skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it? For the question "what predicts your pay", your "grit" beta coefficient is only 0.09, compared to a sum of .55 determined by your gender, background, and intelligence.

That is, raising your "grit level" by 1 standard deviation will only increase your pay by 0.09 standard deviations, when compared to your age-matched peers. Somebody only one standard-deviation down on each of the other factors would have to be 6 standard-deviations higher on grittiness in order to get the same pay. That's the difference between the 0.1th percentile of grittiness and the 99.9th percentile.

The data shows that increasing your grit enough to compensate for even small levels of adversity is impractical.
I agree. I'm also in the later stages of my career (30 years of work), but still have a way to go.

I like WFH a lot more than I like commuting and working in the office. As a youngster though I loved the cut and thrust of a metropolis. Especially the adventures after work.

I hope the current situation creates a permanent inflection in companies attitudes, which enables me to perhaps move out if this big city and find remote work for my last 10-15 years of work.
Same as in a car or any air conditioner. You pump a hot fluid to/from radiators. Look at the iss. See the big black structures always held perpendicular to the solar panels. Those are the radiators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro...
`exa` provides more functionality but is also much slower.
I expect survey responses like this are very context dependent. This makes me think of happiness research. In some countries, it's considered a bit self-indulgent and tacky to be happy all the time, whereas in others it's considered antisocial to be unhappy - you should be happy constantly. Guess which countries' citizens report higher levels of happiness when surveyed? That doesn't necessarily mean that those countries are happier, because there's this confounding variable of value judgment associated with the two answers.

It's a lot "cooler" today to have edgy and polarizing opinions, so people make that a part of their identity. This is why even some people with mass media audiences in the millions complain constantly about how they're being silenced/censored. Imagine the reception such a complain would have gotten from a media personality (on their own show) in 1955 vs today.
Terms of Service and copyright are two different things. Maybe the data's not copyrightable, but they can make their website terms of service say "by using our website and downloading this data, you agree to..."

You would have to research the case law to see if courts will enforce this. Anyone can say anything they want.
The problem could be easily solved by Visa/MC/Discover/Amex implementing chip and pin, or at least 2FA SMS authorization. Bestbuy.com has it working somehow.
You cannot copyright facts, but you can copyright arrangements of facts, as long as the arrangement has a modicum of creativity.

The litmus test for this is literally the telephone book. The White Pages cannot be copyrighted (the court case you linked). But, the Yellow Pages can be copyrighted. The White Pages are nothing more than an alphabetic listing of phone numbers, but the Yellow Pages groups phone numbers by business type. This involves some editorial discretion, which involves a bare minimum of thinking, and therefore qualifies as a creative work.
It is known to subsistence farmers in Asia. Often times, they see cucumbers grown off of seeds that are not planted. They taste it for bitterness, then eat; otherwise, throw them out. This 'knowledge' is passed between, down, generations and people. Hobby farming doesn't have that.
I always use ADAC (German AAA equivalent) to rent cars, especially for the US, and prepay them. They then send me a PDF that tells the car rental clerk in German, English and Spanish that they are to provide exactly what the voucher says and no further options, like prepaid fuel or supplemental insurances (ADAC rentals include 1M EUR in liability and comprehensive insurance).

The only suspense left is whether I get the compact I signed up for, or some monstrous SUV because they’re all out of more sensible options. A few hints about how bad I am at backing up anything larger than a Camry has gotten results.
that can easily get pretty tricky if you don't want to depend a lot on libraries, which the last time I checked weren't great for golang in this area. I have worked with ALSA (advanced linux sound architecture) a bit, implementing basic midi input from a keyboard + sound generators + plugins with go interfaces and pkg/plugin + stream to audio output... and it's a mess of devices, buffers and formats. and that's only for one OS. and if you start doing anything non-trivial, making the programs work well in real-time is not for the faint of heart.

if there was a single format supported everywhere, minimum buffer sizes and a common API for all OSes, it would be a whole another, much more pleasant story
As long as you have limited resources to manage, your curiosity will go nowhere without the power to obtain resources to satisfy that curiosity. I too love to dream about how great life is going to be once we all have unlimited resources.
Worth noting that Purism's ex-CTO seems rather pissed about the company: https://twitter.com/zlatandebian/status/1287317134423535622
I've done US East to EU and it didn't work very well for us. You couldn't make decisions in a single day. You only overlap from 9am-noon US East time (assuming 9-5 working hours).
Dpulls – The Missing Feature for GitHub
PHP in Browser has done this: https://oraoto.github.io/pib/.
This is a fun tutorial for processing audio in Go, but generally panning will sound bad if you only adjust the amplitude/level.

The two important missing pieces are phase delay and frequency-specific attenuation (the "head" model). Audio coming from the left side of your head reaches your left ear first, then your right ear later. Also, your head blocks certain frequencies more than others. Both of these effects are super noticeable and necessary to make panning sound "3D".

Adding these things to the Go code would actually be fairly straightforward, you just need to add a filter to `applyPan`. The filter would only need around 12 taps to sound good.

Here's a javascript tutorial which includes both of these additional features:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
Wifi was a serious problem on my PBP, but Firefox and KDE have been impressively smooth. I could use it as a main development computer after I eschewed NetworkManager for dhcpd + wpasupplicant
It's more that you tend to get some legal implications from selling a service vs. having some website with no payment on the net.
I m feeling very lonely, what should I DO?
I agree! Cost alerts mean nothing if they don't stop the bleeding.
I had this same problem on the other end of things. UPS truck pulled up out front with my package, package is scanned as "left at front door", walks out with a couple packages for my neighbors, goes back to the truck and just drives off (and no, I checked, it wasn't one of the packages he left for the neighbor). It appears that the driver decided to save some time and scan packages on the truck as delivered before getting out and then forgot to actually deliver it once he got back on the truck from the neighbor's house. Either UPS doesn't have an easy way to undo erroneous delivery notifications or the driver just decided to dispose of the package when he realized what happened and had a leftover package, either way, they never attempted to deliver the package again.

As far as Amazon was considered, the package was delivered and the only option was to return it. There's tons of options for problems with a package, but nothing for "UPS stole my package". I guess they want to make it harder for people to claim that a package was stolen but I can't see why they would go so far to hide that given how prominent actual package theft is. Eventually after going through Amazon's support chat one of the responses was just a generic refund without returning the product but in the end I think that just took that money straight from the vendor for a package that UPS lost/disposed of because of a driver cutting corners to save time.
duplicate...like a million times duplicate already
You run a pump on a coolant loop, just like any air conditioner.
It's true the amenities at offices like that are very nice. But the reality is the vast majority of workers don't get them. So in the grand scheme of things, not sure it's a very strong argument in the WFH vs office debate.
By portability I mean it can be used anywhere, with any equipment.

There’s still lots of places you won’t find Bluetooth, but there’s very few places you won’t find a connector for a 3.5mm jack.
Apple sells a $129.00 Thunderbolt 3 Pro Cable (2 m)
Perhaps the groups I work with have fewer ongoing synchronization needs. We have meetings in the morning ET and it works fine for us.
The agencies extensively share data and routinely break domestic laws. They even use sharing as a way of getting around domestic restrictions.
>>> Today it might have 100x that. So, how many compliance people will Google have in five years?

Compliance goes hand in glove with regulatory reporting. Reporting to regulators should be a marginal cost thing - if the data internally is same, well managed and fully auditable in an automated fashion.

Doing this in finance is something the new challenger banks (ie monzo built about five years ago by ten coders and now has a million UK accounts) - this is something they can have one compliance person because all their systems are new and written with compliance in mind.

Doing this for most major banks is next to impossible. It would rewriting everything (#)

(#) Actuallly i would say this is a good strategic plan for most major banks. Might not be able to persuade the board but still.
There's a quick introduction to it here:

https://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/InfiniteRamseyTheorem.html?tg...

That's just a taste of the ideas. For an entire book there's this:

https://www.amazon.com/Ramsey-Theory-2nd-Ronald-Graham/dp/04...

Many books on Graph Theory will have a section about it.
For the record, implementing Monocypher was not one of them. I use arrays everywhere.

The one borderline case I can cite is wiping memory. I go by sizeof() and access each byte.
It's too bad there's not an open platform where apps can be deployed without a centralized proprietary app store...
If I put in zero as the size of the school, I still get a chance of online classes, which also carries by which school is selected
A range that large is nearly useless, though. Maybe nearly nobody will die, maybe it will be another Spanish Flu. That's true of every flu strain that has ever infected anyone. He was arguing as if there was no reliable information at all. But there was plenty of information at the time that pointed at the low end being very unlikely; he just didn't believe in any of it.

It turns out that he was almost certainly wrong not to take it more seriously: that information, incomplete as it was and is, was nevertheless pointing in the right direction.
I'd be amazed if GP's house is in space. But hey, life's full of surprises!
It's interesting to discover a seemingly avoidable hazard to which the British are sentimentally attached. Perhaps it's not quite comparable to our attachment to firearms.
Very nice! It's interesting that some of the new features released in PHP 7.4 and 8 have direct parallels in JS. Here are a few examples: arrow functions, spread operator in arrays, weak maps, str_starts_with(), str_ends_with().
This is a really annoying Gmail+Gsuite bug that has affected us as well. Surprising that it seems to happen this often.
Yes. For this very reason I think that only the extremes (everyone is collocated or everyone is remote) work. Mixing of local and remote people doesn't (maybe except for external contractors, who know they are expendable (and adjust their daily rates to compensate)).
Yeah, I got a very strong sense of the computer is the reality as far as UPS is concerned. I made numerous attempts to punch through to an agent at UPS but they forced me to enter a tracking number first at which point the call just dropped back into the automated tree starting with "Your privacy is very important to us."
Google will use authenticated logos to reduce Gmail phishing
Managing Engineers on the Spectrum
Hi HN,

I'm a software engineer with ~5 years of experience in the industry turned newly-appointed engineering manager. I manage a small group of people, each with their own projects, while I continue to have my own engineering projects that I contribute to in parallel to my managing duties.

One of the people I manage is having difficulties in their position. Although I am not a doctor, I am fairly certain that this person is high functioning on the autism spectrum (what might otherwise be diagnosed as Asperger's.) I say this only because I myself am diagnosed as Asperger's, and I see many of this person's behaviors in a younger version of myself. Despite the similarities, I'm unsure how to help them. They are a wonderful caring person with clearly very strong technical abilities, but are being held back in their career by certain difficulties.

They're having problems with task management and stress. They will take an inordinate amount of time to complete otherwise simple tasks, rehashing work that has already been completed for the sake of organizing it in a way that is pleasing to them (formatting, commenting, etc.) rather than working on the deliverable objectives of the project. This leads to delays, which causes increased stress, which in turn causes more delays. This sets up a feedback loop that ends in them "shutting down" and that eventually requires intervention.

I've tried being a mentor to this person and helping them improve in these problem areas, but the advice or constructive criticism I've been giving on how to manage these issues does not seem to be helping. Are there any good resources for learning how to manage people (specifically engineers) on the spectrum, or even just resources for new managers in general? I'm worried that if things don't improve, this person will end up being let go by the company.
No the difference with Apple is they don't make money off of your data, they make money selling you devices. Google needs to know about your data in order to sell it or ads or whatever to third parties.
The other kids at swimming lessons, other kids at school, instructor and teachers all likely appreciate not-perfectly-self-motivated improvement in behavior all the same.

It definitely is much better the the kid who misbehaves regardless of whether someone is looking or not.

Because this way, swimming lesson continue and they can enjoy swimming. School goes on and they don't have to sit and wait till teacher deals with this one kid.
> The current administration is a product of the current system. And it is a great example of what's wrong with it. It's amazing that you are using it to defend the system instead.

It's the worst system, except for all the others that have been tried. Not making rash decisions off black swan events is another reason to avoid direct democracy.

> Technology and data should help tremendously in solving the issues you present. Tools which were not available to the French revolutionaries. Also you shouldn't throw something completely out the window just because of one failed attempt hundreds of years ago.

Adding technology and data make the process even more fragile and prone to being messed with. How are you going to bash the existing government, and then act like we're somehow going to create a direct democracy based on technology that's fully secure and consistent? What happens when a hurricane knocks out power in Florida? Are they just paralyzed because no one can do their daily voting?

Voting systems should use the minimal amount of technology and the maximum amount of privacy. That doesn't even get into how most people wouldn't want the cognitive burden you are trying to impose on them.
The Delta IV heavy uses hydrogen/oxygen exclusively, without any solid boosters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_IV_Heavy

It is a very expensive vehicle though.
Cupressus Leylandii is the normal tree of choice for neighbor disputes. It's fast growing and light blocking
> making it any more secure than plain old TOFU is tricky.

To refer again to my complaint about this term: this isn't meaningful. It's not clear whether you mean trust blindly on first use (total failure to cryptographically verify the identity of the server) or manually check SSH fingerprint on first use (secure but inconvenient).

Both get called TOFU. One meaning of the term is a valid means of establishing a secure channel, and the other is cybersecurity negligence.

I'm not just being obtuse here, I really don't know which you mean. Manually checking fingerprints on first use seems like a pretty solid approach to SSH security, if you can trust the client to actually perform the check. Short-lived keys are the obvious improvement that this approach doesn't really support. Is that what you meant?
Kenshi
You're basically saying you're OK with Facebook censoring things for cinematographic reasons.

Has anything from the right similarly been censored for cinematographic reasons alone?
The English word you're looking for is "Envoy." It's derived from the French word for messenger, and while it's not exactly the same thing as an ambassador, I would struggle to understand the difference.

I guess we just happen not to use that word as the official title of certain government positions.
Not a stupid question at all, but one problem is that the boundaries of a zero-train-loss region are not well characterized and evaluating the validation loss even at a single point is computationally expensive. The centroid of one of these regions might not even be inside it (eg. donut shape but in higher dimensions) Interesting discussion though -- probably worth a few papers if someone were to investigate further.
That's funny, maybe Huawei phones are going to have a market niche in the west!
Agreed, it's not a 'remote work' thing, it's a 1-person-at-the-organization-is-invisible-at-the-office kind of thing.

I will only work on 100% distributed teams where the entire organization is communicating as though they're all remote, even on days when a couple of them may be meeting at the office or working from the same place by choice.
Note that in principle it's not up to the EU to enforce because the GPDR is a directive; it's up to the individual member states to enforce the directive as enshrined in their law.
NetBSD: There's an amiga running a mirror at HTTP://de.netbsd.org
Thanks for posting - it's always good to see all views. It's disappointing because the book helped me a lot. It helped me understand sleep and how I should change my lifestyle to get more of it. I feel (no measure) that it has benefited me.

I will not regard it as scientifically accurate now though.

Does anyone have any other books about sleep that they could recommend?
Not using bold properly means the terminal was written incorrectly, or the wrong termcap is being used to emulate a different terminal.

This isn't a bug with escape codes or with terminals that work. It is either that someone doesn't know which teminal they are using, or there is a bug in that specific terminal.
Where do police control taxes? I never heard of this. Taxes and budgets are responsibility of governments, they then distribute the money around.
Are you using mxtoolbox.com or other third party troubleshooting services?
HN loves to talk about how Open Source and distributed system are going to change the world.

Apache and Linux were open source. The Internet was designed to be distributed. We failed.

We still had centralization. We still have SPoF...

The issue is economic, not technical.

When corporations like Amazon and Google have severely unfair competitive advantages we're going up in this situation again and again and again.

The only way to change this is to reform tax law.
As if space wasn't dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity
The issue is not access to an external texture, it's access to an external texture on the right thread in the right GL context. We did look at writing a new backend for surfman to integrate directly, but it's a bit of work and not at all cross-platform, so this was not a goal of the project at this stage. I'd like to find a way to avoid the blit though, so I'm continuing to experiment in this direction.
Content-Free Grammar and the Limitation Game
I'm in my early 30s and never had more than a 100k income. We save 100% of my wife's income (~60-70k) and I also fully do a roth (6k) and my 401k match (4k). We currently have around 1.5m saved.

We also live in a low cost of living area and have no kids. The house will be paid off and we'll have a bit over 3m saved by the time we're in our early 40s.
A shame it's not running the original Amiga Unix.
Oh that's fine then. I don't use the apps at all - I think they were required on set up though.
How to Go from Idea to Launching with Paying Customers in 8 Steps
Somebody else mentioned you could temporarily sign up for G Suite and use the same domain, and it will magically be whitelisted.

I am assuming you have some budget for this.
Aren't we long past the text information density mattering? Text is negligible in comparison to even still images.
Artificial Intelligence as a Risk Mitigator
A Spiral Galaxy with a Magnetic Field – Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
As is everything else we do, so we might as well try to have a bit of fun along the way.
> "Overfitted Brian Hypothesis" and I gotta say that the opening reminds me a bit of fluff you see in mindless high school essays

My first thought was Monty Python.
What about developers just being competent before deploying a database on the public internet?

At least google "securing X" before just pumping data in.
This 1000 times. He's not a rocket scientist and he hasn't discovered anything unique but he is challenging weak minded people to think differently.
After having read a number of articles talking about data leaks on a gigantic scale, I decided to check it out. Because shodan is not free to use/behind a paywall, I wrote a simple windows console tool which scans all known Azure subnets for unsecured elasticsearch instances and logs the results. I was baffled by the amount of instances this tool found within the first few hours :( To say that security in IT is getting out of control would be an understatement...
I‘m not sure why you‘re bringing concurrency to the table.

My point still is that looking something up in a stack (did I visit this node?) costs O(n) time, so the BFS will degrade from O(m+n) to O(m*n+n).

To come back to the concurrency, if you can index your edges in some way, you can also store the visited flag in a separate datastracture to support concurrent access (one „flag store“ for each access).
Chemists make tough plastics recyclable
Where are your servers located?
"It's an Amiga A3000 with 68060 accelerator card (Cyberstorm Mk2)"

https://mobile.twitter.com/netbsd/status/1286910129716236289
The only thing that annoys me about this setup is noise of the wire brushing against clothing etc. Or if you eat with them on.

With music playing the removal of external noise is enough for me. They do well enough blocking distracting noise used as simple ear plugs too. At least the ~£20 Sennheiser ones I use do.
There's a woman living in Japan who was born before George Orwell. It's incredible to think that one could be in their 60s and still have half a century left.
> Praise Twitter for at least its ability to draw attention to things. I am not sure this would’ve ended up as well as it did without it.

This is another bad aspect of these stories.
Alpha Zero and Quantum supremacy don't count as innovation?