jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm an auditor, and what you're saying is probably fair, but probably not a big deal. I have a lot of clients who either use Excel for their bookkeeping or provide us their full GL in Excel, so we always have the risk of changes being made, but we're not too concerned since our regular audit procedures would uncover it.

We're required to obtain an understanding of the control environment (so the ERP system in this case), and if we want to rely on its outputs we have to do dedicated testing over it. You're right though that if you do alter one transaction it's probably not going to come up in the audit samples. There's a bit of a gradient though between how much you alter and how much the auditors care, because auditors deal with things on a materiality basis. The more you manipulate the finances, the more material it becomes and the more we care, but also the more likely it will be uncovered. If you're changing a few trivial transactions we more certainly will never uncover it unless you're really unlucky, but then the effects of those trivial transactions is trivial anyways so it's not really a problem.
I just hope my employer continues to allow me to work remotely. I've been exceeding production for the past year working from home.

Working from home I:

- Don't have to share a keyboard/mouse/desk with another shift (gross)

- Do not spend an hour a day(+/- 10 minutes) driving, and save all the money associated with that commute

- Do not have to worry about driving on snowy/icy roads as my job requires us to be there unless there is a county emergency making travel by road illegal.

- Do not have to go to work sick, because they act like you murdered 30 children if you call in sick. I can work comfortably while isolated from my coworkers

- Do not have to fight 100-130 people for 1 of 3 microwaves on my 30 minute lunch break, assuming someone hasn't taken my food out of the refrigerator and eaten it/thrown it away/left it sitting out to make room for theirs

- Do not have to use a restroom that, with frequency (to the point of multiple times over the years management threatening supervised restroom usage for adults), has boogers/urine/feces/blood on the floors/wall/toilet seats

- Pack into a noisy open office where I can't focus as people are constantly talking, walking by, burning popcorn, microwaving ox tail and greens that smell worse than burnt popcorn

- Deal with ear-damaging fire drills, cram into tiny offices with 20 co-workers for tornado drills/warnings

- Deal with an HVAC system that regularly see temperatures in the mid 60s Fahrenheit in the winter and mid 80s Fahrenheit in the summer inside the office where business casual is required.

- Drink milky-white water from the tap AFTER it comes out of a filter that has algae growing in the transparent tube feeding the faucet.

- Deal with coworkers maliciously damaging vehicles. Just about everyone's car has multiple door dings, and if you try to park in the back of the parking lot we've had instances of an employee parking an inch or less off the driver side door - not in a parking spot - of someone's brand-spankin new car

- Have to deal with random coworkers coming to my desk/cornering me at the urinal and blabbing incessantly about their divorce/kids/wife's boyfriend/vet bill, this was a regular occurrence in person and has happened exactly once via teams since work from home started.

If they don't, I'll definitely be thinking about a "post-pandemic career shakeup" to walk away from my employer of 15 years to work for a company that is forward-thinking.
Half a million here, half a million there and before you know we’re talking real money.

Also, if this article is correct, they have everything in place to handle this kind of breach. In the handling, the only thing that went wrong was that they informed the authority too late. It took them 3 weeks, while it has to happen within 3 days. Booking states they contacted affected customers before that.
Same. It's a scourge.

Facebook employs thousands. It's not unthinkable that a lot of them are here and feeling a bit red-faced.
For what it's worth, "kalakutas" happens to sound (mildly) obscene in Polish, since "kutas" means a dong/dick :)
This is cool. Will try it.
Likewise, it seems there's more nuance to this leak. I checked the data out and a large number of my contacts have correct numbers in it. At the same time, numerous people don't appear in it, even if they do have a phone number on their profile.
d) Tell my boss that THEY effectively suck at estimating and it will take 4 weeks. If they want less, I'll not sign under unprofessional work and they can get somebody else to do it.
I love the diagram.
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A functional subset would not be a fork. If users were given a choice, we would find out which version they considered best aligned with the brand.
Thanks for the reply. Both of these points could be achieved my people using the fight-description box and voters could comment with their reasons for voting for one or other.

Nethertheless, maybe this could be made more obvious.

Thanks again!
Our parents' generation felt guilty about buying a dishwasher. It'll pass.
This is a placebo button for subscribe and save. I guess whatever works (I plan to sign up).
Sickening? Really? Don't you find it interesting that currency free of nation-state regulators would be attacked as anti-environmental?

These same regulators would love to steer policy and public opinion by calling something that reduces their influence bad for the climate, even if such a thing is run on clean energy, solar, etc. That seems suspicious.

Beware of what -isms you are repeating and supporting - they are very likely aligned with other -isms you would not support, or are a root cause of the issue you care about in the first place. Environmentalism is no exception.

Overall, blockchain currency has the ability to help humanity. If that requires more power, well, so does everything. I'd focus on how to generate that power renewably, not to argue against a technology that millions in the unbanked world could use to better their situation. I'd suggest you learn more about the problems that present cryptocurrency as a potential solution before just listing new problems.
They'd just tack it on the credits at the end.
I had a hand in picking UiPath a few years ago for a major UK company.

Your comment hits the nail on the head.

I like to draw comparisons between UiPath's software and Excel:

- Highly underrated by most people in IT

- Super fast initial learning curve to start doing something useful

- Yet also possible to use for years without learning all aspects

- ... and just as easy to make a huge unmaintainable mess in the wrong hands
One cost estimate of restrictive zoning is almost $9k per American worker: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21154
http://railssnowman.info , for those of you who haven't seen it.

I believe it ended up being a ✓ in the final build, though.
Replacing one authority (ICANN and their subsidized registrars) with another (plugin authors) is not a real solution.

With automated submissions, scammers of all sorts won't take long, trying their best to report that google.com is censored and real Google is now at xxxbestsearchenginexxx.net. A sufficiently large botnet operation is hardly distinguishable from valid mass reports.

On the other hand, censors would also be very happy to submit thousands of completely fake reports to give system some hard time trying to find what's really going on. They may go as far as creating WikiLeaks-looking fake sites, containing bogus dummy papers instead of the troublesome content (so having digital signatures on site contents is a must).

Building a system, capable to successfully withstand such attacks is extremely hard.

And average Aunt Tillie won't install any complicated software or use anything with UI much harder than "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wikileaks.com. This site seem to be under the US government censorship, so please click here for the list of mirrors." Which seems to be inherently incompatible with actually required level of security and censorship-resistance.
Can someday confirm, then let the author know that disqus comments make the article unreadable on iPad because the text is covered with a big white square. When it loads you cant see the text of the main body. I've seen it on several blogs now.
I got the point of it, I just think it's horrible execution.

If you have a business idea, and you cannot find a way to solicit honest feedback from an ad-hoc consumer panel, then you should probably check yourself.

I don't understand why you need the whole deceptive angle. Go to Starbucks and approach someone and say "hey... I've got this interesting idea for [a way to do X better/faster/cheaper]. I'll give you a $5 gift card if you don't mind spending 15 minutes giving me your honest feedback."

The other fail of the idea was the whole trying to maximize $20 at Starbucks concept. Many people are going there to get a drink that will likely average $3 or more. Offering to buy someone a $1.50 black coffee when they came in wanting a $4.50 latte isn't going to get you off to the right start. Even spending $100 for 20 $5 gift cards would be cheap feedback, and (IMO) a more realistic approach.
Ctrl-click or Command-click is the answer.
Wikileaks is like Napster. It's a single point that can be taken down.

The future of "leaking" or whistleblowing will look much more like the bittorrent sites that came after it.

The governments don't realize it yet, but having Wikileaks as a focal point was a benefit because it could presumably be negotiated with. Wikileaks has actively attempted to prevent people from being physically hurt or killed by classified leaks by working through journalists and factcheckers at newspapers and magazines to redact some information. However, mere embarrassment isn't a quality standard by which to withhold information from the public.

Other groups won't necessarily be so discerning. The governments trying to prevent Wikileaks from operating will ultimately be faced with much more distributed and fragmented leaking sites.
Your random average blogger is probably psyched to see that there are a couple hundred views on all of their posts, which makes them think that Posterous is way better than any other blogging platform they've tried. It's a little disingenuous for technical people who understand the difference, but your average person probably doesn't care and just likes the ego boost.
Save yourself some money and embarrassment and just do the same thing on Mechanical Turk..
Get a bunch of egotistical, powerful, and moderately financially successful aspies together and have them solve a problem. This is a recipe for disaster and anybody who reads the kernel mailing list knows it. Sadly about half the coders I know in real life are even worse than Linus.
This question comes up every 3 weeks periodically. What a bunch of alcoholics!
Linux will probably run fine on those specs, remember Windows has a ton of overhead in terms of RAM and storage.
Got a 23andMe spit-kit about a year ago, and never worked up the comfort with turning over my DNA.

It reminded me that the hospital where my first was born was engaged in some sort of genetic research at the time. They requested her DNA and assured me that it wouldn't be used for, say, future health insurance underwriting, etc.

What really made me uncomfortable was, not only how the DNA could be used at the current time, but how it might be used in the future, especially given the rapidly-evolving technology. And, it's not only the technology that will evolve, but privacy and other laws that currently limit DNA usage might also change in the future.

Of course, it occurs to me that if someone really wanted our DNA, they could capture it in, say, any random blood test, etc. But, it just seems safer, for now, not to "give" it away for questionable value in return.
Well then this is NOT the right answer. This exemption expired and was not renewed.
Why wouldn't you be able to fork Mir? The open source licenses used explicitly allow that. Disagree with Canonical on strategy if you want, but spreading FUD about lawsuits is misinformed at best, maliciously dishonest at worst.
It's a long, multipage article with many images. I'm not seeing any issues with it being down.
But you can tell porn is porn based on a single 2d image.
> After living in New York, I have a Pollyannish belief that if you were inclined to be unconsciously racist...you'd give up that inclination in day-to-day life...or else, how could you cope with the sensory/panic overload?

I don't think that subconscious racism really works like that. I doubt that those types of racists are afraid of other races in that sense; they don't think that their cab driver is carrying a briefcase full of C4 in the trunk. They probably just have negative prejudices against 'em ("they're dumb", "their food smells", "they're just here to steal jobs").

And for every positive and neutral experience, they'd be likely to have a negative one as well - and they'd filter out and ignore the positives, while giving more credence to the negatives.
Unfortunately, last time it was posted, it was noted that that map has drawing bias. The dots are drawn in order of race, not randomly, and so the earliest color dots are underrepresented and the later dots overrepresented. I'm afraid I can't remember the which order they are drawn in. Just something to keep in mind.
But at the time you modify it, the other file may not be modified. And, when your merge partner modifies it, she may be on an 18 flight to the South Pole with no internet access.

Now, sure, you can say "well, God can get around that", but, unfortunately, there are real constraints that cannot be gotten around. Good design is how you deal with those constraints.
Having managed teams before, my feeling is that this advice is good in some cases, and bad in others.

For example, if your team is filled with a bunch of newbies who don't really know what they're capable of yet, their default reaction alot of times is to come to you with their issue. If it happens too frequently it can become counter-productive.

On the other hand, some problems can take a long time just to figure out what's going on, and even more it can be difficult to articulate the issue precisely. As long as the problem is well formulated and precise, progress can usually be achieved by bringing the problem (without solution).

Generally speaking, though, it's good to keep in mind that a manager usually has a ton on his plate already and needs to deal with all his team's problems, whereas the developer is only responsible for working on the one problem.

Final point would be that, especially with younger devs, they can get into a "paralysis by analysis" state. I encourage younger devs to not work on a problem for too long so they're not spinning their wheels. So in these cases I want my younger devs to come to me after they've spent maybe 10-15 minutes on a problem, even if at the end they still don't know what the problem is.
I think that argument needs to be retired. Here are some recent examples of a revenue model that competes just fine with walled gardens, proprietary software, and proprietary/compromised hardware:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop (successfully met its funding goals)

https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop (arguably more niche and yet it grossed an incredible 305%)

http://ccc.de/ (not all revenue models need to produce hardware)
It's not clear to me how these warrants are "automatic". FTAmendments:

"a magistrate judge [...] has authority to issue a warrant to use remote access to search electronic storage media [...]" (emphasis mine)

IANAL, though; could someone who knows more explain what's going on? How will the procedure and requirements for obtaining a warrant for such "remote access" differ from those for searching, say, a house?

Edit: as I typed, slapshot posted some helpful explanation.
Rich Hickey is the model of technical leadership.

- He reflects on the experience of programming.

- He identifies and can articulate what's wrong with our tools, conventions, and thinking.

- He builds and advocates abstractions that don't suffer from those problems.

Even if Clojure and Datomic remain obscure, he'll have taught me what I want to be when I grow up.
> What kind of sandboxing

Sandboxing between the different stages of VLC, because each require different control needs.
> Regulating freely consented exchanges _you_ don't like

I believe the argument they are trying to make is not about whether they like the transaction, but what constitutes "freely consented".

If someone's alternative is, for example, going hungry or sleeping on the streets or having their children go hungry, can we really say they are giving their consent freely?

Should we be concerned about other forms of coercion in addition to direct physical violence?
Can you elaborate? This sounds interesting...
Yes, https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc-ios/tree/master/Share...
OpenCV has a module called "super resolution"[0] whose goal is to reconstruct high-quality images from multiple low quality images.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6mePD21sIU
> Also, no one really cares about network support anymore, because it's simpler and better to just do a screen share.

I care about network support for GUI applications.

I don't think _whole screen_ shares are either simpler or better.
Global entry included pre check.
I can't be the only one who's not a fan of being served close to a megabyte of JavaScript for some support articles (site is useless without JS).

To add insult to injury, the landing page has a 2118x1415, 2.6MiB background image.[1] Doing a `-quality 70 -resize 50%` conversion to JPEG results in a mere 176KiB.

Although, having experienced service-now.com in other settings, it definitely could be worse.

[1] https://recreationonestopprod.service-now.com/83f45a56dbbbab...
The official API mandates using AVPlayer to use it. You can hack it, but it's not supported, so we're not sure if we should do it or not.
I pay for Netflix and Spotify so that I don't have to deal with ads. I'll happily continue to pay for Uber and similar services for the very same reason.
I think I agree with you, but how do you see this playing out? Or maybe, how has it played out in the past?

Certainly I lost trust in the US federal government when I saw that it wasn't obeying its own laws, and not prosecuting itself, and there was no method to bring it into compliance. I lost trust with state governments when I got "audited" for a business I never owned, assessed a tax liability for that business which never even existed in the state, based on an auditors assumptions about business done in the state, and was told that it was legally binding in a "guilty until proven innocent" way, and that I had to pay half a million dollars in order to appeal the audit (for a business, remember, that I have never had any connection to.) Needless to say I don't live in that state anymore.

But I do have to live somewhere. I would like to buy a house. But how can I when I could lose it to imminent domain when the mayor's cousin's construction company gets a great opportunity to develop a multi-use master planned community on the land?
That is so...

... realistic
> and works very well if you have a RTX card

If you have a non-RTX nVidia GPU, you can use RTX Voice, which is the same functionality as the nVidia Broadcast noise removal, and doesn't require an RTX card despite the name.

I was using RTX Voice on my GTX 1070 just fine.
I'm curious - what are those reasons, and how would the lack of an invitation thwart them?
> in my thirties I just want something stable and nice so I can save money

Shoot, the article yesterday had me searching for how I can apply to Gumroad on top of my day job. They were claiming $50-250 per hour with as little as 10 hours a week. You want to save money? Have a stable day job and work at Gumroad for 10 hours a week. With such a short work week I can't imagine you'd be doing much more than simple bug fixes. I can swing 2 hours of that a day.

> retire with a bit over a million in the bank at 40.

You might have to set your sights a little higher. That's not gonna carry you to potentially 85 years old.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't fulminate
I mean it's basically the classic SV way. Build a unsustainable business promising the world. Get traction based on that. Get bought by FAANG. Ride off into sunset & don't look back. Cool guys don't look at explosions/broken promises
This is like hearing someone at a bank saying they were scared a masked robber was going to murder them, and responding “were you scared of the customer who came in before them murdering you too?”

The terrorists who stormed the capital on Wednesday have a history of violence and connections to various far right extremist and terrorist groups. They came carrying weapons, zip ties and bombs. Don’t pretend there’s no difference between the two groups.
Looks like its powerful because you can have a loop and update metrics you can get via python.

I've always wanted to create something like vtop but for network and disk io, this might finally let me do it myself.
If you plan on using blessed, there’s also blessed-contrib, which is a library of widgets for blessed.

https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
Most of those are black boxes. If you have a compliance requirement for encryption, your hardware crypto probably doesn’t meet it.

For modern devices, there is no performance impact from software FDE. To be meaningful, you need to have specific configurations in place as well as appropriate handling. If you’re not doing that, don’t bother.
Even with greater awareness of the biases inherent in e.g., training data, better and better models (and larger and better datasets) are going to lead to AI applied to ethical grey areas. This article doesn't discuss explainability and contestability, which to me seem like critical areas we need to be putting more thought into given the ultimate inevitability of biased and unethical AI.
It’s against the rules here to accuse people of not reading the article (watching the video in this case.)
We need an uninflatable store of value more than anything, which Bitcoin is.

Think of how much unnecessary transacting and consumption is going on right now to escape a constantly inflating dollar. "Investments" and consumptions will tank with a deflationary store of value.
s/quantitatively convey/qualitatively convey
You realize a lot of the people who you are falsely identifying as Mexicans are from other Central and South American countries?
And bringing this full circle, I wonder if you may be referring to Viaweb?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
Crime victims should honestly have zero input into the law. They're simply too emotionally invested to approach it rationally.
This is a bad idea. Good idea for parents who don’t want to spend time with their kids.

When my son was 2, maybe 3, one of the best neurologist in my state diagnosed my son with mild ADHD. He was not talking either.

If med was available, I sure would sign up and give it to him. I was simply “too busy” with work. Instead of playing with him after work, I got busy with other “projects”.

I only got awakening up after my wife lectured me. From the moment on, I spent a lot more time with my children. As it turned out, he does not has ADHD and turned out really bright and have a lot of friends at school.
Culture comes straight from the top. You can certainly tell that with Facebook and Zuckerberg.

A good solution to this would be to put a hiring freeze on any ex-Facebooker and claim that if they can overlook Facebook's questionable practices, then they would be a danger for your company and its customers.

Hold employees responsible for the actions of their employer.

You could institute a "two year freeze" for any FB alum. A public statement by an ex-employee rebuking these practices would be enough to sidestep the hiring moratorium, but make them acknowledge how bad their employer is for privacy and democracy.

Especially after what they did with the last US election cycle.