skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fantastic podcast series!

As a non-American I don't think I understand the zeitgeist about Appalachia, but I was touched by the whole story.
My product manager does not talk to customers, just planning to launch a new product to get promoted and kill existing product who is the money maker. The history of a well known company in Bay Area
I subscribe to this logic within some contained settings. Right now, I'm more than happy to grab a new credit card with an amazing bonus point offer, put through the required spend and then churn to another provider in a couple of months. Normally nets me some fancy gadgets round the house each year I wouldn't have bought otherwise (Dyson vacuum etc.). My caveats are:
(1) Being thoughtful about where/ what I spend on the card. Nothing to revealing or illuminating (routine spend at local grocery etc.)
(2) Being willing to pull the plug as soon as I think the sophistication of the card provider is material. This is still a while away in Australia despite the fairly progressive/ digital banking industry e.g., few banks can easily enrich their data with geo location of the merchant where the transaction took place (but this will be the norm soon)
(3) Churning to a mix of institutions so that my spend is spread over time and never holding other products at the same institution (so they have no idea on my deposits etc.)

For other elements of my data I am relatively hard line - it's too hard to value the privacy/ money breakeven and my approach is always to withhold wherever possible. In the long run this tends to net me on right side of any scandal even if I am a laggard on some social trend or convenience
Sadly, not going to work. Assume work hard and reach some level of prosperity, enough to have a big house, and afford kids. You pass your values and knowledge to them, try to raise them according your understanding of what's best.

The very next moment the social justice kicks in. Your kids are labelled privileged. They will be demoralized at school and told to hate themselves. They will be penalized when trying to apply to top academic institutions, denied promotions at work, and constantly guilt-tripped.

Instead these positions will be split between those who get them via connections, and the "disadvantaged" people who will pose a much lower political threat to the "connected" group.

So unless you are a part of the hereditary elites, whatever wealth you have created, gets erased in the next generation.
Is deciding that you "don't do politics" itself a political statement of accepting the status quo?
I want to read this book, but I'm not sure I can handle details of what happened to people. I'm more interesting in (a) how the authors obtained documents of such horrific experiments, and (b) how we still allow insane covert CIA stuff like this to go on, because I certainly believe that haven't stopped.
It's a great way to hire people who are good at LeetCode. It's a terrible way to hire people who are good at whatever your company actually does.
All US companies actively participate in US immigration policy whether they like it or not, just as they actively participate in US transportation policy, interest rate policy, etc. That is what it means to be a law abiding business in a nation where the nation defines citizenship while individual businesses do not. You do not get to opt out and live in your own little bubble where you pretend you are a nation unto yourself with your own private immigration law.

You do not, however, have to participate in another nation's immigration policies. This lack of understanding of jurisdictions may be why you think IBM cooperating with a foreign nation such as Germany is equivalent to IBM, an American firm, obeying American laws, working with American legal frameworks and participating in the American lawmaking process. If you are in a situation, say IBM Germany, where you think it's immoral to participate in that regime, then your only option is to shut down the business entirely and relocate to a jurisdiction you can work with. Then you will be working in that nation's laws. But in no universe do you get to create your own immigration policies. Why this is so hard to understand for some people is truly baffling. It's like they don't grok what a nation is, which might be why they don't understand the role of borders.
malloc isn't magic, just mmap some memory to dole out.
You have to pay taxes. You don't have to provide tech to the ICE.

Politics is a lot more than just voting, especially when you have a two-party system that is vulnerable to ratcheting and deception.
I worked for an overfunded startup but it was over funded and used the funds to hire people to give the impression of exponential growth to engineer the company for a successful ipo or sale. The people hired were sales people and they just increased the faucet of requests to the product managers who treated everyone like slaves anyways.

Despite having the funds to slow down just a tad and do things the right way, you'll find the overfunded startups use their funds to put into hiring salespeople marketing and people on the business side who have been successful selling companies or preparing then for an IPO, and the number of engineers hired during this time is logarithmic in proportion to the exponential growth elsewhere. A recipe for disaster when the PMs are slave drivers all the same but everyone is asking for more all of the time.

I've personally never worked under a PM who cared about the team, and I'm my opinion who cared about the product. I think they cared about their ego and seeming important and the idea of taking input from someone they perceived should be providing then requested output perhaps subconsciously threatened their idea of how everyone else might perceive them as being critical to the team. They were critical to the team. They just screwed it up by being so caught up in their egos about maintaining being in control and being right they lost sight of very objectively how their behavior could be putting the technical development and business development of the product at risk.

For whatever reason people with massive egos who can control people is often valued more than the value of whatever output is produced by that. It must be deeply psychological, and for me of course as a woman, I could never be successful as a PM because if I acted the way the men I've worked for did I would be called a raging bitch, because that's exactly what they were in my opinion. For whatever reason in makes this behavior is rewarded. Very bizarre indeed.
You're right:

"Through the credible threat of violence, the racketeers deter people from swindling, robbing, injuring, sabotaging or otherwise harming their clients."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket

It implies that the protector has the absolute ability to control if an attack occurs or not. So if the CIA had a little more budget, they would have stopped 9/11. Because they had the ability to, they just didn't.

Is that what you are saying?
> there is no practical difference between 1 and 2 since your motivation only exists in your head while the real world effects are the same.

Is there a practical difference between someone choosing to join your cause and your coercing someone to join your cause?

Is there a practical difference between someone choosing to remain uninvolved and someone choosing to join the opponents of your cause?
mupdf also supports this.
>>>Multiple PMs I have worked under have simply demanded an outstanding feature of product without:
...B) input or a guesstimate of an engineers timeline on how long this would take before respectfully working towards a compromise to meet a company goal

How would this happen? All my experience with PMs has been where they are equals, not superiors to the Dev Manager. So they can prioritize, cajole, inspire, but they cannot force teams into unrealistic deadlines (unless they somehow whisper in the boss' ear.) How would a PM "force" a timeline without honoring the dev team's estimates?
There's nothing 'high quality' about fossil fuels
No.

Atheism is not a religion.

Bald is not a color of hair.

Not collecting anything is not a hobby.

Not putting the BLM flag out is not politics.
Re (3): there are a lot of accounts online of divers filling their cheap Casios with some oil or paraffin, so it can stand to be submerged. I guess that if it's good enough to stand pressure and coating the surfaces of the PCB to avoid short circuits, it's good enough for high humidity places. Maybe not good enough for soap and shampoo, but still a great upgrade.
Show HN: The File You Didn't Know You Needed
To prevent against accidentally deleting the content of an important folder when doing rm -rf * create a file named -i. This way rm command will prompt before proceeding to delete everything.

Here is how you create a file with that weird name:

touch -- -i

-i is the name of the file when * is expanded -i is passed to the rm command as a flag. You should probably do this in your ~ now.
I think we're using the word "maintains" differently. Packages in Sid have no guarantees that they'll work, no security team, and no support system if you get stuck. Sid isn't meant to be used as a daily driver, and if your computer stops working that will be expected in Sid but a gigantic bug in Arch.

> Debian testing should be just as stable as Arch stable

Sure, but how up-to-date is Debian testing when compared to Arch?
An argument that is cogent, but that I disagree with, is that those fiscal elements are intended to incentivize childbirth and raising a child under wedlock.

I personally think that this is outdated, and that we should incentivize such things in more direct ways if we should at all, but this is a reasonable point of disagreement prima facie.
There are people who honestly and truly believe this applies to abortion and forms of contraception.

These people are honestly and in good conscience saying “that is legal, but extremely immoral and my conscience refuses to allow me to participate.”

There is currently a case before the SCOTUS regarding whether adoption agencies can discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Again this is by people who have thought deeply about the issue, and decided that public policies is immoral. They are refusing to support it because they honestly believe it’s immoral.

Can’t the government say “you’re entitled to your beliefs, but you’re not entitled to act on them in the public sphere?”
Questions about authenticity can occur at a supplier, with contractors to a supplier, or during the movement of components between contractors and to the customer. The types of anti-counterfeiting options to be used depend both on the value of the component and the consequences of fake components. But they all focus on the ability to uniquely identify a component so it can be tracked through final system assembly
https://semiengineering.com/new-and-innovative-supply-chain-...
Very nice article!

Last year I was part of a working group on a data dividend proposal for the state of California, which you can read about at https://www.datadividends.org/ .

Our conclusions led us much closer to the spirit of this EFF article than the term "data dividends" might suggest. We recommended against any kind of personalized payments. We considered a small universal basic income funded by a "data tax", but because of the small amount (as mentioned by the EFF), we focused on use of a data tax to fund public projects and initiatives aimed at redistributing the benefits of data more equitably.

We mostly stayed away from recommending privacy or data ownership regulation because (a) California had recently passed the CCPA and (b) this question seemed outside of our mandate, but I agree that the two should be considered together.
My point was a simple one, spying will always occur. If people are arguing it should be the exclusive purview of autocrats, and that would somehow improve the state of the world, I would disagree.
Fundamentals of Linux Iptables Firewall
This is very reminiscent of Physical Random/Unclonable Functions[1]. When creating identifiers like this it's very important that they be non-reproducible. The article nearly touched on this with random patterns, but the important distinction is that the process must not be reproducible by the manufacturer even if they wanted to.

In [1], they propose timing artifacts in FPGAs as a means to achieve this. I imagine that some of the random material embeddings in the article may achieve this in practice, though it's important to actually quantify it.

[1] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.29...
If anything, tamper detection is extremely important for things like CT scanners and nuclear warheads.
Privacy is (or at least should be) a right. BMWs aren't.
We don't get into politics until we need an emergency building permit approval at which point we will make a donation to the mayor's campaign even if he is a big Trump supporter and says things directly opposite of all the diversity meetings we have been going to over the past year.
New evidence of gut-brain mechanism involved in MS flare-UPS
I wouldn't consider paying extra taxes on behalf of employees political, no. Lobbying re immigration is a fair point though; I'd been considering this discussion in the context of companies pushing a political view onto their employees (per TFA) and lobbying is unrelated to that.

I'm not sure what issues you're referring to in your last para; I don't see any disputes over who's human. (I'm not in the US and am trying not to follow its politics too closely, in case it's contagious.)
I always just use my cotton shirt. Is there really that much advantage to using microfiber?
Can you please link to the code you're describing?
A point that opponents of Tether repeatedly ignore is how easy a source of profit it is as business idea. The reason I do not believe all the Tether conspiracy theorys is that there there is too much easy money to be made without breaking the law and all that entails.

For example buy back tether yourself whenever the market is spooked that you may not be legit due to internet fud or have your collateral invested in US bonds.
I completely agree, except this isn’t an American position and it isn’t actually about politics. It’s the culture of the valley, a tiny little geography in California and it’s about identity. Many there will form every imaginable excuse to conflate their employment with politics as a means of identity expression. Most people in the US find this subculture just as bizarre.
I appreciate that you qualified the generalization as "a lot of" government work. I wanted to take this moment to mention that I've often seen tech circles to sound dismissive of government work altogether, as somehow less valuable/meritorious than industry, and I think that's unfortunate.

For someone who moved back to industry (from an amazing small team, working on positive federal programs), and thinking startups were probably the way to go for impact and being able to wield many skills, two of the barriers during the search were:

* It was hard to find startups with missions that I felt good about working on. Like many people, I work very hard, bring a lot of capabilities and potential, and want more than a paycheck and a lottery ticket. Scrolling angel.co blurbs was disheartening ("like Uber for embedding marketing insight electrodes into babies' brains, now with blockchain ICO").

* I heard some dismissive comments of some accomplishments simply because it was in the context of gov't, and some other times strongly suspected those dismissive sentiments (when I'm pretty sure the same accomplishments at a random startup would've been seen as very impressive)... and then I'd see comments on HN seeming to express the same prejudice. I don't know how prevalent that prejudice is, and it's far from the worst prejudice in the world right now, but it seemed to be a barrier.

Although I did eventually get offers from three startups working on good things, the process of finding them was so miserable, that I think next time I'll instead start by looking at 2-3 of the FAANGs and some other large organizations. Maybe the larger orgs, having institutional experience with much larger numbers of employees, might be less susceptible to prejudices of interviewers than at the average startup? (Well, that might be wishful thinking, but prejudices can take generations to erode, so, in the interim, doesn't hurt to mix up the approach, as a possible workaround.)
I really enjoyed and would recommend the Third Reich Trilogy [1], especially to anyone who thinks Hitler was “popular because he actually fixed a lot of problems in Germany at the time.” Hitler was never popular, he just appeared that way because he suppressed all opposition.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Reich_Trilogy
> Nobody reasonably holds Uber and Lyft and DoorDash’s recent politicking in California against them.

What? I absolutely hold it against them, given how much of it was pure and unpunished chicanery like tricking drivers into agreeing to 'petitions' then used in published advertising.
My son has Garmin VivoFit from 2015 which hasn't needed the batter changed (they weren't rechargable). He did switch to a Apple watch a couple of years ago, but it was between 2 and 3 years of every day usage.

The claimed battery life was 1 year.
Evergreening props up pharmaceutical profits but prevents lower-income populations from ever benefitting from the drugs. It keeps enormous swaths of the global population, without insurance or financial resources, from accessing lifesaving treatments.

It seems the pharmaceutical industry has largely forgotten why it makes drugs in the first place: to save lives.

No, not really. They are in it to make money.

We used to think of medication as something you took occasionally during a crisis. Now we take it as a given that a large percentage of the population will be on maintenance drugs for life.

Then we act all shocked at the fragility of the global pharmaceutical industry and the growing issue of antibiotic resistance.

But if you make some prosaic observation about this overall pattern, you can expect to be basically booed, not taken seriously as trying to talk about the problem in some sensible fashion.
On a personal, individual level, I believe yes. Not sure if being a corporate entity changes that though.
I call this Object Saturation.

I don't do it with watches, but I do it with charging cables, socks, and toothbrushes.

(Of course, I avoid buying things, so I don't buy them.)
You could have $13B of inflow to BTC with only $1B of Tethers because they should be reused. Who is holding them and why?
Ah, articbull as usual.

So after the govt seizes almost one billion from tether, they are not fully backed anymore? Color me surprised!!
Does Swish (https://github.com/becls/swish) fit anywhere in your list?
I know a bunch of software engineers who wear this watch. It's incredibly popular without respect to income level.

From my observations poorer people are less likely to wear this.
It's referring to abortion arguments.
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18421755
https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/48857/former-head-of-cir...
GeekISP Closing Down – GeekISP Tech Blog
If Tether is a scam, you're going to be hard pressed to find someone willing to sell 1:1. Like all things crypto, don't be the last one out the door.
> Businesses simply don’t have the option of not doing politics.

You are confusing a willful engagement of opinion for a contractual or procedural obligation.
But it occurs in print, which humans have become very accustomed to over the last 500 years. It's like the "paleo food" argument that somehow we aren't properly evolved to digest grains.
I think the point is that Ring is facilitating this program and they don’t have to.

I think there’s a pretty big distinction between a single home or even many choosing to livestream and a company providing the means for police departments to setup centralized mass-surveillance.
So do you feel that it is a politically neutral choice for an employer to decide that the health insurance they sponsor for employees cannot be used to cover an abortion?
Most of the gnu tools are working fine. Javascript stack is still a tire fire. JVM is ok. Ruby/Python are fine.
You mean like any other market? Or just this one?
Bah, it's just an order of magnitude.
It's weird right? I come from Rails and thought CoffeeScript (CS) could make it way more readable, like Python but with cool string interpolations!

But you're absolutely right, it made my code really hard to reason about. I don't know why this is the case but it was always harder to read my own CS than raw JS. I found myself putting blocks into the CS2JS just to read inner workings.

While it made me less verbose and short-term faster, longer term it made me slower.
Parent said "influence desired career paths", which is not the same as differences in performance. People choose a career path for many reasons besides ability, such as individual personality, ability in alternative jobs (note the quote in your first link which points out that "girls outperform their male counterparts on achievement tests in stereotypically feminine subject areas"), or even their experience being bullied in high school with regard to the job.

Furthermore, if you want to come to valid statistical conclusions about whether a discrepancy is due to a particular cause (and can't just do a RCT), it's not enough to just ignore plausible confounders until they are "provable". You need to systematically control for all possible confounders.
Perhaps a search on eBay for a Casio Marlin would let you find another one - the Marlin was Casio's way of marketing their waterproof feature.
This is heartbreaking. I don’t know Ryan and I didn’t knew Christian, but I’ve been a fan of Audm and a subscriber since at least 2018.

My deepest thoughts to Christian’s family, friends, and coworkers as they face this loss.
What if you support the concept that black lives matter but do not support the actions of the organization Black Lives Matter (which is not just about racial equality).
Ah, OK, slightly confusing choice of word then. As I see it the crucial question re abortion is when a clump of cells becomes a person; I don't think there's ever a stage where it's not (biologically) human.
A couple of dollars cheaper (in Australia), better backlight, 50m water resist.
Get Ready for the 'Great Conjunction' of Jupiter and Saturn
The Tennessee Solution to Disappearing Book Reviews
The ability to say 'no' has to be number one on my list. Curiously not included on this list.
As Southeast Asia enters a golden age, here are the key opportunities
> Now, our worst fears have been confirmed. Police in Jackson, Mississippi, have started a pilot program that would allow security camera owners, including Ring owners, to patch the camera streams from their front doors directly to a police Real Time Crime Center.

Sounds like Mozilla is for user freedom with their purchased hardware only when users behave as Mozilla wants them to.
This argument also relies on an unstated bias against gay couples.

Straight couples can get married without any plans to have a child. Why is is different for gay couples?

Gay couples can also have a child either through adoption or biologically with a surrogate or sperm donor.
There are two conflicting things at play there. Middle America is getting sucked dry on the manufacturing side because of uncompetitive costs. The knee jerk reaction of the government is then to address this with tariffs, which then results in the local retail industry getting sucked dry as well because they can’t compete with tariff bypass loopholes.
So fun to read about corresponding great minds.

The loss of letters in the modern era (replaced with video calls) will be felt by future historians.
That’s a great story, thanks. They also ran TV cables for Princess Diana’s wedding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/582123.stm
asdf has a terraform plugin and solves the problem of folks being on the wrong versions quite nicely.

https://asdf-vm.com/#/