skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say good riddance.

While never having used the Zenfone 9 or 10, my experience with the Zenfone 8 was not so good.

It did feature a fast CPU and enough RAM and is still a fast phone, but:

- it heated up significatntly from day 1

- even with the battery saver mode on and a durable power profile enabled, the battery barely lasted me a full day of use

- the phone was chunky when compared to my previous Huawei P10, and only had one third-party case available on launch day

- software updates were regular for the first few months after release, but every second one seemed to introduce a different problem with a major feature (NFC payments, notifications, face unlock, battery life...)

- problems introduced in a previous update were only fixed in a month with the next update, so you were left with a buggy phone if you updated regularily

- a few months after release, phones from the first two or three batches started randomly dying without any chance of recovery. ASUS never reacted to this, except "contact your local service center". Because of this problem, I got used to carrying a backup phone with me each time I was away from home for more than a day

- around when ZF9 came out, the official support forum felt abandoned by ASUS, and software updates became even more irregular, even though issues are still present

To sum it up, I feel that ASUS has great (phone) hardware, but just don't care about the users. I moved to a Samsung S23 as it is smaller than the ZF8 and is more popular, so I figured that they can't mess up support for so many people.
The delegation is also decentralized so I don't see the issue.

There's thousands of "they"s.
Agile is a cancer too: In many orgs, Agile is essentially synonymous with chaos. Zero look-ahead. Let's do it first and fix it later. Later never comes.

I believe 99% of Agile's value comes from caring about developers and letting them pride themselves with their progress.

Managers benefit from regularly reminding devs that their progress is not measured by amount of code, but working features. "Can you do a demo?"

Care about your devs, let them demonstrate progress. There, I just invented another Agile framework.
You’re saying watching movies and eating food were considered non-profit donations?! I don’t think the IRS would agree.
I'm curious about the PDCAAS of the protein in Kernza but I can't find any data for that.
As an American, it blew my mind to see people in Taiwan carrying around plastic bags of hot soup. It makes perfect sense from a physics standpoint, and the convenience of it was obvious, so my mind was only blown momentarily – but it was just so unexpected. I think that's the answer to your question: the grocery stores could switch packaging any time they wanted to, but they don't want to weird people out.
The whole encrypted internet relies on a chain of trust for certs, and the public keys are already publicly available for every client to validate a servers keys and generate a NEW session encryption key (handshake). Looks like this project is essentially the same as running a MITM on yourself. It's intended to be setup on your own server, so you can generate and install your own certs to re-encrypt all traffic between YOUR server and client (i.e. you take ownership of the last leg in the chain of trust between your server and client). The website simply views your server as the only terminating client.

This is why it's recommended to use a client VPN on gateways you don't own, as MITM software can be added to any server to operate the same way (though they need to obtain the private keys of certs your browser already trusts, or silently install new ones to prevent your clients from alerting you).
BTW, I highly recommend the Relevance Slack as a good space to discuss this and search-related topics generally. It's run by OpenSource Connections, but it's free and anyone can join, even folks who compete with them. It's the best community I have found for search developers.

https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2021/07/06/building-t...
what, put it back
How the Church's Doctrine of Discovery Fueled Colonization, Racism and Genocide
no no, actually the sun will swallow the earth in a few million years so thats why we should do nothing.

(/s but there certainly is a strain of the media/public that blasted right past “it’s not real” to “welp it’s real and it’s too late to do anything about it, let’s do nothing”.)
Consulting firm McKinsey unveils its own generative AI tool for employees: Lilli
Considering that no one is stopping anyone from making an exchange that prohibits HFT, yet none exist is a pretty good signal that they extract less wealth than the value they provide.
None. But many people make it out to be a problem to be a Zionist or a Hindutva proponent.

Nationalism and pride for me but not for thee.
The design of a time capsule is above all else a task of cross-cultural communication. Until very recently, ethnography, linguistics, and social psychology simply didn't exist as formal disciplines. Prior to the 20th century, questions like "What are people in the future going to look for when trying to understand this?" could have only been answered by random guessing, if indeed such questions were even being asked in the first place. Today, there are mountains of literature and research into those topics. That's not even remotely comparable.
I am talking about my employment as a SWE in various private and public businesses in the US since it's the topic of this HN post.

>I'd love for a $400k salary to be a condition too, but life is full of compromises. I simply haven't seen such deals in my industry,

I am not sure what your industry is, but in this particular thread the discussion is about programmers, and why they need a union to force mandatory 4 weeks off on everyone. If your industry is so bad that you cannot even trade PTO for your cash compensation then you might be better with unions, I don't know what industry that is and, obviously, I am not employed there.
Wait… based on my previous lookups, I think it was SpreadFirefox.com or something related to that. https://web.archive.org/web/20040929012122/http://www.spread... I think the idea started as a quick webpage to download Firefox and turned into a Mozilla site to promote the browser…? It sounds right though I’ve forgotten some of the details. I definitely remember linking to some site off spreadfirefox.com because it was easier to find the download link there than to find it at the official site…
We still have plenty of those all over Mexico. Mostly used to get printed documents for government procedures or homework, in the case of students of all ages.
Not exactly a forum as we now know it, but I believe Bill Basham's Diversi-Dial (DDial) BBS software for the Apple II was written entirely in assembly. https://paleotronic.com/2019/09/28/diversi-dial-an-apple-ii-...
I agree with this. In my experience: these "rituals" are a way to force the conversations that a "senior" - in your terminology - dev would naturally have.
As a power vim user I still use a solid step by step by debugger and auto complete in which ever tool that provides. It just so happens to be vimbindings inside a jetbrains/vscode window!
I'm certain it's by weight, but either way, I don't see that helping much.
Do you even code?
PSA: this is not how stock price works.
Fats are also super dense in calories, so reducing oil for cooking and reducing high fat food will also help tremendously. Combined with low sugar food it will lead to gradually decreasing the weight, bc other food is not so dense in calories
This is very surprising!

Some outtakes from the study:

* Total Energy Expenditure reduced by 7.7% in males, 5.6% in females.

* Basal Energy Expenditure reduced by 14.7% in males (!!), 2% in females**

* They adjusted for body composition by looking at fat-free mass, fat mass, and age as predictors.

* To check these observations a systematic review of literature on BMR from the US and Europe over the past 100 years has shown a decline of BMR by about 0.34 MJ. Consistent, but lower numbers than this study.

The study also outlines some potential contributors to the reduction of BEE such as diet, decreased immune function, but also methodological artefacts.

>In the early years, measurements of BMR were made by using mouthpieces to collect respiratory gases, and recently such devices have been shown to elevate BMR by about 6%. A second possibility is that early measurements paid less attention to controlling ambient temperature to ensure that individuals were at thermoneutral temperatures.

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I've personally suspected something like this about myself. Whenever I've tracked my calories, it seemed that my actual metabolic rate was a bit lower than the various calculators suggested. I chalked it up to poor calorie tracking and wrong activity level assumptions though.

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** not statistically significant, inclusion of one study caused the reduction to be only 2%, but there was no reason to discount the study
I would have guessed more HN readers would attempt to understand the desired outcomes, how the implementation attempts to achieve them, then take the good from the bad as a source of constant improvement.

The tone on this thread has that jaded and defeatest "management sucks" attitude that I find most often in the least productive engineers regardless of how they work.
Medications Can Help Keep Alcoholics Sober. Why Are They Being Ignored?
Nice, though part of me wonders: if using version control why bother reading off yesterday's commits? Rest is pretty good and accurate imo.
I agree both that the concept probably applies to all people and that the title probably is what it is because of the publication. But I left it because of HN conventions on not editing titles
Still not attributable to low birth rate.
It's unclear exactly what you mean by your remark that Ada's syntax hasn't aged well, let alone what a 21st-century overhaul would look like.

Is there any chance you'd expand on that? I'm curious to know your thoughts.
Tesla FSD Out of Beta in China
I really appreciate this take and the sibling comment. Exactly. See what good is there, move on about the rest.
I am very dubious that afforestation won’t be logged or burned at some future date, which I assume is what you refer to as the “long term success” of these.

From what I’ve seen people tend to be happy to take the money and they just burn it next year.
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People don't get upset about that, because you can write essays on it. People get upset about the artificial limitations.

And that's without acknowledging the keyboard they sell!
Businesses should:

- give equal pay for equal work;

- encourage remote work if it is possible and productive;

- let workers choose where to live.

Remote work benefits employer (lower office costs), employee (time/cost/stress of commuting) and environment (pollution).

These simple rules help to establish freer, more independent markets for labor, commercial real estate, residential property and various transport modalities.

Cross subsidies by employers for high CoL just perpetuates the existing inbalances, and most of the benefits go direct to landlords.

The result, compared to mass commuting into expensive cities, would be:

- slighty lower wages in general, sharply lower for some bubble cities (SV, SF, London...);

- cheaper offices, both less space required and lower cost/area, some businesses move out of the cities;

- convergence of residential property prices across cities, suburbs and remote locations;

- lower rents for low-paid non-remotable essential workers in cities;

- much reduced economic waste on commuting, including less congestion for those that must travel;

- reducing inequality across towns, cities and countries.

There would be capital losses for speculative CRE and residential property investors.
It's a very real problem in K8s operators (ArgoCD being a very complicated one, but an operator nonetheless)...

...does absence signify deletion?

Some projects decide yes, if the YAML specifying your resource is absent on the next reconciliation, then delete the corresponding K8s resources.

Then some projects go with "no, deletion must be explicit, set this flag in your YAML".

But the last approach doesn't work as nicely with GitOps, as you have to do a two stage workflow to delete - first set the delete flag, then once the resources are deleted, then delete the YAML.

But I'm okay with deletion being harder to do if it makes it harder to well, accidentally delete all your stuff.

Because I've never met a K8s workflow where resources were commonly deleted, usually it's creation and update 90% of the time.

But I can understand it'd be annoying if you ended up with dangling resources if you missed an explicit delete flag.
I appreciate the input, even though I don't necessarily agree.

Indeed, "open source" taken at face value could be interpreted as "source available", but given the historical context, that's not what the term intends to represent.

It's because of this dissonance that I think it's important to make differences clear. Perhaps "free software" has always been a better name, but I think the community needs to come to an agreement on this.
I once blew a team's mind by this simple demonstration:

1) Searched the entire agile manifesto site for "sprints", "stories", "velocity", "stand ups" etc. Zero references.

2) Searched the official scrum guide for the words "agile", "stories", "story points". Zero references. It only defined sprints.
It's hard to eat once a day and accumulate needed macro. It's much easier with 2-3 intakes. Macro deficits can lead to pretty bad health consequences longterm.

7 days is quite extreme. In fact, I've readed somewhere that TRE provides about the same benefits as clasic fasting without the downside of stressing the organism that hard
When I started at a large company a few years back, the company specified restoration test was just that the archive restored successfully onto a server, not that there was anything actually in the archive. Digging into it, the archives were all empty due to a commit a few years previous that added an incorrect exclude option that ended up excluding all files.

They were running for years on the cusp of total failure and had automated restoration tests that caused a false sense of security in the tooling.

The second thing I did was adjust the restoration tooling to validate data existence and over time added validation tests (percent of data matched current live systems, specific fields and values were there, etc).

It's just too easy to screw up, doubly so when time constrained and alone doing the best you can without any oversight.
No, open source doesn't just mean that you get the source. This is the open source definition, the only commonly used definition used in the software world:

https://opensource.org/osd/

The first sentence says:

> Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open-source software must comply with the following criteria:

In particular, all commercial usage must be allowed, otherwise, it is not open source.
Two years ago I became really interested in optimizing testosterone levels naturally and one of the things that kept coming up in research was the impact of EDCs (Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals) on fertility, cancer, hormone health and testosterone and just how prevalent they are in all our products (clothes use PFAS as water repellent / stain resistance, soaps and creams use parabens as preservatives, anything that has a scent typically uses pthalates for the smell to last longer, etc) .

My girlfriend, who has a background in environmental science and skincare, also got interested in this and ended up starting a personal care brand focused on being 100% free of Endocrine Disruptors / forever chemicals: https://olivercare.co/.

I truly believe as more studies continue to come out strengthening the connection between these chemicals and the long term health and fertility risks, consumers and brands are going to shift to safer alternatives. In fact, there's a chance that "forever chemical" lawsuits end up being bigger than the famous Big Tobacco settlement: https://time.com/6292482/legal-liability-pfas-chemicals-laws... .
Having a figure showing three categories of software after a very vigorous assertion that there are only two seems like an odd way of laying things out.
I'd like to think there are some things today which we have got completely wrong. That we're not just refining correct theories.

I think today's explosion of LLMs etc will lead (eventually) to actual understanding. Data precedes theory.

You're thinking of nuclear waste? Not representative of today's time capsule, any more than space shuttle software development is representative of software development in general.
> If Privoxy can do this, why wouldn't any other unknown/hostile MITM be able to do the same?

Because as with traditional HTTPS caching schemes like Squid, it first requires you to first install a Certificate Authority's public key into your application, browser, or OS's Certificate Store, which (barring an already compromised system) an attacker presumably can't just.. do.

FWIW, I learned that first-hand configuring Squid when I used to run my own BSD routers and have seen the situation talked to death online in any thread that mentions OpnSense or a PiHole; no degree is necessary for exposure. We all have our blind-spots, and what matters is a willingness to be in over your head while you do the hard work of learning your way around.

This includes stumbling in the dark until you learn how you learn in the first place.
I made the mistake of watching (as a kid) a plumber use his own body to form the curves, and assumed "it's that easy" without taking in that he was 25 years past his apprenticeship and had bent thousands of pipes, and used a former almost all the time. It's a different game when its you, the pipe, and twenty needle-jets of water streaming out of the badly fitted olives, lack of PTFE (or too much) tools which don't fit, pipe with ugly crinkles in them, splits along the length...
Not everything has to serve wall street or the 1%. As environmental disasters start becoming much more common we will likely need the shortwave radio operators and the government should probably be encouraging it more as the average age is increasing rather than decreasing or holding steady for ham operators. I'm not sure why people hate those things allocated to the public like ham radio, we certainly don't need to give it up for HFT. They can get by with near light speed over wire, I don't feel any sympathy for them.
Microsoft will literally record everything you do on your computer and then go back in time and watch you happily click on stuff.
If only hedge funds. Big pension funds, universities etc are throwing millions (billions?) of private/taxpayer money into China in recent years. A housing market collapse would not be good news for any of them...
Several of the changes both in that article (“The reason that General Lee invaded…”) and in other examples from this topic take out relevant information from the reader about emphasis of what’s being said.

Perhaps (theory just concocted!) taking these helpers out puts more effort on the reader, thus putting the text on a higher relationship of authority with the reader, and that makes it seem “stronger” writing!
It depends on the person asking. If they are pushy and don't accept an "I'd rather not" or even "no I'm driving" I hit low.

I must however admit that I have a tendency to become a polemic ass-hat, and trying to persuade people to drink alcohol is a shitty thing to do.
As I understand from this "The Plain Bagel" video [0], they're not bankrupt. Instead, they're likely nearing the completion of their debt restructuring.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-n6RN8a2Zo
I think it's evident to most people that write Ada that the language is too English-heavy. This gets in the way of actually representing the computations. This was a design decision when the language was created, since the emphasis was put on maintainable code
Or base 16 if the machine overlords have their way.
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>But the people running these things have an obligation to see that they remain peaceful.

See, I class that as a DDoS on a protest if you're going to cut carte blanche for law enforcement to play agent provocateur though. They should be passive and uninvolved in en trying to coerce a resolution, or we should accept that a kettled protest gains legitimacy, and by extension, justified use of violence if it's the police who push it over the edge. It's like Union-Busting, and the recent NLRB ruling. If LE has to start pulling dirty tricks, then maybe the protesters had a point.
I loved Proxomitron! I hadn't thought of using it to MITM YouTube!
I have delivered successfully projects using Scrum, but we were fortunate that our Scrum Master was well trained and a senior engineer. Our CTO also let us figure things out, and helped us when we were blocked. He was genuinely concerned with the team having a balanced workload, ensured we deliver user value and our software was of high quality. Story points were not used as performance metrics but a tool to help provide stakeholders with some estimation, but only when our velocity became stable. Overall, our process was light-weight, we spent most of our time coding, and we pushed hard to deliver value to the user. If we fell short, we learned from it, no blame, just learned.
The rise and fall of the Nile.

The influence of the moon and the sun on weather and tides.

Where baby animals come from.

How to make beer and bread.
Top talent does not exist.

This problem exists at big tech and startup, in companies that spend fractional multipliers of the average salary on engineers as well as those who pay poorly.

In this environment, if your solution is "hire better people', you can't- there isn't any
If CEO can hire a 100$ scrum master to save a 1000$ failing team, it's much cheaper than hiring 2000$ successful team. That's probably what they're thinking
It's pretty surprising how strongly top performance at that institution seems to correlate with accomplishments later in life that are mostly unrelated to academic prowess. That isn't true for regular universities, I think.
No, because then the employer is subsidizing commuting, but giving the employee the choice of the travel/work blend.

In the limit, you could choose to live 4.5 hours away from work and spend all day commuting, compared to someone who lives next to the office and does a full day's work.
There is always room for arguing. If not, we will have an argument about whether or not argument should be allowed.

I think when someone says there is no room for argument, they are just signaling that they aren’t open to being convinced of anything. Which makes discussion a bit of a dead end.
> Some of that may be on devs, actually: distribution-as-docker-container at the expense of real packaging seems to be on the rise.

You could just run docker or podman or whatever alone on a VM and start/stop containers entirely manually.
You try carrying your bags miles from a suburban mall to the nearest train station or bus shop in a typical American city, and you'll quickly understand why Japanese train stations are hubs of economic activity...
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It is chemical and metabolic and hormonal. Stop eating for a week, and that feeling is not your willpower waning.

It's not easy to willpower past biology, which for many includes unbalanced hunger control mechanisms. I chose a low-carbohydrate diet to control my appetite. But if semaglutide allows people to lose weight, then it's probably better than obesity.

They probably could have been doing keto this entire time, but doctors cant prescribe it, the US Dietary Guidelines recommend against it, and the largest US medical organizations say it might kill you. Nor is it terribly difficult. But keto is not effective because of willpower, it's effective because it's chemical and metabolic and hormonal.