skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That may be a problem, but "fixing" the problem requires harming so many people who haven't committed any crime that the fix is worse than the problem.

According to Wikipedia there were only 15k asset forfeiture cases in 2010 in total, and that includes criminal forfeiture. Chances are many of them are either criminal money or are actually easily returned. So how many innocent people are actually affected by this?
except it becomes much harder to find genuine recommendations for things on the web.
On Windows being a nursing home.

I found desktop Linux to be more like nursery school. Windows is when it’s time to put the toys away.
https://archive.is/SvJqa
Apple is worried about content uploaded to their iCloud.

As there is no clear legislation, every company is implementing what they feel comfortable with.
A Patreon/crypto address to make a donation to is the compromise here, surely.
This was a really weird article that reminded me of circa 1999 Slashdot.

It’s easy to throw heat at Microsoft. But… 2021 crypto and security is different than 1991. The standards this stuff was built around were for an era where local dictionary attacks were common and a serious threat. They still are in many scenarios.

If you’re going to throw shit at Microsoft, attack their head in the sand approach to NTLM, their implicit deprecation and failure to develop AD further and prioritization of monetization over baseline product needs.
Most of my friends and family live here. I would rather fix the problems here than move.
>If the middle class are the ones buying the properties, then they're the ones selling them.

Sorry but since you make no distinction between someone owning and selling a house ($500k asset in Austria) and someone who doesn't own a house and call them both middles class is just plain wrong.

The property owner middle classer is significantly better off than than the other and would benefit even more from your intention of buying while the other middle classer is worse off without a property to his name and will suffer more from being in competition with you.

Sure, one guy profits, but you can't possibly tell me with a straight face someone else doesn't get screwed from this wealth driven game of music chairs which is the property market right now.
I know this guy, he is a good worker and puts passion into this book. Help him out and give him a sale!
Telegram could support group chats that are encrypted, only that you can only be in that group chat from one device. I would greatly prefer that solution. Wouldn't you?
It is due to the fact that a lot of these second-tier energy firms were selling fixed tariff contracts to their customers. This was fine when energy prices were low, but it left them exposed if the prices spiked. These new/small energy companies also did not have the resources to hedge their risk and are getting completely wiped out. The big players in the market were able to hedge their contracts and are not in danger. When a firm goes bust its customers get sent elsewhere and are forced to sign with one of the big energy companies, but will end up paying the max rate (capped, so it is not too extreme, but a lot of lower income people who switched to these small providers to lock in a good rate are now facing some unpleasant decisions as winter approaches...)

[The various climate related bits add pennies to the bill and really have nothing to do with the problem, but it would not be a US biz infotainment show if it did not blame taxes or regulation in some way...]
You helped me spend $150 on books!

Check your local Library. Depending on where you are, it could be a fantastic resource for books.
A more relevant metric to consider - monthly mortgage payment to monthly income ratio.

Average interest rates in 2007 were 6.34% vs ~2.80% today. [1]

* 6.34% / $2,000 monthly payment / 20% down (~$65k) >> $328,319 price of home

* 2.80% / $2,000 monthly payment / 20% down (~$98k) >> $489,794 price of home

Homebuyers will make purchasing decision based on their monthly mortgage payments, instead of the home price.

When interest rates fall, the home's price goes up but the monthly payment can stay the same. Therefore, increases in home (and other asset, since lower bowering costs can drive institutional investment in assets higher and non-linearly) prices can be driven higher without any change in supply / demand dynamics.

Some hypotheticals to consider:

* as rates approach and touch 0, what will drive up home prices then?

* what happens when rates go up?

[1] http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
https://archive.is/8MVF1
>spreadsheets have NOT BEEN IMPROVED significantly since VisiCalc

Not true. Excel added dynamic-array formulas a few years ago (where a single formula automatically spills into applicable cells below the edited cell) — game changer. And LAMBDA functions are currently in the Excel beta version (create your own (recursive) functions directly in Excel) — another game changer.
Yep, makes me sad. It's the reason I made my site fully optimized for text based browsers too. Have a look : prirai.github.io/nav.html
Also, I parsed some books from various paces to make a neat archive. The themes will be visible only on a GUI browser tho. You won't need javascript.
Not much - but it needs a new set of training data for research papers. Btw - there seems to be an existing website for this already: https://www.hackernewspapers.com/ Although it only looks for posts.

I'd assume that Arxiv links are often there. So it's a problem that can be addressed with an easier solution (just looking for Arxiv links).
Ok #3 is Dune. It'll surely be super helpful in building my interstellar empire.

Step 1: make elites addicted to drugs

Step 2: monopolize drug trade

Step 3: install a religious fundamentalistic regime with yourself at its head

(All very logical until this point, but next step might be a problem, can anyone offer advice)

Step 4: transform into a worm

??!
So true. The way Atlassian hijacks browser keyboard hotkeys in Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket is purely infuriating.
There's a "pseudo market" for energy in the UK, lots of small players that don't generate, just buy and sell to consumers; and these small players have a lighter regulation than the big-boys. A lot of them don't bother to hedge against price-rises (that costs) and other regulations mean they can't pass market rates to their customers, so there's a big chunk of the providers looking at bankruptcy, and soon.
My daughter inherited my 4S from 10 years ago that was sitting in the drawer for 6 years now since I got my 6s (the week it came out, oct 2015). She’s bot yet 12.

The 4S never had a screen or battery change. It’s battery doesn’t last long with YouTube or video calls, but if charged at night and used for emails and voice calls, will last the whole day. It is perfectly usable, can do FaceTime etc.

We will need to replace it soon, though. Her school buddies all use WhatsApp which is no longer supported on iOS 9 (the latest on 4S).

I wouldn’t let her use it much longer for lack of security updates. The hardware - and even battery - are still usable at 10 years. Almost pleasant, even. Best form factor ever.
I understand that you disagree, however your disagreement seems to be based upon a pretty significant misunderstanding/lack of knowledge both about these apps and their privileges.
A VP is an officer (a director is not), and I've worked with people who were asked for exactly those things when interviewing or being considered for such a promotion, both internally and interviewing for a role externally.

I agree that what you say about experience and performance should be the only thing that matters, but it's naive to think that's simply "true", with no caveats, qualifications, or exceptions.

I don't think it's as common as you think as you progress in your career beyond an individual contributor, generally in the tech industry, and specifically at Microsoft I'm 75% sure what you're saying is not the case, with a very small handful of exceptions.
Excellent article - "passwordless" is Microsoft's (and BigTech's) attempts to take away more control from us, similar to Apple's "delayed" attempt to violate our rights by scanning our device for "illegal" content (begining with CSAM).
Any anonymous function will do :P

Not knocking it, after all it's my daily driver. You can do quite a lot with it these days and it can be quite productive.
I remember reading a much older article posted here. The author recounted his time working with two different coders, and how he admired and respected each of them.

One was very skilled at reading code. That skill didn't just help him with being able to understand easy to read code, but also to understand difficult to read code. This allowed him to go through the tech stack to find out what is wrong.

The other was very skilled at writing readable code, and more importantly, structuring its abstractions and interfaces just right. The primitives provided were exactly what he needed. Sometimes, when he wanted to expand the functionality, he finds out there were already primitives he can use for that expanded functionality.

It's not like you can't do both, but they are distinct skills and useful in different ways.
You can read "your own" also as "you own team/group/...", and you as a group can have standards and quality checks on how to write good code. Especially the initial architecture of every new big system should be scrutinized with care to avoid starting with a spaghetti-system from the scratch that will hardly get better. And of course: coding standards for all.
Isn't that Thursday every week?
I'm sure you'll say it is inferior for some reason (I'm not very familiar with Discord), but Matrix/Element does have voice chat [1].

https://element.io/features
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Okay, so basically they are just sort of pinky-swearing that your iCloud photos are encrypted on iCloud, but not in any way that prevents Apple or the government from decrypting them anyway.

This raises the followup question of "why bother scanning the images on-device?", but I can infer two fairly obvious answers. First, the encryption still keeps AWS/Azure/GCP from seeing my photos. Second, and more cynically, they'd have to pay to do computation in the cloud; on-device computation is free to them.

> This undermines the credibility of those who are claiming, without evidence, that this clientside CSAM scanning is a prelude to launching E2E for iCloud data.

I agree; this is consistent with my initial point of confusion. Thanks!
This is a great take on the topic, but it doesn't dive into the topic itself.

What are some techniques you've found help with reading code?

I'll start: breaking out trickier bits into isolated units and testing them to confirm my hypothesis. This gives me two pieces of information: it tells me what I do and don't understand about the unit I'm looking at, and it tells me what I don't yet know about the unit's dependencies (because to do a mechanical unit test, I need to mock / fake those deps, so now I know what assumptions I've made about those deps). This is useful for code with some very esoteric pieces in it (I spend a lot of time in graphics-land, where people do bad things to bit fields with equivalent meanings with the goal of saving a CPU cycle or two).
Over the years, I collected hundreds of RSS feeds. It all started with Google Reader, then moved all around the map. I remember Feedburner, tt-rss, ... Finally I stuck with Feedly.

Like many others, I hoarded feeds and consumed articles at random. I enjoyed using StumbleUpon to discover new sites on the Web, it was fun and I miss that vibe.

I used to explore my feeds every single day. I would pick 5-10 articles, print them out at work (oops) and read those during my train commutes. I learned a ton that way.

At some point I hit Feedly's free tier upper limit (800 or 1K feeds?) and stopped caring. Over time, I completely stopped checking the feeds and just let it go. I migrated over to Twitter and started following people rather than blogs; which has interesting benefits compared to just looking at articles through a feed reader: social interaction!

As the flood of content keeps getting worse, I feel like it's harder and harder to find the interesting content, which is drowned by the long tail. I feel like we need better means to curate content collaboratively (a delicious 2.0? :p). Wonder what exists out there that isn't focused on a specific niche.
That's why I prefer testing code comprehension skills over testing code writing skills in interviews. In my experience, the former is much more indicative of job performance than the latter. I don't understand why code comprehension tests aren't more widespread.
As for an ok way to manage internal knowledge, I've yet to see it. I've wanted to try out the Johnny Decimal System because if you can create a solid hierarchy of a filing system, everyone should be able to drill down to the right doc. Confluence search doesn't work. Neither does google docs. I think I now want the ability to just pull a local copy of a section of docs, say "all engineering," and just use grep locally.
Bus factor meaning the number of engineers who would have to die in a bus crash for the company to stop working?
https://xkcd.com/303/

Waiting for Compiles is the usual, there's a lot of waiting in software - waiting for compiles, scripts to run, someone else to do something.
You just said the middle class was the competition for these houses. If the middle class are the ones who own these houses it follows they are the ones selling them. You seem upset you were caught up in your fallacious logic and fail to understand it's the middle class making the money off these sales.
> If you instead send an http request to antoher server, you are just introducing a pointless dependency in your system. It will make your system generally slower because it will take more time to get answers. There's absolutely no benefit.

To expand on that, here downloading the file is a way of caching the data. Caching invalidation can be tricky, but for something like this it's actually easy, so you can afford all the benefits of a cache.
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I want my passwords back. Windows hello doesn’t know who the hell I am until after lunch.
Yes, this is the argument that Gary Taubes (and others) have been making for at least 15 years: "calories in, calories out" fails not because it is wrong, but because it is not powerful enough to account for empirical observations of human metabolism. The most glaring example of which is insulin resistance from high sugar diets, which causes the body to constantly stash away calories into fat cells.
HN is actually a great example.

Look at the old source of it and admire it's simplicity.

https://github.com/wting/hackernews
> Now, to be fair, neutrino-mixing in and by itself isn’t all that weird. Indeed, quarks also do this mixing, it’s just that they don’t mix as much. That *neutrinos mix is weird because neutrinos can only mix if they have masses. But we don’t know how they get masses.

Could someone explain to a layman why "neutrinos can only mix if they have masses"? Perhaps I don't understand what it means to "mix"
Literally this
Well, and most people have fucked up views on what defines "upper middle class". There was a topic on reddit the other night where the most popular posts were saying, without jest, that upper middle class starts at $10 million bucks in liquid savings (and ends around $50MM).

That seems to be a typical view on income and wealth in this country: people's opinions are wealth are out or proportion with reality by factors of like 100. For reference, upper middle class technically starts at around $120k/yr, so $10MM could pay 80 years of an upper middle class income. So there's no conceivable way an actual upper middle class family could actually save enough to be consider what the public thinks of as upper middle class.
Then you rely on turbines instead, or turn on your nuclear reactors, or import from neighbours.
It's usually not a random degree. Usually it's like biology or molecular and cellular biology or maybe biochemistry or something like that, where the major itself is applicable to more than just medical school, it just happens to perfectly or nearly so overlap with medical school requirements.

An MD post-secondary degree is like 6 years, right? An undergrad and MD in the US is 8 years, so the difference isn't that much. That's basically just the general education requirements for an undergraduate degree, which as far as I can understand is just a general difference of the US vs european systems. US bachelors include a generality component absent in European degrees so the typical US undergrad takes a year or so longer than the typical European undergraduate degree.
I've worked support, it truly isn't hell*. Show the user that you care about their issue and can help them resolve it; project confidence; empathize. That's all you have to do. Unfortunately, none of that is possible with a language and culture barrier in the way, not to mention a script or KPI's full of useless information you have to collect.

* Also unfortunately, most companies' hiring mentality for support is "warm butts in seats", and to top it off, oftentimes they prohibit their support from providing any kind of resolution to various genuine issues. In which case it definitely is hell, and the fact that people continue in these positions rather than jumping ship at the first opportunity only enables these businesses.
It depends where, as cities have some level of freedom in the shenanigan they implement in their tax structure.

Normally though, taxation is just a matter of the property value. Often, cities with lower housing cost have higher tax rates (because the people working the sewers aren't any cheaper and they need to get paid).

Many cities also have owner occupant or primary residence abatements, so the landlords pay more in taxes than the resident owners. Some cities though split homes in one of several categories, and single families may be taxed differently from multi family or condos. Sometimes multi family and condos are taxed less to encourage higher density construction, but it wouldn't change anything if you're a landlord or not (aside for the tax abatement). Landlords can deduct some of their expenses from their business' taxes though, and I think (don't quote me) their property taxes are part of that. Your millage may vary.
Was wondering about https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=bulgaria&targe... - but site maybe getting too much to work right now (would check later!)
I hadn't thought of that as "natural learned behavior" but I think you're definitely on to something there. I'm not sure when, but sometime in the last decade I internalized the lesson that the best way to get through an automated phone system is to scream profanities or mash buttons on my phone until I'm redirected to an actual human: a mode of social interaction that I would be _mortified_ to engage in in literally any other situation.

But I must have learned to do that because it gets results, or at least gets me to the humans faster. I guess what frustrates me as a human on the other end of that interaction is the assumption that you need to raise exaggerated hell to even reach my notice. I want to help! But folks are conditioned to expect the opposite, I guess.
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> Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html)

> The Wikipedia page for C++ (214,251 bytes).

$ wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal
$ wc Turbo_Pascal
668 10672 164349 Turbo_Pascal

Never mind C++, rather: The Wikipedia page for Turbo Pascal (164,349 bytes).
The whole point of the parent comment asking is that you can now install proper WebExtensions, so depending on what APIs they allow, this could change.
I missed that, their offer tamk about wordpress.
So theoretically really just more work per dev and less compensation. I guess that makes sense.
The author's conclusions are naive on a couple of fronts:

o Passwords ARE fundamentally broken and they do not put you in control. Passwords must be shared to work, therefore they can never truly be secret. Only a private/public key pair can even hope to authenticate an entity.

o Surveillance is present in all neighborhoods. The realm of free software is home to surveillance by the network, and attacks on the software ranging from distribution to zero days to common misconfigurations.

To top it off, the author perpetuates an anti-pattern, which is to place faith in the idea of password policies at all. NIST has recognized the pointlessness of password policies and now simply recommend that passwords are compared against databases of known passwords.

Fortunately we don't need to wonder what to do. WebAuthN is here now and has been ready for a couple years now.
> Providing supply will suffer the wrath of BANANA/CAVE/NIMBY anywhere you dream of living

TBH I would have said the same thing 5-10 years ago, but I think this notion is outdated now.

I live in a famously NIMBY city (Seattle) and things have changed a lot in the last 5 years. I would guess that single-family zoning will be gone within 5 years.

Although I don't buy it, some people even argue that SFH zoning is already gone in Seattle due to ADU/DADU reforms.
ravens are the neighborhood watch of the kind i like - they chase away falcons and eagles who occasionally venture into our neighborhood. The ravens would sit at the very top of the redwoods chatting up each other across the space. Though i haven't seen that much of them recently - we lost a lot of large trees to the new developments (Mountain View is more and more a faceless barrack dormitory for Google) - somehow building while preserving large trees (already growing in the developed areas and with each tree being a small bustling city of the birds and small animals) is believed to be impossible while cats/whatever will as usually be blamed for birds population decline.
A model called COMPAS which takes a crap ton of inputs to predict recidivism doesn't do substantially better than a simple model you can calculate by hand: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/equiv...

I wonder if the model described in TFA will do any good.
And yet the population is not. Ergo, you're competing not just with your fellow citizens, but the whole planet.
Isn't joking about firing people (not to mention actually firing people) one of the most common ways that managers assert and reinforce their dominance in the social status hierarchy?

In most companies, managers' greatest power (besides controlling subordinates' movement, actions, privacy, and access to amenities such as light, heating/cooling, quiet environments, restrooms, etc.) is their largely unlimited power to simultaneously deprive subordinates of their livelihood, health insurance, social relationships, and social status.

Ed Zitron suggests that maintaining this social dominance and control over subordinates is typically the underlying (and primary) reason why managers want employees "back in the office":

https://ez.substack.com/p/the-work-from-home-future-is-destr...
> I assumed it was understood that I meant while holding all other conditions constant.

Except you and the article are drawing the complete opposite conclusion of the paper they cite. They literally say resting metabolic rate doesn't really matter.

"Total daily energy expenditure varies several-fold in humans, not due to variation in resting metabolic rate, diet-induced thermogenesis, or exercise thermogenesis, but rather, due to variations in nonexercise activity. A variety of factors impact nonexercise activity, including occupation, environment, education, genetics, age, gender, and body composition"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15534426/
In corporate environment paying for Confluence Cloud subscription can be cheaper than having even a part time admin to install and maintain self-hosted solution (proper security, backups, handling compatibility issues on updates etc etc). It may not be the best solution, but it is good enough.