skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general I like more the classic/old way of versioning the releases, like for example "1.2.2" which has some embedded meaning of what is changing (e.g. <major_change>.<minor_change>.<bugfix>) which hints at how potentially dangerous an upgrade might be or if some new exciting stuff has been included. Jumping directly from 10 to 11 to 12 leaves me clueless without reading all release notes :(
Among others, Neil Gorsuch is one originalist-friendly justice who has strongly argued against this interpretation of the 4th Amendment in a modern data transmission context.
Acting members of Congress can do it in a roundabout way, as long as they do it while speaking on the floor. Anything they says becomes part of the Congressional Record, which is available to the public and de facto unclassified.
Jesus Christ is Ben Bova? Well, that's something new for me.
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I think an under-appreciated aspect is that you can't just have a CEO who's engaged in extremely questionable practices like WeWork's did just flip a switch and say "Ok, now we're public, so I'm going to cut all that out and be honest". It's a pretty big fucking signal that he's not trustworthy.

Neumann's past behavior is still a problem.
Don’t blame the tool for mismanaged expectations.
Geometry is really used to introduce proofs. Turns out its easier to get teenagers to understand a proof if you can actually see its results.

I think that's a pretty good foundational skill, but I admit that it isn't obvious from the students point of view why that would be or that that is what they are even learning.

In Texas the Geometry class is designed to "strengthen their mathematical reasoning skills in geometric contexts. Within the course, students will begin to focus on more precise terminology, symbolic representations, and the development of proofs" [1]

In Texas Trig is taught in Precalc, which makes sense if you are going to take Calc which makes sense if you are going to go on to study engineering or physics or mathematics. But neither of those classes are required in Texas. You could just as well take Algebra 1, Geometry, and AP Stats.

[1] http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter111/ch111c.ht...
Booooh! Bad USA, bad. No cookie for you.
Because the first and fourth amendments guarantee different rights. The first guarantees that you essentially can't be arrested for speech. It says nothing about whether or not your speech can be collected and recorded. The fourth forbids the government with searching the enumerated items without cause or a warrant. Very different things.
I also shared this experience. I moved from a Python prototype to Java for improved concurrency but still ended up being beat out by somebody closer or faster.
> This assumes that the rules cannot be changed by the AI.

And sidesteps the fact that many of Asimov's stories were precisely about robots finding ways around these rules :)
I probably will. I have in the past. Judges don’t care.
Also his blog was big in its day "1114 posts over 16 years" https://www.joelonsoftware.com
Oh gosh please no. Gifs are fine on Reddit, but I personally don't think they should be used in professional communications. I don't find it humanizes companies so much as it makes it look like they're trying too hard to appear youthful. It's like a parent insisting on repeating an inside joke you had with your friends.
> If WeWork is the only fun office space, they'll be hugely profitable someday.

The competitive moat of being fun is built on huge subsidies of cheap capital being injected into the company during funding. It's a great venue because the costs are being subsidized by Softbank. Absent that subsidy they would be losing even more money than they already have and would either have to raise costs or lower quality.
I backed up 11TB. As long as we are outliers I don't think it's an issue. I can't imagine what would happen if everyone started downloading all the media they watch, though. Hopefully streaming continues to be realistic in the near future.
I think that, in many jurisdictions, that would be indirect age discrimination (https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/law-and-courts/discriminat...)
I mean something like digital cash so that I can choose how I spend it and when I spend it without a bunch of terms & conditions
Snowden did leave both the company and the country, though.
Isn't this kind of thing standard any time you visit e.g. a Google office, or a colocation facility?
The two characters “f” and “l” are, when typeset, frequently combined into the “ﬂ” ligature. Probably, this is what happens here, and some combination of bugs causes the ﬂ ligature not to be correctly translated back into “fl” when copied.
Make sure you get sleep tested for sleep apnea. (see a pulmonologist.) Don't worry if you don't mean the typical patient criteria. I didn't. (I wasn't overweight, didn't really snore, etc.)

It's a largely undiagnosed problem because most people just "adapt" and it's not until you get to be in your 40's or 50's that your heart starts to show signs of problems. IF you have sleep apnea, you are missing out on a lot of REM sleep, where your repair hormones are released and also, long-term memory assimilation occurs.

The first night I used my machine correctly, I woke up 4 hours before my normal wakeup time, thinking I overslept. I went back to bed again and woke up normally and for the first time in year, realized my EYES didn't hurt. Went and did like 16 hours of straight work after that.

Long-term effects? I'm pretty sure my functioning IQ went up 10 points thought that's obviously a subjective sample size of 1. Bottom-line though, I just seem to figure things out quicker and have a lot more energy.

I hope this is your problem because it's a real easy fix. Just go to bed.
AI learns to defy the laws of physics to win at hide-and-seek
I've used this template as a starting point with solid success.

https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cv-chandan/vgynfrhc...
The cross-shell prompt for astronauts you silly
And ~1400 China used to represent 30% of the world economy. They are now only at 18%.

More seriously, every indicators points to a general improvement. In term of economy, China went from representing 4% of the world economy to the 18% mentioned previously.

On a more "individual quality of life" side of things, life expectancy went from 45 years in 1950 to 65 at the end of Mao Zedong era (1975) to 76 years today.

> PS: Of note the 1950’s GDP was after a long civil war.

That's a bit of an understatement... China basically spent over a century in turmoil, starting with the First Opium War then the Second, various revolts, the Boxers Rebellion, the 2 sino-japanese wars (with the second far from a pretty story...) and in the end, a civil war (and that's a very incomplete list). This period is remembered as the Century of Humiliation.

Basically China is regaining its natural place in the world order.
One more for ya.

- DB/field annotations for privacy - given it's 'one integrated system', can we attach a privacy attributes to fields or db and automatically hide them everywhere (even in the dev view?)
This organization catching on is the best chance the US has at passing comprehensive gun control.
I hope the government realizes how much they’re pissing everyone off by violating our rights and defending themselves for doing it
Here is my conspiracy theory. It is completely hypothetical and unsourced and I really hope it is untrue, but any scenario should be considered.

Brendan Eich is a shill controlled by Google and US goverment agencies. The social media mob attack on him was actually a planned marketing campaign with aim to create an image of an independent, anti-establishment and alternative leader.

His actual goal is to create a "controlled opposition" for Google Chrome and a replacement for Tor Browser. Brave project is needed by Google in order to avoid antitrust charges from the EU when Chrome reaches ~90% market share. It will be still selling user data to Google and it will contain TOR backdoors known only to the US agencies (which will be easier to hide in proprietary browser).
And it's even worse than just that, since that's him freely associating in response to an article containing this:

> The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

and

> The broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening, according to the party. Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves.
If you're an originalist, spying on everybody is not one of the enumerated powers of the federal government.
A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts
Computer Chronicles was an awesome show and archive.org has what looks to be most if not all the episodes.

Looking back to the foundations can give new innovations in your projects or ideas.
I agree

I tried Wix for a while

But to be honest I really love wordpress.

The number of plugins is insane.

The bad thing about wordpress is the security.

I feel like if you run a wordpress site its more likley to get security vuanrbilities than a site that runs on another CMS

the list is pretty cool due, it shows some alternatives I never saw before
You mean you believe the number that a communist dictatorship gives you?

All Chinese numbers are generated by State institutions that work for the interest of the party and for the interest of the State.

BTW, Have you ever dealt with Chinese nationals? In Business, in live? In China? Chinese by the way will tell you anything you want to hear.

Their mindset is completely different from Europeans or Americans.

They will tell you that they can do something, but they then will not do. But they don't consider that they lied to you because it is expected by culture that you can understand the context and interpret the nuances of what they tell you.
It is something I've thought more about in recent years and have pulled back on what I say even pseudonymously.
Banks, Arbitrary Password Restrictions and Why They Don't Matter
Originally git repos use to signal for passionate developers, the kind of people that you couldn't stop from coding. Before the 2008 boom there were far less people actively interested in software and the best were the ones that just loved it. The rest where people working in corporate farms that still hadn't got laid off from the dotcom burst.

Then the startup boom started again and a new round of devs came into the profession looking to make money and needed to prove themselves. They heard "good devs have great github profiles!" so they started creating github profiles and flooding them with code to get hired.

Now we're in the new wave of cargo cult white boarding/code challenges. You may hate them but at least the early FAANG challenges were interesting and challenging. But since every company has to have them you have devs that couldn't pass a google white board challenge trying to create their own version... which usually means they are poorly thought out.
Look like spreading fake news through China Daily via Twitter Ads is not even enough for them.
I think it's possible to be empathetic with some cops - being young, nervous and maybe not dealing with the nicest people day to day - and think that systemic fixes include better training, mental health programs, fewer guns or whatever else.
You should talk to an actual intelligence officer or two. I have, which is where I got that impression from.
There the concept of civil disobedience. You don't simply leave a country because you disagree with it, you change it. Refer to the King and the civil rights movement for more. Go further back to the other Martin Luther for even more.
The X-15 was awsome, and "bad" is being used in the informal North American sense that means "good" or "excellent".

If you want some planes that live up to the other sense of "bad", here is an amusing article about several planes you might enjoy [1].

[1] https://www.cracked.com/article_18839_7-planes-perfectly-des...
If you work in or around Reston itself, I think the situation is not so bad. There are plenty of places in Loudoun County in the 25-40 min commute range that are still relatively affordable, because they are too far away from Tysons/Arlington/DC/etc. to be a reasonable commute. They're expensive, but not nearly as expensive as a comparable commute would be in the NY, Boston, or even Atlanta areas. Overall I think the "live in Loudoun, work in Reston" is a comparatively good value compared to the other metro areas that have high software engineer salaries.

On the other hand, living in Reston/Herndon and commuting to Arlington or DC is both extremely expensive and a guaranteed miserable commute. The Silver Line will probably help when it opens, but it will still be a long train ride, and you'll be at the mercy of WMATA.
A lot of the fires were around the Amphenol connectors. Walmart seems to think it was faulty installations.

In either case: Walmart's patience started to run thin after the 3rd fire. Then fire #4, #5, #6, and #7 happened, and then Walmart sued Tesla.

What I'm saying is: a faulty module could be the blame for fires#1 through Fire#3. But by the time Fire#7 breaks out and Tesla still hasn't done anything to help Walmart out... well... that's really not looking good for Tesla the company.
Whistleblower laws allow you to blow the whistle to a government agency, not to the press or the public in general.
Because, AFAIK, there’s nothing binding the government from enacting a law against treason or espionage. So they did a century ago. The problem is not that (depending on who you ask). The problem is that they’re abusing “national security” to justify needing secret courts and claiming a legally protected action (whistleblowing[0]) is illegal.

[0]: Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act
Can you point to any instances in which having a gun prevented someone from being killed by the police?

It seems like part of the problem is that there's an arms race. The cops need SWAT teams because citizens have Uzis, etc. Then the criminals get even more Uzis because now the cops regularly have them. On and on.
It probably isn't in the Constitution, but I would not be surprised if there was legal precedent for such a thing.
They may not dispose of the resume, but they may ask for a resubmission without the photo, or may black it out before passing it further into the process.
This may be a generational thing, but I prefer my workplaces to be for work, and my playgrounds to be for play, without blurring the lines between them.

Leaving work at 5 pm is the goal. Clock out. Go. Be free.

If I want a social club, it will be a separate organization. People staying at the office after hours is indicative of a toxic work culture (unless those folks always come in just as late on the other end of the workday). An effort to design a workplace as having the appearance of fun strikes me as disingenuous, at best, and at worst is a signal that the company is, as David Brent put it, "'aving a larf", at the expense of the investors.

Do not make your offices fun. Levity and gravitas can co-exist, but at work, the latter should have the greater weight.
Pretty cool. Did hiders ever figure out how to lock in seekers?
The US constitution's bill of rights only protects americans.

In general, this is false. EVERYONE gets the right to free speech, the right to an attorney and a trial by jury, etc. I wouldn't expect anyone to say that it's OK to take illegal immigrants as slaves because they're not covered by the 13th Amendment.

That said, I do see that legal opinions about Snowden's revelations say that the surveillance is OK for non-USAns. I don't understand how this is supposed to be.
While land value appreciation (which gp cited) isn't part of GDP, rent (and imputed rent) are part of GDP, so that still flows through to GDP (at least to the extent that rent and property values are related).
The fact that zilch has changed has nothing to do with him. We are the electorate and if people really gave a damn about it, which most people don't because this is too abstract and far from concrete for them, then things would have changed or at least started to. The biggest thing that's been done is Apple advertising privacy as a feature in their product releases.

Please show some evidence as to why you think the country's ability to keep us safe was hampered? Has the government shown anywhere that an attack that could have been thwarted wasn't?

People need to get off their high horse. Mass collection of data isn't a method of security. It's a method that's used to try and make up for lack of it. Let's collect all the shit we can and hope to find a needle in a haystack. We have more serious issues to take care of in this country. Sick people are walking around toting assault weapons and IMHO a large swath of the population is suffering from some sort of mental illness which is being allowed to rage unchecked.
As a user I also now need to keep up with the updates more frequently. Either deal with a more frequent risk of getting an update I don't like, or get nagged more frequently with annoying pop-ups to update if I don't want to, or turn off everything and miss out on the critical security updates.
Looks like a focus on one complicated ship (with crew management as a key piece) instead of GSB's fleets of identical ones.
Disagree. I find that there is a lot of supposed value in everyone learning all the foundations but I often wonder how much money, time and potential for other outcomes has been wasted on everyone being forced to learn things they never use. This is totally verboten to say I suppose but languages are very much like this, and so is much of maths. Not saying the options should not be there or the classes should not be full of kids, just that the sense that its "of course" a good idea for everyone to get these same foundations is overly prescriptive and ignores all the other possibilities and the lack of value most people actually gain from them.
You have no idea. I've been to poor parts of China. People heat themselves with the coals of wood-fired stove which they used to cook meals. I once saw a family that owned a government subsidized washing machine. They couldn't afford the electricity to operate the machine, so they use the tumbler to store household items.
Absolutely. Traditionally the move for a company in this situation might be to replace the CEO if they plan to raise public money and he has a history of bad behaviour.

In WeWork's case it's probably impossible to remove him both legally and because the whole company is built around his personality cult.
I'm not sure that that's what rms did.

This Guardian article makes me think that he has been unfairly treated. Even though I think that he is completely wrong to assume that an elderly man could reasonably expect that a very young person is having sex with them for any reason other than either direct coercion (violence, mental-abuse/gaslighting) or the indirect violence of capitalism (need to support self or family [1]).

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/17/mit-scient...

I think it is quite clear that he was explicitly NOT claiming that the accusor was willing, but that she was coerced into appearing willing. I think it is quite clear that he also calls for more care and clarity in the language around this and the post on Medium gets it completely wrong, as does your last phrase.

1. This can include drug dependency, can also include the need to pay for "luxuries" like going to college: it's pretty much all the same to me -- these things are withheld due to force in our society. The picture is even clearer in the extreme case of "voluntary" sex work by people in developing countries.

There are a lot of similarly coerced situations in our capitalist societies. You want to eat? Go down the mine.
Research group says AI surveillance expanding worldwide following China's lead
Here is what I found about the matter in a prior case from 2018:

https://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/2018/06/06/screening-candidat...

Tl:Dr - Yes it may
Link seems to be down for me. Really enjoy the concept though. Anything that doesn't divide neatly down party lines is a nice change.
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It doesn't matter how careful he pays attention to his NDAs. He's required to get approval before he publishes. No approval, no publication. Publish anyway, and you're in breach of contract, even if the content would have been approved in the fist place.
NDAs with financial consequences are common.
That sounds pretty surreal, I agree.
Well, at the very least the Software Freedom Conservancy was talking about past behaviour, as did various other commentators.

You might be right that widowlark's comment was in reference to the Minsky defense specifically - I didn't read the exchange that led up to the comment that closely, and took its opening line about minority opinions as a reference to pedophilia apologia in general.
Surely there was a way to let the appropriate people in charge know about these programs

They've been informed. Perhaps not in a way that you or they might approve of, but they've certainly been informed, loudly and clearly.

Of course,

zilch has changed

It would be a mistake to assume that blowing the whistle quietly, politely, and up the chain of command, might have had better results. The only difference would be that the public would still be in the dark to this very day.
I can't think of an obvious reason why anyone -- other than someone being hired specifically for their looks such as a model or an actor -- should include their photo along with their curriculum vitae. What "obvious" reasons are you thinking of? To prove they're not a bot or a house pet?
Name is required at many places, but usually not a photo.
Ever tried to teach an introductory Physics class without using geometry, trigonometry or calculus?

(Edit: for that matter, teaching statistics to students with limited exposure to calculus is not a very successful endeavour, either...)

There are a lot of things that mathematics is fundamental to besides data science, and schools need to address the requirements of all children, not just those who want to write (a very limited range of) software when they grow up.
I would argue that this is not just banks but a number of different services. This entire Github repository [1] and this Twitter account [2] are dedicated to sites with dumb password rules. Passwords are not meant for humans.

Here is a link to a hackernews thread discussing the worst of the requirements in the repository is here [3].

[1] https://github.com/dumb-password-rules/dumb-password-rules

[2] https://twitter.com/dumb_pw_rules

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20890381
The large amount of science equipment that could be manufacturer or assembled on the moon.
His point is that guns don't kill people, people don't kill people, people telling people to tell people that there's people killing people are who kill people.

It is a very weak point to make.
I'm not speaking about China specifically. The parent said:

> Always found it weird to see governments paying for PR consultants.

And that is what I'm responding to.
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Reminds me of Space Pirates and Zombies, at least cosmetically.
No clause or amendment grants any right. Rights are explicitly innate to the individual and not granted by or limited to the constitution.
How do you communicate about things related to the project, but doesn't need to have the client involved in? Do you have a separate internal channel per client?