skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about the interface between the worker and the employer, the GP is talking about the interface between employer and client. The employer doesn't want the worker slacking off but that doesn't mean that they won't create situations that result in more billable work, such as by taking an inefficient path under the cover of intangible factors.

The irony is optimizing for productivity in one while optimizing for billing in the other.
Thanks for sharing. I had no idea about the African heavy metal scene. Some very cool pictures. It's nice to see people who look a bit more like me enjoying metal.

I am not the biggest heavy metal fan I have to admit. There is some metal I absolutely love and then a lot that I can't stand.

Last year, bored during lockdown, I was reading a Rolling Stone 100 greatest metal albums article and decided I would try to listen to every album in the list and write a short review of what I thought of it. It was a long, and sometimes tough, journey but I managed to make it. I definitely had a better idea of what I do and don't like in metal after that lol

I have been going to blues, rock, and metal gigs around London (plus some festivals) for about 20 years now and it's fairly rare to see anything other than white faces.
>we should be far far more tolerant of people fucking up

Absolutely. Even politicians.

Perhaps that will happen over time given the ever-increasing opportunities for record keeping inherent in databases, the internet, and ubiquitous surveillance devices in everybody's back pocket.

But, as that ain't happening anytime soon, maybe this is mostly a lesson in the importance of financial freedom and self-employment. If your future includes FAANGs or the .gov, or any other sizable employer, hewing to the hivemind becomes ever more important.
Most HDMI cables don't even have the pins required to wire Ethernet over them.
I'm quite curious if there is a group of like-minded individuals out there who would participate in a wiki that attempts to summarize (with degree of certainty) the current known knowledge.

The general Internet has a tendency to consider individual papers authoritative summaries of the general state of a field. And single studies rarely have that predictive power. For instance, one might read a single paper about a single study that says "Doubling of rectal cancer risk occurs if red meat is consumed right after sugar intake", and most Internet commentary will attempt to show this as incontrovertible truth. However, few such studies actually last or survive replication.

i.e. most Internet commentary over-weights single study results, with near binary probability of truth measures: either something is almost certain or almost never.

Would prefer a place where I can discuss with people who are less stridently enthusiastic about these papers, and where long membership retains historical prediction performance (I don't mind people disregarding my future predictions if my current predictions are poor) with appropriate windowing to permit learning.
I always find it hard to have a quick start in a new area of learning, not only because of not knowing where to start, but also because of not being aware of how much waits ahead of me in this journey. Search courses on MOOC platforms doesn't help because I have no control over my learning experience apart from following a 1-for-all syllabus. I wanted to build a tool where I can manage my mastery of knowledge and access only to the content that's related to my current level and my personal learning goal.
With WarmMachine, concepts are visualized in a map according to their prerequisite relationship, while online course and book resources are dissected into bite-sized snippets about each concept. This makes online learning a streamlined process of truly mastering more and more advanced knowledge, instead of a series of trial & error and struggles with course completion.
At first I was like "ok, who cares, why is it even on the front page".

Then I started reading the comments here. Boy, is the good old bikeshedding a strong force.
>Don't Talk to Corp Dev

it sounds kinda edgy, especially that "corp dev"

bonus points that "dev" seems to refer more often to "developer" than "development"
It just so happens that "reliable, reusable" and "covariant blah" are interlinked — if you want any form of type inheritance, of course (which I usually don't).
Fuschia, Genode, or some other capability based operating system. VMs and everything that follows it is a crude approximation of capabilities.

The mental model of capabilities is something a 5 year old can grasp, like taking a dollar out of a wallet, the most you can lose when you give it to the child is the dollar.

You can't give a task N cycles, and these 4 files ONLY on any of the current round of frameworks. This is 50 years overdue.
> resists posting mug shots at all, which seems like something that police departments have complete control over

Note that these laws originated from a civil rights perspective. Requiring the publication of arrests makes it harder for the police to disappear people.
> It's only fighting if it wasn't designed for it in the first place

You've completely ignored this: "I mean, sure, if you like customizing things and "padding your desktop", knock yourself out. The last thing I want to do on my machine is spending any time doing that."

I have other things in my life than fiddling with arcane configs.

> If coreutils and a package manager are "miniscule parts" of a programmers workflow, I'd sure like to see someone program on a Mac without them.

Yes. Here you assume that everyone is like you and has the same workflows and desires from a desktop like you. Nope, not everyone.

For the past 7 to 8 years brew has served me as a good-enough package manager. It's not perfect, but no package manager is.

No idea what your gripe with coreutils is. All of these [1] exist and work just fine out of the box.

So yes. Those are incredibly minuscule parts of a programmer's workflow. I've yet to remember any pain points concerning these two in the past 10 years of working on anything from backend in Erlang, Java, C#, Python, Go to frontend in Javascript and Typescript [2].

Granted, one thing you might not want to do is do C/C++ development on a Mac. I don't know the details, a friend of mine does embedded development, and needs a Linux machine for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_Core_Utilities_com...

[2] Well. Two or three times in these 10 years I needed a version that wasn't immediately available in brew, so I had to find out how to install the specific version I required. Installing also involved brew. Installing arcane versions isn't a better experience in Linux either. And LTS versions of Linux can rarely properly install new versions of required packages, much less arcane ones.
This is the most puzzling part of the story. These guys were evidently pretty skilled. I can see their servers being seized but I am struggling to figure out how they lost their currency. Did the Kremlin put a gun to their head and say “unlock the wallet”? This seems especially fishy.
> For instance, Yubi Key 5 supports up to 25 keys

This is for resident keys. A YubiKey 5 supports an infinite number of non-resident WebAuthn keys, because the returned key handle will simply be the private key encrypted with a master key stored on the YubiKey. For authentication the service will send the stored key handle back to the YubiKey which then can decrypt it and use the decrypted private key to sign the challenge.
What if you work on game engines, rendering engines, or simulation engines? I think 'software engineer' is different than just 'engineer', but it's used for short. Software engines, for lack of a better term, are software applications that do most of the runtime heavy lifting, of some kind, whether it's simulating worlds or rendering web pages. I agree it's different than just development, or just programming.
Quake3e, a modern Quake III Arena engine
Yeah. I considered adding a few sentences to the tune of "the politicians won't stick their necks out covering this waste unless they think there's political gain for them so this is really a reflection of the priorities of the people in the town" but felt that would drag things toward the direction of nit picking over what the people actually want.

That said, at the small town level having less crime than the next town over is generally how you please everyone so there's a pretty good overlap between what the powers that be want the cops to deliver and "less crime".

Police performance is kind of a malleable and hard to pin down thing.
Denigrating women is not politics.

You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.
Have US Gun Buyback Programs Misfired? [pdf]
Is covid still a vascular disease, or does this new study negatively replicate this study?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556303/
Didn't you confuse 'at least' with 'at most'?
I've never seen anything that gave me the impression that it would help, but at one point I was brainstorming a firefox extension a lot like the one described in the article, which is making me hopeful.
Glad they published the process used to discover the exploit. Interesting to follow along on how the weakness was found and the relative simplicity of the actual exploit code.

Can't help but feel like this entire class of problem should be avoided with modern tooling. Even in a relatively unsafe language like C++, a static analyzer could have flagged an unchecked array access.
Btw, the Unistrokes patent expired in 2015. I’m surprised we don’t see this more in arduino / raspberry pi projects with cheap little resistive touch screens and Nintendo DS styluses.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5596656

EDIT: More information on getting started with a Unistroke recognizer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046822
Hey, we even added an M68k backend to LLVM recently with Rust support already on the way \o/.
Seriously: why would a public figure, who knows she will be the target of the FBI, use her own name to make an Apple ID? Or didn't she and did the agency use her phone number and SIM card and IMEI to track her to whatever device she happend to be using?
It's still around, as a fork of a fork: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-tab-...

I never really got to grips with having different sets of tabs within the same window -- that's the kind of thing I use multiple windows for. But I still have the extension installed because it's the easiest way to show several hundred tabs in a way which means I can avoid loading the content just to close tabs.
The asymmetry in the old logo ... was it just the bubble or was Clyde asymmetric too?
Sounds quite on brand to me!
Safari does this natively, you can pinch to zoom out with the magic trackpack or keyboard shortcut:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/352694/can-i-disab...

https://i.stack.imgur.com/lxfU9.png

Is this what you are describing?
Ignoring cars for a moment, it's just super sad to me how bad the state of ad-hoc connectivity is.

This is fairly car specific, but there was some ok ad-hoc networking work in 802.11p, Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE)[1]. Using a low-bit rate wireless channel to allow, effectively, broadcasting. Now everyone wants to get on cellular, which seems like it's probably an industry play, to lock in cell phone providers, to make sure consumers don't get access. Allegedly some occasional forms of v2v (vehicle to vehicle) or v2i (vehicle to infrastructure & reverse) do have a local "broadcast" form of cellular, that doesn't rely entirely upon existing cellular networks, but all this cellular stuff feels like a colossal degradation versus a fairly understandable, simple wifi system, that we failed with only through lack of trying.

There was Google's Physical Web[2], using a Bluetooth Low Energy beacon to broadcast a very short URL. That was integrated into Android! A notification could pop up! Ripe for abuse and bad, but it's the sort of thing I really wish the good & excited people had seized upon, had built something with. Incredible amount of potential and power. No longer developed, dropped from Android proper, but it's a simple specification, easy to implement in a couple hours. Google did a damned good job building, standardizing, promoting, trying, & this could be one instrumental way to have things in the world be able to advertise themselves digitally.

There's wifi-aware[3], for Neighbor Aware Networking, but it's hard to assess this tech. It all seems locked up being gummy sticky gnarly Apple and Android uses. There's no interop. But supposedly it's something to help us connect with those about us. I think there are some IEEE 802.11 standards in here somewhere, but wifi alliance are generally not super nice people who don't share & who keep consumers in the dark & let Apple and Google & occasional other huge player monopolize use of the technology they stamp their name on, alas.

Don't get me wrong, I'm afraid of a world where information & ads & other things bombard us, come at us from everywhere. But it distresses me to no end that we have almost no means to digitally connect with someone standing right next to us. That hopping on the same wifi is one of the only options. Or using some proprietary non-standard system that knows our identity & is tracking us, be it Google or Apple doing that tracking, doing that gatekeeping. It's weird as heck to me how advanced communications infrastructure is, but how it's still so fantastically centralized & top-down, and starting to get systems that allow us to be aware of other information resources is high on my interest list. That said, this article, especially with Vice's typical aggressive spin on the headline, doesn't sound particularly interesting or wanted to me, but it's in an area that seems radically under-examined, under-developed, that has had a fair share of could-be players pass by without making an impact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11p

[2] http://google.github.io/physical-web/

[3] https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-aware
Rust by the Numbers: The Rust Programming Language in 2021
> I like that the proposed bills here are not attempts to force sites to remove mug shots (which seems like a losing battle) but instead just resists posting mug shots at all, which seems like something that police departments have complete control over.

I suppose they could also release future mug shots with a license that the images can't be distributed past such-and-such a date.
Panorama doesn't quite do that, at least not with that affordence, but it's close: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-tab-...
Everyone loves a good "complain about the new design" session. Spotify just had one (that went terribly) earlier this month. Surprised it didn't make it onto HN for us to all rabble about
It's definitely being worked on, but it's a lot harder than there's other fixes because it's things like the gil that are preventing races and things that are in the way. You end up needing to find more fine grained locks for things and break apis to get it all worked out. I have no doubt that it'll happen, but who knows how much work it'll take
> I got downvoted for saying that maybe it's time to treat serious ransomware attacks (infrastructure, security, health, etc.) as terrorism.

Maybe it's time to treat distributing software that is susceptible to ransomware attacks as terrorism.
6 Ligma for the reliable version?
Cool but when can we have Mac on linux?
Hi. I may have something for ya. I'm building Amna (https://getamna.com) which manages tabs with tasks.

Amna can do this (kind of). If you don't explicitly "close" a a browser window within Amna, it will just minimize the window. So it preserves the state (e.g scroll), while still giving you freedom to work on something else with a clean slate. It's not perfect, since the tabs aren't really closed, they'd be just out of sight. But it's a start in that direction. On the flip-side, in case your computer shuts down or whatever, the tabs are saved still.

One challenge I've run into state preservation is auth, a lot of websites actually log you out (e.g. AWS Console, Sendgrid), even if you have them open in the background.
The problem is really with safari still not supporting the entire api. If you're writing only for chrome or chrome and firefox and can afford to ignore ios browser users then its a non-issue otherwise you have to offer expensive shims to ios users that undermines the whole purpose of using the webcomponents to begin with.
Probably just intuition, wfh was more productive despite a global pandemic. Intuitively covid is a disruption that would decrease in productivity like other distractions
And thats fine for you! But as a keyboard maker System76 could have make it optional as a lot of other keyboard maker are able to do.
Or maybe they all did.
Skimming over the comments I get the impression that a majority is quite sure that K8s is going to make a pass any time soon. This seems delusional given its rate of adoption and reputation. My gut feeling is it won't make way for something new any time soon. It will evolve but not go away.
> Why are you trying to make it seem like they told you to come in every day starting this week, whether you're vaccinated or not?

where did you get "every day starting this week" , pulled it out of your ass?

I'll send you my managers email address you can ask him personally if you are so curious. Maybe you'd have better luck finding out than me.
"sudo xcode-select --install" doesn't install the whole IDE, just some cli tools.
> What can we learn? Undoubtedly, we need better marriages.

Having recently gone through a divorce I didn't want, and subsequently spending a lot of time in therapy learning many skills I didn't know I even needed, I find myself surprised nearly every day by how incredibly unprepared I was for that relationship.

I've learned more in the last six months about attachment, communication, and emotional management than I learned in my entire life before that.

Furthermore, none of the people in my social circle seem to have received any of this kind of instruction before, either. Nearly all are middle-upper to upper class with stable backgrounds. So, I don't know who's getting any of this kind of info from their parents or peers or any non-professional setting.

Learning all of this earlier in life might not have changed my particular outcome, but it sure would have made the intervening time better.

[Edited for spelling]
My thing is a chrome extension dumping all open tabs. But that's all it does. Also a centralized personal store of info, so I can save something for future research... have a scatter brain, randomly researching stuff.

What I wish had reliable persistence is Windows 10 virtual desktops.
The only problem I have with it is when I first heard about it I thought it was another name for the old school .Z/COMPRESS algorithm.
Slack logo still sucks
As I recall, the media applied plenty of scrutiny to any claim that Covid might be less deadly than the media coverage suggested, the breathless uncritical reporting lent almost entirely in one direction.
Lindentech – Supporting and managing your IT
True, but I can't use Gmail at work so that doesn't really help.
They already are, they bought CTRL-Labs which made a prototype wristband for reading motor neuron activation. They have a demo on YouTube showing it for keyboarding as well as for surprisingly accurate 3D hand pose estimation.

CTRL-labs is the one behind https://tech.fb.com/inside-facebook-reality-labs-wrist-based...
Hey, if you can’t trust anonymous cyber extortionists, who can you trust?
Such a law probably wouldn't be Constitutional. Speech can't be compelled.
Occasionally I see people talking about how eventually quantum computers will be able to mine coins much faster than anyone can with the current technologies in use.

Maybe. But how much does a Quantum computer costs to a) buy and b) run?
For the curious, aaa[...].com is just converting your string to hex, and then replacing the hex with various types of "A"'s.

If you wanted to use an alphabet other than 16 characters, you could do arbitrary base conversion: https://convert.zamicol.com/

This would allow you to use more or less characters.
You could prevent a lot more pollution with the same amount of money if the money goes to low hanging fruits in countries with older power infrastructure than trying to tweak something brand new. You don't need to use extra money, just use it smarter. There're lots of ways to finance this smarter if trade wars and nationalism wasn't the top priorities.
> Zubrin believes that half a million to a million people will be needed to start substantial terraforming.

Why? Suppose they need 250 (solar?) energy production facilities (and to make it easy on myself, let's ignore things like drilling for carbon etc.)

Why would this need half a million people? It's not like you need a town-full of people for every facility. They'll be made basically identical, so you might need a few observation/emergency staff at each of them constantly, and larger crews for periodic maintenance, construction, some R&D, etc. etc. How does this become half a million?

https://nautil.us/issue/100/outsiders/should-we-terraform-ma...
I wish Drew elaborated a bit more on why ARM is a nightmare. I'd never heard that before - most people seem really excited about ARM.
My "stronger claim" is my original claim, just rephrased, so don't pretend that I have moved any goalposts. These statements are in the Mueller report, as you can see for yourself.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/download.

> The meeting was proposed to Donald Trump Jr. in an email from Robert
Goldstone, at the request of his then-client Emin Agalarov, the son of Russian real-estate developer
Aras Agalarov. Goldstone relayed to Trump Jr. that the “Crown prosecutor of Russia . . . offered
to provide the Trump Campaign with some official documents and information that would
incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia” as “part of Russia and its government’s support
for Mr. Trump.” Trump Jr. immediately responded that “if it’s what you say I love it,” and arranged
the meeting through a series of emails and telephone calls. (Page 110, under the heading "June 9, 2016 Meeting at Trump Tower.")

They are also not legally meaningless, and they aren't even my interpretation, which you would know if you had actually bothered to read the Mueller report or look up the relevant sections. Mueller himself said the reason why he did not prosecute is because (to him) it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute. But just because the Justice Department wouldn't be able to convict doesn't mean that it is legal to accept information on a political opponent from an agent of a foreign government.

> On the facts here, the government would unlikely be able to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt that the June 9 meeting participants had general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful.
The investigation has not developed evidence that the participants in the meeting were familiar
with the foreign-contribution ban or the application of federal law to the relevant factual context. (Page 187 of the Mueller report.)

> The Office would also encounter difficulty proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the
value of the promised documents and information exceeds the $2,000 threshold for a criminal
violation, as well as the $25,000 threshold for felony punishment. (Page 188, ibid.)
I think you are over interpreting the metaphor.

It’s not saying that usefulness is useless. It’s just saying that we need to appreciate the value of what uselessness.
> The concern is not really for dispatch here, it's for readability/correctness.

Then dispatch to an error.
Faster CPython [pdf]
I think that being public about the "who is currently being imprisoned by the government?" question is still a net positive. No so sure about the rest