skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a private (venture backed) company that actually had a stellar HR team who seemed to think about the employee's needs first. Or rather, they considered the company's needs first and the company* (ie, the executive team) believed that having an HR department who prioritized employee's needs was the right choice. The most obvious standout example was an employee with health problems who might not be able to return to work. She was kept on the payroll for a full year without working. She never did end up returning to work. This kind of thing paid off in retention, which was wildly high compared to other companies in the market.

But that company was acquired by a massive public company. And now HR is half adversary + half bureaucratic nonsense. Interestingly, the company still offered great benefits. I assume that is because the benefits package is an easy-to-measure piece of compensation, while HR quality is something that is much harder to shop around for.

* caveat, I have no idea how HR would have acted in a situation where an employee brings up concerns that would put the company in legal jeopardy. If I had to guess, they would do the right thing in a "senior harasser vs harassed subordinate" situation. If the the company was clearly in the wrong, I think they would work hard to satisfy the employee to prevent legal jeopardy. If the employee could not be satisfied without a significant hit to the company, I'm pretty sure they would do anything they could to protect the company. And that reflects that at the end of the day, the company comes first. A good HR department can just push much harder for win-wins (and probably only under market conditions that give labor leverage).
Do you mind sharing the long list?
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Some Orthodox monks deliberately sought isolation from worldly life to better practice spiritual virtues, like most monks of any faith.

Some other Orthodox monks practiced the reverse: living among regular people and keep their monastic status secret. The latter was (is) considered a more difficult feat.
Thinness is a function.
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> Well, they also ought to teach time management, emotion management, energy management, people management.

I would argue that's about the only thing that schools do teach.

After around 5th grade, almost none of the facts you teach a kid stay with them into adulthood.

What middle school and high school does is force you to learn how to get your work done on time, be social, have hobbies, work with "bosses", and interact regularly with people you don't like. That's the real value in high school IMO.

99.9% of the people who took calculus in highschool would fail an exam 10 years later. The brain just doesn't hold onto info it doesn't use. I think it would be the same if there was an explicit class on e.g. time management. Nothing you say to the kids will have any impact. OTOH, giving them homework and deadlines let's them actually figure out and practice these skills in a safer environment.
To break password managers :-( I hate 2 step forms. They make the internet less secure.
You can roll your own captcha as well. Nobody forces you to use reCAPTCHA v3.
Privacy Badger will know it is there
What did he use?

Also, me not being a Mac user at all, it confuses me why people keep using the inferior external keyboards. I get that in the Macs or the MacBooks you make tradeoffs with things you do like, but if the external Apple keyboard stinks at being a keyboard, why not a sleek, functional Logitech device instead?

Suppose I'm saying, there's some shared responsibility, not just John Ive being responsible.
I would go John Gruber one further and say that Apple needs not just a chief design officer, but a chief PRODUCT officer. Steve Jobs was not just a design guru, he was a PRODUCT guru. Design is an integral element to Apple products, but product strategy is more than just design. The obsession with thinness that Gruber cites is one way in which Apple's design - and product - strategy has gone off the rails, but there are many others. What is the Macbook product strategy and segmentation strategy anymore? Why did it take FIVE YEARS to get a redesigned Mac Pro out? I could go on..
?how?

50Hz is 50Hz everywhere.
Which is true. These dual venture deals are very stupid to make long term. China is being very smart here, while the groupthink towards outsourcing and the stock market demanding Chinese access has created their own doom.
> the reduction in CO2 had a large impact

Which doesn't make sense because that small a change in CO2 cannot have a "large impact" given what we know about the sensitivity of the climate to changes in CO2.
Wait until about:config is supported too ?

These preview builds have been available for months, not just a couple of days.

Nothing I or my co-workers can actually test yet in them.

No official statement about add-on support which should be at the forefront of development in any Firefox version, the best we get is vague replies about it coming later.
It will also likely be in the UK.
The user was already give a BIG RED WARNING when enabling that, but the media article titles were still:

"Gmail app developers have been reading your emails" (The Verge)

"Google admits it lets hundreds of other companies access your Gmail inbox" (Telegraph)

"Google's 'Dirty Secret' Allows Third Party Apps To Read Gmail Messages" (TechTimes)

And all those articles were accompanied by appropriate ravenous Google bashing on this very site.

What exactly do you expect a company to do if the developers of HN and the "educated" tech media attacks it for having an open API?
Some quick googling turned up this page, which most Evangelical Christians I know would nod along with, and many arguments from it I have heard directly from them:

https://biblereasons.com/being-set-apart/
Do you listen to his podcast? I never read the blog but the podcast I think he’s been fairly strident in his criticism.
they had to import the balls and points because they couldn’t manufacture those components
You’re assuming things will remain static. They will not.
> Piracy made windows popular, and so people bought Windows because... they didn't want to pirate it?

Many pirates are not bad people: they want to pay for your content, but for a variety of reasons they can’t (DRM prevents them from using it they way they want, they can’t afford it right now, etc.) As circumstances change they will purchase your stuff.
I prefer the ability to easy replace my usb c cable if it gets damaged, compared to buying a new 80$ brick with MagSafe. Also the ability to charge my laptop from either side is awesome too.

Also once iPhone new iPhone will have a type c charging you will be able to use a cable from your MacBook to charge your phone, so you will only need to carry MacBook charger without worrying about a separate cable for your iPhone
It’s not about control logic as supercomputers are used to simulate explosions so you don’t have to do it in the world releasing a lot of radioactivity.
> they can't go meddling in foreign [thing]

... GDPR? Granted, extraterritorial enforcement can be quite difficult.
You gotta have a soft limit somewhere. I'll concede 80 characters or even 100 but 120 seems fair enough.
What if it worked the other way and the password field was revealed when required vs hidden when not?
While I don’t like the lack of a physical escape key, I actually enjoy the new keyboard. In terms of blame, the executives are responsible for these decisions. That’s why Scott Forstall was let go when he oversaw the release of Maps.

> easy to lash-out ... the man stepped-out

Phrasal verbs are spelled with two words: to lash out, he stepped out, he took off, to shut down, to set up. Their corresponding nouns are spelled with one word: a takeoff, a setup, a shutdown, a step-up.
Totally agree. Very often people will analyze a snapshot of a scenario, recognize something they want to change, and campaign for change without considering how the system will change. They fixate on that one variable.

"Uber drivers are not paid as well as they should. Let's mandate that wages go up!"

Expected outcome: wages change and nothing else. The people who are currently underpaid get a big raise.

Real outcome: The market adjusts and Uber only hires professional drivers, who were earning about the same anyway. Previous Uber drivers are unemployed.
If you have access to a tv or a projector - it probably means there is a power outlet that you can use to charge your laptop
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USB C in Chromebooks pre-dates apple's usage. And several other manufacturers were putting USB c in their devices before apple even announced. And apple still isn't using it in their phones.
Despite all its problems, this is one thing I like about 4chan. Minimal banner ads, large images are auto-collapsed (so they don't overwhelm the text), and menus/settings that do exist are almost entirely auto-hidden. Also no mid-post image embedding, emotes, or 90s-era forum signatures. Every post is just text, with an optional image attachment.

EDIT: Are these downvotes about the content on 4chan, which indeed is generally terrible, or my thoughts on its UI design?
Not O.P, but:

- Encourages you to go to instances and check stuff rather than improve monitoring / health checks.

- Can do quick fixes on a few boxes rather than re-running the deploy. Great! But terrible when the person who knows how to do that is away.

- Tailing log files rather than centralised log management for all the things.

- Trying things out / quickly checking something in production rather than being rigorous about keeping test / staging in sync with prod.

The “problem” is ssh is such a great affordance (until you have tons and tons of instances and you can’t do anything by hand anymore) that it means you don’t need to fix internal processes and tools around deployment, configuration and monitoring.

If there’s no workaround you feel the pain and will be forced to set things up right, usually with benefits to security and repeatability.

As is often the case, the best thing about ssh (in terms of managing infra instances) is also the worst thing.

With that said at very small scales it might be overkill to automate all the things so sure, fill in the gaps with ssh and a wiki page.
Microsoft has always had great hardware. I’ve been using a Microsoft keyboard for 20 years, even with all my macs, and up until I got a Magic Trackpad unused a Microsoft mouse too.
WebRTC's AEC is integrated into most browsers, PulseAudio (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/webrtc-audio...) and a variety of other systems.

Google, Mozilla and all the organizations that have collaborated on WebRTC have spent 7+ years tuning this component. Much like Opus versus AMR-WB, I doubt there is anything notably better in the proprietary software/hardware world.

The orgs that develop the WebRTC standard have spent years implementing and experimenting with nearly every algorithm that is available for each of the various components (resulting in Opus, AV1, WebRTC AEC, etc), combing research papers daily and often working with researchers directly.
Elo World, a framework for benchmarking weak chess engines [pdf]
No, I agree that this problem has to be solved before this idea can hope to get wide adoption. Mr A posts something really evil on Mr B's facebook page. What happens next? Mr B files a complaint to facebook. Since this is a legal matter, the complaint gets escalated to the top. FB realises that this is out of their control and proceeds with a complaint to FBI. Now what if the data server with that comment is hosted outside the US? Right, the browsers will quickly ban this extension. However the owner of the extension can also change the default data server url in the config and the comment will be gone.

However I think that this hypothetical scenario will never happen because the idea will never reach this wide adoption. It'll inevitably be fragmented into a few segments with rules and moderation. Want comments from the theoretical physicist community? Subscribe to sci.data.org in your extension config. Want to know what 4chan folks think? Add unfiltered.comments.com to your config - it'll be an unreadable mess anyway and you'll need to make some non-trivial effort to add that url.

But I think there will be an archive with all the comments for research purposes: physically, it will be a big data server that keeps connections with all other data servers and pulls all the comments it can.
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This PR really does sound like a crisis management.
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maybe they'll finally add an app drawer so you're not forced to organize every single app in a tedious fashion across multiple home screens
It isn't considered acceptable. Only in the movies, or by people who are going to end up in jail at some point in the future.
> The Chrome user agent has your device model, even in incognito mode.

For example, on my phone, Firefox's current User-Agent header is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Android 8.1.0; Tablet; rv:67.0) Gecko/67.0 Firefox/67.0

while Chrome's is:

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.1.0; Moto G (5) Plus) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/740.3729.136 Mobile Safari/537.36
So basically you want US companies and economy to be controlled by the government to the same extent that Chinas companies are? Where the government needs to approve every deal with foreign suppliers and manufacturers?

That sounds very much how our socialist economy worked, glad you've decided to try the same approach we did from 1945-1990. Maybe THIS TIME it'll actually perform better than the very successful free markets of 20th century. ;)

Seriously - the most successful US companies are global corporations which have major presence in EMEA and APAC markets. They also have rather large control over communications and news fields. What do you think will happen in those non-US markets if those corporations start to be a vessel for American propaganda and foreign policy bullying? How long do you think it'll take before they find themselves banned and pushed out of non-US markets?
https://fs.blog/2016/04/second-order-thinking/
Sad to see all of this engineering effort being spent on spreading cancer (aka ads) and thus funding worldwide stalking by unethical companies.

Just imagine what humanity could’ve achieved if efforts like these were directed to actually worthwhile causes like science or medical research.
I had OSMAnd try to navigate me to a wrong-way street (taking the offramp rather than the onramp when trying to get on the freeway on a parclo. FWIW, the data was corrected before I could get to a computer though.
Would be cool to see an actual demo. Sounds pretty amazing but I wonder how automated the process is.
Mainframes are heavier than clouds.
I think the author is just another oh so popular mainframe evangelist as he's stated. He could have easily made the same case for any properly managed distributed system.

Where I disagree with him is that I don't think right out of college professionals should be working in a mainframe environment. As a person who has spent the past 3.5 years (right out of college) working in mainframe capacity planning and performance, I think mainframe technology can be pretty niche and I very nervously wonder if my very specific mainframe systems engineering experience will translate anywhere else. I feel as though getting a new tech professional started in their career would be better in an environment that is popular and they are familiar with, and then working from there.
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Reminds me of what happened when they were passing the "Hobbit" law in NZ. The companies that stood to gain from it got their people out to protest against the unions, but few knew how the largely Hollywood written legislation might affect them down the line. I actually know of one person who attended the protests and got bitten by the law a few years later, in an entirely different industry too.
so...

sudo vi /etc/auto_master

#/net -hosts -nobrowse,hidefromfinder,nosuid
Politico reports USG considering ban on e2e encryption
I tend to assume they collect more than you'd think and are less effective at using it than you'd think.
The idea is to do one's work without emotional attachment to "results". In modern day psychology it is called "self-distancing". It is nothing mystical but commonsense. The way to understand the rationale is; even though "self-effort" has to be put forth towards a goal, because there can be so many other factors involved in deciding the outcome (most important being random chance) that it is best to have no emotional ties to outcomes. That way one does not fall into despair and a negative frame of mind if things turn out wrong but still can choose to experience joy when things turn out well.
Llamas are larger than frogs.
SSH is wonderful. The problems are more what it enables, and what it lacks (or isn't designed to do).

For example, managing ssh keys for an individual is gloriously simple, but managing them for a large organization is a huge headache. You want to use ssh certificates, but even those are implemented in a weird way, and really you should use an SSO system for auth. (This makes that easier/better, so, yay?)

When people start sshing into production servers, they end up making local changes. They focus more on the "pets" aspect of managing systems rather than as "cattle". They have to install a litany of extra software to diagnose and troubleshoot bugs, rather than expose system metrics and tightly control the app environment and its operation.

Remote access to production app servers is basically a backdoor waiting to happen, and may violate corporate security policies. When you have local user access to a Linux host, it's almost guaranteed you can privesc to root.

Finally, almost everyone I have ever seen will either force-ignore/auto-accept host key changes, or just accept them blindly, because IPs and hostnames may change, and there may be multiple environments you haven't logged in to, etc). This completely defeats the purpose behind mitm protection, which is the main intent of using SSH, though these days its other features may be arguably more of a reason to use it.

And for the tech hipsters out there: "it isn't serverless!!"
100 miles to what? An aircraft? A very tall ship? A bunker on a mountainside? Until they have a reliable system that can be run over and over for days, I don't think anyone knows exactly how these things will be employed.
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The fact that this submarine hatemongering keeps surfacing to the top of this site is rather concering.

If only this article had substantial content... but, as other commenters pointed out, it doesn't even pass the basic smell test.
Really curious to know more about how Lyft handles attribution here as I didn't really see it mentioned. Nor did I see much about how they approach view through metrics for display and such when that data is increasingly locked away within the ad platforms and not always exposed via API. Presumably things are mashed together in an ad server and some enterprise analytics platform with an attribution tool in the mix, perhaps with a sprinkling of MMM.

Beyond that, I'd love a deeper analysis of their actual channels and how they measure and approach them. Any additional links on that would be much appreciated.
Google Maps directed me off of a plowed mainroad onto a non-plowed side road; in the middle of summer it still would not have been faster than the main road. As it was, one of the other cars redirected was not carrying chains (despite giant "Chains required at all times" signs on the way up the mountain), and there was insufficient room to pass. Adding insult to injury, they passed me while I was chaining up. Fortunately a local with a bucket of rock-salt was able to get them unstuck and back down the mountain. Cost me about 45 minutes though.
You sound like one that have never used external apple keyboard. They are excellent, and I love how small and unobtrusive they are.
AFAIK it's actually more damaging; the short travel times mean that a keystroke is much more impactful and stresses your fingers more.
It’s not the GDPR’s fault if their (apparently) award-winning journalism comes with stalking.
Amazon is generally quite expensive. You should shop around.
They are at the end, in appendix format. The final checklist is a checklist for checklists:

http://www.projectcheck.org/uploads/1/0/9/0/1090835/checklis...
I would recommend calling all the divorce lawyers in your town to schedule a consultation. This way they will have a conflict of interest should she call any of them.
The Firefox Preview team is actively working on PWA support for Q3 or Q4, including add to home screen.
Do you really think Europe has laws to prevent pedestrians using their phone outside?
I'm not saying you're trying to portray it as anything (especially since my comment was in reply to someone else), I'm saying that as a branch of Christianity, the Monastic tradition has lasted longer than in the Eastern Orthodox churches than in many others and this is not a particularly difficult thing to notice. It pops out at you if you decide to, say, inflict The Brothers Karamazov on yourself or read news like:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/world/europe/mount-athos-...
the issue is that they dont understand labor politics like the old school blue collar white and black americans do. They end up getting screwed like what happened with the medallion system all over America. I have read many comments about the medallion shake up where people simply said that it wouldnt have happened to white driver owners and that's the truth.
Indeed. Plus some people think the United States is the only country on this planet.
What’s with the unnecessary pedantry here? It is getting exhausting to see people on HN constantly resorting to common denominator pedantry
It’s not just the browser based SSH that GCE has had for years.

The way they describe tying SSH keys to IAM roles very closely matches the SSH key management that GCE had when it launched back in 2012.
I never understood realism in photography for this very reason. The paper upon which the photograph resides makes it impossible to accept the photo as the thing it's pretending to be.
Even worse they changed names entirely over their lifetimes. Looking at you one of 10 "Gaius Octavius"s. Specifically G. O. Thurinus ahem Agustus.
I wear headphones when I walk and I haven't been hit yet. I still look both ways before and during crossing a street.
Yes, I quite like this functionality in the "gcloud" CLI: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/ssh

FWIW, it sounds like one advantage of the new AWS service is that it will provision a new SSH key each time you connect. Whereas, I _think_ the GCP one provisions one key per machine.
Print ads don’t seem to care about how many times the ad had been seen, they just pay for the ad to be there for X amount of times or for Y issues of that particular magazine.

Why can’t web ads be the same? “Pay X to have your banner here for a week”
Incredible, the US government is really considering making mathematics illegal again. You all know the saying about history repeating itself, so just read this: https://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Illegal
They don't have to make propaganda because before them first came the IMF OR the US army.
The extension can pull comments from multiple urls. But I think this situation is unique and most of the commentable content is hosted on static urls.