skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be detected easily using

navigator.credentials.create.toString() != "function () { [native code] }"

Another way is to hook the Fetch API and log outgoing urls that are not authenticated by Cloudflare

Welcome to the start of another catch and mouse game.
Absolutely agreed. Additionally, the more we manufacture here, the more competitive with overseas we eventually become. We'll never reach price equality, because we have labor standards, but we can get closer than people imagine today.
Too few young developers are subjected to printer hell.
Sanjan, not Surat. This story is unsubstantiated nonsense, and there is little to no evidence that the Parsis were originally refugees. Archaeological expeditions were already done in Sanjan, you can look up the results.

> That the Zoroastrian migrants to Sanjan were basically a mercantile group is borne out by records as well as by excavated material. Andre Wink goes further and adds that the migration was not so much due to religious persecution as much as ‘a readjustment of commercial patterns which had arisen long before Islam, and, to an extent at least, a response to new opportunities in the transit trade between the Islamic world and al-Hind’

THE LANDING OF THE ZOROASTRIANS AT SANJAN
The archaeological evidence - Rukshana Nanji and Homi Dhalla
It's actually more appropriate for a space cadet design:

Hyper | Super | Meta | Control | Spacebar | Control | Meta | Super | Hyper

which was available when emacs keybindings were solidifying (they originated essentially as "hey, what do you people have configured?" poll around the lab/mailing list)

Note that the modifier keys are mirrored, and Emacs' most used key (control) is closest to spacebar. Essentially, you weren't supposed to use control with your pinky while stretching your hand to hit another key - but to use opposite hand for modifier. Suddenly RSI is much less of an issue. Unfortunately not only order of keys on a modern keyboard is different (and often you lose some keys) a full 104 key has

Ctrl | Super | Alt/Meta | Spacebar | AltGr/Meta | Super | Hyper | Control)

which is noticeably non-mirrored, depending on one's language might also lose right Meta key, and for some reason you now commonly get PrtScr/SysRq in place of Hyper on laptop keyboards.
I thought one of the reasons companies like carrier exported jobs to other countries was so that there would be more efficient in the supply market and less bottlenecks in manufacturing.
There's at least a billion people that live nearer to the equator than anyone in Europe or the USA and don't have air conditioning.
If a terrorist wants you to do what you determine to be the right thing, there is little more you can do except do the right thing, and try not to give them credit encouraging further terrorism. The alternative is known as cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I'd say 800x600 was more prevalent in 1995. You could get real 60 Hz in this mode on most monitors, which looked much better on a CRT than lower refresh rates. Cheap VGA cards could not pull this trick at 1024x768, though, and it flickered painfully.
"The NFT – completely unique on the Ethereum blockchain – is composed of four elements; the original
time-stamped files containing the source code written by Sir Tim; an animated visualization of the
code; a letter written by Sir Tim reflecting on the code and the process of creating it ; as well as a
digital “poster” of the full code created by Sir Tim from the original files using Python including a
graphic of his physical signature; all digitally signed. The files referenced by the NFT contain code with
approximately 9,555 lines, whose contents include implementations of the three languages and
protocols invented by Sir Tim that remain fundamental to the World Wide Web today; HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language), HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), and URIs (Uniform Resource
Identifiers), as well as original HTML documents that instructed early web users on how to use the
application."
Ha, exactly!
I dunno, ds.gd or whatever Discord uses takes the cake for me so far.
Did you mean China instead of DPRK? That’s what this article is about.

Also, I think China does have multiple points of access to the internet, and is catching up with the world’s best jets and satellites (but not entirely caught up).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool
React is very popular in the market.
Stripe recently offered $550k to a generalist backend developer who is a dear friend of mine, with about 7 years of experience.

Another close friend joined Google recently as a generalist UI developer for $490k. 6 years of experience.

Last FAANG offer I personally got was from Facebook a couple years ago, for an SRE role at $450k (believe it was top of E5 band).

My current comp at a hedge fund is > $1M/y, as a tech lead working in infra SWE. Would prefer not to reveal my current employer.

https://www.levels.fyi is pretty accurate in my experience, maybe slightly pessimistic because offers have really picked up over the past year or so (not counting equity appreciation, I’m talking about entering offer).
Silly rabbit, they did it to maximize profit!
As a victim/survivor/whatever of several violent crimes, I would rather it never happened. Whatever broken system we had in place that created people so desperate that they had to harm people appears the problem.

If the people aren't causing problems for anyone else, more power to them. The only thing society owes me is that someone else should not have to deal with the shit I had to go through.
That's not even that bad IMO. I'd love to see other places bring up their labour and environmental standards!
Some of the anxiety is probably driven by the fact that other people's expectations of you and your ability to keep to a tight schedule have changed from what they would've been back then, as a result of the improved reliability of these things.
The vast majority of this is opt-in on Apple's (et al) part. They could have also chosen to offer their products "as is", and leave it up to foreign countries to firewall or not.

This is a little harder for Apple specifically, also selling hardware. But it would have been straightforward to spin the software store into a separate business, and they'd have been more robust for it.

But instead they fell back to all that legacy cruft, because it's what corporations know. And it's certainly lucrative to sell the fruits of freedom to authoritarian countries while filtering out the inconvenient parts. However the grassroots tech community should be denouncing them at every opportunity, rather than giving a pass to their corporate authoritarianism as if it in any way reflects Internet ideals.
I am student and I think my instructors who teach a Software Engineering class would be very very interested. We typically have non-CS majors in that class and it can be a bit of a learning curve.
Apple is doing that since iOS 5 (the oldest I could find) and there is probably no way to opt out. In fact it's even worse.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202339

But apple is good while Google bad :)

Edit: found out a newer post [1] with absolutely no mention on how to opt out.

They also send barometeric pressure level for some reason. They might also start sending device temps to predict the temperature at different places across globe and "help their customers"
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203033
Thanks for such a thoughtful explanation, that is really, really appreciated.

One thing strikes me - did you ever think about changing your name and appearance? Grow a beard, get glasses, wear a hat, etc. etc.?

Or even moving to the other side of the country?

It feels like you might spend the rest of your life dealing with these kind of situations when people "discover" your past.. and maybe it would be easier if you just left it behind?
Nearness to the equator is not the only relevant factor to the importance of AC. If you turn off the AC in many places in the USA in the summer, lots of people die.
UK ministers to be advised against mass vaccination for children
Latitude isn't the only thing that determines climate. Phoenix AZ is a lot hotter than Ecuador, Kenya, or Indonesia.

Also, this isn't just about cooling; it's about heating, too. Imagine living in Saskatoon SK without a working heat source. Nobody does that. If you're not relying on electric/gas heat in such places, you're relying on fire.
A hypothetical company that didn't make anything, but generated high quality patents and licensed them out to other companies would be one thing. I don't know of many companies with that business model, probably because it's hard to generate useful inventions without actually building things / writing code and seeing what happens, but there might be a few out there.

A patent troll is a company that generates low quality patents. These are designed to be as broad a possible, so that said company can sue as many people as possible for infringement. Broad patents tend to contain very little information that could be useful in actually building working technology. It's like Leonardo daVinci takes out a patent on flying machines on the basis of his impractical drawings, and then sues the Wright brothers, who did all the hard work of actually designing a functional airplane. The patent troll doesn't even have to have a legally winnable case in order to make money, the point is just to create enough doubt that the target company decides it's easier to settle out of court, rather than waste a bunch of money in a lawsuit. In my opinion, such behaviour is pure rent-seeking.

Additional footnote: As a taxpayer in a country where the government gives significant funding to universities and university research, I absolutely do expect the universities to generate free knowledge for everyone (including companies).
Do you believe people, even young people, are inherently incapable of changing for the better? Is there anything a criminal could do to redeem themselves in your eyes?
good, I can sell my old unit for the same price I paid two years ago
> It seems like a pretty big jump from "wait a few days for air conditioner parts" to "modern life is no longer possible"!

Where there are delays, they aren't necessarily “a few days” but months, and, yeah, life in, say, California's Central Valley in a hot, dry summer without AC is somewhere between unpleasant and intolerable.
I have found Ribosome[0], one of the author's "finished" projects very useful for code generation. Very small and tidy api.

[0] http://sustrik.github.io/ribosome/
One important factor is that there are design decisions made which are optimized for air conditioning such as buildings without any windows that open.
Meh, nothing of substance will change through government action. We’ll all clutch our pearls and hope big daddy gov will come to the rescue, but just like Microsoft in the 90’s, a technology paradigm shift will level the playing field and bring a new crop of tech giants to the forefront. Ironically, our kids will be crying “monopoly” with this new batch of companies.
The article talk about 1957-1964 when operation officially ended. Unofficially, the stuff was happening as research by some private foundations/doctors/researchers https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon...

That MKULTRA's Jolly West is the guy who surfaces near Jack Ruby (of Lee Oswald fame), and Manson was visiting some clinic next door to the West's operation in SF. Talking about coincidences...
Amnesty International disagrees. (I think it would be off-topic here to give a lengthy account of Google's human rights abuses, the way they harm women and minorities, and the money they invest in politicians which are also very detrimental to society, with sources, but suffice to say, my description of them is, at least, a defensible position.)
Between the intentional suppression of this and HCQ, I wonder if people will ever be brought up on charges for the people they killed. There was intent and billions on the line.
I was in the middle of the second outage today that significantly delayed a flight for me. I was fine.. I was just coming home from a trip so no big deal.

That said. I think people were understandably pretty pissed. I talked to a family that was taking their first vacation in 18 months. He only gets a handful of vacation days a year and due to cancellations their vacation has been ended. Just like that.

If I was them I'd be out of my skull. It'll probably be another full year before they get to try again.
As an australian, the reason the process is boring is because voting is mandatory. Well, to within a practical degree; some people can't, some people don't etc

By making it mandatory:

1. everyone has to accept that voting has to be accessible.

2. it's pretty hard to contest the results of a vote when you know "everyone had their say".

In the US the variations around accessibility can significantly affect voter turnout.
Many of my primary sources of information have been obliterated by Google; they've also taken giant steps backwards, one case in point being the abridgement of the DejaNews archives, and frankly, no, search did not suck prior to Google: I always had better results writing queries for Altavista, and to this day I continue to use more specific predicates in the same fashion because results are often irrelevant otherwise - predicates that are, depressingly, having an ever-decreasing impact on the outcome.

One consequence was the preceding generation of search engines being harder to drive for everyday folks, and a relevance approximation thereby more immediately accessible on the consumer scale, but let's face that the algorithmic approach also spawned a whole bottom-feeding industry of SEO snake oil vendors and their merry-go-round of clickbait, malware, and global-scale consumer surveillance. The incentive to hang yourself from a single keyword means that Google became the foster parent of AOL's Eternal September.

My personal feeling on the matter of Gmail and Google Maps is that they are best attributed to their personal creators (Paul Buchheit, and the Rasmussens, respectively), not the corporation. The seed of Google Maps was an acquisition, after all, and many other technologies I've seen offered up in neighbouring threads as proof of Google's benevolence were either acquisitions, or ones where substantial parts of any credit must be shared (webrtc has been mentioned; it is both).

Javascript in the browser still sucks mightily, and although it's not an argument I particularly wish to stir up there's plenty to say in support of that perspective. What's more, many of the best solutions are the product of independent/small/OSS groups, although I will confess a soft spot for TypeScript. Consequently, and especially w.r.t Gmail, Youtube, Maps, and <whatever Google Apps is called this year>, Chrome starts to look like the Lotus Notes of today: a thick client, developed by a large firm, in support of its specific service & platform offerings.
Apple already does that and based on what I found there is no way for your router to opt out.

Source: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT202339
But modern explorers don't expect death if the "nothing" situation comes to pass. These were people that staked their life.
> The most ancient book of India is Rigveda.

Uhm... no
There's a COVID-19 one too. The top of the page says "A collection of 3182 classic 88x31 buttons from the 1990’s, 2000’s, and today in GIF format. "
That's 100% bullshit. Google made AMP to lock media companies into their ad network. All AMP pages have to use their ad network exclusively.

If they wanted to penalize slow sites they could have… penalized slow sites. There are numerous metrics (paint time, etc) that they can track for that.
I do think LEO satellites will fix this, but it takes a long time to test, get regulatory approvals, do installs, etc. By the time new tech rolls out on aircraft, it's not really new anymore.
Lets not forget who the Gov is. These same companies they talk of going after are the same companies that run the Gov/Country. 4 years from now nothing will have changed. Theater for the masses...
Improving the way the US Tax Court engages with the public
Those places already have lots of people die from heat waves, and modern society still functions.
Wacom now makes small, affordable tablet+display devices now. It's no longer "take out a second mortgage for a Cintiq" as your only option.
This is true of most modern devices I'm afraid. iPhone and Macbook can't be attached to a new iCloud account if someone still has that device attached to theirs. You have to get that person to remove the device from their account, often through an archaic web control panel.
Your sentence "do you know of any FANG which is happy to hire across international border and work with employees running their own company" implies a B2B relationship. That is the company pay by an invoice from your company, this is not an employer-employee relationship. I have known people working like that in SE Asia but not a FANG in Australia. Companies cannot employ someone in most countries where they don't have a registered office due to legal reason. There are corporation laws, employment laws, tax laws to consider.
Did I actually get down voted by someone who believes the contrary? Is that possible for a rational individual to take that position?
Indeed. In my ideal world, the United States would set expectations on labor and environment that a foreign company needs to meet for their products to be imported to the United States.

We can't tell other countries how to operate, but we can set a bar for who we do business with, and we have the market power to encourage foreign entities to meet those standards.
It's not like the supply chains just vanished. It's just a huge, slow moving machine that will take some time to catch up.
The capacity for a corporation to get away with evil acts is directly proportional to that corps power.

This is why I've always liked the idea of revenue-neutral progressive taxes on corporate revenue. Tax economy of scale.

Ex. Zero corporate taxes on the first 100k of revenue. For every order of magnitude above this revenue is taxed at ~1% more.

$1M in revunue -> 1%

$1B in revenue -> 4%

$100B in revenue -> 6%

Then reduce other corporate taxes to make it revenue neutral. In the most extreme case, the 1% figure or the curve could be tuned so that this is the only tax corporations pay.

This would be a massive boon for competition. Small businesses would be easier to start. Businesses may choose to stop growing: if you're making a healthy profit, don't jeopardize your margin in a perpetual struggle to amass the most power, leaving room in the market for competitors to coexist and meaningfully compete on quality.

This discourages acquisitions and encourages companies to split: if your economy of scale isn't yielding enough to justify the tax, you could spin off multiple smaller companies that would each be more profitable. The capacity for corporations to do evil is directly proportional to concentration of power. Smaller companies won't be able to afford as many lobbyists and lawyers to subvert regulation, their threats to move their businesses will be less existential for municipalities and they'll get less-sweet sweetheart deals. Being "Too Big to Fail" would be unsustainable and wasteful. The only mergers that would occur would be where the resulting economy of scale exceeds the increased tax burden.

It could also vastly simplify tax accounting, which would be a nice bonus.
That's incredible! Curious what kind of skillset / velocity you would define as "average engineer"? I consider myself "average" but I've only been working for about two years and have no clue how I'd start to fetch salaries like that. However, on the opposite coast in NYC.
Amazon has some top notch mesh engineers, I know this personally. I highly doubt their talent is being used on this mesh effort, sadly.
The term "toxic masculinity" gets used a lot these days, and I think it applies pretty solidly to a lot of what goes on in Jackass - both on-camera with the reckless stunts and violence, and off-camera with the reckless drug usage. I loved watching the show growing up, but I don't think I would ever want to be friends with those guys, and it's definitely not something I would ever want my sons to emulate.

That being said, there is something so relatable with the way those guys interact with each other. All of my closest friendships have looked kind of like that, but on a much smaller scale. Teasing, pranking, competing, etc. seems to be a pretty universal way for males to show affection for one-another. The more terrible things I can say to a person and get a laugh in response, the better the friend.

The amount of openness and vulnerability that those guys share with one-another is actually pretty endearing.
It requires bipartisanship in the Senate. Why is this the only thing Dems and Republicans can agree on? It's hard for me to not see it as a power play on both sides.
A Step Toward More Inclusive People Annotations in Open Images Extended Dataset
Where's the problem? More efficient manufacturing means fewer components sitting around in warehouses waiting to be used. Fewer products sitting on shelves. It means having smaller buffers. An interruption to manufacturing of connivent, such as a factory shutdown, will translate into hiccups down the line due to small(er) buffers.

It's actually not at all dissimilar to how many things in computers work.
I disagree. Micro-computing was not "intended" for anything, it just was and that's it.
What? An airport in a US city is hardly “middle of nowhere”. There are toilets. Restaurants. Air conditioning. Lighting, running water and electricity. Bookstores and bars.
it won't. its incredibly impractical to power
I did a startup with 3 people on full time. I don't like the inflated title either, but it's necessary for raising funds or selling a company. People want to know who's taking responsibility. Some use light-hearted titles like "Dictator" or "Astro Girl" but I find those less appropriate. If my job is to convince some guy in a suit to put $150k in my bank account, deal with legal repercussions, audits, and so on, I think it's the appropriate title.

Founder seems to be the other good one, but it says much less about your scope of responsibilities. Founder can be tech or sales related too. I just try to make it clear what the size of the company is.
Handling flaky unit tests in Java
It’s easier to complain about and keep using Windows than to retrain, support, and make all programs compatible for >500 people, unfortunately.
Germany’s constitution also guarantees freedom of speech. Both the US and Germany have exceptions.

For Germany - https://www.loc.gov/law/help/freedom-expression/germany.php

For the US - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...
There's something really off about this story.

The CIA apparently launched MK Ultra because they were concerned that the Soviet Union had developed a powerful mind control drug. They had to keep up so they launched their own program to do research on mind control drugs.

If that's true and this was a weapon's program instead of some people with security clearances saying "Let's party dudes", wouldn't they have actually tried to control people's minds?

In this case, you've got a US Marshall who went from a Christmas Party to a robbery over the course of a bad trip. If you wanted a proof of concept that you could make a well connected Soviet official do something, how much better of a poc can you come up with?

I know this sounds conspiratorial and it is, but the CIA giving people LSD without their knowledge is a true conspiracy theory. I'm having a lot of trouble believing they'd just get people high, let them wander San Francisco and see what happens.
>by having to pass the function's current state along as arguments to the new function.

But then the state being read and mutated by a block of code is explicit. The alternative is having to inspect the code to determine if and what state is being manipulated. The more code in a functional unit, the harder this gets.
Indian people probably