skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can enable two-step verification to "lock" your number. But yeah, using phone number as your platform ID is a very bad thing (security and privacy wise).
https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/verification/about-two-step...
That's what I did and a previous employer occasionally has me do some maintenance work and are glad to pay that rate, especially if I get on it quickly.
async, when looked at from the "writing code" perspective is horrible.

it pollutes every function with async annotation.

it allows you to quickly write the code imperatively by just annotating a function and using the async function inside it.

it results in code that is massively polluted with async when at most places you never had to use it at all (if you just restructured the code).

having async be as verbose as possible would enforce people to not use it as much and to structure their code to have async bits nicely separated from non-async bits.
Point is, piracy is only a natural counter balance to those who pushed copyright term to the current insanity and want to keep the status quo. So far they don't seem to have a problem with making new films despite constant cries that skies are falling becasue of piracy.
I know the UK isn't EU any more, but I've never seen that before we left and I've worked in lots of companies in the UK, big and small.

In theory you should get a sick note after 3 days, because the government pays SSP (statutory sick pay) if you're ill, but in practice most companies pay you at your normal salary rate (if you're permanent, not per hour) and don't bother asking for sick note as the SSP is little more than minimum wage. Of course, this is in tech, I know that there are a lot of crappier jobs where employers trust their staff less, and I suspect in those industries the sick note is very much required.
i read an article about how we should all form squads, that is turn your main memetic friendgroup into a economical and carework selfhelp squad... or something, i have since lost the link to the article though...
And it doesn’t even have to be conscious decisions either. In my case: I was working for two clients as a freelancer but mid projects it clicked with an exchange student who was about to head back to her home country in two weeks. But it really clicked, such that I neglected my ongoing projects in a really unprofessional manner. I didn’t want to, because I really needed the money, however I just slowly stopped working on the projects so I can spend as much time as possible with this exchange student. And when I wasn’t with her, I was losing sleep thinking of her, even writing songs for her - a prototype courting behavior. Needless to say, my unprofessional behavior came back to bite me years later when I was interviewing and the potential employer was checking references including my former clients. Was that all healthy middle ground? I don’t know. I just know that 10 years later, 5 of those married, and now with two children, I don’t really care :). I'm just as happy as one can be.
Is there a way to prove that i had paid yet remain anonymous (ideally without a session attached to me)? You offer pay-per-use or pay-per-month or both?

Also feedback regarding your current website:

So there is merely one sentence: It says

"Premium search engine where everything on the page matters."

Yet, to the left and the right of this sentence are wiggling clouds that don't matter at all and distract the reader. Not ideal.
I wonder if most of the info is sent by the payroll / HR software employers use, rather than the employer themselves and without said employers knowledge? I.e. it’s a way for the payroll software companies to earn extra money rather than the original employer.
Clearly, you haven't looked more deeply. Download and play with it. To familiarize yourself, maybe better to go over: 1) documentation (https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md) 2) documentation on modules (https://modules.vlang.io/) 3) ebook (https://www.packtpub.com/product/getting-started-with-v-prog...) 4) Youtube (https://youtu.be/YpSsqRQLd4U).

Vaporware is about something that doesn't exist. V clearly does exist and has a number of developers and contributors working on it. I understand there was some controversy from 2019, and mostly prior to it being open sourced on GitHub. Then some lingering animosity that stayed around in 2019 and a bit of 2020. Well, that's a few years ago, and its 2022 now.
better to look at what's going on in the present.

Of any controversy these days, seems more about competing languages and their advocates, not liking another "new kid on the block" or wanting to protect their interests. But, such is the usual between programming languages. I'm talking more from the perspective of how various languages are designed for greater convenience, simplicity, and usability.
I wrote software for a company that sold software to Texas hhsc, they use this to look for hidden assets when assessing benefits. This is the only system I know of that contains salary info. We integrated with their apis for a number of products and their data is a mess and often not very accurate. Also their api has a decent error rate. 5 years ago anyway, their api would break with any non unicode characters in a name. There were some foreign companies that we couldn't get data from for example.
Self-censorship is the behavior where one does not perform certain searches because their interest in the topic will become known to others. This might include health information, sexual interests, political views or other sensitive topics. The fact that the search engine has your name, address, and payment info means that they can associate you with 100% certainty to everything you search for which can have negative consequences for the user under different scenarios.

In regard to selling the data, I've seen businesses where they sell user info just as a side project to balance the sheets. It will b an issue only if one is caught. Somewhere there I looked around the website but I couldn't even find where is the HQ and under which jurisdiction they operate. The privacy policy had lots of technical details, but not legal one.

It would be interesting if like Signal they can validate an user but provenly cannot associate the account with any actions. This might be an issue for billing and tiered plans though.
No we are not. You are.
I'd assume you are correct (intuitively, if you don't constrain order at all, you'll have more opportunities for matching required parts than if you do constrain order) However I've found that it's very much possible to stream 1080p torrents without any problems, even when skipping back and forth or jumping to other parts of the movie without anymore noticeable delay than I'd expect from e.g. netflix.
Marak's GitHub account suspended after he erased his faker project
Propaganda probably still works even if you're aware what's going on.
You can run an async func synchronously, just push it onto an executor. Threads are basically orthogonal - you can do that in the same thread or on a dedicated thread.
ymmv... the moment i show my work to others is usually when i step into the next procrastinatory phase...
I think the point is that just because Kissinger was a very influential diplomatic who as far as I'm aware revolutionised that field, people have glossed over the effects of his actions on places like Cambodia.
Disclaimer: I have a PhD from the department Stephen Grossberg founded. Gail Carpenter, the co-creator of ART, was my advisor. I am also co-authoring a neuroscience non-fiction book that features Steve's work, along with other stuff. (Just so you know I am a reasonably biased observer).

Most of you have probably not heard of Stephen Grossberg. He is in my opinion one of the greatest neuroscientists of this generation. Maybe the greatest theoretical neuroscientist ever.

Neuroscience is swimming (barely) in a ton of data, but very little in the way of a unifying framework. Steve's body of work over 60 years provides that. ART is only one part of it. ART has some way to go before proving itself as undeniably useful as deep-learning on the application side of things. But it is very compelling as a model for how our (mammalian) brains might be operating.

One fundamental idea, which is worth considering in applications is how almost all of deep-learning is founded on the idea of an "error" (A mis-match between expectation and the prediction) and how this flows through the system. Backprop is obviously the most popularly known method for this flow. ART is fundamentally different in that it works with the idea of a match rather than a mis-match. This foundational even philosophical difference is interesting because if allows for learning to happen all the time even while perceiving is simultaneously happening. It also allows for learning to be unsupervised. This philosophical departure point is actually very interesting: If you rely entirely on the idea of an error and throw out the rest, can you even hope to build a conscious system?
Steve btw also has what I think is the most elegant and mechanistically precise explanation of consciousness, which builds on ART. Even if you are skeptical of the current promise of ART as a replacement for deep-learning, his explanation of how ART-like systems enable consciousness (and different conscious percepts) are alone worth the price of admission.

I’ve written more about Stephen Grossberg and his book here: https://saigaddam.medium.com/the-greatest-neuroscientist-you...
TBH, I don't particularly get how it would be stolen through corruption. I mean cash payments are pretty straightforward - either you get it or you don't, and people are pretty incentivized to make sure they get the money. It'd be the same as stealing pensions or children allocations.

You have an algorithm which says who gets energy allocations - and it really doesn't matter if it's approximate, as long as you notify who gets the money. Then you sent the money, and people will make a lot of noise if they don't get it. Sure, the algorithm won't be perfect, but people have a clear way of giving feedback: "I'm not getting money and should", or "I'm not included and think I should be because I'm poor". Just two failure modes, both clear.

Compare this to the totally opaque way energy subsidies work. Government postulates that prices should stay the same, then talks behind closed doors with a handful of companies and gives them a completely non-transparent amount of money that may or may not have anything to do with the price difference. I can probably think of 6 ways in 6 minutes on how this can be exploited.
And then they have all of that as well ready to be breached!
Did the game name start with 'T' letter?
This is just inherent to compression. The whole idea is to represent many bytes of data with fewer bytes. That means that the bytes you have each tend to count for a lot. So a small corruption has a huge effect.

To solve this, the format itself needs to incorporate error correction. There are various ways to do that with different trade-offs, but all of them will hurt your compression ratio, because the only way to correct errors is to have some kind of redundancy, and removing redundancy is precisely what compression is about.
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What are your priorities/requirements/motivations, or at least use-case?

One has stellar organic reputation and accepts anonymous registrations and payments (cryptocurrency or cash-in-letter). The other spends serious bank on SEO and paid endorsements from "reviewers" and has been acquired by one of the sketchiest owners in the industry. They have a strong track-record of paying to get on top of VPN lists.

If privacy is a concern, I wouldn't touch anything under Kape Technologies with a pole and after the acquisition last year, I don't see why anyone would become a customer of PIA.

Unless you're purely interested in tunneling your warez and nothing else, in which case I guess NordVPN is a decent choice (I hold them sus and would recommend against them for general use but they do provide great bandwidth-per-buck). You could always do split-tunneling and route your torrents through one place and HTTP(S) through another, for example.
This is not being a dick. Before I left a certain job, I had my supervisor (also owner of the company) tell me exactly this. She once quit a job and did exactly this. And was proud of it. Even if I'm happy I no longer work for her, she was completely right about this move.
Yeah. That much I knew. So I’m not super peeved about it. More worried about what they’ll do with the info and if they’ll broker it out more. Didn’t think they’d get this level of info though tbh.

Oh - and their targeted ads are not very good… it’s kinda sad.
There were barriers to contributing to those efforts which simply don’t exist with this Web3 thing, so this vague implication falls flat if thought about. Orders of magnitude more individuals have the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the advancement of the cryptocurrency space when compared to the early internet, without much (or any) need to wait for hardware innovations or military funding.

What is a good reason that cryptocurrencies have seen practically zero real-world adoption in the same approximate timespan that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, et al managed to integrate deeply into our societies? And of course by adoption I don’t mean HODLing, I mean cryptocurrencies being used as the currencies they are claimed to be.
Nice! It would be great a "tile" componenent and a "switch" button
I worked on Django projects for around 7–8 years professionally. Most of these weren't really issues, though I think we did run into name conflicts at some point with an app vs package.

But the first pain point I very much agree with. Implicitly sending queries to the backend is one of those things that is an attempt to be very helpful to programmers, but that ends up as an obstacle that you always need to be wary of and avoid. Over time I have grown to appreciate explicitness in queries more and more, though I probably wouldn't go so far to remove lazy queries completely since they can be handy in query building, just remove the implicit loading feature if possible.

Django's query builder is also quite far removed from SQL. Especially once you get into more complex queries, I sometimes just went raw SQL as I knew I wouldn't be able to remember how to translate the Django expression into SQL in a month's time. Simple queries are easy to write and look very sleek, but complex ones can turn into a mess that is much more understandable in SQL form. The sleekness of the queries may also betray how complex they are to execute as it's not "in your face".

I still like Django's ORM quite a bit for many things, but after discovering Elixir's Ecto, I've enjoyed how explicit it is most of the time. I haven't needed implicit loading of relations once. It's also much closer to actual SQL. But there are things where Ecto also tries to be too helpful in my taste, like the humanised types in migrations (i.e. :utc_datetime instead of :timestamptz or :string instead of :"character varying"/:text) -- I strongly believe it would be easier in the long run for the programmer to specify the database types they want directly rather than through aliases which may result in surprising choices. Of course, that would cause issues in supporting multiple different databases, but that's not a goal I would go for in the first place, but I digress…

What I guess I'm saying is that sometimes projects build in helpful features to make the code nicer to look at, more approachable to beginners, or just shorter to write, but they often end up being a burden on those that go past the beginner stage. People invariably trip on them because who can remember everything mentioned in all the documentation? And then it's just a game of "who fails to avoid the trap every time" and that's a game that everyone loses eventually.
The project has been patched, now we can handle multiple connections!
But your infected lungs will be very simple and cheap to analyze, because they will glow in the dark.
What really gets me is that if I push stuff off and then finally get around to it how little time it usually takes to deal with the thing I've been putting off. I'm quite capable of spending 3 days to avoid 10 minutes of concentrated hard work. Very frustrating.
Definitely not on me but I know people for whom that applies, yeah.
I somehow doubt this will have an political impact. Science gets ignored if you can make easy statements for the masses that see not vaccinated people as the enemy. It gives them a sense of control and security.

I think this would also make any mandate pretty much superfluous if you disregard personal security.
Yeah - true. I could’ve corrected it to say - “100% correct about the shit I care about” but I figured someone would get a laugh out of someone replying with this kind of comment. Enjoy your upvotes.
Wow! I love how elegant and powerful your strategy is. There is a lot of potential here and your tool might turn PostgreSQL into an even easier choice for new projects. Congratulations!
> Being ruthless to your employees doesn't make business sense.

Until it does.
> I am a manager in a large tech company and we care about our employees.

This is the problem with management roles. Managers opportunity to find new job is so low they are forced to think they are part of the company. The company does not think the same. The same is not true for IC devs, this may not be for long, but currently this the case. I hope people be honest at least over internet.
No kidding, PLUCK has LUCK in it today. I went with PIANO first because I like to constrain the vowels, and got it in three.
Hehe. Ok. I nearly missed it.
Deeply awesome - I wouldn't have dreamed that it could perform so well! (even works nicely on my 200€ phone) It would be fascinating to read more of the design and data structuring behind it (if you find the time & will & it doesn't disclose too much secret sauce)

But I really came here to say that by fat fingering I hit your earlier equinox posting [0] which sadly didn't get noticed. Coupled with the ability to easily change the date it's the clearest demonstration I've ever seen of axial tilt and the lovely fact that the sun rises & sets due east & west for EVERYWHERE on that day. (it's also about the only thing a Mercator projection really excels at)

[0] https://shademap.app/#40.71396,-117.46582,5z,1632318265676t,...
I used to think this, but I'm not sure the evidence actually supports it. The UK has similar levels of immigration and overseas-born citizens as Scandi countries, but nowhere near their levels of social cohesion/social democracy.

We were more similar < 1980, but I think the rhetoric from right wing corporate and billionaire-owned press, and now the internet, has eroded it to a large degree.
> Most people are not risk-takers and are mainly status-seekers. They live their lives in ways to reflect this and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But there is always the niggling feeling for many (I am one) that while I may be making the "smart" choice the real reason I don't do something like this is that I am afraid.

This very much resonates with me. I've built up healthy bit of equity (few hundred thousand), earn double the average wage, and own my own home (mortgaged), I'm still young and have no kids. I really do hold all the cards to take more risks, but I don't. And I very much feel like a status-seeker, not in the social media popularity contest sense, but in the sense that I don't want other people to see me as a failure. That makes the status of a senior job at a big firm, living in an own house in the capital city something to be afraid of losing.

It also resonates with me that trying to iterate on my quality of life, e.g. finding a bigger purpose, passions etc, probably isn't going to happen while working the job that I do. It consumes much of my week and energy, and I find I have little energy or interest to seriously pursue 'big thoughts'. I still enjoy my life quite a bit, but it feels pretty mundane.

So I can very much imagine that quitting my job would be the only realistic path to a different life.

I'm not at all hostile to these ideas, in fact I support them. And I'd gladly read about them in a succinct article. Yet I found the writer to come across as overly intellectual, self aggrandizing, and at times downright weird and full of nonsense.

Here's a direct quote from the article, I'm sure that it speaks to something and to someone, and I'm sure I can find meaning in the analogies and examples, but it's not the type of writing I appreciate:

> Yes, even the bane of Darwin’s faith—the humble ichneumon wasp that lays its maggots inside the living bodies of caterpillars to eat them from the inside and burst out on maturity like some alien xenomorph—is a beautiful creature with a sacred task. Like many parasites, its role in the great chain of being is to test the health and defenses of its caterpillar host population. Its predation weeds out the sickly, preventing the much uglier injustice of collective weakness and disease, and spurring the evolution of stronger and even more beautiful life. Even fearsome Nemesis, born from chaos via night and darkness, is ultimately the hand of God and the minister of justice. Even the supposed exceptions to justice prove its rule.

There's seven references to God, for example. I'm not just interested in this type of writing style or type of magazine. I think that's what most people trip over, not the basic message, nor half of the philosophising surrounding it.
I took from the TP that the direct manager was meant to attend the meeting but couldn't for reasons. Obviously the meeting should have been rescheduled.

I also got the impression that the manager's boss was venting... presumably they were feeling some pressure from elsewhere to deliver the project. Not a great sign that they took it out on the junior, but this would normally be the job of the middle manager to deflect / explain / shield the junior from.

To the OP: try to not take it personal, the manager's boss was almost certainly venting their own frustrations and "taking it out" on you. Very unprofessional but it happens. It's very unlikely to be a real reflection on your performance. Try to take it as a growth experience to build a bit of "thick skin". You shouldn't have to but it helps to have it (especially if in future years you become the middle manager who has to absorb the venting). Hopefully your direct manager will give you more useful feedback on your performance and perhaps explain the boss's frustrations.
>the Bourne series

The series where the protagonist is a CIA super agent who throws away his career because his morals get in the way.

You may not leave with the impression that all of the CIA are moral, but it does spread the idea that the CIA is incredibly capable and individuals can sway overall policy. Which is nonsense.
It's great thesis right?

It was never something I had thought about but I got curious so I did some digging.

It's true that some things are much easier in TeX, like aligning on decimals. HTML tables are used for all sorts of crazy so I'm not surprised it's harder to that kind of stuff
I think it is hard to quantify the risk and what loosing *almost everything* means for each situation.
Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected (2020)
I'm using Google's keyboard on Android in dual language mode, it works pretty decent.
Also downloading a popular 1080p movie takes minutes. I think for my workflow pirating is actually easier than dealing with a decentralised streaming ecosystem without cross app searches.
Insurance for paying one year of salaries? I can't imagine that comes cheap.
Talk to them. Tell them how you feel. People are usually more receptive than you may think, and managers / bosses who are not, are probably people you don’t want to be working for in the end.