skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sent this article to a friend of mine who works for Microsoft and they came back with an interesting anecdote: several groups inside Microsoft, including theirs, have recurring "hack for good" gatherings, especially during the pandemic when regular get-togethers aren't happening. One of the things they do for this is to log into a community team (I'm not sure of the exact term, I don't contribute to OSM) and spend a couple of hours tagging landmarks and streets and edges of farms and various other geographic features while BSing together as a team.

Sounds kind of relaxing to me, and a way to contribute a bulk of hours to OSM that I hadn't thought of.
It would be nice if there was a command to flag errant interactions with Alexa.

Sometimes it doesn’t understand our kids and starts obscure rap music dropping F- and N- bombs (even though explicit filters are enabled).
Other features like battery life are clearly more important to people than thinness and that seems to be catching on with manufacturers (although weight still matters).

I would speculate that removal of the physical SIM card is more likely to be about one (or a combination) of:

* Apple taking even more control over the device

* Making it marginally more difficult to switch to another brand's ecosystem

* Resilience (e.g. water/dust proofing).
Nim.

My current job is more focused on business processes and advising on cybersec, this means that coding for me is only for fun and side projects.

I love the syntax and the sufficient standard library. I would pick python every time, but Nim's performance and compilation to a single binary file makes everything so much simpler so I can focus on the features instead of having to optimize and manage dependencies.

I have completed Advent of Code in Nim this year and it has been a joy.
Fortunately, minisign does.

age doesn't replace everything PGP does, which is good, because PGP does too many things. It just replaces the use case of file encryption (which itself is arguably too general; it's perhaps best to think of age as a good fallback for encryption use cases that don't have a better domain-specific tool). See https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
I’m not sure how much it matters given this thread looks like it’s going off on several successive tangents, but the important (and hard) thing with a self-driving car is making sure it doesn’t hit stuff, not the actual driving part.

And drones, trivially agree: Megaphragma mymaripenne has 7400 neurones, compared to the 71/14 million in a house mouse nervous system/brain.
Schools and learning social interactions for young people def. is taking a significant hit.
That's what volumes are for
Go into nursing
Netflix and Spotify don't model their service as a purchase, though. Netflix in particular is very clearly still shaped like a rental with their DVD service. I think of them as more convenient radio and TV: I can choose the thing I want, but I don't expect that it's portable.

This is sharply contrasted with the so-called "purchase" model of Amazon or iTunes video, and even more with the way physical media works these days (comment above about Blu-ray).
BusKill: A Kill Cord for Your Laptop
Thanks, that appears to work. Although, LinkedIn will reset the filter if I change another part of the search in attempt to increase results.

Offices are still closed, so many companies still do not know how they will truly operate once they will re-open.
I associate it with the Long Now Foundation[1], I think it's used more broadly as a nudge to think long(er) term.

1: https://longnow.org/
> There's just something that rubs me the wrong way about accepting these things into your home and then complaining it does something you don't like. But it's stupid because the same can be said about most tech developments.

You can legitimately criticise these devices, or even other non tech devices when you make a decision to introduce one into your home. I don't require every item in my home to be free of stupid criticism to use it.

> I can certainly refrain from expressing it.

You should express it, openly and loudly, but constructively. Telling people they deserve whatever is coming to them for introducing a device to their home isn't going to make anyone feel differently, but providing alternatives and talking about why they're a bad idea might.
John Cleese's previous take on the subject: https://youtu.be/YoBTsMJ4jNk
Def agree, but optimize in both directions. There's only so much defense (lifestyle reductions) you can play, but you can go unlimited in offense.

You gotta be honest with yourself, know yourself, know your goals, etc and then base your consumption and lifestyle aspirations around that. Maybe a super cozy and minimal but efficient house is exactly what you need. Maybe you want the ranch with acres of land to explore etc.
It’s close to two years. If WFH increased productivity, the entire front page of HN should be blitzed with studies and metrics proving that. But all we have anecdata from a population highly biased to lean introvert.
I don't know the story, but I'm wondering if IMEI wasn't introduced because of that. If SIM offered an identity in the network, why would phone need to have an unique number?
> the demonstrated ability to complete a large, self-directed project from beginning to end

I am not sure this (both the self-direction criterion and the 'complete to the end' criterion) applies to a majority of PhDs .
I think you’re taking that a bit too literally. “While COVID is a massive office-closing problem” might be closer to the mark. Before Omicron showed up, a lot of places were moving to re-open everything mode. Omicron will slow that, but probably not by much.
When reading a math proof it helps to spell out what the symbols stand for, instead of saying the symbol names, for example, instead of "E equals m c squared" say "energy equals mass times speed of light squared". This also greatly helps understanding. If you can't keep track because there are too many symbols, make a little lookup table.
Your use of scare quotes on plain self-evident terms kinda makes me think this is going to be entirely pointless, but here goes nothing.

Do you understand that your being more or less content with the results of a deal does not have a bearing on how good, or decent, or moral, the system overarching that deal is?

Tons of people seem more or less into Nestlé products despite their long track record of profiting from slavery, do you believe that being the case makes agricultural slavery a good thing?

On your last statement, how exactly do you think not paying for a thing you wouldn't pay for anyway prevents that thing from existing? Like, if I torrent "Superheroes in Body Gloves 27" instead of, you know, ignoring it, then a time travelling ghost will materialize in the set and kidnap the directors? Or how would that work
Check out StreetComplete. It's basically a map with question icons that help improve osm. It's even a bit gamified, you get achievements for a volume of replies :)
Importantly, you can configure which types of question do you get, so you won't get bored by replying the same stuff again.

More specialized, but perhaps more important for certain people is wheelmap.org. It catalogues amenities and their wheelchair accessibility. It has similar model for contribution as StreetComplete, you answer question about stairs, door widths and toilet accessibility.

Have fun mapping :)

Edit: corrected autocorrect.
I think this is true in ebooks and ereaders as well. There's a whole generation of readers that have bought a lot of ebooks from a single vendor. It has the effect of locking them to that vendor or possibly losing their collection.
> So, kids are tattle tales?

No, tattle tales report rule breaking to third-party authorities. This is about direct intervention with the rule-breaker.

> Did we need a study to tell us this?

If we want to quantify and see how it varies across, say, the urban/rural divide (as this does with challenging), then, yes, certainly, but it's not this study.
On the other hand I think people should keep their discord history as at some point I suspect more "corporate earnings" will be the goal and the "board" will require to start charging for channels and there will be a mass exodus to matrix or something similar
I keep saying that people who design touch screen UIs for cars have never seen a real car, much less sat in one or drove one.

Nothing so far has convinced me otherwise.
Indeed. The lead author expresses surprise that rural children are more likely to intervene. That's exactly what I'd expect.
Finally, if it is indeed not Lastpass's fault and as they say they dont store master password on their server, then there must be a software all these victims have in common. And it has to be fairly common so we could get at least 20 report on a HN thread.

Side Note: Interesting all it takes was AppleInsider publishing, getting some sort of traction. And Lastpass had a response within two hours.

Edit: This still doesn't make sense though. Unless @gregsadetsky had his computer access full hacked. Otherwise I dont see how his master password could have been stolen. Many of similar reports were from dead account they had a long time ago and wasn't actively being used.
I think the parent meant that he favors convenience over tinkering.

Download Netflix app on pretty much any device, subscription is affordable, scroll and click to play. New content gets added each week or whatever which is more than one can consume.

it's a bit like cooking vs going to a restaurant. how can someone with a sense of real taste and care for health/nutrition understand the millions of people who regularly hit fast food chains. Convenience.
It simply has to be 1/ affordable 2/ saving time, and bingo.

of course learning how to cook, going shoping to 7 different local suppliers, having a large range of stocked spices and other condiments, spend 1h and half putting things together and appreciate a great healthy meal is a better approach to eating, but not everyone accept the burden, some don't even understand the actual pro/cons of each option.
Mate, higher death counts were supposed to cause "panic" and encourage people to obey by the restrictions and to get the vaccine. They have been telling us in every way possible to get the vaccine, for example. Everywhere you looked, you got "register for vaccine as quickly as you can!"... now you do not even have to register anymore. They are saying "come, get the vaccine" without registering. Higher death counts was supposed to be another way of encouraging people to get the vaccine, and to wear masks where they gotta, and so forth.

What for do you think they wanted a lower count?

"real-politik"... right.
1. This is written in Arabic

2. Ge’ez script is from Yemen

Nothing here about second stories in buildings. Not saying you’re wrong, but I don’t see how this comment refutes anything the one above said.
I guess we should be more specific: in OSS, there is licensing competition in that there are multiple licenses. Competition between different OSS platforms is platform competition, and competition between applications on a platform is ecosystem competition.

When you think about it, there are many levels of competition, and very little code re-use. Only a few shared libraries or APIs/ABIs are actually reused by more than a handful of apps.
Or indeed a single-milliwatt transmitter, if it’s in your pocket for more than an hour or so per lifetime.
Do you, at least, know why the Paris agreement set the limit at 1.5 degrees?

Because over 1.5° we will hit points of non return and feedback loops like the permafrost one. There is no coming back after that, we are talking about a food crisis. We are talking about parts of the earth which won't be possible to cultivate.

https://youtu.be/1BDmIis9STE

Reading the comments here is like being on the "don't look up" set, and it's not funny.

Google feedback loops permafrost,please.
> There was bruteforce protection, but here's the fun part - it was presumably implemented on the frontend only because you could reload the page on the last attempt and reset the counter of attempts! There were no consequences that I know of (neither from the company nor a notification/follow-up with the customer) to locking out an account either.

Back when I had to use AllScripts EHR software, if I messed up my password three times, I'd just restart the client application. Bam, three more attempts, no need to wait ten minutes.

(I don't know if this is still the case, but I sure hope it's not.)
https://www.spreedly.com/ has implemented such an abstraction, and stores tokenized cards centrally in a PCI compliant vault - so when the customer types in their card info, it goes over spreedly.js to Spreedly servers, and you can have Spreedly send that to Stripe for the original payment, but then have Spreedly route that information to Braintree or Authorize.net for future payments, without ever needing the card data to touch your servers. Switching to a new processor is as simple as changing the "gateway_token" constant you include when calling their API.

They've even implemented the load balancing idea: https://www.spreedly.com/smart-routing-for-payments

Pricing is in the hundreds-per-month plus cents-per-transaction, so they're not a fit for all businesses. But if you collect high-value transactions and keep cards on file (for subscriptions, SaaS, etc.), I highly recommend building on top of them rather than on top of an individual processor, as well as maintaining multiple merchant accounts with different providers. Business continuity is the name of the game!
Can you not decompose general matrix multiplication into the sum of vector matrix multiplications?
I picked it up to get Nebula for free just to watch The Patrick H Willems videos and $15 is cheap enough that maybe my subscription can actually help them make a difference and create better content.

I think Animalogic vids might be on CS too.
Many Boston companies work with physical items and high-cost assets and thus have a real reason for in-person work. Also, even though the cost of living is high, it's well-balanced with wages, so someone doesn't have to telecommute just to afford a decent home. (Unlike the Bay Area where your huge paycheck hardly covers a reasonable apartment.)

But... There's also a weird "prep school" attitude where someone's thinks they're "the boss" instead of a manager. (These are usually people who micromanage and have bad leadership skills.) These are the managers who insist on no remote work, or put weird rules on it, because they just can't trust their team or won't hire people they can trust.

Fortunately, the shift to remote work has made these kinds of bosses easier to weed out.
This Page Is Anonymous
60K annually pre-tax, US, female, early 30s, work in tech but not an engineer or product manager. No one I personally know makes three figures or close to it. My circle of friends all grew up poor and a lot don’t have college education or the opportunity to focus on learning since we all started working whatever job at a young age just to get by. So even 60K is a lot compared to what we’re used to and what our parents made. I’m usually surprised by how many people make 100K and more. Where are the people who make less?! Sharing how much you make can help put things into perspective since these type of threads are usually dominated by people making 100+
No, there are ties, even though Durov was forced out. Durov sold his VK stake to a Russian oligarch with extensive government ties, such that they now control the majority of the company.

https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-vkontakte-idUSL5N0KY3...
So everything has to be pure and side-effect free, I'm not into the history and when you're not doing too much Voodoo it looks like what you'd want a configuration file to look like.

But the downside is that debugging is impossble.

Guix uses guile, which is a Lisp so we could accomplish the same with other languages.
Arguments like this are utterly hilarious to me.

After decades of 'oh whoops, this new compound we created has enormous unknown consequences, how could we have known' we should just accept that technology is going to get us out of this mess? Count me out, i will fight geo-engineering tooth and nail.

It is not a viable choice, its just the choice that doesn't require any hard decisions or changes.
It's a smart speaker that people ask "how many teaspoons in a cup". I don't care about the ethical aspect. I care about the basic utility that it adds to my life. I don't see much unethical here, HN people are just weirdos.
There is literally a photo of a shuko plug half inserted into a relatively common European socket and a claim that the pin is in contact with the terminal.

Shuko are not as safe as they should be because they are easily misused.
It used to be a joke that married couples travelling would fight over maps. The man was always driving and the wife was always reading the large unwieldy paper map. The man would get mad about a woman's trouble reading the map. The wife would retort "What happened to your vaunted sense of direction? Why are you such a cheap skate to wait until we are lost before buying a map at a service station?" Good times.
Thailand travel SIMs, like the DTAC Tourist SIM, are usually purchased in the airport after you get luggage and pass immigration. Now that this same SIM is sold online as an eSIM, you can buy it before you arrive. Skipping that extra step seems to be a plus over physical SIMs.
age is hardly a complete replacement for GPG
You have put into words the reason I laughed.

They say NFTs are distributed, uncensorable, freedom to do whatever. This scenario says otherwise

Also further amusement that OpenSea is opting for a legacy IPO than a DAO or whichever web3 acronym is the equivalent to public shares. They don't even believe in it themselves haha

I really can't wait till the wagmi cult moves on to the next quick buck and we see what this tech can really be useful for instead of "Gravatar, but expensive"
This is marketing. It's about putting Apple in the middle of plans and activation, and getting rid of a physical standard.
FBA does not require to know who your friends are you just need to know enough nodes.
If some of the nodes are not your friend aka they lie to you, you would know as soon as they lie and you can simply stop listen to them.

This however requires identities. You cant just listen to anyone because someone could simply fire up 1000 lying nodes and if you pick 100 at random you'd have mostly lying nodes. You would figure out if they lie but then you have to stop listen to them all and you are offline.
In practice this is not a real problem because obvious you would pick old nodes and not the 1000 freshly generated "identities".
The assumption that you know nothing about any other node is a more or less made up thing for theoretical analysis that has no relevance in the real world. You dont start a network form zero you just want to join an existing one and you know its there so you might as well know who is there.
Per taxpayer is even more precise.
My job involves a lot of meetings, and also doing a lot of IC work. What works for me is to take 2-3 hrs every week thinking through all the IC work I need to do and breaking it down into chunks that can be completed in 6-8 1 hour blocks of time. That’s the longest block of time I can hope to find without any interruptions. I break things down to the level that I can write the commit message for the changes I’m about to make. Then I use to time slots to make the changes.
UK plugs are three pronged, with the earth on top and live/neutral on the bottom. The earth is longer than the other two pins and inside the socket is a switch that opens the live and neutral sockets when the earth pin is inserted. The live and neutral pins are insulated up to the point where they are exposed when connected to the mains, and the flex comes out the bottom of the plug meaning its borderline impossible to accidentally unplug by pulling on the cord. It's really quite clever.
As I noted, I'm not criticising the author, but because Forbes has sullied their reputation just to lend their name to nearly anyone. The warning is for someone who's still unaware that Forbes has turned into this and they should probably check who's behind the author and not rely on the Forbes' name to lend credence to the ideas (which unfortunately has published some very, very questionable articles like obvious pump-and-dump schemes).

... which is unfortunate since that there's still a Forbes newsroom (which produce the published magazine editions) which is the only part of Forbes which has actual editorial accountability (and therefore you can lend to Forbes' name).
> This is wildly inaccurate. Senior in Google is 350k, in Microsoft 260k, in Amazon 340k.

Those are averages (and probably slightly old ones at that). Mid six figures is in-range for Senior at most of those companies.

> While the ladder in Google goes up to 11, 90% of people never exceed 5 (senior).

But when do people first reach that level? Again, my point was that "lots of tech workers with Senior in their title are in fact mid-career or early mid-career." Not that everyone with the Senior title is mid-career.

Looking at Levels.fyi, and my personal experience, typically between 5 and 10 years.

Reminder: Retirement age is 65 and people graduate college around age 22. 65-22 = 43. Let's be generous and assume tech workers retire over a decade earlier than most people.

So if you become Senior with 12 yoe, that's an early mid career position. If you become Senior with 15 or even 17 yoe, that's solidly a mid career position. Even 20 yoe is mid-career if your work to 65. Looking at levels.fyi, becoming Senior with 5-10 yoe is not abnormal.

I'm not sure how you can realistically say that someone in their late 20s is "not mid-career".
You've now moved the goalposts from "a discussion about what constitutes "your data" under GDPR" to a discussion about moral rights for deleting accidental content, and a reference to Discord's ToS, neither of which have anything to do with GDPR.
I've been working on an audio player for my current project and debated whether to include a volume control or not. This led me to realize how different the experience is depending on the OS.

On macOS and mobile, the vast majority of users are used to controlling the volume with hardware buttons. There are many media players that do not include a volume control precisely because of this (eg: Apple's podcast player for the web).

On Windows and Linux, users do not always have hardware volume controls so the majority of users are accustomed to doing that in the media players themselves.
I don't want to alarm you, but changes in handwriting are something that's worth discussing with your doctor, especially as you age.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111954448...
Yes, I'm well aware. I think it maybe makes more sense to make this reply to one of the other comments I'm replying to.
They used to ask for donations. They still do, but they used to too. /s
If is not distributed or immutable, what is the point anyway?
why don't they use a scripting language

Reproducibility. You need a pure (side effect-free) language to ensure that a package expression always evaluates to the same value [1]. If you have a non-pure language, external factors (e.g. environment variables or a server returning a different response) can influence/change what a package expression evaluates to.

[1] That said, Nix was not completely free of side-effects either. Though this is one of the issues that Nix Flakes attempt to solve.