skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I’m sure you have seen or heard before noises that rational people made about your unscientific theories, and then... wilfully ignored them! Phlogiston? Ether? Pssht. They were obviously wrong, but my theory is right cause... well cause if not, you’re a creationist! Why else can you POSSIBLY say that my theory is unfalsifiable? I mean, sure, it is, but hey... your expectations are too high. In this area of science, falsifiability is just too much to ask for.

Hey dudes! Guess why men fall asleep after an orgasm? It’s so the woman could get away, in the past! It must be true cause:

1) Evolution can only happen by random mutation and natural selection that increases fitness

2) I just need to describe a possible story about how the trait is an adaptation that gave some ability to survive better, sorta

3) And I win! Profit. The game has simple rules.

Dude that game is not science. Accept it.

Ad hominems won’t get you out of this embarassing situation of calling non-scientific stuff science.

And frankly I can day the same about multiverse theories, they are a copout. Anything, including fine tuning of any constants, is explainable by postulating an infinite number of possible universes.

To me this is just like another religion. You just want to claim it’s science. But it is NOT SCIENCE.

And your disgust is just an attempt to avoid logic and use feelings and bullying to make people agree with you. Same old story.

You accuse people of being creationists, as if that somehow makes your theory more valid. Well the shoe is on the other foot. What you have motivating you is that you are against theism. You’d rather believe any unfalsifiable theory as long as it doesn’t involve something Daniel Dennett calls a “skyhook”. Because psychologically you prefer simple things leading to more complex things. That matches your intuition.

Well, classical physics matches our intuition too but it can’t explain quantum phenomena. So we challenge our intuitions.

Multiverse theories and a bunch of just-so stories that beg the question are cute. But what’s not cute is the rabid religious fervor that makes you LIE and say they are just as scientific as the theory of common descent or special relativity. They are not. And your emotional tantrums and bullying are disgusting to others.
First off, holy shit. I come back from travel and arguably the least interesting comment I’ve made on a thread in years is the highest upvote one I’ve had lol

Now on to your question - We haven’t had any issues here with the HR policies and OH&S so far.

Each of the team members is in the same state as the office so no additional burden there for taxes.
This feature breaks hundreds of websites listed in a 5 year old issue [1]

The last descriptive update was 4 years ago,

> As the list is increasingly managed according to policy, breakage is a feature, not a bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005

Among the broken websites is one I just completed, revddit, "removeddit for user pages":

https://revddit.com/user/rhaksw
Thanks! I have Masters in CS from a state uni(Have a thesis in Machine learning). Been in industry(FAANG) for 2 years as an ML engineer(I know that's not a great track to be in for research). But I am very much interested in getting into core research teams like FAIR / Google Research as a Research Scientist(trust me when I say that the teams set the bar very clearly with an entry minimum of phd though you are exceptional as an ML engineer and they are highly attached to certain unis too. That's reality). I am not in the 99th percentile with my grades though(3.5/4.0). I understand that's also an important factor with admissions. So I am working on boosting my profile up with some good pubs. Pointers?
It's only polite to disclose that it's your company when you flog it like that.
"There are many companies that have done this in the past."

Haven't seen those, can you point me to them? I love companies doing this.
My childhood cat was declawed on the front paws, and I've had multiple cats since then, all with claws intact.

It's definitely a significant difference in the cat's existence to be clawless. I'm happy to see this attitude shifting, but as others have commented here, there will almost certainly be more cats returned to shelters (and killed) when they won't stop shredding the furniture and carpet.

Even if you trim their claws, in my experience they will always do some damage to anything they can sink their claws into. It obviously feels good and is a compulsive activity like stretching for them.

And if you raise them to be aggressive with too much rough-housing in protective clothing, it can be a real problem, like with guests who think it's a good idea to pet the cat that's been unintentionally conditioned to think all arms are as impervious to claws as layers of sweatshirts worn in constant rough-housing. I had a friend who made this mistake long ago, that cat was awesome if you knew how to play with it but it required a safety warning at the entrance or blood would be spilled.
Hey, I'd be mad if I had an anteater dick too!
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I’ve heard the saying “you only need to floss between the teeth you want to keep” in response to the question “do I really need to floss?”
I remember back around the same time in 2008ish, I was reading the old WoW Glider (Glider was a Bot for WoW) forums and came across someone who was running a massive WoW farm from Germany racking in close to 150k a year. It's so interesting to see the transition both games have gone through to embrace the Pay-To-(Somewhat)-Get-Ahead with both WoW offering Tokens ($20 for 150k gold) and RuneScape offering Bonds ($7 for 4 million GP).
reverse engineering is your friend. i've modded all sorts of stuff that never intended it... Full Tilt Poker back in the day, MechWarrior Online, Ultima Online, etc. Learning how to hook into a program's functions and extract real-time data without destroying the stack, properly calling game functions with your own arguments, and translating your patches to new client versions is all pretty interesting and gratifying IMO.
I guess that's one way to move forward :) Thanks! Will give that a shot then.
DO has been amazing for us too.
> Video games are not like movies, not like content. Since their inception, 1% of the games get 99% of the players. For example, when half-life was released, everybody was playing half-life. In this environment, you can't simply make another fps with a cool scenario and expect it to be a hit. You have to have real hard innovations in your product.

I hope it's some kind of sarcasm. This is why Call of Duty is best-selling video game in the US 7 of 9 years since 2009:

https://twitter.com/MatPiscatella/status/1134171732053331968

Basically most of video games market is content-driven games be it some mobile, social game or MMO. Innovations mostly occur in games for hardcore or indie audience and market share of these games are pretty small.
Is using a non-standard port a feasible option? Not that I think it's a good idea to put anything you'd expect reasonable availability to behind consumer-grade internet. Why not host your own email using VPSes?
I think its great they wrote the post, but the tone still leaves a sour taste.

I think they could have worded it better.
Wow, that got dark: Fried [...] Jewish [...] German "peace"
I like the distinction between spatial and temporal aspects of programming languages.
I'm wondering if the author knows Lisp though, which helps translating between those two views of code in important ways (like Homoiconicity).

Also, when trying to understand code, we typically run a simulation of that code in our head. Since we have limited capacity doing so, having a simple flow with simple data is helpful.
If we hit the limits of our internal code processing capabilities, we are switching to a different mode: Experimentation, supported by tools.

In non-interactive languages that typically is a 'unit' test or a sample app or a debugger.

In interactive languages it is the REPL.
A REPL allows you to experiment with the mental models we acquired from reading the code.
Confirming hypotheses by letting the machine run experiments, validating the outcome, deepening our understanding of the code.

This is where I see visualization being most useful. Show the data before our hypothesis, show the data after we've run the experiment (i.e. v'=f(v)). Not just the type of data.

That's where I'd like to see better tools. (One example of this I'm currently using is re-frame-10x, which shows data epoch oriented and has neat diffs of what changed when an event was processed (i.e. time has moved forward).
> As far as we know, there is no general ban on wearing instrumentation of any other on the job, unless it is somehow clumsy and would interfere with their duties or the appearance of their uniform.

Who is "we"? Aren't you just pleading ignorance here? What do really you know about what TSA agents can and can't wear? Anything can "interfere" with the appearance of a uniform, including a "small photographic patch".

> The only plausible reason to forbid this is to prevent any kind of whistleblower event.

Then why do they do allow third party monitoring?

Having further looked into this, the page you posted is outdated and they ended up handing out dosimeters themselves:

https://www.livescience.com/36079-airport-security-screening...

The result was negative. Of course you can't prove a negative, maybe there's radiation somewhere else where they didn't look...

> 2) There are medical limits on how many x-ray and CT-Scan procedures are allowed for patients, again due to the cumulative nature of radiation exposure.

> 3) The TSA machines do produce sufficient radiation in their beam to fog ASA800 and higher film. This is definitely a non-trivial dose.

According to: https://www.radiologybusiness.com/topics/business-intelligen...

" TSA claims the “backscatter machines” cannot produce more than 0.005 millirem of radiation per scan. In comparison, the agency says, a chest x-ray exposes patients to 10 millirem of radiation, and the maximum recommended exposure to radiation from man-made sources is 100 millirem per year."

That would mean that if you had a machine that was completely unshielded, you would have to perform 2000 scans to get the equivalent of a chest X-Ray. Compare that to the radiation exposure of your average flight attendant.
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Hum, I feel there's some ambiguity there. Like FSF says from here https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html:

> A free program must offer the four freedoms to any user that obtains a copy of the software, provided the user has complied thus far with the conditions of the free license covering the software.

It's unclear what "obtains a copy" means. You could make it that certain companies are not allowed to "obtain a copy", and thus if they do, it is through illegitimate means.

For example, it goes to length to say Free software does not mean gratis. So I'd suspect it would claim that if software is sold, and you pirate the copy instead of paying for it, you have broken the conditions of the free license. But if you paid, and a copy is delivered to you, from that point on, the four set of freedoms are granted to you over the copy that was given.

So, I can see something where, it is gratis, but obtaining the copy is not granted to everyone, but only to some, depending on if you're a potential competitor or not. And that seems like it could still fall under that definition of Free Software.
No browser is really "privacy-focused". Performance, security, stability and Web compatibility are all table stakes for Web browsers. If you aren't competitive at those, it doesn't matter what else you do, your product isn't viable. And telemetry data is really valuable for achieving all those; without it, you'll waste a lot of resources fixing the wrong things. Mozilla certainly can't afford to do that.

Once your browser is competitive at those table stakes, only then can you give it a "privacy focus" to differentiate from Chrome.
You are right :) If I had something that's good enough that it gets through nature then it's a different game altogether. But let's say even if you had something that was good enough to be published in Nature, what are the chances that it will get through if I directly send it in myself as a single author?(do they even accept such submissions?)
All it takes is for one child to die overnight and the parents to sue and you can be sure all patients will get their vitals checked regularly. This is how healthcare works.

Source: am a doctor and see this kind of thing on small and large scales
Holy shit! This is literally my story too. Playing runescape and writing scripts for botting programs was literally how I learned to program.

I ended up becoming a moderator on the RsBot forums and I remember Autofighter Pro when it came out. Super popular, and I didn't even realize it was made by someone the same age as me back then!

Anyways, even though I didn't make any money (I gave my scripts away for free!), I did learn a lot. I'm currently an engineer at Google and I honestly owe it to the incredible monotony of playing Runescape.
The FCC has a map app.[1] Go and plug in some random addresses.

The link below is for a NJ suburb , and lists 6 ISP competitors. But three of them are just satellite services and two are Verizon. In practice, there are exactly two competitors here: the phone monopoly and the cable monopoly, but the FCC would point to this to say that there's robust competition!

Here's another one I just picked at random, in a suburb of Oklahoma City.[2] The FCC lists 9 different providers. 3 of them are Satellite, 2 are Cox Cable, and 4 are AT&T. Again, there are exactly two competitors here: the phone monopoly and the cable monopoly. Look around yourself.

Two long-term competitors are not enough for meaningful competition. Duopoly competition has the same strategic profile as the Prisoner's Dilemma. When you have the same two players in the game over a long period of time, they learn to cooperate. See Axelrod (1980) etc...

Regulatory capture, juking the stats, crooks and liars all.

[1]: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/location-summary?version=dec2...

[2]: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/location-summary?version=dec2...
Looks like a clear indicator for possible abuse to me. Apart from the long response times, I can't really blame DO.
Yes, this has been the hardest challenge of it all.

When I took the role (I’m on the product side, my counterpart is the Engineering lead but we run it together) I made it clear that I’m only taking this role if they let me run the teams the way I want to run them, within reason.

My view on what you’ve described is that my directives are to improve sales, stability and the trajectory of the company.

It is not my job to worry about what other teams or tracks or departments think of how I run my teams. For the first few months, it was very rough because I did get a lot of that passive aggressive bullshit from people.

I told them the exact conversations I had with the respective leadership individual and encouraged them to go have a conversation if they were willing to put themselves in the same situation as me.

None of them did and over time I grew thicker skin, plus stopped caring about what they thought as it was working fine.

There’s about five more teams in the product/analytics/engineering realm that operate the same way I do now and it has been a culture change.

I’d imagine in the next 9-12 months we’ll revisit the policy company wide.

But I’ll say this, I’m not sure it was the right call from the overall morale of the company but it turned our team from the butt of jokes into the leading example so it was the right call for our team.
Psychological placebos found to be as effective as medical placebos
How? China or India uses the opensource work and takes the design further. Then we license it from them like we do with existing designs.

It's not like you clone the plans off a Github repo and build an uncertified nuclear reactor in your basement, order nuclear fuel from Amazon and power up your house. Instead it'a bit like what happened to Android: it started as an OSS product but then Google added their services on top which make it actually useful.
I don't like this.

"[...] cites the link to an older account, connected through a shared SSH key, as additional justification for making the decision to deny access."
Neat.

Now do circumcision.
Ya, and I wouldn't, that's why I mentioned rebranding it.
Sago Mini is a good bet for preschoolers in general (disclaimer - I was part of starting Sago Mini, but have no connection to them now). You can buy them individually and then I'd probably start with Sago Mini Pet Cafe or Sound Box. There's also Sago Mini World, which is a subscription that has loads and loads of things in one place.

Other good options for this age group is the Peekaboo-series from Night & Day Studios and Petting Zoo from Fox & Sheep.

If you're looking for something more educational, take a look at Khan Academy Kids which starts at around age 2. Fantastic and completely free.
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Location: Mexico City, Mexico

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably not, but we can talk about it.

Technologies: Javascript (React), PHP (Laravel), Databases (Mainly MySQL, small usage of PostgreSQL), HTML, CSS, bits of server management

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ereveles/

Email: me@osiux.ws

Note: Mainly looking for project work, but open to full position.
> this would block pretty much all the major analytics

The list [1], which includes many APIs, also breaks hundreds of websites [2] that access those APIs

[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005
> Many websites will partially break? Which ones?

You can get an idea of which sites are blocked by reviewing the list of blocked domains [1] (this includes many APIs, such as reddit.com) and a 5 year old issue where people post websites broken by tracking protection [2].

[1] https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect-tracking-protecti...

[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1101005
You set the DNS TTL to 30 or 60 seconds, then there's no problem with caching the old IP.

Email is extremely tolerant of downtime. There are also commercial backup mail servers (these accept and cache the email until your server is back up), which can be used as the only public way to receive email. Some will deliver it to a non-standard port.
Right, but now there's this ambiguity about what counts as competing. And that ambiguity sounds like a risk to business, which opens a door to potential liabilities if CockroachLabs were ever to believe you are competing. That in turn makes CockroachDB a harder sell to management.
If you’re iOS or macOS developer, this is for you
Woodpecker is a debugging tool for iOS, MacOS developer, with its help we could inspect our app from a Mac.

It works like Reveal, but it could do more:

1. browser and edit files in sandbox

2. view and edit contents in UserDefaults

3. inspect UI hierarchy, and modify attributes online

4. list all of pending local notification items

5. list all of localization texts and export them to excel files.

6. plugin support

It’s free, have a try https://itunes.apple.com/cn/app/woodpecker/id1333548463
They aren't remotely analogous.

Male genital mutilation is far more horrifying.
The Runescape "blackmarket" was a fun world to play in!

Like the author, I got into creating Runescape bots for a bit - but never works to sell them, just made my own for fun and (in-game) profit.

As I dove deeper into the world, I came across people who would purchase a monthly VPS and install botting software on it. There were plenty of guides on how to go through - but no easy solutions for those who weren't technical.

Realizing I had an opportunity to capitalize on this - I built up a hosting company dedicated to the Runescape botting niche. Each VPS would come pre-installed with all the required software and make it dead simple to begin botting within 5 minutes or so.

At my peak, I think I had over 100 dedicated servers each running anywhere from 4-16 VPS on them. Some of my customers were using it to level up their personal accounts, others were running gold-farming operations.

The business was fairly passive, and I learned a ton from the experience. Things eventually came crumbling down when the creators of Runescape broke the bots (This would happen on occasion, but things would be up and running within a day or two normally) for a long time. I had to shut down as all my customers left overnight.
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This. In fact they don't even need to charge for the course - my school enrolls the student in a 1-credit course in the subsequent semester.

Not providing CPT for internships is probably the worst bureaucracy nightmare for international students. OPT has a high application fee, long turnaround, and takes up time from post-graduation employment. CPT is literally the opposite - I remember stepping into my school's international student office with an offer letter, and 5 minutes later I have my work authorization in hand.
>https://www.mostrecommendedbooks.com

that's an interesting site.

would love to see one for podcasts too. :)
> I absolutely loved the Uncharted series, but that contradiction never sat right with me.

So I never played the Uncharted games (though I really loved The Last of Us) so this may be incorrect, but I thought the later Uncharted games made that contradiction a plot point?
It is great for Mac users. Firefox 67+ is faster than Chrome and works flawlessly on MBP 2014. Some "Mac users" also use dev tools, and Firefox is better than Safari in this aspect.
I don't have any property in the bay area. I do not have any aspirations buying a property in the bay area. I wouldn't be losing too much moving.
I dabbled in selling scripts for Wow, D3, RS, NeoPets way way back, even wall hacks and auto-aim bits for FPS games... Wow was the best in my opinion - it was fun waking every morning with an ungodly amount of loot, felt like Christmas.

It led to a passion for process automation, both hardware and software.

The one thing I could never overcome were the people in my surroundings - family, school, work ... they all said I was a cheat and if I cheat at video games what else wouldn’t I cheat at, why stop there. I haven’t noticed one comment regarding the ethics or morality of process automation for video games even though almost all games ban it under TOS. Would be fun to have a game encourage scripting.
As an international student who went to a top US university, I'm faced with a similar situation when it comes to H1B. I understand I have no inherent right to be here, and that part of the reason why H1Bs are difficult to get is because of the many frivoulous petitions on behalf of my countrymen from large IT consultancy companies from my company. But when it comes the option between US and Canada, I'd rather pick Canada just for the peace of mind, even though I'd prefer to work in the US and the salaries in Canada are much lower.