skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amazing the overhead the “traditional” or “agency” model brings with software development and how it reduces engineers to developers who just need to execute whatever it’s decided by people up the chain. No wonder autonomy, leverage, career progression and pay are all more limited in this setting. I wrote in more detail about exactly this “backwards” approach and its implications [1]

Compare this with how some of the fat-moving companies work. Instead of 7 different people (from BA and PM and a dedicated DevOps engineer etc etc and all the comms overhead) you have two people / roles:
- Product & design: the “why” and “what”
- Software engineers: the “how” and building/shipping. Note that these people are called engineers for good reason at these companies. While the article says “ A team full of great developers may not bring the expected outcomes if there’s poor communication.” - duh, at places I’m talking about, engineers communicate with each other without a project manager for the most part. In fact, decent comms is something these companies screen for during the interview process. And “DevOps” is part of the role: you build it, you own it. Of course, there would be platform-focused teams and program/feature teams.

These tech companies have other roles for sure: most notably, data scientists and other not-so-technical roles (marketing, operations, legal etc)

But by having one engineer own what companies like SteelKiwi have several people do, no wonder they’ll be able to move faster (less comms overhead), pay more (far more value per engineer) and provide more autonomy (you own solving the problem, not executing the task the BA and PM agreed on, and you’re not expected to understand anyway).

[1] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-...
COVID-19, back in December 2019 it was starting to get hot - but it really exploded at about March 2020 onward.
California Man Kills Covid-19 patient with oxygen tank
Whether a global pact to curb emissions is worth the cost can be debated, but for a few states to do this fails a cost/benefit analysis, since they bear the costs but the benefits are spread across the world.
To add to that: learn how to use git-reflog. It's the most fantastic thing ever, let's you have a complete control over the local revision history to undo anything you want.

I think Git is a real pleasure to use. Personally, with git-reflog, I think it's really difficult to mess up in a git repo (but, of course, if there's a will, there's a way).

I've worked with SVN on several repos and projects, and it's the VCS I like the least. It's not intuitive at all, less shell-scriptable than CVS (how do you `cvs diff -r1.{1,2} file.c` in SVN?), less portable and takes more time to setup (e.g., effectively less UNIX). I think the ViewVC interface is also one of the worst out of any other option out there, be that CVSweb or gitweb, both of which have a better usability, in my opinion. SVN repository is also a 100% monolith, unlike CVS and even unlike Git (in Git, you can't ignore individual files like in CVS, but you still can ignore unrelated branches for a checkout, for example, without the need to renumber the whole thing, which is a requirement in SVN if you want to get rid of any branch). Basically, my personal opinion, is that the monolithic and inflexible SVN is just broken by design for any distributed and large project the size of a BSD. It's still puzzling to me why it was chosen over Git back in 2008, the same year that DragonFly did select Git as replacement for CVS. If anything, with DragonFly project being smaller, they had less of a need for Git than did FreeBSD.
not the OP, I'm on Linux + Android and I hate my phone so much. next phone will be a pinephone and a DSLR or mirrorless camera at this rate.

the ONLY thing that's worked for me is syncthing -- I can't copy files over USB reliably at all.

I guess I could also pay for google photos but honestly fuck google so much. I have a pixel 3a so all I get is the unlimited low-res images.

Why the hell this thing can't just backup files over USB or SMB or a card reader/USB drive plugged in to usb-C is beyond me.
There was a story on HN recently about a security breach on some website because of a hand written auth scheme. I was surprised with how many people just thought it was normal to hand roll auth stuff. I think it comes mostly from the server side JS crew but it is definitely disturbing the amount of wheels being reinvented out there
Superman confirmed!
If you want to save some of the 3 hrs use the weird al version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEdEDbhTQw
That first limitation you mentioned is not true - you do not need a visa to go for a business meeting, just as you don’t need a visa to go for a meeting in any other country.

The second also isn’t true - no recertification appears to be required but could be required in the future should legislation diverge.
The one coherent explanation I can come up with is that they want to fund it by taxing people/companies that evade taxes.

Though that doesn't sound right for the current UK government.
It's interesting to look at the question "Is zero even or odd" on Quora because people give their reasoning for why zero is odd. e.g. "Zero is neither an odd nor an even number because it is divisible by both 2 and 3 and also because it is divisible by any nonzero number." "Zero is neither even nor odd, neither prime nor composite, neither positive nor negative.It is far more special than that, its a unique number." "Answer is no, because zero does not have the elemental properties to qualify as being a number." "Now, anything without value cannot be termed either even or odd."

There are also plenty of correct answers, but it's interesting to see the reasoning behind the other answers. This suggests that the problem isn't rote learning but due to people reasoning in the wrong way.

Link: https://www.quora.com/Is-zero-even-or-odd
My local radio station is promoting the idea of keeping your christmas lights up and lit until March 3rd (a local reference) in order to show unity and togetherness. I don't think its anything amazing or impactful, but interesting nonetheless.
This article is painfully oblivious to how people function! It reaches the correct (and I assume apriori) conclusion that people don't care to connect things in their head, but it gets it from very silly data.

Consider the question about earth rotating around the sun and how long it takes. The answer to the first part is readily available BECAUSE ITS PART OF OUR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. We periodically hear about Copernicus' heretical discovery. We hear the phrase 'one more trip around the sun', we see models of the solar system, etc. So the right answer is just instinctively top of mind.

In other words you can get this right by being completely ignorant of celestial mechanics because you almost can't avoid "knowing" it by osmosis.

The question about the duration of the trip is a much harder question. You need to either recall a much less frequently referenced definition, or to model it out in your head. And guess what, people are not likely to do that work while answering a stupid poll. I bet if the question included "take your time and if you get this right you will win $100", the correctness rate would shoot up.

On the parity of zero, it probably goes like this "it seems like it's even but they are asking a poll about it so there's probably a trick. There could be some rule that makes zero special" and because it's an irrelevant quiz they say "neither" and move on with their lives. Again, if you phrase it to slow them down and offer a reward, more people would take time to think it out and answer correctly.

It feels like what is really frustrating the author is that people don't totally nerd out thinking through twitter polls.
I'd ask any person who doubts that 0 is even:

If I subtract one even number from another, is the result always even?

If they say yes, then they just proved the even-ness of 0.
If they say no, then they must allow for some exception. Like, the result is even only for positive results.

Then I would ask them what purpose is served by having that exception.
Isn't separating devops away from developers and into its own role/pillar missing the point?
They are fantasy UIs, you’ve just forgotten that fantasy is a real word with a specific meaning and not just a genre of fiction.
" there would be huge internal strikes if the health data was sold to, say, health insurance companies. "

? This is satire ?

They could pass it off as 'anonimized' data and sell it to medical companies.

Or sell ads on the basis of information collect from the devices, which would still be ostensibly anonymous theoretically.

Finally, the notion that we would depend on the willingness of some Mega Corps employees to possibly risk their jobs and put up a fuss, is just a step too far.

We might need some regulation here.

Also: there are material opportunities for advancement of health by having this information shared, we should also recognize that and possibly allow these things to be used as medical devices if people want them to be i.e. for research.
They have marketed well. But BMW also knows a little bit about making really nice, quiet, powerful, fun to drive cars.
Depreciation cost of phones with actual security updates
This sighting at least isn’t in the bravo. The person is under the shelf in class E and therefore isn’t violating any airspace. They wouldn’t be subject to transponder or ADS-B requirements either because they (probably) don’t have an engine-driven electrical system.

The previous sightings do sound like this person busted the bravo but I’d have to do more research to be sure.
https://supporters.eff.org/donate

https://supporters.eff.org/shop

Testing this new A tag I heard about.
People are people and you can’t account for all of them- it only takes a small minority to make mess
I don't think the Commissioner's plan of 1811 was made with automobiles in mind. Although there's a highway next to each river, they don't really define traffic in Manhattan.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_181...
Yeah, I don't know why he organizes like that. If you click on chapter one, you'll find basically an entire book of information in that one chapter.

This resource doesn't actually teach piano per se - it teaches "piano practice". In principle, you could use this to learn whatever you want.
> Clearly, there’s more to managing a domain than a “license to print money”. Otherwise, who would want to sell it?

I know this is a bit pedantic/not the point, but any "license to print money" -- that is, any claim on an infinite stream of recurring income -- actually has a fixed value at which you _should_ sell it. See https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/06/22/how-to-calculate-t...
You’re jumping the gun here. No one’s talking about any sorts of legal or professional consequences. I’m responding to someone who seems to think it’s impossible to form an opinion about whether a pattern of “he-said she-said” allegations is credible.
"wife" doesn't mean "partner", in case anyone else reading this thinks otherwise.

If you don't want to assume a man is heterosexual, don't assume he has a wife.
I don't know about this one. The special effects didn't age well, the plot and characters are generic, the overall message is too much on the nose, there's the word "unobtanium"... it's not great.
Google doesn't even use Gmail data to target ads. It strains credulity to believe they'd use medical data to do so, even assuming that is legal.
Paleontologists are trying to understand why the fossil record is mostly males
I'll grant that at 13,500 t, a machine like the Bagger 288 might take a few too many Starship launches (at 100t/launch).

However, I'm pretty sure one can attain reasonable turnover from something a bit smaller, especially for high value minerals.

Maybe you wouldn't consider 100 tons of equipment a commercial scale mining operation yet. Which is fair enough.

If you want to scale up to really start making money, of course you'll need to have your refining and construction capabilities in space too.

This is obviously a big bootstrap problem!

I do think that Falcon heavy and/or Starship are starting to make a small initial bootstrap viable, for someone willing to take the risk.
Fitbit ate pebble
Pandora isn't available outside the US, so it doesn't really matter how good it is compared to Spotify I can't use it anyway.

It doesn't matter how good the tech is if business/legal can't keep up with the competition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigorish For others who don’t know what vig is
Thanks for sharing. Many people seem to be more interested in the comments than the original information itself. this is not my case even if I've fond exceptional information in the comment section sometimes better than the original link.
Use app bundles to update your app. Those who buy the bundle will get credit off if they own the first version of your app.
I'm not sure. There is no treaty that binds the US to defend Taiwan.
Ugh, of course they are.

Definitely going to look at breaking away from their control with my next phone, whenever that may be.
World of Warcraft.

Blizzard mentioned development of a MMORG in the late 1990's and started teasing in the early 2000's, and really ramped it up prior to launch.

And when it landed, holy hell: it devastated worker's and student's sleep schedules for years.

Plus it lived up to the hype: the world was huge and immersive, and they had tuned raiding & PvP based on the experience with co-operative Battle.net.
... how to use music theory to develop efficient practice routines for your instrument(s), goals, and current abilities.

— jazz musician of 25 years

(this calculus metaphor is pretty far off - music theory in practice, by a working jazz musician, doesn’t involve “manipulation of symbols”, at least not in the same way as one works mathematical problems and proofs. it involves a lot of time on your instrument, applying theory in practical and experiental ways. oftentimes we will write out a lead sheet, or transpose something, and use theory to do that. and so there’s some calculations happening. it becomes second nature with practice).
i started using a spin-off of TW about 15 years ago (monkeygtd) and it was awesome for project management. started using TW again a few weeks ago, i was really glad to see it’s still under active development! trying to decide between that and org-mode now, but TW is definitely a good solution for those looking for a personal wiki
It does, you just have to wrap a certificate around it.
This was my first thought, followed by the confusing mobile developer's list of responsibilities.
Yes, I meant at datacenter scale. In your own house the power bill/the environment won't really be helped, but newer tech does have better battery life, and that's always nice.
Data collected on a FitBit (or any other device) is not regulated by HIPAA.
Weight is a wash. We're talking like a cumulative 100lb by integrating the front diff with the transmission and losing the drive shaft. Tunnel is nice but most cars still don't have a flat floor because they stick a tunnel in there for exhaust and the floor-pan is likely shared at least in part with an AWD crossover that puts a drive shaft there and it's usually important enough for floor rigidity so they don't omit it on the FWD models.

>Modern platforms can make the front wheels turn and spin at the same time without much fuss

Yeah they can prevent you from losing traction but you're fundamentally at a disadvantage to RWD because no matter how you cut it you're trying to spread the front traction budget thinner. Everything that makes RWD desirable for the track also makes it desirable for consumer A to B duty.

Don't get me wrong, FWD is great for bringing 0% no money down economy cars to the masses and creating bottom dollar van chassis for employees to abuse but even at its best it's still never going to make varsity in any context where performance actually matters
> I'd tried to watch it a few times, but only a few months ago actually got past the first two episodes.

I did the same thing, and I'm not sure why. The first couple episodes are fine in retrospect, but at the time... I just couldn't get into them and couldn't keep the characters straight. When I finally did get over that hump though, it turned out to be one of my all-time favorite series.
I hit up Sainsbury's this early morning. Only the expected stuff ran low (turkey, fishes, frozen side dishes), but everything else were on stock.
Give him a week. He'll probably have it up and running.
There is something of a resurgance lately since The Queen's Gambit came out on Netflix.
You forget that there is a lot of self-checking of the company by other employees, and in the past you have numerous examples of the crowd undoing the misdeeds of the few.
I'd ask any person who doubts that 0 is even:

If I subtract one even number from another, is the result always even?

(maybe after first asking about addition)

If they say yes, then they just proclaimed the even-ness of 2 - 2 = 0.

If they say no, then they must have made a weird arbitrary exception. Like, the result is even only for positive results. Then I would ask them if having an exception serves any purpose.
Also, the leasehold comes with two inherent rights which make it even more like "owning" a place rather than merely renting it.

First the leaseholder has a presumed right to renew this long lease when they want to. There's even a tribunal (ie a court) specifically to resolve any situations where a leaseholder believes they've been asked to pay an unreasonable amount for such a renewal, although of course going to court isn't free.

Second the leaseholders together can demand to just buy the freehold (ownership of the actual land) in most cases, under a specific formula. This is not cheap, but if your freeholder becomes a problem for all the leaseholders the freeholder cannot stop them just buying the building.

Some years ago a government tried to institute a more modern structure, Commonhold. Commonhold takes the mechanism often used to "defeat" leasehold by groups opposed to it, and turns it into a built-in feature of English law. With Commonhold the people who own individual dwellings have a lease still, but they also each own a share of a legal entity which exists only to own the freehold and they can't sell the one separate from the other. The legal entity plays the role of freeholder, but since it is owned entirely by these leaseholders it has no reason to try to charge them ground rent or mess them about in any way - it is them, jointly.

Unfortunately to the average person Commonhold just seems like you're buying the same thing for slightly more money, because Leasehold "purchases" look cheaper. So Commonhold did not take off and few exist today.

One of my pet projects (on hold because I decided not to look for a job during the pandemic so although I have plenty to survive I can't go around funding speculative legal work) is to buy the building where I live and convert it into Commonhold, partly to prove it can be done.
Did they strike in large numbers?

I thought they posted messages on internal mailing lists and stuff like that.
I think it's much cheaper than eink's offerings. E.g. they want $149 for a 5.6 inch three color display https://shopkits.eink.com/product/5-65-spectra-3000-yellow-e...
Darktable 3.4: Encoreǃ
OpenBSD doesn't do GUI isolation. xinput grabs all. But file system is limited (unveil) and what apps can do (pledge)
Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
For many of us it was in 2015 when Control-Flow Bending: On the Effectiveness of Control-Flow Integrity was presented at USENIX proving printf is turing complete. https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity15/technical...
there's no means for your devices to find/discover each other in the real world
Yeah, lost me as a potential customer right there
Not web based but I have used croc https://github.com/schollz/croc to send files between pc and laptop on same network and between two computers on different continents.
One role I recommend having, especially in larger/enterprise endeavors, is a Solution Architect.

When delivering enterprise applications, we usually have three roles running the project; Project Manager for processes/planning/..., Product Manager on the requirements/BA side, Solution Architect on the tech side, some code involvement, focus on the bigger picture.
They all say I need an account to view them, phishing? Yikes!
This is starry eyed nonsense.
Factorio has a veneer of RTS but its challenge and interest comes from factory design and managing queues of supply and demand (if you want to think about it like that). It layers complexity on complexity.

Rimworld is all about character management and anecdote creation in my view. The challenge and interest is about managing randomness and character driven conflict in a game designed to produce conflict.

They play very differently in my experience.
Feel free to point me in the right direction if I’m missing a nuance here, but the impossible burger as it appears as a Burger King Whopper alternative is the worst “burger” I’ve ever eaten. I couldn’t even finish it. I like vegetarian patties and I like a good beef burger. The whopper variant had a strange rubbery smell and mouth feel.
You can see his legs moving at the end, right? I was all for the drone theory, but now think it's actually a guy.
I remember reading the subreddit in early February and questioning how much of what I'm seeing is legit and how much is the hivemind just blowing things out of proportion.
> Even numbers end with even digit

True (in even bases).

> Since 30 is even so must be 0

This is essentially the converse of the previously statement. Fortunately, the statement is based off an equivalence so it is also True.
Craft – A fresh take on documents
Also https://www.veristable.com/
Which watch, and what's the exact message it's sending about breathing? Is it something like "your O2 sat dropped to 98%, consider some deep breathing," or is it creepy because it's somehow based on her personal activity?
D65 is the sRGB whitepoint mostly because it is the CIE Standard D Series Illuminant, i.e it is a Standard illuminant like A and should be use preferably when typical daylight modeling is required. A display by tuning of the primaries intensity can match a lot of different whitepoint, reaching anything from D50 to D90 is certainly doable.
What proof do you have that you're "not supposed to be able to" navigate a website with only your keyboard? What authoritative statement dictates that the web should require usage of a mouse? If you take a second to look at that statement, you should be able to see how it is quite ableist (possibly unintentionally).
Still could never get into WoW after enjoying Everquest for so many years. Such an amazing game if you had the time to sink into it.
Diversity is a code word for replacing white people.
Getting into the CLI for a Unifi switch (2018)
Here I read that at least 4000 people signed a petition opposing the Maven project, and the project was abandoned as a consequence. Had it not been abandoned, probably even more engineers would have joined the march.

https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-again...
Alas, this is a general issue with WebRTC: Most people are behind NATs[1], and not even STUN[2] can save them. In order for this to support internetwork (heh) transport, you'd need a TURN[3] server that could relay the traffic between the participants. Of course, at that point you're not really Peer2Peer anymore: You have a server between you and that server is going to cost actual money to run.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUN
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_...
Vt220 supports non-ASCII chars. It would be useful to use the Unicode equivalents internally and map them to an encoding the terminal recognizes on output.