skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this entitled attitude. The OP can build things however they want. If their style of building makes it hard for the 0.05% of internet traffic that uses a screen reader, it's not open season to be a shitty person. If I were the OP and received feedback like this, I'd personally start aria describing how you all need a better mix of anti-anxiety and antidepressants.
Except these are huge publicly traded companies. They money flow could easily be tracked from the advertiser to the scammer if efforts weren't being made to hide it. So this is a moot point.
I’ve seen Jira be the source of truth for user stories related to changes. It was neat at first because you could track why something was changed and what it was supposed to do, and even have a user confirm it’s working the way they expected (I hate when bugs are closed because the dev thinks it’s fixed but it actually isn’t). The ticket would point to source or git log if you wanted more detail.

Sadly it developed from a tiny, quick, useful note to a documentation slog when a new project manager joined and wanted a long description of everything typed into the ticket. So I ended up killing Jira altogether.
Then it's merely reducing the "tax" until it is no longer an issue. A combination of efficiency improvements and lower source energy cost can solve this.

The alternatives have their own downsides. Usually in the form of weight or raw material usage. Since the raw material of hydrogen is water, this could easily be much cheaper than the competition.
Happy New Year, hopefully this one will look brighter
- more psychedlic tech ipos; websites such as https://psilocybinalpha.com/ gain more tractions; I expect Compass Pathways (NASDAQ: CMPS) double in mkt cap

- Terence McKenna becomes more relevant again; recordings of McKenna's talks such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijA5RHTJaV4 reach million views

- if we look back in 2030, we'll see 2021 being the year that marks the beginning of the psychedelic renaissance

- as a consequnce of this, more VC money will be poured into BCI research & meditation tech; I expect headspace to ipo

- not optimistic about neuralink's consumer debut though
Unfortunately that is not always the case. This fails to compile, for example (and is fairly irritating):

let my_str = "Hello".to_owned();
match &my_str {
"Hello" => (),
_ => ()
}
> Duty defined by society and not individuals themselves is a mark of a non-free society.

No, it isn't. Many duties are defined simply by being necessary in order to have a society where people can gain wealth by specialization and trade and exercise their individual freedom in any meaningful sense. The very medium in which we are having this conversation, which enables people to exercise their individual freedom to say what they think in a way that has never existed before, wouldn't exist without such a society. Neither would a multitude of other benefits that we all take for granted but which most of the humans that have ever lived did not have and could not even conceive of.

What is the mark of a non-free society is particular individuals telling other individuals what their "duty" is and claiming that they are doing so in the name of "society", when in fact they're just doing it for their own individual benefit.
I was very lucky enough to travel through Turkey. The South Western coast of Turkey, from Antalya to Bodrum, is some of the most beautiful Mediterranean sea coasts in the world. Seriously, take a look at pictures from Fethiye or Kas for example.

I'm not expert on the definition of the word "heritage" but my own impression is these countries share more than just a land border and adjacency to the Aegean sea. The people look similar, dress similar, eat extremely similar food, have similar drinks (raki vs. ouzo), live in similar houses. For much of the time I was in that area of Turkey I remember thinking it felt more like Greece than Greece did!

This should be no surprise (although it was to me). They have been neighbours for millennia and their cultures have mixed and intertwined with each other longer than the USA has existed. Much of the land between them has switched hands back-and-forth between various empires dating back to Alexander the Great (and beyond).

Comparatively, the native peoples of the Americas were culturally isolated for that same length of time until ~500 years ago when Europeans with a completely distinct culture showed up in ships for the first sustained contacts. There is almost no reasonable comparison to be made between the two circumstances.
How do you know what styling the project needed? What styling requires a button to stop being a button?
Happy New Year you beautiful people. Congrats to HN for being one of the last safe havens on the Internet where people can speak their minds and it not descend in to a silly argument.

Here's to a less intense 2021!
Do you care for/about the poor because you want to end suffering for all sentient beings, or for some other reason?
Why companies cut wages when profits soared
It only does it well if you have extremely basic needs.

It doesn't support custom attributes, workflows, approval hierarchies, statuses etc.

There is a reason ZenHub had to be invented after all.
They do on Hacker News! People here seem oblivious to the fact that Microsoft is right behind Apple in valuation.
Can you elaborate on your point?

What I am saying is that these credentials can be stolen from MITM attacks, log files stored on random servers, or even basic mistakes like literally writing the password where other people can see it.

Knowing what kind of operational mistakes Microsoft made that led to account compromises would help others from becoming victim to similar attacks.
Try audio books. It might take a few hours to get used to, but it is worth it. Maybe start with a light book
I was responding to a comment about why Reuters didn't link their source for the article by pointing out that it's consistent with their coverage of trying to sensationalize a pretty boring story. If they linked the Microsoft blog post, people might realize that the story isn't what Reuters is trying to spin it as.

Their motivation of generating click-bait at Microsoft's expense matters as it means you should seek clarifying information from other sources. Or just ignore Reuters and hope the drop in traffic drives them to more closely tell the whole story.
I suspect adding bugdoors to Linux is far easier than it is than for Windows, but there are already so many bugs it's easier and more viable to just look for them than to try to insert them.
$13 with amazon affiliate link from this blogspam, or $5 from ebay directly
Python used to be my tool of choice for all of my small programming tasks, but nowadays I find messing with Python to be an absolutely massive time-waster for me. It used to be my favorite programming language. Now I avoid it entirely because of this nonsense.
Atlassian is in the process if killing off the self-hosted Server versions of their products.

It used to be really annoying that the plugins were split between Server and Cloud. You'd find the prefect plugin for your task and then find it was only available for Cloud or Server.
Yeah, was a pointless nitpick from me, had a smilie in there but Hacker News apparently removes those.

On your comment though: I think maybe MacOS Big Sur disagrees with you: https://twitter.com/voxpelli/status/1343323353294262272?s=21 Not sure if kernel level or other level, but it sure has made eg VS Code pretty slow for some people ;)
Not sure of the math but I had about 17 liters of grow medium, 2w of air pumps, and 50w of leds 24/7 and was producing a shocking amount of biomass.

Also, fresh spirulina is most comparable to tofu. Very little flavor, gag-worthy sponge-like texture. Was trying to make fish feed but had to eat most of it myself as the fish and the dog wouldn’t touch it.

Shut down the operation after a few harvests. Mine was kept warm by sitting on top of a water reservoir that water cooled other grow lights for my main indoor garden, but keeping it warm would be the major cost in most climates, as it grows best in 90 deg F water.
Additionally, at a more fundamental/basic level, I wonder about the social gap we're left with, sans religion. I'm probably biased by my Christian upbringing, but I can't help but miss the camaraderie I experienced growing up in a church. My wife and I just can't bring ourselves to knowingly participate in something that now feels intellectually dishonest.
Another Austinite here.

It's not so much the wealth that is a negative, IMO, but certain elements of the SV culture that feel like they are corrosive. In particular, the attitudes of "I earn high comp and know stuff in my industry so surely I must be smart on all topics" and "I must inject my lefty politics into everything always" are antithetical to Austin's (and Texas's) culture.
What kind of engineering metrics? Do you have any examples?
Slow, unresponsiveness, and worst of all lagged resizing caused my biggest daily annoyances in Jira.
Several times a week, I click a task, and just want to click the link to an associated epic, or something. But that link keeps dipping and dodging my mouse.

I joined another team which used Asana, and it's much better, although certain things can still be slow.
Way of kings is epic in scope. Try Mistborn — it’s faster pace, lower commitment, and showcases Sanderson style and magic system building nicely. Just an aside if you have kids he has a lot of great young adult novels as well. He is simply prolific and enjoyable. I worked through most of one of his writing classes he teaches and it changed how I view fnantsy fiction.
Ask HN: Can't remember the name of this app
I believe the app is standalone but could be/have a web interface, too.

It aggregates popular library/language/framework API documentation on the left side, of which you can install or disable ... libraries like Lodash, Moment, Node, Express, Mocha, etc. IIRC, even JavaScript.

The app would install the documentation and you could omni-search, say, 'sort,' and the main right-side pane would collect the results.

The last I used it, years ago, it also auto-updated the documentation of each library/framework with every new library/framework release.

My web searches are in vain. Please help.
“Again, your ancestors were taught, ‘Never swear an oath that you don’t intend to keep, but keep your vows to the Lord God.’ However, I say to you, don’t bind yourself by taking an oath at all. Don’t swear by heaven, for heaven is where God’s throne is placed. Don’t swear an oath by the earth, because it is the rug under God’s feet, and not by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King. And why would you swear by your own head, because it’s not in your power to turn a single hair white or black? But just let your words ring true. A simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ will suffice. Anything beyond this springs from a deceiver.”

- Matthew 5: 33–37 (TPT)
LinkAce CLI – Your gateway to bookmark nirvana
Or you could just offer a panoply of CSS files and allow the user to select the one representing the current time.
Aren't you just redefining the word "real" there to mean "the idea exists" instead of "a physical person existed"?

But by that definition, Han Solo and Bilbo Baggins are also "real". At what point do we simply use a different word for "physically exists"?
It doesn’t do “what I want”, it’s completely unsuitable for most of the use cases I’ve run into. Additionally, this sort of response will never work with a product manager or ux designer.
Seriously, these people have a body count. Even with folks who avoid being victimized, I wonder how many car accidents wouldn't have happened if someone had been able to get better sleep if it weren't for one of these calls. And then you've got the direct ruin as you've described.

I have no hope that they'll be held to account for the full extent of their crimes, but in a justice system that works for actual justice, they'd be counted as serial killers.
It took ages to figure out where the code even was in the many files and folders. The directory structure did not make it obvious.
Hacker News is I believe a community of approximately 5 million readers at present and far fewer commenters.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...

Dang says "The vast majority of logged-in users don't post and the vast majority of readers don't log in."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098

While hacker news is perfectly usable without a login reddit is pretty much crud without the ability to login and select subreddits and has a readership over 30x bigger. Meanwhile a given subreddit usually has a much much smaller readership but readers in subreddits with radically different standards may be attracted from time to time by posts that link to another subs posts or by a particular post becoming sufficiently popular.

Unlike hacker news these subs also don't have professional moderators paid to maintain their communities. If you don't like how a certain topical sub is run you ought to run your own and manage it how you like and tell us how it went.
Clarification: It will continue, but not necessarily at the same level.

I mean, it existed before, just not at this level. The difference is that it won't be weird or fringe. You're applying for a job, but you want to work from home? For the majority of places, that was a deal breaker before. Now it won't be.
>That's a US$500 camera

yes, its on the cheaper side

>I would purchase one that comes with vendor software that turns it into a webcam

all currently available on the market offer vastly inferior experience, like 720p30 max
Make that winning animation use the GPU!
Through a newspaper article I discovered Lauren Groff. I read and liked The Monsters of Templeton, Fates and Furies and Florida.
This depends on your base image and what it's doing. If you're running like a large elasticsearch cluster.. you're still running a large elasticsearch cluster. Docker overhead should generally be minimal even with the VM that's running, but make sure to use alpine/slim images.
While the sentiment is good, this doesn't sound much different from loyalty oaths and policing your neighbors.
Except when the linked ticket is just a title with no content.

However, I would argue that even some of that metadata is better than no metadata. At least the ticket can provide some clues for anyone who is investigating a change.

I feel like GitHub issues are good enough for this purpose; unfortunately GitHub charges a per user license fee meaning that most non engineers don’t get access by default reducing its usefulness.
And it was not compressed it was just a bunch of files and folders. My guess is it was around 15 CD-ROMs
You don't punish the company for robocalls, you punish them for acting on the robocalls. (And the same for spam.) The act of placing the robocall is only the fault of the robocaller. When the true company follows up on the lead, though, they then become liable.

Yes, they will have to be careful where they get leads from. So what?
> there are legitimate topologies where you don’t.

Perhaps it's time to admit that eliminating those topologies is a cost worth incurring.
Murky Laws Make It Too Easy to Label Good Parents 'Neglectful'
pipenv
This is part of the Trump Administration's "midnight rulemaking" wherein they try to pass new rules without going through proper procedure first. The idea behind these new rules is to create a number of headaches for the Biden administration to deal with before it can get started on its own rulemaking.

"The new fee was announced on December 29 without providing any advance notice to the distilleries it impacts."

Federal agencies can't do that. New fees and other rules must be announced in advance of when they take effect. If the fee or rule itself is new, it must go through a public commenting period first; otherwise, if the rate is simply being changed, then advance notice is sufficient. A new, retroactive rule/fee such as this would have needed to go through both public comment and publication to the FR to be legal.

Expect litigation over this, if the distilleries can afford it. (Or possibly from a constitutional rights group, if they can't).
But the Reuters piece (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-cyber-microsoft/so...) is on point. Microsoft was in fact breached and attacker(s) accessed source code.

Simplified, sure, but not overly so.

(Linking or not linking to corporate blog posts - I agree they should do that, but I suspect it's a general article style guide thing.)
2020 in Review: 8 New AI Regulatory Proposals from Governments
As part of our year-end series, Synced has compiled a global list of proposals, rules and regulatory frameworks for AI introduced in 2020.
At a previous company, management pushed for all the Scrum Masters to be level 1 engineers. It felt like I knew nothing and was then being asked to lead my team of 6. While it was intimidating, it was a wonderful opportunity to learn and grow. 90% of my time was still spent coding, but that 10% was spent communicating with other teams and working out any issues that popped up across the 7~ scrum teams. It was a lot of fun and I only stepped down from the role so a young lady on my team (also a level 1) could give it a try.
If you don't mind me asking, what fiction have you enjoyed? Maybe some people in here can help out.
> forced updates

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.

"at best(worst?)" this thing is "not nicest", but it's totally reasonable.

you have reasonable control over updates on non-home versions, imo.
Non-nuclear AIP diesel submarines have regularly defeated USN submarines in wargames. The US went nuclear because the subs are out on patrol for months at a time, all around the world. You don't need a nuclear-powered sub to defend your own coastline.
Happy new year!

I learned so much from reading this site. I got my first job interview from whoishiring thread, even though I didn't get the job. I got my first freelance project from here as well.

Thank you, HN!
Password based authentication is very bad news. We've known that for decades. It became the first resort anyway†. The RFC this author is complaining about (which is a decade old at this point) is just yet another way to use passwords. Stop it.

If you actually wanted to build one of these today you would not build one of those toy digest systems, you'd use a PAKE such as OPAQUE https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-01

But arguably instead of dedicating effort to trying to "fix" password authentication it's better to just do much less of it. On the web that means much more WebAuthn.

† This mistaken inversion happens a lot. When working on the British railways there is supposed to be an assessment of the safest practical method of performing the work. What used to be known as "red zone" working, where there are still trains using the railway while you work on it, is inherently dangerous and to be avoided. Red zone should be a last resort. But in practice what you will routinely find after a red zone accident is that they picked red zone not out of necessity but simply their planners had fallen into a habit of always justifying this unsafe practice rather than choose methods that might delay things, inconvenience workers or require purchasing equipment. It had become their first resort instead.
There are evangelical Christian sites that interpret this as oaths of office being non-binding or non-Christian, and while I don't think many people consciously use that as a reason for violating their oaths, it's something to keep in mind.
What does this valuation matter?
Having gone through the nightmare of setting up tensor flow with cuda, I can't help but think you're letting that color your view of python as a whole.

Tensorflow, cuda, and nvidia were a nightmare that took me 5 days to resolve on ubuntu 18 since it was my first time setting it up ever. There was literally no working guides or people posting with my exact issue, but tons of posts about other people having a nightmare of a time.

In the end I figured out I had to go find this one file/library nvidia had moved around between versions of drivers/cuda even though documentation suggested they hadn't and I was using the versions that were supposed to work fine. In the end, fixing it was either by setting an environment variable because the default path was wrong or editing the path in a config file. I'm not remembering which now.
Happy new year, except if you use tabs in your editor, that is. j/k
> Russiagate farce

You mean when the DoJ indicted, charged, or successfully prosecuted a number of Russian nationals and members of the Trump administration for election-related crimes or obstruction of justice? That farce? Like someone said, "For a purported witchhunt, they sure found a lot of actual witches."
One scholar disagrees with you. "Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese
History" by Evelyn S. Rawski. https://www.history.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/Evelyn-Rawsk...

"'Sinicization' - the thesis that all of the non-Han peoples who have entered the Chinese realm have eventually been assimilated into the Chinese culture--is a twentieth-century Han nationalist interpretation of China's past."
I've found the easiest way to work with gears is to 3d print my own. That way you can (semi-)easily match them to the shaft diameters and to each other, and you can sometimes make them integral to the things they're driving, if those things are 3d printed too.
Where did you go from Python?
Not sure why this gets down voted, it is the correct definition of "telephoto" (i.e. "the physical length of the lens is shorter than the focal length").
Wouldn’t it have been easier to explain to the project manager that there were costs associated with documenting the minutiae, get them onboard and continue to use the system that has worked for you? (Genuine question, not a rhetorical one)
> this person is watching his close family commit a slow-motion trainwreck, and he's asking for ways to prevent it or mitigate it

And my point is that talking about "lies" will not do that. In order to prevent or mitigate the trainwreck, he would have to convince his family to fundamentally change which sources of information they trust. That's a very, very hard thing to do, but telling people that their beliefs are "lies" doesn't help at all; in fact it makes it even harder.

> Imagine berating a someone who got lost in the woods and has been lost for days and is starving, for not having the right map or not following the trail, or debating the legitimacy of hiking for recreation at all, instead of feeding him or giving him water.

False analogy. The person who is lost for days and is starving knows he is starving and needs help; he doesn't have to be convinced to eat. So of course there's no need to change anything fundamental about his beliefs.

The family in question, however, does not know they have a problem. Imagine a person who has been lost for days and is starving, but says they are perfectly fine and refuses to accept food or water, no matter how hard you try, and won't even let you force food or water down their throat but violently attacks you when you try. Now what do you do?
In case it isn't clear many communities are much smaller communities than hacker news with a fraction of the moderator hours embedded in a community that is hundreds of times larger than the active hacker news community making the probability of drive by negative contribution by the larger community vastly easier and more likely.
I think the evidence is that it cannot.

COVID has been spiking here since November and everyone is wearing masks. I'm not sure what more could be done. Complete lockdown is, like any extreme measure, not practically possible. People need to eat, essential things need to get done.
You probably know about www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu, but just in case.
shoot the unruly dog in defence of a child. problem solved.

You should not be ashamed to get rid of an animal that threatenes people.