skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The curl project continues to be a fantastically run project

- It has stayed focused on one problem area, and only providing enough functionality to solve that set of problems (fancy way of saying it hasn't bloated)

- It is well documented and new features are well communicated

- When it does add features, the maintainers are features slowly and focus on quality. This is also in part because curl is such a fundamental tool that a lot of other software that relies on it would break if it wasn't rock solid

Just check out the length of the PR for this "simple" change of making the functionality parallel: https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/b88940850002a3f1c25bc648...
Is your manager willing to talk about knowledge transfer of some of your duties to other people? That's a double win, because they get some growth, and you get free time to pursue other interests. And if there is nothing, then at least you feel less guilty about leaving.

Your boss has revealed they have no opinions on your growth options. Do you have any ideas of your own? Offer them up.
TFA continues: '"I'm just not sure why Google needs to know what breakfast cereal I eat," the 51-year-old said.'

I hope Mr. Kelly is a pseudonym for the article. If not, Big Geez now knows his breakfast cereal proclivities.

For what it's worth, I'm in full sympathy of his plight, and agree that advertiser surveillance is creepy, dangerous, and evil.
> 2. Complete and utter lack of words to respond.

> Yikes.

I see what you did there
I don’t think so because they also paid for hotels, airfare, food etc for multiple days. But yeah probably a kickback involved
I need a real, full sized keyboard. I can't do real work on a laptop keyboard. Worse, I can't do real work on a laptop that has a touchpad just below the keyboard. I'm always bumping the touchpad and having the mouse jump to a different part of the window. That's very very not good when editing code...
There is a little more info in https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a284720...

The ship used is the Seabed Constructor: https://www.swireseabed.com/assets/vessels/seabed-constructo...

And there is commercial info in Ocean Infinity official website: https://oceaninfinity.com/
Notes from a Nameless Conference
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504164
Get off your own pedastal and take others off the imaginary pedastal you've put them on. Everyone is a pedestrian. Everyone can only ever be a person with human interests and the same limits of human capabilities. I realized this about others early on, but it takes a real moment of reflection to realize this yourself. Being conceited is not an admirable quality. I've very much been there, I know this, but don't remember what it's like. I do remember, that it's a tool. It's a tool and a copout for understanding the human context that you're in and being vulnerable.

In addition, if you haven't found what makes someone interesting or can't conceive of it, you haven't looked past the outermost level. Once I started sitting down with people, setting my ego aside, and listening to what they're interested in, I was way happier and realized that the small world I placed myself in—this artificial bubble of grandeur—was kind of depressing, and pure intellectual pursuits alone aren't enough to live a fullfilling life. You have to find balance.

I trade long diatribes about urban development with meandering tales from the theater industry or discover the background I didn't know existed in the colleage that I've been working with. I'll concede that in a vast, vast minority of cases I can't find a thread to go deeper on. It's usually because they've put up a wall for some reason or another, or their current set of pursuits or passions or romances is just pretty vanilla, and that's okay. Sometimes it doesn't work out, but you gotta explore the human connection. If I didn't take this approach, I would have written off everyone in my life, including one specific developer I know who had a very similar attitude. Through time, I found the value in those people and it's super rewarding to me that they remember my name after a year being gone from a relatively new city. We're just people passing through this world, and everyone has something different and interesting about them... if you let your gaurd down.
> I honestly don't yet know how to fit everyone together

Bricklayers should be managed and never put into more senior role. Also, you should never build a mixed team with bricklayers and "other" developers (except for case where there is only one "other" developer and they are the team lead).
> Google tracking is baked into Android pretty deep

Citation needed.
If you had read the article you would see that the test will always be positive after you get infected because the tests only shows whether you've had an immunie response to the disease in the past.
It's wonderfull for all the parents...
Now the real challenge is to understand... Why it sunk.
Families will also want this info.
He should probably install this:
https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
It's so good.
So "somewhat positive" = "negative" actually"?

That's what I was getting at - apparently it's negativity-driven, all the way down.
Not sure if the article was edited before you posted, but the author covers this. There is a human in the loop. The swarm sends all its data to the ground station, where a human gives go/no-go.

There thing that is automated is the first phase threat identification and the generation and execution of the attack plan, not the threat verification or decision to execute. Which is fine IMO.
Membraneless polyester microdroplets as primordial compartments at life origins
Excluding the personal attacks, which dilute what would have been a good alternative look at Facebook, I suggest everyone interested in this topic to look at the other parts that make up the click-fraud industry:

- Clickfarms in China that have shady people using some automation and thousands of smartphones to perform fake clicks for the Chinese ad market

- Pied Piper style farms with people in poor countries sitting all day creating accounts (it was exaggerated in the series)

- The ad giants constant "battle" with click-fraud

- Shady tactics used by smaller app/websites to get people to accidentally click on ads

I wouldn't personally denounce all online advertising though. It has its place the same way print media advertising does. It's market-value is questionable though (which is derived from questionable "effectiveness" sales pitches we're told about online advertising)
You may or may not be right about this.

The only way to verify this is to install some system level firewall and carefully inspect all logs.

Until you do that, we simple don't know.
I think it says a lot - either about tech culture or Firefox's marketing - that many people don't know about these types of tools that solve the problem.
> "The government can hurt more people in a day than a terror group can in a year"

Of course. But we need to remind myself this: what it is the probability that they are going to willingly hurt innocent people on a massive scale at the moment?

Aligned with your comment:

I have to admit that one of my paranoid fears is that this will change in the future and who is supposed to protect us is actually going to be our enemy. This was also one of the founding fathers.I guess, we are in a good company.

History is full of examples of good kings that die and their successors are very wicked men.

At the moment I think that "being able to find out what they need to" is net positive for the world ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20509347 ) but what really bother me is that if in a future (hopefully remote) this change, there is no way to undo the past.

From my prospective the security that they are able to provide because of being able to tap in any conversation and the risk of citizen data being used against innocent people is clearly a huge compromise.
Backdoor my comms and I will speak jive.
And how long til the black legged tick just becomes resistant to permethrin?
Announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7
I looked up the word Gestapo; your usage is incorrect.
The article mentions how unreliable testing for Lyme is.
Smart idea. I love it.
"The opportunity to contribute more than just lines of code should be offered and encouraged, but don't be surprised at how few will be interested."

I learned a long ago:

1) I can offer the best ideas that go beyond lines of code, but it usually comes down to the decision of someone in a higher position than me (manager, sales, the CEO, etc) and if they just don't feel like utilizing your ideas, they won't. Fighting this is more trouble than it's worth.

2) Most companies, unless you are in a startup where you wear many hats, don't want you offering your ideas. They have the ideas and want the developer to make them into a reality.

3) Most of the time, a project manager is the person that thinks about the bigger picture. I don't really want to have the responsibility of both roles..without the salary increase that comes along with it.

I love thinking about the bigger picture, which is why I have my own company I'm building on the side. But I would much rather just get my job done as a developer for my day job.
Analyse your HTTP resonse headers
Congratulations to the SpaCy team for growing a product succesful enough to have its own conference. Good speakers on the list too.
Interesting quote:

> NET Core 3.0 Preview 7 is supported by Microsoft and can be used in production.

I'm not sure I've seen that before in other Preview releases. is that a new thing? And is it common?
How many weeks did you end up using Capsule for?
The tooling isn't the first problem you need to work on; you need to change the system first. Take a look at this: https://www.eviltester.com/blog/eviltester/linkedin/2019-07-...

To help make the case to change the system, though, you could build a proof-of-concept that uses your credentials and present that - and the ACM Queue article! - to the folks you need to convince. Try showing it to someone who pays the bills too - they might be a useful ally to help change how things work if they recognise the productivity gains.
Not that I fully disagree, but with proper discipline growth can be found in maintenance work. no system is perfect and you can constantly improve, refactor, add coverage, add telemetry, reduce operations etc. It's not only Greenfield or "hip" projects that provide growth. like any endeavor it's up to the artisan to find meaning and challenge in any work
The relative security afforded by various factors in developed countries (especially USA) since after WW2 up to now may not be available going forward. The biggest challenge is the increasing proportion of non-working people to working people, at least partly due to aging and fewer children.

The part of spending you can't control and which happens to be the largest expense is medical care, which is not a problem right now due to Medicare, but it's already stressing the system and we have quite a ways to go before the aging population maxes out. Retirement ages are already going up and up, and I can definitely foresee rationing of medical care as we push the system to its limits.
Why no coffee?
A Decade of Low Interest Rates Is Changing Everything
IIUC you'd have to encrypt the text rendering, not the rendered text, for the message to be e2e encrypted and inaccessible through memory.
South Korea, Russia, Japan and China Warplanes Face Off in Asian Confrontation
> Second, women engineers prioritize growth to an even greater extent than men, and they place particular secondary emphasis on inclusivity and comfort with their work and environment.

Woman in tech here. I agree completely, and I'd almost say that saying you want to grow your career in an inclusive environment is saying "I want to grow in a place that will actually value me and promote me." Been in so many places where talented women are just not promoted, and it can be so demoralizing.
Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought
>I’ve personally found that an anti-inflammatory diet that eliminates caffeine, dairy, grains, and sugar

Me too! I don't (think I) have Lyme though. I had sinus headaches my whole life as well as an array of digestion issues. Cutting out gluten helped a ton, but I kept getting sinus headaches, so I kept identifying and cutting out food. These days I don't eat gluten, sugar, caffeine, sodium nitrites, and msg.

My brother is diagnosed with celiac disease. I cut out gluten before going to the doctor, so I couldn't be diagnosed easily. I feel largely the same way as OP though. The medical system doesn't know jack about this disease. There are no studies about sinus headaches and celiacs, even though there are plenty of reports pairing the two. My doctors never suggested this. They would give me Flonase (treat the symptom!). I told them I had issues with xyz foods and would be told to not eat those (thanks, duh). Never an attempt to figure things out with me.

I've met other people with weird auto immune issues. They're really mysteries. Lyme is actually a big fear of mine. I hear some people develop a meat allergy and that is a major part of my diet right now.
But isn’t this just saying: “we have no existing evidence or test today showing a physiological illness so therefore we are going to call it this other imagined thing for which we also can’t prove, yet which has been repeatedly disproven over history.”

All illness have at some time been “inconsistent with any known diseases or injuries”, MS, epilepsy, CFS, etc. What’s more likely at this point.

I think lack of evidence in medicine shouldn’t be used as evidence for “psychogenic illness.” Just as lack of evidence for something in physics shouldn’t be used as evidence for “god put it there.”

Doctors should get used to saying “we don’t know what’s wrong with these people yet” instead of trying to force an answer where there currently isn’t one. It’s far more correct and much kinder.
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The question of whether knowledge is property isn't a simple one.

Practically, knowledge belongs to anyone who has it.

There may be benefits to setting up cooperative rules about how people can use it. But even in societies with capitalism-friendly approaches, there are cases where knowledge is recognized as a kind of temporary property (say, patents) and yet everyone may have access. There are reasons for that.

Secrets are a different kind of protection. You can try to keep them, and perhaps you even have incentives to do so. This creates an interesting set of incentives for others trying to find out, as well as for those who know to defect (depending on the legal framework and reach).
I agree. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20509563
What I don't understand is how these "studies" seem to find things that would require a baseline to compare with. Results like, brain damage was suffered, cognitive impairment, brain-shrinkage, all would require the subjects to have some baseline snapshot before the "sonic attacks" occurred.
Rather than simply having "shrunk" these brains -- according to at least on other summary article, the team's findings were rather less conclusive:

But the medical team that performed the scans said the findings were not conclusive. They do not match what is normally seen in brain injuries and the severity of symptoms did not vary with the extent of the brain differences spotted.

“It’s a unique presentation that we have not seen before,” said Ragini Verma, a professor of biomedical imaging on the team at the University of Pennsylvania. “What caused it? I’m completely unequipped to answer that.”

Independent experts agreed the findings were inconclusive and said it was still unclear whether the diplomats were victims of any attack or had suffered related brain injuries. The apparent abnormalities might have pre-dated the attacks, they said, and could have more mundane explanations such as anxiety or depression. One said the study did not meet the usual standards for publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/23/brain-scans-...
Here is the real question...

Can you program in some code to display on the website “this website owner needs to pay for their site” etc.

and if they don’t pay you, you don’t disable it. And it activates after a while. Plus it would have redundant things so they can’t easily just hire one guy to remove it.

Or it could be some thing that breaks the site in a less obvious way and they call you to fix it.

It doesn’t seem to break any laws that I know of. Do you?
We're discussing reality here, not paranoid fantasies and conspiracy theories.
Show me an event that is conclusively psychogenic.

At this point I feel like a psychogenic diagnosis is like attributing something to god/religion. When you say what the cause of something is the burden of proof is now on you to provide evidence of that.
> Big ad buyers throw stuff at the wall to see what sticks, and they rarely bother truly measuring because that's often impossible.

> The entire ad industry is based on fuzzy metrics. Within that fuzz is an awful lot of room for fraud.

Citation needed.

Do you have any hard data besides anecdotes and contrived examples?
We spend a lot of time addressing readers' concerns about the integrity of HN. I did so just this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20508960.

The main constraint is that answering these questions thoroughly is time- and energy-intensive. Since our resources are limited, this quickly eats into the other things we need to do to keep HN up and make it better. So we have to be careful how we engage. That mostly means answering users who have substantive questions and good-faith concerns, and avoiding getting lost in the forests that the wilder kinds of insinuations lead to. The internet is a gigantic Rohrschach test that is all too ready to supply whatever people want to see.
Can you further substantiate your comment? I'm sure you have a lot more to say.
'opportunities for professional growth' is also a signal for 'growing company' and 'lower risk of layoffs' which helps explain why it is a winner
> the lack of cash tolls also enables the Surveillance State

There are cameras there whether it is a cash toll or not.
> Just what kind of insane standard of proof do you require for a prosecution to start (not convict, start)?

Cite the relevant criminal statute.
> Refactoring is badge of disgrace, and should not be considered a standard practice any more than putting out kitchen fires should be considered a standard practice of cooking.

I can only grant you the benefit of the doubt and assume you aren't quite using the word the way the rest of the industry does.

Replacing two similar code fragments with two calls to a single method is an example of refactoring. In no universe would that ever be considered any sort of kitchen fire.
So... Appeal to authority then?
This looks really cool. It's like a javascript version of Quartz Composer. This kind of interface has been in my mind for quite some time, there's some really cool things that can be build and visualized in it.
That’s really awesome! I spent my early years playing games and then building computers before taking up programming.

Many people I have listened to started with basic and programming at an early age.
Roads need to be redone all the time either way so presumably if there’s new tech in the road business they do in fact put it to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonochemistry I have no idea about that application, but the idea of using sound in chemistry seems to actually be a thing ...
I was hoping for pictures of the secret tunnels and hidden crawl spaces :(
My undergraduate work was in microbiology. While I'm now a programmer, I've always been in awe of the microbial world and how it interfaces with humans.

I've developed a theory over the years that many (if not all) misunderstood disorders could be caused by yet discovered virus and or bacteria.

So many people develop bazaar conditions seemingly out of nowhere, that science simply doesn't have an answer for yet. For example - polymyositis/dermatomyositis. Theories abound, but so far none of them point concretely toward infection. I believe (but can't prove) that diseases like this could be caused by infections.

It's a scary proposition that a random bug bite might be enough to alter the course of your life. But I would rather we start discussing this as a very real possibility and not a hypochondriac's way of thinking.
Awesome list of resources for the tech community in RTP North Carolina
This assumes that a) the number of CS graduates keeps growing at a steady rate, and b) that the market puts a significant amount of value on a degree. Personally, I don't think either of those is true, especially the latter. With the cost of education continuing to rise in the US, I actually believe the value of a CS degree is trending towards zero, considering that the cost of the alternatives (code school and self-teaching) is much lower in terms of both money and time. And anecdotally, I've noticed that software engineers are in such demand right now that even companies that officially require a CS degree are easing that requirement, opting to instead focus on the potential of the candidates at face value.
there is some postulation that the unrecognized chronic Lyme condition is an autoimmune response that lingers after the infection is gone. I so, I don't know if I want to be an early adopter of that vaccine.
BMW to Treat Apple CarPlay as a Subscription Service and Charge an Annual Fee
Don't be afraid to acknowledge what you don't know. Feel free to point it out and that anything you may be speaking to is an educated guess and estimation only.
For any other American English readers like myself who don't know or only vaguely recall the usage, "dear" is a Britishism meaning "expensive."
New Dropbox for Mac Client requires 0.5GB of RAM
It's a little peculiar how this blog post really pushes the inclusiveness angle despite the numbers showing clearly that it is not a big priority for prospective employees. They even go as far as highlighting that the sampled women want inclusiveness 171% more than the sampled men, which sounds pretty strong, but hides the real story when you look at the _actual numbers_. Only 15% of women ranked inclusion as a top priority, which is telling.

It seems pretty apparent to me that most employees (and that includes all genders, races, etc.) don't care nearly as much about inclusiveness as their leadership seems to. After reading this post, it seems to confirm what I've suspected all long: people mostly want money and the potential to make more money in the future.
Doing this will likely exclude a lot of perfectly suitable names: a name needn't be a uuid, just distinct enough from well-known names.

That's hard to tell in GH search; stars only give a good indication for very popular projects.
> Don't forget that you've probably also studied holy wars in considerable depth, too.

This prepared him/her to understand the great conflict of vim and emacs users no doubt.
I wonder if there could be a mashup between IMD and BadBIOS/ultrasonic communication https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03422.pdf
> Tooling/Perf/etc is not needed when running (do you really want to debug in production) but tooling can be used in the process of development.

I don’t follow. Are you saying that development should build normal user space binaries, and you should only build the unikernel for production?

You will inevitably run into a behavior difference between the unikernel and user space outputs. Even if you’re not debugging in production (shudder) you need to be able to debug the unikernel.
There is a free (but polished) online app to do in-depth forecasting - https://startuprunway.io It's part of a suite of other related apps for financial planning of your next startup https://ltse.com/tools