skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you deploy and maintain your own fleet of cards then you could do this. There's an open source FIDO2 applet implementation at https://github.com/martinpaljak/FIDO2

You could also use PIV/PKCS11 client certificates if it's for internal systems you run - there is reasonably good support for using client certificates in popular browsers from a smartcard, as this is used for DOD CACs.
I really have trouble understanding why ppl should dream about labor / fulfilment at work.

There are so many ways to find a real meaning.

Be a great person, help others, read a book, do yoga, help kids with homework, plant a tree, build something with own hands, grow food, clean-up trash.

So many things to keep you busy. Work is just a necessity to do something that actually matters in the longer run (for majority at least).

Ppl that deeply care about the company and product are such a tiny minority.
Well think of newtonian physics. For things humans experience, it's generally plenty. Running, walking, flying, shooting bullets, etc work just fine. Sure lasers, satellites, fission/fusion, astronomy, etc start breaking things.

Gravity is damn near perfect on the scale of the solar system. A huge number of zeros of precision, makes great prediction, etc. Even blackholes (which is quite the corner case) seems fine with the current theory of gravity until you get down into the small details and the search for a grand unification of quantum and relativity.

However as the scale of a galaxy things break down. So there's at least 2 possibilities. One that the theory of gravity is wrong at large scales, or there's something else involved, like dark matter.

Seems natural that scientist have a working assumption that the theory of gravity is right, but the problems with it are getting more attention. There's not just one competing theory for the next step for gravity.
The short answer is...maybe. Franchises with sufficient power behind them usually end up with park deals. Universal operates the Nintendo park in Japan and Harry Potter. Disney is operating the Avatar park (before they even bought Fox).
OSMAnd currently has spyware built in, per the App Store privacy label.

I don't think it is an appropriate choice for a privacy-focused OS.
Bullcrap. The majority of the time, the terrorists are those who legitimately dissent.
I always wondered what all those tens of thousands of people at these megacompanies actually do -- even after working at one myself! (and never managing to get a lot done)

So it’s amusing and interesting to hear that even the CEOs don’t really know either.
Yeah, it's legit difficult to find work that is impactful and fulfilling. Making incremental changes on a product that a billion people might actually use isn't the worst thing imo. I worked hard at startups on projects that, while fun, very few people really use. After a while I gotta wonder is it really worth the effort.
Starlink latency is somewhere around 50ms on average according to friends, more than adequate for e.g. online multiplayer first-person shooters.
> some policies in place that _strongly_ disincentivize demonstrating vulnerability

That would do it. Assume the engineers have noticed that trend as well and expect to be told "everything is fine" while the ship burns and they update their CV.
I have a pinephone pro sitting idly until I find the time to install an OS to try on it.

I'm keen to try sailfish, I had a jolla in the past and really liked it.

At the same time, I'm weird enough that I want to use the terminal on it wherever possible! For calendar I was thinking of using calcurse.
You will own nothing.
And you will be happy.

- a popular quote in the internet
New Wi-Fi Reflection Tech Could Send Signal Through Impenetrable Walls
Skia has code paths for everything: CPU path drawing, CPU tessellation followed by GPU rasterization with special paths for convex vs. concave paths, NV_path_rendering, Spinel/Skia Compute... It's actually hard to figure out what it's doing because it depends so much on the particular configuration.
Well first, I'm not (yet) concerned with the courts in this hypothetical. I'm only talking about CloudFlare's ability to abuse its position. Regardless of whether it's legal, is it right that they can do this?

Second, trademarking a name doesn't give complete ownership of that word to the trademark owner. WordPress can still exist, even though Microsoft owns the trademark for Word as a word processing application. The example I gave of oortcloudflares.com (or maybe less ridiculously something like micloudflares.com where it's about loud flares of sound coming from microphones) shouldn't infringe on their trademark in any way since they have nothing to do with networking. But again, all of that is irrelevant if they can just throw their weight around and crash any website with a name they don't like. Many individuals and small businesses wouldn't even have the money to take them to court.
Seriously, for me it’s the opposite. Disney has classics. I cant not have all of the Simpsons. Or every Pixar film? It’s just too good.

Netflix has new stuff but it gets old faster.
From my experience with a temporary 4 day work week: the people who want to appear busy will still find a way to schedule in the same amount of pointless meetings into the fewer hours.

If those people have control over the schedules of other workers, then those workers lose their focus time.

You need guardrails to prevent org & overhead from overwhelming everything else.
8.5% is the year-on-year figure. The month-on-month figure was 0.0%, so prices neither grew nor fell on average in July.
Who is T1, T2 and T3? I really don't see it. Seems like that tiering has aged about as well as the OSI model.
Maybe, but the capacity for "something" to "stop something else from existing" seems to depend on laws, and the laws themselves seem pretty contingent. Why are the laws sustained? If the laws changed and things themselves caused their own demise, things couldn't just go on existing. So what keeps the current laws on the books?
I've been in this situation. Not knowing is the hard part. Don't waste this time, start a project and work like crazy on it because it never lasts.
2008 had a more explosive feel to it for sure. 2022 has a continuation-effect to it due to COVID, so it feels to me like some of the shock has been dampened.

Also, people with experience in relevant fields said they saw 2008 coming. The same is true recently, except the number of people who saw "this" coming this time around are easily in the millions, and many of them have little experience.

To me, these factors make recent events feel more like a shakeout. There are a lot of very strong, growing companies out there that are solving huge problems. There are some headwinds but I don't see those problems lasting in the longer term against such determined work and high levels of innovation.

I'd compare late 2008 to early 2020 for sure though. I remember getting stopped out of some positions and thinking, "damn I just lost a lot of my savings" and then things got worse and worse from there. Afterward I felt like some kind of f*cking genius for having set those stops! It was ridiculous.

If there's a recession from here on out, I would guess it's more of an optimistic (?) recession in which a new zone of economic support is found. I see perma-bear types still being perma-bears, but the more educated perma-bears are starting to show signs of FOMO. Much of the negative sentiment is baked-in and overbaked-in. It's fine to be a critic but a really good critic is educated in nuance, knows their emotions, and understands the value of both fundamentals and technicals.

Once medium-term support is established we'll continue the super-super-cycle on upwards IMO. I'm glad to see that climate change narratives are taking root recently and hope our kids all have a better way of life than we did, moving into the coming decades.

BTW right now would be a phenomenal time to study investing and trading. By the time the principles really start sinking in we'll probably be coming off a double bottom or developing some other obvious ranging pattern. ;-) Bears who want to believe in the great collapse will get caught in really epic mean-regressions.
> Iraq preserved its cultural heritage fine. Then the UK invaded

If only it preserved human rights and lifes of it's citizens as fine. The only thing that US and coalition did wrong with Iraq was not killing off Saddam in '91 and leaving Iraq under his reign of terror for 12 more years.

Unfortunately, it looks like appeasing bloody dictators is a West's thing lately.
Ballmercon is going to be dope this year!
What's the difference between categorical and numerical data?
A useful overview. Most categorical data is ignored or, at best, encoded.
Well, sure, there are philosophical problems with having to work at all for a living -- but work is required by nature. If one sits and does nothing, one starves to death.

There's nothing in the natural order that says I must starve if I don't report to a particular building every day and sit at a particular desk when the tools for me to perform the same labor at a place of my own choosing exist. Forcing me to do so in order to maintain an employment contract is coercion, plain and simple, and the sooner society destroys that norm the better.
And did you report it to Tesla by pressing the button on the screen?

I thought not.

Oh wait, they didn't actually turn on Full Self Driving, so the whole "test" is bogus.

Disingenuous.
> you can probably shore up some of that demand just by dropping some of those 4 hour employees and using their wages to pay others to become 6 hour or 8 hour employees.

Sure. Do this if you want to kill morale and be chronically understaffed (either not enough bodies or not enough qualified bodies) for the rest of your existence.

This type of mentality breeds mediocrity for a number of reasons, the main one being that A-players will run away from teams/companies structured around these heuristics. Furthermore, they will make sure all of their A-player friends are aware of this environment.

Good managers and good management teams have no issues with productivity of in-office or remote workers. If your team or company is actually having productivity issues (rather than using productivity as a precursor to a rif), then point that finger at the management and management culture.
No, my site is nateglenn.com. I know nothing about sailing XD. Thanks for caring enough to share the info with me, though :)
> Amusingly enough, Leetcode style interviews are effective at ensuring deadweights remain so.

yep. They also ensure that anyone wanting to move on will probably be doing most of their day Leetcoding. Because you're going to stay at a tech job 1-2 years max and it takes most people probably 6+ months (kids, family, etc.) to ramp up from nothing. Once you have LC down and did the hard part, you need to retain it. Which means constantly doing problems.

Our industry is a burnout treadmill.
This is fucking awesome (but way too expensive for me to consider)
Its a continuation of meet comp bribing scheme, same that earned $1B penalty they somehow managed to dodge recently https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-26/intel-win...

OEMs/ODMs/System Integrators get awards for shipping intel products, but instead of pure cash like in 2000 its hardware and rebates. Until very recently intel was giving out SSDs for free, probably switched to something else since they dont make those anymore.
> I am not a dead weight and I’ll never be, but I also do absolutely bare minimum to not get fired.

That's the literal definition of dead weight.
Crohn's is punishing. I hope Geerling's condition stops flaring up soon so he can get back to his life -- and I hope we can one day truly understand the pathology of IBDs so we can do something more effective to treat them.
I've got a colleague with similar history - 24+ years of tech experience - software, hardware, networking, etc. He's built systems that processed tens of millions of dollars, has single-handedly reworked legacy crap spaghetti in to testable, documented, well-functioning stuff. He came in to a company, then covid hit, and no one else on the team has anywhere near his level of experience. One guy graduated high school 18 months ago and loves kotlin. Every meeting is him trashing everything saying how cool kotlin in. He's rewritten existing working image processing libraries from C (which my colleague wrote and were working in production) in to Kotlin because "kotlin is faster". Guess what's broken now?

They have multiple meetings per week where people argue about what encryption library they should use for JWT token signing. Like... 5 people - none of whom have ever written encryption, nor written a JWT, arguing based on all the blog posts they've collectively read. That's just one example. This happens constantly. And the manager is of the view that "everyone's opinion matters, everyone should be heard". So the person with decades of experience who's already written (and written docs and tests) for the system they're trying to migrate to has to sit and listen to people who can not spell SQL talk about how 'bad' his system is because it's not in Kotlin.

That feels like an extreme example, but the more I talk with other folks, it doesn't seem to be that uncommon. Probably 15% or so of folks I connect with seem to have wildly imbalanced skill levels in their teams which are not acknowledged as such. It's fine for someone to have less experience. It's not fine to pretend that your 6 months of CS-101 homework is equivalent to someone else's decades of experience and working/documented/tested code.
TIL about Excel e-Sports. From https://www.fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/ :

> No finance, just Excel and logical thinking skills. Use IFS, XLOOKUP, SUM, VBA, Power Query: anything is allowed, and the strategy is up to you.

It says VBA, so presumably named variables are allowed in the Excel spreadsheet competition.

What about Python and e.g. Pandas or https://www.pola.rs/ ?

> Some events are invitational, some are open for everyone to participate in.

> All battles are live-streamed and can be spectated on our Youtube channel.
May I get your thoughts on this idea of mine:
We all know the marbles on a rubber sheet experiment. Masses produce "dents" in spacetime that "pull" on other objects.

Couldn't it be that that these dents are balanced out by bulges between the masses, that would additionally "push" smaller masses (like solar systems) towards larger masses (like the centers of galaxies)?

In an experiment it would look like this: the rubber sheet seals the top of a container filled with water. Now if you push down at some point, the increasing water pressure will push up all around that point.
If you now added a marble onto that bulge, it would roll down a steeper angle than it would in the normal experiment ... just like if there was extra mass ("dark matter").
I have to agree here. "Think of the children" is an excuse as old as time.
I got some ads for a "Bridgerton Experience" and "Stranger Things Experience" in SF a few weeks ago. I thought "wow it would be cool if they did this for the content I'm more interested in," then realized that there's already Marvel and Star Wars themed sections of Disneyland. Bit different in the scale of their executions...
Yeah it has 8 seasons. I tend to watch a show from start to finish as it cuts down the time spent hunting for something to watch.

You're correct that any streaming service has a chance at providing a show I'd like. That's the problem for services at the moment. Netflix has a huge catalogue but I've watched the shows I like. Disney has a smaller catalogue but happens to have a show I can watch with my wife. So that's the one we like at the moment.

They don't differentiate on anything else for me. They both work well enough.
That said Disney is not on my spart TV so I have to use the Chromecast.
I've added it to my profile. It's nothing fancy, mind you, but I think it gets the job done.
My take: look for financial greed running amok. I can recall a few years prior to 2008 I contacted someone in one of the online dating sites; she was too busy closing real estate deals to go out with me. Another one did, a Russian expat who wanted to talk to me about where else to buy - she had just refinanced her condo and was looking to buy more. Those two events, maybe around 2005-ish, told me that things were not going to end well.

Prior to that time, just before the turn of the century, I was working on an expert system middle tier for a bank (y2k) while half the workers around me were spending weekends bundling some kind of financial instrument which combined risky loans with good ones; the bank was hustling those.
Little did I realize then that this was what was fueling the real estate boom which I encountered a few years later.
Also did not see, at that time, just how that game would bring down the economy.

So...look around. Anything like that going on now (well, in the previous few years)?

Remember "too big to fail". Anything like that now?
I think that the fed chair back then spoke of "irrational exuberance".
Speaking as a manager who at least _thinks_ I run stand ups well, I have them run for 5-10 minutes max for 5 people and treat them as an update so that I can run interference on any “status updates” other parts of the company demand across a day, and as the time for the team to tell me what problems I need to go fix for the team to be productive.

I usually leave a standup with a list of 1-3 people I need to go talk to, to either move the code through bureaucratic processes, or an actual decision to make on which projects we’ll take on based on information found while engineering.

That said I also don’t care if my people say they have nothing of note and skip the meeting
They are not 'pretending' in most cases. They are busy, and think they are adding value.

So do their managers.

Also - sometimes the inverse! I've caught myself feeling 'useless' at BigTech until some feedback/situation made me realize 'OMG this matters' kind of things.

It's hard.

That is maybe Management's #1 job is to get people focused on things that matter.
I don't carry a chain link tool, too heavy/bulky. Been using a single speed with the same chain for about 13 years now.
I posit there is another category: people who don't accept or can't deal with being idle, but are not careerists and so instead of following your advice or resting-vesting, they find ways to spend their time helping solve actual problems in the company.

My theory is that these people keep many companies afloat, because they go proactively solve the problems the resters are not solving because work, and the job-optimizers won't touch because not promotion-track.
Maybe they are double counting Hulu and ESPN subs in the US, but not internationally. We don’t get those services at all in the uk and are slightly bemused when Disney proudly announce the more adult series that are now on Disney+ because we’ve had them for months.
Where did I say that it's harder to form relationships today than it was in the past? I didn't. I said nothing of the sort nor did anything I say imply as much, if that was your takeaway then it exposes your implicit biases more than it does anything about myself.
That is a big pile of specious reasoning. All of the things you listed could have had effectively no meaningful impact on the bottom line.

There are tech companies that absolutely print money and have those perks. There are also companies that grind and don’t turn out shit.

If fresh blueberries for software engineers are gonna wreck you, you aren’t in a business worth doing.
I believe Australia is the same.
They stopped printing money last year and have been actively contracting the money supply for several months.
You said they didn't want to be in this position. Parent says they're happy to be in this position. Those propositions disagree.
Why is my Twitter account in a superposition state?
Trying to use an account I created a long time ago. Logging in with the old password fails. Attempts to reset the password using my email produce "Sorry we could not find your account". Meanwhile an attempt to create a new account with my email produces "Email has already been taken".
Ended up in a similar situation. Gave me time to start up my own company. Was 10 years ago. Company still running. Lucky I was.
I'm of the belief that the Jan 6th attack on the Capitol was a very serious thing and went beyond "mob violence," but I don't believe it was a terrorist attack. ("Attempted coup", etc. may be more appropriate) but the instigators were interested in more than just terrorizing people. Words have meaning.
Sounds more like a Vegas casino tie-in.
Oh sure, but then as the interviewer, your take-home is also likely to be gamed by someone cramming for that too. Motivated people can always do too much work for a project. Whether it's a live coding thing, a take home exam, or a whiteboard problem, none of them really give a solution where someone isn't going to spend 100 hours prepping.
You're talking out of your ass here. Your auditors may be checking various things for a variety of unrelated reasons, but it has nothing to do with SOX.

Read the law. Seriously, it's posted online. You can just go look.
spam bots have first amendment rights too!
Porn peddlers like Larry Flynt did a lot of work in defending First amendment rights...
I check this every time I or someone in my family needs a new bicycle helmet:
https://helmets.org/
There were coffee-mug-carriers and hall-wanderers back in the office as well. I don’t think it’s new in WFH, but at least now they bother fewer people with their “checking in”.

I swear one guy must have gotten 15K steps/day in just wandering around the building.
So far Chinese subsidy scams produced a few very loud paper successes with non functioning display case prototypes.
In the scheme of how corrupt and manipulative capitalism in general is, putting up company logos for any reason is far too unimportant to be a low ethical bar. Almost every corporation recognizable enough for their logo to matter are themselves 100x more problematic than their logo being put up
Bought https://www.archer.com/
Disney ducks are still a bit of a thing in Europe I hear.
My decision to avoid GM vehicles has also now been “enhanced.”
Keep old shirts and make a blanket out of them
Its a new building from 2020.

Thats how much prices went up in EU.
Using your logic, I must not be a serious driver because I don't drive with the equipment necessary to repair my car. Or my bike, when I am riding. Or my e-bike when I am riding that.

Folks who are serious about any hobby or activity are also often relentlessly practical. I used to ride 100km from the city I lived in, out to my brothers farm. It was not a particularly long or challenging ride, and it had cell service most of the way, even 20 years ago. I always did a gear check, and carried spare tires, but in 4 years of doing that 20-30 times per year, I replaced tires, but never a chain on that ride. I also never carried the tools to do that work because it fell into the category of unnecessary gear. If there was a problem, I was only about a 30 minute wait for help from either side if I needed to be picked up.

I also used to do a fair bit of trail riding, and for a much longer period of time, and for significantly technical trails. Again, a gear check ahead of time, and proper maintenance meant I took tubes, but not the chain repair tools (and one time I regretted not taking 4 tubes, because it was a long and hot 14km hike back carrying my bike on a July afternoon).

I am not going to gatekeep your ability to gatekeep, but you should at least understand that your perspective on what constitutes a "serious" cyclist is completely subjective and not rooted in anything meaningful.
Wouldn't that more commonly be called generalizability?