skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had conversations about this with friends after choosing a similarly drastic change like that for myself.

What stops them is a combination of inertia, money and life change. It's not a trivial thing to quit your job and work somewhere else.

One major factor is that you will be taking a large pay cut and might have to move. For those with mortgages and family staying with their less fulfilling jobs makes more sense. for many people their family comes first.

Another issue is that the grass always appears greener.

I do wonder what an engineer at Facebook would tell themselves, I think it might increase empathy with workers who are in places which are being labeled as morally bankrupt. I have some idea but that if they did share their thoughts they would get downvoted and hated for exposing themselves.
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Is keybase still banning people that are into porn / adult industry stuff, or is this thing separate from the keybase thing where that was / is an issue?
If I were American I'd be worried about jobs and maintaining certain level of independence in case of conflict.
> 120% of that, and repeat every six weeks, is the true killer.

This is what I try to get through to people - if you consistently deliver at 100%, that becomes the baseline and you'll be expected to stretch ever further with little to no extra incentive or support.

Throughout my career I've always held back some level of skill, efficiency, or drive that I can break out as and when required on very particular projects. In the end, it's better for the company as I'm less likely to flame out.

Obviously a lot of companies still operate on visibility and presenteeism over outcomes where it makes it harder, but take the damn lunch break now or you'll never be taking it.
What you're describing sounds like learned helplessness.

yes they plan products and then expect them to be in the market for 3 years before a redesign but the keyboard bandaid fixes don't mean that it was impossible for them to backtrack and release a different keyboard the next year it just means they were unwilling to hit the stop button and move out of their learned cadence to fix an issue that every single person who buys that product will encounter.

So they screwed up and instead of saying "oh, we screwed up, ok we're going to have to fix this to minimize the number of customers who will buy $2000 faulty devices" they instead decided to just carry on as normal, fix the design in 3 years when they'd be doing the redesign anyway and just try a few minimal bandaids on the solution which we know don't work because every bandaided keyboard is in the replacement program by default.

This could have been fixed, they could have shipped another design in a year the only two possible reasons why are money or just unwillingness to change cadence.

>That's why Apple products are built with more sophistication than any other companies product. They have enough time to get every detail right.

Wouldn't go that far, I get the feeling you haven't even really looked at what competitors are making these days the gap has well and truly been closed and in a good number of cases Apple is actually behind.
huge misconception. used to be
true, until surveillance tech came along. overthrows never came from progressive people, who believe in peaceful ways, it came from the lowest people in society who no longer have
anything to lose. overthrowing is an act of desperation, the last thing people will do, only when the situation is no longer bearable.
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I am speechless.
Apropos of nothing, I belatedly realized that all my libertarian minded friends (geeks of an age) are often simultaneously fans of both Ayn Rand and game theory, two notions largely in mutual opposition.
How much time and money do you want to spend, decide that then do it. Worrying over what other people are doing is not helpfull.

I spend no time, and quite a lot of money on that problem.
These sanctions are designed to foster resentment in Iranians toward their government. The seeds of this resentment are already blossoming in the post-Iran/Iraq war generation developing these apps. This generation is simply not capable of conforming to the religious zeal required of them by the ayatollahs, sanctions or not. The days are numbered for the velāyat.

The funds received by an Iranian civilian entrepreneur are still open to subjugation by the government. Without these funds, it will be more difficult for this government to destabilize neighboring states, blackmail the Sunnis across the gulf, and energize Hezbollah in their explicitly stated goals to genocide the Jews.
Found this [0]:
"The U.S. semiconductor industry generates 30 percent of total revenue from China, with Qualcomm and Micron accruing more than half of sales from trade with Beijing."

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/27/us-china-tensions-put-chipma...
They should stop calling usa the big white D first. Maybe even stop calling and doing world wide jihad.

How know maybe their is relation
Wow, usability is so much better - dark theme, support for Samsung OneUI, search on bottom. Full release will be great (and used by 0.00001% of droid users).
PS: using FF mobile for 3 years exclusively. Googlenet can go in the known direction.
Yeh some of the plastic products were really nice, I really liked my ~2003-ish G3 iBook
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The goal was never to end extremism or fundamentalism. Conflict is very very profitable to all sides except the common person. I guarantee that a lot of elite Iranians prefer war and conflict over peace, just like the US.
The Lambda Calculus in Fundamental Scheme Concepts [pdf]
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In the top-level comment, the issue was presumably Iranian citizenship (not descent), or, in other words, nationality.
A higher rate of vacation absence is much less noticeable day to day than a shorter routine schedule in "projecty" occupations where a team effort is pushed to completion. Being on vacation is quite similar to being temporarily assigned to a different project, the temporarily smaller team will cope just fine, they might even win efficiency tho compensate for some of the nominal throughput loss.

But most hours reductions are of the predictable continuously reduced schedule type, which is great for occupations where a defined number of positions has to be filled at all times (pretty much everything that is more reactive than active). But in "projecty" work, that predictability is of little value, the reduced-hours teammember will count fully (or more) to team size in terms of organisational overhead and task dependency delays, but will contribute fractionally less. It's not the lower amount of total hours in that scenario, but the permanent asymmetry.
The 80 million Iranians are currently held hostage by two entities. First, it is their own government (which is by far not the worst in the world, being in Iran feels more free than one would expect). Second, it is the USA. The US imposed sanctions put real stress on everyday life in Iran, they make transactions complicated to impossible, healthcare unsafe, flights totally unsafe (we had 2 emergencies in the last 12 flights between Iran and Germany) and they currently provoke a big brain drain and probably a new wave of refugees. From what I see the US sanctions are catastrophic for those 80 million people while the government is more or less untouched. For the sake of the family I married into and the genetic relatives of my children: stop that nonsense.
This is just narrow thinking. Small minds that took advantage of a business deal, now think they have the clout to use public opinion to resume business or to simply smite the hand slapper.
Every time this has happened before new avenues and new players have equalized the players.
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I’m trying to understand and make this analogous to what you were replying to:

The reasons for the act (racist or not) does not affect it being racism?
I once booted from a DAT tape.
What a story!
Indeed. Their desktops are all Windows.

Sadly, the age of the 3278 is gone.
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Isn't that the James O' Keefe right wing grifter business that taped journalists. Good, close the entire shop down for all I care.
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Hi All, Suvansh here. A bit of the story behind Remote Tools (remote.tools) below.

I faced huge problems in finding the right tool to use to manage my remote team. None of the popular tools seemed to have been built keeping in mind the struggles of remote workers and managers.

For example - my team members felt that Slack was hampering rather than improving their productivity.

> Slowly, while researching tools, I build a list of ~70 tools across different categories that could be used by my team basis the specific use-case they solve.

> Rather than keeping the information with us, I with my 2 of my colleagues decided to share it with the world and built the first version of our product.

> The repo garnered considerable traction and many other remote product makers reached out to us asking us to update their tool on the repo.

> With this, we decided to build the second version of the product which would enable the remote-first product makers to showcase their work and the use-case they are solving to the remote community. All this without using any marketing jargon.

Thus, the aim is for the remote community to solve their problems with these tools rather than getting stuck in reading marketing pitches.
It is targeting everyone.

As an European I would love to visit Iran. Amazing country, some friends there, direct flights... But I would lose ESTA and would need to apply for a visa before visiting US.
App for making any woman appear naked was killed off by its creator
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The only place were they make it clear this is a Julia package is in the installation instructions:

"The, install the Gen package with the Julia package manager. From the Julia REPL, type ] to enter the Pkg REPL mode and then run: pkg> add https://github.com/probcomp/Gen"

https://probcomp.github.io/Gen/
Honest question:

Why aren't Uber drivers considered franchisees?

Or a concessionaire? My cousin ran a concession in my town's largest sportsball stadium. The way the deal is structured, my cousin was paying Ogden (the host company) for the privilege of working there.

What we now call the gig economy.
Given that the vast majority of silicon fabrication is not in the USA, I think this ship may have possibly sailed.
I had an account at Vimeo removed some time ago. It was bizarre to go back and forth about why. They had playboy and other nudity on site, we pointed to that being more nude than what we had published (which was sexual in ways, but no nudity) - and this was a paid / upgraded / pro account - a few hundred bucks.
Long story shortened they said their determination was based upon a site linked or mentioned in the videos / profile that had more explicit content on a subpage. So it wasn't the videos we made specifically for vimeo publishing (wasted time and money) - but part of what had been promoted was against some editorial something or another.

I pointed out content on their site that was way over the line of what they had issue with on that sub page - and they said something like 'don't do as they do, their (other accounts on vimeo that were not banned) stuff was not indicative of what was okay on vimeo'

All in all it's fine with me, they can do things however they want, it's a privately owned site not a gov portal, it was just so frustrating trying to make content that fit and going through so many things only to get banned for some unwritten rule.

So I used to recommend them over youtube, but that was a long time ago. Now I strongly suggest not to use them or depend on them for anything.
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Are these comments for real? How can anyone be against the truth? The whole point to PV was taping facts. None of the content has ever been debunked.
That's it? We need better frameworks?

I thought this was going to be about this "stuck in a rut":

GH: One big challenge the community faces is that if you want to get a paper published in machine learning now it's got to have a table in it, with all these different data sets across the top, and all these different methods along the side, and your method has to look like the best one. If it doesn’t look like that, it’s hard to get published. I don't think that's encouraging people to think about radically new ideas.

Now if you send in a paper that has a radically new idea, there's no chance in hell it will get accepted, because it's going to get some junior reviewer who doesn't understand it. Or it’s going to get a senior reviewer who's trying to review too many papers and doesn't understand it first time round and assumes it must be nonsense. Anything that makes the brain hurt is not going to get accepted. And I think that's really bad.

What we should be going for, particularly in the basic science conferences, is radically new ideas. Because we know a radically new idea in the long run is going to be much more influential than a tiny improvement. That's I think the main downside of the fact that we've got this inversion now, where you've got a few senior guys and a gazillion young guys.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...

Which is the granddaddy of the other one. You don't really need better frameworks that make it easier to explore innovative ideas if you can't ever hope to publish those innovative ideas, even if you manage to make them work.

NB: "GH" is Geoff Hinton.
Apple’s taken one step forward with the iPad Pro being USB C based at least.
Emerge/portage, nix, ...

Even macOS already has Homebrew (Linuxbrew is the Linux equiv), Fink (derived from APT), and MacPorts on top of the App Store and package managers for programming languages like NPM (NodeJS), Cargo (Rust), Gem (Ruby).

A nice command to upgrade all of these is Topgrade [1] which does all the upgrades for you, including even Tmux plugins.

Of course it comes at the same price of a rolling distribution. Things will break occasionally.

As for NPM since the company behind NPM is commercial, and it is centralized, it shouldn't be a surprise that there's alternatives.

[1] https://github.com/r-darwish/topgrade
Best Buy has an inventory turnover ratio of approximately 6* - So clears its entire stock on average every 8 weeks. While there might be a large percentage of USB-A products currently, once a technology market shifts it's quite surprising how fast suppliers will also change their product supply and you see a fairly rapid change in stock even in big box stores.

Most of the devices I have purchased in the last year have been USB-C. Sony headphones, LG display, my car even has USB-C charge ports. Look at many manufacture lineups and the new flagships are USB-C. I do still have a bunch of USB-A devices, but they're older buys at this point.

I think there will be a few year gap, but 10 years might be a little too pessimistic. Time will tell I guess!

* https://www.gurufocus.com/term/InventoryTurnover/BBY/Invento...
Calling Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps the "Iranian Entrepreneurs" is an interesting point of view. And thinking that you can somehow decouple IRGC from normal Iranians and continue normal relations with the country is naive at best.
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I'm thinking about preparing a new project. Me and my friend want to create a course with step-by-step tutorials how to create popular ML apps. For example (app with 3D masks like Snapchat, app which will recolor your nails, basketball app which detects if you score, app which will recolor your hair). We will show how to write this apps from scratch and how to train a model for them. Does it make sense?
Has China yet built their own wafer-stepper?
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See also Article 1 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:

> In this Convention, the term "racial discrimination" shall mean any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other field of public life.

Both "descent" and "national or ethnic origin" appear relevant here.

https://www.refworld.org/pdfid/3ae6b3940.pdf
A tactic that takes 80 million people as hostages. Just as a side note: you can not give back Iranian citizenship (if that would be possible most Iranians in the West I know would do it). This concept does not exist. So even if you are the most western, fully integrated European which happens to have some Iranian roots you are still treated in a racist way because those new sanctions are so totally all-encompassing that you get fully subjected to it even if no practical connection to Iran exists.
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The US is almost at war with Iran so I personally find the title quite silly. The iranian entrepreneurs may soon find themselves blasted by tomahawk missiles.
FWIW DR-DOS is also free, IIRC it was released as open source some years ago (i think OpenDOS is based on it) and it is a bit more compatible with MS-DOS than FreeDOS.
> With the iPhone X Apple put serious R&D into a display that folds back on itself ...

You're kidding right?. Apple put so much serious R&D into the display that they asked Samsung to create it.
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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps does any intention to publish something on Google and Apple platforms, on the contrary, they want to have their own platform. In other word, sanctions are aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
> only to get banned for some unwritten rule

This is the biggest problem with tech censorship. I have no problem with them making up whatever rule they want. But no one knows the exact rules which makes it seem like they apply their rules unevenly, which reeks of bias.
Wow this website is bad. Almost as bad as HN
I actually occationally worry about them invading Taiwan...
This is really upsetting: it is exactly what happened elsewhere like 80 years ago: laws against people just because of their birth conditions.

Edit: and people abiding by them because “it is the law”...
But it can’t show battery percentage.
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A decent chunk of US's success in the past 70 years has been reliant on the US having no real competition.

By real competition I mean someone with both the same skill level and the same heft/weight.

If you look at how the US reacted when Japan was rising, it wasn't a pretty view. It only died down because Japan stagnated 2 decades ago.

China's kind of the same story, but if it stagnates at about the same level at Japan, the Chinese economy will be 2-3x the US economy.

That's super scary if you haven't competed on equal footing for more than half a century.

Obviously, China being an autocratic regime doesn't help either, or that China's national interests in the region directly conflict with the US interests there (Taiwan, South Korea, etc.).

I'd bet dollars to cents that even if China had the most pristine Swiss democracy, the US reaction would be 99% the same.
That site was really hard to read. Small and narrow fonts with a strange font face.
Regardless of surveillance tech a coup or putsch [1] is not [always] executed by the "lowest people" in society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
I get it - Sanctions hurt people. They are blunt tools when we need more refined dialogue. It is putting the pain of conflict between our governments onto the people, and not driving change.

All these things are true. But this letter is written to the wrong people. This situation stems from a problem between our governments, and that is where it needs to be fixed. We have limited power to change this, but what power we do have is enacted by electing leaders who will work for a better solution. We get a chance to pick a US President again in just over a year.

Please, when the opportunities arise over the next 18 months, get out, get involved, and vote.
Sorry for late response, I got confused but the thread depth.

First, I have to ask. I'm advocating default opt-out. For everything.

Second, they're always wrong and hard to correct. Been there, done that.
Also, tar is short for "tape archive".
And the bright side?
I feel you, this friend of mine had the same thought one year ago, he then decided that it will be ok for him to not visit the US in the next ten years then he went to Iran and had a lovely time there, he was so overwhelmed by the iranians and didn't regret anything.
One of the funniest thing he saw was this kid dancing with a donkey costume and blasting a trumpet (you know the annoying vuvuzela thing) in a mosquee, what a dangerous country.
[shameless plug]

This might not answer your question directly, but it is perhaps useful to know that the probabilistic programming approach can also be applied in non-probabilistic (non-statistical) ways.
I developed a ranked programming language, which is like a probabilistic programming language without probabilities. Instead, you state how your program normally behaves and how it may exceptionally behave. Conceptually it's very similar to probabilistic programming, but the underlying uncertainty formalism is replaced with ranking theory, which works with integer-valued degrees of surprise.

You can find an implementation of this idea (based on Scheme/Racket) here:

https://github.com/tjitze/ranked-programming

For more detailed information check the paper linked to on that page.
Weird that your decade old computer wouldn't boot DOS, I've booted MS-DOS on my previous i7 4770K computer from an external floppy disk drive. I tried some CGA games i wrote and they kinda worked with the exception of BIOS not supporting text in CGA mode.

But to answer the question, FreeDOS like MS-DOS and DR-DOS has drivers in the form of TSRs and DEVICE=blah.sys files. The only drivers it needs itself is for disk and basic video output, which are provided by the BIOS.
Tensions hadn't turned into war yet, of course, nobody can predict there would be actually any war or not, it seems close. But even if there's a war, there are innocent people on both sides. We can't ignore the lives of innocent people because of conflicts between politicians.
How else do you want to detect humans in a widely-used centralized service like reCaptcha? This is the result of laziness of website developers. There could be thousands of custom captcha implementations but instead, most devs just put recaptcha there and they're done.
Alternative headline: Gallup greatly underestimates US Gay Population.
Any sanctions align with feudal regimes. How would countries punish such regimes without sanctions? Military operations? That's even worse. Personally I don't see a clear answer to such hard question.
I just need to write this ... "Fiuti" in Polish sounds almost like "Dicks"
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These sanctions also make it impossible for Iranians to live their lives away for their government's supposed zeal. People trying to evade their government's yoke depend on external channels. Cut off these channels, and you only increase their dependence on their government.

The funds received by an Iranian civilian entrepreneur are still open to subjugation by the government.

So it's like civil asset forfeiture?