skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This type of behavior has resulted in an inquiry of long-term (up to five years at a time) police undercover work in the UK[0].

There is a short podcast series on the ways in which UC police wrecked the lives of women with whom they entered into long-term sexual relationships as part of their cover. Really unconscionable behavior by the state. The series is called Bed of Lies.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undercover_Policing_Inquiry
The robocaller opens a browser, fills out the details, then hits submit on behalf of the person they got to sign up. Exactly like a human would.

Except that you automate it. But still the request looks a lot like it comes from a real person. And if you've got access to a botnet, the request will likely be coming from a real home computer as well.
İyi Yıllar!! Happy new year HN, best wishes from İstanbul.
Actually, Europe isn't the low hanging fruit you are looking for. It is the US and China. The current output is much more than the history "head start" of Europe.

For the normal workers in European countries (who might be actually living on a tight budget too), the reality is, they cannot do much about any of this without taking considerable personal toll (so real and fast change mostly doesn't fly politically). They can in certain circumstances e.g. eliminate inefficient heating with coal or oil or maybe drive with a more efficient and less polluting car, which improves air quality in their areas and thus health. This is achievable currently with small incentives and we can also observe most of it happening in richer areas, where there is spare capital in families to invest in such things. All of this has its cost first and the benefit can be felt quite a bit later if at all.

Btw. it will change exactly nothing painting this as a conflict of the global wealthy north against the global poor south (implied). It is not very constructive and quite naive. Don't get me wrong, I am all for healthy environment for everybody as can be seen in my comments elsewhere.
This is the implied HTML DOM. The actual HTML file only contains the link element.
I work on a team of 70 developers (directly) and another 50 or so work on a shared code base between our project and others, and I make daily modifications to that shared code. all those developers are spread from PST to CET+1. Bugs that get fixed are sometimes done by domain knowledge holders on he base team, and those fixes are large fixes that get done on a different release schedule to mine. Its an utter waste of time for me to bug some guy in Seattle about something that he fixed months ago in a release that I haven't received yet when I can see the fix version and change in jira, and either wait or take the fix from the upcoming release myself.
That's the HTML that your browser inserts. That HTML isn't present in the data served by the website.
> In this instance you have children who want to work

We don't know that.
> Why not implicitly clone in some cases (since classes like String gets used so frequently)

Because they get used so frequently. Why would we want to add expensive clones to frequently used operations?

This would be like asking why LINQ methods in C# aren't deferred by default. Yes, there's a few situations where that would be nice but it would make the functions largely useless because of how poor performance would be.
Does HN have reddit equivalent of controversial? I always thought controversial "+" badge is an alternative validation system outside of points. Not validation in terms of karma/points but contribution. I guess HN equivalent would be highlighting dead comments brought back via vouch. Should even be default sort option for topics that gets suppressed due to inflammatory subject matter, or maybe have comment threads with most controversial index be pinned at top.
>it is a LARP of the work

This is the major problem I see. Just like misleading code comments pollute a code base, bad tickets and fantasy tasks pollute any useful information you might get from a ticket older than a couple weeks.

If we're really being agile "moving something to the backlog" would just delete the ticket. If its important enough, you'll write it up again.
The constant stream of articles from large companies about how they have not yet been able to get their applications running.

Running under a virtual machine definitely does not count.
Scientists say they've developed a 10-second Covid-19 test that is 99% accurate
Enter the Gungeon being called more difficult than Nuclear Throne is a new one to me. But yes, it's vastly more polished than Throne.
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І у рік новий бажаю
Щастя й радості довкола,
Щоб усе було чудово!
> It is somewhat tautological that Watergate is more consequential. 50% of private power has more power than relatively powerless groups, and powerful people run the country and the economy, so their concerns have more consequence.

But whom amongst those powerful groups would have had any kind of serious stake in whether Nixon or Ford was president? As opposed to whether the Black Panthers continued with their free breakfast and housing programs?
GP was more correct in that it's the construction (using a telephoto group) that makes it shorter. Being shorter does not in itself make it telephoto.
The first approach relies on a lead and a team that actually has the ability to do this style of development. No doubt it would not work with lots of teams in practice, but I think it would work for a lot if they were ever given the option.

Of course the way to do it is not to completely let the team go untethered with monthly checkins. You can still monitor progress, at the tech-lead level. But micromanaging the team members has always seemed hugely detrimental to me. In particular, let the team deliver in chunks: a prototype, a major feature, a reduction in bugs. But let them follow their passions in their day-to-day work.

In my experience, plan B gets something done, but you pay for it by shipping half as much and it's half the quality, plus everyone is unhappy. I guess if all you want is to ship something for a deadline go for it.

edit: to be clear, I don't think you should turn the team totally loose. I just think the right level of external micromanagement is at the scale of weeks, rather than the 'hours' I see useless managers doing in practice.
Heh. Totally.

My intent is to use Atlassian Approved Agility Methodology™ to push back against noobs.

I've released a lot of software. I'm tired of having these debates with the plebes.
Really? Zaidi did all this by himself? Last time I checked "I was just following orders" isn't a valid defense for felonies.
There used to be a link beside the submission's original that ran a web search for the title of the article, so that non-paywalled versions could be found. Did that go away or am I mixing it up with something else?
The USDS doesn’t hire people through normal channels or for permanent hire, but hires people who have experience in the private sector and want to change the government. While it’s true that they hire significantly more junior people than before the trump admin (if you compare things like years of experience pre USDS then and now, or pre USDS salaries then and now), it’s still often experienced people who want to make a difference for a short period of time before leaving government.
It has the same (approximate) field of view on your D3400 as a 160.65 mm lens would have on a full frame camera, yes. 157,5 mm come to think of it actually: as far as I know the crop factor on Nikon crop cameras is 1.5. On a medium format camera you would need an even longer lens to get the same field of view.

I'm not sure about the aperture equivalent. Aperture influences both exposure and depth-of-field, and I don't think they vary in the same way between crop cameras and full frame cameras.
THIS is the reality. The cult of victimization has run amuck in the west to the point where you are not doing your job if you're not claiming to be a victim.

As if women really need to work harder to get the same job as a man today, what a load of shit.
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Assuming that capacity to produce valuable scientific results is uncorrelated with society’s historical prejudice (ie people from historically disadvantaged backgrounds are as likely as any other to produce such results, given they aren’t hampered by historical prejudice), seems more reasonable than assuming that “talent” is reducable to a single normally distributed variable that we have consistently been able to measure in practice.
if TT / IG retaliate with youtube excerpts in their UI, these companies are going to eat each other
MN Senator/Physician Blows Whistle: Non-Covid Deaths Being Blamed on Covid
Don't forget C, after all `C2x` is coming...
> he always worked on that modality where you farm someone else's land and at the end you give them some percentage of what you got at the end, that has a name but I forgot.

"Sharecropping", although this is functionally identical to paying taxes on a harvest you grew on your own land.
I've never been a manager, so I have no idea if this is a reasonable thing to do, but is it possible to tell employees that not taking care of their own health will reflect poorly on their performance review? I wonder if that would do anything.
I think the biggest problem any US government agency has (federal or state) in producing services that leverage modern technology is that they cannot afford to pay people market rates. We have a mentality in the US that government cannot do anything right, but it seems of late (last 40 years or so) that we are kneecapping government's ability to execute and then complaining about it when it can't and making pronouncements about how only the private sector can understand tech.

Government technology workforces are thus composed largely of either people who are below average in competence or above average and willing to take a pay cut because they care about the cause, but we shouldn't expect people to do that, and there aren't very many of them. We should give government a fighting chance.
This is cool.

But the reality is that if you NEED what is in a safe--you drill it.

A safe isn't some magical device that somehow stops all access. The goal of a safe is to slow down an attack sufficiently that humans will notice that the safe is being attacked and do something about it.
Texas needs to do a better job of keeping costs under control as people continue to pour in. That is a big reason why people are moving out of the Bay in the first place. The good news (for Texas that is) is that the high cost of living in Silicon Valley is attributable to factors beyond just the explosion of wealth that occurred there. Regulation, poor governance, etc.

The difference in cost of living between Austin and San Francisco is insane at the moment: https://www.thriftythoughts.io/silicon-hills/. Obviously there is more to where you live then just cost, but it appears that cost is the one of the largest drivers in this migration.
I think this is the root of it but also why it is so effective. You can never tell when it is happening and when it works correctly it causes people to independently mimic and generate new content for you. Even better when you push the very topics to the extreme. Either this is being done at such a large scale with such precision that the lizard people effectively are mind controlling the population vs it doesn't happen at all (for what it is worth I'm on the very mundane end of the spectrum). The former I would call gaslighting but I don't have a great term for the latter, maybe someone else does?

Side note: interesting to see you outside your moderator role and thanks for the service to the community and your thoughtful addition to the discussion.

Edit: (You got a ninja edit on me!) I think the point you make about the sufficiently smart enough effect. And I do like that the community here is (imo) much better at self enforcement with good faith arguments. But would not a simple tactic be to encourage the use of bad faith arguments? That seems fairly simple to execute and an easy way to generate a Divide and Rule[0] tactic. But I think when it comes down to it the impossibility to even know is what makes all this both very interesting and frustratingly difficult (as well as effective).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide_and_rule
Feliz Ano Novo!

May we all finish that project we've been postponing! :)
I hope they are not using something like `youtube-dl` to scrape and download these videos to put them on their SERPs! /s
And everybody here believe that US Gov has no influence in the recommendation algorithms of the main social networks. That they don't an army of fake profiles to direct public opinion to their economical benefit.
> It's a very ancient system, much older than the internet.

Actually, you could argue they're around the same age. ARPANET switched from NCP to TCP on 1 January 1983 [1] and the initial SS7 standard was released by the ITU in 1988.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc801
I think this is where a lot of the stress comes from. Not for profits attract the kind of employees who are out to save the world not just earn a pay check so stepping back from work (and therefor saving the world a little less) is more difficult to justify than if you were working for a large faceless corporation
Linear is the real deal. Love the keyboard shortcuts & speed.
This is phenomenally hilariously bad, but quite common (I believe Oracle has a "no benchmarks" clause).
Not my expert domain but; Roaming. How do you let someone with a cell phone make a call while on vacation half way around the world, without giving them most of a second of latency?
It is true that the DX7 piano (among other presets) was on tons of songs, but so was/is the Korg M1 piano sound which became the "dance/house" piano of the 1990s. Its punchiness (basically compression, fast/percussive attack, quick dropoff, and tinny aspect) of the sound worked perfectly, cutting through mixes and also working as a solo instrument, providing strong melodic/harmonic/rhythmic support without sounding overly harsh.

They're clichés/classics, now, but imitations (and samples) of both still abound.
> Science is better served when such papers are published

Your argument is so broad that you will insist that flat-earth, young-earth creationists ("YEC"s), and other crack-pot pseudosciences be accepted as if they were serious and reasonable.

Where should a YEC get to publish their papers? If the paper isn't accepted (because it's contrary to all evidence and has no strong evidence to support it), do you call that decision "censorship"? In 100 years do you expect that we might discover the YECs are right?

And yes, people are "afraid" now to do YEC studies because of the effects of being laughed at for crackpot science and denied funding.

Thing is, when YECs manage to get something published (sometimes by subterfuge), yes, there are articles debunking them. But that doesn't matter because YECs use the publication itself as evidence that their ideas are accepted as scientific. Their goal is to be treated as an equal ("teach the controversy"), not do good science, and their real audience isn't the scientific readership.

We see that as well with "bell curve arguments about some races being less intellectually capable than others", where the goal is not to be intellectually honest (See Shaun's video essay at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo which goes deep into some of the dishonesty) but to provide a veneer of scientific-ness to justify racist policy decisions.

Thing is, we do allow contrary views to be published. But they have to be supported by evidence. And the evidence that (for example) "women can't do science" isn't there.
What I think works for me (though I might be deluded) is journaling. And it took years to get beyond how I had learned to think about the world and to stop reinforcing my habitual patterns of forcing my way.

I think journaling works for me by externalizing my thoughts in concrete form. Immutability sucks in the short term but dealing with it is beneficial for me in the long term. Rereading a cringe inducing past entry from time to time is Pavlovian conditioning against doing so again.

Journaling creates a linear narrative from my thoughts. It is the opposite of mulling it over in my head in circles and spirals. It runs beside me not around.

Of course for a long time there was much more ruminating than today. And there has always been a meditative dimension to writing.

But for me meditative behaviors are about reminding myself I have access to an inner state of calm. Not a road to trivial insight (enlightenment I heard is a much bigger deal).

Journaling because writing is thinking with meeting minutes.
This is historical revisionism. The soviet leaders tried to copy the success story of Deng Xiaoping's transitions from socialism to capitalism in China. The planned economy system just didn't work. The "US Empire" can't explain why by the late 1980s, the Soviet Union had 4x tractors as the United States which was totally wasteful.

Here is a good article on why it's computationally challenging to completely plan an entire economy.
https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-us...
While Mistborn is an excellent choice, I sometimes start people on some of his YA (as a lower commitment):

- Rithmatist is my favorite, but is only one book.
- Steelheart is a very fun fresh take on super powers.
- Skyward is like Dragon's Blood meets Space Invaders - it's great. The third book should be finished this year.

Finally, he does have one middlegrade series which most people seem to overlook: Alcatraz vs The Evil Librarians. It is just awesome, especially for anyone who loves trope busting.
Read Greenwald book to know how many big news organizations refuse to publish Snowden leaks.
Honestly in many cases, it isn't. But at least adults can consent and make independent decisions instead of following what their parents say.
As long as there's an option to disable it, (which to be honest, there probably won't be) I see no issue with this.

Personally, I quite enjoy having "multimedia trash" in my search results. I learn best from multimedia like videos and this feature sounds like it will be useful to me. I additionally enjoy showing my friends short videos I found entertaining, but frequently have trouble tracking down the exact video I want to show them.

To each their own! Happy New Year :)
ལོ་གསར་བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ Happy New Year!
tl,dr; You may have a really good idea, but your presentation is distracting people from the idea.

I think you are incorrectly characterizing capitalism, and people are off-put by the inaccuracy and it's implication that property must be taken from people. Capitalism is simple: it is an economic system where the means of production are owned and controlled by private citizens and operated for profit (the definition of profit is not always making lots of money). Nothing more, nothing less. A lot of the startup and tech economy is based squarely on private ownership of the means of production (i.e. companies). GDP and the focus on GDP growth is somewhat exclusive of whatever ism your country's economy is based on.
I think microwaves didn't commonly have a clock in the 60s
Assuming this combination of tools does work, it may be that it's just too hard to discover, given the large number of competing approaches described in the article and these comments.
Just did. Thank you for the reminder.
hyvää uutta vuotta HN. I haven't been here long but I'm having a great time!
The irony is that I always had my own task list that I kept in parallel to Jira that allowed me to break a Jira issue down into subtasks, subsubtasks, down to any depth of n(sub)-tasks. The best part was that there was no "process" for my task list. It was always just TODO and DONE. Nobody had to review my list or approve it and I could delete and add entries as needed with zero friction.
Health insurance is another big one in the states.
Does that path eventually lead us to Wandering HR Reps?
I read this as a case of taking on extra work through a sense of commitment. That's different from putting in the hours to make partner at a law firm. Still, as the person says, there's only so much one can do and not damage one's health.
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> we tend to amplify outrage

I think this is the key word here which makes it impossible to differentiate sock-puppetry from genuine outrage (or at least genuine levels of outrage). I think this is why some turn to monsters under every bed (as dang suggested) vs gaslighting. The fact that this is both extremely transparent and very opaque makes it very difficult to even have a discussion. That is amplified by the difficulties we have in communicating and being able to determine where someone is on the spectrum of "doesn't exist" to "microphones in my vaccine"
Transitioning everyone to remote work during COVID has only amplified these problems. Boundary-setting feels much easier when people are physically switching contexts between home and work.

Obviously, people with physical offices still put in work from home, but it feels much easier to time-box activities when there is a clear distinction between hours spent at work and hours spent at home.

With full remote, the physical boundaries between work and home disappear. It no longer feels safe to tell someone you'll follow up on something when you're back in the office tomorrow morning, because now technically you're always in your office.

I dealt with this problem a lot with high achievers on remote teams (pre-COVID). Certain personality types will always aim to please, never pass up an opportunity to shine, and have trouble saying no to requests. Combine those personality traits with a high-achiever mentality and you have a recipe for disaster.

This was especially problematic in new university graduates who had spent the first two decades of their lives getting straight As on arbitrary, time-limited school work. Drop them into open-ended work environments where the project scope and duration is a moving target and they struggle to pace themselves. Their old techniques of powering through work at 100% effort until it's done are no longer sustainable in the face of a never-ending supply of additional work.

Managers should, of course, be aware of these situations and work to intervene. However, employees also need to take some share of the responsibility for closing feedback loops with their managers. Some people are so afraid of disappointing anyone or appearing weak that they'll deliberately hide any signs that they're struggling or overworked. It's critically important that both managers and employees work together to keep feedback loops open and honest. As a manager I wish I could read everyone's minds and adjust accordingly, but it's extremely difficult when employees are actively working to hide these things from their employers. Side note: It's so much easier to manager people who were formerly managers themselves because they're so much better at communicating these things, having seen both sides of the table.
Funny enough in 'founders at work' it sheds light on the early days of paypal. It seems to point towards one of the reasons Elon got fired as CEO of Paypal is because the broader team disagreed with Elon about whether to build around windows or linux and Elon argued that there was more tooling in windows at the time.
This PDF is a flyer on pest control, presumably targeted at growers of grain. Nowhere does it contain anything resembling the "analysis on animals killed per calorie" you referred to.
All of Tufte's books are fantastic. They are not very practical if you are learning InfoViz (beyond being pretty pictures!). Many of the visualizations are form-fitted to the information they're displaying.

If you're familiar with basic theory (the visual dimensions, visual psychology, etc), his books are even more mind-blowing. He's uniquely gifted at curating and critiquing. And the exemplary pieces he's curated are shockingly-creative.
Report them to HR for creating a hostile work environment.