skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember vividly interviewing for a Bay Area tech company and asking about their policy on side projects and open source contribution, and the interviewer got really cagey and basically said he didn't know but don't worry too much about it. Got rejected for the role and surprisingly the recruiter was very forthcoming about the reason: Don't remember the actual words but he said that my interest in working on side projects was a red flag and showed I wouldn't devote 100% to the role. Leadership apparently insisted that candidates asking about these kinds of things were not good fits.

I feel I really dodged a bullet there! Thank you, anonymous recruiter for being unusually candid in post-interview feedback!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_reflector Doesn't reflectors help a lot here or am I missing something?
Sorry, but it's just not a serious thought to think that the subjects of children's books decide the demographics of careers later in life. Especially when you think decades of education do not.

Regarding your response to my quick question - which matriarchal societies are you thinking of? The "identity of science" (whatever that means) is not really at issue. We are discussing the reason behind why women know more fashion related vocabulary and men know more science and technical terms. If the "identity" of science changes over the years, that wouldn't seem to change whether or not men have greater interests in what we now call science.

Your theory, that career differences are caused by acculturation is first, absurd. The theme of children's books, kids TV shows, or whatever you posit is part of this, is minuscule compared to spending 8 hours a day in a classroom. Yet, you think the minuscule effects outweigh the massive effects, and nevermind the widespread effort to get girls into STEM.

Second, your theory is soundly rejected by evidence. Girls choose not to go to engineering because of those kids books, but they perform better in math and science throughout school? Where is the effect of these books in K-12 education?

Third, your theory predicts everything and therefore nothing. When a survey shows that girls have lower confidence and higher expectations, well, that's because their confidence is undermined by our patriarchal society! If the results were reversed, and girls were more confident but had lower expectations, why, that would be because despite their abilities they knew they wouldn't be treated fairly by our evil patriarchy!

Conversely, I would say that if you survey a thousand people, divided them into two groups, on dozens of questions, you will probably find some that have significantly different results. I would think the results were meaningless unless they confirmed some prior prediction or were all aligned in some surprising way. That is, actually, what I think about that survey.
"Any pressure I've had to lose weight or whatnot has come from me. All female partners have said that they don't care about my weight, and some actually like some belly to rest on."

Same.

I work out as a hobby and for psychological hygeine, i.e. to keep myself disciplined and just feel better.

Oddly when I started dating my current girlfriend she thought my lack of a 'dad-bod' might be too much of a red flag.

Doesn't seem to be the case almost 5 months later.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
An economy that increasingly gets worse and worse for newer generations? The destruction of the planet? The decline of Western Democracy? I guess if you bury your head in the sand and never pay attention to anything then I guess it's not that bad.
If you’re running a separate pg server, doesn’t that remove the main benefit of having everything under one system?
Or how many were deleted from the Wuhan institutes website and memory-holed permanently.

Look up Huang Yanling a WIV researcher who dissapeared off the face of the earth in December 2019.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/covid-19-coronavirus-wuhan-...
You've said If Islam is properly applied, there would not be any meddling and Zakat would be applied appropriately. I guess you have more faith than I do that a human vested with these large sums will apply it appropriately. Humans can be greedy, corrupt, and clumsy and may not practice the word of the Quran accurately. They could simply make bad mistakes, without any bad will. Having centralized access to large sums of alms could result in Zakat going to benefit other powerful parties as well. Since it is collected by government, it would be hard for those paying it to stop payment in protest if someone did start meddling. Note this is also a problem with secular welfare systems, I am not saying it is a problem only with centralized Zakat.

>It has been historically documented that in Iraq during Ummayad rule, there were no more poor people left to accept Zakat.

Umayyad had a variety of religions of persons overseen by their caliphate. Was Zakat distributed to poor Christians in the Caliphate? Or did Zakat only go to Muslims? This is important to know, because supporting only minority of the poor who practice Islam could mean Zakat may have not solved poverty for the entire populace. I'd also be interested in seeing the citation that poverty didn't exist under this caliphate.

In America we have the problem that lots of administrators and bureaucrats siphon off much of the money in the welfare system into their salaries as well as issues with the money going into the hands it is intended to go to. Also since the money is taken by force, there's not a lot of control by those who contribute the money over making sure it is used appropriately.

I will note I find it both fascinating and worthy of respect that many cultures have come up with their own ways of helping the poor.

Personally I would be much more on board with a decentralized type of Zakat where individuals can pick what charity to go to, in order to protect from centralized failures of government.

>I meant how would inflation happen in case of Zakat being enforced? They're orthogonal things unless I'm misunderstanding you.

If I wanted to enforce Zakat via inflation, I would mandate people to hold their money in bank, as debt, or fiat denominated bonds, and then I would inflate the money supply by 2.5% by mailing out 2.5% of the current supply to the poor per year, or something approximating that. But that would also be an imperfect system.
I would say even the extroverted outgoing people lose touch with alot of their past friends. It happens to everyone
well one of the things people who buy upgradable laptops like to do is buy the cheapest upgradable specs and buy their own parts to install. I.e. buy laptop with 128 GB M.2 SSD and upgrade it to the fastest+largest available SSD. Thats what i did with mine. Also I took some parts out of my laptop and installed them into my desktop(s) and Intel Nucs.
I worked in the crypto industry in 2018. And it was all a scam. https://torontolife.com/city/boaz-manor-toronto-crypto-fraud...
Holy crap thanks for the bbq facts!
Total hours worked in the US has DOUBLED since then.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/B4701C0A222NBEA

And more work is done part-time(usually by those are unable to work full time jobs)

https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=B4701C0A222NBEA&ut...
Yes, parent’s assertion is fairly preposterous. There is no way one could conduct surveillance on that scale in a non automated fashion. There are too many resources required.
> We've also tried HBOMax but the app/streaming tech was just terrible. The streaming quality jumped constantly between 720p to 4K.

FWIW, that may be more a function of the playback device. On Apple TV, HBO Max picture quality has been great.

Even on Apple TV the app is very stupid in other ways, though. It often replays the last episode we saw when we continue watching a series, forcing us to scrub through to the end of an already-seen ep before we can enjoy the next one.
If online dating isn't working for you but bars did, then why not head back to the bars? (You can always drink soda water)

I know it sounds a bit stupidly obvious, but do the stuff that works!
A Theory of Law [pdf]
By not allowing sideloading, the apps which fingerprint your device through access to unique elements of your phone (like the number of contacts & contact data, gps data, & wifi signals, network device exploration), makes it easier to expose those app entities sharing out your data and increases liability on Apple for failing to "police" their app store properly, over and above their existing checks.

By allowing sideloading, a new attack vector opens up which reduces the liability on Apple, which is no different to what Microsoft and Google already do.

Facebook/Meta are sort of excluded in some ways because theirs app store runs online on their servers and not on your device which is considered private property and brings different Govt legislations into play.
I think the journalist is calculating load capacity. A 1500A @120V kettle requires 0.18 MW. Rounding up, 60 kettles requires 12 MW. It's not how much water you can boil, it's how many kettles you can run at the same time.
Okay. And now add any of the following, or a combination, to that situation:

* Ill partner or family members to take care of
* Child(ren)
* Studying
* Long travel times
* Irregular working times
* Poor upbringing food wise
* Stress
* Sleep deprivation
* etc

Is it still so easy then? That pizza tastes good and is real comforting.
Also when a lab in Taiwan got fined after they reported a researcher studying covid in a BSL3 lab got bitten by a mouse and got infected. https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4387611

What is the lesson here? If pathogens leak from your lab, cover it up and tell no one. These researchers in Taiwan got punished for doing the right thing!
You're right. It's a little hard to dehumanize a societal cohort by name-calling them with "asynchronous functions".

It just doesn't roll off the tongue.
It’s important to remember that we are not necessarily talking about going back to the broken old Windows model, where any app could do anything as long as you entered the admin password.

Today, iOS has a strong sandbox where apps can’t access data of other apps unless explicit permission is granted (eg. access your location/contacts/photos), and apps can’t access or modify system files at all.

Also consider that sideloaded apps does not mean allowing unvetted apps - Apple could still mandate macOS-style app notarization to prevent malware:

> Notarization is a malware scanning service provided by Apple. Developers who want to distribute apps for macOS outside the App Store submit their apps for scanning as part of the distribution process. Apple scans this software for known malware and, if none is found, issues a Notarization ticket. Typically, developers staple this ticket to their app so Gatekeeper can verify and launch the app, even offline.

> Apple can also issue a revocation ticket for apps known to be malicious—even if they’ve been previously notarized. macOS regularly checks for new revocation tickets so that Gatekeeper has the latest information and can block launch of such files. This process can very quickly block malicious apps because updates happen in the background much more frequently than even the background updates that push new XProtect signatures. In addition, this protection can be applied to both apps that have been previously and those that haven’t.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/protecting-against-...
I love warnings, because I don't have to pay as much attention.
When I was a kid mid 2008, I modded Halo 3 maps with 3rd party software on Xbox Live. This went on for a while and of course my account was permanently banned. As a result, I cannot access the Xbox Live service from my account anymore, even the various Xbox branded apps on Windows will fail to load with mysterious error codes, but the account still works for all other reasons and retains licenses I paid for, so I continue using it. This is also nice because the Xbox Live bloat on Windows 10 can't load even if it wanted to, but alas.

The account migration here interops with Xbox Live, and as a result all api calls fail during the migration resulting in various error codes or pages not loading. It sounds like my only options here are to make a new account with I assume violates a Xbox Live TOS somewhere or lose my account which seems bad. Hopefully support can arrange a refund.
I think the vast majority of people either only heavily use one device, don't mind if the occasional note or appointment disappears, or just don't notice. The iOS Dropbox app has pretty frequent sync issues with its text editor too. At least it doesn't break when you feed it high Unicode anymore.

The notes solution that has worked reliably for us is to use a third party iOS text editor called 1Writer that calls the Dropbox API. For appointments check anything important on a second device after making edits. The Messages issue seems to only happen on a fresh install, so for each new device really scrutinize the message history if it's not there and if not reset it to factory and try again. It's all navigable, just annoying.
20 million deaths, according to excess deaths counts, because of scientists doing experiments they knew were dangerous?

It would destroy confidence in virology, they would be regarded as mass murderers.
If the latter, then this blows Chernobyl out of the water
Have you run a Laptop with Windows 11+ lately? Whoever ships those Windows installs is malware/spyware folks.
E-Space Announces $50M in Seed Funding
My company has >$60k/month in recurring revenue from our FTTH network. If things get tight, we can just stop expanding and coast instead. I am not worried, as people are not likely to give up their internet when they're stuck at home. We could even cut prices to help our customers through the recession if needed. ISPs have the ultimate in buy low, sell high once the physical assets are paid for.
Lots of good replies on that thread.

I have been doing embedded development for 30 years, and Yocto is the best build system that I have used for managing large embedded systems. If you need to professionally manage multiple distributions across menagerie of different host and target machines, there simply is no other meaningful choice that operates at its scale.

I first encountered BitBake before either the OpenEmbedded or Yocto projects existed. Since then, I have done professional embedded systems consulting for dozens of platforms, using Yocto almost exclusively in recent years. I have done everything with it, from simple board bring ups to implementing re-usable BSP layers used by multiple product families. I might be a little biased here, but I have used all of the other popular embedded build systems too.

Other choices still have their place for smaller and simpler projects, just as one might choose something smaller than Linux for the kernel. However, Yocto and Linux have attracted unparalleled open source development and support resources. Other projects simply cannot hope to match their established output. These projects will not go away any time soon, which means LTS releases and stable infrastructure to host them, regardless of individual players or projects coming or going. What other choice exists with that kind of backing?

For commercial projects that grow beyond a certain scope (i.e. most modern full-featured embedded systems), other choices simply do not match its existing capabilities. Of course, you can always fork a full server/desktop Linux distribution like Debian, but dressing up a standard distribution in embedded clothing often requires more customization. That comes with develop and maintenance costs, though I admit the lines do start to blur at a certain point.

The BitBake/OpenEmbedded/Yocto/Poky ecosystem is huge and poses a long and steep learning curve, but it offers customization and extensibility unparalleled by any other offering that I have had the (mis)fortune of using in my career. The same is true for the Linux kernel ecosystem, right? Them's the trade-offs we make.
Nannies are of a different social class. Most middle class people are much less likely to have real relationships with people who can’t relate to their problems. Same as rich people tend to have rich friends.

“Talking to someone” isn’t community. Colleagues provide an ersatz community for people who don’t have a real one in their life. You need a steady cast of characters and ideally repeated, purposeful interaction.
If you were so smart and gifted then why did you sit on your butt for so long? Maybe there was no potential to waste. But the best time to start is now, or else you might die wondering what you could have done.
They're denying the lab leak too.

But if it turns out that, say, there was an isolated outbreak in some rural area a few months earlier known to the authorities who covered up because they thought they had it under control (whilst also knowing it was new and SARS-like and worthy of study at their coronavirus lab) that would be hugely damaging for the Chinese government even if it spread naturally
(Serious question)

Why don't we see money-out-of-nowhere bugs in banks? How do they ensure they don't happen? Even maliciously, for that reason.
To answer your question on evidence, when I'm looking for information on politically charged questions I often reference the Congressional Research Service whose purpose it is to take complex issues and boil them down to something digestible and generally apolitical for Congress (I know that's hard to believe, but I've read a lot of them, they are way less political than most other sources I find).

Here is the one on TikTok with references.

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46543

I was going to give quotes from the CRS, but there are so many.

If you want to learn about current issues just go to the home page and search with an empty search field.

https://crsreports.congress.gov

I check it daily.
Again, no one is saying women are less suitable. It's a question of how many women are choosing to do this sort of work versus men.
I think you misspelled changing diapers, doing laundry three times a day, spoon-feeding broccoli puree, scraping dried broccoli off the floor, shopping while trying to contain a squealing octopus, etc.
Maybe put more effort into using that big fusion reactor in the sky. That's a fusion reactor that already works, and solar panels have been making amazing advancements over the past two decades, so that's a much quicker solution at this point.

Fusion research is still very interesting, but honestly it's starting to feel more like an expensive hobby by now. It certainly shouldn't take precedence over more attainable and faster solutions.
> On the other hand, I absolutely don't want my older relatives to be able to install stuff from wherever.

It isn't 2002 anymore, systems have been hardened since the Windows XP days.

Would you feel the same way about handing your older relatives a Mac in 2022? They'd be able to install stuff from wherever on Mac.

I have tons of older relatives using Macs and Windows computers, and the days of Bonzi Buddy and 20 addon toolbars for IE are over. Some of them even have Android phones where sideloading has been a thing for over a decade, and the sideloading apocalypse bringing hordes of malware has yet to occur.

Truthfully, I believe your worry doesn't apply in our current computing era.
> All the arguments that preventing sideloading protects users still apply, and haven't actually been addressed in this article.

I'd say the main argument of the article is that the situation with the App Store in actual reality is so far from ideal that arguments about what happens in an ideal situation are irrelevant.
> The distinction used to be "Whether the bus is exposed externally".

Which bus is "the bus"? SoCs and microcontrollers alike expose a bunch of different buses.
You enjoy working at a sausagefest? If you only want to do things for selfish reasons, there’s one you can use.
> I don't know what it means to be masculine

Well, according to an earlier post today: knowing the word "parsec."
Sure, it's a free planet and all.

Just saying -- there's a distinct between forming an opinion based on "what could have" happened -- versus on what we actually know to have happened.
If I'll ever need an app to pass around Pentagon secrets, I'll surely use Signal or something better. But if I need an app to chat with my friends and discuss what's going on without being banned and having the daily dose of Mandatory Truth injected, then Telegram works just fine so far.
Because Tiktok aggressively individualizes the content shown, people with different tastes get radically different videos shown.

If you skip past the memes, fads, dances, etc. it will show you other types of content until it identifies what you will stop scrolling to watch.
>Hahaha! You have to be joking?

Which modern, high quality of life, non capitalist countries are less harmful to the environment?

>You have no scruples at all do you? "No insight into" then you go on avoiding the point and just falsely suggesting that I said something I didn't say (treating all historical North American societies as one, which is ridiculous), what a deeply dishonest thing to write, shame on you.

What was your point then? You were leveraging some native American sentiments and factually incorrect popular myths on their beliefs about property ownership to contend falsely that they had better economic systems devoid of profit motive or property.

>I won't be wasting energy on replies that have zero prospect of breaking through that dogma. I can see others have tried with no success.

The irony coming from someone with entirely unsourced, repeatedly demonstrably false assertions, while I have provided endless examples and sources.

Sorry, not sorry for sticking to my well researched and verbosely sources principles and reasoning because random strangers on the internet regurgitate easily countered dogma from ideologues and propagandists.

I can tell you exactly what evidence would look like that would change my mind about any topic I hold strong beliefs about. Meanwhile you can't even stick to one topic.
How to Tie the Balthus Knot. Get controversial with this artsy knot
My point wasn’t whether the cost is reasonable. My point was just that the first month is a $600 bill rather than $100 like the GP suggested.

For some that cost is still reasonable for what they’re getting. And that’s fine. But from a purely mathematical standpoint the GP was significantly off in terms of the price they quoted.

You can all argue about whether that matters or not but that’s really just a subjective matter. Some folk cannot afford a $500 sign up cost. Whereas for others it will be an absolute bargain for what they need. It really depends on their income/savings, what other internet providers are available to them and how dependent they are on the internet. So the answer to the point you’re discussing is going to vary depending on the individual.
It has a lot to do with it. All of the basic primate social dynamics are pretty obvious in the business world when you look around — ever notice how many C-level types there are who are who are tall, played sports in school, have firm handshakes, etc. whose skills don't match their prominence? Physical intimidation will definitely reinforce an existing power imbalance, at least from the perspective of the lower-ranked person being towered over. Look at things like office furniture — who gets the imposing chair, ends up looking down at people on the other side of a massive desk, etc. — and ask why that's so widespread if it doesn't matter.
Meh, I'm on android, but google has castrated several apps I enjoyed (termux,sshelper,etc.). So, being able to sideload is only one aspect of stumbling blocks to user usefulness. Don't get me wrong; the prison of apple is not one I would ever enter, but the grass is getting drier every day over here.
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