skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There may be, though most outside of China have had a series of vaccines, boosters, natural immunity and have obtained this over a span of at least a couple of years. Time will tell what impact that has to those outside of China. One can only hope that by now people are eating healthier now to mitigate the comorbidities.

Those in hard lockdown in China have had no working vaccine and little if any natural immunity.
That's awesome! Are you comfortable stating your employer? It's always neat to find out who is working differently and what industries they are in. If not that's totally cool. The internet is a weird place and I'm a total stranger. (Not to mention the whole this is publicly available forum.)

Actually, to even the playing field, a bald guy in a blue shirt just looked at your LinkedIn profile. ;)
Are some people 10x more wildcard than other people?
AC evaporators and condensate pans can breed bacteria and mold. At best this can be smelly, at worst it can make you seriously sick. See the history of Legionnaires disease.
Makes sense (I would have guessed closer to 99% actually). But 99% is still less than both 150% and 250%:-P
I'm just not a huge reader. It's far down my usual list of free time activities.

Basically, the fact that I had enough free time to finish a book and do all the things I like to do higher on my list was one of the joys of unemployment.
> they would much rather respond to five false alarms than be too late for a real one.

Not in my experience. False calls are a nuisance and inappropriately waste resources.

Many municipalties require yearly application with fee for automated burglar alarms. And fees for excess calls.

https://ci.carson.ca.us/finance/burglaralarm.aspx
This, and interview practice is a plus too.
This is why corporations can't be allowed to just do whatever they want. A rental company renting non-existent cars to you is a breach of their business purpose, to sell a product or service. You've spent time and money to get nothing, against what you were sold.

Who can step in to make some baseline rules that corporations have to abide by so people aren't screwed like this?
Computers are also dead.
Pascal had a standard (ISO 7185:1983)

Doesn't "1983" tell you something?

I don't mean to snark. Maybe my comment wasn't clear enough. I've talked of two different periods: the first in the seventies, the second in the eighties and later. The starndar was late. By that time, it wasn't needed because the only Pascal that was widely used was Borland's.
It's definitely in line with general thermodynamics. One would expect lower entering water temperature to be more efficient (especially with the condenser being counterflow). I'm just not sure if there's something specific about the design of real world heat pumps that makes it so that higher delta T across the pump is problematic. I thought I would have come across some hydronic professional explaining this a bit more in depth while focusing on each variable, but so far I have not.

Maybe it never comes up in practice because heat pump systems inevitably need some kind of buffer tank. If you're designing a system from scratch then you design for lower delta-T in the emitters to keep the max water temperature down. And if you're using existing emitters then you just live with the inefficiency due to higher max water temp, but still keep the flow from the heat pump to buffer tank high regardless (to keep the max water temp from being even higher).
Where did you see mentioned a phone number being sent?
Most of the news thus far has been about a pause in hiring (at least at the core company, as YouTube and others have already initiated layoffs). The reports here indicate a shift towards preparing for broad layoffs by implementing the new metrics system, GRAD. That's new information, at least for mainstream media.
In very large part what your interviews look like depends heavily on when and where you're searching, what type of job you want and what your background is. It's hard to overstate this. 2018 might as well be an entirely different universe.

That said I would be a little suspicious as a mid/senior-level developer if I got hired at a place that didn't ask me to do any coding for them at all beforehand.
Biggest mistake is thinking you have to grind in leetcode outside of work to edge out others.

If your job right now isn't preparing you for your next job, then you are in the wrong job.
When it comes to potentially fatal attacks on my car, I'm a lot more worried about drunk drivers than CANBUS.
"You don't even need to know any specifics"

Is this attitude why you and everyone else is making the assumption that exactly every stray biometric identity that can be salvaged from this disaster is guaranteed to be a traitor, and guaranteed to be found and executed by the Taliban? You don't need to explain the Taliban to me - I was born in an Islamic country to a Muslim family - but maybe you can help me understand your alarmist reasoning regarding the biometric identities themselves.
I travel with an USB-C dock with HDMI + DualSense controller.

I can just plug it in to any hotel tv with an HDMI port and play full PC games.
Setting up iPad screen mirroring on NixOS
Have you looked at Aether?
Computational linguistics a 'data science', 'philosopy' or both?
Iraq

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nohGiQmOxlc
Only Stallman can save us

Like it or not, GNU is and always has been an important project for open source and user freedom
I think the point was that stealing energy is likely to be seen as a crime in general, not that this specific law applies to this specific hypothetical.

In general stealing anything is frowned upon and is at best a temporary imbalance in technical ability to steal versus economic incentives to stop theft.
You can identify identity thieves by the CueCat hidden up their sleeve.
Unit testing tips by examples in PHP
There's an alternate fantasy world where authorities never wrongly decide what truth is. I'm guessing the 20th century proved that world doesn't exist, either.

So: We live in a world where there's lots of BS, much of it deliberately malicious, and in a world where authority figures will misuse authority over "truth", sometimes deliberately and blatantly to further their own power. Now what? What is the best strategy for maximizing good and minimizing harm in the world we actually live in?
I guess that depends on how much you enjoy your side projects.

Over the Christmas holidays, I rooted the vacuum robot, built a workstation from parts, worked on a new compression algorithm, and enhanced my papwrcraft design software... Because that's what I enjoy doing in my free time.
I didn't ignore all the difficult ones. But fine. Bricklaying is a few days to learn on the job, tops. Conning a ship almost certainly means captaining a boat which takes some experience for sure, probably a few months. Basic first aid, including setting a bone, is a week long course. Etc.

I can't imagine why you went to the trouble of trying to make them all sound like complicated many-year projects, but it's a ridiculous take and I doubt anyone else will read it that way.
I decided to go monk mode for a year. No friends, no family, no social media, no distractions. I focused on learning cooking, yoga etc. Spent most of my time either in my studio apartment or solo travelling. The results were huge, I went from an anxious depressed mess to someone who enjoys waking up, which is a very basic thing, but when you are depressed you hate that you have to wake up and go through life. I recommend this to anyone to try.
Thanks! I got rid of it. Glad you liked the article!
I have been reading Matt' blog for quite long too. I read his post on his son condition but never really noticed if he really switch his academic careers for his son. I am pasting the really motivating video sharing the story [1] and a NY times article here [2].

[1] https://www.facebook.com/freethinksuperhuman/videos/15306506...

[2] https://archive.is/l7pCA
How can you say that the authors of the bible made up 99 miracles but were honest about a few of them? If you don't think miracles are real then men have fathers even in hypothetical laboratory scenarios and nobody comes back from the dead. If you do think someone can ascend into heaven, what are some fish and a few loaves of bread? How is the biggest objection to the plausibility of Jesus making bread and fish out of nothing that he did it twice?!

I feel like you are simultaneously violating the scientific perspective (where a small numbers of impossibilities is just as bad as a large number although it feels more plausible - fake psychics exploit this discrepancy by only moving light objects short distances as if that was any easier) and the religious one (where you're making the accusation that all of the early church fathers were pathological liars, and that Jesus was at best misinformed when he referred to bronze age myths in his sermons) in an attempt to sit on the fence and appease the mental habits taught by two deeply conflicting cultures.

There is even a bible verse about this: "So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth." (Revelation 3:16)
Regarding #6: I've found through experimentation that it's totally OK for me to just be opaque about my identity online. I'm not anonymous at all, just that if a prospective employer were to Google me, they'd not find my meager internet presence. It's not that I'm hiding anything, but in the spirit of #6, not hiding something doesn't mean you have to advertise it either. I've never had an employer give enough of a shit to see my social media accounts. And while I admit this is probably a position of privilege in some ways, I feel like almost anyone in SWE or wanting to get into SWE is better off this way anyways.

Again, it's not about deception. If I were asked, I'd say I don't have any professional internet presence (which is true, I don't. This is me as a person here, not me as an employee.) I of course will link my GitHub, but links from my internet presence only point in the direction of my GitHub, and not the other way around. So if you were really curious, you could dig. Nobody cares to do that, though. I think employers that search are mostly just looking for blatant red flags to try to simplify their lives, and thus it's mutually beneficial to keep a lower profile online even if you don't do anything wrong.

Of course, in my case, it also helps to have a super common name :) But still. Being "just" a pseudonym most places is fine.
No need to incorporate or give yourself a fancy title IMO. "Founder @ sideproject.io" works well enough.
These are a lot of words that don't touch the fact that Heying is one of the country's foremost vaccine skeptics, and perhaps the single foremost American advocate of prophylactic ivermectin. My point is that she's a bad scientist. I wouldn't want to touch her ideological arguments with a barge pole if I could avoid it.
Facebook Groups are what keep a lot of people on. In small cities, that’s where the social organizing/news sharing happens. I have edited my feed down to where it’s just my groups and a couple of friends who only post photos of their cute kids.
This is me with HN and Reddit. I have spent literal entire workdays just telling myself "5 more minutes" "one more post" it never ends well. I hate myself for it but we are doing better, i have a time blocker and if things get bad I can use my /etc/hosts file to block it. But I agree I think these may be symptoms that worsen something already there.
The game changer for me was the detailed mode ("H"), which makes ed a lot more pleasant to use. I wish it could be passed on the command line as an option and aliased in the shell... maybe I should patch it.

I've started to find ed surprisingly fun to use for quick edits, I'm not leaving nvi yet but it has this nice "ancient Unix" vibe.
Grass is always greener!
Yes, because that won't be abused at all. Not a chance...
I can relate to #2 the most. My job search was 11 months, and this was in 2021 during the supposedly ridiculously good market. I think I had 50 applications and 7 on-sites before getting an offer
Well, they've done episodes like this:
https://www.thisoldhouse.com/season-20-ask-toh/23197052/s20-...
I disagree. Incorporating, giving yourself a title, and a LinkedIn page are things anyone can do. People who "play business" spend tons of time on this stuff, along with designing company logos, hiring accountants (for their zero revenue business), and lawyers (for NDAs to protect their non-existent idea.) I've seen it first hand. They'll do anything to avoid actual work: building and selling a product.
The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
See my other reply for more context.

But given a choice in 2020 of working at any large company as a software developer where I would have had to relocate and staying at smaller companies, I would have definitely chosen smaller companies.

By 2020, I already had the big overvalued house in the burbs, decent retirement savings, a good work life balance, etc.

I fell into a role at BigTech almost by accident doing the type of work I enjoy - seeing a company’s problem, solving the problem, training, and putting myself out of job and moving on.

Heck, my expenses are lower now than they were in 2020. Within the past year, I’ve sold my house, we sold our cars, and now we have a cheaper investment property/winter home where we stay half the year and we fly across the US the other half of the year staying in hotels. We own nothing physically can’t fit in three suitcases - two of which have to stay under 50 pounds.
"1 "systems engineer" (not sure what this means, but doesn't seem like it involves programming since they taught themselves Python after getting laid off)"

It's something of a catch-all term I think. When I had that title at an investment management firm many years ago I was mostly setting up external data feeds with bash and Perl to be loaded into a database and republished as datasets (in SAS) for consumption by portfolio managers and research so it did involve programming in that instance; probably closer to what a "Data Engineer" does today.
Glad I saw this in this thread, I have never heard of emudeck. I've been using retroarch from the steam store, and while it works it is missing a lot of emulation options
I haven't watched since a kid w/ the Bob Villa days....
Something (ideas, tools, languages) often needs to be pushed to spread.
> The hard part of building a (good) password manager is ... correctly integrating it with every app and website that expects to take your passwords

What's wrong with plain old copy-and-paste? (I know there are probably some security concerns under X11, but Keepass, for example, will automatically clear the clipboard after a few seconds at least.) I use Keepass and 1password.com, but I don't use any of their autofill features; I just copy a password when I need it and paste it to where I need it.

I think a user-friendly, secure, and reliable sync is the much more difficult part of implementing a good password manager.
US is way more welcoming to family based immigration. US is not welcoming to employment based immigration, and specifically is easier for lower skilled ones than higher skilled ones. To top it off, it prefers countries from smaller countries.

All combined USA isn't as welcoming for higher skilled individuals from India and China vs other developed countries.
Only if you never release anyone, because otherwise there is the possibility that it would increase instances of crime _more than if they had never gone to jail_ after release.
Searching for Bigfoot (2019)
Pre-CANBUS cars were even easier to exploit. Much of everything on those systems were in plaintext, and could be easily tinkered with. A 25 year old car may have many of the same safety systems (although it is definitely missing a few), but the passive safety systems that do exist are most certainly not to the same standard as today's vehicles. To put it plainly, you are way more likely to die because the safety cage collapses on your late 90's vehicle, than you are to die because someone attacked the CANBUS of your vehicle.

DEFCON has a lot of great security demos, but don't mistake any of those demos as representative of the real-world landscape of issues.
LastPass breach: The significance of these password iterations
Can’t we automate the driving part so we can relax the restrictions on time spent driving? Use AI to assist humans in the boring, tedious, error prone tasks and free them up to be more effective, efficient and productive.

If we had adequate highway self-driving and simultaneously introduced legislation to account for it we could make truck driving safer and faster without eliminating jobs. The driver is still there to manage the load and the truck and navigate cities on each end, but they’re more relaxed and the AI drives safely through the night.
>Why has the world turned on Musk?

I agree with everything you said but the reason people have turned on him is because he tweets like a dick too often and is really wealthy with lots of media exposure, not a small amount of it anti-Musk. Anyone that wealthy is going to get dragged in the media and when you mess with very powerful people's profits (Russia, defense contractors, American car manufacturers, and gasoline producers), you're really going to get dragged in the media. Plus the tweets.
Curious which languages you used. If they were C, C++, Java, and Python then I could see how they could blur together if you squint. Different syntax, similar semantics.

But if those languages are C, APL, Erlang, ML and Lisp then I would expect the lesson would be the design space of languages is much larger than the popular imperative languages would have you believe.
Boarding a plane before 9/11 was much easier, and I'm not necessarily convinced that TSA, DHS, or REAL ID have a security impact on flying relative to their cost and burden on citizens. I think there is a lot of incompetence and unnecessary expenses there. So we're in agreement on that.

I think the security screening (I might even call it mild molestation) required to board a flight should trump any need for any identity document. I don't think REAL ID's goals should be co-mingled with flying.

I'd also agree that a driver's license shouldn't be an identity document either. But unfortunately at some point in history it was decided that a DL should be an identity document too so unfortunately it's wrapped up with everything else.

There are not just REAL ID licenses either, there are REAL ID IDs too, just for identity.
Let’s Architect Optimizing the cost of your architecture
Where did GP say it did?
It's not just a question of controlled medicines. There's also the question of insurance fraud. Some pharmacies (or insurance companies?) want to make sure that, if the J. Doe's insurance is paying for it, it's actually going to J. Doe.
I just learned of new federal rules of procedure that made my stomach turn.

> Like all evidence, the proponent must establish authenticity and admissibility. The issue of authenticity has been addressed in federal court with the addition of Fed. R. Evid. 902(13) and (14). Louisiana has not yet adopted similar amendments to the Louisiana Rules of Evidence.

> This rule eliminates the necessity of a foundational witness at trial. The person who makes the certification must meet Rule 602 (personal knowledge) and Rule 702 (scientific or specialized knowledge) and Rule 901(b)(9) requiring explanation of how the process or system that generated the electronic record produces reliable and accurate results.

> With a human expert, if you want to challenge the opinion, you file a motion in limine which allows you to put on evidence prior to trial to contest the expert's qualifications to give the opinion or the expert's methodology.
> The proponent of the AI opinion will have to establish that the Al algorithm produces accurate results. If the proponent cannot do that, then the evidence is unreliable. Unreliable evidence is not relevant.

[...]

> At the end of the day, if the court finds the Al opinion authentic, then it will be admitted in evidence and the opponent will not be able to cross examine the opinion at trial.

Gosh, the only thing I can think of that might save us is challenging the features that become inputs into the models - however, with GPT-4's example, as those increase to inhumane sizes, I wonder if even that will remain an effective strategy.

Source: Louisiana Bar Association Journal
Is there a legal way to acquire ROMs of old games or are torrents the only practical way?
It's in the price range of an used old leasing laptop. About comparable to the cheapest supermarket laptops that can run mid-range games.

But it's portable and can dock to your existing display/keyboard/mouse setup when needed.

I haven't booted up my (old) Windows gaming PC since I got the deck. It's just so convenient to pick up and play. And when the kids/SO call, I can just hit suspend and go see what's up. When I get back, I turn on the SD and continue exactly where I left off.

WAY easier and more practical than leaving my gaming PC on pause for multiple hours. (Not all games let you save anywhere you want).
The path of the righteous: Using mouse movements to understand fraud decisions
Masonite
Thank you, ordered!
Handling Stripe Webhooks with Rails
Most people in China have received a vaccine (2 doses). It will be one of the locally developed ones, which are significantly less effective than Western ones but they do provide some protection (not that much, though, it seems but they claim that it does help reduce worst outcomes significantly).
I was not aware that SQLite creates temporary indexes in places where other databases would perform merge joins.

https://sqlite.org/tempfiles.html#transient_indices

SQLite also creates background indexes for ROWID, of which I was aware.

https://sqlite.org/rowidtable.html
> The goal of police is public safety

To be clear... the goal of the police _force_ is to enforce the law. The goal of (some) individual police officers is public safety, but certainly not all of them (and some days, it seems like not many of them... but you generally only hear about the bad stuff in the news, so take that with a grain of salt).
Personality conflicts aside, both pieces of software are different enough from each other that it's basically comparing apples to haute cusine.

Myself, I've been using 86box since almost the beginning in large part because of the ui. To me, it's always been more pleasant to work with.

If anyone has questions I'd say rather than listing to 2017-era gossips they should instead download both, spend the time playing with them and seeing which they prefer. It's not like the mid-nineties where trying things required a $50-$150 investment of cash.
I don't see why not, considering China's laws. Seems like it is registered there and is completely legal.
It's important to quantify how long your time off was for this anecdote to be meaningful. No good employer will bat an eye if you worked at a place for five years then spent three months on a tropical beach. A year spent job searching with no luck like the OP is a different situation altogether.
I can’t think of a single game in my library that doesn’t run on Linux today. The only exceptions are games with anticheat issues of course, but those likely run perfectly fine too.

I’m not saying incompatible games don’t exist, I’m sure they do, but they’re definitely the exception rather than the rule now.
So Binance helped catch the bad guys? Awesome!
I work a job to pay for my side projects. If I could just work on those, taking care of the house, etc, and still make a living, I'd be very happy.
I wanted to use ed for something recently and was punched with:

bash: ed: command not found

Apparently, despite being mandated by POSIX, not every Linux distro (e.g. Arch) ship it by default
Back in the day, the only in-game editor for MudOS was an ed like editor. I spent many hours on that. It was a factor in deciding to learn vim over emacs at the time.
Looks awesome. Let me plug my own, way more basic version:

https://blog.perryizgr8.com/typecalc/

Sadly I never took it as far as I wanted to.