skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure this is going to sound silly, but I honestly still have trouble figuring out what value is contributed by managers and executives at all.

I can't get past the gut feeling that essentially the model hasn't changed for thousands of years: wealthy owner, boss with whip, wage slaves being watched over.

I mean I imagine a group of people who are actually competent and intelligent working together. Some people would have more seniority and power, but everyone is actually a useful worker there involved in the day-to-day work.

I feel like most managers I have had have spent the majority of their efforts trying to pretend that problems don't exist and reduce the amount of actual useful engineering work in order to push _anything_ out faster and cheaper. Or just basically telling people to hurry up.

That's why I think we had the Boeing crapshow. The guy at the top was actually good at doing what management actually is for most companies, like I described above. He avoided doing real engineering and got a product out. And then hundreds of people died. And still they tried to blame the engineers.

It actually comes down to a class struggle for me. Parasites without integrity have managed to work their way to the top while feeding off of the honest workers below.

Sorry I know it's kind of extreme but I am just being honest.
Maybe you just don’t like working? You wouldn’t be alone.
If anything, namespacing doesn't go far enough. We have a wonderful namespacing mechanism already for the Internet - it's called DNS. We use DNS validation as a security foundation for issuing TLS certificates. Package registries should allow me to "own a domain" - backed up by DNS validation - and upload packages under that name. "Domain ownership" should be paired to a timestamp issued at verification time, so that a) package uploading can be blocked entirely if the DNS verification is lost, b) consumers can continue to download packages under the old domain timestamp c) domain ownership can still transfer as needed d) changes in ownership are tracked, and consumers are notified.

Why does everybody always have to reinvent the wheel? DNS has been around for decades. Using DNS records to verify ownership has been around since, what, the early days of the ACME protocol in 2014/2015? Earlier?
The physical sciences have no less "old white man conjecture" in their history.
I think you meant he’s not a professional developer.

Professional being a person who gets paid to do work.

Clearly his development of software that is widely used is not in question.
Julia can be like Ruby [Twitter]
The cost of living in a city reflects its overall desirability: the job market, access to education, safety, and so on. If you're living in an amazing city where you have every amenity at your doorstep but a much higher cost of living -- then you should eat those costs in the same way you would moving to a better apartment. Conversely, why should someone in a --worse-- location have their salary --reduced-- to reflect the same ratios when they're not gaining the benefits of living in the more desirable location?

If I suddenly started living in a tent or sleeping on a park bench should my salary also be reduced to reflect the lack of rent and utilities I'm paying? What if I change my diet so I'm only living on rice and cans of beans? I could reduce my 'cost of living' there too. Better not pitch these ideas to VMWare. They might sell it as 'minimalism' and list it as a benefit.
love love love this as an end user - Homeland security is going to be your biggest battle.

Whenever I have luggage I need to store I walk up to the nicest 5 star hotel like I am checking in, give the doorman a $20 and tell him to take good care of it and I'll be back tomorrow / etc :)
I shifted to buying another brand that wasn’t owned by a mega-corp when I found out it was purchased. I wonder how common that is?
Julia Syntax Quiz [Twitter]
This was a fun talk on the RISC-V SERV bit serial CPU: https://diode.zone/videos/watch/0230a518-e207-4cf6-b5e2-69cc...
That was basically my experience, I wasn't given options only paid a normal salary ~25-30% higher to compensate me paying for my own health insurance, unemployment insurance, misc taxes etc.
I clicked in to see why would kubernetes helm would stop development without any indication all of a sudden.
Australian firefighers have said that every time they do controlled burns they receive mountains of complaints about smoke or about how hot debris burned holes in their garden shade. Also how the weather now leaves less and less time where burns can be safely done.
I think the actual principle at play is: Apple will charge what the market will bear. If Apple could successfully collect 80% of every transaction in the world, it would. Why not? Apple is not your priest, it's just a corporation trying to extract maximum value from its assets.
This. I've noticed Bluetooth quality issues, and they are always either

- The source is using low bitrates. SBC is a poor codec, but at the high bitrates (bitpool values) it should be used at it sounds perfectly fine.

- Just shitty hardware/DSP. If your Bluetooth speakers sound different over bluetooth than over line in, then the DSP/DAC processing going on in them is what is screwing up the audio, not the codec.

"High quality" Bluetooth audio codecs are largely a marketing scam to get patent royalties, because it seems that when a standard actually manages to mandate a royalty free codec (a rarity these days!) companies just can't help but try to jam patented nonsense down people's throats anyway. I'm sure some products even deliberately gimp SBC just to make proprietary alternatives sound better.
Emacs org mode helps with most of these steps.
For those unfamiliar with the alternatives, you can switch to ivy and counsel, it's pretty lightweight and a nice alternative. Works well with Doom Emacs and out of the box.
I'm confused... I have all my streaming available on my PC via web-browser. Was this created primarily for Linux users?
I have the same problem. I personally just chunk all my photos into albums like this

...
2019q4
2020q1
2020q2
2020q3
2020q4

it is too hard with 10+ years of photos to maintain all that metadata when many of them are from different operating systems / file systems so some times "sort by date" doesn't work.
Helm is a mess of code, I'd suggest it probably has become unmaintainable. Ivy is my preferred completion plugin.
Interesting, no details into why. Anyhow, for those who might want a replacement in case no one else picks up development for Helm, I highly recommend the Ivy package as an alternative in Emacs. I've always preferred it over Helm for being more minimal and speedier.
> I even thought about setting up my own Jitsi server and let them just Jitsi to it, then i thought it must be even harder than installing Skype.

Jitsi works in mobile web browsers and yes it can access camera
But unlike traditional namespace, that you automatically got alias to things inside the same namespace.

The npm's namespace is basically just a preserved prefix, mention scoped package inside another scoped package still requires you to write full name (scope + package) or it didn't work.

I don't really see a reason that you can't implement it in a flat name package manager? Something like "you can't publish a package named as 'USERNAME_private_WHATEVER' unless you are USERNAME"
Trick is to fluff up your product more.
It will be very crucial for the companies in the future that outperform existing ones by refusing to pay the cost of doing business in fiat currency, which is rather high.

This applies to pretty much any company that pays both accountants and developers, or that pays developers to communicate with accountants through an API.

The savings comes from the fact that a network of organizations, each with it's own private ledger, engaging each other via a set of tailor-made ad-hoc protocols is far far worse at reaching consensus about anything than a single protocol with a shared ledger is.
:)

Just an anecdote, and probably more on topic: Some western reporter changed her WeChat (Chinese chat app & more) password to fkCCP. 10 minutes later her account was deleted.
This title is extremely misleading and terrifying for a Friday night, since the most common "helm" tool is the Kubernetes one. To avoid further SRE/devops mini-heart-attacks the title should probably be updated.
Yeah, naming things is hard, talking about how things are named is even harder! hahah
From a global warming perspective, plastic bags are generally better for the environment because they are extremely light, therefore use less gas to ship. However, plastic bags often end up in nature, where plastic particles end up in animals and plants.
Well comparing the FPGA world to the programming world cannot get any meaningless. If you read up about the state of HLS tools as of today, you will find enough experts telling you that they're nowhere near finding actual use in the industry, most of them only end up taking away the control you have over the design and all of them use way more resources when implemented than HDLs.

On the other end you have beginners asking stupid questions like 'okay how do I print hello world using python on this FPGA?' instead of thinking about the digital logic design that goes into it. Which is why I discourage the beginners from using anything but HDLs.

If anything HLS can be a good tool for professionals who already know what they're doing and understand what they're giving up by using an inherently sequential (programming) language to model inherently parallel hardware. They are in a position to use it as a tool to rapidly prototype their design and make incremental improvements thereafter, not beginners.
I understand the sentiment to a point, but isn’t it essentially impossible to get diseases from deep sea isopods? If we should be exploring any unknown creatures, deep sea creatures seem relatively safe if you are aiming to avoid transmissible diseases.

Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t know much about this stuff.
Isn't that the fate of all new tech - to sell you something? :)
I'm not certain here. for the users that want the on the rails experience that Apple currently provides like the OP (seemingly), they'd still be able to do so. Meanwhile, someone that wants to download apps that wouldn't pass muster with the App Store rules (such as game streaming apps and, yes, Fortnite with Epic's payment system) would still be available to iOS users that would want them (personally speaking, would love xCloud and GeForce Now clients and would be willing to "unlock" the capability in Settings to do so if given the option).
How did you divide 70 in half and get 35?
Does your knowledge of Xinjiang and Tibet come from your own eyes, or from Western media propaganda?
Made the same assumption too.
"LC3 outperformed Opus at 32 kbps in their tests. But they used an old version (1.1.4) with encoding complexity set to 0."

So yeah, it seems they did one test at a low bitrate with an old encoder and poor settings and proclaimed it "better than Opus".
Then don't use non-Apple App Stores. You don't get to decide whether other people have a choice or not.
Popularity and familiarity certainly matters. When someone mentions Tesla most think cars not person despite the person coming first. There was also an iPhone before the Apple iPhone, but of course hardly anyone means the product meant by Linksys/Cisco.
Interesting- why are those good things? Or are they bad (sounds like you're saying I don't/shouldn't like them?)?

Also- are there defenses against physical seizure/confiscation under duress of e.g. the bit-coins used for Ethereum, built into the protocol? If not, how can it be free from government interference? Unless you're paying entirely for digital goods which can be delivered anonymously, wouldn't you still have to interact with the physical world at some point? Is the idea just that it makes it harder for the government to stop money laundering and so they'll hopefully give up?

I mean, look at your examples, Uber and AirBNB. They moved fast and made lots of money for themselves... And, what, changed the world? Eh, not really. As they matured, governments caught up with them, and now they're collaborating more and more. Uber and AirBNB aren't subversive anymore- they've done their disruption, had their fun, made their money, and now they're just another app. And looking at the bitcoin space, I see similar movements- miners are big conglomerates now, major exchanges roll out more and more invasive KYC protocols, the IRS releases guidelines describing how to declare these on your taxes...

You think AML enforcement won't be coming? "Hey, where'd you get that Ferarri?" "Uhh, well, somebody must have just accidentally sent the money to my Monero address, and it's untraceable so I can't send it back, so..."- you're not going to have a great time fighting that! Sorry if you can't handle the facts- but if you actually want to fight a government (whether or not that's a good thing for society) you should really think about what you're dealing with! In terms of enforcement, even a perfect privacy coin doesn't seem much harder for a government to handle than cash or precious metals.

The big exceptions are those working in areas where their local governments turn a blind eye- e.g. ransomware gangs. So, if you don't have to fear the government asking questions, but the people paying you might (or if you want the people paying you to not be able to find you), there could be a reasonable use case.
Nicely articulated. I’d never spent time poking in this rabbit hole, glad he’s spent time in the gutters that I’d consider a waste of my own.

I hate the littering of orbital space with satellites, but there’s a nice irony in satellites making the internet connections to spread flat earth crap.
A follow up issue[0]:

> Thanks so much for everything! #2388

Nice to see a positive response from the emacs community.

Helm only seems to have 15 issues, maybe it really is that close to complete for most people using it. I know I use helm and haven't thought twice about it.

[0]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2388
Is there some value to sorting even if it doesn't get recycled?

Like, if we're going to bury it all, maybe it's better sorted than all mixed together?
The "social sciences" include a lot. Wrt Sociology, I'd say one problem is the overemphasis on quantitative methods - they try to be as serious as the big boys.

The best sociological research I've read was qualitative though. Questionable replicability is of course built-in in this type of research but the research dealt with relevant questions. Most quantitative sociology seems rather irrelevant to me.

Another problem is of course that most quantitative sociologists don't have a clue what they are doing. They don't even know the basics of statistics and then use some statistical methods they don't understand. It's some kind of overcompensation, I think. Although, psychologists are even worse in this respect. It's really fun to watch an psychologists torturing SAS.

I write this as someone who was originally trained as sociologist and over the years turned into a data scientist.
And the longer you wait the harder it is to do safely.
It's a very good policy, I wish they'd follow it for their own systems.

To download free apps off the Mac app store I need to set up an account and provide Apple with an email address, physical address, and phone number. Apps like the Wireguard GUI don't have access to necessary system APIs outside of the app store, so the developers have no way to allow users to sidestep giving Apple that information.

I'm forced to use the command line interface from Brew and mess around with network interfaces on my work laptop just because I refuse to give Apple my phone number and home address, even though Wireguard is free and no billing/payment information would be required for me to download it, and even though having an Apple account is completely unrelated to their sandboxing goals or the information that the app needs to run.

Bonus points for telling me I'm providing my phone number "for security purposes" but providing no option during signup to use a secure 2FA app instead of SMS.
Try half that salary for jobs in Australia and you might have more luck.
"I find that policy entirely acceptable"

There's a difference between policies that we agree with, and policies that should be policy.

I think in this context, the real policy should be regulatory, and it shouldn't allow Apple to even have such a policy or forbid anything.

Apple should be allowed to discriminate in their own garden, and/or to rate or group apps based on various factors.

So an app that 'requires social sharing and to make a review' receive a negative quality score ranking etc. - but otherwise - 'informed users' can make their own choices.
When you allow additional app stores, you encourage companies--like, say, Epic Games--to convince people who do not understand the ramifications or the threats involved with opening up past a rigorous review process to do so. And Epic isn't going to be following behind for the newly-credulous when they pick up another one and it's full of dangerous shitware.

Somebody who wants to not use the App Store can buy an Android device. It's fine. It's fine.
Bitcoin sees highest trading volume in 118 days’

Yesterday’s volume of $54,406,443,211 was the highest in one hundred and eighteen days, 138 percent above last year’s average, and 26 percent below last year’s high. That means that yesterday, the Bitcoin network shifted the equivalent of 871 tons of gold.

https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2020/09/11/satoshi-nakaboto-...
For those who have read “Bad Blood”, which details the fraud and unethical practices behind Theranos, this deeply comprehensive account of Nikola feels like deja Vu. I wonder if the same power dynamics are in play here as well, making the truth hard to recover from those close to it while an incompetent news industry continues primarily writing positive headlines that enable the fraud.
If you're talking about people who already know atleast one of digital design or firmware design (writing bare metal drivers etc) then your advice makes sense. But if I were a beginner trying to understand how digital logic design works, the whole Processor + Programmable logic and the complex interfaces between them can overwhelm me and take me away from exploring the base digital logic that is implemented. It will be a much more enjoyable experience to create something in the programmable fabric first and then think about how you can interface it with normal software.
Yup, that’s why I clicked
WorldBrain's Memex – Why we deprecated the history search
I sometimes have to pit one drive against another; putting the distractions first, but not eating that day until I'm completely done with that distraction, such as gaming 'n surfing. I would guess that this is unlikely to work for drugs that are serotonin mimics or alcohol, however; since the latter dis-inhibits, and also affects judgement and memory.
Simply shocking for a company that closed a $123MM Series A that in June, led by Lightspeed.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/10/ns8-raises-123m-led-by-lig...
Apple's policies are starting to read like governmental regulatory documents, and their internal process like an opaque, private Judicial system.

This is not good for us in the long run.

We need a new version of the FCC that's smart enough to engage lightly for the most part, but heavily and smartly where necessary in this new digital age.
I don't buy the poll, at all. When I move SSH off port 22, I don't get 50 percent traffic. I get 0 percent. It's the first thing I do to harden any server.
That's true, and also what the authors say, but anyone who has encountered a raccoon knows they are thieves.
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Bandwidth is pretty cheap. You could fetch the most common million host names every 24h.

For longer tail stuff, you could use buckets. Cluster domains so only a few or ideally a single buckets need to be fetched. But make sure every bucket has multiple clusters.

"Give me the recipes and porn bucket please"
My last month's online job to earn extra dollars every month just by doing work for maximum 2 to 3 hrs a day. I have. joined this job about 3 months ago and in my first month i have made $12k+ easily without any special online experience. Everybody on this earth can get this job today and start making cash online by just follow details on this website.........http://xurl.es/money84
That only works for relatively popular projects though.
You can even use gnu/hurd, the way gnu/Linux naming was trying to be specific about. https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
I didn't see that, thanks.
That’s too bad. Once I discovered helm, that was a complete game changer for how I used Emacs.

Guess I’ll still hang on as a user, and see how it pans out over time.
In my opinion, the article misses the point: Security by obscurity might be beneficial, but it is by no means as strong as real security. So the problem is, that people who take the obscurity road, might not care so much about the rest.

Security by obscurity is simply a completely different class, comparable with dollars and cents. So if you care about security would you rather focus on the dollars or on the cents?
So which is it? Are the laws unenforceable in the face of this 13-year-old technology, or are they enforceable but unpopular (and if so, why deal with all this cryptocurrency stuff instead of just lobbying hard to change unpopular anti-money-laundering laws directly?)

There was a reason Poloniex pulled out of the US last year, right? What was that reason?

And remember- if your paycheck depends on this technology- or, particularly, if you hold lots of cryptocurrency- it's easy to be willfully naive about its potential.
I think you are right. I started using linux about 6 years ago and I have never really had an issue with pulse audio. I have had loads of headaches trying to get JACK working which really shows me how smooth PA is to use.
Most common for you. I’ve never even heard of that thing.

But yeah, if the title can be more specific, that can’t possibly hurt anyone.
and of course it doesn’t help that the Bluetooth devices themselves, even so-called high end ones, have speakers/drivers that are just laughably bad.

The protocol and encoding doesn’t really matter, you could feed in 192/32 way and it would still sound bad.
Show HN: WebGL Rubik's Snake
I can't load Intelij, Xcode, Xamarian, JVM, etc on my iPhone or my PlayStation "without a lot of effort".

What is your definition of "general" that makes one of them general, and the other one non-general?

To me the only reason an iPhone seems to be "general purpose" is because the "number of developers has reached some critical mass and wants it to be". Which seems like putting the cart before the horse.

Sanity Test: Should my microwave be a "general purpose" device because it is built with a Raspberry Pi and a touch screen?
Some problems are hard and there is no good solution but only solutions that suck less than others. Imo pulseaudio and systemd are in this category. So it's easy for haters to find faults in them.
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Hello HN!

I finally finished my quarantine project. It's a tribute to a classic toy I grew up with, the Rubik's Snake!

I made an interactive 3D model of the snake that you can play with. Use the arrow buttons to navigate and rotate each block. (You can also use arrow keys on your keyboard.) Once you made a shape, you can hit the camera button to submit and it will appear in the gallery. It will also save your shape to the URL so you can share the custom link. I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with!

Would love to hear any comments or feedback! Thanks!