://bitboost.com/pawsense/.

This software is the only winner so far of an Ig Noble prize in the category of Computer Science: https://www.improbable.com/ig-about/winners/#ig2000. See https://priceonomics.com/the-software-that-detects-when-a-ca... for a write-up.

Apparently this is still maintained, as it is described as compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10 (excepting "Metro/Modern" mode). Written by this charming coder: http://chrisniswander.com/.

[edited for grammar -- and should note that, of course Linux and ilk OS do offer a "cat" command]
Why not get different floors?
I “Hacked” a Popular Illicit Website on Accident
I can’t tell you what to do with your life.

My solution to encountering outdated beliefs with great utility was to try and update them — to retell Kung fu (and Buddhism) in that new world view. Buddhism has a maxim to keep what’s useful and discard the rest.

What does “ki” mean in physics?

I think it’s more than esoteric luggage, but a class of physics equations which are nasty to write down because they’re complex differential equations — and the numerics don’t matter to the practice, just the behavior of the system.

So you give a name to that behavior and model it experimentally, describe it euphemistically, etc.

I get spending the time to learn multiple models and translate between them isn’t everyone’s idea of fun, though. Those people reasonably make different choices than I did.
see the sibling comment. The US is not afraid to face it's issues in daylight. Furthermore, to even compare the two (terrible) situations is disrespectful to the plight of the Ughyrs.
Mint Mate

Mint packages are not as out of date as ubuntu has been, Mate offers me a better desktop UI than gnome and lighter weight than Cinnamon. Still has awesome community support.
Why wasn't Amazon successful in China?
Or the "unnamed source" checked their website, assumed it was what it was and confirmed it.
What do you think the endgame is? Gov bans and it becomes underground p2p store of value?
I can't be the only one disturbed by the fact we are using the word "genocide" for something that does not include Mass killings.

I know that legally it is valid and that the actions it describes are still despicable, but there is an important distinction between mass internment and mass killing.
As in... what, capitalism bad?
As long as you realize it is irrational.

I’ve lived in the west and south all my 50 plus years, with a couple years spent overseas, and I’ve never seen a gun drawn or shot in anger.

I spend zero time worrying about gun violence because there is no rational reason to.

Now, I’ve lived in suburbs (no gated communities, just straight middle class) instead of large metros, though I’ve worked in plenty of the same. I’ve felt unsafe in those metros, but it had little to no relationship to guns, just people who acted out in the train or bus or aggressive in their panhandling.

I’m no gun fanatic- been to a few events hosted by friends where I shot their guns at targets, but never have owned one. But unless you live in Baltimore or similar environments, the US is absolutely safe, statistically, for one to work/play/live in without spending any thought to protecting yourself from gun violence.
This one? http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/ (I remember it for having won the Ig Nobel Prize in Computer Science.)
Wow. Out of curiosity just checked if the other cloud providers have it - both Azure and GCP have this feature already. Azure got it ~ Feb 2020, GCP Feb 20201.
Against Asymptomatic Transmission
On Mac we definitely don’t have this. Everything is clamped to integer multiples (1x, 2x, and 3x). So the “real” size bounces around wildly screen to screen.
The other one would be nice is synthetic gums for grafts. Far from teeth, should be one of the easier things.

Lot of research on that one. Just goes to show how lousy the development part of R&D is these days.