skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that organizing is a workplace activity. But if that’s the case, why should companies be allowed to prohibited it on corporate IT? What other job-related activities are outright banned on company-provided equipment?

Google’s position is clearly that organizing is not a workplace activity. That’s why the point about breaking down the boundaries between home and work is salient. They are happy to blur those lines when it means their employees donating their personal time and equipment to benefit Google, but when it means employees organizing they try to prevent what they see as “personal” use of company property.
Awesome game. Love it
Ah, I’m sorry. I should have clarified further - I was referring to the transliteration of “110V” as “yao yao ling dian ya” - “one one zero volts”. In that instance the transliteration is incorrect as one would usually use “one hundred and ten” (yi bai yi shi).
Hi OP here, I've been asking everyone, professors, VCs, founders, chemists - and can't get an answer. The solution seems to be so simple, if you have millions of tons of plastic waste, let's turn them into millions of tons of other things, like pavers, sidewalks, and plastic lumber. I'd love to hear what HN thinks about this. Thanks!
Yes, and the question is why should the federal government subsidize distorting the employment market in this fashion? Or at least, why should they continue to do so.
Genome-wide analysis identifies 149 genetic loci associated with income
> Vaping is at the stage where it can be controlled

Strongly disagree, see: Prohibition
Jonathan Wild
I suspect the 50 mil / month guys will choose between AWS/Azure/GCP based on credits + discounts because all these clouds will be around 10 years from now. But it's true that I have no experience at that level (only from 0 to 9 mil / month) and the calculus could be completely different. I don't actually know if they could get greater commitments at that spend but it sounds likely. That's more than half a billion a year. Huge.

Perhaps someone who's made the decision on that can share.
Hopefully verifiability and truth have some correlation.

Not as much as you would hope.

I have two sisters with Wikipedia articles. Let's pick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tilly for one of them. It claims that her mother was Irish and Finnish, and goes on to list how many siblings she has. Those statements are verifiable but false. You can find an article written by reporters that said those things.

She isn't Irish, her step-father (my father) was. She also has 2 more brothers than are listed in that article. That is true, but not verifiable. Nor will they ever be verifiable. And therefore Wikipedia will never be corrected.

The problem here is that the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (see https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65213-briefly-stated-the-ge... for an explanation) guarantees that there will be lots of verifiable statements that aren't so. Wikipedia builds a coherent view of a subject on that sand, and it is very hard to find what it is mistaken about. But it is riddled with errors that will never get fixed because they were wrong in a verifiable primary source.

And information not captured in a verifiable primary source will never make it in. For example her grandfather was the T in https://www.cmtengr.com/. Good luck verifying that one!
I am creating a desktop piece of software via python and I need to have license keys for x amount of time to use the software (ex. lifetime, yearly, monthly). It would be awesome if it could connect to stripe. The thing im looking for is an easy to integrate method where I can automate the keys and manage them in the cloud without reinventing the wheel.

Here's the way I hope it will work:
Users buy it through stripe checkout
An email is sent with the key
Users enter the key into a gui with the key input
Users key is validated
Users can use the software for as long as they pay for it.

Thanks in advance!
I think the shortage is _good_ web developers, and it sounds like this test doesn't really help identify those.
How do you feel about people becoming dependent on prescription ADHD medications?
Simple trick to double deep learning speed and CNN and GPU Benchmarks
Interesting. I could tell that to myself, but I don't feel old.
Having employers provide health and retirement instead of just paying higher wages was always one form of scam or another. It started off as a tax dodge (wages were taxed but not benefits), and then it became a way for corporate execs (and governments!) to commit accounting fraud by attracting workers with pensions without actually funding them. We should be rid of them and just have higher wages so people can choose what they want for themselves.
In my use case it was consistently 20% cheaper than the Uber/Lyft equivalent.
Hi, friends. With NeurIPS behind us and ICML ahead, maybe you want to do some deep learning. Inspired by Justin Johnson's original work benchmarking the older GTX GPUs, I extended this work to the new RTX GPUs with benchmarks for most ResNet architectures on ImageNet and CIFAR. Along the way, I discovered a dramatic difference in performance based on how you position your GPUs. Enjoy :)

Benchmarking post: https://l7.curtisnorthcutt.com/benchmarking-gpus-for-deep-le...

Positioning (speed-up) post: https://l7.curtisnorthcutt.com/gpu-positioning

GitHub with Benchmarks: https://github.com/cgnorthcutt/cnn-gpu-benchmarks
After all the "S" in IoT stands for Security.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeftinghe
What is authoritarian for the goose is authoritarian for the gander. Makes me wonder where this kind of thing is at in the US now.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/persistent-surve...
How so? Anti-obesity laws?
Thanks for finding that.
Now thats an unusual viewpoint? Could you elaborate why you think so?

I personally found js terrible before es6 and love it since then
I presume FISA courts are in D.C., so I suppose this could be true. But judges, ADAs, Federal justice employees live in, and work closely together in, hundreds of localities across the USA. No ADA/Agent in any of them ever have stories that start with "A judge found out I (even sorta kinda) lied" that ended well for everyone involved.
Yeah, if there's no space for an extended period of time the service will be useless, with an endless backlog of jobs.
Where can I find out more about this?
They are extremely convenient. You can usually get away with smoking them even inside (jerk move though), and definitely in smoking areas. In order to get that kind of buzz with bud, you have to repeatedly hit bowls or joints. This requires carrying stuff that's less portable, and drawing attention to yourself.
Man retires at 24 with £570k in the bank and explains how he did it
See my comment for my answer in the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21827398

And if that's cheald's point, then it's invalidated. A loan of effectively three months is not lubrication, it's the [can't continue metaphor under HN rules, but you get the point].
I don't find this particular case all that illustrative. These folks were palling around with known foreign intelligence assets from a country whose government is definitely a hostile aggressor. I'd be more sympathetic to some low-level drug dealer scooped up through parallel-reconstruction. Still, even scum like Carter Page deserve their rights and protections.
> the Indian government sent in troops and shut down the internet

How does this work on a practical level?

I have so many questions. Are there a bunch of armed squads kicking in datacenter doors with AK-47's and flashbangs? A group of (the Indian equivalent of) FBI agents in a room making phone calls to the CEO's of the ISP's, telling them to go dark or go to jail? Or does the Indian government have a killswitch that just turns it off whenever they feel like it?

What if someone's operating a node that continues forwarding traffic from the quarantine zone to outside? How do they locate it?

Also, I always thought India's a relatively free country, it's not like Iran or China where the government can just stomp on the people as hard as it wants. What does the Indian court system think about this?
I'd work full time on my open source projects. I've got so many ideas that I couldn't complete them all in a single lifetime. Each one would take 2-3 years to complete full time, but take 4x that long with a day job.
The broad index funds (VTI, Russel) are indexed to market cap, so when individual stock prices change, it stays balanced or very close to it.

When a fund rebalances, it has tax consequences, so funds are incentivized not to do it.
Guitars get multiple rows done too.

And a zigzag would be nicer than here two and there three.

But yes, I probably have to learn the keys for a few days and things are good :)
WTF I'm pretty sure I can prove that
> the well-known photograph of his fibula and tibia, a favorite exhibit on display in the Army Medical Museum in Washington, which in the 19th century was one of the must-see attractions of the capital.

It's still popular! In 2014:

https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/179/9/1051/4159552

"At the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) in Silver Spring, Maryland, “Sickles' leg” remains one of the most frequently requested objects."

Worth reading that short article too, even if you don't read the NYT one, as the former has a nice summary of his major "achievement."
Very good. We could also open conversation of serious privacy violations finally when AJ is whistleblowed they real agenda.
Travel a lot and hack on free/opensource software, especially KDE software.
The last two times I went through an interview cycle (one on each side) it struck me how dependent your success was on your chosen tools and whether the coding question dovetailed with those choices or not.

For instance if I'm working on a hard problem I usually need tests (whether I initially admit that to myself or not), and despite the fact that I'm often the one who sets up and/or defines our testing strategies, every time I set things up is an adventure, because I set it up once and run that way for years. I have zero muscle memory for the installation process and anyway the decisions might be a little different in 3 years. And more to the point, I want people to copy what I've done, so I do the same thing (which gets me an experience of what others are having to put up with/enjoying about my solution).

For the app server the situation isn't much better.

In an interview taking the time to set any of that up would be crippling, even though I'd come out even on a 2-3 day story and ahead on anything longer.

I have thought many times about setting up a blank application with testing, logging, and production-reasonable overrides for all the defaults for the app server, etc. Just so I have an easy starting point for quick prototyping, which is essentially what an interview often is.

Generators probably work for an interview, but for real projects, re-applying the generator with each release is kind of a bear. I propose that it would be much easier (possibly trivial) to do on an empty shell project and then merge downstream.

I kind of think one of the things we are missing about DVCS is that the ability to maintain permanent forks gives us other options for arranging cross-cutting concerns. Maybe one more generation of merge tooling is necessary for that to be A Thing.
Every read about the crazy things you can do with C?
Her job was to notify people of company policy. Injecting messages based on her personal politics raises red flags. This time she sent a benign message, but what might she do when googlers ultimately don't unionize? What might she do the next time there's a policy she disagrees with?

Google has provided places for people to discuss things. When she didn't think that was good enough she chose to make unapproved code changes that went against corporate direction.

Personally, I'm against unionizing any software company, especially google. Unions were created to prevent systemic abuse of people that were seen as easily replaceable. If you think a recent college graduate making 120k+ that has been provided almost ridiculous perks and freedom unheard of in most of the industry is being abused when they could easily leave Google and expect to receive a similarly paid position virtually anywhere purely because they used to work at Google, then there's no helping you.

Google employees have more rights than at most companies, they can even spend up to 20% of their day working on personal projects and Google won't claim ownership. If they think they need a union when dealing with such a reasonable employer,then those fresh out of college lottery winners need a serious reality check. Let's talk about unionizing Amazon fulfillment centers where they frequently let people go because taking a bathroom break means missing your quota. Let's talk about unionizing virtually any company before we demand labor unions for the most highly privileged group of people in the world.
I’ve recently discovered systemd-nspawn and machined. It’s not a drop-in replacement for Docker, but I much prefer it for my purposes because you don’t need to install anything on a systemd-based Linux distribution and it doesn’t work so hard to conceal the fact that all the hard work is done by the kernel.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-nsp...
I think the vast majority of Linux users don't know, and further, don't care about the licensing differences between the GNU licences and the various n-clause BSD licences.

For those that do know and do care, I think there's very few who would refuse to use BSD-licensed software. From a GNU-perspective, the BSD/MIT-style licence is misguided, but not reprehensible.

But to the core of your question: yes -- there is more to the choice between Linux and the BSDs than licensing.

FreeBSD, perhaps most of all, is a linear descendant of the original Bell Labs Unix. And it maintains a style of development that emphasizes consistency, elegance, and a smallish core group of like minds curating the system. That style is true of all(?) the BSDs, with some different emphasis in each camp.

The Linux kernel, OTOH, was originally written by a gifted but inexperienced student, attempting to get a work-alike of Minix that took advantage of the i386's new features. It was a quick hack, put together over a few months, to get something running that proved it could be done. The kernel was paired with userland applications from the GNU project, from the general community of "source available" software at that time, and massaged into the mostly novel concept of distributions by many and varied groups of people, often with only distant relationships with the kernel developers.

Over time, the skill and experience levels of the Linux kernel developers has matured, but it maintains a (much) more broad range of skills, aptitudes, experience, goals, etc, than the BSDs.

Which is not to say that either of the Linux kernel or the BSD kernel(s) is "better". They have different strengths and weaknesses, as do their userland ecosystems.

It's all far more important than the licensing differences.

My view, YMMV, etc.
Ultimately, this is up to the website (relying party): It can require or prefer user authentication during enrolment or authentication; if the key supports it, the site can then skip password creation.

There doesn't seem to be anything in the spec preventing an authenticator from always asking for a PIN, but at least for the Yubikey, I'm not aware of a way to achieve that.
Well, it says Google were informed of this in 2018, and that the hammer didn't come down until late 2019. I think it's fair to say that Google intend to stop dealing with Turkey rather than comply with the local law, they're not temporarily pulling their products while they "resolve the issue".

Whether or not you see this as merely a company pulling out of a market where they don't like the regulations or a Dangerous Foreign Policy is another question. I assume that the author sees is as the latter due to Google's immense size and power.
And how will you monetize it when all premium features are free? Will there be premium-premium features that require payment?
I've seen the opposite issue. I'll tell a candidate "I don't care if you know the exact function name and parameter order for the library function the get a sub-array; just make up something reasonable and focus on solving the bigger problem." And they still look up the actual function definition.
Healed Through A.I.
I have a hard time buying that anyone deliberately shipped a security feature that permanently opens access short of rebooting the system into a special mode. A "full deliberation" would presumably include input from a dedicated security team, who would almost certainly say "better not to ship this at all and leave the old behavior in than ship this". So either the security team missed this entirely, or the security team was not consulted, or the security team is not empowered to stop this sort of half-baked feature from going in... I really can't come up with a pleasant scenario here.
"minimum reserves..."
In Eurozone, 1% of already issued credit.
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/explainers/tell-me/html/minimum_re...

"or capital requirements"
Basel Accords are a very complex system of ratios between bank capital (as a guarantee against bankruptcy) and bank credit (at risk of depreciation). The resulting ratio from these accords currently evolves between 0 and 9.5%.
One important detail : Basel III is a "voluntary regulatory framework". A lovely oxymoron that means "you have to comply with this, if you want to."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III
Wikipedia can actually be pretty schizophrenic on the issue. Depending on timing and the interest groups involved, it can go either way.

I've personally given up on editing Wikipedia (too many fanatics with infinite time), but IMHO it needs to be much more deletionist than it is now. There is value to its current wide scope, but its maintenance model has trouble with long tail articles. It shouldn't have an article unless it can consistently gather medium-sized quorum of active editors to watch over it.
While the liver toxicity alone would seem to argue against indiscriminate acetaminophen (google tells me that is the same as "paracetamol" but that is a new name to me) use, I would expect common sense to argue against indiscriminate use of anything that is not simply food. I'd look to evidence like you provide to advise me as to how, exactly, I should discriminate. But indiscriminate use of most things seems inadvisable.
It's impossible to know how illustrative it is because FISA warrants are rarely declassified or confirmed to exist except to the intel committees and the agencies themselves.
> You don't start betraying your country

I consider Edward Snowden the most patriotic American in my life time. The fact that you consider someone revealing the government not only lying under oath, but eroding our 4th Amendment rights to be a traitor is just mind boggling. Our nation was founded by rebels fighting for greater freedoms, after all. Edward Snowden is simply allowing the public to be more educated about the government in hopes they might enact change. He gave up his citizenship fighting for what he believed in, and it was the US government that villified him.

Whenever an organization is secretive, it is only for that organization to protect itself. I've never once encountered an exception to that rule (although I do believe some must exist).

I just don't understand why you assume the government is trustworthy, when there is extraordinary evidence of them deceiving the public time and time again. This same line of reasoning is what led to the 737-MAX disasters - whistle blowers were ignored and people literally died as a result. The only difference is you assign some sort of authority to the government that makes them infallible.
It's actually closer to 99%. I think I heard they only rejected one warrant in the last calendar year.

Its surprising that it's taken something of this magnitude for people to realize this the whole idea of the FISC is a very bad idea. I know the original idea was to use against terrorist organizations and individuals who they knew were terrorists, but the extensive use of warrantless searches against US Citizens is a very, very dangerous thing.
$500K-a-Month Business While Traveling the World
The US uses child labor. I had a regular part time job at age 15.
I'm not confusing this with HSTS. I'm being a bit vague because the UI is different for each browser. It used to be that you could just press one or two buttons, but these days the necessary buttons are usually either hidden, or in a separate settings page.
I didn't say either that employees are elite or that they think themselves to be elite. I said that is the hiring culture, which is something quite different.
Superdeterminism Is Unscientific
A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019 [pdf]
Perhaps I was offering my opinion and not some sort of eternal truth.
The relevant quote about Sickles from the said NYT "Lincoln Project" article:

"On July 2, 1863, his blundering nearly ended the United States." [referring to his contribution to the Battle of Gettysburg, as he was a Major General]

"Sickles’s greatest previous achievement had been fatally shooting his wife’s lover across the street from the White House and getting himself elected to Congress. Even his most fervent admirers could not have imagined that one day, far in the future, another incompetent New York politician, a president, would lay claim to that legacy by saying he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it."

What isn't mentioned there is that Sickles got away with the blundering on the battlefield too. He received a Congressional Medal of Honor for that stating (1) that he:

"Displayed most conspicuous gallantry on the field vigorously contesting the advance of the enemy and continuing to encourage his troops after being himself severely wounded."

From the article we all respond to, we know that: "Sickles himself was carried from the field on a stretcher, smoking a cheroot so that his men could see that he was still alive (they must have been overjoyed), though without most of his right leg."

1) http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/1244/sickles-daniel-e.... "Place / Date: At Gettysburg, Pa., 2 July 1863 SICKLES, DANIEL E."
Does it trace existing programs and use those as seeds in how to compose syscalls?
When it comes to responsiveness, raw compute throughput (the thing you get most out of say, vectorized C++) is not especially important. You care about latency and JavaScript can provide good latency if it's been JITted. If part of your flow is already in JavaScript, porting more to JS can actually improve latency because it cuts native<->JS transitions out of the call stack, so you're running less code in total even if the code you run is a bit slower (due to being JS instead of C++).

In general Chrome and Firefox have both moved a lot of stuff from C++ to JS (this is referred to as 'self-hosting') because it allows inlining across more calls and eliminates native<->JS transition overhead.
I was under the impression the judges who are on the court are kept secret?