skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act process involves bringing the matter and any evidence to the Department of Justice. The DoJ then has a fixed time to either investigate or decide not to investigate. If they decide not to investigate the whistleblower can bring their complaint and evidence to the staff of the Senate Intelligence committee for the committee to decide if further investigation by the committee is warranted. If the DoJ does investigate they have to notify the Senate Intelligence committee of the investigation.

If Snowden had attempted to follow the lawful procedure there would be evidence of it at the DoJ, the Senate Intelligence committee and Snowden himself would have evidence due to his correspondence with the DoJ and Senate Intelligence committee.
Samrat Chowdhery’s comment is really shameless. Hopefully greed is not as bad for your health as the poison he’s selling.
As far as I understand it, the primary reason is that gravity is a much weaker force than any of the others, so detecting gravitational effects is difficult unless the scale of the event is colossal. These instruments are extremely sensitive; the effects they detect are just that small.
Do you know that the reason California was able to set their own standards is because Congress passed a law and part of that law enabled the executive branch to grant waivers? This 100% is following the law as written by Congress.

That being said, when you say "enforce the rules congress sets up", you are touching on an issue that many on the conservative side of the aisle frequently complain about, specifically that Congress often passes laws that leave enormous amounts of discretion to regulatory agencies. Sometimes literally saying "establish regulations that are meant to achieve X goal" and leaving the actual rules, that have the full force of law, up to bureaucrats to establish.
"Pros outweighing the cons" is often a solid indicator of a real Constitutional challenge, as most Constitutional protections are around things that the founders decided had pros that outweighed their cons so substantially that they wrote them into the founding document of the nation.

Your comment about illegal parking is a pretty good one for highlighting the consequences though - issuing tickets would become functionally impossible, which would likely result in more booting (which is effective at ensuring compliance by the owner, but wildly counterproductive to the goals of parking restrictions) or towing (which has plenty of its own issues).

I've only started thinking about this today, so I don't have a strong opinion on this. I'm more interested in whether or not this sort of thing has every been seriously covered in court given its overlap with other privacy arguments.
According to the-federation.info the fediverse has crossed 3M users
What you are describing is common sense engineering, of which Agile also incorporates those aspects of as well.
Speaking from personal experience, if you allow out-of-hours calls, they creep in and become the norm. Then you're expected to both be at work during work hours for meetings and to take the out of hours meetings too.

This can be perfectly acceptable, I was happy to do it for a previous employer. I was also compensated for it.
IT community against political repressions in Russia
TL;DR, please:

- press the "star", if you are against political repressions in Russia: https://github.com/developers-against-repressions/case-212

- upvote this post

- share the post with your colleagues

Thank you very much!

If you want to sign the letter (basically, it says that all political repressions in Russia must be stopped):

- add yourself to signed/1.txt (the format is "<name> | <role>, <company>", e.g. "John Doe | Software Engineer, Google")

- OR create a file in the "signed" directory with any name (more complex - better) and put any number of people in the format described above

and send the corresponding pull-request.

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This summer was crazy in Russia. Almost all (let's say 95%) independent politicians were not allowed to participate in local elections for NO legal reason. That is why people were protesting a lot (in a non-violent way!). Several thousand protesters were detained for NO legal reason, and some of them (~10-20) are at risk of getting several-year sentences for nothing. There are software developers among them as well and one of them has already been sentenced for FOUR YEARS FOR REPEATEDLY TAKING PART IN THREE NON-VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS. Literally.

More reading:

- About protests in general: https://www.rferl.org/a/how-a-local-vote-rocked-russia-moscow-election-caps-summer-of-discontent/30150471.html

- Four years for nothing: https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison-for-repeatedly-taking-part-in-unsanctioned-protests/30148730.html

- At risk of 3 years for nothing: https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-case-ustinovprominent-russians-protest-repression/30171770.html
Why would I waste my time applying if it specifically states a CS degree is required? If you don't REQUIRE it, state that. It's not encouraging at all.

Last time I was applying for work, I sent out 150 applications/resumes, every single one I look at the list of requirements, if I don't meet one of them, I don't apply because it's a waste of my time.
Michael Pollan wrote [1] about an evolutionary biologist who did this exact thing after his daughter was born via cesarian.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/say-hello-to-the...
They are looking at companies that: "Raised under $10M total investment funds, last round being over 3 years ago"

This implies that in addition to self-funded ventures, they are looking for fire sales from failed start-ups.
> Likewise, a highly intelligent man thinking "oh my, this young lady who also happens to vacation here is really into me, what a lucky bastard I am" and any variation thereof doesn't pass the smell test.

I didn’t interpret Stallman’s comment to mean this at all. But rather that Minsky assumed that the victim was engaging in prostitution and willfully engaging in sexual acts in exchange for money.

With regards to not knowing someone’s age, there are a few plausible scenarios that come to mind. The victim could have lied to Minsky. Epstein could have lied to Minsky. She could have presented a fake ID, etc.

I think you making a lot of assumptions here that just aren’t borne out by the evidence available. Assumptions about what Stallman thinks or has implied, and assumptions about the nature of the accusations against Minsky. As far as I am aware we don’t know where or when it allegedly happened, the victim’s age at the time, or the details of how it was initiated. Some of the details you are assuming about the victim being 17 or the encounter having occurred on a private island seem to have been pieced together in a highly speculative verge article or from internet commentators (if you have quality sources of information that report otherwise please share). Stallman may not have had these details in mind or may have had a different set of assumptions when he wrote what he did.

I for one would like to see Stallman elaborate on some of his positions to better answer these questions. Not silenced.
Compile speed is the one I agree on, the others I haven't really run into.
Yes, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
10 LOC/h is spectacularly good over a long time period. Congratulations, from a varnish user.

I recently tried to set expectations in a coding interview that was scheduled for 3 hours. I told them that was enough time to read the spec, develop a simple test case, and begin or possibly complete an implementation of part of the spec. I also told them that I wasn't interested in a shop that hired people based on their ability to dash off broken, untested code in half a day. It seems to me that this kind of coding test (especially for someone with 25 years of open-source contributions) can only lead to bad things. I'd be glad to meet people like the author who have a practical view on Brooks and LOC/h.
I believe that policy to be morally wrong. If a site WAS accessible then that old version should continue to be until an active legal tool is used to request the offline archiving rather than free access as it was at the time of observation.
... and a half-million MAU.

https://the-federation.info
> I've also never found that pure (like the wind-driven snow capital-A) Agile matches reality.

Pure Agile (the Manifesto and Principles) are all about adapting to reality.

Canned process sold as “Agile” probably won't work without adaptation to your concrete circumstances, but that problem that invariably comes with using canned process rather than team-owned process adapted to the team and their concrete circumstances is exactly the problem that motivated Agile.

That some of the signatories of the Manifesto are now on the dark side peddling canned, one-size-fits-all (but none very well!) process is annoying, sure.

> I still haven't figured out how quality assurance and test fits into the same iteration in Agile

Sometimes it won't. From your description, the concrete composition of your team with regard to those functions sounds problematic for that. In the long term you might be able to evolve your team to alleviate that, and maybe that is desirable, but in the near term, well, “people and interactions over processes and tools”. Forget what any guru tells you about the right way to do Agile if it doesn't work for your team dealing with the problems you face, and especially if they are just telling you your way is wrong without even proposing a testable alternative.

Agile isn't canned process, it's the rejection of canned process in favor of empowering the people actually doing the work.
There's a logical fallacy here that I don't know the name of:

"Because it's so important, surely they must be competent."

Which does not follow.
Google started offering service in Huntsville in 2018 and from what I understand it is a solid gigabit symmetrical. Huntsville just happened to have dark fiber (courtesy of the late KMC) to a good portion of the city and that helped speed the roll-out.
> Banks software architects are not in their offices smoking cigars and making UML diagrams that they send to coders,

You'd be surprised at how common this is, especially in large companies that play, "let's pretend to do technology." I'm leaving a large hospital where I've spent half my time butting heads with our "architect" who's skills have been frozen since 2005. Leadership is all eager to chase modern buzzwords like "machine learning" and "AI" but this guy is advocating for outdated crap.
Not that I think this way, but...

There are people who think US corporations should be able to compete without any hindrance.

Having a car with lower emissions might mean it is more expensive, or less efficient, or have some other factor that makes it less competitive.

They think competing is better for the environment than regulation.

There are theories that support this, "the solution to pollution is economic growth"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuznets_curve#Environmental_Ku...

though not without controversy.
Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything we watch
Echoing the sentiment from reddit: the article lacks any numbers regarding performance and power so we cannot do meaningful analysis.

At best we can estimate a lower bound for the cost. 1,060 * $27 = $28,620

*Depends on actual bulk pricing for Pi 3B+
Interstate commerce is a joke now. Growing a crop on your own land to feed your own livestock is considered interstate commerce.
Gravitational waves are hard to detect because of their scale, speed and required precision.

Some of the most precise lasers built are repeatedly bouncing light over miles in a tunnel to track changes in arrival significantly less than a trillionth of a second different.

Doing this while filtering out noise from miscalibrated sensors or just small vibrations outside the chamber is HARD, but improving. It gets better as more come online around the world to confirm detections and aid in better directional targeting.
Bob Iger Remembers Steve Jobs
I have lived most my life with 3 people who have Asperger's and I've worked with many people who have Asperger's.

He's exhibiting 99.9% of the signs that he has Asperger's.

It's not a "pop" diagnosis of any sort.
IMO, it's due to the Action Bias. Human psychology prefers to take action rather than wait around. Making new code feels more active than deleting code (at least to me).
I know your question was likely rhetorical and you know this, but I'll say it anyway...

He is actively looking for ways to antagonize California. This issue and homelessness, he couldn't give two craps about. He is just looking for ways to make California look bad or powerless, and he's just starting a fight because he's going to use that fight on his red-state roadshow. California will never give him its electoral votes and therefore it's of no use to him. BUT, Trump is astute, and knows that people across the country don't give two hoots about California either, and will be happy to trash talk them.

Many people live their lives or conduct their work by seeking out friends and allies. Trump actively seeks out enemies. And, it works (if you concede that ascending to the most powerful leadership role in the world is a success), so is he a dummy or a genius?
Are you being serious? Did you already look at the notes your physician takes after the visit ? All your personal details are in there.

What If you went to see your doctor about some touchy subject ?(STD for example) and the transcript of your conversation gets available on internet?
"There are cases where the bank will not be able to distinguish an actually fraudulent transaction from a legitimate one. In those case, you, the customer, will be stuck with the loss"

No, that's contrary to the FCA regulations. In cases where you can't tell if there's been a third party committing fraud, the benefit of the doubt must be given to the consumer. If the bank cannot demonstrate that the consumer is committing fraud, they cannot refuse the consumer their money.

It's obviously complete nonsense to say "_whatever the rules are_, in scenario X the bank will be able to do thing Y"; in this case the rule is "in scenario X, the bank is not permitted to do thing Y".
GitHub Becomes CVE Numbering Authority, Acquires Semmle
The test is one that doesn't care about intent. If it can be found that, say, bespoke car makers (do they even exist?) based outside of California have a much harder time selling to California residents because of this law then it could be struck down. It would also be possible to use the lack of any small car makers as evidence against the law in question.
> And if you keep them on your platform, they're not going to even think about typing a query into a browser to find out what to watch next - you've already told them.

It is sad to me that this is how you consider your fellow human beings.

Putting aside how disrespectful this assumption is to your users, I don't think it's true for all your users. It may be true for enough of your users that it looks like a good idea in A/B testing, but I'd guess there are enough users who don't want to be treated like a child being told what to watch, that some significant number of them are going to go elsewhere. Some of those who leave will go pirate the content they want.

Ultimately, I think bundling content with your platform and trying to force users to buy one to have the other is anticompetitive, and harmful to users, so it shouldn't be surprising that some users are looking outside platforms for their content.
Making “Smart” Cells Smarter
I may have to try this job board out sometime.

I hold a 4 year degree in Graphic Design and sort of fell into programming. I was working at a small print company as the only graphic designer and was being "groomed" to take over the management position. I was asked often to provide quotes, make orders, take calls from customers, etc. We didn't have a good system in place for quoting or keeping track of our workflow so I started building a dashboard with PHP. In the end I really loved the work I was doing, it felt good knowing I was providing a ton of value. When they asked me to take the management position I told them that I was going to work for another company as a web developer (they loved the dashboard there as well). I worked in that position for 2 years making similar dashboards/internal applications when the company decided it was time to start a Software Department and hired another developer to work beside me.

I've now been with the company for 5 years but things are starting to get a bit rocky with the lack of meaningful work to do. I'm dreading the interviewing process as I feel inadequate not having a formal CS degree - despite several years of experience in software development. We've made cool things (surgical training simulators, dashboards for manufacturing, custom BLE Mesh network, mobile applications to name a few) but I feel they may just be overlooked by the recruiters.
Neither of those are two letter TLDs.
Does the Federal Government have the right to regulate firearms through the Commerce clause? The Federal Government's powers to preempt or enact legislation on the sale and transfer of firearms (somewhat separate from the right to keep and bear) are the same powers that enable them to preempt or enact legislation on the sale and transfer of automobiles.
I feel like this kind of work is extremely important.

I always say that if someone figured out how to write better software faster, they would be a billionaire.

I see project after project turn to mush and go south, people writing the same stuff over and over again. I see brilliant people botch projects and struggle to do the work of a programmer. I see weekly data breaches exposing my personal information to whoever wants it.

To me, there is only one conclusion: Software is too hard to write. It is too hard to write robust large-scale systems. It is too hard to write secure software. There is DEFINETELY a ton of progress to be made in this area of research.

...in the mean time, I'll keep on cashing my paychecks.
We did :) It works on all kind of pages. You just have to set it up on one page and it will work on all similar pages of the website. Did you have in mind to train a model to recognise careers pages across websites ?
Do labour costs really dominate ai ISPs?
Deadly Brain Cancers Act Like 'Vampires' by Hijacking Normal Cells to Grow
I've never used more than 5 GB data in a month

Good for you.

I'm on WiFi at home and at work, and I just checked my bill and I used 5.53GB last month, and my wife used 9.72GB. I don't consider either of us to be heavy mobile users, especially since we can't get cell service in our home.
In practice I've always found avoiding premature optimization and then profiling better than worrying about Big O.
Add in the consideration that air and water don't respect state boundaries, it would be an even bigger mess.

To be fair, the federal government has a history of abusing the interstate commerce clause -- it's not clear that just because something is capable of crossing a state line, it should automatically fall under federal purview.
Before people here start offering ideas of what they think these objects are, let review what we know they are not:

They are not balloons:
-they move too fast and travel under water (as there were confirmed sonar hits of these objects).
They are not conventional aircraft:
-they have no wings or signs of obvious conventional propulsion.
They were not false radar blips:
-they were tracked on advance gun sight cameras including in both the infrared and high definition video modes.
They were not camera software malfunctions
-Because they were tracked on Navy ship radar, Sonar, Space based radar, and jet fighter radar.

These objects can do maneuvers that can’t be explain by our conventional physics because they defy our common understanding of inertia. This includes accelerating at extreme speeds, stopping on a dime, and changing directions instantaneously.

The real truth is the US government (and others) do know, and have known for decades, that these craft are extra terrestrial. In addition the US government has recovered and possible reverse engineered some of the technology behind them. This secret they believe is too large to let go of due to multiple military, social, economic and religious implications, none the less, it’s our responsibility to hold them to account and demand they tell the truth! Way too much is at stake to keep this all hidden any longer, it’s time for full UFO disclosure.
Am I reading that right that it's only on public repositories though? For private repositories I guess you have to buy through Semmle directly (via call us pricing)?
I very much understand that this is the "value" of license plates. However, the same argument could be made for requiring everyone to display their social security number, which would pretty obviously not make through a court challenge. As I mentioned elsewhere, having just started thinking about this, I don't have a strong opinion yet, but this is a great example of an argument that strongly overlaps with those made in other privacy cases.
Neat, but what are the use cases? The one supplied by the author, open wifi that blocks most TCP and UDP, has in my experience blocked pings too.
No, you need 1500 coherent qubits, in a single system.
The Group Trip for People Who Hate Group Trips
Computers aren’t smart. Who told you they were and why did you believe them?
The problem is that you're building a new system to completely replace an existing system, and the existing system is tightly integrated in a way that makes piecemeal change difficult to impossible. And the new system isn't just a refactoring for bad code - it's a redesign in the name of new functionality.

In this particular case, it was a banking system that worked largely by nightly batch jobs. Data queued up during the day was processed at night. Job A triggers Job B, which Triggers Job C; etc. What we wanted was to change those batched transactions into individual transactions that could be processed in synchronous quasi-realtime.

With reconciliation happening near the end of the batch processing, how do you do that?

And mind you, this system moved more money every day than the GDP of many countries. Failure was NOT an option. Not if you don't want to roast the entire US economy. So the consequences of error were truly terrifying.
At the end of the day it’s another reason why being poor is expensive
You have 10k API calls when you sign up and 1k per month after that. Does it answer your question ?
> It's a bit ignorant for Bushnell to be degrading RMS by calling him a "a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently" when the man 99.9% likely cannot cognitively do so.

Have you interacted with RMS? Do you know what his cognitive limitations are?

Bushnell has. (And he doubtless knows plenty of people with Asperger's - it is certainly true that Asperger's is disproportionately common in this industry.)

Matthew Garrett, another person who has worked closely with RMS (in his case, on the board of the FSF), has said that he does, indeed, have the cognitive capacity to understand the impact of his actions, but chooses not to care: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/52587.html "I've spent a lot of time working with him to help him understand why various positions he holds are harmful. I've reached the conclusion that it's not that he's unable to understand, he's just unwilling to change his mind."

It seems like it is both unfair to RMS, unfair to people who have worked with him, and unfair to people with Asperger's to make this comparison.
We don't crawl the websites yet.
However, you can create an API on a given webpage and gather data from similar webpages on the same website by calling the API with the new URL.
Why didn't your original comment contain the 'top 50' addendum?
Toejam and Earl vibes.