skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you then have to maintain a copy of all the dependencies and input data on your personal laptop? I can't imagine myself being productive this way, even for small standalone projects where cloning everything to the personal laptop is feasible. This sounds awful and the company IDE must be even worse somehow.
So? Yesterday's books, movies, and music compete with today's books, movies, and music. Nobody cares about the news one way or the other. So the news gets treated just like everything else.
Some people literally disconnect the cable to get rid of all the online distractions. I've seen this mentioned in a few threads on procrastination here. It's sad some tools will not let you do that anymore.
How does this get prioritized over backups on all operating systems and restoration between operating systems?
>I have come to the conclusion that Australia is not a "real" country - it is just a continent owned by corporate interests that happens to also have people living on it.

Not a bad metaphor. I've always thought of it as kind of like Puerto Rico: essentially a US state, but without any of the good things that come with that. Like, you know, basic human rights such as freedom of speech. We have all the crony capitalism, oligarchy, and pseudo-democracy, but none of the fun stuff that the seppos have. And shitty internet.

But hey, there are beaches. And footy. If that's your thing.
These developments are precisely why I think compartmentalization is the future. The lockdown trend is happening, for off the shelf productized solutions. Simultaneously, it has never been easier to obtain computing hardware that can run code of your choosing.

So to the extent that you need to engage with the locked down world, you need a locked down terminal that behaves like everyone else's (to within some margin that they keep trying to shrink). And to the extent you want freedom (computational autonomy), then you need a real computer that lets you run whatever code you want.

If the Internet became locked down to specific protocols, that could be a different story. But the same bifurcation seems to be happening to the network. MITM webapps are going censor-happy and implementing IP blocks and eager captchas, yet it has never been easier to set up a VPS running whatever protocol you want.
TikTok has a lot going for it as a platform, but you should always understand a company's motivations when using their product. TikTok wants you to spend more time with your digital friends, because they make money from peppering ads in your experience with them. So sure, much like Facebook, Twitter or any other platform with the same business model, they will tacitly encourage users to spend as much time as possible on the platform.

I've seen this comment echoed with Tumblr, Instagram, Musical.ly and about every other social media platform. The issue with them? Corporate interests superseded user control, and the whole thing went sideways. Nobody's telling you that you can't like TikTok, and I don't doubt you have an extensive list of all the things you like about it. Undeniably though, TikTok is stepping on the exact same banana peel that every other network did, even if they do a damn good job of controlling their western narrative.

Keep using TikTok if it makes you happy, but remember that happiness doesn't come from apps, it's a state of mind. There are healthier, less destructive ways to surround yourself with the content you love, trust me.
EU looking into new possible side-effects of mRNA Covid-19 shots
Personally I think Rails + Hotwire nailed this. I believe there's also a Django port of Stimulus but maybe not Hotwire.
You can have it clone your dotfiles repo automatically and run a set-up script:

https://docs.github.com/en/codespaces/customizing-your-codes...

I also have a very bespoke dotfiles config that predates Codespaces (https://github.com/wincent/wincent), so I made a thin wrapper around it that makes it work (https://github.com/wincent/dotfiles). For people with less complicated set-ups (ie. basically the entire universe), it is pretty straightforward.
Or refuse, and enhance the herd immunity, which is the only thing that will ever really slow the virus in the first place. (Like the flu and colds, this virus will be with us forever and cannot be eradicated, because unlike smallpox and the like, this one has both animal and human hosts...)
those are fringe cases, and pretty much 95% of the 0.0001% australian radicalizing can be spotted and monitored
> My understanding is that ratepayers are the ones who are going to be funding this project, not the shareholders.

I think that's the deal, though. Utility investors buy utilities knowing their rates are regulated and there's limited growth in exchange for stability. When the cost of providing electric changes, whether it's because wholesale prices increase or a new cost emerges (burying power lines), ratepayers are on the hook. The key is allocating the costs correctly. Burying major transmission lines (if this is even needed) should be shared, but local lines need to be paid for by local communities. Owning a cabin is fine, I just have no interest in subsidizing its power because it's in a fire risk area.
Considering the riot in the capitol building started while he was giving a speech during which he asked those listening to him to make their voices 'peacefully heard'.

Many other American politicians were behind similar riots and get away with it. For example, the riots surrounding the nomination and confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh where the Supreme Court building was stormed.
Windows 10 has improvements for time accuracy but has strict requirements for achieving them.

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/networking/w...
Hitting on a minor, who you know is a minor (17 years old) when you are in a position of power over her is more than just a little mistake. DeGrey admits this. Imagine if a coach or a teacher did this. That alone is a serious serious breach of ethics, and gives some insight into a person's mind and potential other activities.
> The "why don't they just pay everyone SV salaries everywhere" argument is obviously from people

Or just maybe you are mischaracterizing an argument from people that take the notion of "equal pay for equal work" to heart and protested even against offshoring for similar reasons and against tax related shananigans that just transfer the social burdens of infrastructure onto income tax paying citizens.

The non-strawman argument is "equal pay for equal work", not "SV pay for everyone".

With pay from different locations, there is an argument to be made for varying salaries when the working conditions related to the office presence and the corresponding project involvements differ and one can argue it isn't equal work. With working from home, there can be variation in project involvement due to scheduling which again might be unequal work, but that would be more tied to which hours of the day are on the clock, if the hours worked are the same then an employer paying an employee less for living in a different city when all other working conditions are the same is merely the employer unfairly (ab)using their more powerful bargaining position to capture economic gains that should belong to the employee for making the choice to live in a cheaper area. So when you talk about fairness one can talk about two classes of employees (in office vs working from home) and then salaries tied to hours worked and the rest is discrimination.

There are arguments to be made for allowing employers to do this, since perhaps as a matter of public policy it is better for people to concentrate in cities or for forbidding it for alternate reasons. But the public policy question wouldn't change the fact that employers are choosing to pay people based on criteria not at all related to work they do. There is still room in "equal pay for equal work" to tie office presence to a higher salary, if it is genuinely more valuable, just put the dollar value on that.
For the next 5 years until the fashion trend wears off.

We used to write COBOL using thin client on mainframes. Then we moved to development locally.
Yeah, whenever I hear this kind of rhetoric - if my company ever required <some minor annoyance> it's time for a new job - I roll my eyes. Sure, keep pushing yourself out of more companies, there are a lot of good engineers* who will be absolutely as productive as you and who won't be a drain on everyone around them.

*it's always engineers making these statements or I only know engineers
>Just a couple of years ago some kid gained access to every repo on github.

Very curious to know more about this. What exactly are you talking about? Closest thing I could find is this[0], but you said "couple of years ago".

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-gains-access-to-a-small...
> (Skype, Spotify, even Pirate Bay)

Ericsson ?
My favorite part is that it works on Javascript, so I can E2E-Encrypt in the browser.
But ramping up Plex with what content? Netflix has the content…
It was always like that outside of select few like Google. Most companies’ infra is not complex enough to warrant anything beyond sysadmin skills. Fwiw google sres also had two distinct subroles within sre one of which is not software focused
Right, OP, CDOs were also very innovative when they first got rolled out!
It doesn't seem that unreasonable that they could be putting it together themselves.

Couldn't they just buy a subscription to all the largest VPN providers and just run through the server list making a note of each server?
There’s a crack in the iPhone foundation and it could get a lot worse
sounds good, good luck
Amen brother... I'm 52 year old systems engineer and I dived deep into Python, Containers, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana and more shiny new things. Because of this I can call myself a SRE and have no shortage of work.

6 years ago, I was pretty much only a Linux guru. Good at that but not much else. If I didn't get up to speed on these new platforms, I'd be toast.
That defense post is.. really strange. It seems to suggest the complainants have been brain-washed (by secret behind the scenes people?) and also claims the fact there arent lots of other complaints as evidence of innocence -- there doesn't have to be an "iceberg" of complaints for you to be guilty. Lots of people get convicted of just one crime.
This is the second time that 1Password Co has done something that I consider a negative...
The first one being them "hiding" the standalone version purchase link.
Doesn't give me much faith in their future plans which seen to be all about change for changes sake and extracting as much money out of customers as possible.

That being said BitWarden uses Electron and Angular for their desktop apps as well.
It’s a cost plus model.
Mainframes aren't just about computing power. In a mainframe, almost any component or subsystem can fail with no downtown to the applications at all. That is worth the money and complexity to some people.

You don't understand mainframe systems well if you think they "choke on laughable volumes of documents".

The mainframe isn't the bottleneck in systems like this. It's all the stuff around it that wasn't designed to the same specifications.
In temperate climates mold is a bigger problem than cooling. Especially when building underground.

Air conditioning mitigates mold by removing moisture from the air…which doesn’t mean that ac ducts won’t hold mold if there’s improper operation or bad design.

Earth homes are uncommon because building science is empirical not theoretical. Because the construction market is efficient even though its efficiency doesn’t mean you can afford a house in a desirable location.
Motion:commotion = signal:noise? Gullible bayes? hahaha
Yours does look fantastic.

Also enjoy mashing up accuracy with nixie tubes, feels very atomic '50s futurism:

- Atomic: http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/atomicnixie.html

- WWVB: http://www.nixie.dk/~jthomas/wwvb.html
Was 2008 an issue of lack of regulation or lack of enforcement?

I thought it was more about "too big to fail" attitudes preventing enforcement from being fairly applied to the largest participants.
The ublock rule you want is:

ia.acs.org.au###subscribeModal

:)
I have heard a different explanation for coin trick, that you could add weights to match the heaviest cartridge/shell setup in your collection, so that any of it when installed exerts desired tracking force without having to balance the arm each time. I wonder whether having end mass at the shell helped or if both were cases of such first world problems.
Hot take: 2008 was caused by over regulation, resulting in broken incentives for rating agencies and preventing any real bad outcomes from them just rating everything as great.
It is absolutely ridiculous that anyone's physical location should impact the content they are allowed to watch. Full stop.
Investors pressure Activision to take more action on harassment allegations
> The forests will die without intervention

That's a bold statement.
Okay? That's three editors and there are hundreds of others (though probably <25 that are used by more than a few people). There are sizeable followings for other CLI editors like Neovim, Kakoune, Yi, etc.
Somehow I can see some companies using this to spy on their employees and "measure" how productive they are, and how their timesheets reports match.
(OR) these sort of crisis cannot be fixed by regulations. Having more of the same may not necessarily fix the issue.
Writing HTML in Python is just so bisarre to me and very messy and a bad idea.
The paternalistic argument is that the low-IQ voters will be misled, and vote _against_ their own interests. That they just will vote for whatever higher-IQ group can best market to them, and will get a basket of outcomes that is, at best, indifferent to their specific needs. This argument is very dismissive the agency of these individuals.

I would argue that largely happens today, but not on the basis of IQ. Large chunks of western countries believe all sorts of (what I would consider) crazy things. And IQ isn't the driving force of belief here.

None of this is an argument to disenfranchise segments of the populace. But it is also increasingly naive to believe that voters vote on the basis of rational self-interest, and we need to have serious discussions about how to counter the forces that drive that, be it IQ, misinformation, in-group/out-group dynamics and more.
This sounds like a good way of starting more fires.
Eh, I'm the type who would accidentally click and then regret, so maybe if there were just a small return-to icon, not the whole titles being clickable?
Would love for them to have a free tier. Example: 25 hours free per month, just to play around.

This might be very resource intensive though.
> "So we moved to 32 core, 64 GB RAM VMs. By changing a single line of configuration, we upgraded every engineer’s machine."

On GitHub, that instance type is $2.88/hour or $2,073 monthly per developer for a single instance.

(Granted, that's running 24/7 but still - wow, that's expensive for a single instance)
Important Things to Know About Breakthrough Infections
from https://daistats.com/#/overview it's currently ~26% USDC

It's also 200% collateralised so USDC could go to zero (or freeze all of the DAI locked USDC) without breaking the peg on DAI
Serving alcohol to minors is illegal, but bartenders don't say "you don't appear obviously over 40, so I'm not serving you alcohol even though your ID looks real to me and says you're over 21, since there's a slim chance it's a high-quality fake." Demanding 100% certainty that someone isn't using a VPN is unreasonable for the same reasons.
I’m waiting for a lawsuit from enough people getting blocked. It would, however, be difficult to find affected users.
Well for sentimental reasons I guess then ;) They love to solve problems and use California as a testing ground for the latest photo sharing app.

But where are the DIY fire fighting apps and devices? Where are the startups that promise 10,000 drones that can put out a 50,000 acre fire in under 2 hours?
> Zurich is in fact a tech hub, Google is there, and many interesting startups come from their outstanding technical school.

That is exactly what I mean. Zurich has prestigious schools and foreign companies that you have to attend because otherwise you can't get things like good housing or health care. In 00s Stockholm you didn't really have to do that. Which is why Stockholm have the homegrown companies and exits.

Daniel Ek didn't attend university. He tried to apply to Google but wasn't accepted. Now Spotify has had a $30 billion IPO. Presumably more than all contemporary Swiss startups exits ever. His co-founder had a degree in civil engineering (as roads and water infrastructure) but had instead founded and exited an adtech company.

Markus Persson didn't attend university either. The company behind Minecraft which he owned ~70% of sold for $2.5 billon to Microsoft. He was a former employee of King, the company behind Candy Crush Saga, which sold to Activision Blizzard for $5.9 billion.

That was the difference between Stockholm and Zurich. And between Stockholm and most other self-proclaimed tech hubs for that matter.
Normalization of not giving a crap?
>Not much money to be made by saving lives, health, and billions of dollars in infrastructure damage?

I think you are confusing the money that can be lost due to damage from a fire being a large number compared to the amount of money available to spend on fire fighting itself. A private company in business to make money does not care about the money saved from things not being damaged. Insurance companies have an interest in that.

The only way for fire tech to make money would be to come up with an extremely vile scheme to ensure people used their services. Fire tech could extort insurance companies/private owners a percentage of their property's value in order to save their home from the fires. You'd then see door to door sales people using phrases like "it'd be a shame if something were to happen to this lovely home of yours". Some distopian level of society where your house is actively worked to prevent it from burning, but you neighbors house is now a pile of burning embers because they weren't a member while the team working your house stands there and watches.
In spite of the legend, the needle doesn't get hot enough to melt the groove.

But repeated pressure does deform it slightly. And the HF detail in the groove is already so tiny that it doesn't take much to wear/deform it away.

Vinyl really is the most ridiculous medium for music. I get the appeal of a large collectible object wrapped in stunning sleeve art, but in terms of audio quality it's the equivalent of a cheap plastic LOMO lens.
This looks really great, Kenneth! I was actually just investigating this last week; didn't see Swift support yet but I'm eagerly awaiting it ;)

I've considered building some tutorials for a backend framework I was working on, and it would be sweet if they were interactive.

Wondering if it would be feasible to have a server running in the one off docker containers so that people could run some simple requests on it to see how it works. It would also be sweet if it could run a simple SQLite database so users could play around with the ORM components as well.

Congrats on the launch & I'll be following this!
The part of this rule to watch out for is the "One is, it kind of releases you from responsibility if things should go wrong." Oh no it doesn't, unless you CYA. And by CYA, I mean documentation. I always send an email afterwards stating what was discussed, as I understood it, and requesting that everyone confirm that I understand it correctly. This has the benefit of confirming my understanding, as well as covering my ass if things go wrong.
Could someone give a bird's eye view summary of why 1Password moving to Electron is bad? Are there documented security risks, or is it more just a UX/UI aesthetic issue?
They could have had those roles already. Once you're in those advanced IC type of roles, there aren't really a lot of places that you can go. A lot of the time that role depends on your domain experience within the company -- Usually to "move up", you have to go down a role to a bigger/more-challenging company.

Thus at BigCo, hiring senior devs of advanced age should make sense to do.

s/a staff engineer/architect.
I've never understood why "just doing it anyway" was a fair argument when you do not have a choice over the thing you have to work on, but that it isn't when you have a choice in doing something yourself. If what you do is a hobby, you are certainly able to give it up for another one if you aren't happy when doing it, or if it isn't "just your thing." But arguably, it being "not your thing" could just be because of your insecurity and unwillingness to conquer adversity, and thus giving up on something you don't "want" to do but do not stop thinking about regardless would be the wrong decision. That process of getting over your insecurity could take weeks or months or years of time, beyond just trying it a few times before declaring that it's not truly an interest of yours.

For that matter, why do some genetic disorders reliably correlate with having only a set of narrowly defined interests, or no persistent interests at all? What does an "interest" even mean at a biological level? Are we always in control of what we are capable of caring about and acting towards, separate from what we merely tell ourselves we want?
I agree, but a lot of it comes down to other peoples perception of you. Sometimes it is worth doing those dumb esoteric challenges that provide no business value whatsoever.

Example: The CTO really wants the table on the careers page to render the text color coded by the age of the job posting. Will it be easy to do this? No, our table text color is hard coded so we will have to rewrite the table module from scratch. Is this of any value to any paying customer or job applicant? No, no one cares about the text color.

But, after you have advised management it may not be valuable to your users and it will be very time consuming, you better hop on board the table text color train 100% and ship those stupid table colors.
We've got the Silicon part covered, but no Valley here :)
The CDC Was Wrong to Say the Delta Variant Is as Contagious as Chickenpox
This reminds me of the old story about the weather man and the Native Americans. As the story goes,

One late summer the weather forecast on the local news included a reminder that winter was coming and it was time to prepare. A Native American took the caution to heart and began to gather firewood.

The next week the local forecast included a stronger caution. This winter might be worse than usual. The Native American redoubled his effort to store up firewood.

The next week the forecaster predicted that the coming winter would be among the most severe in modern memory. The Native American cleared room for a larger wood pile and set about to lay in as much wood as he could.

The next week the weather forecaster repeated the strong urging for people to prepare for a historic winter season. The anchor was duly impressed and asked the weatherman how he was able to forecast this so early.

"I've been watching the Native Americans and they are preparing like crazy! I think they know something, and we all need to get ready."

The press is reporting announcements from the CDC which are based on numbers the CDC got from... the press.
It's not about saving water, it's about immersing yourself in water. You seem to have a different natural disaster in mind.