skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who breaks the work down: you or the PM?

Does the PM ever bother you to get the status of something, or is it always clear from the kanban board? I've seen the "bug the developer for a status update" move a lot in the past.

Agreeing on the API contract seems like a fantastic way to streamline the process!
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status ?
You can doubt but it seems that Go is becoming the de facto language on the server side. Which doesn't use libc.

A lot of systems still run on Java -- I suppose the Linux JVM does depend on glibc, but seriously, in these situations you might as well call it Java/Linux. As I commented elsewhere, arguing that a system ought to put the developer of its C library in its name seems silly when it's just one small component. The GNU ecosystem used to be much more influential in the 90s and early 2000s...
"It's ok when it happens to people with whom I disagree."
The New ArangoDB Datasource for Apache Spark
It does actually mention this, about halfway down:

One of the major points of criticism is that overusing Claymorphism and going overboard with colors and typography can give off a somewhat childish feel to the UI. Michał Malewicz acknowledged this drawback and gives a few suggestions on how to avoid that.

“The friendliness of those shapes, along with the 3d imagery creates a slightly child-like interface. To counter it, it’s good to use minimal typography, strong accent colors good contrast.”

— Michał Malewicz

There is still room for criticism though since this style of interface is not "somewhat" childish. It is the design language of Fisher-Prize, of large colourful plastic toys for toddlers.

If foresee a trend in classical Russian literature inspired user interfaces as a reaction. The Dostoyevsky style, dark and deep.
I dual boot Windows and Linux and I found out I can actually work longer in Linux. Maybe it's related to the fact that Windows services consume more CPU.
This is one of the reasons I am glad I don't have a family to support and can work for myself. For me that tends to result in not having a lot of money, but it also means there is usually no one to hold a project back other than myself. Except the clients themselves sometimes. But overall much less stress with smaller projects on my own.

If I had other people to support then I would probably be dealing with whatever job I could keep that really paid the bills, regardless of what idiot peers or bosses I had to deal with.
Yep, same here. And people are also not very good at listening; even if you are focusing only to type, people miss stuff and I have to repeat or explain in another way while I could have typed things 100x myself in that time. I think I’ll give this weirdness a miss.
The answer is to limit the concentration of power. That is the Libertarian argument, if there is no lever to pull, there wont be corruption issues with people fighting over that lever. Instead, order should arise naturally as an emergent system from the ground up, always voluntarily with mutual benefit and never under the threat of force. A small corrupt goverment is always better than a massive corrupt goverment, and all systems of control eventually corrupt.
This wasn't strictly freezing donations, it was completely freezing a person's bank account.
Russia creates certificate authority in response to sanctions
You didn't point out how it's a ridiculous claim. You completely ignored my point how LCD is not replacement for eInk and just decided WELL THEY ARE DIFFERENT DISPLAY STACKUP AND HAVE DIFFERENT VOLUME.

Imagine this. There are 4 LCD manufacturers that combined make a total 1 million units a year. There is 1 eInk manufacturer that also makes 1 million units a year. Assume production costs are the same between the two. The LCDs are all essentially fungible. If a company wants to build a tablet with an LCD screen they can receive bids from multiple manufacturers who may be willing to reduce their margin per unit to land the client. For a company looking to build an eReader they only really have the choice of one company that's not willing to reduce their margin per unit because there's no point to. The eInk displays are more expensive because there is only one option to buy and the manufacturer is keeping a greater percentage as profit.
Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl's 'Red Forest', workers say

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/unprotected-russian-sol...
I didn't, no. I have now changed the title to hopefully better convey what I intend the document to be about.
I'm rapidly loosing respect for Ubiquiti. This is the wrong approach. Security by obscurity is not security.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
I've had Siri disabled the entire time I've owned my mac (just checked, still disabled), and my ~/Library/Trial dir is 180M, 136530 files.
Pretty good, especially if you install TLP for power management. I get at least a full workday and a half out of my Dell 9375.
I think your are underestimating the time it takes to become proficient in a technology stack. You can't build anything until you learn it. When you are proficient, is nice to be able to come into a completely new business environment and be somewhat productive. It feels like validation that you are actually an expert in something. Now it is commendable and a great growth experience to come in as a newbie with no knowledge of the business and the technology, but still a hard pill to swallow for most.
Im surprised this isnt getting the same level of push back as the flowhive did in bee keeping communities. The flowhive simply makes extracting honey easier, you can literally leave the flowhive on the brood box and pour out honey. Its very nice for someone who doesnt want to pull frames and use an extractor, which is tough work. People would say its not real bee keeping and worried about spreading problems to other colonies.

This "does" everything but I am confident it can't replace a real bee keeper somewhere in the chain. Ive had issues with hives that are unrelated to pests that have slowed down the production of brood, for example a new queen mated but never started laying eggs. Would this device notify the land owner of that? Most likely not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856651

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30852555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30856225

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30860469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858651

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30851954

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30858391
I think you have some valid points however you also have one massive bias running through your statement: That the route of all corruption is wealthy people. I see you have found your scape goat to the problem.

Wealthy people are just people - and there are many people who are not wealthy who are incredibly corrupt and more willing to take on the corruption risk. However it's much more convenient to paint wealthy people as the problem with the system then ascribe the problem to human nature as a whole or systemic problem.
I have read the article for several times finding information about why (from author's POV) Ukraine is shifting to the far right. The only answer I've found is:

> large numbers of people traveling to a foreign war zone carries inevitable radicalisation risks.

If you can expose from the text more answers to that question please help me.
Terrance McKenna died at 53.

Dose is probably important in all this but it’s hard to say with such a small, probably biased, sample size.
I lived in Korea prior to Chun's liberalization in the late 80's and the traffic police would ask for bribes instead of writing tickets. This money flowed up to the local chief of police, who became very wealthy, and across to politicians. Complaints were hushed up or ignored. People who complained too much and journalists who didn't play ball just disappeared. what changed this was the end of media censorship, which people knew was real because the guys you called to deal with media problems stopped answering their phones. Corruption in the US has gotten quite bad and there's still a long way to go.
The posting of status updates has declined, but at least for me there's still a lot of worthwhile content there which I can't get anywhere else.

I am a member of a number of active Facebook Groups for neighbourhood news, some niche hobbies too small to have their own forums, etc.. I also quite come across planned sport/music events which have only a very basic website, with all updates about the event posted on Facebook.

I think the killer feature is the to the ability to post photos along with text and then discuss it, without relying on external services. Forums can't handle photos well, and Instgram doesn't deal with long form text or extensive discussion well.
BeOS/Haiku and Redox comes to mind
It's unfortunate that this cynicism is so widespread, because technology actually does solve problems and make people's lives better. I suppose I'm lucky to be working in a domain, accessibility for blind people, where this is obvious. But I'm sure there are many other such areas.
This comment focuses heavily on wealthy people. There is also the potential for "normal" people in that new government to be corrupted by power or the chance to make extra money.

At least in my experience, the local level politicians are more likely to be corrupt. Like city planners, district attorneys, etc. Their pay is lower so they are more likely to look for ways to make extra money. Or they might be doing improper things not for money, but for ideology/power (ie they might have joined despite the lower pay to make a difference, but they think they are doing the right thing even if breaking the rules). Like magistrates ignoring the law to rule against someone, or police and the DA holding a known incorrect charge against someone. Etc

Just wanted to point out that it's not all rich people, that many times it starts out as normal or poor people who want what they never had, and to never return to being poor. Although, those people may be more likely to bebecome rich since they're playing outside the system, not paying taxes, etc.
> This seems like Corporate Memphis absorbing all facets of design. I'm surprised to not find any mention of how infantilizing this is -- childish is absolutely inappropriate

That's just your impression, though. The Windows XP Luna look felt childish because it was dog slow on XP-era machines compared to the classic theme, so it ended up being pretty disrespectful of its users. But a smooth-shaded high-relief button is arguably the best equivalent to that "Classic" look on our modern, graphically-accelerated, variable-DPI environments. It avoids the overly-detailed skeuomorphic look while still being immediately intuitive.
I'm not so sure. See what's going on in Argentina between the blue dollar (free market) and the official ARS rate. 100%+ difference between the pegged value and free market value.
I edited my comment before you posted yours. Making heap allocations super complicated just to avoid the stack is a confusing idea.

Generational GCs surely do not do a single bump allocate for all local variables. How could the GC possibly know where each object starts and ends if it did it as a single allocation? Instead, it treats them all as individual allocations within an allocation buffer, which means bumping for each one separately. Yes, they will then get copied out if they survive long enough, but that’s not the same thing as avoiding the 10+ instructions per allocation.

It’s entirely possible I’m wrong when it comes to Truffle, but at a minimum it seems like you would need arenas for each size class, and then you’d have to bump each arena by the number of local variables of that size class. The stack can do better than that.
Cracking the Cryptic (the Youtube channel mentioned in the article) is a great channel to follow. Especially Simon's videos offer great insight into his thought process solving through some pretty hard sudokus (and variants). They've also taken on different puzzle games (e.g. The Witness, Baba is You), and it's absolutely fascinating to see how being very highly skilled in solving one type of puzzle does or does not translate into other classes of puzzle.
Takeout is nice, but I am surprised by the lack of features in other products that would easily allow to import the data from Takeout format.

I wanted to migrate from Google Photos to iCloud. Turns out there is no easy way how to import the photos to iCloud without loosing metadata. I gave up and just bought more storage on Google.
You jest but my grandfather loved brains. I think it might have been a ww2 Alaskan thing? Idk. Ate them whenever he could.
Article also says:

> one worker on duty when the Russians seized control of the area said the convoy had kicked up clouds of radioactive dust while driving through the highly toxic ‘Red Forest’

From what I know when you go with a tour guide in Chernobyl they don't drive through the 'Red Forest', and they say to not pickup anything and bring your own food and water. The problem with driving in the 'Red Forest' is that the movement of vehicles creates clouds of dust, that go on the vehicle itself and especially on the vehicle behind, and I believe that inhaling radioactive dust is terrible for your health
Ask HN: Challenging a Rejection in a Recruitment Process
Has anyone tried, or seen, an applicant try to challenge the feedback in a rejection note trying to turn it around?

In this particular case, the position is not technical, so it's based on judgment of character and mutual understanding.

After three months of a recruitment process, I got a rejection from the CEO and I don't fully agree with half od the feedback - I believe I've been misjudged. (This impression is not only emotional, as I've taken rejections before and didn't mind them)

Has anyone tried this? Any stories?
==UPDATE==

Yes, my friends upvoted on this publication.

Did I know it was not OK here? I didn't.

Is it a good excuse? Nope.

Will I do it again? Of course not.

I'd like to apologize to the HN community who has been really helpful (10,000 of you visited my website 4 months ago and gave useful feedback, it was mind-blowing!)

Hungry idiots like me should read the rules more carefully to avoid harming the community.

To show my sincere apologies, I'd like to offer a lifelong Habits Garden membership to 3 members of the HN community.

DM me your HN username on Twitter https://twitter.com/marc_louvion

I'll randomly pick up the winners this weekend and update here, in the comments section.

Again, I'm truly sorry for breaking the rules. It won't happen again.

Marc
One has to remember that forgiveness is for the benefit of the one transgressed rather than the transgressor. It provides closure. Rarely is a transgressor genuinely contrite for his or her actions.
I came here to write that I don't know whether it is an intentional wordplay (and a tribute to idlewords?).

Maybe this should be my question to the idols.
Tardis Monad Transformer
Maybe they want to sell it :)
> { "foo": "42", "bar": ["1", "2", "3"] }

Good point, we could also expect {"foo": "42", "bar": "[1,2,3]"}. JSON does assume that the values have types (like a list) and that is inconsistent.

As for equivalent representations, I do not think what you want is universally applicable. 42.1 does not equal 42.10 until you use logic to rule that what you are working with are Numbers

In government regulations related text, for example, 42.10 could be 9 items after 42.1 and you might expect to see 42.1(a) and 42.10(a) as other items in the same set or related value sets.

Any way you cut it, the real problem seems to be that when data entry happens - a certain amount of context is assumed - and those assumptions have enough variance to need to be handled differently when the data is consumed. Which makes sense
That's doesn't solve it.

In France there is a lot of corrupted mayors, even in small villages/cities, it's hard to limit make the power less concentrated, you need accountability and making harder to be corrupted without being caught immediatly.
As long as we have automatic rulers (countries with automatically powerful government) corruption will be there. Basically corruption is profitable so that is why it happens. If we had democracy, it will go down significantly, because is is not profitable to corrupt the majority. You have to offer them more than the damage you will do to them with your actions, which is unprofitable, and maybe not corruption at that point since you made a deal with the “to be harmed” people, not their ruling minority.
What to Expect from Privacy Sandbox Testing
There's obviously a lot of different project management strategies.

Some companies seem to have project managers assign daily tasks to each developer. The PMs then spend a lot of time defining the tasks and moving the schedule around. They have weekly/daily meetings with other PMs to do cross-project planning.

On the other hand, Basecamp's Shape Up (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) process defines a desired outcome with some clear parameters and a six-week deadline and simply lets the team figure out the rest. There's not a lot of project management happening on a week-by-week basis.

So my question is, what do teams in the middle of those two extremes do? How do teams spend less time on minutia of planning projects and tasks and more time doing?
I used WireHole [0] to set up pihole over wireguard for use outside my home. It works really well.

I've thankfully only lost VPN access a handful of times since installing it because our internet is relatively stable.

[0]: https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole
Future-Proofing SaltStack ( CVE 2022-22934 2022-22935 2022-22936 )
This is not actually related to what's going on in this case.

They're basically suing because he didn't retract or update and clarify his (really false) initial story. Krebs was taken for a ride by his "source" who it appears was a disgruntled employee, causing the damage.

Should they have handled the situation better? Sure.

Will they win their lawsuit? Unclear; they've got a big hill to climb to it seems unlikely.

Is this in any way "silencing" discussion about it? No, it is doing the opposite, and it's not as though Ubiquiti is unfamiliar with this, given their history.
Please point me to one of these Linux systems where the kernel, drivers, windowing system, GUI framework, networking libraries, image format decoders, font rasterizers and all CLI and GUI applications plus the libraries that support them are developed cohesively within a single project and not assembled from 3rd party sources.
Related to this an "Ask HN" topic created by me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30639245
Believe it or not, pretty much every cloud that runs full stack apps has a similar proxy / service discovery layer. Even if they only let you run in one region.

If you run your app on your own servers with your own load balancers and terminate your own TLS, you avoid a lot of this infrastructure. If you use anyone with a "cloud" load balancer, you get almost exactly what we've described here.

Complexity is a legitimate reason to manage your own server. A single server with a single database and nothing between you and the users avoids a lot of complexity.
If software does not solve problems, what are you getting paid for, exactly? For the weight of the line of code?
I know, it takes great practice, and a huge time investment. I'm seeking guidance on the most efficient method to get to the point of recreation of ephemeral images in my mind.

The most efficient method is to start trying and not stop.

Efficiency is a fool's game.

What matters is the end result.

And that's a matter of hard work.

The reward for good work is more work.

Good luck.
The metric I referred to was perceptions of corruption. The US is 67th on that list. Americans have a really low impression of their representatives' fidelity, despite stuff like petty bribes being uncommon.

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021
I can imagine the gold rush on those high order bits!
Just to save others from having to look it up, paperless-xxx uses OCRmyPDF to do the work. So you don't have to host anything if you are willing to touch a file or two...
In Counter Strike, there are cheats that will adjust your crosshair to enemy head (aimbot) its very obvious when a player is snap aiming 90 deg to enemy head, but pros who cheat will adjust it to only snap at 1 pixel distance, they are good enough for it to make a difference while making it extremely difficult to detect via replays
> Roombas also have edge detection so it doesn't fall down the stairs.

From article, “It could also ultrasonically recognize the stairway and doorways to take appropriate action.”
We run our own servers. IAD is Ashburn, Virginia's airport code and there are a bunch of providers in Ashburn, Virginia.
Well, yeah. That's pretty much the thesis of what I wrote—hence, "Imagine your corner of the fediverse being reachable at $YOURNAME.github.io." (Are you trying to convince me here of something I was already convinced of? That's what it sounds like.)
If you had played football with a shit tier ball and with a top tier ball you would know how large the difference between them is.

Does it have an effect on the outcome of the game? No idea. But the feel is extremely different.
In the FAQ they say they heat the frame to a temperature which "harms the varroa but does not harm the brood". IANABK, but color me skeptical.
One of my first tasks after a clean install of Windows is to disable any unnecessary services, including the Search Indexer. Not only do I disable the service itself, but I also explicitly remove all folders from the "indexed locations" control panel, and explicitly disable the "Allow files to be indexed" bit on the disk itself.

I've literally never needed to search my disk for a file (using the Windows search interface), and if I ever do, I'd rather wait a few more seconds that one time for my search to complete, rather than have the indexer consume my CPU at all times.
How to pick a side project strategically
This really hits. I never thought about this before but it fits with my experience perfectly. All writing on WeChat and whatever else Chinese people use is ephemeral and email really isn’t used much. We got DingTalk at my school this year and I haven’t checked my work email in weeks.
TL;DR is that a large clinical trial of ivermectin showed no sign of it alleviating COVID-19. Additional coverage in the New York Times here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/health/covid-ivermectin-h...

This is a full data release for results that had been announced in August:

https://dcricollab.dcri.duke.edu/sites/NIHKR/KR/GR-Slides-08...
Mike, this is very well-written. Thank you. I grok maybe 40% of what you are saying which is a testament to what you typed out.

Is there a situation where if your sticking points could. E addressed or tolerated where using a GC'd language could shine vs a non one?
We actually don't have a consensus problem. Each "node" is its own source of truth and every other node can take what it says on faith. We _also_ need all the data in all the places.
You can't initiate them from Android devices though. :(
I actually don’t mind PL/I. Always wondered one they needed a ton of derivative proprietary languages. I think I’d almost prefer language bloat.
As others have noted, the tagging, auto flagging, etc. are great, and it provides a decent, cross-platform, web-based interface.

Also, you can flexibly configure how it stores the actual documents. So at the end of the day if you don't like the program, it gracefully degrades to a bunch of PDFs organized into a nice folder hierarchy that's easy to back up.
In the absence of knowledge, you can guess or you can use the default ("they").

There are a few ways to read mpfundstein's post, and I was responding to those on the more charitable end, such as "I personally know the author, who goes by 'he'" or "'Austin' is clearly a dude's name".
Hi HN, Ruurtjan from nslookup.io here. Ask me anything.

I'm also happy to give feedback on any side project (idea) you're working on.