skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In re-reading this thread, I realize something: if you move to Alaska to avoid being forced to work by society, you better damn well believe that you will be forced to work by nature.

I think this says something about the very nature of work. In our modern times it is detached from its purpose (survival of self and species), but that is ultimately what drives the need to work.

This idea that a capable, working-age living thing should be able to free load off of others’ work to stay alive is not dignifying for that person, and unfairly burdens the one who is working to keep the other person alive.

Put another way, just because a farmer can make enough to feed a town doesn’t mean the farmer should only be allowed enough grain to feed his family, with everything else divided among those who don’t work. What’s the incentive to work?

And when you introduce government rules to enforce those things, the farmer is compelled by violence and force to give away his labor.

Just like missing the connection between work and survival, people miss the connection between government regulation and the promise of force behind it as a punishment for non-compliance.

The reason people pay taxes (which is the only way we have as a society to redistribute resources from those who work to those who don’t) is because their money will be taken if it is not paid, or they will be put in jail if they lie about how much they owe.

So while the original comment complains about how you’re compelled to work, that’s actually not true. It is a societal norm to work and to have a good quality of life, but no one is forcing you. But at the same time they are asking to increase government benefits and force those who work to pay for their survival.

All this said - if the conversation is framed around how much work it takes to survive, I think as a society it would make sense for that number to drop as we’ve increased scale of production and automation.
On the “virii” concern: Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.
sacrificing security for convenience
Turn to a mess how exactly? Can you elaborate your concern?
This week in KDE: Getting Plasma 5.24 ready for release
Sounds like normal best practice for a secure environment full of shitheads to me. The hell does this have to do with Facebook? What website am I on?
Also, check out Cathodemer.

"Cathodemer is a realtime video production instrument with a CRT display simulator. It features analog-style RGB signal oscillation synthesis, input source mixing and manipulation, recursive color shape synthesis, sprite animation engine and various classic video effects."

https://store.steampowered.com/app/697860/Cathodemer/
I believe it’s the imperative (enable widget) not the infinitive (to enable widget) that is generally used.
In 2000s I used to. Then at some point my interests shifted a bit. After some more years I decided to see how it's doing and saw that they made the ugliest, most unusable, horrible design ever. We were also much more mobile and there was a much cooler app, Instagram, for discovering art, with a MUCH better interface and social features.

dA had great potential IMO, but whoever was responsible for their design changes and their inability to jump to the mobile bandwagon properly killed it.
If you're interested in a more in-depth treatment of the same subject, there's a good biography, The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/09/15/the-price-of-altru...
I agree, except I think that a lamdba is an arbitrary line to draw for that as well. Why not stop at the main function and give it a load of inputs? A five line lamdba looks a lot like a named function, just harder to test, reuse, and debug in a stack trace.
That‘s true! And everyone reading it here is a startup idea: Analyze a cloud infrastructure and report which has access to what, combine that with a simple DSL so i can say that IAM x is only alloweed read-only access to some service. Find ways to break those configured security settings.

If on a test run or onboarding this application will find just one security hole (e.g. public s3 bucket) you will have the customer lifetime because he‘s afraid he will make a mistake again.
This is the sort of article (long, detailed, written by a high-level expert) which reassures me that NO, I really shouldn't bother to watch movies (or TV, etc.). Once you're past the visual spectacle, and "everybody else is watching"...movies, TV, etc. are generally inferior to books. And consistent competence is far easier to find in authors than in studios + producers + writers + directors + ...

(Article is from 2020...OTOH, the article is hardly about 2020 situations or events.)
Wiltshire Police 'Digi-dogs' trained to sniff out technology
Well in South Africa we have a sausage called boerewors. My understanding is that you can only label it boerewors if it has certain specific percentages of certain specific fillings. Anyone can make boerewors and call it boerewors, as long as they stick to those ingredients and percentages.

Things that fall out of those ranges are simply called wors. Similar to the difference between a pork sausage and a pork banger.
Usually this kind of unchecked "growth" at all costs is counterbalanced by competition. Competition is what keeps companies from abusing their position. There's no competition in iOS app distribution. This is where antitrust needs to come in — urgently. This capitalism is broken, we need a new one.
Occasionally I try to browse it (plenty of nice landscape photos there), but it nearly freezes FF at once (on a powerful desktop computer, even), and now it presented me with a page saying that something went wrong on their end while trying to check it.

It's similar with imgur: another image hosting that used to be usable and served pictures without requiring registration, but not anymore (well, it still serves them, just not as lightweight as it used to be, and a bit more buggy). As well as with smaller image galleries before that; not many websites, software projects, or just any sorts of projects in general seem to stay nice for a long time.
NetZero was the best. When you created an account with their custom dialer it generated a username and password pair (that the user didn't know) for the local dial-up POP in your town. The credentials were stored in a text file using a substiution cipher, so you could extract them and create your own Windows Dialer profile to get free internet without having to use their dialer that showed ads on your screen.
It’s about €30/month, but it is very much a business expense, so it comes out of my company account (I’m a freelancer)

You could probably grab a server for a bit less from their server auction.
Their only song worth the effort is Waterloo, but hey what a song. It was the year of dinosaur bands doing more dinosaur music, and Waterloo was such a tremendous breath of fresh air. Really wonderful, it was.
That‘s a really weak argument. You can build memory leaks in every language and at some point your application will have a problem.
I believe Brave was initially (supposed to be?) based on Firefox but needed support for a feature that only Chromium supported and had go with that.
I'm specifically replying to this:

> Once humans are put into that setting (zero education), we are no longer comfortably at the top of the food-chain.

Which isn't true. Humans used to hunt mammoths way back when we had zero education. (Some even claim that we hunted them to extinction.)

It doesn't get really get more 'top of the food chain' than that.
Exactly. Latin is case-based as are Slavic languages even today. It would interesting to see if Russian (or Finnish, which despite not being Indo-European in origin also has a lot of cases) Latin scholars can read Latin more fluently in general as the grammar would not be as alien as it is to native English speakers.
browser.privatebrowsing.autostart=true

used this for like a decade. this works like firefox focus on android.
You have a 42U rack to accomodate your family's home-computing needs? How large is your family?
Curiosity killed the coffee break!
20 TB free egress, not 2TB, and additional TB is 1€/TB
It may not be. It all depends on how much value you put on resilience and quality in software. Again, a sleep deprived developer has a higher chance of making mistakes, than a rested one.

But I have heard your argument before, and it kind of rings hollow. Unless you are willing to allow developers to push changes to production in the middle of the night and without supervision, what exactly is the benefit of having them on-call? Saving money?
Well he knows what he's capable of and knows what the crew is capable of. I think it makes more sense to assume he know what he's talking about rather than not. I mean he might literally never have done this without Masterclass at all.
> Here's what the bare metal server didn't come with:

It's called software, you put that on top of a server, it's not some kind of magic.
> Writing is a great metaphor: there aren't any hard-and-fast rules and there's certainly a subjective quality to it... but also, some writing is clearly better and some writing is clearly worse. Maybe there is no such thing as "good" writing because writing can be "good" in different ways or because we can never fully define what "good" means

There are different writing styles (and so guide styles associated) for different objectives. Eg, journalism, with a pyramid model designed and refined to ease the process of assimilating information which is different from the playscript style model designed to give general instructions on how to flesh out and enact events.

Both these styles (I intentionally chose for their more obvious rules and usage) have different hard-and-fast rules and applying one instead of the other wouldn't work.

Now, there will be a subjective quality but there are also objective qualities to writings produced with these styles (structure, count of words, choice of wording for description, timeline of events reported, etc.).

Now, of course regarding novels, storytelling, the newyorker, writings that are intended to be read, alone, to tell a story, to convey more than facts and the most objective description of reality yada yada.

And then there are technical manuals. I think code is a technical manual for two kind of audiences: humans and computers, so compromises are made and rules for clarity and brevity can be layout.
i looked at it cursorily, and i don't think it does that..
> But I do wonder why Western (progressive / left / whatever) views are insistent on additional genders being hierarchically related to traditional genders (like transwomen being a subset of women)

Er, they aren’t.

First of all, “transwoman” (or, as many will inform you is correct “trans woman”) isn’t an additional gender. The gender is “woman”. “trans” is not a gender identity, it is a statement about the relation of the gender identity to the socially ascribed gender (often called “sex”) assigned at birth.

Second of all, the actual “additional” genders, i.e., those outside of the binary, are, well, outside of the binary, not “heirarchically related” or even mapped to that binary.
They were originally different but retconned to be the same character at the end I believe: https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/9ie9ka/two_glorfindel...
I think I work pretty much the same. Usually get next to nothing done, or am extremely productive for most/all of the day.
So is everything else in software. Literally everything a computer can do is a form of math; it only seems like you're ever doing something not-math because we've made some very good abstractions over the math.
Hm I have dark mode enabled on the phone and then the chrome flag is just on default. How could I check which of the implementations this will select?

This is chrome 97.0.4692.98

I'd also think we move this from HN to some issue tracker?

https://github.com/alexbarry/AlexCalc/issues/2
Artists and musicians specifically get a lot of social prestige. Similarly for actors.

No, they - in general - do not. A few get this. A few more lucky folks make a living off of it. In the case of an artist, you are probably doing commissions and spend a lot of time on social media, in the post office, and such things just to tread water. Comic artists and animators you've never heard of go about their day in invisibility while they destroy their wrists, elbows, and shoulders for your enjoyment. (a number of these are contract jobs, too, which means no benefits).

Most musicians are pretty local or fly under the radar. Band teachers are usually musicians, and i'm pretty sure there isn't a lot of prestige there. Lots of "musicians" are working in such jobs, many are touring local circuits, picking music for commercials, and things like that.

The most common sort of artist or musician, though, is the unknown one. There are way more artists and musicians than we have space for in our minds. I'm not sure what sort of prestige you think folks are getting. Even worse, I'm not sure why that would be a substitute for decent pay. Supply and demand obviously aren't the constraints on wages people make them out to be.
The company that wants to fight Covid-19 with vibrations
Do you have any examples where unoptimized rust is in the ballpark of interpreted Python? That seems extremely slow even for carelessly written code.
so that dates displayed can be correct by default, without having the user select their timezone from a dropdown with a million different options
I would not call it trivial, but I found that, as a manager, you often have to be a psychologist and spend very large amounts of your time listening to the more personal issues of your colleagues. When I was manager over 400 people (there were managers between me and them but I was ‘the top level’), I spent 80+ hours a week doing my work; 60+ was easily absorbed by motivating people and listening to their stories about imminent divorces, dying parents, spouses or kids, and so on. Then 20 or so hours to do my actual work. It is not for me… I do not want such a position again.

I did 80+ hours as well when I was just writing code and managing servers; about 40/60 respectively. It was more than 80 hours and I missed things, but I was young and made up for it. I would not want to do that again either.
A postmark is applied where the post office receives the letter. If the return address isn't in the post office's service area and there's no postmark, it's fraudulent. I'd be shocked if the automated systems don't check for that before applying a postmark.
Because video sharing is expensive and allowing people to download would cost more. YT wants to control the video experience, so they can inject ads etc.
I've been experimenting with this via a babel plugin for a while.

The difference in ergonomics is huge, and it's readable too!

At first, I was so excited to try it, I wanted to "simulate it" via some library I developed: https://github.com/egeozcan/ppipe Then I realized it was super hard to add typings for it (I use Typescript nearly exclusively these days).

Anyway, I can't wait this to be adopted by Typescript!
In the UK an e-bike should only provide power when traveling at 20mph/32km or below. Above that it's classed as a moped and needs a helmet, license, etc.
Because most of them enjoy doing it and their community directly benefits from the work.

Not all pay for work is monetary, but firefighting is still work.

And I just realized - maybe you hate your job. If that’s the case, go find something else you enjoy that happens to pay the bills. Life is too short to be spending your working hours hating life, and if you’re on this site you can probably find some sort of job (or start a business) that you enjoy and others find valuable.
> it aligns incentives best for it to be the engineers who maintain the code.

How many at a time? It has to be two or more, otherwise anyone could push changes to production at any time, without supervision.
I speculate it's just containers, repurposed solely for the purposes of serving HTTP APIs.

When you "deploy" a cloud function I think it means it rebuilds the container image and replaces the running instance of the container.

I imagine that e.g. the usual 60s "timeout" of a cloud function just means they kill the container after 60s?

And maybe e.g. Firestore triggers means that Firestore maintains event handlers that spawn a container (your "trigger") to run the code you want for that event?
When you say “it’s about”, it’s like you’re assuming rioters need to have a rational explanation for what they do. It could very well just be the unleashing of some inner raw-animal destructiveness for no reason other than the opportunity presented itself. Post-hoc rationalizations need not have any connection to the rioters themselves.
I use serverless for internal systems.

- Small API that is used by a couple people everyday? Lambda.

- Need to store some data? DynamoDB.

- Need to store some files? S3.

- Cron? Step Functions.

- Need services to communicate with each other? SQS.

Those end up being either free or very cheap.

If you have high traffic, serverless is actually really expensive. It is only worth it if you have high scale but unpredictable / bursty traffic.

> However, every team I've been on recently has spent a lot of time struggling with gluing their AWS stuff together, diagnosing bugs etc. It didn't seem to save a heck of a lot of time at all.

I understand AWS so others don't need to and I'm making the money of my life. All 3 big cloud providers have really terrible developer experience and I feel really sorry for folks who just want to get their shit done.

I used to think some other player would come in and offer something much easier and simpler to take over this space, but I'm not really seeing any serious contender. Just low code / no code platforms and managed k8s stuff.
could just be one tor user, through different exit nodes
Topped by the savage end IMO:

> Upon hearing of the technical issue, non-participating members of an unrelated IETF mailing list announced that they would take up the charge to get a draft written to not quite address the issue and expected a completed, approved standard within the next 13 years.
It's unclear what you're implying as you've carefully not spelt it out, but in any case posting a fact from a short-lived account does not make it not-a-fact. Respond to the post not the poster.
Almost anyone that brags to others about how many hours they work typically count checking their emails while watching TV as work.
The accent is on the initial o, why would you stress the second syllable? (1) And why would Greek MI be pronounced MY? That’s a very English specific pronunciation of I. It definitely wasn’t a diphthong in Greek.

What is even your point? Nobody really knows just how it was actually pronounced, so we rely on standardized reconstructions. But that’s not really related to being able to read it.

Also, omicron and the Greek letters have become English words, and their pronunciation as English words doesn’t necessarily correspond to the (reconstructed) Greek pronunciation, these are different things.

1 Yes I’m aware that the accents originally denoted a melodic accent rather than a stress accent, I did take four full-time semesters of Greek, but something tells me that’s not the reason your teacher taught you that way.
100 key objects that tell the inside story of the BBC
Ah, it seems I need to read deeper. Thanks for clarifying :)
The 25:55 solo cannonball record may have been faked
This is interesting. Can I ask approx how many yearly goals you rewrite each day?

For me personally what I found is having too much to write or set up at the start of the day leads to my abandoning of that attempted plan (ie, why I gave up on my bullet journal attempt last year).
When I read small/medium business administrators horror stories on reddit and other forums I think IaaS is a god send.

Especially when someone else is making money decisions. Of course in horror stories admins have to run their servers in broom closets or in sheds because business owner is too cheap to get a proper space for something that whole company is running.
You can audit everything yourself, and if everyone could and would there would be much less opportunities for bad behavior. But that's why trust was invented. Trustless means you have to do everything yourself.

In society there are incentives for example for a bakery to not poison you. The obvious one is the financial gain, reputation, but also the threat from not following laws, regulations. There are health inspections and so on. Even with that a lot of things a bakery sells is not healthy for you.

It doesn't matter how smart the tools are, if the only incentive is to defraud people, which is how the crypto economy works today. It's all lions and hyenas, and there is no algorithm to fix that, if anything decentralized consensus makes it easier for people to obfuscate and shrug responsibility.
Probably not allowed on iOS :(
Like the author says, I think this is pretty normal. Deep work in a flow state is easily 10x more productive than when you're messing around.

10hrs of deep work a week is also a significant amount of time. I doubt most people spend that much time doing deep work each week.
It's pop (shallow I can see), but it's a masterpiece. The drum groove, the piano locks, the bass, the harmonies, the recording it's all just perfect fit and flows from start to finish.
Another option I like is shortening the planning horizon. That way, you actually get to plan a lot of what otherwise count as unplanned work.

If you try to plan the next three months ahead of time, you'll either be doing a lot of unplanned work or doggedly sticking to a plan that's out of date and ineffective.

If you try to plan for the next two weeks, you actually have a small chance of accounting for what's going to happen in this period. In some industries, you have to make that two days.

I think Reinertsen uses the example of searching for a submarine. The area it can be in after one sighting grows with the square of time (it's a circle whose radius is determined by speed.) If you haven't found it within a few hours of sighting, you might as well give up because by that time the search area expands faster than you can conduct a search. Planning is similar.
There’s plenty of Greeks in Greece she could ask. Why would the ancient Greek pronunciation be relevant? The ancient Greeks knew nothing of COVID-19.
I have to agree. I worked on a pretty large Java project, we hired 2-3 capable engineers, but they couldn't grasp the complexity of the problem, not necessarily the code - the code was pretty readable if you know what it does and how.
I like the idea of using CDC for data pulls, but there are some issues with it.

1/ On the target, you have to do compaction, deduplication, whatever you call the reconstruction of "latest state" as that's usually what people need, which is typically pretty computationally expensive.

2/ I worry about the operational aspects of it. How often does CDC break and needs resync? What happens if someone runs alter table? And when it breaks, do I need cooperation of the admin team to get it running again? Stupid periodic "select *" (with something like Stitch or Airbyte or whatever) needs very little cooperation from the source owner and are pretty robust.

Does anyone have any experience here?
What can of works are you referring to exactly? Can you elaborate on your concern?
TBH I know people who really only code and have no other life. Seven, rather than six days a week.

I am not entirely sure what is wrong with them. Only one case can be attributed to money. The rest looks like a weird psychological addiction.