skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like this change. I’ve been using software for more than 25 years so I’ve lived the evolution of UI a bit and sometimes we feel that it’s a regression. But after a period of transition every time I liked the product more.

« The familiar is comfortable; change is upsetting ».

I can’t imagine being stuck with a Windows XP style for ever I can’t even believe having used it so many years and looking back it’s a disaster but back then people loved it and complained on every single update.

So nothing new here …
That's what the "skip tutorial" option is for. Many games also ask you to self-gauge your experience level at the start, and typically suggest a different tutorial variant or skip "noob" cues in the tutorial.
We already tax cars and land, it’s hardly the end of civilization.
I get that sometimes we get carried away trying to universalize something and let a good story get in the way of the actual facts. This is to be avoided, and if others hold those narratives up to rigorous scrutiny, that's healthy.

However, it doesn't seem helpful to swing the pendulum all the way to the other end of the spectrum, where we regard everything as being so rooted in the specific and context and circumstances, that we're unwilling to draw any lessons to apply to modern problems. Surely there's some middle ground, where we can have some loose generalizations which we acknowledge only apply some of the time and are only ever partial explanations?
4. Someone who thinks that homosexuality is immoral and dangerous.

I'd argue that this is anti-science. The biological theory "en vogue" is that homosexuality (not the sexual act, the falling in love part) is determined by hormonal balance during pregnancy. I don't think any theory argue that this is dangerous, and well, about immorality, it has nothing to do with science.

So this idea is anti-science, and i don't think is interesting enough to take a spot on a shelf in a science university. Maybe in the reserve. Are you disagreeing with that?
Twice I have built entire full-featured applications and then not shipped them out of embarrassment(fear of failing I guess?). Both times, a few years later similar applications became very popular. Very recently one of them showed upon the front page of HN to high praise.

It's a mistake I'm still making, I guess, which is to assume that it could never "be me". It can be anyone. Just ship the damn thing.
Relevant transcript from the first two minutes of the video:

> Since very early in the evolution of the web browser, most of the browsers we've used have had a few fundamental thing in common. There's a very tall toolbar at the top with a slot for the URL that's on it's own line. And the website stays inside this space, this portal to the web, the viewport. Of course, as users, we've trained ourselves to put all of our focus on the website that we're using, but for years, the browser itself has maintained a strong visual presence. No matter how a website is designed to look and feel, the browser interface framed that design and dominated it. What if we could get rid of that frame and extend the design of the website to every edge of the window? Well, that's what we've done in Safari 15. This year we've reimagined the browsing experience as we know it. We're putting all the focus on the web content. The new Safari blends the tab bar into each website by changing its background color. The entire interface is on one line, and things naturally appear when needed. This makes your content feel more expansive. Each web page or web app takes over, extending to all four edges of the window. The browser interface yields to the content.
I disagree strongly. Conflict-avoidant platitudes have much less substance.
It would be nice if we somehow found a way as society to get the message out that scientists often just don't know. Because too often stories like this are interpreted by quite a few people as "science says ivermectin doesn't work". And perhaps that conclusion will turn out to be right, but the point is the jury is still out - and often enough it turns out wrong, and when such a false statement turns out to be wrong, people lose faith in science regardless, even though a reasonable interpretation of the science actually said "don't know" not "doesn't work".

This is kind of a corollary to the issues with rejecting conspiracies - when we reject a supposed conspiracy, due to lack of evidence, that can easily come across as claiming the conspiratorial claim is outright false - but in a sea of such claims, some then turn out to have at least a kernel of truth, which then turns into a big gotcha moment: "see, they're repressing us, we were right all along!"

So while I understand the idea of maintaining trust by not backing anything uncertain, I'm not sure it's the right call. Maybe communicating that uncertainty is better, and even communicating hints and possibilities - instead of trying to control the narrative but thereby ceding the ground to nutjobs until certainty arrives, often granting them considerable prestige if they guess sort of correctly ahead of time.
CPU Manufacturers Are Pushing the Boundaries of CMOS and Starting to Pay for It
That has me under US despite being in the UK. So that seems to be the legal territory you fall under rather than necessarily IP detected country
Because if I can just load my own driver before you load your anti-cheat driver it significantly lowers the difficulty of defeating the anti-cheat. Whoever gets into ring0 (or below) first usually 'wins'.

So for example Valorant's anti-cheat leverages a hypervisor which is always-on, and then an additional client which runs when you launch the game.

The situation is similar with the ESEA counter-strike client.

I just refuse to play games with measures like that. Especially given the fact ESEA got caught deploying a bitcoin miner with their client.

These games always have cheaters anyway, so what am I giving up all that privacy and security for?
>Use a browser that isolates the JS engine in its own process

Definitely. All for that.

>and leave spectre mitigations enabled

I do that anyway. The performance cost is unnoticeable to my normal workloads.

>rather than try to play kid-plugging-holes-in-dike-with-finger by auditing all the world’s constantly-changing JS for spectre/meltdown gadgets?

I'll continue doing this too, largely because I want to see what's going on behind the scenes on all the websites I visit. Useful for me to see it all, especially as it changes over time as you observe.

That said, Easylist and Privacylist are also great if you'd rather crowd-source the finger-in-dike-hole-plugging.
Holy shit, thank you for sharing! I've never seen that one before, but it might be the final element I need to put together a no-DE laptop... well, if those Discord TUIs hadn't died off :(
Native swiss here and would not sign that swiss german can‘t be understood by germans and that it is a separate language. Austrians and germans who live at the border can very well understand us and their dialects share many features with swiss german, more so than with some german dialects from the north. I think that categorizing swiss german as a separate language is very much an act of balkanization. It is part of the german language whichs spans a large geographic area with many different variations.
This study appears to show that there is a treatment that’s ~90% effective at reducing deaths.

The vaccines are not shown to be (may be) safe outside of a brief few month window (for specific classes of people). These are a new class of vaccine and there appears to be significant risk based on the cdc data (VAERS).

https://austingwalters.com/covid19-vaccine-risks/

To be clear none of the vaccines really completed a standard phase 2 or 3 trial. It had an abridged or expedited version that skipped things like pregnant women, etc. the vaccine is also not 100% effective, which is important as it’s a “leaky” vaccine. Meaning, we’re going to see lots of variants that get around our protection from the vaccine. That’s why treatments are important.

It’s also possible we see genetic defects 2-3 years from now or an increase in cancer. We really have no idea.
Not a fan, was expecting at least some coherent text about Engineering Managers, but instead get a long list of links, not much better than what I can find myself.

At least the comments in this thread are useful and interesting.
Taking a year break in 2014.

I lost potential to earn millions from continuity of my career. It was the early days of many startups

I also discovered I like coding and don't really enjoy traveling.

Traveling is romanticized too much in our culture.
They still dwarf salaries, overall. There’s a long way to go until zero.
TSLA is a growth stock, and growth stocks have done extraordinarily well throughout CO-VID. To have a put on TSLA is to have a bet against growth. His TLT and TBT bets are the next largest piece of his portfolio and show what he's thinking.

As for Bitcoin, he never said that it would cause a crash, merely that when the stock market does go down Bitcoin will go with it(because of it's reliance on leverage that will get called away) and the effect will be to wipe out all the kids and retail investors that have bet on it.

How do you profit on Bitcoin crashing? As you recall, he specifically was worried in 2006 about the banks going under, and Bitcoin has that problem to a much larger degree. If you bet against Tether and Tether goes to 0, there's a good chance all coins go to 0 and you won't be able to receive your winnings. Sometimes the only winning move is not to play.
In Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond, the author shows not only that there is money to be made renting housing to the American lower class, but also that it is in fact more profitable than renting to their more economically well off counterparts.

This is not because they have more money to part with but because they can be squeezed harder.

The wider concept seemed counterintuitive to me at first but I see various implementations abound in the wild the harder I look. This article shows one example.
Here is a quote from the late Serbian linguist Ivan Klajn:

"Experts have the viewpoint that if 70 percent of the words between two languages are common, then they are not languages but variants of the same language. And in our case it is not 70, but over 90 percent".

Original quote in Serbian: http://www.rtv.rs/sr_lat/drustvo/govore-li-srbi-hrvati-bosnj...
Probably. The same trick of deliberately boring the viewer for creating a sense of immersion had been used 19 years before, in the (excellent) film 'Stray dog'.
Taking a year break in 2014.

I lost potential to earn a few millions from continuity of my career.

I also discovered I like coding and don't really enjoy traveling.

Traveling is romanticized too much in our culture.
Sent out the HBO Integration Test email this past week.

Joking
A european citizen using a european company's service is under european law.
This is a great point! I'm starting to realise this too. I work for a company where I really think the suggestions I make will set up the company now and in the future, but the more I fight for the decisions I make, the more I realise that a) my team mates aren't interested because they (mostly) don't understand the tech, and b) management isn't interested or doesn't care.
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Institutionalisation. Everything is somebody else’s responsibility, and everything becomes about the metagame - working systems to your advantage, being the biggest asshole in the house and getting made prefect for it. Amongst students, it was all about social standing. Think prison gangs, but with posh British kids. Amongst staff, there were plenty who were good people, but also plenty who were there on a sinecure and were essentially untouchable.
> the person reviewing my code had messed up

No, they didn't. Reviewers aren't expected to set up a test environment to review your code.

Doing a join without testing and/or EXPLAIN is your fault.

Source: DBA.
Staying with the first company too long.
...making it even more unlikely the attack would find anything of value (or even recognisable as such) in a reasonable amount of time.

To use an analogy, these side-channel timing attacks are really a "looking for a needle in a haystack" (or heap...) situation, except that [1] you don't necessarily know what a needle looks like, and [2] the haystack is constantly changing. AFAIK all the PoCs shown so far relied on having a deep knowledge of the system and carefully constructed conditions.

If these attacks could undetectably dump all of your RAM in a few seconds, that would definitely be a huge concern. But they're more like being able to read a few bytes per second, from somewhere in the address space, with no idea what they are or where they're being read from, and no guarantee that they're even contiguous.
Report a defect in a product that production management did not want to fix. I got kicked off the project and it took years to clear my name.
Not making attempts to grow. Skated along for over a decade on the same skillset, took whatever jobs came along. "Working to live" has its perks, but one of the drawbacks in this field is you can be slowly left behind.
Is this equally true for AMD CPUs? Does the kernel offer different mitigations per CPU or one unified set of strategies?
Man this epitomises the modern day slave for me. What a dismal life to look forward to.
Let Users Own the Tech Companies They Help Build
Hahah, Managing Humans is great. I saw someone reading it on Muni, read it over their shoulder for a few stops, and bought it later that day.
Sure, but then you end up living in Coober Pedy. For slightly more you can live in a basic house/unit regionally, or for twice the price, a nice house in a nice regional town.
It is like that. Leaving for what? Most places are similar. Same shit different people. Some times you get lucky, and you get some time where things are working for you - but teams never remain, good people move on or up.

Leaving is not always the answer, keeping your head low and surviving is modus operandi for a lot of people.
How can mere continuity be worth millions of dollars? Or did you skip a particularly lucrative opportunity?

You're right about travelling. Unless you're travelling with a reason or at least knowing people at your destination, it's usually fairly unfulfilling.
"I'd say if someone took IV bleach and it caused harm, the appropriate response isn't license revocation, it's a civil or criminal lawsuit."

Defense: The patient was already ill. Can the opposition prove that the prescription of bleach, specifically, caused the harm, in the face of the patient's underlying disease? The risks of the treatment were adequately explained to the patient, as indicated by the patient's signature on this form. The patient voluntarily accepted those risks.

Bottom line: the patient is dead, and civil or criminal liability ain't going to bring 'em back.
I am genuinely curious to know what made you come to that conclusion?

Assuming you mean darkhorse, what episode and what in that episode makes him alt right? Please be specific. If there are multiple examples then just provide a few.
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Well, sole reason Peter is doing this is to get more business.

My post has two parts. First part was tips related to choosing a firm and knowing what is at stake if things go wrong.

Second part specifically about my experience with Peter. It's an anecdote on internet. Take it for what you might.

I agree that I started the name calling for Peter which was the best characterization of my personal experience with him. You name called me where you had no idea about what really happened with me and how Peter actions completely turned my life upside down. Might be good to reflect on your own actions!
I have this weird feeling that I'm making the same mistake right now.
The fact that you learned those things about yourself are valuable as well.
Part of this is in having schools bearing the brunt of other failures in society or by having schools be the ones trying to solve those issues.

Schools are often the safety net for youths with a wide range of problems. While schools are the catch all for such problems, they're more expensive than fixing other issues like fair wages for the parents of the students (e.g. having hischoolers needing to get a job to support the family rather than study for school).

This high price tag is the result of shifting around other issues to the place where they're inefficiently handled.

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The flip side of this is the "schools are often funded by property taxes and areas that are able to collect more taxes are able to spend significantly more per student even if it doesn't result in a better outcome." Many of these areas already have good student outcomes and the money is spent on on... whatever.

Palo Alto spends $24.5k/student ( https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?I... ).

Wyoming county schools spends $11.5k ( https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?S... ).

When looking at those, compare the breakdown of revenue sources.

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So, I'll say "no, we're not - but it's not the fault of the schools."
I’m just a listener, but also find this fascinating. I think the jazz is in some ways a revival of baroque performance traditions. Improvisation was hugely important in the baroque, and also they had their own version of swung rhythm; what was notated as a string of 8th notes was not played that way.
Curious your thoughts on Nix/Guix for managing your packages?
> This had the opposite affect with my boss and management because I was making delusional organizational and engineering decisions with no authority to do so

I have experienced this from the management perspective and it resonates strongly with experiences I have had. Some of the hardest employees to manage are those that are both talented and heavily invested, but unable to accept what their role actually is. When you have someone like that doing things that aren't in alignment with the technical vision - whether its right or wrong - they rapidly diverge towards having negative value.
Automatic tester? I hardly know 'er!
Well what do we expect? We've been shoving privacy down peoples throats for years.

You can't now expect them to be rational and trust us with: "don't worry we know privacy is bad, but THIS privacy breach is okay. Again trust us this is because of covid, we're the good guys."
We drop the IP address. When needed, we'll convert it to a regional identifier (e.g. United States) so that we can have a count of how many users are in the US, UK, etc.

I'm not sure where you saw 80 request; my network analysis post (https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/) shows Brave issuing 70 requests over a 10-minute period. Compare with Chrome (91 requests), Firefox (2,799 requests), Edge (367 requests), and Opera (106 requests).

0 requests is not realistic, IMHO. When you launch a browser you want to make sure the user has a fresh local DB of known-malicious URLs (so you don't have to pipe each request through a look-up service, like Opera does) for client-side checking. You also want to make sure the client has an updated list of blocking rules for other types of content. There's quite a bit of setup needed when you launch a web browser.

Zero telemetry is unwise, assuming you want to build a product that works for a diverse set of users, devices, and environments. The main issue here is not whether you collect telemetry, but [how] you do so, and what that looks like. Brave is careful to preclude abuse from the design phase; see https://www.brave.com/p3a for more on how we handle Privacy-Preserving Product Analytics.
In my new career as a freelance consultant / mini-agency: taking on a large fixed-price project. It’s not that the scope has changed - it hasn’t at all - it’s just that I judged it like shit.

Don’t do this, kids!

(Though many of you still will. I knew about this beforehand and still got myself into this mess. Never again!)
https://archive.ph/07V9L
Qualifying as a lawyer when what I enjoyed was building things.
Proving that any one weather event is a result of climate change is tricky, but I don't doubt that you're correct. The Guardian was talking about the current summer issues, though, where we don't have widespread outages yet but they are asking people to cut back on electricity usage because we are at risk of it. And having 97 degree weather in Texas in June is just not unusual, so that cannot plausibly be attributed to climate change.

Four days of freezing weather and several inches of snow, in central Texas, is another kettle of fish, and is quite unusual. But as I read the article that wasn't what they were referring to.
You need a job offer and can't start working for the company in the US until you have obtained work authorization. Often the best option for Canadians is the TN and broadly there are two paths, applying in advance with USCIS and then raveling to this with this approval notice or applying as you are traveling to the US with CBP at a Canadian airport, at the US-Canada or US-Mexico border, at a CBP office at US airport if traveling to the US from a country other than Canada.
A speaker can be used as a microphone. It's not a good microphone, but it's enough to save your voice and ambient sound, but the quality is bad.

So in the best case, the energy will go from the power source of the generator to the speakers, travel through air, and be absorbed by the other speaker acting like a microphone.

If the other microphone has a signal, the signal will try to move the internal parts of the microphone in one direction and the air in the other directions (or the same direction, according to the distance and frequency). This will cause a weird movement, and the amount of current and voltage drop in the speaker will not be the usual one. Anyway, there will not be something too strange unless you have a lot of oscilloscopes recording the process.

In a more real case, some of the energy will be transformed in heat in the wires, and some energy will escape because the sound does not hit the other microphone, and you will not recover the 100% of the energy.

Energy Conservation is one of the most fundamental laws of Physics. It may be wrong, but I don't expect that this device can prove it.

Anyway, Physics is an experimental science, so you can prove that the Conservation of Energy is wrong with an experiment. But you must:

* Make a video showing it. People will claim it's fake. I'll claim it's fake! Use a signal generator that has a battery so the maximal energy in the initial system is clear. Use a lamp to show the unexpected additional energy.

* Make the instruction 100% clear. Better 200% clear. Better 1000! clear. Check with a friend that s/he can build the device and reproduce the experiment without your help. Rewrite the instructions and check with another friend until they are 1000000% clear.

* If the instructions are clear and your device work, someone will not believe the video, and not believe the instructions, and then build the device as an amusement and get a huge surprise.
Okay… but then where do you draw the boundaries between the Germanic languages? What constitutes a language will always be political, until the day we stop drawing borders between languages.
> In fact the language spoken by the Swiss cannot be understood by almost all Germans, yet it is still called German.

This is not a good analogy, because there's a separate Alemannic Wikipedia (covering slightly more than Swiss German)
https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte
How difficult would it be, do you think, to establish a web-of-trust for those advocating the dangers of vaccines? How large would that web of trust be, and how many people would fall prey to it?

Bad money drives out good. Bad speech drives out good, too.
Ah, self sabotage. I know this all too well.