skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and lose ten times more data when they fail? I found it a bit ironic that the stock photo of a HDD appears to be a Seagate 7200.12, which was one of the more infamous ones with dismal reliability.

(Most people reading the article probably wouldn't notice, but as someone who had to deal with a ton of bad ones, the tiny actuator magnet and only 3 screws securing the platters are a distinctive feature.)
Saying some problems are the result of learned associations and behaviours doesn't mean that all problems are.
Can you create a multi-page website from a single file in pandoc or markdown?
Modeling cities as 'cellular' is a common mistake, well explored in A City is not a Tree by Christopher Alexander.

http://en.bp.ntu.edu.tw/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/06-Alexan...

tl;dr we tend to talk about cities in heirarchical, enclosed terms, as having "limits", "neighborhoods", "blocks", "plots", and so on. This can be modeled as a tree, in the maths and computer science sense.

But it's more accurate to model these systems as semilattices. Thus a city isn't multicellular (the cells being the enclosed units of the tree model) nor super-cells (which sort of punts on the internal structure, while still enclosing the city in a sort of membrane which even a walled city doesn't resemble), but a thing distinctly itself.
Could you share a link to your thesis?
We Moved Away from Stripe
By having Windows 11 Microsoft can have a clear cut with UWP, have Project Reunion bring in the features that should have been done on top of COM and .NET for Windows 8, and try to forget WinRT ever happened.

With Windows 10 linage that kind of breaking change can't be done in a clean way.
Adding another solution to the issue of mining lithium for batteries at scale is awesome, I hope they find a way to deal with the brine that this produces (Edit: it does not really produce brine in the classical sense according to the paper [0]).

Maybe this process could be a way to deal with brine from seawater desalination [1] by at least removing lithium ions from the waste water. Since the ion concentration in the waste water is higher than in seawater, it should theoretically make the lithium separation process easier, shouldn't it?

Another thing: combining this with cheap solar power and seawater lithium mining might be a part of a possible solution for a post-oil industry in the Gulf States? They did the tests on Red Sea seawater which has a higher salinity than most other seawater but apparantly the eastern Mediterranean matches or even surpasses that [2].

[0] "It is also noted that the total concentration of other salts after the first stage is less than 500 ppm, which implies that after lithium harvest, the remaining water can be treated as freshwater. Hence, the process also has a potential to integrate with seawater desalination to further enhance its economic viability", from page 5, (PDF) https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/ee/d1ee00354...

[1] I am not linking to a particular article but this is what I am talking about: https://www.google.de/search?q=toxic+brine+seawater+drinking...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinity#/media/File:WOA09_sea...
A few years ago I suffered a burnout that eventually got me fired.

What I think you need is a meaningful, collaborative effort.

It doesn't necessarily have to be anything "useful". You just need a community with a common goal.

Volunteering seems to work great here, but I've seen people pick up co-op games, team crocheting or collaborative art.

It appears that the real recovery is the friendships you made along the way.
I Spent a Week Calling People Out on Their B.S
The linked article doesn't address the effects of deflationary currency at all, it describes the notion of including capital in the description of economies.
I had the same, seems to be a result of having HTTPS-Only Mode enabled. Looks like usu.edu is available over HTTPS but not this page.
When the Firefox enhanced privacy protection is on, it redirects to the not found page. Weird. Some cookie confusion or redirection issue I guess.
Forgot to say: thanks! Staying on-topic in a post-mortem is hard, there are so many things involved…
For now, make yourself the side project. Dedicate the same amount of research and hours to improving your body or mind and use the time to more fully disconnect from the web. Nurture boredom and silence. Experience the world with your own senses. Get out of the house, there is no life without movement. The ideas will return once you have prepared a worthy home for them.
The point is(just gave a couple of examples for issues in the past related to web based PM's) that extensions have tremendous attack surface and lots of complicated little things you have get perfectly right.

kbuck made it seem like there's just a single issue here that can be avoided. that's not true.
Except they already do. Also, AMD announced SmartShift ("shifts power inside your laptop for the optimal performance for a given task") support for Linux a couple of days ago. They're more than usable nowadays.

Probably a popular opinion here, but any display with a higher res than 1440p (1600p if it's a 16:10 display) is a waste on a laptop. I'd rather have a 1080p one over a 4K one, personally.
Your examples are about spending oversized amounts of resources to send messages to would-be imitators. How are you going to dissuade new hackers popping up when they have total freedom in where to base their operations and hiding their tracks is so easy (compared to managing militias)?

Seems to me in that case, defense is easier than offense. There's now huge financial incentives for extending strict security to more areas than just military/transportation/communication infrastructure systems.
Or you could get a single DC P4600 and have the same capacity at five times the endurance rating, despite 'inferior technology'.
New York's boroughs are another fine example.

Arguably the Bay Area is something similar, and I would further argue would be much better off if it were closer in governance and self-concept to Tokyo or New York than it is in fact.
I guess that I won’t be using Booking.com in the future.
Oh I agree completely about income inequality, it's a serious problem. I don't think taxation is the solution though, at least not straightforwardly. The problem isn't so much not enough taxing people, it's taxing the wrong things and giving ta breaks to encourage rent seeking behaviour. So we should seriously look at land value taxes for example, but that doesn't necessarily mean increasing overall taxation. The tick is getting the balance right so you're not distorting your economy.
You know, before anybody starts working on something, they need to at least have a hint it may work and not be easily compromised - e.g. what's preventing hacker from just copying the expected data from facial recognition system and pasting it themselves since it's public?

You say "just fix it to detect whether it's legit data" - how? Deep fakes are getting better by the day, we already have problems with recognizing them ourselves.
> But it's more accurate to model these systems as semilattices.

That's the first time I've seen order theory used to describe hierarchical structures like a city. Continuing the analogy, what would the join of a nonempty finite subset of parts of a city be? Say the set was an apartment block, road and grocery store, would the join of all these concepts be the "local neighborhood" that makes up part of a town?
They already do that, not exactly on each reboot but trust me they really test the hardware.

The problem is that nobody knows how to write tests that catch all errors.
It will be interesting to see how Pfizer fares against other mRNA vaccines like Moderna, and against the vaccines based on adenoviruses and inactivated viruses.
It's weird to me to see Fortran and Mathematica grouped together. :) The reality in Python, Mathematica, etc... is that you don't write your libraries in them. You delegate the ahrd work to libraries written in Fortran/C/Rust... so as soon as your research touches on new algorithms (or even just new combinations of algorithms) you are not doing pure Python anymore but will be touching systems languages.

Julia is less interactive than Python (mostly due to the just ahead of time compilation model), but can match the speed of Fortran/C/Rust etc... so in this domain it has a strong overlap with what you use the systems languages for.

Before I transitioned my group to Julia I was looking very heavily into going to Python/Rust (and Python/Numba which I spent the most time prototyping and investigating). And I can imagine that for some groups a Python/Rust hybrid would be a better fit than Julia.

For doing some data wrangling I still prefer Python for it's smooth interactivity. But, for example, Julia now has by far the most complete, flexible and all around amazing differential equations solver library in existence. This library also wraps the Fortran stalwarts like Sundials, but it's implemented entirely in Julia. There is no C/C++/etc... backend doing the heavy lifting in the background (well if you don't count LLVM at least), and the pure Julia solvers are now beating the Fortran/C++/etc... solvers pretty much across the field.
Windows 7 shared Vista's internal version number: 6.1. Not really surprising, since its quick release was little more than an attempt at cleaning up Vista's bad reputation. In other times, it could have been released as a service pack.
I'd suggest mindfulness before you do anything else. In fact I'd suggest a formal, longer term, structured bit of mindfulness specifically - look up "MBSR" which is an 8 week stress reduction approach. I'd recommend it for pretty much anyone but it would definitely suit a sort of "off ramping" moment like this.
It's been said of graphene that it is excellent for everything except industrial application.

I've been making this joke for ten years now, it's truly the gift that keeps on giving. I doubt I have a single graphene-enhanced product in my home.

Maybe one of these days...
Backups with restic and systemd and prometheus export
yes but the majority of wealthy people would be satisfied with few million of real estate for personal use. RE investing would drastically change if incentives change
Reverse a Linked List C++
Negative, unconstructive criticism is highly underrated.

Sometimes that’s all you need, and it’s a waste of time to try to embellish it, if the reporter is even qualified to do so.

I’ve never felt such relief as when a salesman pulled me aside to tell me the product sucked and for me to explain what the hell I was doing. Now I finally had an ally against all the yes men who were blocking real improvements.
I can only suggest you grow vegetables or do something tangible as your side project. Something involving your hands with real results. Do that for awhile. It will soon cause you to find something if that's a thing you want to pursue.

Side note: People in tech have weird expectations put on them, as if the day job isn’t enough, you have to constantly prove your cred doing a million side-projects. All apparently open source so any random can grab your work or alternatively so you can be seen to "give back". My dentist, doctor, plumber, carpenter friends etc don't have this issue.
That was my understanding. If removing the license is a breach of terms, therefore the GPL now fails to apply, then it falls back to default copyright laws. And no one would argue copying MS Windows 'internally' is fine.
You could also accomplish this via uBlock Origin with increased granularity and it has SNI capability. UO in hard mode can for instance block 3rd party and/or 1st party JavaScript, and whitelist permissible scripts.
I stayed clear so far of burnout. Nothing but opinion.

Is it maybe about accepting a permanent shift in your mindset? The body made it very clear to you that your priorities did a lot of harm. I can't find how peak productivity is humane and wouldn't strive for it (again). If this involves a change of everything than this is it.

Edit: Peak productivity is different from peak performance. Take care what you really strive for.
Nope. May be Facebook ban can have some impact.
30 years on, still learning
I have explored those options, but:

1) It's more expensive for more complexity and shrinking disk space as the hidden flaw.

2) The heat will kill those drives looong before my 100 year expected lifetime for my setup.

Also with 8x 64GB drives per motherboard manually mounted I can fix things over time.
I sent an email to a corporate Steam email address, asking whether I’d be allowed to post a screenshot from half-life in a computer graphics shading thesis. Ended up with a response from Gabe Newell, CEO, shortly after, and another engineer who invented skeletal animation, all excited to talk about it with some random kid
Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter, "Understanding the burnout experience: recent research and its implications for psychiatry", World Psychiatry. 2016 Jun; 15(2): 103–111.
Published online 2016 Jun 5. doi: 10.1002/wps.20311

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4911781/?report...

This is a good overview of the topic, including definition (see below), charactristics, causes, and aspects.

Burnout is a psychological syndrome emerging as a prolonged response to chronic interpersonal stressors on the job. The three key dimensions of this response are an overwhelming exhaustion, feelings of cynicism and detachment from the job, and a sense of ineffectiveness and lack of accomplishment.

I'd recommend the treatment section as well, beginning:

The personal and organizational costs of burnout have led to proposals for various intervention strategies. Some try to treat burnout after it has occurred, while others focus on how to prevent burnout by promoting engagement. Intervention may occur on the level of the individual, workgroup, or an entire organization. In general, the primary emphasis has been on individual strategies, rather than social or organizational ones, despite the research evidence for the primary role of situational factors.
Advance Photoshop Artists on Next Level
Same benefits that any tool with a higher level of abstraction might have over its lower-level ancestors - less verbosity, and faster / easier ways to achieve certain things (in this case, creating simple text-based websites) while keeping the complexity under the bonnet (you'd have to re-implement the multi-page logic using the CSS :target selector when using regular html if you want the same functionality as my tool).
Next best thing, animated DNA : https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY
Some websites to learn networking:
http://www.edx.org/
http://www.coursera.org/
http://www.searchnetworking.com/
Oh, please do not downvote them. The comment might be stating something obvious for you but it actually helped me notice that the problem was on my side.
> a survey just isn't the way to do it, no matter what questions you ask

That's fair but even still, Graeber's question should at least be probing whether people might think their jobs are useful; this new question only probes whether people think their contribution is useful individually.
True, though having it synced on the cloud makes it possible (but with more effort) to decrypt the file. Maybe using termux in android. But yeah, that's the downside.
> That's not quite accurate, but even if it were, there are easy ways to improve that bit of software if people start abusing it.

How easy it would be for bad actors brigading with freshly created accounts, or not-so-freshly created accounts with a history of brigading, to abuse this feature to censor stories?
I have a prediction. This will not be good for the people of El Salvador.
Yeah for this you would need to sign up using a one-use mailbox, pay by mailing in a cashier's check, atop hiding your traffic. Possible with the NY Times, at least.
That seems to be the key question here, so hopefully someone with more insight can answer that.

The Delta name for the Indian variant is from the new Greek letter naming scheme.

Four out of 24 letters are in use so far:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-57308592

UPDATE:
A total of 10 letters are now in use according to WHO

https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...
For sure, it's been a while but IIRC the CFAA (and UK's CMA) refer to use of certain legal classes of computer "without authorization" or "exceeding authorization". Legal authorisation is an active state rather than something that happens passively.
In my case, I actually enable 2FA mostly for convenience, rather than security. I often log in from different country IPs (VPN), I auto delete cookies, often use private mode, etc., so some websites are frequently suspicious about my login and ask me for an additional step to verify, e.g. by asking an additional question or sending an email with a verification code. There is usually no way to manually disable this additional check; nor do websites seem to learn that logging in from different IPs with no cookies is my usual behavior. Enabling 2FA makes websites have more trust in my login, so I get none of those additional verifications, with no additional inconvenience as 2FA stored in password manager and typed automatically just like the password. So in a way I enable 2FA in order to disable 2FA.
That's a trick title, because a big flag of someone still learning programming, is when they say that they're no longer learning programming.

Programming is like life, constant learning, constant mistakes, constant improvements. And that's why it's so beautiful.

A life long partner ^^
I guess I should state that I made my own database and that I control the amount of data better then most people.

If you need more than 512GB for you product and still can't pay rent then you are out of luck I guess!
Hard Disk also (usually) give some hints before dying; noises, growing number of bad sectors, slowness, etc, while SSD (also usually) die abruptly without giving any warnings or leaving time for recovering files. That wouldn't be a problem in data centers where redundancy and backups do exist, but in desktop machines virtually nobody keeps backups, so it can make a world of difference.
The article mentions pass and other tools that live outside the browser and then says:

"Things start to go wrong when you want integration with other applications, or when you want data synchronized by an untrusted intermediary. There are safe ways to achieve this, but the allure of recurring subscription fees has attracted businesses to this space with varying degrees of competence. I’m generally skeptical of these online subscription password managers, and that’s going to be the focus of the rest of this article."

So yeah the article focuses more on people who want the convenience of a password manager embedded in their browser.
This isn't set in stone, and indeed was G8 a few years ago.
I hope Microsoft embraces PowerShell 7 (Core) and makes it the default PowerShell version in Windows 11.
>and lose ten times more data when they fail?

You don't lose any data when a hdd fails because you just restore from a backup.
I agree with the article, ~10 yrs will give you a good start if you stay with it.

When asked by others how much it would take, I try to avoid giving a number like that because it might discourage them. Who knows, had I heard or read that number early in my involvement, it might have discouraged me. However, my innate curiosity and fascination for the field made the time fly by without me noticing it. If you're in doubt, you might take that as encouragement. Programming is a field where the learning never stops, and if that's your thing, the time required will become secondary at most.
Why cryptocurrencies may remain merely a bit on the side
What? No. The US has no legal power to seize assets outside its jurisdiction.
"The middle" is no position though. The middle in the US is and has been wildly different over the last 50 years. Both in the US itself and certainly compared to Western-European countries.

An example would be that an old school democratic socialist since the 80ths or whatever shouldn't be seen as an extremist now just because the window has shifted so far to the right with Trump etc.
The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 Experience (2011)
I see. I find this to be a developer-focused view, though. Would users notice and care about any of those technologies? It's users, after all, that product names are targetet at, more than developers. And since Windows is known for its backwards compatibility, it's not like we're really talking about a breaking change, or is it?
I guess the alternative would be to compute everything in greyscale and use Floyd-Steinberg [0] or some other dithering algorithm to convert it to 1-bit color.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Steinberg_dither...
We haven't even stopped using tape drives yet
To add to that, I can imagine implementing a sort of fully garbage collected smart pointer in both languages (but maybe not compacting), but surely no one would describe either of them as an "optionally garbage collected language".
Just to prove my point that extensions have a wide attack surface.

authentication bugs:

https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/04/lastpass-2fa-bug-reported-
resolved/

Information leaking bugs:

https://hackerone.com/reports/337189

server side bugs, rogue updates(all extension are auto-update by default), breaking security boundaries and more.
The article mentions this halfway down the page in the section "The average user fallacy" using AirBnb as an example.

If you're traveling, internet can be unreliable. AirBnb's customers are people who want to travel.
Unless someone with more experience can chime in and add some more info, I’ll say that my understanding is that HDDs are better for archival since they last longer when not in use. Certainly the price of SDDs, while within reach for most nowadays, is still significantly higher than for HDDs. I still use HDDs for backup even though I haven’t used them for daily hard drive purposes in years.
> In an age where newspapers were bought at news stands for cash, identity of the reader was entirely anonymous.

Still, everybody on the street could see what we read while carrying the paper home. That can easily be dozens or hundreds of people. In some sense the periodic subscription via snail mail is in some sense the most private form. Sure, in the Web everything is tracked but in the average case literally nobody is aware of what we read. The worst case scenario can be quite bad though...
Thanks for the advice!

My problem with picking a niche is that ones that are easy to learn from a book are too crowded to be considered niches, and the rest can only be learned by doing in real production environments. Now there’s one where I have a foot in, and it’s one that I enjoy.
Personally I love my commute time. I split my journey into two parts: bike and subway train. In the train I relax and I do what I want, usually I learn something new. On the bike I enjoy the surroundings; often I try new routes and explore new places. In this way commuting becomes pure pleasure, and especially the way back home lets me relax and basically forget about work stress.
Yes, because if there's one thing I've learned about "the privileged few" it's how much they like and respect governance limiting what they can do ... My point is that such people will fight against any and all attempts at intervening in their lives, whether or not they get a vote in it.

But yes, some have hobbies. 1 in 1000 or so has useful hobbies, and there have been historical time periods where that really mattered.