skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's basically impossible for an organization to be non-political

This is exactly the point. It's impossible for an org to be non-political. Any choice made has wider socitial context and effects for the workers at that company. Politics is basically the effect of decisions on people. Not all political decisions are as extreme and sensational as NRA etc. most are mundane but still important.

Your definition of this political spectrum seems to be focused on politics that generate controversy rather than their importance or number of people they effect. Mundane politics are also politics, you just don't necessarily notice them

GitLab has to define what are acceptable politics to discuss and draw that line. This is a decision that has to be made and will be based on their political views and what they think is normal or extreme which won't be the same for everyone who works there. The whole thing just seems very naive.
Wonder what will replace the community for a lot of people in the near future. In a lot of places the church is a de facto community place. There usually a lot of posts in HN about the modern life, loneliness, depression, isolation etc. and I think if you strip away the outward trappings and dogma, this is what religion is good for. Not in a "believe in Jesus" or "trust in God" kind of way, but in a "how to orient your life" kind of way. Which is to say, the actually useful portion of religion generally teaches that your best life is probably not focused on you. It isn't about finding yourself, or being true to yourself, or really thinking about yourself at all. It's in being of benefit to the human beings around you. And in serving those around you, you become something that is worth being. There are parentless children, drug addicts, parks that need cleaning etc. And not christianity per se but local churches do a great deal of job in these. We will see what the future holds.
You can do it cheaper through a publication company, because they've already negotiated rates with the publishers. Though $1000 seems excessive. In Westchester County, I paid $300. There is a large spread in fees that will be charged.

I wrote to my state assembly person; she wrote back saying A8125 was introduced to repeal the requirement, but no action taken. I would encourage you to write to your assembly person and senator, because this is just a drag on NY businesses.
Or you could be awake with your infant. I'm pretty sure both my infant and I sleep a lot better when we're in different rooms.

But yeah, that's a sort of creepy photo.
I think this argument is more about why they continue trying to make money, not "working" because it's something they enjoy.

Why are they spinning up businesses instead of non-profits or cooperatives? I think that's what this article is exploring.
It’s ironic that Enoch Powell started that.
The best buffet organizations I have seen are circular. I wonder how they compare to the double side accessible solution given in the article.
Great idea!

Just this week I was approached by a recruiter for a crypto-app building company that I know of and really like. I was (imo) a great candidate for them skill-wise, but they only pay in BTC. And while I'm a fan of crypto, I have bills to pay and they all want dollars. I don't want to deal with converting to USD every paycheck and figuring out if I need to pay taxes, transferring to my "real" bank account, etc.

I REALLY hope you all can help with stuff like that!
I think the tricky part of the sale will be in abstracting away Kubernetes; or at least, not adopting its conventions for registration and discovery of resources/endpoints. You can keep those and not use Kubernetes, which is more or less how Knative went about it (insofar as it's possible to create an implementation that's Knative without using Kubernetes).

I am however overall very sympathetic to the idea that Kubernetes never drew a crisp line between roles.

Disclosure: I'm writing a book about Knative.
I'm not sure why this post is getting so much hate, it's well written and I really enjoyed reading it. Thanks!
Similar pattern is there for College education in US. A lot of discussion is around loans and financial aid but not why basic classroom based degrees cost so much.
Standard reminder that privacy.com contains some anti-consumer TOS clauses, including a binding arbitration requirement.

I don't trust a company that explicitly goes out of its way to avoid accountability to do something as sensitive as manage credit cards for me.
> At this point, it probably doesn’t matter anymore what he does next, haters gonna hate

Don’t bother thinking critically, anyone who thinks his ideas could be improved upon is just an angry graybeard. Who cares what they think?!
A few reasons I suppose: the first comment was already dinged by the community; the second comment upped the ante considerably; and I was insufficiently aware of how inflammatory the topic is. By which I mean: I was well aware of how inflammatory the topic is, and even that was not enough. So I learned something in this thread.
Me: Costs nothing because I use an automatic time tracker called WakaTime [1].

However, I only track time outside of work when invoicing contracting clients.

At work I only track feature velocity not time. At work I only use the automatic time tracker for goal setting, leaderboards for fun, and to just see my stats such as time I spend waiting for code to compile vs writing code.

[1] https://wakatime.com
This year it took me over a week of full-time study to file my federal taxes! Correspondingly, my Calfile submission was done in perhaps 20 minutes. Thank you for your service. Reminds me of filing in New Zealand, a breeze.

Question, the site and now you mention it does not support Capital gain/loss. I used it anyway, it asked for Adjusted Income from federal return, which takes those into account? So it appears to support it after all. Still confused about that.

(I refuse to share my financial info with a malicious third party, and continue to.)

One nitpick on the Calfile UI, it puts the "Continue" buttons on the left instead of the right side, which seems odd for folks that read left to right.
I also opensourced all the code on Github:
https://github.com/atilatech/government-fyi
Zuckerberg asserts Facebook stands for free expression
To understand the situation of today it is helpful to understand the past; the European efforts to build up a common pan-European defence infrastructure has been traditionally continuously torpedoed by Great Britain and this has taken place over a long period of time.

There are of course reasons for this, and obviously Great Britain is acting in their self-interest (they don't want a "shadow NATO" and they don't want to diminish in importance in USAs eyes, UKUSA/FVEY etc.), but Great Britain's interests are not really in the interests of Europe as a whole.

Now that Brexit seems to be happening, one way or another, expect to see a lot of European Union movement in the defence area. Also, time will tell if the e.g. UK Joint Expeditionary Force will stay in existence and enhance the new pan-European defence mechanisms with, among other things, British nuclear weapons, or not.

Furthermore, it is very naïve to assume that Europe is not already doing full-on preparations for the military implications of Brexit as well as the everso more likely dismantling of NATO. Mr. Trump has been signalling the latter for a long time, and even though much of his output seems to be a clumsy way to lure EU into doing more military business with the USA, the fact is that the White House and particularily the President of the USA is acting more and more erratic every day, so basically anything could happen (and probably will!).

Having a strategical autonomy and owning a substantial defence ability and capability is an existential issue for Europe, given its geographical location, as well as the increasingly hostile political rhetoric and gray zone actions of its neighbours, as well as the continuously erratic behaviour of its number one ally.
It's good to have an insider speak out and expose some of this stuff, but it would also be nice to see a little remorse about the scale of the deception. Instead, I see that they got a book deal. (I haven't read it... maybe remorse is expressed in there.)
That's also a terrible feature. A card declining a charge does not in any way absolve you of the debt incurred by using a service and can even be sent to collections, it's always better to cancel your trials / subscriptions properly.
It never ceases to astound me how this is allowed and accepted in the U.S. America is the first to complain about corruption in other countries around the world... yet here we are.
I thought that theory had issues with quantum gravity?

But either way, inflation would happen in that 10^-33 span I mentioned above. We simply don't know.

And even if we assume it holds, inflation is an extremely rapid expansion of space-time, so the idea that there were things "very far from each other" still does not really hold.

And IIRC, Penrose and Hawkings disproved the idea that inflationary models can avoid an initial singularity[1]. I'd be somewhat surprised to see them disproven.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%E2%80%93Hawking_singul...
If you know F# you are going to feel a lot more comfortable than coming from say C/C++/C#.

The largest difference imo between F#/Ocaml and Haskell is the evaluation model where Haskell is lazy by default.
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You do know that paying for these kinds of services from consultants is much more expensive than hiring in-house, right? Consulting is purchased either because you only need the specialization for a short time and can pay the mark up for the flexibility, or because you need some external virtue signalling of prestige or authority to overcome in-house political blockers. Consulting is absolutely not the cost-effective option for a specialization you’ll need frequently.
Reminds me of this quote in the preface of the art of war edition I have on my bookshelf -- I find it to be a fantastic little story:

According to an ancient Chinese parable, a lord once asked his physician – whose two brothers were also healers – which of the three was the most skilled. This doctor was renowned for his expertise and ability in healing throughout China, and he replied, “My eldest brother sees the spirit of sickness and removes it before it takes shape, so his name does not get out of the house. My elder brother cures sickness when it is still extremely minute, so his name does not get out of the neighborhood. As for me, I puncture veins, prescribe potions and massage skin, so my name gets out and is heard among the lords.
> So tell me, what is the carbon footprint of FedNet and all of the banks clearing the 3,000 tx/s demands and their collective datacenters...

(a) whataboutism is a logical fallacy.

(b) If every Visa transaction took 625kWh, it would use 38X the entire world's power generation capacity and 3X the worlds entire rate of e-waste generation. Just Visa, not MC, UnionPay or Amex. Visa is literally 700,000X more efficient, and getting more efficient as technology does. Bitcoin becomes more wasteful as technology improves.

> I hate these fud charged articles with no balance, basis, or actual science.

A study from Cambridge University backs it up and is linked. Just because it doesn't agree with your preconceived notions doesn't make it "not science" all of a sudden. You could just be wrong.
> “Based on my testing, this reduces false-positives to zero and hasn't yet produced a false-negative.”

But you’re just proving my point. It wouldn’t make sense to use Rekognition unless you had someone with skills to assess the classifier accuracy in the context of your specific problem. For example, it seems like your loss function places an asymmetrically higher cost on false negatives. (Incidentally, it’s interesting you claim it hasn’t produced a false negative ... did you watch every frame of video and make sure?)

If you replace your simple one man operation with a simple loss function on an amount of data you can manually evaluate with instead a complex computer vision workflow, say where face or person detection has legal consequences for a company that sells or licenses stock photography, or an image or video search tool trying to avoid surfacing porn or pirated content, etc. then Rekognition becomes no longer useful, because you’ll need not just one person doing cursory evaluation of false negatives, but a team of people building out a benchmark-like battery of automated evaluations with probably IoU metrics in addition to classifier metrics and will need to figure out how many errors they can tolerate in some cost budget combined with the normal cost budget of usage to Rekognition.

Basically, for some tiny hobbyist use case, I guess it’s fine (though really you could literally just load some Keras model pre-trained on imagenet or some off the shelf version of yolo and save yourself $5/mo) but the value proposition falls apart as soon as the cost function becomes a complicated business one.
It sounds like they have a way of marking trails by difficulty only. That's a nice feature, but what happens when two trails of the same color cross? Are they still named? How does this get you from A to B without a map?
You wrote that after a mere twenty minutes. Compared to how you've treated other inflammatory topics, one can't help but wonder if this is a sore spot for you. In any case, it's amusing because I'm in that set that would prefer Hacker News to actually discuss computer topics and not those such as this. My computing related articles usually go ignored, since you need to read more than the headline before you vomit forth your personal opinions, though, and the topic means not everyone is equally underqualified to give their opinion to start with.
So how do they describe what they do? Are they creating, providing, competing, building, accumulating, controlling, etc... I doubt they're all the same. How do they see their own efforts? Just curious.
Clinton lied under oath, he was impeached for lying under oath, he even lost his license to practice law as a result of his lies.
So a regex is used for the weak classifiers, just they are not trusted. So you say a thing ending in -ND is 90% chance of being a part number. So you have regexes with wiggle room. Then u dictate hard knowledge that table headers must be above data, and then the MIP solver has the freedom to override the regexes classifiers with knowledge from elsewhere.
This works well if you have some really strong top level structural knowledge.
As someone that has lived in 4 countries, gone through 2 nationalities, 3 languages and 3 professional careers, I strongly disagree.

I suspect your "sense of belonging" is just lazy accommodation or fear of change. Culture, social or personal, can't evolve without changing. You don't become a better person if you don't change your habits, rituals and your deep rooted mental frameworks.

True, a mind too open doesn't hold nothing of value. But a closed mind is stale, stagnant. And, in a world that changes faster each year, stagnation is danger, it is not safe.

I suggest you to embrace change with all its dangers and opportunities.
I'm pretty sure they're just referring to the immediate feedback of being able to practice by reading with one hand and playing with the other. You generally wouldn't be able to play a whole piece that way, but in comparison to most other instruments you don't have to do as much memorization up front.

You're right though, there are definitely plenty of other instruments that would work for. Trumpet for example would be an even better candidate I imagine.
It's very costly to keep up with changing rules and is mostly a once a year need that has to be bullet proof at filing time. Not a good recipe for open source.
Maybe we don't. The evidence for general relativity is all indirect--we can't directly detect space-time. But plenty of people seem to think it's a solid theory anyway.
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Apply for a job. Run towards the fire. Help fix it.
Sorry if I was catty. It was a bit of cold water in the face, is all.

Personally I like to avoid such threads. You can't really be understood, whatever you contribute.
Even if it does descend into a flame war at some point, I feel that it's interesting to observe people's viewpoints.

Personally, I'm not religious and I tend to view the tech world through that filter. I forget that some tech people might have other philosophical or religious beliefs.

At some level, I assume that Tech people are smart, and thus don't believe in religious.

This is obviously untrue, so now I'm curious to see if people's religious beliefs, or lack of them, impacts the tech work that they do.

i.e. is there any crossover in the venn diagram of religion and tech, or are they entirely isolated from each other.

Historically, religious groups sometimes funded purely scientific endeavors. Of course, sometimes religious groups went after science that was inconvenient to belief... But both actions indicate a precedent.
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I personally am a little too paranoid to act on most of my suspicions. So running towards all my fears would lead to me tackling mostly false positives. I think that's probably a growth area for me.
That sentiment makes sense to me. Investing in real schooling makes a lot more sense, though.
I'm not sure if you're misunderstanding me or if I'm misunderstanding you...

> data sharing settings in Google Analytics [1] letting you control how much analytics data is shared with Google.

It's in Google Analytics. It's all shared with Google. Or—more accurately—none of it is "shared" with Google, Google is just sharing some of it with you.

There may be settings allowing you to indicate your preference for what they will use for whatever internal purposes, but... Google have collected the data. There's no question of whether they receive it or not.
>>no Corp I know backs up user machines

Most of the orgs I've worked at (for at least the last decade) map the local profile to a network share, which is definitely backed up. The only things not backed up would be saved outside that folder structure, but the organizations have always been clear about that.
DNS was always a thorn in my side. I never liked the way it was a single point of failure and the first thing attackers looked at when analyzing traffic. Luckily with things like DoH[0], looking at DNS traffic is a lot less invasive in terms of privacy.

And even more lucky, and something that serves us all is Mozilla's attempt to bake this as the default (DoH) in their mainline browsers. My only complaint being that they use Cloudflare as the default & Cloudflare acts as a honeypot for Internet traffic. If they (Mozilla) could move away from Cloudflare as a partner then that would be great. (Of course this demands a new privacy-respecting provider to serve requests for the user :p)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS
Indeed, thanks. I've had the alias for years and never thought to optimize it.
The truth is startup CEOs have to be overly optimistic, otherwise there's no way they'd ever start a company. The dark side of this is then often don't believe something is "wrong" until it's too late.
He chose not to think about the decision by just rolling with it. Alternatives, off the top of my head:

* Fire people?

* Do a cost-benefit analysis - could they sustain a new space? Or would they have to move everyone to somewhere cheaper?

* Would shifting some people to work remotely work?

Delegating getting more office space was running away from fear because it was the option that required the least thinking about his fear.
The people that run the voice program at Mozilla seem to be very disconnected from the rest of Mozilla. They are essentially an "innovation team" that jump from project to project across the company acting as almost an agency inside Mozilla. Seems this model has really made projects like this suffer because there isn't a team always there to iterate on the project and make it better.
Some of these downvoters on HN. I pointed out the SSH issues are already taken care of.

From the manpage: Specifies a program to be used to look up the user's public keys. The program must be owned by root, not writable by group or others and specified by an absolute path. Arguments to AuthorizedKeysCommand accept the tokens described in the TOKENS section. If no arguments are specified then the username of the target user is used.
The program should produce on standard output zero or more lines of authorized_keys output (see AUTHORIZED_KEYS in sshd(8)). If a key supplied by AuthorizedKeysCommand does not successfully authenticate and authorize the user then public key authentication continues using the usual AuthorizedKeysFile files. By default, no AuthorizedKeysCommand is run.
I'm sorry your comment confuses me. Isn't it us users that downweight comments with our votes? I thought you reacted on flags and heavy downvotes.

I know you do a lions share of work dang, but I think you were a little to fast here. Good comments were being posted (and pushed below you comment) as you wrote that.
I ran an eBPF program called opensnoop [1] to capture what files were opened during login to a system and then re-launching bash. Looks like both are read during initial login but only .bashrc for non-login shells. Output is below.

24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/256term.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/less.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/which2.sh
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/sh.local
24435 bash 3 0 /home/centos/.bash_profile
24435 bash 3 0 /home/centos/.bashrc
24435 bash 3 0 /etc/bashrc

24736 bash 3 0 /home/centos/.bashrc
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/bashrc
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/256term.sh
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/colorgrep.sh
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/colorls.sh
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/lang.sh
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/less.sh
24736 bash 3 0 /etc/profile.d/which2.sh

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-07-25/opensnoop-for-li...
What i consider a good thing is that distances are shown in kilometers, rather then hours. Mountain trails might sometimes be marked in hours, as the hilly terrain adds it's time toll significantly, but for the most part, it is kilometers, which means that can very easily estimate how long it will take you to your destination while walking/running/biking...

But not all signage is great that in CZ. For example driving roads are mostly marked by "destination cities" at intersections rather then by road numbers (except of highway exits), so when planning a road trip, you must create an itinerary of towns to pass through, rather then simply following a map of roads.
A better way to phrase it might be "trust your fear". Not sure that is always the best advice because sometimes fear is justified and sometimes not. In this case, it was.
We have this on the roadmap, but it's not as trivial as it seems, since there's a real cluster behind and it's very opinionated
That 'asinine' comment seemed out of place. 80,000 people die, and the problems with 'poor people having a source of cash' is the bigger issue? I honestly don't understand the emotion surrounding this.

I can sell my life (ok, 8 hours of every day) and no problem.
Trinity College Dublin does the same thing. It's for free as well -- I think maybe just for students with rooms on campus but I'm not sure.
> why they continue trying to make money

That is just a by-product of doing what they enjoy. They certainly spend it and donate a lot of it.

> Why are they spinning up businesses instead of non-profits or cooperatives?

They do both.