skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I am interested in is this. Will there be an ability for users to create aliases for their apps or set preferences for which apps they want to use?

For an example, say a user had a specific recipe app he wanted to use, instead of referring to either its exact name or hoping that when asking what recipe they should make that he gets the right app will they be able to go into their settings either online or in an app and assign the app as his preference or rename it to just "chef" or something simple?
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The President and the bomb: understanding the history of US command and control
Their marketing tactics are probably the least shady thing they do. Source: former "student".
Complete change from just a few years ago when they seemed hellbent on turning my computer into a smartphone!
The etymology at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Śūnyatā is helpful.

> "Śūnyatā" (Sanskrit) is usually translated as "emptiness," "hollow, hollowness," "voidness." It is the noun form of the adjective śūnya or śhūnya, plus -tā:

> śūnya means "zero," "nothing," "empty" or "void". Śūnya comes from the root śvi, meaning "hollow".

> -tā means "-ness"

There are many loanwords meaning shunya or zero in many Indian languages and they are all adopted from Sanskrit.
The iPhone was released in June 2007. At that point, the iPod models were Classic (click-wheel), Mini (click-wheel), Nano (click-wheel), and Shuffle (screenless).

The first iPod Touch wasn't until September 2007, 3 months after the first iPhone.

When the iPhone 1 was released, the iPod range didn't have much on any other MP3 player. All the things that make an iPhone an iPhone - the touch-screen, multi-touch, iOS, didn't come from the iPod.

Perhaps iPod to iPhone wasn't quite 0 to 1, but it wouldn't have been much more than 0.001 to 1.
Actions on Google (Google Assistant API)
This page shows examples of how Compliment handles different completions
In fairness, it looks like they've somewhat compromised by hiring Ruth.
Star Trek mind control game, implemented with HoloLens
The benefits must be provided for a business reason to not be taxed (to the employee as income).

I expect that it's a mix of two things:

1. You can make a case that keeping them in the office (rather than making trips out) is a business need, and it might hold up to scrutiny. This probably covers things like coffee, juice, snacks, etc. The company legitimately does benefit from (some key) employees not constantly leaving the office for small necessities.

2. There's a lot of low-level tax fraud the IRS is too understaffed to deal with (and is directed away from corporate fraud like that, anyway). So you probably are supposed to report the value of the meals you get, but no one tracks it, and each employee is only committing a small error, so the IRS can't justify dealing with every case.

The IRS actually has a great PDF on when giving an employee a free meal is a taxable benefit or not. (I found it a couple years back when starting a small corp, but can't seem to find it now.)

Ed:

According to this document [1], Google providing meals probably falls under a nontaxable status because they provide them on campus and there isn't a lot of food near the campus. (Section starts on page 43.)

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5137.pdf
Automated Reforrestation
I recently saw a deforrestation map and wondered- if you can gather the data by machine- is there a way to reforest aka plant grass, trees and reconquer the dessert left behind? Is this done already somewhere? How can one contribute to this sort of project?
What's the problem with event-driven state machines in Haskell that leads to "complexity disasters"? Maybe you could show an example of a non-disastrous imperative variant, and we'll see if me or someone else can come up with a Haskell translation that isn't disastrously complex?
Right. If the Bloomberg (plaintiff) portrayal is accurate, then this is pretty open and shut. I mean, actively texting Zuckerberg 'steering' hints during the interview which is supposed to be about protecting the rights of _all_ shareholders?
I believe I have a right to computing freedom, and actively try to use free software on my personal computer and on servers I develop on and deploy to. I have EOMA68 laptop and desktop housings[0] coming, hopefully in the spring. I am also about to build a server with a motherboard that is supported by Libreboot[1] and processors that work fine without microcode updates.

I use Android phones and tablets, but as long as they have non-free components, I will never accept the "convergence" paradigm. If I can't have freedom all of the time, at least I won't surrender it all of the time.

[0] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

[1]https://libreboot.org
"But without search, without Gmail, without Chrome, without Android, without the moonshots and all the "hobbies" Google's brand would wither"

I'd argue it's less about branding, and more about creating an ecosystem.
Assuming sufficient die area on a 28nm test chip, we would like to have a heterogeneous cluster with something like 2xBOOM and 2xRocket.
That does not prevent the display/keyboard from capturing everything you look at or everything you enter though. Using untrusted I/O devices, wireless or wired, is a privacy and security risk.
Pour a little out for the Friendster of this concept:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO
Good point; sadly it's been a good ten years since I've been near the NC mountains and I've forgotten. I have no reason to think it has improved. Though the fact that the wife and I lost weight when we moved from NC to Seattle ought to tell you something.
It's still a process that loses the best applicants. The fact that they don't realise this or don't care, doesn't make a good public impression.
An incomplete sketch of a browser plugin/feature that would allow posts to be signed from an anonymous source. (hiding your IP isn't addressed; use something like Tor)

* Blocks of text that start and end with magic numbers are signed in-band in the style of "gpg --clearsign".

* The pubkey pair is automagically created on first use.

For legacy support with existing infrastructure (such as HN):

* When you submit a form with a <textarea>, the plugin provides a UI to sign the contents before submitting the form.

* When browsing a page that contains magic number wrapped text, the text is automagically verified and the key pinned.

* The structure of the signed text should allow the plugin to hide the magic numbers, signature, etc, so the text looks normal.

However, newer software would have other options:

* Define a mapping between the in-band data and a tag structure that holds the same data. This needs to be strictly defined, so it is possible to remove the tag structure and verify the original signed text. This gives full presentation control back to the website, while allowing individual posts on the page to be verified.

The big problem - as usual - is key distribution. In the latter case where it is easy to hide metadata with CSS, the public key can simply be included with the post. Unfortunately, in the legacy case I don't think there's a good way to include two pages of public key in each "--clearsign"d post.
Unfortunately, this lack of regard for minority shareholders seems the norm these days.

Google is a similar offender. Let's not even mention what happens when you buy Alibaba shares, whatever you own is not Alibaba.

The problem arises when company starts going in a direction that most shareholders would object to. What can you do then?

Let's say Zuck ends up owning 10 % of FB but still has the control of the voting shares.

Zuck decides that FB should buy an island and attempt to breed dinosaurs at a cost of cool 50B, should not the other shareholders have any say in this?

Seems ridiculous but what if instead of an island that 50B is spent on building some futuristic headquarters. Ok Apple is going along this path but as a shareholder you should have a say in major decisions.

At least with a company like Oracle there is a possibility that Carl Icahn could raise enough money to put Larry in his place should Oracle start making boneheaded decisions.

With FB you cannot do anything if you do not like the direction Mark is taking the company.

As someone else posted, if you want to call the shots without being subjected to public scrutiny then own 51% of the company or do a private buyout like Dell did.

Again the fault lies with the investors who are not averse to buying phantom claims since there is the next greater fool after them.
A lot of factories used to work like that if I recall.
Still not an excuse to trust data you're getting across an I/O boundary.
The key insight is that immutability is not an end in itself, it's a tool to give us referential transparency.

How about a programming environment tailored for small simulations or games? I could imagine such an environment maintaining referential transparency without strict immutability. Rather, such a system could provide a kind of "poor-man's" immutability by only allowing pure functions that take state from tick N and output state for tick N+1.

Perhaps such a system could even achieve high performance by exploiting its constraints? Maybe the language could essentially be built on top of a custom VM and around the mechanism of bump allocation, read/write barriers, and Beltway garbage collection?
Yea I get that, but you can extend that logic to just about every domain of life. Should they be allowed to buy all their employees the best mattresses available because a good night's sleep helps productivity? Should they pay for a nanny because help with child care makes you more productive?

With that logic you could fund your employees entire lifestyle if you made the case that it helps them be more productive.
>they removed their referral incentives because they have more people applying than they can deal with

That's a surprising reaction. The big four (five?) all have referral bonuses despite being beyond flooded with applications, specifically to avoid false positives - they assume that their current employees are more likely to know other people they want to hire.
> while it ultimately worked, Curse That Thing In Particular

"Things Only 90s SysAdmins Will Remember"

Expect is mostly a tool of last resort when a utility has silly prompts that you can't bypass by hitting it with command line options like `-y` and stuff.
Backup codes. I print mine on paper and keep it in a folder with about a dozen other important papers that I rarely access. Kinda archaic, but it is scalable if you consider the fallback mechanism for account access to be user domain. I haven't used a backup code for Google in a while but I think it causes a notification email to be sent to both the account in question and the email account setup for security notices.
The coming feature list, from the article:

* LinkedIn identity and network in Microsoft Outlook and the Office suite

* LinkedIn notifications within the Windows action center

* Enabling members drafting résumés in Word to update their profiles, and discover and apply to jobs on LinkedIn

* Extending the reach of Sponsored Content across Microsoft properties

* Enterprise LinkedIn Lookup powered by Active Directory and Office 365

* LinkedIn Learning available across the Office 365 and Windows ecosystem

* Developing a business news desk across our content ecosystem and MSN.com

Few of these features benefit the user.

Good reason to switch to LibreOffice, if you haven't already.

(My last Microsoft Office purchase was Word 97. LibreOffice is pretty good now, although the early years of SunOffice and OpenOffice were painful. I liked Windows 7, and I still have one machine running it, but everything else is Linux now.)
Life Expectancy in U.S. Drops for First Time in Decades, Report Finds
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Digital bubbling (js experiment)
> like that a week is too long for trying out an idea like this.

Out of curiosity, how did you all reach this conclusion?
How to Secure Websites for Clients
Load balancing, not load balancers
You might be a bit out of date here. Textbooks are absurdly expensive these days relative to computers; Stewart's "Calculus" is $289[0], for example. That's about the right range for a new low end laptop or a used mid-range laptop.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-James-Stewart/dp/1285740629/
Google Toolbar was one of the better browser toolbars AFAIK though.
Another possibility is that someone in IT or corporate security bought a fancy vulnerability scanner and is blindly running it against everything on the internal network. They might even change any existing firewall rules to allow it to contact every host
So, someone in HR thought they'd show some bias for action.

The thing is, one suspects it wasn't "someone in HR" who thought up the idea of using draconian new system that's pissing everyone off, and driving candidates away in droves. But rather, Bezos himself, personally. In fact it seems to represent the very essence of his "everything will be automated" philosophy, to the letter.
Oh, yes, I understand this. I don't understand how it is different for iOS than Android. Sorry if my initial post was not clear on that.
Intro to Micro-Influencer Marketing
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A Canadian Province Just Passed a Resolution for Universal Basic Income
See the TrackMeNot Chrome extension which does the same thing (also supports multiple search engines). I don't know how it affects Google ads though.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trackmenot/cgllkjm...
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> I expect Microsoft and Apple follow suit.

Apple already has SiriKit since iOS 10. I believe you can order an Uber ride with Siri, never tried, I don't use Siri.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...
For most companies, having two competing products internally does not also prevent you from having two competing products externally. There's no law preventing an outsider from starting a competitor just because you've already got two alternatives.

Whatsapp is a great example - Facebook already had Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Chat, internally. Google had GChat and Hangouts and whatever else they're working on these days. It didn't prevent the outside company with half a dozen employees from eating their lunch.

The parent's point is that because of their core markets in search & social networking, Google and Facebook have the luxury of no major competitors, and so they can afford the internal competition to advance the state of these markets. The market structure came first, not the corporate structure. And if you try that in a market with few barriers to entry (like mobile chat, before everyone had built their network effects), it's just as likely that a competitor outside the company will eat the market, not one inside the company. Probably more likely, since internal projects are hamstrung by things like executive approvals, PR worries, and potential legal issues while startups can just take their product to market and see where the market takes it.
In the context of Dang's experiment, I think a better definition of politics is "anything which involves coercion onto an unwilling party."

Politics is etymologically related to policy. Which is a set of norms over a group. I.e. all policy is group policy.

The role of the governmemt to set and enforce those policies. Governance
is generally preferable to anarchy because governance allows us to reap economies of scale. Which is invaluable in a universe of scarce resources. But due to conflicts of interest, optimal policy is often disagreed upon. Therefore, it is common that policy is forced upon one or more parties which believe the policy suboptimal, in the name of compromise.

I personally dislike when someone forces something upon me. Likewise, I dislike when I must force something upon someone else. As a result, negotiation of policy can feel frustrating and exhausting. This sentiment is where I suspect the desire for "politics-free spaces" originates from.

Regarding Dang's flag experiment. I cautiously propose the rule that: any article whose thesis asserts "a normative statement which may affect an unwilling party" is worthy of a flag. E.g. while most think of the Supreme Court as an inherently political entity, and while litigation involves an unwilling party (whoever loses), the above article's thesis is informative rather than persuasive. Therefore, I would not flag the above article. This flag policy would aim to target the inciteful, rather than the insightful.
10cm range with 1mm accuracy is 1%. That's plenty for many applications. I can immediately think of one where an ultrasonic distance sensor is being used and far less resolution is required. In fact, were it not for the dirty environment that the ultrasonic sensor is working in (under a vehicle), I'd think this would be a good replacement.
That's true with a caveat. It knows how to handle IO syscalls on systems where something like "epoll" or "kqueue" is available which, to be fair, is majority of what a typical server does. In the general case waiting for a syscall to return will block the system thread and no other green thread is going to be able to run on it.
Why does this metric matter so much to so many people? Why not quality of life?
> Arguing that people who don't already code shouldn't code

I'm sorry, I'm having hard time finding where I said that. Please do point me to an excerpt.
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> Man, I hate to be Mr. Pedantic here, but with mainframes/terminals all of the processing and data storage took place on a machine you couldn't see and (probably) didn't control. Which is the exact opposite of having the machine in your pocket.

To be fair, much of the processing and data storage is going on in the cloud.
Why does Google Play do nothing about fraudulent app farms?
I think he showed his class when he tweeted against India after losing Free Basics campaign.

Edit: typo
IoT Breakdown: VCs betting billions on the connected world
True, most engineers, and others, will commit crimes including criminal negligence, when asked firmly enough by a powerful corporation that can fire them. See Flint, Michigan, the great robbery of 2008 etc, etc. But the idea of a profession is that you don't, that you have professional ethics.
Actually, these obligations apply to private corporations as well as public corporations. It's just that the chance of a shareholder suit is much higher in a public company.
A good blog post on what youre talking about

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
you will know when and why to write tests ... The same bug keeps coming up, you spend most of your time manually testing, you are not sure this change will break anything, or you are too scared to touch the code.
Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions
Do you interview everyone who applies? Have you considered that your process of choosing who to interview may be flawed?
Good name for a Dvorak optimized editor

aoeui ~ qwerty (but on a different row)
Feathered dinosaur tail found trapped in amber
People die of cancer if they don't die of something more treatable before that so lower cancer contribution may be not for a good reason.
Sounds like it might be a good time to start a new career focused social network.
and counties all across the US are turning to for profit schooling for their children.
24 days of Rust – serde
>Anecdotally I notice that a lot more younger people seem to be eating healthy and exercising regularly

How long has it been since you visited a school? It's very depressing to see how many elementary aged children are 20+ lbs overweight.
I stopped buying Lego for a while because that's what it felt like to me, too. But a LOT of the newer sets now are built with very generic pieces. Each set might contain a unique piece or two.

Also, I've noticed that my kids (<8yo) both get new Lego, build following the instructions, then within minutes they will be moving pieces around to better suit their style. Or completely destroying it and making something they want to build instead.
I wish they would bring back some of the classic themes. There is kind of a hole right now, as there isn't a real Castle theme, a real Pirate theme, and Space has been subsumed into the Star Wars licensing for almost two decades.

One thing I've always really wanted was a modular castle line, akin to the modular town building series, e.g. https://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pet-Shop-10218
Amazon SDE interviews were some of the biggest shit shows I've ever been through personally so this article really hits home.

The furthest I was qualified for with Amazon was in their warehouse, walking 10 hours every day from 8pm to 6 am with two 20 minute for eating and resting. We were not allowed to sit or stop at any point, even going to the bathroom to take a piss or shit were being factored into time. There were cameras everywhere, something like out of 1984. I was treated like a criminal when I had new pair of steel toe boots they paid for in a box and I couldn't represent a receipt. I was scanned with metal detectors, told to take off my shoes, and all in all it was a dehumanizing experience after 10 hours of work consistently.

I felt like HR and everybody else who were sitting around were looking down at us. One time, when a bunch of pickers were walking up stairs, one of the HR guys had a microphone and shouted "both hands on the rails" as he followed right behind the group of workers.

All while I couldn't get Jeff Bezo's smiling face laughing in my head. Fuck Amazon, seriously, except AWS.