skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a particularly difficult time with mind wandering. My kids and wife complain often that my mind wanders too much and I don’t pay attention to the conversation. Has anyone had this issue and solved the problem. In my mind wandering, I usually am the protagonist of some story. It has become problematic to the point where it has become a problem and is affecting my life - can’t get anything done.
Indeed. This is what the people at less wrong mean when they talk about "semantic stop signs". Words to make you stop thinking, and accept the argument as given:

"Some people are dominant destructive bosses because of genetics, m'kay?"

The whole argument falls apart when you realize the author, and nobody really, understands the relationship between your behavior and your genetics enough to conclude anything at all.
Yeah, I was more than half joking. Of these three, only the blackouts in California are troubling, the others are more like comedy material.
I still don't see that holding the citizens accountable. How many citizens write their reps, research a topic from an objective perspective, understand law and legal concepts, are trained in logic, vote, or even have time for these things. Even with record turnout this year (about 145 million), that's still about 90 million people short of the estimated number of eligible voters (235 million). If they aren't involved in the easiest activities now (voting), why would we expect them to participate in the difficult and time consuming activities (research, voting on specific legislation, etc)?

Also, subjecting the intelligent and engaged people to the whims of the mob would not be what they deserve.
In principle you could inconvenience a lot of people by sending in fake ballots randomly, lots of them, and forcing those people to cast provisional ballots when they try to vote in person. And whoever didn't show up, you'd have a decent chance of getting the vote in if you could approximate their signature.

In practice this doesn't happen, I just assume because it's easy to detect, it's a felony that comes with a prison sentence (and a lot of people would be looking for you) and because it actually creates a lot of problems for whichever candidate receives the votes.

I think an alternate scenario, where ballots are sent to a lot of people with the voter's name and address information "helpfully" prepopulated on the form, incorrectly, is perhaps slightly more of a threat. In this case people are at risk of casting a ballot that will be rejected and their board of elections might or might not notify them there's a problem. Sending prepopulated ballots is illegal where I live because an organization trying to be helpful in this way could inadvertently disenfranchise people by mistake with a bad list, but there's the other risk as well.

Again, easy to detect and a crime, and I don't think it's been a problem here.
I'm often a grammer/spelling nazi and even I do it occasionally. Typing in haste, especially on a mobile device.
I find it hard to care about violations of the worst law that ever happened to the internet.
And even when you do screw things up, like accidentally deleting things in the Nix store, it's quite easy to recover as well.[0]

[0] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/#sec-nix-store
A woman claims we need to eliminate “undesirable races” through “selective breeding” but apparently in your mind that’s something as you put it “commendable”.

Congrats, I guess?

Apparently you see nothing wrong with a woman Planned Parenthood is trying desperately to distance themselves from.
>> that the company has invited developers to the organization with their personal github accounts.

> Why do that?

Why not? You can remove someone from a project as easily with the developers existing login as with a new company created one, what benefit does it have?

If you don't need to do this I suggest you don't. It's a PITA, and another small thing that adds to the annoyance of working somewhre and the feelings of lack of trust.
In my experience, most of good management is about figuring out why am I not doing the right thing (as a manager). Knowing what needs to be done is much easier than actually doing it.

Example: giving feedback is notoriously hard, even if it's really clear what the issues are. Promotion is also hard (you have to choose who to promote and who to not promote), and most of the time you do know the right choice but you might not be able to call it for personal reasons.

So yes, if you happen to manage people, spend a LOT of effort on self-reflection. Go to a coach, therapist, go to courses where they let you practice and where you get feedback. Whatever works for you, just keep investing. Also, don't worry if the coach, course, therapist is imperfect.
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Yep, those are awesome suggestions. I'm gonna work with some friends who know UX to improve that.
Using personal GitHub accounts really isn’t as big of a deal as people assume. GitHub disables forking of private repos by default, but even if you enable it you can still revoke forks of private repos from people later. Obviously people can manually clone your repo using git, but that’s no different than any other git scenario. The idea that using GitHub will lead to people accidentally making your code public is just not true.

> That would be silly. I wouldn't like it if someone applying to our company showed us their current/previous employer's IP. That would be like someone showing nudes of their current/former partners to "prsospective" partners. It just does not compute, unless if the context were precisely about that. A lot of this is based on trust in my opinion.

It’s silly, but it’s also a shockingly common impulse among some junior developers. When I was mentoring juniors, it was not uncommon for young people to feel like they had some ownership of the code they wrote for a company, or a tool they wrote to help their work. I spent a lot of time explaining the concepts of work-for-hire and IP ownership. Many young devs just don’t even like the idea of IP ownership or the fact that the company literally owns work they did.

You’re exactly right that no sensible company wants to be exposed to IP from another company, but usually the people who do this don’t understand IP ownership in the first place. I know it sounds hard to believe, but they literally think they have the rights to the code because they wrote it.

The only real defense is to take the time to educate employees during onboarding. Don’t assume that everyone understands how IP ownership works. Many junior employees don’t.
Your employees' contracts should make clear that you own the copyright in this code, and what the boundaries of the NDA are, and what information you will require them to delete when they leave. Your protection is the threat of legal action.

You might want to post a reminder of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov as an example.

> the company does not have a work issued laptop and that the company has invited developers to the organization with their personal github accounts

This on the other hand just indicates that you're not very serious about security.
I'm responding to the "not to play" in your comment, not the eradicate.

Just because we didn't eradicate human feeding mosquitoes doesn't mean it wasn't hugely worthwhile to play the game of controlling them.
This is one of the many causes of DoS attacks we experienced in the last 90s and early 2000s. I worked as an engineer for Cisco then, and we could only resolve many of the problems with timers. Waiting for the event that never came caused numerous issues. We continue to learn.
There was one small polling company who claimed they had a methodology:

instead of asking directly who someone would vote for they asked a number of other questions first to warm them up etc.

They predicted way more Trump votes - and were summarily ridiculed by mainstream pollsters I think.
> bypass the policy

Bypass what policy? The post seems to be about a bug when you use .nomedia in the snapshots directory.
It's an example of using a referendum system to religiously disenfranchise a minority population. Further, much of the imagery used to persuade the population to vote for the referendum, such as the Muslim woman wearing a chador across the backdrop of a Swiss flag covered by minarets that look like missiles, was bigoted and defamatory.

My point in raising this incident is to provide an example that a direct referendum system has advantages and disadvantages. One of the disadvantages seen here is that the system can be used to remove a right from minority population important to their cultural identity. More broadly, there's always a tension between majority rule and protection of minority rights in a democracy and both the California and Swiss referendum systems allow those lines to be redrawn by populist appeal.
Doable but no such plans yet
Providing invitations to random people on public forums is strictly prohibited, and can get the inviter's whole invite tree banned.

Googling "RED interview" should provide you with an alternate pathway in, however.
In my neighbour countries no one is asking them to “please hold” - the government is using its (violent) force to make them stop living and doing business. In my home Sweden we are spared. I say there is an important moral difference between enforcing such a thing and not.

The vaccine is also still vapourware
Do you have a reference for a vaccine that confers near-total near-lifetime immunity? That would be a prerequisite.
Show HN: Weaklayer – open-source Browser Detection and Response
I figured if someone really cared about hacking me I'd be screwed anyway. I should add that my most important accounts don't follow this pattern
Care to elaborate on that? I rather like it. As a developer it's a pain, but as a citizen I find it to be a step in the right direction.
> Not a mod, but I'll take an educated guess that this is what ires someone:

It was a simple question, I had the last 6-7 post immediately downvoted at zero points upon submission.

Seconds later.

Unless someone is tracking me , which would be rather incredible, I wanted to know if I triggered something.

Have you ever heard of people shadow banned without warnings?

A post among many to explain what I mean

It's ok if the moderators do their job the way they are told to, it's more of a problem if you don't know why and especially if it happened to you

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681860

To be honest I don't care if someone is ired or not, being ired is a choice and usually doesn't depend to what other people do, but how we react to them
It's all the same. From what I read today, Eisenhower used and popularized it and then Covey improved upon it and used it in his book. Same stuff, just different packaging, this one too :D
I started reading his book but got distracted. Thank you. I'll pick it back up.
Reminds me! I recently came accross this older YouTube channel, Healthy Software Developer. I found it to be quite a good source of info on everything from leadership to company culture.[1] Quite entertaining too!

[1]: A Tale Of Software Development Culture Change - Gone Wrong! 18 May 2018, Healthy Software Developer https://youtu.be/yKAOMiNv-go
No.

>The problem sparks when a viral strain, normally happily living in a bat, pig, or rodent

That's the rub right there. One of the reasons we were successful with smallpox is there wasn't an animal reservoir. One virus + no animal reservoirs + good vaccine = can be successful. Multiple known viruses and strains with multiple reservoirs and no good vaccines means this will not happen.

More to the point, this isn't really what the paper was looking at all. The actual (OA) publication[1] identified common and conserved areas which could potentially be used to study and target viruses throughout out the family. This might help with human SARS-CoV2 therapeutics, but it's main benefit is showing how molecular analyses will help fight future coronaviruses.

It does not ask or answer whether we can "engineer a universal vaccine against the entire viral family" nor did it "[draw] up a scientific recipe to potentially end coronaviruses once and for all."

1: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/10/14/scie...
Japan offers an alternative explanation.
Sorry but it is not really your phone if it runs proprietary software. It is like in medieval times, you didn't own the means of production. Welcome your new digital overlords!!
This seems like it might be useful to disabled coders.
That statement is in the context of “War on X”, and it is a quote from a movie where the “war” is a total war of mutually-assured destruction.
I won’t say there are no communists on the left, but they are very few in number. Even most people that call themselves “socialist” really mean something more like capitalist with a string safety net. Any communists in the left are a threat to exactly nobody right now. They don’t really have many opportunities to forcefully take central control of the means of production.

Unfortunately Nazis can do their work retail, they don’t need to take over government to do real harm individually.
Thanks for the concern. The examples I gave don't follow the real patterns/orders/Ascii I use
Same for issues like diversity hiring and SJWs irritating well-running open source projects. I say this as a left leaning person. Politics and religion tend to divide people thus they have to be kept away, it won't harm anyone but self important non-technical idiots who think renaming master to main will change the life of oppressed people.
I tried NixOS out for a while on my laptop. I loved the idea of an immutable system with all the config in one place. The implementation, though, was really a terrible user experience. I got past the weird config language, made a few contributions to Nixpkgs to get the packages I wanted, etc. The deal-breaker for me was the inability to run third-party binaries due to the departure from standard directory structure. After all the frustrations with NixOS, I was motivated to go to the opposite extreme so I could stop spending time maintaining my system and focus instead on the tasks that I wanted to use my system for. I've been [mostly] happily running Ubuntu LTS releases ever since.
I agree, I always feel like tracking every single TODO takes more time and effort than actually doing some of them. It was a bit too rigid for me - that sort of system is designed for a computer, except I was the computer doing the task.

What works for me now is writing my most important TODOs on a whiteboard and not erasing it until I complete it. The limited space forces me to prioritize. It's also obvious which items have been there the longest, either indicating lower priority or mental blockages. It helps that the ink is harder to erase the longer it sits there too :)
I'd also be interested in an elaboration. It isn't much about the violation of the law itself but the violation of privacy; why do I have linkedin.com, spiceworks.com, techtarget.com, godknowswhat.com suspiciously dumping cookies in my browser?
They were actually agreed upon by the UN. It didn’t take the US to convince other countries to make drugs illegal.
I've been using NixOS with home-manager and it's been a really nice experience because of this.
Now I can keep my desktop and laptop pretty much in sync by just tracking 2 small git repos instead of having a log/script of all the config tweaks on /etc that I needed to do on random files.

And it gets better over time, more projects are supporting Nix, and there's exciting things being worked on, like IPFS support for the store, and Flakes to get proper reproducibility.
Are you using WSL2 or 1? 1 has had problems with speed due to windows antivirus. WSL2 is virtualized and much faster.

Windows is plenty fast these days, but if you want it to be fast you have to do things the windows way -- conemu, powershell, chocolatey, etc. You can and should also use emacs and vim natively on windows (not via WSL). I use gvim on windows and it works well with these Microsoft tools. I can even send text from vim to conemu as a means of using a REPL. I just set up a python shell or clojure shell on conemu and I'm good to go.
No those aren't generally covered by insurance. You just pay the test company $50.
The security policy that prevents you from taking screenshots. Bug or intended, it's the same functionality.
Currently it seems to me that the bottleneck for developing the vaccines is the time of trials. Hopefully we’ll have approved DNA / RNA vaccines in less than a year with less side effects than previous vaccines. When that happens, I guess our response time as a species for viruses can get better as well.
The accidental genius of Yo
My comment assumed, wrongly I think, that the company invited developers specifically with their personal github accounts. As in, please use your personal account. That assumption was encouraged by the fact their employees use their personal laptops. I naturally asked about the reasons of both.
You probably jest, but perl introduced simple arrays and hashes long before introducing references, and this created a lot of confusion later. Very simple json-like structures are pretty confusing in perl now. In most other dynamic languages distinction between array and a reference to an array is nonexistent, thankfully.

There're some actually exotic data structures, like pseudo-hashes. And perl can do this!
$x = \$x

But having switched to ruby 15 years ago I never missed this particular quirk.
in their new iPhone marketing campaign, google announce....
The browser contains stores, and the browser can contain fully working applications. The point wasn’t that the browser is a store, but rather that allowing certain features to work on the web would destroy the walled garden of the App Store by enabling certain kinds of stores that circumvent the App Store.
> For instance, a developer worked for your company for two years, but is no longer there, and has leaked some production code he wrote to show to a recruiter/developer?

For starters, I would not hire someone who opened with "look at the cool code I wrote for my last employer".
I made an analogy in another comment that I think is a really great expression of this problem:

Programs are like houses. They are made of walls.

Traditional UI gives users doorways and windows, but users are not allowed to pass through walls.

Even the most liberal programs that allow users to redecorate or even move walls do not give the user ultimate and immediate freedom.

Say a user wants to make a new room. They can move some walls around and shove the room in the space left over, but where do the doors in that room lead?

In order to make deep refactoring UI changes, the user must undo the careful design that developers gave them.

The ultimate freedom would be for the user to rebuild from scratch, but that's too much work, right?

What if the house was entirely configuration? What if every wall was optional? What if our program was fundamentally just an empty floor with an optional example house built on it?

That's what we almost get with shell commands. That's what we almost get with web browsers. That's what we almost get with Emacs. That's what we almost get with tiling window managers.

I've never seen an ultimate instance of this. I have, however, seen a trend away from it, and that trend is frustrating.

This topic is something that is vitally important to software design, and yet we don't even talk about it. We just keep rolling with the status quo until someone breaks down a wall and becomes a hero.
When you're a giant target you need to be careful, but you often don't need to steal either. Meanwhile, in my experience there are amoral and desperate small businesses on every streetcorner stealing anything they can get their hands on. The alternative is often to not make any money becasuse they lack the skills. When you look internationally, the tech industry consists of a finite number of skilled and capable people and organizations, plus a vast ocean of people in over their heads.
Even syphilis was once treated by giving the patient malaria - with 20 per cent mortality rate, though. (Still better than suffering from lues in the pre-antibiotic world.)

I am all for a controlled fashion.
This hits home. I've worked with leaders on two seperate extremes of the axes presented. In one case literally everyone of the bullet points was true. I wish I could have read this before then.
My story with mistakes like these: I am not a native English speaker but have lived in the US for about a decade.

I used to feel the same about those mistakes and as someone who has learned english as a second language it was impossible for me to make such and many more similar mistakes in written english (while I was and still struggle with fluency and pronunciation).

As the language became more natural to me, I started doing those mistakes myself.

I think the culprit is in the way written and spoken english differ. In my native language, if I make up a word and speak it out loud to 100 people, there is a 99% chance that they all write it down exactly as I invented it.

This is unthinkable in english and basically force your brain to learn two languages (spoken and written) and in spoken language "you're" and "your" are really not that different. If you write without focusing too much, you just write down spoken english.

I don't know why I wrote this down! Just my experience.
I've really only used their Mail application, and it seems perfectly fine to me!
And yet I've never managed to install it on Ubuntu. It's built for Redhat and there's apparently a series of adjustments that must be made, which are slightly beyond my grasp as a DOS refugee still trying to figure out this Linux thing.
Disclaimer: I work for one of the biggest OTA's in the world, precisely in the accommodation area.

You are describing what could be a reason to keep those CC details but definitely there are other ways to do it, including delegating vaults to third parties.

This is a major fuck-up and there's no way to sugar coat it, I'm afraid.
One argument would be that taxes from the sale could be used to fund better addiction treatment than is currently available. State sanctioned supply would then be taking money out of the hands of organised crime and using it to help the people who need it.
The term "Browser Detection and Response" is used because Weaklayer resembles Endpoint Detection and Response in architecture. The key difference being that instead of an endpoint agent, it uses a browser extension.

Having a presence in the web browser like this enables a novel source of security data.
This gives you new capabilities and allows you to implements new controls in your IT environment.

Since Weaklayer gives a new data source, it isn't a replacement for any tools you currently use in your security stack. It's meant to be used along with your existing IT security stack.

A great example of the new capabilities you get is credential phishing detection.
By monitoring user interaction with web pages, you can see when an employee enters their corporate password into a non-corporate website.
The video on the Weaklayer homepage demos this.

Any and all feedback is appreciated!
Send me an email if you prefer private communication or want a hand setting it up.

Finally, here is the source for the browser extension:
https://github.com/weaklayer/sensor
I’m fairly lefty, and used to have quite a a bit of respect for the right, since I am at heart a bit of a libertarian. I’ve lost quite a bit of it though after seeing how so many of them lined up to support sometime so obviously amoral as the current President.
Yes, but pre streaming and piracy the only way to listen to music from these artists was to pay for it.

They just need to change the model. A Youtuber doesn't have 80% of their earnings go to a record label.