skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Job hunting is so stressful. That questions along with "what's your greatest achievement" are hard to answer for me.

Another stress I have is that the required qualifications are normally so broad for every position I look at.
Universally.

Outside of Emacs, I have those "insanely bad" bindings in GUI text widgets, my shell prompt, when choosing/searching in in fzf, navigating scrollback in tmux, and inside REPLs of all flavors. Basically anywhere text is entered, I edit with those bindings. My Kinesis keyboard has 12 thumb buttons, and for me Control, Meta, Super and Hyper are all easily within reach.
Where did all that iron that we mined run off to? Is it not on the surface anymore?
The goal: to show you only ads for things you care about and are likely to buy and be influenced by advertising for, is good.

No, that's bad. The last thing I want is to be influenced by adverts.
"While you're trying to save $20/month on your email marketing tool and $50 on cheaper coffee for the office, your competitors will be spending their time and money to acquire your customers" - How if they are wasting their money as where you are saving? Wouldn't it give you more resources to go after their customers?
What's to stop a website gradually querying different API data on each page load to build up a profile with the same amount of information as before? Will browsers only allow the first N API accesses forever more? Oh, interesting... lots of nasty mistakes can be made by websites picking a bad set of APIs early on.

However it works, I don't trust it if it's coming from Google. I'll keep my multiple layers of ad blockers enabled.
Thanks, that is what happens when I don't cross check my memories. :)
And easier to set up a server than Matrix. I suppose it's just not fashionable enough because it's rather old.

I used Conversations and Movim while Signal was down, and was greatly impressed with them.
I'm going to give Doom a shot; I ignored Spacemacs because rebinding native keys and forcing evil-mode was a nonstarter for me. If I wanted to use Vim then I would, and did for a time.
Signal is a single point of failure, cell-phone number dependent chat app. It should be put down along with WhatsApp.

If you don't own the server, you are not in control of your information.
I'm interested to see how this will compare with a printed photograph, and whether they are at all distinguishable from each other when framed.
Last week in Europe, I was reprimanded by an US-based C-level exec for using the word "annoying" while asking a question about email filtering in a corporate Slack channel. Can't imagine being still employed if I used the word Nazi there.

People in US are broadcasting hypocrisy onto the world.

None can feel safe.
> A lack of failure is a sign of a lack of trying anything new.

I may just have blindspots in my history knowledge here, but the moon landing was pretty much an unqualified success, no?
That’s great news! Sometimes justice is, in fact, done. I look forward to more good news in 2021.
The Tic-Tac UFO probably use MHD propulsion to move. It allows ionized air displacement in all directions depending on electrodes on the ship. So, no air resistance, no sound barrier. It move itself silently, it can move also under water, the same way it moves in the air, by displacing the water around it. It can sustain itself and accelerate in any direction depending on which electrodes are activated and so, to which direction the air is sucked. It would require a great source of energy to surround the ship surface (for something around 20m long in size) by plasma, should require something around 80000 Gauss and 1000 Megawatts for the electrical discharge.
You did notice the article is from 2015?
>Server-side searching

Pretty sure that is what the unencrypted "Subject:" is for... :)

There is now a way to encrypt the subject but it is turning out to be a controversial thing to do. Perhaps that is at least partially the reason.
I'd like to live in a world where a noob developer can advance their skills by familiarizing themselves with a company's codebase, and get paid a living wage to do so. The call center operator deserves the same.
No.

2FA is designed to authenticate that this is you logging in. Wrong off the bat.

The "they just use your login token" is akin to "they just hacked the CIA's database". Just.

I also don't see how the author thinks that the same users who struggle with yubikey won't simply search for the github.com login on githud.com in their password manager. Bitwarden and co are great but the default domain creates a problem where login.signup.domain.com does not match login.domain.com and so users are used to searching.

The bit that completely lost me was the lamenting of convenience with the YubiKey.

Security and convenience are polar opposites.

Coupled with the "tech bros" comment, I am not sure this is in good faith at all
> They can display a total of 32,000 colors and 200 to 300 PPI, depending on the screen size.

I’m going to guess that’s 15-bit colour (32,768 colours) in the form of RGB channels, 5 bits per channel (32 possible values).

For full colour imagery, I imagine you’d still want dithering to simulate higher bit depths. 300dpi is fine enough that I believe you could make it very subtle indeed, so that you could well have to examine it quite closely to notice.

> It will be able to display over 40,000 different colors

… but then again, maybe it’s not done as RGB data in this way. I have no idea what array of inputs a range of 40,000 would correspond to. I’m not familiar with this sort of hardware.
You can get 3 nodes for about $27k a year and that'll handle 30k read QPS and in the neighborhood 1-2k write QPS iirc. It's a fraction of the cost of even a single dedicated engineer. And you'd probably need several engineers to achieve the same perf with open source alternatives and keep it stable/upright. There's a large class of businesses for which this choice is a no-brainer.
People don't care about 10 years from now or edge case users. It matters how it looks today and that it drives engagement and profit now. People aren't making their websites for eternity. It's like lamenting that the billboards on the street are not archived or the menu card of the kebab shop is not available as it was 10 years ago. The web is there to provide functionality and satisfy business needs.

It's usually not the hobbyists who pack their sites with all the modern fancy js.
Every third party library you link to is going to be down in 10 years.
Another aspect that people always forget is that 2FA protects only the login process.

Any successful attack against your browser (or any other application on your workstation) allows the attacker use existing and future browsing sessions.

The attacker can simply wait until you log onto your bank account and remotely control your browser.
Scenarios where humanity extinguishes itself are easy to come by: We are still living under the threat of accidental or intentional launch of a great number of nuclear weapons. The remaining civilizations might be unable to survive or thrive with what's left.

On the other hand speculating about the technological limits of humanity a million years in the future is difficult when we've only come up with nuclear energy a few decades ago, and while progress in some areas has been overdue, generally there seem to be quite a few "research trees" with potential for scifi-tech.
> In the past, you could get tenure at community or regional colleges just by teaching. (...) But nowadays, administration has taken over, and everyone gets to fulfill the publication metric, or there won't be tenure.

Completely true! I'm an adjunct teacher (meaning I have no tenure) at a non-US state college. Here, if we want tenure, we must go through a public panel when there are open vacancies, and the jury will validate certain criteria.

At my last attempt (to get tenure), the criteria was 50% "scientific" (papers, journals, projects), 30% pedagogical (teaching experience, pedagogical materials) and 20% organizational.
Although I fared well in the pedagogical components, I got behind in the "scientific" one, as I only published 4/5 papers (in decent venues), 1 book (in a predatory publisher) and 1 chapter of a book (in another predatory publisher)..

The papers (which have almost no citations => no viewers) got more points than an ebook that I have about Python programming which has 3.1k stars on github (which got zero points).

Just to say that teaching scores less than number of papers..
Well, given all the quirks in browser compatibility I suppose it certainly can be painful to restore the software needed to run a JS-driven website that was written 5 or 10 years ago.

It would help if software was more self-contained, or at least offered the option to be that. This has nothing to do with JS specifically, of course.
Well put. this is a core issue.

Apple also require all push notifications go through their servers btw. Afair
I'm still waiting for widely available and affordable e-ink displays for tinkerers. I'd love to put one onto a Raspberry Pi to show some information, but it's just too expensive right now.
I'm surprised they don't take into account nuclear power and power projection. It makes little sense to have South Korea and Japan rated higher than France and the UK in this regard.
As someone who’s gone deep down the rabbit hole of trying to learn this stuff, I’ll give this advice. Focus on learning computer science, computer architecture and networks as a foundation.

Learning all this technology without understanding the fundamentals is a waste of time.

Most certs are overrated. They don’t actually test your understanding that well. The people who care a lot about certs are people who you probably don’t want to work with. They’re just a way for the IT guys who run the cert programs to make extra cash. By all means, if your company is willing to pay for cert training get it but don’t waste too much time studying for them.
I wonder if this means there is something we are missing here. Like maybe there was a 10th star in the cluster long ago that for some reason is no visible to us today
Correct me if I'm wrong but I've seen oauth implementations that require you to be redirected to the site you're giving credentials for to finish the flow of authentication. Wouldn't this make it a lot easier to determine that you're being phished, if you have to go to a whole different web site that warns you that you are giving external parties access to your credentials?
I understand the skepticism ... but if that's your view, you must not have read a tabloid in a very, very long time. To your credit.
As opposed to the current advertisements, which are for... A mobile game? Another mobile game. A behavioral science app. A hyperspecific ad for a watch based on a video game I played, which would be cool but is useless because I have already bought that exact watch. An ad for an armored personnel carrier.

Please. Individual targeted ads are worse than content-based ads.
There is a potential counter here by everybody not google. Run a browser string check, and redirect people to Firefox.

Google is being blatantly anticompetitive, and significantly abusing monopoly status to further monopolies elsewhere. And the govt won't come to help in any near future, so it's up to the rest of us to back them off.

(Now, why firefox? Well, its not because FF allows better tracking, but instead that nobody gets the tracking benefit. It's not a 'screw users with FF', but 'screw Goog with no metrics'.)
Can you provide some references to where you're seeing this. If anything they are killing off third party cookies just like Apple and Firefox. Also they are making it so even third party Javascript is less likely able to track you - meaning everything has to be first party. IMO this just means there will be a shift in how tracking works. Moving from third party tracking scripts you install on your website to using CDN's to pull code through or host on your own domain. IMO this means you'll be less able to identify when you're being tracked much more like how it works today on native apps, e.g. you can't tell whether that native app is tracking you.
Yes a little tablet with the Pi4 compute module would be very nice!
Time to implement Password Authenticated Key Exchange, e.g. Secure Remote Password, in the browser?

Here is what I suggest. Let there be a field <input type=pake challenge=blah />. Whatever is typed into that field is unavailable to the front-end code. Instead, the browser computes a one-way function of the password, challenge and origin, and makes that available to the front-end.

The devil is in the details, but I'm pretty sure that a robust security analysis could eventually produce a solution that allows any user to type any password in a "super-password" field, and rest assured that the phishers are out.

The next issues would be:
- How to prevent "downgrade" attacks, i.e., the user should immediately notice if a legacy password field is used.
- How to convince the Internet to adopt this.
As phishing usually includes impersonating a website and making the victim believe they are giving their credentials to the original service, I think it is implied that most victims would willfully provide their second factor, when asked for it.

So, in case of phishing that's not the point. If you're actively logging in yourself a second factor doesn't prevent the attacker from gaining access.
A good leader is supposed to take responsibility for the actions taken by his or her team. Failure of a unit implies failure of the leadership. In my view, the right outcome happened here.
T13:26:00Z

Z is for "Zulu" time zone (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9706688/what-does-the-z-...)

So hour 13:00 in Z would be 8:00 am in Florida.
Maybe some articles just shouldn't have ads at all. That would be refreshing. Sites publishing ad-supported content obviously need to put the ads somewhere, but that doesn't mean every single article needs its own revenue stream to justify its existence.
So you "knew all of that already," but decided "no politics for one week" during one of the most politically charged periods of our time was a good idea?

I'm sorry, I don't care enough about your community values not to laugh at that.

Besides, this idea of the value of civility in the face of much worse issues is the worst kind of enlightened centrism. You're quite right that "not to have to deal with politics is just privilege," but it's clearly a lesson you haven't learned.

> Rather than being snarky, why don't you share some of what you know so the rest of us can learn? I mean that quite sincerely.

If you could explain how you reconcile everything you quoted about politics with the ban on politics, I could perhaps help you understand. I can't really grasp what it is you don't understand.
There are no proof / example whatsoever that GCP is related to other Google products. I've never heard or seen my GCP account was shutdown because Youtube / gmail / google account etc ...
Parler 6th January Riot Videos
Why would it go to the trash? Unless they get sued in a jurisdiction with relevant laws, the site will be fine, because most visitors are not blind.
The numbers quoted are so low, there must be something missing in methodology, or context. It just quite seem reasonable. Extraordinary results...
Linux and Powershell
I end up using knots quite a lot. I cycle so when I need to transport stuff I reach for the piece of parachute cord I keep in my backpack and tie things to bike rack with harvester's hitch, bowline, round turn and two, clove hitch, as appropriate. Also, instead of using a ratchet tie down ona trailer load, try using knot skills to keep things in place. That way you get a really practical feel for what type of know does what, and then Ashley or other things can take you further in a particular direction
But...

We need our app to be accessible on essentially 4 different platforms. Even if we had the resources to code and maintain four native applications, getting users to update is like pulling teeth. Full page loads are out, because we don't want to rerender to things like reordering a list. Theres a whole bunch of UX quality of life things that go away if you remove javascript...

Honestly, I'd prefer that our internal business app DIDN'T appear in google...
While I think it's great that these journals get exposed and it's fun to read how they are being exposed in lots of interesting ways I disagree with the following:
>Those who evaluate c.v.s, however, often don’t know which journals are bogus.

In fact the expert who evaluate cv's in academia typically know well which journals are bogus (or better they know which journals are not bogus and if there are journals they don't know about they look them up and quickly see if they are bogus).

Having published in such a journal will quickly get you removed from potential applicants lists or graded poorly in grants applications.

Therefore the only time I have ever seen these been cited were in PhD position applications from developing countries (because the students are told publications are increasing their chances and they want to get ahead, while in fact it disqualifies them).

So, like it is so often, these journals predate on the weak.
I went out of the way to exclude JS from my blog, partly for the fun of it, to see how far I can go before I need it, and partly for reasons mentioned here + optimizing for speed.

One of the things I enjoyed doing without JS was using a comma-separated tag system for posts and then filtering the post list by tag.
From what I’ve seen, most of the popular JS libraries (like React (or even old school jQuery)) are well aware of the quirks in browser implementations and use polyfills to fix it
Probably what will actually happen is that archive.org will evolve to handle SPAs by recording and replaying server requests.
Don’t forget 3D printing that also only really started when patents expired.
I’m guessing the part you didn’t quote at the end of the paragraph: “ As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot a slight, slept only a few hours a night and married several times, lastly to a woman named Milonia.”

Milonia is close to Melania. This doesn’t add anything useful to the article (what does it matter what his wife’s names were unless they were famous in their own right?), which is why I’m guessing the OP found this objectionable.
I used MacBook Air 2013 (which was not mine) a lot and appreciate how portable (and durable) it is very much. This is exactly why I feel like buying a MacBook perhaps. But it already is perfect and I certainly don't want it to be even more thin. I actually just want a MacBook Air 2013 with better CPU/RAM/SSD/GPU specs and a Thunderbolt 4 port added to the those already there.

As I have emphasized the difference between USB-C and USB-A is just some millimetres and this doesn't make a valuable difference. Of course I would appreciate the difference if it was a centimetre or more.
BladeRF-wiphy: Open-source, software defined radio modem
While those things are indeed dumb, all forms of human stupidity including wars have killed at most a few percent of any generation. At the Great Filter scale, those aren't a significant evolutionary pressure.
What would the military applications of SLS be? It seems like absurd overkill for lifting military satellites. And the companies contracted to make SLS (namely Boeing) are some of the same companies already contracted to make the rockets which are used for military launches.
It doesn’t matter if there’s still some good water in the pool after there’s so much urine in it that it smells like urine and has turned yellow.

People who aren’t of a militaristic, racist, fascist, or seditious bent are still welcome in other fora like Twitter and Facebook.
They do. You can turn off personalized ads in adsense, but it still requires cookie consent
What quirks? There was a time when you had to essentially make different websites for IE, Chrome, Firefox etc. Even without JS, CSS layout and HTML tags were interpreted very differently by each one. Browsers have become a lot better at adhering to standards as time goes on.
Why does every article on e-paper omit the most interesting bit of information? I.e. the refresh time.
This is why I am so against intellectual monopoly like this. It does not create continuous incentive to innovate and instead allows companies with just a bit of innovation to rest on their laurels. I think there would be much more innovation in the world, aka a “higher rate of innovation” without intellectual monopolies and intellectual property restrictions.
In people's experience, does trying to charge the customer requesting this specifically for this ever work? Our startup has tried a few times for similar things (e.g., HECVAT), and it's always failed...
Definitely annoying. But how much is this anti-competitive business practices, and how much is this "raising the bar for the bad folks". Unfortunately, the latter inevitably adds burden to good folks too.
Some people seem unable to embrace the fact that the web is as much an app delivery platform as it is a content delivery platform.

You simply can't get away from this fact, even if you don't like it.
I read it as: Your stack is so complex that:

- you will not have it running 10 years from now

- I am not able to make a snapshot of the content using tools like curl
Also how long dinosaurs were around before the world reset and how quickly human civilization developed relative to that.
I just wanted to comment on the Coke point specifically. They already have achieved market penetration at such a high level that I wonder is it really still worth it for them to keep spending 4B on ads a year. Uber also had a similar experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858
You don't need to fully understand something to know that it will die. I don't need to know what the billions of transistors in a MacBook CPU do in order to understand that the CPU will cease to compute if placed in an incinerator and burned to gas and ash. I don't need to understand how the human brain works in order to understand that it will no longer work when our star balloons to a red giant and incinerates the brain to gas and ash. You don't need to understand things in order to understand that they will end when physically destroyed. Everything in our universe will be physically destroyed at the Heat Death. Time, Space, Matter, and Energy will all end. There is no "middle ground". It will all end. If there is an eternal God who exists outside the universe and who will sustain the immortality of souls, as Plato thought 2400 years ago and all noteable Judeo-Christian philosophers have held, then something of humans will exist after the Heat Death. Otherwise, we know it will all die, and we don't need to know how it works to know that it will die.
One does not replace the others though.
There are still independent hackers doing a great deal of open source (Let's put them in the free software category). That is especially true for the node community.
There are many projects build by full time employees dominated by 1-2 companies (a good example here are the ASF projects).
There are gigantic projects that are possible to be developed in high pace only through collaboration even between competitors (Kubernetes in CNCF)

There won't be only one way of doing OSS. But I believe there will be again a rise of independent software hackers and this time they will be better equipped with tools for automation, distribution, funding, marketing, etc.
Neither did anyone watching an ad on television, it's not just about click-through rate.