skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it’s a matter of life experience. I couldn’t point to a research paper on it more than Chris Voss’ work on negotiation.

I find “why?” is more aggressive and makes people talk more about the generalities of the idea, whereas with “how” and “what” I feel like I can get the why without asking it directly, and closer to the truth.
Ah yes aesthetic usability effect
A programming language is one of the more important tools as a software developer. Having to use a suboptimal tool is neither productive nor fun. You can't always have the latest tool of course, but Java is quite outdated in many regards (even though starting to catch up a bit recently).

I think it has nothing to do with being "enterprise".
Looks like I dodged a bullet thanks to their broken hiring process!

(FWIW, I didn't bother impressing the karat moonlighter even though I was interviewing for a senior position, including 4 years on crypto backend stuff...)
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I think an extended conclusion to draw, which is worth articulating rather than leaving off at a vague notion of humility, is to (try your best to) account for all of our intellectual limitations in the design of the systems that we build.

None of us remembers particularly well. No one can run all of the code in their head. The future person who has yet to join your team doesn’t even get the chance to “remember” the reasoning for the decisions that we make today.
You no longer need 3dsmax for raytracing. But what could be really interesting is to train your ml model against path traced images and apply the outputs to selective areas of your screem where the g buffer provives insufficient information density (i. i.e.foliage)
Its crazy how everyone sees mars as some kind of safety rope when climate change goes bad. Surviving on mars would be 100x harder than the worst case scenario for life on earth.
> I can't speak for the US but here in the UK more than 90% of new, private car registrations are supported by purchases made on finance

I would be wary of this statistic, because it could just mean that only people with leasing plans are buying new cars, and everyone else is buying the cars coming out of lease (which makes sense financially, a car loses something like 30% of its value in the first two years?)
NASA, Axiom Agree to First Private Astronaut Mission on Space Station
sure, but it sometimes seems like the majority do support it.
AI learns to play Hill Climb Racing
Nice quote, but I would refine it a bit:

'The smartest code is the code that has your back in your dumbest moments and boosts your productivity in your best moments'
I can’t speak to the actual act of Java development, but I can speak to Java applications from a sysadmin perspective (15 yr Sr. QA Engineer to a 3 yr Linux admin (don’t ask)) — I’ve got no real beef with Java from the development side, but maintaining some of those stacks in production is pure pain.
This is not splitting hairs!

Ask your grand parents, non tech savvy friends, ... if they are okay with Facebook selling their data to anyone. They will object heavily!

Then ask them if they are okay with Facebook using their data to show them more relevant ads. Many will be okay with that.

Then again, ask them if they feel okay being "tracked" - guess what, nobody likes that.

What I'm trying to say is that I think theres a middle ground in targeted advertising, where there's still enough money to be made and still most people feel like they're getting a fair deal (in paying with their data).
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This is a problem that can only be solved by regulated open banking (i.e. regulator enforcing banks/FIs to build APIs following one standard). Until US has regulated open banking, users will be sharing bank credentials in plain text and providers will be screen-scraping bank accounts.

There's lots of good examples of regulated open banking.
Europe has PDS2. Australia has Consumer Data Right Act. Several other countries that are now implementing open banking legislation: Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, India.

It would be great to see US on that list some day.
Oh my god yes, Facebook groups do suck. I've seen so much tension in groups related to my hobby because beginners tend to ask the same questions over and over again which is fine, but since all the posts are put together in the same feed instead of having categories, the more experienced hobbysts are getting sick of seeing these kind of posts and lash it out on the beginners.

There's constant drama about this, the blame is always put on other people and never on the fact that they use a shitty platform.
I also recommend listening to podcasts like Changelog[1] in which developers are talking through how they approach problems etc., and trying to back up what you don't understand online by watching YouTube conference talks, ideally ones with examples in them from the real world.

Usenix talks, for example, tend to cover a lot of real-world engineering-at-scale challenges. The more you hear how programmers often make mistakes, the more the lessons around humility will sink in. :)

[1]: Re. changelog, and the subject of both mistakes and TDD, https://changelog.com/gotime/174 was a great listen also. Testing has gone from niche to mainstream back to "the best projects do it, but maybe only when forced," and it's interesting to listen to modern takes on what to test and when.
Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, the scrolling animation UX is not very good in some situations, but I really wanted to try something like this as I had never built one before. I'll add a more accessible static version of the web page that users can toggle to if they find the scrolling one uncomfortable.

I agree that the documentation is almost non existent at this point, but would work on adding it in the coming weeks.
The plan is to bring common browser actions and make them more accessible via the keyboard. The features present right now definitely have room for improvement, some of which are being discussed on the GitHub repo.
It's not a harmless vaccine. You want to mandate vaccinating people who are at no risk from the disease, and expose them to unnecessary risks. And that means children - all to protect sick people who for the most part are already isolated. They are in hospitals or sick people homes, where you can protect them in other ways.

Also the comparison with other vaccines does not automatically make sense. All vaccines are not the same. At least in my country, so far recommendations for vaccinations had been "conservative" to only vaccinate against things that seem especially risky. There is a reason why people are not simply being vaccinated against all possible diseases.
Simply don’t tell them you’re looking. Or (less simply) have savings enough to float for a few months and take a vacation. “Fuck you” money is a joy.
What We’ve Lost in Rejecting the Sabbath
I suppose you can just summon such a person without effort? Recruiters get paid for a reason and we're talking about a situation where they don't even have the money for devs.
Antarctica is more hospitable than Mars. The average temperature on Mars is -81 degrees F. The South Pole is generally -76 F during the Southern Winter.

On top of that, Antarctica has a breathable atmosphere, and water. Mars does not have a breathable atmosphere, and if it has water, it does not have water in an easily accessible form. Mars also has 2.5x the radiation one would experience orbiting the Earth, or approximately 35x the radiation one would generally experience on Earth.

We would literally have to destroy Earth before Mars becomes a more viable option for continued human existence.
> Build better walls.

Rebuilding all houses in the world because someone creates a totally superfluous gadget. Seems reasonable.
I am paid for expressing my opinion? How very nice of someone. Please wire me my moneys, haven’t received them yet!
Not just EU. Also Australia, Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, India. Canada is rumoured to have this soon as well.
Self-taught coders who work full time as software developers
> the vile life that is corporate cubicles

I’m sorry, but this triggered me. Have you tried an open office? I long for my cubicles.

At least then I had like 4 square meters to myself. Both my space and my privacy have been degraded more and more.
Prisma, Next.js, & Postgres Pitfalls
I liked the way Brent Simmons put it: since debugging is 10 times harder than writing code, write the code as you were 10 times dumber, otherwise you will not be able to fix it.
>I have seen an overwhelming amount of evidence that if you've recovered you are safe.

That's reassuring thank you.

>Even though the numbers in India now are high, they are still significantly lower per capita than they were in the USA and UK last year.

But there's consensus among the scientific community that it's being widely under-reported; At least 80-90% lesser than actual figures according to Dr. Ashish Jha dean of Brown University, School of Public Health[1].

P.S. Those who want to make a political comment for the above statement, I request you not to do so out of respect for the dead. I shared the information since we're discussing numbers and not for any political blame as Dr. Jha himself says.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63_YPC-mQ5w
Not if it's part of an ongoing process where other employees through this are empowered to go full remote as well, until it becomes the norm.
If you wonder why they closed their SF office, here you have the answer!
Now imagine what will be accomplished with 5G.. puts on tinfoil hat.
> but god help you if the database gets corrupted

What is this FUD nonsense you're attempting to spread here?

systemd-journald assumes journals marked as ONLINE when opened for writing are potentially corrupted, and renames them rather than attempting to write to them, which produces messages like "journal corrupt, renaming".

Those renamed journals still participate in journalctl queries, the data isn't lost. It's just a bit of wasted space in the interest of not risking actually corrupting an uncleanly shutdown journal by writing to it.
Yeah, the technical security in all these systems is a bit half-hearted†. However, in my opinion the key is to legislate that the banks (who built or in some cases purchased said half-hearted system) eat the cost of that. Maybe they're comfortable with say $10Mpa of fraud in the system, if they really can't build a safer one for less than $10M you can see they'd have a point.

The problem comes when banks are able to argue that their half-hearted security means they aren't liable to pay for the consequences. Consumers need protecting against that.

† In the UK we have a lot of 3-D Secure, developed by Arcot. But of course the average consumer has no idea who "Arcot" are, and so no reason why they should distinguish an arcot.com site (legitimate, you're supposed to give them credentials if necessary to authenticate you) versus say badguy.example (a hypothetical phishing fraud). Both of them can show you branded imagery from your bank, both have a padlock, both claim they're keeping you safe. How should an ordinary person know?
You are both kind of right. I would say that we Germans like our privacy perhaps more than some others, but that we do have many blind spots and are generally not well educated about the issues with Facebook and similar. There is also a difference between the uninformed young user (useds) and the people, who have been around long enough and have an attention span long enough to recognize the patterns.
Thanks! Yes, size is a priority to me, most of the extensions I have seen that come close have a large size and also aren't very performant in terms of the feedback and response times.
Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, now valued at $4.5B
Astra is hard sell to people under 50, and is looking less effective against variants.

The cost of Pfizer is a lot more than the per shot cost, you need highly specialised storage and distribution due to the low temperature requirements.
They don't know whatever they're doing. 2.5 years ago, they shutdown all remote positions and focused on they SF office, now they're back remote first...
Nural evolution at it's finest.
Consider reverting access key of new “Copy Link” context menuitem from L to A
I’ve been to Denmark two years ago and I have no memory of any border check. It was by plane btw, maybe the checks are different but it would be surprising. It is totally possible however that the check was so fast that I don’t remember it. Do you have any information about this ?
Ransomware crooks post cops’ psych evaluations
How many Goldman employees have you met?
No, it looked at reinfection for up to a year. "Out of 149,735 individuals with a documented positive PCR test between March 2020 and January 2021". The 100 days was the threshold they used for recovery.
I've been teaching in University environment and the disparity of computers and operating system versions made the Arduino IDE the way to go. It just works everywhere.

Plataformio in my opinion is good for people who are familiar already with Arduino and VScode type of editors.
Yes. Wait for the idiots to put their cash into it, and extract that. The rest should wait for more idiots. Too bad for the ones who get in last. So good for him.
Will this new architecture make it so sharing banking login credentials with Plaid is unnecessary? Similarly, will it change how much data Plaid scrapes from those bank accounts and shares with “partners” as described in the privacy policy?

https://plaid.com/legal/

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/198005/is-plaid...
You are a beast
I'll cross-post instead of guessing. Another comment here:

> URVs were quoted in cruzeiros reais and its intrinsic value was pegged to three price indices and had a fixed parity of 1-to-1 to the daily U.S. dollar exchange rate. [0]

> The problem with pegging your currency is that you get a disconnect between the official value and the private value. So introducing this new currency which was pegged, and transferring over only once the disconnect was resolved was the stroke of genius.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor
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Let's enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere
With the monitor, you could try using a 'hot staple welder'. Its the sort of thing usually used with car bumpers, and I'm not 100% sure the plastic is right for these things.. But it might be worth a try?

https://www.amazon.com.au/Stapler-Bumper-Plastic-Repair-Stap...
Well, if you include poor people everywhere, governments are massively hurting them via immigration restrictions. With no gain to balance.
For me, I learnt a lot of ideas from the MIT e-vent arduino repository. I’d say it’s a nice mature arduino project that’s not too large to grok. Ex. Abstraction of sensors into classes that have a setup, read, shutdown methods. Keeping timing state within the sensors etc. It really changed the way I was coding against arduino
Lisp has been around for 60 years. Its adoption is lower than Cobol's or Fortran's and definitely lower than that of modern languages. Despite multiple commercial pushes over the decades.

That's what's weird.
> but it's certainly an unnecessary vulnerability.

Why do it then? In another comment I shared that even people you consider best friends for years could betray your trust and even if we take that possibility away there is still the question of how secure that data is in their hands.

Are they going to leak it inadvertently? Can someone else gain access to their systems and spy on you through them?

> many younger people don't think it's too too odd

Don't you think that is bad? People are just getting used to loosing their rights for minor "convenience". Not to mention that getting used to constant surveillance isn't great either.
Clubhouse Might Still Win
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I think those guardrails often help with the humility the article discusses - they reduce cognitive load, and let you focus on the problem at hand, at the expense of expressing total creativity. It's a tacit admission that we aren't all knowing, and often need help from our tools to save us from ourselves.
Read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/21/health/vaccine-nursing-ho...

"An unvaccinated worker set off an outbreak at a U.S. nursing home where most residents were immunized." One vaccinated resident died.
Interesting that patients who already had high vit C / good immune system in their body did not see
a significant or relevant change.

Quote...

"During the 1970s, studies by ... Pauling suggested that high-dose vitamin C has beneficial effects on quality of life and survival time in patients with terminal cancer. However, some subsequent studies—including a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial ... did not support these findings. ...patients with advanced colorectal cancer who received 10 g/day vitamin C fared no better than those receiving a placebo. The authors of a 2003 review assessing the effects of vitamin C in patients with advanced cancer concluded that vitamin C confers no significant mortality benefit."
IIRC, OpenBanking in the UK requires a re-auth every 90 days with the 2FA. I think thats a very reasonable balance, and means services don't have perpetual access.
I would argue the opposite, and in fact this comment convinces me a positive test should not be relevant to determining immunity.

A single positive result means so little, giving someone with your thinking that excuse not to get vaccinated just isn’t worth it.

You “risk it” for others, not yourself.
Don't negotiate. Dictate.

If you're already in place and have proven that you're good at what you do, this is the way to go.

"I wanted to let you know that I'll be staying remote from here on out. This last year has been a huge improvement in quality of life for me, and honestly I couldn't imagine working out of an office again. I'd love to stay with you guys (this is a great team), so let me know if that's an option. If not, I'm sure I can wind down my projects by next month."

Good developers are hard to find, and the market right now is on fire, so you're a lot more valuable to them then they are to you.

Even back when that was less the case than today, this was my standard method of negotiating things like long leaves of absence and shortened work weeks. I've written about it previously:

https://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/2007/02/two-weeks-vac...
> It was literally built with guardrails to keep enterprise coders from getting too creative

Just as Go.
Those requirements are welcome to be negotiated.

But negotiation often isn't occurring in good faith. There's way too much flat-earth- holocaust-denial- style arguments from those who "just don't want to be told what to do". Getting vaccinated doesn't take away someone's liberties; "I don't want to be told what to do" is not an argument against vaccination. Many of these people are just making noise, and it's getting old.

I'm not saying there aren't good arguments for not getting vaccinated, but it falls flat when those same people got vaccinated in order to attend public school or have state issued IDs or use passports or will bitch about a loved one dying because they failed to get vaccinated.
Is there no limit to this surveillance capitalism thing? At what point does it get dystopian enough for them to stop?
No need to stop the rant :) I'm curious about the reasons models +/- weights are published less frequently.

For starters, is that actually the case? I don't know, genuine question.

Second, and I recognise the humorous intent regarding sexy pandas, are ethical concerns actually the reasons some models/weights are not released? Or is it about hoarding a potentially valuable commodity? Or some other reason, or a combination of several?
‘New research found that reduced food intake in roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans) has a detrimental effect on three generations of offspring’

And therefore IF is a bad idea?

Good old medical study journalism, hey?
So, some clarifications..

This is not my article, I just found it when searching for any data on the subject. I'm aware of the article author's bias on the subject.

We run a B2B SaaS and 20% is the drop we've seen (comparing to monthly numbers of the last 5 years). This still needs to be analyzed better but it's taking time due to our messy system of multiple carts using different payment service providers.

Personally as an EU citizen I'm very in favor in these changes. I think the UX will become even more of a differentiator for banks and related products which is great. Banks FINALLY being forced to open APIs is also great for the fintech industry, so I'm not bitter at all. Just curious to see what other SaaS businesses have seen in their Euro traffic.
Meanwhile, people are clinging to decade-old Thinkpads like they were made of gold.

Most laptops and pretty much all desktops are x86-64, as are both major home consoles.

Sure, ARM is dominant on mobile, and it's definitely going to grab a share of the laptop market now that Apple is going that route.

Eventually we might also see ARM based desktop computers again, but having them grab the majority of sales will take time. I'm sure it'll happen - just not within a decade.
We have a bunch of onyx printers at work and the parts are so pretty! The mechanical engineers probably go through $1k of filament a week at least. I've been iterating on my hobby printer for a few years now, and like to compare my prints to the onyx prints for inspiration. I think you guys cheat a little bit since it's such a matte finish; it hides a lot of blemishes. :-) The one time I printed a part myself on an onyx, I noticed that the slicer didn't print "thin" walls and instead left gaps in the part, though. Is that a quirk of the slicer, or did I probably just have a setting wrong?
The Humility from the article is not meant in the social context, but technical.

It is about understanding how well we can reason about code, not about how humble we must present ourselves.

The fact many commenters here talk about the social humility, makes me believe many hn readers have read the article (let alone the therein linked articles) poorly or not at all.
Not true. People generally prefer Pfizer, but will take whatever just to be done with it.

I had Astra, so did several people from my social circle. Hell, some took JJ being aware of its level of effectiveness.

The vaccines need to be stored at a low temperature - that's it. I doubt it adds more than €1 to the price.
Well, just look at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/lin... ?
Optimizing Web Vitals Using Lighthouse
I second this! I've been sending sensor data into the https://sensor.community cloud for over a year now, with dead simple setup and forget-about-it attitude since then. For the lazy there is also an option of spending ~50€ for a plug-and-play version [1]. Independently of that, you also get a grafana web GUI after registering your chip, e.g. [2].
On another note, I hope these databases from similar projects stay mergable or the projects even merge.

[1] https://nettigo.eu/products/sensor-community-kit-sds011-bme2...
[2] https://api-rrd.madavi.de/grafana/d/q87EBfWGk/temperature-hu...
The linked article said Bitcoin.