skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt, but in my short experience in southern England, if you're not on a major highway, you're often on a lane just big enough for one compact car and sidewalks are used in case of oncoming traffic. Chicago alleys are positively spacious by comparison. I imagine truck drivers just learn routes with wider roads.
I'm only on chapter 3 and it's amazed me how prescient (or in touch) Cols. Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui were regarding NGOs and wealthy international financiers (Soros is mentioned specifically, many times) being used as tools of financial warfare.
> I’m sure our lives are more comfortable now but I’m not sure everyone is happier.

Happiness is a combination of too many different factors - you can't really optimize for it.
One hilarious consequence is games like Angry Birds Reloaded. This game has a variety of "boosters" that can be bought with a currency that I'm guessing could be bought for real money before. It can also be earned very slowly by playing the game. Now this game is on Apple Arcade with the boosters and premium currency intact, but no micro-transactions. As a result it just feels like a game with a borderline-useless booster system tacked on because the time needed to earn these boosters makes them impractical to use on a regular basis.

It's a pretty good illustration of how MTX crappifies game design.
if they had to pilot modern aircrafts with much more complicated controls, carrying hundreds of passengers they would definitely be required to have one
I agree with you but I think compared to Http or even bittorrent It’s extremely easy to attack IPFS.

Anyone can register a lot of fake “seeder” for a file chunk making it hard to download that chunk.

Same problem for the name server.
K8s can really be a pain especially for larger teams. This is a breath of fresh air!
When it's a commonly committed crime but only certain people get prosecuted, it reaks of high-level corruption. Sounds like this exec stepped on the wrong toes.
Doesn't this sort of thing happen in government all the time?
English Common Law is prevalent, but that is the basis of the law and certainly not the specific codes and minor changes that have been made since 1950
The first sentence of the second paragraph says:

"There was just one catch to landing that deal: It had to hire the streaming company’s vice president of IT operations, Michael Kail, as a consultant and an advisor, and pay him with fees and stock options."

That seems pretty clear to me.
And you can also root your iPhone... The comparison is still legitimate.
I assume because so far the only devices released with M1 processors have been consumer devices with attached screens, the focus has been on bringing over the full graphical, desktop Linux experience to it, not just headless server linux.
Zillow stops home buying as it struggles to manage its backlog of inventory
This might just be me not understanding Ruby well enough, but managing packages and dependecies feel even worse in Ruby.
The NASA video on that page is mesmerizing.
my IG account was stolen (no change email notification)... I had 2 factor on the email and IG and there is no way for me to even follow up on it...
100k workers take action as 'Striketober' hits the US
In a better future, we'll look back on copyright's dark ages - when decades of purchased legislation shaped it to become a tool for censorship and gatekeeping.
There's plenty of oil and gas. It's just the still available sources are difficult and expensive to extract from, requiring high prices to be worth it, but plentiful supply inherently drives the prices down, so it either needs to be kept artificially low via cartels or subsidized, which voters are understandably not big fans of given the history of fossil fuel subsidies.
KubeCon 2021 Takeaways: DevX, Security and Community
Nah looks like a legit way to get it, probably unintended, for sure Ministry of Health is way less secure than RENAPER. Somebody was looking around, found that and win.
Her son is now breaking records left and right: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652367

But for some reason, i thought of beowulf, on the sea-burial of Scyld:

"/ Men cannot say

wise men in hall / nor warriors in the field

not truly, / who received that cargo"
Yeah, but the idea of a backup service where you only pay when you need to restore isn't bad :)
Not really. Lobsters is nother HN-like site but with much less activity
It seems very unclear to me. I don't understand why that's illegal or wrong. Someone was hired and paid using fees and stock options? Seems fine to me. I don't understand corporate structure enough to understand why that's problematic...

“leveraged his status as a leader of the IT community in Silicon Valley to subvert the trust of Netflix and others to profit at their expense”

How did he leverage it in a way that was illegal? I'm not questioning that he did it, I literally don't understand. The diversity of responses here highlights what's confusing. People are saying hiring him at all was the problem? Other responses say that hiring him without Netflix knowing is the problem? It's hard for me to understand the specific transgression.
I think the parent post is about the PC Backblaze backup service, not B2. The PC backup service does backup everything, and part of the reason for that is to make it extremely easy to setup. If they allowed selection of what to backup, it would be another user interface, more documentation, and then if the user deselected something important, they'd be mad if they had a problem and something wasn't backed up. Since it doesn't affect the flat-rate price, it's easier just to back up everything.
> Including my boss, who was fired when he was attending his mother's funeral.

And people wonder why big companies are generally loathed.
The article describes an absolutely standard kickback scheme. If you're an employee of a company and arrange to take kickbacks from vendors without the approval of your employer, you're defrauding your employer.
>> LC is basically a proxy for being able to pick up random shit quickly

This is the exact opposite of LeetCode. It proves they've crammed on the front-end of the long tail wave of problems. It shows absolutely nothing about recognizing general problem domains and being able to identify long term solutions.

You're right it has no long term importance. It's just a different, still artificial signaling value.
Actually a from-scratch web browser is being built:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90611677/flow-ekioh-web-browser-...

Also you should take a look at the WHATWG because it’s far more relevant than the W3C nowadays.
I'm sort of the Python hero at work, and, for me, the one supremely magical thing that Poetry brings to the table is that I am finally able to spec out a Python development workflow that I can easily document and explain to team members who don't already have a lot of detailed Python expertise.

Maybe the single most underappreciated thing about Poetry compared to other options is its tendency to fail safe.
Sounds like I have to go through Apple to get to anyone with some money to spend.

So much freedom! I get to market my stuff to poor people and picky, principled tech users.
It's in the second paragraph.

There was just one catch to landing that deal: It (the startup hoping to do business with Netflix) had to hire the streaming company’s vice president of IT operations, Michael Kail, as a consultant and an advisor, and pay him with fees and stock options.

That's "pay-to-play"; you don't hire me as an "advisor", you don't get the Netflix contract.
It is still low paid. Money per hour, volatility of income, and quality of life at work including morbidity and mortality risk are just as relevant as money per year.

BLS does not incorporate these metrics, but there is an easy way to see if a job is low paid relative to quality of life at work (and outside of work). And that is to see people advise their kids to aspire to be. Doctor, lawyer, engineer, but not truck driver.
setting up is still unsolved, but:

- for librairy packaging and general dep maangement, poetry is the solution

- for packaging a web project and ship it on the server, shiv is the solution

- for distribution, half the solution is nuitka for compiling the program. Creating the installer is now the hard part
I've noticed more as time has gone on people are working on critical software without the skills or organizational structures required to actually do so safely. What I'm wondering is if this is a change that's happened more broadly or is just something that I didn't notice before? Overall the average years of experience in the industry has dropped in the last decade due to the influx of new developers but what's the deal with inexperienced people working on critical systems without oversight from people with more experience?

While I feel the failures from the developer here are pretty bad I feel the organizational factors that allows this situation to happen are far worse.
IMO, those are qualities that are hard to teach to a class and should be a responsibility of the parents to teach their kids.
You can't "hire" Netflix's VP of IT to stay at Netflix and approve all your purchase orders.
> There was just one catch to landing that deal: It had to hire the streaming company’s vice president of IT operations, Michael Kail, as a consultant and an advisor, and pay him with fees and stock options.

I completely get how a startup would take this deal, however gross it is, but what I don't understand is how the exec got away with it from Netflix's side. And the fact this wasn't just 1 but 8 other startups he did this to/with as well. I can't tell from the article if Netflix was aware or unaware of this "Agreement" and if they weren't aware... how? Did no one ever mention "Oh yeah, we hired Kail like you asked/required us to"?
This could be an explanation, was the brand name not immediately followed by the domain name of the project. The capitalization also implies a direct reference to OSM. The paper also references several Google services by name.

I think it might even be inaccurate to describe something as "the open street map network", because "the" implies there is only one network of street maps that are open. Alternatives like "All paths were map-matched to the street map network provided by ..." or "All paths were map-matched to an open street map, specifically ..." would probably be more correct if the goal is to avoid the brand name.

I see no reason to discourage brand names if their products are specifically directly to the research in question. Avoiding brands is a lot easier in other fields of science, but even there attributing data sources should be acceptable (or even required).

It looks to me like the this is the result of sloppiness or an overzealous editor.
I don't know anything about Terry Tao, but what makes you think he'll be placed above Einstein by the HN crowd?
For taxes there is a different identification system that requires you to go to an office in person and give them a password.
The conclusions made in this blog seem wrong, it's perfectly fine to write these kinds of tests if you have to as part of a rush job, but WHY DO IT ON PROD? You know 100% that you are making calls to the 3rd partys' prod, assuming "random" numbers aren't real is incredibly negligent.
> And its not more difficult to have a family than if you're in the military or a night nurse or any other job with unusual schedule.

Military has huge divorce rates. And it is not like women were super eager to date military guys seriously. In a lot of ways it is worst then being with truck driver even, due to forced relocations every couple of years.

Night nurse get to be present outside of shift. Night nurse gets to be present parent. That is impossible for a soldier on deployment.
I'm gonna guess there's a lot of stuff (expensive enough to make passenger cars seem cheap - including other tanks) to crash a tank into between when you get in on-base and when you arrive in enemy territory where you're supposed to break stuff.
Once you get into distributing python package, it is such a nightmare. Relative imports were also not easy to understand.

And C/C++ extensions in your package makes things even worse. CMake for extension, setup.py for python of you hope to build cross-platform.

Pybind11 helped a bit but for each python version you have to compile the wheel again, even with manylinux docker image. Imagine learning docker so you can release a wheel!

The other language I often use, C++, is also no better. I am drawn to Rust and Nim lately (not entirely because of these issues).
C#: Pass by value vs. ref vs. in vs. out
Can I use Travis CI with Datree?
80K for a owner operator is shit, he is not bring home 80K in salary, out of that 80K he has to pay for the Truck, Fuel, Insurance, Repairs, Self Employment Taxes, License Fees, and a whole host of other things

My Guess that is eating about 50% of that revenue way, so then his pay is probably around 40-45K gross profit before taxes.
> the reason python beat out ruby was almost entirely due to ruby being really really slow

Relative to Python, that language which notoriously makes C look like a sloth on training wheels...
Calendaring in Outlook is worlds better than anything else I've used, there's a ton of niceties (pick a time, type a name and it automatically tells you that person is unavailable. same with rooms.). Exchange's sync is very good, which is not something I can say for traditional IMAP.

I have my problems with them (like that Outlook is by far the most unstable part of Office, and can't keep the local cache clean for more than a year), but the features that work are way better than anything else on the market. I use Gmail for personal mail (because it comes with my unlimited Google Drive), and I can't do half of the rules and things I can do it Outlook.
Not only is a problem that deleting a bucket costs money, but if you have a big bucket with many deeply nested files, it can take a really long time to clean it up using the AWS command line.

I ran into this with a bucket full of EMR log files a few years ago and had to figure out some pretty crazy command line hackiness, plus running on a EC2 machine with lots of cores to figure it out. This a write-up I did if anyone else ever runs into this issue.

https://gist.github.com/michael-erasmus/6a5acddcb56548874ffe...
Some cultural context, this bowl is probably associated with the Urnfield culture, a wide-spread cultural horizon that was probably associated with Indo-European language speakers (probably late proto-Indo-European or pre-proto-Celtic).

The sun motif is naturally widespread among many unrelated cultures, but in this case is probably associated with a dawn or sun deity (*seh₂u-el, cognate with Sol, Helios, etc). Sometimes female, sometimes male depending on the culture and period, but in this period, probably female.
Poetry doesn't play nice with PyTorch and many other ML libraries.
Unclogging the Ports Will Not Fix the Supply Chain’s Even Bigger Trucking Crisis
> There's a lot of stuff to ship, but margins on those things are very thin + demand for said stuff is extremely elastic due to it not being super essential so there's also not a lot of room for increased driver wages.

Why should truck drivers subsidize these companies, then?

A company should not be in business if it isn't sustainable without screwing the workers.
Visualize pitch like John Coltrane with this mystical image
>In his own memorandum to the court, requesting that he be sentenced to a year of house arrest, Kail, 49, described himself as a “global power leader, top dev ops influencer and a thought leader.”

So very humble of him.
HR and rules are for the little people. VPs can do pretty much whatever they want for a LOOOONG time at large tech companies before any consequence catches up with them.
Gotcha. So, legally speaking, the victim of the crime here is Netflix, and if the exec had performed the same activities with the express permission of someone within Netflix with the authority to authorize such things (IDK, board of directors?) it would not have been illegal?

Is there additional/secondary fraud against the vendors as well, or is the fraud strictly against the employer in this situation?

(Edit: Board of Director approval is totally hypothetical, I understand that no BoD would ever actually condone such a thing.)

(Edit: Thanks for the clarification, everyone!)
Aside from the obvious problem that this message appears to merely be a suggestion rather than a requirement with legal penalties attached, it doesn't seem to be an actionable instruction.

If you are asked to provide your SSN and you ask "For what purpose?" and the requester lies and says "So I can choose my lottery numbers", it's not clear that you have broken the rule by revealing your SSN. However, perhaps the requester is breaking the rule (and perhaps they should know the rule, assuming they have a card themselves) in this scenario, but it's also not clear what action they would have to carry out with the SSN in order to have used it "for identification".

For example, if a system designer uses SSNs as a primary key in a database, they can claim that's just for simple indexing, and that they are still using name and address or photo to identify someone. A system designer could also claim that they were only using the SSN as a (weak) "something you know" factor (among many other factors) in authentication, which may not amount to using it "for identification". Asking someone their date of birth (to be checked against another source, or on a later interaction) doesn't mean that your date of birth identifies you, since millions of humans share the same birthday.
Do you have a link to that for the Switch eStore? I'd love to check it out. Maybe an Amazon link for a Retroarch game cartridge I could buy?
That is absolutely correct! It turns your data centre into a bare metal cloud.
It's a kickback because there's a clear conflict of interest just as if he were given a week on a tropical island as a quid pro quo even if that quid pro quo only took place in a nudge-nudge wink-week sort of way (which it certainly didn't in this case).
I think this is less the fault of the reporter and more an audience that is unfamiliar with the notion of a kickback scheme and why it’s illegal. Might I recommend reading up on what a kickback is?
How often do you see them cruising at 75 MPH on the interstate?
Google did not delete the articles. I found them just fine on duckduckgo.com
It could be better, but it doesn’t feel worse than .Net or Go, and it’s much better than Javascript/Node.

Personally I’m also confused by Ruby. I guess Java is sort of okay, but which languages do people feel have excellent package management?
I never understood why JS needs decorators. It has pretty flexible function syntax already, so decorators wouldn't clean nearly as much code up as pipes would.
A theory known to be unfalsifiable cannot be conclusively ruled "false." It can only be deemed outside of the realm of science. To make such a strong claim puts one back in the realm of faith in pseudoscience.

I like the word "bullshit." Bullshit isn't necessarily true, isn't necessarily false, it's simply not worth my time to wade into it.
Well, speaking for myself personally, I was around 11-13 when I first joined the scene. Right before the fall of the classical hacker collectives and old school zines.

It sounds to me like you were not, so I will give your unsubstantiated opinion the benefit of the doubt of not understanding the context or implications of Phrack and aforementioned Hacker Manifesto.
That happened to a startup I was part of back in the late 90's. We gave out substantial stock grants to senior managers at customers.
My local NPR station, KCRW, actually did a great series on this years ago covering Long Beach / LA port:

https://www.kcrw.com/news/articles/cargoland-a-brief-history...

Here's a site they created dedicated to it:

http://cargoland.kcrw.com/the-pirate/

Since listening to that, a lot of the recent news I've been seeing, including this article, haven't been a surprise to me.

I remember they talked specifically about how predatory the trucking industry is. They interviewed both the truckers and some of the representative from companies exploiting them. (Business model didn't sound all that different from Uber. Drivers pay for their own trucks, work as independent contractors, while large operating under control of companies.)

I can't actually locate it on this site so it may have been reported in some follow-up stories. Or perhaps in details of actual story audio.
What's a common/upper mid-level salary in the Philly area? Just curious, seems like you have a good beat on it.
Haha.. I came to Python from C++ so it resonate with me. After getting used to rust a bit, my threshold of tolerance has gone way way down..
Replacing a 2019 16" (i9-2.3GHz, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD) with 14" with M1 Pro 10cpu/16gpu, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD.
This is exactly why I'm confused. I would also like this clarified.
I think that it is true that I should have written this article or something like it years ago, but there's still a long tail of people who don't even know that invoking setup.py is bad, or that the goal is to get rid of all setup.py commands.

Probably the biggest stragglers will be build scripts, and as recently as mid-2020, the answer to "how do I build distributable artifacts without using setup.py" was still "you can do it but there's no good definitive answer": https://stackoverflow.com/q/58753970/467366

There's also been a lot of mixed messaging in this space, so I think there's a decent population of people who think that the way to stop invoking setup.py is to stop using setuptools entirely, mixing up "don't invoke setup.py" with "use a backend that doesn't have a setup.py".

But you are right to say that this has gotten a lot better over time and the word is slowly getting out.
Any large tech company has teams dedicated to improving developer productivity. So how do you assess the quality of those teams' work, or that they're worth the investment, or help them prioritize projects? Just don't bother?
Backwards-Compatibility in Cloudflare Workers
To be fair, the problem isn't the people not going to Uni, it's the chasm that exists in-between. A decent investment in trade-schools/polytechs and it wouldn't matter so much.

But then, the UK fcked over a lot of its trades to become a "service economy", so who knows.
I really don't think you can neglect the large number of people who think they are very bright and effective and would be great for this role, but actually aren't.

Based on my experience, this is a solid proportion of nerdy men (I say as one of them). When I was studying physics, all sorts of people would want to talk about their interest in physics and quantum mechanics with me but they "were only good with the concepts, not the math." Any brief conversation would reveal they didn't have the damnedest idea what was going on.

My suspicion is that these are the people driving the anti-leetcode discourse.

Top unis absolutely pass on bright students all the time, you are right.
That's actually a curious question, I wonder what the most energy efficient dev tool is. Can't imagine its VScode. Maybe plain terminal with VIM?
Apple does not believe there are any electronics out side of Apple, nor that there are any web browsers outside of Safari.

Apple believe everyone on the plant should only ever use Apple hardware, and Apple Software, why would anyone not want to run over priced low quality products?
These stories are all planted by the trucking companies. These stories have shown up a million times over the last twenty years, and maybe earlier. The WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, WaPo and now NPR run this same article about every two weeks. It always amazes me when people tweet this article or it shows up on HN because it is so predictable. Haven't you seen this same article at least a hundred times? Where are all the truckers' yachts?