skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah yes, the mythical high ownership, high autonomy engineer that just magically does what you need and also wants to work for you and your company. Sure, no stand ups required then. Or how about the mythical perfectly written ticket with zero ambiguity about anything. Yep. Total autonomy. The rub is everything about building software is imperfect. The only place perfection exists is in the mind of “senior” engineers gazing lovingly at their own code.
In some places standups work, in others they don't, and it can change overtime as people move in and out of the team.

Standups don't work when the team isn't getting anything out of them. Perhaps we all know what's going on because its a small team and we all talk to each other. Perhaps. its because we don't talk to each other in or outside the standup. Reeling off a load of ticket numbers without challenge is not communicating.

From the article: standups aim to: "seek out and destroy misalignment". How can we do that without putting the mis-aligned on the spot and making them uncomfortable? I think standups start to fail when we're all being too nice and don't ask the awkward question. After a while we just stop listening.
I know 2FA is often described in this way but it's not the way I really use it or how your average person wants to use it IMHO. It's just a second piece of data that is needed to login, which does add significant security. Maybe I just don't oversee anything important enough but I don't actually want my digital security to be dependent on a single piece of hardware ever. Yes, I know about backup codes but where are you going to store those if not 1Password/alternative-manager? So for me I'm perfectly happy to keep my 2FA alongside my password in 1Password.

As for "If that 1Password master password is the only thing needed to gain access then you don't really have 2FA." it's not, unless they get access to a device you have logged into 1Password on in the past (and thus entered your secret key [0]). For me this stays true enough to "something I have". If someone has my phone/computer AND can guess my 1Password master password then things are already pretty bleak and they already have access to whatever other 2FA app I was using (Authy/GA).

Lastly 2FA falls apart if you share an account with a significant other (or a team). In 1Password I can just move that login to a shared vault or share that login individually and everyone can log in and use 2FA. I'm not sure what the alternative would be. Sure, if a product supports multiple accounts or even multiple 2FA's (I don't think I've ever seen the latter, at least in non-enterprise settings) there is a way to do this but most apps/SaaS/etc there isn't an alternative (other than disabling 2FA).

[0] https://support.1password.com/secret-key/
Sure, but doesn't that lead to XKCD Standards?

https://xkcd.com/927/
That was to be expected. To me that is a sign that dissent is severely necessary.

I don't have anything against trans people and I think they get quite some flak online. But part of it has to do with how gender topics get rammed into everyone's faces. Don't know anyone personally and I think there is certainly a craze where parents subject their children to certain expectations. If that is worse than putting them in beauty contests or any other perverse delegated-parent-self-fulfillment-program is another question of course.

But there is certainly ideological strong-arming on the topic of gender and this canceling isn't going to convince too many people I believe. I think they made their case that this isn't a topic that is discussed on merit. It has become some form of religion.

Would be interesting to know how put the rules on banks and remove the source of these ambitions to improve humanity. It is quite toxic.

bunq customers are allegedly disproportionately often victims of phishing attacks. Maybe a better bank would solve this particular issue.
Ok, ignore my comment: it appears that about 5 minutes ago, all the OP's comments were marked [dead]... but they're fine now.
Download Managers is still being used to this day. I have to use a download manager to download a 250MB file that capped the speed at 50KBps... And this is coming from a well-known but shitty printer company. So it took ages to down that and often it would failed. JDownloader2 took care of that since it can do multiple connection to do a quicker download.

If you need a download manager for MEGA, check into JDownloader2. They are compatible with MEGA en/decryption. And developers is very active.
So the power company should spend tens to hundreds of millions of dollars building out infrastructure for subsidized bitcoin mining? And that makes sense how?
I was looking at salvaging used Nissan Leaf batteries. The vehicle they'd be going in is an Isuzu SUV, so it has the space and capacity for multiple modules from said packs.

Though not as energy dense, I believe the cost savings and ease of replacement compared to the Tesla packs, are more cost effective.

Reason of keeping this SUV is for sentimental value and utility. Daily driver is a Subaru Impreza, and can't nearly carry as much or take as much of a beating on trails.
> I always imagined a Ph.D. was about having a good idea and demonstrating your ability to develop it, defend it, and publish. What does a 14 hour day accomplish over 8? You're not pumping out widgets, right?

My wife is currently doing a Ph.D., and yeah, maybe you go in thinking "I'm interested in this area, let me spend 5 years really exploring and developing it". Then reality hits. You are beholden to your advisor and switching advisors is very hard if not impossible depending on your situation. If your advisor has the funding for you to spend 5 years working on your interests and has the time to help you with it, great. But in reality, your job is to do whatever your advisor wants and this may or may not align with your own interests. On top of this, in addition to research, you've got classes, teaching duties and all sorts of other stuff that may or may not interest you, but has nothing to do with your primary research, yet still takes up much of your time.

Imagine you were to apply to a job in industry where you will have one boss for the next 5 years, get paid scraps, can't switch teams and if you quit the job two or three years in, you give up all of your progress. This is what a Ph.D. is. If you have a great advisor, it can be amazing. But a bad advisor can make it hell. And even in the best of circumstances, you have to deal with a lot of BS.
I use Keepass with Strongbox and save the database file in iCloud. That way I have TOTP codes backed up, and I can share with others such as my spouse.
Weirdly, in the US anyway, most "fast food" places have had no vegetarian protein at all on the menu. Their only main course vegetarian options tend to be salads with very low protein (and usually, only a single kind of salad out of maybe 3 will actually be vegetarian - the others will have a meat protein).

It's no mean feat for a vegetarian who's traveling to find a source of protein at any of these restaurants.

Before the "fake meat" products, Taco Bell bean burritos were basically the only ubiquitous option. Starbucks, and some other fast food joints, do have some egg-based protein options in the morning.

So I have no love for Impossible/Beyond/whatever ultraprocessed stuff, and I'd much rather get a big bowl of black beans with some tempeh or something, but the convenience of being able to find any protein when you're pressed for time is welcome.
Oh c'mon, even tech savvy people are just using email for email.

For me, I have to consider 2FA, or in the case of my son, who doesn't want a phone, a Yubikey or similar. I don't want to live with the additional management and potential disaster of 2FA blocking his access to his email account, which is currently his gateway to university.

At work I have 2FA, but there's a whole IT/IS team to manage and unblock things (which happens, co-workers get blocked out of their email accounts regularly).

Personally, I'm hoping to convince my domain cohorts (family) to move to Protonmail or similar.
I'll second this - my experience is pretty much the same (though I did some basic Fourier transforms at school), studying Physics at college. I did 3 Maths A levels along with Physics and Chemistry (and "General Studies" :) however, so I too may be atypical.
From the article:

> NSO and a smaller Tel Aviv-based company, Candiru, were among four companies added by the US commerce department on Wednesday to its so-called entity list, which would restrict exports of US technology to the companies.

From https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/11/commerc...

> The Entity List is a tool utilized by BIS to restrict the export, reexport, and in-country transfer of items subject to the EAR to persons (individuals, organizations, companies) reasonably believed to be involved, have been involved, or pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved, in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. For the four entities added to the Entity List in this final rule, BIS imposes a license requirement that applies to all items subject to the EAR. In addition, no license exceptions are available for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) to the entities being added to the Entity List in this rule. BIS imposes a license review policy of a presumption of denial for these entities.

General Entity List descriptions are available at https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-p...

It seems like it mostly restricts them from using US made tech and punishes US companies that supply them.
No. Your profit from trading bitcoins is someone else's loss. The amount wealth in society remains unchanged, only it's allocated differently. Total value added = zero. A tax on profits doesn't add any value either, it's just an additional re-allocation of the same wealth.
the statistics now show it is as safe as it was pre-pandemic to return to our regular lives

They do? King County 7-day average new infections are ~400/day, which is higher than the rolling average since the outbreak began. It's higher than all but the 2020/21 winter spike and the surge that started in late summer 2021.
You have many options including notifications in google apps, authenticator apps, text messages, hardware tokens, written backup codes. Not all of these rely on your phone so set them all up
> It's not ideal because if your master password gets compromised it's potentially catastrophic in away that any individual getting compromised isn't.

If you care about this, consider security through compartmentalization provided by Qubes OS. I store my passwords in plain text in an offline VM (with hardware virtualization).
Once you get past the trivial examples (that every negative thread seems to be hung up on), the ideas introduced by Nazca seems very cool and novel. This is an approach to building a web UI with a single language and shared scope.

I like the approach for encapsulation especially. It makes a lot of sense compared to webcomponents for example.

I recommend going through the readme before forming an opinion, it builds up on the concepts gradually.
My point is that generalizing it as a "webcam image on a server" is not only disingenuous, it's incorrect. It's not from the webcam, it's not an image, and it's not on any server except your own local device. Unless you have an example of a company doing this, which I did ask for. As far as I know companies are not storing that data in the cloud, at least the major ones I'm aware of.
Wav2CLIP: Connecting Text, Images, and Audio [video]
paper
Wav2CLIP: Learning Robust Audio Representations From CLIP
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11499
It's not a "flag", really: it's a fundamental, implicit underlying assumption about the execution environment. The C extensions assume (roughly) that if they're executing, they can touch any part of the runtime without any synchronization whatsoever, because nobody else is executing (that's what GIL ensures).
I like and hold Monero, it is a good coin.

But it is not Bitcoin. It likely will never have the attention of large capital holders (eg: Financial Institutions). Ignoring the regulatory risks (which absolutely exist), IMHO the real critical risk is that bugs or bad math will break the economic model.

With transparent blockchains like BTC, you can trace every satoshi. With opaque chains like XMR, you risk that a bug in the code will permit invisible inflation. This has happened before! (https://jonasnick.github.io/blog/2017/05/23/exploiting-low-o...).

The same problem applies to all ZK based solutions -- Zcash, Grin, Mina... You are one mistake away from invisible inflation that will sap all the value from the coin.
I think Weave.jl is a closer match for Rmarkdown. This project seems similar but geared more towards multi-chapter books instead of self-contained reports

https://github.com/JunoLab/Weave.jl
> I think this point was important enough that it might have made it into the film version.

Indeed.

Don't tempt me, Frodo: https://youtu.be/MpOF1NHowdQ?t=40
>So just... shut up with the irrelevant bullshit and use Wayland

There are still, to this day, tons of features which end consumers rely on that are still unsupported out of the box with wayland. If you're writing a replacement for x, it had damned well better have feature parity with x. Saying 'shut up and switch' is not an argument for switching.

Also, this sort of attitude is precisely why linux never took off on the desktop. Such arrogance.
That exists more directly with Weave.jl — this is built for bigger things. As the README says:

> If you want a small report instead of a book with numbered sections, then Weave.jl might be more suitable for your problem.

http://weavejl.mpastell.com/stable/
I didn't meant for Bitcoin to transition to PoS, but rather everyone using Ethereum instead of Bitcoin because it's now PoS.
For what exactly? Your issues with that program probably has more to do with Taliban war crimes. Don't forget it's a war crime to not wear a uniform during combat.
Which adult website is this?
I think you might not be able to write that program, there simply is no way to block in Pony (modulo FFI).

The scheduler wakes up actors that have messages (in their local/private queue) to process, all actors can do is to consume their queue and send (wait-free) messages to other actors if they want to.

From your example "read X" would be reading from the actor's queue, so it would not be blocking. If the message queue is empty that actor won't be scheduled, no blocking there.

That "while true" would not be writeable as such, you'd have to have two "behaviors" (in Pony terms, you can imagine it's an event handler) one that process the writing of s1 and one for the writing of s2, and "on read" they'd do the write. There'd be no "while true".

> I'm not going to learn pony for the sake of an example ...
> edit2: and of course, if one were to show that the above program is in fact not expressible in pony, it would be a great result and I would want to know about!

I might have misunderstood what your example was supposed to do, but I suspect you'd find it interesting to try it out.
The way I see my password manager, is that its password store in itself is "something I have", while the password to it, is "something I know".
New ways for publishers to activate first-party data
That isn't what the Entity List does. See https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/policy-guidance/lists-of-p...
That's what the first image in the article is purporting to show (~33% of people in the general population over 85 have dementia)
Totally agree, it’s crazy to have your 2FA and password manager be the same application. You can actually disable 1Password’s 2FA and tie a different 2FA. I’m not sure if it’s just a business/teams feature, but we are able to require everyone at the company install and use Duo as their primary 2FA as part of their 1Password activation.
Standup is how they check you aren't working for two companies (or more) at once
If they where going to use a rugby term, I've always thought "ruck" would have been better. A ruck is quickly and dynamically formed every time progress is slowed, a scrum is a big formal process that is only necessary to restart the game after someone has screwed up.
Something dead simple.

I want code that's easy to write and easy to read. No fancy tricks. No decorators, no hundred-character lines for a print statement, no manual memory management or custom operators. A child should be able to use it.

I want code that's easy to maintain and deploy. Never worry about language/tooling versions again. No gcc, no g++, no rbenv, no Maven, no venv/pipenv/poetry whatever.

My target audience is anyone that doesn't have a computer science degree. A language for accountants and office workers. For school teachers and twelve-year-olds.

Throw out the foobar tutorials and Tower of Hanoi logic puzzles.

"Here's how you can download all your students' submissions from Blackboard in one button click."

"Here's how you automatically format a spreadsheet without having to click on every columns."

"Here's how to make your computer wiggle its mouse so you can skip the mandatory attendance checks for your online classes."
Transparency and data – UK Health Security Agency vaccines report
It's crazy the differences between states and cities. I'm live in Denver and couldn't tell you the last time I wore a mask. Some places still have a mask mandate here and I can count the number of places that require a Vax card on one hand (mostly concert/sports venues).

Denver is a very liberal place and while that shouldn't make an impact, I expected it to be much stricter than where I came from (GA) but it's about the same.
Lamboozling: Exploiting attackers' brains by building deception environments
In the country I reside they don't charge a fee, the wait times are ridiculous. One person I know needed a angioplasty to decrease his high risk of a heart attack - they said to wait a year before he could get one and to not do any strenuous activity until then. Another person needed a hip replaced because they can't walk properly - they need to wait 3 months before their case gets put in front of tribunal who will then decide if they can get their hip replaced in a years time.

In both cases they don't pay for the service - which is great - but also that kind of delay is slightly insane (at least to me).

To your points - theres lots of people who think a free health care system is a cure all. It isn't - it is full of trade offs. Some are good, some aren't as good.
Is this really "mandatory" or rather just "opt-out?" My understanding is that it can still be disabled...
Although I agree the data are pretty clear at this point that these vaccines are all quite safe, there are absolutely quantifiable (low) risks [0].

Beyond the data, people aren't idiots for being skeptical of new treatments. Unknown unknowns are impossible to quantify. You point to polio as something that's similar but not as new. That example doesn't do a lot to support your argument, since when the polio vaccine was new it gave ~20% of recipients polio and killed 10 children [1].

The main issue now is unvaxxed people digging in their heels as we get more proof of the vaccines' safety (although the learnings on their efficacy are more mixed). I don't think those people will be encouraged by arrogant and infantilizing rants against them.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7027e2.htm

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/
Cloud Nine (Sphere)
>Paying for what you consume is not a tax!

Everybody is already paying for it in their taxes. Furthermore everybody is also paying per use for the energy used, time and cost of vehicle ownership.

How would you like it if the city started charging per use at the park beside your house? Maybe then you'd see how comically asinine it is to repressively tax public infrastructure that we have already decided is a net positive.

And I'll preempt the obvious low effort retort by saying that city public transit should also be free at the point of use.

>Note that is road pricing makes traffic flow at the speed limit rather than crawling during rush hour, people can commute from much further away.

Yeah, if you're a doctor or lawyer or techie and can justify the cost relative to your increased earnings from commuting. The drywaller and the janitor have just as much right to sit in a traffic jam as you do.

Increasing the cost per use for public good when not coupled to an increased cost to provide that good (last I checked bitumen prices didn't skyrocket) ALWAYS boils down to kicking the poors out so that whosoever left can have a better experience. This approach is completely antithetical to the reasoning behind spending money on these public goods in the first place.

Making everyone endure the same crap equally ensures that the people who can most effectively load balance to something else or a different commute time do.
I've tried to setup a 4K and a 2K monitor side-by-side, with one at 200% and the other at 100%.
I love the way this was presented (others have pointed out flaws with the article already).

I'd appreciate a post from Matt Ferraro on how this is built. Bonus points for including nice syntax-highlighted code "widget" for a cross between maths/programming.
Has Nat said what he’ll be doing next?

I know he travels most of the time now and I’m wondering if this is a reflection of wanting to spend more time doing that or if there’s some other new project he’s moving on to.
Interesting that this is the top post now. This is exactly what I think for most golang/rust/etc. submissions, but any such discussion (if any) has always been far down the thread. What changed, I wonder.
I disagree, the hydro stations that we have in place were in fact meant to transport electricity from place A (a mountain area, in most of the cases) to place B (where people actually live) in cost-effective ways, that was their purpose from the very beginning. Using that energy up increases the price people from place B have to pay.

You could say that one could build a new hydro station just for delivering energy to crypto miners but that would open another can of worms as we're slowly starting to realise that hydro stations are not the most environment-friendly things imaginable (especially when it comes to habitat loss and disruption).
The moving on post was kind of vague. I'm curious if there are external factors involved. I do feel like Nat has done a great job at GitHub but curious as to extenuating factors. Would love to hear perspective/sentiment from current hubbers.
man this is compile time, not execution time
It’s common elsewhere, e.g. George Monbiot.
From the article:

> That’s why I’m moving on to my next adventure: to support, advise, and invest in the founders and developers who are creating the future with technology and tackling some of the biggest opportunities of our day.
Thanks for noting this. I couldn't compare since I have no Vimeo account.
The Shure SM7B is a very popular microphone, but for a remote meetings use case I'd suggest starting with a quality XLR capable audio interface (this is a requirement for the 7B anyway) and a Shure SM57 mic.

The reason I suggest not starting with an SM7B is because this microphone is expensive at nearly $400, and requires high quality mic preamps to get a proper signal out of the mic (often people add a $150 cloudlifter) which adds to the expense.

The SM57 on the other hand is an excellent XLR dynamic microphone, used on countless recordings and live sound applications. It is super durable, and can be purchased used at around $50.

Plus Shure makes an optional $20 foam windscreen for the SM57 called the "A2WS" which helps filter out pops and plosives, and makes the mic look similar to a 7b.

There are many comparisons available on youtube to see if you can hear a $350 difference yourself, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFba93OLLig