skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a huge twitter user, but I went into this article skeptical. I always saw the problem as too many bots - fake profile pictures and regurgitated statements that amplify pundits, harass people for having an opinion, scam people out of money, and altogether make the most of internet anonymity. I imagine a "grey checkmark" that would require some form of human-to-human authentication (although obviously such an institution would introduce corruption).

After this experiment, I'm realizing it's more complicated than that. Twitter is a reverse-shit sandwich. Crap in the lowliest dredges (the bot level), crap at the top (the pundit level), and a few pleasant people talking about cakes, music, and urban planning in the middle.
Android is literally Linux.
I mean, I can see why they would want to test both. Horsepower is a good indicator.
Polyglot Documentation with Org-Mode
> Throughout 2020, APT29 has targeted various organisations involved in COVID-19 vaccine development in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, highly likely with the intention of stealing information and intellectual property relating to the development and testing of COVID-19 vaccines.

Vaccine makers are trying to hide their work behind the veil of "intellectual property". The makers of this malware want the information. For what purpose do the 'malware' authors want the information?

1. To make a vaccine that works. Making a vaccine is an objective good.

2. To discover flaws with the vaccine that the company developing the vaccine would rather keep secret. Alerting the public to dangerous vaccines is an objective good.

I believe the real story here is that governments allow vaccine development companies to hide their work behind a shield of intellectual property, while the world needs a vaccine as quickly as possible.
47 pixels per inch resolution? Surely that’s a typo?
Not discounting what you said but the 30% thing is bad but a bit of a poor statistic in that usually the number is about 20%. This is because it’s not 30% can’t pay rent but 30% didn’t pay on time. By the end of the month the number who had paid was like 92% vs 96% a year ago.

So yes bad but less bad with context and certainly something that is a leading indicator of something very very bad.
Anxiety management is absolutely foremost in these interviews. I did not successfully get through one of these interviews until I started experimenting with taking anxiolytics beforehand.

I eventually found that a moderate does of phenibut 5 hours prior was an ideal balance of social inhibition vs the types of impairments that come with these drugs.
> That saves a lot on AC costs (and energy waste) - but of course it lets the dust back in.

By the way, this is why traditional Japanese homes have shoji screens instead of glass windows. Japan has a lot of dust and pollen. Shoji paper is permeable to air (and so convective heat) and light, but not to dust or pollen. So essentially the entirety of the house has a HEPA-like "firewall" between the inside air and outside air, without needing any powered forced-air system to get fresh air inside. The windows are "open" in a breeze sense, while being "closed" in a dust sense. (Thus why they don't actually "open"; this is already kind of an optimal combination.) The wind still blows air into and through the house—especially when the doors are also shoji panels.

The only downside is that, like a HEPA filter, the screens will get dusty/sooty on the outside, and need to be wiped clean. (But shoji is not a rough material, so the dust doesn't adhere very strongly, and can be wiped off pretty easily.)
As the old adage goes, "it's still shitposting even if you're being ironic".
Could anyone recommend an easy/good way to quickly mass unfollow a ton of accounts based on the sort of things they post? Is there anything I can use that will just unfollow all the political accounts, or checkmarks or anything like that?
Perhaps they're referring to your application's dependencies, in a situation where you're pickling instances of those dependencies' types. Then this is an example of "old pickles look like old code".
Assuming that bureaucrats will be totally reasonable seems to be a uniquely European thing. They may be more reasonable than ours in the US, but the incentives of the system don't support the latitude they're given.
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Post directly on a page for the rest of the community to see. Share privately or publicly, reply, like, mention your friends, hashstag your interests.

Mobile app built in Flutter, backend with python+postgres+redis

Your public posts get showcased on a board like this: https://prod.hvr.world/profile?referrerId=58&u=Andreud&inten...
Given the number of accounts that were taken over, there must have been many people conducting the hack. Also considering that tweets were being deleted then re-tweeted, others must have been monitoring the tweets. Seems somewhat well coordinated.
It is not claiming that the bullet points are exclusive to white culture. It is claiming that they are associated with white culture and that they have become normalized in the United States because of this.
See D 2.092.0 for D's preview support for Ownership and Borrowing. https://dlang.org/changelog/2.092.0.html
I feel like the preppers were not prepared. Too much ammo and MREs, not enough pasta and hygienic supplies.
I do this via DeX mode on my Samsung S10e, but linux for DeX was killed off unfortunately. I really wish convergence via a linux phone had made more progress by now considering how close it felt back in 2010. Still excited at the progress devs have made so far with the pinephone.
> I forget if stability was introduced in 4.x or 5.x, but code written today should be fine...

They've always provided source compatibility modes in new releases of the compiler so you can delay making syntax changes to an existing codebase if you need to.

You're thinking of ABI stability, which is in place as of Swift 5, and doesn't have anything to do with what parent is talking about.
Realistically, if it looked like a bacteria or an animal we would call it life, and it if looked like a printer or a lathe we would call it a machine. That's a more realistic picture of how language works, than expecting everyone to be a philosopher about categories.
People do reliably know which of their co-workers are good and which of their co-workers suck badly.

But also, the rule of 150 applies here. At a startup with less than 100 people, each worker often has an idea of everyone's strength, throughout the company. However, if you are at a big company, with thousands of employees in multiple locations, then it is often best to restrict upvoting to some subset of the company. For instance, a company with 1,000 workers might have 10 teams of 100 people each. At such a company, it might make sense to have the rule that you can only upvote people who are on your team. The assumption is that these would be the people you interact with and have a good idea about who is good and who is bad.

Having said all this, I'm not suggesting that this should be the only way that managers evaluate their workers, but having a formal, structured, regular process is important.

There are other techniques that a good manager should also follow. If you have time, you can listen to the interview I gave here:

http://simpleleadership.io/why-group-meetings-can-be-time-wa...

Too many managers waste too much time in big meetings, more time should be spent in one to one meetings.

About this:

"Who are you to know who is doing good work or not?"

I can't tell if you mean that as a criticism of my suggestion or whether you are attacking the original article for the idea "When your coworker does great work, tell their manager." Because, if you believe people can not evaluate their co-workers, then you must disagree with the above article.
Software engineers don't rally to defend their coworker pedophiles. There is no thin binary line.
What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory
fwiw, node.closest(selector) lets you query up the tree for the first parent that matches.

for (const node of document.querySelectorAll('[aria-label="Verified account"]')) {
node.closest('[role="article"]').remove()
}

Doesn't get the most top-level wrapper, but it also works well with retweets. Doesn't work with verified replies though (removes the verified tweet reply but not the other person's tweet), too lazy to look.
That is how it works at my workplace, you choose who you get feedback from that is presented to your manager. Usually you choose your team and a couple of people you've worked closely with outside the team.
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Indeed.

Here's the formula:

1) Quickly gloss over any real examples of voter fraud.
2) Don't acknowledge prominent Democrat concerns with them only a couple years ago.
3) Don't give any time to real and recent examples.
4) Do throw around the words of people who worry about mail in ballots, carefully pointing out they're all Pro Trump, Anti Muslim activist, some other view point CNN/NYT tells you that you hate.
5) Don't acknowledge any of the ways mail in ballots are objectively weaker and easier to compromise.

Articles like this are themselves misinformation and propaganda.
The study isn't talking about history, it's talking about current smokers and many of the comments on the paper bring up concerns with how specific that is, and how many could have quit days before going to the hospital.

I don't know where you got 50%+. The outpatient group was 5.3% current smokers vs expected (adjusted for age and sex) 26.9%. For inpatient it was 4.4% vs expected 17.9%. The fact that both groups had the same reported rate of current smokers (within experimental error) but very different expected rates says to me that you're only getting the people who are honest or simply incapable of quitting even while sick.

Also, see this concern brought up:

> Finally, and I believe this to be the most significant piece of data supporting the null hypothesis, the prevalence of never-smokers in the general population is approximately 0.75, if one subtracts the smoking incidence rate from 100. In your patient groups, non-smokers are strongly under-represented by about a factor of 2 relative to the general population, with 31% of outpatient and 32% of inpatient being labeled as never-smokers. This suggests to me that any amount of smoking actually puts one at risk for contracting COVID-19 as defined by this paper.
Whoa! Game changing! I never thought to search for aria-labels.

I immediately and joyfully added your rules to uBlock, and it works like a charm!

I ended up expanding on the concept:

twitter.com##[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Relevant people"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Search and explore"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Footer"]
twitter.com##[aria-label="Who to follow"]
Do you pay the daily transit from Grenoble area ?
SaaS management system for WISP seems weird to me. From what I know from the local WISPs their internal systems need to be very robust and independent from internet connectivity, so when the network or Internet connectivity goes down, they are still available to quickly resolve the issue.
So I'm German, I go to Thailand. I buy a Jet Ski to be used solely in Thailand? Is that Jet Ski under EU law now?

No, not until you bring the Jet Ski though German customs.

Why is it different if I virtually go to Thailand?

Because now, the Jet Ski operator is operating in the EU, and the EU could always choose to null-route said website. There's plenty of precedent for that, even in the US (DHS seizing torrent sites under counterfeit regulation, ISP's de-listing pirate bay DNS entries).

Okay I go to Thailand and rent a car. To rent the car I need to give them my personal info. A copy of my passport, a copy of my international drivers license. If we follow the same logic that Thai car rental company somehow has to treat the PII under EU laws.

Perhaps, but as you say, the EU currently has no way to enforce its GDPR outside its jurisdiction.

How do you think the US enforces its take on copyright and patent law outside its borders? Through treaties and trade deals. If the EU wanted to, it could do the same with the GDPR.
Perhaps when making the choice you could tell the user their problems will get more priority if they opt in.

Also using differential privacy you can gather statistics on package use while limiting knowledge about a specific user.
Yeah Stylebot! I use it to fix UI annoyances on my daily favorite websites. I spend all day using browser developer tools, why not use my skills to improve my favorite websites?
(I like HN's design as well, except when I am using a touchscreen.)
In the article it says only customers from 35 states could fill out the survey since Tesla blocks customers in 15 states. So the data on Tesla isn't representative of the 50 states.
I would imagine that if a national UBI program were implemented, the amount would have to depend on the local cost of living, probably with caps. How they'd work that out, I don't know.

If that's not done, then UBI would encourage migration from higher cost-of-living areas to lower cost-of-living areas. That might not be a terrible outcome; it would probably lead to balancing the cost-of-living across regions as the populations change.
I worked for the airlines (first career) and for public-facing employees it was a big deal if you got a 'good letter' from a customer. (It was equally suck if you happened to get a bad one...).

We also could file 'thank you / attaboy' paperwork for our colleagues, both in our own department or ones we interacted with. Those were just as valuable (if not more) than ones from the customers.

Over the years (11) during my employment there I received a couple of good letters, and they were recognized by the management in a very sincere way.

To this day of & when I have an extraordinary collaboration with someone in the corporation I'll take the time to write a thank you letter to their manager.

It's just a great practice that harkens back to the old adage, "there's nothing better than a nice handwritten thank you card." Since I'm in management, it serves as a nice means to to move the needle for a colleague in the eyes of the company.
At a certain level of abstraction, we can treat it that way and it is good enough for many use cases. In biological and physical reality, no.

Each human started with between 1 and 5 copies of the X chromosome. Those copies are different in various ways. Many of the differences are single nucleotide variation, identical in a region but with a single letter changed. There are also tandem repeats where there might be a CAG sequence that occurs one or dozens of times. (Counting the number of repeats like this is often used for DNA fingerprinting.) There is also ample larger-scale structural variation, which includes whole regions of the genome present present or absent in one copy or another, or maybe copied multiple times in a row, or moved in from another chromosome, or reversed.

Complicated enough? On top of that you have to add the fact that there are trillions of cells in each human and in those trillions of cells you will have many slightly different copies of the original 1 to 5 X chromosomes from when that human was a single-cell organism. You will definitely have changes at the ends of the chromosomes, the telomeres, as they are made up of variable tandem repeats. You'll also have single nucleotide mutations, and if you're unlucky, bigger changes. On some chromosomes (not chromosome X), there's also V(D)J recombination, where our immune "memory" is actually encoded in changes to genome sequence in particular cells. Cancer or a pre-cancerous syndrome will increase the frequency and severity of these changes.

If you want to sequence a whole chromosome you have to contend with the fact that the most accurate methods for sequencing generally give you reads of 1000 nucleotides or less each and you have to assemble them together. People liken the problem to putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but it's not like assembling a jigsaw puzzle from a single box. It's more like taking hundreds of boxes of supposedly the same jigsaw puzzle (but in reality some small changes that make things fit together not quite right), dumping them all in a pile, randomly removing a bunch of them, and then trying to figure out how everything fits together. Also there are many parts of this puzzle with identical artwork and that fit together identically! Good luck!

Scientists have been applying a lot of ingenuity to this puzzle for decades and getting a whole chromosome assembly like this is a big milestone.
Berkeley moves toward removing police from traffic stops
> With this release it is now possible to install and activate compilers from the Windows command prompt directly.

> Assuming an MSYS2 installation is present in C:\msys64, necessary decompression tools can be installed from the Windows command prompt

Huh? I would think the whole point of running from command prompt would be that MSYS2 is not needed. And the reality is its probably not. Someone would just need to reimplement the Bash script as a PowerShell script.
YouTube will make you a separate "signed out identity", which will be tracked
The other opposite angle to look at it from is that if slack or github goes down but you aren't using them then you have a slight advantage over your competitors.
For reasons I cannot fully remember my voicemail broke many years ago. It goes something like: I’d switched to google voice for vm, where T-Mobile handled my line generally. Then google did something to google voice, some sort of discontinuation + merging with gmail and my vm broke. This occurred in tandem with me moving to a house with terrible cell reception and before wide spread WiFi calling support. The result was that many folks figured I’d had my number disconnected because calls which couldn’t connect to my phone would get the “disconnected number tone” when being directed to my voicemail box.

Every month or two I’d fill in the google support text area explaining the problem. No response for ~4 years. Just this Feb, for whatever reason, I decided to call T-Mobile and report it. Problem was fixed by a higher up tech that described the problem as “very strange” and the “first time” he’d seen something like this. It took approx. an hour.

Upon rumination I full accept that I took the “easy way out” by filling in the text box vs trying to talk to someone. End result is that google lost a gvoice customer and no one calls me anymore. meh
I agree with most of your post, but the parent comment is not wrong about customer service panels being accessible by employees. A friend of mine worked at a call center for a major us phone provider, the only thing stopping employees from accessing customer records is a point based penalty system for infractions. While my friend worked there, one employee was caught accessing customer records and was never fired or anything and continued to do shady things until quitting. It was discovered he'd worked at multiple call centers before and did the same thing.

Around the same time, at a nearby call center, two employees were caught ordering multiple manager's laptops, which managers can use to access customer records from their home. These laptops were sent out to multiple addresses and never found.
Yes, you can represent the labeling function as a class and use its methods to represent each label individually.
You are missing the last step. The same people that oppose nuclear and coal energy oppose updating the power grid such that all the wind turbines, already installed, can all be used at the same time. This is the most ridiculous part of the climate activists in Germany, imho.

Yes, Germany has already more renewable energy sources than it can use, due to protests against building new power lines. From north to south and west to east. When I drive to my in-laws, I come along at least a hundred large wind turbines, often in rows of ten or more. Usually, half of them is turned off because, the grid cannot take more energy.

At the German energy exchange, the price of electrical energy already dropped below zero several times, because of that.
I recently closed my Twitter account though. For the last 3 years I'd exclusively used it to complain about companies without adequate support systems elsewhere, but anyone googling me would have come off with a bad impression as the last 2 pages of tweets were complaints and it ranked highly for my name
To a first approximation, no one should go into content creation (whether YouTube, a podcast, a book, a blog...) with the primary intent of making more than some token amount of money that makes driving for Uber seem like a pretty cushy gig.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it of course. Direct money (as opposed to supporting other activities) isn't really one of them though.
From my experience, especially in big companies (but not only) most of the feedback is negative. People are not sharing positive feedback, and when they contact your manager it's usually an escalation process. That's why it's so important to reach to people who support you or simply create a content you like (blog posts, webinars, etc) and say: "thanks, I found a lot of value here".
Personally and from my own experience Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft were only placebos and never helped me. Again my own experience... what helped me in my mid 20s was talking openly to my friends and others my age about my anxieties, unusual thought processes and other silly things you deal with at that age. Upon opening up I learned a more then a few of those I compared myself to were just as crazy as I thought I was and they too were dealing with similar issues or had. Then boom a lot of the zaniness was gone minus one odd OCD that stuck around for a bit longer(still there at 40 but very minorly and all other those silly worries/anxieties in my 20s and very early 30s are a thing of the past). If u have a social anxiety..think your not like others your close to & or compare yourself too..open up to them or some of them..u most likely find they are as crazy as you and in turn your normal like they are.
I tried going back to normal life but 6 weeks were enough to erode my mind way too deep.
I mostly follow people who work in/around my specific engineering niche and it's amazing for that and really the only way that I stay in contact with them. It's a lot like reddit, you can stick with the terrible default subreddits or unfollow them and branch off on your own journey. That could be a positive one, news-flush, or maybe you go for the redpill. But you do control who you follow.

It also leads to me getting breaking news before it's even put out, whether that's political news, or an OSS project launching something new, etc.

I've learned a LOT following lawyers/professors/historians/scientists/engineers over the last year. But now I need to go in and clear out the accounts that aren't really bringing anything positive into my life.

I basically treat Twitter as the millennials Linkedin and I stay far as possible from Linkedin now.
As a contrast, I was recently setting up an APU2 system as a router. I tried 3 different kinds of Linux (OpenWRT, Ubuntu, Debian), and they were all horribly broken in different ways - Ubuntu wouldn’t even show comprehensible boot messages over the serial port.

I tried FreeBSD, and it booted perfectly the first time and all the hardware worked properly.

I think FreeBSD is just a lot more focused on server/infrastructure hardware.
Every time this has been attempted, it devolves into toxic work culture. Also, how can you know what other people are working on? Most of the work is outside anyone's scope, and end up toxic when optimizing for arbitrary metrics.

I speak for myself, mostly unrelated to articles put on www. I don't have to agree or disagree by anyone else's metrics and dominating rhetorics. Not meant to disrespect, but am not fully aboard naive beliefs. Experience and learning from others will in time tell, and moderate good intentions.
What is the actual physical process in getting sent overboard from a firing ship? That does seem very unusual.