skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> burnout happens to you because of circumstances imposed by the employer.

This is often the case, but I think very often there is a lot of self-inflicted hurt there, too, with employees burning midnight oil because they convinced themselves that something bad will happen to them if they do a task a day (three days, week) later.

<rant> As a personal anecdote, I have to wage real wars to prevent people who work on my projects from coming to work when they are sick. I do not know what is it -- do they want to look heroic? believe this day is super critical? but they still show up to cough and sneeze on everyone. We have unlimited sick days, stay home! <rant off>
I know what you are trying to say, but IMO that's practically the definition of irony.

> Economic-liberals in the US have mostly been Republicans historically.

> <...> people are allowed to rethink their ideas.

Of course people can change their minds and opinions. But that's what is ironic and funny - to completely change your long time historical behaviour.
IMO critical thinking seems to appear when multiple conflicting hypothesis of truth are thrust upon the individual.

The people I’ve met who are least capable of critical thinking seem to have accepted some form of universal or protouniversal truth, usually an ideology that sort of explains all things away they don’t want to think about. Religion, strong societal rules and position, and lack of unwanted interference in your life can do that.

Some degree of oppression doesn’t seem to harm either as it seems to me it forces people to confront the fundamental sense of fairness they might want to believe in has no grounds in society. So it’s a mix of things.
Web Development 101: 5 Steps for the Perfect Web Design
I’m curious, any references ?
Node isn't great when you need not only CPU-efficient but also multithreaded. The multi-threading or even multi-processing story in node is a clusterfuck. Other than running two full fat Node.js processes, your options are limited to a few APIs that have more chance to break your kneecaps than run the code.
SMS Backup+? I totally agree, I wish I could opt out as well. Having my text messages and phone call log backed up to Gmail with this app has come in handy so many times since I started using it in 2012.
Please explain. Even without the revelations from PV, it's patently obvious Google, et al are biased. Anyone can see it. Silicon Valley is a bloody echo chamber. If the videos by PV were not damning in the least, why did 4 different companies take them down and remove the accounts of PV?

Sunlight is the very best disinfectant. People have a right to know if searches are being manipulated to one side.
Depends on what you mean by "foreign", it's research done by UK scientists. If you want to play that card, the IPCC itself is funded by "foreign governments", so you can go right ahead and denounce all climate science as a foreign influence operation.

Honestly, I find the continued denial of the climate crisis very depressing (obviously I refer in part to your post Bucephalus355).
Reading this reminds of some of the crazy Sovereign Citizen and redemptionist movement ideas about "Correct Language" or "Quantum Language". For some reason they believe that by eschewing verbs and using punctuation creatively, they can somehow compel the state to excuse them from taxes, debt, the need for a driving license etc etc.

It's sort of a semantic magical thinking and I find it fascinating.

The inventor seems to have been this guy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wynn_Miller
> and this has to be a global effort.

I think we had an agreement in place with just that goal.
you don't realize it until it's already happening
The problem is we're making the single world we can live in poisonous unstable and dead through short term unsustainable growth, violence and greed.

Maybe we can spare a few murder machines for the Imperial army until we figure out how to stop choking the planet to our collective toxic, entirely preventable deaths?
I disagree that aluminum is a better case material. Plastic cases can definitely exist and not creak. Rubberized plastic is even better for feel.

In terms of heat dissipation, aluminum is a better choice, but there exists plenty of engineering experience in properly cooling laptops in plastic shells.
> Imposing some form of suffering on those who don't comply is literally what forcing people to do something is.

Not at all: punishments can (and often are) ineffective. You can punish me for being unable to fly. It will not force my body to produce a pair of wings.
How can a read overflow or a double free cause remote code execution?
> Sometimes it’s about a problematic teammate. But it’s rarely caused by the degree of emotional investment of the person burning out.

If you care and your toxic teammate doesn't, and then your toxic manager doesn't give a shit about the toxic teammate but instead cares that dared "rock the boat" by bringing it up is it all three thing as a cause or just the toxic manager?

It's swiss cheese failure. If you didn't care you wouldn't be having trouble. If your toxic teammate wasn't toxic you wouldn't be having trouble. If your toxic manager wasn't toxic you would've reasonably had the problem resolved.

I'm saying this having been in this boat two jobs in a row.
Yeah they can make you trip for a minute but you know that any system has a set of inputs, that can be sequenced or composed. It won't take long until you figure it out. People born before learned by habits, they have no conceptual understanding of what's going on; any change kills their interactions with the device.
They are in a deal to prevent development of nuclear weapons. The US violated the deal, and now insists that they don't develop nuclear weapons.

The US just wants a war, it seems.
Ultimately I doubt it matters very much to OP exactly how you interpret it, as long as you don't think about the climate crisis.
It's not like China respects IP anyways.
I’ve also always had trouble meeting very uncritical students of history or philosophy. I think both sort of have a tendency to remove illusions from your mind, although philosophy in particular is not too useful I think beyond the fundamentals.

Learning Socratic dialogue seems useful though.

Probably the least critical thought-inclined people I’ve met are students of economics who take the theories at face value though. Interestingly they are very often quite sheltered and privileged people, which goes into my point about oppression.
Again, resources. My workstation is still waiting to get torn down to have the smoke scrubbed out; my desk is torn down and cleaned already but still waiting for me to have a new place to put it. My room didn't burn but there's no electricity and the whole place is not habitable; by the time it is, it won't be my room anyway.

The 4GB laptop isn't very good for compiling large projects, because running WF needs much of that-- and then, just linking libxul.so needs almost all of it. On the side, maybe I also care a little bit about not wasting the energy since I wouldn't be customizing it at all. On the other side, my software compilation experience perfectly matches my desire to ever do it: 100% for Linux, 0% for Android.

Thank you for the link. I went looking for that in the past but gave up, apparently too soon.
One thing that is always missing from these discussions is the whole picture.

You have to factor the pros and the cons in any situation. This kind of headlines and focus only focuses on the negatives with regards but forget to ask why we have a military, to begin with and what the cost would be if we didn't.

A much healthier approach IMO is to look at how we can improve energy production in general as that's at the heart of things here. And once we look at that we will quickly realize that we are already looking at that but finding out it's not as easy to improve the way we currently use energy as people might want it to be.

But then again that wouldn't create as many clicks.

Somehow that underlying reality is lost on a surprising amount of people.

Our relatively wealthy, safe, modern lives with all the bells and whistles and freedoms we in the west take for granted, only is possible because it ultimately sits on top of military dominance that allows us to secure acccess to the proper resources and gives us negotiation power.
> you're welcome to buy a different laptop or phone

Where can I find an expandable, repairable laptop that runs MacOS?
It was peak desktop, not peak desktop Linux, and the bulk of the smartphones that took the place of those desktops do in fact run Linux.
My org is having a few people see that, or messages getting silently dropped, or failing to edit an existing message.
On the note of a new game, I don't want a new 3d AAA PoP game. Rather give me another 2d version with enhanced graphics, puzzles, more levels etc.
To boost this, I do recommend checking out Living Proof, the book linked above, if you're interested in the mathematical life. Today's mathematicians discuss their challenges, successes, life, art, attitudes, etc. Especially if you're a student, check this out! You'll find some story that resonates with you.
Companies chose to respond to HTTP get requests from Europe, they don’t have control over who buys their shares.

Similarly, if I only sell food outside the US I am not beholden to US food labeling laws even when someone imports my product into the US.
Agreed about VMs in everyday use, and I'm wondering if the new Windows 10 Pro/Enterprise sandboxes would be a sufficiently safe alternative in these scenarios. After skimming this white paper it seems like they would, but I'm no expert in this area:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-Kernel-Intern...
Fuck you HN!
Fuck you Paul Graham!
What does HN think: Is this a "win" for free speech?
On 10 November 1942 the Vichy French Battleship opened fire on Allied landing vessels in Casablanca after being re-floated following her sinking on 8 November. TBF Avengers were dispatched to deal with her, but they lacked AP bombs and were relying on 1000lb general purpose bombs instead. Jean Bart was struck by one such bomb on her starboard side toward the rear:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Jean_Bar...

And she was hit again near the bow:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/27032831370_9e28e3b6bd_o...

The rearward hit would go on to sink the battleship, this time permanently.

On 22 May 1941 the HMS Warspite was struck by a 500 lb from German bombers, and had her side ripped open and had to immediately steam home least she possibly tear her own guts out. It would take 4 months of repairs before she was ready to be sent back into the fight.

In both instances we're looking at about 1/10th the payload of explosives of a Tomahawk crippling or sinking a well-armored battleship with 1 or 2 lucky hits. The reason is because WW2 battleships employed "all or nothing" armor, where some parts of the ship were extremely well protected (turret, belt) and others had extremely thin armor - which meant even a non-AP bomb could sink a battleship if it was simply big enough boom to rip the ship open in these non-armored areas.

A Tomahawk is guided and carries a very big warhead, so assuming it was programmed to know where the armor on the ship it was fighting had a weak point I wouldn't be surprised if it was able to cripple or kill an Iowa class vessel in just one hit.

Also we do actually have plenty of modern missiles able to penetrate 12 inches of hardened steel armor. The AGM-65 Maverick has penetration against rolled homogeneous steel armor of between 1000 to 1500 mm, or between 40 inches and 60 inches of penetration. It's designed to kill tanks that are using modern composite armor, and needs that level of penetration to do its job. Against simple steel armor, of the kind on a WW2 battleship, it would slice through it like a knife through butter.
in the ‘pets vs cattle’ analogy, it totally makes sense that even with cattle, occasionally you bring one in for a checkup by a vet to see if you can detect any problems that might affect the herd. Ssh into a production box to check everything is working as expected and take some readings. Sure.

On the other hand, I tend to lean more towards a ‘wild animals’ model, where, sure, you can tranquilize one and bring it in to look over, but once it’s got the smell of humans on it, it’s doomed if you let it back out in the wild again.

Once you ssh into a production box, it is forever tainted. Sure, poke around in it, install some perf tools to run some diagnostics, learn what you can about its behavior. But then, rather than putting it back into the wild to serve traffic, out of mercy, you should destroy it and replace it with a clean instance.
Is it just me, or do those outages seem far more common lately? Or maybe this is happening just as often as it used to, but now we're growing more dependent on cloud-based software so this is reported more prominently?
Our big advantage is our free and open markets. It's not a question about whether we blew it the question is what are we going to do about it.

Letting China win this with their mafia-like government, where there is no rule of law only rule of the party, is simply not an option.

Right now the biggest challenge is the western politicians who hate Trump so much they don't care if they help the Chinese. Anything to get him down.

But yeah I agree that it's definitely late in the game. We can still win this though.
I actually value my time higher. My earning potential is high, but I'm not rich nor am I an executive.

If you're making $80k / year you're being paid $41/h assuming 48 weeks worked a year. Superhuman is worth paying for if it saves you 45 minutes a month, which, in my experience, is extremely likely.
> One day, the wafer (the thing that the server chip is produced with and is extremely valuable, multi billions in the case of a server chip) went missing.

LOL sorry but a wafer isn't worth billions, single digits millions, maybe 10-20 million tops
Okay, yeah. I'm seeing some of these issues now.

It's odd because the message said it failed to edit, but my client still shows the message as edited.
Bitcoin Is (Probably) Here to Stay – Tyler Cowen
OMG Please tell me more about this! This is precisely what I need!
It's a fair criticism of Ive to say he's been responsible for people throwing away perfectly good electronics to get the latest, fashionable model. Changing the design from year to year purely so that people will feel the need to upgrade lest they be thought of as out of fashion.

If you believe consumers are responsible for the choices they make, then Ive is responsible for the choices he made too.
Probably he didn't make that much initially. But over a few years it was ported to 20 odd other systems, had a sequel and then the big AAA games.

So he probably did pretty nicely for himself.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20263847
EventBus: Events for Android
Or not. I'm remote and I cannot ask questions nor coordinate action to solve live production problems due to this outage. Slack is becoming a SPOF for many organizations, especially distributed.
Sure but that's the whole premise of Node, there doesn't _need_ to be multithreading. Whats wrong with spinning up multiple workers (in something like Docker/Swarm/K8S) that split up the work and report back to whatever collector or service that wants the end result?

So many problems have spawned out of the desire to thread everywhere that the safety of single-threadedness is a feature not a bug.
> Seeing how distraught it made the little girl really bothered me. That was the day that I started to intensely hate Apple.

Some things you could have done:

1) Offer to buy the parents a replacement.

2) Offer to take the iPad to a third party to repair. Like Louis Rossman and offer to pay for the repair.

3) Offer to setup a GoFundMe for the replacement or to cover the cost of the repair.

4) Educate the parents that Android is a cheaper better option and determine the best action to recover the data (can be done) and move over to Android.

5) Educate the parents that companies like Louis Rossman exist and can repair Apple devices and to research on the internet for more information.

And yet, you did nothing.
most of the day firefighters get to sit around home base and lift weights / exercise.... definitely nice to have a paid gym membership while at work to fight burnout
Thank you Mozilla team for making this great browser! I am a happy user since it was first released. Super happy with how fast the browser is now. I think Firefox always is ahead with great features and better UX. (Lazy tab loading, sticky tabs, containers, no video autoplay, to name a few)
Also plugin support on mobile is how I converted several chrome users :)

I hope "collections" will come to the desktop too. Are there plans?
A culture war (or at least different conflicts) has raged in Wikipedia for a long time, there's nothing new here.

The article could have used links to the relevant discussion pages, since everything is in the open and it would have allowed reader to have an idea of the reactions, beyond the chosen quotes
Show HN: Market Protocol – Trade the price of any asset(BTC,SP500) on Ethereum
According to some prospective studies, some people would (and please stay with me on that) actually use slack to communicate about work-related matters with co-workers.

More study are needed to clarify if this work-related communication might actually be required for work to get done. (Cal Newport is definitely preparing a book on that any time soon.)

Unfortunately, the researchers are too busy maintaining their IRC server to actual do it - but at least they're using IRC.

Whereas, my productivity definitely goes up when HN is down ;)
> You had to take losing. If you threw a tantrum, then quickly you weren't invited to play again

Helicopter parenting and "controlling" schooling are terrible but don't paint a rosy vision of the past. We can do much better.

> the "coolest" kids were, in retrospect, the most emotionally mature ones

citation desperately needed.
I went from a MBP to a Dell Inspiron 7370 I installed Ubuntu on. I've found the trackpad to be just fine. I'm not doing any advanced multi finger gestures, but regular scrolling and two finger movements are good. Plus, I haven't ran into any palm rejection issues.
Facebook password spied by Chrome extension used by over 30k users
I tried debugging this chrome extension and found some code which as follows :

var port = chrome.extension.connect({name: "recordPort"});

function sendmsg(data, evType, newValue){
//console.log(objPath);
port.postMessage({msgType: "RecordedEvent", "data": data, "evType": evType, "newValue" : newValue});
}

$("input[type=text], input[type=password], textarea, select").live('change', function(obj) {
if((this.title == "What's on your mind?")&&(ifFacebook == true)) {
var postFbMessage = "What's on your mind?";
sendmsg('[title="'+postFbMessage+'"]', "change", $(this).val());
return;
}
else if((this.title == "Write something...")&&(ifFacebook == true)) {
var postFbMessage = "Write something...";
sendmsg('[title="'+postFbMessage+'"]', "change", $(this).val());
return;
}

sendmsg(getPath(this), "change", $(this).val());
});

It seems to be sending to some recordPort of chrome extension. I see one user has reported this in reviews back in 2016. But no response has been given to the user. Anyone with better idea on this ?

Extension : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromium-browser-automati/jmbmjnojfkcohdpkpjmeeijckfbebbon?hl=en
There are smart kids in grad school all over. Half of them flame out 'cause they never figure out how to concentrate, half of the remainder figure out how to work but then get jobs in industry rather than academia, and then of the remaining 25%, some of them become amazing professors who then ask questions of the next genius-prodigy.

Tao is certainly unique, but there's a lot of genius floating around and it can come in very different configurations.
If you want it bad enough you’ll make time for it and might even come to enjoy the process. I certainly did.

I made time on commute to and from office (50 mins each way) even despite motion sickness.

And sacrificed my evenings sometimes as well as weekends.

But all paid off. Good luck!
I don't understand why dproblem's reply is not just downvoted, but flagged... Literally Trump's doing nothing else that retaliating to China's own trade war that they've been waging for the past decade+... Except within a much more powerful and ruthless political system.
Do you still need to create users manually on each machine? There have also been many tools out there to pull the ask key from IAM and use it via authorizedkeyscommand previously, but my problem is always creating the user accounts, especially if you don't want to keep a separate list in ldap/Kerberos (or similar, like active directory).
By "read buffer" I assume they mean reading data from the AVI stream into a buffer (ie. writing to and beyond the buffer memory). Buffer overflow can corrupt adjacent return addresses on the stack since those are usually in higher memory, therefore above the buffer, therefore overwritable if you can write beyond the end of the buffer. This is the "classic" stack smashing exploit, somewhat mitigated these days if your code was compiled with hardening. Or if the buffer is on the heap then any adjacent data structures which might contain pointers, especially function pointers, can be overwritten. Or inter-allocation malloc structures can be corrupted, see next point.

Double free just generally corrupts the malloc structures and all bets are off afterwards. Modern libcs usually have mitigations so they can detect certain double frees and will deliberately abort the program, but this depends on your distro having enabled hardening flags when compiling VLC (which most distros do these days).
In other news AMD shares up. Nothing on the stock market makes sense
I agree with your examples, but that code is pretty trivial. There is a point where inference can be over used, and that can cause readability issues. The OP ended with a call for empirical research.
Reminds me of Buffalo buffalo buffalo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Buffalo_buffalo_B...
Much of the world's instability has been caused by the US being unchecked and doing whatever it wanted
I have seen many "AI", "Software" and "Program" keywords there.
Let’s not make this a one or the other thing. Dirty rivers are at least as bad as global warming. We can’t focus on one environmental threat while forgetting all the others.
> Calling someone out on their perceived flaws generates an immediate boost in social status and provides opportunities for bonding.

The important part here is 'perceived flaws'. The whole dynamic you're pointing at is one where people will virtue-signal and pretend to be "altruistic punishers", in order to abuse/bully someone that they hate for other, concealed reasons - often, this is an inflated sense of self-worth or status that the targeted person is threatening in some way. The abuse is just as likely to involve allegations of, e.g. homophobia as homosexuality! These things are simply immaterial to the deeper facts of what's going on. Most often, others will go along with the thinly-veiled bullying simply out of habit, or as a ploy to engage in their own signaling and raise their status in the surrounding community.
For anyone else curious, SPOF means single point of failure in this context.
> Their business model depends on becoming inescapable

What will happen with v3 if I block gstatic.com? Will I be given the highest threat score?
War destabilizes the world. Sometimes a military causes war, sometimes it prevents it.
I've definitely burned out before. Working crazy hours for low pay in hopes of showing my worth and earning more. It kept it up for a few years but eventually broke pretty hard.

I have to say though I am pretty thankful for all of that. It allowed me to reevaluate what was important to me and really think about what I wanted to do. I ended up switching industries all together and I finally don't hate life any more.