skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I buy that.

If we're talking about people who don't have accounts or don't view Facebook (which presumably people with deactivated accounts don't), then they're not looking at the News Feed (or whatever the TikTok equivalent is) and can't be influenced that way.

And practically speaking, there's very little China can do to an "average" American citizen based on browsing habits and stuff like that. Now if a person ever goes to China, then I agree they'd have a problem, but most Americans don't.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of ways for the US government to (legally) use the data Facebook has collected against its citizens.
Do you mean the fairy tales that rich capitalists have ingrained into the American public consciousness about the unassailable axiomatic good that are "free markets"?

Because actual capitalism is just the means of production being privately owned and operated for profit. It says nothing about how companies operate or what kind of dystopian politics they might have.
COVID and the previous US Presidential cycle have fundamentally changed my view of almost everything: populism, reason, public welfare, media.

And now Germans ... who could otherwise be relied upon to do the fairly rational thing.

It just doesn't stop.

That said, here is the provincial breakdown [1]

Germany is mostly not very urban, they are a big more spread out. Even Munich proper is not very big, people live in surrounding regions.

The urban and denser areas are vaccinated at higher rates.

It could be this 'not a lot of urban core' type living where people are a bit more spread out that puts them at ease.

I know that my colleagues who live out of town where COVID rates are lower are less often vaccinated, they just don't feel the pressure, perhaps this is the same in Germany.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1195589/coronavirus-covi...
Depends a lot on the problem, for medium probably between 15-30 min for most. I have interviewed at FAANG companies for software roles and done the whole on-site leet coding gauntlet. Did about an hour a night for a week total prep. I can solve their problems, what gets me is when I finished early and they ask more academic follow up questions. Like getting backed into a corner and having to admit I have no idea what big-O notation is.
As a designer, it's really easy for me to put something on Cloudflare... doing what HN does would take at least more than a few hours (and the knowledge) to set up properly.
Bandwidth is only expensive through cloud providers, to try and squeeze you for it. If you go bare metal, dedicated, or just rack your own servers you can peer with a lot of providers and get essentially free bandwidth.
Right now a kilo (bird) is 20k. Ounces are $2000, 8balls are $200-250. Grams are $100.

So a kilo stretching to 80k through the supply chain makes sense. That would put the final street dealer of that kilo buying on average a half ounce. That sounds about right to me.

Prices in Los Angeles.
Video games, and not the common ones. Ive met some engineers with far too much time and money. Most of the time it's in more MMO kind of games. Other times it's Vrchat, because the programming and game dev side attracts all sorts. A lot of big names meetup in VR, but hard to get into those circles really. I've found furry world's to somehow be the underground secret engineer meetup place. I met an Intel engi a few weeks ago.
That rule was neutered when Trump admin lost the White House.

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/cms-backs-price-transpa...
It doesn't have to be annoying, just easier.

People have been citing $30/month. Even if you value your time at min wage, its probably still cheaper than setting up your own varnish (and that's assuming you don't care about improving the last little bit of latency with geo located edge servers)
Are most congresspeople rich enough for that? Private jet flights are very expensive. Being a millionaire won't cut it.
Sure, and the taxpayers pay the bill every time a victim successfully sues or settles with a police department, too. So what?

At the end of the day cops get away with all this shit because the taxpayers support them, whether tacitly or explicitly. Hitting them in the pocketbook is a perfectly valid tactic. Maybe once they have no money left for high school football, they'll wake up and demand that their government reign in the out of control cops. And if they don't, well, they fully deserve to pay every single victim.
Makes sense. Thanks. On my phone I use:

* Messages (SMS & iMessages)

* Slack

That’s it. I don’t have work stuff on my phone. I suppose if I did I’d have Google Chat.

For some reason I don’t see Messages and Slack as competitors in my mind. They fit in different “categories” (for whatever reason). Messages is for everything but one long running group chat that used to be on-prem at my last job as a sort of social room. I think of it more like IRC and not personal messages. Messages is 95% one-on-one for me.
There's the old saying, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." If you have the same stuff that everybody else is using, and something goes wrong, it's the fault of that thing, and it's OK. But if you get your own weird stuff and something goes wrong, it's your fault, and is especially shameful if it looks like you were trying to be cheap.
I wouldn't feel bad. Friends don't tell friends to work at Amazon. :P
Here's an example of United running way more flights than needed because LGA and DCA are slot-controlled and relatively close to each other so running a flight between the two keeps the slots in-use: https://viewfromthewing.com/united-airlines-will-run-32-new-...
If anyone reads this submission and wants to buy a Pilot Metropolitan, do note that Japanese pens like Pilot tend to be finer than their European counterparts. So a Pilot Medium nib is like a Fine nib in other brands. I've use both a Pilot medium and fine - both produce good output, but the fine nib will definitely feel scratchy compared to the medium.

The Pilot Metropolitan was my favorite for a number years - I liked it more than more expensive pens that I had bought. What finally dethroned it was PenBBS[0] 309[1]. Their nibs are fairly good, although I did eventually replace it with a Goulet nib[2]. On top of that, I smoothened the nib with a micromesh and it's super smooth!

She had stopped shipping to the US because of long shipping times due to COVID and too many customers complained - I don't see the notice on the page any more so she may have resumed shipping to the US. Do expect long shipping times, though.

For those looking to get into fountain pens: The choice of paper will matter as much as the pen! If your city has a Japanese store (e.g. Kinokuniya) you'll get a good selection of notebooks/paper there - fountain pens are quite commonly used in Japan, so their papers are designed to handle them well.

[0] https://www.etsy.com/shop/PENBBSOfficialStore?ref=simple-sho...

[1] Note that almost all the PenBBS pens use the same feed/nib, so the choice of model is mostly about the filling mechanism and external design. At the moment, it seems they don't have my particular 309 model, so you may want to try some other model.

[2] https://www.gouletpens.com/collections/goulet-nibs
> it removed > 95% of login attempts.

This is the wrong number to look at. The relevant number is the login attempts that would have otherwise been successful. And if you’ve disabled passwords, that will be 0.
No one has mentioned the masterful interlinking to both existing sharable content (that may also rank for frequently searched queries) and product detail pages. They 100% understand SEO and do it correctly by providing objectively useful content.

If you like TWSBI Eco fountain pens, the Pilot Prera is similar in styling with Pilot's great quality. The lid's sealing vacuum like feel and click is one of the neatest of any pen I've had.
I appreciate you are replying to someone, but i feel like this doesn't quite make sense. You're running a website. Why would your web server be decentralized? HTTP is a client/server protocol after all.
Which only reinforces my point, thank you.
I thought I'd be disappointed after moving to iOS but it turned out I didn't need as many customizations as I'd thought. The defaults are mostly pretty good.
I really wish our government agencies would stop co-opting Alex Jones’s loony ideas…
I have a daylight basement that I finished with a nice Office/Lab set up with 4 big monitors and my work computers and wired gigabit internet service. On the other side a bench with test gear, parts etc. Everything a good lab would have. The same basement area has another room I set up as a home Gym with Pilates, treadmill and monitor on the wall so I can view webinars, movies etc. and work out. And a 3rd room that is a library with a video conference set up and a study area. Off the library is a deck outside with covered area to be outdoors and have coffee or take calls. The rest of my house upstairs is completely separate.

I spent a ton on this set up, but I am glad that I did because the whole pandemic and work from home ended up lasting a lot longer than even I thought it would. I have no intention of ever going back into an office.
Hackers Are Exploiting a Flaw Microsoft Fixed 9 Years Ago
The super cheap Chinese pens like Jinhaos have large variations from one pen to the other, but if you go for pricier brands like PenBBS[0] you'll get good quality.

[0] https://www.etsy.com/shop/PENBBSOfficialStore?ref=simple-sho...
Why not store then in weatherproof boxes?
It’s hard to survey 22M teens[0]

[0] https://www.statista.com/topics/1063/teenagers/
Agreed. Having bootstrapped a $10m+ ARR business, I always think it’s a HUGE accomplishment when somebody makes their first dollar from SaaS.

If you haven’t yet, follow Joe on Twitter (https://twitter.com/joemasilotti). He’s one of the most positive dudes building SaaS on the internet and it’s just so enjoyable to watch.
You might be right or wrong, i dont know, bjt i can say with great certainty that a regulator doing nothing in the face of multiple credible accusations has no relationship to whether those accusations are true or not. Sometimes the regulator is overloaded/backlogged, sometimes they have been captured by the industry they regulate, sometimes there is pressure applied to not investigate, and do on. But it need not mean tbat there was no wrongdoing.
I use signal as my SMS app. And for people who have signal I get more reliable delivery and e2ee.

I use element for some random people. And interacting with open source communities.

I use slack for work.

I don't use fbmessenger/WhatsApp, discord, or any other closed source messaging app besides slack.
I feel mixed about this

On hand, it provides real benefits

On the other, hard not to see this most benefits the wealthy. I count myself in that benefit
I think that's because China (and India) haven't caught up to us yet (in terms of development, wealth, modernization).
I had a phase where I bought a ton of pens to actually find some I like so I'll list some here in no order:

S-Gel Sharpie /
Uni-Ball Signo 307 /
G2 Pilot
/ Pentel RSVP 0.5-0.7mm (I get these for the office, also good balance for pen spinning)

If you're into pencils these are my personal favorites:

Uni Alpha Gel (shake for lead to come out, most gel cushion)
/ Any Rotring
/ Graphgear 1000
/ Uni-Ball Air Micro
/ Zebra DelGuard
> You will be amazed at the number of requests with bad credentials that will hit your machine within minutes.

Why are you worried about requests with bad credentials?
Scandal where United ran money-losing flights to an airport near the Port Authority of NY/NJ's chairman's weekend home to curry favor, resulting in the resignation of United's CEO: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/business/united-ceo-port-...
> Every Android phone that I've owned (about 7-8 of them?) died with hardware problems within 2-3 years. Except for my current one.

That seems suspiciously high. I "manage" approximately that many phones and only one has stopped working without obvious cause of failure (eg. smashed screen).
Nope. My wife just makes sure she knows where her physical portfolio is (basically just print-outs of old proposals she's worked on), spends a couple hours reading up about the company and maybe rehearsing what answers she might give to some common behavioral questions (the cliche ones, like "What's your biggest weakness" type crap), gets her clothes ready, and makes sure she gets enough sleep. This is the night before, usually.

I've never seen her spend more than a day or two preparing for an interview. And she gets paid near the top of her position, and has worked on dozens of multi-million dollar proposals.

The only reason it takes her a while to find a job is there's not a ton of positions that are willing to pay her what she's worth now (she's gone through job interview processes only to be given an offer half of the bottom of the range she provided multiple times), and she usually has to try to sell them on what she can provide to the team that they weren't even looking for (but should have been). Doesn't always work, obviously. Budgets aren't always there.

Meanwhile I've spend 2+ weeks or more preparing (hours each day) for SV interviews and still failed them. In Facebook's case, I was asked three questions by an HR person and gave the right answer to the third question, just not the term they must have had written down for them on the paper, was told I was wrong, and then got a rejection email. At Zynga I was asked to come up with and speak the code to a permutation algorithm, over the phone, on the spot, without using a computer. At Google, in one of the six interviews, I was asked how to convert a 3D grid of buildings into a 2D skyline with a single line, and I had difficulty figuring out the logic for overlapping buildings in less than 30 minutes using only a whiteboard.

I always spend at least 2-4 weeks refreshing algorithms and technical trivia questions before I even start looking for a job in tech.
I find the best way to think of them is like they're publicly traded companies, only on the blockchain instead of nasdaq.
My biggest gripe is that medical associations are systematically favoring candidates who have years of free time to memorize arbitrary organ names. It makes me sad for the less privileged candidates who might be working a job while also trying to break into the surgeon field.
I guess...

x.concat([y*2])

would return the array (but makes a duplicate)

Anyway, I find this to be a whole lot more sensible:

x=[];
for(y of [1,2,3,4,5]){
if(y%2===1)x.push(y*2)
}

Or even!

y=[1,2,3,4,5];
x=[];
// map reduce/flatmap/map/filter etc omg wtf
for( i=0; i < y.length; i++ ){
if( y[i]%2 === 1 ){ x.push( y[i] * 2 ); }
}

I cant even tell what language this is but there is nothing here that needs fixing.
Firefighters couldn’t find the start of the Marshall fire
> When you operate at this type of scale, centralization is the enemy of efficiency. This is a paradox. In order to be efficient on a macro level, it requires being (very) inefficient at the micro level.

Counterexample: amazon

if every team is reinventing square wheels, they are adding a lot of inefficiencies which worsens the situation at macro level.
Silly question: are the flight safety messages still played, and performed by air crew, on these empty flights? I believe it is a 'mandatory' requirement for passenger flights.
The Phoenix Project is a TERRIBLE book
It is likely more that the Safari team anticipates non-scrupulous companies taking advantage of an option to add a default search engine inline. Things like modal prompting and site-specified explanatory text are exploited these days.

Likely the best bet would be a web extension manifest value to expose a potential search engine. That would mean on iOS that you still need to publish an app for your search engine option to show up.
> Surprising to see that this article has snubbed Chinese FP manufacturers.

Two likely reasons:

1. They don't sell them at Jetpens.

2 (more likely): A lot of Chinese designs are copies of fairly expensive pens. Those manufacturers have asked online retailers[1] not to promote them. Although I doubt the Chinese manufacturers are breaking any laws (patents, etc), it's seen by many as poor class to mass copy and sell cheap. A lot of these online retailers rely on the goodwill of the more expensive brands, so they accommodate them.

As an example, compare the Lamy Safari with the Jinhao 599 or the Wingsung 6359 or the Hero 359:

https://www.amazon.com/Lamy-Safari-Fountain-Pen-Charcoal/dp/...

https://www.amazon.com/Jinhao-Fountain-Diversity-Transparent...

https://www.amazon.com/FidgetGear-Coffee-Metal-Fountain-0-38...

https://www.amazon.com/Singularity-design-fountain-purple-co...

[1] I know they did with Goulet Pens.
Would you start using a second podcast app just to listen to one individual podcast? Or would you just go without?

Do you consider close friends and family comparable to podcasts?
The main draw of LTSC IMO is the 10 year support period. You can continue installing the monthly updates, and not have to worry about a feature update. Those are the ones that come twice a year, and ruins your day by taking 1 hour to install, resets random settings in the process (eg. default apps or telemetry settings), randomly changes the layout/color scheme, and randomly replaces your built in apps with worse ones (https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/12/07/redesig...). A debloating script doesn't protect you against those.

as for disabling bloat in non-LTSC versions, there's various scripts floating around, eg. https://github.com/DrEmpiricism/Optimize-Offline/ or https://ameliorated.info/
That feels weird somehow. I highly doubt PiHole is the culprit. If you're only using it internal to your LAN for DNS there is no way someone from outside can touch it. You most likely have other, bigger problems with your network (perhaps the WiFi password was discovered by someone, or you're exposing other vulnerable services to the web directly).
reddit.com/r/news is better than Fox or CNN.... so is /r/politics and /r/worldnews ... you get print medium. Print doesn't have emotion-inducing talking heads. If you just 'read' news, you can actually skim and get the pertinent parts and it's easier to tell when the author is using their own biases and what not.

I read news for facts, not for opinions. I don't give a shit what someone thinks going on, I want to figure it out for myself, make my own conclusions, or at least talk it out w/ avg people on here or reddit, rather than some celebrity like Hannity or Cuomo.
I started a full time job with regular (junior) developer pay while in my senior year of college. IMO I delivered as much work as anyone else. I wouldn't have accepted less than a full salary but that may be just me.

If you are looking to be 'cost effective' I'd find someone actually interested in software engineering and not one of the many people who went into CS because of the pay.

Not knowing the specifics of your situation I'd try to find a student with some experience very similar to the work you are doing. The further away their experience is the lower your chances of success, as a student isn't likely to have a wide and deep skill set.
That's most certainly your problem
Yes, born rich.
I've had my personal $5/mo Digital Ocean VPS Wordpress site hit the top of HN before. I kept an eye on htop, but it handled it just fine. Exciting times.
Yeah...OP is a shill. And "Facebook" on a resume isn't a positive for many of us.
The city doesn't build parking garages. The lawsuit prevents it from allowing private companies from building parking garages.
Parent here. In our PTA (parent teacher association) group, someone held forth that we just needed a temporary closure to “flatten the curve”. I had flashbacks to 2020.

Vaccines are widely available for children and adults. I think pondering transitions to virtual class, where students are virtually attending school in the more flippant sense of the word “virtual”, is overweighting risks of the ‘rona and sorely underweighting risks to childrens’ development, to say nothing of the economic toll for parents pulled aside (if they can be, as in this article).
Sounds like this isn't related to the update but instead related to the license model retroactively changing to only last 3 years?

Anyway, I left Sublime Text for Doom Emacs at the start of the pandemic and couldn't be happier.
Why post this now? This happened almost a year ago.

Developers are expensive these days, and I understand needing to fund development.

Edit: Added back "Why post this now?"
One of my kids thrived and loved online learning. The other didn't.

The one that liked it had an outgoing energetic, tech enabled teacher that liked his job.

The other teacher however was a grumpy lady that couldnt be bothered learning any technology and didn't turn on her camera, forced the kids to keep their mics and cameras off and spent more time probably being elsewhere instead of teaching.

Ontario is a province that if you were to ask teachers why they are teachers, the answers at the bottom of everyone's list would be teaching, spending time with kids.

Most people in Ontario hate teachers because of their odd detachment from reality.
This. Not proud, but Windows user here: I use KeeAgent Plugin [1] for Keepass to manage my SSH keys (Putty/Pageant). Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 1 and 2) connects to the Pageant SSH Agent via a Socket. When I SSH -A into machines on WSL, my KeePass DB opens and I need to confirm each key use (`Always require confirmation when client program requests to use key`). This simply means hitting enter twice, instead of once. The Keepass DB is set to stay unlocked for 6 Minutes when not in use, which is usually enough to not require entering the master key more than once during working hours.

Of course, I still make sure to only use `-A` to servers I trust.

[1]: https://keeagent.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
The Universe is already in its sixth and final era
Considerate of them to limit their carbon footprint
Could you fix that? I've had mixed results trying to resolve such NTP related issues.
Good thing I don't drive and instead walk everywhere, even when pressed for time...
SDD—Shame-Driven Development. I like it.
This is why I simply maintain my own FB profile but portray my interests so poorly it’ll never be of any value to Facebook advertisers.

It works, too, the ads I get are so wildly irrelevant it’s comical.
Neoliberal includes both Tony Blair on the left and Thatcher on the right. Trudeau sits between them in the (201X-202X) dead centre.

Tony Blair was more right economically than the old guard of labour (who I would consider squarely left wing) but it was balanced out by his social and welfare policies.

It’s just that pre WW1 the centre was to the right of now (classical liberalism) and post WW2 the centre was to the left of now (welfare statism). 200 years ago liberals were leftists and reactionaries were quite ordinary.
Like Gary to Ash!
>Like clockwork, my Android phone becomes unstable after about 2 years. Everything slows down, lock ups happen more frequently.

have you tried lineageos? My 5 year android phone (flagship) is still usable with lineageos. The only lags I get are from heavy SPAs inside firefox.
I switched to iPhone recently. I like it. My phone will get security updates for more than the very few years my pixel got. Everything is very well integrated in the software, and very easy to use. I don’t need 5 chat apps. There are more cool cases. The camera is better. It’s easier to share things, like location and photos and etc, with my wife and family. They don’t seem to change the ui too much since it’s basically the same as when I had a work iPhone years ago. I trust Apple more than Google and can easily turn off any cloud stuff without issue. I’m pretty happy.
Because the number won't go up if we don't decentralise it duh
UW CS dept denounces retired professor’s tweet on women hires
I bet Apple are wishing now they bought Tesla 6 years ago.
That's a good point, and I'd be happy to read his works on jazz. People can be great in their niche, and rambling when riffing on another topic.