skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been getting calls for years at home where the caller would say "Mr XXX, this is the police" and then a pause and then "don't worry, we're just calling to talk to you about <some charity event>".

I have friends who tell me they always donate because they are afraid of repercussions. Lately the calls are actually bots, and very good ones. I had a short conversation with one and I thought they were human, before I hung up. Next call sounded exactly like the first, so I asked "are you human?" and after asking 2-3 times I got transferred to a human and told them to take me off their list. Haven't been called since.
If the primary goal is compensation, management is pretty much always gonna be the answer; that, or lots of very lucky equity.
The German example was about debris on the traffic lane(s) that had to be removed ASAP, and for a safe working environment, the traffic has to be slowed down/stopped.
I'm not sure exactly what kind of mechanism they have to track such information, but some departments clearly do keep tabs on people who are vocally hostile towards police.

take a look at this video if you have a minute. dispatch explicitly warns the officer that the guy has said threatening things about police on social media. unfortunately, the encounter ends in a (very likely) unjustified shooting of an unarmed suspect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFWR73R9G3E
It's also that it's just easier to go to Walmart or Target (or Amazon) and buy one and be done with it, than to spend the time hunting around garage sales or thrift stores for something they might not have. Unless you really need to save $10, time is way more valuable than money.
You can add to this that some major carpenters (I point my finger at you, Gnome team) will one day come to your house and suddenly remove a few planks here and there that you've been happily using for several years and turn a deaf ear at all protests.
> In this case, selling your soul is just a sin, a pretty bad one, but still a sin. In Catholicism and some Protestant traditions, you will enter into a state of Purgatory, (or purgatory-like phase) after death where you are cleansed of sins.

Catholicism does not teach that you will necessarily enter Purgatory; if you are unrepented, into the eternal fire you will go. This isn't because Satan owns your soul, but because you rejected God, who will not force you to be cleansed against your will.

https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P2O.HTM;;catholic
“No one has tried real communism yet.”
Yes, they do mess with the recipe. They've got money to mask it out and assist with conditioning the population to the new norm. And they can do this cause the service is sticky. Mass client exodus is very unlikely. And the ones that move out for morals are quickly replaced.

Juggernaut is unstoppable.
The idea is to revoke the device, not the account.
> I’m at $175k in central FL.

For total comp that's really low. I'd expect that to be paired with RSU equity grants of $150 - $200k/yr.

Any publicly listed "tech company" that isn't penny pinching like Amazon will probably offer similar rates.

Maybe look for a tech company that is hiring remote? Negotiate a good total comp package if it isn't in line with what you see on glassdoor, etc.
Another non-solution solution to the housing problem, in which the affluent upper-tier of the market is served (maximising economic rents to property investors), whilst exacerbating conditions for the under-housed.

That said: "corporate housing" is a long-standing feature of the Silion Valley region, dating back decades.
Captialism (as implemented in many Western countries) can deal with these things, it just doesn't by default. We successfully solved ozone depletion, we made significant progress with acid rain, we got rid of leaded gasoline, our rivers are reasonably clean, ...

Reasonable legislation that sets the right incentives works. But it's difficult to get passed when entrenched interests are against it. The problem isn't capitalism, the problem is the industry influence on politics that prevents reasonable legislation.
But that's exactly how houses are built. I wouldn't want to live in a house where the lumberjack who cut down the trees also designed the toilet.
So... Perpetual motion.
Why all the anger? I may read on different philosophies and religions that I do not fully or partially agree with, practice or believe in, yet I may find useful life lessons in each, or drive pleasure just from the act of reading. I do not regard any of them as "bullshit" just because I do not understand or share their opinions.
You would abandon your company and current position for a slight pay increase?

Do you not actually care about the company you work for and you're just there for the pay?

You make so much money already -- what is the thought process here

Man imagine trying to hire people and knowing they would all leave in a heartbeat for a slight pay increase.

What ever happened to working somewhere because you believe in what you're building and the people you're around bring you joy?
Vivaldi isn't profitable, as far as I know. Brave possibly is. But Brave growing points to proper privacy being a workable selling point. To the end user the browser itself is basically stock Chromium + shields (some people get a BAT boner). But they don't do basically any UX side innovation per se, the way Microsoft or Vivaldi try do.
> Linux kernel is large project and clearly C is sufficient for it

Sure, and operating systems have been written in assmebly too. The question is whether it would be better than just sufficient if Linux were written in C++, today (ie C++17 or 20, not something old). Switching now probably wouldn't be feasible (even ignoring technical reasons, the kernel developer community is familiar with the C codebase and code standards and bought into it), but if Linux were started today, would it be a better choice?

Maybe the answer is still no and C would still be chosen, but the choice today is very different than it was when Linux was started. Of course, maybe Rust or something would be chosen today instead.
Could this be due to expansions, buying new equipment during a silicon price hike which will be paid off in the future?
Birds poop on car windshields all the time, so how come when I do it, it's "public indecency"? If that's true then nature is immoral. Why is this cop presuming that humans are uniquely superior to recognize this over all other animals?

And don't get me started on this law that I have to be clothed.... No other animal is clothed. Maybe humans are the ones who are wrong? Really makes you think.
A lot of cardboard packaging incorporates plastic layers in them -- something people seem not to know.

For example, your Starbucks cup is covered in plastic film and is generally not recyclable. It actually contains more plastic than straws do, which are now being banned in many cities. The same is true for things like milk cartons or juice boxes.

Even your aluminum soda can has plastic in it.
We've gotten a lot of stuff like this free through Facebook groups

Everybody's got aged-out baby crap taking up space in their house, if you can get them before they get off their ass to throw it out they're usually overjoyed for it to disappear
David Cassidy, former teen throb (yes I’m old) had a good quote, “If you want fame and fortune, try fortune first and see if that’s enough”.
Is there any QuickTime demo CD-ROM made with HyperCard-themed Vaporwave? That would be my personal idea of heaven.
Sounds good includes police officers and the state itself right?
I think a benefit of paper bags would be encouraging planting trees to make more bags
Kudos for doing the right thing. I hope (and expect) that for you and your business, it is the right thing. Hopefully those devs are quite skilled, and worth keeping around, and will stay and help the business grow! I feel like a lot of times employers think devs are expendable, and while that's true to some extent, devs also can be quite worth paying extra to keep around especially if they've accrued quite a lot of domain knowledge that pertains to your business.
Brave and Vivaldi have built-in adblockers.
Game developers are a classic example. They're paid trash salaries and treated like vermin.
I suspect that for most people, when they are choosing where to live, environmental effects are way down the list. More important are: Will my kids go to a good school? Are the poor people (and associated social problems) far away from me?

Which is to say that if you choose to live someplace where you can't walk or ride a bike or have mass transit access to daily needs, you made that decision. I'm not going to tell you that you are wrong, though.
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There's an Adjust ClearType Text entry in the Start Menu that runs a wizard to tune how the anti-aliasing is configured. It asks you which options looks best.
You’re a better person than me. Sorry, I’m not doing that. For the record, I’m roughly 6.5 km from a market. I wouldn’t even know how to strap 20 bags to a bicycle. How do you?
It's sad that people would lose their jobs but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. This whole argument is toxic - we can't punish a company for doing unethical things because of all the people who rely on them? I reject this argument because providing jobs is not a real defense of anything and it also implies that the corporation's security means job security when many companies will do mass layoffs irrespective of how well they do (Activision being a rather infamous example) to help make revenue figures look better leading up to a review. Kodak are also most likely going to go under regardless unless if they make a real innovative change - and sucking up the CCP is not going to be it considering that market is saturated at this point.

The fact that evil empire number 2's actions could arguably less terrible than evil empire number 1 is not a defense. How about both the US and China are responsible for reprehensible things which deserve condemnation? It's gross enough to see US companies bootlicking their own government but it's even more nuasuating seeing them do so to another. It's also objectively even more reprehensible because it is not something that is even necessary for survival compared to not antagonising your own home state.

I also completely reject the stance that piracy is theft. Nobody is losing out on anything unless if you believe in the modern delusion that is IP. The fact that occasionally I'm pirating from US and CCP shills is a bonus, not the justification for it. I do not need any justification to pirate. I'm fine with paying for things as well but I'm not under some delusion that the money I'm sending is going to somehow be distributed fairly among the people who actually were responsible for making the production possible. I will and have spent hundreds or thousands when I have the option to send directly to creators, I couldn't give two shits if some parasitic executive would have been able to afford an extra diamond encrusted bidet if only for that last couple of dollars I could have provided him for the privilege of watching a show he didn't make. I only make exceptions for shows that are known to be struggling financially. That's the one case where individual purchases actually have a real impact on the survival of a show or the jobs of the people who do the real work.
It's a consequence of our unprecedented prosperity that we can fret about such things as "personal development." See how much you worry about personal development when you're trying to bring in enough of a harvest to meet your caloric needs.
It's configurable but you still can't configure it to anywhere near macOS's rendering - you can turn down hinting from 11 to like 9.5.
Why are you saying crazy self-fulfilling prophesies?
Do you hate money?

Take the leap into something you WANT. Skills, Sschmills! You can learn can't you?
Life means learning new stuff all the time. Learning never takes a time out.

The military was a bastion of learned lessons for me. One key takeaway: You are your own best advocate. Everything in an interview or negotiation related to you springs from that viewpoint.
That's one of the most basic you will repeat infinitely.
Use it boldly, not arrogantly.
How can it be enforced? A local Fox station doesn't do business in the EU.
Lots of “non-traditional” sources. The Reddit story might have something worthwhile.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vegan/comments/5y8o33/do_yall_have_...

It doesn’t sound like it’s a common problem, from my cursory investigation
They have tab groups. Tab groups are huge, and their implementation on mobile is excellent.
imho - What makes something agile, is getting a financial buffer applied to budgets, so a developer can spend an extra day building what's needed, rather than what was asked for, with the minimum of management overhead.
Yea, all of us who have used git and learned to live with its quirks (and probably have Stockholm Syndrome from it) can chuckle a bit, but much of the git cli is a dumpster fire from the "principle of least astonishment" user perspective. The affordances in some cases are terrible.

Ever drive a car that had every function ever on one stalk? The one that's the turn signal also has the cruise control, radio, lights, wipers, and blinker fluid. Much of git is like that – context-sensitive.

I can't really fault the programmers, they (he) had a certain mental model and translated that concretely to commands. Except that the internal abstractions of how get works are orthogonal to tasks and use cases of users.
while the argument here is that they are common carriers, from outside it looks more like US big tech is like other media producers. Except, instead of producing content to push their worldviews, they are shaping the content produced en masse by the crowd in order to push their message. The semantics are the same, even if the mechanism is diffeerent. The US seems to be in a bad spot under the hegemony of big tech, because they take advantage of this period of legal vaccum. The rest of the world is a bit more lucky because big tech doesn't have immediate interests there currently. But in any case it feels wrong that FB & google are not subject to the same legal duties as TV
I'd love to, as I'm really tired of my current employer, and they're definitely taking advantage of me, but I resolved to never waste my time with leetcode garbage again... which means I either stay where I'm at, or exit the industry entirely.
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> In places with good waste management practices, like the U.S., nearly all plastic trash ends up in a landfill.

This is not true, see [1].

> As a result, the U.S. is responsible for only ~0.25% of plastic in the ocean.

This is also not true, and your link does not say that. The link is saying that the rivers in the USA are carrying 0.25% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean, the U.S. (as in, the people living in the US) are responsible for much, much more.

Recycling plastic is a mess, so instead of dealing with it, countries like the U.S. or Canada have decided to ship it across the world to countries like the Philippines to be "recycled" over there (see [2]). So now, of course, if you look at where the plastic enters the ocean, you will see that almost all of it happens in Asian countries, that's not because they use more plastic, that's just because that's where all the plastic of the world ends up.

Taking into account the origin of the platic, the U.S. is among the worst offenders:

> "the United States generated the largest amount of plastic waste of any country in the world (42.0 Mt). Between 0.14 and 0.41 Mt of this waste was illegally dumped in the United States, and 0.15 to 0.99 Mt was inadequately managed in countries that imported materials collected in the United States for recycling." [1]

[1]: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/44/eabd0288

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93Philippines_was....
One could argue that the mere existence of a concept or an idea in someone's mind makes it real, especially so if that concept or idea has real, observable side effects for others in the "real" world. Heck, isn't this why we read science fiction or play board games? They create a mental image, the image is real in our minds.
> you could as well rip multiple copies on behalf of multiple accounts and average out the pixel colors.

Can you show that this can reliable get rid of the fingerprinting? This particular method could be countered by only including the fingerprint info in a few random frames, then you'd be able to retrieve the account info of all the accounts that participated in ripping. I don't think finding a method to counter any sort of fingerprinting is as easy as "just averaging the pixels".
"If they already have their budget in mind before the interview process began"

This is impossible to know though, as is its breakdown. Many places have very fixed limits on salary and bonus, for instance, but RSUs and sign on they have a lot of freedom.

Even the places that have fixed budgets all around may have multiple openings of varying levels; a strong interview showing may cause them to bump the level they'd look to hire you at, just to meet your comp expectations (I've seen this happen numerous times as a manager when a candidate came back asking for more).

If they bring it up at the start, great, it saves a lot of time for both of you. If -you- bring it up at the start, though, you're just closing off opportunities.
I think they may be investing a lot on future cloud infrastructure. they're pouring a lot in AI chip design which will dominate in 5+ years specially when cars become fully self-driving.
Yes. Ask for 620 though, then they come back at 575 and you just minted half of a 150k salary for being shrewd hehe
This is super neat but I think understates the absolute scale of this set of graffiti. I live in Ithaca and it is just everywhere.

My favorite is the one near Sweet Melissa's (here called Large Fence Cat: https://www.lostcatithaca.com/cats/10/large-fence-cat/ )
In my experience hiring binges are harbingers of layoffs and cancellation much more so than stability.
Commercial property when quoted as “$X/sq ft” means an annual rental charge, not monthly.
Understood, and you are right. I’m just not going to feel blame or guilt that I drive to buy food because our priorities are different.
> Take the leap into something you WANT. Skills, Sschmills! You can learn can't you?

It’s just about time really. I could skill up but what’s the market going to look like by the point I’m ready.
"The increase in operating loss in both periods was driven by an increase in total expenses of $5,103 million from 2019 to 2020…Operating expenses increased primarily due to compensation expenses (including SBC), largely driven by an increase in headcount. Additionally, data center and other operating costs increased in both periods."
What's wrong with 'made in Asia'?
Sometimes it’s not worth it, especially if you’re with a good company/team.
> I can see that you don’t like cops.

Does it really matter? The result of the encounter would be the same either way, whether or not favorable. The best you can do is not provide anything to confirm an unqualified suspicion.
I really like knockaround for its affordability.

https://knockaround.com/
You're incorrect, I don't know if the guy is Kurdish. But Turkey and Erdogan himself is very proud of the Turkish couple*.

He has taken stage in Turkey on TV alongside with Erdogan to outline the delivery of vaccines to Turkey several times.
My grandfather was a teacher and in the 50s he started noting that trouble learning to read/write wasn’t linked to lack of intelligence. He started groups for kids (mostly guys) with what we now call dyslexia and tried to help them. He had to invent material and methods.

On his eightieth birthday some of his students, now in their 50s, told how they had always felt stupid until he showed them they were not. Now they had businesses and successful careers.
Just to add my own data point. I studied leetcode for 6 months during covid. Sent about 30 applications interviewed at 10 companies and received 8 offers.

2 of these offers where double my current TC through negotiation. It's not just FAANG but startups making very good offers. I have 3 YOE.

For negotiation:

Always ask for at least 20% more + a signing bonus

Have competing offers

Interview well

Be willing to walk away. If they can't do it there's another company that will.
Because the pendulum is swinging towards ease of creation over control.

I can spin up a simple web app or a simple cloud function and get it globally distributed in minutes, for free. That's amazing
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The author discourages "micro-optimizing" memory instead of "thinking in pages". But the page transactions between an OS and an application do comprise a series of micro-transactions (malloc).

I see no reason why key decisions in the micro-optimizations space could not lead to emergent page minimums.
I read maybe 2 or 3 of these a month, and I get maybe a paragraph in before I feel that they're saying the exact same thing. If you can't use Linux, I'm not trying to deny that from you. I'm a musician, I understand how hard it is to get certain, specific creative tools working. But, here's the deal:

The current status of the Linux desktop is fine. There's a significant portion of the computer-buying market (probably 70-85%) that couldn't care less about the operating system they're running. MacOS, ChromeOS, Windows, Linux: it's all the same to many. You just need access to a browser and simple tools for the basics (text editing, email, calendar, etc.). Linux has you covered for those, and if you don't need anything else you'll likely be fine.

If you don't want to use Linux, then don't. But articles like these will neither sway current Linux users or stop the never-ending demand for it.
... What, as opposed to Windows, which is so consistent?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27556754
It is also extremely difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you were let go due to the disability, especially if there is only a single case in the company and not a track record to follow unless there is a blatant email along the lines of "they're blind, let's get rid of them."
This is a good explanation for why open source projects sometimes deliver something more useful - when they are written to be used.
On the other hand: "kempt" primarily survives as the fixed phrase "well kempt", and hasn't retained its original meaning as the past tense of "to comb".
i don’t know. i’m open to change my mind but i have not learned anything new unfinished.
I support this, and I suspect a more practical thing is that humane slaughterhouses will gain in popularity. A lot of the problem in our current era is how thoroughly you can outsource the job - but humanity has a large history of farmers/ranchers/hunters and their community being entirely willing to eat meat.

Also, this is what kosher/halal rules about slaughtering are trying to do. (There is some debate about how effective those specific rules are.)
Anything man-made, as should be obvious.

Example: It isn't democracy doing that, just people. It isn't autocracy doing that, just people. It isn't socialism doing that, it's people. It isn't capitalism doing that, it's people.

Therefore democracy = dictatorship, and socialism = capitalism. It's all the same, it's all people in the end, so it's no matter.

Patently absurd.
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Xi has/had a rope library that allowed one to apply many monoids at each internal node. So one could search for a position in the document as TFA is doing, but also count bytes, Unicode codepoints, Unicode characters/glyphs/widths, etc. with just one tree.

What's common to xi's approach and TFA's is monoids. Monoids are at the heart of CRDT.
Using plastics to sequester carbon (2018)
Perhaps amazing shouldn’t be what wins in the long run?