skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly do you think licensing would provide that a formal quality system couldn't?

Software has a deliverable that can be tested prior to delivery. And there are domains where software has to be developed within a QMS, those domains have quietly built elaborate process and systems dedicated to quality of their software.

Using licensing to ensure quality results is an easier sell in scenarios where such a system can't exist, like when the practitioner doesn't get (m)any retries.

Are we worried something is falling through the cracks of the quality system approach? Are there properties of a deliverable that those systems can't ensure?

Some product domains are so inconsequential to life that it would be a laughable non-starter to write bars for their quality into law. Is a blanket licensing requirement a way to get at practitioners operating in those fields anyway? Because the individuals will be more of a pushover and easier to wage a public campaign against than the company they hypothetically work for?
Have you tried her in an N95?
No two countries are alike.
That's true - we're definitely working with much more complex compilation pipelines now.
Source? Yes. IBM. IBM made crappy clones. I am not saying those are absolutely IBMs, they could easily be clones. But I do recall IBM making a case very similar to that. I also speculated, it doesn't mean I was stating it as fact under oath.

"I know for a fact" - why so accusatory? No, I'm saying those particular machines were sold with 5.25" drives and then upgraded to 3.5" because none of the plastic matches.

"supporting more than one modem at a time is literally the definition of multitasking" - no, it isn't. You might as well claim that a single threaded application that can respond to the UI and also do processing in the background is multitasking when it clearly isn't.

"You can't do it without multitasking" - yes, you can. There is a vast difference between a multitasking OS or multithreaded program and simply polling a couple of devices or getting IRQ'd. Now this I know, "for a fact" and we can argue about that until the cows come home, but frankly, I have more productive things to be doing.

"Sounds like overconfident and incorrect speculation" Take five minutes and just chill. There was an awful lot of speculation in my post, and I was very clear to say "I believe" an awful lot, based on a grainy image, and a hazy memory of wrangling those kinds of BBS setups but apparently reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. This isn't reddit, you don't need to go full bore attack because someone said something on the internet you think might be wrong.
It was not a regular term in US before Covid, and always sounded strange when British media used it.
> instead anyone that disagrees with any position of the authoritarian left is now "alt right"

Reading that over-the-top hyperbole I firmly believe that you're the one that's been moving around.
I think society is exhausted from all the excitement. It feels like people would be excited by jetpacks for about 5 minutes and then return to their dopamine loops--primarily phones.
Serverless Framework V3
If I were that hiring manager I would have the wisdom to know that this provides no signal whatsoever of how successful those people would be on my team.

Edit to add: The kinds of pressure experienced on the job are not at all the same as those experiences during an interview. "Doing well under pressure" is not a generic skill. Someone who freezes up during an interview may be the coolest head in the company while restoring a database backup during an outage, and vice versa.
There might be a missing scenario in your list: bag of potatoes.
It's older than that: it's a biblical reference to Adam and Eve covering themselves.
I appreciate your comment and I don’t mind putting my cards on the table: I am a Marxist. I believe in democratic institutions by the people and for the people. Capitalist states will never suffice. Social democracy is good, but unsustainable. Soviet Communism was a failure, but a single failure. Capitalism is a necessary step in human progress, but it cannot last. Libertarian solutions, as you propose, are no more idealistic than mine, but I don’t put my faith in them because ultimately we are social beings. We all live in a society, and we must attend to it as such. We need institutions by the people and for the people, and the great leaps in technological developments made by capitalist state funded programs in the past century (private companies did very little in comparison) give us a chance to reimagine a new future, but that can only happen by acknowledging the old one is dying, and already dead for for an increasing proportion of the working class.

My only issue with Mastadon is that regular busy working people with families to raise on depressingly low wages cannot justify the effort to participate. If if can’t work for all of our society, it can’t work for our society. Period. So, if we can figure out how to make it work for everybody, then it sounds like the answer to me. I suggest we start by fighting for a national universal healthcare program to undermine the first of the private interests that control our public goods. It will also incentivize development of democratic institutions of the working class and save millions of lives.
We changed the URL from http://impossibility.org/, which currently points to a porn site.
Perhaps, but also for those that simply want to try to improve their lives without the baggage of constantly feeling that the world is oppressing them.

Personally, whatever little I have is probably 1/3 luck, 1/3 hard work, 1/3 good decision making. I've never inherited a single $1, don't have a CEO relative to hire me, etc... but what good would it do to blame the world for any of that? Life _isn't_ always fair, whatever.
Strong Xanadu vibes. Not surprising to see, since at least one of the people involved isn't new to trudging through the history of hypertext and has several Xanadu writeups. (See the backlinks on <https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history>.)
GoFundMe freezes $5M fundraiser for truck protesters – National Post
It kind of does. Most exchanges are hosted in the cloud and I don't think AWS offers colocation similar to the traditional exchanges. I bet Cantor ensures that the machines they are using are close to those used by the exchanges.

HFT on a traditional exchange will be faster but that's not the competition. The competition in crypto faces the same problems so you just need to be faster than them.

Of course, if the whole process has too much uncontrollable noise (jitter) due to cloud specific reasons it probably doesn't matter. I hope they managed to control this before doing this optimization :)
The hand wringers and spineless politicians looking to score a few cheap brownie points for advancing "safety" will go after jet-packs if they ever become seriously viable. Look at all the hand wringing over the unwashed masses getting their hands on cheap and fast ebikes. Right now nobody cares because they're just rare toys for rich people.
I can accept this would start happening after all hope of containing the virus is lost. I would have hoped there would be some organizing around it like making shifts of only sick people come in or something (when they don't have to be in contact with anyone to do their job).
I rather try to educate the people I know about the consequences of relying on companies like Meta for things like that hoping it doesn't happen to them. That's all we can do. And I guess contributing to the technology that enables alternatives.
Show HN: Hibiki HTML – New frontend framework – no scaffolding, no Webpack
Source https://github.com/dashborg/hibiki | Interactive Tutorial https://playground.hibikihtml.com/tutorial/

I love JavaScript, but for many projects -- especially internal tools and prototypes -- setting up a full frontend JavaScript stack (npm, webpack, babel, create-react-app, redux) and all of their configuration files, folders, and scaffolding is overkill.

Hibiki HTML incrementally plugs into any backend, using any template language (even static HTML files) with a single script include. It includes a built-in frontend data model, Vue.js-like rendering, built-in AJAX integration, and a full component/library system.

It is also fully scriptable from your backend AJAX handlers. Anything that Hibiki HTML can do on the frontend can be done with a remote handler by returning specially formatted JSON actions. This allows you to write frontend logic (that would normally be JavaScript code) in your backend handlers.

Background -- Hibiki HTML is a standalone, open-source, more powerful version of the frontend language that I had built for my internal tools startup Dashborg over the past year. It is a reaction against the extreme amount of scaffolding and configuration required to set up a new frontend project, especially when you're a backend/devops/data engineer who isn't a JavaScript expert. As more Hibiki libraries are written, the advantages will hopefully become even more clear.

I'd love to get all of your feedback, questions, and comments. Would love a star on Github if you like the idea. Also, feel free to email me, and/or join the Slack workspace I set up (contact info on Github or the tutorial).
Absolutely.

As engineers, we don't reduce the world to a choice between two mechanisms, to be battled over with no hope of improvement. We are not divided into mongoites and postgresists, we are interested in new solutions and improvements.

We should think of institutional design in the same way. How do institutions work? What are the options and how do they fit together? How do they affect the affordances and limitations of each?

Politics should be limited to goals, it is a crap way to decide about methods.
It's a win for Young too - Spotify complying to the request shows they lack a spine!
I never said the human interaction part of the experience was bad. I specifically stated the wait times. Since everyone wants to share personal anecdotes, then in my neck of the woods in Texas, the state has moved from small regionally located DMV offices in favor of centralized extremely large megastore types of places that they push people to visit. Even when making an appointment online, you still wait an incredibly long amount of time in this massive incubator of a holding area. The last time I visited was before COVID, and I was already concerned about the petri dish level of experiment that was the waiting area.

The DMV trope exists for reasons. Sadly, you may not be able to relate, but it doesn't diminish the validity for those that do. (sadly, here, being used ironically)
False. Social engineering has the same equivalent concept of script kiddies, just con artists who are reusing well-known types of patter/cons to be able to exploit age old evolutionary psychological vulnerabilities in humans that unlike computers, we are not able to easily patch.
(I’m too much of an idealist for my own good.)

I’m sure that these resources are great. And it’s not their fault that the regex family of languages evolved in the way that they did. But the simpler regex languages (without backreferences and other stuff… that I might not even know about) seem simple at first glance. In a perfect world I want to just spend and hour internalizing them forever. But in practice it seems that doubt always grips me, mostly because of the meta-syntax problem: did I unintentionally use some metacharacter in this part of the string which I meant to be “fixed”? So then I feel I have to “validate” it with some external tool. And suddenly it feels like this seemingly terse and agile language is just making me second-guess myself.
Nothing is free, if they did that Tax's would have to raise to cover the costs. Plus this is not for busineses but for the Government Department(s) themselves and Quangos.
The Kept and the Killed
I believe in the actual implementation it's correct. You can confirm a letter is not doubled, when one of the two letters in your guess is gray.
Pretty sure they got the dish free, they did an episode on it. I've watched Delos since the beginning. I'd be surprised if they make that sort of money.
> But I can go to a desk and, talk to someone, and, eventually, possibly after a very long time, someone will act.

Ever tried to get a pothole filled?
I'm with the anti-GMO crowd for the monopolistic concerns on top of the effing-with nature concerns. GMOs are (probably) not dangerous like asbestos, but they are by no means safe and a good idea.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/05/monsanto200805
Do I Really Need a Toilet?
Afraid I don't really have Stryker stories. He wasn't much involved at the office while I was there, I think he'd moved his family out to Utah at that point. My recollection is that he was charismatic in the ways typical of technical founders who'd achieved some success. He autographed his book, Think a Little, for me -- teenage me thought superdemocracy sounded great but with 25+ years of hindsight I see his vision of utopia as more of a dystopian nightmare.

I posted this on my Facebook when MBBSEmu came up here a few months back:

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How'd I never hear of this before? My first "real" job was with Galacticomm and their software is probably most directly responsible for me becoming the computer geek I am today.

Story time: I ran a Major BBS in high school. My longest-time friends ought to remember 'cause it's probably the biggest catalyst for us becoming lifelong friends. My dad financed it with dreams of making Rusty-N-Edie money but I don't think it ever paid its own phone bill.

Pops saw in the paper that Galacticomm was going to make a big announcement at a local business conference. Maybe it was MBBS 6.25, or the first showing of Worldgroup, I don't recall exactly. But the key part is that I was under 18 and not welcome to attend said conference.

I was displeased. I let Galacticomm know of my displeasure.

And... Scott Brinker reached out personally to invite me to their offices for a demo. By him. Maybe Tim Stryker was also in the room, I don't remember it all. But Scott, a very young CEO or President at the time, took the time out of his life to make sure this younger, perhaps a bit entitled, fellow geek with a similar geeky backstory was not excluded.

It's such a little thing, but for me, it really mattered. Galacticomm and their people have always had an outsized place in my heart.

And now I'm crying 'cause I wish I could talk to my dad.
>American security support for Ukraine is recent

Um, it's not _that_ recent, it dates to at least 1994 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... which is almost the length of its independence
Conti ransomware hits Apple, Tesla supplier
I'm not sure it would actually be cheaper than a first class ticket. I'm not very familiar with cost of shipping, so I'm going off very rough numbers her, but [1] UPS lists next day air shipping for packages over 100 pounds to be between $2 and $7 a pound. Maybe these aren't the correct numbers to use, but even if it costs $3 a pound, we're looking at $450 for a 150lb person. That's not including the weight of any accommodations. And that's assuming pretty much the low end of shipping costs for non-human accommodations.

[1] https://www.ups.com/assets/resources/media/en_US/cwt-rates-p...
Your online social milieu is likely getting poorer over time. In the olden days, online meeting grounds like Twitter were elite locations. Now they're commons. I notice this the most on Reddit where I'm sometimes reminded how many blue collar people there are (and also what a wide age range exists there).
Here's an excellent article about how our damning of cheap, reliable, "dirty" energy is going to push us into a crisis that dwarfs anything in recent memory. What happens when energy isn't cheap and isn't available?

https://adventuresincapitalism.com/2021/09/29/will-esg-creat...
It's not saying to not vaccinate kids, it's saying the evidence says masks are ineffective at preventing the spread of covid in schools, which means it's meaningless to wear them, and that there is a negative cognitive effect on kids with wearing masks, so we should weigh that.

Feel free to post a link that confirms "Wtf, masks absolutely work" in the context of kids in schools and the Omicron variant.
Here in Georgia, before junk fees:

$0.0566 per kWh
$1.09 per therm ($0.038 per kWh using your conversion)
assuming "our" is non-American, but non-American is a really large place. ;-) care to narrow it down?
Some of us still live in functioning democracies. Also, it's worth pointing out that relying on privately owned or publicly traded corporations is not an effective strategy for preserving freedom; those businesses will only do that as long as they can justify it to their shareholders (private or public), and are subject to whatever laws apply in the jurisdictions they reside in (kind of the reason alot of 'western' companies prefer to either not do business, or conduct business via arms length entities in countries like Russia, China, and other places).
A fatal combination are AirPod Pros + an Amazon FireTV Stick 4k. You pay 250€ and can't even change the volume...

Other FireTVs have the ability, other headphones have the ability, but this combination is just madness.
Yeah I don't buy your argument. I don't think leetcode questions are perfect, I also agree that women/minorities have extra distractions and hurdles which as a society we should look to lessen and improve.

However, I find these distractions are much stronger correlated with a person's economic situation rather than race or gender. Also, I agree with the parent of your comment where the time spent with leetcode is a small fraction of the time needed to learn CS fundamentals, which are usually required for the job. Especially when you're not expected the candidate to KNOW the answer, you're observing HOW they solve the answer.

I've failed candidates that memorized solutions, but could explain how they got there. And I championed ones that didn't get the optimal solution, but had a good thinking process that they could properly communicate to me. Guess which candidate spent more time studying?
> Magneto-optical disks using glass media

Are there any commercial products that use this technology?
> For decades, humans have said they want jetpacks, and for thousands of years we have said we want to fly, but do we really? Look up. The sky is empty.

I have wanted to become a small plane or ultralight pilot since I was in high school (I'm nearly 40 now)... it's just that with a single income and kids, life is expensive and busy.

I was astonished recently while watching The Spirit of St Louis (the 1957 Jimmy Stewart movie) - how as a young man Charles Lindbergh drove into Souther Field, bought an army surplus Jenny biplane for $500 cash (about $8000 in today's dollars), and took off immediately without any bureaucracy. Oh for that kind of freedom!

Maybe I'll do paramotor training with my kids when they're in their late teens - but for now, I can only stare up at the sky and dream (and occasionally watch YouTube videos of others living that dream).
I believe the limitation stems from the fact that Google Family uses the same underlying mechanism in Android as Mobile Device Management that's part of Workspace. I once managed to create an account that was simultaneously in Google Family AND in Google Workspace, but the end effect were constant notifications in Android that the account has joined Family, then deleted from Family, this several times a minute.
https://archive.is/F0O0a
A major reason for the decline in interest in hang gliding is dramatic technical improvements in paragliders, which are quite a bit more portable and cheaper for an increasingly small performance hit. Combined interest in paragliders and hang gliders is at an all time high.
I was in Aber until last month! Sailed there from Falmouth, but now in Pwllheli further up the coast.

Losing your rudder would kinda suck.
Still a pointless counterfactual.
Agreed. I was delighted that my passport renewal process from first applying all the way to getting my new valid passport was about 12 days. The UK government's digital services is honestly a big factor in keeping me a UK resident
This is fascinating. It certainly makes sense; in a way, I came to this conclusion on my own without having been formally schooled. I guess it comes from observations.

Wouldn't mind a few extra tips and perspectives though, so definitely going on my reading list for the weekend! Thanks for mentioning it.
I imagine you must be talking primarily about single services, but the question is primarily focused on the sort of necessary infrastructure that is required to build some kind of intranet for developers.
There's significant bi-partisan resistance, in the US, to anything like a national ID, unfortunately, with the result that we have one anyway (because of course we do, the modern world doesn't work without it) it's just an ad-hoc combination of other forms of ID, terrible to work with, heavily reliant on commercial 3rd parties, unreliable, and laughably insecure. But the end result is still a whole bunch of public and private databases that personally identify us and contain tons of information—kind of by necessity, actually, since our ID is a combination of tons of things.

It's a very frustrating situation. Worst of both worlds.
If your cloud provider is scheduling everything on the same server, they're doing something very, _very_ wrong.
The link is to some biohacking reddit clone...the actual article being referenced is here:
https://digest.bps.org.uk/2018/10/19/new-evidence-that-the-c...

Their UI wasn't very friendly towards actually finding it.

The actual "study" consisted only of 46 people with some bias during selection. Mountains of salt recommended.
An gigantic ego and an overstated sense of self-importance: sounds like the archetypal hacker to me...
> I'm not sure why it's taking the J2EE containers so much longer to patch than the good 'ol PHP stuff or shiny new Go apps.

I was wondering what it'd look like if they used these badges for every language. Maybe like 5% of the outside containers I look at don't have significant unpatched CVEs, even for relatively popular projects.
We're US only for now.
Republicans Are Making It Easier for Doctors to Prescribe Shady Covid Treatments
What is reasonable money? AWS Glacier Deep Archive is around $1/TB/month. Since it includes Multi-AZ replication for "free", you'd have to store multiple tapes in multiple facilities to get the same durability with tapes.

Retrieval costs are additional of course, and depend on how quickly you need access to the data, but if you just want to store data long term in case of disaster, $1/TB for multi-AZ replicated data seems like pretty reasonable pricing.

LTO-6 tapes hold 2.5TB of data (uncompressed), assuming you store 2 for redundancy, you'd need to find a place that will store them for $1.25/tape/month to break even, plus you're paying $25 for the tape itself, so over 3 years, that's almost another $1/month/tape. Plus the tape drive itself is around $1500.

You can use newer tape technology for better economies of scale, but your buy-in cost is higher due to the higher price of the tape drive, so you'd need a pretty high volume of data to break even.
Some essays stand the test of time, though. Not everything is irrelevant, but I'd say 99% is. The bar for publishing is very very low.
Why there might be something to the metaverse
> if the correct answer is TWEED and you guess TWEET, then you’ll get YYYYM

No, this would give YYYYN