skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. And to get paid well you have to be given the opportunity to do work that matters. What you described is a perfectly valid way of doing office politics: being a no-bs person that people respect for the ability to get the job done and have canidid conversation with. But that's also politics.
I didn't realize how broken Windows 10 is, until I tried it on someone else's computer... At this point, it's unsuitable for any computer without a SSD: M$ has made a huge amount of background system update & housekeeping activities as integral parts of the system and they will continuously SEEK your disk to death, it doesn't need to be 20 MB/s, just 2 MB/s random seeking will render it useless for doing any actual work at any time. It's laughable that high-end commercial laptops are still being sold with those 5,400 RPM, 1 TB HDDs, totally unusable.

You'll never see this kind of bullshit disk access on *nix (as long as you turned off your desktop search index service), or, for this matter, Windows XP...
It is a trivial example, no question. It's part of a bigger tutorial example you can find here:

https://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/comments/tdd_intro/5

There's a different, written example here (scroll down to "A TDD Example"):

https://www.jamesshore.com/Agile-Book/test_driven_developmen...

Those examples are for beginners, and not totally representative of the real world. For real-world TDD, check out my "Let's Play TDD" or "Let's Code JavaScript" screencasts, which are listed in my profile.

> Have I deeply misunderstood TDD?

Maybe? A defining feature of TDD is that you iterate, so you wouldn't take 2-20 minutes to write a series of tests. Instead, you'd write one test, get that to work, modify it or write the next test, get that to work, etc.

Part of the skill of doing TDD well is figuring out which tests to write first, so that this iterative cycle forms a smooth path from beginning to end, while still allowing you to discover new things about your requirements and design as you go.

Another part of the skill is testing the behavior of your code, not its implementation, so that you don't overconstrain the implementation. Implementation changes that don't affect behavior shouldn't require test changes. This is hard and many people struggle with this.

TDD is easy to learn but hard to master. I personally find it very worthwhile. The confidence it gives me in my code is very freeing, and I like not having to spend much time debugging. TDD isn't perfect, nothing is, but the problems the OP described don't match my experience.
You never need to add that disclaimer.
For any fans of the Baroque Cycle and Cryptonomicon, I can strongly recommend Fall; or, Dodge in Hell.
You do not require a way to “scrub user data on demand from backups”. This is just untrue; please don’t spread it.
Tax-deductible support of local news is a fantastic idea.
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It's been tested already, and proven to be working really well.

Here's a similar experiment from last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workw...
I dont think their model is working, and Im not sure it ever will. Simply reading brainwaves, a bi-product as I understand it, of the actual neuron activity, couldn't possibly give you an accurate result.
When I didn't have an SSD, I spent a lot of time configuring the system so it wouldn't do as much IO in the background. Lots of services, as you say, do that by default, and it's unbearable. You'd be using the computer normally and all of a sudden it would start crawling for no apparent reason.
Yeah, they were meant. Yet wherever I go on the web I am being asked to opt-out from tracking since default I am opted-in - this is clear violation of GDPR, however is seems nobody is trying to enforce this.

Opt-out is typically covered by a ton of shady UI patterns, so it is hard to do this. Another clear violation of GDPR is punishing those who does not agree for tracking by serving them crippled content or no content at all.

And just to make it clear: I am strongly against extraterritorial laws like GDPR or FATCA. US does not have any rights to enforce their regulations outside US, similarly EU does not have any rights to tell people outside EU how their websites should look like. This is clear abuse of the economic and military power that US/EU have.

GDPR has some good points (like PII data storage rules), however some of its regulations, like the once that force open forums to provide "right to be forgotten" for posts, are pure crap.

The unfortunate vagueness of this regulation does not help either - real live example from Poland: if school teacher takes home pupils copybooks, which are signed with a pupil first and last name, does this mean that GDPR rules apply to the teacher (getting consents, proper handling and storage for copybooks, etc.)? Some lawyers claim they does not, some say they does, some have no idea. As a result in some schools pupils are forbidden to sign anything that enters the school building with a full name... Overreaction? Probably. But you never know when some mean parent would want to use GDPR against the school.
Most of history was pretty bad.
Oh, the shame. I've handed in my resignation as grammar nazi.
my number one meter is sleep quality. Two burnouts after this is the most reliable metric. Two nights of poor sleep is serious, very serious. I've learned to take action to prevent prolonged stress, even changing gigs with my dream stack but sky high stress.

I'd rather be unemployed living in a tent than going through burnout recovery ever again.
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The resolver has, hard coded, the root zone keys. If the resolver is denied the NS records from the root zone, a resolution is not possible. If the NS records are returned, they are signed and include the lower signature keys. If the NS records are stripped of keys, the signature of those responses is invalid. People have put some thought into the design of DNSSEC, you can’t simply invisibly block it and force a protocol downgrade.
The data protection commissioners have their work cut out for them for the next decade.

It's just that the current privacy abuses of software companies are so complex and egregious that it takes a long time to sort things out.

Essentially every US company was doing things wrong for example. Just the other day I was reading LinkedIn's cookie notice which can be paraphrased as "accept our tracking commoner". And this is a bug company owned by MS, the new heroes of open source (and spyware).

It's the wild wild west out there.
I think that's intentional on Apple's part, though.
even if not done properly, a semi-accessible solution is better than a totally inaccessible one. A friend of mine has a hi-fi set that, obviously, doesn't have a built-in screen reader and the menus are complicated enough that she can't use it on its own. However, a crashy, semi-accessible app lets her use it somehow. I don't think anyone at the company cares about accessibility. Sure, it would be better if someone did, but that's still better than a (touch)?screen and menus with three levels of nesting that wrap around and remember your position.
Isn't the takeout a spinoff of The Onion ?
I don't get it. Sound nice but what exactly does Thorn do? what is this spotlight services they're providing? Seriously I've just spend time on their site but I don't get it beyond "using data". How they use it?

Lets say I have friends in a local DA office and I want to sell them this idea of using data they have. They just know that giving access to their data is a big legal headache. what exactly to I tell them to get them on-board with this? (exactly how the data / what data is handled?)
Need... they don't. It is a source of potential income.... at the cost of their user's privacy.
"Work expands to fill the time available"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_law

Basically with less time, people focus instead on what really matters. A lot of the fluff that was actually a burden is dropped.
build a faraday cage for your tv or alternatively a cage that would be just big enough to fit you and your tv
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But with Google it’s both ways: they want the money and still will collect / sell your data.
> (no more cancellations for a better fare)

Wouldn’t be so sure about that. The operating company will still be trying to maximise profits after all.
The requirement of 401c(3)s to be "non-political" looks like a pretty weird to someone that doesn't live in the US. Why do non-profits have to work with that suppression while for-profit companies won't? Does anyone here know the historical context for this?
Jon Blow has an excellent talk titled "preventing the collapse of civilization" where he explores this.
>Are users any better off now because those companies got fined?

Yes

>Did those companies stop collecting user data?

Maybe not google so much, but other companies certainly stopped or collect a lot less. And it's still early, and there is plenty of low hanging fruit for GDPR enforcement to hit.

>Has online privacy improved because of those fines?

The full effects remain to be seen, but yes, it has improved. Maybe not for you, but for me it certainly has, in particular with German businesses I use.

Aside from regulations, it also fueled and still fuels public discussion, especially in the tech space. Where half a decade back everybody would have ignored e.g. GitLab's email informing users and customers that they are going to roll out third party tracking, but this time around the backslash was so swift and hard GitLab went back to the drawing board (goof for them!).

On top of that, the EU inspired similar laws around the world including most the (somewhat lenient) California Consumer Privacy Act that comes into effect next year.
Drivers arent paid per hour though
So, since the trial apparently worked so well, why haven’t they continued with the 4-day week? Anyone know?
> I haven't seen any data corruption since at least 2016

While I appreciate reading a counterargument, that's still only 3 years and personal "anecdata" at that. So it still falls within the "fairly recently" disclaimer the GP used (3 years is fairly recent in file system terms).
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Imagine the shitshow this will cause once law enforcement adopts this.

Currently eyewitness criminal sketches are still drawn by artist so they are naturally low fidelity.

That will change once you can generate a photo of a face (like https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/) based on your brain waves.

This will be disastrous on so many levels. The eyewitness might not have a good sample of a minority race. The GAN dataset itself might also only be trained on celebrity faces so it doesn't know how to generate anything else (e.g., a teen).

But it will be deceptively high resolution so police will rely on it.

If you have a generic face your life is fucked.
This was posted here yesterday.

The "experiment" only took one month and the employees were paid for the day off every week.

The results are inconclusive at best.
Great list, well done! I can recommend Andrew Ng for everything on AI subject related. His video "Artificial Intelligence - Machine Learning" is nice introduction to Machine Learning.
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No, there were touch gestures for that.
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So the fact that the experiment worked at Microsoft only says that Microsoft is terribly unproductive otherwise. Which should be true for the majority of large organizations.
So you were expecting the person not to be paid for the day off even after increasing productivity 40%?
Are we 'brainwashed' during sleep?
Is there a list of developers who are approved to accept sponsors on Github?

For certain projects, I already follow the people running them and became a sponsor when I got to know about them being on-boarded to the program (eg: cUrl).

It would help if I could see a list of all users accepting donations and figure out if I use any of their creations in my day to day work.
"Inner Source" is a label I'd never heard before, even though O'Reilly coined the term 19 years ago according to Wikipedia [0]

"Inner source is the use of open source software development best practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organizations. The organization may still develop proprietary software, but internally opens up its development."

And well done Microsoft winning (back) the hearts and minds of devs with both Visual Studio and VScode over these past several years.

These new cloud versions look like they will speed up onboarding and give management a somewhat higher degree of assurance that developer's coding environments are more secure.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_source
> There's some expansion that can be done on that third option. Even if I'm not very invested in a project, I'd be happy to mention a bug if it were easy to do. But my experience has been that, if I report the bug, I'm going to start getting asked for details about my system, and asked to try a bunch of things to try and sort out the reproduction steps, and possibly even have maintainers getting frustrated with me if I don't want to fix the problem myself.

A quality bug report should include system details and detailed reproduction steps. Expecting "something didn't work for me" to leat to a fix is unreasonable, especially when you expect unpaid vonlunteers to do the work.
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Have you considered that almost everyone was abusing your privacy before and it takes a long time to sort things out? At least now you know you're dealing with assholes.

I don't see why your example from Poland is bad. Teachers are now thinking about the privacy of their pupils - this is mandatory in today's world.
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Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433710 (540 points/205 comments)
This one is 3 letters shorter!
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The low achievers don’t sit quietly. They scream. They commit assaults. They loudly tell jokes and laugh in the room while watching YouTube videos.

They’re not the same students. A single bad apple poisons a classroom.
Ironically the US have the highest reduction in CO2 emissions, most likely due to the increased use of gas instead of coal. The cheap gas is caused by increased production of oil and gas due to fracking. Another example of technology making the world better.

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-in-2017-us-h...
If it even runs instead of BSODing?
> They would need to be pretty far apart from each other for this to work

Yeah, like light-years apart. Many light-years, too.
I wonder how much lasting damage this administration - well, let's be frank, this president - has done to the US' reputation when it comes to committing long-term to agreements and contracts it has signed.

Consider the Paris climate accord. Consider threatening to not protect certain NATO members. Consider the Iran nuclear agreement.
I suspect you would understand if you spent less time at work or doing side projects and more time resting.. some insights come after having some time to get bored.
> Considering Stallman wasn’t a professor and didn’t have ties to Epstein, it doesn’t give a lot of confidence in the article author to get other facts right.

Even worse, IIRC Stallman was fired for intervening in a email flamewar where a random user was accusing a deceased colleague of Stallman of having committed crimes that didn't even matched the accusation.
MockoFun is a free online graphic designer tool, photo editor and text editor! It has lots of cool features and graphic design elements to play with.
OR they will just find out that this method can just as easily be producing a picture that someone who is good at visualizing just made up in their mind and is actually "looking at" in their mind's eye. This making this technique useless as a form of truth seeking machine.
I mean, no major cloud provider has adopted ipv6 despite it being a clear advantage in many areas for them.

Makes double sense when you consider the fact that at google they basically wrote their own software defined network appliances.
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In NoVa there is no overly restrictive planning code to begin with. It results in fairly fugly developments sometimes like parts of Tysons, but would take that any day over SV cost of living.
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The author suggested the borders idea as well. I didn't come up with it, I just illustrated it.
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No. I was expecting the productivity to rise.
Seriously, get a better linux distro. I support 100s of linux users, use laptops, desktops, and servers at home, work, family, etc.

Some distros get this right (and very rarely have a problem) and others just don't get it at all.
Get some confidence. It’s your damn company.
>Ideas are cheap, execution is where companies need to compete. //

A patent [the law intends] is granted for an invention, specifically not an idea. There needs to be a workable embodiment, sufficiently disclosed that a skilled reader can make the invention.

Making an idea a workable invention requires expending effort, that is why we need a patent system.

The alternative is industrial secrets, which IMO will greatly inhibit progress. Not because we can't reverse engineer but because of the costs of time and resources.

There is also an issue of sufficiency of patent disclosures reducing over time, patent offices need to be hot on that.
It does list the number of sponsors - https://imgur.com/a/46u0ZIz
No, previously there were issues with the virtual interrupt controller, and it was running on Arm64 servers but not the pi4.
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considering it is responsible for destroying natural habitats to a high degree (the same way palm oil trees is) ?
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Good question. It sounds strange to me too. I wonder if there’s some unintuitive loophole like the paper itself doesn’t write political articles and sources them from other places.
Why?

Creating yet more loopholes doesn't sound like a good idea.
> if school teacher takes home pupils copybooks, which are signed with a pupil first and last name, does this mean that GDPR rules apply to the teacher

I don't see how you could possibly claim that this is a kind of automated processing or a structured filing system.

So it's another example of fear without knowing the basic principles of the GDPR.
without getting off track, unadulterated

What do you mean by this?

I assume you’re not into drugs - I’m not either - but no one is sneaking free cocaine into donuts, I guarantee it
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Does the GDPR only apply to those selling personal information?
Patents in general and as originally intended are beneficial: the concept was created to incentivise publishing innovations, to promote progress and state of the art.

Patents in software space are an abomination.

The solution is actually easy, and AFAIK has been at one time in the books too. Require a physical prototype with the submission. But I would go further. We should also require that the information in the patent, and any publicly available resources it references are together sufficient to replicate the prototype build.

If the rebuild cannot produce the same results as the application claims, then the entire application is invalid. (This limits the incentive for patent claims to be overly broad.)

Want to patent a process improvement? Fine, submit the description, the claims, the prototype implementing the improvement - and the accurate build instructions to replicate the design.

Think your setup would be too costly due to the requirement of the physical prototype? Works as intended: now you have an extra incentive to improve the invention to the point where it is actually useful and cost-effective.

And if the cost of submission due to prototype requirement prevents you from submitting for a patent in the first place? Excellent, the cost of entry is already high enough. Now you have to keep innovating to maintain your competitive edge, because there is no patent moat to prevent competition in an obviously expensive, potentially high-margin field.

The last one may sound like a weird one, but it serves a very specific purpose. You are allowed to keep trade secrets, but if you choose not to patent them and your competition does (because they figured out a more cost-effective way of doing it), then you just got what you deserved.

And the final nail in the coffin of overbroad patents would be to turn the patent office incentives around. Make the rejection of an application be financially the most beneficial result. Allow resubmissions, but make them exponentially more expensive, so companies can't just bombard the patent office with junk.
I would not be so sure. Avis, in particular, is actively pushing for a flow where you book online, use "secret" promo code to get full insurance for basically zero, pick up car directly on parking lot with keys inside, and drive away. It takes literally 5 minutes and a single employee to check your driving license and contract. Hertz is trying to do same, though less effectively. Their websites and apps are still horrible, and it's perplexing why, but the cost of building decent apps will be immaterial compared to the cost of the vehicles, and from that, building actual on-demand short-term rental network does not seem so unlikely.
>A low-hanging fruit of fixing the patent system would be to reduce it to a mere notary service of timestamping ideas. //

The law says you can't get a patent for an idea. Which is right, ideas are cheap.

It sounds more like you're problem is "insufficiency" of the disclosures. No need to throw the computer away because one stick of RAM doesn't work.
Lots of people sharing stories about how fortunate they were to be saved from bullying and chaos.

I can relate, since I switched schools myself to get away from bullying (though to a Waldorf school rather than any kind of gifted program). But have you stopped to think, if this study is correct, then some of the following seems like they must be true:

* you would actually have done as well if you stayed

* you would have done worse if you stayed, but others who went into gifted programs would have done better if they didn't, making up for it

* people like you are just too rare to make a difference in the statistics.

My older brother wasn't actively bullied, but was in an infamously dysfunctional class. He just filtered them out somehow, never changed school, and did far better than me academically in the end. So maybe an anecdotal data point for the first option.

There are other things besides achievement. I can certainly see an argument for separating kids who actively hurt other kids, whether it matters for achievement or not. But it seems giving high scoring kids extra stimulating environments isn't all it's cracked up to be (If the study can be believed).