skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern is that as other comments mentioned in this post, the majority of recent laptops already have webcams without OEM licensing pressure. Webcam is also a piece of hardware that doesn't require one to be tech literate to figure out - someone getting a laptop without a webcam very likely knows what they will get, unlike the slightly comfusing intel CPU namings etc. Additionally, the differentiation factor between W11 PCs and mac at the moment doesn't seem to be the prescence of webcams; a bunch of mac iterations actually had awful webcams, and I've never heard of anyone ditching mac just because of them.

Combining these three factors, the direction W11 is heading to does not look as genuine as they describe it. And if so, the descend from OEM requirement to OS requirement could happen sooner or later. I wholeheartedly hope they do not though.
I understand your frustration but I still cannot get past the point that, generally speaking, an individual must make a specific, conscious, and unforced series of decisions in order to repeatedly end up in front of movies that they dislike. Their decisions must also by necessity happen in a context where there are many other media options available.

I also enjoy the cinema but I only go when there are films that I find interesting and worthwhile. In my specific case this means that over the past few years I've seen Parasite, a showing of the original Alien, a few midnight B-tier horror movies, etc. I don't get to go to the movies as often as I would prefer but the alternative of wasting my time on films that I don't find attractive while simultaneously financially supporting an industry I disagree with seems obviously non-viable to me.
Hmm. YC went from you must grow up with your cofounder or you’ll fail to we’ll match with random one?

Edit: I actually think this is the right move. One hast to find people outside one's immediate network. Otherwise there would only be very few founders.
> And I would be surprised if more than a handful of Teslas have been sold via cryptocurrency.

I personally would be surprised if Tesla made more money from selling those cars than they made by pumping btc with that news line.
For the type of documentation that I do, I find that the single biggest win with AsciiDoc is it's table functionality.

Specifically the two things that are really nice is:

A) You can write out a table row over multiple lines. Default syntax/mode makes it really easy to do a cell per line.

B) You can embed (more) complex formatting easily into the table. So stuff like lists, block quote/code block, whatever.
People with 100% of any OS are likely to be more vulnerable than people with heterogeneous systems.
This is correct. Weirdly, Lighthouse will ding you if you set the dimensions in CSS rather than HTML, even if the CSS is loaded first, blocking rendering thereby preventing layout shift.
Relational database design is all about normalization. Get to at least 3rd normal form https://www.studytonight.com/dbms/database-normalization.php and you'll likely be good unless you're migrating from something that exists today and is already massive.
The problem with hacking, and call criminal activity really, used to be “getting your money out”.

Yea. You have money somewhere, but when you go to get it they’ll find you.

Crypto laundering has made that trivial now. So, no, I don’t believe the NSA has back doors in “everything”.

(Nor would I consider the NSA to be unequivocal “good guys” who selflessly help businesses and employees)
So use...python?

I see 'Gems' but assume we are not talking ruby.
Like Tinder, but for Silicon Valley?
MMPX Style-Preserving Pixel Art Magnification
I've posted here numerous times on how you can make your site worse and increase your score. It's frustrating that Google is pushing such a broken set of metrics for SEO. It's easy to trick but often in ways that make the user experience worse.
DeepMind has an excellent lecture series on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZCDxZ44o4p3...
Some ways in which telemetry can be useful -

* Figuring out which features are not being used, and being able to change things according. This also covers UI decisions - Oh. We added this new toolbar. Is anyone actually using it?

* Prioritizing localizations of a particular country / language.

* An actual positive feedback loop for products that don't generate revenue. Most open source project maintainers just receive bug reports, feature requests, and sometimes hate mail. Telemetry information which roughly shows that even though there are some people complaining loudly about the software, there are 50k other users happily using it, is very very motivating.

* Crash reporting / exceptions monitoring - Bugs are inevitable, and this gives so so much information. In my experience, very few users actually report bugs. Many might even just rate your app badly, and then ignore any attempts at following up. Especially cause they have deleted the app.
I completely agree that it's very interesting. But it's a Glass Bead Game you're playing. A fun game, a game which can make you a better composer, even but one should not be fooled into thinking that this is really essentially to how the music you love was created. One of the few things I think I know about music is that good way to make it is to take whatever system you have and subvert it a little bit.
In Bugout, we have implemented a global do not track environment variable:

export BUGGER_OFF=true

If you set this variable, any tools collecting usage and crash reports using Bugout will not phone home with those reports.

(You can also use BUGGER_OFF=yes, BUGGER_OFF=1, etc.)
Directly via bat guano farming and direct human/bat contact (plus some presence of live bats in wet markets and the workers that need to clean those).

Indirectly via animals like minks/civits being farmed. The bats can occasionally infect those animals, when those zoonotic jumps happen there's then a large bioractor of animals in close contact, resulting in a "serial gain of function" experiment to produce a virus which is adapted to those animals and can spread.

Every factory farm is a stochastic virus research laboratory that isn't even BSL-1 trained.
Not just software development, much more of the responsibility lays at the sysadmin/network/firewall layer, and even more at the management layer.

Networks need to move to zero trust models, sure, but companies need to evaluate the risks of all the systems and processes that they rely on. The problem is it’s too easy to accept the risks or downplay them, while the work to get them addressed is costly.
The clarity of St. Thomas is incomprehensible to anyone raised in postmodernism and not educated in philosophy.
None of the firms in Russia dare target a Russian based company for fear of elimination the hard way. Easier to attack another country.
Per my understanding there would be data centers dedicated to the army.
Did I accidentally say something offensive in the above comment?
Location: East Coast, US
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Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Python
Résumé/CV: request by email
Email: chris@stockbridges.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisstockbridge/

I am a strong general programmer with a focus on iOS. I am currently seeking a position that is > 80% iOS development.

Hire Me if you want:

+ An iOS developer: I have been writing for iOS since 2011, and this is my strongest (and favorite) skill

+ A full stack mobile developer: I love to write and consume my own APIs.

+ Someone with Leadership experience: I work well with customers that have any level of technical expertise. I was an Army Officer (Captain) for 5 years, and I can communicate up or down effectively.

+ An expert debugger: I frequently get code that "was written by a grad student who left 3 years ago." I love debugging, even in languages where I have little experience.

Don't hire me if you need:

- A great artist: I am good at working with artists and I can make an app match your vision. Graphic design is not my best skill.

- Someone to work on a single part of a large project long term: I love some variety and wouldn't want to be too compartmentalized

- Company has < 25 total employees or Total comp < $145k: I am looking for a stable company and an upgrade from my current position.
>and this all just happened to be within a few miles of a laboratory with sketchy safety history that literally studies coronaviruses

If the argument is:

1) a lab was built in Wuhan that studied coronaviruses, then a global coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan

2) Therefore the lab caused the global pandemic

then it is a fallacious argument.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc
Multi-vendor just means focusing on outsourcing one's incompetencies, making a shift from capital to operating expense and that you don't see any potential added value from cloud specific functions.
I managed to reduce it a lot. I never tried to cut it to zero because I still want to be informed and because I think the problem is consuming a lot of news.

- The radio I used to listen to during the day had a small news segment every hour. I replaced it with listening to my own music (or use Spotify, Apple Music, etc). It was mostly repetitive and had advertising, so it was easy to replace.

- I no longer watch TV, especially news stations. They keep repeating the same thing every 30 minutes anyway and hyping up everything that happens because there's not enough content. What I used to watch on TV (eg: series) can be found somewhere else and I can watch it when I want.

- No more "news" notifications. Most "news" aren't really "news" (I don't care if a celebrity did or said something...) and most of the "breaking news" are not that important.

- Disabled/removed everything that had news on it (they're everywhere!). I don't use a news app, my browser doesn't show me news in the new tab page, left Facebook (best decision ever - I use direct messages to keep in touch), stopped following people that shared news or where always fighting with someone on Twitter.

Now I use newsletters, podcasts and RSS feeds to follow the news.

- Some news organisations have free weekly newsletters or a weekly podcast with a recap of the week. Short, direct and doesn't use much of my time.

- RSS feeds allow me to follow certain subjects or websites that I want to follow closely.

- Some news agencies seem to do a better job than some rag using clickbait titles to bring traffic to their crappy website. They're often not as one sided as certain orgs and tell you what happened without wrapping it in their opinion.

- Sites like Hacker News can be useful. I already knew this about the Pfizer vaccine, but some people made good points here.

Sometimes I'm a bit behind other people, but not by much. For some things, it's nice to follow everything as it is happening, but usually I don't miss much.

I might be interested in knowing what's happening, but not everything about who did it (eg: the sad story about the people involved - I can find more details if I want) or as if it was entertainment. The rush to be first at reporting the event also means that often they're wrong about something. I also don't really care about some accident that happened in a completely different country, need to know what's the covid situation everywhere in detail or something bad that may happen.

This works for me, but it also requires some self control and some curation. RSS feeds and podcasts won't help me much if I subscribe to all websites and multiple podcasts about news, politics, etc.
https://archive.is/FQ0Gc
Are you kidding me?

“The cure for Corona is not cow dung & cow urine. The cure is science & common sense. Professor ji RIP,” Leichombam had written

This is mocking? And mocking should lead to many months of nonbailabe arrest without trial? This is one of the most egregious examples of clamping down on free speech. The statement is true and helps educate citizens who are being misinformed nonstop by hindutva affiliates about cow urine.

In a free country we can have forums like this https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/
Unfortunately, nobody has yet figured out a sure fire way to get people to listen to predictions when they are made. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-...
If they’re using loading=lazy it might actually be faster and a better UX, because fewer images load initially. But the same could of course be achieved with increased font size and whitespace.
"Star Wars" was actually not the name of the program, it was a derogatory nickname coined by Ted Kennedy, akin to calling the ACA "Obamacare." [1] The formal name of the program was "Strategic Defense Initiative," or "SDI."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative#C...
Remarkably Argos has been going with the same catalogue model for 50 years.
How does one apply? I don't see any frontend specific positions at mailgun.com.
I think there's a bit more to the analogy than just the suicidal wolf, though. The wolf is offing itself to minimize loss because there's no clear path to a better outcome.

This seems like a common refrain when we see radicalized engineering students from less-developed countries, who are notably common in extremist groups. They're people on a very difficult path (an engineering program!) with no real path to success (living in a society where unemployment for people with degrees is very high). Cost for continuing on the path is high, and there's no obvious path to get the good outcomes.
False.

Also, I figured out why your username seemed familiar and I do not want to discuss anything with you. Not this. Not anything else. Ever. I hope you will respect my choice. Have a good day.

There is already another person who I am discussing this with, and we are already much along into the discussion that we ever got here. So you can follow that thread to understand more.

>You are simply placing an absurd requirement on the reader

I admitted so much in the previous comment, no? Ignore and move on.
Right, I wasn't speaking of Carmack as part of the trend. Carmack still has an old-school relationship to support of open source. I was speaking about the increasing number of people opposed to open source, saying things like that it's clear that the reason someone supports open source is because they "work for a mega tech corp", you illustrated the trend I am speaking about, precisely. Support for open source is now seen as the side of "mega tech corps", and in fact open source is decreasingly popular in online developer communities. With people accusing those of supporting it of doing so only because they have been bought off or tricked by large corporations. Exactly. This is a change.
+1 Just for the name. Side quest is exactly what such a thing should be called.
Yeah, the thing is too, global actors have already learned that attacking corporate entities is a really good way to screw with our public sector too. And it's a lot easier to wreak havoc by attacking major municipalities than trying to inject code onto an F-35, and arguably, the former is capable of doing more damage than the latter.
> which you’d be able to do with greater effectiveness as the originator of a feature adopted by popular open-source projects

I'm not sure that's true at all.
Even if it is placebo effect - so what? Placebo effect is still real and has real world consequences.

If someone has higher levels of fatigue, or is more susceptible to depression or anxiety after COVID (both symptoms of long COVID) - is it any consolation to them that 'it is all in their head'? It is still an effect that must be considered and that must be studied and treated.
You want to shame developers for including "usage reporting", "automatic update[s]", and "crash reporting" in their software?
Any comment like this against republicans or libertareans would get somebody banned by @dang.

Hacker news is basically Gab for nazi programmers.
> Skills that are far more modest than their potential

Ever tried making a decent knife? Or keeping a bonsai tree alive? For 100 years?
I created a automated HTML->Feed mapper [0], that simply analyzes the structure and offers you potential feeds.

[0] https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy/
Nah we have loads of AI now that don't need variable tweaking, like the OpenAI project that plays any retro game.
Following my recommendation won't make anyone a billionaire I think but it will give them a chance at some of my leftover money:

allow me to buy one issue, or one story or 50 tokens or something.

But between two papers, one national broadcaster that costs me n x $100, Netflix, Spotify, supporting Amnesty and Médecins Sans Frontières, my family and my church there isn't room for everyone who want me to subscribe.
Recovery of early Covid deleted deep sequencing data found on Google Cloud [pdf]
Of course I predicted it. It’s like talking to Jehovah’s Witnesses at the door. The idea that you fully understand their entire belief structure, have done your homework on it out of respect (seriously, I have), and ultimately reject it anyway is puzzling to adherents of most belief systems, so they tend to revert to explaining it a different way out of a suspicion that you don’t get it. I’ve probably heard over a hundred different metaphors for why I should care about what my users do with my software at this point and it’s still a level of arrogance I’m not willing to introduce to my engineering.

All I can say is oh well, I guess.
The contract was already under protest, this decision just means another piggy will get to belly up to the trough. The main value of the JEDI contract was the validation of MS as a cloud provider- contrast that with Oracle, who was dismissed as an over-expensive joke.
A great option for profiling Vulkan code is Tracy, which is a free and open source profiler:
https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy

It supports profiling multiple Vulkan queues using VK_EXT_debug_utils timestamps.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.22.427830v3

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(21)00709-1.pdf
You have me there, thank you for the correction.
I agree, there is nothing inherently surprising here.

Should this be illegal? Not generally.

Should it be more transparent who lobbies for what? Absolutely. In my opinion meeting notes of politicians / lobbyist ought to be a matter of public record.

Also: is lobbying for policies that directly cause environmental damage and kill people morally corrupt and evil. Yes.
lol the hyperbole
I don't know about the switch to Apple. First, there is the sticker shock, which is no small issue. Also, have you seen Windows users attempt to use a Mac? They enjoy it about as much as Mac users enjoy Windows.
> they basically predate the founding of Uber.

So anything before the smartphone era is what... not-modern, sorta-modern?

If the founding of Uber (2009?) is a milestone of some sort, man I feel ancient.
In the medium and large companies I've worked, it's always been very bifurcated: You had a lot of people who have been with the company a long time, and a lot of people who are fresh, but there is always this huge chasm of few employees between 4 years and, say 12 years. I explain it financially. The way I think it works is typical equity vesting is about 4 years, so without refresh grants (which in my experience are rare) people churn after around 4 years due to the vesting cliff. The ones who survived to over 10 years or so are all Directors and VPs and SVPs by now, and are probably making mega-bank, so there is no incentive to disrupt the gravy train by leaving.
I'm not surprised really. The C language is pretty old, and pretty much none of the features in C++ make writing correct kernel code easier. That's not a mark against C++, it's just landed on a different niche: a high perf userspace application language for expert software engineers. Other high profile languages like Golang and Swift have a similar 'application engineer' focus that offer no meaningful improvements for kernel authors.

So it's not surprising to me that Torvalds is critical of languages that don't cater to his use case. Nor why he's less vocal about Rust. The allure of Rust is inbuilt support for multithreading, protection against data races, and an efficient memory management system.
extended support goes until Jan 2023 if you have a contract for it.. since op indicate this likely being a work laptop they might have it..
From The Simpson Wikipedia page: "The Simpsons is an American adult animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company." The sentence links to the "Animated sitcom" page, which states, "An animated sitcom is a subgenre of the sitcom that is animated instead of live action that is geared toward adult audiences in most cases. South Park and The Simpsons are two of the longest running animated sitcoms."

A square is also a rectangle.
Uniswap is relatively new - started really working last year. There are large numbers of decentralised exchanges now.
Use Brave. It bypasses most paywalls and sign up requirements.
But what can you actually do with blockchains, outside of cryptocurrencies? The "oracle problem" means they can only interact with themselves, so all these ideas about Airbnb or Uber or whatever on the blockchain will never be able to go anywhere without an off-blockchain element, at which point you have to ask - what value does the blockchain part of the solution add (apart from increasing the value of people's hodlings)?
I mean, this already happened. Ted Danson was semi-cancelled in the early 90s for wearing blackface to a Friar's Club roast of his then-girlfriend Whoopi Goldberg.

Blackface being problematic isn't something we just figured out in the last 12 years, and people trying to do something funny with it anyway isn't new either.
This is one of those areas where security in depth is a good idea.

Gather all the sources of random sources you can and hash them together -- add in any information based on user input (key presses / mouse movements), and personally I'd provide each users with a securely generated random 1K string (which could be sent once at install) to provide more random data.
Unfortunately, opt-outs are purely perfunctory, as these kinds of developers would prefer they not exist at all. I now believe there was little/no hope of getting this sort of thing adopted in any case.

They don't want to make it easier to opt out; the opt out only exists to deflect blame.
Orwell Radio Scripts and Letters Found (1984)
Crypto fraud: Brazil's 'Bitcoin King' arrested for embezzling $300M
Are you imagining a world in which volunteer developers of open source CLI apps pay users for the privilege of receiving crash reports?
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I'm a solo founder and am interviewing next week in the final stage of a somewhat well-known tech incubator.

The open source framework / SaaS I'm developing is called Fastmap https://fastmap.io. The one-liner is: "Fastmap offloads and parallelizes arbitrary Python functions on the cloud" but I'm also considering the more colloquial, "Fastmap is a server in your pocket". My short term strategy is to market to data scientists. My long term strategy is to offer a smarter way to do backend infrastructure.

As far as skill set, I am looking for someone with a deep level of expertise in distributed systems and/or data engineering. I would also be open to a non-technical co-founder with business experience in SaaS.

Building a co-founder relationship at a late stage is inherently tricky. For what it's worth, I believe that relationships work best when they are equitable and that 95% of the work of Fastmap is in the future.

Interested? Email me! Let's see if we can find a way to test whether we click: scott@fastmap.io