skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Googlers but a lot of the time when Google loses in court, I feel like the court did the right thing.
I'm curious about that as well. My girlfriend and I do 18:6 intermittent fasting (she's very strict about it while I'm... less so). We also get a decent amount of exercise, and while I don't count calories anymore, I do try to limit my calorie intake. That, plus shifting from eating out a lot to cooking nearly every day during COVID restrictions has caused me to lose 15-20 lbs.

I'd tried intermittent fasting in the past, without making any dietary changes, and it never did anything. The only thing that's consistently allowed me to lose weight has been changing my diet. IF probably helps me, due to the psychological effect you mentioned.
No, those are protections that kernel/bootloader need to configure inside PMIC (instead of disabling them, or leaving them at wrong default values) and then PMIC will protect the battery from overheating from charging. (which is one of many sources of heat) PMIC can also send interrupt to SoC when this control loop fails, and OS is free to handle it in some other way (for example by initiating normal system shutdown)

Then PMIC operates independently from the kernel, and configuration even persists when powered off/during reboots.

HW is designed to be safe, but SW has to cooperate, including userspace. (some daemon that will help policing the whole device, based on many different inputs and by controling things that affect heat production - like preventing the user from setting backlight at max, limiting modem RF output to something that doesn't need huge amounts of power, etc. etc.)

It's a complicated area.
Netflix and Spotify wouldn't care. After not finding an app in Play Store a quick google will bring them to an alternate store or something like that, it's not Apple's walled garden.

It can only affect the apps that users don't know they need.
One problem with this approach is that with time people tend to optimize to gaming the game.
With enough time you are just hiring people that are good in the game and not the best fit for the position.

Companies also need a lot of people that are creative and "think outside the box". With this you are optimizing for conformists and people that "think inside the box", and that optimize to fit the game.

No wonder the big companies have a hard time to create things..

Western society need badly to know how to deal well with impermanence, and this are such a case were there's not much prediction that can be done.. its just like dancing expecting the rain will come.. sometimes it will, and we will gladly think it was because we danced.

The best tip for hiring is someone that you know that knows a little bit to point a couple of good people for you. Because those things are pretty hard to know, and there are very little we can do, without the experience to show for some specific characteristics we need.
Looking at what trust-busting cases were like a few decades ago, I can't help but think that if Google had existed and behaved as it does today at any other time in the last century it would've already been smashed into tiny, non-evil pieces by the government.
Really solid article. I enjoyed the examples of known successful companies embracing, instead of ignoring, the comparisons to competition.

> ...prospective buyers are going to discover your competitors, anyway.
The rabbit example is a matter of ecology. A viral infection is a matter of immunology.

They are not analogous and depend on completely different factors.
>powerless to do anything about it

You can't even sack anybody for it.
Disagree - if traffic flowed more evenly, same speed for everyone, less lane changes, didn’t require the “safe distance padding” re-establishment at every light, the congestion would lesson. Probably not eliminated though.
> ... become and identity thing ...

Slow. Down.

Not everything is identity politics. I think GP is speaking of those who signal a _need_ for accessibility features. These people would 'identify as needing accessibility features'. Others do not _need_ such features and therefore do not signal such. These people may still appreciate them on occasion. I for one, definitely would not claim to need closed captions, yet, if subtitles are available I may well use them. I might use them if my speakers are broken or if my roommate is asleep and I left my headphones in my car.
Waymo and Cruise are being much more careful. Consequently, they’re finding out that self-driving cars cannot be deployed yet without being dangerous to people. It’s not a surprise that Uber and Tesla have killed people.
> also !reddit points to new version, I'd want !redditold

old.reddit.com !oldred

old reddit !ored

Subreddit (Old Style) !ors

Old Reddit (subreddit) !osr
So your response is to participate?
When to use Rust and when to use Golang
I wasn't suggesting to not give credit to others when it's deserved, and I certainly believe in teamwork.

What I'm suggesting is to not shy away from taking deserved credit for yourself which many people struggle with. It will prevent you being run over by politicians and becoming resentful towards your workplace. It will also reduce information asymmetries between you and your boss and help you to get that deserved promotion. The cult of "we did X" in workplaces is a tool used by the least productive to play politics and reap credit where it isn't deserved. There is no such thing as "we" anyways. You did Z, and I did Y, and Z+Y=X, and perhaps Z is less than Y, or perhaps Z is more than Y, and without proper attribution (which can only come when you're brave enough to take deserved credit), accurate promotions aren't possible.

My suggestion to not do most of the work in a team situation is also a strategy to reduce resentment. There's nothing worse than doing all the work and getting half the credit, only to split a bonus pool 50/50 with someone half as productive as you. It's better to do half the work and have spare time for stuff that you will get credit for
Hmm... I work on rewarding projects and get compensated well, lead a lot of folks (both as VP and as tech. architect), and I am not stressed... And I do not play do these "promotion dances". I do take credit for my work and I give credit to others where credit is due.

I have also observed the obvious opportunists being found out and being managed out or at least not promoted - perhaps they were just bad at it and didn't move quickly enough.

In any case, if that would truly be the price for getting promoted, then I think that price seems to high. The author is either confused or worked at the wrong places.
The thing with OpenBSD is that it's probably the most old-school even including its parent, NetBSD. Even though OpenBSD is a research OS, and has modern features often before any other OS, the way you administer and maintain it is much more old-school.

One great example is wifi, you create one config file in /etc/ for each interface, and then decide how you want it to be handled. To control wifi, you use ifconfig as you would any other interface. Why not just treat it as an additional interface and make it work with all the normal Unix type utilities and workflow?

This is correctness.
This describes me most days and I'm certainly not intentionally fasting. I just don't really like to eat breakfast, so my first meal is usually lunch sometime around 12, and dinner is usually before 8. I might have a coffee in the morning though (although I suspect coffee on an empty stomach in the morning is making my anxiety worse, so perhaps making myself eat breakfast would be a good idea)
My child will hopefully outlive me by several decades. My grand kids certainly could live more that 50 years beyond that. I may never know my great-grandkids, but kinda hope they won't get snuffed out arbitrarily. But fundamentally I don't think "after X years, screw humanity" is something I'll buy into.
As long as human drivers are still in the mix, no, self-driving cars will not solve congestions. But fully self-driving cars could improve road efficiency by an order of magnitude. There is no need for trafic lights, they can drive in very close formation, they don't need parking space nor search for parking.

Additionally, an inherently safe trafic system doesn't require 2 tons of steel around you for protection. The car can be stripped down massively reducing road footprint and ecological impact. You will also hail the smallest (cheapest) vehicle that serves your purporse, a single commuter can comfortably travel in a bumpercar.
Isn't this basically what the supercavitating Shkval torpedo does ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA-111_Shkval

Only this time in air and using plasma instead of pressurized gas - preatty high tech. As for the power source, I guess they could use chemical lasers. Also the faster it can get the less time the lasers need to run.
I would only give the typical notice, 2 weeks here.

I've given more notice to try to be a team player and it gets awkward being the 'short timer' for more than a couple weeks.

Definitely agree to get all your stuff out of the office before giving your notice, just in case.

Don't feel like you should give them more notice, even if you're friends with them, two weeks notice is what they are expecting.

On a side note I'd try to have a new job lined up even if you negotiate a start date a month or two out for some time off. Easier to find a job when you have one is the rule.

Good luck leaving and starting your new adventure.
> The world worked JUST FINE before app stores when people downloaded apps and installed them directly.

Only after you bought your antivirus from your local best buy valid for 3 years. Even now, Windows might as well be an app store but blacklist-based instead of whitelist-based since MSFT can effectively kill any app they want by adding it to their smartscreen filters.
ASRock 4X4 Box-V1000M Ryzen Mini-PC Review: Finding Zen in the Small Things
UTF-8 support is completely orthogonal to static typing. There are dynamically typed languages that handle it great, and statically typed languages which have garbage support for it.

In general I know what you mean though. “What if this CSV parser turns out to be really important?” If you think there’s a high probability of that, do it in a statically typed language then. 99.9% of data munging I’ve done have been throwaway programs to answer a question to inform some decision or help refine a mental model.
> You cant expect others to toil away to benefit your "genius"

Brilliant reply. Except... I never said my genius.

The fact that you make up arguments and distort what I said is evidence of the emotive nature of your response. I'll invite you to improve the quality of your discourse. I have respect for people who I disagree with as long as they can show the basic decency of engaging with what I said and not behave dishonestly by making up fake and silly arguments. I really dislike sophism.
I like XML, I hand write a ton of XML at work, I like it because I consider it to have some built in sanity checking, its something that is obvious even when using an text editor if its correct or not.
Yes, in an 8h window you can certainly eat more calories than you burn if you sit on your arse all day.
Tesla didn't support stop signs or traffic lights until a few months ago but Waymo did that years ago. And AFAIK Tesla still can't recognize stopped vehicles on the highway and has no public plan to fix that.
"don't eat, lose weight" is obvious of course. "eat the same amount of calories but with different timing, lose weight" is more interesting. Does having higher growth hormone levels result in burning more calories with the same amount of physical activity?
This seems like good news? Finally trending in the right direction
All JetBrains products support using a license key instead of using the JetBrains account.
What is the reference I'm missing here?
Android 12 with its app store friendly change most likely won't be released until August 2021... so claiming they'll have an alternative store ready before the Sept 2021 deadline (not to mention no app updates starting Jan 2021) is unlikely.
It's a chicken and egg problem though. You can't get marketshare unless you are included as a default option. DDG themselves wouldn't be in favor of this criteria a few years ago when they weren't popular.
Not really. Most people who buy large vehicles just like large vehicles. It really is that simple. They may have all kinds of justifications when pressed, but with few exceptions, it's simply a preference.
Just to expand on this, the "McAfee SECURE" logo was sold to PathDefender (not TrustedSite) and all those McAfee logos you see on websites aren't operated by McAfee any more.
I wonder (seriously) what the ROI on a statement like this might be. Is there a level where "responsibility to the shareholders" is sampled, or could it be a few layers of indirection away?

There is a pretty fine line between cynicism (i.e. it's just marketing) and idealism (ethical companies will generate a higher level of support), but I wonder how far this goes before a lawsuit shuts it down.
I'm a bit annoyed that the author of the article seems to be imply that the move away from XML is just due to hype.

Also the point about the ad-hoc client validation doesn't seem right to me. If the server changes the XML response, the client may be able to fetch the updated schema (assuming the devs didn't forget to publish the update...), but then what? You still have to handle the new or updated fields in code somehow.

My biggest gripes with XML are twofold:

- It's as annoyingly verbose as Java is; I just get lost looking at all the tags (the namespaces don't help).

- The community seems to have this obsession with solving every problem under the sun with more XML and more specifications. I believe, this is wrong. Trying to standardise across the whole range of data interchange and configuration needs is the wrong approach, IMHO. JSON wins here, because it gets out of the way. I do wish JSON had comments and that JSON schema was better (for when you really need it), but nobody ever had an expectation that keys are unique across all JSON documents in existence, something that XML somehow insists is necessary for its elements and attributes.

But what the author is right about is that YAML is an absolute nightmare, and I can't understand why it continues to be so popular. Apart from the dozens of ways of writing booleans or strings, it's also way, way too easy to forget what level of indentation you're currently at, especially if you're navigating large files like Kubernetes or CI configs.

I think more projects (at least larger ones) should adopt their own DSL for configuration. For example, I find the terraform config format much cleaner than any of the YAML stuff.
Except it's not. they aren't getting rid of captions and they are offering support

> YouTube says that because "many of you rely on community captions, YouTube will be covering the cost of a 6 month subscription of Amara.org for all creators who have used the Community Contribution feature for at least 3 videos in the last 60 days."

That arguably points out 2 things. (1) they aren't abandoning disabled people and (2) they're probably not lying about the feature not being used since if it was being used this offer would cost $$$$$$$$$

It sounds like nothing really changed. You can still contribute subtitles to a channel, one of the few that actually uses them, and the channel creator can still attach them to videos. All that changed is the interface to edit is no longer in youtube. Choose any of 1000s other ways, send the creator your subtitles, creator can attach them to video.
Using machine learning to create images to match Sufjan Stevens lyrics
Might as well use a nuclear salt water rocket - but with smaller nozzle also in the front!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket

That would make everything even more insanely radioactive. :)
what percentage of user installed android apps in the wild come from somewhere other than the play store? Is it high?
I really would prefer to use XML for my next project, but self-censored myself so that if this project is ever open source and has other contributors, I'm not instantly dealing with hordes of users who want to convert it to json for data transfer objects.

Maybe it is because my baby duck syndrome came with xml web services and asp.net web forms, but it is amazing how much scaffolding and engineering work we threw away and are now reinventing. (Wsdl, schemas, etc)
You imply that google did the same when they were the underdog, but I don't see any clear parallels between their practices.
That’s sane. It would never go viral on social media.
Only a few janitors (5) are making more than their base salary because they take all the overtime slots. Read the article.
Believers in God Detect Patterns More Easily
The main problem with XML is that writing a safe XML parser is difficult. But writing, say, a safe JSON parser is not much easier; writing a safe ASN.1 parser is much harder. So it's not clear whether there's a better possible declarative format.
I appreciate it -- glad you got something out of it.

I haven't run into this a lot with my clients -- they've generally been on-board with the idea of creating vs./alternatives content -- but some folks do have that mental block. Talking about competitors feels risky to them.
In this vein, ‘The Everyman’s Library’ collection excellently assembles classics on thick acid-free paper, cloth bindings, and essays introducing/contextualizing the work
I hope this leads to a better non-Google App store. I have to keep Google Play disabled most of the time or it forces my phone to re-enable the Chrome browser each night. I choose to use Firefox on my phone and thus have Chrome disabled (it is not uninstallable without rooting). Google Play however will enable a non-system critical app that I explicitly told the operating system to disable.
Poor amoebas will famine
Yes, they are very successful at eliminating the human being. Who needs to worry about human being concerns, like being hard of hearing?

Anyway, I know you're not apologizing for them. Google already has 125k+ employees. They could hire 10k+ more, it wouldn't really matter.

This is such a bad look, what were they thinking?
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What are the effects of hgh on a fasted nutrient state though? You aren't packing on muscle fasted for any length of time.
> Sure, the real world sucks. I don't see that as a reason to prevent colleges from improving.

Absolutely. The problem I see is the deterioration of educational quality that seems to correlate with this improvement.

Also, at some point, you need to accept that to be elite, you need to do things that others can't and won't do. A high drop out rate to becoming elite is precisely what defines the elite title being sought.
That's because ever since the 80s the US has switched to an anti-trust regime that essentially focusses on consumer price and nothing else. Lisa Khan's long but very good piece on the issue is worth a read.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...
I just drove from Dallas to southwestern Colorado and back. Of that, I estimate I drove ~15% of the entire miles driven. The rest was the car driving itself.
The Cloud as “Dune”: The Rise of House Snowflake
I don't know how feasible it is, but couldn't you use ElasticSearch ???
Tesla owner leaves the car on Autopilot while filming from the passenger seat
That's a fair point: if study subjects can't/won't adhere to the protocol why would we expect real world participants to do so? Either the study subjects adhered to the program and the results showed (little to) no improvement OR real people won't adhere to the program anyway and results will show (little to) no improvement.
Not totally sure, but maybe this book? Fun read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Har...
Show HN: Sparrowhub – Repository of DevOps Utilties - http://sparrowhub.io
http:/sparrowhub.io is a repository utilities. > 190 plugins so far, I add new ones constantly. Check it out. Plugins could be run either as a command line scripts or Raku functions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621192
From my reading it sounds like calories eaten were not controlled between the two groups? Surely the study would be much more useful if the groups consumed the same number of calories per week?

If fasting results in wanting to eat less/more it's going to be completely unsurprising for that to result in more/less weight loss respectively, any weight loss due to the fasting itself, as opposed to standard calorie restriction is going to be difficult to extract from the data without a very large sample size.
I think Sewden or Norway gives homeless people an address and apartment (with stipulations). This gives them an address to use when applying for a job. Otherwise, the lack of an address can be a barrier to employment.

Criminal justice reform could also be a good idea. Many places will reject a job application for a stupid mistake that someone made years ago, even if it has no bearing on the type of work they are in.
I think you're overreacting. They're just using this information to make lists. No harm ever came from systematically labelling, listing, and categorizing people into specific groups, and shaming them publically.
> JSON is JavaScript native, while XML is not

Yet we have XMLHttpRequest to thank for the last 20 years of the web.
There's a community of reverse engineers on Twitter that have demonstrated most of Musk's claims about their data pipelines aren't true. Check out greentheonly's Twitter.
I know of a case at Melbourne uni where a post-doc was extremely verbally abusive to the phd-students they were supposed to be helping.

The several candidates came forward to HR, but HR apparently wasn't able to do anything about it because "it wasn't physical" and it "wasn't against a member of the staff". Completely disgraceful from the Uni
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The only reason any justice was done was that those close to the matter did not renew their contract, so they were essentially let go. HR IS USELESS!
Hell, it even sucks at accented English. A friend turned me onto the UK series Taskmaster, which is available on YouTube. I turn on captions/subtitles as a matter of habit, and the auto-generated captions for that show are atrocious.

Yes, that show includes a variety of UK English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh accents, but... damn, it's bad.
Keeping Large Mammals in Zoos and Aquariums Damages Their Brains
> really wonder who's going to buy in to McAfee

Sorry to be glib, but: anyone who thinks the offering price is a discount against future value.

Clearly the company has _some_ revenue sources still? You could believe the company was going to be gone in five years and still think it was a good buy at the price offered.
Well, the trick is to ship your own libpng/libvorbis linked dynamically. So you only update a tiny library than half a gigabyte executable when you need a security fix. You also don't depend on the distro to provide the library.

In fact a lot of indie games that support linux do it this way, setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH with a shell script and it works well.
I don't think the article is very good. It's just a regurgitation of tweets from the LBRY twitter account, and the comparison between Cuties and the comedy skit that got it banned is deceptive. One is a social criticism, and the other, according to the description of the video "Contains implied sex and mild nudity".

The article doesn't bother bringing up Google's side, or if this action is unique.
> To a certain extent yes, but delegation at the store level is extremely coarse grained.

I suppose that's true. I'm curious what level of precision you would prefer to see? Accepting a developer's key?

> Also, no automatic updates.

Only because Google decided to be uncooperative in their builds. If you control your own system partition, I believe you can still inject the privileged extension and have this. Google has also implied that this might change with Android 12 (https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/09/listening-...).