skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More critically, it's people that claim positions of authority while not having any clue of how real work actually gets done, making protecting their own position their primary goal. These people excel at playing politics such that nobody is responsible for any given problem, so once you get a critical mass it becomes a stable situation where little can change.

If you created a new company with ten random people from this thread, it would not suffer this banning problem as everyone would be aware of this failure mode. But if you fed the same people one by one into Google, they would each either succumb to corporate politics or quit, and at the end nothing would change.

These kind of bullshit jobs are the best argument for basic income. Our society would be better off if they were paid to stay home and stay out of the way.
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> without evidence of cooperating with the FSB

That isn't true. This "without evidence" shit is rather silly when it comes to top-secret sources and methods. Blow decades of work and risk getting people killed to Prove that an ex-KGB officer helps an authoritative regime thats known to poison its enemies. People said the same shit about Huawei, then all the KPN shit.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-11/kaspersky...
It sure is, which I believe is why they decided to implement this policy. They realized even they can get dragged down into toxic behavior (name calling and accusing others of bad behavior publicly). Its better to eliminate the possibility altogether.
If someone else can clone your idea so easily then surely the idea is likely not to have much value anyway?

More importantly, my point was more an expression of disappointment that people are too keen to make quick and easy money through something which I consider to be generally deplorable. A large proportion of adverts are FUD exploitation and I don't think it's in the consumers' interests.

For me personally, if it came down to a choice between 1. monetisation through ads or 2. earn my living another way, I'd make an effort to pick the latter. I caveat this with the fact that I haven't had to face this choice in life yet.
Aside: therecord.media is CIA propaganda. https://gcn.com/articles/2010/07/29/inqtel-google-fund-web-a...
react-router like nested routes!
Municipal governments in the US tend to be incredibly corrupt, and consultants are generally the vectors of that. Not as bad as India or Pakistan, but definitely worse than every other “western” country. Most municipal governments in large cities are overwhelmingly left-leaning, which means the elections aren’t really competitive and politicians can be as corrupt as they want (do nothing jobs for relatives, pick and choose which developers are allocated which land, arbitrarily deny permits, etc) with no repercussions. The party exists to play kingmaker and drive turnout for the general elections.

The only thing that’s starting to change is that far-left parties are having some success at the local level. My city has multiple city council members who ran under a socialist party, which would have been completely unheard of 10 years ago.
Microsoft is moving on from Calibri as the default Office font
This app wants you to sign in and change the color scheme before using. This is not good UX, it should be more like https://www.firecalc.com/ where you just type some numbers and hit "go". Not everything needs a google/fb/clever login.
From what I've heard elsewhere on hn, only sites that use `document.interestCohort()` contribute to a FLoC identifier.
My best option currently is Wave Broadband, with 940/20 costing 100$/mo. I pay an extra 8$/mo for 940/25. The tech installing my line checked my signal and said that they could support 940/940, but they wont offer it in my area. I am pricing the cost of a fiber run that after install will be 1000/1000 for 60$/mo. I would gladly pay $3k to hook-up.
This is a good post thanks. One thing confuses me is that these two sentences seem to contradict each other:

>"Before the introduction of futexes, system calls were required for locking and unlocking shared resources (for example semop)."

>"A user-space program employs the futex() system call only when it is likely that the program has to block for a longer time until the condition becomes true"

The first indicates futexes are an improvement because they avoid the overhead of system call but the second states that futex() is a system call.

Is this similar to how a vDSO or vsyscall works where a page from kernel address space is mapped into all users processes? In other words is it similar to how gettimeofday works?[1]

[1] https://0xax.gitbooks.io/linux-insides/content/SysCall/linux...
And you likely miss a ton of group chats where there are no android (or Pinephone) users because you’ve been excluded because group chats don’t work fine.
First thing I searched for is GCC and I'm really glad he emphasizes how important it was to the origins of Linux. It's historically under appreciated how critical GCC was at that time, how it had far far reaching impacts that changed the path of computing globally.

GCC not only makes Linux possible, but it brought the other unixes closer together, which is instrumental to escaping the vendor lock of the various *nix vendors. That means by the time Linux is reliable enough for production, there is already a lot of cross-platform software to run on it.
Neurable, NextMind, Facebook and other tech firms are championing brain gadgets
> In retaliation, nearly all phone subsidies from carriers have stopped. Ie, there’s no such thing as “$0 phone on 3 year term” in Canada anymore.

It's not a 'subsidy'. It's just a payment plan. Why get your loan from your phone company? I don't get why people wanted this in the first place.
Same. It's a shame, as it would have been fun to waste an hour on the Civ2 demo. But on the other hand, now I didn't waste an hour.
Only this one left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGFcC5IZyvs
How to Prepare Amortization Schedule in Excel (with Pictures)

https://www.wikihow.com/Prepare-Amortization-Schedule-in-Exc...

There's plenty of sites that do it easier but the math is not hard and good to understand.
It is accurate and not hyperbole. But the point is to help that poster understand why someone would not question the claim.
The Battle for Your Ears
Telecom can vary in it's place. I would put a local company around the city level because they are often invested in their communities. Really, I would say that goes for companies or government - the bigger they get, the more removed they are from what is going on in the customer/voter lives.
85-year-old vacates hospital bed for 40-year-old patient, dies at home
What doesn't help is that thanks to 40 years privatization there is now very little in-house expertise left. Any kind of services are now provided by a local contractor and there is no one competent to supervise them. It'll be hard to get rid of the entrenched corruption and waste.

For example, I wouldn't want federal or even state run internet

The government telco was glorious. They would provide service anywhere for a two-digit hookup fee and the target time for service interruption was 48 hours, and they kept to that.
Correct. This is specifically for client-side routing. More information here.

https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/20428
Efficient OpenGL programming was always hard for me, as I don't just need to learn the API, but also try to figure out how it's implemented, which is often undocumented and unspecified.

It's actually hard to understand for me that an API that was created for efficient computing doesn't specify/guarantee the relative speed/latency of operations.
The volume has been huge, at some point it was the most traded perp on FTX.

I don't think wash trading is that prevalent (except for maybe in some minor books on Binance).
NPM had a similar thing: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6/using-npm/config#send-metrics

I remember discovering this a few years ago and was so annoyed that it was on my default and had to have this in my .npmrc:

metrics-registry = null
send-metrics = false

Looks like now it's off by default and they do not gather identifying information, I'm happy for this change.
You're missing the core value. It's not hacks, it's policy.

Apple leverages their power against app devs and for their customers.

- IAP, Apple ID, No Tracking, Notification Control, etc.

In a world where Apple doesn't have leverage via the store they can't enforce these things. App devs would ship outside of the store and include whatever crap they wanted. This is a worse experience and there is no 'choice' available for the users to pick a better one.

Apple is effectively acting as a legislator here, improving the quality of apps via their leverage in the interest of their users. It's a standard I'm willing to pay extra for and enforces good standards around privacy. The government law makers are largely owned by regulatory capture and lack of technical ability - why would we destroy the ability for one company that actually has incentives aligned with their users to enforce standards?

If Apple loses that leverage we lose that high quality option - you can't have it both ways because the leverage is what allows the incentive control.

People that don't care about it should use Android.
I do this already in excel.
I'm convinced he will live forever. My mental health depends on it.
Heat index feels familiar. It's a way to help compare weather from day to day, regardless of the humidity, because you have a notion of what X degrees "feels like".

It's also a way to make meteorology seem more engaging. The weather forecaster gets to tell you that yes, the hot feels hotter (the same way the wind chill lets them tell you that the cold feels colder). It's not as scientifically useful, but the actual data is available to scientists who care about it.

Ordinary people prefer to know how to dress, and the heat index/wind chill are actually OK at that.
Your "C Player" sounds like a dream client. Signs off on the contract and makes regular payments.

Or would you prefer to work w/ a client that lowballs you on fees, promises that that the requirements are final, and then balks at paying more in order to complete the inevitable expansion of requirements?
The Excess Deaths of 2020 'If It Saves Just One Life' Cost a Lot of Lives
Who will save the night sky?
Putting a wine cork back in a bottle.
What your city did sounds great, and I hope it will be similarly done in other places as well.

I think ideally the city should allow for other ISPs to lease these lines (of course at price that would cover the cost of maintaining them) and still providing option to be one of those ISPs. This would lower the barrier to enter for other ISPs and perhaps further lower the price.

I only hope that your city won't end up selling the infrastructure to someone in the future, because that will of course kill the whole effort.

I believe the key to solve our ISP problems is unbundling the local loop. The bill that congress wants to pass to fix Internet will be a failure, unless the money is meant for local governments to do the same your city did.
Really great v1 -- nice job. Ignore the haters.
How did you extract all this data?
Nah. Apple likes privacy and encryption (they claim) so it’s have a hard time justifying that.

Also the founder of signal is very well connected to the Silicon Valley who’s who.
lol - deplatforming only works if there are just a few platforms everyone uses that like-minded thought police you approve of control.

Time to move back to the decentralized web that no one organization or company controls. The mere though scares the $h!t out of "progressives" which is in itself telling.

If your ideas are so crap that the only way to promote them is to silence others, then perhaps the problem isn't with other people but your ideas?
No, he tried to explain why only the irc and p5p perl community is toxic and disfunctional. The others are fine. There are many good perl communities.
Bachelors of Fine Art degree holder here,

Everything is made up and the example cited above is very close to the story of “For The Love of God” by Damien Hirst [0]

The sculpture is more of a pointer, or some direct object upon which could be acted the work of art which was the financing valuation and theoretical sale of the work

In most experiences, it starts with how anything is priced. How long did it take to make it and how much money did it take to do so. Plus some. And then what will someone pay for it.

But that’s just “most” and that never makes headlines or anecdotes

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God
Show HN: Hacker News Clone built with GOV.UK Design System
I think Elon Musk would simply say ‘none of your business’. If he followed the rules he wouldn’t be tweeting about Tesla from his personal account.
As far as I can see, SVN and Hg are distributed. What Git brings to the table is the ability to work offline, but in a distributed multi-developer environment.

I spent two years full-time working with a team that used Git. The work wasn't distributed; we all worked in the same room, doing the same hours. I never really got Git; too much unwanted complication, and I had quite enough to learn without having to learn Git at the same time.

I did like the ability to edit commits at commit-time, line-by-line. That was nice, but it's the kind of feature that could be back-patched onto something like SVN. It doesn't depend on any intrinsic design-element of Git.

I never got rebasing. It scared the shit out of me.
I've come to a conclusion that, from the evolutionary standpoint, lying (and stealing) is one of the most important forms of the intelligent behavior. We see it in the animal world, so this unavoidably should be seen as such in the world of humans...
I can’t find where the 4% number comes from, but I expect that it comes from a micro benchmark that does little more than futex calls. Reason: if it is from a benchmark that represents real-world use, real-world use must spend at least 4% of its time in futex calls. If that were the case, somebody would have seen that, and work would have been spent on this.

So no, this won’t give you 4% in general.
Yes, even when there are only 2 choices. No customer has any right, legal or otherwise, for iPhone-the-universal-and-open-computing-device. Not only that, most customers are customers because it's a walled garden. What are you going to say to a company after it loses customers and revenue and its expenses rise because you took away what made it unique? "Sorry, that's how the system works?", I guess?
If you want to be protected from the US made malware you do not go to US antimalware vendor. If you want to be protected against Russian malware you do not get antimalware from Russia.

So pick your poison.
The Anatomy of a Thousand Typefaces (2017)
My extended family is a mix of people across the middle class. As a boy we were hit by a recession and my parents slipped into Pretend Middle Class status.

Much of my material lessons in both “being poor is expensive” and the value if Good Tools traces to watching my father struggle to have a working set of lawn care tools. I have a particularly vivid memory of watching him buy the second from the bottom string trimmer three times in seven years, while I tried to talk him into spending $25 more on a sturdier looking one. The damned things kept breaking. Every child eventually sees their parents as a human being with flaws, and for me that reached its apex in the lawn care aisle at Sears.

I’m big on doing without until you can do it right. A couple good knives or pans that you clean and pamper until you can afford a whole set. My own solution to the lawn problem was a hand powered edger (basically telescopic shears) and reducing edges wherever I can. String trimmers are bullshit anyway. Construct better beds instead.
The argument for Calibri was documents were being consumed more on the screen than on paper. Serif’d fonts were considered more legible on paper but not on low res screens of the day.

An argument could be made that with high res screens now common we should return to the more legible serif’d fonts. Unfortunately serifs are seen as old fashioned so I doubt that will happen.
Your comment makes no sense. If it were russian malware it would be outed by counterparts in a second. Still ZERO evidence, just FUD. I would also prefer to have FSB malware, just because their power is limited.
A local government won't have the software developers on staff to handle eg a new computerized transit ticketing system. I've also seen Accenture used to handle SAP rollouts, which can be immensely complex. I'm not saying they did a good job at either of these tasks, but that's what they were hired for.

Re the terms you want explained, just use your favourite search engine. There are legitimate and established definitions for these things. Eg, your bank likely uses Cobol from the 1960s in its backend and they would dearly love to replace it because all of the original source is long gone. This is a legacy system.
Thank you for the feedback! There is a workaround to use React Router with Next.js (https://gist.github.com/tannerlinsley/65ac1f0175d79d19762cf0...) and we're working on layouts support for Next.js, which will improve the routing story. And agreed on a better solution for global data fetching. This is being investigated as well.
Almost all government created malware uses 0days that they've kept back or held back from public disclosure, so there's nothing really you can do (aside from waiting for disclosure). That's the point of a CIA hack isn't it?

If there's something you can do, then they've failed at their job, and it's time for hiring the next batch of developers (yes these are developers with a paid day job - to make malware for the CIA).

In university, most computer science or computer engineering students had to make a choice whether to work for the country's security agencies and/or the military industries (via internships, being recruited, or just plain applying to government/pentagon/fbi/cia/nsa/csis jobs, etc), and that's their choice to make.

From the government's point of view, it's no different than recruiting soldiers for the Army/Navy/Marines. If they couldn't train you to their standards for basic fitness and basic shooting skills, they've failed and you'd probably wash out from infantry school.

The other thing you could do is to contribute to initiatives that do specific research into looking for vulnerabilities. It's no guarantee that you'll find the same vulnerabilities that the CIA is exploiting though, or you might find entirely other ones that they've been using for other exploits.
Yea .... not if you ask a gay person in Russia.
And just when I was imagining twiddling my thumbs in opposite directions...
I used to think so too - then I switched off Ubuntu and never had a KDE upgrade problem with Arch Linux for years
> Disfluency detection is the task of identifying self-repairs, repetitions, restarts and filler words in language.

I would like to know more about how and why this is used, and why it is so important that Google is building a model for it.

As a layman, it sounds to me like it would be useful for writing suggestions or evaluating writing quality. Is that correct?
Any concrete info on the 'magic packet'?
I always wonder. The CIA/NSA must essentially target the big Amazon, google and microsoft clouds to get blanket access to everything running and stored there. Seems like a no brainer from their standpoint.
Only four people are still alive that have walked on the moon and only 10 Apollo Moon mission people are still alive.

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/890/who-has-walked-on-the-...
Gather around, this is good.

How I sued Spectrum California for $1800...

So my internet had rolling outages for weeks and Spectrum wouldnt do anything. So they sent a technician to my house. Three consecutive days, scheduled appointment, no one showed, or called (other than the automated attendant. This is important later). I was furious. I was talking to my father who did a bit of law school and he shared that California has a $600 a day no show penalty for companies with 25 or more employees.

https://legalbeagle.com/7272842-service-noshow-penalty-calif...

So I file small claims for the full 1800. I show up and theyve sent a person who professionally goes to court to fight these things. It also became clear the they use the auto dialer follow up to negate the "no call" portion of the "No show/now call" law. They've got it down to a science.

So dejected by their treachery, I try a last second hail mary by asking the judge if I can speak to the court. I tell him "I am you, you, you (pointing at him and the people sitting in court), this company dosent care about providing the service they promised, theyd rather spend that money hiring henchmen to beat the consumer laws on a technicality. Their largest investment is in extraction, not service. Im just a guy who wanted his internet and to go back to work. If my experience hits home at all please, hold them accountable."

Lonnnnng silence and the little Spectrum rat is visibly smiling. The judge starts to speak "Mr Cereal, I personally empathize with companies not respecting my time. Its so frusteratinfg" The whole court audibly gasps, this judge is gonna stick them. Judge flustered "Wellll, I dont mean Specturm specifically. That said, I find fully in favor of Mr Cereal and order a full judgement."

Ive sold two companies for 9 figures in my life. I have never ever ever seen my jewish father as proud of me as when I called him and told him what happened. I got a check two weeks later.

tldr: ISPs are evil, but you can get them if they dont show. Also, your dad will be proud.
An alternative reality where everyone is a highly trained shooter and there are no law enforcement agencies (except those that enforce that everyone carries a gun) is a fun thought experiment.
As I read the parent comment, I couldn't help but hearing it in Steve Burke's sarcastic-rant voice.

Well done Steve, you've become iconic.
It turns out that https://xkcd.com/893/ was posted almost ten years ago. Although he didn't actually get to walk on the moon, he still went there.
SpaceX is still blowing up rockets like it's 1950s NASA, maybe we should just fully fund the competent folks at 2020s NASA instead.
Whats that got to do with my question?
I've got a Subaru Crosstrek PHEV with 17 miles of range - I love it, since my commute is ~14 miles. I chose this specific card for the proper 4WD and a few other reasons, but the Toyota PHEV offerings also stood out to me.
Not sure about unlimited. Crashes do happen. Predicting those is the holy grail.
If someone pays you $100K, then your value is, by definition, $100K, because the value is what someone is willing to pay. 100% of that value, by the way, is created by you developing from a $0K-salary baby into a $100K-salary adult. So that's 100K value created by the employee (and the people in their life to an immeasurable degree).

If your work is worth $120K to your employer, the difference, like you said, is $20K of value created by the employee.

All this to importantly note that the employment agreement didn't create $120K of value -- the employee did, for the employer.

If the employer takes 2 of you, each individually providing $120,000 of value to their customers, and, through managing you as a team, manages to extract $250,000 from a customer, then the employer has finally created value -- specifically, $10,000 worth.
Good article, especially the bit with the Georgia contract. That went a bit deeper in the details, which I appreciated. A standard description of tech consultancies would have been too broad and unlikely to include info people didn't already know .
HTML for sure. I first learned HTML in my school, back then HTML was about 5-6 tags.

Recently I tried to make a UI on HTML. Simple things like centering horizontally/vertically needed hacks (I dont recall exactly what I intended to do but they were commonplace things).

One would expect something as ubiquitous as HTML to have canonical solutions to these sorta things.