skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly non-fiction books. I am one of the few people in my circles who reads primarily fiction books.

Anyone else read mostly fiction?
I debated fully fleshing out this topic and decided to stick to a high level until someone replied - so thank you for the critique.

The turkey sandwhich was meant to be a place holder for the general idea. Roughly, if you want to work long and hard to get ahead, usually food prep time is the easiest thing to cut to get a return on time invested in long term value. There are still super humans that have mastered meal prep (this may be you) but for the people I know, it’s hard to do all of these things well with limited options - which forces this consequence mindset.
> the stupidity of using “Europe” to mean “EU” in Britain

It's just a contraction. People on both sides of the debate or with no opinion use it. I think you're making it out to be a bigger deal or something nefarious when it's just a short-hand of speech.

Nobody is confused by what the author means, except people pretending to be so.
Allowing discussion of a divisive issue, while suppressing opposing views, is not a neutral moderation approach.

The original post is itself flamebait and is not HN-worthy.
I 100% endorse this method of securely moving files way way way above using things like agent forwarding and throwing keys on servers.

It's shocking to me how people overlook HTTP as a tool for passing files around.
If SolarWinds was compromised and the attackers could use that as a backdoor into Microsoft's datacenter, the problem isn't really about protecting source code. The problem is whether attackers were able to leverage that into stealing data from or sabotaging Microsoft customers. After all, that customer list contains many parts of the US government and civilian infrastructure in general, plus major international corporations.
I'm trying to figure this out myself. I've gone from Google Photos -> iCloud -> testing out Unraid + PhotoPrism + NextCloud. That is, point PhotoPrism's import folder to the NextCloud photos folder. Both hosted on Unraid. And then on my iPhone, have the photos automatically uploaded. Only issue so far is I don't see an auto-detect and import option in PhotoPrism so I have to manually click 'import'.
This is not how it happens in my experience. The other developer, who sees their teammate's daily updates and code reviews, would just say "oh this was fixed yesterday". The manager trying to assign work is a tedious redundancy here; the engineers do a better job of owning the problems if the manager goes away.
Another thing you could do is server-generate the CSS file, initialized to the current time. But that might be cheating :)
This is touched on in the article, but I should probably expand on it a bit more. A queue is a transport tool that allows moving information between the stages of the workflow, but using a queue doesn't mean you have an excellent workflow. The decoupling business advantages come mainly from having the workflow, not necessarily using a queue as a building block for it.

When you do use a queue as a building block in a workflow you get some technical and operational advantages, maybe those are oversold.

Will think about how to advocate business decoupling using a workflow as a the zeroth step before getting into queues.
Use HTTP, there's absolutely no reason to be using SSH if you're just transferring files around.
It's not just that Fred was signed up using illegal tactics. The culpability comes from the fact that these US companies are paying the scammers to do this. The number or complexity of intermediaries is morally immaterial. That's why industries where these kinds of scams happen get special regulations. Advertising for some reason has just escaped oversight for now.
Yes. I want an escape these days. Worked my way through the Expanse series this year.
Well, also instead of overheating your nice new DSLR, you can buy a perfectly good several-generation-old used one off CL/Ebay or somewhere for probably $75. For video streaming the technology hasn't changed much, and you're not going to be needing or exploiting cutting-edge resolution for these purposes.
It might be a national trend.

> 60% of Ohio Nursing Home Workers Refuse Vaccine

https://www.citybeat.com/news/blog/21147580/60-of-ohio-nursi...
When Nintendo fought a device that gave Mario 'new superpowers'
Hosting web apps and APIs just got easier and faster – ML coming soon
Uber confirmed the sale of their self-driving unit (Uber ATG) to Aurora [0] a few weeks ago, and not everyone was absorbed into the company as part of the sale. So they're definitely cutting down on these "side-projects" to focus on the core parts of their business now that they have an obligation to shareholders.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2020/12/07/uber-sells-self-driving-un...
If I’m right, Tesla picked fast and cheap.
It's an observation not an argument. Go look up who hires epidemiologists, what credentials they require, and what they expect of the employee in the job role.
Don’t they already do?
I too became frustrated reading the article and trying to figure out what they were asking for.

Protip: patrons and sponsors do not want to know all the details, and certainly not up-front. What they want is to know what you're asking for, what you offer in return and then (briefly) how one leads to the other. Thus:

We make Pypy, which does X and is used by Y people, including projects such as Z, z, and z'. We'd love to bring Pypy to Apple's exciting new M1 hardware, but that needs resources.

We're looking for $CASH_MONEY to buy some M1 hardware that we can develop, test against, and eventually run the repository on. With #NUM_MACHINES available, we believe was can have PyPy available to all M1 developers by %CALENDAR_MONTH. We also like eating and drinking and if you send us more money we will spend some of it on !GOOD_TIME(HAVING).

The whole approach of 'we're not asking for much, just x would help' is how volunteers talk to each other, minimizing their ask so that reorienting effort is not too burdensome for anyone. But how you talk to each other is not a good way to talk to external readers, because it requires effort to parse what you are getting at and then further effort to negotiate and arrange everything which is a distraction from their own concerns. Many people would rather just give you some cash and sign up for a monthly progress update.

There's a reason services Kickstarter etc. work so well: they save the donors time and entanglement. Just set up : PyPy on Mac M1 for $5000?' or similar and make it easy for people to throw money at you.
>Group 1 is tiny compared to group 2.

That is in my opinion an unjustified assumption. Huge numbers of men and women are uninterested in programming. In fact, virtually everyone I know of either gender is uninterested in programming. The number of people who don't program because they're not interested anecdotally dwarfs the number of people who don't program for any other reason.
Been using this for months.
It’s an elegant tracker, doesn’t have a bunch of extra details, just a list you can customize with colors. it creates art - you can zoom out to see cool visuals that your habits form over time. It’s helped with my adhd to have a simple list to check off. Highly recommend! :)
One of the books linked is a meta-book [0] on the series Maus [1].

Maus was how we were introduced to the human tragedy element of the Holocaust in High School (as opposed to the rote, "this happened in the 1940s"). Later, we read Elie Wiesel's Night, and snippets of other classics.

For parents considering how to approach this topic with their teenage children, teenage-me would like to recommend it. It's visually-engaging, personal, and nuanced.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaMaus

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
Lets try to tone things down a bit and have a polite conversation.

I think it would be helpful to clarify if you will personally refuse to get a vaccine because some healthcare workers will not, or are you talking about other people and excluding yourself?

If the former, the position is confusing because it holds that the choice of HC workers is wrong, but still allows it to have sway over your actions. If the latter, what sets your decision making process apart from the general population.

>Nor do you seem to realise that this is not only a matter of personal immunity. The more people are vaccinated the more difficult it is for the virus to spread.

Please explain it to me. Once everyone who wants personal immunity has access to the vaccine, why does it matter if the virus spreads?
Newspapers were Classified Ad delivery platforms with a side of news.

Craigslist killed the newspaper industry.

I don't think fake news will kill Craigslist. I therefore don't think that newspapers will be making a comeback any time soon.
It seems like this thread is missing the history of mass car manufacturing entirely, which began with a single SKU for the Model T. Customization to your heart’s content was never the strength. Especially for non-luxury brands. Try working through a Porsche configuration: you can select the color of the stitching!
I wasn't sure if I would continue the series or not based on some of the reviews, but now I think I will give the second book a shot.

Thanks for your comment. :)
Fedora 34 Plans to Provide Xfce 4.16 Desktop Packages
The Google play store says Uber has 500 million downloads. Assuming ios has a similar amount, that puts the total number of downloads around 1 billion.

1.5 million concurrent connections would then represent roughly .15% of their total user base[1]. Hard to say whether that's accurate or not. I certainly use Uber less than .15% of the time but I imagine big events like New Year's see huge spikes in usage.

[1]Number of downloads isn't totally accurate for estimating user base but I'm not sure of another way. Also, article mentions that their system powers over 10 different apps but I'm assuming that the those numbers are negligible compared to the main Uber app.
Not without refactoring third party code which is used under license.
Since people believe there are popular TV news sources that are "fake", why would print news not be equally considered fake as well?
Rust 1.49 Released With 64-bit ARM Linux Support Rated Tier-1
misleading clickbait title post, pathetic

from microsoft

"Our investigation into our own environment has found no evidence of access to production services or customer data. The investigation, which is ongoing, has also found no indications that our systems were used to attack others."
Your comment breaks several guidelines here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This was published today, but these technical decisions appear to be as old as 2014 and there were other considerations that madan commented on here. gRPC was definitely far from mature up until like 2017 or so.
I read 95% fiction, but I feel like a book list from a notable in the tech field is expected to be mostly tech non-fiction, because, honestly, why would I trust a Swift developer more than anyone else for fiction reading?

(That is, there's no reason why his recommendations would be any worse than anyone else's, but I see no real reason I'd trust his fiction recommendations more than anyone else's -- being in tech doesn't mean we'd have the same taste in fiction.)
Can you add yourself/spouse to the addressbook, and then block messages from unknown senders?
Even if you want to get to the scammer, you'll have to trace and find the caller.
> I found the third act really deviated from the rest of the story compared to how tight the other mentioned films were. Did you think it seemed out of place?

It was indeed different, if we’re speaking about the same part. I contemplated it after watching and concluded that thought process does not lend itself to being mapped onto a visual sequence, and perhaps those scenes were the best map there could be. (Upon recalling some of my own past ruminations and thinking what they would “look like” to another person, who am I to say they wouldn’t be as cringey as the ballet scene and the speech looked to me.) Consider also protagonist’s personality and interests, and the fact that it took place shortly before a breakdown.
> As more and more people move to Austin they will grow in political influence until they can vote out those people, institute a personal income tax, etc.

Houstonian and UT grad here. We libtards have been saying that for as long as I can remember, and it never seems to come to pass. It's much like the old saying, [X] is five years in the future, and has been for the last 50 years.
No one care about efficiency, sure. But efficiency in this case is the “tax” that must be paid in all cases.

And you are missing my point: That as far as the options go for “tapping excess energy” hydrogen is overblown and overstated as a solution. Things like demand response and heating applications don’t have anywhere near the same kind of losses. Price and value is what actually matters.
While the title is about CIA, its actually a story about DOJ and FBI. [1] The rot runs pretty deep.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-cove...
I think it's excellent that this item does get some love from HN, clearly some people share my interest in the combination of amazing technology (the ISS), amazing technology (the photos), amazing craft (taking the photos), and the interest in orbital mechanics, etc.

I am saddened to see that the submission has been flagged, as evidenced by the sudden plummeting in the ranking:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/25594171.png

Screenshot from here:

http://hnrankings.info/25594171/

I know people's interests vary, and that's partly what makes HN interesting to me, but flagging this item seems at odds with the HN ethos of appreciating excellent work and amazing technology.

But there we go. It hit first place for a bit, so that affirms my belief that I do share interest and taste with at least some of the HN crowd.

Meanwhile, here's wishing everyone a Happy Perihelion.
Being on the entity list right now is a pretty large warning sign, and an indicator that things might escalate further, right?
Not off the top of my head, no. Your plan sounds good except for the "and requeues it back" part. Ideally you should just ignore failure (don't acknowledge/delete) and have the queue control plane decide when and how to retry—unless you have special logic (exponential backoff?) around that. If you do need to re-queue, just make sure you re-queue before you delete/ack the current message, otherwise you might lose jobs.
> Your comment illustrates what's wrong in the US and the West in general

I find comments are made much better (are more likely to influence someone’s thoughts) by just deleting these parts.

Try to communicate out of a desire to learn first, inform second, and just skip the shaming.
Individualism does not have to be a weakness during a situation like COVID. Refusing to take obvious common sense precautions simply because you don't like the fact that the government is telling you to do it is not individualism, it's stupidity. In fact, individualists would have been taking precautions against COVID well before the government was telling anyone to do it (see further comments below).

Nor is authoritarianism or valuing conformity necessarily a strength during a situation like COVID. South Korea and China both took authoritarian approaches, but they were very different authoritarian approaches with very different human costs. South Korea wasn't welding people inside their homes.

As for valuing conformity, people who valued conformity in the US, for example, were waiting until the government told them to take precautions before they took precautions--which was too late. My wife and I started taking precautions at the end of February, at which time the government and other authorities were still saying that things weren't going to get that bad and everyone should keep traveling and not worry so much. By the time the government started telling people to take precautions, we were already weeks into exponential growth. And then, of course, things swung to the other extreme and we started slamming barn doors shut and barring them after the horses had already left.
On Android you could deny SMS access to Google Play Services and/or the Messaging app.

I'm not suggesting that you switch, only that something similar might exist on iOS.
The risk of accidentially deleting the database is real. However, it can be mitigated without introducing another tool by using a second terraform root module (with a corresponding second statefile). So you would have one terraform root module for foundational or stateful things like databases which rarely change and should never be accidentially deleted, and a second terraform root module that holds only the lambda. The former root module is applied only manually, the latter can run automated in a pipeline.
I am sorry that the clothing cyclists wear illicits so much anger in you.
That's a fantastic question! Let's investigate:

* How egregious was the violation?
* How did the company respond to resolving the violation?
* What does the contract say about appropriate investigation levels before the violation is considered a sufficient breach of contract?
* What steps does the contract describe for how to handle the breach of contract? Is there a probationary period? Are they allowed multiple actions before the contract is terminated?
* How long does that investigation usually take?
* What was the supplier currently doing for Apple?
* Can someone else supply that load? (even at a higher price)
* How long does it take to find an alternative supplier?
* How long does it take to sign the contract with the alternative supplier?
* How long does it take to get the alternative supplier up to speed on Apple's specifications?
* How much will that delay impact projected release dates?
* How much will the future-delayed release dates impact stock prices?

Each iPhone is probably in the design process for over a year and spinning up the production pipelines may take several. How long does Intel spend on a processor? Companies need to have a considerable stock before they release a product and that all takes time.
Not if Windows includes source code purchased or licensed from third parties who contractually prohibit MS from publishing their source code.

Which it probably does.
Beowulf: A New Translation
This push is not the native push like FCM/APNS that show notifications to the users. These are payloads that update the app (e.g., location of the cars on the map or eta) and never show any notifications to the user.
> They don't.

Funny. Can I get $100 please?

Every team has their own process that is tailored to their needs, process is decided by devs, not managers, managers only do "I'd like to have this kind of visibility" requests some times and I yet to see those requests introducing any kind of burden, usually very miniscule things.

We have very simple process in our team with two issue types for devs - task and bug. We have two week long sprints and put tasks from backlog into them.
Statuses are: open, in progress, code review, done.
If I forgot to move a ticket than a team lead or feature lead will do that for me whenever they are at it.

Besides this there are epics but devs don't deal with them, feature leads and team leads and PMs do.

This is all running on an instance that is deployed every 4 hours with changes from master and goes through the same upgrade process our customers would go.

There's special set of very high-level tickets but we don't deal with those, those are for for people 3 levels above.

Sprint planning is about 30 minutes because backlog grooming is done for devs by feature leads and team leads and that's pretty much the only obligatory meeting.
Not really, it's just a bunch of boxes with borders, and each box has an animation saying when each border is white or black.

The only notable technological "gimmick" is that it doesn't use any more HTML elements than the ones the browser generates automatically from the "severely malformed" HTML it is given.

(Not to devalue the creativity of the demo, though!)

A possibly more elegant way to do this would be by using clip-path and CSS variables to render the digits, this would only require 1 element per digit and would make for more readable animations too.
Lots of people would like the web to become a language-agnostic platform. I don't hate JS the way some do, but even I'd be excited about that prospect. That can never really happen until WASM has direct API access.

That said, I tried just now to find where I read that this was on the long-term roadmap and I'm having trouble finding it. So maybe you're right that it isn't currently planned.
I'm lucky to be doing financially better than most in this world, but I just love spending bitcoins too much, so not retired on a tropical island quite yet.
1. Humankind, a Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

Pokes a big hole in the popular post-apocalyptic stories of humanity.

2. Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Pittman and Karle

This book genuinely changed my life this past year or so. If you're dealing with anxiety in any form, I can't recommend this book highly enough. Clear, easy to read, understand, and apply.

3. One Small Step Can Change Your Life--the Kaizen Way by Robert Maurer

I actually re-read this little gem of a book in 2020. It's practical and clear. I've given it as a gift to many people.
This is why I gave up on playing super-nerd and just moving all development to docker-compose.
Can't wait until cozy bear leaks that :D
> SV is a monoculture of nerds obsessed with computers, science, and grand ideas of changing the world through tiny companies.

I've never been to SV, but when you put it like that - it sounds pretty damn awesome.
Only if the newspapers stop their bias, spin, and cheerleading for their preferred side. Otherwise... you're going to feed me lies like everybody else, but you want me to pay for it? Forget that noise...
PyPy is easily 10x faster than CPython at numeric stuff, which is 99% of these contest problems.

For example, using CPython, if you try to make an array of a million ints, you won't get `int[1000000]` in your memory layout. Each int would actually be an object, which is huge and inefficient to reference (they are something like 24+ bytes each).

PyPy on the other hand, works as expected.

I think the more important point is that PyPy when written like C code, can actually get within 2x of the performance of C code. If it's any slower, python won't be a viable language in competitive programming at all.

(CPython is sometimes still used on other platforms like atcoder.jp, but only because they allow third party libraries like numba and numpy which can fill the same role pypy does)
The chain should be tensioned enough to be impossible to fall off, so those bikes were just not set up correctly. But that is still a good point about problems people can have with bikes.
from Microsoft , stop the nonsense nobody got inside microsoft's source code it's virtually impossible and pathetic to suggest Russian hackers viewed what stupidity is this

"Our investigation into our own environment has found no evidence of access to production services or customer data. The investigation, which is ongoing, has also found no indications that our systems were used to attack others."
> Atlassian seems to make a lot of money

Atlassian has been losing money in every quarter for quite a few quarters. But its market capitalization has been generally increasing so shareholders who sold their stock probably made money.
Sure. Post the video(s) and a Venmo account.

> Sprint planning is about 30 minutes...

That's like saying Santa Klaus is real.

I want to believe you. I really do.
While I agree that Gentoo is probably not significantly more secure than most LTS distros,

> I can't imagine a worse existence than being responsible for a fleet of servers running Gentoo.

You lack imagination:) NetBSD, AIX, LFS, Arch Linux...