skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is idiotic on the part of your mentor/team/manager. A healthy team will have a backlog of bugs or small features that they've more or less figured out, but haven't had the time to implement

To add an even more backing to this, here are some tasks I gave to a new hire.

+ change four placeholder images for the correct ones, and learn the process to check it in

+ find out why one text element has the wrong font

+ change the favicon

This demonstrated to me that he was familiar with git and he said smart things about react so I gave him more. Your manager sucks not you, stay in there it will click in time....unless you find a better role for you
Given how wide the classification of science fiction is I suppose the answer would be yes, I would expect the fiction of LeGuin for example would make you nicer.

But also considering how wide the classification maybe there is only one particular subset of Science Fiction you like?
Notion is just way too convoluted.
What if the owner is still living there. It's not like people can rock up at any time, they'd make an appointment first.
Many products would have been better off by declaring them as feature complete and only continuing fixing bugs. Unfortunately, this happens rarely due to misalignment with employment incentives I believe.
It seems like the US wants weak trading partners with lots of natural resources more than it wants stability. There's a long history of them interfering and shaping regimes in countries where the government was left-wing, anti-US or linked to China/USSR, rich in oil/minerals/crops, or threatening to form a large trading bloc. South America in the early-mid 19th century, the Middle East more recently. Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, these are not countries that US intervention has helped to stabilise.
It's nice but it's slow. Would love to have a solution that combined Notion's capabilities with Sublime Text's speed and maybe JetBrains's ability to work with keyboard shortcuts.
The same as orthographic mistakes in postings or scam emails. They filter for more naive and gullible people.
Maybe that's why cats like to bring dead bodies to their owners. Because cats that do that were noted as good hunters.

I mean, probably not, but wahtever.
> Also how does the second illegal thing work, is that subletting basically?

I'm not sure if this is what gp meant, but:

In some cases the current tenant (who is looking to move out) offers you the landlord's contact details if you agree to buy their kitchen for way too much money. This works because for a landlord looking for new tenants is a lot of hassle so they're likely to take you if you contact them.
What objective measures are you using?

The whole iraq invasion resulted in 7k civilian deaths. Pretty sure the russians are topping that in ukraine. For comparison, another case of shock and awe in recent history was done by russians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80%9...
which resulted in the death of approx 6% of the civilian population in Grozny. Its not like Syria or Afghanistan was conducted any different, so this is what we can expect.
Same thing. Incredibly slow and clunky for me as well. Seems like all tools go through this evolution because you know, somehow they have to get VC-sized returns instead of staying small and nimble.

I stopped using tools with any kind of lock-in or custom format because I know they will eventually degrade into something unusable.
Some advice on increasing your rate of improvement:

Practice

- have a 3 hour weekly practice session (minimum) outside of work. Won't do much for you in the beginning but it'll add up a lot over the years

- focus on the fundamentals related to the type of work you're doing

Reflection

- Identify what went wrong

- Identify the root cause

- Come up with a solution

- Implement the solution

- Identify what went right

- Come up with how you can further improve it or at least keep doing the right things

Feedback

- You can ask for feedback and advice about the areas of improvement you identified in your reflections

Concentrate

- When you work, make sure you're concentrated. Don't check IMs/email/socials
Seems user feedback usually gets cherry picked and used to motivate pushing through unpopular changes.

Lets you dismiss those who complain about the change as an insignificant minority.
Bird species that mimic tend to be considered the most intelligent ones by other factors as well (corvids, parrots). That dismissal seems quite ignorant.
Surely not solely for appearance. Cats play pretty well with humans in both senses of the phrase.
I have been using Evernote for 10 years. Initially i was on free plan, but the upload limit made me opt for Evernote premium. With premium i never faced an issue with adding a note, searching a note and adding images. I really like their easy integration with browsers and apps. Saving an article is a breeze. Likewise PDFs. As i could see so many complaints from others, there seems to be buggy areas in Evernote. Wish Evernote takes it as constructive feedback and make its product a reliable one. Because, being reliable for so many years means a lot.
How MBA-wielding bosses boost profits
If this were true, especially #4, why aren't more companies doing business there? The instability seems to be reducing resource extraction. It seems China wants to increase stability and build infrastructure so that they can can exploit it. The only industry that would likely benefit from the inability to extract resources are the diamond companies since price is artificially inflated.
>Why do people continue to believe nonsense like this?

We've seen it happen a number of times? Graduates of the School of the Americas have committed countless human rights violations throughout and lead numerous military dictatorship throughout the Americas.

>The US wants stable governments, not unstable ones.

Civilian led governments often aren't stable. They can suddenly vote to not side with the US.
Do you think that people should be banned from commenting on things they work on? Seems counterproductive to me.
I had a cat who would actually pick up the pointer with her mouth and bring it to me when she wanted to play.
US using Intel to fight infowar with Russia,even when the Intel isn't rock solid
Yes, the defaults are a bit strange. Might be a little late to change them now.

IMHO, the most important thing to improve the user experience is to enable link numbers. With link numbers enabled you can[0] jump to a link by typing the number and then LINK_BEGIN (default '[').

[0]: Technically you can do this without enabling link numbers, but you need count the links yourself.
A backup of... what sounds like a newly-created note?
How safe is my data if I use Notes on Mac and then upload it to iCloud?

The reasoning is that Apple is a trillion dollar company and they've no interest in screwing me over. I know it's naive but a consolation I guess. If not, what would be an alternative?
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I don’t love the idea of ‘dumbing down’ maths, but I think there’s a needless race slant that gets added here (not by yourself, almost by US society).

Im from the Uk, went a state school, with a Masters in Engineering, and a father who was an Engineer. My perspective is that the curriculum that I grew up with failed to properly teach me maths. Further, as much as I don’t personally like some of the policies implemented in the US education system (positive discrimination), I find myself agreeing with some of the policy/curriculum changes suggested.

The largest difference between myself at university and my peers who went to paid or selective schools was that they knew how to learn. This was the hardest but most valuable lesson I learned from my prof in my first year. I remember trying my hardest, and in hindsight trying to learn in the most ineffective ways- copying out of textbooks. Seems stupid ? But that’s essentially how I was taught maths at school from 2000 to 2010 at school.

I can see 100% how upbringing currently has an outsized impact on maths attainment, far beyond other subjects. - and the impacts on social justice.
few problems with your reasoning (and reality is a lot more sinister):

> Thing is, masterminds don't exist. Opportunists do.

I agree. But an incentive, or a grand hidden plan, etc are not required. What conspiracy theorists see as "the man behind the curtain" is just a side effect of the system (this is where they are wrong and fail). This is also the ultimate defense of the system because accusing a single individual/group of a hidden agenda can easily be dismissed (it isn't logic), they are "nutters" etc (and everyone sane will agree). But a system that promises freedom/equality, etc but produces predictable losers of one group ("the global South", "the poor", "the deplorables", "the plebs"), while the other group is able to bastardize them as part of the design is actually more wrong and hypocritical than a system that is doing the same but being honest about how they inflict terror.

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." -- Peter Ustinov

...

> How much money has western companies made from utilizing manufacturing in Asia? More than they would extracting some minerals mined by child laborers...

Western companies have been very successful utilizing child labor in Asia and only the most high profile companies are being called out (because nobody cares about a no-name org from the West with only 50 employees being responsible for chemical burns of Bangladeshi kids limbs dying fabric for the fashion industry, ... This story only ever gets clicks as when a company the size of Nike is involved). The power systems in Asia are great at disappearing people silently[1]. Literal slavery still exists in all parts of the world. And there is no industry immune to it, e.g. if you enjoy seafood like me there is no way you haven't eaten fish that was caught by slaves (and if you're vegan you probably consumed fruit and veg picked by slaves)

[1] https://www.oceans8films.com/ghost-fleet/
How does this do with sites that won't render without JavaScript? I browse with noscript and everything block by default. I'm constantly having to turn on JavaScript for sites that are blank until you do.
Foreigners ready to join Ukraine's fight must pass tougher muster
The woman who turned down her share of a $6bn settlement to fight the Sacklers
https://adfontesmedia.com/stars-and-stripes-bias-reliability...
I've switched to SwiftScan with automatic upload to Dropbox. It does decent-ish OCR on documents so that you more or less can select text in scanned PDFs. I rarely search inside scanned docs, most of the search is by filename which I manually set a couple of times a week. For file search VoidTools Everything is great.
Somehow the apps which are using Electron don't care about RAM. I always use Evernote in browser in a desktop, likewise Slack. Slack app in Mac is horrible.
You could use uBlock Origin and disable javascript by default, it's availavle on mobile. When necessary you can also reenable it for specific sites, works pretty well for me.

Also neat: you can disable media elements over a certain size (default is 50kb I think), which is a godsend if like me you have limited mobile data.
> That senior engineer should be fired, immediately. That's inexcusable. I don't care how needy a junior engineer is, or how many times you've shown them something. You show them again, teach them how to find the documentation, and do everything you can to make it so that they don't need the help.

I will be honest if on month 9 someone asks me how to stick some code onto the integration test platform for the 10th time I am going to make a snarky comment.

Similarly, if on month 6 someone asked me how to log time or make a jira ticket I would probably be of the opinion that we are pretty far along for that kind of basic workflow not to be known.

There are limits to how long a new employee gets to be useless at everything - so without knowing which process we are talking about I would probably hold off on that firing button
"This project explores the potential of using low-cost/low-bandwidth LoRa radios to build simple mesh networks that can pass text messages around town."

"Networks of this type could be useful for emergency communications or other applications that can take advantage of the fully-autonomous (carbon-neutral) nature of the birdhouse repeater stations."

"The design is made available for amateur (non-commercial) purposes in the spirit of experimentation and knowledge sharing amongst the ham community. At the very least, we're creating homes for some lucky birds in our area."
I do have questions! :-)

What are your plans to sustain pyinfra’s progress? Specifically in the financial aspect? Like, are you looking into joining something like Open Source Collective or do you intend to self fund this for the foreseeable future?

Keep up the good work, man!
I'm on the same boat, burnt by Evernote and trying to find the good alternative. Sticking with Obsidian for now with some apple notes in-between. But the former has too many features I don't need and later has this vendor lock-in.

If I ever built a note taking app, I'll be using your tag line as a subtitle and a guiding principle :)

"...just a list of notes with some formatting and sync capabilities"
Exploiting Node.js in Nvidia Geforce Experience
Sites that require JavaScript do not work in w3m, as w3m does not support JS.
I don't buy it. Developed countries want stability in their allies/trading partners, unless they are actively at war or see another state as a threat. I doubt the US sees many threats in Africa. The crucial thing is though that historically nobody has really cared from where such (pro-western) stability came: if it was from a democratic government, fine - but if not, also fine.
that's funny, but considering the many ways in which humans have mistreated them over the centuries I don't think they really benefited all that much from the relationship https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ritualistic-cat-tortur...
Eurodollars are dollars held in non-US banks, which are nonetheless banks and therefore subject to the banking regulations of their respective jurisdictions.
But the outbound block would prevent the relay from sending any mail over port 25, so there's no real point to block inbound connections.
I have been thinking of using a full headless chrome or firefox (so all pages work) and then share that with a commandline / lite browser. So we render and then re-render the page. The browser would run in a remote computer somewhere and the lite browser connects there. So a chrome/firefox proxy basically .
No country act on others for charity or humanitarian purposes. France was in Mali because France have a long colonial history in Africa and need African's resources. Russian Fed. try to bring back relations from the URSS era in Africa and get a better welcome because in the past they do not colonize Africa so their actions are less badly seen by local populations.

France was one of the less oppressive colonizers in Africa, but still left a significant trail of blood and suffering behind so while with Mali there was an agreement because western-created (yes, you read correctly) "islamic" militias are worse for Malian than French colonial legacy, though when Russia step-in it was and perhaps still is considered better: they do not really have means to colonize, they can just make agreements less unfair perhaps than western countries.

And that's happen almost everywhere, China is far less welcomed because various populations already experience China BRI policies and so the news they are not much friendly than the west is already spread. You do not need more resources than just history. The worst western colonizer were, from the more bloody and oppressive:

- Dutch & Belgian & British

- Germans & Italians & Spaniards

- Frenches & Portuguese

Chinese are "new" outside China, so are Russians and Russians are still seen a bit as Soviet witch to gain influences was far lighter than anyone else outside their borders.
Indian police hunt gang accused of stealing a bridge
Joplin - https://joplinapp.org/
It's not about whether it's worth it or not, but whether it's a part of the conversation. Arguably it is.
Movie failure helped reshape the studio, as in people (Hironobu Sakaguchi) were let go.
There's a subtle but deadly important point lurking in here:

"The internet is a human right," agrees Assani, who also runs a
non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting digital service...
"All people have the right to use the internet." Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg has appeared before the UN to state that the inter
et "belongs to everyone".

Vint Cerf doesn’t agree. He wrote an editorial in the New York Times
dismissing the notion that internet access was a human right. Cerf
posited that as a technology, the internet was an enabler of rights,
and confusing the two would lead to us valuing the wrong things. "At
one time if you didn’t have a horse it was hard to make a living,
But the important right in that case was the right to make a living,
not the right to a horse. The internet was a means to an end, and
not the end itself."

I really agree with Vint Cerf here. Because what worries me MUCH
more than the "right to be connected to the internet", is the right
NOT to be. That is going to be the real battleground for rights in
the future. Naturally when Zuckerberg says the "Internet is for
everyone", he means that in a very _strong_ sense.
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need [pdf]
That’s their behavior when a kitten needs to learn to hunt and kill. They’re literally saying they’ve never seen you hunt and kill prey so they want you to learn.
> Avilés brings the Chivo point-of-sale gadget to our table. As in the hotel, I scan it and get the all-clear check mark on my phone, but no receipt. I try again. No luck. I pay with my Visa card.

The author doesn't seem to understand the finality of Bitcoin lightning payments.

> As I walk out, my phone vibrates. It’s a WhatsApp message from Natalia Avilés, the restaurant manager from Brutto. It turns out I triple-paid for lunch, twice with Bitcoin and once with Visa. It came to $180 for a $60 meal. She’s working on reversing the Bitcoin transactions.

Ah, now he should understand.

> She’s scored me a refund for one of my two extra Bitcoin payments. My wallet shows a credit for 152,000 Sats, about $56. I’m not whole, exactly. My wallet charges me about $4 in fees.

Such a large fee cannot be for lightning payments, which would be counted in cents.
Since the scientists didn’t really see it happening, I would add “without evidence” to the title.
They are very intelligent at communicating different things to us and at learning through observation.

For instance, my experience is that they can quickly understand the function of a door handle and even learn to operate it in order to open the door.
Brzezinski is a very good example considering his “Arc of Crisis” strategy was to literally keep the Islamic states on the periphery of the Soviet Union destabilized. Not exactly a conspiracy, actual US policy.
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> The second issue you linked was not closed at all

The only reason it's not closed is because I kept replying!

Had I not succumbed to the bot, it would have likely been closed before the acknowledgement, and never been looked at again.
Why? I don't see the connection between the US training troops in African countries and China's infrastructure plan unless you're saying the infrastructure plan should be opposed militarily if necessary.
Here in Denmark we have two large scale projects being built and several others in development. The projection is that 30% of district heating of can be provided by geothermals. https://innargi.com/en/project/
I think you misunderstand me.
I don't mean that the totalitarian and capitalist state are the same but capitalist states work well together with totalitarian states.

Cheap labor is easier to get in totalitarian states, that's why China is the workbench of the world and that's why the FRG let produce in the GDR and even gave it credits so that the production could continue.
Islamists are like talibans western creatures built to overthrown local dictatorships and governments in general when they do not behave in ways the west like, as the talibans they grow enough to a point they can revolt against those who have created them.

Keeping this in mind you'll understand why African's do not like us except when they live in EU, so when they see the difference and hypocrisy of our oppressive élite governance.
They say they're out of the country on a mission trip and are OK renting the place out below market to a responsible person (faith preferred but not required) who will take good care of it. Then they ask for a "viewing fee" before they send you a code for the non-existent lockbox with the keys.

Source: got to the "send me a viewing fee in itunes gift cards" stage of one of these scams, once. Googled the initial email and it's a common scan template.
The new clients are terrible. I’ve been a paying user for close to a decade and am now actively looking for a replacement. I really, really dislike the Windows client. I thought the old one was quite good and did everything I wanted.
The protests were peaceful at the very begging in November 2013. Then protests were dispersed and the spiral of violence escalation started culminating in death of around 100 protesters and less than 20 police officers in February 2014.

Towards the end it was certainly not a peaceful ordeal. It was more of a small uprising.

I recall snipers shooting to protestors.

But I don't recall RPGs being used by either side when I was following it. I could not find any mention of it right now. Any sources of that claim?
The dollar is so engrained in the world economy, it’s a pipe dream. Makes me giggle whenever people ask if the hegemony of the dollar is over. No.
You're reading the sentence incorrectly, regarding the order of the focusing adverb, solely. The meaning changes depending on the adverb's placemment. For ex: "bred solely for appearance" does not mean the same as "solely bred for appearance" in the context of the full sentence. [1]

[1] https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wc/adverb-placement-gene...
Because a popular revolution shouldn't be labelled a "US-backed coup", and labelling it as such strips agency from the protesters who made it happen. Getting the label right is important given that this is a critical part of the Kremlin's justification for the invasion: casting the current Ukrainian government as illegitimate, and stripping Ukrainians of agency and their identity.

The evidence that it was a US-backed coup is quite weak; from Nuland's leaked call, to Nuland handing out sandwiches to protesters, to the speculative opinions of Estonia's FM, to the few billions of investments the US has made into civic institutions since 1991 -- it's a little bit of smoke if you squint really hard and apply a good dose of confirmation bias, while simultaneously sweeping under the rug Russia's more aggressive colonial meddling in Ukraine (such as Yushchenko's poisoning).

Maybe better evidence will emerge later about 2014 as records are declassified (such as it did with Diem's overthrow), it's possible and wouldn't be surprising, but barring better evidence, it needs to be labelled the 2014 Maidan Revolution, or something similar.
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How to Code a Neural Network with Backpropagation in Python (From Scratch)
Many cat breeds enjoy human companionship much more so than non-pedigree cats. And they're not as scared of everything around them (e.g. Maine Coon).
An alternative perspective to most other comments; be more disciplined, be more careful, work harder and longer, understand and make sense of things.