skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really where we are on Hacker News? The brightest minds on the internet can't even agree on systemd or other systems without coming to a sound conclusion? Now wonder tech is so fragmented.
“issues and unfair treatment I experienced while working with the company Nokia”
Blog is not mine. All I can comment is that remote teaching and exams on top polish universities looks almost exactly the same. LOL
Yeah given our tack record we're certainly the empire (cue in the Darth Vader music).
I built an LED framework for ESP32, and started building LED lamps that use it. I’ve sold more than I expected, but made less money than I’d hoped.

It’s taken years and countless hours of my time but it’s really fun and I’ve learned a lot.

The project is expanding into an IDE and online pattern gallery, and all sorts of fun additions. People are joining and making really impressive works with it. But it can be tough to keep the momentum going sometimes.

What has been nice is that even when I was the only person using it, the result was still something I could enjoy - there’s no network effect required to make something cool for my living room.

Turning a side project into a business is tough. I’ve been working with a factory to produce them in quantity. This has been a struggle. “Hardware is hard”, and manufacturers are not fun to work with, at least compared with software.

But at the end of the day the thing is in people’s houses and they like it.

Here’s the lamp I’ve been making: https://shop.soulmatelights.com/products/square and the IDE I’m building is at https://editor.soulmatelights.com/tutorial
At my job names (among other things like urls) are blanked out by HR. When I get a resume to review I don't know the name of the applicant.

I assumed this was fairly typical.

Either way I was responding to "if we took sex and race off... job apps... it would really help."
Just wait until you need to get a divorce and have young children.
Turn any camera into a webcam with a $13 USB/HDMI video card
What values are you speaking of? Censorship is and has been alive and well in germany for a long time. You can even say germany has no conception of free speech, they just mimic it.

Germany is the inspiration of censorship around the world.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/06/germany-online-crackdow...

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170720/01434337827/russi...
> They don't want to, and disregard the human rights of large numbers of people already in the country.

I see, thanks. Is there any sanctions, diplomatic pressure that can be applied?

I am just trying to put myself into the shoes of the average German who doesn't give a shit about geopolitical state of the world - they see a bunch of refugees with zero skills, language barrier and strong embedded religious fundamentalist views taking over. How is this difficult to see?

This feels unfair to Germans and Europeans in general because of some conflict thousands of miles afar. I can understand small numbers of refugees being taken in, I support rebuilding and financing such tasks in their home countries, but jeez...
I’ve been gone too long. When did that happen?
Caveblazers did a similar job for me.
Google English Translation
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
Yeah, forgot to talk about dead letters, will add a section. And notes for Pulsar, once I read up on it.
My point is that you are being far too abstract about things.

Everything is complicated if you wax philosophical. That's not useful right now.

The lies being perpetrated today: Hydroxychloroquine, COVID hoax, the election was stolen, Obama is from Kenya.

These are lies. These are not little white lies to make society work. These are blatant shameless power grabs.

These lies are destabilizing our country, and numerous leaders are shameless about it.
I don't at all disagree; the variety of researchers interviewed had their own focuses, neither necessarily discounted what the others said. I do believe that a part of your anecdotal 'seeing competition as pointless' case must've leaked into the researcher who was discussing competition being discouraging.
What the heck?

"Boycotting noncollaborating hardware vendors by FOSS is LONG overdue"

Is this serious. What does apple even use PyPy for?

We need to boycott APPLE because of a group making software they don't use? Huh?

I suppose we will need to boycott my home builder because they don't support my mattress company that works with the house they built me?

Apple uses python. They ship python3. They contribute to python. That get's folks into python, that get's folks interested in ARM64, so python work and golang and others start targeting ARM64 more, which in turn will probably help Microsoft and AWS whenever they inevitably release ARM products into production. That's the traditional open source cycle. We don't boycott these folks.

One issue - Apple WILL NOT ship GPLv3. Many other companies are EXTRMELY careful about shipping GPLv3 (I wouldn't be surprised if google was strict hell no on GPLv3). So there is going to be some fragmenting as the GNU folks and other put out things like Bash as GPLv3. Probably from the same folks that boycott, so it may not matter in the end.
Nice, I've seen large Egyptian exhibits at the Louvre and the King Tut traveling exhibit in San Fransisco. Very impressive indeed.

The same day I saw the King Tut exhibit I also saw an exhibit from feudal Japan. The workmanship of the Japanese items was absolutely stunning, much more impressive than the King Tut items as one would expect from a period many centuries later. All of these examples were still done by hand. It's hard to imagine a person in the modern era devoting a lifetime to make only a handful of swords.

What makes these items interesting is that they were made without modern tools or technology. Today our manufacturing technology could replicate these achievements easily. Even common items like grave tombstones can be produced in short order with highly polished stone and precise engraving. See [1].

[1] https://legacyheadstones.com/gallery/photo-gallery.html
Yessss! Thank you, I just made a bubble called "Hackernews" and I got eaten by Vladimir Putin, lol!
Unfortunately, node modules with native components must be compiled to a specific version of Electron. This non-portability throws a monkey wrench into any "single runtime" approach (you'd need an electron runtime installed for every unique nAPI version).
I don't think the comment was implying that a manager has to eyeball the ticket to make it worthwhile. The comment said there's value in documenting the process, and I agree with that.

We use a ticketing system to track work. It's not Jira. But we do have a requirement that all work is tracked in that system. It's not so that a Product Manager or Engineering Manager can chime in and micromanage; it's so that we have a record of the fix that's easy to find, track the conversation around it, and be able to reference it 6 months or later. Documenting how it was fixed and tested and verified is very useful. Having a place for a manager to eyeball tickets before they are working is not the value of the system.
> On 9 October 2016, GitHub and Internet Archive[273] were blocked and associated administrative orders were subsequently posted by the BTK stating that access had been officially restricted.

Not sure it'll be accessible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey
No, but there is a strong will to reach gender and race equity in tech.

And I don't think this can be achieved by accident. There must be intentionality to achieve this.

Just look at this NYT hit piece on Coinbase yesterday and all the data available from big tech like Google and Facebook: https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/13440449092006952...

I'm not endorsing it. I'm just noting that it's happening.
They lived in close proximity for a good part of a millennium. Do you think they haven't influenced each other?
Is there any chance Erdogan will be democratically ousted?
No decent dashboards
>On average [Not-Race] has more wealth to afford houses //

Which is fine if you're part of that the well-off, but if you're just a person and not benefitted by the categroy association with rich people who happen to be the same race -- a simplistic association that discriminatory, racist people make -- then you're shit out of luck.

Discriminating against people is denying them something, it's denying them a fair shot, fair treatment by the government. Regardless of their sex or skin colour they deserve fair opportunity.
how many mols is that? Gas is not very dense.
This doesn't refute the GP's point though. I've done both the very light management and very heavy Jira, and Jira makes it easy to track what's actually going on. If you want to know what a coworker is doing, you can just check Jira. If you need more work, you don't have to go to strategy and take their time, just look at the backlog.
Funny how personal preference with regard to some syntax is so polarising - I'm coming from a primarily C# background and while Nim looks interesting, I find the lack of semicolon line endings and the whitespace-based scopes, to be really off-putting!
Google Photos also uses other means to add location metadata to photos, if you have Google Maps Timeline enabled that logs your location, and you've uploaded photos from another camera (e.g. DSLR), it will assume, based on the timestamps, that photos were taken at the location your phone says you were at that time. Sadly I doubt librephotos has that integration.

Hmm, one could take out one's Google Maps Timeline info as JSON, and write a parser for librephotos (or others) that adds the location metadata into the photos.
Do you prefer to... not have all the details in front of you for a task you're about to work on?
Yep: https://hbr.org/2020/03/research-to-reduce-gender-bias-anony...

Evey beyond names people tend to assign class, gender, and race to surprisingly mundane things that are found on resumes.
"Males" do better on standardized tests like SAT and ACT than "females", they just trail behind on grades.
Your link isn't working for me, blog may be down?

I don't agree with this sentiment, there simply wasn't great evidence that ADHD is misdiagnosed, at least when I studied it a few years back.
Sure, the UK GCSE data has shown a gap for the past 30 years: https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/GCSE...

Edited to add: please also see the work from David Figlio et al. mentioned in Krona’s comment below. That’s an interesting study design that tries to demonstrate that boys in aggregate need higher quality schooling to achieve the same level of performance as girls in aggregate.
In some cases relying on Firefox as your main browser can turn out to be a sadomasochistic endeavor. Sadly though 100% of the web is written with Chrom(e/ium) in mind. Firefox lost the ball on this too long ago for it to come back on this. I can't help but see Firefox as a headless running chicken sometimes. And doesn't help matters that Mozilla doesn't care enough to at least try and take back some of it's former glory.
Something that might help this article is to group the recommendations into a set of conceptual guidelines for hardening any system:

1. What ports are open?

1a. Can any of them be closed?

2. What services are running?

2a. Can any of them be stopped?

3. What permissions do those services have?

3a. Can any of them be reduced?

... and so on
Wouldn't taking it for granted be the opposite? The strong response to any perceived attack on freedom of speech shows the value placed in it.
Yeah most of human existence was crap and crap out of necessity. The necessity doesn’t exist anymore so it’s a specious argument. Accepting any less than a basic reasonable existence now that it’s possible is selling yourself short and your countrymen short.
Needs more reductionism.
What about power / energy? Some kind of tightly focused long distance laser? I guess this depends on how much interstellar dust (extinction) is between the two places, which would diminish the efficiency. But of course you could maybe modulate that to send information too!
“He’s a Marxist”. Ah. I’m out.
>American exceptionalism

People truly believe that though, it's why the coronavirus is particularly bad in the US.
I understand your sentiment, but, the flip side is that a strong military is a good safeguard for peace. I have this... Hard to formulate opinion that you should be prepared to prevail in violence but at the same time avoid it as much as possible.
Haxe 4.1.5 Released
> For example a really good friend of mine, was having a bunch of trouble in her home life but she couldn't exactly afford to move out. So if you're working with her and she's rude to you, it has nothing to do with anything you did. 99% of how someone reacts to you is based upon what they're going through. And plus getting upset over someone else doesn't improve anything.

Not to over criticize your friend, but as an example: this pattern of behavior is what separates mindful, good people from jerks - imo. Everyone gets less controlled as they get stressed, but controlling how you express that is hugely important.

I've found that not only is it a thing in myself i need to be very vigilant about, but cutting out the people in my life who immediately lash out rather than behave constructively did a lot for me. It's a good indicator to the person behind the facade that we all wear.

And again, nothing intended to your friend. Just an example. I also think we can still have "those friends" around if we think they have promise, or perhaps offer other benefits that outweigh the toxic affect their behavior can have. It's just super mindful to be aware of toxic indicators, in ourselves and those around.
Quite excited to read this. Murphy does a great job of explaining concepts from first principles.
When you marry someone with children you're taking responsibility for the whole family. I welcome these changes to FAFSA but your reasoning is atrocious. I feel sorry for your fiancee and her kids.
It depends on your organisation size and structure, but probably you want to run the bug fix through some triage first (meh management overhead, but needed if you have many bugs to make sure the "important" ones are fixed), then code review (well, that doesn't happen in jira, but probably should be (automatically) reflected there to have one place to look later) and after fixing probably should be routed to the documentation team so docs are being updated and to support team so they can talk to customers accordingly.
We need more games like Minecraft Legends. Truly, we need another Gauntlet game and Minecraft Legends looks like the closest game to it I’ve seen in probably a decade.

And the Gauntlet game that came out under that title didn’t feel the same, to me.
Sorry: you seem to be misunderstanding me, but I do not know how to express myself better.

Edit: for reference, I'm looking for an analog of the let! construct from "Linear types can change the world!" and the borrowing usage from the Linear Haskell paper.
Society is becoming more right wing.

It’s what happens when people see less opportunities for them and their children.

The system as current stands doesn’t care about middle class white Westerners. A group who’s slowly becoming poorer and poorer.

Donald trump and people like him will continue to rise into power as the middle class is oppressed.
I don't have direct links to the papers, but IQ levels are statistically similar, with the standard deviation for males a bit larger. Will dig for papers and update.

Edit:

One paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...

Another: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.180...
Meanwhile European Union prohibited Google to use Fitbit's health data for advertising. I would rather agree to ads than self isolation, quarantine or jail.

I consider this a treason of Spanish people.
Alchemy - Rory Sutherland. Written by an advertising executive, it's filled with little gems, especially about signaling.

Honorable mention to The Elements of Eloquence - Mark Forsyth, which is a delightfully light read about the patterns in English phrases, but I finished it 2 days before the start of 2020.
Dang and many other members put in a lot of work to uphold the culture here. But a lot of it comes down to two things:

- The hacker and academia cultures have historically been welcoming of beginners, eager to share, and open to learn and discuss. They comprise the vast majority of the community.

- Since you can’t delete posts or comments, and can’t edit them after a while, you really do have to think before you speak. Compare this to Twitter, Reddit, or Facebook where being toxic or unconstructive in one corner of the site doesn’t affect your other activities, and can be erased or edited in the face of backlash. This difference changes the dynamics tremendously
This is a nice idea if they were trying to change the process to work better for everyone.

That's not what's happening. They just demand explicit quotas for themselves.

The whole 'diversity and inclusion/feminism makes things better for everyone' is largely a myth, it's just identity groups out for themselves in corporate America.
It was just a new term to me so I was asking for clarification. You’ve been helpful, thanks.
True, I/m just basing this on experience of people I know. Several people who went undiagnosed until adulthood and several people who had other issues[1] that (combined with typical boyish hyperactivity) were misdiagnosed as ADHD as a child.

1: Bipolar, processing disorder, dyslexia
Men have also been doing worse in college for quite some time.
If you don't defend your privilege, you lose it. This is what men deserve, if they're so easy steamrolled.
It's often a round-about crap that causes it. It's not that the legit companies are hiring sleezy companies, but that they have promotional programs that other companies "sign up" and join to be a partner. The partners are really unknown entities and there's not much in the way of checking. But then these partners start contributing and getting people signed up. It's impossible for the legit companies (if you can really call any major conglomerate a legit company) to know whether those signups were obtained through spammers or what have you. So maybe it's these promotional networks that need to be banned.

Problem is, almost all of the advertising and lead generation in the world happens through networks like that. Some of it is legit, some is not.

So I do think it's correct to go after robocalling and make it stop.

Now one thing I don't agree on is the WAY in which we're doing it via tracing or whatever. Instead if I was the FCC I would simply require, starting today, that all calls made in the US must be signed to be completed. I would rather have no phone calls in the US for a month than let this shit go on indefinitely.

Something like that would force all carriers to immediately figure out a way to get every phone call signed. Then once we have calls signed, the spammers would lose their right to call pretty much after a few calls are made and reported.

I think the current strategy is pretty hand-wavy and doesn't have any end in sight.
This is a very tricky situation. Two things come to mind.

1. Turkey wants a fight. I keep up on reading the western commentary and analysis about the region (Not the mainstream crap), and it's apparent to me that deeply-entrenched forces in Turkey want a fight. Our strategy so far is to do the best we can to ignore/placate them. I'm not sure how long that continues to work.

2. From time-to-time, we talk on HN about the internet becoming more and more walled off, with commercial ventures preventing competition and nationalistic devices like the Great Firewall of China preventing movement of information. There's not going to be one dramatic moment when we wake up and the net is gone. It's probably mostly gone now, and every day a bit more slips away unnoticed. We talk about and react to stories like this, but there are plenty of similar actions that nobody responds to. It's like Google customer support: the only way to make anything at all happen is to make a big stink, and in the long-run even doing that doesn't matter much to the average net user.

I am deeply unhappy and concerned about Turkey's future. I wish there was something I could to to help, but any response at all from the west will be used as political fodder. They're not in a good spot right now.
Yeah, but having 2 ways is a cop-out, IMO - if I'm writing code in a language, or reading someone else's for that matter, there is an expectation of it being idiomatic.
> Jira makes it easy to track what's actually going on.

No it does not, and I said that above more than once. it makes it easy to track what's in JIRA, that's all. To the extent that it's accurate, it constrains what's "actually going on".
California law has special protections that help people who create a startup in their garage in the evenings while working at a company in the daytime: https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2011/lab/division-3/...

As long as they don't use the employer's equipment nor work that they do for the employer or compete with the employer, they can own their own work. This is one of the key legal reasons CA spawns so many startups.
Maybe so but they are entirely different countries currently in the things that matter.
It's even de-evolving to outright discrimination. I worked in a lab where participants were asked to give away their social media data for a chance to win at an ipad. The collecting of the data and lottery selection was done by a group of women. One time a man had one it, and they were upset at that fact and were going to re-run the lottery until a woman won it. I stopped them, but look where we are now.

There were half a dozen of them and none of them even considered what they were about to do was wrong. I wonder how often this happens in other areas.
> Students transition from caring what their authority figures think (teachers/parents) to caring what their peers think (friends). This leads to a degradation in class morale, unity, and overall drive and focus.

I remember this shift clearly. And I felt a lot more unity and focus afterwards than before, it's just that as a teacher, I would've been focused on unifying against you.

Beforehand there was a subtle sense of pride that I usually got straight A's and made my parents proud. Afterward I felt like I had had it wrong the whole time:

It's not me vs you according to whatever metrics the authorities choose, comrade. It's you and me against the status quo. We must specialize in wherever the authorities are weak and exploit that to the hilt. As it turned out, the authorities were confused by their technology, so the clear path forward was for us all to become hackers--or so it seemed at the time.

And so, twenty years later, all my male friends have mediocre academic records and decent salaries, while the girls (regrettably) have it the other way.

I don't know if my path is as open to thirteen year old boys today. We launched our games from a dos prompt, opportunity for exploration beckoned at every keystroke. Nowadays everything is part of a platform, you have to go out of your way to find opportunities to tinker. It's all so constrained.

As I see it, I lucked into a growth mindset that was compatible with my pubescent priority realignment (towards my friends and against authority). Do you think that the modern world offers similar opportunities that I'm just not seeing? If not, should we design for them?
enough algae to balance out one person's daily CO2 generation is in the hundreds of gallons, it's a fun idea but wildly impractical compared to opening a window or using a fan
What makes you think they wouldn’t take a $4/hr job. You know the federal minimum wage for tipped workers is less than that yeah?

The fact that they don’t is only because they can’t, because minimum wage law.
I think it just became more implicit. Your duty is to have a job, to consume content, to buy things, to create your own purpose, to self actualize, to follow popular culture, to stay in the Overton window of political opinion, etc.