skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like very few engineers that make it to E6+ are the ones rabbling on about "TC or GTFO" on Blind. It's mostly more junior engineers or bad engineers that will never make it past the 2nd or 3rd rung of the career ladder.
If you have a disability, and you can't use the site, you're probably entitled to make an ADA claim against them.
I remember the whole 'megahurtz myth' being a thing at around that time. Apple swore blind that its 1.4 GHz G4 machines were comparable to an equivalent, far higher clock speed P4. I didn't know about pipelining, OOE, and vector extensions to be able to judge that at the time. Was it true? The P4 was a very limited, long pipelined chip, but I don't know what the G4 was actually like in comparison.

One thing that I do remember about those machines is that they were massively memory bandwidth limited though, and iirc took PC100 ram at a time when everyone else had PC166 at least...
> My mom was building a shed on her property, some neighbors didn't like it

Note that depending on the country, you might still need authorization to build any structure on your own property.
Great question! This new storage allowed us to implement a really powerful label-based data model, much like labeling and selection of time-series in Prometheus[1]. This is incredibly powerful when slicing and dicing data to find exactly what you're looking for. Many of our early users switched just because of this.

Also, the eBPF based profiler we just released allows profiling targets with low overhead and best of all: no instrumentation needed. It automatically discovers targets to profile, which currently supports Kubernetes and systemd. So all you need to do to profile your entire infrastructure is to deploy the agent.

Lastly we strongly believe in open standards, so the profiler produces pprof formatted profiles, and any pprof compatible profile can be written to Polar Signals / Parca. We also have exporting any query to a pprof formatted profile implemented but not exposed to the UI yet.

The storage we specifically designed for all of this to work at scale and low latency and cost is also very interesting!

Happy to dive more into details or talk about more things.

[1] https://prometheus.io/
If not for EVA encapsulation, silicon solar cells can be "recycled" by a 30 minute forming gas anneal at 400C. I don't know if all panels have EVA encapsulation or not. If so, then I doubt these ZnSb would degrade any better without a similar encapsulation.

It's really hard to beat silicon.
Focus on building a company that generates a return for investors and makes it possible to pay all of the people who work at Coinbase.

Anybody who works there and disagrees with what the company is doing can quit and go work somewhere else whenever they please.

You need to pull your head out of your belly button. The navel gazing you were taught at university is going to ruin your life and make you perpetually miserable.
Ports are very regulated. International waters not so much.
Can there be an “after socialism”? (2002)
Abstract

There is no “after socialism.” There will not be in our or in our children's lifetimes an “after socialism.” In the wake of the Holocaust and the ruins of Nazism, anti-Semitism lay low a bit, embarrassed by its worst manifestation, its actual exercise of state dominion. In the wake of the collapse of Communism, socialism's only real and full experience of power, socialism too lays low for just a moment. Socialism's causes in the West, however, remain ever with us, the product of the convergence of two extraordinary achievements: liberal free enterprise and political democracy. The former creates wealth that has transformed all human possibility, but it also gives rise to particularly deep envy. The latter allows ambition a route to power by an appeal to the democratic state to seize and redistribute wealth in the name of social equality.
> I’d rather folks bought BTC

Why? Presumably because you're long BTC. With all due respect, you make a lot of handwavy comments about ERC-20 scams and I agree with you, but aside from a highly speculative investment, BTC is nothing.

It failed as a currency. It failed as a unit of account. Now the narrative has shifted to "store of value" which only anyone without an understanding of what that means could say.

What does BTC do that DOGE doesn't do? Or any other scam coin? It's all speculation, you have happen to find one more acceptable (and it so happens the one you're probably invested in).
We agree; however, the efficiency of private industry over the bloated lassitude of public services is an article of faith among many.
Greenpowerscience is a great channel, was hoping their video would get linked here :D
This is interesting. I've always worked off the assumption that while english legal documents look like english they are actuallysomething a little special. These words get tested in court cases and opinions are written about them and what them mean. So, in this case my assumption (possibly incorrect) had been that each of those words had specific legal meaning, and perhaps a venn diagram would show 95% overlap of the sets, by using both words they get 100% overlap.

(Its also why lay people shouldn't write their own contracts, because a lawyer with contract experience won't use words that haven't been tested.)
You can’t convince someone of something when their enormous wealth depends on them not believing or understanding (not Coinbase or Brian Armstrong specific, general observation). People can and do perform Olympic level mental gymnastics to justify their belief systems.
I agree with you that they shouldn't be able to ban scripting... but they're only going to use it for things that they believe hurt the website. If there's a law that says "don't do it" they can sue the people they don't like and ignore the ones they don't care about.
I've got the same experience, especially with music that has lyrics. I've got a few favorites that I can listen to just fine while working.
You're technically correct, but its debatable whether all parts of EULAs are legally binding/enforceable.
Agreed, but people seem to often miss this point. There is nothing special in browsers that allows them to do something that "scripts" cannot do. They are both HTTP user agents.
So quit.
You're right I havent made an effort to hide my past. Hard thing to hide, spending nearly half my life behind bars. I also highlight it. I use it as a tool. Its a point of reference for people wondering if they can do it. And we have also used it to garner support for Underdog Devs.

Thats not me being combative. Thats just me answering what felt like accusatory insinuations. I was defensive and direct but I wasn't trying to provoke you.

Appreciate you apologizing and I understand your cynicism. Im a bit cynical with this space as well.

I assure you UD is a different thing than what you're used to. We havent even used any money for operating costs. We could but we've instead focused on getting mentees bills paid so that those who would be most impacted by the economic mobility that programming affords can focus on learning. We all have spent countless hours, all as volunteers, trying to create opportunities for folks who might not otherwise have them.

Appreciate your support and the apology.
Something interesting to me is that this article comes a t a time when shipping is reaching record highs. We used to pay around 4k for a container from Asia to the US, now the price is 25k.

It looks like there a a large amount of volatility in the shipping system as this is not the first time we have seen price jumps and crashes. I remember hearing about shipping congestion/issues in SEA a couple years ago as well as periodic stories about congestion/issues at Longbeach.

With global trade ever on the rise, we should expect to see it remain profitable, unless there are too many companies coming in and trying to undercut each other.
Naive question, but what is the advantage compared to a classical DB dump? Faster?
> As we've seen in American tech companies, once a foothold is gained, these motivated activists immediately start loudly push for the aggressive exclusion of opposing views, and cancellation of all who belong to a different political group.

Reminds me of a cryptocurrency exchange with an activist CEO who forbids dissenting political views in the workplace. Can’t remember his name.
The domain of software engineering has almost certainly increased in size and complexity faster than any of us have learned. We must focus on the fundamentals. All of the new languages and architectures are a storm hovering over a bedrock of empirical computer science.
It should not be an insult to be told that there are people more skilled than you, though. It is hubris to think otherwise.

Are you saying in 20 years, you haven't met any engineers that were head and shoulders noticeably more productive than their peers, in terms of code volume+quality?
I mean, except that it's actually limited in the code itself.
Sounds like their policy of discouraging wokes, who want to use their job as a cudgel for their own political views, from applying to their company is working.
> You're paid to do a job.

And then the company you work for takes the profits from that effort and donates it to politicians to further the executive agenda.
I will think about it the next time I buy an old lawnmower on craigslist.
>"just another political position itself - complicity with the status quo." / "To think otherwise is just an expression of privilege. There is no being apolitical."

The challenge I have with this line of thinking is that you can literally apply it to any and all issues. The number of problems in the world are effectively infinite but our ability to take a meaningful position is finite and extremely limited. The default state of being is to not have taken a position on something.

To insinuate that someone is privileged for not getting involved is a cudgel and a guilt-tripping tool being used against someone who doesn't share the same priorities as you do. It strikes me as "if you're not with us, you're against us", a sentiment that used to be loathed in the early 2000's but is now accepted and expected.
Isn't this basically a prelude to a SLAPP lawsuit?
This looks really awesome, I need to explore this project more!

Here's a project which in part is built to fulfill a similar need: https://github.com/tobgu/qocache (I'm the author).
Most of the background/rationale for it and example usage can be found in the README of the original QCache project, linked from the above repo.

There are of course big differences between the projects but I find that they share the same goal of making random, file based, datasets easily accessible for querying.

I'll definitely let myself be inspired by Roapi, thanks!
Deciding what your employees are and are not allowed to discuss at work feels pretty political to me!

But you’re right: Brian gets to decide what is and isn’t political, and he’s decided that he isn’t being political, so he isn’t. Which is an… interesting power to hold over your employees, hence my original post.
Because mercenary motivation is in and of itself a choice. If everyone was motivated by money alone there wouldn’t be non-profits. There is clearly a market for occupations with different incentives.
I would argue that the risk of someone not taking their medication is not "very high". The individual with HIV is highly incentivized to take their medication because it ensures their continued survival.
as long as Americans don’t go mad and get another crazy elected
I don't think any of the suggestions made thus far will do anything to help out.

I think that one of the only methods that has a chance is to go to the UN and work out a treaty on human rights for maritime workers with the stipulation that once a supermajority of nations ratify/adopt it, ships flying the flag of a nation that hasn't ratified it are not allowed in the ports of the nations that have.
I don't think you'll find tomatoes and salad in these ships.
Most of the poorly run ships will not go to first world harbors with safety controls etc.
Facebook Down Again
It's even worse then I thought - every website you visit and every search query will be sent to them! They can basically create a whole shadow profile of you based on your browsing data (like Google already does when you enable search suggestion):

> To help you find information faster, Firefox Suggest uses a service provided by us to offer relevant suggestions for what you’re typing. When you opt-in to improve Contextual suggestions, Mozilla receives your search queries. When you see or click on a Firefox Suggest result, Mozilla collects and sends your search queries and the result you click on to our partners through a Mozilla-owned proxy service.
It's not entirely stupidity. Acoustic modems also made sense for portability. Reporters in the 80s used to use things like TRS-80 Model 100 + an Acoustic modem to send stories back to the office over public telephones rather than have to hunt down a phone jack somewhere.
But then why the doctors have access to it?
Because work equals social mobility, and if a workplace excludes certain demographics they will remain socially immobile.
They can't ban the account. The account would be the downloader's and presumably, would auto-generate unfollow actions just as a user in a browser would manually. If they break the script, they'll probably break the unfollow UI for legitimate human user's and create evidence that they employ dark UI practices as a core part of their business strategy, which would be a P.R. nightmare.

Messing with this is a lose-lose for Facebook.
> We need to work on getting more personal time for people

You mean controls on working hours? Four day weeks? There are those who’d say that was extremely political (and they’d be right; the two day weekend was largely invented by the labour movement, surely the epitome of politics at work, back in the day).
> All of them have no way of "unfollowing".

If you unfollow all your friends/pages, your feed will be empty and will look something like this: https://romanvesely.com/static/b031d9ff5bb48d618d1226fb363a9...
Are solicitors and clerks also doublets?
Happy to donate for the cause as well. Please do this.
It’s a back door federalization. Members will have to conform to additional TBD rules or put their tax allocation at risk.
Honest question, what do you do at your presumably more enlightened workplace instead to pursue your political beliefs?

From what I've seen, these people typically just want to treat the company slack like Twitter and persecute political enemies while still cashing their paycheck and doing nothing of material value for the disadvantaged.
Disabilities deserve special protection, but in practice companies seem pretty good about working with usability extensions. AFAICT almost all cases where companies don't support disabled users enough, it's unintentional. There's a little bit of extra work like providing alt image tags that companies neglect, or they don't think to test on color-blind users, that sort of thing, rather than banning usability extensions for violating the TOS.
Yes, but then the labour can just take over the ship if they aren’t paid.
"not a good sign you're someone pleasant or frictionless to collaborate with"

That sreet must run both ways or it's an invalid charge. If you're reasoning is valid and the interviewer doesn't provide better arguments, then it's the interviewer who is not pleasant or frictionless to work with.
I'd be surprised if the US didn't have the largest amount of firefox users, even if it isn't the majority of all users worldwide. I couldn't find any data to back that up, though, since the public site[0] has no per-country statistics.

0: https://data.firefox.com/
Even EFF can't take down goliath
Comparing mRNA technology to conventional vaccines is borderline disingenuous. I don't think we've ever vaccinated people with live pathogens (or at least not deactivated), and we certainly have never repurposed our own cells to manufacture an inflammatory protein which then migrates to cell surfaces.

Autoimmune disorders in particular are not necessarily going to appear in 6 weeks. Especially when the data is so noisy and there's a clear, career risking stigma against reporting anything.
You could probably use Firefox 93. Firefox 8 is quite old.
They said the current roll-out is for a subset of US users, but who knows what their future plans are.

(I'm going from memory here -- they deleted the relevant text on mozilla.org, replacing it with the apology paragraph).

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/navigate-web-faster-fir...

edit: Found an archive snapshot:

https://archive.is/E7opj

"Firefox Suggest is currently available for a limited number of users in the U.S. only" (deleted text)
Mussolini has entered the chat room.
Everything I've read is that spacex is trying to make humanity multi-planetary. That's not obviously profitable.
Have you tried containers? I used to rely heavily on profiles, but containers are like having several profiles open at once, or several degrees of private browsing.
Not so fast. What if you bought games in the Oculus store?
You can't just ban someone and remove his access to paid software because of a browser extension.
What about my computer, my browser my rules?
I was looking for a replacement for Airflow right now. This is really helpful.
Thank you for a genuine, well-thought answer. Much appreciated.

I'm not in the Data Science space so I only know of Datasette, but maybe worth copy-pasting that on a FAQ page under "How does ROAPI compare to X?" to avoid repeating it.
I think the keyword was "instantly."
Oh look, Facebook trying to make themselves more popular with us this week.
Vkd3d
They have CPUs, and memory. The memory is generally managed in a more restricted and idiosyncratic way than POSIX programs like to use. The CPUs are often not what you are used to compiling code for.

The tricky part is providing a programming model that is usable, understandable, and useful, given the wide variability of the conditions the code would need to operate in. The eBPF project has made remarkable progress in that direction. eBPF code can be generated from C, C++, Rust, and a bunch of other languages. The "no_std" feature in Rust has no substantial role in getting your code compiled down to eBPF, in preparation to be further translated to the object code that actually runs in the peripheral gadget.
Well Mahatma Gandhi, who literally pioneered the Non-Violence Movement, never won the Peace Prize so any of its credibility has long been gone. In fact its probably better /not/ to win it.
Noisy echo chambers are uninclusive to anyone who doesn't hold that precise political viewpoint.

We both know that the program goes way beyond "black people shouldn't be indiscriminately shot", its driven by people who are addicted to social media and perpetually pushing for another rush of outrage. I'd prefer not to be around that, personally.
> I guess you have to set the rules based on the average idiot CEO and the average idiot Speculator

Idiot CEOs are a self-correcting problem. The rules are there because of smart scoundrel CEOs scamming idiot Investors.
You wouldn't go to a PETA meeting and complain that there's no meat.

In that same vein, if you join Coinbase, you should know what you're getting into, maybe it's political, but it's a kind of political that you knew beforehand. The problem comes when you try to shoehorn a different set of political beliefs onto something that didn't have them in the first place.
Sounds like the entire argument went way over your head.

Quitting doesn't change anything about the inherently exploitative relationship of labor and capital.
Wow, that last bit. Would have been easier to swallow if Mozilla did the ad brokering and promised to not store them, but no, they do actually ship off the queries to partners.
It's obfuscated to make it difficult to ad-block.
>They're going to charge you profitable rates,

They are legally required to charge more than the USPS. Even if they could charge less they couldn't legally do it. When a private company was allowed to compete it drove the price of stamps down until it was outlawed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company
It’s the energy. Energy usage means security. ArcticBull will argue it’s bad, I’ll argue it’s the best thing ever.
Follow the energy.

Why has it failed? Works fine for me and many others…
Minus the depression, you have basically described my dream life. Retire early, pursue projects and relationships I find rewarding, take care of my family. I turn 30 in 10 days... not sure I'll be retiring any time soon. But still, a man can dream.

I hope your dad feels better soon.
my question is..why would anyone want to have their project involved with a foundation like this? are there actual benefits?
You want it to be political to fit the narrative in your head, but it isn't political.
No, it's in Fairfax County. Its address is Alexandria, but it's not inside the City of Alexandria[1].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Thomas+Jefferson+High+Scho...
> a tool that unfollows all connections automatically, potentially making the social network less addictive and depressing.

Having done this manually, I can attest to the increase in the quality of my feed. Every now and then, I need to do the manual work again.

I'm glad that Facebook has streisand effect this extension, I'll look into installing it.
Lol at the image when you don’t open in incognito
I hate the whole song and dance too with how you have to fake your user agent and add human like delay to interactions whenever you make a useful script on the web these days. You aren't stopping malicious behavior since they know how to penetrate these systems trivially, you just make it harder for the average user who has to learn as they go how to rope around these issues and hope they don't get IP banned along the way for making a website slightly more useful to them.
> Focus on building a successful profitable company.

Through what means, exactly?

We're not talking about a candy company here. This is a company that explicitly includes political messaging in both their mission and in their choice of means (i.e., cryptocurrency) towards that mission. Why the double standard?
There's a limit to how detailed in going to be in a comment, but when I said Palestinians here I was referring to the terrorist organization of Hamas that runs the government in Gaza. Despite how it seems to have rubbed some people the wrong way, I stand by my comment. You can tell the "good guys" by the way they try to avoid hurting innocent people. There is no side without fault in a conflict, and war is indeed a messy business.
I think Muppets might be worse than insects for me.
And it's not like they need to sell ads to make money.
This can only generate bad PR without getting anything in return. Whoever authorized this change is essentially working against Firefox.