skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I loved my bigfoot drives. Yes they were slow, but they was cheap and ran cool and (excepting certain lines) proved amazingly durable. As in, "ran as the mail spool disk for a decade" for a system sending ~5k emails a day. That one i think i still have on a shelf here somewhere with a "well done thou faithful servant" postit note
Yup, the matrix for transforming hardware coordinates into software coordinates was saved in a config file using locale-specific number format. When user changed locale it remained in the previous format and if the change was English->German the matrix elements suddenly changed from 1.234 to 1234 :)

the details are here: https://github.com/jiixyj/libinput/commit/98793f6b435abf8c17...

The funny thing is we had the issue once - reported it and added a workaround (added special handling for these config files that used locale-specific calibration tables), then a year later we updated the linux version and had the issue the opposite way till we removed our workaround :) But it was even more fun cause it bricked the devices (kernel panic on libinput startup = restart loop forever) :)
People tend to ignore or simply not care when the death is spread out. It is why Fukushima scare people more than coal power plants, or why an airplane crash get more focus than the constant car crashes on the motorway.

Risk perception is a topic that should be taught in schools.
There was no big downside to skipping 9, so why not do that.

Make a decade-long transition plan, I don't care. As long as there is a plan.
I disagree because that still drives demand for C/C++ developers and tool chains.

Nothing new should be written in these unsafe languages.
Doesn't e.g. "a 73% relative risk of reinfection" mean being 0.73x as likely to be infected?

These numbers show (as one would expect) that prior infection makes you less likely to get Omicron, and that prior infection with more recent strains does so more effectively. (Which might be because they're more Omicron-like, or because the infection was more recent. I'm guessing more the latter.)
There was SO MUCH more I wanted to mention. Cookie banners being one of them, but I figured it was long enough as it was. I will likely add more to it in the future though.
Not necessarily. Smallpox was around for a very long time till we vaccinated our way out of it. Same with polio.
This. We really need more competitions to help.
https://biztoc.com and https://upstract.com are the exact opposite but also feature Wikipedia Current events (among many others).
How fast does it really need to spin? I'm not sure there have been any studies on 1/128g or less. In a 4.5 meter section 1/128g would only be 1 rotation per 30 seconds.
I'd say that's normally true, but there's not a ton of lockdowns with even Delta right now, so while I agree that it probably isn't going to get worse, there's still not a ton of pressure from social response as it is right now for it to get milder (maybe you could argue pressure from vaccines I guess).
I don't think that spreading the externalities of climate change onto ordinary citizens socialistically is the right approach.

For you, the buck stops at whatever citizens currently exist on the planet/continent/country/state/city/town.

For me, the buck stops at the corporations and governments who are more than responsible for the current mess we are in. You do realize these chucklef*cks are still flying around on private jets, right?
We are a very large AWS reseller and this drives me bonkers with EVERY Cloud, and I've written about this countless times.

There is almost no way what so ever to limit risk and it's crazy.

Cloud operators state that it is because they don't want to shut down popular services or similar - and to be honest, I get this argument - but, it is just awful in practice.

Nearly every cloud has cost report delays of anything up to a month for some services and it's just a nightmare.

I kind of agree that if you have a service costing £5,000 a month - you shouldn't limit spend to £5,001 - but, you should be able to limit to £7,500 - enough room to burst/grow, but not have risk!

All clouds could learn a thing or two from telecoms and rate limits... e.g. if you have services that when not in use have a fixed monthly limit - e.g. storage - then take that out of monthly limit and then use the excess for variable costs.

e.g. storage costs £500 a month, compute costs £200 a month... if a client sets a budget of £1,000 - then deduct £700, maybe ~£100 extra for idle transactions (if in a cloud/model that charges), then have prepay of £200 for "extras".

I just see "the clouds" do AMAZING new features - all this crazy and cool AI bits, yet they can't get basic costs correct - it's crazy in my mind.
If it means more lockdowns and more restrictions, more government powers; absolutely normalize COVID. We have given up enough.
Can you name 5 horrible things the Democratic Party has done in say the last 30 years? If not, you've been brainwashed.
There is an API for both.
Viruses have no agency, will or desires.
I think I'm good without being pushed news every day
You can change that.

After I started using a Palm Pilot, my handwriting improved significantly and the changes seem to have been permanent. I get basically 100% accuracy with the Apple Pencil in iOS.
Practice! I found a guide for writing letter like architect, helped me a bunch, after like 30 days of learning new letter shapes
> There is no such thing as an ideal free market.

Sure there is. A free market is a market in which all transactions are voluntary. That's the natural state of a market. We see many markets that are not free only because governments either prevent people from engaging in transactions they would otherwise choose to make, or force people to engage in transactions they would otherwise not choose to make (the obvious example of this is coercive taxation).
I started using it yesterday since I realized it was free. I am kind of using it like a scripting language for a smart search engine. I don't know if that's the right mentality but it seems to have some features i kind of want from a search engine to quickly do research with. Find some data, show me a graph of it. Use the last search result to do some other stuff kind of stuff. That is partially why I posted it to HN, hoping to see what other people are using it for.

The community forum thingy that's built in seems to have a lot of people using it for very mathy things like visualizing particular solutions to say PDE or somesuch.
While this is a good argument, people's revealed preferences point in the other direction

The countries that are closest to that margin, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Iran, are actually perfectly happy with pumping more fossil fuels. Bin Salman was actively trying to sabotage COP26 talks. Brazil continues the deforestation, with Bolsonaro being perfectly happy with it

Florida beach front properties are not dropping in value. Migration towards Sun Belt in the US is a real thing. At the peak of summer heat, significant chunk of Europe's population temporarily moves to the hottest parts of the continent. Despite the global warming prospects and economic disparities, Greeks, Italians and Spaniards aren't flocking to Scandinavia. etc., etc.
FedEx does not employee all their delivery drivers. There were a couple of state supreme court laws which classified some contractors as employees under state laws and required back compensation. Fedex stopped using the business model in question in 2011.

Currently for FedEx Home Delivery, which is most similar to Amazon Delivery, FedEx sells delivery routes to independent delivery operators which they then pay to deliver packages on those routes. The delivery operators then employee the drivers and not FedEx. In many circumstances the independent operators and delivery drivers are one and the same. The drivers tried to unionize saying they were in reality employees of FedEx. FedEx refused to recognize the union and a claim was filed with National Labor Relations Board. The NLRB sided with the drivers but their decision was overruled by the DC circuit court of appeals in 2017. By that time a new administration was in charge and the decision of the court was not appealed by the NLRB. The court based their decision by the fact that the independent delivery operators can hire/fire drivers and helpers without input from FedEx and that they can resell the routes independently of FedEx.

Amazon Delivery operates under a similar model. All those Amazon delivery vans you see are run by independent delivery operators which hire the drivers. Each delivery operator runs at least 5 vans with the norm being between 20 - 40.
Is it optimism to settle for any outcome that's better than extinction?
Omicron has been found in 38 countries and there are still no deaths caused by it. [1] The media are running with the story that the first death from Omicron just happened in the UK, but read Boris Johnson's quote:

"Sadly at least one patient has now been confirmed to have died with Omicron," Johnson told reporters [2]

This sounds batshit crazy, because it is, but in the UK, if you die from something unrelated while infected with SARS-COV-2, it's counted as a COVID death. [3] The key word in Boris' announcement is "with".

1: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/3/new-york-becomes-fo...

2: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britain-says-omicron-spread...

3: https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2020/08/12/behind-the-headlines-co...
HN always seems to like this one when it comes up :-)

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

This one isn't bad either:

https://marcan.st/2015/10/rescuing-a-broken-ntfs-filesystem/
> Master De-escalation: I once had a colleague who was very soft spoken, very low key. Listening to him speak on any topic could put you half to sleep - And I don't mean boring, just very calm.

This is a technique taught to public administrators.

Ever watch a townhall or council meeting? Elected politician is grilling some agency head. They'll respond in cool, soothing, calming tones. Pretty much like a hypnotherapist.

Then they'll talk and talk. So long that by the time they wrap up, you've forgotten your question. Mostly running the clock.

Once you're made aware of this technique, it can be maddening to watch.

With great power comes great responsibility. De-escalation: good. Obfuscation: bad.
I think it's the backend for a bunch of Alexa queries.
"Web 1.0" being billed as "glorious" is a stretch, to say the least. There was a lot to dislike about the early web but the glow of nostalgia covers up those blemishes. "Web 1.0" was great for some people and not-so-great for others. There are good reasons why "Web 2.0" happened, and to truly understand it we need to separate the corporatization of the internet from the actual human needs that were and are being addressed by social media, et al.
Read the actual Unabomber Manifesto:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unab...

I will address the problem of technological advancements using only a small subsection of the overall argument linked above. Please read the entire manifesto to understand the context.

127. A technological advance that appears not to threaten freedom often turns out to threaten it very seriously later on. For example, consider motorized transport. A walking man formerly could go where he pleased, go at his own pace without observing any traffic regulations, and was independent of technological support-systems. When motor vehicles were introduced they appeared to increase man’s freedom. They took no freedom away from the walking man, no one had to have an automobile if he didn’t want one, and anyone who did choose to buy an automobile could travel much faster and farther than a walking man. But the introduction of motorized transport soon changed society in such a way as to restrict greatly man’s freedom of locomotion. When automobiles became numerous, it became necessary to regulate their use extensively. In a car, especially in densely populated areas, one cannot just go where one likes at one’s own pace one’s movement is governed by the flow of traffic and by various traffic laws. One is tied down by various obligations: license requirements, driver test, renewing registration, insurance, maintenance required for safety, monthly payments on purchase price. Moreover, the use of motorized transport is no longer optional. Since the introduction of motorized transport the arrangement of our cities has changed in such a way that the majority of people no longer live within walking distance of their place of employment, shopping areas and recreational opportunities, so that they HAVE TO depend on the automobile for transportation. Or else they must use public transportation, in which case they have even less control over their own movement than when driving a car. Even the walker’s freedom is now greatly restricted. In the city he continually has to stop to wait for traffic lights that are designed mainly to serve auto traffic. In the country, motor traffic makes it dangerous and unpleasant to walk along the highway. (Note this important point that we have just illustrated with the case of motorized transport: When a new item of technology is introduced as an option that an individual can accept or not as he chooses, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional. In many cases the new technology changes society in such a way that people eventually find themselves FORCED to use it.)
Yes, I'd audit your installed extensions. I found uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger to be fine. Some others, like Evernote, not so much.
Monetization is definitely a hard problem. If I have any advantage it's that my costs should be a lot lower, since I'm happy pointing people at pre-existing articles instead of writing my own. Unfortunately I don't think I have any great insights that the news industry hasn't already had on it.

In the end, I suspect I will be using advertising, even though I do find that industry pretty distasteful. Low costs mean that if I do go down this route I should be able to keep it pretty unobtrusive and minimal, which gives up short term income but is likely a good long term tradeoff.

I don't think it makes sense to put the core product behind a subscription wall. Apart from the issue of "would people pay for it", it's the sort of thing that benefits from network effects. I'd be shooting myself in the foot if I tried. Conceivably the tools I'm making to help gather the information could make a useful product for professional researchers of various kinds (hedgefunds, paralegals, etc) - but that would be more of an offshoot and not something I could really pursue before gaining traction.

Another idea I've had (and again, this is largely ripping off existing monetization schemes), is that it might make sense to have a section of the website dedicated sagas about "products" (e.g. "IPhone 17"), linking to things like reviews and spec sheets, with affiliate links to amazon. Conceivably you could attract the /r/buyitforlife crowd to something like this, and make it a force for good in the world.

Just asking for donations seems to work to some extent to (see The Guardian, and wikipedia) - though given how hard they seem to need to push for them I'm not sure that's a route I really want to go down.

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Like you say, there's a sack of coins somewhere in here. I'm willing to believe that if I make a useful product that people like, I'll figure out how to pick up at least a few of them.
No, it's a skin of Wikipedia news (TIL) that has no connection to me. When you make a HN submission, there's some placement penalty applied to your submission if it doesn't have a link, IIRC. That's what I was referring to.
In the mean time we should do whatever we can to avoid filling hospitals to capacity.
They might consider it a trade secret of sorts. If I were them, I wouldn't want someone to just take the idea and undercut me.
Tape has an inherent density advantage over hard drives because tape stores data in the volume - tape is a 3D storage technology. Hard drives are limited to recording on a handful of slices through a cylinder inside them; tapes record on the peeled surface of a cylinder roughly the same size. One tape cartridge contains more than 30 times as much surface area as the highest-density hard drives for recording data.
Well, for 1 in 400 US citizens, the pandemic has unfortunately already ended (/bitter sarcasm)
This makes me remember that my primary way of finding new things on the web back in middle school was just typing educated guess urls in until I found something.

Makes me wonder how interesting the web might be if I just started doing that again, and how boring it might have been if I'd just had a working search engine back then.

Then again I also seem to remember getting bored enough with the web to only spend an hour or two on it at a time. Also I was in middle / elementary school so that might have played a role too.
In cities, there's less need to drive with walkable areas, and a scale that better supports mass transit. Smaller land footprint, and smaller homes take less energy to heat or cool. Economies of scale in providing goods and services. Ships release less CO2 than trucking, and lots of cities have ports. If you don't like cities that's one thing, but the environmental impact is pretty unequivocally less than suburban or rural living.
By the time people die of covid they've already spread the virus. Generally by the time people die they've cleared the virus. It's the inflammatory response that kills them. There's really no evolutionary pressure for covid to become less virulent since people can spread it prior to being symptomatic.
Discord is the new IRC, in my experience. I was sceptical, but there are servers for some pretty niche stuff out there. The key here is that each Discord server is walled off from everyone else, and that some servers are invite-only to limit the influx of outsiders.

Take note though, it definitely doesn't replace in person interaction - it's almost social junk food.
You could say the same about security folks without software engineering experience, too.

When I was working in infosec consulting, by far the best colleagues were those who had software engineering experience and could empathise with developers at the client in order to understand how systems would be built, where corners might be cut, which areas might be more ropey than others etc (and then use that understanding to help inform their thinking from an attacker's perspective).

You could tell at interview too - the folks with a Computer Science background and a side interest in security were much, much better than those who took the dedicated-cyber-security degree/masters route.

You absolutely need a real generalist for security. With that said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a developer to know about CIDR notation, networking and cloud systems though we're perhaps straying into more DevOps-y style roles.
In total compensation yes. That means it usually includes stock and at that level about 50-60% of your compensation will be stock.

Look at https://www.levels.fyi to compare companies, but yes overall 800k to over 1 million is quite common for a Principal and typically it requires about 10-15 years of experience.
The Future of Svelte: Interview with Rich Harris [video]
I am not a Christian, nor do I think there is a "War on Christmas", but I do find it fascinating that Christmas in America has transformed into an increasingly secularized and commercialized event.

When you think of Christmas, you're probably thinking about Santa Claus and presents, not Jesus. In fact, most Christmastime movies and songs are about Santa rather than Christ, the namesake of the holiday. We also have this lore built up around Santa that was created by film studios and retailers hoping to sell more products. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was originally made as a coloring book but now it's themes and imagery is what children think of when they imagine the North Pole. To use a wild analogy, it's sort of like how Dante's Inferno became what people think of as "Hell".

Does anyone know of any other religious holidays that have been so thoroughly transformed over time? I'm curious if this has happened to other holidays or if it is just a unique product of American culture and consumerism.
The OCR coupled with GPT3 worked much better than I would have guessed it would. I wonder how much of that is on the device and how much is in the cloud?
> Web 3.0 is basically putting all the things on blockchain.

> Yeah, fuck that. Fuck blockchain. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuck the schmuck. That’s all I have to say about that.

To expand upon this, I have yet to see a single thing a blockchain solves other than moving money around (usually from the scammed to the scammer). Web 3.0 is doubling down on what made Web 2.0 so shit.
Prairie Warbler, White Eyed Vireo and Wood Thrush songs stick in my head
It's not "cloud" in the sense it's not AWS, GCP, Azure, etc and is orders of magnitude cheaper (and bandwidth is free).

But yes technically it's "cloud" in the sense that it's still someone else's computer for rent.
that is an argument I have seen before and it is generally true: the core idea is for the corporate entity to operate a riskless arbitrage where all risks are shouldered elsewhere, ideally where they are less understood and thus underpriced.

the problem with applying this concept here is the hyperscalers are not exactly a counterparty likely to underprice IT risks. in any case is there any public evidence of this "blame transfer" in action (pressumably with associated remedies)
Rowling is OK with fan-based HP writing if it isn't commercial, isn't obscene, and is not credited to whoever produced it and not to her [1]. There's probably a decent chance she would be OK with this if it is free.

[1] https://fanlore.org/wiki/Rowling_backs_Potter_fan_fiction
Good list of tools!
Oh, no question it’s both. I’m independent, always have been.

Lately, the pendulum has swung much farther to one direction. There’s a reason that Jon Stewarts Daily Show was so popular for so long and that’s because there was simply so much material to work with.

Now you have conservative comedy outlets that Elon Musk is tweeting about and everything from the left just seems like yelling at the sky by comparison.

I’ve yet to hear stories of right leaning children refusing to associate with their left leaning families. Only the opposite. That tells you something.
This may come off wrong but... COVID is not the first virus. Immunosuppressed people for all of human history have been falling victim to the common cold, the flu and other infections most humans can deal with safely. You can't stop the world economy and the benefit that brings to the majority of society to save a fraction of a percentage point of the population that is Immunocompromised.
I think that lines up nicely with my general point that AWS simply doesn't benefit much from putting resources into this area, although some C-level folks might be enticed by shiny marketing materials about "Best in Class Cost Controls & Monitoring"

For other option, it does seem like GCP (I don't know much about Azure in this) is a little better in this area. Admittedly, I'm speaking from limited experience playing around with free tiers in both, along with the stream of stories that we hear about AWS.

I think it's also fair to point out that cost controls may not have helped much in the example of this particular article: If your account gets hacked, presumably the hacker will also have some access to remove cost controls.
Apparently there are some variants of Omicron that can't be detected with current PCR tests. We may need to update the list of primers at some point.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/07/scientists-fin...
China’s troll king: how a tabloid editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism