skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the idea, but unfortunately, with the exception of the first slider, they are all subjective and hard to quantify.

What's a technical effort of 6 vs 4? What's a technical debt of 8 vs 6 or 7?
Me too, I was a vulnerability researcher =)

(Not really, but the joke wrote itself)
duplicate

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=goosh.org
IP has nothing to do with technical sophistication. I believe IP is directly led to culture and greed as people want to maximize profits rather than help society and promote ideas.
> the issue is "a literal fascist government is invading a sovereign country and their propaganda machine is in full throttle mode".

Explain to me how you would come to that conclusion if it wasn't for the media? And how would you justify spreading that information if it came from "not really accurate or objective" media? Without being able to cross-check, you're just spreading one-sided gossip, if not rumors like the snake island story.
There's a delicate balance... if interest rates rise to control inflation, prices will drop and the 2008 crisis demonstrated that many will just walk away from their homes, which triggers another round of price drops.
The thing that bothers me about digital radio is the simple fact that I cannot build a crystal receiver to listen to news or emergency broadcasts. Likewise, you can build an FM receiver with just a few transistors and passive components.

Another downside is all the old radios I have will stop working and will need to go into the trash.
I think advertising is evil is the sentiment, and that's not out of place in a forum that has a focus on building a better future, rather than making money any way possible.
The West already tried to talk Putin to death. That didn't seem to work.
More and more people are buying a MacBook Pro without screen to use as Mac mini
Will they see a french revolution type event with mass beheadings in Moscow though? Any other time I would have laughed at the thought, not so sure now…
Sounds like a modified/more complex version of the well-known RICE framework.

https://www.intercom.com/blog/rice-simple-prioritization-for...
There's no bug in that commit, the commit is correct, it only makes the bug exploitable. The buggy commit is older, it's https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/241699cd72a8489c944... but not exploitable.

> I always try to shy away from making things look nicer

That's understandable, though from my experience, lots of old bugs can be found while refactoring code, even at the (small) risk of introducing new bugs.
Pig grunts reveal their emotions
> Picking good names for confirmation/cancellation buttons is difficult. I’m actually reviewing the ones in the app that I’m writing, now. Some of them are quite weird.

Especially egregious when you are confirming a cancellation. I hate when I try to perform an action that is semantically a cancellation, and I am warned of its potentially deleterious effects and then asked "OK" / "Cancel". (Where, of course, "OK" means "OK, cancel", and "Cancel" means the opposite.)

EDIT: mlok (or, ironically for this thread, do I mean mIok?) made the same point an hour ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30587293 .
Third of UK shoppers now buy food from supermarkets’ price reduced sections
Every night temperatures drop much more than the temperature increases from the hydrocarbon consumption. Are you sure that the energy of the hydrocarbons is the problem and not the greenhouse effect?
Developing anything around Custom Search API does not make sense because of the limits.
The link to the paper is broken, wanted to examine their method to see if the analysis is sound
> using unofficial translations

I know one indie game whose Russian localization was done and distributed with the pirated version first, before being adopted by the dev and added to the official distribution. (of course since the guy is only doing gamedev as a hobby, his stance regarding piracy of his own games is quite relaxed)
i am ukrainian and i am in contact with multiple people affected on the ground.
Hasn't some information been passed? You flip one bit, and if your observing the other bit you know the first one was flipped? So you know when something was done to the first bit...
Dartmouth celebrated the 50th anniversary of BASIC a few years ago and they were pretty consistent in keeping it all upper case.

https://www.dartmouth.edu/basicfifty/basic.html

True BASIC, a company that Kemeny and Kurtz founded in 1983, is all upper case too.

https://www.truebasic.com/about
More democratic nations ought to have the self-respect to repudiate treaties their fathers ratified that they no longer like.
In democracies, leaders act according to some ideology too. One of the advantages of democracy is that it's not always the same ideology, i.e. sometimes you get FDR and sometimes you get Margaret Thatcher, and this is good.
All the old pictures of the rock show a big crack that looks like where it split recently. Inevitable event for for sure but it's a funk folktale.
Does Russia have any good boats? Can spacecraft be seized? What is the tax burden of seizing a fully-loaded Russian supertanker?
The video says it's 4 seconds, which is sadly a more realistic number I think.
Huh, I wish for the day when govts are as transparent as they expect us to be in a democracy.
This brings to mind the recent pictures of Putin meetings where he's across the room or at the end of a loooong table...
*not digital
Reddit rewards people who know how to repost or start flame wars, with their karma points. This can also optimize for low-effort content.

I wouldn't be surprised if certain subreddits could be entirely replaced with bots, automatically generating memes and image macros in response to things happening on the web. The biggest subreddits already look like this, imo.
>they are in Government

Unlike Pavel Gubarev, Kadrykov, Putin himself, etc ...they are not.

Their closest political affiliate National Corps has 0 seats in parliament.
Counterpoint: cultural appropriation is a good thing. Only grifters in cultural leadership dislike it.
Oh yes, the PIO is very cool and somewhat unique. The list of examples of things that can be implemented with such a tiny "computer" (9 instructions assembly language, program size maximum of 32 instructions) is quite impressive:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/tree/master/pio

In fact, the rp2040 examples and SDK docs are very, very good compared to most traditional manufacturer's documentation and by itself makes it a very good value proposition for hobbyists.
Because this article is about ipad vs book, here is my personal experience with eInk readers (no Light Sony PRS-350, light layer Kobo Aura HD) and personal setup of red on black on amoled on minimal lightness Samsung Note 10:

Personally I define something to not affect my sleep, when I got trouble staying awake after one or two chapters on a workday.

PRS-350 (no light eink): Like a real book, it mostly depends on the light setup of the room. With a warm, indirect and just enough to not have trouble reading dim light, I easily get sleepy and in trouble to stay awake long enough to poweroff device and lamp. I did fall asleep with device in hand often enough, even on a plane once.

Aura HD (light layer eink, one of the first gens): Had to stop myself reading often after looking at the clock or how many chapters I read. Just one more chapter, was a real problem with it. But I didn't had any trouble falling asleep after putting it away.

Note10 kobo reader (amoled, red text on black, "background light off mode"): Need more time than PRS-350 or real book, but I definitely got trouble keeping my eyes open after a while. Sometimes I switch it off and already fall asleep before I get the chance to put the phone out of my hand.

Note10 anime reader app/websites/etc: Even without videos or other animated/interactive media, I stay awake indefinitely. If I fall into that trap, it is common for me to stay awake to at least 2am, sometimes up to 5am.
It's somewhat disturbing that paying someone a reasonable price is a question of morality rather than jurisprudence. If you left establishments in other countries having payed 20% less than was on your bill, it could well be a matter for the police (in practice of course if it was a small absolute amount, perhaps they wouldn't bother the first time you did it...).
In theory this is true. In practice... I don't know. Lots of countries have fairly decent service quality without a strong tipping culture.

Edit: OK, there is one big difference: tipping is encouraged by the employer while bribery is not.
Fuck the Super Game Boy: Introduction
The collusion between massive companies to keep out smaller competitors is the thrust of the matter, not what levers they pulled.
A glass of red wine is 250ml.
There's a classic process here:

1) successfully crowdfund a hardware concept

2) Wait for the productionized version of that concept to show up on AliExpress for 10% of the unit cost if you manufactured yourself

3) Buy a few pallets off AliExpress, ship them to your backers.
My girlfriend is Ukranian, and we left Ukraine 2 months ago (for reasons completely unrelated to Russian threats btw).

She is going to start a new (remote) job, where the onboarding was originally planned to be mid-March in Kyiv, because they have an office there.

Last week, her future manager asked in all seriousness, if she would be able to go to Kyiv to pick up her new laptop...
I'd love to hear how. Did you go computer to computer, since LAN in the early 80s was not really a common thing except for big businesses. Was this late 80s? I was a Banyan Vines guy vs. Netware by then.
And that will take years.

Agreed but I am not going to suggest to people to get into combat if that is not their thing. I still think the next best thing would be to talk to experienced people as part of stress is worrying about the unknown unknowns. Talking to someone can at least limit their worries to the known unknowns. But you are right, talking to someone may give them a pinch of solace rather than full combat readiness.
I have friends in Russia but if I relate their thoughts I will be downvoted and flagged to oblivion. There's no room for "the other view" on HN. Look at any old thread about PRC and see how it goes. When it smells a little of politics HN quickly devolve and moderation is needed.
These people believe that only the USA makes real decisions out of free will and everything else is only a consequence of those decisions or others uncontrollable reactions to those decisions. Apparently being an expert in geopolitics is mainly just about having a story and sticking to it through thick and thin.
It is way easier to get funding through licensing fees than non-deductible donations.
I would love an option to buy a MacBook with a detachable screen.

Would probably extend the life span a bit too,
>you should be able to compile git linux git with gcc 4.7.4 (the last C gcc which has beyond than enough extensions to write a kernel)

By this logic why not write the entire kernel in assembly? Tools evolve and improve over time and it makes sense to migrate to better tools over time. We shouldn't have to live in the past because you refuse to update your compiler.
Reading this I started to wonder if footlocker could actually be from feohtlác (warfare) instead of 'a locker down by the foot of the bed'.
Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System
> Finland is a more complicated case, since they already have a specific agreement with Russia

What, do you mean the Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948[1]? That ended in 1992, and "[w]hen in January 1992 the new Treaty of Friendship was complemented by the exchange of notes terminating the 1948 treaty, the last remnant of restrictions on an independent Finnish foreign policy were formally removed."[2]

> and are so vulnerable. They may prefer the status quo.

I doubt it.[3] The Finns have been vulnerable to Russia before, and know how to hold a grudge. A majority[4] is for membership now.

On Friday the fifth of March (I think it was), the Eduskunta -- the Finnish Parliament -- debated NATO membership. And not one, but two Citizens' Initiatives that have each gathered enough signatures to make (further?) parliamentary discussion mandatory.

___

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Soviet_Treaty_of_1948

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20181125193537/https://www.forei...

[3]: Source: Personal experience; lived here for 27 years now.

[4]: https://yle.fi/news/3-12337202
Building the Google Photos Web UI (2018)
Collaborator Needed: Looking for Collaborators in Unique Study of Butterflies
Good catch, sorry about that. Looks like it was only ~40% of democrats in the house that voted to go to Iraq.
Also,

"Third, in the present study, the LE-eBook was set to maximum brightness throughout the 4-h reading session"
Plus, I ask when did democracy get defined as “those who can pay get a say”?

Also, non-public companies exist.
> The idea that software developers are underpaid is very laughable, we are paid more than medical doctors who literally saves lives.

Are you saying that doctors aren't underpaid?
Not that you asked my opinion, but $23/year for screendimming software--its no wonder people crack this.

The only realistic scenario that I'd pay that is if my employer was fronting the cost. Then again, maybe for some people it really is delivering that much value.

Lunar lite and rcmd seem priced fairly. If it makes you feel any better (probably not), the people pirating your software probably wouldn't have paid for it anyhow. Or if they did pay for it, would pay for it with things like stolen app store giftcards.

In another life, I was quite money-limited, and so I downloaded basically every game, movie, song, and app. I didn't feel badly about it either. I was never going to buy the media. I couldn't. Once I got old enough and had enough disposable income to not have to pirate things, I stopped. But quashing my piracy would have never equated in more sales. Anyone who sees a pirate download and assume that's a lost sale is deluded--its not happening.

I think the best methods are trying to get people to pay (who haven't already) are probably guilt or a productive-spirited suggestion. If you can detect that someone is cracking your software or doesn't have a valid license, put a donation link in the shape of a coffee cup in the corner of your software. At least people have the option to support you. Otherwise--you'll never best the crackers.
"5-over-1" refers to building codes, not # of stories: multiple floors of "Type 5" wooden frame over a single floor of "Type 1" Concrete construction.

"5-over-1"s happen to always look like every other up-and-coming new "urban middies" with 75-95th percentile rents. Generally with names following this format: "The [Noun]".
RNE is actually banned in Russia. You can go to jail for having their symbolics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_Sector is not banned and actually is taking part in Ukrainian politics and military.
Did any of them outright deny what a genocidal dictator was doing like Chomsky did with Pol Pot?
What is modern identity politics but a big word that academics and élites dreamed up for tribalism?

You may believe they are different because your ideology needs for you to believe they are different. But at heart, there is no difference. Using terms like "modern identity politics" just allows you to discuss the topic in academia and polite society. On the streets, when the tiki torches, rifles, and baseball bats come out, it really is just tribalism. Different tribes going at each other precisely because they are each the "other".
RT's cover of the war is quite good if you want to read the party line view of it in english - which of course is interesting. TASS is better though.

RT cut down their tabloid tone a notch too.

RTs main problem is that it is called Russia Today. That is a worthless name to do foreign psyops ... learn from al-Jazeera.
Freshmeat was FLOSS specific I think.
> In a similar way that changing the "personnel department" to "human resources" shifted the focus of practically all industry, ….

I read recently, though where I can't remember, that this was not just a gradual change but a specific one championed by, among others, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernestine_Gilbreth_Carey), co-author of Cheaper by the dozen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheaper_by_the_Dozen). The Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources#Origins_of_the... does not mention her, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources#History suggests that her work at Macy's was around the right time.
Interesting how the majority of use, if economics is to help us judge, of machine learning is to manipulate people into wasting time or buying certain products and the discussion of energy so far, has no one up in arms against it, and I doubt there are many brave enough here to risk being called a Luddite to do so. Crypto currencies certainly don't get the same nuanced treatment - but perhaps discussion is too filled with loud minorities.
Wasn't crackdown 3 supposed to have this tech but it got pulled at the last minute? There they were supposed to render the really complicated physics like when a building or similar collapses in the cloud. Thought it was a great idea at the time.
> The e-book/printed editions will most likely be sold on a “pay what you want” basis, and in either case, the web version will always be available online in full.

I will get out of Russia in a few months and then figure out the best way to deliver a hard copy.
> If Russia is running on pirated software, it will be a nightmare.

Wasn’t this already the case for pretty much every entity outside the government and the largest corporations?
This feels illegal but I’m certainly no lawyer. I’ve never heard of this sort of thing happening before for w2 employees. Learn something new every day.
Why is the Linux mascot a penguin?
It's irrelevant in the scope of the discussion. Iraq '03 was wrong, and the current Russian invasion of a democratic country is wrong.
If I can make a custom search engine removing e.g. Pintrest from the results, I'd gladly pay. $5 per 1000 queries seems expensive though.
According to Paul Allen's book [1] about his time at Microsoft (admittedly a biased source), his particularly critical contribution was an 8088 emulator/simulator for the PDP-10. That allowed them to write and even interactively debug (if I remember right) BASIC for the 8088 on the PDP. It would've been hopeless to develop directly on a microcomputer, so they would've had to have written on the minicomputer, transferred the binary across and see if it worked, and iterate like that.

That contribution wouldn't show up directly in the BASIC source code, since the emulator wasn't part of BASIC itself.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Idea-Man-Memoir-Co-founder-Microsof...
Oh - The nostalgia - the memories...

My first foray into programming. I remember skipping breaks to go to our computer room (super chilled due to Air conditioning) and popping in a 5.1/4 inch floppy diskette and loading this...
Interesting visual tool and mental framework. Unfortunately, I think this would have "failed" in all the decision processes I have been a part of. Why? Each of the questions is valid, but bad decisions usually stem from incorrectly answering one of these questions.

> How valuable is the feature to the target users, truly?

Take this question for example. Accurately answering it is not always possible. A common mistake is to ask your users or take their word for how valuable they perceive a feature to be. That approach is better than nothing, but can often lead teams astray. This isn't because your users are stupid, it's because your users don't have the perspective that you have in terms of (a) what is possible, and (b) the knock-on effects of the feature on other aspects of the software value proposition.

Note: the above is _not_ true about bugs. If a new feature is actually a bug/issue fix raised by your users, they are usually right.

> What is the time, technical effort, and cost to build the feature?

Estimating technical effort is so difficult that it is an entire field in itself. When working on complex systems, you also have to consider the future complexity introduced when building on top of the new feature (linked to the last question).
The regulation requires equal access for political candidates during an election, which is substantially different and weaker than the claim I was rebutting.
to give a very flagrant example on a project that i am currently working on:

- GCC 11 build: 4m20 (https://github.com/celtera/avendish/runs/5449993123?check_su...)

- Clang 14 build: 2m40 (https://github.com/celtera/avendish/runs/5449993033?check_su...)
> How can we know what Russia is going to do in Ukraine? Did Putin tell you?

Actually, Putin has given a few speeches on the topic. In the most recent one, I believe, he said that he wanted to annex Ukraine. After a previous speech in which he said that he doesn't believe Ukraine has any existence as an ethnic state, since Ukrainians are (to him) just Russians.
An even better deconstruction of religion was laid out in the Metamagical Themas column, in the January 1983 issue of Scientific American: "Virus-like sentences and self-replicating structures" (https://www.scientificamerican.com/magazine/sa/1983/01-01/).

The article was about memes. And it presented religion as a meme: a viral idea that propagates partly through terrorizing the host mind ("If you don't believe, if you don't spread this meme, you'll burn in HELL!" - although it was more nuanced than my one-sentence summary...)
> The web is still to this day unable to deliver an experience like Flash could, and likely will never be able to.

Not only that but the DX was so much better than anything today in the JS world.

We had a TS like language 15 years ago. IMO TC39 where really stupid to trash the ES4 spec (based on AS3).

The Flash standard library was really awesome. The only third party dependency I used regularly was a tween engine (Zigo first and then TweenLite) and a Signals implementation.

From what I've read the perf and security issues could have been improved but I'm not sure Adobe had that much interest in it. Honestly I think Adobe was more than happy to let Flash go. I don't think it brought that much revenue.
> Local media suggest groundhogs have no bearing on future weather patterns.
Drafting software engineers would be an utter failure. Trying to get a team of well-paid, motivated engineers on the same page can be like herding cats. Getting a team of bitter engineers working against their will, possibly on a project they don't morally agree with, will never, ever, ever work.

Just think about the possibility for sabotage. How are you going to tell the difference between a commit that is broken because Bob is kind of incompetent, and a commit that is broken because Larry had to leave his $195K per year, work from home job to maintain your shitty targeting app? Are you going to court martial someone because their integration tests break?

The US government definitely has a problem recruiting young talent, but that could be solved almost overnight by paying better and legalizing marijuana, no draft required.