skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk. Mary Beard is not a present day schoolkid. The chair of the section in which I worked was about her age, and he could recite the opening of the Odyssee in Greek, and he was a psychologist. And he wasn't the only one.

But IMO it isn't "academic specialization". That just hides the nasty fact that it's publications and successful grant applications that determine a career, the latter being so politicized, that you can get away with bold, unproven statements if you know the right people.
The wolves vs. killer whales debate here is pretty intense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8V97_DKfhw&t=0m44s

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJgv1iARPg&t=0m28s
I would guess, for one we have a learned tendency to classify things and rank them. Libraries’ DDC comes to mind, where we tried to force an clean order on basically the whole universe.

Second would be that christian societies have a very clear cut Adam/Eve dichotomy that I think was enforced way more than other places. Having genders hanging out of the dichotomy becomes more difficult than in laxer societies.
PyPI Is Not Trustworthy
Should any of us be upset over this? They made an annoyingly proprietary protocol that would be much more useful if it was open.
I loved HyperCard, and of course it was out there in the wild, users writing all kinds of stuff, while:

- the human-interface purists were trying to get the CDE nailed down

- Apple sued Microsoft for Windows design "look and feel", and so

- Xerox sued Apple for the Lisa, a Smalltalk/Star re-implementation

- NeXT pushed it all further, beautifully, but stalled out of cash, and so

- Apple/IBM hired people to bring object API and UI purity back with Taligent, while

- Apple/?? had teams breaking all the GUI rules at Kaleida because multimedia is so hot right now, while

- across the street, Silicon Graphics took over Hollywood (sure, kid. It's a Unix system. You know this.)

- BeOS did all the above very low latency, almost affordable hardware, arguably a better PowerPC Mac

... and so on. X/Open and the Common Desktop Environment specs let workstation vendors deliver their various hardware platforms, while convincing [citation needed] programmers that targeting the CDE was a worthwhile investment, a stable path to the future.

By that point, it was clear [to whom?] that none of the above mattered, because the Windows/PC platform was good enough for the mass market, and was flexible enough to accommodate applications that only months ago had required those expensive workstations. Configuring a PC to target the workstation app still brought price up to parity with high-end kit, but next year it would cost significantly less. (Except RAM. Industry supply couldn't meet demand. That cost was almost offset by a step change in hard-disk capacity per dollar, though, nearly at the same time.)

Steve Jobs didn't have more millions to pump into NeXT because he had just spent it all on Pixar.

That was all in March. A few weeks later, we all started hearing about this web browser thing. The Rolling Stones did this gig, some corporate party in Seattle.

Yeah so that's how we mis-spent our summer vacation in 1995.

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actually, from about 1988 to 1997, but seriously it all happened at the same time. Not to mention the hand-held PDA things, which re-lived that whole experience, from the simple purity of PalmOS to the Taligent-esque cutting-edge purity of Magic Cap, only to get obliterated by Java
I use Brave. I don't use Rewards. When I open a new tab I see a wallpaper, a randomly chosen picture, often a landscape scene, never an ad.
I would a thousand times over rather have my local ISP monitor DNS than Cloudflare. But the choice isn't ISP or Cloudflare. There are many options for secure DNS resolvers [1].

[1] https://dnscrypt.info/public-servers/
Multiplication and division predate writing by many centuries.

Also, humans were comfortably at the top for the food chain even before we needed arithmetic or writing.

(Arguably, we started to need arithmetic and writing because we ate all the animals.)
It's great to see such a brilliant public academic, if Devereaux would mind being labeled as such, produce such wonderful articles. He blows the cobwebs off of dusty history, and I find the way he deals with iron mongering, textiles as well as castle building to be really insightful.
It's interesting to contrast all the praise for this video with the criticism of the very idea of group brainstorming as a useful activity in another article posted on HN the other day (sorry can't find link). Why is that? Which is it - surely this could be classified as group brainstorming?
Show us a vi plugin that can do as well as IDEs and UI designers for edit XML, including validation and XSLT debugging.

I wasn't going there, but then with such an interesting reply I might.
I had a co-worker like this before. He was one of the most disgusting people I have met in my life. Needless to say, he only attracted other people as heinous and disgusting as him who would backstab him for a few hundred dollars.
May their filesystems get the fsck'ing they need
In my experience MacOS users seems to have as much trouble with screens and thunderbolt dock as I do. We had to try nearly all double screens thunderbolt docks on the market and I think we lost hope to find one that works reliably out of the box with those 3 OSes.

I cannot say for battery life, people tend to be connected to power all day here, so that's probably not the reason.

Not even sure what is seamless copy/paste sorry.

But okay, admittedly I don't do anything fancy with my audio devices, or my screen scaling, that must be probably it
Thank you. Would it correct to compare it to using cash in person, but online?
Or use a file system that supports transparent compression (e.g. btrfs).
I don’t think there’d be significant objection to the notion of transgender folks being recognized as transgender if it weren’t for the fact that trans people experience significant amounts of discrimination explicitly associated with that distinction, in the context of a society that perceives a gender binary.
Older artists do not need to rely on Spotify for their income.
They have an older fan base that still buy the old way.

Neil Young sold 50% of his publishing rights for $150m[0], so he is doing fine without Spotify.

It is much harder for new artists to make a similar stand. They rely too heavily on Spotify for exposure and the small amount of income they get from playlists and automatically being added via the algorithms used.

So it is easier for the older artists to 'make a stand' without much cost to themselves.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/01/26/social-me...
On-call stream in the context of TFA doesn’t imply carry a pager. It’s a first line of defense role to protect rest of the team from any kinds of interruptions during daily feature development.

We’ve also tried it and as parent describes it can be a bit problematic as you often have domain specific experts within the team, who are the best to solve particular issues, especially as fires often should be put out quickly.

What you need to do in such case is to check if you can accept a slightly longer fire, refrain yourself from interrupting the expert and see the situation as a learning experience. Often debugging something is the best way to learn.
I wish learning Latin/Greek as a spoken language would become the default pedagogical method.

I recently studied ancient Greek extensively in the Boston area. I was well aware of the living language community--people that speak and write Greek/Latin as they learn it and not just read it--and even joined some seminars, but these are all not for credit and are usually run by non-accredited institutions. Since I was in a masters program, I needed the credits for my language work. And I realized, it is nigh impossible to learn Greek as a living language in an academic settings. It's a real pity. Ancient languages are largely taught to pass the advanced language exams like the comps. If you want to learn it as a living language you have to step outside the academic mainstream.

Edit: clarify the credit thing.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/deploy-applications-... When this came out it was a great day. It really made things a lot simpler to just get going with Fargate.

Have you tried Kompose? Is it generating the crap files you were not fond of?
"Why is there no high quality method for voice control of a PC?"
For the same reason there's no standardized encryption for everyone's comms.
Or, 'Why is there no software for gps that works on pc's that is easy and readily available?'. Same reason.

There is a voice assistant ap for Android that uses vosk called Dicio (f-droid).
Storage is cheap and easy. Processing power is there even in cheap 3rd world phones. I personally detest typing and would love to talk to my devices without any 3rd party nonsense requirements. Truly there is none because the powers that be do not want everyone thinking they are in control, essentially of anything.
> why squaring numbers is so important that it needs a special function

I've had pow2() in pretty much every codebase I'd worked on, ever. pow2(x1-x0) looks nicer and less error prone than (x1-x0)*(x1-x0), and less verbose and distracting than first separating to a local var as dx = x1-x0
I only brushed with Latin for about a month or so before I transferred classes, but I found it delightfully convoluted.

Latin probably feels different to a speaker of a flexive Slavic language, who is used to words being declined and word sequence in a sentence being rather relaxed all the time, than to someone who is used that words do not change and a fixed word order in sentences.
There's a good chance that this transmission comes from a completely different transmitter / location, and it is just on the same frequency as the Russian transmitter.

You can do this with amateur means (a simple dipole antenna and a amplifier in the low kilowatt range, plus a SDR to generate the signal); in fact many radio amateurs are already equipped to do this at any time. Here's some background on the "spectrum painting": https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/spectrum-painter/
Switching to a tenting split keyboard (Goldtouch V2) and vertical mouse (Evoluent) reduced my RSI. Strength training (Les Mills Body Pump) is what finally solved it. Have you tried those?
>A fairer process results in a better team and a fairer distribution of resources.

surely that only results with a good methodology for choosing people. If whiteboarding and testing are inherently flawed following the correct process would not reliably lead to a better team (unless of course the test then shows honesty), because if it did reliably lead to a better team it would show the process was not flawed.
The article I read about the bridge collapse says they have no idea why it did so.

"Tax and spend" sounds fine to me, but spending can't substitute for figuring out what needs to be funded!

If the bridge seemed fine, then first it needs to be determined just how anybody should've known it wasn't.

Ignoring this is exactly the sort of thing that hardens people into thinking taxes are always wasted.
Javascript does not have this problem :D :D
Hardly when they are the ones signing it.
Nuance started to completely monopolize the market 20 years ago and had crippled a lot of innovation in that space. It's still a minefield of ugly patents for any commercial contestants.
That’s a competing business unit.
Not so much experience at Fortune 500?
> Imagine the reverse, having to type in a completely different character set in order to produce Latin characters.

Like using 0s and 1s?

It’s not really that tough.

PRC kids learn pinyin before characters. It’s just easier that way for a number of reasons.

Also, PRC kids study English. Iirc, public education starts English in 3rd grade. Parents often start their kids earlier.

Pinyin is not particularly “foreign” in China.
You're exactly right, the KB entry is infuriatingly vague about both the exact regions and the rationale for this.
What about using an actual vector library like Eigen? I wouldn’t dream of reimplementing basic maths like that.
Maybe pair programming doesn't look so bad after all?
Do you also think it’s not discrimination if it’s because you just can’t afford to take a shot with a non-white or woman, if your experience tells you that white men are easier to deal with?

After all, there’s no ulterior motives in racial or sexual bias when it comes to hiring either, right?

Of course it’s easier and feels better to let the scant public funds go to people you know. That doesn’t mean it’s not corruption.

> This isn't done because we're trying to get a favor, we just needed it done quickly and reliably.

You still seem hung up on that there needs to be some form of quid-pro-quo or personal gain going on to count. That is not the case.

And well, there’s a clear difference in scale between asking Joe to cut the grass and not proactively putting the offer out (which still counts but is what it is) vs actively denying authority (however little) of your own publicly elected auditors for several years.
I too am very torn about this. And a large part of this may be I am not an early adopter of things. What I found is I suck at taking notes for longetivity. I take notes to understand (say few first times). But where it fails me is in finding things. What I do feel well endowed with is my ability to use a search engine. So I tend to keep pointers (in my mind) to areas and concepts reasonably well and then am confident that I can find it when I need it so don't have to depend on notes. This could also be why I suck at typical tech interviews!!
Traditional programming? I would agree. But no code tooling? I think you'd be surprised.

As someone with experience supporting these types of people utilizing a no code platform, most of them actually thrive when given a toolset that is appropriate for the problem they are trying to solve.

The vast majority of the Excel/Access mess stems from the fact that those are the only tools people have access to use. Solutions get wedged in and people get into the weeds because if they can't make it work somehow they don't get a solution.

They build way more functional/sane things when given the right toolset to solve the problem.
Not sure if that's smart. Firstly, others will take advantage of a known question, thus you're putting yourself at a disadvantage. And secondly, your job (and perhaps life in general) is about drawing on your experience to solve problems - being able to repeatedly solve similar problems is sort of what we do as programmers. In that sense, it's fair game.
Same exact thing applies to duck duck go.
Ask HN: Any Good course for s/staff engineer turned director of engineering?
I am looking all around for some leadership courses/training material gaining some more insight into the work involved in being manager of managers in a technology organisation.

I cam across few courses in coursera and masterclass around leadership but none of them can prepare one for things like budgeting, recruitment planning, and what is not in the area of planning for one or more products to be developed and released from the technical perspective.

I appreciate if anyone approve of an instructor lead or workshop type of training and they can recommend it.
Are there unicorns in this fantasy world too?
That's neat! Do you use a specific tool/app? Or is it just plaintext is even read paper?
California's chance for universal health care
> If you want to learn it as a living language you have to step outside the academic mainstream.

Your tone makes it sound like there is some conspiracy to keep ancient Greek out of curricula. In fact, the reason is that there is virtually zero demand. The "academic mainstream" are the student body that has no interest in it. I too took ancient Greek. There were 6 people in my program. It was closed two years after I completed it.
Where did you store the flag? In code? App config? Or operational data store?
Hypnagonia: Therapy Through Nightmares
Why does a website need to know my zoom level, i.e., why is this information even made available?
If its very obvious you've seen the problem before, this isn't neccesarily to your advantage.

For example, people who have seen the problem before will sometimes more or less remember the solution but not how they got there. Then the interviewer asks some questions about the solution which they really don't know how to answer and that looks bad.

> You want to be sure you walk your interviewer through your thinking even if you know the right solution out of the gate. Spend time analyzing the problem, really quickly coming up with a brute force solution, and then showing how you can optimize it to the real solution. This will show a clear line of thinking which is what the interviewer is looking for. As long as you have structure in how you solve interview problems you shouldn't have an issue.

This is the key point. Interviewers aren't looking for you to get the right answer, they are looking at how you think about the problem, how you communicate your solution, and what trade offs you make. If you just blurt out the correct answer without context, you probably haven't demonstrated the things they are looking for.
Nostalgia (it's present, but it's not socially allowed or considered chic)
The Aleph
Another related academic field that has this quirk is musicology.

You can have a successful career writing books and papers on musicology without needing to know how to play or write music.

To me it feels analogous to an academic who writes on history of math without being able to prove or understand theorems.
I don‘t know anything about the benefits of these options but if the tradeoff is only a slowdown of the device this should be an option given to the user. Maybe even payed for („hardened version“ at buy time) or through a subscription.
Gentoo: 2021 in retrospect and happy new year 2022
I thought Pokemon Go was the world's most powerful cyberweapon. It can magically summon hordes of zombies to any location on Earth.
I've seen elven names, I've seen planets, I've seen Hindu deities, I've seen 7 dwarves, and then there's boring corp names that actually provide useful information about purpose/location/etc.

You can definitely tell personalities by system names.
Check out Neeva. Ad free search. We have an iOS browser at the moment and desktop browser extensions. Both apply tracking protections.

Disclaimer: I work for Neeva :)
I'm a full-time developer, but I had a recent need for some quick internal tooling coincide with a HN posting about Budibase, and it sent me down a low code/no code rabbit hole. I evaluated a bunch of tools in that segment briefly, and spent a nontrivial amount of time on Budibase and Appsmith. And while I admire what they're trying to do, it was a disappointing journey. I made no serious progress, then threw together what I had in mind in React in half the time. Having spent some of this time researching that field, there sure seems to be a renaissance of what we'd call RAD (rapid application development) when I came of age. But it's astonishing how little progress was made since then. A younger me built some "applications" in Microsoft Access, which was not at all more frustrating than using these current day tools. So, Citizen Developers... good luck!
Six Statistical Critiques That Don’t Quite Work
>- Signal is better with metadata

Can you elaborate on that please?

Being use both signal and wire for a long time. Thought they both use the same e2e tech underneath. The only difference is signal is more tight to a smart phone device and phone number. Where as wire I can down load my chat history on to a USB.
curious that the souce metions MIT license at top but in the bottom it says
"2. Don't use our resources for closed source projects";

was that intentional? my current understanding of MIT license is a "do anything, i don't care, just don't blame me".

if i were you and wanted to use "dont use our resources" part, i would set it as AGPL or even SSPL if you are brave enough.
I worked really too much today. I had 10 meetings!!
> I am naturally a quite chaotic person, I have trouble helping other people create order when I'm already having trouble keeping an eye on all the streams that exist in the team. Any tips would be appreciated.

For tracking my own work, David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD) was a huge influence for me (though it can be a bit cult-like and many people get too distracted optimizing their GTD system instead of actually getting things done).

As for managing a team's work, two important tenets of scrum that I think many teams have a hard time sticking with are limiting work in progress and retrospectives. Limiting work in the sprint backlog and each team member's own plate during the sprint is critical for actually getting work across the finish line. Retrospectives can be hard, especially when people are feeling pressure to keep moving forward, but retrospectives are how a team can optimize and gel, which is most important during those times.

apenwarr's (long) "An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage" is a great resource: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
It sounds like the tiny UniFi USG-Pro is the unicorn you speak of.
According to popular HN opinion, nobody runs servers anymore. Hipster coders leveraging AWS techno BS are never going to realize they are absolutely clueless and burning money by the ton.
Same as in the gaming industry. Why bother starting from scratch. We want MVP right NOW, so just slap a bunch of random libraries together. People are going to buy faster GPUs anyway, right, and we'll fix issues later.
You are almost certainly better off just writing x*x whenever you need a square. A good programmer would point this out.
I’m not sure if you intentionally tried to move the goal post but spam != scams
Somerdale to Skarbimierz: James Meek follows Cadbury to Poland (2017)
The gender binary is arguably one of the strongest and most deeply-rooted concepts of western societies. Because of it I suspect it's a lot easier to accept that some people belong to the category that they weren't assigned at birth rather than accepting that gender has no business with being a binary system and is completely independent from sex.

I see it as baby steps, hopefully we'll get there someday.
Sizes don't seem to follow any standard. I have shoes from size 10 to 12, depends on the brand and model. Shirts I mostly wear Large, or Medium, but I have Smalls and a few XLs. They's all the same physical size to fit me, the label is just semi random.

So as much as I hate shopping, for clothes I'll only ever shop in person.
> If there's a local disaster that wipes out your office and your friends and all you can think about is data then you should ask a professional to screen you for sociopathy and whether you have any treatable mental illness.

So you'd lose your friends and potentially your livelihood and any ability to financial support yourself, or any surviving friends or family, just because you don't want to use cloud backups or a professional backup service with the correct contingencies in-place ?

One could easily imagine a less dramatic scenario where your office is close to your work, you go home with your backups in your backpack; However a flood hits your town, you accidentally leave your your backpack behind at evacuation time. Your office and home are flooded and then your backups and actual data set is destroyed, no one dies but you've lost your company and not just phsycial assets. Seems a little unnecessary ?

I actually have lived in towns where floods, lighting storms and tornadoes have caused situations where this scenario could've easily played out.

I also feel the need to point out there's no need to suggest people need a psychiatrist when planning for a worst case scenario, some people are are just prepared for the worst, whether or not it's just how they're born or their paid /trained to do so.
I wonder why you would guess that.

Signal is the one that only works with Google Play, thus a Google account, and a phone number. It is easy for the spooks to connect that and its IP address to every subsequent communication, after the fact.