skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say I disagree with many of the points made in the article, but I am getting just a little tired of what I perceive to be the current trend of generalised manager-bashing these days...I transitioned from dev to manager a few years back and whilst I'm definitely not the greatest leader ever, I am also definitely not anything like the tired stereotypes portrayed in the article (case in point: when a dev tells me "two weeks" I smile and say "I believe you meant SIX weeks, right?". And then it takes 4, but everyone's happy cos the stakeholders got it 2 weeks "early" and the dev can sleep at night knowing the code is rock solid. etc.

This "Us vs Them" thing is bollox - we're all on the same team as far as I am concerned!

And, even though I have a good 20+ years of development behind me, I can honestly say that the two BEST engineering managers I ever had were people that could not have written a line of code to save their lives...they were just brilliant leaders and motivators who focused on me as an individual and trusted me enough to have the technical chops to get the job done whilst they meat-shielded us against waves of shite from the C-suite.

Well anyway, what would I know, I'm just a dumb-ass manager :)
It could go several ways but I can't see a judge wanting to entertain complaints that a new GPL version isn't to your liking if the changes are minor, especially so since it's always going to remain valid in GPLv3.

If the FSF goes rogue and changes the GPL to be incredibly restrictive (i.e., allowing proprietary redistribution, and I realise this can be considered permissive..) it might be possible to get it to be ruled invalid defaulting to the more permissive licence, especially if you have deep pockets, or if the FSF change the licence to be ridiculously permissive like 0BSD then it's not going to be legal in countries like Germany, either way any major change is likely to result in an international enforcement nightmare.
No they are not, because there's a clear boundary between your own device and someone else's infrastructure. And you could as well build your own landline system — which is exactly what people do in commercial buildings. You could also build some sort of scrambler device that goes between the phone and the line.

It's the same as asking "is internet backdoored". It might be wiretapped, but you can use encryption to avoid that risk.
Mysterious blue flashes lit up the sky after Mexico earthquake
Yes.

Assuming you also validated the expiry date.

Assuming you also verified that the issuer matched the expected one, and that you didn't fetch keys based on the issuer that is in the token.

Also assuming that the crypto alg is the one you expected.
I would support it if congress passed it. An executive order?! I hope the courts tear it apart.
Note that the original article's headline is "Groundbreaking Technique Yields Important New Details on Silicon, Subatomic Particles and Possible ‘Fifth Force’" (which is too long for HN), which makes it clear that the focus is on the technique. It's the abbreviated HN title that sort of makes it sound as though the focus is on the force.
That according to CDC data 1/3 of vax people are going to develop an infection. There is no way to purge covid infections from the population, not even with 100% vax rate. In a population 67% vaccinated or higher, there are going to be more vax infections than unvax infections. At which point choosing to vax oneself or not is not going to keep covid from spreading and becomes a personal choice.

If you are an adult, would do you good to get vaxed. But seems strange that the OP claimed to be 'libertarian' and yet in favour of forced vax. There is a big difference between 'this is what I think would do you good, but I'm going to respect your decision regardless' and 'get vaxed or else' position so many have embraced of late.
There may not have to be, as far as we know. From the Wikipedia page[1]:

Many theoretical physicists believe these fundamental forces to be related and to become unified into a single force at very high energies on a minuscule scale, the Planck scale, but particle accelerators cannot produce the enormous energies required to experimentally probe this. Devising a common theoretical framework that would explain the relation between the forces in a single theory is perhaps the greatest goal of today's theoretical physicists. The weak and electromagnetic forces have already been unified with the electroweak theory of Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg for which they received the 1979 Nobel Prize in physics. Some physicists seek to unite the electroweak and strong fields within what is called a Grand Unified Theory (GUT). An even bigger challenge is to find a way to quantize the gravitational field, resulting in a theory of quantum gravity (QG) which would unite gravity in a common theoretical framework with the other three forces. Some theories, notably string theory, seek both QG and GUT within one framework, unifying all four fundamental interactions along with mass generation within a theory of everything (ToE).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_interaction
Your numbers are incorrect. Vaccination appears to boost immunity after infection by a factor of 2×, not 10×. The duration of additional resistance is unclear.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0806-vaccination-pr...
Shhhh! If you demonstrate such clear thinking you’ll never get promoted to management…:)
I know we're not supposed to question these things but the edit to this title made it worse.
My guess would be until everyone who cares about it dies.

He who controls the present, controls the past.
I have a special place in my heart for these sort of "weird" features, which seem really exotic compared to the standard POSIX APIs we're all used to. I just enjoy thinking about alternatives and new ways of doing and architecting things. Even if I can't think of a practical use for such a feature, I always appreciate the novelty. It makes me wonder about the future. Are the typical POSIX-style APIs still going to be dominant 50 or 100 years from now, or will new APIs and ideas start to replace them?
AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A
I've never ever heard of this. Can you elaborate? I hesitate to say "citation needed" but this seems like an extraordinary claim.
Western countries irrevocably recognizing Taiwan would be a start.
I agree with the browser sandbox. I think PWAs are a better approach than electron for most desktop oriented webapps. Retains the full browser sandbox including extensions, and you don't need a full 2nd browser running - faster launch and lower footprint. Just a website with a native-ish looking install and skin.
> Slaves could also buy their freedom, and were sometimes even given their freedom as a gift.

Again, this is not a difference between ancient slavery and American slavery. Why do you mention it?

> Of course, there were cruel masters as well as kind ones. But prior to the African slave trade, the institution itself wasn't remotely as brutal or morally abhorrent, because it wasn't built on a social commitment to racism.

Now it seems like you're specifically trying not to respond to the claim that American slaves received crueler treatment than ancient slaves did.
Who cares if they're the little guy. The influencers are lying to their followers to fool them into wasting their money, so they can profit. Little guys also includes shoplifters and con-men. They're still bad for others.
does not recognize Arabic letter system so no use in arabic .urdu.farsi etc..
It is misleading because it suggests that they have found new signs, previously unknown, that such a force might exist, rather than new details that demote it from "possible with certain limitations" to "possible with narrower limitations".

This is presumably why dexwis seemed to think that it was so remarkable and that it might easily be written off as too-fantastic.
If that were true, we would have no problems with lack of immunity to things, or invasive species and organisms displacing things in ecosystems.
How good is the evidence for dark energy
There's a great YouTube channel, 'Beau Miles' [0] with videos focusing on finding amazing places near your home:

Here's one he did on an old railway near his house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCghemtjjM

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm325cMiw9B15xl22_gr6Dw
Nice looking site, sadly a little bat in China made it quite unnecessary...
I find that site too simplistic, since it does not try to gauge accuracy, only bias.

The Adfontes Media Bias chart uses a two-axis system, plotting accuracy against bias, and inevitably ending up with most sources on an inverted-V shape: https://adfontesmedia.com
Are 10 weeks a lot or a new world record of some kind? I have no references so I can’t say. But back in the day, me and 2 friends coding 10 weeks in a row would get as very, very far.
wow

that was really powerful

makes me want to rethink some of my flippant comments about Taiwan's impending doom after we get our semiconductor pylons up in other places, but now at least they have my sympathy
Not sure why you are being downvoted. During the communist revolution (in the 40s), the previous government was overthrown and escaped to Taiwan. That was when Mao and Communism took over.

It is an interesting perspective

Edited for accuracy, 'cultural' -> 'communist'
Not the same kind of suppression, not by a long stretch.

You're still legally entitled to stand on a street corner in the US and shout racial slurs, if that's your thing. You're also legally entitled to assemble and protest there.

None of the undertakings that are equivalent to those actions are permitted in China, and will immediately subject you to violence.
Appears so

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cddl/contrib/openso...
Well, who's talking about FUD in this thread?

At least 8 banks in my city use XMPP for internal chats since 2005 at least. Cisco has an xmpp product. Oracle uses xmpp for internal chat communications (i know it because their employees contacted us many times, and we slightly modified our xmpp client so that could connect to it without problems). Fortnite, eve online based their chats on xmpp, WhatsApp runs on a modified XMPP. Quite enough serious organisations, no?
Not true. Large parts of PalmOS 5.x were ARM. I documented a lot of it here: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
You definitely seem like a real expert, and not some crazy anti-vaxxer wildly speculating.
I like to think, somewhere, there are rooms full of patriots who pursued years of education and intense training for a role at a 3 letter agency - believing they would travel the world doing super secret spy craft. Now they spend their days sitting in dark, windowless, rooms in front of a computer screen slinging dank memes on the web.
> Just the transaction costs alone make it infeasible to use Bitcoin to order pizza.

Blatantly false. Transacting on the Lightning Network (Bitcoin L2) costs next to nothing and the settlement is final and immediate.

Screw pizza, top-of-mind, you can pay a fraction of a cent's worth for an API call with Bitcoin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459713)...

or pay 66 satoshis (~$0.03) / hour for a VPS instance (https://www.bitclouds.sh)...

or buy gift cards for any amount (https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/)...

or tip anyone as little as 1 satoshi (~$0.00046) (here's 5 cents worth https://ln.cash/tFVDMpUMRQPYwyj9DZHMqg)...

or hell, if you're feeling like pizza, DM me on Twitter and I'll get you one, paid for in Bitcoin (https://ln.pizza).
Perf report is indeed slow AF, especially on large files, you're right in wanting to speed it up! Thanks for sharing! This is an interesting tidbit that has thrown me down a rabbit hole of 'profiling the profiler'...
It better be good evidence. We need it to destroy the cerebrates and their overmind!

Sorry, couldn't resist.
> the trend of only caring about positive experiment results

Probably starts in school. Negative results are just a loss of marks rather than a potential point of interest. Even if the lab report states that the results were unexpected and possible reasons given - it was an automatic fail. Never has it been considered, at least in my alma mata, that a negative result reasoned about might actually be interesting on its own and worth the time. Since aint nobody got time for that, said trend will probably continue for a long time.
The post originally linked to a different source [0, if I'm not mistaken in my google-fu], it seems that the link has been switched to a more neutral source which albeit omits some of these details.

[0] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/faceboo...
>"Like every other American you already are vaccinated for several other diseases since childhood."

Slippery slope in practice is this scenario. You were already injected with X and Y before you could consent or understand. What's Z more?

Edit:
I do not object to previously-normal vaccinations, where you are pretty much one-and-done in your youth, and don't have to continually prove them when you try to do day-to-day life. I object to the new notion that we can impose them for everything in the world. I am 110% against the notion of requiring a vaccine card to go to a bar or board a flight, and will boycott any business that asks this of me. No "Papiere, Bitte" bullshit.

If I have to accept the latter if I accept the former, then I am against the former.
I'm not the person you asked, but another rkt dev answered a similar question last year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22250270
Intel has flattened out is probably more accurate.

Processor speed improvements have indeed not kept pace in desktop / high TDP offerings.

A lot has however happened in the lower power chips used in laptops/mobiles in the last 10 years.

Apple silicon or most ARM type SoC chips of today are so much much better than anything from late 2010s in performance at that power draw.

This has also coincided with decreasing desktop demand as more people use phones or laptops as their primary or only device.

I don't have enough know-how to state with certainty that it is the just the market movement with more R&D money in lower power processors or if there are hard tech limits but certainly is a factor
> Young cohorts of workers simply do not face a “gender gap”.

You also provide nothing to support your viewpoint.

If you're going to criticize the article for lack of data, that's fair. But be better than them. Can/will you provide data for your claim?
I think you're benefiting from the coincidence that developers (managers?) chose Electron + 1 code base and void of well-written apps due to low market share. Sure, an electron app is better than a broken side project. But a fully native linux app would handily beat the electron app.

If there were a larger market share, there would be more well-written native apps. If devs focused on users, the easily-ported mediocre electron app wouldn't exist.
It's just a suggestion; I don't insist on much of anything.
Sponsor relocation to US/UK/Taiwan for any HK citizen who wants it? HK will have 0 value to China if every educated person leaves it.
Clubhouse is still a thing?
How does this compare to Fastly's Lucet-based solution?
> During the cultural revolution, the previous government was overthrown and escaped to Taiwan

Not the Cultural Revolution. Cultural Revolution was in the 1960s, the Communist victory over the Nationalists and the Nationalists' flight to Taiwan was late 1940s. The "Cultural Revolution" was not a "revolution" in the classic sense. It was not an attempt to install a new government. It was a totalitarian exercise in which the Communist Party – led by Mao – attempted to eliminate every aspect of Chinese culture and society that wasn't enthusiastically communist
You add a reference but never refer to it! Let me explain for the English here :)

The Twitter link shows a picture taken at a race event, where it says on the door: wedstrijd secretariaat, meaning secretariat competition in English. It's two words, so the first modifies the second (adjective) rather than forming a compound noun, thus some wedstrijd (competition) of the secretariat seems to be held there. Writing wedstrijdsecretariaat as one word makes it a compound noun and translates as competition secretariat which is (presumably? :D) what was meant. Ha-ha! Germanic humor, I guess. (I really enjoy them at least, since it really is what people wrote and they don't even realize it. Probably ties into pentesting, where I also exploit what people incorrectly wrote?)

> Sometimes the addition or lack of a space can change something quite a lot, so you can't just insert them because it's convenient.

Correct, but note that hyphens between the parts are always legal if you think it's more readable.

For example meervoudigepersoonlijkheidsstoornisbehandeling was not hard to get for me but then the ...behandelaarsopleiding variant is really stretching the possibilities and I'd definitely start to hyphenate there, also because it's a bit of a false start (it's an education, but you're starting off with a disorder and then segueing into treatment and then again veering off into it being an education that you're describing -- it's a bit like "The old man the boat." in English: a garden-path sentence or an intuinzin which starts off making you think it's one thing and then continues in a way that forces you to reevaluate it).

Also, if you have a reason why you didn't put an "s" between behandelaar and opleiding I'd be interested! It feels to me like there should be one but I don't know the rule.
Vaccination almost certainly reduces transmission.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/80-of-vaccinated-covid-carrier...

RNA levels spike to the same levels on PCR, but they decline faster, and culturable amounts of virus are lower in breakthrough infections, indicating a higher proportion of viral debris in breakthrough infections rather than virus:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.20.21262158v...

Even if you take the worst numbers out there vaccines still eliminate 50% of infections. And symptomology, viral load and transmissibility are correlated -- which means the vaccines is likely to be effictatious against transmissibility just like it is against disease.

The worst-case idea that breakthrough infections, even though they're much less severe, produce identical risk of transmission does not make any sense at all.

I would bet money that if everyone was vaccinated that the R0 of delta would be less than 1.0 and we would not have epidemic spread and that breakthrough superspreaders are incredibly rare.
I suppose it might have been what I inferred when the author said "Yet it has been a massive success. I think it means our industry is craving for a good desktop UI framework."
Fravia's Web Searchlores
"collude: cooperate in a secret or unlawful way in order to deceive or gain an advantage over others"

Shareholder votes are public, but anonymous. The more typical scenario is that you hold on to the shares and create demand for the stock as a sign of your approval. Unless you own tens of thousands or more shares, you were probably not invited to the perfectly legal but private discussions about the proposals.

Shareholders recently voted against every single proposal that was also opposed by Amazon.[1]

[1] https://www.geekwire.com/2021/final-tally-amazon-shareholder...
True, but at least you as the employee won't get fired since you can't be blamed.
CISA Lays Out Security Rules for Zero Trust Clouds
Yes. Working for Facebook and "fighting the good fight" involves abandoning your Facebook paycheck.
Very nice. This is similar to Donald Knuth’s treatment in §1.2.8 of v.I of The Art of Computer Programming (Fundamental Algorithms).
I do not perceive productive as equal to fulfilling. But I understand you mean that for some people the sacrifice would not be worth the extra pay. It is another issue. Being a cog in a machine for x hours a day is a sacrifice. One voluntarily becomes a slave but in return can enjoy the fruits of the labour in the leisure time.

Regarding the matter of education, it is not always an option to do what ones enjoy for a living no matter the acquired knowledge and the degree that confirms that. Some work is more valued than other. The market, we, decide that by our selective spending. One can become expert in the ancient history and end up working at Starbucks just because there is no need for their knowledge.
Ooh I'm sure that's going to dissuade people.
The best non-conventional introduction:
https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
all the men on here complaining they aren't getting support while others are, definitely aren't blaming anyone, you're right, I took that too far. Seeing a lot of men write how they are super stoked women are finally getting some small advantages in academia.
Forces are mediated by fields (or particles, depends on your interpretation). If you want 4.5 forces, what does that .5 look like?

Essentially, each force does describe a type of interaction. So what does one-third of a type look like?
Periscope – The Kubernetes Monitoring and Tracking Dashboard
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core2-Duo-P8400-v...

My $600 laptop's cpu performance is about double that of the x200. I'm not sure about transistor number, but the performance increase is huge. I upgraded from a Thinkpad T410 this year, using a T60 until 2019. I can't go back.
If he refused to remove his surveillance equipment, yes. Absolutely.
Great experience?

They even haven't shipped full onboarding and contract import flow at all in the first release.
What Predicts Happiness?
Not even that really, just import a thing and the next build downloads it.
I think they missed the hype train for this one. Anecdotal, but every person I know who used Clubhouse during the height of the pandemic has completely or nearly completely stopped using it in favor of outside or in-person socialization now.
I used to work on the localization team at my company. It's a pretty complicated world in itself. I was nodding my head while reading this and I think the biggest surprise I ran into is how not a lot of companies do a great job at localizing for many different regions. I think this is also something where large companies have a huge lead on compared to newcomers.
You can really tell who gets their info on Portland from Fox News and not Portland residents.
Because there's no fifth force.
Your advancement depends on your personal relationships with the right people. They all are not loyal money grabbers and they are gonna jump the ship one day. Your goal is to find a common ground with them and call them when you also need to jump ship.
Yeah, I still just don't get it. That whole twitter feeds looks like a hunt for a greater fool.

This doesn't seem like artists controlling their IP, to me it seems like another method of sales that lets them tap into essentially a pineapple fund. Those who made money in crypto, sloshing around the excess, making it look bigger and bigger.
I wonder how much of the bad decision-making that led to the US's wasting more than 2 trillion dollars failing to effect any permanent change in Afghanistan can be ascribed to the fact that it is career suicide to imply that the people of Afghanistan were any less capable of democratically governing themselves than the people of, e.g, Germany and Japan were in 1945.