skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Booking a desk for multiple days is definitely something we've been thinking about, and we built it into the product for the same reasons you're saying.

Our workspaces are pretty personal. If you come into work, the chair is at the wrong height, monitors wrong, and you don't have what you need, it doesn't work.

But if you know you can have the same desk for the next 2 weeks on the days you want to come in, it can work. Losing the reservation or a penalty could be an interesting addition too -- we'll keep it in mind.
Ios has a pretty good security API and it should be done at that layer.
Also, “pay” with your wallet and don’t download facebook.fileExtension from their own site (and frankly, if facebook wants to be afloat they should put it on the main App Store, because most people will not bother)

Apple is really great at UX, they will find a way to make it hard for the general audience, so that my mother won’t install random malware because for it she would have to go through 3 pages in settings she knows nothing about, and I can run whatever I want on my phone.
>Arguably the stock price is a prediction of future success

Sure, the stock price is always a prediction of future success. But it can change overnight, and when it does, it's not because reality or the "facts on the ground" changed overnight (usually) it's because perception changed. Often if not always because a catalyst made people aware of something that was building for a fair amount of time.

>strategic shifts that happened once Ballmer left.

I'm not saying this is wrong, but I don't think it's appropriate to treat the stock price as evidence of it.
Why is it a password first then two factor authentication authorization then the other way around?
There are action text adventure games, even massively multiplayer ones.

I probably have blown more time on text MUDs than all other computer gaming combined, but even back when I used to play things like counterstrike I spent an inordinate amount of time using text to chat with team mates or in the console binding and triggering macros.
Check out https://www.launchcode.org and see if you can get "in" going that route if they have one in your area.

Also, there's nothing stopping you from making things now, getting them online, and building on that experience. With not a lot of experience, I called up places and asked, "Do you need a website?" And got started that way.

Good luck!
How do you create images without a headless browser?
German adoption of the LMG, et al, didn't force trench warfare: Trench warfare was the result of ossified allied thinking at the most senior levels and of placing literally zero value on infantrymen. In other words, an epic failure of leadership caused trench warfare.

That the Germans were unable to take advantage of their new tech shows how slow they were to evolve their thinking as well: Had they even a hint of previous (and later) Prussian mobility, the war could have turned out much differently. There is a reason LMG-centric squad tactics were near-universal doctrine.

Disclaimer for the next bit: I'm Canadian.... Arthur Currie took a different approach, saying 'pay the price of victory in shells—not lives'. He emphasized training, mobility, preparation/repair of supporting areas, and rapid deployment of defensive structures, e.g., barbed wire, etc., to protect and defend gained ground against counterattack (at which the Germans excelled). We get a little chuffed about Canada's Hundred Days.
From an objective POV you've come in here with a loaded question and a lot of emotionally charged complaints and no citations, and people in the comments have also proven you wrong on some points with citations.

I have inherent trust of websockets and webrtc because I see the usefulness of it and it's great when you need it, I have inherent distrust of 90% of the people that use it because it's heavily used for abuse, port scanning, attacks on clients, fingerprinting and privacy violations (used to expose your LAN subnet, and then port scan it from your browser behind your firewall), adblock bypassing (streaming ads as blob data through a websocket has become commonplace). They do not need to be connected.
You still have nickel and manganese. Plus secondary metals like copper and tin for the electronics.

You should google the Riversimple Rasa. Hydrogen cars can be made far lighter than EVs.
One is documentation for creating graphics, something the blind are naturally excluded from.

The other is documentation for code, something that visually impaired people are able to do if the documentation is accessible.
I'll give you that paid outlets do more investigation, but they also do their fair share of filler stories based on AP releases, takes on press releases, or social media trends too
The points you see are wrong, but they do have cell towers in the sea (often supplied by underwater cables). In this part of the world they can be found usually around the North Sea on or for the oil rigs mainly. However the majority of these points even on land are quite inaccurate. They are captured by simple triangulation - wardriving.
The actual text of the email is very much less damning than the caption.
Did they say they don't work or did they say they weren't recommending people wear them?
I see so it seems that there is a curve of load handling behavior per language/lib/framework.

As the load increase you enter the territory of queueing (add latenxy) up to a point. Then reject/drop requests. If the rejection is slower than the OS/hardware can provide the software crashes.

For Go it appears that the curve is an almost straight vertical line to oblivion.

But of course if you plan to scale and use a dedicated software to pace requests, there is no point into adding this complexity to the Go libraries.

Maybe what I lament here. Is that this tradeof made by Go is not more advertised. Such that when the day comes that the dreaded out of memory killer shows up, you are ready to fight back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#...

Although a wrinkle is a single user in a two-party jurisdiction overrides and all parties would need to be notified, and if you don't know for sure where each end user is, then you're taking a gamble on the legality.
You still need to test for safety, that's definitely true. At least you know you have a viable candidate though I guess.

People were actually volunteering for a challenge trial for Covid prior to theraputics being available - because Covid actually is low-risk for the groups in the challenge trial (young people) and the vast majority of people recover. I don't think theraputics are necessary for a challenge trial, as long as there is sufficient benefit, the risk is sufficiently low, and volunteers are aware of the personal risks (aware this criteria is ambiguous!).

HIV is incurable, however there are excellent therapeutics. Despite this, the prognosis of HIV is much worse than someone with Covid.
>> Is there any major geopolitical development that is generally assumed to be inevitable, and how might modern technology upset the assumptions of the powers-that-be in their planned response to that event?

My guess: Asymmetric warfare suddenly becoming very weak. I think there's more than one way that could happen; but won't say more lest it cause more things to hit the fan than are hitting now.
what is the weather today, Google?

I agree that you don't need NLP to rank webpages (though it certainly helps), but you do need it to parse the kinds of queries given to search engines these days. The days of logical OR and NOT are long gone I'm afraid.

> It's actually fairly straight-forward to build recommender systems on transparent, graph-based algorithms and it gives you the added advantage of not discriminating in strange ways.

I think other commenters have addressed the PageRank issue, but I'd be super interested in papers doing the work you note above.
You mean UBI?
cancel culture that has no means of forgiveness

On the one hand, I've known of all sorts of ridiculous and unbalanced leftist moral outrage misdirected to individuals rather than the broader system (which is what leftists are supposed to oppose).

On the other hand, I feel like the phrase "cancel culture" itself has become an ill-defined catch-all used to attack an ill defined group of people - a situation that mirrors these misdirected leftist attacks.
I agree, but Bloomberg killed its RSS feeds some years ago.

I'd probably subscribe to more via RSS, but as it is it's just Matt Levine.
Just to clarify, if you have a problem with what eInk is doing here, then you basically have a problem with patents altogether. This is essentially the prototypical case for patents:

* Invented a novel, physical device[1]

* Granted monopoly from the government for 20 years to extract monopoly rent from sale of the product in exchange for making the design publicly available

Now, personally, I bite the bullet here and say "maybe we should come up with a better incentive system than patents". But I find it hard to fault eInk specifically since this is exactly how patents are supposed to work.

[1] I mention it's a physical device because there are other more controversial types of patents like software patents and patents on genes which are more widely understood to be bullshit.
Very good! A correlary to point 2 is “Will they give me time?”
> - 10,11,12 various Cali metros (Sacramento etc)

The top 15 are all California counties, but of 10-12 only Sacramento would even loosely be a “metro” (though it's not referring to the metro but the county, which are not coextensive.)

9 and 14 are Bay-adajacent, though not part of the 9-county Bay Area.
Crazy to see just how dense Europe is -- I've been a few times and always assumed I was just "in the popular areas", that's why there wasn't any open land. But no, CA for instance has many swaths of <1k towers at the zoom level I tried, and to find similar density in Europe required going all the way over to rural Turkey/Belarus/Ukraine region. Pretty much all of the western European countries were entirely 10k+ at that same zoom level.
So, I'll just try to bluntly explain why you're getting pushback, particularly based on stuff like your last line:

You're talking about this as if it's some great revelation you're supplying that abusive men exist, as if women need you to show up and hand them your wisdowm.

This makes clear you've never had a serious conversation about these issues with women, and don't understand even the most basic aspects of their experience. Women learn about abusive men at an extremely early age, and are vigilant against them essentially every moment they're in public.

They don't need you to show up to remind them to wear a bra in order to not get raped, as if that's how it worked in the first place.

You imagine this issue is simple, just as simple as "avoid the crime alley." It's not. The entirety of society is the crime alley on this issue. There's simply no way to "avoid" it.

What women need from you is not this patronizing victim blaming. What they need for you is to help support them when abusive men are identified, so they can be removed from positions of privilege that enable their abuse, and so that the norm to all is clear: this is completely unacceptable.
Is this a sign that Stadia is going to be shuttered soon? Is the tech still too early? Or are Xbox and PS just so far ahead?
That would be great, but it will not happen. There is an optimal number for phone platforms that can exist at the same time and for which companies will develop apps for. And that number seems to be 2. I really hope linux phones can provide an alternative but their only chance for even a most minimal success is perfect interop with existing Android applications.
Just a really crazy wonderful friend.
I'm kind of impressed at the mental gymnastics needed to make journalists wanting to hear what powerful people are talking about in a semi-public place into the stasi.
>A group of unelected people, mostly from the same social class, being able to determine the rules of something so important seemed inherently flawed to me.

None of these points pertain to the scientific, medical or ethical rationales behind doing human challenge trials.
But... that's the point. Now Google is the operator. You still need the service somewhere in the chain! You can never obsolete the need to map the word "smithsonian" to some number or address - you can only move it around.
> Very few people have the ability to influence the success or failure of every business on the planet.

In other words the solution to this should be antitrust enforcement and decentralization of power.
To be honest, if people are not told they need to give advanced notice for using their time off they often won't - especially when nobody else does.

Obviously, it's not always possible to give advanced notice (illness or other unforseen circumstances), so most employers require a brief explanation when advanced notice isn't possible - "Sick kid," "car trouble," "illness," etc.

These are normal policies, but they must be formal policies and communicated to employees.

If those policies are in place and you have people violating them - then it becomes an HR issue, with formal reprimanded, so a low level manager shouldn't have to complain about it.
The old-fashioned kind.
Both China and the USA think that any invasion into their territories will inevitably fail because of the strength of their armies and because of the long supply chains that their enemy would need to maintain to hold a position.

Both sides also believe that the other side will inevitably fail because the other side's political system and ideology is so broken.

But because of the first point they both feel confident that the collapse of the other is going to be containable and controllable.

The technological developments (even if morally wrong) are autonomous fighting vehicles that rain mayhem and destruction; and engineered viruses. A failed state can still cause the other side to lose a war, leaving no winners.
Very interesting. How did you find projects to contribute to in GitHub for documentation editing? I've always wanted to do this kind of work but haven't been able to find opportunities in it.
Agree with your last part, but it's an important tenet of medicine that a patient can trust her doctor. A challenge trial run as you described would either have to be run with no physicians, or with physicians who violate the Hippocratic oath. Either way is going to mar the results.
The key thing is how does the tower_list get populated with the lat, lon fields.

Its basically wardriving.
Darwin Was Sexist, and So Are Many Modern Scientists
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True, but before the sixties the convenience of the pill wasn’t there. The pill really enabled sexual equality/liberation.
Definitely a spectrum. I think my Level Of Care is directly proportional to how much impact I can actually have, given where I am on the reporting chain totem pole. Where I am on the totem pole often correlates strongly with salary/equity. If I'm down at the bottom, and my impact is limited to moving protobufs from one level in an abstraction stack to another, and my equity's value ebbs and flows with whatever the company is doing, I'm more of a Just A Job person. If I'm CTO of Oculus, I'm probably much more on the Really Care side, because in that case I probably have significant equity and the things I do might actually affect the company's stock price. Want me to care? Let's talk about where I am on the totem pole and how strongly my actions have a direct impact on the company's success and its stock price.
The executives are still beholden to supporting teams. Want to launch a new feature that depends on GFE. Looks like the current GFE is end-of-life, but the the new one still isn't ready yet. Let's connect with GFE team on if they'll support the older GFE and accept our CL to launch...<GFE has power to delay your launch right here>

Next up is the documentation. That requires the doc team's approval. Oh they require IL8n, lets go to that team and see where in their queue we are <Doc team has power to delay your launch>.

This same flow occurs across all supporting teams. And it can get complex with Service A depends on Service B, which depends on Service C...and Service C can reject the quota increase delaying your launch...etc.

> I expect the same is true at Amazon or Apple

At amazon you would connect to who everyone reports up to, or whoever has clear decision making authority. You would then provide a written document going over the facts and suggested decisions, and ask they make the call. After that its "disagree and commit".
I worked for a startup that contracted with the major record labels at the time, with a lot of the funding coming from the record labels.

One day a group of four men arrived at the office. They were investors and not too happy with how the stock had been performing. This was a time before naked shorting was illegal. They all wore suits and one of the men carried a baseball bat into the office. They all had stereotypical gangster accents. They had a closed door meeting with the CEO that day, baseball bat and all, and I'm pretty sure they got paid that day.

It was one of the most bizarre work experiences in my life. Mafia in the music industry? Yes, yes it is.
I've heard from drunk MechEs working at SNC that Dream Chaser is a blatantly soviet design, down to measurements making way more sense in metric than the imperial that they use.
You could continue to not install those 3rd party apps if Apple was forced to open their platform.
>The Moderna vaccine was created in a weekend

On the face of it, this is an uninformed opionion, whether or not it was "created in weekend" or not.
I replied by the logic that forfeiting guarantee is unreasonable since sideloaded apps can only break as much as existing apps can.

There are good reasons to disallow any third party applications on some platforms like cars, but apple allows it and they only have a quick look at applications. The real security is in their sandbox/API.
> On the other hand, I feel like the phrase "cancel culture" itself has become an ill-defined catch-all used to attack an ill defined group of people

“Cancel culture” is what, after about four decades of nonstop use, the Right has done a search and replace in their canned narratives to replace “political correctness” with. With exactly the same complaints and descriptions of the nature and effects, including the continuous argument that it is new.
> Apple takes paid/subscription apps on the store more seriously

I understand what you wrote about the two companies' motivations but what do you mean when you write that Apple takes paid apps more seriously? What app store policy differences are you thinking of, for example, between Apple and Google, that suggest a more serious attitude?
> Imagine onboarding for Netflix including a pleasantly designed screen saying "Before you can use Netflix, you must Enable Third-party Stores. Go to Settings > Privacy..."

From Netflix' perspective that still adds considerable UX friction, and some percentage of potential customers will drop off.

At what percentage cut is it better for them to just stay in the Apple store? 10%? 5%? 2%? At any of those rates Apple still makes boatloads of money.
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William Brown - former mayor of San Francisco - was once asked why he didn’t have an email address. His response:

“You know what the E in email stands for? Evidence.”

Not that it really matters. His predecessors have all had plenty of evidence of corruption, have never been as productive as him and they still kept their jobs, so he probably just didn’t want to deal with checking his inbox.
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Except it's not "Pentesting tool to backdoor" anything.
It's simply modifying an access given you already have credentials to do that.
You can do the same with aws cli (oh horror /s).
I'm glad that Facebook is standing its ground compared to Google, who ended up capitulating to Murdoch's sock-puppet government.

For those who are outside Australia, it bears mentioning that Murdoch-owned media in Australia by far and away dominates the media landscape, and has a blatant bias towards the current sitting government (the conservative liberal party), and the liberals have for decades now returned the favour by consistently legislating in favour of News Corp.

The only way that the government will back down is when they are confronted with a much bigger fish than News Corp, in which case, chances are better than none that the government will go scurrying back into their little holes.
Thanks for this useful list. A very minor nit: All three of Dan Grossman's Programming Languages courses belong in the same category, presumably Programming.
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Wonderful! Thank you for this!
Remote support roles will probably be your best bet, perhaps for a startup where it’s focused more customer experience than tech skills. Do that while carrying on with courses and you’ll be in demand quickly!

Regarding finding work, I’d go on remote-focused job boards and look for any junior support or QA roles. Email the hiring team directly saying hi along with your CV to try beat any filtering systems. If you can’t find many of these, or work through all the ones you can find, try messaging small companies hiring onsite and see if they’re up for remote work anyway.

Persistence goes a long way, expect to be told no a load of times but I hope you’ll be able to land something. Good luck!
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