skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this view, but I'm in academia, and with covid19 we are teaching remotely, doing exams remotely, etc. If the systems are down that can have a real disrupting effect on students not being able to submit homeworks/exams, us delivering lectures. And that potentially applies for the whole university (thousands of people).
You just invented Uber. Congratulations, you're rich!
You didn’t rebut a thing I said: the only substance of my initial comment was that you had mis-named some connectors... which you did. Your reply contained no proof otherwise, except the shop link which I explicitly addressed. If you’re really asserting that I’m wrong about connector names, here you go:

> Because personal computers first used DB-25 connectors for their serial and parallel ports, when the PC serial port began to use 9-pin connectors, they were often labeled as DB-9 instead of DE-9 connectors, due to an ignorance of the fact that B represented a shell size. It is now common to see DE-9 connectors sold as DB-9 connectors

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-subminiature

There are plenty of other sources available, which I’m not going to bother looking up.

As for the rest of your initial comment, I don’t disagree: you made a pretty substantive contribution to the thread, but again I never said you didn’t.

The main thrust of your “rebuttal” is trying to fight an argument I’m not making.
> A "Is Joe Rogan a racist?" conversation is not interesting, and this place is about hosting interesting discussions.

Yeah... because it's a bullshit conversation that people know is false, and any attempt to try to argue otherwise would see you utterly destroyed with facts.

Rogan and Chappelle are great friends. Rogan was friends with Patrice O'Neal. He's friends with Colion Noir and has him on the show about every six - twelve months.

For a "racist", he's doing a pretty poor job.
I got knock off ones. Yeah, they nice. I lost them in about 3 weeks. First one bud, then the other. Shame but I'm 5 years into my Bose over ears and I don't think I'll lose them.
If I'm reading correctly, this law does two things

One is a clear first amendment violation, the other bans cloud hosting offerings like AWS, GCP, and Azure.
I really like the GPL and I really care about software freedom.

I think the AGPL is nonfree. It attempts to redefine the provision of a service as the same as the provision of software. They are not the same thing at all.

I believe that software freedom includes the right to keep my own local modifications private, if I'm not distributing the software (but only using that software locally to provide a network service).
Yes! But also with desktop targets instead of just mobile targets.
At what point do businesses just stop investing at all in cyber security, and just build in some redundancies in their organization to make it not matter at all if, say, the website went down, or you could readily get another redundant simple email server operating? I like to think that some businesses have an organizational structure that is so simple or baked in with more difficult-to-hack checks and balances, like the use of paper, that make them impervious to a hacker.

On one end of the spectrum, we have my local taco truck which makes decent business having zero web presence at all, and of course various local convenient stores and other small shops who might be doing their books in excel, not much different really than how they did their books when they bought paper spreadsheets from the store. These small businesses are uniquely immune to a hacker. What would or could a hacker even do to something like a locksmith or a liquor store? Not much I don't think.

There must be some lessons from this low tech way of doing business that can be carried over to large businesses, who have probably been oversold technology for decades by vendors looking to make sales. Maybe larger organizations should operate more like federations of smaller businesses. Like a franchise system but even more decentralized, using as little technology as possible, and the oldest, most proven tooling available to solve the job when technology is needed, rather than the newfangled thing everyone is blogging/tweeting/selling to you (that could probably be done with some awk).
The iPad Pro is the only one with the ProMotion 120Hz display. The higher refresh rate is a big deal for pro users who want the pencil to be as low latency as possible.
> The 3D manipulation of 2D fabric is just too finicky

Then you went on some tangent about "the future of human freedom".
How do you take a loss? Do you organise a press conference and then tell the media that the company you have shares of is bad? Wait for the shares to tank, sell. When the new tax year comes, buy all the shares and then organise press conference again to say sorry and it was just a prank?
If you're operating your software team as if bugs in production cost 50x-200x more than bugs caught during development, you're probably not operating your software team with a firm anchoring in reality, considering how thin the actual evidence is to support this notion.

Again, this depends very much on what type of software you're working on. I've worked on systems where you probably need at least one extra zero, because the cost of pulling some equipment out of service once deployed could be devastating, and it wasn't the kind of equipment where you just have a couple of hot spares available in case something fails. I expect the people working on systems where really serious harm could result from a bug, the kind that can't be reversed because someone got hurt or something got physically destroyed, probably have much better war stories than me.

That said, I agree that development processes today are often very different to the ones we mostly followed a few decades ago, and I agree that dubious supporting data and quasi-statistical charts should be challenged. I haven't come across that particular chart before that I recall, and assuming it's a faithful reflection of the original source material, I'm slightly surprised that a well-known researcher like Capers Jones was behind it. It's definitely not the only argument for the basic idea that fixing bugs later can be much more expensive.
I think, though I might be way off base, your comment surfaces something that drives a lot of the, to me, over-the-top reaction to these outages. And that's the way (for AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudflare) they reveal how the big 3/4 actually have eaten the "old internet" and how obvious downtime makes it.

Like this isn't a space for hobbyists or people just doing things in a decentralized manner anymore. The joke from British TV Sitcom 'The IT Crowd' where (the bigwigs are sold the lie that) the internet is a blinking black box in the company offices is actually true. Like something goes wrong with some obscure autoscaling code and actually, the little black box did break the entire internet.

I'm the kind of person who hates AWS and wants to live in the woods eating squirrels, but I can't really begrudge them downtime.
Yes. Started a podcast that's available on Spotify, which is as straightforward as entering the RSS feed URL of your podcast. I'm surprised they don't offer free hosting for podcasts directly via their platform, given all the other investments they are making in the space.
Lying to the UN security council is protected speech!
Haha not to be political but why do people hate billionaires so much
Can the python packaging story get much worse? It's a huge blemish and way too much fragmentation and after market solutions, and of course the mental overhead of virtualenvs or else you clobber your environment.

One thing I keep hoping will get advanced in is PEP-582 to incorporate a local __pymodules__ folder since it would be nice if getting a python project up and running was as easy as node or php.
This feels right, the very best kind of right.
Youtube being a place to put videos for free is pretty hard to casually compete with when your pockets need to match google's. I've been surprised to see YouTube actually partially out-compete twitch for streaming and entrench itself as a place where a lot of old media places its broadcast (from PBS to the Colbert Report).

For the first time I think they've got a real competitor though - Nebula has managed to somehow eek out a year long survival and is now scooping up a lot of creators on the educational/informational side of things - and it looks like the platform is essentially a co-op structurally where everyone involved is getting a much larger share of the take home. I think the big question coming up for Nebula is what it will do about "The Algorithm" - will they try and create a suggested feed and invest into that sort of algorithmic video promotion or entrench harder into the "see what you subscribe" approach that will end up hurting small creator discoverability - oh also their platform needs some UX work but I don't think that will be a serious concern.

The interesting long term view for me is that I think subscription based services are going to win out over the freemium ones as those freemium ones continue to dig deeper and deeper into the dark magics of advertiser based revenue - freemium services aren't free, instead of demanding cash for your product they're devaluving their product to recoup their costs.
Vegans world wide beg to differ. Put a heavy meat tax and see how the market responds.
Even if that were true for a single system in isolation, it breaks apart quickly the number of services you’re ‘dependent’ increases. Then that relatively rare downtime of 1% starts to grow until every day, ‘something’ is broken.
Author here. I never benchmarked it, but probably not fast. This was just a fun programming exercise.
It's possible it's not powerful enough for a 4K tv if that's what you have. The Switch does 720p, or 1080p when docked. 4X the resolution is a big difference.
Xamarin Forms was not good tech.... :-)
Ask HN: Why is a Unix timestamp not a “valid date string” in the spec?
While implementing an HTML <time> element recently I found it strange that it did not accept a Unix timestamp as valid input for it's contents or it's datetime attribute.

Taking a look at the spec [1], the W3C states that the input must be a "valid date string with optional time". This, in turn, links through to the microsyntax spec [2], which gives a number of acceptable input patterns - none of which are a Unix timestamp.

I find this to be a curious design decision as the purpose for the time element itself, as stated by the W3C, is "...a way to encode modern dates and times in a machine-readable way..." - and what would be more machine-readable than a Unix timestamp?

Is it simply because a Unix timestamp is - on it's face - a number and not a string? Just wondering if anyone here had any additional insight.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-html5-author-20110809/the-time-element.html

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#valid-date-string-with-optional-time
Such things already exist. Here’s an example: https://www.caruso-dataplace.com/

So today a consent of the vehicle owner is required and the owner needs to document the they “posses” the rights to the vin. This is how it works for bmw: you request data through that portal, the portal requests the access through the manufacturer. The manufacturer sends a consent request to the registered owner via email. If consent is granted via connected drive portal, data market starts receiving data and so do you. To even be eligible for consent request, the vehicle needs to be car data enabled which is done at a dealership with pen and paper signature. At least that’s how it works in Germany right now.

Disclosure: I know the sales and tech team at Caruso Dataplace but I’m not connected to the company in any commercial way.
Why in the world are you still throwing that line out like it means anything?

1. The world was desperately trying to get normal folks to stop buying up all the masks to save them for healthcare professionals.

2. Society didn't figure out the homemade mask trend for a while, nor did we figure out whether or not homemade masks would even work against covid for a while given all the factors, including people touching their face with the mask or feeling more empowered to interact with people with masks on.

3. At the time, it wasn't known how widespread covid was for the general public. Healthcare providers were massively more at risk and were reusing N95s for months.

Could the orgs have done better with their messaging? Sure. But fuck off with this line. It's straight up disinformation to suggest that this is a reason not to trust the CDC or WHO or whatever.
8 gigs RAM is a bit of a joke for 2021. My 2014 iMac came with the same amount of memory. At least I could upgrade it though.
"Keycloak is pretty battle-tested and rock solid although it is a bit of a behemoth operationally."

Just looked. Java, Wildfly, Infinispan, Hibernate + A DB, network multicast if you want a cluster, your own separate load balancer, etc. So, a fairly large time investment if you aren't familiar with all of that.
"To promote competition in digital markets, and for other purposes."

I think the "other purposes" is part of the key here of why a certain Mr Hawley submitted this bill. If you want to bust up big tech, just bust up the big ones.
If you have CEC or ARC setup, then you can adjust the volume by tapping on the buttons on the Lock Screen or using the iPhone volume buttons when the remote open.

I'm not sure what remote your are using, but the one built into the iPhones pull down menu is instant for me.
Do they not? Did I not read in some book about Bill Gates that when stuff did not properly work or was not immediately clear under Windows for him he would blow a fuse? He was the richest or one of the richest people at that time already. I can imagine this happens to Zuckerberg etc too when they get stuck in their own horror show of ads and evil ux.
> The bank's actions won't make one iota of difference either way to climate change

How do you know these banks aren't betting that being seen as climate-friendly will make them more attractive to customers and investors? And thereby increase pressure on competitor banks that aren't similarly climate-friendly to follow suit? This would result in the type of coordinated action that actually can make a difference to climate change at a macro level. Mission accomplished.

At the end of the day banks are businesses doing what they feel is right for themselves. If you disagree with how they run their business, you should divest yourself from them and end your business relationship with them.
> 99% of people who get updated address via USPS are illegitimate.

Is there any evidence to back that up or is that one of those "Feel Facts"?

So it's not beneficial to you but many people change their email address with greater frequency than they do their mailing address so your solution wouldn't work either.
What's the definition of a "covered company" here? I only saw the definition for a "covered person" in the bill. Without that, it's impossible to understand even the first prohibition:

> A covered person may not sell, advertise, or otherwise promote goods and services of the covered person on an online platform owned or operated by the covered company.

Are they actually the same thing? Companies can be persons, just not natural persons.
Consider one of the only objects that actually matters in this context: vocal cords. Of course it's true that many inert objects don't have audible overtones or resonate at all, but nearly all animal vocalizations do. More complex auditory processing means better ability to distinguish between kin and predators. The fact that non-living objects tend to produce sounds via the same principles is just icing on the cake.
Carbon removal seems like slapping a band aid on a sucking chest wound until the Chinese and Indian problems are dealt with.
YouTube's brand and network effects are a huge moat, in a market that is massively expensive to build a competitor in. There are only a handful of companies in the world with the available tech talent and capital to create a serious competitor and they apparently aren't interested in trying to attack that moat at this time.

YouTube can absolutely be widely disliked and keep chugging along for the foreseeable future. All it needs to do is not be so bad that people would rather spend their time on something completely different. There is no BingTube with a robust ecosystem that users can easily jump to.
Could not agree more
> Just catch up on emails or something.

Hard to do when you can't authenticate to the email webapp.
In other news, academia is coming to accept that "consciousness" can have no objective definition. Users of outlying definitions that appear useful in their field thus have no need to invent a new word for their particular choice. In some cases the entire lack of any meaningful definition is the whole point of using the word.

Lack of a definition, or agreement on a definition, has never been seen to be an impediment to publication, and that is ultimately what matters.
What if you are never given a chance to prove yourself? How long do you wait?
Youtube's algo gaslighted me about the suicide of a childhood friend, by picking content that mocked his life after I learned the bad news.

I had already curated my feed to two specific science topics, and the top rec was a blaring million IQ evil AI punching me in the gut with an Iron Fist. I've never been the same since. Florence Nightingale effect.

People such as Wojcicki have poor moral compasses, or they aren't accountable.
You mean they will stiffle all those wonderful things accomplished the last 30 years in the Python Packaging ecosystem? /s
All the sharding and YAML dark-arts in the world won't save us when the SSL cert renewal fails because the card has expired and the renewal reminder went into someone's spam.
Courts enforce the rights independently. You can bring a claim under any of them. I'm not aware of any law that you must also claim distribution.

Reproduction is inherent in execution, development, etc. on computers. See "licensed, not sold" and the analysis of the ways 117 differs from the CONTU rec.
How is that different from any other computer?

Point is, the limitation is software. Even an extremely underpowered niche toy beats the iPad in a common, intuitive task for such a device.
What's the argument? There are plenty of monetization approaches beyond subscriptions.

FB rev/yr $90b
LinkedIn rev/yr $9b
I think it says much more about how they see the consumers. They're probably counting on 99% of people not noticing the absurdity of it, or the irony in boasting about your industrial scale censorship when accepting your free speech award.
A complex Linux setup - I run a 3-seat multiuser setup on a massive old gaming box that uses too much power constantly to be worth running otherwise - can certainly deliver bang-your-head-against-the-wall frustration. Such as when the binary Brother scanner driver installs without any missing dependencies, and only much googling finds that you need to install some 32 bit libraries that it doesn't mention not being able to open. Or when the multiseat setup that I use is casually broken by update to the gdm greeter, with no plans to fix it again (luckily lightdm works). Or if you try to use a Bluetooth headset...

However, I have not encountered the following, which has so far twice happened in Windows 10: Some hexadecimal error number that IT doesn't know about, Microsoft denies would ever happen, and the anecdotal discussions on the internet offer 10 different kinds of voodoo that will fix it for sure, except that none of them do (you can tell just from the number of different things they tell you to try). At least with Linux the rabbit hole goes all the way down; if all else fails you can dig in the source code.
At least at radio stations they have the decency to not publicly allow their staff to win on-air prizes.
Looks like this feature may have made it into v2.23.0, behind an env var: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/v2.23.0/CHANGELOG.md#i...

Nice!
Yes but the auto-download feature doesn't work.
No, there is no actual mention of anything practical in a design sense; it's a long-form implication that, "design teaches minimalism, and minimalism contributes to whitespace, therefore designers using minimalism like a cargo cult equals increased production costs." So literally, "at what cost?"

There's some other points about designers being white, male, and in one case racist and pedophilic; those really don't seem to go anywhere meaningful.
They are learning from the entertainment industry. Industry insiders giving each other awards like the Grammy and Oscar.
Consider "Service as a Software Substitute": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...

Do you consider it a problem? If not, why not? If so, what other than the AGPL do you propose to fix it?
The FSF is not generally a party to the license, so it makes no difference what they think.
Does this stand a chance?
I switched to AntennaPod and VLC. I realized I don't need algorithmic recommendations or streaming. I know what I want and my phone has plenty free space.
Well, that is obvious and not changeable.
Do you have a disdain for awards?
Exactly this. Rogan didn't always have something or somebody interesting on the podcast. But his show had teeth, and even though it didn't go out of its way to bare them, you knew they were there.

I didn't follow him to Spotify. Podcasting is a bastion of free-speech, and one of the few open ecosystems with real scale. I don't resent him taking the deal, but losing the show wasn't enough to tempt me into a gilded cage.
My hypo assumes a license violation. Then what? The violator and the user of the modified aren't necessarily the same, or even related.
.NET for Beginners (2020)
Where does it say in the discussion that it was accepted?

Someone suggested that it be done, and most seem to be against and no conclusion has been reached at the bottom, as far as I can tell.
> And I'd assume we'd agree that generally we should architect towards fewer points of failure?

Yes, and to me that generally means having less points in total. We can make stuff pretty resilient but it's very hard and requires huge resources, so it's usually easier and simpler to just not have as many points at all instead of trying to add "more resilient" points in the form of SaaS.

In this case, a lot of apps are useless if the auth is down, and the auth is useless if the app is down so moving auth to something more resilient (if we assume this was an isolated incident and auth0 is generally good) only adds a point of failure and does not gain anything in terms of uptime. Especially since in more traditional setups the auth is usually hosted on the same server, on the same database and within the same framework as the app itself.
There’s a new 'double mutant' Covid-19 variant in India
I pay for both, and I honestly can't get over how Apple Music feels more sluggish on my Apple computer than Spotify does. It's like night and day.
Also, VM's make multitenancy really easy.

It allows you to divide up physical computing power across multiple people/organizations etc.

Containers make this kind of distinction far more hazy.
Out of interest, obviously you can't give too much away, what would happen if the users didn't/couldn't do that? The only situation that comes to mind is delivery drivers needing to get next destinations/mark deliveries completed but I'm maybe missing others.

I'm just hoping the people building the ambulance dispatch networks aren't using Azure :laughing:.
> If you want to bust up big tech, just bust up the big ones.

It only applies to platforms with >1.5B in global revenue, so you have to be reasonably big to be affected by it. I agree with the distrust of Hawley's motivations, though.
More and more games are providing cross platform play. I suspect this is one reason Microsoft was interested so PC / Xbox players could play with each other and communication.

Maybe Discord could monetize in game integration for its voice network, especially on console games.
I want to hear more about this.