skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just so people are aware, the Santa Barbara shooter posted a final manifesto on Youtube prior to his actions, so you can totally go listen to him.

The second bullet point, a written manifesto was posted online. The third obviously admitted to his motivations.
Yeah, most of the "senior" positions I see state that they want 5 or so years experience.
> So if I dont know the long-term effect of COVID and I dont know the long-term effect of the vaccine the logical thing is to intentionally get the vaccine and deal with whatever may be the long-term effects later?

Yes, considering the vaccine's mechanism - causing your body to produce a SARS-CoV-2 viral protein that an active infection would also cause you to produce. Worrying about the vaccine while getting infected with SARS-CoV-2 is like worrying about getting wet in a swimming pool; you're already wet.

> Since it is perfectly reasonable to assume that one can avoid getting COVID for a long time long enough to make a decision on actual numbers later on.

I do not think that's perfectly reasonable to assume in the days of Omicron.
Early ‘lab-grown’ Covid virus found in sample lends weight to Wuhan theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30279180 - Feb 2022 (327 comments)
French HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier has died at 89
A minor taking a gun like that across state lines would have been a crime which you stated he committed by looking at a video. In reality, he didn't commit the crime of trafficking the firearm across state lines as a minor. You even stated "if you look at the evidence, the fact is that he took a gun across state lines..." which is not backed by the evidence, you just jumped to a conclusion that it was a fact and even worse repeated that it was a fact despite zero evidence and against sworn testimony in the case.

> 2OEH8eoCRo0:

> My experience was that people did not look at the evidence- they jumped to a conclusion.

You didn't look at the evidence, you jumped to a conclusion which is not based in fact, and broadcasted that you did this in your message. Thus proving 2OHEH8eoCRo0's point: people assume things about the case without looking at the facts.

> I didn't say I think he's guilty of transporting a weapon

You 100% did claim this when you said "the fact is that he took a gun across state lines".
Question, as per submission title: How can I tell if my SSID is in Google database?

Answer, as per article: You can't.
Drive around Denver for a day and observe all the people on cell phones swerving into the bike lanes. I wouldn’t ride a bike around here at gunpoint.
If you are going to use inflation to turn nominal rates into real rates, you also have to adjust (reduce) the cashflows themselves. Ie, you discount real cashflow with real rates or nominal with nominal.

You'll find as you reduce the nominal cashflows by the inflation rate to arrive at real cashflows.... they stop being a cashflow pretty quickly.
I just took a look at Peloton apparel and I don't see how you could class it as "loud and obnoxious". Most of it looks like pretty generic branded fitness gear. If anything it's especially understated compared to the competition.

Considering how strong the brand is I think apparel is a genius idea for growth. It has just been mismanaged due to nepotism.
Security Engineers that know how to secure applications running on a cloud platform are rare as hen's teeth. We've tried and failed to hire one for almost two years now.

All the candidates are either "cloud security experts" who will run through a checklist of AWS best practices while remaining wilfully ignorant of the application itself, or on-prem dinosaurs who want to talk to us about the ports on our corporate firewall.
While I agree it’s probably not defamation and is just meant to say as little as possible, there’s no way this would be the end all in court - apple surely keeps the original records internally so a court case could easily find your original title.
It's amazing how powerful engines have become in the last 20 years.

Driving my Lotus Elise... I'd regularly get my ass handed to me by a V6 Camry or Odyssey.

It's not even just engines anymore. A Camry will probably not just be faster in a straight line due to power, but it's probably also going to smoke a good number of vintage sports cars around a track. All that tech really has trickled down into regular cars.
Seals are dying in droves along South Africa's coast
Yes! I got burned by Optimism in another way. They tell you to point your applications at etherscan.io for transaction data/history, but then, on November 11 last year, the pushed an update that deletes all transaction history up to that point, which you need for taxes!

They swore they'd have the history restored on Etherscan by Nov 18th, but they still haven't. Only recently they pushed a workaround that lets you download the transactions as a CSV, but that lacks the critical data from your transfers of non-ETH tokens. And then, an alternative source does have that data, but only as a binary blob you have to run through a decoder and parse out yourself.

The crypto tax software, of course, doesn't know what to do with it.

(Even if your local client cached the transactions, most, like MetaMask, left out the critical data above.)

68 days till the filing deadline in the US!

I asked the maintainers how they planned to do their own taxes, and one of them claimed that he was separately recording all sales in a spreadsheet. I had to inform them that the taxable events include more than just sales, and, even under the most aggressive interpretation of tax law, you need the other data to figure cost basis.
It wasn’t luck that this variant is milder, that’s what happens most of the time with pandemics (it was the same with the spanish flu). If a virus kills its host, it’s less effective in surviving.
Roy Schestowitz's message here is largely about the threats, risks, and costs associated with hosting and serving third-party content. Words, images, and other materials can be huge liabilities.

I'd hit on this element of self-hosting during the Google+ exodus ("Plexodus"), and started a Wiki page addressing some of the relevant risks, here:

<https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Risks_and_Threat_...>

That includes a few of the attacks Roy is referencing, though missing the whole "general legal harassment" element. I'd begun a conversation with the EFF about this aspect, though that largely died out, mostly my own fault.

I'd written an earlier piece on why Usenet died. Effectively, limited financial opportunity, unlimited downside risk. See: "Why Usenet Died" (2015)

1. It got spammed to death.

2. It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning.

3. It was too problematic for ISPs (or others) to provide ready access to it: spam, harassment, child pornography, and copyright violations all posed massive concerns.

4. There was no viable business model for providing the service.

And beyond that, the original Usenet was small, attempted resurrections and updates have failed to gain traction, it lacked any sort of robust defences, and and relied excessively on unsupported trust and volunteered maintenance (mostly by university-employed systems administrators).

<https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...>

That's based on no especially close insights or awareness, though it seems to have held up reasonably well. It was the basis of a submission to HN a few years back as well (though I can't find that presently).

For decentralised Internet services, unless you're serving a very small community or just your own content, all of these factors still apply. It turns out that the hardware costs of providing services to even many thousands of users are minimal. Bandwidth is also cheap. But technical and especially social and legal admin time turn out to be tremendously expensive. The big players see this as well, but can both optimse operations and present a sufficiently solid defence that the threats are at least generally manageable. But an underrated role of a large publisher is that it has sufficient legal muscle to be resistant to such threats.
Yes, we all know this, but boy crying wolf doesn't mean the wolf will never come. I say disregard what Elon says and look for yourself. Unlike every other AV player, they're doing this in public and broad daylight (literally), so you don't have to take his word for anything. I think his statement in Dec is way more specific than in the past though, since he's mentioning the trend-line of disengagements over time, which is data they have internally that is difficult to gather from Youtube videos. Whether that trend will hold, or if it's even measuring the right thing is left to be seen, but it's a very different claim this time than previous years.

That said, again, I wish people would stop using his claims from years past as some kind of evidence that they will never make it work. What kind of logic is that?

> So I should make up my mind about what the person I asked thinks about something instead of simply asking them?

It's technology, you can make up your own mind about it, independent of what you think of Musk. If this is how you reason about the world, it's a very shallow way. "I think Apple will fail because Steve Jobs is an asshole that stole money from Wozniak", "Windows will fail because Bill Gates is a bully blah blah".
I used to think like this, but what I ultimately realized was that it's pretty arrogant for an individual contributor to think they know best what the user wants.

Once I realized that, it made a lot more sense why I wasn't (and shouldn't!) be the one calling the shots on priority, UX, tempo. Even for things like tech debt, it really needs to be baked into the ability to deliver new value to a customer or it's very often not worth addressing.

Ultimately, I tried to get closer and closer to the users, so I could be in a position to know what they want, but as I did that, I found myself coding less and less.

It's a tradeoff. If you really love to code, you must accept you need help figuring out what to code. If you would rather build things people like, you must accept that means spending a lot of your time talking to and working with users.

You can't be a one man band.
Thus supporting my point, as I said.

Edit: I'm "posting too fast", and this seems like a trivial point, so, in advance of being able to make a new comment:

The relevant "point" here is not about what is or isn't SOP at any company, which I was never disputing.

I was making a point about how they should convey employee status and whether Apple(etc)'s practice counts as "lying about your level".

To summarize:

1) It's fine to have a policy of "never disclosing employee titles".

2) If you go that route, then you should simply not comment when asked about an employee title, and give "n/a" for a field requesting it.

3) Saying, "Employee title: Associate" is not doing that, because it's falsely asserting their holding of a title -- and that title's (false) reality -- that they do not hold.

If you don't dispute any of that, great! If you do, I'd love to hear that commentary, on which it would be orthogonal to bring up what is or isn't SOP at any company.
What a luxury to work at a place where tickets are defined and work is scoped out for you :)

If you're chafing there due to the lack of autonomy, I promise there are places hiring people whose strong suit is tackling ambiguity in addition to software development.
So, give separate X server (Xephyr, Xnest, Xvnc) per app for increased security. They will be isolated from clipboard, window titles, and broadcasted key events.
Hulu charges money and still interrupts shows with ads. Cable television ended up that way eventually too, despite one of the original selling points being the lack of ads. They always keep trying to take more.
I've worked quite a bit with JSF and although I was never a fan it does have some points. It allows for focusing more on contents than visuals also assuming the visuals won't be that fancy. There's plenty of apps that don't really require going all-out on eye candy. Note that it was always a problem when people do want eye candy. I also rarely had issues with performance but perf. is always an issue regardless of working with server- or client-side rendering.

I pray for WASM to eventually replace JS. NodeJS ecosystem with all the experimental features, job ads in update notes, shitload of dependencies, one-function packages, legacy JS is a special kind of pain that I avoid whenever I can.
The best part is that the latest gen of the vehicle in the article, Honda Fit, is not even sold in North America. Due to lack of demand, presumably[0].

Guess this means I'm driving my 2nd gen 2010 Fit until the country runs out of replacement parts, because there isn't a subcompact out there with a comparable cargo space configuration.

And in the Bay Area, each time I'm driving somewhere I see a Fit or two - which people aren't selling, looking at Craigslist. Older Fits with 2x mileage sell for 2x what I got mine for ($4500 in 2017).

I contacted Honda at their email customer service[1] line, and got this response:

>Thank you for contacting American Honda regarding your sales experience . We want to thank you for providing us the opportunity to respond to your message. On behalf of American Honda Motor Co., Inc., we apologize for the circumstances which prompted you to contact us. American Honda documents and uses feedback in developing training for dealership management. We want to ensure that all customers have a smooth and stress-free sales experience. As such, we have documented a formal dealership complaint on your behalf.

As generic as this is, some extra nagging from all the Fitniks out there certainly wouldn't hurt. Though most likely, they won't care unless it's a Tweet[3].

[0] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33337398/honda-fit-discon...

[1] https://crrs.secure.force.com/service/hondaownerw2c

[2] https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?query=honda+fit&min_...

[3] https://twitter.com/the_roman_kogan/status/14918465253490278...
This was covered earlier in the thread. Print buyers in certain markets - mostly technical - appreciated the catalog model.

This does not mean they would pay more for advertising.

There were markets - specifically classifieds and listings - where buyers did very much want to pay for ads. But those were very specialised, and it's debatable whether a personal sales listing (dating notice, pet offer, etc) is in any way similar to a corporate ad.

Realistically, absolutely no one was going to pay for a version of Computer Shopper which had zero independent content and was just a giant ad directory.

Just as absolutely no one [1] will pay money to view a movie presentation made entirely of ads. Or watch a TV channel [2]. Or listen to a radio stream. Or view a web site.

[1] It's possible there are a few individuals who would do this, but clearly not enough to support a viable market.

[2] You might think Home Shopping Network, but HSN is free to air not pay to view.
No, it isn't. The implication is "To hold oneself to a better standard, make actionable and/or substantiated statements, especially when making critical statements."

People seem to shit on Mozilla/Firefox often, and often without any evidence or useful data to work with. And they often say they use Chrome instead, run by an organization that those same people would probably say is user-hostile.

It's like seeing people criticize corruption in Western democratic governments and declaring they're avoiding that mess by moving to Moscow.
Sounds like the market in france is ripe for disruption.
Yup. Schools are really designed to crank out people from the factory worker template. Obey, don't question, meet your targets, and then disconnect.

It's in every part of the design:

- The focus on getting things "right" rather than exploring why things are wrong.

- The grading the discourages exploration and challenging oneself.

- The endless back and forth about how children fail assignments. Other than in very special circumstances, the teacher is the one having failed if the children on aggregate are not performing as well as they should.

- The way "learning" is defined as "remembering what the teacher wants to hear".

I could go on. It's crazy. When the children of today become adults, they won't, generally, need to become obedient factory workers. They will need to be creative free thinkers in knowledge jobs. School robs them of opportunities to learn that.

Montessori is a small win, but my years in Montessori was also plagued by some of the above. In particular, even though teachers were not allowed to set formal grades on assignments, they came up with their own pretty transparent improvised grading systems. (For example, it was clear that "Excellent" > "Outstanding" > "Great" > "Very good" > "OK". I still have a deeply rooted sense of this hierarchy and feelings connected to it, some 25 years later.)
I have no problem with people nagging me and annoying me in their own premises. It's another matter if the persuaders are after me in the street, or in my own home.

I find TV advertising increasingly annoying, because (like me) most people skip TV ads; so they are pitches to the bottom of the barrel nowadays - ads for home equity withdrawal, incontinence pads, and charities. But I only see them if I'm too drunk or tired to skip. I dislike them, but I can avoid them. (I assume the charity ads are given away, because the slot didn't sell)

I do object to the invasion of public spaces with ads. It's reasonable to advertise in your own shop-window. But I object to billboards on highways, "I lost 20 kilos" ads on buses, ambulance-chaser ads on taxis and so on.

Advertising on web-properties: I dislike it, because it tends to distort the content on the website. When did you last read an online recipe that didn't start with a long and boring essay about "my grandma from Rome"? But I'm free to stay away from those sites.

Advertising on search-engines is harder to avoid.

I think advertising is in principle reasonable; it's hard to enter a market if you can't tell people that you're there. But most advertising isn't just telling people you're there; it's mostly shouty, intrusive brand advertising, trying to compete for attention with all the other shouty, intrusive brand advertising. That I can do without.
I've seen interviews with infectious disease experts and other health experts including research scientists in those fields that the Gates foundation deals with, and they have said that Gates has put in years of serious effort to understand these things at a deep level, including hiring experts to teach him, and when they discuss their work and projects with him it is like discussing it with a fellow scientist.
The Olympus OM series had some particularly ingenious integrative metering modes, including metering light reflected off the film itself. https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/24653220
No, I think countries should not be allowed to bully people who have no presence in their country under threat of extradition or arrest if they ever happen to step foot in their country.

Project Gutenberg ended up complying with German copyright law even though they have zero presence in Germany precisely because they were bullied in this fashion.
If you want to see a really nice demo of this, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE -- The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Saša Jurić.

There's a really neat demo of a machine at 100 CPU% but that's still responsive because of Erlang's preemptive scheduling. There's a ton of other goodies in that video if you're interested.

It really shows off the Erlang BEAM VM.
https://nycopendata.tumblr.com/post/16176068515/nycedc-ratio...

First Google search result. Census data contains all the info you desire. It’s not highly publicized because no one likes to admit that men might be struggling with something - lol. It doesn’t sell well in the media.

I will agree that the gender ratio of SF and SV are wildly worse for men than NYC. Just saying that it isn’t some holy grail that people like to sell it as. Men outnumber women in this world from birth. It’s only because men kill themselves that we have less men than women by age ~40.
Silly thought: if bigger NN's are better, shouldn't more neurons be better? Why aren't elephants smarter than us, despite having more neurons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24971054/
Complicated question, as the company was structured so that each layer of management was its own "they" with its own budget. So wasted recruiter time was an externality not on their budgets. Management above line wasn't wasting any time so they did not care. Project accountability rested with the venture leads, not the development teams so there was little urgency to solve those problems either.
The AGC is a fascinating device. It used 60% of the ICs produced in the United States in 1963.

If you are interested in the AGC I suggest this excellent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM&t=454s.
Of course. And now that we've done that, it's time to use all those resources and knowledge and rethink the core algorithms of society.

That is, if we want a chance to bring back the beautiful world we've inherited intact from so many generations of ancestors. My daughter can only see half of what I saw when I grew up, maybe less. There is no horizon without smoke, mountain snow contains ash and there are few bird that sing in the forests because insects are nowhere to be found.
Eyelashes or plane tickets, those things cannot be compared to what we're losing in the process.

No amount of micro optimization is going to stop this train, we have to look at the algorithms.
patio11 called it right:

"The explosive growth of the tech sector keeps average age down and depresses average wages. Compared to industries which existed in materially the same form in 1970, we have a stupidly compressed experience spectrum: 5+ years rounds to "senior." This is not a joke." [1]

So companies routinely comb for a "senior" person but the salary is always a mismatch. I have 25+ years under my belt but the companies that approach me expect a 5-year compensation arc and can't understand what the problem is.

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/936615043126370306.html
This gets some stuff right, but so so so much wrong.
Oh, I completely agree, I was just pointing out you don't need MacOS to sign and install the binary.

I am for hassle-free side loading on every platform (Even on games consoles). I also dislike how most smartphones and tablets have become "Internet consumption devices".
The definition of "Senior" has now changed to "has > 5 years of experience". Combine this with the tendency of people to move every two years (because companies rarely keep up with the market), and you can see that "Senior" casts a wide net. It essentially includes people who may have seen maybe one major iteration of a product, perhaps none. In my opinion, that basically translates to a junior.
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Is it possible Cher's offer was rescinded once the employer googled her and discovered that hiring her would be a potential nightmare? I was in a Slack room she was in during an all-hands meeting and I remember that it wasn't my favorite interaction to watch. Can't really say more about it, but if I were a hiring manager, even if my company did everything perfectly -- I'd worry about hiring an employee that is prone to very publicly airing real or imagined dirty laundry with the media and/or being aggressively activist among other employees. Really wouldn't want the drama.

Claiming an offer was rescinded because of a job title mismatch -- I've never heard of that. It's very likely the employer did some research while waiting for the reference check to come back. Being able to conclusively say why the employer rescinded the offer is just speculation.