skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> had a podcast running for a while

This is oddly enough what I remember most about the place. IIRC it was very relaxed and felt like the hosts just hanging out talking about whatever, but was also engaging unlike many podcasts that try to do that.
Not being a bother to your boss is more valuable than the quality of work provided you don't seriously suck.
From the article it seems that they are now disputing the reporting and blame Twitter for her having stepped down.

So from her perspective the lesson to learn here is to keep the company's dirty laundry out of the media. I suspect the culture will become even worse at Away, but more secretive. Monitoring people's Slack messages. Scolding people in places without a paper trail, etc.
That's why I never use my real google account with my phone. Android phones offer too little control over what is perhaps one of the most important digital asset I own: my google account.
For the frequent travelers out there, I backed this thing on Kickstarter and had really high expectations for it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/netta/the-six-a-carry-o...

Just received it last month, and build quality seems excellent. And judging from the positive Kickstarter comments so far, I can't wait for my next trip. :)

It's quite a bit more expensive than the Away case, but the large back-wheel and push mechanism felt super innovative and provide a very tangible improvement to quality of life for steering the case around in streets compared to existing designs, whereas the Away case at the end of the day is just a regular old suitcase with slightly nicer materials (I own one but plan on selling it off soon if this one holds up in practical use).
Can’t feature detect during SSR, so making an educated guess and falling back gracefully (when possible—many times it just isn’t, as with ES6 syntax) is important to get initial page load right by default.
Show HN: Gossip’s Cafe - A Cafe on the Internet
This was meant as I wrote it, without sarcasm. I believe in taxes as the solution to certain problems.

To clarify: I didn't mean more taxes per person, but more absolute taxes from the working population.
Building a Secure Electron App
No, I don't have enough insight into how WU verification/certificates work to make such a strong claim in confidence actually.

Would be curious to learn why this wouldn't be so, though.

Given Microsoft's close relationship in NSA programs in the past (PRISM, Snowden leaks, others), it's not far-fetched to assume they have a key for a root CA or whatever else is needed for such an attack.
After almost 3 decades in software/systems domain, three things (which admittedly I'm guessing other people have landed at as well):

1) It's almost never about the engineering, and almost always about the people doing the engineering.

2) Actual innovation is exceedingly rare. That vast majority of output in the form of software, services, etc is optimization.

3) We've failed dramatically as a business domain to recognize what is truly valuable and what is actually harmful to the culture and the species.
You don't even need to make it vt100 compat. Just temporarily spawn the lightest vt100 compat terminal in the terminal.

Very cool.
Hopefully people will think twice before doing stuff that depend on browser.
Using Firefox browser, can Google still track me and how much?
I recently ditched Chrome browser due to the impossibility of not being tracked by Google during my online activity.

I like a lot the latest Firefox, which is now my browser of choice. So I was wondering....

...how much Google is able to track me on Firefox, if I keep using Google as integrated search engine in the browser?

Happy to hear opinions and discuss.

TA!
Solution: inject it with even more incorrect information about yourself.
Why not? They can be. It's not like there is a professional organization licensing philosophers. They offer views on all sorts of stuff, which is what philosophers do. That does not mean they aren't telling jokes, using satire to get laughs, etc.

The author's last paragraph is on the mark, where he says we should not blindly trust anyone -- not just comedians, but actors, politicians, etc. -- and should think for ourselves.
Is 128-bit security still considered strong in 2020?
Growing up in Northern Ontario, one learns these lessons early. Anything on, or more importantly, embedded in, the ground was always subject to frost. Roads seemed to take a few yearly cycles to get moved enough to matter, but anything with fence posts or pilings caused a lot of damage. The conversations among the local cognoscenti: "didn't go deep enough", "never use concrete!" , "needed more concrete", etc. No one really had the answer...always seemed a crap shoot to me. This lack of knowledge left every neighborhood looking like it just went through a minor earthquake each spring. Apparently, helical piles are the next great thing to try... I wonder how deep I need to go....
Then maybe the statement should have been "I believe it is basically impossible for Python to win back all that performance loss without adopting radical and jarring features like dropping the legacy C interface to Python objects."

The fastest dynamic languages I see are those which have no C interface at all. How many of the performance optimizations in a modern JavaScript engine would be possible if it had to support accessing every property of every object as a C string at any point in a program? JS has exactly none of the features that comment claims would be necessary for performance.
I think most would be disturbed by your support of violent revolutionaries that took it upon themselves to seize the rightful property of the sovereign based on their perceived injustices.
they do almost zero advertising and their stores only exists in the New York, SF, LA, and Boston metro areas, plus one shop in Portland. The majority of Americans have never heard of Muji.
Plus there is so much problems, corruption, conflicts of interest in plain sight with little to no accountability that is laughable someone is going the extra mile to hide their steps.
Hundredth Monkey Effect
I highly recommend this as well. Coming at this with a background in mechanical engineering, ie, familiar with formal definitions of control systems, feedback loops, delays, etc, this book did a fantastic job showing how all those same concepts apply to nontraditional systems without requiring any deep technical knowledge of control systems.
Sorry about that. Can you explain the problems using the extender?
What problem is solved, exactly? How do you parse the messy CSV file you've been handed, in order to convert it to TSV?
Perhaps I shouldn’t have said “I don’t see at all” because that’s an exaggeration. I see some connection, e.g., listening to music can feel “enjoyable”, just not “very strong emotions that lie outside the range of their normal everyday emotions”.

As an example, here’s a random song that has a nice beat and I enjoy listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-4-O7GetQ. What kind of “strong emotions outside the normal everyday range” can one feel when listening to it?

I agree certain rare songs can instill strong emotional responses, but that isn’t the case when just listening to random music that sounds good for the first time.
Your comment made me think of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_graph

“Multi modal” system representation in graph format. You can represent an electric, hydraulic and mechanical system in one graph. Anything really by relating them to the substituent energy and power. Its representation allows you to easily extract the differential equation. Neat stuff.
Damn, 3dBuzz is the reason I became programmer. Delphi video tutorials were first introduction to the topic and that's when I got hooked.
"Come work for us. We're changing the world"

"By curing cancer or going to space?"

"Not exactly..."
Philosopher Philip Goff answers questions about panpsychism
The best summary of the article was in this passage:

> The history of American housework suggests that both sides have a point. Americans tend to use new productivity and technology to buy a better life rather than to enjoy more downtime in inferior conditions.

I think this goes along with an informal idea that downtime is both overrated and possibly undesirable.

Often, the alternative to staying busy is boredom, and the completion of tasks at home is gamified with satisfying results.
And even ignoring any potential checksum issues, uninstalling that kind of apps consequently only frees up space on the system partition, where it is of little value to the average user.
You can prove some code to be correct as to some specification but it is pretty much impossible to define the specification to be ‘secure’ forever. Not only do unexpected problems pop up, such as the cpu vulnerabilities, also threat models change and it may turn out your specification solidly protects something that doesn’t matter at all.

That doesn’t mean that properly validating code so it at least doesn’t overflow its buffers is useless of course.
What Most People Get Wrong About Willpower
I've been looking for something like this. Hope it's good.

One thing: the description starts with "Software startups make global headlines every day". That line seems completely disconnected from the rest of the description and it seems nothing would be lacking if you started with the next sentence instead.
You are right that building codes aren't a sign of socialism at all.

The UK however has a pretty interventionist state. (But yes, they are less interventionist than eg the French. Low bar, though.) And eg re-nationalising the railways is perennial popular with the population. Luckily, no government has been crazy enough to do it, nor has it even featured much in election campaigns.
Im glad this is happening ... for reasons aptly stated in this essay: https://eggonomy.com/blogs/news/ellsworth-toohey-award-for-z...
just today I talked with a colleague of mine and told her that you try and do the best work possible and put a lot of effort in it and will be considered shit by others. And, you do a sloppy job with minimum effort and it will be regarded as awesome. Is it luck? Even if you like what you do and are passionate about it, there's just element of chance, though "luck" is never a thing to consider or even mention at meeting and in plans. Common consensus holds it that you you should always "try and do the best work possible and put a lot of effort in it" but that's just not the case since when everything's awesome nothing is awesome and doing something repeatedly is in between shit and awesome. You just gather feedback on what works and try to repeat it and stop doing what has negative feedback (you change according to feedback)

smth like that
You're right, I should have replied elsewhere. By the way, if anyone knows what this _is_ called I would be interested to know. As far as I can see it's basically feature detection with no other way of detecting it besides the UA.
If I was trying to hide my presence, I wouldn't name something after myself. $0.02
Sure, but Microsoft didn't argue that it was tongue-in-cheek.
If there ever has been a sector where mandatory full transparency is useful then medicine would be a good candidate. The outcome of trials could be very useful for other researchers.

Same should apply for pricing. The fact that prices are completely opaque in the US makes it hard for patients to make good decisions.
> social media has driven people into a rabid spending rage that turns most into debt slaves.

whatever happened to personal responsibility and accountability?!
Didn't they "get caught" for having their apps listening all the time and everyone was wondering how they kept getting ads for things they only ever talked about?
1. Look at things in entirety--from end-to-end, when you see the complete picture, it becomes much easier to grasp anything.

2. Research matters A LOT. I remember an incident where my Design lead called us all into a room (about 12 people.) He gave each one of us a chocolate--none were of the same kind. Then, he asked, "how many of you don't like what you got" Couple of us raised our hands. He then said, "go ahead and exchange it with someone"--people unhappy with their chocolates exchanged. Once everyone was done, He asked the same question again. This time only one person who did not like the chocolate raised their hand. Then he said "Welcome to user research 101" -- The biggest mistake companies make today, is shovelling down what they think is right onto their users, just like I did. Now, when you guys exchanged and got what you wanted it just goes onto show that it's not like you don't like chocolates, it's just that you wanted a different kind. About the one who did not like anything, he asked her why--She said, she doesn't like chocolates; for this he said--well, there also are people, who don't want your product at all!

These two have really helped me understand things better.
Ok. So how do we do OS detection then?

How do I know which (binary) download to offer my users?

Edit: How do I provide reasonable defaults when the user’s OS actually matters?
The old UA will exist as it always has done - frozen, unchanged. Nothing will be removed from the literaly `user-agent` header value.
DocInfo: Information You Can Trust
True, but they already do. China is basically just exporting some of the property bubble they already have back home (just like the Japanese did in the 80s).
The entire signing system, of which these keys were part, was required to comply with US export controls.
I personally dislike the use of caching to increase performance. It is very easy to slap on caching and then the benchmarks say the problem is fixed but you will end up with unpredictability. You can no longer know how much memory your program is using and you don't know if a given function call is the source of a bottleneck or not. Your profiler will show a single hot function when the cache is empty but all the other calls that happen after caching become invisible.
Lots of beans, lentils, tofu, soy mince, fake meats... You could always buy some vegan protein powder if you are concerned about it.
> One of the truisms of modern life is that nobody has any time.

I don't agree. We have as much time as we ever did, but modern technology has vastly improved the value of our time.

In particular, we don't get bored as easily as we used to. As a consequence, a lot of non-important tasks that used to offer sort of a refreshing break from monotony look now as a hassle because we have funnier/worthier things to do.
Who is the anti-democratic extremist?
What a stupid article.

> Everybody is busy, burned out, swamped, overwhelmed.

Because money has been depreciating in value by 2-3% every year since the 70s while wages have stayed the same and the value they produce has increased.

This is fairly simple maths, the rich are enslaving the working class with debt through inflation.

Rather than face this cold reality some people would rather blame that new fangled technology, "things where better when there was no technology and I was a naive kid".

It's easy to blame technology as it gives you a simple solution to your problems, get rid of it, but you can never get back your naivety and that truth is much harder to accept.

Some other bad takes

> Better technology means higher expectations

Does it? based on what? I have higher expectations for a coffee made by a hipster barista than a coffee machine.

> A lot of modern overwork is class and status maintenance
> structural forces makes it so hard for Americans to find more time, even in an economy that is becoming ever more rich

The rich may becoming ever more rich, but the average American in the working class is getting poorer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/19/income-inequality-continues-...

> Americans tend to use new productivity and technology to buy a better life rather than to enjoy more downtime in inferior conditions.

This may be true of some tech like phones and tv, tech focused on entertainment, but most technology is focused on freeing up time and reducing effort like lights, washing machines, dish washers, cookers, microwaves, cars, power tools the list goes on you don't need me to list them as most people take them for granted, I think the author is too.
To expand on your last point, I've found 90% of the success of your team is largely based on your team's ability to self-promote. I like to "talk up" my senior people when they're not in the room. This is the "upwards" part as a manager's influence is largely restricted to the management class. Most engineers roll their eyes and discount about 50% of what a manager outside their team says, so you likely won't be able to build credibility with them yourself no matter what you do.

The "outwards" part is teaching your team the right ways to evangelize to people on other teams at levels below you. They'll almost certainly be interacting with engineers on other teams, and the quality of these interactions is greatly enhanced with a combination of good documentation and good presentation skills.

This is so important that it doesn't really matter how good of a job your team does as long as they can talk about it in a positive way and work effectively with other teams. All of your "good engineering practices" should be geared towards enabling this kind of culture because the technical deficiencies in your code don't really matter.
That would be a "confederacy", and that has very negative connotations in the United States.
Company representatives and management will outright lie to you about the things they claim the company values. Things like "people come first", "we work hard and play hard", "work/life balance is crucial" and "code maintenance is important". If you want to find out what a company actually values, pay attention to what it incentivizes, and also where it deploys it's leukocytes. Often, people who work for a company assume the company values some concept or principal we shall call "X". In reality, the company doesn't actually value X. Oftentimes the company could not care less about X or even disdains X. But: they value VALUING X! (Go ahead and read that twice). The meta-valuing of things often produces a much different, often opposite result on the ground than the valuing of things - an important distinction.
That's cute! I like that emojis can be links :-)
Yes it will and it has, despite your unwillingness to concede the argument. Without something that serves as punishment, correction, and deterrent what's stopping anyone from freely praying on the weak? On you. It does make your life better but it doesn't open your eyes for you.
The ramp-up for the TCP connection to load the Javascript that renders the page takes longer than that!

No, HTTP2 does not solve that.
Don't. That's an anti-pattern in UX. People download binaries for different OSes all the time, so list links for all OSes you support.
I’m an iOS user but Apple will never be the dominant phone vendor. The average selling price of an Android phone is $248. The cheapest iPhone is $475. Apple doesn’t have the stomach to compete on price and the vast majority of consumers aren’t going to pay Apple prices.

If people cared about privacy, the majority of them wouldn’t be on Facebook. They know that FB tracks them and advertises based on the data they collect.
Adjunctions in the Wild: Foldl
What you say may well happen like this occasionally, but I would question the police's imputed motive. At least in general.

My wife works in mental health in Japan. Nurses use this exact technique to contain potentially violent situations. Not for legal purposes, but for the safety of themselves, the patient who is surrounded and of others too.

It's pretty effective in de-escalating and does not induce force from either party.

Again, not saying this system is never abused, but in general it's safer for all parties not to up the ante in using force for the purpose of getting a faster resolution.
Lancaster, England, Windows 10, Firefox, working perfectly for me as well.
>I'd take a 14 hour physical labor job over a 8 hour mental labor job anytime.

No you wouldn't. Physical labor varies in difficulty somewhat depending on the type of work, but many blue collar jobs are hell. Forget the anecdotes you read here; they are the exception and not the rule.

That's not to say that coding can't be difficult. But physical labor can be much, much worse.
That's precisely what's happening with the third-party Python2 forks. The renaming of Perl 6 occurred last October, specifically because of the problems caused by the confusion between the incompatible Perl 5 and 6 that caused a lot of trouble to the Perl people on either side for many years.

It's not a mirrored parallel, it's the Python folks learning from Perl's mistakes and making sure that this parallel won't come to be.
> Apple should not have that kind of power, though.

Oh, but I’m happy they do

Also, notifications go via apple’s servers, you can’t really force them to deliver everybody’s notifications for free and without any discretion
Except they're talking about actual corrosion, where the rust on your showerhead is more likely to be a byproduct of biological action.
Good job signaling that both you and your social circles have a certain degree of affluence.

I live in the SFBA, hang out with people at all income levels, and I'd say over 70% use Android. Among richer people it's more 50-50.

It's pretty easy to get USB-C chargers among my friends.
I cant tell you how many times I've seen this type of thing done at different companies. Many of those projects died.

The last one was a LIN tool written in python. My coworker wrote it. He wanted to open source it, so I talked our boss, the local IP guy and eventually the legal department. Legal thought I wanted them to write a license. No, that's not useful, I needed to know which of GPL, MIT, BSD the company would approve. They came with some of the misguided concerns companies tend to have. The other question I could not get answered is who in management needed to OK it. Oh and would the copyright belong to the company or the guy who wrote it.
None of my questions could seem to find definitive answers. The guy who wrote the tool quit and it became abandon ware inside the company. I had mentioned that nobody stays around forever and the author would have done some maintenance after he's gone. I said this well before he left as an argument in favor of open sourcing it.

Anyway, I hope a lot of people bring this to life so we can all stop reinventing this wheel or paying certain companies to rent theirs.

Related: Busmaster, but its Windows only.
"That fake it til you make it" is 99% of what successful people do. Doesn't matter that you don't know what you're doing, no one is the wiser. So NEVER be afraid to take a shot and learn as you go.
Pretty sure I would be happier living in Paris than Houston, but to each their own. Alain just to be clear, are commutes cumulatively measured both ways in Houston as well, so you mean they spend less than 60 minutes each day commuting? Or do you mean less than 120 minutes (to go and get back)?
Some pages are intended to be embedded in iframes (which have their own security context isolated from the embedding page), and happen to use cookies for authentication. Safari not allowing cookies from third party domains in iframes is the issue here.

Assuming these iframes will never work means degrading the experience for all users, when only users on Safari are actually affected. Detecting the UA and branching based on that is a much more pragmatic solution.
This is what I do and it works well. Once or twice a year I’ll update the tv firmware via usb
How do you know they're profitable?
Apparently out of Swarm, Swarmkit, and SwarmNext; my good experience has been from SwarmNext. So now this is even more confusing.
Giving people a reasonable default is bad UX?

That’s a load of horseshit if I’ve ever heard it.
Coincidence theories tend to hinge on the idea that everyone is incompetent and that nobody could ever collude together in secret for any sort of malicious or self interested purpose.