skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a team lead and most days I'll have 1 maybe 2 meetings at most, but having 0 isn't unusual. Is that weird? I do talk to people on teams all the time though. I know what everyone is doing and how they are doing, just without having a voice/video call. We just text most of the time - I can be in 10+ ongoing conversations at the same time.
You don’t know any particular web browsing session is low value until after you do it. in fact the web is almost anything.
I think they take advantage of the usual gap between the quality of dedicated cameras and the quality of displays most people watch the videos on. Here in 2021 with a decent HD screen, the 7D side is plainly better. There's just no contest on dynamic range and color reproduction. On a 2010 monitor? Maybe not so obvious. Jump to :29 and it's stark. The 7D side even seems to have some kind of film filter on it to intentionally make it look "old-fashioned."

Same for the 5D Mark 2 comparison. The phone has blown out highlights anywhere there's bright light.

Most people in 2021 are looking at these images on small phone screens and whatever sub-HD screen came with their laptop. That's fine until they want to print the memories they want to capture or get a better screen. I thought the photos I took with my 2007 PowerShot were great...until I got a D5600 and a full sRGB screen. The dynamic range and colors were atrocious, but they looked good when my frame of reference ruined color and dynamic range on any image or video.

Apple banks on people not thinking about what happens when display technology forges ahead and even entry-level screens reveal the flaws in the computational photography behind all their important memories.
Yep. This one of of the primary reasons I keep a 2010-era Ubuntu 10.04 box around: a working platform for festival 1.9x and high quality TTS voices. Modern distros packing 2.x are a big step backwards. I've tried to get things working as well as they did in Ubuntu 10.04 on Ubuntu 14.04 and it's not really possible; even worse on Debian 10/11.
Although Nim using weird order of operations is unfortunate, your example is not well chosen. Replace the exponent 3 with an even integer and your point will be clear.
Python String Isalpha()
Heh good point. Maybe its proximity has helped it become important, or it could be an accident of geography.
>The first pyramids in America were built 1500-2000 years before the Vikings. We are closer to the Viking age, than they were to the first stone buildings at the time. I don't think we should underestimate how far stories can travel given enough time.

Sure, but Occam's razor would probably come out with the fact that stories can be invented alright in almost no time.

Fishermen (and sailors, and more generally travelers in the ancient times) have a long tradition of fabricating (tall) stories and/or exxagerating whatever they actually had seen or had been told, think of all the various bestiaries that were common in medieval times:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestiary
This novel virus started spreading pretty close to a lab that studies viruses. I think that counts as "actual evidence" that it came out of a lab. Of course, evidence != proof. And even if it did come from the lab, that in itself does not imply malice.
not a typo
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev
Python Read Text File
The article is peppered with comments from a certain 'James' who seems to have very colorful, albeit conflicting opinions. I wonder what was he high on.
It's not a typo, the author also uses this on their YouTube channel.
> AINA: Swedish girl name

I'm Swedish and I didn't know this was an actual name. The word is more well-known here as a slang term for police (it's mainly used in immigrant-dense areas).
Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?
I recently read a short piece about using Oracle’s always free as a VPN. What other cool projects have you run out of any cloud/hosting provider’s always free offerings? (Pour one out for Angelfire and Geocities)
1600kg is not very lightweight in the EV world. It's 100kg more than an old Nissan Leaf or Renault Zoé, which are very common in Europe. The old first gen BMW i3 weighs 1200kg. For sure it's not the same performances but weight didn't seem to be the main focus for this Lotus.
These days they don't use lead, but mostly tungsten[1] or more exotic materials.

[1]: https://www.auto123.com/en/racing-news/f1-technique-the-secr...
"Enter Kubernetes. Now you have a core DevOps/SRE team managing the “platform” (the Kubernetes cluster and various add-ons such as operators) which gives the application developers a high-level interface for operating their applications."

I've personally changed my opinion on this in the last ~2 years ... observing at work what it takes for people to stand up and manage a Kubernetes platform it really just feels like incredible waste that we have hundreds and thousands of SREs across our industry all building their own unique compute platforms when the public cloud vendors have already done that work.

The Serverless paradigm just seems fundamentally superior to me, but it also seems like it inherently requires vendors to be very opinionated in order to provide a good developer experience with it which AWS is not and aren't ... at least not yet anyway.
The joke is that the Cessna fliers are doing it to collect the twigs.

If you edit out 'birds', it'd be pure comedy.
The bad thing about Mastodon is that you don't own your handle and your data unless you run your own instance.

Maybe it could have a crytographic addon where you own handle and data cryptographically and can move it to a new server as long as you keep a backup locally and the private key.
I found Argo Workflows (k8s job and pipeline manager) much easier to work with and manage than Airflow. But I know Kubernetes and find it easy, so ..
I'm pretty sure computers were not so rare in the Netherlands in 1999!
> shouldn't need to know

Hm - maybe shouldn’t need to, but why wouldn’t you want to? Even if its not strictly your job/responsibility, its always helpful to know how things work when things go wrong.
>they scale well with number of members up to a point of four or so, where adding another participant generates more ideas than it costs time.

That's the main thing I come across. Most meetings are well over four people. And personally, I already don't deal well with more than 3 people as most people work on a vastly different wavelength than myself.

Now consider all the "Agile" meetings are already 5+ people and often contain management types and people who are both higher on the chain of command and have no technical background either hogging the attention. Suddenly, most meetings I see become either a hybrid announcement + roll call, a "meeting" with ulterior motives (e.g. managers trying to measure "participation" as a way to grade employees) or a very rushed design-by-committee approach to solving something.
Because Luke Smith is not shy to express his alt right political views both on his website and his YouTube channel. As long as he's free to do that, I'm free to criticize it.
We have one type of electric sockets (at least within each country). But there certainly can exist better kinds of sockets than those used in your our my country. But I am glad that we all have same sockets in our houses, even though they are not perfect.
Every corvette and camaro on that list, for starters.

There's several 4 door cars faster than plaid on there too, not sure why you'd bother trying to move that goalpost.
Are you sure these families aren't simply reporting that their children are being born outside wedlock to obtain welfare?
The same could be said about the US as the warming will also make natural resources in Alaska more approachable.
Video with one of the yesterday's explosions showing the expansive shock wave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3AQjiUwWM0
> What's disastrous is that millions of people can't afford artificially expensive energy to heat their homes and commute to work.

Do you think it would be more affordable to relocate some populations and rebuild a few cities after floodings, droughts, famines and wildfires caused by that cheaper fossil energy? 'Artificial' depends on your definition of who is paying, and when.
Apple bought all high end fab time which means that they can build higher end CPU's than the rest. They can outbid everyone else since they know they can sell those CPU's at high markup in their phones/laptops. Not sure what is interesting about this.
Why is lab leak vs zoonotic a front in the culture war rather than a question for which we should see the truth in a dispassionate manner?
The goal is not really to stimulate the economy, but to make sure there is the appropriate amount of money for the amount of economic activity, so that prices are driven by supply and demand of goods and services, but not so much by the constraints of the monetary system, itself.

If you get this wrong, you have price instability.

Money should be the most boring part of the economy. It's just the medium. This is what crypto gets wrong. In crypto, the money is the entire economy.
No, I don't think you can. You can't legislate luck which spurred the monopoly.

You'd just move the problem elsewhere (eg. in another sector of the economy or within government)
I did so in another comment on this very thread. And unfortunately for you, even if I didn't you don't have the power to stop me from saying it. Maybe next time read the rest of the thread before commenting.
It's almost like wearing a dirty rag on your face until the waiter brings the breadsticks is not an ideal public health policy.
Can’t say I agree.. (1) you can easily create a json data type to emit arbitrary json in your response if that floats your boat (2) graphql queries can be far more expressive than straight json (3) graphql is just a REST call that takes a string and some optional JSON and returns JSON, no need for client side libraries unless you have complex use cases that are enabled by Graphql, (4) this has not been my experience, queries are run by the backend services, not by graphql itself, so the complexity of an individual backend query does not change.

Just my experience, we can agree to disagree!
Not going to stop you in whatever you're doing, but ironically socialists tend to dislike the EU because it is primarily a common market. The reason most of the EU's leftists don't support a Brexit-style exit is that it's economic and geopolitical suicide unless your country's economy is already fully self-sufficient (i.e. if all imports and exports were shut down the country would still flourish).

Also socialists tend to be against globalization (i.e. creating a unified global market) because it strengthens multi-national corporations, which are harder to reign in than local companies (see Apple, Google and Facebook preferring to pay EU fines rather than sticking to the regulations meant to rein them in).

But you didn't say they support globalization, of course, you said they support globalism, which just incidentally happens to be a right-wing dogwhistle for the Jewish conspiracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalism

But I'm sure that's entirely accidental.

EDIT: Interesting. Not complaining but it's curious to see my comments go from slowly increasing positive scores to max negative. HN voting is certainly following interesting patterns and not at all in line with its own guidelines (obviously).
If they lost everyones? Of course.

Yours? No. You can join the choir of people complaining that google has locked them out of their accounts.
Even in the case where the explanation of the question is quite long, I think the onus is still on the asker to give information for the reciever to prioritise it. Because sometimes my availability for the discussion depends on how important that is versus my current task.

Need help debugging your CI build while I'm just churning out unit tests for my run of the mill work? Sure, I'll take up that discussion.

But hey, what if I'm working on a gethering data for a presentation to stakeholders tomorrow? Then your CI build has to wait.

But wait, what if you're debugging production being down? Well then you know what, my feature can wait.

So "I need help with <X> so that I can <Y>, are you around for a chat?" is ok. I can make a judgement call here and give you an answer.

"Ping"/"yt"/"Can we talk?" is not. You give me no information to prioritise your request.
Thus we live in a contemporary world of non-religious people seeking out value (look at the current obsession in Silicon Valley with Stoicism, mindfulness, pyschadelics, etc). But Silicon Valley also tells their people that they can't use those methods to find an actual belief system of values. It's like, definitely always look for meaning and value in the universe, we like that. But, don't find it and a be bold about it.

Once you're intermittent fasting, microdosing, cutting out meat and/or processed foods from your diet, going on "dopamine fasts" without your phone/PC, avoiding tobacco + alcohol because of the harm it does to your body, choosing the media you watch to avoid negativity, confessing to your therapist regularly, seeking out deeper meaningful relationships with people, meditating every day, etc you might as well be religious.
This is the collision between imperfect (but working) versus perfect (but not working).

It's more important to get emissions down now than to aim for a perfect standard that no one has yet reached, and doesn't appear reachable any time soon.

The emissions matter, not the goals of activist NGOs.

This cuts emissions, that's why it qualified.

Results > ideology.
Exactly. It likely wasn't made in a lab, but it likely did escape from the lab accidentally.
I'm Building HTTPS://Findmymastodon.com
I'm building https://findmymastodon.com!

If you haven't heard of Mastodon yet, then recent developments in Facebookland should motivate you to move to more privacy-friendly social networks. Mastodon is a decentralised social network, sort of like many little Facebooks linking to form the global network. Each instance is moderated by a human person and most are dedicated to a single theme, like art or music or technology. No more obscure or monopolistic rules governing your online life.

I'm building findmymastodon.com to help you find an instance to suit your tastes, and to try to make a tiny dent in the huge privacy / surveillance problem.

https://findmymastodon.com is far from finished, but I'm trying to drum up support for the project. Feedback, suggestions, and ideas are welcome :)

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Today many meetings have the form of a brainstorming, like totally agile you know. I think for meetings to make sense you should have a clear agenda and notes about the outcome, possible action etc. For the modern workplace that's probably too old-fashioned.
> there isn't enough work to have two teams

There may not be enough work for two teams 100% of the time, but there sure is when TSHTF. Manufacturers understood the need for some slack, but software companies still haven’t figured this out.
The big wireless companies are uninterested in the rural areas. They prefer to do just enough to to cater to urbanites who occasionally travel to/thru rural areas. It's a lot more profitable that way.

In rural areas, US Cellular is the main carrier.

For wired, it's Frontier, which has been in bankruptcy for quite a while.

This arrangement also provides a fig leaf that insulates them from being told (regulated) to provide decent coverage in rural areas.
Allegedly they read the document, but somehow they didnt see the section at the start titled summary.

It was a lie - they didnt read the document, I was busy is the dog ate my homework level of excuses. If you are taking home 7 figures you should probably brush up on your excuses.
I would completely agree on that, if his general blog would be what was posted. But this is an unrelated informative article, which is why I don't think discrediting critique of the person is valid.
Especially since the 'offenses' seem impressively minor in this case.
Please name the cloud providers that have a policy of allowing malicious actors to do SSH scans? Do you mean Cloudflare?
Because the "soy" thing is an overt aspect of alt-right and toxic incel discourse.
ResearchGate Removes 200k ‘Infringing’ Files After Takedown Tidal Wave
That's a big "if"
Mermaid: Create diagrams with Markdown-like text
Do you have some examples of his alt-right political opinions? I've watched a few videos of his that were recommended and don't remember anything there.
and with style insensitivity they become a non-issue?
if your individual data was leaked? Um, you'd open a support case and likely get some bottled response... before then needing to go a media outlet or trying to gain some traction on social media... even then the impact would be minimal. Maybe if you are a famous person or the data leak occurred en-mass itd be a different story? Id be curious if this sort of thing has happened.
> Columbus thought India was closer than it was because birds could be seen returning to the West Coast of England with twigs and leaves from somewhere

The Portuguese settled the Azores before Columbus was born, so this sounds like a weird reason to believe India was closer.
There should be a dashboard somewhere on HN, updated daily, that clearly indicates which topics are off limits and which opinions are off limits within the permitted topics of discussion.
This is another way of achieving the same end, yes. Like any such solution, it requires both author and commenter to use software supporting it, which Twitter does not.
> Sex without being open to life is porn: without the act of self giving and preparedness to receive children, you are left with a corrupted, self-directed form of pleasure.

Nope. I've had 3 kids. I have emotionally and rationally concluded that having another child is inappropriate; it is a form of excess and inbalance. So, I want to have sex for love now. Really, you are going to tell me that, by stopping at 3, I am going against the will of god?

Also, what's up with believing in a God-man that supposedly rules over 100 billion galaxies and yet is so damn petty about human sex lives and other foolishness? I'm all good with the importance of spiritual fulfilment, an underlying faith in an ineffable oneness of the cosmos, and even in the notion that belief in the eternal Logos gives eternal life (i.e., if i believe that my self is vastly bigger than my bodily identity, then "I" don't die with our body). It's comforting and rational.

But damn. Belief in a petty, spiteful God-man? How can people perpetuate such an idea? Just to scare children?
This is a great summary and would also explain the tendency to want to meet in response to a thought out document.
The author has wrestled with the topic long enough to write out a specific document.
The receiver of the document has not yet spent this time, and needs to understand broad outlines.
Besides this, if there is a meeting of equals, they might bring something to the table, the author hasn't thought about, or did but dismissed it for undocumented reasons. Let alone the buy in factor of a shared product vs 'you go build this, off you go'

I hate meetings for looking busy, but a 20 minute conversation can bring a week of work to actually implement the decision.
Lotus has a history of producing extremely lightweight sport cars, see Lotus Seven [1], famously featured in the opening sequence of "The Prisoner" TV series.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Seven
... Egregiously? Really? Shit, what would a _mildly bad_ comment look like?

It's also weird that you'd take issue with my comment and not the one I'm replying to. Did you read it? It's got literally 7 kinds of deliberately crafted misinformation.
Just like Facebook brand value plummeted after Cambridge Analytica. I.e., not at all.
It is rather cynical but also rather accurate to note that people like being warm in winter, and the Catholic Church is not going to make environmentalism their core mission. They already have a core mission, it involves human souls.

The environmentalists have faced stiff resistance in my life time not because anyone likes coal or oil, but because there were no alternatives. It isn't like the Catholics have ever had a point of doctrine like "and yea, your electricity shall only be sourced from fuels that are greater than 60% carbon by mass, for the atomic number 6 is especially holy!". They already have a longer term time horizon than most nations.
I agree with Doctorow's goals here, but framing it as he does at the start of the piece doesn't make any sense. He claims we need to fix big tech abuses, then gives as examples of issues to fix disinformation and copyright infringement.

Those aren't big tech abuses; they are two systemic side effects of the internet itself... Of a technology that disintermediates gatekeepers from peer to peer communication. If anything, big tech serves as a gatekeeper that has any chance at all of addressing those issues. Empowering communities and individuals to escape monopoly platforms decentralizes disinformation and copyright infringement and increases the severity of those problems.

I think there are good reasons to decentralize the current mega platforms we have, but addressing disinformation or copyright management aren't them.
OP obviously simply expected at least an explanation on the cause of these ssh connection probes. He got the explanation here (VPN).
Yeah we very rarely have that sort of management meeting, which is good cause they're useless.
Hardware and software is not the game at big tech. The game is profiting off data and comm channels ownership.

Hardware and software is the game for "hobbyists" like Purism and Pine64 now.
Certainly feel out your work environment before taking so many short breaks. It's unlikely most peoples cruddy bosses would be very accomodating.
"People’s immediate feedback allows me to rapidly change my thoughts - asking for short bits of feedback is normal verbally, but laborious in writing. "

But that change of thought would be included. Important is, what everyone agrees to in the end.

Also, keeping track of the back and forth is useful for credit assignment later.
FWIW, the Laravel source code has a prominent pattern to it, (comments, anyways) which is nice, for example

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Timezone
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the default timezone for your application, which
| will be used by the PHP date and date-time functions. We have gone
| ahead and set this to a sensible default for you out of the box.
|
*/

[1] https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/8.x/config/app.php
I agree that this is an unrelated article, but he opened this can of worms himself by inserting dogwhistles in it. Which is unfortunate, because the information in there is actually useful and something I would gladly link in the "Library" section of my blog. But I can't do that now, otherwise I'd be platforming speech that wants me dead.
The natives Poe imagined to be living in the Antarctic in his novel.
Sure, except for all the flooding, forest fires, droughts, etc.

Climate change doesn't simply mean some areas get warmer. Climate change means the entire climate system changes. Air streams and water currents shift, ground water evaporates or rises, and so on.
Okay, that's a good point, a "ping" with sufficient context about the priority is a clear improvement.

I saw the original article's recommendation to add "no urgency" when appropriate, but the type of requests I was thinking about are those that actually are urgent but not that important, where it's no big deal if you can't answer right now, but then we'll proceed without your input at all instead of waiting for it.