skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I both agree and am shamed by this article. As a team lead I asked my managers to "just trust me" too many times over too many years. Blinding trusting someone does him no service, quite the opposite: it causes them to take reckless paths which they will regret later.

I will not take the whole shame upon myself though. The article point "Engage directly with data" is something few managers take the time and effort to do. As such I am often forced to expand significant energy providing the evidence which the manager should have collected for himself. A lot of managers also don't really get to know the people they lead and quite often start from scratch for each interaction like we just met even after 5 years. These two pain points cause me to seek complete autonomy for me and my team, which means I also take my manager's responsibility for decision making. Over the long term I get overwhelmed and start looking for a new job.

There's ways I could attack every point of the article as context is always king. But I've been in the context he's talking about long enough to understand his perspective and fully agree with the conclusions even though, again, I feel shamed for falling in the traps presented.
> Maybe someday Firefox mobile will allow add-ons again :(

Huh? Firefox on Android does support addons. There's only a small subset of them available by default but you can enable support for all addons as well although you'll have to use Fennec or Mull from FDroid for that.

Go to the "About Fennec" menu and tap the logo several times to enable the hidden "Custom Add-on collection" menu. Create an account on Mozilla Add-ons website and add all the addons you like. Use the profile ID to add the collection in the hidden menu you unlocked.

Yeah, I know, using addons shouldn't be so convoluted.
Every quarter? This new variant doubles every two days. You’d best be paying a bit more than checking the PHO every three months!
If there's a leak of valid usernames or email addresses, for a system that has a few million users, that has a lockout after 10 wrong guesses, then you could gain access to one account for every 10,000 lockouts.
It also depends on the definition of prevents. There seems to be some disagreement about if X prevents Y means that Y never happens or if Y happens less frequently.
Ok, so I‘ll have to check with the event official.

How often do you actually know who that really is? Let‘s say Beyoncé is coming to the arena closest to you. Are you aware of who actually organizes that event and is in charge? Ticket buyers most often don‘t know and don‘t care.

Plus, if I have to go to the central entity and check all that data, where is the benefit of going decentralized?
Has the men’s tennis assoc commented on this topic yet? Or are they going to continue taking Chinese money while the women's assoc isn’t?
> You're saying that nothing other than the immutable biological character of one person (Black) versus another (Asian) should form the basis of preferential treatment.

My comment was not normative. It was descriptive. I was just describing what Harvard seems to be trying to do. Harvard wants to have its cake and eat it too. They want to have a very high average SAT. They also want to admit more Black applicants. This is one way to do that.

We don't know what the unintended consequences will be. If they put too much of a thumb on the scale, potential employers may adjust their recruiting strategies to compensate.
How do you know the masks and lockdowns didn't help? Things might have much worse if not for the masks and lockdowns?
>Better than even WarGames,

Well, WarGames was early, so it has that, but otherwise is a naive 80s teen movie, and the hacking is... well...

The Matrix is decent, but is basically an action movie with some wholesale "philosophy" thrown in.

Swordfish is not even worthy of a mention. And Live Free or Die Hard is downhill of Swordfish.

Hackers is decent-ish, if one ignores the depiction of hacking.

Sneakers is not very good, but better (and with better actors) than all the above.

>I always considered Sneakers a spy movie rather than a hacker movie

Well, one of the main hacker employments is spying, no?
But these are case numbers and not hospitalization numbers… which is the parent’s point, Ontario ICU numbers are stable since nov 20 even with all this omicron news and increased case count
I would prefer a plugin that could remove "ehm"s and pauses from speakers that are new to the game.
You're just being overly cynical.
She will most definitely appreciate the effort that has gone into this.
>easy and fast access to financial instruments

Stable financial instruments.

>it's not hard to see how cryptocurrencies can help in this situation: faster easier and cheaper transactions

Transactions speed can vary and/or be tied into the transaction fees one is willing to pay.

How does that make the life of people who already don't have enough disposable income easier?
Rebol, is mostly "dead", and I don't like to so easily throw the term around. But, originally it started out as a proprietary commercial language, then when it couldn't make enough money, went open source. It has some good concepts, and passionate followers, but didn't go mainstream. Even though it went open source, in the flood of so many languages that exists now, continual development stalled. However, it did produce several offshoot descendant languages.

Something to point out, is there is a lot of old tutorials and information on Rebol that becomes more useful as references, if a person learns any of the descendant languages.

Red (https://www.red-lang.org), is a very good open source offshoot. If a person is choosing between them, I think most would recommend it. But, the problem with Red is its development can be described as sluggish. The lead developers appear overly preoccupied with other projects, as oppose to getting Red into a more useful state and delivering on the stated goals and expected features.

For example, one of its main benefits is easy cross-compiling to other OSes. However, it's stuck in 32-bit, and needs to have a 64-bit version to keep pace with the requirements of macOS, iOS, and Android.

If Red's development was to keep on pace, which is important for multi-OS usability, I do think it would be worth knowing. Quite powerful and easy to learn language, for potentially a wide variety of purposes, with a light footprint.
~ 10 years old, and only slightly related, but interesting documentary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_than_Honey
> On July 26, 2021, Austin Huang (maintainer of Barinsta) received a cease & desist letter from Perkins Coie LLP, a law firm representing Facebook. As a result, Barinsta is no longer maintained or distributed.

I had been a user of Barinsta, until the creator was hit with legal threats from Facebook.

It was then when I saw it clear that these types of projects are better to be developed anonymously, so without any address or name, the legal department wouldn't have anywhere to send their letter.

At most they might ask GitHub to close the repo, so probably a Git provider from overseas would also be a good idea. In general: don't host the code in the same country of the company you will be pissing off.
At 10-20 cents deposit it's not really "lucrative" enough to be a good income for anyone, I think you're lucky if you can make more than minimum wage doing it.

We have a similar deposit where I live (Vancouver), and a few times I've collected all my cans and dropped them off at the deposit center. The centers are in inconvenient areas, and I've dropped off maybe 400 cans, which is a pretty full car load, but takes almost 2 hours with driving and sorting. So about $20/hr not counting expenses like gas, wear and tear, and the car itself (many people doing this do so without a vehicle though).

And these were cans I had collected myself at a place I was living. If you consider going from house to house and checking dumpsters for the cans, it takes a lot more time. If you have a truck and 2 people and manage to grab all the cans on collection day, you might make a bit more than minimum wage, but outside of collection day I think you'd be better off with a minimum wage job.

I suspect a lot of people doing this have other obstacles preventing them from holding a job though, which is why something they can do on their own time is worthwhile to them.

For some more context, I think McDonalds starts at $18/hr here and even that isn't really enough to afford living comfortably in Vancouver. Also, most deposits are 10 cents, but I think some larger glass containers are up to 20 cents.
I moved closer to my job during the pandemic, meaning I got 25 minutes of biking every day to get to and from work (this is in a small-ish Swedish town). I also live a lot closer to just about the only workout I can tolerate: swimming.

My son goes to a preschool about 4 minutes away instead of 10 minutes in the wrong direction (meaning I had to drive 10 minutes in the wrong direction, and then 20 minutes to work).

It has made me value one thing: simplicity. For me, I lack the inner drive of some people. I NEED the simplicity of the life I have now. Especially since I am getting a new kid. I have colleagues that commute for 3h every day. For me that feels like a waste of life - but everyone is different. For them that might be the simple solution.
This happens frequently in anime translations as well.
"Every new infection results in rolling the evolutionary dice a few hundred billion times, and is how we get diseases that evade our defenses, and new diseases in general."

That frames it as if that was a new and scary thing and not something that has been going on for millions of years.
setterm ?
It just says that "according to a report in CNBC" in 2019 the BoE, the Fed and ECB were engaged in currency war. It provides zero evidence to back this assertion. At that time, the inflation rate in each and every of these regions, was below 2%, and fell further in 2020 [1]. This is not an example of a country weakening its currency.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/price/inflation-cpi.htm
In ontario the unvaccinated as a group have to do rapid antigen testing 2 or 3 times per week testing to keep their jobs. So much more likely to report a positive. The "doctors" on 4chan think it's ADE in the vaccinated.
I don't see how one's lack of knowledge can cause lines to form differently (different interference patterns).

If anyone has any more insight into this, please do weigh in.
I tried the official Twitter app & site now after using Tweetbot exclusively for years.

The experience is a Facebook-esque joke. Tweets are out of order, random people I’m not following are shown in my feed, and the feed is dotted with ads.
I’ve spent months in 4 different countries since Covid hit and it’s politicized everywhere.

Not sure how you can force people to stay at home, kids out of school, then hand out billions in relief (or not in one country) and not have it be political?
In Minecraft you can dig blocks.

When you click to dig a block, it just calls the RPC method CPacketPlayerDigging with the coordinates of the block.

The server replies "Block of type ABC is too far".

So, of course, you now know that at (X,Y,Z) you have a block of type "ABC".

This RPC has no rate-limiting, so yes, you can know the whole map.

The fact that you can dig any block on the map, seems like a shortcut taken by developers of the server to save time or resources.

I'd even say it's almost intended behaviour.

Tech details: https://2b2t.miraheze.org/wiki/Nocom
Most people, including governments, seem to be under the impression that the vaccines prevent spreading. It is the only rationale for vaccination mandates that are being rolled out all over the world.
Thanks for catching this, that's even more straight-forward (and arguably less informative, but the best solution would be to have both plots of raw data and marginal effects of course).
>Please stop spreading fake science based on "your understanding"

I agree, it's deadly. So I hope you are just genuinely misinformed, because after 2 years I don't have the energy to engage in these discussions anymore.

There's no studies for Omicron yet but according to the CDC and the studies they quote, the vaccines did prevent spreading for Alpha Beta and Delta variants.

From the CDCs "Science Brief: COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination":

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...

... Studies from multiple countries found significantly reduced likelihood of transmission to household contacts from people infected with SARS-CoV-2 who were previously vaccinated for COVID-19.(171-176)

... However, other studies have shown a more rapid decline in viral RNA and culturable virus in fully vaccinated people (96, 177, 180-182). One study observed that Delta infection in fully vaccinated persons was associated with significantly less transmission to contacts than persons who were unvaccinated or partially vaccinated.(181)

... Together, these studies suggest that vaccinated people who become infected with Delta have potential to be less infectious than infected unvaccinated people.

More studies are needed for Omicron but it's not fake science!
If I remember correctly, for ZFS it was some stuff about cache size and RAM usage, since we were in a VM and couldn't be too greedy. Something about a NVME drive needing slightly different settings. I didn't spend much time on this. For Postgres it was so so so many things, I played with it on and off for months, benchmarking certain key queries and such. And I read a LOT of blog posts about how to make Postgres and ZFS work together ideally, one thing I remember in particular was waffling back and forth about logbias=throughput vs logbias=latency. Just google "postgres zfs logbias" and you'll get MANY conflicting opinions. (edit: when I google it now in incognito, my reddit post is at the top lol)

But for what I actually changed, off the top of my head, I set the recordsizes in ZFS large enough that Postgres could safely (because of ZFS CoW) have full_page_writes off, and combined with synchronous_commit off, that really sped up the overall system and made the WAL logs much smaller. After looking just now at postgresql.conf, various other things were tweaked, such as seq_page_cost, random_page_cost, effective_cache_size, effective_io_concurrency, max_worker_processes, default_statistics_target, dynamic_shared_memory_type, work_mem, maintenance_work_mem, shared_buffers, but those were not quite as important. (plus some uninteresting tweaks to WAL behavior, since we had replicas that got WAL logs shipped every few minutes with rsync)
If it becomes widely known that you won't be believed if you destroy all the evidence of something maybe people will do otherwise in the future.
You describe a symptom of a high data/low effect situation that is pretty common these days.

The real question is what to do with the 50 minutes left after distilling the information down to 10 minutes. Just absorb more data or do something with it?
I don't know why you're coming at that poster so strong. They said it's anecdotal evidence, they're just throwing it out there, they're not saying it PROVES anything.
Last time I looked, Swift didn't have a stable way to export C-compatible ABIs.
I'd translate "I fought my way to the top" into "Я прохавал эту жизнь с низов". Though the latter reeks of gopnik mentality.
Your response is some impressive hand waving.

Yes, those things are infectious disease concepts and they were touted as to how COVID will be dealt with.

Lots of talk of “once we get to 80% vaccination rate we’ll hit here immunity”. You don’t hear that any more huh?

“If we drive R below 1 we can extinguish Covid”. Now it’s “Covid is endemic, it’s not going away”.

“Once everyone is vaccinated, Covid goes away”, then “It really rare for the vaccinated to get Covid” to “holy shit, most new cases are in fully vaccinated”.

You can honestly look at that narrative and NOT completely understand why people are not listening any more?
It is tricky being in a community which is predominantly more moneyed than your family and burns a brand into poorer people that never goes away. Greasers and socs stay greasers and socs into their 90s, and then they die.
Bruce Ellis knows who wrote it, so he might also know the year.
So you agree that the CDC was wrong? That was my entire point and what you challenged me on.

You seem to be trying to squirm out of your earlier statement.
I like these types of stories that show the harsh economic realities of many in America. It was not the case many years ago, when they could become an American citizen by working hard enough. Now they are servants, beholden to the corrupted members of our government.
I don’t think the story is ever going to change much on non Apple platforms. It just doesn’t make sense for them.
I've made meaningful progress on things I'm learning by listening to podcasts at 3x speed + "Smart Speed". Could I have made more progress by listening slower? Maybe, though that's debatable. Would I have even started? Absolutely not.

Before I ever found speed controls I'd start listening to podcasts and then just give up because it felt so boring and slow. "Why would I listen to podcasts or audiobooks when I could read them at several times the speed, back up, reread things, copy sections into my notes, and skim past the parts I already know?" is a common thing I used to say. Podcasts don't have an index like a real book, and it's hard to flip back and forth between two sections.

Now, I'm not listening to podcasts related to programming, despite that being my main profession. I'm listening to a podcast about a hobby and one I'd like to improve at, and I'm doing it while I work, drive, or otherwise do things that don't demand that part of my brain. I'm also not afraid to rewind or slow down, particularly if there's a guest on whose voice I'm not familiar with.

There are over 600 episodes (maybe 700 by now?) in the backlog of the main podcast I'm listening to right now, each between 30 minutes and 4 hours, with an average around an hour and a half or so. That's a lot of audio. I've been listening for months and am around 175 or so episodes in. If I was listening at 1x speed then this podcast might be a 5 or more year commitment.

If I was studying for a test, maybe I'd slow it down. Maybe I'd choose a format like text where available. But this particular show is not in lecture format. It's structured as an ongoing discussion between people who want to improve at something very intricate and ever changing. I'm listening to hear how different people approach these situations. So having the speed of the conversation be fast enough that I'm not losing the thread of what's going on is more important than catching every little detail.

I'm listening to hear stories, or for debates between people who look at the problems in different ways and want to find holes in their own approaches. I'm listening for what people's mindsets are like and how their opinions change over time as they gain more experience and revisit topics they've covered in the past.

I also listen with the intent of deliberately practicing the thing they're talking about, and use that to build up my own experience and opinions. For any given topic that comes up on the podcast I can typically tell you the stance of each of the hosts as well as any guests that were on, and I can tell you whether I think their reasoning is sound based on my own attempts. So while my listening is passive I actively engage with the content on a regular schedule.
> the more you try and thwart fingerprinting, the more unique you appear.

This is presumably because most people don't attempt to thwart fingerprinting.

If a particular feature behaves differently between the three most common browsers, it can be used to distinguish them. If you disable it, now you don't look like any of the most common browsers, which puts you in a category with a smaller number of people in it.

Solution: Get more people in it by having more people install anti-fingerprinting extensions etc.
We don't know yet if the exponential growth in cases will translate to ICU cases. The Ontario government is worried enough to put in capacity limits and lockdown measures. This will be a big test of the vaccine's ability to prevent ICU cases.
It's crazy that these still exist. It only lasts 1 year? With how briefly they are often used and how tiny the power output must be, I suspect an electronic version could last a lot longer on a single battery.

There's a modern version that is literally a piezo crystal powered by pulling a gun trigger. That's probably not much energy.
Listening to a lecture at a faster speed doesn't change the information density. You're just compressing everything; you're not editing out the useless bits.
That's a really important fact, I think... as everyone is screamaing at South America but to my knowledge, very few people know the problem seems to be getting a lot worse in Africa.

Also, surpising that South America has the highest percentage of protected forests in the world at 30%, much higher than North America and Europe.. and that while Russia and Brazil have the biggest forests in the world, Russia actually has more than double the amount forest as Brazil!
HPFS definitely put the root directory in the "seek center": http://spider.seds.org/spider/OS2/HPFS/dirs.html

This now makes me wonder whether the middle disk block (numerically) is equal "seek times" away from disk edges.
Nix 2.4 and 2.5
Initially CV sites, spam it out. Then linkedin-there are millions of recruiters on there it's crazy, feels like my network is over 50% recruiters. The more you connect the more jobs you will get spammed, then just set up filters on your email, ignore most things select what you want. Some websites like indeed.co.uk let you filter for contract work.

Add your profile to decent job sites, HN jobs, stackoverflow etc. Make sure you have an attractive profile or cv. Once you get a contract or connect with recruiters it's pretty easy the jobs just come to you. As you build a real network over the years friends and ex contacts can help.
I’m not sure why this is too surprising. Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates and still tests aggressively.

80%+ of new cases were in fully vaccinated back in August.
even more crazy : https://phys.org/news/2013-07-flat-worms-retain-memories-dec...
Yes, i, android user, have to install an Apple app to know I'm being tracked by their devices. I, average android user, also do this proactively because I know some creep/car thief/angry customer/... might want to track me or my wife.

Nothing to see here, all totally normal and expected and I should be grateful that there is an app to defend myself proactively against such tracking. I should also do the same for Microsoft, Huawei, Samsung, Sony, ... tracking tags. If that eats my phone battery this is just a small price to pay to assure my daughter won't be kidnapped or my house broken in as the attacker conveniently knew I wasn't home.

May I suggest we also all proactively wear tinfoil helmets to ensure Tesla's 'level 5 self-driving cars' don't kill us? You know, totally not the responsibility of the manufacturer to make sure their products are safe for all.
>Now they are servants, beholden to the corrupted members of our government.

ITYM corporations. The government is desperately trying to help and corporate interests (in the form of Joe Manchin's blocking of the BBB act) are how we got to this point.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/12/joe-man...

Most people have forgotten that we "solved" the ozone hole problem through regulation. We could have done the same for green house emmissions. But businesses did not want cut into their profits and now here we are.
>Huh? "Morally" here is just shorthand for "practically, as a rule of thumb, for most intents and purposes"

There was an era when any rust code that use Unsafe is considered "morally wrong" regardless of whatever technical reasons or personal preference.
I did something similar years ago and used two selenoids to make it ring:

https://www.hackster.io/ulrich-pech/iot-red-phone-083cfe