skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been messing around with Linux on some old Surfaces I pulled from the recycling cart at work. Linux on the laptop is fine, but boy howdy has it been a bad time on a tablet device. Wayland seems to have really thrown a wrench in the works. I tested:

- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Login screen showed the on screen keyboard (OSK) after enabling it in the accessibility menu, but had annoyances like shift staying on after hitting a key
- Gnome was okay as a tablet interface, but OSK didn't work in non GTK apps, including Firefox
- Autorotate worked once, but then never worked again
- After waking up from sleep, the device would go back to sleep after 1 minute, regardless of what I was doing.
- Kubuntu 22.04 LTS was like using a desktop OS with only a mouse. No autorotate or OSK
- Fedora ran so poorly I gave up on it before testing it thoroughly
- Manjaro had a working OSK throughout the OS, but autorotate was busted. It had the same sleep issue after Ubuntu.

In addition, the camera didn't work in every OS I tried. I eventually just put W10 back on them.
Why does Canada not have private healthcare? I kind of like systems like uk or Norway where there is a free system providing the floor and a private system if you want better treatment. Both the Canadian and the U.S. system is a bit weird to me.
then you should specify this in your job requirements so that people can remove them from their resume when applying.

the candidate should not be penalised for trying to tick boxes that other people have set up.

I got rejected from positions because I had a masters in computer science instead of an ECDL certificate. So I swallowed my pride and went and got one. Now, I'd agree with you that as an actual computer scientist, mentioning ECDL on my resume is embarrasing. But there you go, some HR departments have weird automated checklists, so I leave it in. I'd hate to then apply to someone like you who'd reject me because I had the nerve to list my ECDL certificate on my resume. It's a lose lose situation for everyone involved.
I don't know, but what I do know is that in Hungary you can just buy 50 liters max, because there is a shortage already. If this situation has not affected your livelihood yet, that's great. But sh*t will hit the fan real hard come autumn in Central Europe.
PDF document with some more details (but still not the whole list):

https://pages.eiu.com/rs/753-RIQ-438/images/liveability-inde...

(Need to provide an e-mail address to get the above link.)
Far too many people are needing a security qualification to be taken seriously by senior management.

I'm very clear when I say senior management because not everything has to have +TLS. But when your management get the speak from the "security certified" guy they stop listening to you and delegate.

With that in mind SANS. And I feel sorry for saying most of it. When your a seasoned Unix admin you shouldn't need a Windows wireshark certification about diamond team picking up your internal site traffic containing open secrets, but management thinks so...
Are you permanently moving, or is it likely to be temporary (a few years at most)?

I suppose not too much can go wrong. I have a feeling quality of life might be slightly lower, compared to what I'm told about Berlin. If you don't like it you can move back.

Despite what you hear on the news about the internal issues there, my opinion (based on spending a few years there) is that America is a cool place.
For me dislike is not the same as hate, it produces different feelings.

About System Tray, I mean GNOME refused to implement the standards and created their own cooler system , maybe they changed their minds , I see you have or had to use an extension https://github.com/Rickycezar/gnome-shell-slack-integration.

Btw I mean not only the message popup but a way to just glance at the Tray area and see you missed a notification or that you have unread emails in Thunderbird.

If Sack,Thunderibird,Discord,Skype work by default with no extra extension or extra compatibility layer in GNOME then great I did not know that GNOME developers lost this battle with the users.
I guess Flowers for Algernon might be considered science fiction, but in any case it was set in the future (1965). The original short story was published in 1959. Maybe should change the title of this entry?
Remember that the author writes the content but usually has very little control over the title that will ultimately adorn their prose. I agree that the article was click-baiting but perhaps I'm the rare person who enjoys a good mystery and isn't repelled by content that actually teaches me something.
FYI you can set up noprocrast in your profile to make HN stop serving you requests after a set period of time, so you don't get too addicted.
Sure, but how reliable is it. What are the risks that I'm going to get locked out of a production instance and suffer loss of earnings?
I wish people qould stop conflating "racism" with negative actions impacting low-income communities.

Yes, minorities are proportionally more likely to be in low-income communities, but the actions taken to harm these low-income communities hard the entire community, not just certain ethnicities within it.

If the intent was specifically to do this in black neighborhoods, regardless of that neighborhoods comparative wealth, then it would be racism. As is, it's a lot more complicated than that.
How long will a BTC retail transaction take for this to a viable payment method?
More than $100m in cryptocurrency stolen from blockchain biz
The USPTO registration exam is difficult to pass, and is helpful for starting in the patent field. Because it doesn't require updating, it isn't in itself valuable if you don't have a patents practice.
Crypto’s emphasis on community could lead followers off a cliff
Whether or not a city is "walkable," is not necessarily an improvement upon livability.

In areas of Chicago and Baltimore, for example, the streets are "walkable," however the frequent violent & property crimes that take place in these areas make a casual stroll down the block an unsafe proposition.

I grew up in Harlem during the time it was emerging out of the 1980s crack epidemic. As a child, the streets were easy to walk on and crime did not impact this for me in any real way. Just a few years prior, though, this was definitely not the case. And even today, as "walkability" improvements have been made in Harlem, the streets are quite obviously less walker-friendly, since walking down the street exposes you to a non-insignificant risk of being a random psychopath's next unwitting victim.

My suspicion here is that you have some sort of binary thought process surrounding cars in cities. The fact is that cities are not as livable in general. Any solution involving more or better walking capacity is a temporary fix at best. In actuality, what you need is a very solid city planner who is able to anticipate and respond to cultural trends adequately. Cities need to be able to balance the needs of various transit options, such that they don't compound peoples' other problems that come from living in cities: crime, cleanliness, affordability, etc.
You can, why would that be the case?

MrChromebox currently publishes only RW_LEGACY firmware (not full ROM, only replacing the stock SeaBIOS) for AMD Picasso/Dali and Intel Tiger Lake devices, but a) that's enough to boot whatever you want and b) you can build your own full ROM.
Depends on the stage of your career.

Back in the early 2000s when I was fresh out of university I did the Sun Certified Java Developer course. It made me stand out of the vast number of other graduates looking to get into the industry. I landed an awesome job straight away.

My advice would be to get 1 or 2 meaningful ones if you really want them. Avoid littering your resume with a bunch of certificates, since that adds a negative bias I find.
AT&T lawyer stopped Plan 9 release CD with songs by Lou Reed, Debbie Harry
Yeah, and if you want to go the "hacker route" you can terminate the landline in a cobbled-together Asterix PBX for even more fun.

You could use a VOIP number but then it would go down when the Internet goes down.
Au contraire, AWS has a stable of foundational services that have not moved in a long time and a worthwhile knowing, no matter what service-du-jour gets rolled out. Not a moving target at all.
Ask HN: How to Security Audit for Noobs?
Hello, I started working on a side project during my free time, and I was thinking of converting it into a side hustle. The side project involves ensuring data-integrity and ownership of a file by storing metadata about it in blockchain (the actual file isn't stored). I was thinking of letting others use it, but what if it's not secure enough? What if people use it and something happens, would I be in hot water?

Once I develop the project enough, I do plan to make it open source, and only after that I would launch. At least that's the plan. I was wondering how to do good enough security audits on your own when the software is finally built. As I am merely a sophomore in college, I can't afford professionals for the same.

What do you guys suggest?
> This might be overreacting but is there a way to opt-out of Copilot using your code in open source repos?

I don't think there is a way to opt out if it is a public repo regardless of license, and Microsoft's copyright theory suggests that they wouldn't feel obligate to enxclude any code they got their hands on except under a specific NDA preventing such use; the use of public GitHub repos isn't based on legal constraints but practical convenience.
> go back to tried and tested agricultural methods

https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/timeless/images/US...

"Tried and tested" agricultural methods produced about 20 bushels of corn per acre.

Current "artificial modern chemicals" methods produce about 160. Eight times as much.

> your harming your own wasteland that for some reason you grow copious amounts of corn on

The reason is that it feeds a substantial portion of the planet.
I see quite a few opinions here detailing the pain of PgSQL upgrades. From those in the know, if you've time to bestow: how does it compare with the main rival relational db engine, MySQL, or its offshoot MariaDB? (I know I could ddg but a few anecdotes always sweeten the deal)

I'm looking to select a relational DB for a web application, most of my experience is MS-SQL but I'm looking to go open source/Linux this time.
Another day, another hundred million.
Probably won't get you the equivalent of 8-10 miles a day, but you can buy some dumbbells, put them by your desk, and do a set of something every hour or so during a break. I aspire to do this, but often forget/get too lazy to do it often enough.
Some people are good at making changes relevant only to one task, making commits at appropriate points to that task, and ensuring that none of the intermediate commits are regressions. Sometimes people prefer to deal with future pain of complicating a bisection with broken, unrelated issues.

Personally, I make a lot of mistakes. I commit too early when I missed some bugs or broken builds (eg build on release but not debug, rhel X but not rhel Y). My working area has unrelated changes. I forget to change branches...

So, I figure out what the destination looks like, do my best to keep things clean and small, and rewrite history before the PR as if I was one of those careful people.

My recent advancement has been to realize that reordering commits for an efficient fixup is much easier than splitting commits, so I'm better off doing things out of order. I also use worktrees to be able to ensure each commit is correct as checked out without stale state.
World leaders are facing crises on all fronts. Putin's watching for them to fail
What's it like to fly in a plane with a 100 year-old?
I remember the day I discovered `git reflog.` Truly a lifesaver for a rebase heavy workflow.
Power your phone off and don't install any garbage apps. Don't do social media on your mobile phone either. This is really just about will power.
That logo...

(cool software anyhow)
1. The discussion quality is incredibly high because of dang, participants staying within the forum guidelines knowing mod operating model, and the general disposition of contributors. You can't act like a 4chan or average reddit participant long without getting nuked.

2. The content surfaced is on average interesting and satiating to a curious mind. There is both depth and breadth. Do you like politics? History? Deep technical studies? Science and medical research of all sorts? Take your pick (insert Bo Burnham "welcome to the Internet" here).

3. For those seeking that sort of opportunity, jobs are available with who's hiring threads, YC ads, and serendipitous job offers from HN interactions.

It's a virtual Soho House where membership is free and requires no referral but ongoing membership is up to how you behave.

(unapologetic HN addict)
I think when Wasm gets a little bit more mature, it will enable the creation of more composable tools. One might be able to hot create modules? Kinda ironic that this is how it is structured given that arbitrary projections is what SQL does.

Is there a way to hook lower in the SQLite stack, and make it think that your DS is something it already understands?

What about a function that returns a view that it dynamically generates?
Comparing median figures are useless, any statistician can see that immediately. It is completely symmetric to movement in the distribution in either group. It only tells us about relative movement between the distributions, not whether either side is moving relative to prior positions.

Did you read the rest of it about the substantial difference at the fringe? Republican extremism exceeds Democratic extremism by 25-100% depending on the metric you look at. This is the difference between consistently-party aligned groups on both sides:

* strongly negative view of the other party: R 15% greater than D (43% vs 38%)

* important to live in a place where people share my views: R 40% more than D (50% vs 35%)

* most close friends share my viewpoints: R 30% more than D (63% vs 49%)

* would be unhappy if an immediate family member married someone of the other party: R 25% more than D (30% vs 23%)

* opposing party policies jeopardize the nation's wellbeing: R 30% more than D (66% vs 50%)

Conservatives are far more likely to not want diversity of thought around them, either

"But far more liberals than conservatives think it is important that a community have racial and ethnic diversity (76% vs. 20%). At the same time, conservatives are more likely than liberals to attach importance to living in a place where many people share their religious faith (57% vs. 17% of liberals)."

I would encourage people to look with their own eyes at the language in the dominant party of the 2nd most populous state in the country: https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-pres...

It is so easy to say "A pox on both their houses" but it is incorrect, and you will miss a dire problem for the country in doing so.

Greitens ad is one example of violent eliminationist rhethoric against party moderates in the Republican party: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/first-read/gop-takes-... - this is a major state and a leading candidate, not a fringe one.

The Buffalo mass-shooting was direc caused by replacement theory anger, which is widely believed by Republicans (70%, https://www.splcenter.org/news/2022/06/01/poll-finds-support...).

I don't know if you will be believe me, but people should get active or make fallback plans to emigrate or leave. This isn't a drill.
1. Agreed for the most part, though I think a startup could overcome the break-of-gauge limitations pretty fast with moderate investment (and less red tape).

2. There are multiple different ways of handling BofG; the holdup is just deploying it effectively.

3. For loading gauge, using EU grain hauling stock with variable gauge (or swapped) bogies would be ideal - this avoids issues with larger cars and heavier axle loads.

(Edit)

4. The unit nature of grain trains makes the problem easier to solve since outside of gauge changes you deal with large cuts of cars. No need to swap couplers on every car as you only hook on the ends (Europe uses hook & buffer, while the former USSR uses SA3)

5. Brazil has the largest network of dual gauge track in the world and has optimized it quite well; 1600mm gauge engines frequently handle 1000mm with the help of idler cars that allow them to couple up. Some lessons to be learned here.
Is this some American car culture thing? Never heard someone mentioning it as an issue. If anything, in my circles owning a car is frowned upon.
I don't know about how postgres compares to others, but if you're looking for an easy-to-manage relational DB, there are a handful of new cloud-native databases that have come out in the last few years. The ones I know of are Planetscale and Cockroach DB.

https://planetscale.com/

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
> observing those around me

Most days within the last few weeks I've been leaving my phone at home. Not having one on me makes me actually look around at my surroundings more. It takes a bit of getting used to but after a while it no longer feels bad during downtime, just normal.
Hi, why would beekeeping harm wild species please?
No. It's hyper localized. So someone in SF may think the US is turning to crap because they see an increase in homeless, drug use, etc.

In all the areas I've lived here, which are not big cities, you see none of that.
Increasingly, “landlines” are VOIP with legacy connections.
The cert expires in a couple years, and you have to get it again, with some new stuff added though.
My number one tip for anybody interested in this would be to contact the Pyrotechnics Guild International any locate in-state guilds that can take you under their wing and help you along the way. There are two in my state and they’ve both been remarkably receptive and helpful.
AWS is also proprietary which I failed to point out - but it’s so widely used and has such great market share that it’s not a bad life skill at this point.
Sqlite does not allow table valued functions to return results with varying schemas. The schema must be defined once up front and then cannot change.

That forum post is a request I made to them to allow dynamic columns but they don't seem interested so far.
Succint and accurate.

Massive rebound of the coral growth? No one wants to report that:
https://twitter.com/alexepstein/status/1440696877079433220
Read a lot. Best tech writing regardless of domain right now is supreme court opinions. Reasonably accessible, written to be read, usually lucid. Read your own work after a layoff. Read out loud. Write to be read out loud.
> Why create such huge possibility for legal battles for themselves (and their users)?

Simple: They disagree with you on the risk of that happening and the potential cost if it did.
Domesticated bees might eat the same food that wild species eat.
> Whatever happened to the Bee Apocalypse?

The same thing that happened to the regular apocalypse. It's still moving closer every day, it's just taking longer than anticipated and causing some to lose patience.
I mean, like any respectable home renovator it’s happened to me too and I’m here to talk about it but that’s a long way from saying more people should experience it.
> Also, I see some comments on keeping things short and to the point

I think this is true. Another way of saying it might be to write things intentionally and make sure each sentence contributes to a goal. You can have humor and personality in the paper, but make sure you don't have filler or meaningless words that you're just writing off as personality.

I love when a document is easy to read and is thorough.

Side rant: I hate when people use an acronym in a document and never state what the acronym stands for. Take the extra 10 seconds and type it out the first time you use it with the acronym version in parentheses directly after.
I get what you're saying and I think this is true for a lot of people, but hear me out.

I actually rarely read too deeply into the CV except as a source for some talking points. I have a phenomenal recruitment team so I rarely need to "guess" on a candidate from a CV (truly, they are exceptional and they really get what my team is looking for and our candidates love them also cause the recruiters took a lot of time to learn enough to talk competently about our tech scope) If my recruiters pass me a candidate, the candidate is at least good enough to bullshit fairly competently.

We structure our interviews to be very conversational -- the same points are always hit and we have a loose grading structure, but mostly the goal is to get the candidates to talk about problems and explain their thoughts really well. I do feel bad, because I can tell some put a ton of effort into their CV, but I rarely pay that much attention to it besides ctrl+f for some subjects I want to talk about or looking for a few keywords outside of our core competencies just to see how they talk about these edge cases.

Passion is good, but for me, passion shines through during the interview and the conversation and how they love to talk about what they work on. Even with the most nervous candidates, we've taken a lot of time to practice just being approachable and interested, which helps even the shyest candidates really open up. I know I had one candidate pretty recently where they were quite shy (and also interviewing in a second language, not their primary so lots of stress there). It took a little bit, but by the end of the interview, they were blushing red with pride and smiling uncontrollably with how proud of themselves they were for answering really tough questions and scenarios we had for them. (and they knocked it out of the park for a DevOps position, I don't think I've been so happy with a candidate in awhile)

I wish we got this for every candidate; their passion gets tapped and just suddenly I see someone gushing about their favorite topic.
Is the agenda to save bees?
They spread diseases like mites to the wild bee species chiefly, as well as out-competing them for food.

Details are in the parent comment and in the article but if watching a video is more captive of your attention here's a report on Deutsche Welle which I found pretty good and more to the point. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYgDssQUtA
Are there any companies actually better at this, especially for consumer products?

They're all just low-margin generic computing devices, and even the luxury stuff like Macs have their own endless warranty and support nightmares. I don't know anyone who's ever had a GOOD tech support experience with mainstream consumer computers.

I've had decent luck with the small-biz products with add-on on-site support, but costs more money and still requires convincing someone to come out to look at it. Once they do, though, they're typically much better at actually fixing/replacing what's broken than online or phone support tend to be.
Hi there! I am the person who made ohshitgit.com as well as dangitgit.com!

I resisted having a swear-free version for a long time! but, I heard from many folks that the swear-y url was blocked by their networks at work or school, and they wanted to be able to view & share the content too. I had also heard from a high school comp sci teacher that they wanted to share the OSG tips & knowledge with their students, but couldn’t because of the swears.

So, I decided to create the swear-free version to be more inclusive and allow more people to access the help they needed to get out of their git messes.

Cheers,
Katie
NASA's Psyche Asteroid Mission on Hold Thanks to Late Software Delivery