skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this comment I meant a public venue in the sense of any venue not specific to a particular political party or some members-only closed organization.

Sure, it's legally free to do as it chooses, but I'm claiming that it shouldn't choose that way, that all such venues should explicitly allow also people who are advocates for the "enemy" party if this is not a political event. "The society", whether talking about the whole country or about the tech domain or about particular narrow industries, inevitably includes people of all parties, including active Trump supporters. They're part of the community. Where do we draw the line if supporting one of the major presidental candidates is not acceptable? Do we start labeling tech cons as "Democrats and other anti-Republicans only" events? That seems really wrong, that's putting way more politics in tech events than should be reasonable - IMHO they should actively choose to be politically neutral.

And I believe that it's important to underline that this is a symmetric thing. Yes, there's a polarization where many people believe that the active supporters of the other party are inherently unethical. That cuts both ways, and has done so many times in past. If you say that it's okay for niche industry conferences to kick out someone for openly supporting the presidental candidate they like, then it means that it's okay for niche industry conferences (now or after a couple elections) to kick out people like you for openly supporting the candidate that you prefer. And I don't think that this is where we want to go.
Do you think the streets of 2019 are similar to the streets of 2009?
"Just" need a billion rows.

Sure, some people get there, but it makes sense to do things the right way first, then figure out how to cut corners only when and if you need to.
Copyright infringement isn't theft. All of the creators have already been paid. Arguing that piracy will "bring an end to content creation altogether" is pure hyperbole.
I imagine the Ring acquisition has been helpful in that regard.
I cant think of a tenet I disagree with.
>Transparency program will eliminate a lot of the middle men playing the arbitrage game all together.

Transparency isn't that new, over a year old by now. And it doesn't eliminate middle men since it requires the manufacturer to label all their products regardless of source.
Question: what is the code for/from?
Ohh, ML is the new term for AI now.

We've finally accepted the computer doesn't have any information in it yet, and that we have to (somehow) feed some in.

Heh.
This SJW policing really sickens me. Brendan Eich, Curtis Yavin, Donglegate, "sexist" t-shirt astrophysicist, RMS, now this guy and who knows how many less prominent ones. And the problem is that it's so widespread. I don't know of any community which isn't infected by it.

And really, what can you do about it? If you are not already set for life you can't afford to step out against it unless you are willing to risk your livelihood.
> but surely it's not wise politically to miss them

This is something I have come to really despise about working in tech. It doesn't matter if it's office beers, or the board games group, or retreats, etc... It's something that I feel is almost inappropriate in regards to my personal time which is fleeting the older I get.

> "keep the company young" ageism tactics

Anecdotally, I've found it's less ageism and more building a "club" of who's in/out. If you're someone who wants to keep colleagues at arms length (ie: strictly business) it turns into a huge problem, and it will definitely come up in your 1-on-1's.

It plays out like this: "We're noticing you're missing team events - why is that? Is everything alright? We'd like people to be team players!"

To which I always want to respond: "Well Bob, at the end of the day we're all replaceable to those up the chain and I know it's 100% in my worst interest to blend my personal life and my work life. I don't want to drink with you, I don't want to share my personal opinions, and I am not here to 'make friends'. I want to keep work at work, and home at home."

I would never say the above because that's grounds for an instant conflict, ie: "I'm not here for the koolaid, I'm here for the paycheck". Best way I've found to address it is to outright lie and say you suffer from social anxiety.
I created word cloud as a Valentine's Day gift this year:

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-va...

- https://github.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-valentine/blob/ma...

My implementation (https://github.com/brianquinlan/word-cloud-valentine) is a lot less sophisticated than stylecloud but I think that I had a few interesting ideas about text extraction.

I used nltk to extract only nouns and to do word stemming (e.g. so that "time", "times" and "timing" are only counted as one word).

I also experimented a lot with various method of determining word size i.e. size proportional to frequency, size proportional to log(frequency), size proportional to sqrt(frequency).
I didn't say to blindly trust the authorities. I read some of the reports myself. You can, too.

If you mean you only want to trust primary research you do yourself, then this discussion is impossible.
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers
Typically (at least when I've implemented variations of this pattern) a batch job run on a schedule performing something like "expire stale/completed jobs past a threshold."

If you needed the existence of completed jobs to compute future jobs, use a supplementary datastructure that stores spans or other heuristics, updated in a transaction with job completion
> The proper economic arrangement for those who wish to make a living with creative works is patronage

We have this in the 21st century, it's called paying for content. If you pay Netflix, you're their patron.
I have to give a second endorsement to runit. I really wish more distros would use it.
Unless you have better OpSec than the KGB, or a cartel-like reputation for inflicting incredibly disproportionate amounts of violence unto the friends, family, household pets, and lawyers of snitches, pressure on that mule works wonders.
I don't think I follow... even if we think of the "conscious free will" as being an emergent property of the brain, it would still be made up of brain waves within the brain.

What else would free will be but an aspect of your brain? There is nothing else for it to be?
How the movies and television are made
Companies within NYC, the most prominent one is Etsy, have been "taken over" for the purpose of using employees to make entertainment. This is all performed under the guise of a "feel good" ad campaign that is there to mask what is actually happening, which is effectively the Stanford Prison Experiment. They hire psychologists using pseudonyms to act as "managers". These psychologists then create an environment of fear through constant surveillance, gas lighting and incrementalist tactics that pit employees against each other. The purpose of this is to raise their anxiety levels to the point where they have impaired judgement. The "managers" then listen in on what happens to make scripts for Netflix, Showtime and HBO.

I got trapped at Etsy because they thought I lied on my resume. At some point I started noticing management was playing strange psych games and kept encouraging us to make odd decisions, even going as far as to encourage sexual harassment of women at work. I started looking up some of the employees and realized they were operating under pseudonyms, I ended up tracking down two contractors who had connections to HBO and NPR. When they couldn't raise my anxiety levels or scare me into doing what they wanted they fired me and used in-person advertising companies to participate in a vicious rumor campaign to keep me unemployed (which did not work).

People within Etsy have done this to dozens of employees they couldn't blackmail for any reason and if you want to verify this you want to look at text messages, emails, W2s and bank statements from anyone who was fired from these companies. You'll notice a pattern, an employee gets fired, they spend long periods of time unemployed until they are drained of all of their cash and/or are in massive amounts of debt. If the person is cooperative they keep them silent by keeping them in debt slavery as pseudo managers at other companies.
Were you comparing Amazon’s prices to a different retailer’s? Or comparing Amazon to Amazon? I’ve heard of the former being shut down, but not the latter.
Do we live in a marvelous age or what?
I'm guessing that you're talking about a strongly typed functional language here? ML family?
> Thus content creators shouldn't have an automatic entitlement to get paid each time someone reads/listens to/watches a work.

If those are the conditions for which the work was created, then they absolutely do. Regardless, downloading a work and distributing it, that’s theft. If the creator/financer made it available, then that’s their prerogative. At some point in the chain, that content left someone’s server under a license agreement that then was broken when the downloader shared it.

The breaking of the license agreement is the issue here. People don’t have a right to break a valid contract unless a court says they do. Regardless if your feelings, it’s still theft.

And yes, we do benefit from copyright. It protects your work from thieves who played no part in the financing or creation of the work.
> who wish to consume art is patronage

You mean like paying a monthly subscription fee to access content on demand? That's still patronage.
The logical counterargument would be that good software sells system.

It's an argument I would be much more open to if Apple wasn't also pushing terrible Catalyst apps for the Mac.
The substitutability of going to the theater is not super high if for instance you are busy parents in a small town and you want to have a date night, or get your kids out of the house for a few hours on the weekend.

People might still go because the theater experience is convenient, even when the content produced by the studios is crap. Happens all the time.
is it still the same trend?
Many people on this thread have asked if there is a rigorous way to migrate data between relational schemas that contain non-trivial foreign keys, and the answer is yes: In the open-source categorical query language CQL, data migrations necessarily respect foreign keys - a property guaranteed by the mathematics of category theory and the automated theorem prover that ships with CQL. http://categoricaldata.net
> no ethical harm

According to whom? If region enforcement is in place, it's because of legal obligations. So yes, there's ethical harm involved when you do something like this because you're intentionally circumventing a business's legal obligations to their partners.
The man had a picture taken once with a MAGA hat. That does not make him a danger to society. Most likely no one but the person who so venomously reported him would even know that he is a Trump supporter during the conference. This is all lunacy.
We are discussing climate science. If the person I was trying to convince was so ignorant of the subject to not even know what IPCC was, I would point them to the body, its website, and NASA for summarized data.

If someone who wants to drag out useless arguments online without addressing real datapoints wants to pretend like "IPCC Is so foreign", then you are just wasting time.

You know what the IPCC is. You can find reports from NASA. You know the body of research out there. Why aren't you engaging with it? You decry the lack of discussion, but you won't even engage with the highest quality of research available on the topic.

Calling out a fallacy without substantiating further is just arguing for the sake of arguing. Either engage usefully or stop question begging.
> Safety-critical systems and secure systems are completely orthogonal

This strikes me as the most true statement in this conversation. I feel like I need this as a bumper sticker. I think a significant issue in this space is figuring out how to get the security people to put as much skin in the game as the safety-critical people have. The security people often get to continue paying their mortgage as long as they say "no". And as a physician leading a development team, I really struggle with this. If the budgets need to go up to solve the compliance problems, that's fine, but the compliance people seem to always have one more tissue-thin layer of requirements to add. It's like trying to drill your way out of a growing onion.
if it were clearly the wrong tool, you'd be right. But its clearly not the wrong tool for this specific situation.
C# Code Quality – Part 1
For hat he wore in 2016?
I guess I would ask you: why do you want a special term for the shitty version of this specific category of people?

Do you have other terms for the shitty people within other specific groups? Do you have a term you use specifically for the shitty business people? Do you have a term you use specifically for shitty athletes? For shitty politicians? For shitty women?

We have a word for the shitty version of a gay person. We also have a word for the shitty version of a black person. Worth noting. Louis CK says he has nothing against gay people, but he wants to use the F-word to connote a special kind of shitty gender nonconforming man.

Have you thought about where this SJW label came from and why it exists in the first place?
Ah yeah nothing like the most barebones PoC to learn a lot about something. Bird's eye view and all that.

Good that you're already thinking 'next'!

The blow you speak of is common unfortunately between different types, and there is always a sorta 'dominant' type in every business. Sometimes it's the engineers, sometimes it's the marketing, sometimes it's sales, sometimes it's c-execs. That's one piece of info worth having to make more informed career choices, depending on your goal — you usually thrive as part of the dominant type, i.e. "ethos" of the company. Look at the CEO and background of the managing backbone. It usually says a lot about a company's culture, who matters and who's recycled perpetually.
Not trying to snark, but this seems like pretty basic stuff - is there anything in the article that the average HN reader wouldn't have heard multiple times already?
Yes, curation is an important service that provides great value to end users.
Why not Brave? Honest question.
I was showing stuff from eBay too. Good point, that was probably it.

Would you be interested in collaborating on this? I've still got a lot of code from my last attempt.
"Doctors in the US are also grossly overpaid compared to other countries"

So are developers.
That is great! You are doing system administration now, enjoy!

I believe people should be doing that more often, you know, just moving stuff around.
Totally off-topic, so sorry, but the juxtaposition of "established networks" and "Netflix" made me think to ask the following: Does anyone know the story of how Netflix bootstrapped itself and came into its own?
You would likely never be affected by the wealth tax. Do you think your prudent lifestyle will lead to > $50 million in assets?
I didn't downvote (don't have the karme for it).

But you won't engage with the science. You're just probing at basic problems of epistemology and hand-wringing. Literally no one can argue against that and it isn't productive. What about the science do you want to discuss?
There will be more potholes and falling bridges
>In 2018 $273bn was spent on digital ads globally.

$39 in online advertising per year per human on earth doesn't seem too unreasonable as a figure.
How PHP Works Internally
You're a couple years too late, Firefox has already been corrupted.
One thing in ethics you might ask is “if everybody did it, what would happen”?

If everybody pirated their videos, maybe media companies would get a clue and make a better product. Nobody pirates music anymore—it is much easier to just pay a small amount to Spotify and the like and get access to almost any song you’d want on basically all your devices.

If anything, perhaps it is more ethical to hard pirate video than it is to let media companies shoot them selves in the foot...
Rest of the attendees includes many other Trump supporters, who have all right to be there and shouldn't have to fear getting kicked out for admitting it. You seem to imply that Trump supporters either don't exist or don't matter - whether or not people of some political party affiliation have the same rights as everyone else is just as much part of professional ethics as the equivalent thing for gender or race. This political filtering seems a bit like a repeat of McCarthy's Red Scare.
Content to advertising ratio very low with this article, I think people just voted it up for the feel-good value.
I use a tiking WM so all my terminals just expand to fill the screen or some integer fraction thereof.
I’ve made electron apps with electron that are 30mb on disk, and 90mb in memory, so it’s possible.
Two variables that seem to drive the entire market are $/mile of range and grand total range.

The short history of EV market has plenty of vehicles that tried to up sell the je ne sais quoi factor, and were met with buyer indifference.
Switched back when [Firefox Quantum](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox...) came out. Never looked back.
Agreed. Based on other things I've read (sorry I don't have links handy) the forensics surgeons were seeing extreme inflammation in the lungs identical to people that have experienced chemical fire burns. I don't have the exact terminology they used, sorry.
Isn’t the claim that the rate of change is increasing? That same amount of change in the past 125 years should occur in half or quarter of the time, for example.

Where do we stand on the singularity these days?
> After four years together, Kim and I had a daughter

To me this was probably the most reckless part of the story.

Why would a person facing the rest of his life in prison bring a child into the world, knowing he'd likely abandon her as painfully as his dad abandoned him?
Thanks! I bought the book.
The other day I wowed my iPhone using co-workers by showing that Firefox for Android indeed allows you to install extensions.
Yes, many Apple critics just want it to be Microsoft.
I think there is a world of difference between stealing a bicycle and making a copy of it without paying for the design. The same holds true in content. Taking a blu ray off the shelf is theft, downloading the movie via torrent is software piracy.

Personally I have 4 streaming subscriptions but I watch none of them, I pirate it all anyways. Nobody is at a great loss because I didn't walk over to my TV to watch Netflix in 4k. Netflix is actually saving money by having me torrent it to watch in 4k on my PC. There are extremely large groups of people that feel "entitled" to a usable product in this sense, whether it be on the go watching, quality on their devices, the rampant "bundling" issues getting worse with fragmentation, or other reasons.

People don't feel entitled to content for free it's just becoming harder to pay for it via streaming the same as it was after a while on cable. Either way people aren't stealing content, at worst a fraction of the people copying it aren't paying when they would have otherwise.
Always have hard-copies or screenshots as a fallback has been my experience. Demos really do seem to fail a lot more than you'd expect, or maybe its just the failure is a lot more noticeable and memorable.
This topic's been discussed ad nauseam, I feel, but I made the switch a few months ago. It's a little painful, Firefox' performance when it comes to handling video is still sub-par, but that said, I'm much happier overall. The performance loss isn't too bad, and Firefox's Containers is a much better flow than Chrome's Profiles. I'd like it if MetaMask didn't glitch out with hardware wallets so much on Firefox, but I can hop onto Brave for that.

That said, I checked a site I was developing on Chrome a while ago, and for a moment, I thought I'd accidentally deployed to the apex domain. Thank goodness I switched before Chrome's anti-features went into overdrive. I don't think I'd be using Chrome when they did that, even if privacy weren't a huge concern of mine.
> For instance, Firefox protects you from being tracked by advertising networks across websites, which has the lovely side effect of making sites load faster. “As you move from website to website, advertising networks essentially follow you so they can see what you’re doing so they can serve you targeted advertisements,” Dolanjski says. “Firefox is the only [major] browser out of the box that prevents that from happening.”

Uh, Safari?

> Even if you do care, reading through Google Chrome’s 13,500-word privacy white paper, which uses a lot of technical jargon and obfuscates exactly what data the browser is tracking, isn’t helpful either.

Actually, I found it to be an interesting and relatively straightforward read: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html

> One downside to using Firefox is that many browser extensions are built primarily for Chrome

WebExtensions is pretty similar between Chrome and Firefox, isn't it?

> my password manager luckily has a Firefox extension but it often causes the browser to crash

!!
The flip-side to this is that if you have a regular number which you use without an Apple device and use the same number in your Apple settings, your SMS get hijacked, and only show up on the Apple devices, which you may not look at for weeks.

(Ask me how I know this.)
I find it telling that the criticisms on this article are the exact same ones on articles about Go being released ten years ago. It's like spending a decade yelling at a bee to tell it that it's not aerodynamic enough to fly.
> it means you no longer have something that you used to have

No it doesn't. It means you lost out on potential revenues because someone decided not to pay for it. That's a loss. If people are consuming your content and not paying you for it, you're losing something in the transaction.
> A rather simple software radio

I'd think that would be rather a phase accurate software radio.
The crux of the article seems to be:

To support this new approach, he has employees leave their phones in their bags at the office and blocks access to social media on the company network. [...] Perhaps most important, his employees now check work email only twice each day.

It's not just the reducing the hours, but making those hours more productive.
Does Brave have anything like uMatrix and uBlock Origin?

That functionality is pretty essential to me, and I can get it on Firefox.

Other nice-to-haves on Firefox are: CanvasBlocker, NoScript, Cookie AutoDelete, Textern, and Stylus.

If Brave has some equivalent functionality, I'm interested.

Qutebrowser was another alternative which looked pretty promising, but last I checked its lead (only?) developer didn't have time to add the uMatrix/NoScript-like functionality he had intended. So it's a no-starter for me.
Nope, but this article isn't aimed at HN readers. It's aimed at lay people who don't necessarily understand what actions they're taking to implicitly undermine their own privacy or jeopardize the future of an open, standards-driven web. Katherine has written other, more innovative pieces around the same issues: https://www.fastcompany.com/90369697/googles-new-recaptcha-h...
I believe that many CoC violations would include private events which the victim would like to keep private. After all, there's a good reason why we don't make all the police reports about harassment public.