skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I don't file many bugs any more: in most cases, maintainers will either ignore them, or come up with some excuse for not fixing it. Yes, even for crashes.

Lots of projects (both open-source and proprietary) have a particularly nasty habit of killing the entire project and starting fresh with something else. So my bug might not even be relevant by the time they get around to it. Or they might wipe the bug database, and I'll need to file it all over again. JWZ calls this the "CADT Model".

I don't want to waste my time on the off chance that this particular maintainer is a better than the rest.

This is why open-source maintainable software is so valuable to me. If it's something I can fix, I'll fix it, and send the patch upstream so you can use it, too. If I can't fix it myself, I'll move on and find some other tool, because I don't want to be stuck with some software that's too complex for me to touch on day one. It's guaranteed to be too complex for me to touch on day 157 when I need a complex issue resolved for a production system right away.
Having a good, standards compliant browser with active development by default will be something I'll much appreciate. I hope this makes it to Windows Server; I am so sick of only being able to use the extra-locked down, terrible version of IE when I have no other choice but to use a browser when remoted into a box.
>However, we find that the alpha becomes insignificant when
controlling for exposures to Betting-Against-Beta and Quality-Minus-Junk factors.

It's always easy to see how you could have made money with hindsight. I bet if you implemented the Betting-Against-Beta and Quality-Minus-Junk strategies now you wouldn't do nearly so well.
The US also has a North. Most people in the US are above 30 North, and daylight saving is pointless in the south.
Mobile browser apps aren't doing anything in this arena; they could be doing a lot more. They could, for example, pause all requests upon hitting a configured limit for the page (like 1 MB) and then only continue downloading if you confirm. The ideal experience would be to confirm the total amount to download ahead of time, but that often isn't known.
The loss of EdgeHTML is a tragedy for open web ecosystems. Now there are only two.
I don't mind apple.com at all -- nothing against them. I just don't understand OP's argument.
K-as-in-"Kill Me" space!
It doesn't include the most superior scrollbar, Plan 9's.

Really interesting, though.
Also the civilians don't tend to wear commbadges.
Using vehicles is also much more risky. They've done studies before and accidents like the Lac Megantic disaster that blew up a town show that pipelines are safer compared to alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
Ask him: is my employer beginning to cheap out?
So been with my current company for over a year now...working on the internal security team.
In the beginning everything was brand new, and it was fun. The team I am still on to this day had ~18 members back then, and nowadays has 8-9.

You wonder - wow a 50% drop in staff on my team in the past 8 months.... this is people voluntarily leaving their positions (not layoffs).

Anywho it appears since we've begun a new fiscal year in ~june/july that the company has been cheaping out, or funding our team significantly less than before.

- no one from those 8-9 people who left have been replaced. Instead the work is just falling by the wayside.

- We had a all hands meeting with all the 18 original team members when I first started. This year we didnt have an all hands meeting (F:F).

- We suggested a tool to buy to support one of the three subset teams of the 8-9 with their work. We were given 5-6 months to evaluate tools, and choose one to be bought by this company. We suggested this tool ~8 months ago now, and still have no tool. This tool is not _cheap_ persay, a bit costly, but offers its value x 10 of its cost. The leadership has given 0 feedback on this tool choice to buy e.g. it costs too much, or we dont have the money or anything.

- Some team members get quarterly bonuses paid out and have been for the last year. Evidentially in the middle of this past quarter the CEO sends an all hands email saying theyre stopping quarterly bonuses and switching to every year bonus to be paid out the following year end of january. Needless to say I was supposed to get a decent bonus this quarter, and now have to wait til end of january to see how i did... if i even stay that long.

Sorry for the long winded post, but if you were in my position would you be on your way out too ; that the current company im with is just significantly reducing the expenditure to the security team?

Thanks
Horses and fighter jets operate on different principles in different media, whereas computers of the 1960s and today are all based on the von Neumann stored program model.

Also, programming today is different in many ways from programming in the 1960s.
That was really what I was wondering about, it sounded strange to me but that's the bubble I'm in. Different industries or different countries might have very different norms surrounding this kind of thing.

In my bubble, you have to be very careful about hiring because it can be very difficult to fire anyone at a large company. Or it just ends up being such a long, awkward, multi-stage process, that even objectively terrible engineers will get transferred elsewhere within a large company rather than get fired, because it's that much easier for the manager who wants to get rid of them.

Some of it might be a cultural affinity for giving people second chances, but I think a lot of it is just the hoops you have to jump through to avoid the possibility of a future wrongful termination lawsuit if you fire somebody. But I've heard that it can be very different elsewhere, in different industries or countries. I bet it has a lot to do with the legal system too, like whether or not there's a framework of worker protection laws in place.
There's also pipsi.
> If you tell the website “no don’t track me” it can’t even remember not to track you (because doing so would be tracking you!) so they have to ask every time.

That is absolutely not true.
If I had more money that I wanted to spend I will probably invest in some "buy it for life" things. There is a subreddit for that. Things such as: high quality bike, kitchen appliances, leather bag, fountain pen etc. that will last so I could use them for significant amount of my life.

I would prefer to buy higher quality items that don't need to be replaced as often (or rather never) but the initial investment cost is unfortunately unbearable for grad student.
I’m pretty sure the way people in my field (physics) do this is by reading deeply enough that they

A) recognize the names of authors that do good work
B) Develop intuition about which results are probably BS and which results are likely to last.

They end up seeing notifications for most new pre-prints, but have built up good enough filtering heuristics that skimming through the paper can inform them whether to read more closely or pass.

If you want to keep up with very recent papers, citations aren’t likely to be much help. You’ll be 6 - 12 months behind if you’re not reading pre-prints (in Physics, at least).
Not to mention that you can't use birdshot in certain areas because the bbs are going to come back down and you don't want to hurt a dozen people because you have to take down a drone in the middle of NYC.

Birdshot is nice when you're in the middle of nowhere and no people are downrange, but you shouldn't fire a fucking gun when people are down range.

Edit: I should mention falling birdshot is fairly harmless. But I'm thinking lower angles, high rise buildings, or when you're taking down a drone near an airport (which is one of the major concerns). There are people and sensitive objects down range. And even with birdshot you should never shoot when there are people down range. Just be responsible with your guns.
Same here, never been a problem in two decades. For a big work project I’m using pipenv, or a container but it’s rare.
Why would a company be worried about whether someone is telling the truth about an elder care (or any other) personal situation that renders onerous take-home or timed assignments inappropriate?

If you’re trying to evaluate whether the candidate is telling the truth something is very wrong. There is no reasonable reaction from a company except to say, “you know what, people do have unusual and difficult personal circumstances, and it’s unreasonable to create interview filters you can only successfully devote time to passing when there are no other ‘real life’ issues going on, since this unfairly biases us against otherwise good candidates and makes us come off like we don’t offer pragmatic and realistic understanding of the human condition” and then just stop having take-home / timed coding assessments period.

It has nothing at all to do with that one candidate who alerted you to this. Who cares if they are lying? The point is it’s possible they are not, and overwhelmingly certain that the issue affects other applicants with these kinds of circumstances.
That means "same power", in the context of a comparison of some other metric. So (from the article) "15% higher performance at iso-power" means that for the same power draw, a chip made with the new process has 15% better performance (clock speed) than one made with the old process. Likewise for iso-performance: new chip can get the same perf with less power.
Comparison at same power usage. (and iso-performance for comparison at same performance)
Is there not anything similar to a cell phone jammer for RC?

Would also be cool if they can send out an overriding "return to home" signal that will make the drones return to their starting position. This is something that would need to be in the hardware or firmware or to where the device would be bricked if removed from there or software.
Assuming you are referring to this:
"N5 provides around 15% higher performance at the iso-power or, alternatively, up to 30% power reduction at iso-performance."

They are just saying that for the same power usage as previous tech, they get 15% more performance, or 30% power reduction while achieving same performance as previously acheivable."
Daylight savings time neatly solves a nexus of several different problems - permanent daylight savings is, IMO, the superior choice. The problems:

1. A lot of working parents are locked into a fixed start and end time and have little flexibility
2. These parents also rely on school for a significant amount of childcare, and need to be present in the house until their children get onto the bus at the least.
3. So, the school bus needs to show up before the parents leave to get to their 9am job
4. The school bus also needs to be driving during daylight hours for child safety.
5. If children are walking directly to school, this also needs to happen during daylight hours. This is both for traffic safety and for not having children get lost in the dark.

Permanent standard time would necessitate schools pushing their start time back roughly an hour, leading to millions of workers desperately attempting to re-negotiate their working hours with their employers.
Ask HN: Trustworthy SMS direct carrier billing
Looking for a trustworthy direct carrier billing that will pay me without having to chase them, having done a search, it seems to be a very scammy industry.

Billings in the US, UK and EU.
It’s EOL in under two months.
It certainly does. Sleep experts and anyone whose opinions are in like with gen pop don't get quoted in clickbait news articles.
A big no no for me. Seen a couple of sites and never tried clicking. I'd rather use the 'sign in with google' button where I get to confirm rather this privacy insensitive method.
Athena/xaw's still exists; ctrl-mouse3 on xterm to get a selection box to enable it.
Is it just me or the competition on the CPU market is about to get really interesting? My understanding is that if Intel loses the edge on fab-tech then the door is open for all kinds of new entrants. (I could be wrong though.)

Who knows, perhaps even Intel will use TSMC's process at some point.
DO NOT DO THIS.

1: Missed bullets/shot may kill your friends and neighbors [0]. Especially in densely populated sub/urban environments.

2: Many drones use LiPo batteries. When punctured, LiPo batteries may catch fire [1]. You stand a good chance of starting even more fires if you shoot at drones.

Congrats, you have likely made things worse.

If you are thinking of shooting at a drone: STOP.

Put down the firearm and pick up the phone.

Call the police. Then call your state and local representatives[2]. Then call your neighbors. Organize and vote.

Pass laws, not ammo.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070928000018/http://ats.ctsnet...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUFxlf4fXjo

[2] https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/
Or usev another version manager: I use asdf https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
At the moment, I use iPhoto and iCloud photos. But this method does not scale.

I would love to have a more scalable cross-platform solution. Maybe something like Adobe Lightroom that didn’t require a huge monthly subscription, plus all the storage costs.
Thanks for the info on the paper - I haven't read it, just seen a number of reports of different approaches to space shielding, that seem to establish its a physical/industrialy modest possibility (for a global project). It would be very early stages for the details of any project, I expect a well funded competition for competing designs and to be surprised and educated by actual designs. It just seems the prelimary designs already discussed establish its physically not unrealistic if launch capability can be sorted.
20 years ago ideas of huge wind turbines planted at sea and even floating were considered by most to be impractical or unproven, but the basic facts supported their possibility as major power sources - the density of air, the intensity of wind, the existence of resilient ocean hardware like oil rigs, the existence of very large aircraft wings. There was no end of unresolved details that could be counted to dissuade, but the broad limits were already visible and attractive. Rather than a Manhattan project to race to those limits, industry has grown slowly to approach them with not that much special funding to help.

The control coordination of trillions of L1 satelites doesnt strike me as a huge challenge to people already working in similar fields. I do some work on simulations and read about related technics. Control units just get individual and group call codes that they can respond to, in timed windows if helpful. A number of manager satellites beam signals to sectors and listen to responses. They could likely often pinpoint individual transmissions themselves with modern radar style tech, although trillion is a large number, sheilds will rarely eclipse one and other because they would be very dispersed and relatively small. They dont have to relay all messages individually through neighbours but perhaps could. The options for implementation are extensive but I believe familiar to network designers. They don't really have AI processing to do, its just a matter of maybe reporting their neighbors numbers so position can be determined and relayed so they know where to 'light-sail' and can receive schedules for when to let light past - if that becomes necessary or is deemed advantageous. Im just rambling but there are loads of possibilities for how to organize them. As a multi-node processor it would be rather slow because of the average latency between nodes being many kilometers, rather than millimeters to meters in a supercomputing cluster.
> would flash their drone with hacked firmware

Is it possible to have the firmware signed so that if it doesn't match a hash then it bricks the device?
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That's false, actually. The Windows 95 look can be tied to IBM doing a massive amount of market research for their previous operating systems efforts; the monotone and 3D look was found to be the least-offensive UX globally.
> But is there anybody working on solving this problem transparently to the end user?

Yes. RFC 7710 defines a DHCP option to supply a URI for a captive portal page.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7710
As far as analogies go, I think it's closest to the chromium logo [1], when kinematically interpreted as some sort of extruding shell segments [2], or blades of an aperture (Aperture Science). Overall it's visual language elements are surely intentionally aligned well centered in a space between IE ℮, Chrome and Firefox.

[1] current: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_11_Logo.svg

[2] old chromium(2009-2011):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chromium_Logo.svg
https://codereview.chromium.org/2806029/patch/1/61
ADHD. If I have a long-form blog post to write end, I get caught up in going back and rephrasing and re-editing and such, and it never gets finished.

Twitter's paragraph-size chunks with minimal editing (if I really have to, I can delete the last post and re-create it) means that I can't get stuck in the process of editing and revising, so I have to keep moving forward.

So it's really the only way I can write. My wife's gone through and rewritten some twitter threads into a blogpost for me, but she hasn't gotten to this one yet.

BTW, You can also use a threadreader/unroller to make a pseudo-blog-post out of it.
If you have enough karma, you can "rescue" a comment from being dead (i.e., not displayed by default).
Apple devices try to go to http://captive.apple.com/ for this purpose.
http://example.com is my captive portal triggering website go-to. IANA reserved and will be there when I need it forever.
I grew up in a socially conservative Republican family, and became liberal in my late teens. And that's exactly why I am against ostracizing people who hold conservative Republican views.

I became a liberal today because liberals took the time to have civil conversations me about my intolerance, and I realized that liberals were right. I am grateful to the people who did that for me, and I want to extend the same courtesy to others.

Pragmatically, if liberals had ostracized me or "canceled" me, it's quite likely that I would still hold those intolerant views today. By taking the stance that "we don't talk to Republicans", liberals are cutting off the only mechanism by which Republicans become liberals. And those people who you alienate instead of converting become angry, and that anger motivates them to go to the polls. Do you want Trump to get re-elected? Because what you're doing is contributing to Trump getting re-elected.
This sentence made me smile: ”We also used to serve cake on punch cards, so they were quite versatile.”

When my dad went to high school in the town of Skövde, Sweden he visited Volvo and they also served cake on punch cards there :)
I don't subscribe to wsj, so I can't read the article, but Simons was on Numberphile a while back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Nice examples. I suppose you could hang a Raspberry Pi on your smartphone, and have say a Kali machine on it. Though you can also run Kali on Android.
> Transferring one-tenth of a CD-ROM is fine because Apple is selling you something.

Yes.
I appreciate that. When I wrote "perhaps I don't really understand what makes it so special" I meant that insofar that I might not completely understand, and therefore might miss, the key features of Ring within the alternative solution I proposed.
The fact you need this is incredibly unintuitive to anyone without technical prowess.
German city of Dresden declares 'Nazi emergency'
I think a variant of the street performer protocol (later reinvented as "crowdfunding", minus the idea that once something is funded, it should be available to everyone) is the way to go.

A newspaper could put up a widget saying "these are our monthly expenses, and here is how much in tips we have collected so far this month". People interested in keeping the paper going would tip. Or, well, maybe not, tragedy of the commons and everything.

The important difference to "pay per view" being that you have less of the "this is going to cost me one" problem. You can see what the paper offers and then pay what you think is appropriate. It does seem to work for Wikipedia.
"Could this be the very first "dating app"?!"

Not likely ... this was a common idea among young programmers, and there were several such programs floating around the UCLA Computer Club when I was there in the 60's.
I watched and it has me convinced to a certain extent. However, he mostly looks at well known comedians/actors on TV or in movies. There are other people on YouTube that have been taken off the platform or demonetized and that is another issue. To the extent that it ruins someone life, I’m sure most people can handle being taken down or having to change their career aspirations, but it led one individual to shoot up YouTube and take their own life. Looking at several of the better scenarios doesn’t make the worst case scenario not real.
I’d say Microsoft’s new logo is far more reminiscent of Google Chromium- not Firefox.
>It doesn't hurt me at all, and it certainly doesn't occur to me that this money should somehow be redistributed to more "worthy" people. It's odd for an uninvolved spectator to feel bitter about this.

What about the employees he screwed over and are getting laid off without severance?
Anyone can make an emoji. I’m the proof
Just a discussion - nothing is being taken personally.

I'm manic. I can't produce reliably, and that means I can't present reliably. As I observe the industry grow I find communication is more and more the center of the job. Tech skills are table stakes. I need to prepare for big meetings days in advance with opportunity cost, etc.
It is very strange to me that in an increasingly skeptical, atheist society, believing in astrology, and "energies," and "toxins," and "chemicals," and crystals, auras, etc...is essentially met with at most an eye roll. I mean that people with real jobs, in charge of real things, believe that eating "ancient grains" means something. You'd've thought that all of this would've been on the way out with the rest of organized religion, but it seems like it's on the rise.

There is a subreddit with a moderate amount of traction called "witches vs the patriarchy." My soon-to-be-mother-in-law was ecstatic to have been told by her psychic that she is, in fact, a witch.

Goop is not the problem, it is an outlet.
[R]ecent update to the Raspberry Pi 4 bootloader
(...) enables data over the USB-C port

Am I reading this right that RPi4 has five usable USB ports, i.e. unlike earlier models, port on bottom left of the board can carry data along with power? This is awesome!