skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be strict about it, the Senate never votes to ratify a treaty. It votes to give its "advice and consent to the ratification". The actual ratification is done by the Executive not by the Senate. But the Senate's advice and consent is popularly called "ratification" even though it isn't.

And the Senate's consent is not required to ratify a treaty. Ultimately the Executive decides whether to classify something as a "treaty" or an "international agreement". By classifying a treaty as an "international agreement", the Executive is allowed to ratify it without the Senate's consent. Such a ratification without the Senate's consent counts as "ratification" under international law but not under US domestic law. And that's why it is confusing, the meaning of the term "ratification" under US domestic law is a subset of its meaning under international law.
> Audio, audio, audio

Yes. Even in television broadcasting, they consider audio the most important element. You can got a few seconds without the picture as long as there's audio.

For an interview... we're over a year into the pandemic, if you don't have your audio quality figured out by now then you are not getting the job. I tell the person right away at the start of the interview if their audio is not good, giving them the benefit of the doubt to fix it.
> (HN is in category 2 FWIW: you can read the content but the "bells and whistles" don't work, login, voting, etc.)

Login works on HN without JS, but comment collapsing and voting doesn't work. (Just posted this from Safari with JS disabled).
The "other methods" is the curious facet of this story to me. With stuff like this [1] [2] I wonder if the FBI really "needs" USA Today to comply to get this information or rather, this is part of a long-term strategy to get legal precedent on their side. The same dynamics were in play with the San Bernardino shooting, where they made a big deal out of getting data they didn't seem to actually need.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Perhaps we should have different words for “I am maybe feeling a bit tired of doing the same thing every day” and “my brain is physically damaged from years of relentless 24/7 stress to the extent that basic functions like sleep elude me”.
Maps that show exact location? Ocean’s big.
Totally agree. Side projects are actually not important to getting a job. Its all about codility and whiteboarding now.
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That new window picture. Is it just me, or is the perspective slightly off on the building line you can see through the window?
This one doesn't sound like an accident.
> Does anyone feel it makes more sense to buy an embedded system and lug it around instead from now on?

Not embedded, but I was actually toying with the idea of buying or building a smallish x86 computer that I'd lug around.

The idea came to me when we started getting EliteDesk minis at work, which are basically the size of a book.

Now, those are fairly nice on paper, and at the time were one of the limited options of PCs available with thunderbolt, so I got one for myself. The honeymoon didn't last long, as the components are custom designed and some are downright cheap, like the CPU fan, which emits a constant, unbearable whir, but I can't replace the heatsink with a custom one (it only uses three screws, none of which are in the standard locations). Also, the thunderbolt doesn't work reliably either, so all in all I wouldn't recommend.

But the idea of actually being able to grab a desktop in my bag stuck with me. As I wouldn't be doing that all dat every day, I figured I could get a bigger one, with the limit being "fit in a backpack".

However, for the time being, I only move between my apartment and my parents' house, and having a fixed desktop at each location works well enough.
good to see projects like this as the process of finding a co-founder is definitely broken atm
Years ago, I was leading the R&D in a start-up. The CEO was full of ideas. Some of them were very good, some really bad, most completely ill-matched to our priorities and limited resources. It quickly became clear to me that my job was being the "that won't work guy", in an attempt to make sure that we managed to finish our project before we ran out of funds.

Almost all the problems we encountered with the project where things that happened as a consequence of me not shooting down random ideas before said CEO managed to get them started. Whenever I came back from PTO, or conference, etc. I regularly discovered that the CEO had split the already direly understaffed team to work on yet another brilliant idea that would make no sense before we even had our product.

A few of the brilliant ideas I managed to shutdown: a reimplementation of git, a home-made bug tracker, a novel abstract interpreter for a programming language that didn't work yet, a transpiler between the old programming language used in-house and the new one, a Google Docs clone, a home-made IDE, a mechanism for storing source code as structured data to a database instead of a flat file...

Things I didn't manage to shutdown: a custom NoSQL database, a home-made project tracker, a homemade front-end framework, a custom HTTP server, a custom standard library, a new type system, ... all of which were distinctly inferior from what was already available, and could possibly have become much better, with years of development which we couldn't afford.

The company managed to release a first version of the product and folded a few months later, out of funding. Of course, shortly before that, I got fired for "blocking" the development of the company.

My conclusion? Yeah, sometimes, "that won't work" is a matter of survival. But if someone needs to throw away their career by being the "that won't work" person, the company risks ending up full of yes people.
Elon Musk has not changed since his PayPal days when I started to hear about him. He's always tried to milk the system, he never played fair, and he's always been too full of himself. This didn't change just recently and Anonymous are just sorry losers.
In many countries gas does not pay for roads, but goes into a general taxation 'bucket'. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_tax
Perhaps it is a conscious or unconscious high-functioning autism filter? People with autism may not understand what the interviewer wants them to say so they give a truthful answer rather than one the interviewer wants them to produce. Personally, I don't believe "excitement" is correlated with job performance at all. The job is supposed to last 40 h/week for several years. No one can maintain an "excited" state for that long.
We're currently crossing seas, not just the channel. Nice little map with stats here:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/our-businesses/national-grid-ve...

A few years ago I saw a talk by an industrial chemist, long distance power transmission over carbon nanotube cables. Looks like they're still not ready for primetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotubes_in_interconne...
Exactly, at least in WFH, the primary thing which would be evaluated is the work done.

I think in the office its your exposure and image which matters more which add in to your evaluation, mostly benefiting extroverts.
I "burned out" while working at a FAANG and it just turned out to be a health problem, accelerated by the food there.

All of my side projects from the time are extremely uninspired.
Do you sit in front of the screen the whole day at your faang job? Forget software side projects then. Turn off all screens when coming home, pick up hiking as a hobby, or start side project with wood working, painting or so.
I started to value my side projects higher. So I work less and have given myself time to do whatever I like the rest of the time. Sometimes I train, sometimes I recover, sometimes I work with side projects.

Having time off, ideas came back.
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In international law, this is known as monism vs dualism.

Monism says that international law and domestic law form a single cohesive whole. International law automatically applies domestically, and domestic law which contradicts international law is automatically invalid.

Dualism says that international law and domestic law are two independent systems. International law only applies domestically if domestic legislation is passed or amended to make it applicable. Domestic law and international law can contradict each other, and in cases of contradiction the domestic courts will follow the domestic law and ignore international law.

Some legal systems have adopted monism and others dualism. And yet others, like the US, are actually a hybrid – US law is mostly dualist but with a few monist elements.
It depends on what country you live in. A few transactions like these every day would amount to $20-30 per month. Whereas you could use cash and pay no fees.
Browser Extension Framework w/ out-of-box React TS Preact PostCSS and blah blah
Sure, if the first thing is callable, you always go with the default eval strategy, like in this case:

(map - (quote (1 2 3)))

I'm only talking about cases where the first thing isn't callable, but the second thing is:

(3 + 1)

It seems like this couldn't ever be a problem, because the only cases in which the infix strategy would be used are cases which would have been invalid programs anyway. Does that make sense?
> confidently they were giving me the wrong answer

This cuts both ways. Interviewers are not by default right. So likewise an interviewer that doesn't know what he's talking and doubles down on it, I'd rather find that out at the interviewer because it points to a dysfunctional organization.
Thank you!

I agree about the public ledger, and I tried to point it out in many places throughout the book.

As for Monero, it's not perfect (nothing is), but it does things very well. By default it hides sender address, receiver address, transaction amount and it even obfuscates the IP address of where the transaction originates from.

I touched on the subject briefly in this chapter: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/challenges.html#privacy-and-...
Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson
I think jobs generally need to be done by people who are above some minimum threshold of competence. Above that threshold, there's no need to hire based on ability and other criteria can be used.

I feel like I've read somewhere that free markets should, in theory, enforce exactly this constraint - that it should be more profitable to not hire people who have greater skills or talent than the minimum.
But this only applies to businesses, and if you had a business relating to crypto you would at least i was reporting much less in dollar value other’s in my circle as-well. This regulation does nothing in slowing let alone killing bitcoin nor crypto.
>...Microsoft will lose an enormous amount of trust.

The Patch Tuesday fiascos have already done that.
Most of the people in management would be extroverts so they are the ones clamouring for back to office and their work also by nature is mostly collaborative mostly talking to ppl etc.

For us ICs, even though we also collaborate, once you have a design etc or after task allocation, its mostly individual work and you get disrupted if you have any distractions. But its hard for management to understand this, since they view everything thru their lens.
I'm not really in the market for a laptop, but I do look a bit from time to time, and what I've found is that even though AMD starts showing up, sometimes even with current gen CPUs (I think? I've seen Ryzen 5500s), I haven't seen one yet with a 4k screen. The best I've seen was some gaming Lenovo at 2560x1440.
Yeah, I'm still embarrassed about it. Fortunately, we were all so excited about how well his crazy idea worked that he never held it against me. I was careful not to accept any credit whatsoever for how it all turned out, though.
Haha you're right. Maybe I'm just cursed by C++.
I've interviewed about 60 people in the past two months:

1. Interview went really great, no question we were going to hire this guy. Interview is basically over and he closes the application he was presenting with and his desktop background is hardcore porn.

2. Girl reaches up to scratch her head, boob falls out of her shirt.

3. Guy talked nearly the entire time, I had to interrupt him just to get a couple questions in.

4. Person told me they don't really want the job, they're just interviewing for interviewing experience.

5. A long time ago and I was being interviewed for a job. The guy tells me the closest parking spot to the front door is reserved for the employee of the month, and the employee of the month gets to drive the convertible mercedes in that spot for the whole month. "Do you know what that means?" He asked me. "PUSSY!!! And everybody loves pusssssssssssssssy!!!"
I would NOT recommend the chrome password manager. If you sync your passwords, they will not be stored encrypted at the google side. You need to specifically set password encryption in the settings.

I've also spend a lot of time with understanding password managers in my master thesis. What I can recommend is: https://pfp.works/

The creator was auditing password managers like LastPass, found a lot of issues, and used his knowledge to create pfp, which does it right imho.
Many of the screenshots in the posted article are too small and blurry to be of any use. In the original article [1] they can be zoomed and are actually readable.

[1] https://blog.confiant.com/osx-hydromac-a-new-macos-malware-l...
Finally, someone said it out loud! The cult of "great success" is constantly being pushed to us from all cracks, social networks are overflowing with "very successful" people. I worked in a highly paid position and ran my staff, but now I got a job as an auto courier at https://uk.jooble.org/jobs-dental-technician/London and I'm happy. This is why I, like the author of the post, believe that the main thing is to be able to enjoy work or at least strive for it.
I hadn't considered the precedent angle. That's an interesting one.

I was thinking along the lines that evidence already exists that would provide much the same value as the access logs might, but the access logs would either provide cover for introducing that evidence, or provide the value without disclosing other surveillance methods.

Either of those prospects is troubling.
Yeah, that was easy to find. San Diego is also a hotspot for shady online advertising.
Compile dillo from mercurial (intall mbedtls libraries first), compile it with enable-ssl and --enable-cookies

Do not forget to set the User Agent to something "usable" such as the ones for the PSP or the old Opera Mini 3 browser.
I'm not the OP but I have had similar experiences along the way.

My approach to it happening has always been two-fold;
Firstly when talking about it I would tell the story - I hated the idea, wouldn't work etc - but the other guy was better than me and made it work. I lean into the mistake, make sure others know it happened.

That leads to part 2 - everyone and most of all myself need to know I am not omniscient. Someone needs to tell me I also have bad ideas. Sometimes other people have good ideas I don't like.

Most of all I encourage people to have and share lots and lots of ideas. 90% are bad (mine included) but if we can isolate the good 10% we'll do OK.
History's shown that for numerous VPN providers that's not the case.

Chief value of (public/general) VPNs seems to be 1) accessing region-zoned content or 2) protection against local-segment interception.

The benefit of 2) is balanced against the fairly strong probability that the VPN provider itself is heavily surveilled or actively aiding in monitoring activities.
There is no such thing as “what his work product is worth” since that is highly dependent on the industry, what problems are being solved etc.
Yes, Windows 10 was supposed to be the last version of Windows according to Microsoft, when former senior technical evangelist at Microsoft, Jerry Nixen, stated in 2015 that, "Right now we're releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we're all still working on Windows 10."
Absolutely.

Sometimes you have to "bring out the big guns" and send a letter to the CEO... sometimes you just have to say "I want to continue to work remotely as has been proven to make me more productive." and be ready to find another job if the company doesn't meet your needs any more. Work is a two way street and Apple employees can probably find work elsewhere easily enough.

That's on a personal level though... this happens to be on a "union" level ("employee group"? not sure if that's a union per-se but it's more than just a single person). I think a union (or whatever this is) has the obligation to make these sorts of moves - so there is a difference there.

I skimmed the article before and just reread it - 80 people wrote the letter and 2800 joined a slack channel for it - so this does go beyond individuals into a more "our voices will be heard" direction.

Still need to stand up to be heard and you can do so without being a squeaky wheel :)
...or, leave them intact? Nothing worse than an enemy you can't spy on, or feed disinformation to.
> Unfortunately, while the keyboard is great, I can’t say the same about the touchpad.

I'm sure he has read https://bill.harding.blog/2018/01/07/linux-with-a-macbook-to..., although he provides a link to the newest approach by Bill to restructure some of the drivers... I think the 2018 config is already a big improvement.

> an annoyingly loud fan that spins up too frequently

https://github.com/hirschmann/nbfc enables you to control your notebook fan. You can also create your own XML config.
If a man has a functional uterus, he can get pregnant. Some transmen have functional uteruses, therefore they can get pregnant.

There are many people who don't know the difference between a transman and a transwoman. If you say a transwoman can't get pregnant, then you're right. If you say a transman can't get pregnant, then you're factually wrong, there's been quite a few.
+1.

If you prefer more pop-culture taste,
"Never Split the Difference" is kind of similar (even though philosophically different.) The story is all about FBI and kidnapping, so it's less boring while the points made are a bit shallower than "Crucial Conversations".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De...
Have you had therapy?
I went through the same exactly one year ago. I could not sleep, I felt sick at the thought of having to interact with my colleagues and I just couldn't care less about my job. The only thing I care about was to wish for my day job to be over soon, so I could hide away from the rest of the world. One day I woke up and called in sick and that was the best choice I could make. I never went back to that job and I started seeking for professional help.

It is hard to know what you want if you don't know what you are and what you want to be. During my six months long seek vacation I had a very small side project because for me the issue was not the technical aspect but the stress that you always had to perform. I was working for a mobile gaming company and on top of your job you had to play, find bugs, join stand-ups, communicate on slack... This was all fake for me and stressed me out to the point of no return. In the end it was just faking enthusiasm.

I am not like that. I love what I do, but when I am off I am off and please leave me alone. Some companies push you to always have an opinion and what is the problem with not having one from time to time? What is the problem with just doing something else in your free time? If I want to have a side project I will. If I don't, I will be doing something else.

To cut my rant short what really helped me was to recognise my problem and through professional help I could accept myself for what I am. Don't overdo, take your time to know where you are and where you want to go and get back when you are ready. If it helps reduce the amount of working hours and try to enjoy you free time.
"Oh in that case we probably need some new hire with special knowledge. Like that new age engineer showing his free energy device on youtube. Or well, maybe not this one, he did not even to manage to hide the electric cables going into his magical maschine, but this one over there, publishing at infowar looks trustworthy"
I recommend adding a constant "PIN" you remember in your head to the end of each password in your password manager. It only takes a couple seconds to type it after the password manager auto-types the stronger, longer password.
Burnout is your brain experiencing fatigue from being pushed too hard. You cannot will yourself to be more productive - it is guaranteed to backfire.

The best things I've found to cope with burnout are tasks that can't be optimised, are unimportant, and low-medium intensity.
Just going for a walk is a good way to start, as is helping friends and family with things they need to do.

Spending months in front of a TV watching Star Trek doesn't help, nor does attempting to invent a new, marketable product. It has to be somewhere in the middle.
> Archive.is runs Tor through a Cloudfront captcha which fails consistently in my experience.

Just tried it now and works for me.

It is an annoying captcha, it had something like five steps to complete, but I've seen worse. I'd rather this captcha than the one that Roblox uses.
I’d like a suite of selenium tests to run comprehensive tests against the app in 10 minutes.

In other words want a comprehensive level of automated QA that runs fast enough to run on every CI build.

ML / AI? Maybe this could guess which tests need to be run based on past code changes and failures
I thought Windows 10 was last version...
I read this as Firefox causes the typo, and enjoyed a good laugh.
I think you're missing the GP's point. What you call a major problem (connectivity that doesn't interrupt a video call) isn't a major problem for many (perhaps most) people. Your hiring process seems to favour candidates whose streaming setup is above average; so you're more likely to hire people whose hobbies include YouTube streaming than people who use email to send git patches.
Gonna have to call bs on you here. You do not genuinely believe his staunchest haters (whatever that menas... maybe the Twitter posters that get the most likes??) dislike him over his South African ancestry or his ability to innovative in the private space, compared to some of the actual stupid stuff he has said.
Zoom partially solves this