skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's over 130 diplomats and spies reporting it

If you wanted to bootstrap a mass psychogenic illness, it'd be harder to come up with a better scenario. You have civilian employees of the US government living out of their comfort zone, in a foreign country that is putatively "the enemy". You're eating unfamiliar foods, sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings, and all the while being told to be on constant alert for the dangers posed by your host country.

> And the reports are very specific and not vague

Some may be specific, but you're significantly overselling this. There are inconsistencies in both the reports of the affected individuals and what data has been allowed to be released by the US government.

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2021/03/nas-report-on-havana-s...
> how Sidewalk actually works

It matters very little how it's designed to work. If it can be abused, it will. Encryption can be broken, protocols can be circumvented. It's why we have physical covers for webcams, because they can and are used by malicious parties, even though it should be possible.
Kotlin’s closed/final by default is a huge flaw when working with a large codebase. Code is not left extensible by default. I don’t want to sprinkle my code with the open noise. False performance optimization, big maintenance/flexibility expense.
It's amazing how you think computers algorithms should solve these, when _people_ aren't expected to.
USA here. With a single Echo Dot on my account.
I have a 2020 Intel Macbook from work and a M1 Macbook for personal use.

Granted I put my work laptop under more load (compiling, video chats at work) but it just feels like a normal laptop. I feel it take its time loading large programs (IDEs) and the fan clicks on when I'm doing big compiles.

I use my personal laptop for occasionally coding, playing games, and also video chats. But the M1 feels amazing. It's fast, snappy, with long battery life, and I've had it for several weeks and I never hear the fan. Even playing Magic Arena AND a Parallels VM runs silent. Arena alone turns my wife's Macbook Air into a jet turbine. It makes video chats so much nicer because it's dead silent.

I've run into occasional compatibility issues with the M1. sbt not working was the latest bummer.

So while my two laptops are technically a year apart, they feel like 5 years apart. The M1 laptop lives up to the hype and I'm glad to just have a laptop that's fast, quiet, has great battery, and is reliable.

Edit: More context, I had bought a maxed-out Macbook Air last year hoping it would be my "forever-laptop" but it was just not giving me the speed I wanted, and the noise was just too much. I couldn't play any game or do any real coding in the living room without disrupting my wife enjoying her own games or shows. I'm so glad I traded up to the M1
I'd honestly say Qubes now... just virtualize everything :D
Judging from the amount of contract disputes in the court system, I would expect it to be forked pretty regularly
An experimental one. There are still many far better choices for low-latency programming.
I wonder if you could add steganography to the visual output to watermark runs in a way to prevent your tool from being used to pass off live gameplay.
OS matters for this comparison. If your Dell XPS was running Windows, that might explain the discrepancy.

For instance Windows on NTFS etc. is notoriously slow at operations that involve a lot of small files compared to Linux or whatever on ext4.

Unless your Dell was also running OSX, you're probably not comparing hardware here.
I read a good book about management recently that pretty much defined the need for micromanagement as either lack of training, and/or lack of clear expectations and appropriate resolution when those expectations are broken.

The sum of it is an employee that knows the right way, and is given the freedom to do that will make the correct choices, if they fail occasionally that's ok. If they can't be trained, or refused to follow the expectations, then they need another job.

Micromanagement will just repress those employees further where they'll be too afraid to make their own decisions.

Humorously, the book is called "It's your Ship", by a navy captain who turned the worst ship in the navy into the top ship
> Voters have shown again and again

[citation needed]

Seriously. I would love to see these so-called "again and again" examples.

Anecdote: I'm involved in local politics and one of the biggest problems I see resulting from "direct" citizen/constituent involvement initiatives is that they are fundamentally predicated on attracting people who want to oppose & object to things (sometimes to bad things, but very often to positive, progressive initiatives). Because of the effort barrier to involvement, those who are actively engaged tend to be people who have a problem with something, which means the "I agree with this ongoing initiative" voice is lost.
US citizens seem to often do so..

Unrelated, I once on a trip to the US met a group of motorcyclists on modern bikes and with proper, modern safety gear (at Grand canyon I believe). Having never seen this before in the US (outside sports bikers doing it as much as a clothing statement as for safety) I went over and said hi and said this was the first time I had seen this. "We are Canadians" they laughing replied.
If they don't know about it, then it isn't bothering them. Why would you want to change that situation?
This is kinda silly. These are problems that, as an industry, we make for ourselves. The fact that you can't make a network connected device that continues to function for decades without a constant maintenance is a problem not a feature.
Can it be related to this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23273247
The Pandemic CEO
Most people have a very recent experience with a similar thing. Someone you know mistook their allergies or some cough for COVID and convinced themselves it was serious. This is a similar concept, except a negative test result only makes things worse.
Binaural audio recordings are usually made with a Binaural microphone that records sound in a similar configuration to how human ears work. Or they're just synthesized directly as a stereo signal (that's usually how those "binaural beats" music is made). They're nothing more than a stereo file, and the audio has just been recorded in a certain way that mimics the human ear and head. This is why the virtual surround sound from binaural recordings sounds so convincing, but only when wearing headphones.

Spatial audio is a more generalized term. Let's say you're filming an action movie and have a scene where a robot comes from foreground-right, kicks a car, and the car flies over the camera and makes a loud crashing sound behind the camera. You can't just stick a binaural microphone on set and record that because it's almost all CGI. There is no actual sound of a robot kicking a car to be recorded. Instead your foley artists and sound design team will record and modify dozens (even hundreds) of sound sources and combine them together in software that supports a sort of virtual 3d environment, and save it in a format capable of representing this (like Dolby Atmos).

You can then take that Dolby Atmos data and in realtime compute how to map your virtual sound-sources onto things like a 64-speaker Dolby Atmos array in an movie theater, or a 12-speaker home theater Dolby Atmos setup, or apply an HRTF to convincingly map that audio to 2 headphones. A Binaural audio signal is restricted to stereo and intended to be placed directly in the ears.
There are red emergency open buttons for the gateline operator. Here is where they are, in the London Underground training video for gateline operators.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/lRdkI09KCpk?t=220
I'm glad that you are happy with your setup. Every one of us is so special that there could be no one size fits all solution. The reason I started going back to bash and to some extent POSIX shell is a simple question which I nowadays ask myself: do I know why I am using this? or: do I _really_ need this? When I lack a strong reason for picking up something, I drop it, and when I can live without learning a new tool, I do it.
I really hope that the actual study gives more details about how this research was conducted. This article is way too sparse and seems more like a marketing post for the company that did the research.
Love the obscure reference.
No they weren't and this post is violating Hacker News guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Please take your covid conspiracy theories back to reddit.
Companies particularly vulnerable to political attack end up making these sort of donations in an effort to protect themselves.
China increases spending 500% to influence America
California Uber and Lyft drivers criticize pay cuts under Prop 22
Anyone that doesn't think Web === ChromeOS needs to think and account for it.

However in about 10 years that might not matter anymore.
That may work sometimes, but most of the time you're going to run into one of two problems, and possibly both at the same time:

1) Micromanaging is often co-morbid with other bad-boss habits. These may make attempts at "managing" your boss toward improvement unrealistic and even highly ill-advised.

2) If your boss is micromanaging you, this is a strong signal that their opinion of you is already somewhere around the Earth's core (unless they just do it to everyone, but then, see #1). Your best bet is trying to honestly evaluate why there was a mis-match so it doesn't happen again (even if the problem truly is them, not you, it's worth reflecting on what exactly about them is the problem and how to spot it early next time) and look for another opportunity. That'll be much faster & more pleasant than trying to dig out of that hole.
The point though is that making ourselves dumber by making our skulls thicker so we can survive car crashes is a bad choice. We want to be getting smarter, not dumber, right now. Our instincts tend to align with that goal (including protecting the weak) when they are pro-social since that’s how we’ve been evolving lately.
I suppose, from the linux perspective going through curses for this use case, in the same sentence mentioning "debouncing" seems awkward, but it does at least provide a polling api. Honestly I have no idea what they're talking about there.
> The logical step many people miss is that shebangs make the compatibility of the user's shell largely irrelevant: the only real compatibility concerns are the bash version or `sh` aliasing on the user's system.

It's a huge problem if you have stuff that is expected to be sourced into the shell rather than executed as a script., for example, because the sourced stuff provides a large API of functions.
But that's more working around the problems than fixing them, no? You can't really move all signal handling logic to a dedicated process, because every process can receive signals. And as for databases: every major production database I've seen implements its own authentication and permission scheme, so it can do things like provide ACLs on a more granular (per-table, sometimes per-row) basis.
Some people are not self-driven but can still do good work if subjected to stronger authority. It's ultimately a business decision as to whether it's worth providing that kind of authority.

But note that to the extent that someone suffers from ADHD and just needs a stronger hand from their manager as an accommodation in order to be productive, you might be legally required to give it to them.
Technical Debt, Rewrites, and Refactoring
At the same time the turnstiles in Paris are infuriating. I was stuck behind one of them with a stroller at the airport, nobody in sight to help me.

I really prefer there not being any turnstiles to begin with.
Mostly agreed but I’d say: Pulsar is a lake, Kafka is a river, RabbitMQ is a creek. Kafka still moves fast and once you out of retention, difficult to read past. Pulsar, thanks to adding bookies to the storage pool, can grow and does not have a retention to commit to.
A process could also do that by spawning a bunch of processes if it wanted to.
My worst experience was with a manager who had no software development background. He had about 8 years of project and product management and was assigned to lead a team of 12 developers on a new initiative. Everything had to be implemented his way that he read on some blog/article even though the team would show why it doesn't apply to our use case.

Not surprisingly, people quickly started leaving one by one (including myself) and eventually his team was merged with another and he was let go. A micromanaging boss is bad, an incompetent micromanaging boss is a disaster.
To clarify the supply and demand argument was merely describing their abundance in these communities not arguing against their predatory behaviour.

By insinuating they are predatory you imply they are taking advantage of the consumers. If that's the case why isn't another company charging a more reasonable amount thereby taking over the entire market and making money?

Furthermore what's the alternative to consumers not having these loans available? It could be that they lose their car, causing them to lose their job, then their home.

Edit: I often see claims they hide their interest rate, but why would they advertise a yearly rate when the loans are intended for durations of weeks? It's like complaining that petrol isn't priced by the kilogallon.
I think the book is called "Turn the Ship Around"
I mostly agree with you. But there are many many reasons why these constraints may still apply, at least in the short term. Ideally you want everyone to be competent enough at their role to need minimal management. But the reality is that often times you'll find yourself in a situation where that's not true. And it's pretty rare when you just have the freedom to bring everything to a halt to start from scratch.
> But before you fire people, you have to invest to be absolutely sure you're doing the right thing.

It's the right thing to fire them. For you and for them. Wrong match, end of story.

Could be they lack experience or something else, but it might just as well be you lacking clear goals etc. Either way, wrong match, end of story.
from the tweet

"NYPD say no access"
Yep, I'm undoubtedly missing a huge chunk of basic undergrad EE theory, seeing as I am a CS guy, not EE. That said, I think it's possible (even fun) to explain key concepts to people outside your own field in plain language. I practice on my friends and girlfriend a lot.

To say that PMod's primary limiting factor is its interconnect choice is not very specific. The spec itself says that "speeds greater than 100MHz should be achievable using high-speed ports", so the claim that PMod is "inherently constrained to low-frequency applications" seems at best incomplete. I'm not arguing that every PMod port will support that -- obviously most are not designed for this -- but I am not seeing a fundamental limitation.
If someone doesn't "trust" their team, I think they should also look inward at their own expectations. I've definitely seen micromanagers who should be able to trust their team but due to their own sense of pride/narcissism/whatever you want to call it, they believe they need to get personally involved.

This is a recurring joke in design, where a CEO hires a designer only to throw away all their feedback and build something hideous.
It depends on whether your demands are reasonable or not if it's going to work, but:

If there's a persistent lack of communication when it should've been known that a deadline is not going to be met or is at least going to be close, set-up a PIP where you lay down a checklist to follow at the start/end of the day of behaviors you expect regarding communication.

If that doesn't help, then yes, firing is the correct response, not permanent micromanagement.

This is all under the generous assumption that your deadlines are actually very important in the business and plans will have to be shifted if they're not met because of a harsh business reality. Otherwise it's your fault for allowing the cost of deadlines to be incurred in a team where all they will do is hinder morale, add bureaucracy and reduce productivity.
Having perfectly functional devices that become obsolete because the world moves around them is also not a good system. We don't have to design our support targets to be a moving window of >= $current_version - 2.
I hate to tell you but we've been at the horizon for a long time now. But journalism wasn't nearly as open years ago, either simply due to access, or lack of stomach.

Pick a decade and you can find a bombed out school, or other mass atrocity.
Do they actually refer to themselves in the third person in the first sentence?

(Unrelated:) So are we good if we don’t use Windows?
No... they wouldn't. Unless the only thing keeping unqualified people from doing safety critical work is the job title they give themselves.
> their pattern of behavior doesn't really say, "state actor," to me.

This is the fascinating thing about Russian hackers to me. Maybe sometimes political favors change hands, but ultimately they're autonomous, self-funding, self-training, completely deniable assets. IMO Russia's brilliant in how they've managed their offensive hacking assets.
Less quality is their windows software. I am currently on a 3 month trial with Apple Music. I'm not sure why I was surprised, but it doesn't run very well on either Windows or Android. iTunes... is what it is, and the website version hogs CPU like no other even with the tab in the background. If I'm going to let a subscription service become my music library then I need it to run on anything!
I really want to like Dell's XPS line. I really do. But their technical support is atrocious. My XPS trackpad stopped working months after purchase, and getting them to repair it was an utter nightmare. Their tech support seemingly hasn't improved at all in the past decade (which is when I last vowed to never buy a Dell again due to their horrible tech support). They may fool me twice, but never again.

(I do hear that their business support is pretty good though)
Recommend changing 'DOF' jargon to 'depth of field' in title.

DOF means 'degrees of freedom' in my field.
From what I've read, Netflix has been investing quite a bit towards automatically detecting these sorts of issues and rejecting video that's been poorly handled by the studios. AFAIK, they reject interlaced content.

From a compression standpoint, netflix wants everything to be progressive. Interlaced media (funnily) requires a lot more bandwidth to transmit with modern codecs. I say funnily because interlacing was a technique to save bandwidth for analog transmissions. It gives the illusion of a higher framerate. Unfortunately, modern video codecs work by tracking object movement from one frame to the next. Interlacing really messes that up requiring more bits spent for the same amount of quality.

Some of the older codecs have interlacing built into the standard (mpeg2 and h264). Newer ones have banned it all together (VP9, AV1) due to the codec complexity it introduces for very little benefit.

https://netflixtechblog.com/high-quality-video-encoding-at-s...
Before I read the article I assumed this was the plot of the movie "Gamer" except for real. In that movie (ruined mostly by a horrible ending), players control their in game avatar but those in game avatars are real people.
Perhaps the ones making these demands aren't the ones that have these agreements.
There are millions of proponents of yoga today. Many have combined various yoga techniques into different packages and made huge businesses out of it (Moksha Yoga, Bikram yoga, Isha foundation etc.)
In doing so, each business has preserved the spirit and ambience of yoga. We are all truly enriched by theses business. There is nothing wrong with promoting yoga. Yoga is not patented / trademarked to India. It belongs to the whole world.

I don't know about Wim Hof but I hope that he preserves the spirit and the ambience of yoga while imparting the knowledge and also cites references and gives credit where it is due. Yoga works on a much deeper level than just curing ADHD if done in the right ambience. Even a moderate yoga practitioner raises and expands their consciousness from oneself to being coextensive with everyone and everything.
so fire the underperforming kids? got it
Not Steins:Gate?
In theory they could apply the gyroscope based movement to Dolby Atmos based music as well. But who wants to turn 90 degrees left and have the songs soundstage not also shift with them?
crypto/fiat is not an apples to apples comparison. it's an apples to oranges. cryptos are a new class of asset

If you convert energy into crypto, you have crypto, may not have intrinsic value for you. right now it's worth 42k usd for somebody

which of those have/don't have intrinsic value:
- gold, silver and other precious metals
- stocks
- options
- house
- car
- fiat
- cryptos
This is actually what pidfd does on linux, you get a handle to the process that lets you interact with it in that same manner. Once the process exits the handle gets closed and all the operations will report an error even if you have a recycled pid
I suppose the proper answer is that that very much depends on your philosophy of desktop environments; I happen to prefer modular desktops built out of separate programs from separate authors which may or may not even know about each other. This has the advantage of making it trivial to retrofit new features without needing to ask your DE upstream. Or to be more pithy: Okay, fine; what desktop environments implement keynav? With X11, I can make the answer be "(probably) all of them".
Just be careful with this method if you have epilepsy.
> I had to micromanage

And yet...

> The truth is probably that I should have gotten into more serious talks with those employees instead.

There you go. Very often employees are unproductive because they are unhappy.

> As an employee, try to be as a reflective person as you ask your boss to be one

It's the people-manager job to understand people. It's not the employee's job or skillset.
On the other hand, I have been in positions where I and the team delivered spectacular results year after year, and I am not micro-managed, and then my excellent boss leaves for greener pastures, and suddenly a new much worse boss comes in and begins micromanaging me.

Fellow workers, the boss and management is not looking out for your interest, the default is they're looking out for their interest. Your best hope is once in a while to find a "good" boss who is not 100% on board with the investors and is willing to split the difference. If you're on the top half of people in your position in terms of skills, if you're willing to do what reasonably needs to be done within 40 hours a week, then the boss is who needs to be questioned, not yourself - you are the one who is doing the work and creating the wealth for the company.
A lack of trust and/or misalignment on goals doesn’t automatically mean the employee is a poor performer. If your first resort is to fire them, there is no reason to believe the same problem won’t happen with the next employee.
Not a good comparison. Vim as an IDE has capabilities on par and in many places exceeding the capabilities of proprietary IDEs. This is not the case for Nano.
In reality, a company will look at the cure and know that it will end the market in management. They will also understand that whoever brings the cure to market first will take the majority of the profits, and the other will just lose. A company will not refrain from selling a cure to protect the market share of its competitors.

Your idea only works if you believe there is a global conspiracy of businesses and scientists who all agree to embargo research into cures, and who are all willing to forgo any profits on the cure while also recognizing any scientist and company not in their conspiracy could wipe out their profits at any time.