skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've felt a lot of "false" positivity espoused by project managers, especially those in charge of agile ceremonies.

Examples: "I'm really {proud,impressed} of all of you for your output this sprint", "You guys are {killing,crushing,owning} it", "You all should be very proud of what you guys did", etc.

These aren't given after periods of crunch time, they're literally every week to the point where it feels so contrived and artificial. They're given when we're just doing normal, expected work.

I've mentioned this to colleagues and friends and there seems to be two camps of people: those who want constant positive reenforcement and those who it completely has the opposite effect, an annoyance. I guess I fall into the latter.
Sometimes it is connectedness. See

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzCcVGbO9rw - Interview with Raghuram Rajan, who was the Governor of Reserve bank of India, was chief economist of IMF, and now a professor in US

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1qS4gdutso - Interview with a maverick political consultant, kinda like Frank Luntz of India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6lolKKm2LU - Interview with Saudia Arabia foreign minister

I am sure I can find more examples, but the point is that during a 21 year career, of which a few years as a prime time host, you build a lot of network, you get a lot of local awards, that when a US school comes fawning, it may be a small surprise, but you take it in the stride.
Sure, but if you're not on the spot in an interview, the master theorem is simple enough to apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_theorem_(analysis_of_al...
The important pre knowledge is that every polynomial is dominated by its largest exponential term (for x to infty).
How would you even “store” data on a domain?
I don't doubt that phishing exists, but it's still a tail risk, it's not like the majority of the internet population got scammed 24/7 before google stepped in. So if google were to abuse that power then we could choose living with an increased risk instead of trusting them. At least until another solution is found.
Well, more like the Cinnamon DE isn't. And, yeah, if you stray from the two superpower DEs with the most dev polish (KDE and GNOME), you're asking for jank and bugs.
The article's conclusion makes sense to me. Too much negativity is wrong for kind of obvious reasons. Too much positivity is also wrong, because not everything is positive so it sounds fake.

In my experience, the best outlook is to appreciate what is actually good in life (e.g. your qualities, good things that happen), and accept that what is bad (e.g. your flaws, bad things that happen), are bad.

Unfortunately if you barely have anything, than your life objectively sucks and no outlook is going to make you happy. But the thing is, I've seen a lot of people who are depressed that don't "barely have anything", they have food and shelter and qualities and things going on in their lives which should make them happy, but they still spend their time thinking about the things they don't have.
Curious why this is downvoted? Seems like the first step any counsel would take in this scenario.
It’s a profession. It’s hard work poking fun at people who are so deadly serious at being stupid.
Do you think the 1982 breakup of AT&T would have been possible in today's political reality?
They both seem to be missing Lectures 1,2, and 3. Not sure if that is intended, but it's a strange coincidence if it's not intended.
Look at the file types gmail blocks from being directly attached to emails for a comprehensive list.
I feel the entire history of capitalism undercuts that argument!
Ask HN: USB-C Hub for MacBook Air M1 that supports 4K 60hz and ethernet?
I had the exact same thing happen to me, AWS did delete half of the charges, but still left me with 700$ on the account. So obviously, now AWS isn't my first go-to place to do business.
Aegis Authenticator – Open-source 2FA for Android
It would be nice if retraction watch publicly messaged those who cite retracted papers and publicly logged their responses.
There are legitimate reasons to set minimum prices: It can prevent price dumping, where a company with deep pockets starves out competition and the hikes the prices once competition is gone (or otherwise abuses its now dominant status).

Rebates can also be used to covertly raise prices: Just declare your current price a rebate, then at some point "return" to the regular price which is now higher. Also great for discriminating against certain groups or forcing a certain behavior: Just tailor the rebate to everyone except the group you're targeting.
Yes! I clicked on this article explicitly to post about Li Ziqi. Talking with a chef friend, her kitchen technique and skills are really good.

On a different note, this article reminds me of the book Walkaway. Unfortunately, we aren't at a place where hardware (meat space). Has the same instantaneous iteration, and recycling of elements as software.
> You do not become a tenured faculty, let alone an associate professor, at Harvard's FAS if you have no research background.

This is not something someone without a research background would know.
Or better stated, dishonesty does more harm than good.
It's such a shame. The same thing happened to our night support guy. Someone came in earlier than he expected... He kep his job as we were a tiny company and the ceo was too crazy for HR to mean much. But then left when they cut his pay as punishment. Staff turnover went up as suddenly everyone had to start covering 6pm till 1am shifts NYC time... Pfft I say.
Prime example is the current Cosmo row about putting obese models on cover ("This is healthy") while Covid is rampaging in the US and killing obese people https://www.rt.com/news/511466-cosmo-fat-healthy-covid-cover...
They were billed at the outgoing end, handled at the local exchange for the most part. Handled offline until quite late at a lot of them -- think rolls of paper tapes (later magtape) logging calls, to be read in at the billing office at the end of the month.

You'd still have to know which exchange the call was coming from, to track it that way.
So what would be a deceptivly simple unsolved problem?
You may be interested in this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
exponential backoff will still kill the servers because the first thing people do is kill/restart the app or reload the webpage and it will just restart the backoff again
I am using LTE internet via Huawei 3372 and it stops for about a minute or two exactly 6 hours after starting the modem (of course during some important call). After it, existing connections continue to work. I'm curious to know what might be causing this.
If you have S3 bucket logging turned on, the cost will continue to grow forever, because it's literally generating its own transaction charges and then snowballing the storage. It's like an evil genius's perpetual motion machine. You'd think they'd know how to delete all of those things when the account is closed, since they certainly know how to bill for them.
They should just dole out cryptocurrency every time they say that. The words would have meaning again.
I have an old java (7, 8) app I maintain that whenever possible I move classes to Groovy as I am making other changes in them.

I would probably do Kotlin, now, but that wasn't an option when I started this.

The amount of boilerplate removed is one big win, but moreover the more functionally oriented aspects of most anything you'd do with a for-loop in java is wonderful.

And with annotations such as @CompileStatic and @TypeChecked, I am able to forgo SOME of the syntactic niceties for the compile-time binding java-comparable speed.
Evolutionarily, men have a much harder time being submissive.
> Who exactly is going to pay for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cloud spend you propose they turn up?

Their 100M+ loan they got from Acton
Do you happen to have a link to Feynman’s comments on the topic?
Ok? I never said anything about PhDs. What I said was that people typically aren't hired in at the associate level. Those that are would typically be professors who have tenure at another institution, meaning that they're already at the associate level or higher. People who are denied tenure at their current institution and want to continue in academia would apply to an assistant professor job and negotiate a shortened tenure clock, meaning that they would be assessed for tenure in fewer than the standard 6 years that a brand new, never held a professorship of any type assistant professor would have.

Again, this is a lot of esoterica about the academic job market that not many people outside of those circles is going to know, so I don't blame anyone for not knowing it.
Comparing present day Uganda to Uganda under Idi Amin is a grossly incorrect stature to take. Tbh this comment is a bit triggering for myself as a Ugandan and quite a misrepresentation of the country. Since this is right at the top, I feel like I need to respond.

All the skulls - That's not a thing, I can't recall seeing any growing up in Uganda. Sure there have been wars in the country but that was decades ago...

Bad things happened there and it has never recovered:
The country has developed significantly since the 70s just like most other places in the world. That statement is so far from the truth

Homosexuality: Definitely a strong opposition to it in the country. However, the media representation is an extreme versus the day to day. If you are gay in Uganda, I do agree that it is probably best to stay in the shadows

I urge you to please think about what you are going to write before writing such a comment. You haven't lived in the country for 40 years. Can you really know anything about it's present state?
Thats always the issue with these games. I don't want to play a Roguelike ultra difficult game that I also have to race through. If I wanted to do that I'd play online FPS twitch shooters.

However then if you slow down those mechanics enough the brain can out think a computer AI so people complain because the game is too easy. I think the reality is that while these games are cool and fun the AI part needs to be very good and very advanced. Probably several years in the works like dwarf fortress. Most game cycles simply cannot support this so you end up with basically a cool idea that has to be reduced to a gimmick for sales.
I used to write notes to keep me busy and engaged during class and now meetings. It’s almost like an acceptable form of doodling. But I rarely ever go back to my notes. I think everything in my notebook can fit in one page in terms of useful information. I hated when my managers would tell me writing things down is important. If it’s important, I’ll document it correctly, not scribble it in a book.
There's an effective monopoly on web browsing, and then any private decision here becomes de facto censorship. How can this be constitutional, ants need to rise and get some rulings down on this topic, the web needs to be brought back to how it was.
For security there are much more important aspects than memory security (memory safe is better, where Rust is probably on par with Python and Ruby).

While I use neither Rust nor Ruby, they seem to have a very different attitude towards explicit vs. implicit expressiveness and exact, correct code. I'd trust explicit code much more than spooky-action-at-a-distance and it-works-dont-ask-me-how.
Couldn't you signal the deadlocked process based on monitoring pidfd of the crashed one, then break the deadlock in the interrupt handler?
root.cern was affected by this in the fall, apparently due to a false positive in the windows installer. It was resolved relatively quickly (a day or so?) but hugely inconvenient for e.g. documentation, and of course the particle physics community has connections. root.cern.ch worked but the internal links were all over the place.
Is it common for linear growth to cause these sorts of issues? Any postmortems to share from similar app failures?
I'm wondering if another way to handle that would be the server accepting the request, but not actually servicing it. Basically let it timeout so that the client doesn't retry (at least, does not retry before timeout)
We’re pretty sure they get reports from Chrome. A security researcher at my workplace was running an exploit against a dev instance as part of their secops role and got the domain flagged, despite the site being an isolated and firewalled instance not accessible to the internet.
Why should third party browsers be able to use google servers to store data? Why should google provide this service for free?
The article is mentioning Instagram as an amplifier of this need to fake being happy. But I think Facebook is responsible for it as well.

I was once talking to a colleague who was showing me some old vacation pictures. Some tropical area. I commented that they were looking amazing. He said that actually there was a pile of garbage next to them, but they only put the good looking photos on Facebook.

Everybody wants to look perfect online, so much of the appearances are faked. It makes sense, since everything is public, so we feel pressured to make ourselves look good. Repeated, I am not surprised that it can cause harmful psychological effects.
> they probably don't realize what's happening and will fix it

“If only the czar knew!”
Wikipedia has a list of big-name unsolved problems in complexity theory. Most of these have very simple problem statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_c...
Is gelded a typo or is this an expression I wasn't aware of?

I kind of like it, without sincere emotions something was missing (like when a horse is gelded).
I have changed the ending of the title to (TTL only, no microprocessor)...
Personally, having a good attitude will be better over the long run than a bad attitude for mental health but lying to people won't solve anything. An over-excited spirit can be just as weakening as an under-excitied spirit.

To each their own, but I find be joyful or humourous during hard times is much better for people to be around than to be someone denying someone else's individual right to be happy.
I seem to notice these posts every month or so and there's some new tool recommended (Foam! Roam! Obsidian! zotero!) and I'll download said tool, try it out for a few minutes and think "Hmm, ok, that might be neat" and then promptly forget about it.
Are “monomorphism” and “reification” interchangeable terms though? Considering how .NET now has covariant/contravariant generics I wonder if it could be described as having “polymorphic” generics as opposed to monomorphic generics - (unrelated to OOP polymorphism, ofc).
Execute Query (ER Diagram)
Is your ISP att/fiber? I have exactly the same problem every night at 4am.
I've seen this happen with provider- or phone- default messaging apps on Android. Yet another reason to go with (at least) an unlocked phone.
Why teaching programming is so difficult?
Evergreen Notes
Here's a fairly exhaustive rebuttal: https://mobile.twitter.com/BMauschen/status/1333466298072911...

I'll leave the translation up to the readers.

That former Pfizer guy apparently claimed in October that the coronavirus pandemic is “effectively over” in the United Kingdom. Clearly a man with special insights.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/02/blog-posti...
how can you be sure at the outset that you have designed a good prompt[?]

The link to Matuschak that you supply explicitly argues that you need to go back and revise prompts based on developments in your knowledge and new connections found. This includes eliminating prompts that are too easy, reformulating them for greater personal import and adding new ones to shore up areas of weakness.

It is difficult.
Look up how DoH and ECH store public keys in the DNS system :)

Not what the author intended but DNS as a Database is a thing.
Hah, I almost fell for the same thing, but when they asked for 4! $1000 codes! over email! I got a bit suspicious.

Could have probably gotten 4 times $50 out of me though.
http://executequery.org/screenshots

HTTP only? no HTTPS
I read that book. I came across that Boies fellow at other times, too. SCO vs IBM. But also while reading Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (about Harvey Weinstein).

He appears to be of the 1% group.
... it's also not a "coprocessor"
If the business wants to argue that, they can sue Google for defamation/libel.
Is the retracted paper correct? That’s the only question that matters. And perhaps those scientists have developed their views by actually looking at the science? Is that possible? Don’t shoot the messenger.
It's hilarious during interviews when everyone says "I've never worked at a company like this", "I've never worked with a team like this, truly the best"...I roll my eyes...
traceroute?
Would you post an email in your profile? I'd love to get in touch!
SQuirreL SQL
Kotlin is great, gradle has improved a lot in the past two years, especially since it supports .kts scripts, but it's still shit. Now, I'm very happy write rust
Boom: A high-performance open source RISC-V core
Many have posted about gradle builds forced on them but I've found modern Gradle to be quite nice. I don't reach for anything too complex - I just list deps and plugins.

Writing new plugins is far easier with Gradle than Maven (and way way way less ugly to configure) and there are more plugins available (and usually of higher quality than their maven counterparts).

Speed is significantly better than Maven. Incremental builds gave us back 80% of our time spent sitting on maven. Reusability is much better than maven too.

There are definite footguns but if you can avoid them (which I understand requires work and itd be better if they were not there at all!) then Gradle is decent. Its no Cargo but woe is life. The few times I had to parse a file at build time to read some credentials in jenkins I've been grateful im using Gradle instead of Maven.
I love that almost everyone here has some sort of "family IT syndrome" but still got nerdsniped but the question
Depending on what rung you're on in the corporate ladder, if the head of the institution "needed me" immediately, I'm extraordinarily skeptical they do not have a means of contacting me directly. Especially if they have assistants and other immediate VP's. Hell a corporate directory to look up my number...

If a CEO is gonna want me fired because I'm being skeptical of the veracity of an email, I wouldn't want to work at such a place.
What's up with Elon's tweet about Signal... wtf?
Some routers allow to reboot daily at a set time. Worth checking the settings of your router.
AIM wasn't very private...
Sure those are possibilities, but how likely are they in the cases I described? If they were true, we'd expect the opposite trends before regulation: increasing freight prices, fewer railroad companies, less competition on routes. But that wasn't the case.

It seems much more likely to me that this was more regulatory capture than benevolent governance. After all, if we assume the railroads wanted to make as much money as possible, why would they welcome a regulatory body? They must have thought that the regulations would help their business.
No HTTPS on sourceforge?
I did! Thanks¡
The bloat isn't in the X server, it's in the DE itself. You can start an X server and an xterm (without even a window manager) on pretty much an empty tank.
Wall Street and a corrupt government trashed America by allowing the industrial base that provided value, productivity and purpose to people's lives to be merged, sold and offshored until all that's left for middle America to do is try to get a job at Walmart.

Big tech gives those people a voice. Kara Swisher just doesn't like what they're saying.
Sounds like a non-aligned AI.
There is no "separate processor". These are just private ISA extensions.
At 3:30, disconnect your router from your modem and connect a laptop directly to the modem. No wifi. Start a speed test or long video or something and just watch the modem through to 4:00.

HAVE a separate modem and router.
Ask HN: How do you like developing on an M1 Mac so far?
I know VMs don't work for it yet. How has been otherwise programming on a mac with arm chip?
It's a little more than that. You need to account for the fact that n log n dominates n, but not n^2, as well. That's not hard, but you should spell it out.

This discussion is making me think that a good way to write a "Big-O explainer" would be sort of like a progressive web app, i.e. "here's the explanation with the highest level of mathematical sophistication. Click here to get some of the prerequisite knowledge." Then, the user just keeps clicking "break it down more" until either they get it or they reach the most detailed explanation.
Old media are the main one's "losing to tech". So we've got some incentives for articles like this
Dozen Years ago I built a backend Ruby server, (not rails), I needed max performance.

Our front end flex guy didn’t understand backing off on retries.

Some system had an issue, that caused the flex app for 1000 people to go insane. Each calling ruby app endlessly with no delay.

Ruby app remained healthy, server crashed in under 5 minutes from running out of disk space.

Our alarm interval on free space ran every 5 minutes. So no time for an alarm to sound.

A mix, of I was very proud of my little ruby app for scaling. And a a wtf, I needed to be more involved with front end people.
Mars being really habitable isn't too likely for a long time. But an industrial economy in space, with space power generation and providing additional resources and headroom for mankind on Earth, is attainable in 60-100 years. And mankind being fully self-sufficient out there off the planet may be possible in 200 years.
https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis GPLv3
I cancelled my amazon subscription because I realized thst lost prime-only products are actually slightly more expensive than non-primes... Often making the "free shipping" with prime not attractive anymore. I rarely need to receive the junk I buy the next day and most products still arrive in 2-3 business days in Germany. Amazon prime is a scam.

Cancelling my prime membership made me make way less impulse purchases. It also encouraged me to explore other great online shops that deliver equality as fast, but only carry a curated selection of products, none of that aliexpress garbage.
If you are a big enough company your lawyers could have a stern but relatively friendly chat with Google’s lawyers.

I can neither confirm or deny this myself...
I've seen "Network is unreliable" being used as an argument to hide laziness. I do agree you can have flaky network, but the biggest give of the laziness behind the argument is not inspecting error codes at all. In this particular case 508 for example is clear indicator of some error status. Why would you even keep blind retries in place? I hate the argument of devs arguing for "dumb clients" and server "taking care of everything". Even for network failures IDK how having a retry within millisecond will actually help. It will be more detrimental to your infra, bandwidth, battery than a once or twice snappy experience argument.
There was literally a TV show called "Psych" that was a play on the phrase. It is quite normal to write the word correctly. I think it would be very weird if the show had been called "Sike."
They would just launch their own crypto, allowing them to gamify their teams for all eternity.
Did you even read the article? "Hold enter, unlock Gnome-screensaver."

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1308572

If you go back to an older GNOME version you can probably also find the current Cinnamon bug in there, it is in libcaribou after all.
> but it forced me to throw out my assumptions and start over.

You already forgot what Chapter 3 was all about :)
I honestly wonder if you could take them to small claims court...