skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are also no deeply invested customers for most FOSS development. It's not really surprising that most FOSS design feels aimless when the developers only need to meet (or aren't funded beyond) their own needs -- the bar is way lower. I don't think the mere existence of "managers" or "designers" is the critical factor.

Also, your original statement didn't say anything about FOSS:

> [...] most software engineers are bad at creating user-friendly products unless someone with product design skills tells them exactly what the UX should look like, [...]

The software engineers I've worked with want to make user-friendly software that meets needs. You know what usually gets in their way? They're not able to work with the end users to understand what the destination should be. They're fed streams (tides!) of loose feature requests with no apparent cohesion. What kind of software do you expect to get out of this process?

Garbage in, garbage out.
I regret not moving immediately. Our home is not suitable for this occupation (hehe)
It must be safe to do tax evasion, money laundering, and drugs with a system that is transparent and traceable till the beginning of its existence.
> By not paying equivalent wages the company opens itself up to lawsuits.

Depending on what you mean by "equivalent", yes it could make some claims of discrimination based on race/sex/etc slightly harder to defend against. It does not "open" a company to lawsuits as opposed to being closed to suits by paying equivalent wages. It is one of many many things that could be a factor in such cases. And a lot of companies decide it is worthwhile to do despite that.

> You can and should ask your peers what they make. This is totally legal and encouraged.

It's not encouraged by many companies, and some try to discourage it including by trying to get employees to agree not to, whether or not it's legal.
Social workers require a /lot/ of training and education - please don’t assume that they’re by and large laypeople on these situations.
Not in that area. Other than the safety and cleanliness the rest is pretty universal. Merit, hard work, etc has gotten be no where. I make under $100k and support a family. Coasting is not good in this situation, but I don't have any good options.
> That's why in cities like Hamburg you can have €1000 monthly rentals but purchasing an equivalent house would be 1200000€

What? no. Absolutely not. The houses or flats you get for 1.2mm will be more like 3-4k a month if you're renting.
Important to note that KeePass itself does not have an official browser plug in, all plug-ins are 3rd party and none have large commercial backing.

Several browser plug-ins are available as well as simpler solutions like a browser extension to insert the URL in the title bar and sending keystrokes to the browser to populate it.
Might just be media speculation on the upcoming VR headset war
unlike Communism where none of that is possible and you instead use connections and backstabbing politics
KeePass is a free software, not a service that generates revenue. Why would you expect a free software developer that is entirely funded by donations (which most likely won't even cover development costs) to pay 10,000$ to a security researcher finding a bug in their software or you will stop using their software? This is completely unrealistic. Bugs happen, free software exists. You cannot stop using all free software that had a security bug in the past that wasn't awarded with 10,000$.
Yes, my partner and I switched to remote work in 2016. Since then we stopped living in cities and started living part of the year at the beach and part of the year next to a lake near a national park. We spend a few months a year in the city to catch up with people and soak in the cultural vibes. Most of the time we are near family.
1 and 2 are easily covered by adequate bank services, 2 is covered by bitcoin.
!remindme 100 years
And the situation is the same for suburbs or close cities to these big cities.
This has been tried before. Any comparison vs Obviously.ai or Intersectlabs.io ?

https://www.intersectlabs.io/

https://www.obviously.ai/
We can discuss stuff like this ... at least some times.
You understand that you just lectured the moderator of HN on how to use the website?

HN already provides a link to profile bios. Check out the %username% link on top of the comment. /s
Having a government approved spam filter would be better than letting an oligopoly of five companies decide what constitutes spam.

In fact, I can't think of a single market dominated by a handful of large companies hasnt been improved by the introduction of a government competitor.

There's a reason telcos lobby hard against community broadband and that financial institutions dial back the usuriousness of their fees when the post office offers bare bones accounts.
They’re rarely poorer value if your time is worth anything, if getting a prepaid SIM costs me a 30min detour I might as well be setting $100 on fire.
The name made me expect a mixture of Haskell and Pascal, but it’s more of a new syntax for C++ with a built-in library of useful functionality such as HTTP: it compiles to C++, and the syntax uses C-style blocks with braces so the code looks more like C++, then on closer inspection it does have some elements from Pascal as stated in the website.

It’s the first time I see it, and I’m going to try it out during these days.

One thing I would have done differently would be to implement it in C++ instead of Python: since it requires a C++ compiler anyway, having the translator in C++ would avoid introducing more dependencies. This needs python3 (no big deal) and PyInstaller which at least was available as a package in my Linux distribution.

I’m disappointed to see it uses a single `=` for assignment instead of `:=`, but I understand the utility of keeping such a fundamental aspect close to C++.
Otherwise the syntax looks neat, will have to play with it a bit to see how it works out in practice.

The first thing I’ve done is to fix the space indentation in the Makefile (https://github.com/hascal/hascal/pull/14), but now pyinstaller fails with `pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'pyinstaller-hooks-contrib>=2020.6' distribution was not found and is required by pyinstaller`.

Ah, well... I’ll try a bit more to get that to run.
I would love to move. My wife doesn't.
Many modern mice have onboard memory, actually, to store sensitivity settings and occasionally macros.

I doubt they need more than a few kb's for them, but being 2021, maybe the cheapest onboard memory chip can still hold 16MB or more, and a sufficiently cunning hacker could use it as a storage of last resort.
Yes, but to be closer to my parents, and to nature.

I didn’t like WFH at first to be honest. But I’ve grown used to it and appreciate the flexibility especially with kids.
Unfortunately you probably daily rely on multiple 32-bit linux machines, most of the time not realizing you do. I agree this should be mentioned in the title though.
More like a javelin really, as I understand it. The strap was used as a built-in spear thrower, like an atlatl. There are depictions of them in use on coins.
The fact that Chrome offers to bring my passwords from browser to browser, means that they are being stored in plaintext by Google.

Not necessarily. For example, Google could be encrypting your passwords using your Google account password.
Waiting for Starlink
Originally joined a company with an office in the capital, but due to the pandemic they committed to remote first from now on.
I’ve now moved to a city on the coast with 70k people (capital had almost 2 million), and it is a 30 min train ride to the capital. Cost of living is roughly only 10% cheaper but the pace and apparent quality of life is much improved.
Might I suggest https://12ft.io for you?
For sure. There are both types here.
In Italy we have a worse version of what you described.

1. An ID card you can use to access some services (carta di identità digitale)

2. Another card you can use to access healthcare related services and some other services (carta nazionale servizi)

3. SPID: your digital ID to access yet some other services, and also some of the above services. It is not released by the government but by other authorized entities such as banks, the national mail service and others. You need to pay a small fee for the verification, and sometimes an annual fee. There are different SPID levels but no one actually knows the difference between them.

4. PEC (posta elettronica certificata): a digitally signed email box you can use to send/receive documents, invoices, etc. or simply messages. Those are legally attributed to you and you can use it to talk to government agencies instead of sending registered paper mail. As SPID it is issued by an authorized third party.

We also have some smartphone apps that work as a combination of the above, and need some of the above to work.

As you can see it is a mess, a waste of tax money and we will need to waste more money in the future to make this mess work.

Nice :)

Edit: and by the way when you need something really important all the above are useless: you either need to start hopping from a public office to another (we have a lot of them) and/or go to a notary (a kind of medieval bureaucrat you pay a lot of money to sign and stamp sheets of paper)
I've used 1Password for years. I recommend it to orgs I work with.
I do that too, I tell students to first make a skeleton document, with titles that read like a story.

I do the same when programming btw, my function names read like a story with their complexities hidden lower in the class/library. Yes I have function names that some may find ridiculously long but it helps me a lot.
I too am an expat in Germany, and I come from a country where most people buy. I bought.

That only 40% of Germans have any interest in buying doesn't mean that 60% of Germans have no clue. It means that they have a system where buying isn't nearly mandatory. Rents are often only barely higher than the cost of capital for buying plus maintenance.

Both have grown, particularly in Berlin and some other places. (I live in Munich, which has had very high prices by German standards for a long time.) But that growth doesn't mean that the cost of renting is much higher than the cost of a bank loan plus maintenance etc. AFAICT, both have grown together.
The best thing is iTunes store IMHO.

I start to listen an album via Spotify. I buy it via iTunes if I continue to listen it. If I really like that album that much, I find a lossless copy.

If I can buy a lossless copy from the original artist, I go that route first. RadioHead's leading the pack on that. I have a 24bit wav album from them.
Those numbers are wildly off because among other things the use US generates 6% hydroelectric, and they didn’t try to minimize a cost function via location selection etc. Further large hydroelectric dams store months worth of their average output.

Also, demand and generation are positively correlated as people use less power on cloudy days and less AC in the winter. You can look at how much oversupply and storage people need to live off grid and realize that’s a worst case situation isn’t 7x oversupply or 30 days of storage it’s roughly 3x oversupply of solar and 3 days of storage. At grid scale that’s roughly 6c/kWh for solar plus batteries which last longer the less their used though that’s also a high when you add other energy sources and grid transmission.

The good news is markets are great at minimizing cost functions. In the near term lots of natural gas makes up the difference, but the cost breakdown is such that offsetting 1kWh of natural gas works out even if 50% of solar generation is wasted. Aka 2x oversupply of solar shows up from market forces it’s that cheap. Bring on storage and things start to look very solar heavy even with zero subsidy or price reductions.
I did not know that. The OpenBSD change just stuck in my head somehow. Any idea how NetBSD fixed the backward compatibility?
going through his past advent of code solutions is good too
15-20 years ago I naively thought that many of the Big Tech companies would stand against this type of censorship. Sadly I was wrong and didn’t understand how important it was to have access to the Chinese market and the importance of China’s low-cost manufacturing for these companies as well.

Today, the Big Tech companies might not actively support this kind of censorship, but they aren’t aggressively working against it as I thought they would 15 years ago.
Most of the effort is in moving off an insecure set of passwords. The details of the solution don't add much incremental effort. Why not do it the right way and avoid trusting a company with an awful track record? Everyone I know has a google account and a smartphone, and by extension access to google drive for cloud backup/sync of a keepass database. Lastpass cannot justify its existence.
I think the issue is that the computer does not have infinite resources. Even with tabs where they are hidden most of the time it's a big engineering challenge. If you can zoom out and expect all activities to continue in the iframes.. it can work but there is just a limit.

But besides the infinite thing, I had kind of the same idea last week when I was looking for a mind mapping tool that I could just embed web pages in.
That is a very good point. I am not sure that lack of official browser extension is a good thing though. I typically enjoy when software has a large community creating plug-ins, but maybe not when it comes to password managers.
An important note is to take it in the morning, not at the evening. The article misses it somehow.

Intervention group received a 50 000-unit vitamin D supplement, one in a fortnight for 8 weeks

Not sure what this formula means, but 50,000 IU is way too much for a single dose. 10,000/day is prescribed only to eldery people who have enormous deficiencies on the edge of death, according to my endocrinologist. Check your D levels before eating any supplements.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

Do not take more than 100 micrograms (4,000 IU) of vitamin D a day as it could be harmful. This applies to adults, including pregnant and breastfeeding women and the elderly, and children aged 11 to 17 years.
I didnt say I did expect bounties from them. I just said I'd avoid using this software.

The fact remains that autofilling passwords in-browser has a gargantuan attack surface and hence the potential to go very wrong. You have to really trust whichever software you use for this.

I expected better from lastpass because I used to give them actual money. I'm not upset that some random keepass extension did this but I also wouldnt use it either.
The suggestion was to use Scheme or CL.
Hmm, that's a pretty powerful proof-of-work mechanic you've got there. "DefragCoin", anyone? Now we just need a way to achieve unilateral consensus about whether a given HDD is dead...

(/s)
Yes, moved from SF North Bay / wine country to Buffalo NY to be closer to extended family, lower cost of living. I miss wine country, but it's been a good move. My company is based in EST so it's easier. I worry a bit about next job but it'll be OK I suspect. I work in IT management and software development in the past. It's no easy choice, but since we had kids the family factor won out.
There are a large amount of 32bit devices still being designed and built. Not for servers, desktops or laptops, but embedded devices, controllers and so on. These are actually the worst device to have the issue in, because they will last longer than 2038. If you ship an 32bit embedded device today, there's a reasonable chance that that device will be in service 20 years for now.
Lumen Technologies (CenturyLink/Level3) Claims Tor Relays Is “Against Our AUP”
Good point. But what is a dual-channel Integrated Development Environment? ... Maybe an early form of pair programming?

EDIT: ;-)
> I was feeling the same, about the only thing I have using 32bit userspace these days are a few rPIs, little bit early to be panicking they may suffer from the Y2038 bug

Quite the opposite if you're talking about rPIs: the small/embedded space is where things can live for a long time. They're the primary place to worrying about. Especially if you're talking about industrial processes.
It might be the article struggling to find the perfect frame, but what also stands out is the reason a lot of excellent executors get locked out of strategy decisions is that they don't want to be involved. It isn't a source of regrets.

People don't generally sign up for an engineering role because they want to provide strategic direction to others. Such people exist, but are rare. There is a clear bias in Engineering disciplines towards people who really enjoy executing and don't particularly care what they execute.

And seconding the manager-speak angle. This article will be nearly useless to someone who doesn't already know how to identify and balance conflicting needs to make a decision. This is a rehash of the usual advice - take a step back, breath deeply and ask if what you are doing is leading to outcomes you value.
I did advent of code this year in rust (not finished yet, but such is christmas). I found it quite a good way to quickly get a "functional" appreciation for the language. I would preface that by saying that you should read the first few chapters of the rust book. Especially you need to read the introductory chapter about borrowing (chapter 4 I think?) , otherwise you will find it borderline impossible to work with it.
Honestly over the years I started associating GNU with:

- dedicated but stuck in the past people and approaches

- bad or even terrible UX

- bad security (either because of bad UX especially bad defaults or because of not consulting crypto experts for crypto stuff)
What exactly does camping out in branch manager’s office mean? How long?

Good you got your money back m
ntfy can send e-mail too, no installation, no token, no signup: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#e-mail-notifications

curl -d "Server has rebooted" "ntfy.sh/mytopic?email=phil@example.com"
I don't think anyone seriously working in the molecular biology field believes in Adam and Eve, at least not in the strict 6000 years ago, created by god -fashion. The fictional family relations portrayed in the bible can hardly be called "family trees", right? If you do think this is valid and being written down in an old book is enough for the claim of oldest family tree, there are probably older ones, perhaps in hieroglyphs in the pyramid? Idk, I'm not an expert.
I don't think you're answering the question here though. It's completely plausible there are situations where the contant is local time, not UTC (or TAI, if you want to get really obnoxious). Let's say I made an appointment to get my hair done in Berlin 10 years in advance, at 14:00 local time 29 Dec 2031, for whatever reason. Let's say someone goes crazy and moves Berlin to +1:30 this decade. I would still expect to show up at 14:00 local, but that's not the same universal time it was 10 years ago. How do you represent that in your DB where everything is in UTC?
>A metric ton on earth would experience ~.03mN (~1 sugar cube) of force towards the moon.

Would be nice to see more of these physically feasible, but futile, mechanisms to extract energy. Just recently came to know about Atmos'clocks, for instance, and wondered if you could use something similar to power one light of your house or w/e.
> Don’t eat late at night.

Not eating late at night is the healthy choice but it definitely delays sleep onset for me. On the other hand I do seem to need less sleep if I don't eat late in the evening.
Already live in the midwest but remote work has allowed me to apply and interview for much higher-paying jobs at FAANG companies
Commercial fusion's biggest barrier isn't neutron flux density or embrittlement; it's cap ex.

When articles come out about plasma performance improvements people come out to say that fusion machines will never be afforable.

When articles come out about cost reduction people come out to say that fusion machines will never work.

None of these comments add any insight into the feasibility of solving the problems.
I built a startup in 3hours and launched it on Product Hunt, made a vid about it
Nicely laid out.

I goofed on the last bit by assuming the final answer was:

1 - P(C) - P(D) which gives 0.178 ~ 0.18 or answer (A)
I’m in the process of moving (back) to a countryside location.

I lived there a number of years ago and split my time in a tech job 2 to 3 days a week in the office and the remainder back home working remotely. It was a struggle - Slack etc wasn’t a thing at that point and the communication was always strained while I was remote. I realised at some point that being remote was going to be career limiting and relocated close to a city with a large tech scene here in the UK. I didn’t resent the move as such, but I’d always missed being in the countryside and the town I’d adopted as home.

Now with the tech scene (certainly here in the UK) having embraced remote working on what appears to be a permanent basis I’m taking the opportunity to move back there and work mostly remotely. Luckily the company I work for has a great approach to this and there doesn’t seem any shortage of other tech companies offering it too. Of course there is always the risk that this will be limiting in the long run, but it feels like the current outlook is on the side of taking that risk. I realised over COVID lockdowns how much I missed living there, so I’ve decided it’s an important move for me personally.

COVID has been awful in so many ways, but a positive coming out of it is the way it has forced some realisations about how we work. For me the realisation has been that it isn’t about having a certain number of days or fixed times in the office - I think this is pretty old fashioned thinking. But instead committing to getting together in person with colleagues and clients for the right activities, where it really adds value.
This is the right answer.

If I'm Fujitsu or Accenture and I lose $BigCountryContract, it's a Big Deal and somebody is not going to get his fat bonus. If I lose Estonia, "Whatever, it was pennies anyway". Smaller orgs also don't have the sort of complex bespoke requirements that allow consulting firms to really entrench themselves.
You may want to look up how often these "quite sophisticated and nuanced theories" are accurate.

https://www.economist.com/economic-and-financial-indicators/...
Expose multiple slug (and short) values of GitHub variables.

Current version (3.x) is made in TypeScript and the rewrite (v4.x) will be a composite action to ease the maintenance and testability of this project.
We're trying to switch to an "event driven" design. I think it's basically in name only. We will still be running several batches as part of the overall process (cron, SQS, etc). So I can't help you, and apparently nobody at my company can either.

There could be some other options. It depends on what the task needs to do and where it is in the process. There are triggers one could use, push style notifications from a prior step, etc. It could even make sense to keep a certain task as batch depending on how it fits in with the other processes.
Thanks, that's what I was going for, hehe.

I was inspired by the docs of the fantastically awesome GoReleaser [1] tool, so half the credit goes to them :-D

[1] https://goreleaser.com/
Did they call it that? There were IDEs of sort long before Delphi (staying with the Pascal family, even pre-Delphi Turbo Pascal sort of fits - letting you compile and run straight from the editor well back into the 80s), but most were not called an IDE.
Fifteen years ago big tech's bottom line depended on a lack of censorship. Now it depends on censoring in some areas. Treating companies as anything other than barely-restrained sociopaths is always a mistake.