skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I doubt you are actually working together on a common goal though, if you do not see value in standups for example.

It sounds like you're assuming the only way to sync up with folks is a stand up, which is just ridiculous. I'd even make the argument that if you think you need a stand up so that team members actually communicate with each other then you're not working on an actual team, you're working with other people that are loosely grouped together. Any good team I've ever worked on, people just organically collaborate as needed. You don't have to wait for some arbitrary sync-up time to let each other know what's going on.

In general, I'm not necessarily against stand-ups, as long as they're quick and don't turn into status meetings. In my mind, a perfectly reasonable stand up could be "does everyone know what they're doing? Does anyone need help?" and if the answers to those are "yes" and "no" respectively, then we can be on our way. But more often these things turn into minor status report meetings, where everyone starts saying "this is what I did yesterday; this is what I'm doing today..." and often those details are not relevant for everyone on the team and could just as easily be communicated elsewhere in an async fashion.

I feel like a lot of things like stand-ups exist for the lowest common denominator teams. Bad teams don't organically communicate, people slack off if you don't micromanage them, etc., and so for those teams you NEED a stand-up. But then it gets forced on everyone and is a drag for high-performing teams, and good people end up leaving because they just don't want to deal with all the BS. So you end up with a self-fulfilling prophecy where what you're mostly left with is bad teams and so it feels like stand-up is necessary or is working. It's kind of maddening.
Yup, you can't. Keys are perfectly trackable by Cloudflare, but they promise they won't do this.

Edit: I was wrong. Cloudflare claims they could track people, but it would require tracking via cookies. [1] The hardware security keys have an "attestation key pair" that is shared among all units in one production batch (which contains at least 100K units). [2]

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attest...

2: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-2/#sctn-attestation-privacy
I'm curious. For your books, do you offer the ACX narrator paid work per finished hour, or as a Royalty Share?
Hopefully there will be a scalafmt rule that can enforce consistency.
So, basically your point is that saying "don't care" about "unwritten gentlemanly rules" is an indicator of one's intelligence.

I'm pretty sure that it certainly is an indicator of several personality traits, but it doesn't tell you anything about being "smart".
OT: In my recollection that comic ends with the 'That's terrifying' panel. Does XKCD ever update comics or is that a new iteration?
happy Elder.js user here! just want to tag on my site for folks who are considering adopting elder/svelte/tailwind:

https://swyx.io/ and source code: https://github.com/sw-yx/swyxdotio/

and it is working great for SEO/performance despite me layering on some extra js for tweets and youtube links and the like.
Vicky isolates tenants into their own "shards" so we mostly don't have to worry about it. It's also pretty good at high cardinality.
HU3 HU3 HU3 BR
Good points you make here. Thanks for saying things that I don't want to hear :)
> Is that really specific to IRC? I'm sure there's at least as much drama on Discord or large Whatsapp/telegram groups today.

The fact that anyone can start their own group limits tin god syndrome on those networks. IRC requires moderate technical skill and either running or paying for servers, which is enough of a hurdle that admins can get away with quite a lot of bad behaviour before being ousted.
>2.) It is harder for ISP to analyze the web traffic of their customers to build profiles which they can sell. Only Google has these information.

Using DPI to view the SNI (which is still in plaintext... for now, anyway) of all connections is very easy.

Even once that's patched, most users still use the DNS servers provided by their ISP, which can easily log queries. Even if you created junk queries to add noise, it's child's play to correlate DNS query with the TCP SYN (or UDP datagram for QUIC etc) to the IP returned by the query.
<@kline> whats best is for everyone just to sit tight and wait for it to pan out, freenode isnt going to implode overnight no matter what random pastebins say

<@Fuchs> as it is clearly stated in my letter, this was a draft that was not supposed to be published, but a draft from a colleague that linked to mine got indexed by a search engine and found

<@Fuchs> as of right now, none of us resigned, freenode is still ran by the same volunteers that ran it for the past 2 decades, and the rest is rumours and hearsay, we'll gladly officially communicate when we can, until then I'd suggest taking any rants, pastebins, articles and the likes with a grain of salt
Brazil is particular in that and other related things.

For example many MMORPGs have Brazil-only servers, because brazillians tend to hack, cheat and troll, so many games have ip-banned the entire Brazil range and then made a server just for Brazillians.

When website defacing was all the rage, Brazil had the dubious hanking of having the most defacing groups and the most defaced sites, despite internet in Brazil being much smaller than US or EU.

According to Kapersky last year, Brazil is first place in cibercrime ranking in South America, and third in the worldwide ranking.

Brazil is also currently fourth place worldwide in the number of bot farms.
Just for a bit of social recognition I love bumping into one of you folks' similarly tedious pieces!

Any chance of an RSS feed on that blog? [e: ah it's just missing the indicator meta tag thingy, https://fly.io/feed.xml]
I'm a bit confused about these benchmarks, especially those regarding Hugo. I remember watching a video[0] all the way back in 2015 where Hugo was able to create 5000 pages in roughly 6 seconds. It feels odd that it would take more than 13 times as long to build twice the amount of pages now. Considering that the benchmark you linked to was using newer hardware, and a faster version of Hugo. I guess the benchmark itself might be very different, but it still feels like a huge performance drop.

Anyway, Elder looks very promising, and I like the idea of using Svelte a lot more than working with Hugo templates. What do you think is the main thing that limit the built time for smaller sites?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdiDYZ51a2o
You can certainly use E2E encryption (ie, S/MIME) for your email, whether it's using Apple Mail or not. I'm not sure what you suggest Apple can do about it if you don't use PGP/GPG on your side though (and yes, you can use S/MIME for email both with iOS and macOS).

How Apple CloudKit security works is documented [0] and what Apple can provide to the law enforcement is pretty easily googleable [1], and has been subject to much media coverage over the years. All I was saying is that this is not some recent change.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec3cac31735/...

[1]: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...
I wouldn't say it's particular to Brazil but I can try to guess the biggest contributing factors. Brazil is huge (so lots of script kiddies) but it has only like 3 major ISPs (attending big cities). Also ISPs here have a lot of leeway on QoS matters, even after net neutrality laws.
I’m really sorry, but you appear to be the CTO of Cloudflare, which makes your not knowing the ins and outs of the problem already and basic questioning of it seem like sealioning.[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
nick (elderjs author) answered the elderjs vs sveltekit question up thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153319
"Azar" means Fire in Persian... sounds fitting, and related to "Tinder"!
And yet, we say that “programs are written for people to read.”

Writing for people to read is not “very logical and very precise.” It’s “very expressive,” and sometimes, although the part the compiler reads is correct, the thing the human infers from the program is imprecise and expressive.

Working with code teaches that code is experienced, too. We read a thing, go hunting for its downstream dependencies, learn other things… Coding is an experience as much as walking through a building is an experience.

Architects of buildings work with precise engineering, but they also craft experiences for humans. I am cautious about drawing parallels between code architecture and physical architecture, but the parallel between the work a code architect performs—creating a precise thing for the compiler and simultaneously creating an imprecise experience for the programmer—and the work a physical architect performs is much more sound.

My thesis, therefore, is that programming is the art of doing a precise thing for one audience—the machine—and a creative, imprecise thing for another audience—the human who experiences the code.
My guess is the vaccine is acting as a placebo for those with long term symptoms. I'm sure eventually we will know more.
Most ransomware is pointless where regular reliable backups are in place. A situation like this where there are privacy and outage concerns is a bit different. We may eventually discover that the operators of the system discussed in TFA really were backing up that system, although probably for less than "a couple of millions". Still, ransomware payments are usually a penalty for not doing backups.
Investors want it because people want it.

I'm a longtime IRC user. I have native IRC apps on every device I own. Despite this, Slack/Discord are better in terms of user experience in almost every way, and users are clearly voting for a better experience. Listing just a few key features:

- Persistence: we don't use the internet the way we used to when IRC was created. It sucks that if you lose connectivity to an IRC server for a few minutes, you are presented with a fragmented view of the conversation. Slack/Discord maintain history reliably and natively.

- Search: there are pros and cons to this, but it's nice to have a community memory that's searchable and referenceable.

- Rich media: images and video are critical parts of internet culture.

I could go on. It isn't even close.
I lean traditional[1], not Conservative (TM), and I find Breitbart just as insufferable as MSNBC or CNN. They’re all using the same formula of eliciting emotional responses and using them to assign and cement opinions to their victims.

I don’t agree with their political beliefs, but I find Taibbi and Greenwald readable. It’s hard to put a finger on what it is exactly, but you can tell they have far more intellectual respect for their readers than the mainstream propagandists do.

[1] Think Chesterton’s Fence applied to politics.
So for my startup to crawl sites I must now adhere to Cloudflare’s Requirements of the Web(TM) or reach out to individual engineer, who may leave at any moment. Gotcha

(but Google is allowed because Google was first to market)
Education is a juicy business, not completely unrelated to racket.

Fortunately, it is not that difficult to learn the art of programming for free, you don't need many tools or expensive books, all the ressources are available online.
You are right, there is no difference.

As a matter of fact, many physicists work with a signature of (+,-,-,-) to describe the spacetime of our universe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_convention#Relativity
Maybe, but you are not selling freedom. Your previous comments here make that abundantly clear. People are smarter than you seem to think. They know that for the vast majority, Propertarianism in practice means subservience to the propertied. That's not a rejection of freedom, but rather a defense of what's still left of it.
Realistically, IRC is far from reliable. Netsplits, messages out of order or getting lost, and so on - these are just the problems of having a distributed system of any kind, whether it's a federated network or just a couple of IRC servers.

The difference is that IRC doesn't try to address these issues and just lets them happen, whereas Matrix does try and sometimes gets it wrong (more due to implementation bugs than protocol issues).

I don't think it's fair to conclude that IRC is "more reliable" on that basis - if anything, I would say that Matrix comes out on top here despite the existing implementation issues. At least it eventually gets things into the right state.
So shortly after the inconclusive fear mongering report that the government released, many people working in tense areas start complaining about the same problems. It seems perfectly crafted to maximize the placebo effect.
False, see this snippet from #freenode:

15:04 <@Fuchs> as it is clearly stated in my letter, this was a draft
that was not supposed to be published, but a draft from
a colleague that linked to mine got indexed by a search
engine and found
15:04 <@Fuchs> as of right now, none of us resigned, freenode is still
ran by the same volunteers that ran it for the past 2
decades, and the rest is rumours and hearsay, we'll gladly
officially communicate when we can, until then I'd suggest
taking any rants, pastebins, articles and the likes with a
grain of salt
Be a good netizen? Respect robots.txt. Don't lie in your User-Agent. Don't crawl at a ridiculous rate. All those are a good starting point.
Similarly, no one wants "email". They want gmail, or some other service that gives them email.

IRC is not a home. Discord is a home. FreeNode is (was?) a home. The admin and moderation team (and the corporate structure therein) makes a difference that technical details cannot replicate.
How many charge cycles would it last. A battery close to energy density of lithium ion batteries but with nearly unlimited charge cycles would be an instant buy for me
To treat the government as a single cohesive entity moving with unified purpose is a fallacy.
They sell privacy but it would have been obvious from the very beginning that they’re going to be a magnet for illegal activity. I would probably do the same thing if I were them.
I think the best evolution of a programming language is when some features are removed and replaced by a unifying concept which makes the language both smaller and and more expressive. Has that happened in Scala 3?
Yes, but if you are among mature adults, you can discuss opposite politic views without one of your friends leaving the dinner table and slamming the door.

Which apparently internet people have a hard time to handle.

I have parties at home with feminists and machists, cryto speculators and communists, vegan meditators and frat guys bbq body builders, atheist hedonists and muslim minimalists, yet they manage to have fun together.

When I read such title I can't help but thinking "what are they, 5 years old?".
It does take that into account, the code given included:

min_thrust = 0.4 * max_thrust
Your words are encouraging. I think the app is unique in that it offers things that many other apps don't, but looking at the other comments I got here, that does not necessarily mean it is wanted or needed by the audience that it targets. I have some more thinking to do.
I assume that when the FBI sends a request to a tech company about a user, they probably also contact lots of other tech companies too about the same user...

Which raises the question: Where is the Google notification about the FBI request... How about the Facebook notification? The VK or OK notification? How about the Twitter notification?

Did these tech companies hand over data without notice, even though the orders presumably had the same gagging timeout?
From your first link:

"On November 5, 2018, as an executive of Tether Mr Devasini lent 900 million dollars to Bitfinex and as an executive of Bitfinex, Mr Devasini signed the receipt to Tether."

That sounds totally legit and normal.
Speaking opportunity for web data extraction experts. Sharing your knowledge
No matter how difficult the problems are - it still costs billions of dollars to develop a rocket program, and disposable rocket programs have the "advantage" for the industry of a steady order supply... which means the industry has no incentive to push for reusable rockets.

SpaceX has the advantage of being funded by a billionaire who isn't beholden to any political demands (including job creation/upkeep), and so they can do whatever promises the biggest profit.
No need to store IPs, just embed PII in the URL for the background image. With email, IP addresses aren't very useful for tracking.
Processed food drives diet-related diseases
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nicklecompte 1 hour ago | parent [–] | on: Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on o...

The reason astronomers use “metallicity” this way is largely historical: (chemical) metals are not as prevalent in stars as non-metallic elements like carbon and nitrogen, but they are much easier to detect in spectral analysis. So historically the “metallicity” of a star really did refer to the heavy metal content (generally Fe), and considering the physical processes involved it’s not unreasonable to extend this to all non-H/He elements in the star.
I think it would be “absurd” for astronomers to change this because people who aren’t scientists get confused.

My bad yo. Please accept my humble apology in not knowing the historical signifacance of something. I'll be doing my masters in 2022/23, biochemistry/microbiology.

I really should have been a bird watcher instead.

Who cares about plant proteins anyway? That's not science at all.
I do not understand what the parent means by a "distributed search engine" and I do not know what problem they are facing.
I pay per finished hour (PFH). Never seen a good reason to do a royalty split.
Not just a presidential candidate, but a president.

Did you know that after all those years of investigations, all those years of the house intelligence committee chairman and others insisting that there was "ample evidence" that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election... in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working with Russians to interfere with the election?

I found that really crazy when I found that out. What's even crazier is that everyone just quietly kind of stopped talking about it. Nobody wants to confront the fact they were badly manipulated, deluded, and lied to. Or they're comfortable with their own reality in which their enemies are the ultimate evil and their side is pure and good.

That's why these things will never be fixed.
Unfortunately, it's hard to compete with 'free as in beer'. Especially when Discord offers an unbeatable platform for free by burning VC money.
I don't think terrorists use dating apps...
It's possible to use at least some TB3 eGPUs with TB2 and adapters, it's not officially supported by Apple on macOS though. They are still insanely expensive in my opinion for what's basically a case, small PSU and PCI-E to TB3. The cheapest ones that can take most cards are around $300 and usually have some downside. I considered it for my Mac Mini but in the end it just made more sense to sell the Mini and buy a desktop PC with space for a real GPU, more storage, faster processor, etc. I mean my case, power supply and motherboard was less than the price of a Razer Core X...
Maybe a hot take here, but as someone who works for Salesforce, if the Salesforce acquisition goes through, my guess is that most of Slack's time for a while will be occupied on pushing through tight coupling to Salesforce systems in the name of "integration" rather than features users actually want.

That's not based on any sorta "secret insider information", it's just the pattern I've seen with companies they/we acquire.
It is technically impossible to end-to-end encrypt email.
man... this is exactly the opposite of how news articles are supposed to be written.

Good news articles should tell you everything in the headline. Then tell you everything again in the first body sentence. Then tell you everything again in the first paragraph. and the first page. And so on.

It's supposed to be a fractal that unfolds additional detail as you press forward, while ensuring that even a casual reader comes away with a mostly complete and accurate understanding of the issue.

More of THAT please.
You can't. The device attestation protocol specifically excludes the ability to uniquely identify devices (the key has to be re-used in at least 99999 other devices).
Thank you for correcting my mistake, indeed LL(1/k).
They should have used the "Double Irish With a Dutch Sandwich" model like Google.
On the contrary; one of the linked drafts [1] links to the web archive of a now-removed blog post [2] dated 2021-04-18.

[1] https://fuchsnet.ch/privat/fn-resign-letter.txt

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210423231439/https://freenode....
It's not like that anymore though. You get 25 US and 25 UK codes, and they only work on your book.
All of the IRC channels I used to visit had very high signal to noise ratios, but I ultimately abandoned the platform for two reasons:

1) Penetration testers relentlessly scanned my IP address every time I connected.

2) Endless PMs pleaded for help recovering accounts with "forgotten" passwords on various servers.

I never fell victim, but got tired of feeling like a target.
100% that's the most important claim in the article. A few times a month I open the browser and see some "world changing battery technology" being talked about. Here we are however many years later and the world has not changed. The phones I can buy have LI batteries, the EVs I can buy have LI batteries, the few utility scale battery packs are LI batteries.

Seems like having a technology that crosses the "publish revolutionary battery tech in the press" hurdle is dramatically lower than the "actually make a battery at product scale for a profit" hurdle, and not all of the former will make the latter. Here's hoping these folks do what they say on their production part, because I'm pretty desensitized to the first part of their claim.
Using FreeBSD Jails with ZFS and PF on DigitalOcean
Try giving it another spin. Matrix-Synapse is under constant development and lots of bugs have been fixed each release.

I've found the matrix-synapse homeserver I run to be stable. Along with Element-desktop and the Element android app it's been a great experience for me.

With both of those, you don't need to worry about history or bouncers, as history gets synched even if you power down your homeserver and back up again like I do.

And authentication comes as a by-product of matrix-synapse/Element.

I also love url and picture previews displayed directly in Element (and other clients) by way of synapse - far nicer experience than the text-only of IRC in my opinion.

I think IRC has had its day. At least with myself.
One either gets to say where the platform goes, or keeps playing catch-up with its features, requires additional tooling, wrapper libraries, care about FFI, IDE plugins that understand all of that in a coherent way.
Fake logs, you can't have newlines in IRC messages!
I don’t think it was that simple.

If the Wired article, which was downvoted to oblivion, is accurate then the WHO and the CDC (who parroted the WHO) bear a great deal of responsibility.

They shutdown scientists who were telling them that Covid was spreading as an aerosol, way back in early 2020.

The WHO now want MORE power, yet they’re not accepting accountability nor cleaning house.
"My hypothesis is that this initial design will greatly inform what will happen later: growing organically something that has a good initial structure will result in a better system, even after years of distance from the original creation"

Very true, but also not something you should focus on too early.

You'll need a lot of experience for this initial design phase to be really fruitful.