skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In some ways it's a laundry list of ways rich people in the Bay Area act like wankers, which is interesting, but also quite irritatingly stereotypical. There are plenty who don't refuse to talk to the cleaning staff, lecture others on their choice of tampon, or snob fat people at the gym.

I don't want people from outside the bubble (e.g. me, three years ago) to read this and think they'll be surrounded by wall-to-wall wankery and class prejudice if they take a job at a SF startup, because it's not wholly representative of all employees at all startups. Most of them are nice. Most people everywhere are nice.
‘Pay-Later’ vs. ‘Pay-as-You-Go’: Experimental Evidence [pdf]
A gem from one of the linked chatlogs (Ariadne is security chair for Alpine linux and a prolific FOSS contributer):

[23:07:35] <Ariadne> i mean, i have important work to do. dealing with an IRC network is not really something i want to be doing this decade outside of fucking around for fun with IRCX
[23:07:51] <Ariadne> i have code running on two planets
Are prisoners forced to work against their will for no compensation? I think not, and therefore "slavery" is hyperbole.

I used to work with mentally retarded people. They had a jobs program where they contracted with companies for small jobs that these folks could do. TI teamed up with the school, and together they set up a "workshop" where they would fold up power cords and tie with twists. The people were paid like a dollar per day... they worked a couple of hours per day. It was beneficial for all (TI indeed sold those cords with its products), and hardly slavery. It was hailed at time for all its good. That was not a prison, but it served a similar purpose. Not a single complaint of slavery or exploitation was ever raised... but this was in the 1980s.
Blog link instead of Twitter thread
https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/18/unhealthy-balance-sheet/#...

I agree with Cory that Apple’s public values don’t align at all with those of the CCP, yet they somehow continue to do business with them, as do almost all large US companies. Google took a stand and backed out of China many years ago, but privately planned to bend to the CCP will and return with project dragonfly. Some will say we have to give the Chinese state autonomy to make its own rules, but you do not need to help them strengthen their methods of control. It may be Apple’s feet are being held to the fire given their supplier relationships in China and the CCPs absolute power to wipe out their supply chain.

Apple (and other companies) should work towards taking the strong stance that Google did in 2010 and exit China when possible. Google had an easier road without a strong Chinese customer base at the time, but Apple should still work to realign its relationships and find/build alternate suppliers for its products. Will they lose some cash flow in China? Yes, but they’re also amongst the most valuable companies on earth. If they can’t afford to stand up to the CCP, who can?
And that job was worth, in today's money, roughly $1100 a week, which for a summer job before college is pretty damn good.
Calories In/Calories Out is 90% of it. You're better off being relatively slim on junk food than being fat on good quality good.
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you start a blog post with Engelbart, Nelson & Kay and you have my attention. At last someone who understands where the whole field of digital HID was started.
What is the Russian version?
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould
There’s SD cards for 99% of all hardware, and then there’s a ton of different standards for all these niches. Like CompactFlash, XQD is a dead format already. Apple isn’t going to add ports for that.
See, schemas do reduce "agility" when you write the code that writes to the DB. Without them, you indeed are "able to churn code very quickly". But then the moment comes when you also need write the code that would read from the DB what was written into it... oh.
Large integrators like Apple usually have a tie line to inside Intel (in this case, probably at the CEO/VP levels) that would feed information to Apple regarding product lines.

Yes, Tiger Lake H-series was just announced, but it's likely Intel proposed selling this chip to Apple 2.5 years ago, and Apple didn't like the roadmap, and said No Thanks.

That's how much time supply chain changes like the move to apple silicon chip will need - I wouldn't be surprised if Apple already knew of all of Intel's roadmaps 5 years into the future, and decided, nope. No thanks. Not giving any more money to Intel.

From this point of view, you can tell, it's detrimental to Apple to go back to Intel now, if they wanted to use the Tiger Lake H they would have used the threat of M1 as a bargaining chip to lower the pricing on upcoming chips. It's obvious they didn't do that.
Of course, time is a factor here. Even in the best case you can't be back up and running in less than an hour, and most likely the best case is already looking at days to get everything back to where it was.

Regardless, backups are the first priority. Then a tested restore procedure.
I guess the unfortunate reality is that many of the people who engage in the behaviors that make people feel isolated go on the defensive when the harmfulness of their behavior is highlighted.
Rural areas being chock full of farmers markets is mostly nostalgia, anyone I know who lives in the country is far more likely to shop exclusively at Walmart than anyone in the city, and likely to prefer more non-perishable food (i.e. processed) because daily or multiple times a week shopping trips are infeasible.

The farms in rural areas are generally focused on growing a single thing (either one type of livestock, or all corn, etc.), entirely for wholesale, farmers markets are a distraction for most of them, outside of smaller farms that are more of a lifestyle / hobby thing a lot of the time.

Farm stands sometimes exist, but they're an exception rather than the rule in most places, and unless you're in an area known for growing fruit or something like that (and primarily selling to tourists driving by) it'll be one-off things like sweet corn in season or eggs.
You should definitely give a try to https://duckly.com/ - it has real-time integrations to different IDEs but it also has a Web IDE in case the students don't have the IDE integration.

Besides that, it also has other cool things that may be very useful for your use-case like: terminal sharing, audio/video chat, simple unique urls that you can share, presence to see who's on a room, URLs to join a call/session without an account, Chrome Extension for sharing webpages, etc.

(Disclaimer I'm the founder of Duckly)
It's unsatisfying to read a long article about waves and have frequency, impedance, and resonance not mentioned once.

Casino metaphors do little when trying to understand the phenomenon.
My bad. You are right. To me "status" referred to the health status, but it is about attendance to the event : A vaccinated person might choose to not participate.

Previous paragraph : "From that link, they can confirm their attendance, but only if they have a valid health pass."
Are you talking about alignment or whiteness here? I'm just confused as I thought even government dental would allow for braces, and it would be weird to whiten a child's teeth.

I'm not from America and lucked into never needing braces or any dental work at all other than cleanings so I don't know much about this.
Wow, I didn't consider that. That's pretty sad to think that some one could end up in that situation. That's terrible.
That may be a factor, but getting married later is also just correlated with a higher level of education. It's very rare for someone that goes to college to get married before graduation. But in poorer areas it is not uncommon to see people marry shortly after high school.
Tanserver uses a custom protocol (not HTTP) and is encrypted based on SSL protocol.
CCP Researcher: China Won Unprecedented Biological Warfare in 2020 中共教授稱中國2020
> You can be poor and still act more “upper class” and you can be rich and still act “working class”.

You are stunningly naive if you think that a poor person acting more "upper class" isn't reminded that they're "out of their lane" more than someone rich acting "working class".
I wonder if they are racemic or homochiral
They do sell cards on their website and they also direct users to websites of other manufacturers (like eVGA). The problem is nVidia had no protection against orders being placed by bots at the first second the cards go on sale, so it was virtually impossible for a human to order the cards, so the middle men got all the cards.

Between the high demand with gamers, scalpers with bots, and crypto farms gobbling up _graphics_ cards, the prices went up by an insane amount, and some people did pay double to get their hands on it.
Self-Hosting Your Own Cloud: Monthly Optical Data Backups
> Nobody had walked me away from my desk to keep me from stealing pens or staples or secrets.

Are you saying poor people are always dishonest so by trusting you they treated you like a rich person, which is bad because ?? . Honestly I'm just confused.
I have moved my channels to libera.chat:

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2021-05-19-liberachat/

I set up a bot which herds people on Freenode, shoot me a PM (ddevault) if you want me to /join it to your channel as well.
I've covered developments in the Ruby space in https://rubyweekly.com/ for over ten years (and in a blog before that) and Ruby went through a huge lull around 2015-2018 that I was seriously worried about it! Since then, things have bloomed - it's not like the 2005-2010 era of heavy (mostly Rails-fuelled) growth, but a lot of interesting projects have come out, important libraries are being maintained and improved, and there's a much stronger sense of maturity and longevity around Ruby now. Long may it last.

I am now seeing a similar lull in the Node space, which I also cover, but it, too, will surely pass through it unscathed.
I submitted this link under the title "freenode IRC network purchased by VPN company PIA" back in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101538

it hit the top of the front page, and people complained about my use of the word "purchased" (including freenode staff now that seem to be extremely upset...): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102030

needless to say the title was edited...
cross-signing & key backup are enabled by default, and have been for a year or so? you have to explicitly opt out by repeatedly hitting the 'skip' button. however, the UX is certainly more complicated than it should be, and we're due to rework it in the coming months.
My dog smiles when he is happy by showing his teeth. It is cute to me but some people think that he is angry because they apparently can't read his excitement.

I just think it is really fun to see every time he smiles and he does it pretty much daily, often when it's time for a walk or a run.
I think KubeVirt fits better in an environment that is already running Kubernetes. We have found it useful for running some of our heavyweight CI jobs that have virtualization requirements because we can manage the VMs in the same way that we manage our containers.

In general though we have only used KubeVirt for ephemeral workloads.
Looks like another Magic Leap but in TV formfactor—technology great in concept, and even MVP but completely unrealistic in terms of consumer grade HW as to affordability and accessibility. It will be another tombstone on a huge grave of Google products. Just like Google Glass and many other. It's too hard to trust Google these days and its initiatives.
I can only imagine how unnerving it would be to hit a spike in latency or something and be shaken from your "suspension of disbelief" while your loved one glitches out and falls into uncanny valley territory.
But then you need to feed them while the ban lasts, increasing costs and whatnot
That depends if you believe Spotify users will switch to Apple just for that feature... if they won't, Spotify can likely still charge extra for it. Folks are pretty tied in to ecosystems at this point: if you've bought audio hardware that supports Spotify but not Apple, you're not going to switch.
File Descriptor Limits
You nailed it. That's why is not usable. Because it is art. We don't need engineers in Computer Science . We need artists.
When I was younger, I inherited a lot of old PC hardware from my father. One particular motherboard had a massive gouge through the heatsink for the southbridge, and I could never figure out why.

One day, I was trying to get Mac OSX to run on this particular system, and on page six of google search I finally found a guide to configuring the BIOS for this board that actually worked! It was one of the very first boards that supported UEFI (iirc, before the spec was fully ratified), and the documentation was very incomplete.

I dug a few pages deeper in the thread, and the same poster was describing the poor design of the heatsinks and how they interfered with the full length PCI cards that were used in pro audio at the time. The same poster described how they carefully prized the aluminum heatsink off, screwed it to a board and used a dremel tool to make a slot just wide enough for the card to safely fit.

That was strange... I had exactly the same groove cut in my heatsink...
What do you mean with "Threading should be default or easier to access"?

I personally hate that interesting conversations may happen in threads that I'm not following, I developed the habit of clicking "Follow message" on almost every message just in case a thread develops around that message.
Well the article is from 2014, this should be mentioned in the title. I noticed it because the author was not even talking about the dataloader pattern used often in the context of GraphQL when asking for new patterns.

In Node.JS the dataloader processes N lookups simultaneously in the next tick of the eventloop. So call(1) call(2)...call(n) would be executed as call([1,2,3,..n]) allowing you to efficiently implement it.
IIRC wasn't that software hack based on NVIDIA accidentally releasing a driver version that supported the 3060 but didn't enforce the LHR?
You came sooooo close to hitting the nail on the head. The first owners have a huge effect on a resale value of a vehicle.

Who buys Toyotas?

Why are those people's cars more valuable on the used market than corporate fleet's used cars?

Now see if your model explains the used value of a Dodge Journey, oilfield pickup and whatever car grandma owned.

Nissan spend the '00s selling to owners who's used cars are not held in high regard and this affected consumer perceptions of them. Toyota spent the 90s and '00s (and still is) selling to upscale people who treated their cars nicely and it affected consumer perception of them.
30 years ago the cleaning lady was staff and had a very small number of stock options and had time to chat with the people pulling all-nighters at work. I even dated her daughter a couple of times.

Today the cleaning person works for an agency, is a different person every night and has 4 hours to do 8 hours worth of work.
Indoor rock climbing for sure. A gym will cost you at least $50 a month (where I am, but I doubt it's that much different elsewhere), and the equipment costs aren't astronomical but do add up, especially compared to "cheap" sports (at least $200 for shoes / harness, and additional gear depending on what sort of climbing you want to do).
Perhaps this could be the rise of Matrix many of us have been waiting for? I hope many freenode channel operators and admins encourage people in that direction, rather than trying to start alternative IRC networks that will die out.
Mainly the fact that you can't ignore people.
That view is very optimistic. History has shown that power isn't willingly ceded by any government, it takes action from the bottom up. Maybe this will happen in China, but it seems the government has been pro-active in quashing uprisings, and has already laid the technological framework to maintain its police state.

China needs it's version of Chernobyl before people would be ready to risk their lives to change the government, the problem is that the new failure modes have global impact. And as we've seen with the spread of Covid, China has actually gained political capital from its mistakes, at least domestically, and also harmed the political situation of it's western competitors. Perhaps China will now wait long by the river while the rest of the world cannibalizes itself.
Indeed, usually when you have an unstructured data problem.. you just haven't thought about the problem hard enough.
Yes, you have a point. I think there’s no fundamental limitation today why everything can’t be indexed. There’s definitely some overhead to updating the indices on every insert of course, but that’s probably a relatively fixed ~O(1) cost in most cases.
What I find so fascinating about this article is how it conveys the anxiety of being poor in America. How you're always one "bad luck" event from falling down a socio-economic peg, and recovering from that is so hard. Other places around the world, you're poor, but so's everyone else and you're all in it together.
Sure there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest_box
China is building a replica of the Titanic
>> More than anything else I've ever done, coding is an exploration. And nobody seems to test for that, they seem to all test for whether you've already been down a certain cave, recently

> Exactly on point, which is why for interviews I like to discuss code snippets. Asking what's wrong here, is this the right collection type to use here, what would you do instead, how would you refactor this

LeetCode can be great for both of those--but not the way most interviewers use it.

Instead of using it as a source of problems to throw at someone and expecting them to produce in short order a working, correct implementation, use it collaboratively with the candidate.

Pick a problem, read it with them, and discuss possible approaches. Try to let them take the lead on this, nudging them as needed to keep them going in the general direction of a viable approach.

When that is done go to the discussion area for the problem. There people post all kinds of purported solutions. Go over a few of those with the candidate, critiquing them together. Plenty of the posts will contain errors, ranging from minor to severe, providing plenty of points for discussion.
This gives a lot of context to the previous Freenode article and the resignations mentioned there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153338

Hostile takeovers are almost never a good thing.
>Well, this is not a binary classification

You are missing that the context here is getting through an extremely selective competitive examination. Only the top 5% students by aptitude for math/science/engineering have any significant chance of getting through. The rest are just fodder for the coaching industry selling increasingly more and more extreme and ridiculous products. Soon they might start selling products for coaching the unborn baby by teaching maths to the mother too.

None of what I am saying is intended to apply to the practice of actually being a professional engineer or having a successful career.
I don't know I'm not thrilled to be this negative or correct about this but it's been pretty much exactly what I expected.
Now days it is often the automakers themselves doing the financing/leasing, so if a model has poor residuals it directly affects their profits.

Even with third-party financing, the anticipated residuals influence the attractiveness of the lease offer. A cheaper lease offer means more sales for the automaker, and thus more profits.
> And the accomplishment of a life goal.

Did you write a dev blog? I'm curious what your life goal was. The game looks cool. I'll try to play it via that web link you provided.
For somebody with zero context: what are the implications of this?
Keeping the drivers in the Linux kernel means they're covered by the GPL. It's the only reason some of the drivers are decent, otherwise GPU manufacturers would all do what Nvidia and Qualcomm do.
Exactly. It's foolish to follow this path. There's a ton of VC money out there, if you need millions or billions to see your idea through. If not just make your own money. Honestly feels less stressful and hypocritical than the academic Ponzi scheme.
You're completely right. The offhand tone many have adopted is how they might react to a purely technical piece, rather than someone's genuine pain exposed to their view. It would, after all, not be wildly out of place to react to a technically detailed root cause analysis document by questioning some of its assertions that struck readers as overreaching.

For my own part, when I find myself reacting to someone's tone I sometimes find it valuable to pause and consider why they would adopt it. It can help me separate the other person's tone from the real, valid, lived experience that is my internal emotional reaction.

Empathy cannot just be a thing I demand of others.
It could (probably not) be affected negatively by the wrong choice of a data structure, but what harm is it if the coder doesn't know, is then informed of it as part of peer review and that's that?
She lives in her social environment and is subjectively (and relatively) poor compared to the rest of the social environment The word poor is not strictly defined, so her "poorness" does not compare to "third-world-poorness".

She expresses exactly that. She starts each sentence that she realizes that she is poor compared with them. Relative. I do not have the feeling that she even feels miserable about it.
I found the description of "lies dormant until a call to 000 is placed" curious. Is the OS determining when AML is activated? Or is it always active (since it takes a bit of time to scan WiFi networks, get a GPS lock, et cetera), and only provides data when a call to "emergency service" is placed? How is that determined? Does the network tell the handset (which seems rife for abuse for surveillance).

In the US, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_9-1-1 is a similar system. Is AML similar? An extension? An expansion of already existing systems?
Pointing the entire community to a new server (ircs://irc.libera.chat/) is going to cause a huge disruption, maybe destroy the community altogether. I can't help but wonder if there's no better way. What a tragedy.
This is a strong argument for not using a generic JSON api for your core web application, but rather using server side rendering where you have full access to the data store using whatever the native query language is.

Getting web app UX right typically requires page specific query tuning and introducing those as JSON API end points leads to a gronky, churny API. GraphQL helps in this regard, but that has some pretty serious security implications[1].

I wrote an article on this topic back a while back on the intercooler.js blog:

https://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.h...

You can and should still create a generic JSON API for server-to-server automations, but it has a different set of design considerations when compared with your web app needs (rate limiting, generic but secure functionality, etc.)

[1] - https://twitter.com/AdamChainz/status/1392162996844212232
Most things could be threads, but they're not.
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A. I am wondering if all of the volunteers are resigning. That would be great.
B. I will move with libera. This shady hostile takeover wouldn't have to be just accepted by communities
I don't blame her for not negotiating a good deal; I blame the company for screwing her over.
I was more naive ;)