skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I forgot who I was talking to for a sec... I'm guessing there's quite a bit we agree on :)

Looking across the aisle, I do wonder from time to time if the AGPL was a sort of breaking point. GPL always "threatened" industry at the desktop level and lower but once everyone's beloved FAANG+/- was in the cross-hairs the discussion maybe degraded a bit.
Once you get on top of varroa it is amazing how fast a hive grows. It seems to take a while for other problems to subside (sac brood, deformed wing virus etc) and a requeening seems to be required sometimes.
I’ve been using a variation on the Randy Oliver method with oxalic acid and it’s bring the varroa down fast when used.
Weekly counts of varroa on a cup of bees has been (averaged) 15, 12, 8, 4, then 1 or 2 last weekend.
The behaviour of the hives has changed too, and they are more settled (or as settled as can be, mid robbing season).
Yes, I disallow HTML as well. Well, technically, I don't allow HTML to render. If the email is important, then I'll read the HTML source myself and extract the parts that are important.
I keep hearing they can get to close to double that, too.
Cute force
The fastest business card experience
It's not end-to-end encrypted?

It's only encrypted going to server, I'm quite certain of it.
Awesome, thanks for that! By the way: that integration has been co-opted for use by a bunch of overlay software, like gw2taco [1].

So, even if not used for Mumble, it's now a pretty big feature for other 3rd party software. I use it regularly myself.

(For the unfamiliar: gw2taco et al use position/viewport data, I guess, from the GW2 Mumble API to draw an overlay on top of the game with navigational markers/aids.)

[1]: http://www.gw2taco.com/
There is indeed no organic analog for glyphosate. But there are other pesticides that are routinely applied to organic crops, such as copper sulfate, pyrethrin or rotenone. Both copper sulfate and rotenone are moderately toxic to people, and rotenone is highly toxic to fish.
In a number of states including Massachusetts, there are towns that have right-to-farm ordinances. They're not just anything goes obviously but the basic intent is to tell people that they really shouldn't move to a fairly rural old farm town and then complain that their neighbor is planting corn, raising goats, or generally doesn't have a neatly manicured lawn.
Do you know where the code and design docs are for the backends? The wiki has so many out of date pointers.
What? My email client has to connect according to what a message says?

That is crazy, man.

NB: Not blaming you, just shocked.
On my monitor that is nearly invisible
Yes, when you use a US carrier roaming in China you have a US IP:

>This censorship occurs despite the fact that when in China a cell phone using a foreign SIM is not subject to the firewall restrictions (all traffic is tunneled back to your provider first), so Google, Twitter, Facebook, et al all work fine on a non-mainland China SIM even though you’re connected via China Mobile or China Unicom’s network.
What an idiotic hosting platform.
This is a really interesting explanation of why some code might have a longer or shorter runtime than you'd expect. And, as a bonus, it's not titled "What every programmer should know about ..."

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=what%20every%20programmer%20sh...
> It's impossible to get promoted by bug fixes inside Google

This is why people job-hop for meaningful career advancement. Much easier than dealing w/ the broken promotions processes these companies employ.
Do you know if there are any domain lists available for blocking AMP?
The only thing that's annoying about mumble is the `mumble.com` namesquatting, distributing outdated clients to people I've tried to get to use Mumble.
Aside from enthusiasm for the mission, or the chance to strike it rich, there is another important consideration: self-actualization. That is, how much do you need it?

In a way, self-actualization is like having your own personal mission. If things like impact, influence, autonomy, innovation, speed, and big challenges are important to you, than you'll probably be miserable at a well-established company, regardless of the compensation, WLB, T-shirts, pep rallies, etc.
I think the question needs to be asked: will this last for the next 25-30 years? I really hope so, but unlike being a doctor, it's a lot more uncertain than we'd like it to be.
I don't get it. What part of that question is aggressive? Arriving late is a fact. The author requests helping him understand what's happening -- not an unreasonable request, unless you think that author magically understanding the situation without any communication counts as reasonable. The author feels an emotion -- again, not unreasonable because emotions are private and are not a choice. The author does not give an evaluation, so it sounds like you think having the emotion is the evaluation.

It sounds like you expect people to give you the benefit of the doubt all the time, without needing to expend any effort communicating.
That sounds like a really interesting feature! Trying to find some documentation on this specific feature but it's hard to find exactly what you're talking about.

1) Can you elaborate how "hierarchical chat room" works and how fleets in Eve Online use this?

2) Do other game chat apps like Discord implement anything similar?
It's really a simple question. How should you approximate this curve?

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> OSI is compatible with permissive licenses such as MIT License and BSD License. That's totally against what FSF and Stallman is about

Essentially all of the permissive OSI-blessed “open source” licenses are also FSF-blessed “free software licenses”; they are not “totally against what the FSF and Stallman is all about.”
Choosing to live in a fucking tent on the street is just 'expressing your uniqueness'? Really?
Of course there’s room for UX improvements, and there’s more work involved in using it since the server is self hosted, but once you have it going it does a thing and does it well.

The feature that got us on the mumble train years ago was how well it auto-balances the sound volume coming from different users. Other software we tried at the time you’d have some people much louder than others. This is probably pretty standard by now though.

EDIT: missed edit window on my parent comment, but a funny note related to Electron system resource usage. In addition to the RAM thing, it's based on Chromium which means it's using the GPU for rendering. There's an option in the config to disable this, otherwise it makes you exit the Discord client when you install GPU driver updates.

Not a huge deal, but it feels real silly when you get that popup. Like "I get that I need to close games to update GPU drivers, but my voice chat? Really?"
Setting up secure endpoints in Kubernetes
The title mentions News+ but the article is all about News App so this is not specific to News+
I was expecting a punch line like "every day, you don't know what they have done bad but they know"
What would be the usage in a driver of mapping arbitrary pages of memory to RW mode?
Just out of curiosity, did you "collapse" this comment thread since it's just a meta discussion, or is it somehow getting affected by user voting while still remaining at +1?
(edit: looks like, as per a comment further down, a lot of this is five-ish years old; the decisions made in its writing/presentation make a lot more sense in that light. Leaving comment for posterity.)

So I get the overall goal here, but reading this, this feels like somebody's trying to fight the last war.

> Since the early 90’s, operations engineers have been in high demand. As a result, these positions often offer high salaries and long term job security.

...because most of the control surfaces offered minimal automation and there were many fewer options for management. This isn't even a "well, AWS/GCP/Azure will eat your lunch" thing, it's a "the robots can do most of this already" thing. There are still roles for network engineers, large-scale datacenter management, and that sort of thing--but this "curriculum" reads as very...hands-on...when a holistic, automation-first approach is overwhelmingly preferred in industry (outside of the trailing edge, where those high salaries and that stability aren't nearly as common).

Again: not saying "use the cloud, datacenters don't matter." But I'm not sure that this encompasses what "ops" typically means (as opposed to "IT", which is itself becoming a largely automatable and automated function, or "devops", which will get there sooner than later) and I'm very unsure that places that will still be dealing with data centers in ten years, instead of outsourcing it, will benefit much from juniors with this skillset instead of one built around software definition and a pervasively automation-first mindset.
Interesting that the second number is prime and the others have very large prime factors (only 5 and 4 distinct prime numbers for 1st and 3rd numbers respectively):

(8,866,128,975,287,528)³ +
(–8,778,405,442,862,239)³ +
(–2,736,111,468,807,040)³ = 33

696950821015779435648178972565490929714876221952 -
676467453392982277424361019810585360331722557919 -
20483367622797158223817952754905569383153664000 = 33
I'll grant that a lot of code can't be readily adapted to large vectors, but this doesn't seem like much of a problem for (proposed) RISC-V. If you're creating an algorithm that only works on a specific width, you can just `setvl` and assert that you have enough space available. You're likely targeting a specific CPU or class of CPU where you know there will be support for 256-bit vectors or whatever. If someone tries to run it on a cheap embedded CPU, they'll be disappointed that your code won't run on their 64-bit vectors, but this is no different from trying to run AVX code on an Intel Atom.

I suppose it's hard to know until we can actually write code for it, but I haven't imagined a scenario where the RV model is significantly worse than packed SIMD, other than a tiny bit of vector configuration bookkeeping. I think that's a worthwhile tradeoff for getting simple, portable, fast code for elementwise operations and implementation flexibility.

I'd love to be convinced otherwise, though.
Thanks for the additional information. I believe you were probably listing prices for interpretation software packages like Petrel. Processing software is an entirely different animal and that is what I was talking about in my reply. You have to process the data so that it can be interpreted.

Your big packages for interpretation are Petrel, Paradigm's Epos systems, and IHS Kingdom-SMT. They are all great packages but as you noted there are things about each one that the user will stumble into which end up making no sense and likely result from poorly coded features which should have been upgrades but ended up being kludges.

> rhymes with lumberge

Scumbagger? As a former employee I can tell you that the best day of my life outside of my marriage and the births of my kids was the day I opened my mail to find an offer letter from another company - which I promptly accepted. Scumbagger bought a great processing software provider a few years ago. Their software was full-featured and very user-friendly. It had some quirks and a lot of kludges but their software support was top-notch the best I have seen in the industry. After the buyout, the older support hands were laid off and the support was bureaucratized to the point where it was no longer worth it to report a bug or request support. A true shame. Once a company gets that large they become like that old saying about juggies on the field crews - if they can't fuck it up they shit on it.
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I think so, but I tend to think of it as not the AGPL's fault, exactly. That is, the GPL was a product of its time: it's very concerned with the details of writing non-networked C code. It pre-dates the web! It was impossible to forsee these kinds of changes, and it just so happens that it was not really prepared for them. The AGPL was an attempt to plug that hole, but it was too little, too late.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with Freenet. Why must you use Tor to browse it?
>In conclusion, not all candidates from these schools are good and the good ones probably won't stay all that long

I think this could be said about candidates from traditional CS degree backgrounds as well, no?

Companies are creating self-fulfilling prophesies by trying to hire juniors for as cheap as possible and then refusing to implement decent raise/retention strategies. I can't imagine that it's cheaper in the long run to constantly have to interview, hire, and on-board mid-level engineers than it is to just give a junior an decent raise of a year or two.
It's not exactly coding related, but I really like the Orbital Index. The stories they choose are usually interesting and their blurbs are succinct enough to read during a few minutes break.
The best way to do that is IMO to look at the templates itself: https://github.com/minimaxir/automl-gs/tree/master/automl_gs...

tl;dr it uses the standard encoder-combiner-MLP-output results, but with a lot of variability in the process.
"Because we were unavailable, my younger brother-in-law was given Power of Attorney."

I don't understand this. IANAL, but recently had to figure some of this stuff out. PoA is granted per the wishes of the grantor. If your FIL is incapacitated, who granted the PoA?

I think your wife is certainly within her rights to see the actual PoA.

I am not advocating lawyering up or pushing hard for clarity.

I am saying that it might be worthwhile to figure out what's what, explore options. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. Like who and how decides about DNR, end-of-life, etc.

Further, it's good practice. Talk to your kids, next-of-kin, whoever. Figure this stuff out ahead of time. For everyone's peace of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_attorney

My family has a long tradition of planning ahead for this stuff. Even so, we recently scrambled to update my mom's paperwork to better reflect the current situation. Just in case. Having that clarity helped. Prevented a bad situation from getting worse and got us all back to rowing together.

For comparison, my SIL's family hasn't done anything, won't talk about it, and last year was a total shitshow. Also, my sweetie's family hasn't done anything, won't talk about it, the inevitable happened, and now it's a shitshow.

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Ask about any available resources, social workers, counseling. They can help navigate this stuff.
What's the technical explanation for that? I don't understand how that would prevent e-mail from being "used".

Presumably people aren't sending e-mails to domains that belong to trackers/ads? Otherwise I don't see what the problem would be.
How did it go with the competitor? Look on the bright side, at least a partner didn't steal your IP and go on to compete. I have seen that happen to at least 3 people I know fairly well irl.
This is great feedback. We are currently working on improvements on this specific finding. We'll continue to provide updates to make Firefox Lockbox a better experience. Thanks for trying and testing the app.
> Ahahah, the good joke.

Mmm... Can you explain the media in the US are so much against Trump--with the majority of journalists still pushing for fake news about Russian bots and government intervention even after official investigations are closed, and with some of them even crying live when the Muller investigation conclusions came out?

Or, can you explain why most major news outlets in the States are categorized as biased towards left-wing causes on https://mediabiasfactcheck.com?

> Maybe because the other choice was the daughter of a old extreme right dynasty from a party funded by old nazis and negationists. Maybe.

I have no idea if that's true, but one shouldn't be punished for what his/her parents did (unless you're in North Korea I guess).
If the movement is too slow for you on a Mac trackpad, just take a few seconds and go adjust the settings. You can tweak the tracking speed however you want.
One path to explore is to start with interesting covers of Aphex Twin works:

- The Alarm Will Sound collective has an album called Acoustica where they made acoustic-instrument-based covers of Aphex Twin songs. https://www.alarmwillsound.com/

- The Bad Plus covered Aphex Twin's Flim on their These Are the Vistas album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeMre0Sp7o4

Both Alarm Will Sound and The Bad Plus are somewhat different, quite interesting directions to explore for other music you might enjoy programming to.
Your emotional and completely unsubstantiated rebuttals to my well documented response is very unlike HN and doesn't belong here.
First time I heard about them.

Seems to be another distributed SQL (aka 'newsql') alternative to TiDB and CockroachDB.

Based on RocksDB (like Cockroach) with a custom distributed key/val layer and and additional SQL layer on top. PostgreSQL protocol compatible.

OS with Apache license.

Seems interesting. (when ignoring the "planet scale SQL" marketing speak... [1])

[1] https://www.yugabyte.com/planet-scale-sql/
One point OP may have missed is learning opportunity. The opportunity to learn in a big company, any big company is simply not the same as that in a startup. You are always one of 50 people working on a feature that has already been spec'd out in great detail by some one else. Early in your career investing in learning and becoming a better engineer makes a lot of sense.
There are two curves to account - sunrise and sunset. Daylight savings attempts to flatten one of those and not the other!
What happens in 20 years when all the professionals in the industry have no understanding of what their robots do?
Okay, and as someone who has hitherto largely worked at startups (2/3rd of my career), let me tell you the counterpoint.

There is not a lot of risk from your perspective, but there is a large amount of risk for us.

At a startup, you push all you can towards steering the ship in the right technical direction. For example, unlike at a BigCo, you are likely to be that person who will write the technical debt that later-joining younger engineers will call you stupid for, but you did it while producting your startup to scale.

But you only get the pay-out if you actually manage to last until the exit. If you leave before then, because of politics or some failed product push or what-have-you, then you will have to exercise your options, which puts you in a bind in terms of financial risk. If you do exercise, you will be subject to dilution. If you'd stayed at the company, it's often the case that they continue to grant options to employees they want to keep.

So to "make it," you effectively have to grow into a BigCo employee anyway. At that point, what is really the point to working at a startup? Especially since your pay will be like half that of a BigCo? Especially since it's A LOT more stressful? Especially since you actually need your critical thinking skills to compensate for your founding team's shortcomings?

Now at a BigCo, you drink the kool-aid, you jump through the hoops (working at BigCo is more about jumping through hoops because that's how they "scale" things), but if you do all that, you're more or less set. You may have to "work" hard, but your life is on autopilot.

I've had this conversation with lots of folks who've been there, and I myself have helped build one company from the pre-10 engineers phase (more like 3 engineers phase) to something that had a real shot. To be quite frank, the financial incentives are certainly not there, and for most companies I see, I'm no longer sure about the growth/learning incentives either. It's just a bad deal, and you should care because by and large, the smart engineers who can make your boat float aren't going to work for a startup.
I really like it, personally. It has some flaws like anything else, but overall it works well.
The Bat Bomb
None of this is even slightly true.

The kernel is still on the "vendor" side of Project Treble, and still controlled by the OEM as a result (not that it should be but it is). This is not against "traditional linux" at all anyway. Upstream linux doesn't exactly like having a bunch of stuff rammed in as kernel modules either, that's why for example FUSE exists.

As for "removing GPL parts" - Android started with minimal GPL parts in the first place but they haven't been actively removing GPL, either. Just look through AOSP for MODULE_LICENSE_GPL - you'll find a ton of components are still (L)GPL.
Really? Among companies of its size, Google seems like the one China has the least pull over. Apple's entire business lives and dies with a supply chain in China. Microsoft runs bing in China, and probably other services as well.
just like every other airline sends you offers of prices from 29$ and there not one available date with that price?
Nah, it would typically include all info known at send time, but it can see if there is updated data on email open time.

E.g. when you open a notification email from GitHub, the email can tell you that since it was sent, there are now additional comments to consider.
There are not that many general programming newsletters, but language specific there are a ton. A list I like to use is the Awesome Newsletter https://github.com/zudochkin/awesome-newsletters
I bought them
I've always been a bit sad that there hasn't been more empirical work on Dunbar's Number. It looks like attempts to validate the modern number range from around 150 to around 250 (Bernard–Killworth, who seem to be leaders here), but of course that variance has a lot to do with exactly what counts as a 'connection'.

You're very right about the mistake of looking only at company size; Dunbar suggested that maintaining the full connection set would take a very large amount of socialization time, and most people have at least some connections outside the office. Even anecdotally, there are lots of people who describe feeling disconnected at work because they spend more time than coworkers on non-work connections. This seems to have been ignored by a lot of people using the number. Wikipedia claims the Swedish tax service limits offices to 150 people based on Dunbar, but that could easily be 50 people too large for a workplace community. Malcolm Gladwell, for whatever his data is worth, claims that Gore-Tex hit cultural problems as offices grew beyond 150.

If those anecdotes are accurate, it implies offices function well with high rather than total connectivity. Intuitively, that seems quite reasonable. Cross-organization connections are valuable, but not every pair of jobs has equal value-from-connectivity. And small teams are infamously hard to build because everyone involved has to get along and agree on how to function. If you aim for 90% connectivity (or 50%, who knows) instead, it's possible to maintain a high-empathy organization while still allowing for personality conflicts.
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