skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moscow's blockchain based evoting broken. To be used in local election
I think the main gain from remote work would be to pour tax money into the countryside.
> People are reluctant to hire a jack of all trades but a master of none

2/3rds of job adverts I see seem these days to be for 'full stack' developers. That's the definition of generalist-seeking IMO.

> even when they admit that generalists tend to be more valuable to their businesses than specialists over the long run

Oooh, that's quite the claim! I could equally claim from experience that generalists (in the sense of full stack devs) can cost a lot from the very lack of depth. eg. seeing a guy parse a scraped web page with regexes rather than XSLT. Or databases thrashing horribly because someone didn't know enough to diagnose them. Or unnecessary mem/network use in kafka because someone didn't read the docs. And plenty more.

I'm not saying you're wrong but I'm struggling with your assertion.
Whats the alternative? Write it with prod in mind, when you don’t know if the idea is actually viable, and end up erasing a lot more time/code if it fails?

The idea for exploratory programs is just to see if the core idea is actually viable in the first place, before spending time on things like making it robust/fast.

Ofc, if you could make it robust/fast for free/cheap, then it makes sense to call it an anti-pattern — you made it fragile for no good reason — but I’m not clear on how to obtain robustness/speed without quite a bit of work
How A Pro Soccer Player Turned VC Stays Organized
I've followed Todo.txt from the beginning. It's an interesting project because it started without code, as just a Lifehacker post (back when it was very popular) about GTD-esque formatting for text files [0]. The actual application was built later [1] to simplify creating/querying todos in the files.

[0]: https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-list-your-life-in-txt-16...

[1]: https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-reader-written-todo-txt-...
Unfortunately, on Linux, filenames are actually bytes, not utf-8.
That's a good idea, as long as software companies also pay for bugs introduced.
You're missing the point. Sometimes managing a "problem" employee becomes a majority of a manager's work because of both increased oversight needed for that employee's work and because of troublesome interpersonal interactions created by that employee.

In turn the useful things that the manager can do-- a good manager provides useful support to his subordinates and buffering of harmful organizational requests-- are reduced significantly.

This makes the "problem" employee more expensive than his peers.
It's a bit weird to me that an org that's been around for as long as GNU has such a black-and-white view of the software security/privacy/ownership landscape, when real life is a fair bit more nuanced.

Yeah, Apple and their ecosystem aren't saints, and their position on right-to-repair policies is reprehensible, but neither is Android, which runs on a Linux kernel, and from a privacy perspective, reasonable people could argue that Apple's doing a better job than Google is with Android.

GNU unfortunately doesn't see the other dimension here -- usability. There's basically nothing that's come out of GNU in recent memory that's been competitive in terms of usability and mass-market appeal (discounting coreutils, which are the de-facto usability standard for loads of command-line UIs, but their mass market are developers, sysadmins, and power users).

As long as GNU keeps preaching this kind of absolutist position where the downsides of corporate-owned software ecosystems exist in a vacuum, they'll come off as doomsayers to many observers.

Having said all that, DRM does suck and I believe their position there is fully justified.
This actually is a perfect illustration why in production all of your systems have to go through a while-listing proxy rather than a NAT for the outside access.

There should be a very limited number of known external URLs that your production system needs to hit. Whitelist them on a proxy. Block the rest. Dump the blocked requests into a log. Put alerts on a log. It will get most of data exfiltration attempts or attacks such as this. Remember, when your goal is not to have a perfect security -- your goal is to have a better security than someone else so that someone else gets to be a chump and not you.
Probably, just wanting to take a jab at you :-)

My point really being that, yeah, JVM-AOT existed since forever, but they have always been niche in the grand scheme of things (especially since you need a commercial license for most, and in this industry, after 2000, that's almost a death kiss).

If Sun had bundled the same option and made it easy to use, it would be a whole different story.
Many people ask questions they don't want the answers to. The question "How are you?" is a specific type of social interaction where there is an expected answer and that isn't to actually explain how you are. There are a lot of unspoken rules (such as saying yes when a person in authority asks/tells you to do something). A person with functioning social skills recognizes that a different approach is needed if they actually need to say no to their manager. Or that they need to seek guidance to see if they should be placing that higher on their priorities.
Bartleby suffers from clinical depression. The author notes as much in their conclusion, where they explain that Bartleby's soul was crushed slowly and steadily by lonesome work in the dead-letter room of the post office.

Bartleby never refuses to do work in such a plain way. He explains himself. "I would prefer not to," he says, and indeed he means it. He's not sure what he would prefer to do other than sigh in malaise and look out the window, but routine paperwork is certainly not it. Remember that Bartleby's job would today be done by a Xerox!
There’s also a possibility that the economy grows indefinitely, but remote work overtakes hour-plus commutes to city centers as the preferred working arrangement for startups.
I’ve recently switched to Julia for all my side projects and I’m loving it so far! For me the killer feature is the seamless GPUs integration
Good profile. I feel like the author was having a lot of fun with his thesaurus:

"He has a lifelong habit of collecting garrulous friends and yet a tendency to induce some measure of taciturnity in all but the most voluble of them. His style of reticence is contagious."
Paper is preferred because it has better performance than the software, which is the thing that people should think about. Writing software that can outperform paper shouldn't be hard to do, but apparently it is.
All you need to do is standardize quality equipment so everyone on your team has a similar setup and make sure your internet connection is good.

It's a relatively simple problem to solve. The amount of conference call failures I've experienced working remotely for an all-remote team is substantially lower than when I was working in-office, despite I'm probably on 5x the number of conference calls now.
GitLab employee, just wanna pop in here to say we have free self-hosting too in case anyone stumbles across this comment: https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/index.html#self-managed
My 150/150 fibre connection says it is
We're already doing this. If we stopped all of our emissions tomorrow, the global temperatures would suddenly get a lot hotter, not colder for a while.

It's called an Aerosol Masking Effect and it's explained here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/cl3ger/record_he...
This title needs a [paywall] suffix. So not having read this, I suspect this was a paid article by US carriers to convince US customers that everything is fine and they should stop demanding service that is on par with the rest of the developed world because "what we offer you is fine, see?"
I had 10 wonderful years. You also save money on food. I'm too lazy to pack a lunch so working in the office means buying lunch every day. At home I just grab some leftovers in the fridge and heat it up. My favorite part is doing my shopping in the morning on a weekday when no one is there versus on a Saturday when its nuts. I was doing freelance work my schedule was totally flexible.
Apple Arcade hands-on with early access trial games on Mac
I wouldn't mind foxes. They're pretty cute.
Why would Comcast do that? Wouldn't they want you to pay more for faster internet service (when you're almost never going to be maxing out your bandwidth)?
I mean, I agree. It seems like a backwards-facing technology. Smartphones and netbooks are getting better and better processing power, that power should be harnessed, not just ignored.

Besides the obvious privacy and security issues, I can see how you could get customers in the short term with savvy sales and marketing, but trends in development and tech don't seem to support this being a sensical approach for the future.

I mean, one of the examples given is Slack. Slack is already web-based, if you run it as a browser tab, you don't use much extra CPU/memory. But many run it in the Electron "desktop" app. Why? Because it's more integrated with the operating system and more like a first-class citizen app.

That will be solved now with PWAs and the new Web APIs being worked on, it's just a matter of time imo. When all these electron-based apps can just re-use the already running Chrome browser's rendering engine, and still look like a standalone app, who cares how much CPU Chrome uses?

It'll be basically the only UI app running on the whole machine.
The Yubikey website is vague, but it seems like the lightning end only works with a few apps (1Password, Brave, etc). What do I do if I want to sign in to anything else that needs 2FA? Do I still need a TOTP app?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496393

I don't need to be told that tests are unreliable or that doctors can be as misinformed as any of us. I am encouraging anybody in this thread who is personally affected to seek medical advice, not the advice of random internet commenters.

Congratulations on beating RMSF.
I moved to an island outside Seattle in 2018, and went through a couple big outages so far; our cell towers start turning off in 3 to 5 hours. Of course, my dsl goes down instantly, so it's important to have offline things to do.
Trouble is that most streaming services, even YouTube, aren't low quality. Opus at about 160kb/s is more than sufficient for transparency.
I don't get it. Why would they, and what evidence do you have? I had a cable connection through Time Warner Cable and was paying $15/month for a 3Mbps connection. It worked fine. They were bought by Spectrum, who raised the price to $20/month and decreased the actual speed I was getting. When I finally caved and called to upgrade, the lowest speed I could order was 200Mbps.

As far as I can tell, it is the cable companies that are pushing the higher speeds, not saying they are not worth it.
> most people are bad managers

A lot of people also have a strong anti manager bias.

They're predisposed to hate any manager they have, unless proven otherwise.
Any reason why can’t those be allocated dynamically and switched between upload/download? So your connection is still not symmetric, but at least your 350Mbps download speed can suddenly turn into 350Mbps upload, or be roughly evenly split in half if you’re both uploading and downloading?
IMO: Used properly it's a true ask, but what's expected isn't a blunt "no".

That is, if someone with authority meets their subordinate halfway, making a softer request in the form of a question, ... the other person is expected to in turn meet the manager halfway and not offer a firm rejection of the softer request.
Only if you get the advertised speed. Sure you can buy 100mbps, but will you get? Unlikely even wired locally via gigabit.

The major service provides frequently lie out their teeth by abusing "up to". 1mbps is a speed that fits into "up to 100mbps".

Further, due to the corruption of the FCC through Ajit Pai, they are not required to give you any particular level of speed that you'd expect depending on where you talk to.

The ISP can willfully and intentionally degrade your service you bought and paid for to certain providers unless that provider also pays.
Why Turning Battleships into Aircraft Carriers Was a Bad Idea
Typically for most keys used over NFC there's still a PIN challenge or some physical interaction with the device. There are some exemptions to this for usability (e.g. building access keys stored in PIV cards or the PIV applet in yubikeys), but in those cases too the keys are segregated by type to prevent misuse.
Matching multipart request bodies with VCR
Agreed. If I could buy stock in “remote work” I’d do that way before buying stock in We.
I fear the inflammatory headline is going to put most people on the defensive instead of listening to the very valid points that most of these lists are.
Is “would you like to?” really a firm request? I would definitely interpret that as a genuine question meant to gauge my desire. “Would you?” and “could you?” are, of course, different.
Avoid those sites, and when asked for feedback mention the problems (a great place for feedback is the customer serivce chat, followed with a FU, enter and a ctrl+w)
Why Is Lyme Disease So Hard to Understand?
While you can do Mouth-to-Lung on a Juul (mainly for vape tricks such as ghosting or french inhaling)l, I'd say it's much more common to Direct-to-Lung inhale at least among young adult nicotine fiends who are dependent on the substance.
We used to only live and cooperate with tightly knot tribal groups. Now we often call ourselves Americans, Europeans, Arabs, Jews, Sikhs etc. We are capable of cooperating on a global scale but a certain group of self interested folks need to get out of the way
If this is useful, then it's something the browser could render, instead of the page itself. We could add it to desktop UI toolkits like Gtk/Qt.
Employees who called in sick or failed to report for duty that day.
> Nomad: In a two-month illegal trial period, the company facilitated 5,700 rides at Indiana University before the startup had to shut down, but they say they’re legal now and ready to try new markets.

Yes, this is a good look for a legitimate business.
What triggers people on this comment? Water is a scarce resource, about to get scarcer at that latitude; data centres need cooling; ergo, vulnerability.
Sure, but most people don't.

And once you get to the multi-hundreds speeds, wifi might literally not be able to support the speeds.
Many of these attacks seem to use pastebin. I will add a hosts entry pointing pastebin to localhost in my production servers.
The same book, "Range", was mentioned in a NYTimes article, which was also previously discussed here on HN.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20094242 for commentary.
> How can we - users, programmers, hackers - fight this?

my_article.html

Uploaded into a public directory on a web server.
I guess they could be gaining by publishing this so it calms down those who are already on the maximum tier but are not happy and might switch to a different provider that can offer more?
I know it seems crazy, but I've been in several offices that had this. It most cases it worked well and I never noticed it until it would occasionally quit working.

The offices where it's worked best were not open, though. They had thin doors/walls and a small speaker (also doubled for the fire alarm/etc) in the ceiling of each office. The white noise was unnoticeable until it was off or you really looked for it.

The main advantage was that you no longer heard every conversation on the floor. You'd still overhear bits of things in the adjacent rooms, but that's hard to avoid. When the white noise stopped working (happened every few months), you could hear every voice on the floor and every phone call...

All in all, it sounds like torture, but done well, it's actually a really nice way of damping distracting ambient conversations/etc.
The second sentence is "This does not include accidental errors" but then an accidental error and a bunch of third-party program are cited as primary examples. Things are cited multiple times - the recent "battery DRM" news, App Store censorship, and remote wiping. How is it Apple's fault if someone writes and distributes malware for their system outside the App Store?

I agree with the premise, but this article is a little bit of a mess. Things like this don't help convince people. Were it shorter and more cleaned up, and devoid of things like "cr...app store" it might actually help people realize the importance of Free Software.
A fast internet connection is like many other resources: It might be good 95 % of the time and you won't pay any attention to it, but when you notice it's not enough, it totally pisses you off. This applies equally to computer RAM, floor space and station wagons.

I really appreciated my gigabit Ethernet connection when I had to reinstall DCS World, which takes over 100 gigabytes of disk space when you own a few extra modules.
assuming your wife is also WFH or not working
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/07/04/h...
* > Medium is making a place that rewards quality writing, tries to eliminate writing for the purpose of marketing, and is pouring money into authors and editors so that they can invest more quality into their articles.*

Can you explain this a little? I don't see much evidence that Medium rewards quality - unless you consider popularity to be a proxy for quality, which we've all learned, painfully, is false. Certainly Medium doesn't offer traditional publisher-style quality improvement services like copy-editing, editing, etc. So I'm curious what you mean.

It's also not clear to me how they dissuade "writing for the purpose of marketing" - plenty of people seem to use Medium as a straight-up content marketing platform, e.g. consultants with newsletters driving people into their funnel, and they want a URL to park their content, for bookmarks, and a place for shared responses.

If Medium actually did these two things, I'd say that they were indeed doing valuable service. But it feels a little like the difference between ideal and real value proposition that the Google Play Store and Apples App Store have: theoretically those walled gardens can enforce higher quality, safer software for end users, and lower friction to revenue for devs, but in reality, devs pay a straight 30% of revenue for that low purchase friction, and whatever illusion of value the platform can plant in users minds with good marketing and PR.

Maybe you are saying that Medium can, rather than improve actual quality, build a reputation for focusing on quality. Then writers can enjoy a similar halo effect as devs on the App Store? It's probably worth trying, from Capital's perspective, but not from mine, because I care more about innovative product design (which Medium has, in abundance) than rehashing a well-worn, slightly devious, business strategy.
I have worked on many projects where I have wished that git was faster. It doesn't take a very big repository for performance to become an issue.
Latency makes a big difference too. Using the internet on a symmetric fiber connection with sub 5ms latency is way better than a coax connection split between 1,000 homes with a few hundred ms ping.
As originally phrased, though, I've gotten the blunt no to "could you please ...?" because the person felt they couldn't. So while I tripped up on using the exact text in the article, it aligns with my personal experience.
What a fantastic legal quagmire, thanks for looking that up

Tangentially, I once had German autobahn police laugh at my 'gummistiefel' when they pulled me over... The opposite thing of driving barefooted, but hardly proper shoework for driving a car
Not much additional info here, but I've managed to find this:
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Telecommunications_Integr...
There is currently no reliable Lyme test. The most commonly used test has an accuracy and sensitivity of 50 %. Worthless. A tick bite + weird symptoms = very high change it's caused by a tickborne disease.

https://globallymealliance.org/about-lyme/diagnosis/testing/
To those complaining about the commute. You’re complaining about city and transportation architecture, not workplace design.

We are social creatures. I don’t understand the complete lack of addressing the issue: 8 hours a day I’m cut off from people except virtually. Prisons that force virtual visitation are criticized for this exact issue.
The transmission lines are half-duplex on a channel by channel basis. At any given time you can either use a channel for upload or download, but not both. And usage is very asymmetric. It's more efficient to thus allocate more channels for download. Otherwise, you'll have unused upload channels while the download channels are saturated.

It's mostly about the connection from the local node to your house, not the backbone.
> [He] was floored when he saw [...] that we were able to make our infrastructure expenses OpEx instead of CapEx.

Can someone ELI5 to me why spending a dollar on OpEx is better than spending a dollar on CapEx?
I don't know why I am getting downvoted, I literally am curious who writes these google-hosted documents!

(I also do find this one to be not very well copy-edited/written).
I know people are concerned about using gene drives on native species, but why don’t we use it against invasive species. Lantern flies in PA seem like a good example.
Also, most downloads can be cached through CDNs near the requester, while uploads can not.
If the thesis is that no recession will happen, and that money is free, why not just borrow money and dump it into an S&P 500 index fund and skip all the actual work?
With a cloud provider you have a lot more behind the scenes control over how an asset is subscribed and provisioned. Now, If we squeeze everyone into a wework with the lights off...
I was pretty sure fiber was bi-directional so you can always saturate the same fiber with all upload or download based on demand. Copper wire can't do this so they use most of their last mile copper for download since that is what most people use the most of.
What's next? Android is spyware?
My regular 100/100 line downloads 3Gb in five minutes. The difference in my life is miniscule compared to a gigabit line. Also the gigabit line requires hardware all the way to achieve the promised speed.
That upload speed is just ridiculous. With pretty much everyone pushing cloud storage & services, upload speeds are important too. I’d take a symmetric 100/100 connection over 1000/35 any day.
You're oversimplifying as well. What I am basically saying is that our management of our land has resulted in suburban prevalence of this disease through the growth of the deer population and its presence in the suburbs. This is not to say we can manage it back by eliminating deer. We may never eradicate Lyme from the suburbs.
I think that's all fair. And it's actually also perfectly consistent with an opinion that there will be more distributed/remote/WFH work in whole or in part and generally more flexible working arrangements. Because a company may need fewer seats under those conditions but it wants to be flexible about what seats and facilities it has.

I'm certainly not convinced WeWork will ultimately be a beneficiary of that--especially in a downturn that will lead to companies cutting back on expenses they don't really need to incur. But the basic idea makes sense (and of course there is a long record of companies like Regus in the space, albeit with a more traditional take).
Boiling oceans might be an end state life as a whole will have trouble recovering from.
Show HN: A tiny Real-Time Ray Tracer
Not that it makes too much of a difference, but GNU has no love for Android either. They certainly aren't saying anything nice about macOS just because its kernel is also free.
In addition to 'Full Stack', we're also seeing titles like 'DevOps' and more recently, 'DevSecOps'.