skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Public interest doesn’t automatically protect the release of private materials, nor does it obligate Zoom to continue employing someone who is actively working against their key business partners.

This isn’t really a whistleblower case either. The person didn’t take materials to authorities to notify them of a coverup. They watermarked their Twitter handle on them and put them on Twitter for personal gain and fame.

I’m not sure what you’re trying to imply regarding the firing, but this seems like a very clear cut case of Zoom being in the right and the employee getting fired for clear reasons.
A Chrome extension for automating the browser by connecting blocks
The article mentions that the photographer didn't see himself as a photographer for a while because he modifies the photos so much.
It may be helpful to categorize _behaviors_, but I want to emphasize that for a given individual, personality isn't permanent.
I don't think OP indicated the carrier shared personal information - only that they provided a way to connect a 3rd party company to a customer. That transaction doesn't need to include any information beyond the defined demographic.
How fast can we stop Earth from warming?
Just why do they care about the profit margins? Alphabet has several companies that are not as profitable as Google. If the low margins destroy morale within Google, then they could have transferred all of their experiments to another company that is situated where wages are low and people are eager to work for it.

With some luck, some of their bets would have turned into winners.
I'm about 3 years out of date on Java, but if I were spinning up a new project it would be:

* Latest JDK

* Spring Boot

* JQuery/Bootstrap

* Eclipse (with Vim keybindings plugin)

Caveats:

* If it was a personal project or only a very small team, I'd start with Kotlin

* I haven't tried IntelliJ in quite a while and would give it a shot to see if I wanted to switch off Eclipse now
i think anytime you have to switch a tool, there's going to be a huge dent in productivity. you and i seem to have similar feelings about the mouse and the mental tax that can taint a development experience. what i will say is outside of the productivity dent, there isn't really anything that vscode can do that vim can't. embedded terminals, LSPs, 'command palettes', hell, even githubs Copilot can be achieved in vim.

in my experience the best way to can the fluency you are seeking is to delete vscode, or put it somewhere that you can't see on your machine. when you have a thing that ''''works'''' and you are trying to learn a new thing, it can be an anti-pattern to have such easy access to the thing you are trying to stop using. for example, when i switched to dvorak, i was most successful when i forced myself to only use dvorak, no qwerty, no exceptions. it slowed me down for a week or two, but necessity got me to where i needed to go. the same holds true for vim, that was the same approach i took. even if it means i'm slower for a little bit while i figure out motions, configurations, etc, it got me to where i am now, which is a place where i can do my job in vim (or in my case, evil(vim) mode in emacs) much faster than i could in any editor.

best of luck!
That "guarantee" is of no use unless you can prove it (which you can't from the outside - so much data goes into ad targeting that it's impossible to definitely prove which bit of data was used to target a given ad).

They've also proven their bad faith with their GDPR consent flow that's not actually compliant with the regulation (there should be a big "decline" button as easy to use as the "accept" button).
My creative writing teacher in high school said "the specific is terrific."

Observe and think when you say "Thank you for A, it really helped me because B", where A and B should be detailed.

Frequently people don't have a clear picture of how what they did is important to the business, how helpful the thing they did for you is, etc. So make sure they get that.

Another thing is to give small gifts. I live on a farm where a friend has quite a few beehives. We have honey coming out of our ears (some of the best tasting honey there is) and we give jars away all the time.
I'm trying to see the reason not to just point these docs out to a journalist in the security-related field, as opposed to tweeting them himself.
Admittedly it's been awhile since I've written Java, so most of this is what I remember and what I've seen successful teams using -- got any links to a "true async" in Java? I was under the impression that all Java async work was backed by thread pools.
I get your point, but I think your initial conclusions are false. Each of those professions understands that the probability of risk is not 1. Their experience informs them that the risk is quite unlikely and therefore acceptable. They may have a heightened awareness to look for problems, but they don't stop exposing themselves to risk.

Your final conclusion is half-right: ignorance is bliss. But I think it's charitable to say everything is running on goodwill and duct tape. How many people really build systems based on goodwill? And duct tape implies somebody's seen the cracks and decided to patch them. I think everything is running on apathy and incompetence, sitting on the edge of a cliff, waiting for a stiff breeze; over time, the wind wins.
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I have a septic and propane heat which is very common around here, and I'm in a small town, not even really remote at all.
So, we ban all MAANG products for federal use. Who supplies us software/hardware next? How do we trust them more than what we had before?
hardly "technicolor" when you over-saturate all your photos with the same tinge of magenta and blue to the point of it not even looking real.

but hey, everyone wants to live in a cyberpunk dystopia
>it allows for network analysis

Like Nazis always ending their encrypted communications with 'Heil Hitler' making reversing the keys easier lol.

Although, for modern encrypted telecoms, I doubt this is as easy.
This is it. The irony is that the modern Java stack uses the JVM & classlib, but a different language.

If you want to go full hipster, there is Micronaut (also Quarkus) and if you'd like to go a bit off-charts, there is Dropwizard. I don't think that they offer anything extra over SB though.
If you are motivated by FOMO it is going to end in tears.
Naming things is hard. Drift is already a few other things including a popular website contact widget company.
I just spent a few minutes on that site and I can't even figure out how to try it out, or their pricing, or anything other than some very superficial docs, really.

Is this just a pretty website, or is the software actually available anywhere?
This is such an odd article. What about a robotic lawnmower leads to hedgehog death that is different than a human powered one?
> curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh

hard pass :)
They are indeed edited, it is mentioned in the article: “My approach to photography is similar to filmmaking, in how they take a shot and build off it with color grades and adding effects. It’s less photography in the traditional sense and more of a hybrid. I’m not a photojournalist.”
I did what you're considering. I was tired of VSCode because of Electron and wanted something lightweight. Neovim suited me. But you should know that if you use the lsp, most of the language servers are written in Node. You should learn to configure them for performance, especially pyright, if you use Python. Look up Kickstart.nvim and try to follow that. And checkout telescope. It's amazing.
I like this a lot, the specificity and really explaining how they help you is a great idea.
I think the person you are replying to was being a little hyperbolic, but you can look at human-caused climate change and the effects on a spectrum based on whatever information you've obtained in your life. For some, naively, it means nothing will happen and it's all a "big government liberal hoax". For others it's an actual "apocalypse" with tidal waves and volcanoes erupting or something (also incorrect).

But just like in normal life, you can chop both ends of the hysteria off because they're not useful, they're just the loudest.

Global warming was probably a bad name choice, but it described the "thing happening" and not the effects. Climate change is probably a better term for it. It is a crises. Places like the American Gulf Coast and West Coast are in for a rough time ahead that's going to require gigantic expenses that probably won't materialize to solve problems.

Aside from the actual effects that will occur, the degree of severity and location can certainly be debated within some sort of reasonable parameters, we really fucked ourselves with this car-first infrastructure. It's a gigantic tax on productivity. All the money that goes into maintaining cars, roads, parking lots, etc. while losing natural habitats, gaining obesity, and unnecessary deaths because instead of walking a half mile round trip to a local grocery store you have to drive 30 miles to go to Costco.

I've also noticed comments about "living packed like sardines", which shows me that those making these comments really haven't thought much about this walkability thing. While I'd argue something like Hong Kong is better than Houston on just about every metric except the illusion of having "land", it's also not a desirable outcome. Better to look at Europe where small towns and villages, and medium-sized cities dot the landscape. If you still want to live in a rural community or live on a property with a lot of acreage nobody is stopping you! What we're trying to stop is a top-down program that enforces suburbia, to the benefit of car manufacturers and government transportation budgets, and to the degradation of the rest of us.

You should be looking at mixed-use walkable neighborhoods as your model for the future. This "either Hong Kong or Houston" discussion is nonsense. And us Americans know this at their core. That's why they all "love Europe" and "love the cafe on the corner".

Building in this way solves just about every problem we have. It can't be stressed enough how fucked up urban planning and architecture are making our country.
Very likely, being founded and run by Russians... and a good way to stop people from communicating freely about the world affairs.
Are you by chance referring to the 16 Meyers-Briggs types?

It's been claimed that it's less useful than it is popular: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator
I Am Well Versed in Active Shooter Training. What About First Aid?
UK seizes first superyacht in British waters
Make sure you do give it a try and beyond the initial discomfort too. It has improved leaps & bounds.
> If anything, return visits because of a partial prior resolution make more money.

I don't think any doctor deliberately prolongs the illness of their patients to keep the money flow coming.

Do you have any evidence to back up what you said (other than a flawed game-theory hypothesis)?
Bluntly: your opinion on this will only be interesting when you can correctly explain (a) why mouse models are used (b) why mice and not some other mammal (c) what mouse models can and cannot tell us about humans, and lastly (d) why this mouse model isn’t consistent with (a)-(c).
How much mercury would actually filter down? Ion engines are extremely high isp (1000-8000 seconds). Literature suggests that 3000s was demonstrated back in the 70s. This implies an exhaust velocity of ~30km/s, while Earth escape velocity is 11km/s (depending on altitude)

It appears that PEER assumes that the ACE engine would be used against the direction of travel (retrograde), but almost all station keeping burns are prograde, in order to keep the satellite up against ionospheric or exospheric drag. And they assume a lower isp than has previously been demonstrated with mercury fueled engines.
I don't like the duplicity of demanding citations and grandstanding about how bad it is not to provide any, while simultaneously making claims with "zero evidence". If they'll call me out on it, I'll hold them to their own standard right back. This is despite the fact that I don't believe everything needs a citation.

In any event, this is getting more and more contentious and we should probably all just leave things be.
A retro computer museum in Mariupol beloved by children was attacked by Russia
> I really don’t care for Chrome users and their inability to do pure TLSv1.3.

You "don't really care" for a majority of users, based on what? TLS 1.2 is perfectly fine to use with strong ciphers.
I salute your static website which is free of JS/cookies/bloat/external stuff (similar to my own blog), but at the same time you're actively sabotaging accessibility.
I guess that as private institutions the ivies and most private universities worldwide receive significant concessions and benefits from governments.

So trying not to build a aristomafia could be intended as part of the deal with society.
> I used the vim extension for about a month (..) I thought I had comfortably got the movements inside a file down, but now that I’m trying to navigate medium/large projects, I see how much more I need to learn before I can “break even” and get back to my speed/comfort in vscode.

Keep in mind that even though vscode's vim extension is not bad, it has significant differences to the point it degrades the user experience and gets in the way.
Invidious can be used to proxy YouTube.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/09/solar-and-wind-deploy...

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/02/01/bloombergnef-says-glo...

https://www.tsungxu.com/clean-energy-transition-guide/

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/archive/decem...

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-aims-build-450-gw-...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/02/europe-overachieving-...

It is less effort to transition to clean energy than to convince energy consumers to consume less (although, in developed countries, energy use has plateaued; it's natural that per capita energy use will rise in developing countries, and renewables should be there to meet that increase in demand).
How did they get the password? Needed before mfa?
I think this is a great idea. Can't tell you how many times a very poor solution was implemented because a single person would flip out if you tried to ask them about alternatives because it was "their baby"

This at least let's those people know they are in the minority without people feeling like they might get blacklash.
You broke the first rule of twitter, never post anything on your public twitter other than banal corporate hype and safe, non controversial topics you've already seen other worker-drones post. Or, just be uncontroversial enough in your personal life that everything you'd post anyway would never possibly offend the hierarchs now or at any time in the future, like 10+ years down the road.

For most of us, it's just not worth it. The only thing I post on my identity-linked twitter is stuff I'm told to post by my employer. It's just not worth taking this sorts of risks in this environment.
Optical illusion means you’ll see this black and white picture look different
Doctor Who’s Legend of the Sea Devils Set to Air on Easter Sunday
I agree. Build process with Kotlin feels slower. And the many features in Kotlin tempt me to write "syntactically clever" code that is harder to read later than plain stupid Java. Still love some of them :) although Java is catching up.
Leaving your comfort zone inspires motivation, growth
It's probably true in fast food, not all commercial kitchens.
Very cool concept, but doesn't the institution still require you to evaluate students in the end?
And yet the US government will do nothing it actually change the ridiculous way we do tax filing in the US.
Matching drugs to DNA is 'new era of medicine'
Adds even more politics to tech decisions. Seems obvious what the result will be.
That first study was for conventional CAFO beef, it breaks down the component blue water usage from corn, soy, hay, grains, etc.
By requiring that government services use regularly audited open source products.
This is why anonymity is important. Having grew up in the 80's getting internet in the 90's, using "real names" online was unthinkable.
> But if you've been interviewing you should have an intuition for what you can expect.

Indeed. I have talked to recruiters at companies like Stripe, Square and Facebook who say they are willing to negotiate up to U$480k to hire a person with my experience and skills. Unfortunately, the invitations were coincidentally scheduled during my on-call shift, so I missed some of the interviews, which resulted in early rejections.

I can probably talk to them again, if Apple is unwilling to negotiate a bit more.

Maybe I should do that now: get offers from one of them and tell Apple, because, as someone else said in this thread: “You need two offers before joining any tech company.”
Indeed. One could just do `diff $(jq . $fileOne) $(jq . $fileTwo)` and you'll end up with a "nice enough" diff even if $fileOne and $fileTwo were very differently formatted.
>Imagine going into a restaurant and saying "I really don’t enjoy a medium rare steak please make it medium well" and having the chef say "ok fine but medium rare steak is the best way to enjoy it so I made it medium rare despite what you previously explicitly told me enjoy".

This actually happened to me, and it is how I learned that "well done" steak does not mean the same as "well done" on an exam.

I've been enjoying rare to medium rare ever since.
They knew the location of where he made calls previously as well, enough to booby trap it with an explosive:

> The Russians did have the technology to track a satellite phone call but Dudayev never spoke long enough on the phone for a plane to get airborne and find him to launch an attack.

> A Russian unit on the ground, however, did identify the gully as a place which Dudayev visited and planted a booby trap bomb there.

> A combination of events leading up to Dudayev's death worked well in favour of the Russians.

> When Dudayev made his fateful call from the gully, a plane was already airborne.

> Once it was known that Dudayev was in the gully, the booby trap bomb was detonated and moments afterwards a rocket hit its target.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/325347.stm
> please report them to your local DPA

That requires an unreasonable amount of effort, and at least in the UK the DPA is completely useless, corrupt and/or incompetent.
Is Kaspersky Safe to Use?
Kaspersky has links with Russian Intelligence and Germany has recently issued a warning about using its products. Is it safe to use Kaspersky or is Kaspersky a rootkit.
Is Scala still in trend?
It's the "Lead-crime" hypothesis, not "mercury-crime" hypothesis, largely driven by the phase out of leaded gasoline and lead paint, and correlated drops in crime after that.
If the search results were perfect you'd never look at an ad.
Still working on it! I'd say the biggie was finding myself at a not-quite-FAANG-tier SV company where suddenly I'm surrounded by people who are all amazing. Where you have to prove your accomplishments to get promoted rather than just being handed promotions because you're "good at your job". Some mentorship. Some reading. Being encouraged to look farther down the road (which implies it's okay to not 'get things done' between standups). Honestly, lots of self-reflection and looking around. FWIW I'd say I have about 25 years in the industry, so, it didn't come to me quickly or early.
>It came about due to https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 leading to DDs fearing being individually targeted due to how they did or did not vote.

This is but 1 example; but this alone literally is called infighting. Your example proves me right. Let's not forget how debian also went after Linus. How they have gone after how many other developers?

>On matters like this vote (please read it!), not so much. Maybe it's OK for the voting record to be public, but any individual harassment that might follow would be out of order and is a good reason to make such votes private.

Oh I understand all too well what's going on.
Aha, I think we misunderstood your initial post. You meant "non-English and non-FIGS" languages. Thanks for replying with additional context. I definitely learned a few things.

I see what you mean about Flutter having to download the 16+ MB CJK fonts and lack of visibility for extensions trying to read DOM text. It's possible there's fixes for some of these: the browser local font API could make your local system's fonts available to the Flutter runtime, which would be significantly faster, and the accessibility object model could make content visible to extensions (but only if they were rewritten to read AOM data!).

Also TIL about "reconversion" in CJK IMEs. Pretty neat!

I'm working with some of these same issues right now with a web-based PDF viewer app that runs PDFium in WebAssembly. Trying to make PDF content visible to extensions, IMEs, etc. the same way DOM content is turns out to be quite difficult.

Still, all of this works out of the box with DOM content. It's frustrating how many of these things have given up on "render to DOM".
Is shooting in RAW important? Are we just talking about PNG/JPG artefacts and general lossiness of lossy compression?
This in turn crowds out the true subcultures and emerging behavior.

Are true subcultures like true scotsmen?
Go is a wonderful language, what are you talking about

Cloud native language of choice for a reason ;)
Also stuff like https://sunlightfoundation.com
I'll attempt explaining in my own words with the risk of exposing my lack of understanding. I'm currently in the office, so I don't have the book with me. So this is from the top of my head.

In Weyl and Posner's book "Radical Markets" they motivate quadratic voting as outlined as a way of preference voting where a voter's desire intensity is represented in the vote.

Their argument is practically outlined in the pollution + city example I make in the original blog post and where, with the sloppy figure I have attached [1], they reason geometrically that "Nils" should "pay" for reducing the electricity plant's pollution. If you look closely at that figure (which is nicer in the book), you can see that the plane where the cost functions intersect is a triangle.

I can't fully reproduce the mathematical reasoning here, but how I understood it is that dependent on Nils's choice, the externality he imposes has quadratic cost given that the triangle's change is affected quadratically. In an isosceles triangle, where volume V is defined dependent on two same length sides, I can see that work out. But I've never worked through that.

More intuitively, an example, I'm just making up is if you're annoyingly snorting during a visit to the cinema.

If you're the only person snorting and you think that's OK, but nobody else can understand the dialogue - you're not only wasting your money but everybody else's. It's quadratic because of the opportunity cost of everybody wasting 2 hours but having all paid for the film. So both the cost of the cinema running the movie for two hours and everybody paying but not understanding makes your snorting square the cost. Does that make sense? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

So essentially, if Nils is picky with anti-pollution, his pickiness costs the town's society quadratically - which is why he should pay the quadratic cost of his pickiness during governance.

references:

- 1: https://timdaub.github.io/assets/images/cost-of-externality....
Both the related phenomena you cite are fictional. Maybe find better supporting examples.
I don't see where it backs up your claim that "People holding opinions without any evidence is a modern plague". Don't pearlclutch about presenting opinions without evidence without providing the evidence you expect from others.
I use meld and it seems syntax aware plus it can do merge with a click, how will difftastic diff in that regard?
Life has to be worth living, otherwise there's no point.
> Because it is much easier, you don't have to build and maintain parsers for hundreds of languages.

Seems there's a good open market for such a lazy reason.