skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Web, Phone, SMS. Email is via web-interface.

And I've actually got three apps: Firefox, Mattermost and Wireguard
The AMO team used to review every submitted add-on. They no longer do, now it just says “This add-on is not actively monitored for security by Mozilla. Make sure you trust it before installing.” on virtually every add-on. They still enforce this policy, but usually only when someone reports an add-on violating it. I reported this add-on, we’ll see now when/how they take action.

Note: I’m the author of this article and a former AMO reviewer.
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As someone who is probably much closer to the bank employees (assuming you mean developers from banks) but has considered transitioning to something like c at various times, the problem is there are no intermediate roles, everyone either want a c expert with years of commercial experience. To make the transition the only option seems to be to go for junior roles, which disregards the decades of experience that is relevant regardless of the language, and those junior roles are pretty few and far between too.

The industry expects a constant supply of senior experienced devs but completely avoids any sort of training and development. It can somewhat work if you're in a mainstream field but it won't for anything specialized, which C is in my area.
Houseclub: An unofficial Android app for Clubhouse
Radical Change
Nice to see Swamp Dogg getting a little attention. I was introduced to him last year by this duet with John Prine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSR3pRtkWWs

Great song for a lousy year.
Yeah, but who do you think are in the best position to know what your calendar will look like?

You.

Always give calendar estimates. That is, after all, what matters to coworkers, to the business, to partners, to the customer, and to users.
Your pretty gross example covers all the toilets on several university campuses I've been to as well. Very common

They s shaped pipe hasn't been invented there yet (things may have changed in the past ten years though, but certainly not all bathrooms have been remodeled that quickly) and so the sewage pipes regularly blast out burps of stinky poo smells into the restrooms. This happens in student dorm rooms too if you have the top tier ones that have a private toilet for the room as opposed to a huge communal one.
Lmfao that fucking sucks when the initial thing they ask for you to bring on the table is race or gender diversity - something born with you, out of your control, and didnt put any effort into
Hi Dan,
Thanks for sharing, it’s a great insight into getting a book done, especially a proper overland one.

Nice to see Chris here too, I wonder how many of us are at the intersection of geekery and overlandery?
This is touched on in "Beyond the 80/20 principle".

Much like your example, though I think it said specialisation itself can offer up new generalist opportunities, so internal forces as well as external shifts.

One of my favourite books of late.
There are also potentially many sessions per user. (Different browsers, even automated tools perhaps)
Do Complex Numbers Exist? [video]
While you may be correct in this case, I'm not sure what you're claiming is generally true. An equally valid observation is "trying to address social problems with technical solutions is doomed to failure". I wouldn't advocate for solving my country's domestic violence issues with technology for example - a shift in social norms addresses the underlying issue and is far more likely to be long-term effective.
Chrome has this functionality, other Chromium-based browsers most likely as well. But how many users would actually manage access lists for extensions?
I'm still doing this hiring thing (which really slowed down in the pandemic). Inviting people who bombed phone screens on site happens all the time. Some reasons behind that seem to be: gender, ethnicity, nationality, internal references, strong CV, recruiters d20.

They do get filtered later. Over the years only one person who bombed an on site with me got hired. It was a young white man. I believe described this case on HN before.
How to Transition from IT to Cybersecurity
Yes but for jobs that require emotion like sales, the current Neural Network paradigm is just not gonna cut it. I am never buying from a robot, it’s missing an element of the mind that we still haven’t even categorized the biological side of, even if it sounds like a “real person”.

The state of the art of today’s DNN, I agree, is far away. But the peak of today’s architecture is yes, replacing construction, welding, and surgery. Those actually might happen quickly.
The fully burdened employee cost at $15/hr with benefits breaks even at around 1000 people per 24 hours paying $0.50. That sounds feasible to me.
> Software developers' expertise is in developing software, not in analyzing statistics to predict the future.

Which is a shame and causes so much wasted work. I wish we all got better at this.
One day my Android phone updated and the interface for accepting/ignoring calls changed. A circle appears and you swipe up to answer and swipe down to ignore. I get a call, press on the circle, and swipe up, nothing happens. I press on the circle swipe down, nothing. Turns out the interface depends on the distance swiped up or down, and has nothing to do with the circle. By starting on the circle I didn't have enough runway to trigger the gesture. I love puzzles and felt pretty smart after solving this one after only the fourth missed call.
Owning sthg. vs. renting has economical comsequences. If you own sthg. you will keep it for longer. If you rent you will keep it shorter. Plus all sorts of assurances can form as an ecosystem around that.

Therefore economy will push us to goods we don't own. If you would like to own something you will have to pay the surplus for reduced turnover at the economies side.
You have a very interesting insight here -- now that I think about it, I see it. But I'm not sure I agree that it is for a good reason.

Intuitive understanding of math is better than rote memorization. But that does not mean that rote memorization is bad, only lesser. I'm also not convinced that many people can grasp something intuitively, bypassing rote memorization.
"three days further out than a starving person can walk" sounds cool if you're posting fake apocalypse theories on the internet (aka John Titor), but is generally pretty terrible advice. First of all, there are an enormous amount of cars in America and there are roads nearly everywhere. The furthest spot from any road in the lower 48 US states is in Yellowstone, 21.7 miles from the closest road: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42104894

Even assuming that there's some kind of enormous EMP that kills all modern cars, there are plenty of pre-80s cars around and around a third of Americans have bikes. You can cover some serious distance on a bike if you're motivated enough (aka by hunger.) There are millions of horses in the USA, not to mention other animals and tools you can use for transportation (canoes etc.) If your bet is to hope that your fellow members of the most adaptable species on Earth won't get to you, you're generally screwed. If you plan to use force (say firearms) to hold back your place, well, that'll attract attention from anyone else (if you look at failed states, you're likely to see roving bands of criminals with more firepower than you.)

There are fairly few examples of people who made their apocalypse preparations and actually rode out the local serious disaster in their bunkers, so to me, it's obvious what your best bet is - to simply live in a safe, sane and successful society.
They have cloud work flows as well. I wish you guys all the best though!
Honestly, I don't understand how you can get downvoted for this answer. The GP should be downvoted in oblivion, because it obviously doesn't know what it's talking about, yet you are the greyed one…

If people don't believe the parent post and would like to see a visual “proof” of it, here is the (abbreviated) ciphertext for same value (`true`) encrypted by [TFHE](https://github.com/tfhe/tfhe), note how these aren't the same:

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He was fighting for his country. If someone invaded the US during the Trump, Bush, or Obama depending on who you dislike, we would all be fighting to defend our country regardless of who was in charge. Defending your was of life, family, countrymen doesn't take a huge amount of imagination to wrap your head around.

He ended up leaving the US and going back to Russia because he said the US had no culture. Not saying I agree with that, but that's how he felt. It's pretty common for people to become more nationalistic after they leave their home country.

The facist tendencies come from a meeting he had with Thatcher where he said "The German army could have liberated the Soviet Union from Communism but Hitler was stupid and did not use this weapon." It seems extraordinary that Solzhenitsyn saw the failure of Nazi Germany to annex the Soviet Union as some kind of missed opportunity.

He also visited Franco in Spain on a number of occasions and did a TV interview where he praised Franco.

When I first read Gulag Archipelago I accepted it as fact and projected his feelings onto the rest of Russian society. It was only through later studies that I found this to not be the case.
What's probably closest to the truth is that they have a very similar set of micro ops that they both translate to internally.
> Not enough people understand that science is expected to be wrong.

The propaganda for making Science the new-religion is far too advanced sadly - even the classic development of heliocentric model is so riddled with misinformation that it's hard to have much hope for much else.

The effect of all this is that it brings to the fore all the forgotten protestant templates in the form of the vitriolic "anti-science" and "pro-science" communities. One fringe punishes any criticism of the establishment view viciously (the epidemiologists & medical experts who weren't for lockdowns comes to mind), and the other takes this as evidence for "science" being compromised.

The Anglo-Saxon world is too far gone IMO. I hope this atleast allows the peripheral colonial vassals like India to finally break free from their destructive clutches... but even that seems unlikely now.
Would you believe, this article is a review of that very book ;)
You (and apparently a few of the other commenters here) have some misconceptions about what this article is about. The paper this article is based on is about solving a linear system (i.e. solve for x in the equation Ax = b), not matrix multiplication, which is completely different. From what I can tell, the authors of the paper just claim that their method for solving a certain class of linear systems is faster than the asymptotic cost of the fastest known matrix-matrix multiplication algorithm.
Are you sure? From the linked article upthread:

> Companies involved in backdating use the benefit of hindsight to look back and choose a date when their share price was low, then falsely claim that the options were granted on that date.

So it sounds like they -- for example -- granted options on April 15th, looked back and saw that April 8th had a better price, and claimed that they were granted on April 8th.

I don't believe this would have been a problem if the equity plan disclosed to shareholders explicitly said "the option strike price will be the lowest closing price over the 30 days prior to the grant date", but they did not say that; they lied about when they were granted.
By turning off the radio, sitting in the pod and talking about HAL behind his back.
> These kinds of things are really just intended to be a fun proof of concept or a demo of something off the wall for shits and giggles.

I interpret this sentence to say the mosquito laser is an unserious project. Saying that something is "for shits and giggles" expresses a flippant attitude. My comment points out that malaria-fighting projects are extremely serious, even if they are ineffective first version tech demos.

> Nowhere in that guy's post about how to make this silly gizmo did he make any kind of claim about reducing diseases of any kind spread by mosquitoes.

The paper starts out with: "More than 700 thousand human deaths from mosquito bites are observed annually in the world. It is more than 2 times the number of annual murders in the world. In this regard, the invention of new more effective methods of protection against mosquitoes is necessary. In this article for the first time, comprehensive studies of mosquito neutralization using machine vision and a 1 W power laser are considered."

> But your complaint does make me wonder what you're doing to solve the malaria problem?

This is a strange thing to say. You are implying that a person who thinks a problem is serious should work toward solving that specific problem. This is not true. There are many serious problems in the world. Each person must make their own decisions about how to use their time, including how much time/energy/resources to spend on themselves, on their family, and on others.

You are employing a tactic called deflection [0]. You try to redirect attention away from yourself by criticizing me. This habit can harm relationships. I hope you can break the habit of deflecting when you feel criticized. Your life will be better if you stop deflecting. Changing habits is super hard. I have been struggling to change my own habits for the last 5 years. It's hard and worth the effort. Good luck and best wishes.

[0] https://www.betterhelp.com/advice/psychologists/what-is-defl...
Heroku Fucking Console
Totally agree with this. Everyone has to poop, if you don't give them a place to do it, it's still going to come out, and it seems people don't get this basic logic when they complain about poo on the streets of SF.
In a lot of ways Asimov's critique has sense. Orwell was clearly making an analogy for Stalinism, and the people trying to claim that it was just talking about tyranny in general don't really know why or when Orwell wrote the book. At the same time, Asimov has a point that Orwell wasn't really concerned about Fascism, and as (at least ethnically if not religiously) a Jew, Asimov was quite aware that Stalinism wasn't the only kind of tyranny.
Please keep this sort of antagonizing off of HN.
On my last trip before COVID happened, I crossed the country and the only truly gruesome toilet I ran into was at a Tibetan monastery. YMMV.
In a devastated economy the generalist, in a highly functional economy the specilist.

Now please come up with a measure if an economy is elaborated and functional.
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A convenient easy to use app that I can use to talk to my mom and my coworkers - all encrypted all the time would go a long way.
Sounds good re. #2. Re, #1, we don't offer anything in terms of an interactive environment at the moment, and we probably won't do so for a long time. That seems like a full startup in itself.

Instead, we are differentiating by focusing on being the easiest way of making a course based on Markdown (since our books are already typically written in Markdown, so the conversion is simple). These courses need to have automated marking and certificates of course, but everything else (video, interactivity, etc) is either optional (like video) or not supported (like interactive exercises).

For us, the big win is on making courses which are easy to update: recording a video course takes a long time, so updating a video course regularly typically just doesn't happen...
I got a bunch of FPGAs and I'm building my own 68k/6502 machine to run my C programs and to tinker with assembly. Seems that I have a bunch of these chips so it will rapidly grow into a multiprocessor thing.

This is likely the only way forward other than RISC-V on FPGA. But they aren't exactly well defined. Or open. Solid hardware RISC-V is interesting and medium term viable but I foresee a world of blobs waiting in the wings. Time will tell.
haha thanks! it was a fun process. I'm going to try creating visualizations next with some VJ software called AVIO.

https://github.com/ri0t/avio
Interview with Mike Perham about building Sidekiq into a business [audio]
If there are many generalists in a given space, doesn't that make them specialists? And you'd just be more-specialised?
Can you think of an example of when this might have occurred?

Seems by that line of thinking today's specialists are tomorrow's generalists, even if they do nothing differently.
I read a tweet saying: if you want to test whether your service has real engagement, log out everybody and check how many of them log back in. This can be seen as a practical test of it.
If the fix took two months I would say that is not confidence-inspiring. Consider the enormous financial reserves at their disposal.
> This is literally something that NEVER crosses the mind of the average consumer.

I think it happens more than you think, but people view this as eating healthy and exercising - should do more about it, but the world makes it easier to eat poorly and do things that aren't exercise.

What would help is if there are people with the capability to help aligned with solutions.
Maybe someday the apps that implement open protocols and decentralization are user friendly enough to allow non tech people to use them to talk to each other and share baby photos.

We've tried Matrix in our friend group and it was impossible for us to get it to work. And that was with a non self hosted identity provider.

Signal isn't perfect but it seems to offer better privacy and is trivial to set up.
> undulating array of psychedelic colors perfectly optimized to introduce self-limiting microseizures in the pleasure center of the your brain

Is there any science behind this being possible? I would have thought morphing blob of porn-shapes would be more realistic.
Take Charge of Your Promotion
Is that why gitlab.com always logs me out?
Right now that's Signal.
Book recommendation:

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth - by Buckminster Fuller

Just the first chapter will blow your mind.
More fuckin' user interface design
I've tried blogging, with mixed results from people on the other side of the fence.

A lot of people are actually less likely to adopt something if I promote it since I'm "that guy" who only uses FLOSS and open platforms. Promotion works better with people who don't know me IRL.
> there are free toilets everywhere in the US

Really? I mean, if you're at an indoor venue like a Walmart or a museum, sure, but I can vouch for California being an extremely painful place to take a long walk across town. In SF every goddamn toilet in the Richmond district, Sunset district, Noe valley, Daly City, and everywhere outside the tourist hotspots are "customers only".

In LA it's even worse. Miles of streets even in the poshest neighborhoods with zero toilets. Once had to ask my GF to get access to a restaurant toilet and secretly let me in because if you're male they're usually for "customers only" but if you're female you get to use them.
Not me, but my partner:
https://manihaider.artstation.com/
Where to find iOS/Mac apps for sale
In my experience, people don't estimate granularly because they want to be fast. They see this activity as a chore, an overhead, and want to get it over with quickly. And planning sessions do take a lot of time even if we minimize the time it takes to come up with estimates.

Sometimes, inaccurate estimates come back to bite us. So I regularly make the point that spending time on this chore is a necessary evil.
I think it was a Rudy Rucker book, but I could be misremembering.
A RISC-V Emulator in Zig, Part 1: Instruction Decoding
The music does not belong to me.

The cryptographically secure token proving I own license to duplicate the music is what belongs to me.
Apple's App Store Connect do this everyday lol
Yes, by taking control away from them.
Great stuff. First time I flashed a chip with SPI or started learning and playing with surface mount chips. Old ThinkPad are still very capable and empowering if you like playing with software and hardware.

Coreboot is great as well, but a bit different.
Neat, should be on the front page.
In economic theory this is well known, and related to S-curves. First innovation (requires integration, which requires generalists/people spanning disciplines), then specialization and price war / commoditization
This seems like a pretty extreme point of view. Not that ageism doesn't exist... but I entered the tech industry at age 38 and have gotten offers from two FAANG companies. I do think I'm a good programmer (obviously if you suck you'll have trouble getting a FAANG offer) but not God's gift.
Have you been to Taiwan outside of Taipei? The toilet situation is pretty dreadful, with most being squat toilets in really gross conditions. Thank God for 7-11 because most of the time they have decent toilets, but if there's no convenience stores nearby you better be willing to squat. Granted, they do exist, which is obviously better than them not existing, but I think your comment reflects Taipei more than most of the island.
I was in St. Petersburg and Moscow last year and spent a month in Kyiv. I've been to Czech and Slovak republics the year before. Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Belarus. Next on the list is Georgia, Armenia, Romania, and Bulgaria. I've been wanting to go to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan too.

The percentage of the population that ended up spending time in a work camp was about 2.5% and the average sentence was 2-3 years. It's terrible what happened, there's no two ways about it, but the transition from feudalism to capitalism was pretty horrendous beyond words.

Honestly, the history of the region is so complex that it's incredibly challenging to know where to begin.