skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree both can be true, I can understand reserving judgement but I disagree with the analysis that because something else unrelated the person did in the past, their current claim is invalidated.
Victim blaming at its finest
Yeah, it's actually pretty complicated.

MERV13 also needs less pressure, and a box fan is bad with pressure. If you stuck a HEPA filter on a box fan, it might only do 100cu feet of airflow. MERV13 is maybe 200.

HEPA is designed for higher pressure centrifugal fans. MERV13 is likely the best balance for home made designs
the wind turbines thing is fascinating. Any chance you have a link for that? I would love to see the source code, if that guy shared that.
I find it ironic that reading this article requires logging in or using the app, presumably so you can be more accurately tracked.
No one denies the importance of nurture.
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It’s hard to imagine that everything is “free” now. For context:

1. Megacorps weren’t so mega, so they didn’t provide all this functionality out of the box and generally WANTED 3rd party devs

2. You didn’t have an infinite numbers of things online to grab/use

3. Ad model certainly didn’t exist for software, and VC capital didn’t back the most arbitrary of software

4. Most software was relatively expensive because audience size was far smaller than today

5. People were excited at the random new things their computer could do

6. Screen burn in was a real problem, a new monitor was very expensive, and you rarely bought a new computer
I had a friend who was fired from, or quit, every job he had for nearly a decade. He response was always the same, "the boss is a moron" or "the people there are idiots". We had a long conversation where I laid it out for him. The odds that after 10 years everyone he worked with was an idiot or a moron were pretty slim and the only thing every single one of the those people had in common was him.

Fortunately he took me seriously and had a lot of growth in a short period of time. He's been at his last job for 15 years and moved to the head of his department and gets a bit of a laugh now when he hears that people working for him think he's a moron.
> a separate hash for each mask

If someone steals a hash for characters 1-4 they'll be able to brute force it. Only 10000x the cost of a single login. And then if you have the hash for characters 2-5...
Decent analogy, but classic ham radio isn't a 'natural state' that's being encroached upon. It's just an older technology. I think a better comparison would be if the park had no cell signal, but did have an old pager network set up.

It works, but...ugh.

The pagers used to be extremely valuable...before better tech was invented. Very few people have a use for the outdated tech anymore. Cell phones let us do far more.
I wonder: How many of the derogatory comments in this HN thread are paid hits?
If apple is actually sending people to employees homes, what's to stop them from manipulating discourse on forums such as this?

They certainly have the money and the expertise to do it. If this is at all a concern, what is this forum doing to prevent that from happening?

https://www.gawker.com/5856260/apples-sleazy-secret-police-l...
It's weird that most of “Hacker” news is dominated by business news
I know that "tech" is all about startups and business success, but I'd like to see conversations about software, hardware, computer science, and hacker culture resurge and dominate here.

Of course HN is run by YC so there will always be the mod posts about startups and jobs, but it seems the community here sometimes tilts more towards business than technology.

Just a personal thought, would like to hear if others also have a similar perception.
BadRabbit, you seem to be very invested in this topic, judging by your reply to my comment and now this one, so I must ask: Are you the person depicted in this topic, or in some way related to them?
Having worked at startups and big tech I can say this article is wrong on so many levels. Programming complements you in all walks of life. You can be a ceo/ manager and still be a programmer. Also I never felt like being a tool or being a burden if you work at a non tech company then it might be true but at tech companies I’ve always felt more empowered than anyone else in making product decisions and I’m talking massive companies. This is just a rant by someone working in the tech dept. of target!
Airborne transmission and the usefulness of filters still doesn't seem that clearly established - this study didn't find that much virus in the air even without the filters, and most of the real-world transmission seems to involve people who were directly exposed to virus particles before they even had a chance to go through a filter, via standing next to someone or directly in an airflow path coming from their direction.
Your English is great. I too follow the demo scene and got hooked on a JS1K thread on HN several years ago, and stayed since then. I like how the top rated comment isn't the lowest hanging fruit, which seems to be the case on every other internet forum.
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>It’s getting tougher for the first job but not for the 2nd, where word of mouth (a strong referral from a colleague who worked with you) carries much more weight than resume.

I've gotten plenty of employee referrals in the past because people I've worked with know I'm a solid developer, but honestly I just politely refuse them at this point. Every single time it happens, the company just drops you straight into the standard interview pipeline with zero benefit other than perhaps skipping a recruiter phone call. And when I'm inevitably not able to solve some random whiteboard problem or whatever, and I get rejected, it makes the friendship weird from then on.
I agree, but in part, it is how the Windows business model has changed.

Older versions of Windows were the product, and the customer was the end user

With New versions of consumer Windows, user data is the product, companies and advertisers are the customer, and end users are the data source.

Commercial/Server versions of Windows not so much.
I'm a former film/game/TV composer. Last year I developed a condition of the ear that stopped my career in its tracks.

Always had an interest in tech, so I'm currently in process of switching careers to programming. In the meantime, I'm continuing to work in tech support for other composers.
Bernal Heights Man Says Apple Impersonating Police Searched His Home (2011)
i can relate to this. My last job search had me considering a new career, it was so demoralizing. I just couldn't get anything. I can go on an on about how its such a a horrible experience. Even the things just out of my control. Then the new job it self can be hellish experience. After some real terrible teams and companies why even risk it if your not totally miserable. There are some sociopaths and truly terrible people out there and just completely incompetent.
You're saying you're agreeing with OP, but your statements contradict.

OP calls out 3 categories of jobs. Mainly natural/technical, mainly social, and those which sit in the middle and require both. Finally OP says engineering sits in the middle and requires both.

You said it's not just engineering (that requires both), but all jobs.

Both I and OP disagree with that statement.
> you think that's justification to put a company under scrutity

The reality is that most companies probably should be under more scrutiny, especially the largest ones in the world. They have such massive amounts of power that society needs to make sure the power isn’t being used to harm society. IMO, this example isn’t why we should start putting Apple under scrutiny, but a reminder to continue doing so. It reminds us that bad things are happening at even the most respected companies — whether or not every report ends up being substantiated.
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I do not see how US voters’ representatives not voting for taxpayer funded healthcare, or at least not removing the tax advantage for employer subsidized health insurance is under Apple’s purview.
Do you have a reason to believe they already knew it was toxic? (If you meant me, I don't work or worked for apple). If you read the thread, they had significant investment in apple making it hard for them to leave.
> He chose sides, while simultaneously claiming he is neutral.

Which is not a crime.
my radio is about the same size of car radio. in fact it is meant to be mounted in car.

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Victim implies it was outside of their control, and without forewarning, while knowing what you're engaging in ahead of time would negate that designation.
Yes, the lens functionality for translating text
Why not just simply decline the EULA?
That's... just a prison cell like you'd find in many places.

Looking at that picture I'm unsure what makes it "nice" except for the fact that it looks somewhat freshly built.

Cells are cells. What really differentiates prisons is everything around them and what amenities and workshops are offered.
> Actually, it makes me wonder what's keeping these companies that want to serve ads generate JS dynamically server side and include the code for ads in the same file as the main application logic.

First reason is the lack of trust. Or limited trust, if you prefer. That is, SomeCompany may trust AdProvider enough to include their ads in its website, but then again not trust them enough to bundle random external code with their own. Letting the user's browser load from different origins does give you some separation.

Then there's the separation of responsibilities. Say something does break -and not because of blocking-, having the code bundled together makes it very easy to start a game of passing the blame. "It works for us", "We're not doing anything weird", etc. And not only that. There's also the question of who pays for that downtime. SomeCompany is kept from earning money, will AdProvider compensate them? SomeCompany'll probably need to provide evidence that the problem comes from AdProvider.

On the other hand, some websites may already be doing a very similar thing... though it's likely just accidental. I mean, I have experienced a fair number of websites breaking when googleanalytics is blocked and I'd bet it's not intentional, just bad programming.
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> What she is doing now might really harm her ability to ever get hired again by a company in SV.

If what Apple is doing is representative of how companies deal with things in SV, then good riddance. There are plenty of companies not in SV that don't intimidate employees.
This is no different from "you shouldn't have been wearing that if you didn't want to get sexually assaulted"
Open Source can be hosted anywhere, as many people who have written software later hosted as a cloud service by Amazon have discovered. I don't think there's any merit to rejecting an Open Source project on the basis of where its primary developers are located.
I’m sorry I feel like we should clarify your numbers. VC money hopes for 10x or 20x as a goal and is quite happy to have that in their portfolio. If you are a 1x-5x company that isn’t enough return for the equity risk.

1000x is an anomaly and would make one fund round do exceptionally well compared to all others but most funds don’t ever get that kind of investment return.
For Teen Girls, Instagram Is a Cesspool
In practice the enforcement of laws happens at the national level, and EU precedence doesn't always bridge the gap between theory and practice.
If Facebook tells me I can only browse their website in Google Chrome, then can they sue me if I open Facebook in Mozilla Firefox?
Can't this be said for any profession that creates for an organisation? I'm studying design currently, when I enter the workforce I will be a tool in a system ran by others. I've seen many people say this in different ways: when you pick a career you really have to think to yourself if the annoying or "bad" parts are something you can handle
So: how are you supposed to move children around, if you don't own or can't drive a car? You can't be expected to carry a car-seat around with you, as well as having kids in tow.

I had a car when I was raising kids; I've never confronted this problem.
Put every company under scrutiny, no justification needed.
> have the central HVAC system be renovated

Speaking for many schools in heating dominated climates: renovate the what? (Many schools have forced water radiators, which are obviously not able to be retrofitted for effective air filtration.)
In this case, I suspect that wasn't the concern.

The UK currently replicates almost all the same provisions as the EU (because, it was part of the EU, and in leaving it was easier to just say, yes, we're keeping the rules the same).

It will inevitably diverge from the EU rules, but most of these are identical for now.

The case in the OP was against the Belgian Government, who do have the resources to fight silly lawsuits. Random individuals in most jurisdictions can't really entertain such things over something that doesn't make them any money against a trillion $ company.
I meant to type fission somehow typed fusion, my apologies. I'm all in for fusion, the one in the sky is my favourite and I would love to have an artificial one too.
Cryptocurrency is programmable money. People interact with each other using money all day, and this is a technology that augments human interaction. Just because the most vocal narrative are the unrealized fantasies you mention, doesn't mean there's not a benefit to this technology. Frankly, I'm shocked how the supposedly future thinking tech crowd on HN lacks so much creativity when it comes to cryptocurrency. Anyway, it's here to stay for a long time even if they legislate it to oblivion.
It's actually quite concerning and even a little suspicious that so many defamatory comments are linking criticism of the workplace with mental illness.
Before I quit my job as a lawyer I was on here at least once a week keeping in touch with the industry.
> Political candidate B in conjunction with an aligned foreign country paid him to publish only the material on A.

Could you provide a source on those claims?
Top Author Citations in Software Engineering, Comparison with Other Fields
I'm not sure if this is still true, but at one point you could even use the all numeric version on their website.
I don't believe in your woke horseshit, so this doesn't work on me. I'm also not referring to any concrete person.
Developer experience is top-notch because it’s JetBrains. Nothing else compares.

It’s supposed to be scalable but idk because i don’t have a big app. It uses coroutines so it can serve multiple requests simultaneously.

Deployment is easy although idk what to compare to. I created a jar and ran it in linode and i got a working server. You can also create a docker app.
You're a good friend for respectfully helping someone detect counterproductive ideologies. Fortunately your friend is receptive to logic, I'm glad it is going better for them. Thanks for relaying this story, it made me feel good! Have a good weekend :)
What you're describing is pretty broadly true around the world. Certainly some cities, especially those with strong urban planning authority, do better with transit and new housing than others. But most cities with high demand to live there worldwide are expensive for locals who are usually also unhappy with various aspects of transit/traffic/etc.
One reason of many that I like Indie Hackers, it's geared towards bootstrapping without VC involvement [0].

[0] https://indiehackers.com
This isn't the same thing but its a similar subject and might interest you:

https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-l...
Good question...a couple nested systems. Noting that the house was designed to be 'a passive house' (air quotes) in the early 1980s so it has some quirks.

1) we have a large stove so needed a makeup air fan anyways to match the hood. I worked with them to design the makeup system so it is quiet and pressurizes the second floor 'landing' and is larger than necessary...rather than just immediately pumping air into the exhaust.

2) We also have high ceilings because of the shape of the house (it...should help?)

3) the high ceilings also have remote openable skylights (originally they had hand openable crank skylights) that are already really affected at releasing any heat buildup

4) an excess of windows and two multi-panel sliding doors which, because we are only heating and cooling rooms when they are occupied, can be kept open more frequently. All of them are under deep overhangs and 75% of them are south facing so they are great at managing solar heat gain and we can open them often.

I'm curious how it will work and we have some backup plans. We're putting CO2 monitors in the bedrooms and the kitchen when we move back in and if needed a bunch of the systems can be connected to home automation rules if needed. Even the exhaust fans for all the bathrooms are on the home automation system already.

We lived in the house for about a year before rennovating it with 2 mini splits retrofitted (long story). It's 1900 square feet and we both worked from home. At night, we heated the bedroom, during the day we heated the office. During winter the sun heated the rest of the house. Our total power bill was around $70 a month.
I’m not familiar with the UK, but were the people formerly doing these jobs from somewhere outside of England? Id that’s the case I’m assuming they were being paid sub par wages and no one else would do it for that wage.
Does it? Or does it work that way only in the Nordics where you seem to be from, judging by your handle?
A) they’re looking for a problem where none may exist

B) they have no context on working with her, listening to her presentations, and her previous dialogues with her manager

Her entire MO starting with her apartment housing “scandal” is to be a resilient victim fighting the oppressors. As you dig in you can quickly see she’s a nutcase who wants issues and a blind detached twitter army backing her to validate her despite none of these people actually having any real context to what’s going on.
In Canada, Many school, and public buildings still have asbestos used throughout and very outdated ventilation systems. Schools in smaller towns were built in the 60s and 70s. Asbestos was a town in Quebec before they changed the name.

Vaccines are pushed in part so hard, because its the cheapest solution for government to implement. Not building extra hospitals. Firing unvaccinated nurses, and hospital employees during a pandemic is the other government solution. This of course will blow back hard, should the vaccine efficiency wane over winter.
No money. 2 weeks. That's what I did. I used a study guide app. (HamRadioExam Tech by Roy Watson) There are many other free options, though. Lots of people like hamstudy.org. I spent 1-2 hours a day for two weeks memorizing all the answers on the test. (All test questions and answers are publicly available from the FCC.) I took a real test offered by a local club when I was reliably acing the practice test.
I didn't say meritocracy is not perfect, I said that claims of meritocracy have no basis in reality.

Those are different. It isn't that meritocracy does or does not function - it is that it doesn't exist
I am not the person nor in any way related to them other than a common employer at one point and I say claims of Apple’s toxicity should be investigated, reflexive paranoid suspicion of critics of Apple’s company culture be damned.
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This sounds like all of the criticisms you would have if your only exprerience as a programmer was at, like, a drywall manufacturer.

Of all my experiences at software companies that value software, I can't say many of these ring true.
Ask HN: How did you fake it 'til you made it?
I believe it. I don’t mean to imply this is only true for America — I just didn’t want to overstate my case.

Perhaps once we get really good at asynchronous work, the opportunity will be on the table for one city to try to import substantial numbers of people from all across the world.
If you’re doing well at apple making good money, you can achieve the same elsewhere.
You’re probably right, and I’ll change it if I can, but I think you’re the only one who will comment haha.
They change the product description and pictures, and just keep the old reviews.
go to /new and upvote the stuff you want to see more of. Surprisingly few people seem to do so, and early voting has quite an effect.
> so having stronger public investments in media could be helpful to stop this pervasive divisiveness.

The government can't invest in all media organizations equally. This will just be a new source of polarization in itself.
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This is actually good news, considering the state of China's domestic circumstances.

China knows it's not really in a position to start a war with the West, and so it's trying to gain some of the political benefit of appealing to domestic nationalism without destroying its domestic employment, economy, trade relationships, or overseas wealth as a result of an actual invasion. And it is no secret that this happens whenever China's leadership takes a popularity hit -- most recently with the electricity shortages as a result of their (now suspended) anti-coal push.

If China was really going to attack, it would not be sabre rattling like this.
Have you thought how old he was when he said this? I am sure you never did anything stupid as a teenager.
The company makes more than just that tool, and particularly makes other W10 apps. The company itself is a gold partner, which, as nix23 posted -

Gold competency:
To attain a competency, partner must:

Pass required exams and skill validation.
Meet performance requirements.
Pay the annual fee.

$4,730

It seems less malevolent in that light
Not sure why. Having completed projects successfully with the right technologies and receiving positive reviews should, in theory, be a stronger indicator for capability than just having had a fulltime position somewhere or passing an arbitrary technical interview.

But then I always tended to hire people based on attitude rather than specific credentials or experience.

Still:
a. Upwork could lead to full time opportunities
b. You still get money while working, and $40/h gathering experience sure as hell beats a third of that working in retail.
Yes, I expected a toggle in the keyboard settings, but I can't seem to find one on Monterey. (What exactly is it labeled, and where located? Maybe I'm just being blind...)

The dead-keys like Opt-E for acute only work with a small set of letters in the standard US keyboard layout, although it's possible for a different layout to support more -- subject to the combinations existing as precomposed characters in Unicode. (For other combinations, you'd need to enter a combining accent after the letter, and rely on the font to supports placing it properly.)
Debian and Linux are here to help:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/

(The easiest Debian install experience might be to ignore the scary official documentation, simply burn that hybrid installer image raw to a USB stick or DVD+R, boot it on your target PC, and have an Ethernet cable handy until you boot your installed pristine Debian and then can enable install of "non-free" firmware. If you need help, I'd use Web search.)
A History of Universal Century
> Degrees are bullshit

The trouble with being self-taught is few manage to teach themselves calculus let alone advanced calculus, and one can have yawning gaps in knowledge and be completely unaware of their existence.
China will be first in line for this, since it finances its own corporations already (meaning, any tax collected from party-controlled entities -- i.e. all of them -- is reinvested in the same, thus automatically conferring a competitive edge over foreign entities.
It got past Area 51 six years ago: https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/64409/lifehacks