skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it got the "% of spoken words that are profanities" part correct.
That’s exactly how I feel. I tried to use some Adobe’s products but I failed because all of them have a steep learning cure and their UI/UX are complicated too. By contrast, Figma made my life easier.
Border Agents Surveil Americans' Phones Without Warrants: Wyden
Right but clearly it’s more complex than “human right” since you and your belonging can be searched at the border for every single country.

Clearly searching your phone is overstepping it, but it’s not like there is some absolute right to privacy when crossing borders.
I guess it depends on your financial goals. I'm a younger big tech employee that has at times seen my income drop in half. However, I personally believe tech will have a massive rebound in the next 2-10 years and long term capital gains tax is really nice.
Can a Wood [Reentry] Heat Shield Work?
Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
One look at the image and my immediate reaction is "no way anyone would be stupid enough to buy something like this"

It's like an utterly evil version of that "HDMI to Gardena" meme, only it actually exists and Amazon carries it...

https://external-preview.redd.it/AOlxnd9E3WMW3KID3LhjpL3o70s...
I don’t think the actual hardware components inside a TV are all that different from an SOC because they’re essentially doing the same thing.
Anduril surveillance towers spreading along the US border
Isn’t the usual advice to turn off your main breaker? Both to protect a lineworker and to avoid stalling your generator by trying to power up the neighbourhood?
Did not work for me at the time but pretty much everyone cool was super impressed with it. And why wouldn't they? We were the target audience.

Somehow hacking computer things wasn't as appealing as shooting intelligent bugs. Would you like to know more?
I feel the same way. I'm not a fan of haproxy's configuration system. It's really difficult for me to understand it, whereas I feel I can read most nginx/apache configs and immediately know what is supposed to be happening. I still maintain servers under load in production that use all three to this day and I always go back to nginx because of the configuration alone.
Exactly! It’s not about the academics (not to say the academics are bad at most Ivy’s), it’s about meeting and interacting with your peer set.
"...give me six lines..."
- Cardinal Richelieu
Not sure how it works, but there is a "Free Access" button here...leads to a registration form.

https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-stand...
This will get overturned shortly due to press attention.

Which, sadly, is the only way large scale network moderation can work.

Get it "mostly" right, but often wrong.

In most of the cases you get it wrong, only a few people will notice. You'll never hear about it.

Occasionally, you'll get it so wrong a lot of people notice and you will hear about it. Then you can fix it.

Rinse and repeat.
So, I have a very good understanding of basic physics. I have a very good ability to critically think. I am, what I would consider, educated and intelligent.

And there was a time in my life when I googled "double male cord" because my snow-blower has a female plug for the electric start that is supposed to go to a converter box specifically sold by the company, and I lost it and didn't want to pay $100 for a new one.

Had I not paused and thought twice, I absolutely could've purchased one without thinking, or made one myself.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is, people can be stupid, even if they're smart.
Well, there's still Gimp and Inkscape if you aren't afraid of working outside of a browser
I think about this all the time and I'm surprised I'm present on the earth to view it.
And of course the "brands" selling these products are under random names like SFHBEE that will disappear overnight. No accountability if anything goes wrong.

This is a good thread on it: https://twitter.com/ColeSouth/status/1550230795230781440
Rehang your christmas lights...
Pretty sure they analyse TLS handshakes for their Bot Management product and probably other things.
Whether Bitcoin uses less energy today than YouTube is immaterial. (As is whether Bitcoin counts as "sound money", which I'll leave to the side.) What's important is the energy use per transaction, the total of which -- if scaled up to match what's handled by traditional banking -- would be absolutely staggering.

My lifestyle of keeping my high-end PC running all the time, cranking the AC down to 68, turning all the lights on, and so on, would of course use less energy than YouTube. But if everyone behaved as I do it'd be a bad thing (don't tell Kant).
More or less a security nightmare than a drawer or tray full of physical credit cards behind a busy bar at night, which is the alternative at US bars? I'd argue that time-shifting card data is actually safer, even if it is often against the merchant agreement.

I really haven't heard of much trouble caused by these systems - of course, they require magnetic stripes in general, which are a massive attack vector, but the bar use case specifically doesn't seem to cause additional issues that I'm aware of. There are so many lower-tech and easy ways to steal magnetic track data, like skimmers, that I don't think compromising bar-back point of sale systems is a particularly high priority for most criminals.

Anyway, this is probably just a small snapshot in time regardless, since once swiped-card transactions finally go away US bars will have to switch to the mobile terminal pay-as-you-go method anyway.
Check this repo for SRE https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre
Rates at 4.5% Would Sink Stocks by 20%
People can't see it's a shitty idea because they're operating at the level of clicking on Amazon and assuming it wouldn't be sold if it weren't safe. This shouldn't be a CPSC warning, but rather a prosecution.

I myself have made a suicide cable to move a load from one circuit to another without shutting it off. But doing the wiring myself made it very clear that I was off the beaten path, and so I had to really think through what I was doing. There's a few obvious concerns with the use I've described here, but I'm not going to write them out because they should be either readily apparent, or you should not be doing such things.

It's the same territory as working with line voltage on a test bench, floating an oscilloscope, etc. All things that can be done safely when you're knowledgeable and focused on the task at hand. But should never be normalized into every day relaxed life, even if you "know what you are doing".
it'd mean your savings account would beat the S&P500 (after it finds a bottom obviously; this year having cash in a 0% savings account has been amazing!).
I think the difference is that if Figma's website goes offline, you lose all of your figma stuff. If penpot gets acqui-killed, then you can just clone a version that you were comfortable with and keep going.
What’s the argument that being entertained by weaponry is morally comprised? The only argument I can think of would be reliant on a belief that human killing is always morally wrong. I’m not sure many people share that belief. But would love to hear an alternative perspective.
ah yes the famous "have a bigger breach so people stop worrying about your smaller breach" strategy
I assume the title is making a deliberate point.
I’ve always found that the opposite of addiction is connection. People turn to drugs to fill a void.
Startups are the least punk rock thing in tech. Follow patterns and rules to match the expectations of VCs so they give you money... and then they drive what you do.

I'm not saying people should not work in startups - they have their place in the industry. But there is nothing "punk rock" about them.

If you want to break rules and work outside the lines, we have come full circle to the 90s - bootstrapped small businesses are the way to go.
The free YouTube tier is about to become unbearable with even more ads
Electricity is like magic to most people. If you ask around you'll find that folks don't have the vaguest idea how it works. All they know is "plug it in and it turns on". These people are eating and sleeping inches from voltages that could easily kill them. Safety measures are fairly good (even with the terrible US plugs), but safety devices can only go so far.

I would strongly encourage that everyone (even those who aren't interested in technical subjects) learn the water analogy and some electrical safety fundamentals.

You don't have to know all the physics, but you should be given a basic intuition of what current, voltage, resistance, and power are.
So one of the worst long-term periods in history - the S&P was still ~50% better than cash.

What else is a passive investor gonna do?
Eric Corley was a technical consultant on that movie. Do with that what you may.
How did you get burned by Figma? What has Figma done since it announced it's getting acquired by Adobe that has burnt you?
Vaccine to screw with your motivation system geee what could go wrong?
Code.europa.eu
Pound hits new 37-year low as retail sales slide
> don't be unpredictable. Don't make things unpredictable.

Yes, this. I've found that being (functionally) boring and predictable has gone over very well with my team and managers. I reserve my chaotic nature for when my work laptop is closed.

As for the inevitable "one line greeting awaiting acknowledgement before proceeding" messages, I just respond in kind, and wait for them to get to their actual question while I continue whatever I was doing. No skin off my back, and it plays nice with coworkers.
I mean most people know it's a terrible idea, it's just that 0.1% of a population of 330 million people is 330k people, and I don't think that 0.1% is from a failure of our education system
Amazing that N,U,L,Esc,L,Esc,S,O,F,T still works. Kudos!
Probably because the alternative is to not have power during the (increasingly common) blackouts.

I'm assuming that is the alternative due to there not being a proper way to accomplish this goal that does not cost thousands of dollars.
No, no in medicine you need to be perfect or you’ll kill people
the daily "standup" in hybrid mode with 80% of the team joining online has become more tolerable: a 60 seconds countdown ensures brevity, and not seeing most of the crew the rest of the day makes a get-together more special.
He did cite an example: George Floyd. You really ought to read the comment you are replying to more carefully. (And you have to be pretty profoundly ignorant of current events not to already be aware of this.)
Seems to me that the author was just propagating "the blue eyes are so beautiful" sort of white standard of beauty, probably not intentionally, and it would be a minor thing, except in this case it just does not fit, imho, given the topic.
Has anyone actually been banned from the internet for free speech?
"The main value add of undergrad is networking and prestige, not education."

I think this might be true in software engineering and maybe law, but it's certainly not true in the medical field, engineering, etc.
Maybe I’m dumb but what else would the ground on a completely plastic enclosure be connected to?
The idea is that the two events can be separated by years, though. This means that at the end of rehab the exiting patients can be guaranteed not to relapse for at least a few years.
they can also search your anal cavity if they want to. #endborders
In 1968 Bolivia, the only way you could shower is with these heated heads, because there were no hot water tanks. 220v, with exposed connectors.

So anyway I'm standing in the shower under one of these heads, feet in a puddle. I raise my arm to wash an armpit, and the back of my hand touches the bare connector.

It tingled a bit.
I think his point is there's a similar distinction between monitoring a group of people who attacked democracy, and dragnet surveillance of the entire population.
Same here.

It's also nice that I happen to live in a country that gives a tax break on your (monetary, not stock) income, so that makes the choice for money even easier.

Reinvest it in an index fund, and forget about it. Yeah, I might miss out on significant gains, but I might also not. Less risk for a reasonable yield.
Isn't this dependent on timing and isn't part of the point of DCA to mitigate timing risks?

E.g., If I loaded my 401k just before the bottom fell out of the market, you need a much higher proportion of good years to dig out from that hole. With DCA, you would have a shallower hole to climb out of.

(Possible I misinterpreting what you meant, or that I am just not financially saavy enough to chime in)
How should Deepmind's Chinchilla revise our AI forecasts?
My undergrad was electrical engineering. I work as an engineer. I'm not inclined to buy one of these (and not just because I could simply make one if I wanted).
Ask HN: How's Postal in production? What's the deliverability rate look like?
Yes, but also, stock correlations are so high that it's not as big of a difference as you might think.[1]

1: https://www.macroaxis.com/invest/pair-correlation/DIA/%5EGSP...
I notice no on has mentioned "The Net". With good reason, if I remember correctly.
There’s basically 2 pathways: the dopamine pathway through amphetamines or the acetylcholine pathway via cocaine
None of it is truly decentralized. Most Bitcoin mining comes from three corporations. You could replicate the whole network by setting up a cross-cloud system that's balanced between AWS, Azure, and GCP.
yes, it was resolved, thanks for asking and for offering an email address.
That, and the brands are clearly from a Chinese Name Generator, so you end up with Rabbitgoo branded products. Once those start to fail or enough people leave bad reviews the company disappears and pops up again as Luckyfang. It's whack-a-mole, and untrustworthy.

If I wanted those products I'd shop aliexpress.
Well, anecdotally, I moved from Texas to the West Coast and lost 30+ lbs my first year.

Losing access to good BBQ and queso were definitely factors. But I’d cite the inherent walkability of the cities I’ve lived in as the main reason. It gives me far more casual exercise now that the weather isn’t trying to kill me and I’m not surrounded by suburban sprawl.
It's not worth it and there needs to be a real alternative. Unfortunately at the scale things have gotten to, it might take regulatory action. Because the market is not going to be able to compete here.
So, the million (or trillion) dollar question is, who controls them?
What do you think would happen to a regular person performing such an act? Would it be like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or a James Bond movie?
Testing your code VS testing your scientific model
>So all players in the market are just selling everything across the market to the tune of -1.4% because FedEx is having issues?

FedEx's issues is that their volume is down massively. High (nay, accelerating) rates of trade are the foundation of the modern economy. If trade starts to slow down, or, Lord forbid, decline, then yes that can have massive negative repercussions.
From a sales perspective (I was in a position to be tech-agnostic, due to coming in as a consultant), BE4FEs can be sold to the business on basis of: (A) decoupling and velocity; (B) flexibility and features; (C) performance and efficiency; and (D) security and confidentiality. (Also worth noting that API gateways are the more general case of BE4FEs, so similar arguments apply bidirectionally.)

More specifically, useful arguments include:

- "Digital decoupling" reduces the number of potential blockers by allowing FEDs to develop against mocked or partial APIs, which allows customer-facing products and services to be more rapidly developed and deployed to market;

- BE4FEs decouple the external API structure from the internal systems view, which means you can design and create new and powerful customer experiences that don't directly mirror internal systems;

- They allow you to more effectively compose data from a variety of backoffice sources, and reduces the risk of backoffice upgrades, modernizations, and changes;

- They allow you to reduce the number of business stakeholders that need to be brought into the API and product discussion, since business logic can be implemented at a layer above the backoffice systems, which allows for more precisely-targeted features and scope and improved velocity;

- By managing caching and processing at the BE4FE layer, you can reduce backoffice system load and engineer your performance and cost requirements accordingly;

- Your BE4FE allows for granular, product- or service-specific security, confidentiality, redaction, and auditing approaches that may exceed or differ from those the backoffice systems implement;

- A properly-engineered BE4FE provides "ablative security" layers that protect backoffice systems from malformed requests, inadvertent or hostile overload, exfiltration or unintended disclosure of sensitive data, and so on.
You'll hate to admit it but I know for a fact that a lot of the tools introduced after CS2 have become indispensable and allow you to get work done faster and more efficiently than back in the day.
Also, "pick what you know" applies here, too. If you know NGINX, then all you get from switching to Caddy is experience, and likewise, vice versa.
Anecdata, I’ve some students from Columbia in my circles. While they aren’t the brightest of the bunch they certainly are some of the wealthy ones. One student actually admitted that she chose Columbia just for the prestige, even when she has to pay $200k.

Maybe that’s the goal? Then the system is working as intended.
I think it's because most tech jobs are not in tech. If you work for a bank, you work for bank. If you work for a fashion retailer, you work for a fashion retailer.

I've worked for a big pension fund and it was exactly like one imagines. Many meetings, a quiet office, slow and boring. I've also worked for small tech-focussed companies with technical nerds as founders; they were rather different, with music, dogs, vodka and late nights.

Oh and age matters too: after I had a kid, the late nights and vodka were not something I had the energy for.
That's an IEC inlet... I think OP is referring to something specifically intended as a generator inlet, like this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Reliance-Controls-30-Amp-Power-I...

Not impossible to get, but certainly a bit more expensive.
Denmark spy chief charged with leaking state secrets
Adobe is worse
Oh well, at least it's not other way around
This movie is one of my favorites. It's absolutely hilarious and so so 90s in the best way.
I’m not sure I want to see the Venn diagram of people who would buy this cable, and people who would know they need to do that.
>don't want to have a large amount of my portfolio tied up in the company I work for.

Just before the .com bust a company I worked for decided to remove the option for employees to just dump their 401k contributions into company stock, and removed the option to direct a massive % of their paycheck into the company stock purchase plan. (I believe some of these limits became law later on but at the time it was legal)

Some folks got really upset by that. The argument at that time was "we don't to be a part of employees suddenly being broke if things go south".

About a year later they were right, things went south. Our stock did sorta well in the long term (not great short term of course), but IMO it was a good choice.
Do you think the people using this sort of cable acknowledge things like "the usual advice"?
Censorship morons on parade. Obviously we need to return to a First Amendment ethos. Obviously we never should have abandoned it in the first place.
Will the Metaverse Be 'The Most Dangerous Tool of Persuasion' Ever Created?
Oh how the turns table
Agreed that there aren't only two viewpoints, but there's only two that really matter, due to the construct that you mentioned.

> it makes sense that the FBI wants to monitor it. I'm for it.

I still think this is short sighted. E.g. the FBI in it's early days was heavily involved in monitoring and trying to break up the Civil Rights Movement. They were spying on people protesting the Vietnam War, people in the Women's Rights Movement, the list goes on.

When we let the FBI do dragnet surveillance, it doesn't stop at people with outlandish opinions. It has, and will continue to, impact important political groups and ideologies.

Honestly, from the history, it's far more likely to impact liberal groups than conservative ones. The only real controversy around the FBI and conservatives that I can think of is Ruby Ridge, which was more of a libertarian/anarchist thing than anything else.
as someone who started out with turbo pascal I totally agree with this
but I have to add an extra point that turbo pascal is an IDE you press F9 (I think?) and it runs your freaking code, press F8 (I think?) and you have a line-stepping debugger

I started learning programming in 2003 in turbo pascal, already very outdated at the time. But it is still probably the most pragmatic choice for teaching pointer-based programming (it should be a crime to teach data structures in a language that doesn't have manual memory management)
I actually find if I don't eat breakfast and/or lunch, when 4pm comes around I get super tired. I get major brain fog if I don't have food in the mornings.
Once Amazon went national and retail is already on life support, the sales tax loophole didn’t have much protection. It just made it easier for smaller competitors to take some of their business.

Especially nowadays when eBay even collects sales taxes on sales into states (even sales from me as a Canadian).
One crucial thing not often talked about with this plan is that the stock is granted and vests quarterly. In fact, the amount of stock you get each quarter is also variable. E.g. if you choose to have 100k of equity each year, each quarter you get whatever amount of units equates to 25k of stock.

So what they've done is nearly completely untie compensation from the stock price. You neither benefit significantly nor lose significantly as the stock moves around. I've never in my life seen an equity plan like it, and that's not a comment on whether it's good or bad, just that it's unusual.
As the old joke goes: Burry predicted 20 of the last two crashes.
There is free-to-read-online access to the code.

You need to pay to download or get a printed copy, but the code is free (as in beer) to read.
Love the points made in this article and the way it was presented with an inline emulator.

If it weren't for "War Games" and the vic-20 (and later the c64), I would've ended up on a very different path.
My grandma fried a printer/laptop once accidentally doing an unintentional version of this. The printer and laptop were plugged into different circuits and there was a big enough voltage difference if fried one of them.
One of my biggest fears is that people will look at the books I read and assume they know how I view the world. I like to read things I don't necessary know about or agree with already.
Of course but for many the solution is a cheap cord or hours of work taking down and rehanging lights. Many will opt for the cheap time saving solution.
Is there evidence that the misogyny was faked by the movie industry?

Or are we just assuming that all such reactions (e.g. the anti-black Ariel folks) are faked to generate support?
I never did any C64 programming when I was a kid. Hearing the Commander X16 might be ready for manufacturing soon, and it being C64 BASIC compatible (except POKEs), I decided to go through some old guides for the C64 but used the X16 emulator to do them. My absolute favorite was a course originally on VHS "Commodore 64 Introduction to Programming" I found on YouTube, there's 2 levels[0][1].

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3bDa5z_B1M
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDYoVgrtOs
Precisely. There is big difference between undergrad and masters at Columbia. For CS MS was a cashcow - extract money from international students. It's actually a great deal for both parties.