skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be great. On a client project a few years ago I effectively bullied the product owner into doing that.

We were a few weeks away from a launch. I had sat down with our designer and we made a list together of about 30 changes we needed to make (“this is the wrong blue. This is 2px too big. Etc). The product owner wanted me to put all the changes through our normal process - make a jira issue for each one and we can do task estimation as a team and assign them, and so on. But most of them were tasks that would take a few minutes at most. (Some of the problems I fixed live while working with the designer). Our launch deadline was fast approaching and it would have taken more time to write a good jira ticket than it would to fix most of the issues - let alone discussing them as a group to estimate. While arguing he ended up showing his cards by admitting that the main reason he wanted everything in jira was for reporting. How else would upper management know that we were making progress? I said that sounded like his job, not mine. And he begrudgingly agreed and took my plain text list and dutifully retyped everything one by one into jira tickets. And then marked them all complete a week later when I’d fixed them all.

I think that experience killed the last bit of respect I had for Agile as a methodology - at least as it’s practiced in the wild. If we were using something lighter - like trello - I don’t think I would have resisted so much.
Can you give an example? I don't disbelieve you, but it's not something I've come across. What do they do, take an accounting liability completely unrelated to the company, "sell" it to the company, thus putting it on the books there and off the books of the investors?
Ask HN: Save and Restore Terminals
Is there any terminal out there that saves everything across reboots? Terminal log, position, monitor, tab history etc.

This is one of my biggest issues right now. I have so many different workspaces and I just want to be able to switch from one set of terminals to another without having to write a new terminal program. This has to be on the list of many developers out there, right?

Example: I have one set of terminals for programming against an enterprise product (4 terminals), another for programming a hobby project (2-3 terminals) and a benchmarking tool I work on related to both (2 terminals). All completely different projects. I'm used to saving incantations in bash scripts because of this, but I really want my separate history at the very least.
“ Looked to me more like you wanted to shut down conversation.”

How?
Opinions are, by definition, subjective
This can easily be fixed with user CSS.
I've stopped using any food delivery apps in favour of calling direct to the restaurant and then walking or driving to pick up my order myself.

As the article describes we've ended up in a position where so much money is being poured into a business where nobody is happy.

My food usually arrives cold or messy, the restaurant has been fleeced with fees, the rider has risked life and limb cycling it over for a pittance and the delivery app company has still lost money. Stop the madness.
I've also been working in a non-profit organization that's seen so much more work since COVID hit.

These last 9 months have been awful and have me seriously considering looking for another job. Everything is suddenly urgent and high-impact, being on-call until late every night with real (potentially deadly) consequences if you mess up.
Yes, the lethality goes up sharply with age. That doesn't mean people were near death when they got Covid. If the death rate wasn't related to age you would see an average of 40 years of life lost.
That article is comes from an extremely naive security posture.
It's funny because Linux did just that to Unix. Embrace (new OS that does everything Unix does, and free!), extend (Linux has features not found in classic Unixes), extinguish (Linux is now the de facto standard, so anyone who wants to use Unix is laughed at).

Microsoft gets mocked for embrace/extend/extinguish, but really, it means just do a better job than the competition. Embrace: "do what others are doing", extend: "do a better job at it, have more features than the competition", extinguish: "sell customers on those features and improvements". How anyone could be against competition, simply because it's framed in a cheesy phrase, is beyond me.
tenpo sike suno sin o pona tawa ali!
The FCC shouldn’t even need to tell them to do this. The utter signal pollution this has caused has practically destroyed their business. People don’t even answer the phone in their own home.
You work one job, so you do trade time for money like most of us.

Nothing wrong with doing that with some of your time, and as you point out, you wouldn't want to do that with all of your time.

Being smart about how you trade time for money is where it's at - like achieving financial independence.

Sometimes that might mean trading a lot more time for money upfront so you can reap the dividends of that investment later.
It doesn’t get better than Sanderson.
> It was so bad, that eventually the government itself asked for the case to be dismissed

“The government” being William Barr... I’m not sure how him pushing to drop charges on a fellow Trump ally signals anything about their validity
> If healthcare professionals refuse the vaccine then why should the rest of us be vaccinated?

Because I don't base my health decisions on what nurses do or do not believe, for example.

My mother took a chemistry class for her permanent teaching certificate. It was a really good chemistry class and book--the book taught 6th grader me so much chemistry that I never took another chemistry class in my entire engineering education (electrical engineer--so not so critical).

The class had a bunch of nurses finishing up their training. The nurses complained bitterly about how hard the class was and that it was the blocker for graduating--in spite of it practically avoiding all math.

Cogitate on that--20+ year old college students couldn't understand a book that a 6th grader could.

Just because someone is a nurse doesn't automatically make them an authority on health decisions.

> Frankly, there should be serious consequences for the staff involved.

That will likely happen after Covid. Right now, everywhere is so short of staff that nobody is going to risk offending a qualified nurse and having them walk.
I never understand why anyone wanted to do this. No judgment on those who find the "gameplay" of Farmville to be fun, but a game that you play on a schedule doesn't even sound like fun; it sounds like a job.
Physics is super old but for most of that time we didn't have the intellectual tools to do physics well. Once maths, engineering and the scientific method developed enough, the experiments were relatively easy to do (as the OP pointed out, Rutherford was able to do his experiments on his own) and the key results followed.
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.14805.pdf

> Frequency range: 800 – 1088 MHz
> Total integration time: 100 hours

but then

> We observed ORC 1 and ORCs 2–3 (Project code C3350)with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA)on 9–10 April 2020, at 1.1–3.1 GHz (weighted centralfrequency after the removal of radio frequency inter-ference = 2121 MHz), over a period of 2×12 hours

and

> ORC-4 was found in archival 325 MHz GMRT data
I don't have time to read either (3 kids and a full-time job). So, I listen to audio-books or podcasts on my way to work, which I usually do riding a bike (because of Covid, I avoid taking other public transportation, or Uber, whenever I can help it). That gives me a solid hour and a half of listening per day. It's much less than reading for the same amount of time, but it's something.

Books that I "read" this way in the last few months, and which I enjoyed tremendously: Peter the Great by Robert Massie, Pacific Crucible by Ian Toll, The Admirals by Walter Borneman.
If it’s unique it’s a privacy leak. I’m not going to debate that, it’s common knowledge.

UUID was changed in the 90s to be a hash of this instead and later to just be a completely random number because there are so many bits the likelihood of a single duplicate being generated before the sun has swollen enough to consume the earth is slim so you don’t actually need these schemes to provide a unique number.
Altered Carbon, read it before you watch it imho. Amazing, awesome book/series.
Is there even a single country that provides every child with a good childhood?

I am not aware of one, or anyone who even claims to understand how to do it.
> People don’t even answer the phone in their own home.

As long as people keep paying the phone bills, this doesn't strike me as something that is destroying the business of phone companies.
>>> They were able to conduct a thorough investigation

Prove that.
Covid hospital occupancy climbing in US, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark and more
The authors made a free video course for ISL. It's on Youtube.
I agree. The way to avoid it is to just avoid it. You have to be ok with the fact that you might be asked to leave. And also the fact that if so, that’s for the best.
A fair point. ...and I agree that this forum should strive to be most substantive than other sites.
I don't mind downvotes, we're all adults here and I hope people are downvoting without ulterior motives. Clearly people disagree with what I am saying.

Something that I find repulsive is sort of related (usually Swissmade or Xmade is taking pride in their nationality, aka nationalism), it is not completely tangent. Obviously, there was a reaction in my brains when I saw "Swiss made" that made me comment here and express.
Which is exactly the reason we have these public assistance programs, so I don’t see the problem.
> I find #7 especially hollow

I think there's some confusion here on what and how the USDS works.

They embed into government organizations to improve services and systems, bringing expertise that doesn't normally exist in government, while not working directly for the organization they're embedded in.

USDS doesn't follow normal hiring practices either. They recruit directly for limited employment terms, max of 4 years. This helps offset the entrenched beaurocratic mindset that exists in a lot of USG organisations, and allows them to recruit current experts in a particular field.

From the Special Operations analogy this would be equivalent of the Military giving them direct hiring/recruitment ability from both the Armed Services and direct from civilian

#7 "Bring in experienced teams" isn't hollow, it's their core mission.
There needs to be a balance between productive work and management overheads. I've worked at hundreds of organisations as a consultant, and what I've found works is the following: 1 manager per 5 real workers where each worker spends 20% of their time on meta-work such as change requests or project tracking.

I've seen many examples of both extremes:

Sometimes I see people working totally unsupervised, essentially just playing and tinkering with whatever random technology seems interesting to them that day. This can be a huge waste of the company's money. Surprisingly often these people are counter-intuitively very productive despite the apparent time wasting. If you take away the 20% management overheads, someone being unproductive 20% or even 40% of the time is either the same or only slightly less productive overall!

On the other hand, the bureaucratic hells of 80%-90% overheads are all too common. These are the organisations where managers would say with a straight face that the floggings will continue until morale improves. These places can be so soul crushing that all of the talented staff leave for better jobs, which is not only a brain drain but also leaves the worst employees behind. Eventually management redoubles their oversight to try and squeeze some productivity out of the remaining dregs, but this just results in even the mediocre staff jumping ship, leaving only the most unskilled, unmotivated, and unproductive staff remaining. Jira often becomes one of the whips used in places like this to flog the remaining unfortunates.

TL;DR: Some management is required but the extremes are bad, and the extreme of too much management is much worse.
I am a huge fan of FM synthesis popularized by the DX7, but the DX7 is only one of many highly influential synthesizers, and FM is only one of many influential synthesis approaches including modular, subtractive, additive, sampling, wavetable, hybrid, phase distortion and various forms of wave shaping, physical modeling, and others.

I would rank many other developments such as modular synthesis (e.g. Moog - think Switched on Bach etc. to modern Eurorack), subtractive analog (e.g. Sequential, Roland, Oberheim, etc.), hybrid and digital synths (e.g. Roland D-50, Korg M1), cheap Casio synths (from the VL-Tone to phase distortion), samplers (e.g. Fairlight, Emulator, etc.), analog (TR-808) and digital (Akai MPC) drum machines, not to mention monster systems like the Synclavier, supersaw synths like the JP-8000 and Access Virus (basically the sound of trance) as well as the rise of virtual analog synths, software instruments/plugins, and DAWs to be similarly groundbreaking and influential. In many cases these instruments were keys to the development of genres of popular and electronic music (e.g. hip hop, techno, trance, modern EDM, etc..)

For 1980s popular music (and radio recognizability for instruments of that era) the DX7 should probably share the spotlight with the Sequential Prophet 5, Roland D-50 and probably others.
Are there usable PAKE implementations? Audited ones?
yes, but my method at least introduces me to music that I would have otherwise been exposed to.
I really like this comment because your calling this exactly what it is...fascism.

Cancel culture should be perhaps be renamed cancer culture, because history has shown that these things never end well.
Why so many candidates tell us they’ll ‘fight’
> the single most important bias in the news media is not in favor of any ideology, it’s a bias toward conflict.
The analogy with loading a plane is poor. A seat is a seat and the aim is only to fill them as fast as possible.

On the other hand, with the covid vaccine not all injections are equal: some people have a higher risk of catching the virus, a higher risk of complications from the virus, a higher impact on society if they are off sick, a higher chance of spreading the virus, etc.

The aim is thus to get the maximum effect with each injection, especially when the supply of vaccines is limited.

Healthcare workers are critical and are at higher risk of catching the virus and of spreading the virus. For some of them at least vaccination should be mandatory for maximum impact and patients safety.

There is also symbolism and example: if healthcare professionals are wary of getting vaccinated then it sends a very bad message to the public that they should probably be wary as well instead of encouraging uptake.

In some countries, the President/PM took the jab live on TV. That's a form of leading by example and I believe healthcare workers of a responsibility to society on those issues.
Remember that anyone can manually decompile Microsoft source code. It's a lengthy tedious process, but that's nothing for a determined attacker.
>I don't understand whinning about that when you have bilions of people using your OS, so shitton of people who are newbies at computers then you want to help them to stay as secure as possible.

That doesn't explain forced feature updates.
I completely agree. My opinion is that many of the people who claim that they “have” to work hard don’t really have to, it’s just that they’re not willing to leave the fast track / move to the B league/ analogy of your choice

I include myself in this
Compared to almost anything else not involving libraries

There are more people reading books than there are people reading books from a library. If I had just made a tool (in English) to keep a list books without involving (German) libraries, it would probably be much more successful and only take a hundredths of effort.

And worse, I did not target libraries in general, but libraries in my city. Anything limited to one city has a too low user base. I planed to expand it city by city, by selling it in one city to cover the travel cost to the next city, so I can lend books there, actually test it, and make sure everything remains bugfree.

The alternative option, expert users can use it with any library, by editing the config XML files to include their webpage URL and server parameters, seems to have been too confusing for people
I use Instacart/Prime Now for grocery delivery and always tip highly while hoping that a more humane near-future of drones and UBI can eliminate the uncomfortable reality that me getting groceries conveniently requires a miserable underclass who would otherwise not be doing that job.
What a heap of 'sky is falling' FUD. "American Institute for Economic Research" ? == a 'non-partisan' 'free-market think tank'.

Wikipedia: "AIER issued a statement in October 2020 called the "Great Barrington Declaration" that argued for a herd immunity strategy to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.[13] It was roundly condemned by public health experts.[13][14] Anthony Fauci, the White House's top infectious disease expert, called the declaration "total nonsense" and unscientific.... AIER paid for ads on Facebook promoting its articles against government social distancing measures and mask mandates.... In 2018 it reportedly received US$68,100 from the Charles Koch Foundation"

Hysteria:

"a country at the breaking point."

"American life has been cancelled"

"desperation and distress are in response to the government’s unprecedented mandates and lockdowns. "

"Growing numbers have lost the ability to cope. "
I was a member of the USDS for 4 years. Every member of the USDS is a government employee with a fully transparent government salary, most of whom are taking a massive pay cut to serve their country and its citizens.
Most of the scam calls I used to answer were identifiable local numbers. Easy to get VOIP numbers in bulk or put up a literal farm of SIM cards in cheap phones.
Can you give an example of a single solution that isn’t based on motivation?
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> Their ISA extension is an ML-specific one

Apple Silicon has more than one ISA extension.

There is also the x86 memory ordering extension used by Rosetta 2.

Maybe there are yet others too.
USDS is modeled after Britain’s GDS.
Amazing how the article keeps saying "the vaccine is safe", "we know the vaccine is safe", when the actual experts, medical professionals, are the ones with doubts. We keep being told to "listen to the experts", but when the experts disagree with the politicians, suddenly it's "listen to the politicians".

Can someone who disagrees explain why I should suddenly not listen to the experts with skin in the game (hospital-based medical professionals) and instead listen to the same "experts" who said that we should not wear masks and should not close borders? And how many of those experts have publicly taken the vaccine, anyways? Seems almost like they've slotted themselves after the front-line workers.
> “Sure, a minority can elect our country’s leader. But it only happens sometimes.” Doesn’t that seem weird?

Q: Is it actually uncommon for a (motivated and/or vocal) minority to end up with [de facto] control over something?

To me, it feels like this kind of thing happens all the time :(

Read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's “The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”[0], it's well-argued.

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Music preferences are subjective, because familiarity is a huge part of appreciation. Sharing my particular fingerprint of music appreciation with other people doesn't do me any good, because they will only criticize my preferences as they are not their own.
To paraphrase current civil engineering doctrine:

A sign doesn't do anything to turn a four lane boulevard into a road people drive 20 on. The enforcement needed to back up the sign is not the kind of thing people put up with in the western world (a few pockets of Europe notwithstanding). You need to actually design the road to make 20mph a reasonable speed.
Moving to Austin: Your Guide to Living, Working and Playing in ATX
The analogy goes deeper. Most of us are familiar with the spirit-soul-body concept. Descriptions of the three are very similar to concepts in CS: spirit is the algorithm or an idea - in this sense the spirit is immutable and the same for all devices, soul is the software - it's mutable, implemented in a particular language or framework and generally strives to be a perfect reflection of the spirit, and finally the cpu itself with all the machinery running electrons is the body - it's run by that almost immaterial soul, although no part of that machinery, not even a single electron, is a part of the soul. The connection between the three can be easily understood by CS folks, but is a great mystery for uninitiated (i.e. those who can't code).

There's even a striking analogy of good an evil. "The evil is affirmation of disorder" (Eliphas Levi) and that is bugs and poor chaotic design: software that embraces this disorder, gives up liberty and reason (aka the good) and becomes evil, for evil has neither liberty nor reason.

I'm sure The Matrix used this very analogy.
Amazing. Needs multitap support for more than two players!
Is management aware of this problem, and have they been able to hire more people to pick up some of the extra work? I get that extra budget has been difficult to come by during the pandemic, but it seems like they're missing the forest for the trees... if their undersized staff gets burned out and quits, the problem will only get worse until people do die.
Exactly. Could more of y'all pack up and leave? Please?

I'd like to buy a house here sometime. KTHXBYE.
Not doing anything wrong is not correct. If prosecuted properly, this should be a criminal conspiracy and profits from that are subject to forfeiture.
Stereo vision. Teslas to this day dont ship stereo front facing cameras. They arent even full color.
The only claims Fairphone makes that are different from Apple’s are about ecological impact.
Hot and flat. National (or State) Park situation is horrifying. Cali is top notch in this regard.
Blatant censorship tends to call attention to things and reveal to people that their perceptions are being manipulated. It's much subtler and more effective to exercise editorial control over nominally "independent" media by firing reporters pushing stories about inconvenient truths, which Allen Dulles used to do by simply calling up the heads of major newspapers.
Aye, but there's the rub. Are you only in favour of free speech if it's expressing views that you don't find abhorrent?

For all that we in the West love to criticise countries like China, Russia [and formerly the USSR], etc. for not allowing dissent, we have pretty much arrived at the same situation in the so-called free speech embracing west.

There are points of view and opinions which are effectively censored off the internet, or illegal to express. Now a lot of people in the west say [as you effectively did] "Yes. But that's different. We only ban hatred and bigotry" Well, the people running those regimes we love to feel superior to would express similar sentiments "We only suppress comment that threatens the country or causes social disharmony". They find that kind of thing just as nasty as we find our 'wrong speak'.

I don't think we can have it both ways. We either believe in free speech. In which case, with a few exceptions such as inciting violence, etc. people should be able to express, without censure, opinions others may find abhorrent. Or we believe in moderated speech. In which case we need to stop pretending we in the west are in some way superior in this regard, to countries like China, Russia, etc.