skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't expect "geniuses" at a store help desk. But (anecdote alert) I have found Apple Store employees to be far better techs, in terms of both technical knowledge and people skills/professionalism, than the retail norm.

I would be far more focused on consistent, professional customer interactions than on random and hard-to-replicate insights into a problem. (Though, of course, diagnosing uncommon problems accurately is part of being a good tech as well.)
Their valuation went up by a billion dollars over that same time period so I'm not sure "incompetent" is the right word here.
Enforcing Unique Code Target Property for Control-Flow Integrity (2018) [pdf]
The scene values quality. It's why their file sizes seem large to some. x264 at CRF 18-21 still can't be matched by x265 at any bitrate.

I'm a videophile and have been using Avisynth (Vapoursynth mostly these days) since the DivX vs Xvid wars and every year I give x265 another chance only to be disappointed.
There's also the hardware compatibility issue but regardless the quality would still have to be there.

Take a look at the most popular outstanding bugs and you'll notice many of them are regarding quality [1]
The doom9 forums is also a good source. Many have posted comparisons proving the point.

[1]
https://bitbucket.org/multicoreware/x265/issues?status=new&s...
And Egypt 2011
...and there's more to come. :)
Exploiting XSS in Grafana's Piechart-Panel
You're describing Lean. Similar and related, but not the same.
Modular homes that are not stick-built onsite tend to appreciate a lot less. And if your assessor or appraiser categorizes it as a manufactured home it is even less. Try to sell one to find out how much of a local stigma they have, even though they are perfectly fine and are usually built out of 2x4s too. But I heard people saying they don't shop at Ikea because it is a "cookie cutter" store. Buying a house is often a status issue.
Stopping Memory Disclosures via Diversification and Replicated Execution [pdf]
"The P&G acquisition of This is L., a startup retailer of period products and prophylactics, shows just how profitable investing in women’s healthcare brands and products can be."

Elizabeth Holmes agrees.
You get Venezuela by committing to give people somebody else's money rather than create the environment in which they can make their own.
I just found this demo and thought it was amazing but more importantly so well executed that it didn't even feel like a kludge!

Just a few quick points:

- Better try on desktop.

- The library that powers head tracking support is: https://github.com/labofoz/handsfree.js
The only book I've ever bought judging by the cover (well, the title) only was George Lakoff's Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things. It wasn't what I expected (what did I expect??), but it was insightful and thought provoking. One of the first books I've come across that shows you that the world is much, much more complicated than the simple (and "obvious") stuff we are taught in school.
Sibling countries bashing each other is common the world over. Is the nature of the bashing such that it is making claims of some sort of collectivist nature? And to what degree does a claim made during some kind of rivalry make something accurate or true?

Australians often like to claim New Zealanders have sexual relations with sheep when they engage in good old fashioned country bashing. I would hazard a guess that stunningly few New Zealanders have ever fucked a sheep, though I would assume a handful have and what's more I'd assume the same to be true of Australia too. But it's clearly not like the claim has any sort of merit as it applies to the general population.

I don't have deep experience with Canada, so I would be interested to be pointed in the direction of anything that would indicate that collectivism was more prevalent in Canada than Individualism.

I have a hard time buying it. I'm from NZ and I've always felt we are much closer to Canada than the US. I've also lived in Australia for a couple of years. Aus and NZ are completely similar along certain dimensions and really different along other ones. But I would venture to say that they're both heavy into Individualism. As is the States and from what I have seen of Canada I assumed I would feel quite at home there.

Comparing my experience with Japan over the last 10 years, which is heavily collectivist, I just can't bring myself to the conclusion that personality wise and the types of things that come out of Canadians mouths about how one should conduct oneself in society is closer to that of the Japanese than it is to that of Americans.
I've been pretty close to the incel communities on reddit and I've never understood the bans they placed on them. There were a few posts asking for violence but, to me, they could have been false flags, and they were taken down fast by the mods.

Closing down a forum with thousands of users just because of the attitudes of a handful of them is, well, retarded.

For the record, this is the current incel sub: https://old.reddit.com/r/Braincels/
> Why is profanity necessary to convey intensity?

It's not necessary, it's just funny. The owl picture is a meme borrowed from the internet to make the same point you did ... that it feels like math notation skips over the how.

FWIW, spending time in a floating point calculator can be very enlightening. I use this page all the time https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

A great exercise to try with your son: try numbers of various magnitudes and see what a 1-bit change does to the decimal value. For example, try the earth's radius in meters and determine the FP32 precision in meters at the surface of the earth.
The Code That Never Ran: Modeling Attacks on Speculative Evaluation (2018) [pdf]
The ‘salt is bad’ meme is about as dead as the ‘fat is bad’ one.

A study [0] of over 90,000 people found that “… At moderate intake, sodium may have a beneficial role in cardiovascular health, but a potentially more harmful role when intake is very high or very low. This is the relationship we would expect for any essential nutrient and health.”

[0]https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
If you're looking for a 3rd programmer, you're looking for somebody who can commit to the short term future of the company with - if you're wise - an explicit guarantee of long term rewards.

Excluding half the population from that search will absolutely ensure that you don't get unlucky hiring a man who, develop schizophrenia (symptoms occur typically in younger males), runs off with your IP, decides he doesn't want to stick the long hours, his wife/girlfriend has a child and he wants a more stable position, can't stand your attitude, or all the other reasons that make people, male and female leave small companies run by people who make bad decisions. In the grand scheme of things that can go horribly wrong for startup companies, female pregnancy is actually the least of your worries.
_their_ lawyers, I guess. Which would be paid out of their own pockets?
They couldn't find the golden fork either.
All that and no mention of food poisoning despite eating offal from the gutters and dung heaps. I wonder if his super-charged metabolism made for a super-charged immune system or it's something we can all get used to?
Just #FishPedantry, a quick kill is an important part of ike jime, and quicker kills are also more humane. But the best-known and probably most important aspect of ike jime is the spinal cord destruction (the bit where they jam a wire down the fish's spine), which supposedly prevents pattern generator neurons in the spinal column from generating the autonomous swim reflex, which reflex depletes ATP in the killed fish and also makes postmortem rigor harsher.

So I think Dave Arnold actually did a triangle test on this stuff with three kinds of fish, and for two of them, the spinal cord destruction had a marked impact.
Perhaps the internet is only temporary and will soon be gone, at least in some parts of the world. Perhaps it will be confined to only a few countries. Perhaps something will be developed to replace it.
It's a really great idea, and the way people are taking to it is really nice to see. I even see people understanding after a few eye rolls the importance of her more Shinto inspired things (such as being thankful to items).

From her I learned that all items have a home. I had heard such an idea before, but her explanation made it stick. Now I don't lose keys or gloves or ear muffs, they all have a home in my house. It's not ideal placement, I often end up backtracking a bit, but I think the idea isn't to wring efficiency out of every decision, but to just know and accept, and that feels ok when you're around joyful things.
Is the OP kidding? I just watched the Fyre Fraud documentary two days ago and it's quite clear that not only is Billy McFarland a con artist, he's a serial con artist. He started his "entrepreneurship" by hacking his school's computer to sell crayon repair services. His next venture was the Magneis credit card that promised "exclusive access" to events that it didn't have -- and went out of business. After being told many times that Fyre wasn't workable given the venue, budget, and time limitations in place, he went ahead anyway.

The most telling part of the documentary is when the interviewer asks him about all his lies. McFarland can't even admit to one of them. Ja Rule, though disclaiming responsibility, is just as guilty... and he's going to produce another festival which he claims is "similiar."

The OP says, "it's not a scam if you succeed." Who in the world would call Fyre a success? It ended without a single band performing, people having to be evacuated from the island on an emergency basis, and a $100M lawsuit. Mr. McFarland, for his part, is currently in prison for wire fraud.

It's disheartening that so many entrepreneurs today feel like defrauding people is the best way to success. Let's hope the Fyre Festival's failure acts as a lesson to some of them.
> concepts like "fairness" or "caring" simply doesn't exist outside of human brains.

We can test for a sense of fairness in animals. One test is the "inequity aversion task".

Non-humans showing a sense of fairness on this test include dogs [1] and nonhuman primates, ravens and crows [2].

[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)...

[2] http://theconversation.com/animals-know-when-they-are-being-...
What’s the best (currently available) HUD in glasses/sunglasses format?
Protecting the Stack with Metadata Policies and Tagged Hardware (2018) [pdf]
the second through third book of the ender's game saga dealt a lot with how to communicate with aliens that may not communicate in any way we could really even understand, and whether or not there were beings that we would never be able to communicate with. It may sound pretty autism spectrum but it's something I often think about when communicating with other people.
I recently got hold of the book ("the man who stole portugal") and it's full of tremendous little details, like the notes being delivered by the printers in travelling trunks to the left luggage office of Victoria station. The whole thing relied on William Waterlow being spectacularly naive combined with Reis' skills in forging credentials and letters of introduction.
The good news is that we have open-sourced the environment, so if you think it's easy I would love to see a simple method that solves it.
Exactly. Many law firms in Canada ensure paternity leave pays out at 100% of salary. Lawyers, like a great many other professions, also come with additional costs. Her dues, her training, insurance, her benefits package, all were paid. Not to mention, when she returns, it is at salary similar to what she would have expected had she stayed. So now they have a new attorney with no experience outside of law school, being paid the equivalent of one with 2+ year experience. All these costs add up.
One of the Glassdoor reviews mentions the COO getting wasted at tradeshows, so maybe the assault is just normal behavior for him.
No, I have a much easier time installing Linux on a machine than I do Windows. I recently had to clean install Windows 10 on my laptop and it brought back a lot of painful memories of having to find all the drivers for my particular hardware, store them on a USB stick, and make sure to install them in the proper order with proper restarts in between installs.

In contrast installing Ubuntu just involves popping a USB stick into the same laptop and letting it run for a bit after answering some basic questions.

And don't get me started on how much productivity I've lost to Windows 10 quietly "updating" drivers and breaking my programs in the process.
"Side Effects" by Woody Allen
Too bad the title uses the moniker "Hackers" to describe the two men involved... The article title should read "...Followed Two Psychopaths..."
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis, Feeling Good by David Burns - changed the way I see and cope with things and people that used to "cause" me lots of stress in the past.

Behave by Robert Sapolsky, The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson, Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman - we are animals shaped by evolution. The human brain isn't perfect and makes lots of silly mistakes. I learned not to belive everything I think.
Well there was also this:

"...and that you could enter casino cash prize draws with as many entries as you wanted in order to win them, ..."
Since we're in anecdote territory, I learned that screen de-lamination issues that occurred on some ~2015 MacBook Pros were being covered under an extended warranty. Took mine in (which had some screen issues). The Genius Bar guy took one look at it. Said yep "Haven't seen quite that interesting a pattern." Asked me if I had things backed up. Apologized for the fact they have to replace the whole display including my stickers on the back. And took care of everything at no charge.

I'm sure it was all within policy but how many companies would try to put up at least a half-hearted fight?
Critique of Religion and Philosophy, by Walter Kaufmann. I went into the desert with this book and my Christian faith, and when I came out I had this book.
Hanabi is fully cooperative and entirely focused on communication. I think it's good to have a testbed that isolates these challenges, rather confounding them with the zero-sum (competitive) aspect of Bridge. Having said this, I do believe Bridge is a good testbed to put the different methods together.
> Meanwhile the nheko project has an independent from-scratch implementation of the E2E stack

True, but here is the repo:

https://github.com/mujx/nheko

"Note regarding End-to-End encryption - Currently the implementation is at best a proof of concept and it should only be used for testing purposes."

and:

"No longer maintained - Desktop client for the Matrix protocol"
People will find ways to diminish others, but a recent manufactured home on a well-kempt lot just looks like a normal house, even if it has a simple roofline and is conspicuously devoid of brick above the floorline. In much of rural America, this kind of house doesn't look out of place, and is worlds apart from the image of cramped disheveledness that people associate with a suburban or edge-of-town trailer park.

What's ironic is this kind of home ownership is fairly commonplace among people who aren't high earners, yet higher earners are moving into cookie-cutter subdivisions in distant exurbs of major cities and into homes that are built rapidly with poor materials. And yet there's no such stigma there.
> you will realize that concepts like "fairness" or "caring" simply doesn't exist outside of human brains.

Here's the well known capuchin fairness experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo
The way I understand this is that, most of the time, users will be braking by removing pressure from pedal A, and only in exceptional cases they would have to do it by applying pressure to pedal B.

If so, I think you cannot expect humans (most of them even amateur drivers) to make that switch under stress, no matter how well you signal that the car requires you to use mode B.
I am not in US, in my country lawyers don't carry a big stick. In US on the other hand I wouldn't need to be sexist as I don't have to promise parental leaves so that would make things easier. Small businesses don't have to offer that till they are big enough so it makes sense for them.
I'm sure the typical person you'd say "good riddance" about also is doing the best for their family. Is it correct for people to say "good riddance" about your opinion?

And being sexist when hiring is saying they're a worse employee and don't deserve the same rights.
I don't think admins can edit comments using the regular website interface. The CEO edited the comments directly in the database. That's why the asterisk never appeared. (Which, by the way, means the CEO has direct access to the database. Why?)
Firstly: Too bad. The dysfunctional practices of corporate software development doesn't override people's right not to have their own computer's performance trashed by shitty websites. It's their right to run whatever browser they like, including one that doesn't allow slow, bloated and poorly engineered software to run, no matter how hard it makes life for the marketing departments of the world.

Secondly: For decades computers operated with extreme limits on their available memory and their processing capacity, relative to today's computers. Despite this, people managed to write software, even including companies with marketing departments and idiot VPs. It might take these people a while to accept that they can no insist on pushing whatever garbage they want, because the cost is borne entirely by the end user, but eventually they will. Or they won't, and these dysfunctional companies will die out. Either way, users win.
Off topic, but the good old Blues Brothers movie is even better in the version dubbed in German, in my view. The German dialogues are hilarious.
I had to hire a temp for a one year maternity leave replacement. It wasn't particularly difficult and the person I hired didn't want a longer contract and she is great. In fact, I kept her on as-needed contract basis after. She will be helping me smooth other the transition of another employee who just left for a better paying job.
> - Subreddits can change background color pagewide, which renders dark practically useless.

Disable subreddit styles altogether to fix this problem. I have my complaints as well but this one you can't blame Reddit for. They wanted to do away with custom CSS on Subreddits but the community was very pro-css and thus they kept it.

I personally like to keep it on by default and blacklist ones I find annoying.
I don't think I've ever heard bandwidth used in this context.
This story is really weird, Masters somewhat knew it was all fake, but still beleived in it.

Tragic.
For me it was a sequence of books that did it. The Phoenix Project first, then David Anderson's Kanban book. Some tine after that was The Goal and Deming's Out Of The Crisis, and a book of Taichi Ohno musings.

You're right, what has been seen cannot be unseen.
> In US on the other hand I wouldn't need to be sexist as I don't have to promise parental leaves

The US does, indeed, have mandatory job-protected parental leave. It's much shorter (even in the more generous states) than many European countries and in many cases (i.e., federally, though some states differ) unpaid-only, but it's still a thing.
Wilson's "Everything is Under Control" was another important one for me after the Illuminatus! Trilogy. That's what sent me down the path into Thomas Pynchon, Hakim Bey, Noam Chomsky, etc. Can't really turn back after that.
Notorious because a lot of the laws passed (or attempted) are designed not to regulate gun ownership, but to prohibit it in practice.
A woman will give you five or six months warning before going on mat leave. You'd be lucky to get two weeks out of a young man jumping ship.
The bad part about articles like this one is that you aren't given enough information to know if the user of the device was using a branded proprietary vape pen, a standard vape pen, or if they were using a modified or custom vaping device (aka box mod).

The latter devices are in general where the danger lies. These devices are typically poorly designed electronically, allowing for great amounts of current to flow thru the heating coil, mainly in order to produce larger amounts of vapor - creating monster clouds, etc.

Many have little to no current regulation at all; you are lucky to find one that uses any kind of real current regulator (perhaps an LM117 with a bypass power transistor or MOSFET). Most are little more than a switch shorting the coil directly to the battery; maybe with a potentiometer thrown in as a voltage divider.

They put enormous stress on the LiPO cell(s) used in the device, and these cells are sometimes the cheapest ones that can be bought - overruns or ones that didn't pass inspection, get re-bought in the business, then repackaged and sold on with "white label" style branding. Far cheaper than the name brand cells, often marked up with erroneous current handling capabilities far exceeding what they can really do.

All of that leads to a perfect storm, where they are stressed beyond their capability, and they enter into an "avalanche mode" of self-destruction, heating up and chemically reacting in a matter of seconds or less to swell, catch fire, and explode.

Instead of acknowledging this - which any box modder knows about and likely assumes such risk - these articles seem to conflate the hobbyist level devices with that of the standard and branded vape pen devices by known manufacturers. To what end, I am not certain, though I could speculate.

Follow the money as usual and you'd probably find out the truth.
Out of curiosity have you heard of Tildes.net?

It's a non-profit site created by a former Reddit admin Deimorz (known for being the creator of /u/Automoderator, /r/SubredditSimulator...).

It's currently in closed alpha so the community is somewhat exclusive because of that; but if you wanted a HN+reddit hybrid, then it might be worth checking out.

sub: /r/Tildes
source: https://gitlab.com/tildes
That episode just proves that Egypt's masters in the West don't really value democracy as much as they constantly claim to value it.
I wish that button actually works reliably.

More often than not, I got redirected to App Store to re-download Reddit app, instead of launching the post in the app.
That's true. Not only is one person being bad not a strong argument for not endorsing something, but this person could be actually doing good for his family - caring for his kids or something, and just not sharing the information.
Neither. Anonymous browsing? Why should we have to accept being tracked or paying $$ when its NEVER been like that? It's not their data, its mine. How about these companies pay me to use my info? I choose to sell how much and what. They dont like it? Well, you have a poor business model.
That being said, unless you are already a committer, it's gonna be very difficult to get your code blessed...

Are there examples of this? Since I see people sending patches that aren't committers. I honestly would want to see some actual data.
I feel like it's the prosecutors job to prove that.

Especially if the bank account was with the same bank, then the argument that he was just testing looks quite strong. The money isn't 'stolen' till it leaves the bank.

A financial company I know regularly does test payments between employee and automated robot accounts, often on production systems, and they're either trivial amounts (under a dollar) or huge amounts (over a billion dollars). The goal is that the small payments are inconsiquential, and the huge ones are so big there is no way they won't get noticed.
What does it matter? Do your best and that's all you can do, worrying about it isn't actionable.