skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I recently got feedback that I speak at too low level and with too much emotion/passion.

How often do you get this feedback? Was it from just the one person? If so, have you asked others if they perceived you similarly? Of all the people you asked, how many agreed/disagreed?

Unless there is consensus, don't assume it is true. The majority of times someone gives you feedback like this, it is about them. They usually have a need, are expecting you to provide it. Instead, focus on what that need is. Heck, even if there is consensus in the feedback you get, you should still try to figure out what their real problem is: Yes, you speak at a low level. OK - so what? What problem is that causing for them? The trick is to learn to ask these questions nonconfrontationally (definitely do not respond with "So what?")

General steps would be to indicate you've heard them, express some concern, and then ask. Something like:

"It would concern me if my voice level is creating problems for our communication/work. It would help me if you could give me an example so I understand better."

(This is not the best phrasing, but is probably adequate). You can take it from there based on the response. Ask how they would have preferred you said it. In the end, though, try to find out why it was a problem. Are they intimidated by you when you speak passionately? Are they mishearing you because of the low volume?

The other issue is the use of "too" in their statement. How low is too low? How much is too much? Best to get examples so you get an idea.

BTW, it's not unusual to find out that it really wasn't a problem when you probe them. People use "too much" even when it isn't.

I once took a communications workshop where the instructor drilled two messages:

1. Everything anyone says or does is in service of his/her needs.

2. Never believe what people say about you.

The first one is your example. They're giving you that feedback because of some need they have that's not being met. The second one is not a license to behave however you want, but is tied to the first. People can get frustrated by something, and are not good at expressing it, and often take it out on people.

I would get all kinds of negative feedback about me, and it was very confusing. When I probed others if they felt similarly, I would often get sharp divides - a lot of people felt there was nothing wrong about my behavior (or even advocated for it) - others hated it. Only when I got more into effective communications did I start realizing that most of the people who were complaining about me merely had different preferences, and it wasn't that I was loud/stubborn/impatient/dull - it was that they had unspoken expectations from me that I wasn't meeting. Often having a mere conversation about the issue would resolve the problems without my having to change my behavior.

All this is not easy to do, BTW. I'm still poor at it.
The real issue is not that eBay or some other specific website uses Javascript to port scan network. The real issue is that browsers allow such behavior by default.
AppArmor has only ever caused me pain.

For whatever reason it's decided that I'm not allowed to connect to the network.

It's easy enough to remove the package, but it likes to tag along as a dependency when installing updates.
The odd thing is to choose a certain path in life because other people would be interested in reading about it.
Crypto finance should be, in general, run as open source, non-profit if it really wants to bring any societal change and democratize establishments. For-profit corporations running these programs under the garb of friendly deceptive branding can at most influence a behavior which is the only real positive.
I was surprised that my post on a strategy to make modern web apps work without JavaScript didn't get any attention, but I might just need some work on my writing and titles.

The topic is one I expected to hit the nail on the head with the HN crowd, though.

https://blog.klungo.no/2020/05/28/using-react-and-redux-to-a...
Not the OP but it looks really neat. Unfortunately (for me) I’m a bit worried about privacy. It seems to me that —- like several email clients these days —- my email essentially goes via their service. At the very least they hold auth tokens?

I don’t know but is it too much to expect an email client that runs exclusively on my device, doesn’t phone home or leaks metadata??

Disclaimer: I haven’t tried it but simply inferred this from their privacy page. I could be wrong.
wechat has been doing free transfers forever. Venmo too. Personal transfers on Paypal and Square cash are free too I think. Not too sure where the big disruption is.
Should product managers learn design?
Dual license can be on different products, e.g. community edition and then you have extra binaries or plugins which come with a commercial non-open license.

But it can also be by use case. MongoDB's has extra requirements for those who run services (database-as-a-service) and thus who compete against MongoDB, the company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing

Sponsorship is hoping companies rely on your software enough to open their money pockets. Or to have a strategic interest, e.g. by keeping something open/free that a competitor charges money for. https://letsencrypt.org/sponsors/
Identity is one of the hardest things to wrestle with in cyberspace. Authenticating identity is tough business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
You'd be surprised. There is a Texas law firm whose domain is my domain name + "law". Guess who receives a significant portion of their "confidential" messages and inquiries?
> is it a dick move to the website owner

FB gets more user engagement out of this, which is their goal. No harm, no foul.
> I don't think 5G will be restricted to cities at all. There are some carriers who are already providing pretty good service to rural areas using sub6 fixed wireless.

That's a true statement but most uses of "5G" are talking about mm-wave. There's no question that lower frequencies, already in use for 4G or adjacent to those, will get the evolutionary bump to 5G.

And don't forget to consider the need/benefit side. If your 2-7GHz towers won't be saturated, even a free pile of mm-wave antennas isn't worth the maintenance costs.
This sort of has been solved for 50 (wild guess) years with portable music players. Sure it is not exactly the same, and sure there's the extra recording step, but once that is done (which for downloadable stuff nowadays takes a fraction of the playback time) you have something which is better in some ways because it's offline. Don't get me wrong here: I'm not acvocating to go back, but in some ways it's strange to see new technology being used so widely yet people suffering to get things done which were actually better with older technology. Battery life is another one. The 2 of them combined in an example: I have a rather old portable player which takes micro SD cards. Even without swapping that's a huge amount of music. 2 AA batteries and the thing lasts for hundreds of hours. So purely for playing audio that solution really owns anything newer. Then again, it's of course also the only thing it does.
Sure, check out Stuart Sierra' (by now famous) blog post Clojure Workflow Reloaded and his Components library:
http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/06/04/clojure-workflow-r...
https://github.com/stuartsierra/component
I disagree about the latter - unless you mean "rowing" ("having a row": basically talking without logical progression, just to have a go at each other, being pejorative, shouting and such; would be rowing) arguing (as in presenting a logical argument, noting our premises) can be informative and demonstrate that people can disagree and come peaceably to a compromise.

Of course some parents might not like to give away the logic to their bedtime decisions for fear of manipulation. The struggle is real.

It helps in our family structure we have a decision maker who ultimately has to bear the responsibility for the final decision; this is a normal thing in companies, but it can be replaced by a vote in coops (and in families).
> I was NACK to this WSL driver, too, totally flies in the face of the rest of the Linux graphics stack. Companies should get in the habit of talking to the kernel early, and not just dumping a patchset over the fence and hoping we like it.

I guess I'm not sure how much earlier they can bring in the main kernel than a graphics driver that doesn't even display graphics yet. Like I've seen the amount of bikeshedding that happens when talking about hypotheticals with no code to reference.

What should they have done differently in your mind?
Sometimes I even wish they could embed a JavaScript interpreter... After all, YAML is almost equivalent to JSON, which the perfect templating language for JSON is -- JavaScript tbh.

Or people have to keep inventing half baked things.
Oh nevermind, I saw the lobster post, FRIGN says he wasn't aware about Charlottesville at the time (living in a basement without internet access, probably).
Good point, it could be that they are vibrating like reeds. Bracing could help in that case. or could they attach weights to each one to change the resonant behavior ? It would be interesting to get a high speed video of one to see.
This! I was bullied a lot in high school including multiple pizza orders to our house from the local independent pizzeria. We went up and had a chat and they put us on the no delivery list which considering we lived about 250m from them wasn't a huge deal for us, but saved them wasting food, time and money.
Not just a presence - it is their Canadian head office with more employees than they have in the rest of the country combined.
K-W is easily 2-3x more bustling today than it was when RIM was booming. RIM sucked talent to the suburbs where it diffused outward and failed to seed any amenity concentration. That talent is all in the core now and has led to a massive resurgence including dozens of bars and restaurants and other amenities.
The interesting part in the article is that the entire structure collapse and starts disintegrating when you try to manipulate it, so it was a very difficult group to study because your sample melts in front of your eyes. Scanning the live animal is a good solution for navigating this obstacle.
I have to ask - where did the "g" come from in "manufacturer"?
This is so cool, that guy basically has a developer(you) working for him, since he's' the only customer.
Welcome to the big leagues. Patents are big part of every mature industry. Software isn't special.

You should see how fierce the patent wars are in the automobile industry, medical devices, electronics, materials science, adhesives, brake pads, throttle cables, fasteners, tooling, construction/building materials, to name a few.
The Moral Authority of the Lockdown Is Gone. Thank the Protestors and Rioters
In the UK Thatcher might have been a driving force.
In Western thinking (entering a rabbit hole) conceiving humanities as sciences is a recurrent theme (say, in the Scepticism of Hume) that Auguste Comte in the 19th century turned into the doctrine of positivism:

- The scientific method (and precision of mathematics) applies to all sciences, social and natural.

- Knowledge can be proved only by observation trough empiric means and deductive reasoning.
On good definition of politics is "the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations between individuals, such as the distribution of resources."

All collaborative projects are inherently political.
One thing I've been wanting to do is write a better mobile UI experience for HN using their api. I visit mostly on my phone and I have such a hard time tapping any of the action buttons (upvoting, minimizing a comment thread, etc). I tried a CSS-only mod using Stylish (I primarily use Firefox on Android) but I wanted to do some stuff that the current HTML structure made difficult.

While I appreciate that they finally added some mobile styling, it was very minimal and ignored accessibility best practices for touch target size.
i covered them twice even. once as a mechE undergrad, and again in business school. the former primarily focused on the engineering dynamics and ethics, and the latter primarily on the organizational behavior and decision-making failures.
Training or writing books about the software you wrote. For example Wes McKinney is the creator of the Pandas library (https://pandas.pydata.org/) and wrote the "Python for Data Analysis" book.

While the https://tailwindcss.com/ CSS library is open source, the authors make money by selling access to a component library https://tailwindui.com/
It’s telling that people who don’t care about the structure their project is built upon, in that they would do such a breaking change as going from Linux to BSD, are completely convinced of the superiority of their political opinions.
> telling them “I could be interested in a variety of relationships with you” is so much more indirect than asking “wanna get dinner?”

While you may be correct that his statement wasn't direct, I would say your alternative would be the very definition of "indirect".

Being direct in such situations may not be the best approach, and I suspect that is what you're trying to get at. However, "wanna get dinner?" when you want something more than just dinner is almost a textbook definition of indirect.
Some of them, possibly the most successful, are reputed to hire pretty much exclusively people with non-financial backgrounds - mathematicians and physicists who are also really good programmers.
We just moved to the kubernetes ecosystem - specifically for integration with spot instances of AWS (and cut our costs by 60%).

But I hate the UX of kubernetes. Compose was beautiful.

I have hope - since compose files have become an independent specification. https://www.docker.com/blog/announcing-the-compose-specifica...

Kubernetes distro built around the compose file specification would be a unicorn.
We have ads here, they just have to be carefully crafted infomercials with a high payoff for the advertisee, enough that it could not be an ad ...
> a font (which is a simulation of a case of metal blocks)

In metal typesetting, a font is exactly a collection of metal blocks (which embody glyphs of a given design, size, and thickness). But on a computer, a font is a piece of software that renders text in a given typeface — simulating a pen moving along curves with varying parameters is entirely feasible. Not at all a bad starting point.
Often there is too much censoring going on but at least they appear to be a bit more transparent about it now. The one feature that I would like to see is to be able to collapse all comments by default (and read only top level comments).

And often, comments critical of HN like this one first get many upvotes and then get sent back to a neutral 1... which is what just happened
That would be reasonable IF he didn't add the detail about a friend also getting these deliveries. What are the chances of that coincidence?
Not OP but I have the same grievance. I moved to Fedora on my dev machines.
One step at a time.

Right, that paper doesn't introduce life-shattering innovation but rather just fixes a long-standing issue with UDP performance in the Linux kernel. That ain't nothing.

A large motivator to develop and deploy QUIC is that by implementing much of the stack as a userspace library the protocol can be iterated on at a pace impossible with TCP. BBR congestion control experiments are a great example of that; there's enormous value in quick iteration, even at the cost of compute efficiency.

I agree with your sentiment though; I have to imagine eventually the protocol will settle down and hardware acceleration will become a thing - but imho not to the degree you propose.
The marketing contractor charged me. The way it worked was that if a new email or WhatsApp message or Instagram PM came in, he would get notified and work on it. And he measured the time for each task and then billed me for his time. Since it was usually only a few minutes for each work task, that only summed up to a few hundred $ per month.

As one example of the kind of tasks he handled:

Prospective customers could send in their measurements via WhatsApp and he would then look up into our internal measurement tables to determine which bikini size to order.

Or we would get collaboration invites from Instagram Influencers via PM or E-Mail. He would check their follower counts, bot ratio, etc. and then use an (internal secret) Google Docs to calculate the estimated value for us. He'd then use that to either decline or determine how generous our promotional gift would be.

Nowadays, the concept is called VA = Virtual Assistant, for example like what https://timesvr.com/ offers.
Python 3.8 has typing.Literal for this.
I second this. There is a really good Hammerspoon plugin called Miro Window Manager that lets you easily resize windows into halves, thirds, and quarters of the screen using simple keyboard shortcuts. It really should be a standard macOS feature.

https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/MiroWindowsManager.html
Ive found the whole k14s eco system is pretty great to (ytt + kbld + kapp).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overtone
Jumping Ahead with Cowgol 2.0
Eh, compared to PyTorch, I find tensorflow to be extremely painful.
Anymore too busy for it, but in college my roommate and I had a side-hustle selling computer monitors on Amazon.

Basically there was a company that cleared out defunct call centers and such, who would call us up to offload monitors for $5 a piece. These would sell consistently on Amazon for $40. Not much effort involved, and made a few thousand that way to supply our other hobbies.
Banksy’s text has an encrypted message
I believe that someone did some studies involving outdoor schools or similar, that was considered to differentiate between those factors - being outdoors and reading was better than being indoors and reading.
You would have trouble landing without the engine though. Better not to risk it if there's no problem with being anchored there, and just waiting for the fix.
I came across that in 2005s, & obviously could not pay that much; so searched around for free ways to do that. Found an article which listed to download that your website's grid; write with a thick pen; scan & then use FontForge to convert it to a font. Lot of labour. But I did it; & still have that font; used on many paper forms.

Now recently few years ago I came across an app where you draw each letter on mobile; then it sends all data to its server & you get the font. It worked for few months, I made few variations of my handwriting, then its server stopped responding.

Now I have another font where few glyphs of my signatures (few variations), my logo, my initials are as font; & I use it to sign checks or forms or such.
Thank you!

Will people pay for a license if there's no differentiation? (In HN we read a lot of stories where even donate button is not working well)

Also, will people pay for a commercial add-on when the product itself is free? (open core model)
He talks about this case directly here.
[2 hour :11 minute mark]
https://youtu.be/6SSse90R72o?t=4875

Also, talks about his other case he settled, where a jailed prisoner wasn't given epilepsy medication, defecated on himself, was mistreated by the guards and died.
[41-44 minute mark]

https://youtu.be/6SSse90R72o?t=2460
It’s complicated.

The drivers are probably riddled with security bugs. For the at-home consumer security through diversity and obscurity is sufficient, their adversary is not the government but malware authors. Malware authors can and do use source code as their starting point for exploits. Especially vendored known-bad code, the main thing that is hiding in these drivers.

The manufacturer’s adversary isn’t consumers. It’s not even other small time manufacturers making knockoffs. It’s Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, who are obviously the biggest violators of the spirit, technological and economic, of open source.

As soon as you open source your pathetic network driver, if it happens to benchmark the best in some niche way a Google team needs, it’s not like they go and buy your hardware. It’s just some guy who looks at your source and copies-via-rewriting it internally at Google for the hardware they already own and have source access to. Like how are you going to prove that copyright violation happens? People can barely get GPL judgements against random, low money defendants.

Look at how many businesses they are in. Google is making WiFi routers. Apple makes its own GPUs now. What will they start with? Open source code. It’s not just the AppGet guy, or some niche feature. It’s literally everything, top to bottom. It is the core of the trillion dollar market cap culture.

Nobody has or will ever succeed in a source code copying lawsuit against Google. Apple is going out there and using your shit until they copy it too. Your chips, your wireless stack, your graphics stack, every little thing. They will copy it. Amazon and Microsoft have far flung offices loaded up with people just violating the spirit of open source and legal force of EULAs via copying all day. That is how some guy survives, gets enough work for a year that matters to the bottom line of a multi billion dollar corporation, far out of sight of the compliance culture at HQ.

Every giant company does this. Engineers make careers out of copying open source stuff into some other language, making it seem like it’s clean room implemented when of course it is not. They are the adversaries, not users.
> Sure, this might be true for the average user

To be fair, that has always been Ubuntu's target market...
This is great! Definitely has the potential to go viral..! Kinda like the guy sending confetti as hate-gifts.
> I for one am excited about the opportunities for team meetings over AR, which to do right would require these higher bandwidths

Setting aside whether that assumption is true, you don't have Wi-Fi?
Completely agreed. The site:

1) loads instantly

2) is mostly plaintext.

Reddit, for what it's worth, provides about the same features but on an absolutely heavyweight site. Especially the new (redesigned) SPA reddit
If it's anything like the most common fog horn that the USCG uses across the country, it's a 273Hz tone (though I don't recall the waveform, most likely sinusoidal).

As of 8 years ago, they were using the FA-232 model fog horn, the circuitry was designed in the '70s and uses discrete BJTs on the boards to generate the tone and drive the "speaker".
Cypress Tutorial for Beginners (Running Your First TestCase)
Thank you! Will it generate _enough_ income?
Given the vastness of cosmos and the richness of star systems it's just ludicrous to assume earth-like planets are somehow special and rare.

At these scales nothing is rare.
If you really believe that, then why aren't you using a 50 year old desktop environment?
I never knew that. I am surprised there wasn't more chatter about how the sound attracted or repelled mountain lions.
I looked at it, I don't like it for the same reason as I dislike many other tools in this space: it imposes its own directory structure, abstraction (environments) and workflow. I'm a fan of the kubecfg-style approach, where it lets you use whatever sort of structure makes sense for you and your project.

It's a 'framework' vs 'library' thing, but in the devops context.