skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that if someone can't be contacted, the maintainers aren't out of luck yet. If the contribution is deleted (and then possibly reimplemented later by someone with whom the project _is_ in contact) then the issue is resolved. It can be a lot of work, though, depending on the size and importance of the contribution, and reimplementing the code in a way that doesn't derive from the original submission can be difficult or ambiguous.
There used to be a whole trope of men (especially) not wanting to stop and ask for directions. I'm sure there are younger people who would watch a movie or a TV show where this happens and go "Huh????"

There are also any number of plot points that revolve around not being able to reach someone that also wouldn't make a lot of sense in general today.
Do locked files and DMCA removals affect both online and offline synced files?
> problems nobody has

Depends on whether one sees the enclosure of social and digital Commons as a problem. Folks like Bruce Schneier [0] and Cory Doctorow [1] have been ringing alarm bells for years on "digital feudalism": despite FOSS and federated alternatives, 99% of us choose to pledge fealty over our digital lives to a small handful of centralized firms.

These aren't always bad trades: tech giants tend to be very good at what they do, and I don't begrudge any consumer their individual choices. But the centralization of power, the "dark patterns" of user manipulation, the social externalities of engagement algorithms, the risk of one's digital identity vanishing for no reason at all: I don't think these are "problems nobody has".

Insert the obvious caveats on techno-utopianism and con-artists: we should have healthy skepticism towards crypto-tokens and the "web3" buzzword-du-jour. But as we look back at the successes and failures of "web1", the notable absence of any form of user-sovereign (a) identity, or (b) value transfer, is a tragically glaring omission (if forgivable: they are non-trivial problems!). This vacuum opened up the space for private capture, from Google SSO to Venmo.

It remains to be seen whether any of the players in "web3" can deliver the goods on actually out-competing Metcalfe monopolies [2]. But I'm glad the effort is being made (and not just as get-rich-quick schemes: there are a surprising number of left-anarchists and mutualists working in the DAO space).

[0] http://en.collaboratory.de/w/Power_in_the_Age_of_the_Feudal_...

[1] https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
A vanishingly small percentage of these defendants are innocent. Prison reform cannot proceed rationally unless everybody involved admits that nearly all the people who go to prison did indeed commit a serious crime.
Now you're comparing apple seeds to apple trees. That seems to me ten to the something times more ignorant than comparing an apple to an orange.
So basically Amway with technobabble?
Huh?

How is disallowing in public schools the use of a particular instructional approach (not discussion of the topic as such) equivalent to "discussion of the Tulsa race massacre"?
Thanks for uBlacklist!
Why does the left want to ignore and move on from their broad racist history? What does your comment have to do when the above comment you replied to? Partisan tribalism does nothing but project your insecurities.
But that ability to organize is also protected by the US Constitution. You may consider it unethical, but it’s not illegal.
Yeah, that's why I was quite skeptical about the exact scenario... it would probably look very out of place, but I don't have enough RW experience in Python to say for sure.
I don't think that's a claim you can just throw out there. The gun industry is tiny and barely has any money compared to big tech, not to mention the insane ability big tech has to manufacture consent. Gun companies are successful because people support them, not the other way around.
I don’t think you should be downvoted for asking an honest question. As someone who tutored in SAT test prep a couple decades ago, I’m aware of the issues with standardized testing. However, the solution you propose is not so simple. The parent had a good point: high test scores may have given many students a boost in the eyes of admissions teams, especially if they did not attend a high school that is notable in the eyes of those admissions teams. They may not see top grades as equitable to those from a top prep school if they don’t know much about the school and don’t have high test scores to confirm their view of the student. Again, it’s not fair, but for these students, it’s a way to stand apart. If you take that away, it could be harder for them to be noticed until we have something else that’s sufficient.
ByteDance is partially controlled by the government so I don't think your Google analogy is a good one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-17/beijing-t...

https://qz.com/1788836/targeting-tiktoks-privacy-alone-misse...
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I'm not sure what is objectionable about that or who is being disenfranchised, most of those policies seem to be based around restricting gifting of illegal or highly regulated products which would also be illegal or require extra compliance steps to be taken if done using cryptocurrency. I can't imagine a comparable donation platform using cryptocurrency would be built any differently.

For creators trying to make a living, they still need a bank account to extract the money from their crypto wallet if they want to use that money to pay rent and buy groceries, and volatile currencies with high transaction fees like Bitcoin are a really bad choice for that; stablecoins may be an option there eventually but it's still unclear to me what benefit those provide over cash for the small-time independent creator.
I think you will disappear if you offend anyone too powerful, even in first worlds/democratic countries.
>Isn't that kind of podunk scale for an industry to have a rock solid hold on US politics?

Not when a Constitutional Amendment makes that industry "too big to fail" because its thesis on the necessity of the right to keep and bear arms depends on there being an industry manufacturing arms to begin with (at least at modern scale,) and when the industry overwhelmingly supports one political party, driving animosity with fear-based rhetoric against the other.

You just don't have the same intersection of identity politics, culture and even religion with any other industry in the US that you do with guns, even if the money spent elsewhere is greater.
C++'s templates go too far — way further than Rust's generics go. Rust's type system may technically be Turning-complete, but nobody's actually doing serious* metaprogramming in it, unlike in C++, where template metaprogramming is a whole discipline unto itself.

* not just toy examples
> better incremental analyses and tools to display and manipulate that text as more

This is my exact impression of Dion after watching their demos.

This link might give you a better idea:
https://dion.systems/gallery.html
Carpenter's apprentices look to make around double the federal minimum wage today, which checks out that they could afford a house in the mid 60s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29593398
If all else fails, consider spinning up a virtual machine just for that client, and do all work, install all required apps for that client inside that VM only. I am truly shocked at all the outrage posts with no mention of this.
Can someone explain to me how about a decade ago we were going to run out of IPv4 addresses in a matter of months and we needed to switch to IPv6 or else, but now we’re still using it fine?
> I only run my time tracker when I'm actually working, and in a week I might have 2 to 4 hours of meetings

Are the meetings mandatory for getting your work done? If not, skip them. (If you're tempted to reply "I can't", they're mandatory.) If they are, they're work, so run your timer.

Same goes for a lot of other stuff you're probably doing and not timing.
BOFH is meant to blow off steam for the lowly enlisted people of tech. I think the negative comments in this thread really shines a spotlight on the chasm dividing IT people on HN. A lot of the ivory tower of IT hangs out here unaware its hell for the majority of folks working IT. Spend a few minutes on /r/sysadmin if you need a refresher on what it's really like to start out in this business working at an ordinary company.

And this is nothing against the ivory tower or the valley. All I'm saying is it's a problem when you can't tell that you're there because of the echo chamber you're in. To most orgs IT is an expense that must be minimized at all costs and that translates to treating IT people as dirt. Shops that export technology as their business are the inverse of this.
If you can afford to spend a bit of money on the problem, it's possible to use something like PiKVM or KVM-over-IP to just leave a stack of client laptops or mini-PCs out of the way somewhere and connect to them remotely in a reliable way, so you can reset the machine if the remote desktop software fails.
> while those against web3 don't want to see the last vestiges of the free and open web as we know it destroyed by the tokenisation and monetisation of every interaction.

i'm confused here. isn't the free and open web that we currently have already destroyed by monetization and data capture of your every click and move?
You forgot to mention that the left is mostly funded by anti-gun interests. That is where the majority of gun control legislation comes from. If money from Bloomberg or Soros helps you win, you push gun control in return.

I also think trying to pin the 'culture war' on gun companies is bizarre. Are you from the US? Your take on this seems like something you would see on MSNBC.
> Richer country

Trust me most students in US nowadays are family financial support. They are already rich. And the US do not often give enough working position for them (outside of tech, which h1b is not particularly friendly)

> better quality of life

This definitely is wrong. Those kids enjoyed a far better life in China than US.

> more personal freedoms.

Well, for what they want to do, they'll have more freedom...
I wonder how they would react to posting this link over there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29581125
Reminder to periodically do a Google Takeout to protect your data from Google.
I use the "--trim-filenames" flag to deal with this issue.
> Also, you need a credit card / bank account to accept transactions from Patreon.

> With crypto, you can create a wallet in seconds and immediately start accepting payment.

And how are you going to use that to buy groceries or pay rent?
America Can't Beat Omicron One Booster at a Time
This is very helpful — thank you!

On #2, we have carried out security audits with Cure53[0] and others, which we are happy to share. We also have a root of trust which is provably embedded in the AWS Nitro System[1]

#1 and #3 are great suggestions which we will implement in our next website revamp. Thanks!

[0]: https://cure53.de/
[1]: https://evervault.com/blog/e3
No. Shit.
That’s what I did with my new car just a few weeks ago (Ford). Built and ordered online. People like shopping in person so it makes sense to have that “mall” like experience. And having the car available to test drive on the spot must make for more sales
They claim that after the fact, after the bad press, I believe neither JSTOR or MIT
With respect to the Linkedin Jobs search feature, TopTal lists the same long list of positions for every major city. This pollutes the search results so badly that they become useless.

https://imgur.com/h8vOXGA

Additionally, a few years ago I gave in and applied to TopTal. After passing the HR interview, two automated timed coding challenges, and one of two live coding challenges, I failed to complete the final live coding challenge. Their process is arduous and stressful, basically representing the worst of what many people on HN complain about in interviews. Had I passed that fourth test, I would have then had the privilege to do a 1-2 week full projects, polished and production ready, to be presented with a professional Powerpoint and suit+tie consultant style. From what I've read, you can do everything right... but if there's a small thing they don't like about the presentation, you're out.

What it boils down to is a massive amount of promotion to entice you to apply, and a frog-in-the-pot interview process whereby you're most likely to end up boiled rather than survive and get a job with them. They proudly promote that they reject 98% of applicants. Some of the ones who do make it on board have later complained that they were encouraged to set lower than market rates for their (expert) skills, presumably to please the clients.

When you sum it all up, including the Linkedin spam, I find it extremely distasteful and a prime example of what's wrong with hiring.
Vaccine Makers Funneled Undisclosed Cash to Democrats and Republicans in 2020
For medium-sized state — for example a single-level object — I usually use useReducer, with the "reduce" function a simple destructure merge. The reducer looks like this:

const shallowMergeReducer = <T extends {}>(state: T, action: Partial<T>): T => Object.freeze({
...state,
...action,
})

It ends up looking a lot like the "setExtendedState" function in the article.

Often I'll throw in a few helper functions in a useMemo, too, and then provide the whole thing through Context. It's like a mini-Redux for some section of the app.
> I agree that this is mostly a small number of engineers (with approval) being helpful.

The M1 Macs have their security settings applied per partition instead of per computer.

If you set the bootloader to "permissive security policy", you can boot from a Linux partition without effecting the security of the system when you boot from the MacOS partition.

This is a big change over the way things have previously worked on iOS (where there is no option to unlock the bootloader) or the Mac. It probably wasn't a quick hack that a couple of guys stuck in when nobody was looking.
I remember watching the following video on Kintsugi a while ago and liking it quite a bit:

"Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT55_u8URU0
Five Advanced Pytest Fixture Patterns
Has to be a rhetorical question.

I was once responsible for ripping 250,000 CDs, legally, on behalf of various record labels, from tiny to the big 5. I would love to store a backup of all that data in the big cloud services and see which ones deleted my legally-owned data.
Indeed, very nice overview.
Russian MoD website blocked for non-Russian IPs
The GPL itself offers no such option, but if the copyright holder(s) choose to they may offer whatever alternatives they choose. Many significant open source applications are offered under this model such as MySQL.

The catch is that the more copyright holders there are the more likely it is that someone who has contributed a non-trivial part of the project will not agree, in which case their work would have to be removed/replaced to allow for relicensing.

Large projects that have not required a CLA from contributors are effectively impossible to relicense.
Contrarian opinion:

Harvard devaluing their diploma is good because smart people will get off the credential treadmill and do something productive instead.
Sadly for the emotionally invested people if we do get to the point web3 is the new normal is likely to be more of the same just with different faces. Because the people who run web3 and their investors are tech elites and will still be at the top of the totem pole.
If nobody asked for the source and was denied, they were not yet in violation. They aren't required to actually post it online. They can simply send it to someone when asked.
I believe the only reason they removed it was because they see the writing on the wall.

They don't want a lawsuit down the line.

Harvard knows it a matter of time until the population knows how dumb rich kids get in.

They get in because daddy was very wealthy, or very famous.

I imagine Princeton will be next. How many idiot celebrities has that school admitted besides Brook Shields?
> So.. how does that imply that people are worse off now than in 1970? Your entire thesis seems to be that the jealousy people will feel from seeing others have things they don't will outweigh all of the material gains of the last half century.

The point is that there are many things you are now required to have to meaningfully participate in society, that were just not required in 1970. For example, to get vaccinated in my country for COVID, you need to access a web page, sign up using email, and you'll get an SMS notification when your registration is accepted.

So, without an internet connection and mobile phone, you have to rely on someone else who does own one of these.

The conclusion being: someone who can't afford a mobile phone and internet connection may be poor in 2021, even if people without an internet connection or mobile phone were perfectly well off in 1970.
It's not the "new" normal. It's a very old normal.

I spent about 15 years consulting, on short- to medium-term often-recurring projects. Most clients didn't ask vendors to instrument their machines. Some did; for those clients, the solution tended to be that the client provided us with a machine to work on.

Most of these agents are truly awful. I don't know anything about Drata. You should not be psyched to have that running on your machine; I would isolate it somehow so that it's only in contact with that one client's workload.

But they're not making up the SOC2 thing. It's pretty likely they won't budge from this, not because they really care about the agent thing, but because they really do have a documented SOC2 process with "agents on desktops" as a stated control (almost everybody with SOC2 has some kind of agent somewhere, though you usually hope it's just MDM). They do not have a choice about whether to tool you up; your choice is likely just to stop working for them or not.
I'm not sure what to make of this comparison. You're not sure the extent to which foreign influence played a role in radicalizing people leading up to an event where Chinese citizens were massacred by the Chinese state, so it's fair to compare it to a situation where foreign nationals murdered US civilians? This is apples and oranges. Apples and Teslas. Dogs and supercomputers. They're not the same thing.

> just like you can talk objectively about Tiananmen Square in China

Citation needed. Even researching Tiananmen Square in China gets you on watchlists.
But if you solve the problem, then you let a perfectly good crises go to waste when you can use it to be draconian
Seems like this is just an hmac version of shasum, neat tho.
They leave a notice that you received a verified letter, then you go the post office.
Crazy why this is happening in a developed country. Why not just put cameras everywhere, track and remove these people forever? It shouldn't be so hard to do - they aren't some organised crime, just a bunch of homeless drug addicts.
Weak, so on the campus "sutdents" can't deny rights, but what about a country?

If they go against the grain too much, China will not sponsor students to go there and pay the high premiums for international students.

Current Chinese students will be afraid to speak out, and have to swear more allegiance to the Chinese State because dissent is now precedent.
Bitcoin ‘may not last that much longer,’ academic warns
Where? RFC 7519 states pretty specifically that only HMAC SHA-256 "none" MUST be implemented. The rest were left up to devs as optional.
Congress gets a crash course on cryptocurrency
Unfortunately, most of those responses are very rational and reasoned. The regime has decided that intimidation is a useful tool for defending its narratives, and uses it in many contexts.

That global campaigne makes an even handed response for Purdue important, both for this context, and helping set an example for wider contexts.

We need to maintain/develop a strong and even handed culture - standing up for everyone's right of expression without harassment.
A lot of their takedowns come from user-flagging. If a user flags something, so that the item is now on the hosting site's radar, are they now responsible for it? They're only not responsible for things they are not aware of.
Many users don't even have a dedicated IPv4 anymore (dual stack lite) thanks to carrier grade NAT.
Relative performance compared to peers at the same school will likely be weighed much more heavily.
The problem is rarely the monetary costs alone it's more about the need for handling an one-off situation that require special policies, and becomes an special item on the budget.

For large companies supplying VDI to consultants tend to be an standardized package that gets billed back to whatever project is hiring the consultants but for mid-sized organisation VDI is a big scary word that's going to require special handling.

Most desktop support teams are completely dependent on standardization to the point where they tend to turn into complete control freaks, that panic at the thought of anything that is not "by the book", so they often just apply the book without additional budgets to external consultants.
This is an excellent collection of SOM/COM resources, thanks a lot for that!

Perhaps not surprising, but COM/DCOM has been a recurring reference when talking about the WebAssembly component model.
Another useful resource from the past that influenced quite a few Wasm component discussions (h/t to Luke Wagner for sharing it) is one about Knit [1], which as intended as a _component definition and linking language_ for C.

[1]: https://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/knit-osdi00/
When I look at these health care charts, I don't see a real consensus, even when oversimplifying health care to 4 broad categories (36 20 30 6 percent respectively). I don't know who the respective corporate interests would be for each of the categories, though I'd guess that there's big corporations that favor 2 or 3 of these potential solutions, and only a third (at most) of Americans that support one of them. A third of the populace doesn't make a popular mandate, and it certainly isn't enough for a senate majority (especially for democrats).

The climate change one might be more convincing, but I actually think we've seen some real progress on this. Alternative energy is getting cheaper, there's tax incentives for installing solar panels or EV chargers in many areas, and tax incentives for buying EVs. There's certainly more we can do, and the polls were phrased to suggest that the general public thinks so too. But if the admittedly significant oil and gas lobby is trying to hold this issue back, I'm not sure how successful they've been. Finally, this isn't an actual bill or anything. Every "green" bill I've seen is opposed by conservatives based on their constituency, whether they're a red conservative from texas, or a blue conservative from west virginia. I don't know if Joe Manchin takes donations from coal companies, but he'd unquestionably support coal either way.
> Do you really think that Apple couldn’t port Linux to an M1 chip without outside help?

It could be that they work on it internally and naturally want to keep it a secret for as long as possible. However, in that case, they would absolutely also want the community to advance "independently" so that Linux software on Apple Silicon has most of the practical issues ironed out by the time Apple is ready to announce their stuff. Think of it as having a free alpha/beta testing even before your product is publicly announced. A pure win-win.

This, at least, is how I would do it if I was pulling the strings at Apple.