skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True story, I once worked with a guy who got out of being "voluntold" to work a weekend long migration project by bringing up "I've got dad duties this weekend, sorry".

A few months later he and I were hanging out at a bar, the time gets away from us and I go "hey man don't let me keep you out here away from your family all night, it's cool if you gotta go".

He looks at me and asks "what family?" I am confused.

That's when he drops it on me: he's been at this company 5 years lying about having a family because it gets him out of doing off-hours work and nobody asked any questions, they'd just assign work to someone else. Whereas when some of the younger, childless, and more impressionable workers try to protect the boundaries of their off-time...well you see where this is going (if not: they would get talked into doing it anyway)

It's a kind of malingering that I found...honestly....kind of brilliant in a bastard kind of way.
Nobody's figured out that you can redirect a DNS record to an external host yet
The War On Redemption sucks so much I don't even want to know anymore. The past was better when we left it in the past.
Having it on the same domain could be a single point of failure in the case that their DNS nameservers go down. If their status page is on the same domain and they have bad DNS issues, it would bring down their status page as well.
> American society has been slow to adapt to people who are single or live alone.

The elephant in the room is that most societies actively want to penalize people living alone.

It’s not hidden in any way, the centuries old rhetoric is people are supposed to get into cis-gendered couples and have kids. There is cultural lag on allowing LGBTQ to get the same status, but our society will always pay lip service to helping single people, and strongly push for building families, whether it still makes sense or not from the population perspective (I have no idea about that).

Single elderly people are tougher problem, but old farts will just blame them for not having kids caring for them (physically or financially).
> "both sides" should come together to support reforms that are universally protective

When one side doesn't do that, it's not a both sides issue.
I assumed it was because of you're having issues with your primary domain (bad DNS records, DNS provider outage, etc) then you've got a separate domain with a separate provider, that hopefully has a more separated failure domain
A different perspective, assuming none of us will have kids, now imagine what is going to happen on all the services you must have when you age, who is going to provide them?

They will be provided by all the children many parents including your colleagues are busy raising while having a job(or more than one job). We will all benefit from this one way or another, it's vital for any nation to maintain a healthy birthrate(2.3 per couple) for the same reason.
One Charles de Fleury catalogued pieces of the true cross and found them to sum to 2% of a plausibly sized cross, not the oft-repeated claim that they add up to a large ship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross#Dispersal_of_relics paragraph 6. While perhaps biased, it does seem plausible that a cataloguing of such claimed relics today would add up to a similar total volume.
> I think it would be better to look at Desktop Browser usage, which is at ~8%.

Do you mean desktop-only use? From what I've seen many more people use the desktop than that (in combination with mobile). Nevertheless FF certainly is in bad shape.
Except that you cannot buy a graphics card anymore.. or a car.. and food is expensive.. and fuel too.. and blue paint also.
The obvious answer to me is complete isolation, especially if the issue is related to DNS.

If you’re having major network problems, there’s a good chance your DNS server will go down too, which would more than likely take down your subdomain as well.
I don't see why electric motors are not backdriveable enough. Boston Dynamics' Spot uses electric motors with harmonic drive gearboxes (or some other backdriveable transmission) as an example of this. Similarly, series elastic actuators are very capable of giving the characteristics you deem necessary to work alongside humans albeit with lower bandwidth than the harmonic drive gearboxes.
That's how social contracts work. They're not explicitly negotiated formal agreements done by equals. They're the outcome of never ending negotiations that happen not daily or hourly but on a minute by minute basis. If you don't like the social contract of your workplace you quit and find a new one. If you don't like it but you have no good BATNA you grin and deal with the shit. A social contract is an accomodation with power.
It's a common complaint that "even their status page isn't up" -- this is often because DNS issues take out both the site and their status page
> the issue isn't that voting software is insecure, it's that it's too complex.

That's a great point, and quite understated. However, perhaps the key factor is not complexity itself, but being able to be trustworthy and transparent enough to ensure that the whole process is unquestionably fair.

If anything, recent events demonstrate that, even if elections are free and fair, electoral systems can and will be attacked with the goal of casting doubt on the outcome to try to subvert its results. Any part of an electoral system that relies on non-trivial processes that are not easy to explain, understand, or verify is a part of the process whose credibility can and will be attacked.
We pin all of our npm dependencies and upgrade them via dependabot. Dependabot links to the GitHub or GitLab release for each dependency bump, and I typically skim / scan every single commit to each dependency. But there's no guarantee that what's on GH matches what is uploaded to npm (which is what happened in this case; there are no malicious commits).

Does anyone know of a good way to verify that a npm release matches what's on GH? Version controlling the entirety of node_modules/ and running untrusted updates in a sandbox would work in theory, but in practice many packages contain minified js which makes the diffs between version bumps unreadable.
Is Your Privacy an Illusion? (Taking on Big Tech) [video]
Ask facebook ...
Is there any email service that can be used in concert with a password keeper like 1Pass or LastPass to generate unique email addresses in addition to unique passwords per site? I think this might be a nice way of improving privacy and safeguarding email from spam, or at least help identifying the source of leaks.
Depends on your DNS hosting. FB found out a bit ago what happens when everything is hosted on the same infra.
You would want to host the status page on completely independent infra, such that if your service goes down, it doesn't take down the status page as well. This includes DNS, hence the separate domain.

For example, with Facebook's recent outage, because they hosted their status page on the same DNS server as their regular service, they weren't able to communicate the outage on their status page.
Would you mind going into detail about the right violations lawsuit please? I'm very interested in how you had success and what were the specific violations.

I'm very sorry to hear how your life got turned upside down for a victimless felony. Makes me sick we cage people for some fabricated rule invented by some out of touch legislators.
No they're not!
As it seems, they are already unable to manufacture in asia.
Sometimes they can't even get them right as decoration:

https://goo.gl/maps/j2P3kogSxbq1X3th7
> The only exceptions is war machines (guns, ships...) - you need to have that in your country just in case.

If you can make guns and ships but not fuel for the ships and food for the people carrying the guns and manning the ships, how far does that get you?

If you can make guns and ships domestically, but rely on a foreign power that might become hostile for the raw material, how far does that get you?

If you take the “war materiel must be domestically producable for security” position, and think it through, you will find that it is by no means a narrow exception.

> Though the more trade you do with others the more nobody wants war with you because they lose both the goods you make and the market for goods you buy from them.

The idea that no one ever wants to go to war with a major trade partner is...hard to align with history.
> very few people

What!? There are 40 M developers worldwide. If you're developer, you can definitely learn how to read a public database. Faking results on a public database is IMPOSSIBLE.
Close to home: Identifying links between gaming venues and financial hardship
Those real time deadlines that take you away from your work is what they're talking about. You leaving for those deadlines means someone else implicitly needs to pick up the slack.

Or at least that is the argument.. but there are a few assumptions here that aren't true. Namely, someone doesn't need to pick up the slack, the work will be there the next day in most cases. Someone else with kids might be around. If your boss is treating you different it's on you to call it out and move on.
Me too. I came from posteo. The fastmail app is pretty great. This is the first downtime I’ve noticed in the last four years.
a good status page will be completely separate from the thing it's statusing, otherwise it goes down too.
> Blockchain voting is how we get a world where no one trusts the results of elections because very few people have the knowledge and experience to understand and audit such a system.

You mean as opposed to the current system that so many people understand and audit?
Wouldn't be a problem if auth is still handled on ycombinator.com
That's been my primary motivator behind "I read it online/on a forum," vs "I read it on news DOT why combinator DOT com."

The other reason is that I'd prefer not to navigate the conversation toward "why I'm on a website with 'Hacker' in the name." That's a separate issue for which I am ill-equipped to discuss, given the mainstream connotation.
He had six kids with one of his slaves. That slave was his wife's half-sister, because his father in law had six kids with his slave. The mother of the slave also had a white father and slave mother in turn.

Ignoring for a moment the question of whether someone you own as property can give consent to entering a child bearing arrangement in which the children will also be property, that's a whole lot of "melting" going on.
I don't have a problem with folding shutters, though I don't see them around much.
Ah that reminds me of all the internet film experts in that time frame who would use desktop digital scanner as the last step.

Listen, I get techno Fetishism. If you say that shooting with film camera feels better for you, brilliant. If you claim you prefer vinyl, awesome.

It's when we start making claims of objective superiority that I lose respect and attention.
I feel a bit silly saying this but did you know fastmail do that?
You could also stand up a receiving server and then relay outbound through something like Postmark. Deliverability is the hardest part, it's worth it to farm it out.
The only requirement of an abstract definition is that it be comprehensible and internally consistent.

It is clearly not consistent to criticize Americans for violating inalienable human rights while claiming that inalienable human rights are a concept that does not exist for non-Americans.
Fastmail recently announced a collaboration with 1Password: https://www.fastmail.com/1password/
> I live in a country with 4 times more homicides than the US after adjusting for population

I didn't know there was such a place?
I think deliverability is going to be a bigger challenge than uptime; good luck!
Everyone hireable for ops not only knows what you meant to say, not what you said, but that they’re also solving for completely different problems than you’ve inferred. It’s not about who hosts the target.
I will be the odd one out, but I am not sold on the idea of blockchain. Unless something has changed radically, blockchain depends on trusting the entities that host the ledgers. Creating shell organizations that appear to be separate entities is one of the oldest cons. For me blockchain adds nothing but complexity and greater risk of obfuscation and deception.

For me a better system would be something closer to the certificate transparency system. There should be a way I can match something I know + something I hold to a cryptographic log entry that is publicly available but not reversable to my identity. If I dispute my vote record, I can challenge it using my secret information and quickly expose that my votes were tampered with.

All of that said, our current systems are possibly the worst convoluted highly-hackable-by-design systems. Engineers have testified before congress that they were told to make them weak intentionally. This just leads to engineers being silenced. Pen-testers get in trouble for exposing these systems being intentionally weak. It feels like this is the desired end-state as it just keeps happening.
KVM supports GPU passthrough, so, if you have two graphics cards, you can run Windows 10 with full GPU acceleration. Check out Passthrough Post for ideas/instructions.
Ha, I didn't expect this to be one of my top rated comments.

It is very good wine indeed. It's called Malvasia.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvas%C3%ADa_(uva)

There's a dry and sweet version, I prefer the sweet one.
https://cellerdelhospital.cat/producte/malvasia-dolca/

They do ship internationally it seems, this one is the one from the story =)

The origin city of the grape variety, which came by ship to my city at the time, was monemvasia
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monemvas%C3%ADa
search.HackerNews.com -> https://hn.algolia.com/ ?
I own my own domain, and thus have the luxury of using *@domain.com as my email. So when I give an email to SketchySite.com, it’s sketchysite@domain.com.

Really easy, and costs me very little to do (CloudFlare is my registrar; Fastmail my email host). Highly recommend you buy a domain for email. Looks professional, too.
Cloudflare is not an ad company, Google is.
Some people are above the law. I never said I approved of the system.
> You mean as opposed to the current system that so many people understand and audit?

Yes, we already have a trust problem with one of the simplest methods of voting, and the implication is that mathematical obfuscation via cryptography and blockchains can make the trust problem even worse.
What I would want is a magical personality.

I am the introverted engineer type. I believe am well versed in listening but I don’t have the willpower to listen to endless word vomit. I want to get shit done.

My magical cofounder would be somebody slightly extroverted. Somebody who loves to go to parties, mingle, and form relationships. Somebody who views relationships as another form of engineering problem they are eager to solve and dazzle. When I say dazzle I mean impress and not bullshit. Everybody seemed impressed by Elizabeth Holmes but her motivational mantras, like going all in without a backup plan always felt like a hollow lie, even far before she was exposed. I couldn’t work with anybody like that.
I think to keep it hosted will require tending to the bitrot. We don’t know how the web and computers will change but we do know they will change.

So a succession of people (or, later, robots) need to be incentivised and resourced to maintain it.

A foundation is one idea. But I quite like a viral clause in your will. So, to inherit, your heir needs to (a) maintain your digital legacy and (b) put an equivalent clause in their will, and so on. Maybe it depends on the value of the inheritance but it might be a way to secure a few generations.

Then you could also stipulate that they should do anything they can to use the resources of their time to further secure the digital legacy. You could also make the responsibility always joint and several across all children / heirs.
> This is all momentary situation caused by the pandemic

Very unlikely. 2020 was beginning of a super crisis caused by several reasons:

1) Depletion of fossil fuels which are used to produce consumer goods, e.g. to heat factories and provide electricity for the factory machines. Also fossil fuels are used to transport produced goods around half of the world. It was all possible due to abundant and cheap energy. But that energy source is no longer there.

2) Inability of capitalist economy to grow more. Capitalist economy must constantly expand to new markets but there're no more new markets as amount of markets on planet Earth is finite. Last huge market was created by destroying USSR and USSR industry: it postponed the super crisis by 30 years by giving capitalist system more space to expand to. But there's no longer any place for further expansion.

All will be going downhill from now on. Also, rising economic problems will prompt governments to start wars to exterminate "superfluous" population that cannot be fed in the new dark ages. There're other reasons for new war also. If you capture the country with still remaining fossil fuel resources and exterminate its population, you'll have more time to prepare for the inevitable.
> The elephant in the room is that most societies actively want to penalize people living alone.

This rings very true for me.

Where I live, and likely many other places, one bedroom apartments and studio apartments have a huge overlap in rent. Both are way too high, but it's absolutely bonkers that studio apartments are almost every bit as expensive. This is not a large city/tech hub/anything notable.
It used to bother me as a kid. Now, I just want to have real shutters if I were to build a house. I also understand that they use the fake shutters as a source of contrasting color and to keep the house from looking like a warehouse/barn (although there could be other ways to achieve this).
> My experience developing screenshot/screencast/webcam applications on Wayland has been significantly better than it has been on X11

I use Firefox on X11 and screen sharing in Google meet just works.

A colleague uses Firefox on Wayland and screen sharing in Google meet does not work.

Maybe his setup is just incorrect, but it does not sound like things have become significantly better.
No, because if there is a 51% attack, Everyone can see it.
The International Criminal Court seems like strong evidence that inalienable rights are not "weird from another country's perspective".

Particularly since they have come into conflict with the US over trying to prosecute human rights violations in the mideast.
The IBM 4020 Military Computer – Tracking Missiles with 6-Bit Bytes
Heh. Just curious about the origin of this pretty detailed knowledge about other people's subconscious thoughts...
>common disturbances like speed variations (which cause wow and flutter)

Had to look that up. What they call "slow wow" that is common in turntable records makes sense though as onomatopoeia.

https://www.britannica.com/technology/flutter
> I am, however, interested in making organic connections with like-minded individuals. Perhaps like right here, in the comments of HN ;-)

I'd be legitimately interested in discussing your ideas; I'm not sure that this is the best place for that. It looks like I recently made a reddit account if you want to chat: u/KaleidoscopeOdd3338
One of the main developers of a Lisp compiler is employed by Google to work on exactly that.
I'm a programmer working from home. My manager does not give a shit if I'm randomly unavailable for an hour every day.
there will be no computers or internet in 500 years
Of all the complaints about blockchain voting this seems to me like one of the least valid ones. People don't have the slightest clue how traditional vote counting and recount procedures work until sometimes goes wrong and it makes the news, and at that point it's literally impossible for the average citizen to do any form of auditing whatsoever.
Hell, people have trouble understanding IRV voting. People even get confused by approval voting. The ceiling is low here.
I can happily live with my parents and save a fortune (assuming the logic in the article is correct), but the mating market wouldn't agree with we. The only way I can compensate living alone is to work extra harder to accumulate more professional currency; even if it means that I am so-called stealing jobs from people with families.
You make some great points. You actually have me wanting to fire up some turbines. Another possibly good societal optimization: backyard pooping. Good for the soil, saves on maintaining a sewage system, and the odds of getting sick from it are surprisingly low.
That's why I used enough people as opposed to more definitive words like a majority or plurality. You oftentimes only need a strong energized minority to push through many changes in the government. But what might have been a small minority in NYC calling for changes in the 1990s is clearly a bigger community now. These change advocates will go all the way to changing holidays as well.
My selfish desire is better support for programs that use the "C API" from some other language/runtime via an FFI (foreign function interface).

In my case it's .NET and P/Invoke, where I'm facing challenges similar to those faced by Python.NET, but the same things apply to other FFIs, (although they are ameliorated if you assume a common, system-wide C compiler as is usually the case with linux, which is probably why this case seems rarely to be considered).

Macros are zero use in these situations. There should be exported functions corresponding to these. This PEP sounds like a move in the right direction, but I don't see it mentioned that these macro-replacing inline functions will also be exported from the library so they're accessible with GetProcAddress (windows) or dlsym (linux). If they will be, it will make me very happy.

There's an asssumption in cpython "C API" development that clients are only written in C/C++. Even the Stable ABI and its improvements (which have been a great boon) are only discussed in terms of the ABI not changing, never in terms of actually defining an ABI. It would be great to have an interface you could interact with via an FFI without having to make assumptions about how it was compiled, even if it involves stuff like calling a bunch of functions to discover how big a ssize_t is, etc.
I will second this
> If you dress up for the opera, take a look at your clothes - almost every aspect will be some “fake aesthetic” that has become standard.

I agree wholeheartedly and find the idea of dressing up a specific way for anything but practical/safety reasons or costume parties to be silly. Most non-safety dress codes only exist to artificially segment the population.
Problem isn't just in ease to audit. Biggest advantage of paper voting is that whole system require a lot of people to participate in orgnization and control over the process. It's a great way to make people really care about politics.

And for people who vote when you have to physically come to vote it's not only require effort, but also motivate their peers and family to do the same. And it's good starter of real world political discussion.

On other side if voting made low effort and truly remote and anonymous then it's will degrade people's involvment in process even more.

PS: Good podcast episode about how social networks decrease people's involvment in real world politics:

Hidden Brain: Passion Isn't Enough

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/passion-isnt-enough/id...
OP's point though is that in some companies, revealing that you have kids at home unlocks a "go home early and never be contacted outside of work hours" perk which is unavailable to those who don't have (or want to share that they have) kids.

It's a tough balance, because if you don't allow the same perks to your childless employees, they end up being "suckers", working extra hours for no extra benefit. Conversely, if you were to eg pay them more, even for working more hours and being extra contactable outside of regular hours, it could be seen as discrimination.