skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oof, so you'd be cool with people on your team not working?

Oof, so you work at places where people have 0 deliverables for a year?

Because on my teams people have deliverables. Is that what's hanging you up? Where I work they'll block things if they're doing 0 work.

If the deliverable is overseen by me I'll do my job and look into why it's not happening, and if the deliverable is due to a team member and never materializes, I'm saying that's something to bubble up.

> I like to work on teams that are effective where things get done.

If you say so... doesn't

> I guess I'm just more communicative.

I'm about effective communication.

If someone misses a single deliverable their first thought (hopefully) isn't going to be "this person has been slacking!". By the time someone has that thought damage is being done.

If instead they bring the deliverable up to me and I know they also missed a deliverable due to someone else... or they tend to miss deliverables related to X feature... or they missed the deliverable because of Y obligation...

Now we can have _effective conversations_.

I can find out if the person needs help learning how to work on X feature.

I can communicate there was a prior obligation so that we're not getting to the "this person is slacking!" conclusion

I can communicate a forming pattern before any one person comes to that conclusion too.

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People should feel comfortable bringing up opinions. I wouldn't berate someone for saying someone else is slacking.

But this is HN and someone is asking for advice: I gave advice that keeps OP from alienating themselves for no reason and still doesn't hurt their manager's ability to be an effective manager.

It's important they don't sandbag their manager to avoid possible embarrassment, but 3 comments deep here I think I've stablished how any competent manager would have as good or better outcomes with this form of feedback...
That almost answers your own question. If that's what it was, it probably would have been detected as such by now. Maybe that was your point, in which case I completely agree.

An SDR should be able to pick something like that up, since they are adept at finding all sorts of other signals on different bands. Surely the government have better / more powerful SDR equipment than you can already get for Raspberry Pi. The levels needed to cause the reported "concussion-like" brain damage would be hard to miss on a "military grade" frequency sweep.

I personally don't believe it has anything to do with waves of any sort. I don't know what it is, but I still am not at a point I could rule out mass hysteria compounded by prior underlying issues with symptoms being compounded through stress and jet lag.
I modeled my Wordle solver[1] after Donald Knuth's Mastermind strategy[2].

An optimal guess is found by looking at the list of possible solutions and for each of those possible solutions checking how much each possible guess would narrow down the list of possible solutions.

Once you have a list of all possible guesses and how much each of those possible guesses would narrow down the total number of possible solutions for each possible solution, sort them by the maximum number of total remaining guesses.

The optimal first guesses from my solver are ARISE, RAISE, AESIR, REAIS, or SERAI because each will narrow down the possible word list to at minimum 168 remaining words.

Each guess after that uses the same algorithm with the list of possible guesses filtered with the information you learned in previous guesses.

edit: formatting

1. https://wordlesolver.com source: https://github.com/christiangenco/wordlesolver

2. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1192961/knuths-mast...
I'm struggling to understand the vitriol toward this. It is a thoughtfully-crafted license, eminently readable, written by a skilled legal practitioner in this domain. I have no affiliation with the author of the license, but do appreciate his writings and contributions to the community.

Whether it's OpenSSL, the recent PLC4X story, or Filippo Valsorda's recent posting, we are constantly reminded of how unsustainable it can be for the majority of FOSS developers.

It's clear that relying on purely voluntary contributions to these developers does not work. Some model needs to be found that makes compensating more developers compulsory if we want to enable them to write/maintain their code as anything other than a hobby. This needs to be through a legal mechanism rather than social/moral pressure, because businesses understand legal requirements and most fulfill their legal obligations.

I understand the pushback against calling this a Free/Open Source license, but the author never categorizes it as such.

There is a strong good-faith foundation in this license of keeping it zero cost for those least able to pay, or most deterred by cost. It preserves the benefits of everybody being able to see the code they're running, make their own fixes/changes, etc.

I get drawing some line around core OS components, etc., as needing to be GPL/BSD/MIT, but what alternative models to this kind of license are people proposing to deal with the sustainability gap? Nothing forces you as an author to use this type of license, nor are you forced to use products based on this license. I don't see a widespread way to address the sustainability gap while also religiously expecting all this code to be "no economic strings attached".

If we all agree not to call it FOSS, does that tamp down the loud objections?
Cheat at Wordle
Ah ok good, that means you won't fix the caching..."feature" that I found. :) Thanks for the discussion!
Yea, I am skeptical about top comment also. This is anecdotal, but I have a brother who is a welder w/ bunch of AWS certifications. For several years he worked at union and non-union shops here in Los Angeles. His experience is virtually the same in every shop - low pay (~$25-27/hr), physically challenging work, very limited vertical mobility. It was a sad struggle to observe from a position of someone w/ a FAANG job.

I ended up loaning $80K to him, so that he can open his own small welding shop. It is likely that money is gone forever without return. Even now with his own welding/metal fab business it is a constant struggle - winning bids inconsistently, short cash runway, $28/hr, can't afford to pay for his medical insurance, late night work to ensure new projects are coming in, abuse from general contractors who exploit small subcontractor welders, big boys clubs (small subs can't get those projects), etc.
They still turn a profit. You're conflating the tax status not-for-profit with the wider phrase not for profit, meaning not trying to do things where outflow exceeds inflow.
Russia would absolutely try to seize parts of the Baltic states of they could get away with it, just like Ukraine.
DNS over port 53 (udp/tcp actually) is no different from the manageability perspective, browsers could just have easily decided to skip the OS resolver with a TCP socket and just because it's HTTPS doesn't mean you cant still do resolution at the system level with it.
I'm not an accountant but my understanding of "revenue" as a figure is not impacted by accounting losses.

Wouldn't you have to be running the entire company on debt for this to be possible? And if so, what is the point of trying to get money from them?
The president doesn't make legislation.

Plaid provides a useful service that's a stop gap for the poor infrastructure of banks. I honestly doubt that most banks would have even bothered to start the laborious process of OAuth without them being an extremely popular middle layer for services like YNAB. My company actually uses them to process recurring payments.
You know what he means. Stop it.
Personally I think figma's ux is excellent. And the killer UX feature of being able to create a semi interactive demo and share it via a link is also excellent.

Can you give some examples of where figma's UX is worse than sketch's?
I heavily disagree. We are already in a situation were poor people don't even fucking bother to vote anymore because none of the politicians live on the same planet as they do.

None of these millionaire douchebags are relatable at this point.
> but it seems like the default NextDNS resolver does not resolve Handshake domains.

https://help.nextdns.io/t/83hmv0v/what-is-handshake

> Putting aside all the issues with DANE as a replacement to HTTPS

The issues with DANE no longer exist when the blockchain serves as the root of trust, thus completing a chain of trust in a way that a third party certificate authority is unneeded. It's DANE without the potential for backdoor.

> Look, actual Handshake adoption would benefit me quite a bit, since I own a great TLD. I will keep an eye on adoption, but its very clearly a long road, and the project itself has a number of issues besides just adoption. It's cool, but you have to be realistic.

I agree there is a lot to do still, but the adoption Handshake has is more than significant in the context of alternate roots given it's adopted by so many DNS registrars and natively integrated into large userbase services and software. But no, it's not in Chrome... yet.
Does this work similar to the python bindings that were ubiquitous a decade ago?

My understanding is that you don't get any memory safety/performance advantage from using Rust because gtk can still be unsafe.

Is this correct?
I used have a similar perspective as the author, that the leetcode style questions / data structure / algorithm stuff they ask in interviews but seems to have little to do with day-to-day corporate software development is all a big waste of everyone's time.

I'm not sure I still do, though.

It's true that this stuff rarely comes up and often doesn't matter for most real-world applications... but when it does, it matters a lot. The difference between O(n2), O(n) and O(log n) is huge for big values of n. Being about to go straight to a (nearly) optimal solution, instead of hacking together something, waiting for it to burst a the seams, and then having to fix it... or being able to spot someone else doing that, can save weeks or months of development at a time.

It's a bit like saying it's silly for pilots to have to know what to do in the case of engine failure or stall from memory and regularly practice in a simulator, because that stuff rarely happens and most of the time they're just using autopilot. That's true, it usually doesn't matter, but when it does... it matters a lot.
China openly stated that they would invade Taiwan if they declared independence. And Russia already did invade Ukraine. Were you not paying attention?
It probably won't be proper functional welding either.
I think the browser experience is bad but not horrible. The pros outweigh the cons when it comes to a tool like figma compared to sketch, a designer doesn't have to save and sync files, everything is async and all in one place, it makes collaboration very easy.
Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in Spain
I agree it isn't a very well supported piece, but I think it's still quite provocative. Here's a comment from Lee Smolin written at the time of the article:

> Reading the critics of Jaron Lanier's essay, in which he speculates about a new form of a computer, based on different principles than those that underlie the standard programmable digital computer, I wonder how people might have reacted, shortly after the invention of the wheel, if some ancestor of Jaron had proposed to invent a new form of transportation that was not a wheel. "Not a wheel!" one can hear them snorting. "Why everyone knows that any device to convey goods must depend on some arrangement of wheels. Not only that, the great thinker van N proved that any arrangement of wheels, whether in parallel or in serial, is equivalent to a single larger wheel, in terms of its ability to move goods."

> "No," said the clearly frustrated proto-Jaron, "What I have in mind does involve lashing some logs together, but instead of rolling them, my idea is to put them into the river and simply put the goods on top and float them down to the next camp. So no wheels, and no need to abide by the great van N's theorem on wheel capacity."

> The answer then must have been, "Well, we've never heard of such a thing, but try it and see if it works." It seems to me that that's what Jaron's critics might be saying to him, instead of arguing that a boat, as a form of transportation, must roll on wheels.

> So it seems to me the question being debated can be framed like this: Is a computer something like a wheel? Is there really only one kind of computer, just like there is really only one kind of wheel? One can arrange them in many ways, in series and in parallel, but in the end, once the wheel or the computer has been invented, they will all work the same way. Even millennia later, wheels are wheels, period. Or, is the computer something more general, like a mode of transportation or a musical instrument. There are many different kinds of musical instruments, which produce sound by means of many different principles. Is it possible that there are actually many different kinds of computers, which will accomplish informational tasks for us by as many different principles as musical instruments produce sounds? In that case, is the problem that the critics are beating their drums, while Jaron is trying to blow the first horn?
Interesting. I've been using ORATE as it knocks out a lot of the top frequency letters from the english language as a whole. But I guess the distribution in five letter words, and more so in a subset of five letter words, may skew differently.
They don't want normal people to know that's how it works
Eh, I don't think that's really true.
I tried using Google Voice for some services but it gets rejected.
> White people are much safer around police because they have power in the legal system (generally speaking about the entire country); they can protect themselves.

This is Qanon-level conspiracy thinking. By and large, white folks are safer around police because their interactions are qualitatively different from the interactions Black folks have with police.

To be sure, this includes quite a bit of anti-Black racism within police forces, but even that is better described as prejudice than "white folks have undue power in the legal system". Also, to be clear, the criminal justice system does tend to screw over marginalized Black communities in countless ways - and this impacts the kinds of interactions Black folks have w/ police, but even that is a matter of bad structural/institutional design, not white folks individually having too much power.
The Solar Analemma (2012)
Slackware’s built-in set of packages is pretty small by today’s standards, and the preferred way to install Slackware has always been to include everything that comes on the distribution media. That alone would go a long way in making sure that you will not get unresolved dependencies when you try to install a third-party package.

On the other hand, I found that, often, not having to install all the dependencies, and not having the installation of a package fail because of some missing little optional dependency, is a blessing in disguise.

A couple of things that make installing software and keeping it up to date a breeze are slackpkg (built-in) and sbopkg (third-party).
No veteran of the 90s SSL wars, but I once upon the time was tasked with fixing security bugs in a custom protocol backend server which used ASN.1 for purposes that one would probably use protobuf nowadays.

The quality of existing open source libraries to parse ASN.1 leaves a lot to be desired.
> By contrast a negative leap second, should one occur, will cause a permanent illegal time_t value that has no existence in UTC. Checking for that illegal value in every piece of code that uses time_t values will not be fun.

Positive leap seconds, when translated into a dumb format and back, can be off by a second and won't round trip properly.

Negative leap seconds, when translated out of a dumb format and back, can be off by a second and won't round trip properly.

Seems pretty close to me.
I did the same.
My source of words was the Unix dictionary found in macOS. The path is:

/usr/share/dict/words

When I did the frequency analysis, I scoped it to only 5 letter words.

If you're looking for a great "first guess word", "trace" is one of the words that will yield the most clues.
>Letting everyone do things in their own self interest, unchecked

As in "freedom"?

>is rarely found in stable societies

As in most of the developed world?
Its shocking to me how people don't get bored of rehashing this same, tired opinion over and over and over again and discussing it with hundreds of comments. There is a blog post like this every other day on the front page of HN and it always generates the exact same discussion.
In the specific case of LLVM, I mostly agree but for different reasons. However, Node would be a good counterpoint to “tools that build tools”. There are plenty of large interests there, though maybe not so much emphasis on the embedded space. More importantly, a bug or vulnerability in Node is generally far less impactful than one in LLVM. Owning a compiler that compiles everything in an OS >> owning Node.
Realistically what is the risk of ssh being exposed if white listing is done, 2 factor auth and key auth are used? I suppose someone using a zero day, spoofing or from a whitelisted IP may successfully exploit but really?
> So to sum up: <snarky shit reply>

I wish it was possible to have a discussion that wasn't about who could get the best zinger in to burn the other person. This isn't Reddit, and you aren't in high school.
I'm sure there are people who would be fantastic in politics but choose not to because of the pay.
If you're looking for a source of words to build your own solver, you can find one in many *nixy distros (including macOS) here:

/usr/share/dict/words
Two inaccuracies in the article. For purposes of simplicity, the author writes "But the Lindelöf hypothesis says that as the inputs get larger, the size of the output is actually always bounded at 1% as many digits as the input." But this is a case where simplification goes too far. What Lindelof says is that the size of the output is always bounded by ε% as many digits as the input, for ANY (arbitrarily miniscule) ε > 0.

Second, the subtitle "Paul Nelson has solved the subconvexity problem..." is strange. The subconvexity problem, for a given L-function, is to lower the percentage described above from 25% to "any positive number"; in other words, to bridge the gap between the convexity bound (which is "trivial") and Lindelof (a consequence of GRH). The only way that the statement "Paul Nelson has solved THE subconvexity problem..." could maybe be accurate is if Nelson proved the Lindelof hypothesis for "all" L-functions. Which is far from the case. (What makes subconvexity so interesting, as Nelson says in the article, is that it is a problem where you can make partial progress towards a particularly important consequence of GRH. And Nelson's result is exactly that: partial progress.) More accurate would be "Paul Nelson has made significant progress on the general subconvexity problem."
i wonder how long til we fuck it up now that we’ve found it
Why? Immunity against coronavirus is fleeting. Every year in Winter from now on, the healthcare system is going to get clobbered with people ill with Covid. Plus, every year there will be a new variant that current vaccines are not efficaceous against. Where does Gates get his data from?
I'm confused. I thought Youtube-DL hosts their website using Github Pages?
Titanfall 2 Multiplayer Unplayable for Months Due to Hacker Attack
It's not easy for me to take this comment seriously because gnome doesn't actually have anything anyone could define as leadership. It's a decentralized open source thing. You might be incorrectly assuming bad faith.
> If you think a company is creating monopolies just use an alternative.

I do. I've used Firefox as my main browser since well over a decade ago.

> If you keep using the one from the big company, you should wonder why as well.

Again, I never use it. I tried it back when it was new but it wasn't that much faster and the extensions were subpar.

Later the reasons expanded as K didn't want to deal with Google.

> Maybe they are offering something better than the alternatives and I do not think someone should be entitled to force all the other consumers have inferior or more expensive products because a third party decides that they are too big.

If this was all then they should probably go free even if no one liked them. I think I am fair enough to judge them that way.

However they, like Microsoft before (and after) them use their monopoly in one space to chase monopolies in other space.

> By this reasoning, what you are saying is that we have to stop companies making better products for the people on the basis that they are too big.

Not at all what I am saying.
> Thinking in these terms keeps the internal logic of your application simple (there are no format conversions except at system boundaries),

This is an excellent point but are there any devs who don't do this? This seems like such an obvious thing to do. I mean I guess if you dealing with tech debt and you want to upgrade from ASCII/bytes to UTF-8 you will not have this invariant for a shirt while but why would you not maintain the invariant in new code?
To give an example, that may not representative: the Texas legislature meets for 140 days, every 2 years. The governor can call special sessions that are up to 30 days in length.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Legislature

So at least in Texas it does not have to be a full time job.
Calculate how often leap hours will happen.

So, yes.

Time zone changes occasionally happen already.
Stunning! Now let's leave them alone so they too may pursue life, liberty and happiness
These days, the length of a second is defined by the difference in frequency between two ground-state energy levels of a caesium-133 atom, which works out to 9192631770 cycles per second. No need to check tide tables.
If it was going the same amount "faster", the slope upwards would be the same. But it's lessened significantly, even if it is still currently heading towards a negative leap second being necessary.
Yep, and they all, to my eyes, are superb quality.

I'd be scared if I was the manufacturer of one of those quarter-million dollar cameras.
> MS Windows 3.11 came with TCP/IP winsocks, MS Windows 3.1 didn't

Not really, Windows For Workgroups 3.11 offered an addon called Wolverine [0] but it wasn't even included by default AFAIK. Win95 is where TCP/IP support became normal for Windows.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x#Windows_for_Workg...
You create a new DNS root, like in TFA.
Young enough for a Fields? There is a ceremony later this year, but it's probably too soon. So he could be awarded a Fields in 2026 if he's not yet 40. He received his PhD in 2011.

Also, according to MathGenealogy, his grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand thesis advisor was none other than Poisson himself. Poisson's advisers were Lagrange and Laplace. Lagrange's was Euler. Euler's was Bernoulli. Bernoulli's was another Bernoulli.

You can go back to the late 15th century to find mathematicians with "unknown" advisors.
The ability of the US to pay for all of this is a function of our ability to be the strongest kid on the block both economically and military. Your supposed return value of money would go up in a puff of smoke if the US did what you suggested. The dollars place as a reserve currency is key and moving away from that as you suggest would leave zero for the programs you suggest as the economy would collapse. I am not making a judgement on the value of greater investment in social wellbeing, which I generally support, however I am pointing out that our ability to do this is strongly linked to our place in the world order and can’t be so simply disconnected. Your moral outrage, correct or not, does not change the economy reality.