skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do not work in a dedicated software house, there might be little professional exchange. So if you have a difficult problem, you might be on your own. Likewise, if you solve it and are very happy about it, it is difficult to share that exitement.

Still prefer working in an industry where software isn't the product. In dedicated software houses I had the impression that people let themselves be exploitet too easily, but that is probably dependent on the particlar companies.
It only applies if the Google account on your phone is enrolled in the Advanced Protection Program.
Yikes.

I use f-droid, and I'm lucky enough to be one Android version behind. Can someone who's upgraded let me know what to expect when I upgrade? The blog post mentions that adb still works. Does this mean I'll have to use adb once to install f-droid and have it work normally after that, or will _every_ app need to be installed using adb?
there are a ton of solid arguments. For me the most important one is: The director of the Wuhan BSL4 lab that was dealing with SARS coronaviruses said that the first thing she thought was "omg, I hope it's not from our lab". That kills ALL arguments about this being a conspiracy theory that cannot happen and is debunked. It is apparently a valid possibility. Now, let's take her word for it when she says "I swear it wasn't from us". Sounds very scientific yeah
Question for everyone on this thread who went from being (1) a regular caffeine user to (2) completely or mostly abstinent: did you find that you were as or even more mentally productive after you had transitioned off of it?

Similarly, is there anyone who has gone from not using caffeine much (or at all), to using it all the time, and found it to be a positive and sustainable improvement on productivity?

Currently I drink green tea 3-4 days a week and find that its a good balance between getting the benefits while also not building up a huge tolerance.
Two things to consider: That guy is the corporate vice president for developer services, so he probably had to run that response by Legal before committing like that. Also unless this is a really exceptional year, there probably wasn't anyone "at work" at Microsoft last week except on-call rotations.
Is Github on the hook if the client is actually a resident? If so, the law is still bad and github's response may be appropriate(just blocking login from Iran sounds better though). You can't expect them to investigate the personal details of their users.
I posted once with little traction and Dang put my post in some sort of 2nd chance queue since I thought it deserved more traction.

dang does a lot of work to curate this site. Thanks Dang!
They acknowledged that with Project Reunion, where Win32 and UWP are supposed to be merged, but with what is going on, and probably other internal issues, it has been very slow at bringing out that vision.
I suspect that's part of the problem with the slow weaning process, compared to cold turkey. Similar to when people who quit smoking by cutting down

When I quit caffeine cold turkey, the side effects were immediate, but getting over the side effects only took days. Then feeling the benefit only took days after that.

So each hit was sudden and very noticeable, where as I suspect trying to slowly wean yourself off over months misses that sudden hit one day of "wow, I just feel so awake"
You can get a PinePhone
And install Linux onto it:

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

I remember KDE made Plasma Mobile no idea if that works well.

It's a lot of effort to become an everyday driver.

But if you set your standards to about 2012. Then I'm sure you can enjoy it
This is such a cool idea and a job offering that feels like it was written by somehow who loves his job. Definitely saving this <3
If Google truly cared about improving search they would reinstitute the “block search results from this domain” feature that they used to have. They’d learn really quick which sites were relevant as I banished the ones you mentioned and many others to the nether realm. Next up would be recipe sites and blog posts that spend twenty minutes getting to the point so they can throw in as many SEO optimized keywords as they can and hit targets for length.
Why? Would you really say that restricting freedoms generally causes severe psychological distress? What about militaries around the world, that either through volunteer or conscription, severely restrict a soldier’s freedom and requires compulsory training and work? It seems that we are stretching “severe psychological distress” to the point of meaninglessness if simply having your movement restricted and being required to follow some sort of rules and regime based system causes it. There is a difference between stress and “severe psychological distress”.
Windows 7 was their last true desktop UI. What came after was the mobile tax, driven by their lust for appstore margins. We had to gradually claw it back since the Windows 8 disaster, but I'm confident they will never give up.
We all know that, but we both know most Git repositories out there are probably on Github.
The temptation for cyber attackers to become short-sellers
> but workers in unions make more money

But could that be due to just paying the lowest tiers more and highest tiers less?

Companies usually make salaries opaque, but say you have 9 software engineers. Your 3 underperformers are being paid $10 per year, your 3 average performers are being paid $15 per year, and your 3 top performers are being paid $20 per year. So average worker pay is $15 per year.

Now a union comes in and over the years the pay structure changes so that the most senior employees make the most, not the top performers. Now 4 youngest employees make $14 per year, the 4 middle employees make $16 and the most senior employee makes $18 per year. So average worker pay is now $15.3 per year, and you can now make the claim "workers in unions make more money (on average)", but I would argue this new structure is overall worse for the company since you are basically rewarding underperformers and punishing top performers in order to raise wages.
GC extensions? What does 'GC' stand for?
Use of Pepe and other alt-right tropes and 4chan lingo is consistent with who Luke Smith is and the image he wishes to cultivate for himself to attract a similar crowd.
"This UI refresh will reportedly include an overhaul to the Start Menu, Action Center and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps, and they will be an optional change. "

Call me cynical but I doubt they will be "optional" for long. At launch perhaps, but Microsoft has tended to transition the "optional" into the "default" then into the "only" version in the past.
Types of Roadmaps in UX and Product Design
Archived: https://archive.is/3AdqW
I did some playing with this a while back, taking a different approach. I wanted all windows to have the same aspect ratio, and all to be the same size except for (optionally) one "selected" window which would be bigger by some factor. Options were scored by percentage of total space used, deviation from desired aspect ratio, and optionally preferring solutions that magnified the selected window. https://observablehq.com/@tomcburke/rectangle-packing
Battle Your Fears
Yeah. Unfortunately public health researchers/biologists have very little credibility at this point so appeals to their authority won't work. In particular arguments of the form "we need more evidence" look weak given how many enormous leaps of faith the supposedly scientific establishment has been willing to make on the basis of no evidence at all for the past year, e.g. masks, lockdowns, asymptomatic infection (apparently now contradicted by a large study of >90% of the entire population of Wuhan!), now vaccines are being advertised as totally safe even though trial protocols are being abandoned left and right.

Public health research is really worrying, frankly. The quality gap between epidemiology papers I read in the last 12 months and computer science papers are shocking. Epidemiology routinely publishes papers that contain major errors that the authors clearly knew about and chose to ignore or cover up. The Flaxman paper is an example of how absurdly fraudulent it can get, yet we're told constantly that the "experts" have reached a "consensus" that isn't to be questioned.

At this point I'm pretty much ready to believe it came from a lab simply because scientists are claiming it didn't. My prior for public health researchers being honest has dropped through the floor.
It’s useful if you are able to stop typing when you need to talk.
It depends. For example, office software is already far into the flat region of its innovation curve. IMHO it would suffice to throw away MS and adopt e.g. LibreOffice in all educational and government institutions throughout EU (and there are precedents already). GitHub shall be even easier to replace (complexity is far below office and open source alternatives do exist). Now with AWS, it is really a tough question. Hetzner is doing a very good (albeit slow) progress towards AWS functionality. Their prices are competitive and customer service is much better that what I ever got from AWS (not affiliated, just a happy customer). The level of integration in AWS however is still out of the reach of Hetzner (Cloudfront, S3, SES etc).

It would be really interesting to know your opinion on what functionality in AWS is indispensable and what you can sacrifice in case Hetzner/OVH price for the rest is the same as AWS or lower.
I'm looking for a business / marketing co-founder
- https://unicv.io (professional resume builder w linkedin import) ~ 90% finished
I felt less productive but it’s very hard to disentangle from other issues.

Went to decaf coffee for a while and felt more productive. But recently stopped that, had no withdrawal and feel extremely productive so....who knows.
Asuran – security and performance focused deduplicating archiver
Been working in this App
(Stock Market Tracker)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.darkruby...

I'm good at tech, and can lead the development but need non-techie person who'd do promotions, raise awareness, etc
So lets say I'm interested in a specific cuisine, I would be benefitted from someone else curating it already? Is that correct?
I'm Anieke Lamers, Amsterdam based and am looking for a technical cofounder. If you know anyone who is interested, please share this link:
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About me: playful, eager, people-oriented hustler with 8+ years experience in investing in B2C and impactful tech scaleups. Passionate about remote kids bonding
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Ask: Hacker/Hipster cofounder who is aligned on the company's values (eager, playful, ethical).
I just found out about k6, and I'm wondering why it's better than jmeter?
Syntax is very human readable, yet still expressive.

In terms of extending, is there an easy interface for generating custom waveforms? Or alternatively, if I generate sine oscillator raw data just using javascript math functions, can I mix the resulting waveform into a Handel chuck that's already running?

My first though was that this would make a great basis for Visual Coding! Great Work ;)
That's for semiconductor technology, not a full software stack, search engine, social network, or server hosting farm that could compete with Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon. Designing ICs is already a niche market, and designing process nodes for IC manufacturing is even more niche. Furthermore, the EU already had technical superiority here: ASML is the company that supplies TSMC with the machinery that powers their 5nm node.
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This was a point I made when the pandemic shortages kicked off. The entire world's purchasing habits shifted towards guns, food, prepping gear, and TP. The prices of those items skyrocketed (when they could be found). I predicted at the time that, even though everyone was experiencing massive price inflation in the stuff we were actually buying, largely due to increased demand, it was not going to show up in the numbers because of the way inflation is calculated.

Put another way, if I'm in the market for housing, healthcare, groceries and gardening supplies, and the prices of all those things around skyrocketing, then it doesn't matter much to me if the price of cars is down 20% since the crisis began. The inflation measures, however, don't account for the shifts in purchasing demand, which should weight the measure heavily.
I’ve been enjoying folgers decaf made with an aeropress.
I have a similar problem but with nicotine

I havent smoked in year but I m addicted to nicotine lozenges and gum

For me it works so much better than cigarette. Its like all the pleasure of the cigarette without the smoke and the bad smell. It doesnt required prescription. Its a pity because it is certainly not so safe on the long term (this post just recall me that I really needed to stop)
> Yes, the author is debating a straw man.

No, the author is debating crazy people:

> Unfortunately, the pandemic has permanently broken every economic chart in existence.

> But if we take away the outlier 2020 data points, the average real annual GDP growth from 2010-2019 was 2.3%. The inflation rate in that time averaged roughly 1.8% per year.

> If you’re one of the conspiracy people who believe inflation has actually been running at 5-6% per year, that would assume the economy has been contracting by 1-3% per year over the past 10 years.

> And if you’re a full tinfoil hat person who assumes inflation is actually 10-12% per year[fn2], that’s like saying we’ve been in a full-blown depression and the economy has lost 80% of its value.

> This is absurd and patently false but that’s the claim you’re making if you really think inflation is this high.

[fn2] then points to a tweet:

* https://twitter.com/tanayj/status/1345080274107785216?s=20

Which has inflation at 10-12%, per:

* https://chapwoodindex.com/

The creator of this report is Ed Butowsky:

* https://chapwoodindex.com/contact-us/

Butowsky is one of the people who put forward the idea that the DNC murdered Seth Rich for Hillary's Wikileaks e-mails:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Butowsky#Murder_of_Seth_Ric...

If GDP was growth for the last decade was "only" ~2.5%, then how could have inflation been higher than that? It would have meant we were in a recession/depression.
Cloud pricing is competitive and thus a good proxy for relative on-prem costs if you keep the on-prem hardware busy. If you want to buy the capability to run the job on-prem, but the hardware sits idle most of the time, then NVMe might be optimal. However, you should be aware that these constraints have greatly increased the cost of the job itself.
Oh, you were guessing. I thought there was a new rule against high volume content sharing and as a page manager that got me scared because it would have flown over my head without me noticing.
> And due to the quick quitting, the benefits were much more noticeable. Within a couple of weeks it was immediately obvious to me how much more alert I was throughout the day, how much of my normal workday sluggishness and brain fog was artificially caused by caffeine, and how much less greasy my skin was

Interestingly, I also quit fairly quickly, about two years ago. Honestly though, I did not experience such major, obvious benefits. I was definitely overdoing coffee in the past, and when it got to the point that I needed two strong ones before 9AM to get going, I decided it's time to stop taking loans out against my sleep.

But basically post-quit, I have similar levels of energy/tiredness, overall (compared to a normal, on-coffee day). It's just less peaky and trough-y, and sleep is more predictable. The main difference I would say is that on that rare occasion when I now have a coffee, it has an extremely sharp effect. It's pretty odd, and I'm wondering if people are overblowing the effects, or if I'm just the odd one out.
Communist Insider breaks w Beijing
An American company pays the salary of a overwhelmingly fraction of the people on this site. They will be dealt with accordingly.
Isn't this entire article missing the difference between a luxury item and an essential item? A smartphone 10 years ago was a luxury for just about everyone who owned one (that is, bought with extra money) now it's a requirement.

The luxury purchase folks are certainly getting a better deal as apples:apples prices go down; but if you're paycheck to paycheck and used to be able to not buy a smartphone but now have to - you're just running on tighter margins.

I would imagine measuring economic well being directly through something like a "economic desperation index" makes more sense than doing a bunch of calculus on comparing the price and quality of items in two different years since the latter would only apply to people who own the item in both domains. Especially in the context of this article which is discussing if people have it better now or then.
Millennials can live at home because average home size has increased. My first house, built in the late 19th/early 20th century had indoor plumbing retrofitted and would fit in the garage of my current house.
> "Gyro" is pronounced just like it's spelled,

That's tautologically true in English and every language.

Why would you assume that a Greek restaurant owner would roll their eyes because English dropped the s for grammatical consistency?
Scandinavian countries also aggressively push back against socialist/socialism labels that US talking heads and politicians try to pin to them.
> Well you could become an actor, and film makers could use your body to make movies they sell for profits.

Then I would be a laborer. The film company would be using my labor as well as the director's, in conjunction with all the capital they own (cameras, sets...) to generate a profit.

> they could really move your body around and position it in poses to take photographs.

Labor.

> I think your distinction of "capital" and "labor" is fake and completely useless

Ok.

It's not "mine" though, these are centuries old analytical concepts.

> unclear why you insist on it.

I insist on it because it's a sensible and already established way to talk about this stuff.

You guys are the ones making the weird nominal excursion by asserting that labor and capital are identical because you read in a Tim Ferris startup manual that "every man is his own capitalist!" or something.

You don't have to be a radical to just use these terms in their original way. I promise you that pro-capitalist theorists also talk about labor and capital as distinct.
If I were a recruiter, I would find the fact that you were trying to hide a year and a half much more sketchy than just seeing that you were "out of work" for that period...
A bit late to this but a few things:

If BTC is not dead by then, it will likely have some sort of active user base, meaning non-zero fees.

If the fees are low, verifiers will stop verifying.

If enough stop verifying, the prize pool grows (more network congestion leads to higher fees). This eventually stabilizes at some equilibrium (likely leading to a weaker chain, if profit is the only motivator).

It's also worth noting that if BTC has seen enough adoption to be sustainable for the next 100 years, there are likely many many stakeholders who could/would mine for "altruistic" reasons. E.g. financial institutions and other large holders have incentives to keep the network stable.

Hell, maybe by then they get enough people on board for a BTC 2 that's some weird Ethereum competitor. It's really hard to theorize on that long of a time horizon.
It's worth noting that RNNoise uses way less resources than RTX Voice and doesn't require a GPU. There's a new paper by Jean-Marc Valin (RNNoise author) about a new and improved version PercepNet[0] that's also very light on resource usage, but it's currently lacking an open source implementation. I found someone working on that here[1]. So if anyone here has the time and ML chops to open source a PercepNet implementation, that would bring open source noise suppression quite a bit forward.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.04259.pdf

[1] https://github.com/jzi040941/PercepNet
I really want to bonk on the head anyone praising SystemVerilog. This collective undertaking of corrupt commitee members locked us in to this horrible language and these grossly outdated tools, forever. There is not a slightest bit of good in that languge, neither for design nor for verification.
I drink 2-3 carafes a day and I feel fine. More when I'm taking amphetamine.

The body is too effective at regulating anything that feels good.
Advanced Protection is an opt-in for people at risk of targeted attacks. Unless you have a company phone, it's unlikely to be enabled without your knowledge.
This seems like issues that just shouldn't be allowed to happen. An unresponsive extension, a network drive not answering etc should never need to block the UI - yet it always did in Windows. They really really need to make all such things async and simply show the context menus without the extensions, or show a spinner when explorer wants to show a slow network location.

That the message pump of the explorer windows stop because a server in another country is down must be a design that is extremely hard to change in windows explorer - because they have surely seen this problem.
>Bought a zoom package and data add-on today because I need zoom to work

So the ISP does have cheaper bandwidth available, but only if you pay them more. This is _exactly_ why we need Net Neutrality - instead of having to figure out whether we should block Pinterest.
> Sometimes this is just "because they're an arsehole" and the criticism is garbage

It’s pretty trivial to tell who is genuinely passionate and who is an asshole. Especially if you already know them personally.

> Or people who could be really good at stuff get disheartened by the harsh criticism and we as a society lose out.

Taking offense from an asshole, not being able to ignore them, all these traits are part of being successful. We can afford to lose a few people because they took offense to anything and everything. Maybe it’s different for minors and young adults. I’m addressing adults.
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Feels like this code was owned by the company was the author no longer worked for....
Maximizing Developer Effectiveness
Essential? Really? Many of us leave our phones off, leave them at home or in the car, and are only marginally impacted. The difference between 'any phone' and a smart phone is quite small. Except for folks addicted to them, who can't last a day without constant updates.
To be fair Nat Friedman replied:

> Hi Sebastian, sorry to hear about this. I will check into it right away and get your org unblocked.

https://twitter.com/natfriedman/status/1346452935924846593?s...

Pretty messed up that they built this kill switch in the first place though, if you ask me.