skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We used mob programming as a framework for conducting coding dojos, it was a very good experience.

We based the sessions roughly on the book https://pragprog.com/titles/mpmob/code-with-the-wisdom-of-th... - having some kind of system is highly recommended.

While I haven't got the chance to do mob programming ever since, I'm looking forward to change this in the future. It's such a great tool for mixed-experience teams (especially good for onboarding new hires or junior devs) or cross discipline teams (having a product manager in the mob really helps removing boundaries).
Is that to run or to build currently? And is this not due to the fact that fission is an exisitng technology and fusion new? The new technology would be much more expensive until it becomes know and then it the price comes down as they understand how to build it more effiently.
Do you prefer bad research because the researcher is liked? Because this is what it ultimately boils down to. Ideally, meritocracy would be the most important factor. I’m sure you wouldn’t want to be treated by the least competent but most liked surgeon. Why should it be any different in other professions?
From macOS to FreeBSD
What a great article. Like many commenters here, I was completely oblivious to the struggle and I appreciate it a lot more now.
Review of the evidence of sentience in molluscs and crustaceans [pdf]
I did just that recently. They certainly seem to offer the most complete solution. Definitely worth keeping an eye on.

I had to pass because of its prohibitive license (for now) and the head-scratching bugs I ran into with the direct Postgres source. I also had some concerns about the complexity Materialize would add to architecture of the sort of small apps I typically build.

I know this is unappreciative of the complexity of the problems that Materialize solves, but it would be so nice if Postgres just had observable (with triggers), no-compromise incremental materialized views.

What sort of experiences have you had with Materialize, if any?
Metaverse isn't a product or even suite of products. It's just a nebulous vibe that's trying to front-run and capture mindshare in the event that something, probably created by someone else and acquired, can navigate it and find a hit.

It also has the side benefit of glossing over the general sense of toxicity over becoming a 'facebooker' that's been blooming in the industry for a while.
Clearly you would like for that to be true.

But Jimmy Carter was a trained nuclear engineer. He was well qualified to understand their true value. Or lack of it. He put solar panels up on the White House roof. Reagan scrapped them.

Reagan, of course, was not qualified to understand much of anything besides PR. But did, that.
You're wrong, it is very well possible with algorithms, and it has been a thing for many years already. For example check the Auto TLDR bot for Reddit. Here's an example of what it could look like for the article posted here: https://smmry.com/https://www.science.org/content/article/sc...

It's not even hard to do, you mostly have to count token frequencies which is hardly machine learning. Although you could also do it with BERT.
Yes. See https://smmry.com/https://www.science.org/content/article/sc... for example.
As in nobody knows how to quit out of it?
Its free market and the shareholders can say what they want its not a dictatorship.
That paper looks delightful :)
What I am reading is that it's still about merit. It's just that part of that merit is being a good team member. Understanding other's motivations, helping them when you can, not standing in their way, etc. You don't have to be a people pleaser or a yes-man, but you must behave in a way that makes people want to have you around. Of course that includes providing good results in the more technical parts of the work.

The fact that the author choose to name that "office politics" and "being liked by your department" (as if that was a bad thing?) seems to imply that maybe they have not yet fully understood that.
Web Developer Quiz (2012)
> You are just as addicted as the rest of us

not my intention to say "I'm better than anyone". Only yardstick I have is my past behavior not others behavior or judgement. And I do a lot better today where I'm sometimes absent for months and at other times I log in once or twice a day. For me I consider myself better than I was (not better than others) because I no longer get anxious when I don't carry my phone. And I know I'm happier, which doesn't mean that the same approach is a good idea for others (I wouldn't do it 20 years younger or when raising little kids). Hey, this website is free!
I think one of the challenges with stellarators is that they are harder to simulate due to the twisted geometry of the chamber (with a tokamak you can often simulate a single 2D slice of the torus).
You might be confusing Patriot with Aegis ashore [1]. That's the one that is usually suspected of having offensive capabilities (by replacing interceptors with Tomahawk missiles that could hypothetically have nuclear payloads).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_Ballistic_Missile_Defens...
The most impressive thing Facebook has done, and something that is mostly ignored, is that they've essentially killed Craigslist for normies.

People use the shit out of Facebook Marketplace and the localalized buy/sell/swap groups.
I think the article could go a little bit more in depth, but overall I agree with the sentiment.

For starters, saying "this is wrong" is the least helpful way to present a problem. Of course it can work, but it's better to say what is your specific concern, why do you think it's important (and possible consequences) and a possible solution. That usually leads to better and more efficient discussions from the start.

Then there's the issue of you being wrong about being wrong. The good thing about starting the discussion in the way I said is that it helps you to actually form your thoughts and a lot of times that process leads you to the important questions, to the holes in your understanding and sometimes even the solutions.
Google Drive flags macOS '.DS_Store' files for copyright violation
> these watery ice creams that have about 65 kcal per piece and feel just as indulgent if not more.

that shows why it’s easier for some than for others :)
If nobody wants to work with you, you won't be able to get research done. You shouldn't get tenure if you're so toxic that you make N other researchers quit.

I prefer three good researchers to a great one. The exchange rate is not even close.
Say hello to Roboto Serif
This appears to be a job ad. Looks like an interesting place to work.

I wish them luck. That’s not a bad list, but it’s probably an environment that I’d find uncomfortable, personally. I work extremely quickly, but in a very different way.

> It’s important to make people feel at ease right away in an interview. Relax and show interest in them and their story

This never happened to me, even once, while I was looking (I stopped looking, some years ago). In fact, several companies started off, being quite disrespectful, right off the bat. It was almost universal, and convinced me that it’s de riguer HR policy, these days. I assumed that it’s because it’s a strategy to keep the applicant off-balance, and in a subservient position, right from the git-go.

For myself, as a hiring manager, I made sure to be polite, respectful, and interested, all the time. I felt that it was important to make the applicant comfortable. It usually paid off, as they let their guard down, and often volunteered a great deal of information that they would have otherwise kept to themselves. Even if we didn’t offer, I wanted them to think of us in a positive manner.
It is accurate. He didn't use the phrase "burn calories" at all ;)
Covid testing firm ‘selling swabs carrying customers’ DNA’ to third parties
That would have consequences reaching far beyond ZFS. A blastzone which no one will be able to oversee.

I would therefor say it is extremely unlikely any company (let alone Oracle) would ever sign-off on such a thing.
Btw as far as I know the only way to burn bodymass with sports is to have a heart rate of 120-140 for at least one hour. And then it starts. And to loose one gramm of fat one needs to burn 4kcal ( it takes 4kcal to generate the fuel from the body. Fat has usualy 8kcal). Also to loose around 200g of bodyfat a day one has to run at least 2 hours. ( with 500kcal/hour burned)
But thats exactly how it doesn't work - you are referring to Software-level TPMs. I.e. the SecureEnclave in iPhones work in a way that you can always put keys INTO the TPM chip, but cannot read it out back later, but rather have the SecureEnclave perform the crypto on chip (requiring some form of authentication, like a fingerprint read or a button press on Yubikeys). Even a full-root access should not compromise that.
Russia to stage nuclear drills amid Ukraine standoff
It was obvious it'll be like that.

I would never sell my game like that, not even for seven figures. Money isn't everything.
This is just the age-old oblivious user problem. An educated user will always go out of their way to link the identity of the service provider to the app that initiates the payment. It was executables in the noughties and now it is QR codes. Little difference.

Say you get a QR code that sends you to yourparkingspace.co.uk. In the footer it claims 'Member of the British Parking Association'. BPA website lists the url in the QR code, and the BPA website URL is linked from Wikipedia. This took ~ a minute, and you only have to do it the first time you encounter this parking provider. Then there are app reviews on the mobile marketplaces and a dozen other ways to verify the QR code/URL.
Douglas Adams did a great parody of this genre in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:

> "Gilks!" he said. "Your smart-alec suicide theory. I like it. It works for me. And I think I see how the clever bastard pulled it off. Bring me pen. Bring me paper."

> He sat down with a flourish at the cherrywood farmhouse table which occupied the centre of the rear portion of the room and deftly sketched out a scheme of events which involved a number of household or kitchen implements, a swinging, weighted light fitting, some very precise timing, and hinged on the vital fact that the record turntable was Japanese.

> "That should keep your forensic chaps happy," said Dirk briskly to Gilks. The forensic chaps glanced at it, took in its salient points and liked them. They were simple, implausible, and of exactly that nature which a coroner who liked the same sort of holidays in Marbella which they did would be sure to relish.
I (sadly) can't imagine that getting through the language modification process, somehow, though it certainly would solve this particular problem! If we're looking for things that Go could usefully take from functional languages I'd personally start with the much lower-hanging fruit of some guarantees about mutability of structures, though.

(ps: Hi, Ed!)
Thank you for this feedback. Agree with both 1) and 2) and I've noted this down for us to improve next! Plus the email field is a good point, too - when we initially built this we didn't think of email collection use case, but now we're even using it this way ourselves LOL so it's best to build it out.
I think we're talking about different kinds of scale here. A habitat that could be destroyed by "a few people building a submarine" isn't a backup policy for humanity. Not here, not on Mars, not anywhere. I'm imagining a proper city-sized habitation for few million people - with industry and agriculture to support it. A truly separate colony that trades with the rest of Earth when it needs to, but can survive on its own.

Also I really don't like how the arguments so far are about preventing the starving people from coming over and messing things up. It strikes me as very "we need to keep the pleb out" kind of thinking, no different than what some rich people are doing.
It's not an either or. There's a threshold for everything. Saying "this is what it ultimately boils down to" is a slippery slope fallacy
Hey guys, undergraduate here. After reading this thread, I doubt myself about my current studying. I'm a CS student. Normally, I'd be graduated and will be on my way into IT industry as an intern right now. But a lot of things happened in my country, Myanmar. I'm now self studying various things like react, django. My question is am I doing right thing learning those shiney tech, or which ones am I supposed to be doing for? What skills would you expect from people like me? Graduating will not be happening so soon with the country's situation right now. Originally, I'm thinking to post on ask hn but anyway.
Archive files on your Linux desktop with Ark from KDE
Where is the source code? Where do I open a PR to include a new icon or to fix one?
How the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel is being built [video]
It seems most apps/websites are built on top-end and not really tested on low end specs or maybe it's an electron/js app. I find them to be very unresponsive.
I put critical/unique data on Intel X-25E... 64GB 65nm SLC from 2011 with 100.000 writes per bit, peak SSD!
That's not what's being said here - you've missed the last line. The question is who stands to gain politically if this person is promoted? If the answer is no one, then it is in no ones interest to push the case for tenure. Frequently politics and 'being liked' are very different.
Thats why most of those TPMs have a requirement of physical interaction, i.e. you need to press a key on a Yubikey, or put a fingerprint down on an iPhone before they start this operation.
I wrote biologically and mentally as first two points, these concern your body.

With diet you need to find what to eat, how much, how often, so that you’re not hungry, grumpy, tired, sick, etc. and still consistently lose weight. It’s gonna take a couple of weeks for your body to adjust.

Exercise will also drastically affect your hunger, tiredness, etc. It’s gonna be harder to find new balance (or rather dysbalance with consistent weight loss) when you can’t really read which changes in your body are caused by diet and which by exercise. Higher chance of disappointment and quitting.

I’d say just change diet, find what works for you consistently, add exercise only a few weeks later, tweak diet accordingly.
Growth expectations are a seemingly inevitable side effect of the stock exchange: imagine there was a perfectly highly profitable and perfectly stable (in both directions) company. To people sure of that stability, a "correct" share price would be defined as a function of central bank interest rate. Buy when below, sell when higher. But if that perfect stability existed in reality, people would not know. Even if the average expectation was spot on perfect stability, it would be a bell curve distribution with some being more optimistic and others less. Share transactions only go one direction, pessimists selling to optimists. You end up with an all-optimist ownership after pessimists and realists are bought out.
Some unresolved questions about AI
I made a short list of problems/questions in AI that I struggle to find answers on. I wonder if some of us also have similar issues about AI in general. The field of machine learning is growing so fast to keep track of everything evolving.
1. What is the computational complexity class of problems that humans can solve but artificial intelligence cannot?

2. Can neural nets always solve problems better than social nets (collective of people)?

3. Is there an Ecological Approach to Computer Visual Perception? JJ Gibson proposed a treatise of vision as related with objects around, so is an agent affected by its environment (similar to the concept of phenotropic computing by Jaron Lanier)

4. Does the presence of an agent affect the environment and model in Reinforcement Learning?

4.1 What is the causality of having an agent present in the environment, does its presence affect the reward system. In quantum computing each measurement affects the environment.
We used git-mob in my team at Typeform, and besides the script still being a bit fiddly at the time, the overall experience was quite good, especialy with a mix of new and more seasoned developers involved.

What I recommend is increasing the rotation time to 25-30 m, especially initially.

The approach I'm experimenting with now is using vscode remote (ssh) and working with a shared remote workstation (running on EC2 and GCP).

Pros:

- no need to worry about sharing the same environment (all of you work off the same workstation after all)

- less infra: no need for external CI (you can just run the build scripts on the workstation, via commit-hooks).

PS I wrote a quick, practical overview of different pairing/mobbing patterns: https://sonnet.io/posts/snakes/
Sherlock Holmes has many flaws, but one thing it does get right is that the titular character repeatedly emphasizes how much of our worldview is defined by assumption, the danger of favoring a preferred hypothesis too early in the investigation, and the importance of systematically eliminating all possibilities until one remains.
Dropbox is the only SaaS I have ever used that fucked up its redesign badly enough to make me—a previously-thrilled customer—jump ship to a technically-inferior and more-expensive product. I don't regret it whatsoever.
I've turned really against this, and 'busy', annoys me when people say it now - we all have exactly the same amount of time; how we allocate it and to what is up to us.
The Day AppGet Died (2020)
Yeah, balanced trees of any kind are fairly complex compared to skip lists.
Something I haven't seen mentioned yet is that physical, printed QR codes are more easily tampered than URLs. And they're prompted by the victim; they're interested in a event flier or need access to a digital menu. Together, this makes QR codes easier to phish with than your standard spammy text message or email with a shortened URL.
It’s politics all the way down. You’ll never remove politics from any human organization. All you can do is shuffle around the winners and losers.
Is ArXiv a monopoly bully in scientific publication?
As a vinyl record dealer, I'm infinitely curious about the music discovery process. I suspect there are lots of other folks out there who want to just browse for music without the spectre of their past listening informing what they are able to browse. Does Spotify really not have a "private" mode?
The change in metabolic rate is a homeostatic adaptation of the body due to increased energy expenditure due to exercise. You can measure it in a metabolic chamber, and 200-300 calories per day during rest time is not unusual for male athletes.
Reusable rockets aren't coincidentally many orders of magnitude safer though. They would need to be just to come even with airplanes. It would also involve acceleration forces far beyond anything a normal passenger would accept. I'd be glad to be wrong, but I have yet to see an analysis that actually does the math and doesn't result in something along the lines of "this concept is insane and doomed to fail". Spaceship would probably make a good spaceship. But using it for quick flights between cities is less realistic than airlines reviving the Concorde.
Hispanic is just a bad name for the category as it is not a race as a descendent of portuguese or spanish, or any other european people, with no intermixture with native americans, or vice-versa, are both hispanics.

Hence why Americans have to distinguish between white or non-white hispanics.
No, it won't, unless you are eating excess calories. It takes a lot of energy to repair muscles and grow them.
I heard they'd created v2.0 last year. How is it?
How is that different to deciding to sell your goods through Costco or Walmart and then complaining that their returns policy allows customers to return anything for any reason basically with no time limit if you complain enough?

Like, the author knows the policy if they decide to sell through Audible. It comes with a massive userbase, userbase which potentially exists because of a decent returns policy. If they think they can make more money on a platform which doesn't allow returns, then they are welcome to try - it's not like amazon has monopoly here, plenty of other places to buy and listen to audiobooks from.
That talks about the Sierra Club.
I was a little disconcerted at the size of lfs.c, but then again there are advantages to having it all in a single file when compiling for a microcontroller. Although now I wonder why the crc32 code is the only thing in a separate file?
So nothing for Greenpeace?
The really interesting thing is not that T1D diagnosis has erased the label for "Juvenile onset diabetes" because it can happen at any age, it's that those previously-thought-destroyed pancreatic cells that produce insulin, are actually continuing decades after disease diagnosis and can be "reactivated" via BCG or Valter Longo's FMD:

"Identifying most people with T1D continue to secrete varying amounts of insulin and C-peptides for decades after initial diagnosis:

https://www.healthline.com/diabetesmine/dr-faustmans-controv...

See below for my deeper response on these and other issues:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30382364
Can you be a good musician if you always make mistakes while performing?

Maybe you’re a better composer or producer then, but it’s on whoever leads the group of musicians to organize that.

Jerks who randomly push buggy code straight to master might be the reason you have a job. Most of them probably aren’t, but some of them are the reason a bunch of other people have a job running around fixing stuff and being mad about it.

It’s really hard to see yourself as a regulating component in some messy system, but nothing is better for velocity than pissed of engineers heroically fixing all the stuff they hate from some other engineer that’s pumping out mostly working high impact stuff left and right.
I've used Macs for years and never been aware of it.

Note: the tweeter couldn't provoke actual problems under any sort of normal usage. To make data loss show up he had to use weird USB hacks. If you know you have a battery and can forcibly shut down the machine 'cleanly' it's not really clear what the need for a hard fsync is.

"Macs in datacentres are becoming increasingly common for CI, MDM, etc."

CI machines are the definition of disposable data. Nobody is running Oracle on macOS and Apple don't care about that market.
I guess that's how you end up with an iPhone app with 18,000 classes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066518
They don't block you completely, just present you with a JS challenge that delays your access to the site. A browser, even if behind a MITM proxy, would be able to solve this challenge.
Skipped it totally. That's the part of scientific American intended for bored readers more interested in gossip. The part after it is quite cool. The conclusions are basically drawn from how much CO2 is exhaled. So the key contribution seems to be the data collection methods.
Currency in the Age of Digitization
There is a contingent of advocates for mob programming and to a lesser extent pairing, who are just insufferable zealots. Like most programming technique evangelists, they are devoid of nuance and hammer endlessly on their single note. More often than not they have no real accomplishments to backstop their authority either.

I'll go Bartleby: I'd prefer not. The entire reason I ever got into programming is because it was a refuge from dealing with people. Working alone on a technical problem is energizing; working with other people on the same is frustrating and makes me want to do violence within an hour or two.
Possibly this is an American phenomenon? I can recommend the British show Happy Valley for a very realistic depiction of police work, that is no less tense and dramatic for it.
It's also important to realize when you shouldn't point it out at all. Sometimes you just have to make that text blue on a yellow background.
>You have to add www. to mazda.com before you can see any damn cars.

Who said mazda.com is the homepage, and not www.mazda.com?