skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this storyline, because it means myself and some other random webdev folks were a step ahead of Top Google Geniuses because we asked "is your intranet IE only? if so, we have some tricks."

Or more likely, AJAX techniques were being widely used to the point where Mozilla had to violate their whole ethic about not supporting proprietary IE extensions and even named their shit after an unrelated COM object. Then Google showed the public what could be done, but the truth was a lot of us were already doing it.
The server that is streaming you the encrypted data presumably already knows what you are watching.
...and then they closed their Swiss offices in 2017 [0].

[0] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/software-shock_autodesk-to-shut...
>Bus availability is something for bus companies to worry about, not schools.

If you have all 3 classes of students going to school at the same time, your bus costs are going to be 3 times as high. It doesn't matter if it's public or private, that's just how it works.
> Everything is there for you to see. What parts did we use? How did we design the case? What kind of swear words did we use in the firmware code? It's all there, including build documentation.

I must have missed the swear words...
Looks like an ad for random niche document management software but quick aside: Your layout seems broken, the comments section and profile picture on blog pages don't work.
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What's surprising is that there is evidence that they originally evolved to deal with the snows of the arctic.

So those feet that are great on sand were made for walking on snow covered ground.

Likewise food is scarce in both the arctic during the winter and in the desert.
Hong Kong, Visualized
Window kernel APIs have nothing UNIX like beyond sockets.

POSIX personality was the place for them.

Modern Windows follows mainframe's footsteps by providing UNIX compatibility via a VM environment.
I was under the impression that a JD is at the same level as a professional degree, which places it at (or slightly below, depending on who you ask) the level of a master's degree. There is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree, but it's more academic.
Vimeo, which the original person was using, is a paid service.
Two kernel mysteries and the most technical talk I've ever seen
The Big Die-Up (2017)
Switzerland is definitely not perfect in this respect but I see a lot of evidence that it’s a good option even if you are not a white mail, which I am (for context). First, my wife is an Iranian Born French citizen and she is now VP of Technology at a 500 person energy company. She wouldn’t leave Switzerland for anything. Also, I work with many Indian colleagues who are very happy to be here.

I’m not saying their lives are perfect and they don’t suffer from racism and prejudice but on the whole Switzerland is a very much a net positive for them.
Being white isn't a ticket to Switzerland, it's a lot harder than that.
I'll probably get crucified for this, but does someone actually want to use trackball mouse? Has anyone even seen these after 1990s?
This is the third submit in just over a day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=stagelight.io
> In that case, should we not count how badly Foxconn workers who manufacturer Apple’s phones have it?

First, we do. There's been plenty of stories and Apple has gotten a lot of flak about Foxconn. Rightly so.

Second, I really have no idea why you're bringing outsourced companies into this. Amazon is actually employing massive amounts of people. According to a recent NYT article[1], "Amazon had 653,300 employees around the world at the end of June, not including temporary workers and contractors." What's the point of trying to inflate the number when Amazon is already one of the largest employers in the world?
Thats not how public schooling works: its mechanics are rules on rules.
I like https://flexibits.com/cardhop both iOS and desktop apps
School uniforms is somewhere where Facebook has facilitated some social good.

Various community facebook groups and "buy nothing" facebook groups facilitate giving away items you no longer require. That the items be given for free, no strings attached is often a firm requirement.

School uniforms are a common item to be given away because children frequently outgrow uniforms long before they wear out.

Its very helpful for families with young children as they outgrow clothes incredibly fast and also don't yet have any resistance to the idea of second hand clothing.
you’ll be fine as long as you swerve out of the way ;)

In all seriousness, Harvard sounds like an exciting place to be. You never know who you’ll run into. Take advantage of these years!
Home ownership, car ownership...Being unemployed gives you this weird feeling of being an outsider in this social construction that our very survival seems to hinge upon. The feeling is strange when you’re home and all the workers have gone to work for the day because they basically have to. It feels like servitude more than working to better yourself.
Other things do, but it still does protect to a certain an extent.

It is much harder to tell the poor child from the one who may not have eaten today and might not tomorrow.

It is harder to tell the well-off child from the super-rich child, because the status symbols are in reach of both.

It's not a perfect fix, but it reduces the gaps.
It's really no different with most drivers... You just notice the taxis more because they are all one group that stand out.

I'm pretty critical of taxi drivers but they really aren't any worse than most drivers besides the random stopping without signalling at all. Which, no surprise, non-taxis do a lot too if you take enough notice. Taxis just do it more cause they stop more.
At first, I thought "he protested, of course they fired him". However: if someone dies of suicide within an organization, there is likely a serious (and deadly) problem within that organization. If the workers do not speak out, such a problem would go unfixed, and may cascade.

Therefore the workers must speak out, for the safety of themselves and their co-workers.

The discourse around mental health is in a sorry state. Everyone says that they care but it is usually backed by non-action - and in this case, action in the retrograde direction. I want to hope that things will change but it is hard to do so. Maybe the conversation will change as the depression epidemic continues to grow.
It would be trivial to brute force, so almost pointless.
And less likely to achieve desired results...
Science says 8:30, law says 8:00, so the state is not following the state's recommendation.

Also, what is best for an ideal scenario for the idealized kid is not the same as what is best for the parents.

Finally the biggest perpetrator of sending kids early is precisely public schooling, private schooling has variety that suits the parent's choices.

What is the best public policy then? school vouchers, and let parents decide.
Very interesting, and a simple enough use-case that a Haskell novice can get the gist of it. It's very informative of how real Haskell development works; it's a brass-tacks kind of example which you don't necessarily see a lot of in the Haskell world.
No, on most CNC machines the controller actually handles much of the motion planning.

The slicer will generate a command that says go from point (x1, y1, z1) to point (x2, y2, z2) with speed f, but it doesn't say anything about acceleration, or how to transition into the next move. A very simplistic controller will use a trapezoidal ramp profile where it will ramp up to the programmed feed rate at a fixed acceleration, then stay at the programmed feed, then ramp down in time to reach the end point. However, if the move was a very short line or arc as part of a large surface, the machine doesn't need to reach 0 speed before starting the next move. A smarter controller will 'look ahead' to predict the next few move and plan the motion of the machine to eliminate jerkiness or stopping.

The slicer may tell the machine what acceleration to use, but that's really just setting a parameter in the machine controller, and isn't settable per-move.

This isn't as critical for 3D printers as it is for big, heavy milling machines. Nevertheless, you can do clever things like trying to compensate for vibration, or speeding up or slowing down the extruder motor based on the pressure of the plastic in the nozzle.

This isn't to say Prusa is switching just to do better motion planning, it sounds like that isn't a primary goal, but I'm trying to illustrate there is a lot more room for intelligence than 'just wiggling some IO'.
That's helpful. thank you for sharing!
Unfortunately, there is a strong push for the safe spaces to be the entire space; like the entire college campus. If the entirety of where one spends there time is a safe space and, as such, closed to debate, then growth is impossible.

I totally get that there needs to be places where people can go to avoid conflict, but that can't be everywhere. Conflict and debate are important parts of life.
I had no involvement in this, but Sun caused some huge split in their userbase with the switch to SysV Solaris. I had an ISP that never switched off SunOS 4 until they went out of business.

I've always wondered how much *BSD love is SunOS Lost Causeism. I think maybe most younger people (@ my old age) just never really got it.
Heh! It is a Jogo Bonita my friend!
I never had a trackball, so I'm curious about what benefits a trackball mouse has. Why or why wouldn't you use it over a regular mouse?
The loss of Solaris is a tremendous tragedy to the technology world. I once welcomed it's demise. But the lack of any and all competing platforms for Linux has lead Linux down a not entirely happy road
The new word thing always amazes me.. you swear you never heard it before and invariably it shows up once or twice in the next few weeks at a minimum.

This is also a great talk on the magic of science and how magicians exploit flaws in our brain or sensors (e.g. the eyes) perceive and process the environment. One of his examples is that when your eyes are moving from one focus point to the next you are literally blind and don't see anything (basically to prevent motion blur) - but your brain fills in the missing info, and so you can hide sleight of hand in these moments. One of many examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwuRSqODRdA

There are also other explanations for this advertising thing such as you thinking about it because you saw it somewhere, having actually searched or clicked on things related to it and even if you talk to someone else and THEY search about it from the same IP address it can also end up in advertising feeds. And i'm sure many more.
It's really hard to move, especially without a degree. Your residency is tied to your job and you often need something lined up before you go. Even if you have a degree and can obtain residency showing up and expecting employment isn't realistic.

For context I have no degree and I almost made it with a German company. Someone accused me of being racist and I was fired within the hour. Killed any idea that Europeans are actually more accepting or tolerant.
> It’s still unmatched for seamless language interoperability.

I don't know about how it works on VMS, but Microsoft's COM is the only other attempt of language interop I know of. Recently I implemented a COM server, added `IDispatch` to its interfaces and suddenly I could control and test it from Porwershell with no extra effort on my part. Like, magic.
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The parent poster's comment was not unique in dissent versus debates on any other topic, you are kowtowing to this community's gestalt that Solaris is some special mythical technology because of a small number of vocal and up and down vote happy proponents on the site. Please allow skepticism of the superiority to air equally to fans.
These are products of a different era - the security vs usability or vs performance trade-off was very different during the heyday of IRIX. And you absolutely could make a secure IRIX or Solaris or whatever system; people just didn’t because they mostly didn’t need to (and those that did, just did it).
"For mathematicians, pi obscures some of the underlying symmetries of mathematics and muddies up what should be elegant with extraneous factors of two. There’s an admittedly grandiose idea that mathematics is the language with which we express and see certain underpinning truths to the universe."

I don't think it's overly "grandiose"... what other language can express such fundamentals and find relationships between them?

And so mathematical understanding will always benefit from natural simplifications.

There's no "issue" if we just allow both pi and tau -- calling on each as it suits the equations at hand.

They're both symbols for irrational numbers so use whichever has the least number of terms. If you mean pi use pi and if you mean 2 * pi, as is common in Fourier transforms, just use tau. Teach both and negate the popularity contests.

Then we can celebrate March 14th and June 28th with equal fan-fare.
The main draw is that you don't have to move your entire hand / the mouse along a surface.

That means your wrist sees less strain + motion, and you have no need for a mouse-pad, to name two possible benefits. Some people find it to be more precise as well, but I don't know if there's any evidence apart from personal preference.

Of course, your wrist still moves some as you manipulate the ball with your fingers, and if you use a trackpad you already don't need a mousepad-like-surface.
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I have a trackball on my main desktop. They work just fine, and take up less space than a mouse, because you don't need to move them around.

I'd actually love a laptop with a trackball instead of a trackpad, but nobody mainstream makes those.
Why would you mow down the bollards? You're acting like a bully, just because you're big and strong (in other words: you have a car), you're throwing your weight around. The bollards are an essential part of keeping cyclists safe, and you driving a multi-ton hunk of metal doesn't give you the right to endanger cyclists in "protest".
I usually take notes if I am adding a new contact that I don't know much about (E.g. Met at a meeting at CloudHQ). This was totally broken prior to iOS 13. I recently updated the OS and it works.
It's much safer to open the mind through meditation especially with a trained teacher (satguru).
Just look at Blizzard and their "but the rules!" approach.
> Dude, you can get banned permanent from Twitter for writing "men aren't women". Happened to a famous Canadian feminist [0].

Your citation makes it pretty clear that's not what really happened, and that none of the tweets at issue said anything like "men aren't women".
I instead hope that parents start teaching it to children. While my online decorum has major room for improvements, I feel like I'm pretty conscientious in my in person interactions and gained a lot of that through explicit instructions from my parents.
A quick duckduckgo search will indicate that these assertions are correct. For example, see the second hit for ‘china funding american cinema’, from 2016: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/07/01/china-cens...

And China has been involved in all sorts of questionable financing schemes with recent Hollywood films.

There may be enclaves of people who are paying attention that ridicule China as the authoritarian travesty that it is... but Western pop culture, big business, and our government kowtow to China and its whims.
The problem is that while modern C++17/20 are quite productive, we cannot get rid of C copy-paste compatibility and the errors of the past (see Python 3).

So either you work alone, in a small team that appreciates modern safe C++ (including Core guidelines), and enjoy C++, or you are faced to deal with all idiocrasies and unsafety issues from the past.
The Russian Internet search company lost 16% of its market value on Friday after the Kremlin endorsed a draft law that would limit foreign ownership in major Russian technology firms. The plunge attracted the attention of at least two Wall Street banks, which rushed to Yandex’s defense, writing that the stock was now an attractive opportunity. Shares of Yandex have added back nearly 2% over the past two sessions in New York trading.

Will this apply retroactively? Yandex's board is filled with Americans, and it has US employees that presumably are getting equity.
There's no fundamental reason to trust the state over a child's parents.

Most people don't want to harm children and won't sit by when they see it happening. They want to help. That means it's better to get more people involved in the lives of children. "The state" is one way we codify that.

I think there's a good argument for enabling communities to assume that role rather than central government, but some group should be there to protect children from neglect.
If a network decides not to air a political ad, would they need to file any FEC paperwork because that has value to all other candidates?
Why don’t they just shorten the duration of school? Why does a senior in high school need 7 hours of classes 5 days a week, but one summer later only need 4-5 hours of classes 3 times a week as a freshman in college?
Bruce Schneier to hire researcher on public interest technology
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In the Philippines, my companion and I went to an atm to withdraw our monthly support (something of a stipend as missionaries) and my companion was unfortunate enough to hold his in his hands just a little too long before putting it away and it was snatched by some kid who vanished into a sea of people.
Should be called the subway train "effect" or "phenomenon," then.
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A medical degree also gets you the title doctor. The difference between a PhD and a JD or MD is that you generally write a dissertation to get the former, which means you have advanced academic research under your belt. You likely also have at least some teaching experience.

As far as I can tell, The only place where a JD can teach in most universities is in the law school.
Bruce Schneier seeks a strategic thought-partner to work with him in engaging with the sector to
determine how best to leverage his expertise and platforms to support the growing work within
the public-interest technology sector

For my money, There is a lot interesting stuff going on here.

Firstly this looks like
my ideal job. Shame I am woefully hilariously under qualified for it

Second this is the sort of "observatory" stuff I dream of paying for others to do once I sell my companies for millions - I would love to create a modern version of the Phillips coloured water tubes - a simulation of the political economic country so we can argue sensibly (or journalists can point to)

Third, Schneier is as usual, right - this is desperately important
Parent Effectiveness Training:

https://www.gordontraining.com/parent-programs/parent-effect...

https://www.parentskills.com.au/blog/pet-page-summary-skills...
I’ve used COM (and before that CORBA) but these operate at a different level of abstraction. On VMS calling a Pascal function from FORTRAN “just worked” and then you could pass the return value to a C function or BASIC and it was fine.

VMS IPC was done via mailboxes, send a message to a person or a program was the same. Which sounds weird to anyone used to the way Unix does mail, but it worked very well.

(Yep, VAX BASIC was a serious language used for real, production applications)
Yep. I live in a place where Market St outbound is the most logical way to go. Assuming you can dodge all sorts of buses, garbage trucks, and all the hobos stumbling around on the street.

Uber and Lyft refuse to route their rutabaga drivers down Market, so I always try to catch a cab because it cuts 5-10 minutes off the journey.
This is exactly correct. Low priced commodity hardware spelled the end of high-end ($10k plus) workstations and servers. See Google.
To exploit this and acquire the door dash account credentials: One must first gain access to an individual’s device and the device password to grant adb access on an untrusted machine. Then grep the door dash request from logcat while simultaneously initiating a door dash auth challenge using the very same credentials you are trying to acquire.

I’m not saying plaintext credential logging is at all acceptable, but I’m also not sure this is headline worthy. Unless I’m missing something?
So I am a member of a number of boardgame groups with meetups that each happen at the same place either regularly or on a different date each month. When they do happen, I just go there, and never RSVP anymore because nobody cares. In fact, one of the weekly meetups would regularly have 2-5 people RSVP but 15-25 show up.
What prevents everyone without a headcount limit from doing more of that? :)
I only use them. It's just more comfortable and accurate for me. It's like using a track pad, but with real weight and momentum. And I never got into bolting vim bindings on every app I use, so my trackball gets a good amount of use.
> If you have all 3 classes of students going to school at the same time, your bus costs are going to be 3 times as high. It doesn't matter if it's public or private, that's just how it works.

In Australia, it is also normal that all 3 classes of students also start at around the same time. (8:45-9:00am).

This doesn't seem to be a problem that the public transit system seems incapable of handling.
I wasn't intending to single out a particular condition, just labelled a few large-scale areas of active research and development.
The difference is pretty clear.

In a democratic society, the people voices are heard.

In a dictatorship, only the small elite that controls the government's voice is heard.
> I think San Francisco is still bitter at Uber and Lyft for succeeding without permission

Have they succeed though? Last I saw, neither was profitable, and both were hemorrhaging hundreds of millions (and in Uber's case, billions) of dollars every quarter.
> the message I got is that it’s about all of those things

I agree; I was summarizing one side: the argument against meritocracy. The article did discuss other points of view, and it didn’t seem all that impressed with the book either.

This did open my eyes though, because I thought meritocracy was supposed to be a democratic or egalitarian sort of ideal, I had never thought of it as device designed for perpetuating social class divisions. (Though, I guess, what else is going to happen if you have a metric by which to rank people?)

The deeper idea is the realization that true ability and true grit still comes largely from privilege. That perhaps there isn’t equality in meritocracy and never was. Some people who are worried about money have to work super hard to make ends meet but don’t get the opportunity to develop abilities. People who can’t afford to miss a rent check or have to worry about food don’t really have the opportunity to develop grit. It’s pretty hard to have the sort of sticktuitiveness that “merit” calls for if you can’t afford to take any risks, if failing means you lose your phone, car, apartment, etc.

I guess the ‘glass floor’ article is taking the point of view that you don’t need all three of privilege, ability and grit; that privilege keeps some people in the upper echelons despite little ability or grit. I guess I don’t really know, but the question now rattling around in my head is whether ability and grit are mostly byproducts of privilege?
it wouldn't be a highway, it's called an overpass. and they're quite common.