skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. By far the least useful of the standard standup questions is "what did you do yesterday".

Focussing on the work to be done puts the emphasis on teamwork and skips the pressure on people to justify themselves or play politics by showing off.

That's assuming everyone is doing the work and they're being trusted to do the work. If that's not the case, then you have bigger problems than the format of your daily standup, and standup is not the best time to address them.
You're implying we shouldn't bother with firewalls
Having a 9-5 job and retiring at 65 are dreams come true for most of the world. Even under an alternative to capitalism you will probably have to get up and go to work. Socialism isn’t another word for trust fund.
On top of this, this year's conditions are nothing like the "natural" burning of Australian forests. The fires are burning hotter and faster due to the dry conditions.

A massive part of Australian forests have already burned too, they don't regrow out of nothing, and they are the only thing keeping deserts at bay in many cases.
Both the law and Googles privacy policy stops them telling the world if you sent bomb threats to the president. That's still your private mail. They can't go looking it it, let alone telling the world about it.
That last part reminds me of advice a coworker gave me before I had kids: "Just when you think you've figured them out, they'll change."
Related: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

Update for Apple: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts-update
> Are there significant issues with the management or other devs? This really should be a time where you bring up the issues you're having, and options for others to help you.

Any issues with the management an engineer brings up are issues readily solved with a pink slip for the engineer. "Reading the room" is essential -- understanding the company culture -- before you speak. And even then, you might be wrong.
lostmsu, IMO that is not a reasonable thing to expect because:

- Papers are hard to read and understand for even for people in the profession.

- For a resonantly skilled person outside of the profession (say an engineer or physicist) it might take about 3 days to a week to read and understand a paper fully.

- A large part of the population - my guess easily over 50% will never be able to read and understand a paper.

- Papers can be fraudulent, data can be fudged, or entirely made up. The researchers could be biased etc. I'm not saying that every paper out there needs to be ignored, rather that the signal to noise ration is rather small.

- Controversial findings are often not published.
FEMA says it may bill fire victims if it can’t get $4B from PG&E
dang and sctb have stated several times that it's OK to downvote for disagreement on HN. On the other hand, on Reddit it goes against Reddiquette (as published by Reddit) to do that - though of course it's very common.
It's probably more because in countries where people are used to having an exposed face they feel uncomfortable seeing someone fully covered at all times.

It's because burkhas are considered a repressive way of controlling women and making them submissive to, rather than equal to men.
I know we tend to have little control over this as ICs, but I think the party line here is that 20 is too many people to effectively make use of most agile/scrum ceremonies. Do you actually need to know all 19 other persons’ updates?
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Show HN: Isometricks.com, an easy isometric editor in the browser
https://isometricks.com

Here I want to present you the project I loved to work on the last months: isometricks.

Please have a look, and play with it!
Incoming features:
- color selector for each 'face'
- eraser

And a handful of others improvements that I have in mind.

Please comment, I would really appreciate any feedback.

Open source and open to collaboration on GitHub:
https://github.com/NicolasLetellier/isometricks

Thanks!
Kubernetes trends to watch in 2020: Kubernetes shrinks its “shoe size”
This is just amazing.
Thank you!
Books are protected even if they are not innovative, programs are protected even if they are not innovative. Why should interfaces not be?
I'm sorry, stand ups are literally a psychological trick played by middle managers to put pressure on devs. They undoubtably lead to higher turnover from devs fleeing chickenshit and I've never seen one actually lead to better code.
Around the time just before the MAX was grounded, I remember there being lots of unfounded speculations (here on HN as well!) that Lion Air's and Ethiopian's pilots were somehow substandard and lacking the training of their first world counterparts. Meanwhile it was Boeing actively keeping vital information and training from pilots.

The lesson from this is still not learned, and can see at least one apologist on this thread repeating this same BS again...it's infuriating.
American system of predatory student loans is really weird. Almost as if they went generations of students to be in debt for most of their life.

That, healthcare and gun violence.

These are all pretty well solved problems in other modern countries like Australia and Canada.

The state of politics really baffles me. Like FUUUUUUUU (meme)
Apple really dropped the ball on this and the argument they make (thing about all of the old accessories!) is pretty moot for the consumer.

I want all phone to standardise on USB-C. No adapter for Apple, no exception.

The point is not just about charging: accessory manufacturers have to develop 2 physical versions of their equipment, for Apple devices and for Android devices.
This increases development and manufacturing costs and restricts the use of the accessory to a single system.

Having more USB-C accessories would also force Apple to increase compatibility with a broader range of accessories. For instance it's impossible to use an off-the-shelf USB drive and connect it to an iPhone to, say, dump pictures to it.

If the iPhone had a standard USB plug, it would be harder for Apple to ignore the perfectly reasonable expectation that plugging in a drive should allow you to do something useful with it.

Today the fact that lighting is not a common port means that you have to buy a 'special' USB drive with a lighting port and then have to find some app that takes advantage of it.
> rather than rehearse their updates in their heads ignoring others.

Personally, I always try to take quick notes ahead of time in order to be able to listen to others during the meeting. I'd highly recommend this to everyone to help focus on what others are saying.
The 1% has 50 trillion or more in wealth so them.
> People who deal in megabytes have different problems than people who deal in petabytes.

I just hope that this is not meant ad-hominem. At the very least it's a bad reply, unless you are dealing with petabytes per second. (Btw one of my current projects is a text editor that can handle gigabytes in memory; local operations take 5-50 microseconds. So I have reason to think I'm not entirely clueless).

> I rarely log messages anyway, preferring to set state that I can then printout on command (e.g. siginfo)

That sounds much more reasonable to me giving the volumes that you cite, and why shouldn't we use printf() for that?

Why would printf "vary in performance by 10msec" or more, in ways that another application wouldn't? For how much data is that? How many printf() calls?

Anyway I shouldn't have gotten in the woods here. The blanket statement that printf() is slow and therefore an obscure API like sbrk() is a better use, is nonsensical for a guide that seemingly gives general advice for memory allocation.
Startpage was acquired by an adtech company a few months ago
https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/16/startpage-search-owner-cha...
The “No Code” Delusion
Not all applications are, and there are specific automated downgrade attacks for encrypted comms that force some back to plaintext. Giving outsiders access to your internal network is rarely a good idea.
Face to face communication, and thus listening to others, is the whole point of the daily scrum.
It is but we are still in infant stages in automation as it pertains to electronic trading. Its a bit of an arms race, I anticipate it is going full circle in that after the point where we have more technologists than traders hits, we will realize all our tech is as strong as the next guys and will need to re-enlist more traders to help with new strategy to differentiate said algo's from the competitions.
>"1. If it becomes possible to get out of student debt through bankruptcy, then there must be additional collateral posted by the debtors."

Could you elaborate on this? Would that collateral just be a higher cash to loan ratio on the part of students or are you referring to something else?
Single Node Ceph (2018)
Yup. In an ideal world, all systems would be built by domain experts who are trained to program.

I cut my teeth as a self-taught scripter/automator before going professional and eventually becoming a writer/educator myself, so I’ve seen plenty of every combination (and produced all of them too;). And I would much rather teach professional doctors how to make their own solutions than teach professional programmers how to write software for doctors. Because one of these audiences has a massive self-interest in getting a product that also works for themselves, while the other satisfied in taking a paycheck while ticking some boxes†.

That is to say; Incentivization is Everything.

--

† Which is not to say you don’t need—and want—formally-educated full-time developers in the mix as well; because good ones bring important transferable experience and insight into the more abstract aspects of system development like scalability and security. And yes, there are great devs out there who understand it is Muhammad’s job to go to the mountain, and not vice-versa. But damn, is it hard to find ’em.
I love Lightning more than my first born child.

I've been using USB-C now for about 3 months. Expected to hate it. It's pretty terrific. I'm sold.

But whatever. Rumors are Apple will transition their mobiles to fully wireless charging. I'm totally on board.
OPNsense 19.7.8 Released – OPNsense, Your Next Open Source Firewall
Even if consumers wanted it, it does nothing as long as they are not given the choice. They buy what's available, which is often only in part what they want.
Let’s not go all draconian here. Copyrighting APIs just means you need approval from the original owning entity to do interoperability. Which again comes down to licensing. Why should the creator not own what they create and why should others not be forced to seek approval or license to use it? You might say “but the purpose of APIs is integration! How can they sue people for using it for integration?” But it seems obvious that they would be able to sue people using Oracle DB without license even if they are using it for its intended purpose.
Well, at least one reason for different connectors is the fact that USB-C cannot support more than 100W(20V at 5amps). But I agree that literally every single laptop on the market that's below 100W should just use USB-C for charging.
The article links to https://github.com/tenable/DiscordClient but this has been deleted. Does someone have a mirror?
You mean, one public transport :)
There is a simple solution to this. After the board is done someone can just ask "Has anyone got anything else to add?"
This is almost certainly exploitable remotely with a DNS rebinding attack.
Really glad to hear this. Hopefully, Google will take action and I finally can get rid of those
With the rise in popularity of ultramarathons, couldn't you take the best time of the 100+ mile races and compare that to times for horses on similar distances and terrain?

When I saw the heading, I was convinced at the end it would say that on distances of 200 miles and longer that those few humans who do actually run these distances have better times than the best horse times...
FUCK duckduckgo, it is US made, and they refuse audits

and it is a misleading title, it is "ONE of the"

fuck you twice
See https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/VM.md
The Future of Dev
Yea, in the game of monopoly
mozilla doesn't have millions of users, it is in the X00k

and they depend on selling data, without that, they get no money, they sell their users to google, and then pretend to care about "privacy", their financial privacy, probably ;)
Haha. Would love to hear also about:

1. We're releases and code changes as common as it is now or once you finished writing it's more less that except for bug fixes?

2. Nowadays a lot of non-technical people are also involved in the development process like product owners, project managers, scrum masters, engineering managers, etc. Was this so then?

3. Size of the teams? Was it generally smaller or larger compared to today?
Some brand get the same connectors, and it's been for years, for example, dell has the same big connector for laptops, and a smaller one for ultrabooks.

They are switching to usb-c charging, but keep their old connector.

Laptop displays have already a standardised connector it just need an LCD controller!
https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=LCD+controller

So yes, you are throwing perfectly fine laptop screen when you could have used them as external screens.
It’s a cliche, but I think the concept is well summed up here:

https://youtu.be/SiB8GVMNJkE
You can argue that there is an actual practical reason for things like different tyre sizes. There is no practical reason for having slightly different barrel connectors on different laptops that makes them all incompatible.
Many or most devices don't support this and the average consumer isn't capable of doing it himself.
Literally everything would suck in a 20 person standup.
For laptops there's a true cacophony when it comes to connectors. I hope USB-C meets requirements for most laptops/CPU/GPU configurations.
95 % of laptops have less than 100W chargers.
What makes you blindly trust DDG and give them the benefit of doubt compared to other companies?
Most apps can be uninstalled from Pixels / Android One phones these days (including Chrome, YouTube, Google assistant app, Play music/movies) etc. so they did change quite a bit these last years.

Unfortunately OEMs still love to abuse the "Don't allow installation" flag on APKs to prevent you from uninstalling Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. (I'm looking at you Samsung).
I can’t see that ever happening given that Microsoft puts those “features” into Windows itself.
Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years
Why automated test projects fail
This is really only a concern if you are an exit node, which is not something that people are encouraged to do without experience and measures in place to knowingly protect themselves.

If you are just a relay, the content is encrypted and your chances of liability are low. Same goes if you are promoted to a guard node.
Does someone know if I can « unlock » my modem speed with this exploit?
When I visit a friend, it is very convenient to be able to charge my phone without having my own charger with me and just use theirs. At the same time, I park my car and don't care to look for compatible parking space. As for tires, I don't even know nor care what sizes they are but I'm glad the air pistons are the same across all makers/brands/sizes so I don't worry I have to go to the right fuel station to check my air pressure. Right?
Hi blululu,

You'll notice when you search for an item like "Airpods" the shopping instant answer appears including products from Amazon.

The top right of that placement (https://i.imgur.com/EIpFjVR.png) you'll see it is noted that this is an ad. These links are eligible for affiliate commission as outlined in our help pages (https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/ad...). Even in this situation, no personally identifiable information is shared with Amazon.

Amazon links that appear in the organic results are not affiliated.

eBay links that appear in the organic results may be affiliated. As per our policy, this has no impact on their organic ranking or appearance - and no information is shared with eBay.

We agree that general skepticism is healthy, and try to make clear that any element which has its placement changed, or elevated because of a financial incentive is labelled as an ad.

If there is something unclear about that, we'd always love to hear more user feedback!
Based on what definition exactly?
That cannot be true. It does not contain the message '4'. (Or any of the non-primes.)

In fact it seems like there must be many more non-primes than primes over any finite interval (for the simple reason that multiplication gets a lot of whacks at the piñata, e.g. producing a product landing in that finite interval.)

So to answer your implied question ("why bother commucating with primes anwyay?") I guess the value of limiting your message to "a really big prime number" is to make discovery hard, but still tenable. It should be pretty big, like big enough for a good bible sized book, say 1 gigabyte, and start with something really obviously artificial, or unexpected looking, like starting as a 1 with 20,000 zeroes, or maybe better, 20k perfect 010101 and then after a few thousand, 00110011, and from there establish a language protocol, and write the book. But you'd have to expect people to check only primes for these simple patterns, because it's really easy to produce meaningful sequences with addition, and really hard with multiplication (AFAIK).
I know you're being facetious but basically yes. Some developers are great at working together and communicating with no formal structure in place. I have found over my career that maybe 50% of developers are absolutely appalling at doing so, and prefer to continue stumbling round in the dark. This applies even to developers who are reasonably technically competent. For these people, the enforced daily standup solves that problem.
What a horrible headline. Clickbait.

While I love Hokusai's art, this article does not explain why the Great Wave mystifies art lovers nor how it does so for generations.
VW's former CEO isn't being charged with killing anyone one. He has been charged with committing fraud by knowingly lying to regulators.
It seems like you could pair a gradual introduction of a UBI with a commensurate reduction in the minimum wage and slowly find the sweet spot for our current economy. It seems like this could be a good form of economic stimulus during downturns.
it really should be filtered out by the wattage requirement. I have more than one flashlight that supports recharging and they all have different barrel connectors.

so either get the devices by size class, or allow a micro connector for smaller devices, but sort them wattage/amp needs
I don't even expect more than 60W chargers ..
Let’s not forget the legendary Mensen Ernst. He raced against horses (and won?) in the 1700’s

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensen_Ernst
It's not that bad even in debug mode (or without TCO). Just not optimal. Also, there is a way to rework this part, so it does not rely on compiler TCO.
Things either make sense or they don't. Not exclusive to engineers, but most logical people have a hard time in illogical thinking, and many people with this trait just tend to become engineers and computers people.
The two most common sources of bloatware I saw when I was using Samsung phones were: AT&T and Samsung. Not only the number of bloatwares is crazy, they keeps coming back (from OS update?).
If we’d introduced this 20 years ago, think about how much e-waste we could have avoided.

Also think about your screen would look at analog signal 1280x1024, because that would likely be the limit of the standard connector chosen at the time.
s/solitaire/pinball/

The problem isn't really a third party game. It's that it's bulky and that it keeps coming back.
For most home users, the NAT on their router is also their firewall. It's akin to saying that it doesn't matter if someone can open your front door as they will only get access to the entrance hall...
That makes sense.

Hopefully it can be fixed, since geminates are one of the most difficult features of Japanese pronunciation for native English speakers to master. Erasing it from the orthography intended to aid beginners certainly doesn't help.
This may be true for some fields, but it's certainly not true for all fields. I'd be surprised if there are still orders-of-magnitude improvements to be discovered for BLAST, for example, and that's a foundational component of modern biology.

I should have spoken more generally to OP's point though. What I was really hoping to get at is that there are applications other than games that require non-trivial amounts of compute, and speeding them up would make meaningful differences in their users' lives.
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I have some full stack dev colleagues who can do what you want, going to send you an email.
Apple has abandoned wireless charging for now (its unreleased AirPower product).

But even Apple has started using USB-C ports to charge their laptops and tablets now, so maybe it's not too farfetched to think that a future iPhone could also migrate to USB-C? Pretty sure the only reason lightning still exists is to maintain compatibility with the existing iPhone hardware ecosystem.
Yep, agreed. But to be fair, hardware will stop progressing pretty soon IMO. PCIe 4.0 backbone is quite strong and a lot of companies, when buying workstations or servers based on it, won't move on from it for quite a while. Or so I hope.
Hasn't there already been a shot across the bow on this racket though with California’s Fair Pay to Play Act? [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/09/30/765834549/college-athletes-in...
Unfortunately big-O algorithmic analysis doesn't translate cleanly to the real world due to constants and other inefficiencies.
Show HN: Gyro, a new cloud automation tool
Last Supper at Pompeii
Do astronomers still have the guild requirement to call plasma "hot gas", and never mention any plasma fluid-dynamic phenomena, or X-radiation that results from them with no need for extreme temperatures?

I thought that had passed. Is the requirement lifted only in certain domains, like below some size limit?
Hi, I'm a member of the team that built Gyro.

Gyro, a command-line cloud automation and management tool, started as internal tool over 5 years ago. We had a vision of building one tool that would pull together several different tools (Chef, Service Discovery, Authentication, Deployments, etc) into a single interface that would greatly simplify the day to day management of our systems. This goal was very successful in transitioning to a DevOps model. Our developers are able to make configuration changes, do their own deployments, and build there own test environments without help from the operations team. And most importantly they've embraced this model because it gave them the power to make changes without waiting for an operations team and in turn it helped the operations team by reducing their work.

We decided to clean up the code and open source it. The result is Gyro (getgyro.io).

What makes this different than what exists?

- Designed with logic (for loops, if conditions, etc) from the beginning (https://gyro.dev/guides/language/control-structures.html)

- Workflows provide the ability to stage complex changes and rollback (https://gyro.dev/guides/workflows/)

- Extensions allow for tight integrations with other operations tooling (https://gyro.dev/extending/)

For some screenshots of Gyro see (https://getgyro.io/introducing-gyro), source is available one Github (https://github.com/perfectsense/gyro)

We're really excited to open source Gyro and see how people extend it!
Every article:

Title: Is [x] better than [y]?

Article: Depends on context