skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just how many managers are, the best approach is to just recognize them and avoid them as best you can.
This video series from a gamer who plays with voice chat enabled was pretty eye opening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL0aVqVslSE
It can be easy to forget because we all sort of mentally accept it, but ChaCha20 is length preserving, and so is trivially vulnerable to by far the simplest network side channel: size based traffic analysis. AES-GCM is too, in the same way, but AES-CBC was actually a /little/ better because it's padded to the nearest block which provides a small measure of length hiding.

Imagine you're a state authority who wants to know who is looking at what on the internet. It's pretty easy to fingerprint websites and webpages by size; the pattern of HTML, images, video, and CSS, is highly unique. There are published papers doing this against Google Maps tiles, and Netflix movies. It's very very practical. It's utterly feasible for authorities to build these fingerprint DBs, and to fingerprint any traffic they have visibility of.
That payload is... a lot of teslas worth of cargo. It would need to be built in orbit. A project that size would definitely make a lot of jobs and require a major rebuilding of our space problem. So many downsides.
Thanks, that's a good idea.

I think my difficulty remembering the "difficult problems" stems from the problem seeming difficult, but after many flow states and eurekas, I end up with an accomplished task. Then it's on to the next task/feature/product etc.

I can articulate the problem but I can't articulate the eurekas and how I dealt with problem well
> criticizing such behavior should be considered above criticism?

Certainly not! It's critical that criticism not be criticized, however I assure you that your overly critical appraisal of my criticism will not be left uncritiqued. By me, right now.

> It is also weight to engage in it by providing unsolicited advice.

No it's not. That's the whole point. There's nothing weighty about Internet User Steve's unsolicited two cents. Shakna can take it or leave it. Or, he can complain about it, tell Steve he was wrong to open his mouth, and then meet the inevitable pushback with disgusted indignance while two other frisky threadmates get all meta in the corner. Personally, I'm left none the wiser for having witnessed Shakna's precipitated grievances, whereas I feel it would be a bit of a shame if Steve was made to curtail his freewheeling expression, which in this case included a link to a horrifying story about the NEJM (thanks for that BTW Steve).

> I'm frankly entirely uninterested in engaging with them about how frustrated they're allowed to get.

You're right, that would be bad! So don't do that. Instead, gently encourage Shakna to cut poor Steve a bit of slack. You can, without judgment, point out that Shakna's reflexes, gained through years of pain and frustration, are maybe not a productive criteria by which to interact with well-meaning random internet folk, and that some extra persistence in grace, instead of descending into remonstrance after a just one exchange, is far likelier to win converts to Shakna's way of thinking.

Go ahead, try it. Let me know how it works out.
If your goal is a payout then best to keep quiet, but if your goal is an actual change in policy public shaming seems to be the only thing that works.
Wealthy elderly capitalistic vampires don't seem appreciate this comment.
As the medical director of a blood bank and donor center that produces plasma, please do not taint the public's perception of the blood supply with misuses like this. We have a hard enough time ensuring sufficient donors without calling into question our disposition of their generous donations. We do not condone this sort of use. If you think this is abstract, I am about to send an email to my surgical colleagues because we'll be out of the most precious donation tonight at midnight: platelets. You tighten the donor pool at all, and you will make platelet donations exponentially harder.

I can't overemphasize the risk this misuse of blood products represents to healthcare systems around the world. This is an anti-vax movement waiting to happen: "Billionaires looking for a fountain of youth get blood transfusions from young bucks? WTF?" blends easily into "Why should I donate blood if they're just going to sell it to billionaires?" This would be catastrophic for trauma resuscitation, surgeries of all kinds, and a variety of medical patients.

There should be severe penalties for soliciting service like this. Imagine if solid organ transplants were handled in the same way: "Young man, as a new intern, I'll give you a percentage of my Facebook stock in exchange for a kidney..."

The next problem: it will only take one high-profile transfusion reaction to crater the public trust. If the biology nerds in the audience want to distract you with fancy talk about the low risk of certain molecular things happening because "it's just plasma", skip it. Simple, mechanical transfusion-associated circulatory overload is plenty enough to kill an old guy with stiff arteries and hypertension.

And the worst part is the lack of science being used to drive a supply chain decision that's highly science-dependent. This is so ethically corrupt I don't even know where to begin. The FDA's statement pales in comparison to what I'm sure the inspectors are actually feeling right now.

Please, if you know someone soliciting this kind of transfusion (recipient or physician), encourage them to read the FDA statement.
Rucksack is literally the German word for backpack.
Hmm, it's a really bad strategy to go public including the names when a case is open. The author seems to be weak and needs to work on mental fortitude; that might be reason why he was so mercilessly exploited by his manager, as certain people can spot that from distance.
> Click to start. Click to stop.

That's the problem right on their website[1]. Developers shouldn't have to waste time manually time tracking, it's been automated already[2]. Unless your programmers' time isn't worth much, you're better off not manually time tracking at all. Due to context switching, manual time tracking actually hurts overall productivity. I've heard people say they get in the habit of manually time tracking and don't think about it anymore, but that's just getting into the habit of getting distracted from the real work: shipping changes.

[1]: https://www.7pace.com/timetracker

[2]: Many tools already exist for automatic time tracking.
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This is a great interview! I have to say, learning about the requirement for multiple antenna modules in a smartphone, each with impressive phased arrays, the massive investment that's going to be required in microcells, and the myriad of other engineering issues to be overcome, properly put in context how ludicrous AT&T's badging of 4G technologies as 5Ge is.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/att-d...
"impartial arbitrator"

No such thing. They are being paid by someone.
I would bet the reason it was mentioned was to make China sound technologically advanced. Similar to when they spread the lie about being a leader in green technology around when the Olympics were hosted there. They established faux solar panels on street lights and then took them back down 2 years later. There's no reason to believe China about that detail or anything really.
That would be editorializing.
I feel like you pivoted on your point.

Sure, I have an issue with YouTube being a near-monopoly too, and if the discussion came down to "YouTube is deleting videos for ideological reasons", I think your point would stand.

In this case, however, the issue came down to their recommendation engine. Even if you did view YouTube as a government entity, which I do not, I don't think it says anywhere in the constitution that the government has to give recommendation to every side of the argument, just that you're allowed to say it.

All that being said, I actually have been working on and off on a clone of YouTube using distributed hash tables, so maybe we'll be off of it soon enough :)
I don’t understand this comment... It’s true that the first event occurred after only two days but ligo have 11 events over two running periods at this point.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_o...
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Re #1: I realize this is the safest option for your own self-preservation, if you don't give negative feedback, how do you expect your work environment to change?

The way I see it, if you're in a bad situation at work, you have two options: try to change it, or leave. If you're going to leave anyway, why not at least try to improve your situation first so you give yourself the best chance of success? And that way, the company has the opportunity to remove or remediate a bad manager.

Basically, my reaction to your #1 is that it helps you avoid getting hurt by the worst possible scenario. But personally, I think it's a better strategy to maximize your chance at a good scenario.
We don't need to play this pointless semantics game every time the word "natural" is used.

There is an inarguable qualitative difference between the types of objects and materials that can be produced from undirected mechanical and chemical processes and those that can be produced through the work of intelligent, living beings.

In picking this semantic nit, you've completely ignored the actual point made by the GP: we've seen countless examples of new and strange phenomena that end up being described by undirected physical and chemical processes. We have yet to find anything that requires intelligent life to explain, like an interstellar skyscraper would.
When I used to play games more the open source/free ones always had pretty decent communities and behavior, though it might have been an instance of finding servers that managed things appropriately and then ignoring the rest.
Hi there.

Honestly, not really. But maybe it just doesn't translate in my head, as "I'm a master with words and the numbers that drive them" alredy doesn't really make sense to me :shrug:
They're certainly capable of it but I believe they would talk about and differentiate it more explicitly if they had any Aurora-like special sauce.
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> Canada too have similar system called LMIA based Temporary closed work permit for skilled professionals. But the employee's permanent residency is not at the mercy of the employer in this case and it's fast too, in some cases within 4 months !

I have some experience with how LMIA is not perfect, but I was excited when the administration was openly considering copying it ~18 months ago, because it's hard to imagine anything between H1B and LMIA which is worse than H1B (whether from the perspective of a protectionist, a progressive, or a common liberal).
I'm mentally adjusting the applicability of Poe's Law to @awakeasleep's above comment: It's typically a blood plasma internship, done for exposure to the wealthy clients.
I predict “aliens would leave all sorts of cool weird stuff” and you predict “nope just more rolling hills”.

My theory is wrong, but it assigns higher likelihood to Stonehenge than yours. That’s why I don’t like the license plate example.
I mean, I grew up in the 90s playing "Neopets" and I remember that the online gaming population was made up of kids, but overall more friendly.

I also played Starsiege Tribes and Starcraft Brood War online, and... yeah, a bit more toxic over there. The "hardcore competitive" community just oozes toxicity for some reason as far as i remember.

But even "Yahoo Chess" (a very peaceful community) would have a difference between my Sister's chat and my chat when we were kids. People really do treat women differently online. My sister was slightly better than me in Chess (she probably won 60% of the time vs me), but otherwise we both were roughly on the same level. The only major difference would be our usernames.
But axioms aren't assertions of truth. They're not declarations from on high about universal truths, they're how mathematicians ensure they're talking about the same things.

Mathematics is about exploring the consequences of your axioms. Axioms are chosen, not dictated by the universe. If your axioms turn out to be inconsistent, well, congratulations on successfully showing that consequence of those axioms.

Case in point: the axiom of choice. There is no objective truth value to it. The physical world gives us no 'answer'. Mathematicians can choose to adopt it, or not, and then explore the consequences. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_of_choice#Statements_con... )
I’m not opposed to you volunteering for medical experiments.
Thanks for your feedback. We will be pushing new updates soon that fixes some of the nuances of current UI, and new features.
Numbers exist in a different way to Sherlock Holmes who of course exists as a fictional character. One of the things people look for when searching radio signals for alien life is prime numbers as intelligent species would discover those but they are not produced by mechanical processes like quasars. How could we and they discover them if they don't exist at least in some form?
I disagree. A company's feedback system and HR should not be so ripe for retaliation or abuse.
I was once posed a related question by a three-year-old: "How do you make a number?"

It was a simply worded but delightfully insightful wondering. I did my best in the moment and answered, "One way we can make numbers is by counting." I've continued to mull this question over since then. I'm drawn to this child's conception of numbers as something we make. It makes sense to me as a teacher of young children and a wonderer about math myself, yet it doesn't really square with what we've been told about numbers in most educational settings.
Actually Lebanon is not a Muslim majority country (demographically it now is but politically no - power is shared between Christians and Muslims ) and they work a standard M-F week, unlike the gulf. We based in Lebanon for our Middle East operation because we liked Beirut better than Dubai, it’s cheaper, the talent is great, and we had some founding customers there (a bit strange but go figure). It’s been a great decision for us and we hope we’re helping throw off the stigma of Beirut being a war torn city just s little bit.
> How do you expect a group of politicians from the 18th century to weigh in on the acceptability of this type of warrant?

Because they lived through a time when blanket warrants were common and decided that they were not to be allowed in this new political framework?

--edit--

err, "general warrant" is what I meant to say...
This reminds me of what our exhausted, delirious minds used to come up with after too much language study in school. Absurd literal translation highlighting the oddities of the respective languages, ultimately a futile excercise and a sign that a break is overdue.
Strong agreement. There's really no need to make the process anywhere near as adversarial as it usually is (by default) these days. Equivalent (or actually much better, in my subjective view) insights can be gotten by purely collaborative, explorative routes of interaction.

All it takes is a little bit of creativity and empathy.
Nice Scissor Sisters reference :-)
> How is it any different than believing that unicorns exist as physical objects, just in their own universe?

Good question, but I think there might be a difference. Suppose, in a galaxy far, far away, there are aliens. They probably don't have the concept of unicorns. However, they probably have discovered numbers, pi, Pythagoras theorem, e^(i pi) + 1 = 0, etc.

So, does the fact that something is discovered (rather than invented), and can be discovered many times independently in identical fashion, confer it some sort of elevated ontological status?
Yeah, mathematical objects like numbers are concepts in our brains, or imaginary objects. Numbers in particular are imaginary objects used for counting. You can set up an isomorphism between these numbers and real-world objects, e.g., to count them.
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> Even then, most women are initiating the divorce because financially poorer doesn't mean being in completely destitute.

If the only thing that keeps partner with you is being destitute, then your relationships and marriage is death. You are just exchanging pretention for money, if that.

And for christ, why would you want to stay with some who despises you and is with you only because she would be destitute otherwise? Like, what is the point of that all?

Don't agree to sacrifice her earnings for marriage. Then, there is no alimony and nothing of the rest after. None of these problems - except it being easier to leave for both of you when it fails.
I keep a hledger timedot file[1] open in a hot-key drop-down iTerm window. Each 15-minute chunk is logged with a dot. I group dots into hours for quick visual scanning.

2019-01-08
fos.hledger.sup .
adm.email ..
adm.finance .... .... ..
fos.plaintextaccounting .
fos.hledger.issues.941 .... .
has-res ...
biz-res ..

I've trained myself to update this often while at the computer, and before walking away. Delayed retroactive logging is also pretty easy. Working in quarter/half/whole hour chunks, and in rhythm with the clock, and having a pane showing recent sleep/wake/timelog-saved events, all help. Not every day is the same; this system has been quick and flexible enough to suit a range of conditions. I can set daily/weekly/monthly time budgets if I want. Some more details at [2].

[1] http://hledger.org/timedot.html

[2] http://hledger.org/Time-planning.html#simons-hledger-time-da...
What the hell is "brown uncle" syndrome?
Inertial guidance on a cellphone was written up last year. It's clearly a work in progress, but it's a good start. HN link to it is here [0].

I'd bet that if this continues (and I presume the military would want to ensure it continues if only for redundancy purposes), that we'll have accurate inertial guidance on our phones in a decade.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19203494
no, in terms of the fact that they literally ran away because of harassment. That's important, and if I have to explain to you why people leaving due to serial harassment is bad for communities, we have nothing to talk about.
As a long time Calibre user I would be happy to get your feedback for using an alternative. BookFusion allows you to organize, upload and read your eBooks across Android, iOS and Web.

BookFusion also have a Calibre plugin to allow you to easily sync your eBook collection. More at https://www.bookfusion.com/reading/calibre

PS: I am the founder of BookFusion
Amazon employee here, though I do not speak for the company.

At any big company, your management chain is the #1 influence on the quality of your culture. My experience at Amazon has been extremely positive, but then my org head is a great guy, so it's all been in line with my expectations. I've also left critical feedback through the Amazon Connect survey for my immediate manager and not suffered for it. That manager, as far as I can tell, made no effort to deanonymize the feedback, and addressed the issue fairly in a team meeting.

So, YMMV, but I would certainly encourage skilled devs, artists and designers to come help us make great games. :-)
In a way I can see how that might be the case.

It does somewhat establish a baseline capability of being able to put people through emotionally not nice things.

I suppose that any manager whether they are malignant or they are really just ordinary, well intentioned people have to at some point not of their own volition do exactly that because of legitimate business reasons outside of their control. So when push comes to shove if they can prove they are capable of handling those responsibilities then I guess that sends a useful signal???

Abusing it out of some childish sense of revenge is just unfortunate beyond belief.
In Film production control is crucial, because although the returns might be huge, only control allows you to get the best out of a limited budget. Good control means also to know precisely where to leave creative freedoms, otherwise you will end up exactly with a bad version of what was planned.
I guess one of the advantages of Nanosai Boards over web browsers becomes very clear once you start having loads and loads of tabs open in your browser!
Again, you make it sound like these are somehow equivalent. Why even have peer-reviewed journals in the age of Twitter?
Because Amazon is no longer a simple bookseller. It's a diversified mega-corporation that is big enough that the average individual will want to think twice before getting on its bad side.

What if you want to host something on AWS? Stream on Twitch? Shop at an Amazon Go? Keep listening to your Audible library?

What if you're using home automation equipment that's tethered to a cloud service and Amazon acquires the company?

Sure, a simple chargeback probably won't trigger broad spectrum retaliation though all their subsidiaries, but the fact is that Amazon has accrued a lot of power in recent years.
It is interesting to notice that when people want to sound official or authoritative (in business documents, for example) they tend to lean more on long, latin-derived words rather than the plainer, earthier words of Germanic origin.
I would not disagree, though the Soviet Union had already put a probe within the atmosphere of Venus in 1967. In 1970 they landed a probe on its surface!! They were called the Venera [1] probes. They also returned audio and picture from the surface of Venus. Absolutely remarkable if you're never heard it before. This [2] is the sound of the probe coming down through Venus' atmosphere, its landing, the lens cap (for the camera) popping off, the deploying of the drill, and then the drilling of course. In my opinion that remains arguably the most remarkable achievement in planetary science in our solar system. Although it must be said that that audio came much later than the earlier probes. "Much later" being about 40 years ago.

I think the recent discovery/confirmation that our moon has substantial reserves of water ice emphasizes the difficulties with technology outside of manned exploration. There's a lot of information you can obtain from probes and other forms of remote observation, but it tends to be extremely specialized and very limited. This is not something we should be discovering 40 years after landing on it -- water was confirmed in 2009.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZDW53U8qQ
> The millionaire doubles their wealth by doing nothing and the small business owner fights tooth and nail to bring home a modest income.

If a large group of millionaires reads your comment, sees the light and shamefully decides to do something by pulling their investable assets out, the small business owner will likely face high capital costs and in many cases be simply unable to raise any money at interest rates attractive to him/her.
If needed, you could easily create exceptions for very small business with few employees, or businesses where employees are family, or receive other forms of compensation (i.e. housing). We already do this for all kinds of labor laws.
My guess is the inventory data itself is real but stale. The developer was using
a static dataset to build out the forthcoming "purchase cars from inventory" and it was inadvertently pushed production before it was ready. So the dataset is a mixture of actual inventory cars and cars that had been produced but simply hadn't been received by the new owners as of the snapshot.