skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As always, it'll probably not affect most people, but some people will have very interesting markers/indicators on their DNA that might be worth protecting more than an STD or drug test.
I've always done group working to some extent, especially where I need to work through an issue I've been stumped by, or where I need to bash out a consensus on a design.

Similarly, I have always had other members of the team shadow me and work together to upskill them, let them gain confidence, and get ready to work with the training wheels off when I'm not there. Many times, they catch typos and silly errors that would otherwise have been missed until later, or possibly even not caught at all. But at the same time, I expect them to be building their skills and confidence so that they can be productive on their own, and to develop their own opinions so that they can challenge designs and approaches, and come up with their own.

On many projects I have also had good experiences dividing up related work between different team members and checking back in a few times a day and comparing notes on how we're getting on, what we're finding difficult, and what we do where the related pieces of work touch each other.

These approaches are so basic and so obvious, that I'm sure most of us have been doing them since we were teenagers at school doing group projects.

But this isn't what "Pair Programming" is, or at least isn't the dogma that it has become in some organisations.

The dogmatic version of it enforces working in pairs for all, or at least most of the day, no matter the personal preferences or personality types involved. It is exhausting for introverts and allows extroverts to dominate the work. It has strict rules about who is driving and who is navigating - or, more commonly, who is spectating. Even when regularly switching driver, a dominant personality normally emerges, and does the lion's share of the thinking. This means that, while the other member(s) of the pair or mob may absorb information quickly through osmosis, it takes them longer to form opinions of their own - instead they absorb the opinion of the dominant personality. This leads to groupthink and tunnel vision. While superficial flaws and errors are picked up quickly, larger issues are more easily missed without time for quiet reflection. It is especially difficult for those with weaker verbal communications skills, but who are still strong technically.

Personally, my ego loves dogmatic Pair Programming because I am mostly an extrovert, enjoy dominating verbal conversation, and I like the attention. But enforcing it on a genuinely diverse team is bad news.
Dune: Spice Wars
Student debt forgiveness would disproportionately favor the higher educated (obviously).

People with higher education tend to make more.

It’s a regressive policy. Not necessarily a bad policy. But one that favors the better off.
Here's an oldie, but goodie: http://www.theparticle.com/fun/fun.php?topic=microsoft&id=18...
The command told it to reattach the drive and they expected it to rebuild but instead md saw part of the mirror and simply added the drive as a good drive.

And the drive would return bad data instead of just erroring out - this is sometimes a difference between “home use” drives vs enterprise - enterprise assume you’re in a multi redundant raid setup and instead of retrying will just fail out fast and let the raid take care of it. Home drives will continue retrying and perhaps even eventually give you what they got - the idea being you’d rather have one byte bad of a word doc than lose a 4K chunk of it.

ZFS catches these tricks because the checksums will fail. Multi-redundancy RAID can do it - but since most are enterprise they are built with the assumption the drive will return good data - or none.

This can be the worst scenario as corruption can be silent and infect all backups after a time.
Over speeding is also illegal. Yet, we see a lot of people committing it.

Same here, they will say they care about equal rights, but in reality they oust pregnant ladies, old peoples etc..
Yep, I guess the ideal situation would be a language that is portable (and ported well enough) that it runs identically on each collaborating developer's machine as a lightweight process, and yet unopinionated enough that each developer can also run their own linting and other support tools on the codebase -- combined with a shared real-time collaborative editing space (that similarly should be cross-platform, but may not need to be related in any way to the language of the code that is being edited).
Telltale sign that they have a very toxic working environment.
>anyone with heritage from

>It is neither a race nor an ethnicity.

I wonder what you think race and ethnicity refer to if not heritage.
Totally correct. It's a North Korea with oil, and welfare programs, and, now, rave parties*

* https://youtu.be/8PBz9yaPksM
If you like such 'stories' i can recommend "Computer-Related Risks by Peter G. Neumann". A bit older (1994), but still an interesting read.
I love pair programming but remotely, with only audio. Live share in vscode, and jetbrains has their own version. The one keyboard paradigm is gone and you can work in two parts of the same code base at the same time. It’s not an all the time solution in my mind, but I frequently see higher quality code coming from these sessions with way smoother pr reviews. Just my two cents, as an introverted former pair programming hater (pre pandemic in the office).
In all programming languages I know of using this syntax the upper bound is exclusive.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127082
Lack of eye contact. That's what I see among both sexes under the age of 30. Almost to the level of autism. An inability to have basic conversation. And the boys are totally ineffectual and terrified of trying to kiss a girl; it's been made faux pas to show any inclination. It's hard enough as a teenager to get up the courage to kiss a girl. Imagine if you think there's a 50/50 chance she'll completely destroy your life on social media, rather than just say "no thanks".

In my mid-30s I ran through a spate of recent divorcees who all had almost exactly the same complaint. Their husband of 10 years hadn't slept with them in 5+ years, and was always in the basement playing video games or watching porn. Which he didn't want to watch with her. Two of them - totally separately - told me they would dress up in lingere and go to the basement and the husband would say he was too tired. A third said she felt "unfuckable" and started crying recounting it. (I said, oh no! You're totally fuckable! I also said, I would never play a video game rather than lay in bed with you. And it was like... holy shit) This is literally what's going on.
Happy Bday HN!
Since I come here I think I spend too much time of my workdays with reading :D
What Defense’s 2021 China Military Power Report Tells About Defense Innovation
They will get clobbered by the ICO as it's clear this was neither informed consent nor was the data retention period reasonable.

Burying terms of such significance results in unenforceable agreements, so it's naive (but not unexpected) of Cignpost to come out saying they are in full compliance with data protection laws.

I would urge anyone potentially impacted to write to the ICO to register their concerns.
Archived copy of the 404:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140625052305/http://ycombinato...
Good read. I’ve used chocolatey a lot plus a lot of other Microsoft installation tools. Windows has been crying out for a decent package manager for years. It’s amazing how little of a sh*t Microsoft seemed to give about stuff that open-source systems provide as a first class citizen.

As they care next-to-zero about decent tooling, it’s no surprise they care even less about independent developers like Keivan.

I’m pretty sure Windows is going to turn into a Linux kernel with a Windows API translation layer and specialised UI system for ordinary Joes.

I think it’s probably a lot more efficient that way and Microsoft has already lost the kernel battle to Linux. With the shift to the cloud, I assume Azure will become Microsoft’s dominant revenue stream, with Office second and Windows third.

At least that my guess.
Anhydrous ammonia sounds interesting, got any good articles on it?
Black Death may have killed less than previously thought
I really enjoy HN and slashdot.org type of community. Makers talking about making things.

The longevity and quality of HN discussion is much appreciated.
http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...

The blog has a bunch of other good article on related topics.
I wonder if one of the cars was the source of the fire.
If "corporatism" is the name of the condition, then free-market capitalism is the virus that causes the infection.
What I really like about *BSD is that things mostly stay the same, although there are examples of the contrary (ZFS adoption, DTrace in FreeBSD, pledge in OpenBSD). Both systems are stable, reliable and just get out of your way.
That is such complete and utter nonsense. And lots of things taught to children over the years have been complete and utter nonsense.

Yes, at some level, you can sit in front of a mindless sitcom or reality show half-asleep and not engage at all. But there are plenty of TV shows and movies that require active engagement to even know what's going on. The idea that printed material occupies some higher plane than video material because it requires turning a page doesn't make a lot of sense.
That criminals can commit crimes does not change the fact that this personal data will be easily found. I am still unconvinced that it is the most "sensitive" personal data.
A part of me wonders whether certain organizations tolerate "coasters" as a talent reserve of sorts, expected to engage when things get busy or new/interesting challenges emerge. For whatever reason, many businesses fire underperformers, promote overachievers but treat the 80% in the middle very generically. Why work to be a top 20% performer when you are treated the same as the bottom 20% performer? Coasting seems like a natural outcome.
There are many thing that are illegal on paper, but are done every day in practice, especially with anti-discrimination laws. You need to be very blatant about your discrimination.
Clearly it's not just pronouns that the anti-woke have a problem with, it's also proper nouns.
Was glad hn got started right around the time r/programming collapsed
Is it gone cause I'm not seeing anything? You guys might need some more adblocking!
Is it a problem, or is it that filesystems are not something you need to add new features to as often and thus commits are biased towards fixes? Or some other reason for a bias?
The fact that the privacy policy is 4,876 pages also feels like it can’t be true. The surrounding typos make me worry the number itself is wrong. I mean how much money would you have to pay a law firm to write you a policy that’s 5000 pages long?
If you felt you were underpaid, leaving is fair. I don't really understand the requirement that all bosses are paid more than those they supervise, though. I mean, emotionally I can understand feeling that way. But I don't think it's a rule of nature or something.

For instance, coaches often make less than their star players. Directors and producers often make less than star actors. Hospital directors seem to make less than surgeons.
People like to spend less time fighting the OS? That's the norm, not peculiar.
Yeah, I’m personally a bit conflicted that English, especially written English is such a key skill. I once spoke a little French, and enjoyed it immensely, but there’s no money in it so it atrophied almost out of existence.

Mandarin seems to be a pretty credible candidate for a “must know” business language, but even there that’s climbing up hill at least a little.
Father interrupts WiFi and other radio communications for entire town
Agreed. Sounds like someone who pays for lines of code.
> Obviously those negatives are all present but less of a threat than one might think from the outside.

I doubt anybody who lived in the gulf for at least a year never been a witnness to extremely harsh treatment of debtors firsthand.

I myself knew a person who went to a debtor prison over a parking ticket.
And Arrington voted down to 'dead'.
In the early 2000's, when I was quite involved in UK Skydiving - there was quite a strong bid to try and get it recognised as an Olympic sport. However, the bid was denied and my understanding to the reasoning being that it wasn't a good spectator sport.

However, I believe indoor skydiving is making good progress with their latest bid.
In general I agree. I've found pair programming to be immensely beneficial and productive for some cases.

I wouldn't go so far as to say recurring sessions are always bad, but I do think that not all tasks benefit from having a pair work on it.

When I have been very attuned with my teammates in terms of the system we were building and how we were building then pairing sessions became much less valuable on work that was very low novelty and was some iteration of a well-established pattern.
I specifically said that the situation in CS was better, because industry does such a good job competing for PhDs. When I was finishing my PhD in CS 15 years ago, doing a post-doc before applying for a tenure-track position was pretty rare, and only done if you felt that you'd benefit from it in some way.

My friends are in the sciences, which has far fewer opportunities in industry. They're not going to end up in ad-tech either way.
I'm afraid I didn't like that article. I felt like it had said nothing concrete. :|

I saw that disclaimer, but still.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56220630/2561579

TLDR:

* ImageMagick has more questions and follows on StackOverflow (read: better for getting help)

* ImageMagick has more features

* GraphicsMagick is faster with a caveat that you shouldn't use GraphicsMagick (or ImageMagick for that matter) if speed is important for you
Quite, slack is the equivalent of an office conversation, you can join in or ignore it. If someone wants you specifically they can @ you, and you can briefly glance at the context over the last few lines. Usually at that point you'll jump into a huddle / call, maybe you'll have to go back over it, but it only takes a few seconds to get the gist of what's being talked about, far easier than getting the gist of an office meeting that you've just been pulled into.

I don't see much point in having more than a few kilobytes of text in the scrollback. If it's persistent, put it in jira.
2007 is... 15 years ago OMG
Checking HN is the very first thing I do after waking up. It has been that way for years now. Amazing community!!!!
IIRC BSDs had containers first but they worked slightly differently.
Slack was supposed to cure email. Instead it created a new "mania"?
Appreciate the take. Originally, my view was that any activity that brought attention to NFTs - no matter the intent - constitutes a "promotion" in a way. But I think I'm convinced. Thanks!
^ This. Maths ignore the stuff you mentioned above just to get by

The same can be said about science ignoring philosophy, morality and spirituality just to get by
If it is in a nation's territorial water there's going to be some caveats to that depending on the nature of the debris, circumstances under which it was abandoned and other specific facts of the situation.

There are all sorts of laws regarding property that is abandoned in various contexts that could apply in those cases and in many cases these laws can conflict with the maritime laws of that nation and international maritime laws (the former may very well just be a pointer to the latter in many cases). Handling these gray areas is why we have courts.

Imagine some subcontractor to an oil company is forced to abandon a small craft in protected federal land in Alaska. You've got federal maritime law, state law, federal law regarding resource extraction, federal law regarding protected land, etc, etc.

Some of these laws are intended to give the property owners the right to go get their stuff back on a very, very permissive timetable. Some of these laws are intended to let the locals, state, feds, even general public, claim the property almost as soon as their want in order to facilitate speedy remediation. Oh and remember, possession is 9/10ths the law so that could get weird depending on if the abandoned property is titled property, etc.

This crap can get real complex, real fast. A lot of these potential conflicts have been hammered out via case law but many of them also haven't and different facts can make the prior case law not very relevant. If neither side is willing to settle it could really drag on.
You may want a solicitor rather than a barrister.

Historically (in the UK) barristers specialised in arguing before a judge, while solicitors did the rest of the job. This division has now been relaxed a bit, but what you are asking about would normally be the solicitors part of the job I think.

Don't have any specific recommendations for lawyers.
We must acknowledge that it went from the free speech place for nerds and autists with zero censure to a safe space for mediocre imposters where everything slightly unconventional is being flagged.

Congratulations.
> What's free-market about being compelled by the state to use these services?

It's free-market that they are allowed to set a EULA like this which permits them to sell-on your DNA. It's notable that this happened with a private service, not one which was contracted by the state to provide tests.
The credit card company will accept your paper trail. They can check with the shipping company. The fact they lied about it should make it even more clear-cut.
This algorithm should find that very pixel snapping if it exists. Path simplification seems like a more complicated issue, but also promising of course.
Apple has been lauded as “ungodly well-managed” by Charlie Munger
I have at various points replaced or upgraded 15 NVME SSD's in desktops and laptops, and I have not seen a single one - could you please let me know where I can find a non-server SSD with capacitors that are large enough for it to flush data in case of a sudden power loss?

Laptop batteries are irrelevant - battery failure, freezin or cutting power to the curcuitbord by holding the off buttons are the failrue modes you have to protect against.
> it's probably a plugin that the author has no idea even exists.

It says "Built with ConvertKit". To get rid of it on every site, until they change it, add this uBlock Origin filter:

*##.formkit-slide-in
What do you mean by hostile?
I'd expand it to never do business in the Middle East. It's just not worth it.
The UEA tramples on a lot of middle class people, but most don’t get any press coverage.
Was there anything in particular you disliked about reddits 'old' design? How would you compare it to HNs design?
I knew there was something I forgot about; SVGO was probably it. Thanks!
> For traditional fuzzing you usually want a "blacker" barrier between the input and processing.

They clearly didn't want it that opaque and bytes only since they accept primitives and accept arbitrary param count. Why not just accept byte slice only and make people binary encode even primitives? The reason is it takes a long time to build a corpus when unnecessarily making the fuzzer figure out UTF-8, JSON, little-endian ints, etc. Using structured typing is a reasonable approach for an in-language fuzzer. They currently have a user-defined length of user-defined types, so it's only natural to translate from more complex types and save the generator time.
>Maybe he thought they could branch into gaming, but somehow that dream died.

Personally, I saw some logic. Before social media, many people socialized in online games. They could meet and talk to new people, and navigating the map was a natural way to avoid a deluge of messages. IMO, Facebook and Twitter were the two biggest reasons MMOs lost popularity.

Which, ironically, supports your point:

>"What about facebook, IN VIRTUAL REALITY?"

This won't be popular. People left immersive worlds for Facebook because they preferred a simple message feed they could glance at while doing something else. They often get sucked into Facebook and don't do something else, but I think putting on VR equipment and deciding not to do anything else for a block of time is enough of a barrier to make it unpopular. Even if VR ends up dominating the gaming market, VR social media will be niche.
It's easy to use zfs on Ubuntu.
> 1. Even with 2FA active, Apple will, apparently every couple of years, make you answer the security questions you gave when you first set the account up.

One might question the usefulness of that feature, since after a few years one may have forgotten the answer when it is clear that one might have to answer it some day in the case one lost access to one's account by usual means.

Maybe things are different with Apple, but on other systems, the questions are usually simple enough that good acquaintances might be able to answer them (eg, "parent's place of birth" or some such). In a sense, one wouldn't expect an acquaintance to steal a device, thus one may accept the weakness of those questions.

If one choose to use a contrived answer for that feature, one reduces the risk of someone guessing it, but at the same time it might make it harder to remember it when it matters.

I don't really believe that Apple is at fault here.
Potential future employers will easily get a copy of my DNA if they want one. I am not arguing that discrimination is wrong. I am arguing that DNA is not the most "sensitive" personal data.
I've never noticed that dot before. Just because I have slack open doesn't mean I'm available, and that's what I'd expect from anyone.
Yes. We are not quite net zero given snowy winters in NH, but overall feels good.

We are on air sourced heat pumps. I think the US is really behind in thinking about creative geothermal like borehole heat pumps which act as a thermal battery (pump heat into ground in summer, extract it in winter.) They work but I can't imagine they are the best solution in my climate zone.

Also, for energy usage is seems appliances could use innovation. Why am I not recapturing the heat from my clothes dryer? Why do I have a separate refrigerator (heats house) and water heater (cools house) inside my house?

We tried a heat pump water heater but it was a total fail, as it is equivalent to putting an air conditioner inside your house. We had it in the ground floor of our walkout, which even in summer never breaks 70 degrees. Kids were complaining and actually turning the heat on...
I've been tempted to learn Rust just for Differential Dataflow, less sure I'd learn something even more esoteric for some similar functionality, but a very interesting space to see progress in.
European Green Belt
You have never applied math above Calc in your life. Just admit it here. It will be good for your soul.
I agree that different departments can vary wildly within a school, and I would go even further to say that different research groups can vary wildly too even within a department. Office culture and politics can be multi-layered and different at different scales, in other words.
Unhinged how?
My understanding is that if you're able to rescue a ship you have to return it to its owner and they're supposed to compensate you.
Sony also doesn't contribute much of that code back to FreeBSD.
Is Daily Active Users a bullshit metric?
That’d be frustrating, not just for this. I’d probably be looking into a solution like Tailscale to tunnel out. Or just develop a gnarled security rule list full of rich history. :)
"In those cases the OS makes sure all the caches are flushed."

I have never heard of this functionality being included in any major OS, could you please provide some reference to this being documented?