skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Labor camps in the Soviet Union suggest otherwise. More likely, being an evil asshole is a human universal, and the (relatively) peaceful life and society we enjoy in the west right now is the exception in history, not the rule. Capitalism as a system at least has the advantage of acknowledging the existence of self interest and attempts to harness it. Communist systems try and pretend it doesn't exist or can somehow be socialized away (i.e. the New Soviet Man).
In case anyone wants to build this but cheap.

You can use an old satellite dish and either very reflective tinfoil or many small pieces from a (broken) mirror.
You could have both grid and solar feed into something less regulated with no back feed. A stupid but easy to think of example would be Solar-battery + inverter for your load with a DC grid powered charger when batteries are low.
AWS must be laughing, those sly dogs.
Just because you see a lot of Asians at Stanford doesn't mean that they aren't anti-asian. There should be even more of them given just how much better the average asian student is compared to the average student.
The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal?
Brightest-Ever Space Explosion Reveals Possible Hints of Dark Matter
> claims to be from 1998 probably editted

I wanted to oppose your statement but when I went to look, it turned out that the table listing the number of viewers for their 1996 “⊤op-ten mistakes of Web design” page lists numbers for both 1999 and 2000.
You are getting paid for work done. Complaining that you actually have to do your end of the contract is just stupid and is why the job market is so broken.

Remember, those hiring managers and HR are the same people as you -- got the paycheck, try to do as little as you can to just slip under the radar.
The author should be a farmer for a season and we can live stream their crying and incompetence for charity.
And we have a winner
My personal machine is a 2012 Macbook Pro, my work-issued machine is a 2014 Macbook Pro. Both are likely to get updated next year.

For my personal machine I've looked at alternatives to Apple but I haven't found anything that's better and cheaper. Music is my hobby and the dealbreaker for me is the state of DAWs on Windows and Linux. For whatever reason I find the latency intolerable when using anything other than GarageBand/Logic Pro on a Mac when using a cheap USB-based audio interface. Using Apple's software on Apple's hardware it just works and works quite well.
I am just wondering what makes the most profitable and biggest company in the world to be so greedy. Why do they try to juice every last cent out of everything possible? Is it driven by MBAs like Tim Cook who value money above everything else?
You forgot this one: https://xkcd.com/1031/
It seems you can avoid a lot of this if you avoid laptops. Never quite understood how they got that ubiquitous.
I'm using a ThinkPad Yoga 260 with Windows 10.

I absolutely hate this computer.

Originally, I was trying to decide between a Macbook Pro or a ThinkPad T-Series (with Arch Linux), but my partner convinced me that a Yoga has more to offer, since he loved his first gen Yoga.

The Yoga 260 feels fragile, the screen is yellow in some places (and had been from the beginning), the touch panel suffers constant phantom clicks, and the battery life is awful. Customer service at Lenovo is poor.

The main attraction to the Yoga 260 is the pen and the touch, which break each Windows update.

If I didn't need Windows for work, I'd put Arch on it and call it a day.
I am seeing lots of entries that could be better (or at least partially) updated using data from company websites. For example, the local pharmacy chain or fast food restaurant's hours are on their site.

Does anyone more clued in to OSM know why/if these can't be updated via web site scraping?
Most those places have an "app" I'm sure someone smart could figure that one out.
My first reaction to the article was "We don't really use the word 'pylon' to describe these things, at least not here in the southern United States," though the term makes sense and doesn't sound strange to me at all.
But now I'm struggling to thing of what term I personally would use, and honestly, I'm having difficulty. "electrical tower?" "transmission tower?"
My one experience with Booking.com was a mixed bag. I paid for a room for a few nights in a city on the Black Sea, and when I got there (pretty late at night, after several hours of driving through the lovely and beautiful mountains), they couldn't find any record of the booking. None, and no rooms available. We suddenly had nowhere to stay.

I went out and sat in the car, and eventually got to chat with a Booking.com agent, who said they could do nothing at first. After 15 minutes of chatting with them, they said, "We don't have any relationship to that hotel. What is the local number you have for them?" And about 15 seconds later, "I am issuing a full refund."

Frustrating, but I did get my money back, and did find another room elsewhere in the city (unbelievably, with the one hotel chain where I use their rewards program!)

Turns out someone had simply set up a fake hotel profile for this prominent hotel in the city and was collecting booking fees from people like me! Like I said, at least I did get my money back...
You can grind leetcode for a few months and get a FAANG role with a boot camp degree. Don't bother tiger parenting.
Just get everyone on the planet to stop committing crimes on other people's wifi, or at least have the decency to use a vpn.
I doubt any hotel would really care about passwords if they weren't getting C&Ds from mpaa/riaa.
> Back in my home country I gave free wifi to some people in the village. And at some point I had to take it away.

Interesting. Did you consider just setting up free wifi routers across the village so they didn't have to congregate in one place?
I have one of these as well (mine is a different but similar model - GL-AR750S-EXT). But I don't travel often enough, I guess. Because every time I go to use it, it's a struggle to get it to work and I typically just give up.

Last weekend I stayed at a Hyatt, and the first thing I did when I got to the room was power it up. But I couldn't for the life of me get the captive portal page to load when I was connected through it. It worked fine connected directly to the hotel's wifi, but through the router - nothing. So I gave up. It wasn't worth the hassle.
Most, and possibly all, universities have a registrar's office through which you can order copies of transcripts/diplomas. I only know this because I had to submit transcripts as part of a job application, decades after graduating :)
This was really interesting. A 2D powerhouse board, produced long after 2D was fashionable, implemented with a small cheap minimal board and chipset.

The board is tiny, and is far less advanced than e.g. the Sega Dreamcast that was released 5+ years earlier.

And yet, if you've seen any of these titles in action, there's nearly-unlimited 2D pixel-pushing power on tap. (And when there is slowdown, it's sort of a "bullet time" effect; the article discusses this)

One of my favorite authors!
Macintosh has entered the building
What makes you think you're entitled to "free WiFi, no passwords"?

It's a service the hotel (or restaurant, library, etc) is providing to its customers - not any rando who happens to be within radio distance.

Why should you be special and not have to provide some form of authentication that you "belong" there?
Unix time is not UTC-based. It counts the number of seconds passed since a certain point in time, which may be described as date and time expressed in any time zone you like. It just so happens that in UTC it is easiest to remember for a human what this point was, since you get a lot of zeroes at the end.

Edit: I’m not entirely correct here, as aside from UTC the time zone, there is also UTC the time standard. See below.
And how are you supposed to know that before hiring them?
It's been some time since I read this work, but at one point there was a situation where medical schools in a state were temporarily (like a year or two) prevented from using MCATs in admission decisions due to a judge's court order. Most applicants still had MCATs due to other schools, though.

Some researchers collected data before, during, and after this time, and followed-up on the physicians later.

My fuzzy memory (which might be incorrect) is that MCATs were predictive of GPA in the first two years of medical school like 0.20 on a Pearson correlation metric, and it dropped from there as you went out increasingly further in time and included things like ratings on clinical rotations. So it was predictive, but fairly weakly so and seemed less predictive as time went forward.
Not so new, this theory is already explained by philosopher Bergson in his book "Durée et Simultanéité".
Does this require software at all?
How Belarusian hospitals concealed Russia’s military casualties in Ukraine war
If you know what Twitter is you know what tweets are. I didn’t say I disliked them.

The answer to your three questions is “yes”. Other commenters have pointed out some other reasons long Twitter threads are annoying.
Also apparently in Canada.

However, since our Prime Minister appears agreeable to the CCP’s “basic dictatorship”, it is unlikely that they will be deemed illegal.

What could go wrong?
The Essential Philip K. Dick
Yes. Even as the internet started to become a thing in 1994-1995 when I was in middle school, I'd reckon less than half of my class had a computer at home - and fewer still of them would ever want to mention it.
"presentation" is the default role for an <img> element when the "alt" attribute is an empty string.
libgit2 works pretty well, are you referring to content addressable storage in general or "Git-based architecture" specifically?
https://archive.ph/lq6QW
If you find yourself in a position to organize a conference or large gathering, vote with your organization's money and don't book places with abusive wifi policies, even if it isn't completely free. I have seen Marriott hotels extorting groups for $10k+ for internet access at the last second, for instance. If we stop giving these crooks our money the market will sort it out.
It's interesting that Reddit and Facebook are both trying to squeeze as much short term profit from their users as possible at the expense of destroying their platform in the long term.
That’s a very recent change - and it’s not like 9192631770 transitions/hz (which is hilariously self referential!) is some obvious, natural value that ISN’T based on the historic ‘typical’ length of the day based on our rotation around the sun.

A second being 1/86400th of a day (24 hrs * 60 minutes * 60 seconds per minute) is still essentially true, and based, essentially still on the seasons and our movement around the sun (or relative movements between the various bodies in the solar system, depending).

Being a chaotic natural system, we of course need to add fudge factors here and there to simplify the math day to day while keeping it aligned with observed reality, like leap seconds and all), at least where it intersects with reality in a material way.
My experience with train wifi is that the wifi signal is great but beyond the portal nothing else works.
Christ, seriously? I assumed they'd henceforth be underground everywhere - in Dorset some (Milliken) are being replaced with underground cabling, after a petition based on countryside views I believe, but it benefits/doesn't disrupt farmers' fields & future developments too. Presumably once you have that sort of underground trunking it's easier to add other utilities too (even if they don't share any hardware/boring, there's still the planning and mapping etc.).
> Only downside of SEPA is that it is a lot less common outside EU/Europe

SEPA stands for "Single Euro Payments Area" and was build for the EU/Europe, I don't think it's available outside of Europe.
Friend of mine had an XPS; I don't remember exactly how much it cost, but it was certainly not the cheapest, so ~$1000 USD at least.

After about 1.5 to 2 years the battery started swelling up, and became essentially unusable. Turns out they even had a recall for this model, but who keeps track of that so he never knew. Tried to order a new battery from Dell: they don't deliver them any more, no way to buy it from Dell. Tried to order one from 3rd party: that one won't work because "not a genuine battery detected kthxfuckyoulol".

I don't care if it's "consumer" or "low end" or whatever, this is just ridiculous and in my opinion should quite literally be illegal (and perhaps it already is). If Dell doesn't want to manufacture batteries: fine. But let someone else do it so we don't have to throw away our laptops after 2 years.
Same for me. I spend a lot of time on Reddit, but I'm using a 3rd party client on Android and the old website on desktop. The new website is slow as fuck and I have no interest to be stuck with their app
I have an open wifi network at my house. I used to have it wide open until I saw a neighbor using a LOT of traffic on a consistent basis.

I now have it traffic shaped to a tiny trickle of bandwidth, but enough for a casual passerby to check their email/Facebook, send an iMessage, or get some map data, but nowhere near enough to stream or download anything unless you have extreme patience.
CSS Color 4 adds oklch(): get wide-gamut colors including P3 (and beyond)
> but still transferred into a top 20 school

Columbia? A public school in a state that mandates acceptance of Community College graduates with good enough grades?
> Who the fuck names a laptop “New XPS 15?

Nintendo!

Well, not a laptop but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Nintendo_3DS
> literally

Don't.
Do note that in Europe these have been (severely depending on where you exactly live) restricted. In my case for instance you need an objective reason to limit someone from having other employment which is quite restrictive in what you can limit as an employer. There is no case law yet (as it's very recent) so we will see what happens in practice.
Precisely. I really don’t see the different between an ad which is just sponsored content and a boosted tinder profile where the additional reach it created is effectively sponsored content. I get that it is not really an ad. But my point is that its tricky to define IAP conditions.
It's a bit more complicated. The UEFI drivers and Linux distributions are signed by the same certificate, the "Microsoft 3rd party UEFI Certificate".

UEFI Drivers can be Option ROM on the PCIe cards, commonly found of graphics cards. If you where to leave this certificate out of your boot chain, how would you validate this drivers? Well, you can't.

This results in your not having any GPUs and your device is "bricked" until you can hopefully piggyback on something else. It's not really a proper brick.

This is just a design flaw in my opinion. Microsoft taking the easy route for being the org responsible for signing UEFI code when there was no other options (LetsEncrypt wasnt a thing in 2010/2012). And I don't think Microsoft envisioned themselves in the position they are currently inn.

There are workarounds though, you can read the drivers loaded during boot from the TPM Eventlog and enroll each driver into the approve list for Secure Boot (The `db` variable). But this isn't necessarily future proof if anything changes.
In the company that I worked for, they give me a refurbished Dell laptop, I used it every day for 8 hours or more, almost never turn it off or restart it, and it was still in perfect condition after 7 years, so much that I wanted to buy it from that company for my personal use.

During those years we only upgrade it's ram from 4 to 8 GB and changed once the battery.

I use to have open at least 10 chrome tabs in any point of time, open very heavy excel files, and never complain about anything.
How are benefits impacted when an employee’s hours are reduced? - https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

> Most benefits plans will detail the eligibility requirements to participate in the plan, including employee classification (full-time, part-time, regular, temporary, etc.) and/or numbers of hours worked per week or month. Once these classifications change for a covered employee, his or her eligibility will need to be reassessed.

> Short-term, temporary changes usually will not change an employee classification. For example, if a full-time employee goes on vacation for three weeks, most employers would not change the employee's full-time status. However, if an employee reduces his or her hours during the school year to accommodate his or her class schedule, employers may want to reclassify the employee to part time due to the length of the arrangement. It boils down to how the employer defines the classifications and how they are used in the eligibility requirements of each plan.

---

Without getting to an attempt to measure productivity...

The nightmare scenario for HR in this situation is to have someone who is a full time worker and getting full time benefits is found to be splitting their time between two or more companies in a way practically means that they couldn't be working the necessary number of hours to be eligible for benefits at the company.

Having an insurance company or similar decides that your employee isn't eligible for the benefits that you claim they are and ask for an audit of employee time now and going forward, this gets into the "this is gonna suck" category.

There are also issues of IP assignment where one (or both) companies make claims to the inventions that were produced "during work hours" at the other company.
I would prefer Databases instead of Frontend and I would master vim right after I started to touchtype. Also I would start my SICP journey way earlier. And please do not give me an access to OS Windows!
> I keep hearing that Microsoft is making things "harder", but I've yet to see any evidence that this is true.

You shall try to run Windows 10. See calc.exe or Teams (though the web versions of 365 are also representative)
I think it's more the case that the Honda Fit would come with engine problems that the service doesn't effectively repair under warranty, and also with a 5000 pound trailer full of unwanted junk that's hard to remove from the car.
Growth. Stock market incentivizes growing forever, and currently they're focusing on growing "Services" revenue.
The stupid thing as well is most of it is SAAS Taleo, so there should be a button that says "Share my upload of CV data from Company A to Company B". It's not impossible to move the data from one instance to another.
I've noticed "plugging in" seems to be less of a thing anymore and a lot of hotels seem to be wifi only (or perhaps I can't ever find the ethernet jack but I do look). You can still handle this with a travel router but it's a bit more work.
My Friend Published a Book with DALL-E
Hi everyone!

A tonne of the discussion recently about DALL-E, AI, and Stable Diffusion has been around technology, job loss, and the like. But, I was most struck by the recent story (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/03/tech/ai-art-fair-winner-c...) about AI winning and art contest. It opened ideas.

Fast forward: last week, a friend of mine published a children's book, and generating all of the art with DALL-E. To me it represents the possibility of human-AI interaction, or at least one, and open conversation.

To me, it's clear that AI just opened a creative door, something that previously was either impossible, more difficult or more expensive.
> Macros were another billion dollar mistake: [link stating ransomware costs economy $265 billion in 2030, linking to study that says currently it's $20 billion per year globally]

So even if we say that Office Macros were responsible for half of all ransomware infections, I'm not convinced the world economy doesn't benefit more than $20 billion per year from Office Macros. Many businesses basically run on macro-enhanced Excel spreadsheets.
Of course I understand that people have their own perspectives, and so yea, it's a bit hyperbolic. I do of course watch movies at home too and have a decent TV and speakers in my living room (no insane setup for sure though).

I'm just providing some other perspective when it seems so many have vitriol towards theaters. The person I responded to said "I’ve all but sworn-off theaters", and someone else said "Movie theaters are obsolete, as far as I'm concerned". I think for the most part, they probably go to the wrong theaters. Also, I do realize I am lucky in that my local theaters are in old buildings that were either actual theaters or are just old movie theaters from back in the day, so they have a lot of character. But they have actually upgraded the theaters to be nice and show a lot of unique stuff and events. I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey and a few other movies in 70mm at my local theater. You're not going to get that experience at home.
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I am going to change this with Trovinto.com

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That's just about "hiding" being a relative word. "ZIP thing" also can be considered hiding, if you are absolutely clueless. And if we speak about "forensics" — that toy implementation is about as much "hiding" as the ZIP thingy. For more or less solid tool somebody already mentioned steghide here, as well as the reasons why the OP's script doesn't really hide anything, if we are being meticulous.
YOLO - where can I get some?
The video thing is dodgy. Being able to see the multitude of 'legally troublesome factors' of the initial applicants is making my inner lawyer scream. You can easily bias based on race, sex, wedding ring, kids toys in the background, location, religion, etc.
I think you need to construct additional pylons!
Definitely possible, especially with native-to-WASM tooling.

I've used a web page to run ADB commands to quickly debloat my phone, so I don't see why fastboot support wouldn't work.

There's even a tool to flash your Android phone through the browser (https://pixelrepair.withgoogle.com/ I believe). Adding "automated LineageOS installer through WebUSB" to my infinitely growing to-do list :)
Having had worked with both Pytest and Robot, I have to agree. And to expand on that, Robot framework had multiple disadvantages for us. (Note that this is about 2-3 years, so maybe things improved).

It was pretty slow, just rewriting the same test using Pytest sped it up by about 50% on average and that was despite our test environment being the slow part.

The Robot language was quite error prone as it uses spaces inside single keyword as well as to separate parameters. And the IDE support (VSCode in our case) wasn't particularly great. We ended up having to write custom static analysis tools, to catch some of the more common Robot problems.

And pretty much every time something more complicated was required, it was easier to switch to Python to do it. So in the end two languages were required instead of one, making maintenance more painful.

That is not to say that Robot doesn't have its good points. For example retrying on error was much easier than in pure Python. But in the end it was much more work than just using pure Python with Pytest as testing framework.
Sure if you squint from far enough away we're all "Software Engineers", except for (1) the training, (2) the reproducibility and predictability of how we work & what we build, and (3) the ethical commitment & personal responsibility. You could also call us "Software Doctors" ...in the mold of Dr. Frankenstein.
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