skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well this is my favorite Extension, If Google kills it then how will users gets its pushbullet chat data back.
Well you have to realize that most managers have no idea why they have it so good. When so many children are starving to death worldwide, why do they live in a 4 bedroom house with a pool? Do they have exceptional talent or intelligence? No. So they fundamentally operate from a place of fear. It’s like Twitter holding onto 140 characters forever — they had no idea why they were so successful, so their approach was “don’t touch it, you might break it.”

If you are a heart surgeon or Lebron James you can understand why you are making so much money — you have exceptional skill at something in high demand. The average manager is more like someone who found a bank error in their favor and prays every morning that it isn’t discovered.
Remember the PS1 dinosaur demo? Yeah the whole industry is famous for this.

Games are more than tech demos.
High end smartphones now cost around the same as the new Xbox and PlayStation combined would, or about as much as a solid mid range gaming PC...
I completely agree on the breaking issues, it is a _lot_ of work to maintain a website these days. In 99% of the cases I'd also agree with you that there should be _no_ reason ever to break e.g. a library used or something.

But the thing about certbot and TLS is that these things are security-relevant, and IMO security one of the only (if not the only) reason to break compatibility these days. TLS ciphers break, heck even the TLS protocol itself may reveal flaws later (see POODLE, BEAST, FREAK, etc.). That's why SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLS1.0 are deprecated: Not because there is a better protocol out there, but because the protocols are inherently insecure. (There is no huge flaw in TLS1.1 I am aware of, it uses MD5 and SHA1 under the hood for master secret derivation, but that's about the only thing).

I'm with you that maintenance is a big chunk of work, but that's IMO a price you pay for being in control. I've got a few services running myself, and honestly I forget about the boxes after setup and enabling auto-upgrades, so it isn't too breaking, at least for me.
What's the difference between developer interview vs. DevOps/SRE interview
When hiring, is your hiring process different between a software engineer and a DevOps / SRE position? Whats different? Do you use any specific tools or apps? Thanks!
So who maintains the 'legacy code' aka the products your company actually makes money selling?
They have all that they need should they decide to use it: the power of self-agency. That's the only and ultimate leverage anyone has if nothing else...
Looming destitution never made good work. The way one engages with a good employer is a sense of co-ownership in some way. I can't tell how my way of taking ownership to an arbitrary project is influenced by a relief of financial stress. It might, but I don't believe it's going to up it any, ever.

Which means that with UBI, I might be less inclined to take risks. I'm not an economist enough to tell what that means, but a rough estimate say it won't increase my income. And at this point of the discussion, we haven't even touched the topic of taxes...
Trust, Not Tracking: Managing Remote Teams
> It's not a target because it is a library catalog.

Oh! That's actually a great little encapsulation of the larger problem here.

Before COVID hit, I was a volunteer teacher at a Girls Who Code class at a library. Most of the library's computers were running Windows 7, which of course lost security updates in January.

One of the other volunteers remarked: "Someone needs to update those to Windows 10."

I answered: "Someone should update them, yes. But no one is going to."

I don't even know if those old laptops could run Windows 10. Should the library really spend money on replacing all of them? As opposed to buying books, or teaching more students?

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There was an article on Hacker News some time back about how the NYC subway system runs OS/2. A lot commenters said this is a huge security risk—sure, it's ostensibly not connected to the internet, but who really knows?

But, what should be done about it? It doesn't make sense to switch out the architecture of a city's subway system every 30 years—I'm not convinced it makes sense even every 50 or 100 years. How do you set up a system like that?
I think the impact it has depends on what you're doing at the time, what languages you've seen. For me, I'd done lots of assembly, C, Pascal, and Basic, so it was super fun. 20 years later I re-read parts and remembered the excitement, but, in the intervening years, had used Ruby and Python, and noticed Scheme/Lisp ideas had been imitated more widely, and it felt, in that 2013 context, less invigorating to reread SICP.
If you know what the house of cards is supposed to do, sure. If not, you can't easily replace it as then you are requirement generating again.
Note that our new official Redux Toolkit package [0] is written in TS and specifically designed to minimize the amount of types you have to declare in your code, and we have TS-specific guide pages in each of the Redux library docs sites [1] [2] [3], and

[0] https://redux-toolkit.js.org

[1] https://redux.js.org/recipes/usage-with-typescript

[2] https://react-redux.js.org/using-react-redux/static-typing

[3] https://redux-toolkit.js.org/usage/usage-with-typescript
Your comment isn't totally true in the narrow sense that it's not being done domestically by the USG specifically (at least at the time I was reading about it).

The best book on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/05449...

The primary domestic use was by the Baltimore police department and it was supplied by an individual billionaire interested in funding the project.

Interesting fact in that book was that the initial spark for the project was someone in government watching Enemy of the State in the 90s and thinking "we should be building this". Somewhat comically the guy who worked on the camera effects in the movie also has a defense company and was asked to help build the real thing.
I think the point is that religious people may be quicker to move through grief to acceptance in disaster situations such as monsoons. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of this but it’s an interesting hypothesis to test.
Yes but Leiningen is not distributed with Clojure. And as far as I remember there is no installer for Leiningen on Windows. Right now I find it is available through Chocolatey, but the main Leiningen page asks users to download and run a batchfile. That's a very strange instruction to ask a windows user to do: Running batch files downloaded from the internet goes against so much advice on computer security that is given to users.
My company (large-ish un-sexy software company you've never heard of) gave the software managers clear direction on this: "It's not realistic for people with school-aged children to be fully productive right now. Do not demand they take PTO or ask them to work at night. If they can only work five hours a day, that's what they can do."

I suspect it's unusual that my boss actually said that out loud, but I hope everyone is thinking it. This is a temporary situation none of us planned for, and it ought to be reasonable and expected to lower your standards until schools and childcare are around again.
Another genre you might like is roguelikes. Classic roguelikes have permadeath where if you die, you lose that character forever. In a role-playing game where you have invested dozens of hours in a character and may have gotten very lucky with some incredibly rare treasure, it can be a really intense feeling to be in an epic battle with losing all of that on the line.

I've had more pulse pounding game intensity in a turn-based roguelike with ASCII graphics than in any other game I've ever played.
Nova had an interesting show where they addressed 'keystone species' where a number of unexpected results could come from a single species absence or decline.

It started with what we might think of as traditional predators that feed on other species to keep them from getting out of control. Bass in a river would keep minnows from devouring all the plants.

But it went even farther than that where a traditional large predator's absence might lead to an ant population getting out of control and changing the growth (or lack of it) of an ecosystem.

Other situations where even just predators not scaring deer enough to keep them moving would result in forests floors being cleared out by deer and changing what trees grew and and eradication of entire plant species in an ecosystem and such. You wouldn't notice it at first but later on the results can be dramatic.

I suspect what we think the results of what a moth does, or any given animal might be quite a bit different than we expect.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/the-serengeti-rules-41dfru/2...
I’ve been thinking about reports like these for a while, and suppose you had a study that said 100% of all COVID-19 cases in the world are in people who live in areas with less than healthy air pollution. Does that mean the air pollution causes the disease? Because nearly everyone in the world lives in such an area.
Wow! Excited to hear more about Kite in the news
Depends on which promotion to some degree. The big Japanese pro wrestling promotions (New Japan Pro Wrestling and All Japan Pro Wrestling) definitely lean into the legitimate sport side of the art form. On the other hand, light heavyweight oriented promotions like Michinoku Pro and Dragon Gate draw massive inspiration from Mexican lucha libre and tend to be more goofy[1].

But the great thing about Japanese pro wrestling for me has always been the variety. You can watch hardcore death matches involving barbed wire, if that's your thing. You can watch masked wrestlers doing ridiculous high flying. You can watch actual competitive MMA, sometimes with the same wrestlers who participate in worked/scripted matches.

However I am mostly nitpicking because I love this stuff and also I am showing off a bit. You're correct for 95% of Japanese pro wrestling.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RnaIzuVt4g
I've seen well over 20% improvement in developer velocity which is far more important than performance in most businesses
> I'm not sure if I'm it, but reCAPTCHA gives me enough friction that I often abandon pages with it.

Likewise. It's randomly difficult to get through, and if you have third party content blocking it just doesn't show up. I just hit back pretty often just counting the times I knew it was there any was a reason the page wasn't working.
And indie devs. A ton of indie games are on unity on the desktop.
This feels like a no-true-scotsman argument. A true security-minded person understands the benefits of TLS, and if you don't, then you're not qualified to understand security.
DO NOT DO THIS. Having worked in customer care security, I can gaurantee that the note will be missed or ignored.
Color doesn't have 3 dimensions, humans have 3 types of color receptors (and 1 type of broadband receptor). Spacetime has 4 dimensions.

Sound can have as many "dimensions" as you care to analyze, but physically you have pressure & velocity embedded in a spacetime continuum.

I think the fundamental three-dimensional thing is that we're all mostly limited to reasoning about three-dimensional objects in a three-dimensional world.
Lack of ethics for sure. Sadly the tech industry is filled with people lacking ethics, which allows privacy breaching companies like Facebook, Google etc. to thrive.
> $2 million in reimbursement for work-related expenses.

Huh? I don't even get reimbursed for using my personal phone and this joker gets 2 million bucks to play with?
"Others can't just up and quit so they comply."

Who are these others? Are you suggesting they do not have the ability to decide if they want to continue working?
Yeah, but I don't see 100% sync between where she moves her hand and where the ball glows.
I fully agree. A while ago, I registered a domain name consisting of adjacent keyboard letters and set up a catch all email address (huge mistake). Next, I got roughly 1000 mails per week, of which fifty were promotional offers sent to "my" Verizon accounts. Of course it is impossible to reach any human being at Verizon to get this fixed.
How do you make money from this? Who would buy it? Why would anyone use it? Is there a point beyond "this is a cool thing", which is pretty well captured by Roblox and Second Life and VRChat
> Polls show the vast majority of the population supports extending shelter-in-place, and (in polls where it gets broken out) that that support is stronger among the lower economic strata.

Which totally makes sense to me. Those with lower economic status have less power, so if they want to shelter-in-place they have greater need for a government order to provide cover for their decision.
It helps that Zoom's UX is worlds better than Microsoft Teams. The persistent sidebar is fantastic, so is the spacebar-to-unmute shortcut.
I thought background and credit checks were a thing. Unless you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for renters.
There are inherent, unfixable vulnerabilities to a weather app, such as divulging location information and possibly travel patterns.
An Opinionated Approach to TiddlyWiki
That's an entirely separate issue, so this seems like an ad-hominem. And possibly a bit off-topic for a thread about their system integration.

But that said, I do wholeheartedly agree! The top-tier account type allows free reporter-level users. But for every other tier (e.g. silver), you have to pay for them. I think that's big mistake, as the cost-benefit of paying 200 USD per year for each member leads to work-arounds, which compromises the user experience.
"As for Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, Sweeney isn’t saying the new Xbox won’t be able to achieve something similar; both are using custom SSDs that promise blazing speeds. But he says Epic’s strong relationship with Sony means the company is working more closely with the PlayStation creator than it does with Microsoft on this specific area."
OK, where is the actual data?
As a practical matter I'm not worried about clicking a link that's been clicked tens of thousands of times today.

There's enough ambiguous laws they could likely come after anyone who accesses it if they wanted but given the facts of the situation I doubt they'd be able to make anything stick and it would be a giant PR snafu.
So what? Even weather cameras need deterrence from vandals.
My goodness, you're right (well, your example isn't, but the feature I'm talking about has been present since at least 1.8 (the earliest install I have handy):

> <<len::8, val::binary-size(len)>> = <<3>> <> "abc"
<<3, 97, 98, 99>>
> val
"abc"

I don't know how I'd missed that.

(Your example demonstrates 'pinning' which has been a thing since always I think).
Well maybe he doesn't get enough leeway. Maybe he knows that he should be building an engine from scratch but management won't let him. This is very common in companies of that size.
This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I imagined this was to cut down on users who sign up with throwaway accounts to get free books. What gets me is you can buy $10 prepaid credit cards and sign up repeatedly anyway, spending your $10 elsewhere. Completely opposed to the practise, however, when it enrols you in automatic payments which you have to opt out of before your free trial expires.
The confusion that federated login has caused within our own product has driven us to remove it. We are going back to email only (we had been considering it for awhile, and then Apple requiring Apple Login along with the other options sealed the deal).

The support surface only increases over time and we found it not to be worth it.
Resurrection by Harry Stottle:

https://www.fullmoon.nu/Resurrection/PrimarySpecies.html

It’s a play made for radio about a scientist who brings his father back to life (digitally) as the first test of “resurrection” technology.
It certainly isn't fully path traced, but the result does look to me like they are using ray-traced GI. You can tell by some of the details, like colored bounce lighting which I am not sure can be achieved with this level of detail using other methods.

The current standard for getting real-time performance for ray tracing is to limit the number of rays and bounces, and stabilize the results temporally.

I.e. to get a "physically accurate" result you would have to send hundreds, or thousands of rays per pixel, and bounce them up dozens or hundreds of times. With this method, instead you send maybe even one or two rays per pixel, which gives you a noisy result. But you store the result, and accumulate it over a number of frames, and apply de-noising, and over time you end up with a high-quality result.

I believe that is why when the light moves, the GI lags for a fraction of a second in this demo.
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At the risk of sounding a bit negative I personally find that graphics have plateaued since about the PS3. Sure, there are more polys, sure, there are higher res textures, sure, there are more complex and dynamic lights. But you don't really have the kind of gap we used to have between, say, the PS1 and PS2 for instance. Diminishing returns and all that. The problem is that, in my experience, this eye candy only matters for about 10 minutes when you get into a game, then you stop really paying attention to how it looks and you focus on the gameplay and story etc...

Meanwhile all the dynamic stuff is still fairly primitive IMO. At around 4 minute in the video they briefly mention the water effects. They don't really spend a lot of time on them and for a good reason, they don't look particularly good.

When I was a kid in the 90s I definitely expected future games to look a lot better, but I also expect gameplay and world interaction to progress massively. Fully interactive environments you can interact with like in the real world. You could destroy everything, dig holes, build things, have advanced physics, great AI for NPCs etc...

It saddens me that the AAA video game industry is almost entirely focused on eye candy first and foremost. That being said I concede that I'm clearly in the minority, after all the Uncharted games are generally considered to be good games when I find them incredibly boring.

I hope that now that we can reach near-photorealism in games they'll have to come up with something new to keep pushing the envelope.
As far as I know, Quixel still requires a subscription, and the assets can still be used in Unity. But the dynamic LOD optimization is definitely a killer feature.
Nothing is stopping them from doing this.

At the same time, nothing is motivating them to do this either.
Here's a good example of companies and execs min-maxing their human cattle. How about you just do a good job evaluating your employees? If you're happy with them, great, if they need improvement help them. If they're doing a bad job replace them. Stop assuming the personal motivations of other people's lives with your pop-psychology nonsense.
Interregnum – 1-year in 1920 where Transjordan had no ruler or occupying power
IIUC the Chrome developers ran experiments to determine how many users would break if they rolled this out, and the number was above whatever they consider an acceptable threshold.
My assumption is already that reCAPTCHA is not a solution. Your question would, then, be "Is there a solution".

You may not agree and I respect this, but this is actually my point (and I don't have an answer to this question - I wish I had, though, and you have a point!).

I wish that people stop thinking soon that reCAPTCHA is a solution at all.

Then, it will open people to start thinking hard on this problem and hopefully find good solutions that fits their exact situation. There may not be one size fits all, but many good solution for each situation. We would not know without thinking.
Because an explicitly-designed filter bubble is what the world needs right now...
Examining Load Balancing Algorithms with Envoy
The first time I saw that goofy symantec UI 10 or more years ago I named it the clownterface...

And quickly uninstalled it. A supposed "enterprise" application that makes your whole machine unstable.
It was confirmed[1] in a Digital Foundry interview that the demo is NOT using HW raytracing.

[1] https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-this-...
I believe there is precedent that you’re allowed to enter any computer system until you’re specifically warned. It’s a bit like traveling through open land, you can’t get in trouble for trespassing until you’ve been warned that you’re entering private property.

IANAL.
This book is the best source on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Sky-Secret-Gorgon-Stare/dp/05449...
You can also script automated keystrokes and mouse movements in python easily using pyautogui, and make something that defeats activity detection surveillance like you're describing in 5 or 10 lines of code. It also has the advantage of not being easily recognized as an automated input program like caffeine.
Vienna Opens 50-Euro Tab for Every Family to Promote Eating Out
Serious answer: people who are still using Eclipse won't answer here because it is not popular to use Eclipse here on HN.
accept Ecuador is being particularly ravished by Covid-19 so dont know what that says.
I have heard of sap in tons of contexts in undergrad business classes, news articles, and things like that. Though I have never come across an implementation in the wild. Though my experience in large enterprise is limited.
Nope. You're the one advocating targeting a specific platform, and it's called Babel.

What I'm advocating is targeting evergreen browsers whenever possible: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, and their forks. They already have most ES6 features. Even Safari has great ES6 support. iOS is known for being very up to date. Fragmentation in Javascript is a thing of the past, as long as you only use features available for +90% of the people on caniuse.com.

If you're targeting evergreen browsers you can already write the latest Javascript, and would only need Babel for something like JSX. All those browsers have async/await, ES6 modules (aka import), arrow functions, and destructuring.

To separate your written code from what is actually deployed is much more of a con than a pro. I'd rather not need a compilation step if possible. My time is valuable. Babel and Webpack are slow as a dog for non-toy projects.

Manually importing shims are a thing of the past when you're targeting evergreen browsers. You can use something like Polyfill.io for edge cases, and it will cover the small number of

CSS prefixes have nothing to do with Babel or Webpack, they're normally handled by tools like PostCSS. Nothing to do with Javascript. Static Analysis is normally handled by tools like ESLint that can use Babel but can be completely decoupled from the compilation step. Or Typescript, which actually brings a lot to the table compared to Babel.

Again, this might be hard: maybe you need to handle customers with IE11. But to not need Babel is something we should aim for.

I honestly can't wait for Babel to be 100% unnecessary and to die. It is valuable in a world where Internet Explorer exists, but there is zero advantage in using it when it's unnecessary.
Yes but only due to near 100% turnover of management and toxic coworkers in a short amount of time. It was weird the day I realized I was essentially working at a different job.
A Failed Deception: The Early Days of the Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan
Thanks for sharing this... I'd never seen it before.
It does make me wonder how many languages we use that could be compared to bag-pipes... in that even when you learn how to play them expertly, they still sound like an animal being killed.
The ones who don't reach the next level

(This could explain why google has a hard time maintaining their old projects: Google on the resume is so so valuable that whoever doesn't rise within google leaves and gets a rise at another company.)