skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Non-paywall : https://archive.ph/ArNai
COVID certainly was the thing that made this arrangement possible for me, though it's an open question how sustainable it is. Every all-hands for two years now has started with our CEO telling us how "energizing" it is to be back in the office. Things are a little different for us Linux weenies (sorry, I mean DevOps professionals) but I still kind of see the writing on the wall. That said, the housing situation is such (I brought enough Big City tech-job savings with me that I effectively own it outright, though rates were so low at the time that I do technically still have a mortgage) that I can now easily survive and even thrive with a nonprofessional job.
First SARS-CoV-2 genome was deposited in GenBank earlier than previously known
Beau of The Fifth Column (Justin King) emphasizes ... states/countries don't have friends, they have interests. He delves into specific cases all the time and is one of the clearest-eyed political commentators out there.
I believe the software notion actually came first.
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> Often in aspdotnet we have programmers

Pretty sure this is a problem across many other development platforms. Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers.
Zero self-awareness. Larry and Sergey "empower(ed) psychotic pricks" because they are psychotic pricks. Look up how Larry talked to his marketing team in the early days, or his dalliances with subordinates (i.e. Melissa). Birds of a feather. Like attracts like. "Late Capitalism" is just polisci brain-damage. The comic books are more on-point:

> You Either Die a Hero or Live Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Villain
While I'm hesitant to give in to my inner cynic, the anecdote about walking into the local, on-site IT in the post about his first day at google linked in the first post, especially stood out in my mind. Someone's manning that walk-in station - do they have the same benefit as the engineers? Half of which allegedly have PhD's, mind you.
See also: https://github.com/jbloom/SARS2_28Dec2019_Genbank_submission
I consider anyone raising a child as their parents, I honestly could care less who's physical bodies were involved.

It's interesting to me that anyone raising a child wouldn't want to be considered a parent. Is the use of this term by request of people actually in this position, or wasn't created by third parties in an assumption that we shouldn't call them parents?

Caretaker and legal guardian have different and more specific meaning than parent. Those terms are needed to more clearly describe a person's situation and involvement with someone else. Again its interesting to me that one would prefer not to be called a parent when they have taken on the responsibility and roles of being a parent to a child.
> I heard that there was a push to write the DSM VI in terms of its biological mechanisms

There are two basic problems with that proposal (1) we still largely don't know what those biological mechanisms actually are, especially not with the degree of confidence necessary for them to be used for individual diagnosis (2) there is massive social/cultural/political/institutional/professional/financial investment in some of the current labels (especially autism/ASD), even though they correspond poorly to what is really going on in the brain, and any attempt to replace them with a more accurate system of labelling or diagnosis produces major pushback from people who are threatened by loss of those investments

I think to gain a better understanding of "what's really going on", good places to start are https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-019-0631-2 and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40489-016-0085-x and also https://stresstherapysolutions.com/uploads/wp-uploads/RA.pdf

One proposal (in the second paper I linked) is to merge ASD, ADHD, intellectual disability, borderline personality disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, language impairments, learning disabilities, tic disorders, atypical epilepsy, and reactive attachment disorder into a single disorder (an undifferentiated "neurodevelopmental disorder" or what Christopher Gillberg calls "ESSENCE"). ASD is already a kitchen sink, but still small enough that people can pretend it isn't; let's make a kitchen sink so big that nobody can deny it is one. Including BPD and reactive attachment disorder also helps clarify the complexity of causation, that many children's problems are produced by complex interactions between biological factors (genetics, in utero exposures, etc) and social environmental factors (trauma, abuse, neglect, maltreatment, parental mental illness, etc)–whereas labels like "ASD" wrongly put all the emphasis on the former to the exclusion of the latter
> Google, in 2010, was the coolest place in the world to work.

No. We were losing all our staff to Facebook and embarking on Google Plus, giving ourselves bonuses for 'success' in social. The last major successful google products had already stopped being produced (last one was android, which deliberately siloed itself off from the rest of the company). Wave team negotiated a huge bonus with no success criteria and then left the company. We threw serverless away because the App Engine team didn’t feel like doing their jobs. It was fucked by then too. Maybe everyone else just didn’t know it.
Probably true for most public companies.
Measure what matters. Even if you don't control it
> There are a bunch of companies trying to compete with valve.

What strikes me as a bit odd with relation to specifically competitors to the Valve client (essentially a game library and store rolled together), the competitors that come to mind are...

* EA/Origin

* Epic

* Ubisoft

EA and Ubisoft are only selling games they publish, IIRC. Epic sells games from other publishers, but always gives Fortnite preferential treatment (and has the Unreal Editor in its own tab in the client, or did last I paid attention).

Valve is still by a large margin the only one that comes to mind that feels as close to a neutral store/library as you can find (even when they released Artifact and Alyx, neither of those were permanently pinned to the top like Fortnite is in the Epic store). Of course, developers can still buy preferential treatment, but it at least feels like you're competing with other developers and not "the house".

I'm not making an argument that Valve's being anti-competitive here, just it's surprising to me how hard these competitors -aren't- trying to be a real competitor. I expect due to internal pressures from their respective game publishing branches.
I really wish journalists at Reuters would just stick to neutral reporting and stop sharing their opinions.

The last thing anyone cares about is the opinion of some journalist at Reuters.

(and I say this as someone who doesn't like Musk)
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I take it if someone really still want to fetch all his emails the old way, he could configure GMail to forward every single email to another address (not a GMail one): one still allowing IMAP/POP. Not a panacea but it may be an acceptable workaround for some usecases.
Yes, but that's not what people mean by an "entertainer" :)
What are you doing?

Adjusting your bits. You crashed and they... shifted all outta whack. There.
Except that most open source material is now encrypted. They could see lots of traffic towards Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/google and lots of overseas news sources but would have little insight into actual content.
This obviously makes no sense to Tim Cook.
Why not use one of the *BSD?

E.g. the newest NetBSD still supports i486 class processors:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/i386/
I generally agree with your sentiment (I abhor 'pass on' and that sort of euphemism for example) but perhaps the point was that most parents have children who no longer require daycare or 'raising'? Or even that your spouse might be mainly responsible for it (they don't work, or have it sorted through work already), so it's not a concern for you when you look for a job.
If you need to speak to a live person at Delta Air Lines for assistance then follow the guidelines of delta.
Indeed. In fact it is repeatedly observed that this DOESN'T happen to autistic people.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002771...
> Geometric nightmares

Glad I'm not the only one! I also remember this feeling of terror associated with being ground or crushed by the object. I'd wake in a panic but still semi-asleep and unable to shake the feeling of terror, stuck in an waking abstract nightmare and completely inconsolable. I also remember a weird auditory effect during this waking part where it was very quiet but the quiet would seem unbearably loud. Kind of like when you turn up the gain on a stereo and that background hissing noise gets louder and louder.
> A big difference in my view is that OpenAI doesn't meaningfully "provide access" to all the text and art and everything in the world

They do, juste look at all the art being generated that uses well known brands and characters.
To explain more clearly why people are saying spotify payments are unfair and what they want instead:

Lets say I pay $10 for spotify premium and listen to nothing else on spotify except my favorite {indie band}. If spotify is paying out 70% to artists, both me and surely the {indie band} would prefer that my $7 (after spotify takes $3) go directly to the {indie band}. This would be fair, as I would know that listening to my favorite artists directly supports them (also nice incentive to buy spotify premium).

What spotify is doing instead (AFAIK), is basically taking the $7 and giving $6.99999999 to {top artist on spotify} because {top artist on spotify} has 100 millions of streams and listeners and giving $0.000000001 to {indie band} because it has maybe 1-3 listeners and 10 streams.

But wait, it's even worse after recent spotify changes, because now they can just go ahead and give {top artist on spotify} the whole $7 and give the {indie band} absolutely nothing if it doesn't hit the 1000 listens for a song threshold.

That's not fair because if you are pooling everything together and then going solely based on percentages of listen counts, its easy to game the system with bot farm listeners. [1]

I understand this likely won't change, because if spotify doesn't bend over backwards to please the big labels of top artists with these obviously skewed systems where big labels get everything and small artists get nothing, the big labels would just pull their catalogue out of spotify and kill it.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et8R5i5UEjY
You know what would be nice...

Google going through their access logs and sending every admin an email list of usernames and services impacted by this change.

Ie.

The following users in your organisation are logging in with password-based "Less Secure authentication", and will need to migrate to another login method by 30th September:

[list]

Logins were to the following services:

[list]

For a full breakdown of which users logged in to which services insecurely on what date/time, reply to this email and we will auto-respond with complete logs.

For help resolving this issue, see [our help article].
"most of the 200-something countries in the world are building coal plants."

They are. According to this only 56 countries currently do not plan to do so. And I think germany is included in that number - and I know for a fact, that this can change very quickly.

https://apnews.com/article/coal-climate-change-eliminate-ele...
That looks indeed pretty interesting. But I still feel that it's not very convenient for usage in a desktop environment with local files. This is of course not to blame on the project itself, since I assume that it simply targets different use-cases and audiences.

I also researched in the meantime whether such a functionality could be implemented at all for the Gnome Shell and, more specifically, for its file browser. But the search and extension APIs would not even allow it or require many hacks.
> Problem one: Utilitarianism is bullshit. Jeremy Bentham invented utilitarianism, designed the Panopticon model prison, and lives on as a dried out lich in a chair that they still wheel out for board meetings at University College London because he wanted to win a posthumous argument about whether he could have utility after he was dead.

>

> You just can't build on a foundation that rotten.

I don't think you made a good argument. Whether utilitarianism is a good thing or not doesn't really depend on the quirkiness or even failures of its originator. Whether it works or fails depends on what it does now, not where it came from.

If you dig deep enough most any idea can be traced back to something unpalatable, or to be applied in some horrifying way, and this is certainly true in morality.

So for instance while people often make thought experiments about what if doctors used healthy people for spare parts, deontology isn't really that much prettier. Deontology doesn't care for any amount of consequences, so if there's any way whatsoever for the system to come to the conclusion that "X group aren't people", then any amount of carnage and suffering becomes acceptable.
"Palo Alto Networks" is something that shows up clearer than anything else in my lighttpd logs, as they include the "we're palo alto networks doing research, contact us here(email) for us not to scan" in http request headers. They appear to do full ipv4 range scan many times a day IIRC.

Funnily enough I got motivated to try to make my crawler show up the same way in my own server logs by just raw scan breadth, IE by hitting so many servers I'd see my own crawler in the logs without any kind of targeting. As a kind of "planetary level experiment" source of curiosity.

Had to tweak masscan settings till my crappy router could keep up with the routing load. Ended up with something like 500 addresses / sec, which pales in comparison to the best hardware used for this which when combined with masscan, scans the ipv4 space in 6 minutes.
Managed to scan 1% of the IPV4 space while I slept before I started to get seriously throttled and got a quite angry email from my ISP. Just told them "Oh thanks for noticing, I now fixed the offending device" (pressed Control+C) and never ran the scan again lol.

Ran the scan with masscan with no blacklist. Don't recommend, at least not doing it more than once unless you get a good blacklist to follow
I personally think that more intelligence might make the need for personal gratification go away. I mean, to start with the ideas is that humans will be completely and utterly redundant, the AI will be better than us at everything, what happens to the ego in this situation?

What happens if the cost of things is reduced to next to nothing due to efficiency gains from super intelligent systems?
They also acquired Android, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and many of the precursors of Maps & Ads.

There's value in scale. The YouTube founders themselves said they couldn't have grown YouTube without help from Google infrastructure and other business functions. In the mid-00s people were just figuring out how to run an Internet business with billions of daily users; this is a service now externalized through Cloud providers (including Google), but back then "not falling over when you got Slashdotted" was a key competency that Google had but many of the thousands of other Internet startups did not.
One of the most enjoyable physical books for me.
If someone ignores what I say over and over and over again, no matter how I rephrase the point I was making all along, I no longer assume good faith, no. The goal at that point isn't to convince them, but to end it without letting the last word be another falsehood. Seems that last comment did the trick, so.
Not all of them.

But the rival 386Max is now FOSS, so if you are really really curious you could take it apart and study it.

https://github.com/sudleyplace/386MAX

Closest you will get for now, I fear.

I think I read that Symantec lost or erased all the Quarterdeck source code after the acquisition. :-(
Any good guide on this (registering oauth clients) for people who want to make the move?
Can confirm that last part. I get so many Facebook reset messages, it's a bit ridiculous.
YouTube was a huge early acquisition for them around 2005 or 2006.
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“Gmail was not actually a particularly elegant product design”

It popularized instant search, tagging and threading to such a degree you have clearly forgotten how elegant it was!
> Which made sense before computers, when a stenographer needs to write very quickly, and English is written long.

Stenography is where it was at! My mom's second husband was working at the local parliament and had to take notes, in real time, about what politicians were saying and he'd use stenography. He'd then hand his "stenographed" notes to a secretary that'd convert them back to english, which he'd then proofread.

It was french btw, which is even longer than english (about 20% longer).
Nope, I see almost nothing but remote. I'm sure it depends on what site you use to search, and whether your search includes your location or not. If you search for local jobs... you find local jobs.
Yeah, like the top 10 programming languages are the lowest common denominator. It's basically programming for the people who don't like programming. The rest of us use lisps like a real programmer.
> And so, when priorities would change, Google did not fire people, but rather moved them carefully between projects.

Not unique to Google. I would say I saw the same in 26 years working at Apple.

I think the Bay Area in general wanted to keep their employees. 'Cause God knows there is another company just across the valley that will hire them right up.

It should give all of us in the Bay Area, and especially during that era, some measure of humility. It's not necessarily that we were all talented, amazing, not expendable but our corporate leaders damn well did not want the competition to get us.
Out of all the entities to depend on, AWS is tried and battle tested with US gov.

Additionally, a pandemic has shown that government services actually need to scale to arbitrary amounts, seemingly at random.

Don't you think that in this case using AWS is better to simply guarantee availability? Imagine tax payers money being spent on servers and then a pandemic happens and when the economy is screeching to a halt, more tax payers money is needed to expand the cluster, money that really would be useful to spend elsewhere.
Nit: The most likely outcome is zero return, but expected return is positive (if the investor is rational) due to tail probability.
It does emulate risc-v that runs Linux, so why not call it a Linux emulator?

Though https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima is indeed impressively small. Here's the dispatch switch-case: https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima/blob/eeeaaa0609558c84...
They did, I got an email, with an attachment spread sheet containing users email addresses on my domain. Bottom of email stated "A list of affected users is attached."
You can still use app-specific passwords, so your 1992 mail client will still work... Although sending even an app-specific password in cleartext over the internet seems like a bad plan.
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The big problem is that 64-bit x86 long mode removes the V86 mode that made DOS 386 memory managers possible.

This is why the DOSemu project has been doing a multi-year rewrite: to create a new, full-VM-based DOSemu2 that can run DOS without emulation on x86-64 machines.

https://github.com/dosemu2/dosemu2/wiki
Sorry I don't understand - why would they be selling units, but also deliberately pricing them too high?
Yeah there is nothing that doesn't work fine on FF.

Sometimes I find that Dev tools works a bit better on chrome, so I use that for a while. But not consistently.
While humans might not survive, the nature will.

Should the worst happen. But I'm optimistic that humanity won't let things get this bad.
Owning does not mean receiving benefits. Twitch is still a Company of their own, not a department of Amazon. It's well known that Twitch gets no big benefits from Amazon and is used as a Cash-Cow.
True, although I thought there was another big one whose name escapes me. Any ideas?

Thanks for mentioning that for the rest of HN’s sake.
I’m still quite new to my glove80 and I’m still a bit slow on the modifier keys. I was looking for something a little more aesthetic in the beginning but everything else is amazing about it. I look forward to unpacking it from it’s case everyday. I did not know you could feel that way about a keyboard. :)

Great ergonomics and a great experience. They have an active discord and the two founders are active as well.
As a father to both biological and adopted children, I couldn't agree more. I'm Dad to all of them.
"However, you can feel it in the experience as a user when the product team is given the keys to the kingdom and left unchallenged. The product becomes soulless and vapid"

Wow. Incredibly that there are people who think this.
So only an engineer with no product team input can build products with a soul? Really?
This is an interesting take that I hadn't considered the reality of, before. We rely a lot on self-reporting but only for lack of a better option that doesn't violate ethical conventions. Self-reporting is subjective, making the data shakey at best, but even an objective observer can misinterpret what is being observed. I'm mot much of a scientist or philosopher, but that seems like a remarkably large problem when it comes to truly understanding the human brain.

How does neuroscience get around this problem, and how close are we to actual "brain chips" that could provide viable diagnostic data?
I think this is the only assured way to interop, as I expect Google may try to kill other competing apps (specially in mobile) that does not capture user data or generate data points for its ads.

I wonder if any intentional limitation here should not trigger some of the EU Digital Services Act provisions for interoperability ... in this list [1] I see Google Play, Maps, and Shopping but not GMail!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#Very_larg...
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Turns out humans have been drawing dicks on things basically forever.
Same, native iOS Mail app in my case. I get Gmail notifications only when connected to power and Wi-Fi (can be set to a time interval too but I’d rather conserve my battery). When I expect a mail, I open the app and it auto refreshes until the mail comes.
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If you need more dirty puns about the figure, the Metro has you covered.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/29/volunteers-polish-giants-erec...
Google and their codebase architecture have been around for a while now in the scale of software lifecycle. How far out do we need to wait before its "long term", and how will we know if failure was from decades of business decisions vs repo architecture?