skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not trusted M$ since the mid 90s when I first installed Slackware Linux (after using OS/2 2.0 for a year or 2).

I was using Vscodium occasionally and despite it being very easy to use, I'm going to uninstall it now and just focus on emacs and neovim. I do not even trust vscodium since the original codebase comes from tainted origins.
Location: Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (Canadian Citizen - So outside of Canada, I'd probably need a visa)

Technologies: JavaScript, ReactJS, HTML, CSS;

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f1w4n9e8w7vruha/Akhil%20Dalal%20Re...

Email: akhil.dalal@outlook.com

I'm a frontend developer with 3 years of experience. I've worked on a dashboarding application while I was in Boeing, and now I'm working on a Client Onboarding application in the fintech industry. My responsibilities in both roles includes what you might typically expect of a frontend dev:
- Implementing the UI based on given UX designs by the UX team.
- Enhance current features and develop new features as needed.
- Work with clients to clarify and keep up-to-date the business requirements.
- Debug and fix defects as found by unit testing or by QA testers.

I'm looking for a similar role but with more scope and a chance to work with backend processes. This might mean API building, or even dev ops. I like to take ownership of what I work with and I have a holistic approach to development.

Please do not hesitate to reach out whenever with questions if something caught your eye!
Let's not Invent Nonsense Unfounded aCronymS
The video isn't, but the standard is.
I mostly express opinions about things than affect my productivity. I don't care about npm vs yarn. It doesn't affect how I work. But I care a lot about not having excessively firm lint rules because they slow down my coding.
The 2020s version would be a meme that simultaneously offends everyone of every belief system.

“A meme so offensive not even the most determined edgelord can see it without outrage!!!”
There's several follow-up articles that share that they were working with the police, and the badged Apple employees were retired police officers who were sworn in during these searches.

TLDR, nothing happened because they didn't break the law
Why wouldn't it be 3D printed? Not strong enough? I assume it's a fairly specialised item and shape.
What's a good IRC channel for cs/maths/physics?

After the freedone implosion I don't know where anything is any more.
Chinesium HEPA air purifiers are pretty good in my experience too, and just as cheap. My Odec model was $35. It is striking how well they can eliminate even just general odors in the home. If I go on vacation and come back to my home, there is a smell (old building). When I started using these filters and come back after a long period away, there is no smell at all, its amazing. Cooking smells go away much faster too.

They look a lot nicer than a big ugly box fan with a filter duct taped to it, are much smaller, and the lowest power setting runs imperceptibly quiet. The only issue is that the fans in these devices are cheaply made and can sometimes become unbalanced and start rattling over time. The low cost makes it easy to replace them, though.
People are definitely gonna use this ruling to justify reverse engineering games to modify the game design, claiming that the balancing/mechanics are "buggy". Some of that will be in earnest, some of it will be cover for pirates. The stuff that will be in earnest will make for some interesting arguments about who really owns a game design once it's out in the world, and what constitutes a bug vs a design choice/flaw
> the comments especially are filled with "useful idiots"

Does such a broad brush add to the discussion?

Disagreement can be healthy. I'd say the varied political and philosophical perspectives of HN and Slashdot contributed a lot to changing my worldview. (Hopefully for the better, though we're all still learning.)
>"Solved Problem" however isn't a thing I like to hear in this context. Solvable problem, sure, managable risk, yes.

The guy is engaging in a bit of hyperbole. If you reduce the size of a problem by 90%, and the problem was not that bad to begin with, you are not exaggerating too much by saying "solved problem".

First, how bad is the problem right now? A 1GW nuclear power plant produces 3 cubic meters of high level waste per year, while a similar coal power plant produces 300000 tons of ash per year (plus a lot of CO2)[1]. Now, for those 3 cubic meters, the radioactivity is reduced by 99.9% after 40 years [2] (without any reprocessing). If you add reprocessing, you can extract the very long half-life elements, especially Plutonium, and make use of them, by "burning" them in other nuclear reactors. Not everything can be disposed off, but the problem can be reduced by at least a factor of 10.

[1] https://www.world-nuclear.org/nuclear-essentials/what-is-nuc...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Economics
I switched to iPhone after many years of Android.

I do feel iOS/iPhone is a bit oversold by the religious cult. Android voice recognition works far better, as well as the swipe keyboard. The screen on the iPhone scratches easier. The lack of real U2F in your Apple ID is concerning, and there's no unification in Apple's ecosystem for payments, despite what they tell you.

Despite that, I will say it's nice to escape web-view hell of Android; everything actually looks nice on iPhone and it's nice to get away from Javascript land. It's also nice to escape Facebook and Google's creepy ass telemetry of your entire life, even if you "opt out" (which is a joke).

The main PITA is the legacy, outdated, and absurd lightning connector that's locked the platform into 2010 USB speeds and until recently, slow charge wattages.

I know they're probably trying to hope they can get wireless charge wattages high enough to eliminate ports all together, but I doubt they're going to be able to do it efficiently (meaning, keep device and charger at reasonable temperatures) without a material sciences breakthrough.

It's time to just switch to USB-C. We could be fast charging @ 90w with graphene batteries soon. Literally _everyone_ wants usb-c on an iPhones, it's time to ditch the Lightning connector dinosaur.
Same experience here, has made a world of difference

Depending on how a statistical experiment was designed, I could imagine a variety of results though
This appears to be the company making this and other animal-mounted cameras: https://www.cats.is/products/cats-cam/

If you browse around the site, you can find photos of them attaching cameras to whales, etc.
If you go back into the history books, I think it’s wishful thinking that it was ever any other way - plus or minus some ebbs or flows over the years. COINTELPRO and J. Edgar Hoovers blackmailing of government officials and other shenanigans being a pretty solid recent examples that just so happened to be exposed, but especially when you look at how few media outlets were willing to publish the COINTELPRO documents along with how many of the packets just ‘disappeared’ in the mail, it’s clear we just got lucky to know about these. For every one of them that gets out, I’m sure there are 3-5 or more that get caught and stopped.
San Francisco's Private Police Force (2015)
As you said, you define your creativity by your code itself.
I think some programmers (at least me) want a wider freedom, for example about features, or process, or devops stuff, etc etc.
I think the more you're in a big structure with defined roles, the more it's difficult to have this freedom, not only about the way to code, but the way to work.
Be aware that the 845 miles was achieved by a person who specializes in driving cars efficiently. It is not reasonable to expect a typical driver to attain this distance on one tank of hydrogen. The EPA estimate for this vehicle is about 420 miles and may decrease with weather and road conditions as well as fuel cell and battery age.
Self serving cyber waffle, if you don't mind me saying so bill ;]
Maybe there's a misunderstanding. The old toggle is deprecated, but the plan is that you will always be able to use it. The new toggle is just a different setting and can still be used there on newer versions ("telemetry.telemetryLevel": "off").
https://peergos.org/posts/keybase-left-building
As devs dont often hear feedback - you guys are doing a great job on VSCode. There are some key issues that Code overcame compared to other IDEs, which is why so many teams use it. One of those is forced telemetry (others are pricing, integration, and memory / resources footprint).

Please continue to push back against moves towards forced telemetry. Some of us work in sensitive environments, others wish for privacy. For those of us that work in sensitive environments we could simply firewall the program to stop talk back, but that will likely break many other things. Currently we have a level of trust that strikes a good balance between over the top strict security and permissive security where there are few issues because Code is trusted from a trusted domain. Forcing telemetry is likely to have Cybersecurity teams flag the app at an enterprise level and start to introduce headaches as they start to try and curb information leak.
> legal agreement before you have sex

A contract that codifies trust? Once this would have been marriage. I don't know what it is today.
They change. If you want to try direct tuning you'll want to check with monitoring groups or newest YouTube videos, etc. Otherwise if you are in the US...aka near a secret agent ;-)... scanning around works well enough.

I don't know if this is still the case but they used to use a freeware Windows XP encryption application. The amused author wrote a bit about it, IIRC.
Ah, I think my mental picture of how exactly this works is very ill-formed then. Appreciate the thought-out response.

Maybe I ought to do more reading in this area. Based on what you're saying, it sounds like there is a possibility to target them towards this usecase.
Obligatory Taiwan China relations comment: Taiwan was never a part of the PRC and doesn’t intend to be. While not officially a country (due to China’s whining), for all intents and purposes it absolutely is.

With that out of the way, does this present anything new?
Maybe in some places. Thankfully in our school district they took the time while kids were doing school from home to upgrade ventilation and filtration (I believe a large part through federal grants). Also following CDC guidance for schools (masking, distancing, etc). Our county isn’t exactly highly populated but thankfully the school system has been great. It’s stressful with the kids back in school yet there have been no outbreaks at the school but we only seem to average one notification a week if someone who was sick (but we’ve gotten no close contact notifications). Sure seems like people are getting COVID elsewhere and potentially bringing it into school versus it spreading in school.
Just some feedback from the field: I work with some high-security networks, and the perception from those Microsoft customers is that whatever "good" that has come from Microsoft improving security in general has been completely undermined by the pervasive telemetry.

Windows 10 alone has something like 200 individual settings for disabling its various forms of telemetry. Office adds several dozen more. Dotnet itself has telemetry, then PowerShell on top of that. VS Code and Visual Studio both send telemetry.

On and on, and on... and then some more, and on... and ON and ON and...

There's just no end to it.

As administrators, it's like playing whack-a-mole against a thousand moles that are breeding exponentially.

We don't want to play this game any more.
Older minds automatically acquire firewalls:

https://mobile.twitter.com/nntaleb/status/143316009646549402...

Very old minds are practically just a firewall.
Anyone can just read her Twitter feed where she posted the articles she's quoted in and her emails to Apple's HR and find that she's at least partially full of shit.

She's absolutely delusional to think that Apple is trying to discredit her. She discredits herself.
The standard states they are optional, but provides no logic as to why a manufacturer would go to the trouble of punching these holes at great expense that are apparently unnecessary.

Look around at your high power appliances, exactly all of them will have holes in the prongs. There must be a reason don't you think?
> There's no coherent threat model here.

My threat model is Microsoft selling bogus "productivity enhancement" features to customers, pushing duplicated features, collecting data on costumers to acquire business sensitive information, and using marketshare as leverage to strangle better products.
This is a very bad idea. You cannot hide ETL in a Rest API, at most you can hide the T part and it's a lot more work. you need to build an extra service that reads the data from a database and does some padgination. It's way more complex than a one-liner to get data from a jdbc connection and way much slower.
How did you go about finding these other activities that truly engage you, if you don’t mind me asking.
>This process will be broken up into handy stages, to help everyone to keep up.

I'm not going to read an article by clicking 'next' a bunch of times. I have no idea if it's 3 or 100 pages so how does it make it easier to keep up?
Is it possible to implement a preemptive scheduler on WebAssembly? How would the kernel interrupt a running task?
Leader sheep's exceptional intelligence not folklore, study proves (2015)
yes, that's pretty much exactly what i'm saying: all the data we have is that it spreads exactly as you say, sitting with somebody for an extended period of time. because that's the sort of thing that people remember, and tell the contact tracers about.

but at least in my region, the majority of cases still don't have a known source. maybe that's because people are catching it in scenarios where they're in close proximity to somebody for extended periods of time but forget about it when the contact tracers call them, and all cases are spread that way.

or maybe it's spreading in grocery stores and other casual contact scenarios but that's just impossible to measure or count. we keep hearing that there's no evidence of it spreading in schools, and yet as long as students are in school it spreads a lot more among students. is it not spreading there, or is it just really difficult to find the evidence of that?
Grim Fandango, EMI etc were all part of 'ResidualVM' - a ScummVM sister project. While it shared some framework, at the time it wasn't considered appropriate or feasible to include 3D games in ScummVM proper - and many of the ScummVM port backends had no capability for 3D functionality (like depth buffers, model rendering, etc) required by those engines.

But 20 years later, Residual has been merged back into the main parent ScummvM codebase! This is thanks to both targetted devices being more powerful this generation, and a decision to increase the scope of ScummVM.

See - back in the day there was a more strict scope and titles that were not 'pure' 2D point-and-click adventures were generally not eligible or considered. However 'adventure games' are not aways so easily defined, sometimes leading to arguments, debates and disappointment.

But in the last few years, the project has gradually widened it's scope and begun to accept contributions to engines that may previously have been rejected (for example: being classified as a 'RPG' instead of an 'Adventure', or having non-traditional elements like FMV or pseudo-3D).

... and that - along with lots of hard work from the engine developers and other contributors - is partially why there are so many new engines and games supported in the massive
20th Anniversary release :D

Happy Days!

- Ender, a (long) retired former ScummVM co-lead from the early years
They were 'attempting' to launder their image.
I guess most of this is because it makes your screen darker, not because it's specifically filtering blue. Most displays are set up way too bright.
Same here but maybe it's simply a case the filtering out blue reduces the total light intensity enough to be easier on the eyes. Wonder if similar results could be accomplished by filtering red instead or simply turning down the brightness on our devices and using lower lumen bulbs around the house.
If you go on Amazon they have many HEPA models that advertise their decibel levels explicitly. If its listed as going down to the low 20s in decibels it will be almost completely silent.
Agree that China is being increasingly portrayed as an enemy. Though taking it as serious economic competitor is necessary. Wish we didn’t conflate the two.
What was so special about keybase that a bunch of nerds needed to add their public key everywhere?
Thanks, yeah, I was thinking along those lines: of course Mario 3D models, textures, audio, etc, are Nintendo’s copyright, but what about the decompiled code itself?

That seems a much harder line to draw
Unexpected consequences of YouTube blocking ads climate denying content
YouTube is blocking ads from showing next to content denying climate change, saying this stops creators from making money on this content.
Now I read this as you will be able to watch climate denying content right away with none of the annoying ads. But people who go to watch the normal content on climate change will need to sit through the regular ad torture.

Will this actually lower viewership on the denier content?
It's not that hard if you're careful. The last line of defence of using a well-chosen set of WiFi hotspots, auto-generated MAC addresses, and an otherwise silent Linux distro is pretty impenetrable even if all other proxy layering is somehow compromised.

Provided you're disciplined enough to properly containerize all ongoing sessions, of course. Careful planning is all it takes.
Not to mention he's been playing both sides of a conversation?

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/541/
I love these types of videos. It continuously amazes me to learn how much ingenuity and creative coding was necessary to create video games in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s.

Even more amazing is that they did a lot of it without tools like version control, graphics engines, and frameworks that most programmers take for granted today.

Today we stand on the shoulders of the giants that created these early games.

For example the water effect in the video was probably the culmination of many all-hands meetings within the team that figured out how to "cheat" the system into doing it, while literally bouncing off the graphics ceiling that the console was capable of producing. Nowadays we would just send the intern off and tell them to add some water to the scene as a trivial task.
Probably some vesting schedule.
"bad at design":

Either their engineers are incompetent, and accidentally chose the evil thing, or they intentionally planned it to happen this way.
> Hackers have long been interested in politics/culture/public policy.

Well, yes, but usually from an aesthetic perspective, rather than a moralistic one. E.g. bad laws and cronyism being seen as ugly hacks and misfeatures on what could be a beautiful and elegant system of law; the cleverness of computer intrusion being more important than its consequences; the Internet (Tor, cryptocurrency, whatever) "routing around damage" — i.e. systems of law that seek to constrain behavior — and this being seen as "natural and inevitable" in the same way one might prescribe no moral agency to carnivorous animals killing their prey; etc.

Communities that start out full of hacker-aesthetes, seem to invariably shift to being full of engineer-moralists. HN wasn't purely a hacker-aesthete community when it started — it was tempered with a good number of other types of people — but they're certainly even more rare here now.
So many public restrooms use some automated febreeze sprayer to deal with the feces particulate odor in the room. If they used actual HEPA they could actually cut down on the particulate and odors without having the bathroom smell like you are inside a scented candle, or an Abercrombie store. Ongoing costs would probably be similar, HEPA filters are cheap just like a can of febreeze.
I thought this was super interesting. Initially saw it on Wikipedia but this is the best article I could find that puts most of the info in one spot. Wikipedia[1] describes it as:

> A unique strain within the population is the Leader sheep, which carries a hereditary ability or predisposition to lead other sheep safely over dangerous ground.

Picture of such a sheep: https://www.animalgeneticresources.net/wp-content/uploads/20... (from [2])

When looking for leader sheep, Iceland immediately comes up so it does seem to be unique to that environment. I can only imagine the evolutionary pressures that led to this, and it makes me wonder if other animals (including humans) have hereditary traits. (Perhaps there is some logic to a royal line after all! (jk)) Sheep aren't even native to that island; they were introduced only a few hundred years ago yet this trait apparently doesn't exist elsewhere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_sheep

[2] https://www.animalgeneticresources.net/index.php/country/ice...
Super interesting article on VC and the New York startup scene in 2006.

https://avc.com/2006/10/the_nyc_develop/
Also BOM marks, which Powershell loves to output. Took a while for me to figure out what was putting 2 extra bytes into files.

Edit: 3 bytes, not 2 (thanks!)
It supported digital too, much like the last generation of microwave gear did.
Why not just call into a C/other compiled language library in this case? It'll be faster and it's not like you're getting the advantages of Lua in this case because you're not actually integrating it. In the ideal case Lua likes to call into native functions to do the heavy lifting anyway.
It is obvious to anyone who has been here for a while that this community is in decline, in the sense that it has less depth, less quirkiness, and less 'real' diversity of opinion (although dang does a good job of stemming the tide). The 'hivemind' has emerged here to squash contrasting positions.

The funny thing is, no one thinks they are a part of this emergent 'hivemind' but the end result is the same.
Their latest changes aren’t great but they can be disabled. In general there are work-arounds for all their quirks. We should not overreact.

Firefox remains the only way I can get full uBlock Origin and uMatrix on the desktop, and I simply refuse to browse the mind-bogglingly frustrating “modern web” without those.

Also, browser diversity is crucial. We should support the main competition as long as possible.
I really don't understand who's holding this $70 billion worth of Tether.

It's instability is quite well known, so who are these people with $70 billion of collective value who are still willing to trade real dollars and cryptoassets for it?
Not well, that's the only time I use vscode (for everything else I use sublime or Pycharm if it's Python). I wanted to find a link for you to include in this post but searching "sublimetext ssh" etc didn't even bring up anything definitive, which kinda tells you how not great it is.

One option if it's just like 1 file at a time is to use WinSCP with Sublime as your default editor and just open the file, edit, close, but again, obviously not great.
From another comment summarizing contents it seems this research focuses on danger of permanent damage. Just because there isn't permanent damage from blue screen light doesn't mean that it can't also be more comfortable to you and promote healthy sleep to filter it out
I am so confused… how do they think covid spreads, then? Why should you wear a surgical at all, then?
Sons of Anarchy writer Stevie L funding new Hollywood Action-Horror with Crypto
It is more than from flu and there are most hospitalizations than from flu. Besides flu could not spread with current restrictions, covid can.
That is not the way things work in the US.

The mfrs will cry “job losses” due to discontinuing production. Farmers will cry poor. Nothing will happen.