skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I've noticed since I started driving an Escooter that I'm a lot more willing to brake in front of dodgy intersections rather than taking the risk, since it all it costs me is a bit of battery.
> How do you get everyone on the same page if you cannot ask questions?

Not sure why you're asking me this. I welcome questions in standups. And if a question warrants a deeper one-on-one chat, then at least everyone knows an issue has been raised (but often someone on the team knows the answer straight away). They hardly take up time.

I suspect we have radically different experiences of standup meetings, hence the polar opposite views.

In my case (16 year old company, high functioning team), daily standups are fun - hardly a chore - and you'd be surprised what surfaces in these team meetings (that wouldn't necessarily come to light if we were to simply rely on team members to speak up only "when there was something to talk about").

Just to be clear, I'm not criticising your lived experience. I don't doubt you for a second.

But let's be fair - it really depends on the team, and the environment, and the desire for daily standups to begin with.

It's a bit like project management tools. If abused, or used solely for the sake of ticking boxes, they're annoying. But if used correctly, and everyone is happy using them, then they certainly add value.

I suppose it's highly anecdotal.
Well package definitions is what i was referring to as "rustix". While grandparent comment was more about configuration management which i referred to as "rustible".

I'm more interested in the latter, but i can see the appeal for both. Being able to generate docs (cargo doc) for the entire project and run doctests across all packages to ensure all provided examples actually work sounds very useful.
But human (and probably earlier hominid?) males have a deeper voice not because they are larger, but because the thyroid gland and larynx take on different shapes under the effect of high levels of testosterone. Therefore, deepness of voice is mostly correlated with testosterone levels (assuming no other effects, like smoke inhalation), in both males and females.

It is true though that this may have started out as a coincidence, and then selective pressures could have made it more prominent.

> I've heard it put like this: evolution is a conservative force, it keeps the genes that work, and remove what doesn't.

My understanding is that a new gene is unlikely to become common (or even survive at all) unless it provides some measurable benefit to reproduction (which includes survival, since that is a prerequisite for reproduction, even in old age for social species), either directly or by being associated with another gene that does.
Maybe the reason they told you this is because you gave them the impression of being a judgemental person. Maybe you criticise and judge people often?
Related: https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html
Priority, not right of way. There's a big difference.

Everyone has right of way to on the public highway at all times. In England and Wales the public has right of way on byways, bridleways and footpaths too (although there are restrictions on what type of vehicle is allowed, if any). In Scotland the public has right of way everywhere by non-motorised means.

Your right of way never trumps someone else's right of way, nor does it trump someone else's right to live.

Priority is a completely different concept. When you give way, you are not losing your right of way. You are simply waiting for your turn. Priority is a simple rule to make sure everyone can exercise their right of way fairly and safely.

I really wish people would think about what they are saying. As a walker in England/Wales, you don't take right of way for granted.
I am really excited to see Mozilla actually moving forward on revenue diversification in a way that adds value to the technical community (VPN, Relay, MDN Plus).

Back when I was managing one of the security teams at Mozilla there was an attempt to build out some revenue diversification options, and one of the areas I was involved with was developer services, basically offering paid, hosted versions of the open source tools we were already building and using (web compat, security and testing services, etc) that could be used by developers. It never got off the ground, and the lack of traction was one of the reasons I left; I view my failure to succeed in my attempts there as one my biggest professional let downs :(

I want to think that it sounds like some of Mozilla's leadership has finally gotten out of the way of the folks that are doing awesome work, and it makes me hopeful for the future of the project and the Mozilla mission.

Congrats to the teams behind these services!
I have no problem shaming such an actor, it is the latest from BD Veritor.

https://bdveritor.bd.com/en-us
Honestly, when I was a kid, I didn't get the scenario. What the hell was genova ? Is sephiroth the good guy ? Then why is he trying to meteor us to hell ? And who is really cloud ?

But it didn't matter, because it was so incredible to play.

I had to replay the PC version later as a teenager to get it. Unfortunately this version was incredibly buggy.
I would also add:

Living in no-extradition countries, using GrapheneOS on an Android phone, using Jabber/OTR chat for communication.
For many tasks it's cheap enough to hire captcha solvers. From that we should assume that a vastly larger number of tasks become cheap enough if someone trains automated solvers on the output of the human solvers.

It doesn't need to be perfect either in most cases - just good enough that you can drive down cost progressively by trying an automated solver first before passing it on to a human if it fails.

Ultimately you'll only stop people in those cases where the monetary value of bypassing it is very low. (EDIT: And because such solvers are reusable, you need to effectively never re-use captcha types between high-value targets and low-value targets or people will end up training solvers on high-value targets as part of paid services and they'll trickle down to lower value targets as soon as they're automated fully)

Frankly, some captcha's are getting obnoxious enough that we're getting close to the point where I'd be willing to pay for a subscription service to have people solve captchas for me just for my own personal use.
Exactly right. Focusing on motorists conveniently ignores that many pedestrians also resent cyclists, because they routinely break the rules of the road. I've had a number of near misses with cyclists barrelling through red lights at speed.
Hell, my reaction is frustration when I am forced to navigate a complex and banal stack of broken technologies in order to do something like make my light switch work, and I'm a developer.

Technology is terrible, it barely works, and when you work at the edges of it (like we do), you hit the "barely" very often.
> I don't think it will be as dramatic in the private markets

They used to say the same thing about synthetic CDOs
There is some truth to this though. It is sometimes hard to find that HN topic, that you remember just a few words of through the aglolia search thing.
> As an independent contractor for the past two years, It hasn't been much of a grind finding and retaining customers....I think the most late it's ever been has been 2 weeks.

When it's you who's gettind paid a bit late... it's manageable. When those late payments affect people you have to pay... it's a whole different game. I've been on both sides of this and it's great when it works, and bad when it doesn't. Building up a large buffer helps, but can take some time to get to an effective place that gets you more than a couple weeks of runway.
...Suffolk Mountain Rescue has been established with the aim of rescuing a neglected mountain and bringing it back to safety.
MDN Plus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27302702 - May, 2021 (214 comments)
Something to do with transferring the blame for negative feelings about themselves onto others.
Show HN: Search 40+ remote job boards from one place
1988 Neuromancer Video Game
> It didn't start when it was named and mapped to HTML. It was in use on usenet and in emails before HTML even existed. And most of its conventions came from typewriters before that.

It used established syntax, but it didn't start there. There are also other markup-languages, which use other established syntax from the old times. A language is not just some random parts.

> You could print out a Markdown document today and jump in a time machine to 1970 and hand it to someone and they'd understand it.

Because it's human-friendly by design, not because it's syntax already existed back then. There are limits to what people would understand in 1970 from the syntax.
>I hope I am not the lone positive voice in the thread - it does seem no company gets quite the same level of criticism as Mozilla on HN

That's what happens when you go around with a holier-than-thou attitude: they set high standars for the industry when they themselves fail to meet those standards every time.
Not against it as long as the basics remain free.

I don't think I would be interested in the content that much (unless they go way beyond the usual FE articles), but I'll happily pay $100 a year in support of MDN/Firefox.

Even though I don't use Firefox it has an important role imo. I use MDN almost daily and I get lots of value out of it. I fully support them trying out new revenue streams.
I can’t speak to Cambridge specifically but there are 4 B1KE mountain bike parks alone in the south of England (Wind hill, Rogate, Tidworth and S4P) so I’m not convinced of this north/south divide. There are others than just B1KE mountain bike parks too.
You seem to be a cyclist so I'm surprised that you never appear to have been scared by a car passing you closely at 100km/h? Anything less than 2m away at this speed is likely to feel very scary to the cyclist.

So whether there are two cyclists or just one makes no difference, you've likely got to veer into the next lane to pass anyway.
This couple of comments sums up the problem with cycling so well.

Cyclists are neither pedestrians nor cars, and (I assume?) generally both groups would prefer the other had to deal with them. So, as a cyclist, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

> Sometimes I wonder, why cyclist complain about the dangers of cars, while on the other hand they are a thread to pedestrians.

Because, statistically speaking, cars are a way bigger threat to cyclists than cyclists are to pedestrians. Here's an article fearmongering against cyclists [1] (notice how even the link says "cyclist-killed...two-pedestrians-every-week", even though the true figure is "killed less than 10 pedestrians every year, compared with hundreds killed by cars"), compare it with the government's report for road casualties [2].

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/863550/cyclist-killed-bicy...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
I miss machines that didn't require UEFI just to boot. Phooey to you Microsoft.

I miss repairable machines. Replacing a keyboard in a modern laptop is all hidden screws, sticky tape and one time use plastic studs you have to reglue because they have to be snapped off to remove the broken keyboard. Phooey to you Acer.

Like others I miss the whole rapid application development movement. VB6 and Delphi just rocked at CRUD apps. Now we got nothing but dependency hell trying to get Electron started after you upgrade some library to pick up a bug fix and it cascades into a complete rebuild. Or trying to remember what dark wizard CLI you use to add a page to angular or react.

I miss being able to catch an exception in VisualWorks, fix the code and hitting continue.
The fact that most people opt out of doing so as soon as they can afford not to have to share should be a good indication that people value the privacy and comfort of not having to highly.
Best climate and Western Europe? Well, I never expected to see those two things together. What location specifically do you think has a good climate in Western Europe?
There are two ways to look at it, though:

One is to lament how previously specialized professions like taxi drivers become replaced by low-skilled laborers who just need to drive and use an app.

The other way is to appreciate how technology augments what humans can do and be more productive. It's not like all accountants got fired when Excel started being a thing: It's that they got way more work done!

There is no sign of a decrease in demand for labour in countries like the US or Germany: Quite the opposite, we have to get a lot more efficient in order to sustain an aging population!
>it does seem no company gets quite the same level of criticism as Mozilla on HN

Perhaps, but Mozilla is also the company most centered at the intersection "mission we like and wish the company succeeded at" and "management doing stupid shit one after another"....
I have been learning Japanese to play this game in its original language and am planning to learn the piano to be able to play its soundtrack. I know I am not the only one doing this. I can't think of any video game / movie that has been so inspiring to so many people.
Secure. But bad UX. Probably some ML engine behind the scene decided you were more suspicious than others so you got a more difficult challenge.
Sorry about that. I honestly thought it made very little difference.
I love PEGs, but their error messages are usually vague, because it will backtrack out of a deep tree (where it should have discovered the actual error), and then presents an error much higher up ("computer says no").

Is there a mechanism that works well for improving errors in PEGs (i.e. something like a non-returnable node), and how does one practically implement that?
I don't think Google or any other tech company is doing something new here. If you look on Enron scandal or shady things tobacco companies did or car manufacturing not doing recalls etc etc. This isn't that different.
I wanted to do something similar for my search engine when I proxied results from Bing (similar to what Kagi.com is doing according to their FAQ), however, it felt like a gimmick because I had so little control over what websites to boost.

The reason I had little control is because Bing's API limit you to requesting 50 results which is usually SEO spam with trackers.. so all I accomplished was e.g. moving Wikipedia from second to first position while 9+/10 of the returned results still contained trackers for pretty much all queries.

If you have access to Kagi.com then I'm curious to hear what results you see when you search for e.g. "Manchester United". I suspect all of them (except Wikipedia) will contain trackers. If that's not the case then I would love to hear how people think they managed to filter out all the bad sites while still displaying other results besides Wikipedia.
OP is literally encourages this behavior by solving those captchas. The right way is to say "fuck you" and use another service.
But it always is.

They go around the room and everyone has to say something and it ends up being a status update.
In the 1990s, a lot of desktop software was Windows-only, and used the Windows toolkit directly, so they supported the OS theming [1] including high-contrast options.

Windows wasn't alone in providing this. Most desktop operating systems of the day did, including MacOS 8/9, BeOS, OS/2 Warp...

Of course, you're right that there never was a utopia of consistency where everything looked and worked the same and always respected user prefs, but the mid to late 90s was about as close as we ever got.
I've dipped my toes into GUI development just enough to know you can have "simple," or you can have "native," but not both. There are smaller projects like nanogui[0] and microgui[1] out there, but of course they're only as small as they are because they don't use native widgets.

[0]https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui/tree/master/src

[1]https://github.com/ryankurte/micro-gui
I'm always amazed when seemingly everyone in a thread on Mozilla has only negative things to say. I for one welcomed the UI change with the new tabs and look forward to give them some money if this MDN Plus turns out to be interesting.
> I think the size, weight and UI were great for everyday.

And the batteries lasted for weeks.
I did not propose reducing funding, but penalizing the people that run (lead/manage) the system. It is like a performance driven salary for them, bad results lead to low or no pay.
I received it from work. I had no idea it used an app. If I had known, I would have sought out another kit. Instead of installing the apkx(bundle?), I did some research and found the ghosted posts' comments where other confused users contacted the company directly and shared their findings, verifying two lines = negative.

edit:grammar
MySt and sphinx are getting attentions these days. As a ascii doc lurker, and fed up of rst, I'm very hopeful.
>Wut? Have you actually ever met a person who can't?

I have met a few, yes, including people who are intellectually limited (colloquially called "dumb"), people who were born or acquired mental handicaps, people who are suffering most likely suffering from dyscalculia (dyslexia for arithmetic/numbers). E.g. we think my grandma might have had a milder form of the latter, as she had a lot of trouble adding up numbers in particular, which would have made this CAPTCHA very hard for her - but not impossible. And a friend of my mom has Turner syndrome, which is linked to dyscalculia, and she is indeed very bad at basic math.
Most "anonymous" surveys I've been asked to take through work require listing more than enough information for unique identity. One assured I would be anonymous, then asked me to fill in the name of my manager, my team, and job title.
Under what licence will this plus content be published? Because if it is CC, it will take someone minutes to whip up a website with all plus content.
I feel this would be headline news if correct so do you want to elaborate or is it just a throw away comment with no backing?
No, the point is avoiding conflicts where possible. Cases like "users concurrently update the same property in the same object" are rare in real life.
That book really resonated with me; as in, it vibrated at exactly my resonant frequency and, like a wine glass, broke me. I couldn't enjoy professional programming in the same way once the veil had been lifted.
If you need to set a cookie for the correct operation of your site, then you don't need a cookie banner. The banners are a middle-finger to the GDPR.
This is not a new idea. siuba (a dplyr-like Pandas alternative) is one project that does it, and it also has a "pipeline operator": https://github.com/machow/siuba

(mtcars
>> group_by(_.cyl)
>> summarize(avg_hp = _.hp.mean())
)

(Edit: ok, it seems siuba doesn't have the "parameter fixing" thing.)

Related: Coconut - a functional superset of Python - https://github.com/evhub/coconut

range(10) |> map$(pow$(?, 2)) |> list

There were others but I can't remember which now.
Try as I might, I still don’t understand what clothing a person is wearing has to do with anything.
My ISP is dual stack (cox), as is AT&T fiber -- but that is only for residential. Almost all consumer gear is IPv6 compatible, much of Cisco Meraki's still isn't or is limited.

It is not all consumer.
I downloaded an open-source software today, and all over the UI were the buttons to upgrade to their paid closed-source version. Freaking hell.

Since it's open source obviously someone is going to chime in that I should spend my time removing these stupid UI elements...
XHTML was quietly led behind the shed and shot a decade ago.

I bumped into a site with that cute little XHTML approved logo, and checked if it verified. Of course it didn't.
Visual Studio Code – Extension Node.js REPL
In Eastern Europe before joining the EU, the most anti EU parties were the "ex"- communist and neomarxist and the conservative parties couldn't wait to get in. There can be 2 explanations why this has changed today.

1. The "ex"-communist and neomarxist parties became enlightened democrats and the conservatives changed to nationalistic anti democrats.

2. Something changed within the EU, which made it a suitable environment for "ex"-communist and neomarxist to thrive in and reminded the conservatives what was it like to live under old communist regimes.

I think the number 2 is the right explanation. The news about undemocratic Poland, Hungary and occasional other eastern-southern countries is mostly spreading through leftist western media by activist reporters who take for granted what their leftist activist colleagues from eastern countries are feeding them. For a person who reads newspapers in both parts of Europe, that fact is painfully obvious. Throw in some leftist activist MPs (like Sophie in 't Veld) and good old geopolitical power struggles and the world quickly becomes black and white (us vs them).
I think a Figma importer would be the killer feature for penpot.
That's saying I shouldn't have forgotten the answers in the first place - which is a fair point I suppose. What bothers me is that there _is_ a process for resetting the question in case you've forgotten them, but that very process requires you to know them.
Palm went well into the 2000s mostly as a smartphone with the Treo, which was a superb device for its time. I remember that I was one those strange people with a giant smartphone at a time where everybody wanted the smallest cell phone possible (which makes a lot of sense if you're using the phone only as a phone).
I always consider myself extremely lucky to have started learning tech when I did, because the devices were so simple then. I could code in Assembler on my BBC micro with no problem, because there were only 3 registers and everything was simple.

But the beauty of that was that there was nothing more complex. There are simple devices and environments around today, but they pale in comparison to the more complex environments. You can totally code a game up in a BBC emulator, for example, but it looks shit in comparison to the Unity tutorial game.

I was forced to learn Assembler because it was the only way of writing a video game on the BBC micro. And there was nothing better out there. If I was 14 again and trying to create video games to sate my urge now, I'd be learning Unity. Even though there are simpler environments available.
$10 per month sounds expensive for what is currently rumored.
Many people are unhappy and they try to put the blame on external factors because that is easier than changing yourself.
We've just switched from Jira to Azure DevOps. We run a global BI team and we're all really liking it. If you haven't seen it, it could be something worth checking out as it includes the board/wall, wiki, estimation, repos, build pipeline and lots of other stuff in one place.
Human beings are the only species with a teenage phase
Have you ever seen it used in the wild?
I would like that law. However, they would have to pay wages and offer working conditions, that actually attract good developers and they would have to stop outsourcing everything. Outsourcing everything is also a problem with otherwise qualified engineers unfortunately. The big picture long term consequences are unpleasant.
That's why I wrote near-100 rather than 100. I know it can be closer to 110 or to 80 in specific countries/states. Pollution is proven to harm average IQ, other aspects of the living conditions during childhood can harm average person mental development also. It has been mentioned here on HN a number of times that childhood lead poisoning harmed mental development of a huge part of American population.
At least you'll get better at solving that particular kind of problem.

So if IQ is defined as your ability to solve that kind of problem, then yes, your IQ will increase.
Yup, such a waste. Can't they work for free in their parent's basement like we expect other FOSS contributors to? While we use their stuff for free, never contributing anything back.