skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the fact that people think tires matter in a comparison between EV and combustion engines is hilarious. 'these things both have tires, clearly EV is worse as a result.' facepalm
In a way, some of them already are contributing to solving climate change because they provide the infrastructure required for moving work environments from the office into the cloud.

Unnecessarily moving people around for the sole purpose of working at a specific location is a huge contributory factor to climate change.
Homebrew does this kinda poorly compared to Nix and Guix. They are a different breed.

For starters, there is no /usr/local symlinking process. It's also possible to have multiple versions of e.g. python installed and active. Homebrew is like a poor-man's Nix.
>>HackerRank is claiming that not only they own the copyright on "How to find the first occurrence of x in s?" but also every solution to that question, which is a completely ridiculous notion.

They are in hiring business not CS education business. Their business is not helping people learn things, but helping companies hire people.

If the solutions are available online, anybody can memorize them and ace tests, And they often do. If too many people do it, the whole point of test is defeated. The more solutions are available online, the more pointless the test becomes. Which actually says more about the testing methods themselves.

On the other hand, it's realistically impossible to keeping coming up with questions that can genuinely test a person's ability to come up with a novel algorithm for a problem. That's a CS PhD at least, if not a Fields medal category problem.
I write a Go package because I have similar feelings. https://GitHub.com/wagslane/go-password-validator
I can only speak from the Christian perspective. The only people to have their beliefs challenged would be fundamentalists, which represent a minority of Christians. The Bible says God is responsible for creating life, it doesn't give detail on how He did it. Christians have played important roles in understanding the "how" of things like the Big Bang and genetics.
Maybe that is the question (doubt it). Think about it. Its brilliant. You say 'I always ask this one question to my doctors' then ramble off on some other tangent. See if they come back to that question. It means they are paying attention and are inquisitive.
I've always wondered how Timex ended up as the US partner on this project. Was it a reasonable shift to go from digital watches to small computers?
I have a buddy who is going through this. He’s far away, but I still want to help. What can I do?
5C is a number indicating how much current you can out into the cell. In this case, 5 times the nominal capacity or 12 minutes. This is on a cell basis, so no matter how you do it, you cannot charge faster unless you have cells with a chemistry that can handle more. In that case you'd already have a 10C or 20C battery if the cooling and electronics could handle it.
Should be similar, but you might need to set up some hacks to spoof the browser in thinking it's the screen.

https://testrtc.com/manipulating-getusermedia-available-devi...
I don't see how it follows. We figured how to make rockets a longer while ago it still does not cost $50 to send stuff into space.
If that kit was enough then the manufacturers would just send it together with the car for dealers to install and comply with the regulations for $50 instead.
You don’t invade anyone with tanks and infantry if they have nukes tho
I do all of my server side Python development in a container. Whenever I start a new project, I create a dockerfile as a first step. This is the easiest way I have found to make my code portable. The main downside I have found is with IDE support. I use the latest tag, so I get updated containers periodically, which has not been a source of breakages. I have not figured out how to tell VSCode to use the Python in my container for statement completion and validation.

For personal projects on my desktop, I have given up and just use pip install, and then don't try to share those scripts.
The notable language ecosystem which is different is "C on Unix", which grew up with "the system provides the dependencies, it's often easier to avoid a dependency if you can, the program usually needs to be able to cope with whatever version of the dependency the system has, rather than pinning to a specific one". That's the primary ecosystem that most Linux distro package managers developed with as their platonic-ideal-shape-of-an-application, I think.
> Not all wireless headsets are the same, however.

Unless Apple or Samsung is using a proprietary protocol between their headsets and handsets, they pretty much are. You'll even notice the degradation of quality if you use your Mic on a Mac or PC.

I've never seen a Bluetooth device that simultaneously supports two active profiles so you could stream audio over A2DP and capture mic over the headset profile. Even if such a beast existed, I doubt devices would know how to handle it.
Good luck, I can only imagine how awful it must be.
Downloading files? Firefox gives a warning everytime you download from http.
I have used WireMock in the past that supports pre-defined mocks. It can be run both locally and as a service (I only ran it locally)

http://wiremock.org/

It's more complex than Caffeine, but it has a lot of options.

It can also run as a proxy and generate the mocks from actual http requests passing through the proxy
I think robots are a better use of space exploration money. The cost of one human mission could send swarms of robots, with way more science getting done.
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>there are barely any popular news media that aren't owned or operated by Tory-friendly interests

Correct! In Canada, "Postmedia" fills this role. They own essentially all of the important papers in Canada, and are 66% owned by an American hedge fund (Chatham Asset Management), and 22% owned by an American billionaire noted for his successful insider trading (Leon Cooperman). [0] Postmedia felt that their papers needed to be more "reliably conservative", and so in 2018 appointed a dude who'd just successfully fought off a unionization drive, Kevin Libin, to take charge of all their papers' political reporting and analysis, to ensure they'd be more friendly to the poor shivering right wing.

Their only meaningful competition, ideologically, was the Toronto Star as owned by Torstar, a corporation deployed in 1958 after the province of Ontario decided that charities couldn't operate newspapers. The Toronto Star, once a relatively left-wing voice known for its investigative journalism, was controlled by the families of the original charity trustees, but in 2020 it was sold to a private investment firm!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia_Network

[1] https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/08/27/opinion/postmedi...
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Sometimes I think people in the west are a little spoiled. I mean I bought an M1 Air with Big Sur in June and it's been basically flawless, but everyone is like Apple is doomed because there's some subtle UI imperfection somewhere. Meanwhile there's still war, dictatorship and hunger in many parts of the world.
To be honest, r/sysadmin isn't that great. It seems most posts are not about technology but about how they want to quit their jobs. Even though i think sysadmin jobs are pretty good.
This. I had a therapist who cheated on his wife and got divorced. He was a shitbag that in retrospect set back many parts of my mental health for years.
No, but other client-side measures could.
I'm indeed overreacting. My apologies.
You mean Donbass's attempt to leave the Ukraine failed state it's been unwillingly part of since 1920s, or maybe one can say 1991 hmm?

Then these people will talk of whatboutism.
> Servers should protect themselves from CSRF, it shouldn't be the job of browsers to do that.

I personally strongly disagree with this point. I believe a web browser tab should only communicate with one network location, and 3rd party content/requests should be disabled overall. This way we would have a much saner and user-respecting web.

So sure i should be able to click a link to turn off my lights using a local address (although why the fuck would i have IoT in the first place? humanity would be better off if IoT just died), but a remote website should not be able to control what i do with other locations without my explicit consent.
Nit: When you're interviewing it's worth trying to avoid being exclusive by saying things like "he or she". Even if you don't believe in trans rights, it's easier to say "they".
Hmmm I wonder if there is more to the story than "USS Vincennes sails into Iranian territorial waters"?

Vincennes had entered Iranian territory after one of its helicopters drew warning fire from Iranian speedboats operating within Iranian territorial limits. [1]

Totally random how the US ship found itself in Iranian waters. Like a complete roll of the dice even!

And before you say something about defending the U.S. or w/e. No. I'm defending honest and civil discussion, and asserting that there is nuance in the world. I don't know if you have the same intentions based on your comments, especially as you leave out seemingly important details to fit a narrative you want to portray.

"Why was the US ship near Iranian waters" -> because it can be.

"Why did the US ship enter Iranian waters if the speedboat shot from Iranian waters" -> Same reason you'd ignore a border if someone was shooting at you from across it and claiming you can't cross the border.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
It's also completely possible that I had my brain warped in weird ways by old software, and you'll have your brain warped in your own weird ways that work better in the future. Anyway, I know I'm always glad to have somebody who knows their way around webpack on the team :)
Some scripting and PlantUML might work.
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You do not need to power down/up the nuclear plants at all. This is a myth. It is cheaper to just throw away any excess power it generates.

Uranium is so energy dense that it doesn't cost anything to do that. This is amazing when you think about it.

If you really want to capture it - create battery systems.

> what are your thoughts on cancelling Price-Anderson accident indemnity laws

One of the biggest challenges of nuclear plant construction is all the frivolous lawsuits, so I would really really want to know the exact details before making a determination on those laws. Often they are sold as "safety", but are really just ways to obstruct the process.

Nuclear plants these days are incredibly safe.
You’re like the caricature of a woke college student. You’re never in a million years going to convince me that somehow I’m responsible for the housing crisis in California.

You have contributed precisely ZERO substance to the topic at hand. Instead of mentioning restrictive zoning and prop 13, you rant about genocide, rape, child labor, and black suffrage.

Do you have any point at all? I suspect you’re just a narcissist who thinks they’re saving the world.
No it isn’t. It’s FAANG level without the stocks. I wouldn’t call it pretty bad.
This is just extremely (almost comically) bad project management - nobody should take a senior engineer's estimate and apply it to a new hire or jr engineer.

I've never been a PM but from my planning discussions with mine all have adjusted for seniorness, familiarity with the codebase, and skillset. When I give an estimate I am only asked to give it for myself, it's the PMs job to adjust.

I guess I've been lucky because I've never had a PM that did that poor of a job. Maybe because it's because I've almost exclusively worked at companies that provide work to a paying customer, because that environment really depends on good project management.
What a weird policy? Why do they do this? Nothing beats paper for understanding something difficult for me, at that point technology is a distraction.
Off topic, but Charles Petzold wrote a really great book that walks you through Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing Machine. The book is called The Annotated Turing.

I've just started reading it and Petzold claims all you need is a decent grasp of high school mathematics.
That’s exactly my point, which is why nobody will invade you in the first place even if your arsenal is “inferior”.
as a society we should not allow people to get paid so little that even a full-time salary is not enough for them to have children.

that is what's wrong.

if we want a balanced society then we need to enable everyone to have children, not just those who are able to get well paying jobs.

in austria and germany this is solved with giving parents tax breaks and unconditional extra money for each child to offset the higher cost of raising children.
My car already runs its thousands of cells mostly in parallel, because the manufacturer isn’t stupid.

I am usually battery-limited while charging instead of cable limited. I plugged into a 250kW charger on Friday and my car peaked at 132kW because even with a preconditioned and mostly-empty battery it can still only take so much.

EDIT: I overstated things a little. I’m not usually battery-limited: I’m usually limited by the fact that my garage can only provide like 10kW of power. A better cable isn’t doing much there without major(ly expensive) upgrades to the wiring in the walls.
Python is basically unusable without venvs in my experience. Not sure what your alternative suggestion is. I hope you don't think global pip install is the right way.
Hah yes! See also Motel of the Mysteries, for a kids' book take on an excavated motel in a far-flung future, or Body Ritual Among The Nacirema [0] for the anthropologically-minded dental hygiene enthusiast.

[0] https://www.sfu.ca/~palys/Miner-1956-BodyRitualAmongTheNacir...
I'm not a native english speaker. First time I encountered the word ecumenical in a tv show (Frasier) and understood it in the same way it was used by gp.

Maybe it's specific to american english.

I checked cambridge dictionary and it confirms that definition : tending to support and encourage unity among different religions

Merriam-webster has a similar definition : Worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application

Also collins dictionary : interreligious or interdenominational

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ecumenic...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ecumenical

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ecumeni...

Link to the Frasier clip :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfrFkxDzpLU
Of course they do. There's a huge industry to promote them, and fund favorable research.
Unless you could substitute a realistic facsimilie of yourself answering the question, you would probably simply be treated as if you had declined to take the test, or be suspected of attempting to cheat. No-one who uses Hackerrank is going to spend any time trying to figure out whether they should consider you as a viable candidate, they will just move on to the next.
I think the best way to learn how to write better is to read a lot and write a lot. Personally, I believe keeping a blog for the last ~13 years (both for technical posts and also just a life journal of sorts) has greatly helped to improve my writing. Maybe that could be a good way for you to start practicing? Keep a blog or a journal (doesn't have to be public if you're not comfortable with that) and just write down your thoughts, or things you learned, or maybe things you felt you wanted to communicate in writing at work but didn't get a chance to in the moment.
If you consider AirPods to be environmentally safe to recycle, which is not unreasonable given that Apple will take them back and promises to recycle the parts, the only downside to a disposable device like this is cost. Two years of using AirPods means you pay about $0,25 a day of use.

Most users use them every day and are very happy with them. I think it is pretty reasonable to pay that kind of money for being happy.
Use IPv6 and stop with the NAT. It makes all the split-horizon DNS pain go away.
Encourage your friends to blog and follow their blogs, it'll likely be more relevant to your interests :)
If you can't scale to a billion people overnight, you don't have a real business /s
Including /r/homelab, the just say "bank account" instead of manager and "the wife" instead of user/boss ;-)

But I can fully recommend it, the community is really good.
The trope that doctors are very smart isn't one Ive ever understood.

A funny story was my shop teacher (Electrician class in high school) told us after he was sued by a customer who's doctor son attempted to rectify a "mistake" the electrician made. I forget the details but the doctor wound up blowing out or damaging something in his botched attempt to play electrician. Doctors father sues electrician for doing a faulty job when it was clearly his idiot "doctor" son who blew it all up. The mans argument in all this was summed up by his plea to the judge to understand why he thought the electrician was wrong: "Your honor, my son is a doctor." The judge laughed and dismissed the case.
I came here to post the same link. I'm always fascinated about his ETW traces blog posts on how to discover performance bottlenecks. Great guy!
r/sysadmin feels like an authentic slice of the population of sysadmins I've met. A lot of those posts I can almost hear in the voice of various sysadmins I've worked with in each snarky, "I hate my job" post.
Maybe our understanding of DMZ is different, for me it's not necessarily with an internal IP - so to clarify, what I meant was hosting it on-premise, but only accessible via it's public IP (as the service is public anyway), which shouldn't be slower if your physical route isn't any longer.
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Python is the Old Java :P
There are still tons of places where even modest deep learning could have a huge impact. The focus in industry seems to be moving to deployment.
> harder to explain to the average layman

Fairly easy: anything that's labeled "smart" or "remote control from your phone" is wrong and bad for us. We IT people should be explaining to "average laypeople" that they should never trust the industry, instead of climbing aboard the IoT bandwagon.

I had many discussions with half a dozen neighbors about Alexa after i learned that some people actually have this bundled with their ISP here in France. After i explained how it works, not a single one of them kept it.
Not sure what "ethnically divided" is refering to? It was the part which I found most puzzling.
Because when it actually works it's a very refreshing development experience, once you get used to it you never want to return to the crappy "let me refresh this page to see my changes" workflow.

But hey, tons of people swear by the simple setup they claim to understand; good for them. As someone who don't work on frontend stuff professionally, I wouldn't pretend I "understand" esbuild and can always fix it when it breaks. Ironically, TFA presents an issue with this simple setup that the author could not figure out without help from experts:

> I was really baffled by this, but I was eventually able to figure it out with some help from people who understood Javascript.
The chrome developer blog has a good writeup[1] about this.

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-upd...
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I know how you feel. I was just trying to make a demo a bit nicer looking for work: "Uhh...maybe if I add rounded corners...?"

Nice to see so many interesting suggestions here!
I grew up in and around Magdeburg, a city that plays a large role in the book(s). It's interesting that they've never been translated into German.
As far as I'm concerned, it was always hard. I took 2 theory classes (undergrad and grad) in the early 90s. I dreaded the proofs, and I hated the classes, and could barely stay awake for them. I'd much rather stay up all night coding a project for another class than do one proof for a theory class. Ugh.
>Some subreddits are OK like /r/sysadmin. However I find that many communities suffer from a snarky mentality. People who thinik they know everything responding negatively or belittling people who ask questions instead of just answering it. I haven't described it well but I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

When you put together a bunch of soulless people, it's going to devolve as such. You do have to consider for a second though it's not about negativity or belittling but rather finding the answer.

If I post a thread and ask 'How do you improve performance of threading in python?' You might get a couple people who want to help. You likely won't get the true answer of GIL. Overall the thread will fail.

If you post a thread, 'python threading sucks, doesnt improve performance.' You're going to get 50 people with PHD level answers explaining in depth how you're wrong. You suddenly have your answer.
What’s holding open banking back?
The whole DMCA is an affront to humanity.
I'll work around this, when I need to, by picking some backwater public IPv4 space and using that for the subnet where I put my on-prem-hosted servers. (Maybe North Korea's address space...) I get the "public IP" behavior of the browser and, as a bonus, that "real" IP space on the Internet is inaccessible to my end users and servers!
>>> Practically all the actual work a PM does is communication.

Practically all the actual work a PM does can be replaced with a script and dashboard
I am not sure if its a default include in gnome or if its a default from my distro (fedora), but my gnome install ships with an extension to enable the bottom bar.
The python libraries packaged by Debian are provably more secure or stable: they receive security backports while also not receiving feature updates.

The combination of this 2 aspects is what provides better stability and better security.

> It’s essentially like version locking packages except some random Debian maintainer decides when it’s time to update.

Not at all.
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What is it about Linux distros that makes our use-case unimportant? Have we offered no value to Python over the past 30 years? Do you just feel that it’s time to shrug off the “legacy” systems we represent and embrace the brave new world of serverless cloud-scale regulation-arbitrage move-fast-and-break-things culture of the techbro startup?*

The thing is, people in development wont use the distro python (but different installs, pyenv, etc), and people in devops wont use the distro python either...

So, what values does it offer to whom? Except maybe scripting for sysadmins?
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Head over Heals is my all time favourite computer game, closely followed by Batman.

I discovered them from a writer who used an Amstrad CPW, and those were two of the small number of games available for that machine. He was very good at them — I think he must have played them whenever writers' block was in effect.

We later bought the games for the hand-me-down ZX Spectrum that was the first computer in our house. When I finally gave away all my Spectrum stuff five or six years ago, I still kept those two cassettes!