skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, are we supposed to also shame everybody with a mainstream smartphone ("Hey Siri" / "OK Google"), home hub, etc?

That's a LOT of shaming, when here I thought we were already shaming people quite sufficiently/too much... :-/

Honestly, never quite got the hate on Google Glass - they merely made it obvious and convenient, what so much accepted technology already does anyway :-/
Awesome! Now Amazon can listen in on my conversations even when I’m away from home! And as a bonus they can hear everything anyone I’m near says, too!
> That is, the core processes a business executes—from how it produces a product, to how it interacts with customers, to how it delivers services—are increasingly specified, monitored, and executed in software.

When I think of businesses I think of the local auto repair shop, the restaurant around the corner, the paving company working on the roads, the local HVAC company around the corner from me, and the local gyms.

The core products at the boot camp workout place across the street from me don't need to be specified, monitored, or executed in software.

Somehow this reminded me that empathy is decreasing in society (you can search on it). Putting more computers between businesses and people isn't necessarily going to be better for people or the way we interact with each other.
Why do women complain that their are many men?
First just want to say I'm not against women being in tech. But I'm wondering why do they complain that there are not many women in tech.

I mean maybe not all women want to go and work as a programmer. I'm a guy and I work as a programmer and it's not that fun, it's literally staring at the laptop for 8 hours! Why would a woman want to do that? This issue is basically ruining tech communities! I'm not sure why many people just became soft, even on Stack Overflow they mentioned last year that they want to be more friendly to woman, it's literally a q&a. if you ask a good question you get upvote, if you don't then you get downvotes. Its not even related to woman.

Can someone just explain this whole thing for me? Should all woman just enter tech and work as a programmer?
This seems odd to me. I mostly eat vegan just because my wife can't have dairy and I try keep my meat consumption low and I don't notice a difference in time cooking vegan vs non vegan. There are plenty of vegan sources of proteins like beans that don't take any extra time.
Fiddler is a bit of an ugly duck, and you even have to give your e-mail address away to Telerik. However, it does have scripting ability and supports extensions and one can be very powerful in it if you know what to look for.

I actually use extension functionality to extend Fiddler a bit to emulate our internal authenticating proxies we have at work (like PingFederation).
Dunno why the downvoted but I’m glad somebody is willing to argue why it is a good idea WeWork leases all their offices. To me it seems nuts, but I am more than happy to hear arguments for why it makes sense.
Sharing this idea in order to gather critique.
The cost of healthcare in the USA is insane.
Could we look for insight into the US Military?
Example: This morning, a coworker told me she's going to have an operation on her back. The "cost of the tray" (I have no idea what this is) is $14,000. She has to pay $8,000 up-front two days before the operation, and the remainder will be financed over two years.

To me, it's insane to think the US Military pays $14,000 for this same operation in US Veterans' hospitals.
Why don't we look into the military to see how they're doing it?

Or am I completely off-base here? Thoughts?
Escalation and Conflict in U.S.-China Economic Relations
I disagree. One paper per year for someone who started publishing in the 50s wouldn't be insane to me (though, low to my eye) -- but publishing one paper every few decades would be insane by any standard (and you couldn't get to millions of papers published per year at that rate).
> In this scope they could bring in previous litigative history of the plaintiff (or any related entities, piercing the corporate veil).
When I was freelancing, I would start by executing on the project and typing. I'd stop in-between to think and read docs, but usually I'd begin and end the day by typing. That's why billing by tracking typing worked for me. Even if I had long meetings one day, I could look at that day's chart and see total hours worked since the start/end times are shown.
“Samuel L. Jackson” Voice for Alexa
If any of y'all have questions about the process for getting a Tier-2 visa in the UK, I know waaaay more about that than I wish I did.

(I'm an American living and paying income taxes in the UK as a software engineer. It is an option.)
These seem interesting. The biggest downside I see is that you have to use the Alexa app, which is hands-down the worst iOS app I have the displeasure of interacting with regularly.

[..] including the ability to mute the mics with the Alexa app.
Ray Tracing Denoising
Information Security applications of NLP techniques [pdf]
Healthcare is expensive and getting more so because of over reliance on insurance and government imposed restrictions on supply. See "Overcharged" for a detailed summary of the issues: https://www.amazon.com/Overcharged-Americans-Much-Health-Car...
So do Airpods. Some of Bose's headphones have had integration with Alexa etc for some time. I've noticed I've trigger Siri accidentally several times (imagine saying, "... but hey, seriously ..." in a conversation).
This seems like a good diet, but it also doesn't seem like the vegan part is what is helping you out here, if you had ceased eating junk food and still ate meat you probably would have seen similar/the same results.
Aside from the active noise cancelling tech that bose uses, their products aren't synonymous with pretty good. From a technical standpoint the driver units in their headphones are crap. Even random chinese headphones at a fifth of the price can produce better sound than Bose products.
OT: You for sure know that the 'Duce del Fascismo' was in power as a Dictator since 1925 - and the fascists takeover state power in Kingdom of Italy in 1922, not ?

(Quoting: //wiki/Mussolini)

regards from germany (-;

Edited: Typo
The real issue generally speaking is people with union negotiated healthcare tend to really like their health insurance because in at least certain cases, they're getting Cadillac plans that give them a one up on seeing the best doctors around, in addition to in certain cases paying less in premiums than they would be taxed for M4A.

The second piece is that M4A is a huge unknown, and so they'd want to keep their health insurance because they're afraid that what the government will offer will ultimately be worse.

The first point is certainly easy to address as that money would then likely be renegotiated to result in salary increases, but with regards to the second, what would stop a republican administration from doing things like, effectively banning abortion by refusing to pay doctors who perform them through executive order.
This is really important. Pulled from the underlying study[1], employers cover 82%/70% (individual/family) of the cost of healthcare. Those numbers are down just slightly from 86%/73% in 2019.

Or, put another way, employers have borne 69%/80% of the cost of healthcare increases. You complain because your individual plan has gone up by $986 in 20 years? Your employer's cost has gone up $4,005. Oh, and that's with cutting the underlying coverage ("skimpier").

It negatively impacts wage growth because that extra $4k is a bottom-line benefit (or cost of employment, if you want to think about it that way).

Finally, note the disparity between individual and family plans. Employers are offering 2.5x more benefit—nearly $9,000 more—to workers with families.

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[1] http://files.kff.org/attachment/Report-Employer-Health-Benef...

Fig. 1.10 shows premiums increasing from $2,196/$5,791 in 2019 to $7,188/$20,576. (Note also that 72% of that is attributed to premium increases vs. inflation and worker earnings, per Fig. 1.14.) Fig 6.1 shows % of premium paid by workers going from 14%/27% to 18%/30%.
I'm not sure how representative an infants metabalism is. Humans are already unique in keeping our ability to digest milk into adulthood (an adaptation that has not spread to the entire population)
I think this article is arguing for the opposite, taking personal responsibility for your future. In PC culture, victimhood is somewhat idealized and the goal is to make demands of others as compensation.
Mesa 19.2
Except that using CDN services is a privacy hole in itself - I don't know whether Cloudflare[1] currently collects or sells tracking data on usage (including referrer information) but there is definitely a technical capability there and no legal impediment. If they don't do it now then whenever a vulture capitalist scoops them up you can be sure they'll start.

1. To be clear, I am specifically referring to cloudflare because it's the service under question. I have no opinion on Cloudflare or knowledge of any specific and current privacy issues.
The name of the operating system is actually "/e/"??? That's terrible..
Who do you recommend reading for more actionable insight?
> I find it a bit condescending

Cool.

> when we try to pin all of the blame on western influence in the past, when these people are quite capable of fucking up their own lives without your help thank you very much.

Guess we'll never know because of all the rape and pillage.

I'll never understand how people come to so deeply fetishize the subjective that they're entirely willing to cast off the shackles of the objective.
Last time I read about it it wasn't very promising. If I remember correctly their code is proprietary and last time I checked it was just aggregating results from other search engines.
I don't think you actually looked at the requirements for a "flat" or you wouldn't use it as an example. It's not an arbitrary package of a given weight. It has to be FLAT. It has very specific size requirements, must have a minimum of 1/4 inch thickness and maximum 3/4 inch, and that thickness has to be uniform across dimensions: it cannot vary by more than 1/4 inch. And even then it has strict rigidity requirements: It cannot deflect more than 2 inches over a set distance from the edge of a counter. If any of these conditions are not met then you pay the standard "commercial plus" package rate, whether you ship 10 package a month or 10,000. I have inquired both directly with USPS and with a shipping logistics consultant: there is no amount that gets you a better price than the general prices I'm quoting unless you have your own logistics network that delivers directly to regional USPS distribution hubs for "last mile" delivery, and then you're not really using just the USPS are you? You're building out your own shipping network as well.

And even then you're wrong: Paying any amount for shipping of items, even if the items cost the same amount as the Chinese version it's still more expensive. It doesn't matter if the shipping cost is $10 or $3.50 or $1: It's still more expensive.
Some links aren't showing the video preview:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WS3HN5Q
Google glass kinda seems like the inventions in this sketch, where it's clear that it could have a purpose one day and it's designed well, but right now, it just seems mostly foolish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa_hiLXLbTc
What was the update doing that trashed /var?
It doesn't have a camera, which imo was the creepiest part
Missing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAL_Actor_Language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS [HolyC]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Portable_Intermediate... [SPIR]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refer_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuneScape#History_and_developm... [RuneScript]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan_(API)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DokuWiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_(software)
A dog sleeping amidst lots of stimuli known to excite dogs is exhibiting a lazy, sick or perhaps even unfriendly behavior.

Edit: sleeping is a behavior.
I thought the camera was the creepy bit?
I have been teetering on the edge of full blown luddism ever since the first iPhone came out. Then social media took over . I have never used social media, and only just recently used a smartphone. Even though I hate the form it has taken on in this particular decade, I'm still open to the possibility that smartphones and social media could one day be ethical and healthy ways to communicate with other people.

That being said, the colonization of the human body is a step too far for me. I will use a smartphone, I might even use Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat one day if they ever embraced more human-centered ethical design. But I will never, ever, ever allow a company to intervene between my physical senses and the physical world. That's the line I personally choose to draw, hopefully many others will draw it with me.
Don’t forget crypto currency. Massive* unregulated market that is probably 99% fraud.

*of course because it is completely unregulated we have no real way to determine if it is truly a “massive” market or just a relatively small amount of people painting the tape with wash trading....
How do you explain the popularity of the Starbucks mobile app? The fact that it rivals Apple Pay in usage is proof that the answer is no.
Why Nobody cares, and only You can save the World [video]
i am not entirely disinclined to agree with that statement, at least as far as the uneducated masses go. but there are certainly those that know how to properly wield the fire and work towards the progression of humanity and i think it's somewhat silly to entirely discount them as they are the ones who have gotten us this far.
The old refrain: "No highs, no lows, must be Bose!"
You see it constantly because it is true. A group plan is a thing. Yes you’re still in a “group” when you register as an individual, but it is an “individual plan” and semantics doesn’t really help you out.

The difference is that if I know the mean and variance of expected health costs for the group, I can offer a lower premium to every individual member because the variance of total actual cost goes down by n^(-1/2) and I don’t need to cover my butt as much. Especially since almost all group plans are centered around relatively healthy working age people. The privilege of group plans is you’re in a healthier subset.

Individual plans are for people not on those plans and they suck dickballs. There is a high chance of moral hazard. There’s more retired old people. You offer little value to the insurance company so you don’t get to negotiate like a group plan does.
Spot, the Internet’s Wildest 4-Legged Robot
MDisc is not king. Their DVDs were outperformed by competitors in a test done by the French National Archives [0].

Further, DVDs are effectively obsolete these days and MDisc's Blu-Rays have no scientific studies backing their claims to longevity compared to competitors like the DVDs did. One of their largest advantages relative to DVDs is completely gone in Blu-Rays as well: The inorganic dyes and recording layer (these are now standard for essentially all BD-Rs).

[0]: https://www.lne.fr/sites/default/files/inline-files/syylex-g... and full test and results in French: https://francearchives.fr/file/de7f8ea96ceb4ce38eb6d9278b3df...
That's a pretty good counter, actually. I was aware of those facts, but hadn't considered them in this context as far as I recall.
Wonderful, now my data can be harvested wherever I go instead of just in the privacy of my own home
Double fun fact, they’re technically on mountain time and not pacific because of their proximity to Boise[1]

1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Oregon
Is it possible for an American to move to Switzerland?
You seem to have gotten your deployments down and I really think that's good. In my own experience, though, managing your own infra always works well until it doesn't anymore. And when it stops working well, it crashes and burns and sucks up all the time. Going with managed services like serverless helps to get around that.
Role and Applications of NLP in Cybersecurity
I have to agree, the first thing that pop in my head is the /e/ board from 4chan which is for ecchi
Ask HN: Help me find an essay I read on HN
Apologies in advance if this kind of question is out of scope. Some time this year I followed an HN link and read an essay that I am absolutely not able to find again despite my best efforts. It was exceptionally well-written although my memory is very fuzzy on the details. To the best of my recollection:

- Female author, youngish.

- It was a personal narrative written in the first person, about the author interviewing for and getting a job at a startup - possibly in California.

- I think the job was copy/content writer of some kind. The author had a hard time of it, and captured exceedingly well both the ennui and the anguish of working a faceless 'communications' type job.

- I think it also included the author resigning or being fired, and driving to the country to meet her mother maybe.

Oh boy, sorry about the slim and possibly wrong details. I think if someone remembers a great piece of writing from the past year on the above themes it's likely to be the one I am trying to find again.
I live in Sweden. Hard to show an example without doxing someone.

But here is an search on just such a site:
https://www.merinfo.se/search?who=Kjell&where=

Kjell is a common Swedish name, just click on any link and you will see the personal information about this person. Usually, there also pictures outside their homes with Google Street view.

There are many of these sites, and the information comes from the government. The sites have a right to publish this information and there is nothing you can do in order for it to stop as an individual.

The only real solution if you want to be a bit more anonymous is to write yourself on an adress which you don't live on. But that requires you to have such an adress to begin with and will mess with a lot of systems.
You don't run your code through HN as a post-commit hook?
I agree, I'm pretty unfamiliar with that source personally but I did check out that article and was quite disappointed with the content of it... It didn't seem malignant but it was certainly quite ignorant of potential issues.
OpenCL only adopted C++ when it was clear that had lost to CUDA and some love was required, thus going over OpenCL 2.0, 2.1, initial introduction of SPIR and now SYSCL.

Incidentally most OpenCL drivers still aren't properly 2.0 compliant, and the best way is to get something like computecpp, the SYSCL implementation being done by CodePlay.
I'd also consider trail running. I sometimes run after work. I don't carry alot, and on the trails at sunset I hardly see anyone. I could see myself taking a tumble and needing help. I once encountered a wolf out there and sprinted like never before to get out of the area. I could have easily fell.
OH, got it, the receiving nations declare it.

It almost sounded like the sending were and of course they'd be all "oh yeah this is like a penny...".
Quite the suburban hellscape, eh? Many of these 50+ mph stroads forgo sidewalks and attempt to ban pedestrians (or even bikers sometimes).
Nitpicky feedback, the PHP page says "Personal Home Page". The meaning was changed to the recursive "PHP: HyperText Preprocessor".

Source: https://www.php.net/manual/en/preface.php
I'm someone who vapes, and I wouldn't mind more regulation on juices. Nicotine is a very potent chemical, and concentrated solutions are effectively potent poison. A swig from one of these bottles could easily kill you.

At minimum, I believe there should be labeling and quality controls standards, and child-safety caps. A concentration limit may be sensible as well.
AI helps scientists predict depression outcomes
> Sam Harris' podcast runs entirely on donations

He seems to be shifting away from that. There is a "private feed" that will "increasingly carry content that will not be available on the public one" (from first 20sec of Making Sense #168). So yeah, he either wants more income or just donations isn't that great.
Right, because SIP is working as intended.
> which point you could create the same post-hoc explanation for the opposite outcome, about how hundreds of years of violence created very tough and mentally strong people.

This is pure ideology: we were actually helping them when we were chopping their children's hands off in the congo when they didn't produce enough.
I met Carl Sagan at a talk he gave at a local astronomy telescope in the 70's when I was just a kid. He pointed me to CSICOP (Now just CSI), and it made a huge impact on my young mind by leading me down the path of skepticism. I've always been incredibly grateful to that man for his approximately two minutes of personal advice.

www.skepticalinquirer.org/about
When you're from Ontario and say you're from Ontario in California, people think they know what you're talking about, but they don't.
Thanks for opening my cautioning about HotSpot Shield.

5 euros/ month sounds expensive but does it give a bigger bang for your buck?
Is the US Doing Enough to Maintain Its Leadership in AI?
The insurance companies are for profit corporations who pay politicians so they can keep taking your money when you're healthy and cutting you when you're not. The army is not, as far as I know, a for profit enterprise.
Amazon Echo Loop
Correct. A fly on the seat of your car travels 0 m/s with respect to the car and to you, but travels, say, 30 m/s with respect to the road. Speed (and velocity, for that matter) always needs a reference to be meaningful.
Exactly, google glass was ugly and boring. That's why Google spinoff Niantic pivoted to gamify AR with Pokemon GO in order to take a different strategy. The idea was to get people comfortable with it using the cultural capital of Pokemon; then comes the next version of Google Glass.
Not in this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario#Etymology

However, it'd be fascinating to see some mapping showing in detail where most place names are from in a region.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_state_and_territory_na... has the states, but it'd be more fun to dive into towns, rivers, mountains, etc...
Oh I'm sure the military doesn't pay that much. They get to leverage staff doctors, and negotiated rates. You know like other countries with single payer systems, etc. get.

People in the U.S. get screwed, because hospitals are businesses, and they know how much they can charge to make a profit. When a hospital has an entire legal arm just for suing people in court, because they aren't making their payments, you know something is wrong.
I've been using this with my own domain for several years now and have no complaints so far. Effective and reliable from my perspective. Satisfied customer looking forward to their next security-forward features and deeply grateful to have the correspondence most sensitive to me off gmail and similar!
Does anyone here actually use voice control commands in public (at a coffee shop, on the sidewalk) like the ads for this are suggesting? If so, does it feel awkward?

Expecting people to speak their commands in public just seems intrusive and I don't understand companies trying to pretend it's a norm to sell their products. I really don't want to know what song the person next to me is listening to. That's the point of headphones.

People with visual disabilities often already have better tools to interact with their phones with privacy, and nobody minds people using voice for people with physical disabilities either (and these tools exist already too).

Related: it's about to be even more weird for everyone in the world named "Alexa".
In the UK, consignments valued at £15 or less are free from Customs Duty and import VAT, so that doesn't do much to discourage small-scale individual purchases from China.