skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That is the meaning of "should", isn't it?

Not really. It's a difference between "should have" and "nice to have".

If you go in with the expectation that your job and your vocation should align, then you're setting yourself up for a negative experience. Maybe not immediately, but definitely down the road, because that alignment won't last forever.

I prefer to go in with the idea that it's a desirable, but entirely optional bonus.

I guess it depends on how "risk averse" you are in this context. It's kinda like salary negotiations. I prefer to put most of the weight on the base salary. Equity and bonuses are nice, but if the base salary isn't enough to live comfortably, then you're setting yourself up for a big risk: you're one management decision away from coming up short. Yes, I know that most US employers can fire you at will in theory, but in practice getting laid off doesn't happen as often as the myriad of stuff that can adversely affect your bonus or equity.

Different people have different outlooks. Mine puts the "job-passion balance" in the same category as "bonus" and "equity". It comes from my own, personal experience. YMMV.
It's a bit unfair to use a default hello world program as an argument for why binaries are too large to use in an embedded context, because rust binaries can be made very small with tuning[1][2][3].

[1] https://www.codeslow.com/2019/12/tiny-windows-executable-in-...

[2] https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust

[3] https://rust-embedded.github.io/book/unsorted/speed-vs-size....
You can now buy EA games on Steam though.

EA's Origin client also knows which EA games you have that were bought on Steam as well.
To sum up, the notion of “medical ethics” doesn’t actually have much to do with ethics and with what is morally right, and as such should be routinely disregarded when considering how to fight the pandemic crisis.
> If a French company wants to expand into the Spanish market, they can localize their app all they want; if their prospective customers in Spain are already using a different app that works just as well, they're going to have a hard time convincing them to switch.

Then acquire it.
I don't remember like 98% or 99% of my passwords. I have something like 270 on my private accounts and probably 300 passwords on my work accounts. Well password manager is useful and I can always use pw reset option built in systems.

I kindly propose everyone to forget all their passwords.

Then they mostly don't need second factor if they generate random password each time and don't care about remembering them at all.
Remember that said woman would look like Harvey Weinstein.

But this sort of behavior reinforces the idea that the industry would be filled with shameless people who would do anything to get ahead. Actual talent would be at best a secondary factor to success. We have lost generations of talented artists simply because they had a shred of integrity.
You bet! Now, if you'll allow me to try to present the other side for your consideration:

- Virtue signaling is a critical component to personal and social moral growth. Showing where you stand and putting your money where you mouth is necessary to decentralize authority and improve the standards that are "baked" into society. Otherwise you're just appealing to whoever has the biggest stick.

- That people misapply a legitimate action or are overzealous in its application doesn't mean the underlying idea is wrong. The Internet is still quite young and its inviting a global confrontation of how to deal with deeply-seated social problems. Expecting this new-found power to be wielded without making mistakes is unrealistic.

- People are learning how horrible it is to rely on power and privilege to isolate you from the effects of your wrong-doing. Even if we assume the best of people and that they aren't consciously doing this, it is still pushing awareness closer to consciousness and thus (hopefully) better decision making.

- The importance of allyship is making massive strides. As oft quoted, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.". On a personal note, as a kid watching a neighborhood kid get his bully-buddy to stop throwing snowballs at another kid taught me a lesson I've never forgotten.

- "Good" and "bad" deeds always have a "blast radius" and require support of some kind to sustain. Engaging organizations and platforms that surround people is a critical component to making a change, or all you're doing is swapping the hood ornament on the car without touching the engine underneath.
My camera has an USB-C port, which can be used to charge the (removable) battery. I don't think I have the guts to plug pretty much any USB-C charger into a 2000 € camera. I can already hear a little pop and the not-so-faint smell of burned electronics just thinking about doing it.
In my mind the forward back buttons apply to the URL. So you are going back and forward in URL history, as if you were typing the URL in fresh each time. In the old days the back forward buttons were right there next to the URL on the toolbar.

It just occurred to me that on mobile, the back button is not associated with the URL at all, so its not surprising that people don't associate it with that anymore.

I think safari desktop hides the URL as well.
Ask HN: Best Practises / advice for Home Ethernet Cabling
Ok, so I feel I should know this but anyway ... I live in a nice three story newly built UK house - lots of plasterboard (sheetrock?) over timber frames, also lots of aluminium backed cladding - and so lots of terrible wifi reception.

So I want to run ethernet cable from my fibre ingress point to at least a location on each floor, where I will install some sort of RPi wifi access point.

A conversation yesterday with a visiting electrician (fusebox tried to set itself on fire) made it worse as they laughed at the idea - the amount of drilling through floorboards and plasterboard seems immense and various google searches turn up nothing helpful. My big issues seem to be :

1. Conceptually the idea of dropping a wire down from top floor to bottom then pulling the wire up seems simple but

2. There are battens and floorboards between that simple vertical run - how do you get in and drill through those

3. How do you run horizontally? I don't have a simple vertical run and will want to go across the ceiling at least once - again the problem of finding and pulling a wire but now without gravity.

3. The existing wiring (tv coaxial) could be followed but in my limited understanding they would have run this before plasterboaring - so it will go through small bore holes in joists and also will likely be cable tied to joists so I cannot use coax cable as a already in place guide / pull wire.

So it looks like my options are to cut sections of plasterboard out just below and above each floor, reach in and drill up. then make good. And I am still not sure how to go horizontally. And my attic is actually the kids bedroom so getting into the remaining space is ... challenging.

So, HN - before I make laughably horrific holes in my house, your experience and suggestions please?
Consider also batterie life and how it's affected by load cycle numbers: ablets get charged one every second day and e-ink devices once a month.
Consider also technologie obsolecsence: estimate the times it will take in 10 years for your devices to open a book, change pages, mark highlights. I hardly open a pdf now on my iPad mini and my e-ink device from the same period seems to do the same operation at lighting speed.
Unlike Standard Oil and AT&T, you don't miss anything important if you skip them and read a book.
your problem is that you gave them your email address, not that they have tracking pixels in their emails
As mentioned above by someone else, what they mean by "x86” is something of a hybrid. The kernel/ring 0 code is certainly 64 bit, and I suspect they may be using 64 bit long mode everywhere, but they're making special accomodations to the many VMS programs that assume 32 bit pointers.

This isn't relevant just to VAX code -- because previous versions of VMS made these same accomodations, some programs simply never changed, up to Itanium, despite both alpha and Itanium being 64 bit (and only 64 bit, alpha didn't and I don't think Itanium had "true" 32 bit modes)

So "x86” is really referring more to the platform than the specific CPU or mode here, since it'll be a pretty seamless mixture of both.
I would recommend that you read up on anti-trust law.

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...

Here is the government released statement on these types of topics. "Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power"

That is from the US government. For any other further comments you have on the topic of anti-trust law, or market power, please read this government statement first and see how it applies to your statement.

> Entering into the restrictions of an iPhone is 100% voluntary.

If a company has significant market power, then anti-trust law can apply.

> This fails every commonly held definition of a monopoly

Anti trust law does not require a literal monopoly. So I am not sure why you are bringing that up. Anti-trust law only requires significant market power. And Apple has 50% of the US smartphone market, which is within the realm of what courts have considered to be significant market power.

> You literally just buy an Android phone, and you're free of the restrictions imposed by Apple, immediately.

Apple still has 50% of the US market. That can be significant market power, as the courts have ruled in the past.
>The "post-pc" world suggested by Apple/Jobs never materialized.

This is a very US/EU centric evaluation of computing. It might not even be accurate for Gen Z, overall.
Except when it's not -- I rarely ever fire up my PS4 but when I do I can be guaranteed to have to wait a half hour for updates to install

Same with new games ... pop in the disc, run the install routine, download the day 1 patch...
Hotfixes for Your Newly Remote Team
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23496107 which links a number of rather detailed articles discussing Rust binary sizes.
Ask HN: Do you know an open source version of winamp twistedpixel plugin?
I used to spend hours and days exploring this winamp plugin [1] a few "5" years ago, if I recalled that well. That plugin allowed me to enter some math formula and it then generated so awesome visualizations that aligned with song beats.

Do you know any similar open source tool today? I have a few .mp3 files, and I want to generate some visualization from them, then combine both of them to make a youbute video.

I'm on Linux for source.

Thanks a lot for your reading and answers!

[1] https://winampheritage.com/visualization/twistedpixel/136776
> And that you can even argue that it wouldn't be clear that 1984 is trying to make a point is evidence that text is not inherently clear.

No, it's evidence that George Orwell was obfuscating his point. When you make a point through fiction, that is obfuscation. To make my point clear, had you made a faithful version of 1984 into a movie, people who know nothing of the book would still not be clear about whether it has a point or not. It has nothing to do with it being in text form.

> Also, I don't know how you can claim that it's easier to tell what text is documenting than a picture. It's much easier to lie with text.

The two are not contradictory. It's easy to tell what is being documented. Whether it is true is a different story.

The crux of my discussion isn't about what happens when the author/photographer is intentionally trying to mislead, but when they are not trying to mislead. If an author writes a nonfiction treatise it leaves a lot less room for ambiguity. When I read PG's essays, I don't have discussions with others on what he really means. A photo, without context, can inspire several emotions, all unrelated to reality, and this is true no matter how hard the photographer tries. Case in point, when I was in school, my teacher showed the class a photo he had taken from a newspaper - but without any context. He asked the students to try to write a news article where the photo would make sense. Obviously, the responses were widely different, and none was close to the reality. In some stories, the subjects in the photos were victims. In others, they were the villians. The reality turned out to be their being heroes.

Even when you provide accurate context to a photo, there are no shortage of instances where once you see the video of the event and/or hear from the subject, you find out that while the context was correct, the photo is showing a mere moment that is not reflecting what most people who see the photo are thinking. Take a video of someone having a long conversation, where they laugh often. It's not hard to capture a frame where it looks like the person is in pain.
First, you're clearly far more knowledgeable about Marcuse and other social theorists than I am. If Taibbi were quoting out of context (or otherwise unfairly), I probably wouldn't notice. So, thanks for drawing my attention to that possibility and weakening my prior. With regard to MacKinnon, Langton, and Hornsby, what would you suggest I read (within reasonable time; say, of same order time as reading On Liberty) to inform myself on their arguments against free speech?

Second, in various places you suggest Taibbi's piece is unfair because it renders judgement on the basis of a single essay. But his piece isn't just about one essay. In fact, the very gloss on the article, which isn't behind a paywall and can be found on twitter, says "reviewing Repressive Tolerance and other works by Herbert Marcuse" (emphasis mine). Incidentally, if you want to read the (whole) piece, it's been pasted on reddit, so no need to pay. (I guess he wouldn't get your business anyways, so no harm done.)

Third, I'm not saying - or to put it more precisely, Taibbi isn't saying - that Marcuse is pseudo-intellectual because of a disagreement in political views, nor that Taibbi disagrees with his premises. Instead, it's because the passage I quoted (from Marcuse) is little more than a concept bouillabaisse, a rattling off of bad things, bearing absolutely no relationship to one another save that they all suck. Or can you explain what business "planned obsolescence" has in the same sentence as indoctrination and special forces? How is the former even remotely as important as the latter? Taibbi probably puts it more colourfully:

> People who do intellectual work should feel a responsibility to make sure the words they use at least roughly correspond to their ostensible meaning, but like a lot of German intellectuals, Marcuse had been mired in dialectical comparisons for so long that his sense of proportion was fucked beyond recognition. The man cited aggressive driving in arguing an emergency so dire that a suspension of all civil liberties was warranted.

Final remark: you say that this is worse than what the NYT did to Scott Alexander, but I think being called a pseudo-intellectual is not nearly as bad as being doxxed and smeared as a white supremacist. The target of the NYT piece, Scott Alexander, has already experienced real-world career consequences as a direct result of NYT's doxxing and publication. The same can't be said for Taibbi's piece.
I'm on it for the past two years or so. Haven't lost the 20% weight yet. Still waiting. Its kept the blood glucose #s in better check, but it was a nudge vs a big shove.

Then again, i'm on 1mg/week, rather than the 2.4mg that the study used.

What _HAS_ helped me is keeping track of what i'm eating, and making sure i account for the occasional snack, and various things I'd drop on my food (sour cream on tacos for instance).
But you can't share it on Twitter (which is almost 100% of the use-case for this kind of tools).

Too bad Twitter isn't a tech company, otherwise they could implement something like a code view in tweets. Wait a minute…
It would be nice if GMail pioneered this by adding an RSS reader to Gmail and automatically unsubscribing you from newsletters that have a RSS feed and automatically subscribing your to the RSS feed.

I really want my inbox back, but I feel like I'm constantly battling lists I get subscribed to that I didn't ask to be subscribed to.
vi·o·lence
/ˈvī(ə)ləns/

noun

behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
Deck.gl-raster looks really cool. I haven't seen many attempts at doing client side raster processing.
Most people in your home are not trying to hack you.

A lot of people outside your home are trying to hack you.

Shifting your exposure from "everyone in the world with an internet connection" to "people who are in/near your home" greatly reduces your risk, objectively.
A spy satellite program isn't worth much if your adversary can send astronauts up to mess with them and you can't.
Indeed. It would also be interesting to understand how much engagement is around that 4% versus 4% worth of family photos, for example. I'm not a FB user but I understand there is an audience for fighting about news stories on FB a'd that's got to keep at least some people coming back to the platform for more.
At a minimum, they should regularly publish their static IP address via Twitter and/or email until they are certain the reliability of domain name provider has returned.

Edit: They did publish their IP's this time.

https://twitter.com/backblaze/status/1362132502467407875
Bring back key signing parties? The less fun of the two key parties.
> Google does not allow third party app stores to be distributed via their app store, and I assume Apple would do the same.

This seems like an unreasonable assumption.

Apple wouldn’t allow alternative app stores at all.

We’re talking about them being forced to allow them. I.e. it’s not Apples choice.

Why would anyone forcing Apple to allow alternative stores permit them to make it too difficult for regular users to do?
Writing off tax losses isn't equivalent to income. The losses just reduce your taxable income. There isn't actually much upside to having a property sit vacant just to take losses on it, unless you're in some extremely weird tax scenario.

If someone was renting a property at $1000/month, it's still better to re-rent it at $800/month than to reduce your tax bill by something like $400/month (or whatever the taxes would be on the $1000 rent offset).
How to protect your IT power from deep-freeze disasters
This is how I put it 2 days ago, right before the failure here:

>Crude natural gas is usually saturated with water downhole at warm temperatures and high pressures, some of which condenses as it is produced at the surface.

>At many points in a pipeline further water removal can be essential too.

>Even when not liquefied like LPG, when passing through a restriction valve or orifice, there is still additional cooling due to the product acting a bit like a refigerant.

>The water content may be small but the quantity of cold gas passing through a narrow point which is well below 0C eventually can build up kilos of ice and block the flow until the ambient temperature rises enough to open it back up.
> Is there any practical use for color ePaper yet though?

Years ago, the cafeterias at Microsoft switched from using regular signage for their menus to giant plasma TVs that showed a static image of the menu that had been there. The menu at some of the stations (but not all) did change daily, so there was some, slim, benefit, perhaps.

After awhile, they moved over to having a slide show on the screens that alternated between glamour shots of the food, and the menu. Now you could only see the actual menu for a fraction of the time, and despite being a speed reader, I'd often have to wait for the menu to come back around multiple times before I could read it all and decide what I wanted to eat that day.

But it sure did look modern!

Further irony, IIRC that was around the same time I volunteered to be part of a campus wide partnership with the local power company and I stood at a desk in the cafeteria handing out free CFLs bulbs.

The tl;dr is that companies will invest in expensive, less useful, signage, if it is perceived as being cooler.

Heck it isn't like menus carved/painted on wood have particularly good contrast ratios, but they still pop up now and then.
There are other things to spend one's weekends on besides kids and work.
I hope this means they're pouring serious resources into revamping their website, then. Recently did an order for delivery and it was endlessly frustrating.
Maybe. There are lots of different figures and methodological issues. If a dig a bit more you’ll find it’s clear as mud.

Regardless , that wasn’t my point - far from being a novel idea there are lots of people looking at and arguing about it. Hell there is an industry around mitigations.
Test Driven Development Deluxe
Power corrupts. If you want to find industries with sexual abuse problems look for ones where the power is concentrated in a handful of unelected people, doubly so if those people form an "old boys club".
There's also Launchbox [https://www.launchbox-app.com/]. You can also get Steam's Big Picture to do something similar, although it might take a little bit of work.
New York Sues Amazon over Covid-19 Workplace Safety
Finally more granularity to the toasty-ness of the finished product than the vague 1-10 dial!
What Goes into Default Debian?
>Acknowledging the artistic talent of a villain does not make you vile.

depends on the way of the acknowledgement. If the movie is the best - you give the Oskar as that is the rules of the game (though you can also follow the example of many professional associations like say doctors and lawyers who completely exclude criminally immoral people, talented or not, from their ranks. Movie industry not doing it is already a kind of a tell about the industry's ethics.), yet you definitely don't have to applaud and celebrate. Applauding and celebrating is what makes you personally vile and supporter and validator.
This is my idea for a business, for which I'm not tech-savvy enough to carry out. It's called OtherYou. It's a sort of mass data-poisoning scheme to create a double of your digital life on all platforms, but with completely bogus or conflicting PII. So if you were a 40-something, Asian-American engineer living in D.C., we would want to make a digital "double" with the primary key datapoint of your name/email the same, but all the other PII is shifted, and it would be a 20-something African-American pilot living in Miami. This would throw off/distort tracking and enhance privacy, in my view.
Facebook restricts sharing or viewing news content in Australia
Oh boy, another awesome e-Ink design we'll never actually see due to eInk's bullshit monopoly practices
Governments existed before electronic databases. Databases do increase effectiveness, but effective government is not without potential downsides.

The government can be effective at helping you or oppressing you. Some kinds of databases intuitively seem weighted more toward one end than than the other. Most databases are a gray area that could be used for either.

And a lot depends on trust, too. Perhaps you simply trust your government more, and perhaps with good reason.
Team building with “I dare you” challenge
I hope so, too. But this is not likely to happen any time soon, as the refresh rate of e-ink displays are still way too low. Meaning, unless you can watch a Video on it ... it won't be a competition in that segment.