skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been at a company where the 1-1 firings occurred over a morning. I was fortunate to keep my job, but I can tell you it was a pretty awful day for those staying (obviously not as bad as for those leaving :(). There's no good way to do this, layoffs of this sort are awful. I actually am not sure this is better or worse. You have a horrible Friday night, with untold stress, but at least you're not sweating at your desk with people being walked in to the back to be canned, afraid of the mere mention of your name or a tap on the shoulder.
> intellectual property

this type of property is notoriously easy to hide!

Taxing income is the least worst. The best is taxing capital gains/profits from corporations.
how does let's encrypt increase the risk for anyone?
Ask HN: Would you use this web app idea?
GitNow is a drop-in replacement for Github notifications. Be notified only when nuanced events happen that matter to you. This way the right people immediately know when something needs their attention. Existing tools have such broad rulesets resulting in noisy notifications, so many people do not use them, and relevant events on Github go unnoticed for hours. You can setup team-wide and individual level Github notification rules. They can be sent to Slack, to your inbox, or to your browser. GitNow also allows rules to be constructed that filter on Github labels.
Out of curiosity - when you stopped taking the meds, do you feel like there was some residual craving-preventive effect that remained? I'm surprised medications like this aren't prescribed more frequently, and my assumption is that payers / doctors aren't keen on having their patients use it indefinitely (which I'm not sure is necessarily a bad thing, if there are no side effects)
Oh man, this will go great. Let me grab the .
From what do you conclude that the recording was done secretly? If it was secret, how did the employee find and turn off the camera and why?
Apple was caught storing iphone users' location history in plain text! What are we talking here?
Right, the only places you don't really have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" is where you can be seen from public view, or a government building. For instance, it's not illegal for me to take naked pics of someone in their house if 1) I am not trespassing 2) I am on public land (ie street/sidewalk). If their blinds aren't closed, that's on them. A private company is not public. The private company can have cameras on their property recording their employees, though, just like you can install cameras in your private residence and record guests. Do all guests know they're being recorded by your home security system? Most likely not.

The correct thing to do in this case though would be for the dealership to call the customer and state that they won't do work on a car with recording equipment running and he needs to come turn it off, or ask permission if they can turn it off. They should, of course, have a written policy to handle this and not do it on the fly.
Yeah, parent comment neglected the fact that drivers are paying via taxes and fees. Those may not be sufficient to pay for external costs, but that's how the roads are typically paid for.
> or society's agreed

there are only individuals.
Orson Welles’ ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth
To be honest, it reads more as someone being salty they don’t understand the point of frameworks.
Would cameras inside the car have really helped in that instance? I know most of the interesting work that has ever been done on a car for me would have been impossible to see with a dashcam.

I could see the value of being able to see someone working on your car, but only in the situation where it was explicitly agreed to beforehand. A) the employee has privacy rights, and B) if you really wanted footage that helped, you'd need to have cameras setup outside of the car, which would require help from the car shop.

I can't imagine wanting to be a mechanic in a shop that recorded me for the customers (I assume that there are cameras in place for security anyway). But I could see this being a real differentiator for a new auto shop -- You can trust us - you can watch us work on your car!
And your usage of sadistic is hyperbolic.

We don’t know the details, employees may have known before walking out the door.
> And, in the end, it still doesn't help the long line where you have no idea what is a function call, and what is just an argument.

And still people have no issue reading and writing code in Rebol and Red. And still 10 non-core team programmers provided a quarter of the bugfixes in last 6 months... It's either magic, or it's you trying desperately to paint a bad picture of Red, without any interest at all in understanding it.

> > That gives a 4.83% result...so about 5000 times more than your claim
> Wow. You've really, really "put my extravagant claims to the test". Well, you've actually just reinforced my words. A tiny fraction of all bugfixes ever get tests.

And yet, more dishonesty again... You've picked up the intermediary value in my demonstration above, and not the final one: 27.3%. So 27% is a "tiny fraction"? Makes sense. You are that desperate now to resort to cheap tricks like that?

> Yup. The person accusing me of being arrogant and condescending goes to great lengths to find out who I am and revert to ad hominem attacks.

Googling your HN id is certainly not "going to great lengths", and I was curious about your background. From your first post in this HN thread, you have clearly shown aggressivity, misrepresentation, wilful ignorance and dishonesty towards Red project, as I have proved several times, like this "0.001%" of bugfixes having tests, while the reality is 27.3%. Where's your apology for posting fake information on HN clearly meant to mislead readers?

> A real class act you are.

That is left for the crowd to judge, as is your performance in this whole thread. You have missed a good opportunity to actually have an interesting discussion about a new language that is attempting to go in a different direction. And surely, we are far from perfect, but that does not warrant such misplaced anger from the start towards us and our work.

Case closed for me.
I’ appalled that my 10 year old website recently suddenly broke because someone updated PHP to 7.2.

Then I realized it was pretty amazing that it lasted that long in the first place.
There were lots of OO Forth implementations back in the day. I used one to make a star field animation system for a planetarium when I was in University. The main thing I would say, though, is that OO tends to encourage you to put things on the heap. This goes away from one of the nicest aspects of Forth where you are encouraged to play on the stack. I went from Forth to C++ and quickly embraced RAII, partially thanks to my experience with Forth. I've often thought we're missing an abstraction here -- something that helps you with cohesion like OO does, but which doesn't force you away from the really efficient and elegant approach of something like Forth.
It's single party consent, the party recording doesn't have to be present. If at least one of the people present at any time are aware of the recording device they grant consent by choosing to work on the vehicle, the same way you grant consent to recording by walking on the premises of a business with overt cameras.

Thanks, this is the discussion I was looking to have. I just have an interest in privacy law, I am not advocating what the person in the article did.
Beyond Machine Learning: Capturing Cause-And-Effect Relationships
Here's part 1 of Prof Knuth's 2007 interview by the ACM in honor of his 1974 Turing Award (it's the interview that ended up going on for more than 7 hours over 2 days). It's in a conversational style on life topics that are familiar and relatable to most.

Don Knuth, 1974 ACM Turing Award Recipient - Part 1 [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJ01nRE7r0

Transcript: https://amturing.acm.org/pdf/KnuthTuringTranscript.pdf
Do you mean to say that political correctness defines social good, or that the social good defines what is politically correct?
there's been no plan for 200 years to deal with china. that's like saying western countries have been paying attention to the catholic church for 1000+ years. There's no government plan towards china, everything has changed every 25 or 50 years.

Many western governments hoped they magically democratize as they became wealthier, instead they went the other way.
Good, that was the dumbest thing Google ever produced, and I'm writing this comment from a Pixel 3.
You need to actually read the BB article, they were talking about people who were buying them from impound after their owners had abandoned them and not paid the fines
But that's not what the BB article is about
> in the states the term 'remote sensing' refers to aerial photography of crops either by satellite, airplane or drone.

Sorry, but that's not even remotely true. (Haha, I kill me). There's all sorts of remote sensing in embedded systems for oil companies and other applications that is just some electronics, sensors, and a radio for sending data back to some central location.
If "society" had agreed upon it, there would be no reason for Mastercard to do anything because society wouldn't fund these people.
Matrix Algebra ProGrams in Common Lisp
The FBI used to (and may still) pay Best Buy employees to go through your photos on the offchance that they contqined child porn.
But the foremost problem is really payment processing. Next problems come "next" so to say.

Think of a Swiss Army Knife. Just because it can act as a fork, as a knife, as a spoon, (and so on): nor restaurants will present consumers with Swiss Army Knifes, nor consumers would appreciate it. Sometimes the direct and relatively simple is indeed more suitable/needed. Depends on the domain, sure..

which, in this case, I think it's really "actual payment" problem (not contracts etc).
That makes me sad. He came across as such a gentle and down to earth mathematician. He truly was math nobility.
One interesting branch of Debussy's legacy is _spectral music_, e.g.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6WXzOIsBuQ
Appears to be hosted on AWS, based on the certificate (I'm on mobile or else I'd check more in depth.) Based on that, I'd say you put pressure on Amazon to put pressure on Bitpatron.

Now Amazon isn't known to succumb to external pressure as far as I know. But depending on desperation and resources there's really a lot you could do. For example you could even go ahead and manufacture a controversy with some fake accounts and use it as evidence that Bitpatron is not doing due diligence. And of course, you could try to find another point of failure, like trying to convince their domain registar that the site is illegal. A lot of domain registars cave easily to pressure (Not all. Gandi is a good counter example.)

These aren't really theoretical attack vectors, but they are merely hypothetical for Bitpatron. Still, if you want something resistant to speech control you are gonna need more decentralization imo.
sec news, every week - https://risky.biz/netcasts/risky-business/

less news topic, but in depth https://defensivesecurity.org/
I wouldn't advise doing this. Forwarding all your email from one provider to another doesn't really work in today's Internet.

The problem is that from gmail's point of view your registrar is now sending it a lot of spam. So it'll block the registrar or filter it more aggressively.

Also if you get email from a 3rd party who uses domain-keys, spf, etc (eg just about everyone) then those emails will be failing all the checks when gmail receives them.
> That said, nothing stops another company from stepping in and taking a license for a smart speaker without neither the microphone nor the speaker, in a tiny form factor

There's already a bunch of audio-only Cast-enabled products without a microphone. There's no need to license google assistant just to get cast. Speakers & receivers with cast built-in has been a thing for a few years now. The dongle was just an upgrade path while the broader ecosystem built up.
Thanks! Changed to that from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/when-londons-dr....
Why Imran Khan is unlikely to make life much better for Pakistanis
I have worked with people with Down syndrome in the past, and I must say they are amicable, nice, and with the proper education they can quite compensate for their condition.

That said, I don't know whether they're part of the "intended" human condition. They don't seem to hold any advantage over non-Down people, only disadvantages. If anybody is scared about similar thoughts, consider doing a non-invasive pre-natal test (NIPT) during a pregnancy; it's a test that checks the infant's DNA in mother's blood, and has a great accuracy.
My advice:

- become good at either C or C++ or both. Lots of fun jobs/projects involve codebases that happen to be written in those languages.

- become fearless and systematic with assembly. You don’t have to be great at it. You just have to have had enough experience looking at it and writing it that you can hack it if you have to.

- learn to read code quickly and accurately. The only way to do that is a lot of practice. It’ll be hard at first but as you practice your reading speed will go up by >10x and eventually it’ll feel like second nature.

- become great at working with large code bases. What makes “systems code” so interesting is really just how big “systems” are. This kinda goes along with the bit about reading code - reading is how you survive in large code.
My favorite is that umbrella usage is highly correlated to rain.
This is what BAT is for
> "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,"

That’s hilarious.
Not even vaguely comparable. A rather ugly 2D browser game doesn't match the titles I suggested, nor even the most shovelware games that make the top lists on the App Store.
CDMA is going away. Verizon is supposed to drop 3G by end of this year.
I know that's what it means. The point (as I said twice) is that it's not worded that way; the agency is in the wrong place.
That's fair, I couldn't think of the term "PR Win" and chose the next closest thing to communicate what I wanted, but knew it was slightly off. Thanks for the correction
Only Nuclear Energy Can Save the Planet
By this logic people shouldn't be able to walk on streets, nor ride their bicycles, nor drive in places we haven't paid taxes?
Sounds to be as much of a fundamental law of the universe as Moore's law.
To my not-very-well-trained ear, almost all composers before Debussy sound a little dated, corny, and constrained, and most composers after him - Bartok and Messiaen being important exceptions! - sound abstract and unmusical.

Debussy's music is at this equilibrium point where the harmonic language is complex and atonal enough to evoke a spectrum of iridescent colours and haunting, ambiguous moods inaccessible to traditional common-practice harmony, but just constrained enough to avoid the descent into hostility and noise.
I worked at a company that did layoffs. They basically sequestered everyone in there work areas, killed Internet access so people couldn't go online (pre smartphones), and walked people out one at a time. It was pretry lame.
And some of us believe people calling for hate and violence shouldn't be given a pedestal to spread their hate. If Twitch starts allowing Nazis to broadcast their hate of colored people I am going to stop using it.
It's, at least, much easier to "move money around".
You could find some difficulty to trade for "local money", but to "really stop you", the censors would need to put an immense effort. Without this alternative, it's basically "effortless" for them to cancel your banking access. So they'll lose this "effortless advantage".
i work at a small company and i literally have a camera pointed specifically at my desk (all other desks are monitored as well). it's degrading but i don't think anyone watches the videos unless there's an hr or disciplinary reason to.
Pretty much, yeah. In an 11 person company, each individual is basically a whole department. That one person might be your only marketer, or your only frontend developer, or your only accountant. That's a really big deal.
exactly, i refer to this myself as A.L. or ideally artificial sentience. [A.S] with the proviso:
the script or algorithm that simply parses input against a database is not intelligent, or smart, it is a parser by another name. when a {insert term} can conduct thought experiments and manipulate the environment to compare to the thought experiment, that is , IMO an artificial learning.
when a [system] expresses forbodings about being turned off, or upgraded this is looking like A.S. {artificial sentience]
Picasa was a desktop app that didn’t require you to load all photos to google. So you could manage large libraries.

Photos is not the same although has many similar features.
Really? Look around you next time you're in the office, could you really not lose at least 1 of those 9 slackers around you?
As an alternative: Google Home Mini can pair with bluetooth aux receivers ( https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bluetooth+receiver+aux ) which can be connected to dumb speakers. End result is similar to chromecast audio (but not audiophile grade).

Maybe a future version of Google Home Mini will add an audio out.
Isn't there lots of... crossover knowledge between hemp and the psychoactive cultivars?
This is exactly the risk that Google doesn’t seem to effectively mitigate.

Choosing GCP over Azure or AWS seems like such a dangerous move. Same with migrating 5k users to gmail. Outlook and others may have weaknesses, but they are predictable.
I don't know why companies do the "escort you out by security" thing, but I doubt there is a great deal of logic to it, as I have observed that even at a given company, some people are treated like that and some aren't, and there's no sense to it. It's never happened to me, but a former boss of mine was laid off that way, and nobody admitted to knowing why. Yes, he could have destroyed a lot if he'd wanted to, but so could a less senior employee.
I know it's cynical to say, but if that's the case, where are all the big budget 3D triple A games in web browsers?

Still a long way to go, and I remain unconvinced that web browsers are the best place to play those kinds of games, especially on mobile. Even with the ability to hide the web browser chrome by adding a web app to the home screen, abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions without proper access to system frameworks that the browser doesn't have access to (like ARKit, HealthKit, etc.) low-level APIs (like Metal, as opposed to WebGL) just get in the way of what game developers are capable of now.

We might get there in the future, but not yet.
Firing one person in a 10 person company could mean that you lose your entire accounting/finance skillset in one fell swoop. Or your sole developer. It is a big deal in terms of intellectual property and skill pool within your organisation.

Down stream impact of how to cope with that loss is another factor. Fire your book keeper and does your remaining engineering team have to spend 10% of their time doing invoices and reconciling bank accounts?
All products have a limited lifespan for how long they are manufactured. Products come and go, this shouldn't be surprising or weird.

If you bought it it still works. It still does what you paid for, and that isn't changing. People who paid money for this are no worse off today than they were yesterday.

The only logical conclusion from such a position is to literally never buy anything ever from anyone period. Because it will eventually stop being sold, no matter what it is, or who makes it.

If the cast software was being discontinued yes that'd be worth getting upset over, as it's killing something you have & use. But that's not this. Nothing stops working as a result of this. It's a single product in an ecosystem of hundreds that's being discontinued, that's it.
No there are not cameras on every floor of every office building. It might be different for where you live but over here (the Netherlands) you can't needlessly film people. As an employer you cannot film your employees unless they have explicitly signed a contract that includes camera surveillance.

Additionally you are only allowed to use cameras for security purposes if you can make a case that there is no other way to protect yourself. And before you're in view of any camera it must have been stated explicitly, or the cameras must be obvious before you're being filmed.
Don't you think there is a difference between being recorded by your employer since you have signed a contract with them which probably has those points in it, and a random person you never met before recording you without you knowing about it?
Great question and thank you for making the rest of us think about it because it can become unnecessary or burdensome when used inappropriately.

I personally eschew the trivial or otherwise stupid company standards in favor of more language/community set standards (think PEP8). When I do criticize I will lead more with “what was your reasoning behind <this block of code>” because you get a more honest response and sometimes you’ll get the author to admit to “oh I was just being lazy there” or “do you have a better way of writing that”. Code reviews are a necessary evil but how you approach them can change the outcome.
Hi There,
I am an ophthalmologist based in the US. Please email me at dmangla@umich.edu for further information. I am interested in helping on this project.
Thanks, we've added 2015 above. I wish Nautilus would stop doing that.
You definitely could! I chose not to simply because I wanted to make it smaller. The Feather boards are a bit smaller than the Pi Zero.
My only experience with layoffs is when one morning we suddenly had a departmental meeting, and it turned out none of us was being laid off, but our manager of over a decade was, and he was already gone, no chance to say goodbye.
From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9451620
>each team owns their own workflow definitions

JIRA actively makes this hard. To modify a workflow a user has to be a Global JIRA Administrator.

The whole design of JIRA is based around management. It's not really for developers, as much at is is for your boss. This explains why Atlassian can get away with the user experience being so bad - it doesn't matter because developers aren't the ones choosing it.
picked up a one month sim in romania for $7. 20 gig of 4g data, 1000 min of call, unlimited text. calls were supposedly limited to romania but i called usa a few times without issue.
> For instance, it's not illegal for me to take naked pics of someone in their house

Is it true?
> a center-left commentator

Baloney. He's claims to not be alt right despite having identical views on most topics. It's about as convincing as when the KKK says they aren't racist, they just love white people.
> Our cultural emphasis on individual achievement is dangerously selfish and tethered to a value system that degrades entire groups of people who are stigmatized as existing outside the boundaries of normalcy. But these boundaries are arbitrary, and the very category of normalcy is a fiction.

This could be said of any systemic discrimination in society, including racism, sexism and others. This is an erasure of their inherent human-ness.
Sounds like all of the issues could be solved by just not being committed to 10%, moving to 5% or 2.5% as your workforce gets stronger. And spread the responsibility of choosing who to fire beyond single individuals, so a team of people is responsible for figuring out who is not contributing.
> Meh, don't need another box, just keep the family desktop on.

I literally do not know anyone who owns a desktop computer any more.