skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds cynical, but I think it is just being pragmatic. Once you recognize that the state holds a overwhelimng resources and only one mistake can land you in a world of hurt, joining a state hacking team seems like less annoying option.

You do sell your soul, but.. you get to test your black hat skills with the backing of state resources and immunities afforded to it all the while learning how to really not make that one mistake. Steady paycheck is just a bonus.

It is a price and a high one, but I can understand the motivations behind it.
Court Records Confirm Works from Nirvana, Elton John,Others Damaged in 2008 Fire
I just went with OP's metaphor. It makes sense when you take in consideration how a lot of Mastodon instances are being created and being kept closed from the federation by the admins or being too trigger-happy to block other instances on the grounds of "people over there say mean and offensive things". For some of them, it is indeed just a bunch of kids hanging out in their rooms
> (both people were technical)

Well, they might have claimed that but based on your account I'm having my doubts.

On a more serious note, I do find the attitude towards hiring in many companies perverse. I realise it can be time-consuming, frustrating, and draining, but at the same time it's hugely important.

Of all my responsibilities, Literally the most important is building a strong team: hiring is a critical component of that. We're always looking for ways to improve the experience for candidates, and I'm still involved in interviewing fairly regularly. I feel like it's important for me to set that example.

As with many things, if you're hiring and want to enjoy the results of making great hires, you have to learn to love the process somewhat.
The article is credited "by Georgia Institute of Technology", so it is a press release. This is just early research, but presumably the problems of toxicity are what inspired the study in the first place. But, they can't make any claims yet, because lawyers. And cost would be a huge factor, unless regulation were involved. There is a potential public good in reducing toxins in the environment. But what about their idea of using it for framing lumber? Nobody uses pressure treated for framing today, do they? It would help insulate, they say, but there's no way that would make any sense unless the cost were much lower than today's treated lumber, which... well it's just an early research project.
Some years ago I was unsatisfied with my pay and I accepted the interview of a Giant Search corp, getting to the on-site interview. The lunch with random employees was perhaps the best part of the experience for me, as it became abundantly clear that a good chunk of devs that I had some conversation with outlined in very generic terms the same basic stuff everybody else needs to do in software: maintenance, basic infrastructure, scripts, and so on. Which is, you know, totally expected.

I'm pretty sure that everything is at scale and so on, but I couldn't shake the feeling that up to that point the stuff I would be working on was not on the table and I could be switching from a place where I like what I'm doing [biotech] to just a highly paid but plainly boring SE job.

This curbed my enthusiasm instantly. Up to that point in my career I always considered available positions based on the actual function I would be doing in the company, never vice-versa.

The afternoon sessions didn't work as well, and although I could still have some extra interviews through phone calls I cancelled them a few days afterwards.

I cannot say for sure what did I miss, but I am certainly totally disillusioned for Big Search as a company today due to it's consumer attitude that I no longer wish for a position there.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board_millin... (derp, I forgot the link and can't edit anymore)
I didn't notice the gender at all.
As the coronavirus spreads, China is losing its control online
Thanks for sharing!

I looking for acoustic drums that have multi-layer samples so you can get the dynamics and detail of a real drum kit. A basic sampler instrument plays the same sample at different velocities (volume levels). Advanced samplers have multi-layered sample libraries so there are separate samples for different velocity levels and other nuances (they even have scripting engines so sample library authors can add logic for selecting which samples to play).
Yeah, I'd prefer the bike shed to be painted green.
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Ok, I see what you mean. I've been on the Fediverse for a bit over a year (I think, I could be more?) and I've seen some drama around this.

That said, the number of instances that engage in excessive blocking seems to be rather limited. I'm not sure it's such a large problem in practice.
Don’t stage off Starship
The Suez Canal Is a Superhighway for Invasive Species
Yeah for a long time it was the case in South Africa too. You'd get packages with something like 1GB of international bandwidth and 10GB of local.
After a recent merger at my employer, had some people in of the teams at my office with very little responsibilities for most of a year. The first six months they had minimal work because the company hadn't told them yet they were dropping them for a competing team on the other side of the merger, then they did inform them and gave them 3 months to find a new role in the company and apart from the odd production incident on their system, there was basically no work incoming to their former team.

I think 3-4 moved within the company, 3 left on their own time before the deadline, and 4 waited out for the redundancy payment.
Ah, the famous “Ralph Brown’s Interrupt List”. It was actually published as a book: https://www.amazon.com/PC-Interrupts-Programmers-Reference-T...
I agree with your sentiment, but that's a bit of a straw man you're building there. The FDA would require that those two extra months usually aren't spent suffering unbearable additional side effects from the treatment, and it would also be fairly uncommon for such patents to be "in severe pain trapped in a hospital bed".

In contrast, if you've got (say) three months to live, the prospect of an extra few months with a reasonable quality of life, if probably something many people would take.
Nice !
Now I just need to be able to have org mode source blocks for that .
"(even though no one did succesfully invocated a major demon as far as I know ...) "

There's a Trump joke in there somewhere. :)
It also keeps track of the “maximum amount”. Don’t fool yourself :)
An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics
Why are all of the comparisons to untreated lumber? Shouldn’t they have tested against pressure-treated lumber too to see how well it performs against that?
Though what's a bit silly here is that all the information you need is right there in the two words "inverse square", it's only the word "law" tacked on that made you (presumably) assume there had to be more to the concept.

You'd assume a competent enough interviewer wouldn't be so rigid and at least hint that you shouldn't overthink it...
> ...network connection to the servers holding keys. It's a tech pioneered by cloudflare...

They announced Keyless SSL way back when: https://blog.cloudflare.com/keyless-ssl-the-nitty-gritty-tec...

I'm a fan of Facebook's take on this, though: https://engineering.fb.com/security/delegated-credentials/

Also see, Google's answer to JWTs: Macaroons-- https://hackingdistributed.com/2014/05/16/macaroons-are-bett...
I wonder if we will come to consider Coronavirus a black swan? Despite the fact that it's dropped away from being the main headline in the US, the damage doesn't appear to be contained yet, and it will take time for all of the economic ripples to be felt. (I bring up economic effects because of the context, but I in no way mean to diminish the human suffering.)
In the bubble they definitely thought they could not die; they were shooting up people who were aware of Linux made a lot of money from their shares at that time (if they sold in time as they never recovered). The CEO at the time acted like it would last forever and I guess he took the employees with him on a smugness ride. Such a shame as they could've gotten far as you say.
A true desktop app in so much as it bundles a standalone browser and uses that to render the web app part...
The only place you can fly supersonically is over the ocean, because of the noise. It's also more dangerous, and consumes vastly more fuel. The cost per passenger is enormous, and the planes can't scale up large enough to offset it. The technology doesn't exist to make it economical.

A big reason why supersonic flight isn't all that important is that the actual in-air flight time is usually under half the total trip time. If I'm flying from New York to London, the whole trip takes about twelve hours door-to-door. It takes more time to travel to the airport, wait around, board, taxi, land, taxi, go through immigration, retrieve luggage, and get to my destination than it does to fly across the Atlantic. Going Concorde-level supersonic would only reduce the whole trip time to about ten hours instead of twelve.
Skinning Your Knee vs. Breaking Your Leg
Recline in Your Airplane Seat? A Debate Rages in the Skies and Online
The Justar Journal[1] book series basically.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/169314-the-justar-journal
'apartment living is no fun with families'

... why?

I've lived in apartments with my family for the last three years. It's honestly been great.
It Saturday.
>It would be cool with a completely offline SpeechRecognition...

Nuance still makes Dragon and Windscribe branded speech recognition software. Dragon was great +20 years ago. Not sure how it is now, but investigating offline speech recognition is on my agenda because Microsoft nerved theirs to push people to their online service.
Hi Paul,
I just wanted to thank you for all the effort that legends like you, Rui Nuno Capela, Nasca Octavian Paul, and others have put into getting the Linux music ecosystem to where it is. Thanks for helping us play music (when we're not programming)!
For HN why this release is important:

* Qt essential killed LTS for non paying customers starting with this release (but Qt stills stays GPL/LPGL and Commercial). You still will be get these fixes but only in the next minor version [1]. Personally this is not really an issue for me (nether for my open source app ScreenPlay nor for the Qt app I develop at work) because Qt is fairly stable.

* Last release before Qt 6

* You now need a Qt account to download (via the maintenance tool) _any_ Qt libraries from qt.io. Why does this remind me of docker?

[1] https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020
Slogging. Exactly. The up front effort required to get microservices right is absolutely massive, but somehow it has become the "easy" way to solve all your problems. Distributed systems were and should be a problem to be avoided at all costs, and only then tackled by those few who know what they are doing.
Developer salary spreadsheet compiled from tweets
C, the low-level language that cannot even get integer types right and believes that -1 is greater than 1... I wish the Zig language people get some industrial backers so C can finally start fading away to obscurity.
"Manufacturing your own PCBs is almost never worth the effort."

It depends on the target device. For analog or simpler digital circuits prototypes where single side boards can be used it's still very convenient, with the only annoyance being the etchant treatment and disposal. In the old days I made things easier by adding one intermediate step in which I redrew the schematic as the ICs and keyed parts were seen bottom up, that is, ICs had the 1 pin up right, etc. Also the schematic wasn't arranged functionally, like an opamp drawing for example, but it rather showed how the pcb was going to look from solder side. From then on, copying it on the actual pcb became a breeze. As for drawing on the pcb, I did all by hand, using both transfer sheets with pads where necessary and thin (1mm or less) normal water resistant markers for connections, buses etc. Faber Castell and Staedtler were my favorites, as I found those specific for pcb drawing were a lot worse quality wise, not to mention like 4x more expensive.
This method would of course not scale with circuits complexity, more than one layer and or series production, still I enjoyed a lot being able to design, etch and solder even moderately complex circuits in one evening or a week end in "mom's basement" (actually dad's attic...:). With time I also trained myself to draw my schematics directly that way, so I could get rid of one step between drawing on paper and the final drawing on the pcb. I miss those days...
The early web died. The problem was solved by killing it and replacing it with big institutions. It got replaced by the superior network effects of MySpace accounts, Slashdot threads, Flickr, delicious and Geocities. All of which will continue to exist forever more.
Quiet Islands in Thailand (2020 updated List)
Let's see if I can multiply up the numbers correctly. Please let me know if I'm messing these up.

Article is closed, but supplementary material is free.

Each experiment is 3 blocks of wood, each 5 grams. So 15g of wood.

They say they need 2x10^20 molecules of TiCl4 for one experiment (perhaps the final deposited amount in the extreme 'all cells covered' case). Or 3x10^-4 moles. That's 200x10^-4 or 2x10^-2 for 1kg wood. Making it up to 1 mole gives us 50kg of wood. 1 mole is 190g of TiCl4. Or about 250kg wood per kg TiCl4.

Alibaba costs (I'm not in the field so that's based on it being there first link) puts that at maybe a dollar or two.

Caveats: may require less because completely covering all cells is not realistic. May require more because you don't use things completely efficiently. Alibaba may not be representative (either direction) and the "99.9%" pure stuff there may not be good enough and going higher may get exponentially more expensive.

But it doesn't seem like the raw cost of the materials necessarily would be a problem to me.
"Would be"? There are already way too many bots on Mastodon, many of them do unpaid advertising for commercial news outlets (reposting their RSS feeds). I guess people who run them think they're doing "fediverse" a favour, but they're only getting more eyeballs and ad views for those outlets.

The solution is liberal and frequent use of blocking, but it's a solution that does not scale well.
I read that 90% of all people who smoke finnaly stop smoking at some point.

I couldn't stand the idea I was in the 10%. That was six years ago. I never smoked again.
Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle
The thing is, oil and gas are super useful raw materials for everything from clothes to furniture, fertilisers and pharmaceuticals. Setting it on fire to keep ourselves warm will look like insanity in 100 years time.
I don’t read Korean so cant comment on validity of claim of able to perform tests. It seems very unrealistic. I might be wrong but the translation seems to give impression of count of diagnostic test kit versus capacity to perform actual test per day after samples are collected.

Edit: see additional information in reply comment by @lifthrasiir
Shouldn't it be "as SARS-Cov-2 spreads" or "as more people get COVID-19"?

I see a lot of headlines using COVID-19 as if it is the virus and not the disease caused by it. Probably just semantics, but something I noticed.
More emphasis on trains in Europe to replace flights
Im not noticing anything either, considering finding some way to ban corona virus from my feed but they keep changing the relevant terms to get trough.

Unrelated: You go to any meetups in tokyo?
So the people working on GCP are easily replaceable? Why not hire outstanding talent instead?
How to Be More Productive by Using the “Eisenhower Box”
There is a list of instances here https://joinpeertube.org/instances#instances-list each instance has a discovery page which includes videos from all the other instances they follow.
It depends what you're trying to show. "Does this process change the wood in certain ways" and "does this process change those properties more than other processes" are different questions, and it seems reasonable to start with the former.
That's not quite true; it's closer to say that it's very easy to design a cache mechanism which accidentally violates SPOT.
The disease spreads together with the virus, doesn’t it?

Edit: I mean that it is standard usage to talk about diseases like gastroenteritis, tuberculosis and malaria spreading. One does not need to use “spread” only for the virus/bacteria/parasite.
> Screening programs usually are for younger people who will most likely get old enough to benefit from an early diagnosis.

You say "likely". But the problem is you don't have evidence. Noone has shown that these screening programs do have these benefits [1]. If they have I don't think anyone would argue with that.

The tricky issue is: Actually showing the benefits of these screening programs is hard. It requires large-scale studies with longterm followup. It's expensive. But it nevertheless should be done.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.h6080
Much of these hiring practices are just a self-perpetuating narrative. Just spreading the news that interviews at your company are hard is a way to discourage unqualified candidates. And candidates that don't want to put up with your (perceived) bullshit.
Either way, the choice of playing the game is entirely on us.
IMO, Node's superpower is not really in the language but in the NPM ecosystem. If that is not attractive to you (maybe you develop the whole system by yourself, or need fine-tuned performance), Node only has to offer an ubiquous language, and that's about it.
And this is how musical text to speech sounds 35 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxC0kD-GuBQ
https://meet.jit.si ?
>How do you ensure ... that the two devs ...?

Planning. You said that you work in sprints, do you do sprint planning? Not just a meeting where you decide how many stories will fit into the sprint, but actually planning how the stories will be completed.

For something this trivial, the team should be able to use sprint planning and daily standups to coordinate between themselves to work this out. There are plenty of solutions I can think of, here are just a few.
* One dev does front-end for both and the other back-end for both, potentially by pairing together on an initial PR which adds a skeleton of the API so they agree on it.
* The second dev waits for the first dev before starting, and re-uses as much as possible.
* The two devs pair for both stories and do all of it together.
* The team decides one dev will do both stories and the other dev will work on something else.
How to Improve React App Performance with SSR and Rust [Part II]
Which is the fundamental problem with the whole YIMBY business: solving California's housing crisis requires dense housing, which is much more severely affected by what other homeowners and land-owners do than low density housing with large plots. The only way to avoid loud music blaring from the neighbouring units all day and night, or someone building a wall right in front of all your windows and removing all daylight, or an art gallery setting up shop across the street with an endless stream of visitors looking right into your home, or any of the endless other possible issues is through collective control over what others do with their property. Making everyone personally own the land needed to stop this happening is so inefficient that anything denser than American-style suburbs is impossible.

So long as this idea is a a fundamental plank of YIMBY-ism, all of the pretty claims about how high-density living doesn't have to be a dystopian hellscape are literally worthless, because every one of them relies totally on things outside the residents' control that the YIMBYs will be first in line to try and destroy.
It's owned by a non-profit.
The inverse of Dunning-Kruger is Dunning-Kruger

It states that experts tend to underestimate their ability and amateurs overestimate their abilities
My outside perception of marriage in US is that there is little stigma against divorce, it's almost expected in certain situations (such as one partner is unfaithful). If I was an investor I would not invest in such a startup.
Ulyp – A mighty son of debugger and flamegraph
https://www.reddit.com/r/java/comments/f3pn4u/java_code_visu...
Class action suit against Clearview cites Illinois law that cost Facebook $550M
A past employer of mine was developing their interview process and began introducing a hardish CS basics form to fill out. My answer was the same as yours "it feels like you're hiring for theoretical geniuses, but really most of the work is web dev/bugfixes/feature adding" i.e. you have to mold your interview process around the skills that are actually needed
I think the only thing that is likely to happen is more European regulation. Easy prediction.
I like the idea of federated network but I’d rather see a virtual implementation.
One needs a little domain knowledge for "inverse square" to be informative. It is a simple-minded interviewer that wouldn't just explain the concept.

Unless you are hiring someone that is supposed to understand some maths, that is.
I haven't kept up to date with recent RPG:s, but I played Cyberpunk 2020, GURPS Cyberpunk and a few local non English equivalents back in the day quite a bit. The main problem with deckers/netrunners wasn't how (un)realistic they were - but that they were simply... boring. It's an enforced split party model where one player has a very limited role and virtually no interaction with others.

I can see why modern games (hopefully wise from the mistakes of their predecessors) ignore that part.
You can search for things, browse their reviews, add things to your collections, add reviews, follow people interested in the same topics, subscribe to topics to make a personalized dashboard - just like GoodReads. But you can do it for all kind of media like podcasts, courses, blogs, livestreams etc.
Glad that they’re working on it, right now flying is just cheaper on many cases.
Need to go from Zurich to Paris? The TGV Train will cost you almost twice as much as a short direct flight. Berlin to Munich? Also cheaper by plane.
Being a student with a limited budget, this very much affects my decision.
What's the state of crystal's concurrency ? I think i've read something on HN saying it wasn't quite there yet..
Much higher pay has a tendency to color the everything better
Our start up got a 6 figure AWS credit with 3 year expiration date... I'd say AWS does the same
Public transportation is eventually going to have to replace both cars and planes. Yes, it will cost a lot. Yes, it probably wont make profit. This is fine, it's a moral duty we have as a society and at the end of the day railways are far safer than roads. In the long run a densely populated city benefits tremendously from trains, as seen in any major city.
7 years ago, the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over Russia injuring 1500 people
I'm not sure I understand this attitude. It's a pitty it failed commercially. But it's a great app that only costs a tenner and works well (probably way better than any available alternative). And it can "save" as text, so it's not like you're going to lose all your work.

Surely, a good investment for anyone above minimum wage who does ascii art periodically on a mac?
Yes, this is crazy!! We need action on this immediately. I suspect aviation subsides are to blame.
JWT Multiple Request Refresh Token
As a European I love this.

Not only because it's better for the environment but I really like trains. They are confy, fast and cheap. There's no need to pay extra for your baggage, you just hop in with your stuff, take a seat, read, watch a movie, listen to a podcast or sleep for a while and you're already at your destination.
They would simply report their customers just as well. Covering them up is a liability, they would probably have another way to tell anyways. I got an automated parking fine from a shared car a few weeks ago - it's real.