skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> EDIT: oh, and because most developers are spineless creatures not being able to stand up for their principles, unlike the author. If everybody really cared about privacy as they say they do we wouldn't have so many issues. I mean, somebody is implementing all those features.

Why holding only developers responsible for non-ethical features? What about the actual decision makers and legislation.

By the same logic, if only factory workers decided it's immoral to build weapons, there would be no wars. But those spineless creatures just want bread on the table and don't care about world peace.

The only way to avoid these dark patterns is a set of laws that punish them. The reason why we don't have such laws is that we as a society don't know and don't care. It's we all, not only "spineless developers".
I think people will be happy if the instructions work with the latest Go version (as opposed to instructions that are outdated either because the project is not maintained anymore or it is still maintained but nobody bothered to update the docs).
This perspective on burnout was really helpful for me (and helped me understand the gravity of it):
https://youtu.be/hFkI69zJzLI
Not for nothing, but what you're saying is both classist and doesn't take into account the reality of friendships and roots that can take hold in a place after you've settled in.

Things may be expensive, and you may feel trapped on the hedonic treadmill, but moving to a new city or a lower COL area may not be a realistic option for many people.
I agree with this. It's reasonable to expect more from well-paid professionals.
You might be serious, so... This is self-defeating. It only works if you have huge numbers of customers, and you'd lose all of them the moment you made the change.

Also, this is the business model of so-called "stressor" services. DDOS as a service.
> It was a rebranding of the 2008 pyinstall as the same Wikipedia article states in the first section.

Fair point. I’m on my phone so missed that section when scrolling through for the summary box.

> Like other things in Go, the antiquated feel is actually the pursuit of retro more than the product of age.

I’m really not sure the point you’re trying to make here but it feels like a baseless cheap shot rather than a constructive comment
Rules that are fair on first principles are exactly what I want. The mortgage interest tax deduction is nothing of the sort; it's a grotesque carve-out that distorts the tax system for the sole purpose of transferring common wealth to the people who least need it. It's just obscene.
Their recommended method of installing cuda includes a 64-bit version, but not a 32-bit version. Nvidia's cuda packages are marked as incompatible with debian's nvidia-driver-* packages, so installing it uninstalls the 32-bit version. As a result, I need to choose between steam (which uses the 32-bit graphics library) and an updated cuda version (since Ubuntu 20.04's repo is pinned at 10.2).
Its been 6 years but I've doing it intermittently, trying out different languages. Its now that I'm working quite hard at it. Even though I've been studying it for 6 years now, I could not make much sense of it. It takes a while. But I've experienced the more I grind at it, the more it becomes clear. So there's hope, I guess.
Yeah, but since you need to live somewhere people would probably be willing to drop all kinds of other things first.
It’s definitely worthwhile to seek help from a qualified mental health professional. Many times it helps.
Sounds like free training for AWS CodeGuru. And the rewards aren't that great.

What's the incentive for people to actually do this?
This is a pitiful sum. We're talking over 15 years for the strongest alliance in the world. Just $1B? What is this a school for ants?

We're talking 1/12th of an aircraft carrier. For all of Nato?

How much was put into the Manhattan project by just three (!!!) countries, one of them Canada. What, like 30x this in inflation adjusted dollars? That doesn't even count the rest of the spending on nuclear weapons over the years.
It generally means restoring the appearance. Cleaning is involved, but there is also a lot of work removing sun damage and oxidation for instance from paint and headlights. Probably not the best explanation, I’m not an expert, but that’s the gist.
Can speak for myself, I don't live paycheck to paycheck now but I grew up in a household with a lot less money than I make now in comparison - Involved lot of sacrifices and accumulating modest savings over a lifetime to help the next generation to live a bit better and make fewer such sacrifices.

> Most people pay $100+/month for cable, eat out multiple times per week, have thousands of credit card debt, and an unexpected $400 bill would ravage them.

There's also a cohort that might not earn a lot but is financially responsible, frugal and makes modest gains towards big goals e.g. education for kids, home ownership which can take almost a life time.
There's a big spectrum from being poor due to being financially irresponsible and being lucky enough to be in their 20s, debt free and paying off a mortgage instead of rent (with help for college, down payment etc from family to have a healthy head start). Not everyone who doesn't have the means is in such a place because they are lazy or is financially irresponsible. Simply stating that most people are a certain way without evidence is just disingenuous and judgemental, perhaps exposes a bias more than anything.
> Now it makes sense because power companies (which are privatized in Texas) will prioritize their reliable, paying customers over less reliable customers that might miss payments.

Not that I necessarily disagree with this but do you have any data to back this claim up?
I'm surprised since data storage, transfer, and compute are the things that you can absolutely beat every cloud provider on in terms of price. It was why we keep our storage in our own DC.
SF will require all city workers be vaccinated. Those who don't could be fired
But what about making it easier to auto-fill member's information into a contract? (sarcasm)
With covid remote, I finally started exercising more regularly and attending meetings for local hiking groups and a maker group that I had been putting off for ages. And I think my productivity at work increased because of it.

Changed jobs to negotiate a permanent remote situation and am not going back.

I think it’s fine for some people to want to be on office, but think that a lot of work in the tech area should have the option of remote - and frankly would be better remote first with in-office allowances instead of vice versa.
Perhaps this is the kind of autonomy he needs.
ACM MobiSys 2021: IoT Day
yeah, this use case is really interesting
This is correct :D
I verified this by calling again and pressing 1.
Also linguist here. You're right that there's no right way to understand your language, but it's also the case that you need to take a speaker's self-report with a grain of salt.

That speaker has probably seen singular they countless times without raising an eyebrow, and probably used it themselves. They may report being uncomfortable with it when their attention is called to it, but that doesn't always reflect their actual usage.

You get a better understanding by analyzing a corpus than by asking people. And the corpus makes clear that a lot of people have been comfortable with singular they, for a long time. I've even seen examples of people decrying singular they in sentences using singular they.

The self-reports are also data that's informative to the linguist. But they need context to gain perspective, because they're not always identical to what the speaker generates or accepts.
It's like the meter man visiting your house, but now they no longer have to enter. Isn't it wonderful? If I lived in the US, I'd immediately try to hack up a small Arduino project to read out my neighbours' energy usage.
I suppose most of this infra was designed before cell towers were prominent enough.
I disagree on the idea of leaving tooling up to the community. Having one set of tooling that everyone uses is a huge advantage. It really helps projects interoperate with other projects.
I'm in favor of firming up the roles of `go get` and `go install`--it was damn weird that running `go get github.com/foo/bar` did one thing inside a Go project and another outside it. Growing pains of the introduction of Go modules and the deprecation of GOPATH and what-not.

My bigger complaint, though, is that the Go team have decided to ignore replace directives when you call `go install`. In a perfect world, I find a bug in an upstream library, submit a fix, and they accept it. In practice, lots of upstream maintainers check their issue/PR lists about once a month if you're lucky, so the best way to temporarily fix the problem is to put in a replace directive changing github.com/foo/bar -> github.com/me/bar until the PR goes in. Except `go install` will ignore that, so if you install a tool via `go install` you get the broken library, but if you git clone the repo and run `go build`, you get the fix.

In proper Go team fashion, they have declared that because sometimes replace directives are difficult, they refuse to deal with them at all--if you intend to distribute something for use with go install, you better fork the dependency and update all your source files.
We used to have meter readers running (literally) from house to house jotting down the numbers.
> positioned on a fault line that many consider "overdue for the big one."

Not really related to your main point, but I believe this is a common misconception about earthquakes. S.F. may be likely to have an 8.0 earthquake once every 300 years (I made these numbers up), but just because it's been 400 years since the last one doesn't mean a big one is more likely now. It's more like any given year has a 1/300 chance no matter how long it's been since the last one.
I mean... in a way... it is "serving its people"...

in a "To Serve Man" sort of way ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

installing ublock Origin should help block most of those nasty analytics hoovers
I am sorry if you cannot understand what I am talking about, that you are clearly misunderstanding what I am saying.

I will write in this deeply arrogant fashion and refuse to link to anything I'm talking about, and when questioned I will infer that the people I'm replying to are utterly moronic (without saying quite such, I will instead say things like 'I'm sorry you don't understand / let me make this clear / you shouldn't be posting things you don't understand').

I will continue to write as if my stance is absolutely correct even though I am not an expert in this field, I will write as if I am.

And then when people call me out for my arrogance I will insist I've done nothing wrong and will be confused.

Baffling.
Almost surely much cheaper short term than having a team of engineers and installers to fix the problem.
Statistical significance is whether or not the data support rejecting the null hypothesis. Effect size is the difference between the two samples. You can have statistically significant results with a very small effect size.
Nice find! Fun read.
One of the new items was that there was a report there was a bat colony at the institute[0]. (Although, if Sky News Australia is similar to its UK counterpart, it is not a highly reputable news source).

Still it wouldn't surprise me. To culture viruses in the lab you need the right cell culture. If you don't have a suitable one, you can always use the host.

[0] https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6258639874001
> How, as a matter of policy, do you expect them to make that distinction?

They make their own call on what misinformation is (or who to trust to identify it), which is how they actually do it.

> The obvious way to do it is to ask the local government what is misinformation. Google isn't an expert on the truth of everything, for all that their search index being impressive.

That's not the obvious way, that's a stupid way for reasons that should be obvious for anyone with any knowledge of history or current events. Keep in mind this is political information, not technical information.
It’s not terribly signal worthy imho. It’s obvious what are critical loads: finance, healthcare, telecom (local CO or your local datacenter, comms), government services such as first responders and dispatch, water/sewer. This is yet another excuse and data obfuscation to hide incompetence and less than good faith decisions.

ERCOT and utilities didn’t even to know which circuits not to shed to keep gas pipeline infra (compressor stations) running during the spring winter event.

Local permit data around electrical infra and ground truth from open data sources will take you far if you want to identify these loads. Folks answer a lot of questions they shouldn’t if you roll up with a hard hat, clipboard, and hi viz vest from your non descript pickup truck if you’re more bold.
From an employer's perspective, this is fine because you don't want to lose more paid work hours without any return.

From the employee's perspective, it's a different story of course. The point of vacation is that you can recuperate from work stress and get some energy back, so that you stay healthy and can deliver good work. I doubt very much that this goal can be reached when the reason for your time off work is that you're under investigation. For instance, I don't expect most cops to fly to Vegas to party during such a time.
Reminder that donations to Mozilla are not donations to Firefox development. The Mozilla Corp (makes Firefox) and Mozilla Foundation (gets donations) are mostly separate.
How long do you think Taiwan remains an independent country if USA Navy leaves the South China Sea?
In Pandemic's Wake, the Story of a Devastating Year for Many Chicago Students
I'm struggling to find a compelling reason why someone would participate in this?

Looking at https://aws.amazon.com/bugbust/ the prizes are yet more corporate trash that don't need to exist ("AWS BugBust Varsity Jacket" okay ), and they have a pricing page so it's not even free.

All this tells me is that Amazon doesn't value your time
There's a pretty strong argument that it doesn't, at least in many cases. Cory Doctorow's How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism is one long-form answer to that question.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit...

I'm not convinced he's entirely correct. Marginal improvement over other methods may be useful, and there are some cases, notably political advertising aimed at dissuading target groups of voters from participation, which may be at least sufficiently effective to be useful.
> and customers pay only for their use of Amazon CodeGuru

Doesn't even sound free.
there's no easy answers. but local regional self determination is not undemocratic is it? even if things have to exist somewhere, the people who are connected to those wheres should have some say over their future. besides its not like This country is highly democratic to begin with..
See, this will just cause additional communication overhead for the maintainers, too. And for what benefit, just to accommodate the behavior we see here?
I had a similar experience searching for MS Office\Google Docs
self-hosted alternative. While evaluation ONLYOFFICE, I found that they don't have RTL support (for over 4 years: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/issues/19)
I don't know that I disagree per se, but GOPATH and modules mean that the tooling has to handle two different cases which are often surprisingly ambiguous and it creates real headaches for the user. There's a lot to be said for having a single path forward even if it means existing users will have to experience some mild pain (i.e., learning a new workflow, rewriting some build scripts, etc) one time. Ideally language developers would have perfect foresight from the outset such that no changes are ever needed to the language, but sadly such language developers are hard to come by.
The WD My Book Live series NAS has two models, a single-disk one called just My Book Live where the disk is not user-replaceable, and a dual-disk one called My Book Live Duo where the two disks can be replaced tool-free. AnandTech had a pretty thorough review of the single-disk one https://www.anandtech.com/show/4952/wd-my-book-live-network-....

I had the MBL Duo. It ran on an 800MHz Applied Micro APM821XX PowerPC processor with 256MB RAM. The stock firmware was a customized version of Debian. I couldn't remember exactly which version of Debian but it's definitely older than Debian 9. Maybe 6 or 7? Anyway, you can enable SSH access via web UI and directly login to the device and see everything running there.

IIRC WD used OpenVPN to establish a connection to their servers to allow remote access to these devices behind NAT and firewalls. I had always been wondering what if their servers were hacked and then hackers could theoretically access the NAS via that VPN connection and by extension my LAN behind firewalls so I disabled the remote access feature.

A couple of years back I finally got tired of the ancient Debian, and since WD had already deprecated the device without further updates/patches, I was looking for alternatives. There were people on WD forums trying to compile and install newer versions of Debian. But since the device does not have video out or console port, it was very easy to mess up and got bricked.

Eventually I found OpenWRT (yes, the linux-based router OS) had official support for both MBL models (https://openwrt.org/toh/western_digital/mybooklive) and the installation seems pretty safe (especially for the Duo with replaceable disks). So I went with OpenWRT and never looked back.

My MBL Duo now sits at my parents-in-law's place running OpenWRT. I had setup WireGuard to connect it to my LAN in another city and used it as a remote backup destination in case of either place catching fire or whatever other disasters.

And now I feel pretty lucky for my decision to ditch the original firmware. Good riddance!
Why? Seems to me I get absolutely nothing from this other than a wink from Mozilla that my data can't identify me.
Do you really want Facebook or their contractors to be the arbiters of truth? Putting aside whatever mixed incentives they might have, they're hardly qualified to be authoritative about an uncertain medical situation. And as the top level commenter we're all replying to pointed out, they censored a lot of stuff that turned out to be true. So it's not just a hypothetical concern.
I would strongly recommend looking for part time ~30 hours or less a week. Most recruiters will ghost you as soon as you mention it, but a few will be willing to entertain it. Especially if you frame it as a “contractor”. I’m lucky enough to live in Australia so I don’t have to worry about health insurance if I’m a contractor, but I feel like the industry is slowly warming up to the idea that 40 hours a week is not optimal for programmers. I’m on my second job now at 30hr/wk and I’ll never go back to full time if I can help it.
I highly recommend “picture this”. It’s AI tree identification is so good! It doesn’t let you link to open trees though, afaik. Maybe they would be willing to add that.
On whitepapes, I surmised that WhatsApp is supposedly meta-connection secured (unless reconstruction is being done by WhatsApp backend).

All the while with Signal app, I’m fairly certain that message content is most secured (than Whatsapp) but is operationally resistant to providing meta-connection info.

Interestingly enough, I find that Matrix (Element iOS app) to be strongest in both aspect of connection metadata and secured message content.
I bought an Android phone (Palm Phone) for under $100 that rarely bothers me at all, definitely the least annoying Android device I've ever had. Still not really an Android fan, but it has the least shovelware of any Android device I've had.

Meanwhile, I have a Surface Book 2, an expensive laptop from Microsoft running Windows 10 Pro. I actively removed all the ads in when I got it, yet still it periodically fucks with my OS and creates new ads, such as a new not-so-helpful keyboard shortcut with Win10 1903 that advertised Office at me that had to be disabled with a Registry Edit.

So even though MS does some cool shit, I do not trust them. I paid the money, I got the pro version, and they still come up with bizarre new ways to advertise at me.
Hell YES! It should be praised. And yes, you are missing a lot. Let me tell what you've missed and why you should praise this too.

Let's talk about property rights first. Property rights are a joke, and a bad one. When people take a property from a big company, other people start yelling about property rights, but when big companies take a property from someone else, these same people says nothing.

Did you know this happens, companies taking people's properties and it's is all legal? Here where I live, a group of families are suing the city because the city wants to take their homes to sell to a big company. The company wants to build a mall, but the owners refused to sell, so the company "asked" for city's help.

These families are poor and they are expending money they don't have to defend their homes because a company wants to build a mall no matters what. Nobody questions these kind of thing. People will just say this is how things work because companies just want more profit and there is nothing to do about it.

Again, nobody makes any question when companies take something from people, but when people take a company's property to feed starved people we start talking about property rights? Really?

Why not talk about people's right to food, shelter, health care, education? Why not talk about companies taking natural resources to make themselves even more rich at expense of people's lives?

Why are we accepting this bullshit "companies can do everything they want but people can do nothing" norm?

Why do people fighting for a better life is wrong while companies destroying the world for profit is right?
>This is a waste of time that could have been avoided from the start if governments worldwide had done their job and cracked down on conspiracy bullshit and Russian propaganda warfare before thousands of people stormed the Congress and half a million people in the US died from Covid.

Just imagine how many people would still be alive today if that large orange man had come out on Day 1 wearing a mask and asking people to be responsible. But once that ideological line was drawn, there became a certain percentage of the US population that would follow it (literally) to death. It's inconceivable how much of this was avoidable in retrospect.
The privacy community does not really like fastmail. I stick with FM because I personally value the service and find it reliable, but they aren't zero-knowledge and australia has recently had some unfortunate legislation in regards to digital privacy.
Wow, page talking about privacy that get 44% of the page blocked by AdBlock Origin. There are so many trackers that I had to scroll the list to see everything that is blocked.

I'm not even sure I want to check the actual content anymore.
> The knee-jerk reaction is running to the government to try to make whatever you don't like illegal.

The things I advocate the government to ban are things I believe are bad for society.

I don't like ice-cream, but I don't advocate for an ice-cream ban because I don't believe ice-cream is tearing apart our society at the seams.

Dark patterns are bad for society, and prey on people's miscalculations and inefficiencies of our chemical-brains. In the same way that child labour came up because it was profitable short term, but it was decided against that it was still a bad thing for society.

The government's job is to steer society to a better place, god knows we'll take it down a bad path left unsupervised.
Use SDR networks to do it from afar.

http://www.websdr.org/