skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Welsh OpenOffice dictionary¹ seems to include 132,000 words.

ln₂(132000) = 17, and there are three words, so 41 bits -- almost as good as the smaller dictionary but four words of "Correct Horse Battery Staple".

(This is a rough estimate, I haven't looked at the dictionary in detail to see if there are many very similar words etc.)

[1] https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/gwirydd-sillafu...
But we are talking about longread here, not justice.gov. I think you are confused between this thread and the parallel thread on the same subject.
"The Earth belongs in usufruct to the living."
The quality of the question too.

Some people ask ML to do patently implausible things. Can you determine whether someone is a criminal from a photo of their face? It should be INCREDIBLY obvious that the answer to that question must be "no." Even if you do manage to guess correctly, there is has to be some confound, either a technical one (criminal training data is lit differently from the non-criminal ones) or a statistical one (e.g., correlation with socioeconomic status).
This might work for B2C products, but B2B is too niche. I have very specific people I need to get in touch with.
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I've seen places with separate unions for ordinary workers and for lower- to mid-level management. They have different incentives within the company so it's kinda hard to have the shoulder-to-shoulder, but ultimately both are much weaker than upper management and the company as a whole when it comes to negotiating, so it makes sense.
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According to the Austrian school N cannot be calculated. There are too many variables - and the people change their values in real time for various reasons (including irrational reasons).

The rich don't care though, because while they cannot calculate n, they can estimate it, and then go over by a bit just to make sure.
Wow. Now, I wouldn't be surprised if someone told me that their engagement in the "make software development more accessible" thing is actually intended to increase supply, and then decrease wages accordingly.
Americans keep gorging on debt, thanks to the Federal Reserve
The electricity company technical guys sometimes ride on a truck that has (as best as I can describe it) a snake-like elevating chair. That's so impossibly cool.
> Not our job as technologists to enable the surveillance state.

For the government (ie: "the state"). Surveillance of employees and customers is just fine.
How will we store data 100 years from now?
Link to the actual repo: https://github.com/hellojoshuatonga/react-use-fuzzy

As others said, I recommend adding a GitHub pages of a demo or something. Not fun having to spin this up yourself to test what it does/looks like.
> Economics specifically does not make that assumption.

As everything in economics, it depends on which branch you're talking about, but this assumption is the core of the marginalist revolution which is fundamental to the whole classical branch and it's derivatives, which makes the vast majority of mainstream economics nowadays, because the neoclassical synthesis made the biggest part of the Keynesian school move toward this assumption (say hello to micro-founded macro).

Anecdotally, claims that [insert a foundational hypothesis of classical economics] isn't really that important in the whole model has been the favorite defense of neoclassical economics against criticism since at least Friedman in 53 ( it might have existed before, but none of them had the popularity of his Essays in positive economics)
Yes, what he's talking about does happen to many engineers, but not all. Also, not all Jr engineers are more coachable, or compliant. I have 50+yo co-workers that are eager to learn from me. Many older employees have learned that it doesn't pay to argue with managers too much, whereas young engineers can be idealistic and uncompromising; they also expect to make a difference immediately, regardless of experience.
or a little maple syrup plus goat cheese bits!
Substitute whatever antisocial behavior you want, it's beside the point.
Why should it be, or even be detectable if OP attaches a switch? Afaik, those don't even have different MACs and even if they do, it is unlikely that the university has all the students laptops MACs.
What about using truly on-device options that aren't connected to cloud services at all? Picovoice, DeepSpeech, etc.?
Non-compete clauses are null and void in California. That doesn't mean they're not in the contracts and that doesn't mean that something non-compete-ish clause-ish isn't in there.

Still I think this is a bad look for Apple.
But if you're paid salary then how do you dictate what time is your time and what time is the company's? Especially when people sometimes work from home, check emails after they leave work, etc?
No, socioeconomic status is not the combination of all things which makes people like you. It's combination of all things which makes people's endocrine and nervous system react to you in a way where they feel and act submissive to you in the group setting.

Literally, on the basic biological level, without concious thoughts behind it. If you were to enter the meeting room full of guys who are better at work than you, your body automatically adjusts into submissivness. It's visible you're the one at the low end of the social order there. That's especially visible to the females. They don't want any of that guy. They want the one who makes them and everybody around feel and act like that.
Hospitals are such stressful places to be in that they seem mandated to provide "comfort food" all around.
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Renders as white page for me. Can not read.
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Chicken breast is garbage. The magic is in the leg meat.
Apparently they're not making a trade secrets theft claim, which seems a little unusual for a case like this.
This is incredibly untrue of Google, and every other organization I've ever worked in (excluding the tiny ones). I can't imagine how you could've come to this conclusion while ever having worked at a corporation (or indeed, any institution above a certain very low floor of employees).

Note that this isn't directly relevant to the case under discussion, which was coordinated at the CEO level
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This has always confused me. I don't understand why anyone works for Apple (or Amazon for that matter).
If you're already selling your soul to big tech why not just go to Facebook or whatever and get paid more?
Nope: every decent technical employee acquires insider knowledge, and companies don't have the right to enslave people because of that knowledge. The laws governing this differ from state to state, and California in particular gives employees more protection from restrictive contracts than other states.
That doesn't really work in German as the pronoun "sie" changes meaning depending on context. It can mean "she": Sie ist kalt (she is cold). It can mean the plural "they": Sie sind kalt (they are cold). And it can be used for the formal "you": Kommen sie? (are you coming?)
A solution to what exactly? There are so many layers of politics to unravel in China it boggles the mind. Do you target the ruling class? Communist philosophy? Xenophobia? Each has a distinct solution that is extremely hard to execute and takes immense effort and economic dedication over decades or centuries. Hence the urge to advocate for short term "doing something" solutions that have no effect and require no sacrifice on our part.

The only real solution to this is to offer to take Chinese untouchables currently being purged into the US as exiles and then offer incentives to Chinese elite to get them to agree to this. At which point the US would be sacrificing significant resources to import hundreds of thousands pissed off, destitute, Tibetan Muslims. Political will for such a solution is nil. Similar to the Nazi holocaust actually...
Lots of parallels with SAG, too, IMO. You don't have to bog down the top earners very much to keep a whole lot of people down the ladder from getting shit on too badly, and providing a ton of support to people earning their way to the top who might not make it there without that help.
This is funny but is the opposite of the idea espoused in the correcthorsebatterystaple xkcd. Welsh words are hard for (most) humans to remember, but easy for machines to check (since wordlists are publicly available)
I have read the art of thinking clearly, but was quite unimpressed.
They might own what you do on company time with company resources, but full-time employment does not entail your employer owning the intellectual property you produce on your time with your own resources.
Doesn't the name side-project imply that it's something you work alongside your main job?
I laughed at the idea of all young engineers being more coachable. Any reasonable person has figured out that they have plenty of room to learn and grow from others.
Votes are counted aggregated publicly on some level, so you can punish/reward whole communities.
If you put it this way, it sounds sensible. But as soon as VC money is involved it gets a bit fishy.

Say you assembled a great team of specialists. It cost you a lot of effort, time and money to hire all these really great people. Then someone comes along with a wad of cash and convinces a bunch of those people to all quit and work on a secret project. After they come out of stealth mode, it becomes clear they worked on the same thing as they did at Apple, only now Apple has to pay $250 million dollar to get the results of the work of the team that they had put a lot of effort into recruiting in the first place...
It's working for me in Chrome with uBlock on.

the tldr is that Americans (former officials, former NSA hackers) built an offensive hacking unit for the UAE that is now targeting other governments and activists in the region. Women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia and journalists and such.
Aww. Yup, cats love laundry.
so they can't identify you, until they identify you and get your permission to identify you?
I have used ascii2gif to use asciinema in powerpoints, documents etc, successfully. Would this be helpful to you?
My only worry is airlines will make this an upgrade. Economy "special" or something like that to charge $100 more per seat. We already have quite a few sub classes in economy.
Coming back to this discussion a few days later as I've just started an online course on Kubernetes from the Linux Foundation and I came across this section in the introduction materials that seemed very relevant here. Quoting from it:

Training/Certification Firewall

The Linux Foundation has two separate training divisions:
Course Delivery and Certification. These two divisions are
separated by a firewall.

The curriculum development and maintenance division of the
Linux Foundation Training department has no direct role in
developing, administering, or grading certification exams.

Enforcing this self-imposed firewall ensures that
independent organizations and companies can develop third
party training material, geared towards helping test
takers pass their certification exams.

Furthermore, it ensures that there are no secret "tips"
(or secrets in general) that one needs to be familiar with
in order to succeed.

It also permits the Linux Foundation to develop a very
robust set of courses that do far more than teach the
test, but rather equip attendees with a broad knowledge
of the many areas they may be required to master to have a
successful career in open source system administration.

Running with this idea a bit, suppose schools were organized this way, with a similar "teaching/testing firewall" across everything they do. This doesn't get us all the way to solving problems around "teaching to the test" but it does put in place separate entities with the explicit mandate of making tests less 'hackable'.
Newbie question: Aren't gamma rays just a particular frequency range of e.m.? If so, why would they be any less capable of coherence than other e.m. frequencies?
Seems pretty easily-fixable, if it's just one byte.
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Try enabling JavaScript.
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If your customer is president of each country, you can only have around 200 signups.
CRAS doesn't "replace" ALSA's routing behavior: ALSA doesn't have any of the kinds of routing behavior that CRAS embodies? Why not? Because ALSA is a kernel driver stack and CRAS is a userspace audio server designed explicitly to provide functionality on top of ALSA. From the CRAS docs:

"Put an audio server in between Chromium and ALSA that can change how audio flows on the fly. "

You might think ALSA is "overengineered" but that's probably because you have no familiarity with the hardware or workflow that it is engineered for.
... uh, what?
Was this accidental or intentional? Russia has recently been distributing fake ransomware in Ukraine which is intended to cause economic damage rather that generate profit.
absolutely. this is why the break up big companies strategy doesn’t work here at all and neither does free market competition as it’s nominally supposed to.
Isn't this similar to other Tesla AP accidents where it's a standing vehicle/object that isn't detected because it isn't moving. Something to do with using radar?

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/

Is this still an ongoing problem for Tesla or is this a one-off thing where maybe AP was on, maybe it wasn't and the driver is blaming the AP (that AP excuse came up in my linked article when it was just bad driving)?
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Apple is generally less immoral than Facebook and Amazon. Facebook is generally less immoral than Amazon, too, but Amazon has better PR.
I listened to an episode of Darknet Diaries[1] where they interview one of the contractors that worked on this project.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/
OHH! It’s “sports”. Here I was wondering what doitforstate meant.
They hired you because they already believe you will be a valuable contributor. So don't try to impress your colleagues, but rather try to collaborate with them. For example, instead of asking this question here at HN, approach your peer reviewers and ask them about it.

Another advice would be to explain as part of your PR (e.g., in the ticket) which design options you considered and why you chose the one you ended up with.
The title should be "whistle-blower says", per the headline—did it get automatically truncated?
Houston is one of the only cities in the US that I know of that does not have any zoning laws. All of these would be possible to build with zero-lot lines, no commercial or residential zones, and no height restrictions to speak of.
I did release an open source project, but then eventually I removed my contact info and added a note to ask people to please stop emailing me with their problems, because I was getting way too many requests for help from self-entitled users who thought that i was somehow required to support them in using my free tool.

Another time, I fixed an open source tool to work correctly in the cloud environment that my company was using. They then listed my patched version in their wiki and made it sound like it was an officially supported tool on their platform. The result was that I got flooded with requests from their customers, so I had lots of work helping their customers but I received no cut of the revenue.
I read The Verge daily, and generally like what they do, but they are definitely working the outrage factor for eyeballs.

Today's editorial from Casey Newton is a another data point: He tries to drag Slack into the controversy by claiming that it is 'not really neutral' and that it contributed to the CEO's downfall by allowing her to so easily berate employees and create a permanent record - as if email never existed.
Maybe don't see meetings as "opportunities to talk?" If that's all they are at your company, pushing for clear agendas and strong meeting facilitation might work.
Then why would management try to crush any organizing activity? Couldn't Sundar just say, "Interesting idea, let's take a vote"
I ran into a small community of domain squatters or speculators or whatever you want to call folks who buy them up purely in order to sell them at a profit.

The level of amateurism / folks just looking for a quick couple dollars was pretty high and what they asked for / got, even based on their own stories, was all over the map.

Many of them didn't care about what they initially ask for even at the risk of scaring off a sale. A lot seemed to be kids or folks with limited resources playing it as a game for fun / in the hopes of striking it rich.
> I suspect a lot of your issues could be solved by talking to someone before you start coding to make sure your approach is valid.

I'm not sure what kind of incorrect assumptions you are getting. But one thing that could signal you should ask about your approach is working in another team's codebase. Some of your problem could be making a technically valid choice that doesn't align with the codebase. Working on unfamiliar code can cause this.

Personally I had a previous job where I got into a few longer discussion about my approach after submitting a couple PRs with another team's tech lead. I was able to be more productive by talking with that lead about my task before starting the coding.
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If my side project is something that benefits from (in this case, perhaps even 'consists of') the intellectual property I'm creating for my current employer, and is also something that I intend to turn into a new business ... that seems quite a lot different from "I do some open source contributions" or "I make some furniture for home".
We don't have a mechanism to replace the Constitution. Short of getting all 50 states to agree on it (good luck) it's never going to happen without a civil war.
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Right now our editor has plugins like: text, native diagrams, SwaggerUI, GraphiQL, changelogs, maps, callouts, APIs.

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Would the photographer be allowed to identify using your face? This is pretty commonly done in newspapers.
For extra credit, have the last step involve the version control system, so that each migration contains a commit of the last version which contains the old schema, and each version contains a (database | data seed) sufficient to verify the validity of the migration step.

So to test from any given migration:

- Checkout the code at that point

- Apply the migration

- Apply tests

And repeat as necessary.
> no wonder a programmer sees the law as inneficient code to be refactored asap! ;-)

Almost every time I hear programmers talk about the law arguing that it should be treated like software and be far more precise and absolute than it currently is I'm reminded of this comic: https://xkcd.com/1831/

There's good reason why most laws contain measured language such as the infamous "reasonable person." They are purposefully written to support changing interpretations as societies expectations of reasonableness and acceptableness change.

Many programming based approaches to the law treat it more like a codification of exactly how a person should behave in every situation, and precise penalties should they violate strict protocol.

It also reminds of the of Etherium DAO. How the mantra for Etherium was "the code _IS_ the contract" for so long, until it turned out the code had unintended behaviour and the so called "contract" was rolled back.
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It only takes one, and the idea has been floating around twitter for quite a while, as the linked web page mentions.
If anyone's interested in the history of this stuff and why government agencies have these expectations, I suggesting checking out The Puzzle Palace from James Bamford

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace

https://www.amazon.com/Puzzle-Palace-National-Intelligence-O...

After reading that book and getting a better sense of the scope of intelligence operations over a wider swath of history, these types of requests come from make a whole lot more sense (whether you agree or not, you get a sense of the place they're coming from). Not making an argument in regard to what's right or wrong, but it does provide a tangible dose of reality. Also, given this was written in the 80's and much has come to be known since then, I still think this book holds its own in terms of clarity because it discusses historical topics without the messiness of the internet, social media, etc. Bamford has several more recent books, but I have not read those.
> You have to shift your mindset, and focus on building new skills that are often very different from the skills that made you successful in your previous role.

How is that "denial of the Peter Principle"?

Not even mentioning that the Peter Principle can be criticized in itself, as it's based on suppositions that are dubious and do not necessarily hold. For example the fact that you might not end up actually keeping the position at which you become "incompetent".
>To be fair this is a pretty small sample to draw conclusions from.

I think it's pretty likely given that statement and the small population of home-schooled kids to begin with, that confirmation bias explains your entire experience.

But let's assume it doesn't. Home-schooled kids who do have good social skills are likely to realize that there is a bias against them and thus they aren't likely to advertise that they were home-schooled.
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> so they can't identify you, until they identify you and get your permission to identify you?

No; by default they (should) have no right to my personal data unless I explicitly opt in to it—and they shouldn't have a right to find me to ask me to use it, either.
i didn't get that one, but i did get the one about the grass, which is ultimately greener on the other side.
"Democracy" doesn't solve everything.

What if I don't like what people voted on? Then I'm screwed.

Instead, I would much rather bargain for myself, instead of collectively bargaining with others who might not agree with what I want.
Here is the game. Face the opposite player so you're looking at them. Goal: Hold a straight face. Person to start smirking or laughing first loses.

Can bots master this game?
I've switched from manager and back. Usually there is a real shortage of devs that want to be manager. If you're inclined, ask your boss for some responsibility, maybe with a grad or junior dev, I'm sure you'll get it. After that work on bigger projects.
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Someone posted this and got downvoted to the point of 'dead'. I smell bots and/or troll farmers, so I'm reposting:

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I listened to an episode of Darknet Diaries[1] where they interview one of the contractors that worked on this project.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/
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You _do_ have a mechanism, you cited it in your statement. Sure its a difficult mechanism, getting agreement from all parties involved, but changing the highest law of the land _should_ be difficult.
I have worked in a Django shop where spinning up a new instance involved starting with the initial version of the database schema and applying all the migrations.

Don't know if that's standard practice, but I don't have any reason to think that it isn't.