skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My executive function fluctuates with my anxiety and stress levels, and it's also well-recorded that poverty/chronic stress do pretty terrible things to executive function. I'd guess that 'being on 24/7 to make sure the little humans don't die' could produce similar results, particularly given the sleep deprivation. Just a constant focus on the 'now' and immediate dangers/issues vs. planning and the future.
Let's say you are the cryptid 10x engineer/tech lead, supervising a team of 8 junior engineers. You can spend 4 hours, the equivalent of a 40hr week of lesser mortals (this math is almost never true in my experience), or spend a half hour of time on each of your junior engineers. The problem you help each of them solve is solved in 30m as opposed to the 3-4h they might have tried solving it themselves, and they've learned something that maybe saves them an hour a day. You do this twice during the week.

You've 'lost' 80h effectively of productivity for the company (remember, mythical 10x), but you've gained 104h (32h+32h+81h/day5days) from your team, for a net 24h gain.

Of course, numbers are exaggerated, but the point remains the same: if you are a tech lead helping your team succeed is your primary job, not coding/design. You are the person who connects the lines of communication, removes obstacles, mentors the team on coding and design, and gets the team moving in one direction that aligns with the customer needs.

You probably will code, to fill in gaps and help out, but personally I find it's split around 5/2/2/1 - 5 parts are working with your team to guide them and help them overcome obstacles, 2 parts communicating with management and customers, 2 parts coding/design, and 1 part administrivia/training.
He was a great actor, and groundbreaking in this contribution to film.

That said, why is this here?
Side note, but ips being pii is pretty tricky. Think about all the places an IP is logged in the clear.

I think they are probably on the right path here but I've never worked somewhere that wouldn't be breaking the rules here.
Even though it's US-centric, it's still easy to do correctly for most non-US English speakers, even for non-natives.
> you (largely) can't run a credit check on me without my permission

In my country there are forums where every once in a while a guy with access to these credit systems shows up and starts literally taking requests. People post names and he reveals everything about the person's credit history. For free and in the open.

Wouldn't be surprised if it was just as easy in the US for some bank or employer to look up your entire financial history.
Also vanilla emacs.

I just wanted to try out org >_< !
Apple was a member of the PowerPC group, AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola), before it became apparent Intel was leaps ahead. Prior to the Pentium M68k and PowerPC were well ahead of Intel.

Apple had an entire line of really good wifi routers before shutting it down. A line of servers and storage they also abandoned.

You can never really guess what Apple's plans are because they don't work like traditional business. They have little loyalty to their own products and will absolutely go with an outside supplier if they determine they can do it better.
My goodness, I turned that off under a minute after I discovered that the "feature" existed. Autocorrect is for onscreen keyboards. I am a far more accurate typist than my computer gives me credit for.
Least Square Estimation
machine learning algorithms for beginners
So can anyone recommend a defibrillator we might buy for a local community center? I looked in this thread for Amazon links but didn't find anything.
Forgive me, I meant 2021.
I didn’t know that you can resize windows.

Seriously though I have Firefox’ Reader Mode for subpar websites.
A similar spike can be seen in August 2008.
I wonder if this means self-driving vehicles' detection of important traffic features will be at the level of an irritated and disinterested web user who is trying to just do the minimum work to please an algorithm.
I think we all understand that we're helping label... but specifically, why so many trains, planes, trucks, bicycles? I don't think it is really about training for self-driving AI since although these things all seen transportation-related, in many cases a lot of the images would not be relevant to a car and certainly not as relevant as other things we could be helping labeling for that effort.

How much train/plane/bike/truck labeling do they need? It seems like these have be standard for several years now, which is what I think the OP is really asking. Why these images, and why for so long?
This is called email thread visualization. Relativity have a product (I've not used it) which shows the email chain as a graph.

http://www.bgc.design/etv.html
It also can NOT be ADHD but can be executive dysfunction. Important because things like anxiety can also cause these issues, and generally stimulants aren't a great idea for anxious people. (Unless the anxiety IS caused by ADHD... humans are weird.)
Yes, good thing we had USSR and still have China that were (is) very environment-conscious!
Django and HTMX – sane full stack web development
Ask HN: My full-time offer is now an independent contract agreement?
I received a verbal offer from a US company.

The offer was for full-time employment @ $XXX,XXX USD + benefits, flexible vacation, and "equity" (unspecified).

It was a decent offer. (And, importantly, I'm bullish about the company and excited about the opportunity.)

After a couple of weeks I've now finally received the paperwork. (Likely delayed because of the Christmas break, and due to the fact that I don't live in America and I'm not American.)

The offer is still $XXX,XXX USD. But no benefits, or equity... as it's no longer an offer but an agreement to become an "Independent Contractor".

I'm fine to become a contractor. I would prefer to be an employee. But it's probably legally easier for the company to "employ" me this way.

But if I'm not an employee, and I'm not getting benefits or equity... should I not push for $XXX,XXX + some percentage USD.

How should I handle this situation? Any and all advice appreciated!
European constitutional monarchies are effectively republics with some state-sponsored celebrities. North Korea is a republic that is effectively a hereditary monarchy. Official labels don't always match reality.

Anyway, my point was that "republic" effectively means "liberal democracy" in this specific context, where someone invokes the Founding Fathers and contrasts it with direct democracy. And when someone talks about present-day democracy, they usually refer to the entire Western system rather than to simple majority rule.
Look How Big Is My Team
Looks like a great product and I've signed up. One thing from your FAQ Page: You list Kagi as using significantly less CO2 than Google and Bing. Since Kagi is scraping both Google+Bing - wouldn't the Kagi CO2 total of each search be Google+Bing+Other Sources+Kagi?
Given I never intentionally start vim, it's generally when I get thrown into editing some temporary file or other on some system where I haven't configured an editor. Not done any harm in the last 3 decades, so I think the odds are decent.
The person who gifts a sledgehammer would be popular, I imagine
Your comment suggests you would exchange money for an assassination. I know you are joking (right?), but this is not something that you should joke about.
> especially once you consider potential tax reporting implications

Do you think the issue of tax reporting for donations is dismissed when you avoid crypto? Unless your project is incorporated as a 501c3 or other non-profit entity (which has its own set of onerous reporting requirements, this is not a backdoor escape hatch) I don't see how that's any less of an issue without cryptos.

You can avoid capital gains reporting, but your cash donations are still income and must be counted. They will be taxed.
Sidney Poitier, Oscar-Winning Icon, Dies at 94
It's hard to feel bad for you when you try to do an end-run around FOSS licenses being irrevocable and intentionally cause another leftpad incident.
We've been trying. My entire team has mostly newcomers. We put in a lot of work, even worked through New Year's, and delivered a feature, but he never appreciates us, only the old timers. It's hard to get through to him.
Wittgenstein 2022
Please Cloudflare, I'm a paying customer and have some IPv6 only users that are very frustrated every time they see a Cloudflare challenge page. Your provider, HCaptcha still do not support IPv6. I have to use workarounds like an alternative domain without CF and this is very frustrating.
Seems like that is another kind of labeling to me: is our generated image good enough to fool a human?
He probably makes enough money that money wasn't the issue. He probably took the M1 as far as he wanted to and decided now was a good time to explore other opportunities.
I’d say just walk away when you still can.

It’s VERY hard to change the perspective of a boss that thinks you aren’t doing your job. I recently had a horrible manager who ignored me for months when I told him the dev environment was so unstable it was impossible to get anything done.

I kept asking for him to look into fixing it, again ignored. This continues for a good while until his boss takes a look. Boss boss is upset we don’t have a stable dev environment, which makes what I do get done take 5x as long. I blame myself for not clearly documenting these issues in emails. I’m really not a confrontational person, and I can’t know if it would of went better had I sent a bunch of angry emails saying without a stable dev environment nothing will get done.

Then it happens, I’m thrown under the bus and I have to leave anyway. I will say this was done in a very nice way. I’m given time to find another , far more enjoyable job.

Going forward I’ll walk out sooner if my boss doesn’t take my concerns seriously . I don’t argue with people, not at work, not in real life. As if this wasn’t enough I received a few late paychecks since my manager would neglect to approve my timesheets on time !

Drop that admiration, assuming you’ve finished a full year you can leave right now and it looks fine on a resume.

Good luck !
Been thinking that, but I don't like leaving so soon.
Why does it matter what the taxes are used for? Somebody with a gun says you need to pay up, doesn't make much difference to me whether that is an IRS agent who's funding the next bomber or a robber donating to starving African children, either way it's violence to take your life (labor) away without your consent.

If the robber builds part of a road or whatever with your money that doesn't make me feel any better about it. Especially if I'm at gunpoint an entire 3-4 months of the year to do it (30% of the year).
It’s another hill climbing algorithm, with all of the same problems.
yeah it's not some bureaucratic hellscape as some commenters would lead you to believe, it's quite a nice place to live
Where is the Logitech/Squeezebox/Slim Devices patent war chest here? They have had volume on multi zone prior to 2012, syncing audio playback devices together, as well as having multichannel audio going to different squeezeboxes. These all seem to have at least prior art behind them and thus are indefensible.
Sorry, but Google captcha is specifically designed to annoy real people in some cases. They literally implemented slow fade-in / fade-out for images. This does absolutely nothing against actual bots, but annoying as hell for a real person.

Literally any other captcha is better than this.
And how would that change anything? More money not gonna solve it.

If someone thinks it’s a terrible place to work at, more money won’t make it “unterrible”.
The Amiga had to be sold with a minuscule amount of memory to have any chance in the home computer market. Memory at this time was very expensive and UNIX would have required too much of it.
remember, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecunia_non_olet
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I keep a running list of blogspam/SEO sites and use uBlock Origin's custom filters to remove them from Google/DuckDuckGo.

ie. google.*##.g:has(a[href*="realpython.com"])

duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*="realpython.com"])
This is still done today to guard against stack overflows, in combination with unmapped "guard" pages.
The sad part is I would've wanted to see Trump impeached and removed from office for many different things (such as his many conflicts of interest), but it's increasingly easy to sympathize with a man attacked by people whose entire social media personality is dragging him thru the mud for anything, justifiably or otherwise.
Just WOW! It's fascinating when you put a face on an online persona. Sooo, is He doing these things from Guantanamo or was the incident considered "no biggie"?
Poor Snoopy, after a terrible experience at the supermarket, now this! :-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD2n7Jiy-xY
> When I see tutorials that tell me to run `. ~/.bashrc` after adding something to my bashrc, I run `exec bash` instead.

This is a bad idea. If there are any errors in your .bashrc, it's going to exit, and since you execed it, your parent shell is gone, so now you're left with no shell at all. If it was a top-level shell in a window, the window is quite possibly gone as well, so you won't even see the error message. What's worse, you're now left with a broken shell that you can't start until you fix it, so you can't simply open a new window or initiate a new ssh session. There are solutions to get a new shell without reading the defective .bashrc, but most people have no idea how to do that and would be locked out.
Clearly, you haven't lived under a authoritarian government. I have, and I live in US now. I don't have to think more than one second which one I would prefer between US and China. And I am aware US is plagued with every kind of problem at every level.
Kids shouldn’t eat added sugar before they turn two: nutritional epidemiologist
Interesting. So he got upset with his project and pushed a new version to NPM which was an empty repo, breaking lots of people's builds. Fair enough I suppose. It's his project.

Then NPM reverted the last version to unbreak things probably suspecting his account had been hacked. Fair enough.

Now what happens when the author declares it was him? Is it his right to push a broken version? Is it his right to delete the npm package entirely? I'm sure there are some npm terms of service around this, but it's an interesting scenario.
"We may not be big, but we're small." -The Vinyl Cafe
I started a community where you get kicked for inactivity
"Braggy" and "pedantic" do share some meaning/conotation overlap with "pretentious" but I don't think "complains a lot" or "has unreasonably high standards" really overlap (though terms for those may in Estonianl.

Another English word that is very similar in meaning is "ostentatious".

If I had to write out my own definition of "pretentious" it would be: Pretending to be higher class, more refined, more educated or more moral than you actually are and implying that makes you superior to other people.
Other than that, Mrs. Hughes, how did you like the play?
>> mainly primarily designed to be friendly to novice users.

> What's wrong with that? Having good UX is a win.

What's "good UX for novice users" isn't necessarily good UX for more advanced ones.
Lumber shot up in price for a few months, and then it came back down. Unless this is sustained I think it is safe to attribute to a supply shock.
It went from $140B to $20,000B in 61 years. That is an increase of 8% per year. If that continues, it will be $43,000B in 10 years.

On the other hand, it went from $4,000B to $20,000B in the last two years. That is an increase of 124% per year. If that continues, it will be $63,607,771B in 10 years.
Given the rather flakey behaviour (however provoked he feels) by the owner of a quite high-profile project, its not unreasonable to presume caution on the part of github.

The account appears to be there, so either the suspension was temporary, or its visibility is not related to his access to it?

https://github.com/marak
Thanks, I wonder how vulnerable to sniffing the wifi solutions are.
I think there's more to it than that. So many people want to break into data science that the market is flooded at the junior levels. With the masters in stats you cover that half of the role, and the Java covers the programming side of it. I'll bet you could make a lateral move into an ml engineer role
A good number of people I know use iMessage, which can be used from a Mac. Similarly lots use Facebook Messenger, which can be used from the web.

...and from my understanding WhatsApp is very common in Europe, which can also be used from the web.
Replying to an_ko's sibling comment:just like the data behind youtube music recommendations, populated by data carefully analysed from legions of bored toddler clicks vs. Spotify's obsessive teenager music curation
My issue right now is that the Disney+ app on PS4 is trash (like, constantly freezing/buffering trash). Prime, Netflix, and Jellyfin-via-browser are all fine.

So although we subscribe to D+, anything we want to watch on the TV ends up pirated into Jellyfin. Eventually I'll pick up a fire stick or set up a media PC, but I feel zero guilt about this in the meantime.
You are looking for https://introjs.com/
They are hardwired, to stay on trickle charge. And they need to be serviced once a year (check battery, check that the pads are not expired). So your best bet is to call the phone number on your fire extinguisher, which also needs yearly inspections.
There's also a mode where it thinks you are a bot/sucker and gives you unlimited images until you give up. That's always fun.
Aside:

I don't get this. Saying you can't raise someone's salary above a certain % is pure arbitrary BS. There's no rule they can't do it unless they create the rule. This is what keeps salaries depressed if you stay at a company long enough. They'll have to pay market for your replacement when you leave... I mean it's just stupid.
I switched to using maestral[0] on my mac and linux machines. Much friendlier to use than the dropbox client for both operating systems. My main fear with syncthing is relying on my own hardware, which is why I stick with Dropbox.

[0]: https://maestral.app/
Depends what you're used to.
For me dependent types (like in Coq) are a way more natural way of thinking than Rust's affine types.
The Western drought is revealing America's 'lost national park'
These prices are just taking the piss.
> John Cleese in his book about creativity talks about how procrastination is actually our natural ability to be most creative. If we are leaving something until the last minute, it often means we don't really have a great solution or don't have enough time to think about it. Even if we do have a solution in mind, leaving it till the very last minute gives us enough time for other ideas to come up.

YES. This is why I don't code as a job; to me, coding is a creative exercise and I just hate doing creative things for a living. (I've supported myself/made money with both development work and fiction writing.) I can't force myself to be creative on a deadline, and if I rush something through without giving my brain enough time to think through it, it bothers me because there might be a better way and I get annoyed if I'm forced to give out work that isn't my best.

> Often it's juggling the task ontop of a thousand others and being constantly distracted.

Yes. How the hell am I supposed to problem solve if I'm never allowed any time to think or allowed to make mistakes, explore, etc?
It fixes the issue, and that has been the recommended fix I've been offering developers all this while.
The landing page is technically not a search engine, but maybe “every result matters” is better phrasing here.
I do think it's hilarious that the one time Google doesn't drop a relevant search term in the middle of a query is for something like "black haired man." The way it treats terms, you might expect it to drop the "haired" and return pictures of black men, but no, it's almost exclusively white dudes with black hair (never mind that black and brown people also have black hair).
Yes, it's a negotiation and the negotiation is bounded on one side by 'what the job/employee is worth to the employer' and the other side by 'what the employee is willing to accept.' My point is that your previous salary strongly dictates the latter and thus heavily affects the negotiation.

And if you don't like the 'fishing for a raise' terminology we can instead just say that it signals that you don't think your previous salary is a strong point in your negotiation. So now the prospective employer doesn't know your salary, but suspects that the negotiation window is quite wide.
Here's hoping storage vendors (Backblaze, Wasabi, etc.) take note and sees this as worthwhile opportunity!
> So yes, there was smoke and it was coming from a fire. There was collusion, and there was obstruction. It's been proven and documented.

There may have been some Russian involvement in the 2016 election, but the effort has always been to blame Russia for Trump's election. In my opinion this has been very damaging to American politics. It gave liberals and democrats an out to ignore the very real reasons for which Trump attracted a very real base of support leading up to that election. If you remove Trump's nationalistic rhetoric and racial dog-whistling, his populist messaging was not all that different form Obama's.

If you ask me, a lot more good would have been done by actually reckoning with the fact that something like 30-40% of the voting population genuinely wanted him to be president rather than trying to live with the fantasy that Putin is so all-powerful that a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Facebook ad-buys were able to overthrow American democracy.

> But at the same time we are someplace new when an actual coup plot is formed and executed by the sitting President of the United States.

I agree that the events of Jan 6th were unprecedented, and uniquely disturbing. I think the leaders of the movement should have been brought up on treason charges.

> Wars also start when leaders deliberately lie to masses of people, claiming their votes are being stolen when they aren't.

Hasn't this been the exact claim of the Clinton campaign post 2016? That the election results are illegitimate?

> It's true that there have been some temporary shortages of specific items, but in general I can go out and buy cream cheese today, and really anything else I would like. Material conditions are fine in America.

I hope you are right, and that I was just particularly unlucky to encounter a series of market failures in a single 3-week period due to extraordinary circumstances.
Before any effort goes into something like this I always raise my hand and ask, "If the data shows us something we don't want to see, will we change our strategy? If not, I'd rather put time/effort into other projects." It works about 80% of the time.

Metrics are only useful if the organization is actually willing to learn lessons from them.
Don't be fooled into thinking it's either one or the other. In reality, most of these kinds of things are a combination of social and "physical" systems. "physical" because while programming languages aren't technically physical entities, they still have their own kind of physics and paths of least resistance that people will tend to follow.
Microcode downgrades are blocked by the CPU itself; the BIOS doesn't get a say. You could downgrade the whole BIOS to stop the upgrade being applied on boot (maybe, some motherboards may try to block this too), but then you need to choose between uncrippled microcode and BIOS bugfixes and improvements.