skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People still give a shit about this title thing?

I mean, yes. That's pretty much the case anywhere, I don't see how China is an exception. Especially anywhere where there's a lot of competition, employers will use any excuse to choose one person over another. Employers want simple indicators that don't use lots of time and effort to select graduates (most of the time). Then if credentials aren't enough, they're going to resort to interview processes that double as hazing rituals. The reality is that employers can't really effectively measure a persons objective capacity. They are dealing with people who are putting the instagram treatment to their professional image, and employers are made up of humans.

This goes to a deeper issue with human psychology and game theory. No one can afford to comprehensively assess other people, so they resort to all sorts of shortcuts to judge others. It's how bias and stereotyping occurs. This occurs everywhere, not just in education for employment. The very fact that people are judged by their wealth and social standing instead of other factors is the ultimate judgement shortcut, because getting to know everyone personally is a big time investment. So this isn't an isolated case of stuff that only happens in hiring, but to societies everywhere.

So in conclusion:

> The scam is your actual education not the degree you receive.

If this were true, then being an autodidact would be a lot more prestigious than it actually is.
> It’s not FUD if Microsoft has a history of EEE.

When is the last time Microsoft "EEE"-ed anything? The most recent examples are 20 years old.

And look, you should never trust $bigcorp blindly, that would be naïve, but people have these 20-year old grievances that have little bearing on the situation today.
Ebay can definitely (as in feasible) block or delete listings for stolen goods based on serial numbers. Not sure if they do that but I think they do this for bikes?
I'll be honest I thought this was a "hot internet take" style comment but this comment is actually being generous. I'm quite honestly sure the block I grew up in and the one next to it had more trees and less development than whatever is left of that forest.
Sorry about your father. I have a relative in the early stages, and while I know what's coming, I don't.
Just depends on what kind of work I suppose. You could probably learn a lot from podcasts while, for example, driving a truck, or working as a security guard.

I can't listen to podcasts while programming, but I can certainly learn a lot from listening to podcasts while cleaning the car, or working in the garage, or mowing the lawn.
> (now defunct) "The vaccine had an emergency authorization"

It should be defunct but it is not. Many of those who were against the vaccines on the grounds that it was under EUA rather than regular approval now say that the approved vaccine (Comirnaty) is not yet available in the US--it is still BNT162b2 that Pfizer is shipping in the US.

A bottle of Comirnaty (which is in fact shipping in the US) and a bottle of BNT162b2 contain exactly the same substance, with the only difference between what is printed on the label so it should not make a difference to a rational person.

But we have a lot of irrational people. Heck, there was even a Senator who was pushing this idea (Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin)).
Likely you can lease a space in a mining center, bring your own GPUs
EV Battery Fires: A low risk alternative
Tesla owner manages to install regular steering wheel on Model S Plaid
Usually warranties aren’t offered for third party sellers or unauthorized sellers. I’d say someone selling stolen goods is pretty unauthorized to me.
Have we heard yet what the exact form of the vulnerability was? I haven't seen precise details myself.
Instead of accusing the buyers who might unknowingly buy these cards, how about cover your losses using insurances? How about calling the police? Maybe paying more to buy a better insurance next time or hiring a government with better funded police or more efficient justice system?
Groupthink is dangerous. Learning to evaluate information for its veracity is much better than relying on others to be your authority for it.
It would surely help open source drivers development, Nouveau, for example.
Wait, you tried to do it without a DC/DC converter to regulate it? Sounds like a bad idea.

A good off-the-shelf isolated DC/DC converter that would clean it all up and give you a nice, consistent, filtered DC voltage should be able to be had for $100 or a bit less.
More importantly to me, they offered nothing substantive, nothing new, just an unsupported claim that we've heard endlessly in the past. Though if repeating unsupported claims was substantive, it would be very different.;)

EDIT: In way, it is appropriate for a discussion on how false narratives are formed.
Thanks for the answer. That makes sense. I wouldn’t use it for streaming or webcam though. I think my main use case would be to record myself and then edit the raw videos. So I assume for that you don’t need extra hardware besides the camera and the lens.

My idea is that I could also plug the mic directly into the camera. I like how the A6000 looks and I only need it for recording so I wonder if there’s some slightly cheaper mirrorless that can produce similar quality.
The Mystery of ‘Havana Syndrome’
Is that sarcasm? A key difference I would say is that the web is actually better because you can run javascript or WASM code in the browser, in X that would be the equivalent of the "server"...
I have two kids and can't imagine forcing them into a car seat at least twice a day. Our walks around our neighborhood are some of our best time together. On the way to school they get exercise, run into friends, and build their autonomy by leading. We walk to the doctor. We walk to the grocery store. Find yourself a built environment that frees you from the shackles of a car.
People trained to diagnose Alzheimers had the task of assessing Reagan, regularly, and found no such clear evidence. I don't doubt the intuition you have about matching behavior to Alzheimers is well-earned, but we should be very cautious about operationalizing it generally. "Reagan was impaired by dementia in office" is a live debate, and the "no" side of that debate currently seems to have the stronger argument.

(I have no particular admiration for Reagan, and found the rehabilitation of Carter in this post pretty compelling; I'm not here to stick up for Reagan, but rather just to point out a curious echo of the theme of the post in this thread).
Right- did you look at any of the source files in that dir? They all have a header that says they are under the "TimeScale License" and if you look it up, you see that the TimeScale license is a proprietary, not Open Source, but rather Source Available license.

Here you can see a chart outlining all the features that are proprietary and which are Open Source in the Open-Core TimeScale DB- https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/timescaledb-ed...
You wouldn’t need to colocate this since bandwidth isn’t a big issue with mining. Power is a bigger issue since most home circuits can’t support maybe more than 3-4 high power workstations.
If you're able to ignore that voice inside of you, telling you that enabling genocide and turning people into extremists is not worth the money, I'm sure Facebook is a perfectly fine place to work.
Cool! Is it still like that, even today? Netflix is possibly my "reach" job, based specifically on what I've read about the culture.

I'm about equally split talent wise between "mathy things" (signal processing) and lower level systems engineering. "video & image encoding" or "research scientist - algorithms engineering" look hot to me.
India has extreme gun control laws unfortunately. If you are rich or politically connected, you can own guns or have bodyguards in India. Most people don't have that luxury there. Going through the process and it costs more than the average Indian's annual salary. Carrying guns in public places in most of India is prohibited.

At least in the US, you can afford one fairly easily as long as your background check passes.
Flags are not super-downvotes. Please stop abusing them. You have quite a reputation for this kind of abusive behavior, both on and off HN.
Yes, the same ones that keep bumping version numbers absurdly. They do it because it works. It doesn't assume all laymen are morons; the people that know it's value will buy it anyway.
1984: India’s Guilty Secret
kind of feel like wikipedia is shitty for actual learning too except maybe for history
The governor's stance is just posture. "We take these matters seriously".

It reminds me of that time, a few years after I was out of college and into a job. My professor contacted me to demo my class project to her students. To give them an idea of what they can do with web development. Her assistant told me that they couldn't figure out how to run it.

Of course, I took a day off from work, opened back up my school project, fixed the annoying bug. The web page required IIS to run so I could make Ajax requests. I decided to hardcode the data in json instead. So I went to school to present my project.

The professor was double clicking the file and it wasn't displaying properly. I inserted my USB stick, and ran it from there instead. The coral reef restaurant website appeared on the big screen. I explained that I had to make some changes so it would work locally. Before, I was using a web server.

"Web server?" she shouted. "You are not allowed to use a web server. So you guys cheated!"

At first, I thought she was just kidding. I explained that Chapter 12 specifically asks to boot up IIS in order to make use of Ajax. During my time, the rest of the class stopped at chapter 10. I completed the entire book because I was just in love with learning JavaScript. So unless you get to chapter 12, you don't learn about Ajax.

"I'll have to report you. They board might revoke your grade. Not just you but all your group."

You can only imagine how pale I became. But I understood what was happening. She had tried to run the project multiple times and failed. She couldn't debug it or figure out the issue. To save face in front of the class, she accused me of having cheated. This is the exact thing the Missourians officials are doing.

No, at the end of the day my grades were not revokes. Plus I had dropped out of college and was working in the field for a few couple years already. But it goes to show you the length people would go just to save face.
This seems like the perfect premise for a scifi novel. I wonder why we don't see it more.
I work for a small financial company called Cypher.trade (building out a futures platform on Solana) and I really like working there. Everyone in the team is amazingly skilled and management is hands-off but detailed enough for you to know exactly what to do.

I find the company refreshing because:

- They allow remote workers in any time zone

- Expectations for engineers are reasonable

- The requirements for the product are well defined

- Team members are competent

- Communication is decent

This honestly avoids many of the problems I've had to deal with early on in my career. It has been a good place to work for so far. If you have experience with trading systems, solana, 'smart contracts', cryptography, or web3 maybe shoot an email to offpisteprotocol@protonmail.com or DM the twitter account https://twitter.com/cypher_protocol.

I think this company would be a good place to work for just about anyone. You will need to be curious and self-motivated to get a job there. Consider applying if you're a reasonably skilled technical person.
White Label Affiliate Programs: How to Use Them to Monetize Your Blog/Website
Higher elderly population means people tend to die due to covid.
dedicated teams will happily dissapear
into a void of non-delivery as their purist vision

I've sort of seen that happen, but of all the issues being discussed, that seems the easiest to avoid.

1. Rotate team members onto and off of the DX team, so they don't lose touch with reality.

and/or

2. Have the rest of developers vote (or otherwise have direct input on) on the DX team's priorities and products. The other developers are the stakeholders here.
I’d be interested in you responding to my sibling comment. How are you possibly equating Tucker Carlson and Oliver.
I've tried listening to Pluralsight courses as background noise and it does not work at all. Learning is an active activity, at least when it comes to skills.

The only thing I think I could "learn" through that kind of passive listening would be narrative stuff like history, or interesting global trivia. Maybe philosophy or policy at a stretch.
It's not about touching the keyboard. Building a program in your mind is like building a machine. A program is a machine and therefore you use the same area of your brain that e.g. you use while building a Lego object.
I mean for 5 years the elections were rigged by Russia, anti-kavanaugh protestors stormed the capitol and senate chambers just 2 years before, rioters burnt down churches and built CHAZ in the middle of multiple cities, bailed out by the current VP - all completely encouraged by one side.
Challenges for Voicing Video Commercials and How to Fix Them with AI
Perhaps your child runs when he gets the chance because he doesn't have enough chances with all the time spent strapped in a car seat or a stroller?
In my experience talking about life is what is missing from most anaemic standups. Forcing people to immediately talk work is harsh. Sure, some (especially managers) prefer not to waste time (or have no real life), but as a globally distributed team I feel we miss out of experiencing each others culture a lot.
I stumbled across Aegis for Android (they don't have an iOS version though). The export format is json, you can export in cleartext or aes encrypted.
Agreed, SOC2 says nothing about yubikey/u2f/etc. Almost any MFA will do unless one lets opinionated auditors head deep into the weeds.

You can use spreadsheet-based recordkeeping to satisfy very much of SOC2 as long as the processes are followed consistently.
Every company located in the EU is bad for software engineers. Your salary will be so low, you will literally work just for food.
As of this week, the governor is still making noise about investigating and pressing charges.

> Despite mounting public backlash, Missouri Gov. Michael Parson isn’t backing down from threatening to prosecute a journalist for accessing personal information of Missouri teachers to expose a security lapse in the state’s website.

..

> Yet, the governor’s office continues to contend Renaud is open to prosecution for his actions. An email to The Record from Kelli Jones, communications director for the governor’s office, said an investigation into Renaud’s actions is ongoing, but described his action as a “hack” that was more than just “a right click,” and that Renaud broke Missouri law.
“The facts are that an individual accessed source code and then went a step further to convert and decode that data in order to obtain Missouri teachers’ personal information,” Jones wrote in an email.

..

> “A hacker is someone who gains unauthorized access to information or content,” Parson said during a recent press conference. “This individual did not have permission to do what they did." He said Renaud was simply attempting to "embarrass the state" and "sell headlines." "We will not let this crime go unpunished," Parson said.

https://stlrecord.com/stories/610107500-we-will-not-let-this...
What makes your version of history good, pray tell? Got sources?
NIH and EcoHealth Alliance worked together to evade additional oversight
Understanding the deep structure of matter is necessary for two things - materials science and energy science - both of which could have massive economic payoffs for society.

In the modern world, much of our economic growth is driven by innovation - new scientific understandings result in new technologies that result in new products and services that introduce new capabilities into the world that never existed before, and which are in demand because they improve people's lives.

Scaling production and volume lowers prices making them more accessible to everyone. That's the wealth creation pipeline at work, a modern miracle that brought humanity out of the permanent dark ages and repeating Malthusian cycles.

For example, much of modern technology - silicon chips, mobile phone networks, etc, would not have been possible without a deeper understanding of quantum physics.

However, continuing this growth and wealth generation process depends on continuing to deepen our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of matter and energy. Stop or slow the latter and we stop or slow the former. To date, particle accelerators are key component of doing that. And even if someone discovers a better way, we'll still have to invest in that. Either way we still have to invest in the process of unveiling the deep structure of matter.
Fun fact: the trie data structure was invented by Ed Fredkin, a pioneer in Quantum computing as well as cellular automata
Thank you. It is not exactly an issue to me, I just know it is necessary, so I lay through it without movement. You gotta do what you gotta do. :)
How do you know they didn't do those things?
Ask HN: Does anyone know what Twitter Spaces uses for their transcription?
I have only used Spaces a few times but I am very impressed by the transcription service. It seems at least as good or even better than Google's Speach-to-Text service. The low latency, from the user pov, is excellent.
Didn’t work logged-out, but I’ll try again if I ever reactivate my account. Thanks!
The planet isn’t going anywhere
It wasn't encrypted. It was written using Base64 – the computer equivalent of the phonetic alphabet. Anyone can “decode” it by hand, like Morse code, and the practised can read it off directly.

This Base64 was placed inside an HTML document. That's a bit like a Word document, except the formatting (bold, underline, big, small, Comic Sans) is written next to the text, so the computer knows how to display it. HTML is designed to be human-readable; in fact, it's designed for humans to write directly, using a text editor.

Here's an example of an HTML document, and here's a Base64 decoding table. (There's also a printout from Wikipedia, if you want to know how people can do it in their heads.) The jury should be able to read this SSN off, with no prior experience, in about ten minutes.

This was sent, by the State's computers, to every user of the system, due to a programming error.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Webpage</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is an HTML document</h1>
<p>
It might not look like much, but it's a website!
This is what they look like to computers, and
web developers. There is usually other code behind
the scenes, where sensitive data should be stored,
but this is the public part.
</p>
<!-- Internal state (public component).
Should not contain sensitive data! -->
<input type="hidden"
name="__VIEWSTATE"
id="__VIEWSTATE"
value="dDwxMjM7dDxwPGw8
U1NOOz47bDw5MTIt
MzgtNjU0Nzs+Pjs7
Pg==">
</body>
</html>
positive comments :)
I don't think I learn much from art. But I don't care -- I don't enjoy art and music to learn. It's a much more emotional and human experience -- and that has just as much value to me as learning does.
boycotting work for the Pentagon hardly implies a desire to disarm the federal government. the bus boycotters in Montgomery weren't opposed to the city having a public transit system.
Podcasts are an awesome source of misinformation. How many people actually look up sources after listening to a podcast? Based on what I observe, the number must be very very low.

It's something I personally noticed multiple times already, someone is incredibly misinformed on a certain topic, and when you dig deeper it turns out they're not simply indifferent to learning about it - on the contrary - they regularly listening to a podcast about it.
Podcasts have come to occupy a similar spot in my media consumption. It isn’t so much about any real learning just satisfying inquisitive urges. I am under no illusions that I would become an expert of a topic by listening to a podcast, but I still enjoy learning about things even if retention is very low. It was/is the same for Wiki articles. They can also both be great starting points for deeper dives providing just enough context to let me know if I am even interested in further time commitments.

Another thing that have been replaced by podcasts, at least for me are specialty news sites. No need to go read about last nights Red Wings game or the latest blockbuster when a podcast can give me that information, and when I am on a walk or driving to work.
IPs are personal data.

see https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
section "Identifiable individuals and identifiers"
> I'd love to poke in people's head to be sure what are the motives behind their behavior

I suspect you're approaching things too logically. In my experience most people do something then rationalize why they've done that later, if at all. And that's without any perceptive, or memory problems or anything like that, and assumes good intent-- which a lot of people don't have.

I also suspect some people's brains work so differently from my subjective experience that there's effectively no way to understand them.

A very hard lesson for me was "don't try to use logic to understand irrational people."

I now tend to think of people in terms of, "can I predict a response or action by them?" By observation, you can kind of build a set of rules and start hypothesizing about them and update your model when you get more evidence. But you still need to be mindful that different conclusions can be reached with different or conflicting information.

It worked so well on an ex of mine that she thought I was spying on her somehow, because I often had reasoned out things I shouldn't have known. The most terrible example-- that she was cheating on me. I came to this conclusion from a few bits of evidence-- she wasn't really the curious type. Most of the film, music, etc she knew about were from me. And then one day, she started talking in detail about a film I knew she hadn't seen, and she used a word I had never heard her use before.

This lead me to think, "She's having some sort of social interactions that I'm unaware of, and they're probably watching movies together, and if its being kept secret, its probably something bad."

And I was correct.
As a legislator, he'll have a very good reason to get a concealed carry permit...
SF claim: “Most COVID-19 infections are caused by people who have no symptoms of illness.”

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/C19-07-Safer-Return-T...
I‘m working in a strongly hierarchical org,
whit very high N number

The persons in charge, empowered to make
decisions are so far from reality

Yeah. I've seen it happen when managers are literally just a level or two up and don't come from an engineering background.

I think it's inevitable, honestly. I think it's fundamentally impossible for management to really understand or respond to in-the-trenches stuff. That's like tasking the mayor of a large city with sweeping the streets or physically fighting crime themselves, in person. They literally cannot spend enough hours in the shoes of the folks under them to understand that stuff.

And, that's fine. Management just needs to have the humility to understand that, and has to empower people/groups that do have their boots on the ground to fix those problems.

It's not unique to this industry, although I do think the newness and explosive growth of our industry may make it particularly prone to this kind of thing.
I think the malaise speech is one of the best in the last 60 years of presidential speeches.