skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In terms of listening, it seems basic, but ask questions. Even if you think you've got the jist of what's been said, getting people to expand on their point helps you understand them better and makes them feel listened to.
Most of my career has been working at places using scrum/kanban. And the vast majority of those projects delivered valuable software to customers at the estimated pace.

The ones that didn’t were easily attributable to outside factors or specific problems like an exceptionally bad PM.
There's also likewise ancient AWStats, made in Perl. IIRC I used it for some reason instead of Webalizer, but that might be simply due to better support of Perl on shared hosting of that time.

Though by now, after having experience with a performant setups, I would probably choose to chuck the logs directly into something like logstash+elasticsearch, or something more lightweight. Because I came to believe in processing data on arrival, not on request. Though perhaps Webalizer or AWStats themselves can process small batches, idk.
And of course someone invented a label to put on it. BirAdam describes a very much working model that could as well be kept unnamed.
It was always a bluff and a gamble. He clearly always wanted to own Twitter. Then the stock market came down.

The fact his risky gamble at getting the price reduced didn't work is not surprising. Whether or not he's the actual loser here is not clear, a lot of wealthy people own expensive sports teams that lose money but do it anyway because they like it.
Gas accounts for 15% of Germanies electricity production, it was a consevative government, CDU-led, that implemented the last nuclear exit plans. It is the Greens that kept nuclear plants running until next year. It is the Greens that push for more military aid for Ukraine, it is a Green Minister who is getting gas reservoirs filled up faster than planned. As another commenter pointed out, gas prices are back to pre war levels by now.

Context matters, nothing haooens in a vacuum.
Someone my team either had a second job or quiet quit, but according to Jira he was really productive. The reported metrics can’t be trusted. The worst part is that our manager was the only one that didn’t figure it out.
On my experience Kanban only works for IT kind of tasks, where each ticket is an isolated action, instead of a small step to a bigger goal.
Semiautomatic rifles and pistols are the most commonly used guns for home and self defense by a large margin. Being behind a 2 year wait to perform the same background check the federal government can do in 30 seconds makes absolutely zero sense.
My 8 year old Golf can't drive itself, but it does a heck of a good job in parallel parking. It works very well, but I have to break and use the throttle.
Hopefully I can find some time in my busy schedule to try this.

One thing I like is that the code appears to flow more like a console app than a GUI app. I've always found it's easy to create a quick-and-dirty console app; but if I want to do a quick-and-dirty UI (windows) app, it's much more time consuming.

This is because, with console IO, you can write your UI in a very linear manner. With UI (windows), it's much harder to write the code in a linear manner.
Surely that kind of play would indicate a rating considerably above 1200.
Not sure what is the case here. But I can say something: current electronics are getting ridiculously complicated in what power supply concerns.

The project I'm working now, and the last I was, we had in a 4x4 inch board more than 10 voltages (1.0v 1.1v 1.3v 1.6v 3.3v 4v 5v 6v and I do not know what more) , all generated by micro controller configured power supply circuits. Those 10 voltages had to follow a very specific sequence, failing to follow it, could in worst case, damage the whole board. Basic explanation: if circuit part B is powered before part A, power flows "backwards" to A, melting it.

In addition, an error in the configuration of the supply ASICs would also lead to too high voltages. That is, the output voltage was configured in one register.

I think something along the lines is going on here.
This article seems to conflate peace with the exact American political setup of democracy, individualism and corporate influence on politics. Is the paragon of free markets the USA the paragon of peace ?

The fact that America buys Iraqi oil didn't prevent it from being bombed back by decades.

This seems to be people ruing that our project to dominate the entire world with an ideology that had us comfortably in charge is failing.
Unpopular opinion, apparently: the only communication style that avoids ever stepping on someone's toes is also going to create an environment ripe for passive aggression, mean girlsing, and playing the victim.

Such an environment has a horrible failure mode: when you're actually direct and just say what you mean, for example, because otherwise disaster will happen, everyone will immediately start theorizing what you could possibly have meant by being so direct. It's both ridiculous and dysfunctional, and creates paranoid spirals of backstabbing and ass-covering that burn entire companies down.

People who feel easily demeaned or hurt are generally insecure. They can't take a joke because they take themselves too seriously. They will also try to suck up to others because they hope that will curry favor and avoid negative consequences when they mess up.

It's basically a recipe for avoiding responsibility, and the last thing you should want in an environment where excellence is required to do a good job.

Having spent time in such a company, and eventually getting booted out when somebody _else_ lost their temper at me, here's the craziest part: the people in charge thought I had no filter and always spoke directly... in actuality I was constantly biting my tongue, keeping tabs on what was going on under their noses, and giving them plenty of hints and time to course correct before I spoke my mind... and even then I chose every word carefully, always staying within the bounds of decency.

They didn't even realize that what they saw as unacceptably direct, was actually another person's idea of overly constricting and two-faced, and they didn't realize what it would be like to navigate from the outside. Getting them mad was actually the only thing that _did_ work to trigger any sort of positive change. Anything else would just get rationalized away.

My advice: find people who can take a joke, who are eager to learn, and who don't define themselves purely through how others see them, and you won't need to worry about stepping on their toes. I'll even cop the heat and say your chances of finding that among a majority of female coworkers are extremely slim.

When you do find yourself worried that your communication partner needs to be handled with kid gloves, and that you can't just say what you're thinking... that's not an environment you want to be in, not among adults.
> Also this is called "крокозябры" (read: kro-ko-zya-bry

In Esperanto there's krokodili[0] (literally "to crocodile") which is used to describe speaking non-Esperanto among esperantists.

This was further adapted into Toki Pona as "kokosila".

I found it funny how similar they are.

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/krokodili
> I have been loving this site for old radio/electronics magazines:

And many hundreds of books.
Sure, so? Prices are back to pre war levels apparently and gas kept flowing the whole time. It was simply more expensive in the last months.
Which state/country has not grown (or better reduced) its surveillance capability. As far as I observe, even EU countries are announcing ever more frequently its ever growing appetite (ad-hoc justifications) for more of it? [scandals of secret and not-so secret as well as illegal surveillance by states are features on countless post on HN, and theintercep.com for that matter).

Which country last 1-2 decades has grown less totalitarian? (I fail to think of one example).
This article doesn't address the most salient argument in the free trade -> peace syllogism, which is that free trade between two countries reduces the chance of war between them only to the extent in which cutting that trade off (which is what would happen in a war) would cause domestic pain. So it's an incentive, not an absolute.

Take the China example - China as of this September holds $3.055 trillion in foreign currency reserves. This makes the US and China mutually interdependent - if China stopped selling products to the US then it would cause a massive recession in China. If the US couldn't find buyers to finance its spending, it would default on its debt. If the US defaults, the entire international economy would likely go up in flames.

So it's like mutually assured destruction, but instead of stockpiling nukes (though we do that, too), we're actually producing useful goods and services. And it doesn't make war impossible, but it does mean that war won't happen on a whim - it will be an utter last resort, with millions of wage earners and business owners wanting to try to make any other solution work, lest they lose their livelihood.

It's hard to take the article seriously without this sort of analysis.
IMHO as someone who participated in a lot of these non-equity corporate accelerators, both as a startup and as part of the technical teams supporting the initiatives (at two different companies), it’s primarily cheap PR for both the parent company and the startups. There are some perks like the product and service credits as well as the opportunity to network with relevant teams at ParentCo, but I find the experience hardly comparable to a more traditional accelerator like YC. It’s a question of incentives.

If your partner has the bandwidth, I would consider applying for the perks, but I would be mindful of getting distracted by things that don’t entail building product/solving the core problem and selling to clients.
Isn’t it basically just repeat what others say ( mirroring) and never insult other people?
I just did a log-log polynomial fit for the first time outside of the classroom. It's funny when things come up.
No, the point of my comment was that most humans appreciate and remember the guy who doesn’t give two shits about them, would rather spend their money on bling and mansions, while the scientist who actually helps humanity tremendously is not even noticed.
Is there any sort of tech expat/“digital nomad” sort of community in SA? If so, what’s it like? If not, what inhibits it?

Thanks in advance.
But arguing about what values people “should” have is dumb and pointless.
do you think you’re saying that out of logic, or ideology
Any university should be able to hire and fire teaching professors at will if they're not doing a satisfactory job. Clearly this professor wasn't. I don't feel like anyone was cheated.
Okay, that makes sense and I can certainly see why that often makes sense.

It seems that running the proxy leaves the original problem uncorrected. I'd be inclined to exercise a bit of malicious compliance to increase pressure for changes to the security configuration.
Fair points. It’s not a blank check to knowingly be a jerk.
Well yes it does require some dedicated PMs, owners and leads. If you are a smaller operation that does not have this, sprints might not be as beneficial. But if you are working for anything at scale as a developer, sprints aren't necessarily to track every hour of your day, it is to give you a structured path of things to do without having to know every detail about the bigger picture/compromises with product/prioritization. Also as a developer it gives you leverage because you were given certain tasks for the week so when someone comes along and tries to inject "high" priority item X, something else has to give.

I found before I was on the planning/lead side, it was hard when you did not have this structure. People would still shove in "small" tasks without a sprint structure and then months later it is hard to explain why a big project did not ship on time. So if done right and not abusively by oversubscribing devs, it is a great too for both sides.
This is not X, failure is in early stages of boot.
I think you’d be much better served with the z80 card for the Apple II chassis.
I’d go further, sprints are defensive for devs. Don’t bother me or tell me to do something new during a sprint. I’m doing the work I said I’d do, leave me alone until the sprint is overs.
Are they twats because they're upper middle class, or because they want to go on vacation to Bali? Or maybe both?

Edit: the point that I'm driving at (if it wasn't clear) is that we seem to all want upward mobility to be a thing, but boy do we hate those that actually experience it. That seems almost like it's own kind of pessimism to me.
> Putin, for whatever reason, chose potential glory over economic prosperity.

He stated his reasons. He believes there was a western-backed military coup in 2014. Ukraine failed to implement the Minsk agreements. Ukraine is attempting to join NATO. He believed an assault on the breakaway republics was imminent. He believes Ukraine is harboring literal Nazis, committing crimes against humanity against ethnic Russians.

Those are more or less the stated reasons.

IMO, Ukraine was a vassal state, much like Puerto Rico to the US. Maybe the relationship wasn't so formalized, but Russia viewed Ukraine as theirs one way or another. For some reason, people in the western world operate on some kind of technicality system, as if words on paper make a difference.
I disagree. I think it's a cool illustration and he looks good in it.
Because for normal, working age men, being sucked beneath a freezing, 5km+ deep ocean is just something you shrug off.

Honestly, prioritising kids I get for sure, and pregnant women - but old people? Not so sure about their claim to a seat in the lifeboat, or a KI tablet in short supply.
Turn your LinkedIn profile into a landing page in two minutes
Hey everyone, just sharing a project that I've been working on for a fair few months now. My first SaaS attempt.

I had a rough idea that I wanted to start from an API and then build a nice experience on top of it that solves a problem.

When I applied for my last job, I created a page similar to this for my submission. So I thought, "maybe other people want one too" so here we are...
Yes, and sprints are a tool to prioritize between them and create predictable schedules for the part that has been broken down already.
Elon’s back, though he still has a few days to change his mind again
Putin wouldn't attack ukraine for no reason. He is probably one of the most open leader we had in recent years with trump. they both spoke exactly like they acted. Putin always said that ukraine should remain neutral and that if not russia will act with its army. same threats were pushed against finland for instance.
Removing an elected president and backing up pro-european rioters definitly destroyed this neutrality.
US knew that and prepared for this outcome willingly.
I wouldn't call it quite "obvious" (it certainly didn't cross my mind), but thanks for the information. Quite interesting.
Yeah, I've tasted all of those pain points myself. At $work our app developers expect a working API with all the new routes and endpoints from day 0. We manage this, of course, since we're all adults by simply talking to each other. But... yeah.
Brand new account, hi Vinh?
Easy. You set your safety factor in excess of expected everyday load.

The fact is, Engineering has become the Art of specifying the worst (read: cheapest) implementation one can get away with.
Nintendo sells a product that includes hardware and software. As a product it is safe. They are no more responsible for the damages caused when you modify the product than they would be if you took the Switch and bludgeoned someone across the head repeatedly.
How bout, plan enough then just build the thing until we agree its usable and correct. What the hell is the point of the short time framed boundaries? I'm not a fucking horse I don't need cadence OR blinders.
Obligatory reminder that MBTI is pretty much worthless.
Tailscale’s Taildrop (https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop/) has completely solved this problem for me.
Ask HN: Where to get real-world cyber security experience?
Gaining functional experience in software is possible by simply creating applications and tools, but you can also gain real-world experience working on a team through open source communities such as GitHub.

What is the equivalent for the security realm that would be worthy of a mention on a resume?
That was my first thought, and then I was amazed at how dominant the Nobel photo was in a DDG image search 30 minutes after it was announced. Now a few hours later and it's only Nobel affiliated pictures in the first ~50.
Replacing a dead employee is more expensive than simply setting up a company where your employees are more likely to stay alive. Also an employee proving their self defense case to the state will have fantastic retention due to the financial costs involved.
I thought the reason we can't have nice things is because everyone wants a game where they can obtain things and keep them forever except for in extremely rare "fair" circumstances.
One I remember from way back was that the XT-era Hercules monochrome adapter allowed the refresh rate to be set to zero, causing the monitor to emit its magic smoke. I'm not sure it was weaponized, though.
Linear.app is an example of a startup that "successfully launched using agile" and focused on "releasing features to production", while working with 2 weeks cycles (not "sprints"):

https://linear.app/method
Imgur is breaking the internet by requiring JavaScript, too. Oh the irony.
The odd are 33 to 1 that very few at HN get the "ITM" reference. :-)
Yes, we saw this over covid lockdowns where the massively reduced number of cars on the road resulted in a dramatic improvement in air quality around cities. If enough individuals start taking the bus or cycling in we can definitely improve our local environment, regardless of the minuscule effect on a global scale.
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> Especially when the author gave a very clear use case for a very real problem in shared state computing.

He did not. One server can just keep track of a player's items then pass that state on when he moves to the next adjacent server. I don't even see the issue here except the codebase is described as something very messy with weird OO/hooking style non-abstractions that just cause bugs.
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I would be amazed if the electricity situation in South Africa is anywhere near as bad as in Nigeria, but I've never been to South Africa so it's just an assumption based on how incredibly bad Nigeria is.
I have a disagreement with a different premise.

Define progress. Is it more/better technology? Is that progress something we want?
The only thing matching the Model 3's drivetrain specs (350+ miles, sub 4s 0-60, AWD) is the lucid air, which is more expensive and not in production yet. The mercedes EQS matches the range, but is much slower (and more expensive). Everything else has both less range and is slower. The Teslas also have the best MPGe of all the EVs available.

It is hard to deny that Tesla is dominating the EV scene right now. They objectively have the best, most efficient EV platform and the best charging network.

Realistically, my plan is to wait a few years before I buy my EV. I think with supply chains cleared up, battery tech improving, and old auto manufacturers ramping up their EV capacity, the options will be much better in ~5 years. I really hope the Dodge Challenger EV is good.
Shai-Hulud !
Sounds like in this case they are monetizing it
My problem with pessimists is that they usually have nothing to offer. There is only so much awareness you can bring to problems while having no solutions. The optimists in society seem like the doers.
It takes more than "one small slip up".

It is my experience that local law enforcement put very little effort into solving property crime. The effort rises dramatically if the victim is a cop (or is related to one), a politician gets involved or the media reports on the crime.

As one example, after my father died, people were using his credit cards and checkbook to steal money (until the Master Death File sent his details to banks). The police said that this crime was so common that they did not investigate (nor refer anything to the district attorney) when the theft is below $250k. A casual mention that dad was a volunteer cop, and had been for 9 years lit a fire under the police and they had investigated and arrested the perps within 2 weeks.

One of the perps worked at his doctor's office and had access to his records (including payment details). She had plead to a lesser charge and when her parole officer visited her office and checked the office computer records, it turns out that he wasn't the only victim of this sort of thing (emptying dead people's bank accounts). Additionally, she was using the doctor's office computer to issue narcotics prescriptions that she also sold.
Agree completely. the idea of a backlog as a neat list of things we're definitely going to do someday is crazy ;)

They're a holding pen for ideas. The good ideas get implemented immediately, the bad ones get deleted. And there's a huge middle ground of "yeah, I guess we could do that, but it's not urgent and there's other stuff to do first" that lasts forever.
It made a ton of software possible that wouldn't even exist otherwise. We don't have runtime access to annotations in c++ and it's a constant PITA as soon as someone wants to make something as basic as generating a GUI automatically from a data model, which is maybe 50% of what programmers do all day in the world
I also thought about this video while reading the HN post. The Computerphile video completely omits the latent space, right? But instead spends a lot of time on the iterative denoising. Even though I like Computerphile a lot, I don't think this was the best tradeoff.
There are many countries (the UK I can say with certainty, but I believe also the EU), where no 3rd party software is needed to complete a tax return for a typical person.

Either it's completely automatic (like most PAYE employees in the UK), or the tax system is simplified to point where it's a simple form to complete.
Here's an article about the evils governments do, while free markets are defined by the absence of government intervention. As Obama explained, government is defined by its legal monopoly on the use of violent force. It follows that with every regulation carries an underlying threat of violence, so it seems clear peace won't come from more regulation.
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I didn't want to say it out right as it felt kind of morbid, but I'm wondering how it will carry on after he passes. Not sure if there's someone he's asked to continue it after his passing or not, but I hope so.
I was hoping in a couple years there would be proper studies about those potential consequences but honestly I can't make myself trust they won't be suppressed at this point. So I can only hope there won't be any severe ones.
What were the biggest? The MLK riots?

How does one measure these things precisely anyway?