skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These two statements contrasted is pretty fascinating:

> The rosy picture portrayed on HN isn't at all accurate to my experience.

> I'm payed a crazy amount of money ["far more than I need to live and have a pretty easy life"] to do something I love.

You're living the rosy picture portrayed on HN. You react to $400k the same way most people would react to what you're describing.
So what? That doesn't justify reactions like rejecting an applicant based on having an account alone.

First and foremost political opinions have no place in most professional settings and no influence on someones work. If I recall correctly it's even illegal to judge someone based on their political affiliations in many countries.

Further, someone could have an account there to comment against the radical opinions or because he has friends with those opinions, which brought him to the network. And surely some more reasons why someone might have an account without sharing the extremist views of the outliers there.
I'm going to set my cryogenic wake-up for then and make a whole bunch of money.
Dunno, same as Librem?
This is a real shame. And shameless... I want to keep using Google smart things but I don't want to give up my high quality analog gear.

Being able to Chromecast to a channel on my band's mixing board is super handy for practice. I hope the handful I have don't die.
I found this article better explains the issue: https://fossbytes.com/year-2038-problem-linux-unix/
The roman definition involved beating 1 in 10 to death by the "coworkers", so no, I don't think 8 weeks of severance and helping them write resumes plus get new jobs elsewhere is a very good definition of decimation.
> I disagree. What would be more cruel is to keep people guessing for weeks, or to do several smaller layoffs. That's how it's usually done

No it's not and you're presenting a false dichotomy. They made the decision who to fire (to "cut once"). The question is email vs. having managers meet with their impacted direct reports which can definitely and is regularly done inside of one day.
It goes without saying this is fake story/book.

Google it for yourself to decide, but just your description should tip you off.

These books are common Iraq, North Korea and Saudi Arabia is seems.

They are not propaganda in themselves, but they fit a narrative people don't want to dispel and are great reading. But they just are not true.

Here's a article to start you off https://www.wrmea.org/1996-october/princess-plagiarism-suit-...

But remember the story it stole from would of itself been in part a lie. All good stories are.
Hey, I bet that you violate Saudi anti-pornography laws every day. Perhaps alcohol-abuse laws, as well.
YCM includes various non-standardized static analyzers and such, and glues them together to be a swiss army knife. LSP is a standardized API that compilers can target, and that means there is no need for a middleware component that does work.
I'd argue that it's the practice and not the principle of auto-updates which is unsound. Automatic security patches make a lot of sense in the current security climate, but once that infrastructure exists it is irresistible to use it for random feature creep and marketing.
Many of the voluntary donors on Patreon are averse to supporting their favorite creators on a platform that does not take a "moral" stand when needed (at the donors' discretion). This has been the actual user behavior (even organized protests against Patreon!) for not banning certain political figures.
There are still probably billions of devices made each year with 8 bit microcontrollers that are decades old designs. We won't be free of 32bit ARM until the turn of the century.
Ask HN: What laptop/tablet to use while commuting on train?
I may need to commute to NYC from NJ and am looking for a tablet or possibly chromebook to use while on the train. Does anyone have any recommendations? Bonus points for having a real OS and LTE support.
googler.

This one always comes up a lot for some reason (I really don't understand what point is being made), but I'll point out that maps was actually acquired. But, it's been so long since that it's been a) thoroughly ship of theseus-ed such that I'd be surprised if there's more than minor fragments of the original codebase remaining and b) sprouted large new features that are under the 'maps' umbrella but could easily be standalone apps in their own right (example: public transit support in google maps; there's a whole marketplace of apps that just do that).

Similarly for docs, android, etc - maybe they were started with an acquisition but given the amount of change and work done on top of that: so what?
Be careful, it the cryogenic controller might overflow and wake you up right after the big bang!
But you aren’t legally mandated to use it.
I've been looking for the one I read earlier in the week but can't find it. It must have been from some big site because there was a video of the presenter walking around with a local, then they put the phone together in a MacDonalds right near the marker where they picked the components from.
Yes speed bumps are way more effective than cameras.

Australia is full of them in sneaky places. It makes the driving experience quite stressful. The speed limits are sometimes ridiculously low and it’s like playing a game.

Speed bumps/breakers are way more effective at slowing cars down. If you don’t slow, you get a big fat jolt and damage your shocks.

I like driving in US much better.
Wow, never realised it existed. It moves fast!
Its interesting to see the influence of Debussy through time. For example the wonderful work of Bill Evans.
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This is standard practice at most dealers now.

You do NOT need video surveillance of your vehicle while it’s being repaired.
Because compared to before the shift from CAPEX to OPEX is making that easier for more startups than before.

Thank Amazon, Azure and Google helped by the generous Fed.
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That's overly dramatic. I'd prefer an impersonal email over an uncomfortable and humiliating meeting with an HR employee where emotions are running high. What's to be gained by being laid off in person - other than discomfort on both sides and humiliation by laid-off employee?

Just send me an email with all the options and terms and contact information for HR. If I need clarification, let me be the one that seeks HR out.

Also, HR exists to protect the company, not to be your friend. There aren't there to offer compassion. That's not how business or HR works.

But maybe it's because I'm from the younger generation who grew up with email, text, IM, etc. I can see older generations being used to and preferring face-to-face interaction.
Try moving to an actually dangerous country and contributing before claiming this.
> The internet doesn't really tolerate serious technical barriers stopping someone from automatically multiplexing the content from various social networks into a single read-write stream, for example.

Is this still true when “telling who's a ‘robot’” is such a common thing to have happen? For instance, I've heard of at least one major platform both sending back quite a lot of UI telemetry and considering third-party clients a violation of their ToS; I haven't heard of strong action being taken yet. (I'm avoiding naming them both because I'm operating partly on hearsay and because I'm more interested in the general question.) Hasn't bigtech had a lot of time and motivation to advance “how to detect people who are using some weird software to talk to us”?

Simpler forms of technical barriers, like with the AIM protocol, were defeated in the past, but it seems like massively upgraded data backchannels, machine learning algorithms, and the new normality of silent automatic updates all the time might strongly favor a centralized defender. Plus IIRC the CableCARD wars didn't go so great, and there were presumably a lot of people motivated to save money on expensive TV packages, whereas risking losing access to all your friends for having slightly better control over something that's notionally “free” anyway sounds like a harder sell.

I don't think it's easy to defeat “socially required tech” + “automatic updates” + “machine learning” at all.
Mastodon could become a very powerful network though.
SpaceX is not a tech company. Aerospace/defense contractor companies have frequent layoffs. Usually this occurs when one of these companies don't win a contract or new regulations cut back on defense/space programs.
I don't think anything is stopping people from going after Bird now if they thought their claims were meritorious and I'm not sure if Bird going after scooter thieves would change that.
Anybody knows what's the potential savings? How much cheaper can the rpi be?
Why we still need paper maps
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If the ‘lamb’ is unfamiliar with the concept there is no hint you could give that would not also open you up to lawsuits.

When I was told that I wasn’t good enough by my new boss and should look for another job on my first day, I thought it was ridiculous, and that it would be possible to change her mind. She was not my hiring boss due to a reorganization that happened just before I started. I hung on for a year and the stress literally nearly killed me, I ended up quitting for health reasons. I got the lowest ranking you could get in what I believe to be the shortest amount of time in the company’s history.

The funny thing is is that I’m a freakish prodigy at my work and after a successful stint at a different company, I ended up back at the same company at much much higher position.

Hating companies like this is like hating a snake that bit you... it’s a snake. At least in the US the money is better.

If I could give advice to anyone who finds themselves in a similar position it would be that failure is not the end and not always your fault. And probably find a new job sooner rather than later.
Isn't zero knowledge crypto relatively new? Seems like we're going through the normal decades long growing pains of any new type of crypto.

If so, how did other types of crypto in the early adoption years deal with these types of issues?
This isn’t a privacy concern, it’s rather a trust concern. He may not trust the mechanics. On the other hand, I can see the mechanics having a privacy concern, unless he made them sign some legalise along the lines of allowing him to record them while they serviced the vehicle.
Australian fines are quite ridiculous. As a student, a speeding ticket of $700 meant two weeks of my pay gone.

They really do run a mafia extortion system there.
The short version is:

Every state has regulations on the exact process by which private individuals can be deprived of their property rights due to "abandonment." Not a single one of those regulations is as straight-forward as "finders keepers."
No way are the managers going to all stay late on Friday and figure out who to fire on Saturday. Those discussions have already happened, and they know who is being let go.
What is an ALT?
Heh. These are all paperweights. The nano was one when it was new. You needed itunes to use it. No way to transfer music to it (at least on linux at that time; maybe people hacked it later). I remember I won one in some contest, and was excited until I plugged it in. End of excitement.
That's exactly how argumentation works...
Eh. I sympathize, but if you were to implement the same as a client-side app rather than a hosted service, AFAIK there's little history or legal precedent for shutting such a thing down. Well, there was the kerfuffle between Microsoft and Google over Windows Phone access to YouTube, but other than that... Admittedly, a client-side app might not be allowed into walled-garden app stores, limiting its reach if targeting mobile operating systems. Still, mobile isn't everything. I find it strange that after the long history of multi-protocol IM clients back when it was still called "IM", there are so few attempts to do the same for modern protocols. I think the barriers are partly technical – e.g. better encryption/obfuscation, more features and faster pace of changes making it harder to keep up. But even that can't explain everything: many APIs are not obfuscated at all, and many services can be boiled down to pretty simple functionality. Part of it, I think, must be social – like people aren't even aware that it's a possibility, or worth spending effort on.
> same as Macbook's audio jack

Older MacBooks. Apple dropped optical out/in several years ago, none of their current systems (unless you count the 2013 Mac Pro as current) include it.
My two cents - keep the books/papers/resources on the shelf and go out and build an embedded project. Sure, you could read about interrupts, registers maps, chip datasheets, etc. but the rate of learning will be much greater if you learn by building.

For example, why not build a home automation system?

Start with a Raspberry pi and start hooking up peripherals...light switchtes, timers, sensors, etc. You'll stumble across buses like I2C/SPI, you'll learn about networking. You'll figure out what registers are and learn what interrupts are and what they mean.

You'll get lazy rewriting communication code and stumble across messaging frameworks like MQTT to communicate with devices on your network. You'll run out of money using Raspberry Pis for each new device you build, and you'll find cheaper ways of doing things like desiging devices using MSP430 or ESP8266s.

You'll make mistakes, and you will learn. Best of luck on this new adventure!
He was kinda-sorta relevant in the 90s? I think? I like his Unix programming book.

Currently, his hobby appears to be posting wingnut craziness on his website.
Typically the batteries on these devices don't last very long unless it's hooked to the car battery. There's zero reason for the mechanic to go through the property of a client. I'd sue the hell out of that company for doing that. It would be similar to an employee at a computer store going through your computer looking for racy photos. That's not their job. Disconnecting the camera would make me never bring my car to that place again as I wouldn't trust the mechanic.
My car has adaptive cruise control (go at X speed max, or follow car in front, which ever is slower).

This has resulted in a much stress-less driving experience.

It would be nice for the car GPS to automatically sync with the cruise control and set appropriate speeds.
I don't doubt it but don't you think it would be easy to find American scientists that feel the same way? Also I'll just point out that your sample is biased to people who have chosen to leave. Of course they made the right decision!
Can you comment on this from the perspective of how the method works, as in the results it produces and why, as opposed to whether it's standard/common or not? To me, SpaceX is remarkable because they've done what the rest of the world failed to do for 20 years. That's of course a combination of factors - vision, drive, start-up mentality - but are their actual processes/development methods also in any way better than in traditional space companies?
Taxes don't cause people to have less money - they're purely a redistributive process
There’s no good way to do this. At least this way they find out in the comfort of their own homes.

How would you do it?
Except: when you renew a passport, don't you get a new passport number?
FYI, just implemented this on the site. Thanks for the suggestion!
Why not? You're not allowed in the bays for "safety reasons" and numerous times covert recording devices have found shady business practices. Workers routinely have monitoring software on their workplace computers. Car dealerships are notorious for ripping people off. You're also not allowed to destroy someone else's property, which the video was, and you're definitely not allowed to go through someone else's property.
Except if that one entity misbehaves, even if you catch them, you can't do anything about it, because they own the TLD.
Why not? Can’t you imagine a scenario in which something happens to your car in the dealerships custody that you’d like to have video footage of?
The second half of the article explains the privacy part; the worker deleted the videos taken at the dealership, which meant they had to look through the videos to find the correct one to delete.

I find it interesting, though, that the owner doesn’t worry about the privacy rights of the mechanic to not be filmed on the job.
Not sure where you work, but would you be ok if your employer wanted to hook up a video camera to watch you work all day?
Didn't Maps start out as Keyhole?
Moved away from Jira to GitLab and it is almost perfect.

Some features are missing, but I hope the GitLab team will add sooner or later.

In Jira, there was too much customisation which made it difficult to configure properly and as many times I tried to come up with perfect workflow, I have failed to do.
There was no expectation of being recorded on the job. Car maintenance and repair isn't performance art. The recording was done secretly.

If you're an employee whose every action is going to be broadcast to the world, your job gets a whole lot worse. You have to start acting like a public face of the company.

The guy making the videos would be a good customer to fire.
To not be recorded while working.
The downvotes prove how much HN hates history, I suppose.
As an employee, you consented to be monitored at work by your employer when you signed your workplace agreements. The mechanic has not.

However, destroying the video files is inappropriate.
It's entirely possible termcap and terminfo have been allowing applications to color their output for longer than you've been alive.
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ncurses wins once you use terminals beyond xterm.
I haven’t actually used the LaTeX interface in Word, though I had used it in Pages on several occaisons. I was impressed and unreasonably wished that Pages was actually a full-featured, live updating LaTeX GUI editor.
Even then you need to give your employer consent to record you via whatever contract you sign with them.
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Depends for what, the private sector is very inefficient to build large scale infrastructure for example.
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I am vaugely inclined to agree, but wanted a deeper argument... And I tried to express that and came up blank. Plenty of places of work have an expectation that the customer can come and go or simply stay while you work on their property - any home repairs, of course, but even cell phone repair shops will typically do it in front of you. Why not mechanics? There are strict laws already around what a mechanic does have to show you - you are able to request that they give you back any parts they replaced, for example. I don't see the issue if with a dashcam that's set to record while driving. Their tests seem reasonable things for you to observe.

I was initially with you, but on thought, why? This is worth arguing.
Censorship free.. so it is OK for neo-Nazis to use this, free from companies who don't want to sully their brands. GOTCHA.

Sounds awful.
Can't you imagine not wanting to be recorded while at work?

That's a two way street...
Since the advent of ROP glibc's approach isn't much more secure, though it is saner. A few years ago OpenBSD added the kbind syscall which provides the linker equivalent of W^X. kbind is a kernel-mediated memcpy operation that restricts the code permitted to write to a memory block--specifically, the last piece of code to write to it, which is invariably the linker.

C++ virtual functions are problematic for the same reasons. In C code I've started to avoid function pointers altogether in favor of switch-based dispatch, limiting an attacker to invoking a small, statically defined set of functions, not any arbitrary code in the address space. If I feel the problem demands heavily polymorphic code I'll pull in a scripting language like Lua.
Set expectations. Tell them you're going to do it, and when they offer for you to take your business elsewhere, tell them too.

The problem is doing it in secret.
By that logic no company with less than 11 people should ever fire anyone...
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While your stats are right, the reality is that people aren't interchangeable and life isn't a perfect game to be approached from a statistical standpoint.

For some people, "100% on" environments are the right choice, and entrepreneurial activities are a natural outlet, whether in isolation or with others. For others, traditional careers offering stability and insurance from any threat of rapid change, or even hermit-like isolation may be favorable. Personally I've fluctuated between the former and the latter, and VC has done well by me as an employee. YMMV. Do what excites you.
Based on personal experience I would happily support legislation that allows vehicle owners to record or supervise mechanics.

Pro tip: ask to see any parts that were “replaced” on your vehicle.
Google is getting worse and worse with each new news headline.

They have completely lost my trust of using their non-primary services.

However, the monopoly is so high that's it's difficult for other companies to compete.
This has nothing to do with the maps being paper or not.
Only in certain applications.
Why does it matter the last time anyone consumed RDF? If it's a good fit for the problem at hand (I don't know if it is), then there is no reason to not use it. It doesn't matter how old an idea is, just how it gets used.
Car owners pay registration fees and and gas taxes for the privilege to use the public roadways. Bird and the like just dumped their property (which makes them money) on public right-of-ways without paying for the use like every other industry does.
Work at a big company?

We have video cameras on every floor, at every entrance, and ones that generally can capture the view of nearly everyone’s desk (one that captures multiple aisles not specific desks).

These are only used if there are “security” reasons to review them, in theory.