skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed with my current company (where we work mostly-remote) last year. One of my interviewers was a very sharp, experienced, and nice developer. After I learned they were going to make me an offer, I emailed my interviewers, and this developer emailed me back saying he was looking forward to working together.

The week before I started, he passed away in a car accident. I was really looking forward to working with him, but I never got the opportunity.

As soon as I found out, I again emailed everyone I knew at the company to express my condolences.

When on-boarding I said “I know I’m joining at a rough time for the team”. It turned out it was the day after his funeral (which I found out my manager and at least some devs attended). They didn’t seem to be expecting empathy from a brand new hire, but some folks were obviously still mourning. I’m glad I acknowledged their loss. We didn’t dwell on it, but it might have been really awkward if I had just charged like a bull into a China shop saying “I’m so psyched to be joining your team!!!” as if nothing had happened.

In my inbox, I also found an email from our CEO to the whole company (about 100 employees) from the week of his passing.

There is also an archived Slack channel to memorialize him where different folks who knew him shared their fond memories. The company established an annual teamwork award in his name. And a lot of folks contributed to a GoFundMe for his son’s education.

All of these things are strong indicators that I’m at an awesome company. We don’t say we’re “a family” (don’t believe it if your company or prospective company claims that - often it’s an outright lie and otherwise it’s code for a toxic culture with no boundaries), but we do care about each other.

No matter your position, if empathy doesn’t come naturally, learn it. It will serve you in so many situations in life.
Unbiased media reporting can simply say 'the Russians claim' and there you go.

America/NATO and Ukraine can claim what they want in the media and are quoted constantly.

There is a lack of non-aligned third-party verification of anything in this conflict so it's the least the media can do.

If you would like to see what putting arms in the hands of fundamentalists to fight for the US/NATOs side see Syria, Iraq, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Libya etc
Thank you for putting in the effort!

For those who don’t know, if you don’t need the book or media back, you can mail the artifact to the Internet Archive’s San Francisco address and it will be added to their catalog as processing capacity permits. I’m sending them a family members’s extensive LP collection when they pass, for example.

https://help.archive.org/help/how-do-i-make-a-physical-donat...
Firstly the effect size is tiny. Doubt it’s significant. Do we need 2 more patients to develop dementia in the exposed group to make them the same?

Secondly if there were an effect, it might be the condition they’re treating someone for is protective.

Punchline:
“Lithium-exposed patients were more likely to be married, cohabiting or in a civil partnership, to be a current/former smoker, to have used antipsychotics, and to have comorbid depression, mania/bipolar affective disorder (BPAD), hypertension, central vascular disease, diabetes mellitus, or hyperlipidemias. No significant difference between the 2 groups was observed for other characteristics, including age, sex, and alcohol-related disorders. In the exposed cohort, 53 (9.7%) patients were diagnosed with dementia, including 36 (6.8%) with Alzheimer disease (AD) and 13 (2.6%) with vascular dementia (VD). In the unexposed cohort, corresponding numbers were the following: dementia 3,244 (11.2%), AD 2,276 (8.1%), and VD 698 (2.6%)”
I do not know if it is the norm but I have also worked at an organization where one employee committed suicide. Leadership said nothing and everything was toned down. Some people spoke up and complained though. My interpretation is that the response was a combination of culture (although suicide is not "taboo" here it is not a preferred topic) and not wanting to bring undue attention to the organization.
the real number is what someone else is willing to offer to buy this company

i’d give $30, but only because of the domain name :D
It wont break it. You can send and receive the messages. To decrypt it, you will need the same app as the sender used.
Basically how it works with email. If you pgp encrypt the message and the receiver only has smime at the moment, they wont be able to read your message.

This .eu thing is about platforms providing an api to connect and exchange data. It's not about what data etc can and cannot be used.
> state-approved cruelty of effectively euthanizing elderly

Unless I got the discussion completely backwards, the point here was that these homes are not run by the state. They are either private or by small municipalities, and are not really intended to provide medical care in the same way as hospitals do.

There are probably a lot of details here that's not at all obvious to an outsider of the system, exactly how the care is organized, paid for, and what medical facilities they can access, but I hope that they can learn and improve from this so the next pandemic do not hit the elderly quite this bad.

That some other countries may or may not have been hit worse does not make it any better. This is not a competition.
I think this makes sense in countries without a public healthcare system but not in countries with one because everyone is paying for your illness. I feel the same about motorcycle helmets and seat belts.
The burden is on the commenter to distinguish their comment from sickening tropes of inhumanity.

It's astonishing how quickly these things come back to the surface and feel ok and perfectly justified. They're not ok, they're not justified, and this is no way to react to the atrocities and suffering happening right now.
It’s already a PWA app.
Do you happen to know whether the individual watermarking thing works? By which I mean, do these typically end up on torrent sites?
I agree that companies should be less exploitative and generally evil, but that doesn't subtract from this particular case. I agree that it can be done cynically though, and that's messed up.
Just to clarify, the intent in my comment is that a whole bunch of the terms used there aren't "fluid associations" for me as a C developer. There's no issue looking them up, but they aren't what I would choose to name these containers.

(e.g. I would just call it "refcnt_ptr" and "heap" [if it is one], respectively)
I saw someone bring a Brompton as carry-on, with the caveat that it was up front on an international flight (lots of bin space).
Having your email on Google is not a risk

That is like the highest risk I can think of. Losing future emails that are sent to that email, losing all connected accounts, losing access to services/websites they decide to send a confirmation mail
> just pick something and go for it. Do it well - be excellent.

It's funny that another Jack Black movie, "The School of Rock" (2003), has a similar message: Do what you love because you love it. Even if you are not very good at it, you can find a way to fit it into your life.
https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/the-school-of-roc...

Another movie that shows this lesson is the 2013 documentary "Salinger": Be driven by making your work great, not by the reactions of others.
https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/salinger/

Which is influenced by Hinduism, "you should do your work as perfectly as you possibly can with no thought of rewards, and only that way can you be a really happy person.”
Sadly its cases like these that reinforce basic life concepts. Does developing Android apps really hold enough value for someone to wrap their entire livelihoods around? I realize people can make big money doing this, but is this really something worthwhile spending your life doing? Maby from an ecosystem standpoint it's no different than developing on some other environment. But the Google pool is simply too small to put years of your life into something that can be canceled at the drop of a hat by an uncaring robotic overlord. Or maby I'm making too big of a deal out of it, maby this was just a side-project that only received 10 hours a week of their time. It still sucks as it was a fun passion project. The same question rises up though. If you are making money with a project, try to not to give too much value away to the landlord. If one landlord can with a single robotic keystroke wipe you out rethink what you are doing from the ground up.

It's not dissimilar from others in the FAANG ecosystem. Someone that's all in on Apple: uses Apple Pay, @mac.com email, etc. They change the credit card they have tied to Apple pay, some mistake happens, and then a month later they lose access to their email and other majorly important services they rely on. Very inconvenient, if it happens when you are traveling abroad you could be screwed pretty bad. People are learning slowly: never keep all your technology eggs in one landlords basket. Some day, some how, you will make a mistake. Whether it's your fault or not, or you expressed an unpopular opinion, your project/livelihood/life/etc. will get deactivated with no remorse.
The Internet Archive will continue to rely on its own infrastructure to perform crawls. You can take corporate handouts without becoming beholden to the corporation.
Thanks for noticing that - didn't realize those went away. Will fix.

By the way, Japan is probably the densest in terms of available pianos: https://pianos.pub/location/japan
You need a global frame of reference to solve a global problem. You can get one on your own terms, or wait and be domesticated by legislation.
> These are false equivalencies to the question of restricting raw milk consumption. E.g., it’s illegal to not wear a seat belt because i don’t want a stranger splattered on my windshield - that affects me yet i would have had no choice in the matter.

Others can get contagious diseases from milk. That affects you. You didn't make the choice to drink that raw milk.

> Think about the question of limiting lead content in food stuff; the equivalency would be bacterial testing requirements in raw milk, not the restriction of consumption of raw milk. You can support advances in microbiology and hygiene without legally restricting raw milk consumption. The consumption of tuna isn’t illegal yet undoubtedly if you ate tuna every day for a few months you would likely contract lead poisoning!

The gigantic difference there is that it only takes one bad bottle of milk to kill you or make you seriously ill whereas eating something with slightly elevated lead content won't do much and only becomes a problem with long term exposure. I'm also pretty sure you don't check the lead content of every batch, but instead do sampling. You can't do that with milk because as noted it only takes one.
I know hand waving about customers is a common startup tactic, but if it’s true that they’ve landed a couple prime customers after years of stealth development, then it makes at least some sense:

> Island CEO Michael Fey tells TechCrunch that the investment is a result of “very fortunate” customer demand since it launched in February.

> “Our team has been able to secure business across a wealth of sectors and organization sizes.”
It means that even if you still use the default iOS messaging app, your contacts can use other messaging apps, rather than being locked into iMessage and therefore the Apple ecosystem. It breaks down some of the barriers to competition for new mobile OSes and messaging apps. This is a good thing.
In any country a certain part of the population holds extreme views. If the military represents more or less the population then by necessity it will contain some fascists etc. If anything, you would not expect many vegans or non-violence activists in the military, but you would certainly expect to see those people that love power, weapons and the language of force, which correlates quite strongly with fascist views.

Op did not claim that the whole military is fascist.
Ok, fair enough. Can you provide a video that is more realistic then?
Do they just watch on DVD resolution to select special effect winner? 1080p resolution and Blu ray has been with us for 15 years and they are still on DVD?
What does "If you buy from carrier you can opt too the Pixel" mean? Sorry if I am being dense.
I don't think standards are the problem.

I think a wave of new standards causes issues like the above, and eventually this gets worked out.

Not all "standards" in practice become standard. We learn a lot of "standards" were bad ideas, and they eventually get tossed out and most people forget anyone was ever trying to make that a thing.
I live in western Canada -- I can assure you there is no lack of arable farmland.

What we lack is western governments that:

- Understand where fertilizer comes from, and how to create billions of tons of it from raw materials available in western Canada.

- Stops crushing small business and farmers, by forcing them to pay 10x to 100x more in total compliance, regulatory and taxation costs than the big businesses that lobby the government and create the compliance, regulatory and taxation laws

- Are forcibly stopped by their citizenry from abusing them for generations.
It’s hard for me to understand how this can be implemented at all as described by the regulator quotes in the article.

The regulators make some pretty strong promises that I just don’t think are possible - “E2E Multigroup messaging across platforms will come soon.” Unless E2E means “Device -> Telegram bridge server which decrypts -> facebook messenger bridge which reencrypts -> facebook messenger client app which decrypts” Then this regulator imagines all “large” messaging companies are either going to maintain separate crypto libraries for each messaging target on the ‘big company’ list, or that they are all going to use the same E2E encryption tech. Both of those ideas are fantasies; not possible in the slightest for a combination of technical and regulatory reasons.

If on the other hand, they are imagining that they’ll force large messaging companies to implement non-broken, open APIs for interaction with their messaging services, then I would love that, Apple especially. Actually, WeChat especially, then Apple. It would be a significant change in model for FB and Apple to allow devs in, and a massive change for WeChat.
There's a fine line between advocating for collective punishment and just acknowledging the fact that populations who more-or-less fail to advocate and/or work towards responsible government within their own countries will eventually reap what they've been (perhaps inadvertently) sowing-- if only by getting caught in the resulting cross-fire. The latter is an important point and it should not go unsaid in such a challenging situation. No one sane is happy about average Russians' current predicament. But it is what it is.
> Actual neo-nazis are hated here much more than anywhere elese since we hate their guts after being ocupied by nazis in WW2 and commies in USSR (almost everyone i know have parents or grandparents who suffered from either or both), so anyone being openly nazi is met with extreme prejudice here.

What a load of bullshit. The OUN which committed literal genocide[0] during WW2 is now openly celebrated. Stepan Bandera, the leader of the OUN was posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine.

And the whole Wolfsangel and Black Sun are not neo-Nazi symbols argument is the same as claiming the Confederate battle flag represents Southern heritage.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacres_of_Poles_in_Volhynia...
I think the ability to target more restrictively would be a fantastic addition, largely because I could imagine the tags being used in a way the example doesn't cover: DC/AZ/Region tags.

I don't know that a full parser for Boolean logic is necessary - even having a complimentary `-T` option that takes mandatory tag names might be enough.

I'm curious about the ability to upload stuff too. Right now I mostly use a tool I wrote in shell several years ago (unimaginatively called `remote-install.sh`) that basically tars up a directory (minus exclude rules), sends it to the remote host, untars it to a tmp dir, and then runs the specified command (via sudo if specified).

But it's very much a one-at-a-time process.

Meanwhile a deployment helper script I wrote is very much a multiple-at-once process, and so it's multiple background SSH processes.

I could see both of these likely being candidates for using tricorder.

One interesting thing I don't see on your roadmap would be some way to have per-host data sent (i.e. a way to perhaps set some args to a command/script on a per-host basis, or perhaps a way to define environment variables to set per-host, and the script invocation could reference those)... Maybe this is part of the 'send data' stage, and it just has the ability to substitute a few vars when determining what so send. So e.g. `--send-file "%id%.env" --send-file "script.sh --send-file "data.foo"` would interpolate the `%id%` substring with the target's ID from the TOML file, allowing to send a customised file per-host.. Anyway. Just a thought!
If you can’t restrain yourself from childish insults, you’ll probably get banned. It also makes everyone think you’re a child, and they will ignore your arguments because of it.

Also, it’s “butt hurt”. Please try and at least spell your insults correctly, they lose a lot of their impact when riddled with typos.

> west proceeds to deeply fuck with ukraine for 8 years while russia repeats the above and totally ignores it

There is a reason why I accuse those who take this line of being chauvinists. First of all, for the past 8 years Ukraine has been begging for Western weapons and assistance, because Russia had already invaded their territory. You’re ignoring the fact that Ukraine has their own agenda and own initiative, and they can request assistance legitimately.

Second, “mess with Ukraine and we’ll invade” is not a legitimate stance to take. Ukraine is a sovereign nation, not a Russian puppet state that Putin can put claims on. Especially when that “messing” is in the form of legitimate arms deals between sovereign nations. Russia can complain all it wants, but Ukraine trying to buy Javelins is not a legitimate casus belli.

Third, again, Putin made it very clear in his initial speech that he views Ukraine as a fake state, which is wildly out of line with the argument you’re trying to make, and much more characteristic of Russian chauvinism towards Ukraine.
I agree completely. The title — even though it’s the original — should be changed because it’s deceptive; e.g. by replacing “prevents” with “could prevent”.
Italian scientists hacked pizza physics to make dough without yeast
I moved my work domain off Google, too, and Calendar has been a huge hassle. It keeps eating invites from other people using Google Calendar unless they explicitly opt to send an email invitation.
The only thing still keeping me on Ubuntu is the font rendering that somehow looks so much better than any other distro, otherwise I would've already switched to another distro because of snap.

I feel like I've never seen anybody actually like snap.
:) Yeah there are a few "false positives". I flag them manually and have flagged this one so it will disappear soon...
Probably a better idea for school kids where it makes sense to lock down their chromebooks. But that market is much smaller than “enterprise” and Google has probably figured it out already there. This just seems like a concept for enterprise that isnt really a solution to anything
Let’s not get defeatist and give up. Europe is implementing a carbon border adjustment, and the U.S. is discussing this as well. If implemented correctly this should reduce the financial incentive to offshore emissions and create one for other countries to reduce their own.
Flatpak is incredibly useful for installing proprietary software.

I use it for Spotify, Zoom, Slack among others.

Installing and updating Flatpak apps for proprietary software works very well.
> For example, the Island browser gives security teams control over simple functionality such as copy-and-paste, screen capture and content downloads. It also places limits on the kinds of extensions that can be installed and the domains that can be visited.

Honestly, the day this landed on my work machine would be the day I turned in my notice.
Flatpak apps usually come with quite open privileges, however the user can completely configure this themselves and restrict the access of an application to quite a reasonable degree. Unless you distrust the sandbox of Flatpak, I don't see a need for containers.
It's a very important observation you made about various theories. I find that in medicine, almost always counter evidence of an established belief is either completely ignored or explained way casually.
HN: all these closed silos are bad, they should be open

EU: mandates that at least a part of the silos such as messaging should be open

HN: no, not like that
It sounds distasteful only because the vast majority of bosses out there aren't worthy of the mantle. An individual's relationship with their immediate boss is one of those intimate things in life and it deserves sanctity.

Help your people and don't be a dick and you'll be amazed at the bounty of unearned gratitude that comes back around -- and often not just once, but continuing for years. Being a good boss is "the gift that keeps giving" to good bosses everywhere.
It'll take 3 years to get the EIS and permits in order, in the most liberal jurisdictions. 3x that in more officious places.

Even if you take today's raised prices as permanent, what's the expected profit margin? Seems like bitcoin mines are a far safer investment.

"Where can I invest in that?" ... If you actually want it to happen, invest where you live and where you can participate.
This is its most egregious sin, IMHO. Imagine low level system software with such a high opinion of itself that it thinks it deserves a front and center place in your home directory for you to look at every single day.

We don't have ~/ssh or ~/dconf do we? We've had the XDG spec for decades now - this selfish decision makes me so irrationally angry that it's the one reason I'd switch to Fedora to avoid snaps.
Snap is probably that thing that the people who do use it or don't mind it, don't notice it.
Morbig – A Static Parser for Posix Shell
Biden Administration Plans to Offer Second Booster Shots to Those 50 and Up
This argument is total oil company propaganda. Raw materials do not pollute. Their mining and manufacture does, but that again is because of oil consumption in an outdated manufacturing chain.
Burning oil produces CO2. It is chemically impossible to avoid this. Manufacturing silicon and harvesting lithium do not produce CO2, and these processes can be cleaned up.
I'm a linux power user (kernel hacking level) and wanted Fedora so much to work for me. Every single time there were severe issues with getting it even installed. First two failed attempts took place on my dell laptop, the last two on my dual socket workstation with Nvidia GPU.

All four times was an exercise in a lot of googling, hacking configurations,etc. Sadly it was always too much work and I eventually gave up.

Hopefully one day the experience is seamless and I never have to go back to Ubuntu.
Most public pianos are fleeting - usually they eventually get vandalized or destroyed by weather. For this website, if its not seen again for a few months then its "likely not available" (but maybe worth a check)
Lithium mining itself uses a LOT of water. It is weird to see the article talking about how geothermal is all we need to enable lithium mining when these areas have significant issues with water usage already.