skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed absolutely has regulatory authority over a pretty big piece of the banking system much the same way the SEC has authority over the investment industry.[1] But more importantly, the Fed has leverage over most of the financial system: any institution that wants acccess to the discount window is going to have to do what the Fed says. And if they all have to comply, their clients will have to, too. OCC, FDIC, and the Fed also work closely with one another. Police force or not, if you want to be a bank you’re going to have to comply with their requirements.

Edit- More info about the Fed’s supervisory authority here: https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/enforcement-ac...

[1]Fed enforcement actions: https://www.federalreserve.gov/supervisionreg/enforcementact...
> There is no way to guarantee all of this stuff for remote workers.

That seems like a non sequitur to me.

Are you expecting the employer to guarantee this stuff? To police an employee's exercising, eating, and meeting people? (Some degree of policing healthiness of workspace seems reasonable, but it can very easily go overboard...)

If resources are made available to help people become more intentional about these things, why would they help people working in an office more than people working from home?

Exercising is much easier if you aren't stuck on a train/in a car on the freeway for an hour every morning and evening.

Eating right is much easier when you have the extra time (and energy) to make a fresh home-cooked meal some or all evenings.

Meeting people is easier when you have the freedom to choose where you live based on where you would prefer, rather than being stuck living within 1-3 hours' drive from a specific office building.

Even having a healthy work area is easier when you have the freedom to design it yourself, rather than having to be in exactly the same cost-efficient cubicle as 999 other employees.

If we can make working from home a norm—for those who want it, for companies for whom it makes sense—a lot of these things can be improved.
Autel's new CEO promises transparency and much-needed change for the drone co
Thanks for the clarification.

But - n=1? Seems like this context disacknowledges improvement of infrastructure.
This is great example why pseudonymous commentary is often essential to honest discourse.
I'm convinced we should simply stop lending folks using twitter to voice their opinion any credibility at all. It was cool, trendy and thoughtful to limit a response to a certain amount of characters, to compress your message.

But by now, this got hijacked. There is no reflection, no compression of intelligent thought, nothing but voicing your (mostly biased and unsourced) opinion left, to just create a toxic cesspit.
On my new laptop Windows drivers were unstable (I tried both default Windows drivers and manufacturer's drivers). My audio was working for few hours and then disappear until reboot. I tried latest Fedora Linux and it's stable so far, no driver issues at all. I was pleasantly surprised.
I'm glad we've found the first person in life who has never made a mistake! What a shining example you are.
I think people just don't know how to be good computer users.. they might be able to program their way out of a paper bag but systems admin is not their paper bag
> anyone who would have this as a desktop really feels incredibly powerless and is trying to convince themselves that they aren't?

Why would he feel powerless? He was (apparently) a name in the MTG art world and the Noah Bradley of the apology considered his previous self to have been on a 'self-centered hot-shot ego-trip'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum
The sad irony being that the Windows UI, starting from Win8, became a complete mess, far more different from say Win7 or even XP than any recent Linux desktop manager.

Most of my users, some even over 70 with little computer experience, are doing fine on Linux, but I "converted" them before they had to experience that awful mess, so it has been relatively easy: from XP or Win7 to a customized XFCE (its defaults are ugly and unpractical) has been a breeze.
Or just post your fluff on reddit like everyone else.

HN is only useful because of its tone.
I actually had my first dream about a colleague at a new job within the past month. They were giving me feedback for my performance review, and it was 100% all about how I frequently stink up the place, how embarrassing! Nearly brought to tears.

Then I remembered, we all work remotely, and got a good laugh out of it, since this can never happen. (Even if I do stink!)
Personally debates like these make my head hurt, but I am grateful for philosophers and others who mine these topics and proffer summaries. I do think they are important topics [for some people] to think about.
I have an old windows machine for playing WoW not happy with the Linux methods, but some day... and it does not have an SSD. I found one thing that helped was to disable a lot of the logging. In powershell on an administrator account:

wevtutil el

then select some or all of the logs to disable with

wevtutil sl {logname} /e:false

Another improvement since I only use it for WoW was to disable the spectre mitigations [1] remove some bloat with bleachbit [2] and then defragment the drive. Windows 10 specifically can be sped up a little bit by disabling some of the telemetry that is hidden away using O&O ShutUp10 [3] and improving network latency a little bit with the TCP/IP optimizer [4] as some startup applications rely on a response from servers. Now it starts up the same as when it was new. Maybe some day I will get a SSD. Another thing I found useful for Windows 10 was to disallow applications from running in the background which just "Suspends" applications rather than quitting. Suspending still takes up memory and pagefile. It's easier to see this in Process Explorer [5] I think they do this to mimic the behavior of a cell phone. Disabling suspending is less useful for startup time and more useful if you value your free memory.

One more thing I should add that helped was to cache DNS on my home network.

[1] - https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

[2] - https://www.bleachbit.org/

[3] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

[4] - https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

[5] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysi...
Please dude, Peterson is a conservative and is in no way left of center except that he claims that so he can argue with other right wingers as the “liberal” of the group.
Good for you for doing the right thing.

Let me ask you - did you feel like the hate thrown at you on Twitter was completely organic? Was there anything that made you question the motives of the involved Twits?

I ask because the whole smear job vs Stallman felt quite manufactured to me; from the initial Vice article horrifically misquoting him, to the weirdly rabid hate towards anyone defending him on forums like this and Reddit.
May I have it in Magit, please?
Any chance some of this could be due to sidechannel exploit mitigation? The timing seems about right.
Agreed. At the risk of being a jerk I really want to tell people:
1. Get a life worth working for.
2. Maybe spend less time working.
Choice also depends on how much you use it. I do a lot of calls so I gave up on the mic on a stand that needs to be moved in place and mounted a small condenser on a boom above my head so its not in the way of the monitor and is always in the right place.
Not can, actively is. If you as as manager know that you have to fire x% of your employees no matter how good they are as a whole, you are always going to hire certain people just so you can fire them in order to protect your most valued people.

Also, because each hire costs thousands of dollars, the company is literally wasting millions each year because Bezos had this dangerously ignorant and dehumanizing idea that people - except himself of course - are lazy so they need to be terrorized into being productive by firing a certain percentage of the employees.

Ultimately, it damages not just Amazon's brand as a employer, it reflects poorly on Amazon employees and managers for going along with this charade.
Technically, you do lose _some_ information. PNG cannot represent DCT coefficients nor YCbCr data, and the conversion of those things to (8-bit) RGB is a (slightly) lossy operation.
Has anyone taken out a patent on being a patent troll?

Do that then sue all the patent trolls for infringing on the patent for being a patent troll...
How can you separate Twitter the company from Twitter the results? Serious question without any snark. I don't get this argument.

Oh gal, just leave a message if you downvote. I love to learn when I'm wrong, and I guess others as well.
This hasn’t been a new concept for decades, though. What you’re describing is why we have event listeners. You dispatch events and only relevant listeners get those events.

You don’t need a library for it.

The “hard part” of the problem is that React doesn’t care about using simple solutions, because it has its own lifecycle you have to use. So inevitably any software that wants to interact with React would have to trigger React to respond to those events.

This architectural decision leads to engineering solutions that make state management seem like a complicated thing, but the “reactivity” issue you’re describing has nothing to do with state management.

It has everything to do with managing React to react to state changes. That’s not state management. That’s framework management.
I was huge into the BBS scene for years. I had a handle. Only a few close personal friends knew my name.

I think most of us here are anonymous.
I was "put on a PIP" by my boss at AMZN, but it turned out it wasn't really a PIP (i.e. - HR wasn't involved). It was just my boss trying to pressure me to work 50 hours per week during the holidays instead of the typical 60.
> they decide on a conclusion they want to make, and then interview enough people so they can cherry-pick the comments that support their conclusion, and don't bother to present any dissenting viewpoints.

I've said this exact thing in the past about NYT. This seems to be their MO these days and is especially apparent in their international reporting.
Up to 140k for a family of four qualifies you for subsidized housing in San Mateo county.
This seems like an unnecessary new name for slacktivism.
My life ended on June 21, 2020

Who wrote this post then? I know you go on much later to say that not everyone gets a chance to start over again but I have, so do you have some perspective. At a high level, you got fired from your job, lost some friends, got depressed, but found light at the end of the tunnel and are working again, a year later (a year where a lot of people found themselves out of work for many reasons, mind you). I've got some news for you, like the chairman of the board says, that's life.

But to say your life ended for mistakes you admit to making when so many people's lives are actually ended in situations that have nothing to do with them (Matthew Shepard, George Floyd, etc.), you have the temerity to say your life ended? This shows you have a lot of perspective to gain.
Fascinating essay about a landmark pair of books. Thanks for posting. I'll argue another option on one key quote, though.

> What Stalingrad demonstrated was precisely that the unfreedom of the Soviet Union, as terrible as it was, was different from that of Nazi Germany or for that matter of the West precisely because it was more historically generative, more potent. >

Not quite. What Stalingrad demonstrated is that people faced with annihilation on their own soil will fight harder than a supposed conquering army more than 1,000 miles beyond its legitimate national boundaries.

This lesson keeps being retaught -- somewhere in the world -- every decade or so. Perhaps even more often.
The oral arguments stage made it pretty clear that none of the justices were buying the NCAA lawyers' arguments in general. It really makes me feel that the only reason this judgment didn't explicitly open the field for giving student athletes a salary was that the justices wanted to give schools some time to adapt instead of completely blowing up the current system all at once.
Can't speak to the others but insurance couldn't really work that way and compete on price with traditional insurers. The only way for the "policyholder" to be confident that an untrusted "insurer" will have the money to pay their claim is if the smart contract forces the "insurer" to fully collateralize it - e.g., to fund a trust or escrow account with the maximum amount of money that it could possibly be required to pay out in claims. For insurance to be attractive as a seller, you need to pool enough risks that you can generally hold a reserve that's much lower than the maximum possible loss amount because otherwise you need too much capital to fund it. You can get around this to some extent with reinsurance, but that's not eliminating risk pooling, it's just shifting it to a different balance sheet.
Plants are amazing!
I did launch something. I did work days and nights on it. It did have critics from people who have never downloaded it. And I always responded in a way befitting of my position as the CEO of the company.

Frankly I am in the market for collaboration software (who isn't) and I'm not even going to evaluate this now, because I don't want to entrust my workflow and my data to a company whose leader thinks that working "days and nights" is an excuse for behaving unprofessionally. There are many ways you could have responded to that comment that would make your company look better: even something as simple as "Discord and Noor have very different user experiences. Please try Noor and tell me what you think!" would have been a vast improvement over where you took it.
> Slogans and hashtags, used as shortcuts, give people the tools to express what appear to be clear policy goals, even though they have hardly grappled with the issue in its complexity.

From the article.

If there was already widespread support, it would already be an establishment position.
I appreciate where he goes into what people latched on to and recontextualized. We shouldn't have to pre-parse everything we say and do for any possibly uncharitable read, but it can feel like it's necessary sometimes, and maybe others can learn from stuff like this.

I was on the receiving end of smaller versions of this back when Twitter rage mobs were new and no one knew what to make of them. It was impossible to sort good faith criticism from people blasting their generally poor disposition at you even when it was only hundreds of people screaming. I can't imagine how it feels with a modern swarm.
You seem to be agreeing, not disagreeing.
Same. My team was down to 4 people and they put the L6 external hire in Focus (the informal coaching plan precursor to PIP) and he left. And we own critical services.
I'm curious how IrfanView is counting colors then.
FTA:

> The 48 Laws of Power mess
I feel like an idiot about this one.

> I’ve read the 48 Laws of Power and I found it an interesting book. I naively saw it only as a way to understand & categorize the crazy power plays historical figures have made. I made some desktop wallpapers to remind myself of those various laws because I have a poor memory and wanted to remind myself of them while I was reading a bunch of history books. I didn’t make this clear and people dug this up later while I was being cancelled. They inferred that these were laws I based my life around and viewed everything I had done (including my apology) through this lens.

> I kick myself for this one a lot. I should have realized that it didn’t look like I was sharing a useful resource but instead a handbook on how to be a sociopath. To clarify: I don’t think this is a good book to base your life around. I think it can be used abusively and I see that now and I was too wrapped up in the “more knowledge can’t be a bad thing” to see how likely it would be that people would use it badly.
I think you have a very idealized picture of the software industry. There are absolutely cases where more process helps keep things on track and increase overall productivity.
Clothing, second hand, is pretty much worthless. It also offers a much larger selection compared to just than what is hip today (uhh all black? white cloths forbidden?) which allows you to create your own style for next to nothing. Just ask the article of clothing if its you and listen to what it says.

A guy once pointed around the room and described what 20 people were wearing, where they bought it, what it costs, how fashionable he considered it. I ask him what I was wearing. He said: I have no idea! Its so wrong that it works, its more refined than everything in the room. I cant imagine spending more than 10 euro on the set (shoes aside)
No, just post anonymously. Way better. Then your voice is heard, but you don't have to suffer personal consequences.
There are hard metrics, with time you see who fixes bugs and codes new stuff. For those who do less, you can still measure their engagement - how many questions and ideas they have, how they interact with their mentors, what are they motivated to do next… After some times, a pattern is clearly identifiable. And if someone slacks and still bring results, then what is to worry about? What’s sure if that people output varies, so don’t jump to conclusions too early (which goes back to my statement “after some time”…). Someone might just be tired or overworked. Which goes to the last point - for the people I know, they all seem to work more from home, not less. I think when people go back to the office and the happy hour and the commute, there’s going to be a fun drop in productivity.
Maybe the author could consider an alternate title for his article.

"I engaged in sexual misconduct with multiple women. This behavior may imply life long psychological consequence for them. Yes they are the victims but let's take a minute consider its made me feel."

I think we all know the answer...who cares.
Tobacco firm Altria tells a judge its e-cigarette offering was lousy
According to a good friend of mine who witnessed it first-hand.
I'm not sure why they tested with disabled fast boot option? Why not disable every feature of system?

Fast boot from powerdown is the reason why I stop using other power down states. Just shut system down, and boot it up in 10-15 seconds.
Nice, so that excuses lack of any regulation of this monstrocity?
There are real humans behind this outrage and cancel culture is much deeper than Twitter. It might be a tool to organize but I’ve seen cancel culture outside of the context of Twitter. At workplaces, friend circles, organizations and even within families.

Cancel culture is a fight by one group to gain moral superiority over others. When you do that, there is no way anyone can defend including the author. Instead of criticizing the argument, they doubt people’s souls, intent, and motivation, their core values - without a second thought. That’s toxic. Our culture and heritage is built upon trust and respect.

For some reason, cancel culture is dominated by Progressives which is profoundly hypocritical: Progressive causes are about acceptance, forgiveness, inclusion and equality.
A similar story told by a media critic and novelist, Lindsey Ellis, who got in trouble with a tweet that was considered insensitive: https://youtu.be/C7aWz8q_IM4
Old new sensational news....

Just go ahead and read "Deep" by James Nestor. You won't be disappointed.
Do people still think to defrag HDDs on windows? I wonder if that's an issue people are seeing.
> As a side note, can someone tell me if something like this can be made for postmarketOS? I installed it couple months back and this is really bugging me.

In theory, if changing charge thresholds is supported by the PMIC (power-management IC) driver, it should be exposed in the sysfs. It is device-specific though, and might not be exposed by the driver.
I wish people would remember this more often. The last year and a half or so has not been typical remote work. Typical remote work does not come with shelter-in-place orders; forced closing of many social spaces like restaurants, bars, and parks; mandatory masking and social distancing when in public; and the closure of schools and child care services.

The thing that amazes me is that even despite all the difficulties that cropped up due to forcing people into remote work (for jobs where that's been possible) during a global pandemic, people have actually done surprisingly well work-wise, considering all the challenges. Just imagine how fantastic it can be now that social-oriented activities are opening back up, most people are vaccinated, most areas are relaxing their masking and distancing rules, and schools and child care are opening again. And companies are finally having the time to breathe and figure out what flex office/remote work really will be like in practice, and will start allowing employees to travel for business again.

If we keep pushing for all of this, and help our employers see the value, we can craft a balance that works for each and every one of us.
It’s not really only Google though… the entire industry has an air of malaise to it that is papered over by stock prices.

It’s all so boring.
An internet mob is the perfect model for what a Direct Democracy would look like.
Put another way, sloganeering, and the brain-dead adoption of slogans, has always been a thing. Someone less lazy than me could probably dig up examples going back to ancient Rome. "Meme Activism" is just the latest iteration of "I Like Ike" or "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." What has changed to some degree is the speed and intensity with which the slogans can impact public figures.
NBA? Sure. NFL? Yeah. They can probably fund and figure out the logistics for an operation like this.
What about all the other sports?

I'm really struggling to come up with a reason this is the academy's problem to solve.
I hear this said a lot today by people I grew up with. No dude, I was there. I remember how much you loved to tell racist jokes. Not one example, dozens.
> A year of WFH transformation under COVID seems to not have broadened our understanding of it

That's because WFH is/has been be temporary for most in management (i.e. the people who could actually drive change to procedures to fit WFH better).
You're not wrong, but it's pretty sad. When moderates are afraid to speak because of what extremists will say, we have a vicious cycle.

[edit: btw I'm just making a general comment. I'm not saying anything in particular about RMS's or Noah Bradley's cancellation/re-emergence, and not just because of your advice. I haven't been following these events and don't know who said what or what actually happened. I don't want to be one of those uninformed voices in any direction.]
Your math doesn't work out here. I can't major in football, I absolutely can major in drama and/or music. From my experience, club sports and clubs such as the theater club are funded via student fees, whereas departmental projects such as drama and music are funded via tuition.

In theory, the major areas are self-funding because of the tuition costs.
This isn't actually true because the growth of Gross National Income is proportional to the size of the working population. I'm also not talking about wages in absolute terms, I'm talking about the wage share (the percentage of GNI which goes to wages, as opposed to capital). Definitionally, the wage share has been declining since the 1970s because rates of growth have been slowing, which increases the capital/income ratio and (assuming return rates on capital remain relatively constant) will increase the capital share of income (and thus decrease the wage share). I'm not necessarily claiming to know what the correct value should be for the wage share, only that it's significantly lower than it used to be (and will probably continue to decline for the forseeable future). That being said, the wage share is obviously closely tied to inequality; if you reduced returns on capital and/or increased growth, you'd likely also increase the wage share.