skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google's takes money from group B, and use their tools and tech to convince group A to give money to group B.

Data about A is the fuel for the machines that allow them to provide value for group B. I removed the indirection in my metaphors to try and communicate how the "consciousness" of a large company views the assertion. If you view google as a sentient entity, it looks upon comments like the GP as though they're coming from children.

I could've added more parity by replacing the business rivals with the words "decentralization" on all of my examples, but I think it muddies the message for no gain.

"Google should think about what it's doing to people's privacy!" sounds naive to me because google does exactly this! The levy of google's smartest are constantly trying to find ways to gather more data, or infer more things from the data they've got.

Privacy is more of a business rival to google than any other company. Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri -- they're all just new pump jacks.

Really, the whole concept of the parent shows a lot of naiveté I didn't even address. 7/10 engineers on a floor agreeing not to take the "mind control plebs" ticket doesn't do a thing when there's enough people to complete it anyways. Your gesture didn't do anything.

Publicly martyring your career for your idealism DOES add a nugget of fuel to society's awareness and opinions about the thing, but I suspect the issue is just too oblique right now for that fire to get started.

Off topic, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Facebook / Google are >100 years ahead of everyone else in sociology. At some point the code's just cracked, and taking away the keys doesn't do anything but deepen the moat around Facebook / Google.

If those companies are ever defeated in war, I suspect that their contribution to society will be similar to Unit 731, Ahnenerbe, or any of number the other non consensual human experimentation throughout the years. We'll tut tut about the unethical mongrels while telepathically scheduling the chores of our vat grown slaves made possible by the abuses of this era.

Or maybe engineers will just agree to stop sometime soon and that'll be that!
Done now. It's on my list to write software to catch these.

(Submitted title was "A MESSAGE FROM THE CEO OF MOZILLA: YOU ARE OVERQUALIFIED".)
The credit score remark is a reference to losing half your assets and/or taking on your partners debt if things go wrong.
> how does this impact user privacy for those that care?

Maybe it's even more important to ask "how does this impact the user privacy for those that don't care?"

Because that group appears to be the majority...
Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but my understanding is that functional programmers (and especially Haskell programmers) tend to have a different problem: knowing what code the compiler can optimise well.

From what I've heard about tuning Haskell code for performance, much of it depends on the particulars of the compiler, rather than on the underlying CPU.
I drew a different conclusion from reading the parent. The issue with "your vote doesn't matter", however true it may be, is that the decision not to vote results in removing yourself from the decision-making process, giving more power to those you oppose. That seems to be specifically what the parent is arguing not to do, as someone who has quit no longer has any power within the organization.
I think that a lot of people misunderstand Oracle. As a former Product Manager there, I can safely say that Oracle only cares about development tools to the extent that it furthers their business interests (based on Executive Meetings I attended). And since Microsoft provides a popular and full-featured development environment, Oracle is forced to provide an alternative or they might get shut out of all development projects by Microsoft (in fact, that is Microsoft strategy as learned by some of our "spies". Or did you think that Microsoft supports development tools because they want to be in that business?). In addition, based on meetings with executives from several Fortune 50 hardware and software vendors, it is clear that transferring as many costs as possible to open source groups saves money. And, as another benefit, any bugs or shortcomings can't be blamed on the corporation who sold them their hardware or software - again saving costs and preventing many lawsuits (which account for many, many millions paid quietly.) So be careful about projecting the "myth" of open source on to the companies involved with open source. The interests they claim are not their real interests.
(And since some HR readers routinely ask me "what proof" and then work to dismiss anything I write - let me say that I have no proof. Insisting on proof for all data-points leads to poor judgment. It makes more sense to collect unproven data-points and assemble those along with known data to craft good judgment. Honestly I feel sorry for those whose judgment is blinded by their insistence on legal-level proof. They are mentally disabled.)
Inside the mind of a left-hander
Hospital PC started to update leaving patient in Anesthesia for 1 hour longer
You are misreading my comment. I am not stating that Google has a particular bias, but that technology is inherently biased.
>Genetic inheritance via epigenetic pathways is extremely rare and basically irrelevant. It explains essentially 0% of the evolved traits that you see in humans and other complex organisms.

I would like a source to read more about this. I don't distrust you. I'm genuinely interested in reading more about this.

>And none of our important traits were acquired by conscious processes on the parts of our ancestors

I think humans sexually select for intelligence, because it's a trait that affects how high up a human can climb across different social hierarchies.
> Qt QML: The JavaScript engine now supports ECMAScript 7

Wow, I'm so exited about this. I was often frustrated by QML because it supported ES5 only. I want to try the ES7 in QML as soon as possible.
You're being pedantic, but you're right. Either do it right, or don't do it at all
Anything and everything could give you problems in an American airport. Whether it would work really depends on what recognition algorithms Delta or their affiliates use.
You have been a Director and above for 18 years now. You should know that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there for these roles. Your qualifications matter much less than your connections/alliances.

I think going public is not a wise move, as I have a feeling it will make more damage to your public image than that of Mozilla or its CEO
I genuinely think this only applies to people who can't think rationally.

We had this conversation with our CEO, and virtually every dev said they want more money over "perks".
> 1-3 recruiting emails per week is normal.

Same for me, even before I lived in a fancy city. Some work experience with stuff one finds cool is necessary though I guess.

(This might be obvious, but when you sign in to Monster.com or so, you get even more, at least if you have some degree from a University or so... ;)
I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever. There is just so much technology behind Dropbox, it is staggering.

There is a reason why it is so much better than iCloud sync, Google Drive, Box or OneDrive.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc
Oh, I appear to have misread your comment as "why developers move to Electron for their apps".

The reason why developers, myself included, migrate to VSCode is really simple: because it's the best all-around cross-platform IDE right now for many scenarios, and because it has a thriving extension ecosystem to tailor it further. But it is that in spite of being written in Electron, not because of it. If Microsoft announced that it is being rewritten in Qt tomorrow, I'd be ecstatic.

Just to give you an example of what kinds of issues using web tech for desktop-like experience can cause:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/22900

(Yes, I'm well aware that they fixed it. The point is that the offending code needed to be written in the first place. A native desktop app using 13% of the CPU to render a blinking cursor would be considered an insane bug to have in the first place.)
OMG - negative is the format for making prints. And the prints are hardly 35mm, are they? Maybe I was too brief, and I was pedantic, but not pointlessly so.

Some points -

- as it was formulated, you could have assumed they meant positive and negative film

- you make prints from negative film

- plot twist - those images don't reflect the resolution of 35mm at all, or even small prints made from 35mm film. So the text says there are 800 000 35mm film images - but what we see are 800 000 NTSC video stills. Quite the difference.
Eep, I thought it would tell me! Is there a quick way to navigate to that date?
He doesn't have a fulltime job. He applied to Mozilla to get a fulltime job. They rejected him even though they knew his reputation and that he is in desperate need to get one to avoid eviction and starving to death because his savings account ran out of money (which, given his post, will probably be soon-ish).

Still over the top?
Well, yes. That is my point. The framing is designed to make you think Uber has done something unfair. Different framing would either not be news "Contracts are enforceable" or be designed to make you think the drivers did something wrong "Drivers Waste Court's Time".

Of the three I think the "Uber did something wrong" framing is least accurate, but is probably the best clickbait.
Missing 1 important point: ML workflows are super chunky. Some days we want to train 10 models in parallel, each on a server with 8 or 16 GPUs. Most days we're building data sets or evaluating work, and need zero.

When it comes to inference, sometime you wanna ramp up thousands of boxes for a backfill, sometimes you need a few to keep up with streaming load.

Trying to do either of these on in-house hardware would require buying way too much hardware which would sit idle most of the time, or seriously hamper our workflow/productivity.
I've been lurking on https://forum.leasehackr.com/ for over a month. I've learnt so much about leasing. If you're reading.. thanks guys!

Well, the 24 month hard limit on the lease skyrockets the total amount as compared to 36 months. Plus I drive around 12k miles a year. Also, the visa situation right now makes me very uncomfortable around the 2 year commitment with no exit strategy.
CBP Has Not Ensured Safeguards for Data Collected Using Unmanned Aircraft Sys [pdf]
I'm wondering how tone deaf (!) they really are. A giant percent of users now streams from their personal device: podcast player, music player that's aware of likes and playlists, navigator app, assistant, etc.

I think some people still use that old-fangled radio thing, but they're shrinking into the noise.
I don't know why this is downvoted. I read Sam Harris' book on free will and it was really good. FabHK's comment is a valuable addition to the discussion.
I mean 0.000001% of 7.5 billion is 75, and that you'd really need a bigger percent of the world population than that. Pretty sure I have the math right.
I'm not talking about athletes, I'm talking about out of shape dads vs out of shape moms.
Qutebrowser – A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser based on PyQt5
We use it as a quick and dirty shared secret storage at work (when you need to pass someone an API key or stash some service credentials somewhere). It works, and keeps those things from sitting around in plaintext, but I've been trying to move everything that's stored there to something like Hashicorp Vault or GCP/AWS KMS so we have a proper audit trail and key rotation.
I agree that striking the line is difficult. The only way I see for the government to have a balance is to look at aggregate values. For instance we're seeing corporate profits and GDP skyrocket right now but worker wages aren't and haven't for decades. That would indicate to me that workers need more support from the government. On the other side if we saw companies stagnate while workers were pulling more and more out in compensation that would be a good time to loosen regulations on companies.
As a follow-up, I did a complete reinstall of Firefox with a new profile, removed as much cruft as I could (pocket, etc.), upped the content process limit... and I feel like Firefox is much more usable. There's still some lag, but it's more on the order of 0.05 - 0.1 seconds.

Now if I could just get it to be reasonable about search engines...
I found a few articles that back up that assertion.

There are a few interesting points in this one:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/cohabiting-parents-differ...

Cohabitating adults are less likely to stay together in every country where it's measured.

In the US, college educated non-married parents are 2.5x more likely to split before their first-born turns 12.
Other historical inaccuracies aside, the final scene was Turing's apparent suicide because he was castrated by the fucking government (for being gay). And the movie started with him have romantic feelings for another boy at boarding school. Turing's homosexuality seemed quite present throughout the movie I watched...
I've installed mojave on that same computer model and the font smoothing switch is there, and the pixels look the same as before, which is great. Nothing has changed.

Maybe they only removed the switch on retina macs.
The Peugeot Moovie concept car is kinda the 21st century version of the egg one: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peugeot+Moovie&tbm=isch
You can also put insulation on top of them to make your room more temperature efficient. Also prevents the need of dusting your roof joists, since they are effectively sealed.
With Java 11, there are supposedly no differences between Oracle and OpenJDK so time to go OpenJDK
Also, yes it is that you're a bad rider, too, statistically.

You had a month of lessons and then got on top of a 1600 cc bike. Or you thought one beer was okay.
Real wages (inflation adjusted) have been stagnant. Nominal wages have gone up at roughly the rate of inflation for the most part since the mid 1970s.
As someone else has pointed out here, though, it also stands for "flip through" ;).
Tx, I should really know! :$
I was completely blown away. I actually thought I had switched the two results around, I would have guessed the complete opposite too.
I'm not a religious man myself, but I think your perspective is wiser than most of those who call themselves Christians, and frankly, I think what you have expressed here runs deeper than the particulars of any specific religion.
Like all movies, especially Hollywood movies, it is a terrible presentation of history.

As another Engima related example, the film U-571 decides that presenting the real British capture of a U boat and its Engima machine won't do at all, so it was the Americans what did it. How else to perpetuate the Hollywood idea they win all wars single handed? ;)

Most of the history books after Nigel West's in the late 1980s cover the major Polish role in the story properly with more details. Until West, and the coverage after his book, histories essentially presented the official GCHQ authorised history. They omitted huge details, and enormously significant events and people like Tommy Flowers and Colossus remained almost completely unknown, even in Britain. A couple of Colossuses were sent to GCHQ at the end of the war, everything else was smashed to pieces and officially "forgotten about".

Which is why Tommy Flowers and others received little to no acknowledgement of their role during their lifetimes. Which is a fine way to thank people who played such a huge part in winning the war, and creating the post-war world.
MS didn't even have a product to sell

Microsoft BASIC was the original Microsoft product, written by Paul Allen and Bill Gates in 1975. It was already wildly successful and the default microcomputer BASIC dialect by the time they had talks with IBM.

MS-DOS was originally 86-DOS, née QDOS, by Seattle Computer Products.
> in the context of a pilot program to target native species elsewhere

Isn't this just defining the scope artificially narrowly to deny that it would be a useful experiment?

Is there an ecologically significant difference in targeting an invasive species?
If whoever downvoted the above would care to tell me what they find unsatisfactory about it, I'm all ears. (For the avoidance of doubt, I mean that; I'm not just being snarky.)
Sure you can. If Value A (some given ethic or aesthetic) is sufficiently less valued than Value Set B (family, personal happiness, financial security, career success), then most likely the hypothetical holder of these values will make no attempt to protect Value A when Value Set B would be negatively affected as a direct result.
No Signal Web app. So, not as cross-platform.
This one looks like a Tesla Model

http://oldconceptcars.com/1930-2004/ssangyong-ccr-1-1995/
With the rise of contracting in IT, I think more and more people have crappy insurance. I didn't realize how bad it would be when I started contracting last year. The agency I was at only gave it after 90 days and it was $450 a month for a pretty high deductible ($3000) plan as a single person with no dependents. I ended up going back to full time and a major reason was the healthcare.
I guess I see stuff like this:

> The percentage of people with health insurance coverage for all or part of 2016 was 91.2 percent, higher than the rate in 2015 (90.9 percent).

And I wonder if, while still very important, people take debates like healthcare and needlessly inflate the numbers to overemphasize the problem's impact.
A better question to ask is, who makes money from tracking individuals, aggregating their data, trading it, and thus violating their privacy, and do they post comments on social media calling anyone critical of that immense revenue stream paranoid?

I think it's fair to say there's almost no money to be had in privacy.
I was always bummed the VW one liter never materialized. At first, it was supposed to get insane gas mileage. Though I did see in a magazine that the new microbus is supposed to come in a few years. It looks pretty cool.
Amazon has 500K+ employees. $1M is what, two bucks per employee? Maybe three bucks if we exclude higher management, they get enough anyway. So you're saying "instead of donating to Wikipedia they should give each of their employees a free Starbucks coffee once a year". That would surely change things.
Seriously? Shouldn't that be gb's of data? If anything would be cloud dependent, I thought this would be it.
The Fall of Men Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
I have some comparison, because I worked with Oracle Forms and qt3 at the same time in my first job. Forms weren't VB, but the principle was the same - everything was set manually.

Once customer bought new monitors and we had to "upgrade" all forms from 800x600 to 1024x768. Took us 3 months. Qt forms worked fine out of the box.
What happened to their new implementation of Python they were building? I know it was cancelled, but not really why.
You avoid China by not forcing people to do things they do not want to do. Here's a likely way to reverse the trend: give free birth control and abortions (no questions asked), government subsidized child care, government subsidized college tuition, and higher tax incentives for marriage and having children. The largest obstacle for rich and generally high IQ women to having children is lack of money and lack of practical child care. A huge reason that poor people and generally low IQ people tend to have more children is lack of sex education and lack of access to birth control and contraceptives. This is a completely peaceful, non-violent way to reverse the trend. And just so we are clear, this assumes that you already think that humans who tend to be rich or have high IQ scores have genes worth propagating. It's not hard to avoid Chinese atrocities when you keep yourself from thinking that you are so justified that people should be forced to live the way you think is correct.
Something tells me that softwsre was windows.....
> SF has chilly fog, high wind, and no sun or sky for 200 days a year.

San Francisco averages 259 sunny days per year: https://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/california/san_franc...

I honestly don't know what you're talking about.
Win3mu: Play Windows 3 Games on Modern Windows
Wow. Is there any open-source equivalent for this. Would love to see the complexity of the job as it scales and the workarounds in actual code?
I disagree. While n@ai might be a technically valid email, its such a extreme edge case ( maybe 1 out of 1,000,000 people have a email like this) that its worth denying that person registration to keep the likely thousands of erroneous emails from being entered incorrectly and the time that goes into correcting them. Same thing goes for addresses like "<>;@\'`{}|.a"@παράδειγμα.δοκιμή

Honestly, if you decide to use a email like n@ai you already know what to expect. Most services wont let you sign up, And even if they do most will likely incur errors in the application when you attempt to do things.

In reality, while it may be 'in spec' to use such a email, we can all hope that edge cases that allow it are changed and the legacy 'rules' that allowed it in the first place phased out completely.

So, in practice in the 'real world'- n@ai is not a valid email address and never will be. If I create a web application you can bet your bottom dollar I wont allow it and I will create less work for myself by doing so.
In most places you'd be happy for a Kwarter of that.
What do you propose? Foam-based mattresses are becoming more and more prevalent. While they can be folded more easily (and without damage) when compared to innerspring mattresses, I can't imagine why you'd want to do that on a regular basis.

The only real alternatives I can think of are camping-oriented bed-rolls and hammocks. While they can be comfortable, they're clearly compromises: given the option, long term, most would choose a bed.

Humans lay flat to sleep. It's ideal to have a dedicated sleeping space. Hence, beds and bed rooms.

Make sure you're not trying to use foldable beds to solve problems of being unwilling to build your buildings higher
to provide sufficient space for bedrooms, or if you're already looking at a high-rise area, sufficiently speedy public transport to allow people to come in from areas that have the space.
works in Canada
Tin-terrain: converting heightmaps in GeoTIFF format into tiled optimized meshes
Thank you for wasting half an hour of my life after leading me to this:
https://github.com/fetlang/fetlang/blob/master/docs/tutorial...

This is nerd sniping at the finest. After reading that document I am embarrassed to admit that I now understand how this code is a UNIX `cat` implementation:

lick Trisha's toes ten times
make Clara moan

Until Amy is dominant towards Alicia
Have Mistress torture Brian's ear

If Brian is Trisha's bedtoy
call safeword

Have Brian hogtie Clara
Make slave scream Clara's name

Hints: 'slave' is stdout, and everything after a single quote is ignored. 'lick' is addition, 'moan' and 'scream' are print and println respectively. 'until' is while, and 'call safeword' is break. 'Mistress' is stdin, go read the tutorial for the rest.
More like: "We detached this subthread which spawned the most interesting discussion in this comment tree because we are addicted to controlling the conversation and we want things to conform to our social justice agenda - nothing controversial is allowed here."

Your moderating produces negative value.
On the bright side, Java 5 is a huge improvement over earlier versions – at least you have generics, and you don't have to manually create iterator objects every time you write a loop! (Java ME was stuck on 1.3 until its death.)
This is pretty awesome. Is there any way to help?

By the way, it'd be nice if you could add Late Night Linux [1], esp. since you have linux luddites, which is their previous show.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/late-night-linux/id11899...