skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mine would be to denounce or bundle notifications. I'd be fine with an hourly digest for most notifications (email). Some should wait until office hours (Slack). Some should ping once even for multiple events (group chats).

Maybe there should also be a "not now" mode that hides the notifications, icons and badges. Silent mode still distracts my when I use my phone as a motorcycle GPS.
All of this is a symptom of paying people for their time rather than paying them for their actual work or achievements. We need to get away from the idea of someone renting out part of their life at an hourly rate. Just assign jobs and pay when they are done. I realize this maybe sounds simpler than it often is, but after some growing pains, it is possible to calibrate the specific work with a value that is fair. Some people will do the work faster and thus earn more for their time. That's fair also, and it is a motivator to improve skills so your time implicitly has more value.
i just subscribed to sysadmin magazine and linux magazine.
But then you get task creep (the small brother of feature creep). Like you set a task you thougjt takes a week. Employee does it in 1h, ok so this time he is free for the whole restbof the week. What do you do next week? Add more tasks..so eventually you give so many task he /she can finish in 40h.. welcome to the current system.
It might not be what you are looking for. For me, meditation helped.
Through headspace app, some courses were specific about anxiety or stress.
Ok thats a little more enlightening. It seems my initial guess was mostly correct. The bypassed "security" features means bypassing epics installer verification and not any android security features and the comments on the android permissions point to api version 22.

Api version 23 added a new permissions model where instead of an app asking at install time what permissions are needed, a modal would show when the permission was used.

So there is nothing particularly horrible going on. Androids security and permission model was never broken. The user would see a modal at install time with all the permissions requested so there is no bypass of this.

In the end the data and integrity of your other apps is still protected and the worst case is you installed a malware app which can read your photos and capture your input while using the app. But since you required a malware app already installed to pull this off then this is a double low risk issue. Its good that it was reported and fixed but it says nothing about the security of Android.
Also this small thread from a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24403211
Kudos. Small companies can be great fun!
What conditions on other planets would evolve human pathogens more effectively than the conditions very similar to those that humans live in?
You can easily non-scientifically argue that that’s just a form of repression and the blow back will be magnificent.
I would just simply leave the company that trusts me so little that it needs to monitor what I am doing.

In another words if company is so worried to squeeze the last drop of money out of employee to actually use such methods there is something wrong with it.

I know one in our country that pays really good but employs such tactics. Developers are leaving on quarterly basis - not due to tactics but due to rotten relationships within company. And they are leaving for less paid positions elsewhere. They have practically lost all their seniors and are forced to pull in greenhorns.
In those cases you own the device, so that's reasonable.
One day you come home and realize that you locked yourself out of your home.

You call the locksmith.

He arrives, looks at the door, fiddles with the lock for one minute, opens the door then leaves.

The next day you receive the bill, 150€.

Are you mad for spending so much for one minute of work?

You shouldn’t: you paid for the experience that allowed him to open it in 1 minute.

—

Recalling it from a discussion with a friend of mine on a related subject: the cost of experience.
Judea Pearl's page for “The Book of Why”
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for.
So, no firm that makes things would be able to...sell things? That doesn’t sound very viable.
Just arrived in my inbox: IEEE Software CFP for special issue on program repair. The editor is a GP person.

https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/so/call-f...
Funny how wrong the article gets it.

Cases are on the rise, the government did not want to raise the level to 2.5 fearing the public backslash because of the coming public holidays.

Korea will probably go back next week to 2.5, meaning again police roaming the streets after 9PM, many underground illegal speakeasy, and more dumb house parties where the spread of the virus is totally uncontrollable.
For profit Ed? Predatory?! No! Who could have ever guessed?!
Phrases with opposite meanings in US vs. UK
https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori

This is bookmark manager but it has feature you need and does it well too. Also,it is single binary to deploy.
Mozaa – x86 Emulator Like Bochs Written in Delphi (Object Pascal)
Google happened to own the domain via an acquisition. They own a lot of domains via acquisition. It’s one of the only ones they redirected to Google.

People don’t take kindly to gigantic corporations punching down on tiny little companies whose sole existence is to highlight the big corp’s lack of privacy. It’s not a good look.
to be clear: the tax advantages are the adverse incentives.
Confessions of a Self Taught Programmer
That would add $43.00 and $56 for the aluminium case though you'd have 4 SATA. Or start with external USB drive use 3d printing or duct tape to make DIY case.

I can't imagine Raspberry Pi community is bigger than Linux users on laptop and desktop. And how can one separate?

On a plus side of Raspberry Pi I would add GPIO with PWM, SPI, I2C and Serial.
I love the concept of bang operators, but sadly my usage is limited to:

- `!g` if I can't find what I am looking for and am ready for a different angle.

- `!` + another letter than g, typed my mistake. This results in an annoying search on the wrong site (e.g., Flickr) or even more random.

This must puzzle anyone analyzing search logs on Flickr. Why are users searching for obscure Python error messages?!
Yes, one of my favorites about the wonderful world of work.
I think the people behind the popular "Language Learning with Netflix" Chrome extension are already working on the YouTube version

https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/
Radio I/Q Data for Dummies
> In pkgsrc we've patched the libraries to add kqueue(2) support, but the patches haven't been accepted upstream

How open are Wayland's developers to receiving patches to add support for platforms other than Linux?
Remember when we didn't have personal mobile devices and we relies on work computers for digital entertainment at work?
The original blog also talks about getting better support for third-party app store choice which should help with these issues.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-...
>> You have no idea how much stuff expects the shell to behave like bourne shell.

Would you please elaborate what you mean by this statement?

The C shell (csh / tcsh) and the Korn shell (ksh) don't follow Bourne shell conventions and yet they work fine as login shells and script interpreters.

It seems logical that PowerShell could be further adapted to be more Unix-like with "read" and "print" functions that would attempt to bridge the object / plaintext divide similar to the "read" and "print" functions that are used in Lisp-like languages to convert between Lisp-like forms and plaintext.
Every job I've had was like that person describes. I never, ever handle work matters outside of work hours. I won't even know about it until next day.

I always said that I'd rather get fired than take work home, but I was never even asked.
To use reported AWUPF as a way to turn off MySQL double writes safely, I guess you need to be using direct IO (otherwise Linux's 4096 hardcoded buffer size kicks in) and you need to know that nothing in the IO stack can ever split up your writes in a way that could overwrite InnoDB pages non-atomically. How can we know that that is true of the whole IO stack? Is it even possible today, without something like the O_ATOMIC proposal?
I don’t see that. Changing laws because of “uproar in the market” is normal and a good thing (laws serve people, not the other way around), so yes, things may change there.

However, because of separation of powers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers) a judge, I think, is not the one to make huge changes to the interpretation of current laws.

I also don’t see a need for a judge to signal to lawmakers that laws need to change/be created to react to that uproar. The ball already is rolling there (slowly, as it should. A big benefit of government is that it provides stability)
If you logon to the JetBrains site you can download an activation code for offline use.
Most famous video downloader app for instagram in 2020
That's basically false. There is a learning curve that people seem to ignore when using search engines. It's not obvious, but Google vs Bing work a bit different and the type of queries each one likes are different. I use a Bing based engine as my daily driver and when I'm working, 9/10 searches are successful in the first couple results. When I'm out and about searching for something casual on my phone, that's usually 10/10.
Machine learning might also prefer focusing on the magnitude rather than an exact value. (With the lower precision number part more about being nudged between magnitude bins.) E.G. bfloat16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format
Even if that software is there people will just find a way around it and the process they have in place for it. Also if a manager has to check these logs to see if their employees are working, I would question why he has some free time to do this and what of the other million things they could be doing.

Unless this is written into the contract the employee signed they could find themselves in tricky waters, they are transmitting data using the users own internet connection and they could be capturing sensitive data from a machine. I used to work with so many credit card details for testing, all of it was cleaned but still some details remained.
I'm not sure the distinction is as clear as you are making out.

Eclipse used to (?) have a feature where each local save was stored separately, so it was trivial to view local history.

I've done remote code reviews with shared documents.

I can certainly imagine a system that combines the two of these things into a single system where real time version control was integrated into a multi-user system.
It’s not makeshitup.org either
Just out of curiosity, why not use the USB?
at some point, Android and iPhone become like Windows, just a gateway to the internet and they can't really force much. Can you imagine Windows requiring a cut from app subscriptions?
And lately we have that playing out in real life at the Assange Trial.
Earn Now as a Puplishers or Blogger
Why blog without earning, read this article , just hack money
Your results are the same, your optimisation goals seem to differ.

Does it matter?
I don't live in anything remotely close to a tech bubble and nearly everyone I know with an Android has sideloaded apps at least once, including my parents.

Don't confuse the US experience for the global one.
Fun Yet Effective Meetings
Spiritely – Federated Social Web Ecosystem
Can't use (cmd|shift|option|ctrl) + Fn with MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch Bar
This is an interesting story. Was wondering if you have it written up somewhere so I can cite it? If not, perhaps you could mention how you’d like for it to be cited, thanks.

On a lighter note your username definitely checks out :)
It would be useful if there were links to examples of tic-80 games. Nonethelesw, this looks very promising and is noncommercial which is great for growing a community. I’ll definitely give this a try when i get a chance
What Is the Best Windows Message App to Make Workplace Interactions a Breeze
If you are expected to misbehave while not under surveillance you have to cherish the time when you can let it all out.
As a Windows user I Just found out Mailbird last week. The team really put a ton of care into every detail, pixel, and click when you interact with your email. You can connect all your favourite email, calendar, task, and messaging apps into one. It's a user-friendly Windows email client, unifying all your email accounts, calendars, contacts & productivity features.

I can happily report that Mailbird is working seamlessly on my PC. I'm going to use it as my primary messaging client for the next few days (and hopefully for good!) But for now, congrats to you and the team on the job well done!

A team did a really good job and would appreciate any feedback!
This is disturbingly common. As a motorcyclist, I sit a little above most drivers, and I also have to be a little more alert. I catch an alarming number of drivers on their phones. Delivery drivers are the worst offenders.

Fortunately, most drivers only touch their phones at red lights, and I honestly don't mind that as much.
Read "Affective Neuroscience" (or Archeology of the Mind) by Jaak Panksepp for a better understanding of where emotions come from (primary affect).

Read "Mindsight" by Daniel Siegel for a view on higher level emotional processing. You can "sample" his ideas by watching some of his interviews on Mindsight.

Read "Passage Meditation" by Eknath Easwaran for a simple and accessible program of meditation. Meditation, in its various forms, improves emotional control.
You’re missing the point. Time.
I fail to find "wording" in that quote. CBT deals with thoughts, not the exact words used to describe them.
Btrfs has separate metadata and data block groups, allocated dynamically since some workloads can be light or heavy on metadata. And the data:metadata usage ratio can change after allocation and freeing space by deleting files. The idea of converting between block groups is being kicked around. At this point it is kind of a "last mile" sort of problem, not that common. But annoying for those who run into it because it's non-obvious how to get out of it.

Safest option is to just look at 'btrfs fi us' and see which type of block group is the least full. Do a filtered balance on it. e.g. Use something like '-dusage=5' to essentially get rid of any data block groups that are 5% or less full. Their data extents get moved to other block groups. Now that space is "unallocated" and can be allocated into new metadata block groups.

These sorts of gymnastics should be rare. There is https://github.com/kdave/btrfsmaintenance that will do them automatically for those who encounter the problem with their particular workload more often than they care to deal with manually. I never have to manually balance, and I also don't use the automated scripts - it's been years since I've hit enospc that wasn't a case of a 100% full file system.
Isn't it absurd to demand scientific evidence inside guardian article about book? Their articles never link to scientific articles and it is odd to expect this one to be exception.
Also, dispatch, and there is no guarantee that the locksmith has orders frequently.
I'm working at a consultancy, and fixed priced projects are the worst.

Clients get greedy and want every little detail they come up with implemented. When things turn out more complex than expected, you have to deliver shoddy work instead of decreasing scope and at the end of the project you ended up adding a feature they asked for halfway through and now they are complaining that the feature it superseeded wasn't in the final delivery.

In hourly projects, the clients are so much easier to talk to. If something turns out more difficult than expected, they are willing to reprioritise. If they ask for an extra feature hafway through, they are willing to pay for it, or let something else go.
That's exactly what they have been trying to do.
Correct, that's what I meant by:

> It's true that some market forces and potential value of what is created are factors else nobody would pay for the premium

Although, amazingly demand can be manufactured to some extent (where potential demand has to exist of course). De Beers managed it with 'A Diamond Is Forever' where they managed to become the de facto engagement ring stone. Scarcity + good marketing does seem to be a magnet for the wealthy.
Well the rules have been there forever and I feel like back in the day the CDU/sPD was quite good at math ;-)
> 99% more accurate

> Anecdotal

I think the word you’re looking for is hyperbolical.
Not to mention how many non-native speakers there are making English language videos out there, many educational videos too.

It's just not a smart move.
This isn't the punitive part - that's what fines are for.

I see this particular requirement more as a corrective action - to actually give back to users the choice that Google took away through abuse of their market position. Users don't particularly care who is making money in the process, while their rights are not infringed.

I am perfectly fine with the corrective action being dollar-neutral for Google, or even slightly positive. There is nothing wrong with incentivising good behaviour, as long as those incentives themselves don't become abused. If the right thing to do by your users is also the better thing to do from a business perspective, we might not have to wait for a court decision next time.
In Germany, the state rail company (Deutsche Bahn) tries to address this problem by selling rail discount cards.

The idea is that people only take into account fuel costs when considering driving. They don't typically take into account capital costs like depreciation. So the DB sells a 250 Euro card that gives you a 50% discount on tickets for a year. The card creates an artificial sunk cost, and lowers the marginal cost of taking the train, making it more comparable with driving.
>I'd love to know what the sticking points are

probably the long tail of unique problems that any autonomous system in an open environment faces.

It's kind of the crux of all these ML learning based systems. By definition you can't learn what's totally new and absent from data, but that is precisely where the intelligence lies when it comes to human drivers. Which is why I think genuine self-driving without fancy geofencing or whatever is almost an AI-hard problem.
My (large) company work from home at least until the end of the year, then we'll see. We're still allowed to go into the office, and some do because they don't have a good working situation at home, but there's like one person per office floor. All office workers in Sweden are highly encouraged to work from home. My company has said that they will do a phased return to the office, so that not everyone returns at the same time. A colleague that had been in the office said that they have closed off every second desk to keep the distance for when people return.

I meant winters in general, not the current situation. Today is grey, but still more light than it will be in January.
Get your iron ass over to Errius.
Aww. I liked it, even though it was clear before the pandemic that it was on the downswing.

Rail travel is just much more relaxing and interesting than air travel. People in an airport act like zombies, but people on a train act like people.

One time, I was on a Empire Builder that got stuck in a freight yard around midnight. The freight company had donated an engine to replace one that had broken on the Amtrak train, but apparently the crew didn't have a key to unlock it.

So we sat in a freight yard for about an hour, with snow gently falling around us. It had been several hours since our last stop, and the passengers started to get restless. 4 hours without a smoke break is considered a mortal sin in Montana.

Eventually, the crew relented and let people out in the freezing snow to smoke on the train tracks, under a litany of disclaimers about trespassing and liability and whatnot.

It was hilarious and surreal. Amtrak felt like a system run by human beings, so it was chronically late and haphazard, but I'll still miss it compared the the sterile almost-competence of modern airports.
As a pinephone owner I can tell you that non android based Linux phones are years away from having a feature set that would make them acceptable for a general consumer.

I d definitely recommend the pinephone for playing with it and watching it's progress though ;)
Actually, there is scientific data in the form or the books and articles written by Jaak Panksepp. It documents the source of anger in the RAGE primary affect, complete with anatomical analysis of the nuclei involved. It just happens that the data from those articles supports a view that is the exact opposite of hers. ;)
(Can you please not use Unicode pseudo-fonts for emphasis in HN comments? We try to avoid visual gimmicks here. I've replaced the Math Bold Italic, or whatever that was, with standard italics, using asterisks as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc.)
You are certainly entitled to your distorted and reductionist opinion.
And then they end up at some fluorescent-lid counter at a Walgreens filling pill boxes. Kind of sad when you think about it.
Ugh I tried this to keep off my phone before going to bed. Naturally I'm posting this before I go to bed, so that's about how well it works for me.
I fully agree with this, but it can't hurt to try and learn some of those tricks yourself. Some locks are surprisingly easy to open.
Wow, that's awesome! Thanks for the tip!

A lot of people seem to be questioning why you'd need this when you could just provide a full link. Personally I read a lot of technical documentation and having acronyms written out in full would almost always be enough. Otherwise the whole document is likely over my head, or it's just a bad acronym.
Not every work is interesting enough to keep your employees motivated. For example, in the article they mention a company that resells beauty products. IMHO I can understand people not being incredibly motivated by this.
Get Jaak Panksepp's "Affective Neuroscience" OR "The Archeology of the Mind" instead.
That's a different extreme though. In the middle, you can do a "phase N paid X will include Y" contact and if they want to add features halfway, you can both update the plan and payment details.
I’ve a dim memory that a version of Firefox was slow because it frequently called a system function that most OSs implement “quick and dirty” but OpenBSD did “slower, but correct”, so perhaps it’s down to an accumulation of that approach repeated throughout the system?
Does robin hood actually allows you to leverage to the point where the loss is beyond your investment? Usually these platforms close/liquidate the position so the maximum you can lose is the money you bet.
Yes, you're right. I overreacted. I was thinking about applying for a masters of science in Statistics. I'm doing an online course from MIT to earn some credits. I could use these at RMIT and Deakins for advanced standing. I was interested in applying at Melbourne Uni just because of their ranking. However, after doing some of those courses from MIT, I'm finding it really hard to do it with a full time job. Let's see how I go. :)
I also went to sign-up, but balked when I couldn't use social sign in (I don't like having to make more account with passwords)
I also use !wen, which takes me to (English) Wikipedia. More rarely !wfr (French version).
The types of limits on free speech being proposed here go far beyond the traditional limits imposed in the Anglo sphere on speech.

The types of censorship proposed in the article deal with expressing beliefs pertaining to highly complex and contentious social issues about which powerful special interests seek to shape the public's perceptions about. Once this class of speech becomes acceptable to subject to censorship, politics becomes a much more dangerous, winner-takes-all game.