skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s good to hear that stand-up culture appears to work for some. Personally, I have never worked anywhere where I extracted even the least bit of useful information from one. Every single one has been a complete waste of my time. The worst ones actually cost me motivation and concentration.

Every single one happened because the project manager wanted it or the lead programmer (who, for all intents and purposes, was a manager at that point) used it as a daily status meeting. At its most absurd, at one company, it took 30 minutes or more, on a daily basis, to listen to inconsequential (to me) stuff. To say my line took less than a minute on most days and the others almost always used this meeting to start discussions that needed to be shut down. Which of course lead to more meetings.
Shouldn't repeated failed 2FA login attempts trigger a notification to the user? Or password OK, 2FA failed login attempts at a different location that the user normally is at?

I mean if there's repeated login attempts where the password is correct but the 2FA is not that's a pretty good indication that the password may be compromised. I'd like to be notified of that.
>I'm not seeing how its "gaming the metric" to include travel time of the key on a keyboard.

Because if we remove travel time by using a capacitive keyboard you end up with something that is objectively a worse keyboard. Replacing the capacitors with strain gauges so you can rest your fingers on the home row without activating them results in an worse keyboard yet again.

Any metric that when optimized produces an objectively worse product is a bad metric and optimizing a bad metric is gaming it.
Europe’s invisible divides: How Covid-19 is polarising European politics
Humans are not machines. Communication is a complex skill that takes years to develop. There's many elements of communication that cannot be represented through text alone. (For example try determining if someone is being sarcastic in online posts, it's entirely communicated through vocal tones.) It's got nothing to do with corporate anything. It's just how communication works.
> your health should be yours

There are limits to each of these. If you are suggesting that your vaccination status is yours alone to share, quite a few people will disagree with you, and for good reason. Even the bill of rights we do have has its limits when your rights encroach on the rights of others.
After reading your comments, Our marketers just decided to add the function to use the app as a guest again. So now you can use the app without signing up. Isn't it good?
Probably not what you are looking for, but i like these elementary books:

Mathematics for the curious - Peter Higgins

Mathematics rebooted - Lara Alcock

Mathematics: a very short introduction - Timothy Gowers

The Essence of Mathematics Through Elementary Problems

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-essence-of-...
True this is a big problem, i have faced the same eventually i uninstalled Chicken, though i really love the size of Binaries and how fast they are. On several tests i did Chicken Scheme outperforms Go lang for a similar implementation.
Reading to the bottom, I notice that they talk about a cursor effect (light glow) when you've hit the snap trigger. I never noticed this on Windows 7, and it's definitely not in Windows 10 - did it ever make it into production?
Summary (from the link):

- The lived experience of the covid-19 pandemic has split Europe just as the euro and refugee crises did, with the south and the east feeling much more badly affected than the north and the west.

- Some people were affected directly by illness, some only experienced economic consequences, while others feel untouched by covid-19. The economic victims are more likely than others to say that restrictions have been too severe, and they tend to be more sceptical about their governments’ intentions behind lockdowns.

- Europeans are divided over what they believe to be governments’ motivations behind restrictions: the Trustful have faith in governments; the Suspicious believe rulers want to cover up failings; the Accusers think governments are trying to increase their control over people.

- Splits are appearing between those who believe that, in the context of the pandemic, the biggest threat to their freedom comes from governments, on the one hand, and those who fear the behaviour of their fellow citizens, on the other.

- There is a major generational divide, with the young more likely than the old to blame governments for the ongoing impact; the young also feel more badly affected.

- Poland, Germany, and France could each be emerging as archetypes for post-pandemic politics.
Not really interested in what Wikipedia has to say. Try starting with Solzhenitsyn's 200 Years Together - it's long and meticulously sourced - if you really want to study the subject seriously.
Will it stay for free like anki or will you move over to a paid plan?

I love anki because it's free and every time I've used a new software, which was better, to learn new things, I had to pay eventually.
you will end up not having a choice. HR at my company dictates that the next n hires must be female.
The reason handwriting is helpful for learning is that handwriting naturally induces structuring of content. And in Note Garden, the content is naturally structured while taking notes.
I feel honor system works pretty well.

The point of honor system isn't to put swift immediate justice on every infraction. It is to eliminate dishonest players from the long game.

If you are dishonest it usually is your modus operandi. You are not dishonest just once. When you get away with something once it becomes easier the next time.

But, as we say in Poland, lies have short legs. If you lie long enough you are bound to be caught one way or another.

The honor system means that once you get caught the punishment will be disproportionately painful, to make it impractical to be dishonest in the long run and to deter others from doing the same.
That said, if you don't have a filter, a wet cloth would work as a filtration medium.
Point 3: Developers are not professors and do not have a PhD in computer science. So any test they create is based on nothing.

Leave tests to academics.
You sound like an incredibly toxic boss.
Great writing. Radicle is definitely promising, and ipfs has been growing. I think the UX makes all the difference for adoption, and once an incentive model comes up for many to offer their local resources as available serving peers we may see a great alternative to centralised services. I would offer my disk space and fast network if I could launch a process easily enough and get credit, to exchange for cash or simply equivalent hosting on other peers.
That sounds pretty easily gameable, and how do you calculate an appropriate percentage that applies to many different businesses and industries? This sort of regulatory micro-managing is generally a really bad idea unless the regulator works very closely with the business. But that means greatly increased costs of implementing the regulations.
There will probably be a paid plan eventually, but there will still be a free plan, and I guarantee it will at least be better than Anki.
Does it make you feel smarter when you give people tests?
There is definitely sexism in tech. No doubt. I've seen it, and I push back when I do.

With that disclaimer out of the way, I would have serious concerns about a male employee with 'valley girl' rising terminals in meetings. According to Wikipedia [1] while there are differences between the way men and women 'valleyspeak' it does in fact apply to both. I would address both the same way, seeking to understand - in open dialogue - whether there was a basis in (lack of) confidence and trying to find ways to support them further in their career development. Maybe suggest public speaking classes, especially if available through work.

[edit] further to [2] I found the way the feedback was communicated around the rising intonation friendly, positive and when addressed, the progress was kindly affirmed and remarked on. I saw no negativity in this. I did see someone who was indignant about receiving criticism, however, and took it to a level rarely seen in a professional setting. To call this the 'nuclear option' would be a bit of an understatement.

Reading the back and forth documented in [2] is an absolute train wreck. Once I got a few pages in, I started to empathize deeply with Apple ER. That's not an easy job some days.

One tweet the author posted said:

> "... when #Apple just tried I said 'No thx, Mr Suicide Nets.' If you're going to create a nervous breakdown you get to watch it unfold in real time & now I'm on Twitter again."

Referring to Tim Cook as 'Mr Suicide Nets' on Twitter seems like an insta-fire.

That's one spicy meatball of a tweet.

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

[2] https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html
what these articles fail to mention every time is the sheer level of money the royal family bring to the UK in terms of tourism each year!

Granted there was not much of that during the pandemic but they do create more UK wealth than they take back.
Honestly it’s pretty bad to see, somebody just came in and started hating the original poster’s website for no reason and others bandwagonned on.

I had a look at the website and it looked fine, not my tastes (I like mono fonts), but overall perfectly acceptable.

Perhaps a discussion about the content of the article would be more relevant.
And of course, air will circulate through the fan multiple times over time so it doesn't have to catch everything in one go.
It is there on Windows 7 and even 10 (just tested it to be sure)! When you drag a window to the side, a sort of circle/drop effect appears around the cursor. I think this is what they are referring to, but I might be mistaken.
- There is a major generational divide, with the young more likely than the old to blame governments for the ongoing impact; the young also feel more badly affected.

Because, sadly they are.
All the people who bought houses due to the ability of financial engineers to lower mortgage requirements by quantifying and hedging risk probably disagree.
> These gates create glitches

What sort of glitches? Which effects could they produce on outputs?

I wish there was a concrete example.
I have problem with both new checkers:

regarding the `consider-ternary-expression`

if condition():
x = 4
else:
x = 5

allow me to put fck'n breakpoints - in this case the expression is dumb, but what if is some complex stuff?

x = 4 if condition() else 5

is cute, but - remember, kids - not everything* should be an expression

regarding the `while-used`, while I personally prefer the legibility of the `for` loop, I find the following paragraph... at best wrong:

>>> A while loop introduces unbounded computation. Do you really need unbounded computation for your boring web app? I doubt it. In almost all cases, the loop can be bounded in advance, as in “do this N times” or “do this for every item in this list”. Those kinds of loops are guaranteed to terminate, and that’s a nice guarantee to have.

in python `for` loop are equally unbounded as `while` ones. Yes, most of the time you are looping over a (finite) list or a (finite) dict, but the concept underlying the `for` loop is the iterator, not the list. And iterators can easily be infinite.
I think this is a little too reductive. Local businesses are consumers too, just in the middle of the chain. If they get hurt as consumers more than they gain in reduced competition they hurt.

I'm not so deeply read on this, but I'd imagine this is why things like brexit and tariffs get sold but result in everyone being net worse off.
https://archive.is/aEpPo
It's really low maintenance

I think that depends on your frame of reference. Sure in comparison with maintaining a forest the way you describe it's low (though note that there's always the option of not maintaining a forest at all, except for paths through it). But compared to maintaining a meadow (even mown piecewise to strive for max biodiversity) where you'd mow max 2 times a year, it's rather high.

It's a lot easier to maintain a uniform lawn

Depends. I don't consider mowing a piece of grass 2 times a year a lot harder than doing all of it every 2 weeks, on the contrary. You need the correct tool for the job though.

when the flowers all die

That doesn't have to be like that, e.g. in my Western-European climate that is only so in the middle of winter; for the rest my grassland has flowering species about 9 months a year. Does require some insight into ecology of grasslands to get such situation though. What you talk about is typically what one gets when not mowing 'correctly'. I.e. wrong time of year, or too much or too little, or not removing the vegetation after mowing it, etc.

that creates a weird erosion pattern

Can you explain that? I'm pretty sure I've seen studies where old grasslands are better for erosion than short lawns.
So use Sink.Default instead, and live with 5W, that all USB power sources support.

Security is inconvenient.
I agree COVID seems like more of a counter-point to the idea that supply chains are incredibly fragile.

But who shut down their entire economy? The US laid off maybe a little over 10% of the workforce at its maximum, by the looks, so that's not entirely shut down even at maximum hyperbole.
That's exactly what I meant.

Watermarking can be used to find portions of the photo that have been tampered with.

It is actually pretty simple. And using AI for this is pretty stupid in my opinion.

You just disperse a little bit of additional signal in the photo, maybe divide it into lots of blocks (they don't need to be rectangles and they can overlap). Think of it as every small piece of the photo having its own signature embedded.

If you don't know how the signature was embedded or what key was used for it, you are going to disturb the signature and your editing attempt will be foiled. Not only that, but you will be able to tell which parts of the picture were touched and how so you can tell whether the picture was just cropped, brightness changed, or something else happened to it.

As you see, no need for AI...
What is ZMK and QMK?
Adversial techniques are specific to the model used, no?

You'd need to know all the models that one might use to tamper with a picture and modify the image in such a way that it screws them all.

And the first thing that will happen is that people are going to train their models with these new 'tamper-protected' images...
The remaining 0.1 % happen to be the ones that matter. It helps no-one to eliminate all but state actors from creating deep fakes.
A Ruby-like “until” or Pascal “repeat...until” (C’s do...while is equivalent but less clear choice of keywords, IMO.) The Pascal form wouldn't really fit Python's indentation-without-closing-marker block syntax preference, but the Ruby version would.

If it existed, I’d be tempted to suggest a linter rule that prohibits break inside an until (it should only be used when the main exit condition is the only exit condition.)
In my personal experience, its quite rare outside of a few specific cases where I need unbounded loops. The specific cases where I do need them tend to be event loops -- a game loop, a consume the queue loop, a read and process input loop, etc, basically waiting on some external (to that code, not necessarily to the program) data, forever until the program is told to stop. Sometimes they're provided for me by some library or framework, sometimes I need to write them myself.

Almost every other case, in my own code at least, is a bounded loop. Usually processing a collection, but also often processing bounded ranges.
No, there isn't really. Different sub-organizations have different working languages, which officially can be either English, French or German; in practice it's either English or French, although there seems to be a slight uptick of use of German. English will remain in wide use officially.
Ask HN: Is the HN Algolia API Down?
I've been having issues with it for the past couple of days, however, to my surprise no one else has brought this up. Is it just me?
I would rather change company than being part of the PR processes of today's corporations, I've worked at some big company in the past but for the last 2-3 years I've found my happiness in companies who don't treat political matter as public relations, also because they're so small to cause any noticeable noise

Am not talking about places with an approach like Coinbase, I'm talking about favouring exchange of ideas within people but not as a way to PR the company itself
I wanted this meme : https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-five-minutes

"Shrek 5 minutes"

None of the results is Shrek.

Ok... may be something simpler: "Shrek"

Same...
yup! I distinctly remember having to write out by hand a PATRICIA tree in C++ for the final exam of CS106X.

feel bad for the T/As that had to grade all those exams.
It’s not “gaming the metric” if somebody comes up with the metric and methodology after you’ve already sold the product.

Also, it’s a bit weird to say the metric is flawed because it produces a result you don’t like.
> My approach that I explicitly said was great we have the right to dissent, but should choose where when to use it?

Yes...

> Yes, free speech should be protected, that doesn't mean I can call my mum a the C word and be free from her being offended,

...but the government is not your mum. Also...

> because muh freedom of speech.

...most of the dissent I see does not come from people who speak like that - this is not a dispute between "uneducated rubes" and "enlightened followers of The Science™", nor is it clear which of the positions leads to the best overall results. From what I gather comparing the outcomes in places with severe restrictions - The UK, New Jersey, New York and California come to mind - with those where the approach is more based on personal responsibility - Sweden and Florida are two examples - there is no clear "winner" [1,2]: the UK has a higher death rate than Sweden, New Jersey has the highest death rate in the USA, Florida and California are comparable while Florida has a much older population and as such would be expected to rank higher.

The core of the dispute is whether people can be trusted to look after themselves or whether they need some authority figure to tell them how to behave. Given access to means of protection - vaccines, behavioural changes, PPE - the results seem to show that there is no significant difference in disease-related outcomes between the former and the latter while the former retain a larger amount of freedom compared to the latter. As to whether this larger sense of freedom translates in a higher trust in authorities is unclear, at least here in Sweden where the rather soft-handed approach is often portrayed as being due to incompetence and lack of direction. Something which is clear is that places which are or have been under severe lockdown will suffer in other ways with children who have not seen their friends for months, small businesses which have been forced into bankruptcy while behemoths like Amazon thrive, social cohesion taking a hit due to the fact that people are starting to see others as sources of infection first, people second, substance abuse increasing, lack of exercise due to restrictions leading to worse health which directly increases the severity of any SARS2-infection, etcetera - the list is far longer than can be discussed here.

Suffice to say that - when regarding liberal western societies - I see the authoritarian approach as the wrong approach which will end up doing more damage to society while not significantly reducing the impact of SARS2.

[1] https://c19.se/global - sort the table on deaths per million

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1109011/coronavirus-covi...
Yeah, if your soldiers are mindless drones who would risk their lives to kill their citizens without blinking. Just look at what actually happens: protests with open carries don't even get forcibly dismantled, but are carefully negotiated with.
It won't defeat manual edit, nor do the authors claim it. They do however make a solid point in saying it will defeat cheap automated manipulation / deepfakes at scale that would otherwise be easy with inpainting features.

Anything that can help us differentiate authentic images from manipulated ones, especially when it comes to news, is imo a welcome addition in the arsenal of societies attached to the concept of verifiable facts.
Don't forget our lovely Australia, it's quickly becoming the totalitarian madness in the making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLTGXblgUoc
I'm on vacation, so I've got an old Elitebook with me, 1600x900. That font is bad. And picking the right font for the medium is one of the first abilities you should learn for, well, typography. Even for print there's huge differences - newspapers want to have different fonts because both the paper is worse than those of most novels, and because "elegant" fonts don't really chime well with the content.
> If the second factor were enough security why even have the password?

Having two factors is better. But obviously neither of them should be a conventional password because passwords are crap.

You can have WebAuthn set to do usernameless authentication, with the two factors both being local. So when you visit a site with this behaviour and it wants authentication, you maybe touch your fingerprint sensor on your phone, that's one factor, having the phone is the other factor, that's two factors, the phone hands over credentials including a large identifier that's equivalent to a user ID for the site, plus its assurance that you are present (based on the fingerprint) and a signature proving it is still the same phone used to sign up for this method. No typing your email address, no passwords, much better security.

> He can just be 1000000 clients each only trying once. And if you block them you also block the user.

Yes, if you rate limit attackers you also rate limit the real user.

But as an attacker, what value am I getting from that? Maybe it's a chargeable service I can sell? It certainly doesn't help me steal gift cards.

$1000 per hour to annoy a friend by preventing them from logging into their email? Not many buyers at that price.
$100 per hour? $10 per hour? $1 per hour? Remember that to fuel this you are throwing away a botnet so that you can hammer on the login until you get blocked, and botnets aren't that cheap to buy.
While participants performed dragging and scribbling tasks, very low levels of latency could be discriminated, i.e., ~1 versus 2 milliseconds [...] [0]

[0]: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/In-the-blink-of-an-eye...
Can't they use a robot mower? I'm in a northern climate, so lawns only grow from late April until late September, but around here more and more are getting robot mowers. They are completely silent and are continously cutting the grass. The clippings are so short that they can just stay on the lawn and functions as nutrient for the grass. So less fertilizer is needed, weeds will be cut constantly. So in theory you just need to water it if there's no rain.
My instinctual reaction to the title was that it represents the total submission of nature.

so this seemingly innocuous and joy bringing landscape motif becomes a symbol of modernity's incessant terraforming.

A plain bland green field. Never bothered anyone. Considered this way it becomes somehow obscene. an abstract, banal terror. Sort of like a race of orcs using human skin mats to adorn their living rooms.
Younger people were already adversely impacted by unemployment and high real estate prices, so I think it's hard to see how it would have been even practically possible to have any other pandemic outcome than a disparity in how the generations were affected. It has simply underlined the socio-economic differences already present, for example in who can and cannot choose to work from home.