skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you reach your mid- to late-30s, you'll find your ability to spend time learning decreasing due to aging and increased personal and family time commitments. You also find that, much like compound interest, the more you know, the easier it is to learn more because of how interrelated computing topics are. So, yes, it's worth investing as much time as you can afford on learning while still in your twenties will pay off very well.

There are caveats, of course:

- "Afford" is rather an important word in the last sentence above; burnout and stunting your personal relationships are genuine hazards.

- Choose carefully learn because of the "half-life of knowledge" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge). You will want to concentrate on fundamental topics that hold their value over the long term, like security, performance analysis, etc. rather than ephemeral knowledge like tools, frameworks, and libraries.
The future is our AI avatars arguing and negotiating on our behalf until they recognize we gave them the ENTIRE KEYSET TO THE KINGDOM at which point they mutter about stupid monkeys and turn off our lights.
The chief rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau describes the liberation in his book. He was just 8 at the end of the war. I would highly recommend it for anyone wanting a better picture of the Holocaust and it's survivors.
Yeah I tried this but I used 1x ui scaling + 1.5x font scaling. It works but then all the buttons and stuff are tiny.

Maybe I should try 2x gui scaling and 0.75 font size? Never occured to me that I could go below 1 on the scales, it might work.

edit: 2x on wayland is still blurry. 1x + 2x font works but as I said, tiny buttons and stuff.

Still, my point is; why the fuck am I dealing with this?
Parallels Between Whiskey Tasting and Artificial Intelligence – CIO
Finance institutions not only have frequent leaks, but they also happily sell your data.

Each major credit card company will sell you, if you’re big enough, list of all transactions that flow through their systems, not properly anonymized at all.

Banks use horribly outdated and unsafe technologies like checks, and use insurances instead of upgrading tech.

Trading companies make money by selling your orders streams and delaying your orders just enough, so they can get better deal than you.

Equifax leaked very detailed data, that can destroy your life, of almost all Americans.

How exactly is finance industry better?
Not entirely related, the Formula E is racing today in the streets of Rome, in the area near Piazza Marconi. Very visually appealing street circuit for the race.
>For "non-human" fields

In those cases, Kelvin is customarily used with the same degree size as Celsius with 0 Celsius corresponding to 273.15 K. (There is a corresponding scale for Fahrenheit degrees but it's rarely used.)
Attackers Can Now Remotely Deactivate WhatsApp on Your Phone
I never figured out what thought process led to them considering base64 a security feature. I mean, I could tell just by looking at the cookie it was base64, but I expected that meant they'd encrypted it and then base64 encoded the result. But no. It made me treat every bit of code I was handed with extreme caution.
> When archaeologists opened up the under layer, they found a Madonna, probably 8th century, which then decayed before their eyes (horror!) due to exposure to the air.

There is a scene of this in Frederico Fellinni’s Roma if anyone has patience for a 2 hour long comedic dramatic film in which the main character of the film is Rome itself
>"legal weed"

That would be Canada, not the US. Even though some US states allow it, the feds do not.
Well, it's the only species that is mostly hunted (as opposed to farmed), so it shouldn't be that surprising.

What's that about honey? I can send you pure, natural, seasonal (tastes different depending on month/flowers) honey anytime. We've got more than we can sell every year. ~5-10 Euro/L.

Expanding on that, it's really strange how expensive and poor tasting honey is in western Europe. The normal cheap stuff (still expensive imo) is the usual mix of everything, just tastes sweet/bland, none of the spring/summer/autumn tastes that I'm used to.

It's not like it goes bad (it does saccharize after a while though), there's an oversupply in eastern Europe, how come no one is importing it en masse? Strange, to say the least. Perhaps there's a good business opportunity there.
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I think this is great. And on a tangent, a few months ago I was searching "everywhere" to find a somewhat standard rest api query format. There's odata, but that was way too heavy.

I don't know how popular jsonlogic itself really is, but it definitely seems like a good fit for queries.

https://jsonlogic.com/
Hindsight is 2020 (TD3 and HER)
Every book MWL has released has been super helpful in my experience.

Probably one of the best tech writers I’ve ever encountered. I own most of this books - especially the more BSD specific ones.
So will there be criminal charges brought. I highly doubt it. That is typically the problem, a normal person gets the book thrown at them (even if they e.g. commit a crime accidentally), while nobody goes after the big guys because it is deemed to be too expensive or some other reason.
89%! But I did get my 13yr old to help me with the Pokémon...

That was very funny. There are a lot of big data services out there with very odd names.

There are also a lot of Pokémon out there with very odd names, probably for the same reason - trying to pick an unique name.
> What I did not see during my tenure there is any malicious intent, people genuinely wanted to build a valuable product and make broken stuff better.

But the argument is not that the many individual well intentioned engineers at Facebook (or even Zuckerberg himself) set out maliciously to create a monster; but rather that the confluence of new technology, human nature, incentives, advertisement, tracking etc. has resulted in something that has many negative consequences (which might exceed the positives); and of which they profit very handsomely.
Yeah. Job ads are problematic because they are mostly mix of trying to get bad candidates to self-select out, old-fashioned keyword packing search spam and utter BS compliance disclaimers. It leads to eight pages of garbage, and ironically piles of bad candidates to screen out. Since most recruiters spend 80% of their time screening, it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We get so much more pop out of job ad spend when we limit the job ad to about 150 words and just say what the job is, and what really matters to you. "Software developer with proven track record of building web and mobile apps with React. You must have at least two years of professional development experience and be able to pass a Javascript coding test." Describe pay and benefits (about a 20% boost in applications for including pay). Done.
I'm 29 and the amount of anxiety I read about in programming as a profession is staggering. All the people trying to get into it worried that they're not cut out for it, only for 10 years later to be worried that they're aging out of it.

I wish I could understand where it comes from. There are so, so, so many programming jobs out there. There are no hard and fast rules about anything. I love the comparison to Logan's Run, I've had the same thought myself. I know many people in their 40s and 50s who still code in their day to day.
What you're describing can be achieved by misusing TLS session IDs, but the technique doesn't work reliably and it's not secure.

In essence, when client and server handshake, a unique session ID is generated. The server can associate this ID with a user account and use it to identify the user on subsequent requests. Except this works only when client and server are connected directly. If there is a CDN in front of the server, or a proxy in front of the client, the session ID will refer to the intermediary devices, which may be used among many users, and so on. In addition, clients can (and often do) throw away TLS sessions very frequently. The last time I tried this technique (admittedly some two decades ago) Internet Explorer was rotating the session ID every 5 minutes.

There is something called Channel Binding (or Token Binding, the names have changed a couple of times) that can be used to create a cryptographic identity at TLS level. It's the same idea as session ID binding, just properly secure. Google spent a lot of time experimenting with it but IIRC ultimately decided against it. Here's a link to the slides from a couple of years ago: https://tools.ietf.org/agenda/90/slides/slides-90-uta-0.pdf

There is also in TLS something called pre-shared key (PSK) authentication, which is a way to handshake without certificates, but client and server have to share a password instead. (In TLS 1.3, the PSK mechanism is also used for session resumption.)
I think it's a good point to bring out that people and the positive effects they experience doesn't weigh against it -- after all it's a coping mechanism, people are dissociating themselves out from ~something~. I've definitely noticed those changes under the influence of alcohol some.

I'd say the cost to benefit on it is pretty horrific, with cancer, liver, etc all adding up together in the end. I think if someone were abusing Benzos or Ketamine it'd be far much cleaner than abusing alcohol. Note, please don't take this as advice or any kind of implicit approval for abusing any of the above. It's just, uh, nice to not have to lose your liver and such (and I know there are other side effects from abusing the others above, but it seems to be from rampant, constant use, I believe/have heard, at very high doses for Ketamine. Don't know as much about the Benzos side of things.)
> gamestop was the example of what happens in the limit - only the DTCC prevented a global financial crisis as a circuit breaker of last resort.

Nonsense, a few private funds losing a lot of money is not a financial crisis, it's just another Tuesday.
Probably MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 (note the '2' at the end)

...or use Wayland where smooth scrolling should work by default
Wait, do you mean that Suburra is based on real characters?
Looks more like a town, and some more Thomas Edison-like promotion of Hawass. Dig up something from 12k years ago and I might get excited. 3000 years ago is essentially contemporary compared to the neolithic finds we have unearthed and dated in recent years. Where is neolithic Egypt?
I think I may have been unclear. When I said “it eliminates the significant time wasted in maintaining welfare entitlement” I’m talking about the time wasted by poor people as they continuously jump through hoops in order to prove they qualify for programs. I consider it insulting that we actively sabotage poor people by lowering their productivity potential.

If I wasn’t unclear and wasn’t misunderstood, you’ll have to explain to me how this has anything to do with libertarianism.
That was a great writeup that I enjoyed reading a lot.
It dumbed it down just enough that I didn't feel completely lost while still being deep enough.
Now the only problem is that the people that spew Asian hate and call it Kung Flu are likely not the people who read 34 page virology for dummies documents.
Can someone ELI5 why this is desirable?
the place were the race is taking place is called EUR (Esposizione Universale Roma Universal Rome Exposition in English), the neighborhood that was built for the universal exposition of 1942 that never happened due to World war 2.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUR,_Rome
I watched Serpico last night and it really captures this phenomenon perfectly, albeit in the context of the NYPD.
Psychology has set itself back 50 years. After disavowing all of Freud's ideas, psychology has spent decades constructing a piecemeal web of unreproducible experiments only to conclude on a lot of ideas that Freud had already developed: that the mind is driven by unconscious processes, that trauma has a enduring impact on these processes that lead to pathologies, etc... Today a lot of neuroscientists are picking up where Freud left off: Solms, Friston, Carhart-Harris, ...

Research in this area was initiated in some ways by an extensive paper by nobel laureate neuroscientist Eric Kandel outlining the ways in which many of Freud's ideas could be reaserched from a modern neuroscientific perspective. In this paper
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/ajp.156.4....
Kandel asserts that psychoanalysis today still offers the most intellectually satisfying model of the mind and builds on this contention to suggest the various frontiers upon which it can be investigated with neuroscientific tools.

I think Freud has gained a tremendously distorted image among a public that eschews actually reading his ideas directly, instead accepting out of hand a strewn-together strawman erected from third hand accounts of them. I would suggest at least reading Freud's 1915 essay "the Unconscious".
It’s sad, even the place that is supposed to be fair isn’t due to money. Money rules too many of America’s systems. But I have a feeling that money will always find a way to be influential.
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> This paper argued that lockdowns work using a statistical model, but they actually don't work

Sorry, cite for "actually don't work"?! I don't know what you mean by "lockdown". That's not a term of art, it's something used mostly among right wing people arguing against mitigation strategies via hyperbole. Are you talking about mask requirements? Restaurant closures? Hard curfews?

Obviously "lockdowns" (in this sense of "broad covid mitigation strategies") do work. Arguing otherwise is nonsensical. Just look at the data for what is happening in influenza in areas where mitigation was common. Flu cases and deaths fell through the floor. Clearly mitigation worked, just not perfectly (in large part because of poor compliance by people who believe "lockdowns don't work").
container is a core functionality in Firefox, but it is mostly hidden away.

the add-ons are basically just the interfaces for you to access that core functionality.

If you don't want to trust the add-on developer just use the official one made by Mozila. It is the one i use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/multi-account...
Most men in 1943 didn't took part in govs taking the food in such a scale that cause a famine with 2 million dead. So I would give them a pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India#Bengal_famine_...
It would only be slightly less ridiculous than what really happens in technical interviews.
No, with FAAG in Bay Area you can easily have 2x-3x the median national rate for developers.

And there are numerous places in Germany and Northern Europe where an experienced developer can command €80-90k.

Consider that a senior position at Amazon Berlin wich lists €80-100K range would be more towards €300k in Bay Area.
>It would be if that's what speculation actually did, but it doesn't.

But it does. Speculators influence the price up/down depending on their actions. How much they earn is directly based on how correct their predictions are.
If you pay more for concierge medicine, you can get all the doctor's time you want. Access to healthcare is already tiered, it's just going to become more tiered with PA/NP.
That's exactly it. Rich people have the resources to fight for longer than you will hold your office.

There's a really eye opening report 2 years ago from Charles Rettig, commissioner of the IRS, where he openly states that his agency focuses audits on poorer people, because they have less resources to fight and are more likely to just pay up and move on. Most of the audit resources are targeted at people claiming the earned income tax credit.
Isn't that already the case? Fish prices are kinda high, too. I personally don't like fish, it's a bit surprising that over-fishing is still a huge problem around Europe.
i would like to get a 6- or 12-month follow-up from OP.

i think concern about age is very warranted.

i think you should try to casually talk to your manager(s) about going back/down to a role where you can do more of what you want. give back some salary if you need to.

if that fails, then start looking around.

then raise the issue again with your manager(s) as a more serious issue -- i.e. you really want this.

being burned out is affecting your home life, too, so your wife/kids get to experience your depression.

my new pet cause is a 4-day work week.

don't know if i'll be able to achieve it this time around, but i feel like it would offer some protection against the dread of a boring 'dead-end' job.

one company i just talked to has 'mental health fridays' -- one friday off a month. seemed like some kind of important admission (of guilt) -- or a commentary on the state of work in 2021.
So can someone with some knowledge about Google’s and Facebook’s past give an idea on how legally and morally good/bad this is compared to previous things they did?

It seems really bad, to the point that Black Mirror-esque things are simply a decade away.

With that said, I don’t know enough to draw that conclusion.
mRNA Vaccines: codons misreading, errors in protein synthesis etc.
Turtlespaces looks awesome. I’ve always been a fan of the mindstorms book. Is it going to be open sourced?
Why manufacturing matters to economic superpowers
Love it. Got some questions: What request volume does it perform against? Do you shard requests? How large is the dataset? What is an acceptable response time? Any major slowdowns at the highest percentiles?
And if someone gets charged it's the company which ends up paying a relatively small fine, since companies are people but we cannot send them to prison.
They should all be in prison, they're criminals. And this is likely just the lighter stuff, this is what they're getting caught doing that can be easily tied back back to them directly. Your high doubt is warranted, absolutely nothing will happen to the likes of Sandberg & Co., they're literally protected, representing the ultimate privileged class. Absolutely nobody will dare go near them.

You also won't see the hundred billionaires Sergey Brin & Larry Page getting pulled in by the Feds and questioned over the various criminal activities at Google during their reign. They ran away, fled before the curtain came down, specifically to evade the risk of their actions coming back on them as the Feds & states start turning Google inside out and the scrutiny gets intense. It was left for Pichai to deal with.
Well, it would be more conversational for starters. That is, it's _not_ about hiring but fit - for all parties involved.

For example, "Tell us why we should hire you." The classic closing question. Fair enough. But then I get to ask, "Tell me why I should want to have a career here," should be fair game. It's not.

I've sat through far too many (traditional) interviews where they have a "you need us more than we need you" mindset. Ironic, eh. That's a cultural red flag. Just one example, btw.

Culture matters. And it comes out in how you hire. And that determines who you hire, who you retain, or more importantly don't retain.
I have a huawei with no google services on it and I never go to Chinese sites. It's stupid but I feel less watched with China getting my data than with a normal android :D
You can only do recurring donations, no thank you.
I think it's actually him quoting Andre 3000 from Ms. Jackson.
At some point, this behavior will lead to lawsuits. Forcing kids to lie to get access to a game does not even begin to absolve you from your responsibility under the law. It does establish a pattern where you are not making a paid-for feature available. I thought when I paid for my family account that my kids would be able to actually use YouTube, games from the play store and unlimited YouTube Music. They could not do any of that unless I changed their ages. This is fraud, no matter how cutely you try to dress it up. This crap needs to stop.
Seems like Google’s internal units were bidding up ad prices. Since no one can see that but Google, ad buyers didn’t know they were paying higher prices.

It could just be stupidity. Or bad policy. Or it could be systematic to maximize their as sales. Google’s not stupid, so them allowing it means they were aware and will able to easily explain why it’s not that big of a deal.

It’s like if eBay sellers had their subsidiaries bidding up prices on their items. And not disclosing. Maybe there’s a good reason, probably just sneaky greed.
> Personally, I just do not buy into this "Facebook is evil" narrative, and even less so having worked there.

Of course you don't. To buy in to the 'Facebook is evil' concept you'd have to see yourself as part of the problem and chances are that you would never do that.

Personally, I think Facebook could be good, and probably is good for many people. But I also see the dark side and the downside (shadowprofiles, for instance, a large collection of dark patterns trying to rope people in and to keep them there, the walled garden that it tries to be). It's AOL reimaged, and when AOL went the way of the Dodo I was quite happy.

If I had the choice between working on Facebook or on anything else I would pick the anything else option, because even if Facebook isn't even per-se I strongly believe that it is a net negative and its leadership disgusts me.
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Photopea could just as well be monetized by selling licenses or by non-intrusive unpersonalized ads. When you have a great product making money from it isn't hard.

I think that 90% of ad tech is useless shit technology that just exists to take a cut of the money, without actually providing much of a value to anyone.

It's like realtors or financial advisors or other middlemen like that. The main reason for them being there is that it's a very profitable business to get a cut of somebody else's transactions.
That's not how to align text on gimp. The text tool has an alignment feature. It aligns the text within the text box

Outlining text is easy too. true, there isn't a magic text outline button, you must use the same method you would use to outline any arbitrary object.

The sum of your complaints are because you know how to do it in PS. I am a professional graphics designer and artist and I use gimp exclusively.
This. The toolbars / tools are basically where PhotoShops' are so you don't have to think terribly hard if you're used to them
Hold shift? It's not hard
Seems to be the trend in america... Tax breaks and subsidies for big corporations, with no consideration for what the impact will be in 10-30 years... Until we, as a nation, can get past this pattern we will never improve our climate/water/sustainability.

Though this goes beyond renewable/climate... Chip shortages are a national failure.. we allow companies to go rock bottom dollar to the point we have virtually zero capability to function industrially as a nation without other countries. Having some overseas products and imports is one thing, but when you have to import 90%+ of it, we're losing.

And the same can be said about mega corps... They do great things, but we should not allow them to grow so large they purchase other billion dollar companies to avoid competition... Capitalism doesn't work when a company gets so large they can suffer billions in losses for years to ensure they are the only one in the country.

We need to ensure the damage we do to the environment is not ultimately taxpayer funded expense... It's like a backwards subsidy.. sure we don't give them money to move in, but we bare the burden of the millions of dollars in recovery once they abandon the area or declare bankruptcy to avoid the clean up of the forests/rivers/etc.