skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'just because you hired someone on contract to do something legally questionable doesn't magically make your offloaded to guy the evildoer'

no. but it does diffuse the responsibility and open up plausible deniability.
I wish I knew. When I run Zoom on a Windows i5 with 8gb of ram it tells me I need to close other applications in order to free up resources.
that is amazing and i will have that code on my machine soon. however for purposes of this discussion i’m interested in the best possible search results possible for myself as an individual. my question is more, has google personalized search to the point of diminishing returns. if I log out first, irrespective of surveillance, do i simply get better search results. i know it’s not the best results from an advertiser standpoint, so does that mean it’s not the best for me
I can understand that, and see my other response https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236031, but even so...

How many people, if you asked "Do you have any weapons in your backyard?", would say "Yes, several rocks."
Yes I do. I mostly go with classical music or absolute silence (I only hear my mechanical keyboard mx blue switches sound) when coding. For tasks that involves creativity I noticed that I can get into a flow-state if I listen some aspirational/motivational hip-hop songs (I try to skip the ones that gives you bad vibes btw).

To avoid having YouTube website open while working and to maximize productivity, I use ytpodcast[0] to convert the youtube videos to podcast and add them to a listen later playlist and finally I listen them later on Apple podcast app on MacOS or iPhone.

[0] https://ytpodcast.com
> it also makes us feel warm and fuzzy inside (and allow to look down on others, less ecological-conscious, people)

What cause are you trying to advance with this rhetoric?

I could not care less about feeling superior to others in this matter, and it's certainly not enough to make me feel "warm and fuzzy". I literally just don't want the world to spin out of control.

I know acting a bit more conscious as an individual is next to nothing, but maybe doing so anyway and mentioning it in a non-condescending way helps a little bit to foster a culture where people are more conscious of environmental effects. Rhetoric like the above seems to aim a bit at the opposite.
> It's an adversarial proceeding where both sides get to present their case and a takedown has to be for a violation of a law that complies with the First Amendment.

Why should this be the standard by which YouTube can remove videos? Why shouldn't they be legally allowed to remove content via algorithms even if it creates a bad user experience?
I unset WAYLAND_DISPLAY when running Zoom’s desktop client, to make it use X (thus XWayland). This fixes the crash-on-meeting-join problem it’s had for some months now, theoretically at the cost of screen sharing, but as a Sway user that was already not working, as they only support GNOME rather than using xdg-desktop-portal like everyone else.
Not all UIs were consistent then.[1]

[1] http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm
Different Tetris Algorithms
Let Interns Apply Late
Kafka is a wonderful tool. I built a few systems on top of it and all of them delivered the scale that was promised and more. With surprisingly little hardware.

I'm very hostile to a lot of hipster tech but Kafka is one of the few genuinely good pieces of tech from the whole "Big Data" craze of the past decade.
I think every home/car repair that I did in the last year I learned by watching a youtube video. I would argue that not using youtube is actually very very difficult in 2021
Actually, I miswrote, it is PPPoE login with VLAN tagging that you need to login to Centurylink’s fiber network.

I guess the apple time capsule and airports were too old to get that VLAN capability, since they stopped being made 5+ years ago.

A lot of the new home routers have the ability to PPPoE with VLAN tagging though.
It is not a "small" cost. The cost is proportional to the size of the data exported.

For all intents and purposes, large amounts of data are locked into Snowflake. Is it theoretically possible to export a petabyte out of SF? Sure.

Do I want to spend money on it? Not really. That is what I mean by the "data doesn't come out".

"Exporting" a petabyte out of Databricks is a no-op. I can already read Deltalake from other open source tools.
This is happening rapidly in the bootcamp space right now (2U, Trilogy, etc). It's unclear whether this will work well in the long term, as the bootcamp sort of begins competing with its host body (marketing, curriculum, lead generation), but only time will tell.
I've seen projects come in factors of 3 either way depending on the skill set of the individual.

Having myself made these mistakes another thing I have to make the effort to extract is "how long would it take me" vs "how long would it have taken me 5years ago before I knew what I know now".

It's amazing how many times the "big picture" changes can lead to complete overhauls or rewrites of otherwise consistent and well built software stacks.
A skateboard, when used as a weapon, is a deadly weapon.

weapon, n: a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.

Does a skateboard have other innocent purposes, to which it is generally put to use? Of course — that’s generally why skateboards are brought to riots.

It provides plausible deniability during the times when you’re not using it to hit people in the head with a deadly weapon.
We have an extreme shortage of housing in places where there is demand.

We have a shortage of builders and tradesmen to build more.

This problem will take time to resolve.
Can we go back to the good old days when you could install extensions that could actually do useful things without jumping through hoops?

I swear we're going to have to start DLL injecting web browsers like game modding tools soon...
A lot of the improvements are just logically extending the language to remove arbitrary restrictions. That's what most of C# 10 and 9 appear to be. So most of the features you wouldn't go out of your way to use, but instead stuff that used to be impossible is now possible. I can't say that I've ever wanted a generic attribute, or a constant interpolated string, but if I did want them, I'd be surprised when they didn't work. C# 8 was the last major new language features.
While I agree that one shouldn't keep mishires around I wonder how you established that the rate of mishires is 10-20%. Seems like a bit of a chicken and egg problem. You don't know the actual rate if managers aren't firing the mishires. If you pressure managers into randomly firing 10-20% of their people you can't calculate the rate. In fact 50% of one team might be mishires while another is 100% made up of great engineers.
> I think these camps should embed themselves into Universities as an accelerated program

If you want students teaching you a course, why not simply run something like the MIT missing semester? [0]

[0] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)
Are you comparing Trump to Stalin and Mao?

(Also, there was no EU when Hitler, Mussolini, etc. were around, and the EU is not a monolithic bloc with a meaningful identity today either.)
btcd is an existing implementation in go
https://github.com/btcsuite/btcd
> People did look into this with an unbiased lens

Not really.

> On the other hand now a bunch of people have overdosed from taking veterinary doses not intended for human consumption (there have been thousands of calls to poison control centers about Ivermectin in the past few months, and some have died).

You're falling for sensationalized propaganda. If you read the CDC advisory, there was only a five fold increase over the pre-pandemic baseline [1]. The pre-pandemic baseline for ivermectin poisoning is absurdly low.

> Some of these snake-oil salespeople may have direct financial interest

You mean like the financial interests of pharma companies who would prefer a treatment that wasn't off patent? If we're going to use financial incentives to infer credibility, pharma loses on this question hands down every time.

The truth is that the pharmacokinetics of ivermectin closely match Pfizer's new anti-COVID drug [2] (3CL protease inhibition).

[1] https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00449.asp

[2] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2021/cp/d1cp0296...
Crazy bug. Needs a re-title and a dang boost because the lede is totally buried here.
This happens to me all the time too. Seems to happen even when just muting / unmuting.
You are over-estimating the power of governments. The last Chinese ban is a good example of how governments might not be able to ban crypto. Smaller economies will have a harder time too.
there's a pretty clear trend towards flatter, cleaner design with more space both within Firefox and other software. Whether you approve of it or not, it's hard to argue that the changes to the Firefox UI including the tabs don't make it look more like modern UIs in general. Be that Windows or Gnome, or web-based desktop apps etc...
I’m not a daily go programmer. I’ve learned the language two years ago and know some the background behind it. Based on that I don’t see a place for sum types in Go because it does not solve a problem that is hard to solve with modern Go code.

But considering the proposal itself. I would approach it much differently.

Sum types could be represented as a closed enum.

type Result enum int{…}
const ( Ok Result = iota{interface{}}, Err Result = iota{string} )

The initialization would be done like:

Ok{10}
Err{“Something went wrong”}

The variable itself would act just like and other enum with unpacking being done somewhat close to this:

Ok{variableName} := result

Where the variableName would be set to the zero value in case of a bad match.

The enum prefix would enforce a single const block and no extension outside the module package.
Yep, probably a single good mainframe would handle all of it with a smile. And provide the uptime that most "cloud" vendors can dream of.

But that wouldn't be nowhere near as cool as building "cloud infra", right?
Speaking of Tree Style Tabs –

Does anyone have an up-to-date user CSS that hides the top tabs and moves the toolbar up into the dead space? I used to have a snippet that worked, but it broke a few dozen versions ago.
Electric vehicles could fully recharge in 5 minutes with new cable design
If you don't want to self-host, another privacy-respecting metasearch engine is https://searx.me

And you can always use DuckDuckGo, which can anonymously search Google with "!g".
Peopleware calls this the Spanish Theory of Management[0].

Historians long ago formed an abstraction about different theories of value: The Spanish Theory, for one, held that only a fixed amount of value existed on earth, and therefore the path to the accumulation of wealth was to learn to extract it more efficiently from the soil or from people’s backs. Then there was the English Theory that held that value could be created through ingenuity and technology. So the English had an Industrial Revolution, while the Spanish spun their wheels trying to exploit the land and the Indians in the New World. They moved huge quantities of gold across the ocean, and all they got for their effort was enormous inflation (too much gold money chasing too few usable goods).

The Spanish Theory of Value is alive and well among managers everywhere. You see that whenever they talk about productivity. Productivity ought to mean achieving more in an hour of work, but all too often it has come to mean extracting more for an hour of pay. There is a large difference. The Spanish Theory managers dream of attaining new productivity levels through the simple mechanism of unpaid overtime. They divide whatever work is done in a week by forty hours, not by the eighty or ninety hours that the worker actually put in.

[0] https://blog.bryanbibat.net/2009/08/31/spanish-theory-of-val...
I'd guess that getting fuel to an island would be much more expensive negating the benefits. (I understand that this was not a serious suggestion anyways).
This is cathartic to read, but I also despair at getting the people who need to hear it to take it seriously.

> But many people want the world to be simple

This is the source of so much insanity in the world, not just with regard to allocating labor. Details matter, but people who plan "timelines" desperately don't want to hear it. They can go through whole careers without being forced out of the cozy illusion that the world is simple. It's hard to get a man to believe something when his salary depends on it not being true, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, etc.
Excellent advice. Comports with my own experience (high school dropout w/38 years as tech professional).

Listen to this one, folks.
As someone coming from C++ I don’t comprehend this complaint. How do you even do anything in a language without deterministic destructors? All my experiences with garbage collection have been painful. RAII is so much easier to use.
That's right. You can also form a chain of these channels, so Alice can pay Bob even though she doesn't have a channel with him, if they both connect to Carol using atomic transactions that update the 2 channels accordingly.
I think it was your comment that I was replying to but it was deleted before I could post, thankfully I copied it before I posted. Apologies if not.

I think you said we got it wrong, how wrong did we get it?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29236092
How could the keys be recovered? I don’t understand how this action is the only choice to prevent them being captured?

The most conspiratorial part of my mind thinks the projectile coated the debris in some isotope they have tracking capabilities for to build a “safety” use case for Soyuz
I did not even notice this until I read this here on hacker news inside of Firefox. I'm not sure what that means.
Jesus, HN has really gone almost full reddit at this point. For a touch more context.

"In a statement, Amazon spokeswoman Barbara Agrait said the settlement addresses how the company conducts mass employee notifications related to COVID-19. There is no required change to, or allegations of any problems with, the company’s protocols for notifying employees who have been in direct contact with a potentially infected person, she said."

I seriously wonder if all govt agencies themselves are doing sufficient mass notifications. I wonder how UC systems pandemic controls are especially with sports etc.

Full disclosure: Because the weekly testing I have to do through a lab runs $350/test and takes too long to come back I often use Amazon's COVID testing at $39. It is overnighted back to them, I generally get results back by noon the next day. Because I don't pay for the non-amazon test I do it as well.
If you didn't mean to suggest that, then your comment doesn't seem to say anything at all. It reads like an objection.

What did you want to say?
I feel exactly like you. For me, Firefox has only improved over time.
It's certainly not perfect, but it is funny to me that the author on one line complains the Peace Corps "produce[s] little value" but then in the surrounding lines talks about how important it is for individuals to bridge and bring contextual incisive change that consistently resist abstractions and not just look at the problem from the outside.

He's falling for his own simplification of individuals and lifetimes.

That kind of nuance sounds exactly like the skills Kennedy and his associates were intending to cultivate in individuals from the USA during and returning from Peace Corps when they created the agency: see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ugly_American Ugly American (1958). Huge percent of state dept employees. I'd be willing to wager Guinea Worm intervention mentioned involved RPCVs. Notably, Netflix founder, RPCV. It has 3 stated goals. This is essentially one.
this is pretty much obvious to people who study and design systems.
Russel Ackoff pretty much nailed it by saying: a system is a whole that consists of parts, each of which might affect the whole. taking the best parts from say a toyota and a mercedes won't make the best car.
same thing with individuals, in a team you need cohesion. not just the best individuals.
I came here wondering the same thing.

A random google search turned up this: https://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/news/science/five-bird-spe...

> Researchers have learned that digestive tracts of long-distance migrants work overtime prior to migration. Food intake is increased, and the food is metabolized and stored as fat, which serves as the birds’ flight fuel. Bar-tailed Godwits store fat until it makes up about one half their weight. Then the digestive system shuts down so metabolic energy can be maximized for muscle use.

Astounding.
I think Putin has just sent a simple message that he won't tolerate starlink sats flying across his land.
They might both be the same price, but the price will be lower, because that's how competition works. Which only happens if you support the underdog.
Agree, Win2K’s lightened grays are a lot less depressing than the darker tones used in 95/98. I much prefer its blue accent color over the old teal too.
If you want a great book on the subject of management legibility and what is lost when it is imposed, read Seeing Like a State. One of the most eye opening books about the world I’ve ever read.
And is similarly pure c, self contained
Possibly this is the "Automatically rearrange Spaces..." setting in the Mission Control prefPane?
Water can also cause death at high doses (hyponatremia). Literally everything can. The difference between medicine and poison is in the dosage, so saying ivermectin is not safe because it causes health issues at high doses isn't really saying anything.
Their whole platform sounds like an unholy mess by the sound of that. A big pile of dung that just accreted over time and they never cleaned out their technical debt. I just left a job like that a few weeks ago. It was such a nightmare I took a slight paycut.
Ask HN: What are the hardest problems involved in building out the metaverse?
Entirely possible. Think Clinton and the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.

Hybrid warfare is the 21st century way.
But if someone charged at you holding a rock ready to swing it high, would you fear for your life? Almost surely, yes, you should fear for your life in that situation.

This isn't about possession but about a confrontation. A person with a rock wont get caught by police and taken to court over owning a weapon. But a person swinging the rock around and charging at people will get charged for attacking people with a deadly weapon. And in this situation the question is "Was it reasonable to fear for your life?", then the second definition is used.
Self documenting code is good in every language.
The menus are less consistent with other apps now. I guess removing all color from other elements made things more consistent in a way.
This is awesome!

I also recommend Idyll, a JS / React framework for creating scrollables:

https://idyll-lang.org/docs

I am a backer in the open collective :]
Is it a 'green tax' when NVIDIA's product is superior in almost every way? There's only two negatives to NVIDIA products right now: poor MacOS support and their linux drivers aren't quite as good as AMD's.

Everything compute uses NVIDIA/OptiX.

AMD's Windows drivers suck. I had no end of problems with games crashing and micro-stuttering. I used DDU to remove the old drivers, ran Tron, all sorts of troubleshooting steps. Switching to an NVIDIA card fixed it. Can't remember the last time a game crashed on me.

AMD's GPUs use significantly more power in their class. The RX 580 is a 185W TDP card. NVIDIA's 1060 is 120W and outperforms the RX 580. The 1070 is a 150W card and handily outperforms the 580. The 1070TI is still (slightly) under the RX580 (by 5W), and wipes the floor with it.

The 5xxx series cards were also garbage. AMD had nothing to respond to DLSS or RTX - and the RTX cards were a huge leap in compute performance in particular. The cards crashed like crazy because of driver problems, and people also discovered that all the "creators" with pre-release cards had been basing their performance tests off benchmark runs that lasted just long enough before the cards overheated. NVIDIA cards performed better if you planned on gaming for more than 5 minutes at a time.
They should really get together with Intel on an open standard, now that Intel is doing real GPUs. They both have a shared interest in people not being stuck on proprietary Nvidia interfaces.
I knew the rate because I was on the ground working with the underperformers. But as to how to translate this into HR policy in a large org, I have no idea.
Here's what I'm using: https://gist.github.com/Freaky/b5cd807d518a176298c1d0e612dcc...
Until there are victims, threats tend to be ignored.

This extends well beyond software.

Next time you smell "gas", give a thought to the 300 souls of the New London School.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion

Safety standards are written in blood.
brain.fm

I don't know if the sounds generated are actually helping or not (could totally be a placebo), however it's a seamless way to enter flow state, I've found. I've been using it for ~4 years now, and it very very rarely fails to deliver.
> if I log out first, irrespective of surveillance, do i simply get better search results

Only you can answer that question, based on your own experience. "Better search results" is a very subjective measure, and means different things to different people.
Kafka can buffer indefinitely (so long as you give it the disk space) and you can throttle to your heart's content within the consumer's loop or just consumer.pause().

I don't think you know the basics of Kafka's API or how it works internally.
That's the same video I linked. He makes contact with the board, yes, but he basically just lands on Rittenhouse. It's not like the After going frame by frame, on the youtube version, though, Hubor does pull his arm back slightly, so I'm no longer as confident that there's absolutely no wind-up.
Unless something leaks, it’s unlikely we’ll get details anytime soon.

Or someone on the design team writes a book years from now after leaving Apple.
I installed Firefox Color, which is an official Mozilla add-on, which lets me pick colors...which helps with your problem tremendously.
> Ivermectin has failed to show benefit, the Pfizer drug has.

Ivermectin has failed to be seriously studied, while the patentable drug got a good study out of the gate. I wonder why.
Caveat lector. If you are looking for a non-partisan review of the pros and cons of the bill, this is not the article to read. The author of the article has been a long term advocate for defunding rail[1] and it is published by The Cato Institute, which is " libertarian in its political philosophy, and advocates a limited role for government in domestic and foreign affairs"[2] and has been funded in no small part by the oil industry.

I'm not saying the article is without merit, but it is utterly partisan, and like so much online and traditional publications in the US, it is critical to know the lens through which it has been written.

I find it increasingly difficult and tiring trying to find genuinely balanced/non-partisan analysis about important topics such as this, the spending of vast sums of our tax dollars.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38510332-romance-of-the-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
You walk right past the filters, because you are known.

The first few jobs I had, in the 80’s and 90’s, I got by applying.

Every single job since then I have been actively recruited— because I made a name for myself.

It’s true no one is going to recruit me to be an AI expert, because I have no reputation in that field, but I was recently hired to be a testing consultant in an AI company. That means they are paying for my education in AI, and I can turn that into whatever opportunity I want.
'...there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer: "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?"'