skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just look at their recent track record showing pure user hostility. Why is anyone still using them?

Because I've managed to miss any news damning enough to make me decide to switch.

It's possible that either:

a) I've overlooked something

b) You and I have different priorities

c) You're being hyperbolic.

I genuinely don't know which but your phrasing and tone makes me lean towards (c)

The internet is full of people shouting "God. [Company] is the worst!" - if you want to be persuasive then it's probably better to not sound like them.
I dont read rfcs often, but when I do I'm always impressed by the quality and precision of the writing. Maybe it comes with experience or maybe my education just sucked lol
> The design of the plant was really old - construction began only 33 years after the death of Marie Curie, and the design was older than that.

That's the point, though, isn't it? One of the richest and most developed nations failed to decommission the plant in a timely manner, even under excellent conditions, in order to save costs. It's not the technology that's the problem.
I love that this was written like 8 years ago, and that if it gets further up the page it will get the HN lovehug.

The author won't know why or what's going on, just that there's a lot of news.ycombinator.com referrer traffic for an old article from nearly a decade ago that hardly anyone read. Then he'll maybe drop by and say hello on the thread.
Let me guess: Ragnarok Online?
Ask HN: Any WebSockets-as-a-service offerings for REST integration?
Websockets are a total pain, are there any services that host websockets and integrate them into a regular REST app?

eg:
- client messages get posted to a webhook
- call their api to send a message to one or more sockets
Skyking Skyking do not answer...
Whiteboard Feature of Diagrams.net
https://app.diagrams.net/?splash=0&ui=sketch

(The full URL can't seem to be saved in the dedicated URL field and so just adding it here)

I just tried the Sketch UI of Diagrams.net and found it very well done and easy to use.

I was surprised that it didn't seem to be featured more prominently on the Diagrams.net webpage. It seems great for lots of uses cases like planning, drafting, etc.. or even outlining/mind-mapping.

I discovered it via a Hacker News comment and so thought to share and also curious to hear your impressions on it?
To me, it feels like a very elegant interface to use; there is minimal visual clutter, no menu, just the tools (rectangle, square, etc..). The controls are intuitive (can easily create shapes, add text, resize and add connections).
Off. I find videos on during meetings to be incredibly distracting in a way that IRL meeting are not.
most uranium comes from australia and canada
scottlamb seemed to be implying it's not worth being able to since it's an uncommon use case, so I was explaining why even if it's uncommon it's must-have.
I've been on 1Password for many many years - looks like I bought it first in 2008, and I've bought every major version since, and then moved to subscription within weeks of it launching. I couldn't be happier with the product, or their customer support. $3 per month for bulletproof password management that integrates so well into iOS and Mac OS isn't even something I think about when renewal time comes along.
I'm watching their move to Electron for their apps with caution, but they have such a long track record of shipping great product that I'm not too worried.
Really? RocketLab are going great guns. There's nothing outlandishly novel with their Neutron design (bar the 007 style fairing). If you've not seen the recent interviews with Peter Beck, I'd highly recommend you to do so.
It looks like a note has been added describing how to use the control.

But obviously this is admitting that this control isn't intuitive enough.
If that was what they were doing, I think they could have done a better job.
> Will all of these people get their health tax and insurance money back when they are denied?

No, just like how if I need surgery, and the hospital is full of anti-vaxxers with COVID, and I can't get treatment, I currently don't get my money back.
Ask HN: Do you use React Native in Production?
If so, what has your experience been like?
>No this is not a joke

Whoa
Many police investigations center around video evidence as is it objective and easy to admit.

Police build little databases of where cameras are located and will use them to build timelines, etc. I served in a jury where the police were able to identify a hit and run driver who killed a teenager by knitting together surveillance footage from a bunch of cameras and establishing what cars were in an area in a given 5-minute window.
https://app.diagrams.net/?splash=0&ui=sketch (here is the clickable URL)
Another vote for BitWarden. I used LastPass for many years, and jumped ship when they were acquired. I've been using Bitwarden for a few years now and really like it.

Importing from LastPass was easy.
If this topic interests you, Strong Towns is a national non-profit working on parking reform as one of its top issues. The movement is growing, and there's a lot you can do to support it!

Some relevant content:

1. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/11/20/the-many-cost...

2. https://www.strongtowns.org/parking
I'm early thirties and 20% is what I was always taught. 30% for personal services like haircuts/massages, etc.
I have been building a self-hosted analytics platform[0] (note that it's not free or open-source, just partially source-available) that is focused on the ease of self-hosting. It is most similar to Matomo but with a better performance, simpler UI and with features that they only provide in their paid plans.

I used simple technologies (MySQL/PHP) for performance and portability reasons and, compared to other self-hosted alternatives, it provides features that you can only find on expensive SaaS product-analytics platforms (heatmaps,session recordings,ab tests, etc.).

Let me know if you have any questions about UXWizz or self-hosting in general.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/
I agree. Kids are growing up with this stuff. I can only hope that helps them build mental defenses; but I don't expect it to happen automatically. I think it will take a lot of effort from a lot of people.
Kissenger is one of the most prolific war criminals of the last 100 years, he should be studied EXTENSIVELY

and here is why; he was / is a meta-dictator/authoritarian -- This MF was able to kill MILLIONS through his /INFLUENCE/

Just as Madeline ALbright, the Bush Cabal, the Clintons -- but this piece of shit needs to be mentally dissected so we know how to prevent such abhorrant people / actions from gaining power.

While in the cold war, such thinking was important for determining / predicting / preparing for insane scenarios... still this is a psychopath thinking of these things.

Kissenger is one of the most eveil people (along with albright)
I fell asleep in Thermo 1 on the day the professor taught us to read steam tables. I never did get many of those problems right, even though I did my engineering co-ops at power plants.
Works for me in 95.0.2.
While what you said is true, iOS 12 still received some security fixes, so the total support for the iphone 5s is 9 years and 8 for the 6. Critical bugs shouldn’t be that big of a threat (considering that even up to date phones are colanders.
Thanks for the hint!

Do you happen to be familiar with ANGLE? What happens if I just expose GLES 3.0 bindings as WebGL2 based on the native drivers on each platform?

(my earlier understanding was that ANGLE was a WebGL-to-Direct3D translation layer, for compat on Windows.)
In either case you need to load the context for other requests. It isn't like you need to load the whole stack either.

Maybe using a stack means using more cache lines than coroutines, but you'd have to be right at the edge of capacity for active requests for it to matter.
Is Ably playing with WebTransport? If it moves up from its current trial status, how do you see that changing Ably’s core?
Thanks ddoolin. I am not sure which company you are, but I appreciate your comments and even more happy to hear you feel we're doing a fantastic job! You've sort of encapsulated why we exist: we know software engineers can build and run all sorts of things on their own i.e. we're not the only option from open source solutions to custom builds. However, we built Ably to be the easiest, most scalable, and reliable realtime option which for developers that removes complexity and helps them manage costs as they grow (pay for what you use).

Matt, co-founder at Ably
CEPI – Developing vaccines in 100 days
If you think I’m absurd for questioning authority and skepticism in situation where profits are astronomical and will be enforced by governments, I have a bridge to sell you.

Regardless, I can tell in your reply that you think of me as a kook, conspiracy theorist. Gday!
Sorry for that. I thought it was not in violation of any rule.

I will avoid the political comments, though I tried to keep the discussion reasonable at all times.

It was not my intention to start any flamewar, less ideological. You can see in my comments rebuttals or exchange of opinions.
That's what happens when you offer a good product
Can you give an example of a well known site that does this? Curious to try this out for myself.
Ask HN: Are there jobs in Astronomy/Astrophysics for SWE?
Hi,

Are there real world jobs for experienced software/infra engineers in the astronomy/astrophysics field that pay correctly in France / Europe?

Anybody have experience on what kind of background in education is required for landing that kind of job?

I've been interested in that field since young and even took some actual post graduate introductory classes (Astro 101). I'm looking for a job that produces actual scientific value rather than just rat-racing along my coworkers.

Thanks to anybody that cares to chime in
Hey, yeah i would like to ask few questions about open source softwares, it's more about people who are using open source softwares in their applications.
You get a nice view of the buildings from the train on the East Coast Main Line. The plant is still controlled by Ferrani Argus 1980s-era computers running CORAL.
The term slavery is used in the correct way. It is not only labor rights that are denied in Xinjiang but every other right. Uyghurs essentially have no rights. Slaves have no rights. Therefore, Uyghurs in Xinjiang can be considered slaves.

Modern slavery is a fact [0]. China is not the only country concerned. But it does not mean that it does not apply to China or that we are forbidden from using the term when describing Xinjiang.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century
Been using bitwarden and love it! I don't think it offers 2-factor but you can replace that with Authy or Google Authenticator
"You’re asked to perform a site audit so you look up how to run a site audit in the company's confluence and get to work."

I wish we had that sort of documentation.

The problem I see as a mid-career dev is really that expectations are too high. You can hire me, but if you don't have documentation, or you have overbearing corporate processes, then don't expect me to be fast. I do agree that this could play into not delivering as much perceived value or be lacking context.
The CPC were trying to finish the war and the KMT were a military dictatorship that had just overrun the island. Presumably at this point an outsider country has no real horse in this race, except that the KMT dictatorship was massacring its people because they were communists, while the CPC was doing the opposite, hence the American support. You have to understand that things are different now because Taiwan evolved into a successful democracy, but that was not a given pre-1980s or so.
Thank you for sharing, I think those insights are correct.

We have currently a few features where it's painfully obvious how to cheat the system to gain higher-tier functions. I wont change that, because if you're that strapped for cash that you'd rather cheat than pay 20€, I'm going to look the other way and hope that things change for the better for that person.
You can also grab a raspberry pi and self host.
They're supposed to be authoritative and unambiguous, hence the precision.

The problem they aim to solve is to be used as reference for various protocols implementation, with the idea that as long as nobody deviates from what the RFC says, all implementations will be interoperable.
The Inspiring Feats of Charles Steinmetz, the “Engineer’s Engineer”
Knee-jerk "better safe than sorry" decisions often do more harm than good. There was no conceivable threat from a random North Korean missle test to an airplane in Burbank, CA, and that was quickly determined by people who have the responsibility of making such assessments (NORAD). Why then did a random FAA official decide otherwise?
Obligatory DNS Song Link:
https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...
You can lean towards C all you want and I admit my phrasing and tone will come across a certain way, but the track record isn't hard to dig up if you just take a cursory look.

Let me give you this own site's experiences with the company.

https://www.google.com/search?q=lastpass+site:news.ycombinat...
remove or charge for parking and people park on the street...no one is giving up their cars, all of the social engineering just ends up creating more problems

in many Bay Area communities you will see cars as tightly aligned on both sides of residential streets as is physically possible...homeowners don't even have room to put out trash bins without blocking their own drives. and why? because apartment complexes and offices don't provide spaces for their users. so, people just clutter up the streets. win?

any time there are measures to make parking inconvenient, you end up with annoying ordinances banning street parking...or "members only" local passes...or meter maids who exist to torment us all

how can the government get us out of our cars when they otherwise encourage car use as broadly as possible?
I know, we're very excited about WebTransport and what it can offer. As you say, on the surface it seems to provide both a more performant and reliable transport for realtime communications. Once it hits mainstream, we'll be certainly adding it as another transport we support in our stack (currently websockets, HTTP, SSE, MQTT etc)

Matt, co-founder of Ably
Simple answer; Infinite greed and lust for (political) power…
Yes — belief can be a nasty thing. But it also drives progress. We "believe" that living entities deserve to be treated with some level of decency, etc. Sure it's possible to hedge our bets with humility and tolerance, but it comes at the cost of the potential upsides.

Our beliefs have led to some horrific outcomes over the past several hundred years. What interests me personally isn't how to believe less in order to avoid risk, it's how to believe in such a way that the resulting actions will improve our lives.
Having their own grid has some serious downsides as they found out last February but the upside is that they get to run things so that their installed base of renewable power is larger than the backlog of projects waiting for approval which is the case most of the country is in.
I use KeyPass and then several different UI’s, based on the platform. I store the KeyPass in my favorite cloud drive so I can use it from wherever.
More specifically on moving the needle though, I think it was restaurants (and later, apps) optimizing their prompts to change consumer behavior.
The path forward is zoning changes. Make it legal to build small apartments in a neighborhood, make it legal to run a corner shop, etc. We can build walkable environments in suburban hellscapes if we tweak the laws.
I've never heard this 30% for personal services rule of thumb.
How can you use the certificates without giving people access. Why aren't these people authenticated before they can access the data, so it can be traced back? Which measures are implemented in order to protect the data from abuse?

I have a vaccine cert that works like this. How do I know that none of the countless people who had access to that by now did not leak the data into some ad tech database or are using it for other nefarious purposes?
Usually 'brownout' refers to a situation where an electrical grid is failing to provide sufficient power but is still providing some. It's not quite a blackout, but its also not functioning properly.

In this context it's referring to a transitory period where a feature is in a state of flux and may only partially work.
It would be fixed because the car industry does not have anymore power to stop the improvements.

Now, it's tech companies the ones that have the money to create a bad for humans landscape. Will the USA repeat the same mistake and let them create an unfit for society digital neighborhood, or has it learned that to take corporation interests above everything else create inefficient societies?
If the group of trusted people in a bubble is large enough (say 1000s of people), then it wouldn't be a problem, I suppose.

For example, I wouldn't mind sharing my upvoted websites/videos/products with everyone on HN, as long as it is anonymized. Bad actors can be distrusted by the community, I suppose (though moderation seems to be largely an unsolved problem still).
Overview for whoever doesn't want to read the article or just react to the headline:

The author is a professor of computer science at Georgetown who has authored numerous books on how to do well in school and career by minimizing distraction and increasing focus. He's arguing against the California 32-hour work week bill, which he says will be counterproductive on its own without addressing the core problems of excessive coordination and multitasking that is what he believes is truly burning out knowledge workers more than sheer volume of hours.

He is calling this "slow productivity" in honor of a movement from Spain dedicated to cooking instead of eating fast food, which takes longer but is ultimately more enjoyable and rewarding.

How on earth this gets interpreted as media damning right wing work ethic is maybe one of the more bizarre things I've seen happen on HackerNews recently.
Well, I guess it's better than sending an "inbound missile" alert to everyone's phone across a whole state.
I'm not qualified to talk about anything.
I am having a great experience with KeepassXC and KeepassXC-browser. I sync my password database via Seafile, which is hosted by Your Secure Cloud. And I use Strongbox on iOS.
Only the dog can hear the dog whistle.

The act of using coded words, phrases or even emoji to say specific things to a specific group while seeming innocuous to the general public. It can be used for members of a group to acknowledge who each other are, or to rename issues so that they seem different to the general public, or to bring up events to push an agenda. [0]

[0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dog-whistle
I'm very curious what your life experience is like on certain axes. Have you chosen your work? Did your father? Likewise, have you had any major unexpected life events (deaths, divorces, illnesses, etc.)?

I ask because I've found what you've said to be true in certain cases.

Working hard and consistently at something is great when it comes to projects and tasks that I choose and that are mostly mathematical or logical. On the other hand, this mode/method completely fails me when it comes to creative or architect level work.

I also caution against holding one worldview as good in all situations. I worked much harder before I got MS, and learning my limits and accepting them was key to preserving my mental health.

If you can live such a directed life, it can be very fruitful, but on the other hand, trying to make yourself hustle even though it's a bad idea is a great way to hurt yourself.
RCS just seems like an improvement over a legacy infrastructure. Why do we need it at all?
OK, but the wages also grew slower than necessary because the income was padded by tips, reducing pressure on the business to raise wages to retain employees.

When restaurant servers don't get any tips it makes steady-wage jobs like warehouses or grocery stores relatively more appealing compared to customer-facing jobs.

Not a great cycle.
Degrading a service/feature or having intermittent failures rather than just immediately knocking a service/feature offline. In this case, intentionally induced and used as a strong nudge to downstream users to stop using this particular feature.

Comes from terminology used for the electric grid, where a brownout is a milder form of a blackout. Instead of electricity being entirely shut off and everything goes "black," the voltage drops and lights dim, i.e. go "brown."
The Cartography We Can’t See
I seriously wonder if a person exists that likes being bothered when they're trying to read something? If that's not the case, and in fact nobody likes this, why anyone would think that this was a good idea?
Shocking that the only appearance of the word "land" in TFA is England. Which, of course, itself tells you about the primacy of land for all types of production.
I thought the same thing! I didn't expect git to have a way to communicate unauthenticated and unencrypted built-in.
This article is beyond absurd.

It's bending over backwards to promote how tipping is actually for the tipper's benefit. And that recommending large tips via touch screen menus is so helpful in saving them the time to do mental math.

Then the author places an arbitrary value of $1 on that mental math (???) to exclaim that large suggested tips saves the passenger both time and (fictional) money! Welfare has increased by more than 200,000 (completely made up dollars) per day!

Seriously, wtf, Stanford Business?
Thanks! I appreciate you saying so.

I’m a total hack when it comes to type design, so, I’m still pretty unsure of this one. I go from seeing all of the problems in it, to thinking: “hey—that looks OK.”

One discovery that helped with both this (and the site we built it for) came from reading about wabi-sabi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

That perspective helped me see that imperfections might be part of a thing’s appeal. This is a very different viewpoint for me. I tend to “need” everything pixel perfect—but I’m not sure that’s as important as I once thought.
This name looks like cyrilic
Off.

Unless -

* A new person is joining the call
* We are meeting another team
* I'm presenting
* It's one of those meetings where we just casually hangout
I’ve read enough newspaper articles and government press releases from subcontinent that while I believe you, I don’t believe that holds for everyone. I am sure there are people who might go on to confuse the two words.
Rhasspy author here. Thanks for the shout-out :)
More details here [1] and here [2]

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/a/61946687

[2] - https://askubuntu.com/questions/123072/ssh-automatically-acc...
Swarm breached the "Mitigation of Orbital Debris Second Report and Order" which has been in place since 2004[0], for their launch on an Indian rocket because their 0.5Us would breach this and their aerodynamics wouldn't comply because the satellites were so small and didn't have enough atmospheric drag to bring them down in time. The tracked by radar aspect was resolvable by Leo Labs radars, but not the atmospheric drag component.

FCC subsequently fined them $900k.

[0] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-363486A1.pdf

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-satellite-fine-idUSKC...
For Americans: it's football (the one with your hands) and measured in yards
Is there a primer to colour spaces for a beginner?