skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine from High School who has totally devoted her life to bottom-up organizing for social change made a FB post of these organizations which she recommends because she says that's where your money goes the furthest.

--- Lawyers for Good Government[0], which sends human rights lawyers to the parts of mexico where migrants are stuck because of this whole Fortress America thing Trump's doing

--all the groups in the community justice exchange[1], which pay people's bonds/bail to get them out of prison/detention, for example Chicago Community Bond Fund.

---Upavim Community DVLPT Foundation[2] (indigenous Guatemalan community organizing and Mayan language interpretation)

---No More Deaths/No Más Muertes[3] (every dollar = a gallon of water in the desert where migrants die of thirst, plus abuse documentation and help finding missing people)

---Uprooted & Rising[4] -organizing to change food systems for the better

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

[1] https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directory

[2] https://www.facebook.com/pages/Upavim-Community-DVLPT-Founda...

[3] https://nomoredeaths.org/

[4] http://uprootedandrising.org/
Prostate cancer treatment with noninvasive MRI-guided ultrasound
Camille Fournier on finding your balance [audio]
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. I've been reading 1 meditation per day so I'm not done yet but I would say out of every 5 I read I find at least one really valuable lesson that makes me rethink a lot.
Sure, the problem is that this company's money can influence what shows up on the ballot.
The only way that's possible is if the employee agreed to it.
We can optimize that, just put a function pointer in the beginning that's called every time to validate the string... /s
Definitely untrue.
> Would have been nice to have an executive summary

That's Indexing and Abstracting, not Cataloging, a different area of librarianship/information science. Sorry.

More seriously: The poster must have had some context in mind when they posted this to HN and it would be interesting to learn what that was; even if it was just "TIL libraries don't keep books forever."
Ask HN: What was the procedure to shutdown the internet in Iran?
Agreed, icons is the way to go here for meeting note-taking. I use a box for things I want to make sure get covered during the meeting, and I check it off after I bring it up or someone else does. And I use a triangle next to a box for things I want to follow up with someone privately or ask about off line after the meeting.

And the very important star for things I don’t want to forget or that are important.

Most people just interrupt because they are afraid they’ll forget and must bring up their very important point right now.

I also sometimes make a diagram showing the seating arrangement of everyone in the meeting so I can know who was present and refer to them by name if I’m unfamiliar with them.

Another note taking trick I use is to use circled numbers to refer to things elsewhere on this page or other pages.

Most important of all is that I never use a notebook with rippable paper; these notebooks are important documents I keep with me forever. Every page gets a page number and the date at the top. I reserve the first page of each notebook for a table of contents. Whenever something happens that I might need to refer to later I put it and its page number in the table of contents. Many table of contents entries end up with many page numbers after them, such as pages with T-shirt ideas, game ideas, and haikus. Because of this system I can say “see #3 on 2016-05-24” and go right to something I noted years ago. I go through about one notebook per year and have them going back a long time.
If you can't be bothered to at least shop in your neighborhood stores, could you at least be bothered to sign for your packages at the post? It's just the cost of living in civilised society: either you interact with the store clerk or the postman. Choose.
I do many.
Sometimes I am on a call and someone mentions numbers I have to track.
Sometimes I have to do a series of discount rates over time.
I look at a lot of ratios.
Even when I do complicated calculations, I like to look at the intermediate steps over time.
According to your own source that rapid increase in borrowing cost happened in a very short amount of time coinciding with the period things began to go to shit. Prior to that, when most of the bad stuff leading up the crisis was happening, it retained a fairly normal level.

Relatively "normal" cost of borrowing is one thing, but over-leveraging is another. Especially when there isn't a whole lot of room for the cost of borrowing to go down. Feds move to make.
I personally use freenode all the time. That's where I get the best advice and great tech support from many open source projects. In fact, when selecting an open source project, I consider it a serious knock against it if it doesn't have a freenode channel. I personally can't stand using Slack and am always disappointed when a project requires me to do so...
only to download movies with XDCC :-)
Not speaking negatively of Trennd or Josh - this illustrates the point that marketing skills are critical to success in these kinds of ventures, much moreso than development skills.

Tenacity and willingness to expose oneself (at obvious risk of being told negative things) is requisite to achieving success like this so quickly (and probably also when done slowly).
Block Diagrams in Notebooks Using Blockdiag
Outside of a Dog: Rebuilding the NPR Book Concierge
React View, an Interactive Playground for Your Components
Not charities but recurring donations to non-profit organizations:
The OpenBSD Foundation &
Erlang Ecosystem Foundation.

I also made a one-time donation to the Live Like Roo foundation this year as a birthday present to a friend.

Every few years I'll donate to a GDQ when they're working with Medecins Sans Frontieres.

I used to donate to the EFF, but no longer.
> firewalls with rule engines implemented in eBPF in the coming future

Wasn't this the original purpose of BPF?
What do you currently do for quick calculations?

I uploaded a copy to my s3 bucket: https://www.mindlessflash.com/FormulaCalc.wdgt.zip
remove the .zip extension before opening on it.
Inject Secrets Kubernetes from 1password, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.
Nature: I like spending time in nature:

massachusetts audubon: https://www.massaudubon.org/

cornel lab or ornithology: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/

PEOPLE: Sometimes people need a little help.

Food For free:https://foodforfree.org/

walk for hunger (My neighbor walks yearly)

kiva.org
(micro loans. I found 50$ on the street and made a donation years ago. They keep paying the loans back so I've kept adding to the loans.)

TECH: Stuff I use that I want to support so it keeps up.

Libre Office,
aquamemacs,
sequel pro,
wikimedia foundation,
archive.org

MEDIA:
Public radio (WGBH/ WMBR)

DON't GIVE LIST:

Groups that send me excessive mailings: and actually stuff in the mail I didn't ask for.
I used to give to the NRDC, but they keep sending me so much junk mail. I got gloves in the mail from the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to animals (I have no relationship with them). World Wildlife Foundation sends me a ton of stuff too (sticker and cards), so they're off my list.
Java implemented the sandbox as java code in the same VM as what it was sandboxing, then later attached reflection so you had a billion different ways to get references to those classes blocking your access and do brain surgery on them. Oof.

Flash was a lovecraftian horror novel of a code base that even Adobe didn't feel totally comfortable making changes in.
I've always looked at the line as a connection and the open circle as no connection. It's just what I came up with when I was young as a way to make sense of the markings.
I'm active in development related channels on freenode (e.g. #python, #aws, #docker, etc). As a contractor who codes alone most of the time, it's a great source of help if I can't solve something, or to hear opinion of others about something.
Lived near Yale for a little while. It is difficult to believe the theft rate in my area was <80%. We firmly gave up on deliveries to the home, and had to warn friends and relatives not to send us anything. Nearly everything got grabbed. It was beyond ridiculous.

I hear that area has improved now, but certainly back then...
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) – Better Explained
It is not what you say but how you say it. People are emotional and tend to remember based on how something make them feel, not the phrasing of the conversation.

You could hypothesize a scenario where the poorest and even offending wording is used and as long as the person talking shows empathy, mimics and finds common ground through it's body language and most importantly, regulates its tone to avoid sounding judgmental. The receiver will find it easier to digest and accept the message in contrast to hearing the perfect phrased message.
Yes, Google should require personal and work phones to be separate. But in practice they encourage them to be the same device.
"Maybe they’re both guilty of wrongdoing."

If she had personal photos on the phone, she had copyright on those and Google flat-out violated that specific right by denying her access to her works.

Remember, what's written in a contract cannot go against the law. Copyright is very firmly enshrined in our legal system.
Antipattern criticism seems more as a warning to others who aren't invested in failure as often the practitioners are too far gone in preserving their own egos over changing their course.

The "self-sustance" of the system is insanity akin to chopping down walls for firewood, never building new ones (while inefficient that would at least be a way of wear cycling) and then once they are left on a dirt lot bemoaning it was unforeseeable yet inevitable.
Cracking Medium’s Content Writing Code
It sounds your device isn’t managed by an MDM. Did you accept a new cert from work and a bunch of scary messages when adding the account?

If you accept the MDM you will give root accesses to your company’s MDM system. Basically giving them as much access as Find My iPhone or whatever the android equivalent. Location tracking, remote wiping the phone, access to texts and calls...everything.

Yes they could access your texts/calls/emails everything.
I should say the version I linked to, I hacked a bit to make the text fields wider to fit more text in them
What risks 'had to' be taken in this context?
Doesn't constantly changing the tab size violate Fitts's Law? I'm sure Google did some sort of study on this, but it seems to me that Chrome's shrinking tabs break a fundamental model of usability. I personally find this problematic not only because the target area shrinks, but also because I can no longer read anything on the tab, so I'm forced to hover over them.

I'd love to read any study on the usability of the Chrome approach if anyone happens to know of one. Maybe something on SIGCHI?
Currently (at least for the-eye) it's about IPFS's barrier of entry. I expect LibGen's case to be similar. Most people don't know about it, and if even those that knew about it had to learn how IPFS works etc, they would probably just try to find the book they're looking for elsewhere.
The rise and fall of the PlayStation supercomputers
nah on reddit, there is active moderation and users self regulate and you don't see real scum and villainy unless you sort by controversial(or seek out a subreddit that sucks)

in any irc it's constant and due to the inertia of users, even if you come back a month later the same user will probably come back and say the same dumb stuff to you instead of you finding someone new to talk to
Big fan of MSF too. Because I'm not a utilitarian I'm ok with Givewell's downsides.
US fund manager keeps plowing money into China
Ten feet away, inside the apartment building?
The US occupies the large gap between "wholly run publicly" and "the whole thing is private". Besides public-payer insurance, there are government hospitals in the US too.

21% of US hospitals are government owned.
>Since I can't make extended family members use something else, it's a source for family news.

How did your family accomplish this 10 years ago? How valuable is the family news if you need it curated?
Maybe I'm just internally resistant to appearing weak in interactions. I find that this never works for me. I always come off as patronizing and condescending, even when that is not my intention in any way. For me, at least, just being somewhat minimally competent and trying to self-service, then making that competence known and clear at the first contact seems to have the highest success rate.

I think what method works best really depends on your personality type. I agree that the goal is to ensure that you are making the interaction smooth by get the person you're asking for help what they need. But I also see asking for help as two different modes.

1. I'm asking for help because I am not empowered (access controls, specialty tools) to fix my own issue, but if I had been so empowered I could have resolved it on my own easily.

2. I'm asking for help because I don't know the solution, but I'm competent enough to narrow it to a particular trouble area.

In #2, I acknowledge outright, internally and externally, that because I am asking for help I have reached the limit of my competence. My request is inherently respectful, because I'm acknowledging the superior competence of the person(s) I'm asking for help from, but out of respect for their time I do my best to ask a good question and provide all the necessary details to make helping me a low friction event.

In the case of #1... often it's better to aggressively establish your own competence to get them to just do what you need done. Unfortunately in the world of large organizations and bureaucracy you will deal with a lot of incompetent people who are put in a position of some tiny fraction of power over you. You need to get them to exercise that power to your benefit, but you also need to not alienate them so they withhold it. People with only a small amount of power can be extraordinarily vindictive, so it's best to approach them with a measure of respect, but also clearly establish the boundaries of the interaction so you can proceed as quickly as possible and be on with your life.

I've worked roles in which I was in both situations on the other side of the table, but I had enough self-awareness to realize when I was the monkey in #1 and I did my best to be as efficient as possible and let people get on with it. In situation #2, I understand very deeply the frustration of having someone essentially toss something over the wall and in so doing show their disrespect for your competence and the value of your time. As always, you want to go through life without making other people feel badly, but taking a submissive pathway will not always work for you, especially if that is not in your nature.
Can you say when it is most pretty?
If your employer wants, they can predicate the use of a work profile and your corporate assets on the installation of a device policy. This policy can give them extensive capabilities on your device, including wiping the device. If you installed a device policy, you may be underestimating your employer's capabilities. Otherwise, you're fine.
Renaissance Technologies Solved the Market: Part 3 – Incentives
Employees are pressured to agree to many things by their employers.
I hang out on a bunch of private servers. And I built my own IRC client software.
The ZedRipper – a 16-core, 83 MHz Z80 powerhouse
Ok honest question fellow comment reader - what are you going to do about it? This is the 5th or 6th article I’ve seen on this transaction, with hundreds of comments each.

Ethos Capital does not give 2 shits about your comments here.

Are you writing to the DA like this article suggested? What else can you do?

Myself, I don’t personally care that much. But I see a lot of people here obviously do, and I don’t really see that energy translating into action. I would like to see it move forward in a positive direction, so I’m asking the question of you - you don’t like it, what are you going to do about it besides complain here?
Money Rain
Wouldn't erasing her personal phone be a felony?
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You're right there is.

I can see how I missed it, they made a clickable link/button the same color and style as the other non-clickable text: https://i.imgur.com/gqlCVRo.png
Rotvpn – Run a personal VPN in the cloud. And rotate it regularly
Life is political. "Leave your politics at home" has been a driver of injustice and war crimes for ages. "I don't think we should murder Jews" was political speech and verboden in the Reich.

Work is the most significant part of our lives in terms of how much time it requires. It's a give and take - you can ask for concessions from your employer just as they can ask for concessions from you. It's not just "accept everyone and everything exactly as it was before", that's ludicrous.

And unionizing has been made political by corporations - it's simply a smart and legally protected right to improve workers' negotiation power in the face of huge corporations.

Hiring women and racial minorities at all, and then to particular positions, was a political issue for a long time. It still is, in many places and companies in the world (hiring a woman or minority to positions could get you killed). The idea that politics and people and corporations are not intimately intertwined is a reflection of privilege.
>* most modern operating systems have hopefully sorted out their issues a long time ago.

Except Android where the system fonts have to be updated by the manufacturer. What a fucking mess.
Apple Releases List of Most Popular iPhone Apps of 2019
To get the realtime benefits I'd have to run everything that requires realtime scheduling as an eBPF program, right?

I mean, suppose I want to make an eBPF program to pipe audio input into my very fancy DSP algo. Awesome. But now I've limited the remainder of my signal chain to remain in eBPF land, haven't I? The moment I throw the signal to Supercollider, Pd, some Jack client, etc., I'm back to being a mere userland mortal and taking the performance hit that entails. (Unless I sample that data coming into userland at a lower rate, but that severely limits the use cases for such a design.)

Judging by some of the screenshots I've seen Linux audio users seem to want to mix their samples through every single audio program they can get their hands on. So at least in this domain I have a hard time seeing how eBPF could practically help realtime scheduling.

Edit: clarification
It costs about $2500 to save a life by donating to GiveWell's top charities.

And yes, they publish an absurd amount of data to back this claim up, including a carefully-annotated spreadsheet which you can plug your own assumptions into.

https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effec...

It's really hard for me to argue that there's a better way to spend your money.
I just give to GiveWell and let them distribute the money. I believe in their research and their approach, and I trust them to allocate donations efficiently.
> The process of writing it down, and the other steps described are all about cajoling the brain to learn new material quickly.

In my experience we often missed things, because there was too much info, so it was very hard to copy the info and pay attention at the same time.

It would have been much better to get a copy of the notes beforehand and add only my observations, making it personal.
>It's not that the text isn't there, it's just that it's put there in a way that is nearly impossible to target with CSS-based ad blocking.

I'm confused too, then.

If the screen-reader can see the word "sponsored" easily, why can't any other code? What is the difference between how a screen reader finds "sponsored" vs an ad-blocker?
Maybe they changed the default? I turned it off long ago: https://www.addictivetips.com/web/disable-swipe-to-go-back-i...
I figure others would be curious about Google's side of it. Who is right or wrong doesn't seem obvious to me. Apparently this is a memo about why these workers were fired[0]:

> We’ve seen a recent increase in information being shared outside the company, including the names and details of our employees. Our teams are committed to investigating these issues, and today we’ve dismissed four employees for clear and repeated violations of our data security policies.

> There’s been some misinformation circulating about this investigation, both internally and externally. We want to be clear that none of these individuals were fired for simply looking at documents or calendars during the ordinary course of their work.

> To the contrary, our thorough investigation found the individuals were involved in systematic searches for other employees’ materials and work. This includes searching for, accessing, and distributing business information outside the scope of their jobs — repeating this conduct even after they were met with and reminded about our data security policies. This information, along with details of internal emails and inaccurate descriptions about Googlers’ work, was subsequently shared externally.

> In one case, among other information they accessed and copied, an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group. The individual set up notifications so that they received emails detailing the work and whereabouts of those employees, including personal matters such as 1:1s, medical appointments and family activities — all without those employees’ knowledge or consent. When the affected Googlers discovered this, many reported that they felt scared or unsafe, and requested to work from another location. Screenshots of some of their calendars, including their names and details, subsequently made their way outside the company.

> We have always taken information security very seriously, and will not tolerate efforts to intimidate Googlers or undermine their work, nor actions that lead to the leak of sensitive business or customer information. This is not how Google’s open culture works or was ever intended to work. We expect every member of our community to abide by our data security policies.

> Fortunately, these types of activities are rare. Thank you to everyone who does the right thing every day — doing amazing work, while inspiring and maintaining the trust of our users, partners, and each other.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-25/google-fi...
Yes - anytime I need to talk to the amazing stripe support crew! :)
Huge fan of my local (Syracuse) Rescue Mission. I can't speak for the other branches, but this one does amazingly good work addressing homelessness in Syracuse. They receive about 33% of my monthly giving.

We also give to MSF (Doctor's without Borders) (another 33% of my monthly giving), and our church (the rest).
Evil mode in emacs is pretty damned close. Biggest painful diff is that emacs regex isn’t as powerful as vim.