skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there special uses of VPN that is part of every web browser now?
Are there special uses of VPN that is part of every web browser now?

Working remote seems like a good thing. I am new to it albeit it seems lots of developers are already doing it. I have been giving all the network, username, and password information and I am told that I can "HTML5 VPN Portal (any browser)" ... whatever that means. Please tell me whatever that means !! How is this done? So far all I know about VPN is that it is a bit of software I can use to mask my location. Apparently it has more than one meeting.

I suspect there is a common use of VPN or maybe others on the team are calling "VPN" something else. I now there is a secure site login. Is this what this is?

Apart from using google or a search engine to look up an answer to this, I feel a sense of urgency to engage in social media and web forums for an answer. This seems like a bit of fuzzy logic needs to be used to get a grasp of this and to get an answer. I am guessing that maybe something else is being used instead of VPN and I suspect there is some human error involved in describing this to me.

All I know is that A VPN is a classification of software to mask your true location. That is all I know so far. I am told that one can use HTML5 with a browser to use VNP to remote into a location. If that is so, how is it done?
Maybe I parsed your sentence wrong but Smallpox would have never gone away without the vaccine.
Google, Facebook and Twitter can only block you from Google, Facebook and Twitter respectively. ISPs can, and do, refuse service to some people. In some areas that means effectively being banned from the entire internet.

Admittedly bans/refusals from IPSs are orders of magnitude more rare, but I find it disturbing that there there are no regulations or oversight to an ISP refusing or terminating service, when access to the internet is so fundamental to modern life, and to many people's livelihoods.

I can't do my job without high-speed internet access, but I either don't use, or can easily replace Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
I think this proves the point -- Simon Kjaer was hailed a hero for 'life-saving' response to Christian Eriksen's collapse [0] and Eriksen was discharged from the hospital 6 days later (he had a defibrillator implanted). Had no-one done CPR he may well have died.

[0] https://news.sky.com/story/euro-2020-denmark-captain-simon-k...
Well, that might be an example of how my perception is swayed by these recommendations. There are probably plenty of people out there making YouTube videos purely advocating for equal treatment in things like the draft, or allocation of child custody in divorce, or whatever.

But if I were to watch a few of their videos I suspect I would be swamped with recommendations for other videos which are more in line with what I was referring to. Stuff made by and for men who are bitter and resentful of women and spend a lot of time online seething about it.

I mentally lump it all together because it all appears together. That's admittedly unfair.
Not the author, but here's something I put together about 8 years ago using the web audio API to synthesize analog drum sounds, specifically modeled from the Boss DR-110: https://www.bitrotten.com/dr110/webaudio/

(See also https://github.com/leviathant/BossDR110/tree/feature/synthes...)
Facebook has been rather open about moderation struggles, and they shifted their strategy as recently as two weeks ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57836319 . It's hard to see that as "they know what they're doing".

You have to be careful of assuming successful companies are making the right choice in individual decisions. Success has a way of hiding failure. People tend to overlook all of Facebook's failed products and features, because their overall income is so large, but bad decisions must have happened.
I will say as someone who has to wrangle a lot of junior devs -- don't have imposter syndrome on this. The hard part is sticking with the issue and seeing it through to the logical conclusion. Many people have difficulty even conceptualizing the steps that need to be taken in order to solve a problem. If you are smart enough to get help from someone in devops and understand the advice they gave, you're doing the same stuff senior devs and CTOs do on a daily basis. We're all frauds lol
It does appear that it was a post-casting milling step (the inside is smoother than the outside and handle), so you probably could replicate it. However, cast iron dust is abrasive (so it’s a pain for machine operators) and legacy cast iron is still fairly plentiful so it’s probably not worth the time and expense unless you were doing it for curiosity rather than to end up with a finished pan.
A ‘species’ is a human categorization, it is not some objective thing. They likely didn’t have a concept like we do about species.
Agreed - I have a 10" Griswold griddle that's got milling circle marks on the smooth surface.
I'd love to see that! I tend to think that some of their technical choices on Atlas would have to revised, though.
Having hydraulic actuators (very good power/weight ratio) makes the robot quite noisy, which is fine for a robot, but less cool if there is someone stuck inside it a whole day
Wouldn't it be the one without the dot or the slash? it's honestly never been a problem for me. What has been a problem is the difference between an oval and a circle when zero is not marked.
> SAY NO TO URGENT ONE-OFF REQUESTS FROM MANAGEMENT!!!

Or find new management, if this is a consistent problem.

Unless you happen to be the management hiring boss, that means finding a different place to work.
An interesting and nuanced discussion of teflon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FNNKhVoUu8

When it comes to skillets, I primarily use teflon, with the occasional use of carbon steel. I almost never use cast iron or stainless steel.
Not every value is divided by 2. Only the K.E. term is divided by 2. The P.E. term is not.

If you ever find where Young worked out the equivalency to P.E. then you'll find he had m v² = 2 m g h. But I suspect he did not.

The underlying topic is vis viva. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis_viva points out, Leibniz was the first to point out that m v² was conserved, Bernoulli used 1/2 m v² in 1741, and at about the same time du Châtelet derived the notion of conservation of energy using Newtonian mechanics, Young called the concept "energy" in 1807 (though without the 1/2), and the 1/2 'recalibration' was due to Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis and Jean-Victor Poncelet during 1819–1839.

Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard-Gustave_de_Coriolis :

> In 1829, Coriolis published a textbook, Calcul de l'Effet des Machines ("Calculation of the Effect of Machines"), which presented mechanics in a way that could readily be applied by industry. In this period, the correct expression for kinetic energy, ½ mv2, and its relation to mechanical work, became established.

Coriolis gives the specific reason at https://archive.org/details/ducalculdeleffe00corigoog/page/n... :

> .. nous appliquerons cette dénomination à la moitié de ce produit, en sorte que la force vive sera le produit de la masse par la moitié du carré de la vitesse. Cette légère modification à l'usage ancien introduira plus de simplicité dans les énoncés des principes que nous avons à donner.

From Google Translate:

> we will apply this denomination to half of this product, so that the living force will be the product of the mass by half of the square of the speed. This slight modification to the old usage will introduce more simplicity in the statements of the principles that we have to give.

In other words, it's not "a useless convention" as you write, but a convention which simplifies the resulting mathematics.
True, good job on recognizing and writing it up.
Oh, I’m glad with what GAMI has done and at this point it would be better than alcohols, but this whole thing shows the status-quo bias of the FAA IMHO where anything existing and established gets a pass (no matter how bad the environmental/societal consequence, no matter how many people the trolley runs over) because of the possibility of a temporary increase in risk for general aviation. Anyway, yeah, good on GAMI for developing this.
What is not mentioned here, the lack of static typing in elixir. I think for some people it could be no go. That is one major downside for me as well. On the other side, totally agree with the developer experience, really love it. I work profecionally with nodejs/typescript and on my free time looking on other languages, especially functional ones. I tried clojure before, but found the ecosystem in Elixir way better, especially dev tooling. It feels like it all really stick to each other. Another part, because all structured around modules, it is easy to check documentation and find the function you are looking for.
My experience, as long as you cook with plenty of fat each time, the pan gets a kind of a re-season when you cook with it, and it'll hold up to most kinds of cleaning.

People who don't cook with plenty of fat, they have problems.
No, it was pretty good in the late 90s, very early 00s. Then it got competition from digg and reddit, and lost readership. Only the trolls perservered, and here's the key, without quality conversation, dedicated readers couldn't earn enough meta-karma to moderate. The 'never delete a comment' policy remained for about a decade wherein every story was quickly brigaded by racist, sexist and homophobic slurs, but mostly the n word; with only a handful of diehard commenters remaining.

To this day, I prefer Slashdot's summaries over headline-only aggregators, and I wish other sites would adopt features like the mod-with-reason and karma caps per comment. But they designed the system to limit the power of moderators, and those limits didn't scale with the imbalance between trolls and good-faith posters
This is why I'm always skeptical when someone says "$bigco uses $language! It's on the map!"

Yeah, well, somewhere, in some department, $bigco probably uses any random language you can think of.
> it does not retain heat better than aluminum alloys

You're missing the forest for the trees. Cast iron pans retain heat better than aluminum pans because cast iron pans are 4mm thick and aluminum pans aren't 6mm thick.

(Also it does retain heat better. [EDIT: by thickness, not by weight. The comment below is also correct.])

https://www.centurylife.org/heat-retention-myths-and-facts-d...
> Something that should be trivial has no general consensus about how it should be done and, not only that, many pitfalls.

Oh, boy. Let me tell you about CSS.
Make it even simpler. Mark yourself as the only source of karma. Then when you upvote people, they also become sources of karma; and when you downvote them, they become sinks (their upvotes might actually subtract karma.) This effect should attenuate with distance from you (i.e. your upvote is +1, the person you upvoted's upvote is +0.9.)
Gospel FAQ #1
Simply prioritizing tasks correctly is all you really need to do.

If you can't figure out what is important or not, default to order by descending difficulty. Get the team on a call and figure out hardest, 2nd hardest, 3rd hardest, and then assign those tasks.

You will likely (but not always) find the trivial, "easy" shit wasn't that valuable to begin with - otherwise it would have been prioritized by the business and have been completed already.

There are additional benefits with this approach - If the whole team starts knocking out the scariest shit first, it's like paying off your biggest debt first. The psychological power of that is really hard to overstate in my experience.
You can also not use an IPv4 NAT on an IPv6-enabled network.

Or use Virtual WAN with IPv6... at all.

Or...

It's almost like some subcontractor developer was told to tick a checkbox so that they technically speaking provide IPv6. They do. Technically.
Facebook warns growth to slow significantly, mandates vaccine for U.S. staff
> Going to traditional agriculture or agroforestry would involve a lot more people being involved with food production. Not necessarily a bad thing, but that would inherently raise costs (although it may be paid for some by time not money)

But it would also reduce unemployment. I know pre-industrial food production was a massive undertaking, but we don't need to go all the way.
Yeah, really, who needs pants for cooking anyway?
I am not vaccinated and at this point, do not plan to be. Yes, I accept that I will become a second-class citizen in a country where the Bill of Rights exists.

Here is a non-comprehensive list of my reasons: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/07/my-thought-process-regarding... .

The relevant part to you might be the part that talks about how I believe that what is best for the individual is actually best for society, especially since society pays if something goes wrong because the pharma companies accept no liability.

So yes, you can go ahead and push to make me a second-class citizen, and call me selfish while pushing such tyranny, and I will still not get any vaccine.

I have decided that my line against tyranny is being experimented on medically. Where's yours?
I also think in terms of effort vs. reward, swimming is a tremendously worthwhile skill to learn. You can become reasonably competent at swimming in 40 hours. Compare that to learning a language, which can take 1000s of hours.
I also cook eggs and omelettes in cast iron and they basically never stick, even when I use little oil. The most important thing is learning to regulate heat. A cold or scorching hot pan can easily lead to avoidable disasters.
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Same. The only rule I have for mine is "oil it when you're done." I'm a guy who just never washed it. Scrape it, heat it with oil, rub it down...and done. My wife insists on washing it normally. Though well seasoned, it will absolutely surface rust in lot of places if not oiled after dried.
The Amazonian Evil Infecting AWS
they usually do the same model when it is X for one site/project and ~ 1.5x unlimited use
I consider myself to be a very mentally-stable person, but I have encountered occasional hallucination-like experiences. They're very brief, and my brain seems to correct itself retroactively, which makes them somewhat difficult to notice. For example, a soft noise could be vividly interpreted as someone calling my name, but when it becomes apparent that this didn't happen, my brain files the experience as "probably misheard something", and my attention is immediately diverted. Supposedly smell hallucinations are pretty common too. These are hard to recall because they're so unremarkable. It's difficult to tell these things from common daily "mistakes", but is there really a difference except in effect size?
In LLVM or in libomp?
I don't know what omp simd is likely to get you over autovectorization. I know of cases where it was thought necessary (-fopenmp-simd, without -fopenmp) but wasn't with recent GCC.
It's incredible how a story titled Housing boom is over as new home sales fall to pandemic low was literally just published yesterday. Granted, these aren't the same publication but the stark difference between the two is bewildering.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/housing-boom-is-over-as-new-...
I suppose putting them through a dishwasher cycle, then putting them into pantry dry with no oil, and then leaving it there for a few weeks would be one way to get there.
I wasn’t implying it’d be easy. I think it’d be really hard and may even increase general aviation risk in the short term, but every flight using leaded avgas causes harm and I think the status quo bias of regulation is causing us to not weigh that risk appropriately. EDIT: I’m glad that GAMI developed this.
Thank you for the additional context, I did not know about these particulars. I think it would be very interesting how the tradition might change if someone from a different party (or even an independent) managed to fill a seat.

Clearly I am not an expert in the American political process, but the language of the parent comment has been used to deliberately mislead and I wanted to make it clear in what way it may be misleading.
Think we're talking past each other a bit. :)

I am not mixing those up. Even when I only had 3-4 years of experience I was very keenly aware they are separate things. But 90% of the people I worked with did mix them up and forced their decisions on me.

I know DDD can be applied sparingly and to produce common-sense code that can be easily read by (almost) anyone and it's what I strive to do for years every working day.

What I was saying is: it's an uphill battle against the mob rule of a lot of people who get easily hyped and lack analytical and critical thinking skills and just blindly apply every single enterprise pattern they've read in a book.

To that end I somewhat agree with the article -- but not completely.
Java/Python/C# were my first languages, and worked in them for over a decade.

I learned F# in a ~year, and then found a Clojure job. I _never_ want to go back to OO.
This is really easy to say, but having done pretty much exactly this for ages, finding management that doesn't take advantage of you in this regard is really rare.
Wait, you aren't seasoning your pants regularly? Mine have never seen soap.
> They are the inevitable consequence of an organisation that puts more emphasis on reputation than truth; that rewards good news and punishes bad; that has a leadership team disconnected from the delivery of the actual work; that instils fear and compliance with process into its employees, rather than a desire to do the right thing.

This is so endemic to all organizations.

When you shoot messengers, expect to receive fewer messages.
Articles can be written with any viewpoint you want - it just depends on where you get the information from and who massages it to further push their opinion onto you.
Word gets out you paid a $3m ransom for a bomb and bombs start appearing everywhere.
Chimpanzees have the same number of cameras as humans. Yet we don't let them drive. It's a puzzler.
/s
i would say the purpose of life is only proliferation, it's the environment that provides the negative feed back for "self-sustaining". For example, deer with no predators will proliferate until they starve to death and numbers go down to what can be sustained by their environment. If the environment can't sustain any then the population count goes to 0 to match.
Interesting!

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/specific-heat-metals-d_15... says that aluminum has twice the specific heat capacity of cast iron, and another page on that site says that it has about four times the thermal conductivity. So if your goal is to dump as much heat into your food as fast as possible, aluminum is definitely the way to go. But if you want slower heating, iron may be better.
How to Add Voice Commands to Your Android App in 20 Minutes [video]
This is gorgeous! Have you considered adding it to matrix.org/clients?

It would also be interesting to know a little bit more how the hard features are implemented. Key exchange and cross signing in E2EE? Plans for "native" VoIP?
The bubble-ization I see today is less "I am intolerant of your alternative subjective views! The Beatles are totally better than the Rolling Stones!" and are more often a struggle of information vs. willful disinformation.

So many of today's "bubbles" don't even involve subjective ideas; they involve willful distortions of facts such as anti-vaccine propaganda, flat Earth theories, and the like.

how VR Chat is much more like the earlier internet [...] a
much healthier environment where people are exposed to and
more understanding of those outside of what would otherwise
be their bubble

I miss those early days, but I think the notion of the internet as a more tolerant place back then is mostly an illusion.

The internet population itself was kind of... a single bubble back then. It was way less diverse than the general population.

Early internet discourse was dominated by tech-savvy folks at universities, and folks working in the tech/engineering sectors. Therefore users tended to be male, white, college educated, young, technologically savvy, and economically upper/middle class.

We were less likely to see the walls between bubbles because we were in a single bubble.
I've always had visual glows when I close my eyes. Not eye floaters, I only see those when my eyes are open.

When I close my eye, I usually see an outline of bright/dark somewhat matching what I last saw, but desaturated and splotchy.

If I keep my eyes close, the patches kinda drift around. It's kinda fun to watch sometimes but I get bored eventually open my eyes.

I've always assumed its my eyes just adjusting to the dark, or maybe its residual light my eyelids can't filter out.
And when the moon shows up next to a pole, a bridge or any high up structure, the car comes to a stop because it "sensed" something. You must solve vision anyway, so why use a crutch?
I lock my laptop every time I stand up from my chair.

I currently work from home.

Habits are important. I also put on my parking break every time I turn off my car!

So, IMHO, not an unreasonable burden!
I'm just saying it does reproduce (or replicate to use the exact same word op used). Whether it's correct to use any of the other terms I will leave to others
First detection of light from behind a black hole
https://archive.is/N2wzt
What would happen if someone blew up the mining company office due to a "paperwork oversight"?

You would probably kill a few janitors, and the executives would come out unscathed, again.

If you're going to go as far as engaging in violence, it's much better to go after the executives directly, as they're the ones who deserve it, not the guys making minimum wage to clean out the trash cans.
Yeah, I've cooked eggs in cast iron for several years and I think a lot of the advice I see is wrong. You really have to get the pan fairly hot IMO, if they don't bubble as soon as you pour them in then I get a lot more sticking. But like you said, definitely not sear!

On my electric stove I let the pan warm up on medium heat for 5 minutes or so until the edges of the pan are good and hot, then add butter, let it almost brown for 30 seconds or so (if it burns the butter, too hot), then toss in the scrambled eggs which should immediately bubble and start cooking. Some quick stirring and you're done cooking in about 1-2 minutes for 2-6 eggs.
If you have a PhD in the field and are spending your time prepping demos and/or generating reports, then I would say: move away from where you’re currently at. Even if you think it’s too late, chances are you still can.

This can be done by either changing how you’re being perceived internally, or, the easier way: getting a different job elsewhere.
I think focusing just on the funding aspect alone is a mistake. A much more glaring issue stares the industry in the face: the people don't really want journalism.

Meaning, they don't have the attention span for it in a world that is overloaded with information. We've been conditioned to snack size news for a long time now. And the trend is accelerating. Look at "stories", "fleets", Tiktok...all inventions for the viewer/reader to require even less effort to consume it. Extremely short form content, preferably even auto playing the next one.

Further, in highly polarized times, few have the critical thinking skills to appreciate high quality journalism that questions their position or beliefs, it's much easier to see your bias confirmed. Nuance is for losers, outrage goes viral.

No ethical ad will fix that.
Evacuate the casino, but leave some cars in the parking lot (lol).
> "passion burns out, whereas greed is sustainable

Boy do I hope this isn't true. I'm driven in my career by passion, not a desire for income (I've never been particularly money-motivated -- not saying that's good or bad. It's just how I am.)

If the passion burns out, so does my whole career.