skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The minute you make third-party developers potentially responsible for the overall stability of your system, the fault is yours, sorry. Microsoft simply did not grok security principles when building Windows 95, and they have been paying the price ever since.

> your /home/.program/program.conf file is from a newer version and the program doesn't run.

But a problem in program.conf would sabotage the program, not the entire system. Whereas a bad registry can stop you from booting. That is the main problem.

A real unix equivalent could maybe be a problem with something in /etc, but that stuff is supposed to be 1) set to basic defaults that will work in any circumstance, and 2) kept under lock and key. Whereas the Registry was born as a free-for-all, and only much later got a permission system retrofitted on top.

Was the Registry a good idea? Maybe; but it certainly had a terrible execution, and now we're stuck with the results.

> if only there was a standardised key/value store

Yes, if only - but there isn't, the Registry is Windows-only. That's why developers end up managing text files: because they work everywhere, in 1995 as in 2019; whereas APIs come and go.
Not to be a pessimist, but just because a software error never caused a catastrophic space shuttle accident doesn't necessarily mean that the software actually was safe and secure.
Great but CO2 levels are still rising. I could care less if the planet is covered with jungle from pole to pole if the heat makes it unlivable in large portions of it.
My first thought was THC Hydra [1]

[1] https://sectools.org/tool/hydra/
You could argue that Facebook isn't operating in a socially accepted framework either, and that this act is a reaction to their assaults.

Not to belittle this crime, of course.
Yes! Last time I was interviewing I got multiple offers from my post. I did get some recruiter spam but it was mostly founders or early engineers that did the reaching out.
is it true?i found hardly to believe it
100% agree, which is why I'd want hardware delivered :). Not as easy for e.g. an electric vehicle, but pretty straightforward for smaller electronics. I come pre-equipped with a decently stocked lab: nice 'scope/logic analyzer, ok spectrum analyzer, nice soldering setup for SMD, hordes of JTAG adapters and dev boards, 3D printer, etc. I've been doing remote hardware work for a while now; there are definitely a few challenges, but it's generally worked just fine.

Edit: I looked at their profile and saw the citizenship requirement, and more of a description of the kinds of stuff they work on. I get why remote might not be encouraged for it :). The point still stands generally though; remote hardware work is possible and not a huge burden for most situations.
Their metrics are for “articles viewed”, not “articles that the reader read and enjoyed”.

They don’t care if you get bored halfway through, they probably don’t even care if you read the article. As long as the numbers for the money metrics go up, they’re happy.
Yes that is exactly it. Didn't see that, thank you.
Legislation aimed at stopping deepfakes is a bad idea
That, or people would compose their messages separately in a notes app
I always have this overwhelming desire to comment on people's posts in those threads. I wish they had a peanut gallery.
What Heathkit model was a rebadged VT52? The H9 was crudely similar to a VT50 but in many ways less capable (it didn't even have a character like the AMD-3A’s ^K to move the cursor up, as far as I can tell), and though its successor the H19 supported VT52 sequences, it also supported extensions like ESC E and also an ANSI mode. Or do you mean Heathkit made a Videx-based terminal (presumably not the H9)?
This is a pretty famous story along these lines. Ryan graves (now billionaire) at Uber: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/uber-billionaire-employee-no...
Also see Britain's vigilante pothole superhero, "Wanksy": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/11570595/Meet-the...
Reminds me of my Nokia 3 which is stuck in a non up-gradable loop. What I think is happening is that the the new image is downloaded to the SD card, then when you restart to upgrade the SD card isn't mounted so the upgrade fails, then you reboot again and you've lost all your shortcuts to apps on the SD card. I'm not sure if it's the image itself on the SD card or something else required but it's obvious Nokia don't spend much on QA.
Lower mileage insurance can help reduce that cost by the way, if you tell your insurer your only adding 2k miles a year to the car rather than 10k miles, they will drop your rates commensurately.

Sub in an eBike for the commuting & errands, its quite doable to go car light or car free (esp. if Car2go, Lime pod or another service is available in your city).
I wonder if this is because of Panasonic scaling back its investment in the gigafactory, or the cause of it.
Likely because they'd have to be unionized and pensioned, which they probably can't afford long term.
The neat thing is that already basically exists in the form of voltage.

If you've ever watched your voltage, you'd noticed that it isn't a perfect 110 or 220. It is often higher or lower. When it is higher, there is a local surplus, when it is lower, there is a high load.

We could do this today. We might not have current pricing, but we do have load vs production information.
It's really not. Everyone thinks it's super complicated and dangerous because everyone is thinking about running a webserver, a database, and some active scripting language.

Just running a webserver is dead simple. The only technical stumbling block would be forwarding the port from the router and a good chunk of internet users understand that.
Print ads have worked for centuries.

Digital ads with analytics work 1000 times better.
A simple motor or generator simply add inertia, but I see no reason why you can't use a flywheel to deliberatly regulate frequency, for example by adding a continuously variable transmission.

But really inertia is all you need because all we are trying to do here is replacing the lost inertia from replacing spinning generators with solar. The recovered inertia gives human operators the time to make phone calls to increase energy production, spinning up a pumped-hydro plant or whatever is available.
I don't get the down votes. You seem to have provided an interesting source that counters the parent's hunch. Must be that folks don't like the silver lining to a maybe-uninhabitable-by-humans environment.
Yes. I was hired by a university on a temporary position from HN after I finished college. It was my first job post-graduation.
Ability to remove spam messages would be awesome, these days it is very hard to deal with on a public channels. Also log out of the box. None of them are distraction. And proper authentication out of the box. Better design for poor, unstable connections, i.e.
mobile phones.
It's actually a good thing that CO2 is rising. The climate is changing primarily due to the Sun. This is a big reason why we are seeing large amounts of hail in Guadalajara, Slovenia/Italy, & Africa this summer. Don't forget that this past winter was cold.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3

NASA predicts that Solar Cycle 25 will be the least active in over 200 years, largely due to Dr. Valentina Zharkova's work. We are in a cooling period, which means we need all the help we can get growing food. This is why higher CO2 is great for humans.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/solar-activity-forecast-fo...

Enjoy the Summer Snow & skiing in Colorado!

https://gazette.com/multimedia/photos-summer-snow-brings-rid...
> The beauty of Linux/Unix is that stuff is configured by text files. Windows was on that path i the early days when everything was configured with ini files before someone had the idea of introducing the registry.

cough dconf cough
I don't think people are "pretending", just that losses are different based on what system you have (not just DC vs AC, but also the voltage, the type of insulator on your cables, the conductor [copper/aluminum, most new stuff is aluminum] and the substations.) Corona losses, specifically, are also strongly affected by the weather! Then you have people writing about it doing incorrect math on some percentage they don't understand from a technical paper.

That said, I agree that 5% sounds close for the transmission losses alone (excluding distribution), and 5% could be easily made up, like you said, by many things, like being next to a wind turbine factory/cheaper land/cheaper labor/tax breaks/many things.

Interesting note: I found here [0] that silver would be a feasible conductor for HVDC lines if prices were lower. On an example line, it would save $19M/yr but cost $18.5B to build, so 1000 year payback time, which is unrealistic. But! If the price of aluminum increased substantially (for example: say we discover smelting releases mega-carcinogens and it's banned) and the price of silver fell (silver is now 4x as expensive as it was in 2003, so I feel like it could fall fairly precipitously) then we could in theory have silver power lines. One thing to remember, though, is that it's only the "skin" of the conductor made of copper/aluminum/silver - the skin carries 90% of the power, but the bulk of the conductor's mass is the cheap steel core that doesn't need to be as conductive because it only carries 10% of the power.

[0] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/harting1/
We call it scrummerfall.
Somewhat yes. It depends on where you draw the line for "tech cluster", both for the size and for the industry.

Austin and the DC area sort of count. No, they aren't the Bay Area, but nothing else is.

Specifically for low-level security work, there are a number of competitors both large and small in Melbourne, FL. There is also embedded work related mainly to aerospace.
Remote also means you need a US visa, of course.
This will sound crazy, and I'm not suggesting the consumer would deal with it directly, but I think we'll need coins for each planetary body and another one for the solar system that has a much longer block time. More scales would be useful, but these are the minimum. Repeat for each star, with MilkyWayCoin having an absurd block time.
The city council needs to be replaced with people who aren't quite as crooked. Fortunately, the FBI is actively working on this problem. One down, seven to go.
>Furthermore, having easy access to components means the effective lifetime of hardware is much longer. You can repair things when it is no longer economical to do so at an Apple Store.

And now you know why Apple dropped those features.
But your post makes me feel genearlly harassed, how can I know when I am just uncomfortable or annoyed?
Unfortunately apart from the search being awful it also does some internet search and if your network drops out while it's searching for something you'll be left with the start menu frozen until it hits it's 1-2 minute timeout.
Location: Seattle

Remote: Not at this time

Willing to relocate: Sure, especially to the East coast

Technologies: React, C++/CX, XAML, Python

Résumé/CV: Available upon request

Email: illymaccha@gmail.com

I've been working in the industry for about a year now on operating system interfaces, with a special focus on development for accessibility. I'm a recent grad with a degree in computer science and creative writing.

I'm passionate about developing with a focus on end-user experience; I like to think of user experiences more holistically than just thinking in terms of design.

I'd like to go somewhere where I can grow both as a software developer and as a product developer; I want to work on a team where design, product, data, and development all communicate heavily and work together. If that describes your team, and you're looking for an engineer eager to grow and contribute, let's get in touch!
But do they need to?
> Most of these techniques were intended; the game was designed to have them in.

As another reply reminded me, I'm thinking of stuff like demodashes that definitely weren't intended. In any case, the comment I'm replying to is also criticizing design styles that benefit speedrunners over the average player, so my comment is kind of a reaction to that.

> I haven't played much VVVVVVV, but isn't it basically the same as celeste?

The difference with VVVVVV is that the controls are simple, instead of having runner-friendly combos that get extremely long or involve glitches. The game is played with arrow keys: up / down flip the direction of gravity, and left / right move the player character at a constant speed to the left or right. That's all there is to the controls. Similarly, Super Hexagon has exactly two inputs: left and right, which move an arrow around in a circle.

In contrast, games like Celeste put an enormous amount of complexity behind input combos. The air dash mechanic alone took me hours to learn with any precision. The complaint I have (and maybe the parent comment too) is that as a casual player it's hard to shake the feeling that these games were designed for someone who has a lot more time to train finger memory on a bunch of precise input combinations than you do.

So it's not the existence of speedrunning that bothers me (I watch a bunch of GDQ, actually), it's the experience of playing games that are easy to exploit and "beat" if you have time to practice frame-perfect inputs, but aren't so rewarding casually. As I said in my comment you replied to, I realize this is all very subjective and probably won't bother most people (and I actually, I like Celeste quite a lot). But it's also the reason I find games like Smash very frustrating as a casual.
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Willing

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: .Net, JS/TS, TSQL, Salesforce, lots of reporting, BI, d3.js etc. Would love to move into Rust/Go dev work.

Résumé/CV: Can provide

Email: danni.uptlen[at]gmail.com
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We've hit peak car in North America. This new generation will see car ownership go down.

Less car ownership on the horizon;
1)Cities are congested
2)The congestion in the suburbs is even worse than driving in downtown
3)For years the solution was to build more highways, but land for doing so is running out
4)Car ownership is no longer cool
5)Ride sharing and renting is become easier (GPS, Internet, Smartphones)
6)Cars have become safer, but the joy or riding in them has been killed. It's like being trapped in an egg carton.
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It’s always amazing to me how much people hate seeing any facts that don’t overwhelmingly blame CO2 as some sort of pollutant. It’s beyond rational at this point and is almost certainly simply an emotional response now.
I was thinking of giving Pokemon as a sepecific case, but yes, manga characters would also work.

> I am interested in Wikimedia communities

Sorry to disappoint, I wasn't very involved even before they started gutting the non-politics stuff. I just saw the good articles start disappearing and picked up enough discussion to know what the people at fault were called.

The math and science articles seem to be holding out, at least, although I notice they axed Binary_lambda_calculus a couple years ago, so I'm not optimistic.
There’s stuff like this out there but you just need to have faith in the experts.
that's fairly cool. Wish such sites were available for more open source packages.

Always wanted to know the algorithms used in sort.

So ls has more source lines than sort? Funny, but a bit depressing too.
No. There are 2 to try, and 9 that are not possible due to location.
I drive a Model S and I disagree. I'd prefer to have my own music and podcast apps. Car Play and Android Auto are a lot better UX-wise.
> am I a fool for not trying to start a VC backed startup?

Fools "start startups" as a goal. Smart folks take opportunities that present themselves, sometimes through a startup.
Apparently seam carving is already used to produce surreal memes:

https://imgur.com/gallery/NpeguXu
Maybe not the space shuttle, but:

NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter; crashed or is now inoperable and orbiting the sun due to a bad numerical conversion.

ESA’s Ariane 5 Flight 501; manual self destruct triggered after a 64bit number being truncated into 16bits caused faults to be thrown.

https://raygun.com/blog/costly-software-errors-history/#

I don’t think we should go back to manual operation (as the default, but should be overridable). Instead we should be using stricter compilers, and better unit, integration tests, and fuzz testing to test as many edge conditions as possible.
Freedom of speech, should apply reguardless of good faith. Who would you have draw the line?
But what about the plastic pollution as a result of this (from the GPS tracker that will now become permanent plastic garbage).

You need a little perspective about the true extent of the problem. A GPS tracker probably weights 4 ounces. For comparison, the Yangtze river alone dumps 1.5 million metric tons of plastic per year into the Yellow Sea.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...
Recruiter spam seems inevitable when responding to such posts, but the way I avoid long term recruiter spam is by creating an email addresses for each time I seek employment.

I own a domain so I create an email address such as career2019@example.com where example.com takes place for my actual domain. I recommend this. I also use this temporary email to sign up for linkedin for the duration of my employment seeking.

After having secured employment, I delete the linkedin and then never use the email again, nor look at whatever may arrive into its inbox.
Regardless of CSIRO, NASA is also on board with increased plant growth. Mainstream science is warming up (no pun intended) to the fact that the Sun is the primary driver of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45584-3

NASA predicts Solar Cycle 25 to be the least active in over 200 years.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/solar-activity-forecast-fo...

During grand solar minimums, plant growth decreases, with increases in cloud nucleation, volcanic eruptions & earthquakes. The CO2 boost in plant growth will be of great aid during this cooling period that we are now in.

https://principia-scientific.org/strong-evidence-that-svensm...
And I understand that a significant proportion of Azure is running VMs with headless copies of Word hooked up to Office 365 so that those same old documents can straightforwardly be opened online, too.

Apologies I can't find the reference (of course I read this on here).

I'm very curious if a) the VM stays open the whole time, b) your document gets exported to some kind of perfect serialization format that can then be re-saved when you're done, c) if Word is using something like operational transformations to store keystrokes and edits and then ticker-taping that into a save routine, or d) something else.
I mean RF is an important part of NMR and it's radiation.
I think it's due to companies being understaffed. I've talked with people at a couple of tech companies, both startups and large corporations, why they don't hire more interns.

The answer was the same: We don't have enough resources to train them. Everyone's overworked and behind schedule, and can't even set aside a measly 1 hour a week to show interns the ropes.

And some feel that it's just a chore, like interviewing candidates.

It seems like companies these days want direct replacements or shoe-in workers, that can go from orientation / setting up equipment on day 0, to producing code on day 1.

When I started out, I had 6 months of training and getting familiar with codebase plus tech.

This is obviously not the case everywhere, but seems like a trend from my own experience.
I have definitely gotten interviews over this. I am not sure if my job was through who's hiring but I do know I did at least 2 onsites from it.
I think this allows you to turn whatever you use for user authentication into an OAuth2 provider by letting you implement the hooks that authenticate users while handling the OAuth2 bits. Or at least that is what I got from the introduction at https://www.ory.sh/docs/hydra/#what-is-ory-hydra .
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And that's the way it should be.

But keep in mind that if a developer is in a sprint, he might start adding tickets to the epic because of technical/organizational issues. Suddenly the epic might look 3x more work than was originally planned. Note this is not theoretical, as it's happened 3 times to our team already this year.

But meanwhile in the example I gave, the developer gets held accountable still for not making the correct estimate. Management just passes it up the chain rather than trying to increase the confidence around the estimate.
Taxation and other regulatory, bureaucratic nuances
I do something similar, except don't assign to a number. My back of the envelope estimates are: hours, days, weeks, months.

This gives people enough information as to whether or not a change is worth it. If the difference between, say, 2 and 5 days makes or breaks the feature it's probably not worth exploring in the first place.
When Mistakenly Put on an Email Chain, Should I Reply-All Asking to Be Removed?
When Elon Musk got the boring company going, I couldn't help wondering why there weren't entreprenuers in paving.

Why don't we have giant computer-controlled machines that go down roads, suck them in and grind them up and spit out new roads behind themselves -- as the defacto paving scenario?

I know they do this sometimes. But why not all the time? Instead of pothole fixing, just fix the entire road. Cheap road machines, drive the price down. And put down lane markings and reflectors as part of the process. And do every thing only at night.
Kubernetes Journey – Up and Running Out of the Cloud – Network
I agree with your questioning, but find it a bit odd to do so in response to this particular paper if you're really not suggesting some sort of political bias. CSIRO is not 'emphasizing' this paper - it's just one of many news releases.

As for the findings themselves - they're interesting if not unexpected. They don't in themselves have any significant practical implications (positive or negative) as Australian deserts are in zones that the BAU scenario will make too hot for human habitation by the end of this century.
300 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded every minute. Assuming that the average video is 2x the minimum required to maximize ad revenue (10 min so 20 min per) that is 25 videos per second. Assuming you can do a deal every 10 minutes you would need 630 people to get ads for 1% of the videos uploaded.

The entire point of that complicated web is to eliminate the cost of all those people and move that 0.1% that you could actually do to closer to 80%.

While it is true that we have given too much power to advertisers the solutions to the privacy problems that solve the advertisers requirements is hard (remember they are the only ones paying into the system so dropping their requirements won't happen). There have been some technical papers put forward but they are as complex as BitCoin is in order to actually allow for a small subset of the features the terrible leaky privacy of the modern web gives them for no effort.
The Poseur's Approach to Making Music
A study on Stokes-Brinkman dimensionless model for flow in porous media
We can do analog control. Almost anything digital can do, analog can as well... although often with very complicated implementations.