jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've heard this theory quite a few times, but the fact that there is virtually zero low-level corruption (eg. cops asking for bribes) despite low-level public salaries being quite low doesn't jibe that well with this.

More disturbingly, despite that high pay there are regular reports of corruption in the highest ranks, only a few of which even see the light. Here's one particularly unedifying saga that only made the news because the head honcho of a government-linked charity, paid $600k/year plus stupidly generous expenses (fleet of 8 cars etc), was foolish enough to sue a state-owned newspaper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Kidney_Foundation_Sin...
I never used unix :) other than linux and that mac osx darwin thing.
I think Alaskans would be able to defend themselves just fine. As far as I know they ride bears to work and eat raw fish.

My sources may not be perfectly accurate all the time, though.
Actually it was built in WW2 after the japanese attacked the Aleutian Islands---the Americans were desperate to be able to defend US soil, and Whittier was perfect from a military standpoint: constantly clouded over (some insane number of days a year they get precipitation) deepwater port, surrounded by mountains.
I think you make a good point. I wasn't saying yes or no, just posing the question, since it seems like a fairly obvious invention, that one doesn't need to work particularly hard at to invent, and probably has been thought of and will be thought of repeatedly by people who work with rfid's over time. You say that's hindsight because i've only now heard of the combination. But I thought the whole premise of rfids was tiny devices that could be embedded in anything.

Maybe it seems bogus because it's a human, social invention, rather than a technical one.

In any case he got the patent, so what does he have to be bitter about? He even went to law school so it would probably cost him less to sue than the average joe. After going through all the trouble to get it, why doesn't he sue anyway? I bet the fear of having his patent invalidated if Disney decides not to settle plays a role.
forget the app or phone

how about: a standardized test calculator specification, with careful boundaries around what is required, what is permitted and what is not.

Then let competition drive prices and features.
I'm reminded of both Douglas Adams' "electric monk":

> The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

And Arthur C Clarke's "The Nine Billion Names of God" (no spoiler, but the ending is magnificent)
The channel with an average of 3 million viewers at peak times? Cable news is not big. There are YouTubers I've never heard of who do a multiple of that on their videos. Don't mistake noise for influence.
As the link states, they've controlled for education (degree earned) and then measured IQ with a vocabulary test; as a result they hypothesize that students who are verbally-inclined might be earning degrees in less profitable fields.

If you look at the data included with the GRE CD, you can see the same trend: those who perform spectacularly on the verbal portion are philosophy majors and the like. How much would you expect their average salary to be? No doubt it's significantly less than for most engineers, who don't verbally perform as well, but hit close to the (low) ceiling of the math portion. Income vs. verbal IQ within the same education class is probably all over the map because of this, and no doubt significantly confounded wrt cause-and-effect.

On the other hand, I would expect there to be a strong benefit to verbal intelligence within each profession.

TLDR: The link hardly proves that a higher IQ does not cause higher income.
Not by you.
The training with weights is something else. Olympic weightlifting as part of a metcon is just a different level of physical fitness.

Good luck finding stuff that keeps you interested. That’s all that matters.
AKA work smarter not harder
An account of the fight of Samar can be found in Sailor Historian, an anthology of pieces by Samuel Eliot Morison. It mentions the Johnston and its skipper.
The photolithography machines that you need in order to pattern silicon for etching features smaller than ~20 nm or so are made by one company -- ASML. One machine is about the size of a house, costs >$100 million, and their order book is full for at least the next two years.

A semiconductor fab typically needs several of these machines (maybe only one or two of the best machines for the smallest layers, but more of the coarser machines for the less dense layers) in order to produce chips competitively.
I'm comparing two scenarios:

In the first, a global adversary (say, NSA) records all your interactions via a chat service. This chat service does not use PFS. At a certain point, they capture the private key from one of your devices that uses the service, and is able to decrypt all your messages.

In the second, the same global adversary records all your messages, but this time from an otherwise identical service that DOES use PFS. The adversary captures your private key but can only use it to MitM attack you going forward. However, before discarding your device, they check your conversation history -- because your diligent backup and transfer of all your conversations since you signed up for the chat service, they now have all your messages. PFS did not help.

Now, you could change scenario #2 to where you don't have an option to back up and transfer message history (or simply choose not to), and that's essentially Signal. In that case, the adversary is pretty much hosed except for the messages your device just happened to have on it. Adversary steals message backup == adversary steals private key w/o PFS
> Printing money and giving it to the rich steals from the poor.

Exactly. The participants in our tumor-like financial sector collect a risk premium, without actual risk. They have responded accordingly. It's Moral Hazard 101.

> consistently stepping in as the silent guarantor of last resort

Right again. GP's claims about buying are nonsense, and they're clearly projecting about lack of education. Not counting the exceptional last year, the big issue has not been buying but paying off loans (either their own or bailout beneficiaries') with made-up money. Giving made-up money to regular people is comparatively a lot better, either in itself or as a way to avoid worse kinds of collapses, but still not something to make a habit of.
> Well, all I ask for is consistency. If "Black" is to be capitalized, "White" should be too,

“White” as a label of an identity group is usually capitalized if Black is; the new AP style (and the similar Columbia Journalism Review style and some other, mostly journalistic, groups) is aberrant, not normal.

https://cssp.org/2020/03/recognizing-race-in-language-why-we...

https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-...

https://www.macfound.org/press/perspectives/capitalizing-bla...

https://amastyleinsider.com/2020/07/01/updates-to-reporting-...

https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-capitalize-black-white-race/

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/about-us/readers-rep/st...
> As GameStop’s price rose to ridiculous heights, those passive funds were almost certainly buying to maintain their balance.

Are there actually passive funds which are interested in volatile stock like gme? Most popular ones rebalance every month or quarter as far as I can tell.
Riddle me this, you have 2 populations containing 2 sub-populations each. Lets call them populations Aa and Bb. 'a' can mate with 'b' and produce c. c can produce viable offspring with A or B but A and B can not produce viable offspring. What do we call Aa and Bb if not distinct species? What do we call c?
What if some members A can produce viable offspring with B some of the time but not always? What then? My point is we make taxonomical distinctions for our convenience, they don't really have any hold on the natural world.
There's also H for opening a previous history entry or switching to a different tab you have open. This is a big one for me (along with the Auto-Discard extension) since it lets me keep a very large number of tabs open and not have to iterate through every open tab when I want to find something I opened previously again.
I'm not sure that's entirely true. If you look at the history of container tooling, all of the FUD Dan Walsh used to spread and Red Hat pulling support for Docker packages on RHEL I believe what was stated to be fairly accurate.

Edit: You also may have different perspective given you work for Red Hat / IBM.
It was created by Landmark, then offloaded in 2008 to NBCUniversal who still own it under Comcast.
Cloudflare like many other companies is pretty volatile. 6% is nothing for them. It happens from time to time without any reason.
I usually sneak up from behind and hit them over the head...

Think about what YOU would want to read in a blog. Blatant, shameless product pitches rarely have much value. Talking about how or why you added a particular feature is usually more interesting. Realistic use-case examples, either from your own dog-food eating (I hate that term), or even better from real customers gives people something they can relate to.

Basically, talk about anything but "selling", instead aim for something a little more conversational and along the lines of cool story you might tell a friend or colleague.
The Makefile does a few things:

- it runs all the JavaScript files through jsure (similar to jslint but more configurable) to look for possible parse errors in the code

- it builds jo.js, which is the library baked into a single file

- if you have jsmin, it also makes jo_min.js which is the same thing but with no comments and extra spaces (smaller JS file). jsmin is not a strong compressor, but it is safe and readily available. Any JS compressor will work, and the Makefile will be a bit more flexible in the future to let you configure your preferred compression util.

- make also builds a local copy of the documentation (found in docs/html) from the source code and any *.mdown files in the directory tree.

Now, that's all developer stuff. If you just want to use Jo, you only need jo_min.js. Also, unless you're ready to make your own CSS, you should grab the files in css/aluminum.

Hope that helps!
Get people to know to comment. Right now you are falling prey to the empty restaurant effect. There's a cognitive barrier to be the first/only person to comment on a site that is perceived to be empty. So have some friends of yours comment as a favor to you, and other people will start. This little site that I run (http://impishidea.com/) has only somewhat higher traffic than you currently, but gets a lot more comments. The "8 new comments today." counter was a big help, because people were able to see evidence of new comments.
Maybe a compiler bug?
Actually I think the eating your own dog food policy is actually holding Microsoft back as internal products no longer need to compete with external ones which increases developer and project manager myopia around what is and isn't important to end users.
How's that? JS is single-threaded.
Hurting how?
Google doesn't fire the bottom 10% or whatever.
They also don't completely screw the bottom 50%.

The only curve that is enforced is really a calibration to ensure equal pay for equal performance across orgs
I hope https://berty.tech will be awesome
The whole thrust of the novel is futility. Orwell was a great writer, but not a prophet or a saint. Take what works and reject the rest.
According to the paper, many states are still using VAM so it bears repeating.
How are you working on improving your written communication skills? I think that's something that I and others have lots of room for improvement in as well.
No, better yet: they should just place Obama's portrait in front of it.
Fantastic! I always wanted a pair of glasses like this for a bunch of project ideas (heck, including this very idea). I wonder what the odds are they will be hackable for other purposes?
If you're interested in this, you should check out Jayme Stone's Lomax Project, modern interpretations of some of the music collected by Lomax.

http://jaymestone.com/projects/lomaxproject
DC fucking blows on top of it. At least in other places, you have to be smart to make 6 figures. Here, every idiot that rides their desk long enough gets 6 figures and therefore you have to pay huge sums of money for a single family home within 90 minutes of DC.
I agree, Neat.

I'm the guy who reverse-engineered enough about LEGO to build a iPhone case with LEGO-compatible studs on the back (smallworks.com). It was the kid's idea.

injection-molding is more difficult that it looks. Yes, you can buy it as a service (we make ours locally just outside Austin).

Let's put it this way. I own several high-precision molds, a CNC mill, a membership at Techshop, and two 3d printers. I have tens of thousands of iPhone cases at my disposal, and I still think this is neat.

Not a business, but neat.
I'm not sure just how much I can say, in the context of my employment, so I'm going to drop out here.
Yeah, she even said that she has family working at JFK that can check up on things and report if she doesn't show.

I get it, on technical things, you can be 100% correct in telling someone "no, what you're attempting is just wrong, and this approach works better". On issues of life, with adults, it might be nice to remind people of other options. It's just silly though to insist that the person hasn't thought of their position and didn't come up with the idea of "oh I should just call the cops".

It's like someone says "how can I hide that I'm a heroin addict at work; I can't lose my job right now" and the reply is just "stop using drugs". Wow, that's helpful.
However you don't see the politicians or those traders employers banging the drum to dilute the trader pool with foreign workers on extremely employer friendly worker visas.
I hadn't heard about the film, but it seems they're releasing the international version on VHX.tv, with DRM-free streaming and downloads. I'm sold.
It's not a mistake, though. The second goto line was added separately.

I could see if they were copying & pasting goto statements all over the place, and happened to paste it twice by accident. But that's how it occurred. The second one was added in a separate commit.
FWIW, inventing arbitrary tags is coming with Web Components / Custom Element :) http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/
I'll note safety of cycling is a big concern of mine, and by far the biggest reason I do not generally bicycle to commute, and only do it for leisure off roads whenever possible.

Cycling is roughly 2x as dangerous as driving (1) to the person themselves per mile travelled and motorcycling is 35 times as dangerous (2).

Electric bikes are probably somewhere in the middle.

I am hoping once we get humans off the road, cycling can be safe and I would love to cycle places.

(1) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221414051...
(2) https://www.askadamskutner.com/motorcycle-accident/how-do-ca...
I don’t know whether you are referring to only local and session storage being feasible or not, but on can access cookies from JS as well.
Thanks. I'm not so much worried about my data as I know that can be easily exported already.

I'm more worried about becoming reliant on the interface and product as there really isn't anything else like it out there.

Totally rooting for you guys and will love to follow your success.
I've been hoping for some crazy thing like WebCL to happen. I know it's nuts but, imagine how useful that could be for things like scientific apps and engineering apps. Little climate sim in your browser :)

Yeah I know, this isn't what browser are meant to do :) But
I've been looking a some algorithms for cuda and opencl to extract isosurfaces from volume data and, it could be cool to do so in a browser for medical imaging purposes.

Who needs C when javascript can do all that ;p

EDIT: In all seriousness, this could be really useful for game developers on mobile. This could help them get closer to native games in terms of performance.
I dispute the "shaken down by Apple" suggestion. Apple is a company that actually spends money on R&D and actually makes its money selling products based on its R&D. The patent system is fatally flawed, but Apple at least is playing the game in the exact spirit in which the laws were conceived: To give companies a temporary monopoly as an incentive to bring new products to market.

Neither HTC nor Intellectual Ventures are acting in the same spirit.
Sure. But with Toastmasters, there are projects that force you to concentrate of other factors, such as structuring your speech or persuasion.

And there are people watching your speech with a critical eye (which I mean in a positive sense), ready to give you tips about problems you may not even be aware of.
If we're measuring this by function:cost then this is easy. I bought a Sony ICF S10MK2 radio last spring for $10. It's used two sets of batteries so far, so make that $15. It's a great example of 1950's technology still being relevant today. There's absolutely nothing fancy about this unit. It just works.
Whats the cost for one in USD? It says "79 000 rub". I'm sure that means ~2527 USD, but I guess I can hope that it means ~2.50 USD. :)
No, of course there's no evidence, but Google would be stupid no to be preparing for a backup route, and if there's one thing that Google isn't, it's stupid.

And yes, of course there always was the possibility that other languages would target Dalvik, but it was never mentioned as something Google would do, or as something that Google would consider beneficial to anyone. That tone is changing as of late I feel. That's what I meant - I feel that recent public talks about Android from prominent Google evangelists is slowly preparing the Android world for a gradual change. Not that they'll drop Java like a hot potato next year - that'd be infanticide. It's just that the initial message of 'Java all the way for all things Android' (which was meant to provide developers reassurance that they wouldn't have to work with a myriad of libraries in all sorts of languages, leading to a fragmented landscape on the development side) is not said as loudly any more.

Then again, maybe that was the plan all the way, to provide a broader development environment once the developer base and tools were broad and mature enough. I mean, what do I know, right.
> It forces software developers to try not to hide all the useful features

except that in the Mac you can option-click, which is even more complicated than a right click. There is always a way to make features obscure, if you want to.
Is there a cooking probe thermometer that supports USB? This Go!Temp probe only claims 130C/266F as it's max operating range, and isn't clear if that temp also applies to the electronics housing package just behind the probe.

I'd be great to have something that is wrapped in silicone, safe for oven use up to around 550F that has a detachable daughter board that connects to USB.
Well I live a lot further away than Oakland. I commute from along the 680 corridor which is further than may are willing to endure, I think. Luckily there's still quite a lot of affordable housing in safe neighborhoods in San Leandro, Hayward and El Cerrito (to name a few), all of which are much shorter commutes than mine.

But the more general answer to your question: When supply outstrips demand the only reasonable response is to build more housing.

Complaining that driving jobs have low value isn't constructive. The value of those jobs will approach zero soon due to technology. Instead, address the economic imbalance and let supply meet the demand.
I didn't see Postgres in the article?
This opinion is completely ignoring accessibility. A canvas is a black box to non-sighted users.
The non-Apple equivalent is the Nvidia Shield TV. Excellent piece of hardware that gives you access to basically every streaming app, plus integrates with Android's casting setup.

Also fun fact, the Shield TV is the longest supported Android device in existence

(https://www.androidauthority.com/nvidia-shield-tv-25th-updat...)
This is just a longer version of every angry comment on the Github Issue thread it's referring to, differing only in that this person doesn't seem to be a maintainer of any project intersecting with `cryptography`. If you're interested in this debate, such as it is, just read the Github thread.
Shopping for a new dryer and I had a similar thought. Nothing good is going to come of my dryer being connected to Wifi.
> Amiga was clearly trying to create a proprietary platform in order to charge premium prices for keyboards, etc. I thought this was a big mistake.

This is by no means a given, considering that Apple has succeeded fantastically by not only doing exactly this, but doing so in pursuit of margins Commodore-Amiga would have considered fatally aggressive.
Why do you need to subject people to personality tests at all?

It uncomfortable and demeaning, not to mention that it make the business come of as lazy and unrelateable. If you need to know what type of person someone is, talk to them, take the time to learn if they’d be a good fit.

I no longer interview at companies who subject candidate to personality test. The best jobs I’ve ever worked have been where I talked directly with my future boss, often for more than an hour, no tests. The worst jobs all had quizes or personality tests.

What’s the use of a test that’s easily influence by a person mood, if you don’t take the time to understand why that person feels like that?
> and that there is still room to compete against them

the concept that there's no room to compete against the market mindshare incumbent is a marketer's wet dream.

in other words, amazon does an amazingly effective job at marketing to people who think they aren't affected by marketing, and then get them to pay a massive premium to boot.

they truly are geniuses in this regard.
Apparently, I'm the only one who likes the move. Two reasons:

1. I actually think services should store less about people. It's good that stuff gets removed from parts of the internet.

2. I fully understand the idea of archiving a part of history. But in a way, I treat the websites more like a shopping window and less like articles and artifacts of time: They will be rearranged, stuff is removed, new stuff is added. Nobody would argue that redecorating a shopping window somehow destroys culture or history. If that is important to someone: go ahead and take pictures of store fronts. Make an archive if you want. But don't expect the store owner to keep an accurate history of their shopping window.

After all, most websites are actually the fronts of shops that are open 24/7.
Bottom row. On mine I have space left of centre and enter right of centre.
Its a full keyboard, you use the next two outwards on the bottom row to shift layers for access to all the punctuation. They actually very ergonomic. See olkb.com for more on the original.
Same. What has changed to make it "support" Catalina?

Edit: Found it. I didn't see I could click it.
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/44988
In the united states, municipalities are subordinate to the state (equivalent to province). They generally have charters outlining distinct areas of responsibility, but usually to change the scope of that responsibility requires legislation at the state level. At each level the executive, judicial and legislative branches are separate.