skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In America you need a VPN to be able to serve information that isn't blocked by the great firewall.

Empirically false.
I think 2048 was the first game I remember to be popular and Web based.
This shit entirely understates the political bullshit that any truly innovative approach to service delivery would encounter. Show us the Memoranda of Understanding with the unions running the bureaucracy before you tell us we can make anything resembling change.
I think adding more lanes is a mental trap. It seems like when you have a lot of traffic, what you need to do is add more capacity to your road. But that doesn't end up working the way you'd expect, roads aren't like pipelines, because a road network is not only capacity for transportation but a subtle system of incentives. It's easy to add capacity and lose throughput because you change people's decision making and reap results you didn't anticipate.

So, I would say, invest in a bus system to make better use of the lanes you have. Invest in a subway system to give people safe, cheap alternatives to car ownership. Change zoning so that people don't have to travel so far to get where they want to go.

These are all incredibly expensive, a subway is certainly more expensive than adding a lane, but they have the advantage of actually addressing the problem. Transport really matters and we need to pony up for it, and we'll reap the benefits for generations.
It's hobby horse of mine, so I may be wrong, but I believe with a capability based operating system, you'd never have to blindly trust an executable ever again, and thus could completely get rid of virus scanning as a process.

Genode and Fuchsia can't get here soon enough for me.
Every house in my area has reverse osmosis water treatment, since you can't filter out PFAS. Renters are less lucky and have to install their own system, if they can even afford it. Everyone who uses the river as the primary water source is in the same boat, and the company upstream keeps dumping it in the river.
So what I'm hearing is that you're Sam Fisher and this is your cover story.
The people that consistently vote and contribute to election campaigns have those things. And many people aspire to have those things, so removing all doubt that they will ever get them may also be an undesirable thought.
Good luck convincing 70 year old congressmen that 22 year old software engineers working for the government should be paid as much, if not more, than them.

Government needs a pay raise across the board. The president should earn $10 million per annum. Senators, $2,000,000.00. Representatives, $1,200,000.00. Government employees, an average of $175,000.00. And entry level software engineers for the government, $200,000.00.
Is this relevant because of Fast? Or something else?
Even if CEO says, "yes do this", it's still an idiotic way to use the site. If you trying to kill a bear, you don't shoot it 18 times with a BB gun. You shoot it once with a shotgun.
What does 18F mean?

Our name is short for the address of the GSA building where we’re headquartered in Washington, DC: 1800 F Street.

For those curious about the inappropriate-sounding name
> Isn't the Dropbox desktop app Electron crap these days? It's certainly not the pleasant experience it used to be.

Sadly I agree. However the blog post I linked describes their mobile strategy. Sorry about the confusion.

FWIW The desktop app now uses the strategy you suggest: native with many hosted webviews.

> what you're talking about there is the opposite of what I’m talking about

Sorry, skim read and missed that! See above comment re Dropbox desktop using your approach though.
Geany is great. I have 200+ files open in it most of the time and it's been really nice to use all along.
Room treatments are technically straight forward, but they come at a cost of interior design and practicality. Many people see it as but if a dark art too, so they’ll take a technical implementation any day because it has been designed to accomodate a wide range of scenarios, and takes the guesswork out.
I dont think its being pushed by far right or far left, I see both sides complaining about it which means there is factual evidence and experience to prove it a real issue.

Crime is up in a lot of cities, example of a recent study in Denver, sure it depends on what you measure and how, but that is how statistics work:

- While Colorado’s rates for homicide, aggravated assault and motor vehicle theft rose by more than 10% in 2020 over the average of the prior three years, rates for rape, larceny, robbery and burglary stayed relatively level or declined.

- Increases in aggravated assaults — which include shootings and stabbings — and motor vehicle thefts are the biggest drivers of increased rates statewide of violent crime and property crime.

- Colorado’s communities are not a monolith. Trends in the state’s largest cities differ from each other, as do those in medium-sized towns.
Colorado’s 2020 violent crime rate was the highest it’s been since 1995, but is lower than it was between 1985 and 1995. The state’s 2020 property crime rate was the highest recorded since 2008, but is less than half the rate recorded in the mid-1980s.

- While Colorado’s violent crime rate jumped 10% between 2019 and 2020 — the largest single-year increase since 1990 — that increase came as part of a six-year upward trend. The state’s violent crime rate increased by 8% year-over-year in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
I don't think you understood the word "block" in this context correctly.
I'm not sure what you are calling an "editable combo box", but would <datalist> [1] fit the bill?

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/da...
There are a few ways to get an IC role that pays more than the GS salary cap, but they are fairly rare. Some jobs have an "ST" level that is classified above GS for senior individual contributors in scientific or technical roles, and some agencies (like the CFPB) have their own pay scales that go beyond what the GS schedule allows.

I only worked with one computer scientist in an ST role during my two years at USDS. He was an ACM Fellow and had a PhD from MIT, so it's not something anyone should expect to get just because they had "senior" in their title at a FAANG.

Contractors don't have the same statutory caps on how much an individual role can pay, but salaries are part of contract bids, and a bid can be rejected if an individual salary is too high.
(Spoiler) Disappointed that they didn't end up with naked pilots. But it reminded me how Polynesian navigators in the Pacific would use their testicles to detect subtle ocean swells. We're used to relying on our eyes but our other senses can be just as useful.
My pixel 3 motherboard died suddenly last year. Unfortunately, I am too deep into google services/devices that I can't switch. But I don't think pixel phones are designed to last over 5 years. It's not matter of parts; they are just not designed for >5 years of use/abuse.
From experience with a school age kid, this kind of language is being drummed into youth, aka brainwashing, at least in "liberal" areas of the country. It's not the worst thing I've seen so don't worry too much, but agree that it is mildly annoying.

Edit: censoring this perspective is counterproductive I think, where even noticing the obsession with diversity framing will get you blacklisted. From history we know that suppression of ideas tends to end badly.

It's the new "Red Scare" except the color meaning has been flipped from Communist to Republican.
do you have a lot of experience with sophomore gender studies at "lower tier" ivies? Is there something specific you object to?
You are not allowed to scrape / refresh more than once a minute. The RSS should be adequate for scraping, too.

I checked the website about 4 times this week and Pi Zero v2 was available at multiple occasions (at least twice). Also, during these 4 times I refreshed a couple of minutes afterwards. The Pi Zero v2 was still available when it was those minutes before it. I even verified a shop once. Same for Pi 4 but it was a lower RAM version. CM4 seem most rare.
Geany was the first editor I used to write code. It has just the right balance of features to make editing code productive while keeping it simple enough for beginners.
Look at Theranos. That con lasted over 10 years and was valued at billions yet they never managed to actually DO anything.
Now they do, but originally all the blurays were mpeg2, it was part of the discussion around quality, and the vc1 codec was used on most HDDVDs vs MPEG2 on blurays nullifying the bitrate differences. IIRC of course, since i'm lazy.
And OneDrive is in Qt!
Hello this is hacker news not Reddit
>He temporarily forgot why we all follow him in the first place.

Correct, he hasn't P&D dogecoin in a long time!
The Boar, the Lobster, the Juniper: 3 Patterns of “Agile” Development
Very cool! Fond memories of MI1 and 2 as a kid. I don't game anymore (I don't even have the time to write all the code I want to), but I could potentially buy this (I bought Thimbleweed Park too, but barely started it lol).

That said, I'm one of those weird people that like the retro look and I wish the art style was more along the lines of MI2 and low-rez like (using techniques like they did in Thimbleweed Park). Still, pretty cool they are doing this.
That support is very likely very limited and it's easy to stumble upon something in your setup that makes it not work. I know for a fact that some TV's can't send received DD+ audio from HDMI to an external speaker setup. So... DD+ on crappy internal TV speakers is "support"?

Let's also please avoid the discussion how people should have had done more research before their purchase(s), it's not like any of this is properly documented.
Anything in the Linux Kernel
Nah just make sure you have 660A power distribution cards on hand and CPU with garden size coolant hoses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtaanCENbc&t=629s
It's not necessarily bad everywhere and for everyone - I think park rangers in East Nowheresville do ok. There's a base GS pay scale and then locality adjustments for different metro areas, and the big problem with the WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE-ARLINGTON, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA locality is right there in the name: WV-PA. They pretend that folks working in downtown DC ought to be paid the same as folks at some remote site in WV. So yeah, I believe that means a 31% adjustment compared to the base GS pay scale, when to be competitive with other DC area salaries, the adjustment probably needs to be more like 80%.
> Abstracting away the graphics API and using the one native to each platform is using it directly.

No, it's not. What a silly thing to say.

Is the developer writing Metal code? No. Then they're not using it directly. They're using an abstraction.

"using it directly" means the developer is writing Metal code themselves. Writing Unity code that eventually gets compiled to Metal is not writing Metal any more than writing C that gets compiled into machine code means you're writing machine code.

Think of it this way...if someone wants to hire an experienced Metal developer for a Mac-exclusive game, do you think someone who's only developed using a game engine like Unity would be qualified?

> You forgot the Playstation (LibGNM/LibGNMX) and Nintendo ones (depending on the generation, microcoded GPU, GX (Wii), GX2 (WiiU), NVN (the main one on the Switch), Vulkan and GL 4.6).

Irrelevant to the conversation. We can talk about developing with proprietary APIs and continue to just use Apple's Metal as an example without bringing up all the other proprietary APIs. Not sure why you think I "forgot" all the other APIs.
HN comments aren't StackOverflow answers. They're allowed to go off on tangents. Personally, I like to see nuances that I didn't before and so appreciated and upvoted the comment.
As Peter Thiel pointed out yesterday, ETH appears to be accurately valued compared to payment processing companies like Visa. Doesn’t mean it’s not useful, but maybe not a lot of room to increase the market cap.
I'm trying to imagine what I would have to be using my phone for such that I could not switch away from the Google brand of smartphones to an alternative.

Could you illuminate me?
Use UTC everywhere. 10 years later it is still an important reminder. This should be the first thing new developers learn.
It’s a way to signal who they’re looking for without stepping into explicitly discriminatory language.
Essentially yes. Lockheed already has jobs posted for higher pay than was on offer for that skillset and has asked me if I'd be interested in talking to them.

Since that skill is odd but required by every single contractor that does classified work there's a whole lot of opportunity out there I wasn't aware of until recently. The lack of quality people doing it in the GS ranks now makes a whole lot more sense to me. Prior to me understanding that it was just an annoyance.
What's that in Bayesian terms?
How I'd Change Amazon Web Services – Michael DeHaan
Ok, the discussion of MacOS vs Electron aside, I happened to check out the actual product and to me it seems like a glorified surveillance tool for remote workers. I think the best part of remote work you get is the flexibility, privacy and freedom that you don't normally get with 9-5 day jobs. To turn your desktop into a CCTV seems like solving the wrong problem for me. I don't know how employees even agree to this! "We will monitor you 24/7 via a video call on your laptop"

Why would you do that? I have never been pissed off at a product this bad.
I think "lots of 1:1s" sounds great but is pretty draining to implement. I love chatting with my coworkers 1:1 - I feel like people can't/don't talk as much in group meetings so the 1:1s are nice to maintain a connection with coworkers you haven't met in person.

But! At the end of the week when you realize you spent 6 hours in 1:1s as an IC on top of your regular meetings, it feels very unsatisfying. It takes a lot of time from your work that you're still expected to get done.
Notepad++ is a wrapper around scite using native windows apis or at least was years ago. Find a native editor using that library in same way such as SciTE itself.
Challenge Hiring Assumptions with Data
I very strongly dislike the user experience in Electron apps but I know the tradeoff for portability is worth it.

It's a good example that highlights the importance of both user experience and developer experience. It doesn't matter that the native implementation would be "better" if it's impractical to actually do.
> "unique going own way despite popular opinion"

Well, that's at least one aspect of "being cool", so I still feel they are at least vaguely related.
What you are seeing in that thread is the OP replying to themselves to create a thread of related tweets. They believe that seeing the whole thread of the OP is more important than what could be 1000s of replies to the original tweet.
If everything else was in place for this to work, I don't think you'd have to pay someone $95k to do it. To me, the $95k pay rate has a lot to do with the time on the road and away from home. Walmart might have to pay $95k for that now, but as autonomous driving takes on some of those miles, the human pay will likely go down (adjusted for inflation).
Main GitHub page: https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP

A former U.S. nuclear warplanner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmteter) is developing an open source target database and target laydowns against U.S. targets, assuming a Russian attack in present day. He focuses on three scenarios, two excursion scenarios (a pure "counterforce" attack in which Russia only targets U.S. nuclear weapons, a pure "countervaule" attack in which Russia focuses entirely on creating maximum death and damage to infrastructure) and one main scenario that would generally be considered the most likely type of attack, which is a blend of counterforce and countervalue.

Some notes I've taken from his reddit and Twitter explanations: this attack is modeled against the U.S. only. He did not attempt to do targeting for the EU theatre as that gets into his previous job, which was very intimately familiar with a lot of classified stuff that he doesn't want to build into a map; however, he said that EU/APAC/maybe China theatre would be targeted, mostly with shorter range "tactical" weapons.

He did a ton of work, calculating VNTK (https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/VNTK) for each target, and planned his attack just like he used to plan attacks against the Russian theatre, making sure to hit things like spent fuel storage for area denial, hitting the right dams to cascade fail hydrology management on major rivers (Baton Rouge would be under a couple hundred feet of water within a few weeks and would be "scoured clean"), etc. In the end, he estimates that 95 percent of the U.S. population would be dead within 18 months of the attack due to complete lack of infrastructure, food, water, medicine, medical treatment, logistics, heat, power, etc.
This is a little like saying LA is terrible because you stayed on Skid Row…

The in your face human suffering is awful but things are a lot less bad in other parts of the city. SF has a similar proportion of homeless people as other big cities but with no right to shelter (as in NY) far too few shelter beds are provided.

SF is fairly safe by American standards with a homicide rate half that of the country as a whole.
I created a pull request to change this text. Let's hope it'll be accepted ;)

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/...
> I just wish more firms were honest rather than milking the government.

Generally speaking, they aren't.

I remember commenting (years ago) on here on an article about the government paying a million dollars for what amounted to basically a Wordpress installation that anyone here could do in ~half an hour.

Maybe a million dollars sounds like a lot, but to those who've actually _worked_ as a government contractor, it seems fairly reasonable.

Consider:

* You need to have past relevant qualifications for other government agencies, so the only people who can install blogs for the government are those who have installed blogs for the government. If nobody has ever installed a blog for the government, they'll leverage the closest relevant experience they can.

* You need to have a contracts attorney on staff for the duration of the contract, and since you likely don't want to fire them every few weeks, that's a year's commitment at (conservatively) $200k

* You need to have a physical address -- weirdly, the government isn't keen on home addresses and/or 100% distributed teams

* You'll need to hire a software architect (maybe 2) to justify the changes needed to __competitors who also likely placed bids on your contract and didn't win but who also have existing contracts managing the database, network, etc__

* Those competitors want you to fail so that the contract will get rebid so that they can try again, now armed with the information you presented them

* Nobody in the government wants your project to succeed, and will actively try to get it to fail quietly

* If it ever seems as though your project might achieve success, every stakeholder will want to jump on board your ship -- not in an effort to sink it, but so they can make their mark on the project and have their names associated with a potential success

* It takes decision-by-committee to get even the smallest thing done, and a Wordpress blog is comprised of mostly small things. The smaller the thing, the bigger the committee. (I once had to bill the government 24 man hours at a median rate of $100 an hour because the CTO of the agency pulled 4 of us in a meeting for 6 hours to "discuss" which header background we preferred -- one was a winter shot that allowed visibility of the building, the other was a summer shot where trees obscured it... the winter shot felt dead and colorless, but the summer shot obscured their fancy new $130 million building)
That's strange. A quick search shows lots of people complaining that GoDaddy is front running. The company swears they do not and they are against the practice. Maybe their servers are compromised?
If I remember correctly, they will greatly assist in student loan repayment.
When I saw that, the first thing that came to mind was that it's the military occupation specialty (MOS) for US Army special forces (18x).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_For...
Ahoy there Fancy Pants!

I've absolutely loved this series of games ever since I first played them as a kid in the 90s. I didn't think we'd ever see another MI Game with Ron Gilbert involved so for me this is wonderful news, I really can't wait for this to come out.
> Do not use soap

Using modern dish soap on cast iron is entirely fine, the detergents used are much softer than the sorts of lye-based soap that this advice stems from, and will not remove the baked-on (polymerized) seasoning. (It will slightly slow down the rate of seasoning accumulation by removing the thin layer of unpolymerized oil, but this can be fixed by just wiping on a thin coat of oil after washing and drying the pan. I usually don't even bother doing that much though.)

In general I think that most guidance for using cast iron is overly cautious and makes it sound like more of a hassle than it needs to be. At the end of the day it's a large hunk of metal, and there's very little you can do in the kitchen that will permanently mess it up.

edit: One piece of advice I do have: don't use a plastic spatula, they're a suboptimal choice people are forced into by easily-damaged cookware. Since that's not a concern with cast iron, you should get a thin metal spatula (example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0015R7P6O). The tip will always be exceedingly thin and never deform/melt/get torn up like a plastic spatula, and as a bonus it doubles as a very effective scraper for easy cleanup.
I am an engineer who often interviews other engineers for my own team. I look at portfolios. I look at github profiles. I try to find if they have open source contributions, and if they do I read their commit messages and patches.
Also, just yesterday, a Boeing 757-200 split in half in Costa Rica:

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2022/04/08/dhl-cargo-jet-bre...

And in March, a Boeing 737-800 crashed spectacularly in China:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/21/business/boeing-jet-crash/ind...

I'm starting to wonder if Boeing has problems much bigger and deeper than the 737 MAX. Does Airbus have the same recent number of crashes and failures as Boeing, relative to deployment and usage?
> there have been situations where I needed to prove my identity to people who only had my ssh public key

Just wondering what kind of situation can this be where someone has only your ssh public key? Usually people know each other via say, github user names or irc handles but ssh public keys? (genuinely curious)
> The US median dev salary is $110k

I don’t doubt you’ve looked that up and it’s true if you say it is, but that number completely baffles me. How are so many devs so poorly paid?