skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the collateral damage from COVID-19:

"COVID-19: Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year, says UNICEF"

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli...

"30-40 percent of minority and low-income students weren’t learning during lockdowns"

https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/coronavirus-leadi...

"We find that the pandemic led to 97 million more people being in poverty in 2020." - World Bank

https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...

"Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2–19 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a prepandemic period. Persons with prepandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases."

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm...

"Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds"

https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2031

And the civil liberties of literally billions of people were curtailed. Just India and China, which both imposed severe lockdowns, collectively have a population of 2.8 billion.

In Canada, thousands of people were locked in their room in their last year of their life:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/long-term-care-covid-...
Yeah no. I have WiFi in my home in a grudging concession to others in the family. I hate all wireless tech. It's flakey and annoying. I've never had a wireless keyboard, mouse, or headphones that were reliable either. If they weren't dropping the connection, the battery was dying.
Google got it surprisingly well with the Chromecast with Google TV, it can send a power on and off, switch input and even control the actual TV volume through CEC.
Not sure if you're talking about the Snowball or the cheaper Snowball Ice.

I have the Snowball and the sound quality is great. There's a hardware control to switch between narrow/wide pickup.
And also to point out in the parent's comment - an external threat would have to -feel like a threat-. Attacking just NYC wouldn't do it for that 35% of America; it's not a threat to them, but to those 'Demoncrats'. Hell, the de facto leader of that 35% just asked the likeliest person to orchestrate such an attack to share dirt on his political opponents here.
I have no source on this, but I don't believe NSA employees have unclassified/public email addresses. It might be common to use a "personal" email for some work-related communication like this.

On the subject of classification, that has no excuse.
End to End Feature Development at Gusto
Interesting how everyone here reads the title differently than me.

I read “where the best performers work” as not where do the best coders/employees/whatever work… I read it as people who perform the best work. Where do people who do the best performance work? And in the context of interviewing - I don’t find this particularly weird to look at. Interviews are a performance.

That said - I’m apparently a weirdo!

Also, limiting this to companies with 50+ employees who have used the platform is going to definitely only let very large companies in the analysis. Even where I’m at now (1500 eng) I would be surprised if 50+ had used the platform because 75%+ were hired in the last 1-2 years.

Also - the way everyone here critiques the rating system - what a joke. You think the rubric at these big companies is really any better? You just find a way to shove your core feeling into the rubric and that’s it.
I've never liked this nested pie chart style. I don't understand the purpose of a disk space visualizer where the area of an element on the screen doesn't really represent relative file size.

I wonder if anyone can explain what I'm missing?
That may explain why some people have more trouble with wifi than others. I have a lot of wifi devices, but I also have four ubiquiti access points with good overlapping coverage. Using wifi instead of wired ethernet costs me about 1.5ms more latency.
The "Rails Way" doesn't work at all, and in fact hinders understanding, when a new developer doesn't know the Rails conventions. If you're happy to exist and hire within one ecosystem that can be fine. Otherwise it's disastrous.
I think basically it requires machines that work in fundamentally different ways that can't be reduced to statistics, and that we'll get better at approximating intelligence for a while until we hit a wall where no amount of scale makes any big difference.
Corruption is the natural state of human affairs. Anyone who has spent enough time in a developing country knows this. I recently read that, in pre-war Ukraine, the majority of Ukrainians obtained a driver's license by bribing an official. If you tried to get a driver's license legitimately, you would spend a whole week going through a maze of bureaucracy that was designed to encourage you to give up and bribe someone. I point this out because street level corruption is not commonly heard about in European countries. People who live in developing countries run up against street level corruption on a routine basis. So it is obvious to people in those countries that there is corruption at much higher levels, if not the highest levels.

The developed Western countries have been very successful in stamping out street level corruption (most Americans are not used to bribing a cop if they get pulled over, for example), but they have turned a blind eye to corruption at higher levels. The general population in these countries are left with an impression that corruption either doesn't exist in their country, or that it is quite rare and limited. A cursory review of the state of international banks' performance in "enforcing" anti-money laundering laws, or the recent bribery record of Western insurance, energy, mining, and civil engineering companies should give pause to any thoughtful observer. Indeed, the rich, Western world's form of corruption seems far more insidious and far reaching than the stories of street level corruption in places like Afghanistan or Ukraine.
At the national level, a quick look says population/total units is holding steady, or maybe even trending lower.

1. Population: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/POPTOTUSA647NWDB
2. Housing Units: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ETOTALUSQ176N
That's a factor, but I think it's more that there was never a need for large data uplinks to Voyager, while they needed to downlink large amounts of science data.

The uplink and downlink are in different frequency bands, S-band (2-4ghz) for uplink and X-band (8-12ghz) for downlink and have different amounts of radio frequency bandwidth allocated.

Additionally, Voyager's High-gain antenna has a much narrower beamwidth in X-band at 0.5°, compared to 2.3° for S-band, though I have no idea if that's a factor.
Could be - then I would take back my comment about war with Capital. However it makes the individuals comments less clear. Who is at war with Capital i.e. factories, mines, and railroads ?!?
Problem for US hegemony. For the US, its likely a net benefit in that in buying cheap Chinese wheat, those consumers will be more able to afford expensive american ones
I'm pretty confident Japan gets shit done 5-10x faster than SF/LA/USA and people don't die building it.
Just a week ago we were on the brink of nuclear war again. How is it at all an inevitability that humanity will keep pushing technology on until the point of AGI?
Inflation adjustment takes into account the advancements though. The comparison would look a little better if we adjusted for median hourly wages instead of adjusting for inflation.
If you leak pathogen - sure. But there’s no proof of any kind that it happened, and people fear mongering greatly overestimate abilities of gain of function. It’s like Skynet vs current state of an AI.

We don’t ban pen tests, just because people who have 0 understanding of it are sacred of it.
> Start a container with SELECT run_container('<container command>');

> Stop a container SELECT stop_container('<container_id>');

This physically hurts me.

Heck being able to run a Docker container alongside your DB on the same server is probably useful, but why make it so gimmicky?
The catch in your argument is that from the outside, you manipulating code and your computer manipulating code are indistinguishable. You say the only difference is that you understand, whereas the computer doesn't. However, from the outside, there is no difference between a statement print("I understand this") running on you or a computer.
Mentally rewarding hobbies can be fruitful, though. Consider the case of Oliver Heaviside, the person who came up with Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism in the form that we use today, as well as several other useful things.

I have no doubt that he was thought a crank by many, nor that many other actual cranks were claiming discoveries based on Maxwell's work. One can only tell the difference in the rear-view mirror.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside
How the US’s strategic petroleum reserve works
There are no experts in information security. It's just random people with in depth knowledge of some tiny subsystem they happened to feel like studying. They are literally all LARPers who will fall for every single thing aside from whatever class of vulns they specialized in. There is no way to use modern systems securely. Absolutely none. Even with 20 years of study you will still find new ways they are broken and where security forgot to be implemented.

All of this is a consequence of the industry being controlled by what is essentially a 5 year old: monetary incentives.

> Able to identify and reverse scamming soon after it happens with easy ways to report it.

Just make a site with a username / password where the user gets locked out forever if he forgets it. Do banking transactions by singing them with your public key, via a phone app. This is what I was complaining about not being able to do before smart phones became a thing. This is literally better than the tripe the 'experts' come up with. All these roundabout shit ways of authenticating people just add new ways of getting phished, exploited, etc.
They just had like 100 APs and well configured roaming. I guess they carefully managed power levels and channels of each AP.

It's not much different from 4G mobile data working well at musical festivals with thousands of visitors.

IME from where I live, mobile data work well even when standing in the middle of protests of 10k people (many of them live streaming on FB and Instagram, sending selfies and photos and videos...). 100k becomes a problem though.
Yes that is the point. The Chinese room is a thought experiment meant to prove dualism.
Haters gonna hate. I love JS for small-ish projects after 25 yrs of C/C++ and ~10 year of python. I get shit done 10x to 20x faster than I'd ever get it done in most other languages.

I can't remember ever running into JS's quirks. If I did it was no different than any language's quirks.
Do they still allow listing different products on the same page, with the same reviews?

You can read reviews for a whole different model of headphones or kettle, for example, but what you get is another, (usually) cheaper model/revision. Which is insane!
The linked “StaffEng” stuff is fairly ridiculous:

“In literature, recurring character patterns are called archetypes, such as the "hero" or the "trickster," and the archetype term is helpful for labeling these frequent variants of Staff-plus engineers.”

How does anyone take this seriously?
The Fetch API, supported by browsers for over 5 years now, is only now making it into the official Node API https://blog.logrocket.com/fetch-api-node-js/
> I don't think my example was remotely "broken" at all, that's just another day doing software development.

It's not the norm for me. If this is what you consider to be the norm, then this kind of statement doesn't make me feel any better about Ruby.

I will say that Bundler is one of the better package managers, but the existence of the constraint solver doesn't fix this problem -- Bundler doesn't allow you to have multiple versions of a single dependency. The problem is fundamentally the dependency not maintaining its compatibility guarantees, which I would definitely call "broken". Sometimes breakage is unavoidable, like with security fixes that you want to be available even to users of existing SemVer versions, but it should not be a common situation.
Except the trillions (okay, maybe not trillions) of dollars would come from selling cheaper energy than everyone else? So energy prices would fall, and if there is competition, which there will be, they'd fall even more.
american legal system is already massively backed up + there is also a judge shortage

https://calmatters.org/justice/2021/01/justice-courts-overwh...

https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/insights/articles/backlo...

https://www.dcreport.org/2022/01/12/theres-a-critical-shorta...
When you have enough content to fill a second page. I'm a firm believer in the rule of "Make your point on the first page, tell your story on the second." If someone gets to the second page, show them why you stand out. List your hobbies, skills, unique projects, etc.
It’s a Ben Phillips hoax.

https://www.deviantart.com/benphillips/gallery/all

https://m.facebook.com/bedeekin.oobe

It’s extremely sus that he spelled his own name wrong and seemingly edited his name on IMDB. He’s credited in actual films as Ben Phillips (I checked the Harry Potter credits on streaming) and using the right name unlocks a lot of public context on his interests and abilities. He should be proud of the hoax because it’s fantastic but he merc’d himself when he commented on Reddit as Bedeekin. I suspect he runs the Reddit community as well as a few sock puppets within.
That's just my point- that's still a ton. (It'd be even more impressive if it wasn't all new purchases.)
Beginner gains. It doesn’t say much about the physical achievements, buildings and such, but many of the technological feats can be attributed to beginner gains. The investment to build iteration one of something is a lot lower than iteration 100. And you are getting less return on that investment. This is why VC is so fixated on being “first”.
Same here. Demonizing Wi-Fi (like some comments here) is not the answer; instead, understand its limitations and use the best tool for the job. Anything that can be wired (anything stationary basically) should be, so that you save the (limited) radio spectrum for the stuff that can't be wired such as mobile devices.
Wait, isn't there a contradiction here? You said countries need to protect their agriculture to remain sovereign, which is what the EU is doing. Then you blame the EU for protecting their agriculture. Which is it?
Irrelephant.

Since you didn't opt in, you haven't allowed them to track you, and they can't remember that you didn't opt in without tracking you.

See?
I just wish it supported auto-off. It is nice that I can ask it to turn off the TV but I really don't need the screensaver playing forever.
Well... I believe that we share a common ancestor to the same degree that I believe that my parents are my ancestors and I am my child's ancestor. In other words, those are things that physically occurred and there is no physical/observational conspiracy.

The term ancestor is not cultural. It is physical. As in, we may not actually have any free will in cultural or qualia space. In the sense that, the only instance of choice (by the universe) occurs at conception. Which is actually the expected and occums-Razor implementation. Meaning that, the brain is entirely deterministic. The choice of behavior of an organism is entirely determined and constrained by it's genes (which the universe constructs at hopefully a quantum level at conception). If we eliminate quantum mechanics even at conception, then life is entirely deterministic (though obivously the range of it's choices is large). In fact, one could argue, if there is free will, then it doesn't conform to natural selection (or exceeds the performance of natural selection), in the sense that it adds something beyond what is specified by the random choice of the universe in it's conception of a particular organism. The point (or atleast observable performance) of natural selection, as I understand it, is to construct a variety of life objects that have varying performances. If the life objects are entirely Newtonian deterministic, then the instance of quantum wave collapse (by God or whatever is making non-deterministic choice, as we are in our egotistical mind, want to add something non-determinstic to our life soup) occurs only at every instance of conception. Everything after conception is a rube goldberg machine.

If consciousness adds non-Deterministic (quantum) free will and behavior to an organism, then such organisms are implementing a different version of natural selection than other life. If natural selection is occurring in cell cultures entirely on the basis of genes (ie the performance behavior of an organism is optimized by it's changing genetics, and these changes are only constructed at conception), which is what natural selection appears to describe, then we have added something to the natural selection process by claiming consciousness adds another instance of egocentric quantum choice.
This design of experiment is interesting. Although the conditions are extremely loosely controlled (thus leaving replication more difficult), I would expect the quality of the data to be higher since this is essentially gathering field-testing data.
Where are our Ita? Are we upwick or downwick from Arbe?
Just FYI weary = tired … wary = suspicious.
What the actual f. I feel like the only commenter here who wasn't aware of this. Thankfully I don't use landlines, but still, that is beyond crazy to me.
Sure, and that’s why I say I don’t accept the assumptions in any of these arguments. The examples you give - imagination, thinking new thoughts. It seems to me these are how we construct and transform the models of reality and behaviour that our minds process.

I see no reason why a computer system could not, in principle, generate new models of systems or behaviour and transform them, iterate on them, etc. maybe that’s imagination, or even innovation. Maybe consciousness is processing a model of oneself.

You say computers cannot do these things. I say they simply don’t do them yet, but I see no reason to assume that they cannot in principle.

In fact maybe they can do some of these things at a primitive level. GPT3 can do basic arithmetic, so clearly it has generated a model of arithmetic. Now it can even run code. So it can produce models but probably not mutate, or merge, or perform other higher level processing on them the way we can. Baby steps for sure.
Better would be to record V8 with rr and debug using https://pernos.co/. Maybe a combination of the two would be helpful, as I think you would be able to click a log line in Pernosco and timewarp to the call that printed it for further debugging.
So you go look up warrants on a regular basis?

The topic at hand isn't whether a lawyer or a court officer can, but whether EVERYONE can in a timely manner such that if a police officer or LEO (or someone impersonating one, since we're talking zero trust) can be told to go sod themselves by a layman.

Fundamentally this is a signal/info propagation problem. Processes take time.
> Does this not break HAM license rules if you used it over (for example) amateur radio equipment?

When the Apocalypse is here and the Internet is no more, no one will care
It's not her wealth.

It is the power of her office. The whole point of the classification system is to allow the Executive branch to function in a world where secrets are necessary. The President (and by delegation, his Cabinet) are empowered to decide if that function is being carried out.

The Secretary of State could start publishing the names of covert operatives every Friday, and the back-stop would be they'd be fired for incompetence.
Yes. I just dug deeper now and saw that you can get to the prices if you scroll to the right on mobile. It wasn’t obvious to me that there was more content to the right
Just gloss right over the fact that corporations are buying homes at scale for various reasons for the first time in history.

This is why people in economics shouldn't have anything to do with the housing market.

Human beings need to live in houses. The price is so high because demand coming from corporations is off the charts.

How is any individual or family supposed to compete with corporations and economists racing to the top of the real estate market?

That's the REAL problem. Real estate people profiteering the shit out of a market that regular people used to buy houses on to live in.
After reading this article, it seems that it's much more likely than not that the virus has lab origins. That is crazy, but what's more interesting is how interconnected all the players in this space are. Trump often referred to the virus as the "Chinese Virus" due to his view that the virus originated from the WIV. While it does appear likely that the virus originated in China, it turns out an NIH-funded U.S. NGO was also highly involved?

Also troubling are minor details not really related to the main lab-origin theory presented in this article:

> In 2011, two scientists separately announced that they had genetically altered Highly Pathogenic Asian Avian Influenza A (H5N1), the bird flu virus that has killed at least 456 people since 2003. The scientists gave the virus new functions—enabling it to spread efficiently among ferrets, which are genetically closer to humans than mice—as a way to gauge its risks to people. Both studies had received NIH funding.

I'm not saying the NIH is directly responsible for these programs, but it seems prudent to cut back on deadly virus creation.
The Return of Pax Americana? Putin’s War Is Fortifying the Democratic Alliance
Pretty much what they did.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/hackers-gaining-power-of... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30842757 )

> Providers have a streamlined process where they publish the fax or contact information for police to get emergency access to data. But there’s no real mechanism defined by most Internet service providers or tech companies to test the validity of a search warrant or subpoena. And so as long as it looks right, they’ll comply
It seems to be hosted in a story book which typically handles mobile devices without issues: https://chakra-ui.netlify.app/?path=/story/modal--default

It seems like a limitation of the library, but could be an unfortunate clash with the storybookjs canvas.
Wired Ethernet is not only more stable, it is so stable that it's way down on your list of things to debug, so when you have any kind of network issue, you don't have to start with checking whether the WiFi is connected.
1) You don't hear about the stories where the scam is stopped.

2) As you have noticed yourself, legitimate banks do what they can to make their actual requests indistinguishable from scams, and "not falling for that" can have severe consequences.
I learned on a Chromebook with 1gb of ram and Linux installed. This was fine for sublime text and running a rails or react dev server.
> The eInk displays are more expensive because there is only one option to buy and the manufacturer is keeping a greater percentage as profit.

Again. I keep asking. Your evidence for this appears to be your imagination.