skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is this different from Jira, or remote worker software that periodically captures your screen to be sure you're actually writing code and not grabbing a coffee?

The amount of surveillance I've seen lately is scary. We had a new policy come down from on-high that said we can't bring laptops to meetings anymore because whatever the folks upstairs were using to track us said there were too many emails being sent by people who were scheduled in outlook as being in a meeting.

I'm required to go to these pointless meetings and also required to get all my points done by sprint close, almost always requiring lots of overtime, that I can't track. I have to fill out timesheets, but I can't put more than 8 hours a day even though I work 14, but yet if I'm out of the office for half a day for a dentist appointment, I can only report 4 hours even though I skip lunch almost every day to rework some story the BA's got wrong because they didn't really care what the business wanted.

And if we don't meet the sprint deadline, all hell breaks loose and the bosses ask why the developers are losing productivity when the system is 1000x bigger now but you require us to put the same points on stories as when there was no code written, no other systems to integrate with, no regression tests to execute. And don't even think about working on automated testing because that's not a deliverable. No, you need to retest those 100 scenarios manually. Then the business says, "Oh wait, we forgot about this scenario." Recode, Retest, Re-architect the system to track more data, rebuild all the forms, reports, audit logs, on and on...

But I have to care and all the mistakes made up stream from me are on my back to solve and I don't even get to record how long it actually takes?

Frankly, if you're waiting my table and I need more water, you should bring me more water.

If surveillance helped me meet my customer demands better, then by all means, watch me like a hawk. If it's just there as automated paperwork for the project manager then buzz off.
This Game is so weird, and has so much potential introducing ASCIICKER
I'm disappointed that one doesn't appear to be available via API.
I don't think RF is against TEA components. But you just don't need to TEA all the things [1] - and to do so introduces a lot of work, and moreover reduces the deep thinking you should be doing about what data structures you need and building the view around it.

But in react is is natural to say "oh I need a spinner, let's make a functional react component for that". And you can always keep some local state in React and avoid the message passing relay-race you'd have in Elm with the same approach. So Elm benefits from a different approach.

[1] https://youtu.be/RN2_NchjrJQ?t=2136
Another article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21295874
They aren't for the consumer or even product security despite what they say. They certainly pay enough to afford people to tell them the truth - instead they pay extra to get ones who tell them what they want to hear.

As far as I can tell they are a very expensive security blanket for those too tech illiterate to realize that trying to circumvent the analog hole for serial formats is barking madness or as an ass-cover.

It brings to mind the use of polygraphs as similar outright instituional superstitions whose true function is blame deflection.
Huh? I had 0 problems upgrading the RAM in my 2011 MBP. Have they made it inaccessible since then?
All the flexibility that the cloud offers is wasted on a large bank. I remember one of the selling points of cloud computing for developpers is that it takes months to provision a physical server in a large organisation. With [enter cloud name here] a developper can create a VM in only a few minutes!

Well, enters a typical bank bureaucracy, cost controls, approvals, etc. And now we are back to taking months to provision a VM!
Well, the main reason I never learned 68k assembler was because it read sooo easy to crash things.

I simply didn't have the patience to wait 2-3 minutes for the Amiga to reboot from floppy.
Maybe if they had asked Carl Weathers for advice, this wouldn't have become an issue.
What purpose is it failing to fulfill? It outlines how to indicate media is encrypted and how decryptors can be surfaced by the user-agent.

It doesn't indicate how decryption must happen, but OAuth2 doesn't indicate what standard an authorization server should use to authorize that a client matches a resource owner either.
> The aggressive tip dude that took me basically told me that my fare was "too short" and nobody wants to take it, but how he's such a good guy and doesn't play that game and that's why I should tip him well.

He was gaslighting you. I've taken plenty of minfare trips when it's hot out in the summer or when my bad leg is acting up or when I have a cart full of groceries and I have never had a problem getting a ride with Lyft.

Also, I tip the vast majority of the time, only not tipping if the driver did something wrong (e.g. has issues following Google Maps's directions, gives me shit about sitting in the front seat, etc.), but if someone aggressively demands I tip them, that goes straight past "the driver did something wrong" and into "the driver did something so wrong that not only am I not tipping, but I'm 1-starring them and if I have some free time, I'm calling Lyft support".
Of course companies have obligations to society but why the particular obligation not to have a loud, boisterous atmosphere? Why should they then be allowed to have geeky introvert cultures? That also alienates a lot of people, including probably a lot of women.
A possible killer app might be something for business meetings. Videocalls are already a huge thing, but many feel like they're missing some real personal intimacy in there. If instead of a videocall, you could all be using AR to see each other walk around in front of you, that might make it a whole lot more appealing. If it's done right, you could have the same private one on one side conversations that are common in real life, but just in some AR space.

AR has a clear advantage over VR here as you wouldn't be blind to your real surroundings so you'd still be able to talk with the people in real life too (and not look like a doofus who walks into walls)
> They look beautiful. You know, like art. Is that also of no value?

Ecologically speaking, yes, there is zero value whatsoever in aesthetics.

And yes, I do understand I look like an insane homeless man with my unkempt hair and decade old college outfit :)
>Given their history, I would say they aren't friendly and/or cordial.

There are various interviews with them throughout the years and they are quite genuinely friendly with each other. However, they have different personalities and they are not drinking buddies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv_Xkz9zepI&t=21m0s

They said their enduring relationship is based on professional respect instead of socializing.

Regardless, I still don't understand why not hiring "rude people" who you feel may disrupt the workplace is "discrimination". There is no special protected class of discrimination against unpleasant rude people! It also works both ways: if the candidate determines that the hiring manager and/or coworkers interviewing them is rude, they have a right to reject the company. There is no ethical standard to tolerate rude people from either side.

Again, to emphasize, the gp was talking about rude people; not black people nor women, etc. So the sibling comment twisting the gp's comment into racism and misogyny is putting words into his mouth he never said and degrading the HN discussion.
Do those uniforms have pockets?
EuclideDB: Machine learning feature database tight coupled with PyTorch
When I was child, you simply didn't have the kind of ubiquitous cheap tech you have now. You didn't need to worry that anyone would photograph you or record you and publish it for free via a medium -- the internet -- that could reach millions of people.

It's a slippery slope. Arguing this small thing doesn't matter and that small thing doesn't matter ends up having consequences down the line.

When I was a child, yes, you had a completely reasonable expectation that no one was going to record anything you did at a restaurant. And our sense of privacy has fundamentally changed with the rise of the ability to record and broadcast things so readily and easily.

My comment was not about the article per se. My comment was about a sweeping statement that I don't agree with.
I have a friend who only wears charcoal merino wool polos, jeans, and nice shoes.
To clarify, the one the guy in the article is complaining about is not hidden, has been there for something like 15 years, and has plenty of signage warning about it.

It was also an intersection that had tons of accidents from people running the light before the camera was installed.
A programmer writing documentation is far from economical, since most of the time their time is worth more than technical writers.

It depends on the type of documentation of course, but if you work in a 50 person team and you want to document internal architecture or code structure, you better let the programmer that knows about the stuff write it.

First getting that technical writer up to speed about how everything is structured, the little implications etc, is pretty insane. It's like that phone game where you tell one person something, and then that one tells the next.
> "You have no reasonable expectation of privacy when dining out."

I can see it now. You take your date to a nice restaurant, ask to sit in a quiet area. During dessert you ask her to marry you and then all the sudden balloons and confetti drop and the wait staff hurries over with cheap sparkling stuff.

Yay. Thanks Presto Vision!
Spain is a fascist state. Somewhat fortunately, they are so incompetent that people can somehow still live there...
Who has time to mend clothes now that everybody goes to work?
> How is this different from Jira, or remote worker software that periodically captures your screen to be sure you're actually writing code and not grabbing a coffee?

Those are... two extremely different things. Did you really intend to put a communal chalkboard and an invasive surveillance program in the same category?
Sorry, I glanced at the link you pasted and wrote the response as I knew this was a non issue from the past.

So, I spoke with our internal team and was able to find more details:

- We haven't used that machine since that exploit was made public.

- We were never exploited.

- There was no sign of intrusion of any kind.

- The specific machine was a backup helpdesk test server without any real user data.

Thanks again for bringing this up!
>... how long will it take to add microphones to all these cameras and record/analyze all conversations?

To my mind, that's the only way to make a machine learning system like this actually be viable in restaurants. This system just tracks people and spits out raw data, when in reality the "why" of things in restaurants can be incredibly nuanced. You've got a waiter/waitress dealing with tables full of people with wildly different personalities and needs, and I really don't understand how any of the data mentioned in this article could actually be helpful or cost-effective. As I mentioned in another post, so what if this machine learning-powered system lets you know that the number of people waiting for a table has crossed a certain threshold? Shouldn't that already not only be available on your wait list, but visually obvious to you as a manager? How can a manager get frustrated over someone based on data from this if they don't know the reality of what the host or wait staff was dealing with from the people they were serving?

For instance, if someone is dealing with an incredibly picky, demanding customer at one table, they may take an extra minute to refill the drinks at another table. You and I might not be bothered if our drinks need refilling, but the system might still flag it and get them in trouble for not refilling our drinks. The system doesn't know the other table was being overly difficult, nor does it know that the table short on drinks didn't actually mind, but here you are as a waiter/waitress being asked, "Wtf?" by your manager the next morning.

Edit: I suppose I should clarify, while I do think that the only way to make this kind of system viable is to be able to hear what's happening at each table, I don't support mic'ing restaurants like that at all.
Because Sykes agreed to grant it to France.
I mean the !g bang - DDG has the option of getting results from Google and Bing. Bing offers an API for $6/10000 queries, but Google does not - I'm curious how they have access to Google search results.
> Like it or not, the closed ecosystem of iOS provides more value to end users, and Google wants to bring those benefits to Android.

I doubt this is true for everyone.
I think that treating fast fashion as a driver of economic growth is an example of the broken window fallacy.

That is to say that I don't actually think it drives economic growth overall. It may do within a specific sector at the expense of others.
I would think the more important safety risk from 5G would be that it's going to cause interference with weather-forecast satellites.

A small increase in cancer incidence seems like less of a danger than hurricane path predictions being off by 300 miles less than a week out (https://hackaday.com/2019/04/16/5g-buildout-likely-to-put-we... and many others)
>The solution is to generate less waste. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -- in that order.

>There won't be a problem if there isn't a problem to take care of.

Sure, and in fantasy land I'm sure there's just a switch you can flip to make that happen. Back in reality where you can't just eliminate all these sources of waste in a day, don't you think it's worth looking for practical solutions that we can implement in the short term?

Besides, the only thing I responded to was an internet know-it-all supposing that scientists and engineers hadn't considered a tear or the fact that people may throw away things they're not suppose to.
Of course you owe something to society. Without it you would probably be sleeping naked under a tree in the forest. The system depends on people contributing back.
This post ain't about "Canada". It's about Metro Vancouver.

I think to say it has "a large Chinese immigrant population" would probably be an understatement? None-Chinese would be a minority in Richmond for example.
Would have been cool if it gave the actual type of the company as a result. Like if someone from Toys R Us visits your page, you could give them a retail use case front and center. Is that planned?
Get a sewing machine and start making your own clothing. I've been trying my hand at it and I've made a few shirts and pants I wear during the weekends. They still look a bit shabby and not decent enough to wear for work thought.
If they were serious about improving safety they’d have stricter licensing requirements. A one-legged turkey can probably get licensed in the states I’ve lived in. Once he gets it, it’s his for life. No need to prove he’s kept up his knowledge and skill. He just needs to take the occasional eye test. I see frequent conversations on Nextdoor about traffic laws where people are getting very basic stuff just plain wrong. Some of that could be explained by people moving here from other states, but it’s usually stuff in the driver’s handbook and in the worst case just doing a search of the vehicle code will give you the answer.
The US is #15 on the debt relative to GDP country list according to [1,2]. So you are saying in the US "spending is unsustainably high" AND "life is really callous and unmerciful" at once?

[1] https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/public-debt-...

[2] Sorted: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTcH12ah_hJh...
> What % of Americans could even tell you the names of the last 3 dynasties?

What percent of Chinese could name the first 3 American Presidents? Who cares and how does that have anything to do with the modern political climate? The average American does not need to be aware of the country's history to disagree with the actions and posturing of the current government.
There are no credible arguments against the fact that an increased level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere gives a warmer climate. The physics is well known, we've seen historical evidence of how it's happened before, and it's easy to demonstrate experimentally.

We know pretty well how much hydrocarbons we burn every year, global production of both oil and other hydrocarbons are public figures. The oxidization process of hydrocarbon is high school chemistry. Anyone who went to school should be able to understand these processes.

Climate models are complicated, but they're something else. They are helpful to understand exactly how the climate changes. That may be where scientific discourse is, but very far from the public one.
Linux on DeX didn't have to worry about drivers at all, because it was running in a container on an Android system. Like how your USB mouse will work on an operating system that only has PS/2 support in a virtual machine.
Meanwhile, the government abuses the CFAA as a "catch-all" to imprison anyone they target that has ever gained "unauthorized access" to a website (such as not following a website's ToS).

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/12/worst-law-technology-s...

Over-aggressive laws/enforcement against individuals with no power, extremely lenient enforcement against corporations breaking very similar laws. This is the status quo of the "justice" system in the US in the present.
I'm in the UK. Currently have 25 days of paid holidays + 8 bank holidays. I believe this is a bare minimum one needs in order to maintain straight head and not go mad. I appreciate that's not something most people get across the pond, however I do see absolutely zero reasons,why this couldn't be the case over there as well. However,many heads had to roll and tons of blood was spilled in most European countries for these things to become a norm.
You are attributing the profitability of software companies to what you think is the "underpaying" of its workers? And you think that unionization will lead to higher wages? I'm just trying to understand the argument.

If the software industry were to unionize, the union would want to collectively bargain for seniority-based job security rules and other schemes to prevent lower-paid new-hires (people not YET in the union) from taking work from existing union members. Other versions of this effect come in the form of union-imposed certification schemes in the trades, "tenure" rules in education, seniority precedence in picking hours in healthcare, etc. The net effect is that the experienced and powerful members make it hard for the young to get into the profession.

I have a problem with that, ideologically. But, in more practical terms: collective bargaining only works to increase wages when the counterparty has no other option. This works when you're talking about workers at the docks: the docks are not going anywhere, the ships need to be unloaded, and you can't exactly bus in some scabs and expect it to work out. With software, what do you think will happen if a union somehow manages, via Swiss law, to unionize one Google office? It's software. Google will leave and hire elsewhere.

This is exactly why Subaru and Toyota builds cars in the southern U.S. while Ford builds in Mexico, and why industries are flocking to non-union states, and why the people are going with them.
How to meet Sam Altman at his home Nov 13 12-2pm
Altman is holding a fundraiser for Presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Wed November 13, 2019 12-2pm at his house.

It's not cheap though at $2k a pop. But might be worth it if you need to reach out!!

Buy ticket here ($2K): https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ay-events-sf-lunch-1113?refcode=kurzon&refcode2=kn

Where: Mission Bay area (address will be emailed prior to event).

When: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 12 - 2 pm
Unless you check each item, you don't actually know if the expiration date is correct. I don't see much difference in what you are doing vs Amazon, except that Amazon is getting their product from a various sources (which may be less trustworthy than your supplier).
I imagine you could do this via a local tailor.
If your in US or Canada, consider Value Village or another similar well known second hand clothing store chain. Like sibling comment said, just shop for a 'look' , e.g. color or form of garment, don't worry about BS brands etc..

Nice thing is that if you end up not liking the 100$ worth of clothing you bought (WHICH IS ALOT OF CLOTHING!), and say, return 40% of it after 3 months... would've been same as buying 1 fancy shirt at your local department store.
While we're at it, can we insist that all lights use blue-green instead of just green? That could help those that suffer from color blindness.
"These radio bands have been in military use for a long time. I’m surprised that no health studies have been done or released to the public."

I wouldn't be. To a good first-order approximation, the military doesn't give a hoot about long term health consequences and wouldn't release any such studies, if any were made, unless they indicated a requirement for the military usage to change.
People seem to be posting hard-paywalled links more and more around here. They were supposed to be banned, but I guess the rules are selectively enforced by @dang here nowadays. The link to the article should be changed to this Outline link.
I don't know how old you are, but I was a kid in the 80s. There were surveillance cameras then.

The society page in the newspaper is even older and that consists mainly of taking pictures of people at restaurants and publishing them in the local newspaper.
The important part in the argument above is allowing people to decide for themselves.

The boarding schools were about government "saving" children by not allowing children and their parents to choose.

The people who are unhappy about cochlear implants, want to "save" deaf culture by not allowing some other people to choose for themselves whether they want to be death or not.

So the similarity is the other around.
I would say transparency/security, quality of the client(s) and customer service, in that order. It's one thing to offer a VPN service, but to make sure you have a nice app on both iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux seems like quite an investment.
I don't think there's going to be one killer app per se, just the feed of information streamed to peoples' brains is going to become so much larger. The one good example I can think of is walking the city, wearing an AR device and you get relevant news, historical pieces, restaurants, etc. as you walk.
A strongly-worded gist, but my sole use case is avoiding DMCA notices. VPN still seems like a good solution for that.
SAG-AFTRA was notoriously silent for years during the #MeToo "casting couch" abuses. The union was apparently cozy with powerful entertainment industry players and did little to protect their members.
Walmart is generally cheaper than a steak restaurant. YMMV, and they both have their uses. Its worth going to both.
That is not nearly as easy as an app... you have to talk to someone, you have to know where you are, and you have no information about how close they are.

That is fine if that works for you, but the app is way easier for most people... which is why they have totally taken over most ride hailing business.

If people agreed with you that calling a taxi is just as easy as calling an Uber or Lyft, those two would have never taken off.