skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its name became toxic

What tends to matter is whether your name is toxic to your customers, not whether your name is toxic to your unwilling inventory.
He's keeping things "fair" (at least to dead artists) by only including the first 35k words of any artist. Just because time has passed and artists have a larger corpus it wouldn't make a difference under this method.

I've wondered where Eyedea would end up...
Centralization loses. Publicly available content loses. A global community loses. Individuals are too many, faster and more clever than any one company can ever imagine to outmaneuver, it just means our shared internet culture becomes more localized and hidden.
This implies it is a choice on the part of the woman, when the study mentions it may very well be due to sexist gender roles regarding childcare.

Hopefully you don’t congratulate successful minority friends for “bucking the typical trend.”
What's you definition of a content farm? This bill essentially targets online online medium you can upload and share content on. This should be reworded to the EU is serious and wants to go back to Web 1.0
MTV Spot Celebrates Everyday Heroes in Suppot of Those with HIV and AIDS
There are obviously some serious problems with ad-driven businesses on the net. But they have also done a lot to put technology in the hands of poor people. Any plans to replace them with paid-only services need to figure out some way to make them available to people on very limited incomes.
Considering the amount of counterfeit goods sold on Amazon I suspect at least some of it was simply stolen. In such a case I would expect the items to be clawed back if possible. Though with the possibility of Amazon making the buyer whole.

That also seems like the correct approach here where anyone running a feeder fund should be on the hook.
Firs link on th first news source I could think of: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/world/europe/uk-brexit-ec...

That article is textbook inverted pyramid.
You are 100%, and it's not just the data we provide to companies we buy products from. I got snail mail last week from an employer I haven't worked for in almost 3 years that said an administrator accidentally sent a mass email to a few thousand individuals with my bank account information, and the bank account information of everyone that was on that email chain (and I'm assuming a few other prior employees). WTF.
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Key element in the article:
"The new Philadelphia DA, Larry Krasner, ran for office as a critic of forfeiture. But even his office admits the practice of law enforcement taking and selling homes will never be completely over.
"'We have not suspended all forfeiture, but we have aggressively narrowed the size and scope,' said Krasner spokesperson Ben Waxman. 'You actually have to be convicted and the property has to be connected to the crime or purchased with proceeds connected to the crime. There could be very small exceptions to this rule, but that's generally it.'"

Seizures were abused much more under the previous DA -- including people losing homes without being convicted. Krasner has stopped the no-conviction seizures, and is dialing the whole thing back.

It's not trivial that this article embarrassing the DA comes out less than 12 months after Krasner was sworn in. He's not loved by the Philly Police.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/philadelphia-dis...
And how many $ did that cause Disney to lose? The system fails almost entirely siding with the orgs with money and power.
GitHub staff also disabled all forks of the project, too.

Does anyone know if forks get "caught up" in this repo-disabling process, or if it was manually enacted by staff?

I get that this broke several bits of GitHub in interesting ways (like the trending repositories email and display of various bits on the website), but disabling the repo without explanation seems a bit harsh, even if it is within the ToS.
Amazing how many wu-tang solo members are up there, along with the group as a whole.
> the majority of base construction on the modern battlefield is done by contractors.

Not initially in war zones or any hostile areas. Contractors come in later to provide base support services. It is military personnel who first establish the base.

Navy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabee

Air Force: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Engineer_Deployable_Heav...
I am incredibly sick and tired of this stereotype:

> The most common is the engineer who, slaving for hours in the proverbial garage, programs his (or, infrequently, her) way to glory and gets showered with millions by venture capitalists. He is the tech cliché—nerdy and socially awkward.

At least 90% of the technical co-founders I know are well spoken, well dressed, and perfectly capable of attending social events.

It seems like 100% of the problems with this company come from letting sales people (or in this case, men) fresh out of college dictate the culture.

None of the startup founders I work with let their companies go this far, because at the end of the day they have work to do.

I've ran teams that had Whisky Friday, at 5pm we opened a bottle and invited members from all teams to come, sit down, talk, and have a drink. Team culture doesn't require being horribly irresponsible. People who didn't drink at all came and enjoyed themselves just fine. (I can say that because for the majority of the time I ran the team, I didn't drink)

Same team did have nerf guns, but we also had nuanced discussions about world politics, literature, and science.

On a related note, what is up with places having beer available around the clock? Does anyone actually get up at 1pm and have a drink?

tl;dr Give me a few million and I promise to build a responsible, respectful, team culture.
The article itself is written by a giant in the theory of the lambda calculus.
I'm fairly sure this will mean more centralization as youtube will be the only one able to comply with the laws and everyone else will be locked out.
1. EPI is a lobbying org, so this is not exactly unbiased.
The paper this comes from is a policy paper about the "arbitration epidemic".

2. It makes the weird underlying assumption that the people in court should be winning as much as they do. The fact that a difference in numbers exists is interesting but doesn't tell you whether it is fair or not.

So i guess i would ask. Imagine someone does a completely objective analysis of the gap and determines federal courts are in fact, the problem, and people are winning meritless lawsuits in court but not arbitration.

Would you be supportive of doing something about that?

3. Here is a more academic paper for you:

https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...

This is in fact, the original source for the 21.4% number EPI quotes.

EPI conveniently (in their own policy paper) leaves out the paragraph starting with :

"This employee win rate is substantially lower than that found in previous employment arbitration studies, which tended to use selective samples. It is also lower than employee win rates in litigation. However, it should be noted that we may be
comparing apples and oranges here in that the characteristics of cases in arbitration may differ systematically from those in litigation.

....

The task for future research is then to analyze what factors may explain
this gap and whether or not it is problematic from a public policy perspective
"

EPI does not do that.

Here's a more recent analysis:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3238460

An interesting note:
"In fact, in a variety of settings, no variable affects win rates as dramatically as whether a plaintiff hires attorneys with arbitration experience."

It is entirely possible the difference in win rates is due to the fact that in court employees are using experienced employment lawyers and in arbitration they are not using lawyers experienced in arbitration (meanwhile, the corporations do because they are sued so often).

Or because more of the claims are meritless in federal court
or a ton of completely fine things.
I think his music has gotten much more accessible and less obscure over time. I think The Impossible Kid (his most recent album) is a much better point of reference for what's interesting about his work, and it deals with topics in ways that are easier to understand and relate to, but equally as interesting and well considered
(See: Lotta Years -> reflections on getting older, Blood Sandwich -> Looking back on some family moments, Kirby -> Heartfelt and hilarious ode to his cat)
The article brings this up (but you can of course disagree with its conclusion):

> I was initially mystified by how a company that’s been around since 2000 could still call itself a start-up. It turns out it’s not unusual for software companies to hold on to the start-up classification long after the point when businesses in other industries would be considered established. Software companies are forever “pivoting”—changing their business plans, chasing emerging markets, pushing their platform in new directions. The day I joined, Vision Critical had some 700 staff and two main offices: most of the execs, the sales team and I were housed in Toronto, high above Yonge and Bloor, while Andrew Reid and the majority of the devs were in Vancouver, where they’d taken over part of a tower that used to house the Vancouver Sun newsroom. The company also had sales offices in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia. It was established, but it was also very much a start-up, and had only recently pivoted the business to cloud-based market research software.
The 1401 restoration team gets together once a week to maintain the machines. IBM mainframes were generally very reliable when new‡, but not surprisingly after 56 years these machines are not as reliable. The mechanical parts have experienced wear and rubber parts have lost elasticity. One of the 1401s was stored in an unheated garage in Germany for years and suffered significant corrosion (i.e. transistors that fell apart from rust). So there are always things to fix.

‡ The IBM 360/50 was apparently less reliable. The joke was that if you threw a Model 50 into the Hudson River, it would sink intermittently.
In what way does downplaying the possible consequences help tactically?

I'm hoping that if more people realize the implications of this horrible law, there's more chance of the lobotomized public actually exerting some pressure on our supposed representatives to actually represent us.

It's unlikely given the media has been painfully silent on the horrible implications of this terrible law.
"Equifax's IT management structure was complicated"

This is like a loss of primary containment at a nuclear facility and the writeup saying "nuclear plants are hard".

Color me flabbergasted.
Can't take away from KRS, but I largely find the reason I am listening to KRS-one is because DJ Premier, Showbiz or other DITC member produced it. Lil Kim had a really good ghost writer(s) too, so I think she got a bit of a jump...
You can find another job. What leverage do they have?

If you're talking about the only factory in town with jobs available to feed your family, then it would be an understandable situation but high-paying white-collar positions with these benefits and flexibility are an unimaginable luxury for most and do not qualify as any sort of forced scenario.
Rationalization.
Is anyone doing this already? Content FIlter as a service? Presumably, everyone's going to need it now, and it makes no sense for every social network permitting video/audio uploads to build their own.
tl;dr: "The legacy textbook publishers the company wants to disrupt aren’t perfect, sure, but that doesn’t mean they need to be destroyed. Those publishers do many things very well, and they do them slowly, with great care, for a reason. We should resist change for change’s sake. I’m being naïve, aren’t I?"

No, you're being wrong? Source: I used TopHat's predecessor products in University and the predecessor was Terrible (with a capital -T) and made zero effort to fix things. I am guessing this is true for a large swath of largely profitable web-first companies like Top-hat.

Bro culture is a deep-seated problem in tech that I'd love to see excised and tbh, as the author points out, this happens when a company has more sales people than "devs. But "gongs", incentives and aggressive sales goals are a tale as old as Capitalism. The author seems to try to lump a myriad of mostly inconsequential idiosyncrasies into a nice little bow called "bad".

Or maybe, Canadian publishers like Toronto Life are just catching up to the tired old tech "expose's" American media has been writing for about 5 years now.
I loved these books as a kid. My grandpa got them for me, and a bread board, one birthday. He helped me build a power supply to use with the breadboard.
Culture is an obsession at start-ups. They talk about it nearly as much as they talk about sales targets.

Its a signal for: don't apply here if you're over 40.
> In other words, if there is systemic sexism, then there exists a profit opportunity for entrepreneurs to buy-up typical companies and replace expensive, scarce male labor with cheaper, less-scarce female labor.

The trouble is that the difference starts earlier than that.

Say you buy a tech company with 90% male software developers, aiming to balance it out. Turns out qualified female software developers get paid the same amount, but there aren't as many women with computer science degrees or relevant experience.

You could go round up some lower-paid women with no qualifications and train them to be software developers, but you could also do the same thing with lower-paid individuals with no qualifications who are of any gender. The problem in both cases is that once they're qualified for the higher paid work, you have to pay the higher salary or they can quit and go work for someone who does.
I've been using Chicken Scheme a lot and I find it to be awesome. I wish Hypergiant was supported in version 5.
This is a horrendously disrespectful way to learn about a niche area. I'm shocked to see it laid out so plainly like that.

Your first assertion here is incredibly wrong. ISA's don't split up as cleanly as your fictional version, a NAS box has to support all the same branch, arithmetic, and memory operations as a "multi-purpose" architecture. The only conceivable things you'd bolt on would be things like NEON accelerators for AES, and there's better ways to do that than mucking about with the ISA.

Do you get folks coming back for a second reply after this charade is made apparent?
Make the server is cheaper and people will use them.

It already doesn’t matter for a lot of people. Java? PHP? JS? C#? If you’re using in interpreted language then as long is the interpreter is updated you don’t need to care.

Outside of that costs rule the day. If the arm servers are noticeably cheaper then people will be incentivized to make their software run on it.

Tons of open source software runs on Windows. Why isn’t windows more common on Azure and AWS? It costs more per hour. So those who could moved.
It’s not how many words you know, it’s how you use them.
Dissimilar from Enron only in that Equifax was never convicted for its fairly deliberate negligence of the public interest, or for its massively distributed tort, because the civil case is infeasible, and because no law or regulation is adequate to cover what ought to be criminal case -- this I think is yalogin's point.

The security patch here is not a technical solution. It's to wipe out the stockholders of any company this negligent, and repossess the spare homes of the entire C-suite. That should cover most attack vectors pretty reliably.
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> Bro culture is a deep-seated problem in tech that I'd love o see excised

When did this start, actually? Where did it come from? I don't remember it really being a thing in the early noughties, but by the end of the decade it was deeply entrenched.
It seems like if you were in group 1, you'd be offering women salaries above their normal discriminatory market rate, which should lead to more female applicants and more female hires.
What is a derivative?
I'm fairly certain YouTube wasn't around when I traded external HDs full of movies/tv shows with my high school friends.
So you're going to whitelist every mortgage broker, car dealer, apartment manager, etc who might need to pull a credit report? Doesn't sound practical.
Problem is when someone bigger comes and puts you out of business. Like a fancy new pizza place with modern decor or a Costco or amazon or Uber. You need the ROI to keep placing other bets to increase your chances of survival.
This is the case in Chrome but not in Firefox (private mode)
You snuck an assumption in that last point: “and the husband fully controls all the finances”.

Why?
I test center-left politically. However, I still think that education and stable family life is quite important for raising children to be successful. As for the direction of the causality, Chinese emigrants the world over have arrived on distant shores with very little money, often less that the general populace and often less even than the local poor. Yet they prospered, maintained a high regard for the value of education, then in subsequent generations have sent their children to good schools. This has been happening for many hundreds of years.

The mother's side of my Cane River creole ex-girlfriend's family had values like this. I knew some very graceful people of African American descent who also had values like that. In my experience, it's such values, however they come about, which are the causal origin.

I find your apparent preconceived notions on who gets to hold which ideas disturbing. Ideas are ideas, not flags or arm-bands.
I think GoPro has kind of doomed themselves.

1. Customer service is horrible/nonexistent. [1]

2. They made their camera app need an internet connection for no good reason (except to track their customers). [2]

[1] https://community.gopro.com/t5/Cameras/On-HOLD-for-2-and-a-H...

[2] https://community.gopro.com/t5/GoPro-Apps-for-Mobile/Hey-Thi...
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Asset seizure is a fucking blight. If a chunk of your budget comes from selling seized property, then you are going to prioritize seizing property. Especially when property can be fucking seized without a conviction.
You are now interrogating a quote from the study. I’m not sure what the Harvard dept. of Economics would think about your “wealthy mother” solution to patriarchal gender roles, but it seems a little weak to me.
Actually.. It's not as simple as that (of course).

There are no primary sources of Socrates, so there are questions around anything from him.

However, in this case it seems to have come from a summary of Greek thinking written by Kenneth John Freeman in 1907[1]. It seems likely one of his sources was "a paraphrase of a quote (lines 961–985) from Aristophanes' The Clouds, a comedic play known for its caricature of Socrates."[2]

This information apparently came to light when Google Books scanned the Freeman essay, so the researcher quoted by Bartleby (in 1966) didn't know of it.

Furthermore, Plato did complain about this behavior[3] and much of what we know of Socrates comes via Plato.

Edit:
Doing some primary sources research on Google books found the quote used in a 1947 newspaper edition[4]! And here is another from 1944[5].

That's interesting.. although I can't access the source itself so perhaps Google has mis-parsed the date?

More work:

https://archive.org/stream/crescent_1928-30/cr_v40_n14#page/... from 1928 (!)

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/

[2] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed

[3] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=plat.+rep.+8.56...

[4] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=5H8VAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+c...

[5] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q2IwAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+c...
In this case, it's partly because PG&E negligence resulted in a massive gas explosion a few years back in Redwood City, and now no one trusts them to perform long-term maintenance on their infrastructure — and evidence is mounting that their unmaintained infrastructure is responsible for both this year's fire in California _and_ last year's.

So, everyone ought to do the things you describe, yes — but I can't fault residents of California for having a vested interest in keeping PG&E from burning them down every year, either.

EDIT: It would have cost them ~4x the original build cost to bury all those power lines in the forest, but they chose not to spend on infrastructure and may be bankrupted by their poor choices.
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Nitpick: 320x200 in 256colors is a standard VGA mode, but what Abrash came up with was "Mode X" - which added a higher resolution (320x240), 1:1 square pixels(!), and doublebuffering. There were also even higher resolutions available based on the same concept (up to at least 360x480) by (others?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_X
https://web.archive.org/web/20160425075841/http://www.gamepr...
> It is strictly harder to quit a union than to quit one's job. Because the latter not only involves quitting one's job, but also finding new employment in a different field.

(Did you mean "former"?)

I think you're being more than a little hyperbolic. Unions can't force employers to not hire you if you're not a member (in fact most employers probably would prefer non-union employees because the employees have less negotiating strength).

Not to mention that historically unions have been the catalyst for workers rights legislation (like the 5-day work week, and 9-5 hours, overtime pay, and so on). So even if you aren't a member there are obvious benefits to employees who aren't members of a union (in the long run).
I am a beginner too.
Below is a problem I am recently working on. You can work on it too if you think you have a lot of PDFs in any part of your shipping business. I started attacking this to mainly learn python and uses python ML libs.

My problem statement includes classifying hundreds of thousands of PDFs to different categories based on the content/first few pages. That is, if you have a pdf of a novel by Jeffrey Archer, it should be categorized as Entertainment or Novel etc. If you have a e-book of say Python for Dummies, it should be categorized as Engineering or Technology or Education or Programming and the like.
The author alludes to the problem, I'd venture a guess it is a cultural import from Wall St. after the success of B2B companies in late 2000's.
This was discussed earlier today on the r/Philadelphia subreddit and this was the top comment: https://reddit.com/r/philadelphia/comments/a4xseb/_/ebigt2b/...
It’s easy enough to do a controlled burn on BLM land, i.e. actual forest land. But most of the destroyed property in this fire and last year’s fires were on the urban-wildlife interface.
Citylab forgets an important factor: the electricity consumption of oil refineries.

Almost all of it goes to making “branchy” isomers needed for gasoline, or things like hydro desulfurization. Reduce the demand for gasoline and diesel, and now you have surplus electricity, which so happens to be more per gallon than the equivalent electrical energy in a gge of EV usage.

This isn’t a panacea- if you don’t have refineries in the area, and/or their power can’t be fed to the grid, you might have a problem.

California and Texas are solid, though.
That describes an established 18 year old company, they're not a startup just because they decide to take the business in a new direction. It's like describing IBM as a startup when they decided to move into computers.
It's nonsense. Coal is more expensive to use than current renewable solutions, so no-one is building new coal plants. It's pandering to US political interests at the cost of preventing global cooperation on climate change. It's venal behaviour of the lowest order
I'd put Aesop Rock at the top of that axis too.