skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "don't speak unless you can improve upon the silence"

Sounds like one of those things that is meant to keep people in their place and/or make them feel less worthy or as a put down.

> A lot of the nervousness comes from the pressure to "say the right thing"

I can tell from your bio you are much younger than I am so I will offer this advice to you as 'an older guy' (note I did not say 'dude' either). Not only will you care less about that when you get older but you will find that people very generally will be drawn to you more if you don't appear to be concerned about what comes out of your mouth (within reason of course and depending on the precise circumstances meaning sure there are cases where you don't want to just say or do anything).
Notably these graphs show that Germany was exporting quite a lot of power on the 10th, but was still burning gas, brown coal and hard coal in large quantities at the same time. Also nuclear, which I don't mind as much of the others, but still Germany has decided to phase it out so it seems Germany still needs more renewables.
> complex retry logic

READ COMMITTED and REPEATABLE READ benefit from retry logic as well, not just SERIALIZABLE.

For a long time, I sought to write deadlock free code.

But that is very hard.

For example in PostgreSQL every UPDATE must be ordered, every DELETE must be ordered. [1]

Finally, I did myself a favor and create application-level retires.

This is 100% cool so long as (1) your deadlocks aren't so frequent so as to reach a performance problem and (2) the action is "replayable" (e.g. no read-once streams). Fortunately, these are both frequently true.

[1] https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/257587/is-select-for...
Their ruggedized Android phones aren't bad.

Let me take that back. The nonremovable battery has started to bulge and the case back has bent by 2mm. I'm currently trying to find out how to ship HAZMAT back for repair.
The issue with 4x10s is those days are exhausting - they leave me with no energy to do anything else that day. At least with 5x8, most days I can get out for a bike ride after work, or take my dog for a long walk. 10 hours? It doesn't happen, I go home and flop on the sofa.
I didn’t find the moral arguments against Discord convincing.

Tin foil hat paranoia isn’t enough for me. The author is assuming their door is gonna get busted down and they’re going to get arrested over their discussions about a bug fix for an open source widget.
I tried to explain it in the adjacent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22381081

But I think one has to experience it, to understand what makes languages like Lisp and Smalltalk so special, what is so unique about REPL driven workflow that even Python's so much praised Jupyter can't give you that satisfactory feeling.

It's really nice to be able to run anything - from the smallest unit in your program, as well as the whole program and see the immediate feedback. For example: You can evaluate SQL DSL constructs and see what SQL query they compose into, and you can run that query and see the results (all without ever having to write a single line of actual SQL); or you can connect to the browser and change elements of the DOM (without writing a single line of html, css or js).

You can take a complex piece of code that generates a .csv, and then analyze that csv on the fly, changing columns and rows on the go, without even saving and having to wait for the compiler to pass the checks.

You can compose music and data visualizations, and etc.
Worker productivity has gone way up over the recent decades but wages have stagnated, so why shouldn't we work fewer hours? It's not like the average worker is reaping the benefits of working longer.
When a user visits your site, we give them a cookie with a unique user ID. We determine the number of users you have based on the number of distinct user IDs we've seen.

We're definitely conscious of user-based pricing, and we'll try to work with you to come up with a price that allows you to use Freshpaint across your entire site. We've done this with others that have funky business models where traffic is high in some spots. Otherwise, you can install Freshpaint just on the private component of your site and collect data where it's the most valuable.
Exactly. Work someplace else cheaper/less dense, remotely or get the tiniest, rathole, walkup closet where there's only a refrigerator and a tub, and you can't open the frig to open the door (but at least you can drink OJ from the carton while in the tub;). The people who commute by plane, 1-2 hours each way, or 100-200 miles daily are phreak'n outside of their skulls looking in.
I use Vim but one thing that VSCode has that Vim does not is the idea of remote containers.

With VSCode, it's pretty nice and easy to get perfect auto-complete, definitions, etc. from code running in a container.

With Vim, AFAIK there's not anything near as seamless to do the same thing. In fact, I've found nothing that even tries to do it.
And? It's still spyware. I'm not sure what some legal stuff has to do with that.
It has been shown that TIOBE tends to not be very robust. If you change the metric from searches of "X programming" to "X language", you can can swing the results of many languages up or down by 20 spots. https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2019/09/16/tiobe-blog.html
I think there may be a difference between ethical market research to determine demand, and "little lies" to potential customers that an application is ready to sell.
Where can I find data on customer problems?
I tend to agree, but I also think this borders on a "think of the children!" type argument that's led to our current privacy ecosystem (the patriot act, snowden, etc.). No I'm not suggesting some silly video game chat app clamping down on trolls is some sort of dramatic slippery slope into an authoritarian state, but I do think it's interesting that the "I don't care about privacy because I have nothing to hide" attitude has even become popular on HN.
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I'd rather be an owner in America with perpetual growth. Difference of culture I guess.
I assumed that companies which used Segment would also integrate with solutions like Kissmetrics and get those analytics automatically through their Segment integration.

What am I missing here? Are you saying that Freshpaint replaces Segment + Kissmetrics?
An alternative view (imho more accurate) on Tomasulo-like processors is that they essentially execute the data flow graph implied by a sliding window of instructions.
I worked 4 days a week on one project that lasted 14 months. It's really great for motivation and productivity. I actually started to enjoy Mondays first time in my life, and I'd be coming to work full of inspiration. The downside is obviously that as a contractor you earn 20% less that way.
> "Fast native graphics through para-virtualization thanks to SPICE"

I'm assuming the SPICE referred to here is not the SPICE I know, unless they've gone the full video circuit emulation route, which I don't imagine being fast at all :)
> Googling "humans drive into lake" only finds one incident.

You'd find more examples if you tried slightly harder ("lake" isn't the important part!):

https://kfgo.com/2020/02/10/man-drives-into-mississippi-rive...

https://www.cnet.com/news/man-drives-into-river-gps-china/

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/man-watches-wife-bu...

https://abc13.com/587100/

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/gps-tracking-...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bradford/7962212....

https://www.boston25news.com/news/man-drives-into-pond-while...

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/gps-leads-nj-motorist-...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164705/BMW-left-te...

https://www.westsiderag.com/2013/05/01/gps-brain-fail-driver...

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/driver-follows-g...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/waze-app-directs-dri...

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/2-drivers-stuck-on-train-tr...

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2013/06/19/mbta-train-ac...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-01/car-being-hit-by-trai...

https://abc7chicago.com/395218/

People act like humans are immune from making idiotic decisions or from ignoring their surroundings or something. That's...super naive.
Bruce Schneier joins startup (Inrupt) focused on privacy
He must have something that automatically pastes dates of already posted urls in his view of the site
I completely see where you're coming from, but having kids changes the calculus completely.
I was a development manager for years, for a Japanese company.

The Japanese are type A++ (at least, in Tokyo). They are masters at applying stress across the Pacific.

As a manager, it was my job to insulate my team from the stress, and I often took the hit for telling my bosses that I wasn't going to push my people harder than they already were working.

It seemed to work out in the end. When they finally rolled up my team, I had been managing it for 25 years, and the person with the least seniority in my team had a decade with the company.

It's a whole different world, out there, now. I had a manager at a startup tell me that conventional management assumes that engineers will only stay at a company for 18 months, so they really pile on the stress.

I can't even imagine that. There were a lot of downsides to working with the corporation that I worked for, but they treated us all with a great deal of respect, and made it possible for me to keep valuable, senior-level C++ developers for decades; despite rather sub-optimal pay, and a not-so-thrilling work environment.
wow that looks great!
probably :D

https://www.spice-space.org/
I'm amazed that nobody's recommended Aether[1] as an alternative yet. It's fully distributed, privacy-centric and FOSS, with no infrastructure hosting required. The downside is a heavy client, with slower posts (think 1-5 minutes before you see a reply), as posts are distributed on a DHT (like bittorrent).

It won't replace Discord for gamer chat, but for FOSS projects with small communities and privacy-minded proponents, it should fit needs nicely.

[1] https://getaether.net/
I quit my last job because of the commute, gave up driving completely this year, and got a job in walking distance of my home. That part alone has made me a significantly happier person, I was able to stop taking anti anxiety medication, I have time for social activities, I have time for my friends and family again. I could never go back to driving to the office
Riot[1] can communicate with Freenode IRC channels and has a decent mobile app.

[1]: https://riot.im
Who does this benefit though? Who are they people they need to keep out with a licensing structure?
30 captchas just because you're browsing via Tor, a VPN, or a proxy?

How is that remotely acceptable?

There really should be some kind of law against ludicrous shit like that.

People will say "Discord is a private service and nobody's forcing you to use it" but reality is not as black and white as that.

For example, what if your employer invites you to a meeting using a privacy-abusing service like Discord or Google Hangouts? Are you going to risk telling your employer that you're not joining an important meeting because you don't want to use a service without your VPN? What if some important club/charity/etc. has its members in a Discord group?

These services blur the lines between private enterprise and social utility. Like Facebook, services offering "mass interaction" or whatever should be subject to much stronger privacy laws.

The current state of things can't continue.
The way these typically work (and how I am doing it) is that the first Friday is 8 hours, the second Friday is 0 hours, and all other days are 9 hours. I’ve found it to be extremely useful for the reasons mentioned in the article. It gives everyone a weekday off regularly to get weekday-requiring things done like personal appointments. It also makes it easy to take long weekend trips more often. Both of these are aligned in a way that lets the remaining weekdays more productive, since people have their time off aligned.
People switch to Clojure from other languages, not just Java. I've seen plenty of former Java, Ruby, Python, C#, JS/TS, C++ and even Haskell devs who switched to Clojure and say - Clojure does feel more productive.
Just remembered, he was basing this on the planet being uninhabitable soon.

I find that laughable. Despite how quickly and how chaotically the climate changes, we are not going to go extinct because earth is becoming uninhabitable
While years ago zukenberg's laptop spotted with tape covered microphon and camera means they already collected the data.
You are assuming here that you and the speaker have a shared belief that this way to accomplish the thing has a chance of working and is worth doing in the absence of alternatives (or that it is obviously better than alternatives). That is almost certainly a false assumption when someone tells you "don't do that thing". Instead of continuing to hold those assumptions, you should either ignore their opinion altogether or attempt to find out which of those beliefs you don't share.
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Hah. Commentary class really worked on me. I think you're spot on here.
Indeed.

Doing data retrieval and manipulation with application code instead of SQL is like doing web layout with JS instead of CSS or doing graphics with canvas instead of HTML/SVG.

Sure it's more flexible, but it's also far less simple, readable, and in many circumstances less performant.

"Rule of least power" is a good principle. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
Off-topic question: is there some software part in nuclear energy systems that is restricting plants or research? I'd like to contribute to the industry as a non-physicist, but it's hard for me to imagine what kind of software might be missing or is being sold by too expensive specialist companies.

I imagine most software is tied to the specific devices they run on, but perhaps there's coupling or analytical software that could be better geared towards the problem domain. Is there any fundamental issue that is waiting for a good software solution?
We're not able to make autonomous driving work the way it's designed for humans
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Can't you call it microcensorship or something? Actual censorship is still very much a thing.
You struggle with audio settings in discord just like you do in Skype, ventrilo, and teamspeak. Most of the struggles with audio are not with individual programs, but rather your audio hardware, the OS, and its settings. (Windows updates love to screw those up.)

When discord released it didn't even have a Ctrl+f function for a long time. It still doesn't have chat logs on the user end, the permissions system is bad and audio quality is mediocre. On top of all of that, because they don't allow self-hosting it means that discord ultimately controls your conversations.

It caught on because it went viral. The service they offer is good, but the lack of privacy and no self-hosting make it disappointing.
I take the Subway virtually every day. On weekdays it's not perfect, but generally good-enough.
@armatav why should this post be flagged? The recommendation was very helpful to me and lets me compare two solutions.
This is only for newly issued certs:

> The policy was unveiled by [Apple] at a Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser) meeting on Wednesday. Specifically, according to those present at the confab, from September 1, any new website cert valid for more than 398 days will not be trusted by the Safari browser and instead rejected. Older certs, issued prior to the deadline, are unaffected by this rule.

Digicert statement:

* https://www.digicert.com/position-on-1-year-certificates/

They're not really against the idea, but it seems that Apple made an unilateral decision.
Thank you for your honest reply.

I have heard of efforts in India and China to develop and build out nuclear fission plants, though I do not know the scale of these plans. However, even ITER (the largest fusion project right now) has a budget of only $10-20 billion. I have high hopes for ITER, but even that has been protested by anti-nuclear organizations such as Greenpeace. I worry that fusion, despite its many advantages, may be stalled or stopped in the same way fission has been. If we cannot solve this issue with a currently-available zero-emission power source, I just cannot see how a new one based on the same principles can succeed.
All it takes is one time being stuck in the tunnel for 1.5 hrs in crowded train car and you have pretty much permanent PTSD. I have a panic attack every time the train comes to a premature stop even for a minute.
No, "Caesar" was his cognomen (i.e. a nickname).
In my mind "4 day work week" means "4x8 hours", and "4 tens" means "4x10 hours". I have family that works 4x10 hours, and they usually refer to it as "4 tens".

It looks like some people go either way, though. Quote from the article:

> Many employers aren't just moving to 10-hour shifts, four days a week, as companies like Shake Shack are doing; they're going to a 32-hour week — without cutting pay.
Macroservice ??? Oh lord !!!
reason isn't another layer, it's an alternate syntax. it doesn't compile via translation to ocaml code; both reason syntax and ocaml syntax compile to the same thing.
I feel like my best work happens in about 6 hours on most days. Beyond 6 I feel like I'm less motivated/productive, I get things done but it goes a little slower.

I've previously done a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off. The 9 hour days made my personal life harder, harder to meet family obligations like pickup/dropoff. I'm cool with 5 shorter days, I would be happier and probably more productive.
'Elephant Queen' in Kenya: See pictures of rare big tusker (2019)
We need IRC with a few tweaks. There’s quite a few holes in IRC’s spec including lack of a scrollback support. But yes, there is no need to be making everything its own proprietary system.
If you replace "South Africa" with other contry - this likely will apply too.
I don't think scaling is the primary driver for k8s anymore. It's all the other features that make it far superior to the alternative orchestration systems. Also the ecosystem
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This is just not true. There are many emulators in AppStore, from i48 (which runs HP 48's native Saturn ROM), to ZORK, which runs PDP-11 binary of said game underneath, along with emulated RT-11 (or was it RSX-11?).
> there's a lot of unsavory undemocratic backroom dealing

That's an extremely loaded word for negotiating consensus. It's as if populist parties are manned by opportunists who have no qualms to throw everyone under the bus if that gives them any advantage.
My bad power supply was a Corsair 1300W model (noted because others in the thread are offering them glowing praise, whereas I think they're just a nice logo on whatever is cheap this week in Shenzhen.) The working one is indeed a Seasonic ;)

I overbuy power supplies because I think, but have not tested, that it will convince them to run the fan at lower speed. This strategy has resulted in quiet, for sure, but I'm not sure that it gets you reliability.
I'm always surprised when I see posts about only having a single option for broadband. I've got three options currently, with Verizon 5G Home literally a block away.

I'm in a Detroit suburb, but I guess I'm an outlier.
Most children stop napping around four years old.

Maybe there's a deeper problem at your job if people need a nap room. Just get more sleep at home, you're not being paid to sleep.

btw, a 'dedicated lego room' sounds like another symptom of a toxic infantilizing culture that eats confidence and breeds reliance.
Agreed, and that part (regarding ratting on the cops) is a bad argument. In any public chat, anyone can log. People log in IRC as well. As can servers. E2E encryption makes little sense there. If you do FOSS development, you might actually prefer to know the realnames of the people you develop with. You might want to (temporary) log chats between developers, to read them later. Surely, Mattermost and Discourse allow this as well. Also, Slack is barely mentioned in the article, while I'd say the same argument counts for Slack (but perhaps worse). The alternatives (Discourse, Mattermost, and Mumble), are three, which all 3 would replace Discord. But not on their own...
The Pentium 2 was the first Intel microarchitecture with register renaming. It was the first out of order as well. Intel certainly got better with later microarchitectures.

I'm trying to figure out if there is anything generally useful for now in these papers.
Let me guess the conclusion: the natural situation is for one guy to be the biological father and some other guy to pay for the care as shown by the resourcefuls himba but in civilized countries this is not possible because of the damn patriarchy?
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Many dissidents in Bulgaria believed exactly that. "Give the people bread and entertainment", as the Romans said.
You would only need access to regedit on another computer, e.g. a home computer, to modify the settings.
Microsoft is bringing its antivirus software to iOS and Android
I disagree on the ease of use of the other tools. I ran a mumble server for a guild for almost 10 years and it was quit easy and awesome to use... for voice. Then due to reasons I turned it off for a while and by the time I came back everyone was on discord...

The main thing that discord did was combine voice with the chat side of things, and with per user chats and history. A lot of people don't know that mumble has a pretty decent html capable chat, but it's the history searching, dynamic rooms etc that set discord apart. Mumble still has the superior voice capabilities (simultaneous multiroom, easy permission, hierarchical, etc)

I have put most of my hope in mattermost to do murmur integration to solve this problem.

In the meantime I find myself considering trying to get everyone back on irc+mumble.

edit: Also, just have to say I bet the gov loves having a single place to send all those NSL's... cough hint cough
>Not your project, not your choice.

I feel like this should be obvious to anyone who has ever read a blogpost or editorial, but the author isn't literally commanding all free software projects to stop using discord as if he has that kind of authority, he's making a recommendation and then goes into detail about why he thinks this way, ending with some alternatives. It's bizarre seeing someone react to an article like this with offense not because of any of the content or points, but for... not showing enough deference in their title?
New edge infrastructure entrants and repos
Neat URL cleans URLs, removing parameters such as 'fbclid' and 'utm'
i mean this is going to eventually happen. and not only watching. augmented reality + advances in VR are going to transform tech (including this industry)
Microsoft to bring its Defender antivirus software to iOS and Android
Have you checked the performance of their VPS:es? Any numbers to share? I've been thinking of using them because of their anycast support.
I'm not very familiar with iOS but is this restriction a fundamental limitation or just a paper-cut style limitation that's just one more hurdle for developers to jump through?

It appears to me that developers who are previously using dynamic libraries now have to invest in the effort to make them static libraries and link them to the main executable. So it seems like it can be overcome, but just more hassle. Am I correct?
Let's not tread too carefully, the Guardian is a lefty newspaper and everything there comes to support a certain point of view. That's why they will take some obscure claims about bots, of course they are climate change denying bots, and will make it into a headline.
Hah, having parameters like --vga-cable-length --ambient-temperature --psrr would be fun though
And the least mature do it without a bump at all!