skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Luckily for us consumers, at least in the EU we now have GDPR, which you definitely can not ignore.
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Electronics manufacturers already have all sorts of tracking regulatory infrastructure and certifications for parts going into their BOM. Everything from other conflict materials, to limits on uses for component export/import limits because of trade sanctions, to conventional regulations on uses of materials like lead in solder, to some suppliers who won't supply to military or nuclear uses. The framework is there already, it's mostly a matter of bringing some focus to it for the particular matter of cobalt.
My wife drives a 2017 Volt. I considered disconnecting the OnStar antenna, but I like the monthly report that's emailed to me which provides oil life, energy usage (electric vs gas miles), and tire pressure. I also like that I'll get an email alert if tire pressure is low. There's also this:

https://www.voltstats.net/

https://ibb.co/WHxpm5P

> With paid OnStar service, I could, on demand, locate the car’s exact location.

I haven't paid for OnStar but I can use the "locate vehicle" feature. I vaguely recall that "basic OnStar" is included for 5 years? The myChevrolet app can also be used as a keyfob in a pinch.

We are not signed up for Smart Driver.

Privacy vs functionality is a trade-off. The bigger issue here is that you can't download your data directly from the car, that OnStar is opt-out instead of opt-in, and that you can't fully opt-out w/o physically disconnecting the antenna.
Unions in CA are also why teachers can't get disability insurance. Have to go out for surgery? You get nothing.
Considering YouTube(comments, notifications etc.) has had bugs constantly in recent years I don't think using one browser or the other would make a big difference on that site.

Even after more than one year you can still not make a one-line space between paragraphs in YT comments without editing the comment afterwards because YT will always insert additional empty lines for whatever reason.
How does 'continue buying unethically sourced cobalt' improve the state of things?

Ideally, it is a dual solution of don't buy the unethical kind, and set up an alternate ethical supply chain to the same region so workers can switch to a better work place.

But, if the latter is not possible, one can at least help decrease the market for unethical cobalt by ceasing purchase.

Plus, it is not a matter of seeming morally superior. If one option is morally better than another, it should be chosen, regardless of the consequences.

So, for instance, if Jesus is correct, that it is immoral to be a path of scandal, then one should choose to not be a path of scandal, even if the state of the world otherwise remains unchanged (e.g. unethical cobalt mining continues).
Wow a "cure". Wouldn't that be nice. It's equally likely it could be used to develop a super expensive treatment of questionable effectiveness.
Re-architecting our storage layer to get 3x improvement in query performance
The Twitter OP also had his random OSS project approved in IARC and he wasn't famous. He also even says the workflow today is much more permissive than it was when he joined (aka, it's gotten better)

Then again, twitter OP also is attempting to apply boolean logic to legal documents as if that whole "BUT TECHNICALLY" bullshit actually flies in court. He had a bad experience on 1 of 2 projects, decided to contribute to a 3rd knowingly violating policies (legal liability much?), got chewed out for it (but not fired or "retaliated against"), and is now ranting about that experience from many years ago on twitter.
I would say that this could very easily be justified as standardizing and de-skilling development and production operations. That's a very good business reason to standardize architecture patterns, because it's cheaper to use a pattern that is sometimes overkill than it is to have a bespoke architecture for every app.
I am going to come off as a smart-ass here when I do not intend to be when I say, "Learn how communities die." Having seen many become moribund, wither, stagnant, or simply fall apart, and such, the causes of death are many and the sources of illness plentiful.

You have a minefield to pick through and compromises to make. Each choice is a tradeoff and you may find that getting what you want can kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Think of the places you used to hang out online. Why aren't you there anymore? Remember the other people you really liked there: why did they leave before you did?
HN's ability to shoehorn a swipe at the USA into almost any topic is really an impressive thing to behold.
They make money by selling pharmaceuticals. There's a difference.
Super useful resource for data science prep!
Hey this looks sweet thanks!
My guess is that the most important factor in the success of HN is Paul Graham's essays, and the only reason https://lesswrong.com got any traction is Eliezer Yudkowsky's essays.
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I've also been noticing that. But tbh they are not alone. The list of companies and startups exploiting HN is long.
> Yours cites a PIA PR statement.

This is false.

The rest of your opinions are, as you said, unverifiable.

Regardless, i appreciate your opinions and we are going to learn from them to become an even more solid company to ensure that we can continue to deliver on the promise that has been verified countless times - that we are the only proven no log VPN provider, and multiple times.

Good luck with your choice and hope it works out for you. You can continue to choose VPNs on trust -- I suggest that everyone else choose VPNs on verification.

Cheers,

Andrew
Bit of both, really: the detention conditions are deliberately inhumane, and the separation of families is particularly objectionable. The normal solution to people who breach immigration rules is to deport them. Why has the US given up on deportation? Is it really deemed to be cheaper to just endlessly imprison people?

People also want temporary residence to be given to asylum seekers, as specified in the UN Convention on Refugees. Allowing someone to remain in the country is not the same as granting them citizenship. It is also not the same as entitlement to benefits, entitlement to vote, etc.
I think your response is a fair one, but the counter-argument I'd make to you is that Google is so powerful that if the employees were able to make a change that the ripple effects throughout the industry would be tremendous.

As an individual, it's possible the biggest thing you can do alone is control where you spend your time. But collectively, it's possible the biggest impact of employees would be to change things on the job.
Every time I retry chrome/chromium I switch back to FF.
Its just not worth it, turning off all the background pinging home/etc is really annoying too. I ended up DNS blackholing a bunch of stuff.

I use user agent switcher sometimes to poke around on sites, YT is totally broken and I ditched using google search about a decade ago due to their policies.
> I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management.

I had a recruiter for programming jobs tell me at a job fair about 15 years ago that programming was essentially over in my country, in just a few years everything would be outsourced, and only software architect positions would be left. Turns out that people are bad at predicting the future.

Similarly, the OP might have posted essentially the same question 20 years ago, minus the FAANG reference (Microsoft and IBM back then, maybe?). The answers are the same as back then: Nobody can predict the future, but so far we have failed to automate/compete ourselves out of well-paying jobs even though people have always claimed that that's only five years in the future.
There was a ring 6 years ago that was run over snapchat - expiring client side but not e2ee - and it got busted by a 50 year old that had a screenshot in his email

For my sensitive communications I’ve concluded not talking digitally too
Though now discredited, you'll occasionally see McConnell's idea of RNA-based memory transfer in old science fiction, in particular _A World Out of Time_ by Larry Niven.
Exactly, You can put arbitrary things in a .py folder, if it doesn't run, it's your problem.

Unix didn't limit what you can put in a file, it doesn't expect your program to work when you fill your program with random strings.

The point is, the intepreter developer can feel free to optimize for everything below 1 million, putting a hard cap is pointless. The same reason that most sh file are suffixed as sh despite not needing that suffix at all.
Summary:

#1: Don't have an API

#2: Make signups difficult

#3: Charge extra. A lot.

#4: Hide the API docs from Search Engines

#5: Use a terrible protocol

#6: Permit only one API key

#7: Maintain documentation manually

#8: Ignore the IaC revolution

#9: Don't be idempotent
I was slightly embarrassed in an open office by the image that starts the post on a big screen.
It's a tradeoff. It's certainly better to give untrusted users access to unprivileged user namespaces than to give them access to /var/run/docker.sock, which straightforwardly gives them full root.

Another project in this space is bubblewrap https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap , which can run either with unprivileged user namespaces or by being setuid. It's intended to create an environment for container runtimes to use so that the container software itself doesn't need to be privileged, and the idea is that bubblewrap itself uses the privileged interfaces to set up the environment and then drops privileges before running user-provided code, so it shouldn't introduce more risk.
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Indeed we won't be hit hardest or first, but consider this. Just about the entire Randstad is in a single "Dijkring" (Dijkring 14). And because a large part of the Randstad is flooded, if any part of the defense goes, it goes entirely. And as the Randstad is the economic heart of the country, the country will not recover. Also because it can't feasibly be evacuated. So flooding will happen in other places first, but the other places are above sea level and will get dry again. Or a few meters of coastline is lost. Not the Randstad, it will be flooded exactly once and stay flooded completely and forever. Lets just hope it will take a long time before it happens.
It's Google imperialism. We don't have a similar clause at Microsoft if you use your own equipment and your own time.
How old were you when you did LASIK - and what did it fix? (I am in early stages of flirting with the idea - had 2020 vision till about 3 years ago. I am 47 now.)
Thanks for the info! Regarding using computer vision, the question to ask is: what do you want to know about the content of your scans? For example, if you have multiple scans over time, do you want to see how the structures are changing? Or if it's just one or two points in time, do you want to know the names of the structures?

I've been working in medical imaging and deep learning for years, and have recently become disillusioned by the technology's potential to disrupt the radiology industry. But I wonder if there aren't alternative use cases for e.g. educational purposes. I'd love to know more about what you wish you could do or know! Please feel free to email me.
This seems to be the case with all the widely used ML paradigms: NNs, decision forests, and SVMs. Favored for their high accuracy models which seem to come at the cost of massive overfitting and hence fragility.

I used a human in the loop approach for comparison, and those models, while not as accurate, seem much more robust. I think humans are better at identifying the big picture patterns, whereas ML approaches will microoptimize their way to a fragile approximation of the big picture pattern.

Practically, besides likelihood of breakdown, this means these overfit ML models are very susceptible to hacking. I predict once ML becomes more commercially widespread, we'll see a big increase in ML hacking.
Recaptcha works fine on FF...
Yep. And it's Apple that's pushing for a HomeKit router [1].

Reading between the lines of how Apple's been handling the "smart home" business, they've been focusing on privacy and security relative to competitors, but it's been holding them back.

I think the market has kind of shown that privacy (e.g. devices that aren't streaming to / dependent on the cloud) and security have not been primary concerns of the people who buy smart home devices, but solving those problems better may be key to enlarging the "smart home" market to include normal people.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/3446197/why-we-need-ap...
I don't see any reason an employer or union wouldn't offer Vanguard/Fidelity/Schwab for 401k/HSA with access to the < 0.05 ER index funds if they really were putting their employee or union members' interests first.

I assume they're probably getting some kickback or something from the arrangement of restricting the 401k/HSA member's funds to high fee investments.

Edit: At least for an HSA, one can transfer the funds out into a Fidelity HSA account immediately. With a 401k, you have to wait until you leave your employer, but with an HSA, just request a transfer of funds to your Fidelity HSA, which is free and you can invest in anything you like.
> Do folks just want better detention conditions or are we advocating for giving citizenship to everyone who wants it?

False dichotomy.
The original title is “Bitcoin.com Lists Ponzi-like Token HEX to the Dismay of BCH Fans”.

BCH is Bitcoin Cash, a fork organized/promoted by Roger Ver, among others. It’s currently trading at $180.67, which is 2.3% of the current Bitcoin (BTC) price.

Ver owns and operates Bitcoin.com.

Confusingly, /r/btc is where BCH is discussed/promoted, while /r/bch was quickly taken over by BTC proponents after Ver failed to get exchanges to recognize BCC as the ticket symbol for Bitcoin Cash. (BCC was already in use by Bitcoin Connect, a ponzi/exit scam that imploded shortly after BCH forked).

Please note that using the otherwise innocuous “bcash” moniker will get you branded as a troll in the Bitcoin Cash community. I’ve forgotten the specific reason for this.
Sure, I will elect those who allow consent as I describe.
> The mineral supply chain in that part of the world is ridiculously hard to track

Commodities, in general. They're fungible, so cobalt from one supplier looks like cobalt from another supplier.
But is this one of those?

HEX is a lulzworthy new issuance stretching the imagination of the market by someone I’m not even sure could pass KYC with any bank

It’s like if WeWork actually did become publicly traded by issuing shares at different prices over 365 days. It would be a non-sequitur for an outside observer to dismiss the problems - and some actual religious affinity towards Adam Neumann - as why the US markets won’t go anywhere. Itd would be A) what are you talking about and B) nonsense drivel like that is just giving WeWork a pass by criticizing the whole market instead of a shitty offering and organization
Georgia Outdoors is an incredible show local to the state of Georgia. http://www.gpb.org/television/shows/georgia-outdoors
New York Fed Again Upsizes Liquidity Plans for Turn of the Year
Agenty is a quick option, plus it's done in browser, same for Octoparse
The United States for all practical purposes. The Intermountain West is full of public land where dispersed camping is okay. You just have to move your camp every two weeks but humans lived like that for a long, long time...
> there is the reasonable expectation that that data is not and was never safe

This is key, and not everyone has this expectation when they use these services. Most people do not, and they're not entirely wrong. If you examine the various genetic testing corporations' user agreements, many of them place explicit limits on what happens to original DNA or replicated copies if the company is sold, merged, or otherwise changes. Companies do tend to hold to that kind of legal agreement provided it was sincere in the first place (there's no fine print providing loopholes) because it can get them sued.

Even the companies providing genetic data for research aren't providing the original DNA, only marker or SNP data, and it's probably de-identified to comply with HIPAA and other privacy laws.

The corporation
I don't think I've directly ruled out much in the way of interview questions on in my comments on this thread, I basically just think not telling people the sorts of questions to expect and in which sections of the day, and not making it very clear what you're evaluating and why you're asking the questions, is harmful and inhumane.

A simple "this part of the day will be algo questions, we do expect actual solutions for at least some of the questions, but we're happy to talk through your process with you as you solve them, and none will be more involved/complex/deep-lore than [a couple examples]" would go a long way. For one thing it'd let people just "nope" out of interviews they know they aren't prepped for ("well they should just know they can't do the job in the first place and not apply" that'd work if interview practices/questions and actual work-on-the-job—let alone what's asked for in job postings—mapped even somewhat closely to one another, across the industry, but they very much do not).

I don't think mystery-interviews and having no clue whatsoever what might be covered in the oft-featuring pop-quizzes probably does much for improving the quality of passing candidates, but it does waste a bunch of time (for everyone) and make the whole thing way more stressful.

[EDIT] tangentially related, I find it really weird that most every company says they want people who can learn new things and get shit done more than ones who just know lots of stuff, but act like if they provide enough information that a candidate might conceivably be able to even kind of study or prep for their interview process, that'll ruin it somehow. WTF? If the candidate is not capable of doing much with red-black trees in an off-the-cuff kind of situation because they're rusty or whatever, but then you tell them a week out that you'll be asking some questions about tree and graph structures more complex than simple binary trees, so they brush up over the weekend then ace the interview including some red-black tree stuff which they couldn't have done under those conditions a week earlier, isn't that precisely what you claimed you wanted in a candidate? How is that harmful?
Don't worry.

I don't mean we should allow the fetch API to mess with the browsers trust configuration. It should only allow a temporary override of trust rules, similar to DANE TLSA-RRs, but provided by JavaScript instead of DNSSEC-verified DNS lookups.

Imagine e.g. combining this with an SPA bootloader contained in a data-url (like a bookmarklet), which the user scans via a QR-code or receives via text-based messaging.

CORS would still be in-play, and maybe the insecure nature of the caller is communicated to the API.

The benefit of this pinning would be e.g. allowing direct communication with IoT hardware, or even just prevention passive content analysis.

You could talk to IPs directly and still use TLS without weird wildcards like *.deviceid.servicedevices.com where the dns just has these zone entries:

deviceid.servicedevices.com DNAME has-a.name

, but that's ugly and leaks the device's IP through a DNS lookup.
> Oh, please. It's standard industry practice for companies to claim ownership of everything a software engineer comes up with, even "on their own time".

Bullshit. I've never had to do that in 17 years as a software engineer (in the United States). Don't normalize this crap and make excuses for it.
You seem to know the answer but are you currently in Africa doing anything? Do you sit there and post from a computer/phone/ use these companies services? Magic is all you’re speaking. Social media virtue signaling while you are not solving the problem. Arguing just to argue. If it was so simple as just hop on a plane and/or just don’t buy from there then the companies worth billions would have already done that.
The use of the term 'p-value' seems off, it looks like he is referring to a different concept but using an overloaded term.
Active duty care varies wildly from post to post. My wife and I experienced spectacular care but I have heard dozens and dozens of horror stories from people who were stationed elsewhere.

What is really amazing is that active duty family care is basically magic. USFHP is virtually free and you can go to virtually any private doctor, practice, or hospital you want. It's the impossible dream of what government sponsored health care could be.
> Yes, it was complicated, but I think there is a benefit: it's very clear where certain functionality should live

Off-topic, but your post reminds me of this Michael Feathers article [1], where he argues that while programming languages have tools to support encapsulation, the don't really work, but the thing about microservices (or layers in this case) is that they actually force us to actually encapsulate our code.

[1] https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/microservices-and-the-...
I suspect Indian PM Narendra Modi 'hates' India; https://archive.vn/WHifO
> Thanks to such restrictive contracts, you need Google's permission.

No you don't. You could roll the dice on a legal battle, relying on your employment contract's exact terms in combination with federal & state laws. Like you have to do most everywhere else.

The reason to go through things like IARC is so that you can avoid all of that. It's Google up-front waiving a legal pursuit on the topic, saying "yes all parties agree this is fine."