skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Highly entertaining and informative article/project - thanks for taking the time to write about it.

This is really cool, I wonder if it could be built into something like https://datasette.io/ - without the need for a python runtime.
This could also be "he was taken into custody, someone with a few more brain cells than average searched his computer, looked at his browser history, concluded that case 2 was the case and let him go".

I don't think we have enough information.
Amazon Drops ‘Draconian’ Policy on Making Games After Work Hours
> Alongside, same with the renaming of Nanjing - what if the government renames the incident and it becomes the status quo? What is the source of truth?

The "source of truth" should be scientific consensus, not government decrees and policies.

The problem is obvious: it takes a lot of resources to determine what the consensus is on hotly debated topics.
> “Anti-government” is absurdly vague.

That's the point. It's not an open to the public list, it's secret and controlled by few. It can contain whatever they want it to contain.

> Not how this system works.

That's absurdly naive.
I worry that something is going awry with the way this stuff is being approached. This is clearly criminal really but I wonder a bit about the medical and regulatory culture surrounding it and how it might be backfiring and fueling it further.

Today I learned about a case where a local pediatrician was disciplined for discouraging childhood vaccinations (not just COVID but vaccinations in general, pre-COVID; https://www.startribune.com/minnesota-pediatrician-disciplin...).

I'm very pro-vaccine, and disagree strongly with the physician, but am also disturbed that a licensed physician can be threatened with losing their right to practice because they disagree with the field. As part of the settlement, for example, the pediatrician was ordered "to remove information from his website that was critical of vaccine safety research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Even given his criticisms, 80% of his patients were still vaccinated.

I'm mentioning it here because I sort of wonder if people like that nurse have an outlet to say "no, I don't feel comfortable administering this vaccine" as a matter of principle without being in danger of losing their job. The nurse might just have been on some kind of unhinged vigilante mission, but I feel like the sociopolitical dynamics around these issues are crossing into some territory I feel really uncomfortable with, on both sides.

Again, am not defending the actions of this nurse at all, as they are really a different issue, but I worry somewhat that certain policies might encourage this kind of behavior more, or at least add fuel to the fire of the kinds of wild conspiracy theories that underlie antivax movements in general. At some level, I don't really think the COVID vaccine controversy is really about the COVID vaccines, it's about government control and regulation in general. I often feel like people are talking past each other and making things worse.
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing
$1k is basically nothing to a business compared to the cost of paying some muppet to write 50 SD cards at short notice. Especially as it’s a one-off cost.

At my previous job we’d have recouped the cost within a couple of months at the most, and the sanity of whichever person was assigned to do the cards.
> Why not just include the contract in the email then?

One of the advantages of a fixed reference document is that, apart from confirming that you have that document, you don't have to read it to know what it says — and to have a sufficient degree of comfort that the other side isn't trying to sneak something past you.

In contrast, if Party A (or its lawyer) copies and pastes the contents of a reference document into an email, then Party B will have to read the thing, which will take time and, if a lawyer is involved, cost money in legal fees.

An analog that comes to mind is the INCOTERMS rules for shipping goods: If you agree that the goods will be shipped DDP (Delivered Duty Paid), or EXW (Ex Works), or whatever, then you know what you're getting, without having to read the rule again to be sure the other party isn't trying to slip something in on you.

Another analogy is arbitration: If you agree to the American Arbitration Association's rules for commercial arbitration, then all concerned can go to the AAA Website to get a reference copy.
As a long-time Android user, if this passes I might actually consider buying an iPhone for the first time in my life, which feels rather ironic considering Appple is fighting it tooth and nail.
Then you stopped reading before the part where he implemented SQLite using IndexedDB for the storage, thereby completely missing the point.

It's a fun article, I'd recommend trying reading all of it.
> They obviously do not pay commensurate to the risks of job loss, lack of quality of life at a job, and/or to make up for the undesirability for the location they are in.

I mean, there's a lot of alcoholism problems and drug issues too.

>People incorporate that knowledge, and let their kids know that those jobs are not worth investing in.

I'm not sure the wisdom of the crowds is a great example here. How many kids are in many thousands of debt and working at dead end jobs or as a barista, etc. because they got a useless degree from a third rate university?

> How many factory towns are there where the factory closes or downsizes and the whole town goes into economic decline? You need to pay a lot to offset that kind of risk.

I don't think I'm describing factory town style jobs of yesteryear. There are many solid jobs in tool and die, machining, etc that are mainly run by small to mid-sized shops. Literally thousands of these around the country.

There are a lot of people making a great living in these places, it's just that there's a shortage of qualified labor. Similar to software companies - there's a shortage of labor and it isn't because they aren't paying enough. Additionally, a lot of people think this kind of work is below them because they went to a university to study a field that they can't make it in.

> The other proof is also that I bet they can get lots of qualified applicants that will “show up everyday and work”. Just offer $200k per year. Or $500k per year. Obviously the purchasers of that type of labor are not offering enough money.

Yeah probably but I'm not sure that's economic. Also, the starting pay won't be the best but you rise fairly quickly through the ranks where the money improves. But like I said before, there are a lot of people making a good life for themselves with a home, a family, vacations, and a solid American life in these places. This life exists for people. But you would think it isn't even available - but it is.

Kids complain that they are 50k in debt from school, can't find a job that pays well and will never be able to afford a home or have kids. But that's not true. There's a career out there in modern manufacturing if they are willing to humble themselves.
What type of actions on behalf of a John Q. Public would qualify as this 'pulling' that you're referring to? Just go solar, since wind really isn't feasible for a single family?

That 'bootstraps' is an old term that doesn't really apply to today's highly-siloed civilization. Everyone has their specialty and making anything out of bailing wire & bubble-gum just isn't as likely as it was in 1920.
You’re most likely using dd wrong then. Perhaps an incorrect block size or not writing to the raw device (e.g on Mac, that would be /dev/rdisk1).

That said, the fact that Etcher doesn’t require you to know this is a plus.
What will be really painful is that you won't even be able to prevent data egress, since these devices will just hit Amazon Walk, or connect via some hidden 6G modem, or use DNS over HTTPS to hide the network names.

And you'll pay for it, too!
Exactly. And that one correct true best winning choice can surely only be rpm.
A Familiar Story: How New Crypto Regulation Reminds of Turbulent Air Transport
I've already torched my icloud account. While I erased everything in it including my contacts it couldn't help but upload what was on my phone in the background. So I just reset the phone. I've canceled my cable internet service. And when my 4 months remaining for my phone internet service are up I will not renew it. Welcome to world war V.
explicit goal is actually the opposite and it's likely not just empty words. If you've done business in China as a foreigner over the last few years the court system in particular has actually become more reliable and noticeably quicker. It used to be way more arbitrary and chaotic about ten-ish years ago.
When you're running a webapp it's the primary cross-platform storage facility provided. It sounds like he's doing some buffering and bulk writes to optimize the use of indexeddb rather than just passing through each query to try to mask some of the slowness of the end storage.
A blogs around the proctocology, and the weight loss industries, respectively?
If the solution is to force everyone to do everything the same way... that's a political solution, not technical. That solution could just as easily have been everyone is forced to do everything the same way on their local machine. Maybe its more politically expedient to move everyone to a completely different cloud stack than to fix/standardize the local one.

> My expectation is that if you roll out something like Codespaces a small minority of your engineers will resist because it doesn't fit exactly how they want to work.

I'd expect internal support to be highly dependent on how terrible the alternative is. Beyond personal preferences, I'm really apprehensive about coupling all dev work to a single remote cloud provider. What happens if you lose internet access or when they inevitably go offline? In the case of the later, literally all work stops.
Twitter's new font “Chirp” appears to be white-labeled GT America
Everyone involved was getting paid their salary/wage throughout this, except the victim.
This is pretty much what I did.
Activision Blizzard: Diablo 4 director and two others leave company
When interviewing, tell the team's manager that you're really interested in working somewhere that you can have a big impact. Ask about the most important projects they have upcoming and about the biggest problems the team is facing, and politely dig into it. Once you are aware what the biggest problems are, you can usually theorize without too much trouble what skill sets are needed.
I’m talking about the analytics/surveillance inside the software, not just their logs of me browsing to this page. The privacy policy page kinda bundles them all together when explaining it. There’s an in-app toggle to (supposedly) disable it, and that’s fine for people like me who are in the habit of checking the settings when I try new software, but that means I can never recommend Etcher to a friend since I know 99% of them won’t bother doing that.
I don't expect it to, and I rarely hold it. When I do hold it the risk is tolerable, as it has weathered much greater crisis of confidence before in a market where most assets have crashed over 90% in value before, while Tether has not.

Knowing the answer doesn't make me a proponent of it.

If you get caught holding the bag that's what happened. Congress won't step in. A stronger variant will emerge. Nobody wants a regulatory sandbox hellbent on nothing ever going wrong, while holding up projects indefinitely because something might go wrong. Get out the market if you can't handle that. In the mean time, regarding Tether, I wish they weren't the dominate stablecoin and I don't feel I need to preface my responses with that just so crypto skeptics will respect what I wrote. I've seen greater fractional systems which I believe are very commonplace in the industries that Congress will step in on. Nobody is confused about Tether's potential to be insolvent in a bankrun or asset forefeiture.
Just saw this, in the NY times coverage of the situation:

"American negotiators are trying to extract assurances from the Taliban that they will not attack the embassy"

Oh boy....

Edit: White is what is controlled by the government, Orange dark is already under control of the Taliban, other orange contested.

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/08/08/taliban-afg...
Because they "strongly believe Rust is the future of JS tooling." I'd agree honestly, I like Rust a lot more than Go. But that's a debate for another time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157256
The beauty of Wikipedia is exactly in its plurality. It's perfect in its (contributors') imperfection. As long as the standards of quoting and referencing are kept high, let these minor interpretation differences spark attention so we can promote discussion and interaction.

One Wikipedia to rule them all will only promote the Anglo- narrative (or whichever lingua franca rules at a certain point). Be very careful what you are wishing for, it might very well be Chinese next.
You can make a contract on the phone; hell, two people in the middle of a meadow can make a verbal contract that's completely valid (provided there's an "exchange of considerations", and the contract is "fair" - depending on jurisdiction).

The problem with verbal contracts is that it's hard to produce evidence about such contracts, if it comes to enforcement.

Email would be OK, if the agreement were assigned to the custody of some mutually-trusted party. It's no good if the parties to the agreement each save their copy of the text/plain agreement on their own corporate mailserver.
The BAD news is that there are so many government options that it will be hard to find a country that will fit you perfectly and some countries tend to overreach their borders very far so that you cannot escape their tyranny even if you move. The WORSE news is that even if they're able to find a country that fits them better, they still need to invest a lot of money and time to move (if they get in at all) and leave their family, friends and home behind.

Seriously, moving to a different country is hardly an option. In nearly all cases, fighting to keep your country good is your best bet.
What is the "scientific consensus" on the name of a city? When the government of India decides to rename Calcutta to Kolkata, then has the "scientific consensus" on the name of the city shifted?
calculating how many times a person clicks "download" on their website times a guesstiamted number of cards a person would also give a good enough estimate without any telemetry
I had read this awhile back. I was taken aback by the 1909 date in the title - I had assumed it was ‘30s or ‘40s. So I verified it in Wikipedia.
She seems to dream of this "one absolute source of truth". There is no universal truth. The best way to know something is to know as many perspectives on it as possible. In her example of "massacre" changing to "incident", both are descriptions that groups of people find appropriate.

You open a left-wing journal and read about what people in that bubble think of the world. You open a right-wing journal and read a different perspective.

Plurality of information and perspective gives you the richest knowledge. Not some Orwellian universal truth that some committee/government approved.
Good old fashioned police-work is needed instead of back-doors into our favorite apps.

The Internet and app ecosystems can't work properly if they're weakened by LEAs. People would just not use them if they know they're being watched. I'm not saying the majority would switch to Linux phones either (like Librem 5 & Pinephone), simply that the two dominating app-stores (Play & Apple Store) would be phased out and people would probably fund independent FLOSS app stores to replace them.

In the end, the people will speak out and respond to back-doors. In-fact we need FLOSS app stores right now (Similar to F-Droid[0], but baked in as the default store), and they need to be funded properly & they need sound economic incentives to continue. No more 'free' apps where you pay for them with your data. It's possible to have FLOSS apps that are not gratis where people pay for them with money, not their data.

(The reason I suggest we switch to FLOSS app stores is that the apps can easily be checked for back-doors or malicious code since the code is open source. It makes the apps readily available for audits too)

[0] https://f-droid.org/
Hacker is returning $600M in crypto, claiming theft was just “for fun”
> Action follows desire. As a species, we must shift the conceptualization of the world from globalism to localism. Return to the world view of people living in 1900 or before.

Ouch. Lots of one way tickets for anyone who isn't white in Europe or America.
AzureFunBytes Episode 53 – Intro to PulumiCorp with mattstratton
The Reality of Crypto Trading Universe (Video, 2019)
>the stock market runup over the next 30 years is going to be unreal

Not counting the stock market plunge especially in tech in the dot-bomb era when there's a good change you'll also lose your tech job and very possibly be very underemployed for a few years. Of course if you hold on through that (and 2008), you'll come out well on the other side.

And if you were 20 in 91, you probably don't have a house in ten years in pricey (just not eye-watteringly so) SV 9 years later when the bottom falls out of the market.
That feels a lot like the "marketing" one. I think the belief that if you just think enough, you won't have to untangle anything later, is almost always incorrect. I've worked on a lot of systems that were very thought through but also ended up very messy - in large part because circumstances and needs changed over the years in ways that would be near-impossible to plan for all of them.

But people selling framework X want to sell you the idea that if you just pick the right tool (theirs), you won't have those problems!

(This is somewhat circular, though: if you had said something like "I think about problems a lot because I want to avoid untangling incorrect messes" then that doesn't have to be overthinking. But once you hit analysis paralysis, building nothing for an extended period becomes itself an incorrect decision. There's a fine line between giving a problem due consideration and not being able to stop thinking about it.)
Did you pass elementary school comprehension?

Study: in simple terms, "can COVID live on and in masks"

Rand Paul: "this study shows that these masks don't prevent COVID".

I'm not talking about other studies. I'm not talking about anything else. There are plenty of inconclusive and concerning studies.

But Rand Paul, who as you keep reminding us, is far more educated than all of us fascists, wilfully and repeatedly held up the specific study above as being "undeniable proof" of masks being a problem. They may be a problem. But that study doesn't show it. It doesn't imply it. It does nothing other than talk about the ability or lack thereof of the virus to grow and survive in the material of the mask itself.

And he knows that, as an educated scientist.

And he doesn't care. He also knows that people will see keywords and draw matching conclusions to the factually incorrect statements about the study that he makes, repeatedly.

That's why he got banned.

Your martyrdom is unbecoming. And your assumptions of my beliefs on the matter are entirely broken because you're too focused on foaming at the mouth about fascists demonizing you while comparing yourself and Rand Paul to Galileo.

I work in EMS as a critical care paramedic. Every year I get the flu vaccine because I'm around vulnerable populations a lot. My girlfriend and my step daughter don't get these vaccines, and rather than suppressing and demonizing them, I think that's entirely reasonable, because they're not around those populations as I am.

I also have never said - because I don't believe - that every person needs to be vaccinated for COVID.

For someone who has spent a large chunk of these discussions building up these strawmen, your radar needs a lot more calibration.
EdgeDB Beta 3
This looks to be a nice alternative to the official app, which I mostly dislike due to its non-standard gigantic popup that appears when I click on it in the system tray. I only use Dropbox to store my 1password vault so I don't really care about any bandwidth concerns.
"What company is gonna leave and give that kind of gift wrapped profit center to someone else voluntarily? "

When it's no longer a gift.

These companies are sometimes high flying startups along the lines of US firms and they require access to capital.

If their valuations are clipped by an order of magnitude because of regulatory apparatus (i.e. can't list in the US and American investors have no appetite for Chinese exchanges), then this will be a problem for a lot of businesses.

TikTok is getting big in the US and the West where margins are a lot fatter, it could feasibly make more sense for Bytedance to jump ship and become an American-based company with a Chinese workforce. Obviously that's hugely speculative but just an example.

It's like any bit of regulation it has a bunch of externalities. Some may be pretty bad for the company. Maybe, maybe not.
No, they 100% have services that buy data from SmartTV manufacturers like Vizio and sells this data to advertisers to help track attribution and campaign effectiveness.

A big one is iSpot.tv, the TV will use a fingerprint of your commercial and determine when/where it was watched, and help you tie back the attribution of a customer that visited your site.
I imagine the conference swag consists of branded tote bags, boxes, baggies, bins, pouches, bottles, backpacks, and laundry bags.
OBL left Afghanistan in 2001.
I wasn't either, I was saying you are discounting that apps can be a moat at all, and that you shouldn't
It's a stone requirement of the ponzi scheme itself. The price only goes up if new money comes into the market, so for anyone currently "hodling" a coin, they are obliged to convince others that buying in is a good idea or they lose their initial investment.
So what is your point then?
Is it that Apple's punch in the gut here, while bad/wrong, is beyond criticism or outage because if you use Google, you'll get a slap to the face?
Or is it that Apple actually isn't doing anything wrong simply because there is some roughly analogous behavior in your view by other companies?
Simple, the line that was crossed is scanning your local files versus scanning cloud files (even though they promise this system is disabled if you disabled icloud photos.)

Once this system is in place, it takes only 1 tiny adjustment/exploit to scan other private stuff on your devices, which you would never upload to a cloud.
> I have never heard someone telling their employee or friend "you're underthinking this".

I mean, probably not with those exact words, but isn't that essentially the feedback you would get for almost any mistake you make at work that was foreseeable but not foreseen? Or even things like a code review, where pretty much all comments are of the form "you might want to consider how this effects OtherSystemX," which is a more helpful way of saying "you might be failing to think about something you ought to think about."
it's way faster than dd, at least with all the settings/cards i've tried, maybe i'm not using it right
The post title is really misleading
HashiCorp Waypoint 0.5 Released
Do you really think that the Chinese government have not studied the causes and effects of the ussr collapse enough? The other large communist nation who was also their neighbour? Or is this just some weird rhetoric you're using
The inertia comes from the number of drivers too I guess
German nurse accused of swapping Covid vaccines for saline solution
I remember Atari basic was quite superior, so probably that's why there was no port.
Awesome work!
Personally I wouldn’t be able to crisply render the font on a low-DPI screen without a hint
Scanning “private” content