skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First rule of con artists, poker players and startup founders: if you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. Doesn't matter what they promise you, it's all smoke and mirrors and they can take it away or make it worthless any time they like. Negotiate the best salary you can, and don't give up a single cent of that monthly money in the bank against some empty promise of future riches. You already suspect they're lying to you, don't lose any sleep over it, just ask yourself if the monthly salary is worth the work you do and if not, go somewhere else.
Flashing Your BIOS with No CPU Installed (2020)
I wish these indictments would list the companies involved. I read the indictments and they refer to the companies as Company 1 - x. I also wish they would list the actual promotional material the defendants used. It would be very helpful to investors to see which articles are paid for by pump and dumpers, which authors write such articles, which websites publish them, etc.
> and the second largest shareholder (Kingdom Holding Company)

Source? There is no such investor, at least not in the top 13: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQWWgx_VsAUoFxT?format=jpg&name=...
Reach out to Watson Parken, they are an Accounting & Financial Advice firm based in Zaandam.
They will be able to give you the best advice you need for your personal situation.

Hourly rate is ok if you team up with the other engineers and pay the hourly fee together.
I'm suspicious of someone who says they need to download and run /complex math/ libraries inside of a kernel module. I seriously wonder what they're planning on developing, and if a hybrid approach with most of that code being in user space wouldn't be a better idea here.

I wonder if this is a real and considered need, or a knee-jerk response to try to put everything in rust and directly in ring 0 just for the sake of it. I see no reason to try to break down the "divide between kernel and user space" in this way, and I wonder what's actually driving it here.

I wish this article went a little deeper into _what specifically_ these Rust users are trying to make modules _for_.
Because they're largely managing tax-advantaged accounts.
>China tried to actively cover up the infection in Wuhan. News got out, doctors posted on social media

A simple visit to the Wikipedia article on Covid timeline showed that to be false.

>video on Reddit showed people dying in the streets.

That was literally just a drunk guy falling on street. Covid doesn't just make people drop dead while walking on the street lol. America suffered a million Covid deaths and we have zero videos of people just drop dead on the street from it.

But I agree with you, you can't cover up an actual pandemic in a country with hundreds of thousands of foreigners living and working there.
Regular CPUs don't have error correction. The logic gates simply don't make mistakes, even after trillions of operations. The reason is that the gates are digital. Manufacturing imperfections and noise don't matter, as long as the signal levels stay within their bounds.

On the other hand, current quantum computers are analog. Each quantum gate will get the coefficients of its output states a little bit wrong, and after a few tens of operations only noise is left in the qubits. In principle, quantum error correction could be used to measure and compensate for these errors. But none of the technologies demonstrated so far are anywhere near good enough for this.
I for one prefer that my communication-medium not have "values". For obvious reasons.
I limit my social-media use to 30 minutes a day- each day at a particular time. In other times, I rather stare at a wall or eyeball the floor, even if I am waiting in a queue. This somehow improves my cognitive tasks a lot. I don't know why. I learned it from Cal Newport's "Deep Work".

I also use Pomodoro timer. It works well with me. Without Pomodoro, I can do really focused work for maybe two hours a day max.

With Pomodoro, that increases to five, sometimes (very rarely) six hours a day.

I listen to music. Especially Bach. I cannot not do some good work when I am listening to that good music. It's just me, I know.

I exercise 4/5 times a week (~30 minutes a session). It really helps with mood, energy, and concentration. I am sure this is not placebo.

I meditate for 30-45 minutes each night. Without fail. Significantly improves concentration, focus. Meditating has made me realize, for the first time in my life- what I actually want with my life. I am much more calm, composed, and relaxed.

Routine helps and so does timeboxing. Doing specific things at specific physical places at specific time- and having set time- that helps immenesely. So, it's not JUST pomodoro, but timeblocking + time-tracking w/ pomodoro.

I also learned from Deep Work to have clear work-life boundary. Made my life much better. I turn off from work at a certain time. Knowing that I will have to stop working at that time makes me more focused as well. Where blurry or non-existent boundary b/w work and life makes you think you can slack " now" and work "later". Happened with me.

I am trying time-logging now. Too much friction, but I am sticking with it.

I am still bad with interactive decisions in my life, like providing in-place answer, seeing into several steps into the future, etc. I was always considered very intelligent, but an average person could always wipe the chess-board with me. I want to master Chess. I think it will fill a gap in my life. Surprisingly, Factorio has been a blessing. It improves my thinking, and I plan to play it more.

GTD method did not work well for me. I guess it is more geared towards suits, MBAs, managers, etc. Not for intellectual knowledge workers working on the cutting-edge.

Two books that immensely helped-

1. Deep Work by Cal Newport

2. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt

Two books for meditation-

1. -The Mind Illuminated* by Culadasa et. al.

2. Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

Learning about Buddhism and Buddha's teachings have also made me an overall better human. I would recommend What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula.

Remember that reaching peak focus is a trial-and-error experiment that lasts for months or years. Many habits that I have today- I found them through deliberate, vigilant trial and error. Keep with it. Answers for different people are likely different.

Btw, also listen to Huberman Lab Podcast.
Media politics are just as bad as they always were. Typically TV and newspapers are ran at a loss by people who carry out political favors. I wonder how twitter users feel about being herded around like this
> But on the other hand, my friends who are quarantined and didn't get it are just bored to death, drinking and gaming and working from home, just treading water until this "ends."

From what I've been hearing, the big problem for lots of people stuck under lockdown is simply getting groceries/food deliveries at all. The government isn't letting delivery people work, and the military response to distributing food isn't filling the gap (maybe if you are lucky, you'll get some pork and bai cai form the gov at your door). So that would suck, if true. I also rather guess experiences differ between richer districts and poorer ones.
Before Google kills free Gsuite accounts, why not offer a family email plan?
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2021.11.007
I agree that he is great at talking.
> (Unfortunately NoScript has a limitation that you can't tell it to "only TRUST javascript from example.com when I'm visiting example.com").

uMatrix (which I'm using in desktop Firefox) works exactly like this. Plus it allows you to forbid/allow cookies, styles, images, scripts, media, XHR, and iframes separately (for each origin/domain).
and depending on the distribution, they might be right!
Ok I looked around, and there's several models of 'HP Chromebook 14', the earliest model has a screw, but the rest of them have a security device CR50 which you can unlock with a special debugging cable and a procedure which might be more trouble than it's worth ;)
My bad!

Thanks for the link, and noted.
Ransomeware wouldn’t exist to the same degree without crypto. Crypto’s killer app is quite obviously fraud and illegal activity.
Just switched. Lets see how well brave search works out :)
No it isn't. They key is that management and board are against it and the deal is still pursued by the (potential) acquirer. It is perfectly possible to initiate a conversation regarding an acquisition and this is not a hostile takeover per-se though it could develop into one.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hostiletakeover.asp
I would not do any of those things.
So the censorship problem is that the twitter feed became less interesting for you as a user?

That sounds more like just bad product choices (assuming it drives users away) rather than any sort of issue of rights.
Controversial Corners Restrict Access to 8.3M Acres in 11 Western States
> The goal in the US Constitution is to prevent the government from abridging people's right to free speech. Twitter is not the government.

How about when the US Govt asks Twitter to "lean" on certain viewpoints?

Does the answer depend on which viewpoints and who's president?
Why are they still pursuing Zero Covid? I know the article includes some speculation on this, but what's the best explanation?
What Is Interchange?
The GUI apps were generally pretty bad. I didn't use the default Sun window manager (CDE), which was kind of slow and bloated. I installed either WindowMaker or Afterstep. I forget which, but it made it look like NeXT. The only GUI app I used on my Sun was Netscape. Everything else was done in a terminal (xterm window.)

I probably spent most of a week building stuff from source and customizing my system. If you wanted a "Unix workstation", Sun was the best. SGI looked cooler but often getting open source stuff built on it was a PITA.

This was during the Windows 95 / NT 4.0 era, so it was definitely a step up on Windows.
Right, but none of the two methods you mention will get you treatment for any cancer your get in your 40s, right?

Is the argument that before 65 people just don't die from anything medical, except things emergency room will treat?

But then there's also the secondary effects, like losing your house because of medical bills. And we know that even with universal health care (every civilized country except the US) health is associated with money.

Another reply asserted that studies say it doesn't help much, but... that's just so counter intuitive to me that the the studies that were replied there saying actually it does help can be summarized by "well, duh".

But I've thought "well, duh" about false things in the past, which is why I want to know.
> So now I was wondering if DDG is getting into the tracking business

Anecdotal of course, but I've been seeing more and more DDG billboards. Those things aren't cheap, and my trust in them has declined the more I see them advertise in the traditional market.
"The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to Cabots, And the Cabots speak only to God."

This was true at one time, but that time was the better part of a century and a half ago. The last vestiges of that were removed when Kennedy became president. If you show up to buy a house on Louisburg Square on Beacon Hill, or a mansion on Tory Row in Cambridge, and you're willing to pay ${millions} cash on the nail, nobody is going to check your ancestry or your place in the social register before selling to you.
This will make you feel better about that 1200 GBP: we're still rocking the 55" 1080p Sony Bravia we bought in 2010 for 2000 EUR.

I am also delighted to hear that a 55" 4K monitor can be had for well under 2000 EUR, and will gladly do that when the Bravia finally bites the dust, because that's the only way we are taking that thing off the wall over the piano!
If you find a team that is small enough (2-4 engineers), you might find that most of your work is effectively solo.

I can relate to a lot of what you are saying. I’ve thought about becoming an analyst / data scientist, but there seems to be more competition for fewer jobs that also pay less. And I’m not at all sure if changing roles would “fix” the problem.
> Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
Even before the poison pill was adopted, the evidence is the market wasn't taking Musk's offer seriously. That's because he was offering $54.20 per share (ha ha, 420), but the stock price never closed higher than $48.36. So almost $6/share was left on the table.

Part of it is that Musk doesn't have $43B in cash, he'd have to raise it or borrow it. He's worth more than that but it isn't liquid; as an officer of Tesla there are some restrictions on when he can trade. Another part is that many doubt whether Musk is serious or if he is playing games again, like the last time "420" appeared in a financial announcement from him.
We must protect human lives at all costs, even at the cost of human lives.

Jokes aside, what we really want to know is that - what are the human lives lost lockdown v.s. no lockdown, maybe also factor in the possible economic downturns. The government did a not-so-good job convincing people that doing a lockdown is indeed better than the alternative - "We ran the numbers, it seems like doing a lockdown at this stage is beneficial" sounds better than doing a lockdown just for the sake of it.

And: limiting information to people doesn't help boost confidence.
The downsides of clojure on the jvm which I had kind of forgotten about until today like long stack traces and using a lot of memory kind of outweigh the upside of the repl
Are they written in rust? If not, it's just more programmes someone is going you have to rewrite at some point sigh.
>Is that what good faith means now? Being religiously part of Camp A or B?

No. But you immediately made this into a Camp A vs. Camp B problem when in reality there could be a million different reasons for the Twitter board to not want to get acquired means you weren't trying to discuss this specific situation, you were looking to turn this into a debate on "wokeness". That's why I said you weren't discussing in good faith.

>The balance sheet speaks for itself.

Does it? Elon has seen the same balance sheet and he thinks the true value of the company is higher than what it is now as well. So obviously he thinks Twitter has the potential to achieve much higher value through implementing XYZ. The board agrees too but just disagree on what that XYZ is.
This stuff is really cool but in a world with IME it's sadly, moot. What good does a secure OS do you if the hardware has a fully embedded OS tied to both your keyboard and Ethernet adapter such that it can transparently send and receive anything you are doing?
China Infrastructure Projects: The Myth of ‘Debt Trap’ Diplomacy in Africa
This is sort of exactly the thing I mean. Even if you don't agree with me that Elon is a serial liar, I don't think you can dispute a more generous characterization of him as having a long history of optimistically interpreting the facts in his favor. Why on earth would you take this claim at face value?
Hire a lawyer if you are serious. No advice here will compare. Hire a lawyer who specializes in work with venture funded startups.
Tell HN: Play Store submission review is broken
I uploaded a new version as beta, and was allowed and published as expected.

Then I promoted it as stable version, rollout release at 10%, ok.

25%, ok

50%, ok

100%, ...

... Your app is not compliant, it wasn't published (but apparently it is??)

The version is literally the same, and the app doesn't change its behavior depending on time or anything. I have the theory that their automatic review system checks some random issues at any upload, so everything is fine until it randomly fails.

Oh,and the non-compliant is because I didn't provide login credentials, on an app that doesn't have any login at all, just a search-like feature. But don't worry, it happened in the past with the donation version (which is the same app with a different color) and just submitting a message with a sample search query triggered the "ok" automatic review system.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://twitter.com/Alwaleed_Talal/status/151461595698675712...
And also that tesla was going private at $420 a share.
You haven't even done basic research. Random sources you pulled from cursory web searches, with origins in _actual_ propaganda funded by the US government, are legitimate to you? You literally cite Adrian Zenz. But Harvard polls on government approval are "propaganda outlets" because they contradict your beliefs. Shocking indeed.
I think the term 'Great Firewall' has become a colloquialism for the compute resources the CCP uses to further their agenda. They've used the same set of network/compute resources to commit cyber attacks, so thinking of the Great Firewall as only the filter for the outside world gives a false impression of how their systems work and are deployed.
Not necessarily, the offer could be amended and increased that's perfectly normal and still not hostile. Hostile is when you pursue against the wishes of the current owners of the company and their management, so in other words if they have indicated that they are either not for sale or that they are not going to sell their shares to you.

You could then try for a hostile takeover by buying up as much as you can on the open market and possibly to try to get one or two smaller shareholders to sell their shares to get you more than 51% (and in some cases more than 66% aka a supermajority) to be able to call the shots.
The pilot was randomized.
And revenue will shrink accordingly. If that's his plan, he's right that it can only happen in a private company. Otherwise the resulting revenue deceleration will send Twitter into a stock price self-fulfilling tailspin as stockholders start seeing it as a doomed platform.
I switched when they decided to "curate" their search.
What should be allowed?
> A simple visit to the Wikipedia article on Covid timeline showed that to be false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

"Rumors of a deadly SARS outbreak subsequently spread on Chinese social media platforms; Wuhan police summoned and admonished him on 3 January for "making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.""

> That was literally just a drunk guy falling on street. Covid doesn't just make people drop dead while walking on the street lol.

Sure. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/a-man-lies-dea...

There were a lot of these at the time: https://www.ibtimes.sg/china-virus-chilling-videos-wuhan-sho...

One of the defining early characteristics of COVID was shockingly low blood oxygen levels without other symptoms until you pass out. (Asymptomatic hypoxia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062941/)

Reddit's what got me to stock up a bit in February, which put me in a good position when shelves got empty in March.

> America suffered a million Covid deaths and we have zero videos of people just drop dead on the street from it.

We benefited from knowing about the virus by the time it hit here in any significant amount. (We definitely had a few: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/us/woman-dies-of-covid-on-pla...) Wuhan in January 2020 didn't know mild cold symptoms could turn rapidly into hypoxia and walking pneumonia.
Does VPN subnet translation count as NAT? Because I've definitely seen some footguns come from that.... I've also seen instances where poorly configured NATs ended up allowing victims to be used as proxies. So I'd say there are definite security questions to take into account.
Depends on how quickly quantum computer size grows? We don't seem to have anything resembling a Moore's Law yet
Do you think the invasion and annexation of Crimea, had anything to do with the coup (ahem...pro-US/NATO revolution) that had just occurred in Ukraine[1]?

Keep in mind Putin rolled his tanks into Crimea the day after the new pro-US/NATO regime in Ukraine had thrown out the democratically elected (albeit pro-Russia) government, and rewritten the Ukrainian Constitution[2] to then make it possible to drop neutrality[3] so that they could begin the process of joining NATO. A rule to join NATO is that a nation must be in control of its borders and not in active conflict, so by annexing Crimea, Russia ensured the moves to join NATO would be halted with that action.

Understanding cause and effect is not the same as excusing it. If I poke a bear with a stick, and the bear eats me, it's my fault. Just because the bear went a little overboard doesn't change the fact that it's a bear and I should know not to poke it with a stick.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-constituti...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-30594763
Only if they figure out how to encode 21 with two bits.
You used Catalyst, right?
The animations on the bottom were nice.
Cool Q-Bert effect.
Just realised what the pb stands for. Did they really not think of clipboard? Who came up with the "clipboard" name?
Confidently incorrect, see my other comment for some examples.
> An inadequate and inhumane policy being enforced by an out of touch, or perhaps even uncaring, government

The inevitable result of centralized control.
I’ve been using Kagi as my primary browser for a while. My only complaint about so far has nothing to do with Kagi itself, I just wish I could set it as my primary search engine in Safari.
The parent offered no proof other than a cryptic statement
Good point on the Switch, I own both and would agree there. PC is defintely better than XBox (Account on PC is frequently required to purchase, but not to play).

XBox I actually called out specifically because when we got an XBox 1, we discovered there is no way to do anything - setup of the console, launching a game, etc - without having an XBox Live account per user of the machine.
> The total "active troops prepared for deployment and sustained operations" in Europe

That's some goal post moving. You were explicitly talking about military expenditures, and your claim that Europe's military expenditures doubling is insignificant is completely laughable given that the current level is already 4x Russia's.

The only reason you pivoted to active troops, pretending we were talking about that all along, is because that's the only number that's bigger on the Russian side of the equation.
Related because it’s such a common refrain: Is it possible, as a founding engineer or similar, to structure the contract in such a way as to make your shares undilutable? I suspect the answer is theoretically yes, but would be interested in how it works out in practice.
His campaign was much more about electoral reform than copyright reform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lessig_2016_president...

Which is broadly more important than copyright reform…and broadly Americans don’t seem to particularly care about either of them all that much.
Counterpoint: Banks are regulated, yet PayPal. Defense contractors are regulated, yet SpaceX launches satellites for the military.

I don’t think claiming that because social spaces involve legal decisions, that he’s out of his element.
Yep, set EDITOR to emacsclient and vipe will use emacs.
1Password has a way to do this that's pretty easy and secure. Seems worth a look.

https://support.1password.com/share-items/
Ibuprofen increases blood pressure, which is associated with higher levels of tinnitus. You might check in with your GP - maybe some intervention to lower blood pressure could reduce your overall tinnitus?
A plan I’d like to have offered to me.
I don't mind or care about the downvotes; I don't think you got my point. Stop labeling people!
They feel there is potential for growth, just not flights of fancy like you describe.
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