skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats, this is a an awesome idea and well implemented. Especially the name and domain is kind of welcoming and setting the right tone.

I just checked out write.as' and ResearchRoam's traffic and they have both over 1-2M visits per month which isn't too bad and surprised me a bit. Do you have insights into this market? Why does a simple editor (write.as) gets so much traffic and is still growing? Is linking (Roam) not an overrated feature and easy to accomplish with any other note taking tool? What kind of people are using these tools? Isn't there not heavy competition on the native app side?
not bloody likely...
I am by no means spending 4-5 hours on project(s) in the evening but I will spend odds and ends on it, I document my roadmaps pretty extensively and even on the times when I don't feel like head diving into the code, there's always a unit test I could write or an edge case I can think up and write about (documentation, not code)
The baseband is essentially ring -1, it has its own processor but it has access to the main memory, and often also the cache lines.

Wether or not all of the main memory is and even can be mapped I don’t know, I have no idea what CPU each baseband is running however in some designs it has direct access to the SoC MMU which means it could dump the entire memory over the wire to anyone.

The interfaces with the BB are also “virtual” this is done for various reasons including ease of integration with various operating systems so even if you on the OS level talk to it via the legacy serial COM interface using AT commands the hardware itself doesn’t actually have an isolated COM interface (that could be turned off) the SoC just emulates it.

Of SoC basebands have USB/Serial interfaces directly which could potentially be isolated and turned off when the BB isn’t in use, however the cost of that is usually very poor performance and limited capabilities at which point you might as well carry a portable cellular hotspot which you can physically turn off when you don’t need data or voice.

Also keep in mind that taking out the SIM card doesn’t prevent the baseband from talking to towers, it can still technically make calls the towers just usually don’t allow anyone to register without a subscriber ID which is stored on the SIM, and with eSIM you basically even lose the ability to control that.
Then you're creating a new format (sqlite is well known, but the schema won't be), which third parties can add support for; depending on your exact goal, this is probably worse than using an already-supported format.
wat https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/
Opytimizer: Nature-Inspired Optimization in Python
I'd question whether IntelliJ is "enterprise software" though?
No joke. I maintain a bot that interfaces with the Twitter API to take in tweets and post tweets from specific users in chat channels.

I read this blog post to determine a) what I need to do to port to the new API and b) how much this privilege of using Twitter will cost me, and it is mum on both of those aspects.

Absolutely brilliant, Twitter.
Works fine for me on Android Chrome 84.0.4147.89
It is going to be an expensive one:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/tech-cold-war-between-us-a...
> Sometimes I wonder why companies even pay developers so much in the US.

Presenteeism.

The office "has to" be in Silicon Valley. The employees "have to" be in that office, in an open plan, so the manager can physically see them working. Therefore they have to be paid huge wages to compete against the other employers doing the same.
Thanks for the right wording.

Yeah, the tool is fine, I got nothing against it, just our attitude makes our world more cluttered and fragmented, we lost the way to communicate in programming world at large.

The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
CSS Grid has only been widely supported for a couple years now. Not so hard to believe a frontend dev was still using bootstrap grid.
"Fool me once ..."

MS (like all corporations) only cares about one thing, making money. It's not silly to distrust a corporation that has repeatedly in the past stolen, subverted, and act in bad faith as soon as a 'threat' to their complete dominance has shown up.

Yes, most of the old-guard are gone. (Gates, Ballmer, etc)
But I'm not entirely ready to trust them yet. (Windows10 telemetry, not honouring user-defined configuration [Peer-to-Peer updates active even though it's disabled in user-facing options], Candy Crush and all other game 'apps' being pulled from the MS store.)

So they aren't even acting wholly trustworthy now, even under this current management. Why would I trust them to be nice with Linux?
The scales I'm talking about - above which one can consider the Universe to be smooth - are a few hundred Megaparsecs (at the present time - they were smaller earlier on). For scale, the Milky Way is several kiloparsecs across, and the Andromeda galaxy is a little less than one Megaparsec away.

These scales are readily measurable. Large surveys of galaxies observe galaxies that are Gigaparsecs apart from one another. You can trace out the structure of the observable Universe by looking at where the galaxies are, and there's clumping on "small" scales. But above a certain scale, it becomes smooth. The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is also much larger than this scale. If you measure the CMB temperature, you don't see any correlations in the temperatures of points on the sky separated by more than about one degree.

Take a look at this figure, which compares real observations to the Millennium Simulation: [1]. Each point is a galaxy. As you go farther away from the center of the figure, you're going back in time, which is why there are fewer galaxies and less clumping (gravity has had less time to do its work). If you want to see a large slice of the Universe fixed at a certain time (so there's no look-back effect), you have to go to simulations. Here's what you get: [2]. Above a few hundred Megaparcecs (Mpc), there's no more structure.

1. https://www.mdpi.com/galaxies/galaxies-07-00081/article_depl...

2. https://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/virgo/millennium/...
>I'm not sure I'm identifying the race they are referring to correctly (too many History Channel documentaries maybe). For example, I don't think the Hebrews are supposed to have had a homeland at that point in history.

The relationships between biblical accounts of pre-classical periods is necessarily shaky. The pre-kingdom parts of the bible read very much like mythology, metaphor and heroic ancestor tales.

That said, there are various points of intersection or allusion to actual known history. The migration of the Hyksos could relate to the biblical story of Joseph. It's basically an account of migration from Canaan to Egypt because of a famine. Like the article said, there do seem to have been migrations to egypt of various semitic people. The hyksos are the best known of them.

Exodus relates to a later period. It's a story of a semitic slave migration out of egypt, becoming an independent nomadic tribe in canaan, midia & sinai. Historically, egypt had just lost these territories and receded to its core territory. Among many chaotic things happening, egypt was in conflict with various barbarian tribes from these regions...

It's not that solid historical accounts from egypt confirm the biblical narrative. They make almost no reference to hebrews, escaped slaves, etc. But, the biblical account does make some sort of sense.
I hear this a lot, but I really don't get it. The ide is very responsive, when you are interacting with a design, exploring structure or connectivity, static timing analysis, etc.. Perhaps you are referring to synthesising RTL - yes thst is slow, but thats much slower with ASIC tools. Synthesis and PnR is a very cpu intensive task, and is separate from the GUI really. I'd be interested in hearing the specifics of what you found slow.
Language and Understanding
> I think your view is minority view.

It may be a minority view but only because of people's blind faith in a medical authority's ability to distinguish a patient's mind as 'abnormal'. What Barrin92 said is logically sound, an empirical diagnosis of the behavior coming from an individual is not a very precise measure of any type of chemical imbalance. That's not to say individuals suspected to have of mental illness shouldn't get treated, but that medical professionals shouldn't jump to medications as a primary end-all treatment (which is what I believe is what the linked article was trying to say).
Exactly. What's their goal with the new API? Will they continue to be hostile to Twitter app developers?

Years ago, they made a distinct choice to become a business/celebrity platform, and actively moved away from the utility it could have been. That move cemented my view of Twitter as a dead-end for technology.
Around 96% of world population is outside the US. Consider your biases indeed.
Lua SUID Shells – How to make SUID Lua scripts not drop privileges
For anyone who hasn't, would highly recommend. Railroad spikes are cheap and easy to hammer. Not great steel, but great for practicing metalwork.
Remedy is painfully obvious: make an example of Twitter and pass laws that holds platform operators liable. That should fix all sorts of security problems.
> When someone follows a link and it breaks, they generally lose confidence in the owner of the server.

Is it a bias I've developed or has anyone else realized just how many dangling links on microsoft.com? Redistributables, small tools, patches, support pages, documentation pages. I've recently found out when a link domain is microsoft.com I subconsciously expect it to be 404 with about 50% chance.
A little secret opinion of mine is that I think the global usage of rem instead of px is a fad. The only real argument I've heard is that the mobile devices have their own definition of it, and will thus optimize in their own way, but then again I see that benefit as being nearly non-existant and definitely not demonstrated.
Everyone in here bad mouthing Twitter is just feeding into the hype machine. This is why these garbage companies exist - they've convinced us they're all worth talking about when they're junk. The more we ignore them the more likely they go away.
Heard about ActivityPub the first time, just checked it out briefly. Ok it' some social networking protocol, how does it relate to write.as?
>If you're on the DAX or a politician, you're untouchable in Germany and lots of people inside and outside of Germany have no idea of how insanely corrupt the German government and their corporate buddies are.

This is obviously not true. There have been numerous uncovered political scandals in Germany that have led to politicians and managers loosing their job. Christian Wulff (Former German President), Guttenberg (former Defence Minister), etc.
I still cannot believe how unbelievably bad confluence's search is. It's embarrassing
I have been using Arch for a couple of years now. It simply provides so much freedom to the power-user.

1. Installing packages via pacman and AUR is much much easier than any other distro I have come across. Every now and then I see people around me using Ubuntu or CentOS banging their heads to figure out how to install the correct version of something very popular like nodeJS.

2. The Arch wiki is fantastic. Apart from all core things, it has a wealth of information about so many things that are not directly related to Arch itself. Reading the wiki is often more productive than reading the first stackexchange answers.

On the other hand, I have been hearing good things about Guix and NixOS. I will be happy if someone who has used both extensively points out why I should be moving to Nix.
It was CGI Federal (the US version of CGI) and QSSI (eventually bought by Optum part of UnitedHealth Group). CGI was the lead contractor and got it by low balling on the website. When CGI immediately got behind on project deliverables (2 years before launch) they started forcing all the people to work 7 days a week which immediately caused every good developer to leave. All that was left were the most inept H1B developers I've ever seen (some literally couldn't touch type). I joined 2 weeks before launch as a product consultant. There were basically no senior people working there at all. It was a bunch of middle managers and either inept H1Bs or fresh college students brought on as subcontractors. There is no way it could've succeeded in any alternative universe. Basically no one cared about the product at all, everyone only cared about their slice of the pie, and by everyone I mean the tens of different subcontracting companies and middlemen that were involved. The only reason CGI even lost the contract is because it was such bad publicity HHS had no choice. CGI ended up suing and I'm pretty sure they were given alternative contracts anyways. There was never any accountability for anyone involved. When I quit I made sure the next job I had wouldn't get close to government contracting.
Trash article with a clickbait title behind a paywall.
That would be extremely nice, but sadly I don't see it happening right now. Strange, since the EU has some major designers and suppliers of specialized equipment for the purpose. But maybe we can get a fab in Eastern Europe somewhere in the future. Don't know why you're downvoted.
If it uses the OS-bundled web browser what is the benefit of this over a PWA?
JavaScript Scope Fundamentals with Tom and Jerry
Respectfully, I could have been nasty but chose not to.

Again, who are you that your standards are worthy meeting?

The role of press is to exist.

The sooner you understand this then you’ll have a better appreciation for all press outlets even those you disagree with.
Naval construction history has odd connections too, as one might imagine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_armour
I consider myself ignorant here, but compared to what? In CPI or similar measures typically only Nordic countries come out ahead of Germany...
I was a VS+R# user for many years, but switched to Rider a few years back - I absolutely love it!

I was really sick of the constant slow-downs and occasional crashes in VS. Rider absolutely flies by comparison, and has been rock solid - I've only ever had a crash while testing out an EAP version. Oh, and edit-and-continue just works, whereas it's always been really flakey and slow in VS - that alone was a big productivity boost. Another thing is that JetBrains actually listen to what people want, and are constantly adding useful features that people ask for - by comparison, the VS feedback site feels utterly pointless, as Microsoft apparently ignore it, and instead only focus on adding more Azure integration (which BTW is also excellent in Rider!).

The styling takes a bit of getting used to if you've been using Visual Studio for a while, but try a different theme and give it a little time.

Rider is one of my favourite ever bits of software.
A fungus could clean oil spills and return life to Alberta's oilsands
You didn’t explain the concern.

Starting an investigation while the activity is on-going in an attempt to ascertain potential threats: fine.

Continuing an investigation for unfounded “concern” and curiosity’s sake after the activity stops and there was no crime committed: wasteful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_knife#Modern_use
From an overall perspective,

em: unit based on the font size of the element it is querying.

rem: unit based on the font size of the body element.

rem is helpful if you want to make an entire page scale uniformly if you change the base font size (imagine accessibility settings) while keeping the same proportions with padding to font size.

em is great for things like buttons where you may want to make one class for `button.cool-button{ padding: 1em; font-size: 14px; &.xl{ font-size: 20px;
}}` and then you can change the font size by setting the `.xl` Class on that button and the padding will go from 14px to 20px. One button, shared proportions.
Smooth-scrolling text on old character LCDs
DNS is a core service in Active Directory. It’s used for major service discovery. Hosts will also auto register themselves if you want that.

You don’t have to run it as your primary DNS server but it at least has to be delegated for your AD subdomain.
No,

Then close down NDK to anything that isn't Android relevant. <-- You are here.

https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
> why do you think it's a good thing that you're in an entertainment bubble?

For example, when I'm in the mood to watch sailing videos, I don't want to get bombarded with Taylor Swift's latest concert (which I have absolutely no interest in) in the recommendations. My interests don't necessarily align with what's "popular", and anything bubble-less will necessarily have the popularity of something as one of its inputs.

Compare that with news, where some events are important enough that _everyone_ should know about them (COVID-19, for example), local events affect you more, etc. There, the bubble is a hindrance to your situation awareness.

As for music, I mostly use Google Play Music for that, through which I have discovered a lot of new artists.
New to Product Management? Read Interview with Clement, Product Manager, Blend
Yes, because apparently for the MS hating crowd everything is fine when Google and others are is doing it.

How are you enjoying the BSD upstream updates done by Sony?
Is it just me or doesn't any of the examples work ?
RecordRTC: JavaScript library for audio, video, screen, and canvas recording
This reminds me of the different fungi that "eat oil spills":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23869741

And the research done by Paul Stamets (I think?)

EDIT: Why do you think that never took off?
There's good things about JIRA, and of course it needs to be configured and managed effectively to work for an organization. But it's so hard to configure consistently, and almost impossible to make it both flexible for various teams and have any sort of consistency across the organization. It's just so hard to manage. It's like Windows 10, in that there are at least 2 different interfaces to configure most things, and you just never build up the muscle memory to navigate to the right place. But it's even worse, because there's projects, issue types, issue state, swim lanes, form configuration and more, and it's a subjective decision to decide which of those are appropriate ways to configure. My mental model of JIRA is like 5 or 6 dimensions. Bitbucket integration is good, but god help you if you also use crucible and confluence which are good on their own but add more dimensions to your particular configuration of knowledge storage.

Maybe the user experience can be good if the org is big enough to have 2-3 people managing JIRA full time but I'd hate to be one of those 2-3 people.
What about the internet-using population? Supposedly only 60% of the world uses the internet whereas almost all of the US population does

https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-populatio...
Yes, but did they got to jail or have their earnings confiscated? Losing your job is not much of a deterrent when you've filled your pockets with bribes you get to keep and have a nice pension waiting for you while being put on the payroll as an external consultant to the $BIG_CORP you helped during your rule.
If you believe the story, the people who are pointed to were already being looked for for arrest. Don't buy the poor innocent narrative too quickly.

It just happens that their last actions affected powerful figures and the US government so they might actually be some real international effort to arrest them now.
Most designs and typography are referenced of a basic unit, the body font size. Setting that size once and using rem makes it easier to build out and change.
Sorry to hear it didn't go well for you the last time. I know a bunch of people who passed the interview process only in a later try.

I personally do 9-6, take my coffee breaks really seriously, sometimes to later work like reply to messages if I'm in the mood, and never (save for very very rare shitstorms) work on the weekend.

Teams vary, I've seen plenty of 9-5ers that make it work (some of them on my team). As you already pointed out, I also think younger people tend to overwork, and people with kids tend to reprioritize and go for a 9-5 schedule.

Since one gets to choose the team they join in Facebook (in contrast to being offered a job in a specific team) you get to choose a team that will fit your personality. This means you should pick a team not only based on their project, but also based on the people and the team's culture, and if you pick wrong, you can rather easily switch.
Agreed. For various reasons I often interact with (or befriend) people who seem to be into the typical weird beliefs that I know about (anti-vax, 5G, EMF, homeopathy, fluoride-in-the-water) and quite regularly I have the displeasure of being introduced to new ones.

A number of these people made a business out of 'helping' others who believed the same things. Most of the time my impression was that they really did do it from an honest conviction.

It makes sense, of course. If you believe something is true, making a business out of helping others within this belief system is pretty much what many of us do. If anything, it's at the very least more admirable than selling shit you know won't help others. It's just maddeningly misguided.

For example, a couple I met tried to sell some expensive woo-woo device to another friend of mine. Some other friends approached me to pool money so that we could buy this device for her birthday.

I'm convinced these friends meant well, the sellers meant well, and possibly the 'manufacturer' meant well too. It's quite possible that making this custom device was expensive.

I deflected by buying a nice book for her instead, but it was really difficult to keep from criticising. Thankfully, I was pretty sure enough of my other friends wouldn't participate and the gift wouldn't happen, so it was easier to just let things be.
I am glad the article got reposted and that the HN community had a chance to have this discussion.
> It's a pain to use when working with multiple (source independent) projects simultaneously. E.g. a library project and the main project. Eclipse lets you open anything you want to in the same window and presents them in the same explorer view.

That's a common confusion about IntelliJ.

Eclipse Workspace -> IntelliJ Project

Eclipse Project -> IntelliJ Module

In IntelliJ create an empty Project and import all your Maven or Gradle projects as Modules. Everything in one window :)
Co-CEOs Are Out of Style. Why Is Netflix Resurrecting the Management Model?
What's wrong with the Oxford English Dictionary's etymology for 'hobbit'?
Serious questions.

Which countries would you suggest for this?

Just the UK?
Renderization of Conic Gradients
Spoiler: It doesn't mention the word "client" at all. This is not going to bring back the features they took away in 2018.
A Tidy Analysis of Astronauts and Their Missions
I just switched Linux distro last night (Ubuntu to Fedora) and downloaded the latest Thunderbird (v78). I thought the oversized, cartoonish UI was something inherited from the Gtk or Gnome version shipping with the new distro (which oddly didn't affect other applications).

Now I can see it was a change in Thunderbird, and I hate it. It's so clunky, that when enabling Large Text in Gnome (to make things more legible on the 1080p 14in laptop screen) Thunderbird looks disproportionately large compared to every other application.
Sumologic: It works well, I don’t have to maintain it, and it’s not Splunk.
Behind the scenes, stashes _are_ branches! It's just UI on top of them, optimized for specific use case. You don't have to use it if you don't like it.

Now staging (aka index) is special behind the scenes, making the model more complex for Al users.