skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been there, and unfortunately had to participate in that. Execs sometimes have a hard time conveying information, so PPT to the rescue! I want to blame management schools for their over-reliance on PPT, but in all honestly, it's hard to teach people to be good communicators.
Goodbye engadget – thanks uBlock origin
Clicking on the link redirect me straight to a completely different ads link.

https://www.engadget.com/apples-400-height-adjustable-studio...
What would you call a lab which studies and looks to defend against diseases which could be weaponized?
Music you buy through iTunes doesn’t have DRM. Not music through the subscription service.
23 people were killed and 23 more injured in a Walmart in El Paso in 2019 in a mass shooting. Is it your position that Walmart has sole responsibility for failing to prevent those deaths?
> you should have been upfront with the new company about leaving on bad terms

You're right. I should have.

> the candidate pretty much controls who they're giving me as references!

I was required to give three references, one of them must be my manager. The other two were positive but I had no choice about the manager reference. I also didn't want to assume they would use the opportunity to screw me. When I left they even offered me more money but I declined so I must not have been horrible at my job.
It always boggles my mind when someone goes through all the effort required to build a product and then launches it via a landing page that has no screenshot and no explanation of what it does.

Anyone who visits your site is already busy and has a million other things to do and sites to visit. If you the deeply passionate creator of the app can't be bothered to take the time to show what your own product does, your visitors are not going to burn their own time trying to figure it out.
Isn't "half the internet acts...." the same sort of emotional appeal that click bait is?
Upstream Redis doesn't. At least in my builds from upstream, luaopen_package and luaopen_os aren't even available on the binary. Debian does things differently, though. They need package in order to require the "json" and "bit" libraries, which are packaged separately on Debian.

Another thing that would be interesting and affect upstream as well would be getting the "debug" package back from the redis error function.
100% believable. I know someone who is a COO of a smaller company by employee count but very high revenue. They literally pay an offshore company to produce basic bullet points overnight based on notes.
> even if it doesn't use all of those weapon types itself.

US has changed to a limited interpretation of what a biological weapon is, and considers non-deadly biological agents to not be bioweapons when it comes to treaties banning them.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121204112835/http://www.fas.or...

The US does research into chemical and bio-weapons they do not consider to be lethal:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121119043547/http://www.fas.or...
That was for animal diseases and yes, DoD has a department for that as well: https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Combat-Support....

There is no conspiracy here unless you just want to see it.
I find them perfectly serviceable? They're not a thing of beauty, but neither are they an eyesore, which is all I really need out of a tool.
And already working, here in France the main leftist candidate (JL. Mélenchon) has used these events as definitive proof nuclear energy is not sustainable (France's presidential elections are taking place next month), anti-nuclear rhetoric has been one of his hobby-horses for a while now, conflating civil nuclear with military.
Kyiv Declaration
> This allowed NASA managers to imply a hierarchy of importance in their head: the writing lower down and in smaller font was ignored

These managers were REALLY that braindead? These are NASA managers in charge of life-or-death decisions, and their dull eyes glaze over as spittle puddles underneath them because they're too stupid to read one whole entire paragraph worth of text without ignoring subheadings because they "don't look important"? I hope they're happy with the result of their childish intellectual laziness.
I still can't figure out who would buy this given that name brand, active, 2m Thunderbolt 4 cables go for under $60. And generic brand 2m cables that are tested and well reviewed for under $40.
During this war there has not been legitimate danger of nuclear accidents, just a lot of concern about this hypothetical situation. To me it seems that Ukraine is trying to use nuclear concerns to stall the war and gain more international support.

Arguably the only reason this war is possible is because Germany shutdown all their nuclear plants (there are a few plants left slated to be closed this year) and now rely on Russia for oil & gas. The existing sanctions are hurting, but Russia is still collecting hundreds of millions of dollars a day in oil & gas revenue. That revenue has actually gone up dramatically during the war due to increased gas & oil prices.

Your concern is real, and we should do more to secure our nuclear power from accidents, but in practice energy dependence seems a greater threat to global security than nuclear power plant terrorism (also consider that there is some relation between Iraq exporting oil and wars occurring there). Similarly, the use of coal (which would be unnecessary with more nuclear production) is responsible for a much greater reduction of life span than terrorist attacks and nuclear accidents.
At a previous job, my favorite to see were the ones with 3 slides. It was like nobody could communicate information without powerpoint.

1. Title slide with company logo
2. Content slide with 2 or 3 bullet points
3. Closing/thank you slide with contact info
It's not clear to me who is doing the propaganda here (the ads vs the article about the ads

Just, Devil's Advocate, but why can't it be both?
It isn't so much about aesthetics, but the look screams 'apple'. Apple is an aspirational lifestyle brand
The C programming language by Kernighan and Ritchie, the very source of hello world.
Precisely - China has been repeatedly saying they wouldn’t invade Taiwan. What you are describing is our western rhetoric built around it, which essentially assumes everything they say is a lie.

We are perversely enthusiastic towards wars. Chinese - the people, not just their government - hate war. Even if sometimes it’s not a good thing, like when declining to join economic war against Russia.
Taiwan is complicated.

Taiwan, the island, was once a part of territory claimed by Imperial China. Eventually, Taiwan was given to Japan in some war back in the day.

Right before WWII, civil war broke out. The Chinese Communist party wanted to overthrow the ROC and reform the government in their image. Then WWII happened and they agreed to pause the civil war to deal with the Japanese coming in from East.

WWII ended with the defeat of Japan and as part of the terms of surrender, Taiwan was given back to the ROC.

After WWII, the civil war was back on, but with the ROC having been significantly weakened by WWII. Eventually, the CCP overthrew the ROC on the mainland and formed the People's Republic of China (PRC), while the ROC fled to the island of Taiwan.

The PRC sees Taiwan as part of China thanks to the Japanese terms of surrender. Taiwan was ceded to the government of China, they are the government of China. QED, Taiwan is theirs.

The ROC sees themselves as the rightful government of China in exile. Yes, Taiwan belongs to China, but they are China. The PRC needs to give the mainland back to them.

Things have progressed since then. There are some on the island with different opinions these days.

The policy of the PRC and some factions in the ROC is the One-China policy. There is only one China, it includes the mainland and Taiwan. The only disagreement is about which government is legitimate.

Some in the ROC advocate a two-state solution, in which you'd have the PRC and ROC, each with their territories and that's that.

Then there are people in Taiwan who feel that they should be their own independent nation and not "Chinese" at all.

So basically, with regards to your question, the answer is every answer possible. I think the official position is One-China though. I think there's enough of that faction to make winning elections impossible if you explicitly reject it.
"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it"... as the saying goes. The UKR ultra-nacionalistic paramilitaries scattered around but also incorporated into general UKR armed forces are not your peace loving western stereotype "freedom fighters" for which they are portrait in the West (same as in Syria or Afganistan fighters that were prepared by the "powers to be" to fight for whatever agenda...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHBdyqKpfo

Or google: wolfsangel (azov ) and go directly to pictures...
> There were a number of options. The astronauts could perform a spacewalk and visually inspect the hull. NASA could launch another Space Shuttle to pick the crew up. Or they could risk re-entry.

That's not how I remember it being presented to the public. The official word at the time was that there were no feasible rescue options. Yes, they could have done a spacewalk to inspect the damage but if it had been bad there still wasn't anything that could have been done. I think the main problem with launching a rescue mission was the time it took NASA to get a shuttle ready for launch.
Losing DFW is such a tragedy for mankind. Are there any living thinkers on his level?
> I do recall at some point they had a headphone jack that also supported optical, but don't quote me on that.

They used to on the Macbook Pro laptops (I have one). Not sure if it's still a thing with the new Pro.
What is the repayment term, 3 months?
Bundle for Ukraine offers more than 500 games for $10
Every design failure starts with an engineer hand-waving how something bad won't/can't happen.

Then you end up with self-driving cars that run over and kill innocent people and reactors that melt down because they didn't think of something.
> I'm not allowed to yell advertisements

Yes you are...
Linked from Tufte’s article, I found this interesting comment from someone’s experience at Microsoft: [1]

> Attempting to have slides serve both as projected visuals and as stand-alone handouts makes for bad visuals and bad documentation. Yet, this is a typical, acceptable approach. PowerPoint (or Keynote) is a tool for displaying visual information, information that helps you tell your story, make your case, or prove your point. PowerPoint is a terrible tool for making written documents, that's what word processors are for.

I think that’s on point for many companies. A lot of the terrible slides you see in meetings are actually intended as documentation after the fact, and few people recognize (or care) that this makes for a terrible presentation.

Ironically, I think Powerpoint isn’t such a bad tool for creating handouts. If the intended reader reads the document on their screen instead of printing it, a nice PDF with screen-shaped pages might actually be close to optimal.

You just have to be 100% clear whether you’re creating a document or a presentation.

[1] http://mamamusings.net/archives/2005/11/19/the_culture_of_th...
I'm sure the approval polling is 100% legit.
Yes! Tiny programs! And from one of my favorite zine makers and big inspirations for switching careers / getting a programming job. I need to make more of these at work. API team too busy to build an endpoint my team needs literally every day? No shame in making a mini webscraper and never wasting another minute asking them :^)
The US DoD funds a lot of peaceful science at labs around the world. This is often misinterpreted by laymen as "weapons labs" when they are just normal civilian labs. Not all research funded by the military is directly applicable to weapons. A lot of times its applicable to defense against said weapons. Which also has application in the civilian medical field.
The sanctions weren't intended to prevent military conflict- the threat of sanctions was. The threat failed.

Now the question should be, will following through on the threat mitigate the harm now or in the future? Against Russia, my guess is no. They also haven't been successful against Iran or any number of other counties.

It might be said that the effectiveness of sanctions is entirely reliant upon being able to keep a weak nation weak, rather than preventing a strong nation from preying upon weaker neighbors.
Hiring manager here-- we send out a coding assignment to do a small UI component.

It has its hits and misses.

Hits:

1. We suss out a lot of people who've been a senior engineer on their resume for years but aren't up to date on practices we care about, like accessibility, semantic HTML, app architecture etc. That stuff is important, I don't want to hire folks who ship apps, but the apps aren't WCAG 2.0 compliant or poorly tested.

2. It can definitely help rescue a candidate that we're on the fence about.

Misses:

1. Some candidates blow it off or phone it in, and out of fairness to those that did well, we can't advance them. It's a shame too, because often the reason they do that is because they have other offers on the table, or other companies they're further along on, not because they have an attitude.

2. We say it's a four hour assignment, but in truth people who do well take around 6-8. It's not because the work takes 6-8 hours, but people go above and beyond, you can tell from the git commits.

Overall, I like it our coding challenge and won't hire without it, but I'm not saying it's perfect.
Yes Prime Minister – Expelling Russian Diplomats [YouTube]
> I’ve been finding my one on ones useless recently

It sounds like you have a good problem to have. Given your described state you have space for relationship building. Many humans enjoy different kinds of chitchat. If one is able to create a positive expected emotional outcome from interactions, it acts as a thumb on the scales in your favor in other areas.

Cialdini's book "Pre-suasion" has good information about different techniques to operationalize. Below is a podcast in which he discusses the ethical use of such.

https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/robert-cialdini/
Says a lot that a man who has been dead for over a decade still generates content worthy of the HN front page.
You don't see the cultural assumptions in the slide. You don't see why defensive phrasing is used. You don't see the recriminations that people have gone through in the past.

One slide and bad culture killed seven people.
Dirty pipe exploit – testing tool
Open source silicon root of trust (RoT)
I think the thing that honestly puzzles me is: before physicists learned physics, did their entire desire to be in the field spring from “shut up and calculate”? Or was there a time in their lives (especially when they were young) where they thought (or felt) a desire to get into physics to understand the underlying mechanisms that drive the universe?
I feel like, at least for some people, the second thing must have been true. So, given that most quantum physicists seem uninterested in interpretations, where did this desire go? Did it disappear? Did the field get them to stop caring? Did it feel silly to them at some point? Did it feel hopeless? Or something else? I genuinely want to know.
A factory reset must restore the device to an "out-of-the-box" state without needing to re-download anything, so the original versions are still in the system image -- changing the button to read "uninstall" rather than "deactivate" wouldn't make any difference to the amount of user space available.
> Then they would talk about LOI, ROI, NDAs, IPOs, and all kinds of things that also had nothing to do with actually helping people.

Coming from a bootstrap background, I feel that VC backed companies have a tendency to focus way too much on vanity metrics. KPIs that make the buisness look successful, without measuring real conversions. It's like building a business purely to make a nicer looking pitch deck.

That, plus way too much emphasis on the financial/equity structure of the startup. Founders are carving out employee option pools before making their first dollar. And this focus on equity/investment/reporting becomes the CEO's full time job, when it should have been dedicated to customers.
The Blog Prize
Introducing the Substack App
I've had regularly scheduled biweekly meetings for the last several years. If we miss a meeting due to PTO or something, we don't reschedule, so meetings are sometimes a month apart.

One of my previous managers would just drop by my office on Friday afternoon to check in. This was shorter and shallower, more of a status update. My 1:1s tend to have a longer term focus: handing off responsibility for a project, and discussing which upcoming projects sound interesting.

As a soon-to-be manager myself, I will probably start with weekly 1:1s until I get to know the team well enough, then drop back to biweekly.
They're part of the same anti-Western axis with the same enemies and similar enough goals.

The Cold War has returned. Western politicians may refuse to see it, but reality has a way of making itself felt.
4. How to find if a function terminates
Sounds like you're working somewhere with an "up or out" culture? I've been there, done that, then moved on to a much nicer job. IMHO its a ridiculous way for a company to run. There are loads of people, like you or I or other commenters here, who will do a hard day's work, but don't want the extra stress and instead want enough time with our spouse and kid(s). We are nevertheless super useful to our employers. In fact, we're excellent value, because we don't chase the big bucks and we stick around gaining knowledge. My advice is GTFO from there. ;)
I commented this multiple times here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30597778)

People think because China and Russia are both opposed to the USA, then they must be friends. They are not. Especially not if Russia tries to revive the Soviet Union as a concept which hurts China's independence worse than US-type globalism.
Western feelings of unity are of no importance on this topic. Large majorities in both mainland China and Taiwan are happy with Taiwan's current status. Nothing that happens in Ukraine will convince significant numbers of Taiwanese to sign up for a proxy war.
I think it’s getting at cognitive bias more than intellect
I see SAP/Oracle folks and I run.
hello.c is meant as the first program a new student encounters when learning C. At that point, the student has enough to worry about; writing code to a file, checking for syntactic errors, basic program structure, using the compiler, executing the binary, understanding what `#include <stdio.h>` means,...

Sure, we could update it:

// hello_v2.0.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>

int main(void) {
printf("Hello, World!\n");
fflush(stdout);
if (errno != 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "error: %s\n", strerror(errno));
return errno;
}
}

But now we have different libraries, a multitude of external identifiers, control structures, blocks, return values, the concept of buffered streams, the concept of file-descriptors, the printf formatting language, program return values, boolean logic & conditionals,...

To someone who is already experienced in another language, that may not seem like a big deal, and isn't, but to someone who encounters the language for the first time, this is heavy stuff.
>>(his approval numbers are up 10% since this has started)

Is there any way to believe such a number? Isn't all independent media in Russia now banned or in hiding?

Like, I just don't see any way this could be reliably measured. If I lived in Russia and someone asked me, of course I'd say that I support the guy, I don't want to go to prison.
More discussion here, from a different announcement of the same news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30606660
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> We don't believe tech management interviews should at all be automated. You really want these to be as qualitative and human-driven as possible.

It is a convenient myth that people who build the actual systems can be put through an automated filtering process capable of sifting wheat from chafe where as those who manage them are doing subjective, qualitative work that cannot possibly be measured.
I don't suggest any conspiracy; I am just debating your claim on "reducing threat of COVID in UA Armed Forces" in 2017.
How so? If it leaked from a lab, it is almost certainly from the Wuhan lab. The Wuhan lab was a joint French-Chinese operation. Before COVID-19, EcoHealth (an organization with ties to the Wuhan lab) applied for a grant from DARPA to perform gain-of-function-esque research on COVID[1]. DARPA denied the application.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...
A far more likely case is that after seeing the discord sown by the DOJ, the Chinese authorities would try and entice the scientists.

The fact that Hu goes back to U of Tennessee to protect his reputation is a bit like battered spouse. I would have sued the university to repair all my equipment and never return to a place that gave shit advice, thrown me under the bus at the earliest opportunity, and didn't even offer an apology.
Why so many startup success stories end in tragedy
Hey, thanks! There are a number of companies working in this problem space, and certainly Userfront is one. But one of the most obvious differences is that the first thing Userfront does is ask you for a password. We'll never do that because we firmly believe that passwords are essentially a Web 1.0 construct that needs to disappear forever.

That said, we're not just authn/authz software. We're helping companies improve their UX across every facet of their web and mobile presence. We focus on how account data spans various systems, not just isolated within one datastore. We also consider how user data flows through various UIs, is part of personalization, etc.

At the end of the day, we want to make the relationship companies build with their users more akin to how it works in real life. It's often a conversation, not just a transaction.