skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sound cards are indeed very underappreciated.

5 years ago when VR was the hype we measured latency using them. By syncing the audio stream to the high precision clock and basically putting in a photoresistor into the microphone port we could measure the latency of actually submitting a frame into the moment it physically appeared in the VR glasses.
You will still have a removable backplate on your hermetically sealed phone. All Right to Repair means is that companies will be unable to enter part exclusivity deals with manufacturers.
AFAIK, anything phones can do on a hardware level can be done on more open platforms. What could unlocking phones enable evil people to do? What's one of these valid points of the other side?
The fine print seems to be that the bankruptcy process privileges investors, rather than requiring companies to pay fines (which pay for the whistleblower program.) I don't know if this is good or bad, but it's the important substance of the article -- not the silly detail about this particular person's finances.
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Reforge is reinventing professional education. Our mission is to help people level-up in their careers, and meet like-minded people.

read about our founder here: https://brianbalfour.com/

We're a team of about 50 and we raised a Series A from a16z earlier this year. By end of year we'll likely be between 80-100.

We were profitable in the Millions completely bootstrapped before taking that round: https://www.reforge.com/blog/weve-raised-21m-to-grow-reforge https://a16z.com/2021/02/23/investing-in-reforge/

We have always been a remote-first environment, but do have an office in San Francisco. Half our team is in the Bay Area, the rest are across the US.

Tech Stack:

Ruby on Rails

React, vanilla javascript, webpack

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poppycock! the most precious resource is zement and wheat. Sheep and brick can be had anywhere, and longest road and biggest army are both like kick me zigns, yay unto the septenth generatzion. you gotta spend all your time trying to figure out how to translate numbers from aramaic!
At MWC 2021, Pegatron and ITRI Kickstarted Taiwan’s 5G Ambition
Jeff Bezos probably doesn't think he is a villain either. The ego and surrounding yourself with yes-men allows people who made decisions out of greed to rationalize their actions then into thinking they are a misunderstood hero.
Working conditions... you mean the sort of things that unions tend to care about?
Oral microbiome as a source to enhance immunity against infectious diseases?
"Why Nim?" chapter have almost convinced me that Nim has no future. Lol.

I would suggest to just cut it out or move it to the back.
Make it require a connection to a computer and disallow the stock OS from running at all when the bootloader is unlocked. I think those two hurdles should be more than enough to satisfy security concerns.
Nice. I think a reasonable addition to something like this might be a "truncated I/O" failure mode, i.e. make the read/write syscalls succeed, but only read/write less than what was requested.

This is kind of a pet peeve of mine. I've seen way too much FLOSS as well as proprietary C code that simply assumes return value >0 means everything was processed, or assume -1 means unrecoverable error and don't even bother to check for e.g. EINTR.

I'm curious just how bad some programs might fall on their nose when they hit such an error condition.
Funny how I was replacing my old phones with replaceable batteries every year, yet I am replacing the newer ones with non replaceable ones only every 3, 4 years.

Hint: it's not the non-replacable battery why people upgrade phones.
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I'm sympathetic to the author but I don't see anything in this very long article about how this "ruined her life"
Mapping the Long Trail: now free with OpenStreetMaps
Luckily, the (wonderful!) short story was archived at https://archive.is/oXDEt
It's legit. That's the going rate for this position. The company is keeping a low profile, but you'll learn more about us once you apply.

I can't personally move to Puerto Rico for this job, or I would. But I'm consulting for them. A fastmail alias was just the easiest way for me to get a temporary address.
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VividQ is a VC-backed, deep tech software company with world-leading expertise in 3D holography: the next generation display technology. Our expert engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists out of the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and St Andrews have solved key technology barriers in the adoption of holographic display for mass commercial application. VividQ powers devices developed by OEMs across the US, China and Japan, establishing a new standard of display.

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WTF??

All the time - it's about humans! We're not the only species on this planet! We don't exist in a vacuum - there is such a thing as an ecological network!

What's the fallout for everything else? How many mammals, birds, reptiles, insects died in the recent heatwave? How will this shape ecosystems and biomes?

This kind of thinking is part of the problem...
It's supposed to enable much-cheaper options for IoT applications. If the cost of the chip + the cost of low-bandwidth access drops below the profit gained by ensuring all your TVs can always reach an unfiltered network, they'll start adding them.
> Why would I want to rush back to "normal" when I know so many young people who can't get vaccinated?

Because they're at less risk from Covid than from influenza, and everyone else who wants it has been eligible for a vaccine for months now.
>it’s a democratic issue that it is a select few tech-billionaires that can remove someone like Donald Trump from my life

This is largely due to the fact that DT is, frankly, an idiot.

He was still the president on Jan 10. The American President has PLENTY of ways to get their message out... if they want to. Trump refused to adapt to changing circumstances.
You've got a massive headstart advantage over anyone born in countries like India or Mexico, and the actually good developers in those countries can command higher salaries (and demand h1b visas and a path to US citizenship) as well.
> Yeah, it's hard to predict events like that in any asset class, what's your point? Keep it in cash?

Obviously not, but do diversify your investments.

A lot of homeowners are putting the vast majority of their portfolio in real estate due to the inflated home prices. Most folks taking on a $1 million mortgage with $200k down, don't have an addition $500k of other assets to fall back on if the housing market drops half the value of their house.
As I understand it, the standard allows a single tower to offer different quality of service levels so operators can sell cheap low bandwidth connections to IoT manufacturers. TVs wouldn't have modems before because no TV manufacturer wanted to pay for a full 3G or 4G connection.
Ambassador Labs (formerly Datawire) enables developers to code, ship, and run applications. We recently launched a developer control plane for Kubernetes that integrates the development, deployment, and production infrastructure for developers and organizations worldwide.
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I zement to differ!
10? This was a problem even before 2001, which is when Internet Explorer 6 was released which (unfortunately) quickly became the Internet. Things weren't so multi-platform back then so swaths of the Internet became inaccessible unless you were using IE6 on Windows. Things are a bit different these days with smartphones and Apple's viability, but the landscape is starting to look strangely familiar.
I was in the “libertarian” camp on this. But now looking at all the damage caused (including killings in India on false social media rumors) I certainly think “mainstreaming of social media” is warranted.

For one remove anonymity from social media. That in itself should clean up half this mess with existing laws.
100% agree, and not saying it should try. Just questioning the validity of the apparent benefits of this particular attempt at fixing symptoms.
Are such changes a rare occasion? I had naively expected this cycle (accident, analysis, changes to code or law, quiet period, then another accident with a less obvious cause) to be a tragic but necessary engineering routine. I'm referring to that "profound change" that, to me, sounded like there would be a change to that cycle itself, not just updates to the building code.
Even worse, as this leak shows, they’re spending considerable resources to actively sabotage intelligent debate.
Test everything in w3m, netsurf and other niche browsers.
I think the terminology you're looking for is "homeserver." Homeservers are tied to a single hostname / domain, but may be a collective of servers running the different services that comprise the protocol itself.

That said, you _do_ have to worry about spam from other homeservers, but that only matters if you have users from that other homeserver in your room. You can choose to federate / not-federate on a room-by-room basis, or just not federate at all ever.

Needless to say, you're right that it is a bit different than IRC in that regard (IRC can just kline hosts / IP ranges from the whole service if you're spamming). However, in practice there's a lot less instances of random spam such as in the article than you would think.

For myself, I never noticed any of these spammers at all (anectodal, so mileage may vary). I do have my own homeserver through Element Matrix Services, but I am part of a good number of rooms that exist purely on the Matrix.org server. Certainly I have to "police my users," but that's pretty easy since I run a small homeserver for ~5 users, and we just federate with the greater network when needed.

I guess I agree with you in general that there's different failure modes, but I don't think it's as simple as dismissing matrix because it "has the same spam problem as email" compared to IRC. In practice at least, it doesn't seem to be as much of a problem despite how much larger than IRC Matrix has become.
Which of your examples are constitutional rights?
She checked into a hospital because she was considering suicide..
> There are also several (known) political mercenaries who operate bot farms specifically to attack leftists and signal boost those attacks to astroturf popularity.

You mean harassers and bullies from hexbear AKA chapotraphouse who target radical feminists? Yes, it's leftists attacking women who disagree with them.
I'd thought that FB and the rest wanted to know everything about you so that when a certain leading % of your cohort (however you create and group them, I'm no expert here) changed behavior, they can sell higher-converting, related ads to the rest of that cohort. I suppose you might classically use an example of how the Peloton caught on or something commercial like that, but you could definitely also track memetic influences.

I suppose my point is: you're implying FB is converting you to a behavior (FB retains agency in the action), but I'm more curious on whether they're "just" helping that behavior cascade through a cohort (the 3rd party advertiser retains agency in the action since they're designing the ads and expecting a return.) I suppose that if it did exist, this distinction probably gets blurred a bunch in reality (sometimes FB themselves might really want you to convert! e.g. antitrust or whatever)
If the ten-year note reverted back to its historical average of around 4%, this would result in 30% of the Federal budget being dedicated to paying _interest_ on the debt. This is your answer - higher rates = chaos.
Red Hat is hiring a good C programmer to work on virt-v2v (https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html), converting VMware virtual machines to run on KVM, packaging it for RHEL, and handling customer bugs and features. Location: Remote [ignore what it says in the advert] https://global-redhat.icims.com/jobs/86245/software-engineer...
All those downsides you mention are not automatic consequences of having a union. Look at union jobs in Europe for a better example of how things can work out. All the nice perks you mention are completely at the discretion of your employer. Ask yourself this: Why would you voluntarily forgo leverage to be gained on your employer?
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> I simply don’t get why we don’t hold the social media platforms accountable for the content that gets posted to them

The scale of content being posted on social media is such that this liability makes running a social media platform effectively impossible. All user generated content would have to be manually reviewed before being posted. This would be prohibitively expensive.

As for the Trump ban, freedom of speech also means freedom from compelled speech. The government can't force a store to sell a particular newspaper, or force a newspaper to run a particular story. Same applies to internet websites. If you have a blog with a comments section, the government can't force you to host certain comments.
>We're extremely well compensated and are dictating changes like forever WFH. We have generous vacation, perks, 401k contribution, ...

You presume this sort of compensation is enjoyed throughout our industry. It isn't.
It's a great example of the problem the article is about. It's great irony. And I'm fucking done with irony.
If we're going to have mechanisms like fines and penalties, and we're going to use those fines to support whistleblower reward programs, then we're going to have to resolve these questions. Because what we have now is a whistleblower reward program that does not work, at least in certain circumstances.
Giant screen, no knobs. No Volvo in my future.
Fabrik | Fullstack Engineer | Remote (US or EU hours) | Full-time | Salary: $100-$120k

Fabrik is a CMS for medium to large publishers. Full Stack Engineers at Fabrik are responsible for the core product platform, from frontend UI and testing, to APIs, low-level services, and database operations. Full Stack Engineers work in close partnership with designers, product thinkers, and writers directly to build out new product offerings and tooling across the platform.

Responsibilities:
Develop the core Fabrik CMS for writers, and sites for publishers. Be willing to jump into any part of the stack: API, Front end CMS, Sites templates, CDN, etc.
Scale the platform by tuning postgres queries, developing caching solutions, and building tooling for monitoring.
We work with JavaScript, including Node/Express and React, and Postgres. It is not necessary to know Node and React already, but expertise in web architecture is absolutely necessary.

Requirements:
At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
Can contribute across the full stack.
Independent and autonomous. We are a small team split across several timezones. We don't micromanage, and expect that everybody holds their own.
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Apply:
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When working with data that has been scanned/parsed from a file, it is often very useful to me that I retrieve the data in the order it was found in the file. This gives humans some kind of continuity between the input and the output of the program.
Unions don't block those features you want. All Labor benefits from group power against Capital. Your job today benefits from Union efforts in decades past.
Code templates are the top reason why I avoid IDEs. You just start writing something and the IDE will insert a block of code there, with no indication of where it ends, and catching you off guard if you are focused on something other than data input.

The fact that there are so many people that like them that all the IDEs have the feature on by default with the off switches scattered all over their configuration so you can't turn them off is scary.
Great news source for those interested in Taiwan's tech industry
What's going on with .icu domains? Any idea on why they've been so prone to spam?
This is true of all knowledge-work. Traditional engineering is fraught with the same problem - you don't know EXACTLY how you will solve the challenges, so how can one accurately estimate them? Even worse - if you don't have a clear set of requirements, or they are expected to change as you progress (a critical feature of AGILE), then estimating with any likelihood of achieving same becomes all but impossible.

The more uncertainty in the path, the less accuracy in the estimate. Kahnemann's latest book "Noise" provides some good background on why this happens.

Having multiple people do independent estimates and averaging them probably gives better results, and having a clear process to document assumptions and test sensitivity to those estimates can also help.
U.S. to add third gender option to American passports
Universal XSS Vulnerability in Microsoft Edge
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