skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately people are only seeing the bad in this article. I do similar things with my family but not so extreme. I've really found that restaurants/food are the keys to understanding the local culture. I will never forget in Pureto Rico we found a back street lechonera, when we were getting food I asked the woman behind us what was good to eat. She helped us then we sta with her for lunch. My family ended up spending almost 2 hours talking to her over lunch and got deep in to PR politics and such. An amazing experience.

What I've found helps the most is asking questions. Any time you can ask someone a question they open up and you end up making connections and learning so much. Usually it's simple stuff like sitting at a full bar and asking the person next to you how the sandwich is, or what is on their pizza. Next thing you know you're making a friend and you're actually having real conversations with locals.
There's no real evidence Snowden was a Russian spy. The best people can come up with is that he's in Russia, ignoring that he was stopped there en route to Ecuador.
It might help to start by getting rid of the ranks and other military trappings.
> It's 2022 and we've got more than enough compute power nowadays to run in user-land

Oh hell no! User-land driver can barely handle WiFi 4 speeds (72Mbps), with terrible CPU performance (1000's of context switches and interrupts per second).

For WiFi 5 (ac), WiFi 6 (ac), you need heavy WiFi firmware involvement, multiple DMA queues and kernel driver, and even with all that it requires special care to reach target performance. There is no chance in hell to reach that kind of performance in user-land.
The feature where the cpu fans run after a webpage displays a table with about 30 items in it is pretty swell. Others might cry w.t.f. and avoid using such bad software as much as possible.

The feature where Firefox repeatedly changed your preferences and helpfully showed PDF with the JavaScript jank was pretty terrible. Changing that preference a third time won't make it any more charming. Yes, yes, the cattle are supposed to be OK with the "movement" of their cheese, move along now, nothing to see here.

> ... clothing, shaving, coffee - everything

Uh, no. Coffee in America started out cheap and for the masses (following some sort of Tea Party, I think it was) and then even more for the masses (now with pre-ground beans, instead of using the mill in the stock of your Sharps Carbine) and only very recently has there been a movement towards not-mainstream "hipster elitist circle" coffee made by purists.

> Things don't become worse

This is not what I've read; for example, British church organ making went through a rough patch around the decade of 1900 or so. With a little study of history more such examples could doubtless be found. One might even be optimistic that the modern web might pull itself out of the "big miasma"[1] that it has sunk into. But if the powers that be are blind to criticism, and go on about "tooling issues" or whatever, eh, it might be a while before changes can be made for the better.

By the way, Arnold Toynbee said some pretty funny things about blind elites.

[1] gemini://diesenbacher.net/
The issue is that I don't think it is the most effective argument for influencing others to change their mind.

Why? Because people assume that it is highly unlikely that they will be the target of such a search, assume that a warrant would be needed, and in the bigger scheme of things, a backdoor is worth having in case someone who has committed a crime or is reasonably suspected of having committed a crime can be pursued.

So there's a principles / practicality tradeoff that I think people are making.

Further, telling people that the government might spy on you with the purpose of locking you up or fining you comes across as overly paranoid. Again, not saying this hasn't happened in the past or in other regimes, but this just isn't a sizable number of people's experience (in the US or Canada for example).
NNTP is one of the most under-rated internet protocols IMO. Solved a lot of problems that are worth solving, even in domains even further from its original purpose than this. Also, if I could use a news reader for HN I could take advantage of a local killfile. ;)
you are 100% correct about retraining. Flying Blind is a great book about the MAX failures at both Boeing and the FAA that I just finished a few weeks ago, highly recommend.
Why should I need to be trained to tell when something is exceptionally good? I don't need training to know when a TV's picture looks great, or a bed is super comfy, or a knife keeps its edge forever.
No reasonable person expects an iphone to come with a building or breaker, and many are bought by the homeless. An iphone charger is part of a functioning ipohne, a wall socket is not part of any appliance.

The government has little control over what random Chinese devices you order. Countries cannot even prevent people from just mailing cocaine, imagine if every random Chinese electrical device needed to be verified to have been engineered to a certain standard. No counry on earth had 1/100th the border agents necessary to do that.
> It costs a lot of money to run your own datacenters,

If you actually do the math it is pretty much a wash vs using AWS. Yes you will pay a lot more upfront, but over a 5 year period (standard warranty length, and typical deprecation time) it pretty much evens out compared to AWS. I am sure there are many uses cases where on-prem would actually be cheaper than AWS over 5 years.

At the companies I work for the red-tape isn't nearly as bad as you make it seem (or have perhaps experienced at places you have worked). The biggest time sink right now is the ongoing supply chain issues and vendors just not having equipment, the approvals/tickets are pretty quick where I work.
One question has been bothering me: why are rooms square?

Some say that it's more economical to build this way, and that it causes less problems with aligning furniture to the wall.

But that doesn't explain billionaire houses. They certainly love spending money on them, yet despite all kinds of extravaganza, the rooms are also mostly square.

So i think it's something deeper, I think it's just too suspicious that across most modern cultures rooms are square. My theory is that it's related to the fact that we have 4 sides, so it's kind of symmetrical that we prefer to live in 4-sided things too.
Bull markets can make anyone look like a good trader. Just like the dot com bubble the same speculative bubble popped with NFTs.

The NFT market is maturing, real products, services, experiences, and games are being made now. VCs are still betting pretty big on the industry too. If I recall correctly Doodles just raised 54M a month ago.
it's all so ad-hoc and random. Firewalls have expensive and cheap operations...passing a packet? Cheap. Opening the packet and rewriting the header? Expensive.

That can be leveraged for evil.

How do you even organize that kind of random trivia?
It's not an assumption that sports is associated with general success and intelligence. I felt it was well-established enough of a fact, that there's no need to link to studies showing that. It's even the basis for public policy in my country; we do sports-based interventions for troubled youth; such programs are one of the few things that seem to actually work to keep young men going to school and improve academics.

Now if you mean I'm making an assumption about a candidate, based on nothing more than one weak indicator, well yes. That was the point of my thought experiment. If you only knew whether they played sports, while not a very good indicator, it's better than flipping a coin. Ultimately, that's what hiring is. You have some indicators like education and previous work experience, and you make an assumption based on those facts, none of which align 100% with how they're going to perform at the job you're hiring them for.
I drove a foreign friend through SouthCentral (where the riots started) in the mid 90s. She really liked the neighborhood with big streets and palm trees. I pointed out the bars on the windows and she said her homes had all had bars on the windows growing up. She also liked that there were a lot more people hanging out, until I pointed out it was a school day and the kids on the corner ought to be there instead. Also, that I was blowing stop signs didn't bother her, until I mentioned that we would be expected to buy crack, if we stopped.

Of course when I visited her home town and walked up a hill for the view one afternoon, I didn't think that much about a syringes off the side of the trail, but her family lost their minds that I had been in the most dangerous part of the city, "people are killed there all the time".

We are terrible about judging dangerous areas outside of our cultural experience. Many westerner's can't even identify a RedLight area in Asia, "Why are all those women wearing such short dresses?", "all those girls (actually boys) are really dressed up nice".
As if a Brazilian court cares about consumer protection. I wouldn't be surprised if the courts are _happy_ Apple are still not shipping iPhones with the charger, now they don't have to invent another reason to fine Apple to "protect consumers". €19M is peanuts for Apple, this is obviously not going to change their behaviour.

That fine is sure going to line a few bureaucrats' pockets though!
> Yes, but that's also true of almost all BigCo CISOs.

Yes, we've been over this. The article is about Equifax. I made a comment about Equifax. I've previously criticized other execs after data breaches or other major technical failures (Eg Boeing).

> By "AFAIK" you mean that this is just what you assume without checking, right?

No, it means I did check and she does not according to any publicly available evidence. I added the AFAIK because I cannot personally certify that her publicly available resumes are complete.

It would be extremely odd to exclude relevant work experience from public profiles, so I strongly believe that she does not have relevant experience outside of exec positions (which she shouldn't have had in the first place without IC experience and/or relevant education). But I do not personally know her so I cannot personally attest that her public resumes are complete. Therefore, I added a qualifier.

I can understand why this wording confuses you, though. It's a result of the fact that I have personal integrity and take words and accusations seriously.
> the idea of the vaccine was always to prevent bad effects of infection, not infection as such.

This is false historical revisionism. Biden[1], Fauci[2], and the media sold the public on the vaccine and justified mandates by saying it would stop the spread. Early skeptics were labeled as misinformed conspiracy theorists. It later became self-evident that the vaccine was less effective than originally thought (e.g. everyone I know who got vaccinated, including myself, still got infected). Only then did the goalposts move to "it makes infections less bad". But that is not how it was originally presented.

[1]: https://www.whio.com/news/local/exclusive-news-center-7-sits...

[2]: https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...
I was having this argument the other day with regards to the post-WW2 Nazi rocket scientists who took the US to the moon.

There's a very real possibility that liquid rockets would have remained a novelty, just another "Nazi Wunderwaffe" had they all been tried and hung for their crimes instead of pardoned and put to work. Solid rockets were (and are) more than sufficient for all military applications. But to get people into space, you need liquid engines. Would we have ever invented them independently? Very possibly not.
I get what you are trying to say here and generally I agree with the context you are trying to add, but so long as corporate entities have personhood rights, I think we should treat the putative monoliths as what they claim to be for the purposes of assigning blame, otherwise we make it too easy to escape accountability.

In other words: this was not the actions of some random low level person at Lufthansa, this was the actions of Lufthansa because it was an authorized person speaking on authorized channels. If they spoke incorrectly, that is within their power to fix and prevent from happening again.
People making these claims don't rely on evidence or even reality. It boggles my mind that people are somehow defending mass surveillance.
Any chance you could make it possible to have Circumflex open a HN link? A popup/input to paste a URL into or command line parameter that takes a URL argument? I often discover submissions via Google and would love to be able to view them in Circumflex.

clx -u --url
OR
clx -l --link
I think this perspective makes sense in both technology and business models. The "hard" part will be less about creating for a medium but the concept of a compelling narrative.
Not sure if these people are overqualified as much as the fact that people who check the box on paper are generally unqualified. Generally good people can only really do math up to a few years below the highest level that they learned in school. If you actually need someone to do basic linear algebra you probably want somehow who took classes that went well beyond the freshman/sophomore level that everyone has.
Given adequate pay there should be an infinite supply of honest people that want a career in law enforcement. Raise the pay until you get what you need. I'm sure it would still cost less than the lawsuits & other overheads of having to clean up after corrupt cops.
For anyone not aware:

* don't search for that at work

* if you search for it elsewhere, watch your volume level
Politicians can implement whatever draconian policy they want and with zero resistance by simply telling right-wing people that it's stopping the bajillion pedophiles that are around every corner in society, and telling left-wing people that it's stopping the bajillion neo-nazis that are around every corner in society.

Meanwhile your nudes are getting stolen by cops.
I'm sure I'm not alone in this: I didn't know Edward Snowden was a Russian spy.

Do you have any evidence to back up that claim?
Are you omitting intentionally that he has made profit from this, so it is a way to mine money from other suffering and from brainwashing idiots, he has a big profitable company, I think the judge evaluated the guys profits, so if he was a random idiot on the street that harass people he would not have got such a giant fine since the random idiot did not made giant profits. \\

I do not see why a real free speech advocate would protect he "right to harass/defame others for profit".
I think it might be better if instead of trying to redefine libraries and frameworks we instead used the terms impure application(frameworks) and pure application(libraries). That would make it evident as to which libraries are actually tainted with impure work and need to be redefined as impure.

When you extend this pure/impure idea all the way throughout the computing eco-system, it quickly becomes apparent that something went wrong a long time ago, and every-time, instead of untangling the mess that is pure and impure into their own buckets, we find a way to run a framework in a framework.

What is an Operating System? What is a container? What is k8s? What is a Programming Language? What is a browser? What is a website? What is next?
Gen Z survey says 87% of US teenagers own an iPhone [pdf]
I’m not a sysadmin, but want to at least read the contents page - after 20 years full-stack dev I’m painfully aware there’s a lot of things I don’t understand lower down the stack.
It's unimportant to a certain kind of IT person that's always been out there. But it's useful to people that are curious on how things work...I really don't think those people went away.
I was disagreeing with this statement:

> My modern version of this is browsing with JavaScript disabled. Most of the sites that don’t work weren’t worth my time anyway.

I think a lot of sites that require JavaScript are worthwhile.

(Whether they are all well implemented is another matter.)
That won't be necessary as fossil fuel is limited anyway. We're already past peak oil. Eventually we will have burned it all.

But I agree it's a technological bridge too far. I could see it help to fix the damage already done (and the damage to be done before we can move to fully renewable) but I don't think it's realistic.

But I don't think other mitigation methods like carbon capture are realistic either (not at a scale to actually matter).
This is really cool, but... if the whole thing is to get a demo to run, the demo in question can be viewed on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWcGhYVYXY
That sounds just like the simplest case of a PD-powered peripheral. Why would you even ask if it's possible?

The problem is that not many USB-C data ports do PD, and even when they do, they may not necessarily provide the voltage required by such disk.
Then why is there no widespread pushback against this idiocy? It's grossly unfair and seems like a lite version of some notion of serfdom, by which you belong to your emplo0yer just because you spend part of your day working for them during some time period.
Four days sounds fair if you're experienced. If you're new to TF/AWS I could easily see it taking significantly longer. If you assume IAM is the devil and refuse to learn it, it will absolutely take a while to get correct
Students using AI to write papers
Some sort of evil bee/cow hybrid with psychic (wifi) waves would work well as a logo, to help generate buzz.
This is a terrible take. First of all, the price of space launch is plummeting, making the cost of launching a fleet of sun shades drop like a rock. It may soon be veeery affordable. Like, something Elon would do just for the kicks.

Second, there are distinct advantages to higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere. It makes agriculture grow more quickly, leading to higher food yields. And the greenhouse effect is mostly independent of latitude so places like Siberia and northern Canada become habitable while the tropics do not become so hot as to be unlivable. Raising the global temp by 2 degrees could double the amount of high quality arable land suitable for dense human habitation.

Third, instead of a sunshade we could use a larger translucent film which blocks UV-B light like sunglasses. Imagine a world without skin cancer!
I imagine it's because women are overwhelmingly the victim and target of these invasions. Also please don't victim blame.
easyjet wants a word
It also lets a CFO convert capex to opex (may or may not have tax implications), and you eliminate a cost center from your balance sheets (and turns it into service payments) which makes CFOs look better, even if it's net worse for the Company
Fly.io bought Litestream
If for work your machine has installed Hubstaff or any of these hyper-invasive things that micromanagers love, then you can have the bad luck that a bad taste spicy pic get screenshot and shown in your user activity. But nobody ever should by any reason ever use these zero-privacy apps, right?
How is a voucher not collectively contributing to every child's education?
Id ties the metastability knot the AMOP way, by explicitly branching in the base case. The only instance of avoiding the metaobject recursion through the cache that I’ve encountered before this article is Tony Finch’s unimplemented(?) cobj[1].

[1] https://dotat.at/@/2007-04-16-awash-in-a-c-of-objects.html
still better than going to prison
The network stack isn't written in javascript.

The slowness of the web will not get any worse by moving the network stack to userspace. Guaranteed.
> if you shoot a man, there's a perpetrator and an end

I don’t know about this assertion. It does not ring true to real life for me.
You mean their boss.
The whole point of the article is that he prefers to "miss out"
Also, transportation of fuel by animal power was inefficient so basing the steam engine at the source of the fuel (a coal mine) was the only practical first application. It wasn't until the steam engine was perfected that it made sense to transport fuel.
Sorry, the next step after cloud isn't running your own DC's.

It's renting space from someone who is doing that for you.

The scale of cost savings/ownership as you scale kinda goes:

FaaS -> PaaS -> Cloud -> VPS -> Rented Hardware -> Rented space in DC -> Own DC.

Let's avoid conflating everything left of VPS with the most difficult form of it, because nobody is going there from nothing.
Assume people will abuse power if given the chance. Build system / rules accordingly.

That’s why the constitution is all about limiting the role of government.
Pakistan gets around this by charging you a ridiculous (I think 40%) amount of the MRSP in tax when you first connect your phone to mobile networks.

I used to buy my parents phones from the US but they have to get chinese phones with low MRSP now to not get gouged out.
well they're in the best/only(?) spot to do it -- owning the platform the end-programmer code is running on. SQLite is well built and extensible but hard to extend without the cooperation of the end-programmer, so to speak.

SQLite is unfortunately (?) kind of hard to modify for external processes and while it's built very extensibly it's often not the thing you can kind of just... turn on, if that makes sense, and SQLite lives in the address space of the executing program.

You end up with stuff like hacking LD_PRELOAD[0].

Note: Litestream (Ben) was acquihired essentially by Fly.io (so that should explain all their recent SQLite content!).

[0]: https://github.com/cventers/sqlite3-preload
It works the same way in capitalist countries - except it’s enforced with money and patriotism instead of democratically introduced, officially existing rules.
This doesn't work with a lot of people. Namely, it doesn't work with someone who has never been part of an outgroup and lives a completely harmless, mainstream life - or feels they do. They truly don't feel like they have anything to hide. They may recognize that someone who is, say, into kink or LGBTQ might be more hesitant to do so, but they haven't lived it.

There are probably millions of Americans who would, without hesitation, hand their unlocked phone to their pastor or a police officer. Your "hand me your unlocked phone" exercise won't really work.
Winelib could fit your needs, I think: : https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib_User%27s_Guide
Me as well. It has steadily gotten more aggressive though, recently becoming so bad I finally switched to using teddit.
Ah well the eu is narrow in tech. In the uk, also a european country, there are loads of roles available.
Weakening... but not down to nothing. It's a lot harder to be found guilty of libel in the US than in the UK, and that's a good thing. You still can be, though, and that is also a good thing.

("Guilty" may be the wrong word, because it's not a criminal offense, but I'm not sure what the right one is here.)
Funnyly enough Apple's Brazilian PR team completely fumbled their response to the Ministry of Justice:

> Existem bilhões de adaptadores de energia USB-A já em uso em todo o mundo que nossos clientes podem usar para carregar e conectar seus dispositivos. [1]

> Translation: There are billions of USB-A power adapters already in use around the world that our customers can use to charge and connect their devices

Those "billions of USB-A adapters" however won't work with the cable provided in newer iPhones, which is lightning and USB-C.

[1] https://g1.globo.com/tecnologia/noticia/2022/09/06/ministeri...
Everything Azure Event* is crap, the drivers are so buggy.

Use Confluent and connect it with a managed postgres on aws or gcp. If you really need more, use Google Cloud Spanner.
You're being pedantic. It's not an ideology.
Is suspect that is often the case.

Is it optimal? Nope. But if you're offering candidates / filtering them for someone... you give them what they want / like right?