skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The company has cited "safety and well-being" as a reason for introducing the membership fee.'

I've noticed the "fake because" lately seems to be getting more and more brazen from corporations.

This is about the third or fourth "for your safety and convenience we're helping ourselves to more of your money" I've seen in the last couple months, and unfortunately all the other ones I've seen are for products or services I actually have.

But I for one am just grateful that we have so many companies and governments willing to take more of our money, spend less of theirs, extend wait times, reduce services, and just generally do less for more money for our safety and convenience. Imagine how unsafe we'd be if they weren't taking so much money and actually provided service. What a bloodbath it would be.
Welcoming AssemblyScript to the Suborbital Development Platform
it really is much harder to self host than it used to.

90s: ask your ISP for a public IP, register your domain, start Apache and off you go

Nowadays: getting a public IP is iffy. All good domain names are taken. Emails from your self-hosted mail server go straight to spam/junk. Fiddling with TLS certificates is close to mandatory. The moment you start your server, you're bombarded by a flood of gratuitous requests, trying out every known vulnerability under the sun. etc. etc.
The usual variant I've seen is leftpondian, though.
What many people thought was that the shift to object-oriented development, object oriented RPC systems (CORBA, "JavaBeans", some stuff in J2EE, OLE, etc) and CASE/modeling tools (UML, Rational Rose etc.) would turn the market into more of an automated component oriented system, with a marketplace of ready made components and more reliable systems with a faster time to market etc. Lots and lots of books sold about OO patterns, methodologies, etc.

IMHO that didn't happen, the integration morass remained, and I'd consider much of that model a failure in retrospect.

On the infrastructure front, I seem to remember a lot of talk about Frame Relay (EDIT: actually I was thinking of ATM, thanks for correction below). And fiber installs all over the place, lots of money in getting fiber into downtown areas, etc. Also I don't think people really predicted the possibility of the dominance of the "cloud" as it is now, really. I mean, hosting services were I'm sure a growth market but "serious" companies were seen as wanting to have their own DCs, and I don't recall major talk or trend away from that until the mid 2000s ("SaaS" etc. became the buzzword around then, too).

Also JavaScript as a serious presentation layer system wasn't much talked about until the 2000s.
2001 High School Graduate - People told me everything would be outsourced to India and it wasn't worth getting started in programming.
I have multiple branches, we use gitflow (well modified). This isn't about branching, it's about what happens in the edge cases and how difficult git is when things go wrong.

The comment I'm replying to said "branch more" as if that would solve some kind of problem with edge case complexity.
The alternatives back then were Java applets, VBScript, or Flash. Javascript was nowhere near the worst of the lot.
An Array-Oriented Language with Static Rank Polymorphism (2014) [pdf]
We have this problem where I work. Docs aren’t given the care and attention of other areas. I hope this changes.
DIY on Intel Ice Lake Xeon Just Got a Little Closer
Well, maybe OP’s head.
This is basically how I feel. I'm an introvert and I'm exhausted and need a break. Being an introvert does not necessarily mean I like sitting in my small apartment all day with a roommate for months on end.

I need a vacation.
I’m curious, are you female? I don’t think I’ve ever been asked that unless I was unbelievably angry. Like maybe once or twice in my entire adult life.
The extremely wide FoV in the video makes it look far bigger than it is.
Or it’s a biological dependency.

“While most of the early studies were on children residing in orphanages that were deficient in almost every dimension, even children who are reared in relatively good orphanages but who are subject to social and emotional neglect display many of these characteristics while living in the institution”

The effects of early social-emotional and relationship experience on the development of young orphanage children :: Atypical Behaviors

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702123/#:~:tex...
Lost me at lemonade stand "capital expenditure" being lemons... that's COGS, not capital.
At the same time, phones and social media can make you unhappy, can be for the worse
I have seen massive teams churn out tiny features and move at a snail's pace.
Pelaton - I foresee a class action suit in your future.
If this stands, next you'll have an automobile that is bricked after an "update".
I saw an analysis by the LA Times showing that LA traffic was nearly at pre-pandemic levels already. I suspect most people will be going to the office at least part of the week still.
I wondered this too. I'm sure you could narrow the universe to some degree. Most wallets use the BIP 39 word list as a seed to derive the private key. So 12 words (in order) out of 2048 possible words is probably less than the total number of possible bitcoin addresses. This is just one example.
From a US perspective: 1) ID is usually not required but rather checked when is not clear and 2) it’s usually a visual check not a scan of the ID (though I know some bars do do this) so nothing is electronically captured.
Margaret Mead on Aliens – “They're just watching what we do”
> but to do so they would need to follow the strict...data sharing rules the Chinese government requires all companies to adopt.

A.K.A government surveillance and anti-privacy rules. For instance, I believe various data leaks have proved that Chinese police (down to the local level) get a literal feed of all public and private social media messages sent over Chinese apps. There's also a video floating around of some poor schmuck locked in a tiger chair by some Chinese police, being forced to apologize for talking smack about them in a private chat.
I love the promise of formal methods. I've been coding professionally since 1992 and to this day, I don't have a better way to get started on a software development task than "give me the gist of what you want, I'll program something, and then we'll tweak it later". Don't get me wrong - I've spent cumulative years of my life sitting through week-long design sessions where the loudest, most opinionated people in the room argue back and forth about trivial, inconsequential details and produce 600+ page documents that no human could possibly read, but none of them have ever had any bearing on the finished product. So I like the idea of having a definite process to go through - however complex - that will result in indisputably superior software.

However, even if I were to spend - what, a month? - learning TLA+, I doubt I'm persuasive enough to actually force its adoption in any organization, and there's no real evidence that companies that are actually successful are using it either.
when freedom is outlawed only outlaws will be free or something.

ok actually the story writes itself here:

Adhu works yelling at robbers all day remotely in India. It is a good enough job, but he does dream of some day emigrating to the U.S, the company he works for has bought into a convenience store chain and he achieves his dream, going to the U.S and working in the convenience store there.

Every now and then a robbery happens, then the people on the cameras come on and yell at the robbers. Some of these people are his old co-workers, he has interesting conversations with them. Some of his friends have also come to the U.S to work but they haven't been heard from for a while.

One day a robber comes into the convenience store, it is Adhu's old friend from work Samil, Adhu tries to talk to him but the voices come on over cameras and yell at Samil. Samil runs out - now a new thing happens, the voices inform Adhu as part of the new company tough on crime initiative he needs to take a revolver hidden beneath the cash register and follow Samil out and shoot him. Adhu is horrified, he refuses. The next day when he shows up for work the voices come over the camera and fire him and yell at him to leave the store.

In America without a job Adhu naturally has a tough time, and is ready to give up hope when the company contacts him with a new offer - he can work as a robber robbing the company convenience stores (and other convenience stores of course) he will get a share of whatever money he steals plus a very nice hourly salary - it is definitely an improvement in his position. It seems the company was so successful with their anti-robbery services they were in danger of going out of business because there were no more robbers left.

Things are going good monetarily but Adhu doesn't like getting yelled when he is robbing the stores, it depresses him. He starts drinking, the voices call him a drunk, drunk Adhu when it is his old friends calling him. One day he robs the store manned by one of his old friends who has emigrated, as he is escaping the former friend follows him outside and shoots him.
Flu is endemic. Many people have never had it. The idea that 100% of people will get not only COVID but the exact strain that exists today does not seem well supported, especially as governments are already making noises about variants and booster shots.
FinTech 3.0
I've never been so envious of happily married people in my life. Being single throughout this ordeal has broken me mentally, particularly at an age (31) where I'm staring down the last couple years of being able to meet someone my age. And the prospects coming out of it are grim. For people with a happy home life, this may have been a good time. But for the isolated, work from home, single people with no long term social circle outside of work, it has been an utter nightmare.
As an Italian, this is reassuring :D
Is it possible to spoof the qr code? If so, how?
As far as I can tell, globalization allows the western management class to enrich themselves at the expense of the western working classes. Similarly, the poorer countries' management class gets rich while their working class remains poor. And of course, the environment suffers because the countries we deal with have no scruples about polluting (we in the west hardly have such scruples). And none of this is to speak about slave labor (suggesting we can't shut it down because it would harm the workers smacks a lot of "we can't end slavery for the sake of the slaves"--I don't think that's what you mean, but I think we have to address why globalized slavery is different than localized slavery).

If we really want globalization, we should hold our business partners accountable to the same standards that we hold ourselves to: humane working conditions, environmental practices, etc. If a country wants to do business with us, they can't win our business by artificially lowering their costs. For example, with respect to carbon emissions, this could look like a carbon tax with a border adjustment--Chinese products are taxed at the border in accordance with their pollution.
Most of your tax money goes to healthcare and social security. For 2020 the HHS alone is 2x the defense budget. https://www.thebalance.com/fy-2020-federal-budget-summary-of...

2019 budget so you can exclude Corona and still see it's mostly health programs and social security - https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324
100%. I just think it’s remarkable that so many people who are otherwise in favor of high environmental and labor standards are happy to buy products made using far lower standards.
Quote:

When asked if she “believes” in UFOs, she replied:

“I think this is a stupid question. Faith has nothing to do with matters of faith; it has nothing to do with research-based knowledge.

We should not associate UFOs with angels, archangels, devils and demons. But this is what we do when we ask if people believe in UFOs; as if their existence were a Creed.

Do people believe in the sun or the moon, the seasons, or the chairs they sit on?
But we could force the cells to produce alpha-gal via mRNA, right? And once the alpha-gal is in the bloodstream, the end result is the same as if it would have been injected by the tick, a immune reaction.
The Big Transaction: A conference dedicated to payments engineering
The name Fasm is a pun around the French word Phasme which translate to Phasmatodea in English and is coined with F(sharp) + asm (i.e assembly).

Following this thread, I opened an issue about this: https://github.com/d-edge/fasm/issues/5
Oh this one deeply paid off. Great find.
It depends on what your goal is.

Do you want the robbers to flee, taking nothing with them and causing minimum damage?

Or do you want the police to show up and incarcerate, possibly injure or kill them, and cause more property damage and possibly loss if the robbers get away before (if) the police arrive?
Right, but NYC was hit hard relatively early on, and at the time there was a great deal of fear and uncertainty, especially because of the perception that the administration at the time had indicated it’s general hostility toward people in “blue” cities. People didn’t have the time or perhaps the perspective to step back and read whatever pre prints may have been available.
But then it's the runtime what is solving the problem for you, not exactly the language.
Judging by their recruitment page, they have a large office in London.

I don't know about Bumble, but some of my friends in the UK have found the past year very tough. The UK has had strict restrictions on socialising, travel away from home, even being outdoors.

For months at a time, my siblings have been unable to visit my parents!

I can see the benefit of a company saying "let's all take this week off". It allows holidays of people in the same team to clash, when that might normally not be allowed.

(It's not been great in Denmark either, especially the dark winter with most social life closed. But we were still able to see friends and family and stay in holiday cottages, and no-one was shouted at by police for taking a walk too far from home.)
Do you mean Blackstone?
Very-low-carbohydrate diet enhances human T-cell immunity
You’re not alone :D
How can a lump of hardware require a subscription to work? I've been in a coma for 20 years.
The article uses the term "Just Run" several times but never bothers to explain what "Just Run" is. If it's the ability to use the treadmill without a subscription, well, that sucks but I can't imagine anyone spending $3k on one of these without even using the tablet.

No one should have to do it to use the device but Peletons are actually relatively simple to jail break.
Yeah, that's pretty fucked up. Peloton provided a comment but didn't indicate why the TreadLock code couldn't be provided without the subscription, obviously because there is no defensible technical reason they couldn't do so.
How Shortcuts for the Mac Will Fit In
it feels as if the covid pandemic will do more to sensitise people to the critical role of digital technology and data privacy in our lives than any amount of activism back in the days of "normality", let me check - 478 days ago.

these exercises in scrutiny, the demands on transparency, accountability, second order risk analysis etc. all this sets a precedent that will not be easy to ignore.

a silver lining if you wish [you can now resume the discussion]
Firecode: A collection traversal library for Firestore
Yes, Kubernetes/ECS/whatever solve similar resiliency problems, but that also means that Erlang's supervision trees could be used as a substitute for Kubernetes in many cases. Having your language runtime take care of what would otherwise involve a lot of external configuration is a plus for many people.
Looking for an NFT Pro to assist with minting tokens
I have a collection of very cool and rare photos in PNG form that I’d like to sell/auction. Problem is that I definitely am not comfortable enough with the process to go it on my own. Would really appreciate some help with this from someone with a good deal of experience. Thanks in advance!
> I don't understand. Why does it bother you if someone else is allowed to meet her friends again after being vaccinated and you are not? If they sit alone at home instead, how does it benefit you? The reason why they had to isolate themselves (being at risk of dying and infecting others) is gone. That means there is also no legal legitimation to restrict the people's basic human rights any longer than necessary.

Because the young people could meet their friends and go on holidays with minimal risk[0], but they were not allowed to, because they had to "save grandma". Now grandma is "saved" and vaccinated, and they're still not allowed to go, with the risk still being minimal.

[0] in slovenia, the have been 600k-1mio (depending on the expert) infections, and total number of 4(!) people died below the age of 35, 88 below 55 (including those 4) - for comparison, average number of deaths in traffic is ~100 per year.
How to differentiate between imposter syndrome v/s working with a bad manager?
I work at a multi national company as a software engineer.I also have narcissistic parents which kicked in more of lack of self confidence resulting in anxiety whenever a tough or new task (requires more learning) is given to me at work.

Earlier I used to mostly feel its my imposter syndrome as the reason which makes me feel so anxious after spending 9 yrs in this field , but recently I worked with an amazing manager for 2 yrs who understood my strengths and was more process oriented where i did not feel much anxiety kicking in for 2 years. I felt understood, supported and trusted with this manager where my imposter almost rarely surfaced. Now the manager is changed and he brings unrealistic expectations in discussions and that makes me anxious again. I wonder how do i Differentiate between my anxiety from imposter syndrome v/s anxiety due to bad management (unrealistic expectations) from my manager.

Older manager understood me and believed in me with complex problems too, while current one does not understand my working style and trying to force things on me which is making me anxious and also loosing confidence in me as i am not able to deliver the expected results. Old manager was more structured and i felt supported where ever new learning was needed which current manager has a pretty unorganized way of working and i feel forced into working on things which i openly denied my wish to work on.
How to differentiate between anxiety from imposter syndrome v/s working with a bad manager ?
Bash Function Names Can Be Almost Anything
You will get this with malnourished mail servers. If your queues arent flowing, mail will pile up. If the disk becomes full, you will now not only have to clear up the original issue but also scavenge some disk space so the transport can work. Though that might just be an exchange-ism.
While I'm not typically a very good "futurist", I was involved with things like Linux and the world wide web pretty early. I was in my 20's, mostly working on a mainframe based issue database (sort of jira-like) called PNMS, in the very early 90's.

We were migrating it to a Sun 690MP running SunOS. So, for the end users of PNMS, we got to try different ways of getting them acccess. DOS/Windows and packet drivers, Sun X-Terminals, Workstations, etc. The DOS and Windows experiences were buggy and generally lousy for the end users. The Sun xterms and workstations were great, but crazy expensive. So I was able to sell the otherwise stodgy management on Linux. Slackware, specifically, in the Linux kernel 0.99-1.x days.

Linux was still buggy at the time, but if you used the right hardware, and rebooted at night, the end users didn't notice much of the issues.

So, after getting it all working, it was interesting to me that a one-man show OS was working better and/or cheaper than what the industry leads could offer. I knew it would go somewhere.

Similar for the web. This was at a US military base, so they had access to the internet. I was given a Linux PC and modem to take home for on-call, so we had internet at the house. I remember showing my wife the very early Pizza Hut website where people in one city in California could order pizza on the site. She didn't get it, perhaps because she's very outgoing and the phone seemed natural. Being more of an introvert, though, I did get it, and assumed the web would be important. Though, I didn't predict how important.

I also made a lot of utilities for end users, and presumed that Tcl/Tk would take over the world. That was after struggling with X11, Athena, etc. That prediction didn't pan out. But Ousterhout later invented RAFT, which is sort of eclipsing Tcl now.
Keeping them updated as the code changes is difficult. I’m finding as docs are separate repos disconnected from the source. Not sure how to easily keep it all in sync
Saying something isn't new doesn't mean it's good.
> Corporations love the steady revenue of the subscription model.

Non corporations love it too.
Every company wants recurring revenue:

https://www.datagubbe.se/endofownership/
IsUserAGoat() Function in Android SDK
Utility company remotely raised thermostat temps to lower energy use
ProtonVPN now offers the most advanced free Linux VPN app
Working at home during the pandemic != remote working. Full stop. Remote working is not about never going to the office again and not seeing anyone on your team for incredibly long stretches of time. Remote workers are typically physically present with their coworkers several times per year - often for several days at a time. Smart companies will make those opportunities available for their fully-remote staff.
FWIW, I assume the GP is referring to this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/china-s-president-...
Check your timeline. The US wasn’t even in the war then. Though American help was instrumental later in the war, the UK actually saved itself from invasion (with help from fellow Commonwealth nations).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain
> The simple solution is that if you don't see them using the official app, simply leave.

It'd be easy to make something that looks like the official app but does store the information, especially if that app is open source (is it?).
It does until you mix that with all the employee perks and see that it could very well be strategic.

From the article:

> It also boasts a "Mommy Bar" - described as a "private lactation space" by Ms Wolfe Herd - as well as fortnightly manicures, hair trims and "blowouts" which the founder said showed "appreciation for our busy bees".

It seems like an appealing target for private equity or managers installed by a pension fund. Not sure what their ARPU and ARR look like, but when you have a company with solid revenue, perks like this are a huge signal for a bunch of "opportunities for efficiencies," I would wonder how long all that perceived value would be left on the table. It's not just a Bumble thing, I also think story-worthy perks are mostly a cheap way to attract new staff into the pipeline, and get attention from acquirers. Less than $5k in beanbag chairs used to have a 10x ($50k+) return in organic press, recruitment pipeline, and marketing buzz. Culture spend like that can have non-linear returns. That "Mommy Bar," alone probably has a 30x return on what they spent on it.

I'd absolutely close an office for two weeks in August if I ran a company that could afford to, or split it across teams. There's the question of whether you need an office you can afford to close, but from a capital management perspective, if one knew how to make a company appear both attractive yet helpless when it came to optimizing it, to attract someone who liked to solve problems who would intervene and buy in to "fix" this obvious inefficiency for you, well, that would be about par for the course wouldn't it.