skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Assuming a change in nitrogen partial pressure isn't going to interfere with things

That may not be safe to assume! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1130736/

>The anesthetic effect of air at atmospheric pressure

>Nitrogen has recognized narcotic potential at hyperbaric pressures. No narcotic effect of helium has been demonstrated at any pressure. We evaluated the effect of nitrogen in air at one atmosphere on human performance by comparing it with helium-oxygen using a four-alternative divided-attention task that requires rapid response to auditory and visual signal changes. There was a 9.3 per cent decrease in response time when subjects breathed helium-oxygen, a significant change (P less than 0.001). This change could not be ascribed to practice since the order of presentation of gases did not have a significant effect. It concluded that the nitrogen in ambient air slightly but measurable impairs human performance compared with a non-anesthetic gas such as helium.
Are you certain that an app developer for a client would qualify as a Data Controller here? As long as the relevant data never passes through their or other third-party servers and it's strictly local account setup interfacing with SSB I think they are not?
If you think of it from the manufacturers perspective it makes sense. Supply of batteries is constrained so of course they are going to use them in cars they can make the most money from. This problem will solve itself over time.

This is why I think it was a mistake not to use plugin hybrids as a stepping stone to full EV's. They might be marginally more complex but you could make five times as many cars with the same battery capacity.
Here are a few links for ur reading pleasure:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/11/26/ubereats...

https://fbiradio.com/the-delivery-riders-dying-to-work/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/24/food-...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-09/exclusive-uber-eats-d...

Hopefully these bring you closer to my reality :)
A text message routing company suffered a five-year-long breach
Doubt that anyone will laugh hard over that. Also its a surprisingly common acronym in Ohio[0], so I would guess that Ohio based Koreans have gotten over it by now.

[0] Ohio Public Policy Archives, Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association, etc.
How Red Hat uses GitLab for kernel development
Now imagine they feed those reports into some automated system that just starts banning the reported apps. No matter how ridiculous the reports.

And Somehow I don’t believe apple will spend real money (aka hiring people to process the reports) on this.
it spells ACAB if you match each number with the letter in the alphabet at this index (I realized that after seeing a bunch of 1312 tags around where I live)
Akamai Status Page
I might have preferred to use SAM, which uses CF under the hood but is much more focused on getting lambdas to work.

I'd pass in DB settings as parameters to the SAM file, rendering them as env. variables for the lambdas. with DB access managed by IAM roles (so you don't need sensitive info in the lambda env).

And depending on size/scope of project/team, might have one CF for the DB infra, and another for the app lambdas.

Using IaC services means I can have both dev and prod infra, so I can test DB migrations.

And I can do this as a solo dev on a side project where I'm also responsible for front-end and the other back-end stuff plus keeping clients happy on evenings/weekends.
Oh btw, there was no conflict of interest from your side? _Your_ company did not want to follow the maturity scale, so you made an effort to shoot the proposal down... How does that make you better than Microsoft?

As for customers... there will always be customers for pre-packaged solutions, quality and support. Obviously .net cannot include a framework for $X for every possible X. But that does not mean that non-customers of yours are _not_ doing (approximations, to the degree they need) of X internally.

In your posts, you were complaining about the lack of innovation, yet Akka.NET (I assume that's what you're referring to) does not seem to innovate anything, it's a carbon-copy of Akka for Java and the "raw" actor model.

Project Orleans from MSR on the other hand _does_ innovate. I have a PhD related to distributed systems and I investigated the actor model a lot. Orleans addresses the deficiencies/problems with [1] it that I myself noticed.

[1] Quote from the introduction of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/orleans...: "Actor platforms such as Erlang [3] and Akka [2] are
a step forward in simplifying distributed system programming. However, they still burden developers with
many distributed system complexities because of the
relatively low level of provided abstractions and system
services. The key challenges are the need to manage the
lifecycle of actors in the application code and deal with
inherent distributed races, the responsibility to handle
failures and recovery of actors, the placement of actors,
and thus distributed resource management. To build a
correct solution to such problems in the application, the
developer must be a distributed systems expert."
Section 230: How it shields Facebook and why Congress wants changes
The city of Toppenish in the US had the same problem when the council turned on a generic filtering system for the city networks. Everything stopped working.
Underscore matches any single char, so those patterns work fine. It’s an efficient way to match any small separator, like space, dashes, etc.
They're different risks from holding dollars. If safety is your top priority, you won't go 100% into fiat.
I offer Purchasing Power discount for my technical ebook if the book landing site detect visitors are from developing countries.

It does increase revenue in the sense that I managed to earn money (although lesser) from these customers that I would have never earned otherwise.
It has been for more than a decade:

“What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law
> They are neither trying to help nor hinder third-party OSes.

That's naive.

It is absolutely part of their design goals to plan for obsolescence and to prevent third party OSes to run perfectly on their device. The move to soldering SSDs and RAM on laptops and desktops is designed to prevent users from extending the life of the device. Mac Mini's experience a delay of 2-3 minutes to even start booting alternate OS to frustrate the users. The T2 chips even prevent booting a lot of other OSes. There are umpteen examples like these.

And that's all ok when you consider the business goals of Apple. But please don't pretend that it's all an "accident" or Apple doesn't care if a user wants to break free from the stranglehold of the Apple ecosystem.
That's partly racist to assume name implies location.

But being skeptical based on location and the academic culture in that combination of location and field is not racist.
I wonder if you could form a mathematical model of which districts would be most amenable to a dedicated 3rd party challenger. It seems like you'd want a district which is a "safe seat" (if there is a serious R/D contest in the district, people will want to avoid "throwing away their votes" by voting for a 3rd party). But you'd also want to identify a district where people are dissatisfied with their elected representative anyways. Ideally the elected representative is a significant distance from the median voter.

Maybe a good metric would be the ratio of primary ballots cast to general election ballots cast. If a small number of extremist primary voters are de facto selecting the candidate that will win the general and get the "safe seat", that suggests an opportunity for disruption by being a high profile 3rd party candidate who's just a bit more moderate than candidates the extremists select (more appealing to the median voter).

Another idea is to reach out to a bunch of independent candidates and try to recruit them for your new party to work towards critical mass.
Thanks very much for the transcript.

Relevant quote (mangled grammar in original):

We will do anything and everthing to protect and stop any retaliation against you in any legal action the company may bring or anyone else, with that made very clear in the course of these proceedings.

At the 1:35 a.m. timestamp.

https://archive.org/details/CSPAN_20211006_050100_Facebook_W...
I would love to see a citation for that as its a very surprising number!

Found it: https://www.gao.gov/products/109954

A couple of caveats: it's from 1979 and deals with interstates only.
America, India, and China? Those are fully functioning, massive economies that power the entire world and have people commuting, working, eating, farming, manufacturing, and doing all the normal processes that life entails.

Are you saying we should compare a digital coin with very niche usage to the collective impact of all of those actions taking place in the most massively populated and economically significant nations to ever exist?

And you're saying it's an insignificant amount of power, yet it consumes more power than an entire nation of 110,000,000 people? There are 110,000,000 people in the Philippines using cash every single day to drive their economy and live. Are there even 100 million people using bitcoin for daily business and consumer transactions involving physical goods? Or even 10 million? Or 1 million?

Is there a reason you're pretty serious about downplaying the impact of electricity equivalent to 110 million people and saying it's not globally significant? Because it's pretty significant. If that many people stopped using all electricity overnight, the impact would be pretty significant. Wiping out the entire Philippine economy would absolutely send shockwaves around the world. That'd be a huge hit to manufacturing and food industries on every corner of earth.

Would Bitcoin suddenly vanishing be more impactful than the Philippines vanishing overnight? Or, to choose a different country from that previous site, The Netherlands?
What especially strange is, when you are one of multiple maintainers ... how the hack you are not communicating with them. Multiple maintainers = they need to have shared principles on the projects = they need to talk.

Ignoring this, is the strangest thing I have seen in this PR ... and a clear indicator, that this is not only about this project. This was a nuclear action by the .NET Foundation.
They're discussing this on a public forum, but only sharing screenshots of small sections of PDFs which remain private. The CLAs are the governing documents here, and nobody except the people who have access to those agreements in full have any business even forming an opinion as to what rights are held by whom. Posting selected parts (literally just the definitions section, the non operative part!) for public point-scoring is pretty ridiculous. Either shut up and email them privately, or post the entire thing so people can see what you've signed up for.

(The outdated copy of the agreement that's available online is not good enough.)
How is an OS "capitalist"? What...?
or....use: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

example:

fzf --height 60% --layout=reverse --border --preview 'bat {}'

gives you a nice fuzzy search interface and uses bat for previews

brew install fzf bat
Yes, Google (and other global companies) actually cares about that. They work on fleet-level changes to make such differences worth it. It might not matter to you though.
> and it forever mystifies me that it isn't standard

I can take a stab at justifying that - commas are used to form lists (eg, 1, 2, 3) and text (like "order by count") are supposed to be left justified.

You may be right that there are good reasons to format SQL while ignoring the commas and rules for writing English text. I personally think you are right. But if most people believed that then there'd be enough support to rewrite SQL with a decent modern syntax. Say allowing training commas before a from.

So the existence of SQL is, in a weird way, evidence that your view is uncommon.
I usually take it before I go out. So I can drink and party all night.

Interesting thread.
ArcaOS is still providing "production use" support for OS/2, and AIUI they've added a few more features as well.
I very much feel this way as well. I've never quite articulated it as well as you have and it has given me some insight into my own behaviors.

I think this is why I'm what is described as a "power gamer". When I play video games I'm always looking for optimal strategies, the most powerful combinations of items and skills, etc. While I definitely can at times enjoy the scenery and graphical beauty of video games, I often feel as if I'm "staring through" the game as presented right into the game as actuality when playing, hardly processing the graphics at all past being some kind of representation of the game itself.
you'd have to be distracted from a task to be able to 'prioritize'

If you think it's bohemian, so be it, but I think it's complete.
(Rationally) making a point, expressing emotions, and being offensive/insulting are entirely separate things.

There are a few misconceptions at play:

1. that expressing negative emotions implies being offensive

2. that being offensive strengthens an argument

In my experience, being able to separate the offensive part, which is certainly difficult, leads to much more productive outcomes, without losing argumentative strength - besides, being also (considered) more professional.

> some think themselves or others must be protected from "harshness"

In the above perspective, harshness is simply improductive in any context - being firm and persuasive is always a better choice. It's just very difficult :^)

> I'd rather be told I'm working on a dead end than a "nice comforting letter" explaining how my patch can't be accepted _right now_ because of x and y with wording that could be interpreted as "it could be accepted later"

This is a dichotomy between an arguably harsh approach and a false/polite one. There are other different approaches (besides, I think that there's nothing offensive/harsh in being told that one is working on a dead end).

> I don't see anything wrong with that quote. Can it be expressed more "softly"? Sure. But that person is expressing his opinion and I don't see any problem with that.

Being considerate towards other people leads to a much more productive collaboration. This vision:

> You could also argue it lays the foundation for further escalation but that's on whoever chooses to engage in it IMO.

is indeed non-collaborative - essentially, not being interested at all about the other person. The point is then just venting frustration rather than communicating (in general, not the specific case).

I doubt that anybody can hold a lead/management position with this attitude (without being considered at least an unpleasant manager).

> For example Linus Torvalds gets a lot of flak for his opinions on some pieces of code he doesn't like but every time I read those emails, I feel like people are blowing it way out of proportion. I'm sure it's not fun to be on the receiving end but his arguments are typically sound and likes to write a lot to really drive his point home.

This argument actually proves the point. Torvals made a public apology:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1809.2/00117.html

so definitely there is something (to say the least) inappropriate with that attitude. There are indications that he went to therapy specifically because of that:

https://twitter.com/lexnfx/status/1409185767348310020

All in all, I definitely support (in a more verbose way :^)) the argument:

> top comments make clear there is a dire need for professional communications training among these programmers
Thank God! Now we can finally go back to normal and die of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus again.
Exactly that. I get the impression that some commenters here didn't even bother to watch the video or read the description / article. Valve will provide spare parts, and from what I saw so far, it seems repairable. If they don't "dongle" things (looking at you, Apple!), it will still be servable.
You think zimbabwe tax service cared much about taxes when they had 6 digits inflation per year? why bother collecting if you can just print money?

(also, such cases is precisely the reason people may believe that they have more trust in bitcoin, as flimsy as it may be, than to their national government issued fiat)
Cole's Law is well known and famous,
But we never obey it at all;
Yet for this you really can't blame us.
It's thinly sliced cabbage -- that's all

https://www.swil.org/FILKS/filkbook4.html
Dunning-Krueger Effect is fascinating.

I often worry that I might miss how it affects my own view of the world.

That is, the easy bit is "Other people don't know what they don't know". The hard bit is dealing with what we ourselves don't know and can't perceive easy.
Not just the internet: case in point, the new Xcode 13 has some really embarassing performance problems on my mid-2014 13"MBP. I guess the Xcode team switched to shiny new M1 Macs between Xcode 12 and 13.
Paddle unveils ‘first alternative’ to Apple’s App Store In-App Purchase system
Summary:

Xi has concentrated power, creates atmosphere of fear and distrust among diplomats who must do "self-criticism" sessions. Diplomatic channels have become unusable. Chinese diplomats can't meet foreigners alone. They repeat talking points, and don't even try to think by themselves or create openings by themselves. All thinking is up to Xi. He is aware of the problem but don't know to deal with it like Deng Xiaoping did. Xi is the one who pushed for this new approach.

Chinese demand apologies to any concession and the US sees diplomatic opportunity get everyone else to come together against China.

----

ps. Deng Xiaoping was the only Chinese communist leader who was educated in the West. He studied and worked in in France from age 16, then Soviet Union. He returned to China at age 22. Spending his formative years in a foreign countries gave him the perspective to deal with the outside world.
Oh wow this is great!
> Techbros are notably far-right.

I'm sure everything looks "far-right" from your far-left perspective.
A perfect life can be dystopian. Stability, convenience, distraction, and safety seem like the pillars of Huxley’s dystopia. I feel like we don’t talk enough about the last bit, safety. In today’s modern world some notions of safety - like crash testing cars - are very sensible. When focus on safety and elimination of risks is taken to an extreme however, it can lead to unbearable limits on people. Suddenly free expression, personal choice, experimentation, and adopting a different calculation of risks than others might be not allowed. The notion of safetyism was popularized by The Coddling of the American Mind (https://quillette.com/2018/09/02/is-safetyism-destroying-a-g...), and I see the concept creep mentioned in that book continuing today. It’s always with the best of intentions, in pursuit of a perfect world, but I worry that we are veering towards Huxley’s nightmare.
I didn't know _ is a metachar in LIKE expressions, thanks! Not the first time its syntax caught me off-guard.
Hehe. It's because I'm incapable of finishing a project in any reasonable timeframe. There might have been six months between takes for all I know.
I like internet based delivery. Can we get a union based alternative so I don't feel bad about the person turning up to my door being an outsourced slave?
I miss the good times when security wasn't an important thing to always keep in mind because there weren't that many hackers and script kiddies.
Ask HN: Customer Identifiers
I am working on entity resolution and would love to talk to people who get customer data in their warehouse from multiple systems or have duplicates within one system
- Do you have unique customer identifiers across your entire organization?
- What is your process of integrating records without unique identifiers?
- Do you have duplicate customers, with changes to names, emails etc?
It will be very helpful to hear your thoughts
Release v2.3 of preCICE multi-physics coupling library
Lets Encrypt Root CA Expiry: Make Sure to Remove DST Root CA X3
I think there is very little intent on Microsoft behalf in this. This is a OSS foundation which enforce their (understanding of) ownership. What is horrible is the absolute lack of transparency, communication and community in this foundation.

What they have done happens also in the Apache, Eclipse or whatever foundation as well. Just that these are communities which are mature and composed of experienced open source people which know how to address and communicate with other maintainers/egos/people. Open Source Communities are about people. Not the tech. You are only successful if you are good with people. What they did there multiple times was pulling nuclear options without telling people.

The .NET Foundation is run by Microsoft MVP program (Claire, Ben, others) which live in their own dimension which is different from the rest of the community. They are supported by lawyers/managers of Microsoft trying to protect the brand and the core of .NET. That is a setup for failure without any malicious intent.

Disclosure: .NET Fanboy + (successful) open source maintainer (not .NET foundation related)
Everything is neglible in comparison to global energy consumption though, because we use energy for so many different things.

If everyone who is in a position to reduce the energy consumption of their small part significantly does their part then it will add up to a significant effort.
> For example with Wasm and WebGPU it's possible to create AAA games running in the browser.

This has been promised since at least the WebGL and asm.js days. It still won't happen, but not mainly for technical reasons, but for business reasons.

...but of course also some technical reasons. Asm.js/WASM and WebGL/WebGPU are fine, but most other web APIs are a mess and the web is a highly unstable platform, APIs are deactivated or deprecated on a whim, APIs change behaviour unpredictably, behaviour differs between browsers, etc etc...

TL;DR: the web needs a proper "DirectX initiative" like what Microsoft did in the late 90's to get Windows gaming off the ground.
That's honestly why I do them. To make the sound that 10 year old me actually heard when listening.
3 months of work for professional workers... Don't seem too enticing unless person has entirely screwed up at home. I could see migrants from outside EU, but would those be eligible?
If you are using cloudformation, I have a python testing library https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/cloud-radar

It allows unit testing of cloudformation templates locally without needing aws credentials or deploying anything.

It also supports functional testing of cloudformation stacks once they are deployed.

Full guide on my blog https://la-tech.co/post/hypermodern-cloudformation/getting-s...
> you're responsible for deployment of your app, so you can use whatever you want, but you're responsible for it.

What happens when you leave the project?
Doesn't seem to become reality yet, Norway is really an exception here, their great wealth helps kickstart adoption massively.

> before charging stations became widespread.

They still aren't and there are no solutions for infrastructure and growth is still severely lacking and disappointingly slow. There is also no solution for people without a dedicated parking spot, which is especially common in cities.
In the UK tax is paid explicitly per car, in tiers of engine size (for passenger cars) and I should assume emissions / weight for commercial vehicles. Petrol is heavily taxed (by US standards), but that’s everywhere in the continent.

I like the idea of taxing tyres, as it explicitly taxes mileage and pollution. Would it create weird incentives? People running on tyres too long to avoid the tax? Reusing old, more polluting tyres?

Maybe we should just tax on mileage. In fact why not at the pump/charging station...