skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worked for a few years at Shell though and now I'm wary of ever working for a large corporation again

I didn't find them that bad tbh, I think that there's good parts and bad parts in all monsters like Shell - my take was that their size, heritage and criticality to the global economy has resulted in them developing certain bureaucratic traits akin to a governmental civil service, but even with that said they do some amazing stuff (which most civil services cannot get anywhere near) - and I worked with probably the smartest IT pros I've met in my career. They operate a massive global IT infrastructure at scale and they do it pretty well, with some aspects being indisputably world-leading.
For mobile users :

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> Is half of the feedback I'm going to get here complaints that the webpage isn't static enough?

Yes. Static websites work best.
Interesting, that was more the experience I had the first time I tried using Emacs as a vi user. The documentation I could find (limited, this was back in the <gasp> '80s, couldn't google it), said "You are never intended to leave Emacs, you should be able to do everything inside it." I was done with my lunch break and needed to get back to work, so I went to another X window and killed Emacs.
FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes
I don't understand. Their partner is Mullvad. Mullvad has servers across the entire god damn globe. Why is this US-only? Why is it US-only going into early 2020, as in, months to provide service to non-US regions in what's probably going to be a limited roll-out to "select regions"? It's not the 90s anymore. It's time to drop the US-centric crap. They're not a publisher. They're not distributing movies or TV series.
Bytecode + compiler was also how both Flash and Java Applets worked. Have we forgotten how secure those were?
Apps are simply becuase devices force them to appear simple. Screenestate is limited and inputactions are mostly touch&gesture-based. That leaves not much room for complexity. Even the onscreen-keyboard only has chars by default, not modifier for complex shortcuts.
There are groups behind data curation as well, though it is much harder. LibGen sees an addition rate of about 230 GBs per month, while SciMag's is around 1.10 TBs per month. We should expect those numbers to increase in the future. The man-hours required to curate those database may very well cost much more than the storage and bandwidth required to store duplicates and incorrectly tagged files. In any case, as I said, there are people seriously interested in curating the LibGen database, though most efforts I know of are still in the earliest stages.
I like the Against Malaria Foundation (I first found them through GiveWell [0]).

Last week I launched a site to try and raise money for 10,000 nets for AMF [1]!

[0] https://www.givewell.org/

[1] https://giveanet.org/

[2] https://github.com/justicz/giveanet
Procedural World: Space Colonization
Now if they could focus on native video decoding in Linux, something that actually works with Chromium and leads me to believe that Chromium developers are more committed to open source.
New method for measurement of helium pressure based on electrical measurements
I think it is best left unasked.

If you care to know, you can take a day to think about it. If it is not worth you thinking about it, then let it go. But if you care enough - Learn about what they did, scan the source code, look at how the tool is used.

If you come to the conclusion that they made a bad decision - ok - keep that to yourself. If you come to the conclusion that their solution actually is better, mention it to them enthusiastically and build a bit of trust with them by showing that you are willing to think and inspect, not just ask drive-by questions.

If you see someone constantly re-inventing the wheel, then look for an opportunity to discuss solutions before the next project begins. If you are showing up only during presentations, then you are too late to apply your knowledge. If the goal is to improve things and you are knowledgeable and clever, you need to be in the brainstorming business, not the "embarrass this guy during presentation" part.
The thing they don't regulate is vitamins, supplements etc. Interestingly those things can be just as potent as "real drugs", but they aren't regulated simply because the seller opted to not say they are drugs, rather on any theory that they're not actually drugs.
"Anglo Republic" https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/anglo-s-sorry-tale-...
I think it's because Firefox have made their own client and they only want to offer Wireguard connections.

Since Wireguard is still a bit new and buggy, they probably want to make sure it's stable and roll out in stages.
I donate to the local food shelf that serves people in my neighborhood. Donating money to food shelves is about 10x as effective as donating the equivalent amount of goods purchased at retail.
2020/tomorrow. FTFY
As a long-time educator, I would say that this depends very much on the test and most tests do have fatal flaws that they reward rote memorization of facts, formula, or process. (Needless to say, I am also against that kind of tests.) I have looked at some PISA questions and they seem to be well-designed. In addition, some questions require written answers.

Many PISA questions contextualize academic knowledge in real-world scenarios such as questions about purchasing apartment or intravenous drip rate in medical infusions.

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2012-2006-rel-ite...

A question in reading test is about the effect of the word 'free' in making purchasing decisions:

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/aboutpisa/PISA%20for%20Schools%20sa...

A question on bee colony collapse disorder in Science test:

https://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/PISA2015-Released-FT-...

No test can substitute for one-on-one evaluation, but one-on-one evaluation is also subject to (different) biases. As far as standardized tests go, these are pretty good ones.

More importantly, I believe the results would likely correlate relatively well with how well the students apply knowledge in real-world settings.
Amazon lockers aren't even a perfect fix, received an opened and empty package the other day. Stolen by the driver or someone hacked the lockers.
>s that everything they say is a characteristic of groupthink, is also characteristic of achieving consensus of any sort.

ALL of them? How about:

- Outgroup stereotypes?
- Self-appointed mind guards to insulate leadership from challenging ideas?
- Illusion of unanimity?

I don't see how any of those are necessary for consensus. Same for self-censorship really. One can voice disagreement with a course of action and then agree to go down it anyway to be a team player. People do this all the time.
Yes, use it day to day for work chat. It’s nice in my case because by default people expect irc to have no history and no mobile support. This makes for a good balance. When you are at a computer you’re there, and when you are away you are away. Much more like an actual physical space with less of an assumption of “always on” than chat apps with tight mobile integrations (granted you can use irccloud or similar if you want that)
It is somewhat newer than mainstream, does not require to enter "yes I'm sure" when opening the dev console and has actually a beta qualifier as version number. I haven't run into any stability issues though.
My first thought on this was, "our reform efforts haven't worked well in most places they were tried, and you think the problem is we didn't have a centralized enough system?"

Centralization and standardization is generally only useful when you know what needs to be done, it just needs to be done everywhere. There is considerable evidence that we _don't_ know what needs to be done differently, so centralization is the last thing we need.
The website comes up blank when you include | in the link, it should just be https://sensei.com so you should look at updating the router to include a 404 page for bad links.
Where the Elements Came From
Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back
You guys should consider donating to the International Anti-Poaching Foundation[0][1] which fights these poachers. The founder, Damien Mander[2], is an Australian ex spec-ops sniper who is using his military experience to train the park rangers since they, unlike the poachers, tend to be poorly equipped and trained as well as understaffed.

There is also the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust[3][4] which takes care of elephant and rhino orphans (most of them are orphans due to poaching). For $50 a year, you can become a sponsor of a particular animal and they'll send you photos and updates about how your sponsored animal is doing. You can for example sponsor this little fella [5][6].

[0] http://www.iapf.org/en/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Anti-Poaching_Fou....

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Mander

[3] http://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sheldrick_Wildlife_Trust

[5] https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/murit

[6] http://instagram.com/p/sigT3IAUKb
Idea: Extract “static” component subtrees to HTML during build
Here's a generic link that should direct you to the page based on language (rather than the French or en-US one):

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/developer/
I donate to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (Ireland); I was drawn to do it after two rugby players of world renown more or less got away with assaulting a girl.
Commenting on "lumping all drugs together", I believe this is due in large part to ignorance of each drug. You'd have to have personal experiences with them to understand the differences, hence people lump them together because they are labeled as a "drug."
“leave your politics at home” must remain explicitly disjoint from “workers have a right to self organization”.

if it doesn’t, then workers don’t have a right to self organization , and that, uh, doesn’t end well.
As a parent, I find there is a lot of armchair quarterbacking and opinions from people who don't have school age children or have never had children. The obsession over competing with other countries' test scores seems to assume that first, these other countries are reporting test scores accurately and second, these test scores represent an accurate measurement of the quality of education.

I would call into question both assumptions. The USA isn't perfect by any means but we have one of the most transparent bureacracies in the world. You can't say the same for a country like China. You have to wonder if the test scores are accurate and represent a comparable cross section of society.

Also, common core sucks. When my son was in 3rd grade, the teacher and parents felt like the math textbook was terrible. Mainly because it was all word problems. I have a master's degree in engineering and I found some of those word problems to be ambiguous. The result is that if you were struggling with reading in 3rd grade, you were also struggling with math. Because it was common core, it couldn't be changed at the class or school level. Common core's goal seems to be to remove teachers and parents from the equation of how best to educate your child.
My two top ( by dollars and attention ) are:

- Walker School ( walkercares.org ) - special education and behavioral care for children and their families. Why Support? This is a local organization that serves a population of young children that often, but not always, have endured tremendous trauma and/or abuse, and typically have no where else to go. The Walker School helps them recover and rehabilitate and find them a permanent, safe home to re-enter mainstream society and become productive happy kids and eventually adults. A $1 to help get a kid back on track early saves a $100+ supporting someone through adulthood.

- Museum of Science ( mos.org/ ) - if you are ever in Boston, please make a trip halfway across the river and check it out. It is one of the best science/engineering museums in the country. Why Support? Not everyone is going to be a scientist, engineer, mathematician, etc, but the Museum offers vital community outreach to show what these disciplines can offer society. We can't all play for the Patriots/Celtics/Bruins/etc, but a lot of people can enjoy watching them and enthusiastically support them. I see the museum as the "Local Sports Team" for STEM.
I completely agree with you.

That's why publicly saying "you are wrong" is so powerful (and so dangerous). The powerful are not used to be challenged in public. They typically respond by a combination of

- reframing, changing the subject

- attacking, belittling you

You can see this in action in stand-up comedy with hecklers. If you anticipate this reaction, you can turn this around very effectively in a professional context (not in standup-comedy though): "I note you are NOT answering my question, instead ...".

With great power comes great responsibility.
UPS used to do this in the 80s and 90s. At least our driver did.
I'd love to try out this product. So just curious, is this another meta post to drive traffic to the site? Hehe. Congrats on the sale btw! It's not easy pulling the whole thing off.
Saying something like "Why can't you do/use X?" would be simple, direct, and assumes the person thought of it and that there is a reason that they "didn't just...".
Not sure if you were hinting at it already, just in case, you may be interested in the ongoing work with bpfilter [0] which uses ebpf underneath existing xfilter rule interfaces.

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/747551/
Wings3D can be operated in a very vim-like way, more than Blender in my opinion.
+1 for Compassion International. We've been sponsoring children through them for 20 years. We get to know the children personally with cards, letters and Christmas gifts.

We were just contacted by one of our first children from Nigeria. She "aged out" of the program, and we hadn't heard from her in years. She found us on FB (unique last names have an advantage). It's been great catching up with her again. Watching her go from a little girl to a mid-twenties woman has been wonderful.

I can't recommend them enough.
There is a slight difference where it forces decision-making about rounding at every step. Most importantly, it makes errors that print money (or burn money) impossible states. I'm aware of BigRational libraries or more clever currency abstractions, but this is the least magical way of doing it, kind of like representing datetimes as 64-bit UNIX epochs.
From the medium article:

"I needed something that could surface opportunities by automatically monitoring the web for new topics. So that I can then plug them into Google Trends.

Heck, it could even check Google Trends itself so I don’t have to."
As an analytical person I understand the value of maximum economic efficiency and value measured in these terms. On the other hand when it comes to humanitarian concerns, the human element can be somewhat more expensive and less efficient than (for example) airlifted bags of grain, but far more valuable and encouraging to the recipients. Programs like child sponsorship with letter-writing are expensive and not nearly as efficient as straight up meal delivery, but the impact, as evidenced by the children’s handwritten replies, seems to be significant in non tangible ways.
There is also Better String Library, similar self-contained library with C-style string compatibility:

http://bstring.sourceforge.net/
Dealing with Uncertainty
I just quit my job to work on my startup idea. It has been quite a ride already.
I wonder how early startup founders deal with uncertainty. How do you stick to your idea? There are lots of ideas out there. How do you focus on improving just one tiny little detail in this world?

I have been listening a lot to your podcast. Lot's of great advice, thanks!
I disagree with your communication course. In technical discussions, asking "why?" is one of the most important things you can do. You are ignorant. The person you are speaking to is not, and they are teaching you. But in order to teach you, they need to know what you don't know. Asking "why?" tells them what to explain.

I agree with danShumway's take: if I received your question, I would furrow my brow, pause for a moment trying to understand what the real question is, then probably plainly state: "It doesn't. Why are you asking?" Then you would explain that it seems to you like it would solve the problem, and I would explain why it doesn't.
What use case do you envision?
The article never gives any context for the quote in the headline. It doesn’t even quote it again in the body.
Is there a way to just download the whole 32TB to your own machine? I see a ton of mirrors but the content seems to be highly fragmented between them
Maybe they should consider a system where users can suggest tags/metadata or flag erroneous data that can be reviewed and allowed by a select few?
Another NYTimes article on this phenomenon

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/nyregion/nyc-amazon-deliv...
Depends on the housing. When I lived in a condo it was more like you said held in a locked box.

When I lived in a duplex or single family home it’s left at the front door or garage. There’s no way I’d want my neighbor to have my packages. One neighbor is weird and the other opened my wife’s package when she messed up our address right when we moved in.

Condos can present a weird situation for packages delivered by small 3rd parties delivery companies. Amazon delivery services didn’t have the codes to get in like FedEx/UPS/USPS or keys to the lock boxes.

Remember US and Europe have much different living situations, NYC is dense and similar to Europe but the rest of the US is not. People in NYC have more of a not my problem or not dealing with this BS attitude and rightfully so.
Australian Acoustic Observatory: world's first national facility has 400 sensors
Do we have anything rated for a few millennia of interstellar radiation besides etched gold plates?
Google had wiped her personal phone when it suspended her

Everyone take note: BYOD isn’t for your benefit.
-Wikipedia (I use it very often, I also edit it too, which is a time-donation that everyone should do!)

-LLS (Leukemia Lymphoma Society, they have had decent success in supporting some drug candidates, my family member works at LLS so I have some good perspective)

-350.org (climate change is a huge threat, 350 is one of a few that is fighting against it)

-Sam Harris's podcast (not really a charity but ...AI safety, meditation, rationality, identity politics, religion in society, he covers a lot of interesting topics).
"leave your politics at home" while working for a company that is shaping tomorrow's society. that is to say, adopt the politics of your boss at work.

i don't like that.
The Firefox cult is out to downvote anyone who doesn't worship their browser unconditionally.
Regularly, I donate to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home in London. Animals, I feel, are thrust into a poor situation and have less means to help themselves (not at all implying some people aren't also in this situation).
I think these things are distinct. You can advocate for unionization without being political.

For example you can advocate for unions but you don’t have to conflate that with your personal politics.
It seems to be focused now on tech topics - is this going to remain the case?
Unmentioned is the remarkable tendency of defeated but not wounded soldiers, for example after Waterloo, to group into large tight mounds when flight isn't easy. I would guess this would be less likely pregunpowder. There's at least one good book only about what the aftermath of Waterloo was like.
Well don't leave us hanging-- what's the secret sauce? ;-)
Google workers will file federal complaint alleging they were wrongfully fired
https://www.kiva.org/

They help people without access to traditional loans fund businesses, farms, etc. Whatever is paid back is easy to put right back into another loan.

I also plan on donating to the local LGBTQIA+ organization this year on behalf of a friend who requested it for her birthday.
I should clarify - legal status in the US is tied to your employment status, not necessarily to a particular employer. If they lose their job, they have 60 days to get an H1B with another employer before they start accruing illegal presence.

Also, there isn't really something called an H1B transfer. its a new H1B application every time you change your job, just that you dont go through the annual lottery if you already went through it once or have an I-140 approved.
Honestly, I also found Chrome's shrinking tab behavior infuriating. All things considered, I like Firefox's sliding behavior more.
Where else can they sort them?
Another example is a sandboxing file system https://lwn.net/Articles/803890/
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds
Wireguard isn't US-only in any way. Like, I literally do not understand at all. I can download a working, functional, largely stable Wireguard client on my phone or configure it on my Linux desktop without issue from outside the US. Like, US-based has no bearing on any of this. At all.
> And incurring the cost of needing space at home to work

It depends. As a software engineer, all I need is my kitchen table, or the couch, or the cafe down the street.

> more utility usage (internet, electricity, heating)

Totally worth it for thermostat control and to not freeze my ass off in November.

> reduced potential for socializing

If you're dependent on work for socializing, well, that's rather sad. I get that because I used to be that way until I realized that 99% of coworkers go along to get along and aren't good friends. They're out of your life as soon as they change jobs. But with extra time from not commuting, it becomes easier to find real friends IRL outside of work.

> and exercising

Uh, did you mean to type that? Because there can only be more time and opportunities to exercise when working remote.
"- Self-appointed mind guards to insulate leadership from challenging ideas?"

this one I can see in a consensus environment. At some point it's not useful when people keep questioning the decided upon course of action and it may be necessary to stop listening to them.
> The NSA, Israeli Intelligence, BKA, FSB, etc are all not much better than the StaSi

I guess it depends on your definition of "much better", but for roughly the same definition you'd need to use to make that statement, you could also make it about Google and Facebook. And note that we're not talking about Israeli intelligence; we're talking about people who, when they were in their late teens and early twenties served, like a big portion of tech workers in Israel, did their mandatory service in a military intelligence unit. I know it's hard for people not familiar with it to understand, but most of these people don't have contacts in intelligence, as the personnel circulation in those units is very high -- almost everyone is just serving a few years for their mandatory service.
Fair enough. I'm glad more states are following suit.
Both of us appear to understand the differences between the systems and so I don't think we should be bogged down with semantics. Israel has a single-payer public healthcare system, almost entirely paid for by taxes, which is utilized by a large majority of the population.
“inaction is implicit support of the status quo” is, unfortunately, true.
Mozilla are working on a "Wayland DMABuf" feature which will allow for separate processes to share GPU buffers on Linux[1]. For a long time that has been a blocker for hardware-accelerated video decoding as otherwise the data would need to be copied GPU->CPU->GPU which would negate a large portion of the gains. In the short term the work will only apply to WebGL rendering but it should open the door to hardware-accelerated video decoding in the near future.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572697
I don't know of any good summaries offhand, but you can probably find something good if you google "comprehensible input".
It's also how wasm works, and in some sense -- JavaScript. Somehow, these introduce much less security problems.