skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unless the corruption includes those who are managing the subcontractor identified. In which case, the subcontractor is blacklisted and the people responsible move onto another company (ie, Initrode vs. Initech).
So I'm not at a fortune 500 (fortune 1000 yeah) but we are expanding into a new city and waiting until our office population is enough to move into a full time space. I can not wait for that since we've completely outgrown their largest private office space and are spilling into random other offices here but it took a while to find the space we wanted and could grow into and do the build out. Flexport did that as well here in the city and moved into their own digs recently.
The NYT also deliberately blurs the lines between any kind of non-leftist thinking (traditional conservative views, non-left liberal thinking, criticism of Islam or illegal immigration) and 'alt right' - a term created by Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who wants to create a white ethnostate which (at least according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right) describes far right hate groups.

I know people who work at the NYT. They're absolutely smart enough to know the difference.
NYT has been systematically attacking US tech for years. I'm curious why.

I ignored it for the most part, until I paid more attention to their hypocritical advertising, user tracking, and the unforgivable dark patterns they use to throttle unsubscribes - the state of residency feature flag for online unsubscribe / forcing the subscriber to hold on the phone for an hour before triaging them to a sales rep. Fuck you NYT.
developers definitely have something to lose. If nothing else, it takes time to implement a new process that you already have working.

not a win for privacy, but i'm sure there are some that would be unhappy about not getting the data the other providers are giving them.
That's absurd. This statement is exactly why we use algorithms like bcrypt to store passwords. If we could be confident that our database wouldn't be hacked, we could just store passwords in plain text and save a whole lot of CPU cycles.
Do you find that managing versions between the different repos causes overhead? Besides allowing independent main branch management, what are the advantages of having many small repos instead of one that contains all of your apps?
Wikipedia cites cores from both Greenland and Antarctica. That would be some earthquake.

No, the eruption happened for sure. We just don't know which volcano it was. In particular the southwest pacific has lots and lots of volcanism from comparatively low peaks in island regions that don't leave a lot of obvious geology around where we can see it.
This is what you get when you let the mob rule.
Tell that to the wives, sons and daughters. How many dead soldiers and Iraqis is attending a press briefing worth?
Because we’re in the middle of a finance bubble and food fad.
Btw, when I was in LA looked at the closest Wework in Hollywood, and the parking was about $10/day. Now you are paying about $600/month.
RISC-V is an open and flexible CPU ISA, championed by the guy who invented RISC [1]. I recommend this talk [2] by him on the history of CPU architectures, complexity, and why the time is ripe for RISC-V when x86 and ARM dominate the industry (with some MIPS and PowerPC to round things off).

Note that the flexibility aspect means that it's relatively easy to design a chip that uses RISC-V (of which the OP article is an extension for). Designing chips is still out of reach of most hackers, but it does offer hopes of a more accessible landscape of General-Purpose CPUs, DSPs, GPUs, MCUs, etc...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Patterson_(computer_scie...

[2] https://californiaconsultants.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04...
Same is true for any sort of science. We're trying to find some sort of a story, and thus we bias ourselves towards bugs that lead to a meaningful conclusion. Most experiments fail, but a bug can make them look like a success.

I find it especially important if you're applying supervised machine learning techniques. Far and away, the easiest sort of bug to make is mixing up training and testing and holdout data (or not doing it at all). It's such an easy bug to make because you're trying to improve the model accuracy... and a really easy way to do that is to train and test on the same data.
And as a free service, I can now have them email me whenever my credit score changes, so I can log in and see that I fluctuate up and down 2 points routinely for "algorithm changes". Take that, Experian!
The "default position" should be skepticism for everyone, all the time - not just data journalists.
I agree with you that CA has a lot of problems to solve.

I wouldn't want to live in Texas or Florida. Too much culture (and political) clash, different values, and everything is spread out, even in cities. I'll take CA's (and specifically SF's) problems over that.
> If I have a disposable income of $500/month, and I want a $1,500 TV, I might just put that on the credit card. If I have a 20% APR on my card and pay it off in three months, I only pay a little over $50 in interest

Why don't you take it from the pile of money you are sitting on? And if you don't sit on a pile of money, should a new TV really be what you are worrying about?
It's just pleasant to have. I sometimes scroll text with touchpad and it's never a good experience in Emacs.
> sharing actual business logic through libraries is often a bad idea (which is unintuitive to most).

Seems unintuitive to me too, would be curious to hear if you have more to say about it!
"Moral panic" is probably the term you want.
It does play into the common anti-Semitic narrative of Jews "controlling everything".
Creating User Interfaces with Qt for Python, the Official Bindings for Qt
probably because it's the most profitable platform. iOS easily makes more money than Android even though it has less users. In my experience, it's not close.
Criminal.
https://nyti.ms/2rznv8D

Based on your comment, I, and I'm sure many others, would have quickly countered by pointing out that it shouldn't matter who you hire provided you have a competent and passionate ombudsman to rein in your inadequacies as a company. However, the link I've provided shows that they fired (without replacement) their ombudsman in 2017. This certainly supports your argument.
Terrific name!
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful! I just wanted to mention it to encourage others to upgrade ;)
I wonder how different humanity would be if anger and the fight-or-flight response could be disconnected, or the dopamine response from self-righteousness could be severed.
How many species of plants are still undiscovered?
I can tell you in the old android world. There was a not insignificant chance that 70-80% of apps that needed notifications or syncing did just that.
Between the two games he talks about we had Starflight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflight
That works great for apartments zoned as commercial or mixed-use. I don't think that is common.
Or police talking about seizing X million dollars worth of drugs where they're getting their valuation from street value but seizing the drugs in wholesale quantities from the manufacturer - and ignoring the fact that a large portion of the labor/risk that contributes to that price hasn't actually happened yet.
Are you teaching how to use Tableau (the product) or Data science/BI? Because I don't think you should be learning how to use a specific software product at school unless it's vocational.

That said, I don't see why any student couldn't continue using the free Public version.
I think $100 is a sweet spot.
Principia Politica
> The New York Times is no longer the steady unbias pillar it once was

Okay, I'm open to hearing this - I've certainly noticed a decrease in quality (vs quantity - NYT still leads there) vs, say, the Washington Post.

> They hire fresh out SJW types

I'm not even sure what this means. I'm used to seeing "SJW" as an attack label that is absent actual meaning, similar to "snowflake" or "libtard", stemming from groups stauchly biased themselves. Are you using it here as an attack based on political belief, or do you have some more nuanced substantive meaning? The rest of your comment doesn't expand on this "epiphany" so I'm left uncertain as to your argument.
That's what I like about doom-emacs. It's also Evil experience, but without bloat.
Norwegian who work in finance here. I doubt socialism is the cause. We have different financial regulations here, and I often hear Norwegian regulations are far more friendly to banks than across the pond.

It would surprise me greatly if an American bank was allowed to make arbitrary loan decisions. I am only familiar with the Norwegian financial system, but here it is a given that every single loan application that the bank either approves or rejects can stand up to scrutiny. They frequently have to in the case of collection cases (I.E determine if the bank had sufficient information to determine that a debtor could reasonably be expected to repay the debt they were issued).
According to the couple quoted in the article, taking advantage of a 'Rolldown' draw required an initial investment of $1,100 (equivalent to around $1,500 now). That's not a sum easily available to those who are poor.
Why is the headline not "Facebook turned off features used by Cambridge analytica to datamine, microtarget and interfere in an election"? What a biased headline. Facebook really is damned if they do, damned if they don't according to the MSM.
I read it as implying that all prisons are inherently inhumane, and therefore that nobody should be in them. But that's one of the problem with drive-by questions like that - you can't tell for sure what their actual point is.
Yea, that's one of the more disturbing modern trends - especially at the C-level, once someone is in that cloud they tend to just rotate jobs consequence free... and maybe occasionally run for president after doing their best to bankrupt HP.

I agree that an individual unfairly blamed by a company for their failure should be able to move on with their life but... we've seen plenty of clearly guilty people get out with a golden parachute and turn to serving on the board of directors of companies for the ridiculous sum that tends to net you.
According to the report, CBP is passing the buck on this one.

They created policies that could be ignored. That’s on them. They shouldn’t be able to use their position to avoid accountability or to scapegoat their contractors (that they likely hired without due diligence).

Government agencies should never be seen as victims. They hold power and authority that nobody else can hope to enjoy. There is no higher power to hold them to account because the electorate had already been subverted to maintain their position. So they should not be protected from fucking up. In this context, God or the Lord is not a higher power, it is also a scapegoat.

With great power comes everybody else’s responsibility... said only by people in this century.

Edit: to follow this up, CBP is also the agency that sucks up all the data on your phone and laptop. They have treasure troves of license plates, passport photos, and titty and dick pics.

They cannot absolve themselves of liability when they are invading everybody’s privacy. If they say they don’t use the data, and they are acting out of ignorance, then that’s a solid case for not collecting it in the first place.

As it stands, the US needs a GDPR.
Mueller exploited cellphone GPS to track Trump associates
For small scale sites you don't even need to do much that requires human intervention. Most bots (or at least most bot-actions) seem to invest very little in sophisticated techniques and rely instead on finding vulnerable servers by casting a very wide net. As long as that is true, you can filter out 99+% of the noise by applying very simple but slightly bespoke techniques.

As long as there continue to be enough cookie-cutter blog/forum/ecommerce sites out there for the bots to exploit, very simple techniques (JS-populated form fields or request parameters, very basic validation of the HTTP headers, taking into account the rate or frequency at which requests are made, etc.) will quickly and cheaply identify almost all of the bot activity.

Of course sophisticated or dedicated bots will still pose a problem, but assuming you're not just standing up a popular off-the-shelf platform without any hardening or customization, you'll need get pretty big (or otherwise valuable) before attracting that kind of attention.

A reasonable analogy here is the observation that simply running sensitive services on non-standard ports (e.g., not running SSH on port 22) will eliminate a ridiculous volume of malware probes against your system. To be clear, that's no substitute for actual robust security practices -- you almost certainly shouldn't have something like SSH world-visible to begin with -- but given how trivially easy it is do something like to change the default port for services you're not expecting the public at large to reach it's absurd that servers are compromised by dumb scripts blinding probing the Internet to exploit well-known and long-ago-patched exploits every day.
I thought at some point why not convert the garage, that way they're not bothering me. Would have cost me 10K tops to put an AC, nice flooring in the garage.
Unfair to the less clever players? How is it unfair? They can do the exact same strategy. It isn’t my fault of someone else doesn’t “get” it. It’s a game, not a civil right.
>https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/new-york-times-antisemi...

Criticising Israel and pro-Israel policy != antisemitism

>https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-york-times-trump...

I don't see how it's homophobic. The cartoon portrays Trump and Putin as lovers, supposedly to mock their alleged closeness. It doesn't attack homosexual people.

If the cartoon were portraying e.g. Merkel and Putin, in similar roles, would you call it "heterophobic" (is that a word?), or would it be perfectly acceptable?
more commented duplicate:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150688
Well, we already have numerous explanations of why things are the way are. Is there any proposal for changing the status-quo that people can get behind? That is always the stumbling block. Only a handful of people seem to be bold enough to let their convictions guide them..
reCaptcha v3 fixes this behavior. Instead of having one gateway test to determine if you are a human or a bot, it collects data on a background on your browsing behavior. Thus, it has a longer browsing behavior sample for heurestics.

https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3

Of course, you need to have cookies enabled.

If you do any browser in ignonito mode and/or use VPN or Tor you are going to get persona no grata treatment because it is likely your source network and IP address have caused a lot of problems before. The only way to go around is to have some permacookie on your browser saying you are a good citizen.
This is probably still in Google's best interest, since it greatly reduces the cost for OEMs to distribute updates (and updates are one area where Android severely lags behind iOS)
The only thing prevents me using prolog for proper tasks is not getting its IO: reading/writing files: csv, json.

Any cool (video) tuts on it? I searched a lot but did not find anything "easy".
Perhaps "ungrateful" is the wrong word. But in a purely transactional society where we charge each other for every little thing we do on the Internet to avoid any "free labor", I suspect that we would be considerably worse off.
This article is so twisted. The less search options other people have with public facebook data the better. Facebook is already privacy nightmare as it is.

Probably an article by some lobbists in some company that doesn't care about war criminals at all but is just upset by the change which would make the data less accessible to them. I say good riddance.
> Their valuation is based on spirituality? Are they a business, or a church?

Maybe their investors saw value in their company culture?

"The Best Startups Work a Lot Like Cults" -- Peter Thiel
Unless you're talking about gigabit plus television, the reps were scamming you. That's what they do, and it's one of the reasons people hate giving them money. You should cancel your account and then open a new one online in a partner's name so that they stop playing games with you. Always do it online. Prices through phone reps are always worse these days because of what the different modality says about the customer.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20150813
Not far off from what it turns out (after investigation) really happened![1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Awan
It seems like these companies are fully over valued so now they need to come up with shit to push down people’s throats for the IPOs so the investors can get out at a profit.

This is what happens when VCs keep funding these loses for a decade. We saw the same thing with Uber, pushing Uber eats as if it’s going to take over all food, meanwhile there has been like 3-5 startups already doing that at a very easy to value valuation.

Anyway, I’m not buying.

Edit: I’m referencing the following from the article

>>”He is known for making bombastic pronouncements, like this one at an all-company event last year: “There are 150 million orphans in the world. We want to solve this problem and give them a new family: the WeWork family.” In L.A., Neumann told his employees that the newly formed We Company would now have three prongs — WeWork, WeLive, and WeGrow — with a single, grandiose mission: “to elevate the world’s consciousness.””
Indeed. CBP made the choice to subcontract w/o proper controls. It is still CBP's fault.
Found an interesting "esotheric" probabilistic language called Entropy: http://andrew.wang-hoyer.com/experiments/entropy/
But then you have to worry about exception safety on every code which might call an allocating function, making the code more complex. This is worse on C++ where even innocent-looking code could be allocating memory in the middle of an operation (for instance, by calling a copy constructor which allocates).
This Twitter thread on this subject from Dir of Ad Tech at The Washington Post is worth reading:

https://twitter.com/chronotope/status/1138074631980683264
> “Initial information indicates that the subcontractor violated mandatory security and privacy protocols outlined in their contract,” the statement read.

Could this lead to criminal charges? Perhaps charging the contractor under CFAA for unauthorized access?
Shorter leases. Hedging against the future.
Systems have become tremendously more complex in the past 30 years. It's just no longer feasible for a medium sized company to act as a prime contractor due to lack of breadth and resources.
I wonder if there are any interesting flame wars between emacs and vim supporters on twitter.
I think it's moreso that we are forced into working our asses off in a system of perpetual growth and concentration of wealth. I think many of us would love to take days off and take breaks but most people cannot afford to.

I also believe many people would be happy to consume less or at least consume in a more sustainable fashion but the option to do so is often not available to us. The system favours business that produces disposable things that don't last and promotes a fashion of always having something new and different.

So the change really needs to happen on a systemic rather than an individual level. We need to change the incentive structures under which we are all living and operating. Unfortunately, those with the most power right now have the most to gain by keeping things the way they are, so they would have to be deposed in some way first.
Slack Expects $600M in Sales This Year
Assuming the screen to be 0.5 square feet, that is only about 465 lumens. LED bulbs for standard sockets are commonly available up to 4000 lumens, and I have a bigger one that is about 7000 lumens.

I have those all over my house.

My kitchen has 14 40-watt T12 bulbs, probably 2600 lumens each, which would total 36400 lumens.
After poking around the site, I can't see any specific reference—which makes me suspect it was an independent discovery of a cool idea—but this is very similar to a deliberately-constrained version of the Join Calculus https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... which uses a similar chemical-ish model of computation. There's an implementation of the Join Calculus in an OCaml-like language called (of course) JoCaml. Where Alchemist would write

2H + O -> H2O

JoCaml would write

def h() & h() & o() = h2o();;

One of the big differences is that JoCaml allows you to embed payloads inside your atoms, e.g.

def a(x) & b(b) = c(if b then x else 0);;

will consume an a with an integer payload and a b with a boolean payload, and produce a c with an integer payload. It also lets you include computations as reactions happen, e.g.

def a(x) = ( Printf.printf "Reacting!\n"; b(x + 1) );;

which lets you use this "chemical soup" model as the basis for concurrent programming.

There is a very detailed tutorial (which appears to have sadly half-broken formatting) which explains JoCaml in more detail here: https://sites.google.com/site/winitzki/tutorial-on-join-calc...
Have you tried a pure AOSP + F-Droid on Nexus/Pixel or Xperia? It's quite good. The only major drawback are closed drivers. But the userland is nice, open and polished.

My worry with Librem and all those initiatives is that rebuilding an ecosystem like F-Droid takes a lot of effort and time.
To be fair...

The front page of Hacker News is pretty much a Google hate hangoutfest -- so maybe cut some slack on this one...

I'm sure the NYT reporter was not acting malicious.

Maybe they will even issue correction or update in time. No one would argue that speed of social media and corrections is not ideal, but I would bet they are trying to be accurate and transparent with their readers.

I just seriously doubt the reporter and editors who published this info did so solely with the goal to attack Google by "promoting" a questionable study.

Wrong/Lazy/Dumb != Evil
As an aside, is there a latin-based term for this kind of authoritative persuasion? I want to say it's ochlocracy, but generally it's not just any kind of mob I'm thinking of, but the mob that is the loudest. Rule by the loudest voices. A magnaocracy? (not to be confused with the fantastical magocracy)
The USB thing might be a security policy in action. The DVD (and that's weird, because I think I've never seen DVDs, but lots of CDRs) is probably a historical thing related to the DICOM Supplement 19 General Purpose CD-R Image Interchange Profile standard.
What about the Great Recession happening because of the lack of credit availability?
Skepticism requires an unlimited amount of work for verifying a chain of evidence, if one piece is wrong then the whole body of data could be unless. Not easy for a data journalist to standup and get a new set of data when there's a time constraint.

Even an average person isn't even going to spend the morning verifying a weather report demanding more data for an accurate prediction. Instead they'll elect individuals which they trust. And it's unfortunate that they're either wrong, corrupted or exploited.

Even today I can't even watch my old favorite youtubers without being pitched some VPN, Web hosting or audiobook service. I feel the people I trust for entertainment have been compromised to say and act a certain way to make some corporate CEO happy who is manipulate numbers so some data journalist can come to some incorrect conclusion about the world and award him some approval rating.