skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think having access to a sink or shower is not out of the question for someone living a digital nomad lifestyle — not so much if you're hiking or camping, though. But if you live in hotels or AirBNBs, there's a pretty good chance you've got a shower stall to shave in.

In terms of dullness, I shave my head and face with a cheap Amazon razor every day or two, and one blade lasts for weeks. A 4-blade package easily lasts me over a month, and if you remove them from the carrying case it's about the size of, I dunno, a couple AA batteries.

One downside of an electric razor is power. I suppose a USB-C based razor exists, but you probably wouldn't have very many options in that format, and probably not many nice ones to choose from. Perhaps that will change. In the meantime, I love the Braun electric razor I use for the back of my neck but it does need a little power brick and cord which, together with the razor itself, are probably more than the volume of several years worth of razor blade cartridges.

Just providing a little counterpoint to your comment, I do like my electric razor and think it's probably a better option for many travelers.
You arent going to like this, but unless you need large numbers of people regularly (big growth trajectory) your best bet for quality candidates is going to be referrals from existing members of staff.
What computer are you using where 16px sans serif is "so big"?
Unless there's something I particularly like about a job, or I'm super unhappy in my current one, I'm going to pass on a take-home assignment.

I can whiteboard, I can tell you about past projects, sure. The demand on my time is fixed. I can communicate and discuss it with you. We have a conversation.

Take-home is too opaque and too much of a potential time demand.
I spent a couple years at a place where everyone was expected to be a master of everything including Kubernetes, and handle customer support.

Absolutely nothing of value was accomplished. By the time a person started to get decent at Kubernetes and frontend and backend and support they would find a better job with more realistic expectations.

So we basically we were paying people to learn for a year, then they would leave.
On this topic I’m finding Steve Sinofsky’s “Hardcore Software” blog/newsletter very interesting lately:

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/

He’s a Microsoft careerist engineer who rose through the ranks to be in charge of Office through the ambitious “Ribbon UI” redesign, then was appointed to salvage the Windows and Services segment as the Longhorn/Vista debacle was close to shipping. His latest entries describe the sorry state of the Windows org as he came in, and the initial actions and goals he set to rectify the ship.

In hindsight we know that Windows 7 was a success under his leadership and 8 wasn’t, so even though his style is a bit rambling, it makes for good reading to try to understand the decisions that put Windows on its course.
Zuckerberg is a problem. He exists only to buy out everyone else and will not stop until everybody is destroyed
Samsung SSDs are like this. Some of them are actually NVMe on the inside, but they are still capped at ~450 Mb/s because of the USB interface.

That said, I ran into problems with T7 series. Sometimes they take several seconds to "spin up" and register with the USB bus, so if a machine is woken up from hibernation, the drive may appear only after the machine itself is up. Meaning, if the drive is actively used by running software, the latter will see it disappear and reappear around the hibernation, killing all open file handles and such.

But, another caveat, is that SSDs aren't recommended for long-term archival. Or at the very least this is a "common knoweldge" on the datahoarders sub. The advice is to use conventional HDDs for that.
On top of that, it’s called “two” factor authentication, not “phone” factor authentication. Why can I not simply use another computer or YubiKey to sign in, it has to be a phone? So annoying.
It's punishing people for being not productive in a very specific, narrow sense--productivity per unit land. Moreover (for clarity's sake), the parent said "stop punishing people for being productive" not "start punishing people for being unproductive" which sound similar but are very different statements.
Hmmm. You seem to be talking about progressive removal of parts of the brain, until consciousness is no longer manifested.

But that experiment is founded on the assumption that the root of consciousness is the brain; and that consequently, consciousness can be subdivided, like the brain, until there's very little left.

But I contend that that begs the question: it assumes that the root of consciousness is material, and it assumes that consciousness is divisible. So you have made assumptions that are incompatible with consciousness being fundamental and indivisible.

That is: it's not surprising that you disagree with me, because you've assumed that I'm wrong.
> Going out on a limb here, I could imagine a solution where e.g. Private Relay users had egress from a special set of IPs that indicate to service providers that the originating user had indeed been identified/validated by Apple as authentic.

It's not that crazy if you think about it. Apple's user base is a juicy target demographic. Apple's "privacy focused" approach is reducing the insights of every other tech company. If they can get it to the point where the other big tech companies have nothing to distinguish legitimate users from bad actors they can make a huge identity and reputation play.

I doubt it would be private IPs or anything though. I think it's more likely that Apple assigns some type of trust/relationship score to each user based on Apple's view of them and then let's users opt in to some type of system where Apple vouches for them. Ex: I ask Apple for a short-lived token to attest to facebook.com or microsoft.com that I'm not a bad actor.

Apple's userbase would eat that up because they already think they're better than everyone else and now they'll be "rewarded" for that by getting a premium experience online.

That would also position Apple as the only company that could do super targeted advertising like Facebook does now.
I can’t speak on Tumblr, but the issue is even worse than “unbearably slow” on Twitter.

Once I’m down about 50ish posts on my feed, hitting back from a post to get back to the feed seems to have around a 25% chance to quickly throw a “Safari has detected a problem” error and force a refresh - sending me back to the top of the feed. And this is on an iPhone 12 Pro Max so it’s not like the hardware is out of date.

I primarily blame Safari, but on some level I think Twitter is aware of the problem and has no intentions of fixing it. The mobile Twitter site is purposely designed to make it nearly impossible to open a tweet in a background tab if it doesn’t have an image (the browser tries to select text on a long press). That’s clearly something Twitter could fix if they wanted to.
It seems that LaMDA isn't sentient but did pass the Turing Test?
You're trying to apply german logic to american bureaucracy. They don't overlap.

I can relate to your confusion a tiny bit, especially since you want to move here. When I was in Vietnam, a lot of people I interacted with have the dream of moving to America. Unfortunately, they just know what they see in the movies. They don't realize the harsh realities of things like the complexity of paying taxes. In Vietnam, it comes directly from your paycheck and there is VAT. There is no concept of State and Federal level taxes. Even better, you don't need to hire an accountant to do these things for you because if you mess up (and the system is designed to mess you up), it can get a lot more costly. Even with an accountant, it seems I'm not immune.

When I came back to America (not by choice, I got stuck here at the start of covid and VN shut its borders), this is also why I established residency in an income tax free state. I had to get a physical address, drivers license, car registration, etc... it was a lot of work.

My suggestion? If you're going to come here, do more research first.
That's a good catch; I just grabbed the indictment from PACER. Worth noting though that they don't have to find Thompson guilty on those counts to trigger those accelerators (and it's hard to believe Thompson could dodge the PII sentencing modification since there's zero doubt as to whether their conduct involved PII).

Ultimately though I think it'll come down to how much money Capital One lost dealing with this and the aftermath (again, I assume less the fines and lawsuit).
There is also Rtings (https://www.rtings.com).
Part of how LVT "solves" this is that if you really don't want to develop your property to the point that the market thinks it can handle, you have to put your money where your mouth is to enforce NIMBYism, since the land tax of developing vs not developing would be the same.
Allow me to introduce you to Apple search Ads: https://searchads.apple.com/
I'm most interested to know how he handles accommodation as a nomad. I would guess that he has enough money that AirBnB a lot of the year is not a huge problem
Laptop stand: u-top.

Backpack: Greenroom136 Rainmaker. Especially in VX42 it's just unbeatable. Light, durable, rectilinear, excellent organization, customization above and beyond -- they will even do things not on the website.

Charger: Excitrus 65W. If 65W is not enough, Aukey PA-B5 100W. Forget multiport chargers, they suck. Charge the laptop, charge everything else off the laptop.
This impersonation is only really useful when one person can create multiple fake accounts.

If Facebook can simply run image comparison between the the face used and other accounts while knowing that picture isn’t copied from elsewhere because it includes their onetime key it could prevent duplicate accounts.

In practice I doubt it’s more effective than a new CAPTCHA.
Do you think even major (this.0.0) versions would cause the same issue?
in the UK, there's Which?, which is pretty good
What, you were expecting Stoke-On-Trent?
> Since them I just haven't bothered seeing a doctor unless I feel like I'm immediate or near immediate danger.

This is the strategy Taleb advocates.
> The EU HEPA filter spec—yours to download today for a bargain $1148.24—

How can this be true? Weren't these standards produced with tax money?
Hah you just reminded me of something...

In the late 80s as a kid I remember reading a scifi short story from probably the 1950s that speculated that "in the future" the average suburban family would live inside their computer, as it would need to be the size of a house to perform all the support duties for a family.
You're looking at that from a cost perspective. Pricing should be based on value.

> To integrate one is less than 100 lines of code.

Ugh not this again...
There are some attempts:

https://thehelm.com/

The problem is that it's not cheap to keep running, if you want it to integrate with the rest of the Net (i.e. also handle email and such).
If that’s true, why even bother with the training?
I see a lot of discussion here about Wirecutter and/or Consumer Reports being untrustworthy. But I am not sure "reviews" are a solvable problem, really.

The human element of perception is inherent to reviewing products. I might think something is genuinely better than you because it meets my needs better. Or because you got a bad part in yours through sheer bad luck. Or I had a migraine that day.

I usually just try to google whatever product I am trying to understand and read a few articles and try to at least hone in on what might be the most authentic or at least reviews that are well-written and seem to care about the product.

But there's no perfect system. I went through this whole process trying to figure out the best mattress and at some point you just gotta give up and say hey they're all basically glorified piles of hay let's just do this.
I've always enjoyed Marques Brownlee (MKBHD)[0].

He's made a pretty lucrative career of great reviews, without selling his soul.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/marquesbrownlee
This post [0] provides a pretty good overview of the issues/pitfalls.

But setting aside the inherent security issues, I think we're also talking about an orthogonal use case.

In the enterprise, customers use SSO to federate identity. Usually via a self-managed identity provider. Pseudo-auth with OAuth can work if the Identity Provider and the Application Server are one and the same, or if the Identity Provider is a ubiquitous service like Google/Facebook. In the latter case, this is the "Social Auth" we see on sites all over the web.

But in an enterprise setting, the security team isn't going to allow users to authenticate as their google identity.

So what about the app/ID server being one and the same? In this case, we're back to square one.

I build an App A, that provides a local user database. If I now add an OAuth server to facilitate pseudo-auth, the only thing I've accomplished is I've made it possible for client apps to hold tokens instead of the user's credentials. But that user's credentials are still local to the app, and not connected to the user's enterprise identity.

So while pseudo-auth with OAuth may be better than say, Basic Auth for 1st party clients, this doesn't help when the goal is to log in using the user's existing identity that lives outside of the app.

The reason "Login with Facebook/Google/Twitter/etc." work with very low friction is the ubiquity of those services. If I want to "Login with Haswell's Social Site" (or more realistically "<Org's> Identity Provider"), I'm SOL unless those sites support a standards-based auth flow (or provides extension points that allow me to implement my own.

- [0] http://www.thread-safe.com/2012/01/problem-with-oauth-for-au...
I'll start complaining about JIRA when I find a reasonable alternative for my organization. Until then, I'm just glad we're not using IBM Rational ClearQuest anymore.
How much someone is making now is not part of the analysis on if they would be a good hire. I wouldn't even ask this within the process.
Crediting him with bringing about desegregation is giving him a bit much. He merely stopped pissing down the leg of his secret service detail long enough to sense which way the wind was already blowing.

Your point made, however: it takes a true monster to survive American politics.
It's not a study, but the last time I was at the dentist, he asked me what I used to clean my teeth since I had pretty much zero plaque. Philips Sonicare.
That's not true, the crypto market is very liquid nowadays. Around 22 billion dollar volume for Ethereum in the last 24 hours for example and multiple known billion-dollar trades (Tesla, MicroStrategy, etc.). He probably could have liquidated all of his ETH by now if he had wanted to. And definitely enough not to have to live out of a backpack.
The two people who drove our company to Jira from other tools:

- One of them resigned soon after the migration.

- The other barely uses it today - in fact, he found other tools for his team because Jira is too cumbersome.

The rest of us are left holding the bag because "Jira is the industry standard".
It's such a bloated mess that it's hard to point to a specific thing.
In his defense, he is saying to write "one sentence per line" only _while_ you are writing/editing. He says this is "for your eyes only", and that you'll recombine into paragraphs afterwards.

I think the idea is that, if your sentence can stand up to the added scrutiny you'll give it while seeing it sitting all alone, then it is worth keeping. Otherwise it is a wasteful sentence.

Anyway, I do agree that the actual "one sentence per line" prose that is so pervasive on places like LinkedIn is awful.
Apple sells search ads for their app store...
Honestly, I can't help but be suspicious about postings like this because they are way too common. They introduce no real new information and only serve to offer, "it's too much work, so just accept it".

It's completely disingenuous to say that you can't do anything with the information gained from learning who is selling, sharing or otherwise allowing email address lists to be compromised. It's almost maliciously disingenuous.

You can do infinitely more with this information than you can about any other kind of spam:

1) you can demand to know how and why your address was shared with third parties

2) you can insist on disclosure, particularly if you live in a state or country that mandates it, for any breach they may blame it on

3) if they ignore you, you can publicly shame them on social media and inform others

4) most importantly, you can STOP accepting email at that unique address, and stop any future spam.

I really wonder these naysayers want. They clearly want the rest of us to not expend the tiniest bit of energy to maintain any agency in the control of our own email, but why? I really wish I knew. They're not helping people by telling them to save - what? - minutes of time per month? I'm so curious.
Employee owned businesses tend to outperform more traditional top down business models. [1]

The reason we don't see more of them is because employee owned businesses have a hard time existing at the startup phase. That means, you have to transition from a somewhat top down structure to employee ownership. Guess what C levels DON'T generally want to do.

Certainly not to say that democracy would definitely work. You'd probably need a seniority/trustworthiness modifier on votes to really be effective (can't have the Junior devs proposing dumb shit and winning simply because there are more of them).

That being said, a lot of opensource projects are run democratically. That seems to be a good signal for an open source project's longevity.

[1] https://www.nceo.org/article/research-employee-ownership
Btw, while you're here, another suggestion: Perhaps include Node.js as a runtime option? It's not a pure wasm VM, obviously, but it may be a common way to run wasm on the server simply because npm packages can include wasm. (OTOH, users of such packages might not even know they're using wasm...)
Android is indeed a headache to support. The biggest issue is how all keyboards force composition on all keystrokes, meaning you're constantly having to read the DOM input and work out what might have been entered. We don't use extra DOM nodes, but we do listen to `beforeinput`, `input` and use DOM MutationObserver to try and detect common Android patterns. I'd search this module for references to Android:

https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...
Because server side tracking isn't sufficient? I've heard from numerous people that it definitely is. Tracking cookies are a massive privacy invasion for what is minimal, if any, benefit
For kitchen devices, ATK or SeriousEats.

Anything else: if you don't have a site you trust, then the only recourse is to look at LOTS of sites and read between the lines. By "sites" I also include "user forums."

This also applies to movie reviews, btw. Rotten Tomatoes is trash. You can't average Trash opinions and end up with anything other than Trash. What you want to learn is "what is this movie like, and will I enjoy it?" So you should find some critics whom you think are intelligent, and just read them.
Vitalik's post seems to be a counterexample against what you claim here
The UX is annoying as hell but I am almost never unable to do what I need to do. I can't say that for all SaaS tools.
I think that when people complain about the cost of health care, they're not talking about things which cost a lot to produce. They're taking about things that cost almost nothing to produce, but are priced outrageously because of some wonky market dynamics
FINA votes to restrict transgender women from elite swimming competition
A trajectory topic: this kind of incidents makes it extremely unpleasant to work for AWS as an engineer. AWS treats security seriously. This type of incidents prompts AWS to introduce more red tapes for good reasons, but the side effect is that engineers are subject to kinda hostile development environment. A SDE-2 security engineer could shut down a major project by citing vague reasons like "the design is not user friendly", for whatever the f&*% that means, and the team had to escalate all the way to L8 or even L10 with pages and pages of "narratives" to get unblocked. Engineers can't ssh to production machines (again, for good reasons). Data platforms have rigorous rules for egress connections, making data processing very unpleasant, to say the least. If you were an engineer who just enjoys getting things done, working for a smaller company will be a much more pleasant experience.
Ah, I love this game. It's the same one that the super-rich use to convince people barely scraping by -- or anyone who hasn't read Barbara Ehrenreich -- that you should zoom out far enough so that your situation is compared to literal kids with literal flies on their eyeballs. Your life ain't that bad, why you complainin'?

The fact is, this country could fund universal childcare, universal healthcare and universal education from K-16 and not 'wreck the economy.' All it would take is doing what every other industrialized first-world country has done... and done better, with less resources.

And don't worry, the people who you think are actually living in abject poverty aren't reading on HN on a Monday afternoon, so my discredit of their situation will go largely ignored.
Not to mention that scammers are relatively unlikely to want to show their face for ID purposes even if it's their only account (whereas ordinary people that want to join a service for posting pictures of themselves on the Internet generally don't mind), especially not when there's a wide world of other scams they can be getting on with that don't involve showing their face.
It’s like trying to describe why a McDonalds $1.99 burger is bad, to someone who just lists ingredients and insists it has just the same mayo, cheese & patty as a $12.99 burger does.

It’s not about any single feature being missing, it’s just terrible the same way Vista was terrible
The 4hr take-home test implies you're not after experienced "seniors", but rather those self-titled seniors with 3yrs under their belt.

Four hours of focus time is A LOT for a candidate with family responsibilities and heavily restricts your recruitment pool.

No parent is going to give up a precious weekend afternoon for an unpaid assignment.

That plus the lack of salary range will put 95% of "good" candidates off.

Instead have a time-boxed "chat" where the candidate is invited to talk about a topic they feel strongest in - networking, architecture, security, whatever.

As a company you want to leverage these strengths.
shrug. rent seeking landowners are the greatest threat to a healthy economy.
I highly dislike this forced real identity thing on the internet. What is the problem with using internet aliases to post internet stuff in a manner entirely unrelated to your personal life?
> It's against company policy to put the range in the ad. Very very stupid, but probably nothing I can do about that.

This is already against the rules in CO and soon WA and NYC. Your company may as well get use to posting ranges. Ranges are also thought of to lead to more equitable outcomes for those working at the company.
Rip Currents Don't Have to Be So Deadly
Anaesthesia is fantastic nowadays. But it remains the fact that even very good anaesthetists don't really know how it works.

"Motivated action" shuts down because they paralyse you, using curare (or something more modern, I guess). They don't want you twitching around while they're wielding the scalpel.

Whether Self-awareness shuts down is very hard to say, without being that self. And it does seem clear that people can't lay down memories when they're anaesthetised. So I don't have any way of knowing whether I was awake when they operated on me.