skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, in your estimation, plaid's engineering is a bunch of less-than-half-competent madmen, who might as well be committing fraud, correct?

Is that overly negative or just the right amount?
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Netflix and The New Yorker, for example.
It's a poorly worded question for sure. It really should have been broken into multiple parts:

Q: Yes or No: Do you have the money on hand to pay for a $400 emergency expense in totality without the need to borrow money or sell something to cover it.

If yes, would you pay with

- debit/cash/check

- a credit card that you will pay off at the next bill.

If no, which of the folowing methods will you use to pay?

- long term credit card debt

- ask a family member

etc ...
From their copyrights, it looks like

- Azure uses TomTom

- Bing uses HERE (formerly Navteq/Nokia)

Did Microsoft buy all of Nokia? Or just their phone business?
have these people not heard of monero?
mainly due to their exorbitant fees, I stopped using, and then cancelled my amex card at least 10 years ago.

best move ever.

I advise all other amex users to do the same.

(Apart from the fact that using amex cards is discouraged by most vendors because of amex's excessive fees to them, and amex's excessive fees to you.)
> The routers can then decide how the data is charged, or if the balance isn't closed somehow, just start dropping packets coming from that link.

At this point you're essentially arguing that network neutrality is bad and what we really need is the opposite of that.

Realize that in your system, it's Verizon and Comcast who have all the power. They're sitting on millions of customers who have no other network path to them, so they would get to charge monopoly prices to anybody who wants to communicate with them, and the customers themselves have no other choice because the incumbent ISP has a local monopoly (or the sort of totally inadequate competition that DSL is now putting forth against cable/fiber).

And if you're paying for sending data but not for receiving it, it would give ISPs all the more incentive to keep doing and increase doing the things like selling highly asymmetric connections that upload much slower than they download, which make it harder to create competitive P2P networks.

> So again, the main business model is altruism with no way to actually monetize the transport layer.

How is the network not already monetized? Is there some alternative to Verizon and Comcast where you're paying no monthly fees, short of building your own network like Google does? Even then you still have to pay for it, you're just paying for land, labor and equipment instead of service.

You pay your ISP to get you to a peering point. That's monetized. The other endpoint pays their ISP to get to the peering point. Also monetized. What's left? The peering link? The actual cost of that is such a small percentage of the total that you can round it off to zero, and people only really try to charge for it when they're rent seeking because they have a monopoly path to a large number of customers.

> Yes, that's why you shouldn't do it that way.

Because occasionally people who make bad security choices will be encouraged to do better after suffering an uncovered loss of something like fifty or a hundred bucks? That seems like a small price for having a payments system that has low transaction costs and protects privacy.

> You don't spend 'money' you have agreements with your peers over how much data they are willing to receive from you. The clearing process is completely independent. Cash, cat pictures, happy feelings, revolutionary zeal. All are acceptable currency if the owner of the router agrees with you.

How is that any different than it already works? Anybody can configure their network to accept traffic or not from whoever they like. What's missing is an efficient method for clearing small payments -- but that's a general problem, not anything specific to internet links.
Right, I don't disagree with the plain fact that methane concentrations are increasing, both globally, and apparently in Barrow. There is a decades-long trend of increased methane concentrations.

The question is whether there has been a massive eruption of methane that is unprecedented, and could only come from methane hydrates.

Michael Mann says the "eruption" is consistent with past outliers and we shouldn't over-interpret the data. He says there is no evidence the increase is from permafrost, and that it appears likely to be from anthropogenic (i.e., non-tipping point) sources.

I'm not making an argument against climate change science. I'm making an argument against Dr. Peter Carter exaggerating climate science.
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Happened to me in target the other day.
Having talked to many PhDs, candidates, and students from other schools at conferences, I'd say that my experience is typical, at least for quantitative fields like math/stats/CS/engineering. Most of the horror stories that get thrown around the internet are from a vocal minority. You're far more likely to speak up if you had a bad experience and feel strongly about it. And it's not always the student's fault, but there are a lot of people that choose to do a PhD and drop out because they weren't a good fit. It's hard to tell the difference between a bad fit and a toxic program when you only hear one side of the story and can't ask their peers if they are exaggerating things to make themselves sound good.

Most PhD programs are small, and most advisors aren't famous academics. They are generally good people, but there are a few wackos (that's why it's important to have a few conversations before picking an advisor). The "typical" PhD is probably glad to be done, but isn't chomping at the bit for a second one. Nearly all will admit to stress during the program- with qualifying exams, comprehensive exams, and proposing/writing/defending a dissertation, you're bound to feel stress.

The jokes about being a "grad slave" are pretty common, but an advisor delaying a student's graduation because of the cheap labor is much less common. People claiming to be a grad slave to cover up their slow pace are probably more common. If a student actually has a strong case that a professor won't let them defend, then the word usually gets out and that professor will have a hard time finding more students (more reasons to have lots of conversations before choosing and advisor and committee).

And I definitely don't think that the peer review process is perfect, but it is more rigorous than publishing a blog post about something you learned. Not publishing isn't a deal breaker, but it's evidence of doing something. I trust the research skills of an M.S. that has a couple peer reviewed articles published more than an M.S. that has claimed to have done a self study program but has nothing to show for it.
I would take it one step further. Marxists/Leftists generally discount time as a variable entirely. It's all about addressing a concerns in the present. There's very little to no considering to the impact of time. There are two ways this disregard of time manifests itself. First, is what you mentioned, in that there is no consideration for the value of wealth building, which (1) takes time and effort, and (2) produces the greatest returns over multiple generations (Basically, every one of us are standing on the shoulders of our ancestors). The second is preference for distributing the fruits of labor in the present equitably instead of using the fruits of labor to create greater returns in the future.

While not specifically about time, the difference principle in Rawl's Original Position is also relevant. Under that principle, inequality is permissible if it can lead to the worst off being better off than they would if there were equality. This principles presupposes that time is considered when trying to maximize well being for the worst off. If you want to maximize the well being of the worst off in the present, you implement equality right now, but that may be worse for the worst off in the future.
So basically, you should never use public computers for anything beyond looking at YouTube anonymously?
He has the word “engineering” in the title of his company, which is typically prohibited. How the hell can they tell him to stop practicing “engineering”? What is their definition of engineering?
Midwest US..., with locations in several states (and internationally)

While I only have 2 choices for my home, getting Business Fiber runs has been no problems, normally at least 3 companies if not more will provide them. Of the 5 companies that will provide us fiber at main office, only 2 of them also offer Residential Services (ATT and Comcast), the others are B2B only companies, and offer services at a faction of what ATT provides business services for, but considerably more than a Residential line, which is why there are only 2 choices for a home, there is not much money there
> I created product on the side as a side project in my own time and it has become a huge hit in the community to a point where my employers wants me to transfer the code-base over. The company does OSS and my side-project is also Open-Source.

Let me restate this: You had an idea you were so interested in you created it in your off time. You made it open source. Your company likes it so much they want to contribute to the codebase. You, being the leading expert in this software, are the one most likely to be tasked with working on this codebase.

Beyond the obvious "OMG You're going to get paid to work on your pet project!"

the concern being that they seem to want to control it.

Compensation is probably not going to happen. IF it does then you are pretty much guaranteed they will own and control it.

I would advise NOT seeking compensation, and instead saying "omg! I'm so glad you appreciate the work I've put into this open source project. When can I speak to folks about how the current development process of this project and how to submit pull requests?"

Keep redirecting the conversation towards them contributing. If they ultimately say they need to control the codebase just tell them that if they're not ok with contributing to the project they can always fork it. They get the control they want and it's probably not worth suing you and against their best interest to fire you, because you're the leading expert in how it works.

Side note: I'd switch the license to GPL ASAP. Not because I'm a huge GPL fan but because the GPL can be used as a weapon to prevent them from using it without contributing. Or, it is better at that than any other license. It sounds like you're the sole contributor, so that's probably legally sound. I'd also make some quick improvements that they would not want to forgo since it sounds like they already have the current version under the Apache license.
If you ask me to memorize a 32-character random string every 6 months, I will memorize a 31-character string, plus one incrementing character.
Overall, what you can buy with a little research is much better in 2019 than 1999, even with the lemons and fake reviews.
Author of the underlying study here.

Facebook has been insisting that non-discrimination should be the responsibility of the purchasers, but we've shown over [0] and over [1] again [2] that even when the advertiser targets all groups proportionally (no misuse of advertising options), Facebook subselects who to show their ads to in a skewed way, leaving the advertiser and the users no recourse.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02095.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04255.pdf

[2] https://sapiezynski.com/papers/sapiezynski2019algorithms.pdf
Do you enjoy working at a company full of co-workers to stupid to understand your work?
They sold that, more or less: the Intel Euclid, a linux SBC and realsense camera in one package https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000...

I bought one. Bad thermals and weirdly flaky wifi, thanks to the overheating. To get it to run the fan fast enough you had to manually edit the startup scripts. Intel quietly killed it a year later, and it appears to be totally unsupported.
I have never seen these, but I wouldn't answer them if I did. Does it not give you a way to just use the map instead?
Linus Torvalds quote: "You need to grow thick skin". I also got a knee-jerk reaction when reading the first part, but the article explained it well, given that they probably don't want to give out too much information.

So how would you have engineered it?
I would just send the data uncompressed granted that the receiving server is probably in the same data-center with switches capable of handling Tbit's of data per second.

I liked the article, but would have wanted more details. I love optimizations, it's such a drug, the rush when you make something x times faster.
This article doesn't give me a bad impression. Contrary I'm thinking about sending an application.
This is not what he said though. He didn't advocate for staying away from issues and keeping political opinions to yourself, but rather for issuing a top-down political statement of how it is going to be: "We are going to support the Department of Defense".

The main thing that is changing is not "activism", but rather that companies such as Google started out with lofty visions and mottos like "Do no evil", but now can't help but become part of the millitary-surveillance-industrial complex. Predictably, many people who didn't sign up to work in the offense industry don't want to be implicitly transferred into it. Quitting is the easy path, but attempting voice rather than exit is understandable as well.
Same here, but found out that chelated magnesium puts a stop to this.
This isn’t even anything new x2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_relations_campaigns_of_...
Imagine the average Pokémon Go user; if they even read the boilerplate that stood between them and playing the game, how many of them understood what role OSM data played in their experience, realized what the word “open” meant, and correctly concluded that they could do something to influence/correct the situation vs just thinking the game had a bug or glitch?
Myself and a few others I know take Vyvanse instead of Ritalin or Adderall. I haven't had built any resistance yet but it's only been a year or two.

I like it better as it feels less harsh on my system. My doctor said that people will metabolize each type of ADHD medicine differently. Maybe a different compound would work better for you.
Two  menu bar apps:

- Shush: Quickly mute and unmute your microphone using a hotkey (e.g. fn).

- Clocker: Easy way to keep track of your friends and colleagues in different time zones.
The trouble is when your place of work is doing business that is morally hazardous or worse. It's further difficult when you otherwise believe in the company. It's especially bad when the situation goes from acceptable when you start then changes during your tenure.

This is a personal and subjective thing. Each person had their own set of moral limits. And some people don't want to hear it, do their jobs, and go home.

What are the realistic alternatives? "They should find another company" can easily apply to the outspoken or the don't-wanna-hear-it groups. "Put up with it" also could also apply to both groups.
This sounds like a general statistic. But the more a good is a necessity and the fewer substitutes are available the more of a tax they pay. So it's definitely possible for half the VAT to be passed on to consumers and poorer people to pay more than half the VAT depending on a lot of specifics I don't know.
The Realsense hardware might be great. The software that goes with it is not:

* DKMS kernel module for what should be a plain vanilla USB 3.0 device

* firmware updates require closed-source libraries

* breaking API and ABI changes that do not respect semver or SOVERSION

The worst part of my dayjob is wrangling the Realsense software suite.
I went through this in the past and my options auto updated and exercising them was not a problem (1/x) price per share for (n*x) options.

IANAL but I don't believe the company could legally split stock without your options being affected, because they're materially changing the promise of what you are owed. Also your options have real impact even before you exercise them, because you can do things like pay the taxes early. If you did this and the value materially changed, it wouldn't line up.
Delivery Hero to Acquire Korea's Woowa Brothers for $4b
Poe’s law applies here.
Python packaging is definitely in need of something, but my sense is that "yet another tool trying to be a catch-all package/environment management interface" is not it.
That's an amusing example.

You are aware that Google scrapes almost every page on the internet, without having any agreement with most of them, right?

Yes, you can add noindex and robots.txt to tell them you'd like to opt-out, but:

a) That only works so well,
and b) they're default is to use your page without your permission.
I would be shocked if it was actually that low. Doesn't everyone who's forced to change passwords every few months simply increment a number or change a single character?

I'm not afraid or ashamed to admit that this is what I do. However, with that being said, I never reuse passwords. If my password on any given service (including work) actually did get hacked, I would change it to something dramatically different and that would be that.
Alexa can now respond in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson
In this example, what is fairness, if not the most accurate prediction possible?
That’s too bad. CityLab has great content.
Thanks for the interesting articles! It would be cool to turn some of these into shorts like 3blue 1brown.
>everyone is simultaneously trying to dress the same and literally look alike

I think it is a bit more complicated than that due to one small detail you omitted, but still just ironic. In reality, they are all trying to look "different", but "different" in the exact same way, so they all end up looking the same.
Revival of 'Stoned ape' theory: psychedelics drove Homo Sapiens' cognitive leap
That sounds reasonable. Thanks for the sourcing!
Of course, but it’s also getting lost in the noise of what the parties themselves are doing.
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They probably just have one copy in the store and arrest anyone who buys it. Then they put the book back on the shelf and the trap is reset.
All the QR code needs to encode is a URL pointing to their authentication endpoint. If it's reasonably standardized, any password manager could implement it.

Login would be:

* scan QR code, sees https:/ /megacorp.com/login?session=hexhexhex

* Password manager asks that you want to log in with account X.

* Negotiates with auth service

* Website recieves your confirmed token via websocket

* You're logged in.

And, of course, if you don't have an account, the password manager can get you started creating one.
you are going to have a lot of fun with vim. Check out drew neil vim materials, if you haven't.
Because else how do you handle key revocation?
The promises about shipping can change. The ownership of the discs can't.

If someone starts throwing CDs in the garbage they are going to get sued hard.
Hidden content for some or for all (2019)
OpenPiton: An Open Source Hardware Platform for Your Research [pdf]
Oh, it's not something you have to do, and never prevents you from using the map. I think it comes up as an Android notification like "help people by answering a few questions about the places you visited."

I like to help people, so I tried it out for a while. I would probably still be answering questions if they didn't make it so annoying! :-)
My go-to exception for this has always been Factorio. They have not only unit tests, but integration tests, regression tests, fuzzers, performance regression tests, ....

Their blog regularly goes into details about how it all works. It's very much worth reading.
It sounds like the company wants to work with you to work out a good solution.

How have they responded when you told them:

* I'd like to keep roadmap control

* I'd like to be compensated for the work I put in on my own time out side of work. (which is well documented from the commit logs, and the fact I wasn't using an employer owned computer)

* I'd like to keep working on this on my own time outside of work.

If you are worried about long-long term, i.e. the time that exists after you leave the company, with the right software licensing strategy it's likely you could fork the project down the road and retain roadmap control of at least a fork of the main project.

You may want to consider working with your company's lawyers to choose a license (you can re-license open source software -- https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/33/how-can-a-...) or figure out if the Apache license meets your needs.

Short term it sounds like the outcome is pretty clear, long term seems like you have a lot of options.
In response to

> > we have no reason to believe intelligence relies on [as-yet mysterious aspects of quantum physics]

you wrote

> We actually do have reason to believe that ...

and later clarified

> [some true premises], therefore there may be unknown physics involved in consciousness, and those unknown physics may not be computable.

Saying something could be is different from saying we have reason to believe it. There may be a soul. Absent convincing evidence of the soul, though, we shouldn't predicate other research on the idea that it exists.
It would be even cooler if there were no possible vector for the computer to then compromise your phone, but I don't really see that happening.
U.S. Furniture Industry Is Back–But There Aren’t Enough Workers
> I 100% don't ever want to hear my co-worker's opinions on politics (even if I agree with them). I work to make a living and survive. Activism can happen outside that framework, otherwise people will be forced to endure it under the threat of losing their livelihood.

Taking on the DoD as a client is a political act. If your coworkers don’t speak about it, you are still hearing their opinions on politics — they are just expressing their tacit support. And if you can’t speak against it at work, then you are telling your coworkers to endure it under the threat of losing their livelihood.
Hope it was one that Aaron Swartz was able to download before MIT arrested him.
If the company is already failing, suing them, however “hard”, is, if you win, just getting a pennies-on-the-dollar bankruptcy claim.

Which is why that kind of promise may matter against some eventualities, but not against “what if the company fails?”, which it is presented as a guarantee against.
Upvote. You have no way of knowing if that computer is compromised, say with bogus root SSL certificates to allow MitM of ostensibly secure web sites.