skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. The problem is that I don't know what I'm getting until I follow the link. Even when I beep the qr code but before following it, 3/4 of the time I get some url shortener.

To be clear, I think your website is a good idea and a good movement forward. I'm just a curmudgeonly old guy.

Maybe I would be happier if you did what I sometimes see others do: abuse the error correction in qr codes to make the one you produce more interesting or unique. So instead of an anonymous url injector, it looks like a menu and has your logo or brand somewhere clear.
I noticed an Alexa in a family member's bathroom recently. Yeah, I don't have to own them, but that doesn't mean their existence doesn't affect me. This is ripe for legislation.
It feels like that because "our concern" ARE NOT being heard. The privacy concerns voiced on HN are far removed from what the voting population here (Belgium) thinks. Most people don't mind surveillance "because they aren't doing anything wrong". You have to put in a lot of EFFORT to explain it to them. "First they came for the socialists..." and all that.
No, you’re right. This was made by the ghuntley fellow (https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ghuntley), who seems to have a thing for forking and redistributing things that were already freely accessible, typically without making any real changes.
Recently I've also noticed them throwing in "no whiteboard tests" as an interview perk too haha
Uh, not sure I understand. Do you mean you didn't want to write the logic? That issue you point to just means the component doesn't exist out of the box. Is that what you meant?
They are just going to try over and over again, until there is Olympic games or a football Worldcup to distract the people.
Can we not editorialize the titles?

This is the title: GoDaddy Announces Security Incident Affecting Managed WordPress Service

Saying this is a breach sounds more generalized and makes exponentially more people click the bait to see if their domain accounts were hit (they weren't).
That must be a difficult way to see the world. The answers to these questions often reveal how plausible it is that a discussion can go anywhere. I've avoided so many hell threads with them. That's time you don't get back. I'm just not going to persuade some people, and questions help me determine the viability of continuing.
This is an interesting take. I think it's clearly unethical to destroy production as a price support for human essentials. Industry shouldn't incinerate insulin, dump milk[1], trash food, etc. in pursuit of current or future profit. I have a hard time extending that argument to processors. Would it be nice for Intel to pass unexpectedly high yields on to society in the form of better parts or prices? Sure, but I have a hard time finding an ethical obligation for them to do so.

[1] of course in choosing this example, we admit that _government_ might ethically choose to destroy production to maintain price floors so that domestically-produced products remain available.
I think you argument hinges on the fact that demand shows up immediately after the price is cut. That would require there is a backlog of payloads which are just waiting for the price to be low enough. That is obviously not true, I believe lower prices are dramatically accelerating the demand as evidenced by space sector investment (1), but the demand curve is lagging because building space vehicles is hard.

(1) I could not find a good chart showing the historic Space Sector investment, but there were multiple articles talking about record amount of the investment: https://spacenews.com/space-industry-in-midst-of-transformat...
So now the true meaning of crypto is hidden?
That is a pretty fun one indeed. :)
To be safer, I would rather have everyone tracked except me, because I know how to use encryption tools. If criminals want unencrypted communications, that's also their choice.
I don't follow this closely but from headlines I've seen it appears as Europe goes after encryption more than the US. They also go pursue what many people consider "good" internet regulations as well, like right to be forgotten, and whatever the hell those cookie warnings are about.

I can't help but to think they are two sides of the same coin. Meaning that consumer friendly internet regulations we can all more or less agree on (e.g. let me cancel subscription online), is very correlated to consumer hostile ones (e.g. banning encryption and restricting ISPs).

Am I thinking about this wrong?
People will also deny that Wine is an emulator, and people will also claim that whatever tinc does is not an VPN because it doesnt hide your IP when watching porn. My coworker denied DOS is an operating system because it doesn't have virtual memory and paging.

all nonsense ... People generally aren't good with subtle differences, i guess. I've given up explaining it to people.
It loads fine for me, but has severe rendering issues. There is no text, just weird, colored diagonal lines.
Personally, I'm starting to identify a lot of cases where looking things up in an external resource is a deeper mental disruption than remembering it, even if the lookup is just as fast or even faster. (Or, it's possible that the external lookup only seems faster because the several mechanical steps compress my perception of time, like keyboard navigation can seem faster than the mouse, even when it isn't.)

For example, I find that when I'm working with an API enough that I am frequently looking up the same operations, investing twenty minutes in identifying and reviewing the important operations, as if I were preparing for an exam where I wouldn't be allowed to consult external resources, pays off in fluency and immersion.

Another example is that when I am reading a history book, before I start, I review relevant names and contemporary dates. Then when I find myself thinking, "Wait, at this time, how long ago was X? Has Y happened yet?" I can answer from memory. This gives me a richer reading experience than if I needed to remove myself from the context of the book to look up those dates.

I know memorization is seen negatively from a pedagogical standpoint, and schoolchildren find it alienating and discouraging, but I think when you have enough experience to understand the value of it, so that the work to achieve it isn't such a negative experience in itself, judicious application of it has a lot of power to make your work easier and your learning experiences richer.
You think GDPR is good? It entrenches the monopolies of the Googles and makes it harder for a startup in a garage in Berlin.

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I am sure there are some people who clearly enjoy pressing on the cookie popups when they travel to Europe like popping zits. Maybe it is the Eurocrats in Brussels.
There is a big difference. The secret surveillance can't be used in a normal court of law. Especially here in Europe as we don't have secret courts.

But there is another big difference: Currently services they can't tap into will be forced to make arrangements for this to be possible. Not sure how they will do this with the more decentralised platforms like Matrix but they will probably find a way :(
It's less about static checking than it is runtime debugging. When you have a syntax error in a template, Django's error reporting is super opaque about the problem, usually just raising a TemplateSyntaxError with a vague description. This just gives you the python error stack with little information of the actual context of the actual problem in the template itself.

By contrast, if you have a problem in the python code, the exception stacktrace will point you to exactly where the problem originates. If you add a `breakpoint()` call in the source before the exception point and run the request again, you'll get dropped into a live debugging repl
If you want to expand the category "bugs" to include all arthropods, then "crabs and lobsters are basically bugs" is kinda circular/superfluous.

My comparison at that point would become "humans and zebras are basically chordates"... which is true but not very meaningful in context.
I am finding this article and the comments here very surprising. Do a large number of people actually believe that the word "crypto" means exclusively "cryptocurrency"? Does anyone believe it means exclusively that?

To me it seems similar to how "auto" as a noun is generally short for "automobile", but most people are aware that other things can also be called "auto". When a camera says it is "auto focus" I cannot imagine that any normal person would assume that phrase has anything to do with automobiles.

It is incredibly common for the same word to have different meanings in different contexts. I personally have literally never had a conversation about cryptocurrency in which any person used the word "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency", so I am clearly out of this loop. But if people decide to use it that way as slang in a certain context it certainly doesn't change the meaning of related words, or even mean it's impossible to use a different slang meaning in different contexts.
I’ve done it twice so far. Both times were great for me. I am on the cusp of doing it a third time. Hopefully, permanently this time.

Keep in mind, I have an advantage of being a decent software engineer in the biggest industry boom in history. So it has always been easy for me to step back into the market when I wanted.

The first time was for about 6 months to welcome a child. I had had enough of my job at the time and decided to stop without a plan. It was great and possibly planted the seed of future breaks. After 6 months I was ready to start again and got a job within a week or two.

The second time was for 4 years. I moved my family to another continent. Eventually, moved back for personal reasons and so had to find employment again. This time I found a job through connections.

I’m now financially at the point that I likely don’t need to work anymore and I’m itching to break free again so I’m likely to do it in the near future.

My advice is to have enough saved up for at least a year and to jump. It’s liberating.
I don't really understand your comment.

Are the group that you are calling "snowflakes" people who want there to be a system in place to remove people from a project, or is it the opposite?
But Linux had ~20 million lines of code and billions of installs before Linus' change of tone, so I think it is a good counter example.
It actually isn't. What is needed for security is better humint, better sigint only increases the stack of hay that the same number of needles has to hide in.

Note that in a very large number of terrorist attacks the knowledge was already available, but it either wasn't acted on, communicated improperly, not given enough urgency or lost because too much time was spent looking at spurious signals. Every time the amount of information available goes up that last factor will grow. Signal vs noise is the main contributor in why 9/11 happened, and the same goes for a lot of other terror attacks as well. But that sort of admission requires a complete review of how this is all practiced, would require an end to the security theater and would cut a whole lot of pork. I'm somewhat skeptical that this will happen.

But more security theater moves to appease Joe Public and look tough, of course.
Please make it easy for parents to show children the kid's menu. QR/phone menus are painful for families because they can't just slide a kid's menu to the kids.
>Quitting to do your own thing, as long as you show employers why you did it in a year or two, shouldn’t be a detriment for getting rehired. That said, hiring managers may question if you’d quit again in a year (depending on your past employment tenure)…

It shouldn't be a detriment for getting rehired, period. If you are qualified for a role and pass an interview bar, there is no reason a potential employer should care about a break you took from working. I treated being asked about this as a yellow flag, as it may indicate the employer thinks you should be living to work.
It might be that the details would also damage the core team and The Rust community much worse with a flood of people leaving or people being targeted for harassment/abuse.
Firgerprints are usernames, not passwords.
Acording to the link I have to be friendly, safety inducing, welcoming, kind (non rude), keep unstructured critique to a minimum, non-insulting and be careful not to demean or harass anyone.

This is ripe for misinterpretation and witch-hunting. It will get people to walk on eggshells.

In my circles these rules are called comon sense. We don't have to write things down because every adult knows the rule: Don't be an asshole.
I've had to drive around riots coming home living in a big city. With life/limb threatened by both police and rioters.

Never once came close in rural America, ever.
Go to any other chapter for plenty of code snippets. The first chapter is more meant to motivate than explain.
I think you're missing the point. Whether or not everyone contributes equally is irrelevant (and I agree with you that all contributions are far from equal). But no one deserves to be treated with disrespect, and no one deserves a pass for treating others poorly just because their technical contributions are rated so highly.

If a project can't survive without its toxic people, then perhaps it shouldn't survive.
Maybe? Turns out nginx, traefik and others came out after nginx and have gained some mindshare. Of course YARP has the "Microsoft" problem but I think the programmability is actually huge non-niche benefit (at least in what we've seen in practice)
The absolute magnitude of the change is much less important than the rate of change. Species and ecosystems can adapt over 10,000 year time scales. They can't adapt in a couple of decades.
This is nonsense. You could simply decide not to track you users and then your garage in Berlin works just as well as your garage in Palo Alto would (though the latter would likely lead to an easier round of funding).
Thinking they can be separated long term is very naive.

First, competence itself is subjective and hard to measure, especially for the very broad task of language design and stewardship. Which skills and credentials are considered most relevant and who's judging them is already "political" (e.g. do "hackers" get stuff done, or are winging it? Is someone with a PhD in PLT the most qualified, or an ivory-tower academic?)

Then there are human factors. Programmers aren't deterministic stateless coffee2code transformers.

Some people will dislike other people, for a broad range of reasons that may be valid or not, and that will affect their judgement. Also many projects and companies have to deal with "asshole geniuses". It's very "political" to decide whether you kick out someone who writes good code, but scares away other contributors.

"Corporate politics" is not thing set up on purpose, but it's a meta-game that emerges even in organizations that are supposed to be purely meritocratic. There are people who will consciously play this game, and have an advantage over people who naively think the game doesn't exist (I'm not endorsing it, but saying it's a phenomenon that orgs need to be aware of and actively deal with instead of declaring they're apolitical).
> Otherwise, if a person is generally toxic enough, they will be worked around.

This comes at a large cost of a lack of any kind of formal consensus process or coordination. It is very hard to run a large ship when it's not organized, and that decision often ends up reflected in how projects evolve.

Compare and contrast programs like Krita/Blender that have formal processes that keep them aligned with artist interests with either free-for-all or "benevolent dictator" Open Source projects that much have less direction. You give something up when you decide that your design/contribution process is going to be totally anarchistic; you lose the ability to keep a program/project focused on a singular goal and to plan for the future.

> Linux has changed the world -- in a very substantial way and much for the better -- even though Linus flew off the handle at people for years.

Note that Linus being toxic doesn't mean he wasn't heavily moderating Linux. Linus's personality problems weren't a problem of lack of moderation, they were a problem of how Linus moderated and what he moderated. In many ways, Linus's toxic behavior was a form of moderation/gatekeeping: it demanded a certain style of contribution and interaction when you entered into the mailing lists. Far from being a free-for-all, Linus demanded (and still does, although he's trying to be better about the way he demands it) a lot of focus on code quality, standards, and communication style when submitting and describing contributions.

But make no mistake, Linux moderates: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22398156/university-minne...

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> For better or worse, competency often makes people a little rougher around the edges.

I think we would save some time if we recognized that opposition to moderation policies often comes down to disagreements about specific social debates (is it OK to be a jerk if you're good at your job, are certain words OK to use, what communication styles should people use), rather than philosophical disagreements about the nature of moderation in general.

It's also worth noting that the assumption here that the mod team's complaint is about people being rough around the edges is just an assumption. The mod team has not given a public complaint other than that there were incidents that they felt were mishandled, and that they felt they were out of alignment with the core team on moderation direction. We don't know what happened.
Falcon 9 launched every 9 days for the first half of this year.
>"In this message, we have avoided airing specific grievances beyond
unaccountability. We've chosen to maintain discretion and confidentiality. We
recommend that the broader Rust community and the future Mod Team exercise
extreme skepticism of any statements by the Core Team (or members thereof)
claiming to illuminate the situation."

I guess these are the juicy details they are choosing to omit -
https://archive.fo/f10KK
> The worst part is that there is already another word for cryptocurrency. Blockchain.

There do exist cryptocurrencies that are not based on a blockchain. For example, Iota is based on a tangle, which the creators of Iota claim is better suited for their intended IoT applications than a blockchain.

Or more centralized cryptocurrencies, for example eCash, which was invented 1983 by David Chaum:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash
If you're in tech, saved a rainy day fund, and good at what you do it's fine. I prefer contracts this one. Couple months off between 1 and to 1.5 year stints are fantastic. If you love your job and your team and your pay/benefits, I would highly suggest sticking it out and seeking "life fullfillment" elsewhere. Don't just join the "great resignation" just because it's there. I am someone who gets bored easily with the same people and company, so I move along every year or two and don't take full time, salaried positions deliberately.What works for one person doesn't mean it will work for others. That doesn't fit everyone's MO though. Talk it out with your friends and family.
>I'd certainly never insinuate that my employer had done something wrong but refuse to clarify.

I suppose we're of different opinion, as I considered the resignation letter to have enough clarity to the intended recipients to be acceptable. They didn't say "I quit, the end". They pointed at the specific areas of issue (accountability, structure) of which the core team is likely well aware of the minutiae.

Just because it wasn't explained incident by incident to the public does not mean the "employer" (or, in this case, core team) did not understand the message.

I would wager that incidents were brought up, not addressed (or addressed as a WNF), escalated, then resulted in this resignation. The people relevant to each stage will be familiar with each stage, and should hopefully be able to follow the progression.

The public does not need to be privy to each and every individual incident, as much as everyone would like to butter their popcorn.
Agreed. Headlines have just gotten terrible.
> It entrenches the monopolies of the Googles and makes it harder for a startup in a garage in Berlin.

In what way?
>>> huge list of things supposedly created by NASA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies

Bowflex ;)
I did see it, however it seems to be just speculation about what is happening. I don't want to base all my opinion on that. Some of these are rather heavy accusations, like the nepotism between Steve Klabnik and Ashley Williams, or that Steve Klabnik smeared Amazon because they didn't give Ashley Williams a job. I don't want to give them weight when the only source seems to be a pseudonymous post.
What, exactly, would you do with the information?
The GDPR isn't great, but several of its more bureaucratic requirements kick in only once you have over 250 employees (assuming you're not doing relatively risky/intrusive stuff with data), so it's not the end of the world for startups.
Accelerate security adoption in your organization
My intent wasn't to find out which states require prints, it was to drive conversation in order to refute the claim that state driver licenses are honeypots for fingerprints.

Fingerprints are not required as a part of Real ID implementation. Real ID seems like it would be the main driver for feature parity between licenses of different states. If fingerprints aren't required by Real ID, then it seems like it would be incorrect to assume that all states require fingerprints - and thus also incorrect to assume that driver licenses in the USA are used as honeypots for fingerprints.

Perhaps landemva should have specified which states are using driver licenses as honeypots for collecting fingerprints?
I seem to recall it being an incentive to upgrade to the paid plan.
If you were a free user you couldn't choose which song on an album to listen to, you could only kick off shuffling and hope the song you wanted to hear came up.
If you had a paid account you could play the album through in order or any particular song of your choosing.
I've been paying long enough now though that I could very well be mis-remembering it...
Hunter Biden’s Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese
> which developed nation has really taken any significant strides in the past 10-20 years?

Iceland runs mostly on renewable energy: https://reneweconomy.com.au/iceland-a-100-renewables-example....
Because it's good for people to have and to share diverse opinions. The point of moderation is to prevent fringe elements from ruining something for everyone else, not to enforce homogeneity where consensus has yet to be formed.