skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wanted a FAANG job so I followed on Twitter every engineer I could find from the company I wanted to work at. Reading them every day gave me the impression that I too had to be popular on Twitter to get a job there.

I got the job and soon realised that no one I work with is a Twitter personality. I'm not aware of anyone I work with having a social media presence at all. These are some of the world's best engineers, they do hugely influential work and outside of their colleagues no one has ever heard of them.

When you're on Twitter you get the impression that the whole world is there and anyone who isn't there is not relevant.

There are thousands of engineers where I work, why did I think that you had to be a Twitter personality just based on a few dozen people I could find on Twitter?

Brent Simmons noted this on his blog after joining Audible:

> "I haven’t noticed that the people I work with have a lot of public social media presence. (Maybe I just haven’t gotten clued-in yet?)"

The majority of people don't use Twitter at all. Of those who do, the majority aren't Twitter "personalities".

I deleted my Twitter account and haven't looked back.
I thought some people were acting dumb but that it was only a facade, that once things would get serious they would stop pretending being dumb.

I now genuinely believe that if there was an Ebola outbreak people would still go to underground gatherings and say 'I did not know' once they or someone they know gets sick.
One thing I've seen lately is that YouTube will recommend a video that I've already watched all of it. And they know I've watched it because I leave the watch history on and it has the red bar showing how far through the video i watch.

I also don't know if it's because of other users behaviors or maybe channels pay for the exposure, but I've seen certain channels or topics take over the recommendation list more than other topics. Or there's the issue where the recommendation list beside a video is all "recommended for you" and not even related to the video. On mobile they had to add a button for showing videos actually related to the video you're watching, but it feels like sometimes even that's hit or miss.

I'm okay with a recommendation engine when it doesnt get stuck in this loop of recommending the same videos over and over. For now, I just delete my YouTube history about once a month to get new recommended videos.

Part of this may be youtubes fight to subvert people leaving keywords in the descriptions of videos so instead they're analyzing different things trying to build the heuristic. I know there's a lot that goes into the engine so it could be any number of things.
It is similar situation in CRuby as well.
VoIP encrypts calls at the digital level after the audio has been converted to packets (which are then transmitted over a digital network). The initial description of you are trying to achieve would require somehow encrypting the audio at an analog level so it can be transmitted through a simple audio jack.
It depends on whether or not you engage with your hobbies.
The claim "it was objectively more objective" is not evidence either.
Reminds me of what Martin Luther King, Jr., had to say about the word "maladjusted" [1].

“You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It is the word maladjusted. This word is probably used more than any other word in psychology. It is a good word; certainly it is good that in dealing with what the word implies you are declaring that destructive maladjustment should be destroyed. You are saying that all must seek the well-adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities.

But on the other hand, I am sure that we will recognize that there are some things in our society, some things in our world, to which we should never be adjusted. There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial discrimination and racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. We must never adjust ourselves to the madness of militarism, and the self-defeating effects of physical violence.”

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/features/king-challenge
I subscribe to Youtube channel RSS feeds with newsboat, but you could also follow with any RSS reader.
In general, I find Karl Guttag’s analysis far superior:

https://www.kguttag.com/2020/05/20/analyzing-front-page-tech...
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Electron is a running joke because of how horrible the performance is. Again, I don't buy it. I think it's much more a matter of "they can't" than "they don't want to."

I think if those LLVM contributors understood compilers better, they wouldn't be introducing those issues. Look at Jon Blow's achievements on Jai. LLVM is the bottleneck for his entire compiler at the moment, and he's planning to replace it with what... Three people or something? But I also think there are structural issues there. I don't think a top-down project from a large company gets to use that excuse.
I also got ptsd in a domestic setting. Please remember it gets better with time. I’m sure you already know this, but MDMA has been shown to be effective in treating ptsd. I was personally able to get rid of most of the symptoms with large doses of propranolol. Try both of those before killing yourself.
When you run 'Linux' on the desktop, you are running the Linux kernel with GNU userspace. The GNU project would rather you call it GNU/Linux, to pay homage to their hard work. That is too hard to say, so everybody simply says 'Linux'.

Android also runs the Linux kernel. However, the tools that allow you 'to do whatever you want' are not what you interact with. Android has its own userspace tools designed by Google. These are what you are familiar with. It used to be possible to use a terminal and sort of interact with an Android device like a desktop Linux computer, but that has slowly been disabled overtime.
"Government doesn't work. Elect us and we'll prove it!" --One of the two major political parties in the US.

We get the government we voted for, so I guess that's the one we deserve.
> Google isn't brazen enough to show you recommendations without cookies, despite them being capable of tying your sessions together.

Amazon is. I see pages show up in my products-viewed history (logged in) after viewing them incognito.
I see. Do you think a machine that physically alters its own silicon, or software that rewrites its code instead of storing data, would be closer to biological systems? Or is that part irrelevant?
Wraparound is also the bug that turns Ghandi into a huge dictator in Civilization, and killed a couple of people in cancer treatment devices.
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I have this problem a lot with pandas Dataframes. I know I could engineer around it, but most of the time I just want to distribute some number crunching to a bunch of docker images quickly and a database is overkill for a one off analysis. Works fine until an image updates pandas. Not taking issue with pandas or pickle, but it's an issue of time trade-off. JSON is okay, but object conversion/Nan/None/inf can be a bear.
Seems YouTube recommendations does not adjust for context of keywords. I click on a Sport video not because of the sport but want to hear what the person has to say about XYX and not sports. Then YouTube now thinks I wants sports and there is no way of stating to the algorithm "Do not show me sports" because it will take the keywords without context.

They recommendations are fixated on YOU as in the last search or viewing instead of the sum of the content viewed. So a day of just looking at Cat videos equates to I want all Cat videos now and forever until I search for something else.

Also, there is not degree of separation for showing new / thought of content. Or simply put, a meson to walk through the bookstore and see something you never though of looking for and become interested.
Journalism should have been all the more important than before given so much misleading information and controversies on social media. Did X really say Y? Under which context? Why would A push policy B? What's A's rationale? How did the policy work? What are the trade-offs? What are the data, facts, and logic that support claim C? And of course all kinds of cover-ups by local government. Deep and comprehensive reports can shed lights in this confusing world. For instance, is the US K-12 education system really this bad? I think it is, and it is even worse than the gloomy situation depicted in the documentary Waiting for Superman? But is my frustration really founded? A former secretary of education, whose name I forgot, also claimed that the documentary was detrimental to the teacher's union and the K-12 education system. What was her angle? Why did he say so? And this is probably the least controversial topic I have in my mind.

Instead, journalism got marginalized and polarized. It's sad.
To start, I hope that if you're talking about yourself you are doing ok.

But yes I think its possible all of the things you're talking about put together. The long term effects of the extreme wealth gap are so broad they're difficult to even take a survey of. But at the same time, we're becoming more open about mental health issues and acknowledging them as legitimate problems so reporting in accepting, progressive communities is going to make it seem like there are more.
Fully offline is great, because students get the full experience, and access it repeatedly without cost -- so lots of pre-downloaded material. Downloaded HTML and still images, or pdfs are great for mobile phone viewing

Then chat apps such as email or messaging systems are especially great, because when the network drops, nothing is lost and the conversation can resume later

I would suggest teachers do this, possibly with telegram channels or similar. That way the class can have a group to participate in and share problems. Could this be the kind of confrencing you're after. It is as low bandwidth as it gets, resilient against network failure, and allows real time chat in a group...

Often more directivity is wanted though.... One option might be teachers recording audio-visual videos (their voice + preferably blank background slideshow as the visual). Which I think you're already doing

Another option is voip. Which is already heavily optimized for low bandwidth. Something like [1] or the team chat options computer gamers use. Onething to consider is if it is possible to record the audio session for later download -- since it is frustrating for students who can't get in reception range or if the audio drops out -- but a download might let them catch what they missed. If that would be useful to you, I don't know. But I suggest browsing the voip options, since there are many

I'm a programmer. But none of my suggestions involve programming, or creating new apps. There are good reasons for this. 1) It is a lot of work. 2) Students would need to download and learn them. 3)
Existing apps they know fix some of these problems really well

One final suggestion. Try zoom, with video disabled, and the shared screen view for teacher to draw on. If this doesn't work for you, then probably no custom app is going to either

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumble_(software)
Can we change the title to "Hacker group APT29 targets ..."?
I've read quite a few blog posts of people discouraging the use of pickle for data interchange, which led me to believe that quite a few orgs actually use it for precisely that.

I wouldn't use it, simply because I like my formats easy to inspect (if you want privacy, just put it on a secure channel like TLS or use some other standard wrapping), but I guess other people have less scruples.
I made a scripting language for C++ projects, ArkScript
The majority didn't vote for this government. We do not deserve this.
> Edit: and they apparently looked at 3 states. Unqualified journalists should stay away from statistics or "fact checking" - at this point they are actively harming society with their piss poor, agenda driven "analyses"

Those are the 3 biggest states of the 5 that use primarily vote by mail. They contain ~80% of the vote by mail population.
There are commonalities. I had some N95 masks since 9/11 and bought more after California fires. I did not anticipate COVID-19, but that stash still turned out to be useful.
Did the study document what type of irregularities they could have missed? It is like claiming I have never been hacked because my logs never showed anything.

If you really want to look at the issue, you need to approach it like a security audit. What is your threat model? What are the failure modes? What are the ways that there can be fraud without setting off red flags.

Right off the bat, an issue with all-mail elections is coercion, and suppression. If the ballots all arrive in the mail at the house, someone can use coercion to make sure all the ballots are filled out as they wish. This is much harder to do in person.

And that vulnerability popped up with less than a minute of thought. If approached from a security perspective, I am sure others would pop up.

Now, after serious analysis, it may be concluded that the benefits outweigh the risks, but a serious analysis needs to be done.
I wonder how many of those are occupied by renters.
I saw a flight attendant being yelled at by a horrid passenger and knew that she might get a “bad letter” from them so I sent in a good letter for her about how she handled the abuse with aplomb. Glad to hear it was worth the effort
Regardless of where you stand on a situation, advocacy is unavoidable in political stories. You can be 100% factually correct, but still commit sins of advocacy and partisanship like omitting factual information or misrepresenting factual information.

About the only comments that remain factually accurate without committing sins of advocacy in political stories are those that acknowledge that the issue is complicated, that there are many sides and that there isn't anything conclusive.

The more certain/convicted about an issue a commenter comes, the more likely they are going to get downvoted in political stories. My observation is that those comments that practice the principle of charity with their interlocutors are those that are more likely to be upvoted. How you say something is more important than what you're saying if you're trying to reach common understanding in earnest.

Technical stories generally don't have positions and advocacy except advocacy in favor of intellectual curiosity.
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So run Electron like a game. Leverage the GPU, if that really is the issue. Or run it like Qt, which manages to avoid that problem.

I just think that's a weak excuse, especially given most games have tremendous complexity running through the CPU too.

(As a side note I don't think paradox games are a good example. They're famously poorly optimised.)
Permanently unfollowing all verified users wouldn't even remove all the verified tweets from your timeline, since non-verified users might retweet verified users.
This gets to the controversy, "GNU/Linux" vs "Uses the Linux kernel"

https://www.fossmint.com/difference-between-android-and-linu...

>In Conclusion, Android is not a GNU/Linux distro but its Kernel is Linux and since it is the convention that a collection of software put together around the Linux Kernel is referred to as Linux, Android is Linux.

> * Android cannot run any programs that are meant for GNU/Linux distros

also;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy
You might be able to go through archive.is which contains a large part of SSC. I find the argument weird because we tend not to handle moral failings very constructively.
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It looks like he started his channel in March, so I'm guessing he just had a backlog of things he's been working on to make videos about.
I really like the trait/struct/enum model of programming that you find in Rust. I'm a quant and I do a lot of higher math, and the trait method of programming is very very similar to how you might construct algebraic structure in the set=>group=>field etc way.
In the long run, it should mean investment into products and services that lower the cost/difficulty, expanding the number of whistleblowers. A threshold shouldn’t exist unless there is a protectionist element to the SEC program (I have not participated myself.)
It’s true for converting liquid into gas.
- DMD compiles D without templates 10.57 times faster than C, thanks to DMD's backend.

- DMD compiles D with templates 1.93 times faster than C++.
I think this can vary greatly even within the same company. Even if the process is the same, the person providing the subjective rating of the applicant can be radically different from interviewer to interviewer.

I've seen this in the internal posting processes of my company. Probably the most insane interview from a technical perspective was this one time that I was looking to change stacks, a day before my interview HR sent me an email saying it would be a code screening interview and that I should bring my laptop and use any language I wanted. When I got there the next day, the manager handed me a Mac (I'm not familiar with them) and told me that I would be using that and writing Angular code in Webstorm (a language I never used, in an editor I never used). I was given one hour to create a basic webpage containing a table with some data - 30 minutes for functionality, a check of my functionality, then 30 minutes for CSS. I managed to Google how to create an Angular project in Webstorm, a couple shortcut keys on Mac, and get about a quarter of the table built in 30 minutes. When the manager checked my progress he asked if I wanted to do the CSS part or go onto questions, so we did some questions. When he ask if I had any questions, I asked why he even selected me for a code screen if my resume didn't list any of the technologies and that I was switching stacks and expected more of a generic code screen like HR told me. His reply was that he expected me to be an "expert in the technology" (this was a midlevel interview). Needless to say, I did not get the job or the follow up interview.
Nah, we just ignore this stuff for the most part. People are really good at compartmentalizing things, and pretty much feel they are immortal. A lot of us suffer from stockholm syndrome and think death is somehow good -- just look at a common reaction to many transhumanist notions.

Those who do take it seriously but are not strong enough to bear, end up joining cults.
I asked him about 30 questions on how the system worked and what he was doing. He said Starry Internet was going to MARKET a service with Starlink / SpaceX. He wasn't talking about using Air Fibers in rural areas -- he said satellites. Maybe he was mistaken but I was not.
This is going to be different, and is not intended to be sarcastic.

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
First read during my high school years in the Amazing SF magazine; and was later published as a book. The work was criticized by the 'elite' of the SF community at the time. Have recently re-read and got the same impressions of how as both a species and as individuals we are fools that understand very little; that is, we are too stupid to know that we are stupid.

Calvin and Hobbs by Bill Waterson.
Was my favorite non-mandatory read during my college years. Calvin Ball can teach us much about life, and his snow-men art is the dark that we always be in all of humans.

Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3 Rifle Marksmanship. [this is the current version, but am not certain of the designation for this manual when I first read it during the late 1970s].
This summarized the philosophy of combat, the physics of interior and exterior ballistics, and describes the zen-like state of the marksman. It is not as sterile as the US Army marksmanship manual, is more complete treatise of combat shooting and weapons care, and is brutally honest in that the USMC is preparing you to efficiently kill other humans. Very sobering.
Same here.

I've heard about how much I'm missing out by not using Twitter, yet I've never felt held back by not having a Twitter account.
Doesn't this mean that a conditional branch is added to all existing code which performs casting?
While we're at it - when someone you manage does great work - tell your manager.

I do this out of professional decency, not social justice (angle of the article).
To be blunt: why? Your reply reads to me like you're recruiting for a cult and/or selling something.
What is the DevOps model and what advantages does it bring to your workflow?
Most Linux users get Firefox from distros, not from Mozilla directly.
Some people cannot break a million years of evolution baggage and have a job or friends - it is unnatural. What we think is normal these days hardly even resembles conditions we evolved to thrive in.
Most of our "Govt" is busy playing politics and it is shameful that somehow COVID has become political as well. Trump calls masks requirement "political nonsense" which is causing many Americans to follow their President. I don't like masks too but I am happy to put one on when in public. Somehow it has become "but you are infringing on my rights".

Our Govt sucks because we continue to let them get away with this. Where are all the Senators and Congress people ? Where are the Governors ? Some are trying but most of too busy politicizing it and still denying the reality that shit has hit the fan.

It is only going to get worse. I am about to layoff a couple of employees too since they just cannot work remote and their performance has gone down significantly. As a small business owner, I don't have the margins to keep paying them anymore as we are considered a "non essential" business and cannot go to office yet.
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Have you tried other drugs?

I am depressive and pessimistic by nature, too. I have accepted that. But I have to fix the extremes because otherwise I simply can't function.

Different drugs can literally make you feel and think like a different person.

The only problem is side effects and tolerance, you can't go on on drugs for very long. They can be invaluable for building different habits, though.
People are downvoting this but it's a fact that Firefox got hardware accelerated video playback only this year on Linux.

VDPAU and VA-API have been around for years now, supported by VLC, mplayer, mpv, etc.
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Thanks. Very insightful.

> To be fair, the customer also seemed to hustle you with a variation of "if you're a good guy, do me this small favour?" followed up with, "why won't you do me this next favour, I thought you were a good guy, now I'm unhappy..."

Yup. Was I being manipulated?
I love this thread. Personally I use Twitter to follow people who write interesting tweets about programming, but the trending sidebar tries very hard to make anybody anxious.