skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is related to IT rules India enforced in 2021. More context here.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/10/twitter-now-in-compliance-...

Indian govt was not happy with the criticism it received on twitter about it's handling of COVID and even forced twitter to delete some tweets. Even tweets asking for help during oxygen crisis were deleted.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-56883483

WhatsApp of all companies put up quite a fight against Indian Govt demand to monitor the messages, although I'm not sure what became of it.
Source 1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/aayushipratap/2021/06/15/whatsa...
Source 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/technology/whatsapp-india....
I wonder what the energy budget look like for an operation like that. The argument against urban farming is that it is energy intesive and not really space efficient if you include the space needed for the extra energy production.

It would be interesting to see a comparison with conventional farming where the energy to produce fertilizer was included.
> But a dedicated native feed reader is almost always a better way to go.

Currently actually using Thunderbird for this, since I couldn't find standalone software that I actually liked (though RSS Guard felt close to what I was looking for https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard) and I wasn't looking for an online reader for this, nor did I want browser integration (too many separate browser installs across multiple computers).

Turns out that Thunderbird's built in functionality is pretty much sufficient and works nicely: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/thunderbird-rss-feeds-g...

Essentially now I have a few folders next to my e-mail accounts and I can read them when I want, the usage mode being surprisingly similar to e-mails (e.g. ignoring an account or two until I feel like browsing them, vs the immediate notifications of instant messaging). Plus, the UI/UX is pretty much regular Thunderbird as well, so nothing new there - it's familiar and usable.
A very well written article. I liked the writing style.
The truth of the matter is the Bay Area is a great place for tech companies because of the sheer volume of engineers. The reason so many engineers live in the Bay Area (and a handful of other cities) is (and I say this from experience) it's terrifying being an engineer in a city with only one or two tech companies.

I moved from SF to a smallish city in my late 20's, and I was only able to find one tech job to apply to, and it wasn't even for a technology I already knew. I was offered the position, and spent the next 6 years treading water at a mediocre job because there just weren't any other options: I could either stay at that job, or leave a town I loved.

When my wife and I decided it was time to move (she had just completed her Master's), job opportunity weighed heavily in our decision making process. We had a lot of other considerations (we wouldn't live someplace we didn't like just because it was good for our careers), but we wanted to make sure we at least had multiple options when it came to work, and that is absolutely something the Bay Area provides.
Useless? I use the quadcopter features of my iPhone everyday after driving home... with iPhone's steering wheel.
I'm sure somebody asked how the model train railroad club at MIT was for legitimate educational use, but it helped lead to modern computing. We want to have a bunch of americans who understand crypto- the underlying technology- as a long-term competitive edge. Generally we trust the people who go down these paths to be fairly responsible, and MIT as well as JHU are examples of long-term responsible exploration of things that may not seem to be legitimate educational use in the short-term.
The fact that I don't want to partake in childish browser wars is the reason Chrome has larger user share?

Apple has the exact same limitation on Safari yet no one claims "Apple forced Declarative API down people's throat" and actually praise them for the privacy it brings.

I'm perfectly fine with extensions not being able to snoop of every single request I make. It's fine for you to disagree. If anything, it sounds like people here trying to shove their preference of Firefox down everyone's throat.
Thank you, this made me laugh IRL :D
Unfortunately 11 for ARM has major improvements that aren't in 10.
Plus it's a huge computational problem, there's huge worth in having the car the customer wants configured just right for her, the day she walks into the dealership. It's an easier sell that much is true, but it's a better sell for her because she gets everything she wanted when she wanted it, which is worth more to her in money. End up splitting the difference. Otherwise it's like, order it (I think there's a paper options menu you tick boxes off of) and wait, wait two weeks, and maybe it won't even arrive in two weeks because of delays (more common now in the twenties) so it's a huge CPU-intensive task. Then also they rent a lot of GPUs to get real-time pixel-something...like rendering a car with all the options the tire-kicker wants so he can see the whole car when buying online. That's cool, that's tech, that's computationally difficult.
> It takes some effort, but it's not particularly difficult if you know and understand how to communicate effectively over a remote medium

So I've got zero doubt you _can_ do that, I did over lockdown. But if we make socialising systemically harder across the board, we're basically setting ourselves up to be a lonelier, more isolated society.
If it impacts politics then it is one more reason not to be regulated by politicians.
I doubt the core potential user base of rss trusts google on this given their history
After college I moved back to my hometown that doesn't have much of a tech company presence, something I was only able to do because of my remote job. I have no intention of moving, so I will exclusively look for remote jobs going forward.
Not hardly. In the early days of the Internet it was seen as tit-for-tat among peers; you're accessing my server for data I have, of course I'm allowed to log and analyze your request. That was the exchange.

The exchange was rarely made explicit in any kind of formalized consent sense.
Because everyone "being nice" is how Google keeps its monopoly on search. Googlebot can do anything and everything and no one complains. Or how about sites like Twitter and Instagram that live off selling their user's data having extreme limitations on their public apis and aggressively blocking alternative frontends like nitter or bibliogram because OF COURSE god forbid someone could want to look up something on their platform and not have an account.

The typical response to people raising these issues is "buuuut xy is a private platform that can do what it wants", yes, but why are you defending technocrats with bigger profits than many nation state's GDPs? (Reasonable) crawling should be allowed and promoted, in fact, it should be codified in law as a necessary element for the future of open and free internet. Anyone trying to prevent it, or even worse, make it illegal, is a bad actor.
At some point, it became acceptable to post hand-drawn diagrams with illegible handwriting. If you don't care about presenting information clearly, I don't care about what you have to say.
MacOS, an hour ago.

Before that, Fastmail on Android, this morning.

Slack on iOS gets stuck a few times a week.
I'm a one trick pony, if it isn't a garden I don't know. Perhaps see if you can find out what national parks do for their parking lots?
People spend 95% of the time in the office in front of a screen anyways. Perhaps there is a problem with too much of our lives being spent online, but switching from in office to remote work isn't even enough of a difference in that respect to register.
How is it neutering it? Can you specifically list the features that would not be possible under MV3, and how commonly used said features are by the average people who install the extension and don't customize anything?
Different personality types. Some people thrive working remote, they can fulfill all (or most) of their daily social needs through slack and virtual meetings. Others need face to face time, or even just a regular "second place" that is separate from their living space.

What I don't like is how dismissive everyone is of anyone who disagrees with them on WFH. Everybody is different.
> 8 minutes is ridiculous

Adjustable playback speed is your friend
No where did I see OP ask for others to center their life around work for socialization. They admitted that many companies are cut off from their job search as a result, BUT ALSO THAT THEY ARE OKAY WITH THAT. You're twisting it completely.
I’m conflicted. When I was a kid it was not uncommon define 10-year-olds driving go carts and four wheelers. I was one of those kids.

However, looking back on that, it was pretty dangerous for a 10-year-old to be in a go cart. And I think it’s dangerous for 12 year old to be using an electric bicycle.

I’m conflicted between a child doing something maybe they shouldn’t be doing, and being injured, versus an actual defect with the product. If there is a defect with the steering, then the company is liable.

However, if there is no defect, and the company acted in good faith and produced a good product that led to an unfortunate death, then I would have a difficult time blaming it all on the company.
- Public records (property records, dmv, etc.)
- Financial institutions/companies (plaid, banks, credit bureau, mortgage providers, reward credit cards, automotive loan providers, etc.)
- Loyalty program (macy/nordstorms, safeway, vons, walgreens, etc.)
- Warranty providers (appliance & car warranty registrations), etc..

People and media get riled up about Google and Facebook but the data that they have on me is pretty coarse and pales in comparison to what DataLogix, which is a company that Oracle acquired, and other companies have been able to build. We are not rational when it comes to these arguments.
But that's only because the originators of the first GMO seeds had to be firms with plenty of capital and R&D capacity ie. chemical companies. They also had the double revenue stream of seeds + herbicide. Herbicide resistance is also the most attractive seed trait in terms of farmer adoption.

Now, the cost of generating GMO seeds is much lower. We have more firms creating GMO with traits beyond herbicide resistance. These genotypes will have value for processors, retailers, and consumers. Be careful to not tarnish the reputation of GMO seeds before we realize their true potential.
The US may beat India in macro level economic factors for quite a while to come, but for a more senior professional with a marketable resume I think it's not too hard to find the positive niches.

Honestly the main thing that keeps me from moving back is quality of life concerns with traffic, air quality, and noise pollution.
To provide a motive for the false claims?

Doesn't mean they are false, just a reason why to mention the reason of the termination.
Pre-pandemic, I used to go the gym 4 nights a week, salsa parties the same or more. With remote work I am struggling, please try not to reduce my challenges to simply not putting the effort in, this is a difficulty I've battled with my entire life.

Also, note that neither of these activities involve colleagues, who I'd usually only socialise with post-work once a week (typically Fridays).
> The last US President used Twitter as his primary way to communicate with the world.

Without it sounding like an endorsement or defense of the guy… I never would have believed without seeing it, just how furious this made the media and other politicians. That you have a guy come in who said forget the system, I’m going talk to the people directly (and say some dumb things now and then).

I still attest that some of the Trump hate is solely because groups of people that control the narrative in the US were excluded from creation and forced to be on narrative-adjustment.

Agreed, this isn’t a good place. One platform should not have this level of influence.
Except the article does not. If you turn off telemetry and crash reporting, then there is no telemetry. (Except possibly the telemetry from plugins that choose not to honor the telemetry toggle). This post provides no examples of telemetry being sent when the option is turned off.

Now the program does have a variety of spots where it is designed to contact Microsoft services, like say the extension store, or update checks, or other similar functionality. Those services will (obviously) keep some level of logging data, which you cannnot opt out of if VSCode Talks to those services. This is what the terms are talking about when they indicate that not all collected data can be opted out of.

There is no "Don't talk to any Microsoft cloud service" feature toggle, sure, but would not really be a sane toggle people actually want. For example that toggle would need to forcibly disable the git support to ensure those features don't try to talk to GitHub if you open code in some GitHub checked out repo. It would disable the extensions store. It would prevent the update checking, etc. VSCodium would end up wanting to rip chunks of that toggle's functionality back out, since for example, VSCodium uses a different non-Microsoft extension store by default, so would want want the extension store to remain disabled.
Follow the Hacker News guidelines at work.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
I didn't mean to offend anyone, I don't even know how you're supposed to take the thing with you without the Pro Handle. Just wish there was a good way to plug it into my other devices...
complaining about breaking the guidelines is too common to be interesting. let's add that one in there too.
My preferred conclusion would be that it's actually safe, since we're using a massive amount of it already and we're all exposed.
It's not the Artificial Intelligences I fear, but the Artificial Stupdidity. And that's existed since the 17th century (at least). see also: Banks, Phone Companies, Government (esp, at local levels).
> Systems of this sort cannot be modelled mathematically in a way that allows them to operate inside a computer.

I wonder whether their argument also shows that systems of this sort cannot be modelled in a way that allows them to operate in a blob of cells inside a mammal's skull, but I'm not going to pay to find out.
A major swedish fashion retailer is _just now_ manating everyone in the IT department back to the office (about 4000 tech people), as of next week.

There is a big pushback, and no suppprt from the unions for this return to the office. There will be a wave of resignations very soon.

Who's hiring? :)
>>making a robot/computer to last more than 1000 years isn’t in our wheelhouse yet.

Yes, exactly my point - we can very nicely control landings to within a meter today. How can we make a craft land with any precision say 2-5000 years in the future? It'll require a power source good for 5000 years, a computer that still operates flawlessly for 5000 years, fuel that doesn't evaporate or degrade for 5000 years, and a rocket engine system that will operate properly in 5000 years. Even reduce that spec to 1000 years, or just a 500 years, and I don't see how we get there with today's tech.
I'm started at a remote optional company 6 mo ago and just had a team on-site a few weeks ago.

Collaboration was through the roof. Maybe it's how our previous virtual meetings were run, but it felt like items like planning, architecture discussions and reviewing strategy documents was 5x more productive in person than virtual.
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> Except the Borg don't have individuality whereas the people at Oracle do.

Sadly we know that groupthink is a thing and that many people seek conformity over conflict and correctness. You can safely assume that anyone working for Oracle is a mindless Borg drone out for more money without any care what they destroy to reach that goal. They are still guilty as hell but from a general apathy and not some active choice to be evil.
It certainly makes you someone who sets things ablaze.
Not all countries are blessed with the nature's bounty that the US is blessed with. I agree Energy is something India will be working on furiously in the coming decade. I presume both nuclear and renewable will be expanded rapidly. In the interim, India does have good relationships with most energy producing countries (Russia, Saudi).

What food security challenges does India have? India has been much poorer in the past and hasn't had any food security issues in a long time.
in a huge company sure but in smaller startups it's fine, it's nice even.

i've been at companies with 10 people and 10s of thousands and in between and obviously this stops holding true at a fairly small number of employees. but there are plenty of companies of the size that this works for fine.
It does have your phone number though.
Carpinito Brothers out in Kent is doing one this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 until 4 PM. They are a great spot if you haven't been there before.
> If you have a coworker that enjoy having lunch with you... what's stopping you both doing so?

The fact that I don't even live in the same state or country as them anymore? When you hire people locally, you can exist in the same physical space as them. When you hire people remotely, and work for a remote startup, this isn't possible. I don't understand your question.
That statement about open vs closed door was commonly used to justify open plan offices. Now it is being repurposed to justify in-office work in general. Interesting.
Writing Python inside your Rust code (2020)
My question as well
Related question of why TVs/displays basically only come in basic black. In some of the rooms in our home the TV is literally the only black thing in the entire room.
> I doubt he was fired for being bad at his job. But I'll bet he was fired for getting in people's faces.

As head of X, maintaining good relationships is part of your job. It's actually the biggest part of your job.
Great article!
One cool thing about RocksDB it's actually even used in other KV databases such as Redis on Flash https://redis.com/blog/hood-redis-enterprise-flash-database-...
The subject of security consultants, security departments, and whistleblowing seems to me to be of particular concern.

I mean, if an auditor publicly reports an audit finding that is ignored by the company and his ethics demand its reporting, is he branded a "whistleblower"? I do not think so, instead it is an "auditor finding". Why does that not apply here?

It kind of dovetails with how pathetically organized IT in general is from a professional standpoint. Lawyers, Doctors, ... ?Accountants? and the like have centuries-codified procedures, principles, and the like for ethics. You generally don't get to hire one of those and tell them how to breach ethics (now, there are a lot of corrupt lawyers and a lot of corrupt accountants see: Arthur Andersen).

The exploit industry has the 0day and x days of forewarning process, so there is that, but the fact a security consultant/professional gets accused of whistleblowing when... um, isn't that sort of the point? You hire a security consultant kind of like an auditor. And if auditors find major failings and they aren't addressed, aren't they supposed to report them?

I'm pretty sure the security IT industry does not have even accountant levels of professional conduct and organizations.

As IT subsumes and infiltrates, now to the point that fundamental bill of rights / human rights are dependent on secure and functioning IT systems, it gets... a bit more important. Arguably more important than the ethics around accountants and doctors. Lawyers, because they deal with the law, are probably more important still, but it shows that IT security may be rising in import to that level.
> ask yourself how many of your “work friends” from a job you’ve had more than a year ago do you still interact with?

I still interact a lot with people I was on a team with >1 yr ago – the ones I met before we went remote. Can't say the same about the ones I was never in the office with, even though they seem like equally good people.

> but apart from “work” we have different interests, values, and experiences. That doesn’t lead to community, it leads to having acquaintances.

It has not been my experience that "community" arises particularly from this kind of homogeneity.

I'm also kind of curious what you mean by "parasocial" outside of the context of media.
AS my grand father would tell you, who retired from AT&T in the early 90s. The "telephone company" had the ability for pretty much every employee to be remote except for field techs and sales people in the 80s. And he in fact had people he worked with who were 100% remote in the 80s. Field tech, because that is obvious. Sales because when he sold a large contract, he was expected to supervise the install, and he wanted to. Before he entered sales he was a field tech, or "telephone pole climber" in his words.
> libraries and early years provisions

Seen exactly this in my local area. Libraries closing or cutting hours/resources. The number of children's centres (where you go for check-ups/weigh-ins of young kids, to get feeding advice, etc.) reduced by 80+% in some counties. It's dire.

Some relevant graphs here: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/local-g...
Ah, that explains it. We went to Mallorca last year (from Iceland where I've lived for a few years after leaving the US) and I was SUPER excited about McD's breakfast, only to find they sold nothing but burgers :(
"a few days" is the lower end. From wikipedia:

>The half-life of glyphosate in soil ranges between 2 and 197 days; a typical field half-life of 47 days has been suggested. Soil and climate conditions affect glyphosate's persistence in soil. The median half-life of glyphosate in water varies from a few to 91 days.[57] At a site in Texas, half-life was as little as three days. A site in Iowa had a half-life of 141.9 days
Underoos! now that's a blast from the past!! Hah!
good ol cobol still one of the most dreaded
looks like 0 index issue. For nth item they are showing n+1th items description
If you tried it but didn't click the present button you are missing out. It really puts a bow on your design.
The north american credit rating agencies have seen numerous leaks of immensely disruptive personal information. This happened so many times that there are talk show episodes about it.

This happened. The vast majority of people do not care or do not have time to care.
Yup, FB's ZippyDB [0] is another example mentioned in the article.

[0] https://engineering.fb.com/2021/08/06/core-data/zippydb/

Edit: I've added Redis Enterprise Flash to the list now. Thanks!