skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are already alternatives. Dyneema fiber is superior to GoreTex in almost any way but price (I have ultralight backpacks made of the stuff and are amazing). Moreover, they are more resistant to UV light than other polymers, lowering the chance they end up as microplastics.

If, instead, you are looking for waxable gear, have a look at Fjällraven G-1000 series of products. They cost a penny, but they are ultra sturdy and, in general, top-notch outdoor gear. Moreover Fjällraven should be one of the more environmental friendly brands for technical gear ATM.
Are you sure that github points to the same Cat language? The stuff in the readme there seems like the same sort of idea as the other Cat, but vastly more primitive.
Calling it an "edge case" dismisses the fact that Facebook/Apple/Google are never going to make the kind of openly verifiably secure device without a colossal shift in the market. We're not going to see mass produced goods that target the same market as Precursor, so all there is in this space is "small, easier to bribe manufacturers".

It's great that Facebook/Apple/Google can securely manufacture devices, with a supply chain thats verifiable by them, but externally, TouchID's security amounts to "we're Apple, trust us". That's not good enough for the target market for Precursor.
You can get better value for your skills and objectively achieve more results by moving to a place with a more developed ecosystem for your industry.
"Somebody will loot it, so it may as well be us"? If that's the best we can do, maybe we should stop looking for them in the first place. Let the corpses lay in peace, our modern approach to this lacks dignity.
> couldn’t be bothered to read an instruction manual

The manual for a new car is an inch thick, and flipping through it while driving trying to figure out how to turn on the defroster is BAD BAD BAD BAD design.
I believe it, on both these counts. It rings true with my personal experience and what I'm seeing in my friends, co-workers, and family. It really does seem like some non-negligible percentage of restaurant patronizing isn't coming back, and if that's true, then there's gonna be fewer restaurants.
Same here. One advantage of a home studio setup is many, many sweet knobs.

The musicians have figured it long ago that physical controls and no latency is a must. $50 mixer solves many problems.
I'm not sure I get this article - if you want a physical kill switch for audio, get a volume controller and set that directly under your monitor? Now you have a physical kill switch in the form of a GIANT near-zero-friction volume knob as well as dedicated hardware true-instant-mute button.

No reason computers should come with that out of the box, in the same way there's no reason they should come with a DVD drive or a vertical mouse or brand-name webcam, but if that's what you need in your life, any of these are <$100 peripherals.

Because you don't need a $2000 audio interface with twenty XLR inputs with individually controlled phantom power and built in EQ, or even a $299 one that podcasters and youtubers like to keep recommending: if you just want control over your audio, get something like a Behringer MONITOR1 for $60 [1], or a slightly nicer Mackie "Big Knob" passive 2x2 for $70 [2] and go "ahh, exactly what I needed".

[1] https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0C9G

[2] https://mackie.com/products/big-knob-series-monitor-controll...
Another thing being missed here is that the users in the original post didn’t want just a cup of coffee. If that’s all they wanted, they wouldn’t have used, not cleaned, and ruined the milk steaming wand.
If you are a police chief, and one of your cops takes a bribe, it does not imply your complicity.
Agree. Quoting "documents identify more than $2 trillion in transactions between 1999 and 2017 that were flagged by financial institutions’ internal compliance officers as possible money laundering or other criminal activity — including $514 billion at JPMorgan and $1.3 trillion at Deutsche Bank." Banks told regulators. They didn't do anything and the article doesn't ask why
This. Happened to me as the agency I worked for got bought and pretty much everyone lost their job due to redundancy. I was CTO back then and I it hurt to see my team of engineers, creatives dissolve within a few days.

Since I was unable to find another position in an instant (was on H1B) I took the offer of the purchasing agency to work as a database admin just to stay in the country. I took a huge pay cut and a significant change in my career. Never was I able to return to a managerial position after.

It seems racist to bully the crém de la crém of tech workers to find a job in such a short period or to get the hell out of the country. I have not experienced such a hostile work environment in any other country.

Now that I have a family I'm thinking to move to Europe where there's health insurance even if I lost my job. You receive financial aid for children (if you happen to have some), most countries in Europe offer free nursery schools, just to name a few pros.

"Thanks US for taking advantage of all H1B workers. But I'm outta here."
Putin also used Deutsche Bank to laundry $20bn.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...
My parents were in high school while segregation still existed. There's no question they got opportunities many black americans the same age did not, which absolutely had a direct and significant impact on my life.

Redlining remained legal into the 70s, and was continued with the thinnest of fig leafs concealing it into the 90s. Covert discrimination in loan and rental applications continues to this day.

Many studies repeated even today continue to confirm that racial discrimination in job applications remains a very real thing.

Wealth is strongly generational, and we aren't even 1 generation away from dramatic and legalized inequalities.

Your last paragraph is the most telling. Were black and native americans somehow not adults before today? Pools of funds? Have you ever driven through a reservation that wasn't a casino? The many underinvested urban areas that remain from the era of white flight and redlining?

We see you and what you are thinking here clearly. The world is moving on from such bigotry, as should you.
Interview prep sounds more onerous than it really is. Any experienced dev can churn through most interview practice questions quickly. It’s easy to look at the total number of questions and feel overwhelmed, but really practicing in 30 minute bursts here and there is sufficient for 95% of job interviews.

I’m also a parent. I’ve found that lunch breaks are a great time to practice.

But really there’s no reason to practice unless you’re job searching. If you’re laid off like this blog post is talking about then you’ll have plenty of time to practice.

I agree that this idea of spending all of your free time and weekends on side projects and practice question is nonsense, though. I don’t know anyone who does this.
I tracked down an explanation for the 810 bug, although it doesn't actually clarify why 80 was a magic number.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Ms9oq...
You at least were 'lucky' enough to reach the border. I know several people who weren't even allowed to board flights because the airlines run their own small 'judge jury and executioner' system whereby they will refuse to let you board if they feel you won't be allowed at the border. Sure this works for trivial cases like checking Visa stamp etc. but immigration rules are way more complex than that but try explaining that to the underpaid worker at the airline counter while 50 people are lined up behind you and making noises for you 'holding the line up'.

And these actions are taken outside the US (at the home country airport) so realistically speaking you can't even sue them or anything.
My guess for the "real reason" Trump is after these companies: the demographics of their users skews younger and more liberal, and they're using these platforms for political organization. Specifically, my guess is that it's retaliation for the tanking of the Trump rally in Tulsa [0].

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-...
It's still a really poor decision, because it doesn't extend well to having multiple sources. For example, my tv is connected both to my media computer, and to a Nintendo Switch. If the computer is active, then the volume should be around 50 on a 0-100 scale. If the Switch is active, then the volume should be around 10 to get the same level of output. I would love to have a way to tell the Switch that it should adjust the volume being sent, such that both it and the computer default to about the same volume.
My rented apartment has switches that presumably use radio to turn on and off the lights.

There is no further integration, or smart app etc.

I can't see which light switch is on or off, so even after years living here I mix up some of the switches.

Sometimes the radio pulse doesn't register, so I have to go back to the switch and press it again.

After pressing the switch, there's a perceivable, variable delay for the light to come on.

Guests are confused.

There are only downsides with such a system.
Are there Chinese browser engines?
It seems like a reasonable hypothesis to see Qanon as a form of cyberattack by a hostile state actor.
Yes. The supreme court has found consistently that pretty much anywhere the constitution says "people", it refers to all people regardless of citizenship, given that it also calls out "citizens" in many places.
If you physically cut a audio signal, one end of the cable turns into a broadcasting radio antenna.
Reality isn't as simple as presented.
Secure employment is hardly a marginal gain. Then again, HN used to be filled with engineers, now it's filled with entrepreneurs hoping for cheap labor so it makes sense.
Fortunately, my cheapo coffee machine has only one button - a mechanical rocker on switch. Unfortunately, it uses icons for which side is "ON", so I rock it until it starts getting warmer.
The Constitution says the Senate has confirmation powers for Ambassadors (consider Weld), it has consent on treaties and Congress declares war.
I’d certainly hope so. YouTube is a toxic attention pit for young kids.
I think it's pretty clear what would happen if Google could controlled the web through a browser monoculture. They would rapidly transform it into something more akin to a closed app ecosystem, with more DRM and proprietary features.

They might also give less of a crap about being backward-compatible and not breaking your website. The relative "slowness" of the evolution of the web is a good thing. It's already too fast IMO.
Thankfully, the article is longer than that single sentence.
> white-on-white if you don't allow JS with XHR

umatrix -> reader mode -> read your article
I think you were thinking of this:
https://www.loowatt.com/
Acronis True Image works well for me. Scheduling with notifications of success/failure. You can backup locally to whatever windows can attach to or to a cloud.

I've used to restore twice: same machine and new machine. Worked without an issue once the USB boot is created.

I think the cost is reasonable for 5 workstations.
Throw Away Code
I would be one of the family members hit by covid in those nursing homes ill sue new york
"Nobody knows what makes the sun rise."

"We have excellent records of its reliable daily rise, going back centuries."

But sunrise is caused by rotation of a spheroid planet, in no way implied by those records.
As I understand it, manager positions a tFAANG require some amount of leetcode as they want people who are technical (and they define technical as being able to do leetcode). Not sure how much they weigh that portion of the interview. That said, leetcode takes practice and is not an innate skill for the vast majority of people. I don't mean practice as in "an hour here and there" but more like "4 hours a day for two months." There's a reason people call it grinding leetcode.
This depends. End of 90s beginning of 2000s I did an awful lot of Java as I was doing work for Telcos and they have wanted nothing else. Then I changed type clients and suddenly Java had disappeared from my horizon completely (well I did one more single nice contract somewhere around 2005 I think).

For my own products I've never used anything but native (well except browser programming which was Javascript).
GVisor: Protecting GKE and Serverless Users
As a counterpoint, I had to intervene when I discovered one of our European offices was interviewing mobile developers with a 40-80 hour take home project. They were not happy when we made them reduce it to a 4-5 hour take home problem.
Based on my experience as an IT worker, this article examines an essential problem of employee management: "The way the organization is managed will determine in large measure whether there will be traitors in it." Dr. Ilan Diamant argues that organizations depend on trust and good faith: "Relations in which we feel that we are being used, in which there is no mutuality, are dangerous. When hitches like that arise they need to be corrected immediately, not at the level of the employee but at the level of the system."
I switched from tarsnap to Wasabi plus restic. It’s much cheaper ($.0059/gig) and I have no complaints so far.
"Yet as we see these checks are ineffective"

? They are highly effective.

It would be like saying 'police are ineffective in suppressing crime' when without them, the streets would explode with crime within a few days.

Everything (your bank account, your pay pal, your stripe, your accountant, your financial advisor) is monitored because without it it would be a hey day for financial corruption, money laundering etc..
Most drug dealers in this country are small time weed dealers. Usually college kids or recently graduated. These are the drug dealers who are small time and basically never get caught because they aren’t the demographic that drug laws were created to criminalize. So no, you and I seem to know different things.

Selling drugs is cheap, profitable, easy, and relatively low risk if you’re somewhere weed has been decriminalized but not legalized. You think smuggling people and selling weapons to felons is low risk and easy? You think insurance fraud is low risk and easy? That’s an absurd argument to make.

You know what they’ll move into? Selling literally anything else. I’ve seen it a dozen times. “Oh dealing drugs makes good money but it turns out selling artisanal chocolate/soda/nude pics/clothing makes even more money.”

I’ve got to say it seems like this argument comes from a lack of real world experience and a strict adherence to the reports and theories of law enforcement agencies. Contrary to your belief, non-drug crimes do not suddenly spike in areas where drugs are legalized. See: Europe, American states where weed is legal.
Java is a language that protects your investment. If you write code for it today, it will probably run and be easily deployable in the future by default.

The same cannot be said for Python and JavaScript, for example. At least not by default.
Pmcares FUND – A game on Indian prime minister inspired from Google's T-Rex Game
Pimax 5K/8K? Those have 200 degrees FOV.
Last I checked BackBlaze only kept deleted files for a max of 30 days, making it a non-starter for my needs. I'm not sure if that's still the case.
Windows is a bit more well behaved than OS X in this regard so swap them on Windows instead since the point is to not have to fight muscle memory. It'll take a bit of training to swap over, but then at least you're not having to swap between the two orderings unless you're frequently on other people's Windows computers.
If we get to be picky, emotions are probably better described chemically than with language.

Second best would be through narrative, like reading a story or watching a movie or play.

Third could be a description of it but my reading of a description doesn't necessarily lead to my feeling of the emotion.
Politically, it seems to be a big crappy case of playing the ends against the middle... The ends being:
1. All the shitty racists lobbying _against H1bs_ because "took er jerbs" on one side.
2. All the shitty FAANG capitalists lobbying _for_ it on the other because they want to keep engineering salaries controlled.

My quick bandaid bill would:
1) Any H1b holder can switch to any job as long as it comes with at least ten percent pay increase.
2) Any H1b holder gets an automatic green card after x years or paid y in federal+state taxes, whichever comes first.
3) Hiring company pays 80pct salary for the extent of the Visa, come hell or high water. You _really_ need that visa? Fine, prove it by taking on more of the risk instead of foisting it on the poor visa holder who came to help you.
Metabolism and Weight Loss
A limitation of capacitive touchscreens in general. A resistive display would be worse in just about every other application though.

Incidentally, you can press both the crown and the side button at the same time to pause and resume a workout even when the display is water-locked.
> but this is just political theatre before the upcoming election.

If the option was there for the taking, would he do it?
Singapore thrives by being a semi-democratic state. A benevolent strong man prevents rival parties from gaining a foothold by carefully tending to the needs of each of the major ethnic groups (Malays, Chinese, and South Indians). It’s not a true democracy, but it has to be the nicest non-democracy in the world.
it's perfectly consistent. punishment should be proportional to the scale of crime. laundering money is a bigger crime than stealing chewing gum, as it affects way more people. the restitution is harder and the responsibility greater. greater breaches of trust should result in greater punishments. white collar crimes are always bigger and broader than blue collar crimes.

bankrupting an executive means downsizing the house and car and laying low for a bit, not being made homeless with dim prospects for the future as happens with the lower classes.
Well I should perhaps elaborate: does it offer end to end authenticated encryption with keys that never leave user’s device in an open source program?

Another point, I suppose that backblaze comes with dedup and compression?
It's always good to have your ear to the ground about potential troubles in a company - this can be anything from an "all but essential travel freeze", to downgrading of snacks and other perks, or decisions that don't quite ring true/don't make sense.

Forewarned is forearmed.
Not really. Many people earn those salaries for 5-10 years and then move literally wherever they want to raise families.

It’s not hard to save a million or more on those salaries before you turn 30. That’s a lot of freedom.
The Master and His Emissary
Ny Pebble is fully operational when wet, or even underwater. Oh wait, that's because it has physical buttons.

(Never got the point of a touchscreen on a smartwatch. The surface is too small to be useful.)
I've been selling a $9 Windows app for 5 years now and never had a case where someone continued to contact support after a refund. We did have people who had a system straight from hell where nothing worked as planned, but then again the users of those systems seemed to be aware that it's their computer and not my app.
Building a Mini Maven Server
Yes, based on that sentence alone, it would be ambiguous. But the author expanded on this with a whole section clarifying what he meant, which is about the rate of feature development and adoption. Not sure if you missed it, but it starts with "I think the Web platform’s most frustrating aspect is also its greatest asset: it’s slow. It’s not just slow, it’s “it took 10 years1 to ship the <main> element which is just a spicy <div>” kind of slow. It’s glacial."
Except it’s not just about emergency care. (In that case I’d argue it’s a critical public safety issue.) Advocacy groups are targeting the practice generally, because providers opting out can mean that people have to travel further to get an elective abortion, sterilization, contraception, etc. You don’t have to be all that libertarian to believe that in non-emergency situations, doctors should be able to tell people to go somewhere else to get a procedure the doctor doesn’t wish to perform.

And, of course, since the doctor is also an active participant in killing the fetus, it’s not the “doctor imposing morals in the patient.”
I think that meant: How would that be more of a security nightmare than some malicious site editing your browser's whatever.localstorage?
Opening is fine, but removing them from a specific spot will definitely trigger some kind of cave-in.
If it takes that long it's because the category you're in is heavily over-subscribed and at a relatively low skill level. Using H-1B to do an end run around that is common, but to call it a prerequisite is dishonest. Our immigration system has limits because we believe it is in our citizen's interest. This means not every foreign worker that wants to immigrate is going to get to. US law gives preference to exceptional individuals, because our law is for the benefit of our citizens and corporations, not foreign nationals.
35er checking in
In the UK there's no concept if national ID and national ID card(There's an NI number for social security stuff but that's different). There's no central registry of citizens addresses and such, at least officially.

It certainly makes some things harder but I respect the spirit of the way British approach these things. Once you are in, it feels like the government minds its own business and doesn't have to know everything you do. I also think that this fosters the free thinking and innovation that UK is a leader of.
I think that sentence is misleading, and also that the author eventually gets around to making their meaning clear in the later section headed "Slow, like brisket." That section expands on the somewhat opaque initial formulation.
I'm the opposite, I have increasingly failing sight long distance but my shortsightedness has no signs of showing. I'm curious when I'll need bifocals, and whether it's possible to wear long and short vision contacts, one in eye, and wait for my brain to adjust.
Opera is Chinese now, right?
> and the other side doing pretty much all the can within the legal powers they have to improve the situation

Except they aren't. There is a clear 'caste' system when it comes to the immigration Democrats care about. Their primary focus is on immigration across the Mexican border (a lot of which is often technically or borderline 'illegal') which they want to make as legitimized as possible as the Hispanic community is a massive votebank for them. So we have all this noise about DACA and the like.

On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of legal H1B pool is largely an afterthought for them because the Indian and Chinese community in America is not that politically assertive, plus the H1B types can't vote anyway, and are mostly concentrated in places like California / Washington so their friends etc would anyway vote Democrat so who cares.
I have a couple of pants made from G-1000, and I really like it's properties (light, durable, will not retain much water, can be made water-repellent with wax), but it actually is made from 65% polyester and 35% cotton [1].

[1] https://www.fjallraven.com/uk/en-gb/about-fjallraven/materia...