skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the problem is that Mastodon doesn't have, and apparently the BDFL won't implement, a built-in way of a remote server telling you that your server is blocked (either as a sender or recipient of a message.)

Which is really frustrating when, you make a post; a user on a different server boosts your post; a third party, which is on a server that normally blocks your posts but can see posts from that different server, sees the boost and responds to you. Not knowing that you can't respond directly back top them. The network is so big now that this happens all the time.
I get a certificate error on that.
>It tends to bring this pointless debate to a quick end.

Not really.. all the before photos are for keypad phones. All the after photos are for touchscreen phones. I would argue that if you are going to design a pure touchscreen phone, you are likely to end up with an 'iPhone-like' design. Case in point is the LG Prada which was unveiled before the iPhone.
There is no violation of the GDPR in just holding data, especially data for which you have a legitimate business reason to process. It is probably PII, so look after it as you would other PII.

The GDPR give a number of reasons where the right to be forgotten does not apply, including for archival purposes, or when the controller was not relying on consent for the processing.
"People want simple interfaces, simpler solutions, simpler interactions."

Under what circumstances?

Numerous airlines, Southwest excluded, come to mind as an anti-example--moving toward a more complicated, convoluted pricing and buying model for tickets.
My approach for my startup is that if anyone sends me a Subject Access Letter that I thank them for being a customer, cancel their account, and delete their data. I note this in the terms of service up front to be transparent and totally comply with GDPR.

Sadly, I think this is the lowest cost approach to dealing with the law, and removes the ability of an insane customer from causing us millions in liability.
Exactly, innovation happens in this space because high investment is protected by patents and licenses.

If patents were the only thing promoting innovation, then nothing would have been invented before patents became available. We already know that isn't the case, so your argument that innovation is a direct result of patents is a bit questionable. OTOH, one could argue (without or without patents) that part of the impetus to innovate (for a company/firm) is "innovate or die". Eg, if your competitors are coming out with newer, better "things" and you aren't, then you are going to die. Or perhaps be reduced to the role of creating cheap knock-offs of inventions created by others, but "fast follower" strategy aside, being the knock-off vendor is usually not the desirable position in the race.

Not true, There is plenty of tech companies that create technology but do not manufacture. ARM Holding would be an excellent example. There is also plenty of companies that manufacture but do not design.

That's nothing about copy-catting though. That's talking about licensing / subcontracting just because a company doesn't want to do it's own fab work. That's totally reasonable, but it's a choice. In either case, original inventors OR licensed manufacturers, are going to have an advantage over copy-cats because they know the "thing" better.

Patent laws include expiring period. This period is designed to make R&D profitable but keep pressure for innovation.

Sure, and I'm saying that doing the equivalent of reducing that time to zero will do the most to create pressure for innovation.

Never mind all the problems with overly broad patents, fear of submarine patents, etc., and all the ways patents inhibit, rather than promote, innovation.
I know someone who left a bad review and the owner of the restaurant stalked her for years afterwards. She ended up leaving Yelp because of it.

Yelp doesn't do nearly as much as they should to protect their users.
Why can't the costs be disclosed upfront? Whenever I go to the dentist and I need to have some work done, I get an estimate telling me how much it costs and how much they expect the insurance company to cover. This isn't rocket science, it can easily be calculated, and should be, as you said, for the benefit of everyone.
The information obligations begin with citizenship:

> One requires transparency in gathering and using data in order to allow EU citizens to exercise their rights to personal data. Therefore, the General Data Protection Regulation sets forth a variety of information obligations.

American citizens don't may or may not have rights under GDPR, or may have rights only where the processing is done within European borders, but European citizens have rights under GDPR regardless of where they are.
You think all cars that are not self-driving will be illegal in 10 years ?!?!?!
> First, the Tech/Dev managers need to stand up. Instead of saying 'Yes' to every feature request, they need to say 'No', or 'Later'.

Yes, I see this a lot too. I think software managers have more incentive to get new features deployed. I don't think this is a good way to measure their performance as a manager because of the consequences we've already mentioned.

I would also like to see more concepts from physical development implemented in software. At times feels like the wild west out here and too often we ignore the lessons from similar experiences.

Thank you for that input btw.
Did you read any further? If I can't prevent them from using the app, then I have to solve an impossible problem. Namely providing a fallback for core services that the app is built on.
Yes. But that sentence is too obfuscated... posted where? I am a bit sceptic because of the way the article is written around the important parts.
https://whois.icann.org/en/primer
Yeah, I think making the "Schedule/Happy Hour" more of a thing would help more. Sending a message is good, but it leaves it up to the admins to organize/think of doing it every day. What about on the "all rooms" page above each "Genre" description of a room, there could be a "Happy Hour" time slot that admins can enter and will show up. That way, this will attract people to come back that havent even favourited the room (or will require people to check their email, haha). So they can see immediately "hey, there isnt anyone in this room now, but if I come back from 8-12 EST, there might be some more people here".

Thanks again for creating this program, really hope this stays active for years to come.
I'm not sure. I'm thinking it will be on my way home my car stops at the grocery store for a few minutes to fill my trunk, thus saving the energy to drive my car and their car to my house.
I bet Apple Music does not have an API as open as Spotify's.
Hi everyone!

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You can read more about it here https://medium.com/snips-ai/snips-air-a-private-by-design-op...

We will be publishing our whitepaper in the coming weeks, and are welcoming any feedback!

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> Honestly I don't get the obsession with recent grads. They are basically useless for years.

I generally agree with your post, but this statement is just wrong (possibly there are a few counter-example domains). If a company cannot get value from new grads within, say, 6 months, it is the problem of the tech lead they are working for.

We routinely get very useful work from summer interns, who are gone completely in 8-12 weeks. This does require organization and a little effort though: pose work they can complete in 1 month, calm them that they do not need to do it quickly, offer support if needed and check progress weekly; and pay attention -- if they sense the attitude that they are useless to the team they will often work that way, too.

TBH, this works maybe 50% of the time (we get useful results from half the interns and nothing from the other half), but I suspect full time employees are not 100% useful either. Just my 2c.
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Many of the posts here focus on ageism but this is just one example of discriminatory algorithms/ML in action. Don't be surprised if the same headline reappears soon with gender or race substituted. There is currently an academic movement often called "fairness in machine learning" aiming to correct these kinds of behaviors in automated systems.
The most interesting thing to me was not only how wrong many of the data points were, but how many data points in the same category I matched. My income is one of three different brackets, my age is one of three different brackets, my location is one of three different wrong places (which I would expect to be the easiest to get right?)
It’s like there is some heuristic that cuts off the top 2-3 categories. Wish I had more data points to see if I am an outlier or if that is actually how the model constructs this bag of labels.
Is there a SPOF for Mastadon? How does Mastadon handle database (multiple masters, etc)? Genuinely curious if this is truly decentralized platform or just a poor man’s open source social networking app with some RSS type of functionality sprinkled on top of it, sort of like Wordpress in a sense in terms of hosting it.
meta: classic HN, top post is a Negative Nancy regardless of how impressive the new thing is. Is there a name for this phenomena yet?
This reminds me of Riverworld. (Working from memory here - it's been a while since I read it) In the civilization that Sam Clemens created/participated in, they basically did this - recreated an industrial society which had basic, but workable computers.
If you want to have a good laugh without owning and exploiting your PS4…

https://github.com/Cryptogenic/PS4-5.05-Kernel-Exploit/blob/...
Yes, it also needs to be made available via public whois.
>I think they're already good enough.

Based on what? Telsa hasn't even gotten driving on the highway correct. Uber is running down people in the streets.

Waymo's the only one claiming they think they can successfully test a completely driverless car. But we haven't seen any test results.
Most companies do not need an EU resident DPO at all.
Probably means you use Safari (or an ad blocker). I get a message saying that they can’t track you anyways on iOS safari
Didn't realize this system used a CVT-like system to generate electicity. I've generally been curious how this system seems to be significantly more complex yet more reliable than many modern internal combustion engine drivetrains. (My personal perception, haven't done much research to look it up).
Are you seriously trying to claim Snopes isn't biased? I would say that's the more outrageous claim here. If Snopes is absent of any bias, what is their methodology by which they achieve that? Here is someone [1] who tried to find out and could not.

And as far as bias, a quora post [2] seems to give the impression that Snopes was heavily favoring Hillary Clinton through the campaing.

So I'd like to turn this around: could those that believe Snopes is not biased give some kind of citation?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/12/22/the-dai...

[2] https://www.quora.com/Is-Snopes-biased-Why-do-some-people-be...
For those who didn’t understand, these are actual quotes from the comments section. One user goes as far as saying “I’m a robot and also a human”. Really confusing.
"Skills out of date" is suspect, at best. We have been putting all new languages and libraries on top of the same old computer science concepts for decades now. It wouldn't be that hard to age-discriminate by looking specifically for Clojure experience, while saying anyone trying to substitute ANSI Common Lisp experience has their "skills out of date".

To put this into analogy form, it would be as though mathematicians could be perceived as out of date because they still used "x + y" for addition, rather than "add( x, y )", or "push(x) push(y) add", or whatever the latest fad in mathematical notation happened to be at the time. The concept of addition (over real numbers) hasn't changed for centuries. Some skills just can't go out of date. And yet some people are viewing those skills through a lens that makes older candidates look worse on paper, and are blaming the skill set, rather than the lens.

There are some skills that make otherwise inexperienced people more productive when they all share those skills, but at some level it all comes back to screening based on experience rather than aptitude. I don't have time to learn every new skill that comes down the pipe, from mere speculation that a future job opportunity might require it. I'm more likely to pick up only those that would be useful in my current day job, or for my latest side-project. All some employer has to do is pick a lot of "new" skills, that aren't appreciably different from new names for old skills, and magically, my skills are no longer up to date.

I hypothesize that the age discrimination in the industry isn't based on age, directly, but rather on perceived costs of employment, which tend to rise as people progress through their careers. Old people are more expensive. They want higher salaries. A lot of them have families, and mortgages, and their health insurance costs are higher. They worry about their 401(k) accounts.

One would think that it's easy to screen by age, based on the length of the resume, and simple math on any of the dates on it, but the people screening the resumes, and the ones rejecting candidates post-interview are not necessarily the same people. The HR folks know that age-related discrimination is illegal, so may be structuring sham interviews so that audits after the fact don't leave the company liable for enforcement actions. I have been through a few interviews where it just seemed like everyone was going through the motions. Maybe they already picked someone and were using me to cover their ass? Maybe there was something about me in particular that prompted an immediate rejection? Maybe I didn't fulfill some secret requirement? Did my breath stink? Did I whiteboard that wrong? Nope--they found someone to do the job more cheaply, and they were shopping around to make sure they got the best price. It just so happens that youth correlates positively with cheap.

It's difficult to say, when no one ever gives any interview feedback whatsoever, positive or negative. When you're in it, you start to get paranoid.
In fact, they usually use 172.10.x.x on their PtP address...
It depends...

If you don't have (and won't acquire/process) any personal data on individual in Europe, then you're not bound by GDPR.

But if you have any personal data on at least one physical person in Europe, then you're bound to the GDPR, whatever you write in your TOS. That's what Instapaper didn't really understand (same for US's newspaper that may have subscriptions from people in Europe). GDPR is above your TOS. Your only way out would be to delete identifiable datas bound to european people.

BTW: not all datas are "personal". For example: there's no problem for advertising... only for TARGETING (based on informations bound to an individual). If the target is "big enough" not to be able to single out a specific person, then everything is fine. You can display ads following gender, age, country, city... because these categories are wide enough. You can assign a "profile-id" to anybody... but not a "user-id" (this would be "personal")
Why does this implement an HTTP interface on the sidecar? Isn’t that a lot of unnecessary overhead for incrementing a counter? The connection will always be on a local interface, so there’s no need for HTTP. Seems like a better solution would be a simple Linux domain socket, which would be far less overhead for the eg haproxy <-> sidecar communication.
Why give them the option to shoot themselves and neighbors foot? Seems more like a technology problem with BGP then knowledge problem.
Is this a new discovery for you? Third-party cookie data is everywhere, and usually very messy if not completely inaccurate.
"Everything else" seems like a strong statement. What about XRP?
Was his company awarded 500 million dollars in damages?
You don't die. At least, not from severe trauma. You die eventually from preventable causes due to lack of preventative care.

You do get crushing medical debt, though. Which my advice would be to declare bankruptcy and/or not pay it.
Ah I think I see what you mean now- like a suggested activity window for each room. Cool idea, I'll add it to the roadmap. Thanks again :)
>> I wouldn’t read too much into it since they can do whatever they want with their batteries, but it’s still weird that they would take the time to remove the branding.

Politics? This is Arizona. Does the Tesla brand, and its association with "green" energy and electric cars, stir up to many feelings? I've got elderly relatives who live there much of each year. I make a point to never discuss anything to do with the environment, which they view as a "grand conspiracy" to destroy America. I doubt they would appreciate hearing that their local government is doing business with Tesla. Maybe keeping the branding out of local papers is deliberate.

If Tesla truly wanted to hide from everyone then this article wouldn't be our there to read.
This is how I interpreted it, eg, that they released all the information in the court case.
I think that we tend to only hear the horror stories. I've never really used yelp, but I know many that have and found it useful as at least a barometer of an area. I'm a contrarian so I find I'm happier if I don't know how others feel about things.
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One thing that sticks to me when I read such articles (I am not from US) is how ridiculously pricey medical services are. Common, 1k$ for a regular exam that costs like 20euros in my country in private clinics?! And I read about this ridiculous prices US so often that I am dumbstruck that people are cool with it.

Another thing that struck me is that if you don`t have money, evil people can just silence you by suing you (look at those court costs, 20k and counting?!)
Counterfactual: Dr. Soong is well-rated on ZocDoc. Curious to see how the judge rules.
The minimum value possible for the maximum fine is €20m. The minimum fine is €0.
So what you're saying is that there's a variable real world amount of monetary value that you could win determined solely on the random outcome of a loot box. Sounds exactly like gambling. If someone spent $5 on a chance to win either a marmot, a squirrel, a fancy coat, or a golden banjo and the rarity of winning those depended upon their real world value, it would still be gambling. The only difference with loot boxes is that their real world value is determined by their rarity.
My mother has gone by her middle name for her entire life, with almost everything she signs up for completely omitting that her first name even exists.

I kept expecting it to cause her problems, but it doesn't seem to have. Of course, dealing with the government means she has to use her first name sometimes, but that's it.
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Any negative review meant to be shown publicly is more hassle than it's worth. Airbnb, Yelp, etc. Don't give a review at all unless you must, and if you must, keep it breezy and positive. One nice thing about this is you don't need to think about it too hard. Some generic compliments, five stars on everything, and you're done!
It's not getting mainstream yet. It's filling niches made up of people unhappy with twitter, interestingly both people who think Twitter moderates too much, and people who think it doesn't moderate enough. Letting people run their own servers makes that possible.
That, from my preliminary checks when trying to buy in, is going unfulfilled. It seems like no one wants to join yet another network just to wait for it to get users. As some other people havenoted jn other discussions, Mastadon seems to be either non-English or specialized in ways that don't apply to me at all.
Age discrimination being rampant in our industry is a fantastic opportunity for an astute hiring manager.

I go out of my way to hire older devs that are eschewed by typical Bay Area startups. I can get a seasoned pro with a solid background in C - and other more trendy languages - for about the same price of a 3-years-working-experience "senior dev" who likely was battlefield commissioned into the role at their last startup.

The typical solid dev can only put in 4, maybe 5-6 hours of actual good coding a day. If you know how to run a tight org - and not a sweatshop of 20-year olds pulling 16 hour days where only maybe 2-3 hours are actual programming time - then older devs are a fantastic bargain. Plus, when it comes time to architect something complex, I have found older devs typically create more simple and elegant solutions just because they have been exposed to more.

Of course, I do run into the occasional stuck-in-the-mud older dev who is very slow to adapt to current trends and wants everyone else to get off their lawn. That has been a rare exception to my overall experience and I don't think it should be used to stereotype the older devs as a group.
Of course it produces oxygen - aluminum processing is in large part reducing aluminium oxides.

Given the scant data provided it is unclear if their technique results in fewer additional airborne pollutants mixed with the oxygen which might be nice
AS58879 is used for AnchNet's international services, like Hong Kong, Los Angeles.
Not used in China mainland.

They used AS55994 in China mainland.

In fact, China's ISP do filter via prefix and they all enable URPF.
In China, IDC can't announce non-cnnic addresses
RPKI, but it's barely used
What really bothers me about these banks is that they attempt to keep their platforms secure by things like disabling the back button.
Just so that hypothetically, if somehow a person has access to your physical machine, they can't just press back and view a cached copy of your account.
Yet they fail on actual security practices.
No 2FA - check
Maximum password length of 6 characters - check
Storing / Sending passwords in pain text - check
The list goes on.

It boggles my mind that institutions with such financial power, fail to employ these practices.

It's clearly not a question of cost..
I have found Yelp to be better than Google Maps at telling me what the options are for grabbing a bite to eat nearby. I hardly ever read the reviews.

Actually, I used to read the Yelp complaints about the ice cream place near me, which had a famously cranky owner. Those often made me laugh; does that count as joy?
Ugh, I just paid for it a month ago.
Re: Of course there can be billing mistakes and corner cases where it is not clear what exactly has been performed...

This is where good lawyers know how to play. They have experience. Unless the consumer's layers are equally skilled/powerful, usually the deeper pockets win, I hate to say. It's why the rich get richer while the rest get [bleeped].

It's one of the reasons Hillary was unlikely to be jailed for being sloppy with email; the laws are fuzzy enough to milk. But this applies to all plutocrats, not just Hillary, including the current occupants at Washington DC.
https://fediverse.network is a good overview of the activity of the fediverse. There's even a secret endpoint, `/stats`, with global statistics for all the known fediverse!
Thanks.
I guess there's some level of localisation or peronalisation to the results:

BPF Home | British Property Federation (BPF)
British Plastics Federation
British Psychotherapy Foundation

Then the Berkley Packet Filter.
Yang to the yin of doctors being sued by patients.
I believe people will go to extreme lengths to avoid specific things that challenge their wold view. This is an excellent example, you are not going to look at the art collection, but need a way to deflect that fact, so instead you demand I talk about something else. Maybe make some personal attacks and keep trying to change the subject?
You had two years to sort out a quick procedure for doing this process, and it still took an hour and a half. Didn't you have a script to do that semi-automatically?