skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are some people who plan meetings because they don't know how to really be productive. So a meeting becomes a bad proxy for productivity. I always try to turn those down. A few clues:

- People tend to use the meeting to 'collaborate' on work that should have already been done. E.g., filling in spreadsheets, drafting emails etc.

- If a standing meeting seems to bring up the same issues over and over without any movement towards resolution

- If you tend to be a fly-on-the-wall and don't have much input to the discussion, it might be better to just not attend ask for meeting notes instead

- If there's no clear agenda or action items, or it seems to devolve into discussions that should be one-on-one
I hate when businesses try to make money
I didn't even notice they were interactive.
All those people, just randomly showing up in the same place at the same time and all deciding to walk on down to the US Capitol to break in and stop votes from being counted... totally unplanned.
Which ones? Asking for a friend
The quantity of programmers has exploded. Programming was a lot harder and more frustrating before stackoverflow and other online resources. If you wanted to learn to program you had to struggle your way through. And those who did would end up being pretty decent programmers.

Nowadays there is no such filter. Anybody can get something to barely work by copy-pasting from stackoverflow. This isn’t a negative by itself, it just means that we now have many professional programmers who never had to try hard. And quality goes down as a result.

Code quality tends to be the worst in areas with very low barriers to entry (web stuff and such) and very high in domains where you need to be a good engineer in order to get anything done at all.
How would the first link be fake? lmao
They only got that far because they were deemed (correctly) to be not a real threat and allowed in. The police could have mowed them down but they (rightly) decided it was better to just let it go and be embarrassed than to slaughter rioters in front of the capitol. Same goes for BLM rioters. I'd rather be in a country that allows a bit of chaos rather than using the full, deadly force of the state.
I think that's not true. I'm sympathetic to this sort of violence not being dissimilar from some violence on the left. Things like storming police stations, but people were arrested (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/04/politics/kavanaugh-protests-u...) and it seems to me like waiting in line to sit in the observation gallery and then making some noise or confronting people isn't the same as pushing past police barricades and killing people or dragged them into a crowd and beat them (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/us/capitol-mob-violence-p...). I'm a person who often falls into false equivalents so it's very important for me to be reminded that these aren't the same
> "It's not to worry about the next person. The current administration is the current concern"

As it absolutely should be. The current administration should always be the current concern… (Until voting day, of course, when the next administration should be the current concern.)
> 1) old, 2) large, and 3) supported by many people.

Software entropy implies that software that doesn't change will always suffer entropy if the environment changes. In a vacuum, we would never need to change software once it was "feature complete". But that's not how the world works. Environments change and so that inevitably means software will corrode.

Candidly, I think you're just looking at the world through rose tinted glasses.
Confirmed broken. CSV file contained barely a dozen entries. Real list is hundreds.

I guess Bitwarden secured itself a test-run.

edit: for clarity, the downloaded csv was defective, the csv shown seems complete. This is a problem
>"If they're a terrorist they're a terrorist and should be prosecuted as such. No need for insurrection apologetics."

Ah yes, but who will distinguish between terrorism and protest? The CHAZ/CHOP certainly had the hallmarks of an insurrection, too.

Edit: Ultimately, the decision/determination to charge someone with "terrorism" will be made by a District Attorney or some Attorneys General. These positions are all political in nature and the people holding these offices are under a great deal of pressure behind-the-scenes. THAT is where my trepidation comes from, as political adversary vs. political ally has a massive influence in who gets charged with what.
Do you have a degree in history? How many history books have you read cover to cover?
iMessage cannot do SMS/MMS either.

Their point is Google should have stuffed their iMessage equivalent (such as Hangouts) inside of a generic texting app that also handled SMS/MMS by default, and then enabled all the same features that Apple did and released it for iOS.
> Are there many previously young and healthy people ending up in hospital with Covid?

Yes, of course, more than a thousand of children and young adults in their prime died just in US.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wrecked-lives-families-young-adult...
> almost failed

Is there some magical switch inside the Capitol which can turn off our democracy? I really don't understand the constant hyperbole about 1/6.
Us (iMessage) vs Them (Those without iOS or macOS)
vs Those without smartphones (Mail)
vs Those without internet (Phone)
vs Those without phone or internet (Maps)
ah yes, equating the detention of a rich person in a mansion with an industrial scale genocide operation.
> I trust 1Password more than LastPass simply because you _must_ pay for it

The ultimate problem with this whole logic is that you trust that other individuals and companies are not tempted to "double-dip" by monetizing data on paying users. A comment in the reddit thread referenced in the article summarizes the problem neatly:

> These SaaS cloud services are completely unregulated and answer to no one except their own profits. They can and will hold your data hostage the moment they think they can do so profitably on a large scale. It doesn't matter whether you're paying for the service or not.

https://old.reddit.com/r/software/comments/s053t3/lastpass_i...
Terrorist - an advocate or practitioner of terrorism as a means of coercion

Terrorism - the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion

They were exactly terrorists. Also, insurrectionists...
A larger toll on empty cars would disincentivize it more.
This is like the fifth comment like this I've seen you make in this section.

It is completely false, as noted in replies all over, could you please chill with the spam?
tbf, this something also works with digital data as long as it’s stored on some physical media you own. I have a hard disk on which I throw random stuff since mostly a decade. There is nothing really important on there. It’s mostly unorganized junk that is probably 99% available on the internet. No files I would ever really need.

But I like to sometimes browse it because a lot of those files are connected to memories. There are some music files on it, some pirated movies that a university
friend copied on it. And those dirty xvid and wma files feels like they are really mine.
Most android apps are java. They should be built for jvms. The fact that we have java jars that fail because of hardware architecture invalidates java as an idea to me.
You think the definition of terrorist won't change whenever it's convenient for the government in power at the time?
Some commercial companies (e.g. Orbit Fab) are selling refuelling ports for satellites, FWIW. NASA put a lot of research into it as well, IIRC. For the JWT it's probably quite different, but for commercial earth observation sats, there are lots of folks considering including some of the refuelling port designs in current hardware even though the actually "refuel in space" service isn't available yet.
Americans became worse at mental math and thus 20% became more popular than 15.
I'd expect otherwise actually.

RDNA is far more efficient at gaming. GCN was compute-focused (higher TFLOPs, but weaker in practice). Case in point, micro-benchmarks show that VRAM latency is ~100 nanoseconds on RDNA, but ~300 nanoseconds on GCN.

RX 6500 XT is aimed at roughly the same specs as the RX480, but should perform slightly faster in practice, along with Raytracing support, Infinity Cache and therefore faster VRAM latency (probably faster fill-rates and other microbenchmarks important to gaming), all at 107W instead of 150W.

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As such, Rx 480 would be a better mining card, while 6500 XT would be a worse mining card, but better video game card.

Its still stupid for AMD to market their cards like this, but they're not lying... (and whatever argument marketing wants to make... well... that's their job. It all looks stupid to me but I can't honestly call them out on it since it is true...)

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Turns out that video-gamers who want more uniformity and less jitter between frames want higher-clock speeds (notice the 2000+ MHz clock speed on 6500 XT) rather than raw TFLOPs (Rx 480 ran a slow clock of ~1000MHz but had many more compute units / SIMD units computing in parallel).

Width of GPU leads to more variance, because its harder to load-balance your parallelism. If you have a narrower GPU (fewer compute units) at higher speeds, its easier to reach more consistent frame times / less jitter.
Seriously laughed out loud when the ending brings it back to the junior engineer and the engineering processes. Well done!
Depends on the definition, right?
OTOH I don't see people using Enterprise TLS instead of regular TLS. If your adversary is too lazy to fork you can call their bluff and win.
Agree: a 32-hour week is not nearly enough time to write software.

Agree: interspersed talking and coding for eight hours pales in yield to
coding for 4 hours with no talking.

The problem is clients and their wranglers need the talking to justify
their existence. And without clients, there's no money.
> due to bugs which need to be ironed out
> My observations from daily driving VS Code *insiders* [emph. added]

I think at least some of your concerns here about bugs that need to be ironed out is that you are using the Beta channel as a daily driver instead of the Production version.
> I figure big companies probably do the same.

Yup. Sometimes it's a Manhattan-project-esque "try every approach and we'll run with the one(s) that work the best" (this was the philosophy behind methods for enriching fissile materials during the war). Sometimes it boils down to organizational ineptitude, especially a lack of situational awareness such that the project becomes, in military terms, overtaken by events.

Note that sometimes things run the other way, where inertia keeps a project going when the hard decision to pull the plug should have been made long ago.
Maybe not have seized power but they certainly could have killed a number of elected officials including Pelosi and Pense. That might have had a stifling effect on future elected officials who otherwise would not have listened to the President’s wishes.

It’s about making ground, inch by inch.
Hypothesis: laborers weren't consumers. Peasants consumed what they produced with most, if not all, of the surplus going to feudal taxes. The landed nobility were the consumers and commanded most of the economy.
The Kavanaugh protesters assaulted 140 officers with bear spray, clubs, fire extinguishers and broke doors and windows as they sought lawmakers?
No, precial metals aren't hard money either. The point of money is that it can't be hard. Money is a thing that you can trade flexibly for other things - for which you need consensus with other people about what's acceptable money.

As soon as you start thinking about "what's really hard money", you jump over money altogether and land on "what goods can I trade for other goods".
Isn't this just pure I/O? You could have a PCIe 6.0 raid controller or network card.
> Also, does Gmail route some spam to /dev/null and other spam to Spam? I somehow have the impression that it does.

Very likely. O365 does and I'm quite certain many others as well.
I could see this technology being deployed to automatically have people arrested for crimes that occur on camera or any remote sensing medium for that matter. Gape recognition and face recognition are more than enough to identify an individual even without voice or cell data. Luckily deepfakes are here to save us all by completely invalidating any sort of media authenticity.
> The global war on terror was a complete and total success. I look forward to solving it domestically as well.

Given historical evidence, there's a chance it will actually be successful, as it was done in the past.

After the Oklahoma City bombing the FBI went after the far-right militia movement, and clamped down on it.

* https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/since-oklahoma-cit...

* https://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10712084/oregon-militia-history...

* https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-militias-timeline-idU...
As an employee I would definitely not like to mix my personal things in my work password manager :)

However for those who are so inclined I can see the value.
The federal government executed a search warrant on the Branch Dravidian compound. It was a legally executed warrant and 4 government agents were killed in a gun battle. After this the FBI surrounded the compound for 51 days before using tear gas to storm the compound. A fire started (possibly due to FBI incompetence) and a lot of people died. This does not qualify as domestic terrorism. If a government can’t enforce a search warrant then it’s pretty much useless.

It’s weird to use Waco and not a multitude of other legitimate examples of government law enforcement overreach. At any rate, none of those would qualify for the label “domestic terrorism” in the strict sense of the word but would suffice for a broader point you might be trying to make. To wit, are there adequate checks on the abuse of police power. The answer is no and one group that tried to bring up this issue, ironically given your apparent political leaning, is BLM. Police in the U.S. regularly mete out non judicial punishments and there are virtually no real checks against this.

The common ground, perhaps, that we share is that government overreach and abuse of police powers ought to be addressed in a meaningful way before expanding police powers or creating new investigative units. Especially when the charge is to stop domestic terrorism. That phrase can be twisted and abused in a such a manner that a non violent advocate like Martin Luther King could be labeled a domestic terrorist.
What do you mean by play ball with business?
To be fair, many tech companies are moving to 4 day work-weeks (eg https://buildremote.co/four-day-week/4-day-work-week-compani...) - so 32 hour weeks aren't viable just for a tenured professor
If they're a terrorist they're a terrorist

We need more of this line of thinking in the US.

Watching malls burn had me mad, and then watching traitors carting electronic devices off from the Capitol building on their way over to Glover Park to hand them over to the Russians was the final straw. It's long past time extremists are excised from our society.
Not all states have a lower tipped wages though. Also should fast food workers get tipped?
Here (in California) I mostly see 18,20,25 for restaurants and even higher ones in coffee shops (sometimes over 30 as the highest tier)
> So are you looking at Chrome (and Firefox) back to 4-5 years past (via caniuse?), and not using something if they don't support it back that far?

I don't think that's whats the author meant, since they mentioned progressive enhancement. The site in question was for making a reservation to volunteer. This could have been written as a simple HTML form and it would have worked on any version of Chrome/Firefox/Safari and most other browsers. Any dynamic feature the site authors wanted to add should have used [feature detection](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Tools_and_tes...).

You can also use JS modules and `nomodule` script tags to deliver the latest and greatest JS to modern browsers and a compiled ES5 script to older browsers (though that wouldn't work in the case of an older evergreen browser that does support modules)
> At the beginning of the riots the people actually storming barriers and assaulting police officers were definitely not just "milling around".

There has been a great deal of this outside of January 6th this year. I saw a burning police car for the first time in my life this summer.
Snapchat? All the kids are on Discord now.
fwiw I've used nvidia drivers through DKMS for a long time and never really had any issues with it.
> The world would be a better place if more politicians and their ilk were terrified of the people.

Giving more weight to people willing to threaten violence won't fix your problems.
Plenty of people don't care about sending images over messages with phones, they use email and facebook for that.

Plus in many pre-paid plans the amount of SMS is almost unlimited, or with packages like 5 000 per month, which hardly anyone ever consumes half of it.
Climate change is not an existential threat because climate change is something which the human race has been subject to since forever. Sometimes the change was radical, sometimes subtle. Radical as in glaciation, subtle as in the "Little Ice Age" or the warmer periods which saw the flourishing of the Roman and Viking civilisations - which, incidentally, both declined once the climate turned cooler. Humans are adaptable animals and will make it through the effects of whatever turn the climate makes this time as well. Thinking otherwise is just silly doomsday prophetising.

This is, by the way, also why I am pro-nuclear. It is clear that there are better ways of generating electricity than burning fossil fuels (which lead to environmental pollution/destruction as well as often subsidising less savoury regimes (and companies)). I'm also for putting PV panels on top of roofs an other "unused" surfaces while I see "solar farms" as a waste of space unless established in deserts or similar areas.

I'd suggest to read [1] some [2] books [3] and think this whole "we're all going to die" thing over. Yes, die we will, all of us, but not for the reason or in the way many people seem to think.

[1] https://www.unsettledsciencebook.com/

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56643992-false-alarm

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50173134-apocalypse-neve...
The issue is partially the fact that a lot of domains send mail without, they can't require it. They should, but they can't.
The Linux kernel is an easy example, sure, but it's not the only one. You can say the same thing about proprietary operating systems and software as well. It's been a long time since I've had misbehaving applications blue-screen Windows. That's something that used to happen daily when I ran Windows 98. Or if you prefer MacOS, I remember MacOS Lion being incredibly unstable, with beach-balls and crashes galore. That's all been fixed.

Applications have gotten better too. Browsers have gotten significantly more robust against misbehaving pages. Microsoft Office doesn't eat my work (even if I forget to hit ctrl-s).

In fact, I would go so far as to say that the only software which has gotten worse is video games. Used to be you could put in a disc, install the game, and be reasonably assured that you were getting a playable final product. Today, you put in the disc, install the game, and then have to download multiple gigabytes of patches... and the game is still often buggy (Bethesda, I'm looking at you!).

>99.99999% of software in big corporations will not have even 5% of the quality of the Linux kernel.

That is true. But it was equally true when Linus Torvalds dropped the first version of the Linux kernel all the way back in '91. It's not clear to me that things have gotten worse since then.
Related video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKnqECcg6Gw
> "terrorism - the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion."

Interesting side effect of this definition is that because the main effect of terrorism is not material or human casualties, but terror, it's usually less damaging way of waging a war than conventional warfare. There are typically more civilian casualties in conventional warfare where civilians are just collateral than terrorist campaigns that target civilians.

Six Rather Unusual Propositions about Terrorism
https://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/6PROPS.PDF

> The costs of terrorism very often come mostly from the fear and consequent reaction
(or overreaction) it characteristically inspires (qualities stoked by the terrorism indus-
try), not from its direct effects which are usually comparatively limited. Therefore,
policies designed to deal with terrorism should focus more on reducing fear and anxiety
as inexpensively as possible than on objectively reducing the rather limited dangers
terrorism is likely actually to pose. Doing nothing (or at least refraining from
overreacting) after a terrorist attack is not necessarily unacceptable, and, despite
U. S. overreaction, the campaign against terror is generally going rather well because,
no matter how much they might disagree on other issues (most notably on war in Iraq),
there is a compelling incentive for states to cooperate to deal with a common problem

‘terrorism industry, an entity that includes not only various risk entrepreneurs and bureaucrats, but also
most of the media and nearly all politicians.
Any attack involves fear. The soldiers at Pearl harbor were probably terrified. Doesn't make it a terrorist attack.
What about an earthquake? Is it safe at all?
Keepassxc + syncthing. Password managers are too important to rely on someone else's computer.
Can this be ported to node as a module?
> What is your claim, that disorder, randomness and uncertainty DO NOT build up with time?

It depends on the system. Claiming that disorder builds up in all systems is false, afaik. From a Google search: Entropy increases in a closed system. In open systems, the entropy is kept low, or decreases

Are you claiming that codebases are closed systems?

> They don't make them easier. They make them POSSIBLE.

Are you arguing about the definition of “easier” or just trying to rhetorically emphasize the impact of tests on refactoring?

Would you agree if I said tests make refactoring A LOT easier?

Seems like we both agree that we’d rather refactor a system with tests than without (all else the same).

> Good tests cover all critical sections of functional specification (what is deemed critical depends on project). If you have functional rules x, y and z somewhere there, there need to be bunch of tests for x, y and z somewhere, ideally fuzzy, fast and without blank database.

You’ve told me what parts of the code you want to test, but not what guarantees the tests make.

> No offense, but you seem new in this business, and your aggression doesn't help at all.

You’re right I’m new. Thanks for your patience.
A key point that many people seem to miss. A band of unhinged, bloodthirsty right wingers, staged a preempted coup, targeting politicians, and did not bring the guns that they're famous for amassing? Clearly this was not what it's being made out to be. Never let a crisis go to waste I suppose...
For space telescopes (which this topic is about) doesn't need super heavy lift capability, just larger diameter. Neutron is planned to be 7m diameter.

Please, just watch the interview. It might change your opinion by listening to the plan, I know I felt much more optimistic about more serious players in the field.
OS is a good example. Recent MacOS and Linux are easily the highest quality OSes that have existed. iOS and Android are quite good too. Unless you go back to when OSes could be extremely simple.