skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Seattle, the police literally couldn't care less. They've even stopped enforcing penalties for people blocking crossings/the box. When the police decide not to enforce laws, in any other country that is called corruption. I now have a helmet-cam for walking into work. Even with clear footage of people running red lights and almost mowing over pedestrians, the police won't do shit. It'll take a wave of pedestrian deaths for anything to change.
Abusive Progressive Web Application PoC
We use it often, it can be very effective but it isn't the only tool we have.
>But then, it still must take energy to move the switches that send the balls in desired directions, right?

If we're talking about theoretical friction-less thought experiments, you could use a lifted barrier, for example, and recover the energy put in when the barrier is lowered.
Better to get in with the youth market, then go upmarket with them as they age.
1600 Marines even with air support is not enough to seize a city (by reasonable definition). Sadar City and Fallujah show that even asymmetric Opfor can provide a serious threat.

Of course this is different when conducting maneuver warfare such as the initial invasion of Iraq in 03, still took 250,000 troops 3 weeks to claim 'victory'.
What the Sight of a Black Hole Means to a Black Hole Physicist
Techno-Anthropology: A Rough Guide to Social Skills for Awkward Smart People
It never was a "good deal", it was always a lottery. And one that you're set up to lose if you're not a co-founder.
I'm pretty certain I've heard Amazon described as "evil". Apple are less objectionable, but I'm sure there are some things that somebody wouldn't like.
There’s a way to redirect any port 53 traffic back to your pihole if you have enough control over the gateway, but I don’t know if it’s worth doing. Breaks a bunch of things you’d normally do to debug whatever.
"this would be a pretty textbook example of a lean cargo cult"

This is indeed the problem, at least according to people close to me that work in healthcare. Lean does not have a good reputation in these circles.
If you are in a HOA, you have bigger fish to fry
Why does the ESA always couch their discoveries in these stupid press conference panels? Every time I try to watch something of theirs it's a bunch of old people blabbing. Show the pictures and stop talking!
Google Cloud – Traffic Director – Traffic Management for Open Service Mesh
The crew would be probably the easiest parameter to optimize because they don't have a choice. Let's say the current configuration has a set of crew in PHX and on wednesdays they normally go to denver, 2 hrs away. with a dynamic configuration, they can expect to go on any 2 hour flight or less. the only commitment to the crew is that they are to be returned to their home city on their first day off. If they have enough seniority, then they can be put on the top list of employees to draw from to go to DEN if thats what they want. I don't see the problem. The crew could be routed just as dynamically as the PAX.
This comment doesn't make a lot of sense. Udemy is a 2500 person company (https://www.linkedin.com/company/udemy/). It is awesome that the profits are 50% shared with the creator of the course. There are many smaller Udemy clones that take less of a percentage but will offer fewer sales.
As far as I know, Veritasium and others occasionally join efforts and coordinate around soon to be published scientific discoveries in a goal to increase exposure. Don’t know if this was the case with the black hole image.
Says the human who won't be there to pay that time price.
having worked at a lot of startups with various outcomes, I've come to firmaly believe the net preset value of your options is actually correct. If you take all the shares I've ever had options given on, and multiplied them by the strike price, it isn't far off from the ultimate amount of money they've been worth. The variance is high between each one, but taken together..

If you get a 100,000 shares at 0.10 each...they are likely over multiple trials going to be worth around 10K. Act accordingly.
A circuit with no entropy loss is, at least theoretically, fully reversible. Of course even if we change how we design circuits we're still going to leak entropy due to how we design circuits, just less of it.

A circuit that reverses intermittent computational values is partially reversible, and practically that's the best we're going to get.
I was having this conversation recently, trying to think of what about computation produces waste heat - how many watts go to computation vs how many watts are waste due to inefficiency.

But we couldn't put our finger on, where does this inefficiency come from? Is is the silicon heating up due to resistance ? Or is there some analogy for friction in switching the state of a flip flop , such that there is heat generated by the state change ?
You are being exploited. Do you get compensated 1.5x your base for all those 12 hour work days?
after experimenting for a while, I now prefer "for what purpose?" instead of "why?".

"why?" easily leads to cycles and going back down the abstraction hierarchy, where "for what purpose?" always goes up the abstraction ladder.

- why are you eating? because it's 7pm

- for what purpose are you eating? to satisfy my hunger
I was on vacation and got a notification that there was a firmware update for my Model 3 which was parked in my garage a thousand miles away. I remotely installed it and my car literally got 5% quicker.

Pretty crazy!
That's how I read it as well. Boiling the frogs.
Yes I've observed the same thing. It doesn't mean we should give up on coherent frameworks though. It just means we need to emphasize and be vocal about the dangers of orthodoxy (which is what I'm constantly trying to do).
I resonate with your observation. I did the reverse, i.e.: FANG, fintech, pre-ipo then start-up after already achieved senior staff level. Start-up didn't tech me anything new unfortunately.
This is a rant that I've had for so long, and it's so hard to concisely summarize. This does a great job of explaining in detail, but it is much harder to tell your boss to read a long blog post when you disagree with him about the correct approach. I found a metaphorical approach to sometimes be helpful. I use this:

On a dark night, a blind man jaywalked and was nearly hit by a drunk driver who swerved and killed a pedestrian wearing black on the sidewalk. What was the root cause? Was it because the man was jaywalking? What if he was jaywalking because he was blind and didn't know any better? If the driver wasn't drunk, could he have braked instead of swerving? If the pedestrian was wearing brighter colors, could the driver have swerved a different direction? Sometimes there is no singular root cause, but rather a complex interaction of multiple failures that may or may not arise if you take one failure away. There may be a better approach than to use a tool that is designed to hone in on a singular root cause.

Unfortunately, this only sometimes works. The rest of the time, they actually do try to pick apart the example and claim there is a root cause. The only recourse then is to present an alternative singular root-cause and say that by trying to force a single root cause interpretation instead of accepting the complexity of reality, that your root cause will ultimately reflect your own biases rather than reality (for example, who do you hate more: jaywalkers, drunk drivers, or pedestrians that wear black at night?).

I still wish I had a better way of explaining this succinctly, in a way that makes it more clear.
Deploy a simple application in docker swarm
Major courses cost $999, which is equivalent to Rs. 100,000 in Nepal. Of course it will be expensive for us.
Kids are clever, if one of their classmates is known to be tech-literate and (s)he's saying the school is snooping on you the amount of shadow IT will rise. Vast majority will install, but also have some other device to bypass.
Can you even build a reversible logic gate using flip-flops?
Nor at my non-respected school
I did some investigation into this recently. My hope is to make at least new reddit support it this year. Can't promise anything about old.reddit.com though
Just a note that the mortgage income deduction, which is a travesty, benefits high-earners far more than low-earners; something like 70% of its benefits accrue to the upper class.
Do you pay for your own roads & police? It’s very likely you’re using some publically funded resources more than others. If you actually got your wish and paid for all of your own responsibilities, isn’t there a pretty good chance it would completely bankrupt you? Think about it and be honest about what benefits you’re actually receiving.

Paying for education for all is something we could very easily afford by moving money from other publically funded programs, so you wouldn’t have to pay an extra cent in taxes above what you’re paying now.

So the question is why not divert some money from the military or other programs? It has been demonstrated many times over that we don’t need new taxes to cover a national education program.

Several countries in Europe have publically funded university, and they are ranking higher in education than the U.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index

And that doesn’t seem to hurt those countries; wealth per adult is higher than the U.S. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_...

So is it possible you’re mistaken and that public funding for education might not just be free but even have financial returns, that it might even make us richer in the long term not poorer?
They don't look "evil" from the inside. And even from the outside, one needs to considerably stretch the definition of "evil" to call them that.
Not quite. You can find it if you're looking for it, but I've known and heard of some companies helping out with student payment programs or scholarships under the pretense that you will work for them at an agreed upon salary, albeit a bit lower than standard.

The initial case in the article suggests something similar where investors will "invest" in a student and bank on a successful career with repayments, similar to a student loan. I can't see this as being a negative that Indentured Servitude was.
A gentle reminder: VBA is a fully-fledged language, capable of anything a normal language can do (including things like making HTTP get requests!). You should be very careful about running macros on anything you've downloaded from the internet.
> Look at zelle.

That phrase doesn’t mean much to someone outside the US. I looked it up, it’s a thing owned by some US banks (and thus only available to those banks customers? That part isn’t clear).

Being better than venmo doesn’t mean much either - in other countries interbank transfers are just something you do via your bank - no third party involved.
Most people are (somewhat) stupid in their early 20s. I don't disagree that not everyone belongs in university, however, most people don't realise that until it is too late and are already in debt.

Free higher education works well in the European countries that offer it.

What better investment could a society make than allow someone to pursue a field they are passionate about, and letting them start life with a clean slate? I'm by no means a socialist, but I think university should mostly be free.

The only thing (student) debt does is tie someone down. To a lifestyle or employer that they actually should have no loyalty to.

Tax brackets don't need to rise, resources just need to be moved from alternative things (i.e. military spending).
Hackers attacked California DMV voter registration system
Qt sensors just got better on Android
Fight fire with fire: report him for trivial stuff, or even for things you did via sabotage.
I lived through an experience very similar to this. The little people got peanuts. Two things really burned me. One was exactly the point you made, with such a small team it would haven't been much to make the payout go from pathetic to meaningful for the peons who put years into the company. Second the sale contract specified employees would continue to receive similar salaries. So our salaries did not change, options that took years to vest were cashed in for little money, and the company suddenly had plenty of extra money to go on a hiring streak.
So that would mean that the right side is tipped slightly away from us, right? Because the matter in the accretion disk starts approaching us at about halfway down the ring on the right side?
Lindsay coins terms for two new colors, jale and ulfire but you'll need to be on Arcturus to see them. An amazing and far-reaching fantasy.
So where did all that money go? To the British crown?
> Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already.

This has not been my experience with MS Teams. If I respond to a message on my phone, and then return to my laptop, Teams has disconnected and I have to restart the app on my laptop in order to get updated messages. Scrolling back even 5 minutes in Teams' message history incurs multi-second latency sometimes, so reviewing the context of a conversation you're in is very painful. Threading is handled very poorly in teams and makes teams feel much more like a decades old forum than a chat application.

I do agree this is a good move for Slack, but only because organizations are adopting teams due to its bundling with Office 365, something most companies are already using. Slack has no other way to survive because the people in the org making these decisions aren't concerned with the quality of the tools they are choosing, just the idea they are getting something for free.
> You did not. You can contact the private companies such as H&R Block and request Their free service if you make less than 66k - and subject yourself to their upselling and scam artistry, to try and get you to pay anything more than "free."

I went back to school full-time for most of last year to get some helicopter ratings and didn't have much taxable income, so I used the free H&R Block service.

There was exactly 1 attempt at an upsell, and it was at the very beginning of the process where I was told if I used the free service I would have to enter all of my information but if I used the paid service they could pull my information from prior filings to save me some time.

Was your experience with one of the free programs different?
I can spend a tremendous tremendous amount of time staring at a blank page.
I didn't pay a college and skip out on 4 years of full time work to compare my work life balance options to your delivery driver buddy. He's simply not at the table in the conversation. I don't care about his situation.

That said, I do Postmates for fun on the side and it's awesome. Grinding out hours delivering stuff is honestly pretty chill. Engineering is at least 2x as mentally taxing, unless you're delivering in weird weather conditions. I can put in 4 hours of delivering without grabbing a meal prior and be ready for 4 more no problem.

The work never comes home with you. You're never sitting there wondering "how do I be more effective?" or "how do I even start to solve this issue?". There's little to no politics and 80% or more of the gig is me riding a motorcycle around and popping a few wheelies.
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> Why the disclosure? Are you saying this in a personal capacity or is this the stance of Google Ads team?

I'm commenting as myself, and not for the company. But my perception is likely colored by working for an ads company and it seems fair to let people know that.

> Like, hey we love and embrace any technology that fights our team's fingerprinting efforts...

While I don't know for certain, I don't believe Google Ads uses fingerprinting. Firefox/Disconnect doesn't seem to think so either, since Google ad domains are on the "Google" list but not the "Fingerprinting" list: https://github.com/mozilla-services/shavar-prod-lists/blob/7...
Ethically Aligned Design: A Vision for Prioritizing Human Well-Being [pdf]
I did not, specifically because I wanted to learn how DO worked, without any "Wordpress 1-click wizard" stuff. Bluehost has the same "Instant Wordpress" thing that I avoid, as I write my own CSS and page templates and I wasn't planning to use an off-the-shelf theme.

On DO, I learned that you have to set up everything yourself, like SSH, Apache, MySQL, PHP, SFTP. I haven't found good documentation on how to set up a Git workflow from my local dev environment, so that's the next step. I have a non-database PHP site I plan to use for that.
Yes it was 9 or 10. But I was having fun checking out the different charging locations since it was only my second time on that route. There still are plenty more stations on that route that I haven’t been to yet, btw.
Maybe he was more of a "sensor" (personality type that needs to see a tangible result). A lot of developers are sensors (ISTJ in the myers briggs woo woo parlance), but also a lot are intuitors which might not need this.
Don't forget that a vast majority of the population thinks that they are above average at $TASK, no matter what it is
Principles in Action App – Ray Dalio
The conclusion is basically this (the last sentence before the "conclusion" section...
> But it does mean that we cannot afford to compound these problems through the use of an RCA tool that is so deeply and fundamentally flawed. Other more systems-focused techniques, such as fishbone75 or lovebug diagrams,72 causal tree diagrams,21 Causal Analysis based on Systems Theory (CAST)76 or even prospective risk assessment approaches,77–81 should be considered instead.

I find it odd that the paper cites so many theoretical problems with "5 whys" and then elevates these other methods as preferred solutions without any discussion. It's possible RCA committees already recognize the limitations of "5 whys" and use it as a heuristic that helps focus their efforts. That doesn't mean these committees all sit around a table and say "well, X sounds like a major problem, but it doesn't fit our '3rd why,' so we have to ignore it."
I haven't tried dozens but I really really wanted to like asciidoc and rst. But they both require me to type n number of '=' for title string of length n. I confess I fail to see the utility in this kind of design.

I'm still looking (Scribble seems anything but lightweight!). Perlpod probably looks perfect but I have to see more.

Is there a markup that can do numbered lists?
It looks like a good try, but I wouldn't call that "quasi-objective". The answers are highly subjective in my view. I just don't know how vivid the so-called mind images are supposed to be, so I don't know what the "scale" of the answers is.
I can think of 3 main use-cases for DNS blocking on a network level:

1. content policies: blocking porn, censorship, etc (already easily circumvented by changing DNS or using a VPN)

2. preventing malware command and control: blocking domains that malware phones home to (already easily circumvented by including their own resolver, etc)

3. preventing malware infection: blocking domains serving malware (you might lump "ads" in this category too, e.x. Pi-hole)

IMHO the 3rd is the only use-case worth trying to solve with DNS blocking, because the user isn't actively trying to circumvent it.

Applications using their own resolvers do make that difficult to do. It seems like it would be best if operating systems implemented DoH at the system level, including DHCP support, so devices could use the network's DoH resolver which might do malware blocking.

Applications like Firefox could fall back to their own DoH resolver if they had a way to detect the system was not using DoH. This would also encourage network operators to support DoH.
Cargo Cult Agile (2017)
Reading these comments I'm more and more disgusted really, how is it okay (to even suggest) that personal devices of kids are so invasively monitored?

They deserve their internet privacy just as much as grown ups do even more so actually given their higher trust in others, if schools are scared of internet's dangers then schools should educate, not wrap kids into digital bubble wrap that will disappear when they leave school leaving them tech-illiterate and vulnerable.
"quarter of" is easy.

Try asking people what "half three" means.
The American society has progressed so far it managed to bring back indentured servitude, what an achievement.
This isn't ESA, it's unrelated EU-funded research.
No, it’s like buying an 1 GHz oscilloscope and buying the license to enable the 2 GHz version. The hardware has always been there.

The test equipment industry is notorious for this. I can buy a $15k Keysight Fieldfox spectrum analyzer and turn it into a $50k instrument with license that enable hardware that is already there.
The problem is, it also allows folks who would never qualify for a 100k loan otherwise get 100K into debt.

I read an article about how artists are struggling in the high cost San Francisco Bay Area (sorry no link, because it was really an eye-opening article). The article did mention student loans, but focused mainly on gentrification brought about by high tech.

However, they did profiles of various struggling artists, and I was frankly stunned by the debt levels. People with fine and performing arts degrees frequently had student debt levels of $70,000-$90,000. Holy crap.

Is it a good thing that we've created a non-dischargeable, federally guaranteed loan that allows people to go $90k in hock for a degree that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get?

I was very intrigued when I learned that libertarians often look askance on weakening bankruptcy laws. I always figured they were a "that's the bargain you made" soft of crowd. What I learned is that libertarians aren't especially keen on lending (pun intended) the government's monopoly on physical force in service as a collection agency for people who make stupid loans. I'd say that making a $90,000 loan to someone so they can (channeling David Sedaris here) take photographs of rotting produce spilling out of garbage cans is the height of stupidity.

Like, if you make that loan, don't come crying to me. We already have a fairly punitive bankruptcy system, but we are not interested in marshaling the power of government sponsored men with guns to pursue foolish borrowers who don't pay foolish debts to the ends of the earth so that foolish lenders can get their money back. That, to quote pornstache from orange is the new black, "sounds like a whole lot of your problem".

If you don't think ordinary bankruptcy, along with credit and a history of repaying debts, is enough to incentivize repayment, seriously, don't make the loan.
Facebook Patent Filing Could Take Advertising to a Bizarre New Level
A bonus feature of reversible computing is that a lot of garbage collection becomes a lot easier. Do a bunch of computation, copy off the results you need long term, unwind the computation. No need to track the unwound values’ lifetimes.
How do you diversify as an employee/engineer? work for 10 startups at the same time?
Challenge with Confluence for me in particular is that it overrides common keybindings, e.g. C-b in a textfield inserts a pair of asterisks instead of moving the caret backwards one character.
Successful, yes, but driven by fear
A Deep Dive into Deep Learning
accelerating really fast in a straight line is probably the most pointless aspect of "performance" for a car that gets driven on public roads. modern hot hatches that cost $25k are already too powerful to fully appreciate without getting your license taken away. a 230i or m240i is going to be much more fun to drive 10-15 mph over the speed limit than any Tesla. get one with a manual transmission while you still can.
How would they do this? iOS controls the colors on iOS, no?