skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. It's trivial to block everything you can think of easily, and for everything other than that there's network monitoring and legal recourse.

Why would you bother to look for some awkward way to work with customer's sensitive data over the internet, if you're going to get fired for finding that way? The main goal is to prevent random people from storing data in unapproved locations "because it was easier that way". You can easily make it not be easier, that cuts 95% of the sharing, and then the only practical reasons to do so are clearly malicious.
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When a person hires a personal assistant, the person doesn't generally turn around and accuse the assistant of spying on them because the assistant listens too attentively.
I know some of classmates from college that used to refer to "GitHub" as "git" - that always kind of bothered me, but I didn't think it was worth my time to discuss with them.
I don't know who the audience is, or that anyone would want to read it more than once, but it's a unique marvel. Amazing and highly recommended!
It's not the scientists fault. They are highlighting that there is an issue and the consequences are potentially catastrophic. Scientists always uses measured language in papers, but in the example of global warming Scientists have effectively been screaming about it for decades in a public outreach context, politicians have not listened though.
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You're "almost certain", huh?
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This makes so much more sense. I was thinking it was trying to show a collection of trending item from GitHub, Reddit, and Hacker News. I was confused when everything I was seeing was only from GitHub.
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That's a fair response, and I totally take threatofrain's point below too. I guess a better question would have been: is there anything as a customer I can do to prevent this?
In some recent work from my group [1], we reduce the complexity of keeping up with new SIMD ISAs by retargeting code between generations. For example, a compiler pass can take code written to target SSE2 (with intrinsics) and emit AVX-512 - it auto-vectorizes hand-vectorized code. With a more capable compiler, if the ISA grows in complexity, programmers and users of libraries get speedups without rewriting their code or relying on scalar auto-vectorization. However, the x86 ISA growth certainly pushed some complexity on us as compiler writers - we had to write a pass to retarget instructions!

[1] https://www.nextgenvec.org/#revec
False choice. Google has future plans for the mic: to spy on you. Singapore Airlines is using off the shelf spyware/Android devices [but I repeat myself] because it wants to record you.
Not sure how I can be far off when I am presenting a range. One that isn't hard to justify for that matter.
I thought that Sun did a pretty good job with SMF in Solaris 10, it’s too bad that Oracle did everything they could to ruin Solaris.
I agree. Snapchat is great news for this desire. Eventually niche, high-use apps will reach degrees of complexity of which we can only dream right now.
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Thanks. I'll get that sorted out.
Agreed. This article led me to believe that there won't be any hashing/signing/protection at all for these updates, until I read the Ars article.
If Apple continues as in the past they will deliver great APIs, SDKs and User Guidelines which allows developers to build great apps which feel good on both iOS and macOS. I trust them that they this comes true and I'm excited to see the possibilities which their multi-platform app development tools will unleash for the Apple ecosystem.
>A 2015 study by Michael Housman and Dylan Minor published by the Harvard Business School defines a “toxic” employee as: “A worker that engages in behavior that is harmful to an organization, including either its property or people.”

If this is how they defined toxic, then the findings of the study are simply tautological.
Off-topic, but how's cheating on CS:GO?

I wasn't a particularly good player, but as a 1.6 enthusiast, and a CS:S addict (on a brutally admin'd clan server), the rampant cheating in CS:GO was game-ruining for me.

I don't mind eating lead from a skilled player, but cheating just sucks the fun out.
Hey, thanks for the response, I'll definitely follow up with them on twitter. And, seriously man, very cool stuff, very interested in digging in
Not just politicians, regular people have not heeded the warnings.
It would be nice if there was an "Ask a Male Engineer" blog section also to get a more diverse viewpoint. It would be interesting to see the differences or similarities in opinions, perspectives and experiences of both genders. Or maybe just an "Ask an Engineer" blog where both genders' views are provided.
HN moderators: I noticed this just made it to the front page and then got removed. This is really disappointing. Is there any explanation why? This was a genuine effort of sharing something useful with the HN crowd.
As a current googler, this seems like the most plausible explanation. Entirely likely that the person who noticed didn't actually know which other team to escalate to....
There's a weird way to look at it...

If he was going to die, he wouldn't have wanted to linger, or suffer, or be a "burden."

Also, he should have died 12 years ago from alcohol and depression, but he found AA and it worked for him.

In those 12 years he got to see me married, and got to enjoy 5 years with my daughter.

Yes I'm incredibly sad that he's gone, but I'm so thankful he got those 12 years... and that he didn't kill anyone in a DUI.

Thank you, AA.
If you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by.

Maybe I've gotten lucky, but patience has worked well for me. If only I could have told my younger self...
A lot of people are focusing on the user experience in their commentary here, which I totally get, and I would argue is the most important part of this initiative. I personally have a lot of open questions about how a user interface will work across different paradigms (touch and cursor). The first Marzipan apps (News, Stocks, and HomeKit) have lots of weird corner cases and sharp edges.

Specifically, some of the "elder statesmen" of Apple commentariat see Marzipan as a threat to the old Mac indie app ecosystem. I get that, and I think that there are definitely some aspects of the old paradigm that are at risk (ie, AppleScript integration, etc).

However, I'm giving Apple the benefit of the doubt here.

1) Apple is unmatched in their ability to design user interfaces. It is entirely possible that they will come up with a solution for cross-paradigm interface that works, or come up with a system to "translate" an interface for multiple target paradigms.

2) Apple has a history of successfully pulling off large transitions like this. In fact, they might be the only company that has done this successfully multiple times. (That is, architecture change and UI framework migration).

On top of that, I think all the doubt and suspicion has to be weighed against the following upsides:

1) The upside for the Mac is enormous. The sheer amount of software that could immediately become available on the desktop would probably be the worlds biggest inflow of software to any operating system, ever. And, it is, for the most part, good software.

2) This is mostly a move on behalf of developers. I get the "but no one asked" responses, but the developer story here is probably one of the major reasons Apple undertook the work (that and ARM).

3) This is Apple's answer to Electron for the Mac. It will undoubtedly be better in user experience, performance, and resource usage. (We will have to wait and see whether it is successful, though).

Stephen Troughton Smith [0] has had one of the most refreshing takes on Marzipan that I've seen. He maintains an open source tool [1] that will get your iOS app to run on Marzipan.

[0] - https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith
[1] - https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/marzipanify
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There is runit, used in void. And OpenRC in Funtoo/Gentoo. And the systems used in alternative Operating Systems, Solaris just got mentioned.

There are a bunch of better alternatives out there.
It's a beautiful story where one asshole meets another.
Fair point! All that time and money wasted on weapons systems.
The article seems to equate "Rock Star" to "toxic". Whatever the definition of a Rock Star employee is surely, well...by definition, they must be a net positive for the organisation :-)
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You do not need to be present in class a whole lot in most CS curricula. You can do exercises and homeworks on your own and only need to be present for exams and presentations.
When I grew up we had grasshoppers in every lawn, always and everywhere. These days I hardly see or hear any.
> Drivers were so much more hostile to bicyclists before these were introduced.

I'm not sure that driver attitudes are the primary cause of cycling deaths. Lack of visibility might be one, though.
A rare case in the wild of Betteridge's Law failing us.
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Having recently moved to Florida from Sweden, I was shocked at how biker/pedestrian hostile it is here. I naively thought I'd be able to live a more active lifestyle because of the nicer weather, but instead I'm driving a car everywhere as I wouldn't feel safe on a bike.

It seems to be a pretty vicious cycle of the infrastructure being hostile to biking so nobody does it, nobody is biking so the roads are optimized for driving.

I've lived here for little over a year now and I've been _almost_ hit a couple of times while crossing the road at the crosswalk, and a few times at parking lots with drivers not looking back before reversing. I've also seen a dead cyclist in the intersection just outside my apartment complex :(
Are they new opcodes, or are they one opcode parameterized with a few bits of length?
So much wasted space. And the mouse-over animations are quite annoying.
heh a couple summer's ago in Dallas i got hit by a police officer while crossing the street. Ironically, while he was on his cell phone. I had to do the whole ninja-roll thing over the hood and on to the pavement. Came out of it with only a sore wrist and a funny story for the conference call i was late to.

a buddy of mine grabbed a guy and pulled him out of the way of a city bus. The guy had the light to cross and the bus was making a turn while watching for traffic and not people. My friend saved a life that day.

while crossing a fairly busy street, again in Dallas, a girl about 10 feet in front of me got completely leveled by, yet again, a car turning right watching for traffic and not people. She was not ok.

Dallas isn't that friendly to pedestrians
Milton Friedman on doing this in the 1940s:[1]

> One of my problems was to provide statistical advice to the people who were developing metals to be used in the blades of turbines. I had an enormous amount of data, and I had to construct a regression with five or six different variables having to do with the chemical composition of the metals.

> We estimated that it would take us three months to solve this problem using our desk calculators. In the whole country there was only one calculator—one computer, if you want to call it that—which could do this problem more quickly.

> It was up at Harvard. It wasn’t electronic. It was a whole collection of IBM card sorters. It was in a big, air-conditioned gymnasium, a tremendous collection of sorters all linked by wires. It did our problem for us in forty hours.

As he mentioned elsewhere, it did not work as expected back then.

[1] https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collection...
You can find Isaac Asimov's Foundation on youtube and I think Nemesis is still up?
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Carrefour has got a lot of different sized shops, with the smallest in city center with size of less than 50 sq meters. Of course if you've taken the average size of only the big ones, then the difference is quite big.
The hops required to fly over the northern Atlantic are surprisingly small, and quite manageable even in small single engine planes; they're ferried back and forth somewhat "routinely". You might still need ferry tanks, and definitively wear a dry suit while in flight (you don't have time to put it on when you are going down...), and you need a life raft. In case of engine failure, if you (and the life raft) get out of the plane and you get into the life raft within a minute or so, your chances of survival are quite decent. (The cold water will kill you in very short order otherwise.)

You can go Senegal to Recife, Brazil, if you prefer warmer water, but the hops are larger, and there's basically only one island in the middle with a military airport that you can't land on except in an emergency.

The Pacific, in contrast, is this vast ocean (as it were) of water - it's insane. Google Earth shows this beautifully. There's the very northern route via Alaska and Siberia - but while you are over land there, there are virtually no airfields.

Alternatively, you can hop via Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, CMNI, Guam, Philippines/Japan, but still, the distances are enormous. And then the South Pacific - look at it in Google Earth. It's just water. Probably better off taking a boat there than a plane :-)
Or was "yes, yes, we'll add a story to the backlog to add it to the specs" and it just flat out got forgotten. I've seen this happen so many times where I've been the one to raise the issue and because I've passed it off, I've forgotten about it only to circle back around 2 months later when someone says "Oh, we need to do this" and I say "I raised this 2 months ago, I thought X had put it in the backlog."

And when you go looking, sure enough, there it is in the backlog down in Priority "We'll get to it when we get to it, after all these other more important things that needed to be completed by last week."
Plus... That GDPR thing across the pond.. we (on this side of the pond) don't appreciate this behaviour. Ask us politely to tick a (previously unchecked checkbox).

I started out thinking "whoah that should be a great company to work with/at" and then the marketing thingie happened...
That is super cool, I didn't know that.
Yeah, and even now, calling for more research doesn't mean "not doing anything until we know more". We need to start moving and send out more scouts, we can do both, one doesn't have to take away from the other.
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what product? Again, why is this a great job?
Note also that GCNP contains all kinds of radiation sources. I was there with my wife a year ago doing some backcountry hiking.

We went in via Horseshoe Mesa. There are signs near the campground on Horseshoe Mesa warning you to stay out of areas where there was mining activity. We shoved on from there because our permit for the night was for further down rather than any concern about radiation.

More titillating is the warning in the backcountry hiking guide for the Tonto Trail from the Bright Angel Trail to the Hermit Trail:

"There is water in the bed of Horn Creek about half the time, but unfortunately it is radioactive so don't drink it unless death by thirst is the only other option. The source of the radioactivity is a deposit of high quality uranium contained within a collapsed cave system geologists call a breccia pipe." [0]

[0] https://www.nps.gov/grca/planyourvisit/campsite-information....
Agreed. There are horrendous arguments on both sides (as well as convincing ones), which makes it difficult for the average joe to come to a conclusion about who is right.

Science needs better marketing to be able to sell its conclusions in a more effective manner.

Note: I'm on the scientist's side, in case it was ambiguous.
> inheriting racist ideas

That is a fundamentally flawed concept. The ML simply learns from what is. The concept of racism is in flux, what was ok yesterday is racist now, what was racist yesterday is ok now, and it will shift again tomorrow. I won't even start on the fact that different demographics across the globe have vastly differing and often polar opposite views about racism.

The ability to accurately model the what is is not a weakness of ML, it is the strength. Do not blame ML for learning to accurately depict the real world, no matter how uncomfortable it makes you.
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> I've noticed in the past year or two my windshield is much, much cleaner post drive whereas years ago I would almost be forced to clean my car after each trip.

I've seen mentions this phenomena floating around. I wonder if this could be attributed to a change in the aerodynamics of modern windshields.
I learned a lot of CSS early in my career by experimentation, but everything that has been added to the language since css 3 I have learned from MDN, CSS Tricks[0], and the autocomplete in chrome dev tools.

[0] https://css-tricks.com/
The general idea is similar, but the details are quite different.

As you might remember from physics, moving a conductor relative to a magnetic field induces an electric current in the conductor. In a generator, the magnet is often fixed while the conductor is spun around by a water, wind, or steam-driven turbine. Neurons are conductive but tricky to move, so we move the magnetic field instead. TMS uses strong electromagnets to generate magnetic pulses. The changing field induces currents in the neurons.

Magnetic fields are not attenuated by the skull or scalp, so the resulting field is much, much stronger. In practice, TMS often produces an initial burst of activity, followed by a longer period of suppression. This can be used to temporarily and reversibly inactivate a tiny chunk of the brain, which is great for research. It may also be a way to “reset” neural circuits that have gotten stuck in some weird state (this is one hypothesis about depression, and TMS does seem to help with it).

I think of tES as “nudging” the neurons’ own activity towards some state that you want, while TMS is more like a sharp rap. It’s not obvious if one is always better than the other. TMS devices are pretty large (lots of capacitors) and fixed, while you could imagine tES being more suitable for use outside a clinic.
Low-budget stereo rendering in a couple hundred lines of bare C++
What modern environments?

The problem with systemd is that it's replaced systems that met peoples needs with a single system that many people consider to be worse.

Perhaps there are some niche environments that systemd is needed, and that's great -- but why break things for everyone else?
Mass is only one factor in stopping distances. Many SUVs have more tire than they need and can stop very quickly. And some tiny/efficient cars have very light tires/brakes that mean they cannot stop as fast as they should.
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No, cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles: http://www.johnforester.com/
Yeah I could have omitted that line, but I do still think there's truth in it. If it weren't from a large company writing a ton of tooling in it (Kubernetes in particular), I think adoption would be significantly lower. It would be nonzero, and I don't mean to suggest it would be zero, but it would not be in the "top popularity class" in my opinion were it to not have that marketing arm behind it. I also think it's more optimized to Google's developers (read: huge army of disparate technical levels) than small/medium or even some larger shops. It's great that Kubernetes can be written in it, and that's a point in favor of it. But that doesn't make it a great language.
Shouldn't perpetuate this myth, especially to excuse their behavior. Google took money from Play Store developers to publish apps, and they take payment in many other areas of their businesses too. That's exactly what a customer is in most modern economies.

You can actually see them paying lip service to some customer obligations, like the self-serve refund button on the Play Store when you buy apps because in modern economies it can be illegal to refuse all refunds as policy, and their fake support system would make that defacto policy.

Steam got fined $3 million for that just in Australia which represents a small percent of their users and modern economies, Valve were denying refunds globally for years and made drastic changes to their refund policy to avoid further liability.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/350574/valve-fined-3m-in-australi...
No, the tragedy is that you didn't watch the video, because the author isn't complaining or insisting that it's awful. Instead, he (a well-known FreeBSD developer) goes through the history of init systems and offers some justifications for why systemd is the way that it is, and what challenges might need to be overcome to make a "better" init.
The tragedy of having to watch a youtube video instead of reading a transcript...
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Full map here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/gl...

I wonder how much of the reforestation in China is supported by imported grains being grown in the deforested areas in Brazil, Argentina, etc.
Stick, written weirdly.
Just out of curiosity, do you follow any engineering blogs right now? What percentage of those blogs were written by a male engineer (since you're interested in their viewpoint)?
I guess I can concede that. If you can compose an algorithm using a flow-based visual programming language I suppose you can consider a series of selectors an algorithm for applying styles, but by that logic every selector is an algorithm.
That would make a lot of sense. "Sonnenstoff", with an extra "n", probably; it rolls of the tongue more easily.

Zeppelins are also called "Luftschiff", airship (giving rise to the usual German concatenations such as "Luftschiffahrtsmuseum" (airship transport museum)).
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I don't think that's entirely fair. Javascript's original intent was to allow scripting the DOM and adding interactivity to the document, which could be considered working alongside it.

I would agree that the scale of its use has been taken too far, but that seems more a complaint about implementation and developer culture than the language itself. Even without Javascript, the design of every site is still potentially unique.

And isn't web assembly a further step in the same direction?
Actually from my dabblings with Erlang I never felt the need to deal with Elixir, then again I was a big Prolog fan during university days (yes I do know that the resemblance is only superficial).
A Cessna 188, even loaded to the gills with extra fuel, can stay in the air for 24 hours?
> I've seen people give up and accept their low chances of survival. It's very rare.

This strikes me as being normatively loaded in a way that's unhelpful, at a minimum. There's a cost-benefit analysis that has to take place by patients and their families and there's a choice to be made between optimizing for length of life and quality of life.

I don't have any issue with the "fight" language, but the associations I make are to the body's fight with the disease, not the patient's actions.

In general though, all this talk of "fight", "battle", "never giving up", etc, strikes me as being somewhat American (in a pejorative sense of the term) -— it bespeaks an immature relationship with death.
It's necessary to negotiate the power requirements.
I still feel like large tech companies don't understand the amount of power they wield beyond it's capacity to influence buying decisions. I personally believe that YouTube (pre-2009) was the early breeding ground for conspiracy theorists, and Facebook groups/pages was the enriched gasoline added to the fire.