skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haven't read the book. This is from when the story started breaking.

According to accounts he had a hardcover constitution at his desk. He used it to back up his arguments but again 'who cares nerd, get back to your work'.

Other things that pop to my mind was that he was given some super high clearance so he could do favors for his boss (doing their job) as they were too lazy. And of course no one cared then, nor they cared afterwards.

Reading about this whole story popped my bubble of ignorance how government agencies are run. They are run same as any big corporation, run by career BSers often lazy and incompetent. But they are protected by same type of people (naturally).
I understand they are in Europe, but in the US regulators demand the simple always works mirrors. This is of course subject to change as different pros/cons become known.
The decade Big Brother came home: How tech giants persuaded us
> toy programs

> false sweeping statements

OK.
> most git users picture a branch like a diverging chain of commits and not a moving label

Ok, I'll bite: can you explain that little more please?
And that is why it would foolish for them to post a barebones slack client in electron. But they don't publish that. They have published a full featured client that is cross platform. I am not a fan of electron and would very much prefer a desktop app. But we are finally seeing emergence of desktop applications from major players for Linux because of electron. It's not ideal but so wasn't the previous solution.
The Ifs: A family of toy robots to teach coding through imaginative play
My Trick Make Money from YouTube with No Filming, No Marketing and No Website
I became an expert online entrepreneur
I'm like that too. Furthermore I have a story about that: A couple months ago I found myself driving a car that didn't have automatic windshield wipers. I drove in the rain for a couple of minutes without turning them on and only realized what was happening by the time I asked myself "why can't I see anything?".
When I worked at a call center for a quick temp job we would do 'polls' where before we called the person the address, political affiliation and name would appear on our screen before we would call.

Sometimes the names didn't match up and you would get someone who would say, "So-and-so hasn't lived here for years!!"

I think the information the call center was purchasing was dated at a discount for some surveys, and others you could tell must have been newer as every name would match and the numbers would not be as disconnected.

A lot of times when you called someone they would be upset that you already knew their registered party affiliation (but you don't know how they voted) address and name.

We were simply told in training that when you register to vote this basic information becomes available and that it is common and has been going on like this for a very long time.

It doesn't mean it is right, but anyone who is all of a sudden surprised some of their info gets passed around to 3rd parties based on their voter registration hasn't been paying attention.
>Big tech and battery makers don't buy ore straight out of the mine; as you say, they buy from suppliers, who are typically always willing to certify they don't use child labor.

Again that points towards not just culpability (knowledge they are facilitating child exploitation and labor), but willing to go so far as to have their suppliers provide certifications they know are "often" fake.

>The question is how you, as a purchaser for Google or whatever, can actually catch the lie.

Plenty of other similar mining industries that exploited child labor have managed to put systems in place to minimize and weed out such practices. If De Beers diamond company can improve...certainly the big data tech companies can do better than requiring certs they know are often fake.
I agree, it's infuriating. I don't have a car and don't drive too often, but when I do it's mostly reasonably long distances (4-6 hours) and almost always at night because it's the only time I have. I try to drive as late (or early in the morning, if you will) as possible, to avoid as much traffic as possible, not because I'll get stuck in queues but because of the damn headlights of other cars. They're blinding!
Data is today's oil.

We knew that lead made people dumb back in the Roman times and yet we created leaded gasoline in 1925. In the US it was banned in 1996, after 70 (!!!) years. There's still some countries that haven't banned it, 90 years later.
What does a 95% chance of heavy rain at 14:00 mean?
My bad, about the Epstein thing. Ungenerous assumption on my part. Sorry!
When dealing with web applications at least, people don't realize how many non-essential requests are being made peripheral to the action the user actually wants to accomplish. For instance, install NoScript and make a page fetch to cnn.com. There are 20+ external page requests being made to all kinds of tracking, advertising, and analytical domains which have fuck-all to do with the user's request to see content hosted by cnn.com. The page loads almost instantly when all these non-essential requests are filtered. It's a hilariously bad side effect of the web becoming as commercialized as it is.
This saddens me deeply. The Netherlands is my favorite country.

Is this something that concerns people around you? Is it like a major shock to everybody?
There is no federal prohibition against prostitution like there is against marijuana. This can be effectively accomplished at the State or even local level. Talk to your representatives, start ballot initiatives.

Another avenue that may be worth exploring is opening brothels on reservations, similar to casinos.
I can one up: I actually worked with the guy on a contract. The people we did the work for were kind of jerks, but Cliff was amazing. Old school mad scientist. Except he radiates a saint-like benevolence and good-heartedness which is all too rare these days. Like a cross between the professor on "back to the future," Yoda, and a Catholic saint.

LBNL should have given him a lab, a quarter million bucks for equipment he might find interesting and permanent access to the machine shops and library. The fact that they didn't is ... one of the reasons I no longer work there and why modern science and its culture is a trash fire.
Why are you looking for an alternative if Trello fits your use case perfectly?
Automating Product Development with Jira, GitHub and Slack
I've not found anyone who has used them both, but if you're worried about Cloud Forms going away or dropping things, and don't want just ManageIQ, maybe look at OpenNebula. It seems to be something like tractable OpenStack+ManageIQ, from the point of view of someone who hasn't either of the latter. https://opennebula.org

I'd be interested if anyone can compare and contrast.
Those are some huge (or long) meetings.

Back of the envelope:

$400 * 200 = $80000 for the monitors.

You need to have $80000 / ($100000/12/21/8) = 1600 person/hour of meeting time to equal the cost. 100 people can meet for two days!

I feel like something is off with that calculation, but I cannot find it...
> he tolde me that, in software engineering, this (speed) is never a measure of a program's quality

Never? That's just wrong. It may not always matter that much, but generally, all else being equal, faster is always better, because "speed" in this context mostly means few wasted cycles.

Consider two people going to the store. One runs to the store and back, the other person runs towards the store at the same speed, but halfway through, they remember they forgot something at home, and fetch it. They repeat that so often, it takes them 2 days to go to the store, or even weeks.

A CPU will do whatever nonsense it is instructed to do, at breakneck pace, as long as there is electricity to do it with. There is no contest what is "better" in some cases, and devs cutting corners (ironically leading to slower programs) are externalizing the costs of that to their users. Sometimes that can be justified, but when people don't even know the trade-offs they are making, that is a problem.
This is a lesson in what the Taoist call wu wei, which can approximately be described as inaction, effortless action or non-doing. In the context of the parent post, wu wei would imply unconflicted, spontaneous action wherein a person is not "trying" they are simply doing what comes natural to them.
Interfaces should be strictly separated from the internal application code, with generic layers between them. To do it otherwise means ending up with a "big ball of mud" style app, that cannot have its interface redesigned in any way other than by refactoring it completely.
Taiga.io - can self host it.
Those companies sell advertisements, but keep the raw data to themselves. After all, that's in their business interest. This article talks about vendors directly selling the data itself.
Maybe something like seti@home or proteinfolding@home?
Headlights are also slightly biased to the nearside of the car so more light is cast upon road signs and the side of the road.
Me to I think I recall seeing Bang email addresses when various mailing list's where sneakily using the X.400 ADMD's as cost saving measure.

Made reading the 409 dump when trouble shooting a bit tricky
Probably. But nobody knows for certain, the government destroyed the evidence.
got it, any plans on supporting models requiring backprop/gradient descent?
There's a federal statute regarding trafficking persons across state lines as I recall. It's not specifically "prostitution" but meets the general description if there's an interstate nexus, which of course can be easily shown for an internet site in many cases.
I wrote one that works with Cypress.io > https://github.com/mjhea0/cypress-visual-regression
> You are required and expected to have it on you at all times.

I'd be very surprised about that. That's a law most of formerly communist Europe has cancelled immediately after the revolutions
I guess in the future Chinese government will use it to threat Linux
Concur is an impressive example of how you can make a really simple thing really, really painful.
I was going by the PP's premise of choosing one's one good over the greater good of society. What I observed was actually the opposite since that poor coal miner is against "higher taxes" & "socialism" even though it is directly benefiting him. That level of adherence to an ideology is what I found baffling (which has nothing to do with my own ideology).
Fair enough, but I still think its a stretch to call MVC "outdated". And "outdated" kind of has a hint of "bad" and "should not be used", hence the question.
Sono-Optogenetics: A Less Invasive Way to Study the Brain
"Serious Games" -- usually niche simulation type games -- can easily retail for $80+ for the base game, and then you pay for DLC expansions at around $20-40 a pop.

Examples: Gary Grigsby, Command: Modern Operations, Steel Beasts, etc...

Of course you're basically paying for an interactive encyclopedia in many cases and they don't typically have the repetitive addictive nature of f2p games that include in game purchases.

Then you have stuff like the paradox games with dlcs spanning years and totalling in the hundreds of dollars to buy the 'entire' game up front...

However I would much much rather pay $100 up front for a big, generally complete game than get a game that either centers around pointless cosmetic additions or requires me to spend money (loot boxes containing required items, paywalled features, pay-to-skip progression) and get me addicted to the gameplay.

I guess that's not a novel sentiment though...
This. Unless the Guardian is doing a big disservice to the underlying material, this sounds like sloppy science.
Check out the State of CSS survey.
I get Javascript fatigue, and all the criticisms aimed at the language, and while it's not totally ideal, I feel frameworks have helped tremendously by either being opinionated enough that you can do things in a predictable way (angular/vue) or are flexible enough to design complex flows and views as small, easy to reason about components (React/Redux).

I have seen some horrible stuff as an enterprise dev, from poorly constructed jQuery projects, to old frameworks like Struts/Stripes that just get out of hand. No real way to test, full of side-effects and bad choices, TONS of dependencies (outdated/unmaintained UI libraries etc). I often wonder if people complaining about JS and Frameworks have any experience developing or maintaining legacy web applications from the days of yore. Back when the web was young, there just wasn't a good blueprint for how complex web applications should be designed. We've come a long way, and for better or worse, the JS community has made improvements to the language, frameworks, etc, all of which make our jobs SO much easier.
> and they want speed

They won't get it with React. And I'm referring to both how fast the webapp runs and development speed. It gets too complicated too quickly, even for relatively small sites.
Safari and Firefox both have a blacklist of known trackers in addition to cookie blocking. Not only that, these browsers also fight against other means of fingerprinting.
The idea is that consciousness is what a planning algorithm feels like from the inside. A planning algorithm requires representations of the entities relevant to planning, e.g. various objects in the world, relevant laws, internal states such as emotions, motivations, etc. It is these representations from an internal perspective that have something it is like to have them. But the fact that this planning algorithm is constructed out of mechanical components is irrelevant.

Computation is just an abstract description of the behavior of some classes of systems. But it doesn't exhaust the set of possible descriptions for a system. Some subset of computational systems might also have a description in terms of consciousness.
Great example of that are checked exceptions which have never been tried before or after in other languages. (at least in the form Java implemented)
I blame two things.

1. The "release early, iterate often" culture - as it encourages half-assed software to flood the marketplace.

2. Poor or non-existent incentives for proper code maintenance.
Do you also apply this argument to economic inequality? No, you can't be the CEO, but if you "put in the time or effort to be the kind of man that can" make a living wage, then you don't need to demand socialism. Do low skill workers have an unrealistic expectation of wages? There's a job out there for everybody, you either have to improve yourself to get the wages you desire, or lower your standards. Who's the "inhuman libertarian"? I agree sex workers and their customers should be shunned, but by the same logic, so must socialism.
Incarcerated Americans (1980-2018)
Sand blasting would work, although less well than on other glass types. Acid etching would work, although the chemicals needed are dangerous and it's apparently quite a finicky process to get a good result - over etching results in a less visible etched pattern than optimal exposure to the acid.

To laser etch borosilicate you'd have to use an expensive laser, either an abnormally high powered IR laser or something higher frequency like a UV laser. It wouldn't be enough to just melt or heat stress bits off the surface, you'd have to micro structure (microscopic 3d carve) it to form something that would reflect light well, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the etched pattern except in certain light.

On top of that the depth of field issues for a laser apply as well as the incident angle for the beam - you'd want something close to a surface normal angle to get a consistent, controllable result, so you'd have to use a 5 axis machining setup to make sure that happens. A 5 axis precision UV laser would probably cost more to run than the bottles are worth, despite their quality.

What I'd probably do if I had to label bottles like these with names is make a small soda glass plaque or tag with a mold and possibly some color tint for contrast, then etch it using an appropriate method (or maybe even mold the name in) and affix it to the bottle either by heating and slumping it into place or molding it to a matching curve and then using optical adhesive to affix it.

Or, just make a nice display box for it and put the name on a brass plaque on the front :)
You'll need to define "proper type system" then.

At a guess, you want something with dependent types?

Like Idris, or Haskell. You already have a Haskell example. This [0] release of Idris fixed a segfault when concatenating strings.

Maybe you meant a language that is proven from the ground up. Like CakeML. You can find a segfault example here [1].

Maybe you meant a language with an algebraic type system like Ada. You can find a segfault example here [2].

Maybe you meant something like Dotty (Research for the next version of Scala). You can find a segfault example here [3].

In short: You'll need to describe what you believe to be a "proper" type system, and name the languages you think fit that description, or no one can have a conversation with you.

[0] https://www.idris-lang.org/idris-1-1-1-released/

[1] https://github.com/CakeML/cakeml/issues/438

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56227629/segmentation-fa...

[3] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty/pull/7466/
What special API is this ? Can you post a link, thanks.
>Are Santa hats (or Santa) even religious symbols ?

Only tangentially. It has some reference to Saint Nicolaus (a gift bearer), but it was been changed beyond recognition, to a modern half-pagan/nordic, 100%-commercial-soapy tradition.

I mean, christianity might believe in several things, but it doesn't believe in little elves working in South Pole or flying reindeers...
7. The Internet itself
Robot Vacuum Cleaner - we have a dog and 2 cats and it’s amazing how much hair it picks up. It’s the Xiaomi brand, it was cheap at $300NZD but China does now have a map of my house and where everything in it is :)
AWS vs. Open Source
40% of Americans have never left the country.

Of the 60% who have, there are surely many of us who weren’t doing it to travel to Thailand for prostitutes. I suspect the number of people who are doing that are a small fraction of the population (of the people I know who have traveled abroad, that percentage is 0%)
By which you mean that they'll recognize everything that's been stolen from the users, right? Win 3.1 & DOS was probably about the last time I really felt in control of my PC.
Not in red, white and black, and with the specific orientation and details as the Nazi one.
Trying to decide between the PinePhone and the Librem 5
Exactly! No one or very few would question the wealthy when they vote against their self interest. It’s somewhat condescending to accept wealthy people voting against their immediate self interest and at the same time condemning the poor for voting against their perceived self interest from the POV of non poor people.
A proprietary SAAS backed by a terrible company does not fit my use case at all.
Ever since I enabled Dark Mode on Mac I started seeing so many 1x1 white tracking pixels on recruiter emails. Now I’ve disabled loading images by default in my email client.
Yes, because when recruiters ask for your resume, just give them the link. They can view it immediately, print to PDF if they want a copy (warning: cross browser "Print to PDF" functionality can be flaky), or print a hard copy. I don't have to perform a file upload.

Most people will read your resume anyways, even if you have a LinkedIn. My LinkedIn lists all of my positions; my resume is a smaller subset of skills & experience I market myself as.
pursuing most crimes are not worth the social or financial impact.
It was the same with 802.11ax aka WiFi 6.

Someone decided all the technical information on the subject are irrelevant and deleted all Data Rate and Technical Improvement section. Another reason was because those details were not finalised.

While it was a little frustrating that those useful information were gone as one could always found those in other source and media, but they also deleted the whole section on DensiFi [1], where all the major companies ( Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, Intel, Qualcomm, Huawei, Samsung and others ) behind the 802.11ax decided to do the work behind close door. TL;DR They were trying to push 802.11ax to the market earlier despite of all the un-resolved issues.

So I decided to add only the DensiFi section, and it was constantly being deleted within 24 hours. After a few weeks of fun the page simply got back to the original, where Data Rate and Improvement are back but DensiFi section is totally gone. So it turns out it wasn't the technical section they were trying to get rid of.

P.S We should be glad someone in the working group discovered this and called out on the action. The current WiFi 6 / 802.11ax situation and UX is much better than what we had when 802.11ac were shipped. Although this is at the expense of somewhat 2 years delay of the standard.

[1] https://mlexmarketinsight.com/insights-center/editors-picks/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q6ORbVApjY
That's why you should use a HSM for that.
Alpine.js: A minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup
I think Cliff was referring to "his" systems here, as a recovering system we get protective of our babies.

I remember joking that you had better hope that you got caught in order by: the local police; The Met; The service (MI5); internal security rather than me :-)
International Space Station computer gets a heart transplant
Existing frameworks like Qt or GTK could also be used for a Cross-Platform solution

And just because it's electron doesn't mean it's inherently Cross-Platform look at discord for example
It took too long for a initial desktop client to be released and then it ha issues with things like screen sharing not working as expected
The problem is Google tracking, not just third parties.
on the other hand, the big cost factor that would restrict home delivery to people who have money is… human labor costs. Once robot-based delivery is the standard, home delivery may be quite affordable. Maybe even less costly on the whole than operating supermarkets.
Yeah. A digester tank would probably be more effective... essentially a "hot tank" like used to be used to clean engine blocks for rebuilding, except for dissolving organics.

They're used at a local University for disposing of cattle remains from the veterinary school... takes several hours, but then the waste liquid is diluted and sent down the drain.
Synchrotron-generated x-ray reflectivity to examine interfaces at atomic level
I've done a ton of keyboard only on XP and 7 - it's mostly fine.

I would like to murder the group of fools that managed to make a GUI for a touchscreen service program that was unusable without mouse and disabled the touch unit for some functionality, but that's neither here nor there.
This is one of those things you didn't realize could be better until someone did it.

My Model 3 has everything set on auto. If the car can't see, it'll turn the lights on. If it doesn't see an incoming car, it'll turn on the high beams.

After a year of driving it as my only car, I needed a second car and got a cheap ICE clunker. Having to manage lights is a PITA and basically a failure of design.
In a high-quality codebase the code change should speak for itself. (And if it doesn't, you may well end up needing an explanatory comment in the code anyway).

that is indeed pretty much true. in that sense the commit message is just helping me to avoid needing to look at the diff. an outline of the commits.

related to the PR, it would then be interesting to annotate groups of commits. a sequence of commits that make up a PR, but even without depending on the current PR mechanism (which at least in git is not stored anyways, so we need something to fill that gap)

tags don't fit that, as they annotate a single commit, and we'd get to many tags that way. some other mechanism is needed to allow treating a series of commits as a unit.