skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have one platform which bans, say, racists, and another platform which doesn't, then most normal people will gravitate to the sans-racist platform. The sales team of the latter platform then has to go out and convince people that they want to advertise to a small market of racists and racism appreciators. This, fairly obviously, isn't as easy as selling ad-space on the less racism-y platform.

People have _tried_ unmoderated forums and other social media, again and again. It doesn't work. Being unappealing to advertisers is actually the _good_ case; the bad case is that people use it to orchestrate serious crimes.
Access Bank acquires majority stake in Botswana’s 5th-largest lender BancABC
Holy Moly! JavaScript in PDF?!

What were they thinking? It’ll just get disabled in a few months because it makes for one awesome vector attack.
They are not the same thing. I'm not disagreeing with the specific example you supplied, either.

As much as I dislike pointless meetings, this approach would not work in my workplace. Senior management would view this as a request to be babysat. Employees are all expected to host and attend meetings, and everyone is responsible for the value of this time|work.

Meetings come in all shapes and sizes.
The big difference is, unlike VR, you don't know where the viewer's eyes are, so you can't jump from 3D to 2x 2D so easily, you genuinely need a volume resolution instead of an area resolution. I suppose another way to think about it is, if they're splitting 4k into 45 planes, you're chopping 8.3 MP into 0.184 MP (~430x430px) x 45 "pixels"/voxels of depth resolution. 3840x2160 pixels is the same number of samples as a 202x202x202 voxel cube. A 1000^3 voxel display equals 31600x31600 pixels of resolution, which is maybe possible to render at 30fps with a very, very simple application and a top-end GPU. 3000^3 = 164300x164300. We would need to rethink the entire graphics stack to figure out a "GPU" that could more efficiently "draw" to a hologram at high resolution and refresh rate. Maybe something like DLSS but 3D. Even then, the bandwidth will be insane. 1000^3, 1 billion voxels, * 32 bits of color/alpha, is 32 gigabits per frame. 30fps would need 960 gigabits per second of bandwidth. Displayport 2.0 is 80 gbps. The fastest commercial optical transceivers are 100-400 gbps, although top-end GPU memory bandwidth is approaching 8000 gbps, good enough for 2000^3 @ 32bit @ 30fps or 1000^3 @ 240fps. The "GPU" will need to be tightly integrated into the display.

It would be better if we could just have 3x 2D projectors that somehow interfere in a medium to display, but I don't know of a way to accomplish this. Not to mention none of this allows you to be inside the displayed content as VR does.
Perhaps we have a different view of what infrastructure means? Managing hosts isn't it by my view.
On top of that, while there are e-ink screens that can refresh at 30Hz, they aren't bi-stable. In other words, you have to give up the main benefit of e-ink in order to get half the refresh rate of a normal LCD.

The fundamental problem behind e-ink refresh rates is that there's an inherent physical limit to how quickly you can shake your ink particles up and down without damaging things.
copy and paste
find and replace

those are fine, but use a tab not a space

CTRL shift L
or I'm in hell

but please, don't merge my rebase
You can create a Policy File on Linux named "/etc/firefox/policies/policies.json" to disable pdf through out the system, here is a snippet for just pdf:

{
"policies": {
"PDFjs": {
"Enabled": false
},
"DisableBuiltinPDFViewer": true
}
}

See:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/managing-policies-linux...
Sunny superpower: solar cells close in on 50% efficiency
I am NOT leading any of the sub-ordinates
I am NOT leading any of the sub-ordinates I am an Engineer, then why the Manager says there is no leadership qualities, you are silent etc.. Any thoughts on this?
I was going to mention watches! I love my Casio Tough Solar and wore it daily for five years. It never reported a charge level less than 'High'. If it didn't say on the box that it was solar, the only thing I would have noticed is that the battery never seemed to run down.

The solar charging is probably the biggest feature I'm missing in my smartwatch, but at least it has a (low-power, daylight-readable, always-on) transflective screen.
Tech censorship is very very real.

https://censortrack.org/
Yes, people like it when their lives improve. Sure this has convinced some people the chinese government is doing a good job and will continue to do a good job. But they doesn't change the values of those people. The chinese government is a draconian dystopia. Saying "the propaganda is on the other side" implies that the Chinese government doesn't do propaganda, which is a pretty stupid thing to imply in my opinion. Dictatorships like China do not generally do well for their people for very long.
Garmin watches also have transflective displays. I've never needed the backlight since I've always got either sunlight or a headlamp.
If only I could use my pw manager at the windows login prompt.
Describing "This was a fraudulent election" as "trust but verify" is incredibly disingenuous.
wow this looks really cool! Is it on Github?
Saw an article a while back[0]

FWIW, it says Uber opened already, but returning to office is voluntary at this point, there are capacity limits (IIRC 20%), and as far as I know, most people are still working from home.

[0] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/When-S-F-Bay-Ar...
A bunch of comments in this thread claim that the pound is already digital, because you can send and receive pounds using a mobile app or online banking. But these transactions simply transfer obligations (debts) denominated in pounds between parties. They are not operations on actual pounds (i.e. on the central bank currency).

You can trade 'pork bellies futures' quickly, and using nothing but a computer. But no one claims pork bellies are digital. When people trade, they're effectively trading IOUs, and not the actual bellies.

A Central Bank Digital Currency would allow individuals to hold and transfer 'real' pounds (M0). Currently, only banks and selected other financial institutions can open accounts at the Bank of England.

If you think you (an individual) can currently hold digital pounds, just because you have a bank account, consider this question. If you have 200k GBP in your bank account, and the bank goes bust, will you still be able to withdraw 200k GBP?
Well, hello, Junior. That's thinking!
This is unfortunately just not correct in real life. It’s a good representation of general behavior/trends, but for instance Smallpox was around since at least 500 BC, and still had a 35% fatality rate until it was eradicated in the 70s.

The more times you roll the dice, the more often you’ll get that magic combo of lethal and highly transmissible. For the most part it doesn’t favor it, but that just makes it an outlier when it does, not impossible.
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I'm in the same situation Francesco is in. Other than a short gig in the Fall (for some people who knew my capabilities, hence no interview required) I haven't worked for pay in over a year. Fortunately I'm in a position to be able to not work as my spouse has a job with health insurance and we've got a decent amount of retirement savings.

> Work takes up such a big part of your life that what you do is terribly important. I’ve been contacted by many companies and recruiters during this time, but the idea of going back to full-time work doing something I don’t care about or is not technically interesting just scares me.

Yeah, scares is a good word here - I feel the same. I get contacted by recruiters and they describe the job and I get that dread in the pit of my stomach. I've been in tech for 30+ years, I've seen all kinds of companies, situations, bosses, coworkers. It's all a roll of the dice and from my experience the odds aren't on your side.

> 1. You will give me interesting or meaningful work

I tend to think that there's just not a lot of funding out there for the most interesting and meaningful. I had a job doing software development for an alternative energy company. They never got to stable funding and folded. That was interesting, meaningful work, but they couldn't get money to keep it going.

> 3. No technical interviews or coding challenges

I have reached this point as well. I'm tired of the interview game. Just done. Can't do it anymore. The thought of interviewing makes me physically ill. I like to say that I'm retired form interviewing not software development.

> 4. You pay what you want, per hour

I'd work for $50K/year if the work was interesting and the people were nice. Heck, maybe even less than that in the right situation.

In the meantime I'll be over here working on stuff that I find interesting in languages that I like (and aren't necessarily in demand). And gardening. And baking bread.
More importantly:

The pistol emoji has been replaced with a squirt gun, injecting Apple's political views into plain text documents, and,

You can't type the Taiwanese flag emoji on an iPhone in the PRC region at all.
Honestly? I think LibraryThing's UI is the best I've used when it comes to sites of that type. I think the only thing that's a little unclear is adding books, but for managing books and their metadata, the interface is detailed and offers very granular options for filtering and sorting.
| There are important escape hatches that TS gives that make it unreliable

This is one way to mitigate those escape hatches:

https://github.com/cyrilletuzi/typescript-strictly-typed

But in my experience, you had better be starting a new project. They aren't joking when they say laying it on an existing codebase is a nightmare.
The straw they moved me to Signal was a Facebook video chat I had with an acquaintance, who mentioned that her sister was working at a ketamine research lab. When I closed the call, my FB timeline was full of ads for ketamine.
And NCSC:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/collection/passwords/updating-your-a...
> About the only thing Twitter censored was threats of violence or rape, election misinformation, or extremely blatant racism.

This is false. Twitter also censors search, which operates over the tweets they allowed to be posted.
I asked that in the thread, response here:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-82259...
With my reply (and further exploration) here:
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624#issuecomment-82263...

tl;dr: Go uses casts to coerce values to the correct types, which means you couldn't get pointers to number literals for non-default number types.
Very first thing I said - "When done in bad faith".

Sounds like you were perhaps arguing against a strawman? I never said don't ever go to upper management, nor that there is never a reason to go to upper management. Just that if someone goes to upper management the way this guy did, the right response is to let them go, that they are a liability to the team, the manager, and the company at that point. Honestly to themselves, too, but that's not on the manager to fix.
Sure If you are talking average user.

Most of the people that I know that use Linux desktop are developers, and they generally don't use Gnome.

On servers sure its RedHat or CentOs or Ubuntu/Debian

But desktops are Ubuntu variants, then Fedora. Don't know anyone that uses RH or CenOS desktops.
I look for the clearest, cleanest shortest solution and then I make it better.
> The symptoms are almost identical to CJD (human mad cow) with the biggest differentiator being time from diagnosis to death.

Ordinary CJD has a much lower median age of death (68 years) than Alzheimer's (88 years), but vCJD (the form that is believed to be caused by contaminated food) has a median age of death of only 28 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_dise...

A surge in young or middle-aged dementia cases would likely not have fallen under the radar.

> Between 15-30% of Alzheimer's diagnosed patients also don't have the normal Alzheimer's brain symptom (presumably amyloid buildup) either. Alzheimer's as cause of death was 17.6% in 2000, but is now 37.3% in 2020.[1]

You have mistaken the rate of deaths (per 100,000) for the percentage. When judging this increase, one must consider that in the same timeframe, the mean age of the population has risen by 10% and life expectancy increased by more than two years.
Why would that require changing passwords every day? You can’t use these tools without compromising the site first.
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For backwards compatibility, they could just put in some nonsense entries. If the program can figure out those entries are nonsense, it's no longer out of date and it's on them.

Why they didn't do this by default is anyone's guess. Maybe they like app devs more than users. More technology should lie on users' behalf.
I wasn't aware of python-mechanize, but I do seem to recall that the website in question relies on Javascript. Thanks for the suggestion!
> In time I expect all OSes (mobile and desktop)

How much time? This has been a thing in one form or another since j2me. Some j2me platforms actually supported this kind of behavior, but that was all lost once Android and iOS came along. Same with fine-grained permissions over network access (eg, user having complete control over what networks/etc an app can access).

We /had/ all of this in the days of BlackBerry, and lost it. Nobody wants to give it back now.
"A young girl can't stop posting" as a description for SEL is like describing Pan's Labyrinth as "a young girl struggles with mental illness in wartime".
I write my python code
A long time ago as a student I worked at a company that had mandatory password changes every month. So I just used the same password and appended the current month to it.
Why not try out Automate the Boring Stuff? Apply programming to your job and try to ease the burden. It can hard to decide on a project and try to learn more development at the same time, so focus on what you know and how to apply programming to it.
You haven't demonstrated that anyone /is/ entering into contracts with Intel.

Intel has done lots of things that it turns out people didn't want to do (with them).
I think it depends on who is explaining the complex topic. The main goal for the "explainer" is to implant ideas in someone else's head in a way they can understand and relate to. This is done through a shared vocabulary. If someone knows nothing about a topic, then the entire explanation must be done in the listener's vocabulary (while slowly and deliberately introducing new terms, and clearly defining them), which OP didn't really attempt to do.
It's a bit different actually, the same keys repeat multiple times 'above' each other, in two alternating rows with half overlap. I've built a little device that you set on top of a regular piano keyboard to experiment with it but that wasn't very satisfactory. Doing a full scale conversion would be quite a job.
That reality is a property primarily of the present-moment.

Index funds don't always rise and property values sometimes fall. Interest rates are rarely this low. Leverage multiplies both the upside and the downside.
It is interesting how many of the responses to this here say some version of "our industry is mostly boring". That has been my experience of the industry as well, unfortunately.
That's changing. Dendrite [1] is the official next-generation server implementation and optionally supports decentralization.

But due to the usability constraints of truly decentralized systems, I think most users are better off with federation.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
If the devs update the code to respond to fake entries, then the program is no longer out of date and thus no longer in need of backwards compatibility.
Actually the fastest possible way to detect unknows breaches on the user side is to show your last login time. (On the server side is looking for IP patterns)
I'm an academic, and I do not think it's what he's looking for. Most Ph.D. and postdoc-level research involves much less flexibility and much more tedium than it sounds like he's looking for. The overall project should be very interesting, yes, but the day-to-day work usually still requires plenty of boring bits. And while I'm sure there are some labs that would allow remote work on a flexible schedule, it's not the general culture in the places I have experience. CS might be different--it's not my field. But I'm skeptical.
No doubt that you can trace the history to explain it. But is there an inherent allure of the eventual design that steered these decisions toward a result like this? The article gives a very compelling theory as to why it might.

If the effect of "inherent allure" sounds improbable, ask yourself if it might explain why common keyboard commands are nice comfortable ones to type, like ls and dir - and you never find yourself typing qza or xwz. All have good historical reasons, like not many operations starting with Z, but I think if there really was a common "Query Zeta Array" operation, it's likely it would have been renamed or there would be a tool with an easier-to-type name that would wrap it.
My favorite is silent truncation on the signup page but not on the login page.

> I paste in my password. It gets cut off to N characters by the form.
> I paste that same password on the login page. There is no character limit on the login form.
Thanks for the recommendation, I was't aware of webdriver waits
This seems like a terrible idea!
Onboarding is expensive at dysfunctional organizations. Further, the reality that churn is high among better employees [1] offsets the concern.

But regardless, going through an extensive vetting process is an illusion. It has extraordinarily little correlation with actual work fit or productivity, but the more "rigorous" the process, the more likely you are to stick with a poor fit.

[1] - low performers will hang around forever. The fundamental of the hire slow/fire slow reality is that eventually every organization is 80% dead weight. If you want to avoid onboarding costs (versus dealing with the issues that make onboarding expensive, which is almost always institutional liabilities), hire the worst candidates and they'll be with you forever.
People looked older then, IMO. They smoked, had neat haircuts, and wore shirts and ties to work.
If you're using a password manager, shouldn't you just have it generate a random strong password you don't expect to remember? If you're remembering it, it's really best to not use noise, just plain correctly spelled lower case words. Adding an additional word adds both more security and is easier to remember than adding an ampersand somewhere in your password
China is deregulated, you can get away with anything, as long as the party is properly bribed and you do not challenge its power. Its just that whatever you build, whatever you accomplish, will never be yours, will never be safe as long as it is within the borders.
Thanks for the clear and detailed information. I doubt they need the outside investment right now but I guess historically it was a great way to scale.
> If a coal power plant can't raise capital from these guys, they'll get it from someone else instead.

For coal in the US this process has now played itself out enough that there is no longer sufficient value to extract. All of the major players have gone through multiple rounds of bankruptcy where they have shed pension, retiree healthcare, environmental cleanup costs, etc. They are at the point where even the lowest bottom feeders will no longer bid for them. Take for example Blackjewel which was already a bottom feeder holding company for a number of consolidated assets, they went to liquidation because there was no value left.

https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2021/03/03/blackj...

Of course tax payers will be stuck with the healthcare, pension and cleanup bills, not to mention the underfunded Black Lung Fund and of course all the climate and pollution costs.
This site seems like partisan agitprop. I agree that tech censorship is a problem, but it's a problem for humans, not just the american right-wing.
> Is existing currency not issued digitally?

It is, but it's restricted. M0 is central bank money [1]. Currently, only financial institutions have it. If the public could open accounts at the BoE, they too could own M0.

CBDCs are a way to give the public M0 without putting the central bank into the retail banking business. That gives central banks powerful new levers. For example, cash limits how negative rates can go. If cash were to become scarce and most money were held as M0, the central bank could enforce negative interest rates by clawing back M0.

Negative rates are feasible today. But were they to go sharply negative, they'd hit bank capital. Having the public directly hold M0 removes that side effect.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moneysupply.asp
"Power belongs to those who take it"
That's a great suggestion, I love the "hole punching" idea (although it'll probably end up looking like Swiss cheese).

The key is to find a solution that looks good enough when zoomed out to ~64px square, which is tricky for details, especially in the inner ring where sections are packed so close from one another.
Tech censorship is real. To say the censor only a small list of items is misleading.

https://censortrack.org/
GoodData launches cloud-native BI platform focused on developers
It's almost funny how this is the polar opposite of what you often want when hiring. You're hiring to add manpower to tackle the kind of unexciting tasks that you don't naturally find people drawn towards from your existing team (and then, people's responsibilities expand, or they turn 'boring' work into interesting work by redefining the problem or attacking it on a deeper level).

When you have a growing business, money is probably not not the primary concern, but the last thing you can afford is someone on the team being picky about which tasks are beneath them.

No judgment here, I understand OP's sentiment, but I cannot remember any situation in my career where 'hire me, I only work on what I find interesting but it'll cost you comparatively little' would have been an exciting proposition (on the hiring side).
I only want to query your last statement: "until we can slow masks work.. I find it reasonable that no mandate should exist at all"

I find myself thinking the reverse to be honest. this infection has caused the largest worldwide distribution event in recent history, (possibly ever). the longer it persists, the greater the cost (economically and socially). As such I'm happy to try all kinds of things if they have a reasonable basis to help with the problem and the cost is reasonable

Granted the definition of "cost" is personal, but equally I'm genuinely surprised by the number of people who feel that mask wearing has a high perceived cost! It really feels like a small inconvenience to me.

If someone popularised the idea that the virus will go away if we only all wear pink trousers for a week. I'm sceptical of the science, but you know what, the personal cost is low. I'll "cooperate" just to ensure we have it a fair try.

masks at least have a very strong theoretical reason to be effective. I'm not really sure I understand the relatively heavy opposition? keen to hear from those who disagree?
One of the interview questions I ask is, "if you run in a problem you can't solve, where do you go online to find answers?" Anyone that doesn't answer Stack Overflow is - in my opinion - either lying or very, very new to the industry. (This is for .Net/C# jobs so maybe it's different for other languages.)