skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hijacking was different in those days. It was often a means of political protest or transportation.

Another thing to consider is non-hijackers carrying guns for their own reasons. It was fairly common for business travelers to carry a lot of cash, and carry a gun while doing so.
You seem to have chosen "too stupid or irresponsible" when I chose my words to focus on "lacking education and domain expertise."

Perhaps you were just helping my case out by demonstrating how easily people sometimes confuse even relatively accessible topics like the difference between stupidity and ignorance?
Secret gag orders are a dangerous game. It only requires one curmudgeon to bring it down. Some people legitimately don't care about future impact.
You could say the same for all of the chubster computer programmers with bad backs and heart problems.

How many people in the last decade sacrificed their youth and health to make it easier to sell some garbage mobile app or to help Amazon sell toothpaste?
+1 to the Toshiba CB-35 Chromebook. It is an excellent laptop fr running Linux, although a bit outdated at this point. If I hadn't shattered mine's screen in a bike crash, I probably would still be using it today.

Not sure what the best Chromebook is for running Linux, but appreciate the OP's suggestions.
Turns out being "disruptive" and cheaper comes with its downsides.
International shipping for tapes can't be that expensive? Although maybe enterprise users don't want grey market tapes.
>speculation on Ethereum

Speculation on Ethereum is becoming.. well speculation in general. You can speculate on near-anything at this point (commodities, synthetic stocks, crypto, nfts, prediction market outcomes etc.)
In 2018 the National Museum of Brazil burned.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45392668

"Most of the 20 million items it contained, including the oldest human remains ever found in the Americas, are believed to have been destroyed. "
Yup. I was up in Canada visiting friends last year and the first 20 min (out of 30 min) of the CBC national news was Trump coverage or coverage of US politics in general.

The last 10 minutes were domestic issues.

Really amazing.
As a web application engineer, I've been very happy with my Acer Spin 13 8GB version.

I hit the RAM ceiling too frequently to regularly use the Linux VM on this device for work. But then I discovered I could run code-server (https://github.com/cdr/code-server) on my Manjaro desktop gaming PC and it's become a perfect match. I get VSCode in-browser of ChromeOS on a cheap light thin client with a great touchpad and 3:2 screen. The battery lasts forever since I'm not running anything intensive directly on it. And I get more compute resources than any laptop could offer. A bit surprised I don't read more people taking this path.
I think it’s hard to make the argument against allocating somewhere on the order of 1% of your portfolio to crypto.

I know many here are stridently anti-crypto, but there is some not very likely but plausible future where Bitcoin or Ethereum become the global reserve asset. Much the same way gold was in the 19th century or IMF drawing rights have operated at certain points post Breton Woods.

This is entirely different than the scalability limits that stand in the way of Bitcoin becoming a consumer currency. In this future, only major central banks and financial institutions would hold physical Bitcoin. Consumers would use either Bitcoin backed scrip issued by a bank. Or fiat currency where global confidence largely stems from the central bank’s BTC reserves.

I’d give this future a 1% of happening in the next 15 years. And conditional on it occurring, I’d estimate the price of BTC would likely increase by two orders of magnitude. From a pure expected value standpoint that makes crypto one of the most compelling asset classes around.
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/education/college-stu...

> At the self-described “heart” of the company’s monitoring software is Monitor AI, a “powerful artificial intelligence engine” that collects facial detection data [...] to identify “patterns and anomalies associated with cheating.”

> "... people who have some sort of facial disfigurement have special challenges; they might get flagged because their face has an unexpected geometry.”

This is literally phrenology with a bunch of linear algebra instead of calipers.
90% of the time you can achieve what you want with `git rebase -i`
What you're describing seems more like a remote gig. I don't read WFM and remote as the same thing. Remote is WFM but WFM is not necessarily remote. You can have an in-office job that's WFM for 4 days per week, but that's not remote.
>The poison acts on tumor cells via a phenomenon called ferroptosis, a type of cell death linked to the peroxidation of certain fatty acids. The greater the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in the cell, the greater the risk of their oxidation. Normally, in the acidic compartment within tumors, cells store these fatty acids in lipid droplets, a kind of bundle in which fatty acids are protected from oxidation. But in the presence of a large amount of DHA, the tumor cell is overwhelmed and cannot store the DHA, which oxidizes and leads to cell death. By using a lipid metabolism inhibitor that prevents the formation of lipid droplets, researchers were able to observe that this phenomenon is further amplified, which confirms the identified mechanism and opens the door to combined treatment possibilities.

Neat.

Lipid metabolism inhibition to overload tumour cells w/ DHA which oxizides'em till cell death.
There is a presumption of some runtime behaviors in the Go language spec that makes me wonder here … details can be lifted into the type system but if we’re trying to eliminate overhead, can we do this without revisiting a lot of the issues we were trying to solve with interesting concurrency primitives?
It makes intuitive sense that people who are overweight / too well-feed get more cancers than people who are subsistence farmers and don't get quite enough to eat. The evidence is the rate of cancers between countries.

I would examine if keto / severe calorie restriction kills more precancerous and cancerous cells through stress.

It's probably best to start calorie restriction before acquiring cancer to keep the population of precancerous down.
MarketBuffer was leaking resources and was foundationally unsalvagable; it has been deprecated and future implementations of societies are advised to manage their resources via unique_enterprise and shared_enterprise.
Please do explain. What is illegal? Recording minute granular measure of keyboard and mouse activity by employees on our internal company computer system. You’re in a fantasy world, the FBI is literally laughing at you right now.
Wonder if you can connect with IRCCloud?
Yeah, I speculate that it is the ~inevitable path for any investor-funded social platform, necessary to drive increased revenue. I actually see no alternative to doing so, other than the services becoming paid subscription services -- a barrier to entry most of them are not going to adopt after years of free access.
The short stories in Caroline M Yoachim’s Shadow Prison trilogy explore the implications of locking society in to a single mobile platform:

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-shadow-prison...

Great stuff. (No affiliation.) I need to dig into her other work. Apparently quite a bit of her other stuff is also available online for free.
I agree it's ridiculous that bonds and mcgwire weren't removed as well. That being said, steroids were widely being used even during Aaron's time (no I'm not accusing him of anything).

Unless they're going to treat it like it tour de France and keep blood samples from every player for decades, I'm not sure how they can say for certain what records are legit vs not.
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Some OMSCS classes require certain proctoring software that may not work on Linux or ChromeOS. Please make sure you have an alternative ready to go as course staff do not make accomodations for this.

(source OMSCS grad, seen this happen to others)
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there was some old movie or show where an opponent had four arms. He just grabbed the two arms of the human with two arms then started pummeling his face with his other two arms.

at the time it seemed pretty clever
On August 25, 1914, the German army ravaged the city of Leuven,Belgium, deliberately burning the university library, destroying approximately 230,000 books, 950 manuscripts, and 800 incunabula

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_of_Belgium
"Application Engineer" probably means an engineer who does high-level technical support for customers, as it did when I worked for a company which sold products to technical users in the 1990s. Your customer buys some complex electronic part or system from your company and then tries to use it in some demanding application. When it doesn't work as expected, an "AE" is called to debug the setup and educate the customer on how to properly use the company's product. In such a role, you're not part of the product development organization, so you might spend all your time training or debugging (edit: adding for clarity - training customers and debugging their systems), and none of your time writing any code; and anyway what code you write might well be examples or proofs of concept for customers.
I welcome them in this regard lol. Bunch of hackernews people sucking themselves off? Love it. There is no way to assure a bunch of down votes than to show ycombinator folks that the flavor they insist is that of pure umami is actually that of their own penis. now you have the conundrum... Do I downvote this guy and prove his own point? Or do I upvote him and admit I was sucking myself off with what I believe is the potency of my own mind?
> So far us software engineers have often seen jobs as replaceable and we know we'll have another one at the snip of a finger should we quit.

I think this is going to be the thing that cracks.

If everybody is WFH, I probably don't need YOU specifically. Programmers are about to get a big wake up call as to what their value actually is in the global market--and it's a lot less than they think.

If I were a particularly nasty manager, I would be pushing WFH like crazy and looking at laying off both my most expensive and most vocal WFH people in 18 months.

The most senior folk pulling the strings will survive. The rank and file will get decimated.

Be careful what you wish for.
Well put! I am starting to think "disruptive" just mean business as usual but now without anyone answering the phones!
It sounds like it would suit your needs to work remotely from a rented office desk. It sounds like it’s not as big an issue for you since you’re a few stations from work, but it also sounds like the work office doesn’t afford you much over many other offices.
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Uncanny valley vibes
As an American I’m not sorry. People can choose to consume whatever media they want. Don’t like American politics? Stop clicking articles about it.
I love baseball and don’t find it boring. Although my son is in peak little league mode and his excitement about all things baseball is infectious.

Agree 100% about the blackouts. I’m not paying $100/mo for cable, and it’s absurd that my kid can’t watch a baseball game without having dad around to vpn out of market.
I wonder about polarizing, nascent topics.

Does contentiousness indicate a passing fad, a long-term paradigm shift, or is it an independent property?
In World War 2 a massive amount of damage was done to libraries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libraries_damaged_duri...
What is a MUD?
Compiling and training ML models can be pretty taxing. Hopefully OP can just ssh into Gtech's cluster or else I could see it being annoying.
It's not just FMRI - what about blood tests looking at gene expression, computational methods, tissue engineering, and stuff that hasn't been invented yet? Regarding ICSS though, I've had a look and I really fail to see how this technique is benefiting humanity..? For example they've discovered more detail about where cocaine affects pleasure/reward neural circuitry - so what?
Good points. Secrecy was once used so that people wouldn't destroy the evidence the warrant sought. But now it's easy to tell the third party to retain the evidence; even if you delete it, they can still keep a copy. So there is no reason not to tell the target; they can't change the outcome, but they can begin the counter legal process to ensure their rights are preserved.

Sometimes I wonder if they want secrecy so that criminals don't know they're being investigated, and commit a crime that's easier to prosecute. If they just stop committing crimes, then there's no fancy press release saying how great the DA is or whatever.
It also does not extend to unstable features, which Firefox (the program in question) uses. The whole post is quite ill conceived and makes me reconsider my general trust in the authors' output.
Bitcoin would be least of our worries right? All current internet communication is effectively http not https with this. You don’t know if the server you are talking to is the real deal!
Apologies if this is a dumb question because I don't understand these techs very well.

It strikes me that a fundamental problem of bitcoin is that it's a deflationary currency, so there's no sense in spending coins if you can just hold them (other than to exit the volatility of the market), because the coin will likely be way more valuable if you just keep it. Whereas with traditional currency, you have an incentive to spend it, because a dollar today is worth more than it would be a year from now. Am I missing something there?

So it seems like as an actual replacement currency it can't work because buying things with it is a bad idea. Is solana different in this regard? It seems with other coins the value is in sending and receiving money based on real currency? Except that transaction happens somewhat publicly if you're not funneling different amounts through different wallets? I'm not trying to be glib, but I feel stumped on what I'd use cryptocurrency for other than a long hold investment or to buy something illegal. I know that's a common complaint, what I'm hoping for is someone to tell me where I am mistaken?
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"I went to a real school and not a CIA brainwashing place"

It's really something to see him demoing something genuinely very impressive while screaming conspiracies.
If you are doing this on US soil, it is a felony to surveil employees without their express knowledge and consent. Hacker News has your IP address information so unless you are using a proxy or are outside of the US you'll be hearing from the FBI shortly.
I am a manager that has been full-time WAH for 15+ years. A leader who understands their role should be empowering people to do their jobs, and providing them the tools they need to do it, be it in the office, at home, or on another planet even. That's what leaders do. If they think their job is to monitor and micromanage their teams, then they are not leaders, just bad managers. Leaders see the value in employees creating a situation where they increase their productivity. I really don't care where my employees work as long as they meet clearly defined goals and objectives. They know what they need to do, and I trust them to figure out how best to accomplish it!
I'm making an assumption here since it's been a while since I've looked at SEO, but I'd assume that page rank in this case matters. Any friction at all leads to fewer conversions, which means fewer sales for Dropbox. If a less knowledgeable user downloads the Apple app instead of Dropbox in this case, there will be some portion that don't end up installing Dropbox and they may instead find their way to icloud when recommended to install it after installing files. There is no way to tell the actual impact, but I don't see how it could possibly have caused no impact. They control the market, they have a responsibility to maintain a non-amazon like image. Hopefully it was a mistake.
System 76 engineers: for your upcoming ultralight, please make a 3:2 screen!
Orthodox people don't try to convert others, although we're genuinely happy when others discover Orthodoxy, and priests never claim that it is the exclusive religion for salvation. Indeed, often they will tell you that when you get baptized, you get only responsibilities, and no privileges, so, it's like a coop of people helping each other thru the guidance of clergy. For example, liturgies start with the priest bowing in front of the Parish and send me "Please, forgive me, a sinner."
Not only that but you could print the 3D shapes to the terminal and copy/paste them in to other files.
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Serious question: If I have a proposal regarding a relatively simple quantum experiment where the successful result would be $20M or more (nothing illegal like stealing funds from someone), but not the technical expertise to carry out the experiment, who would be a good person to get in touch with?
hmmm, try 5k participants

Though I've been personally blown away by the quality of participants' competence in ethereum hackathons. Not sure if solana compares on this front.
Yes. Pencil and paper is better for a new ui design. Paint comes into its own when you already am have the app and desire to change the interface, or say create a new dialog box similar to an existing one.
Incidentally I've imagined the Librarians scrambling to grab books from the shelves as the Library burned, and wondered if they would have actually "saved" anything.

The idea being, anything the librarians thought worth saving probably existed in other libraries, and would be more likely to have multiple copies survive to this day. Meanwhile, if they grabbed some book of third-tier poetry at random, that would be more likely to be a unique volume.
No, but they were a monopoly on digital music sales. Specifically because it was the only music DRM iPods would work with, and competing MP3 players that supported other DRM schemes were pure garbage.

By the time iTunes went DRM-free (in 2009), CD sales were about a third of what they were at their peak and digital was the industry's only growth market. 90% of 40% is still a huge chunk of the market.
It's possible for a company with a superior product to be a monopoly, and it's also possible for a company with a majority share in the market to not be a monopoly.
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“There aren’t any new problems; only new engineers.”
- Quote I read online a long time ago

Agree with all your points, but there is a third way: apprenticeship with older engineers. I advise new engineers to find their balance between not accepting the status quo but also realizing software is way more complicated than they think.
For example: successfully versioning an API over time while supporting live deployments is (I think) not something you’re going to learn in school.

As a further aside... I’ve heard older attorneys complain about newly minted lawyers. They work to pass school and then the bar. But when they start lawyering, new grads don’t know the first thing about how to actually file something at the courthouse. I’m saying, I don’t think it’s constrained to our industry.
I see that as a sort of capitulation. What is actually needed is manufacturers who remain responsible and responsive when it comes to the quality of their drivers. They need to support them much longer than they currently do, and they need to release security fixes promptly.

I think having a sandboxed driver model is a great idea in general, but this will only encourage hardware manufacturers to care even less about supporting their drivers beyond the initial more-or-less-working release.
Saying Canada is “close to utopia as any country” and then when someone points out a group that repressed for centuries is not a “gotcha”.
I think it's important to point out here that neither side really understands tech but one side was viciously against any form of antitrust with these companies until the absolutely foolish decision by these companies to start targeting that one side for censorship. Their employees demanded it as did the Democratic party leadership. And they did their thing and lost the only friends they had on this front. Any GOP politician who tries to block this will have no leg to stand on within their own party. Something that would have been unthinkable 2 years ago is now a popular action because the base hates these companies so much now. They managed to turn Alabama Republicans into people who hate large corporations as much as your typical Berkeley protester. Based on this I'm assuming that Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are surrounded by sycophantic idiots.
Wouldn't the person with the worse "best" pitcher be incentivized to check? It's a zero sum game. Plus they could always have their best pitcher not cheat, then call the other team on it, and now you get your best pitcher and the other team only gets their second-best pitcher.
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It certainly got them a large market share. I'd love to pay a few percent more for the option of getting _actual_ customer support when things derivate from the happy path. If that was a box you can tick during the checkout process, I would go for it.
I think you are very much correct - for all the people lambasting working in an office, I hope they realize it will mean they will be competing against a much larger swath of humanity.

Also, I'm glad you highlighted "Mexico or Brazil". Unlike decades past where lots of outsourcing was done to India, I think many people now realize the inherent inefficiencies when teams are 12 time zones apart. The Americas don't have that problem for US-based businesses. In fact, I often see lots of complaining on HN that Canadian dev salaries tend to be much lower than in the US - seems like a no-brainer to work remotely for a US company if you are in Canada if it results in a big salary increase.
This is way more useful to the non insider. Industry publications would assume a lot of existing knowledge.
Our CEO wanted everyone back in the office even after agreeing that fully remote resulted in no perveptible decline in productivity. The rationale is that serendipitous interactions happen more often in person, which I believe, but not enough to come back in full time. Anyway, engineering was pretty clear that we would have even more attrition if we had to come back in, and the CEO relented.

I’m trying to think of a less dramatic way to describe the aftertaste of that interaction, but all I can come up with was that it felt a bit like servitude—like this person felt he could dictate to me where I would do my work including an unpaid commute (it’s not like my work depends on me being in a factory, for example). I’m thankful that my skill set is basically on fire right now and I can go elsewhere without losing money, but at the same time sad for everyone else who lacks that luxury.
Yes! The great thing about JS is that it's really flexible and expressive. I spend a lot of time dabbling with other languages and then I love coming back and trying to apply that knowledge to my JavaScript work.
> You're comparing apples and oranges. Even though both b2 and a second tape copy are both "a copy", I'd wager than something stored in the cloud has much lower failure chance than a second tape copy.

Depends on what kind of failures you're thinking of. A tape won't erase itself if your subscription lapses or if the service you chose finds itself on "Our Incredible Journey." As a home user, both those scenarios are pretty high on my list, since I don't some team to make sure my data is always migrated and accessible. There are a lot of scenarios where some bit of data may need to sit passive unattended for years/decades, and/or be discoverable and usable by someone else (e.g. family sorting through a dead person's things).
Trudeau used the term old stock too. Was that a dog whistle as well? Do we have a racist PM right now?
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