skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to any two humans, not just twins. Ever smiled at someone and had them smile back? Ever waved at someone and they waved back? Ever shook your head at someone's behavior? We communicate wordlessly all the time.
A lot of it seems specially targeted towards websites with tons of third-party scripts
Crypto Bezos
The uniquely American thing (compared to your perspective, at least) is you can get fired for almost any reason, or no reason at all [0]. In any case, whether that decision technically comes from the manager or the manager filling out paperwork which is then approved by HR, or if the manager is merely being used as the bearer of bad news, etc., I think is beside the point.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
> e.g. via taxes ... There is no need for the yuppie and the coffee.

The taxes are also paid for by the yuppies at a disproportionate rate to their income share.

See: share of income taxes as broken out by income segment, in most every developed nation.

One of the central defining characteristics of a yuppie is a well-paying job. That means paying higher, progressive tax rates in most affluent nations, including Australia.

https://www.ato.gov.au/rates/individual-income-tax-rates/

See: what happens to California if you remove the tech yuppies pulling down $200,000 - $500,000, as well as their party buckets of equity compensation, the taxes of which the state rolls around in during the good times. California would become a formal second world disaster with no ability to fund anything. Illinois with nicer weather.
Wouldn't that require us to already have a casino there?
This might be related to a business truth that I learned the hard way...

It's generally cheaper to make a single larger payout than to engage in recurring smaller payouts.
I do think there's a middle road. I do indeed think it's incredibly toxic to write for the reactions, but at the same time, it's extremely lonely to find your only readers are the bots that probe for compromised wordpress installs.

It's great to have a community of sorts. I've found that in gemini space, there's a small number of active bloggers that run in the same circles and occasionally make replies on each posts they feel interesting (because almost virtually all pages are static, almost no comment fields).

It's not so much about the attention as it is about the sense of community and belonging.
None specifically, but since I've been managing a team of 9 engineers during the pandemic I certainly sympathize with Nixon becoming an alcoholic.

It's also an interesting show to watch as you progress in your career. Winters always wants to be part of the action, but is told to hold back and trust his men as he advances in rank. There's lessons there for anyone transitioning from individual contributor to leader.
We shouldn't have to choose between wage theft or regular theft.

Also has Boudin done anything significant to combat wage theft? Or do you think since wage theft exists "burn it all down".
What is lobsters?
I have a feeling the author of this post wasn’t an active blogger themselves when the heyday of personal blogs ended. I blogged actively from 2008 to about 2015. Through some luck, I had a good sized audience right from the beginning.

Sometime around 2012 or 2013, the amount of time the average person spent on social media got high enough that it became their default time sink. People simply stopped interacting with personal blogs in the way they used to.

Writing blog posts every couple of days was fun when every new post would get a few comments from regular readers. But quite rapidly those comments simply stopped, and instead almost every comment was blog spam.

In my opinion, it had nothing to do with the blogging platforms, and everything to do with the rise of social media.
This is some serious premature optimization you are doing.

The fact is nobody is going to read your blog post about why you are starting a blog, so you are basically just writing it for yourself. Which is fine - but you need to be aware that if you are writing for yourself there is basically a 0% chance your blog will ever get any amount of traffic.

So keep writing for yourself and leave it at that but don't stress about problems you aren't going to have and calling yourself a content creator
Discord killed off a lot of forums that survived Reddit. This is especially true for forums where chat threads were the most active.
I live in a smallish town/city and you can very easily become connected with a variety of home schooling networks that help kids socialize, parents learn from other parents, etc. I've never really encountered a stereotypical "anti-social homeschool kid" in the wild.
wait until they get their h̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ beaks on the remote controller.
I feel that it's sad this even needs to be advice. I'd think it should be obvious, but we miss "obvious" things, every day.

Management is, way too often, treated as a "privilege," and a "reward."

I was a manager for 25 years. I never felt "privileged," and I considered it a "curse."

I hated every damn minute of it, but I kept doing it, because I am a control freak, and couldn't trust anyone else to do a better job. I also avoided getting promoted, because I didn't want to leave my team in the hands of the other managers I knew.

Most of my peers and superiors provided object examples in what not to do.
There has been location arbitration in IT for decades in the form offshoring and near-shoring. There is no reason for that to not be a thing within the US. Many companies will value (whether it is really valuable or not) people who come into the office on a regular basis. Should those people not be paid for their willingness to be there in person?

Lying to your employer to get more money is a bad idea. Your suggestions could be fraud.
I don't think the World Bank should collaborate on such a report, since it legitimizes the one-party rule of the Chinese Communist Party. An honest report would start by saying that China should become a multi-party democracy with freedom of speech, respect for property rights, and the rule of law, instead of being a quasi-dictatorship where the law is what Xi Jinping says it is.
I meant that the other way around from how you wrote it. As in: you probably can make coffee well within the time that it would take some service to make it and deliver it for you, and likely your locally brewn coffee would be hotter.
Kamikaze hack on XBox, was sold as a template for drilling a bondwire on a SoC. This is without the tempalte: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gCYXb54oig
I don’t think it’s good for employees to joke about either. I worked with a guy that was constantly half joking about getting fired, layoffs, etc. It’s a real drag to hear about all the time.
Ya. Gig economy was enabled by IT & AI taking away all the bureaucratic jobs.
This reignites my recurring question: Don't (at least some) password rules just shrink the problem space?
Good rules of thumbs are given in the "Deciding which to use" section of the article. For the fetch() function, I'd keep most parameters as is since they don't change the essense of the function. But "cache" and "redirect" do (following redirects can cause N http requests rather than just one and using the cache perhaps 0) so I'd refactor them as new functions. Imagine adding retry functionality to the fetch() function using parameters. I think you can see how this leads to feature creep.
If you can get people to test in review, I don't see why you couldn't get them to test before review. If you can't get your developers to test appropriately, then you've hired bad developers.
If I tell a guy to make me a table, and he puts his heart and soul into making me a beautiful wooden dining table, then when he shows it to me I tell him I actually wanted a glass coffee table and would he please start over from scratch, throwing his work away will be very bad for his morale.

That's not to say requirements can't change - of course they can. But they shouldn't change just because I forgot to make myself clear the first time.
Are you under the impression that phone calls are open season or something? There are tons of laws regulating what you can and can’t do on the phone.
Surely you understand why a school-owned and school-provided device is monitored by the school, and why this scenario is not directly comparable to a car lease (with a lease being quite a different contract, with different goals and legal mechanisms)?

Whether or not you are being paid is irrelevant - the key part is that some other entity is providing hardware that they own and allowing you to use it under certain conditions. Those conditions are: use it for the purposes agreed upon, and the device will be monitored to ensure it is being used for only the purposes agreed upon.

I certainly don't think we're doing our kids any favors with the constant and forced surveillance 24/7. But I can understand why an organization wants to keep their hardware managed.
> "these assertions hold for all inputs"

> Which would be great if it wasn't too computationally expensive. Most of the time, it just becomes generating a subset of random (within range) input values to be tested thus decreasing the utility.

Those are complaints about the testing/checking process; I was talking about test/property definitions.

In particular, most of the properties we care about are universal ("for all"), but unit tests cannot even state those properties, let alone test them, let alone prove them. Property-based testing lets us state universal properties, and it lets us test them (although it cannot prove them). Those are two advantages compared to unit/functional tests.

Regarding the actual checking process, and the cost/benefit it provides, that varies depending on the project's needs, the tools/frameworks used (e.g. random generation versus enumeration versus on-demand generation, etc.), the way testing is implemented (e.g. constructive generation versus filtering, domain-specific types versus general-purpose language builtins, etc.).

Personally, property-based testing is my default approach (since "normal" unit/functional tests are simply parameterless property tests); I've done it in Haskell, Javascript, Python, Scala, Isabelle/HOL and PHP; and it's found all sorts of issues with my code that I would never have thought to write tests for.
Well, handling the lacquer while (re)coating a guitar would only have the typical solvent issues.
"Big" is a very soft word to use in astronomy
Here's some of the story on bypass for jet engines:

Yes, high bypass: With a jet engine, what you pay is kinetic energy, and what you get and want is momentum. For mass m and velocity v, the kinetic energy, that costs you (1/2)mv^2, and for the momentum you get mv.

So, you want to maximize the resulting momentum mv for the paid kinetic energy (1/2)mv^2. So, you want to select m and v to maximize momentum for a given kinetic energy.

Since for a given velocity v, in kinetic energy are paying for v^2 but in momentem getting only v, clearly want to make mass m large and velocity v small.

So use the kinetic energy of the pressure of the burning fuel to turn a big turbine that moves a large mass m by a small velocity v.

That works so well that GE took one of their early jet engines and put on an aft-fan, that is, put a fan, a turbine, free wheeling, not driven by any shafts, on the back of the engine. So the blades of the fan played two roles: (1) Close to the axis of rotation, the blades got hit with the fast, hot gas from the engine, and (2) the rest of the blades, that extended past the engine, pushed on cold air.

The Dassault FanJet 20 used
these GE fanjet engines, and
those were the planes, modified for carrying cargo, used at the start of FedEx.

BUT! My understanding is that this whole story only works for subsonic flight! So, jet engines developed for military fighter jet planes and supersonic flight didn't have fans.

But when the US military wanted a really big cargo airplane, the C5A, they paid for the development of high bypass turbofan engines and used them. With the engines developed (took big bucks), commercial aviation took advantage.
Lex Fridman – Jay McClelland – Neural Networks/Emergence of Cognition [video]
I remember the doctor called and wanted to speak to my ex wife and I jokingly talled her she got cancer. She didn't though, it was Aids. To this day I think my joke softened the blow for her a bit.
I believe Galene does[0] Juliusz was working on pion/RTP for it. You can see all the details here [1]

[0] https://github.com/jech/galene

[1] https://github.com/pion/rtp/blob/master/codecs/vp9_packet.go
These endpoints are available in modem only mode, but everyone I’ve asked who has a SH3 says that they’re not affected by this and the endpoint doesn’t return the IP address.

If you’re in modem only mode, block HTTP traffic to 192.168.100.1 outbound from your firewall just to be sure.

Seems relatively low impact, but still pretty bad. Not surprising from VM given the quality of their firmware.
Or because no one likes being lectured by pompous self-righteous strangers on a topic barely relevant to the article. Especially when it's something we've all heard a thousand times before presented as if it were a gift of great wisdom.
Heather Mac Donald and Lawrence Krauss on Identity Politics [video]
We don't "know" either of those things with any degree of certainty whatsoever. The Bangladesh mask study that proponents like to point to showed a mere 10% reduction in spread, and the 95% CI included "no effect" and "makes it worse." As far as vaccination goes the picture is also unclear (its effect on transmission was never studied in the trials, which are the only true RCT we ever had), but the CDC itself has said in one study that "the vaccinated may transmit the Delta variant as easily as the unvaccinated."

How long are you planning to maintain your vax+mask expectation? What is the offramp back to normal life for you?
can we just stop trying to deceive people... I'm so tired of having to be skeptical of everything I ever encounter because we live in a world where a large number of people have to manipulate each other to make a living
I understand, which is why I mentioned it being a hypothetical. Maybe I shouldn't have used myself as an example. It's not something I'm worried about. I've only shared the blog with close friends. That's my intention moving forward.
So would you use drywall next time? Isn’t the process almost the same but lighter and less smelly?
This might be the first time I’ve seen anyone remember Active Desktop fondly. I remember it being pretty much universally hated during its heyday.
The title reminds me of the office episode.
LiveKit is an amazing project. If you haven’t had a chance check it out. It’s the first time I have seen WebRTC approached by people who know Cloud/Scaling and it’s all a open source!
They can start the process. Once that process is started your career inside the company is basically over. Even if you survive it (and/or survive the PIP) you will not want to work there anymore. May as well be fired at that point.
Defending human civilization from supervolcanic eruptions (2015) [pdf]
Wouldn't this also be a failure of the VPN software used?

If it allows some local addresses/hosts to be accessed, some information is always bound to leak I'd argue.
I haven't tried it myself, but this chain of comments at /r/netsec[1] suggests it doesn't help:

> I'm guessing a workaround is to use a 3rd party router and block traffic to 192.168.100.1 which is the IP of the management UI when in modem only mode, presumably the external IP can still be retrieved in modem only mode

> If it's still active in modem-only mode, it essentially precludes use of these routers entirely for any sensitive comms.

> The web interface is still available in bridge mode with Liberty Global's Arris modems, yes.

> Just tried it on my device in modem-mode and it does indeed still expose the snmpGet endpoint. As suggested above, i've firewalled all traffic to 192.168.100.1 on my own firewall.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/pnzs0n/silently_unm...
You misunderstand blogs: you can find the good ones only by personal referral or by actively trying. If you have to search Google, then you'll, by definition, find only the ones that are optimizing for search engines. There is no way to solve this problem, and I think the same is true for other forms of social interaction.
It's worth looking over the sections "Reparations" and "Foreign Relations" of the article you linked.

"In 1987,(...) France paid $8.16m to Greenpeace in damages, (...) It also paid compensation to the Pereira family, reimbursing his life insurance company for 30,000 guilders and making reparation payments of 650,000 francs to Pereira's wife, 1.5 million francs to his two children, and 75,000 francs to each of his parents."

"In June 1986, (...) France agreed to pay NZ$13 million (US$6.5 million) to New Zealand and apologise"

"Although France had formally apologised to the New Zealand Government in 1986,[28] during a visit in April 1991 French Prime Minister Michel Rocard delivered a personal apology. He said it was "to turn the page in the relationship and to say, if we had known each other better, this thing never would have happened. (...) During a visit in 2016, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reiterated that the incident had been "a serious error"

France fucked up, admitted it and did gestures for reparations
BNPL is just a credit card for disorganized people
I know their "pet" category is pet food, but it's just so funny to imagine that drone lowering a kitten to you
> Studies show that across much of Europe, a strong sense of party identification is waning, and voters are less likely to take their party affiliation as preordained.

Very interesting, seems to be the opposite of what’s happening in the US.
Well it is for professional writers. I think that the initial wave of blogs lead to a lot of people getting work as paid writers and now Substack is helping those people build their own market outside of the declining magazine and newspaper industries.
btw does anyone have invite to lobste.rs? i have technical blog (not great but i try to improve it) and i'd like to share content on lobsters to have feedback.
A Python-based programming language for high-performance computational genomics
International comparisons for crimes with vague definitions are hard, and I don't think those numbers are effectively comparable.

Have a look [1].

'Murder' is a straight forward thing to define. Someone gets killed.

But 'assault' is a very vague thing.

According to that list 'Iceland' is a crime ridden country with overall crime 4x more than the US, even though murder in the US is more than 10x greater?

More like reporting, charges, definitions, data collection is different.

That said: Montreal is slightly sketchy for petty crime, and some places getting drunk and fighting is normal (UK/Nordic) and in some places, they use knives (i.e. Wales, Scotland).

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Total-...
This sort of performative signaling isn't helping the cause you are ostensibly championing. There's ways to interact with other people that don't start out from a position of confrontation, those are far more likely to prevent folks from having a knee-jerk dismissal response to you.
Solar escape velocity near Jupiter orbit is only around 18km/s which is quite a bit less than Jupiter's own escape velocity.
> Windows 98 came with Active Desktop: you could display bits of website on your desktop as widgets

I never found Active Desktop all that useful. It was annoying because if you wanted a jpg desktop wallpaper, it would enable Active Desktop just for that. The problem was that it noticeably slowed the entire system. I would always convert to bmp and use that, taking a hit on disk space (and possibly RAM) instead of speed.
People who don't understand religion really should stop writing about it. Anyone with any familiarity with religion knows it's more sophisticated than a belief in "magic". The fact that the author references metaphysics and magic as if they belong to the same category reveals how ignorant she is. Metaphysics is a field of philosophy.

The fact that they've given an atheist authority over real religious representatives at Harvard is an outrage, and does nothing but show how much they hold the richness of religious traditions in contempt, which should be obvious to anyone with any respect for religious people.
Command line wizardry, part two: Variables and loops in Bash
Until you pointed that out I thought the headline said "flight". Funny how the mind works.
Why do you think that is? I'm thinking LinkedIn may be considered more authoritative or trustworthy than a personal blog. How is google to know that your blog is actually your blog?

I've recently noticed more people writing on LinkedIn (which might just be my impression and not true) and I wonder if that's part of the reason?
I like to start with a blog I already know and like, and then I use a tool I built to spider the RSS feed to find links to sites that also have RSS feeds. I figure that if I find a blog interesting, they'll probably link to other blogs that I'll find interesting.
The tool is hosted on heroku: https://rdengine.herokuapp.com/
I give a rationale for it here: https://quakkels.com/posts/rss-is-wonderful/
Here's mine: https://learnbyexample.github.io/ (mostly about regex and cli one-liners)

Here's some lists of blogs (mostly programming oriented):

* https://jvns.ca/blogroll/

* https://blogsurf.io/blogs
The title of the submission originally continued: "using your own WordPress blog." This is kind of important, since one of the goals of the plugin is to reduce dependency on third parties.

The dependency on external feeds remains of course but you have control over your own blog, where you host it and what software you install there.

While one of the main goals of the plugin is to provide an infrastructure to connect to your friends' blogs and potentially exchange private posts with them, an important aspect is that it is a versatile RSS Reader (see https://wpfriends.at/consume-the-web-your-way/) that can be used with another plugin (like demo-ed) to then send new articles to your E-Reader (converted to .mobi or .epub).
Comments at /r/netsec[1] suggest yes, but I haven't verified this:

> Just tried it on my device in modem-mode and it does indeed still expose the snmpGet endpoint. As suggested above, i've firewalled all traffic to 192.168.100.1 on my own firewall.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/pnzs0n/silently_unm...
I remember running Winamp in the background along with various games (Diablo, Age of Empires, Red Alert). They would always lag terribly.. but not if you didn't log in first!

win+R before login was pretty useful - albeit insecure!
My advice for new programmers: Don't use expletives in any log message, debugging alert, or even code comments. The chance of this coming back to haunt you is not worth the momentary satisfaction it gives you.
Objects aren’t falling into the sun from infinity, as gravity decays according to an inverse square law the sun imparts relatively little kinetic energy to a Jupiter impactor relative to Jupiter.
Is that something people searching for ET life look out for? Systems with a potentially habitable planet + at least one large celestial object to draw debris towards it and away from the potentially habitable planet?
There is enormous benefit with a _strict_ CSP. It's unfortunately common for a CSP that whitelists CDNs, allows eval, etc, etc. These are arguably worse than not having a CSP at all due to the false sense of security. More details in this excellent writeup at https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-....
What would be the result if something this large hit Earth?
At least ads are not trying to deceive, they are usually explicitly marked as ads. This is clearly an attempt to fool the recipient.
I didn't say it was funny. I also think joking about firing people 1. isn't funny, and 2. risks freaking people out.

A good rule of thumb is "don't make gambles where the best-case scenario is that nothing bad happens."