skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Half of the stories on this topic seem to be merely the effect (I'm sure someone's coined a name for it) of seeing more of what you look for. e.g. Decide you are buying a Tesla and suddenly you notice there seem to be more Teslas on the roads...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...

Frequency Illusion or Baader Meinhof phenomenon.
In case anyone found that study difficult to read, the optimal strategy was, over the course of 3 days, one 600mg dose after 12pm on days 2 and 3 of a 3 day string of sleep loss.
It's a shame that Apple decided to change the iPhone 5 design when they made the iPhone 6. I had an iPhone SE for a couple of years and, while the size was perfect, the straight edges weren't the best.
It has nothing to do with altruism and everything to do with the fact that most people are not driven by the hoarding of wealth. Most people recognize the need to make a profit because they need to survive and support their families, but it is not their primary motivator. If it were, there'd be millions more entrepreneurs than there are, and few people willing to work endless factory or desk jobs. For most people, they are primarily motivated to do things they enjoy doing. For the sorts of crafts people I'm talking about, those things are engaging in their craft.

Altruism has nothing to do with it. Although, psychological research has shown that economics has it wrong: most people are basically altruistic, not basically selfish. It's how we can be such a social species. But that's a different discussion for another time.
I hate to say it (as I am Indian), but it's a cultural thing. Basically, it's all about solving the problem by any means necessary, regardless of cost to the environment, cost to others, future problems etc. This is changing somewhat, but rather slowly.
I'm curious to see if Belkin devices are affected. I have not seen the brand mentioned in articles/news about VPNFilter, but I find it odd that almost every other popular router band has at least some affected models but Belkin somehow escaped the same fate?
Ask HN: Best way to get project work related to cloud
I am interested to do some part-time freelancing in DevOps, CloudOps, Developer productivity. I am also good at application development and have developed few android + web apps.

Can the community suggest me few websites (no freelancer, upwork, toptal since I already have accounts for almost a year without any luck) or any other methods which I can get contacts?
It looks like the bottleneck here is the database driver (or possibly ORM when used). The plaintext test shows a very different picture:

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=#section=dat...

PS: As a side note, I do not like golang, my focus has been on python and now rust, but I am very impressed by both the plaintext and the DB test!
> But still something the average client will miss, at least at first, and trip the alert

That's totally it, thanks for pointing that out!
I'd like to see a step by step guide to being part of a team.
Battleships Over BGP
> The video/mic/hardware problems are _incredibly_ rare.

You've had better luck than I have. Our New York team is still dealing with the problem of the Boston office being virtually inaudible, while Dublin sounds like they're speaking through a megaphone directly into my ear.

That is, assuming we didn't lose a room, or the Hangouts equipment isn't broken - then Boston uses our manager's laptop, which actually sometimes has better sound quality.
Is it? Concurrent connection handling at scale is a major problem, and plenty of Fortune 1000 companies would jump at the chance to have even 5% fewer instances deployed.

366 rps in a test scenario doesn't scratch the surface of what I need, and I'm not doing anything I'd consider crazy scale. When you need to support hundreds of thousands of rps, small improvements can be very noticeable.
Boy, do I hate it when I encounter stuff like that. I always try to explain to people that being "online" is not a boolean flag: at most you know that your last request to your crappy heartbeat service have failed. That's it.

You can display a small hint on the UI ("It seems that there's a problem with your connection"), but only an idiot would block users from interacting with the app on grounds of "being offline".
"* Unlimited number of lincences"

Also, your privacy policy makes no mention of what data is included with validation requests, and what you do with that information. GDPR is still very fresh, and if my app is passing every URL data to a third party, that sounds like it could be a problem.
> Anonymous speech (for individuals) is also central to a functioning republic democracy.

How about you worry about the low-hanging fruit first: the 50/50 problem.

You might as well NOT have a democracy if the outcome of elections is artificially/politically restricted to be as close to 50/50 as possible.

You know the saying, "democracy is not perfect but it's still better than all the alternatives"?

50/50 is a failure mode of democracy.

All of the ways that democracy is better than the alternatives fall apart unless you fix this first: It's the largest possible minority that is unhappy with the outcome (50%). And it's the easiest to corrupt and manipulate behind the scenes: Any corrupt influence can easily tip the scales one way or another, creating a huge incentive for having this alternate battle field that doesn't have much to do with the will of the people at all.

You can have your anonymous speech once you get your democracy back on track. Talk about throwing the horse before the bus. You can't dispose of a round baby when you have a square kitchen sink.
Okay, that's not as outlandish as health hazards from solar. We have a lot of wind turbines in Northern Germany, and some people complain that they emit low-frequency sounds and thus cause noise pollution. I don't know about the research on this topic, though; I never noticed any adverse effects when staying near wind turbines.
my local swimming pool is heated by waste-heat of a nearby powerplant
Plus one for Misty!
We are using Google Kubernetes Engine
In some cultures, you're smart to get ahead any way you can, and they'd call anyone a fool who followed some set of rules or principles instead of getting ahead. For them, rules are artificial, arbitrary social constructs with zero benefit, while results are concrete. It's hard to argue they're wrong.
Thanks for that explanation. That matches my experience very well. I regularly feel wired and a little anxious after coffee but almost never after Coke (keeping the caffeine consumed constant).

Though my intuition tells me that chugging three beers would get me more drunk than drinking three shots. Sigh. The things I do for science.
It looks cool, but only available in the US again :(
And they dont even allow orders to freight forwarder addresses or resellers, what is up with that?
> But if a Coke is ~3mg caffeine 100ml and coffee is ~40mg per 100ml, drinking 13.3 "units" of cokes will not be equivalent to 1 "unit" of coffee.

I know it was just an example, but after looking into this earlier this year, coke and pepsi have a much higher caffeine content at 10mg/100ml and 13mg/100ml (for coke and pepsi respectively)
Huh! That never occurred to me, but it makes perfect sense.

Oh well. :/
> because feelings

That is so true. Probably why people leave every couple of years. I hate performance reviews. They try to be objective and yet so many personal feelings involved.

Finding a good manager is hard. Someone who understands tech and gives frequent objective feedback. That’s really really hard.

Most managers I’ve seen go into Management because they don’t like coding. They then want to be far away from it. That creates problems because they don’t understand why things are constantly regressing. They blame it on their engineers and start handing out shitty reviews when the actual problem was there is just a metric ton of code debt that they don’t want to hear about.

The other thing is they like being people managers. All the way up to Group managers (managers of managers). They truly enjoy re-orging people around. I guess that’s how they feel important. But they forget it’s the product that matters. As the org gets bigger, less and less people actually give a shit about the product as a whole.

I have yet to find a manager that takes code debt and product seriously. I’m on my Manager #10.

If you are a manager, I kindly urge you to listen both to your customers and your engineers. Get a reverse performance review. The world will be happier.
The butcher, the brewer and the baker have no ability to alter my biochemistry so I can't consumer other people's meat, beer and bread. So I am unafraid that they will harm me with vendor lock-in.

Microsoft, on the other hand...
Feel free, but I don't see why you would draw the conclusion that your money is not needed from what I said (even if Firefox has enough revenue to work with for now, your donations keep the whole organization viable as-is; you're just not directly donating to Firefox).
Empower Your Sentry with These No-Code Jira and Asana Integrations on YellowAnt
The bottleneck on plaintext appears to potentially be physical network bandwidth.

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/35...
Here's what I read from the FAQ:

In a very bad scenario where our service is slow, the worst thing that happens is a user being able to use the web app for a couple of seconds before it is denied access.

I understand now that you mean in case the website is an unauthorized copy the end user will be able to use it for a few seconds before it is disabled.

In that case I retract my previous comments, but I would suggest changing the wording in the FAQ here to be more clear. :)
Khubsurat Lamhe
Opening the doors of the Software Heritage archive
When I was at NI I helped build https://www.multisim.com which is powered by a full SPICE simulator.
1) You create a VPN.
2) Over that VPN connection, you connect to another VPN...
Repeat until your tinfoil hat feels secure.
Hi, neutrino physicist here. There are indeed a handful of results that point to a more-or-less consistent picture with sterile neutrinos, including MiniBooNE (now updated with 2x more data), LSND, antineutrinos from nuclear reactors, and calibrations of solar neutrino experiments (GALLEX/GNO and SAGE). All very different experiments with different uncertainties, which makes it hard to explain away. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of other experiments that should see this effect but don't (IceCube and MINOS, KARMEN, NOMAD, CDHS, CCFR, ...). With all this tension, most of the possible parameters for sterile neutrinos are ruled out, but there is still a little room. Next-generation experiments will go after the parameter space that remains, and definitively confirm/reject the sterile neutrino hypothesis at high confidence. See e.g. the Fermilab Short-Baseline Neutrino Program, which puts a set of three detectors in the same neutrino beam as MiniBooNE: https://sbn.fnal.gov/.
There are definite exceptions. Were those people employed by your bank, or by an outsourcing company? The distinction is important, both in terms of quality and price. Internal hires are much more expensive (training, benefits etc), but generally better and less likely to leave. Outsourced staff basically don't care because they know they're being taken advantage of. So you get what you pay for.
Agreed. And we're suffering all kinds of negative consequences from this system. I think one of the great economic questions facing our generation is "How can we keep the efficiencies of scale we've gained while reintroducing the craftman's motivations and ethics that have been lost?"

I have some ideas towards that direction, but make no claims on a definitive answer.

Worker cooperatives seem promising, since they change the average worker from "grunt" to "owner / director". It changes the incentive structure around what gets communicated and how as a company scales. Worker cooperatives also change the incentives around growth itself -- disincentivising growth beyond a certain point because each new worker waters down the voice and control of the existing ones.

AI driven automation and robotics, in a context of worker cooperatives, presents the possibility of keeping our production efficiencies (that used to require huge scales) while maintaining small organization sizes. We're not there yet, but it seems like we're not too far off.

I think reconfiguring the economy around these two ideas, presents the possibility of a good answer to the question posed above. And has lots of extra benefits beside (like building democracy into our economic system and not just our political system, and creating a system that more equitably distributes wealth by nature).
> We are not talking about those sort of failures here.

The thread is about working with Indian contractors who frequently lie, pretending they know what is going on. We are very much talking about this kind of problem.

> In fact I'm a tad little surprised that I'm having to sell the virtues of incremental failure in a forum that idolizes "Move fast and break things"

What I'm talking about is orthogonal to this. You can move fast and break things, but be straight forward to your manager about the risk involved.
I guess all you can do is blackball customers that stole your code and later need you to fix something later on.
If you give people more explicit feedback about their performance and hold them accountable only for their performance regardless of where they get the work done, the problem disappears. I get the sense that you're holding yourself responsible for the performance of your employees, but for remote work to be successful, you need to hold the employees responsible. If you find that some employees aren't responsible enough to handle that, don't you want more responsible employees anyway?
There's many ways to do this, but at its simplest because Node is single threaded, you can have a shared array of URL's and then a pool of workers who .pop() a URL off and stop when there are none left. Each worker's http request runs async, so with the `async` keyword at the start of their signature, and `await fetch(url)` inside, the code reads (and in some ways behaves) like regular synchronous iteration but runs (mostly) concurrently.
>> There must be some mental illness there.

Or maybe it's just that a billion dollars can make a lot of people re-consider their values.
A hacker's guide to Kubernetes security
Can you just not use Doctrine and make hand coded models that are optimized for your use case? Or make a microservice that accesses the data, and query that API?
I'd do anything to better my families lives

Apart from spend time with them apparently.
It seems to me nearly all white collar office/desk jobs could be remote as they basically involve sitting at a desk with a computer and phone. I believe more than half of all jobs in the US are considered white collar.

Perhaps I'm overly optimistic about what could be done remote, but modern cities seem to be basically a bunch of tall buildings with offices that have a desk and computer to sit at.
> You just have to buy the solar panels from a global megacorp instead.

That's still a massive improvement in competition. But I'm pretty sure it's also not true and tons of companies make solar panels.
What's even better is to have a backend that side a payload to the client when events are triggered, so no js is loaded in advance.
Seconded. Went to visit earlier on in the year while I was in Oxford for a weekend. Popped in to get out the rain, stayed for most of the afternoon.

There is a ton of interesting artefacts from all manner of sciences, including some gruesome medical tools from days gone by. There's nothing like a leech as cure-all medication.
Async Data Options in Vue's Nuxt.js
I think the most common 98% ends up being mass produced and they just buy that. This is only really about covering edge cases so they probably all end up fairly unique.

Even knowing what is and is not slight modifications of existing products requires a fairly deep understanding when you're dealing with highly toxic substances.
I agree with "But it isn't as reasonable to think that our evolution intended or makes accomodations for caffeine intake." However, caffeine has been tested over generations and doesn't really have any major consequences as far as I can tell. I do think that a lifestyle where caffeine makes you more effective is probably not optimally healthy, but since when does anyone care about that.
Thanks, that helps, I think...!

Would it be roughly correct to say that virtual particles by definition always vanish (mutually annihilate, etc, whatever) before the measured outcome of an experiment, therefore they definitely cannot be directly observed? But they're an integral part of the model, therefore if the model is correct, they really do have a real physical existence (in some complex quantum sense)?
This has been my experience, 100%.

All of the jobs I have ever interviewed for casually listed "great oral and written communication" as a skill in the job reqs. I have felt that I had a problem in this area.

I have worked as a remote contractor off and on for most of my life and have never run into an issue.

For the past year and a half I have been on a remote team.

It wasn't until my team lead, who did all of the oral and written communication, left, this past month, that I was placed in the position to pick where he left off.

It became immediately evident how poor my skills are in this area. I know that I am a poor communicator, but I didn't realize just how insufficient I was. Not only grammar and spelling, but conveying complex subject matter in a succinct way for folks lacking detailed domain knowledge. This is a problem!

Regardless, there is hope. How do you get better at writing? Write more. At least that is what I am told. I am now chomping at the bit for long-form writing opportunities to get experiencing it putting thoughts and plans on paper, as well as, using a new SaaS app to commit/tracking writing 5 minutes a day.

Any and all tips are welcome.
I had to negotiate working several days a week remote, because my job doesn't pay enough to live in or within 45 minutes of the city it's in. Starting this July I'll be working in-office 2 days a week and commuting over an hour. This is so I can afford housing. I basically offered my employer a very gentle ultimatum - I explained that my rent was going up and I'm being priced out of the city, that I like my job and would like them to invest in me, and offered them the two solutions of a raise or working more time remote so I could live somewhere more affordable. They picked the latter. I feel less invested in to be honest.

I am ambivalent about this solution. On one hand, even if I were to lose my job, I'd be able to afford my house just with unemployment pay, and even if I take a job that pays less after, it will likely still remain affordable. On the other hand, it ties me more to my employer because not all are willing to allow remote work and if I have to take a new job in the city, it may require a very long commute 5 days a week. But not all, or even most employers in the city pay enough to live in or near it. That's just the way it is.

I understand many people are not lucky enough to have either choice.
From a certain feminist perspective this behaviour would be seen as reassuring in that it demonstrates women are just as capable of bad behaviour as men, and thus are equal.
If the voters are so dumb that they're voting directly against their own stated interests, then maybe they shouldn't have those programs.
One thing I've noticed is that all the fastest implementations now run PostgreSQL. For the longest time MySQL was thought to be faster, so I guess PostgreSQL really caught up recently. I'm seeing it be the default database in a lot of new open source projects.
The Girl in the Spider's web
Can someone explain me why php5 is faster than php7?
Maybe instead of snark you can recommend what you actually believe to be valid?
Also, lincences

"Unlimited number of lincences"
I wrote one too: https://github.com/cretz/bine
OK, I have thought about this a bit (I have worked on gas liquefaction plant design), and I do not believe this claim.

70% is about the maximum thermodynamic efficiency of any heat engine operating between -190 degrees and ambient. And the best efficiency you can expect in liquefaction, in a very complex and large plant, is circa 50% (1). Combined with storage losses, I think the overall cycle efficiency cannot be more than 25% or so.

Happy to review and comment on any back-up to their claim.

(1) see eg here: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=8933572137...
> plenty of Fortune 1000 companies would jump at the chance to have even 5% fewer instances deployed.

Becoming a Fortune 1000 company isn't "most apps"
I agree with the overall sentiment. Plus almost all cases I run into performance issues with e.g. Python in general web development, that main problems were how the code was written, not what it was written in and being bottle-necked by the database.

That said I disagree a bit with saying it is a a solved problem unless you are Google-scale. In developing countries if you are in a small company without big investors, you need to do quite a bit more juggling with infrastructure budgets once you are past MVP compared to for example where I'm from Switzerland.
ZTE fined $1B
At that point I'd suggest it's not support you need to be talking to, it's a lawyer.
> Regular chatter in public chat channels seems sufficient.

That means your teammates' communication skills are sufficient! Congratulations.

> What really seems to matter is work ethics.

I disagree. Work ethics mean nothing if you don't understand the work that needs to be done, because the problem or the approach is not communicated clearly.
I love goofy makeshift stuff like this. How long would one "plug" last?
I can see it on Amazon UK right now and it's being sold on
Amazon by Anki themselves.

It's more expensive though.
What I also like about PIA is their continued support of Open Source projects. I have been a PIA customer for a while now and will remain for the time to come.
> That's why gold isn't a currency there are definite transaction costs but the whole of the costs of transporting gold spent isn't required for my gold to be spent.

What I'm trying to say here is that my transaction doesn't depend on the energy required to transport all the gold traded.
I don't know those websites, but I can recommand something in the same genre : pwnable.tw
Too stupid for words. They know they are working with customers who barely understand the technology and they are outright lying to them. I'm not here to defend kiddie porn addicts or idiots on the internet, but it's definitely worth pointing out 1) that's an empty statement and 2) they know it guarantees nothing.
That solution might sound absurd, but what's the alternative? I implemented my own basic license validation server for an application I wrote, and I ended up doing the exact same thing.

My server may go down every now and then, I don't want to deny access to the application just because my 5$/month server is too busy at the moment..
I'm mildly confused. Your post here seems fine and quit readable. How do you arrive at the conclusion, that you're lacking in written communication skills?

(sorry for question instead of tips)
Valve allows devs to put anything on steam unless illegal or trolling
Personally, if a company uses remote work as an excuse to pay less, that's a red flag for me. Pay should represent the value you offer to the company, period.
Why would a experienced java dev be less productive than a node js one?
Most companies that sell embedded hardware managed remotely by Web interfaces.
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