skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The responses so far say so much about the HN audience. As a mobile app designer, developer, I'll throw in some higher level tools that I love:
- Figma
- Slack
- VS Code
- DataGrip (most JetBrains tools really)
- Photoshop
- 1Password
- Lightroom (Classic, of course)
- UBlock Origin
- Gusto (makes my life easier as a startup founder)
I 100% agree with you and it's what I advise in the Scaling chapter of my Deployment from Scratch book.

This is especially true when you realize you want a QA env, US/EU env, staging, etc. If it's one server (or server and DB), it's much much easier to create more environments.
It's not falling apart. It's expressing its final form, which is an all encompassing world government with the duty of tracking the ownership of every molecule of matter on the planet, and of enforcing every contract without judgement on its contents or the conditions under which it was signed.

Libertarians are people who believe that markets are natural, like trees. Markets are not natural, they are arbitrary sets of rules that people agree to abide by in order to have the agreements they make within those rules enforced by whatever institution is dictating those rules. Markets are an endorsement by the powerful, where at the least the loss of that endorsement will get you ejected from the market, but at the most it could get you broke and imprisoned.

So the fact that they don't recognize what markets are, and think that they can be free (either as in speech or beer) forces them to make governments the ultimate market, but their desire for unlimited freedom and autonomy (or rather limited only by your property) forces them to deny governments the right to make rules about their own markets.

Instead, they revert to natural rights, natural freedoms, natural markets, social Darwinism, etc. Mysticism. That's why when you scratch a Libertarian for long enough, you eventually either find a blood & soil racist or an ex-Libertarian.
Does Firefox have a future?

I'm writing this from Firefox, having used it ever since the days when Firefox releases used to have launch parties, and tabs was the revolutionary killer feature.

Let me rephrase the question: does Gecko/Spidermonkey have a future?

I think it's clear the Firefox branding will live on, since it is Mozilla's crown jewel.

But in today's landscape, you can target WebKit (Apple) and V8/Blink (Chrome) and you've surely covered 98% of all use cases.

Surely these competing engines have far, far more resources pouring into them than Mozilla can afford.

Since the balance of power has shifted towards the owners of these huge players, how can Mozilla keep its browser engine competitive, given that all these new features (such as wasm) surely require massive investment?

I know these questions have been asked already a million times, but it keeps me wondering. Will Firefox eventually need to become a fork of Chromium like everyone else, just to keep pace? Can Mozilla keep its entire browser stack afloat in these shifting currents? (pardon the gross metaphor)
If QAnon, election deniers, and their backers - including the former President - becomes mainstream, we are all in deep shit.

https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/qanon-trump-conspiracy-the...
Edgium is much closer to Chrom(ium) than Safari/WebKit, I'd say. If Safari used Blink and V8 I'd agree with you
Cloning Jony Ive’s voice with Large Language generative TTS
That should be POSIWID and POBIHIU, I suppose...
Is their Google search deal (~$400m a year) that expires next year being renewed? If not, might explain some of the desire to bite the hand that has fed it for so long.
Corbet repeatedly used the word “occasionally,” sometimes even with emphasis.

What I’m saying is that the current situation is that most of the for-pay content of LWN is available on HN which is at odds either with his wish that it be occasional or with my understanding of English.
I work on the game, and can confirm this technique is used wherever it makes sense!
> The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) will not have continuous access to the cameras but will be able to tap into the network under certain conditions, such as during the investigation of crimes including misdemeanors and property crimes. The SFPD will also be able to access private camera footage during large-scale public events such as protests, even if there is no suspicion that a crime has taken place

So, they basically have real-time access all the time, specifically during protests.

Keep in mind the board of supervisors is voted in by the citizens of San Francisco. This is what the citizens here want.

I used to be angry at the police for wanting such things. Then I realized that at my job I like things being efficient. Someone else has to keep the police at bay.

I also used to get mad at committees, like the board of supervisors, because they have the power to dole out power. But, like the police, what motivates them is what voters want.

That last leaves the voters. A persons position on crime really depends on how they interpret the data this dashboard: https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/stay-safe/crime-data/crim... The citizens of San Francisco chose, based on their perception of this data, that giving more power to police surveillance was a tool they needed.

I have no solutions. Everyone will see that dashboard in a different light. Rather, the only solution I can provide is a boundary: the job of the police should be hard. If it is not, there is a hack in both your enumerated and perceived rights.
no - there are consent decrees and internal legal agreements that you and I will never see, in effect now. Combine that with soft-pressure in thousands of (real) ways..
Spend sometime helping people worth helping. Go read books for the blind or something. It changes your perspective.
Start going into therapy? Strangers on the Internet are not going to help you much.
> ...events like this make me wonder all the more if Signal is really being run from Fort Meade.

Which events are you referring to here?
What you describe is a problem with your thinking. Speak to a clinical psychologist and ask them for help. This sort of issue is their bread and butter.
The bill only allows enforcement by the Texas Attorney General, who can decide who to go after. Creating an over-broad law and then giving someone the power to selectively apply it is putting a huge amount of power in their hands.

Do you think the AG is going to go after companies censoring their political enemies? Of course not - this is about ensuring their allies are protected only. Moreover because the law is so nuts, companies can't "just" comply with the law, they actively need to court the state AG's favour so they don't get sued.

This is't about making Wikipedia illegal - it's about making everything online illegal so they can control internet discourse.
Self destructive behavior can be a great candidate for therapy. It may help you uncover why you feel the need to sabotage yourself. Is it insecurities? Is it past trauma? Something else? Good stuff to talk through with someone.
I tried to invent docker and kubernetes with LXC back when docker was super alpha and kubernetes was barely a fetus. I failed, obviously, but learned a lot. It's kinda the only reason I managed to pick up kubernetes later on, honestly. Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing is an asset.
> The solution is simple

Oh, so just solve the problem that people since Edison have been trying to solve.

So simple!
I was thinking more of things like the "windows, icons, menus, pointer" that Apple tried to sue Microsoft for.
Or at least asked you outright when installing a new one; "Please choose a default app to perform this function: Password Management" and then show you a list of currently installed ones (+ the newly installed one of course)…
Many of us use more than one (especially shared use with work) and the default behavior seems correct.
The PLATO system had online user feedback in the 70s, and users were able to add content, including making their own lessons and games. Helps that it was an educational system, running on connected networks at different universities.
> The sunk cost fallacy is real

I agree. That's why after deciding I wasn't having enough fun-to-bugs ratio in CP2077 about halfway through the game, I gave up and played something else. I've been playing quite a bit of No Man's Sky as of late. It's also buggy, but more fun. Satisfactory is a delightfully tight experience. Kerbal Space Program hides its bugs delightfully behind the overall "Failure is the point" game mechanics. Or I could play basically anything on a Nintendo Switch (main console, not the store) and get a nearly bug-free experience because Nintendo enforces some pretty stringent quality standards.

Everyone's preferences are different. Me, I don't get the buzz from the AAA-ness of a CP2077 to offset the annoyance of the underlying mechanics being kinda boring and kinda buggy.

... I'm not sure what to make of the comparison of playing videogames (an experience I spend double- or triple-digit dollars on for entertainment) to the experience of chores in real life, so I'm setting that aside.
Please provide evidence, not assumptions.
This “Mic Check AI” - I actually just want to try this one feature.

I never know what gain I should set on my XLR mic + USB audio interface and I also don’t know how Teams/Webex will do to my signal. Is it compressing my signal? Noise gating it? No idea!
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"

Would you fly on an airline that followed this principle?

Wait till the engine fails before fixing it.

In the air.
Sourdough is made with yeast
> Do either of them support the concept of “layers” like Docker does?

Never used LXD, but LXC does not have layers per-se.

I usually run LXC containers on a btrfs filesystem, which easily supports snapshots and sending containers to other container hosts via "btrfs send | ssh otherhost btrfs receive".

If you are treating your servers like pets (and not cattle) LXC is a very convenient means to consolidate servers onto fewer hardware systems.
that's a good question -- I wonder if I still can
dont forget that anyone who died from the flu was tagged as covid death. just look at flu death in 2018 and during covid
> I guarantee you that religious funding can't hold a candle to funding available to the porn industry.

Got any evidence to support this claim? Seems like the opposite would be true, and even if not, still a shit ton of money available to fund some relatively simple studies.
You can always add an exciting techno soundtrack or just get a mic, a mechanical keyboard, and a loud mouse and you can pull in the ASMR fans.
I'm not even sure what dystopia to place this in – if they were actually tough on crime, then this would make more sense... but like this, when they don't do anything with ample video footage?
Being educated and tech-literate means that you should try to think more critically than "Facebook bad." You brought up Cambridge Analytica as your scandal of choice, which is the most newsworthy scandal, but the one where Facebook is the least guilty. Everyone had the same access to the APIs that Cambridge Analytica did and Facebook had shut down those APIs before the story broke out. Acting on instinct will only lead to regulation will won't be effective at stopping what you're trying to stop, cause needless side effects, and undermine your political credibility to push for changes that solve the important issues.
The simple answer is that we try to keep most of the documentation (layers 2 and 3) in the same repository as the code itself, though that in itself is no guarantee that the documentation is up-to-date. Layer 1 documentation mentions explicitly which changes are part of which project, so the project timeline (which is external to the development team) should show if a mentioned project is supposed to have been completed already.

There are no airtight rules other than being mindful of your own processes. Our workflow generally looks like this:

Changes to level 1 documentation are done by the product or project manager in preparation for the work, so it's pretty easy to make that part of the documentation lead, rather than lag, the implementation. It's stored in the project wiki, rather than with the code. But that wiki is still git-based, which means we have an easily auditable changelog to check when a particular piece of information was last updated.

Layer 2 changes are usually done by (senior members of) the development team, but it's done in the week before the implementation starts. Since we use those diagrams to communicate with the rest of the development team about the changes required, the documentation updates happen rather organically.

I find that layer 3 documentation updates tend to be the hardest to capture in a process, because the code itself is much more in flux than the higher layers. What helps us here is that our developers know that the codebase they're working might not be worked on again until months in the future, so it's in their own interest too to keep the documentation correct. That said, we do have an explicit check for documentation updates in our project delivery checklist.

The most challenging situation is when we discover during development that an architecture redesign is required, but most of the time an architecture adjustment also means we need to re-evaluate the workload and possibly the delivery date, which basically means our process resets and we re-involve the product or project manager. Funnily, this then usually results in more documentation rather than less...

We sometimes also have a 2-person development team for small changes (never 1 person though), in which case all three layers are handled by the same people. But because they're updated in different stages of the project, and because they're already used to the same workflow in larger teams, the small team size doesn't affect the documentation quality as much as I initially feared.
I'm pretty sure nobody has argued Vietnam was a good idea since 1975.
Isn't Microsoft more into F#?
> a one-year pilot program that will allow police to monitor footage from private cameras across the city with the camera owners’ consent. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) will not have continuous access to the cameras but will be able to tap into the network under certain conditions, such as during the investigation of crimes including misdemeanors and property crimes

Does anyone here know the details of how this consent works and what specific cameras are part of this program?
Absolutely spot on. What is the consequence of the fact that in the US there is virtually no correlation between the opinions of the bottom 80% poorer citizens about a given bill, and the likelihood that bill is adopted? While the correlation for the 0.1% wealthier is nearly perfect? Is it less harmful than having to slip a tenner to low-level officials.
Definitely, IRS is a force to reckon with.
I’ve been seeing fly.io all over this site, definitely have to check them out going by their blog posts.
> Early Internet still reflected that world order. It was a one way street in which the people consumed what the corporations produced. There weren't even comment forms under any article in any prominent publication. After all, who are you, a lowly pleb, to comment under an article in which a glorious, 6-figure columnist from the 'right background' wrote. Know your place.

I think this is a fair statement for the world wide web (although there were pretty notable standouts, particularly in the very late 90s), but every other protocol was far more democratized with very little corporate influence, and those protocols were far more relevant in 1994 than they are now.
So, can I take an orexin pill and stay awake? The obvious question, not addressed by the article.

Googling, I see only dire reviews of orexin tablets, usually due to the other ingredients. What gives?

I have episodes of dire fatigue, and a way out of that mess would be very welcome.
I have Crohn's disease. My gut has been fucking with me since I was 12. I never trusted the bastard, and never will.
First of all: I don't think you're crazy. I also don't think WhatsApp is the one leaking your data.

My counter argument: I use WhatsApp all the times and nothing I talk about on it ever shows up in my ads. A hefty amount of adblock may help here, as does the fact I live in the EU where the worst tracking is illegal.

Something on your phone is probably leaking data. Most suspect are third party keyboards, accessibility apps, apps with access to your photos and videos, or even Google Assistant. Third party keyboards can easily track what you're typing, accessibility apps can parse what you're saying or typing, and Google Assistant will take a screenshot of your current screen when you invoke it.

Other options are clipboard scanning (i.e. on older operating systems) and perhaps link preview services breaking out of e2e.

Finding what app is selling your information is difficult. For starts, you don't know which device is leaking. Ad companies are smart enough to see the connection between you and your wife. Her search results alone can probably make ads appear on your device!

Also consider the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon. You can only track special topics if you track the topics of all ads and apply some statistical analysis. If you get blasted with ads all day, you'll notice the ones that you're on the lookout for. Pausing your scrolling through the app to take a screenshot will then reinforce the e-stalkers' algorithms.

If you have two old phones lying around, try repeating this trick with phones that are completely wiped, without any Google account logged in, with firewalls to block anything but WhatsApp from talking to the internet. I bet you'll find that those devices won't generate ads.

Why do I think that? For starters, enthusiasts decompile and analyse WhatsApp APK files all the time, in search for rumours and beta features to report about on tech news sites. If at some point WhatsApp added a secondary information channel about your messages (whose encryption is reasonably proven), reporters would've made a HUGE story out of it. A single line of decompiled code can send tech outlets into a frenzy of Meta accusations and let loose the EU's regulatory commissions for lying to customers. It'd be the scoop of the year!

Personally, I think "Google's keyboard or Instagram's gallery scanner is leaking my data" is a lot more likely than "WhatsApp has never been analysed enough to find the magic leaking code".
"prepayment penalty" or I guess limit is the term to look up in your contract

My experience (California) is that I didn't have one.
Jane street specifically recommends not interviewing in ocaml :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel
At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record
> Either it's two players with 51% and 49%, in which case the 51% is "most common,"

In a market the size we're talking about, 51% and 49% are effectively the same as 50-50. I think it's reasonable to say neither is the "most common". They're used equally.

And I don't know the margin of error on the figures, but I'm sure it exceeds 1% anyway.
To be fair, most of this work load doesn't exist in a well functioning Society. Police serve to plug holes and fix cracks in the damn that is Civil Society.

Their tools and tactics simply can't hold back a catastrophic failure anymore than an engineer with a shovel.

In a functioning Society, 99% of the crime prevention is done by citizens. This takes the forms of community support, cohesion, self-respect, and having something to lose.
Perhaps the female company president felt it was not wise? I was CEO and agreed.
> In other news, a former CCP top government minister was just sentenced to death for corruption. Incentives at work.

This doesn’t mean much. Selective enforcement of anti-corruption rules is a common method for national elites to eliminate potential rivals. It’s especially common in regimes with pliable judicial systems.
I know a number of people who decided that they were introverts in the last 5-8 years, but what I notice is that they don't seem to respond to human interaction (3 to 5 people) with tiredness, but with excitement. Meanwhile they talk about being depressed.

Certainly, I have times that I don't like being around people (when I'm trying to get work done) and times that I do (when I want to be entertained/drink/celebrate). I'd be surprised if many people don't have such a conditional response. There was a lot of promotion of introversion as a personality type within the geek community not long after social media became completely ubiquitous. I can easily see people getting tired of dealing with people on line and then not wanting to deal with people as much in person, but that doesn't seem like introversion to me, it just sounds like too much FB/Insta/Reddit.
As an actual SF resident, this is categorically wrong. The SFPD, pre and post Chesa has been utterly useless, which is supported by historical crime and arrest statistics. In fact, when Chesa was still DA he had to assemble his own team to act on the fencing ring after the SFPD refused to shut it down.
I figure the cache is going to be your largest disadvantage, and is the primary reason CPUs don't physically implement all address bits and why canonical addressing was required to get all this off the ground in the first place.
The Cheese stands alone.
Guix for Development
Based on the release notes, the Typescript team is working on faster type-checking as continuous goal and has many big long-term irons in that fire. Though a lot of the more recent work has gotten into the performance of projects already scaled into project references and incremental builds, so it may not yet be obvious how much work has gone into performance if you consider your projects small/medium-sized.

It can sometimes be quite an effort to refactor a medium sized project into project references with incremental builds and there's currently no obvious moment where Typescript knows to tell you "you've got a 'large' project now, if you split this workspace into multiple tsconfig projects that smartly reference each other and switched to incremental build flags you'd get a bunch of performance improvements". So that's still a matter of figuring it out for your own projects if you can take advantage of that (and how you would take advantage of that).
From your description it's not clear whether you lack the skills to communicate with other people, or you simple choose to ignore them.
> They just don't take action because the DA won't take action.

But they were already successful in their “get paid while on strike” protest to overthrow the D. A. in favor of their favored alternative, so shouldn’t their defenders at least come up with a new excuse for their continued nonfeasance?
I’m genuinly curious - how did you „solve” memory safety issues in C/C++?
Seems like it's going to be used to identify protesters. I certainty wouldn't assume that just because arrests aren't being made nobody will be doing anything with the footage.
Microsoft got smacked because they weren't playing ball with Washington politics, they weren't bribing enough congressmen nor capitalizing on their market dominance to make themselves strategically useful to national interests. Since then, big tech companies have known to grease the gears and befriend power brokers in Washington. They now contribute to political campaigns, and have made themselves useful to the defense and intelligence sectors.
> Doesn't it make pretty intuitive sense?

It may seem intuitive, but it does not match what happens in the #1 economy which issues the reserve currency of the world.

> A decrease in the price of money is inflation.

Federal Reserve sets price of money by manipulating interest rates. Federal Reserve is increasing interest rates and consumer prices and producer prices are increasing. This may contradict your belief about what causes increased prices.