skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's hit and miss. Yes developers will know the field, but they may lack the interpersonal and management skills needed, and they may not have the right personality; as a manager, you need to let go of technology, and you have to be able to deal with people all day long, sometimes with overtime as well.

I mean not to generalize, but a lot of developers are neurodiverse introverts, the flavor that doesn't go well with typical management skills.

I mean managers and sales and the like also have their own flavors of neurodiversity - to generalize, it's things like psychopathy (or the ability to suspend their own moral compass) and high extroversion.
NextDNS removed from App Store. This has to stop
Last straw for me. Solidified my next phone won’t be an iOwnYou.
FWIW Mysql 8 has gotten a lot better in standards compliance and ironing out legacy quirks, with some config tweaks. While my heart still belongs to PostgreSQL things like no query hints, dead tuple bloat (maybe zheap will help?), less robust replication (though getting better!), and costly connections dampens my enthusiasm.
I have been using my Bose bt headphones for 3 years now and they still seem as good as the day I got them. No noticeable battery issues.
IME flat hierarchy == shadow hierarchy. You're still going to get one and I believe intentional > accidental, even when it comes to making mistakes.
Also relevant: https://codahale.com/work-is-work/
The new gen yes, but old gen jacked products in my mother living room are still kicking.

Granted, they were never attached to a mobile device, which wears the cable.
No headphone jack doesn't imply wireless headphones. On my Xiaomi Mi 9 SE I just had to use a USB-C to jack dongle.
For some reason only the first paragraph was shown. I had to view it in privacy mode to see the whole article. I wonder if the ad blocker on my iPhone triggered something.
Ah, I see. I appreciate the effort but maybe try being subtler, I was almost mad until you overdid it.
Did you learn STEM with paper books or digital ones?
I am very interested in how people learn STEM, and would love to know about your experience, and how you felt about learning using paper-based books/pen/pencil (analogue, if you will) vs using digital books and resources.
How do you see fuchsia in that list of micro kennels?
If you’d like to try out PostgreSQL in a nice friendly hosted fashion then I highly recommend supabase.io

I came from MySQL and so I’m still just excited about the basic stuff like authentication and policies, but I really like how they’ve also integrated storage with the same permissions and auth too.

It’s also open source so if you can to just host it yourself you stil can.

And did I mention they’ll do your auth for you?
As an aside, the name of the city is Córdoba - not "Cordóba" which would be the default pronunciation with no accent.

That said, Spanish / Moorish middle-age architecture is among the best and most beautiful in my opinion. Seeing how the later Christians borrowed so heavily from Islamic architecture and tradition shows that good ideas survive the test of time.
You don't need schematics to fix something. E.g. if a chip looks burnt or has corrosion, you could just swap it. If you cannot get individual components, then it's no different than most phones where you also have to swap entire boards.
well yes, but the beautiful thing about UK cryptics at least is that they regularly intentionally misdirect the user, so you spend some time going down a rabbit hole and realise that you're on a hiding to nothing. I think that kind of game play is what makes a rules-based approach more challenging. I'll have to check out Crossword Genius though.
the sense of pride is palpable (and well deserved)
> if you are at about 60 degrees south of the equator and keep going due west (or east, of course) you can keep going forever without ever hitting land.

No, this requires you to constantly steer left (or right, of course). So you are not traveling on a straight line.
And Apple are still shipping security updates for iOS 12 (last one a few weeks ago), so even the 8 year old iPhone 5s is still getting updated.
I have wired studio headphones for 20 years.
Is wireless audio inherently less sustainable?
A lot of interesting details about military logistics and bureaucracy:

> RFID offers a simpler, more efficient system. Which is why two airmen went to an Air Force 2020 Innovation Rodeo — an ideas competition patterned after the TV show “Shark Tank” — to pitch a project to a panel of senior officers.

> The airmen offered another scenario, one service members dread and that RFID promises to eliminate: A thousand troops suddenly need to deploy overseas, fast. To get the weapons they will carry, each must wait in a line that snakes around the building and barely seems to move.

> ...Open with “full operational capability,” the RFID armory is a success as promised, according to spokeswoman Jasmine Porterfield. The new system cuts inventory time in half, limiting the need for two armorers and creating more schedule flexibility and training opportunities.

The fact that Pentagon leaders don't even know that services are now tagging weapons is astounding:

> Policy experts within the Office of the Secretary of Defense appeared unaware that the services have been tagging firearms with RFID.
That's why notes are then distributed for review, allowing people to say when the notes as taken don't accurately reflect what was discussed.
Hmm. AlphaGo and AlphaZero were trained using self play. I don't think there was any precomputing, unless you count training as precomputation.
There's an alleged whistleblower that says it's a lab leak. Someone that was on the ground and had access to information. That's not a conspiracy theory. Whether or not you believe this person, that's up to you.
Working Copy is an option. Some of Plain Org (https://xenodium.com/plain-org-for-ios-a-month-later) beta users seem to be using it successfully.

Update: I’m PO author.
As I understand it is mostly made in China so it's isn't true.
The article is unfairly bashing GNU. For example:

> OK, now have a look at the 120 lines long source of GNU yes. And compare now that behemoth against the implementation in OpenBSD, the one from sbase, or the one from busybox. Like… why does GNU yes does so many memory operations for a task that is implemented so easily by everyone else?

The answer can be seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14542938 https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/6gxduc/how_is_gnu_yes...

But from the style of the author, it is clear that it is the case of a knowledgeable well informed educated person. GNU clearly has its problems, but badmouthing it like that is hard to differ from malice.
Already on it, nobody else read this comment pls

Hosted.fm - free egress will mean no overage pricing needed!!

Inb4 Cloudflare announce a podcast hosting platform haha
You should still use dithering, even with modern palettes. You can absolutely see banding on undithered 24 bit images. 256 color levels per channel is barely adequate, even when optimally allocating those levels perceptually (gamma correction is a poor man's approximation of this).

Yes, dithering will increase the file size of a losslessly compressed image. That's because it contains more information. If you're sufficiently bothered by file size to degrade color accuracy, why are you using lossless compression to begin with?

Dithering is an essential component of any digital signal processing pipeline, not some weird retro artifact.
Speak for yourself. I've happily been using an iPhone SE since 2016, and will probably keep it until iOS 15 is EoL. It turns out, I just haven't added any new use cases to my phone since around 2013.
> I want cultish followings to end within the FOSS community. I swear I’ll always work against that.

> And we like things following the standards already put in place. Because we don’t give a damn about helping the FSF do their thing: We care about tech. We care about and love the legacy of UNIX, its philosophy, and we want to adhere to it as strictly as possible.

Sorry for breaking it up to you, but this kind of "standards must be respected 11!!!!1&!1" mindset is the actual cult-like behaviour, commonly found in communities such as cat-v.org, and with people clinging to plan 9 like it's anything beyond a failed experiment.

GNU and shells like bash (I use zsh which is I guess even "worse" in terms of feature bloat) are dominant because they provides a ton of super useful features to make work faster. Likewise you bash against glibc's bloat, but most software perform faster when using glibc than other "less bloated" libc implementations like musl ; the bloat is here for a reason and that reason is performance (which matters infinitely more than whatever ideological purity BS someone can find). Who cares if it's not strictly POSIX compliant: it makes computing a better experience and that's all that matters, and if tomorrow someone manages to create an entirely different non-posix platform that manages to improve on that, I'll happily jump there and I hope you do too.
> Every wired headphones I've had started to break down after a year or so, including ones with a detachable cable.

To counter your anecdotal evidence, let me offer mine.

My AKGs are almost 20 years old now. I only had to relpace the plug once which was a cheap repair I could do myself.
Jeff Bezos has a famous quote - "Your margin is my opportunity"

Kudos Cloudflare! You won the Internet this week!
The UK report also says on page 6: "With the delta variant, vaccine effectiveness against infection has been estimated at around 65% with Vaxzevria and 80% with Comirnaty" which corroborates with your information, 80% vs 95% but same ballpark. And yet their data later in the report seems to contradict the vaccine effectiveness against infection numbers. They seem to know what they are talking about, I wish they had addressed this apparent contradiction in the report itself.
Well, that kinda proves that FSF was right. Linus, the only GPL licensed OS of the ones you mentioned, is the only one that survived the test of time.
For Pg and MySQL I usually have to resort to replicating to a newer instance then cutting over. Tools like pg_upgrade offer promise but I rarely have the time or access to test with a full production dataset. Hosting provider constraints sometimes limit my options too, such as no SSH to underlying instances.
> It’s a lot of writing to do in any given week, but I don’t care. I want to write it all. I write all day to work, and then I think about writing all night to relax. In the late afternoon and evening, I am constantly, to paraphrase the great Walter Mosley, “percolating.”

I remember an author once saying there are two kinds of authors: those who like to write and those who like to have written. The interviewee was in the latter category.

Given that this article is about writing, here's a comment on the writing itself. It needs a rewrite. It's a good rough draft with maybe the kernel of a good idea, but in its current form is barely readable. It's stream of consciousness writing that doesn't fulfill the promise made in the title.

Or, maybe it does in fact fulfill that promise. If the goal is quantity of words - and 10,000 words a week in particular then never editing a rough draft is one strategy to get there. Just keep writing, never stopping to reconsider anything. Treat the screen you're typing on as an append-only log file. If so, well played!

There are readers who like to read and those who like to have read something. I went to this article with the intent of getting actionable advice to make writing easier. Half way through the article, this author hasn't even articulated a problem I can identify with.

Here's how to start the edit. Throw away half the words, then throw away the half that are left. Now start again.

Maybe the difference between writers who like to write and those who like to have written is that the latter take editing the mess they've created far more seriously than the former.
I learned long ago, that it really depends on the manager's personality and his/her understanding of the role.

But also on the expectations being transported down from above.

The problem is, imagine a company with your second managers mindset and his/her boss takes a look into the calendar, sees there are no management meeting tasks (Jour Fix, standup, and so on) in there. His/her boss would think he/she is not doing anything, because the signifiers that declare a manager actually managing are missing.

I don't see these signifiers as actually managing - I see them as creating disturbance - but modern management culture seems to be seeing these signifiers as sign of real managerial work.

I also find a lot of managers need to please their own ego by feeling they do something. They often need to feel important - hence too many meetings as signs of them having control.
> we live in a time where simple guilt by association and even asking simple counter narrative, science-driven questions is enough to get one blocked from all other mainstream registrars and hosts.

No, we don't. You get blocked from mainstream registrars by spreading hate and making the excuse that this is somehow "counter narrative, science-driven questions", but you know very well that that is not being honest.
8chan was a sacrificial site to distract the most fervent internet crusaders. Worked pretty well, I believe it still exists in some form, but it is out of peoples mind.
Nice as a proof of concept, but it renders one's browser history useless, and Ctrl+F is mostly broken as well.

Recommend taking an additive approach—to enhance navigability with new methods, not throw out the stuff that already works (and works well) as a consequence of reasoning that this is A New Thing and New Things are supposed to replace what already exists. Casualties here include stuff like clickable hot zones for navigation if in the given moment one's hands can provide higher bandwidth that way for a desired action, operating on e.g. a link by context menu e.g. to copy it, mouse scrollability, etc. Unlike the poorly reasoned bickering below, it does not follow that these interaction concepts are at odds with one another. Keyboard and mouse accessibility are not mutually exclusive.
>> so it's perfectly feasible to have the state maintain FLOSS systems,

um, no it's not. The state does not have the skill set required to duplicate the functionality provided by the SAPs, IBMs and Microsofts of this world. (Not to mention the other 5000 or whatever bits of software in play.) And it does not have the skill set required to build a team of people who could acquire or duplicate this skill set.

Or put another way, Enterprise software companies have a 30-40 year head start in this space. Good luck catching up.

What it does have is a love for bureaucracy so no doubt they'd love to give it a go - hiring an army of HR/Product Managers etc to oversee another army of programmers - either on govt payroll or as contractors. All hired on a principle of "lowest price wins".

>> in which case you'd just need a small team that handles this functionality.

I think you underestimate the sheer scope of functionality in play here. The size and diversity of the user base (ie govt employees), the breadth of software encompassing every utility, every browser, every os, every niche tool and product they use. To mandate this must all be OSS would be an interesting (and expensive) play. And that's _before_ we add "govt overhead" to everything and everyone...

>> When the alternative is a builtin monopoly, at govt contract costs, that can't be fired but can also hold the state to ransom with proprietary software, then that central IT dept at state level looks a lot more desirable.

Does it though? Firstly it's really not that much money in the grand scheme of things. Secondly when the OSS software project fails, as most software projects (commercial or OSS) do, who carries the can for spending all that money and having nothing to show for it? Politically that would be insane. And for what? So instead of being beholden to commercial suppliers they are beholden to a nice big internal new govt department?

Honestly, I think commercial companies will do it better for less money.

>> In fact, the only difference between the two would be that the FLOSS systems would allow the state to invite different vendors to bid on and compete for modification of the FLOSS systems, with all the modifications open so that the state can switch to a new vendor if necessary.

How would the state choose between one vendor and another? Who will decide if the vendor did a good job or not? Which FLOSS system is even in the running to replace serious bits of Govt software? If there are good, well supported _free_ competitors to [SAP et al] then why do commercial businesses still use [SAP]?

If business, who prioritize the bottom line think [SAP] is worth the money, why should Govt spend even more money for less return? Repeat the same question 500 or 5000 times for all the bits of software a govt uses, and you'll get an idea of the absolute monster of bureaucracy this would create.
I've left many positions, but never once has it been because of pay. Usually, it's because I grew bored with the position.
Paper. Pencil.
Why not bump the major version if there are breaking changes?
The field is called Organizational Behavior if you're looking for scholarly info
SMD rework may look intimidating, but it is very easy. In most cases way easier to deal with than older tech. If you ever tried to desolder thru hole chip vs e.g. QFN.
This kind of emotional articles are the best motivation to renew my FSF membership.
> The average person is (perhaps unfortunately) not the judge of art.

I disagree. This, to me, is equivalent to being a linguistic prescriptivist. If art is subjective, then art academics and modern artists hold no exclusive claim to judging art. If 99% of people look at modern art and consider it a joke, then that means within their subjective interpretation of what art is, they're correct. It's not like math where you can say 1 doesn't equal 2. And if you go out of your way to define art so that you can justify modern art and exclude normal people, then you're just playing semantics and defining something that the average person never cared about in the first place.
Ask HN: How do startups get their first customers?
You have an idea, started building already or perhaps you have a prototype or an MVP.
How do companies get their first 10,20,50,100 customers?

This is the valley of deaths where most of the nascent companies die.
There are a lot of great stories and anecdotes created post-factum to entertain but they do provide little applicability and value.
Any thoughts on this ?
Not only that, Apple-skeptics previously highlighted how including a cable that wasn’t able to connect to the latest Apple laptops was bad design.

Just goes to show Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
> There have been a number of high-profile demonstrations lately that people cannot be trusted.

People in the government, or somewhere else? Trusted to do what you want them to, or?

> Why shouldn't we ban something, if its harm can be rigorously shown and yet people persist in using it?

Automobiles fit that bill. The problem is that the (well meaning) authoritarians believe that their equation for the cost and value of everything is the one true gold standard that society must set its clock and run by.

> What does this lofty commitment to "freedom" actually buy?

Lots of things. For you specifically, the freedom to isolate yourself at home, the freedom to wear a mask in public, and the freedom to decide to get vaccinated and make other decisions about your personal medical treatments.

You didn't think without freedom that you'll still get to do what you want and the only change is that others will also be made to do what you want, right?
A "policy" that was almost certainly never written down because it was highly illegal.
Are you implying a relationship between the two plots?
I do not agree, I missed the point.
As you said, the Zionists project.. you, too, plant a seed of hate here.
Everything starts with the words chosen.
Especially if it's a teacher telling the students bad things about the Zionist.. the blacks, the yellows, the whatevers. They go home and remember what they learned from the teacher: zionist are bad.
In fact, alone saying zionists is a sign, that you have some ressentiments against the Israeli.
It would be the same calling the Germans "hitlers" - although some truth is lying in that, still it's a degradation of the German people. And that's the problem my friend.
May I ask you whether you're an Islamist? :)
I think you hit the nail on the head with that.
My $2700 dell xps keyboard died less than 2 years after unboxing. Dell tech came to fix it after 2 months of cat and mouse with their support. He changed all the parts, and the machine stopped booting, then he left. One month of battle later, he comes back, and plays the same song, then live.

4 months after the initial blip, laptop is still dead, there is talk about a replacement but they will get back to me in 48h. It's been 2 weeks.

If dell does that, I guess we can forgive a noob player like ff.
Research Opportunities in Operating Systems for Scientific HPC [pdf]
You aren't after a good faith discussion and the vast majority of people with reasonable knowledge, myself included, accept that in general, vaccines save lives.

Please stop with the cult like behavior.
This makes me curious, how are crossword puzzles made? Clues -> words? Or working backwards from words to clues? Some blend of the two?
You can use a nomogram to very elegantly summarize a logistic regression model (really, any additive model)

For example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6152514/

See also the rms R package.
Pretty low-effort blog spam stroking developer ego about being (yet again) the smartest people in the room and everyone else being monkeys. The inferiority complex is kind of tiring.
Bucardo is great for replication.
I'm aware of the value of old game ads and I have many myself, both physical and digital. But I'm talking about relative value. I would gladly leave my old Nintendo Powers behind if it meant I could take my actual games or movies with me, for example.
Looks like durability is exactly the reason, though not necessarily of the headphones, but of the phone itself:

> A notable downside compared to previous Fairphones is that the Fairphone 4 no longer includes a 3.5mm headphone jack, a choice that feels at odds with the company’s otherwise customer-first approach. Fairphone tells me it made this decision in order to be able to offer an official IP rating for dust and water resistance, which was missing from the company’s previous phones. It’s only IP54, which means it’s protected from light splashes rather than full submersion, but that’s impressive in light of its removable rear cover and modular design.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/30/22700014/fairphone-4-rele...
Slides: https://science.osti.gov/-/media/ascr/ascac/pdf/meetings/202...
>Should we start calling them "Chromium/Linux"?

Well, if chrome is the primary set of userspace tools, "chromebook" might be a reasonable name.

I'm not sure how to differentiate android/linux (or even Chrome/linux) from UNIX-philosophy/linux, whether UNIX-philosophy ends up being busybox or GNU or something else.
If all us managers are going to get painted into this very unflattering box I guess we can do the same with the developers we're expected to manage. Prior to my management life I completed an applied Comp Sci degree and a MSc in SW Engineering. I have 10+ years of development experience, code regularly and obsess of staying technical relevant, while stile recognizing my huge weaknesses and leaning on domain experts whenever possible. Contrast this with the coding bootcamp grads with < 2 years experience who think they're "Senior Software Engineers". #PROUD-DINOSAUR
Research Opportunities in Operating Systems for Scientific Edge Computing [pdf]