skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but you're talking 1950s, when this article is talking about the '70s and '80s.

The US got so far ahead of the USSR in computing because of the military-industrial-academic complex that channelled vast public resources and knowledge into projects that had both military/state ends as well as commercial ones too. Especially after the launch of Sputnik and the subsequent sense that the US was trailing the USSR in a 'cybernetics gap', which triggered a huge amount of funding in the US for technical developments. This is the story of how the personal, graphical, interactive and internetworked computer was invented.

In the USSR the military did its own thing without sharing its knowledge and inventions with the wider society, especially with such cutting edge inventions like computers. As such outside of the military (even this is debatable), the USSR as a whole did fall significantly behind the West in terms of technological progress. Who knows, if it hadn't it might still be around today.

See Slava Gerovitch and Benjamin Peter's writings, for example:

InterNyet: https://web.mit.edu/slava/homepage/articles/Gerovitch-InterN...
Whereas TCL was a beautiful and perfect implementation of a very silly idea.

Remember in 1994 just before Java, when Sun hired TCL's developer John Ousterhout, then unilaterally announced that TCL would be the official scripting language of web browsers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Ousterhout/index.shtml

And that triggered RMS into posting his controversial "Why you should not use TCL" announcement, which kicked off the Great TCL War of 1994:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12025218

https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/

"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack traces" -Andrew Back

https://twitter.com/9600/status/90729345307521024?lang=en
Ah I see. So you'd rather have a random selection of people attempting to do jobs they're not much good at, who are lucky enough to possess certain characteristics. Right...
Sure.

The issue is that you’re implicitly trying to find a way to say that these people’s speech should be protected, while the free association rights of their bosses and colleagues should not be. There is no principled way to consider racist trolling free speech, but not also those calling for their firing to also be considered free speech.

I think Popehat says this best.

> Private consequences are something else. Speech is designed to invoke private and social consequences, whether the speech is "venti mocha no whip, please," or "I love you," or "fuck off."1 The private and social consequences of your speech — whether they come from a barista, or your spouse, or people online, or people at whom you shout on the street — represent the free speech and freedom of association of others.

> But speech has private social consequences, and it's ridiculous to expect otherwise. Whether sincere or motivated by poseur edginess, controversial words have social consequences. Those social consequences are inseparable from the free speech and free association rights of the people imposing them. It is flatly irrational to suggest that I should be able to act like a dick without being treated like a dick by my fellow citizens

> Finally, I should note that one social consequence is employment-related. In many American jurisdictions, employment is "at will" unless the parties have a contract that says otherwise; an employer can fire an employee for any reason not prohibited by law. Private employers can generally fire private employees based on their extra-curricular speech. That's private action, not government action; it's an exercise of such free association and free speech by private entities as the law allows. Employers may face social consequences — particularly in a social media age — for exercising that right in a way that angers the public, which is in turn the public's free speech right.
Usually in interviews I check if they use Jira in their day to day process. If they do, I don't join that company.
Show HN: SQLite Playground
I just want to read. And Not go through social features and other fancy things that distract me from actual reading.
Have you taken some time to consider why forward operating bases make use of tents rather than what, for all practical purposes, would be houses?
> I think the political use of pseudoscience isn't helpful though. There could be a lot of understanding to be gained from these systems.

If you meant, using the label of 'pseudoscience' to undermine research (in the broadest terms), or to promote blind faiths (e.g. scientism) or "arbitrary requirements for social membership", of course it is deterior (though the economic/financial matter is more complex). But in the specific context, the attribution of pseudoscience is (though often with little care and an improper naïvety) to be a substantially legitimate warning of "do not encourage shallow beliefs amounting to prejudices".

Many of us believe that similar research may reveal interesting correlations which may then trigger good insights. But there has been a trend (especially in cultures that have shown very little appreciation of subtlety as an ideal) that seem to encourage a return to the archaic ignorant use of stereotypes. Apply that to law enforcement, and - sorry, just inventing a sufficiently acceptable example, after today's article about "Irish Baileys" - the idea subtly or less subtly emerges to arrest sober Irishmen just because.
Stickman's Face NFT Collection
Hey all, I've finally managed to put the first six pieces of art of my famous stickman faces to OpenSea. Curious what you say - as always as simple as possible!

You find all pieces here - https://opensea.io/StickyStickman

There's going to be more soon...

Thanks!
VSCode-NGQL, NGQL Extension for VSCode
That's true, the 3.14 is a good average to start with
Skoltech scientists use supercomputer to probe limit of Google quantum processor
“I make lifestyle choices that do not involve a screen outside of work hours.” This is my line for the past 13 years to apologetically explain why I do not write code in my personal time. Why do people still rely on this as an indicator of passion, or dedication, or competence?

It is also my line to explain why I do not have work Slack or work email on my phone.

Even with all these safeguards in place, I still managed to have a crazy burnout from a project. Migraines and hypertension that eventually landed me in the ER and necessitated a month away from work to recover. This taught me that working a normal 40-45 hour week is not enough. Active self-care is necessary outside of those hours.

Tl;dr: Working less is not enough. What we do when we don’t work also matters.
TLDR it's a bug in a public beta that Apple's likely been aware of for a while. But this is a good technical explanation of how it's happening.

See earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28339110
Americans have no context for left and right. They literally are both far right because that’s a political alignment, and one that Donald Trump absolutely fits. The ones advocating genocide are violent extremists on top of that.

The democrats are a center-right party while the actual left is effectively frozen out of the political system and is currently focused on building alternate power structures for when the US government inevitably collapses. There’s not a lot of electoral participation on the left because when the choice is fascism or diet fascism, there’s not much point to an actual socialist.
The article mentions:

> Scrum got in the way of shipping on a daily basis. The whole idea of Scrum revolves around Sprints, of committing to tasks at the beginning of the sprint, working on these during the sprint, and demoing what we did at the end.

What if each team member came up with a few tickets to work on during let's say a 2 week sprint and then these tickets were shipped as they were finished resulting in releasing new code potentially every day or couple of days?

I've worked with a bunch of companies (contract work) and very rarely did they stick with 4-6 week sprints but only shipped everything at once in the end. That would be really dangerous. Almost always things were shipped as they were completed and reviewed.
It’s so handy how there’s always a national-level partisan angle to prevent us from ever having to discuss certain global issues. I get so many upboats in my favorite racially-segregated-Tweet-screenshots subreddit when I incredulously wonder how Those People can even exist with such broken brains. We should really Do Something about them or they might become violent next time I remind them that their perception of reality is wrong.
The means of production provides way too much power for humans to ever let it outside their control.
Bad data: thanks for saying it out loud.

The idea that everything coming from a sensor is data will provoke a lot of harm.
When I read "If the input X is incompressible, then a copy of X is returned", I worry that this is broken. If I archive a file, then extract it from the archive, I can not be sure to obtain the same file. If the file is already compressed at the beginning, it will be decompressed at the end.

Maybe I am wrong. I didn't know this tool. My brief review of the documentation leads me to believe that it has an obvious problem.
One pet peeve of mine: people often say they run a "lightweight" version of some project management philosophy and end up paying the costs of it without the benefits. For example lightweight agile scrum meaning sprints, but no retros and work constantly coming into and out of a sprint.
What I've always lacked is something similar to JSFiddle / CodePen, but for SQLite. An online playground to quickly test the SQL query and share it with others.

Here is what I wanted:

— Binary database import, not just SQL schema.

— Support both local and remote databases (by url).

— Save the database and queries in the cloud.

— Free of charge, no sign-up required.

— The latest version of SQLite.

— Minimalism.

So I did it myself — an online SQLite playground for debugging and sharing SQL snippets.

Sample database: https://sqlime.org/#gist:e012594111ce51f91590c4737e41a046
Also applies to buying used cars and other high value things.

Has it been regularly serviced?

Vs

Where do you take it for service? What date was it’s last major service?
Sure would be interesting to see some statistics on the matter. What percent of attrition due to covid compassion fatigue?
> majority of developers

Jump to coding or architecting because that's their happy place. That's easy, that's what they know so they think that's what they've been hired for.

Shelling some dollars to buy an off-the-shelf solution for some ancillary application? No thanks we think we can do it ourselves and have more control over it. Let's go coding.
A VS Code UI to manage Node.js dependencies
So to return to your original post:

>"Actual multi-session clients across devices."

Not available with E2EE

>"No Electron."

Sure, because you need all 32GB of RAM but not your human right to privacy. Also, this is an argument against Signal's client, not excuse why you can't have E2EE on non-electron native client.

>"Truck loads of features and thoughtful touches everywhere."

So, eye candy. Not very strong argument.

>"Searching through your messages"

Only exact messages. Gets incredibly slow once you go past few weeks. Client-side searchers are as fast as your phone, i.e., fast.

>"video chats"

Not E2EE for groups

>"best stickers"

1:1 match between my Signal and Telegram sticker packs (50+ packs)

>"even though there are technical trade-offs to an E2EE-everywhere model"

The problem with this BS claim, is you can't point to a single trade-off. Everything you mentioned can be done with E2EE.

>"but do wish it was an option in group chats."

So the question is, why aren't you demanding it?

>"When Signal provides these features, please feel free to ping me back here but until then"

Again, which features? Please provide an actual, exact list so we know when to ping you.

>"the proof is in the pudding and the Signal pudding doesn't taste like the Telegram pudding."

The problem when you add a ton of sugar into a pot of porridge made from shit, is now you have a ton of sugar with an even coating of shit in it. No matter how much eye candy you glue on top of insecure design and spaghetti code that is Telegram, the fundamental truth is, it was never empowering you, only its owners who are collecting as much data about you as FB does, if not more.

EDIT: Fixed lack of E2EE on video calls to mean group video calls. Apologies if this looks like moving the goal post, not my intention.
I would be happy to pay for the services I want, if I could stop all advertising and data mining. Imagine how much better FB could be if they were not trying to trap your eyeballs.
so it's similar to [programmer's] flow ?
When I moved to a plant based and whole grain diet my cholesterol massively dropped. It’s now healthy.

Is your vegan diet mostly based on unprocessed plants? Do you limit oils when cooking?

Vegan diets can be unhealthy, too.
That's very exceptionalistic (to stick with your word).

You could apply this logic to any practitioner discipline, like medicine, research, sports, construction, cooking, etc..

Of course someone with practitioner experience will be (or appear?) better able to manage people doing that work, because they understand the finer details.

But people management itself is also a learned skill, and that's where in my experience companies fall down on the training sometimes. They assume that the practitioner experience and the seniority is enough, and it's not.

Then there's the whole empathy/EQ side of things. Being a manager requires a ton of emotional labour and that's not for everyone.
The more relevant thing is Amendment IV: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Third party doctrine, by which my private communications are exposed because they use a cloud-hosted provider vs. being physically located in my home, is bullshit. Almost all laws on surveillance were made back when it was time and labor intensive to do searches -- even the pen registers for metadata collection -- vs. today where the cloud services run law enforcement portals and the process is very easy (and many judges and senior LE people don't push back on warrants and subpoenas.)
Thanks to climatists and various government busybodies.

President Biden has been particularly effective in making energy less affordable and more expensive.

CLIMATE CHANGES!!!
At Shopify, we tend to do whatever our engineers want in this regard. My team meets weekly and looks at a kanban project board. If we need to adjust, we have retros, etc and change the process. We have the autonomy.

In a past life you would be told Agile meant “self organizing teams”. But in practice that was only allowed in a narrow definition of change under the prescribed process being foisted on teams from above.

IMO while you need some consistency to get alignment on goals at a high level and coarse quarter-level goals, at the team level you can more or less let the team decide and then judge them on their effectiveness.

Odd how so many companies want to do “what [successful tech co] does”. Yet those companies innovate their own processes.
Nope, this ticks for me all signs of a bad/incompetent team lead. I’ve seen lots of teams in my career. I certainly wouldn’t promote or hire someone for team lead if answered the question like this guy about what makes a good software developer. This is a sign for management by metrics which works short-term but ultimately leads to demise of the product.
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Work force from India here. There are a lot of companies where whatsapp works as a communication medium. Apart from email, slack etc.
It is taken for granted that team is available on personal communication channels and can be bombarded with messages anytime of the day. Right now I am on about 6 work related whatsapp groups. And this is pretty pretty common that we don't even realize that it is a problem. For all the moaning about 'westernization of culture' I seriously wish they pick this one leaf to realize how the world outside is and how it would help personal lives.
Paradox of tolerance; the only way to have a tolerant society is to be intolerant of intolerance. You have to make that exception or you lose the entire thing. Very much a “sorry not sorry” about “cancel culture”.
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My last test of Signal was some years ago on a Galaxy S3 mini. Whatsapp wasv running without big problems, Signal had sometimes hangs of two or three seconds. I now use a Galaxy S4 mini, didn't suppose that Signal is performing better now.

And all that with most features of Whatsapp missing(on my last test). Currently I don't see a reason to go from Whatsapp to Signal. Encryption is the same and Moxie see's the Signal-Network as his own where no other client has to connect. So the trust in him is better than in Facebook, but not as good as it could be.
I believe western school of music is too much on the analytical side of this. Indian music a bit too.

While other cultures are more on plugging into "feel" and letting things emerge/flow.
Violating their expected privacy, fostering moralistic vigilante justice against them, and creating an environment where they have to fear expressing opinions -- that's "poisoning the well" in a far worse way.
I've heard of the concept, but not under this name.

I also have mixed feelings about it. It feels nice at a surface level, but I'm not sure if the details follow. Are our brains really that bad at interpreting signals from the body? When I scrape my leg, I just feel that my leg hurts - but if I have lower but more persistent pain, my brain doesn't flag it as a leg issue, but instead starts telling me I hate my job?

More than that, I don't like how this view is typically used to peddle what I dubbed as "fuck off" advice. Take e.g. the "Body" list you've attached: essentially "sleep, diet, exercise". Aka. things that are often given as generic advice to solve one's mental problems. My personal experience (both of applying the advice on myself, as well as observing people) tells me that these do not work beyond fixing some extreme deficiencies - but they're the perfect thing to tell someone so they go away. They waste a year trying and failing to fix their problem, constantly blaming themselves for failing to stick to good sleep schedule / diet / exercise regime, but through that year they don't bother you anymore.

Even if these interventions did work like that - which I doubt they do - they're usually impractical. Getting into a perfect shape and sleep schedule is a years-long effort requiring sacrifices few people can make without throwing most of the nice things in their life away (it's not like they can cut out their job, so it's the personal time that gets sacrificed), and results are high-maintenance. So it isn't a good answer for the modern lifestyle, unless it brings order-of-magnitude improvements. Which we know it doesn't (otherwise everyone even moderately successful would be also fit and sleeping well).
I’d say even beyond that. Bosnianbill, another incredibly talented lock pick said that LPL is by far the most talented lock pick he has ever met. Given that less than 2% of all burglaries utilize lock picking or shimming a door or window, it is a virtually nonexistent risk as soon as you step up your lock above the basics. Unless you are directly targeted, no one is going to pick their way in to your things.
So what exactly is "the Holocaust"? Do you know exactly what happened? I rather think historians are still piercing it together.

Also, while as I said I don't have reasons to doubt it, I do think that there is something like "winner's history". I have witnessed it with the wars that happened in my lifetime, when it was possible to glimpse some aspects beyond the portrayal in the mainstream media.

So I am careful before I believe anything.
I scheduled my WiFi router to reboot once a week. Ever since then I have to think about it about as often as I do my microwave.
"failed to gain traction in the mainstream press" is an incredibly misleading way to relate what happened. The New York Post broke the story, and Twitter locked their account, ostensibly due to a "hacked materials" policy. But nobody ever actually thought that the materials were hacked.

The MSM first said they weren't covering the story because it was Russian disinformation. Later they tried to rewrite history so that the story had simply escaped notice at the time. That's all completely false. It was an ongoing scandal for weeks on Twitter that the NY Post was locked out, and other news outlets were getting hammered on a daily basis for refusing to cover the story.

So the story was successfully suppressed in the days leading up to the election. How'd it end up? The story was completely vindicated. It really was Hunter Biden's laptop, those really were his emails. They even had a witness who was a party to the email exchanges explaining who was who. Genuine story of great importance, buried.
Org mode has the ID property, you can implement soft linking with them.
Let's get the facts straight:

- The Epik leak contains 15 million records [1], including scraped data of people who have never had any relation to Epik whatsoever.

- Epik has operated as a seemingly ordinary domain registrar since 2009, and controls over half a million domains [2]. Their rise to infamy over far right wing hosting did not occur until around 2018 [3]. Despite this, the leak contains their entire historical user database.

This is a case of doxxing millions of innocent people to expose a couple of assholes. The way I see it, if you celebrate this hack, you truly are a scumbag no better than any of the people behind "theholocaustisfake.com".

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites#Epik

[2] https://www.domainstate.com/top-registrars.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)#Hosting_of_far-...
I use a local cell provider, but get to roam unlimited on ATT & TMobile when I'm out of state. Local cell providers are awesome; amazing service, good service & prices, etc.

The only hiccup I've found is international calls on roaming are insanely expensive. I had a $100 phone call to South America roaming when it would have cost ~$10 in network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless...
Most (newer) programming languages have a concept of multi-line string literals.
I think your concern is dealt with in the immediately following section:

>The Y parameter is the compressed content (the output from a prior call to sqlar_compress()) and SZ is the original uncompressed size of the input X that generated Y. If SZ is less than or equal to the size of Y, that indicates that no compression occurred, and so sqlar_uncompress(Y,SZ) returns a copy of Y.

The format stores both the possibly compressed blob and the original size. From those two pieces of information it can always return the correct original file.
"It turns out" - how so?

Maybe some people simply take an interest in the Holocaust, start asking questions, and when they hit roadblocks, they become suspicious. Censoring certain claims about the Holocaust will only push them further into "conspiracy theory" territory.

Sure maybe some people have ideological reasons to deny it, but I don't think you can generalize that to everybody.
>which ultimately charge batteries so you can buffer energy to deal with varying consumption.

It's just one thing, storage huge amounts of energy in liq. hydrogen is easier then in batteries (who are explosive as well) and heavy.

But again...i would not use one of those technologies at all in a War-zone..all of them are way too complex for the field.