skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You likely know what is best for you, but let me offer the counter argument. Your company's dev resources are growing. You are questioning yourself as a developer. You probably know more about your company's stack than anyone. You are CTO.

I don't know what you want for your future, but many of us have transitioned from dev roles to management. If you are going to be an engineer long-term, then stepping down from CTO may make sense. However, if in the next 5-10 years you want to become "management" then you are going to have to learn how to manage people. You are going to develop less. Your team should be better at developing than you are.

If you eventually want to manage, you will have to learn the skills. So why not focus on getting better at CTO now? You'll be 5-10 years ahead of where you'd otherwise be. CTO roles don't come around every day.

Just my two cents.
At release, we wanted to add support to our product line for the CM4 and needed some to test. However our MoQ was 200. Fast forward to today, we can’t really get CM4s or regular pis fast enough. We recently secured enough for the next 4 months (~800 Pi4 8GB,) but it’s always a battle to find large quantities.

We have a vendor that assembles these for us, so they all come pre-assembled. We’ve swapped parts in our BOM for these at least 13 times in the past year. Change SD cards, change microHDMI adapters, power supply, change case, pi model, etc. Relatively painless, but becomes a problem when 30 days of back order is ~150 raspberry pis.

I still wouldn’t even consider swapping to another device, though.
why not purchase a sufficient number of tapes or drives to capture the data and deposit it at the university library?

certainly sharing apparatus is hard but you could release the schematics, board designs and BOMs of the electronics involved.

The problem now is that
1) very few even try to reproduce
2) very little money is available for reproduction

fixing those incentives would help alot.
There is nobody who exists who would be able to recreate a modern computer from scratch.
There's prepper and survivalist camps and classes
We reference treadmills and jetskis in the explainer video to explain the concept of "Kill Cords"

* https://youtu.be/S3LtLyuaBvI?t=26

I didn't know snowmobiles had this too! I guess it's my bias since it never snows where I'm from :D
>This makes it seem like there is no upside at all to the CSAM scanning. There is: we stop more folks peddling child porn, hopefully making a dent in the problem.

Apple could have scanned iCloud from the start and prevent this problem if it is so big. If they are already scanning then there is no use for scanning on device only if iCloud is on and if they are not yet scanning iCloud then you should ask Tim why is he ignoring the problem, Google and Facebook already reported a lot of abuses, does Tim love CP?
> I'm not entirely sure Omicron is a bad thing. It's over-mutated to the point where it's not nearly as deadly as Delta

This is untrue, and is based on misinterpretations of the South Africa data. There are lots of reasons why it looks less lethal in SA, but omicron in other countries is looking about as lethal as delta, with increased transmission. Vaccination and boosters look to be protective against serious harm. In England the vast majority of people in ICUs at the moment are unvaccinated.

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1471169712851673097?s...

"Prof Chris Whitty suggests idea that South African data shows omicron is milder is wrong.

"There's a danger that people have over-interpreted this, think it's not going to be a problem... I want to be clear, this is going to be a problem.""

There's also no evidence that Omicron is replacing Delta.

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-two-epidemics-omicro...

> Early indications that the Omicron variant may be less mild will not stop a dangerous wave which could risk overwhelming hospitals, the chief medical officer has warned.

> Britain is now experiencing two separate Covid-19 epidemics with rates of the Delta variant high but stable while Omicron grows rapidly, according to Chris Whitty.
after listening to the clean version, did Electric Guitar - Large Room sound like it had a crowd or audience in the background, or is it just me?
I think they mean the reverse: since dark matter gives a possible solution to some of the unexpected observations resulting from the current theories, so if the theories later change, they are hoping the dark matter/energy terms will vanish. I likely have about the same physics knowledge as them, so I don’t speak from authority. But dark energy is not just a small fudge factor, so current theories seem unlikely to change by that much. As mentioned in the article, we have some measurements now also consistent with the existence of dark energy being pervasive, not just the appearance of it in theories.
downdetector.com uses users complaints so it’s unreliable as people can blame anything
I don’t think that’s what he/she is saying. How did you infer that?

What he’s/she’s saying is how to make the best out of a crisis after the fact.
Tesla FSD Beta vs. America's Most Dangerous Road
JFK Assassination Records – 2021 Additional Documents Release
I don't get the excitement for the Alcubierre drive.

It requires negative mass, something that doesn't exist. (It's not like dark matter, something we know exists but don't understand -- it is something that we have no evidence for its existence at all.)

I feel like they were just playing with models, entered a nonsensical value (negative value for mass), and discovered a warp drive. If you're going to do that, just enter negative time and invent time travel while you're at it.
What Microsoft did with Hololens is a great example of what Google should've done.

But that actually requires management with a vision.
The usual companies may not have ethics as you write, but politically motivated company can easily embed "ethics" in a recommendation engine like that.
Wind power becomes Spain’s leading energy source for 2021
Not quite. Rather, its design was influenced by log4j, among others:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0282/#influences
> No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble.

... we consciously did.
Well at the very highest it's 1/N, where N is the number of employees at the organization.
There are more Adventists than Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptists, etc. Most of Christianity's different sects agree that they're the normal ones, by 'mainstream' I just mean that people aren't going to treat you like a cult member at work if you're part of that religion.
> the scientific community does not yet know if the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine will reduce such transmission.

That actually appears to be "known"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.28.21264260v...
Good point about the testing. I guess it's cheap and easy enough to try out, right?
I kind of think everyone else here understands this very particular problem of a status page running on the same equipment that it's supposed to be monitoring if that equipment goes down, and for whatever reason, you don't.
Sure I am totally going to sign for waiting list for yet another standalone programming editor. Not.
Vaccine challenge trials are faster not because they are any less rigorous. They are faster because you are actively infecting people, instead of just waiting for participants to be randomly infected as they go about their lives. You can have a much higher level of reliability with a trial that is orders-of-magnitude smaller, and you can have definitive results within weeks compared to months.
What was the business rationale for such switch? I usually see people migrate toward MS auth not away from it.
Oh definitely, and there's for sure also the likelihood of the name being hijacked for other technologies that are only peripherally related. See also the zillions of cheapo air purifiers prominently branded to contain "HEPA type" filtration.
Steve Jobs: iBooks is going to be the only bookstore on iOS devices (2011)
Kentik data on the outage: https://twitter.com/DougMadory/status/1471162450649223173
Presumably QEMU is available as a fallback when the guest binaries cannot run directly on the host CPU.
How are you the CTO and a developer? If you're coding features as the CTO your company must be really small so it doesn't really matter if the code isn't 'perfect'.

If the company is big enough where people have the time to call you out on shitty code and think they can do better - awesome! Let them code it, and you can focus on technical direction. Tell them what to do. Delegate. Let them write the code - it's what you're paying them for.

You can put your developer hat on at home and write code that automates the garage door at your new mansion.
It's not really the idea of it being dramatic, but how the story was developed and written.

I found The Master and Inherent Vice truly disappointing. I actually liked Phantom Thread, but it's not a movie I will ever watch again.

I feel his writing has gotten worse over the years, probably because he is considered a genius and left to do whatever he wishes. This is all my subjective opinion of course and I still haven't seen Licorice Pizza.
Personally I can imagine describing my experience as either a 3d-rotatable view in my head or as no visuals of any kind, depending on differences in the definition of “visual”.

But I can identify most closely with the other commenters here who describe their experience as more proprioceptive or spatial than visual per se.
> Apple has stood up to unreasonable government invasions of privacy before. And won.

Only when they knew they would win, as with Bernandino Shooter PR spectacle.

They didn’t stand up against iCloud CN being hosted by Chinese government, they didn’t stand up against unencrypted iCloud backups.
Surprised to see this is the only comment (yet) mentioning Fuschia.

While I'm not hopeful for it being a community OS, I'm nonetheless interested in seeing the direction it moves in putting pressure on libre operating systems.
Deep Learning in Production Book
You'd end up returning to your own past if you took a round trip to Alpha Centauri faster than light, so more or less, yeah.
Tim Bray and Anil Dash debate Web3 trends
For when you want to boast that you run Arch and take those screenfetch screenshots but you don't actually want to properly run Arch because you've got better things to be doing with your time.
Eugh, yep. Apple pretty much confirms its coming in the future:

“Update: Apple spokesperson Shane Bauer told The Verge that though the CSAM detection feature is no longer mentioned on its website, plans for CSAM detection have not changed since September, which means CSAM detection is still coming in the future.”

Expect a much quieter roll out.
New Rules of Web Design for the Worst Age of Web Design
Yes! That was just under 2 years ago. It's the same project.

DIY is great. The problem is that after I published that article, everyone on Hacker News went and bought-out all the USB-A magnetic breakways on Amazon. And they literally never re-stocked (I found out later it was EOL from the manufacture).

The reason I launched this crowdfunding campaign was to put these USB-A magnetic breakaway cables back on the market so people could build their own again (and to sell the whole kit, to lower the barrier of entry to non-techie journalists).

* https://buskill.in/buy
"We just don't understand gravity well enough" is one of the top approaches physicists try to solve the mystery about dark matter, but so far it doesn't seem overly likely. Especially galaxies without dark matter [1] are hard to explain without labeling the majority of dark matter as some kind of particle or field.

1: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/mystery-of-the-gal...
If you don’t want to wait for this to “drop”, do what my colleagues and I do and attach to the same tmux (screen, …) session.

If you want be hip and Rustic and GPU accelerated, launch ssh from Alacritty or WezTerm.

Bonus: tmux/screen/Zellithing have tabs/windows/panes, so it’s easy to bounce between editors/shells/etc.

Downside: someone has to su as someone, and identity theft is a serious crime Michael.
To be a bit less pedantic, this is an area that is kind of ambiguous... From one point of view it's still fair to call this "just in time".

I wish there was terminology to differentiate between kind of "on demand AOT compilation" and jits that do jitty stuff that can't be done ahead of time.
Good point, and it looks like something that can easily be scraped out. I'll add it to the list. Thanks!
Does anyone read or care about your book?
So firms will need Ceremoniously Executed Offerings, eh?
Does the HTTP/3 spec provide access to UDP-like (non-retransmitted) requests? It looks like this might need another extension?
WordPress is always an easy-to-make choice that you rarely regret.
Ah, well, if you're talking a WordPress plug-in, well sure. I must confess I similarly look askance at the choice to use WordPress itself.
> The vaccines are the magic future where a small bit of technology prevents disease and death.

That's the part I've found so disappointing about this: a couple of decades of development and we have a massive breakthrough in our ability to rapidly create and update vaccines which precisely target near-arbitrary targets. Seeing what would have been a sci-fi technology when I was a kid being the target of so many conspiracy theories must be incredibly disappointing to all of the actual medical experts who worked so hard on this.
That page suggests the number of women got lower, yes. The data points with 5 year gaps:

> 2008 Male: 72.33% Female: 27.67%

> 2013 Male: 73.44% Female: 26.56%

> 2018 Male: 73.82%. Female: 26.18%

The year by year numbers are too noisy to really mean much. 2018 being 0.3% percentage points higher than 2016 doesn't say much.

Anyway, the main point is that the gender ratio isn't really improving. At best you can say that it has stagnated, rather than getting worse as it did a decade ago.
> 1). GNU. Apparrently they like to add features to programs

unix comes out of "worse is better". GNU comes out of The Right Thing.
On the seeds front, you really have to be practicing growing food from seed for several years before depending on them for basic caloric needs - after a few years of providing a fraction of our household calories on the property I can see the pitfalls, effort and planting diversity needed were we to need to scale it to that level. The previous me would have had some seeds and a dream, and have died real quick. Even now I give myself 50/50 that water, weather, pests, poor soil, or something unexpected would lead to starvation.
> get called out on not doing things the "right" way

Who do you fear it´s going to do this?
JavaScript “Set” object to store unique values
I don't know for sure, but this is generally common because caches get cold.

A lot of websites use a cache in front of databases (or template rendering engines, or many other systems). That cache might evict entries based on time - after 5 minutes, the entry is considered invalid.

But that means that if you have no traffic for 10 minutes, the cache completely empties. Then when traffic returns, it all skips the cache and actually triggers a real hit to the backend - which is now overwhelmed with traffic. The cache protects the backend in normal behavior, but now it's not doing its job, so the backend has many more requests than usual.

In the worst case, those requests are enqueued in a big serial sequence... but the ones at the back of the queue may time out. The client may do something like say "it's taken me 5 seconds and I still don't have a response - I'll abort and retry!" and now you have even _more_ traffic to deal with.

So cold caches and retries can conspire to keep a service down for a long time even after the root cause is fixed.
Good joke but perhaps offloading some of the video to the network could be a good move
Gyll, but they recently rebranded. Basically these:

https://shop.signaturesolar.us/products/24v-200ah-lifepower4...
Tables Are Hard, Part 2: Building a Simple Data Table in React
If you have a drunk driving conviction, your insurance rates are going to go way up. If you are a drug addict, your life insurance premiums will be very high. I suppose the appropriate response to people who choose to not get vaccinated would be to pay a higher premium to account for the extra risk.
How does that work? Can you use udev to call a script on an acpi event? Is it cross-platform?

Would love to see a write-up with more info on how to do this :)
> negative mass, something that doesn't exist

We don’t know this. And this isn’t a “can’t prove a negative” argument. The origin of mass is frontier physics.

More directly, one can explore why negative mass is needed, and whether there are other phenomena that produce that effect. Worst case: the math is interesting.
> I don't see many old macs around

Just anecdata, but from walking through German trains, I disagree. I still see non-Retina MacBook Airs on some trays, for example, last sold in 2015.

Some Mac models are clearly more reliable and maintainable than others, see the butterfly keyboard fiasco. But I think companies should be judged by their better products, not the duds.
London Breed is a bad mayor for SF. She defunded the police by $120 million during the movement [1] while she spent $12.4 million on her own personal security detail [2]. And now she pledges more police. It's a slap on her own face. She dances in a nightclub without a mask, breaking the very rule she set herself [3]. She partied at the French Laundry restaurant while she encouraged everyone else to shelter in place [4]. London Breed is a terrible mayor for SF. As the innovation center of the world, SF deserves better. Can anyone shed some light on how she got elected?

[1] https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-pl...

[2] https://www.thesfnews.com/mayor-breed-cuts-police-budget-hir...

[3] https://californiaglobe.com/articles/sf-mayor-london-breed-g...

[4] https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/S-...
Since Truecrypt bailed without explanation, do you know if Veracrypt also has this feature?
The article, or the growing command line options list?
Oh no who would have guessed that the rumors were true?
It's still there now, on the top of the page, just marked resolved:

us-west-1:

7:52 AM PST We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-WEST-1 Region.

8:01 AM PST We have identified the root cause of the Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-1 Region and have taken steps to restore connectivity. We have seen some improvement to Internet connectivity in the last few minutes but continue to work towards full recovery.

8:10 AM PST We have resolved the issue affecting Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-1 Region. Connectivity within the region was not affected by this event. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.

us-west-2:

7:43 AM PST We are investigating Internet connectivity issues to the US-WEST-2 Region.

8:01 AM PST We have identified the root cause of the Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-2 Region and have taken steps to restore connectivity. We have seen some improvement to Internet connectivity in the last few minutes but continue to work towards full recovery.

8:14 AM PST We have resolved the issue affecting Internet connectivity to the US-WEST-2 Region. Connectivity within the region was not affected by this event. The issue has been resolved and the service is operating normally.
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Unfortunately, you may need to let go of your tech work, or shunt it over to "nights and weekends."

I was a manager for 25 years, and one thing that I learned, was to never put myself into the critical path. I could do tech projects, but they needed to be "nice to have on the side" projects.

Management requires that we work on interrupt. We can't have that sweet "fugue," that makes us productive developers.

What I did, was work on a lot of open-source stuff, on the side. I didn't have deadlines, and it allowed me to keep my "tech chops" up.

Since leaving that job, I tossed the management stuff into the skip, and have concentrated 100% on tech work. I love it.

I'm a damn good engineer. I get a hell of a lot done, at awesome quality levels, in very little time, but I also don't particularly care whether or not anyone co-signs my work.

Also, I'm not a jargonaut. Lots of folks like to sneer at people like me, because we suck at Buzzword Bingo.
Being a great software developer is all about being comfortable with self-doubt.

If you're not for a prolonged period of time, it's likely burnout.
I understand that. What I’m questioning is whether that is the problem here. Is it? Do you know? I heard it might be an internet provider issue, in which case the status page is not the problem here.
There is front-end and back-end. I've been in the back-end for more than a decade already and haven't touched front-end once. Back-end is more of processing and preparing the data which will be presented in the front-end.

Also, thanks for recommending https://courses.edx.org/courses/MITx/6.00.1-x/1T2014/course/ in one of your comments; it looks quite interesting.

In this day and age, there is tons of data being generated in institutions like stock trading data for a stock brokerage company or call record data for a telecom company. Usually these data needs to be parsed, summarized or analysed etc.. so there is a lot of back-end work that occurs.

Back-end processing is usually either OLTP (online transaction processing) or OLAP (online analytical processing). With OLTP, it is about the software performing some repetitive task that supports a business function. For example, with Amazon shopping; the software needs to record the order, reduce available inventory of the product, etc..

With OLAP, there is usually some analysis on the data that needs to be generated like a report showing Amazon orders that match a certain condition.
Did anything ever come of that? Because nowadays, those captchas are no longer used.
If all you want is a bluetooth/wifi solution, then there's tons of "solutions" on the market for this. See our "comparison" table on CrowdSupply for some options:

* https://www.crowdsupply.com/alt-shift/buskill

When I designed BusKill, I intentionally avoided wireless solutions.

BusKill is designed for situations where the risk is extremely high, and you'll find that the radio-based solutions aren't very secure. They're faulty and have huge surface areas of attack.
The median age of a Google employee is 30.

The median age of Covid mortality is 80.

Think about that.
Maybe there are just too many options these days? Every day a zillion new technologies seem to appear that you are supposed to use, so that you are "doing it right".
While most of them may be cool, YAGNI still applies.
Really? Is children's belief in Santa Claus hostile to science?

What I've meant above is hostility in the literal sense. As in, trying to oppose science with some religious fantasies, like with Intelligent Design, or pretty much anything Catholicism says about human sexuality.
The problem as I see it is that if you have someone working by themselves, then you only have to worry if that person is a good fit for that problem.

If you have two people working with each other, then you have to worry if each person is a fit for the problem ... and if they're a fit for each other. Or you have to worry if they are each partially a fit for that problem such that the two of them count as being fit for the problem (and they still have to be a fit for each other). And you also have to keep an eye on overall productivity. You're billing at 2x the rate, so you had better be seeing some noticeable benefit to justify it.

I've had good experiences and bad experiences pairing. I suspect that people who like it a lot already have a bunch of experience solo developing and are generally able to get along with a large number of people. Also, they're probably solving easy problems with an overabundance of budget.