skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't read your profile at first. Sometimes they don't even read it at all before contacting you.

They search for keywords, and rely on the search algorithm prioritisation and a good looking one-line summary of your profile to pick you out of pages of search results.

They'll find your "IDA Pro" if that's in the list of terms they are looking for, no matter how deeply it's buried in the description of your past jobs. If they don't read your profile they might not even know that it's buried.
let me give it a try :)
The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
Since the advent of fast Internet, software quality has gone so far downhill it hurts. Unlike almost all current graduates I'm old enough to know the "old world" - back when I had my first computer, patches were either unheard of at all (cartridges with mask ROM programming) or had to be distributed on CD-ROMs - so software vendors were all but forced by the realities of the market to do proper QA and deliver a product / game that was reasonably bug-free.

These days? It's usual to have games that require multi-GB patches upon release day and for weeks if not months afterwards. It's common wisdom to avoid new OS X releases for at least half a year until Apple and the software vendors (Adobe!) ironed out the worst critical bugs - and that's despite many months of pre-release collaboration between Apple and the biggest vendors. The entire culture of making and delivering software is rotten because QA is seen as a pure "cost center" instead of avoiding actual cost of shipping physical replacement items to angry customers.

Sorry, but without raising a stink when corporate entities fail at basic QA the situation won't ever change and I'm sick of playing the free beta tester for multi billion dollars worth corporations that could afford proper QA.
Bring back the personal website already!
There are different explanations, but the original one (zero-point energy) is very heuristic, involving operations with infinity. There are more physical explanations in terms of physical EM interactions (van der Waals forces), see https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0503158.pdf
Yes. I don’t take care of myself the way that I should, and if I let that continue on for more than a week or two I get depressed.

I moved to an area with some pretty foul weather (month-long stretches of rain or snow every day are not uncommon), and that has made things worse since my primary source of exercise and probably my greatest joy in life is the outdoors.

But even when I was living in a sunnier climate I would frequently drift in and out of bouts of depression.

I am lucky to have a wonderful family who put up with me in the good times and the bad. I just wish I could be a better person for them.
Awesome design. Does it have a hidden metal rails and some electronic for moving or is it all manual?
I think we need some meaningful section 230 reform, but I'm not sure if that's even possible at this point. I wrote this the other day:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/is-meaningful-section-230...
> This is just the beginning.

A vaccines to eradicate smallpox was discovered in 1796. Since then 1 (one) eradicating vaccine has been produced.

I'd assume, in agreement with the headline, that the value of CRISPR has already been identified. That's how biological breakthroughs historically are.
> After a few drinks, many have voiced a fear of there being so many options in life and not knowing which would be more fulfilling for them.

They better get used to it, because that is life :)
You can write in big letters "We're volunteers working on this project for free, don't request things, ask nicely", have a notice to ask people to never write us in private, more notices about "if you don't pay, we probably won't prioritize you" and "we don't have unlimited time, if you really want something fixed, fix it yourself or pay someone to fix it" and STILL people will ignore all the notices.

After a couple of years of politely declining, it gets tiring. It's OK to ignore people. It's not rude at all! I care more about my own free time (that I spend writing open source software) than I care about being polite to people ignoring instructions and expecting us to work for free FOR THEM.
>×The web browser should then allow the user to create one and upload it

Your average user is not going to open a command prompt and dig into Openssl. There are (or were, I haven't used them for a decade) browser-specific APIs for generating private keys locally, but they were very flakey, and the whole UX was very confusing for users.

And after this, the user can only sign in on the machine in which the key was created. Your average user will not have a clue how to move certificates and keys around between machines.

I have direct experience with this. Back in 2008 I led a team building an extranet site, and we used X.509 client certificate authentication. We had to build our own tooling for management of the PKI, which was no small task. But ultimately it was key creation and certificate distribution that were the biggest problem - our users absolutely hated the signup process, as well as the fact that they couldn't later signin on another machine.
No one in the Texas election had any connection to the state DMV. It was either federal positions or local elections, but nothing with a material connection in state offices.
the aclu was pretty much built out of support from the jewish community and jewish lawyers who understood that free expression is the strongest protection any minority has against the state and will of the of the majority. the rights i enjoy today exist in a large part because of their tireless work and they have my eternal gratitude.
bad ideas never go away, though the words and the arguments for them may change. we cannot censor away the problem, the only defense is a vigorous and open forum of debate where everything can be challenged.
Briffault's law, once girl doesn't have any benefits from relationship, she leaves, simple as that.
i think the gatekeeping involved is more personality type. learning vim/emacs is kind of like learning to play minecraft. you either have to really want to, or on the receiving end of peer pressure. as an emacs user who’s never gotten into vim, I definitely am going to try this ‘vim tutor’ someday when I have some time to kill.
Yes, probably. The data I trained on mostly reflects UK and US accents.
> this one is way too Apple apologetic for my taste.

I'm not surprised. Apple fanatics routinely deny evidence to support their sorta-religion.
Why half a decade? They just have to buy new equipment. The know-how remains.
Me and my friends learned with Vim first (not really a choice, our exams were basically on fresh installs). One of us got into SublimText quite fast (with modal editing too, using vintage), while another went into vim scripting and python, and another with neovim.

It was our first year, i don't think we even finished our Posix shell project at that time, so our knowledge of vim's binding was very limited, as we spent less than 6 month on it. But this was really comfortable, and even the two people of our group that learnt to code prior with the Java IDE got hooked with modal editing, vim or not. Because once you've learned how to use it, it is just more comfortable. I still know how to use ctrE and ctrlA and basic shortcuts present with every IDEs, but the `find ", move one right, delete all util next "` i don't, and i'm pretty sure is not the same on Atom or Netbeans, and since i've already learned the superior `ri"` (replace inside ""), i don't understand why i should learn more complex shortcuts.

I mean, even `delete from this word until the end of the line` i'm pretty sure won't be the same within two editor (you'll have to find the word with control f, place a mark wich differ depending on the editor, CtrlE, then either place a second mark or delete from the first mark? i guess?). I like consistency and not having to place mark and think on "how will i do that".

I'm not saying modal editing is better, i think it's just like learning to use a new tool. Let's say you want to add floorboard in your house. You know how to use a circular saw (everyone does), so you use that, and that's okay and probably enough. I've learned how to safely and correctly use a radial saw however, and will rather use one if i have the choice. It's not better inherently, i'm just lazy and i find using a radil more comfortable (as long as i have earplugs available).
I think it depends on your style of using devices. I am on my PC 99% of times, so I have access to a full-sized keyboard, so I can type longer messages with no issue. But on a phone, typing anything longer than few sentences is a miserable experience, so people prefer to just use voice messages and say what they want to say.
It seems to me that the issue with this approach is that those commercial OSs have to deal with a way more diverse audience than NetBSD and even Linux.

While most of Linux's audience (and probably practically all of NetBSD's) is rather technically inclined and could possibly be expected to turn on the security features as they need them, most of Windows' and macOS's audience will very likely have no idea that there is even an option to do this.

Also, software companies would probably take the easy route and just assume that since those features aren't enable by default, most people don't enable them and develop their software in a way which could be incompatible with them.

So I think that for an OS like macOS, where most people flock "because it just works and has no viruses", strict defaults are a sane choice. Having people go through hoops and click through warning messages would probably also push companies to better design their software.

In the end, I think the best way is for such features to be the default setup. But those OSs need to have an "escape hatch" for someone who actually wants those features disabled and actually understands the risks of disabling them. While macOS does (for the moment) have this hatch, it looks maybe /too/ complex. But then I think the difficulty of the exercise is in setting the "correct" level of complexity for this operation.
How many false positives are possible with bloom filters? In the described use case, you don’t want even one.
And do you think individual contributors have access to that kind of metric? And if so, would the 27% not represent a team effort?
OR, you wrote the software that you don't need or use it yourself specifically with the intention to make money selling support and customization and released it as open source because you want to get users who use it for free to do the QA, Development and marketing for you for free.

I, as a random user, can't know which is which or care and most of the time can't be bothered.
Critical technologies like optical proximity correction are fab proprietary
I startedd to feel something like that too, basically a few weeks from the quarantine. The thing is, I actually thought I would like being closed up, because I'm pretty introverted and don't mind staying at home after work. However, the last couple of years I've started going out more, meeting new people, and trying various activities, which really opened up my view and felt good. But I didn't imagine that cutting these things off would affect me that much. Now I don't even want to work, don't want to play games either, can hardly force myself to watch a movie too. That subtle "background sadness" is a pretty accurate description.
99% of users need opinionated settings as they are not qualified to have opinions on them.

So the right path for consumer OS is ‘sound opinions, easily changed’.
His argument that people should be empowered to engage with the democratic process is ridiculous... Just because we want people to engage, doesn't mean that billionaires should have orders of magnitude more influence when they do "engage" than other people do.
> UART is one of the best ways to debug and vastly superior to just blinking a led.

A proper debugger, and if the platform allows, a tracer are the best ways to debug/profile code on an MCU.
I am getting a little tired of the continual equating of FAANG companies with "the internet". This article is predicated on the assumption Austria asking Facebook to ban some comment about a greens politician means all such posting are banned from the internet. Clearly, they aren't. At worst, that comment might be banned from web sites owned companies operating in Europe. Obviously, there are a lot of web sites out there owned by people who won't care what Europe thinks. If you don't like any of them create your own.

The "internet" is bigger than one site, or country, or even the EU. If you doubt that, just ask the MPA how they are going with eliminating links to pirated content from the internet. If you asked them in a bar, after a few drinks and out of earshot of their paymasters, I reckon there is a good chance you might even hear them say "it isn't possible". Or you could ask some UK pollie whether they think it's possible to prevent kids from seeing hard porn. I don't have to guess their response - they tried, and gave up.
The animated graphics show button presses I think. So electronic.
Now we just need Soros to say the same.
You're right, a drip irrigation system is much better. You wouldn't have to run regions, either, just one system.

But watch out for squirrels and other fur-bearin varmints chewing on the pipes. I'd consider copper pipes. I was thinking about digging up my whole sprinkler system and replacing it all with copper pipes, but then just opted to abandon the whole thing.
I'd say that "everything is a branch of physics" is an easier argument to sustain!
Sounds awful. I'm Israeli btw, but live in the Netherlands. I heard there are quite a few Iranians who moved to the Europe, in Netherlands also.
Wish you all the best. Things can change for the better!
I’m not willing to do the same as this developer (charge to file bugs), but I have the “luxury” of not being popular enough for it to be a problem.

The one project that I did create, which has become a worldwide standard, used by thousands (not millions), is also now maintained by an energetic and enthusiastic team, who react very well to questions and requests for support. They have a Facebook group, and a number of other interactive options (like a Slack workspace).

In that case, we also have the “luxury” of the system not being used (or useful) for making money. It’s a totally free system, customized to a fairly narrow demographic.

I feel that it’s important to do a good job, and maintain the highest possible quality; regardless of whether or not anyone uses my stuff (I am my own best customer. Most of my projects are dependencies for other projects I have written).

In that vein, I don’t see that making it difficult to report bugs is such a good idea.

If I am not interested in fixing a certain issue (like if it’s a bug that I don’t think affects my own projects, and would destabilize the system, if I tried to address it), then I’m more than capable of politely and respectfully saying no.
As far as I know, Mastodon is quite active, they’re releasing features and improvements monthly, and the number of active users is still growing.
But that ignores what the author said after that...

> Here’s the thing: I write open source software to solve my problem. I let you use my solutions because that comes at zero cost for me (well, almost, I still have to pay for the website, you are downloading from.
Isn't it better to treat people the same way as you want to be treated. If you take the time to write to a maintainer, I'm sure you would appreciate a reply. Why not just politely explain why you wont spend time on the issue, maybe using a standard answer?
In this context it can be a "power" move to push away developers who are unwilling to agree to further closing of the platform. As a result Apple will have only "the faithful ones" and will avoid reactions like recent Unreal fiasco ( in this case the faithful one is Unity). And as I see its working perfectly, most of tech you-tubers are in the bag by default, most of the designers and creative users are lazy (and technically challenged), corporate users, semi pros and regular iPhone crowd are already locked in and don't care. The only thing is someone to start legislative reaction, but this is hard and Apple has all the money. So this is the new norm. Machiavellian move with global impact:)
I don’t think it’s that surprising. Most web dev is just doing mundane CRUD, and mostly through ORMs or other db abstractions. If you don’t practice something how can you be expected to be good at it?
The part of twitter that believes the real Jews are of African descent would be a good example no? Antisemitism seems one of the few conspiracy theory topics that is prevalent on both sides of the political spectrum, though on the left it seems to mostly come from NOI types or Muslims who take antizionism a little too far.

BLM UK got in a lot of trouble for saying that discussion of antisemitism was being stifled in British politics, and it looks like they still have their twitter account. Nick Cannon looks like he still has his twitter account as well, though his comments were made on air iirc.
Bigotry and hate speech should not have a platform. I’ve been reading a lot of comments here and it seems like most of them aren’t even critical or touch on the point of NOT allowing certain kind of speech or false information sharing. In Germany nazi related sympathizing, propaganda is banned from social media. But some how it’s ok in USA? I honestly fail to understand how little criticism there is of unfettered free speech, as if it’s universally a good thing. Same with guns, given overwhelming evidence to the contrary yet still USA sticks to these strange “rights”.
I have a couple motion sensing lights. They randomly click on and off. P.O.S.
I’ve been using lightwaverf for around 10 years now and find it to be a decent solution. I originally bought a light switch and some of their pass through plugs, but recently I’ve been expanding with more light switches and a relay, mostly to control hard-to-reach-the-switch things like outside lights but now I’m thinking about replacing more indoor lights and sockets for a more complete solution

Lighting-wise their dimmers just replace your regular dimmers, though they are push buttons rather than switches and they have led indicators on them (that you can turn off). They work without the hub, not that the hub has ever failed for me

I’ve never had a problem with range like tfa suggests, even in places that struggle to get a wifi signal and out in the garden (125 year old Victorian terrace over 3 floors)

Their stuff is fairly expensive but my oldest equipment is maybe 10 years old now, still works well and is compatible with the newer generation. My wife is even coming around to it - being able to say “Alexa turn on garden lights” instead of trudging outside in the rain to turn them on has convinced her I think!

If/when we move I can mostly just put the old light switches back in and a) keep my kit for the next house and b) not have to subject the new owners to my home automation addiction
I could never go back to a non-sensor microwave. I have no idea how long time anything should take to reheat in minutes and if I had to do it manually I'd be bound to mess it up. Requiring the user to know how long time some random food should take to reheat is BAD ui.

I just press start on our microwave and it heats it up to an edible temperature. Press the up or down arrows to change the goal temperature. There's another button for defrost that goes slower.

It's 15 years old so not exactly high technology.
I have 4 points to deal with “how much your salary” question
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worth > worse !!! (worth even kind of means the opposite)

Regarding all you critique: That is just how your culture is setup. Mostly males live a lonely live with each other, cf. the animal kingdom, where "young males gather in groups until they get older, if surviving and might find (younger) females, then". If you go to mixed classes, like me, then there are a lot of girls, which have zero interest in you (but have some "older" boyfriend) and constantly are turned off by you and look down on you. Later you study computer science and 'again' there are no girls. The situation improves, when you get older, though still you have to put in all the efforts (eg. have a nice hobby, that girls also share) to get a girlfriend eventually.
If Mr. Pichai would say he is currently begging Mr. Breton to leave Google as is he would give Alphabet stockholders sufficient reason to annul him.
"Should" is a very easy word to throw out. Yeah, elections should be all those things. The problem is the follow up questions of "how?", "what would the unintended consequences be?" and "can we enforce this objectively when the situation gets murky?".

It seems all but impossible to stop billionaires like Koch waging public relations campaigns. If nothing else they'll just buy entire media companies (c.f. Bezos and the Washington Post) and jump in to the fray Fox News style.

It is pretty likely that no-money-in-politics rules would be weaponised against smaller donators. I'm sure there are a bunch of wealthy people who would love nothing more than legal tools to shut down donation-driven groups like the Black Lives Matter website.
I registered to Parler because that's where my guns aficionados are going to, leaving Instagram and Facebook censorship behind.
Finance infrastructure isn't evil, trading infrastructure is evil.

I seriously think many people view their bank's software team as evil! Incompetent maybe, but not evil.
Refusing politely takes time and effort. Ignoring less so. And about the rudeness: The person emailing was rude in the first place, being rude in return is never a problem. They didn't read the README or FAQ and ignored the official channels and means.

Of course it is possible to be "nice" and earn a few bucks on the side by making it a paid request. But i.m.e. it is rarely worthwile, most start an argument after receiving the consulting offer which can only be ended by ignoring them after all. And those people are usually the bad kind of customers, complaining about rates, hours, wanting free side requests, "tax-free" invoices, etc.

I've tried this (for a short while) and will never do it again. Ignoring them is actually the kindest way to do things, to them (you prevent them from wasting their time) and mostly to yourself.
Here in The Netherlands and probably other parts of Europe, you are not allowed to run electricity and network or phone cables through the same tubes. Also the number of wires allowed in a single tube is limited.

Many houses have concrete walls, floors and ceilings, so you don't run extra tubes easily...

Reconfiguring switches is next to impossible and via existing switch wires you can dim/switch the lights but not change colour(temperature).

So here the original switches are removed and the connection is bridged (always on) and battery/kinectic powered ZigBee switches control the lights directly, even if the gateway is down.
> Vi is ok for viewing files on a terminal, and for small edits, but it’s rather mediocre for any significant amount of development work.

May I ask what prove this?
Having a 25% smaller chance of dying from stroke doesn't mean you can't still die from it.
I'm not sure if it's this specific one but a study with the same
kind of conclusion has been debunked when it comes to a causal
relationship, as it turned out it did not control for any other
factors like exercise, diet and other habits. Of course
increased egg consumption leads to diabetes if those people also
eat more overall, smoke and don't exercise.

> the average daily consumption of eggs increased continuously from 16 grams in 1991-93, to 26 grams in 2000-04, and 31 grams in 2009.

...and at the same time, the WHO says[0]:

> Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975.

I don't think this needs to worry people who just like eggs a
lot and otherwise maintain a healthy lifestyle.

[0]: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/obesity-and...