skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. It is even worse when you pay for a product and still get adds.
At what stage do you question if the bears need to be hunted?

I know the comparison is meant as tongue-and-cheek, but if these stages are really universal, then the ability to question and even reject a field of expertise or approach must be included.

Of course, thinking that through also applies to meta-level expertise, like being able to recognize that a given direction isn't the right path to go.

But since we're talking bear hunting, we can leave it at the concrete level. When do whalers agree it's time to stop whaling? Buffalo hunters? CFC producers? Designers of new nuclear weapons?
US politics is capitalism by other means.
Before I had a computer, I had a box of Popular Science magazines from the early 80's.

They were about 5 years old when I had them, so they talked about the ZX81, TRS-80, and the PCjr.

Everything was already obsolete but they were fun to read. The best was a review of electronic typewriters that could double as a printer for your computer!
Obviously this isn't something you should have to do, but maybe making removing the write permissions from the directory will do the trick?
Parent comment was about biology and evolution, not... whatever it is that this reply is about.
Yeah but the truly elite private schools are pretty good at aid, I think it's the "borderline" elites where one would end up with substantially more debt than staying in state (on average anyway). I don't have any data but I would guess the fancy consulting firm recruitment potential drops off at a similar rate as the aid amounts do.
It is unfortunate that the industry seems to stick to only “coder or manager” framework. There are technical topics and decision spanning across a few teams or the whole organization: CI/CD, data pipelines, languages / frameworks, consistency, reusable components, best practices, mentoring, integrations.

Can coders who are limited to a single team, without exposure to a big picture, not experienced in business communications, specialists not generalists do it?

Can a director of engineering, who is busy with people management, meetings, plannings, work allocations, who can barely keep up with latest technologies, forgot when they coded last time do it properly? Do you want VP to decide what language or platform to use across the organization?

It is just my opinion and some experience, but I think there is a proper set of responsibilities in many tech companies for such leadership roles without people management, like tech leads on steroids, they can be called architects, principal engineers.

Roughly, 20-30 percent coding, the rest on communications, coordination, designing, mentoring, researching, solving tricky problems, with career progression in the scope: single team -> department, area -> whole organization.
Because a single accidental click causes a permanent change.

It’s fine to have a settings page that lets you manage pop ups, but a pop up should always be extremely limited in scope.
Interesting thanks.

Do you think we will see banner ads eventually in Ubuntu?

I agree I’d rather pay 30usd or whatever.
I dont know what you are talking about. Arcelik for example produces much better quality appliances than most its US competitors. But this fact does not fit your narrative I guess.
Based only on what you wrote, I see two possible factors: taking a break from weed, or being on a school trip to the U.S.
To Mars by a Bomb – The Secret History of Project Orion
> I don't believe anyone really does 80 hours. I just don't think it is possible

That's a weird thing to believe. I saw it all the time when I worked in finance (but I was capped at 60 hrs, which I did routinely), and it seems pretty par-for-the-course for my friends who are doctors and lawyers.

I don't think it's healthy, but it's certainly done.
The worst part is that Aspera is actually a proprietary fork of a Free Software project that IBM purchased and then strong-armed institutions into using until it became an industry standard.
I got the same keyboard this month and the only thing I regret is that I didn’t buy it already 9 years ago when I got a Das Keyboard instead (which is still an excellent and fully functioning keyboard, but it has just a regular, rather unergonomic layout compared to the Advantage).
Right, so "write an essay following X structure that's Y paragraphs long as defined by the structure" (eg three arguments for and one countered argument against, plus an intro and conclusion) is fine. "The paper must be at least 6 pages long" is not. I'd much rather read and write "this uses Mouse A rather than B because A was much cheaper for similar functionality" instead of "the reason for which the first discussed mouse, Mouse A, was chosen to be used in this project instead of the alternative, Mouse B, was due to a cost-benefit analysis. The first mouse performed various tasks at near or surpassing ability when compared to the outputs of Mouse B; with this, and the significant price discrepancy heavily in favor of Mouse A, it is clear that the minor detriments in functionality shown by Mouse A are easily outweighed by the the more potent upside of being notably less expensive than Mouse B."

You may notice that the second example is TERRIBLE writing: too many modifiers, uncomfortable sentence structure, repetition of full names instead of pronouns, uses and defines "cost benefit analysis" instead of... not doing that. But it's longer! Easier to fit that length minimum! If you intend to require a depth of argument or a number of pros and cons, say you'll grade on that.
Well now this just makes my "Linux Desktop recommendation guide" even harder since the whole point of Linux distros these days are supposed to empower the user to have complete control over his/her computer and OS which is what Ubuntu was supposed to be doing and is viewed as the ground zero of introducing Linux to newcomers.

> I'm not even saying this is bad. Ubuntu has to fund itself somehow.

Oh dear. You make as if its fine for the users to give themselves up to Ubuntu (and Amazon) to be mined by the distro that does call itself "privacy-respecting" and "open-source"; some may call such claims misleading in the light of this now. Due to your defeatist rhetoric in supporting these overlords, I would have to change the guide to support the devil I know that can't read my encrypted data, rather than two or eight unknown devils that can.

At least with macOS its all "encrypted" and has sane defaults with a consistent user interface and when some settings are turned off, they stay completely off.
The PG quote that leads the essay on the topic of PG's extra-curricular rangings ("Dabblers and Blowhards") seems apposite:

'I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before. This sort of thing happens to a lot of people, and I would really like to avoid it'

https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Edit: the essay itself seems... not very perceptive. Notably, putting things on a continuum between far left and far right and imagining that everything is somehow a process of picking out options on this continuum seems amazingly reductive.

Further, the dig on "intentional moderates" also seems to miss the point that many intentional moderates might well be seeking to function politically - so picking out moderate positions in the range of public opinion might be a case of keeping your powder dry and being effective, not compulsively trying to be a moderate because it's nifty. This was very much the case with the way Obama analyzed his own politics (turning the huge ship, very slowly). Not saying I agree with that but the assessment of "intentional moderates" really feels like a cartoon.
The reason of not having a open source alternative of CAD is not having proper domain knowledge. The people who have the domain knowledge are not taking that intiative that the early stage software engineers took.
Before jumping to conclusions, I have some questions that the article didn't answer.

Is there any information available about how widely this was used beyond the anecdotes provided in the article? How costly was this to maintain? Is there an alternative that makes this redundant? Are there plans to replace it which simply haven't been published yet?

It sounds like the data sources used by Toxmap are still accessible. Was the visualization provided by Toxmap useful or was it just novel? Judging by the screenshots, the visualization doesn't seem to provide any insights that couldn't be easily inferred by simply looking at a population heat map. Did many people even know what Toxmap was before reading the article?

If this is a politically-motivated play, it's not a smart one. It's very on-the-nose and will probably do more harm than good to "anti-green political movement" (for lack of a better term).
A Byte of Advice for Programmers – don't listen to people on the internet
Last year I decided to write a WASM-targeting compiler in Javascript, completely by hand. The idea was to compile a vaguely C-like toy language to WASM without any external dependencies.

Part of the motivation was that while I've written many simple parsers, I mostly used parser generators with BNF grammars and I didn't feel like I had a good sense of how the code I ended up generating actually worked for something with complex syntax and semantics. I felt like I was writing specs for a parser, rather than writing a parser. And I didn't have a huge amount of experience with code generation.

My toy language has vaguely C-like syntax with block scope and infix operators with various precedences, so it was a bit more complicated than JSON, but I ended up using something like Pratt parsing/Precedence Climbing (see https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/03/31.html) and wrote the whole thing in a way that's - hopefully - pretty easy to read for folks interested in wrapping their head around parsing complex syntax (e.g. with scope and name resolution). The lexer, parser and language definition ended up being about 1000 lines of JS (counting some pretty extensive comments).

Code generation is pretty straightforward once you have an AST.

Any JS programmers that are interested in really getting into the nitty-gritty of writing your own parser/compiler should check it out. The source is here: https://github.com/j-s-n/WebBS.

If you want to play around with the language and inspect the generated ASTs and WASM bytecode, there's an interactive IDE with example code here: https://j-s-n.github.io/WebBS/index.html#splash
He doesn't describe an attack, he describe literally what 802.11 was designed to do. An attack is forcing a deauth and then stealing the 4-way handshake data and, say, cracking WEP. Which is why WEP was decommissioned ... checks notes ... 15 years ago.

No need to edit aircrack-ng, WireShark does what he did natively (filter out and set channels), and a good realtek chipset allows you to set the scan interval so you can cover more channels (which is why the new ALFAs suck).

Also the DTIM and keepalive can be set such that the MCU can sleep while the phy link maintains a connection without a costly handshake, esp. if using TLS <1.3 to talk to the cloud. Reconnecting costs a shit ton of energy so they usually don't disconnect.

Hacking Wi-Fi has become exceptionally more difficult, as noted by the slow dating of materials at DefCon's WiFi Village over the past 8 years: cracking WPA2 is basically so hard no one bothers, even in CtF games.
The advice here is good but it only confirms for me that I would much rather commute to and from an office every day than work from home.
Art creates meaning within contexts. It's certainly possible to learn to reason about context working on your own, but formal schooling forces you to do so and ensures it happens.

From my own experience hiring designers, those with formal schooling in art tend to make better creative leaders, like managers or creative directors.
> The number of people switching to BSD because of this is exactly 0.

Perhaps. There is at least one person who is now less likely to use Ubuntu after learning this: me. I have typically used a mix of Debian and Ubuntu for both desktop VMs and servers; now I am more likely to use Debian, which takes a significantly stronger privacy stance.

I am commenting from an iPhone though. Safari is not Google funded and does not track every click, but I do believe that Apple is getting the kind of OS version stats that Ubuntu’s motd script sends. Relatively tame for commercial software, honestly, but Linux is a different story.
they become PMs and begin the inexorable long decline.
Actually - I had to at my last position.

It's a seller's market for labor.

There's a big problem when the most popular distro starts making moves like this as it sets precedent that it's OK. Canonical has made the decision against privacy/security in regards to their motd and that's a huge issue, and I argue it goes against the ethos of Linux and OSS.

You're using "OSS." "OSS" is the word that caused this situation! "OSS" was intentionally a term to make free software corporate. Canonical's just doing what people who use and coined "OSS" started: making free software corporate.

In the Free Software world, this is bad, but in the corporate world that "open source" advocates have brought among us, this is normal. It's perfectly fine: open-source software is for-profit, not for the common good.
This is a typical executive schedule. If you’re managing a global workforce, you can generally take 2am to 6am quiet hours but that’s about it. It’s not everyday but at minimum you’d usually see check-ins from Europe needing response coming in around midnight to 2am pretty much every day.
I bet you say you don't get affected by ads either. You think you're in control but you're not. We're all just sheep.
Check out application.security for a great interactive demo of the capital one breach
Do you think $50 the going rate to convince the average person to record their neighbors?
I don't really know who is wrong or right.

I don't like the base assumption of conservatives that "humans tend toward laziness and greed" as if it was a law of nature. I think the point is more that people want to get the most out of the system (money, meaning, fun, etc) with the least amount of work (they don't like to do) necessary. In the systems conservatives have in mind, the outlooks are so bleak that doing nothing and sitting at home seems like the logical next step when giving people an UBI or something.

On the other hand I don't like the base assumption of leftists that capitalism and money is the root of all evil. Money is just a way to make "value" more tangible, the problem is that people simply don't value stuff that should be valued. This has nothing to do with capitalism or money, those are just the metrics that show what's wrong with our value systems.
If we pave the entire world, then yes.

If you want to keep people out of the places cars are actually supposed to go, but let them be on sidewalks and such, then it's fine to have some restrictions. And likewise let drones fly under 400 feet.

But you shouldn't be banning people from the roads either, that's been a big problem making cities worse over the last century.
There are lots of trade oriented magnate schools in LA and many of them could carry you right into LATTC then after that making six figures and full benefits boring heavy rail under the earth. The trade shortage is being tackled, in major cities at least.
There are ads for these GrubDash services all over the city I used to live in.

They say things like, "opt in-side!" and, "never leave your couch!"

It's gosh-darned dystopian to my eyes, but the phrases are couched as positive encouragements to improve your life.

I've seen a lot of things over the past few years which make me think about how we are living in the future which we feared more than the one which we hoped for. But these "Uber for food" apps really take the cake. And most people don't seem to care about how the sausage is made, so long as they get their prepared meal without friction.
I work in a non-coding position, way at the bottom of the org chart, and Tobi's vision does filter all the way down to us - mostly. We work a 37.5 hour week and we're strongly discouraged from working beyond the end of our shift (and have the support we need for this to actually be possible).

We also have 3-5 hours a week for professional development. Sure it's not a 5 hour work day, but we're also not doing much creative work. It's far better than any other job I've been at.
GitHub Security Alerts
Since version 17.04

"In Ubuntu 17.04, we added /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news"[0]

[0](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6k7a86/comment/djkd8...)
And then there's me, desperate to get into management. Has hussled for 10 years to make it happen, with no luck. I'm currently sending out hundreds of CVs trying to get a business analyst role. No interest. Do you know how many engineers I've seen promoted in 15 years in the industry? 0. None. Had I done a business degree I'd be well away. I'm so old now that even doing an MBA wouldn't help me. I'm currently considering getting a super market job because the thought of going back to programming makes me feel physically ill.
I've done intermittent fasting both on a fat-based diet and on a carbs based-diet.

On a carbs based diet, it feels like there's an animal inside me craving for food all the time. Then I feel drowsy and sleepy if I don't eat anything for even a few hours. As a developer, that's terrible. I feel really bad.

On a fat-based diet (e.g less than 40g of carbs/day), I feel absolutely great, and I don't feel hunger. When lunch comes, I feel just empty, but no craving at all, no hunger. Then the fasting becomes easy.

The caveat: switching from carbs to fat is not pleasant, takes a few days and isn't any fun. If you break it with a piece of cake, then you'll have to make the switch all over again and it won't be pleasant again.
> which is the ONLY way you can send SMS on iOS

There are plenty of SMS-API-provider-backed "texting apps" on iOS. There are also softphone apps that provide SMS service.

I think you specifically mean "the only way you can send SMS messages from the DID number that your carrier maps to your phone's MMC IMEI registration.
For some reason, buying an RV feels different from renting one. Buying an RV feels like buying an asset; renting one feels like throwing money away. (Maybe this is because I've never bought one!)

I understand the numbers. I understand exactly your argument here. I would say that you are correct. But for me, personally, it doesn't feel like it. And so, from time to time, I still consider buying an RV. So far, I've always managed to talk myself out of it...
Interestingly, the author of that Netflix article had joined CaptitalOne about a month before the incident.
Absolutely.

A/B testing causes way more bad decisions than good ones because people run the tests wrong and they interpret the data wrong.

But I've found explaining that to people to be an uphill battle. They get sold on an "objective" way to optimize the UI and then don't want to hear that the method is actually very subjective when not done correctly. And it's hard to execute and interpret correctly so every A/B test I've seen ran has been very subjective.
Thanks for the shout-out! Even though I know it cheats (and how) I still play against Cheatman sometimes; the challenge is to make guesses that force the computer to bisect its search space into two approximately-even subdictionaries rather than - as it would prefer - splitting the search space into a smaller (rejected) one and a larger (adopted) one. It means thinking-ahead by about as many steps as there are undiscovered letters in the word, but it's just-about doable!
No sir, the Debian installer says exactly that [0].

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qIqAVSI.png
Focus on the other half.
The same edition has articles about coordinates systems in graphics and Gaus-Jordan elimination method. There are circuit diagrams and program listings. It was a real trade magazine.

Today that type of content is almost exclusively in in blogs.

Magazines write about stuff like "The Most Important Agile Trends to Follow in 2020". It's part marketing, influencing kind fluff where people write opinions about soft issues where you can't be clearly right or wrong.
In software this distinction does not exist.
The Changelog 375: Gerhard goes to KubeCon (part 2)
It's good that they pay for it but I still wouldn't want to be subjected to an opioid prescription for the rest of my life.
Perhaps people who really want to be electricians because they like the trade itself?
> White House officials are working on an executive order that would ... require that publicly funded science be obtainable for free immediately [1]

It would be great if that could be extended from science to also include regulatory agencies. That would include Toxmap source data. Better than an executive order would be a federal statute. It's even worth a constitutional amendment.

[1] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1061836761
>I've heard both of those, but as allusions to marriage.

"If it flies, floats or fornicates, it's cheaper to rent than to buy."

Is the phrase I've heard most often.

Kind of a sad worldview, where in each of the three relationships described, the primary focus is to extract value in exchange for money, rather than obtaining value from the investment of personal effort.
LINES Publishing Engine – A Customizable Blog Framework for Rails
I'm trying to build a personal information manager that applies CBT and DBT based psychological techniques to everyday life via a GDT/wiki based system. I want to build a personal assistant that assists with all aspects of personal cognition, helping people make better decisions for themselves on an ongoing basis, however technology can help.

The MVP is a task manager with optimized views for capture of information, and executing one's list of current tasks. You can read more (at a page that is currently entirely unready for publication :) ), here:

Https://catchthinkdo.com

I'm afraid I can't guarantee the stability of the demo right now. This isn't finished software :)

I'd appreciate any feed you have, in any case. Thanks!
The only change I see is efficiencies gained by sharing kitchen and driver resources. Otherwise, on the buyer’s side, nothing is changing as food delivery has existed for quite some time.
YouTube Takes Tougher Stance on Harassment
To disable the part of the MOTD which calls home, setting

ENABLED=0

in /etc/default/motd-news should be sufficient.

To get rid of the entire "dynamic" MOTD, disable the timer unit:

$ sudo systemctl disable motd-news.timer

Alternatively, stop supporting companies that covertly slip spyware like this into their software. Debian is wonderful, of course.

(I'm on an iPad and going from memory, but I think this is correct -- someone will correct me if it isn't!)
> How long can someone eat at Subway weekly or daily before they never want to go there again?

Bread is one of only a very few foods that seem to be immune to "food exhaustion", the tendency to want to stop eating something you've been eating. (Milk is another, but I have a feeling that only applies to lactose-tolerant people.)

So if you varied the fillings, probably indefinitely. How long can you have cereal for breakfast before you never want to eat cereal again?
OpenShot is really nice, and stays out of your way enough to where you'll be able to edit quickly.
Everyone can end up lonely and forgotten. It is a problem that is solved by staying involved and becoming part of a community.

Integrating into a foreign culture is orders of magnitude more difficult - for many perhaps impossible at old age.
That would be because they sent you a deep link into the app, not a regular link to a webpage. The same thing would happen if someone sent you e.g. a link to an item on the iTunes Store, or to a Spotify playlist.