skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The appropriate phrase I've found to be effective for when someone is wasting my time is "this seems to be out of scope for me right now". It forces someone to justify why this waste of your time is somehow relevant, which they usually can't do.

Ex: "I'll leave you guys to finish talking through this one as it seems out of scope for me right now. I'm going to get started on previously-discussed-priority-item."

For someone to ask you to remain on the call after that is implicitly saying their discussion is more important than another item that has been agreed to be a priority.
I miss my commute, but that's probably because I cycle. 20 minutes hard each way, it keeps me quite fit.
> I wish we had a points based system here, they seem like a useful addition of fairness to the fundamentally unfair global migration situation.

Let's not kid ourselves: fairness* would be if migration would _not_ be restricted. A point-based system is a good way to further grant privileges to the already privileged, though.

* As in: no additional layer of unfairness created by the State.
Have there been any studies that factor in the repeated reuse of the same masks?
Boiled down to: nobody ever gets a promotion for maintaining the success of something that's already successful.

Which is a shame, but the corporate game theory optimality of leapfrogging between hot projects has held true at essentially every company I've ever worked for.
The abbreviation would be nsdap, not nazi. Nazi includes everybody with that ideology, not just party members
I'm sorry, but answers like this have always struck me as unhelpful at best and usually feel like they are more of a person's expression of superiority than anything else.

At the very least, it does not take into account the intended recipient's environment. My employer was very flexible but we still ran into times when there were conflicts between an employee's family and professional responsibilities. Many people were thrust into positions where they had maintained both their full time employment and had to fill the role of full time teacher/child care worker as well. Someone has to be available for the child at all hours. While a spouse can help divide up that responsibility, there is a high probability that one or both parents will have their workday interrupted.

At the other extreme, you are also contending with people who had their lives upended and are having trouble dealing with things psychologically. If you're having trouble coping, chances are that discipline is not within your reach.

Particularly in the latter case, it doesn't all come down to the self. In the early days of lock down, our team spent time during our staff meetings making sure everyone was okay and discussing what was going on in the world around us. It seemed to be helpful for most of us. I do some part time work for another employer, their response was, "here's a support line, but it is only available to people in these positions." Not only is the solution emotionally detached, but it instantly conveys the message that the excluded employees are not valued.

None of this is meant to excuse a lack of discipline, but it is meant to point out that the circumstances play a strong role for many people and that it is quite often a matter that has to be facilitated collectively rather than fall onto the individual.
> This verbosity makes many things explicit

Sometimes, the verbosity just makes the language verbose. A pythonista will have zero trouble telling you when a block ends, despite not having braces around it.

Verbosity is unrelated to a language's explicitness as this is a semantic decision. It is usually related to syntax, which has other effects.
It's not butts-in-seats per se; rather, it's middle-managers being able to create backchannel fiefdoms to increase the leverage they have over rivals.

"People who trust only you" is to managers as "code nobody else understands" is to engineers: job security, and a springboard for making you look like a hero and so getting you recognition/promotions. And it's hard to develop relationships like that, if you can't just wander over to those people and have in-person (i.e. not on-the-record in the company's logs) conversations.

To exactly the degree that your company resembles a feudalist society, you'll see managers excited to have their own physically distinct office units/departments/working groups, where they can most-effectively hoard and develop private talent pools on the company's dime. And you'll see them heavily resist anything that makes that talent-pool of theirs less private, e.g. WFH, cross-departmental collaboration, "war rooms" during emergencies, etc.
What type of phone? As for my iPhone, it’s in better command of its senses, for I typed this sentence on it without manually adding or removing apostrophes.
Nonverbal communication.
> The amount of poor neighborhoods with brand new cars rolling around really depresses me

I have no interest in cars and find it quite ridiculous that they can be seen as a social status, so I agree with your statement. But, people have different interests... some will spend their money travelling or playing golf, and some people just like cars!
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I mean Vine was the same concept and died due to lack of profitable monetization model.

How does TikTok earn money?
If those actors really thought what they did was bad they would be trying to revert the outcomes of their actions. Do you see the US moving non-native descendants out of vast swaths of American to set up native-american countries, or paying native survivors the fair land value of all the lands they were driven from? Talk is cheap, watch the hands.
We should all be working only 3\4 days of the week.

When you think of it, it's crazy how we just succumb to the notion that we have to work at least 5 days a week (yay magic numbers) just so we can please our corporate overlords.
Histotical examples usually don't work on the internet but I'll try anyway:

That's not the actual history of these types of of actions. Look at the 1982 IBM / Japan theft case (https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/09/business/hitachi-guilty-i...).

IBM was aggressively protecting its mainframe market in the 80s so it would have a blossoming and prosperous future.

Even if we are to accept your premise AND all your arguments, it's still a bad idea as it actually led to a stagnation of technology.

There's plenty more historical examples of this. It doesn't work.

Take the Japanese automobile quota system for example (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/am...). This tried to protect encroachment of Japanese cars into the American market.

Not by increasing the quality but by suspecting the Japanese of stealing American know-how. A covetous and revanchist policy.

This only led to them internationalizing their markets more and working around the US in their supply chain. The US locked itself out of the market, became insular with its cars, stagnated and lost its place in the international market.

And now everyone is doing lean manufacturing which is from Toyota. Turns out they were just making better stuff and our policymakers were too racist to acknowledge the possibilities just like we thought Afghanistan was going to be easy, or Russia thought they'd easily defeat Japan.

The haughty racial superiority complex is alive and well.
one note: it is NOT hugo/nebula material, more like old-school pulp scifi. :)
Time to dust up the deep fake and some gt-3 standard answers for the standup.
David is a drama magnet. Take everything he says with a grain of salt.
I agree, but I am happy this article appeared, so that I could follow such an interesting discussion of really experienced people exchanging their own thoughts.
Feels like there has to be algorithmic bias here. Let's not let coincidence paired with prejudice fool us into believing that fat men are corrupt.
Sapi-Whorf strikes again!

Seems like a name change is in order.
Has Andreas Olofsson left Adapteva for greener pastures?
His LinkedIN profile makes an impression he has moved on.

Does anyone get to be a DARPA Program Manager while being a CEO of another company?
>There was clearly other text you sent that was baseless speculation. There was history there you’ve not shown. Pretending as if this is the only text that mattered is dishonest.

Comments like this only further strengthens my point that rather than discourse this 'community' seeks to erase history and attack my credibility. Since Mozilla also censored it out and here's a screenshot of the original single text sent a day earlier: https://ibb.co/dgXBdJK

I handled all this (including attaching both screenshots) and more in my report to Mozilla. I don't believe it's dishonest to include the specific text that was censored amd banned when requested, especially when that text references the earlier 'baseless speculation' and I did not bring it up again. They asked what I was banned for, it was expressing my frustrations that caused me to send the original message in the first place.

Furthermore, its extremely concerning that the move to Matrix over IRC seems to be so that rather than just remove users they don't like, they can scrub the history of their message content and tag it with labels like 'baseless speculation' and 'conspiracy theories' to further debase the removed user.

I would include the text of the report I sent to Mozilla but it includes some personal information.
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I mean some of the biggest examples have been tech. AOL and Time Warner was a hot mess that destroyed both, for instance.
I worry that you think it would be better if parent wasted 3x as much of his life commuting on public transit instead.

Distance between homes and offices is the problem; cars are the worst solution except for all the others.
I'm not sure it's necessarily more negative as that people who resignedly accepted the current situation are seeing that the "new normal," while not 100% remote in most cases, is probably often not going to be entire teams working together in one location. Which means, more or less, that teams will have to work as if everyone is remote to be effective. And that's a big change.
Why is your society so intolerant of immigration? Did you run out of room or perhaps there are scaling problems?
Reminder: strict type checking is more trouble than it’s worth for some of us.

Ask yourself why dynamic type languages keep appearing, despite a fanatical resolve to purge them from the face of the earth? It’s almost as if some people prefer them.

But I guess the knowledge of salvation by compile time binding must be brought to the late binding heathens, to use a poor analogy.

On the other hand, I’m willing to admit that strict Compile time type checking is what many or most people prefer.
Definitely agree. Only a small percentage of the general public here seem to understand the difference between FTTC (which is what we have) and FTTP/FTTH (which is what we need). Perhaps if they did then the Gov would have to work harder on FTTP delivery.
that was changed in YAML 1.2[0], which I think is many years old, but people don't specify a version on config files anyway and I'm not even sure most parsers respect it, so it keeps popping up, which is sad.

[0] https://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html#id2803629
"Collins' platform Saladbowl, where he hosts and streams videos directly from his computer to bypass copyright strikes"

oh man. I hope he understands why services like youtube are so heavy handed in taking down potential copyrighted material. False copyright strikes are annoying but copyright lawyers are ruthless...double so when the law is actually on their side in a case and its not them just harassing.
Shuttle tank and S-I body were built at NASA Michoud, but by contractors (Boeing and Martin, respectively.) Boeing today is building the SLS first stage there, as a variant of the Shuttle ET.
This point, you really got to set your boundaries and communicate that with your team (calendar, slack status message etc). This is my first time working from home for a longer duration, and it was really harder to do this the first month. I was unknowingly working longer hours and was burning or stressing myself out. Now my setup is as follows:

1. Calendar has defined work hours, lunch time break, coffee breaks, spending time with kids break.

2. Slack has the status messages for the same hours and in DND mode

3. I shutdown my work laptop by 7PM and open it only by 9AM

4. My router cuts access to all connected devices by 7PM clearly as reminder. So if I'm to extend a call or continue working I have to do it consciously.

5. I create a two users in my Android phone called "Home" and "Work" and each has apps and accounts only required for each mode, but contacts are shared. If people need me from work, they can call or text me in case of SEV1s.

6. I sent this in detailed email to my team and other people I interact with in office.
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> The alternative is for the government to have someone else provide the childcare

Another alternative is to pay workers a fair living wage sufficient for everyone to afford private care.
Ozone is an extremely harsh disinfectant chemical, and it's dangerous to say it's not. Various regulatory agencies in the USA set prolonged exposure limits at about 0.1ppm. [1] The USA's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has set its Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) concentration for ozone as 5ppm.

This study you've linked examines the disinfectant power (against Pseudomonas aeruginosa) of ozone at a concentration of 400ppm. If somebody who's been told that ozone is not a harsh chemical decides to open that airtight container and smell the sanitation, they might get a whiff of ozone so concentrated that doctors around the world will be talking about the resulting injury.

Even if you're careful not to do that, opening the container may cause a significant and harmful elevation of ozone concentration in the room if this is done indoors.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/ozone-generators-...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/idlh/10028156.html
I read all of what you pasted before I posted. I don't see how it changes my point at all.

There's a complete disconnect between the first statement about encryption and the second. Unless Bill Gates really thinks that the vast majority of spread is through private messages.

Even accepting the premise that censorship is the right approach, the vast majority of spread comes from public, unencrypted post. The connection to encrypted messaging is tenuous at best.

Acting as if killing encryption is the solution to combating misinformation sounds like a convenient strawman that Bill Barr would love to throw around.
There’s an ad when you return to the app. Since you’re expecting a full screen video to auto play, they often aren’t out of place. You can skip them immediately as well.

Besides ads, one would think there’s endless ways to monetize a strong fun brand.
I kind of wonder if people like this get "shadowbanned" and how it would work.
When I did service call, we had a minimal charge for travel time (1 hour) with 1 hour increments. That way when they call for an service call where they were you knew it usually was important.

Of-course, I did have one call that took me only 5 minutes to drive to the site and the three minutes to change the toner in the printer.

The executive secretary who would not talk to me over the phone because she was so important suddenly found she would have to explain a two hour service call (1 hour travel, 1 minimum service time) to her boss. :)
Kent State was barely 50 years though, and sending Predator Drones after anyone suspected to even tangentially be related to terrorism is current policy.

If the US still had an ethnic minority that lived predominately in one area and has been active in terrorism and islamist extremism, I don't think they'd handle it gracefully. Abu Ghraib gives us an idea about what the US would do in a similar situation and it's not been that long.
Why wireless ISPs are still necessary in the age of 5G (2019)
Unfortunately, these maps are neither complete nor very accurate. For example, smaller ISPs and networks (like LiteXchange) are usually not included. :(
Habits: Theory, Creation, and Removal
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14074594

2011 (2 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520938

Both threads are quite good.
If you're not making time to listen to those podcasts I have to ask, how much value do you gain from them?
> It must be admitted that there are words with a ‘z’ in them that are purely American, like advertize

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone spell it like that, does anyone truly use this form of spelling advertise?
I think it's more complex than the stewardship problem - that problem, specifically, is internal, and the executives who engage in change for the sake of advancement usually do so knowingly.

I'm talking about something completely different - the executives in this case are not knowing participants, they are in the state of mind to be snowed.
FTA: “5G networks will be able to use the round-trip time from a single tower to locate a device. That’s because massive MIMO and beamforming allow 5G towers to send precise signals directly to devices”

That could make face identification a lot easier and more reliable. Instead of matching against a database of everyone in the cell tower’s range, it could match against faces known to be in sight.

And yes, the thought of phone providers knowing the fairly precise location of all their subscribers’ phones (and smart watches, and cars, and smart TVs, and fridges, etc) all the time scares me, too.
You would like the Stainless Steel Rat scifi series of books by Harry Harrison. :)
Here’s root access, heres merge privs in code review, heres a shard drive with recordings of past q&a sessions and a link to the wiki. Let me know if you have any questions!
You're right it's not 100% but I made that comment to admittedly "get a reaction". I think it's good to remind people of this dynamic, the way you think about your workplace is just half the story.

> Human emotions are real and managers aren't just blindly following game theory

Absolutely, which means this isn't guaranteed. This isn't part of a companies DNA ( you could argue good people always get hired?). This isn't true for all work places. The truth is it depends on the people that work there and just like you mentioned that you could have caring emotional humans as managers, you can also have not-caring emotional humans as managers.

If I had to make a grand generalization about most workplaces then I think it's safer to say they would care more about money (for profit/staying in business) than I would say they care about making me, an employee, happy.

Having said that I've worked in great places where I don't feel it's 100% about the money. I know some of that feeling is genuine because of the people I work with. I also know that feeling is intended and is the primary focus of some departments in companies. I know that I'm in a field that has enjoys greater privileges than other workers.

I try to remind myself about this and I think I'm ok with saying that "it's 99% about the money for the employer". A bit cynical (or realist depending on your view).
Nope, that is what the scammers sending out fake invoices want you to think.
If you ask me, ads with the ability to pay a monthly fee to remove them is the ideal situation.
I was expecting something about carpal tunnel syndrome or Dvorak keyboards as well.

Then I realized it was Haskell zealotry :-(
Show HN: How fast can you read code? (infinite Python practice programs)
It's odd that the part about hiding with encryption was added by Wired - I wonder how clear it was that that was what he meant, or that he just meant that he wanted stronger laws against lies and fraud. Although I guess that wouldn't mesh with the mention of child pornography, which already is disallowed.
Well, everybody is different but I have a stack of to-be-read that I just never get time for. (Almost done How I Wish I'd Taught Maths and next is A Nation of Deadbeats.)
If curious see also

2018 (4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18640451

2011 (1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3411646
Whenever I come across these quirks, I can't help but think of how extremely codified the grammar of Sanskrit(and other Indian languages that are influenced by it) is to handle situations like this.

Visarga Sandhi is one example comes to my mind. It is primarily used to handle the negative cases. For example, devoid of people is 'Nirjan' which is built using 'Nih'(No) and 'Jan'(People), whereas 'Nishchal' which means devoid of motion comes from 'Nih'(No) and 'Chal'(Motion). I'm not exactly sure but the rule probably goes along the lines of - When amalgamating "Uh" sound with Hard Sounds(Ka, Cha, Ta, Tha, Pa) you add a 'Sh' sound as in Nishkalmash, Nishchal, Nishchinth etc whereas when amalgamating with Soft sounds(Ga, Ja, Da, Dha, Ba) you add a 'Rr' sound as in Nirbhay, Nirday etc.

You have hundreds of these rules that deal with all kinds of transformations, sometimes simple rules like Ka => Ga, Cha => Ja etc. and sometimes more complex rules which are conditional on the consonant sounds that precede the object of transformation(Namah + Te => Namaste). Lot of them feel arbitrarily imposed but they just feel right when you say them out aloud.

Here are a couple of examples involving vowel transformations.

Mahaa(Great) + Indra(Lord) => Mahendra(Great Lord)
(aa(as in car) + e(as in kick) => ae(as in vent))

Mahi(Earth) + Indra(Lord) => Mahindra(Lord of Earth)
(e(as in kick) + e(as in kick) => ee(as in screen))
IIRC Starlink can handle about 2gbs per 50 sq miles due to frequency bandwidth limitations. That's a few hundred subscribers. It's not going to make an impact in any but the most rural areas.
IsItPhishing.ai: Real-time analysis of URLs to test for phishing
https://emeryberger.com/research/stabilizer/
Every key on my keyboard is custom hyper key.

My config: https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/dotfiles/blob/master/karab...

Article to explain how to achieve this: https://medium.com/@nikitavoloboev/karabiner-god-mode-7407a5...
Supports mouse and fileanagement poorly. File management on iOS is a disaster. I love my iPad pro I detest iOS.
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After tutoring beginners for over 6 years, I realized that a major weakness in the way programming is taught is that beginners don't get to practice reading code enough. I made this site to randomly generate python programs for the user to read and figure out the output. It can be configured based on the student's level of ability, e.g. you can include or exclude different variable types, and the difficulty levels gradually introduce more complex statements, like if/elif/else, loops, and nested loops. There are three different exercises currently: control flow (this submission's link), boolean expressions, and functions.

I've been using this with one of my students during development and it seems to have helped. He certainly got faster at reading code, and I think the skill has transferred over to writing code as well.
The other reason not to freak out about this is that we're already far down the path the people think deep fakes are creating.

Reddit and Twitter and the internet prove that people will react to an image of text by the tens of thousands, going straight into their brain. All of us have been guilty of this at some point.

To me it's naive to freak out about Photoshop and video deepfakes because it reveals that you're completely unaware of the degree of "shallowfaking". A screenshot of a headline or tweet spreads in a way that a deepfaked video can't, and it apparently goes right past our bullshit detector in a way that video can't.
OP was getting that in 2010 elsewhere - it’s fairly amazing that London isn’t getting multiples of that now.