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Stile Education | Melbourne, Australia | Full-time | Onsite (flexible WFH) and Remote (AEST) |
Engineering Manager, Tooling Engineer, Support Engineer, Frontend Engineer, SRE, Full Stack Engineer (Junior, Mid and Senior)

https://stileeducation.com/who-we-are/join-the-team/

We're a small, diverse, tight-knit team with a mission to radically improve main-stream science education at schools. By creating world-class science lessons, coupled with intuitive tools that allow teachers to take advantage of the latest pedagogies, we’ve already helped several hundred thousand students in Australia get excited about science.

Stile is already used in 1 out of 3 Australian schools, and over the next few years, we're striving to perfect our product and bring our lessons to the rest of the world. This is an opportunity to have a big influcence on education from within a small, high impact team.

Please apply by sending a cover letter and resume to: jointheteam@stileeducation.com
Well, that's why I'm holding on to my decades old Cherry PS/2 keyboard. No polling, no latency, no ghosting, no key rollover issues.
Unfortunately the PS/2 port is becoming rare, I'm limited to MSI for my upcoming AMD B550 motherboard because it's the only brand that offers it on a nicely specced ATX board.
Which data or table are you referring to? "Later" in the list of scores when submitted multiple times (first table)? Note that this is a 30-day window.

Growth of the whole community can be seen in the kaggle notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/felixdietze/hacker-news-score-analysi...

If you're referring to the front-page on HN, it could have been submissions of the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
What’s next? No hospital care for the obese or smokers? Do you realize how extreme your proposal is?
Sounds like you not having the shift described by the other guy is a quirk of your social group. Either way, you're both arguing which is more prevalent because it's implied that not 100% of everyone agrees with a social norm. We go with the majority.
Nothing saddens me more than a developer who can't provide an engaging 30 secs summary of the achievements from the previous day. IMO, it only displays either a lack of intelect, or disinterest in being part of that team.
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I'm a hybrid, I have piles of 5mm pads/pens but I use them as a local memory store more than a pure design tool.

I also have an ipad/pencil with the excellent notability app (excellent because it gives me an infinite grid page) for jotting notes/things I need to follow up on.

I tried keeping that stuff in a text file but there is something about writing it down on the ipad that means I rarely have to actually look it up, it sticks in my memory better and if I do forget what I had to do I rarely forget that I had something to do and can just look it up when we need to.
Can we talk about who "Bill" (the source for the article) is ?

If we read between the lines, it appears that someone sitting at a fairly large Internet choke point is grepping the flow of mail traffic for keywords (for lack of better terms since it's not literally grep).

Presumably someone placed highly enough that they can do such analysis without management oversight ?

Or are there compliance and security reasons to "grep" IMAP traffic for certain things and he just added some other keywords ?

Where, in 2021, would a network admin own this much traffic and have this little oversight ?

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EDIT: ... and now that I think about it, wouldn't this be fairly easy to suss out ? The source states:

"So I’m seeing this traffic to just like 10 net blocks tied to Microsoft, which means I’m only looking at maybe 25 percent of Microsoft’s infrastructure,"

I have neither the time nor the inclination but if there is an ISP out there that is routing 25% of MS mail infrastructure, all I have to do is look at mail routes to MS for a few days and run some traceroutes and I could probably make some guesses as to which network "Bill" works for ...
Thanks for sharing, that looks like a great hobbyist tool.
High price in these kind of events rarely increases availability - after all, it takes time to increase production or ship more. If high price appears to increase availability, I suspect that's largely because you're pricing people out of the product. (A slight price increase to counterbalance the overheads of realigning supply lines might be reasonable, but whether that's significant compared to the normal profit margin - probably situational?)

As such, consumers are right to feel vindictive when companies do try and engage in that kind of profiteering; and that social dynamic is one of the ways to keep the market healthy when there are many more consumers than producers - effectively a kind of collective bargaining - at least, if the producer is sensitive to that kind of thing. Sometimes the profit will be worth it and they'll just shrug it off, of course.

But in particular, we should be careful not to support a narrative that empathizes with profiteering, because such empathy (absurd as it is anyhow for a corporation) undermines the shared social frustration needed for the implicit collective bargaining that's happening with these kind of social events. If everybody believes that it's just natural for a company to seek profit above all else, and crucially thus accepting that it's OK for them to screw over the consumer, then it's going to be hard to build momentum for any backlash, and thus hard to improve the negotiating position of the consumer.

Even from a radically capitalist standpoint that's bad, because capitalism works best (is most efficient) in transparent markets where all participants have equal power - and since that's never the reality, it's necessary to counterbalances against larger market participants, or those with more information.
1. Originally, there was the function for trying it out without sign-up, but that function was removed. Our marketers didn't want that feature. I'm sorry.

2. It can't be. But you can use the app offline or by exporting & importing local data.

3. I'm sorry. I have nothing else to say but to reload. It's fine on our side.
I hope i got it right: they scan private content, which users try to upload to an Apple/Amazon cloud server? The scan job is done by the iphone instead of the server, maybe because it's "smart", resource-saving or because it happens before the upload. First thought in the private law domain would be: entities controlling access to their ressources (serverspace) is nothing new or special. People uploading images and videos, which they want to be private, to "clouds", which are sold as private, but are unhappily not private, maybe because digital culture is faster than law, deserve a wake-up-call and new laws.
Yes. yes. But what about the money?
You either go to medical jail for 2 weeks or you install the app and it tracks you and demands random facial checks. Either way it’s not great.
> 1000x greater rate

What's your denominator? Is this per year or per kilometre driven with TACC active?
These are normally made with something like an esp32 squeezed into the plug.

To exfiltrate data by WiFi, there is a neat way to get data out... Just have the esp32 connect to all unencrypted WiFi networks in turn and send the data out via a DNS tunnel.

Then the attacker can provide their own WiFi network, but it will also work with airplane WiFi, cafe WiFi, guest networks, etc.

And obviously with DNS tunnelling it works against WiFi networks that require a 'sign in' after connection, even without signing in.
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Most of that stuff is just required compatibility cruft with ksh. I think the array operations were new, maybe, but bash really didn't have a chance to go back and redesign the language from scratch. It had to be able to run existing ksh scripts correctly.
And don't even get me started on the security problems with electron. It feels like quality has taken a back seat to (feature) quantity.
This is a very unpopular example, but Timothy McV*gh is probably the most well known example of someone who fought for a cause that in his mind was liberty from government in the united states using asymmetric warfare (he was very troubled by Waco and Ruby Ridge.) Of course, even those who are troubled by those events typically believe it was wrong that innocents such as children died in his acts.

But if you really want to know what asymmetric warfare looks like, unfortunately it looks very ugly. The populace doesn't appear to give any indication they endorse the results. I honestly think most people would be very much worried about the legacy their reputation would have; even if they fought for a cause they believed in and avoided collateral damage. The combination of nearly universal social shaming for taking violent action (except when police do it, then it is "valorous"), consolidation of federal power, and the complete ineffectiveness of voting in slowing erosion of rights has been a deadly trifecta for individual rights such as the erosion of fourth and second amendment protections.
I assume your Ergodox is running QMK, which depending on some configuration values had a relatively slow debouncing mechanism. I think times were around 20ms. Checking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWL4nU-vtWs which compares it with ZMK it seems like it is down to 8ms, but ZMK is still faster (1ms)
My bad, I read the OPs statement wrong.
> Python programmers in general have an irrational aversion to if-expressions

If that's the case, maybe the problem is the if-expression, and not the programmers?

If you have a syntactical construct in your language that the programmers are avoiding in general, then that construct has problems.
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Demanding it not be so will make things permanently more expensive for everyone, not only in the monetary sense, but also in labor and material. Subsidize or ration if we must, but only temporarily and in response to a crisis.
You know, the speaker is quite often NOT choosing this "technique". The speaker simply speaks focusing on content and that is what voice does, whether innately or because brain mimics other people speaking.

No beginner speaker is in complete conscious control over every detail. Nor are they expected to be, really.
How we built an auto-scalable Minecraft server for 1000+ players
I read a wired review [0] that says the ikea purifier "blocks 99.95 percent of particles 2.5 microns or larger".

Could you confirm the technical spec of the filters you are using? Actual rating? Is it actually HEPA?

The ikea website seems to just be pretty vague marketing stuff with no details.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/ikea-fornuftig-air-purifier/
>Like if you could take 10 million dollars to do your own lab with BCI tech what direction would you go in?

The honest truth is I have no idea exactly how to solve the problem. I'm a data/algorithms guy, and our skills are completely inapplicable to this field at this time. My original thesis suggested we "somehow" work out how to train humans to produce signals that can be more easily distinguished by a BCI, but I had no idea where to even begin with such a system.

A mainstream BCI will require a better understanding both how the brain works and what materials can survive inside and coexist with the human body. Or perhaps a new sensor method will come along that greatly increases the quality of the data we have and render both of those things obsolete.

I think the best way of spending my 10 million would involve simply giving it to smart, frugal people and walking away without asking any questions. I mean that genuinely.
WhatsApp fined over $260M for EU privacy violations
Abba Back After 40 Years with New Album, Virtual Concerts
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What Is an OLAP Cube? An Exhaustive Explainer
That's really sad that I am not in the UK. Here I get to tax reimbursment for any house renovaiton and my costs are going to sky-rocket! Those providers are so greedy.
Interesting. I notice this thread has gradually shifted from being about emails to being about text messaging, and not sure if people noticed, maybe that explains the apparent crossed wires?

It's news to me that full stops are considered rude, but then I don't have a mobile phone. I chat a lot on facebook though, and on MSN before that (with people in many countries, half of them in spanish). Always in...sentences, with full stops. Maybe text chat is a third thing, different to both texting on a phone and email? I don't know. I'd never have suspected a full stop could be rude until reading this thread though!
Back when I lived in a townhome the unit attached to mine had a very nice single mother and her son living there. Sadly, they moved out and some house flippers moved in, shortly afterward the housing market imploded. They started letting their friends crash at the house and wreck it, eventually it go so bad one of the windows fell out (dormer window mounted in a wooden frame left open to the elements). Right into the front yard.

Anyway I tried going to the HOA about it, and they explained that a lien would be a waste of time. Even in an egregious case like this nobody wants to take responsibility for a property like that. It's a lot of work to get the lien, foreclosure from a HOA basically never happens, and even then all they inherit is a huge problem that nobody wants to deal with. So instead I get to sell my house attached to one that literally has siding falling off, missing shingles, and a goddamn window in the front yard.

This is the same HOA that wrote me up for refilling the windshield washing fluid in my car parked in front of my house and hassled my neighbour because he replaced the shitty wooden windows with vinyl that you couldn't even tell the difference without tapping on them.

Basically, they only have power over people who are already trying to be good neighbours.

As an epilogue, the bank eventually foreclosed on the property and presumably sold it as distressed. A coworker of mine toured it, but apparently the basement was black mold city. A lien on the property wouldn't have helped the situation.
I'd define consciousness as something like "subjective experience". You have consciousness if you can experience the experiencing of things.

I don't think that's a circular definition. I think humans have it. I don't think plants or video game characters have it.

However: it is not testable, and it's not obvious that it could be. If someone claims to have subjective experiences, I don't think there's any way to know whether they're conscious or whether they're just an automata acting conscious.

If consciousness is just being able to experience experiences, then that's a function that doesn't have any outputs, how could you possibly test for it?

And this applies equally to humans, c.f. solipsism. It could also apply to all matter in the universe, it's just that most of that matter has no computational capability, and no way to express itself even if it did.
> We are quiet. But come election day, we will be heard.

Which elections matter in this respect? When is their election day? Serious question.

This is a spectacular social experiment being run in Australia, and I think a lot of outsiders (myself included) are eager to gather some hard data on its fallout.
if the user has 2FA then GMail needs either

1. RFC 7628 OAUTHBEARER. Basically your IMAP client has to have a way to obtain OAUTH tokens (e.g. spawn a web browser window first time you log in, that authenticates because it's a web browser, then get it to give you an OAUTH token) and it binds that token to your IMAP login as proof of who you are. Google also supports a non-standard older way to do this. Cheesy "my first IMAP implementation" code can't do this, but several Free Software mail clients do.

2. User goes into Google's security settings, says they agree to suffer worse security, gets "app password" minted by Google, fills that into the IMAP client. They can't use their "real" password which is presumably "password1" so the Pwned list doesn't work on this but it's not great.

But if you never set up any 2FA then it really wouldn't matter. Google's answer for their own employees was just to issue them FIDO Security Keys and mandate 2FA, and that's certainly what I'd endorse if you have money and want security, but their medium term plan is to enforce 2FA setup for users who seem to own e.g. a smartphone.
There is a part about SM algorithm in the link I posted (https://learnobit.postach.io/post/to-everyone-who-showed-a-p...).

To recap, I'm currently using the traditional SM2. But there are ambitious plans to appoint new and innovative algorithms.
Working at companies that issued laptops and phones, people looked at me sideways when I told them that I in fact carried two laptops and two phones.

It's not just for photographs taken south of the border, so to speak.

If you do anything on company property or time (including laptops and phones) that isn't 100% company work, it can get caught up in subpoenas, discovery and other miscellaneous legal proceedings that your employer may be a party to. This can land you in legal hot water even if these activities had nothing to do with your employer. Once the DA's got your files, they can charge you with anything you may have dug up even if it's not related to their primary inquiries. Your drug-fueled trips to burning man may not look so entertaining to the DA.

Further the California blanket IP ownership exemptions only apply to things you do on your own time and your own property. If you come up with a fun startup idea, and you write some notes down on your work laptop or text your buddy on your work phone, you should just assume it belongs to the company.

Anyways, for anyone who needs to hear it again, for the love of all that's good and holy do not take photos of your genitals with company property.

And if you work somewhere you're assigned a laptop and a phone, you can probably afford your own of each. If that's the case I highly recommend it. As an Apple employee, the corporate discounts are worth taking advantage of.
Was it, really? When Microsoft implemented arbitrary shapes for windows, Windows apps started to come in all shapes, sizes, and with custom theming engines. Music players were particularly prone to this - not even talking about apps like Sonique, but Microsoft's very own Windows Media Player was like that.

So no, it wasn't web; the dominating desktop OS always lacked the UI consistency.
> The clippings cannot remain on the grass or they will kill it.

I don't understand why clippings kill the grass. Can you explain?
The server restrictions you mentioned on the in-app-purchase version really sounds very antithetical to the Orchid project.

It seems like the Tor network doesn't have these problems.
I'd say it's only the nipple. The contrast in response to side boob and nipple seems to be off the chart in the US.
Banning him was so unnecessary. The overwhelming majority though he is basically a nutjob and made fun of him for selling his man pills. Attempts to silence him almost made him a martyr. Everyone arguing he was or is a security threat should think about therapy and has now people against them that are concerned with the larger picture.

And the panic will continue because of that. More people will get banned. It isn't a fallacy to believe these things escalate.
You're welcome. Not going to pass up an opportunity to shill my business on HN. :P
Does the assumption of a homogeneous pool of content and a corresponding homogeneous pool of readers affect this? Segmenting by topic and applying the algorithm per each pool might be necessary if one wants to have a "fair" assessment of quality.
Archived link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210902102730/https://noteflake...
And all the down votes prove you right!

It would be nice if people could talk about this situation in measured calm ways and actually treat reasonable statements as such
Only in Debug builds. If you rely on it in a release build you will crash.

https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/1589
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/41179

Reduz doesn't want the fix in release builds because the will be slower!
Have you contacted them about it?
The OP didn't state anywhere in his post that this was specific to women, just one particular individual who happened to be female. Generally when you label someone you require a justification for it rather than just a projection of your own world view
It's because the GNOME devs (which, I think, includes the GTK ones) have an extremely protective position towards "their" product, which clashes with the open source spirit.

Theming ("branding", as they refer to) is, in a sense, just the core of their marketing campaign.

This is not just ideology - they do try also in practical ways to prevent third party devs from customization.

For a background of how horrible the people involved are, you can start from https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti....

Here's the antisocial answer of one of the GNOME devs:

>> mccann replies:

> I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I’m sorry that this is the case but it wasn’t GNOME’s fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.
Things like: It's normal to breast feed in public. Or the nation does not go bananas when a nipple is exposed on TV. Or how normal it is to sunbathe topless. Arguably this also relates to how normal it is for kids to walk around naked and families to be naked around each other.

If you're really interested, watch some older Dutch movies to see the normalness of naked, like Turkish Delight [0]. Or even have a closer look at the relation between the Professor and Raquel in the recent Casa the Papel. It's different from US series. More respectful, mature wrt women if you ask me. More emphasis on intelligence. Or on a beautiful woman in her 40s with normal wrinkles. The US, like on many other topics, seems to be polarized, caught between the hyper sexuality of Cardi B and the prude nature of American culture in general.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Delight_(1973_film)
This is the wrong take I think, because you're trying to paint the Taliban in a positive light -- as if they're freedom fighters to disagree with.

In reality, the Talibans main export is heroine, and they get that heroine by enslaving local populaces in rural southern Afghanistan where it can grow easily and the people are defenseless economically much less educationally or physically. They do so to attain power and spread their influence to one day establish a wider Sharia based Islamic State.
Yes. However, the mainstream of knowledge management tools will be the Note Garden.
I'm on non High DPI screen (2560x1440 @ 32") with a dot pitch of 0.27 and the typeface used for the body text and headings renders really badly, in the heading worded 'Paragraph' the letter 'A' is almost unreadable.

I didn't read the article, why should I, when it clearly doesn't (presumably) follow it's own advice?
> With this article, it seems to me that Twitter devs, for all their fancy dev toolchains, could only produce slightly better HTML than my professor.

I assume they also make the html complicated to make it hard to scrap the site.
People raging over the ternary operation in Python should learn to use:

x = {True: 5, False: 4}[condition()]

, or if you don't want to evaluate the values:

x = {True: lambda: 5, False: lambda: 4}[condition()]()
Was there context for that smoking gun link?