skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily, Google our beneficient overlord would never use it for anything nefarious after all their motto is "Do No Evil" /sarc.
As with Blizzard, Facebook seem to have some deep aversion to manual moderation, and will spend millions on getting developers to make half-hearted attempts to automate it without actually solving the problem.

This is a real band aid that will do nothing to dissuade people from continuing their abusive behaviour.
Bias & fairness in enrollment is easy to solve, right? Just expand capacity to meet demand.

I get that higher ed has a branding problem. I don't care. If you want society support, you play by society rules.

Further, they're doing a fine job of destroying their own brands without any outside help.

Berkeley created and maintained an elite institution without being a finishing school for trust fund babies. Until they had their funding ganked, of course.
Err... we're literally in a pandemic, where people getting together in large numbers makes things worse.

When we're not in pandemic conditions, people are quite welcome to gather and protest whatever the heck they want.
How is becoming the "digital territory of" a dead monarchy part of decentralization? I am confused, as there is no explanation why this is somehow a benefit.

Is it just me or are Lee's blogs increasingly looking like the rantings and ravings of an unhinged madman?
Interesting facts about the British Library:

- It requires every physical book published in the UK to be collected by the Library (since 1662)

- It has 60 million individual newspaper editions

- In 1999, the Library earmarked 60,000 volumes of non-British newspapers for disposal because it was running out of storage space (inviting criticism)

- The newspapers were offered to overseas museums, or put up for auction. But the short notice given to museums meant many were unable to accept them (they also needed time to free up physical space)

- The American writer Nicholson Baker used his own retirement money to purchase "2000 bound volumes of American newspapers - the last remaining copies in the world - including a complete run of the Chicago Tribune from 1888 to 1958 and hundreds of editions of Joseph Pulitzer's ground-breaking colour broadsheet of the 1890s, the New York World." [1]

- The physical copies of the American newspapers were saved and become part of the American Newspaper Repository [2] a non-profit organisation which Baker founded. In 2004, the collection moved to Duke University.

- Baker went on to publish a book of the whole affair in 2001 called Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. The Guardian published an interview with him in 2002 (below)

[1] Paper Chase: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/22/museums.re...

[2] From an archived copy of the American Newspaper Repository website: "Research libraries everywhere, including the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Center for Research Libraries, have replaced most of their often richly illustrated sets of late 19th and 20th century newspapers with black and white microfilm."
How do you expect people react to something like that?

There have been lots of people offloaded to far away places for resource extraction as you call it. People adapt to the demands.

I think this is a borders on odd expectations of people.

Going by this Irish and Chinese sent over for railroad building were superfluous people.
I hope you guys get eMMC someday. It's great.
> However, when you have some experience working in defense you find out reality is more like: there's real criminal to catch, real victims to protect and to save, it's not like we have any time for non critical stuff such as going after pacific dissidents

This is wildly self-serving. Security services all over the world absolutely go after dissidents and whistle-blower and many other undesirables. Just look at the COINTELPRO papers in the USA to see this, for a well documented historic example from a free country - not only were security services investigating peaceful protesters, they were actively infiltrating, trying to coerce them to commit crimes, blackmailing MLK into committing suicide, they payed for the assassination of the Black Panthers leader and many others.

Or look at the recent 'governor kidnapping plot', bravely foiled by intelligence services, who were actually 10 of the 12 people in on the 'plot'...

> at the same time they are against using tech they create to increase security. How do you live in such a contradiction? Not to mention mass surveillance will create tech jobs you are probably part of the small number of people who can apply and get hired and actually work on it with their own ethic.

A solution to a problem can be worse than the problem. I am all for solutions to the huge number of car fatalities, but that doesn't mean I support banning cars, even though that would fix the problem. Surveillance states create way more problems than they solve, and are invariably used against political minorities. The ethics of individual operators are irrelevant - if the institutional drive is there, workers will be selected until they match the institutional drive.
X/(y+z)+y/(z+x)+z/(x+y)=4
Our systems team is veering into the first sentence hard. Tried to make a whole "one size fits all" CI/CD CLI tool that is inflexible and obfuscates the process.

Nobody asked for it and everyone is content rolling their own pipelines by hand, yet they've sunk a ton of time into it.
Not a tiny purchase, but small compared to things like houses and cars, is Lasik. Giving myself sharp distance vision and eliminating the need to wear glasses was simply the best money that I've ever spent on improving my life.
"Just do what you're told and you'll get your rights back when the dear leaders decide you've done enough. But they'll still reserve the right to take them away whenever they feel like it."

How's that boot polish tasting?
I lived in Singapore before and it's more run like a company and.

It has no personal freedoms, but on the other side they have HDBs(government housing) which is affordable for their residents.

Australia has no affordable housing alternatives at all and the government doesn't even seem to care.

Australia has more freedoms than Singapore, but far less than Europe.
Is there anything new here? This is the same story it’s been for years…
To tack on to this:

Typing is never the limiting factor in my work. Like, if I had to type even double to accomplish the same program, I don't think that would actually slow me down. Given that, the major time difference between using static vs dynamic typing is the investment needed to go from 'throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticks' to understanding what you need to do and doing it.
hooray for doing the math, thanks

This article is from 2015 and one of the author's key points is that we're never going to see the equity market booms of the 80s, 90s, and 2010s ever again. The example is that $100 in 1979 turned into $2000 in 2015... but that's only 8.5% annual RoR. I'm not sure whether it's real or nominal; depends on whether their dollar amounts are inflation-adjusted.

IMO it was tempting at that time to say the next few years are going to look different than the past few. I, not at all an economist, also thought in 2015 the top must be in because, come on, just look at the graph! And the P/E, the CAPE, the Buffet indicator! That was wrong, of course. S&P 500 is up 125% since then, for a 17% nominal RoR. Which is double that 8.5% in case it was also nominal.

random statement: "the millionaire next door" in 1996 is "the $1.73-millionaire next door" in 2021. Or more: CPI numbers just came in at 5.4% an hour ago.
Interesting;

I just purchased FileBrowser Pro for my iPad, but after adding my Backblaze B2 bucket i just get an authorization error.
Recreated the keys, still not working…
> In the case of engineers, designers, etc., these people can work from anywhere, including San Francisco.

They can also work in Bangladesh. And unless you are thinking of standardizing pay for software engineers globally in any reasonable timeframe, this argument does not hold up.

What is an engineer worth? I have offshored to skilled developers at rates 1/5th the US rate, and they can do the same work.

The actual answer according to the free market would be to take every engineer of equivalent skill, globally, and find the average. That is what a software engineer is worth according to the market all of us are in.

And that's not SF pay.
I enjoy taking LRT and buses in Waterloo Region, especially with my kids, but I think I go in expecting that there's a tradeoff— longer wait/travel time in exchange for being able to read on my kindle or play games on my phone on the way.
PTP is a standard feature on a lot of Intel chipsets so a lot of servers have it 'for free' and aren't using it.

It timestamps packets at the network card - independently of any kernel timing.
Ceiling fan
Oh no if you click it Facebook might find out! The horror
cool! thanks for the support. It's been super fun on my side to see this small idea of teaching folks vim evolve into something that helps other devs earn money :)
> follow your curiosity. Admittedly, I am still a young programmer (shy of 30), but so far this has not yet failed me.

Unfortunately this failed me hard. I realized this after recently getting several rejection (at the screening level, not even the interview level) for reasons I can reasonably extrapolate “other candidates have much more relevant “experience” than you, quotations denoting professional experience, as opposed to some shit I put together on my own.

It kinda dawned on me, that instead of wasting time working on things I was curious about or that interested me, I should have instead been working on things I’m not particularly interested in, but are in demand.
I used to read a few of those blogs and for some (most?) of them even the RE part was a lie. They rented out property and had to take care of it and had some side hustles here and there. Some even went into the direction of being "part time farmer". Granted, they retired from their old dayjob and worked way less than before and with more freedom - which is totally a valid lifestyle - but it's at least a bit disingenious calling this retirement.
Could you make your comment more helpful?

At the moment it can be summarized as "more concrete is more expensive". It's seems you have more thoughts on it, but it's hard to infer much else from it.
Supposedly my base level 1999 Tacoma is worth $13,295 with over 160k miles. Which is unbelievable because I paid $6,500 for it in 2006.
Well, thought I’d share my personal experience and the focus areas of our platform engineering team, since the DevOps/SRE definitions are more-or-less correct.

I’ve seen Platform Engineering take various different forms, but it’s current incarnation is split into 2 teams:

1. Developer Productivity. Ownership of quality, efficiency, and developer tools. A recent example project was improving the quality of our test data capabilities to make manual testing easier/more consistent.

2. Unified Client Platform. This team owns our design system and is the primary owner of our effort to unify on React.js/React Native, though a lot of the heavy lifting is distributed around the team.

(I mostly wanted to weigh in since at a mid-sized company at least, we’re not interested in building our own PaaS… k8s or Lambda is fine for that. Instead, we want to ensure developer onboarding is painless and anything specific to us is easily understood - the bulk of the surface area should be best-in-class 3rd party tools or ideally popular OSS frameworks.)
You are not alone my friends. I have seen this happen over and over again.
Thanks for the great explanation. Do you know how it plans to handle dependencies? Is it expected to work on embedded platforms like Cortex-M?

It's nice seeing a mix of modern systems languages: Zig, Rust, Jai. All seem very well designed and promising.
Seems logical. long time followers will be more levelheaded on average
What you write doesn't refute the problem which is that countries like this generally have worse health outcomes, healthcare systems, they have fewer skilled workers to build their economies.

Skimming their best resources off the top can't be justified by some dry economic formula (if it happens to be correct) that just by pure coincidence results in a worse outcome for that poorer country and a better outcome for the wealthier one. Colonialists had all sorts of economic arguments too.
Officially, they don't need your PII to validate your certificate: "The personal data of the certificate holder does not pass through the gateway, as this is not necessary to verify the digital signature" [1]

That said, I've not actually looked in to how these work... In Berlin at least, it's rare to get an ID check at a restaurant, usually someone just glances at your phone.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-re...

edit: further: "The CovPassCheck app processes the QR code only in the working memory of the smartphone and does not store any data." [2]

[2] https://digitaler-impfnachweis-app.apps.public.bfarm.de/en/c...
> Most developers just need something like heroku, tsuru, appengine, or openstack.

A lot of companies don't operate at Google or Facebook scale but many companies operate at a scale which quickly outgrows the solutions you mentioned. Maybe you just haven't worked at places with larger scale to see the benefits things like Kubernetes provides?
You could buy a mattress cover maybe?
Meta-repository of breast cancer AI classifiers
The availability of a much cheaper product than the appliances will likely create a bit of stir with competitors. The article mentions better management functions too. So perhaps invented is too strong, but it's more notable than your follow up comments suggest.
The fastest breadboard oscillator on the mudball
Firebird Technical Specifications updated for Firebird 4.0
Thanks for responding. So you are saying full nodes are the users? They can provide connectivity but full nodes that don't mine can't continue a fork (where fork is any fork including the original) without there being people willing to mine that fork. So that's why I think miners have the ability to fork.

> The ETC fork would have been successful at any non-zero support level from people with the ability to mine.

It would be economically irrational for people to send transactions to a fork with a single miner since that miner could unilaterally rewrite any transactions as they see fit.
This is why I think miners have the ability to control forking.
Internet doesn't need more UI libraries
Direct link to the site:
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Some people having cars != everyone having cars.
None of what you have said is new to people that know anything about climate change (which, isn't as nearly many as I'd like!). A switch to renewables isn't fixing anything, it is merely stopping even worse damage, and giving us a way to have energy that doesn't increase carbon. On top of that, we must sequester carbon. This isn't a question of adaptation, but survival. Sure, the planet is going to be fine, and life will be fine. Humanity? Not so much. Definitely not civilization. At +12C or so, humans, without physical adaptations, are pretty much goners. Civilization is going to struggle this century, how bad it is depends on the solutions we can figure out.

Planting trees is just the first step, the second is to use them to keep their carbon locked away, because whether they burn or rot they put their carbon back in the atmosphere unless we do something to prevent that. Build with wood, build lots of things with wood! And then plant more!

The problems are insanely difficult, and that's why we've been screaming for decades to start doing something. I'm glad you, at least, have finally listened. Of course, you came to the opposite conclusion of "oh well, nothing to be done!"

And if society collapses, it's likely nothing remotely as advanced could ever be created again because we've used up all the cheap fossil fuels: https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation...
You get it just right! I guess the HN title I use is a bit confusing. Actually it's based on some of our initial users suggestions, they used the app as business-oriented and suggested that there are quite some creative ways to apply it.
Is it intended that the homepage flashes colors? It's quite offputting.
I think some folks are use to the noise and filler time at the office. In absence of that kind of chatter, work becomes a bit more soul sucking than expected so it's no surprise to me that anyone would want to move to another job just for some kind of change that requires interfacing with co-workers (training, on-boarding, etc).
Seeing the same thing, I captured it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rj7SuJgs5E

for whatever reason the recordit link does not work for me.

I am using latest Chrome on Ubuntu 20.
The seabreeze colliding with the mountains in South India likely results in significant cloud cover, which cools the surface by reflecting sunlight. You can see here that the southern region has less total sunlight per year (lighter = cloudier):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_duration#/media/File:...
MTV Classic
Nope, that's unintentional. I'm not able to see your gif. But if you let me know your browser/OS/device I can take a look and fix it :)
The Guide to Valuing Startups
I bet they wish they had leased! This employer owns many large campuses...
The personal brand thing is interesting. I feel like I've had plenty of job security, and I've been through company downsizing, but the layoffs never got big enough to be any threat to me. But I was an Army officer before I got into engineering, and it's obviously a different culture for a very good reason, but due to the fact that the mission is bigger than any person and the organization needs to operate and succeed in environments where all individuals can be killed at any moment, it was always drilled into us to be constantly training your replacement. Make sure you are never the only person who knows what you know or can do what you can do. I've taken that mindset with me and continue to meticulously document everything I do and constantly train others, so that I certainly hope no organization ever fears losing me will drive them out of business, though I don't think they want to lose me, either

I had a very notable team member at my last employer who was an exact picture of everything opposite to that. He was a complete rock star, always the person called in to put out any fire, always being moved around and temporarily assigned to augment whatever team was having the most trouble. He'd been there longer than anyone else and personally built out a whole lot of bespoke automation tooling with no peer review, no documentation, and no one else really understood it. That specific program really might go under and the company would lose an enormous contract if he ever left.

But is that really a good thing? The only reason they're in that situation is because of the way he works in the first place, combined with outdated processes where the management and senior technical leadership is so narrowly blindered by their focus on user-facing features that they have no awareness of what is happening in the realm of platform and developer automation tooling and how reliant on it they are.

This is a conflict between individual and organizational rationality. And I don't expect individuals to solve it or blame them for being individually rational at the expense of organizations. By all means, keep up the hustle and do what is best for you and your family. But man, there has to be a better way to accomplish collective action.
Where can I find more information about the "Succinct counting blocked Bloom filter"? Can you point to an implementation or a document? Thanks.
Then you could transpile COBOL into Elixir...
The truth about technology jobs on the trading floor
> The software update that goes to the uses but if miners dont mine for the hard fork, then the user cant use it. ... The miners have the power to decide where they mine.

This is based on the assumption that miners would rather choose to abandon their business as a matter of principle than mine on the most profitable chain, and also somehow convince any future, unaffiliated prospective miners to also do the same. How could they ever achieve that? Miners don't control where the financial incentives are.
Yes, that’s why I posted that comment.
I've followed facebook from day one and I can assure you there never existed a day when it was not terrible. it started off as dudes creeping on girls
You can transpile anything to anything, but computers will not be able to rewrite the code to match idiomatic style in the new language. Rather, (taking the example from the article) you get COBOL style in Elixir syntax and everyone is unhappy. Much better options are to maintain a COBOL team that continuously updates the program during its lifetime so that knowledge of how it works is never lost, or (if that is no longer possible) do periodic rewrites every two decades or so.

If your first response to this is "but that would cost a fortune!", you are completely correct. The biggest illusion in software is that a "complete" program is now "done" and will need no more investment. Software is a machine for producing information, fundamentally not much different from a lathe or a textile loom. If your company depends on a piece of software to continue existing, it is now de facto a software company. Many institutions have not yet realized this and will run into existential problems within a few decades.
>We take a 10% cut of sales made via our site (plus processing fees)

That's a very generous offer. One of the sites I use to sell my ebooks takes 20% (includes processing fees, but still higher than 10%+fees).

>We handle payments via Stripe

Does it mean payout is via Stripe too? I only have Paypal as an option.

>You can use markdown, videos, code snippets, figma embeds, CodeSandbox Embeds, and executable code snippets.

Can you import/export this as a text file? I write my ebooks in markdown, wondering if there's a way to easily adapt it.
Looks more like the zebra striping for tables: its there just so that you can differentiate paragraphs
There are two common ways to use a fan to reduce heat in a room. One is that you use the fan at night when outdoor air is cooler, to pull in outdoor air and expell warmer indoor air. The other is you use a ceiling fan, spinnng counterclockwise so that it pushes air down in the center of the room that can cool your skin via moisture evaporation, and the cooler air on the floor will be drawn back up along the walls and recycled.
Persians were pretty religious (Zoroastrianism, etc.) in the ancient days too. It was just not Islam. And the way Persia has changed and evolved and what has happened there goes beyond the simple "they decided religion is more important".
Social Calendar Platform Saturn Raises $44M from Benioff, Bezos and Others
Looks very very cool

Wouldn't mind using a hosted version , I don't really feel like spending an hour setting this up.
https://www.weather.gov/ama/heatindex
Ask HN: What is the HN of Cryptocurrency?
Hackernews is what I would consider a website with solid discussion about technology. However it's extremely skeptical when it comes to cryptocurrency.

I'd like know if there is a similar technically minded community for crypto.

I sometimes read /r/CryptoCurrency but its mostly shilling and asking about prices, so it doesn't really interest me.
I think those courses are already pretty good inside of cloud training software like cloudacademy.com

I see slip as a tool that allows indie devs like Wes Bos invent and experiment with new ways of teaching and competing with codecademy
Thanks for the YT link, not sure what was wrong with my recordit link.

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