skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unintended consequence of WFH during 2020-2021 is that it made the job search easier. Much easier to schedule virtual interviews than having to use up vacation days.

This is probably across many industries and professions, but one particular thing was extremely helpful for software engineers looking to change jobs - time for leetcode.

It's much, much, much, much easier to learn and practice leetcode problems and other related technical coding interview stuff while you're WFH than if you're in the office.
This looks less diverse than my local mall food court was. The sushi is the only thing that sticks out beyond what you’d get at a diner.

I pretty much eat this exact diet so I’m not trying to judge, but it’s definitely not healthy
Neither am I a constitutional scholar, but I'm less optimistic about this being ruled illegal.

But it's for a somewhat meta-reason: there have been numerous cases where something strikes me as blatantly unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS has allowed it anyway.
As an end user I think WhatsApp is a terrible product for some the reasons you mentioned (tied to phone number, no desktop client) but I cannot deny that it was the smart thing to do from a business perspective.
MY COVID!!!

I LOVE COVID. I want to talk about Covid all day!

Maybe I can go murder some puppies while we talk about Covid.
My experience is quite different: I used to love to teach introductory courses using JS. Using an omnipresent and familiar tool like the browser as the IDE and the super-powerful debug system integrated on it is a big plus for newbies.

Also, the language has clear defects, but they irritate much more the experienced folks than the rookies (that are not so surprised when encountering inconsistencies).

Oh, and I have also trained many people using Java, and I initiated my dev career with Java 0.99 (or 0.98?). Most of my courses started with the sentence "let me tell you a joke: public static void main(String[] args)" :)
We're facing a supply shortage and you want to eliminate the laws that are keeping tiki torches in stock?!
The context is really key when you consider the information that the prominent senator is aware of about the subject that you as a random member of the public may not.

If you look at the fate of people like Aaron Burr, I think it’s quite clear that the founders were not supermen, but humans who dealt with similar problems that we do today. Likewise, the post-revolution treatment of tories wasn’t exactly magnanimous either.
464XLAT is a form of CGNAT.

The main difference is whether the subscriber side uses an IPv6 or private IPv4 address, but on the internet side they are equivalent.
There are several Telegram bots for this. But of course very questionable in terms of privacy. I had the idea to write one myself, I found an open source project to host it myself, but I don't remember the name.

Fortunately, the voice messages have largely stopped with my contacts, so I didn't pursue it any furth
Are there any api changes? I’d love to see a new version moving to feature parity with vulkan.
Well except the point is to give credit where it's due.

I read the parent comment in the way of giving credit to the original creator of the content - as far as we know OP could have copied everything (which apparently he did, from images to the css).

In my opinion, the bare minimum he could have done was to credit who he copied it from, since he didn't even bother to take the printscreens for the images himself.

Imagine you're going around downloading projects that didn't get traction on HNs, just change the api, and by chance you got more votes, so it's all good? That's just messed up.
> I tried to convince the CEO of Research In Motion, who I worked for, that WhatsApp would end up destroying his business. He thought I was insane for thinking something so small and simple could have such a big effect on his big, important company. Yeah, well, whatever you say, man.

Well, he had a point. What killed BB was the iPhone, not that their chat app was going to lose out to the competition. They simply had a product that was inferior in every single important way.
You kind of make the case for the FTC, don't you? If Facebook were just the Facebook app, website and social network then it wouldn't be a monopoly. They would have to try to appeal to younger users to compete with TikTok and others. But Facebook is way more than just Facebook. Facebook also owns WhatsApp, Instagram, and much much more, hence the monopoly power.
I'm not saying apple is inferior and everyone else is wrong. I'm saying that for my own individual workflow, on my current macbook, this is a bad compromise.

I keep a large amount of tools/macros/shortcuts in my status bar, and this will cut through the middle of that.

I'd rather have thin black bars around my 16:10 video then lose that screen real estate for the status bar.

It is a bad compromise for how I use my current macbook.

I'm certainly in the minority, and that's fine, but I'm just trying to argue my side and understand other people's, not scream till I'm red in the face until I get my way.
Why would companies use these tools?
https://kodibox.io/ or https://garden.io/ I can't help but wonder who is using these tools? And what is your experience? I know that some people consider them not very useful but maybe you can explain me how they can help developers/product managers/DevOps-es.
Is doing something that the Supreme Court may later overturn--and bear in mind it was a close decision--actually "illegal"?

I could certainly see the argument that it's ill-advised, and indeed, it was struck down a few weeks later. However, I don't think concurring opinions are binding and you could imagine certain fact patterns that might have changed Kavanaugh's mind: Congress agrees on a similar extension, but there's a short gap before it comes into effect, the situation worsens dramatically, the extension is much more narrowly tailored, etc.
Not quite the same ballpark yet, but I sincerely hope they get there. System76 are rolling their own distro - Pop!_OS - and their own tiling window management add-on - Pop! Shell - both of which I've switched to using even on a non System76 machine. Star Labs test with various Linux distros, but they haven't shown quite the same deep involvement with software, community and ecosystem yet. But that's no easy feat!

I can't comment on build quality- I've never laid hands on a System76 system, as alluring as they are! The Star Lite is pretty damned nice, feeling a bit like an 11" MacBook Air but just a little bit more sensibly proportioned. I haven't seen many - actually good - 11" laptops and I feel they've hit that particular niche pretty well.

The Star Book and Galago Pro - both with i7-1165G7 options and close specs overall - seem to be pretty toe to toe, but with only three laptops in their lineup, no desktops and slightly lower entry prices Star Labs seem to be serving a slightly different market, or at least taking their time before they gun for the greats.
Because legal.

The students would understand, yes, but not accept getting something other than what they signed up for.
I wanted to say that they should not have that right, however, looking at GDPR, perhaps it's not forbidden after all.

However, it's worth noting that it's not just a single exceptional person - Belgium has accented letters in two of their three official languages and names with accents are reasonably common, so if you tried that, you would have to discard many customers, and also those customers would be overwhelmingly from the french-speaking part of the country so that might be treated as explicit discrimination targeting the french-speaking minority community.
They were linked, though: it was unusual to have Firewire on a PC, so even if iTunes had had Windows support at the time I don't know that it would have made much difference. It was the combination of USB and Windows support that made the difference.
I keep hoping that one of these shipping container farms will support tomatoes due to this issue. Unfortunately, I have yet to find any (although some claim version N will be tomatoes). My hunch is that they can't grow tomatoes dense enough to make the economics work.
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microsoft, and dotnet as a result, is poorly managed

i keep saying that for more than 10 years, it's no wonder GO took off

i guess they are lucky they managed to lobby governments all over the world and "sell" their azure, office and team ;)

maybe lobby is not the proper word anymore based on how much effective it is, it almost as if they are working side by side to achieve certain globalist goals
How does that work for EU residents?
The Great Resignation: Why People Are Leaving Their Jobs in Growing Numbers
At least they've managed to optimize and make the OS faster. Mojave feels faster on my 2014 MPB than previous installations did. Would wish they would focus on the apps and not revamping the system each time they do an update.
An interesting tidbit about tomatoes, and other nightshades: They contain nicotine!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10552617/
Because a company should be able to stand on its own merit, not be sustained through entrenched monopoly power.
IIRC, Brave Search is a skin for Bing and Google search engines. These fed orders went out to Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.
You are ignoring the fact that Tim Cook fought the government on the San Bernardino shooter, and still has his job.

The Board is not going to fire Pichai over this, provided he appears to be fighting through the courts rather than practicing outright defiance.
> If something requires specialized knowledge

This seems to be very much the point. I suspect there's actually disagreement about whether the thing actually requires specialized knowledge. If there were actually 700 days of February 1295 in the Holy Roman Empire, what are the chances that month would be handled correctly by any layer of my Thursday-counting Saas platform? A lot of times the "specialists" are just as likely to say something like "Dates before 1900 are not supported because they're too hard". And your app probably didn't care about those cases anyway.
Georgia Man Used Covid Relief Loan on $57,000 Pokemon Card: Prosecutors
To not take it seriously is an invitation to future escalation.
SV 'titans' seem to think their authority and power should only increase.
I think you can ask Siri or Google Assistant to read your new messages (by accessing the phone notification contents), but I'm not aware of in-app features.
question repeated at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28992753
When I first got into LaTeX I tried LyX. Horrible, clunky experience. I never recommend it to anyone, instead I recommend just using VSCodium and associated plugins, its a far smoother experience
Why Cloudflare Is a Game Changer
That worked for him, but the other bozos sharing the flight with him seemed more interested in throwing skittles.
Startup Studios. The New Answer to Ages Long Question: How to Found a Company?
There is a quiet and yet big movement among the startup ecosystem. Business-savvy people who are experienced in founding companies started a new wave of launching companies using the funds of investors with a model that promises much higher ROI and much less risk for the investors and the founders. This model is called Startup Studios. It started about 10 years ago and there are already almost 800 of them and increasing around the world feeding the next generation startups from the start. So, how does Startup Studios work? And more importantly, what do you need to do to be accepted to a Startup Studio program?
I always felt it was a good demonstration of staying disciplined and focusing on making a great consumer product first–looking too closely at the competition and building in a bunch of enterprise-friendly features from the start could have been a big distraction and resulted in a mediocre product in other ways.
Google Assistent can read out your messages, but i haven't tried out of it can read from one specific group chat.
Orange man bad! Orange man bad!

Oh look, this site is colored orange. (╭ರ_ ⊙ )
That's just silly and completely unrealistic. We already have helicopter ambulances. They work, but have a relatively high accident rate due to being called to fly frequently in bad weather and near obstructions (trees, power lines). The FAA and crew members won't tolerate something that's even more dangerous for domestic civilian use.

There are no such thing as predefined flight paths that are known to be safe, at least not in the areas where air ambulances have to operate. There is always a risk of collision with other aircraft operating under VFR. And a human pilot is always needed to cope with in-flight emergencies that autopilots can't handle.

There could be a limited use case for military casualty evacuation drones. The military is researching those for use in combat zones where sending a manned helicopter would be too risky.

https://taskandpurpose.com/gear-tech/army-drone-helicopter-m...
this is most interesting piece of entire presentation.

They can query location remotely using GPS and likely turn on microphone too.
So here's a grocery store that has profit of 1% of revenue. They (or their shareholders) have to pay tax on the revenue? That can't work - not without them raising prices 20% or so...
US Congress voting is not anonymous. You can lookup each members vote on every bill (though maybe there is a rare exception I'm unaware of).
No, especially with the terminal.
I feel like "network effects" in the metaverse will be compounded cubic: the nodes, the edges, then the third mysterious component emerging from the shared hallucination itself ;)
I expected this to be about Estonia. Oops.
Bikes are just super dangerous, at least when there are cars involved. Only injury I've ever had was when a cabbie cut me off going the other way and I flipped head over heals on my rent a bike and fractured my arm
As I said, rationalizations. What is also amazing is that people think that repeating the obvious in vaguely sassy fashion is somehow an argument. In any case, Youtube's "rights" as you call them would be more palatable if they did not enjoy section 230 immunity. Furthermore, I'm sure there is a legal case to be made regarding the Government employing private actors in a manner that violates the first amendment.
Of course they do, I'm more interested in why all other nation states are okay with having the US spy on their citizens. Does that make Google noncompliant with EU law or is there a convenient privacy policy exception for the 'good guys'?
If the car was used multiple shootings, the same phone was in that area and the phone was used to search for the victims name every time then we have everything we need but are unwilling to use it?

We can probably figure out how to extract such data and cross reference it without making any of it available to random government employees.

Say you take pictures of license plates, store the data some place safe and allow a query of 5 recent armed robbery locations. If the result contains multiple cars matching 2 locations no results are returned. The moment a 6th robbery happens and a single car matches 3 out of 5 law enforcement can start looking for it immediately.

Sure, you'd get pretty mad if every time you get robbed the police searches your vehicle but they don't need to break anything and you will get over it.
I would love a more detailed change log of the actual OS level changes because sometimes there’s useful tidbits but you often have to be watching the WWDC content in order to see what will be in the upcoming OS. There have been some under the hood things like the APFS switch, Rosetta, and other under the hood changes that can significantly impact the OS. In this release I saw that there is a new copy mechanism in the finder which seems pretty significant but there isn’t a lot of detail about the technology behind it. I am also interested in the universal control and the ability to use your mac as an airplay device so now you can stream another Mac which used to be some thing then I did using a lunar display adapter. I also saw there’s a built in TOTP feature now which might be handy. I agree though most changes seem like app changes and services that could be decoupled from an OS update.
The Parasitic Worm That Turns Crickets into Suicidal Maniacs
The Big Facebook Leak
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100 million people is not a "community".

Even 100 thousand is not a "community".

You're right that anonymity is not how you build proper communities. But proper communities can only operate on a scale much smaller than any social media.

Now, a Facebook group might be a community - but then surely it should be up to its members to decide how to deal with anonymity?
Every manufacturing nation on earth is ramping up on EV production, and they're not just betting on cars. They're building the exact same infrastructural pieces that Tesla is making.

There won't be a single winner. This valuation seems to imply that there will be.

I'm not bearish on Tesla or Musk, but this doesn't make sense to me. You can't monopolize these markets.
Right, the outputs are higher than ever with the least conventionally measured inputs. Which was great for a while, but we're well into the tail portion of the curve where the advances are all accompanied with ever greater shifts of cost to the unmeasured externalities. Modern farming is a hyper-efficient process of converting fossil fuels -> fertilizer -> corn & soy -> food and its many imitations, along with massive environmental costs (CO2, runoff, freshwater usage and groundwater depletion, ...)
...not eye to eye with Gilmore? Thanks for gnu tar, liberating bsd, parts of gnu make, gbd, curating binutils and gcc with Cygnus, helping in the crypto wars, frees/wan, boots, gnu radio, one laptop per child... so it might be hard to be eye to eye me thinks...
Siri can read text from apps (messages, email, etc.): "Hey Siri, read the last WhatsApp from John".

It will ask permission for access the first time you try.
Lots of monopolies suck at their core business - because they've lost the need to compete due to either suffocating the competition or growing into adjacent markets to lock down their user base. Facebook can both be incompetent and an economic danger.
Homebrew 3.3.0
Never assume- carriers can mandate data collection or sharing.
So in your own words the court did not issue a ruling, yet your original comment explicitly mentions a ruling without further elaboration. That seems disingenuous because without knowing what actually happened a reader could be easily mislead to believe that a ruling was actually issued, which is the only thing that matters with respect to the legal authority of the POTUS/SCOTUS.
I like this, I think I'll join. I have a similar list, which also includes paywalled content even when a free option exists.
I'm not sure this is still true (on modern devices): https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation

There's Enhanced 9-1-1 but its GPS access should be mediated by the OS? Hopefully?
Because vaccinated individuals need much smaller responses to covid because they respond faster which is the whole point of being vaccinated...
I would guess {"google"} would cover almost all users.
I've considered a "startup" in this space before. Take all the equipment, knowhow and enthusiasm of the cannabis industry and apply it to tomatoes. Grow them next to customers, under lights with highly controlled conditions and an obsessive focus on flavour. Guarantee less than 24hrs picked-to-delivered.

My research (napkin math) suggested that it would be doable at $8-10/lb, which is certainly high, but probably low enough to attract connoisseurs, high-end restaurants, and regular folks who like to treat themselves. It would be especially valuable during the winter, when you just can't get a proper tomato.
I'm a Lambda School data science graduate that's currently looking for a job, have been doing plenty of leetcode problems and DS&A studying recently. Resume & contact info is available on my profile if your company has any openings or if you just want to chat.
I don’t think ironic is the right word. Just fitting - he knew the system and the system lived up to his promise.
This part of the article was particularly cringe. People don't seem to realize how much of a tech prowess it is that x86 builds of those two games are even running at an acceptable framerate.

That said, it's been a year since the M1 release, and Apple could have paid a few hundreds/millions for a few AAA game ports. They didn't, and that says how much they care about gaming on these devices.
Apple Releases iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 with SharePlay, Vaccine Cards in Wallet
There are fundamental thermodynamical limits to certain processes involving energy transfer, conversion etc. Heat transfer comes to mind. Those cannot be engineered away.

For simple mechanical systems, yes, inefficiencies can be removed, but it's more like externalizing them. How is the vacuum created and maintained? That requires a compressor, an inherently not lossless machine.
Are you suggesting that an action by the state is equivalent to actions by private citizens?
Reading the statute doesn’t give any context. Also, people incorrectly and misleadingly quote snippets of law all the time on the internet because they don’t know how to read and interpret a statute.
It's not hard to get a fake id. It's not hard to spoof being someone else. It's not hard for criminals to get hold of weapons.
Given that your every move and utterance is tracked and logged online and geo by countless entities your @penpal name is a pretty trivial detail anyway...
Tik tok doesn't double as a customer service for big companies, Tik tok doesn't have a market place, Tik tok isn't widely used to recruit candidates for jobs.

Tik tok and Facebook are very different social networks. Facebook is way more than that actually. A lot of people all over the world only browser the internet through Facebook, do all their business transaction via Facebook, this is even truer outside the west.
Right, my only point was that it essentially cost the administration nothing to extend it on the chance that they would decline again or vote differently when it actually mattered.
One day I hope to get some range time with a Browning .50, just because. My shoulder will be sore for a week, but it'll be worth it.
For those who missed it, this is related to Hertz ordering 100,000 Tesla Model 3s: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/hertz-sai...
Honestly I have no idea. The general population are incredibly kind and community-minded, but like so much of Africa it seems the 0.001% of horrible megalomaniacs get into power and go absolutely crazy turning countries into their own playgrounds.
And then also have to pay income tax (or capital gains tax) on the profits from the sale.
Amazon strikes deal with UK spy agencies to host top-secret material
Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.