skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off the top of your head, do you recall any stories of "I had a bad case of Covid and am 100% now"?

I think there is an assumption that if you contract something that puts people in the ICU, you should expect your life to be permanently altered by it. I suspect that assumption is helping mute attempts to collect and quantify that data.
> I have been here for over half a decade now with some success. However, I now feel woefully under-experienced compared to my peers and sorely need mentorship.

It would be best to first understand why this is bothering you. You've been there for 5+ years already so I guess if you weren't good, you wouldn't make it that long.

- Are you having problems talking with other engineers because they look down on you? Is it a recent thing?

- Or are you burned out by the current company/type of work? (normal after so many years)

- Or are you afraid you'll be unable to find a new job if the company lets you go?
How Covid-19 is changing the English language
HitClips – The Truth Behind the Toy
They trained it on freely available datasets managed by nonprofits as somebody mentioned.

Powerfull infrastructure can be democratized in similar way that SETI@home, cryptocurriencies and other P2P projects do it.

In theory this can be done.
>Is the host going to a funeral after recording the podcast with no time to change?

I've seen your comment go from heavily downvoted (I didn't downvote it) -- to upvoted.

To me, your comment seems mean-spirited and detracts from anything else positive that can be said about the actual content of the interview.

Personally, it didn't occur to me to be bothered by the business suit. For others that agree with gp's funeral comment and upvoted it, can you explain what bugs you about the outfit?

Is the attire signaling pretension?!? If you weren't aware, some of his other videos show how insecure he is with his place in life and how his accomplishments don't compare to those he admires. He's not a pretentious guy. The business suit just seems like a consistent "visual identity" since he goes on the road for interviews. He doesn't have a full studio and the "star power" to attract guests to his home location.

EDIT to reply: "> I was always taught it was disrespectful to wear a black tie because it's reserved for people grieving."

Interesting. I've been to several Catholic/Protestant/Jewish funerals and have never heard of that etiquette rule. I've also seen non-grieving people wear black colored ties to business meetings and formal dinners. Some like the "Men in Black" look.
Blame cacheability. Landing pages should load at breakneck speed, so everyone dumps static content to a CDN and never makes a trip to a DB.
If your user experience pisses off users you'll get knee jerk reactions.
It's already ad-free if you use uBlock Origin. And so is the rest of the internet.
WP is useless without CDN and caching.
WPD?
>Well in the example they are procuring and preparing to use a gun.

The example mentions a gun, but does not mention that it was procured for the purpose of committing murder. At least in the US, having a gun (there are more guns than people here) by itself isn't very remarkable.

If, however, the gun was procured specifically for that purpose, it could be construed as an overt act.

Alternatively, if someone retrieved the gun from a storage facility (as was suggested by another commenter) for the purposes of committing murder, that would still be an overt act.

ISTR a case where a woman contracted with someone (who turned out to be police acting on a tip from the owner of a website that claimed to put folks in touch with hit men) to kill her husband[0].

Just asking someone to do so wasn't enough. The police had to get the woman to commit an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy (in that case, paying the undercover cop).

[0] https://www.wxyz.com/news/monroe-county-woman-arrested-for-t...
Having gone from a very leftist upbringing, to indulging in right wing conspiracy theories, and back to left leaning political views, I would say this article is pretty accurate. As you navigate these different “realities”, it feels like you are entering worlds with very different sets of facts, axioms, and emotional responses. Understanding or changing other people’s viewpoints is virtually impossible, and people are quick to chalk others opinions down to being uneducated, or stupidity. This will quickly create a divide that is even harder to cross. I’ve been wondering if there’s any way to help alleviate these conflicts, but all I can think of is if we collectively don’t give a shit about whatever we’re arguing about. But the problem is that maintains the status quo.
No, the one labeled default is one notch higher on the more space continuum than exact 2x Retina (at least on the 13 and 15” MacBook pros). On other machines, like my iMac, the default notch is exactly 2x Retina. Check out my screenshot and do the math yourself. “Looks like 1440x900” is the default notch, which means rendering at 2880x1800, which is higher resolution than the MacBook Pro 13’s 2560x1600 screen.
All very true! My story is from about 10 years before Randal's, but it was after the CFAA was passed so I guess I dodged a bullet.
Usually if you say you don’t like the app it won’t direct you to the App Store but will just ask for feedback within the app. It’s much less disruptive than saying “yes” and getting switched to the App Store.
I have a theory that people like those sort of white noise sounds due to plesant memories associated to them
I think you are right.
For me it's Star Trek TNG :)
How I’m reading that is modern web devs are awful at doing their job.
Same here, Safari on iPhone
You're making a subjective judgment here on the quality of these critics though. I mean it's Rolling Stone, the biggest music magazine of all time. These lists come out roughly once a decade, so a lot of consideration is going into them.

Just because you disagree with the ranking doesn't mean that they don't know their stuff or weren't rigorous about it. If you really don't like this list, show me a better one, and I'll show you a list whose editors just happen to agree with your tastes more than the editors of the Rolling Stone list does.
I do when I'm trying to operate on it with other code (e.g. compile it - equivalently render the gui). Typically you parse it into a syntax tree.
> Down the line, those needs include accessibility, a serious Achilles heel for imgui-flavored designs in particular.

Thank you for drawing attention to this. I spent a good chunk of last weekend pondering how accessibility might be added to IMGUI toolkits, and I do think it would be difficult. In particular, as you said:

> I believe a proper approach to this problem involves stable identity of widgets, about which much more below.

Agreed. In platform accessibility APIs such as UI Automation, each node has an identity ("runtime ID" in UIA) which is expected to be stable. One of the IMGUI toolkits I looked at was Nuklear, and I didn't come up with a way to derive stable identities for its widgets. On the other hand, Gio [1] (an immediate-mode toolkit for Go) looks more tractable, because the application holds a struct for each widget's state. Still, in an accessibility API like UIA, even simple static text nodes are supposed to have stable identity; I don't know how that would be solved with something like Gio.

[1]: https://gioui.org/
Was Bill Gates' mugshot photo used in 2010 as a template for Outlook contacts?
Anyone noticed the reference "A colossal task!" in that Wonder Woman strip? (In 1948 this was highly classified.)
> people like those sort of white noise sounds due to pleasant memories associated to them

I prefer white noise to silence because it drowns out the tinnitus (which is bad enough that it's present even over normal TV volumes of quiet dialogue.)

Actually, I prefer a bunch of the tinnitus stuff on MyNoise but same principle.
Eh, try two clicks previous on "previous"; have yikes.xbm at the ready, esepecially if you make it to the comments..
There's an interesting link in these UI patterns: Code clarity and performance.

For example, comparing a virtual DOM model with manual UI changes: Deliberate UI changes, if done well (The article mentions they're often not) are faster... at the expense of losing the elegant model of declarative UI. VDOMs conduct many more operations than are required, but allow you to describe how the UI should behave elegantly.

As the article mentions, Svelte is a cool approach that attempts to reconcile this. Personally, I wrote a React/Elm-like WASM framework in Rust. After stepping back, I'd only use something like that for complex, non-performance-critical UIs. In embedded or simple websites, that sort of overhead isn't appropriate, even though it leads to nice code.

I think we'll be able to dodge this compromise soon. Maybe with something like Svelte, or maybe with a different approach.
Facebook is the biggest piece of junk on the internet right now. The most corrupted company, Facebook is 10 times worst than any backed up communist company in China.
This is how Discord works and it’s really great there. Anyone can start chatting with just an invite link.
You mean, like:

https://gravitational.com/teleport/
My favorite is still, with `sox` installed, some variation on

play -q -n -c1 synth whitenoise lowpass -1 400 lowpass -1 300 lowpass -1 200 lowpass -1 100 gain +10

and tweaking the number of `lowpass` filters and their values appropriately
Ok (although this isn't reddit yet): Tomorrow Never Knows (Chemical Brothers' breakbeat, just 30 years earlier), A Day in the Life, Helter Skelter, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey and I Want You (She's So Heavy). What would you draw in your sketchbook?

BTW, I also miss say Hot Rats in this rag, no King Crimson either, but then there's Ege Bamyasi, Kimono My House and Different Class which are favourites of mine and hadn't noticed before.
You can have backdoor keys for the root account that you configure during provisioning. The use of these keys/account would trigger a security alert and only be for break glass scenarios. Other situations would use LDAP stored keys for authn/authz and LDAP stored sudo rules for additional authz.
> but they are obviously self-aware creatures.

Is it that obvious? Mine gets scared by her own farts sometimes.
> Dark-Mode first because your eyes are worth it

Dark mode is actually worse for your eyes. There are plenty of studies that have shown bright text over dark background is less readable and produces eye strain.

Also reading bright text over black is painful for people with astigmatism.

Obviously people don't like going from dark to bright but that happens precisely because of dark mode being so popular.

At the very least, if you're going to follow the trend of having a dark mode you should provide a light mode (which this site does). Either have some sort of switch or use CSS to determine the OS setting.

I've been using dark mode in my code editors since 2011 or so and went back to light mode recently. I'm certain dark mode was a detriment to my eyes as I've been able to go back to my old glasses too.
Statements like "I'm curious what makes your opinion worth anything" come across as more aggressive than curious. FWIW I've been a professional programmer for many years and write code every day, though not as much as I'd like to.
> beauty has levels of objectivity.

Can you make this more concrete for me? What are the concrete levels of objectivity as applied to the judgment of quality of musical albums? The thing about objectivity is you can define what you're talking about very precisely, i.e. "This angle on this triangle is 72 degrees" is an objective statement (subject only to measurement error). I'd love to see some similar statements about how we can make objective statements on the beauty or quality of music.
Agree with you there. I have seen so many times that people leave meetings without understanding what was concluded and what to do next. I try to be the person that ask questions if I don't understand what is agreed upon or if I "feel" that others don't understand. In the startup I'm in right now we try to build a culture where asking questions and taking a moment to think and talk if someone "feels" something is off is appreciated.
It already does on top of Hiper-V.
There are at least two things I think differentiate human intelligence from other animals. One is the size of the brain. Just from this difference there is probably no way for a pigeon to ever reach human level intelligence.

The other part is perhaps more interesting. For much of human history I'm not even sure that humans could solve sokoban puzzles. In fact if you raise a human without social contact I suspect he would not be able to do it. This appears to indicate that we now have something in our environment (quite possibly what we call language) that allows us to be much more intelligent with the same DNA. Can other species with the same kind of brain complexity/power develop this? That's a very interesting question. This story [1] appears to indicate that at least raising other species as humans doesn't appear to work, but to me, this doesn't mean that there is no way of getting them to our level of intelligence, just that they don't have the same communication tools we do.

[1] - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/guy-simultaneously...
Thank you. Usually I just extend youtube with similar themed video on one of the screens.
I have to be careful which one I use as a lot of them make me sleepy. Example being that Live Norwegian CAM, which makes me go from wide awake to lullaby sleepy in minutes.
We're definitely working in the dark, but i don't see any compelling reason to suggest that ants aren't self-aware; why wouldn't they be? What about their behavior makes you feel like they aren't?
Universities skipping GRE requirement due to Covid -19: Bigger trend in play
To quote six-months-ago-me, yes, curtailing spread through quarantine and hygiene is our principle tool, "for the duration of the epidemic, or until such time as any control is utterly futile" and recognises "Epidemiological response is about reducing vectors, contacts, reservoirs, and susceptibility, as well as second-order risks. Limiting movement, enhanced disease monitoring, contacts-tracing, quarantine, free treatment, mandatory vaccination (if available), financial aid and intervention to individuals, businesses, and the financial sector (in that order)".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22528060

It's possible for diseases to drop below the noise floor or sustaining transmissiion (plague, hantavirus), or for mutual evolution to reduce severity (rhinoviruses, influenza). Vaccines will likely be the long-term resolution, but this likely remains 2+ years off by optimistic estimates (WHO, Bill Gates).

I consider a fair probability that an eendemic state will be the new normal.
Am I mistaken? The author notes in alternative solutions that the alternative solution is a single point of failure and that is a problem.

Is the CA not a single point of failure also?

I agree with one users comment, ansible can solve all of this too...
I really don't care much about the desktop wars thing, but if there's one thing that I honestly thing this is it:

In the desktop wars nobody has really won, but all the users have lost.

GNU/Linux on the desktop has improved a lot, but it's still very far from being good.

Mac OS is very good, but it's extremely expensive because of the hardware.

Windows was very good for desktop but had stability problems. Nowadays Windows is just awful for the desktop user, Microsoft is literally conducting a war against its own users.

Just tonight my father in law was complaining because he couldn't find the solitaire app. Turns out that my gf installed the binary of the previous version because the stock windows one was filled with advertising. Windows update had different opinions, and REMOVED A BINARY THAT THE USER HAD SETUP BY HAND.

It literally: either you do computing the way Microsoft tells you, or you don't do computing at all. Microsoft literally removed a binary off the system.

Unbelievable. I wonder if I could sue Microsoft over that. It's borderline sabotage. They removed a binary that the user installed by hand, knowing what they were doing.
That's so fun!

Having a background rhythm makes it a lot easier to create a decent groove.
MAUI is what you're looking for.
Oh, and another good story from when I still had the same boss. A few years later I thought I would prank my office-mate (and show how easy it was to spoof email headers). This was back in the days with SMTP didn't have any security. From a hallway computer (not directly traceable to me), I composed a "You're Fired!" email from my boss to my office-mate. My office-mate had an east-European surname that was easy to misspell and I did. So the email bounced back to my boss and my office-mate never saw it. My boss knew right away who was responsible. He laughed.
I’m using Ansible for this for my personal servers on a small scale, but revocation is pretty easy for me. I have all keys I want to distribute in my Playbook and I remove all authorized keys from the server and write only the ones in the playbook.
A phone with less than 700px width in 2020? The sites I work with have small screens at around 1000-1200 px width. 700 is more like a wap feature phone..
This is so "true" that there's even a realistic generator:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
I won't argue that young people are turning away from guitar-based rock, but I'm not seeing the connection between that and the changes in the popular music machine. Are you implying that people would not have liked guitar-based rock this entire time if not for said machine? That the natural state of things, which we're now reverting to, is to prefer other types of music? I think it's more just that tastes change and go through cycles, and guitar-based rock is on the decline (and might or might not recover; there are so many dead dead dead musical genres and instruments out there).
Great you are reaching out for mentorship. Great move. Some of the best moves I made in my career I also felt woefully out of my depth - scared even, but it stretched me and I grew. You'll be amazed at what you can do. But you've been in your current position for 5 years, you should be more confident by now. Why is it you still feel under-experienced. Are you talking about your field of software engineering, or the field of financial services. It is ok to not be an expert in financial services industry, you are there because of your software skills. So continue to learn and grow in software engineering. If you don't have the passion to learn about financial services in your spare time, then I'd look for a job at different company. Life is too short not to absolutely love what you are doing at work.
They are a protected group under the ADA in the US.
Smallstep has done a few blog posts of doing this simply using their tools.
Musicmap: The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres
Does anyone remember Stardock's WindowBlinds from around the same time?
I'm pretty sure it included a Mac theme in the installer?
Or at the very least Stardock provided a place you could go to after installation to download more themes of which a Mac theme was one.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is, I'm not entirely convinced this is the deal it's made out to be as there were other companies out there with the same or similar offerings.
Extreme self-abnegation.
Twenty years ago Rainbow Tables didn't exist. Philippe Oechslin published his paper explaining them in 2003. Hellman's improved time-space trade-off is older, but the actual Rainbow Table, popularly used to attack Windows hashes, dates only to Oechslin's paper.

The claim is that the hash is from an offline SAM. Windows by that era has an encrypted SAM file, so when it isn't running the raw hashes are actually encrypted with RC4.

In principle 128-bits of RC4-enciphered data is useless. RC4 is not good encryption by 2020 standards (nor indeed in 2010) but it's enough that if the 128-bits is from an encrypted SAM they're useless. But the trouble is that tools to decrypt the SAM certainly did exist in 2010.
I always answer yes and give a one star rating. An app that tries to game the system (and likely breaks the stores rules) deserve it.
This is especially interesting as a study in just how wrong Wikipedia can be.
Escaped Drone vs. 208 Rockets – The Battle of Palmdale(1956)
you can read the threads on usenet at that time:
March 20, 1985 is the launch of GNU emacs -
first "clean" version of emacs is July 15, 1985

Fen Labalme message: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/Vxp_Is2A5Cs/l6AmKi...

Unipress message about the "portions of the
GNU Emacs program are most definitely not public domain"
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/net.emacs/ZmwEvkr9Jfs/...

RMS explaining what code he used:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/eyFgYVrEe0Q/Avxp17...

and then some more discussions:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/DRVCmoISBEU/efLdK-...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/PXHNtn7v4Rc/OFi1Ef...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/-2IaisY2N0Q/r4Fd9N...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/dytp5TT-02I/zUI4Ul...

and one from GvR
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/HJOjV7_2cyY/Bm6oUm...

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/net.emacs/ilF9KtBimCk/WwO5NS... has the cost of getting an EMACS tape from RMS
"GNU Emacs can be obtained from anyone who has a copy or by sending $150 payable to me"

On old emacs source code: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-history
Weekly World News – Tabloid Relaunch Celebration
Also, there's a ton of modern approaches to fission that just work and can supply our energy needs for at least another 1000 years with arguably less environmental impact than solar panels.
Basic navigation with keyboard/gamepad is a trivial case compared to screen reader accessibility and navigation. Take a look at the Windows Narrator keyboard shortcuts [1] like "Next Heading" or "Go to next landmark/region" or "Read row header" - these require integration with the system UI framework or the accessibility APIs directly to provide extra semantic information about what's drawn on screen.

Even with integration into system accessibility APIs, Narrator (and other screen readers) performs a lot of heuristics to improve the user experience. These heuristics depend on a separate tree data structure [2] and how it changes over time, so in order to implement even the most basic accessibility, IMGUI would have to retain that information instead of throwing it away every frame. Component identity is crucial to how most (all?) screen readers work today and it's a happy accident that it also allows an efficient hybrid retained-immediate mode architecture.

I don't know if it has been fixed or not, but a year or two ago you could completely nuke the Windows screen reader just by assigning React components randomly generated keys so that the DOM nodes would be destroyed and recreated every redraw.

[1] https://dequeuniversity.com/screenreaders/narrator-keyboard-...

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/inspe...
Documenting Fastboot OEM Commands
GeoWrite – 9: Keyboard Handling – pagetable.com
> Ad-free YouTube is a glorious experience.

I get this for free using AdGuard Home[1] that blocks ads at the network level. It's great.

[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome
I see mentorship as an excellent shortcut to self-improvement, as it is a good way to quickly get quality feedback. But finding people that you can model works as well. I've personally learned a lot just looking at how other peers approached problems. If you work in an environment where there is no true role model, you often end up becoming the role model yourself, as you decide on what is important or not. At this point, the internet is your community, and if you work with your office's door closed, you might dig yourself into a hole.
> We are generally prioritizing people with a specific application they'd like to build.

Why?