skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It stops being a security feature when Signal keeps sending such messages when nothing has changed (and because Signal has bugs), prompting users to ignore these messages forever.
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I changed back to old Reddit recently, and hell yeah the site is a lot more usable. The new version often had severe lag when loading comments, but I don’t have this anymore.
Unikernels are interesting. Could patch a programming language’s standard library to be syscall independent in some fashion.
SS1 researcher responded on Twitter, https://twitter.com/SolomonMg/status/1164927631957143554.

TLDR: they've been working on building a framework to preserve privacy and then to train researchers on how to access the database. That isn't a simple process.
That was called modular programming.

SELF, which JavaScript takes its model from, is definitely OOP.
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RTB (Return to the Basics) – Basic
The original point was in-depth discussion of things like dietary restrictions necessarily come to political questions. The counter-argument seems to be "don't discuss anything in depth."
> Tons of people paid for content before the Web. Newspapers, magazines, books, CDs, DVDs, cable TV, premium channels.

Sure, but newspapers, magazines, cable TV and premium channels have never really lived off of customer payments, they were always ad-based businesses first (there are exceptions, such as small newspapers and HBO).
I've heard it said that the art of being a great consultant is knowing which book to read just before a meeting with the client
Sure, I'm aware that it's not procedural, but maybe I was overly pessimistic about the world building within. I think after fallout 4 I've steered a little further away from RPGs with base building. It didn't really feel like those games were focusing enough on what I found interesting mechanic/narrative wise, but were rather taking a scattershot "give the player everything" approach to drive sales. Maybe I'll give SN another look.

...also I think Rocket League consumed my gaming time for a solid year which didn't help me work down my list.
The skin is kinda gross, and there are many small seeds.
Cannot agree more. This story brings a lot of concern to me.
I agree. A live-and-let-live view is best across cultural divides.
>How much arrogance does it take for a bunch of Googlers to assume the belief that they know what is "just" for the rest of the world?

I'm often stuck in the elevator with Googlers (our office is on the same floor as one of theirs). Some of the stuff that I end up overhearing is particularly jarring. It's not really the opinions but the self entitlement that makes me wish we had faster elevators.
For example via template meta-programming, or free functions with overloading.
I like how the author put a shameless plug right in the middle of the article for something he wrote. Lol
I feel like journalists just put facebook between a rock and hard place.

"Facebook is sharing data with company X, arrrggh"

"Facebook isn't sharing data with Academics, arrrrgh"
Winner Takes “All” is an incomplete sentence. All what? All profits or all losses?
This reminded me a bit of the emergency response guide in Freedom of the Hills. Mountaineering instead of programming, but I can read it in terms of bug triage, refactoring, customer support... https://www.mountaineers.org/about/safety/safety-web-pages/d...
> I know, because I set that focus

That's a dead give away to me that this person is not effective as it's a naked appeal to his own authority.
Isn’t it usually an RV?
Remember when the news constantly threw out countless articles about cell phones causing brain cancer? Remember, fear sells ads, so we should also be very skeptical of articles like these.
I feel after this article, things will change.
So don't smoke. There you've done your part.
It may be free, but it's still proprietary
I’ve seen many people try this and none who can make it look good. The problem is the mixed messages it sends. Digital+Fitbit? Redundant, just wear a Garmin or Suunto. Mechanical+Fitbit? Confused, trying too hard.
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Usability? Signal prevents backups on iOS and has no solution for someone changing a device (or even restoring a device from a backup) to carry over the conversations and retain chat history and group memberships. This is because it puts security above usability.

It’s also buggy in many other ways (e.g., sending safety number change messages when nothing has changed with the device or number; contacts sending messages and asking if it was received, etc.).

Signal is quite bad on usability compared to other apps.
They do still make minimalist G-Shocks e.g. 5600 series
> I hate working from home

Why do you hate working from home? I hate working in an office and will never do it again.

> and don't want to have to rent a separate office space on my own dime.

Also, most companies will (and should) pay for remote workers to have an office outside of their house, if that's what they need. That's been my experience for the past 5 years anyways.

> your complaints are with shitty offices, not something inherent to onsite vs. remote work.

For myself and many others I've read accounts from, it's so much more than a 'real office'. It means no commute, no office drama, being able to talk with my wife in person during the day, make my own lunch... For people passionate about remote, it's more than a specialized office, but a whole different way of working.
Oh yeah good point about Ruby, ha. I didn't even think of that. I suddenly miss Linux and having an OS backed package manager.

The fact Apple hasn't fully embraced terminal users as an optional primary interface really bothers me. A package manager with a CLI should be part of every OS.

If I worked at Apple I'd be pushing the product team hard to embrace it. They're ignoring a big part of their operating system.
So he should stop using email in order to keep doing unpaid work?
Meshroom is really good, and it's even better for large scale stuff (like landscape / architecture reconstruction from aerial pics).
I believe that this is a part of a well funded campaign against Google by some of its rivals or enemies. Oracle? Regardless, whoever is implementing this attack, they're doing a fantastic job. Google's business is basically connecting Advertisers (wolves) with Users (sheep) and the most important part of this business is to keep this ecosystem stable. Someone's apparently found a way to destabilize this system: wolves are getting bigger and greedier, while sheep is dying out. The only solution here is to cut the population of wolves, but Google is still in denial and lies to itself that maybe the extinction can be stopped by formalizing the process of chasing sheep.
The problem is not with JSON parsing. It is with the fact, that people will use open without --raw to process, for example, Python files, because it is easy and works now. And some day later shell will learn to parse them into AST with open, and today's scripts will no longer work. Or worse start doing something very wrong.
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My rule of thumb is the first couple of results are absolutely worthless. I don't even read the titles. SEO is a plague as well and should also be done away with. Right now there are no good search engines at all (I appreciate ddg but it needs another decade of polish imo).
I don't think this is true - I believe it's only their merchandise store that's on Shopify. Car purchases are done through their own, custom platform.

That said, there are definitely plenty of huge merchants running on Shopify turning over hundreds of millions of dollars through the platform - we work with quite a few of them.
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As more powerful AI computation capabilities become available to hobbyists, I hope someone takes up researching new board games similar to Go, Chess and the other giants of abstract strategy games (ASG).

Basically, train really strong AI players using the AlphaZero method with the rules of the game changed by a human author (either some variant of Go, or a completely new game). Then take a look at the games the AI plays at its strongest level and let people decide if the game looks interesting enough for them to try play competitively. With the strong AI player already in place, human players would have something to learn from and a serious competitive culture could be born.

In the absence of something like this, I don't think it's surprising the only popular ASGs are very, very old. Modern commercial board games are fine, but they supply a different demand than ASGs.
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No, it makes more sense for Uber to do so because the solution they would build “could” be an add on to different cars giving anyone with such car the ability to add it to Uber’s fleet. When BMW creates their solution, it will “probably” not work on an Audi or Ford.
Once you voluntarily make the claim, "I am too insane for the criminal justice system to apply to me," things seem more clear cut. If you feel you're innocent and sane, choose a different defense?
Not sure why your comment is getting down voted.
Do you know if he contacted Breitbart and PV, or if they contacted him? Because if a Breitbart journalist said to him, "We see your opinion, we think it's terrible you're being silenced, we'd love to interview you and give you a chance to say your piece", then it would be very fitting with "naive" for him to say "Sounds good!"

This article mentions Damore was diagnosed in his mid-20s with high-functioning autism. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/16/james-dam...
OP didn't mention development

And I think it's just as naive to think there's any merit to criticize where tech comes from

America would not have gotten its start if Samuel Slater hadn't stolen textile production from the old country

If you don't want China to copy your tech, don't hire China to copy your tech.
Could it be that the guy used touch up to hide tattoos before robbery, specifically to use the witness testimony that they saw no tattoos as an alibi? It could actually be a pretty clever trick.
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The idea is inspiring!

I'm finding it hard to get over them using pipes and dashes for table borders. Is this the 70's? It's genuinely hard to read these tables. See: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/gestalt...
Uhh, the ad network heads don't give a shit if you actually buy the product, they only give a shit that you've clicked and tbey can therefore command a higher price for the ad space. This sounds like it helps advertisers more than it hurts them.
I have never understood why anyone would believe a money losing taxi business would be able to figure out a major ai problem.
I decided to go with Pelican for my blog, http://nil.wallyjones.com. If you are comfortable with a little HTML and CSS then you can whip up a simple minimal theme in a fairly short period of time. Honestly, I don’t even consider mine finished and tend to add to it as I write posts (which isn’t very often). If you have any questions about getting pelican up and running, let me know. You can also check out my theme, https://github.com/imwally/niltheme, as a reference for a staring point.
Ebay grew by $200m, shopify by $500m.
> Why do these researchers feel entitled to my personal data?

Do you feel facebook is entitled to your personal data? (I assume your complaint implies you use facebook)
The US Constitution explicitly allows slavery...
I'd agree with the first two parts, but one can argue a fully reasoned argument without understanding all possible conflicting arguments. At least in the terms of normative arguments, where values (premises) can differ from person to person.
there is a lot to unpack here.

. you operate under the assumption that amazon is driving traffic fairly. in reality, there are at least 17 pieces of flair on each search page. remember that most scrubs do not use ublockorigin!

. "getting traffic" is also called networking. making connections with diverse groups. it is part of building a brand, reputation, and yes a client base. trying to avoid that step often makes your business trivially replaceable. for commodities that is actually fine, but many shop owners are not selling commodities.

. you are spot on about shopify having many alternatives. perhaps the competition will benefit shop owners as a whole. i can hope.
There are many business that don't do a full 40 hours so they don't have give benefits. And they demand you comply to a badly planned last minute schedule. There are also businesses where you don't know if the tips are going to the employees or to the business owner. You have no idea if your fast food server lives a 2hr commute away and does 2 or 3 '30 hr' (no benefits) jobs to tread water.

Also the benefits things is a uniquely American issue, in many other countries it is not.

In the past the exploitive bigco was walmart. Walmart is still the same, but we don't really talk about it anymore?
People don't just switch off after four years.

It's pretty likely that the relationship was dead for a while from her perspective. It's just that OP was blind to the signs.
Memegen is alive. Leadership team still need it for their all hands slides. XD
If retail workers tried to unionize what is to prevent the millions of people who are equally qualified from replacing the entire union?

We know the answer to that because film extras (and most screenwriters) are of a comparable replaceability to retail workers but the Hollywood unions are strong.
Afaik, TeX is a Turing-complete language that can even read files from disk. Yet, it's only purpose is to render static text documents and nobody blames Knuth for inability to separate the presentation layer. The web is no longer a bunch of text documents. It's the first and only successful cross-platform solution. Moreover, it's still in the very infancy and in 10-20 years it will be the full-blown operation system layer on top of every platform. The problem of the web is that its sandbox has become leaky.
assume if you are a leader of central government and your trusted local government proposes a bill, would you support it or not? can you simply say it's wrong to support?
This is a very very hard problem.

You can imagine a case where not tainting a variable implies something about the user.
I was in Austin many times over the period that Uber and Lyft were not there.

One of my takeaways was that building a mobile app which feels polished and actually works as advertised is _hard_ - not one of the local competitors managed it. Most of them didn’t even bother to distribute their app outside the US App Stores (a common issue with American companies) making it next to impossible to use for international visitors.

Uber and Lyft are not immune to some of this though - Lyft still do not appear to accept international credit cards correctly, though fortunately they do accept Apple Pay which is a reasonable substitute. And Uber’s GPS navigation is unspeakably bad in most metros, offering idiotic routes.
Seriously, is there anything in China nowadays that is not a bubble?
That's still a much better place than the one where it really belongs to.
This company has a shite hiring process. Ask you to submit pull request on github with answers to a challenge (and you can publicly view other people's answers as it is a public repo).

The answers were straight forward and I didn't pass. And I could see my answers were the same as other people submitting. Very odd company.
I agree. Self-driving cars will take a really long time to emerge. The progress will be gradual. According to George Holtz of Comma ai, great lane-keeping is the first major milestone.

The problem with your logic is the connection to Uber. Uber doesn't control the cars their drivers use. Sure they can set restrictions but they never collect actual data that is useful for self-driving. The only data Uber collects is when and where people want to travel. Google & Apple both have this dataset (probably superior) through their map apps.

The real data gathering will come in the way Tesla does. Gather data from real-time drivers by putting the necessary sensors in cars you sell.

Maybe Uber could force their drivers to install kits but I doubt it. Self-driving cars will emerge over time as new features in cars you buy. This is already happening (ie brake assist). You'll then just get updates to your car when new features become available.

There's a pretty good talk about the future self-driving cars here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcYp-XT7UI
I had a Casio F-91W in those days. Except for sleeping, it never left my wrist through a 2 year period that included daily jogging, swimming and sauna routines. Superb product.
I assume many people view menial tasks as below them, and it also seems to differ in degree culturally. I'm from the US, and on a recent trip to Japan I noticed a stark difference in the pride and responsibility the average citizen showed in taking good care of even small spaces. It appeared to be an appreciation for the aesthetics of life, no matter the scale. This isn't valued in the same way in America, where anything that isn't the top feels like it's not worth one's time.
Of course they are.

I gave it to them.
It is also done to commute from Baltimore to DC; for me it's just way too much. Redwood City was my limit and I really hated it, even with my motorcycle. I know there's a Google Bus from very near to me all the way to Sunnyvale, but I considered that still unacceptable.

Of course, late at night I once did SF-SJ in 45 minutes. Having tried every solution at all times of day (e.g., biking to the caltrain, carpooling, etc) the "big bike" always wins; truly off peak the car is just as fast, in theory (and, hey, safer and more comfortable... but less fun).

But, let's be honest all the solutions are stressful and sucky. You can trade time for stress to a certain extent, but you're spending a lot of both no matter what.
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Thanks for making me aware of this. It seems less fluent to use mario
It didn't have to be that way. I wish hosting was something that was completely free for creators, funded by a % of the visiting user's monthly bill from their ISP. If you get a lot of views, you therefore get a lot of resources. Everything scales and maybe you don't have to rely on stalking people online and exploiting psychology to make people loose money and/or health.
This, I think, is at the heart of the self-driving car hype. People love ordering a car by app, they love SoftBank or whoever subsiding their ride, they don’t really care about externalities like the company evading its taxes. But talking to the working class, that’s a step too far for them.
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This is an excellent way of looking at it. Frankly it's not necessarily a bad thing either if the content of the book is valuable and you put it into practice effectively. Then it has the added bonus of really cementing itself in your experience banks.

I like to look at good knowledgable books like having a personal mentor who sits down and patiently monologues about their experience. In reality its hugely useful.
Isn't the biggest problem of HK people vs. PRC central govt is that the primary goal seems to be getting everyone in HK and the mainland to live by the same laws (regardless of transfer of sovereignty agreements between UK & PRC), and so allowing freedoms in HK would effectively mandate the same freedoms in the mainland as well?
I think ABP on top of Brave is overkill. I always used uBlock Origin on Chrome and that worked better for me than ABP. Now that I've switched to Brave, I don't have anything additional installed, and I feel like it's blocking almost all of the ads and definitely all of the tracking (in fact, Brave's anti-tracking is sometimes a bit too aggressive and blocks normal function of sites, so I have to disable it on occasion).
Here's a disruptive thought: Why not relocate?
> Paying people for their work

This whole thread started with

> He's dead.

The point being that they're not getting paid for their work. Perhaps their descendants are, or far more likely these days, their employer.
Google is going to captcha you to death as punishment.
What part of Damore's memo do you think was 'discriminatory' in an 'unacceptable' way? Please be specific, because this is into bizarro-world territory from my point of view.

I read it and saw an attempt at proposing policies to increase female representation based on a collection of science papers about differences in behavior between men and women.
> 100ms delay for each request

NOPE
They wouldn’t let her in to the bar because her license had expired? What do they care as long as it has the correct DOB on it?
This post is from 2015, and hasn’t aged well. The author doesn’t provide much evidence for why he hates Jira. People assuming Jira makes the team agile is a problem with those people, not the tool.

The default workflow is “good enough”. The times when folks have screwed up workflows were more a result of an overly-complicated workflow than the tool itself.

The recommendation to use a physical board doesn’t work for remote teams. My team of four is currently distributed in four separate locations. Paper won’t cut it.
If China is using "safety" as a political weapon, I think other countries need to respond with sanction. The idea of safety is not some abstract concept. Safety is an objective measures with international norm, standards and processes.
How does this story feel like to people who are suffering from impostor syndrome?
"Electric-Car Bubble"...

"EV sales make up just 4 percent of overall passenger vehicle sales of 23.7 million units, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers."

Yup, definitely sounds like a bubble.

Smog is their main problem, and EVs are the solution. Exponential growth will continue. And I'm tired of these anti-EV/anti-Tesla articles from Bloomberg.
That's precisely what the did though. The new VP is a frightening mix of extreme competence and pointy haired boss.
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But we were specifically talking about the long range version.
Flirting is an art that can be learned and it's fun. The body language, tone of voice, looks - everything is designed to be sensed.

It takes some strong powers of denial to suggest that looking at pixels on a screen can even compare. Yours is just the modern, considerate iteration of being scared to approach women.
Planning. If you travel regularly you can make a regular plan to visit the hotel gym, run, etc. Meditation can be practiced almost anywhere.

I don’t know if many roles in which people are always under deadline pressure. If that’s you, either plan around the deadlines or stop committing to unsustainable deadlines (which, I know, is easier said than done).
;)

Speaking of history and the Cold War, a worthy docuseries to face some uncomfortable facts of the US' post-WW2 behavior: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Even Gorbachev wrote an opinion on the subsequently-released book.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80127995