skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this, I know this. Today the Census dropped data showing there was a net population loss in SF and NYC. If you look at a map of energy use by county (e.g. Google image search for “energy by county”) it shows folks leaving places like NYC and SF are going to increase their energy use.
Was a QA engineer. Yes the company I was working with had a full blown massive 100-150 QA engineers working full time. Manual Testers, Automated Testers, Managers managing them, Test Case documenters. The QA and the dev team worked very very closely.
That's some serious mental gymnastics there, too. I refuse to pay for YT premium because of the abusive relationship Alphabet/Google/YouTube has with my family, my devices, and me.

Bless the musicians, every one.
There isn't any anonymity. Google "partners" with many ISPs (Comcast, for example), co-locates equipment, and they can link your current DHCP address to your customer name. It doesn't matter whether you even have an account with a Google service.

Before they had ISP account data, they knew the DHCP pool sizes and watched DNS lookups to identify users with a sufficient accuracy for most purposes. Most people visit a specific handful of sites, often at specific times or in a specific order.

For users coming in countries with better privacy laws, or through ISPs too small to be "partnered", Google buys tracking cookie information from various sources. There are hundreds (thousands?) of companies in that business. Cookie tracking isn't as good for finding your specific identity, but it's very specific about where you go and what you look at, which is primo information for marketing purposes.
If you're getting frustrated at how thin the commentary column is, make your screen width less than 1800px wide; there's a bug in their CSS for wider breakpoints!
Once you get the door open you can usually plug a programmer into the OBD-2 port under the steering wheel and pair a new key fob, then drive away.

Back in the day it was pretty easy to get the door open like this

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Slim-Jim
Learned this one the hard way. Events are definitely the way to go. You can guarantee perfect synchronization of state if you use it carefully (i.e. as a log you replay as needed).
Bitlbee + libpurple has the best of both worlds.
NewPipe does this, too :)
The technology is well established now. I've noticed a similar kind of solution in the Python community, swatting flies with sledgehammers becomes the norm because modern machines can often take it. Until they can't.
> To do this, we stored light particles in a tiny box made of mirrors," explains Dr. Julian Schmitt of the IAP, who is a principal investigator in the group of Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz. "The more photons we put in there, the denser the photon gas became."

This seems like the kind of clever but also crazy thing a kid would come up with based on limited information about the world, but that definitely doesn't work.

There's got to be more to it than this description... right? Or this is one of those things where a physicist said "mirror" but actually means something totally different that no normal person would call a mirror, as physicists seem to do often and which causes so very much misunderstanding of physics?
Is this a joke? European banks are much much more yield starved than their American counterparts. Your bonds have negative yield and pretty much every type of investment is more profitable in the US than in Europe. That's why big EU banks like Deutsche Bank or Credit Suisse have been severely underperforming, and thats why housing bubbles in Europe are much more severe (Spain, Greece, Portugal, etc)

You are literally describing the opposite of the truth.
Your own statement reveals your bias. I never described a behavior or expectation, but and embedded genetically-shaped characteristic.
Your accusation of me being "bigoted" is a stereotypical "extreme leftist" / "woke" accusation based on no fact.
While working as an executive for eBay in Germany, the company made it totally clear on many occasions what illegal behaviour is and that they would take action. And the standards were the higher US standards not the lower German ones.
Yes indeed if Google can't adapt it should die instead of being a monopole and just staying alive by abusing the dominant position.
No innovation and abuse of the dominant position will lead to the dark ages, Google dying because not adapting will actually let other smaller companies to thrive and innovate in it's place.
FTFA:

>pro-Russian Kyiv is vital to Moscow because:

The presence of a pro-Western EU/NATO member state on the Northern European Plain (a corridor straight into Russia) is too great a threat to allow...<

The idea that today one can use flat-earth geography in warfare just as was done in previous centuries is fatally flawed. Mountains and rivers remain effective barriers to men, horses and tanks but aircraft/missiles/drones
go right over them.

Thinking in terms of of 12th-17th (and even older) century battles and bold cavalry charges is a mistake on today's "battlefield".
Agreed that the US Supreme Court decision on the Citizens United case was terrible and we are suffering the consequences of an an alternate indirect form of bribery as you point out. But this is head and shoulders above direct bribery which we still thankfully classify as illegal. The US has room to improve but let’s not regress just because we’re not 100% of the way there.
It still is.

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-allegations...
Even in that light bribes are still bad. With a tax I can look at the law and know exactly how much I need to pay, and also how much my competition paid. That later is a big deal, if my competitor different from me, then they have an advantage over me (sometimes this is a larger bribe ensuring better service, sometimes it is a cheaper bribe would have done the same).

Also, bribes are not always money. Many are paid in sex. Not only does this exploit women (as if that isn't bad enough), but it also means it may not be every possible for me to compete so long as the woman my competitor got is willing.
The lead maintainer of Pidgin (Gary Kramlich) frequently livestreams his work on Twitch.

https://twitch.tv/rw_grim
You ever watch the NFL scouting Combine? It's a stat every recruiter looks at for most sports. As a competitive volleyball player I (and my coach) obsessed over a 5% increase that came from years of training.

The evidence that you can train for the SAT is pretty scarce.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-3984....
https://nepc.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/Briggs_Theeffe...
https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/sat-prep-courses-do-the...
Why would anyone be shocked?

This is how business is done in most of the world.

If it's a 'standard practice' - then it is 'accounted for' and effectively part of the equation.

How else do you think think the states vast wealth trickles out to it's citizens?

The $10M Bribe to the Minister of Education goes t pay for the construction of his Mansion, staff, services.

What 'mostly matters' in these kinds of situations frankly is de facto transparency and efficacy.

If the ration are 'understood' and actually well-strutted, then there's a kind of de-facto transparency. In the case of a rich state like Qatar, it might actually be better than simply having nothing.

You could argue the 'lack of competitiveness' from MSFT bids given alternatives, but in many cases it really might not matter, the 'winner' was a fait-accompli anyhow.

When this is Nigeria, and the state is providing it's citizens with nothing, then it's much more of a problem.

I should also note that this is a function of the regional system, not MS.

MS is playing the game that's handed to them. Their alternative choice is to pull out of all of those markets, and hand them over to other businesses who operate that way.

The 'problem' should mostly be directed at state agencies setting up the system.

There should be more analysis and journalism on this kind of stuff, particularly because it does happen in countries wherein 'regular people' do end up paying the price, but the focus should on the agencies, not businesses who would otherwise play fairly.

This is a nuanced issue and we should not be 'shocked and horrified' by it, this almost implies a serious kind of naivte.

We need to recognise that it's complicated before just trying to 'blame MSFT'.
Ah! You mean like adopting service buses for everything and watching them lose messages consistely. :)
please refer to the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.
If my 61 year old dad asked me how to get into programming, I'd recommend they go to a company that was involved in the Software Craftsmanship model that had a long apprenticeship period. I'd recommend this because I've had prior experience working in such a company (8th Light -- Chicago office) and I think that such an environment would set them up for success because while the learning is very self-directed, there is a lot of oversight and involvement in a constructive way by other developers who want to see the apprentice succeed. That isn't to say you couldn't find the same thing at another company but the Software Craftsmanship approach, if done well, would not be as random as the ad hoc experience you might get on the job at another company. A further benefit of working at a consulting company like 8th Light as, if you progress past the apprenticeship, you would be working on a variety of projects in an environment that is focused on doing the job well so the exposure would be a to a wider breadth of the industry (more languages/stacks/team dynamics/etc).
Just to expand/add nuance to your comment about controversy:

It's pretty uncontroversial that cancer screening for women above 50 years old or women with high risk (e.g. familial or genetic evidence or risk, history of cancer/treatment) is a net beneficial procedure.

For asymptomatic, low-risk women aged 40-49, the recommendations are a bit more mixed. While there is some evidence that overall mortality does improve, there are also considerable harms (physical, emotional, financial) associated with false positives and "overdiagnosis" (that is, identifying and treating low-grade non-invasive lesions that are unlikely to progress to breast cancer).
Lisp: "List processing". Clojure doesn't even have cons cells... A Lisp without cons cells is like a C derivative without pointers...is it really C at that point? I'd also question the "profound belief that recursion is more intuitive than loops" since Lisp supports loops extremely well -- better than most languages, since you can build up your own iterative constructs using tagbody. And Clojure doesn't even have proper tail calls, so I doubt that Clojure actually believes in recursion.
There I think are a number of viable male birth control options already, but most of them never come to market. This is because it's nearly impossible to get men to invest in preventing the risk of pregnancy. Aside from condoms, unfortunately the vast majority of heterosexual men are programmed to offload that risk mitigation onto women.
As a Clojure developer, I'm very grateful for this information. Thank you! My development environment is OpenJDK plus a bunch of Docker containers (I use Docker extensively to contain/freeze various dumpster fires like projects that use npm and thus restore sanity to long-term development).

I'm still afraid to make the jump to M1.
Unarmed drones spot for artillery and help coordinate ambushes and assaults. They've proven invaluable.
Counterpoint -- tilts and shots of people standing up are framed very nicely in portrait. Humans might have widescreen vision, but we are vertical creatures physically.

To be clear, I totally think landscape is the correct choice for a lot of things, my original comment was mostly directed at the idea that vertical is somehow not a valid artistic choice.
SSH port forwarding explained with sketches (2019)
While I agree with it overall, endlessly nitpicking every line of an article, even unimportant throwaway ones, means people aren't going to stick around long enough to read your real arguments.
Unsure if you’re doing this already or have plans to, but I highly recommend creating a group account on Mangadex and put the upload links in for each Manga you have license to. This way you can leverage the large audience of Mangadex and the apps that use it’s API , and advertise directly to your possible target audience for free. As a legal means of reading manga in the US Mangadex is your friend, not your enemy.
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> ... a unicorn fart in every mug, easy peasy

I thought that was pretty clear sarcasm
I’ve been researching OBD-2 port physical locks, since I drive doorless most of the summer. Not much available.
That doesn’t change the fact that LAPSUS$ are bad people. My mother thinks I’m “very good with computers” because I can fix her printer when she’s having printer issues. What you consider “advanced skills” is vastly different to parents of a different generation that are relatively new to computers.
Maybe check out other posts on the blog to see how they did it? They've done epistemic spot checks on book chapters. It sounds like a lot of work!

Looks like these blog posts are tagged:

https://acesounderglass.com/tag/epistemicspotcheck/
Hundreds of gene regulatory motifs cooperate and conflict to make brain cells
Are people still using contact forms? – a UX research case study (2018)
My favorite is the 50% test case. If you flip a coin as a test and ascribe heads to true, 50% of the time it will describe what's happening accurately.

So if you want to know "Has the Sun exploded?" you can flip a coin, assign heads to "Yes the Sun has exploded", and 50% of the time it will be correct.

You flip a coin, you get heads. You decide to flip the coin again, and you get heads again! What are the odds the Sun has exploded?
I would not hire anybody with a crypto startup on their resume.
looks like this is a variant of the other "portable mini thermal printers" available on aliexpresss https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002247175933.html

possible these are compatible or at least similar enough, many similar products re-use modules and microcontrollers.
In the Hacker News bubble, working for anywhere is a negative on your CV. Amazon treats its warehouse employees badly, Google creates a surveillance state and bows to authoritarians, Facebook drives engagement with hate/dissent, AirBnB is causing a housing crisis by turning long term rentals into short term rentals, Apple has Chinese sweatshops, Netflix and Spotify run controversial content, Uber/Doordash/Lyft/Instacart exploit gig workers, etc.

In reality, practically nobody cares and most employers are more than happy to hire experienced engineers who happened to work at some employers who did sketchy things.

But, if we're going to drill down into the ethics of crypto startups, I think they come out looking pretty good in comparison.

It's worth noting that the author of this post works at Hubspot which literally had an entire book written about how its workplace culture was highly discriminatory, particularly against older workers.("Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble ")

Engineers in glass houses....
Thanks for saying what needs to be said. I can't stand the greybeards arguing about Docker whenever it's mentioned.
C# isn't the unholy incantations of unmaintainable cargo cult development. I don't care if its faster, I care if I have to weep for hours prior rewriting ungodly spaghetti. I've written code in many languages professionally, in the hierarchy of fuckery I've seen done in order to write code php is worse than perl, which is worse than js, which is worse than sucking on the teets of the chthonic elder gods. I would rather eat a hefty bowl of my own vomit while walking across a mile of broken glass before having to maintain anything written in php.
> the offending employees passed the training

This is the definition of ineffective training :)
Agreed.

We have far better tools at our disposal and with a full mesh network of satellites providing optics, we could have an amazing early detection system with total spatial coverage.

This is the alarmist pop-sci all the sources are known for pumping out
My new portfolio website is currently up and running!

It was a fantastic experience working with React

There are always things that may be improved, but perhaps this will help me in my ongoing job quest.
Or reducing/eliminating the $800 keyfob replacement cost on my 2018 Rav4. It's the worst case of vendor lock-in and customer fleecing.
Is pidgin's Discord experience anything to write home about?
How did I forget about iChat? That brings back memories. Mac 10.4 to 10.6 was glorious. The walled gardens got higher and less fun over the 2010's. Discord works but I am probably one generation too old to appreciate the meme-heavy communication style.
But for what?
Currently, most people when they hear James Webb, they think of a telescope named after some random guy. They dont think of some guy that was insensitive or whatever to gay people. You change the name and people will then think: the telescope named after they guy that fired the gay people but was then changed to the current name. Names are names, NASA maybe shouldn’t have named it after Webb and was a mistake. How much money and controversy to we need to pay when we can just apologize or something and move on with discovering more about the universe.
Always comment your fences.
The "hackernews bubble" is full of people literally working at all these companies, so I very much doubt that's in any way an accurate representation of the average communities opinions.
ATLB is such a great book. I need to reread it now that I've learned how to take better notes.
I feel like a headline like this has popped up every year for the last 15 years.
As a caveat, I built business around the EUCD (Article 17, previously 13). It doesn't matter where the business is based. Up until you operate in EU you will have to be compliant. That said, for platforms below certain size the compliance is fairly simple which is the same you already have under the E-commerce directive.

For a context, I'm EU national that moved to US to build a business here. US does appear freer on its surface, but everything is much more convoluted. As an example, most states have at will employment rules. That means workers can leave any time they want and employers can fire them anytime they want. But then there are many other regulations and case laws that make this essentially impossible. There is a whole predatory industry that is built around this where fired workers sue for $80k because they know that a counsel for the employer will charge $100k and it's cheaper to settle.

I would much rather have clear rules of operations, even more strenuous ones than this.
The article doesn’t explain what’s wrong with condoms.

Edit: lol didn’t realize this was just a controversial question
No. I wish we did. Well, I guess we do, but we have 1 QA who is shared between 5 logical teams, over 40 developers. AKA, no, we don't.
We could have both, by having also mass produced and launched space telescopes. But who is gonna pay for them?
The point I am ultimately trying to make is that, in many cases, the reason to avoid multi-threading is because it's not actually the fastest way to do something. It's that simple.

The implicit concern (if you could not infer from the content of my link above) being that the developer community is completely blind to the performance capabilities of a single computer/core/thread in 2022 and are inclined to automatically skip over these simple solutions in favor of a multi-threaded solution.
I hope they get a version without MicroG requirement again. I like having an additional YouTube app installed that’s logged out without immediately getting the ad-infested free version. I used NewPipe in the past for that but that is constantly buffering for me and I don’t have a lick of experience with Android development to resolve that.
> how many XX people have you mistaken for XY people, and vice versa?

I have no way to know, that's my point.

Most of us have a basic biology education to drawn on that allows us to look back and in hindsight say "The men I know probably have XY and the women XX chromosones" but it's never part of the process any of us actually use.

To me, chromosones just seem like a distraction. It promises to replace all of the messy, political, social uncertainty with a polite, clinical, objective answer if only everyone would realise it's just about the biology.

The trouble is, the biology can't seem to answer the questions that are the most contentious. I have no idea what my chromosones are in reality, but I know how I'd like to live my life and mostly there's no problem, no one checks, no one asks, and if they did, how would that knowledge justify overriding my autonomy?
This is why I brought up the example of pre-tipping. It is clearly not a fee but it is generally accepted. If you hand the Valet a $20 and say please park it close, is it a tip, fee, or bribe?

How about at a bar, can you tell the bar tender "I have an extra $5 if you make it a heavy pour"?

How about attending the Salesforce conference but it's mostly because you want to visit SF and see Metallica/Chainsmokers?

We have bribes in the US, we just don't think of them as bribes.
I think you misunderstand OP. The purpose of citations is to prove facts. The argument made based on those facts does not need a citation.

Much of the time it isn't fair to ask for citations even for specific facts, but that's a separate problem.
I think there's one nuance to add: the test is based on your base rate expectation for how likely the given individual is to have the rare disease.

The more evidence you have that this person is more likely to have the disease, the more useful the test becomes. Some examples:

- if the disease is more common among people over age 65, it's more useful on people in that age group

- if the person displays more symptoms associated with the disease, and not also associated with more common diseases, then it's more useful for someone with those symptoms

- if a disease is common in an area of the world, and the person has traveled there, the test is more useful

The more factors you have, the less likely a false positive. This is why it's often better to avoid medical tests unless there's a reason to suspect someone is at elevated risk for a disease: a positive result is more likely to be a false positive.
>Packing", as in, withholding hearings on a candidate for over a year in the hopes that you could have him replaced with a partisan of your own? So that court is now nearly 70% members of your own party?

No, he is talking about packing as in expanding the number of justices beyond 9. This would entirely delegitimize the court. This is a serious and legitimate concern.

Withholding votes is another legitimate issue, but largely resolved at this point. The president selects the candidates, but you need 51 senate votes to confirm.
Don't for a second suggest that this is about 'foreign companies bribing their way into something'.

It's 100% powerful officials 'demanding kickbacks' for contracts and business - which is exactly 'the culture' that goes on in literally most of the world.

The comments here are (and I don't mean to be denigrating) naive.

Imagine that for all major contracts, say 10% will split between the buyer, possibly the 'local official' making the sale, possibly a 3rd party connection. It's been like that 'always'.

The only way this will change, is if local government require it to happen.

IKEA tried to hold out in Russia and they did for years. Until they caved paid the local mafia-ish guy his cut. And then Moscow got IKEAS. That's it. No cut, no IKEA.

IKEA does not bribe people in US, Canada, Germany. (or at least not in any systematic way)
Microsoft's Illegal Bribery