skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would anyone continue to use a communications application that's known to do this?

Network effect. Most people are not using Whatsapp because it is E2EE, they are using it because all their friends are.
This is a frustrating, mystical simplification of agriculture. We can understand how these things work, and implement best practices, rather than appealing to tradition and eschewing things like synthetic fertilizers and GMO crops purely out of how "unnatural" they are.

Much of the woes in North American agriculture are down to the refusal of farmers to implement known best practices and the incredibly distortionary effect of endless layers of agricultural subsidies.

Ancient practices may have interesting things to teach us, but they're not inherently good. And to actually fix things, the people who control the land need to actually care about doing the right things.
I thik if you are a hiker you should bring a regular map and a compass just in case this ever happens to you.
The worst customer support issue
I gave you a bunch of advice earlier but then I saw this: "I'm not sure how to check my criminal record. "

Don't be the type of person who says that. Be the type of person who says "I didn't know how to do that so I spent 30 seconds Googling it and now I do."
> Ask a friend

Or ask not-a-friend. A random person who is skilled in interviewing and doesn't have a personal relationship with you may give you more true answers.
I would buy this t-shirt.
Amazon's Bezos: Union defeat does not bring 'comfort'
Here Admiral Rickover, who brought nuclear power to the US Navy, goes off against non-technical ("business people") running technical projects.

Excuse the dated language, but the underlying the point is through provoking when it comes to the cult of product management:

"What if Columbus had applied modern management systems to his proposed voyage? He would have attended management seminars. He would have studied tables with brightly colored squares and broad arrows to show which way plans, decisions, and problems were to go. He would not have bothered with details such as navigation and seamanship. These were technical matters. He would simply have “managed” the voyage. He would have used a colored-plastic decision-making card. Further, his analyst- I mean systems analyst- would have presented him with several volumes proving that the venture was not cost-effective. America would never have been discovered. We would all be Indians."
Depending on the APIs the extension uses your could rewrite it using DevTools API and submit through PPTR or the API, but no, because it runs chrome instances headless, it doesn't support extensions.

That's on my to-do list tho, I think I can make a good wrapper for the existing extension apis using only devtools API. Some things will be unsupported of course, but it's probably not a problem because many extensions use a diverse set of APIs but not all
As someone who's 45 (no wait, 44!) I was completely understanding why you were downvoted. And then I thought about it and it's kind of outrageous. He is, sadly, from a long time ago and it's understandable. He was old news when I was young.

That said, check out Charade. It's amazing.

EDIT: crap, no, 45 is right.
Archaeologists Unearth Sprawling Roman Ruins Unlike Any Found in the U.K
As an anxious person who deals with hypochondria and germaphobia I could relate to some of this (I have in the past also kept journals of my temperature taken several times per day, for example). That he was able to achieve what he did in spite of all of these mental health obstacles is all the more amazing.

> “you simply cannot […] find the concentration necessary for research if you read twice a day [about] things […] which touch the basis of the civilization of your country as well as your personal existence”.

Kind of feels like the recent couple of years in the US. Only we don't just get news twice a day, we're constantly inundated with it. The same advice is given now, only it includes not just avoiding the news but also social media - in my experience it's pretty essential advice.
I don't like this comment, but I can't put my finger on why exactly.

I think it's the drive-by, reflexive assignment of guilt, while knowing nothing of the circumstances.

This strikes me as the opposite of thinking. What you said might be true, it might not, what have you added to the world?
Have you tried asking any of the jobs that rejected you're getting rejected?

Honestly, just a guess, you're probably giving off bad interpersonal vibes/people don't really like talking to you. Half of interviewing is just being very personable/being able to talk comfortably with other people. Generally in this space (this space meaning those interested in tech/startups/etc) sometimes people struggle in this area but really shine in tech. I would encourage you to spend some time reflecting on your interpersonal skills.

Some other red-ish flags from your post - you kinda seem like you might struggle just doing exactly what you're asked to do. Bringing up how frequently you quit things for various reasons or finding issues and bringing them up with your superiors' superiors, spoofing numbers to get in touch with very very senior people. Lots of lower-tiered jobs literally just need people to show up and do what they're asked. A part of getting a "first" or "entry level" job is accepting you're there mostly to learn, not to teach/move outside of your lane. The fact that you would even bring up Bill Landreth seems like you might not necessarily see yourself how the rest of the world sees you.

I'm not trying to offend you - I really hope you can line something up soon. I apologize if this feedback seems cold - I think reflecting on things like this can be hard because you have to face things about yourself you may disagree with or not realize. Unfortunately interviewing is such a biased game, you kind of have to play your opponent (meaning, be the person they want, not the person you are).

Happy to chat through any of this stuff if you have questions. Wish you all the best.
> GMO means the crop itself has been selectively bred over time to increase desirable qualities

That's one thing GMO means. It can also mean genetically modified species that are resistant to a specific herbicide. For example, Round-up ready crops.

That doesn't necessarily mean breeds that have been genetically altered are bad or worse than ones bred over time, but it's incorrect to say that GMO means breeding.
It's science talking, dude. Lancet article published today: https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1382825519171833859
Marie Curie, the Scientist: A Woman of Firsts – BeYOUteous
My grandparents were all farmers. They did it for money, not because they loved corn and the smell of pig shit.

As soon as they paid off the loans for the land, they rented the farms out to someone else to work and moved to town to get easier jobs.

I love the smell of capitalism in the morning. Smells like...better than pig shit.
Chess. Not your typical videogame (not a videogame at all really) but there's a huge online community an endless amount of content
What do you have to offer the companies you've applied for?

It's deeply unjust we live in a society where simply being a person isn't enough to merit having a home and medical care, but that problem isn't going to be solved in time to help you.

Or, in other words, I'm not going to say "The world doesn't owe you a job" - but the world certainly acts as if it doesn't owe you a job, and you need to deal with that.

If I were a customer support manager and wanted to hire you, what would make me hire you over someone else? From your post, it sounds like the things you have to offer are that you'd help other parts of the company with their problems, and you'd want to transfer internally in well under a year. That's maybe good for the company, but that's not good for me - I don't get any recognition (or even headcount) for things my new hires on customer support do to help other random parts of the company, I'm evaluated on whether my customer support people do customer support. And new hires need to be trained on the company's procedures, which takes a while, so if they leave after a year - even if it's better for the company in the long term - that time is largely wasted.

Sure, you're providing value to the company. But that value is measured by one specific person, your boss. What are you telling potential bosses that you'll do? When they ask you about how you've brought value in previous jobs and about what you're likely to do, do they leave that conversation with the impression that hiring you will be a good decision for them personally?

I hope you're telling them things other than how you went off solving other problems unrelated to your job, no matter how cool it was.

It sounds like you're smart. Point that smartness in the direction of making it financially worthwhile for someone to hire you. You need to offer them more benefit than they offer you, and you need to offer them more benefit than the other applicants for the role would.

(So, if you want good compensation, you need to offer then quite a lot of benefit.)
Taking your business to new (pareto) frontiers
This is why I think reproduction is unethical. We have the capacity to understand the implications of birthing new sentient lifeforms, knowing the harm it will cause to the planet and the other species we share it with.

Yet people breed anyway, for a multitude of selfish reasons. Everyone else is having babies so why shouldn't I, it's my right as a human to reproduce, I want to pass on my genes, I want my life to be fulfilling, I don't want to die alone, the list goes on. It is these lines of thinking that have caused our population to balloon to over 7 billion people with no end in sight.

No one is thinking of the planet.
Investor Einhorn says Palihapitiya, Musk poured 'jet fuel' on GameStop
I do some hiring for my company, and if I saw a resume with numerous <2 month positions it would be a red flag. Try lowering your expectations, find any position and stick with it. You can continue to apply for better roles while you have that job. Worst case you end up there for 6 + months which looks much better on a resume. Best of luck!
I've not noticed a crash in the several months I've been using the new version. Have you tried the usual things like clearing cache/data, reinstalling, etc? It took me a while to get used to it (especially the move of the address bar to the bottom) but I'm quite happy with it now. It also supports uBO which blocks pretty much all the ads. I agree it's disappointing what they have done with extensions though. Syncing to Firefox on my laptop is quite good though and very useful for looking up history e.g if I remember finding a good website I don't have to worry about recalling whether I was using my mobile or my laptop when I found it. All my history across all devices are there so I'll easily find whatever it is I was looking for.
Because quite often I would like to move or resize an object (and only that object) after drawing it. Note I'm really only talking about drawing shapes, etc, using the standard tools. Not really brush strokes.
"... it is vital to change speed and direction faster than the opponent"
Keisers don't have screens do they?
The thing about mathematics and logic is that logic went from being a branch of philosophy to a branch of mathematics and once logic was formalized it could then be described in terms of mechanical calculation. The proof of the halting problem took less than a page in my college text on Language, Automata and Machines and some version of the proof of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem take little more space. But that's now that the properties of computation are well established and can be hand-waved away.

So a lot of what Kurt Gödel did was follow a fairly inevitable progression before anyone else. And it is one of those ironies the result, that the-provable and the truth are far apart, did not please such a brilliant idealist.

Edit: From wikipedia: "Mathematical logic emerged in the mid-19th century as a subfield of mathematics, reflecting the confluence of two traditions: formal philosophical logic and mathematics (Ferreirós 2001, p. 443). "Mathematical logic, also called 'logistic', 'symbolic logic', the 'algebra of logic', and, more recently, simply 'formal logic', is the set of logical theories elaborated in the course of the last [nineteenth] century with the aid of an artificial notation and a rigorously deductive method."[3] Before this emergence, logic was studied with rhetoric, with calculationes,[4] through the syllogism, and with philosophy. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_logic#History
After many decades, you can finally turn off the startup chime. It's in Sound options -> play sound on startup. Was recently delighted to discover that.

Now, if only I could turn on the crash chimes...
Seconding this. The advice I've always heard is that if you quit a job in under a year, it's a red flag. Generally you get one freebie where people will understand if you had to quit because of a bad fit or a toxic situation or whatever - though you'll probably have to talk about that in your interview - but if there's a pattern of it happening over time, that's a huge red flag.

If I were you I'd try and get one solid year of a job on my resume, to start with. You said you're worried about becoming homeless anyway- why would you quit a $15/hour job if you don't have anything else lined up? Unless it's just a really toxic/destructive situation, that seems like a mistake. Paying the bills for the time being and building up some solid work experience seem like aligned goals right now. The healthcare thing is unfortunate (it's unfortunate that anybody in our society has to be in that position), but I don't think quitting without another offer is going to help.

Best of luck.
Thanks for the extensive answer. Let me read it sometime in the next couple days and get back to you then. I'm just super busy right now :)

BTW - I see you're really into the Linux kernel I need to cram for a technical interview right now specifically around the Linux kernel, I'll check out your links in your profile but if you had any go to resources to give a good concise overview or practical tips on common tools and you let me know that might really help me. I know it's a massive area, and it's a hard question to answer without knowing more I just thought I'd reach out, because it's probably something really useful you know that I don't.
I think random people would either be shallow and selfish about it or be so intimidated by their responsibilities that they would be at the mercy of knowledgable advisors chosen from the same small class of people who run the government now.
No amount of lighting can make up for the difference in sensor size, quality, resolution let alone the aperture and quality optics of a photographic lens.

I'm sorry but you're just incorrect here. It might be minimal at Zoom resolution but it's absolutely there.
great hack! thanks for share
Going to be an unpopular opinion:

Look into how you look visually and how you speak and your behaviour. Are there things you do that [incorrectly] raise a flag for other people? Like someone mentioned on here, get detailed feedback.
(If you know a way to reliably detect "honest" people, it'll make you enough money to stop caring about all this and probably win you a Nobel peace prize too.)

How to detect these crimes? By doing what the article describes: analyze the public officials' public disclosures and performance to see if "House members are outperforming market averages" or "house members followed trends far earlier" than the rest of the market. I would extend this analysis to family and known associates as well; if the politician's neighbor starts making really smart trades around the time the politician entered office, that's worth investigating.

I wonder about allowing any constituent to bring a suit against their politician if they believe they can prove insider trading. Judge/grand jury still has to rule (publicly!) that it's case-worthy before bothering the politician. If the politician loses the case, they're removed from office, must cover all legal fees, and must give the ill-gotten gains to the constituent who brought the suit as a bounty. If the suit fails, that suing constituent has to cover the legal fees.

We could also require (and might already for all I know) a written justification at time of each trade, which TV suggests is a thing hedge funds have to do, but that's basically just a fixed transaction cost since anyone with money could hire an "analyst" to write something plausible.

Another comment suggested that officials should have to announce trades in advance, though that might have the effect of banning trades altogether.

Fundamentally, I want my elected officials focused 100% on doing their job, not trying to get rich in their spare time. So barring them from all trading while in office would be fine by me.
Adele Thusnelda Porkert: An absolute hero in the world of math and science.

I remember reading some short bios that (with a wink and nod) mentioned Godel had a relationship with a cabaret dancer. I remember absolutely detesting it.

Making a life with a genius, obsessive compulsive individual doesn’t seem very easy to say the least.

Nevermind the importance of the individual to society, and the implied responsibility that came with it.
Kanban is not incompatible with queuing theory.
I use Google Location Sharing to continuously share my location with a few friends. It's quite nice. Makes planning easier. Also, maybe it'll help with this stuff haha.
99.992% of fully vaccinated people have dodged Covid, CDC data shows
Nothing is immune, these are fundamentally people and person problems which can and will affect any language. It's ironic that just this week one of the core maintainers of Perl stepped down because of backlash and harassment from other maintainers over proposed changes (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26779152).

Python is a little younger than Perl but also faced similar problems--Guido had so much backlash against proposals that he stepped down too (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17515492).

Go is younger than either of those but not immune to the same fate--just look at the total divide and amount of controversy created over things like generics or modules in the community.

There's no magic fix for this--if an organization is going to thrive and grow (or even just survive) for 30+ years it has to address those issues sooner rather than later. Burnout, at all levels, is real.
Can you recommend any good third party recruiting agencies for tech?
Somewhere, some overlord in a galaxy far, far away is looking at us through a faster-than-light telescope and going "Yeppers. They are about to hit critical mass. Either a population crash is imminent or they start colonizing their solar system. Schedule a diplomatic mission for their corner of their galaxy to invite them to the intergalactic council should they survive this completely normal, though adolescently awkward, stage of development."
“for years, the Mac also came with a death sound, that would play when the machine crashed.”

I don’t think that’s correct. Those sounds played when the power on self test failed, not when the machine crashed (if the machine gets as far as playing that sound, it won’t crash, but very likely will come to an ordinary halt)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup: “The classic Macintosh startup sequence includes hardware tests which may trigger the startup chime, Happy Mac, Sad Mac, and Chimes of Death.”
Not always, but as long as the unsustainable extraction lasts. By definition, it has to run out of the stuff it's extracting.
QA at EA is a path to some solid gigs. It just takes time.

Yeah, it's unsexy work, but it pays okay, and if you prove yourself, it can lead to some senior roles. There are lots of folks that I work with now that started in contract QA and worked their way up to 6+ figure gigs inside the company.
> What does that even mean in the absence of a formal standard and competing compiler implementations?

It means that when the language designers are asked "what is the behavior of this code (that compiles and doesn't use 'unsafe')?" they never throw up their hands and say "it's undefined behaviour, you must not write that code" (as the C++ definition often says).

They may say "oops, we're not sure what it should do, we need to clarify the language definition and write some tests to ensure the compiler does that". (This happens in C++ too.)

> Powerful features allow for powerful takes on crappiness.

I don't know what this means.

> Unless you want Rust to stay a teaching language forever

A lot of companies big and small are using Rust in production so this is not a compelling premise.
>Your blackjack outcome is independent of other player's decisions.

>This is a statistical fallacy.

Yes, "Your blackjack outcome is independent of other player's decision" IS a statistical fallacy. You're correct.

It's pretty easy to prove this.

Is the number of cards in play finite? Yes.
Can other people at the table get more cards than they begin with? Yes.

If someone can impact the number of cards left in the deck, wouldn't they have the potential to change your outcome?
They only allowed regional carriers with existing spectrum to use others networks. It doesn't allow any other company to use the large carriers networks which limits the ability to start a MVNO carrier as you need existing spectrum licenses in order to piggyback on others networks.
XorNot is essentically correct.

Crypto is a 'get rich quick' speculative behaviour, driven by multiple narratives as you say, but those are effectively just narratives used to validate the participation.

Amway's 'narrative' was that you could 'help' your neighbours by selling them cleaning products.

But really it was a pyramid scheme.

There are some questions around the Fed and monetary dilution etc, but BTC is not the answer.

And of course currency was never meant to be a 'long term holding'.

Literally by design, we build at minimum a tiny bit of dilution into our currency, that's 'part of the plan' so don't hold it, hold something else.
Most messaging apps (iMessage, Whatsapp, maybe others) have a "send my current location" option.
I see you share the sentiment. Well,

> Injection of PSOP, 25I-NBMeO or ketanserin resulted in significant dose-dependent decreases in number of newborn neurons in hippocampus

> At the low doses of PSOP that enhanced extinction, neurogenesis was not decreased, but rather tended toward an increase

(in mice) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23727882/

The way I read it large doses definitely decrease neurogenesis and low doses look like they slightly increase, but the authors are uncertain.

That putting aside that neurogenesis changes caused by the substance might be affecting the actual intelligence either way.
> I haven't lasted anywhere longer than 2 months

You need to work somewhere, literally anywhere, for at least a year.

Hiring and on boarding is expensive, such that virtually no software companies are getting any ROI for someone who is there for two months or less. I get you may have had impact early on at these places, but I guarantee they all still lost money on you.

tldr; on paper you're a losing bet, build a history of being a winning bet and more companies will come around.
imagine hearing one of those clown tunes just as you lost hours of work. I'd be livid.
The Fight for Free Software: Richard M. Stallman vs. Molly de Blanc
This was common in console games and console SDKs had special APIs to support this. It's a decent solution to memory leak and fragmentation issues
Great to see Morrowind on HN, just sharing my personal story;

I was in highschool living in a trailer park with my mother. My ma ended up getting a pay out from the government for a work related injury. She bought me a PC and we set it up in the caravan and I was able to run Morrowind. It was a great escape from the conditions at the time and I kept learning programming when I wasn't hunting Daedra's.