skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a simple misunderstanding to me. Employee thought they were doing something acceptable to formally disengage from the project and just wanted to monitor traffic. IBM interpreted it as an attempted end-run-around. Not surprised, virtualization stuff is still in demand, sounds like typical IBM-internal perl-clutching going on.

I used to work in Global Services for a few years starting in 1999 when I was fresh out of school (on-site "Customer Engineer" for hardware break/fix). I don't think all divisions have the same requirements, but we had to sign documents explaining IBM owned everything we created on our free time at hire-in. I was young but I had built enough software and hardware projects by then that I realized this was a bad deal. Linux was just starting to get enterprise recognition and open source in general was starting to really take off. My manager and others all laughed when I pushed back on signing this, "what does this kid thing he's going to invent on his own time?".

I filled out the paperwork noting the exceptions of things I had already built. However because my location was fairly distant from any central IBM office I rarely saw my manager (he worked about 80 miles away from my location). Once I realized this paperwork never got filed I just let it drop. When I left the company I noticed they had this same paper signing over all my IP rights to IBM at my exit interview. I was still young and dumb so I signed it rather than telling them to get bent. However I had been so busy those years that I hadn't done much of anything in my free time. But yea this sucks and it's a thing. Yet another reason why anonymity is still needed in the modern world.
If we go by that then so was good ol' Clinton and mr Biden.
That sounds nice. My most recent elevation involved coordinating with 5 other services to stop/restart/reprocess items with a couple deploys between the 5. Had to be off-hours too. Sort of normal for us.
> Your home network and a cloud datacenter aren’t comparable.

Of course they are. I didn't need to think about firewall automation before, and now I do. For what gain?

> anyone competent

Not an option for most people. Let's make networking and security things more foolproof, not less, okay?
Ssssshhhh, don't spill the beans. I need those towns to remain affordable for ~15-20 years, until I'm ready to cash-out my suburban home.
First things first, start with value
I haven't tried this one, but for what it's worth, if you're looking for a simple state manager, I LOOOOOOOOOVE Pullstate.js. I've been using it for a reasonably complex frontend and it's just excellent, an absolute breeze to work with. For reference, I'm the type of person who appreciates the power of redux but views it as conceptually overcomplicated to the detriment of the developer experience-- I felt it was overhyped and added limited value relative to the cost of its complexity. (Not that it's that complex, but more than a state manager needs to be.)

Pullstate is extremely simple but just works perfectly.
Chargebee valued at $1.4B in $125M fundraise
That's adorable. You know that no matter how much testing you do, that something WILL slip through the cracks? Always.
Missed chance to say "who checks the checksums"!
Most unemployment programs require you to make and report a minimum of "two contacts" per week. You probably got used as one of the two required contacts, though the person was likely not interested in the job.
> I still feel like this way of thinking can work only up to a certain point. Don't you need to get to a more precise problem definition at a lower, more technical level?

> Not really, no. When you're solving a problem, even as you get to a more technical level, you always keep in mind why you are solving it.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand this pretty much describes many applications built with a lisp. Everything is built to solve the original problem. Every construct made ad-hoc only handling the cases that are relevant, even making up effect partial languages suitable for the subject at hand.

On the other hand, we don't end up with globally shared libraries that have 'completely' solved a particular technical problem space. We actually lose the 'science' of computer science and everyone is an application developer.

Based on the popularity and effectiveness of libraries and ecosystems, I'd say our universe is winning. I do however enjoy quickly making partial implementations that perfectly satisfy an application's needs up and running quickly. Sometimes the complete solution would be unapproachable but the needed one clean and simple.

Perl is an exception--it has a vast ecosystem of partial implementations.
Actually, the military teaches its soldiers and officers that war is won by making the other side surrender, not by being nasty. The greatest victory is one where they surrender without a single battle being waged (pretty sure that’s in the Art of War).

To that point, the enemy will only surrender if they know you will accept their surrender and treat them decently rather than torturing and/or killing them. War-crimes make it harder to win wars by convincing the enemy they have nothing to lose,
Yes. Note that Al Gore lost his home state of Tennessee in his 2000 bid for the presidency. If Gore had won TN, Florida wouldn't have mattered as much.
See minikanren and The Reasoned Schemer for an embedded (into a host language) logical/relational language that does what you describe. I think there's a lot of value in learning Prolog on its own, but if I were to try and persuade an employer to use the logical/relational paradigm in a project again I'd probably use a minikanren implementation in a language they already utilize.

http://minikanren.org/
That's microservices. Microservices handle a bounded domain. At least in traditional advice for splitting microservices. The microservice provide an api for that domain.
This is amazingly well done. Although simple, it's actually enjoyable to listen to.
Site is down. Can someone who managed read the article explain why they deploy over 300 times a day, on average?
UBI isn't even remotely comparable to employment benefit.

You stop getting the benefit if you get a job, you wouldn't stop getting UBI, so there's no negative response to being employed.
Include-what-you-use: A tool to analyze includes in C and C++ source files
GNU IceCat is pretty much that, not a fork exactly but a sanitized version of the latest Firefox. The project looks dead though. Last stable release was in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat
In other words: the rent is too high. If it was lower you could actually pay wages at a level that people would show up for. A correction of real estate prices is long overdue, there is no need for landowners to skim off money that could be used more productively in others sectors of the economy.
I like that fees to for a would be NFT artist to post her first offering is about 200 USD:

https://thatkimparker.medium.com/fees-for-the-top-5-cryptoar...

:-)
Something that is still a difficult hurdle for me to overcome is how Prolog starts out feeling declarative but then very quickly you need to be aware of all the backtracking rules to correctly guide Prolog to the solution you want. I have tried to get through Clocksin's Programming in Prolog a couple times now and it still hits me how quickly you need to get into the invisible details nobody blogs about in order to be even base-level productive in it.
Unemployment benefits are too generous and need yo be reigned in.
That’s not a market rate. How would you handle the remaining team’s wages? What do you do with that elevated rate if/when the job market returns?
Fivebooks.com is similar in some aspects, their interviews with experts I find very enlightening. By now they do have lists on very wide variety of topics including eclectic ones.

Eg: they have lists on books about Indonesia, about biographies of Charlemagne, about understanding Modern Greece, etc.
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Is there something I could self host that would perform aa well as yandex?
You can largely replace "western powers" with "France" here. France is pretty well-known for being extremely cozy with the dictators of its former colonies, so long as they represent stability rather than insurgency and let France have some measure of influence in the country. France is pretty unabashedly neocolonial in its treatment of Francophone Africa.
What a perfect song to pick for this experiment. It's extremely listenable. Jai Paul is a genius and my biggest problem with him is that he doesn't produce enough songs. His story is an interesting one, if you are interested. His laptop with his music was stolen and the music was leaked, and he disappeared from the scene for years afterward.

https://consequence.net/2013/04/report-jai-pauls-album-leake...
Do corporations that grant their employees RSUs or options fit your view of being democratic institutions?
I recently moved my 400 GB music collection to nextcloud music. It is served from a Rpi on my bookshelf with an attached 1 TB SSD. So far, so good. It is streaming my music collection to computers on my LAN, but not outside my network.

I'm still getting used to listening to music in the browser, but I think it's worth it since I no longer have to manage plugging an external SSD into different computers.

Nextcloud music is slow, but it works well enough, and nextcloud has some other nice things going on. Not sure if I would be better served by Volumio.

Still looking for some PowerAmp alternative for iPhone though.
What Grab won’t tell you in its investor presentation
The UI appears to pay homage to mod trackers from back in the demoscene days. Who remembers Elwood?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2
It'd be an interesting experiment to see reddit or hacker news have audio components. It's a different type of engagement so longer format the moment.

I follow the clubhouse boss talk podcasts from a16z despite not being on clubhouse which I find very informative. So it's like a less formal podcast and an easier to use podcast platform?
I cant open a link from Teams or Outlook in Android if I don't download Edge. Even copying test returns a nagging/warning.
i agree... i noticed a similar thing when i've had my 1-1 with leadership. i felt so good after walking out of those meetings but nothing was really done. it was a number of years later, when i discovered a curriculum that is thought to "life coaches" (and i suspect among other people but it's through this venue that i discovered this), that basically teaches you how to listen. it goes beyond just socializing. these folks in leadership applied the same techniques that were taught to life coaches. nobody teaches this either.
> The US is such an odd country.

I guess this is why no one want to come to US to work as contractors.
I've given this a lot of thought. My main conclusion is that independent learning usually breaks down at intermediate levels.

Let's say a novice is someone who has no skill in a topic. A beginner is someone who knows a bit. Going from novice to beginner means increasing your skill level to the point that you can complete some tasks.

An intermediate is someone who can do more than an a beginner. To go from beginner to intermediate, you build on your foundation. Wait, what foundation? What skills do you already have? What did you learn when going from novice to beginner?

We don't know. This is the huge difference between novice -> beginner and beginner -> intermediate. The second transformation has dependencies.

There are solutions to this that aren't hard. When you run into an unmet dependency (the author assumes you know something you don't) backtrack and learn it. This works in theory and usually fails in the real world.

Most people hate unmet dependencies of knowledge. Hate hate hate it. They make them feel dumb and people hate feeling dumb. (You are most likely this way and don't realize it. If not, you have a strength and you should be using it).

I believe this is the problem that traditional learning solves (a bit) and independent learning does not. You can rant about how much colleges suck (I do sometimes) but they provide a few important things for real people learning: A track meant to avoid unmet dependencies, some amount of resources to backfill unmet dependencies, and social pressure to stick through it even when you hate it.
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I'm an Aussie in Europe now as well. Back when I lived in Sydney the average price of a home near where I lived was about 1.3 million, now I checked the prices last week and the estimated price is 2 million.

Somehow there was only a small dip in prices during the pandemic and now the property market is back on the boil again.

I honestly don't think any family without high dual incomes can actually afford a home now close to the city. The only places that are close to affordable for middle income families are far away from the centre.
Wtf how is this any different than other people in the thread calling the OP creepy and autistic?
Waterfox [1] is another one. Each of the forks has pros and cons. Most of the forks seem to have very few developers supporting them.

[1] - https://www.waterfox.net/
Biden is moving in the right direction though.
My understanding is that rents in San Francisco are down 20%+. LA is not as large a drop, but still down.

While the cost of home ownership may be up (most likely as you identify due to the wealth effect of equity grants), the actual cost to live in coastal California is sharply down.
This makes sense, but if he sees rent as an immutable law of progress, then he is simply advocating for the creation of a new rentier monopoly in the political class. This is exactly what he decries as the violent theft of land by English nobles and colonial forces. I’m sure that the nobles would have told you that they were saving the commoners from all those evil landlords, and the colonization of India was actually freeing them from oppressive local warlords.

The main thrust of economic discovery over the last 200 years is that self-sovereignty is the main driver of social prosperity, not authoritarianism, nor collectivism. There is a natural tax on land, which is the cost to defend it, or perhaps the cost of support to a community that will respect a right to ownership. Put that way, the situation is not that the government ‘allows’ landlords to collect rent, it is that the government reverses this by forcing the community to pay for the legal and physical defense of the land, which is given to them for free.

If you removed any central authority, you would get exactly the situation that George is looking for, which is that the landlords would have to pay the community the full value of the rent so that there would be no benefit from recognizing a new owner, and thus all members of the community would be willing to enforce ownership rights. Of course this could also be chaos, so formalization of these agreements turned into government, which made some people very powerful, who found that they could make lots of money renting land if they collected income tax to pay their cost of ownership.

So I’m wary that invocation of his ideas may lead to a violent revolution that will end up in exactly the same place place we came from, which is a powerful class of rentiers using the threat of violence to extract maximum value from productive people.

But still I like the Georgian idea, and I think it can probably be expressed through an insurance bond that secures the physical defense of the property through payments to the community, and a collateral to compensate for any loss of ownership. There should also be room for externality compensation, or possibly even further, conservation fees (Pigou). We have remarkable possibilities for fully-voluntary governance with smart contracts.
Night of Speed
Yes, it was. I took a 15% cut. It's still a financial win, given the lower cost of living, lower taxes, and cheaper real estate. I'm finally able to buy a house.
Sounds like you misunderstand the point of UBI.
How the fuck did they carve that out.

No one should ever be able to contract away a right.

That's bullshit. One step of signing away a right is a direct slope to slavery.
>Didn’t read the article, but why would you go work at a lower end job when you can make 80-90% of what you would make by just collecting unemployment benefits?

I think you wouldn't. A family member runs a small shop and unemployment plus additional COVID benefits ended up being very close to wages of some employees, who did the math and decided that 90% of the pay for 5% (not zero due to expectations for unemployment) of the work.
You should post this on devrant [0]

[0] https://devrant.com - "Share and bond over successes and frustrations with code, tech and life as a programmer"
I did some Prolog in college and always thought it was neat. I was able to internalize and reapply the idea of data and relation to make smaller rules engine type things in other apps. You see some similar patterns in some of the declarative build languages and here and there. I don't feel like I fully groc Prolog though.

For example, how do you write fast Prolog? Often its fast but if its not, I feel a bit helpless. Are there any good articles with a bigger's look at Prolog performce?
One thing I did not see mentioned was whether these businesses that were hiring offered full time hours.

$25 an hour is great for a lot of people, but if they only pay you for 10 hours a week that isn't great after all.
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Sounds like you should probably pay people a livable wage if you want them to work for you.
All current info is about BB os 10, which did not provide this policy; but I can attest to it as a former owner and app developer for their their java-based OS (through 7.1).
Whenever an application attempted to access a network, you would be given a prompt to approve/always approve/deny; and you had pretty fine-grained controls beyond that.

This link has some screenshots and gives an idea of the capabilities. Adblock recommended:

https://crackberry.com/blackberry-101-application-permission...
Except they actually have managers and if they've been there two years it's easy as pie to just hire them.

This is Google cheaping out on medical insurance and PTO.
Is the solution to this inflation?
I don't know. What he's describing sounds very close to what I've been working on, all AWS Serverless with lambdas and SQS and DynamoDB, with config (CloudFormation) via code in BitBucket. I can launch a new lambda in less than a minute with a couple of aws-sam-cli commands, and get responses from curl in less than 2ms.

I mean, nothing's perfect, but AWS Serverless seems to be the closest thing I've ever seen to truly abstracting away everything but the actual code.
> Is it brilliant or dystopian?

Please help me understand how this could be considered anything but dystopian? The night sky is a commons and a natural wonder that humans have communed with for millennia, and this pollutes it with an obnoxious and un-ignorable visual display that nobody asked for or wanted and that benefits virtually nobody besides its creators. What upside could there possibly be?
The article says it's a contributing factor, but not the complete explanation. Access to vaccines, fear of public safety, and the need to be home with kids who can't attend school are still huge factors. Also, there is a ton of hiring going on. Unrate is dropping and competition is high. A lot of motivated workers just can't apply fast enough or have the option of being choosy.
And it's fine to be a contractor—as long as that's genuinely and meaningfully what you are.

If you're contracting out your services to only one company, and they have primary say over when and how you work[1], then that's not a genuine "contractor" relationship; you're an employee that they're taking advantage of by paying less and not providing benefits to.

If you really do want to be a contractor, who sells their services to many companies, sets their own hours, and has primary control over their tasks and such, then by all means do so. But please don't try to make things worse for the vast majority who do not want these things by advocating for stripping away protections from people who are being abusively and illegally misclassified as contractors.

[1] I don't recall offhand all the various specific aspects of a job that define whether you're logically a contractor or an employee, but I do remember that it's basically "if your livelihood depends entirely on one company paying you, and/or they have near-total control over how you do your work, you're an employee, whatever the paperwork says".
https://archive.ph/iyTVR
there is a pretty good chance that 20-30 meters of cat5e utp in a house will test successfully for 2.5GBaseT today, not that even one percent of consumers will have such a switch.
Even if there are a bunch of bigger "clones" out there, Clubhouse still has the advantage because it has the community. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they get eaten up for the network effects.
> Anyway, it sounds like you have a distributed monolith. If you cannot maintain and deploy a microservice independently, it should not be a microservice.

We can maintain and deploy them independently, but it was annoying to try to track which version was deployed where and having to check it out independently, etc.

The overhead was incredibly high. So we plopped them all into a single monorepo as sub projects. We can still update each one individually but we know what is live on the website is what is in the head of that branch.

As someone whose last website was a monolith (Clara.io), we do feel we are getting the benefits of micro services with little of their downsides now. It is like night and day.

It may be we have a lot of micro services for the size of our team - 20+ micro services and a team size of around 12.
Kick the technical and keep the bureaucrats. What could go wrong?
WeWork will accept crypto as payment, hold digital currency on its balance sheet
i also don't agree with this. specs are referenced by other specs all the time.
You would hate my view from Hong Kong, where I finally got a sea view from a high rise floor, and I can see the entire city lighting up at night with huge ads and stuff.

It feels so Ghost in the Shell, I reached my goal :D
This will at the least reduce stability in the country, which to the average person is one of the most important things.

Déby was a ruthless dictator fighting against ruthless Libyan-backed Islamists (and to a lesser extent Boko Haram). Both are horrible. Déby murdered political opponents and oppressed his people. The rebels used child soldiers, executed PoWs, and just want to set up their own dictatorship but Muslim.

Currently, power has passed to his son, who is a general-major, so not much has changed, except he presumably has less power. This probably means more military influence in the country and less success against the rebels.

Best case, his son turns out to be a better dictator than his father or least have to concede to the people more.

Worst case, the discontent and political infighting leads to more instability and hardship for the country and the weakness leads to the rebels taking over.