skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! And I think that's an important point to consider. Personally I think of "anon friendly" as existing on a spectrum. Organizations offer various degrees of it. Some "anon friendly lite" organizations will allow you to work pseudonymously, the entire organization doesn't need to know your legal identity, but certain personnel (like execs/HR) will. On the other end of the spectrum are organizations that offer "full anon friendly" where they don't request any information about your legal identity.
I read that post and as an outsider and one that knows very little about ubuntu core, I seem to understand you need a brand store to access direct hardware functionality, is that so? so you need to pay to be able to use GPIOs, I2C and other hardware peripherals from your snaps? on an IoT OS?!
>If the pay isn't good, the culture and work should be. In academia, that's almost never true

When I think back to my thought process when I was applying for academic and research jobs after my PhD, there's one thing I remember that always keeps me from ever second guessing my decision to move to the private sector.

At least in my field, so many people in academia and research had big egos and were a-holes. Some of them were brilliant, many of them just thought they were. It was so easy to end up in a toxic mess. You know that interviewer who makes you feel small because they knew some random minutiae that you didn't know? There are plenty of those in academia and you'll be answerable to them.

I've worked for a bunch of big companies and there's less acceptance of a-holes. If nothing else, your colleagues will acknowledge they are a-holes and validate how you feel. Even if somebody is a brilliant 10X a-hole, a decent management layer will put walls around them to minimize their damage. And if you find yourself stuck working with or for an a-hole, you have more options to switch because there are more jobs.
At first appearances, I'm not too dissimilar to you though I am younger (in my 40s).

> It's not worth the anxiety to not-have.

Yes, but having too much stuff can also cause anxiety. There's a line in there somewhere that I strive to meet.
You can’t really compare the two wrt IoT. For Debian you need an additional OTA update mechanism. Luckily rauc is in the Debian repos but you still need to setup everything yourself: A/B partitioning etc.
I find the main media sites hardly worth bothering with anymore
How Armed Drones Disrupt Modern Warfare
True. But unlike a password, biometrics often also act as a second factor in that they authorize a particular device and can’t easily be done remotely. Even if my fingerprints were compromised, I’d probably continue using biometrics instead of or in addition to a password. I’m a fan of Yubikey with biometrics, for example, because it’s an extra layer of security. Just don’t lose a finger or hand or you’ll never easily authenticate again…
It goes way beyond frugality - it is usually accompanied by a touch of hoarding (bought a new phone? Let's keep the old one even if it has a cracked screen, just in case... <throws phone into drawer full of hopelessly unusable and outdated electronic doodads>.)

A term I've seen bandied about for the collective symptoms is having a Scarcity mindset and it's based on insecurity/fear of unexpectedly running out of money (which was a frequent event in childhood)

John Scalzi's classic "Being Poor" blog post[1] details the effects of poverty in detail.

1. https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
Bork bork:

"Cloudpilot, a PalmOS emulator for the web": https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241462

Mu, a modern PalmOS emulator: https://github.com/meepingsnesroms/Mu / https://meepingsnesroms.github.io/

Up-and-coming-when-they're-done-I-guess:

PumpkinOS: https://pmig96.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/reviving-palmos/

rePalm: http://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=27.%20rePalm
Bit redundant reading the article that's asking a question that's got a clear answer, really. Just because it's posted here doesn't make it worth reading.
First order frugality: buy cheaper things or go without. Hoard all your trash in case you need it again.

Second order frugality: Buy it for life. Quality over quantity.

Third order frugality: This inert matter is not nearly as interesting as the people who wish to sell it to us want us to believe.
Right. When did the US last win a war? Even with unlimited weapons, nobody wins any more. Sure you can destroy governments like Saddam and Gaddafi, but you don't win the hearts and minds, and eventually you lose.
How much will this cost?
> Wouldn't that make the word "see" essentially useless since we cannot know what we've seen?

Of course that's not true.

> "I saw a cow outside" - "No, you perceived a cow. You have no idea what you saw because you cannot access that information."

No. You both saw and perceived a cow. You also thought the cow outside was too skinny for being a Chianina. We perceive things through the use of the senses, and then we interpret, discern, and think.

You perceived a cow through the senses of sight, smell, and maybe sound and touch but probably not through taste. Your sense of sight was used to see, making you aware of the cow in that way.

Why so much discussion about the basic meanings of words that can be viewed in a dictionary? I find it odd that on HN people want to debate the meanings of words, when those words are already well defined.
I don't think the average sims users played the game to burn houses down. It's among the most popular game in history not because people wanted to kill their sims, but because it was the first game to appeal to traditionally feminine activities like interior design, socializing and family-making. I get that many of us may have drowned some sims or goofed off, but that's not why the game is among the most popular game of all time.

Look at the still active mod community, social network communities or youtube communities. There are some goofballs doing extremely antisocial things but the 99% of that community are authentically playing the game and enjoying it as an interior design / life simulator.

I fundamentally believe that game developers ignore female and feminine interests in games to their massive detriment, and games like the Sims demonstrate the massive size of the feminine audience for non-violent and rewarding peaceful games.
Based on what, exactly? In my reading the CEO comes off as reasonable and even-handed.
The fact that there are many bullshit companies out there does not change the fact that all web3/blockchain companies are bullshit.
Female-backed female founders may struggle with raising follow-on rounds
The Late Shamus Young (Twenty Sided)
This used to be a good option for me (in Silicon Valley), but when I last checked this option was much less attractive. Previously you could sign up for a 1-year pass; now it's something like a week.
"The ideal Krakenite is thick-skinned and well-intentioned."

I think that means "if someone is mean to you, or says something offensive, you will be expected to suck it up and not complain. They meant well, after all."

Also, edited because I just noticed: "It’s time to think about taking more of your paycheck in bitcoin because the fundamentals have only improved."

That's insane. Sorry. "Take your money in a form that is rapidly losing value to prove your devotion to our cause" is the language of a cult.

This is horrifying.
Market forces will solve this issue in one year (or however long it takes to build a house). Just make it legal to build new houses. Right now it is practically outlawed due to insane regulations demanded by NIMBYs.
You are required to solicit the taxpayer identification of anyone for whom you are required to file a 1099-NEC form--this is normally done on Form W-9.

If the contractor fails to furnish a TIN, you are not required to cease business with them, however you will likely have to respond to the IRS and show that they refused to tell you when you file the 1099s each year.

The IRS can assess a $50 civil penalty against the contractor (doubt they bother due to low amount set in statute), but more importantly the employer must withhold 30% backup withholding due to the failure to provide TIN. The employer will have to report the income and withholding on their tax return, which will likely be held up while the IRS verifies the match.

I-9/E-Verify is for employees of your entity only and is not completed for independent contractors, nor for temp/contract labor who is employed by a different company (they do the form).
False. You have been corrected on this point before. Please stop posting what you know are falsehoods.
I've found that reducing the "monthly" bills can help - which usually means paying down and off debt entirely.

Then consider things as "one time purchases" instead of monthly obligations - buy Disney+ for a year, once, and immediately cancel. Then if something goes wrong, there's no upcoming bill to pay.
Shortcut:

echo 'auth sufficient pam_tid.so' | sudo tee -a /etc/pam.d/sudo
Not really. Gold is up about 10% over 10 years and CPI change over 10 years is about 27%. In the grand scheme of things that's flat. You forgot all the deflationary years in between.
Yeah, I definitely agree. But I do think this philosophical debate is one worth having! I'm hoping the site will at least help kick it off or facilitate it to some degree.
Seems pretty illegal in most countries
It is interesting that you bring up LIGO. I actually had a formative experience in my career around a decade ago related to this. I worked on the project for a summer. During that period, I realized that the process of discovery in the dark is one where the seekers have no control over the treasures. I decided not to pursue a career in the field. My lotus of control could not handle dedicating my life's work to chance.

Rainer demonstrated a dedication and passion in that interview that not everyone can meet. I learned that I'm more passionate about effective/real world problem solving than I am about physics.

Those who have a true passion for physics have my complete support and admiration. You're doing great - keep at it :)
Maybe I'm still misunderstanding you, but (modern) Objective-C is an example of a compiled language without the fragile base class ABI problem.

(It pays for this with extra indirection at runtime, of course: ivar accesses must first look up their runtime-resolved offset.)
You get paid anonymously, in your choice of LUNA or APE.
Well let’s just make that shit illegal and let builders build new houses until supply meets demand. Voila.
I really do love how it looks. I'd definitely give it a go at a 300 - 500 price range. Would much prefer a tablet with an option to bluetooth my own keyboards though.

Be interested to see what happens with this! (filled in the survey)
-- I'd be very curious to know who was running marketing at Intel in the 90s - agreed it was amazing - but I recall Otellini joining in the early 2000s? --
On the bright side it increased engineering salaries
The Trouble with Private Jets
So what is doxxing anyway? Is the concern that anyone googling you will find you phone number or address? Why is that so bad in general? As long as you are not in some unique position like a famous person or something.
When attributes people desire in something are hard to judge, but there are some secondary attributes which are easier to judge, then they often go for the latter. To at least get "something". The less willing they are to do that, the less willing they are to participate in the first place.

There are some really nasty "market for lemons" effects in online dating, and it seems clear to me it really makes things harder for young people. I am not young myself, and have no need for online dating, so this is how it looks to me from the outside.

Your repeated dismissal of these experiences in this thread comes off to me as a bit callous.
Furthermore, putting floating solar on the reservoirs would eliminate much of the evaporation.
Automated TOS takedowns?
yes and no: I don't see a massively played open source game able to pay for the storage resource for good neural network training data and detection data (maybe this is how dota2 overwatch is working... but its ain't a small open source game with very small server and bandwidth resources).

It is said the AI based cheats for FPS games cannot be detected since they smooth a normal player aim and trigger into a very good player aim and trigger (and this is external to the hardware).

Anyways, we all know that classic anti-cheats are not working and a really bad excuse to favor consoles or the windoz OS (for non FPS games ofc, since it is gg for FPS games). Hope this is not m$ and its proxies which are pulling the strings on this.
Most of the Russian population concentrates on places with very intense heatwaves that make the international news often due to the amount of deaths.

So, maybe there is some government propaganda that way, but I doubt most Russians would want hotter summers.
> This is fundamentally wrong. We know the Standard Model is not the final theory of Physics so there are still things to discover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning
Nothing Phone (launching July 12)
Lawmakers Want Social Media Companies to Stop Getting Kids Hooked
We used to make gasoline by heating oil very very hot and separating it. As long as you can keep it away from oxygen we don’t explode.

But now we have catalysts that allow us to get more gas from the same oil, and with less heat. Less energy for a bigger gain.

Big, hot, smashy, explodey things are good for a proof of concept, but for a practical application we want to make them smaller and lower energy (per unit) then scale them up huge (more units) and keep the energy down (magnitude + per unit).

Can you make these particles in a different environment? Can you move some of the embodied energy into a material? Can you reuse that material? All of these are good questions. If we answer them then the next LHC maybe doesn’t have to be an order of magnitude bigger and power hungry in order to see over the next horizon. Maybe 2x would do it.
OK yeah the medication is expensive, the pharmacies are rigged. Farmacias Ahumada, Farmacias Cruz Verde, and Salcobrand are three divisions of the same single...trust, basically. The Chilean pharmacy monopoly. Enforced with eg intermarriage. However, now there's lots more pharmacies, it's opening up. And I am personally boycotting Cruz Verde in almost all circumstances because I saw a shill of theirs (a real life shill, not on a forum, in a brick-and-mortar retailer) shilling for Cruz Verde[1] at a pharmacy that actually competed with them. There's some.

But I don't know, did you try the municipal pharmacy in Recoleta? Way cheaper.

[1] Note for admins: this is not the same as calling someone a shill on the forum, I went and gave my account and signed an affidavit in the complaints and suggestions book, with the help of the guard who also witnessed the shill, and backed by a third witness who conversed with the shill like I did. I told them by all means use this in court, I'll vouch on the witness stand, and I'm doing this with the same moral authority and motivation of being a hero according to Roman Law, in a very similar set of conditions that led to my actions and consequent recognition as a hero by the victims in the spur of the moment, ten years ago.
I wonder how much of that is because at those wealth levels, you start to feel you don't have much in the way of agency (you're not bargaining for the cost of the superyacht, someone does that for you, etc) - and you want to feel "in the game".

Now if by "owners" you mean the owners of the yacht, then it makes more sense as it's a business and they're controlling costs, especially the ones they see as "variable".
“I think it's a gross distortion of the educational process. What happens when I'm responsible for a PhD student, the student is condemned to work on a single problem in order to write a thesis, for maybe two or three years. But my attention span is much shorter than that.”

This is nowhere near the problem with PhDs from what I’ve heard in my family.
In most countries, there are a ton of legal protections and mandated benefits for workers. In the US, unemployment, workers comp, and social security stand out as the big ones. Beyond just tax, it's important that the government knows where you work so that you can effectively file complaints or for benefits of you happen to be working for an abusive employer, get laid off, or want to get paid during retirement
Microsoft's leadership and strategy has evolved under Nadella, at least enough to produce quality products like VSCode, and 'good enough' products like WSL.

I say this as someone who has historically been very anti-Microsoft, that used to do all my work in Linux. Modern Windows with VSCode, running WSL, is something the Microsoft of the IE6 era would never have produced.
I think it's a great setup. I don't understand why I'm supposed to think it's a bad setup other than that Pete's wife didn't have enough information to pick up his pay without going through support, but that's Pete's fault.

Any story about a friendly person dying is sad. His employer not having documentation on him is the least sad thing about the story.
So he noticed a repo identifier of bk://thunk.org:5000/ and tried telnetting to it, typed 'help' and got a list of commands and tried 'clone' and it gave all the files as sccs. That is still reverse engineering, even if it is facilitated by the wire-protocol. Especially when one has been asked directly to not do any reverse engineering.

It also seems unlikely that that was where it stopped, as that likely wouldn't have gotten any attention. The whole claim just seems disingenuous.

One can be fulfilling one's curiosity in simple and obvious ways and still be breaking license terms or the law. That something is trivial doesn't mean that it is moral, legal or licensed.
The reporting on that one was pretty terrible.

They discovered a quasi-particle, a behavior of some bulk matter that behaves like a Higgs. Not the same thing at all as the LHC's Higgs discovery.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiparticle
Yes, I’m more encouraged to move back to Debian personally.
A big reason for why this is in my opinion, is not that they don't want to get an update, it's because of corporate politics. Someone has to be the manager that goes "boss, I want to spend money and resources to update an essential service and doing so will increase security and productivity." What is heard "<underling> boss, I want to spend money".

Bosses never want to spend a cent, because of the "shareholders". They also don't want to say "yes" to something because if there is an issue, it is then their fault even if it was worth doing. They would rather kick the can down the road until the wheels come flying off the car.

This is why nothing ever gets updated.
I believe 12ft.io's extension has an opt-out, so many popular sites are blocked from its functionality.
What minority? This isn't limited any group. When the CEO of Disney expressed his opinion about a divisive topic the governor of Florida was so outraged he and other Republicans lawmakers changed the law to punish an entire company.
This comes alongside their recent announcement of raising $200 million. Personally, I'm happy to see more competition in the smartphone market.
That whole scene seems kind of gross. Whether those children are correct in their assessment or not, what such encounters call for is a bunch of fake words, as the kids are basically there as the mouthpiece of the adult in the room. A more skillful political handling would be to brush the children off by saying that she is doing everything and more.

Any "green deal" can only happen if a sufficient majority is on board, and Feinstein is not the blocker here, and neither is California the king of the nation. If those children want to engage in the politics of energy and ecology in an effective way, then they need to find a platform which addresses the entire nation, especially those demographics which are yet to be convinced of any green deal whatsoever.
Seeing the first page of these articles always reminds me of this joke: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1483262080329392129
I know someone who concocted very elaborate love dodecahedrons, "and the child is not his, and he doesn't know!"
America is focused on cars because it’s huge
> everyone starts learning programming with a C-based language

Idk about that, especially in the past decade. Python seems to be the most popular language that people pick up on their own as their first one.

As for the intro college courses for programming, they mostly seem to be Python or Java, with occasional C (havent seen that one myself yet for an intro class), and one incidence of OCaml (apparently Cornell teach their intro to CS in it).
No, you're definitely right! I definitely wouldn't feel confident saying they're handling it well, because I just don't know how they're handling it! But I do hope to bring some of this info to light. I think it's an area that deserves attention and discussion :)
The problem with tail calls destroying stack traces isn't with the recurse-for-the-tree functions. It's with code like this:

function frobnicate_something(foo, bar) {
let baz = antifrobnicate(foo, bar);
// Hey, I'm a tail call!
return exfoliate_meteor(baz);
}

With tail calls, you now lose the frobnicate_something stack frame and you just see a call to exfoliate_meteor, which can produce confusing results. This lost stack frame is potentially quite injurious, especially when the function that's lost actually does a serious amount of work.

This is the rationale behind the proposal to support tail calls only on explicit scenarios, where the developer opts in to throwing away stack frames.
No. A few years ago, I looked at a study that said if you want three kids with >90% probability, you should marry at 23. For two kids, the age is 26-28 I think. This is the woman's age. Fertility decline rapidly after 30. Plus there's infertility between kids if you choose to breastfeed, etc. There's also a lot of other factors to consider that could delay having kids (miscarriages, difficulty conceiving, etc). Of course the father's age also matters but I don't have data on that.
This article is focusing in the US demographic but the reality it is a global problems and in the developing countries the problem is even worse due to the projects for rural communities are usually political and corruption magnets.

Having said that it is a genuine problem for computer science, computer and communication engineering not unlike the Riemann Hypothesis for the mathematicians. Whoever solved this particular problem with an affordable and sustainable solutions (not solely on govt budgets) should deserve the Nobel prizes, Field medals,Turing awards, etc.
Yes, because not every entity is an ASN with their own allocation, nor their ISPs will announce their addresses on a residential service, for instance.

I have to resort to NPTv6 in my setup, as my ISP allocates IPv6 prefixes dynamically, breaking down IPv6 routing when they have some issue and drop/change the prefixes previously allocated to me.
For a lot of the more complicated communication chips I've used the data sheets are more aspirational than a reflection of reality anyways. I've often used registers in ways that are documented; it didn't work, and the response from the support was "oh just do it the way our example driver does it."