skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We where one of the first "customers" of AccessOwl - now for almost 3 months and we're very happy already how easy and straight forward this tool is to use.
For the last 8 years we had a paper-based ACL process in place which was a tedious way of granting/removing accesses where 3 people had to sign each paper.
Now Corona this process was much more annoying when everyone had to print, sign and scan the sheet or at least digitally sign it. Also sheets got lost in process or not properly uploaded to the HR tool for storage.

Now with AccessOwl, all of this is a thing of the past. No more papers, no more lost sheets, everything stored digitally and safely (including backups) and we can very easy export what we need for our annual audits.

So we're currently moving the whole process over for the whole company and can really recommend AccessOwl to every smaller or even larger company. Very nice tool!
I just wish I could get the auto-turn off timer to disable. I've disabled it everywhere in menus. Still, after a few hours of it being connected to my Apple TV 4K, it gives me the whole "TV will be turned off in five minutes unless you press a button on the controller" bullshit.

Other than that I just want the thing to be a lowest-possible-latency, accuratest-possible-colour dumb display. No cool shit, just a dumb accurate fast panel.
It is actually impossible to grab for me in Safari.

I wish frontend developers would stop messing with UI :(
Social skills are broadly made up of three things:

Observation (body language, how people look at you, each other)

Listening (what people are saying to you, the tone, speed, variability of pitch)

Speaking (how you say something, etc)

Body language can be hard, because no-one has really codified it in an accessible way. Yes there are books, but they tend to drift off into science noise, or babble.

The problem is that we are used to watching actors. The problem with actors is that they (like most people) can't control their body language entirely. So what you see as affection on TV, might not actually be Affection. (this is why its so startling to see real affection in the movies. the so called "chemistry")

solution: at a cafe, or a shopping mall, sit with a set of headphones on, and just watch people (no don't stare) look at the parent with their children, the young couple, the old grumpy farts. nearly divorced boomers. Try and guess what they are thinking through their actions.

Where are they looking when they speak?

are they hunched over?

where is thier body facing?

Are their arms crossed over, or wide open?

Listening, again at a busy place, a food place, cafe or somewhere where there are lots of people, listen in (again headphones are a great foil for this sort of thing). What are people saying to each other? what reaction does it have? when people are happy, what speed is their speech at? is it all one tone?

speaking: An excellent tool for when you are not sure is "mirroring". That is when someone makes a statement that you are not sure of, repeat the last few words back to them: "hi OP, how are you? can you come with me please?" you: "come with you?" (the tone of your voice is important here. you need to be light, fluffy. subtle rising intonation helps) They will normally give more information "Yeah, I have something to show you" etc etc etc.

A good rule of thumb is that the words people are speaking only contain something like 20% of the meaning of what they are saying. Think of the ways you can say "are you having fun?" The delivery can change the meaning from innocent, genuine question, menace, anger, sadness. Even though the words are exactly the same.

finally the last thing you need to work on is "empathy". No its not a wooly thing. Its the ability to predict how the person you are talking to is feeling. it doesn't involve crying. basically its all the information you've gathered, condensed into a model, and use that model to understand why they are acting the way they do. hint: people are never irrational to themselves.
Could also be weasly wording here. They can still truthfully make that statement even if Apple themselves have decided to be pro-active and decided to give out bulk data without receiving any orders before. As the Snowden leaks showed, we should be really careful about how we read the words from large companies about data.
Hello, that's great that your selection of countries and banks work well with Wise. For me, moving about $10,000 (the maximum allowed by Wise) from the US to Japan through Wise takes about 5 days, costs like $70, and requires me to take a phone call at 2 in the morning from my US bank.
That was more of a problem at the low end than the higher end of the market. I never personally had a problem with a landlord, and never heard of any other foreigner that did.
As a solo bootstrapped founder working on PHP (Laravel) every day, I was surprised to learn a LOT from this one page. Thanks for posting.
Externalizing costs is what got is into these problems..
Ways people speak to each other: Posturetalk, Powertalk, Babytalk and Gametalk
There was someone speaking about not catchin up social skills fast enough so I thought that was interesting.
Crypto miners in Kazakhstan face bitter winter of power cuts
I remember when I tried Clubhouse. I joined some room that was recommended to me, endured about 5 minutes of Naval enjoying the sound of his own voice, then deleted the app forever.
I didn't flag either, I just don't think the people in the thread has a valid point. It's entirely up to signal which platforms to add support for, and when to do it, and having whatevertheapp on your platform is a privilege, not a right, even if you make a patch for it.
very helpful thanks.
When you get older, it's recommended to do not more than 20 pushups. It's bad for your rotator cuffs. However, you can protect them with shoulder, upper arm and back muscle exercises.
I don't mind paying a subscription for a quality product but 60USD a month is very excessive.
dang good egg, confirmed.

Happy Thanksgiving!
The live prongs are insulated to such a length you should not be able to touch any conductive part before the plug is no longer making electrical contact with the socket.

It's likely you got a small zap from a filtering capacitor inside the device that had not yet discharged.
So, price to consumer may not necessarily the only metric of consumer harm that one must consider.

Another thing that is unique to large corps (Reliance, Amazon) is the network / conglomerate leverage they can bring to bear. Hina Khan's argument against Amazon resonates here too.

To quote from the work [1] that (I think) put her on the tech-regulation radar:

'This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust -specifically its pegging competition to "consumer welfare," defined as short-term price effects -is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy. We cannot cognize the potential harms to competition posed by Amazon's dominance if we measure competition primarily through price how integration across distinct business lines may prove anticompetitive'

[1] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... [pdf]
> We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.

its like the thesis of bulls*t jobs right there in the simplest of terms...
Micro BGP Suite: The Swiss Army Knife of Routing Analysis
I doubt very much that nobody would work, or that progress would stop.

I would expect the opposite as creative people who wished, were able to invest time prior to profitability as never before.

Given how one of the "Great Filters" of startups is reaching "Ramen Profitability", I imagine in today's age progress would happen much faster.

We could all be Ramen Profitable, or very close to it, for any venture that can start small.
Covert Instruments (by the guy behind the LockPickingLawyer) has awesome offers for hackers who require physical access :) https://covertinstruments.com/collections/black-friday
In case you haven't tried, I suggest using koreader. It has a good combination of a reliable crop and a usable reflow feature. Not ideal, but it's much better than constant zooming and moving the view around.

https://koreader.rocks/
I recommend ignoring everything on the front page of Reddit or at most treating it strictly as entertainment. Stuff only gets up there if a large group of people understand it and like it, which means almost all "discussion" that gets up there are one-sided rants that lots of people wanted to hear. A global popularity contest is a game of numbers that doesn't favour subtle goods like truth or intellectual challenge.
Edit: it was early when I wrote this. I said free higher education, which is wrong. I meant cheap.
Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
I but one on these in 99 and never looked at single core systems again.

NT4 screamed.
How to switch between Java LTS versions 8, 11, and 17 on Mac
As long as the latency is consistent, then it is possible to get used to it.

Organists who play on big church organs frequently deal with huge latency, especially when playing with choirs or orchestras who are situated >30m away.
It's interesting how the discussion is always so incredibly black and white. Crypto doesn't have to fix every major problem in three separate categories for it to be relevant, or whatever HN typically proclaims crypto to not be. All it has to do is improve things and challenge the status quo.

The fact that I'm in complete control of things in that one little corner of the internet is enough for me to be excited about the future of things. Who cares if crypto doesn't literally uproot global democracies and cause every fiat currency worldwide to collapse?
old way? Have you forgotten how much airtel vodafone etc., charged before jio came on to the picture?
To yield to non-quantitative reasoning when the difficulty in the measurement goes up, can lead to decisions like the one to launch Challenger space shuttle in 1986. Difficulty doesn't change the science or the questions we ask. Politics doesn't make something true.

I am not even talking about GCs, I am talking about the intellectual rigor we should use when discussing quantitative subjects. To do anything else is to practice magic.

Research papers on GCs will outline the comparisons and metrics they use to study GC algorithms.
I’m a dev who got sucked into some ops/sysadmin work. Not a whole department, but I think my advice would still apply. The most effective thing I did was a custom script to test everything I was responsible for and send me a nice formatted email w the results. I’m not talking about canned email from Helpdesk or network monitor, but tests like “is the backup file modified date the expected value”, “is disk space on X at least N% free”, “are Z services up”? All in a single email, every morning. I wrote mine in powershell, but you do you.

If something bad happens, add a test for it to that email. It’s not an end all, but helps be proactive and keep pulse of things you are on the hook for. Real-time alerts etc can be useful, but also a lot of noise.

Also a kanban board like Trello or Notion has been useful
What designers can do about internet addiction
I've gotten into the habit of generally using single quoted strings (with 'around them') which alleviates most problems with escaping double quotes. And for the odd string that needs to have a single quote inside I switch back to double quoting.

This approach also has the added bonus of stopping PHP from accidentally evaluating something inside the strings.
Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence
Not sure which country you’re talking about but the health care systems of both India and the USA are quite limited for those without money.
Not everything has a 13 amp fuse in the plug. In fact most things have a 3 amp fuse unless they are kettles or something. There's also 5 amp fuses and it is possible (tho not that common these days) to have even a 1amp fuse in the plug itself.

Surely it is better to have a lower amp fuse tailored to the device, than a high amperage fuse that's happy to send 3000 watts into your dodgy mobile phone charger without fusing.
Data breach at New Mexico healthcare business impacts 62,000 state residents
Wireshark 3.6 Released with Support for World of Warcraft “WOWW” Protocol
Exactly this. :)
You know bud, if you’re interested, let’s be hackers and hack this social skill test. Can you give me a specific situation (or several) where you feel your social skills are lacking??

Let’s start off by testing your theory. I’m old enough to have known a lot of really wonderful people who think their social skills suck when they actually don’t - they’re just interested in completely different, non typical things.

From there, let’s go into strategies. Let’s start off with a social gathering hack. You’re at an event and don’t know many people. What do you do??

If you said “copious amounts of cocaine”, that’s a way but likely not the best way to cope. Instead, try approaching people who are speaking in groups of two. It can be a really simple approach (“Great bag!”/“I’m Greg!”/“Cheers!”/“There’s a dude with bad social skills chipping away at Mount Yay2 in the bathroom.”)

Smile, pause for a full count and walk away. If you were unwelcome, nobody worth knowing fucking cares. However, when you’re at an event and see two people talking, there’s a very very very high chance that one party wants out of the conversation. Be that out!!!

In fact, a really massive part of what people call social skills is really just about giving people ins and outs.

For example, don’t try to pick up romantic partners when they’re at work - they’re contractually obligated to listen to your shitty pick up lines. If you try to pick them up when they’re at work, they might not have an out - they likely can’t just quit their jobs on the spot.

Or when you’re in a meeting, make sure everyone else has three times the chances to speak that you do. Give their anxiety, perceived lack of social skills or whatever an in - make it easy for them. Things like this work:

“Hey btheshoe, we were talking about $x a couple of days ago and you had some excellent points.”

If it’s stuff like eye contact, focus on the person and the conversation. Smile, laugh and express interest with your eyes.

But now it’s your turn. What gets you every single time?? You’re in a safe place and I’m on your team. If this is a scary environment use hypotheticals or reach out directly, I’m Greg and you can reach me at gthluska@gmail.com.
Antibodies mimicking the virus may explain long_ Covid-19,_ vaccine side effects
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Wow, yes, thanks, how did I miss that. A great book. I thoroughly recommend it.
Open Source Headless E-Commerce Framework (For Online Store and Marketplace)
Because a bunch of us are obviously on the Asperger's/Autism spectrum....
Spiking Neural Networks: where neuroscience meets artificial intelligence
> Cryptos can’t fix societal, political or economocial problems. In fact, most technology can’t.

This reminds me of something Richard Feynman said, I can't remember exactly so I will have to paraphrase. Politicians and even the general public come to engineers and scientists for answers to the world's problems like world hunger.

But as he pointed out, we already have the technologies to feed, house and provide the other basics for every person on Earth. And we have for over a century. These aren't scientific or engineering problems. We're just not using solutions we already have because we don't like them. These are political problems and cannot and will not be solved with a magic technological bullet. (Though more technologies might make it easier to solve if and when we decide politically to do so.)
What do you mean?
I tried placing Ö and {\"O} in the author's name of the example and tidied it:

Click Tidy to clean up the entries below
@Book{sweig42,
Author = { Stef{\"O}{n} SwÖig },
title = { The impossible book },
publisher = { Dead Poet Society},
year = 1942,
month = mar
}

This is the output:

Click Tidy to clean up the entries below
@book{sweig42,
title = {The impossible book},
author = {Stef{\"O}{n} SwÖig},
year = 1942,
month = mar,
publisher = {Dead Poet Society}
}

And \"O should be Ö, so I guess I do not really understand what is "incorrect" in your use case.

I know that the Zoteroplugin BetterBibTeX converts Ö to {\"O} when exporting as BibTeX, but keeps it as Ö when exporting as BibLaTeX – maybe Kbibtex has similar options?

edit: It actually "fixes" Ö to {\"O} if you tick "Escape special characters" or supply the command line argument `--escape`, which should be the default according to GitHub.
Kudos on FT on uncovering this. The article is a must read to learn what is happening in the infraestructure across all Europe.
I like this, but why the heck do I need to pay a monthly subscription. That alone has put me off the trying it out.

I would rather just pay a one off fee, maybe for a 2-3 year license.
It was the calling convention of MACLISP in the 60s and nobody seemed to describe it as exotic.
Construction starts at America’s first major offshore wind farm
This is a great piece. Idiotic memes have a corrosive effect, largely unseen until it is too late.
I am not an expert and the shock didn't feel as bad as I expected so you are probably right.
Turkey has a history of currency devaluations. The government is spending too much money on free universal healthcare (Covid did not help at all) and pensions (there are even retirements at the age of 45). So long as they spend more than they save they will have these currency turmoils. Although Government debt to GDP ratio is around 42 percent it is still not sustainable as the currency is not a reserve currency like the dollar or euro. Most of the Asian economies suffered a similar fate in 1998.
I'll be honest, this title worried me a lot more than the Facebook is down one.
People give instructions for machine learning, but they don't do this for social skills in general. Instead, they expect you to just pick it up assuming you had normal socialisation in your teens.

I personally learned more about social skills in my 30's than I did before. But this was honestly because I moved countries, and folks just told me some of the rules and folks tell me if I'm acting too... "off". Luckily, folks now also expect me to be a bit strange, which helps too.

Now, some folks have suggested simply going out more. This does help to a point - just make it something you are interested in doing so it is easier to talk about it. But also consider things like anxiety (it'll make you feel like you aren't doing it right) or that you are missing social cues: I have an niece that went to a therapist to learn this and if you think it might be something like this, I fully endorse this.
I'm not convinced by Enums having methods. For those of you using other languages that support this, do you find them useful?
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> I think Facebook is simply creating more problems for themselves by bothering with this.

This was always the policy, they paid wages based on the market. They did, however, pay identically in all of their US offices (prior to Covid) which is perhaps why people are surprised about this (entirely normal and expected) practice.

Given that I don't live in the US, I don't like this policy, but it's been around forever basically, at all large tech companies.
This is why it's so nice to have supermarkets at walking or at least short cycling distance from where people live. You don't need to get groceries for a week at a time then.
I think maybe https://echo.jefftk.com is what you're looking for? Also open source.
Crypto Stamps – Swiss post first NFT
The national postal service of Switzerland is selling NFTs!
You need to enter one of the editing modes...
Sure. You can generate a solana keypair with solana-keygen[0] or using a wallet such as Sollet[1] or Phantom[2]. Then, if you share your address, I can send you USDC. I will pay a fee of less than a penny worth of native tokens for the transaction, which will settle in seconds. I will also pay about 20 cents worth of native tokens to create the USDC account associated with your solana address, but this cost only occurs once. Additional sendings of USDC will not incur this cost of about 20 cents. In fact, the about 20 cents worth of native token will be recoverable by you! If you move all the USDC out of that account, then you can delete the USDC account and receive the native tokens that were locked up to pay for storage of its data.

As an aside, an upcoming update to the software that runs this particular slow database will greatly lower the cost per byte of permanent storage such as the USDC account discussed above.

If you want to obtain dollar bills in your hand, I guess you'd need to also go to a bank and a crypto exchange or something. But this is a really general-purpose gotcha, like if I told you Japanese yen were worth money and you asked me how to get dollars in hand, then you'd probably have to go to a third party to fix your problem of having Japanese yen instead of dollars, and you'll probably have to go to their branch with your ID and do a bunch of paperwork if you don't have an existing relationship with them. You'd be in even more trouble if I gave you a Japanese transit card with a stored balance of Japanese yen on it, because then the process for recovering the yen would involve showing up in person to a certain office in Japan, and the fee implicit in all this (buy card -> load yen on card -> redeem card for yen) would be a backbreaking couple dollars. But I think it would be silly to deny that you are in posession of yen if you have such a transit card, and silly to deny that you are in posession of USDC tokens that entitle you to dollars held by Circle (supposedly invested in US treasuries) if you control a keypair that controls the USDC.

Thanks.

[0]: https://docs.solana.com/cli/conventions

[1]: https://sollet.io/

[2]: https://phantom.app/
Yes, the Brit plugs are great until you step on them in the night

Funny comparison of different plugs from a few years ago https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/plug-versus-plug/
> strong candidates with large scale prod experience are still concentrated in markets

As I keep asking when this comes up, if this is true then why are salaries for FAANG engineers so much lower in London? London, as you may know is 100% not cheap, and yet salaries there for FAANG tech people are approximately 50% of those in SF/US.
I really want to use PHP for one-off CGI scripts, (rsync files and done, deployed), but I really wish it had methods on primitive types. It hinders discoverability. It's annoying having to look up which function I need to use, and to find that there are many alternatives, most of which are deprecated.

PHP stdlib needs an overhaul, IMO.
This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields.

Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their published versions, mostly for computer science papers):

- https://github.com/yuchenlin/rebiber (CLI, web interface)

- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ga384/bibfix.html (only *ACL papers, web interface with diff, disclaimer: mine)
Right. I don't recommend using Bitcoin for payments.
Hackernews works. I respect the mods and appreciate their work keeping everything running. We're living in increasingly volatile times, and while a lot of us are stubborn and hard of hearing - myself included - and people like Jonathan Blow like to hate on that, I still think this forum is a bastion for real discussion and understanding on all kinds of topics.
Is there some linter like this vor LaTeX, too?
Codify an incident response plan - nothing beats a playbook vs chicken-with-no-head response.