skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps I’ve seen too many quiet engineers rudely interrupted to be objective. Many of them happen to be women as well.

The self proclaimed interrupters become surprisingly polite when speaking to the CEO. What an interesting phenomenon ;)
It's a bit strange that the burden of proof is on people contesting allegations about an anonymous person. As far as I can tell the original claim has no proof whatsoever.

That said, after digging into this a bit more it seems that the most credible proof he didn't commit suicide is that the U.S. State Department has no record of it. They allegedly killed themselves in June but according to government records no US citizen died of suicide in Japan in June.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...
In Zoom's case this seems to be working as intended. Clearly you are intended to be able to join the meeting with only the hashed password, that's what the sharing URL feature is for. It's probably more of an obfuscation feature, so people don't file angry bugs about how Zoom URLs reveal the plaintext of their terrible reused password.
I design for offline because my apps might be used in places where internet might not be easily available. Like in the basement of a factory, with a hostile IT department. Lots of places all over the place where you might have equipment but can't get internet service.
It's not my fault that 99% of all internet businesses figured that bait and switch is a sound business plan. It really isn't.

They should have read some basic human psychology: it's extremely hard or impossible to take something away that was given for free for a long time. That's basic knowledge. My history and psychology teacher shared this tidbit with the class when I was in the 9th grade.

Furthermore, me and many others are not closed to the idea of paying for journalism but are not willing to track 20 subs across different services.

Bill me through my ISP. I'll pay it. Make an app tracking how much extra I'd pay the next month because I've read 5 FT, 3 WSJ and 7 NYT articles -- I want to know. Even better, put a banner beforehand: "Reading this article will add $0.05 to your monthly internet bill, press OK if you agree".

The technical and societal solutions are there. But the unfettered greed and everyone's desire to be the one and only still prevail. Hence: yes, I will expect free journalism until things change.
There is no such day. It's about the context of the images. Nude images of all ages are completely legal in the US.

You have the logic backwards, it's sexual images that have an age, not nude images.
There are two types of productivity posts on HN:

1. "here's how you can get ahead of everybody else"

2. "Productivity porn is toxic"

I think by now most of us understand that both ideas are true to a certain degree. The hard part is figuring out how to balance the two. The problem is, most posts of one nature fail to address the other.
Why? Why should they have gotten priority rights? I don't think any network gets perpetual rights, so why should pbs?
You and I both know why details like home addresses and phone numbers are documented by KF threads. Interacting being against the rules is basic ass-covering, there's no reason for details like those to be posted unless the intent is for someone to harass them, whether that person is a KF user who knows not to admit it, or a drive-by reader who found the thread on Google.

Nobody is buying the line that KF is a purely passive observer, when drawing their attention is so strongly correlated with receiving harassment, or that they only observe intentionally published information, when they scoop up so much obviously private information like addresses and deadnames.
Offline mode adds significant complexity to the service, since you are essentially replicating your entire server side stack (logic, storage, etc) on the client.

Offline mode adds a cost to every new feature, even if it's just deciding if you are going to support said feature offline.

If you're dealing with sensitive data, it also means you need a way to secure that data on the client device.

I'm not saying apps shouldn't have an offline mode, but software engineering resource isn't free and most businesses would need to justify the cost of offline (even if it's just an opportunity cost).
The two are equivalent if each hash is valid. The only way for a longer chain to have less work is if there's a sudden, protocol violating drop in the difficulty in a block header. If this happens then you know that chain is not the valid chain.
I don't see this as a cost saving - the radius isn't material that would make it onto another piece of lumber, it'd be the waste between rectangles. In addition, keeping a machine tuned and sharp to cut the radius costs money.

I would assume two possible reasons: the radius reduces stress concentration, and facilitating handling and packaging (think splinter fall-off debris, and likelyhood to bind up on a sharp edge)
If you're looking for a reason to replace it you could probably work out how much it's costing you in energy (and possibly extra AC workload if you're in a hot country!) vs an OLED
It is in windows, the cert store comes with windows and you use for many applications from code signing, email signing, server cert signing to authenticating users and the computer to the network/AD.

PKI is the way windows and the corporate world went. On nix you have PGP, with GPG it is sort of baked in I guess but it is used only in package signing and signing of text content in various contexts.

I believe the "web of trust" is preferred over PKI but nix folks because they don't want to depend on certificate authorities mediating trust, instead you have key servers that only help in distributing keys. For *nix, the burden of forming trust is on the user. You have to either go to key signing parties (very scalable lol) or I guess google around and ask in chatrooms and look up trustworthy sites until you are confident a key us trustworthy? I mean you can cross-sign and all that but in reality, you have to investigate each key one by one and hope you don't screw up. Or what happens in most cases is people trusr https/PKI so key IDs on people's websites or a command asking you to import a key from their site over https is trusted... because PKI/TLS is much more practical. Get the GPG fans to like PKI and maybe Linux will have PKI cert management out of the box. The Linux kernel does support X509 and pki certs afaik, I don't know if you can make it store root certs and have it verify cert chains for you from userspace. Very possible but only applications using kTLS might want that. Perhaps a feature request with your favorite browsers and package managers to use kTLS instead of openssl/gnutls is a start?
Not sure if this is the one you're talking about, but it rang a bell. I saw it in a Tony Robbins book most recently and then repeated in a book about TV addiction.

“First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.”

- William James

"First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer
Interestingly, it seems like it was nontrivial to come up with this example. They’re looking for a phrase which has a SHA-1 hash that is entirely composed of alphanumeric characters. The odds of a randomly chosen phrase having this property is (62/256)^20, or approximately 2^-40 - that is, on average, you’d have to test around 2^40 phrases to find a suitable one.

There are 13 digits in the phrase; assuming all of them can be freely chosen, that’s 43 bits of entropy. Just enough to find one example.
My startup built an SDK framework that’s allows companies to build offline apps that can even sync over a multihop mesh network. It’s powered by a CRDT to handle the conflict resolution.

From my experience most of our customers are not mobile developers (they’re JavaScript developers asked by their bosses to build mobile apps) and don’t even want to spend time learning coredata or room for iOS or Android. So most of the time they just stick to what they know, HTTP requests.

Luckily we made our SDK easy to use so that these JavaScript developers can get both the network communication and the offline first caching in one product. They absolutely love it.

Most apps aren’t offline first because it’s so hard to build the infrastructure to pull it off without a lot of bugs. Most apps focus entirely on the UI code layer. If infrastructure and frameworks made this a lot easier to use, I bet offline first would be a lot more popular and users would be a lot happier.
> fund schools well enough that teachers don't have to pay out of pocket for basic supplies like chalk and paper

You mean funding the vacation plans of all the administration ?
I understand a sentence "Merge sort has a time complexity of O(N log(N)) in the worst case" because I learned it from other people (my lecturer, book authors), too. So, I don't see the point here.

Most English-speaking people—even for those who don't believe life after this material world—likely have some guess of a definition of "eternal life", which might or might not be similar to the definition in the biblical context. Some who consider "eternal life" as cryptic as "bhng lw" don't know the word either "eternal" or "life".

The meaning of any word in any sentence of any book can be disputed, of course.. until we realize that a definition of a word also consists of words any of which can be argued all over again. (Aside: I had wondered since I was first introduced a dictionary: How can we understand any word if its definition consists of words too? It would be an infinite recursion. Only recently I knew that the problem has a name: "The Grounding Problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding_problem )

To answer your question, in this context, having an eternal life means going to heaven. The follow up questions would be "What's heaven? Where is it?". I or someone else can explain it to you, but if you, in your words, "never bothered to learn the context", no one can help you to understand. However great your lecturer explained some materials in the class, you wouldn't fully understand the materials if you didn't self-study in your time, would you?
It's burning the world, and it's a luxury we can afford now because we don't pay(monetarly speaking) the price for it.

I would vote to restrict further the cars.

As soon as you take every cost the car make, it's not worth it anymore.
And I'm not speaking only about money, but the external cost generated due to the car:
It reduce biking and walking by taking up space on the road, and being dangerous for both.
It pollute the air and reduce our lifespans.
It make a tons of noise, which also reduce lifespan.
So say I give you an unlimited source of 100 million C plasma that is producing energy and spewing neutrons eveywhere.

What then? How do you make a viable power station that is practical to make in a timely manner and requires little to run compared to solar with some form of storage?

And that's ignore that you'd be dumping so much heat keeping it fusing that it'd do what we do today with a blanket of CO2 but directly.
>Eventually a place made an offer I couldn’t refuse.

Well... it's better than sleeping with the fishes :)
JK JK

Thanks for the write up!
Unions are not the salve for this.

The great resignation is in effect an existential crisis for the working person. People are questioning their life values and gut checking their work prospects against it and making a change when necessary. The pandemic was a watershed moment for everyone to kind of wake up and say, “is this right for me?”
if you could tell the difference they would be called medicines not supplements.
So a private company has to do business in Singapore - and isn't allowed to complain if the Singaporean government restricts the rights of its own employees? They're just supposed to shut up and take whatever insane dictat exists in whatever jurisdiction they do business with? Why? If they're powerful enough to move the needle by threatening to withdraw from the country, then good for them! It's not that "whatever I like" is right, it's that there are universal human rights, and guess what, if enough stakeholders in these companies believe that no one should be doing business in countries or states that don't respect those rights, that's a good thing for the world.
When you have an algorithm.
Odamex – Online Multiplayer Doom
"Is it coming from someone with a lot of experience evaluating the protocols of epidemiological studies?"

It is, but I prefer to not involve my own credentials as a boring appeal to authority and focus on the argument at hand. I mentioned spending time in the sun to show I have no horse in the race. I only bring up melanoma because the cohort is “Melanoma In Southern Sweden”, but I think your point is fair regarding likely multifactorial causes.

“Sunlight (whether too much or too little) affects us in all sorts of poorly-understood ways; that's why it's useful to do a big correlation study instead of just examining melanomas”

Still, if I were designing a study to measure the impact of exercise on all cause mortality, I would not have a question like “Do you frequently jog to the farmers market to pick up vegetables?”. Half of the questions ask about going on vacation, maybe we are seeing that people who have enough time to “go abroad” twice a year live longer, I would believe that. I hope this is obvious and that even someone who doesn’t have “a lot of experience evaluating” these studies can see the flaw.

The study didn’t include any men!!! A study of women only might not generalize to the whole population, especially when it comes to all cause mortality. One obvious example: men have 1.5x higher risk of dying from melanoma than women. The study excluded individuals with a history of malignant melanoma.

The no-exposure group exercised less and had lower education, and there is a large risk for residual confounding that could have likely been accounted for by using categorical variables with more than 3 options.

Further criticisms include the “no exposure group” having much more women aged 55-64 (with likely much more comorbidities). They used length to follow up time to account for this which has no place in an observational study. The study excluded women who had a history of cancer.

I appreciate the work the authors did, but remain unconvinced that it is sunlight that caused lower mortality in their study.
Everyone Should Watch Real Genius at Least Once a Year
Modding halo is what got me into programming.
You don't join FB groups to market to them! You join to do customer development.

There's a huge difference between going in and going "try my app" and "hey I'm an app developer, building this thing, and I'm wondering if people here would find X or Y more useful".

Do it the first way and you'll get banned. Do it the second way and you'll get people asking to try it.
Drone Remote Identification Protocol (Drip) Architecture
100%.

Some of the most important problems in the world are solved by a thousand "tiny" companies. Sure, they didn't look attractive from an investor's standpoint (most live by the 'high risk = high reward' approach), but that does not mean they are not important.
TensorBook: The Deep Learning Laptop
I think more often than not djvu blurs out half-tone which can be too aggressive for e.g. newspaper scans and makes a blurry mess.
It does not even provide a `--sort-keys` option. That's like 90% of the the reason I ever lean on jq - to standardize API output for my human brain.
Micheal Scott?
What's the minimum offer it would take for you to quit your job and go be a middle school teacher right now?
The subject should be "glibc and DT_GNU_HASH" :) Hope this gives some background information for "Easy Anti-Cheat" users.
Yeah, the people who draw equivalence between US companies pulling out of Russia and Russia attempting to influence US elections are morally bankrupt and can't see that one of these things is trying to stop a war of aggression, or at least punish the murder of civilians. To even pretend not to be able to make that distinction is repugnant.
nice argument!
I'd stick a bit of plasma in the boiler of every coal plant on earth.

Before that, I'd short the stock of every coal mine I could.
I deeply resent the fact that your comment is the top comment as of this writing. Nowhere in it have you acknowledged that the reason one third of teaching staff you interacted with were bitter political players was actually the entire topic of the article: the system has made them that way.
Everytime you need to use any type of force (e.g., a ban) to impose your idea, you should really think if this is really a good idea.
Yes, it's contractual because of copyright. If someone (and many parties in the process) created it back then, there is a web of copyrights that require royalties to the creators. Contracts would control who this obligation is owed to (if anyone) years later.
How could you possibly know some product or idea would bring in such a specific amount?
jq used to do this, but changed to preserve key order.
I expect a man to be able to bench press his bodyweight. I expect a man to be able to do five pull-ups. I expect a man to be able to deadlift 150% bodyweight.

I expect you to be able to bodyweight squat, and I expect you to be able to do a farmer walk with your body weight.
Like other people in this thread I've had the idea of retiring early and having a second career as a teacher.

What if I did that, and then just refused to take any of that shit? Are teachers rare enough that I wouldn't get fired?
The 'Decoding the Gurus' podcast is germane to that point: https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm
> Music theory is a descriptive enterprise, which aims to make sense of music as composed/performed/enacted by humans.

That seems a rather rigid stance. Those same composers may have studied theory, incorporated its elements, and invented new variations that gained adoption which then become theory, right? It feels a bit like language in that sense.
The Apple who caused an immense controversy with its CSAM scanning debacle?

All of Big Tech is ultimately not so different.
A couple friends work 4 - 10 hours days (medical)
Another works 24 hours on and 72 hours off. (fire)
yeah isn't it interesting how the unnecessary and easily harmful thing of raising capital is seen as validation?

it just gets you press, but if there isn't really a larger TAM then you can personally wind up making less money than just keeping full ownership of the company.

thinly held companies can be conduits for really decent sums of money completely privately.
Sadly does not explain why it's a "2x4" in the US, and a "4x2" elsewhere (before elsewhere gave up inches)
The US preliminary numbers suggest that since the end of the Omicron wave excess deaths have hovered between 0-5% (compared to 30% or more during major waves). A couple percent is likely still Covid suggesting that the underlying trend hasn’t changed much.
The song is "Up on Cripple Creek" by The Band.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_on_Cripple_Creek
Operation Northwoods: CIA false-flag op against American citizens (1962)
This presumes that all income belongs to the government by default, and not being taxed is some special favor.

That’s backwards, all income belongs to the people who earn it by default. We agree to use a portion for the common good to fund the government. Since a nonprofit is presumably already working for the common good, there is no reason to take any of their income to fund the government.
> Offline mode adds significant complexity to the service, since you are essentially replicating your entire server side stack (logic, storage, etc) on the client.

Not necessarily true if you can run the same code on the client as you do on the server.
Why is offset-based pagination a thing at all? It sucks when a feed is very active, it sucks when you link to a page or visit search results, where it may turn out to be hundreds of pages away in a week. I always wondered why nobody does some obvious (order_col > k, order by order_col, limit n). It’s not a two years old mistake, it’s two decades and sites still do that by default.
> There are 50k US citizens in Japan - none dying for months seems impossible

As far as I can tell that claim is purely based on speculation. It's possible that the death wasn't reported, or was somehow reported as "natural". However, it's impossible to know due to the lack of any basic information. (And I think improbable that Japan, of all places, would screw up the paperwork.)

Not to detract from the overall point — I think there are many reasons to dislike Kiwi Farms — but making dubious claims muddies the water.
really hoping this is a troll…

CREATE
READ
UPDATE
DELETE

a very simple approach to a restful service
The similarity is because it's an example of something other cultures see as normal, or at least harmless, but in the US it is seen as an egregious offense.

Not hard for me to imagine a 7 year old American getting expelled and potentially prosecuted for trying to play a "Kancho" prank on a friend.
The problem for me is that there are two parts to the problem

1) do you think your job is meaningful?

2) do the proscriptive process rules around your job "spark joy" (sorry Ms Kondo)

I think 1) used to be true, I had a very strong sense working in the not-for-profit sector in public interest governance/standards was both meaningful and important. I'm less sure about both, and my own relative contribution now, so its hard to believe the labour is justified on the public purse, which makes it hard to have self worth, and harder to feel like problems in 2) are worth tolerating

In 2) the process burdens have risen as roles have moved, and as the organisation both grows and ossifies. So whilst I want to say "it's me: I've grown out of this" it's also partially true "it's them: they've changed the underlying basis of HOW we do this"

Some of 2) is justified. bigger orgs need more structure and process. some of 2) is justified, public interest s/w and services SHOULD be better, SHOULD be "fit for purpose" so we need more test, and UX, and check-before-commit-and-deploy

But a lot of 2) is "yea, this is performance theatre" to make middle managers and hired process consultants feel good about their 1) issues. Their idea of "meaningful" differs from mine.

I'd say "I'm jaded" is a soft version of burn-out. You can do a role too long, against change in expectations and cost and benefit to community, and yourself.
I find modern atheist people's investiture of authority in academics confusing. Did we go to the same university system? My professors certainly spent more time reading about the subjects they specialized in than the average person, but they weren't necessarily incentivized to believe true things about their fields.

A professor in a certain type of engineering, getting grant money by claiming it might be useful for e.g. future computing hardware, has an incentive to keep claiming so in order to get future grants.

I think I'd trust a pastor's word on their area of nominal expertise (life advice, christianity) about as much as a given professor's word about their area of specialization.
(This doesn't apply to a pastor of one of those super-churches, for example; they're obvious scum. I wonder if there's an analogue in academia?)
I don’t currently work 4 day work weeks. However, when I worked at Lockheed Martin, they had flexible work schedules. You could work the standard 40 hour work week, 9-80’s (work 9 hours with every other Friday off), or 4-10’s. Friday was a day you knew not to schedule meetings because there was a good likelihood people would be out of the office. I miss having this flexible working benefit. To me it costs employers almost nothing to support, but can make a huge impact to their employees.
I didn't even have a facebook account before, I hate their business model, last thing I really want to do is to give them money. I hate the way they do ads.