skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The nation-state system is essentially a peace treaty. Before nations we had a system of local feudal warlords, baronies, castles, and free cities, all of whom had their own religious identities, allegiances, enforcement mechanisms, local power structures, etc. The Peace of Westphalia ended an exceptionally bloody 130 years in European history, where nearly constant warfare killed about 8 million people.

This might be instructive for what could create a system of digital citizenship. We'd have to enter another period of essential total anarchy and worldwide warfare, where the power relations of the nation-state system break down and basically everybody kills everybody else. Then a "digital country" would need an enforcement mechanism to prevent its "digital citizens" from getting killed by randos they meet on the street.

We might actually be headed there - I think the mass migrations triggered by the climate crisis, coupled with general economic shortages, might tip us over into a global scale war similar to what's happening in Syria or Yemen right now, and new technologies like drones and robots would grant sovereignty to digitally-connected people wherever they go. I could envision a future similar to Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, where there's a Common Economic Protocol that basically guarantees a stable currency, enforcement of contracts, economic freedom, and terms of trade. Violation of the CEP is automatically punishable by a drone (nanobot in the book) coming and vaporizing you. Everything we know of as culture - social rights and responsibilities, rituals, beliefs, values, etc. - gets relegated to autonomous "burbclaves" within each city, where citizens with a common interest ("phyles") interact accordingly to rules of their culture. Most phyles have worldwide scope, but within a city would largely keep to the local burbclave.
Is it easy to fetch Google offers from late 2017 to get a distribution? I believe it was close to top of the range back then.

Regarding the $270k number, looking at the distribution in levels.fyi for L4 in SF Bay Area:
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

The 75th percentile is $290k which fits the comment I was replying to ("a little under $300k") and by definition not an outlier.

Actually, looking at the earliest data points levels.fyi still shows under the same page, $300k doesn't seem to be an outlier in 2017 either:
https://imgur.com/a/hhO7dQE

Anecdotally, Google has not become any more competitive in the past few years as far as compensation goes.
We are a small company supporting a free opensource product, we can't afford spare crystal balls. Even the one we have was bought on a secondary market, warranty expired in late 14th century.
It's interesting to compare that guide "How to report bugs effectively with ESR's "How to ask questions the smart way" [1]. They both cover similar material, but the styles are extremely different. The latter is rather hostile to the reader: "If ... then you are one of the idiots we are talking about." "If you decide to come to us for help, you don't want to be one of the losers." It's also heavy on "us vs them", how we are experts and you need to treat us properly.

You know, it just occurred to me that the "How to ask questions" document is targeted as much at hackers and how they should maintain their "standards" than at users who are asking questions. For example, the document has approving examples of "logically impeccable but dismissive" hacker answers; these make more sense as instructions on how a hacker should respond than as something relevant to a user.

I guess my point is that I had read the "How to ask questions" document for decades and viewed it as an objective document, not realizing how arrogant and "gatekeeping" it is.

[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Looked fairly normal to me. This isn't a Holywood movie where they have to show you the life in 30 seconds or so.
As someone with ADD (+burnout and friends), this is the system I came up with for myself. It is moreso aimed at task management than day planning, but they are related:

I use colored post-it notes stuck to a whiteboard. One note per task, a rough time estimate to complete it, and the color of the note denotes the urgency (e.g. red = do today). I mark it with a ! if it is overdue/festering, and a ◆ if it is a difficult task (intellectually, emotionally, energetically, or otherwise).

The whiteboard has 6 rows: health, work, life/home, finance, education, projects. As I finish tasks, I put a big checkmark on them and leave them up for a bit (as proof to myself that I did something). When enough slain tasks accumulate, I crumple them up and Kobe them into the recycling bin.

There is not much of a planning phase—it’s just a continuous process of whack-a-mole-ing my tasks and generating new ones.
Thus, all are slow poison. Fruits in nature have enough fiber to slow absorption long enough that intestinal bacteria get most of it. Stripping necessary fiber out of food and discading it is the major task of the food industry.

Juice is wholly as bad as Coke.
Awesome, it's still developing right now but I should have the initial mobile version out in a few weeks or so. The web version doesn't exist yet just FYI, I haven't updated the landing page but I'm going mobile first then desktop.
>so its not any kind of shock they stifle oversight.

How does suppressing this disease help the corrupt government and/or the Irving family?
> It's actually safe to just install this software on random computers

+1, i actually did this a couple times on some friends computer when i noticed they hadn't any blocker installed (although i did tell them afterwards).

Let's run a crowdfunding to rent some maleware on shady forum to install ublock origin without consent :)
That's not interest, it's yield enhancement. You're giving away upside potential in exchange for premium collected, and you still have downside exposure.
Since the US government has historically been one of the largest customers in the zero-day market, my guess would be no.
Well, and nobody normally wakes up and says "I'm going to bend the law really hard and create a potential PR disaster, just because."

They do often say "My bonuses are tied to growth, and my management is putting extreme pressure on me to deliver something that's impossible, and I don't see any way of delivering it in the expected time... so I'm going to do it the only way I see."
That's just game fault that it saves data in game files instead of user directory.
Stop using their junk. Delete your facebook, switch to fastmail or protonmail. Join patreaon and support content creators directly. There are plenty of things you can do you just have to start doing them.
then I could see this suggestion used informally in a teaching context with a student that has their dominant understanding in the structure of language, otherwise not so much
Yes there are cases when a bike will be faster, because your destination happens to be poorly covered by public transport, but on average it's not, and that's what's really important.
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Thank you for explaining this in an easy to understand way, my understanding all this time up until now (I'm also in the UK) was that until allegations get proven in court, they are only allegations! I guess there are different standards for criminal and libel trials
The ur-problem is probably a reference to Goethe. In German 'ur' is a prefix that means primeval/original/ancient. So an ur-problem of governance is the original problem of governance.
I think this interview captures some of my anecdotal experiences about the ways capitalism, addiction, and the human condition intersect. Well worth your time on a rainy Sunday.

Both audio and transcript provided.
This guy was my TA in a GT for a course on Educational Technology. He totally blew off giving me any feedback until the last possible moment, super frustrating experience.

I guess now I know where his time went?
It utterly fails to note the massive public health crisis caused by fructose unmoderated by dietary fiber.
Negative feedback is insanely valuable. I write about that here:[0].

Here's what I wrote:

> It can be mighty unpleasant to read negative reviews and comments about our work, but it’s worth it to do so, as long as we’re doing it to improve said work. I often say that positive affirmations feel good, but negative feedback is required to improve a product. Negative feedback, even if it’s uncouth diatribes from unpleasant people, is far more valuable than the most glowing praise (unless said “glowing praise” comes from Consumer Reports).

Simply put, negative feedback is a goldmine. DON’T WASTE IT. Steel yourself. Take a belt of absinthe, if you need, and open the “Comments” section. Read everything. It sucks, doesn’t it? Is that even physically possible? Don’t you wish you were in good enough shape to do it? Do you remember your mother ever saying anything that could indicate this were true? Wait. What was that they said about the communication error report alert?

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...
Coca-colas have a pH of 2.4 to 3 [1]. Stomach acid's pH is 1.5 to 3.5 [2]. So coca-cola has acidity that is very close to that of stomach acid. Water's pH is around 7. I am no doctor, but wouldn't that suggest that drinking water will unbalance stomach's acidity worse than coca-cola will?

[1] https://www.ada.org/en/~/media/ADA/Public%20Programs/Files/J...

[2] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003883.htm
Please explain. All you said said was “I disagree”.
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FTA:

> Often a faster biker would pass within millimeters to get by me as I pedaled in an already narrow bike lane.

This is the number one thing I hate about mixing sidewalks with bike paths, but it appears it's also an issue on the latter.

Anyway this figure representing the fraction of trips done by bike in the Netherlands is interesting in context:

https://www2.deloitte.com/xe/en/insights/focus/future-of-mob...

Looking at the modal split for Amsterdam and Rotterdam, people still drive cars as much as in other European cities, it's just that cycling has replaced walking and public transport.

Frankly I don't see the benefit here.
I don't fault you or anyone who has decided it makes sense to own a car on an individual level, but I still think the city at large would be better off without them. You could, for example, ditch your expensive parking garage for an electric bicycle, which you'd be able to ride safely if most streets were free (or mostly free) of cars.

I could see an argument for allowing cars during certain hours late at night—but I don't think that would satisfy most drivers, and I think it would be tricky to enforce—if there's a mishap and you can't reach your destination on time, do you get ticketed? And, if we close only the most crowded streets, whichever streets in the area remain open will become crowded quite quickly!
Past tense or present tense? It's unbelievable for me that at this point folks in North America remain unvaccinated.
I don't think this is going to happen with Brian Goetz as language architect. He refuses to add many features that would address everyday pain points such as:

* null safe navigation operator

* properties

* mutable records

* a way to ignore checked exceptions (or at least having the stream API take functional interfaces that can throw exceptions)

* adding functional methods like .filter()/.map() directly to collections instead of having to .stream().map(..).collect(toList())
I agree with everything you said. I guess I just naively like the idea of an international standards organization in theory, though I suppose that's also essentially what the IETF is too.
Duck Duck Go has their own index on top of Bing. If I understand correctly, Bing is used as a stop gap until they have a full infrastructure in place.
> if people won’t do this for you, if they respond by looking awkward or making uncomfortable jokes, then f-k em. You don’t need that in your life, and you’ll find much better people.

You could say "f-k em", or you could try something like "hey man, it hurts when you make jokes like that" or "I know this makes you uncomfortable to hear but I really just need ____ (encouragement, a kind word, etc) ____ right now"

Relationships at their core need grace and forgiveness, not a f-k em attitude. Plenty of those awkward/jokey people grew up in families where a spirit of listening/kindness/understanding was minimal and thus can't give what they never received. Assertive communication gives people that wobble room to grow to meet your unique needs.
I believe none of the major wireless NIC vendors these days ship cards that will do anything useful without a nonfree firmware blob, for example.
Soldered RAM is smaller and cheaper. Optical drives are comparatively huge. These things are all reasonable trade-offs.

Also, you can still use a second drive; I have the NVME drive and added a 3.5" SSD I had lying around. Not all models have that obviously, but not all models had the UltraBay either.
I have been in enough courtrooms to know that both sides will lie if it helps make their case. Truth can end up being irrelevant in legal environments, as this very precedent shows. Collectively this presents a mountain of lies for the jury to sift through. Their opinions about what “facts” to believe should not be given any credence. Forming a scientific consensus should be left to science, not juries.
Fun fact: If you download a file containing colons with popular web browsers, they'll try to be helpful and will replace the colons to avoid problems storing the file on filesystems which don't support colons. Took me a while to figure out why the browsers messed with the file names.
Which is exactly why more people need to switch to other providers (:
Unless you want to recant to people the OWASP top 10 and generally be useless don't listen to anyone telling you that certs (especially CISSP) are useful for breaking into (hah) the security field.

Generally security has 2 major schools, offensive (red team) and defensive (blue team). To be good at the latter you first need to understand the former. This means what you should instead be doing is learning the basics of exploitation. OSCP that was mentioned here is excellent but it's also not easy to complete right out of the box, you will want to start with easier stuff and work your way up to it.

One thing worth noting though is that it can be hard to transition from a build to break mindset. Which might mean even after you learn some decent exploitation techniques, binary analysis etc, that you might be better off batting for the blue team. Blue team mostly revolves our mitigations and defense in depth, which is why it's crucial you know red team to start... you can't put walls in right place if you don't know where the enemy is coming from.

Of course this really depends on if you want to be a real security expert and be damn good at what you do or if you just want to get paid for being in "security". If the latter you can ignore everything I said and just get the certs and tell people they need to tick X checkboxes.
Only so long as it isn't known to be theater.

Consider, for example, the fact that there is now "pre-clearance". Or the fact that they no longer make people take off their shoes.

Is there not still a risk of a shoe bomber? Couldn't a terrorist get on the pre-clearance list?
It has been that way for a long time on iOS, I just checked and even a phone call requires the icon. Yet another reason not to trust Android devices.

I am broadly aware of perceptual hashing and its capabilities. Where I feel like you are underestimating the amount of work involved is in performing perceptual hashing without anyone noticing and then matching without anyone noticing. If you take the OPs example of “warheads,” where does the matching happen?

Are you suggesting the social apps are storing the hashes of everything people said and then sending them to servers to match against a list of perceptual hashes? Because then you’re just hashing the audio and sending it, which would be obvious. The other option would require a list of perceptual hashed to be stored on device and a local match performed, this would, again, be obvious because now the social apps would have to store a giant set of hashes locally.

For example, Roku and TVs use the former - they sample your content and send hashes off to a server for matching, this is identifiable in their network data and would, similarly, be identifiable in mobile app network data. Importantly, they’re sampling controlled data and can simply send an image hash every X-seconds, you can’t do that with the “warheads” example, you need to capture and send it all to catch the key words.
yes. mostly just ITAR as far as I know back in 2016.
I have to agree with you. For me synthwave guys like Peturbator, Danger, Carpenter Brut, am 1984 [0] et al (even com truise) conjure imagery like Blade Runner, Clockork Orange, Neuromancer, the anime world of Ghost in the Shell, driving alone late at night in an empty city, slow motion violence, and sex. Maybe both at the same time.

[0] https://youtu.be/UxA5ckl7y58
"There was no specific funding for this project. Given the futility of its academic value, this is deemed entirely appropriate by all authors."

Made me chuckle.
I used to have more complex systems for tracking projects and tasks, and I would keep this separate from notes. However over time I realized that the overhead wasn't worth it—more fine-grained planning can give a feeling of progress as you check things off, but it pales in comparison to entering a flow state on a hard problem. On the other hand notes turn out to be super valuable over time, even if they are rough and incomplete. So in order to minimize overhead, I flipped the script and optimized for note-taking with todos tacked on in the lightest weight possible.

Today I use Workflowy for this system, both professional and personal. Being able to zoom into an infinitely nested list for focus and then search broadly with the hierarchy fully visible in the results makes for a very potent combination. Action planning then falls out of the system naturally without significant extra effort.

At the top level I keep major life category buckets (work, family, finances, etc) which never overlap. Within each category I make entries in a reverse chronological fashion, with explicit dates if they represent a discrete event like a meeting, or without dates if it represents ongoing work or brainstorming. At the bottom of each category is an "Archive" entry, where I will periodically sweep old items from the bottom of each category. These swept items are also maintained in reverse chronological and bucketed monthly/quarterly so the lists never get too long. Within that structure, whenever a concrete action needs to be taken I tag it #action and then cross off when it's done. My planning is now just to search for #action, and one every week or two audit the list for actions I no longer wish to complete.

The beauty of this system is it's super lightweight and flexes really well to IC, management or personal task.
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Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :).

The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide etc. is because you fail to counter them properly. And as it is apparently unthinkable for you that it has to do with anything on your side, it must be my fault. But consider the below points:

+ Saying something is similar to another thing because they have the same shape is an argument. That is what I did when pointing to the similarities (made explicit for your benefit in my second post) between the counter-article and classic anti-Linux FUD. You can't counter that with "prove it!", because it only indicates that you can't distinguish between a discussion about an article and some query about pointers and memory objects.

+ It is factual that people have personal experiences, strong emotions etc., but that doesn't turn these things into factual states of affairs.

+ Nobody gets to decide whether their actions, opinions, choices etc. are ideological or not. That is a judgement passed by others. For example, if you want to call LT a dictator, there isn't much I can do about it. But I can at least---gently---point out that he open sourced the Linux kernel decades ago. If you want to fork it and build and OS without GNU on top of it, go ahead. If you just want to look inside and change something, go ahead. If you want to make a commerical endeavor out of it, go ahead. My point about taking sides is that you can't do any of that with Windows.
The US government is also one of the largest customers of ICBM rockets too. And you would find that it is not an unregulated field at all.

I don’t know about regulations in the field. All I know is that “US gov buys a lot of X, therefore it X is not regulated” is not a convincing argument.
I think banning online ads will be awesome for economy.

Serving ads is doesn't create any value. By now, it's just a tax to be payed to google/facebook.

Why do you think banning online ads gonna destroy the economy?

These internet companies don't even pay a lot of taxes, we allow them to move profit across jurisdictions to optimize.
Disrupting the metal detector industry?
Euro subreddits on English as the second/next official language in their country
Modifying the Acorn CLE-215 FPGA into a PCILeech DMA Attack Device
According to the Dutch government, 87.1% of the Dutch over 18 are partially vaccinated, and 83.5% is fully vaccinated. For people over 12, those numbers are 84.9% and 81.4%.

I don't know if the difference comes from "our world in data" using older data, or because they also count children under 12.

Source: https://www.rivm.nl/covid-19-vaccinatie/cijfers-vaccinatiepr...
It's not the instruction set - it's the IBM PC-compatible standard that gave us our golden era of desktop computing. Standard bootloaders, standard ports, standard keyboard layouts. We owe it so much.
Not impossible but probably really hard.

The issues will be the same with self studying anything. Without someone to critique your work, and point out deficiencies you don't even know are a thing, continuous improvement quickly becomes exponentially harder from the bad habits that are holding you back.

Technique totally matters, even in STEM.
Read up on the Celtic story of "Nera", and maybe there's a tie in? At a feast, King Ailill made a dare of sorts, for anyone who would put a wicker band around the foot of a recently deceased corpse. In their land, the recently deceased were rumored to have great power, so nobody was willing to take the bait, even though the King was offering a vast reward.

Until Nera stepped up to do it.

So, perhaps analogous to harnessing (tying a band around) the (mostly dead but still powerful) old free/open internet?
I'm surprised pollution from plastics is not already higher. It looks like the article is only comparing greenhouse gas emissions. I would be interested in other chemicals emitted (like mercury from coal) as well as the physical substance itself (like microplastics).

If plastics come from oil and it's non-renewable, then shouldn't we be investigating its replacement? Even the alternative plastics from corn and cassava involve the use of potential pollutants. If we're still pumping oil for roads and plastics, then what are we doing with the gas and diesel when electric vehicles take over? Or can these be turned into plastic too?
I have backgroun in chem Engineering too! Thanks for making this resource availble for us all
Backyard apricot tree owner here. I thoroughly approve of this.
>So, basically, for some reason, Microsoft wants to make it very hard for you to see whats running on your computer...

That sounds a little conspiracy theory-ish. It seems like there are other tools to access this info, is that not the case?