skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article really feels like some kind of straw man charicature of GTD, as I have seen before from Cal Newport. Ultimately a water tight productivity system, like GTD, allows one to choose for oneself what one considers the most important to work on. If you decide that the most important thing in your job is to always answer every email, that is great. You can create yourself a schedule with lots of room for answering email and move all other tasks to left over time slots. If you decide, on the other hand, that working in deep concentration on hard programming tasks is the main thing of your job you can do that too and reserve only half an hour a day for answering as much email as can be done in half an hour or for other adminstrative tasks. In all jobs there are usually more things that could be done than things that actually get done and a water tight productivity system, like GTD makes sure one can focus on what one considers important.
I see you saw my presentation for university Freshman English ten years ago about the drug war and it had a big impression on you so you could make this insightful comment. Did you enjoy the Easy Star All Stars soundtrack?
I was a pfsense user for a few years up until last week. Before that I was an openwrt user.

I admit it was a bit nerve-wracking knowing that I'd be losing my Internet while the transition was in progress. In the end, it only took 5-10 mins to install OpenBSD itself and another hour or so to configure dhcpd, pf, unbound. Granted, I spent a few hours reading man pages and documentation before hand in preparation.

Wireguard took me a little bit longer but it's actually part of the kernel since OpenBSD 6.8 which is great. I don't think pfsense supports this yet in-kernel, but I could be wrong.

I have yet setup anything further than this except for automated borg backup to rsync.net.

In the end I'm extremely happy with my decision to move despite knowing that my apu2d4 won't achieve gigabit speeds pfsense on the same hardware is capable of. My Internet is only 200mbps so it's not an issue and if I upgrade I'll probably get a protectli.

While I feel the pfsense project is great, I simply feel more confident using command-line instead of web UIs and also knowing precisely how the system is setup without the pfsense magic.
I'm surprised you're so cynical to the point you don't trust anyone
I like you answer, I think it explains it well.

If we ignore lowering the cost of tuition as a solution, what do you think could've helped in your situation? Making high school students aware of what college will cost and having them "do the math"?
> then they should not stop that?

The whole point of having negotiating power is they can't just "stop" it. Because you, as a union, collectively have enough power to force them to the table to negotiate.

Whether or not the company has a problem with unions is basically irrelevant.
This cynical outlook it's definitely helpful, but I believe the truth is more gray. It's quite likely and understandable that my friends will throw me under the bus if they see their livelihood in danger, but so far it hasn't been the case for measly higher pay. And yet I have depended on the kindness of strangers who had nothing to gain by helping me enough times to acknowledge that it's not selfishness what engages human behavior.
As always it kinda depends on the framing, you can even say that it's on my best interest to act for the common good, so even altruism is selfish, but then you'll have a useless definition of altruism.
FOMO,YOLO and Analysis Paralysis: the role of gut feel in VC decision making
For the majority of distros:

- calls -> yes (to include VoLTE on a lot of US carriers)
- SMS -> yes
- battery life -> not very good (3-4 hours screen time?, less than a day standby)
- mobile data -> yes
- wifi ->
- (optional) MMS -> no
To be honest, a lot of people really do just want a layout engine.
> Employers want to essentially acquire a good (productive employee) for the best quality / price ratio. If a trained monkey could do the job for peanuts, employers would be happy.

This is true, but there's more to it. Employers typically make a product and they still need to sell it to somebody who is not a poor monkey. Employers also need a safe social environment so that their offices do not get burn by the angry masses, and if the factory takes fire they expect the firefighters to show up. Thus, employers have a real interest in living in a safe world full of happy, well-paid people.
49 day solitary meditation retreat

$1400
Fortnite is getting in-game video chat powered by HouseParty
I hope this isn't a silly question - do we know that the placebo group represented half of the total enrolled? The Pfizer press release is very short on details.
Kuby: Deploy Your Rails App the Easy Way
Engineering, no question. The number of people I've met that can code like the blazes but can neither clearly communicate their ideas nor persuade people with the written word is kind of astounding. Many of them can be persuasive in person by relying on their passion and high rate of speech to carry them through, a strategy which does not work at all for the written word.

Engineering has the clear benefit of things either working or not, with the reasons why it failed being entirely explainable even if it's not obvious at the time. Documentation is fundamentally a human to human operation, which means that all of the signals are messy and unclear. Writing is harder than speaking too, because you can't adjust course mid-stream if it's clear that your reader is confused or unmoved. Writing demands that you not only get your thoughts organized effectively, but that you reliably predict how people will read it and compensate appropriately. This is not a skill trivially learned.
Get an ACM Memebership instead, it's significantly less expensive. Among other things, it gives you access to O'Reilly Online.
I don't think Software Developers or related fields will do too badly. It's still skilled and specialised work just like trades. What I imagine will be hit much harder is more average positions that don't really need skills outside just having a degree...
> If this is out of some people's budgets, check eBay.

Just google "library genisis" ;)
> Is this a separate thing that would be integrated into an IDE or would it make more sense as part of the compiler?

As things stand it's most easily used in a batch setting (e.g. a compiler). I don't think it would take much, if any, work to use in an incremental parsing (for an IDE), but I haven't tried that yet!
What legislation? Mandating that all OS level software/firmware has to be under FOSS license?

Mandating a release of detailed HW documentation (datasheets for all the parts + device schematics) prior to being able to sell devices would also be an interesting experiment.
I have a MBP, and often end up working in the dark or turning my screen brightness way up just to fight the glare. That said, the only thing matte gives you is diffusion of light, and often at the cost of actually being brighter (but again, more diffuse) than the glossy. Personally, I still prefer matte.
I’ve been keeping an eye on your repos recently, nice to run into you on here!

It looks like your link got cut off, this works for me:

https://github.com/walidshaari/Certified-Kubernetes-Security...
Parents are mortals, and modern apps are specifically designed to be addictive. It's the parent's fault, sure, but it is also the fault of the unethical practices of social media. Also, when you're talking about older children and teens, there's really a limit to how much you can actually control them.
If you take some of their online courses or a MicroMasters program and do well in them, they'll probably admit you to the online Masters program. Note: I work at edX.
because it hurts.
How is whether or not a state is prepared to take implied threats of war unless large and unconditional concessions are made out of touch with Japan's record in China and Manchuria?

I'm not suggesting anything about Japan's moral right to engage in those campaigns.

I'm replying to fatbird's upthread comment to the effect that a general in the Empire of Japan could realistically decide on either of "how about we let them attack first?" or "how about we just do what they're suggesting for nothing in return, and stop being such dicks to everyone?".

Which is essentially what the suggestion that the attack on Perl Harbor wasn't "rational" from the Japanese perspective amounts to.

The whole problem of how they ended up in the situation that culminated with their defeat in WWII is pretty much that no one person could steer them off the course of inevitable destruction.

So a general deciding to attack Perl Harbor is making the best and most rational decision he can make and has power to make, within a framework of decision making that amounts to steering the country into the iceberg.

I do take back that they would have become a "vassal state of the US". Vassal states get something tangible in return, the US wasn't offering anything except implied war and destruction in return for unconditional demands. I think "puppet state" or "satellite state" is a more apt description in that context.
Ha! I don’t think you’re a freak. We used to recite Star Wars lines to each other as a challenge. The other person had to say the next line. We could also recite all three films from start to finish.

I had to train myself to care less about my mistakes and also to let myself forget. I get that replaying in your head over and over. I still remember an embarrassing moment from the fifth grade, but perspective has taken the sting out of it.
USA's big demonstration of its anti-satellite capability was at only 250km. Sandbagged, perhaps, but we don't know. Again I feel it is much, much more likely that both sides will simply try to take over the other side's space assets, rather than using kinetic anti-satellite weapons that litter space with tiny chunks of garbage.
Having the ACA helps too.
The main difference is that before WW I the countries wanted a war and military leadership didn't fully comprehend what had changed in last years.
I left a good paying job to start my first startup where I earned 1/3. The startup failed but I learned so much so that I tripled my initial salary in 2 years after the failing startup. Lesson learned? Take as much risk as you can.
The speed of RAM is another big difference.
One or two servers (second one for redundancy, at another location). File storage would be the expensive part. Starting at 10-20TB usable space with slots for more would be nice.

The location would either be at my parents', as I move often and they have a rack installed (with nothing in it, the internet link isn't amazing but should be fine) or it could be colocated at a non-profit FAI (https://www.ffdn.org/en). The colocation is probably the most sensible option for the internet link and stability they bring (proper data center context, back-up generators and they have static IPv4).

+ long-term encrypted backups to some random service like Backblaze even if I have duplicate storage, I don't trust myself enough to do everything properly.

The idea isn't new, I have already seen a few online (I remember of two but no links). The focus was more around hacker&friend groups, looking like private tilde clubs. Here the idea is to provide services usable by anyone in my family, with a nice identity (I like seeing it as an island, a village or such).
I won't speculate whether it has anything to do with politics or financial literacy, but for many people in the US, debt is a widely accepted cost of participating in society. I am fortunate enough not to have any debt, but many of my peers will regularly go into debt in excess of $100K in order to afford the cost of higher education and a home. Debt is just an ordinary part of life in the US.
That's not quite what he said. He wrote: "I heard for the best part of my adolescence and childhood that 'sitting in-front of a computer will not put food on your plate'."

I interpret that to mean he was talking about his childhood.
The revenue at stake for apple is likely almost nothing. As soon as a company (not app) makes over 1 million in purchases via apple, then they start paying the full amount. So, apple is losing 50% of the revenue from companies that dont make at least that much. Which is small potatoes to apple.
Cost of living is determined by how much people living there are paid, not the other way around.
Seems strange to me too, when I had my wisdom teeth out they just gave me ketamine.
Improving your Vim workflow with fzf
According to Apple's tech specs is Thunderbolt 3: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/

Aside: I''m sure I had read before that the M1 Macs come with USB4 and Thunderbolt 3. However the tech specs say it's USB 3.1 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3.
I interviewed with them, after very affirming conversations with a few different people in the organization.

My writing/async communication skills didn't come up. _They did not ask_, which means my writing skills are illegible to the organization.

I bombed the "live algorithmic coding challenge", which is a re-implementation of the Trier Social Stress Test, and indeed induced substantial anxiety on my behalf, _because I so wanted to work at Stripe_. [0]

I was so dispirited I've not done another technical interview since.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_social_stress_test
I don't play a huge amount of games but I do have an AMD card and the games I have been playing have been fine stability wise.
There's a famous study that concluded "CEO effects" only account for about 14.5% of performance [1]. It may be quite dated by today, though, it may be even less pronounced according to [2] that claims more recent studies show the CEO only explains for 4.5%-12.8% of performance.[2]

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2094020?seq=1

[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/do-ceos...
This has been common in the US for decades now, I was prescribed them as a minor for my wisdom tooth removal. I was also fine with ibuprofen.

I'm assuming there were significant kickbacks to oral surgeons from the opioid sales people.
Java – The Vector API (SIMD-Processing)
My wife and I both work full-time and we still stick to my daughter's iPad restrictions: only an hour a day, no Instagram or TikTok or YouTube at all, and she only gets it after homework and chores and other things are done. We never take it anywhere. It's important that parents set AND KEEP boundaries.

My daughter now knows not to expect to be able to Snapchat her friends or anyone else because she's never been able to. When she mentions that her friends all have it, we remind her that our house is not their house and we have our rules in place for a reason, which we are always willing to explain.

While I agree that screens and TV ARE very addicting, that doesn't mean that parents are powerless or that the majority of the problems brought up in this article are not the fault of the parents.
Don't pay attention to the negative nellies. Even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they build a tool chest of skills and code snippets that make each subsequent project quicker and more sophisticated. Eventually you'll Frankenstein pieces of a dozen of these together into something big.
I have an RX 5700 and can't remember the driver crashing, but as always YMMV
In Defense of Jacques Maritain Against His Neo-Integralist Critics
I won't fly on it and I don't care how safe it is. The precedent it sets is terrifying. I know people say Boeing got a "black eye" from it, but in reality getting out of this that easy sets them up to a dangerous advantage over competitors in my perspective. Competitors can't compete on safe terms and will have to reduce safety to stay competitive, which ignites a very bad spiral...
> Except if you look at the link that compares all similar stores. It is around about 30% except for EPIC.

Your list is companies being paid an affiliate rate. If I start linking companies that don't do affiliate stuff, they charge a lot less.

Which is to say that 30% could be a reasonable amount if you had any choice in the matter of what services you want to purchase from apple.

> It was never 90% rate. Apple has had the 30% rate since 2011.

All that matters is revenue vs. cost.

Apple's app store brings in about 80 billion a year right now.

In 2013 it was 10 billion.

People made apps in 2013, even though 70% of 10 billion is less than 10% of 80 billion.

They'd make apps for 10% of 80 billion and they'd definitely make apps for 25% of 80 billion.

> If everyone did it all at the same time as a protest. Apple would have to respond and everyone certainly would.

Everyone standing up and refusing those billions of dollars in solidarity is more outlandish than anything I've said.

> So you are saying paying the 30% on the App store is worth it as you get a larger paying market. Which is what makes the 30% reasonable because it is worth it.

It's much easier for a fee to be "worth it" than to be "reasonable".

If an airline started charging a fee of $5 for "Breathable air or whatever, screw you.", it would still be worth buying a ticket, but the fee would not be reasonable.
> Software development (...) becomes a menial job with average pay.

If I had a cent for every time I heard this in the past 25 years... it started with the 4GL craze, at least that's when I started. And look where we are now.

The truth is that software development is an inherently complex process. You can automate the menial parts of it (and you probably should), but can never tackle the core of its complexity. Writing performant programs is hard and always will be. Writing correct concurrent programs is hard and always will be. Constructing easily understandable and refactorable business logic implementations is hard and always will be. And there is no silver bullet.
Those are called Commercial Mail Acceptance Facilities and there is a database of them available. DMVs use the database to catch people trying to use a rented mailbox as their home address. An employer can catch this if they want to. At my last employer I used a UPS Store address and HR never caught on but since it was in the same town I lived in, there were no tax issues. When I tried to open an HSA, my address was flagged because an HSA is considered a bank account and they must have a physical address for that. I opened an FSA instead, which didn't flag. So it really depends on how the company's HR department operates and as others have mentioned, if you're in a different tax area, there could be legal complications if you get caught.
Since this thread is predictably just arguing over the definition of words, does anyone want to go off-topic and share some of your favorite small indie iOS apps? I've loved Halide and Parcel for years and I'd really like to hear about others like them.
I'd be thrilled to spend $1,000 on any of these if I knew for sure they'd work, but the Expected Value of a tool (or any other investment) falls very fast when I consider how little hard evidence I have to go on /for my particular context/.

For books, the dollar cost is so low that I can buy it, invest 15 minutes in evaluating it, and not feel bad walking away. At least 25% of books are worth the time and cost, which is plenty.
I googled "bogo pin" ... I don't think I got the correct results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=bogo%20pin
It is irrelevant. But somehow companies have convinced most that unions are a bad thing. They have leveraged their greater influence to further their power. They are now in an essentially unassailable position. For the great majority of the workforce they have no bargaining power.
This toxic modern world should pop like the noxious little bubble it is. We need a new 60s only this time we need to win.
Yes I remember many a canned peashoot demonstration for missile interception defense projects. And really I don't want to waste my time trying to parse if this is yet another bait and switch to keep the funding rolling.

I'm not saying it's not possible, but our surface navy is a bunch of sitting ducks to a semi-modern state military like China. Missile guidance can seemingly be adapted in so many ways to bypass point defenses, from raw speed, pop and drop, decoys, swarms, and other techniques.

Finally, I bet cruise missile tech can be adapted quickly to drop torpedo warheads for the "last mile" if the aerial point defense is that effective and a 40-50mph ship actually is that hard for guidance to target.

RE: swarms, I still remember the... was it the Millenium war exercise where a general used swarms to defeat the "good guys" and they basically stopped the exercise and forced them to restart and not use swarms?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002
Pluralsight is great. But the courses that stand out to me are the ones that have labs, specificially Quiklabs, embedded in them. I wish they'd highlight those somehow so I can find them

Nothing like hands on keyboard to get something new to click!
But cost of living is only one possible explanation. Desirability also affects it. For example, on the whole, people are willing to spend a greater percent of their income to live in LA vs Dallas. Desirability drives down the market price. Many things go into market price and you don't actually have to pretend to understand them all.
Pfizer released the study design, available at https://pfe-pfizercom-d8-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/2020-09/C4591.... It's a long document, but it's in there.
> 1 might gain, but everybody will lose.

Exactly. Based on talking with others about their salaries, I usually seem to be one who gains. So I will oppose efforts to normalize pay for a given role because I will lose and probably take a pay cut.

There's also nothing wrong with paying more or less for a job. Some people are better workers, period. This is true even if they have the same job title.
Given exponential growth of the virus, and the very large changes to society made to avoid virus population growth I think the NNT isn’t an effective measurement tool. Clearly the value of the vaccine depends heavily on where/when you are.

Additionally, if the virus has an R greater than 1, preventing one person from being infected has a larger impact on total infected population.