skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have an automated process where emails to our support distro go to JIRA and Slack via Zapier. No user request or bug report gets lost. Issues with insufficient info get followed up on by an ops/support person. All feedback and actions go into the ticket. Something that can be worked around is documented and resolved. True bugs get logged to the dev backlog and linked to the support ticket. Works like a charm. The users can see the ticket history without really learning much about JIRA. Devs in know exactly how the issue was reported and triaged. Probably 3/4 of issues are resolved without a dev ever being roped in. And no user ever wonders what happened to their request.
Singapore: https://www.tech.gov.sg/

Australia: https://www.dta.gov.au/
> It's pretty difficult to make any real progress on issues of equal access if any targeted efforts to improve access for particular groups are going to be characterised as "giving others the shaft".

If "equal access" is the goal (which I agree it should be), why are we excluding a group based on immutable characteristics? You really see that as equal?
For some cases, and the picture often changes.

We were using pypy because it was better for our use case at one point but then later on we retested cpython and found the picture had changed.

We believe this was due to significant improvements in the regex engine for cpython over the period, but could also be due to our code base changing.

The point being it is not a given that pypy is faster.
Is this a deal with the respective content silos or is there a public api for each?

In other words, is it possible for an independent developer to make their own content aggregator?
>It's much smaller now because of discord

discord itself also hosts a ton of very lively programming communities.
You can compete without working to convert an ecosystem from standardized to proprietary. If that happens it becomes much harder for anyone else to compete, and the end result is reduced competition.
I dunno, I've been programming Go for 9 years and have had far fewer problems with dependencies than I ever did with pip, gem, or npm. I don't think it's perfect by any means, but none of them are.
> Our only hard limits are the laws of physics. Even with our rudimentary understanding of the universe our only practical limitation is usable energy production, and progress is rapid on that front.

Well yea we could pull miraculous technology out of our ass tomorrow that can reverse human civilization, but I don't see any reason to expect this.
gasp Not that evil devil-tool, youtube-dl!
>They just start trying things they think will flummox the software.

This works...until you go against a target that's heard of fuzzing before and has the time and money to do it to their own code.

The really interesting Windows exploits require a combination of "throwing stuff that will flummox the software" and a deep level understanding of structures hidden to the average developer. Look at Yardin Shafir's really wonderful blog post about developing a kernel bug to a PoC - there's a lot of moving parts and security checks in modern windows, and having the source is a HUGE help.
Right now, a lot of the low-level tasks that contract lawyers do at scale for maybe $50/hour could be done by clerks for $15/hour or clerks in India for $3/hour (or something). But the lawyer paid for their time because their expertise is need to flag the "corner cases".
If you engage in threat making, that tends to make behavior become hidden as opposed to actually resolved. The goal is to build understanding because many of these folks are going to also be managers one day.

Everyone is (usually) an adult, just talk it out and build that understanding.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year! I have learned so much from you all, thank you!
What should I tell my son when he asks why he can't be in the "cool" group? What would you tell him? He is 10 currently.
Oh, I'm very aware, and very happy that this is the case. This to me is a major advantage that Pixelfed has over basically everything else in the thread.

I had never considered Pixelfed as a google photos alternative but am glad that something in the activitypub universe might be used that way.
I think there's a set of mental gymnastics that a lot of managers do in these scenarios, though. Sure, they want me to work normal hours, but every time we talk about roadmaps, it's all doom and gloom and there's isn't enough timing or resourcing to do anything, and we've already cut this project down as low as it can go. Implicit is the expectation that it's going to get done with the people we have by the deadline we set (arbitrarily).
That's great! Happy New Year
And I recently put new brakes on my car and they're really responsive. But it has little to do with the fact that my car's software based clock often thinks it's Feb 43rd.

Hardware can be pretty good and the software can still be extremely lacking.
I wonder how long it will be until there are content authoring tools that build to WebAssembly? For a long time, Flash was kind of the runtime for stuff you couldn't do in the browser with HTML + JS.
Future of coding is a cool programming community that discusses graphics C and C++ occasionally. A lot of the focus is on visual programming, end user programming, esoteric languages and no code/low code. Lobster.rs as suggested is pretty good for general technical discussion but graphics on a non-surface level rarely comes up.

For graphics and C++ Twitter is probably the best option, follow some important graphics folks (say Peter Shirley, Angelo Pesce or John Carmack) and you'll get some interesting threads. There are also some good graphics programming Reddits. A lot of the best discussion happens in invite only places for me now, having some contacts in the industry helps there.
Commercial artistic endeavors are deadly serious about schedules and coordination. Broadway and Hollywood have some of the most intense and impressive project management in the world. They couldn't survive without it.

But it does look pretty different from tech project management. Department heads are not treated as task monkeys. They are treated as being potentially myopic about their own pieces of the puzzle, and given support on integration with the rest of the production.
I made a pretty concerted effort to bike (I used to bike to public transit every day at an old job and loved it).

At my current job I'd have to go through a very loud car tunnel without enough space for bikes. I've tried it a few times - just not workable. You have to ask - is this commitment worth dying over? Having your lungs filled with crap from being in an enclosed space with cars? Having your hearing killed.

So making the environment support biking would be great.
You're not wrong, but also "we shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us". ( Marshall McLuhan )

JIRA tends to shape management into bad management. That is the grain of the tool.
Right! And when you're on call, there are things you can't do, like go out of range of an internet connection, maybe you won't go see your friends, or go out to dinner because you don't want those activities interrupted... You need to be keeping tabs on your phone all the time. It keeps you in a high-alert mental state, just in case... and you don't really relax and unwind.
Don't! That's creating a paper trail AGAINST yourself.
I get it that you want to fight for Firefox. I really do. It's just that my fight is somehow for it and largely for the entirety of the internet.

> What makes you assume anything would different if Firefox dies?

At the very least we would be free from the clutches of Mozilla and it's gross incompetence.

Chromium & Firefox browsers have been forked plenty times by different developers/corps for different reasons.

The internet battle won't be won by a fork. The most famous of forks being Microsoft Edge, another evil player. Which is surprising close to surpassing FF btw [0] It's so bad even Safari is ahead of Firefox on the desktop market share.

As for funding Firefox, they can and should be actively pro-donation. I would be willing to pitch in even if it made a slight difference. Pocket & VPN should be marketed and developed upon. Am sure there's more the mother entity can come up with to add to its revenues. These alternative projects should be pursued using an R&D budget from its revenue. Firefox is still a large enough player in the browser game, its search engine default is a gold mine commanding hundreds of millions from top investors.

If they fire their top dollar guzzling CEO [1] and continue to trim down on non-essentials, I don't see any reason why Firefox couldn't get back on track to its former glory.

[0] https://kinsta.com/browser-market-share/
[1] https://itdm.com/mozilla-firefox-usage-down-85-but-why-are-e...
Not at all. I wasn't arguing against the vaccines but against blanket lockdowns ( EDIT : I guess that was really not clear, since I was initially arguing about that, my bad ). I have reservations about the vaccines, but on a voluntary basis, it seems to make a lot of sense that the people in the at-risk demographics and those in daily direct contact with them should get it. The damage from the lockdowns however could be equal to or worse than the damage they seek to prevent. This damage not being limited solely to loss of life but also including that. This is not even a marginal opinion, as per my previous comments, it is backed by many scientists and the WHO itself.

Feel free to swarm the karma out of me for clarifying that ( not necessarily directed to parent comment ).
It’s odd hearing foreigners curse in English because it seems they haven’t quite earned that right. You know their mothers never washed their mouths out with soap!
Thank you! I'd really like to get away from war novels, but I'll give this one a try.
> When the only project language you have is trees, it's difficult to talk about forest.

That was so wise I am almost crying. The "local maximas" hurt my engineering soul. It is inferiating in the long term.
It's not just governments - if you give them enough money they'll send you the source, and all the tools required to build it. Device manufacturers in particular need this - you think SeaGate is using the online windows docs when they write SSD drivers?
That is such bad Agile. No wonder people have such bad feelings about it. :-(
Maybe that's a matter of geographic variation. It's certainly a cause celebre for the conservative press, but I'm not sure that it's materialized in my locale, a mid sized city in the US Midwest. I run a small business, and have literally never had to interact with the city or county government. Here in the US, local governments are responsible for managing their own schools, police, and so forth. So they face a larger attack surface for suspicions of micro-management and bureaucracy.

The prosperity of any smaller city in the US Midwest depends to a large extent on what industries it's lucky enough to attract, most importantly hospitals and universities. Mine also happens to be the seat of state government.

The government of the county that I live in has been exemplary in managing the public health response to the COVID in the face of a total leadership vacuum at both the state and federal level.

We're one of the most prosperous counties in the state, yet we are believed to be the county that is suffering the most under activist government.
That's probably not a good approach. I would just tell them that they have been working hard and they deserve a break/vacation. If they are worried that they are going to miss out on something, I just try explain that there will be plenty of work for them to do when they get back.

I wouldn't mention that not taking care of their health would reflect poorly on their performance review. In fact I wouldn't want them to think about the performance review. The goal is for them to rest, recharge, and not get burnt out,
I actually considered just enrolling him to see what would happen, but I didn't want my child to become a lightning rod for a political battle between adults.

The description of the program specifically says, "for girls" and it has a cartoon graphic with a few different female characters of different skin colors, each dressed as some profession. It doesn't say, "no boys" or anything like that, but as I said above I'm hesitant to try with my son. If it were me I would do it.
What you are saying totally makes sense, but numbers are portable as mjevans pointed out and b-number analysis is a bit more primitive. This requires cooperation from all the telcos and would require business changes, process changes and code changes to systems so that you could approve-list what is a mobile network NPA/NSX and deny-list what is not. This just means spoofers would only be spoofing mobile numbers. Now you have a game of whack-a-mole. Some of these systems are so old that the people that wrote code for them are long gone. I am not saying that is universally true of course. Some switches had fairly modern hardware. But unlike the internet where everything peers with bgp and information / routing information is freely shared, there is a lot more manual work and manual changes and coordination required. Even if you could update all of them, now you have to maintain yet another real time deny-list and that does not really solve spoofing.
Does bitcoin moving to a proof-of-stake algorithm change your opinion?
This is good news IMO, as it will promote discovery of creators from outside the platform they create on. As a content creator, I hope this feature ends up well implemented. I could totally see it going downhill though when the SEO-obsessives realize there's new territory to fight over. I guess I'll just wait and see!
I'm not in favor of vague statements like OP's initial comment, which is compatible with (and on it's own, indistinguishable from) wild conspiracy theories.

It appears from OP's subsequent comment that OP was referring to stories in the run-up to the 2016 election that depended on anonymous/pseudonymous sources with links to the intelligence agencies. In that case there is a wealth of reporting on those issues-- some similar to the one the OP has now posted which were before the election, but many more in the aftermath of it.

Hell, writing on the subject of blind trust in anonymous intelligence sources is apparently the raison dêtre of Glenn Greenwald these days. Pick any piece at random of his from The Intercept or substack and I'd bet you'll find reputable sources regarding trumped-up 2016 election stories that back up his general argument about how problematic that practice is. Other writers have done the same, consistently, for years now.

Given that wealth of easily searchable material (which, btw, has stood the test of time and been corroborating by other sources), being comfortable making vague statements and encouraging blanket distrust is irresponsible. Are you and OP bedfellows with the "stop the steal" idgets who AFAICT are following the "make distrusting the deep state cool again" to the tee?

I'm not. If you aren't either, then I don't see how you would distinguish your positions if not through clear-headed discussion of documented acts of corruption. I also don't see why we shouldn't go out of our way to distinguish our own distrust from the myriad active campaigns to exploit people's growing general distrust to siphon money from them. (The hundreds of millions Trump has raised is one such example.)

Also notice how OP's follow-up essentially implies that I would not be able to easily figure out the truth without doing my own personal research project. MSM can't be trusted. Intelligence can't be trusted. But personal speculation is apparently in play: "Is that by accident?" OP asks, again without explanation as to scope, evidence, etc. of the implication.

That way lies rabbit holes.
Managers tend to be people who used to be not-quite-good-enough to be engineers.
Yes, you’re right about the show of hands. This is why the preservation of individual liberty is such a fundamental part of living in a just society.

If people want to isolate or be locked down they are free to do so, but one person’s fear is not a just claim on another person’s life or property. Locking other people in their homes because you’re afraid is immoral.
I've been doing 100+ a year for several years now. It's not for everyone, and I don't know if I actually recommend it, but here's how:

- Audiobooks at 2-3x speed. I listen while doing chores, while walking my baby in a stroller, while eating (not socially), going to bed, driving, etc.

- Ebooks, with a text-to-speech reader (I use @Voice aloud on Android). It takes more work to get used to, but I find that I can listen at a faster speed (3-4x) due to the clarity and regularity of the sound. Whereas (for fiction) an audiobook is a performance by a professional actor, this method is much closer to reading a physical book – after a while the voice of the machine fades and your own brain adds the richness of voice and tone (like you do with a physical book).

For both options, it takes practice to reach the levels I'm at. I think it's worth doing so, as it's a skill which pays large dividends over time. I should also note that more than 50% of these "100+" books are heavy-plot fiction. I slow down the playback speed for non-fiction I need to think about more carefully, or types of fiction where the quality and subtly of the prose is a major feature.
I simulated California housing and learned about simulators (2018)
it's weird why youtrack doesn't come up more often in these types of discussions. It's pretty good, and interestingly enough they now have a "lite" ui mode to simplify it. It's not perfect though, but I've found it hard to find anything better.
I know about xkcd graph and i was using it regurally.
One problem of it that it shows information only about gamma radiation. Not beta.
Second thing is inverse square of law when emmiting radiation in EM spectrum including gamma/x-ray.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law
Injecting isotopes which are radiating gamma/beta radiation and are located inside body is just very inhuman practice. In other words, illegal experiments.

The corona/covid pandemic and nuclear medicine is related.
Relation is pharmaceutical companies themselves.
I didnt believe in conspiracy theories, but after all the things happen to me and my wife i just cannot let it be.

Also one thing that raised the flag was a nurse call day before examination where she very importantly said that my wife should not be around any childrens that day, multiple times.
I don't disagree with this, the main issue I have is that the browser controls are stuck in the 90s/00s: browsers should implement new controls so we have less need for custom work here.
You're missing your very own point again. You guys are up in arms about potential attacks against the client or the network. Attacks that having nothing to do with the web server.

I am giving examples of how that class of attacks is not mitigated by HTTPS.

I am not talking about SSL stripping. I am talking about not even letting the client talk to the remote host because in the scenario where you MITM you have control of the network.
Despite all the hype, I don't think this will ever realistically happen. interface-types is (supposedly) here but it can't really hold onto DOM objects, it can only reference them, and nobody has made DOM bindings for interface-types yet. GC is an extraordinarily hard problem, and they've talked about scoping out "mini-mini-MVPs" for about a year now, with basically no progress.

I wrote an essay about this a few years ago but never decided to publish it because I felt it was too harsh, but I think it gives a better overview of the challenges involved: https://gist.github.com/magcius/8959ca1f5bbde4bd66b98b6d5dc7...
Yes, but you generally only need to CE mark something that you're selling. You can for the most part build and operate something yourself without needing to do it.
Right, that's what got me wondering. I've got an account on the flagship Pixelfed instance, and I started thinking whether that's a plausible use case - setting all uploads to private (or, I guess "unlisted" is the only available option) and effectively using it like Google Photos.

I guess it's a bit of a stretch but my preferred attitude is to be open minded and generally to cheer on the activitypub projects. They are, in the end, a force for good.
It really depends on the situation. If you have a small team that owns their own codebase, then people will generally know what's going on. In a large codebase with multiple branches it's going to be messier. If everyone's sharing a bug tracker it should be easy enough to claim bugs you're working on.
That’s not nearly comparable to commented source code repo. “Decompiling” leaves you with a barely readable facsimile of the original code, and most likely won’t even compile again.

The true value in source code at this level are the comments and symbols. Microsoft provides most ofthe symbols, the comments you can’t recover from a binary.
Its radio emissions from another civilization obviously ;)
You can eat capybaras there (locally known as chigüiro).

https://comidasexoticas.co/comidas-exoticas-de-colombia/carn...
I mean, true they detected this but you don't know what you don't know...
Buon anno a tutta la community di HN che ogni giorno per me è casa.
MF DOOM Has Died
It sounds like what ALittleLight does is working. Often times people who set boundaries have their boundaries respected. They may get more respect in general.

There's no need to involve anyone else.
>The scarcity of block chain space has led people to re-invent every last feature of the banks they thought they were going to be escaping.

This is a pretty funny point because every time I go on twitter and see people talk about crypto, what they're essentially having is a discussion about public policy, and often they seem to try to reinvent institutions that already exist without even knowing it. From market-makers, exchanges, insurance and so on, precisely as the author points out all the dreaded middlemen they were trying to avoid
Man, fuck 2020. I picked up 2 bottles of Champagne for the wife and I before I decided it was a 3 bottle kind of year. It's 5:30 and we're one bottle in so clearly the right decision. Here's to 2021 being a lot better for everyone!
What an incredibly boneheaded comment. The kind that makes me worry about the future of HN.

Not only are you asking someone to literally kill an animal, something many people are de-facto not going to be comfortable with, you're knowingly recommending something I'm almost certain you know deep down isn't reasonable because it'd be a heinous overreaction, and it'd result in a mountain of paperwork and legal troubles for the commenter you replied to.

Ridiculous.
It’s one thing to pay a highly competent person 6 figures. It’s an entirely different thing if you can’t fire them. I’m not saying that the government doesn’t need more competent people but it’s not going to work if there’s a bigger carrot and no stick.
>And we are learning that analysis of that
record is sufficient to destroy any pretense of anonymity or
pseudonymity.

Fortunately we have Monero! And pretty much every other issue too he raises, Monero has it better.
I was following along until this bit which seems to hold up the entire argument:

> [BTC mining] is often done using electricity which is effectively stolen from taxpayers with the help of government officials

Can somebody elaborate on the stolen/corruption angle?
I read effective altruism and then the fountainhead right afterwards. It was a good balance between two extremes.
Happy new year and שנה טובה!