skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to imply it would somehow help the IRS budget directly. I was saying it helps the Federal Government's overall deficit. The IRS isn't some body immune from political pressure. The leadership is appointed by POTUS & confirmed by the Senate.

Regardless of which political party is responsible, the Federal government has a lot of benefits programs that have a lot of roadblocks to actually take advantage of. That isn't an accident. You could look at it as the GOP tending to send up roadblocks (e.g. they famously forced the IRS to strike a deal with Intuit) OR you can look at it as a class divide where the GOP are just the "baddies" everyone can scream about without actually needing to hold the government accountable.
Agreed, I'm curious if the scoffing was at the claim of 100 metric tons to LEO or the pricing for such a launch ($55/kg would mean a $5.5M/launch cost). I'm assuming the latter since the Saturn V could put 140 metric tons in LEO, but the F9 costs roughly an order of magnitude more.
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw Iraq war, dies at 88
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Of course it matters. Otherwise, how do you know if your app works as intended?

And don’t tell me your tests tell you, because I guarantee you they don’t!
YMMV: I liked Hail Mary just as much, if not more then, The Martian. It had the same "solo dude using science and cleverness to solve an impossible problem" with a massively more ambitious plot.

Also, the plot twists in Hail Mary are very well delivered. The book ends up being completely different then you're expecting when you go into it.
Shopbop. https://www.amazon.jobs/en/location/madison-wi
Understanding Imposter Syndrome
Me too, having worked with PGSQL in past 15 years, I was expecting...something else. But what bothers me the most is their 2 times quote: "HTTP is cheap". No, it's not. Try having local local servers in remote locations, like ski resorts or country side fair, where internet connectivity is sketchy at best, and then you'll realize how cheap a request is.
But you should probably examine why you were so quick to assume that the allegations were baseless.
Since When Have Trees Existed Only for Rich Americans?
Unsplash API's will be charged
Hey $XYZ,

I'm $ABC, one of the founders at Unsplash and I lead our API Partnerships.

We’re making an update to the pricing of the Unsplash API as of August 1 that I wanted to get in front of you right away.

Over the past few years, our API has grown to become the largest open image API used by more than 13,000+ partners. We’re now supporting some of the largest creative and publishing tools online. Our content also continues to be high-quality and curated by our in-house team, supporting a library close to 3M photos and growing.

We understand the responsibility we have in ensuring our API is always reliable, given we’re natively built into the internet’s most used tools. Because of this, we are deciding to dedicate more resources to our API to ensure it continues to serve our partners, and continue to make it the best photo API when it comes to engineering and content distribution.

Given this expansion of resources, we’re going to be charging a small fee based on monthly usage. We’re keeping this fee as low as possible. Based on $YOURAPP's usage of ~500k downloads and 1.9M requests a month, this fee would be $10K per month, but given you've been a partner of the API for quite some time, we would reduce this monthly fee to $5K per month.

This would take effect as of August 1st, and would be billed through invoice.

If there’s anything you’d like to chat about, happy to answer any questions by email or setup a time when it’s convenient for you.

Thanks,
> why would IRS and our elected representatives cave in?

money.
Remote Work Is Causing Malfunctions in America's One-Sided Workplaces
I imagine you just install Windows 10 ARM, join the insider program and run Windows Update? Is there anything more to it?
Google is moving away from APKs on the Play Store
Almost every stadium deals in the US has been a disaster for locals. I'm not talking about the group of folks who get displaced and have no place to go. I'm talking about local shops, businesses that aren't into venue-related businesses.
Yep. Accountants don't want to try anything else.

And it's shocking how bad some of the QBO integrations are, especially for newish technologies. Intuit even screwed up PayPal in a way that some accountants don't want to use it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kT5zKWBXtQU), forcing a labor intensive manual process.
A vm running 10, then a vm in that running 7, then vista, xp, ... until you can't do VMs anymore. Then you run doom.
See also "JANUS", an IEEE standard for encoding data into acoustic signals. Basically an underwater modem:

* https://spectrum.ieee.org/video/telecom/standards/underwater...

* https://www.januswiki.com/
Yes that statement is wrong. I guess the real difference in the pet/cow calculus is for cattle you probably won't pay more for treatment than the cow is worth; with pets people do this all the time.
26,222 People in Immigrant Detention New Data Show
HTTP is cheap! Latency is expensive, but all our HTTP shenanigans happen between our proxy and user VMs. We're not inflicting multiple requests on slow clients at a ski resort.
Aside from the fact you are wrong about there being no competition, In the libertarian ideology income based taxation is unethical theft, thus under libertarian ideology Intuit tax software would not be needed at all, thus no reason for them to lobby congress, etc
Apple Makes Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion Free to Download
I always go to the forms and ignore the interview.

I haven't found any other software that is practical to use in this way and has all the forms I need.

I tried H&R Block's free software one year, I think, because I was mad at Intuit, but it was useless because there were big gaping holes in the functionality.
Every couple of years I get nostalgic and wish I could find the short text adventure CastleQuest, which existed on the CompuServe BBS but is otherwise afaik just gone ( http://www.club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/in-search-of-LONG0751/castle... ).

Ah well. Some things are just gone.
A lot of the story is a consequence of how limited access to Mars is. With Starship on full-scale, a resupply mission can be diverted from a future landing site or assembled from scratch in weeks. Even an already landed Starship could probably still hop enough to take supplies to Watney.

Starship, if it pans out as planned, is a huge game changer.
A thing common to OOP that's missing from this list is localizing data and behaviour together, and the tell-dont-ask way of getting things done in OOP.

I meant that the newer less-pure-OOP languages tend to be statically typed vs Smalltalk etc where objects have behaviours but not compile-time shapes.
Early Christianity had indifference bordering on disdain for marriage, and there's no record of a Christian rite for marriage until the 9th century. Celibacy was considered the ideal. Same for the Shakers, which is why they died out.
I got Windows 11 via Windows Update for my Surface Pro 3. I'm pretty sure it only has TPM and not TPM 2.0.
France: Netflix, Amazon must invest 20-25% of French revenues in local content
There's multiple semi-active forks of TempleOS.

https://github.com/ZenithOS/ZenithOS
https://github.com/minexew/Shrine
https://github.com/tinkeros/TinkerOS
> Note that in India people work longer hours

Grasping at straws here.

> I have many years of experience, and a history of being worth paying

Seems like your ego can't handle it. Why do you think that there aren't similar people elsewhere in the world? You can't keep throwing random numbers without sources to back them up. The reality is that your job can be done by many others living in a country with lower COL with much, much less money.
Archival: https://web.archive.org/web/20210630091122/https://www.nytim...
This logic assumes that it's cheap to get a trademark, whereas the parent says it'll cost $2000.

This leaves small hobby stores like Cliff's with no practical defense against scams like this if they've only made a few thousand in profits through amazon sales, especially if they don't have that cash on hand (and suddenly lose their amazon revenue stream!)

Like it's easy to say "well you should have trademarked your product" after the fact, but very few people have even heard of this scam when it happens to them.
> Google Play will start requiring new apps to be published with the Android App Bundle starting August 2021

See also the blog announcement: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future...

About the app bundle: https://developer.android.com/platform/technology/app-bundle
Sorry to be pedantic. The proper word is "deduce".

I'm sure I made some sort of grammatical error in this comment.
> ALL of the leg work yourself

Every year, I go ahead and self-prepare my taxes, and then type all the data into Turbotax to see if they find something I missed, and every year they do, and it's in my favor (and always worth more than the Turbotax fee). OTOH, I've seen suggestions that Intuit themselves have had a hand in making the tax preparation process so complex that humans can't possibly get it right without them.
No matter who is in power, the wealthy always prosper, but at least one political party actively tries to reduce taxes for the rest of us.
OK, wait. You said that individual action making a difference was a fairy tale. Now you're saying that democratic action is useless because it runs counter to the interests of the rich.

So... what do you think is a useful, workable approach?
Don’t spread misinformation. The Wayback Machine is not censoring 4chan.
4chan is ‘censoring’ the Wayback Machine.

https://www.4chan.org/robots.txt

Also, I let a domain of mine expire and the new domain owner (which just plastered ads) had a robots.txt that retroactively removed my “previously archived website” from the Wayback Machine.
>The non-aggression pact, signed five years ago, let the two companies set aside their numerous lawsuits. It also created a process by which they could resolve conflicts behind closed doors, requiring Microsoft and Google to follow that process before asking regulators to step in. During this time, the two companies have tussled over a number of issues, including whether search engines should pay news publishers.

Why are things like this legal?

Why are billion dollar companies that, between the two, control huge amounts of all markets related to computers and the internet allowed to make backdoor deals that avoid regulators and essentially is them arguing over which piece of the entire domain of computing belongs to them with no oversight?
The fact that they had to make a deal with Cosby to get him to testify indicates that they didn't have a strong case against him.
> If someone could show that the "copilot" started "generating" code verbatim (or nearly verbatim) from some GPL-licensed work...

Under the right circumstances, Copilot will recite a GPL copyright header. It isn't a huge step from that to some other commonly repeated hunk of GPLed code -- I'd be particularly curious whether some protected portion of automake/autoconf code shows up often enough that it'd repeat that too.
Elite oppression is not an anomaly; it is the way of the world
Hybrid development environment, how to not run the whole system locally
That's a personal problem for you to solve by setting boundaries, honestly. I doubt those late emails will ever not be a thing, I've worked at a lot of places in things other than software and it never ends, regardless of working from home or office.
Can’t you avoid estate taxes with a trust?
It does, doesn’t it? Every database can be sharded. But you have to do it yourself. This is how it works in Yugabyte: https://docs.yugabyte.com/latest/explore/multi-region-deploy....
Most people did exactly that a year ago.
Early 90's, university. I tricked the administrator of the UNIX cluster to "su" from my account.

The su binary was mine, she typed the root password and the cluster was mine.

I went to the administrators to say that I cracked the system and would like to be part of the administrators team. I was accepted.

I learned an awful lot over the next few years (as a student, and then as a PhD student) - this helped me to land a job at IBM, and then at another company that was expanding in Europe.
Agreed, but that's the comparatively easy part...
My sympathies for your situation. I think the conversation about E2E needs to include journalists and protesters (as I mentioned above), I'm not minimising that aspect of it. And this conversation is wider than just E2E, too: Julian Assange is also sitting in jail without bail and without any proper legal process, and all his technological know-how didn't save him.

In the normal hosting business, content like this is taken down by the hosting provider. For IPFS, a key question has to be "who gets to decide when content should be removed, and how does that happen?". If that person isn't a government because no-one trusts the government, that's fine. But someone needs to be able to make that decision and act on it. Then the usual legal channels can be followed for taking content down if necessary.
Any IBM-ers here who can comment?

My workplace did a migration from inhouse Exchange to cloud-housted Outlook and it was pretty smooth, but you'd expect that since it's one Microsoft product to another and probably a migration that MS has helped facilitate thousands of times.
Yup, I am glad I worked in office during the first ~7 years of my career. I couldn't even imagine my life not doing that.

I've been working remotely since 2015. Do I want to go back now? Hell no.
Should’ve just paid Microsoft to transition to Office 365. Leave the technology work to tech companies, stick to core competencies.
You actually can spin up a background thread in the browser now using web workers[0]. Although, like you mentioned, you don't actually need threads for concurrency. The event loop handles concurrency even in a single threaded environment.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...
Remember that Walmart and Best Buy also sell a lot of 3rd-party stuff now. I find it strange that on their site I always have to filter by Retailer=Walmart.com to get their listings and even then, it sometimes filters out some of their own listings.
The house can be sold though, not exactly "spent" money beyond the buying/selling/maintenance fees
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Me and my friend have started a small group interview program. We provide with daily problems to solve and reading list, daily checkins with details on solution to problems and space/time complexity - this helps with accountability, live weekly sessions with folks from industry and are always available via IM to answer questions or remind for checkins.

The reason for starting this group was because our siblings were preparing for their interviews and were dejected/tired/frustrated with the process and lack of structure thereof. We were certain that bringing more people into the program will boost their morale or at least keep it going.

Previously we did 2 different groups with average of 10 participants ranging from 2-10 years of experience.
We expected about 60% of folks to stick to the plan, but 90% ended up finishing 4 weeks of preparations. While number of problems solved is not a true measure of success, by the end of the program everyone had solved at least 60-80 problems.

Additionally, we saw participants forming small groups to study together or mock interview each other or explaining their approach.

We are starting a new group beginning July 19th.
We are located at https://teamcambia.com/

Would love any thoughts, feedback or any way we can provide value.
> Corporate death penalty

Corporations are legal fictions. If you're wiping out shareholders and creditors, who do the assets go to? If you aren't wiping them out, what are you doing? Corporate death penalties are ultimately meaningless without an expropriation component.

Better: massive fines and/or pulling critical licenses. Arthur Andersen and Enron were felled through these mechanisms. They are legal. They are proven. They are precedented and they work.

If you wantonly break the law, you should not be a going concern. But "nationalization" and "corporate death penalty" are political hot potatoes. (I'm entirely sidestepping the argument as to whether that's reasonable.) If you want these companies shut down, or fearful of being shut down, credibly threatening to break them up, fine them into bankruptcy or suspend their licenses (e.g. for Intuit, their tax preparation license) is more effective.
Using Oracle Cloud to Create an “Always Free” Online Development Environment
The FreeBSD Funnies
Building an Internet for Video Games
I didn't hit a paywall but the article was originally published at https://dangoslen.me/blog/changing-how-i-review-code/ ; maybe that will work for you.
But RCV works just fine in places like Maine (statewide), Oregon, Minnesota, Colorado, Michigan, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maryland (select localities). It works just fine in Australia (nationwide), along with several other nations.

I live (and voted) in NYC, and while this entire debacle is a comical embarrassment, I'm not at all convinced that any of this can bet attributed to ranked choice voting.

On the point of perceived fairness, the most recent poll (https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2021/06/28/poll-finds-new-yorke...) found that 95%(!!) of respondents found the ballot simple to complete, and 77% want to use RCV again. Granted, this poll was administered by organizations which lobbied for RCV in the first place, but I have a hard time believing that the margin of error could be in excess of 45%. It may very well be that a contingent of non-college graduate voters in NYC perceive RCV the way you describe, but they're decidedly in the minority — at least in NYC.
A few years ago, any comment that didn't add new insight to a topic would get downvoted. I remember once reading a comment where the response was a quip, and someone replied "this response was funny but we don't want this site to become Reddit so I downvoted you".
> Originally published at https://dangoslen.me.

https://dangoslen.me/blog/changing-how-i-review-code/
First job out of college used Notes. Hated it.

Since then I've personally declined new work where Notes was the standard.
They'd find a way to keep it practically difficult to use, at the least, if that dataset is vital to the process. Hoarding datasets that should either be wholly public or unavailable for any kind of exploitation is the backbone of 21st century big tech. It's how they make money, and how they maintain (very, very deep) moats against competition.

[EDIT] actually, I suspect their play here will be to open up the public data but own the best and most low-friction implementation, then add terms that let them also feed their algo with proprietary code built using their editors. That part won't be freely available, and no free version will be able to provide that further-improved model, even assuming all the software to build it is open-source. Assuming using this thing ends up being a significant advantage (so, assuming this matters at all) your choice will be to either hamstring yourself in the market or to help Microsoft build their dataset.
Seriously? The "and they have a plan" which turns out they have no plan and it's just Androids that find religion?
I was delighted at the thought of a “scratch and sniff” GUI and thought the bit about daemons was enlightening, can't believe I never made it this far into the FreeBSD manual and figured I'd share.
I’m sorry but I don’t think that’s true. While the US has used military pressure/invasion there are little to no loans with such predatory terms. In fact the US gives a significant amount of aid to countries with few conditions.
You can always buy NFLX with cash in your brokerage account. It's not like you are going to get any discounts if you choose to receive part of your salary in stock.
I would wager your codebase, tests and development environment reflects this. Any product of any significance requires a day of setup at least before you even get as far as cloning the repo and opening your first user story.
Immutable Conversations – The Granule Project
It contained the word "Ivermectin".
Upvoted. I think the only good use case for this is spitting out 10-line, annoying, commonly used API boilerplate for commonly used APIs
> TurboTax did find about $50 more return for us somehow

Don’t you have to sign to say that you’re entitled to that return? How are you doing it if you don’t understand where it’s coming from?
Can amd64 do nested virtualization? (I suppose you could use Bochs, but the resulting performance would be awful.)

I remember reading that IBM mainframes running VM can do that, there was this story about some developers stacking nested VMs about six or seven levels (without much loss of performance).

There also was another story involving Hercules, a mainframe emulator. Someone had an IBM mainframe running Linux inside a VM, running Hercules on the Linux VM, which in turn ran VM again, with a machine running Linux, which in turn ran Hercules... I'm very fuzzy on the details, but it was a crazy setup.
I take it Linux + Anbox can't do the job?
A new piece of the quantum computing puzzle
You will tire of it a few years in. The culture is heavily ageist and having to play second fiddle to people with much less experience gets old real fast. Stick with your current career but maybe look at moving to another industry if you feel like you are no longer excited about the work.
Which is why I'm curious, I want those results. I mean I've done extreme things such as run Marathons, etc. So I'm happy to stop, just wanted to learn about the other perspective of it being unhelpful.

For me personally I'm probably too on edge and need to slow down (everyone around me tells me that) which is why I meditate daily, but I can see from Paul's perspective if I was to "slow" then it may be harmful. Therapy can also have the same effect.

Thanks for your response.
So as I understand it, AGPL was introduced to cover an unforeseen loophole in GPL that adapted code could be used to power a web service. Could another new version of the license block allowing code from use to train such GitHub co-pilot like models?
I think you can find better cloud prices (outside of aws) that make sense.
Running a datacenter is hard, running your own servers (software only) is much easier.

I can get this dedicated server in Germany (courtesy of hetzner.com) for 40 eur / 47 usd per month (albeit usd is relatively weak right now):
CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-6700 Quad-Core
RAM: 64 GB DDR4
Drives: 2x 512 GB NVMe SSD

Building an equivalent computer would cost me around 1300 eur / 1540 usd without VAT (assuming the RAM is ECC).

Let's assume a 12.5 eur / 15 usd of electricity per month and the computer will pay itself in 2 years.
It's hard to price maintenance, issues and hardware failures, but I feel like this computer could last 4-5 years, making the price roughly 2x.
A new supercomputer has joined the top five most powerful
This is true in certain places, but far from universal. I'd be quite surprised if you found such progressive priests in Poland, for example. The official Catholic stance - essentially "teaching" people are no different from cattle, sexuality-wise - seems to be enforced very heavily there.