skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a really, really good practice, whether or not one's firm mandates it. An employer has every right — moral everywhere, legal many places — to monitor your usage of its hardware, software and networks, which implies that if you are doing personal things (say, your finances, or even social networking) that it would be exposed to your passwords and activity.

Meanwhile, you have a duty to be responsible with your employer's data. Your employer can secure its own hardware, but it cannot secure resources you own — which means that if you use your own hardware & software to work with your employer's data that any breach is your fault.

Given those realities, I prefer to use my employer-issued hardware, software & network for my employer's work, and my hardware, software & network for my own purposes. That way my employer is secured from my mistakes, and I am secured from my employer's mistakes (or nefariousness).
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> You can define the charger to include the cable, and I can define the phone to include the cable.

Yeah but nobody would take you seriously. Read it again with the idea in mind that somehow the cable is "part of the phone": https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2020-0070...

Does the phone work without the cable? YES!

Does the charger work without the cable? NO!

Exceept ... in the case of wireless charging, yup. Which they explicitly mention. Would that mean that ... maybe ... the other kind of charging, involves cables?

Finally they state that one of the goals is reduction in the volume of cables collected and recycled.
That's... entirely not what my point was. Hence why I wrote:

> None of that is by any means an excuse to sit back and just take the ride.

At this point, there's inaction exactly because we don't want to acknowledge our own impermanence. The phrase "living like there's no tomorrow" means exactly that: denial.

Why do we hug fossil fuels so tight? We can't we imagine anything else but growth and consumerism? Why the "Do we have to go back to living in caves?" argument?

Where does that come from? It's because of the sheer terror of our own very individual impermanence, our own destruction into nothingness at the end of life.

That same drive for survival regardless of the costs, which has spawned us and our unique sense of awareness, is now turning against us. It causes us to seize up and cling onto ideas and behaviors that do us more harm then good.

Only when we're willing to accept that we're all just temporary travelers on that great current of Time, we'll be able to punch through deep rooted beliefs and tropes that are holding us back.

Is that deep thought? Sure it is. Everything else, such as debating the accuracy of predictive climate models, is more or less the minutiae.

At the end of the day, science only carries meaning to humans. Those Western Monarch Butterflies won't care about the statistics anyhow. They just live and die. Unaware whether it was a asteroid or fossil fuel use that carried them to their end. End of story.
It's standard accredited investor stuff. You can't invest unless you have sufficient wealth/income to be an accredited investor.
I've recently moved back to PHP; stuck on a php 5 version, but I was surprised at how fast I was back into it.

It has a heap of problems due to mistakes made in the past and - perhaps more worrying - a LOT of misinformation posted on the internet. Then there's the trope of PHP developers always building their own frameworks and CMSes and the like.

And I'm dealing with a big legacy codebase where the original author did not understand separation of concerns (or sql injection for that matter), with constructs like a switch returning a different SQL query depending on a string value, globals to store the result in (which is concatenated XML transformed to JSON at the bottom of the 5000 line file, which in turn includes thousands of lines of additional code). And the project was started in 2012, when modern PHP and frameworks were already a thing.

I'm doing new work in more neatly organized classes at least.
You use "array of const" to write the equivalent of a regular C variadic function in modern Pascal implementations such as Delphi and Free Pascal:

https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/refsu69.html

That said, as far as at least Free Pascal goes, there isn't actually even a specific function called `writeln` with a real body that you can go and look at somewhere.

It's a magic language-level intrinsic that gets broken down into calls to various other intrinsics by the compiler based on what's passed to it.
That sounds like it takes a lot more time and mental energy than if the API were consistent.
Some packaging now comes with a magnetic clasp to hold the lid of the box shut. I've seen it on several electronic product boxes.
If you look kart the packaging, there may be a small metal strip embedded under a strip of paper that the magnet would have been in line with.
I read the headline quickly and thought this was building a Linux Desktop on the Cloud and thought it would discuss hosting a performant desktop dev environment on AWS/DO/Azure. Anyone have great success with that?
Yeah sorry I got it, just forgot to edit the comment.
However...man this program is using 3! folders on windows. Is this really necessary?
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Ask HN: As a senior engineer, how has your learning initiatives changed?
Are you as eager to learn as you were as an entry or mid-level engineer?

How has the rate at which you seek out new items to learn changed?

How do you feel your career growth has effected your ability to learn from your colleagues?

As someone responsible for leading an engineering team, how do you keep your axe sharp if you're one of the more senior individuals in your company?
That's hundreds of millions of years into the future. It's further away from us than the dinosaurs. Even if we never went to Mars (which we absolutely should), it would have been a major achievement had we survived for so long.
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That's why I hate doing interviews and always procrastinating when I need to find a new job. Once I talk to an engineer I know if the job is a good fit for me or not, till then I fell HR/recruiters just wasting my time.
Obviously Kickstarter doesn’t give backers an ROI, but beside that, what’s wrong with using Kickstarter as the Kickstarter for video games?
I'd rather have overloaded function signatures, to be honest.

function add(string $a, string$b){}
function add(int $a, int $b){}
I had never even heard of a “James Lovelock” before now, and after skimming the comments here, my desire to know about him went from zero to negative.

On the subject of Mars etc., how are billionaires, especially the older ones, not already bored with all that Earth has to offer? Surely they must have experienced everything, natural and manmade, and crave for something more than the accumulation of wealth by now.
That's almost diametrically opposed to "politicians should just ignore the protests", though.
I'm fully aware of China's awful human rights history, the awful things they have done to their people. I've seen the videos. It was in fact a minor obsession of mine for a time. And yet the very video you post supports my point: The people questions about Tianmen Square don't react in horror or fear, they react in ignorance. Because the propaganda works".

And so what I'm saying is that you fail to understand that it's people do not, as a majority, have that view of their government. You are applying an outsider's horror of their actions in your thinking and assuming it's people are 1) fully aware of it and 2) would look on it poorly when in fact they tend to view such things as the government's protection of them from harmful influences. They have a fundamentally different view of free speech, they do not view it as a an unqualified right, they view it through a lens of "speech that harms social harmony is wrong."

You simply do not understand the extent to which China's propaganda to it's people actually works. As a result the people are not afraid. They feel protects. Because it works, there's also a high degree of self censorship. Not because they fear the consequences, but because they actually believe they are acting in their society's best interests. I have actually had someone say to me, "Even if I thought the government did something wrong, I would not talk too much about it because it would be harmful to social harmony."

China gave them the blue pill, and they took it, often not knowing the red one exists. There is no need to live in fear when you have been convinced the awful things your government does are in your best interest.

I am not just guessing on this matter. I have, first hand, had conversations on the topic with Chinese nationals. And it's infuriating, because it's much like the conversation you and I are having now: It seems obvious to us that they should be afraid, that they should look on their government with skepticism, cynicism, and fear. But they do not.* The propaganda works. The dissidents are an extremely, vanishingly small group and yes, I'm sure they live in fear. But you cannot extrapolate from that to the billion+ people who have little direct knowledge of such things, for whom such things are vague abstractions, and wouldn't care much if they knew a bit more because the propaganda works. They see someone jailed, and they think "He/she must have done something wrong." *The propaganda works."
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You mean pop-up windows. Actually ad-blocking came a bit later.
What exactly is wrong here? Many cancers are now treatable - no longer a death sentence. Cancer treatment improvements have snowballed.
The linked article teases the claim[0] that 100 million people perished due to the Plague of Justinian, while Wikipedia[1] places the highest estimate[2] at 50 million.

[0] "Estimates believe 100 million people died during this time which was half the world population."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian

[2] "Some historians believe the plague of Justinian was one of the deadliest pandemics in history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 25–50 million people during two centuries of recurrence, a death toll equivalent to 13–26% of the world's population at the time of the first outbreak."
One word: Neonicotinoids
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I honestly can't tell if you're being facetious; comparing Workplace to e-mail seems disingenuous, but I'll bite. E-mail, being a decentralized protocol, gives me – the consumer – control of how I shape the incoming feed of data. I can, and do, ignore any e-mails not directly addressed to me, either via the To: or Cc: headers. Anything else goes into a different folder, which sometimes I check for relevant details. Sometimes I'll notice what is essentially corporate spam, and so I make a rule to just delete those messages. I have a very clean inbox, and I've never missed an important piece of communication using these simple rules. Ultimately the only algorithm that controls my feed, is the one I design.

By contrast, the feed on Workplace has never been useful to me, since it's just noise. The only way for me to have it not be noisy, seems to be constantly tweaking subscriptions, or just ignore it entirely – the latter option has proven the most effective. Maybe it works for some people, but it doesn't work for me, nor my immediate colleagues who also gave up on using it for anything of consequence.
Also watch out for throttling of GET requests/get-parameters API calls. I've found Parameter Store with SecureString sufficient enough but the throttling can kill the Lambda if it gets invoked frequently.
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Nobody has EVER suggested we should colonize Mars to save ourselves from global warming expect people against colonizing Mars.

We can survive global warming for sure. If we can build habitats on Mars we can do it on Earth. However there are many conditions far worse than global warming which we cannot protect ourselves from: All out nuclear war. Asteroid hitting earth etc.

It is stupid to put all eggs in one basket. Colonizing other planets in the solar system safeguards our future.

You got to start early because it is a very time consuming effort. You cannot suddenly begin colonizing Mars once you discover an asteroid on collision course. It will be too late.

It is an effort that will likely take far more than 100 years to complete.

Humanity also risk regression. Global warming while not killing us could cause such regression in our technological ability and science that we simply loose the ability to send things into space. We have been in dark ages many times before in history. It can happen again.
One thing I won't be able to provide to my kids easily is the huge community of +-same age kids nearby them. I grew up in one of those communism-planned tall concrete buildings, and within our building (I think 4 different entrances) there was maybe 50 kids of my age, +-2 years. There were another 20 buildings like that within 1km. Due to time of raising the building, most families had 1-3 kids of same age.

Many went to same school as me (200m far, walked there alone from 2nd day) so we kind of knew everybody. All the crazy games, adventures... my parents just sent me out, I came back in 3-5 hours, and they had no idea or control over what I did. I went to distant forests, metal scrapyards, climbed on roofs of buildings that had ladders (including our school), played tons of made up games. I considered this a normal childhood, nothing special.

Now I don't think it would be possible anymore, too much changed. In system, people, mindset.
Fig has a CIK number, seems they're filing form Ds with the SEC.
https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&C...
Wireless charging is covered under point 6 of the resolution.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/RC-9-2020-0070...
I just spent two nights in NYC (first time there; though I do live in a rural area, I'm not new to cities in general).

But man, there was a honk every two seconds down on the street outside my room, only slowing down for an hour or two around 3-4AM. I was floored.
And it is better that way!
In a college class we tried using rockets for transmitting.

Like, the middle-school "rocket club" style rockets, a simple kit with a control board, and another that just had a very large spool of wire a la guided anti-tank missiles. They both sorta worked. Had to get clearance from the local airport about it, actually.
This is not a bug though. End to end encryption does mean the endpoints have access. So your own iPhone (obviously) has access to the videos you can see in the app.
i had the same problem which was fixed by having more free space on my local drive.

I need + 15 gb free for TM swap stuff.

Apple is notorious for not giving ANY feedback so i only found out after sesrching for a long time on google.

Apple please stop silently failing without messages.
I think you meant Helium-3 instead of H₃ (an ion mostly found in gas clouds in space) or Hydrogen-3 (an isotope with a half life of a decade or so).
Consumer boycotts didn't stop PCBs, or DDT.

If they stopped single-use plastics, that would be a world first. Microbeads were recently banned; this is obviously orders of magnitude more effective than boycotting microbead-containing hygiene products would ever have been.

By all means, reduce your personal consumption of harmful products. Don't fool yourself into thinking it's a substitute for activism and political action.
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Or we could stop turning farms into sprawling housing developments.
> raising UBI would be such an easy way to buy votes.

No easier than general tax cuts—or implementing a UBI—are now.
Perhaps it might have been possible in some long distant past to underestimate Elon Musk and write him off as a crazy person. That time is gone. If Musk appears to be doing something crazy you've not understood it.

> It’s crazy, completely crazy. Elon Musk has read too much science fiction. He got carried away with it. If I were in his position, I would not waste my fortune on colonizing Mars. And all they would learn is how awful it is up there: You can't breathe the air, the pressure of the atmosphere is a tiny fraction of what we have on Mount Everest.

Instead of straw manning Musk and implying he doesn't know about the composition of Mar's atmosphere, try steel manning him and trying to figure out what he's doing.

Musk has captured the imagination of financiers, engineers and the public and gotten them all pulling in the same direction - into space. Musk is marketing, that's his core skill. Mars is the sales pitch that drives SpaceX.
> but you could sync up to your filesystem via a FUSE wrapper. ... follow or fork ... accept the equivalent of PRs on your Word docs

> It was so awesome that we couldn't find anyone to pay for it, sadly. Armchair quarterbacks would fairly accuse us of failing to do proper customer development.

I get the impression that it was extremely complicated and didn't fit into anyone's workflow. IE, if you approached someone using Dropbox, they'd have to change far too many habits just to switch to you.
Oh I don't know. I think it's refreshing to hear someone call global warming a serious threat while at the same time dismissing activists as noisy children participating in a fad.
I agree with Git being a (too) complex tool. However, I do not agree with the conclusion.

> I just push/pull/merge. I've never had any issues

If you're working alone or in a very small team, this may be true. But personally I am constantly (like monthly) helping my team mates fixing their Git issues. Last week our build job went rougue and created 400 commits with 60MB of data. We could have ignored it and lived with it for the rest of the repository's life - instead we just did a reset and rebased open pull requests. As if nothing ever happened.

And it's not only about issues. Knowing more then push/pull/merge makes the work more efficient. Example: not knowing how to amend changes (or not knowing that something like this even exists) will lead to useless commits ("Fix typo", "Add missed file"). In a git log, I don't really care. When doing a git blame (at least weekly), I would have to go through those useless commits to get to the commit I am looking for. Sure, it does take only a few minutes, but on the other hand amend is no Git internal black magic either.

I also remember a lot of situations where people "lost" (or maybe actually lost) their changes and had to redo them by hand. A one-liner might be fine, a full day of work is not.

> I have far more important things on my day-to-day plate then to dig into the internal workings of git.

You don't have to know the internal workings. But the fundamental knowledge on commit level (what is a commit? what is a branch? what does reset/checkout/rebase actually do?) makes most "advanced" features really easy. Spending a couple of hours to properly learn the tool I'm using daily gives a great ROI.
Tolerating packs of stray fogs is the actions (or perhaps inaction) of men, only manifest as dogs.
And every other article on the main page pushes an email newsletter.
Everyone seems to think that, but I feel this ends up being death by a thousand cuts.

I don't know a single piece of software on my computer right now that doesn't crash, act weird, hang or do something else to annoy me on a daily basis.

Now yes, each infraction might be just a minor niggle, but god it adds up!

By the end of the day, all the bugs that on their own shouldn't be too bad, leave me frustrated as hell and wanting to say fuck everyone and just go live in the woods.

It's especially worse when I know this shit doesn't need to happen.
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This is pretty much how I grokked the point.

Having a common vision is critical in team building and in actually building the right/correct/good thing.
Just came here to say that Google's new ad layout is deliberately misleading and Google's search results are starting to look like spam all over.

Who in the hell is in charge of search at Google right now? What a god awful job. The engineer in charge should be fired for such an abomination.
I was addressing "This isn't a new problem and it's why we have converged to a different system in most of the West."

You did answer my question though. I dont agree with the "it cant happen here because we have a different system" angle of my parent.
There is no problem with a monoculture based around a common browser kernel.

Proof: Every cloud company uses Linux and this has created nothing but opportunity for ~~Linux users~~ everyone!
The bunny hopping thing was an interesting time.

Later, Battlefield 2142 had you spawn in via drop pods which you had extremely limited control over so you could try to land behind cover, it was discovered if you rapidly moved the mouse you could move farther. If you had a mouse that you could change the DPI on the fly you could crank it and actually travel across an entire map. Enter the pod surfing advantage.

With some skill you could basically land wherever you wanted to within feet, dropping behind enemy lines gave you an insane advantage. You could actually drop at the very back of an enemy controlled area, behind their most distant respawn and just waste the other team.

You could also use pod surfing to reach elevated positions that you could not get to otherwise. You could just sit in your sniper perch laying waste to unsuspecting people below. Better you could get up there, then have a teammate land as resupply or as a medic and effectively stay there the rest of the map dealing death. The clan I played with was very good at pod surfing, any time a guy would get in one of those positions I'd steer over to them and drop health or resupply depending on what they needed and then I'd just suicide and respawn elsewhere until they needed resupply again and I'd kamikaze and head surf back to them. Sometimes we'd organize sessions with another clan that was similarly adept at pod surfing and we'd either go play on their server or they'd come to ours and stuff would get ridiculous. Poor unsuspecting randoms would join the server and be like 'what the hell is even going on?!'. I think of all the FPS I've played, BF 2142 was probably the bulk of my most memorable FPS experiences, thanks entirely to that bug. I joined that clan because they saw me pod surfing on their server and extended an invite. I played with them for 3 BF games total before we all sorta went our own ways.

Fairly quickly servers with active mods would ban you for it and eventually they implemented something to seriously nerf pod surfing but man, it was fun while it lasted.
Just because it is widely used doesn't mean that from user PoV it is very overreaching.
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At Syncplicity I built something like this in a hackathon. Right-click on a file and diff it with a different version.

Sadly, we never developed it.

But, yes, I totally agree with your rationale. This is the kind of rabbit hole that can quickly turn into a distraction.
This is also what I thought :(
Why is the income tax sufficient for taxing the superrich?