skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me a bit of the environmental issues. Most of my friends are aware of the impacts of flying (CO2) and buying stuff (waste), but the negative end results of these things are just too distant and abstract for them to voluntarily strip themselves of the convenience they provide. The difference of course being that the privacy issues impact mostly just the individual, while the environmental issues impact all. But the psychology of it seems similar.
Make it both! From http://www.economyofeffort.com/2014/08/11/beyond-ctrl-remap-...

xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape;Control_L=Escape;Control_R=Escape'
Don't get me started on other single board computers. They are much, much worse. Take Tinkerboard with its Rockchip SoC for example. MIPI CSI camera interface sometimes works, most of the times not. For reasons unknown it loads Sony sensor kernel driver even if you specify Omnivision overlay.
Yeah, this would be a hard no for me, along with smart locks, Chatroulette-cams preinstalled in the shower, windows that can't be covered, and pre-chosen pets.

Although the in-apartment "sentiment analysis" that reports back to your landlord is a lovely touch.

I don't know what's wrong with people, either.
"Abuse your customers and get away with it because they aren't good at punishing you" is the status quo in a depressing fraction of companies.
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Have you ever kissed a girl?
The basic devices are like $40. Hopefully most people that pay more than that are doing so for reasons like a better speaker.
Tiananmen 30 years on – China's great act of 'forgettance'
Except profit. Seriously, they earn 87% of the total profit of the entire smartphone market.
Maybe this would work in the future, but probably not in our lifetime. Paying $12k a year to every American would already cost about as much (more?) as the US collects in taxes.
This last year, I drove for GrubHub for about 6 months in order to pay rent while trying to build a business as well as do web development contract work(I'm now employed full time). The whole time, I was active in various gig economy subreddits.

There are some people out there who only want to drive for companies like GrubHub, but most of the drivers are people who already have jobs and are using the gig as supplementary income.

The topic has come up before in these communities about whether they want to be employees or contractors. At the end of the day, most people want to stay contractors because they already have other jobs and want to make some extra cash during their off hours and weekends, and being an employee would actually mean being their GrubHub's bitch because then they could be told that they can't refuse to pick up orders that are too far away.

While I do see the argument that businesses shouldn't be using contractors as a replacement for employees, unless we solve the problem of stagnating wages, doing so will take away a lot of needed extra income from people who don't feel wronged by these companies.
> The "spyware and adware" is added by those who sell the computers (i.e. the hardware manufacturers) rather than by Microsoft.

Hmm? What about the surveillance tech that was added in Windows 8 through a Windows Update that sends pretty much all your activity to Microsoft? Am I missing something about this?
Children who nap midday are happier, excel academically
> […] and pre-chosen pets.

How does that work? You get a complimentary pair of guinea pigs upon signing the lease?
(Also as a mathematician) Many constructive proofs involve what one could loosely categorize as algorithms. (Not to mention in some computational fields, some proofs can be strictly categorized as algorithms.) Now that I think about it, these can be patented too. Then one can "teach it, study it", but one's not allowed to prove without permission other results using constructions in the same spirit. Geez, thanks for letting people study it, I guess.
I totally disagree with this claim, because, it is discriminating, narrow-minded, shortsighted and subjective.

Writing is only a way to convey information, there a many other ways to do it, and there surely will be other ways.

The current system favors people who know how to write in English, but it doesn't mean it's fair nor right.

A language that may work for you may not work for others, therefore, "well" is not objective.
And then the people whose SoL is terrible right now would outcompete you and your SoL will fall, because they're the better candidate for the job. There are a lot of people whose standard of living is low right now.
yeah the whole "sharing economy" is just bs marketing.
The vast majority of decisions that make or break companies are not done by the CEO. Or any of the C level people.

Most companies are like a train. The C level guys mostly report to the board where they think the train is going to be -- which is normally wag or ferry tail.

I know I am speaking in broad terms. There are companies out there where the CEO matters, but those are few and far .
Laws and regulations related to CBD a mess at the moment
maybe a vlog? Example: https://www.youtube.com/user/SkyentificTube
> a thermostat with a better screen and a UI that doesn't require cycling through abbreviated options.

Love my Ecobee.
> complimentary pair of guinea pigs

Yes, as long as you're not in Peru.
> The California bill, known as AB5, expands a groundbreaking California Supreme Court decision last year known as Dynamex. The ruling and the bill instruct businesses to use the so-called “ABC test” to figure out whether a worker is an employee. To hire an independent contractor, businesses must prove that the worker (a) is free from the company’s control, (b) is doing work that isn’t central to the company’s business, and (c) has an independent business in that industry. If they don’t meet all three of those conditions, then they have to be classified as employees.

What does this mean for engineers who are independent contractors in California? It's arguable that an engineer would likely be working on something that is central to a company's business, and whether said engineer has an "independent business" in their industry.
Here's my take on a cartoony conductivity simulation. I've got three models: conductors, semiconductors, and semiconductors but with holes.

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/notes/electromagnetism/c...
You remove enough luxury products and people won't have jobs though.
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If it wasn't for ad revenue, do you think you would be able to work on these things that people like and are supposed improvements to people's lives? That there would be funding for such work?

Your position is arguably worse than selling out: Others do the dirty work – 'Ads or various "evil" things' – so you can do the nice stuff and claim a clean conscience.
Yes, of course. Not all known theorems are published immediately. What is the problem with that?

Hiding a truth you have discovered is OK.

"Owning" a truth that you have told everyone is absurd.
There is a long history of people deliberately selling themselves into slavery. Just because there is consent involved doesn’t mean it should be legal; there are many types of desperate / coercive situations under which people will make choices that compromise their own bodily autonomy or sacrifice their values.

> [Walmart] wants their employees to be happy

There is little evidence for this that I have seen. Rather, they want to provide as little support for employees possible consistent with maintaining their profits. But there are many, many horrific stories of Walmart abusing and taking unethical (often illegal) advantage of employees.

In addition Walmart spends considerable effort and money lobbying governments to undermine basic worker rights and protections.
The Internet does not feel much like a wild place where you might encounter anything anymore.

On the other hand, reality itself is much faster paced because of the Internet.

You can go into the world see, try, learn, experience, be hurt, recover and do it all again at a rate never before possible.

So real discovery, discovery of what it is to be alive is more accessible than ever.
Not only the US is affected by Google's actions and ISPs are not evil everywhere. This is why Google is the more important issue from the perspective of the rest of the world. This is a transnational issue.
When majority of the public cannot perceive any real benefits from a product and yet it's still being pushed and marketed heavily, it just does not make a lot of sense and really goes against all business principles as the goals are obviously misaligned here. You just sort of know there's something behind the product they are not telling you.
What is needed are RICO statues not antitrust law. They are clearly engaged in racketeering and cartelization. They follow people around the web and log all user activity to 1e100.net. How can you compete when they illegally eavesdrop on your users ?

Google is the Gambino family of tech, we also have Luchesi and Genovese in the so called FAANG group. They even control the Internet standard groups. Time for inept to be restored to the people.
after tying wasm in cloudflare workers i started experimenting with isolated-vm and v8env from superfly(fly.io)

it really feels like future of lambda\cloud functions
I think the only sane answer would be a clearcut Yes, but the question is also highly misleading by insinuating that software patents actually cover innovative theorems. The vast majority of them don't.

Austin Meyer, the maker of the X-Plane flight simulator, was sued for millions of dollars because his app used an in-app purchase option made available by an existing 3rd part SDK.

There is a whole industry of inventing bogus software patents that take utterly trivial everyday business processes like giving someone money for a product, dress them up in fancy lawyer talk and general descriptions of non-existent, "systems" or "methods" without any example or prototype, and then sue people over it. In-app purchases? Better pay up! You have a fax machine or scanner? Pay! Storing business data on some electronic device for later retrieval? Better pay an arbitrarily high patent license fee!

It's absurd.
Isn't Hydrogen fuel less efficient and expensive?
Support should be looked at as a profit center, but almost everyone tries to run it like a cost center.

It's crazy that companies spend $$ on marketing and sales, then cheap out on a interaction with someone who is already interested in / using their product.
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Mostly no, because the majority of gig economy workers already have full time employment and are working for Uber or DoorDash to make supplemental income. I'm saying this as someone who drove for GrubHub for months and knew other drivers.
If it's not in the same political camp then why does the article say that we need to redistribute our resources before we can even start with degrowth? They're basically asking for the same thing communists are asking for.
Counting general purpose CPUs only, I have so many in my house it isn't even funny. 6502, Z80, MIPS (64-bit), Alpha, SPARC, Ivory, 680x0, x86(_64), ARM (32/64), PowerPC and a lot of variants, and some I do not even know offhand (Xerox, TI). I am actually ashamed to have no RS/6000, PA-RISC or Itanium to go with it.

So... Thank the world for IR, ByteCodes and VMs.
Just to add to your reply, alpha0 and Leela actually learn to play by playing with itself, which is much more than just having a score for a given position. Also, in the chess community, Stockfish is not seen as AI, but Leela and A0 are.
The origins are, as far as I know, unknown but probably based on Guanche which was spoken there before the Spanish arrived. It was later adapted to Spanish. While I could never use Silbo actively myself, understanding it was not too difficult.
Solar panels are not toxic, recycling plans do exist, and nuclear is not cheap.

So the answer to your question is "because you are wrong".
>> I honestly don't get posts like these.

That's the phrase that caused people to read negativity into your post. You didn't mean it when you were typing but to those reading the phrase has come to mean, "there's something wrong with the {thing}" or even "that {thing} shouldn't be." Could your paragraph have omitted that sentence and conveyed your meaning or is people knowing you don't understand integral to what you were trying to say?

I also appreciate the humor of @jppope using that same sentence as the lead for his/her comment.
Sure, but the novelty of the patent is The Random Surfer Model. That is, applying that math to the ranking of web pages. The novelty is looking at the problem from the right perspective. After you have read the paper, and seen it demonstrated to work, the "invention" is very obvious. But before that, it really isn't.
Do you mean something like this - https://UserCV.com

It offers exactly what you are looking for.

Some example:-

- usercv.usercv.com

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you can explore other user's business card here - https://usercv.com/users

Do you need something like above?
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This is the best Information I could find.
The question, "what are you trying to do?" is super useful to remember to ask. I work at a company that's trying to modernize and move to devops for dev environments. Because the infrastructure is not nailed down, this means that every single team needs to have at least one person who understands the devops.

The process of learning k8s and grokking the security concerns in the course of a few sprints is not pleasant. This "XY Problem" crops up all the time, but the devops team is absolutely slammed all the time so many times basic queries go unanswered. Everybody has to help everybody else.

I don't think anyone wants to go back to the days of rigid development infrastructure so we're kind of stuck with devops until the ecosystem can mature.

My great hope is for serverless to take off and so programmers can further specialize. I'm getting tired of learning new languages and stacks every few months or years. Just hand me a biz requirement and let me implement it any way I like.
OTOH I find it quite annoying, when asking about Y, to be bombarded with questions like 'why would you even do that' etc.

Eg,

Me: "What's the best trackball in 2019?"

Crowd: "Do you have RSI? You probably need a vertical mouse."

etc
How is Y Combinator's UBI experiment in Oakland coming along?[0] Andrew Yang could likely utilize the results.[1]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/7sgc5g/were_the...

[1] https://www.yang2020.com/policies/the-freedom-dividend/
It's not a problem that comes up very often. It's only when a language is first invented. After that, you just compile with older versions of the compiler.
As a co-founder and still heavily involved in a nonprofit makerspace in Michigan, I can say this is spot-on.

We've all heard the anecdote about someone who thought meat was produced at the grocery store, didn't realize it came from animals. There's a similar sort of abject ignorance happening with material things now, and the skills to make and manipulate them. I've seen it dozens of time and it blows my mind.
"The XY problem problem" has probably caused me more wasted time on internet searches than dealing with "The XY problem" in real life.
eBay and Airbnb sellers are using their own capital to buy and sell goods that they own. They are not selling their labor in any sense. Uber drivers use their own cars but they are primarily selling their labor.
I'm referring to virtual 8086 mode enhancements. They're broken on Ryzen 1- and 2-series chips, AMD responded to my bug report saying they had no intention of fixing them in microcode updates. You wouldn't notice this unless you tried to run older OSes in a VM, like DOS-based Windows, or some applications in DOSBox.
Everything about this is very (2008)

1. Skeuomorphic torn-paper edge at the bottom

2. Loud background image on the body

3. Text is unreadably small on mobile

4. php
That’s all well and good. But how do you plan to reimburse your customer for this gross negligence? I have never heard of such incompetence or lack of communications from anyone on AWS’s business support plan. Why should anyone trust DO over AWS or Azure?
Wow. Is this possibly similar then to how dolphins communicate with clicks and intonations? Perhaps their language is much more complex than we even understand.
> "There is no invasion of privacy at all, because there is no privacy,"

... and therefore one should seriously consider not using Facebook.
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Owning a truth for a limited period of time in return for telling everyone instead of keeping it a secret is not absurd. Society would rather you tell people so people can build on it (at least in noncommercial ways, or via license) while you own it than keep it secret, so we created the patent system. The alternative could easily be trade secrets until you die and never reveal it, and as a society we decided to incentivize you to not do that
Can you share how you got that non-paywall link?
How would you rate it on a scale of "big tech obtrusiveness"?

I ask because I've just moved in to a new condo which has ye olde thermostat that I find impossible to program properly, so I'd like to replace it with a modern one, but unfortunately Nest is owned by Google. :( I'd like something that doesn't connect to the cloud.
Myth: PageRank was the secret to Google's success

It wasn't really that simple. For a brief while, perhaps it made a difference, but within perhaps a span of 6 months, every decent search engine implemented page rank in one form or another. It is a cute story for the muggles to focus on. In reality search was already then about balancing a large number of signals into a decent ranking formula. It was much, much harder than just applying some magic algorithm and I think the people who built Google search back in those days deserve a lot more credit. But that wasn't really a sexy story, I guess.

To a much greater degree than any algorithm or formula: Google's ability to execute, and to do so in cultural sympathy with the web, was more important. Much has been said about Google's Not Invented Here, but this made all the difference in the early days: you had to get things to where you could iterate and innovate fast.

And I say that admiringly as someone who worked for one of their competitors at the time. I used to be jealous of Google because they were managed by people who were part of the Internet. Our management was alien to the Internet (and our business model was to power search for portals mainly run by horrible, stupid people in suits).

Google was the only search engine that was properly in tune with its audience: focusing on the user.

(Disclosure: I worked for FAST, then Yahoo, then Google until I quit Google in 2009)
This is probably the best strategy. One obviously cannot stop them monitoring you since there are just so many different surveillance techniques nowadays. Therefore the best way to deal with it is by constantly throwing garbage and useless data into the pipeline so that it may confuse their algorithms and stop them from profiling the individual.
On the contrary, the rise of my dismissiveness comes from the emergence and popularity of grifters like JBP and Sargon, who seem to only favor freedom of speech for bullying, but never seem to protest any actual freedom of speech issues at home or abroad (like Ortega gunning down protesters), in addition to having to listen to his fans parrot a lot of strange claims he had no qualifications to make or relevant knowledge of.
We were also watching 160x240 video clips.
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You are very much like Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) at the Insurance company.

The reality is that his boss is true...
Yes same here. I easily get annoyed because it really is a rabbit hole.

Why do I want anything? Because I want to be happy and successful, lol.

Is it broad enough now?
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Just amazing! Imagine all the physics and knowledge from multiple sciences, disciplines and fields are used when someone tells Amazon Echo to turn on a charger or socket that’s connected to a phone or laptop.

Echo -> ISP wires —> Undersea Cables —> Amazon Servers -> Back home -> Electricity flow

And this is so super high level

All of these devices on the way are powered by electricity from dams, solar, wind etc. Before voice to speech hits or data is read. Processors and hard disks must do so much heavy lifting

It’s surreal the level of abstraction we are surrounded by..
Nuclear power plants got big because operating costs do not scale linearly with reactor size. SMR advocates have not explained why their concepts will not be killed by increased operating cost per kWh.
I think it's clear it will cause a lot of contractors in the software industry to be reclassified as employees.

To me, the real test is what will happen is this passes. Will it move hiring to other states and offshore?

I'm in CA and I haven't hired someone from CA in a long time. Poland and Ukraine are the main places. The last 3 candidates wanted more than the CEO makes. We're small and can't afford Bay Area salaries.
in this world how does the government decide whats the best choice is? one of the reasons we ended up with 'people should decide for themselves unless it harms someone else' is that we dont have any other basis to evaluate options. the church, the monarchy, and the market have been 3 other go-to deciders. maybe a 1970s style AI with flashing lights?
The “Loneliness Epidemic”
Ask them what they're willing to let you post. Only thing that matters is what is comfortable with you saying. If they dont want you to use any of their words at all then no dint use anything. If they are willing to let you use their words, then what matters is what your own customers think. If they will view an anonymous testimonial as legitimate, then use it. If not, then dont. It's a very industry and customer specific thing, though I know personally I wouldn't ever take an anonymous testimonial from a company at face value. Why do you want to use this client's testimonial in particular? Big name brand or something? Why would an anonymous testimonial be helpful to selling to your client base?
WhatsApp messages (even group chats) are by default end-to-end encrypted with keys generated on your device that WhatsApp does not control.
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If you have another job, you have benefits, right? If you don't have another job, being an employee and getting benefits (e.g., health insurance) would be a huge deal.
But, PV has gone through many generations of technology over the years. That's why its cost has gone down by a factor of 300 or so.

If nuclear hasn't iterated as much, that's the fault of nuclear, not the cruel oppressing world. It's a technology that's big and slow to evolve, and that's ultimately lethal.
What's stopping you from doing it?
Wow, just... wow. What happened to their thing of building a "privacy based" Facebook? Either their PR sucks worse than I thought or that whole balloon deflated rather quickly.
Why Does Salt Make Food Taste Better? (2018)
> trying to dehumanize whole swathes of humanity

> trying to tie this travesty somehow to good ol' Trump

Man, you're a caricature of yourself.
Who owns the Bitcoin white paper?
Guess it's having connectivity issues?

Haven't read the post yet, but any advantages to using Gitlab Pages and Cloudflare with Hugo over using Netlify?

My personal blog[0] is Hugo + Netlify, and it's been a pretty great experience, so I'm always curious about alternatives! (I'm not a fan of the Netlify CMS though.)

[0] https://jonlim.ca/
poisoning the well is my usual strategy with data hungry companies as well.
DeepMind's new gamer AI goes for the win in multiplayer first-person video games
k3s is nice for local development.

It's faster and much more light weight than minikube, since you can quite easily set it up on your machine and avoid a VM.