skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder what level of cognitive dissonance one must live with to work for a surveillance capitalist company while constantly taking activist stances against which customers that company works with.
> it's vital to separate your application's internal data model from models which it exposes

It really depends.

If you have many different client services that need to access the database in a similar way, then you are right, it makes sense to add some type of abstraction. Then you can change the underlying model and only need to update the common logic once.

Example: if two services both need to create user accounts, it makes sense to encapsulate the logic for creating user accounts somewhere. (A common practice is to use stored procedures inside the database for that)

But if the services access the database in very different ways, then your abstraction may end up just making things more complicated. You'll have just as much work to update as if you updated all the services individually.

Example: An internal dashboard may need to access the data in unique ways. If you route the dashboard service through some middle layer, then that middle layer would have lots of APIs that are used only by the dashboard. So you gain nothing from the abstraction. Any change to the dashboard requires updating the middle layer, any change to the database also requires updating the middle layer. It's just as much effort to make changes as if there was no middle layer, you've just split the dashboard logic in two parts and made it harder to understand.
Inflation starts to be noticeable
Especially with today's high energy prices
s/security/privacy/
One way to browse to 'worth-reading material' is to bookmark such sites, however you find them, to add to your collection.

This can get complicated in a browser, after a while. (Their bookmark library 'scheme' is usually pretty crude.) One way to handle that is to organize them outside of the browser. That way you can navigate to pages you know are useful on a topic.

One way to do that is grouping them in self-created HTML pages. You can re-organize and prune them as you see fit. Then bookmark your pages in your browser.
I doubt that intelligent women do abortions in any large quantities in developed countries - they should be smart enough to use contracepcion. So if you are into eugenics, abortion may be the way to go.
Management's perspective on these issues is (rightfully) along the lines of "if we don't do it, someone else will, so might as well be us".

I think it takes a special amount of privilege to be paid a lot of money and not wanting to sacrifice your principles in today's world.
Why not? Everything is up for negotiation. If the employees are that in demand, then they will have a “privileged” voice. If not, they will get terminated and not matter.
And there are no lessons learmed. They restore the computers and when the next attack comes they are hit again.
Maybe it's just work for you but other people take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about. Such people are obviously going to be upset about a contract with the Israel government.

Though I don't know how they are okay working for a company that basically shows advertisements to people.
Nano/Raiblocks
Don't like it? Leave and don't work there. Simple.

You are free to leave if you do not like the direction of where the company is going. Google won't change and they don't care either because not only they are on the side of profit, they know that the employees will continue to stay because of the six-figure salaries and stock options package.

It's already been admitted.
> the M1 Max model can consume 70 watts

In a 16” at least, the Max can go up to 92W per anandtech’s initial test, and display + ram + rest brings the wallplug draw to 120.
Didn’t know. My apologies.
I knew a few people who quit Goldman's because of Slang, although the reactive graph portion of SecDB carried over around the industry.
I would guess that there are also people who take pride in the impact and consequences that their work brings about and support the Israel government, those are two separate things.
React Aria: A headless UI component library
At this point Israel is part of shitty American partisan politics. No one thinks on their own. Original thinking is also prohibited by both parties, but mostly by the one that I voted for. I regret voting for them but the other option is worse.
It also doesn't specify crypto (just 'cash markets' - which was new to me, apparently means spots) so combined with 'historically' I'm not even sure she doesn't simply mean 'futures are our expertise', crypto or not?
Is that why real estate in dense, walkable cities/neighborhoods is the most expensive in the country?

No one is saying get rid of suburbs. They’ll always be in the US. But when 95%+ of zoning laws make it so suburban sprawl is the _only_ thing that can get built, then you’re taking a choice away from the people who want to live in cities.
Interesting to know. It would explain the pain of getting issues solved within a reasonable timeframe as a paying customer of Transloadit
Aha, so that explains why NSO was banned.
No desktop version that works offline? No thanks.
Groke: A situational awareness system to make seafaring safer
Kind of missing the detail that it's Apache Software Foundation (a non-profit that's community driven), where as Elastic is a publicly traded company?
The article doesn’t really explain exactly what the project is. Anyone know?
DJI app itself has information about flight restrictions
Putting more of your application logic in the middleware is great for middleware vendors. It's pretty much impossible to migrate to a competitor.
The Nature of Open Networks
Nyx-Net: Network Fuzzing with Incremental Snapshots
you can keep your fork independent from upstream meaning you can decide to not give your "contributions" to upstream. providing source means if you do not do the changes in your fork to upstream, any of "your" users can take the changes and push it upstream provided they accept that PR but you are under no obligation to do so, just give the source.

contributing back would mean whatever change you put in your fork must reflect in upstream which is not something all upstream users would accept always but its not a requirement.
Google, Amazon etc. already have contracts with other authoritarian governments like Qatar, Singapore, India and Indonesia.

So what is the problem with cooperating with Israel?
This is already acquired at a university, where "soak the rich" and "corporate greed" is unironically used - at an institution that hikes tuition prices all the time and whose constant appetite for squeezing more money from students and parents alike significantly contributed to the stagnation of middle class life standards in America.

The difference between Google and Uni is that Google pays you, though. As such, the employees will find that their superiors are much harder nuts to crack.
Whale poop liberates nutrients locked up in krill that phytoplankton need - (the article mentions iron, a trace element essential for photosynthesis).

Phytoplankton convert sunlight and dissolved CO2 into biomass, krill eat phytoplankton, baleen whales eat krill. So the role of the whale poop is fertilisation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
That's why the article itself deserves flagging here on hacker news, the article's title itself is a lie
This is a low quality link to something that has been covered in traditional news sources. It should be replaced with something like this: https://m.jpost.com/diaspora/jewish-employees-push-to-cancel...
Sounds like someone else is putting their personal aesthetics over pragmatism. Perl is a dead language walking, the fact that there are some tools it hasn't been worth rewriting doesn't contradict that.
It's easy for the org to change around you (staff turnover, restructuring, management change) such that the team you leave is not the one you joined.

It's pretty easy to get "boiling frogged" into an intolerable situation and I don't think it reflects badly on employees who wait out changes for a while to see how they turn out.
I conjecture that companies will start to open up the executive suites to "democratic" means - employees voting for projects, and eventually voting for executives with political packages. Somehow this will be aligned with shareholder voting.

It's that or it becomes so frictionless to move from one company to another it won't be worth voting.

But I don't see people just leaving activism at home ...
Nano doesn't even show up in the top 100 list of cryptocurrencies, I don't think it can cause any sort of impact even if it disappeared overnight.

Remember that Bitcoin still has ~45% of market, Ethereum around 20%, and the rest of them share what's left over. For a "crypto apocalypse" to happen, something needs to happen with the majority of top 100 cryptocurrencies.
Maybe to Americans it is. To everyone else, including Israelis themselves, it's a completely separate entity.
And? Nobody said the Iranian system is some model of virtue, just that it isn't so incredibly bad that the alternative of "start a bloody civil war and ruin the whole country for decades" (the Libyan experience) can realistically be considered attractive by most of the population.
Visual Studio Code for the Web
My one, big complaint about Angular is the sheer amount of badly documented knowledge you have to accumulate to become an expert in it, so few people really are - the article even touched on that.

Better yet - even those who mastered it still discover new things from time to time.

In my previous project I've met a very knowledgeable developer who taught me, among other things, that components can also provide services (of course they can!) but shied away from RxJS stuff, which in turn was something that I could teach him.

We both struggled with circular dependencies in Jest tests and never solved that one, because at the time the designers of the mentioned testing framework refused to tell how exactly was workload parallelized, so debugging was difficult to say the least.
So this is the free, online, collaborative Balsamiq substitute I've been looking for?
It can also allow for boosting a core more: the “turbo” ramping is on a per-cluster basis so if only one core is loaded it’ll work at 3.2, two of them at 3.1, and 3 or 4 lowers that to 3.0.
this is actively harmful for a democratic society. Raising your voice is the way to influence societies action. The economy is part of society and governed by its rules and thoughts. There would be no environmental laws without environmental activist, civil rights laws without civil rights activist etc. Ignoring this means ignoring the political side of you economic actions, but companies don't operate in a politically neutral space. The moment you work with a government you support it, which is a political act.
Mate, we're talking about Google.

Edit: Google employees are largely based in US and I am talking about the zeigeist of what Israel means to most of these employees. They know zilch about Israel but have made up their partisan minds.
A camera wired to a monitor & a classical doorbell - for u asked ;-)
It's just another public cloud project similar to what Big Cloud already have in China, Germany, India etc.

Israeli government IT providers will be able to use Google and Amazon cloud services but with the data physically located in Israel.
Rights and freedoms for whom?
Who the fck thinks india has authoritarian govt ? India has multiple news portals being harshly critical of govt 24x7 and enjoying viewership, ads and even govt ads. Is that a feature of one ? Which echo chamber news source you are referring ?
And after some period of that it could be made unsafe in a future edition. So it’s not a totally crazy idea, but the payoff would have to be quite something.
https://justshowmethecode.com/browse-code-examples/python%20...

Query: "python loop dict"

Answer:

> Str Object is not Callable; Python Dictionary Loop Error

Yeah, okay.
Ask HN: Desktop Mind-Mapping Software?
Every year I try to find a good, cross-platform mind mapping app that runs on as many platforms as possible, does not rely on an online or subscription service, and is not prohibitively expensive, but I end up going through the same options: MindNode (which I use and love but doesn’t have a Windows version, let alone Linux), Freemind (which looks and works pretty badly on modern systems), and all sorts of other things (Mindmeister, Xmind, etc.) which have either gone fully online or all out on expensive subscriptions.

What (if anything) are people using for mind maps? Is there anything decent (maybe even OpenSource) that will run fully offline as a PWA (like draw.io) and not in a browser?

I’ve joked that I’m desperate enough to run an Electron app at this point, as long as I can use it across Windows, Linux and Mac…
Autonomous driving startup Momenta raises another $500M
That's polygon modelers' job. They start from basic geometry like a cube or a sphere, and add details by subdividing, extruding, beveling, working on surfaces and edges. The end result often shows lots of angled parallel lines.

Other two major types of 3D modeling are parametric CAD modeling and sculpt polygon modeling. Sculpt is a relatively new method suited for modeling natural objects like an animal bone, and parametric CAD is extension to good ol' hand drawn mechanical schematics.

If you know what to look, you might notice that polygon-modeled models often has an origin _point_ at its center of gravity towards which cross section of the model and density of surface details increases, and that parametric models has an origin _plane_ at an "end" where it extends from which tends to define average cross sectional area of a part. This drone is a mix of those two methods.

... And the real reason why I'm writing this comment is because sometimes I don't like when modelers do general aesthetics first and add internal structure as mere flavoring, making it "boneless", like all those Star Wars ships. Everything mechanical are "added details" in Star Wars mechs.

I think your complaints come from something similar to what I have problems with. Photography cameras were always machined so they are always drawn in CAD with mechanical principles first and surface details to follow.
gamepressure.com is probably not a reputable source. The page links to https://www.jta.org/2021/10/30/united-states/jewish-employee..., which I don't know whether it's trustworthy.
Aka the anti AWS licensing.
Yeah israel has a great human rights record if you ignore their treatment of palestinians and other minorities.
In that case, Mountain View is full of other software corporations that will gladly take an ex-Googler. There isn't even an informal monopoly on employment there.

Of course, the compensation may be lower elsewhere.
That's because the largest exchange for it in the world stole hundreds of million of dollars from people and the value of it totally collapsed.
Now they just need to explain why they stopped updating their app in the play store and force everyone to download it from their site.
If you work, socialize and live with the same set of people then this cognitive dissonance becomes easy.

Group reinforcement is a hell of a drug
Not GP, but plenty of unmemorable (but for their quantity and nature) ICOs a few years ago, before the SEC decided to subject them to the Howey test and consequently regulate many of them (and probably deter many more from bothering to work out if they passed the test/risk it).
Sure, but this isn't a Core Extreme model(remember those?), This is a c220d using twice as much fuel as a 320d, just to be 0.1s faster to a 100. If that's a good trade off for you, then sure, but I stand by my opinion that this isn't progress and this isn't some incredible humanity pushing achievement - this is just allowing the CPUs to run at crazy power just to beat the competition ever so slightly, because intel still hasn't sorted out their manufacturing nodes.
Regardless of your stance on the subject, anyone else thinks this phrasing feels really...off?

"Several of them renounce the anonymity of the petition and at the same time reveal their Semitic nationality."

I have never heard Israeli citizenship being described that way, and later in the article they explain it doesn't even mean that but "Jewish background" which somehow makes that phrasing sound even worse?

EDIT: my problem is with both Semitic and nationality.
Thanks for taking a look. In my opinion, the methods of adoption of the semantic web (html tags) weren’t that complicated. The different variations and possibilities of how even basic data could be described is what made it complicated for those storing data and developers building apps on top of it.

With NUM, we’re not asking people to store this data in DNS because it’s simpler (although it does separate it out from your website which has benefits in my opinion), the point of storing it in DNS is that we can pre-populate it at scale and offer basic tools to manage this data safely in DNS.

Your project sounds cool. Is it searchable through a centralised database or some other way? Google have done the centralised model and that’s what we’re trying to offer an alternative to.
"Hey, I know you are super busy but I just wanted to check..."

Makes me want to ditch the product on the spot. Yes, I've seen your emails. Yes, I will let you know if I need anything. No, I don't need a zoom call/onboarding video/introductory convo with your marketing team.
It's very nice that you can concluded this without blinking. Meanwhile there are people that died in concentration camps, vaporized in atomic blasts or got burned for being a witch.

While right here we have some people potentially loosing some disposable income while others get rich.
OTOH - TIL : LiveJournal.com still exists, even when giants such as Friendster, MySpace, Google Plus #cough have perished. Awesome.
> authoritarian governments ... India

Lol... if anything, Indian government is too liberal. Comparing it with Qatar/Indonesia is ignorance, or intentional misinformation.
Ethernet and wifi MAC addresses are not permanent.

On linux machines you've been able to change ethernet mac addresses for something like two decades. MacOS X has easily accessed MAC address configuration, also been possible for many many years. Ditto for wifi cards.

iOS 14 and above uses a randomized wifi mac address on a network unless you specifically turn it off. iOS 8 or 9 introduced MAC address randomization for broadcast stuff like network probes.

Android 10 does the same (it was available in 9 under dev options.)

For Bluetooth, it sounds like BTLE allows for some forms of mac address randomization that was intended to improve privacy, but it's been defeated: https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/18/bluetooth-flaw/

Bluetooth smart watches, headphones, car audio, sports sensors (heartrate, running gait sensors) have made it completely trivial to track someone's whereabouts. Assume that almost any major retailer has long since associated MAC addresses with a customer profile on you. There's a reason Amazon makes it impossible to use Prime at Whole Foods without your cell phone running the app or having the website up with a live connection; the QR codes are valid for barely a few minutes.
History is a construct. It's a product of actual physical processes in the electrical and chemical networks of human minds resulting in the rearrangement of atoms elsewhere in the universe into patterns that self replicate, or spawn processes in other networks, using any interface available. History used the medium of vibrating air, then worked its way through different symbolic systems until we landed here, at the pinnacle of human achievement, arguing on the internet.

Humans are special because our constructs are orders of magnitude more complex than anything that came before. Opposable thumbs and large wrinkled brains and a lottery ticket combination of environmental factors allowed us to happen. We're a fundamentally different type of thing than anything that we know of that came before. It isn't an anthropomorphic conceit, it's a matter of physical evidence and computational theory. Nothing else does what human brains do. It's a little silly to dismiss it as somehow not real. It's as real as fusion producing light from the core of a sun, or pulsars blazing with energies that outshine entire galaxies.
When recruiting you would notice if someone had a SS tatto on their face, if they did I suspect it would bias your impression of them. Its no different to somones public comments on social media.
Israel has palestinians and arabs as part of its government, and they can get citizenship and full rights. Is the reverse true anywhere else in the middle east? Can Jews get citizenship and participate in government in any middle eastern country?
I don't know if it's beyond anybody's expertise, but I think one of the greatest mysteries in economics is how Tether is able to hold a 1-to-1 peg to the US dollar, considering it's not redeemable for dollars (according to Tether's own terms and conditions). Apparently people just buy Tethers for 1 dollar a piece and expect that the peg will hold. And surprisingly it does.
5x faster raytracing with Apple M1 Max
Haven't heard about that. Yet, the entire market is moving upwards, doesn't that prove the opposite? That the market can afford loosing smaller coins without impacting the larger market?

When did this "steal" you mention happened anyway? Seems the price of nano been stable since this year, hovering around $4, unless you go all the way back to 2017.
I learnt Python via Zope in 2000, and attended the Zope Conference in Python that year.

Joined JPMorgan in 2010 to work on Athena, and immediately had a real sense of deja vu... Athena's Hydra object db (essentially an append-only KV store of pickles) felt like a great grandchild of Zope's ZODB.
I dislike public transport purely because I don’t want to travel with all those people around me.
Abba: Voyage review – no thank you for the music
I notice how whenever there is anything remotely negative about israel on HN or reddit, the shills come out. The script is always the same (only democracy in the middle east, our greatest ally, the US gets more from them than the other way around, etc.)

At this point I have to wonder if JIDF are real and not just a 4chan meme or these are some advanced GPT-3 sockpuppet accounts.
Neither Qatar, Singapore, nor Indonesia occupy foreign lands. Your comment is based on a false assumption.
This phrasing in the article’s summary is problematic:

“Several of them renounce the anonymity of the petition and at the same time reveal their Semitic nationality.”

Asserting “Semitic nationality” is part of an old trope that Jews are themselves a nation that transcends boundaries and do not abide allegiances to where they live.

It shouldn’t even matter at all whether they’re Jewish and protesting cooperation with Israel. It doesn’t make this stance any more credible.
Do you mean:

“We were only obeying orders?”

People move from job to job now, if they have qualms it adds impetus to move on to a new job.

Some move on voting with their feet, others may be more active wanting to sway a company’s direction.

Top down vs bottom up, you can’t lead if there’s no one following.
I genuinely can't stand the default font, and so many people tend to use it. My dyslexia makes it really difficult for me to read it. Please, please, Excalidraw owners if you're reading this: make the default font something that's much more friendly to those with dyslexia.

Defaults matter a lot.
What war on fossil fuels? Just last year you had oil and gas prices at basically historic lows? Now suddenly gas/oil is back to "normal" levels and it's causing inflation?
Saying that your country has the best human rights record in the Middle East is like saying your country is the richest in Africa. Just because it is true doesn't mean it is good.
Why not focus on the problem/issue on its own?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition