skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really impressive - you can tell after a paragraph or two that things don't quite make sense, ideas aren't really carried through, but on a handful-of-sentences level I have trouble distinguishing it from a real author. Not to mention it creates content much more quickly.

Generative neural networks these days are both fascinating and depressing - feels like we're finally tapping into how subsets of human thinking & creativity work. But that knocks us off our pedestal, and threatens to make even the creative tasks we thought were strictly a human specialty irrelevant; I know we're a long way off from generalized AI, but we seem to be making rapid progress, and I'm not sure society's mature enough or ready for it. Especially if the cutting edge tools are in the service of AdTech and such, endlessly optimizing how to absorb everybody's spare attention.

Perhaps there's some bright future where we all just relax and computers and robots take care of everything for us, but can't help feeling like some part of the human spirit is dying.
NPM has, specifically and deliberately, played down the successful theft here, making out that they completely foiled it.

If they hadn't done such a scummy, corporate spin job on this, I'd be inclined to agree with you - but they did.
I dunno, but you missed a question mark at the end there.
But "this one goes to eleven".
i built opensimworld.com because i wanted to find and copy 3d stuff from other players. It grew to a community for its very small niche.
Massive power grabs can be a sign of weakness, not strength.

"kids to Canada to collect foreign dual citizenship"

China does not allow for dual citizenship.
The good stuff has a mother in it, which is the bacteria that ferments the vinegar.
Me too. I feel very lucky to have found a company that is a perfect fit for my skills and interests, and that is at the right stage that me working hard now will make a big difference.

I can't imagine not working 6-7 days a week.
In the US you have a right to face your accuser. This is often impossible with red light cameras.
This mechanism is very low power, and it allows making tiny devices that can be used for tracking suspects. Maybe this is actually why they made it (someone asked if they could make it).

Edit: Maybe Apple will introduce tiny key fobs that can be tracked so you can find your keys or other things.
A must is Tsutaya in Daikanyama (Tokyo). I could spend days in there.

https://store.tsite.jp/daikanyama/english/
That doesn't solve the exploit above
I have terrible sweating problems even at comfortable temperatures. I’m just always sweating. If I fast this problem ceases.
>Matthew Green, a cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University. "Even if I tracked you walking around, I wouldn’t be able to recognize you were the same person from one hour to the next."

Thos sounds like a great way to track shoppers in, for example, a shopping mall.

If the BLE beacon is broadcasting at a predetermined rate this may also extend tracking past the rotation of keys right?
For China’s Leading Investigative Reporter, Enough Is Enough
Terse and you don’t learn anything. You should build levels and offer explanations to YOUR code.
I believe Duskstar's point was that minorities without records would be treated better, and non-minorities with records would be treated worse. Thus, police would react to someone's criminal history, and not just their skin color.
Beside Discord, everything else is pretty bad compared to Slack. Microsft and Google failed to deliver anything usable for the last 10 years.
> I’m not sure about Brazil

In Brazil most federal inspection agencies are under funded and short on staff, limiting their operations. Offering bribe to inspection agents is also very common but risky since the government has been pushing a campaign and reforms against systemic corruption for the past few years.
Mostly retired. Stopped worrying about finding FTE 5-6 years ago and focused on making the cash I had work for me on a more immediate time scale. I do some advisory work with local startups for equity. Angel invested for awhile but stopped as mentioned elsewhere in an earlier thread.

Would love to work again in tech but have never cracked getting on recruiters’ radar and I have better things to do than play whack—a-mole with the latest and greatest in applicant tracking systems automated decision algorithms.
Yes, yes, yes. Legislation and regulation towards proper competition in the IT space is the only way forward. For all of its history, high-tech has been the wild-wild-west: good for the powerful few, not good for others. GDPR or the-right-to-repair are baby steps. The monopolies we have now are like your grandma putting sleeping pills in your food so you don't leave. It's a rigor mortis hold on tech.
It's comparable to an old school analog computer (like the ones used long ago to simulate differential equations) using optics instead of analog electronics. They build a physical analogue of a neural network that evaluates the desired function.
There are 23 year olds who don’t have the technical chops, so rather than being fired, they are put on a management track. This started to happen around 2000.

Back when I hired into my company in ‘96 (I’m 47 now and 23 years at the same place), all the managers were in their 50’s and 60’s, who had done real engineering.

Then they become younger and younger, and eventually my manager was an idiot in his late 20’s whose relevant technical experience was “designing a power supply for an FPGA”, with me in my 40’s and an expert in my field. I told them I was leaving, so they gave me a promotion, and now I report to a 50 something female. She is a good manager.

Fortunately I’m at they point now where I’m the graybeard in the basement who gets to solve all the hard problems.
I’m sure this is great for some people, but what about casual workers? What about people that rely on overtime to get by? I can only see this pushing employers into further reducing hours, screwing those people.
Restore /etc/hosts each time you remove sites from it (macOS)
Doesn't the fellow who sees the camera footage and issues a ticket qualify?
Maybe. But both, the Soviet Union and the US had to offer something.

US: Idea of freedom and democracy

Soviet Union: Idea of equality and communism.

China lacks an ideology that can attract foreigners. Also, in all super powers since Rome it was possible for able people to become a citizen and to be part of it. Even Nazis became American (think von Braun).

It is not possible to become a Chinese citizen.
That’s more convincing if you ignore interest. I do take long breaks between jobs, but I also avoid debt and save a huge percentage of my income.
Sure, though a solution is simple: just have everyone work the same shorter hours :)

I've actually worked in primarily remote company, and the challenges there are even greater: no offices, hand-offs and hand-overs have to be well documented or you are wasting time, timezone differences, discussing architectural documents over video and voice calls...

Basically, I wasn't asking for full flexibility in choosing one's hours: I think that's harder (for all the reasons you bring up) than just shortening the hours.
Yes? Maybe you're right. It was intended to be a desperate plea at wanting readable English from generic English comments, therefore I did not include a question mark, as it was a plea. You might be right though!
The person could easily believe our penal system is too strict. Vs the over the top thought that they are against any and all penal systems.

I doubt the cops being racist against blacks would change all that much just because they see their criminal history.
Former microsoftie, here.

From years of observation, it seems Microsoft tends to ignore products in industries that are in 1 of 2 states:

1. Stagnant growth
2. Low competition

Skype is in the former.

It's embedded deep in the culture to follow rather than lead. (Edit: I should add that it's not that Microsoft doesn't try to lead, its just that generally they aren't very good at it. They are much better as a second mover. Far more so it seems than other companies.)

Most of their great products were a response to a rapid rise of a competitor.

Windows after Apple's GUI. Word after Wordperfect. Excel after Lotus 1 2 3. IE after Netscape. Azure after AWS. C# & .NET after Java. SQL Server after Oracle.

Once the industry stops growing or there is no competition, the product is neglected or drifts listlessly unless another company causes the space to boom financially again or gain mindshare, in which case Microsoft might start moving again.

(The only place where Microsoft truly leads is in developer platforms, because they are a company of developers, so they get it better than the other products they offer.)

Don't get me wrong, I use Microsoft products almost exclusively.

I've just learned to be very depressed when Microsoft doesn't face an existential threat with the piece of software I use. The product will inevitably drift and likely even get worse over time, until another company can create an existential threat (like Chrome has done to an extent) and literally drag Microsoft kicking and screaming into putting serious thought into the product again.

It's just in their DNA, I guess...

But when they do finally get around to it, they usually do something cool. See VS Code, WSL, etc.

So we just need someone to make Skype-like products cool again, and ideally start making millions upon millions in the process, and then Skype will improve. :)
> Older workers = more experience = higher pay.

> Younger workers = less experience = lower pay.

If that's really the case then "age discrimination" doesn't necessarily indicate deliberately avoiding older workers to the sake of the fact that they're old. Say you have to fill a software developer role and the highest TC you can offer is $100k. Not unheard of for a company, say, one standard deviation below average. You interview a bunch of 40 year olds and 50 year olds and all of them have existing salaries way above that. What is the recruiter supposed to do, keep interviewing people that they almost certainly won't accept the offer? Ostensibly that' the law, but in reality anyone in that situation is going to shift their attention to people that would be willing to work for that kind of compensation.

This is partly what it's probably best to publish salary ranges as part of the job description, at least for companies other than top companies. The above scenario does mean that the minority of older devs that would accept that salary range get filtered out, and that's suboptimal.
I totally agree with this, as I (unfortunately) have a lot of experience in taking pharmaceuticals and having adverse side effect.

But while academia is coming to the conclusion that genetics (and often enzyne activity as a direct result) play a huge role in drug response, it will be decades before we see any real change as a result.

I can understand to some degree, but sometimes the pace of change in medicine is truely maddening.
well, you're totally correct, just write this comment based on frustration :)
You know why the "it's" mistake is common.

Edit: Because people get used to adding 's to indicate possession. I don't always do it, but it happens.
Tend to agree with deregulating hiring but some economies with heavily regulated employment like Germany (I’ve lived there, it is a nightmare to fire grossly incompetent employees) have very low unemployment rates.
> Also couldn't they simply put it in a faraday bag or wrap in some tin foil?

If you're a thief and you want the phone to stop broadcasting, AFAIK you can just turn it off (as opposed to leaving it in sleep mode). But you'll have to deal with Activation Lock, which has been around for years and makes the phone a brick without the original owner's Apple ID. The new feature, on the other hand, is more applicable to devices that are just lost, not stolen.
It depends on what you use. The big issue is that it’s a memory pig and folks with constrained resources or working with other piggy apps have a lousy experience. It works a lot better in your normal Chrome browser!

The other thing is that people can’t communicate between teams and Skype in many scenarios. There are also potential compliance gotchas for some scenarios that are difficult to identify.

I’m wary of anything new with Microsoft as when you stray from the happy path, (which changes over time) they don’t test or fix regressions anymore and create downstream problems.
And they reveal exactly zero details. I know a bit about it, but not enough to say exactly what semantics it offers to file system clients. I believe it is not POSIX-like, hence the need to layer Spanner and GCS over it.
https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and... -- nice story linked in his thread
If this were printed on a wall somewhere at my first job it probably would have accelerated my career by a decade or so.
Except it provably works, if you read my post.
I appreciate your point, but I don't think it's applicable.

Yes, if one were to substitute humans into my comment, then it'd sound like I was advocating for nazi-esque holocausts.

Obviously I'm not, and the two are not the same. We don't raise and eat humans for food, so any arguments about livestock are clearly different than the equivalent arguments about humans.

And we have better strategies for humans anyway. We expend vast fortunes to develop vaccines; we can quarantine people; we can restrict travel; etc. All of those are strategies we use and are effective _for_humans_ to prevent the spread of disaster diseases.

But none of that is applicable to livestock. We aren't willing to spend the vast fortunes required to develop and vaccinate tens of billions of animals. Quarantine isn't effective. We can't communicate with animals. Etc.

At the end of the day, people expend millions of dollars to save a single human life. The people willing to spend that much on a pet is vanishingly small. Let alone livestock. There are clearly distinctions here which preclude a simple substitution of "human" for "chicken" in any of these arguments.
You don’t need to travel to Hawaii to destress or make interesting memories. I simply recommend cheap vacations in your youth.
I can guess that people use speech over text, for text, other than that I do not know how it is common when it is so jarring.
As these generators get better, the amount of false positives will increase, eventually rendering the classifier as useless.

A sybil-resistant method of authentication, where each entity is tied to a single human, seems to be the only way. I suppose you could still pay people to publish under their credentials, or steal private keys, but this comes at a cost, and such accounts can be blacklisted.

Also, I don't think its correct to equate machine written news with fake news. It need not be the case. Eventually I think the only way to deter fake news is authentication + holding people accountable.
I'm guessing that is deliberate: the article text can be generated from a human-written author and headline.
Why so focused on democracy? Is democracy a value by itself?

Have a look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon%27s_New_Map

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nCSXvCM3ogI/WZhtafxpPoI/AAAAAAAAX...
I was under the impression that the docx format is a published standard, first under ECMA-376 then ISO/IEC 29500:2008. Microsoft has also promised to not enforce any patent claims they have that are necessary for someone to adopt those standards.
This is what I observe as well. If you have job that really just boils down to hooking up event listeners in java-script and fiddling with html and css until it looks they way the designers want it then experience beyond competency isn't really all that important. On principle, a company should hire an older dev with decades of experience if they're willing to work at rates that reflect the job they're doing. But devs with decades of experience are probably looking for work that is more complex and pays better.
Probably 5% of ad spend is for axe effect type stuff. I am on mobile but you can google industry ad breakdown.
> Parents don't teach these skills because they don't have them either.

Definitely agree with this! And yes, The Golden Rule and Budgeting should be taught in our schools.
Roundabouts would help too. There's a lot of random traffic light controlled junctions in lower traffic spots all over the place that could easily be replaced by a roundabout without any lights.

Even where lights are involved, roundabouts drastically change the types of accidents experienced to the less-deadly rear-ends instead of t-bones (while also reducing the overall number of accidents too)
I wasn't able to interpret your post in terms of results, i.e., in dollars or ROI, and I don't know if your results are representative of advertising overall.
Do browsers announce that they're incognito? Would it be difficult to disable this flag?
I love WOJB! I go up into northern WI for an annual trip every year and it's always a highlight when we get in range. Wondered why it was so much harder to pick up this year.

I especially love some of the late night DJs...eclectic music tastes that I don't ever hear elsewhere on the radio.
because we all play make believe that athletes aren't employees that we're all fucking over and not paying. Because they aren't employees, they need an "education". But that "education" needs to be appropriately easy, to not conceivably fuck up the real reason they're there: to make other people money.
My understanding is that it's fully automated.
Profits from RAM and Jeep kept FCA alive for a decade while Fiat floundered. Consumers do not want cheap, reliable cars that are good on gas - they want SUVs. Even Toyota knows this and has three times as many SUV models than cars. Fiat and Alfa sales are down in the US again almost 30% but RAM and Jeep are selling like gang busters.

Dodge and Chrysler brands sales suffer primarily because they lack SUVs.
We had to use OSGi in a student project for a distributed systems module.

It was a nightmare. We were basically forced to use Eclipse (instead of IntelliJ which everybody was accustomed to). Eclipse alone was a nightmare to use (slow, imports not founds, etc).

On the OSGi side:

There is no package manager. One team tried to set up maven but they failed. We just loaded jars.

The manifest files were a mess. Eclipse launch configurations were a mess (had to be re-imported after any change).

A small project which only required a backend was needlessly split into 5 parts. Over-engineering at its finest.
Because no sensible set of morals would justify meat consumption when we are all perfectly capable of avoiding or seriously reducing it.

I think the reason this is so controversial is we all know its true but it's highly inconvenient to acknowledge it.
I never said the introduction of 40-hour week was bad.

Its just more economically efficient to have UBI.
Here's a tool that increases productivity. There are three people who need to get paid: the tool maker, the one who buys the tool, and the worker who knows how to use the tool. (The worker should be more productive with the tool, and therefore worth more than the worker who does not know how to use the tool.)

If you're saying that the one who bought the tool and the worker who uses the tool should profit equally from the tool, I might agree with that. (I'm not sure; I'd have to think about it some more, but it's not a clearly wrong position.)

Now here's someone richer than that. He buys two of the tools. If you say he should get as much as the worker for the first tool, and as much as the worker for the second tool, again I might agree. If you say he only gets as much as any one worker, no matter how many tools he buys, I disagree. I even think that you should disagree, for selfish reasons. We need these people to buy the tools for the overall growth of productivity. If we have to bribe them with returns on their investment, so be it. (The alternative is that the rich person only buys one tool, and then stops, because they would get nothing from buying the second tool. That may feel good, in that it doesn't let the rich earn more than anyone else, but it doesn't help grow the economy. And growing the economy is the only way that there's actually more for people, as opposed to simply dividing the existing pie in a different way.)
The Sixth Amendment only provides for a confrontation right in “criminal prosecutions.” Speeding and red light camera violations are always administrative citations that carry no criminal penalty.
Similar to mrb's answer, but this sounds like essentially how cryptocurrency wallets work. You can just remember the root key phrase, and that is used to generate tons of addresses (i.e. keypairs). Access to the root keyphrase allows you access to money sent to any of the addresses.
My personal experience of French cars is that they're cheap, but you get what you pay for. I recall a Renault Clio I had several years ago, bought new, where almost immediately after the 3 year warranty expired the problems stated - a door handle literally came off in my hand, the gear knob came off in my hand, and numerous electrical problems occurred.

I made the mistake of buying French cars for years after that (because they were cheap, and I guess I kind of am too!), but eventually learned my lesson.
It's a strange problem. Your actions individually are inconsequential. Logically your individual contribution to the environment is minimal vs the benefite you gain from using energy intensive resources. Thus it is actually logical for you to drive a car or use energy.

Each individual acting in his or her self interest in a rational way brings irrational destruction as a collective action. That is the tragedy. The tragedy of the commons.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons