skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you're not getting is that the people doing this don't care about the 4th Amendment. (Or, more accurately, they are more than willing to rationalize away their violation of the 4th Amendment. Like the beat cop doing a "Stop and Frisk" on some black kid. The 4th just doesn't mean anything to him.)

The people controlling access to these datasets are not from either party. They are not elected. In the vast majority of cases, they are not even known.

You're assuming politicians are in control of these datasets. I'm just asking you to consider the very real possibility that they are not. In most cases, I'm betting politicians can't even request access to these datasets without tripping flags. (And "leaks" if the people in charge think leaking that politician's request will serve them.) Politicians learned long ago, (ABSCAM), not to mess with these people.

I just don't think you appreciate the depth of the problem if you're thinking on the level of the politician.
I agree that it isn't a trait to be proud of, but show me a government that isn't morally bankrupt and I'll show you a government that you don't know enough about.

Being civilized seems to be a low priority in the civilized world.
Uncontrolled immigration does damage to legals from the same countries. I know as i am one of them. Once the uk freely opened the boarders to immigrants from my native country not only did the reputation of “my people” plummet but so did i get annoyed at what some new arrivals spoke about the locals in our native language while in the tram, street or shops.

The us needs a points based immigration system, as does the uk, as the rest if the sane world.

I am from Romania and before open borders Romania meant vampires and Dracula, and afterwards it meant gypsies and crime.

And boy do some of the unchecked immigrants deserve to stay in Romania.

N.b. Gypsies are fine imo but not the beggars Or pickpockets.

Edit: go ahead and downvote instead of taking on board some feedback from actual legal immigrants and how they are affected by illegal immigration. Blame github for helping ICE instead.
Why is that absurd? Unless you believe for some reason that there's no safe level of CO2 emissions?
I don't know that's the 1st question everyone has.

I do know this meta discussion is unlikely to be worth it, and I am quite happy to move on.
I didn't say that. Yet fewer people would undoubtedly emit less and need fewer resources. At some point - I have no idea where - there is a number who could have gone on living a fossil fuelled lifestyle indefinitely without it impacting on global climate. Increasing population is tied with increasing emissions. Fewer people would unarguably have lower impact. Fewer people wouldn't magically fix overnight what we've already wrought - that's silly.

Humans have always mismanaged resources. More humans means more mismanaged resources. Not all of the planet's issues are resource management though - a selection are simply down to sheer space used - forest clearcut, development such as roads and cities built and land farmed, etc.
Omg now whatsapp is also hacked, but how its possible bcoz whatsapp has 256 bit encryption
Acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism: study
But, but - the house was coming right for them!
A stranger's TV went on spending spree with my Amazon account
Norway is also very homogeneous. We are more willing to be generous to those related to us; and I'm not talking just about race, but also culture, values, and ideology. In all these respects, the United States is far more diverse.

So I guess I agree with you, but I don't think those conditions can be replicated here.
Makes sense actually, it is harder to get degrees when you are busy with children. So higher fertility -- better chance to have kids, more kids -- fewer diplomas. Doesn't necessarily involve latent ability to get diplomas.
There are lots of reasons to need them separate. Alphabetizing by last name, showing only the first name in some places, only last name in some places...
Summary: we do not really want you to work for us, we are too busy trying to understand WTF do we really want. Amount of BS the article is staggering IMO
> how stapled on and hacked Typescript feels

It is stapled on, though, right? Typescript is stapled onto Javascript. There's only so much they can do. I don't mean that as an argument for Typescript, more just that there are real constraints for the language developers.
I wonder if the ProtonMail server will ever be open source. It'd be pretty cool to see the code and possibly self host, although having source code available might allow spammers to abuse the system.
I don't think it's the pregnancy process that prevents having children, but others.
Advice to My Younger Self
It gets worse with x86_64 though. Normally, an instruction that isn't 64-bit will clear the upper 32 bits of a 64-bit register. The NOP is special, because it shouldn't do anything. All the other 32-bit XCHG instructions still clear the upper 32 bits of a 64-bit register.

So the NOP really is different, and a normal XCHG EAX,EAX is not possible with the 0x90 encoding. You can get a normal XCHG EAX,EAX via the 2-byte ModRM form of the instruction.
> exceptionally good education.

Is that so?!

I’m an Israeli and I assumed that it’s the really bad education that is responsible for stronger skepticism and Chutzpah.
>The planet and its resources has a finite carrying capacity.

It's a hard jump, but there's not just the one.
what would HN commentators would recommend to conservatives in tech sector, who want to show their support for Brexit, for MAGA, for US ICE ?

What can be done to combat the left activism, but in a civil way, yet be effective, and without endangering careers in tech & entertainment?

.. asking for a friend...

Or is the ballot box, anonymous posts and their own kitchen table, are the only places to express?
You'd be more convincing if you demonstrated how the current purported "culture" problems were there the entire time pre-2016. And absent in INS before that.
As an American who doesn't totally understand your political language, the way you discuss "multi-culturalism" sounds bizarre to me. In the US, its' not something to "support" or oppose. It's the nature of America. An America that was not deeply and broadly multicultural does not compute. I suppose I assumed Great Britain was similar, just maybe to a lesser degree. Certainly London is, but perhaps the rest of the country truly is so homogeneous that multiculturalism would be a dramatic change?
I question how much an employee should concern him/herself with how a product is used once it's created. You have to let certain control go after a point. Or if your product is open to everyone, you'll have to live with the fact that people may use it in ways you disagree with.

Xerox or Canon (or whoever) probably makes copiers that ICE uses to make copies. Lenovo or Apple probably makes hardware that they use also to further their functions. Ford/GM probably supply ICE with vehicles. Farmers grow crops that get into their the meals that ICE personnel eat. Pilots and flight attendants probably have knowingly transported ICE employees.

Why don't the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees? Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to? Why is ICE the only company that they object to? Why do some causes get their favor and not others?

Where do we start? Where do we stop?
Well, the state (or the municipality, or a combination thereof) should compensate in both cases.

Which in other words means that "everybody" compensates such a person.
Studies Yield ‘Impressive’ Results in Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis
Top Employers in the US:
1) Walmart
2) Amazon

Articles touting employment as a meaningful number are about as meaningful as the articles touting the good graces of anonymous donors paying for medical procedures, sometimes for the insured.
Fair point. I’m not sure if they did, or simply believed the benefits (financial and otherwise) of being bought outweighed the loss of company culture. They at least seemed to, in my experience.

JWZ — or maybe Spolsky — wrote about (a more general case of) this. You can either grow fast, or maintain company culture. You can’t do both.

Being bought by a larger company is just one case of growing really fast all at once.
How Doe the Human Soul Survive Atrocity?
And unlike your standard light bulb, there's no need to worry about it getting dimmer with time - this one'll keep getting brighter until it disappears entirely!
I'm sure this will convince nobody of anything, but inflation in the US in July was 1.8% (annualized) in July, and a Vanguard money market fund was yielding 1.9% recently.

What more can you ask, whether you're ranting in favor of or against socialism? Risk free returns maintain your purchasing power, while at the same time, you get essentially nothing for taking no risk with capital. This seems exactly how it should work in a perfect system...doesn't it?
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2019/08/13/computer-r...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-news-ranch-new-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/08/jeffrey-epstein-called-sexua...
It's much more statistically likely to happen closer to the center of the galaxy, where there is a much higher density of both star systems and black holes.

Charles Stross' book Incandescence is about (amongst other things) a race of sentient insects that hide inside a small asteroid orbiting a quasar that had had an encounter with a black hole sometime in the distant past, and had been ripped apart... but was now orbiting close enough to the star to be mostly safe. Maybe.
Students go to law school for 3 years to get executive JDs, none become lawyers
I wonder if imports from the port of LA are not accounted for here and that is the 5 million ton delta we're seeing.
This will be less likely to shift in the coming years, since the US government is openly investigating the ability to revoke citizenship. It's depressing to see, but I guess it shouldn't be surprising because the US approach to citizenship - birthright and/or naturalization - is not universally the case in other countries.
It's not puritanism. They're trying to get younger and younger audiences hooked on facebook and instagram without their parents worrying too much about unknown forces corrupting their kids.
Even better way to think of it - the energy release will total that of the mass of a WWII destroyer over the course of three minutes :)

Since 50,000 megatons/sec is the starting value, and it'll get bigger as those three minutes count down.
The one thing I don't get about htop is the progress bars... they never seem to behave the way I'd expect them to based on the percentages, and they've got some colour coding I'm not clear on either... surely there is something I'm missing.
It really depends on the card. As mentioned, Amex and Discover really seem to be the best. I've only disputed a handful of times, and each time they refund the money immediately while they figure out who was right.
This feels analogous to reassigning properties on an object.
This behavior is by design.
It's not - we shouldn't be selling weapons to them either. Ditto with sharing intel.

Sanctions on selling exploits seems easier to achieve though since there is less of a conflict with economic interests
I’m simply going off what the article says.

If it was “toxic” before and still managed to decline, that sounds even worse!
Bell Labs paid his salary, but they paid it before C++ as much as after, and would have paid it without. If others had not taken up C++, he would have gone on to other things. C++'s unique contribution was the destructor, not adopted elsewhere until D and then Rust.

The contrast is against Sun spending literally $billions on Java puffery. Go has put a lot more support into Go, by that standard, but still barely $millions, if that.
Employees who could have been hired by these businesses won’t be now. This creates more competition for the workers because it decreases the supply of jobs. (ECON 101)
>> The brains of an AI are also transferrable. Built a superhuman AI? Send it to a friend!

So far I haven't seen Google sending their AIs to a friend.
One of my first SW jobs (mid-scale startup in Palo Alto) I had multiple canadians on my team and we had some chinese and indian immigrants on other teams. I wouldn't say 90%, but a sizable percentage.

At other companies like Google and Microsoft I've had plenty of immigrant colleagues along with colleagues at offices overseas. Some eventually choose to return to their home country, some migrate here after starting at the employer.

The main game studio I worked for also had lots of chinese and korean immigrants on staff, but I suspect that was influenced by the parent company being korean.
And does Menlo have this ligature? I don't have a mac to test with.
Asteroid Wars: An Asteroids Remake in Common Lisp
Plenty of untowered fields with GPS approaches. Hayward, Palo Alto and Livermore are three that have closed towers at night — to be fair though, the GPS approach at Palo is prohibited at night, but Hayward’s is definitely available. Even untowered Sedona has an RNAV approach.
Says the monetary value created from a tech job vs the monetary value created from a retail job.
I booked a hotel room in Paris earlier this year over AirBnB out of curiosity, as the room was cheaper than advertised on other platforms. The day before, I thought to call and verify it wasn't a scam and the hotel manager had no record of my stay. A scammer had just uploaded pictures of the hotel room to AirBnB. I got a full refund (and the hotel, in thanks for me letting them know they were scam targets gave me a discount) but the scammer account is still online. No clue why AirBnB didn't scrub this. And I don't get why the scammer thought it would work, as they don't get paid until at least one night stay with no complaints.
I thought the point was that everybody was primitive savages. Academics do have a good deal of reliable data on how people lived and died. Bones can tell a lot.
I don't think I'm underestimating "people with formal training in graduate level statistics", but quite possibly the particular people you think of when you say the quoted phrase.

I've worked with stats/comsci/bio-informatic/ML PhDs at multiple multi-billion-dollar software companies now and it's certainly not true that even the majority of people with graduate stats training are excellent software engineers. Would love to work at a company where that's true, I just don't think that's the common case at all.

> The skill set really is extremely different from general backend engineer with a proclivity for hacking around ML models and also is really different from “research developer” who rarely deals with end to end systems or necessary concerns of production or quality code factoring, and also is super different from data science which is effectively just ad hoc business analytics but with more impressive pedigree on the resume.

Totally agree. The terms are very messy though. The "ML Engineers" with PhDs in ML are still called "Data Scientists" at Zendesk, for example. At other companies "Data Scientist" just means 'Data Analyst that knows SQL'.

> I’d define a machine learning engineer...

Would be happy with this definition. It's much clearer than what you can gather from Lyft's post. It's close to the definition I currently hold to. On this definition I've enrolled in graduate Maths+Stats as I'm still almost entirely a Data Engineer / Backend Engineer in terms of skillset.
New hot-charging lithium ion battery can recharge in 10 minutes
Or OpenConferenceWare: http://openconferenceware.org/
What makes you think the humans of this planet can manage resources substantially better?
And puts some hard, theoretical limits on using black holes as total conversion reactors. Reducing the power output to a terawatt requires 2x10^10kg... Probably not practical. (It would also have a radius of 0.03 femtometers. A proton? ~0.84)
The comments here seem very negative compared to e.g. the Google employee protests over Project Dragonfly. [1]

There are two questions here: whether GitHub should allow ICE to buy its software, and whether employees should influence the direction of their company via protests, petitions, and threats to quit.

GitHub specifics aside, I think employees absolutely should organize and quit over issues they feel strongly about (at least when they have the flexibility to find other jobs). Company policy should be guided by the people who work there, and the a company's leadership structure is set up well to resolve the conflict.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542830
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Would the plaintiff have been in the right to defend his property from police abuse? Does the 2nd amendment mean anything at all?
> Why don't the employees at all these other companies object like Github employees? Why do Github employees get a special right to withhold consent for their product to be used in a setting they might object to? Why is ICE the only company that they object to? Why do some causes get their favor and not others?

Wokeness and the recent trend of trying to cancel anything that doesn't align within a narrow spectrum of progressive viewpoints is a big reason here.
Thanks for that. Now that I've had a chance to read through it, a question:

The examples seem to be implemented in pure Rust. No one is going to port their Spark jobs to Rust in the shot term. Have you evaluated perf with Python etc?

If you're still seeing significant speedups, you might want to bottle this up and seek VC because a managed service along the lines of 'databricks but 10x faster' would certainly get traction.
I have seen the automated messages along the lines of "host canceled booking 24h before check-in" on many or even most Airbnb listings. Is this not still a thing?

You can't leave a written review, but maybe that's appropriate if you haven't actually stayed at the place.
"Actually, the end of the Facebook feed would be great"
It is ultimately a social justice issue no matter how you contextualize it.

Think about it this way: If the government has complete access to your life, that simplifies targeting you for any reason they might select, and history has shown that social justice is a big factor because law enforcement has a history of targeting vulnerable minorities, even if they don't do it as much now.

Are your politics uncommon? Is your skin color uncommon? Is your sexuality uncommon? Does someone in the local police department just plain dislike you? We used to perform witch-hunts on communists. Conservatives already observe (regardless of whether you believe this to be true) persecution by the government, and left-wing and far-right groups actively are subject to the same in some cases right now.

Even if the technology is only partial surveillance and detection, it trivializes applying the "Give me six lines written by the most honest man in the world, and I will find enough in them to hang him" trope to literally anyone, because now they have access to most of the words we've said in our entire lives, including quotes. And they could do selective editing to recontextualize them.
Negative-sum TBH
America is huge, it has to rely on the states to fight back.
I have heard that Technion, huji, tau are good schools for cs/ee.
ooh... don't miss the t-shirt!
Has this ever worked?

People will come up with all sorts of reasons to convince themselves to take blood money, but surely they're self delusions at best.
Grandmaster level players make those kinds of mistakes extremely rarely and if they’re the only difference between winning and losing, the ai is an extraordinary achievement.
It's flagged because it gets discussed all the time, basically on every submission from a paywalled site, and it's been covered in the guidelines for years.

The community consensus is that HN is better with links from sites that have paywalls (NYT, New Yorker, WSJ, The Economist etc are some of the most influential publications in the world, so banning them would diminish HN's relevance and usefulness), as long as there is a known workaround to the paywall. Usually someone will post a workaround in the discussion thread, but https://archive.is/ is usually your best bet.

If it's a "hard paywall" (i.e., no workaround exists), then the submission should not appear on HN.
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I'm so glad to see this getting media coverage. I hope Amazon is forced to fix this. Or at least explain themselves. HN user altmind submitted[1] the original reddit post[2] yesterday but the HN thread seems to have been overlooked.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21403793

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/dpbt3t/the_perils...
That makes sense since those same people are now labeling detention centers "concentration camps". It's tautological.
Something it took me a long time to see clearly -

People talk about all sorts of things they supposedly need to have satisfaction in their work, but they are mostly red herrings. People get obsessed with benefits and qualifications and pay and titles and status and all sorts of nebulous things when they know they are missing something, but don't know what.

What matters is a sense that you are doing meaningful work. All the other stuff, like the technologies you work with, the quality of your co-workers and management, the free coffee and lunch or lack thereof, will not provide substitutes in the long run.

And, by "meaningful", I don't mean glamorous, change-the-world stuff that appeals to vanity. Clearing out drains (or the IT equivalent) is useful and meaningful. By lack of meaning, I'm talking about anything that amounts to digging ditches to fill them in again.

Unfortunately, most job ads and recruiters assume that who you work for and why don't matter much at all - they just are looking for someone with a list of tech skills to plug in to a machine.

So, I would say what's worked to some extent for me is temping and volunteering and getting to know different people and organizations.
Really wish I knew what this said
Did she just create a new account?
I'm not sure if I would characterise it as toxic? There is obviously disagreement. But my impression has always been "this is a company where people have values other than technology & money, and are empowered to speak up". The alternative isn't really never having disagreements, but rather being secretive and vindictive to the point where employees fear to speak up, or consider it useless in the face of corporate bureaucracy and unaccountability. <side-eyes to IBM>
Exactly. Scheme has not been a success in part because it lacks needed features. Go has just enough for its uses, and no more. It's not powerful enough for really serious projects, but (1) there are already other languages for those, and (2) the overwhelming majority of projects aren't.
Amazon allows non-Amazon devices to be connected to your account, but this can’t be seen by customer or ordinary service reps? That seems weird.
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>At the present time only one chunk of matter in the universe behaves that way; someday that could change.

This is not correct because it is possible to experience the same John K Clark from multiple different frames of reference.
It feels like he thinks political advertising on Facebook is the only way to stop Elizabeth Warren.
It's not an employee's role to determine with whom the employer does business. The employee is always free to switch to a different employer if they can't support the work.
There are those that are famous, those with a lot of time, those who work in the media, those who are already politicians, those that are popular .... why are their voices and reach allowed when those with money are not?
I assume OP wants to know why we can't provide electrical activity manually.