skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I agree in principle. My thoughts are more along the lines of mass denials of any type of visa from [mainland] China for the purposes of study and/or work. If it gets bad enough, total denial of all visas. (I don't feel a kinship with China that I do with Mexico/Latin-America and Canada.)

No, that's dumb.

The answer is to let the students in, maybe push them away from militarily sensitive areas of research, and improve the education they receive in the US to counter CCP propaganda narratives. If the later is done, maybe we can actually realize the hopes of someday liberalizing China.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/world/asia/hong-kong-prot...
Similarly, I was briefly involved in a failed startup in college. We lost, at maximum, something like $20k.

I gained a lot of experience doing it and came out of it much better off skills-wise, increasing my value to future employers. It would be absurd to count that experience against me; being involved in a startup in university really should count in your favor. They almost all fail anyway.

But I don't come from obscene wealth so no one's gonna bother coming after me.
The Foolproof City
Kodak was also early (probably too early) with photo digitization with PhotoCD. But, yeah, Kodak hadn't really sold cameras for years when digital came along. And it turned out that digital photography didn't really involve using services at photo dealers which was the part of distribution infrastructure where Kodak had some real assets.

Fujifilm had (somewhat) fewer issues with transitioning to digital mostly because they applied their technical expertise in emulsions to areas that had nothing to do with photography. (Though of course they stayed in the photo business as well.)
Social security is not a tax, my friend. It is essentially an involuntary benefits payment to others. It's why they hide it and obscure the language about it. And if you had to, e.g,. write two checks every month; one to a government bureaucrat and another to some social security recipient, then you would get it … which is exactly why they don't want that.

SS you pay today is used to pay for the SS check someone else gets today. It's literally a passthrough while a whole stable of bureaucrats takes a massive portion off the top. It's one of the many reasons why SS meets the criteria of a Ponzi scheme. There is no SS that you put aside that will be available to you in the future, what you paid today is gone, paid, poof, zero, null, it does not exist and is not available to you once you pay it.

If you want to call it something more accurate than a tax, call it proportional enslavement. And that in an even more direct manner than general taxation that involuntary serves individual interests instead of common ones, let alone only pays for core functions of government. When you have taxes taken from you under threat of violence (jail) to support others' lives and lifestyles that benefits them and only them, that is nothing but slavery, regardless of whether it is only 30% slavery while having to pay for your own wellbeing and upkeep, instead of 80% slavery while living on a socialist paradise of a plantation where everything is "free".
According to [1] it is not, even though it is awarded by the same organization.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
Salesforce Founder Marc Benioff: What Business School Never Taught Me
No, it's not, but all cars require maintenance and you should know what they are an amortize them over the time you expect to have a car. For the added car life usage you should get on either Prius component, it is a bargain.
Not impressed at all this iteration. I may have to wait for Pixel 5, or I'm tempted to return to the iPhone solely so I can take advantage of the Apple Watch. I had hoped for better specs, better phone design, and most importantly - I'd have liked the fingerprint reader to have remained. I really don't want to be a voluntary part of facial recognition.
I got a single Google WiFi router (home is small enough to not need the mesh) last year to pretty terrible results. I mainly got it for more frequent firmware updates, and easy administration via their phone app (easier to use then my Netgear Nighthawk; i.e. can show my wife how to use it).

Everything worked great with it for the first few months, but then I started getting severe speed drops - specifically I was seeing download rates of 20MBps or less, when I should be getting 350MBps or less. I did all of their recommended troubleshooting (reset router, reset modem, restore to factory settings and reupdate the firmware, move router away from potential sources of interference, etc) and could not solve the issue. I still had my Nighthawk and ended up spending an afternoon testing the two, and the Google WiFi router would consistently drop speeds, while the Nighthawk stayed rock solid.

I ended up just sticking with my Nighthawk and throwing my Google Wifi in a drawer. I was outside their return window, and honestly just had no desire to try and go through Google's customer service (or finding out if it even exists for their WiFi devices). Long story short, it was the worst experience I've ever had with a router and I would hesitate to ever try their WiFi devices again.
I have stubbornly not migrated. I expressly advise people who value their privacy to not to get NEST now for this reason.

EcoBee is a great HomeKit-aware thermostat and you don't need to sign up to their account to use it (although it'll keep nagging you to, it's not required).
And he's using iTerm2 as the terminal.
How is the removal of a fingerprint sensor a step back in usability? The facial unlock is less intrusive and requires the user to do less to interface securely (minus any privacy concerns) with the phone.
This is my HN tone because tons of people here love to play the “everything was better back in the day” card. Couple that with every mention of google bringing out people with huge axes to grind and it can become eye-roll city. Apologies for being so harsh.
Yep, we're gonna change the tutorials and examples as part of the docs revamp to emphasize "feature folders" and "ducks".

It's admittedly hard to come up with examples of actions that _aren't_ a 1:1 mapping in a small tutorial app, but maybe we can figure something out.

Related FAQ:

https://redux.js.org/faq/actions#is-there-always-a-one-to-on...
Of course there are absurd ads. As adblocking gets more mainstream and less technicalml, the users left to monetize are less skilled and less valuable. Meaning publishers are stuck trying to monetize a smaller slice of their total traffic, that's also worth less. Leaving only more advertising "mass" as a way to get the same income.
It is HuffPo, what do you expect ?
https://opensports.net :)
I do 7/8 to 4 and usually eat at my desk. I'll work longer if needed but I'm usually twiddling my thumbs for an hour or two a day. Better than my last two jobs that encouraged 10-14 hour day minimums.
> If you want to find actual abuse, look up all the "consulting" companies that file tens of thousands of applications every year at the tech equivalent of minimum wage

I've seen it first hand while working in Telco's who hire those types of companies.
> Then take my 2013 impala... [...] I've had a wire harness malfunction which would randomly trigger ABS and traction control while you were driving

I had that exact same problem in a 2002 Buick. I can't believe GM hadn't fixed that yet.
Even the README itself is useful as a standalone document. Well done!
potentially OT: I wonder how they put music on a law resume

edit.. and for that matter sports... uni groups maybe?
Then, LL Bean should have become Amazon. Sears was much more of a retail operation than a catalog operation at that point.
Yeah there was a post about that on HN that got a lot of attention a week or two ago. I think that letter/essay was written before google cloud platform was really a thing, would be interesting to know how things have changed since ~2006.
I did see that you can't do laundry on Sunday in the article, strange.

> Swiss society is built on the principle of local communities and public engagement. Swiss people have a high sense of ownership and like to decide on how the things are shaped around them.

> This might seem too restrictive for some people because of some seemingly silly rules, like: no laundry on Sunday but it leads to a generally happy society which is able to solve its problems.
Location: Burlington, VT / Lebanon, NH

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Experienced in C#, .NET (Web API, WPF, Core, Forms), JavaScript, node.js, GIS, and SQL. Some experience in Python, Vue.js, Java.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ram-tech/

Email: ryanandrew at gmail

Passionate about data analytics and mapping. Experience in full-stack web, desktop and REST API development along with all the standard supporting tech/processes like git, Powershell, Scrum, requirements gathering and basic project management.
VWestlife did a walkaround video of a Sears mall about to be closed in 2017 - shows everything you just said about the place, old, decrepit, neglected, run like it was meant to lose money.

"A last look at Sears - Route 22, Watchung NJ (built in 1965)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbzAd_DtswM
> In the 90s the H-1 program was made dual-intent, as in, intent to immigrate would not disqualify someone from entry, setting the stage for the present mass exploitation of H-1B workers.

Do you know why this was done? Because the bureaucracy went out of whack and caused massive delays in the real immigration steps aka green cards.

If anything, H-1 is the only way right now because US govt can't function like a developed country. The H-1s are not to blame. They are just like you and I. And they are the kind of immigrants I want to sustain our population and economy.
> stopped oracle

Now Amazon should do this to every company using them.
It's been my experience in NYC for every Docker / Kubernetes meetup I went to.

But you're right. Not every meetup organization is the same.
If secession were allowed by any group, i think it would be profitable for single families to secede. Just the money you would save on taxes would be enough for some people to pay lawyers to handle all the government stuff.
That they are evil because they said speaker instead of device with a microphone.
For video, it was really a bit later into the early and mid 00s.

Answering this is hard, though. The best way to think about it is think of all those super random, niche subreddits. I'm sure all of those had cool, interesting web sites made by people really into that thing. So really they existed for everything. Find someone who was online a bunch during this time people and ask them if them were members of any interesting online forums.
What's amazing to me -- and I run a company -- is finding that many hours to argue with employees.
Public domain I'm assuming
The whole idea of making amounts of money beyond your expense capacity is so your dumbs kids thrive, this is no a problem with American society, but is deeply ingrained in capitalism itself.
It teaches you the value of Harvard on a resume. It teaches you the value of having rich and well connected contacts in your phone.
It's a matter of incentives. In non automation, someone can be on the hook if things go wrong, so they have an incentive to be right, even if they are flawed and make lots of mistakes. In automation you spread responsibility out, and things aren't so clear.

Automation can be better, more accurate, and in general kinder, but it can also be more profitable, efficient, uncaring and cruel, and when its pointed out the people at fault can avoid blame far far easier.
I sincerely wish you good luck. I make my living writing software and find it extremely rewarding. I like the people I work with and I find the job challenging, the domain interesting, and the pay is great. I hope you find something similar.
"Well, Jane, it just goes to show you, it's always something—if it ain't one thing, it's another."
Measuring Arithmetic Extrapolation Performance
Because context matters and your post is going off on a tangent.

Online anonymity is an entirely different topic than whether this one data set collected here is effectively anonymized.
Based on the abstract (paywall), this is the much predicted impact of the hostile environment being created in the US.

Since MBAs especially are largely network building institutions, this is a situation where the clear losers are gonna be the educational institutions and the US, because the Chinese and Indian students who would have otherwise built an American network when trying to create their own businesses, largely in their own countries, will now be building a Canadian one instead.
WeWork reportedly expected to lay off 2k workers as early as this week
Don’t they claim some sort of copyright on the APIs and also restrict what can be called “Java”?
Wonder what's going to happen to the Guam Kmart...Its a lifeline to the island.
I'm running Calibre on Python 3 (via an Arch package provided by one of the people working on the port). It and mercurial/tortoisehg and the only remaining reasons Python 2 is on my system. All of these things will be on Python 3 soon enough.

Why doesn't Debian just ship the unreleased Python 3 port of Calibre? It's not like Debian restricts themselves to only formal upstream releases, they have never hesitated to backport patches to unreleased versions. If lacking Python 3 support is such a massive bug, wouldn't using patches that have not been officially released, that fix the bug, be acceptable? Debian testing isn't Debian stable, there is not a reasonable expectation that the code shipped is perfect.

Mercurial also works on Python 3, though it's only a beta. I could understand not shipping it because version control bugs can be serious, but hey, someone's gotta test the beta. I've used it and it not encountered any bugs, but went back to py2 because tortoisehg won't work with Python 3 mercurial yet (and then bitbucket dropped mercurial support so now I'm moving everything to git, grumble grumble, probably will sadly stop using mercurial altogether within the next year).
Amazon's leadership famously pushed hard in the early 2000s for all its systems to share data only via service interfaces ( https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 ).

I wonder how much of the reason for that was actually a wish to avoid getting further locked in to Oracle (changing or removing a database that backs a single service is very much easier than changing a database that also acts as an integration point).
Towards Large-Scale Quantum Networks
Any device like this is an intrusion in the user's home (that the users agrees to), and it seems to me that Google is one of the companies that has the most respect for users' privacy.

Yes they collect a lot of data, but 1) that's exactly what allows them to provide the services that their users want, 2) they are very transparent about it (see My Activity), and 3) they seem to take security more seriously than the competition.
IMF predicts slowest global economic growth since 2008 financial crisis
Obviously, enough Amazon bots are giving me bad karma, but my point stands: No, Amazon is not a special snowflake because it did this.

This was an expensive exercise in spite, took a long time and a lot of people - and everyone knows it.

They could have done this far efficiently already if they wanted to scale out, but that company has too many conflicting internal priorities that they took a heck of a long time to move away to anything that scales.

They never try to invent things and if not Oracle, they'd use some other vendor built software. That is the true reality of this company.

So no, if you're thinking you're better than this company for moving away from vendor built software, you are mistaken. In the worst possible way.
From what the earlier poster is saying, the companies are getting around that by filing a lawsuit just before that period would expire. Then they not only get to collect on the debt for however long they can draw out the lawsuit for, they get to collect interest as well, as if the statute of limitations never existed.
lotsofpulp says> I have no idea what I'm getting at Amazon.

Got to agree. I now check products at Amazon but buy directly from the manufacturer's or reseller's website, just like the WWW was years ago and just like we all once envisioned it.

IOW Amazon has become little more than a buyer's guide, an extension of Google. Good news is that works just fine and the prices are usually lower from the manufacturer's/resellers' sites!
Sounds about right, the evap sensor issue I keep having seems to span about 15 years of cars and a LOT of models. What really chapped my ass was that 'wiring isn't covered under warranty' um hi, your stupid wiring keeps triggering ABS and traction control, that's dangerous.
A lot of Firefox's fingerprinting protection is genuinely helpful because the stuff it's blocking can be used to very, very precisely target you.

Canvas/WebGL fingerprinting is a good example of this. Yes, very few people block it, but the fingerprinting for canvas is so individualized to each device that there is no hiding in the crowd if you leave it enabled. You're hiding in a crowd of size 1.

Think of it like wearing gloves during the summer. Yes, that's unusual. But a human fingerprint (except in rare-ish cases) will usually be good enough to track an individual person. In a world where people are regularly collecting fingerprints or tracking them around town to figure out who's been in what stores, being unusual is preferable to being unique.

There are a few settings (normalizing screen sizes) where the benefits aren't so clear-cut. But at the very, very least, you should be doing stuff like turning off webRTC/webGL/canvas. The majority of changes being listed here are strict improvements to privacy.
The thing is, it is only enforced in mypy... code that modifies a Final object (pi = 3 for example) later on will run fine.
Because it's easier to just put your finger on a sensor to unlock it.
I'm not from the US, the store page redirects me to my region

Appending a locale parameter to the url works well [1]

[1] https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_4?hl=en-US
They come knowing certain things that most non biz grads have no clue about. Try getting technical people to do sales or PR or admin work. Of course some are unfit but try hiring 200 people by next quarter to expand sales or launch a new product without MBAs and watch the madness unfold.
Sigh, yet another “privacy” guide that has you enable options like DNT that make you easier to fingerprint.

And it suggests you disable HTML5 EME, which has nothing to do with privacy at all. Whatever your views on DRM, that’s not a privacy concern.

This is yet another “opinionated guide to Firefox” that misleadingly uses privacy to convince people to read it.

Do not harm your friends and family’s experience by making the changes suggested in this guide.
> After doing all of this

You hopefully mean after spending 1 minute running py2to3 right? I mean I get that some people feel that it’s tedious or difficult to convert if they spend ages manually changing thousands of lines of code in a completely automatable fashion. Which is why it’s nice that you don’t have to actually do that. You just run py2to3 and the focus on differences that matter.
You’re also, I’m guessing, young with no dependents.

The employee portion of health care costs goes up dramatically as you age (even if you don’t pay for other people); you can’t project from your health care costs in your 20s out to middle age.
"Deeply ingrained in human nature" is a more accurate statement, unless you believe that socialist economies are magically immune to nepotism.
This is clearly something very culturally local. I've never met anyone who uses such pronouns. I'm not even sure I've ever met a transgender person at all. If I did they didn't mention it and it wasn't noticeable.
OCaml works like that
Fingerprint sensors work in the dark. Facial unlock doesn't.

Edit: looks like I'm probably wrong on this one
OP here, I’ve updated the article to include that new information (wasn’t there earlier). Thanks!
My wife knew a guy who was essentially the Sears.com developer, back then. There was a magazine showing the Sears CEO, and him (he had a Misfits pin on his messenger bag).

He wasn't literally the only developer, but it was close. Sears did not take ecommerce seriously enough, for quite a long time (like, maybe, ever).
Could have been said more kindly, but the point is accurate. This reads like C code that happens to be written in Python. There is a lot of fiddly bit-twiddling operations.

The main issue — besides not using 2to3 — is that / in Python3 is interpreted as floating point division, whereas it used to be integer division if operands were integers. Replacing / by // in the relevant code blocks might help? Or getting another implementation of the RNG?
How to Build a Customer-Focused B2B Content Distribution Plan
Oracle "closed" (forked) zfs "back" and added encryption. But encryption is (now) in openzfs (who's canonical upstream has gravitated to "zfsonlinux" which is just the open project that ended up having the major mind-share).

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.8.0
So, you trust that the key people at Mozilla will go to jail rather than de-anonymize your data?
> Burns has worked on his design in private, without any sponsorship from NASA

Seems like they didn't, though as usual the article completely buries that information.

I kinda wish NASA had a policy like Disney, where you can't use your affiliation with them in association with personal projects (though for a different reason.)
Exponent: The Abyss Stares Back
This is a reference to the ongoing uncertainty concerning StackOverflow's (and the rest of StackExchange) new code of conduct (which explicitly considers gender pronouns now). Gender pronouns are at the forefront since a widely respected moderator on the network was de-modded for murky reasons surrounding questions about gender pronouns and the new code of conduct. This decision (and the recent relicensing) has inflamed volunteer mods and those interested in the meta of StackExchange. If you are interested, see [1]. But know that right now, StackOverflow is in damage control and communication has been transferred to their CTO and legal team.

I think as a tongue-in-cheek comment, it sits on about the same ground as the other comments asking why it wasn't closed as a duplicate or as opinion-based.

[1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-...
I agree. I've spent the past 6-9 months cleaning up a .NET MVC project and one of the first things I did was to rip out all interfaces that weren't being used the way I expect interfaces to be used.

We have the base MVC project that references services for DI. We load in another DLL via Ninject to add customization on top of those services (custom parsing of some magnetic card swipes for different institutions we deploy to and such). I discovered that while all of our services (~20) had an interface, only one of them was being customized/overridden. This mean that in order to do something as simple as a parameter change, it had to be changed in way too many places: the definition, the implementation, and the usages.

Why have that extra layer? If we need to override in the future, we can add more interfaces. For now, I just want to maintain my sanity.
What are the odds that the camera block would look like the iPhone 11 pro!

Edit: a lot of sarcastic answers down there :D
I've never been to a specific Docker/Kubernetes meetup. Have you considered specific DevOps meetings or SRE specific stuff to ask for recommendations? My sphere is in postgres, python, and HackR. Again, avoiding talks in general and more going to community-oriented meetups like hack nights.