skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really work to syndicate content to Medium?

I don't remember the exact number, but the vast majority of my Medium readers (something like 80% IIRC) came from HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc. My most read article had about 170k reads before I removed my content from Medium.
How is wood housing non-traditional?
>I've resigned myself to the notion that I'll never get a '20 year anniversary' at a company at this stage of my life.

I won't either. But I was at one company about 13 years, another about 8, and just over 10 at my current one.
I agree it's very light, but isn't this what you mean? https://conventionalcomments.org/#format
Plenty of people make this choice, how could it be an illusion?

Social media isn't the only way to stay in touch. In fact all it really is, is a way to automate the means and pleasantries by which we relate with others at the more human/animal level. We "poke" and "react" and "share" on these platforms just like we do via other communicative tools like phones, letters, and telegrams.

With the gamification and addictive nature of these social media platforms, we sort of merge sports and games with socializing, allowing everyone to be a socialite like the ones we all have read about from yesteryear. This devalues social relationships and puts a greater emphasis on MORE of them; an opiate addict always ends up eventually using heroin.
These are possible problems, but they are unique to this pattern. It's worth being aware of these risk of for sure, but they all have may have mitigations:
- The app may be internal
- The API maybe gated by as API gateway, and the new APIs exposed at a later time.
- APIs should always be coded to have security in depth, it should not matter if the UI is enabled or not.

It's not about delivering changes that are not fully ready to be in production. It's about breaking down a larger change, and delivering it in chunks, as and when each one is fully ready.
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I think the key is finding a community, if feedback and potentially an audience is what you are trying to build.

Wattpad has been popular for those who can keep up with the social requirements (frequent updates, networking, etc.)
Yeah, that’s kind of the problem. Sick people can’t make an economy go.

Of course we can eventually re-open, we have to re-open eventually; we’ll starve if we don’t. But we have to actually make decisions and come up with strategies that’ll make it possible for us to re-open first. If we pretend that we can just reopen the economy without doing that first, people will get sicker and the economy won’t get better.
I wasn't suggesting that HN or its moderators kill curiosity.

I was suggesting that legal secrecy and related problems do.

Thanks for the thoughtful response, though.
Love the historical context here...

"Lots of successful products and fortunes made with No Code and low code."

What are some examples?
I don't understand why marriage or dependants would come up. If anything these two life changes forced me to take my career and profession a lot more seriously.
Now that's Agile
I've seen another problem, that's probably not going to happen with any of you careful hackers, but still seen it: where developers barely implement any security on their backend API and just go with filtering the results on the frontend side ...

With server side rendering of course you can still not-secure user input, but at least with template rendering, what you see is what you can see.
I would like to mention sshuttle if your access only is via a jumphost and you don't want to have to create a port forward for every single host/port you want to connect to on the internal network. It basically acs like a cheap VPN:

https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html
Not true. With things like magisk and systemless root, the banking apps continue to work. At least my 4-5 banking/payment/credit card apps all work, with lineageos and magisk.
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Meh, give us data or nothing. The secondhand (hearsay) of an anonymous internet identity is inadmissable in the court of my opinion.
I’ll add that toxicity is not unique to 10x. Your last line covers that but many people tend to think 1x people are necessarily more humble by virtue of knowing their output relative to the team. (Assuming everyone believes in the 1x/10x thing)

I’ve known plenty of mediocre devs who would be a 0.5x but thought they should be a 10x and made up the difference in unfounded confidence.
Ah, yeah I could’ve worded that more clearly.
It's emotionally difficult to find out about flaws in something you trust. I think humans really like black and white thinking, and crave association with people and institutions with blemish-free reputations. But the truth is that nothing and no-one is blemish free, especially if you zoom in on them enough. If you let it, then this truth can make you feel like you can't trust anything or anyone.

But its not true. You can trust. Although blemishes are universal, the scale of the blemishes are not. The key to trusting again in a world of flaws and faults is perspective. Is the flaw large or small? Does the agent accept it and want to fix it, or do they deny it exists (a much worse problem!)?

Everything has flaws, everyone makes mistakes, often people behave badly. That is never going to change. The thing we have to judge is whether the self-corrective systems in place are doing their jobs to acknowledge and repair the damage. IOW, making a mistake shouldn't determine trust, but failing to address the mistake should. One might call it "second-order trust". If you accept that, then the missing piece of this story is Google's response -- although they removed the offending malware from the Play Store, the journalist didn't apparently contact Google for anything else, like what steps they are taking (if any) to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Ars didn't say anything about contacting Google, so I'd say that is an indication of lazy journalism, itself a sad but endemic problem in a world where we all have another false belief, that useful screens should be free (as in beer).
Of course. Choosing among competing quality metrics is always a subjective matter. There are no objective facts about what is desirable.
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Something seemed off...I couldn't put my finger on it...hearing you put it this way aha I get it now ;)
As well as caching, we make really heavy use of Redis for Leaderboards for our games. The sorted sets are perfect for storing score along with the userid. Scanning the leaderboard, finding neighboring scores, etc are all really fast operations. This could probably be done with a number of other storage system but we already used Redis and we've never had a problem.
Them asking is unethical, illegal in some jurisdictions.
Wish this was about cryptography.

We’re what, eight years into blockchain with zero meaningful technologies? Can we give it a rest already?
Too complicated, needs another abstraction layer.
If it is hysteria, why do you think most world countries signed the Paris agreement to keep global warming below 2° Celsius?
>> The person you are speaking to is pretty much powerless should you need something to change

> Only if your company is terrible. Anyone in the company should be able to recommend a change. If it makes sense it should happen. Full stop.

On the whole this makes sense but in my experience at large companies this isn’t how it always works. Often politics get in the way, or priorities limit the actions available. Also depends on the suggestion itself. I’ve had difficulties getting my suggestions heard.
> An IFR of 1% seems too high. This doesn't seem to line up with data from the Diamond Princess (~1% IFR in a population biased towards elderly).

The Diamond Princess has 13 deaths for 712 cases, so 1.8%.
Sure, but Facebook didn't name them Facebook Groupchat, Facebook Chat and Facebook Talk.

People actually understand the difference between the various Facebook products, unlike the Google products.
Your sheep pen on their land across most of the world. And sometimes not even that.
Zoom has worked near flawlessly for me running Manjaro (i3wm) for 1.5 years now. What were the three laptop models you used? Were they all similar?
You are right, and I made this simplification with full awareness that I was doing so.

On the other hand, I really like the idea of splitting apart the country in a way that frees most of us from a large enough number of the people who are holding us back. I don't think that's possible to do in a fine-grained way. It only makes sense if done for some large contiguous regions. And the states in the southeast who actually did try to break away a few generations ago seems like an obvious way forward with that.

Here is another look at some of the natural regions within the country: [1]

I'm also aware that changing the voting systems we use holds a lot of promise for some of the same underlying problems we're talking about, and am completely open to that as an alternative to, or in addition to, my suggestion to break up the country. But that too seems very difficult politically.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/opinion/sunday/a-new-map-...
At $600 per year (1978 dollars, two semesters), inflation correction puts it at about $2400 per year in 2020 dollars. That's on the high end of what domestic students pay in Europe today for a full-time bachelor or master degree program (per academic year).
You can already network smartphones, Raspberry Pis and generally cheap and buildable hardware using IP. IP is transport agnostic and there are several projects to build IP networks over e.g. mesh radio transports.

Then there are application protocols for linked documents and menus that are decidedly simpler than HTTP+HTML like Gopher or the more recent and even less popular descendant Gemini.

The problem isn't so much the technology, but that people in general don't really mind the current state of affairs to the extent that they're going to do anything substantial about it. I could host a private encrypted chat or forum from home and governments and advertisers would be none the wiser about what goes on there. The network infrastructure is there and I have access to it. It's getting people to give up the perceived convenience of gigantic services that's hard.
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At work we use write.as for the blog, and I like it so far.

For my personal website, I use Jekyll on Vercel (ex. Zeit). I only did it because I wanted to code a bit and own the domain and the content.
> They don't need months or years of runway.

Isn't that only because bailouts are available for unforseen hardships that would otherwise require a runway?
If you think this is the only news article that has ever talked negatively about Android security, I'd recommend reading the news more often.
I was trying to source a camera as well but finally found that using Open Broadcaster with an iPhone running and NDI app is a great solution.

You run OBS with an NDI receiving plugin and a plugin for making a virtual webcam. Then on the iOS device (really any phone could work) you run something similar to https://apps.apple.com/us/app/camera-for-obs-studio/id135283....

Obviously this works best if you can find a spare phone to use and have good 5 GHz WiFi.
I dont see why it wouldn't be possible to connect over RTP - Or you could use something that emulates UVC like this, https://github.com/wlhe/uvc-gadget
No-code solutions are like Glide [1], which lets you create a mobile app using Google Sheets as a starting point and then assembling interface elements/flow logic in a designer.

I think there's value in no-code even for seasoned programmers, especially for quick front-end work. The front-end world is currently very fragmented. Us backend folks are completely befuddled by all the options and frameworks that are out there (Angular, Vue, React, Oh jquery is out? Wait, there's a movement back to plain old Javascript? etc.).

Many of us just want to concentrate on building the backend, and use a tool to quickly mock up a CRUD interface or mobile app in order deploy quickly and iterate with customers.

[1] https://www.glideapps.com/
More people should know that Zoom is a Chinese company, likely sponsored by the CPC - which is known for human rights abuses, corporate espionage, silencing of dissenters, concerted efforts to hide/downplay the threat of Coronavirus, etc., etc., etc.

These things should disqualify Zoom from being used by corporations outside of China...
Another fun property of this is that you can use it across bases. For example, how many bits would I need to represent 34812923 in binary? log2(34812923) = 25.05 -> round up to 26 bits.
This is very insightful. Tip of the hat to you!
The plant is shut down because it's a safety hazard to operate in its current form. It's a transmission hotspot, 200 people have tested positive, according to the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/13/south-dakota...
> As a technical matter, the 1s and 0s can be made to do all manner of things, so: sure.

To make it explicit in context of:

>> This would also prevent/discourage abuse for exchanging c/p or movie torrenting.

Usenet is a system very similar to e-mail in terms of data exchange format; both are textual and originally intended to exchange plaintext. Both developed convenient forms of encoding arbitrary binary data. Today, Usenet is in fact used for piracy, and I wouldn't be surprised if c/p was present on some groups too.
For Facebook, Whatsapp, and Instragram they all started as distinct platforms and companies, so the question would be should they consolidate. IMO Facebook has made the right decision not to consolidate, as individuals bought into those platforms pre-acquisition and don't necessarily see themselves as part of a homogenous Facebook customer base.
I've just used it. It's absolutely fantastic. Saved me from sending a 500MB file through a sharing service or having to create S3 temporary buckets or whatever other complicated method. Simple, works, perfect. Thank you!
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I’m surprised the article didn’t go back a few more years, when computer networks were controlled by a handful of companies that regularly censored content.

Before the web browser wars, we had (in the US) three big platforms: AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe. They all had highly censored, walled-garden forums with different focuses. The services had different price points. Something full of well-heeled professionals like Hacker News (bad example, because I’m ignoring the Internet; think quants, or suits) would be on CompuServe, which was far too expensive per hour for students and middle class teenagers.

We’re headed back there, and fast. I’ve heard the forums on some of the paid news sites are quite good for discussion of economic matters, for example.

Apparently, if I want medical information about coronavirus from actual medical researchers, I can no longer go to YouTube, since they’re taking down all content that hasn’t already been approved by the WHO. Moving forward, I guess that’s all going to paywalled inside $$$ medical journal sites.
Hopefully I'm wrong but I don't believe that they will. The lockdown isn't going to just disappear, it's going to be a drawn-out process figuring out how we're supposed to live with this virus. More places may be open but the demand will still be much lower than it has been. And that will have knock-on effects through everything else. I fear we are going to see a lot more people filing for unemployment for months to come.
It's communication coming from other humans. I presume you could just tell them you would strongly dislike being a recipient of this "praise" and update documentation accordingly.
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I have noticed that I was the 10x developer - when I was working on a system that I designed an built. Now I am fixing someone else code and he gets 10 times more done than me. Is that because he is smarter than me and get more done, or because he is worse than me and writes code that is obscure for someone else to understand quickly? Obviously its a subjective question, but volume of features completed isn't the only measure. Technical debt can be fairly subtle.
This is an asynchronous forum. If you find my information moot or unwelcome, you can just ignore it.

It would be impossible for a daemon to categorize its users into those two groups and decide when to stop itself from running because it cannot see months into the future. The other implementation strategy already exists and I talked about it, it's to use socket/dbus activation to start the service on-demand. But that doesn't work in all cases such as with idle notifications, so I would argue that it is a trade-off.
This is a curated list of video-call-friendly games to play with friends or coworkers. Most are free and web-based, so there's low friction. You can also copy the doc and add your own ideas, then share it with your team or friend group to vote on which game to try first (voting is a built-in feature).
GNU poke is a new interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them. Once a user has defined a structure for binary data (usually matching some file format) she can search, inspect, create, shuffle and modify abstract entities such as ELF relocations, MP3 tags, DWARF expressions, partition table entries, and so on, with primitives resembling simple editing of bits and bytes. The program comes with a library of already written descriptions (or "pickles" in poke parlance) for many binary formats.

Source: https://www.gnu.org/software/poke/
>That's grounds for a discriminatory law suit basically anywhere in the world.

Not true, in German speaking countries having your photo, birthday and work/graduation dates in your resume is basically mandatory, especially when applying at big established companies.

Omitting them could have your resume disqualified as HR might think you're trying to hide something or that you haven't bothered to do it right.
It's a chicken-and-egg situation, yep. But the world seems to be moving towards zero trust networks, distaste towards complexity and opacity brought on by ambiguous rfc1918 addresses, and wide availability of ipv6.
I love in a larger city in Sweden with Well-functioning public transport and where they have made it more difficult to travel by car in much of the inner city. But still, there are so many cars going around! Hundreds and hundreds of cars, travelling the same routes everyday.

I'm starting to become frustrated with people around my age that keep moving to the suburbs; essentially making it mandatory for them to own cars for decades to come. One friend even moved to a another city about 50km away: he commutes by car from there. It is just insanity. I don't think we have the luxury for everyone to have their own cars anymore. We should stop selling them (both EV and ICE).

There is also such a disconnect between what people say and do. They'll do some recycling and eat a bit less meat and feel satisfied that they are helping. But at the same time, they go to work by car, fly between major cities, think that New Zealand would be a great vacation spot, and buy new phones, TVs and clothes as often as they can.

The "corona lifestyle", where people work from home, consume less and stop all international travel is a start. But if course, with this solution there would be a lot of economic hardship as well (as we can see now).

It feels a bit hopeless sometimes. Like we already lost, but we just haven't realized it yet.
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Historically <> were used; what happened to that convention? See <http://example.com/> or email me at <root@localhost> for details.
I'd argue that many people aren't being paid enough to participate in the society they were born into. Therefore taking on debt for daily expenses is involuntary.
Just realize you can both be right. Everything you say is true, but parent is also. Confidence and the projection of ability to get the job done is important. Also when you are 40+ chances are you are going to be hired as a senior developer who has influence on team culture, this makes confidence and positivity even more important.
> So it's purely for performance?

It's not just for performance - it "reuses authentication" by not needing it. The authentication is an encapsulation, within which multiple channels get used. Usually, it's just the main "shell" channel; but occasionally it's also forwarding (-L / -R / -D), sftp; what ControlMaster does is let you open more "shell" channels when you run the "ssh" command again, instead of establishing a whole new connection.

> The other neat-looking directive that I've never tried is `ProxyUseFdpass`,

It's so you can use whatever weird communication hardware/protocol you like (serial? non-tcp satellite modem?), and all you have to do to get all of ssh's wonderful features over it, is make provide a file descriptor that works well enough (serial port; pipe you create; etc.)
with most people working from home using the crappy webcam and mic they a don't have cam capable of doing 1280x920 or the bandwidth and/or computer capable of streaming at that res.
"decent proxy" is a gross generalization that depends on your deeply set pre-conceptions.
BS, flim-flam, conspiracies, and Cliff Clavens will always flourish at times like this. I remember before the Internet, mimeographed and Xerox'd flyers were the primary transmission method.

The difference now is the Internet, and the fact that lack of leadership has created a huge vacuum that this stuff happily fills.
U+1F517 https://emojipedia.org/link/ might do this job

Anyway I think we can avoid target="_blank" most of the time, you can have a https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WindowEvent... event listener if something needs to be saved before the page location changes
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The biggest advantage of serverless development is that you don't need to concern yourself with the undifferentiated heavy lifting of self hosting and managing hardware, VM's, application updates, OS updates , networking, load balancing, etc and all the work that comes from that and focus on solving business problems immediately. Running it yourself will not necessarily add any additional benefit and you will will have wasted time and effort getting this entire set of complex infrastructure setup before you have developed any application code to actually solve business problems. Serverless is more than just Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB. There are all the other services you would need to spin up replacements for and manage over time; SQS, SNS, Kinesis, S3, etc including the inevitable delays yet again to get them setup for use by developers that just want to solve the business problem at hand.
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I've achieved a similar effect with Krita's warp tool and 'transform layers' (which let you treat a transformation as a filter layer so you can still edit the un-transformed version), but it's clearly not a use-case the developers intended and therefore is nowhere near as smooth to use.
For comparison, my college is about $3000/semester now. And textbooks can cost around $1000. So, 10X.