skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. In my experience, most people are pretty decent and honest.

There's something which extreme competition does which breaks that, both by whom it selects, and by how it changes culture. MIT a quarter-century ago was much more honest than MIT today. Peer institutions -- one stop down -- are also still much more honest, although I suspect that will change in a decade or two.

The same change happened in several of MIT's peer schools.
This shows what a terrible technology nuclear power is in terms of security. Everything from fuel to waste is a potential target in times of war or terrorist attacks. So even opponents without nuclear weapons of their own can turn a conflict into a nuclear one.
Google can make it easier to identify which apps are taking up space and slowing the system down, so that users will uninstall and developers will respond. I had an Android up until July and the interface for understanding and removing app memory usage was still poor.
>> I get that everyone thinks Putin is crazy and therefore everything every Russian does is suicidal, but come on, we ought be able to put our emotions aside and talk about this properly.

Thinking that putin is crazy is actually a result of talking about all this properly. Because no one in the world can find another explanation.
Interesting perspective, with which I happen to disagree. But I appreciate considering it, thank you.
Congress finally delivers a budget, and NASA gets most of what it wants
Depends. Do you want the government to control the internet?
A little over a month ago, the laptop I wanted (14” MBP, M1 Max, 64GB/2TB) was showing 2+ month ship times on Apple.com but it was in stock at B&H Photo and I picked it up the same day. YMMV.
> The complete lack of what HDMI port it uses is indeed pretty bizarre

Isn't "Support for one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz" as stated on their specs page[1] pretty clear? It's an HDMI 2.0 port and I think mentioning the supported resolution and refresh rate is more helpful to customers than the HDMI spec version.

[1] https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/
Most software is incapable of being incorrect, because correct behavior isn’t defined! Hence the questions here about who’s to say what’s correct. When the typical programmer says a program is “buggy” it means “it didn’t do what I want.” That’s a pleasantness property, not a correctness one.
Putin has backed himself into a corner. The only way the Russian government seems to be willing to move forward is to control the narrative, and so far that has been spinning a false narrative about liberating Ukraine from Nazis. At this point the information curtain is dropping in full force inside the country with extreme laws being put in place punishing "lies" about the way with up to 15 years imprisonment plus cutting off external media and social media.

Chernobyl has been in Russian control since the second or third day of the war. Strategically it is a pathway between Kyiv and Russia. I doubt Russia wants to destroy it, it'll do way more harm to Russia than anyone else, but this is a war and infrastructure is being destroyed.
what industry are you in?
There's anarchy between states - the US is spying on Chinese industries, just as China is spying on US industries, it's how the world is.

That said, this man isn't a spy - the fact that the government couldn't rig a jury in Tennessee makes very clear that he is innocent.
Delivery app Glovo to provide humanitarian support in Ukraine
> What's all the more amusing is that the criticism is fundamentally grounded in the same fundamental paradox that states face, per Scott: that a complex domain cannot be accurately modeled or understood, that all attempts to do so are at best compromises and in error, and that any model will prove insufficient and unequal to the task.

I now understand why you consider it amusing; thanks for your insights on this topic.
Cloudflare refuses to pull out of Russia, says Putin would celebrate shutoff
You mean what that protects against?

It provides the first part of my post, authenticating the packages.

The second part is cutting out misbehaving connections. On this case on the article, it would be trivial, and governments should be on the ISP shoulders making them make call everywhere and cutting some of their clients. But there are many attacks where the ISPs don't have enough information to act if they implement something like BCP38.
> the company's worth seems somehow very small with the talent they got

They started a project on the basis of refusing to compromise (on aesthethic-usability choices), in a niche (desktop Linux) that most users choose trying to escape such refusals by mainstream desktop platforms. They are trying to monetize on a platform (again, Linux) where most people are ideologically bent on producing and consuming software for free. It's like they are actively fighting the platform and the ecosystem at every turn.

The surprise is not how small they are, but how long they've managed to survive on donations.
Moving targets make 9-5 work more like entrepreneurship in the sense that you have strict processes that are common-sense (effectively) but to stand out you have to be creative at the process level on top of being creative at a context-specific job level too.
But if 10% or even just 1% of users do care, it's absolutely worth it for Amazon. That's the point.
at least in the US that's a lot harder because the health insurance for my family of 5 is through the roof. even if i saved a whole lot of money it would be burned through easily by health care costs in months.

health care is more expensive for my family than my property taxes + mortgage
You're talking about the company that publicly extolled their own "courage" when they removed the headphone jack from their phones.
> basic power dynamics

power dynamics vary. some developers can always easily get another job, so they have a lot of power. in a case like that, asking the developer to rate their satisfaction seems normal & good, like a customer satisfaction survey.
If I understand the article correctly, are (some/most) files for sale on the iTunes store taken from CD rips rather than made directly from the masters?

That sounds impressively sketchy; anyone who has used AccurateRip can probably testify that CD ripping errors and manufacturing errors are surprisingly common.
Yea, Hu was put in a very poor situation by disclosing a connection and then being told to hide it. He probably should have disclosed it anyway on the application, but I am glad he got free.
Super impressive, that’s a lot of installed energy capacity for < $5k!

Is the $5.66 / 18.85kWh = $0.30 per kWh factoring in how much was your own supply?

$0.30 is about what I pay in MA for Generation plus Supply plus Taxes & Fees all together, and MA is on the higher side for energy costs in the US. Still very happy to be driving a Tesla right now though.
That's... a very weird, reaching argument to make. And also not an international incident, since it's just some graffiti, not espionage or assassination or whatever. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.
Show HN: Prepare your tax return on the command-line
Hi HN,

I wanted to be able to easily compute my tax return using simple open-source software and be able to trust that it was correct. So I'm building that software, with a goal of keeping it simple to add and maintain tax forms/logic so that portion can be crowdsourced.

At its core, HabuTax, is a very simple dependency solver. The tax logic is modular and specified at line-level granularity (one formula per line per tax form). This means there is less to keep in your head when implementing, since each field must only consider its own inputs and output, making it easier and less error-prone.

I would love your help, whether that is trying it out and reporting bugs/suggesting improvements, implementing additional forms or adding support for more scenarios, or submitting anonymous tax data to help build a test suite.

Thanks!
>"See how stupid that argument sounds"

Your argument sounds even more stupid. You are comparing something commonly recognized as a crime to some artificial concept forced down the throat of a country that was being exploited and was frankly in their right to use whatever means to get out of that subservient state. The west is patented everything by now. Expecting the rest of the world to serve that system and be poor forever is disgusting.
I've been seeing this too for about an hour. LFS over git, builds and their large media service are not working.
John von Neumann Thought He Had the Answers
Thanks, that's fantastic. I'm also autistic, and yes, this just looked like a transcript of a normal conversation, so I wasn't sure what the draw was. Your explanation cleared that up for me.
I remember a lesson from years ago about presentations, this was in a military context, that either you can do the talking or the slides can do the talking. Pick one, don't try to do both.
Russia has already warned about Ukrainians building a dirty bomb, so you're probably not far off.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-without-evidence...
If they are working for sub-20k salaries, they're already impoverished.
Having worked at several F500 multinationals, I can say confidently that, yup, no different from gen pop. They were corrupt as hell.

Big SaaS providers offered us 40k each to get on board with some all-in Cloud offerings. I'd bet my hat some of the offshore IT companies we used were throwing kickbacks to Ops Managers.

Not speculation, either -- there were executives fired for such things. One set up a shell company and was billing it for consulting services to the tune of 400k per year. He got busted and probably faced charges, probably.
Putin's military failures force bitter Russian reckoning
Indeed which is why I like rust so much. The best thing they did was to make every program statically linked, so the build process succeeds 99% of the time. The only time I’ve had it fail for me really is when a project depends on OpenSSL and I don’t have it configured to it’s liking. Those time bring me back to the “make” days when I’d have to spend an afternoon installing some tool with all its dependencies, and even then sometimes I’d sometimes give up in frustration.
What Does the “Connection Not Private” Warning Mean?
Applying Product Thinking to Slack’s Internal Compute Platform
I've had this same experience. Per the resume, 12+ years of experience coding and leading teams. In the course of the interview, I got a whiff of "I think this guy is full of it" so I asked him to write a simple algorithm on the whiteboard. "Write a function that takes a list of integers and return their sum." In many ways, simpler than fizz-buzz. Candidate couldn't even get started.
I completely agree but there have been always two forces against it: 1. People will do in their free time whatever they want. 2. They rationalize it with "competition is good".

And so here I am, the only Linux desktop user in a team of 20 developers with Macs. My faith is strong for I'm the guardian of freedom.

Started in the 90s with Slackware and have tried at least a dozen distros and right now my algorithm for installing a distro: choose a popular one, install, if drivers work keep it otherwise try another. Couldn't care less about Gnome vs KDE, pulseaudio vs whatever, systemv vs systemd, rpm vs deb, directory layout, bla bla bla...
Zero trust Kubernetes network architecture
That problem is largely self inflicted though: women are far more picky than men.
Some tiny personal programs I've written
I found a typo in one of his solar calculations, which seemed weird given how influential the book is going to be.
In my experience it’s definitely about company size / stakeholder count rather than user base. You don’t need a bunch of people to sign off if there aren’t a bunch of people.
Twitter Spaces: Ask Ukrainian Open-Source Software Devs About War
I don’t really know, sorry. There are a lot of moving pieces as the company grows (we are hiring) and the interplay between the pure consulting, open source work, growing the Venture fund is dynamic.
Over the last week, workers have been tortured at this plant by the Russian occupiers. Vehicles are coming in and out of the exclusion zone, tracking radioactive materials all over Ukraine. The spent fuel is not be an issue (yet), as long as Russians hold their fire. This is all getting extremely serious - and I hope the world can one day say "we did everything we could to help Ukraine", because at the moment they certainly can't.

Source: me (and others of course)

(I'm sure deep in my comment history here there will be something about me formerly running tours at Chernobyl, I have a lot of contacts, I have met in person with two Chernobyl workers here in Kyiv just today - and I only post information I know to be 100% accurate)

Hello from Kyiv.
Real world example M1 Max;

GTAV on Win11 Arm VM - okay, but not great.

GTAV on Crossover - much much better, lack of joystick support (but that's a crossover issue)
> Is apple sacrificing the resellers to maintain its M1Max/RAM stock for Mac Studio/new products?

Why wouldn't they?
Keys don't register on menu screen.
> edit: How does Android even calculate those numbers? They don't add up at all...

No idea, but I would also like to know. My apps are so small that once they reported a negative size.

(Found the picture! https://imgur.com/a/KDI9Y4M)
It's sort of the reality of geopolitics though. How would the US respond to Mexico joining some adversarial pact with China?

And keep in mind the Ukrainian constitution forbade this as well, until the coup/revolution in 2014, and the further laws passed recently bringing this closer to reality all but guaranteed a Russian response.
Yeah but no one wants to be dating in their late 30s (I certainly don't.)
>Guy wasn't happy with his pay, left to another company and now he's asking even more, from a failing company.
If he just wants to kill what's left he should just say it.

That wasn't my understanding at all. Looks like, he left for another job to secure his income while also reducing Elementary's costs (due to not having to pay his salary). Other founder automatically assumes they should get the whole company now. End of story. Sounds to me like he just doesn't want to give up his share in the company, at the end of the day, which is 100% his right to do, since he _owns those shares_.
Details:

> Ukrainian open source developers will come together to talk about their experiences of Russian invasion.

> Come join us today 22:00 EET.[0]

[0] https://twitter.com/denysdovhan/status/1501486563842211843
Has switching to a bluetooth headset on Linux ever been non-buggy? I mean I imagine for specific hardware-software combinations it works robustly, but I feel like this is a periodic issue I have to deal with on Linux machines
Why not? 'Apple' is a trademark right?
He's been acting strangely for a few months now, and is not the same cool, strategic Putin of old. So yeah, any attempt to gauge his state of mind is going to be that much less accurate.

That's why the West has refused to impose no-fly zones, and why America refused to allow Poland to play pass-the-mig-29 via Rammstein. There must be no perceived direct American military involvement. This has to look like Russia digging her own grave if there's ever to be a hope of him being quietly retired.
Will that 1% stop buying from Amazon, or will they just use the website instead? Gut instinct (and personal experience) says they're not really losing anything here.
Yes, but not so many that choose Apple, as their platform. Of those that do, they like laptops (like me). They are the target for the MacBook Pros.

Creatives, on the other hand, probably have a 50% or more Apple platform user base, and also like fixed workstations.

I used to run a dev shop for a photographic equipment manufacturer, and the Apple platform (even relying on the users having beefy workstations), was quite important.
Usually[0] contacting the operator's ISP and informing them of the situation will get said ISP to contact said operator. All that outbound traffic does represent a cost to the ISP, after all. A call from your ISP usually gets a bit more respect than a call from some random person.

[0]- In the US; I don't know about anywhere else
Show HN: TimeCheck compares availability to find times when everyone is free
Finding a time to get together can turn into a flood of texts back and forth as people throw out times and shoot them down over and over again.

Frustrated by this, I started TimeCheck as a side project with the goal of making it easier to find a time to gather for drinks, a meeting, or to play games/sports/music.

TimeCheck takes a snapshot of each person's availability for the selected dates, compares them, then presents the date/times when all are free.

Everyone in the group can vote on a preferred time from the results and the person that created the TimeCheck confirms the final time.

Then you one-tap add the confirmed time to your iCal.

All via one app bubble inside an iMessage chat.

In the future I'd like to expand the scope so that TimeCheck works for iOS and Android users in the same chat, and make a WhatsApp version. The app already supports timezones but it only works for iCal right now.

TimeCheck is available for beta testing via Testflight.

If you would like to try it out please visit: https://timecheck.us

Feedback from early adopters will shape the next iteration so if this could possibly be useful to you please give it a try and let me know what I can do to make it better for your use case!

If you have comments on the merits of the idea, your pain points when scheduling, the landing page, experience with other scheduling apps... please share them here. Thank you!
How to Do Single User Performance Testing
> And the worse thing is that they only get away with it because the competition is worse.

youtube-dl is their competition, and using it is as easy as shooting fish in a barrel.

DRM sucks. Don't sponsor it.
Hi pkavanagh. What countries do you support? I live in Israel, can I send and receive money from Europe? Turkey? The US?

I really don't want to sign up to the newsletter, this is basic information that in my opinion should be freely shared on the web site.
MacOS is very popular for software development, do you have a citation for it being less popular than Linux?

And that sounds like your specific test suite. For me, tests run a little quicker on my m1 than on my boss’s Linux equivalent.

Do you have any better, more objective tests that I could replicate?
I don't think gender transition for kids is compatible with child sex laws. If a kid can't consent to sex, even if they're verbally willing and consenting, how on earth can they consent to cutting off their penis? Seems a bit absurd to me
Is that an important difference? Who cares how the table is created.

Is it a table or not?
It's the app developers. You do not need to request any permissions just to download files. See the table on this page: https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage
it's deceptive at step 1, and you're selling trust.
I don't know how bright you want them to be. But I've got the 75 watt equivalents and they are usually to bright for us, we dim them slightly.
I really struggle with 1:1s primarily because:

1. Do you want career growth?

No, and its hard to tell that to my manager. More growth leads to more responsibility, which is more stress. I'm happy where I am and I don't want promotions.

I'm afraid to tell my manager that, because which manager wants an unambitious engineer? There was someone like that on our team and he was laid off in the last layoff round, so I have to "pretend" I'm working towards the next level.

2. Do you want more interesting work?

Also no, I'm perfectly happy maintaining our current codebase, not interested in new and shiny projects because my most interesting time is spent at home with my kiddo.

Any tips on how I can handle my 1:1s?
Should Mr Biden also be fact checking all of his propaganda ads, too?
Watching yesterday’s keynote, I couldn’t help but notice the “homogenized diversity” that’s become a mainstay of Apple’s post-COVID product announcements. Even though there were folks from all cultures (which is great), their hand gestures and word emphasis were unusually uniform.

I’d love to see a glimpse of the presentation skills class they probably have through Apple University.
... $99 plus all applicable taxes and duties on the item you're importing.
Big fan of PipeWire, although I wish the tooling could work directly with PipeWire, instead of going through pactl. It's there, it's just not user-friendly. I ended up writing a tool for changing volume/muting that directly uses pw-cli: https://github.com/smasher164/pw-volume.
The biggest issue in real life use cases is lens distortion - these alignment algorithms usually don't correct barrel, pin-cushion or more complex lens distortions, making the alignment imperfect.
> UN nuclear watchdog says Chernobyl power cut has no critical impact on safety
The loss of power at the Chernobyl plant does not have any critical impact on safety at the site, the UN’s nuclear watchdog says.

> The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) tweeted that the “heat load of spent fuel storage pool and volume of cooling water at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [are] sufficient for effective heat removal without [the] need for electrical supply”.
Happy Disability Awareness Month in the States
So for example the Desktop is created from different independent parts (maybe now is different in GNOME case where it might be a big blob).
So you have the Shell, the Window Manager, the toolkit for the applications and maybe some core libraries.

Now say you want to change the fonts to only use Comic Sans, you need to cnfigure the Shell, the toolkit and Window manager(for the font used in the window toolbar), a place to select Qt fonts and a place to configure GTK3,3 fonts so you have 3-4 different places. In Windows most apps would use whatever fonts they want, can't remember how is on Apple. On KDE the different components are threated as independent, your distro configures them and you have a Settings application that will dynamically plug the different stuff to give you configuration, this is why you get different places that allows you to change fonts. GNOME will not let you configure Qt fonts, and they will attempt to hide the options for you since they don't want to support anything then their hard coded stuff and the theme their designer loves.

You can't put more Settings in GNOME and obtain a KDE< KDE is different because on how it is created, small team of volunteers working on their small application and component without a big ego dude deciding if we should add a button or menu. It suffers of being designed by developers and actual users and not a pro designer that never uses the shit he designs for.
Nah. We have enough AT&T-style soulless megacorps. Give me some flavor.
where do these two constants come from? knuth?
Well stated.

We also have a tendency to conflate the requirements on software systems with respect to security threats as being somewhat similar to the requirements on other kinds of engineering with respect to safety and environmental threats, and I think that does a disservice to the vastly different scope of responsibility involved.

When I see people arguing that software engineers need to treat security as seriously as, say civil engineers treat structural stability when designing a bridge, or mechanical engineers treat vehicle crash safety, I agree to an extent, but I also think it’s worth considering:

Most bridges are not designed to actually survive being deliberately attacked with the kinds of weapons nation states can bring to bear on them. When militaries get involved, bridges tend to fail.

Likewise, civilian car safety testing does not make cars that are able to survive attacks that nation state actors can carry out with things like tanks, mines, or drones.

We need to be realistic in our expectations for what level of military threat civilian systems can reasonably be expected to deal with unaided.