skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once switched banks to get away from their insistence on Internet Explorer, a fake requirement which could be easily bypassed by switching user-agents.

This seems to be equally lazy.
How are gc/ syslog/ kernel logs are special and not sent to central logging?
Ad-hoc logs (such as thread dumps etc.) can also be triggered via safe application end points from restricted locations.

> "Is it never necessary to run ad hoc commands on your production systems?"

Ad-hoc commands in production AS ROOT should be exception, not norm, and reserved for on-call members, not every developer working on team.

Even the most competent people, sysadmin or developer, can make a mistake.

I did not say no commands should ever be run on production, there could be non-root read-only accounts. I am opposed to everyone having root on production. I have seen enough data loss incidents or full blown outages because of mistakes.
Not a professional database developer but study it in my spare time

Books that stand out to me are:

- Database Internals, Alex Petrov

- Database Design & Implementation, Edward Sciore

- How Query Engines Work, Andy Grove

These have been much more useful than IE the Cow book or "DB Systems The Complete Book" to me.
Companies need a banking licence to hedge in France? Did I get this correctly? ;o
It also doesn't show the landfill under the WTC itself.

these might be useful:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XabzkD02Sqw/TyLIsZvsPgI/AAAAAAAAWF...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/interactive-map-compa...
If an app has "security, connectivity" as important features there is a greater not less an onus to keep abreast of platform changes and ensure your userbase isn't exposed.
USA is also headed in the same direction. I guess we can thank the New World Order initiative...SIKE! Be careful what you wish for, history has a way of repeating itself.
This is a great list. I'll add the following covering related areas:

Cancer - by Weinberg

Introduction to Proteins - Kessel, Ben-Tal (an older classic is Proteins by Creighton)

Developmental Biology - Gilbert

Organic Chemistry - Clayden et al
It's completely over the top, with absurd action sequences, fantastical characters, dance numbers, melodrama and heartbreak, one sided caricatures of evil Englishmen, and lots and lots of fun. It's excessive in every way, down it's more than 3 hour runtime. It's a blast!
How would this have forced utility companies to spend money to invest in winterization of natural gas lines, generators and other parts of the power infrastructure? Wouldn’t they just keep the additional profit for themselves, like they did with the previous profits they had, and the crisis still would’ve happened because natural gas pipes would freeze and the air would be too cold to be used in the compressor stage of the generator without prior heating…

More money to the utility company does not exert a pressure for them to spend money for robustness and especially rare events.
oh really? Three whole months? Shame on them /s
maybe Google App Engine or AWS Beanstalk

unless you're ok to build your own docker images, then fargate already mentioned should be good
A friend is a Director at Apple and banks with Coutts. Just because your bank is shitty in some ways doesn’t mean you don’t care about technology.

My bank (First Republic) caters to richer people, and has had shitty website features in the past. It’s all outsourced to Intuit, I think. But overall it’s a great bank. I care a lot about technology but don’t make all life decisions based on it. One I did make is refuse to buy a car in 2017 (Mini Cooper) that didn’t have CarPlay (I bought a GTI instead).
Oberlin native here. I've been going to Gibson's since I was a kid. You're getting an incomplete picture of this sad drama and the Gibson family does not deserve your sympathy.

I'll preface by saying that no one in this story comes out looking good – certainly not the shoplifters, who expected get out of jail free cards despite being thieves; nor the college, whose greatest fear is offending its fragile student body, with predictable results like this.

What you're not going to read in this article or others like it is that the Gibsons aren't heroes either. There are two important details I'd bring to your attention:

1. Allyn Gibson, the man who tackled the shoplifters, really is a confirmed racist. I know this both first hand (we are peers), and from his many social media posts in which he casually rags on immigrants and black people (expect he identifies them using the n-word). The judge in this case declared that evidence inadmissible, for some reason.

2. The Gibsons are not a put-down, working class family who were nearly bankrupted by this protest. They're one of the wealthiest families in town, and were millionaires before this all happened. Gibson's Bakery is a hobby business; they turn a modest profit selling some baked goods and beer. Their actual livelihood comes from rent – they're the second largest landowners after the college, and own most of the commercial and residential rental property in town. The idea that they were impacted by this protest in any consequential way is frankly laughable to anyone who knows anything about them and their business. Once again, the judge declared evidence of their wealth to be inadmissible in court.

This doesn't absolve the college of blame. But this isn't the black-and-white, "David vs Goliath" story the media is making it out to be. Unfortunately this story just fits too neatly into a national narrative about "woke" politics going too far, so you're not going to see any nuance from the media.
I run a professional software-development firm, and Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister is the most accurate and instructive book I've read on the topic (and not for lack of other books).

Maister basically made a manual of my whole world which includes things I never thought about like "leverage formulas" and "service programs". Would highly recommend if you are a partner of a firm or thinking of starting your own.
This seems like typical Apple behavior.

They will avoid supporting RCS interoperability standards until compelled to by European regulators.
Ask HN: Would this idea work? Audiobook visualizer
Product idea: Audiobook visualizer

1. Use DallE/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion to create animated movies from a book transcription.

I imagine there will have to be a human who filters some of this.

2. Use ffmpeg to create waveforms and overlay them on the movie.

Listen to a good book in front of the fireplace.
do what you gotta do. don't want to learn, apply to local web dev shops.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/quizzes#:~:text=definition...
The Whopper Index – A Riff on the Big Mac Index
Works on Samsung Internet
Fully agree with both you and parent. I'm in the process of switch from Credit Suisse to Neon.

Opening an account with Neon is the simplest thing ever.

I'm still on the phone weekly with CS to even attempt to make them do anything I've ordered them to.

Three weeks ago, they sent me a letter to confirm that my email address was authorized to make orders. I sent that back with the enclosed envelope. 4 days later, they called me to confirm my order. I did (verbally). They called back 10min later to confirm again. I confirmed again.

It has been two weeks since that phone call and the transfer has still not been completed.
Thanks I shall poke at this.
Except that we all get older ;)
It's hard to really make a judgement one way or the other without knowing the technical and organisational reasons in the first place.

Maybe their iOS dev left a few months ago and there are large changes needed they haven't been able to pull off in time? Maybe there's a very specific issue/bug they're having trouble to work around? Maybe they actually did make an update but it got rejected in the (in)famous "Apple approval process"? Something else? Who knows...
Lots of interesting suggestions from people!

I love “the inmates are running the asylum”

This book made me feel like a shit developer, but also made me change the way I think about software. I think it made me a much better developer in how I approach a problem and how I solve it for the customer.
"technically competent" is a broad word. would you classify Zucks as being "technically competent" about every single technology at Meta, just because he coded the og version of Facebook
Not much different from over the top movies by Tom Cruise.
Customer tells bank to disable account and upgrades to a different bank.
completely normal for large companies just to simplify IT management / make sure all applications used by the company are compatible
These two books I read recently are real gems / eye openers for me, which changed my view on many things:

Robert C. Allen - The Industrial Revolution: A very short introduction (don't be fooled by the book series, every sentence carries its weight).

C.S. Lewis - The Discarded Image (we get so many things wrong about what people before us thought and why).
Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that HM has died
Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How To Build Better Software Faster
by Dave Farley

It is such a low effort - high reward endeavor to get up to speed quickly in DevOps and for communicating product strategy
To be fair, iOS version increments usually aren’t rocket science if you don’t want to take advantage of all the new features right away.
Not as funny, but rail tickets are available through the same GDS. It’s not straightforward to tell them apart from flights in the system, so you can occasionally find them when searching for flights on any travel website.
Ha, that's what the spooks always say but it's pure malice all the way down.

People in control didn't end up there due their stupidity.
Last time we saw this, it was seen as a transparent ploy by incumbent ISPs double-dipping. First they make their direct customer pay for the full bandwidth once, then they make the other side pay for full bandwidth a second time.
> K-219's full complement of nuclear weapons was lost along with the vessel.

I looked for more elaboration on this point but didn’t see anything:

Presumably, they don’t just shrug and say “oh well so much for those nukes” when a loss like this happens, but I’m curious about what recovery of nuclear warheads from 18k feet on the ocean floor involves.

Anyone have any details?
Foobar has horrible UI, couldn't even make it use mouse wheel to control volume same way as Winamp. And honestly what it can bring me over software I am using daily for 20+ years just to play some songs and nothing else?
> However, contemporary applications rarely run on a single machine. They increasingly use remote procedure calls (RPC), HTTP and REST APIs, distributed key-value stores, and databases,

I'm seeing an increasing trend of pushback against this norm. An early example was David Crawshaw's one-process programming notes [1]. Running the database in the same process as the application server, using SQLite, is getting more popular with the rise of Litestream [2]. Earlier this year, I found the post "One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly" [3] quite refreshing.

Most of us can ignore FAANG-scale problems and keep right on using POSIX on a handful of machines.

[1]: https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes

[2]: https://litestream.io/

[3]; https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/27/scale/
Even when I was a student and loved a particular class, there was the constant distraction of having to attend and do homework for four or five other classes.
It's superfast on both Edge and Firefox for me.

0.5 MB e-book (one of the Culture novels).
Even assuming a complete censoring system setup and working, 99% of what is censored would be trash and spam.
Sure it's annoying, but backward compatibility has a non-trivial cost. In terms of tech behemoths, Apple and Microsoft are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I think it's a pretty easy argument to make that Apple should do a little more for backwards compatibility. But on the other hand if they had had the Microsoft commitment to compatibility, the quality and modern features of iOS would be nowhere near what they are today.
Is data mining royalty more or less dodgy than uncomplicatedly enabling them?
For those of us not deep into the technical details here: what's this mean?
>Microsoft, who have one of the best track records in the industry regarding backwards compatibility, still break countless programs with major Windows updates

Do you have any examples of these countless programs broken by updates?
Access Glitch Worlds in Super Mario Bros. Via NES Tennis
plot twist:

Static website hosted in Netlify, Github/Gitlab pages or Cloudflare.

No point using AWS - 1000 pound gorilla with dozens of services and features PLUS _unbounded_ billing - if you have only a basic use case such as static page
Article about what dual-frequency GPS is: https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-l5-precision-dual-freq...

It says that GPS has added a new band (L5) that works better indoors. Combining it with traditional L1 gives better results. L5 is not fully deployed.
Here is the video link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PDNIRZgkF9ushghXr4juH8jxV0W....
Speaking of security.. tell us, what is involved in "jailbreaking" an iphone?

you take some action, and get "root" access to the OS which allows things like bypassing the anti-theft mechanism?

Do you remember the days when all you had to do was go to a website and now your iphone was "rooted"

Microsoft should have done more to limit "backwards compatibility" as it has stung them over and over again.

Apple has a tendency of intentionally breaking things (sorry, your mac isn't supported on this version of MacOS. Apply a very small patch is suddenly is supported?).

Pretending that Microsofts legacy support created security issues while Apple doesn't have security problems on its own is misleading.
Tech unions make no sense at all. In a capitalist world there are 2 main things: the means of production and the ownership of outputs. Unions are a purely capitalist concept and exist to limit exploitation since the workers do not control the means of production or the outputs since they trade their labor for a paycheck.

Tech workers however do control the means of production since their knowledge is their own property. The computer they work on is a mere commodity and irrelevant to the means of production.

Because the means of production are owned by the worker, they demand an extremely large share of the outputs in the form of paychecks many standard deviations above average labor, first class healthcare, stock grants which has made hundreds of thousands of us wealthy, and other first class benefits.

What can a union do other than lay claim to your ownership of the means of production?! You control that and a union would love to get a piece.
Depends on what you want to do.

If you have great ideas and feel inspired you can accomplish amazing things as an individual or small team:

https://youtu.be/o3c_pJ_CLJQ
GPT-3 AI Game Prototypes
> can buy drugs with untraceable dollars you buy with crypto

This is also true of gummy worms and sea snails. Nobody argues against its possibility. Simply that for drugs, people will find a way. There isn’t a similar widely-held motivation for crypto.
I still miss it for biz travel to be honest. A typical input to a business trip is something like, "i need to be in Dallas for a 9am on Tuesday, SF for a team meet at 11 on Thursday and I have a call at 1230 the same day." Travel sites make the user futz around trying to find a schedule that works, is in policy, and isnt ridiculous. This can easily take an hour or more, even worse when multiple colleagues are involved. Much better to have a specialist do it who knows geography really well (eg Kansas City airport is not near kansas city), understands the corporate policy, knows your travel preferences etc. But no, we outsource the job to all the employees and burn their time instead. seems weird to me.
Its very well made for its genre.

I personally found 90% of the movie to be great, but was let down by the climax. Went too hard on the CGI.
IR as in infrared? Nonono, at 100 million kelvin, if I’ve done the maths right, a blackbody spectrum peaks somewhere around the x-ray band, and about one part in a trillion of the energy is in the IR band or lower.
This!

i posted above, but it is crazy people think the ultra-wealthy sit around and pay bills online.

They have assistants and accountants and they are not paying bills the size wealthy people rack up on their phones.
> there is no technical switch you can flip to ban something that can be decentralized like Bitcoin mining. That's why I used the word technical above

Fair enough. Though by that definition, hardly anything is technically banned. Many things simply practically are.
It also breaks the find button.

The item you wanted to search might get unloaded, or not loaded yet, in some bizarre attempt at optimization when the javascript library resposible is an order of magnitude larger than the actual content anyway.

My phone has gigabytes of memory. If you want to present five hundred items in a web shop, just list them and do not bother with any type of pagination, invisible or otherwise.
> arch + i3 + openrdp dev containers

Any chance you've published the build files somewhere? This sounds fantastic
Is there any evidence this was driven by "ideology"? Seems more likely this person was an opportunist or narcissist like Eric Cartman from South Park than a genuine ideological thinker.
I am going to repeat what I always say when these book threads come up:

I love all the recommendations here but please say a word or two about why you recommend said books. Sell them to me, don't make me do the work. Dumb lists of titles are so uninteresting.
afaiu this also means that every non-Ultra Apple watch will benefit from dual-frequency GPS when paired with an iPhone 14
If you look at area (pollution per capita x population), it's the second.
To clarify, I wasn't trying to say that individuals who bank with Coutts don't care about technology. The point I'm trying to make is that this is a clear example of an institution that has the means to afford a mobile app and they just choose not to perform basic maintenance, which is one of the biggest and most frequent complaints that I see around the industry.

People love to be marketed to and sold the promises of amazing technology that can do extraordinary things, but nobody wants to pay for it. And if you're a company that wants a mobile app as part of your business, then you need to understand that you gotta pay to maintain it. There's no excuse for a bank like this to skip out on app maintenance. If the wealthiest among us can't understand this, what does it say about our decision to transition towards a more technology-reliant society?
Interesting how you don’t frame it as “Apple can’t be bothered to maintain APIs and avoidably forces everyone to rewrite everything to save them the effort”.
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> how soon will we be able to generate things like entire screenplays that are indistinguishable from others written by people

Writing a typical movie that's indistinguishable from Hollywood output is probably not too far off.

But that's a problem to me because most Hollywood movies are derivative trash sequels or remakes. I'm sure AI can pull off the typical cape-shit sequel or remake.

But can AI create original characters that people feel an emotional connection to and create new stories? Would an AI get people to see the love that's been put into some characters? That's what I'm not so sure about.
1 may be true at some companies, but it’s by far not the case for the great majority of software companies. Furthermore, while it’s nice if managers are broadly familiar with software engineering, it doesn’t bring any benefits for them to code or ship software. On the contrary, they’re more likely to annoy the actual people doing those tasks.

And while the hype for 2 may have died down, it did so because OOP became the mainstream. Which means that more documentation not less is needed.

3 is not related to UML. UML is a design and documentation language, it’s not pertinent to mitigating defects.

4 is also inapplicable. UML is once again not a QA technique.

5 is also inapplicable for the same reasons as above.

Honestly it looks like you listed more or less five random things which changed since UML’s heyday…
Right-Sizing Delivery Vehicles
The U.S. military is growing concerned about UFOs. Should we worry?
I love those.
However, I stopped shooting JPEG's because of how fast machine learning is improving. The vast extra data in a 14-bit RAW will surely allow extra amazing processing in the future.
Support for Galileo and Glonass was touted maybe a decade ago, but there was never any massive improvement in accuracy. Same story?

Even worse, Apple Maps still freezes after I leave a tunnel - I’ve been through at least 3 different models in the meantime.
My leverage is getting a different job. If that's not enough to get what I want, that's too bad for me: looks like it's in everyone's interest for me to leave -- I get to go to a company that's better suited to my interest, and my company gets to hire someone that's better suited to their interests. If my company is as bad as I think it is, then all of the good SWEs will leave and they'll go out of business. If it doesn't go out of business, then it looks like I was wrong about how bad it is.

I also shudder to think of the painful position it would put the R&D team in if they had to bargain with a union every time they got a new transfer that doesn't work out: someone escalates to a manager and it gets communicated to the transfer as "hey buddy, we think it might be better if you spend some time working on ads" for the sake of saving everyone's feelings. Next thing you know, what should have been a polite reshuffling is a negotiation with a union rep...
This is all circumstantial and the judge was correct to not admit.
> most "democracies" around the world

There were no democracies in the first place (probably that's why you quoted). If you accept lobbying (legalized corruption if you ask me), and the super rich pay less tax percentually than then middle class, it's not a functioning democracy in my book.

> This makes me very worried.

We worries me it that people still believe the "democracy" narrative. It is very clear now with Putin "invading a sovereign country"... While the US has been doing this over and over since WW2, now suddenly it is a problem, suddenly Putin is a dictator, Ukraine is democratic so must be helped, bla bla. It's just the next resource war, and frankly Putin plays it nicer than the US did in Iraq.

> We are now on the downward trend of civil rights everywhere

Yups, I think the 70s/80s were the peak of human civilization, and we're going down hill now.