skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these things still do not seem to get adopted

If I understand your comment correctly, the reason you are using an old, insecure, and broken tool is because the secure replacement is not as widely used?

Are you looking for some specific percentage of the population to adopt it? What is that threshold?

> Signal is OK I guess, but still does not solve a lot of things a decentralized system can.

Serious question: what problem does a decentralized tool that old, insecure, and broken solve that you would use it instead of one that is secure but "centralized"?

> People always join these conversations to namedrop projects to sound smart and security conscious

I can't judge other people's motivation for mentioning PGP/GPG alternatives, but the projects they mention certainly fit the criteria for being secure replacements. Are you going to disregard their answers because you have deemed their motivations unfit?

> apparently not having tried to integrate them into their existing workflows.

If you could explain your specific PGP/GPG workflow, perhaps someone might be able to suggest something to replace it.
this is a conspiracy to move us away from hands-on interactive realtime seat of the pants programming to some respectable top-down, waterfall model or pencil and paper math shit.
Nigeria’s Child Apprentices
Agree - there's nothing that stops you from asking for more. Even if you don't get it now, it sends a signal that you will expect more $ later.

But, if you are really satisfied with $30ph (if you don't have a better offer to fall back on), you probably won't get (much) more. Your weak negotiating position will inevitably shine through.
I think it’s just that most night owls have poor sleep hygiene. It’s Easy to stay up to midnight or 2 or sometimes 4 and sleep till whenever but that kind of shift is not good for you sleep quality
AA extends suspension of alcohol following Southwest flight attendant assault
I read one good article on LinkedIn Pulse once, and even that was probably copy pasted from Medium
My two cents on junior software developers
Can I give you a honest opinion since I was in a similar situation some time ago? Just take the $30-35 whatever offer they give and do the best work you can.

In the long run, if you’re good, they will come around and you can get a better deserved rate.

Having said that, $30 is a great hourly rate for South Asia (I’m from there), and will mean a lot of quick financial buffer and it helps stress wise.

We aren’t in US and it’s better to accept our reality. If the work culture isn’t what you are happy with, you can always use this experience and interview again in 6 months.
And yet I ge t stuck endless captcha. Without disclosing what a known good/bad signal is, you are essentially trust a black box and a random account on the internet
"And the worst thing is their own population is oblivious to all that."

Funny,u know things better than people living there. And u just need learnt things from news
This feature is more evil than I thought!

After turning it off, it displays a message on top of the comments with a link to turn it on. Incredible.

https://imgur.com/9pZpTq2
> How do you think the next dominant Database platform will start?

Not this way.
In politics and other areas, the concept is known as "accelerationism."

It tends to be associated with political extremism... "bring on the revolution/war/etc." As an angry or disillusioned response, I think it's a close relative of nihilism. Cover for being destructive.

That's not to say "worse before better" isn't a thing... it's just not a thing we can do usually.
Same. Night owl forever. Switched when I got a real job.

Realize nearly everyone has bad sleep hygiene and self diagnoses themselves as having a disorder of some sort.
Yea! The best way to negotiate is to have leverage. You can fake leverage, of course, but that's where the risk of losing the deal materializes. So rather than fake leverage, create it. Get other job offers.
And old. See the many comments and articles posted in this thread to that effect.
Why the next stage of capitalism is coming
Is entropy The Langoliers?
On the linked page is this

> Google Calendar has trained me to think that a Google Meet link on the invite is probably a mistake.

> That one decision has completely ruined the GMeet brand.

> Doing bad/dark UI patterns to pump up usage numbers might be good short term but an awful long term decision.

What is this referring to?
I discovered Indian Chinese food while living in the Toronto area and it was mind blowing. I love the Manchurian chicken dishes but I particularly enjoy the vegetarian Hakka stir fry.

It has all the comforting qualities of a Chinese stir fry but is spicy to boot. Interestingly I’ve noticed that most patrons of Hakka restaurants are South Asian, not East Asian, which means more latitude to deploy stronger spices.
Well it does apply to individual people.

Since animal psychology is mostly design to keep animals safe (not, eg., to flourish), we can persist in severely bad circumstances merely because they arent unsafe.

What "getting to rock bottom" does is drive a person to acute unsafety so they are able to overcome the inherent risk of change.

This "personal accelerationism" does work, indeed, it may be the only thing that works.

I do agree that this likely does not generalise to institutions.
The worst part of this is that if you know how to do it, it's trivial to have your browser just clear the cookies at the end of the session... including the one that dismisses the cookie form from hell, and the cycle repeats...
dBFT has solved the concensus mechanism without PoW for quite a while. https://docs.neo.org/docs/en-us/basic/technology/dbft.html#:....

People talking about blockchain technologies being wasteful are just literally ignorant.
Well, without any kind of language or racial conflict, we (in Italy) do have a few such villages (or anyway buildings/farms/etc.) that were submerged when building new basins/artificial lakes (for hydro power plants or for regulating rivers, etc.).

One example in Tuscany:

https://www.vaglipark.it/territorio/il-lago-e-il-paese-fanta...

The basin was due to be emptied for the first time in 2021 (after last time in 1994) but will probably be postponed to 2022.

If you think about it, it is pretty much "normal", ancient villages were either built on top of hills (that guaranteed better defense) or in the middle of valleys crossed by a river (that guaranteed water in abundance).

You build dams to use the valley as basin, so if there is a village/bulding in it it all depends on the current (at the time of the project) architectural/landscape/historical sensibility of the society to either abandon the project, move/relocate the buildings ( like to make a famous reference Abu Simbel in Egypt) or submerse everything.

As another (small) example in Tuscany, when the lake of Bilancino was built in the 1980's, everything in the valley was submersed (to be fair very few buildings of dubious historical value existed in the area) but a monumental gate was moved on another area, at a higher level:

https://mapio.net/pic/p-29646863/
> It’s fairly obvious

But why? Do people from other countries deserve to have their digital pasts weaponized? That was absolutely not obvious to me.
Exhaust iOS EL1 memory from the app sandbox
They did refund you. And you should not complain because it takes them time to verify things It could be the shoppers fault or the vendor's fault. This kind of verification is not a simple affair, and you are not the only one of their customers. Next time buy expensive items from BH and open the box in the presence of the mailman. Also BH has PayBoo credit card that pays the sales tax. I just bought from them Canon R5 and 2 RF lenses, and the huge tax was taken care of by PayBoo.
The rule in our house is to not order anything that goes in or on our bodies from Amazon.
You shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water though. The existence of outlandish claims should not render all unsupported claims invalid. Even if those outlandish claims manage to garner the support of the masses.
In undergrad, my professor explained to me in very candid terms (from the position of being a generous mentor) that the optimal path to success in the Arts and Social Sciences is:

1. Find a niche only a couple of people operate in.

2. Make friends with them at all costs and work in their area.

3. Review each others work, amassing enormous citations in highly respected (albeit sometimes niche) journals.
I absolutely hated Gerrit when I was first introduced to it. And I absolutely agree with what you've said.
> I felt a lot of anxiety about sharing my research in this environment and felt pressure to make my work seem like it was the best solution for every problem when in reality there are more nuances.

I am curious what kind of pressure you are referring to. It's your work and your decision how to present it to the world.

As far as other people's research is concerned, academics can express their opinions by participating in peer review and expressing their opinions vocally at program-committee meetings (for instance, proposing artifact evaluation as a part of the review process).
Pardon me for sitting here in the middle of the US and having the intellectual curiosity to wonder why the US’ middle class is shrinking while China’s middle class is growing. Must be because I’m brainwashed or coerced.
Yes. Deng was more concerned about growing silently. He cared about his people, and did not want to draw too much attention to China.

I knew Xi was a textbook dictator when I heard about him banning Winnie The Pooh in Chinese internet [0].

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-win...
That actually could have been a problem. If the bank had accepted the charge, the fee for that would have been high, as far as I read when closing the account. This way - by Amazon just getting a bounce - my annoyment was just about the unreasonableness of the fee (to pay 3x3€ instead of 1x3€ just because Amazon decided to split the order), if the bank would have charged me instead it could have become a money problem.

That added to my concern with Amazon just using the wrong bank account, and that old account occuring again and again in my profile. Even if I wanted to order something at Amazon it would be too risky now.
I think junior developers (I prefer the term 'new developers', but it is what it is) actually have differences from other developers. Some strengths (fresh eyes, familiarity with whatever modern languages/systems the bootcamp/uni/them self taught) and some weaknesses (there are certain things you just can't pick up without being in the work environment.

Some of these:

* how to use git on a real live codebase
* how to interact with members of the engineering team with variable ability, skill and influence
* how to interact with the rest of the company
* how to assess risk and change with a codebase and align it with company goals
* how to document things in a way that will be useful

Like with any other profession there are things you can learn in school and then stuff you need to learn on the job.
This seems to only be referring to vegetarians. Are they lumping in vegans with vegetarians, or are vegans just not a part of the data?
This is a really good read.
I’m commenting here so other folks follow that link.

Boy did I got fucked a few time at hire. I think it’s better now ? Who knows. Probably still getting fucked.
To be fair, Austrailia is just a few cities on one side of the country and the other part is just a desert.
My wife's family is from Romania. A few months ago while eating with our children we were discussing flags, and I mentioned that Chad's flag is identical to the Romanian flag. The wife's phone, with Facebook and Whatsapp and a million junk apps installed was nearby.

The very next day I open Youtube and one of the suggested videos is an explanation of the Chad and Romanian flags. I had not searched for anything relevant, and upon asking the children and wife (only people present) if they had mentioned the conversation to anybody or looked for something online, they say that they hadn't. And I believe them, I'm always presenting to them small bits of information about the world even though I know that 99% of it gets forgotten immediately.

That was a few months ago.

Lately I have been unable to fall asleep. I refuse to use the phone or any electronic devices after 12 (and wear Gunnars after the sun goes down) but in any case I lie in bed sometimes until the sun rises. I mentioned this to one of my kids (5 years old) a few days ago, I don't know whose phones were where. But the very next day I get an advertisement for "Medicines for those sleepless nights". Now maybe, just maybe, one of the older children or the wife used a phone late at night that specific night. But it seems far too far fetched to imagine that this happened exactly the day after I mentioned that I sometimes don't sleep.

I am 100% convinced that our phones are listening for keywords and assigning us to categories based on that.
I completely agree. Hopefully them doing this sparks the same initiative for other companies. Perhaps with some competition for talent the terms would be better.
The current wisdom is to have specific tools/constructions for specific purposes, so as to eliminate/reduce footguns and to incorporate modern cryptography.

Edit: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
you can read a lot failure stories from this site

https://www.failory.com/interviews?type-of-interview=Failed%...
Buy a reMarkable 1 tablet (~$230) and put a VNC client on it, or run an alternative OS like Parabola-rM (http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/). They have high-quality (flexible backplane) panels that are now sold cheaply.
> [from a commenter on the OP, in reply to the Protonmail response] If an Incognito Mode Web Browser with a graphical user that actively moves his mouse, types in the password in non-automated manner, key by key - not copy/pasted and not auto-inserted within a millisecond - seems suspicious by your system - then I have to say your ways of identifying or classifying suspicious behaviour is very flawed. There are way better, already solved ways, to do this.

If you know this, then I guarantee that the people making spam bots know this too. this is a very naïve argument
It's not listed on aliexpress anymore, it's out of stock on their own site and on banggood where it was listed as in stock my order just sat as processing for 2 months and then they cancelled it with the reason "Some of the items in your order are out of stock". When they cancelled my order the product was still listed as "in stock" on their site.

I think it's not possible to buy it anymore.
In principle, yes, for sure, we could detect it. For example, it would still generate gravity and be uniquely identifiable this way. But then, superluminal matter breaks causality, allows sending signals back in time and, to the best of our knowledge, is unphysical.
That was my gut feeling about the ACM article that the author here refers to. The vague exposé in ACM is made by someone in the comfortable position of "Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science at Brown University" about people who aren't anywhere near that. It is like saying: please stop treading water so desperately, you are splashing those of us in the lifeboats.
In big tech’s dystopia, cat videos earn millions while real artists beg for tips
> It's already difficult to do if your subfield is a different niche.

It's not that difficult, at least in science and science-adjacent fields. The scientific method still follows the same principles.

If you are used to reading papers, you can tell when someone has elided important detail, or not included the evidence for their claims - or, if someone [or a whole subfield] is using technical language to obfuscate their work.
Iterator Design Pattern
I have bought various electronics and camera accessories from B&H with no issues (related to B&H).

However, I buy all my new camera bodies and lenses direct from the manufacturer. I have found the price to be identical (or nearly so) to B&H, shipping to often be free and from time to time, without a local tax. If Nikon, Sigma, etc are selling as 'new' what are returns/refurbs then there is no hope in the system at all.

edit: grammar
multiplication is an algorithm.
Indeed, a superluminal object will appear to have an infinite velocity for some physical observers.
Mgechev/revive: faster,stricter,configurable,extensible,replacement for golint
Why is there an image of a satellite dish, when the device provides WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity?
Reminds me of the harmonic progression in “Virtual Insanity” by Jamiroquai.
A relative got immediately targeted by FB ads for a product we had just talked about on speakerphone.
Cockroachdb
Even if all the embryos would develop 100% it shouldn't matter since according to you they are alive right now anyway.

Also it wouldn't change the answer for reasonable people anyway. No one would leave the baby to burn alive vs microscopic balls of cells.
As a young engineer working in aerospace I found it both surprising and remarkable that the satellites we worked with were all designed to operate at and around room temperature [1].

I could understand that you want to avoid temperature changes as much as possible to avoid stress on the components. But why settle on an arbitrary temperature that is comfortable for humans? Of course I learnt quickly that a room temperature design makes a lot of things much easier;-)

[1] An interesting tidbit is that in certain fields room temperature is used as a technical term to really mean a well defined temperature, and that there is a difference between North American (25 °C) and the European (20 °C) convention.
>> Blackmail your reviewers, bribe your ACs! Fudge your results – or fabricate them entirely!

How does one blackmail one's reviewers? Asking for a friend.
The reality is that if a company is willing and able to pay local wages, they’re going to hire local workers.

Remote opportunities work because the wages are lower than local hires for the company, but higher than local opportunities for the employee. Negotiation happens in the middle ground between these two bounds.

If the OP receives an acceptable wage that is higher than what they could make locally (they suggested this was the case in their text) then it’s a stretch to say that this company is going to treat them poorly. It’s just not realistic to expect companies to outsource work to distant remote hires only to pay them the same amount that an easy local hire would ask.
Same. I return stuff frequently and they stopped the barcode-in-the-box practice a couple of years (at least) ago.

In the USA FWIW. And no super expensive stuff.
The Card Player's Guide to Lockdown (2020)
I would be fine ordering from a local store and waiting but not if they are going to charge me full price as if they had to keep stock on the shelves.
Why Stephen Fry is arguing against political correctness (2018)
Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP
The level of academic unhappiness with publishing and its surrounds is actually surprising to me.

First, I never hear the counterargument.. that current publishing is OK. Does it exist, or is everyone unhappy while nothing changes?

Second, I'm surprised at how much of a single institution academia seems to be. "Publish or Perish," for example, has to be supported by tenure committees, grant makers and such. Are they all the same?

Michael Stonebraker^ suggests that tenure committees accept a limited number of papers on a resume. This is to encourage lower volume, higher quality publication. What stops some tenure committees from implementing such changes.

I just don't understand what's locking everything into place.

^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA&t=853s
Yes, absolutely. The Deng era was characterized by a like of Gorbachev like opening, far fewer things were censored. After the whole Falun Gong purge, which it seems was partially used as an excuse for the hardliners to purge the moderates, a series of increasingly fascist leaders have taken power, culminating with Xi (now "president for life").

Under Xi, they have stoked nationalism a lot more, the same as Trump did here, at the same time as they have built a surveillance state like no other. Yes, the US isn't innocent here, but let's not draw false equivalences between what the NSA was doing, and installing cameras every 10 feet with deep neural nets to track everyone movement from the time they leave their home to the time they return, and even tag ethnic features (label video detected features as "uighur")

There's been a rise of nationalism around the globe, with fascists being elected everywhere. And that's why the West should resist China, not because China's rise is bad, but because China's rise with Xi at the helm is bad.

I wouldn't have said resist Germany prior to Hitler either, as there was nothing wrong with their economy improving after the horrors of WW1. It's all the other shit they were doing under the Nazis that called for a boycott.

Ditto for Japan and the US oil embargo. Japanese economic growth? Not a bad thing. Japanese economic growth used to invade, pillage, and rape China? A good reason for resistance.

This is something hard to get through to a lot of people, but criticism of the CCP is not criticism of the Chinese people, China, or Chinese culture. But the CCP has thoroughly convinced people that to oppose them, is to "insult China" and provoke a nationalist response.

The resistance we need is to fascism, of all forms.
>I am 100% convinced that our phones are listening for keywords and assigning us to categories based on that.

I'm unconvinced. If this is happening to everyone, surely it's possible to conduct a randomized controlled trial? Despite that, we only have years of anecdotes but zero such trials. Moreover, this directly goes against the security models of both android and ios, which both require microphone permissions for apps to listen in on stuff. ios goes one step further and puts a recording indicator when the microphone is in use, so it's hard to imagine how these apps are are even listening in the first place.
The Superglue Diet: How to Make a Lighter, Fuel-Sipping Car (2016)
The black box approach is untenable.
Clive James wrote quite a funny article about this guy: https://archive.clivejames.com/books/vidocq.htm
They are following the Gaussian approach. Show only the final result!
Cool browser!
I think there's one of these in the local bookoff..
There's many things that seen to have been economically viable a hundred years ago, which would seem crazy today. For example, houses with 4m high roofs, thick, stable walls and stucco.

Or maybe it was economically just as little viable as it is today, but people just didn't think that much about economical viability back in the old days?
Anecdata and not medical advice, but I used to think up a lot of things like this before I started taking SSRIs.
I think you're not off the mark a lot.

I do think there's a lot of assumed knowledge gathered from your actions... my computers don't have microphones and I keep my phone in a box when I sleep (because I am that paranoid), but I started getting those when I switched from a day job to a night job.... being online on your off hours may class you as "having trouble sleeping"
Hmm, I see. Did you have problems to adjust to other normal screens too, or it was just with that Pixel Qi one?
Ahimsa is the central idea of Buddhism. The idea is to avoid harm to others and to avoid harm to yourself. I would begin by introducing a healthy respect for living beings because currently, you're trapped in a self-harming cycle of pain, angst, and thoughts of death.
I don't know any of the context here, but it seems to me that what the quote actually says is that the author admits that he is unable to function effectively with female colleagues, that there are other men like him, and that it's a problem that mustn't be allowed to hold women back from doing science.
YugobyteDB ?