skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't make any sense. Device vendors don't need encrypted DNS to obfuscate their command-and-control any more than bot developers do. They already have code execution on their platform that has network access. They can use whatever encrypted channel they want. Skype was doing this before DoH had even occurred to anybody. We're supposed to tell home users to keep using plaintext DNS because an incompetent device manufacturer might not be able to come up with a better encrypted C&C than DoH?
https://github.com/sstephenson/bats
sstephenson/bats: Bash Automated Testing System - GitHub
The difference between a company that benefits from 'tech' and one that doesn't is how their tech is used. If they use off the shelf tech to directly build their business, it isn't so much a tech company as it is app development, IT, or whatever you name it.

If however, you use whatever good or average off the shelf tech and build tools that leverage the tech then apply it to your business then you're a tech company. You can't just make the app you have to build tech to build the company. This is your advantage. The tech you build can be software or it can be patents or it can be proprietary processes but it has to be leveraged. My way to estimate this is to count the number of employees that build product or tools. The size of sales/marketing can vary but excessive numbers of devs isn't a good sign for a tech company and might just be a consultancy.
It's an appealing fantasy which enables denial of limits to economic and technological growth.

It's an appealing fantasy to which I was very strongly drawn in my youth, through O'Neill torii, T.A. Heppenheimer, von Braun, Clark, Asimov, and Heinlein.

I believe I've matured slightly.
>Why would a company choose someone who doesn’t know the stack they are using over someone who does?

Because a stack defined programmer is a limited programmer...
I see this crop up as "wisdom", for the sake of some quality, like that quality is an absolute. What the parent is literally advocating is that we don't ever fix the mistakes of the past.

If you are generating a script that has to run everywhere, yes have the backend emit the verbose or tricky or unergonomic construct. But most of time, breaking portability to have something that is easier to understand, or more regular, that uses modern facilities is almost always the correct solution.
That's awesome! :D
I learned something new today - "FizzBuzz" is a basic programming task used for screening.

We do stuff easier than this as a screen, but same idea, yes. We've now done half as multiple choice to speed it up.

It usually takes 3 - 10 minutes range for most folks - so really light weight.
Yes. If you want more legroom pay for the emergency aisle or a premium seat.
Probably caravans where you have one driver per 3 trucks will be first or something similar to that.
Thanks for your concern. I think my cause of depression is just my inability to meet up with my financial responsibility.
My Skype ID is okehdom
imgur becoming somehow more bloated and less usable in every way over time is perhaps rivaled only by skype's trajectory
Jaynes on Clever Tricks
Safer than what? What women currently have put up with?
Not Canadian, so the question, combined with what's visible in the news outside Canada, with Trudeau, clubbing animals for fur, exporting asbestos to poor countries, made me think of this:

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/503127

"Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals."

The statement resonates, as it's simple, pithy, and no counterexample is obvious.
Answer: cars and highways. It's really hard to spend a lot of money replacing something that already works, even if it works really, really badly. High speed rail will only happen with a federal mandate.
I think the last line refers to donations collected within the app. There is no publicly available Google Play policy for which the reasonable interpretation is that apps are not allowed to contain external links to donation pages.

In comparison, Apple clearly states that you must link to an external donation page from your app if you're not a charity, while charities are also allowed to collect money within the app with Apple Pay.

> 3.2.1 Acceptable

> (vi) Approved nonprofits may fundraise directly within their own apps or third-party apps, provided those fundraising campaigns adhere to all App Review Guidelines and offer Apple Pay support. These apps must disclose how the funds will be used, abide by all required local and federal laws, and ensure appropriate tax receipts are available to donors.

> 3.2.2 Unacceptable

> (iv) Unless you are an approved nonprofit or otherwise permitted under Section 3.2.1 (vi) above, collecting funds within the app for charities and fundraisers. Apps that seek to raise money for such causes must be free on the App Store and may only collect funds outside of the app, such as via Safari or SMS.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I believe it is EWR-SIN
If the bubble is large enough, it's the others who are in a bubble, and we're just "in the world"...
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Taiwan imports construction workers from much poorer Southeast Asian countries. http://www.cedaw.org.tw/en/upload/media/Capacity%20Building/...
Lenovo claims it has the usyal MIL certications, see Features under: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/Thi...
Which extension? Sounds very useful.
As an outsider from Europe: what I see that americans hate any publicly funded projects. "If it doesn't benefit me why should I pay taxes for that?" See the whole healthcare system. "I'm healthy, never sick why should I pay the cancer treatment of those who are obese and smoke all the time?" That's totally different in Europe. Not just in the nordic countries but generally everywhere. So the same applies for public transport and such as well. Also add on the top of that the lowest gas prices in the western world https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
care to share the extension? i found this, which seems similar: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/390194-imgur-redirect
> I use a number of really cool apps to do things I would get likely for free on Linux like magnet for window management

I'm not sure I understand your point here; is the fact that you need to use third-party apps for these things being described as a selling point, or is the argument just that you can still find solutions for things that might initially seem like they're missing?
I just tried looking myself in the mirror and giving myself reasons to live.
One of the things I’ve learned as I started digging into wage inequality statistics is that performing this data analysis is extremely complicated. Demographics have changed dramatically between then and now. The labor force participation rate for women has nearly doubled from 1950 to today. The US keeps income statistics on a per household basis, and marriage rates and household sizes have declined dramatically. The percentage of the population that is immigrants has tripled since 1970. The age distribution has changed, as well as college attendance rates (four years where young people are earning no income). Racial distributions have changed, which creates complex effects. (Phenomena that are better explained as racial discrimination show up as income inequality. Also, the median ages of people of different races varies quite dramatically, from 28 for African Americans to 43 for white non-Hispanic Americans. So some of what you might characterize as racial inequality actually ends up being age inequality.) The shift from hourly factory work to salaried service jobs, the create of tax income like the EITC, etc., all make these analyses extremely complicated.

To isolate what you might think of as income inequality due to structural economic factors, you’d want something like individual lifetime income adjusted by race, immigration status, and gender. I have yet to see anything that thoroughly adjusts for all of these confounding factors.
Someone making youtube videos, with > 1M subscribers has "no incentive" to put out videos that attract more viewers?

Ok sure, and the Earth is flat, Donuts are a health food, and lizard people are real.
I spent all of five minutes on google scholar, and here's the results:

Anti-black media bias.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/5420/

Racial hiring bias: https://www.pnas.org/content/114/41/10870.short

Men aren't somehow biologically more in tune with computers:
https://peerj.com/preprints/1733.pdf

"Office housework":
https://worklifelaw.org/publication/climate-control-gender-r...

So I guess it wasn't that half your claims were scientifically wrong, sorry. It was all of them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The people managing these projects are often hired based on political connections, not expertise. And cost overruns usually lead to higher profits, so there is little incentive to keep costs down.
Resealable cap. Up to the buyer as for how quickly they want to drink it.
Coincidentally I started reading 'Quiet' this week. Really recommend it, interesting book!
> We have a political system where one major party (out of two) decries any public spending that might help people who aren't millionaires/billionaires/corporations.

Wasn’t it Newsom who canceled the project? Most high ranking Democrats are certainly rich from things like “energy” and “weapons” via k street and international analogues. We are bipartisan in our corruption and failure to build infrastructure.
Agreed. But it's a bit like your house has caught fire and, rather than try to put it out, you call a realtor and go shopping for a new home. Why not try to save your current home, first?
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Democrats, Avoid the Robot Rabbit Hole
Shining some light on the history of OS/2, Win9x and NT
I think I agree with you. I am an introvert, but have vast variety of interest in science, technology, startups etc. I don't like at all to do small talk with friends, i get bored and tired really fast, unless the topic hits one of these areas. I liked to socialize on forums on programming, and made a bunch of friends sincr when i was in middle school or high school that way. I gave a bunch of talks and raised enthusiasm on some programming concepts back in the day. Everything else was too boring.
Californians voted for the high speed rail project in a ballot initiative.
I don't know... I own a 2013 MBP and also use a Thinkpad P52s for work, and I really hope there's a better competitor than the Thinkpads.

The Thinkpad feels cheap and poorly built compared to the MBP. The plastic creaks and it feels like it's going to fall apart when I carry it with one hand. The trackpad isn't nearly as good, and I had to dig into the X11 configuration to make it work reasonably. I've only had it for 10 months, and I'm already worried that the USB-C plug may be breaking.

Meanwhile, the MBP has sustained 6 years of abuse and still feels solid and works great.

As far as specs go, the Thinkpad is fine, but I'd be sad if I had to buy one with my own money.
"I use replacements for almost all the built-in apps. I use a custom launcher. My editor config Git repo is approaching ten years old, and my shell config Git repo is almost eight. There are standard interfaces to per-application Preferences and keyboard shortcuts. When I sit down to use someone else's Mac, I have no idea how to use it!"

I run an environment, on OSX, similar to this although (I assume) much less ambitious in the customization.

My biggest problem is the lack of focus-follows-mouse. I had this in the snow leopard days with an add-on called "mondomouse" which is abandonware and I attempted to solve it with "dwellclick" but that isn't really designed for what I need and doesn't work.

Now I see that in very, very new versions of OSX there is some buried setting in accessibility that does honest-to-god focus-follows-mouse (as in, raise window as if I clicked it when I hover over) ... can anyone confirm/deny ?
Is it just me, or is it a bit arrogant to assume that because X can do something, why can't Y do it?
i.reddit.com is the only way I browse on mobile.
I've had it, twice. Both times it just disappeared from my body and I ended up unwantedly preggo. I never want to go through abortion again.
It’s more nuanced than that. Most job reqs have “must haves” and “nice to haves”.

My current job had one must have - C#/MVC/Web API and some Javascript experience - their current tech stack. Nice to haves were React, the fiddly bits of AWS, and Python. I was immediately useful because I was strong in the must haves, had a little AWS experience, and knew nothing about Python or React.

I’ve since leveled up on the nice to haves except for React, I refuse to jump on the $cool_kids bandwagon of front end development. Especially seeing that everything else I listed, pays more, and doesn’t change as often.
>A two week study with 130 students and we’re supposed to learn something?

Of course not. Merely a study, done by professionals, and involving 130 students?

As everybody knows the real way to learn something needs a snark layman comment with a facile dismissal!
Came here to post exactly this analysis. The engineers lost control of the company to the bean-counters.

> The key decision was, rather than fix the fundamental aerodynamic control problems caused by the new engine, to bandaid the existing 737 software, while pretending that flying the 737 Max was just like flying old ones. That way, airlines would be able to buy the plane and not have to retrain their pilots, as pilots must be re-certified any changed flight procedures but don’t have to be recertified for new models with unchanged flying qualities. Unfortunately, the aerodynamics of the 737 body didn’t fit with the Max’s bulkier engine, which was obvious during the first wind tunnel tests.
I forget the full list, but these had been standard since I started with OS7.

cmd-s Save

cmd-n New folder

cmd-shift-s Save As

It's possible some have been added back.
Attempting to Use GNU Guix
Apple is not even close to being the only company selling laptops with soldered RAM.

All the popular competitors to the MacBook Pro have soldered RAM including the XPS 13 and ThinkPad X1 Carbon.

Really the truth of the matter is that for 95%+ of people, RAM requirements have completed plateaued in the last 5-8 years or so.
Like everywhere else in the world, once reactionary plutocrats take over the media, the country becomes ungovernable.
I also was confused by the 4 snakes concept. I think perhaps it could have been solved by putting a different color food in front of the snake when the board is initialized. This way the "time to snake change" is reduced drastically.
I've often felt GE and other industrial conglomerates have similar issues as those brought up in the article. Too much focus on quarterly profits and investor payouts, obsession over stock prices and "wall street" metrics. Everyone talks about Japan or China stealing our industrial base but it often feels like we did it ourselves.
Walrus Operator in Python 3.8
Why are politicians in other countries able to accomplish this while those in the US can't? Are American politicians just lower quality than those in other countries? Or is that their constituents are more prone to short-term thinking than their counterparts elsewhere?
Paul Vixie isn't making any sense here either.

If you can't trust your device, you can't trust it without DoH either. As I said upthread, devices don't even need to use DNS. They can open up encrypted C&C channels, using whatever protocol they'd like, tunneled over whatever they'd like. They can bake rendezvous IP addresses in, they can cryptographically verify endpoints to break MITM proxies, they can even sneak data out in ICMP packets. DoH has literally nothing to do with it.

What's insidious about this argument is that it preys on peoples legitimate concerns about uncontrolled devices on their network. We're all concerned about that! But that doesn't mean we should use plaintext DNS, or Paul Vixie's preferred "encrypted DNS with a killswitch for network operators".
Is this a problem unique to the US? Or is it just worse in the US than in Taiwan?
So like BattleBots!
> WSL 2.0...is very fast

Unless you want to interop with the Windows file system[0]

[0]https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4197
Any love for Anonymous Pro?

https://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
The seal hunt is undertaken by the Inuit peoples. Seals are a major source of food and clothing for them. Commercial hunting is banned. Whats so different from it than hunting deer or duck?

On the topic of asbestos, it’s up to those countries to ban it. If Canada stopped exporting it, those countries would just get it from somewhere else.
Well, if you ask why only once, then it's a software failure - a system with a serious amount of control authority can fail catastrophically if just one hardware sensor fails. Safety critical software like this must account for hardware failures. But there are many many more whys you need to ask before you get the full picture.
@sifilpov: Most high-growth startups are like this, and a fair share of "growth companies". Differentiating the two is exactly the difficult part ;).
I wasn't aware of and failed to draw this distinction until I read Quiet Power by Susan Cain. A wonderful book for anyone interested that really helped me understand that introversion is not inherently undesirable, but also how to distinguish shyness to avoid falling into that trap, as this can be undesirable.
If you've been there since the start of the company, I'd consider you a founder. I think the whole 0.1-1% order of magnitude equity is a massively raw deal for first employees. I think we need to stop thinking of founders and more about founding teams.

Out of curiosity, what salary and equity did you have for the first two years?
Get back to me when you can figure out how to upgrade your ram.
They should have written a program to determine the angle of attack without an angle of attack sensor. The fact that they couldn't means that there need to be more team-building exercises, websites blocked by the corporate firewall, and outsourcing!
a few years ago i resisted switching to DDG because google was still noticeably better in many ways in terms of search results; the balance has been shifting significantly since, and i use DDG for over half my searches at this point. the main downsides are less 'magic' when using very vague descriptions as queries, and more spam domains. but the image search is easily much better at this point.
Even though Boeing will be sue to hell, the CEOs will run off with big smiles on their faces and pockets lined in gold. Prison time!
There are dozens of us! I've tried to get comfortable with touchpads, but I always find them frustrating (yes, even MBP touchpads). For instance, selecting text with them is a disaster. Trackpoint or external mouse for me.
That's true in a technical way but it is false in a practical one. An effective attack using compromised FPGAs or toolchains would be super hard to carry out undetected because of the decree of scrutiny the output would receive, besides, the attack itself would have to make substantial assumptions about the way the FPGA would be wired into the resulting circuit. I'm not saying it can't be done but it would extremely hard to carry out and I'm not aware of any such attacks ever being discovered in the wild.

> any peripheral hardware and firmware with priveleged access.

That would be a more feasible vector. But it all still will be much more secure than your average computer with a BMC.
Ok,so the answer is simple but difficult:hope.

I won't tell you what to hope in or how but hope cures depression. And by that I mean psychological depression,as I understand clinical depression has more to do with neurological and biochemical imbalance (for which you should seek out a legitimate psychiatrist).

I was actually thinking of submitting a similar question but about mental health in general(will do that another time).

But yeah,what I've learned is that hope is easy to come by but it carries with it risk where you hope but what you hoped for does not turn out well. If you can accept that risk,it will resolve what most people call depression at it's root where most other medication and therapy address symptoms first and maybe get to the root cause later.

I think educated and technical people are more susceptible to depression because they rationalize and analyze away hope much more readily than less educated people.

Other people mentioned getting enough sleep,excercise,hydration,good diet. And I'd also like to add on that a healthy relationship with your ownself and others. These all help but as someone who has struggled most of my adult life with depression and having desparately tried all these things my opinion is to prioritize hope.

A few years ago I had so much hope and as a result I lost a lot of weight,ate healthy all the time,slept better and relationships with people started to improve. I had a goal,something to look forward to,something I needed to get ready for and improve myself.

It was amazing,I may have had been sad once in a while but the horrible crippling depression went away.

I am not an expert,I just know I spent years isolated,not wanting to clean up after myself or even maintain basic hygeine at some point. It was unreal how this mental issue was causing physical pain and so many other side-effects. And I also saw what helped me,and it turns out actual psychologists also support my hope theory. Even if the hope is irrational ,is rational depression better? Of course everyone has a different story. I hope sharing my experience will help you and do let me know if you have any questions,this sickness stole most of my life,I hope you fight hard so you will never be in my shoes.
I think he's referring to app store recommendations and ms push for edge
> assuming you have a few extra days up your sleeve

Ha! If I had a few extra days up my sleeve, I wouldn't be flying to Australia in the first place!
It's because E(#offers) = #applications * P(initial_contact) * P(successful_interview | initial_contact)

The ~5 companies approach tries to optimize P(ic) and P(si) at the expense of #apps.

The 50 approach optimizes only #apps because it assumes P(ic) is low, and disregards P(si).

Especially P(si) is very important because the interview's purpose is to determine that you're a good match for them. If they're just another company you spammed an application out to, that becomes very obvious.

The ~5 companies approach forces you to have already selected them because you think there's a solid business case for them to hire you. And you can make that case during both your initial contact and the interview, thus maximizing P(ic) and P(si).

> 999 times out of 1000 you don't have a clue to a company's current business needs just by looking at public information

I'd say it's more like 9/10, but that absolutely makes the case for the ~5 company approach. You're filtering out the ones that have a poor recruiting process.

It takes a lot of time to put together a good application and you have to focus on companies that will not only be responsive but follow through all the way to the hiring decision.

So focus on companies that make it clear what they do and what the position entails will tend to maximize P(ic) and P(si).
Reminds me of what a Steve Jobs warned about marketing people taking over and product people being pushed out:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM
Ask HN: Web Development vs. Data Science for a Python Programmer (1 Year)?
I have some front-end web development experience. But I'm not very fond of it. Should I go for Python web development framework like flask or choose data analysis. I do have some interest in machine learning. What would be beneficial for my career in the long run? Thanks.