skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GTalk - you could install it without admin and it was blazing fast.
Well, people collecting film cameras is one reason it's getting more expensive.
Command: Modern Operations models a lot of that. I believe it is also used within the military. Wargames were used by the Prussian army and are credited with helping them defeat the French in the Franco-Prussian War (after that most militaries adopted them).
Engineers Say “Nyet” to Doing Business in Russia, Survey Says
A male hormonal birth control would likely inhibit testosterone. Would probably reduce crime and war.
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with C++ it is easier to shoot yourself in the foot if you use modern features and/or the STL
Yes, the problem is mostly one of presentation. To most people a positive test means it is likely they have it, which is often a statistically invalid conclusion.

We should instead present it as 'you currently have breast cancer with 13% probability' (population avg with no tests), a positive test means you have it with 25% probability, a negative test with 3% probability.

That makes the test a lot less scary, after all you're only gaining 10% certainty either direction.
> Adjusting for population sizes, the mean and median white family wealth was $188,200 and $983,400, respectively

FYI, you've got this backwards and its a very meaningful difference: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disp...

The mean is significantly higher than the median because it is pulled up by the ultra wealthy.
While not sure about Reddit, I'm sure some are doing it to channel their users to "better" platforms.

Yeah, I'd never work on such a thing unless I'm desperate about money immediately, it would be sad but it's also sad for me to think that somewhere, someone is probably tasked with it.
I've been enjoying my 2020 m1 as my local node, spring boot and some jupyter playground. It's a wonderful device. I've noticed there's a lot of momentum to supply m1 related fixes, for example, I think a kafka admin tool I was using just provided an update for it, so things are moving along.

I think around next year I might considering asking for an m1 upgrade for my aging mbpro.
Your product looks great but your website has a decent amount of grammatical errors, which I think might scare off potential customers.

I recommend having an English first person proof read through your site.
young people are very well acclimated to social isolation and only "connecting" using online means. The younger generations are more mentally equipped (or handicapped) to wfh than any other.
1) Elective rewrite of a working and performant system without an understanding or any testing mechanism to know if the rewrite was producing similar output.

2) Solving theoretical scaling problems with every possible technology du-jour.
If it's anything like eastern Europe it's really not that bad, just different. It just means the state has less direct control over its employees. In some cases this is good for the populace. In some cases this is bad for the populace.

If the people in the building permitting offices in CA got paid the way they do in India there probably wouldn't be a housing crisis there.
The solution to that is improved urban planning, not to reduce the demand for housing.
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Yup, it is mindbogglingly unimaginable to people who spent their whole lives living in the west, but as someone who moved out of Russia over a decade ago, it is the exact same thing there. Extremely normalized in every single aspect.

Applying for a passport? Well, you can do it normally, wait 9-12 months, hope papers don't get lost in the process (again), and maybe eventually you will be able to get it after a 2nd or 3rd try. Maybe not, who knows, you might just give up.

Or, instead, you could give "little something" to the passport clerk and their boss, and your passport will get reliably done in 3-4 months. And this "little something" is pretty much expected, and most people who can afford will pay it. A lot of governmental services are just built with an expectation of a bribe. If a bribe isn't present, then the process will almost definitely go wrong in every single way possible.

Same with cops, except worse, because much more is at stake. Routine "ID check stops" are expected, and you better have a bribe ready, unless you want to get in trouble for "insubordination" or something much worse.

Pretty much any interaction with government or anything even tangentially related, where you need to get something done, you are going to be almost ostracized and make your life miserable if you don't bribe. Bribing gets truly awful and scary when it is an everyday expectation on even the most routine levels.

EDIT: People in comments have pointed out that India isn't like that at all. My comment wasn't meant to have anything to do with India. I have never been there, so I cannot make a statement on it either way. I was only trying to describe the realities of "bribes are the expected norm in everyday life" experience using the place I was personally familiar with, which was Russia.
Which is objectively worse than an inline link.
There also used to be plugins for iChat (which later became Messages) that added support for MSN Messenger, making for a no-fuss nicely streamlined chat experience across a decent range of networks (AIM, XMPP/Gchat, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN Messenger).

So between modded iChat and Adium, on Mac OS you had the choice between minimal and kitchen-sink style IM clients, both of which were free and had no ads. OS X had also hit peak refinement around that time, between 10.2 and 10.6. It was a brief but golden age for Mac users with a lot of IM friends.
One thing I'll throw out there is that I've recently been running IntelliJ using jdk 17 with ZGC as the garbage collector, and it seems snappier. (You can use the 17.0 runtime that jetbrains releases on github, this page has more related info https://mustafaakin.dev/posts/2021-12-08-running-intellij-id... )
It's available: https://twitter.com/fniephaus/status/1507022087277334530
My wife got a false negative screening and then a few months later was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. The cost of dealing with false positives seems much less than the consequences of a false negative in our experience, so I agree with your sentiment.
> But they do it with like minded people

This is the main problem I see with your compromise. The self-sorting will create or enforce existing silos. The compromise is not only between you and your employer, but also between you and your coworkers. You might derive no value from face to face interaction, but your coworkers certainly do — and that includes you.

I suspect that this self-sorting will result in a very loud cohort of in-office workers demanding everyone come back, which spoils the whole deal.
I believe that depends on the ethical system you espouse. Egalitarianism, yes. Utilitarianism, not necessarily (so-called utility monster). And so on.
StarLink satellites move in known and predictable ways. How does this hinder spotting things that aren't currently known about?

There's even other objects in the sky/space that aren't man-made that also move, and most of them we know about as well.
I love Pidgin. If I want a secure chat between 2 I will forse my buddy to go XMPP OTR
This is an extremely interesting idea that pins down a lot of stuff that had been rattling around loose in my head - have you written more about it?
Reminds me of one of the Oscar nominated live action short films this year, "Please Hold". It takes this dystopian concept to the extreme, where a man is subjected to an automated justice system and has very little rights to speak with humans in the process. Not my favorite of the nominations, but an interesting watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11383280/
That depends only on their own project goals. Retro computing is a thing too.
From what I have heard Kodak was mainly a chemicals company - and making and selling film obviously sold and used more chemicals.

They definitely screwed up not developing the digital camera more - does not make sense to me why they even invested the money developing one in the first place.
It probably is illegal but the countries have weak rule of law (if rule of law is even a thing in those countries at all). Note that there are differences between fees and bribery, if something can be legally presented as a fee, it is no longer considered a bribe (important if you are an American or American company).
high rise apartments are really just office buildings. Just live at the office, it's pretty much equivalent.
When you know, you know ;)
I'm sure the diner frycook would love to be able to send back every burger order he got with "Closed; won't fix".
Interoperability without sacrificing privacy: Matrix and the DMA
I think you ought to tell the women who beat her that they had no chance of beating her.

In the NCAA Division I Women's Championship, she competed in the 100 yard, 200 yard, and 500 yard Freestyle events. She won only the last of those. This makes sense, as pre-transition, the longer freestyle events were her best ones.
For my tape player, the buttons were large rectangles with no border between them. If I recall correctly, they didn't sink in, but rotated - pushing one would depress one edge of the button without depressing the opposite edge.
Meta-analysis identifies new genes influencing human intelligence
This was already happening prior to WFH spurred by pandemic. Housing prices were sharply increasing in many major cities, causing people to relocate elsewhere due to lack of affordable supply.
QA Engineer here. We don't have a centralized QA department, but we do have a dedicated engineer who is responsible for QA that is integrated within the development team.

Before I joined my team, it didn't have a dedicated QA member. The quality of the software was fine, but there were other compromises. The team didn't have a good test strategy - every developer made adhoc decisions on how their code was tested. Our E2E tests ran slowly and had tonnes of duplicates, since nobody had gone through the entire list and cleaned it up. A dedicated QA member has the time and the responsibility to solve problems with quality that most devs are likely to treat as secondary to developing features. And the improvements are substantial - our E2E tests now run 18x (!) faster.

For the most part, I see my role as being an enabler - I help devs build quality into their work and hold them accountable to it. I don't see it as an adverserial division of responsibility, but more as a collaborative effort, with the dev and QA coming from a different focal point.

The problem with strict division of labour and adverserial QA is that it leads to

1) Organizational / team silos

2) Local optimization (software development and QA is intricately interwoven, so it doesn't lend itself well to this strict division)

3) Information overhead and loss

A good QA engineer, IMO, requires better coordination and communication skills than a developer because they liaise with multiple developers and inspire them to make quality a priority in their work. Further, QA is involved from the definition of a feature (in sprint refinements) right up to when code is deployed and runs well in production. Therefore, at certain points, the boundaries between QA and the Dev team or QA and the PO blur and disappear entirely.

I found this to be a great read that summarizes my thoughts on the topic: https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-de/insights/blog/qa-dead
That, and also speed. Thermal printing is fast compared to the alternatives.
I’m disappointed but not surprised that the title is editorialized. It specifically leaves off “whistleblower alleges”. It’s literally one disgruntled former employee claiming this. But as usual for HN these days a tiny populations claim - in this case a population of one - is stated as fact.
I took it as more in the realm of information theory and less about hard science or even content.

Less about falsifiable or correct and "does this compile".

More "can I easily grok what this function is trying to do even if it isn't compiling".

I see this term as an attempt to define a precursor to "Cogent" or maybe it's an attempt to give "Cogent" a more formalized definition.
> I see examples of people demanding citations for reasoning that is part of a work, of people just not understanding something, or of only really being able to blindly follow based on province or authority without trying to reconcile back to what they know.

That’s a tricky one for me because I see a lot of utility in asking for sources:

a) Curiosity. Maybe I really want to know how this person came to believe what they did even if I’m pretty sure they’re wrong.

b) Challenge. A version of the Socratic Method, helping them learn through questioning their assumptions.

c) Learning. A genuine quest for knowledge, that perhaps might yield more unique or varied results than Google.

d) Depth. Possibly helping others in a public thread (or the author) realize that it might be an epistemically illegible argument requiring greater scrutiny, discussion or evidence.

I get that asking for sources can also be lazy or ill intentioned, but for the most part I don’t mind it.
> Now I'm left wondering if that's related to bribes here too, or if it's just bad judgement/taste from IT leadership.

Usually the latter, often it is just marketing, but you can never discount the former, and the lines are often blurred.
Tell me about it - the dirt cheap Nikon FM2n I bought as a broke college student around 2010 is now worth triple or more.

Then again it is probably one of my favorite cameras of all time
(Popper) realized that democracy is not about being able to get those you like into power — democracy is about being able to remove those you don't like from power.

That's an old observation. It goes back to George Washington at the end of his term as President, shaking hands with his successor and walking away. That surprised many Europeans.
They were distributing it.
> Going to the office means getting to know the people you work with to a meaningful level

In 15 years in this industry, I have only developed a handful of deep relationships with former and current colleagues. The vast majority of my own work relationships have been superficial. I'm a card carrying member of the over sharer's club, and yet so many of my colleagues throughout the years don't know that I'm originally from Ohio by way of Pennsylvania... That I'm a military veteran... That I'm a strength and endurance athlete, etc. Maybe that says something about me, but I don't think I'm an outlier.

Some of the people I've worked with were utterly contemptible and, while I maintained a professional relationship with them at work, myself and many others were inwardly happy to see them go when the time came. I think we all know plenty of cantankerous assholes who we've had to call team mate, colleague, or worse, manager / boss.

We work here together for a (usually brief, in the grand scheme of things) period of time and that's often the only glue that holds the majority of us together.

One of the deepest and most impactful relationships I have forged through a shared working environment is a person who lives in Argentina and who I have never met in person. No office required, just the Internet.
Is this author well known in some community? Their writing is superb, and I have to ask who this is.
At this point I only see value in manual QA testing for front-end apps.

It's now possible to test pretty much anything via automation, although front-end testing is still harder than most and there are some intangible UX issues that can only be experienced by human users.

But for testing APIs? It is normally possible to cover 100% of what is needed via a combination of unit tests and integration tests. This is especially true now that tooling exists that can bring up ephemeral test environments with dependencies such as databases etc.
It was a few meters in size, so minimal risk to the Earth.
Part of the lack of 'new libpurple' is that companies have grown much more adept at/focused on removing third party clients. Discord in particular, IIRC, will even ban users for using third party clients.
Insulin resistance isn't cancer (though I admit it's still troubling).
> colony? Community? Flock? Large group of Magpies

charm/mischief of magpies
They can do that as long as they keep the interoperability. Text with UTF8 emojis should be enough to start with.

Actually I expect the usual outrage about limiting innovation or threats to leave the EU but consider that this interoperability is also a moat especially if they agree on some complicated protocol with no previous implementation.
Thanks for the feedback. We built it a while ago and never iterated over it. We will update it soon.
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You are viewing remote work through the particular circumstance of the pandemic. Remote work before covid was very different, and I expect in time we'll get back to a lot of that.

I worked remotely before the pandemic, and most days I still have ample opportunities to meet and talk to people. Most weeks I'd attend a meetup (I'm in a small city in the midwest and we still had plenty of events to cater to most any niche technical interest you'd care to name). A couple of times a month I'd meet up with other remote workers for lunch at a restaurant somewhere convenient to all of us. I regularly hosted, or attended, game nights with friends I met- mostly through the meetups.

I was never one for coworking spaces, and I don't even have a lot of non-development hobbies that had me meeting other people, and I still managed to have a pretty rich social life and meet people, make friends, and even got some of the sorts of creative boosts people claim only come from in-office working (because you talk to people about what problems they work on, or their interests, and it sparks ideas for how to apply those to your own work).

Things right now are still bleak because of the pandemic. It sucks, and it sucks worse knowing that this could have been over by now if the response hadn't been so universally mishandled, but a lot of what sucks about the pandemic will continue to suck- or suck differently but the same amount, if you go back to an office. Remote work isn't for everyone, and you really might still find that all things being equal the office just works best for you, and that's fine, but don't confuse "the pandemic sucks" for "remote work sucks".
I hope your wife is doing alright. It is always shocking how quickly life can change.
> The programming languages change every 2 yrs.

And here I am getting paid to write C. It's been around since *checks notes* 1972.
Oh hey, it’s you from the other thread. You never explained to me why you think evolution is false :)

Morality is an evolved trait. It doesn’t come from a god, so that’s why don’t need to worry that a religious book tells you ”being gay is wrong”.
Checkout KEH.com - they will rate the gear and test and often CLA things. Often times the stuff labeled "bargain" will be functionaly fine but just scratched up physically.

I highly recommend the Nikon FM2 instead of the FE or the Pentax MX
>It seems odd to me when those in charge ignore the problems of disbanding QA. But I assume it's because the management may not be incentivized to promote quality software. Instead the incentives are to crank out features.

>That said, maybe the market for the software doesn't punish the software makers for having buggy software. In such a case, ignoring QA work is a rational decision.

I think there are a lot of things that promote cost cutting in software quality:

1. Consolidation: There's usually 1 big player that everyone uses. When that's the case there is nowhere else to go.

2. Lock in: Even if there was somewhere to go, once you've committed your business to a software vendor, it's really hard (time + expense) to switch.

3. Executives get bonuses based on income: The easiest way to juice the numbers is to cut employees and departments. The results of cutting QA won't get noticed by the market for a few years.

4. Over reliance on automated unit testing by management: I think unit testing is great, but it's really hard to utilize it on user XP. It was never meant to be a replacement to manual QA testing, but an augmentation. Of course refer to #3.

5. Reduction in autonomous middle management: Executives say cut this and cut that, middle management who actually know the process have little to no say, or won't say because they don't want to lose their jobs.
Have you been inside a Domino's franchise when they get a new order? Their order systems play a happy tune.
Corruption does terrible things to a society. I look at how Russia, Mexico, Greece and others were/are absolutely crippled by wide-spread, run-of-the-mill corruption at all levels of government. We have always been our best in the USA when corruption has been the least prevalent. The "legalized bribery" from campaign donations and regulatory capture, while not as bad as in those other countries, does not do our system justice.
I've been using Matrix + bridges to fill that gap. I use IRC, Telegram, Google Chat, Discord and WhatsApp all via bridges, so I only have to interact with a single interface and all my chats are in the same place.

Before that I used first Trillian, then Pidgin. Then seeking persistence across clients I started using bitlbee to access everything through IRC, but that really sucked for media-heavy things like Telegram. My current setup of my own Matrix homeserver + bridges has been working great and feels way more liberating than using 6 different apps.
To me the benefit of a QA team comes from synthesis. If you are providing one service to a few groups you don't get that much out of having a dedicated team. However, once you start having different people using your product in different ways it helps enormously to have a teams whose job is to be familiar with customer pain points and setups and warn you that your change is going to trigger problems.
This Old Tony, Blondihacks, Wintergatan, and others have done end-to-end videos from CAD to machining to assembly. I particularly recommend Blondihacks' beginner videos: well produced, fun to watch, and cover nearly everything you need to know to get started.

Also, face the reality you won't be doing work like this on day one. But you will make something fun.
As always torrents don't have these issues.

An increasing copyright tax on very old works would stop this nonsense.
"Implicit learning is “nonepisodic learning of complex information in an incidental manner, without awareness of what has been learned.”

If I am terrible at online competitive games, does it reflect my poor implicit learning ability on strategy?