skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sweet hesus, installing a keylogger on your own system to steal passwords from friends who are trying to help you?

And the content doesn't show any awareness of the issue. Perhaps it'd be more clear to that poster if one of those friends would've used the keyboard access to type "format c:<enter>".
Gatsby was primarily developed by Gatsby Inc, a VC-funded company https://www.gatsbyjs.com/blog/2020-05-27-announcing-series-b...
News from the UK is troubling...and intriguing. What would be the best resource to understand how the UK seems to be being sucked into the event horizon of an socio-economic blackhole of institutional collapse?
Let the hiring manager EXPERIENCE your success by telling a story, a little vignette of each career or project stage. What challenge did you see, how did you overcome, and what was the outcome?

For example, turn this:
- experience with imbedded i/o in C for mobile equipment

into this:
- "Team needed a 1-10ma vehicle sensor input using the NXP Semiconductor AN4731 so I prepared a POC demo board with C code in 7 days allowing continued progress and delivered the finished code 14 days later after peer review and unit testing. No changes were made to the final deliverable"

This version shows the challenge, how you approached it with urgency and an understanding of how your work impacted the downstream efforts. Finally, this story reveals your knowledge of quality process development and final delivery.

Writing these stories takes more time: the challenge, what you did, how it was superior

Tight, cohesive insight into telling your story requires practice and reflection so don't expect success the first time without some editing or proofreading from others

Once you begin this process, you maintain this portfolio forever by adding adventure summaries each year

I was very impressed with a recent post regarding the storytelling structure from Dan Harmon and it may offer a great starting place for laying each out before condensing it into that golden nugget: I came, I saw, I conquered.

Original Article:
https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Supe...

HN Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34576085
> And virtual DOM reconciliation implementations in browsers can use only public APIs like appendChild().

Why can't they also use innerHTML?

Meaning, they could define a cost function where they deduce that it's cheaper to use innerHTML on a potentially larger than necessary scope if the alternative is >some_threshold for modification API calls.
That's weird, I have a Google Workspace account with less than 10 paid users and had several in-depth conversations with support personnel on SMTP and DNS setup issues. It was outsourced to an overseas call center, but they did respond to my queries.

That said, I have issues with spam being delivered to my organization's group aliases and I can't report the spam because it flags it against my group alias not the original sender (!) I can't turn spam filtering on the group alias because it flagged legitimate emails from our customers. So I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place, with no one at Google to talk to about it.
I have one of these grohe thermostatic valves. You can set the temperature and then use a push button to turn the shower on. The temperature is always set correctly as the on/off is separate from the temperature control. A majority of the range of the dial is usable. We still use cold water for cleaning the shower, or when you want a cold shower. During the shower, I have it set to hot, then slowly turn up the heat. This uses about half the dial's range.

The big difference is the grohe costs $500 while a standard builder grader valve might be $50.

https://www.build.com/product/summary/1391570?uid=3279009&jm...

<<How does a Grohe thermostatic valve work?
The thermostatic valve mixes the hot and cold water to your pre-selected temperature and reacts instantly to any changes in the pressure or temperature of the water supply by re-adjusting the mix of hot and cold water.>>
> Pretty sure BLM was a media darling from the moment it was discovered.

It was the polished, highly educated, upper-middle class version of the activists that sprang up around the Ferguson protests. BLM was the mainstream corporate replacement of a street level movement, whose leaders acquired a habit of being found executed in the trunks of burned cars. A rehearsal for #TimesUp.
Not an academic paper, but this is a good summary of the history: https://www.alberta.ca/history-of-rat-control-in-alberta.asp...

The wikipedia article is good too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rat#Alberta

One big thing is that it is too cold in Alberta for most rats to survive. The only one that's very viable is the Norway rat, and even then it's too cold for them to live outside all year round - so if you can keep them out of structures you can eliminate them entirely. Once the initial kill-off was done (which was accomplished with ludicrous amounts of poison), it's mostly about protecting the provincial border.

Here's a more academic rendition: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...

People there take it seriously. One town formed a posse when they found an infestation and killed them with brooms and sticks: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/neighbourhood-posse-stomps-ou...

Fun article about a Wikipedia revision war about the territory of the brown rat: https://crackmacs.ca/lifestyle/rats-in-alberta/

That article is two years old. The revision war is ongoing today: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brown_rat_distributi...
I remember being unable to access Wikipedia when I was in Turkey
Boeing delivers last 747, a jumbo jet that ‘shrank the world’
Exactly. Toastmasters is good for bright working class people with limited education who find themselves in competition with college graduates for advancement in corporate settings. This is a very common situation in the U.S. where corporate opportunity is more fluid than in other regions.

It is fairly useless if you’ve already had to give presentations at university, or trade shows.
I would guess its a down-round type of acquisition at the urging of Gatsby's investors and founders. They raised 10M+, this allows their investors and founders to get some liquidity back and Netlify picks it up on the cheap.
Well, I'd like to see the methodology for how five floors was determined to be the absolute lowest possible costs.

That's not really the end of the story though, anyway. As long as the price per square foot is still higher, it could make sense to keep building up. At a price of, say, $2k per square foot in Manhattan, if your costs are $500 per square foot for five storeys, vs. $1k for ten, the former earns you $(2000-500)*5 = $7500, while the latter earns $10k per square foot of land, so obviously it's better to build the latter.
Is this still the case with the newer transactional methods like Element.append(), Element.before(), and DocumentFragment?

When I manipulate the DOM I try to create the entire structure in a fragment and the use .append(...) only once.
The US has the best, most expensive health care of any high-income country.
Corrected the heading.
It's because it's not accurate. The above comment was framing the argument, not making the argument. There wasn't an implicit value judgement. Someone else is free to argue that an oppressive 7th century religion is better or worse than modern times within that frame. Or argue (like you have done) that it's an inadequate framing.
-- my guess is this is a way to roll Gatsby investors into netlify stock - and get the team into netlify - probably more a merger vs acquisition --
The whole time I was doing my CS program I was thinking that anyone coming in "cold", as is common in many other degree programs, would be totally screwed. Already being quite "good with computers" and having at least some existing familiarity with programming—way beyond what's generally taught in k-12 school—was basically an unstated prerequisite if you didn't want to feel like you were in a living hell.

It's more like a music degree program, in that regard, except I think those usually reject people who try to apply without substantial prior experience and facility with music. Or like attempting an art major when you don't already have above-average-for-your-age art skills. Like, I'm pretty sure the 100-level biology classes don't assume you've already spent hundreds to thousands of hours dissecting frogs for fun, but rather, have maybe done a very little of it in high school.
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Removing requirements on the basis that they don't increase the quality of education does indeed sound reasonable, but doing it due to the color of skin would be the wrong reason to enact a policy. Racism is what we're fighting against, not trying to make policies enabling it.
Nobody uses those anymore, they're too popular.

English language stackexchange offered up "paraphrasing" and "snowclone", which I've never heard of.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292853/what-is-i...
It can be pain in the butt to get your wife to the USA if you marry a foreigner! Source: am American & married a foreigner.
Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia
Can a British citizen just apply to a US company and they'll sort it out if you get the job?

Or does the applicant have to navigate the visa process themselves?

(I'm a Brit who's always had one eye on the US... becoming two eyes lately.)
If my car engine started running in the middle of the night in my garage when I expect the car to be off, naturally I'd assume it was a plot hatched by automakers in conjunction with gas suppliers in order to increase profits on gas consumption, either that or a plot to kill me with carbon monoxide poisoning while I sleep... Call me a cynic I guess.

If Chrome in task manager shows a lot of disk usage when nothing is being done in the browser I'd naturally think the worst of them. Call me cynical, but hey, there are countless stories of Google not exactly behaving itself as a company.
The Air Force also planned to have its own squadron of shuttles.
I don’t think trads are counter culture because they are the vast, vast majority outside of major cities anyways. It’s about as normative as you can get.
The situation you’re describing is exceptionally niche and one in which you can simply reach out to the company and ask for accommodation: there’s thousands of open-source projects sponsored by for-profit companies by granting access to paid services for free (your employer is one of them, Fastly sponsor a bunch of projects by giving free CDN).

Asking a company to sell their services to everyone at a huge loss because a minority of open-source projects can’t afford their service is more ridiculous.
The browser renders the DOM, so everything pays the cost of updating it. In modern browsers that's really, really, really fast compared to IE6 (the baseline when React was designed), so there are basically two things which make one tool slower than another:

1. Are you updating nodes unnecessarily, especially in ways which force the browser to do more work (see next point)? In general, a tool which does only does the necessary updates is going to win.

2. Are you forcing the browser to do work only to throw it away? The common cause of this in the past was sloppy event handling code where there was a mix of operations updating the DOM interleaved with calls which forced the browser to recalculate the layout (e.g. change the size of an element by changing its contents or formatting, call something which forces the browser to calculate its size, then repeating that cycle so the browser had to repeat the layout calculations it had just made – I remember things like layout code which is now obsolete thanks to CSS flexbox/grids having pathological states where that could happen dozens of times in response to a single update).

That leaves plenty of room for differences from either of the scenarios you listed: for example, a library which doesn't use a virtual DOM at all can avoid all of the overhead related to managing one and diffing it but it has to keep track of its DOM elements to avoid needing to update all of them on any changes. This can be much faster and easy to write for simpler apps but has coordination challenges if your app gets large and especially if it has multiple teams working in the same codebase. The promise of React is that while it's never the fastest it'll be a reasonable balance for not being too slow while scaling up to larger teams.
Nationality at birth, parental income, skin color, height, highest degree completed, etc. are also highly correlated.

But yes, I recognize the "like a scratch-off lottery ticket which might reveal that you should be a Big Winner In Life" psychological appeal of IQ tests. Especially for people who are not actually experiencing any of that Big Winner in Life stuff, or have other issues. Such as needing humanity to be a Well-Ordered Set ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-order ) with a convenient and easily-rationalized "who gets to look down upon whom" metric.
I’ve definitely been part of a musical counterculture my entire adult life (maybe you might omit the last 3 years though). I’ve easily seen more than 1000 performances in that time, from cave shows to pickle factories to stadiums. You’d probably identify it as punk/garage/indie, but there is a subculture there. I’m usually amazed that it’s larger than I expect, at least in the bay area.

I also worked in physics most of that time, which is probably a subculture there as well (some overlap I suppose with a broader subculture of non-profits workers).

I also lived in Utah (Salt Lake City), where you are effective a subculture (counter culture) almost by virtue of living there and not being LDS.

None of those are homogenous, but all are counter to the prevailing culture - which is the much harder thing to define.

Which is my point - we don’t even have a prevailing culture, and we never really did, not a universal one anyway.

That said, it’s likely that white/christian/suburban/nuclear family was considered the prevailing culture though. That’s a subculture today - albeit an unusually powerful one.
I remember seeing a corporate email sent from the company KnowBe4 (security training, simulated phishing emails, etc). The email contained a headshot of some guy in a suit. I remember pointing out to someone else that this guy was not a computer security expert. When asked how I knew, I said "Security experts don't wear suits".

This is when I looked up who the guy in the email actually was. It was the company CEO. You can see his picture here: https://www.knowbe4.com/about-us/
What about SudoQ[1]? That's the one I used many years ago during my sudoku phase. It's open source, very simple, accepts "drawing" input as well as regular keyboard.

1. https://github.com/timo-a/SudoQ
That highly depends on who 'we' is.

Anybody really in the know is definitely not going to spill the beans. The payload is very small, the stated reasons it flew its missions are 'testbed' for various technologies. Which may well be all there is to it.
Incredible that this company is getting so much press right now.
The public opinion numbers on this topic have changed drastically over the last two decades. It's an increasingly minority opinion. In 2004 it was 2:1 against same sex marriage. By 2022 it's 6:4 in favor. It's probably outdated to consider opposition to same sex marriage a majority opinion in much of the US.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/15/about-six-i...
I mostly agree although just because something uses the pipes doesn't mean they are subject to that.

Federation, onion sites, unindexed sites, something new entirely that runs on TCP/IP
I'm not sure what they're talking about. Tusky feels no different than scrolling in Safari, minus the elastic scrolling at the side of pages.
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I guess I just have the view that if I am turning on the radio, the TV, watching a movie, a tv show, celebrity voices, the state department, etc - and I am seeing the counterculture, then I am actually just seeing the culture.
Maybe it will be like Substack where people pay to see your Tweets. I'd image Elon still has some fanbois who would pay to squee over the Twitter Files but maybe not enough to make the next payment that's coming due.
> My anecdotal experience from teaching math in higher ed for 20 years is that the variation in initial performance might be due to passing students who don’t deserve to pass.

This still does not explain why some performed less than others (the ones that should and ones who should not pass).

> I have no expertise on this topic but it seems to me that some people are truly smarter than others.

This is a fact indeed, but the real question is how much variability in performance/learning this explains, and if there are other factors that explain part (and how much) of this variability. For this we need data.
A lot of new paid software uses SD under the hood. Such a ruling would likely make such apps exist in a very nebulous space.

To be honest, I already feel quite strange about folks profiting off of SD results.
Market headed for a 'tinderbox-timebomb' worse than the 1929 crash
What if an asteroid falls on your head right now? Better go live in an underground bunker, you can't run that risk!

Just implying that a threat involves not only the real damage it might cause, but also what's the likelihood it'll actually happen.
I'm actually very locally active and came to the same conclusion in that I think building local institutions is the best thing that I can do right now.
"Sir, I've got some bad news....

We were looking for capsule 9089, but this one is 6806..."
The joke was that I was acknowledging the point "that the joke spoils itself by adding "trick"", was acknowledging the point with a single word, and that single word was simply the username of the user who pointed out that the joke ruins itself - thus, reusing a word already in the thread instead of introducing a new word. Guess I took the "why use many word when few word do" too far!
> That is absolutely wild.. 12m to a bank surely is pocket change. What possible justification did they give for that?

I'm no huge fan of Barclays bank (bad experience several decades ago, vowed to never touch them again), but they aren't "giving the money to the bank", it sounds like Barclays is taking over the contract to provide the service.
1.5-degree goal not plausible: Social change more important says study
Hunting anything near extinction is very solidly at the last inch of the timeline encompassing the last 60k years.
It's pretty tightly coupled to webpack and has a reputation for being extremely slow to rebuild a site. Fine for small sites but I've heard of painful multiple minute long rebuild cycles for large sites with a lot of content.
I know, I feel the same way, but the data doesn't indicate this. Be careful with "ancedata".

http://www.cjcj.org/uploads/cjcj/images/screen_shot_2021-06-...

The one place you do see a dramatic impact is car break ins. But even that is a result of a broken relationship between the DA's office and the SFPD. The fact is, the SFPD is shitty at it's job (close rates are comically low, its understaffed, heaving demoralized) and the DA doesn't have people to prosecute.
Splunk lays off 4% of its staff
Startup idea. Service to update my Slack profile picture every day with the same stock reaction but different backgrounds.
This is definitely something you could build in https://val.town. Someone made a little daily query that checks for new citations on a particular paper:

https://www.val.town/ernest.newCitationNotification

I'm the founder of val.town, so email me if you'd like help setting this up. I'd be more than happy to pair program with you on it. My email is steve @ val.town
He should go further than 80% and take the average Intel engineer's salary until things turn around.
Ironically, this almost makes it more human.

It's a surprisingly common experience for music students to excitedly tell everyone they know about a new piece of music they've been composing, saying it is probably the best thing they've ever written, and then a friend or teacher has to say, "I don't know how to break it to you, but you've 'composed' the Xth movement of Beethoven's Yth symphony."

And sometimes they will say, "I have? I don't think I've ever heard Beethoven's Yth symphony." But of course they have, just without realizing it. It was in the background of some movie they watched or something like that.

Unlike humans, I don't think AIs have any belief about whether their work is original or not, but it's the same type of error. And with similar legal consequences: people have been sued for stealing a melody (presumably not always consciously). The difference with AIs is they can produce much more output than humans, and it's muddier what is actually doing the creating (AI authors? users?).