skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a group project in my senior year of college, working with a US division of a German company, and they needed us to sign an NDA, which was far more egregious than anything Google requires. One part of it was:

>The Undersigned agrees that any inventions or ideas in whole or part conceived or made by the undersigned during or after the term of their relationship with $COMPANY [...] shall be considered part of the Confidential Information for purposes of this Agreement.

Basically saying they own everything I invent forever. I responded to them, basically saying this was ridiculous, and they said it's "generally implied" that this only applied to the context of the project, but they could amend it to make that explicit it if I wanted. I said yes, and after several weeks they sent us a revised version.

But I didn't have much of a choice in this; this project is a requirement to graduate. My friend, working with another company that also required an NDA, refused to sign it and basically fought with the school of engineering administration over it. He ended up finding a new project to work on by himself, on an open-source product, so it didn't require an NDA.
What is cheaper: building artificial dams and islands off the North Sea coast (for example), or re-settling 7 million people while simultaneously losing all your economic output?
Time’s new invite-only membership program will cost up to $20k a year
Did you go back to engineering or stick with music?
Damning Boeing 737 Max Text Messages
Personalized contracts means no more spreading of risk, which completely negates the value of insurance companies.
Your conclusion begs the question that the corporation in question is tyrannical or disdains privacy. Apart from that, I'll absolutely own that I want to see them succeed; I believe in the likelihood that big-data analysis is a valuable tool in conquering the diseases that have been resistant to past methods of devising cures. I volunteered my DNA for this purpose (and none of the DNA that 23andme holds wasn't volunteered for this purpose).
There is Eon from Greg Bear.

Similar thing, but WAYYY different. I recommend it for people who liked Rama.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eon_(novel)
Well, you know what has been said about purchasing security and giving up liberty...
I think a real problem is that English schools are boring in the TV/movie sense.. and full of exams.
It was easier for Belgium to end slavery in the Congo, as they were the ones who started the slavery in the Congo. The US is in a bit of a different position. Rwandan warlords are not nice people, and are generally tolerated by a Rwandan government which is itself corrupt. They want to go over the border and kill, maim, steal minerals, and enslave, then what can you do if you don't want to risk direct confrontation with them?

This trade is difficult to break in the current environment. We'd need to get tough on people who we have generally not wanted to get tough with because we want to keep them friendly for a lot of reasons. Not least of which is growing Chinese (and European) influence in the nations of coastal Africa. We know very well that some of the people we need are less than savory. Some of the trade we engage in is less than honest. But it's not just the coltan trade that's influencing our behavior here. There are a lot of different and competing strategic considerations at stake.

My own opinion? This is probably going to blow up in our face in the future, and we'll spend the latter half of this century, (or maybe the first half of the next?), attempting to convince a rapidly developing sub-saharan Africa that we're deeply sorry for the past but you can trust us going forward.
I was addressing the number of people in prisons specifically, not the reasons for them being there. Being a larger country and thus having more prisoners says nothing about the incarceration rate.
Dutch greenhouses are in fact capable of producing "Wasserbomben" as well as quality produce -- at a higher price point. Unfortunately, supermarkets in most parts of the world have decided they prefer the former.
Football vs. Fireworks Explosion
Easiest Way to Earn a 6 Figure Income Online by John Crestani
“All-male run”

This article is trash.
For the Love of Physics – Walter Lewin (video)
It's not standard practice and I would never agree to it. It's standard practice to claim ownership of things done at work or for the job itself.
It is very different on mobile. I just took some screenshots of Google search on Firefox on Android before and after enabling an addon that sets my user agent to Chrome on Google sites: https://imgur.com/a/P9zDn7B
but why???
Jefferson’s and Washington’s psychology was certainly very interesting as far as their attitudes towards freedom and slavery went. I wonder how they justified to themselves having slaves while talking about freedom and liberty.

But we do the same today. A lot of us have pretty unsustainable lifestyles as far as the environment goes but we make ourselves feel good (or even superior to others) by adding a little bit of organic food and organic clothing. The hypocrisy gets even more exaggerated when stars promote climate change awareness while flying private jets all over the world and living in 20000 square foot houses.

The interesting thing is that a lot of famous hypocrites still do good. Maybe not with their own lifestyle but by other people being motivated to do better
This pretty much sums it up.
Depends on the Google property and depends on device type (there's many more differences between Chrome on Android v. Firefox on Android compared with Chrome on Windows v. Firefox on Windows). Mobile really is still diabolical.
>They can know more if they want to

Sure they could. They would basically need to set up a modern version of the East India Trading Company, build themselves a mercenary army, and go in there and set up a proxy government that adheres to whatever regulatory policies they want to define.

We called that "colonialism" the last time around though, and most of the countries it happened to were not fans.
You feel that people in proximity to you owe you attention and money?
You're probably right. It's been a while since I had the misfortune of working with BT.
I think the author is trying is to paint a picture of bro-ish groupthink. Which, to be fair...
The given title (currently "Linux 4.6 introduced unpriviledged user namespaces") isn't accurate - unprivileged user namespaces have been around since this commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

This is included in kernel 3.8 released in 2013, and the linked PDF says that's when CLONE_NEWUSER itself was released - i.e., ever since user namespaces have existed, they've been allowed to unprivileged users.

Some downstream distributors, including Debian, started carrying a patch that added a restriction back in via the kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone sysctl. This is because allowing unprivileged user namespaces exposes a lot of attack surface to users. There's nothing fundamentally unsafe about it, but there are many kernel components for which bugs are only exploitable by unprivileged users if the feature is on. See https://lwn.net/Articles/673597/ for more discussion. (I thought a version of that patch eventually got accepted upstream, but I can't find it.)

The only reference to kernel 4.6 in the document is CLONE_NEWCGROUP, which is entirely unrelated to unprivileged user namespaces.
I agree with you. The only absolute is that there are no absolutes. However what the practical application of DRY ends up being for me is that I have a "bag of tricks" I carry with me as well as my own "library o' repetitious programming tasks" that I look into first. Much of the time I can save a lot of time by reusing old code. I may have a bit of code that is too specific for the original purpose and get tired of the technical debt it causes, and re-write it. So in that case I am repeating myself, but its with the benefit of experience. More of a refactor than repeat.
From my perspective, a big part of the problem is that companies don't let you know they'll be doing something like this (a simple "the 1:00 section of the interview will involve giving you a task using some tech you're not familiar with"), so it's a surprise (interviews are already stressful in ways that real work pretty much never is, "surprises" are deeply unhelpful for evaluating candidates outside very rare and particular kinds of work), and then also often forget to provide extremely useful information like "we know this isn't a familiar language or environment for you—we specifically want to see how you work in something you're not familiar with, so don't stress out if you aren't close to a complete solution by the end, we don't really expect you to be."
There's still breakage in small areas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601831
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25270

IIRC though the main issue with YouTube was a slow polyfill library which has been fixed since they updated to the standardized version of Shadow DOM.
In the really long run everything humans have ever made except for the pyramids is unstable. It would be really strange if the current living generation is somehow the exception. Houses are built for a couple of decades, they sometimes stand for a hundred years or more but that's not the rule and should not be taken as guidance for the future. Companies can move if there is enough time.

What will happen is that at some point - still quite a bit into the future - humanity as a whole will have to adjust to a new coastline and as long as it is economically viable they'll try to milk the structures already built. But in the end, on that timescale it is a non-event.

A bigger question will be how we will house and feed a 10 billion plus number of human beings on a reduced landmass with all the 'good bits' already taken. There will be wars and famine in that future and I don't think we will be able to avoid that forever. Again, history is full of upheaval, we certainly won't have seen the last of it.

But to suggest NL will disappear in the next couple of years/decades is not in line with my expectations based on what I know about this stuff. (More than most, less than what I would like to know but there is only so much time.)

As for the rivers, pumping out the water forcibly would allow the surge barriers to remain in place but would severely disrupt the economy (harbors inaccessible) and would require pumping capacity that we currently do not have (those rivers carry an enormous amount of water).
>neighbors, the police (via ubiquitous public space abuse), every store, every mode of public transportation, and an increasing number of automobiles are all pointing cameras at you

Can be regulated, it is regulated in many places already (like, you can't store recordings for more than 15 days, or you can ask for your images to be removed).

>companies like Amazon in particular are actively seeking to aid law enforcement access to all these devices

Good.
My feet are currently around 4 meters below sea level in the Netherlands. They are still dry.

On its own, even worst case sea level rise is unlikely to have meaningful impact on the Netherlands over the next century, unless we stop maintaining our water infrastructure.

The real problem is droughts, which could simultaneously pulverize dikes, cause ground to sink, cut off our water supply, and ruin the farming industry. When it comes to climate change in the Netherlands, one bad summer is a lot more dangerous than a century of sea level rise.
Amazon is cutting out the middle man so they can abuse their delivery contractors and employees directly.
The Multidimensional Brain
Shout out to mux. We are not quite using it heavily yet for our company but I have been reviewing them for over a year. Mux is the best balance between a very rigid platform (like vimeo) and building your own. Using mux, you can build your own vimeo for example. We run edtech and mux is going to be our choice for video lessons. I personally have dabbled with encoding etc using ffmpeg but it is a whole different story doing it in a production environment.

I do have some additional feature request for mux like restricting by IP or http_referrer etc as a nice to have but otherwise, it is solid.

A closer competitor that I evaluated is Cloudflare stream but they are a bit more abstract than mux. So less controls on the player etc compared to mux where you come up with your own player.
Or Malebolge, a language explicitly designed to make people miserable.
False dichotomy. Or Strawman. Both apply.
Read children's letters to Santa from 1899 to 2006 (or velocipede to Apple II)
Why won't dikes not work?
It sounds like he was diligent in researching the companies and spent a lot of time making sure that nothing went wrong. In other words it wasn't one day of work.

He probably shouldn't have run any of the cars himself, since he wasn't insured, though.
That's fine, provided I get a nice padded cell and keto/paleo friendly foods.
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The world has a large surplus of agricultural products which are often produced due to significant subsidies. So, it’s not clear production would increase to compensate rather than existing land being repurposed.
I’m not endorsing the original comment, but the mines that employ child labor aren’t generally big mechanized operations. They’re what are called “artisanal mines”: holes in the ground where people chip out rocks with hand tools. So you kinda can just pop one up.
>Do you know how hard it would be for Apple to check out a mining operation? A plane trip and a few days of a couple people's time.

No. Not at all. It takes more than that to vet suppliers in a place as developed as China. If you think that's all it takes in an ACTIVE WAR ZONE you're delusional.
Consumer VR Revenue Projected to Reach $10.6B by 2023
You might be right. My memory is from several years ago when I was working with some possibly dubious long range outdoor radios.
That would require clicking thru to the profile, only to find a "her / princess" pronoun suggestion, which seems like a joke.

Obviously with enough digging you can find out what anyone's gender / preferred pronouns are. The point is more that the actual content being consumed does not indicate a clear gender, so using "he" in lieu of that is not a big deal.
How to Build a Language
TB was acquired by McAfee, if you trust them then good luck.
In 5.10 Mattermost added the ability to move the configuration to the database, which solves the issue of having a config.json file. This also has the advantage of versioning your configuration in the database which makes rolling back changes very easy.
Not disagreeing with you, but I would be surprised if they're buying it directly from the mine and not from some sort of market/middleman/third party company. I wouldn't hold my breath for extensive receipts and documentation either. The miners pictured in the article don't even have shoes and the "hammers" they're given appear to be two pieces of rebar welded together. I'd be surprised to find much documentation at all.
So you want data, but the only datum you offer in support of your assertion that you are being unreasonably manipulated is the effect of a single storm in the 14th. century. Meanwhile, other people have been posting much more pertinent comments on, for example, the non-uniformity of global-warming-induced sea-level rise.
They have been a principal organizer and sponsor of the LLVM Developers Meeting for years and even then they did not use their own logo.
Also the bane of many a DBA trying to update permissions.
I couldn’t honestly, which is why we tried a lot of other things before we realized it was the food.
Index fund is just a bunch of stocks bundled together. You can buy small amounts of it, and you just ride the market as a whole, rather than some specific stocks you picked.

You can buy it at Vanguard.com. You’ll need to sign up for an account, and then it’s a process similar to setting up online bill pay.

If you can put a consistent amount into an index fund, even if it’s $50/month, religiously, that’s a huge step.
ebay did not left Turkey. They acquired a local ecommerce and they are operating over that one now. It wasn't able to compete then it just bought it.
"Do you know enough lisp to write a self hosting interpreter in it?"

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: No!

I learned Lisp and TI-Scheme in the early 80s, and somewhere around then we did some SICP-like stuff in undergrad CS.

I later came upon SICP and worked my way through it, having the usual "Aha!" moments. I thought I knew something about Lisp and Scheme at that point. I built some self-hosted interpreters using the following pattern:

1. Write an interpreter for a minimal subset of Scheme in a host language.

2. Write an interpreter for a more full-featured Scheme in the subset of Scheme.

At some point, I read LiSP [0], and I discovered that what I thought was enlightenment was actually but a hint of the delights to come. The entire book is about teaching programming through the device of building interpreters and compilers.

So my next pattern was something like:

1. Write a minimal Scheme interpreter in a host language.

2. Write a Scheme compiler in Scheme.

3. Bootstrap the compiler by running in in the interpreted Scheme.

4. Now you have a compiled Scheme implementation written in Scheme.

5. Build out more features.

And now, this approach is one of my go-to tools. A few years ago, I was playing with Turing Machines, and I used a "constructive proof" approach: If we want to demonstrate that a Turing machine with tape that has one end is just as powerful as a Turing Machine with a tape that stretches to infinity in both directions, write a compiler from one kind of Turing Machine to the other. And so on and so forth to prove that being able to write an infinite number of different symbols is no more powerful than writing 0s and 1s. Or that a multi-dimensional Langdon's Ant is no more powerful than a Turing Machine...

Interpreters and Compilers are very powerful tools for constructive reasoning.

But the point of the discussion around Scheme for this purpose is how easy it makes writing Interpreters and Compilers. On the one hand... Shrug... Since we can write interpreters and compilers in any language.

On the other hand, a tool that removes a lot of the accidental complexity in writing interpreters and compilers changes the way we think about writing interpreters and compilers, much as parsing text using a language built around pattern matching (like SNOBOL and its descendants) changes the way we think about parsing text.

So... We are probably in deep agreement about the value of SICP in Scheme, and the value of Lisp in general, not just as a language, but as a way of changing the way we approach solving problems.

And as for knowing enough... The truth is, every time I sit down with certain programming ideas, I learn more and realize that what I thought I knew was incomplete.

So in a very real sense, I suspect that no, I don't know nearly as much as I think I know.

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[0]: Lisp in Small Pieces: https://www.amazon.ca/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...
Good idea but will not pass the parliementarians.
After the renaissance but before the industrial revolution, perhaps.
Scale is nice and short, it’s one syllable, and it goes up and down like how you scale a ladder. “Ordered basis” and “discrete spectrum” sound outright hostile to me. We want to make musical scales accessible to five-year-old kids here, not undergraduate math students. This is not the way terminology should evolve.

I can get behind car/cdr -> first/rest.

I could get behind renaming the modes, but I’m not sure how to rename them. I would be hesitant to name them after notes or using numbers, since that would be confusing. As it is, I can say “C dorian scale” and that’s a pretty concise and unambiguous name for a series of notes. Maybe I could say “C minor, natural sixth scale”. It’s a bit verbose and modes are fairly rare. It’s also a bit weird—would I then say “A dorian scale” as “A minor, sharp sixth scale”? Already I’m a bit confused by this terminology. Maybe “A minor, major sixth scale”? The “major minor” is a bit weird.

The trick with advancing expressiveness and meaningfulness is that 1) you are going to have to memorize new meanings even if the words are familiar and 2) if it’s not usable by experts, it won’t be adopted by experts and you’ll end up with at worst, multiple incompatible sets of terminology.

Face it—I’m going to have to do a fair bit of memorization to learn music theory. It is unavoidable with music theory as it is with other subjects. So I might as well pick nice, short words like “scale” which make some intuitive sense, rather than pick “ordered basis” which is a total mouthful. After all, I will only spend a short amount of time memorizing terms, and a much, MUCH longer time using them.
> unless the buyers choose to stop using the minerals altogether.

BINGO. That's what you do. If the ass end of Mogadishu can't provide the minerals without using exploitative labor practices, THEN DON'T BUY FROM THE ASS END OF MOGADISHU.

And if that means an iPhone costs $200 more then that's what it fucking means, because no iPhone is worth it's weight in human suffering to have.
A Tale of Two Failures
Cogmind is a good example of a roguelike which took a different direction thematically and aesthetically and it seems to have worked out well for them.
I like the UK ones because you see the cops approach the job differently. In the US, the default response of an American cop would be to shoot first and ask questions later. In the UK shows you get more of a cerebral drama and see a situation unfold evolve.
Sorry, you're absolutely right, I meant PayPal and obviously they haven't been the same company for quite some time! https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/31/paypal-to-halt-operations-...
Librem Server
Your brain on Tetris (EEG data and viz code provided)
The fact that they're not included shows the bias that the government had.

It's obvious
As long as there are people willing to be abused, abuse will continue, as it's the most economical business model.

People will continue to line up to be abused in exchange for being able to work on anime / video games / spaceships / insert toxic industry here.

The only exception I can think of is acting, where they stopped this with extremely strict and mandatory guilds.
Who's knuckle-dragging on DNSSEC interop? The entire Internet community. It's been almost 25 years, and 3 major revisions of the protocol, and still it has almost no adoption --- virtually none of the most commonly queried zones are signed. Why is that? Because DNSSEC is awful.

Obviously, you can't replace "SSL with PKI" (you mean TLS, and/or the WebPKI) with DNSSEC, because DNSSEC doesn't encrypt anything. Whether or not you enact the ritual of adding signature records to your DNS zone, you will still need the TLS protocol to actually do anything securely, and the TLS protocol will still not need the DNS in order to authenticate connections.

Instead, what DNSSEC (DANE, really) hopes to do is replace LetsEncrypt, which is not "basically" but instead "actually" free, with CAs run by TLD owners. Who owns the most important TLDs on the Internet? The Five Eyes governments and China. Good plan!
Mechanics unlocks the morphogenetic puzzle of interlocking bivalved shells
This is a disgusting policy - basically the company OWNS you if you do anything meaningful. Complete defeats the idea of "freedom" and takes away the already pitiful chances of normal people "making it". Ib4 people pretend not having a job is a valid option. This isn't Google specific, but it's one of the few things that genuinely upsets me. Hell, more than the death of net neutrality.
I agree, but it's hard to establish good regulation in a space where society hasn't yet come to some consensus on the underlying philosophy that would guide such regulation, is the problem.
Effective Airflow development
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin - It's Underwater
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