skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree the mail thing is not great... but you’re saying that of the 600 employees who were laid off, not a single one of them will become disgruntled if they had a good work environment? I too despise HR practices in some instances, but I’d consider them extremely incompetent if they believed in collective goodwill of 600 people who just lost their jobs. Keeping their access to sensitive systems (in a rocket company, no less!) would be opening the company up to sabotage, and HR would be fully (and rightfully) blamed for it.

Also, if I were laid off, why would I want to continue working for them for two more weeks? I don’t care about the company’s success at that point. I’m already getting two months severance; it’s much better to focus entirely on finding a job as quickly as possible. Half a month’s paycheck is not worth the emotional pain of seeing your non-laid-off colleagues continue to live their normal life, but act all awkward around you.

In fact, I’ll go ahead and say: I think your attitude that requests laid-off employees to keep working is disastrous. Nothing about making them come to work is respectful or beneficial to them.
The Exaggerated Promise of So-Called Unbiased Data Mining
The reason it's fast is brutal simplicity. But it's a spectrum, with dogmatic Forth close to one end; the more you can keep things simple, the more raw speed you get for free.

The approach I'm using in Snigl [0] is to start with Forth and add more elaborate features as optional/gradual layers. As long as you don't use variables and closures you get to enjoy more raw speed etc.

[0] https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
Please don't post a bad comment on a bad article. That just lowers the quality of this place even further.

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Perhaps they should think about cutting features and going back to "Minimal maintainable product".
Save the Date: Announcing Trello Events
> Worrying about 64-bit time overflow is like worrying about IPv6 address exhaustion.

And for those following along at home IPV6 is a 128 bit value. ~2^93 is enough to individually address every subatomic particle on Earth.
I couldn't find such an option, where is it? Their policy looks pretty standard-creepy from all I could find
You're not wrong. I definitely have strong nostalgia feelings towards that time in my life. But I also know that the scene was much more relaxed, enthused, and fun in those days. Maybe some of it has carried over to now, but I highly doubt it.
Must be great to feel that optimistic about the law. Your interpretation is unfortunately just one way to look at it, why would you give the law the benefit of the doubt?

That's not how you should write laws.
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11827808
The denial and anguish were clear in the beginning of the article, but later on it moved from that to just considering his daughter as a daughter. I didn't see any denial lingering around after I finished reading it, but the article did have an aptly-needed lament over the state of the society around (that discriminates against these people in different ways).
iCloud calendar or hosting your own think on nextcloud?
Is LIDAR just a stop-gap solution until we get better structure-from-motion type algorithms? Humans don't need lasers to drive. Binocular vision seems to suit the task just fine. Autonomous vehicles have the advantage that they can leverage hyperspectral imaging. Why the obsession with LIDAR?
I agree it's not snuck up on you.

It's trivial today for those tertiary video cameras to collect meta data directly (Changes) or with inference (facial recognition) to see who goes where.

For you to suggest no one will watch them begs the question that the meta data isn't collected. It may not be, but it might.

So a video camera that's not watched by humans 'wittingly' may still be collecting privacy decreasing data.
Could be. On further reflection, I also recall small plastic spikes that were significantly smaller (about an inch in diameter) on the private boundary. Only found one or two of those.
["If the technician does decide that they want it off, we would notify the customer that it is going to be turned off … because we are totally transparent," Safonov said.]

Turning off a security measure that protects property and documents that service billed actually did occur is not an indicator of procedural transparency.
Very good explanation of why, now, white people should refrain from using that word:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/11/9/16627900/ta-nehisi-...
If you include the rest of what I said, yes. You have to be on public property (or your own property - not trespassing on private property) when taking the pic.

How would I be invading your privacy if you are standing in front of your unobstructed window naked and I can see you from the street? If I'm on the street, I can take legally pics of anything I can see. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy, unless you close your blinds.

Edit, link: https://legalbeagle.com/8608636-laws-being-photographed-perm...
"There's money to be made in being the Nazi infested niche of a market."
I cover all that in my mention of human consumption.

The point is that there is no necessary _strong_ _low-level_ connection between 'how long ago something happened on this computer' and how many years since the birth of JC.
Wonderful, the eye boiling future I have to look forward to..
I have heard Ursula Burns speak, and she wasn't inspiring. Although I was doubtless biased by her disengagement from the part of the company I belonged to.
Would you please not break the site guidelines, regardless of whether someone else did? Let alone escalating the malice.

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Very sad. How can we separate the statements or evaluate if a great man has lost their mind, made statements when very elderly or after an injury from their earlier achievements? At the least you can remove him or her from their honorary positions like they have done here.
you're leaving out publicly funded labs at universities, which is where e.g. Google's "garage" days were spent.

Public labs are nice for society because they're extraordinary cheap relative to their corporate counter-parts (grad student = 30k/yr with no benefits, research scientist = 200+k/yr with full benefits)
This comment breaks the site guidelines, which ask: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
No. You have to trust all the CAs, and the governments that control the DNS.

https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html
Maybe. You maximize flower yields when growing the latter, though.
China offers Elon Musk permanent residency
I'd say the former, but it really doesn't matter - the point is the subjectivity of collective "good" and "correctness". Also, a lot of people are under the impression that these things are numerically based - the democratic tyranny of the majority... this is not the case. We see the same thing play out in the slow failure of competing interest to guard against lobbyist abuse, it is an issue of motivation - not quantity or legitimacy.
You can actually set up gmail to send through an external server? I had no idea they’d support that. Running an SMTP server is absolutely not something I’m willing to do, though. Aside from the general setup/maintenance hassle, all the big companies are aggressive at blocking spam and private SMTP servers are just tough to keep unblocked these days (or so I read).
Yes, it’s one of the rare cases where the religion as actually practiced is MORE brutal than its founding text calls for. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajm
My son was diagnosed with Infantile Spasms when he was six months old. IS is a somewhat rare seizure disorder with those affected at great risk for developmental disabilities and autism. I can relate to the author's initial feelings and I also struggled with what I called "dark thoughts" in the first weeks after his diagnosis. Luckily these thoughts passed fairly quickly. It has been a year since his initial diagnosis, and though there have been struggles and setbacks, he is making progress and is the center of my world in a way that I never knew was possible. The experience is definitely causing me to reevaluate my definition of success and ideas of what constitutes a full life.
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It is quite easy to believe that as-lased from lasers in the lidar units, the beams are generally safe.
But could other optical mechanisms such as eye-glasses accidentally focus these dispersed beams in such a way that they could again be dangerous?
It raises the bar in a reasonable manner. You’re the paying customer, after all.
How does it set a disturbing precedent? Business has always pursued money over morality under a capitalist system.
With the root account on every registrar I have access to, I can trivially defeat DNSSEC for my zone. Tell me which registrar you're talking about where you believe their security controls would make DNSSEC resilient.

(You addressed the first half of my comment and not the second).
Jack Welch was a massive GE Capital fan - he praised it to the skies in his books and it really came into its own under him. He said (and I'm paraphrasing) that as a chemical engineer by training, he was blown way that you didn't have to design, manufacture, "bend metal" with GE Capital - just turn GE's strong balance sheet into more money.

Maybe it's possible that that type of culture and system made Immelt the best candidate to take over? Or influenced his own decision-making?
From the first view that shows The view of Earth, our planet doesn't look flat. It would be interesting/entertaining to hear flat Earth apologists argue this away.
"However, the word insane has a negative connotation even though its usage in the OP's title might intend it."

I've noticed even people who, for instance, work for mental health advocacy organizations casually use figurative terms like "crazy" all the time. It makes me a little uncomfortable, but not enough to protest.

I'm half on the side of those who say "PC is just civility" and half sympathetic to those who see it as hypersensitive hypocrisy.
Random people you never met before are recording you with their dashcams all the time in public places. If it was a problem at the dealership, the car owner should have been asked to turn off the dashcam before presenting the car, and no car should have been accepted for the service with the dashcam on.
The Overton Window is a hell of a thing.
Would you please stop it with the ideological comments on Hacker News? After a brief respite, you've reverted back to way overdoing it. That is why we rate limited your account in the first place.

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It is spectacular, thank you.
This is why corporate fines should be based on percentages of global gross revenues, with minimums and no caps.

If your company might get fined and lose 5% of their global gross revenue for being a repeat offender, that’s likely to be a much stronger incentive.

Especially if those fines double in percentage for every repetition of the infraction.
Waiting until after Christmas is indeed nice, but the 8 weeks is actually mandated by law.

California WARN act applies to any site that has at least 70 employees and lays of at least 50. When this is triggered, the employer needs to provide at least 60 days notice.
Ask HN: Am I placing self imposed limits on myself?
Hi,

I want to solve big problems and relentlessly execute.

I'd find that I don't know the "technical hows" of implementing my solution to a given market problem, therefore unwillingly looking for smaller problems to solve.

For example, let's say I want to create an online bank to solve XY problem. I'd have the business model, the vision, the pitch and the grind.

What would go through my mind is:

"I'm 21 and have no experience in the banking industry, what will I answer to that? - therefore I'll get rejected by all 80 VCs I pitch"

"The founders of Uber weren't taxi drivers before..so I should be fine..but this is banking which is more complex"

"I have the grit and the grind but not the cash or the knows"

"I'm VC funded, now, I don't know what to execute - where do I even begin with building a banking system"

Going back to the question, am I placing self-imposed limits on myself?
"By making the episode unavailable in Saudi Arabia, Netflix became complicit with the pervasive censorship that artists, entertainers, journalists and regular citizens have long had to deal with in the Middle East."

Netflix had seemed to be one of the few tech companies that could do no wrong of late. It's built a reputation as a place people want to work and can be proud they work. I wonder how a story like this affects employee retention and recruitment.

Were there reactions from Netflix employees?
The Religious Fanaticism of Silicon Valley Elites
average salary in Kiev - $300/month. Sick gramma on food stamps. Guy bankrupt from cancer. Billions of poor indian and chinese (usa population is 350mil). 15yo student on $20/week allowance. Africa.

So if we round up to most of the world, "is privacy worth a week's to a month's income?" The answer to your question is no. Privacy of their useless emails is not, and nether is mine, upper 5% of USA. but I run my own domain and email service, for $20/year, not use google.
How would you execute a 10% layoff at a company sensitive to employee sabotage? I agree I would prefer a face to face personally, but I don't see another way here.

To drag it out another way would leave the company and its operations highly exposed to those individuals leaving in my opinion.
Yeah. Probably will take a while. So much for freedom, eh?

I'd be interested if they had tutorials to make your own, but I'm pretty sure they'd like to keep this a trade secret.
in Austin they (Bird/Lime/Uber/Lyft/etc...) pay a license fee to the city.
Clickbait article.

This isn't the first. It's not a precedent being set by them. Countries all over the world censor the internet.

I don't see China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, etc. falling under anytime soon because Netflix will take a stand. They'll just get blocked like any other website. They know that too so they just don't bother and comply. Stupid article...
Browsers should give a way to download assets from websites to use later. This would be amazing for PWAs and take away the need for a dedicated app for your rather common use case.
Would you please not use HN for ideological battle? It's not what this site is for. Discussions like this are predictable, therefore off topic here. And get more tedious and nasty as they go along.

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Because it's borderline insanity. "I don't like your state's policy on x, so bye." Trying to bully entire governments is not cool.
I use to love Stephen when be pretended to be a right winger. But doesn't seem able to do that anymore since Trump became president.
This sounds like the right business move for Udacity. They’ve had to lay off a significant fraction of their workforce so it makes sense to focus on the platform 90% of their students use.

But this doesn’t have much to do with the general question of app vs web site. It really depends on what you’re doing. Also, apps and web sites have the same potential for massive privacy problems. Either way it’s up to what data is collected, how it’s secured and who it is sold to.
Hobbes is useful for his part in kickstarting political science and the systematic study of politics. Beyond that I don't know how useful his ideas are today. Hobbes thought that left to our own devices or in the state of nature, people would devolve into a war of all against all because of all the reasons we have for wanting to kill each other. Hobbes gives reasons like wanting what the other has, or even out of mistrust.

It doesn't take much to see that this is obviously wrong. We have enough data today to know that even in the state of nature, and in societies, people tend towards corporation rather than constant self interested fighting. Modern psychology and social science show that generally people tend towards working together rather than picking open conflict with one another. Archeology teaches us that humans evolved into groups and intra-group cooperation for millions of years. Living in cooperative groups is in our genes.

Maybe the history of nations or groups is a history of conflict, but when you get intra-group it's largely cooperative.

Of course writing when he did, Hobbes didn't have the benefit of our research in archeology, social science and psychology. He was working with the knowledge available in this time and can't be blamed for that.

Hobbes is certainly important for his role in the history of political discourse. I don't know how much real world value his ideas hold up today in terms of understanding political theory or the relationship between sovereign and subject.
Would you please not post ideological battle comments or flamewar comments to HN? This is what we're trying to avoid here.

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I mean, if nothing else, 'decimate' has the meaning it has for a reason.
JS++ Announces Efficient Compile Time Analysis of Out-Of-Bounds Errors
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The article expresses an opinion you disagree with. I don't particularly agree with it either. That doesn't make it 'clickbait'.
That's not a problem if you follow the Fi billing model: a base payment for voice and SMS/MMS service is always required to keep the account active. Data is billed separately.
TV networks in America routinely censor content too.
Billionaires Like Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos Live by Ancient Stoic Philosophy
I think I remember playing these maps! (or else confusing my shades of grey) I'll need to boot up that computer and see if they're on there.

I can't find the website I used to download maps and skins from. It must be gone by now.
Totally agree, if I was laid off I'd like to know right away so I could start job hunting right away.

And if it turns our I wasn't I'd like to know that, too, so I don't lose focus of whatever it is I'm doing.
So you'll make business with anybody? Where do you set the line?
The Chrysler Building Is for Sale. Does Anyone Want It?
So Intel did not learn from it’s history and built the Itanium

“....This model had many ramifications for the hardware, but it also introduced a dangerous dependency on software: the hardware was implicitly dependent on system software (namely, the compiler)...”
In my opinion, if only 10% of your students downloaded the app, that means you never had significant traction outside western countries. Mobile traffic is through the roof for developing Countries, often the only device owned by a learner.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Netflix%20saudi%20points%3E10&...
Coke Life still had like 70% of the sugar... Stevia doesn't work well on its own.

Also, they'd need to push the brand over. They didn't replace a product.
The Truth about Aaron Swartz’s “Crime” (2013)
Oh fuck. I’m totally wrong. I take back what I said. My bad. Thanks for the link. Altman is a boss
Yeah, like Netflix has enough sway to affect Saudi Arabia's public policy.

This article is clearly garbage, but as somebody who is currently shorting NFLX, I do appreciate any hit-piece people are willing to write about them.
Warner Brothers rewrote New Zealand's collective bargaining laws in 2010. It's pretty much expected, especially when conservatives govern
Spending is already adjusted to 2016 dollars.
I used ~20mb last month. heremaps with offline - faster, less battery. carbonOS rom on my pixel w/ no trace of google anything. read news type sites only on the toilet or in bathtub, so that's on wifi. when I'm out and on the subway or whatever, I'm playing a korean learning game on my phone. don't have any social network stuff. That 20mb was mostly email headers, set to only fully download on wifi and I only opened a couple of those emails.

googling something does not take 60mb. as soon as you turned on data, a whole bunch of google's android crap and other apps started phoning home and sending the data they've been collecting on your phone at the expense of your battery life.
is North arbitrary in the map or has some meaning ?
They're still supporting the Chromecast Audio though. They're just discontinuing an old hardware product, which really isn't out of the ordinary.
Writing software for competent self driving is turning out to be really hard, and no one is succeeding. On the other hand, building better and cheaper lidar hardware is a well-defined problem that companies can pour money into. Their software still sucks, but everyone’s occupied with wrangling the $100k lidar.
Tesla is not going to buy GM factory because of union employees, says GM CEO
Well, what can I say? You can do what you like. But your position is not consistent with the US Constitution, for whatever that's worth.

I don't like lots of what I hear. But the right to free expression is more important than what I like, or don't.

From the ACLU:

> Can my free speech be restricted because of what I say — even if it is controversial?

> No. The First Amendment prohibits restrictions based on the content of speech. However, this does not mean that the Constitution completely protects all types of speech in every circumstance. Police and government officials are allowed to place certain narrowly drawn "time, place and manner" restrictions on the exercise of First Amendment rights — for example, permit requirements for large groups using public parks or limits on the loudness of sound amplifiers. Any such restrictions must apply to all speech regardless of its point of view.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/demonstrations-and-pro...
If an attacker can spoof your DNS records (or if they can simply man in the middle the connection between your server and the internet), then they can generate valid Let’s Encrypt certificates.

If I had the time or inclination, I’d write a transparent https gateway that used let’s encrypt to man-in-the-middle http and https connections to servers behind it.

You could imagine deploying something like that on the edge of AWS for mass surveillance purposes, or maybe a misguided white-hat could use it to “secure” http-only services (it’s an improvement in a defeatist sort of way...)
Seriousness aside, the drop protection, liquid spill holes, and general durability are useless in zero g.
Hi ragingnarwal,

I profusely apologize again. I ask that all of my comments be stricken from the record. And I politely ask for your forgiveness.

Now, this being said (and hopefully you will accept), I think you're highly interesting (you write well and you think well -- I'd say if anything you have good writing and logic skills), so I would value the opportunity to talk to you in a private email dialogue.

I will even apologize again there too, if you wish.

If you wish to take me up on this, my email address is peter.d.sherman AT gmail.com (replace the AT and remove the spaces, that's just to get rid of web scraping spam bots).

Looking forward to talking to you there (if you wish).

Sincerely,

Peter