skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up losing access to my ancient account (it was using the OpenID providers that they don't even support anymore and the provider I used isn't around). I had gone fairly inactive, but recently wanted to contribute some content.

This was on the DIY stackoverflow, there's a fairly common problem on my stove, but an easy, low/no cost fix, it's just very involved. The DIY SO had a good discussion of the problem. To contribute back, I spent ~3 days making an instructional video on the replacement. Posted it to Youtube. Then went over to the SO to post it there as well, and realized it'd take like a month of dicking around to get a new account up to the point that I could post a response in the thread.

I reached out to site support about getting back into my old account, but have never heard back. <shrug>
California Bill to Decriminalize Psychedelics Is Approved by Senate
From the article GP provided:

"About 10% of Amazonians receive a PIP.

This is fairly high; at other companies, 0.5 to 3 percent of employees receive a PIP."

Seems to be 3 - 20x the average. That's high.
Luck, usually.
Mostly it’s random chance. The reality of investing is that it’s mostly down to chance. Take an equally skilled set of investors and give them the same market access and some will do exceptionally well.
This will be handy for a multitude of string libs, for example string diffing (fast myers diff, ...)
"Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Art of War 3:2
> We can certainly get a lot of work done within CSS's limits.

You can also hit the ugly points very quickly.

E.g., suppose I want to draw diagrams of text connected by Bezier curves. Looks like SVG is the obvious choice for me. But suppose I add editable text to the mix-- well, HTML5 certainly has plenty of options for me there. And the Javascript to glue a solution together however I want.

Yet, none of those options come with any CSS that allows me to align the baseline of the text in my choice of HTML element with an SVG text element of my diagram. I have to scour Stackoverflow for some holy-shit hack of nested div bullshit just to tell the browser to position HTML stuff the way it does for an SVG text element.

These rought seams joining SVG, HTML, and CSS remain very frustrating until you start reading the specs and list archives to figure out that they were very different tech developed by very different teams with very different initial purposes and use cases in mind
yeah that particular passage is cringe and colors the whole article as condescending, when in reality there are a lot of good points made.
Did this too. Now my whole feed is mushroom foraging groups and I sort of like Facebook again.
I don't understand what you mean extra point of failure. There is a boot process, you can't get rid of it because then you can't boot the machine. So you either secure it or you don't. I get the concern that the hardware implementation could contain bugs, and that's a real concern, but your system is not going to be less secure by having this -- at worst, it seems it can only be as insecure as it would be without it.

>However, the TPM is insufficient to protect against such attacks. As such, secure boot fails to provide the one thing it claims to provide.

I don't think anyone is saying TPM or secure boot alone is going to prevent against such attacks. It needs to be combined with some other physical protection measures, e.g. a tamper-proof case of some kind.
The original article is brilliant but your correction is much more valuable. Thank you.
Every time I've looked at philosophy in my life, I kept searching for this promise - where intellectual giants grapple the truth and discover their secrets.

What I've found, from famous books by famous philosophers all the way to pop philosophy books to vague philosophical discussions... is some of the muddiest and most convoluted self-indulgent thinking i've ever seen.

I am thus convinced that philosophers ENJOY the mud, not the clarity. If clarity comes, it seems more likely than not that it is an accident, and other philosophers come quickly to obfuscate it. "yes, we see the same color, but do we REALLY see the same color?", as if an infinite regress of definitions somehow makes their thought process more valuable. And, from what I can tell about famous philosophies, perhaps to other philosophers they do.
"Who has actually seen a success story with this sort of thing?"

Citizen development stuff is usually more successful than an IT department knows. They think it's failing because every time they hear about it, it's because of some mess. The thing is, they don't hear about all the stuff that works fine. There's typically a ton of MS Access, Quickbase, Excel, Google Sheets, Salesforce, etc, "apps" written and run by non-tech folks that the IT department never knows about.
Using SQL to get reports and analyse existing data, or to actually create schemas, change data, maintain transactions over related changes and so on?
No, relativity absolutely does factor. The timing signal from the GPS satellites is warped by relativity as you move relative to them.

Without a source of location truth, you have no way of knowing if the change in the time signal is because of your movement relative to the GPS satellites, or because of spoofing.

As I said, the false GPS signal will start with a time offset of zero. They will then progressively offset the time signal of each satellite as if, for example, the GPS receiver was deviating slightly right, after which the drone will turn left.
The domain was experts-exchange.com from the very beginning. Archive.org even has the 1997 version of the site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970421013342/https://www.exper...
> will cost companies millions in Vendor Lockin, rewrites, and all of the other problems that come with non-developers "developing"

What many folks miss here is that companies still willingly proceed despite these drawbacks because of the value that the end result provides.

These tradeoffs are often less apparent when coming from a software development background or working for a company that builds software. But if you're in a different type of org - say financial services - these solutions are often the difference between launching a new product/capability, or putting structure around a paper process...or accomplishing absolutely nothing because development is currently tied up for the next two years.

Not all companies have IT/Dev orgs that are capable of meeting the demands of the business. Some orgs are transforming their businesses (the "digital transformation" buzzword), and don't have a dev team at all. At best, they have some centralized IT department that is capable of rolling out point solutions.

You might be right that these solutions are inherently inferior from a technical perspective, but if you look at this from a business outcome perspective, those tradeoffs are often worthwhile.
> If anything else, Microsoft has left Github untouched so far.

Actually, I think it has gotten better. I don't like the consolidation of independents like GitHub to big corporations like Microsoft, but I can't deny that thus far, it actually worked out pretty well.

Stack Overflow is a difficult company/website to manage though; it's not "just a website with a SaaS product" and really requires a good understanding of the social dynamics and such to run well, much more than e.g. GitHub.
Coming up in the time when MSFT was the "big evil" it's almost depressing to see myself now as an actual fan-boy.
I wish Microsoft would just let you a buy a copy of Windows 10 Enterprise, I used to get it through MSDN (through my job), not anymore though :(
A tweet from Senator Scott Wiener confirming the bill was passed: https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1399867521612881921
Ugh I guess monetization incoming so I better learn how to code fast.
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370026
We nixify all in-house development packages at work, it isn’t that bad once you get the hang of it, and comes with an awesome amount of ‘just works’ when integrating packages on custom devices down the road.
Um, is anyone else thinking how impossible this would be with current tech?

50 miles during one stretch. And on the helicopter that followed it, it logged 1.5 hours of flight time! The radio control tech must have been extremely tuned for that range. Maybe a vehicle was driving below it.

I am picturing at least 5KWh battery that should weigh at least 75 pounds (total guestimation)
Hacking Meat-Space
Also related to this weird delay after thinking about something. You often get new ideas 15min after you stopped trying. You need to stop to explore mentally somehow.
How is 4000 civil servants / 10% of the entire workforce earning more than the PM not many of them? What threshold of the workforce would need such compensation to be considered many, in your view?
In my view, they have to be widely communicated, for two reasons.

1. In a company with middle management, i.e., managers working for managers, you have to reveal the metric / target to them. Or at least, some manager will spill the beans and then it's not a secret any more.

2. Companies imitate one another, directly, or through managers who share a common background. Therefore, it's not hard to guess the metrics of one business by reading about similar businesses.

Thanks to these two channels, it's actually possible that the rank and file workers understand the business better than their managers do, because the workers have a broad range of information at their disposal if they read the business pages or even HN, whereas managers are obligated to embrace the official line. When a new metric is installed, chances are that the workers already understand it, and how to manipulate it.
You need to realize that there exists the possibility of being both good and bad.

Pushing this narrative without considering the obvious facts is a simple minded view.

Cheaper products are good for the working class because it means they can afford more products. Automation leads to cheaper products. Common sense.

That is the good side of automation for the working class.

So the answer is far more complicated then the simpleton answer you came up with here. The more you automate things the cheaper things get but the less jobs are available.

The gradient is somewhere in the middle you can't completely have no automation otherwise every product will be custom made and expensive as hell.

You can't have 100 percent automation either otherwise there's no one around to have jobs and make money to buy the product.

So economically speaking automation is both good and bad for the working class and only a cost benefite analysis can find the right amount automation that is best.

There free education for you. A lesson in basic math (see my other replies to your misguided views on quaternions) and economics in one day. I'm not so bold Like you as to run around offering paid consulting work for these trivial lessons.
Bottom line is that you can be very selective in hiring and then very slow to fire, or you can be very accepting in hiring and very fast to fire. Amazon has a reputation of being a company that is relatively easy to get into and thus it will always be a company that is quick to let people go.

Now that doesn't mean you need official targets of firing X% each year, you can implement "fast to fire" badly, but even the best possible implementation of "fast to fire" is going to be more unpleasant for employees than those in a slow-to-hire, slow-to-fire company.
Thank you for linking to the response video. I was wondering what was up with the Ars Technica review. This response has cleared some things up.
lots of combat veterans are seeing good outcomes with this type of treatment...
The Art of Dying (2019)
> I observe many people, interestingly the majority of it are girls, that seem to never stop messaging with their boyfriend, their friends, their mother,…

It was just the same old "I wish I was deep" stoic drivel till here and it's clear this was probably written by a 17 year old.
We started leveraging SQL very heavily in our application so that business people can customize app behavior without bothering developers. We are getting close to 100% config-only coverage using SQL.

We tried rolling our own scripting language and other ideas, but we decided that we weren't ever going to catch up with the level of testing & validation that SQLite has achieved with any amount of in-house resources.

Once we embraced SQLite, we found an entire universe of capability. Here is one of the comments I made just yesterday about this kind of thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362708
It's not as good as cash because the value can vary, especially the further out you look. It might go up, but it might go down. Cash is far more stable than that.

But it still should be modeled far above zero, and far closer to cash than pre-ipo options.
Expo Managed Workflow in 2021
The biggest problem for SO in terms of monetization is how freely available their data is.

For example, if you simply want an answer, Google itself will extract the top 1-3 answers and present them to you without ever opening SO.

Further, SO has explicitly avoided the most intrusive advertising, further limiting their monetization potential.

The one area where I think SO could have done a lot better was building a better social network out of their website.
Magic Leap Announces Partnership with AMD to Advance Computer Vision
Again I don't think you understand what I meant. The spoofed signal will start with an offset of exactly 0.

This offset will progressively increase in a way that is undistinguishable from an offset caused by receiver moving slightly left, for example.

That being said, the main source of error in GPS signals isn't the time-keeping of the receiver, but rather atmospheric interference and rounding errors in computations.
Stack ranking is basically the "up or out"[0] with the added idiocy that there's not enough space "up".

That said, most of the problems stem from tying up project and team fit with employment and career. (Again a similar phenomenon in the military: commanders during WW2 were given a short time to achieve results. If they failed the command was transferred to someone else. It was not a stigma like today. [1])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OehvY94N-WA
I used to be a snob and say that I hated country music or whatever, but now I try and appreciate all the music I hear. There are definitely songs I don't like, and there are genres that tend to have a lower "hit" rate for me (country being one of them), but every genre has bands and songs that are worth listening to. If someone recorded it, they probably put some soul into it... why not give it a listen?
Yes, I want to remove quora from my results. I vaguely remember you could block websites forever in google a long time ago, but I may be misremembering it.
Your last comment shed more light on the narrative you're attempting to establish.

Here's the "foreign" part of the discussion from our "sub-thread" to make things clearer:

Me: These are attacks by foreign actors on a variety of our companies, government agencies, infrastructure, etc.

You: We have plenty of our own hackers and ransomware, i am not seeing how foreign-angle adds anything to the debate

Me: The overwhelming majority of the recent, most notable attacks have been traced near-exclusively to foreign actors, including the one that is the subject of the actual thread here...It has everything to do with the debate. Specifically, with how we respond/deter.

You: Most criminals are "foreign" because most of Earth's population is foreign.

Some hardcore goalpost-moving there. You went from "it's domestic and doesn't matter" to "it's foreign, but only due to a statistical artifact". You're talking in circles in your effort to absolve the attackers. And, it's made clear here that you're not just trying to lay the blame on U.S. companies; you're actively working to absolve/divert focus from the foreign adversaries who are attacking us.

Maybe you can explain why you find it so important that we blame only U.S. entities, whether they be companies or criminals. It's that criminal bit that gives up the game. This isn't just about a crusade against negligent companies. Your narrative seeks to lay blame with U.S. actors and absolve foreign actors.

But, FWIW, a disproportionate number of these attacks come from one country with a population less than half the size of the U.S. It's a country that has been engaged in asymmetric warfare with us. So, you're wrong there too: the foreign nature of the attacks is not a statistical artifact.

>Because we made it vast. It could have been small.

No. It's vast because it's vast. Complexity + interconnectedness.

Fallible humans are responsible for this and it's a problem that's grown over time. Probably every person who's written any significant amount of production code can be said to have contributed to the problem.

And, of course, there's no degree of effort that can defend with 100% efficacy, which is why we also need a deterrent approach.

>why are you so vehemently looking to absolve [companies] of all responsebility?

I've specifically stated that companies need to do better. You, on the other hand, have not assigned an iota of culpability to the actual criminals who attack us. Instead, you've worked against all-logic to absolve them (or, failing that, to place the criminals in the U.S.). It's a simple thing to say "criminals are doing bad things and should be held accountable". Odd that you refuse to say it. Odder still that, to the extent that you even acknowledge criminals exist in this problem-scope, you find it necessary to relocate them to the U.S.
There doesn't appear to be any details on the success of their implementation or how they implemented it. This paper effectively says "here are the challenges, we solved them".
ADL Says Facebook Won’t Crack Down on Anti-Semitic Hate
Beat me to it...

I just finished Longitude and it was a great read! Harrison is an interesting character since he really spent his whole life working on the same problem of keeping time at sea. A whole lot of perseverance.
Assuming it is done that way throughout the company are you really sure the hiring manager has extremely little to none net influence on getting someone new hired? Seems odd to have a "hiring" manager at that point then...

If on the other hand they have a meaningful influence then does it really matter if it's someone else that gives the "official" okay instead of straight out of their mouth?
I miss the AOL Chatrooms (running on the same protocol), it was a lot of fun. There was a popular game called "scrambler" running on some channels where people had to guess the quickest they could the word/sentence that was "scrambled".

IIRC, you could talk with people on AOL with AIM but some AOL public chatrooms were not available from AIM.

I remember the private chatrooms on AIM where you could download mp3s or other things, so many memories. I started coding with AOL/AIM and VB6.
This needs to be upvoted a bit more. The article is clickbait, and most comments in this thread reflect how effective it is at it.

The hiring process for corp employees makes the practice the article is claiming very, very, very hard to do.

There's bar raiser, there are 2-3 additional interviewers, and the hiring manager. The initial voting process is blind. The HM would need to be very very good at convincing the BR+others in order to hire a candidate that they don't want (this is assuming no one wants the candidate).

Plus, there are a bunch of other incentives countering you to hire someone that you don't want - it costs money, it eats up your allocated headcount, and it's going to take a while for you to onboard the new hire, which is going to eat up your team's bandwidth.
Avoiding the Pitfalls of BRIN Indexes in Postgres (2020)
Silly question and I know I can google it but how hard was it to change the sqllite table? (identifying the records, etc..)
> Firing people is really, truly hard. Traumatizing even.

For the people getting fired it certainly is, I used to think this was true of people doing the firing but my recent experiences have changed my view on this dramatically.

I've had the misfortune of working at two places in a row that almost delighted in firing people. My experience at both places was that the firing had far less to do with skill or capability in the role, but moreso using the Amazon/Netflix model (by people who have never worked at either of these places) to justify removing anyone who is in any way critical of the organization.

Earlier in my career the only people that got fired where ones that clearly did not contribute and where a source consistent pain for the rest of the team. Reasonable questioning of team direction and goals, and organization objectives was practically expected of good engineers.

In the past few years I've seen repeated cases where valued members of the team that were respected for both their technical skills and personalities were removed because they questioned some of the decisions of management. One organization made particularly sure to smear any of these previous employees, and used them as examples to threaten anyone stepping out of line.

I've been in situations where a team member is weighing down the rest of the group, and as frustrating as that can be, I much prefer it to the completely inhuman culture of firing I've seen becoming the norm at more and more tech companies.
How This Japanese Guy Got Funded by Jason Calacanis After 5 Yrs of Bootstrapping
> Contribution rate must be an extremely uneven distribution.

Probably another case of the 1% rule[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
Historical precedence says otherwise. And, in the case you've described, they wouldn't be global hegemon, anyway.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...

"As of May 1, 2021, CDC transitioned from monitoring all reported vaccine breakthrough cases to focus on identifying and investigating only hospitalized or fatal cases due to any cause. This shift will help maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance."

CTR values: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/downloads/Information-...
This is a pretty demonstrably false statement. I think what you mean to say is that dopamine fasting may have no concrete benefits? But certainly manipulating/controlling your own dopamine levels does do something, unless you're contending that dopamine itself does nothing, which you're not. Dopamine fasting does let your receptors upregulate and resensitize. Take Adderall every day for a month and see how you feel -- you'll realize your receptors have been pretty downregulated and you need a break.
That's rather callous
How would that work? A site to collect common code snippets?
No, arrays are just objects with a magic "length" property (technically: a special [[DefineOwnProperty]] internal method which sometimes also mutates "length"). Like objects, they only support strings as keys.

c.f. https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-array-exotic-objects
He did make references to API documentation on how to transfer a window from one device to another. It's too bad he didn't demonstrate it. I would love to see a follow up demonstration.

EDIT: apparently there is a demonstration video here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27368995
Just take the extra 20 seconds and read through all the positive answers and commentary. Its not like you need to only look at the top ranked answer.
Can you post evidence of American citizens being repatriated (children born here)? I thought birthright citizenship made this much more challenging, spawning problems such as "anchor babies"...