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Public school is broken and we all know it - in general.

We need competent administrators, more teachers and smaller classes. Parents need more time to teach their children what is not and should not be taught at school.

Kudos to parents who can afford and decide to be more hands on with children’s education. It is heartbreaking when all a child has is public school.
Facebook is the defacto organization standard for many local businesses and communities. For many, denying access essentially cuts them off from even local society.

How many times have you heard?: "We notify people through Facebook.", "Our club uses Facebook to setup meetings", "Like us on Facebook to get the insider deals. "

Banned users in the US should contact their states attorney general to ask for a remedy to the civil rights violation. Facebook does business in every state and encourages businesses and communities to organize using its facilities and there is no alternative for a banned user if businesses and communities have chosen that platform.
Reminds me of the 1903 film 'Cheese Mites', one of the first films to be censored because Cheesemakers were concerned that it would put people off of their cheese.

The original film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR2DystgByQ

Warning: It might actually put you off cheese

source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/20570/cheese-mites-how-c...
If you feel that way, you probably are.
Took a first job that played to my weaknesses but was in a field I was intellectually interested in, rationalizing it was an opportunity to grow.
I was under the impression gas leaks are supposed to be foul smelling, since the gas itself doesn't have an odor, and they add a foul-smelling additive for safety purposes.
I usually take 2FA to mean that you have to use two of (something you have, something you know, or something you are.) If the "2FA secret" (TOTP secret?) is stored on multiple devices it doesn't actually prove ownership of "something you have" it's effectively no different from a password stored within a password manager which is considered simply "something you know." So basically the TOTP secret is a second password with some obfuscation that protects the password. But software running on one of your devices could easily steal the secret.

It does seem like this is somewhat more secure, in some sense, but it weakens the security that TOTP is intended to provide.
Miami is the first city in the world with a chief heat officer
> I don't think theres a school district in the country that will advance a kid with a 50% average to the next grade.

You’re half right.

Most school districts won’t let a student with a 50% average pass.

That said, teachers will be pressed to give extra points for participation or extra credit or just to change the scores to get said kid over a passing level. Some teachers will do this unprompted just to make sure they don’t have to see the kid next year.

Not to mention that there will undoubtedly be calls of some sort of discrimination if failing grades are common in any given teacher’s class.
Apple and Google’s AI wizardry promises privacy–at a cost
Not pushing boundaries and (respectfully) questioning authority about why things were the way they were, being afraid of making mistakes.
On the topic of making good people want to stay around, i would add that having smarter people than myself in the team is a huge factor.

I'm still not sure that achieving this by hiring consultants is a good idea, but it is better than nothing.

And it happens that consultants become employees, so i take comfort in that.
In the 16th century falling out of favor with the church’s conventional wisdom could affect your social standing and livelihood.

In 2021 falling out of favor with your social media platform’s conventional wisdom could affect your social standing and livelihood.
address the issue of local applications attacking each other.

IMHO it's stupid to even try to isolate processes to that extent, as it's a really deep rabbithole that'll lead to worse performance and dubious increases in actual security. The best defense is to simply make everything running on the system be trusted.

Process protection boundaries should be for protection against accidental cross-process corruption, a form of reliability, and nothing more. That's effectively what the early 286/386 documentation stated, so Intel never even intended these protections to be defenses against side-channels in the first place.

Of course, the "security industry" needs to keep creating paranoia-fuel to justify their existence...
I have 2 close family members working public education in Texas - one is a principal and another a teacher. Stories like this are brought up all the time. Something really shitty is going on with how we are raising a lot of our kids and managing public school systems. It's not specific to one state/county/region from what I can tell.

My brother in particular is desperately trying to get out of public education. He loves teaching, but they are making it impossible for anyone to do their jobs effectively. Pay is shit, especially since work practically doubled overnight, and you get virtually zero control over the curriculum or policies in your classroom.

Then, at the end of the day, some entitled shithead of a parent thinks their little snowflake was dealt a bad hand and parent-teacher conferences ensue which further sap whatever life force remains.

After hearing about all of this stuff over the years, I cant help but feel incredibly grateful that I have the kind of career that I do. Public education has been turned into a protracted daycare experience with the sole objective of piping the students into a college debt lifestyle.
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Our Rewards server distributes virtual tokens to the instance of Brave (which has an associated Payment ID). These tokens can be exchanged when ad notifications have been viewed, and when other ad-related events occur. The tokens aren't tied to any user information.
Not joining organizations with an solid engineering culture (potentially a current problem depending on the next few months).

I'm relatively new (2 years experience), but haven't really had a chance to learn how to do many things properly in many cases due to a lack of more experienced people to learn from/business priorities meaning it gets waved away.

This won't get me fired in my current job, but the lack of knowledge might get me fired in future ones.
> There seemed to be an overwhelming amount of evidence....

> ....there hadn't been a randomized trial the drug

You don't see the contradiction here?

Edit: because it must be made 100% obvious, clinical trial results are the definition of evidence in medical science.
It's never too late to start building stuff! Don't give up!
"The Wi-Fi subsystem probably passes the Wi-Fi network name (SSID) unsanitized to some internal library that is performing string formatting, which in turn causes an arbitrary memory write and buffer overflow. This will lead to memory corruption and the iOS watchdog will kill the process, hence effectively disabling Wi-Fi for the user."

This sounds like a significant security bug?
Part of me says I did this with my first job in the computer industry. On the other hand I was reasonably compensated (for the time) and that job led directly to a progression of a few other jobs that have served me fine.
In the decades to come, many of those in denial and angry at those who warn about the realities involved in climate change will instead angrily blame those who issued the warnings for not having been persuasive enough. There's a relevant scene in The Last King of Scotland. [0]

[0] https://blog.codinghorror.com/but-you-did-not-persuade-me/
Basically it's been that there had been no studies to prove it works for covid. It's been used mostly in poorer countries that have had it on hand because it's relatively inexpensive. Doctors in those countries have been sharing info with each other and that's how it started being used a lot.

During that time gather data for this use was begun and it's taken this long to gather enough, over enough time, to prove its efficacy according to the standards required.
Honest question. Why do they need to ban this claim? Because U.S. doctors follow YouTube video suggestions when they prescribe drugs?

> In the US, you don't get to make medical claims that you can't prove are valid.

Is this a law or just your opinion? Are we expecting Bret Weinstein to be arrest in coming days?
Staying in one place for far too long.

You learn and earn more by jumping ship after a year or two.
Intel can just use TSMC to build their chips:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/01/08/bloomberg-intel-considering-o...

If second place wasn't fatal for TSMC, AMD, or ARM, perhaps it won't be for Intel either?
Fixed that problem 20 years ago ;)
What if you're happy where you are, you're perfectly satisfied with your salary (above median income right after leaving school and increased ~35% since then), and there is basically 1 alternative company nearby (where you'd have a lot more travel) and the rest is either a leap (hoping that you'll like a different kind of work) or more than doubles your commute time (to >1h one-way)?

I heard this advice before and at 4 years I'm quite due for a change in the statistical sense, and I've been offered more money already but... I feel like I'm already rich with no expensive hobbies and the money just flowing into long-term ETFs for retirement. Am I just in an exceptional situation or does the advice still apply to me and should I leave within the next 1-2 years?
I think it's caused by the stock WordPress image gallery widget. I've noticed the same issue in a KDE blog[1] also built with WordPress.

[1]: https://pointieststick.com/2021/06/11/this-week-in-kde-plasm...
This is user choice at work. The only thing that can address this issue is free software that users can modify easily.
For the typical (strong) passport holder, one of the most reliable routes is to get employment at an offshore office of a US-based company with significant international operations (eg: Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc). Working for their London office should be tenable.

Once there, aim for a transfer to HQ or US-based office via the L1 visa (higher likelihood than other US employment visas). From there, with a UK passport you will have a much shorter/non-existent queue to apply for and be granted a green card (within 2-4 years of L1). From there, you have full employment (or non-employment!) flexibility within the US.

The whole timeline should be about 4-8 years from getting your UK-based US-company job, which isn't short or quick, but far more reliable than many other options.

If speed is the priority, you have to take some risks.

- You can shoot to get an H1B but it's the biggest lottery shitshow. Large employers are generally unwilling to spend much effort on this these days, they may try once and then rescind the offer if the application fails.

- You can try to start a business, raise US investment, and then qualify for IEP (see other thread here)

- You can find a US-based cofounder(s), start a US-based business, and then try (probably multiple times) to file an H1B for yourself as an employee of your business. You must hold less than some % of the business to be above board.

- Above, but try for an O1 instead of a H1. Lower chances, but more flexibility once you get it. Green card is an option immediately.

- You can be an impressive individual by filling the criteria and apply for an O1.
I had the benefit of my first 4 companies imploding within 2 years.
> But Python wasn’t made with mobile in mind. So even though it might produce passable results for basic tasks, your best bet is to use a language that was created for mobile app development. Some widely used programming frameworks for mobile include React Native, Flutter, Iconic, and Cordova.

JavaScript based platforma are using … a language that was specifically created for mobile app development?

Why compare a language with a platform anyway? Python <-> JavaScript or dart, not react or flutter.
Not really without naming. Because then you require them to keep others secrets and dance around what exactly happened.

And when it comes to abuse, the result of being outed as abuser is shame generally.
> Run a study and then talk.

It has been running for centuries. It’s called typography. Its rules are not arbitrary and legibility is the most important one.

No need for scare quotes around readability. It’s a science.

There’s a latitude of contrast ratio between which human eyes can comfortably withstand and discern tones. It varies across individuals, of course, but not as much as you might think. No human sees ultraviolet, for example. And even if you have 20/20 eyesight, you need to design for a much wider spectrum of the Bell curve if you care at all about accessibility.

You might be interested in checking the history and methods behind CIE 1931. Also, “The Elements of Typographic Style” is a deep but fascinating book.
Fascinating book. As far as I can tell these modules seem to be expansion cards, perhaps in external boxes? The book tries to explain them but I don't think it does a great job for those not familiar with big iron of the 70s.
What are some of your competitors, as well as any other open-source alternatives? What makes your tool better?
Is the same not true for dexamethasone[1], which was the first successful finding from the RECOVERY trial[2]? That's how I've repeatedly seen it described[3] (FWIW, I was treated with dexamethasone for Covid-19 in October 2020).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexamethasone

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECOVERY_Trial

[3] "A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives[...]" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281
As far as I can tell, you can't ring vaccinate for this. 1) SARS-CoV-2 vaccines don't work after exposure. 2) You don't have exceedingly obvious symptoms when you become infectious. 3) IFR is not that high for most people, and if they care about that they are already vaccinated. Smallpox is very different in all of those metrics, making ring vaccination possible. Pulse vaccination might work better, but only with vaccines that majorly reduce transmission for quite a long time (BioNTech-Pfizer, Moderna, probably NovaVax), it's possible you would have to pulse J&J too often to be practical. Hopefully the original antigenic sin issue won't be so bad that re-targeting antibodies is not effective in most people, otherwise giving up on transmission control and trying to reduce deaths might be the only option, if new strains arise.
At my first real technology job I worked at an early web hosting company. Cutting edge stuff in 1996. We hosted full domains for $60/mo and tilde domains (e.g.; domain.tld/~myname) for $25 or $30 per month.

We hosted on BSDi, a proprietary BSD and every domain customer had their own sub-directory with user and group ownership.

As an aside, BSDi would happily let you run `rm -rf .` and would walk up to root and back down through every sub-directory deleting everything on its way.

One day, probably a month or two into working at what was my dream job, I accidentally ran `chown -r zelphyr .` in the parent directory where we had all our domain customers instead of my personal domain directory. (I can’t remember why I was doing that.)

Instant panic. I just knew I was going to be fired. I sheepishly went to my boss, Todd, and told him what happened. He grinned and exclaimed, “Cool! A challenge!” and had me sit next to him while we wrote a Perl script to look at the paths in /etc/passwd and chown that directory back to its original user.

I’m eternally grateful to Todd for being such a great boss.

Edit to add: in reality, my biggest mistake early on was not learning fundamentals. How binary and processors work, how machine language works and how higher level languages compile down to machine language. I would be a much better programmer had I done so sooner.
That's not really contradictory. Lots of covid treatments have been discovered in hospital settings by doctors trying desperately to find something to help their patients.
Thanks Peter for doing this.

I had my PERM and I-140 approved in 2017 but haven't filed my I-485 yet. Visa (H1B) and sponsoring employer are still the same as on the the I-140. Priority date on I-140 is in 2017.

I am about to file I-485. Is there any issue that may arise during I-485 processing from the delay between I-140 and I-485?

Thanks so much
Brave does not touch first-party ads; you can do all of the first-party advertising you like. Unfortunately, whether the third-party ads are malicious or not is not up to the publisher. The publisher is simply asked to add a bit of JavaScript to their page, and that's it.

Brave doesn't inject ads onto webpages; so there is no scenario where you (as a publisher) would have our ads displayed on your page (unless you, yourself displayed them).

Please see this 5-minute overview of the problems facing digital ads, and Brave's proposed model: https://youtu.be/LsrrT502luI
Sure, but which technology should USA reproduce. Just chips, and then be late on everything else?

No. There is a gigantic machine in China, its name is Shenzen. Its magic is that you can find any part and people who can rebuild them differently.

This is the entire “valley” that USA should bring back home. USA should bring back the construction of the Macbooks, phones, servers and routers, and the entire ecosystem of tinkering that comes with it. This is the backbone of USA’s national security.

We just have to acknowledge that having local industries means having poverty and dirty waste disposal at home instead of 9000km away. Which is not necessarily a bad thing either, so we can innovate on efforts.
> Productive masculine behavior is shamed nowadays

Can you list some examples for that? It just doesn't match my experience. When people complain about masculine behavior, it's never the productive kind.
To add to that (as I guess many will not know this — I certainly didn't until recently), the group of dialects is called Alemannic German, and is not exclusive to Switzerland. There are similar dialects spoken in all of the surrounding countries — including, of course, Germany. Linguistically and historically it's part of the same language continuum as standard German, so the name "Swiss German" is not misinformative as some may assume from the fact that standard German speakers often can't understand Swiss German. There are other (probably many, though I only know of a few) similar examples of languages where people might assume the dialects are mutually intelligible, but they really aren't — Italian also being one. I suppose it's even the case in most countries/languages that there'll be dialects that are only barely mutually intelligible.
I've never taken a break year but I have taken full advanrage of travel opportunities. I took a few one month vacations at one company. Certainly didn't cost me millions though unless it would have been it discouraged me to make a big change regardless of changes in vacation time maybe. But I doubt it.
Not sure if I got this correctly. The argument is that no rational conversation of public interest can be hosted by youtube, in order to protect the public from the sensationalistic garbage youtube cynically promotes? And the solution is to let the machine rampage freely, but drastically censor certain points of view?

Worse, youtube outcompetes traditional mass-media for ad dollars by exploiting precisely the sensationalism engine. The net result is an uninformed population fed sensationalism on all cylinders, with rampant censorship decided by a tiny clique. I have some doubts whether this is a recipe for a stable prosperous society.

Edit. Of course the bulk of the conversation should happen on technical grounds in the medical media in relative obscurity. But given the high profile of the covid pandemic, should a therapeutic drug with a stack of studies backing claims of positive impact, be discussed in mass-media?
Something else having less substance does not make your comments substantial.
Well the covid vaccine comes with some caveats to me most crippling to freedoms being the vaccine passports that seemingly all nations are already implementing. Having various viable treatments would obviously put an end to that. Since ivermectin has a long history of safety and already largely available its reasonable that interest is strong.
Short of qualifying for an O-1 visa, from a long-term standpoint, the best options are probably working for a company in the UK (ideally in a managerial capacity_ and then transferring on an L-1 visa to a related in the US (ideally also in a managerial position) or getting an H-1B visa but this is subject to a lottery and the odds continue to get worse.
"We need more teachers and smaller classes."

That would cost more, and reading the blog makes me want to send less money to the public schools.
No, extensions are fully trusted. They can do anything.
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>Is nobody reading the linked study?

This is hacker news... our time is too valuable to waste actually reading the article and making an informed opinion.
The point is that you must physically remove it or severe the traces, which is then obvious if the device is returned for a refund or warranty claim.

It’s not meant to be complicated. It’s only meant to be easily identified during the RMA process.
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When the sounds subside, the popcorns are dead and the microwave popcorn can be eaten.
Bret implied he got it from a potentially dodgy source. He was also pointing out "risks" with the vaccine. Even in comments you had people saying they were going to avoid the vaccine and take this drug instead.
"The first point addressed the suggest that any engineer who didn’t get their license and testified as an engineering expert witness must be suspect and is cheating the rules."

Nutt became required to get a license when he began practicing engineering outside the "industrial exception".
More to the point, why don't men have breasts? The have the nipples and the underlying breast tissue, but the breasts just don't develop.

If you think about it, why halve the available sources of milk for the next generation of humans when external food sources are low? That's a very poor human-survival policy.
Exactly. Let's also not forget that for this virus to have escaped, there would have had to have been incredibly lax safety procedures. That doesn't mean that wasn't the case, just that we would have had trained researchers and technicians working with viruses similar to other viruses that have jumped species and caused serious disease under the equivalent of BSL-1 (i.e. no precautions). BSL-2 is required for procedures where a potentially human-infectious virus may be aerosolized.

For the zoonotic leap hypothesis, all you need is for some people to be near some sick bats. Which one is simpler?
Only the first company on the list owns enough semiconductor equipment for this proposed legislation to matter.
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Not even the new, just haven't been picked on up on HN earlier. The sciency Covid-19 subreddit was all over it last summer when HCQ had been proven ineffective.

https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/search/?q=Ivermectin&sort=t...
Regarding the angry looks with kids around, they aren’t able to judge the speed, distance or even direction (of sound) of an approaching car nearly as well as us before the age of 8 or 10.

So it’s prudent to instil in them a respect for the rules. Then when they’re teenagers they’ll automatically rebel and learn about personal responsibility :)