skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh. Certainly there are things that git could do better but reading this makes me want to run far away from Fossil and never look back.

You can argue about whether “the Unix philosophy” is best for specific tools like version control, and maybe you can argue that “the Unix philosophy” isn’t really about simple vs complex tools. But I don’t think I’ve ever heard nor would I think you could find evidence that the Unix philosophy is “it just works”. That claim makes me pretty certain that this is a tool I want to avoid at all costs. And the tone of the rest of this article confirms it.
This is absolutely _not_ about bullshitting your way out of it. Far from it. It is about articulating an hypothesis (based on your experience) of what the answer is most likely to be. It is saying: "We're not yet sure why the server crashed, but from my experience it is most of the times the A/C system, for which I would suggest checking the logs now". It is honest, articulates a way forward, and might in many meetings just be sufficient to keep the discussion moving forwards. Again, it is the job of a manager to deal with controlled uncertainty.
Fair clarification. I don't appreciate that approach either. Just go find out what the problem is and report back. Unless someone specifically asks you to guess, you are just wasting everyone's time. And in a meeting with clients and upper management, that could add up to $$$ thousands per hour. "If I had to guess". You usually don't have to. So don't do it. Just my $0.02. Maybe other managers see it differently.

EDIT: I should clarify why this often goes badly. "If I had to guess, it's the filter in the gas line". Now everyone thinks it's a $20 problem, and they appreciate having an expert like you around to help them mentally frame the extent of the problem. When you come back with "actually the entire engine is warped and needs to be replaced", everyone is going to be disappointed. Like it or not, that disappointment is attached to you now. Trust is lost. There is almost nothing ever to be gained from guessing.
The op talked about the free market always winning, and you accuse him of being a socialist?
A startling portion of Instagram users are unaware that Instagram is owned by Facebook, giving Facebook a clean slate. Therefore even when they start to seriously zuck it up it will take many people longer to notice the trend. I think the future of Instagram is rosy for at least a few years.
Interesting ... One sane thing about git is, it is very difficult to lose data. You have to work out of your way to lose data like delete your local and remote histories. Even if that is the case, if someone else has branched meanwhile, it can be restored without any fuss.
My understanding is that the diffraction limit correlates with "sensor" size. f11 is about the limit for the APS-C sensors common in DSLR's. f16 is usable for 35mm film and full frame. With large format film cameras, f64 is usable, e.g. Group f64. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_f/64

There is a diffraction limit calculator at the bottom of this page, https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/diffraction-phot...
At least in the UK, job markets are so wildly irrational that I doubled my salary twice in two years. Both the salaries I ended up having doubled were more-or-less the best thing available at the time.
fossil is also the name of a file system server on Plan 9 that dealt with hashes on the venti archival storage server.

https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man4/fossil.html
I bought a $5000 Nikon lens because I learned that there would be a price hike of $900.

Leica equipment gets constant price hikes. The cameras and lenses are great but at this point they are mainly for rich amateurs rather than working professionals.

I also bought my house in 2002 because I had looked at houses in 2000 and 2001 and decided to continue renting. I bought in 2002 because I thought that if I didn't buy now that I would get less value for my money later.
“Facebook are going to monetize encrypted messaging by consolidating metadata”
I tried reading this - but the website sent me through an endless loop of signing up for the free newsletter to unlock the article (which I tried various times).

That said, this line certainly raised an eyebrow for being pretty sensational:

>Of the well-known composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin (as his name is spelled in Polish, his native tongue) is the only one whose complete works continue to be played regularly—indeed, without cease.

When was the last time you heard his piano trio performed outside of a music school, for instance...?
It was my understanding that T2D is due to Insulin Resistance and the reason most folks gain weight is that an excess of Insulin will do that. Doing a Fecal Transplant seems more like a band aid solution for T2D since unhealthy eating habits will just kill off the good bacteria over time.

I'm curious if these folks tried to lower sugar intake in all forms and reduce their eating window to 8 hours and whether that would have lowered Insulin Production and caused an increase in Insulin sensitivity.

How difficult it is for people to change lifestyle habits to fix their hormonal unbalance when it comes to obesity.
Podman was moved to the community repository a few days ago.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/podman/
A 2-in-1 xps with the camera on top? What's the model number?
Government mandated backdoors is Really not a good idea
Everybody knows that the Netherlands has a strong distinction between manslaughter (or whatever they call it there) and murder. Intent matters; that is the point that was being communicated.
Ask HN: Working with developers who can't code
Does anyone else have experience working with developers who just cannot code? By which I mean professional devs with terrible development skills, and little knowledge or interest in the field. I'm amazed they find jobs but they seem to.

Any strategies for working with someone like that? Or any stories about working with such people?
Exactly. It's not like the AI of the past where it was essentially flowchart plus heuristics. Now, it's almost "experiential". It's tries paths and essentially sees which ones work and which don't and "learns" from it. It's similar to Dr Strange in Avengers using the Time Stone to try out possible futures to see which ones work.
That silkscreen had me giggling. The juxtaposition of the text in the requisite serious typeface and the fact that typically only "SERIOUS ELECTRONICS MESSAGES" are communicated in that way, I guess, was the source of The Funny.

I am reminded of the names of B-52's songs on Amiga motherboards. (I had an Intel server board that had the Marmaduke cartoon character screened on it, under the "Slot 2" retainer. Alas, I got rid of the machine and never photographed it.)
Ugh, I later realized I'm off by a factor of 4 because statm shows values in 4K pages, not 1K units.
Additional links for the curious:

https://fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/quotes.wiki

https://www.sqlite.org/whynotgit.html
In the UK the utilities take money to meet an estimated bill; meaning most people are usually creditors to the utility. If a customer doesn't rein it in then the utility will often take stupid amounts to meet an anticipated bill.

I think they were threatened with regulation and so stopped being so blatant, but they make money off holding customer's cash.
They Own the System: Amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching into Publishing
requires mssql if you want to self host... Meh, keepassx still better.
Read the code itself first
Can anyone comment on whether these are worth the time investment versus more traditional courses?
Helium-3
You mean git killed SVN right? SVN killed CVS in my understanding.
Out of curiosity - from a legal perspective, is it fine to publish outcome of reverse engineering? I'm always sceptical before doing so myself.
NIST Cybersecurity Framework in MOSP
How is the biotech/drug discovery scene in India? There is so much talent there but I wonder if they have enough funding. They could potentially be coming up with lots of cures.
Replacing Python: candidates (2013, with interesting discussion on error
Fossil is posted to and discussed on HN all the time. It's a novelty, it differs in design from the popular tools that people actually use in their day-to-day jobs.

There's really no reason to think that Fossil is used internally at a rate higher than its public-facing usage. And I've literally never seen a project that uses Fossil aside from Fossil examples.
When Does Your Intelligence Peak?
> atleast the latest wave of intense fervor.

That's moving the goalpost to a subjective location. But if you never saw intense criticism of Zuckerberg and his company on HN before the 2016 election outcome, then you just weren't paying attention. The "dumbfucks" comment was what, a decade ago?
This is pretty interesting. However the idea of guns a a symbol seems like it would apply to groups that are organized around gun control, or the prevention of gun violence just as much as it does to those who value guns. Those surely have to count as ‘gun cults’ by the same reasoning - they just regard the gun as a negative symbol rather than a positive one.
I recommend asking the manager to put you on a different project where your code and theirs is completely separate. Moreover, don't even worry about code reviews of their code. This advice is terrible for the company, but it's nearly optimal for you.
> From calling early users "dumb fucks"

For the love of god, enough already. This is mentioned on almost every Facebook story we get on Hacker News. It's becoming a meme! Look, barely 15 hours ago it was mentioned on another story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19004067

Can we please elevate the discussion around Facebook and stop mindlessly citing something Zuckerberg said when he was barely an adult? If you want to substantively critique Facebook, by all means do so. There's plenty of material to work with. You don't need to dig into the private conversations a college student had over a decade ago.

Please read and internalize this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19005009
The process has changed in significant ways since you left.
Interactive Guide to Alternative Voting Systems (2016)
Perhaps the OP is referring to this: https://www.sqlite.org/whynotgit.html#the_mental_model_for_g...
But just to be clear for when this comment gets mined by some future HR department. It is of course very important to have good people making the high level architectural decisions, and you should absolutely hire me for your senior technical positions to maximize the output of all those around me!

It's just the whole needing to give blunt assessments of underlings that may have consequences for their and their families livelihood that I'm not suited for.
Content marketing piece for a book.
LocalBitcoins $28,000 Supposed Phishing Attack
Ouch. You did nothing wrong, but that must have sucked for your manager.
Perhaps if they know they can retain you by being awkward then they'll try; if they know you won't succumb then they're better saving their "breath".
> I hear Facebook was a major contributer to the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya

Yeah people claim that. But does the claim hold water? I think it was just used because it was a convenient way to communicate and if they didn't use facebook they would have used any of the thousands of other ways to communicate.
Check out bitwarden_rs for an alternative backend that's easier to host.
"By "small-batch" I often mean batches of one-offs, reducing the effectiveness of sampling for quality control!"

But increasing the importance of a sample retained for later analysis I imagine.
This author perhaps doesn't realize Chopin wrote concertos!
I think this article describes a new understanding emerging.
I'm feeling like I just want to cancel?
Isn't that exactly what A/B testing is? I'd say lack of consent is the unethical part of it.
So how do you know that you're not just getting 80% of "log entry X" just because you get hits for them every now and then?
And depending how exactly you want to define it, in large computers this happened even earlier, e.g. the CPC 6600 had independent systems for IO handling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600#Peripheral_Processors...
That's fake news.
India and China have been screwed up for centuries. Their culture breeds it. The smartest Indian programmers still just do the needful. I've seen lots of projects ruined by their basic values being so out of sync with the western world.
I still remember the kind of weird intonation and prosody on "Doctor Sbaitso, by Creative Labs, please enter your name".
It may depend on the real-world relevance of the courses you've taken.

What happens if you're taking part in the Georgia Tech/Udacity online Master's in Computer Science, and suddenly all of your course history on Udacity is gone? Are you then stuck with remotely trying to access records through whatever GA Tech has retained for MOOC students in a degree program? Does it prevent you from signing up for additional courses because there's no record of you completing the prerequisites? Does their platform have a provision for overriding those prerequisites, and what would that have to be based on - word from a professor who taught a MOOC, has never seen you or your work and probably depends on Udacity's listings?

A similar situation could arise if the platform is being used for mandatory continuing education credits in fields that have that. An industry that has CE requirements would often be well-served to partner with an established and stable online learning platform rather than building their own. If you're required to take X hours of CE annually to retain a license but the only proof you have is a PDF certificate from someplace that says "We've never heard of this person," do you qualify or do you end up in licensing/certification hell?
It will remain relevant until Zuckerberg is able to convince people that he no longer feels that way about the common plebs. The way he's been running his company ever since then shows that he still feels that way. Some things you just don't get to live down, particularly when you show no signs of changing who you are.

What kind of person would refuse to give refunds when children get scammed out of money by games designed by professionals from the gambling industry to confuse and manipulate children? Somebody who thinks their users are "dumbfucks", that's who.
Clever Hans – The horse who could do math
> A main issue with git is that it is stupid about file copies and renames.

Could you elaborate on this? As far as I know, file copies and renames will still use the same blob, but the tree referencing the blob can reference it using a different path in the case of a rename or reference it more than once in the case of a copy.
OMG, the U.S. patent system is so crazy and people are so scared of being sued for any dumb reason. Why don't you change it? I am glad that I live in the E.U., where the situation is saner.
I see your point and partially agree. But I think part of the problem with these kinds of stunts (for lack of a better word) is it's hard to tell the difference between actual scientific advancements and benefits of throwing hundreds of years of GPU time at it.
Magical technologies involving media-friendly disasters are the hardest to sell
Bitwarden handles being offline just fine. Like you need to go online eventually if you want to sync your changes but it's not like you need internet to manage your vault.
> I dream in Javascript

You have my deepest sympathies.
I looked around and wasn't able to find whether this firmware has been reverse engineered (surely it has been) -- the snark barker just has a .hex file checked into their git.
The death of data-scientists
I'd expect them to have two different sets of strengths and weaknesses.
Should RHEL include a 6GB libre game?
Huh. I've just used another git clone of the repo, but the worktree command seems to fit my uses very well. Thanks.
I do have Prime; I'm all over this. Thank you.
I liked the first part but then simplified the reasoning of the article and the philosophers it cites is: "there is no reason not to have children no matter how your life is now or how yiu want it to be" which makes sense if the author is trying deep inside to cope with his own decision.
Agreed. The book not only needs to be fleshed out, but is severely lacking in quality.
Google has an IC ladder. You don’t need to go into management when you get promoted.
I corrected a factual error, but I am not refuting or supporting the rest of your claims. But I will note that you are complaining about people who you perceive to be your competitors. You inherently have diminished credibility because of that.
Web application helps urban planners design cities
From the pay data I've seen Google pays more median total comp than others. Uber, Pinterest, AirBnB, Lyft...etc might pay more but not in liquid comp.
Only 8 ms? That's slower than a ping.

You were right about performance being relative. And of course the trade off between ease of development, use and performance. At the end of the day, practical considerations are going to determine what is "expensive".
Her job is not just to cut costs. And its not a simple job by any stretch.
Breaking Smart: Season One: How Software Is Eating the World
Such as Julia (https://julialang.org/), which is general-purpose and open-source.
It's not relevant for understanding Facebook's current challenges whatsoever. Do you honestly believe that most human beings can't be judged just as harshly for things they said in private conversation when they were 19 years old? Most people don't make offhand, immature and puerile remarks as a teenager? Should those remarks be used to critically understand large companies a decade and a half later?

It's also inane to keep citing it, because there is nothing new to the comment. It brings absolutely nothing new to the discussion that any of us can dig into. It's just an opportunity to fire off yet another short, low effort comment about Facebook.

What drives me mad is that you don't need to cite this stupid quote to convince people Facebook has serious privacy issues. There's so much better material to choose from - more recent, more extensively documented, involving more people...
"Presenting and promoting your team's work..."

Is that what is being promoted in a presentation to a promotion committee arguing that you individually should be promoted within the organization?

"... too busy to prepare an important presentation..."

Important to whom? You or the people you are working for?

I agree a system like this could filter for what we commonly recognise as "management qualities".

Although I am not sure they would be qualities such as selflessness and putting the needs of their reports and the organization ahead of their own aspirations.

It might also filter for self-serving behaviour.
> 2010s:

> Continuous Integration & Delivery

> Workplace domination by “lumber-sexuals”

This is the best the author could come up with for major developments this decade?

Are you kidding?
I just noticed that I have two SoundBlaster 16 PCI cards in their original boxes, but apparently they don't approach the AdLib's level of scarcity. (Similar items are selling on eBay for about $40.)
if you know OCaml then you have no reason to learn ReasonML. They are basically the same language with different syntax
Candy Crush is litterally a slot machine on smartphone at least thats how I see it.
These are all things that don't matter to me - I was always under some sort of health insurance since before the day I was born and never seriously contemplated needing social security systems. Still, living in a society where everyone can enjoy that makes for a better living experience.

Earning 5x what I would earn (which is not what I observe on my compensation level) does not compensate for knowing there are people who were driven out of their homes and now live in tent cities because I could pay more. In fact, I would not want to live in a society that encourages that and, most definitely, don't want to raise my kids to think that's normal, or desirable.
The users of the framework, the programmers of a webapp? I imagine that there's few frameworks for web development in C, so having options is good.

It's also probably way more portable than Golang or rust. That's also useful for the users of the webapp if they want to host it. I mean, it probably takes less effort to get it to compile and run on a system like SCO, compared to doing that with Golang or rust. You'd think legacy systems don't matter, but I imagine that there's still many businesses that heavily depend on such legacy systems because the costs to safely migrate are big.

Making it in C is probably also going to result in far smaller compiled code, since I imagine C requires a far smaller RTS than Golang or rust. That might make a difference for people that for some reason want to run a webapp on a small device.

I may be wrong though, since I don't have any experience with Golang or rust.
Yes, it is unfortunate that in the pursuit of both compatibility and performance we now live in a world where even the CPU is so maddeningly complex that it is basically impossible to reason about how it will perform on any given piece of code. Even writing assembly leaves you a few layers of abstraction above where it would have 30 years ago.

I like to think that it is possible we'll one day develop a CPU architecture that is both simple enough to reason about and also highly performant.
"How difficult it is for people to change lifestyle habits to fix their hormonal unbalance when it comes to obesity."

Sadly, evidently, very.

Annecdotally, most ppl don't seem to connect what they consume with their health. There's no sense of garbage in...feel like garbage.

I'm not sure what they're tbinking but when I look at their bodies and then at their shopping cart (at the super market) disconnect wins 9 of 10 times.

Furthermore, abnormal has been normalized. Humans are naturally wired to assume the norm. They see what's around them and naturally presume it's okay. Obesity is the new black. Soda, cookies, etc. (and the advertisement there of) is ubiquitous. Honesty is now called "fat shaming."

I understand there are people who have health issue the cause them to be obese. The rest a simply negligent. Sadly, it's not PC to say such truths.

p.s. Editorial: How is it, in the face of the obesity crisis (which directly contributes to increased healthcare costs), that the adults who lead the Girl Scouts are still pushing cookies. The hypocrisy and absurdity boggles my mind.
I would mind having the place I came from called a "shit hole".
I’m not defending Dropbox, some parts of this are definitely dark patterns, but I worked for one startup that had decorated their hallways with messages from people who had erroneously deleted their own accounts and data. To do that they had to click 3 times. In the beginning you just had to click “yes” 3 times, we changed it to delete and did the same thing as Dropbox using the other UX color so people would not just click but read and think. Dropbox is used in situations where I could easily imagine scores of user keeping valuable data on it and forgetting about his data, forcing them through a process seems prudent.
It is Google’s fault if it wants to have most of its engineers in Silicon Valley though.
Cool Italian Wine and Food Pairing in West Village, NYC
It’s hard in the sense that they’d probably go bankrupt.
Will people ditch cash for cryptocurrency? Japan is about to find out
Feels like this adds nothing compared to various keepass (clone) offerings.

What I'm really looking for is something like this, but with SSSS support ( http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ ) - I want to host the encrypted db someplace, and hand a group of friends and family subkeys, such that if X of the Y I gave a key to join forces and combine their keys, they can also decrypt my DB.

Useful if I'm dead or in a coma or whatnot.

Does anybody know of one?