skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. What's the big deal about getting fired exactly? From what I've heard, tech recruiters consider > 4 year stay at a company a red flag that you have gotten "too cozy" and stagnated into hardened habits and old tech, and personally I don't think they're wrong.

Maybe things will change when I'm older, but for now I've found that being fired has usually actually been a net financial positive and a net career positive (you make 30% more and take 2 months of no pay, usually a better known company).

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm thinking a 45-year-old who has a 3-year-stint at FAANG, a 3-year-job at a startup, 4-years-at-big-co is going to be infinitely more employable than 16-years at Noname Inc.
Well, the author has to be aware of it: https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/issues/2216
> interest bearing accounts on the stablecoins are the (edit: things analogous to) MMFs, not the stablecoins themselves

Sorry, I was speaking metaphorically. Stablecoins are collateralized by money market assets. This backs their "guarantee" of convertibility. Money market funds used to provide a similar liquidity-risk transformation guarantee--they would never "break the buck," i.e. trade for less than $1/unit. Until they did in 2008, which created a credit crisis in the money markets as those funds all fire sold commercial paper at the same time to maintain their peg.

So we changed the rules. No fake pegs. If you find yourself in a credit crisis, you trade your fund at 98¢ instead of incurring 50¢ of liquidation costs to defend a magic number. In exchange, no marketing your funds as being as stable as deposit accounts.

See the rhyme?
Python is indeed far from ideal for scraping in the modern web, but for only one reason: It can't execute javascript.

As a result, js generated content cannot be scraped, and python scrapers also get blocked very fast as they don't execute fingerprinting scripts.
I built one using the Adafruit GPS hat to get the PPS through a GPIO pin, no latency at all.
looks like most of the comments here are debating whether Rand Paul is correct or incorrect, which is wholly irrelevant to the issue at hand here.
Why is it fraud? It's an actual apartment that they can use when they are in the city for work. It's not like it's just a mail drop, it's a physical apartment and the employee is on the lease.
I did... and?
We've lost the essence of journalism.

Instead of a venue where multiple options are presented for review by the reader (along with editorial comment, of course), we now have platforms which are nothing but editorial. Not only individual people but individual comments are called out for censorship. This is not how news reporting was done in the past.

It's sad because today, there isn't a single website where a curious individual can review all of the views on a subject (or all of the comments of opposing politicians, for examples) without the platform weighting or simply removing views it doesn't like. This is a loss of objective information and is detrimental to education and intellectual and social advancement.

Instead of journalism, each "platform" now picks and chooses stories and voices that amplify its overlords' goals and nothing more. There is no truth to be delivered, only "my" truth as seen by my platform owners.

It's a sad day.
Caltech Announces Breakthrough $100 Million Gift to Fund Space-based Solar Power Project (Aug 3) -

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/caltech-announces-breakth...
Cloth masks are effective in preventing covid in the same way that "the rhythm method is effective at preventing pregnancy." Which is to say it reduces the probability a small amount, but not nearly enough to justify a person treating it as an effective prophylactic. So it depends on what your definition of "effective" is, but it seems to me more like disinformation to call cloth masks or rhythm method "effective" than to say they are not effective.
I have been meaning to read those books. I have not read the first one either though.

It's just the logic doesn't work out for me. Just because something was doesn't mean something ought. So why is that seemingly always the presumed right path to pursue. Why do we always look to just make nature static to what it was 100s or 1000s of years ago?
Pretty sure you're wrong. If you drive, the commute can be a stressful waste of time.
Your scenario also needs to account for free sausage sandwiches. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage
I personally don't know, but I also can't imagine - German internet speeds outside of metropolitan areas is notoriously somewhere between non-existant and absolute garbage.

https://breitbandmessung.de/kartenansicht has a scrollable map, but it doesn't say from when the measurements are, nor if "no coverage" means that there is no coverage, or if they have performed no measurements there.

But you're probably lucky to get into the double digits of Mbps. Note how the whole map tops out at ">= 50Mbps".
You would rather have a handful of ex-criminals run a supposed $60 billion "currency"?

How is any of that better?
Napkin math would be:

90% of infected person virus stays in

90% of virus does not get in for a healthy person

So 1% (10% through * 10% through) of final particles will be inside the mask. Hence roughly 0.9% of particles (90% stays inside of the mask of the healthy person) would stick around by this logic

Vs 100% of particles that could enter will enter without any sort of mask
No one running COBOL will use it because those legacy applications "just work". Debugging and making certain the resulted transpiled code does as well will take a monumental effort (read: money). That is why those codebases haven't been ported because, based on similar efforts, transpilers are only partially easier than a manual rewrite.

That answering the what if question. The project itself is interesting.
> I have yet to see a better method of determining price than two parties agreeing on a number.

There's information asymmetry here, as the employer knows what all the other employees make.

Also, it seems that "agreeing on a number" doesn't work as Google unilaterally decides that working from home somehow changes the agreement.
I suppose it won't be a problem of similar size, but still a problem. Google does a thing and now you suddenly have to also do a thing as a reaction.

If Google didn't do the thing, then the employees also didn't have to to a thing and that would have been easier.
Agreed. The quality of HN has gone down significantly with its greater popularity. A lot of Reddit refugees bringing their baggage.
That is misleading. A more relevant number is the capital requirement, which is between 7% and 13% currently for US banks, if I'm not mistaken, corresponding to leverage of 8 to 14. Much more benign.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...
>> Add to that, remember when a president was impeached over a "conspiracy theory" regarding Hunter Biden's time at Burisma? One year later, fact checkers had to admit that the FBI was indeed investigating him.

> that's not why he was impeached.

Yes, it was. The charge was "abuse of power" because the Democrats claimed that Trump had improperly pressured Ukraine to investigate whether Joe Biden had influenced Burisma to hire or to overpay his son, which is the "conspiracy theory" GP referred to.
> With just a little bit of grinding, you can easily find some input that produces the right sighash. You don't need to find a full hash collision, you're only checking the first four bytes. So is this theory correct?

I remember a paytv hack (maybe it was a card unloop?) that worked this way.

We knew the card’s public key so we could encrypt any packets for it, but the card had a list of valid signatures that it accepted (which we also knew) but no other signatures accepted.

Cracking the private key to sign ourselves would be very hard. But we just need 1 packet that does 1 thing and anything else is irrelevant. Trillions of packets might do what we need. We don’t need a full compromise.

Say we needed to do:

> Start Packet

> I++

> End Packet

Even if that didn’t generate the right signature, the right mix of NOPs before or after or other junk code would eventually do the I++ that we really needed with the right signature.

The (freeware) hackers wrote some code for a bunch of us to run on our own computers to generate a bunch of random combos of junk before/after the meat and had us post to the forum if it spit out one that matched a valid signature and someone did!
Do you understand that cash reserves and regulatory capital are two different things?
There are actually two questions: how much do masks prevent borderline contacts from being infected, and how broad a range of contact do they work over. As far as I can tell the two things are at odds with each other: the shallower the slope of reduced infection vs viral load, the broader the range over which masks can work. (Though of course either way there's still the possibility that most transmission happens outside the range where this has any effect worth mentioning.) The flu-based study some mask proponents were pushing had an order-of-magnitude decrease in viral amount giving maybe a 30% reduction in chance of being infected over the range where this was effective, and obviously very little outside that. That's... not great. Definitely much worse than current vaccines. Though of course Covid isn't flu and we don't have the same level of studies covering it yet.
I'm still getting my head around electron development, but only the main process in electron is really supposed to access the V8 engine right (if you turn sandboxing on anyways). With sandboxing on, you're still doing IPC from your render context to some backend, where for webview would be whatever framework is using the webview right?

Is the V8 performance benefit really that high compared to something like C# just calling system calls?
There are all sorts of things that are technically possible but the materials handling requirements do not make them cheap/efficient enough to do practically without electricity. See aluminum ore processing for example.
Then the money Google saves on HVAC, restrooms, facilities, support staff and office space should be going directly into the pockets of the employees that convert to fulltime remote, right?

> Your compensation is made up of what the company expects for you to spend _because_ you're working in a particular location.

That's Google's model?! I can live 10 minutes away from the office or 1 hour away by train, I still live in the same city.

If I move my apartment 50 minutes closer to the office, I'm still going to the same office, but my rent will go up. I should get more compensation right? My compensation is based on what I'm expected to spend by location.
> "If I take a 10% cut, I'm leaving" is a perfectly reasonable thing to say in such a negotiation

If you're going to say this in a negotiation, you have to be ready for the counterparty to say "OK".
Feds dismantle Blue Origin and Dynetics protests of NASA’s lunar lander award
I really respect that attitude.

I happen to be doing a security assessment on some products (PuTTY etc) at the firm (Fortune Global 100) where I am interning.

It baffled me to read a directive from management that said that we should shy away from open-source projects - I must confess that I was somewhat frustrated at the sheer ignorance in the memo but your comment allows me to see a silver-lining. I hope that one day I can rise up to management and make decisions based on greater nuance than simply saying "OSS bad and insecure".
They're talking about wet bulb 95 degrees which occurs at somewhere around 130 degrees of open air temperature. You have not spent much of your life at wet bulb 95 degrees.
>and the bank holding it were to go bust, Gemini could distribute $250k pro-rata to the billions of dollars of GUSD liabilities. Not particularly useful.

According to the gemini dollar site, it's insured for $250k per account, not for all the accounts combined.
It's quoting a whole lot of things, some of which are in support of cloth masks, but none of which are particularly conclusive.

It's worth noting that one of the randomized trials mentioned in that article ended up not being able to prove any significant effect. [1] It apparently had some problems getting published.

I've been unable to find the results of the larger trial by Christine Benn et al.

[1]: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
Exactly. While this guy sits in his high tower and consumes energy using his air conditioning (WASTE), owns a refrigerator to keep food (WASTE), and looks down on those working more hours. He sits and shitposts on HN using, gasp... electrical WASTE from his useless WASTE device. Breathing up oxygen(WASTE). You can see that anyone opposing virtuous view is a total exploitative threat actor. /s

Oh, you've taken on less work hours to enjoy your life? Maybe others are able to view that as a waste. Quit stretching things so much that you paint __everyone else__ as a threat or enemy.
Correct.

The centralized authorities protect the economy against some failure-modes that a distributed process is vulnerable to (currency scarcities, tampering, panics, large-scale theft). They introduce other problems. Whether one thinks they introduce more problems than they fix is pretty much the defining factor on where one stands regarding the utility of fiat currencies.
Well I guess any time is a good time to leave Google, now with a little encouragement from the management. Would be great for actually innovative companies to scoop up some great engineers that would otherwise be working on advertisement money extraction algorithms.
Also possibly relevant:

"College professor held in wildland arson spree near California’s massive Dixie Fire"[0]

[0]: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253403045.html
TeamViewer Security Breaches?
Hey everyone! I'd like to find out more about TeamViewer's recent (last 5-ish years) hacks, breaches and leaks. I've scoured the web but for the life of me couldn't find anything substantial. Does anyone have links or anecdotes about TeamViewer they feel comfortable to share?
Personally, I'm of the opinion that these breaches happen due to human error, but I'd love to know more.
Thanks!
This is very true. It works both ways.

Don't dismiss a younger person's ideas as naive without consideration, just like you shouldn't dismiss an older person's ideas as outdated without consideration.

Being older doesn't automatically make you correct, but neither does being young.
I don’t think anyone is advocating for masks as your only line of defense, just one of a few (vaccines currently being the best)
Is the seat pad a normal seat pad or a donut pad? If not the latter, worth a try, very helpful when I had a broken tailbone.
Agreed. At most 1/30 of what would be required.
Would you pay twice the regular rate for an identical pair of trainers that had been made in a different place? Unless the location of the employee has a material impact on their output, it seems bizarre to offer different payment for the same thing.
Presumably that is one reason that the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) idea is so popular in the industry. People don't expect to be able to work to age 65, so it's best to plan not to.
But the claim wasn't everyone having cars, it was "They are in a city with ... no cars."
95F in dry air is not the same thing as wet bulb 95F. That is the majority of the discussion being had in other threads.
Two counter points:

1) I want to be paid _more_ if I'm working from home. My employer doesn't have a right to use my personal property (my home, my energy, my coffee, etc.) without additional compensation.

2) Driving up compensation regardless of location is a great way to incentivize monopolistic behavior (e.g. FAANG) over the talent market while making it more difficult for new / smaller orgs to compete for talent.
I hear that poor people and those with no access to credit also do particularly well when the economy goes into depression (as would happen with massive bank failures).
The best places are the ones that know about the risk matrix, and will insist you estimate probability and severity and place your risk there; and the matrix is capped at the usual 3x3 grid, obviously with a red square at the low-probability, disastrous severity square; and there's a rule that any risk on a red square is unaceptable and must be managed until it isn't.

All very reasonable rules, with the composed effect that you can never point a risk that inherently takes your system down (e.g. all of our ISPs go down), however rare it is.
Isn't this fire known to be caused by intentional arson?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/us/former-college-instructor-...
I was precocious/fortunate so I ran into ageism being “too young” to be something like a Lead a couple years ahead of my peers. In part because I worked in college, but more importantly because that team was so well run, and saw the wisdom in trying out some of my ideas to make things better. So I came out into the world both with programming experience and practical project management exposure.

“They” want very cookie cutter people. The more you try to control things, the fewer pleasant surprises you get.
AgeUSD protocol[1] can already be used to encode such regulatory forces into the stablecoin itself, if desired.

[1] https://github.com/Emurgo/age-usd
Printing Is Not Dead: The $35B Fight over Ink Cartridges
Expand Earth's orbit over 1b years to counteract the sun’s increasing output
> Rights aren't universal, and no serious person argues this. There is always an emergency that's bad enough.

I feel like this is the point of contention. Many people truly don't consider things that can be taken away a right. Is the constitution a suicide pact a serious question that has been argued in the US Supreme Court (that phrased originated by a justice arguing that it wasn't... he was in the minority opinion).

I will try to keep this neutral, but people say things like "driving isn't a right, it's a priveledge"... what distinguishes between rights and priveledges?
How to get a job in Data Science in under a year
Previous discussion on similar article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16936769
This is like vaccinations. The key to avoiding mandatory vaccination (or de facto mandatory as it would be when required in schools, workplaces, public transport) is that people do it voluntarily.
The same applies to maintaining restrictions and distancing.

It might seem like a contradiction to be forced to volunteer, but, as the saying goes, it is what it is. The choice isn’t between observing the precautions or not, or taking the vaccine or not.

The choice is between doing something voluntarily or being forced to.
This guide is six years old which actually makes a difference here - the OS, gpsd, and ntpd, have all changed considerably and much of the software configuration instructions are now wrong.

The general concept still works fine but you will have to research more up-to-date documentation.

These are my notes from the last time I did it, which are pretty scratchy, but hopefully you can glean something useful from them:

https://pastebin.com/f4N2NSQB
Tonnes of places here in Australia have whirlybirds [1] installed on their roofs to achieve a similar outcome, if I'm understanding correctly. Basically, it helps draw out hot air when there's an outside breeze to spin it, cooling the ceiling cavity and overall decreasing the temperature of the house.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=roof+whirlybird
Your argument is identical to: “I hate when people project matrices onto lower dimensions; do they not see how that loses information? People should only ever deal with matrices in their original form, that way no data is ever destroyed. If the analysis cannot make use of the matrix in its original form, then it shouldn’t happen at all”
I prefer solar version of this website: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
I'm not asking for another Linux, just basic hardware support and a set of programs that I don't have to learn entirely from scratch.
The idea of people who object to this is that they're choosing to live in a cheaper location and they should be able to save the extra money from that.

If I bought a Kia Rio, would they say "You have lower car expenses compared to other employees, we're going to pay you less because you don't need the money"? Or conversely, if I choose to buy a $150,000 car should I be able to tell Google "Hey you need to pay me more because I have very high car expenses?"

That's obviously silly. But if you want to live somewhere that a house costs $2MM, it's your employer's responsibility to foot the bill for it, and if I buy a house in Bentonville AR for 1/10th of the price, my pay gets cut?
> I never thought it would be as overt as it is.

It has been known that they have been doing this randomly to multiple accounts every day and it is clear that YouTube will never change. They will point you to their guidelines and suspend your account at anytime.

> Tech companies feeling competent to dictate truth is scary.

These tech companies are not your friends and are on no-one's side other than the side of profit. They can get anyone and use their slippery guidelines as cover for their suspensions.

They are never going to change and it's only going to get worse.
Who uses it? Aren't debit cards and online bank transfers more common there?
It sounds like the whole DRM thing: Stop a few (in this case even paying[0]) "pirates", hurt regular customers as collateral damage

[0] Never seen it for Netflix, but many here buy 3rd world country Spotify subscriptions for a fraction of what it costs in Germany. With Netflix I only hear about avoiding geoblocks.
"Freedom of Speech" doesn't mean people are supposed to automatically respect or agree with whatever random thing you say. The definition is closer to "Don't kill people like Navalny because they filmed your dacha". A foreign concept in contemporary Russia.
cool but I like being able to google and learn without paying... I fear platforms like this will inflate my exploration cost
It was not, I feel you are pushing another narrative here.
Is is possible to use leap second smearing with a setup like this?
If you posted this in the 90s, it still would be a terrible, uneducated post.

Read this, all of it, then come back here and make your argument again: https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/
Another spin to the same story: major employer agrees that forcing people to commute to office deserves substantial extra pay.

Google employees are in a more-than-fair position when it comes to negotiate compensation. If the deal sucks, then Google will revise it and/or lose part of its talents, but the issue will fix itself.

Then again, maybe the issue was they were compensating people so that they accept SV commutes and house prices, and everyone is realizing that most people don't need to live in SV. So the ludicrous compensations aren't needed either.
Those two examples followed real world disasters, with two wars and major social changes playing important roles.

These stablecoins appear to be much more fragile.
sure, but depending on what the claim is specifically, classifying what Rand Paul stated as "misinformation" may be misinformation itself.
Not /s in the future, according to Jen Psaki:

You shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others if you — for providing misinformation out there.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/202...
I am a proponent of full price transparency in order to come as close to ideal function marketplaces as possible so that resources are best allocated.

But even without full knowledge (which is probably impossible to achieve and one of the functions of a market is to incorporate the various pieces of knowledge of all the participants), prices are still determined by two parties agreeing on a number, and just because Google has more power, the opposing entity is still agreeing to the new number if they continue selling their labor to Google.