skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much this. Quantifying the cost of delay and prioritising the things that have a high cost of delay over duration (CD3) in order to get the most value out the quickest (even if that turns out to be paying off technical debt where accrued interest is the cost of delay) is the hallmark of a fantastic engineer (and product owner, and salesperson, and ...).

I've been missing this opinion in virtually every productivity discussion on HN the last few weeks, at least, but could never be bothered to write the comment. Thank you for taking the time!
According to a screenshot that the journalist posted on Twitter, it appears like the video conference session is browser-based, and the pin and username are in the browser URL in plaintext.

So then if you can see anyone's screen, or any clear photo of it, you can easily join the conference. Seems like very poor security design if that's so

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnRlaFeWMAQzyIS?format=jpg

The software URL format looks similar to that used by Pexip.com
A scary warning might not be an issue for more technical users like us, but for a non-technical user, it's a relevant obstacle. A non-technical user does not have the knowledge and experience to know whether the warning is legitimate or not. In the worst case, the user learns to ignore that type of warning from then on, which only leads to the warning being made harder and harder to ignore (we're in that treadmill already; this warning used to be much less scary and much easier to ignore).
The headline says "meat was banned" but according to the article the eating of birds, fish, dolphins, whales, etc were not banned. Last I checked the birds, fish, dolphins, whales, etc are animals and meat is the flesh of animals.

> Even before Buddhism, meat wasn’t an essential part of the Japanese diet.

Seems like it was essential and desired, but people couldn't get as much of it as they wanted because of the lack of resources. If meat wasn't essential, it wouldn't take a decree from the emperor along with religious edicts to "ban meat".

Also, the ban didn't mean much as meat was consumed regardless.

"Plus, the Japanese aristocracy never completely gave up the practice. There are records of taxes paid and gifts sent to emperors in the form of pork, beef, and even milk. Meat was still taboo among the upper classes, but it was often treated as a special food with medicinal properties. (Even Buddhist monks could occasionally consume meat on doctor’s orders.) In the 18th century, the Hikone Clan sent their annual gift of beef pickled in sake to the shogun in packages labeled as medicine. Birds were more acceptable as foodstuff than mammals, and dolphin and whale was frequently eaten, as they were considered fish."

If I recall, the japanese, particularly the elites, simply bypassed the ban by labeling land animals like pigs - land whales or claiming the meat as medicine.

Also, as the article noted, the "banning of the meat" simply weakened the japanese people ( especially the lower class ) physically and mentally. It stunted people's physical and mental development and probably made it easier for the elites to control. But in the long term, it left them too weak to defend themselves from meat eaters.
I fundamentally believe anyone that wants to return to the office are shills/managers that believe people in seats where they can observe them is the only way they can justify their jobs. I personally would quit my job if I had to return to the office and the reasons have all been repeated by others already. Mainly, the office environment is just worse than what you can setup at home. I personally don't like sitting in an open space around others. I can communicate to whoever I wish by slack or video chat from home. Anyway I'm hopeful this goes on for another year and until I have to find another job if managers get their ill way.
Per person. And yeah, I do think the same but couldn't find the median per city. There's another source very interesting in disposable income too. [1]

[1]: https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000049...
I’m learning to unicycle. I just go to the park and practice. It’s definitely a challenge to learn, but not due to age. Will be 43 in a month.
From the article:

>>>> Let’s now suppose that we’ve done a Bayesian analysis. We’ve specified a prior distribution for the parameter, based on prior evidence, our subjective beliefs about the value of the parameter, or perhaps we used a default ‘non-informative’ prior built into our software package.

At first blush the difference is that the Bayesian is using more information. Now don't get me wrong, if Bayes theorem and its progeny give us useful tools for incorporating that information in our analyses, so much the better.
Many people don't go to college. It's also good to remember that those who do go to college wind up with (on average) dramatically more wealth, regardless of student loans.
The point is there usually isn't a premium service for sites blocked by UBO. So doing just YT Premium with UBO for other sites would only entrench YT and deny creators on other services a significant source of income.
That's when I start using old versions, security/features be damned. Just like Firefox for Android.
The first post was using an article about mental illness to brag about their rags to riches story incidentally implying that mental disorders were a result of not trying hard enough.

This one is offering the much more woke opinion that life is like a patronizing disability porn hollywood movie that disordered people just can't change themselves alone. They need the help of the audience self-insert to unlock their special disabled potential.
‘Criminal Minds’: How the Series Has Affected Fans
> Why should where I spend the majority of my waking hours, the majority of my life in practical terms, not also be my primary source of socialization?

Work socialization is fine, but I'd cautious making it your primary source. What happens when you change jobs? It can also make it hard to remain professional at work.

> Humans were never intended to spend so much time alone, we’re social animals.

Maybe, but I and many others seem perfectly fine with less and/or different social interaction. Personally, I'm more of a few, but deeper friendship person than many shallow relationships person. I'm perfectly happy being home with my wife and dogs.
- Guitar, I think the benefits of learning a musical instrument are self evident by now. Keep it fun, and there's a lot of enjoyment to be had from each step forward. I started when I was 30ish through in-person lessons, one on one, in the early days.

- Unicycle, difficult to get started but well worth pushing through just for the moment when you're upright and somewhat stable. A colleague taught me in the office.

- Surfing, mid-thirties for this one. Learnt through friends, really pushes you as there's a lot to contend with and understand early on. Wind, tides, swell, fitness, skill, reading the waves, kit and more. 99% sitting around cold or underwater 1% actually on a wave for me.

- Walking, super accessible.
What? Good for Derek that he never had any kind of unexpected expense that exceeded his savings.
The landed class loves watching poor folks compete.

It makes the poor more productive.

You just have to adjust monetary policy to maintain that status quo.

Of course, the opposite of that is true as well.

Ultimately the race isn't all about merit but also politics.
Early morning and late night meetings sometimes happen because of timezones. And you deal with it. But you can be sure that, if I were regularly having to attend meetings from 6am-9am for good reasons, I'm also generally knocking off at 3pm.
This! Can’t upvote enough.

People keep glossing over the structural differences of being in a crazy, hopefully once-in-a-lifetime, situation and comparing to the good’ol days of when office was amazing. I’d love to hear from those that have to go in and deal with no amenities and all the safety stuff that’s now so imperative.

The other thing to consider - a lot of posters talk about sub-par home setups. Much of that is driven by cost and living close to the office and preventing the city lifestyle. If you stop forcing people to the office, your costs will likely go down as now you won’t compete for space with families with kids or those who really want the space but hate commute. Seems like a win-win.
This is profoundly depressing. The fact that an EU defence conference is being held... on Zoom, is truly a microcosm of what has been the strategic policy of the EU for the past 20-30 years. We have sold off our independence, out advantages economic and otherwise, for pennies. For minuscule short-term gains, we have sold off our industry, our tech, to a hostile and totalitarian government. Well when I say "we" I mean private enterprise, but also the governments who were supposed to be raking in (though as one German economist said, government and private enterprise are pretty much one and the same).

It will come soon a time (in fact, it's pretty much here already) where China calls the shots over us. "Obey, or no microchips for you. In fact, no manufacturing of any kind." Thoroughly depressing.
tl;dr brogrammer misses flouting his wealth and privilege in public with $15 fusion burritos and $18 well drinks so he did it in a blog instead.
Or ... no college, because he's a musician?

Ah, no. Berklee.
The headline is incorrect, the article is not a story about how the author got rich.
To clear up minor details:

> I have no idea what a "passive voice" is.

A passive voice is just grammatical term to describe phrases in which the acted-upon is primary, as opposed to the actor; i.e. "Freddy was tackled by Hank" is in passive voice, where "Hank tackled Freddy" is in active voice. (for a better explanation, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_voice)

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Misinformation is harmful because it people can either believe it, or decide to try and stop believing honest communication more generally because they know they don't have the chance to distinguish fact from fiction. This basic principle motivates things like fraud and libel statutes, and why it's illegal to e.g. lie to congress, a judge, and sometimes even the police.

You can not correct misinformation simply by using your voice; essentially that's equivalent to a shouting match, and people are already shouting as loud as they can. Additionally, since it's easy to lie (no need to make any effort to actually find supporting data, after all), and since lies tend to be remarkable and shocking, they're amplified by media (social media in particular).

Similarly, you cannot prevent online bullying by just signing off social platforms; to the contrary, that's submitting to the bullying, since such platforms are of value to their users. Victims should take reasonable precautions, sure, but clearly they don't deserve the sole responsibility for being bullied.

I think your arguments might make sense in a world in which freedom of speech implied the freedom to force others to listen to reponses; perhaps in that (itself pretty nighmarish) hypothetical society you really could correct misinformation by reponding - but it's not a place anybody would want to live in, right? In the real world, freedom of speech does not provide an antidote to misinformation.

If you believe there is no such thing as harmful speech, why do we punish fraud? Why punish those leaking classified state secrets? Why punish those committing libel? Is fraud harmless? Why have truth-in-advertising principles? Why prohibit lying to a judge, police officer, or congress? Why even limit trademark infringement?
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I learned this in the US, in high school geometry (Sophomore year).

It was also called indirect proofs by textbook, and it’s when I first fell in love with math.

Note: Linear algebra killed said love of math for me ever so slightly, when the instructor chose a terrible textbook.
Perhaps if more rich people would explain it to them, it would help them understand.
It's too late once your older, which is perhaps the travesty of the USA - under sufficiently intense competition, your success was determined, not by you, but by your lineage. To a certain point. Hard work is necessary, but not sufficient, therefore meritocracy is not real.
> this implication that you can just give up the material world and be a musician making minimum wage and be happy is silly

I’m sorry you feel this way. The outlook above seems perhaps jaded though.

I can easily imagine being extremely happy focusing on what I love while taking on the minimal set of responsibilities necessary to pay the bills, especially at age 22. Hard to do for sure once you have a family etc.
Chrome is building their own root certificate store[1].

I personally believe this is because so many users are stuck with old Android devices where the store is no longer maintained. Folks like Let's Encrypt are unable to get a foothold[2], with so many decaying unmaintainable operating systems out there. Chrome & every other app doing 3rd party HTTPS have to start creating their own root certificate stores that they can maintain, since the dead operating system on such a vast % of devices will not. Tragic situation, in my opinion, and with so few unlockable phones, buyers have limited ability to maintain or repair their own devices.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/root-ca-poli...

[2] https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html
Weird he left out the fact his dad lent him money to start the recording:

https://sive.rs/mistake
It's relative. You obviously can live on peanuts and be happy if your expenses are low.

At a different stage of life with more responsibilities and a family, you need more to be happy but it's still within reach of a household income in the low six figures if you're smart about where you live and not upgrading your lifestyle beyond what's easily sustainable. The moral of the story is don't live beyond your means. That takes a little discipline, but it's worth it.
At least it was not a victim of its own making. Unlike the CNN.
I agree, the efficiencies of a 10xer are usually in creative solutions to business problems, and 10x would be on the conservative side of what I’ve personally seen achieved. Unfortunately there are also .1x developers that don’t understand the business, or it’s not part of their role. They crank out tickets of rote changes in a pre-existing system. Any large or architectural work is turned into tech debt because they hamfistedly cram it into some existing system or use whatever tech/pattern they’re used to rather than reasoning about the problem and solution from the ground up. This is an organizational problem as much as a personal one. I’ve seen this a lot with offshore workers because they don’t get to see and interact with as much of the business without a lot of effort and support from the org.
Learned to play the ukulele, far from great but know probably 40+ different chords. Before that I'd played piano a bit, but never anything with strings. We used to have a group get together to play and sing pre-COVID.
Yeah I think there is a pretty huge gap between most people's office/home differences, and what the OP misses:

> I miss occasional after-work drinks at the sky bar with the $18 well drinks that we always convinced management to pay for.

It just took me a dozen emails, 6 phone calls, and 2 tedious in face conversations to get accounting to buy me a single AAAA battery - not AA, not AAA, but AAAA, yes I'm sure, AAAA, yes I only need one. So yeah I don't miss my office.
The Zoom security debate has been hashed to death on HN lately, but Webex for example patched some RCEs only a couple weeks ago. I’m not fully convinced Zoom is objectively less secure than all the other alternatives these days. They just get a lot more attention for it.

Besides, if the EU defence conference had an open URL or weak password that issue would apply regardless of Zoom, Webex, etc.
Everyone and their mother uses Google services for their personal and/or confidential stuff, going from blind faith or just never thinking about it. After all it is good old Google, not some large surveillance capitalist.. Oh wait.
Ubuntu (a quite a few other distros) can be made to run entirely from RAM (that's how the LiveCDs actually work). It's probably not as easy to configure are Puppy or Tinycore, but it's possible.
Then the IT people will install some other browsers. Because there's a lot of embedded stuff out there (HVAC, UPSes, etc) that will never have "real" certificates, and those need to be accessible.

So if Chrome wants to piss off the Alpha Geeks in an organization, the folks who decide what software is used, not allowing any kind of override is a good way to do it.
It’s definitely harder with kids, but I’ve actually used my kids as a catalyst for learning. There are loads of hobbies and activities I’ve taken up just as a way to expose them to the world.
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The cost of the Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre exceeds the average salary in that specific city.
Driving.
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Setting aside the merits of this blog post, someone needs to chime in with the relevant Dickens quote:

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Micawber_principle
I went from being able to do simple scripting tasks (like being vague as to what it means for a function to ‘return’ something) to self-teaching what I might call ‘actual coding’ (multiple projects with many thousands of lines of code, used daily by professionals, and managing activities of other developers simultaneously). And I’m still (I think) learning at a surprising rate.

I learned how to do a podcast starting in March and I believe my public speaking and interview skills have transformed. (I mean, I think.)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_KV4AjVDLLaeHrPw8b1dYg

I haven’t started yet, but surfing is next. I think my list might be a lot longer but I tend to forget what I’ve learned recently as I start to take it for granted.
I started violin at 36, swimming at 38, theatrical improv and singing at 39
I miss it too. I've been a remote worker for most of my career (2005-2020) with a 4 year stop in silicon valley where I worked in an office.

Those 4 years truly showed what I was missing and in 2019 I decided I was going start my own office and 5 of us started working out of it.

Since we were fully remote already we were already buying everyone nice desks, monitors, keyboards, chairs, etc. at their home but not every home was great for home work even though we did our best.

I have a dedicated office space with 4 monitors, a standing desk, nice chair, ergonomic keyboard, etc. but I still miss working out of the physical office.

- Morning chatter and basic social stuff is nice in a neutral area. We do socialize over video calls too but its in your home where your dogs might be barking, your kids might be crying, your neighbor might be mowing his lawn, etc. The mute button has become an extremely important part of work and that ruins the experience

- Separation of work and home. Doesn't matter if its the holidays and in-laws are in town or your friend from high school is visiting for the week. Or you're watching your friends dog for a week. You still have a nice work environment to go to.

Its nice not having a commute and being able to work from home but in general its only nice if you dedicate a large portion of your home to work and that isn't always do-able. How many people have a spare bedroom in their home that is quiet enough that children, dogs, and neighbor lawn work don't disturb it?

I think everyone of our team misses the office even though we only had one for 1 year of the 4 for we've been in operation.
I don't get his analogy of 'sleight of hand'. If anything, sleight of hand is fooling yourself into thinking you are rich, when in all probability you are not, whatever 'rich' may mean to you, because it's not all about money. 'Some people are so poor, all they have is money' as the saying goes.

Also: certain monetary events in life do not automatically make you happy, as your foundation for that wealth has to be fundamentally sound. If you can't handle $1000 of disposable income correctly, then you can't handle a million.
Perhaps it even is "pick yourself up by your bootstraps and your kids' life might be better". Do you not see how that's different from "I was successful despite setbacks, so literally everyone is capable of the same, just work harder like I did"?

Undeprivileged kids can try harder or less hard, same as privileged kids can try harder or less hard. The starting position makes a huge difference. Whether one tries or not also makes a huge difference.
> in the United States

Interesting political undertone to your comment. I always get the feeling Americans don't know how much most of the rest of the world struggles to live.

> but this implication that you can just give up the material world and be a musician making minimum wage and be happy is silly.

Equally naive implication that somehow living a complex life in a jetski or having a comfortable suburban existence will make you "happy" either

Much to learn young grasshoppah
I was a high school dropout and supermarket manager who went to community college at 45 for my AA in Gen Ed and then University for my BS in Computer Information Systems. Now I'm a full time web developer. It's really hard but I'm proud af
> America has lower life expectancy because of violence, not healthcare.

> That America has a cohort of poor people w/out care can easily drive a lot of the other numbers out of whack as well.

Other countries help probably take better care of their poor with social programs, which would include healthcare (IMHO). See also higher taxes, which allows for redistribution of wealth and paying for said programs.
There's an estimate if you click the name of the city. It redirects you to Numbeo which is a more in depth estimation.

check out https://www.numbeo.com/health-care/
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I'm not sure about the NSFW tag - however if you select age under 18 you cannot start the survey, so I hope it is ok without the NSFW tag.

The order of the images is completely randomized - so the survey is never the same for two participants.
The images however follow a complex algorithm - no image pair shows up twice. The number of images - although admittedly quite high - is the absolute minimum amount to simulate every important condition/decision-combination relevant for surgery.
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The problem with this statement is that no computer can test 100B passwords against today’s authentication mechanisms in any meaningful way without being blocked or IP banned.
A worm or other distributed mechanism is the only way to test any large number of passwords against a viable authentication mechanism so as to require the mechanism to block ALL IP access or disable the account.

So, yeah, your password is probably safe unless it’s something ridiculously simple.

Enable 2FA and your accounts are virtually impregnable, unless of course you have already been compromised before doing so.
I have used Ubuntu and Arch on this laptop.
On the flip side, at 40, money is much less of a factor. I’ve spent a small fortune on tinker projects as I’ve learned about hardware and EE. I’m slowly building up to it, but one future goal is to do an classic car EV conversion with my son in a few years. Then I’ll give it to him as his first car.

Also, I buy a ton of tools. Tools are also great to put on your Christmas list when there’s nothing else you want. I’m actually outgrowing a 3 car garage and will be building a workshop building soon.