skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What is the difference between downloading and running a bash script vs. downloading and running a binary or a Docker image

Docker images are slightly isolated. By default running a random one doesn't have access to your local filesystem or anything listening on your machine, unless you explicitly ask for it ( which a random docker-compose.yaml or bash script around a docker-compose.yaml and up can).
> So there needs to be less than a 0.01% chance of killing someone on the ground.

Even less, as accidents that do kill people on the ground may easily kill more than one.

> that seems an acceptable level of risk to tolerate for someone else’s joyride.

Let’s do that math on air flights. Pre-covid, there were 38 million air flights a year (https://www.statista.com/statistics/564769/airline-industry-...). One in 10,000 would mean 3,800 bystanders killed on the ground each year.

I would think that, in reality, way fewer got killed (might be ignorance), and 3,800 would feel unacceptable. So, why would we accept that of these joyrides? Is “because there are so few of them” an acceptable answer to that?
Nitter, for the un-signed-ups:

https://nitter.net/Jabaluck/status/1392879291185119233
<edit>Thank You for bringing Plundervolt [0] to my attention</edit>

They removed the possibility to change voltage on my chip from their eXtreme Tuning Utility in an "update". Had to scour the web for an older version. <edit>Luckily i use Windows around 3% of the time.</edit> Won't buy Intel in the future.

[0] https://plundervolt.com/
Lots of comments saying the font is hard to read, but I don’t find it to be so. Perhaps a difference in browser rendering? Overall, I think it’s a job well done, and I’m much in favour of old-style serifs and justification on the web instead of yet another boring sans-serif left-aligned page.

Elements of Typographic Style is one of my favourites too. However, I’d suggest that for web publishing, Butterick’s Practical Typography might be a better guide than Bringhurst, who was primarily focused on print.
Like you can explain what is making you stuck ?
I did cognitive neurotherapy after a series of TBIs. The therapy seemed to work on me, though, what I've heard is that it's hit and miss. Of course, there's always the chance that I'd have recovered that way anyway, but given the state my academics were in I doubt it.

For reference, the machine I used employed a bike game that supported movement across the screen. I eventually could make the bike go faster as well as up and down, nearly on command. It focused on alpha, beta, and theta waves measured by diodes stuck to your scalp. Not sure if that narrows that down, but I'm curious to know your thoughts.
That's the last posts they had in the pipeline when they decided to go on hiatus :/
It's pedantic to flip this around and say "you're not reporting the woman, you're reporting the provider" - the law says to report illegal abortions. The outrage is that abortions are now illegal, and this bizarro-texas law is just their way of dodging roe vs wade.
Can going back to a previous employer advance your career?
Some of the stuff they did to her was so creepy, like trying to get her to eat at this restaurant, then when she got there, paying for her $300 dinner, and then pressuring her to date the sous-chef.

Then, in another incident, attacked her with a "surprise" nerf gun ambush, recorded her screams and then turned them into a remix and shared it with everyone. Even after she told them she has PTSD from past physical violence. Were those people ever reprimanded? It seems like they haven't.

The nerf gun email exchange was a bit odd though, it read as though she is joking and playing along. If I had read just that email chain, without the rest of the context, her saying stuff like "I need to out mischief them - hide or boobytrap their toys maybe", might be interpreted as something more benign. But, it's worth acknowledging that it would be hard to go against the grain, even though saying something like "what they are doing is disruptive, ask them to stop" might have had a better effect.
>A big advantage of the system is to prevent mad-swings in policy just because the head-of-government changed.

You can frame this another way: it prevents meaningful change even if the electorate demands it.

Sorry, I watched too much Yes Minister to think this is a good thing x)
I dont like stand-ups either but it's just me. For the team, especially in a remote and even async work context, frequent updates should be appreciated.

Even if you didnt accomplish anything visible that day, for whatever reason, it's just part of being a mortal and just saying so can help normalize it as well as set a realistic expectation for the team.
The machine is generating the counter-factual baseline, the body bags are very real and only counted.
Good food for thought - could you provide an example?
This is the reason why I block third party fonts.

I unfortunately have very bad eyesight (my terminal font size is 22, for instance), and stuff like that is very painful for me.

The bluish gray color doesn't help either.
Every foil wrapped turd in space is in theory a kinetic impactor by value of location and acceleration.

There was a scifi short story, were a system was wrecked, aeons after a war, by what was essentially missed shots.

This is what makes the expanse so creepy. Every PDC round not finding a target- finds a target eventually. On the other side of the system, totally not intended, but it finds one. Even thinks doing the marathon with ion-engines can become lethally over time.

Voyager is another systems bullet.
Yes, I'm sure that everyone is able to afford the luxury of a big backyard, a home office, a workshop and music instruments.

As a person that had to stay in quarantine for going back home for the last weeks of my mothers life due terminal cancer, I had to stay 10 days locked in my home, even having countless tests, not even knowing if she would be alive and being told that they can make an exception for the funeral - so kind of them. We were treated like some sub-human criminals by the police, being called and checked (some friends who had their daughters coming from university back home had to come to the window every morning, all 4 members of the family to get "counted" by a police officer). What's funny is that 1 year before the pandemic my house was broken into, never heard back from the police, but it's good to see that they are doing their job in checking up on us, the virus criminals.
If he is a solo developer sure, if he is part of a team. Social skill is important, without communication we might end up in paradoxes.
Finger counting gives away your nationality
How about eliminating their offensive "you're posting too fast" bullshit, which deliberately WASTES USERS' TIME by allowing them to type out an entire comment or question and then telling them, NOPE! YOU CAN'T POST!

And this is invoked by THREE COMMENTS IN AN HOUR.

If you want to limit posts, then fine. But TELL THE USER THAT HE CAN'T POST RIGHT NOW, BEFORE HE TYPES OUT THE TEXT.

There's no goddamned excuse for having to tell a site operator this. Hacker News is basically calling you stupid.
Looking for data to support this claim... One obvious source is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_in_the_World Quickly glancing the past few years of data for the US: 86 points (2018-2020), 83 (2021). :shrug:
Hate its popularity at my job.. it’s fine if you want to use it for a tech stack in the background like a db or cloud emulation.. but call me old fashioned I think if you’re walking around calling yourself a software engineer, loading up software and tools is part of the job.
My phrasing was unfairly generalizing, yes. I know these things are not about everyone, but more about trends in tone in media etc, which often can be influenced by quite small groups.
Of course it will if you cut and cart the future nutrients away each week while creating 'greenery' that is a monoculture entirely unattractive to animal life.

As long as you've got a water source, you can easily create a tiny patch of green that can survive for decades unattended - even in the midst of a desert.
No you can't. It is really too hard to do.

Have some empathy bro.
To me daily stand ups, and most other rituals, are an OK way to _train_ desirable behaviour. If nobody knows what their team mates are working on and nobody says anything when they're blocked, you probably want to change that one way or another.

However, if people already do it, or once they get accustomed to doing it, I can see no good reason to keep up a ritual that's disrupting - at least in a remote team.

From what I've seen, a lot of companies don't see it that way however, they rather cargo cult "best practices" :/
And why does that need to be synchronous? Why can't it be done with a check-in on slack / basecamp / whatever you use?
Ironically, Binance Smart Chain was part of what caused us to fail to launch my "end game solution" for that a while back and put me back into a design cycle (the exit for which or progress on I will not comment on here): we noticed their endpoints don't support eth_getLogs in a useful way.

https://github.com/binance-chain/bsc/issues/113

(To be fair to them, neither does Polygon/Matic anymore, and there it was seemingly a more fundamental limitation... and, honestly, if it were only Binance Smart Chain that were limited, I would not have really cared as that chain is extremely centralized in a way I would find scary for our users.)

https://bitcoinist.com/get-educated-on-binance-smart-chain-d...
https://forums.golfwrx.com/

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/
1) Northern Syria (Rojava), during the latest Syrian Civil war. Local militias comprised of inhabitants of Kurdish northern Syria fought ISIS and other splintered forces to maintain the loose democratic confederacy that is Rojava.

2) Slightly worse example: Nationalistic unorganized militia in the Ukraine during the latest war in Crimea and Donbas.

3) US example? Battle of Athens (post WW-II) [1].

When I really start thinking about it, there are almost too many to name; especially if you count the times where there was an attempt but it failed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
I'm thinking again about your question. I think you're talking about the time span a submission is visible on the frontpage, right? This can be controlled by the age exponent in the formula and (in our proposal) by the upvote-threshold between new-page and front-page. If only a few very high quality posts make it to the frontpage (because of an upvote threshold), they will have more exposure.
I really don't like commenting on style over substance. But the font choice for the blog makes it hard to read on a normal DPI screen. Some characters, like the uppercase titles, render extremely poorly.

I can only assume this looks better on designers' computer?
Eh. Another misunderstanding of the 'agile' practices like stand-ups, sprints, etc.

These are not supposed to make deliveries faster or employees happier. Agile is fundamentally a risk management tool. It makes it less likely that you'll surprise your customers with shipping nothing or the wrong thing after spending $2MM on a project.

Of course it's a compromise and it's not a silver bullet. If you can scale your organisation and avoid these risks in some other way (because all of your team members are diligent and competent, managers and leaders have large working memory, good technical and people skills at the same time, or whatever) -- then by any means, do that.

But in many cases, daily stand-ups
I always feel boxed in inside an IDE -- Why can you not attach images inside IDEs? diagrams of what you want to do...

I like doing this in notion -- here you can write code with the syntax highlighting and attach all sorts of stuff to the document -- once you've crystalized exactly what you want to build, you can fireup your IDE and get to work.

I think it ties with the theme -- A programmers work is not to type things -- the main input is thoughts and ideas that can be interpreted by a computer to do correct things. A notebook helps with the thoughts and ideas part.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28353894
I used to be anti standups until I started taking on some leadership roles.

1) it's great for refocusing everyone on monday first thing after a long weekend of hopefully for getting about work

2) it's much easier to follow up with people as a ritual rather than a 1 on 1 interjection, it depersonalizes info gathering that'd be hard for a manager to acquire any other way. Vocal tonality says a lot sometimes.

3) it's a great way to give casual encouragement and recognition occasionally

That said, I only think standups are needed maybe 3 days a week and 10 minutes max usually.
My understanding is that Chez Scheme is pretty fast. Developed by Cisco, and the new backend for Racket.
As a developer, I appreciate dailys simply for having a birds-eye view of what's going on. If I'm demoing our application to some business people and they ask me what the state of development is on some feature I'm not involved in, I'd like to at least have some idea. Without regular exchange even with people I don't need to communicate with for my own work, I'd have no clue what's going on. To me this is well worth the 10 mins out of my day.
Thank you. Corrected the parts you pointed out!!

As for the part where desktop google sign-in does not work, regarding your description, it seems that the part that executes the app protocol using a browser does not seem to work.... I'm sorry. Let me see why not.
I have a 24" screen and it looks horrible. Too small, too blurry, too many characters per line. Is that meant to be ironic or something?
try 10x.

Because I fell into an edge case, had I moved from my post-doc to a professorship, I would have faced a 20% pay cut. And that's not because my post-doc was well paid; after I factored in the side-costs of the position I was not that far above minimum wage. And this was at an elite European research group where the professor was doing his best to take care of me.

So I moved to industry.
Interesting project! Wondering if it’s open source ?

Also I’d be interested to know a little more about the translation from notes to testing. To me it seems when I’ve used Anki that it takes great care and time to make a well formed question. A poorly formed question has a massive detriment in knowledge recall. Just wondering how you’ve managed to bridge that dilemma to automate the process.

Very interested in contributing, I’m a programmer, clinical educator and love spaced repetition.
Also, presumably xrays are harmful if done too often or too strongly, so being able to replace those with something less harmful (like some kind of 3-D sonogram) but that AI can interpret to the same degree would be a net benefit potentially becoming a home device for people with suseptability.

If you shift the curve you could detect earlier and reduce false positives.
Maybe a dumb question, but are they running M1 with the ARM version of Docker & Ruby? I imagine it’s probably difficult to accidentally get the AMD64 version, but I didn’t see that detail in the benchmark
When you interview for the job please state that your social anxiety, or the tendency of using that as an excuse, can get in the way of team communication.
Most of the project management material, at least in a pure software development team context, seems extremely cargo cultish to me.
I hated stand ups for all these reasons and more. One thing i struggle with now especially with everyone being remote and distributed is knowing what is going on, ideas people on my team have, what projects are coming up. Ive been surprised by projects and large changes because they just happened in some place of communication i didn't know about. Like 1on1 dms or w/e. It seems like there's a place for daily syncs without the cargo culted process. IDK what it would be though. Seems like a fine line between please collaborate and monotonous status meetings.
I agree with the main point in the article: that it's not essential to have a synchronous status report meeting each day. In fact, status reports of all types are better delivered in writing, or at least asynchronously.

But this misunderstanding caught my eye:

"The status of in-progress work is the remit of project/product managers."

A product manager's primary responsibility is to make sure the team is prioritizing correctly, i.e. that they're working on the right things and for the right reasons. Secondary to that is doing whatever it takes to unblock people's progress, e.g. when it's hindered by lack of access to resources, lack of coordination with other teams or external parties etc.

But who is responsible for the status of work? Obviously, the person doing the work.

A product manager isn't an 'engineering doula' monitoring people and telling them to code faster.

If you have a proJECt manager, perhaps you're working in an environment where deadlines are very rigid and/or there's a lot of coordination required to release things in sync with other teams (e.g. if you're shipping hardware, or annually-updated tax software).
Maybe this explanation is helpful:

There is an old, tried-and-tested learning algorithm called SR (Spaced Repetition)

(The algorithm used to determine when to show cards in flashcard programs)

The problem is that SR is a tool that only fits 1:1 structures,

and this structure does not match the structure of knowledge

What fits this structure is as simple as country–capital pairs or word–meaning pairs,

but not general subjects

Now, LearnObit has a solution for that!

The first step is to make a good note-taking tool

that mimics the tree structure for the purpose of organizing knowledge

The second step is to connect that note-taking tool with SR

Then SR can be easily used for learning information that has tree structures as well as 1:1 pairs

And since the tree structure is the structure of general subjects,

SR can be used for general subjects unlike in the past

Now SR is the normal way, not just for a few enthusiasts on the fringes
The interface looks really polished and professional.
> Tariffs are among the worst in this hierarchy because their incidence is - to an economist - arbitrary. In classical economics, specialization is good, and industries should go to whichever country is most efficient at providing them. Any sort of national tariff interferes with that: to the extent that the tariff succeeds at collecting revenue, it does it by making consumers choose an inferior product (in the sense that without the tariff, they would've chosen differently).

Listening to the classical economists in this case is a lot like listening to a paperclip optimizer complain about all the non-paperclip production that wastefully divert resources away from more paperclips. They have a point, but only from a perspective that leaves a lot of important stuff out.

> When nations cut themself off from the global economy, they often think that they've made themselves self-sufficient right up until a foreign power that's been trading the whole time shows up in your capital city with a fleet of gunboats to forcibly open your country to world markets.

That's a straw-man, though. I don't think anyone in favor of tariffs or protectionism is advocating for a pre-Meiji like economic isolationism.

Also military vulnerability is not the sole territory of protectionism:

When nations make themselves over-dependent on the global economy, they often think that they've made themselves competitive right up until a foreign power they've outsourced their gunboat production to cuts them off from their just-in-time supply of spare parts and shows up to their capital city with a fleet of gunboats to forcibly subject them to a new political or ideological regime.
> Hosting the websites of terrorist groups is something few people would advocate

The problem is not to remove those, the problem is to do that outside of a proper legal process.

Because it's easy to say "yeah, ISIS are terrorists, remove their forum", but the word "terrorist" has been abused to much you pretty much guaranteed it's going to be the justification to remove "content we don't like".
You must be joking here or I missed the sarcasm tag somewhere.

Numerous lockdowns, curfews, mask mandates, vaccination mandates, societal segregation based on medical records, enormous tracking - this is far from exhaustive list of measures governments imposed within last 2 years.

We can certainly discuss whether those things were justified or needed in separate thread, but bottomline is the governments used covid as justification for ramping down freedoms at enormous scale, I'd go ahead and say at the scale never seen before.

You just can't avoid seeing that unless you're lucky enough not to live in place where all those things are observed.
The main branch, the ones with the money and power, did die off, and their lands were given to Maria-Theresa's husband as compensation for him losing his ancestral lands ( Lorraine, because the French king didn't want Austria to have land even closer to him) after the war of the Austrian Succession.
Yeah I would have to agree. I just deleted mine about a week ago. I have absolutely no regrets.
“ If daily stand-ups really are so awful, why do some managers insist on them? Hard truth: it’s because they’re lazy, incompetent managers.”

I must have been a “lazy, incompetent manager” by the words of this author. We had few-times-a-week stand ups because:

1. I suggested we do daily standups when COVID (and with it, WFH) started and review how it goes. A month or so later, checked with the team, and we decided to reduce it to 3x/week. We reviewed this later every now and then and the team decided it still works, so we kept it.

2. It was the very few times a week when everyone from the team got a sense of what everyone else is doing - and how they can help. We cheered on successes, cracked jokes, and shared information. Call me old-fashioned, but I really liked these occasions, as it gave me a sense of belonging to a group of people. And no, this was not about me, as a manager wanting to micromanage.

We were a team in one location/timezone, and this standup was one of the few things that helped feel connected. We also had multiple recent joiners with less industry experience who found the standups far more important/engaging than most others: this is also a dynamic worth noting (that will not apply to every team).

I’m not arguing that this works for everyone, not that it’s the way to go for a distributed team across 6+ time zones, like the company of the author is set up.

But assuming the world is black-and-white (“daily standups: bad, managers insisting on daily standups: incompetent”) is ignorant thinking at best; deliberately wanting to spark attention so people like me to grab a keyboard to type this out at worst.

I’m happy this team figured out what works for them: I’d encourage all teams to find your jam. And don’t assume everything else must be bad.
EU fines WhatsApp only 0.08% of turnover
I am definitely not trying to paint the Taliban in a positive light, and I don't have any idea what it is about my comment that could possibly have led you to believe that. If they were freedom fighters, I wouldn't disagree with them nearly so strongly.
I sat an exam in high school where we had to hand write code for... Either a Mandelbrot set generator or some prime search thing, can't remember.

But it was a simple algorithm and it didn't specify a language so I wrote it in 386 assembler. I think that to this day is the only program I wrote by hand, and I know it compiled and ran correctly as they made me type it and execute it (only for fun they knew I knew what I was doing)