skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing special about the "superusers" other than their decision to act.

I can think of another parallel: Homeowner's Associations (setting aside my own issues with them for a moment). I would guess that a similarly disproportionate number of homeowners choose to attend HOA meetings, and thus have an outsized effect on the direction and rules of the neighborhood. As a "reward" for not just showing up, but being among the minority to do so, they have a louder voice. This "effort" is analogous to commenting/voting/etc. on HN/social sites.

As long as there are nothing that stops the individuals (homeowners, lurkers) from participating, I see no issues with it.
By the way, if you haven't already you should enable DNS over HTTPS or DNS over TLS.

Hopefully device providers make it standard sooner rather than later and eliminate insecure DNS.
I am a Crypto-Enthusiast but people need to realize that "being your own bank" is actually a paranoid nightmare of responsibility. Bitcoin, and other cryptos, are tremendously intimidating to the average person. Even I get nervous when sending any significant amount of crypto and I've been doing this for almost ten years now.

Just look at this: 17XiVVooLcdCUCMf9s4t4jTExacxwFS5uh

Now imagine telling the average person to take note of this and send the Bitcoin equivalent of $1,000 to it. Clearly, you would need to build a system around Bitcoin in order to make it user-friendly enough for the average person to ever feel comfortable using on a regular basis. At which point, though, you've just remade a bank and a payment processor.
I don't have a PhD in south-east asian history and it's not well taught but this doesn't comport with my understanding at all

Isn't fighting China off a core part of their culture/history?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_under_Chinese_rule
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Check the tourist visa requirements. China has (or at least had) a 60 day or 90 day multi-entry tourist visa with no maximum number of days. So you just take a trip to Japan ever couple of months and come back. Even if it had a 180 day per year limit (like the US and Europe, I believe), it would be a way to be there, talk to some expats and see what things are like.

Another option is language study through a University, which if you think you will be in Korea for a few years, I would recommend. I tried working FT in China and studying language in my spare time, and in retrospect I would have been better off taking a year (or better, two) to study language, as I never progressed beyond survival+, and that's about the point where the built-in need to learn peters out. This would work well with remote work, especially if you take a light class schedule.

I think that frequently the non-work visas only require that you do not work at a local company paying you in local currency. If you work remotely for a foreign company, being paid in foreign currency to a foreign bank account, I believe that is not a problem. (How would that be functionally different from having your rich parents pay your living expenses? Or living of the dividends of your trust fund?) As far as I can tell when I researched it, even the US is okay with that (and have known several foreign students in the US doing that), but I would advise doing your own research.
This brings to mind a plague of romance scams. I have a close relative who was duped by a woman who wanted to move in with him but needed him to cash some checks for her first. I'm guessing you're smarter than that and your fiance is someone you've actually met IRL and have a physical relationship with. So condolences on her prognosis, a scam would actually be easier to recover from.
I get where you're coming from but realize that you're advocating for indefinite sentences, which are inhumane, combined with a board of fallible, perversely incentivized people who will determine who is rehabilitated and who isn't. The board will presumably be subject to the will of a sadistic, vengeful public who have cartoonish beliefs about a system they have no direct knowledge of, and who completely fail to understand even the most basic rights afforded under the constitution. (Go look at just about any tweet about the fifth amendment.)

It sounds great on paper but the second real people get involved, it becomes a humans rights disaster.
What you've basically said is that if a mask is not 100% effective it's useless. My analogy stands, just because a bullet-proof vest is not 100% effective in stopping all bullets from hitting your body, it doesn't make it useless. Some protection is better than none.
A corporation doesn't require any employees. Like you said, it's a legal fiction. My point was that the corporations that "create enormous amounts of value" (GP's words) are those same corporations that have employees, and the "value" described therein is really the value of the labor of those employees.

There's no metaphysical Lockean value production going on inside of a corporation. When it produces value, the value it produces is the value that its employees produce. Waxing poetic about the value of corporations is thusly mostly a game of smoke and mirrors that obscures the real source of that value (the humans doing the work), and detracts from the actual advantage that comes from incorporation (i.e., solving the coordination game and thereby extracting more value from workers).
That’s a good point. If I remember correctly, optane has a operating mode where the memory is only meant to be used as RAM. It’s stored on the non-volatile RAM in an encrypted form and the key is intentionally discarded/lost when rebooted.

Another obvious operating mode is to make the NVRAM be the first line of swap and have things spill from DRAM into NVRAM when there is memory pressure. I think Intel also offered a mode like this, where it made everything look like DRAM and it would spill onto NVRAM as it needed to. Of course, this would be better rolled into the OS or application level so smarter decisions can be made, but given very high NVRAM densities it’s a great application for the technology.
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I don’t know much about gravity but I don’t think things slow down right before they hit the ground
s/Neigh/nigh/g
I am from Brazil and to be honest the government push for this is kinda silly. There are other problems to solve first.

There was an event I participated about this, I was teaching about gamedev using opensource tools, a lot of people paid to go, the government then brought in a ton of people from the favelas as part of their "digital inclusion" program, although I was happy to teach them, later I heard many of them just stole people's computers, mouses, keyboards, etc... and bolted, a good chunk of the "digital inclusion" people that went for free, didn't sit in a single workshop, instead they just disappeared, and a ton of equipment with them.

Even outside favelas, our infrastructure is just shit too, I work from home and losing power and internet is a constant threat, sometimes water goes out too.

And corruption in general just runs deep, I know a TV producer that was hired to make an Ad for the government, he had to record a government building inside a favela, to make the ad for the government, yet the local government guy wouldn't let him inside to make the recording the government was demanding, he had to approach a congressman about it, and the guy just flat demanded 10k to "do his thing" and make it work.

He did paid the guy, then after that the drug lord demanded another 10k to allow the TV crew inside the favela without being shot.

After he recorded it, the congressman was seen with a new car... meanwhile the drug lord seemly dunked the entire 10k into meat, charcoal and booze and threw a huge barbecue party to the locals.
Recruiters in the UK are not the same as recruiters in the US.

As a contractor in the UK, I've had to deal with them many times. The recruiting industry here has a reputation for cut throat, scumbag practices. Lying about open job applications, cold calling to fish for info on your current role, ghosting you after you make an application with them, chronic time wasting/giving false hope. These are some of what you can expect. There are, of course, good recruiters - more 'human' ones. They're rare, but you'll know when you've got one. I have some saved in my phone.

If you are firm with them you can avoid them wasting your time. But to rely on them is a mistake.

Good luck OP. Also +1 for contracting in private sector because the B2B nature of it avoids checks.

Edit: seems like other people have had contracts with clauses around prev convictions, so maybe ask for a blank contract ahead of time.
There's also http://lygte-info.dk/ which has a ton of battery and charger tests. Definitely worth reading.
non-apology apology: https://twitter.com/zachshakked/status/1481129425706143746
The common term is "pneumatics" and the components are prevalent in all automation and manufacturing. The air required is typically compressed on site.

Pneumatic actuators are relatively inexpensive, have a binary state that is easy to control, and offer a high power density.
> I'm not sure why there isn't more momentum towards using .NET.

I've thought about this too.

Although I've done DotNet since 2001 I'm not blind to the faults; I also do Go, Node, Ruby, Python, and PHP. What I've concluded (and I could be wrong) is that as powerful as DotNet is it is held back, understandably, by the Windows-centric nature of the original .NET Framework (ending at v4).

Unless an open-minded assessment is done, that (fair) bias means that it isn't really taken seriously outside of enterprise. Which is a shame as it is (to within a degree that makes the difference irrelevant) as productive as Rails, as powerful as Java, as performant as Go, and as easy to read (when written well) as Python or Ruby.

Coupled with the fact that it is now cross-platform with self-contained and trimmed single binaries, it really is a shame.

I still remember the first thing that got me looking at Ruby was actually Rails, and it was doing the 15 minute build-a-blog tutorials. Nowadays with EF Core, DotNet 6, Postgres, migrations, and scaffolding, it is almost as fast in DotNet. And the result is a type-safe codebase that requires massively less resources to scale.
No worries. I made an assumption about what you were saying that wasn't helpful, either.

All good!
Absolutely adore prototyping in Julia, absolutely heinous to work in production. Their memory usage is insanely high and their calc speeds are slow when you don't have the insanely high processing equipment needed. If they could just singularly focus on reducing memory consumption than the language will be likely _the defacto_ language for ML and analysis, but until then it really gets bogged down by just how much memory is needed for the most simple of functions.
Yeah I think you’re right, I suppose I was thinking in the context of early career or first job. I think you get more attention if you have a lot of YOE.
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Yes.

I followed Bellingcat and Navalny Team pretty closely for many years. I dislike some of the people behind both organisations but I am sure both organisations contribute to the society in a positive way.

Anyone who did above average things exposes themselves to privacy violations. This is recognized universally for politicians, for instance, otherwise why would we require our representantives to publish their tax declarations or simply campaign publicly?
If you can get AT&T it means you can get Sonic as well. AT&T still handles the last mile, but it's Sonic on the other end.
Yes the cut is much smaller and doesn't all go to visa/mastercard (card brand). The card processor, acquirer, and in most cases a gateway also gets a cut.
There is a high likelihood that that those scatter-gun recruiters aren't placing people into appropriate jobs.

Most recruiters have one goal, get candidates into a job - any job. Then they get their fee. They do not have an obligation to get a candidate in to the most suitable job. In my experience they will happily lie, flatter and cajole you in to doing their bidding and taking a job that is not right for you.

I don't want to deal with recruiters like that and that's why I try to filter them out.
The similarities vastly outweigh the differences. The biggest difference between SARS-CoV and COVID-19 is that the latter takes a bit longer before you get ill but you are already contagious. Other than that it's mostly the same old story. Note that if not for SARS-CoV this would have been a lot more serious because that served as a dress rehearsal and put a lot of mechanisms in place as well as suggested screening for Coronaviruses in cases like these.
It'd be interesting to see this broken down by organization - i.e. who is funding this development.
Shameless plug: I wrote a log-based analytics software that you can self-host on an Android phone.

https://github.com/lbrito1/android-analytics

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I remember these being a bit of a nerd cred item in the early 2000s. Googling around I don't see anything too new in this space. I wonder if there was a problem with that approach or if SSDs just filled that niche.
I have a simple NAS setup at a family members house far away and backups are pushed to that nightly from an internal drive in my machine (internal RAID). I also just sitting on my desk have a drive that gets those same back ups.

And then I have a cloud service I pay for that only looks at certain drives / folders and backs those up as well.

One tool to automate all of this would be nice though - currently running several different ones
https://lygte-info.dk is a good site.
Agreed. If cssparser blows chunks on your css then at least you know that will probably break some of your user agents too, rather than the game of “is my tool broken or am I?”
Designing a (simple) built-for-purpose peak picking algorithm in Python
https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics
Any recommended workflow of integrating IPython and vim in 2022 preferably being able to edit the notebooks, execute cells etc.? Currently this is one of the few reasons why I’m running a full-blown IDE with Jupyter integration. A mature plugin for integration having similar qualities to, say, Fugitive, would be vim users dream I suppose.
as someone who had a previous carreer in journalism (and also happen to be a Brazilian as well), the media will always portrait the country in a way to make it seem "exotic" in order to gain more attention.
that's why you will _never_ see news articles about boring countryside towns
Once I have a weird curl bug that the software was using and I went to GitHub to report the issue. Turn out I did report the issues 4 years ago and there is no one to look into this. For some reason the software was having curl errors due to Windows' version of curl. The only way I can fix this is to
'remove-item alias:curl" since the alias is set to Invoke-WebRequest in PowerShell when software want to use curl command. Yes there is curl.exe but the software didn't know that.
You can totally get hired without linkedin. Where you will get hired will depend a lot on who you are and your skills.

If you're a relatively junior IC, you may not have time to build up an IRL professional network to help you get a job. You may not have a crazy in-demand resume that jumps to the top of the list for senior/staff jobs. This means you need to find jobs instead of letting them come to you.

I've seen people say that reading linkedin is the ultimate resume - standard format, easy to read and parse, and all look the same. So if you're just doing resume drops on online web forms, missing out on that tells the hiring person they have to do more work to evaluate you. That could mean its "too much work" and they just skip you. YMMV but its a risk you take.

I've heard a lot of different takes on recruiters from linkedin. As a relatively mid-level engineer at FAANG, i get constant recruiters messaging me (1 per week min). I found 50% to be not worth my time ever, and the other 50% are recruiters for big/reputable companies (eg. faang et al.) and some of them have given me interviews/leads, - i've even taken a job that started on linkedin via a recruiter cold message.

Personally, i understand why linkedin is annoying to use. It has lots of antipatterns, etc. That said, part of getting hiring is "playing the game" unless you're truly 1/1000000. By sitting out linkedin (when doing resume-drop style applications), you're signaling to the company hiring you that you either are too lazy to update a profile once a year, or your morals against linkedin are stronger than your desire to help them hire you. Its like people who don't keep their resume < 1 page. They are either truly incredible and it can't be fit on one page, or they just don't know how to or refuse to do the simple things that are expected of them.

TLDR: Unless you're special enough to make your own, or you have a strong personal network already, following the status quo may help you.

(also its LinkedIn not linked-in, skip the hyphen)
Didn't downvote, but I am not a big fan of simply making stuff up on the fly as response. I've met my share of people who rather go this route than put in a 5sec Google search or simply admit they don't know something, and I try to avoid them.
Its exaggerated, there would probably be no remedy for you if it occurred but that doesn't mean people don't have other shit going on.

Most “dangerous ghettos” are the same way. If people dont have beef with you they arent just looking to take advantage. A sociopathic person with a badge is much more dangerous because they dont have to collaborate at all, unlike civilians.
That's maybe the most interesting idea out of the whole setup!

You could reasonably put options on the fenced-code-block header line:

```pikchr --source
...
```

```pikchr --caption # caption rendered figure with source
...
```

I don't know if pikchr supports anything like this, but it seems like you could add it pretty easily if you wanted to.
Locket: Share photos directly to your friends’ homescreen
Can the United States Decouple from China?
I think audience perception is the biggest reason for this. The Dexter screencap at the start is the perfect example. Looking at the photos side by side the right one subjectively and objectively looks terrible, yet at some level I'm also thinking that it must be from a well-produced big budget show, whereas the left one screams basic network TV.
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The article refers to "clever accounting tricks" but doesn't say if a nuke that was never registered anywhere is detectable.
Aaron Maté has done a lot of investigative journalism[1] into them.

Basically, Bellingcat is an "intelligence launderer" for the NATO-aligned IC. Agencies can feed them real or bogus intel and they will gladly publish it in return for $$$ and media clout. In some cases, they even fabricate propaganda as in the case of their collaborations with Navalny's team. I think they are closer to "useful idiots" rather than actual intelligence operatives, though.

What they are not is a largely independent OSINT group a la WikiLeaks. Bellingcat is firmly aligned with the most powerful government intelligence agencies on the planet and a darling to their media. They can be counted on to never undermine NATO's agenda (which Julian Assange is suffering immensely for doing), and are ostensibly compensated well for that.

[1] - https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/24/author-bellingcat-opcw-wh...
Let's do the math. Assume the protection is 90% for each individual interaction. After 7 interactions you're down below 50% protection. And people in the real world obviously aren't going to stop interacting.
> moving utf8 to utf8mb4 a bit more quickly

I definitely agree!

> now I have to look into this strict mode and what else it breaks

It's a mode to ensure nothing happens silently: illegal data type conversions, attempting to insert invalid values for the data type (too large, too long, invalid characters, etc), attempting to do an INSERT which doesn't specify some columns that lack defaults, etc. With strict mode enabled, all of these things throw hard errors, like in most other relational databases. Generally, it covers the entire class of things that are typically the most common complaints about MySQL on HN.

Interesting wording re: "breaks" -- for practical purposes this is a real concern for existing applications, which may be doing bad things which previously didn't throw errors with strict mode off. Do you want your DB to suddenly fail loudly for these things (strict mode), or do you want your existing application to continue working in these cases? Can't have it both ways.

> Is this "strict by default" in MariaDB - which is what most (linux) people are (probably) thinking of.

MariaDB made it default in 10.2, ~5 years ago.

I don't agree that most Linux people conflate MySQL and MariaDB though. At large US tech companies that use MySQL, they're almost all literally using Oracle MySQL, or a patch-set like Percona Server which directly tracks MySQL, or an internal patch-set that does the same.

In recent years, MySQL and MariaDB have diverged a bit on feature set and focus; each has some interesting features that the other lacks. They are not drop-in replacements for each other.
> The ball with less mass has less force of gravity to fight with air resistance on the Earth. Therefore, it falls slower.

Even that is not correct. Air resistance is proportional to cross-section, and gravity is proportional to mass. A ball with less mass but much less cross section will fall faster. It has less "force of gravity", but it has much less air resistance. In other words, a marble will fall faster than a basketball when accounting for air resistance.

Note that the animation is inaccurate in any case because (assuming constant air density) the velocity of a falling ball will never decrease (until it hits the surface) if it started stationary.
I'm going to use this as an opportunity to vent.

Wouldn't it be a nice world where you can just declare something EOL and it disappears and somehow magically it's not a problem anymore for anyone end-to-end? Thing's just don't work that way. Like, suddenly, a product that was working perfectly fine for who knows how long suddenly needs to modified because some ass-hats thinks that EOL isn't suitable for production.

There are a number of reasons to upgrade a dependency or a product; an EOL label shouldn't be a part of the calculus. EOL may imply certain conditions that may influence the decision to upgrade but for the sake of EOL you can eat a bag of dicks. Think harder why you're proposing an upgrade is needed and how it'll add value to the business. EOL software is perfectly fine especially because it's been battle tested.

We also use log4j 1.x all over the place and I feel zero need to change that.
Locket, an app for sharing photos to friends’ homescreens, hits top of App Store
I would totally jump back on WhatsApp if this happened
https://locket.camera
Definitely. You also have stuff like putting compute into the hardware. I read somewhere about SSDs with on-board compute doing serialization/deserialization of some data structures on the device itself, for instance. You can, in principle, take compute on board a NIC and if you could address the memory controller directly, you could serve NVRAM backed key-value store directly, without the CPU at all. Things are getting mushy and our way of addressing hardware resources and the OS abstractions behind them aren’t up to the task anymore.

In the research world, due to various things about the kind of work that is feasible to do and get published in a reasonable timeframe, they just aren’t looking at these bigger questions as deeply as I think they ought to. People do more minor iterations on the existing approaches, which is a pity.
It's the nose peeking over that gets me.

I've worn an FFP3 throughout, don't see the point in cloth or surgical masks. (With my nose firmly inside...)