skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that middle answer a little objectionable -

Some of the best developers I've ever worked with do very little coding outside of office hours.

They all had a passion for it, and they tended to do some goal-oriented projects outside of work time now and again, but not be constantly hustling a side project or attempting to pick up a ton of new skills every single evening.

The implication that you can't be the best unless you're dedicating another 20-30 hours a week on top of your day-job is just wrong.
And the idea that throwing another 20-30 hours a week outside your day job at coding will make you better at it than someone that doesn't also isn't really borne out by experience.

You can be passionate but have other hobbies and your own life away from the screen. The passion is the important thing. (OK, and the skill, you need an aptitude for this stuff)
Pursuing a Business I'll Love
The perspective of the law enforcement agencies, as usual, beggars belief.

IMO Facebook/WhatsApp were totally in the right here: they were not issued any legal documents or binding court orders, saw that their systems had been compromised, and therefore informed _all compromised users_ without discrimination.

Really though, using "terror suspect" here is like crying "think of the children": it's sensationalist garbage designed to drum up public support through fear.
This is the same old e2e encryption vs. overstepping law enforcement debate, but with the kinky old "what about terrorism" mixed with the currently fashionable "boo Facebook and other tech giants" angle.

Basically, Facebook did something (which I believe was) ethical and law enforcement agencies employing covert tactics that skirt the well-established legal processes got caught with their pants down.
Yes, whatever you choose there is always trade off.
You might find Baudrillard interesting:

Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original, or that no longer have an original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum
> Developers need to code after-hours in order to stay competitive

I don't think this is true. The technology does not actually move that fast and you can keep up to date in work time by making sure you get on to projects and teams that stretch and educate you.
It is not a prisoner's dilemma, it's an idiot's dilemma.

Confronting public idiocy saves lives, literally. I'm intolerant to idiocy, and will shoo away any loonie I come upon, sometimes physically.
Apple rings in new era of Services following landmark year
Yeh, that's the logic I apply to CCTV installs. But a restaurant could easily swap drill batteries out of table speakers at cleanup every night.

That's the difference in £200 speaker * tables vs that + poe gear, engineer and cable install that must what 10 grand? And now you can't rearrange the tables for a wedding party.
According to revenue estimates at the end of the article, AWS market share is more than twice that of Azure, so "winning" is a big word...
It's a demo of their new display tech. It's like OLED but does not degrade.
If you are their superior, other users disregarding your orders is s social problem, not a technical one. If you aren't, it's a good thing they are able not to do what you want.

Tools being more flexible is strictly a good thing. If they are misused, the person that misused them is responsible. It is that simple.
Parcel is broken on Windows. Since 2018. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues/1990
Wow, that's an evil mode. Man says it's the "easy" mode.
I still have tonnes of .rar. Exclusively for legacy reasons (you can google why .rar exists), sure i could spend the time extracting everything, or continue using Kodi which is my current solution.

I don't think the license is the issue, Kodi has solved it with a external dep if i'm not mistaken. The reason is more related to your last sentence. They don't get it, and thus doesn't want to spend time on solving it. Which is their prerogative of course, but it still annoys _me_ :)
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I'm happy Facebook is keeping users secure. When secret services are complaining about them, they are doing something right.

But isn't acknowledging cracking efforts a dumb move in the first place? Do "they" just want us to think that these protections work and it's a free-for-all behind the scenes? After all, if I were cracking phones, I'd want my targets to think Whatsapp is secure. So I could complain about how Whatsapp works against me even if it doesn't. And Facebook would be in on it because it's good for their reputation to be seen as protecting its users.

There's always room to spin a conspiracy theory.
> [gripe:] - Dragging tabs [in Firefox] didn't immediately drag out a window like in Chrome

Luckily (for me) this still holds and I see it as an advantage over Chrome; this pulling effect is amusing to look at (and I must admit that Chrome does great job when it comes to perceived speed and "snappiness" of it) but absolutely terrible feature when it comes to usability. For example it prevents transfer of tab between two full screen windows, making this task a multi steps chore. (Even for non-fullscreen windows it's quite complicated; I've summarized it some time ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19663744)
You're misreading the GP just so you can be a pedant about it.

GP's post is excellent because it highlights where the irrationality comes from. If you want to convince parents with antivaxx tendencies of anything, don't begin by calling them lazy or having ego issues.

Address their fears, explain how the risk of not vaccinating 1000x higher than any perceived risk vaccination can have.

I'm a parent and my kids go to a hippie school (hippie by Dutch standards, i.e. not very). The school is great but one downside is there's a disproportionate amount of antivaxxers among the parents. They very deeply believe in it, not unlike deeply religious people. I've seen it happen, calling them idiots is only going to light their fire. But reminding people why this entire vaccination thing got started in the first place can truly help sway people who are on the fence. Most young-ish people who grew up in the west have no perception about how terrible these diseases are because nobody around them gets them anymore.
Well, that would be the ground current of a lightning strike, the induced ground current of a solar event is much much lower, it only plays a role with long wires.
The star is a dwarf star so much smaller than our sun. Would such a star provide livable conditions for human life on its planets even if it is earth-sized?

Anyways, that star and planet is 100 light years from us. So even if we could send a reconaissance vehicle traveling at the speed of light, it would take 200 years for it to get to the planet, check the conditions and come back to earth.
Is this a defense against malware and problematic chrome plugins?
You mean an airplane of a different design that would need to be separately certified?
Great to see it here, simple and educative.
To be very clear, I fully support vaccination, my kids are vaccinated, as am I.

Having said that, when people hear the risk of a bad reaction is 1:40000, I believe that what they think is "my kid's chances of getting this disease are lower than that, so I am making the smart choice by picking the lower risk and avoiding the vaccine risk".
> some standardised method, assessing working memory, verbal fluidity

> (I'm not talking about IQ obviously.)

Why not IQ? It's the most well-researched, standardised and validated test for cognition that we have. It's trendy to criticise IQ and IQ tests but any alternative will be supported by even less evidence, far less in fact.
Great jokes but bad user interface design comes at a real cost.
I wonder if the evolution of law enforcement to this attack will be to have a court issue a gag order preventing said companies from notifying their users of attempted or successful attacks.
We got a Samsung The Frame this Black Friday, which uses Tizen. It is our first really smart tv, the other we got is a 2012 Panasonic plasma.. Anyway, i'm quite pleasently suprised with the response and UI interactions.
Why do they get offended that you are consolidating knowledge?
The Icculus Microgrant 2019
Alternative title: every random binary still has full file system acces in Windows.
Who and Why Uses Apache Kafka?
Feds realize a jailed man's 3k pounds of 'marijuana' isn't pot
I was wondering which executables is this hunting aswell. What else does chrome run besides itself? Is it flash and the likes of it?
I'm not entirely sure if its what you're after but the features you listed made me think about jMeter [0] take a look.

[0] https://jmeter.apache.org/
I would love to see a HowToBasic way (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowToBasic).
Whataboutism at its finest. Australia has a lot of problems with non native species without native predators. The population growth of rabbits, camels or deer is insane, manmade and not sustaintable.
Not even tesla or dream house, sometimes to just coast and provide minimum for your self and your family require you to compete with other.
Yes, I understand it's regular. It doesn't stop it being an absolute abomination. My point is that having regularity in naming doesn't stop an API being horrible, and not having regularity in naming doesn't _make_ an API horrible.
Just stop it. It's OK not to have hobby coding projects, yes, but the opposite is also OK. When I play with e.g. Arduino, game programming or some random tech - this is in-fact my break from work. It's 100% driven by fun and play, so don't tell me I have no life please.
The title is missing (2018) or (2019) - not sure if the title should have the created or the updated date actually. Anyway, nothing indicates this is current, so the title should have some year

Also the title is total clickbait and while the topic is interesting, it would be great to have a less biased/reaching submission on it.
Many times it’s hard to distinguish the difference between regulation and corruption. Sometimes they’re one disguised as the other. Not sure what method you have for distinguishing between the two, so please share!
The unmodified versions of pages are still available, you just need to append "id_" to the date in the URL:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120224113551id_/https://en.wik...
A similar situation happened to me, and the problem was not hints. I just wasn't happy with that particular problem because I knew how much time it took me the last day, when preparing, to solve it!

I was really not into doing it again, it was so traumatic.

The correct curse of action is for the interviewer to anticipate this and prepare a backup question.
> Google seems to think I value avoiding some slight inconvenience at $1000/month, and what’s more, they’ve chosen to provide not a free trial of a convenient thing (a tried and true approach) but a free inconvenient version of a convenient thing, forever. This can’t even sell me on the convenience of the “real” thing, since I’ve never seen it!

Well, tbh my personal experience with so-called “free trials” is a bad one because they often start to charge you after the free trial is over and when you have a lot of things going then you forget to cancel which of course is what they want but IMO a shady and immoral way of doing business.

I’ve been bitten by this a couple of times. Sometimes because I forgot to cancel on time, other times because I thought I was signing up for something with a one-time fee that turned out to be the monthly fee and they charge a full year.

So with my bad experiences I am extremely unlikely at this point to sign up for those kinds of trials if I can avoid it.

And when companies do that kind of stuff, depending on how they respond when I discover what happened and get in touch with their customer service, if it causes me grief then I will not do business with them again and I will tell my friends and family to not do business with them either.
> This forum thread from the 2001 release is pretty funny:

Absolutely:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apples-new-thing-ipod.5...

The Reality Distiortion Field turned out to be in this guy's head :)
Seriously, many technical people underestimate the power of "bringing X to the masses" by making a beautiful, easy polished, effortless UX. UX (usually) trumps functionality.
Does that also happen if Firefox is closed when you launch Chrome ?

I ask because for a long while I had a bug where launching Chromium while Firefox is running would show similar symptoms, on top of freezing Firefox. This didn't happen if I closed Firefox before launching Chromium.

Not sure if this is related.
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That’s not strange at all. Most of the new noises you listed were specifically designed to catch your attention, while motor vehicles are constructed to be as quiet as it’s possible.
Has h265 got to the point where it's always in every case better than h264? I don't need to think about it anymore?
She also is not wrong because not even the CDC recommends the measles vaccine until 12 months of age. Hepatitis B is the only vaccine recommend for newborns. The rest are staged out over time, starting at 2 months.
Wouldn't require different RAM, and wouldn't really require any different register renaming logic. It would however require an extra bit on each register to flag the value as originating from RDRAND, and a different ALU that uses that flag and changes the outcome for certain operations.

Obviously, if you store the result of RDRAND to main RAM and read it back in later, this would defeat the system as the flag wouldn't be preserved. But I'm guessing most code won't do that for performance reasons.

The simpler option of just making RDRAND predictable is less powerful, because then the operating system can compensate with randomness obtained from elsewhere. The attack above allows the CPU to actually compromise the operating system's own randomness source.
America’s Coal Consumption Entered Free Fall in 2019
> This kind of event can cause transmission power outages.

We did have a power outage in the middle of Norway at 17.26 CET (UT +1 hour) yesterday: https://www.nidaros.no/trondheim/bakklandet/strombrudd/flere...

Power outages in Norway are very rare. I think it if the first one I have experienced in 10-15 years. Could it be related?
That's the idiocy in general of modern car design.

A bright-blue headlight of a modern car will actually make everything surrounding the headlights darker. A light which is slightly dimmer and more shifted towards red works much better for your peripheral vision. If you drive in rural areas the difference is very apparent.

Not only that, but street lights seem to be doing that as well.

Cross-walks here are now illuminated along the path with a strong shaped light. But the light is so bright that during night they just blind the observer: the pedestrian looks like ghost in a black background. IMHO this is even more dangerous, I frequently cannot see past the crosswalk, so a pedestrian which is passing behind it is risking much more than before. Go figure.

There are a couple of intersections which I pass frequently where the green light is too bright already during day. During the night, as soon as you get the green light you get blinded, which is _awesome_ since the light is guarding a cross-walk in this case as well. By night you cannot see pedestrians when you have the green.
Please don't spread your disinformation. It's how anti-vaxxers spread their falsehoods.

Flu vaccines are based upon predictions/models built from data. They tend to target a handful of viruses but even without targeting, it provides protection against other types of flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm
Next Generation Machine Learning IoT/Embedded Security
I don't believe the non-stop hobbyist is necessarily any better than the 9-5 guy.

I think in our industry hiring managers have failed and continue to fail to identify talent and good hires (it's a hard problem). As a result they use proxy-metrics, this may just be another one.

I've worked with the obsessives, and the dedicated, I've also worked with talented people who aren't like that. Those that 'live to code' have not always distinguished themselves.

You need passion and interest to be great in this industry. I'm, far from convinced that to be in the top performers you need to be spending your whole life outside of work dedicated to it too. You also need to be a good communicator, innovative and open minded, as well as productive and tech savvy, and you need not to be exhausted and burned out.

Most of the really good people I know do some coding outside of work, but it's usually not constant and is usually incidental to trying to achieve something ("hey, I automated the garden path lights!", "I made a security cam system!" Etc). Like a couple of generations back they'd be tinkering in their garden shed. Rather than driving themselves to constantly pick up the new hot language/framework/technology.
Companies starting from scratch may prefer amazon primarily, enterprise customers who are finally getting in the bandwagon are probably preferring azure because of things like O365 and azure AD with SSO, in-tune etc. They also tend to integrate with third parties better, at least initially (Box for example, if you take into consideration legacy documents).
Our system will force them to accumulate until there is 2 or maybe 3 big players (probably MS/AMZN/GOOG but maybe one will be Alibaba) and the other competitors will more or less slowly be assimilated.

It happens to many business branches and the last barrier is the law prohibiting cartels and monopolies but it does not work globally.

Around cocoa some days ago a cartel formed and there is other examples where we only have one real provider left.

One big pro for the way our capitalist markets work always was that the competition will drive innovation. In the end of course this cannot work anymore and we can see many businesses where consumers just have to take the products that one big player offers.

Look at Intel processors which are built into nearly every device nowadays. Of course in the recent history AMD started to face them again but it will be a long time until they even come near the market share to really compete.

Yes there is other CPUs as well but who even speaks about them or considers (knowingly) buying a device with something different than an Intel CPU?
Are there any crypto currencies that use SHA-1 for their proof of work?
You misunderstand. I have no life because I’m married and have two kids.
Imagine thinking that using "imagine" is still cool.

Fucking gen z cunt. Go fuck yourself.
Managing the scope of the project to keep it an encyclopedia is not a dubious reason.

A similar article might stand if it had good citations for literally every phrase, but this article doesn't have that, it looks like original work.
I 100% agree that the cost / benefit analysis in this scenario is clear-cut.

However, it's also the case that "experts" are occasinally completely in left field, and when challenged by non-experts, have exactly the same "You're not equipped to make this decision" attitude. Doctors who prescribe drug after drug to elderly people, until they have functional dementia due to drugs and nothing to do with any underlying health issue.

And the same thing can happen for entire fields, when one strong-minded "expert" manages to make one particular way of doing things or looking at things the "orthodox" way, and the field as a whole rejects any doubters as heretics. (There was recently an article on HN about how most educational researchers think whole-word reading is a terrible way of learning, but how most educators think that's the best way.)

Diversification of decisions is one of the best defenses we have against that.

Or to put it differently: There is a risk if we allow parents to make this sort of decision on behalf of their kids: that a number of parents will be fooled by charlatans into making decisions that harm their kids. But there's also a risk of not allowing parents to make this sort of decision on behalf of their kids: That a single well-placed wrong individual can make a decision which harms untold millions of children.

There is certainly a time and a place for overriding parent's decisions about their children; but it should be made in circumstances where the costs of doing so are crystal clear.
> Oct 23, 2001

> #13

> iCan't believe it!

> It's now at the online Apple Store!

> $400 for an Mp3 Player!

>I'd call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time...and it's not really functional.

> Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now?"

A quote for the ages... :D
This doesn’t sound like a life-saving approach at all. Helps to frame it as the idea, not the person, that’s idiotic. Then work on being a better communicator who’s powerful at getting concepts across.
Study Finds Talcum Powder Not Likely a Risk for Ovarian Cancer
> Where are the rest of Apple varieties? No one knows.

From the article:

Due to the demands of industrial farming, only a handful of apple varieties make it to stores, and even of those, only the most uniform specimens sit on the shelves. Growers have abandoned many delicious or beautiful varieties that have delicate skin, lower-yield trees, or greater susceptibility to disease.

Then there's the wholesale destruction of old and disease free orchards which has seen the availability of once popular cultivars vanish. It's a crime really.
Busy Is an Addiction – Rands in Repose
Mileage may vary depending on language support, but vim does have a go to definition feature[1][2]. I believe there is also out box error checking for some languages, and if that is not enough for you (and at the risk of offending a large number of vim purists), there is a fantastic plugin called ALE[3] that will likely provide you with what you want.

1: https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#gd

2: https://vimhelp.org/pattern.txt.html#gD

3: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale
Do you really want to work for a company which values that "competitive edge" as a social signal over humane hours and relaxed professional competence?

Reality is you will probably burn out by your late 20s. And so will most of the off-hours coders.
"Along the way, the AI creates an army of what Braun calls “monsters”: Nightmarish faces pocked with inhuman deformities and surreal mutations."

"The company refers to these mutated creations as “monsters.”"

Given that some of these deformities exist in real life, calling them "monsters" really gives an idea of what this dehumanizing-as-a-business does to dehumanize the minds of the creators.
If you only watched the rather recent movie: know that they spun the story around 180°.

The original is more of a love letter to technology [SPOILER] and ends with the first merge of human and AI in to something new [/SPOILER] (it's not about technophobic humans policing the bad runaway machines).
I think the parent comment was implying she was not going to vaccinate until they saw risk, unrelated to CDC recommendation. Many people put off vaccines beyond what the CDC or other health agencies recommend because of misinformation that has been spread.
I've seen this in person in London, and it's very warm. You can feel the heat coming off it from several metres away. Not sure if that is still causing problems or not.
There are laws, but it doesn't mean they are properly enforced.

Chances are that the car behind you had misaligned headlights or some dubious aftermarket modification, like a HID conversion kit.
Ok man, now that's just over the top.

/s
Yes, all SF offers.

No idea for Austin, but I used levels.fyi to give me an idea of what to expect and negociate, and it helped a lot (and was on point with what I got offered). I think you can filter per city, so there might be some data for Austin.
Flagged because this is false and this sort of misinformation actively harms others.