skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Decent write-up, but I hate that the writing starts with 2 major mistakes:

> Vlad Dracula, the Impaler, the country’s most infamous anti-hero

First of all, his name was "Drăculea", Dracula doesn't mean anything in Romanian.
Second, he's most definitely a national hero for Romanians, he managed to bring order, eliminate thieves, stand up against the Turks. Through his daring night attack he was very close to kill the sultan himself: he and a small group of soldiers dressed as Turks and entered their camp, causing great confusion and making them kill each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Attack_at_T%C3%A2rgovi%C...

We hand wave the impaling as something that was happening at the time in the region. Vlad learned this habit from the Turks, where he was a child prisoner.

Many gruesome stories about him are just invented by the German merchants that had beefs with him.
Not OP, but it could also be used in engine-out situations on drones or de-orbiting satellites.
Great work. I'm not a power user of figma but I've dabbled with it. I think abstra controls for connecting backend is great. the front is a bit hard to use for me. I wish it was more canvaish than figmaish. The contrast for the buttons could be better, why is the box color smaller than the shadow color in the properties?, also why i cant find the width and height properties so i can put it manually. just some feedback. thanks for all your hard work.
SVN fixed a lot of the issues with CVS, FWIW; setup, maintenance, robustness were much improved. But, yes, git was a major breakthrough. Even if you ignore the advantages of a DVCS and git's raw speed, git provides the ability to branch freely, with reasonable confidence that you can merge without spending days reconstructing your divergent source ("merge hell").
Nothing says that problems have to be mutually exclusive.
It's not a worker deficit, it's just the market finally catching up with the huge discrepancy between knowledge worker productivity (in real physical terms) and traditional knowledge worker pay levels.

We've only had "knowledge workers" in the current high tech industrial sense for a couple of hundred years and our understanding of the value of one person's labour is still firmly based in the trades. It's still a relatively new idea that a single person working in the right way (eg. designing automated equipment) could produce hundreds or thousands of times as much as a person trying to directly produce the same thing. We've barely started to process the idea that a single person working in the right breakthrough technology could be almost infinitely productive.
Tell them you are switching to M1 or StarHub. Both provide IPv6: https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/SG
> If you let in a restricted set of users from the company, that's now a business-logic change

No it isn't. Just deploy a proxy in front of the app. Nginx works. If you have SSO, presumably you also have some detail on the business unit, or even what corporate mailing lists they are part of. Use that. Only allow requests through if they have been authenticated and the user is allowed to access the app.

A business logic change is only needed if you actually need RBAC and have different levels of access permissions.
That's literally my question too, sorry!
Most people work but most dont necessarily have to, at least as much as we do.

You need to spend your time doing something. If you aren't spending a good chunk of it making money, you may be spending too much of it blowing through money out of boredom.

I hypothesize that this is a significant part of why 2/3 of lottery winners are bankrupt within 5 years: They quit their job and start spending like there's no tomorrow. And then, oops, the money shockingly doesn't go very far when all you do every minute of every day is spend money like a drunken sailor.
1) you can run from a regular console. if it's a linux framebuffer console and you're local, it'll even use the framebuffer to draw graphics. if you're on a pure VGA console, or ssh'd from the framebuffer console, that obviously won't work, alas.

2) there is an up-to-date port in the Ports Collection (i maintain it), and DragonFly imports things from time to time (they're running a pretty old 2.2.2 iirc). nothing on NetBSD or OpenBSD but i'd love to be there, and would be happy to take PRs!
A Small German Business Began Accepting Cryptocurrency
Galène[1], which is FLOSS, was specifically developed by the University of Paris for the purpose you're describing.

The UI is terrible, I'll admit that, but the performance and scalability is better than Zoom.

[1] https://galene.org/
How does this compare to the end user with holding USD? I guess you'd get hardly any interest in USD, but at the same time much less inflation.
> They search the literature they will spend time on research and quite possibly lose days before emerging with nothing to show for it.

I see you prefer lousy results.

Also, you read BEFORE you need it.

To be literate, educated, knowledgeable developer. And to know where the knowledge is when you need it (because you can't remember everything).
It is easy to say "we are better now, we promise". They straight up lied about security features like e2e for years, and leadership is still mostly the same. They only started seriously hiring in security because they got caught over and over and over.

I have worked with companies with some of the best security people in the world who had no cooperation from engineering to roll out basic risk reductions like code review because it might mean slowing down velocity a bit. To be blunt, security people as often hired with big pairs of golden handcuffs in order to make security marketing more believable, regardless of the reality.

The only way to win back trust of the security minded at this point, is to do what strong competitors like BigBlueButton and Jitsi did: Open source, and invite anyone from the public to audit code and compile binaries as they like.

There is virtually 0 chance they ever do this, but if they did, I would gladly audit it for free out of public interest, and have no problem doing a 180 and actively recommending zoom if it becomes easy to verify it is as good or better than the competition at security and privacy.

For now I maintain my position of strongly urging all my clients to abandon Zoom in favor of historically honest and highly accountable alternatives that work just as well as Zoom without constantly pestering users to grant Zoom with blind sweeping remote code execution privileges on their systems.
Cities are bastions of production, of course there will be more inequality in productive output, so there will be more inequality in wealth.

And yes, as the area becomes more desirable, the cost of living will increase, and the people who don't earn enough to live there will increasingly struggle.

This is basic economics, no need for a study nor an article.
Taliban deflect censorship questions citing Facebook's censorship
it's buzzfeed clickbait, they know their audience
Ask HN: Transitioning from Telegraf/InfluxDB for IoT data
We have IoT sensor data currently flowing Device → Telegraf → InfluxDB → Grafana (TIG stack). This is fine for simple queries and visualization. We want to keep using Grafana, but I'm looking to move to a more proper data infrastructure for 1) SQL-based analytics and ML applications, 2) pub-sub e.g. MQTT to decouple sources from sinks, 3) long-term storage.

We're talking on the order of dozens/hundreds of devices posting data every min or so, not petabytes.

Should I be following a data lake architecture and doing MQTT → S3 / Redshift → ??? → PostgreSQL → Grafana? That seems like a lot of work / maintenance cost / overkill (?).

Or just write a MQTT → PostgreSQL bridge? Why isn't there an off-the-shelf solution, or am I missing something? I feel like this must be a common scenario?

Or should I be looking more closely at enterprise solutions e.g. Snowflake?

Known constraints:
• Grafana supports PostgreSQL as a data source (but not Amazon Redshift).
• Kinesis Firehose supports S3 and Redshift as destinations (but not RDS / PostgreSQL).
• Telegraf doesn't (officially) support PostgreSQL as an output.

Bottom line: I am not a data engineer and want to avoid being one :) Maybe someday we'll be able to afford one, but in the meantime, I want to set things up so it's at least pointing in the right direction, without significant time/money cost.
Nothing (valid) stopped Apple from building such API on top of Vulkan and provide them alongside each other.
Throw out property taxes and implement land taxes. Stop assessing a tax penalty on building up.
What is it like to have a photographic memory?
A Kabul-based crisis alert app struggles to protect its own employees
> He speculates that poorer city dwellers are missing out on the increased social interactions that are credited with driving innovation and wealth creation in large metropolises.

I don't disagree, but it seems a little strange that the article highlights this point rather than the endemic rent-seeking of the urban upper-classes?
The thermal efficiency of turbines can approach 90%, which is far and away better than any other method we have. Turning energy into heat is usually not a problem.
Initially only “credit” networks like Visa/MC supported tap to pay with interchange fees of 1 to 2.5%. The low fee debit networks did not. Regulated debit is as cheap as 21c + 0.05%. A lot of retailers have thin profit margins of 5%. So contactless adoption would mean more high interchange “credit” transactions and fewer low interchange debit transactions. Thus the retailer resistance to contactless.
Would this hold true factoring in other sources of resources?

A soup kitchen wouldn’t show on an income statement and nor would a food bank or a free clinic, but I imagine that there are more support services in cities.

As poor people seem to flock to cities.
A tree farm is clearly better than a barren field. I am afraid you're gonna have to post some backup links to the claims you're making here
Say goodbye to Intel’s RealSense tech by remembering its demos
This is fair since existing flu vaccines are seems to fine and flu medication is available, but good to have mRNA option.
Scientists Grew Stem Cell 'Mini Brains'. Then, the Brains Sort-Of Developed Eyes
It's not worth the hell that would ensue with people suing each other because their letters look too similar. Letters have to look similar -- that's the whole damn point!
This book was ahead of its time. Millionaires who live like college kids. Overworked and stressed out devs working for a faceless corporation. I read it a long time ago, but I recall it was super good.
Billions of people have had to take off their shoes at every airport check in for nearly 2 decades now because one half-baked extremist unsuccessfully attempted to detonate a bomb in his shoe.

There's security and then there's paranoid irrationality, which is what we have at present.
$dayJob
An article by an apple hype website is somewhat dismissive of everyone’s apple concerns. You don’t exactly hire people for that job who aren’t big fans. It would be nice to find another source with the actual text of the letter but I wasn’t able to find one
> Likewise, use GB flag for en_GB locale is cool too, and US flag for en_US. Though with English I suspect many sites may actually not be written in British English and yet they might use GB flag. In that case they are using the wrong flag.

A lot of English text isn't clearly identifiable as belonging to a certain dialect. A single text can be a collaborative work between people using different dialects of English and so different parts of the document can end up being spelled in different ways. Spelling differences aren't always as simple as American vs British – -ize spellings are preferred over -ise in American English, yet -ize spelling is also permitted (if less common) in British English (so-called Oxford spelling). I myself speak Australian English, but in certain contexts (especially talking about computers, or at work – I work for a US-based company) I tend to Americanise my English a little bit. Australian English is neither American nor British – it tends to be closer to British mostly (e.g. petrol not gasoline), but sometimes is closer to American instead (e.g. truck not lorry), and sometimes does its own thing–e.g. Americans say bell peppers and the British say sweet peppers but Australians for some reason use the Latin name capsicum (for the mild ones, not the spicy ones) – which is not unique to Australia, New Zealand and Indian English do that too.

Anyway, we don't need to tag documents with the precise dialect of English. We all understand each other pretty well anyway.

Also, locale != language. Locale is about stuff like date formats, number formats, etc. It is rare for a non-interactive website – as opposed to an interactive webapp - to support multiple locales.
Maybe you could actually go research this and let us know what you find.
If you want to use Helvetica, you can use the FOSS Nimbus Sans. It's literally a reimplementation of PostScript Helvetica.

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts
> By design transactions take an hour to confirm.

Using bitcoin.

Polygon, BSC, etc... it is seconds... and very very inexpensive (polygon is thousands of a cent).
Are you saying that no energy projects should be funded or that there are better uses of energy funding (and if so which areas)?
i associate W2 status with an increased likelihood of getting benefits and job security (yes, i know what at-will employment is).
You can cover this with eslint: https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/blob/...
VPN Scanner Is Now Available for Android in the Google Play Store
There is no such thing as a worker deficit in a market economy. "The Economist" knows this. We have to stop engaging with anyone who speaks this way as legitimate actors. They only deserve scorn and mockery for their brazen dishonesty.
Hmmm... maybe Zoom devs too use Stack Overflow?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3376679/qt-how-to-detect...
Lock-in was the end result, but the project that eventually resulted in Vulkan hadn't even begun by the time Metal was shipping to developers. Metal was released June 2014, and a project called "OpenGL Next" was started the next month, in July 2014. This project was eventually renamed Vulkan, and wasn't available until February 2016.

You can say that the lock-in is "unnecessary", but these things happen for complicated reasons. Fixing the lock-in isn't just a switch you can flip.

We can dream about a world in which Vulkan came out two years earlier than it did. In the world we live in, Microsoft wanted migration paths for existing DirectX users, and Apple wanted people to take iOS seriously as a platform for developing games. Waiting for OpenGL Next to materialize seemed like a losing game at the time.

When Metal and DirectX 12 were under developement, they weren't competing with Vulkan... they were competing with a set of techniques for OpenGL called AZDO, and it seemed that OpenGL was lagging further and further behind its alternatives with every passing year.
Is he volunteering?

Unpaid internship is in my opinion something vastly different from an amateur taking on a task on a volunteer basis. The unpaid internship is an arrangement where you (whether true or not) are putting off the vibe that the experience or notoriety of the position is it's own reward in the form of social capital. I don't offer those, nor do I encourage it.

Volunteer opportunities are different. You take on the risk for delivery of the product, and you give an amateur a shot at building skills. You're still on the hook for ultimate success. That's just between you and them.

If you are even considering doing something like tracking hours, you should be paying something, anything, even if under the table. We as a society need to value each other's time, or what does the sacrfice of one's time at no financial restitution even stand for or symbolize?

You can argue the difference is a matter of quibbles semantics, but my moral compass pegs unethical unpaid internships, and volunteering a healthy investment of an individual's time in building their skills and employability.
Would You Kindly?
I disagree completely. If we were satisfied with a lower standard of living, one parent could stay home to take care of the kids. Keynes predicted 15 hour work weeks but he missed that we would increase our standard of living faster than the productivity gains.
Ironically enough, self-hosted Jira used to do this, until they got rid of the server licenses and forced everyone onto their cloud, and now they charge per user.
So... why NOT a type for even numbers? Or prime numbers?

I'm not asking for someone to supply these things in the standard library of $FOOLANG. I'm saying that very few languages offer the tools to define such things without it being very cumbersome and often incurring significant runtime overhead.

I know it's possible to do better because I've read up a bit on Ada. I've used Rust and written my own "newtypes" with the Deref "trick". I've toyed with Haskell.

So, yeah, please let me define a "PrimeInt" type!
Reminds me of a friend of mine who wanted the ability to have Unix shell access on his work machine from home. (This was early nineties, when Internet log in to work was not a thing.)

He ran a service that piped all income emails to a script. If the email contained a magic cookie, the subsequent commands were executed on a shell, and the results emailed back to sender. There were no checks on who the sender was. :-)

I don’t think the IT people at his very big telecom equipment company would have approved. They never found out about this stunt, but he was later fired for running a password cracker on the company server farm.
The data is not clear on this. Places that did no lockdown like Sweden have been pretty well off, other places that did heavy lock downs like NYC have not fared as well.
yeah who doesn't, except you don't have to make a "better" language with concise syntax but mediocre in everything else (exact same semantic as javascript, we already have python for that). Make a lisp or a haskell.

And this garbage css syntax is not concise, it's stupid, it's concise in the same sense that emoji is concise comparing to English.
>Between politics and policies and management, work is asking much more, not physically but in terms of behaviors and beliefs. It's a new kind of exploitation we haven't really faced before.

Multiple comments have pointed out how this is wrong, but I have one more to add to the list.

Look up Henry Ford's Sociological Department. Ford gets championed a lot today for his support of his workers and helping to build the middle class, but in order to qualify for his $5 per day wage you had to subject yourself to random inspections by the company's Sociological Department. This meant your employer would routinely check up on all aspects of your personal life. Your pay was docked if you weren't married, your home was too dirty, you didn't save enough of your wages, you didn't speak English well enough, your kids weren't regularly attending school, and if you got drunk after work. Nothing employers do today comes close to that.
> It will depend on whether the people who have left the workforce can be lured back

Incorrect. It will depend on how long lockdowns last.
> That article claims that Zoom does have a feature allowing hosts to see whether people have the zoom window focused while someone is presenting

It used to but it was removed.

https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115000538083-Atten...
"We planned well and have water security for at least one or two generations to come" would get approximately 0 clicks as a headline. News makes money on fear even when they have to make up things to be afraid of.
> we, as the intellectual "elites",

> the only realistic option to protect our interests,

If I'm on the same side of whatever line you're drawing; those words make me nervous.

If I'm on the other side... then I want to prepare for when you decide totalitarianism is the more efficient course, after all.

I'm never on anybody's side. That's why I advocate for the personal ownership of any and all weaponry known to mankind:
I expect anyone else to want whatever protection we can get from folks that insist they know how we must think.
Only the public school system fits this description.
We can't know this so why is this always brought up? To try to deflect from Apple?
For when every home in America has an aging nuclear warhead?
I don't remember the option off-hand, but there's a way to leave SIP enabled, but still allow dtruss too on modern MacOS. You'd have to Google it up, but that option does exist (I just can't remember the name off hand). Saw it about ~4 weeks ago while doing some research.
The article doesn't seem to have any real substance. Poor people have an inherent incentive to agree with you that "Yeah, dude, it sucks to be me and life is unfair and I get nothing but shafted! I need relief!"

And they aren't wrong to do that. Plenty of people were willing to take advantage of me and get free benefits from my knowledge, expertise etc when I was literally homeless and going hungry regularly while they did nothing for me. I still go hungry regularly and still add value and still can't figure out how to get my fair share.

I don't know what the solution is for me and I don't know what the truth is about cities, but I'm wholly unimpressed with this piece.
It goes back to prehistory as we have evidence of a scribe class and accounting classes in Mesopotamia and vicinity via the clay tablets that survived.

I think it’s as natural as there being leaders of packs. Some people have specific qualities making them better than another person in a specific endeavor. That other person might be better in another area. Unless a hermit, it makes sense there was specialization and we don’t do much pursue jacks-of-all-trades.

>"social media allowed ordinary people to express themselves outside of..."

In a limited fashion, yes, but speak of something your employer disagrees with and one may regret that take as unrelated to doing your job it may be.
The whole save-the-trees movement did nothing for 98% of the world's population, and the mass usage of plastics was propped up by companies switching to a cheaper and more efficient material, with no regard for consequences (because why would they? They need economic incentives for that).