skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If ads, or more ads, are bothering you that much, you're probably using youtube a lot and should subscribe to Youtube Premium. I've cancelled all my subscriptions except this one because it is an amazing value. You wouldn't believe how much better youtube is with no ads. And youtube music is pretty good as well.
Slight correction: it is true if the sender marked that payment as for "goods and services" on the confirmation screen[0]. When you are about to make a venmo transaction, there is a toggle for it. Afaik, it is fully up to the sender.

0. https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407389460499-2022-...
Does taking a break end your career?
So I've been working as a SRE in FAANG companies for the past 8 years and I'm just totally burnt out. I joined the last company a little over a year ago and just can't perform at the level I'm at (Principal).

I'm considering taking a break for a year or so. I desperately need to work on my health.

I'm concerned that if I take that break that I'll never be able to get another job, especially with the economy tanking and all the layoffs.

Is this a valid concern?

I've been trying to find a less stressful position, but I haven't had a single phone screen for the past 47 applications I've submitted these past 6 weeks.

Any advice would be wonderful. Thank you.
It’s so sad.
Association of Covid-19 with New-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
LibrePlanet 2023: Let's chart the course together
It’s not insane, they explain their decision very logically.
"The company we got it from certified it was real" - supplier

Court time

"Prove my client knew it was fake, remember innocent until proven guilty + beyond reasonable doubt" - defense lawyer

Acquitted

Court costs for US government - 5 million

"Let's add new regulations to make sure they have to test parts" - some person

"We need to stop big government" - Republicans

"There's too many regulations how can I stay in business, guess I'll raise prices for the government" - supplier

"Why does this part cost so much, corruption, conspiracy, blah" - hackernews comment
It's so vague and weasel-wordy - if it's genuinely 'anti-racist' then (why mention it‽ and) it doesn't disproportionately affect white people, or anyone (race-based).

I agree the implication seems very much like an intended 'affirmative'/'positive' action role-selection policy though. (I think such things are stupid - whether hiring/firing/anything - and bad for everybody, but I am white, so I try to keep that a 'lightly held' opinion.)

In the UK the law is similar to your description, but large companies also have to publish stats, and the implication seems pretty much like quotas are good/the law, it's hard to imagine anyone/entity being found guilty of (as-written) illegal discrimination on the 'positive' side that tilts you more towards balance, IMO. (IANAL.)
This is obviously not true, unless I'm misunderstanding something. I'm not a twitter scientist, but I don't know what an "account name" is, unless it's the twitter handle. The twitter handles of blue checks are verifiably not required to have any relationship to a name that anyone knows them by, so are not a "verified name."
Monzo (UK) doesn't allow magnetic stripes in ATMs unless you enable them in the app.

Chip and pin and NFC terminals have been a standard in the UK for over a decade now. I wouldn't be surprised if magnetic stripe readers still exist only for US tourists.
A bunch of them already show up in languages like rust. Generics are the more ergnomic impl of HKTs and with ownership after you pass an entity it off to another context, you cant use it again, which I guess isnt exactly linear per se
Without pronouncing any judgement (as if there are any options here) just commenting on technical side, I wonder, given the age of the design, if the original components weren't available anymore, and somebody just substituted the stuff with whatever closest was available. That reminds about how at the end of the 1990ies some electronics components sent to the space station Mir to make repairs were "sourced" from a large flea market in St.Petersburg ("Avtovo" for who knows/remembers, had a large electronics and computer section).
In the context of multiple other statements by Mudge, the pattern is one of Twitter repeatedly expressing indifference to concerns, consequences, and summoning of political will and corporate capital to address any such concerns.

Your focus seems preternaturally narrow and short. Much as that of Twitter's executive staff.
ESP32 Adds Bluetooth to an iPod Nano
If they ceased production, demand wouldn't disappear. The customers would just shop elsewhere, at a less environmentally-conscious business.
But smartphone cameras use telecentric lens…
I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion, but let's not conflate "natural" with "inherently better." After all, asbestos is a naturally occurring "fiber".
It is there to process last <32 elements. The vectorized loop processes up to 32 elements per iteration. The iteration does not happen if there are less than 32 elements left, because it wants to load 32 bytes as input. This is very typical in vectorized loops - process N elements per iteration and second loop that does tail of <N elements.
At what point? How does that eliminate the national debt? How do people get into houses?
Nothing here suggests that those counterfeit components caused a malfunction.
A hotel I stayed at actually made an impression from my card in... I'm going to say maybe 2015 (I'm pretty sure this is before Trump, but it's after Marvel started re-publishing Miracleman). Hotel somewhere in the middle of Nottingham. Room nice enough, but no actual card machine.
Yes, his 2014 prediction was that they would invade the rest of Ukraine by end of 2021.
Ruby is quite perfect for simpler, web based kinds of things from my experience. BUt one thing that always puts me off is that `start, do, end` syntax
I think it is hard to ensure simultaneously the integrity/consistency and confidentiality of the electronic vote. "low-tech" paper ballots are easy to understand (including for elder/non-tech people), and make it more difficult to implement a massive fraud at scale. (Yet on the other hand, I admit that electronic vote makes it easier to implement more sophisticated voting systems, such as Condorcet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method) or Cardinal voting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_voting)).

Notice that on the other hand it would be comparatively easier to make an electronic registration system ("X has voted", which does not require the same confidentiality), which then could enable people to vote from any voting office within their country rather than having to go to the specific voting office they are registered to.
> it's just a part of the calculus

The argument seems to be "a little discrimination is okay". So, I guess the question would be, what is an acceptable coefficient for the race variable, for it to be okay?

"Part of the calculus" implies there is a specific point at which racial discrimination stepwise goes from bad to not-bad, and I'm curious what that weighting value is.

Obviously if I institute a total no-blacks policy, that's a problem. But what if I only mark down black people, say, 20%? Are EEOC investigators going to rubber-stamp my racist employment decisions then?
Treats mentioned here ...

https://wantremote.com/company_for_remote_job/wikimedia-foun...

... include "reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more"

This is a fine thing I'm sure, but I wouldn't want it to be paid for by Indian or African donors worried Wikipedia will disappear, or start charging a subscription, if they don't donate.

So fundraising appeals in the developing world in particular should be dialed right down:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...
> I recently signed up first time after like 8 years to follow a handful of interesting accounts

I've done that a few times over the years and have always later ended up deleting my account for the same reason I didn't have one in the first place. Then I realized how silly it is to sign up to follow someone when you can just bookmark their profile and check up on them every now and then—the same way anyone not using RSS would "follow" the Web sites they were interested in ~15 years ago.
The overall endpoints for this discussion are "no oversight, laissez faire all the development!" and "no development, snooze forever."

The endpoints suggested by the comment I responded to were "impact study" (with risks of indefinite timeline) and "greenlight checklist."

I responded with this suggestion: greenlight checklist, with the option for impact study to justify exceptions to that checklist. Would-be builders get a choice between the two.

The reasoning is that any greenlight checklist that's sufficient to do the job of custom impact studies will probably need to impose requirements that may not be practically necessary for every project. So, let people choose to check all the boxes (even some that might not be strictly necessary in order to avoid negative impacts) OR have a custom impact study done in order to receive specific exceptions.

How is that not middle ground in between either set of endpoints?
No, because the alternative is customers going to another company for a similar product. Customers don’t buy jackets they don’t need, so taking Patagonia off the table would in fact probably increase the overall impact to the environment since they’re the best in the market. Analogy: imagine in Tesla stopped production tomorrow. Would people stop buying cars?
For Mastercard:

> The magnetic stripe will start to disappear in 2024 from Mastercard payment cards in regions, such as Europe, where chip cards are already widely used. Banks in the U.S. will no longer be required to issue chip cards with a magnetic stripe, starting in 2027.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/magnetic-s...

I think it has been over a decade since my last magstripe transaction (in a convenience store I frequented that switched to chip readers in 2010).
Cool read, thanks. I worked in Mercury and all over the test site for years and miss all that history and stories from the cave dwellers.
QR code works similarly to barcodes at the super-market. Every QR code consists black squares and dots and they represent different pieces of information. When scanned, unique pattern on the barcode translates into human-readable data. This transaction happens in seconds.
For sure, and I think even a cashless restaurant would take cash rather than let you leave for free. Presumably the ones truly refusing cash are the type that take payment before you incur any food debt.
Brand new Visa Debit card from Chase Bank. I’d have thought it was one of the good ones. I should say I’m actually not using the official Apple magnetic case but the Popwallet brand which includes a little finger holder thing. Perhaps they’re using more powerful magnets than apple.
I'd love to see what happens if I eat a meal, then say, "Sorry, I only have cash."

They can be mad about it, but I don't think I'm breaking any laws by not having their preferred payment method to pay that debt, right? They can even ban me from the restaurant but—for that meal—I can't get charged with theft of services (or whatever the innkeeper laws are that relate to this situation)
Something other than the church or representative government for sale to the highest bidder.
Fair enough but policy is still standing and being made based on these beliefs. Do you believe we will finally see reversals?
I was referring more to countries that host US military bases / allow USAF flyover in peacetime, and which aren't currently considered Starlink-enabled. The Philippines, for example.

> Which isn't to say that they would operate those systems (or starlink) in peacetime without the approval of the host country

To the original point, Starlink wouldn't be claiming that "Starlink is now on all seven continents" unless somebody (e.g. the USAF) was at least conducting connectivity tests in these countries, if not putting Starlink into active use — which would, again, be much to the chagrin of local RF engineers, who had.
If being skeptical of technological advancement identified as such isn’t a hallmark of HN, nothing is IME. So much so that it has a reputation for being aggressively unkind and judgemental. But GP was neither.
This could be very bad for the people in charge. A metallurgist got 10 years for falsifying reports of steel robustness recently[1], and another 15 years for uniforms made in China. Selling counterfeits to the military could even get you jailed on treason charges.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59186655
[2] https://futurism.com/the-byte/fake-military-gear-china
On Sam Harris's latest podcast he talks with Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch and Jonah mentioned that The Dispatch is looking to hire a reporter who is focused on environmentalism but not climate change because not every environmental issue, let alone every storm or heat wave, is about climate change.

Hearing that was a breath of fresh air to me -- I miss the old days when learning about an environmental initiative meant learning about something other than climate change.
Here in Brazil we have a eletronic voting system. Pretty much zero transparency, and ran on Windows until around 2008 (i think). Sad thing is, this debate turned into a political discussion and not a technical one, and the thing that makes me sad about it is to see programmers, who knows almost every system are vulnerable, defending a system this exploitable just to prove a political point.
Corruption and conspiracy resulting from greedy people. Solve for the basest instincts and watch crime evaporate.
Literally 4chan 101.
Onionmx: Mail Delivery over Tor
why google if the docs are great and the lang server/IDE actually shows good docs + examples on hover
Disclaimer: I am building a no-code, SQL-focused data pipeline platform to improve the experience around data pipelines, see my profile for more. The idea is to replace all of Fivetran, DBT, Airflow and more with a single platform that can handle all with no code.

I like the fact that the articles the author has are walking the reader through their own journey, along with the learnings and opinions after the trial periods. I am curious to hear how Dagster will evolve for their usage.

One of the things that has been a big discussion point among data folks that I have been talking to is that people that haven't done ops before underestimate the amount of operations that go into managing an Airflow instance, there are still quite a lot of stuff to be figured out:
- how do I get my pipeline code there?
- where do I execute them?
- how do I setup my development environment?
- how do I make sure the platform is up and running?
- how do I know if a task fails?
- where do I store my logs?
- how do I scale my setup?

If you are using a managed solution like MWAA or Cloud Composer, some of these questions might go away, but some aren't. As it stands today, Airflow is a powerful but hard-to-use technology; in my opinion, it is less of a tool that is supposed to be used directly by data engineers / analysts, and more of a platform that should enable easier-to-use platforms for its internal users.

In that sense, I believe Dagster is hitting the right chord: they focus on the pain points in DX for Airflow and similar solutions, they have figured out how to do development branches, they are focusing on assets rather than tasks, and they are constantly improving their product as far as I can tell from the outside. However, it is still a platform that you have to have engineers writing code for it: asking a data analyst to write python code to schedule a few SQL queries still adds a huge barrier to entry.

I am excited to see all the innovation that is happening in this space. I find the point about people getting used to the baggage around Airflow to be a quite real problem, and I am very happy to see solutions like Dagster are gaining speed. All in all, it is a very large space and there are many different problems that need to be solved to add the data abilities larger organizations have to smaller companies with limited budgets.
Its illegal in Massachusetts
Are all your comments like this? Would love to train a holistic scenario condensation language model to turn complex stories into minimized sensibile lines. :-] (e.g. wouldn't it be nice for the average voter to have access to condensed information like this?)
Ask HN: Where’s a good place to buy The Dragon Compiler Book?
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools 2nd edition to be exact.

It doesn’t appear to be cheap, and wherever it is cheap it’s some alternate edition missing chapters, or is a stack of pages requiring a binder.

Do I really have to pay like $200 or look at a pdf on my laptop?
There are restaurants where you do not receive the food until after you pay.
They can’t have their own JIT. If you use SFSafariViewController or WKWebView you’re using Safari and it’s standard JIT. But you have no access to it outside normal JS so it’s no more exploitable than the Safari app would be.

I believe the JIT runs in its own process too.
>According to Air Force Research Laboratory slides dated Aug. 3, 2020, however, the service suspected that several transistors and microchips inside the sequencer were fake

>The lab also found signs that Teledyne had destroyed evidence related to the case, the lawsuit said. Teledyne appeared to have replaced five microchips on the sequencer before sending it to the lab

3rd world tier corruption and fraud. Based on the number of failed and severely cost overrun military projects I'd say it applies to way more than just this situation
You probably wouldn't want to use an iphone for a bike computer anyway. The vibrations of being mounted to handle bars can apparently damage the cameras. Much better to just spend a small amount on an actual bike computer, these days they all connect to apps on your phone can can make use of real maps navigation and show notifications from your phone.
A lot of people are going to be very hungry, between the roughly 50% reduction in food produced this year vs last and the huge amounts that will spoil when it gets left in warehouses unable to get transported.
I saw a similar situation once where a funded company hired "the smartest" people with the downside that they felt they had to let them do what they wanted to be competitive. The downside was you got people who wanted to do what they wanted instead of work on business-relevant stuff (almost with the kind of academic allergy to something "applied") which ends up being a pretty entitled, political and disagreeable group, and that once you've given people the freedom, it's almost impossible to go back and ask them to do something.
I understand but thought concurrency was larger than “web component “. I guess in the context of EE, it is not and I’m confusing it with java.util.concurrent
I apologize, I meant "I contactless my money out of the ATM".
here's jpmorgans own api:
https://www.jpmorgan.com/solutions/treasury-payments/insight...

and the developer portal:

https://developer.jpmorgan.com/

Other big corp banks have similars. A lot of these TMS platforms just integrate into these banks APIs and ERP systems (Oracle Cloud, SAP, etc) and glue workflows together.
Does this mean that from now on every time I buy an item from Patagonia I am effectively donating to an environmental cause?
They just replaced the Android app with a react native monstrosity so slow I can read a page while it loads a conversation.
H&M will give you credit for bring clothing of any kind. AFAICT both are just a way to get you into the store so you'll buy more stuff

https://www2.hm.com/en_ca/sustainability-at-hm/our-work/clos...
The average person doesn't get hyped up over it every year either, but once you are 3-4 years behind, the latest one looks real nice. I'm on the 13 pro and the 14 pro is not compelling but stack up a few years of the same scale of upgrades and I'll be sold.
Doesn’t it make more sense to only send money to repositories that signed up in the first place?

That might mean the first people to register get a whole bunch of money at the start, but that just seems like an incentive to sign up.
I hadn’t thought of that but it’s an excellent observation and would make perfect sense.

Outside of that it’s kind of left-field and out of character for them to give users a way to make things work worse.
I'm seeing a few posts here that basically they have to do this because it's an ad service, it's for shareholders, etc. When are we going to blame Zuck and his unique brand of dishonesty and lying to everyone? They've misled their own investors and advertisers, at what point do we stop saying "with anyone else at the helm it would be the same" and recognize his character issues?
This is actually a great way of looking at it.

Patagonia here is the exception, that's why we're all here talking about it!

I didn't want to give my bit of power to my health insurer, but guess what, I have to have healthcare to live and there's effectively one local hospital I can choose.

I didn't want to give my ~~~bit~~~ hefty chunk of power to the company that gatekeeps the patent on insulin, but I really didn't have much choice on that one.

I didn't want to give my bit of power to the telecom conglomerate, but did I have a choice? I need to be online to participate in today's society.

I didn't want to give my bit of power to Google, but... uhh actually I didn't give it to them, they stole it by spying on me.

The reality is that concentrations of power that are inherent to our system of free exchange inevitably congeal into something that looks a lot less free. All of these examples (and there are so many, most of our economy is like this!) don't really represent individual value functions, because when power gets concentrated enough, it becomes possible to take choice away.
I think it’s easy to forget the supply chain challenges and how Apple didn’t really have an issue with them for iPhone.

Wall St demands iPhones. Any trip-up from a supply chain issue would kill the stock. I’m sure the company is being very conservative.
The experience isn't and wasn't poorly designed, though. It could surely be improved, but we're incredibly far from "Wikipedia dies through neglect" territory.
Try sending a big message or file over 8Mb.
Paperless voting is asking for trouble, but electronic voting with a paper trail and an audit procedure is fine with me. It would be handy if you also have predetermined procedures for how to handle election irregularities.
Why not say "we ensured our layoffs were not affected by racist or gendered bias."? Why exclude non-minorities from the policy of non-discrimination?

Imagine a company writes, "We avoided laying off Latino men for racist or bigoted reasons." But not Latino women? But not African Americans? What is the message behind limiting this assurance of non-discrimination to a particular group?

I agree that people interpreting this as Twilio announcing that it explicitly discriminated against non-oppressed groups are reading way too deep into it. But it was a pretty dumb thing to put in a layoff note.
Heehee, my first thought reading the headline was Tony Levin's bald head...
Apple has been making the cameras protrude out more every year for a while now.
I use this api, and it doesn't allow you to have a non-world map. it just lets you plot things
Thanks!

Are you a 'designer' in the sense of UX, or visual design?

I (sort of) get how usability happens, but have less experience on the visual design, layout, color, graphics side.

Like are you able to sit down in an afternoon and convert a page with working UX into a consumer-ready interface? Is there standard prep that goes into this like design systems or theming?