skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In 2018, Bloomberg Busi­ness­week published a story called “The Big Hack” that was vigor­ously denied by Apple and Amazon. Based on these denials, certain tech blog­gers became convinced that the story was false. The fact that neither Apple nor Amazon sued Bloomberg for defama­tion—despite being extremely rich, finicky, and liti­gious—made nary a dent.

No, people concluded that because there were so many holes in the Bloomberg reporting that didn't make any sense conceptually.
You have misunderstood GP.

Alternating functions and regexps looks like this:

[\&some_function, qr/some_regex/, \&another_function, qr/another_regex/]

This is distinct from the idea of sum types.
The problem is that vision has a pretty poor track record when going head-to-head with incentives.
> It has the appearance that it was knocked up in notepad, but after using it, I have a modicum of respect for how it makes government usable.

I'd wager that the looks have a lot to do with accessibility. Government sites are interesting in that to fill their purpose they're on the far end of the spectrum of website and system accessibility—in that they must be usable for:

1. People who don't have typical eyesight—colorblind, blind, vision with poor focus, issues distinguishing text without a sufficient level of contrast

2. People who don't use keyboards or mice to navigate—this could include folks using screen readers, voice assistants, or more exotic interface devices (think paraplegics using eye-tracking software or tongue switches).

3. People who are not neurotlypical and may struggle to use the website—think dyslexia, anxiety (info-dense walls of text can trigger panic attacks), or individuals who have trouble using computers or the internet.

There's likely a lot more there than I'm personally aware of, but making even a basic service available and usable to a constituency can take a huge amount of effort. The UK gov website guidelines[1] touch on this and I applaud any government or organization that takes these things seriously.

1. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/accessibility-requirements-for-p...
> What's to stop you from immediately placing 9B of that in rich pockets

The government accounting that goes along with the contract. They can waste money or do a bad job, but they can't just say they spent the money on executive bonuses.
I do use these apps and we basically download Netflix and (especially) Prime series that we already have subscriptions for because their apps are horrendous.
Very impressive. The only thing that would make it better is a physics engine that would allow the user to play with gears etc.
I'm not a big fan of the seemingly-obligatory party favors (at least in upper-middle-class parts of the United States), but we never gave out anything other than books.
I still remember playing D&D red box and blue box by myself. Party full of characters named after friends.
Not if the L4 started 3-4 years before the L6. Their original RSU grant might have been substantially more than they are handing out due to price appreciation, and thus their TC is much higher. This happened to hilarious effect at Amazon, where I had some coworkers that were receiving insane comp and were Sr, but not PE level. Originally they got a grant that was worth 500-600k that went up 5x.
By you, maybe. But I'm contributing things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31263708 to the discussion while all you're contributing is smug dismissals.
awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted lists quite a few: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I moved from Sydney, Australia, to France. Cost of living (the way I live anyway) halved, gained access to remote jobs from around Europe and USA - would recommend!
Wow I was not expecting that! Usually offering only a Kubernetes version is the new way to force small users to the SaaS version.
I think the author is spot on when he said the leaker is probably a non-professional close to someone who has legitimate access to these documents. Maybe a soon to be ex-spouse or a politically passionate young family member. WFH would have meant a lot of potential for unauthorized access.
Everything in Docker ofcourse:

- Caddy, very easy reverse proxy

- Authelia, single-sign on for all my services (I prefer that to VPN)

- PiHole, for blocking ads

- Nextcloud, private Dropbox

- Gitea, private Git

- InfluxDB + Chronograf, for monitoring my home

- Jellyfin, media server

- Sabnzbd, NZB client

- Deluge, Torrent client

- IPSec VPN
Local warming: Can states eliminate methane gas use?
At Google you do a "self-assessment" for your annual review, and you pick some number of peer reviewers who you want to also provide feedback. Your manager can add or subtract from this list. Your manager then provides that perspective and a rating that is normalized across the organization through managerial "calibration meetings".

This turns into your annual (sometimes 6 monthly) review packet.

In engineering, you and/or your manager can decide to put you up for promotion.

In this case, your review turns into a "promo packet", and it is sent to a promotion committee who decides whether you are clearly operating at the next level.

A critical point is that your peer reviewers can see a 'P' next to your feedback request, so they know if you are up for promotion. In theory, promo feedback should match normal review feedback, but in practice promo feedback follows game theory dynamics.
I've had many brands of socks, because I'm so picky.

Some brands are objectively much better, since they support my feet better, have no seams around the toe area that drives me nuts, wears better (my cheaper socks get holes in them in about a year), it breathes better, it reacts to moisture better, it stays up on my ankle better and doesn't slide down, it doesn't twist on my feet because it holds the shape better, and it's cushioned better among other things.
You could use OCR, and reproduce it as all ASCII. Apparently EVE Online guilds would start to put minor variations in the text of memos, or even alter critical information (like changing timing of convoys or attacks by a few minutes) to weasel out informants.
Edison EV Declares Bankruptcy
Lots of crying in the comments over an EU mandate which says in its opening pages that the limiter must be able to be disabled by the driver. If you don’t like it, just turn it off.
50.5% have internet access... nice majority. For the mobile lines just check how many there are registered in the US and you see how useless this number is especially in regards that you overlooked the smartphone penetration at all. I said nothing about that the people are inept of learning. That's all coming from you! I said it neither feasible nor practical for the majority ( :D ) of people to use crypto.
Shared phones and computers... how practical instead of just using cash. Let me correct the statement of my last post: Racist my ass, you are a delusional first world country geek.
> I believe it’s much more likely that the leaker is someone who supports the opinion rather than an oppo­nent

I only want this to be true and it to be a justice to see how quickly Josh Hawley backs off his threat to impeach said justice.

I'm also curious, what kind of source control / collaborative tools do they use inside the supreme court? These decisions look like LaTeX.
> you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level?

This premise does not apply to everyone, there are many people who are perfectly happy with their current income and their current set of responsibilities. It's indeed likely that most people do their work for the money, and promotions do contribute directly to that incentive. But there is a sizable population who are not in it for the money, and they contribute to the company culture as well.

Related, this article reminds me of comments on an earlier article:

"Do Not Change Your Job": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30437733
We must be in different circles, because WAF (web application firewall) is what I would say they're most known for. But I agree Cloudflare isn't well known (at least yet) fort many of the other things they offer. Been a lot of buzz around workers but I haven't tried it myself yet.
this was shared recently

https://github.com/ustaxes/UsTaxes
> Why did it take so long to add monero support? It always seemed weird that you went so far for privacy, but didn't support monero. Was it just on the backlog and took a bit of time to implement?

I don't work with payments and the surrounding systems so I don't know the details of the project itself. As an organization we've certainly been aware of the feature request, but until now we've prioritized other projects.

> EDIT: I've heard a rumor that you've shared a user IP because of a government subpoena (live during a connection, so it wasn't logged). Has this happened?

To my knowledge it has never happened in the history of our service.

> EDIT: One other question - is there plans to add more IPs? Services seem to flag most mullvad IPs but I'm not sure there's much you can do about that.

I'm sure my colleagues in the Operations and Support teams are aware of it. You'll get a better answer from support@mullvad.net.
I think the metaphor is more apt than you’re giving it credit for. You just don’t have enough experience with the trade offs involved with “the best tphysical ool for the job”. :)
I run a forum for exactly this reason. Small communities are the way forward.

You (or anyone reading this) can find it in my profile.
Update on cyber activity in Eastern Europe
The U.S. birth rate is bouncing back from the pandemic
I used to use perl5i for scripting, which had func().

Point is. As soon as I tell someone "you have to use tarball/cpan/cpanplus/cpanminus to install the feature "named parameters" they leave.

But now it's here
A few months back I stumbled upon a YouTube video of a watch maker servicing a mechanical watch. This started a mild obsession with watch making and I've been watching these videos ever since. For anyone interested, here's an awesome video [1] of a guy putting together a watch and explaining how all 60 parts of a typical mechanical watch work together (by the way the tools he uses are as cool as the movements themselves). It's surprisingly easy to follow for a noobie.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkK6e4tb5Qk
AFAIK this problem seems to have gone away with the M1 based Macs. Can anyone confirm?
is it this one? https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1440138354390016003
I wondered for a moment why it was named after the Commodore Datasette:

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

I hadn't heared of datasette.io before. Looks like an interesting product.
Don’t most people have access to the internet already with more information then they’ll consume? And many of us live where there are public libraries.

That’s a pretty weird/loose definition of evil. Isn’t it more if a “nice to have”?

How about the inverse, it should be regarded as evil to expect people to work for a pittance or free to provide you with cheap devices and unlimited libraries?
There is a similar concept used in commerce, where a product or service is "artificially" overpriced and then discounted to make it seem like the buyer is getting a good deal.

In the same way, it makes sense to leak an "extreme" draft and then modify it after the fires have burned a bit, because you still get the benefit of passing unpopular legislation while seeming like you compromised on the details (when perhaps the final outcome is the one you wished for all along).

On the other hand, it makes some sense to me in some cynical ways for the opposition to leak this. We've already seen e-mail blasts going out asking for fundraising in the wake of this event, which certainly will solicit funds for numerous PACs and midterm war chests. Still, though, it's not like public opinion often ways heavily on the minds of the court -- they are not elected, after all, and do not face the perils of the election cycle very much. In fact, this puts much, much more pressure on the opposition's comrades in the presidential and congressional seats to come together and act. Pressure which may not be welcome ahead of said midterms...
I hate to break it to you, but they did decide that private companies would enhance the experience, they call it "Making Tax Digital".

Soon for VAT and Income Tax you will need to use "compatible software" from an approved vendor, you won't be allowed to just submit your details through the governments own website anymore. Great stuff.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/find-software-thats-compatible-w...
The final opinion would come out 2 or 3 months before midterms either way, because all opinions come out over summer.

Have you consider grasping at different straws?
> I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off the copy

Did you expect them to redline it in something other than word if you sent a docx file?

All traditional (fiction/non-fiction) book publishing houses will use Word redlining. It is the defacto standard in the industry. Traditional publishing has 0 interest in switching to new software as far as I know.

Technical book publishers, and some university presses, will allow you a lot more leeway, but even some of those will ultimately redline on Word.
> I have not been able to connect with anyone like this IRL

Perhaps learn to be non-judgemental, and learn to show that too. Social status signalling and ranking prevents most people from being honest. To learn how you could try: (1) to have friends that are non-judgemental and model your behaviour from them, (2) hang out in places where status is less important and honesty is more valued. This has worked for me, even though I am not a good listener and have some other social deficits. Note that it is very tricky to train yourself to be non-judgemental: our social ranking and signalling is hidden from ourselves in so many of our behaviours.
The difference is in orders of magnitude. The term 'breaking bread" comes to mind. People have been sharing meals and playing games with each other since time immemorial, because you can see their personality shine through in real time in doing activities together, than you can via simple correspondence where people can collect their thoughts and put forward the personality they want to simulate online.

IRL you can't fake it forever.
> Why can't we just `@array[1]`?

Because of slices. If you look at the complete table, you will never get confused again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26578855
> Cost plus contracts are well intentioned

Are they though? If a casual layman internet reader can see the problem and see that they always get taken advantage of for profit, couldn't also the NASA officials and contractors signing these contracts? They know exactly what they are doing.

SpaceX signed non-cost plus contracts and delivered far more quickly and cheaply than the rest.
Qualcomm sampling Wi-Fi 7 silicon for next-gen access points
Not sure i follow.

In this case. Its basically a single USB cable and a HDMI/Video cable.

All the Mouse/Keyboard etc is emulated through USB. Which is pretty nice. That was the best part for me. And with modern standards the lag was noticeable, but minimal. That said, in my cases, im just using SSH or something anyway. This was more for outage situations, or in a situation where i need to make a BIOS change remotely etc.
I believe Plaid was the one who got JPMorgan to build an OAuth API in the first place: https://finovate.com/plaid-signs-open-banking-agreement-with...

Why can’t the reason be “losing their only source of revenue to a competitor”? That seems like a fine reason to not want people to switch
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31263288

"Stripe releases Plaid-like project, Plaid CEO objects to process"

Different day, same old stripe. Beware.
The big three do have clear benefits in terms of scale, reliability, and features, so I'd say it's worth it to look at "accessory" applications that run on top of them.

Looking at YCombinator's alumni, there are a few interesting ones - for example, CloudThread.io (no affiliation) tracks cost efficiency of teams and applications, providing "technical cloud cost unit metrics as a service."

My company, Usage.AI, automatically buys and sells Reserved Instances to cut EC2 costs by up to 57%.
> > there’s no reason for a supporter or an opponent to leak an old draft now.

It's a big assumption that it's an old draft. It could also be the last draft circulated, and that everything since has been on concurrences or minority opinions.
Yes. And then the modern internet we use today was built a different way.
Lol, premium brands and non-premium will often come from the same factory in China.

Source to back up - none! But I do work at a clothing company where we do this and markup is much higher for "premium" - 20x.
Printers have done this since the 1980s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
Why it's better than Jitsi?
Culture change doesn't have to be political. One of my friends post college moved from the PNW to Northern Virginia. Both places he lived were represented by centristy Democarts. However, they're still wildly different places. Even though he had more diverse job prospects over there for his particular field, he came running back after about 2 years because he was tired of living in a swamp.
> We've raised $100M in a Series B financing led by CRV and Insight Partners

I see they are staying away from a16z ;)

> We don't want to put revenue ahead of quality, because our stats say quality is where all our growth comes from.

Dr. Deming shining through here [0], but really, even this 1986 article paints a neat little picture of how I presume tailscale's operating at the moment: https://hbr.org/1986/01/the-new-new-product-development-game

> How, Avery, on earth, are you all planning to spend one hundred million dollars?

Wireguard platinum sponsorship in 3, 2, 1...?

> Now I just tell people: We're here to fix the Internet. If we don't, who will?

I called this a year ago, as it was pretty evident to me even then (downvotes notwithstanding), but I'd not be surprised if tailscale became a ISP someday, given their holistic approach to product development: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26249199 But hey, there are many more people working to fix the internet... including tailscale clones and other over-funded/under-funded developers, which brings me to...

> I mean, imagine. What if the Internet just worked like it was supposed to? [and goes on to list e2ee + Mobile IP + SSO + DDNS + NAT Traversal]

If you squint just enough, it reads like the MASQUE protocol (built atop QUIC) that Google, Apple, Cloudflare are working to standardize: https://ietf-wg-masque.github.io/

That said, in time, I see tailscale not only compete with Zscaler, but also with Tanium, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, F5, Palo Alto Networks and the likes. Once they are embed in an enterprise' network, there's very little their product couldn't expand into to make other SaaS / solutions obsolete.

[0] Systems thinking and Deming, https://archive.is/tXJhw
No one ever learns from the "We did it Reddit" incident.
Barnes and Noble (at least, the one near me) stocks No Starch Press. I've definitely impulse bought those books there more than once.
Yeah, intelligent speed assistance would include things like:

Determine the speed limit, and: a) highlight the limit on the speedometer, b) allow cruise control to be set as an offset of the posted limit, c) notify when over the limit by some amount, d) coordinate with existing optional speed limits (sometimes tied to specific keys)

Also, intellegent speed assistance might help with surveying the actual speeds to get a better idea of safe speeds than posted limits.

This is just limiting speed by cutting the fuel.
Backwards compatibility, as always.
It seems to me the 'problem' has very little to do with software engineering and mostly just with marketing a significantly wider gradient en skills and quality.

"Back in the day" you really couldn't get things done if you didn't actually know how things worked. Today, you can do a little learning (which is still a dangerous thing) and based on low quality requirements create a buzzword-friendly applications with 1000 dependencies you neither know about nor have to check for. That was however just a side-effect of something that is a good thing: composability.

But that dives into the technical side of things, in reality, the marketing of technologies as a product and the involvement of human middleware (management) in things they have no business being involved in causes most of the perceived problems. That is not something that is really caused purely by software engineers, nor can it be solved by just them.

Two ways to go about it could be:

1. Having all the human overhead go through the same requirements and QA process as everything else
2. Be better at marketing your own solution (but make sure it has the correct technical and business underpinnings)

This doesn't work in legacy hierarchical work environments, and you're essentially just screwed if you are stuck in one of those. Best to either stop worrying about the technology in one of those situations, or move on to somewhere else.
For context, Intuit's market cap at end of day today: $126.68B.
Maybe, but while the intention wouldn't be to punish these people, the outcome would amount to collective punishment. Collective punishment is bad, like so bad it is a war crime, if done during a war.
Can we do the same to Dunn & Bradstreet DUNS number? This is free as well, required for business credit score creation and reporting, federal contracting, and oddly for posting an app on the Apple App Store.

But they have an insane number of anti-patterns to get you to pay for it and other products in the way.
Yeah, I'm aware but I still don't think they taste very good personally.
Any time you bring an unwanted child into the world there are going to be higher risks of the baby's life being ruined. Either the parents keep it, which is clearly going to lead to bad outcomes or it goes into foster care which increases the odds the child will be abused, be arrested, have mental/developmental issues, and become homeless, while also being less likely to complete high school, far less likely to have postsecondary education, less likely to be successful in their careers, etc.

Still, some people feel its better for a child to be born into suffering than to never be born at all.
It depends on the movement in the watch. Any COSC chronometer movement will hold +4/-6s per day which worst case is under a minute lost per week. Typically the error is much smaller.
I'm not telling you not to hold these beliefs. I fully understand that some people do not believe GHG emissions or climate change are a problem. As a matter of "what the data says", most emissions do not come from the US, and with realistic projections for the next 30 years, a much smaller percentage will come from the US. You're absolutely free to hold the belief that China, India, and other countries should not have to do anything to curtail their emissions.
Bluesky Authenticated Data EXperiment Architecture
Lots of things start optional before becoming mandates.

The slippery slope is real.