skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case it's as easy as sending automated threatening letters "we see you've done X Y and Z transactions, we think these are taxable, please provide payment amount A or appeal it by doing B"

The rich people and rich companies (10lb trout in your example, since it may not be clear to everyone that 10lb is no small trout) have big enough dollar amounts at stake to be worth fighting for and will fight but the cost of running that process will be just a formality compared to all the $100-500 checks they'll receive.

I don't think it's about the surveillance aspect or the money except as a means to the end of having more power to control who gets economically marginalized.

Look at the difficulty the government had enforcing executive policy and controlling the narrative during the pandemic (compare with the first few years of the war on terror for example). They don't want to get caught with their pants down the next time around.
Welp I stand corrected. I confused the names — these cars are, in fact, Matchbox cars, which were made in England. And they're awesome.
and what risk is that? if the company goes under, they need to get a job like everyone else. the only “risk” is that they no longer get to be the big boss. cry me a river.

meanwhile they get to reap (in this case) 100% of the rewards from everyone else’s hard work. if that doesn’t make you angry, perhaps you should reevaluate whose interests your ideology serves.
There's a surprisingly large supply of new old stock hotwheels cars at places like Target, walmart, and CVS. I picked up a few from the early 1980's the other day for $1.29 each or so. I do like that they're on average a little sturdier with more metal.

That said I also have a large supply of 1970's hotwheels and I have to disagree that they're better made, at least in my experience. Most are falling apart and roll poorly due to what I'd call pretty normal play when I was a kid.

The quality of modern hotwheels cars seems to vary pretty wildly by which car series you're buying. I wonder if the "cars" series cars are lower quality than say the color shifters or the circuit legends series (possibly to build in more profit margin for the licensing fees?).
So the "All networks" TTLB metric for example says CloudFlare is #1 in 5000+ networks, other CDNs are faster in almost 15.000 other networks, meaning CloudFlare is only the fastest in roughly 30% of the networks.

Then the blog post ends by saying CloudFlare is not the fastest in 10% of cases which seems simply false.

The metric selection as well seems to be selected very much in a way where it's skewing the actual results into making them be much better than they are. A much better result would be to actually show the actual global median response times, which would likely be extremely close to each other between all major providers. Meanwhile this post attempts to make CloudFlare look multiple X better than Akamai for example.

Looking at the post in general it seems that it's very much aimed at being as misleading as possible.

Maybe it's just me.
Typically in the US public companies sell RSUs to employees with a discount to the market price, so there is compensation for income tax.
That’s unfortunate. “Cars” by Tomica I bought a decade ago for my eldest have survived multiple siblings and cousins just fine.
So true. Seen situations so much like this.
It was:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060430185620/http://g.msn.com/...

A link to download an Office Trial, which at the time was just the full version of office which worked without a key for a trial period.

I seem to recall there was an online store for Office to purchase a key.

Though, I suspect you're right, most people probably bought a box back then. These days, I'd expect the average consumer to use the preloaded Office stubs on new PCs.
While it's a bit much to suggest 'guns are because racism', I think it's a reasonable point to consider.

Also, though there is some legitimacy with the 'Guns Stop Tyranny' issue ... it's unlikely to happen.

The US will not be invaded by anyone, and the US government with all it's flaws is considerably more legitimate than most of the people with guns and has been for more than a century.

If the US falls, it will be due to crumbling from within, and given what has happened in the last few years, I'm afraid gun owners, however responsible and conscientious, are as likely to 'Rise Up' against a pack of falsehoods and populism than they are any kind of legitimate reality.
There's a large class of products for which the software is essentially an after thought. And it shows.

Appliances are an obvious example. But also things like cameras to a large degree. Or auto infotainment systems until Apple and Google software was integrated. (Embedded is sort of a different category that is functionally essentially part of the hardware.)
> ...fought by those with entrenched power.

For decades now, per Alistair Cockburn, I assumed people just really, really hate change.

There's some research which shows our selfish little brains have an immunological type reaction to change. Anything that threatens our internal stable equilibrium is squashed like an invader. No matter how much we say we want to change. No matter how much we may need to change.

While wholly correct, turns out Cockburn was an optimist.

We now know that some fraction of people would rather watch the whole world burn than give up one iota of power.
My company uses Imgix, we're overall pretty happy with it. I'm not sure how we feel about pricing - that's not in my wheelhouse - but it works well for our needs. Our contact there has also been really helpful.

The reliability isn't great though. "Elevated Rendering Errors" almost always is "increased errors rendering uncached derivative images". Basically any image variant - by file and transformation/dimension parameters - that hasn't been viewed recently won't load. So a srcset homepage hero image probably has all size variations a user might see in Imgix's cache, and will render. But on less-traveled parts of our site, photos generally won't load. We're a rather image-heavy site and it's pretty debilitating to the UX when this happens, so it's frustrating that this happens more than the "almost never" rate we'd wish for. FWIW, we've never noticed problems on their end that aren't closely followed by an incident report in their status page, so they're not under-reporting at least.
I wish I knew. I literally cannot think of any rationale.

It isn't like they have any concern about efficient or lightweight code so are stripping out features for that reason (and I know from conversation w/their lead developers decades ago that they have not had any interest in any such optimization for at least that long).

I don't see how it confuses anyone, since it requires no action or knowledge to just leave it in the default position - I've encountered a few people who are surprised to see that it can be moved, so it isn't like the capability will cause problems. If they're concerned that someone might accidentally drag it and be surprised, then leave only the buried radio-button position control to select bottom/top/left/right.

Seems like under-talented developers and product managers who can't think of anything that is actually creative and an improvement, so they just vandalize it to leave their mark.

It is utterly baffling
Don't Live with Broken Windows (2003)
JDK 17 G1/Parallel GC changes
+1 cycling. This is very contingent on the kind of area you live in (distances, hills, bike routes / lanes, general tolerance of cyclists) but it has made the difference between couch potato and relative fitness for a lot of people I know. The key for me and them is having it as your go-to transport for getting to the shops or school or the office. I think “incidental exercise” generally describes the approach.
Thank you so much for the term! This is exactly what I was looking for in order to start a deep dive that hopefully will help with Déformation professionnelle! :D
Scam site simulating Chrome window to appear safe
It's not all bad.

If you can stop yourself from finding faults with everything, thinking about life in terms of complex systems is not a terrible idea.
Well, they all use WebViews, as far as I know, but Safari has its own browser UI "chrome".

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/webview

Before iOS 14.3, getUserMedia didn't work in WebViews. See note 3: https://caniuse.com/stream
I like Nations Photo Lab.[0] Reasonable prices and good quality. Remember to unsubscribe from their deluge of promotional emails, though.

[0]: https://www.nationsphotolab.com/
This was interesting, the haptic digital virtual carving thingy especially so.

But my favorite bit about this article was the first related item link - a story about Hot Wheels treadmill racing.
> They owned the company, they paid their employees salaries - beyond that they owed them nothing unless otherwise negotiated.

I’m sad to hear that is your experience. Perhaps find an employer who wouldn’t treat you like a slave if legally allowed?
The compound impact of extreme weather events and Covid-19
Ok, but for the article example of a travel booking company, you could easily argue the booking experience is part of the product.
You sound right.

And that makes it even more depressing.
You also said this:

> And the fact that the US is lacking in those two latter categories compared to many of our peer nations

Which is still bullshit.

As I said before, whether or not there are countries who have better ratings, any honest reading of the list sees that the US ratings are similar to peers.
If you install separate WSL2 images for each app it does. If you go the container route with Docker (or your container orchestrator of choice) naturally they'll be shared.
> On this specific point I think reasonable to believe that Apple want to E2E iCloud photos

Here's the thing: if they wanted this they should have said so, because until then I'm not going to make this assumption. I can only make decisions on information I have, not on wishful thinking.
spamming email hardly seems like a purely altruistic mission
India crosses 22M vaccine doses in single day, 790M total
It's demonstrably true for the Trump campaign.
More VC money is NOT always better. Instagram, WhatsApp, and other unicorns were built with extremely small teams. Latest case in point: Mailchimp, built with 0 VC funding.
Apple and Google pulled Russian opposition voting guide app
"I think Facebook spends much more resources than TV channels and newspapers trying to address such issues."

Proportional to their extremely greater profit they better be.

"All of those nasty effects of social media existed before, they just moved to the most efficient media form."

Back in the day you could kill a few people with arrows and spears, then you had automatic rifles, now we have nuclear and chemical weapons. We actually try to regulate those...
I think there is something called REDInet that runs up 84 to Taos. And I've heard that Los Alamos County has some kind of in with that new path. Also, I think Comcast and others piggy back on the existing link that DOE uses. Finally, I want the County to hire someone to stay on top of such issues.
By the same token, it is strange that one of the pioneering visionaries of computing is commonly known as Ada Lovelace, even though her actual surname was 'King' (née Gordon) Her full title was 'Ada King, The Right Honourable The Countess of Lovelace,'
> Did you ever notice that after git became popular that colleges started to teach CS students to use version control? Ever think about why that might be?

Because schools have recognized the need to teach some pragmatic tools in addition to pure theory?

I had a "tools" class in undergrad 15 years ago. Learned shell, perl, pcre regexes, make, cvs, subversion, etc. They created the class due to the perception of new-grads being unable to use real-world tools to do real work. Since then, many schools have adopted a similar approach: either a dedicated class or treating many classes as "project"-style classes that use real-world toolsets and SDLCs.
Interesting tone. The tone says, all these people are idiots, and they failed to understand my beautiful creations.

But he then outlines all his failings at the bottom, which I agree with, so he clearly knows better. It's it possible that this tone deaf attitude was a primary culprit in the downfall of the organization he and his handpicked successor built?
Not really. It was a combination of factors, including the usafe operation by its staff. Disregard for safety had been a generalized problem with this reactor during all stages of its development, before the accident occured.

"According to the Soviet experts the prime cause of the accident at the Chernobyl NPP was “...an extremely improbable combination of violations of instructions and operating rules committed by the staff of the unit” [3]. This conclusion sets a full responsibility for the accident at the Chernobyl NPP on its staff. Participants of the Post-Accident Review Meeting [2] also accepted the Soviet version. However, it was incorrect. This was demonstrated in 1990 by the commission of the State Committee for Atomic Safety Survey of the USSR which concluded that the main reasons of the Chernobyl accident were serious shortcomings in the design of the Chernobyl reactor as well as inadequate documents regulating a safe operation of the reactor [4]. Various errors, that were made during the turbogenerator testing by the personnel of the fours unit of the Chernobyl NPP, according to the commission, could only contribute to the development of the accident."

https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1490526
https://www.rri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/NSRG/reports/kr79/kr79pdf/Malko1.pdf
That's a problem this app is trying to solve actually. You're thinking of brute force attacks or something else? Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders.
> Sometimes you'll find out a 100 year old furniture company only has a dev team because the grandson thought it was a good idea.

/r/oddlyspecific :)
I'll have to see the results to believe it. Current 60Ghz options are several hundred dollars for a link (at least), and the link is ~1Gbps. You can't put that in an actual mesh network and get 1Gbps per customer.

That article you linked is marketing speak.
I just read it as "what are some old things made of rock that people know about, to use as a reference frame?"

It's the pineapple/washing machine/stonehenge unit system. Not to be confused with firkin/furlong/fortnight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system
I read daily :

Axios - good format that makes it easy to explore in as much depth as desired. As objective as anything I've seen ((understanding we are all human).

Guardian - avoid opinions columns. At times it gets too preachy even if I agree in principle so I read a bit of fox news monthly just to reset :->

Al Jazeera - increasingly find them more readable and detached than some more popular north American sources

I renew my Stratfor subscription every now and then.
It is compact and efficient. Problem is that there's a lot of it, because these payloads also have to include large chunks of Go's standard library. Apparently fmt and http are particularly large packages that will each add 1-2MB to your was binary.
The beautiful thing about Bitcoin is that is it a pure, global, free market writ large. There is absolutely nothing you can do to prevent individuals from choosing to participate in it. Therefore the correct retort to someone like you is to tell you to "cry harder".
The wider ones perspective, the greater chance of seeing some truth. Still not a big chance, mind you.
So slavery is okay then? Good to know.
Tell HN: Visit a repo on GitHub and press . on your keyboard
> Did you ever notice that after git became popular that colleges started to teach CS students to use version control?

Not really, no. Theory-focussed ones still might not. Practical ones did already teach Subversion etc. Some teach git by teaching the full logic behind it, others as "here's some basic commands you need, everything else is on you if you want to learn it, you won't need it to pass".
European settlers trashed an entire continent in a few hundred years; stop and imagine what it must have looked like when they first arrived.
How this ends up filed under Camel art is a mystery.
It will, because the mobilisation will of course not work.

Nobody want to die for Putin. That's why he switched to mercenaries in Ukraine, because use of regular troops regularly returning to Russia in bodybags was about to become the straw which would've broken camel's back.
I'm curious how a generation of us grew up curious what a computing machine could do, just because it had all those fancy keys to press. They pushed us into creating stuff.

But these days, we have smartphones with a hundred times more computing power, but it fails to trigger any creative curiosity into kids these days.

Maybe I'm wrong, but is there any co-relation with how many ways the device could interact with the operator vs the level of creative curiosity it triggers?
Yes, the fact that current regulations apply only to institutions is the point! When (unregulated) individuals function like scientific institutions, conflict results, because the current system was not designed with this in mind.

The ethical framework does not apply only to institutions. Ethics are for everyone.

Edit: If the prevailing attitude is that doing human subjects research as an individual ("biohacker") means research ethics can be ignored, because current regulations cannot punish you, it makes total sense that Paypal etc. would simply run away from it. Keep in mind that the article frames the biohacking effort as an equal alternative to institutional science. If it is to be seen as a legitimate and equal scientific enterprise, it needs to develop equivalent ethical governance.
The technique requires a web font.
Underrated comment.

If you break down what most vendors and consultants do, in terms of either dollars or hours, you'll usually find that they mostly do sales, PR, client relationship, etc. Projects are designed and managed to make the right people look good to the right people, manage expectations, etc.

They'll spend massive time giving non-tech executive buyers easy, fun choices.. let them feel strategic, visionary and empowered. They'll communicate the hell out of every piece of progress. Whoever hired them also has a massive incentive to buy into and sell onwards, that the project is a massive success.

IE... if your job is to make a clients' Salesforce instance do a thing, 80% you your job is stuff other than making a clients' Salesforce instance do the thing.

Internal dev teams will rarely have this pageantry. Meanwhile, no one outside that team knows what they do, how well they do it or such.
This is even worse logic than some arguments in this sphere.

The audience is wherever there's a link to click on. Anyone who can watch YT can watch vimeo or peertube or even a self-hosted video. There's no problem with that click - the problem is getting people to click.

You want YT to do more than host videos, you want them to market videos to their users. If YT was a completely passive video host (i.e. when you watched a video, there were no links to other videos at all), saying "the audience is on YT" would be meaningless - people could watch YT videos all day and would never ever see a link to any video that they didn't learn about via some other mechanism. What you seem to object to is YT removing material from participating in "the algorithm", which is essentially a marketing process.
Birding Like It’s 1899: Inside a Blockbuster American West Video Game (2019)
If you want frills, Sony's got your back there, too. The $3200 NW-WM1Z
Signature Series Walkman® Digital Music Player.
But if one takes a completely objective viewpoint, what makes humans special? We’re no different than beavers who make damns and flood a river. Sure we do it on a larger scale but are we any less “natural” than any other species? Keep in mind the fact we “care” is irrelevant and no more important than a beavers urge to build a damn. It’s all driven by genetics.

I mean oxygen producing single called organisms drastically altered the environment. They were not conscious to actually notice, but we are. But tons of species went extinct and the earth was irrevocably changed due to their presence.

Thinking humans are special on the cosmic timescale is just arrogance.
It's 'poor taste' to misrepresent history as much as you have in your statement. There were no groups running around 'lynching' Black people during the Black Panther era, moreover, the Black Panther era saw an explosion in gun crime across the US that was acute among the African American community. As much as gun laws are a part of the problem, the vast disparity in gun crime among different groups can't be avoided either.
Hydrogen not going well?
I'd like to see such a device, but unlike the Pi, or specially contrived educational environments, the 8-bit home computers were the centre of a growing market for games and software, seemingly only a few steps away from your first attempts at working through the manual that came with your computer. This was a huge motivation for many of us who started programming in the home computer days.

I remember games that had a note on the back of the box asking for programmers to send their work to the publisher's address for consideration. Magazines advertised commercial software obviously sold by one guy out of his house, and featured interviews with programmers who were only a few years older than me. If you owned a home computer and could program it, you imagined you could access this growing and exciting world, and maybe make some money.
Despite Zuck's attempts, Facebook a “cesspool of Covid misinformation”
Summary sites that list "What the papers say" for your country of choice, e.g. for the UK the BBC "Newspaper headlines" [1] gives the front page of the major papers. It's pretty interesting to see how papers owned by the same parent company will present the same news with pretty much opposite takes on it.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-58591785
The economist and non fiction books. You will learn more about the world by reading about, rhetoric, linguistics, cognition, psychology, and history than you will from news, which is usually extremely transient and not important a few months after.
Apple itself is pretty much an autocratic company that believes it knows best what its customers should and should not be able to do with their products. So this is not really surprising.
Suggesting someone stop doing what they're doing without regard for need or circumstance is rarely going to be helpful advice.
Wikipedia's Portal Current Events

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
How to Persuade a Software Engineering Team to Write 26 Articles in 12 Months
https://www.improvethenews.org/
This is pretty handy. Started by physicist Max Tegmark, it uses classifiers to show news based on different settings you can adjust (Political stance, depth, shelf-life etc.)
If you're looking for lost and re-found civilizations, maybe look into the archeological history of Troy, or maybe the Olmec culture of south America. (There are many)

My favorite though is this documentary series on YouTube. The 2nd installment is especially good. Highly recommend:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwB8gn3XsXHiHDhY3e8XsavyS...