skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
duplicate, please check before submitting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23659590

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23674045

(also another submission only 12 mins before yours)
The list generates some mixed feelings - #16 for example, where the inventor/maintainer got driven away by Oracle's acquisition of Sun and forked Jenkins from Hudson.
> If internal PKIs were easier to make work across all OS and Browser combos I’d just use those instead

Even if you use your own PKI, if your certs have a validity > 1 year, won't browsers still complain?
i bet some combination of netcat and tail would do it.

https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/11914/tail-a-log...
It would logically most likely be two circles intersecting, as Venn diagrams don't usually make a statement about the sizes of the sets.
Hi all. I'm the creator of Vox Populi. The goal is to eventually connect with brokerages to fully automate shareholder voting and with funds to if not direct than at least influence how they vote the portfolio.

Happy to answer any questions. Any and all feedback is appreciated.
Anyone from GH willing to share - anonymously maybe - some insights? I really find the lack of post-mortems from GitHub outages a bit... weird given GH audience. I think all we dev could learn from a properly written public GH post-mortem.
curl, tee, grep, less
It's predicted that next year's iPhone will be wireless only, so not including a wired charger is the first step to getting consumers ready.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/12/05/kuo-iphone-without-ligh...
This came up to my feed elsewhere so I’ll leave it here. I don’t care if particular skin colors are similar or dis-similar from one another, but I naturally don’t value actively agreeing with supremacists.

> East Asians were almost always called white, particularly during the period of first modern contact in the 16th century. And on a number of occasions, even more revealingly, the people were termed “as white as we are”.

(...)

> But by the 17th century, the Chinese and Japanese were “darkening” in published texts, gradually losing their erstwhile whiteness when it became clear they would remain unwilling to participate in European systems of trade, religion, and international relations.

> Calling them white, in other words, was not based on simple perception either and had less to do with pigmentation than their presumed levels of civilisation, culture, literacy, and obedience (particularly if they should become Christianised).

[0]: https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2184754/chine...
Well, Github introduced way more new features since Microsoft took over.
My company has GH enterprise and these numbers look accurate based on my experience. We’ve noticed a lot of downtime that has impacted us.
Funny thing:

You will gain an immense satisfaction from solving difficult problems with your Developed Competence. It literally does not matter what that Competence is. Plumbing, heart surgeon, game development. If it's your Developed Competence, at the edge of your ability, you will derive immense satisfaction from it.
It's a choice between walled garden browser or walled garden market. The anti-trust lawsuit will probably be interesting.
I have some familiarity with computational geometry myself. I've built myself the tools I need for it in pure Apple Metal, and it beats anything you can buy or get for free (for my particular needs).
What is a netlist?
And better PWA support and notifications also privacy issue?
Taking workouts online using on-device ML
I guess this makes mostly sense if you plan on extending the firmware. A stupid idea I was thinking about is a table that moves once a day into the standing position. I used to work at a standing desk and after a wile almost never used the feature. Maybe a warning-beep would make sense...

edit: mixed up the price, removed my first sentence
I always thought the briefcase came in with Windows Me. As others have mentioned, it was buggy and I lost files on it, so while I liked the idea, I had to stop using them.
ZeroSSL are a commercial CA... I can't figure out what's in it for them to offer free 90-day certs with auto ACME renewal?
The UK doesn't produce military pistols and rifles in any meaningful numbers.
https://xkcd.com/2055
Lowdown – Reduce Slack notification hell and get real work done
A follow up to this classic article could be titled "What every language designer should know about humans." :) Floats are among the least user-friendly ways to do decimal arithmetic. They aren't even that fast anymore given the resurgence of fixed point arithmetic in hpc.

Imo, in 2020 we should have had mainstream languages in which (2^(1/2))^2 == 2. It's not rocket science. :) Float truncation is a little like an OS silently converting a user's flac collection to mp3 because it was running low on disk space.
Eleven risks of marrying a quantum information scientist
The UK has a world-leading satellite industry, and could just launch them on Falcon 9 or Starship when operational - likely at drastically lower cost than Ariane. In fact I suspect that due to technological advance and lower cost of launching on SpaceX, the UK could probably develop a superior system to Galileo at a fraction of the cost, which would be amusing.
At this point he's a prisoner of his own making. Yes he has personal wealth to last generations, but there is no clear path for him to retire and quietly step aside for a younger successor. Even during late Soviet times there was always a slightly fitter and younger General Secretary to take over, but it's unclear how this would happen in modern Russia without a bloody power struggle. A strong leader at this point would be trying to build a legacy of consitutional, democratic (or even quasi-democratic) rule of law that would outlast him. I doubt Putin could achieve this now even if he wanted to; so instead he fixes the consitution to make himself President for life and let Russia fall apart when he dies.
We were important before we left the EU.
It bothers you that the kernel supports hardware you don't have?
We live in an age of mass production, I wonder what company would try to block farmers from producing more.

Also, no company can stop independent farmers from starting a biodynamic farm and produce more than their competitors thus being able to have even better margins.

So I think we can safely classify those kinds of worries in the "conspiracy theory" until proven otherwise.
partly out of fear of getting cut of from Russian gas

This is less of a factor nowadays after the US lifted its self-imposed ban on LNG exports:

https://www.ceep.be/lifting-us-oil-export-ban-lng/

They're still dependent, but so is Russia on those profits. Right after the sanctions started they tried to sell this gas to China, but didn't get a good deal on that.
How Safe Do LGBTQ+ Individuals Feel in Tech?
My experience with Microsoft Q# Coding Contest
I assume the poster you're responding to (perhaps with some hyperbole) is thinking of the UK in the context of separate from the US, China, and the EU - in which case it is comparatively small, and while not unimportant, certainly less important.
> better make sure we don't piss of Canada then

Diemaco was bought by Colt.
It's clear that woke culture is driving people to stop engaging with it, as many of us here have probably also done in the name of preserving our mental health.

What I'm questioning is, what happens when everyone just stops fighting it? Do people think they can out-vote it?

It has control over academia (with STEM fields barely holding on), the major tech corporations, mainstream culture, and soon politics. This isn't an endorsement of Trump, I'm just stating facts.

All I see here is people saying "man, social media is really unhealthy smh" and no one seems to realize that they are willingly vacating all of the platforms where they can oppose what they deem to be unhealthy.

On Hacker News I still see people debating things like the handling of the coronavirus, the BLM movement, and other politically charged issues. I see some comments that make me angry, but mostly I either agree or disagree. I think it's quite well balanced and civil. I really like the moderation here, and I like that most people are willing to approach others' opinions with sincerity.

With the current trend, how long will that realistically last? Now that mainstream news, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are falling to toxic ideology, coercion and censorship, what's to stop it from happening here too?
==It also remains to be seen that lockdowns don't cause more deaths via economic destruction (poverty is directly linked to mortality) than COVID.==

Curiously, what data would you need in order to determine which causes more deaths?
If procedurally generated is the only prerequisite I guess Nethack is not "completely different" from No Man's Sky then.
Briefcases were supposed to be a tool to easily sync a directory structure with removable storage or a spotty network connection. Say you've got a computer at home and a computer at the office. You do a bit of work on some files over the weekend with your files in your briefcase. When it is time to head to the office on Monday you pop in a floppy disk (or PDA, or some other removable storage) and sync your briefcase to it. Get into the office, pop your floppy into your work machine and re-sync your copy of the briefcase there. You don't have to remember which files potentially updated and you don't have to work off your removable media the entire time.

It was a neat concept. I used to use that to sync stuff stored on my school's student network drive with a floppy (and later flash drive) with my home PC. They definitely didn't describe it well unless you went digging for why it exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briefcase_(Microsoft_Windows)
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`tail` is just loading the last bytes of a file. If the server supports byte ranges you can do this with `curl` over http as well:

Last 100 bytes of a website:

$ curl -sr -100 https://example.com

An approximation of `tail -f`:

$ watch -n10 curl -sr -100 https://example.com
There's no wired version of Chromecast to my knowledge
> verify_result->is_issued_by_known_root

Let's take Windows as an example, as it has a root certificate store. Now, if I operate a private CA, I install my private root certificate to the root certificate store - does that make it a "known_root" for Chromium, or does this check only cover a specific set of known-to-Chromium CAs?
Yes.

iOS supports them all: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202628

Mac OS doesn't support any of them (much to my chagrin).

On Windows, it has to be implemented by the driver. I suggest using Intel: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

With Android, it's hit or miss. All modern flagships support them AFAIK. Going back in time, it's limited to premium vendors. I'd expect the majority of devices to support 802.11k, although they're quiet about it. You'd have to check logs on your AP (if available) to determine if it's in use.
Has anyone noticed their search has gotten worse? I sometimes will search for some code that I know exists in a repo, but it gives no results, and when searching a little later it shows them as I expect.

We have Github enterprise, and Slack notifications when Github has any issues. Nearly every week there’s a problem, sometimes it’s resolved in a few minutes, other times it goes for an hour or so. I’ve pondered the question if there has been more outages since the MS acquisition and in my experience that’s a hard yes.
The "agreed upon amount" is due by 2024. So yes, it's crazy to threaten to pull out 6 years ahead of schedule while the main adversary is at war with Ukraine and targeting American soldiers in the Middle East.
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/three-charts-that-show-why-t...
Big Sur is in Beta. The process you described is quite fast on Catalina.
I get where you are coming from. But to play devils advocate, a lot of us aspire to be less important on the world stage. There are lots of things I am proud about, but big power politics is not one of them. Nor does success in other areas require us to play those kind of games. We need to get over out inferiority complex. We are not exceptionally powerful or exceptionally week. We can have modest aspirations in one area whilst excelling in others.
> Currently, avoiding homelessness > following dreams.

oh I know that one, it goes like:

"By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken."

— Genesis 3:19

> God, I wish basic income was a thing.

I rather don't, and this is why. It's got some merits as an alternative to current bureaucracy, but I fear that all too often it would mean a capable self-sufficient software developer abandoning his responsibilities, and taking others' money, to subsidize a lifestyle in which he may develop indie computer games.

If these pet projects are good investments — good risk-adjusted investments, producing measurable returns and not merely misty-eyed wish fulfillment — then risk of the project should be borne by those who wish for the project. For while it is decent and good for us to carry the burdens of those who cannot carry their own, it is likewise righteous and just that you, who are fully capable of supporting yourself, should support yourself, rather than burdening others with your support.
"For many years, sellers in China have been able to ship for less from China to America than local American sellers can domestically, thanks to something called ePacket."

This system was undoubtedly maintained so that US business could get cheap labor rates in China. Sending mail from China should be more expensive than domestically if the cost is based on distance. However, that would be a barrier to trade. US business spent the 90s trying to outsource manufacturing to China and a barrier to trade would foil that plan to exploit cheap labor overseas and avoid unionization domestically.

Clearly the US national business community must feel threatened by China's changing policies or by a change in their negotiating position or this wouldn't be going through.
> and the terms of any trade agreement we make with the EU will be adjudicated by the ECJ, as they are for any other country

So the ECJ makes it judgement and the US for example has to abide? Please.
I'm like you - that the Windows era was a low point in computing for me. I used Workbench 3.1 before, and Linux afterwards, and both of those kindled my interest in computers far more than Win 3.1 - XP ever could. On the otherhand I do have some nostalgia for those Windows days - it wasn't all bad, just a little on the boring side. I remember those themes from Win98 with the associated screensavers fondly. I also posted here about running old versions of microsoft office, and I enjoyed playing around with them and had forgotten that they were actually pretty decent pieces of software.
My friends often tease me because I read the manual from everything I buy. Even if it is a tiny pamphlet.

I really like this informative blog post on unix pipes, but reading the readme would have saved some time.

It contains the answer in a simple form:

`youtube-dl -o - https://youtu.be/BaW_jenozKc | castnow --quiet -`
Ugh, this is a tired meme.

FWIW I'm British and living in Sweden, so you can derive from that anything you like.

But from my perspective there has been a lot of narrative in my lifetime that tells me our country is quite important, but that narrative is definitely not supported by the facts.

the EU doesn't face an "existential crisis", the issue's that the EU face is:

1) Is the EU still big enough to challenge the US and Russia?

2) Why is euroscepticism on the rise? how can we combat false information when we have no budget for public relations?

3) How can we ensure that the exit of the UK doesn't end messy (messy leaving things unsure, unresolved or confusing)

w.r.t. Nuclear weapons and population size, 70M is paltry in comparison to most countries, so unless you're only comparing EU countries to the UK then you're mistaken that it's globally significant.

The fact is that we have disproportionate influence compared to our land/population size, and that is because historically we colonized a third of the planet, our wealth from that time is dwindling, we have smeared our influence with the rise of the right wing and the childish way we divorced ourselves from our closest allies.

Thousands of migrants enter the EU; the right wing media would have you believe that they almost all want to come to the UK, the fact is that /some/ want to come to the UK because they already speak English and learning another language is difficult in their situation, there are other reasons but this is by-in-large the most common one.
The guardian has got worse under its current editor.
This is really neat - useful and beautiful. My only minor concern is that thicker/thinner is ambiguous and my first thought would be that they carry out the heavier/lighter functionality. Perhaps denser/sparser would have been more appropriate?
I think you’re talking about running DNS locally (not sure) and resolving .local addresses by DNS. In that case, yes, the devices that do lookups by mDNS will experience a delay caused by first querying mDNS before falling back onto DNS. The solution is to set up mDNS for the internal resources.

Using an unregistered domain like .lan has serious security implications. See here: https://serverfault.com/a/17566
All the slow Chinese mail gets put on a boat, and taken to say a port in LA where it is offloaded and then inserted into the US mail system. If I bring a package to that same spot in LA where the packages enter the system, why can't I choose a shipping option that costs something less than 50 cents to anywhere in the US?

The system was illogical. Whether you want to say that US shipping is too expensive, or Chinese shipping to the US too inexpensive is unimportant.
> there is a direct line between Roy's insights, as expressed in ReST, and functional programming and the immutability revolution, and also the CAP theorem.

I know (at least superficially) what these things are, but I don't quite see the connection. Do you mind explaining please? It certainly sounds like a very interesting subject for a blog post or two.
Oh, I see what you mean. Maybe it is, indeed.
Mix all the multipliers and everything together, shuffle up and that's going to be a way better of an exercise + also beneficial for adults (perhaps you know Dr. Ryuta Kawashima - he says doing easy math exercises fast every morning is a great thing).
I'd nominate Bitwig for this. The UI is written in Java and is one of the nicest DAW interfaces around. The stuff they've been doing in the modular grid lately is particularly impressive. The fact that it's in Java means it works great on Linux too.

https://www.bitwig.com/en/home.html
Wow I'm an idiot.

*John Oliver
I dont think you are going to see Apple get in to any anti trust. What you will see is Google get broken up, with Apple, Tencent, Huawei, Microsoft etc swooping in and buying those pieces up.

You need a strong single Apple so that we can have our singular place to buy smartphones.
As I mentioned, my comment is meant as an exercise. If we were to take the numbers more seriously, due diligence is necessary. That said, if we assume that one incident does not affect the other, then the Poisson nature falls out as a natural consequence of that independence and the assumption of a constant rate (our Null hypothesis).

As long as the incidents are spaced out enough, that the possibility of one incident affecting the other is low, Poisson can be surprisingly realistic. Quite remarkable, given how simple it is. All in all not that bad an assumption for a back of the envelope calculation in a meeting.

In practice, however, given more time, I would be looking at the statistics of inter-incident times more carefully. If those look sufficiently different from Exponentially distributed, a non-Poisson renewal process might be more appropriate than a Poisson process.
How to keep moving fast (As your startup grows)
Not sure if applicable to your use-case, but I'm using a HyperFIDO Mini[1]. Much cheaper than the Yubikey, and the form factor is also nice for just keeping it in a (reachable by hand) USB port. Though I carry mine on the keychain (and have an older, bigger one at home as a backup).

[1] https://hypersecu.com/tmp/products/hyperfido
Like it's gonna have any impact
Your attempt to cast Russias annexation of territory it has had claims on for hundreds of years as a misdeed isn't really effective. There were actual Russian civilians being protected by Russian forces during that process. There was a fully armed nuclear base that was under threat of falling into the wrong hands during the Ukraine uprising (which, incidentally, the rest of the world knows full well was funded by the CIA).

Iraq lost 5% of its population during the American invasion.

How many Americans were in Iraq, who were under direct threat of violence from a fascist group involved in a coup d'etat?

Russia hasn't reached America's level of evil, destructive, criminal warfare, that is for sure. The claim that America was surgical and careful in its invasion(s) is specious at best, but really just downright evil. Literally millions of people are still suffering from the effects of America's callous invasion.

4 million innocent people have lost their lives under America's war machine. How many Ukraine soldiers did Russia take during the annexation?

Not even comparable levels of magnitude, no matter how finely tuned your moral relativism chops are ..
Personally I think it is connected to adding more features to GitHub. Microsoft is rolling out more and more small but also big changes, and as everyone knows, this always can have a few minutes downtime for each update.
exactly. Before M$ there wasn't much product movement at Github :/
Confined to office with set work hours would’ve put my passions on hold
Dev-Skill Roadmap?
I get a ton of questions about how to start as a developer.
- What langauge
- What stack
- How in-depth before moving on etc.

What's your recommended development journey to get you earning an income as soon as possible as a junior developer?
Why Rakuten’s mobile experience is set to challenge Japan and the world
Seems like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. If the options are getting ignored, including for promotions; or getting extra attention because you're from an underrepresented group, I think option B is better in the long run, because at least it helps to address the underrepresentation.

Once representation is more equal, I think the "ignore colour" option becomes more feasible. But we're not there yet.
On the Chromecast Ultra the charger doubles as an Ethernet port.
No it does not. An easy example to see is public medicine that treats poor people. You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but a healthy population is overall happier and able to do things. However, it doesn't make money directly for anyone. Since the 1970s, the popular ideology of the ruling class is that government has to work like a buisness, and is a facet of "neoliberalism" -- the idea that markets are the best tool for every situation despite the numerous problems with them.

In the US, the idea is to disdain public services unless they can be used to socialize a cost of doing business. The USPS has been allowed to function because it made shipping cheaper, which is the lifeblood of business. However, other political calculations are coming to the fore (such as international competition) so they are thinking of kneecapping cheap rates to China.
I have burned myself with orgmode exactly because of the deceptive simplicity. It did not pick up some important TODO items because of my slight misformatting.
Bundling of the browser to the platform and making other browsers non-viable is probably covered under the previous Microsoft case law.
Urine testing on your smartphone. Healthy.io buys it's largest U.S. rival