skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was the one who asked.

And yes, when you described the media as "woke" I assumed you meant recent media.

And your original argument gave no mention of a historical context, instead you spoke in current tense.
GP's comment was about the probable capability of currently performed bots, not the SOTA performance of bots that may be deployed in theory.
Women less likely to be shown ads for high-paid jobs on Google, study shows
Privacy of biometric data in DHS hands in doubt, inspector general says
Someone has to pay for that. My guess is if you think it’s “free,” you’re not one of the people getting the bill.
Do you mean the company notifying the employee that they're going to be let go in X months?

The amount of knowledge each person has to pass on / cleanup they could do can vary. If there's no other downside than to say someone might not have something to do the entire time, why not stick with 3 months?
The awful aftertaste of them yanking "Other OS" after I payed for it still hasn't left my mouth. I haven't bought anything Sony since.
It’s also about who pays for it. Do you want another $5,000 of your salary involuntarily taken to support just one of these?
I'm in the same boat, inside any given org I can tangibly feel that "jack of all trades" is in huge demand... and I find myself working long hours due to internal demand for this role inside companies.

Like you, in my 20 years doing this type of role (wearing a large variety of different title hats) I've never been HIRED to the role. This feels odd, given playing the role always keeps me in high demand internally to organizations.... so if its something organizations crave internally, why don't they hire for it?

When eng/prod/ux "broke up" and became separate job roles in the post-Google and post-MS world, I found it /very/ frustrating, because I'd rather straddle all of these objectives. Additionally, I find many companies fail around these seams, because its hard to pragmatically find the optimal solution in the broad eng/prod/ux tradeoff space when you have the "deep knowledge trees" spread across many heads, with the limited bandwidth that entails.

When I started taking senior eng management positions, I naturally thought I would change this, and explicitly hire some "jack of all trades" folks. I was surprised by how hard this is to do, harder even (for me) to evaluate than specialist knowledge, was distinguishing pragmatic and effective "jack of all trades" types from, well, bullshitters. This is funny, because the really effective "jack of all trades" I've observed are in many ways the farthest from BSers possible, they're usually so broadly knowledgable partly because they are so voraciously pragmatic that they end up learning a lot of different things. But from the outside, I wasn't personally successful in confidently distinguishing people in an interview context.

The problem is there's a similar appearing archetype to "jack of all trades" the "always reading never doing" person. Conversationally, they can appear similar. And I found (and find myself) that its hard to test jacks-of-all-trades because they often don't keep knowledge at their fingertips, part of their skill is fast learning. But even if they spent serious time using a technology, they still need 4 hrs of work in it to look surface competent again (I think because they're constantly swapping knowledge in and out, vs a deep knowledge person who have practiced the same patterns over and over and over).

So my limited experience as a "jack of all trader" was:
1. Yes, companies seem to get a LOT of benefit from really good people with broad skillsets.
2. But I personally don't know how to select the good ones in hiring. I suspect other people have found good ways, I'd be curious to hear about them :-)
I am surprised that noone mentions the Solid project in the context of discussing privacy

https://solidproject.org/
you can source a file that contains a shebang in most (all?) shells assuming it contains code written in the same shell language. I.e. a bash file can't source a fish file and vice-versa.
I'm one of the authors of the paper in the post, we're trying to extend this work by crowdsourcing censorship measurements from different vantage points in India.

We've compiled these tests into an android app, please consider running it if you live in India and would like to contribute to the research :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.censorwatc...

It's completely anonymous, doesn't require any permissions, and does not store any user related information.
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You should figure out what you like to do the most and pursue jobs/specialization for that. Wearing multiple hats will eventually burn you out, regardless of how much you enjoy it now.
>Countries by Percentage of Population Living in Poverty

Careful. The US ranks pretty poorly compared to most European countries.
wow, why does only one keyboard have a soft wrist rest?

no wrist rest, or a hard plastic or wood one is leaving a lot of ergonomics, uh, off the table.
Interesting.

So instead of an ad blocker, we could have background bots in our browser visiting random urls and clicking on every ad in sight (of course it would need to mimic human UI input).

I wonder what affect that would have.
STOICAL does networking, and a whole lot more... but it looks like it hasn't been touched since 2002. 8(

http://stoical.sourceforge.net/documentation.php
Weird, I have that neither in Chrome nor FF:

https://pasteimg.com/images/2020/09/30/image.png
I _just_ ordered a Bosch 500 series because my (barely 4 year old) GE model died over the weekend. I was told by a friend who owns the same Bosch model that they go through a lot of Jet Dry, though... But if it actually cleans well and doesn't break in a few years I'll be happy.
I'm not sure I understand; can you explain that to me?
Stitch Data stopping free plan
Datasets and Corpora for Named Entity Recognition (NER)
What are you good at, what do you have an aptitude for? Think about where you could pitch in, where it would help..

(Also, in your life, do favors for Future You. Future You will be at a party someday and the cute one making small talk with you will say, 'hey, tell me about your HN username." You won't want to say "uh".)
I never imagined I would have any feelings for an appliance, but I love my Bosch (800 series and it was just under $1K; third rack is great as well).
Thanks so much! This arrived at exactly the right time for me.
Harvest bots are almost certainly along the lines of Perl and Python scripts armed with regexes.
>The thesis behind these programs is explicitly that the government shouldn’t waste timing being paternalistic about the recipient’s spending, l

When government is getting that money by taking it from other people it has responsibility to see that the money is spent in a manner that's beneficial. If that's blackjack and hookers then fine but if it turns out that the money is spend on blackjack and hookers and doing so doesn't benefit society then we can't in good faith keep taking people's money for that use.

I'm all for outcome based evaluation, but we need to have the balls to say "ok, well no blackjack and hookers then" if that's what the numbers support.
Good solid "jack of all trades" folks, if they want to move up, need to do 1 of 2 things: (there may be others, these are the ones that jump out at me)

1) Specialize in at least one thing. This will make you an expert in one thing, while still being the person everyone goes to for other things as well. This will help advance to senior developer.

2) If you have a good grasp of the logistics of how pieces of a project fit together & the coordination necessary, another clear path to a more senior role is team lead where you do PM & part-time development. If you want to go higher than that, you're looking at high level project or product management. Actual development work will be minimal, but again with a jack of all trades background you will still provide valuable insight & guidance to those performing development work. And you can always look for extra opportunities to get your hands dirty back in to coding here & there.
Founding engineer, employee #2, etc... The bigger the company, the harder this will be.
What a stupid post. What gives you any indication that this is the cause?
Good GUI layer should be language agnostic. Reasons:

1. GUI is non-trivial. That is not just about problems of CPU/GPU rasterization (30...40% of all GUI problems). There are others that we usually forget about: accessibility, customization/styling, DPI and screen device size awarness, etc.

2. It makes no sense to invest in development of only-for-Rust GUI libraries. Just use in Rust something ready that has stable plain-C ABI. And so people from C/C++, Delphi can use it too. That would be more robust on the long run.

3. Rust is is not that good to be a language-behind-UI. Ownership graph of GUI objects can be quite complex, contain loops and can be not known at compile time. Something GCable plays significantly better in this respect. That's why JS is so popular in UI. Sciter's script is even better than JS but that's another story.

So "GUI 2021" as a subject of blogging makes sense, but "Rust GUI 2021" is a bit hopeless I think.
> IF it were true that the US can never run out of money, then why worry at all about the cost of things? Why not just print 100% of the money to provide 100% of the things people want?

The point of MMT is not that it's impossible to cause inflation, but that printing money and investing it in the national interest doesn't, for the same reason that issuing shares doesn't reduce a company's stock price if those shares are being issued in exchange for a capital investment. We shouldn't print money to fund consumption, but we should be happy to print money to pay for infrastructure, healthcare, research - anything that's ultimately going to return more money to the economy than it costs.

> WRT providing homeless with housing and birth control specifically, I think a very strong argument can be made that a government agency is not the best provider of that service. Why wait for a slow, inefficient bureaucracy to waste a bunch of the money and time on admin costs?

Why do you believe that a government is more likely to be a slow inefficient bureaucracy than a private NGO or whatever it is that you're suggesting?

> People unable to do so need not be coerced through the tax system into participating in a less efficient program.

No-one with that kind of money is "unable" to pay their fair share of taxes. They choose not to.

It's the same as everyone paying their share of a dinner. If one person skipped out, everyone else could probably cover their meal without really noticing. But everyone would object to doing that, because no-one wants to feel like a sucker.
Wow cool to see my country is doing this. is actually pretty awesome. Do other governments also do this? There is even an architecture breakdown on the Api that does the scanning of the license plate for ticketing.

https://algoritmeregister.amsterdam.nl/en/automated-parking-...
Hey dang, I've seen you make these "multiple pages" comments a few times now. Maybe it is just time for a UI that fixes that?
India is going to dogs under current leadership
My workflow: video conference edition
Also consoles are general purpose computing devices in tech terms.
Just use white vinegar instead of jetdry. It works as well and is much cheaper.
All these problems come from these video call services trying to serve a million masters. If you're in a meeting it might be nice to have a big red X while you're muted, but it's distracting in an online class when you're always muted. If you're in a class or doing a demonstration you might always want to see the screen, but if you're doing a presentation you may want to see both the face and the screen. How many people should you show while someone is sharing their screen? In my online class I would say 0, and in my meetings I would say everybody.
A major motivation of the Crochet prototype is the Rust implementation of the widget tree can be driven by scripts.
That budget appears to mean no one is getting paid for OBS. The project is huge so likely a lot of hours are committed to it.
thought using loops was cheating, so I programmed my
own using samples. I then thought using samples was
cheating, so I recorded real drums. then thought that
programming it was cheating, so i learned to play drums
for real. I then thought using bought drums was cheating,

so I learned to make my own. then i thought using
premade skins was cheating, so I killed a goat and
skinned it. I then thought that that was cheating too, so l
grew my own goat from a baby goat, I also think that is
cheating, but I'm not sure where to go from here. i haven't
made any music lately, what with the goat farming and
all.
On minimum wage it can take years to save up $8k. Better paying jobs are available but you need a car to get to them.
> Finally, you could fork Safari and remove quite a few features.

I'm really curious how you would fork a proprietary project.

> If someone did that, I think we'd have a really ideal setup for cross platform apps.

Buy safari isn't cross-platform.
Actually the minimum number of pixels to render a close box is three times the number of close boxes (ie. 3x3 for 1 close box). Any fewer pixels will not allow a functional close box to be reconstructed. This is referered to as the 'Nah-quist limit'.
National Institutes of Health Director Urges Americans to Believe Science
Many old Bell-provided phone models also had metal weights inside.
One day they will start blocking all traffic from outside which is not "registered" with the. We are close to that happening actually with people accepting Chinese app ban
> "“left leaning folks” don’t simply label speech as offensive and leave it at that"

But that's what you just did, and are still doing. Offensive is subjective. Who are you to consider what is offensive to others? Are you in those groups? Are you personally taking offense?

Why did you say immigration can't be discussed? I'm an immigration who discusses it just fine, and I find it annoying and offensive that you act offended on my behalf and shutdown any discussion. I don't want or need that and am fully capable of engaging in the discussion or leaving myself out of it. Engage with the argument or leave it, but stop acting on behalf of others as if they don't have agency. It's just a soft bigotry to think that they can't speak for themselves.

And self-censorship is never good. People holding views that you find offensive don't need to stop doing anything, and this has both exposed bad people and led to revolutionary new ideas. At one point ending slavery and women's suffrage was also offensive to discuss, but good thing we discussed it and actually made progress. Let's not stop now.
You would still want to use remote manipulators even if you can open the reactor. The problem is not "small ports", it's that parts of the reactor vessel itself become irradiated. People can and have easily fit through the ports on JET, and will be able to on ITER.

The remote manipulators are an amazing piece of technology; having the movements of your arms and hands replicated exactly by a robot is mind-blowing.
> And why were the other coronaviruses that infect humans left out of the study

Because one of them, SARS-1 went extinct in just over a year due to a heroic international response, and the other, MERS, has about a 35% fatality rate and is unlikely to be found in anyone who does not have direct contact with camels.
How isn't this an academic paper as defined by Admiral Rickover? It meets a lot of his criteria: small, cheap, built quickly and, probably most importantly, it's not being built now.
Jury trial is more expensive.
Ah, back in 1953, when they were only 20 years away from practical nuclear fusion.
Certain Aqua Teen Hunger Force Episodes Retired Due to ‘Cultural Sensitivities’
The blog post linked is worth reading. This part in particular:

> While you were reading this article, the test scripts have already run. So open up the developer console and check it out!

That was really slick.
> But even if they spent serious time using a technology, they still need 4 hrs of work in it to look surface competent again (I think because they're constantly swapping knowledge in and out, vs a deep knowledge person who have practiced the same patterns over and over and over).

I've been doing professional software work for 25 years. The last several years I've been working with various JS toolkits (vue/angular, some react) as well as backend stuff (mostly PHP, some Node, some Java, some other stuff), and attendant tooling and whatnot (build systems, testing systems, etc). The last 6 months, I've found myself contracting on different projects swapping between these various stacks, sometimes multiple times per week. I know I look incompetent as a JS developer to some folks who are living in that world 40+ hrs/week for years on end. Couple the various tech stacks with each team's own styles of doing things - which, really, they each seem to think any deviation from 'their' standards is heretical and indicates you're a 'lesser' or 'less experienced' developer - it wears thin after a while..

Trying to 'showcase' that 'jack of all trades' aspect in interviews rarely seems to go well, unless it's not an interview and just a word-of-mouth referral from someone who already 'gets it'.
Cyberpunk 2077 Publisher Orders 6-Day Weeks
Electric planes will replace car and bus trips before they replace gas planes. Short range, on demand, point to point, cheap travel could really be a game changer. Think what you used to do as a two hour drive- battery electric planes will be able to do that, a distance that today isn’t economical because of the high cost of jet and turboprop maintenance and fuel, and the need for runways. All those commenting- “but the energy density” are right, but don’t miss the forest for the trees. The sky is an underutilized asset.
Blah, Blah, Blah.

'The Social Dilemma' on Netflix is TRUTH, in an age of garbage like your piece.
I'll respond to your straw man. It isn't about the energy within the thing, the exorbitant cost of Uranium is in mining and refining. No one said anything about coal, but it doesn't need refined, and is cheaply mined... but you've also made a false equivalency, because coal isn't the only competition to nuclear. The sun just shines, wind just blows, water just flows, and the geothermals just produce heat, without any investment or refinement.

If just 10% of the resources poured into nuclear development, which is a cost no one that is pro nuclear wants to tally into the bill, were instead invested into solar energy, nuclear power would not have been able to compete with solar power by 1980.

Nuclear power isn't cheap, unless you ignore the insane R&D that was paid for by tax payers by government mandate and never paid back, unless you ignore the massive cost of construction long before one watt of power is produced, and unless you ignore the massive cost of decommissioning, and unless you ignore the never ending cost of spent fuel storage. It is entirely absurd that you believe once a spent fuel storage facility is built, the costs just disappear. The costs never go away. Maintenance. Security. Testing. It isn't free and it isn't cheap.
And his son went on to become a preëminent conservative intellectual and author!
nice, they added RNNoise
Since you mentioned AWS, in a typical AWS organization, you will have services which fall into two categories; 1) external services that are used by your customers (let's say a web application) and 2) internal services that are used by your internal team, i.e., developers, DevOps team, administrators (let's say SSH, RDP, database, hosted GitLab). Most probably, you are protecting customer-facing services with web application firewalls, DDOS prevention. But how do you safeguard access to internal services?

Weak access to internal services are often overlooked and are one of the primary vectors of system compromise and data breach. With features such as agentless two-factor authentication, privilege access security(protecting keys to your kingdom), device authentication (verify user devices along with passwords), TRASA ensures that access to internal services is well protected.
I like this clip from a QI episode where they discuss if there is such a thing called as fish (as per Stephen Jay Gould)

Particularly like David Mitchell and Sean Lock (or as a comment spells his last name Locke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhwcEvMJz1Y
Well, that's why I never bother to respond to Google recruiters! Google is so full of itself but without the ads business, their continued errors in product and business development, their evil corp would have tanked their unhealthy ambitions long ago!
'A Million Random Digits,' a number-cruncher’s Bible, is flawed
https://archive.vn/shhAp
Mkt cap: 1.98T

Users don’t care.
From John Gruber, well-know Apple schill.
More to the point, it only works if the owner isn't the only person who is willing and able to maintain the project. Open licensing lets you maintain your own fork, but it doesn't by itself grant you the drive, general skill, and project-specific knowledge to do so.
It seemed like a joke to me. Why meet it with such vitriol?
If reading on mobile, you would have needed to swipe down at most twice to find a name taking ownership of the government's statement. Nothing about it seems difficult.
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Doctors Group Sues California for Failing to Add Processed Meat to Cancer List
I'm in the same boat and there aren't many. Startup founder or first-wave employee is the most likely option. I've done that several times. The larger the company, the more cookie-cutter the roles and titles.

Another option is to find a cookie-cutter role that fits your interests. For me that means "embedded software engineer", where all of my experience is relevant. I'm definitely all-tech and no-management now though.

Yet another option is consulting/contracting/freelancing. You need a good network for that. I haven't done this. Preparing to potentially do it in a few years after I have a larger nest egg.
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Create a novel concept with uber numbers/scale/growth from the ground up. With faster rising valuation times. Plot twist. Make it non-profit.
Do you have any plans of releasing an iOS app anytime soon? I’m going to recommend the Android app to people I know, but it would be good to have something for the iOS users too.
How important are the nuances of law exactly? The talk right now is stacking the Supreme Court with 6 conservatives can give a contested elections to conservatives and overturn Roe v Wade etc.

Not to mention how laws impact demographics differently.

Without knowing anything about laws specifically, this makes it seem like it isn’t very concrete. At all.
Packaging gtk for systems other than Linux can be a bit of a nightmare, and the experience on platforms other than Linux and desktop BSD leaves a lot to be desired.
> * Why can't I tell whether people are present/engaged when their video is off?

How would you like this to work? Sometimes I prefer others to think I'm engaged when I'm not
Hope I don't get downvoted, but I like to entertain plausible but low probability ideas because my creative mind goes there:

What if some outages like this are the US government performing security attack testing to test infrastructure of PRISM-like partners (or just anyone economically important to the US), so that when real attacks come from cyber enemy states like China, things have already been probed to see what needs to be fixed.

Kind of like national security HIIT, so your body politic is ready for war. National security is about economic health too. It's all part of the one picture.

</creative thinking>
Agreed. I find the general blackout of mentions of Matrix in sources like this (or Snowden's Twitter feed) interesting, to say the least.

Also seems like Signal isn't sufficiently concerned about being dependent on Amazon for hosting.
I've never heard of this. How can a hydrocarbon fuel be carbon neutral?