skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cloud is no magic place. You need the same people for your cloud infrastructure. Sure you don‘t have a bare metal server failing but you can replace that with a lot of AWS infrastructure glue which could fail too.
How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
Thanks for sharing. I am probably in the same boat. I feel miserable when not working. I managed to improve my situation though

- 100 km running minimum per month. I take this seriously.
- Writing notes about work in a notebook. Not publishing but that's the only way I can stay away from other work and not feel bored.
- Spending more time on two hobbies: hardware/circuits and cooking.

Things are improving!
Unfortunately police in the US are often idiot bullies given a badge. In general you're best off if you never interact with them, including asking for help.
The Greeks were sexi, contemporary classists spend less time doing sports and caring how awesome they look, therefore ...

I mean, this shows Nietzsche's being capable of contempt and emotional/aesthetician argument, but not much else.
Definitely recommend MIT's Scratch, it's the closest thing (in terms of "they don't even know they're coding!") to Hypercard out there, tons of games and community examples, my kids make animated movies with it.

There's a board game Robot Turtles based on the Logo version where you provide instructions via a stack of cards to navigate your turtle through a maze.

The game is scored like golf, fewer cards are better, and it includes looping cards.

Definitely designed more for elementary students but it's visual, intuitive, and you (as parent) can "design" the maze.

There are several similar video games (they are simple and cute enough to paper their very dry subject matter, and they are level/puzzle based so easy to dole out in manageable amounts of enthusiasm )

Lightbot

Human Resource Machine

7 Billion Humans

Also my kids and I whiteboarded out and then coded a few of the games from

https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games

It was fun acting as the game designer who wanted this feature or that!
Fun fact: in the University of Oxford (former home of one JRR Tolkien) each building has a router and switch cabinet where JANET comes into the building and is distributed. What is this called? Well, it's the Front Door to the internet, or Frodo for short...
I think (one of) the article purpose(s) is psychological desensitisation to the horror of what pedophilia is by having a different main narrative - number of genders, gender fluidity and introducing it as extra.
Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.
Valuable prospective, but (as is the gist of half my comments here): People are even more different than you think.

RescueTime wrote a similar post, but +100 data:

https://rescuetime.wpengine.com/work-life-balance-study-2019...

Look at the second histogram. The average is roughly aligned with OP’s summary, but there is huge variance. These comments have already devolved into people telling each other they are lying, or about to burn out - all I ask is humility in the face of our messy shared reality.

Thank you for listening to my TED Talk, I guess
I believe it's this one, searching online

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=software...
A lot of programmers aren't capable of writing software. This is a nothing argument. Lots of office workers are very intelligent people.
I thought this would be about: https://sailfishos.org/

MSM editors are a little tech literate these days but they have no authority on the matter. Any other contenders?
>mainframes have freaking performance

Yes and no, really depends for what workloads. But freaking reliability that's for sure.
>You're suggesting that in order to study the history of something, you also need to be a practitioner of it? So for example, a professor of military history needs to have combat experience? An art history teacher needs to be an artist?

I don't know if the parent is suggesting it, but I surely am. You can do it without being a practitioner, but worse (everything else, like your knowledge of the subject or writing skills, being equal).
I spent seven years of school learning Latin based on Kennedy's Latin Grammar. I took an exam after five years, and failed. I retook it after seven, and scraped a pass.

By contrast, I got top marks in a French exam a year early; and top marks in German after just a year of lessons. The difference is that the modern languages were taught mainly conversationally (i.e. not based on a grammar book, but "as she is spoke"). I wish I had learned Latin that way. It would have been a lot less painful, and I'd have spent much less time in Latin classes.
There are few to none outright old-school sysadmin gigs. You have to know the cloud providers specifics. Also everything about containers. And Go.

But once you get through the door at a new job the massive difference between somebody who understands what is under the hood and somebody who just got an AWS certification with no prior knowlwdge becomes apparent to all. Quick position and paycheck raises follow.
I can double my work if I start responding to all the pointless emails I get in my mail box.

I have more important things to do, like doing actual work.
In the US, sometimes less

"In the United States, as late as the 1880s most states set the minimum age [of consent] at ten to twelve (in Delaware, it was seven in 1895)."

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent>
Well they are often somewhat uniform for brands.

I know if I repeat buy clothes I can get the same size.
It looks like the site lost a large part of its community and visitors with the redesign. It makes me curious about how this process proceeded from the viewpoint of the site's owners. Any redesign will upset people who invest a lot of time in a website, but there must come a point where metrics show that the new website caused a drop in visits and uploads with no sign of improving.

What I wonder is if despite the general impression that the site has failed it is still meeting the goals set by its owners, and what does goals might be.

As a casual visitor, the site's redesign thoroughly broke searching and browsing art for me, and it soon started to get a graveyard kind of feel.
>How would this work for, say, ancient history?

In that they should be able to read the ancient languages of the culture they study, for one.

Nobody said anything about "firsthand knowledge" in the sense of "having lived in the time of the ancients".

But if you insist, sure, a historian that have actually lived at the time, would have a far better understanding of it (all other things being equal, like writing ability and so on). I'd take Thucylides over any modern historian of the Peloponesian war, for example.
Meetings themselves are the problem and what I'm suggesting are the problem. I don't think team alignment is related to the disruptive havoc caused by meetings. We have a lot of evidence that it takes a long time for a mind to refocus on a task once disturbed.

I say it's impressive you can crank out that level of focused work because I can't get a long stretch of uninterrupted time that you can. Maybe you have fewer meetings?
I'm not the parent you're replying to, but get similar stats on the average. I use RescueTime together with Neovim, and it works by activity. So if I leave for a coffee it stops logging the time I spend, and the window needs to be in focus. I also have the browser extensions setup, as to separate the time spent in editor compared to in browsers. The git repository is also logged, so I can see how much time is spent with what repository (normally use multiple repos at the same time). Not affiliated with RescueTime in any way, just a happy user.
And we miraculously see that site although “Jumbo frames don't work on the internet!” :)
They could think I am a terrorist and I am not even aware until I put a food in their country. I can't know, as I only have a marginal understanding what they think terrorism is.
Yes, I think about microcode. Not always, but wen I need performant code. Problem is, modern CPU implementations (micro-ISA, like Intel Golden Cove, AMD Zen3 or Apple Firestorm) is hugely different from «modern» (really, 20+ years old, not modern, and it is the root of the problem) architectures they implement (macro-ISA, like x86_64 or ARMv8.2, though with ARM situation is slightly better). Maybe not microcode, but branch prediction, number of ALUs, size of caches and size of one line of cache, etc. — you need to think about these «abstracted-away» details if you need to squeeze all performance from hardware you pay you big buck for.

On the other hand, analogy with microcode is BAD. Because «Without JavaScript» (as opposed to «without thinking about JavaScript programming») means it should work in browsers without (or with turned off) JavaScript support. But it is not!
"Making everyone vegan" was a reference point. It seems that you took that as a strict proposal. Going mostly vegan is what you are also proposing.

Reading things too literally and not understanding the nuance in online forums seems more common every year.
I think it varies by person a lot but how little people work in general affect people expectations in the workforce. Especially in a market where firing people is hard (because hiring them is expensive) there is going to be a certain leniency towards performance.

When I work for myself I can literally code all day, if I'm working for a client I'll work as much as it's reasonable to hit deliverables, keep the managers happy and keep a good reputation in the company. My prices when working per projects were always too cheap because I found features to be simple to implement; I then switched to what's expected in the industry and charge per day and I make way more, working way less.

Similarly, I know people who can work all day and some who can't and will burn out if they do. The 10x developers exist, but you won't find them at big corp making bank (or if you find them, they'll likely slack like everyone else), they'll be building their own startups and making bank with that.

We're all wired differently.
Wont work, the moment this lands in Chrome websites will check for it and if your non chrome browser doesn't implement it they will redirect you to an upgrade your browser page. Browsers that fake it will get the same treatment, do not track has already shown that advertisers will not respect any attempt to prevent tracking by the user.
Most of the other points in the article are something of a stretch. However...

...the BAYC/Totenkopf logo comparison is a dead ringer. That one is a bit hard to ignore.
There should be rules to protect cyclists.
Probably to work with auto provisioning automation.

It’s nice to slide in a server, watch as the arps/dhcp requests go out and see the machine spring to life without human intervention.

Easier if there’s a known username/password.
Modern high efficiency PSUs should have no problem with this, because their active PFC limits input current. NTCs also reduce efficiency and don't work when toggling power, unless you add a relay to short it out. They're a hack.
In other words. Assuming I spend lot of my youth with cryptography, tor, basically gray area things. I realize they may have a record on me, but is there any way to know if it is safe for me to ever enter the country without them making a huge deal out of it?

I wouldn't ask wouldn't I know people personally who had extended weird discussions for hours before they could enter the country.
Caddy for example does this on their website. You can pick whatever addon you want and you'll be able to download a binary with exactly what you want.
Will be interesting to see what happens after Covid. I think the tolerance for the people spreading Qanon nonsense and other conspiracy theories has decreased tremendously.

I'm pretty sure there will be other conspiracy theories, misinformation, or total nonsense that Joe Rogan or his guests will peddle after Covid, as he has been doing before. I'm curious to see how many musicians or podcasters are ready to leave Spotify.
«Without JavaScript» (as opposed to «without thinking about JavaScript programming») means it should work in browsers without (or with turned off) JavaScript support. But it is not!

So, when platform is advertised as «No Code» I don't care how it is implemented (unless I'm afraid of vendor-lock), as I know that my site will be deployed on this exact platform. When framework is advertised as «Without JavaScript» I assume it will work in browsers without JavaScript, as I can not control which browsers will be installed on user side.
Apple can already disable “sideloaded” apps on macOS by revoking their notarization ticket. The same process could be implemented for iOS:

> Apple can also issue a revocation ticket for apps known to be malicious—even if they’ve been previously notarized.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizin...
I'd add a 4th point: accept a wider definition of work when counting your hours.

A lot of us are lucky enough to have knowledge based jobs, which require mental tasks of solution design and decision making that are hard to quantify. I regularly get ideas when walking, cooking, driving, etc... and then spend time thinking through a work problem and taking notes. Several times a day I go for a short walk to clear my head of distractions and regain focus, That would be hard to quantify to a theoretical bad manager who wanted you to count hours but for many it is an essential part of knowledge work.
I always wonder about the detail of these. It looked pretty bad in March 2020 so you would have needed assistance, but then the year didn't pan out as bad for alot of business.
PhD studies can be very different. Wet-lab students who do experiments can spend 12 hours a day in a lab cutting mice. But that’s somewhat mechanical work where you repeat the protocol. PhD students are also less experienced and spend a lot of time making mistakes and learning. When I got my fist full-time developer job I spent day and night working as well. After 5-7 years, I was something like the author because I could do non-trivial tasks quickly. It felt like the code was writing itself in the back of my mind while I was drinking coffee or browsing HN.
This is something that's confused me about Tor Browser. How helpful could zoom level possibly be towards fingerprinting a user to a degree where it's of any use for targeted advertising and the like?

Seeing that a user has a site's zoom set to 90% seems to be close to worthless in terms of narrowing down what cohort they're in, let alone identifying them individually. What am I missing here?
How long did it take you to build Timeline?
I don't see how you can reach this conclusion.

You have peer pressure to keep working longer, you get little done and you're wasting your brain power.

It makes sense if someone is junior and learning from the other.

Otherwise it's just an employers' tool to get people to squeeze in more hours of half-assed work (and then work more alone to actually get something done to have something to show for).

Async PRs reviews are way more efficient and less taxing on people.
It’s completely wild to me that anything other than what you’ve said here would be a common view.

Spotify is totally free to bankroll Joe Rogan. Others are equally free to feel that this is a bad decision, to criticise it, and to withdraw support in the form of subscriptions or platform participation because they don’t want to contribute to it. Support for freedom of speech does not come with a requirement to support or share a platform with any particular example of speech.

Spotify can make a decision about what has more value to them in the long term. Subscribers and content producers can decide if funding and promoting Rogan is a dealbreaker for them. Thats’s all this comes down to - a business decision.

Personally the real crime here is that this has become an issue at all - thanks to Spotify’s frankly desperate attempt to become something other than a music streaming service. I have at no point been interested in Spotify providing podcasts; it’s already an active anti-feature for me, so “now we give some of your subscription to this asshole!!” isn't going to do much than tip me further in the direction of moving to another service.
oh. Do... you need to specify another license for that? this is interesting.
There's a monthly thread: "who's hiring" for this.

Please post it there and don't make a separate one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29782099b ( should be due in a few days)
> Glorfindel-of-freakin-Gondolin

Pretty sure it's a different Glorfindel, as the original died in battle slaying a Balrog shortly after the fall of Gondolin.

Edit: against->slaying
It's amazing what engineers are willing to try before actually talking to someone ;)

In my apt. building the home control system is absurdally easy to hack - literally anyone can hijack their neighbour's light&ac control system via WiFi.

A friend of mine just shuts down lights of their neighbor when they make too much noise after midnight. I was close to doing the same when our neighbors were too loud, but decided on just going there and talking to them :)
He's doubting the intentions of the author, he's not attacking a straw man. I don't see a problem there.
But sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.
> I know this is kind of silly but I feel like sitting in a meeting and getting paid is like cheating. Or replying to an email.

I felt disturbance in the force. As if all the product managers in the world screamed at the same time.
Once you get the page to load you'll be able to read that “Jumbo frames don't work on the internet”. You may have been the first to actually prove that point :)
I think that plot holes matter for some kind of (science) fiction, for other kinds its does not (satire/comedy being a prime example).

The is a pretty big difference how Douglas Adams writes and how Charlie Stross write. Both are great but very different world building.
It's not like two Steves started a company and one said hey we've got lots of cash let's spend it or do non-work cool stuff but the other went like keeping being greedy for more money.

It's simply a publicly traded company (like many others) with shareholders and stocks and people are expecting the value to go up.
What exactly are you interested in finding out? What I do every day? How you can find such work? Or?
So in SmartScreen they leave out a feature that is a low hanging fruit for protecting users - it's almost as if the real purpose of SmartScreen is to observe and control which Windows applications users run?

It does seem consistent with the big tech pattern of stalking, and coercion through dark patterns.

Edit - it's possible that they don't store which domain names files are downloaded from and only store binary file hashes, which would be another explanation for Bing not knowing the site is bad.
It depends on how technical a subject is and whether practicing it helps understand it. It's not terribly surprising that most historians of science who cover modern (post WWII) science have at least some science background. You can't meaningful deal with the debates over the nature of the genetic code or particle physics unless you understand the technical issues.
Literally nothing would change if they were to cut wages, the n-1 lower rung talent would go there and top talent would go elsewhere.
Is It a Cheetah? (1996)
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> You’ll find the gaps eventually.

There will be fewer gaps, and they will be smaller, thus harder to find.
Beard has commented on the correct pronunciation of "omicron".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-diseas...

She says it's pronounced "oh-MEE-cron". I took one term of ancient greek, and was taught to recite the greek alphabet; we were told it's pronounced "oh-MY-cron". I'm fairly sure that schoolboys have been taught to pronounce it that way since forever. It's beyond me why the BBC Pronunciation Unit decided it's pronounced "OMMY-cron".

I also wonder how Beard came by her knowledge of how the ancient greeks pronounced the letters of their alphabet.
Ask HN: Many websites don't offer video players with the download option
why are there so few websites using the native <video> player with the option to download the video?
What happened?
Non-fossil fuels forecast to be 50% of China's power capacity in 2022
I used it in search of inspiration for websites, flyers, other marketing stuff. It all ended when someone introduced me to dribbble.
It is different. In the checkout case, the cashier's intervening negligent act led to you getting the item for free.

It might still be theft (or fraud or some related charge), but only if those laws create a strict liability crime out of keeping something that you know was given to you by mistake. I'm not sure but I think there might be specific laws to that effect if you knowingly take advantage of a bank's mistake. Whether there's a similar law in general, probably depends on where you live.

In the pure theft case, there's no intervening act by a store employee. It requires criminal intent.

The argument that if the customer knew, it's theft, applies equally to cases where the product is rung up incorrectly, which several other people in this thread have claimed to have witnessed. I guess we're all thieves now. I've been overcharged and undercharged at stores.

Also even if the intervening act by the store employee doesn't matter, it would be impossible to prosecute. They'd have to show that the customer knew the checkout person missed the item. How would they do that? Interrogating people you live with to find out if you mentioned it to them? No, they don't have access to admissions on HN years later.