skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're definitely still saying and have been saying you believe she's not an engineer.

I never said that, nor do I necessarily believe that. I replied to someone else in a one-liner which was to put forward a possible reason other people were questioning it.

> Again, your bias shows. If your employer is treating you well, why would talking about unionization be threatening?

Talking about unionizing is not threatening to me, or my company (which has a union), but it's pretty clearly very threatening to your company. You should be cognizant and careful about that.

> Is that biting the hand of your employer? You clearly think so.

What I think is that google and every other sufficiently large company will think so. It would be naive to think because your company has some zippy slogan like "don't be evil" (now retired) that they are somehow different.

It's interesting, btw., how you believe to know what I think based on not at all what I say. Novel way to run an argument.

> Would that folks like you were more active in demanding action the collective action by corporate CEOs to illegally fix wages. Sadly, folks seem content to shrug and smile and pretend that's the right of their minders.

There's a right and a wrong way to take action. Getting youself fired doesn't seem smart, but it could be a nice martyr move if you don't need the income.

If you are engineers, then you are not just wage slaves. You are independent people and can take - or leave - your employment at will. If you don't like company X, I'd suggest it's far better to simply leave.

Your problem is a bad employer, so you add a union, now you have two problems: a still bad employer and a union full of politicians.

So, I've enjoyed your interesting thought processes, and I leave you with this advice:

- read, carefully, the rights granted by the NLRB. Stick strictly and safely within them.

https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employees/i...

- for example, do you notice that it gives you the right to talk and distribute literature outside working areas (such as breakrooms or parking lots)? Do you notice how modifying a browser security extension isn't on that list? Nor is doxing your co-workers?

- don't use company time or resources to do it! A) it could easily be construed as not-protected and B) obvious opsec reasons

- martyrs for the cause might energize the base but they scare off those with mortgages.

- be mindful of who has your back:

January 2019, google pushes to overturn Purple Communications - https://onlabor.org/google-to-nlrb-shut-down-employee-email-...

December 2019, NLRB overturns Purple Communications - https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-restores...

Tootles!
What about redundancy and failover? Serious question, as I am not familiar with KDB+/Q
Duckduckgo funnily enough has 3 of the top 5 results being this game.
I'm reminded of other HN conversations on the patents around technology that could theoretically make this happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21208051
We definitely have different definitions of "cool". ;)
Comparing the words angeldust and the very common word "speed" is not comparable at all. Also the game looks like it's targeted at smaller kids. It would be like creating a minecraft clone and calling it "meth-heads". Thats 100% not what he is doing and if it is, then it's pretty insane.
make sure they are easy to get rid of (don't contract them for a fixed time period) or consider working with an established it consultancy. they will do the vetting mostly for you. it's perhaps a bit more expensive, but rates are still competitive and the one who loses most from it is the contracted consultant, as most of his pay goes to the consultancy. as for fixed fees, im not a fan as situations change so it tends to lead to conflicts.
As you might intuitively conclude, Booking and its competitors invest quite heavily into detecting real vs. bot traffic. Often, sites will block bot traffic or degrade the content. Booking is very torn on that because they don't want an arms race. When I worked on the experiment tooling, we very much preferred to have more, but tagged bot traffic than less and undiscovered. That's because for the experiment analysis, the undiscovered bot traffic was poison.
That depends of the scale of your project though.

If you have $10k dollar, you may have to choose between the one click build process and some features or documentation.

Regular audits and updating list of risks have a cost and affect the deadline.

Change the team regularly ? Do you know the cost of introducing anyone new even to the best made project ?

What if you are an individual ? What if you are a start up ? What if you are a small company or an NGO ?

I'm not saying those are not good to have.

But I would put much more simple and basic things prior that. Nobody has unlimited time and resources.
Apple made a huge mistake when it launched iOS 7: it failed to improve its UI. I don't know if it was a matter of the best and most capable designers leaving the company or bad decisions by the managers, but the truth is that iOS 7 was never a good UI for iPhones, especially the biggest ones. There are many things that are missing that are obvious, such as being able to organize the icons on your Home screen as you wish like you can do in Android, and I suspect that many of the things that are excellently solved in Android's Material Design, at Apple can't because of patents. I think it all boils down to patents because I don't believe that a company like Apple has such a poorly designed operating system.
I really like the work of the UK's GDS (government digital service)
I seem to recall a video Thrun's/Stanford's DARPA car "Junior" drifting in a parking lot autonomously. Around 2007.

Cannot find the video, though.
Uranus getting 1/400 the gravity that earth does is a good example. And the speed Uranus is moving relative to the sun is not much slower than the speed the earth is moving relative to the sun.

Yes, the sun is surprisingly big indeed, so I can appreciate the reminder, but I’m not entirely sure it’s relevant here how big the sun is relative to the planets?

The surprise I’m talking about comes from the ratio of the sun’s radius to the radius of the orbit, and that applies to an orbiting mass of any size, from Halley’s Comet to Jupiter. What seems surprising to me is not that the sun is large, it’s that it can attract and keep in orbit something that is at a distance 10,000 times it’s radius (that’s Pluto’s aphelion). The distances between the sun & planets is so much mind-bogglingly larger than the sun that when you see the scale of the sun in context, when you compare the size of the sun to the distance between the sun and the earth, the sun looks incredibly tiny... so tiny that it’s hard to imagine how the gravitational influence is keeping the earth in orbit, especially when thinking about the inverse square law.
That makes me remember some interesting things I read that explains how much of the space race went:

In the immediate post-WWII era, the US had lots of experience with long-range heavy bombers, and plenty of air bases close-ish to the USSR. So the US focused on delivering nukes via aircraft and neglected rockets at first. The Soviets weren't real into long-range heavy bombers, and didn't have many air bases near the US anyways, so they went in on long-range rockets sooner and harder. Their nuclear program was less developed too, so their bombs were bigger and heavier. This means that their long-range bomb delivery rockets were big and powerful enough to double as orbital rockets with minimal changes. US bomb delivery rockets were significantly smaller, so we needed to develop all-new rockets to start launching things into orbit.

The Soviets were also behind on electronics and automation. When they wanted to do orbital surveillance and intelligence gathering, they put actual humans in their satellites to do it. The Americans decided that it was better to use electronics to do the same job. It was indeed better to use electronics for the purpose of surveilence, but that also meant that the Soviets racked up a lot of experience in running manned space stations that we didn't start to touch until much later on.

Source: https://selenianboondocks.com/2019/05/amistics-of-human-spac...
Cool, thanks! Now I just need to eradicate the plain blue version on the bootup screen.
> This is a legitimate concern?

Only for those who would confuse a video game for PCP. Thankfully, those seem few.

And honestly? I certainly didn't associate it with the narcotic when I read the headline. I'm not sure I've even heard that particular slang for quite a number of years.
A New Fintech Hub in Canada: The Montréal Fintech Station
or maybe they want to be seen. either to gauge our reaction, or for the same reasons we want our own areal craft to be visible: to help avoid collisions.
Robert Moir, 58, Dies; His Research Changed Views on Alzheimer’s
Related: I'm making a program in Go to inline all the resources for a web page so it ends up being a single file that you can work with offline more easily: https://github.com/ijt/inline.
> No developer of any worth will give you turn-key offer for a non-trivial project.

Yes, I'm actually saying exactly that in:

> [a good contractor will] not give you answers right away, especially deadline and price. I can take several (sometimes billable) hours up to several days with a customer to understand the project and assess this.
>I've never heard of accidents being avoided on highways because someone knew how to do racecar drifting.

Knowing how to control oversteer is a crucial skill when driving on snow and ice.
Area man write blog post saying things are great and just so happens to overlap exactly with what he does
Numbers in Python are referenced objects. Low valued integers get reused to avoid the bloat of duplicate objects.
This comment makes no sense.

Apple hasn't fundamentally changed the UI on iOS or OSX since the initial releases apart from say the iOS look & feel refresh and gestures to support iPhone X. And in the last few releases there have been almost no UI changes.

It's actually one of the disappointments of the Apple platforms.
OP here—if it’s not obvious from the tweets the timeframe of this story is 2007 through 2008.
My computer has been recording numbers station broadcasts without my knowledge
I also agree, these are short blips (a long form tweet) with no research, reference, no real insight besides the obvious. One positive thing is that it invokes some level of discussion and often auxiliary ideas come out of it. Perhaps.

At the other end, it is laborious to go through a well researched long-form articles.

I really like Drew Devaults blog [1] - I think he strikes a great balance between tweet-like articles (pg, daringfireball) and something extremely verbose (Stratechery).

[1] https://drewdevault.com/
Not directly related, but still a nudge thing: it is impossible to sort the offerings by price (eg ascending) on booking.com . Am I the only user finding this extremely uncomfortable?
Yeah, privacy.net isn't that great. It was the first one I found. I found a few others that take different approaches.

https://webbrowsertools.com/privacy-test/
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
https://tenta.com/test/
https://dnsleaktest.com/

This page has lots good info on this topic. https://browserleaks.com/
Fashionable People

December 2019

I've seen a similar pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the contributors are promoted, because they've all worked on similar things.

Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding who to read. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into reading fashionable people's navelgazing.

If you want to try reading unfashionable people's works, one of the best places to look is fields that people think have already been fully explored: essays, Lisp, venture funding – you may notice a pattern here. If you can find a new author in a big but apparently played out field, the value of whatever you discover will be multiplied by its enormous surface area.

The best protection against getting drawn into reading the same things as everyone else may be to genuinely love what you're reading. Then you'll continue to read even if you find the same blogs as other people and think that it's too marginal to matter.

edit: pg's original reads like copypasta and I have no regrets
Ahaha, I wondered if MegaZeux would ever make it to HN. Which one of us posted this? Been using MZX for 20 years. It’s what got me into programming. It’s a treasure.

There’s something about the programming model (“robots” so easily model people conversing and doing silly things) that allows you to just casually sketch out whatever’s in your head. That’s given rise to so many quirky, funny games for this system in a style that might never be made in any other context, except of course its predecessor ZZT. Dive into the archives and have fun.

The community, to my knowledge, still meets up yearly and also has impromptu hour-long game jams.
I've tried to be open and generous to others during the holidays and it almost always results in serious awkwardness. There's a matchmaking problem here. I wish I could magically know who in the neighbourhood I could just knock on the door of and say hi and invite them to the extra seat at our table.

I've had luck at retirement homes. And holy cow if you have little kids, you are so welcome there (as long as you've met the administration and they feel comfortable with you). Joy disobeys the laws of thermodynamics and young children effortlessly generate joy in the elderly.
> - fetch('http://localhost:9222/json') which errors or is opaque because it is non CORS, or

What about DNS rebinding attacks?
The dashed line in use · Touch (2006)
> not sure there are any real blockers for Scala on Android anymore. I imagine it's mostly a resource problem now

not really, it's still the problem Android being Java < 8, and Scala on Java 8 features.

https://github.com/scala-android/sbt-android/issues/334#issu...
Here's what actually happened. Bill Gates acquired the rights and made them unavailable to anyone who wasn't using Microsoft Silverlight. I was sitting in a public library and wasn't able to download these videos to watch later, while I was no longer at the library, because of Silverlight.
I haven't heard the term angeldust before, FWIW.
They've apparently made improvements to the cooling since the Model S, which could not complete a lap of Nordschleife without overheating.
I don't think they would operate in areas where training is taking place without notifying the pilots in the area that they are also operating there. The risk of collision is too high (and there apparently was at least one very close call).
Organic Solar Cells Based on Non-Fullerene Small-Molecule Acceptors
I feel that for OSX, everything past Mavericks has been a downgrade. What's the point in having a beautiful hiDPI display if you're going to flatten all UI elements into a solid color?
I was into ZZT and so I got the first version of MZX back in 94. I played with it a lot, though never really finished and released anything major. Some version of the game I’m in the credits as a beta tester.

While I was doing BASIC and stuff before then, ZZT and MZX definitely pushed me along the programming path even more strongly.
Data Visualization in Business
I have heard a couple of podcasts that had some very credible US pilots talking about this. I think detecting life on other planets or aliens here would be great (so long as they are not trying to kill me yada yada). But, the most down to earth explanation is signal/sensor warfare testing.

Bare with me for a moment. The web is part of the sensor array of a spider. There are species of insects that tap on spider's webs to send a false positive signal to the spider on the web that a tasty prey has become trapped. The spider goes over to where on the web the vibrations indicated the prey is trapped and bang the spider gets killed by the assassin bug.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-11628322

There is some evidence these signal warfare systems are being developed:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/29505/the-navys-secret...

I think these are newest iterations of the Wild Weasel style of counter weapons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Weasel

they could make drones go a fuel wasting wild goose chases etc. Or make the other sides drone defend the eastern front while you fly in from the west etc.

more signal warfare stuff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nulka
Never heard of this. I'm sure 50% of American don't know this word and 95% of non-native speaker don't know it either. The programmer seems to be Dutch and has no reason to know this American slang word.
Some possible language extensions:

NewObject = IT'S NOT A TUMOR

DeallocateObject = YOU'VE JUST BEEN ERASED

WriteToFile = COME WITH ME IF YOU WANT TO LIVE
Python Courses you can take online
I'm no expert, but I don't think so. I'm pretty sure Dollar Stores get their inventory from almost expired products that didn't sell via traditional retail channels, same with overorders or discontinued products. It's coming from real companies and is not knockoffs, but it's more the same style stuff that doesn't sell in Target etc.

Whereas in Amazon I've gotten faked products- instead of Jeffree Star lipstick is "Deffree Star" etc. Or just completely accurate looking banana powder but it smells off and doesn't work correctly - after investigating on reddit some other people had gotten the same knockoff- turns out it was just baby powder died yellow.

Since getting so many fakes on Amazon, we stopped buying anything from there that goes on your body or in your body. It sucks, tbh. I'd rather pay a way higher markup and be guaranteed the product is legitimate than be rolling the dice with who knows what from China.
> Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.

How can a statement like that be made? Is there some kind of authoritative directory of 'the smartest, most imaginative people' being 'surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on'.

Implied I guess Paul means 'who I've met or who I know of'. So then say that.

It's a big world out there. Who knows what anyone is working on or what they are thinking or have tried and why they haven't pursued it.

This is a bit like saying 'people love their dogs and will do anything for them if they are sick'. Just a general statement of opinion by one person (and generally accepted as being correct) but based on not anything even close to being scientific and/or backed up by any actual data. That part is fine. But if that is the case state it as such and not some absolute. Why does this matter? Because when someone like Paul writes something it will be taken by others to be some kind of important thought or fact.
Sorry for the self reply, some context. The reason I looked at a number of these urgency messaging implementations is that we'd gotten a bunch of allegations from legislators that they were wrong. I was in a senior enough position that I would've been able to push back on anything dodgy/outright lying I would've found. I didn't find any that were incorrect.
> I struggle to even come up with narratives as to why this specific case would be made public.

Lots of people are talking about it. What's the problem with them also saying "yeah this happened and we have no idea what it is". It seems to me that the truth is probably exactly that.
Not sure why you are talking about iOS7 since it was released 7 years.

But anyway the reason Apple doesn't allow for customisation of the home screen is because it adds complexity. And given they are trying to sell to people who are computer and technology illiterate you don't want complexity.
Not "speed", "speedBALL". It's another example of narcotic slang - I think a combination of heroin and cocaine. Again, it's quite likely whoever picked the name was aware of the meaning.
I agree with you. I think the down-voting that goes on here is basically group-speak censorship and creates an echo-chamber. Tyranny of the majority...
No. Terrible idea. The authors take the perspective that content should be easy for browsers to render. That's important but shouldn't be the only consideration. Browsers can render HTML well, but browsers have incredibly complicated rendering engines. This makes HTML non-portable and non-exportable, not printable, not sharable. I'm sure for each one of those you can create a workaround to bridge the gap but the big picture is that HTML content tends to be dynamic and rendered by a heavy server component from database which makes creating a true standard actually quite hard. HTML actually really sucks as a portable document standard without some extra semantic definition and a container format. So to make HTML workable you have to do something like what docx and odf do: XML definition+resources in zip container ... which now look a lot like PDF.

>We also intend to build functionality for users to automatically generate accessible PDFs from HTML documents.

How about the other way.. PDFs -> HTML documents.
It was refreshing to get a notice about cookie settings which when ignored, accepted or rejected remained readily accessible (on mobile at least). Normally, you get to reject setting once and then it vanishes meaning you can't update your choice either way. It was a pleasant surprise to be able to change my mind.
Yep - Read my comment (did not read yours when I just wrote it).
Very cool, thanks for the link! The cell & fbm primitives look really useful. The only complex primitive like that I included so far was Perlin turbulence. If you’re interested, here’s a sampling of mine, https://flickr.com/photos/biv4b/albums/576553 I haven’t gotten around to any vectorized evaluation yet, it’s pure CPU recursive eval, the closest thing I did was to use multiple threads, but it’s not particularly fast compared to what a GPU would do.
> Apple hasn't fundamentally changed the UI on iOS or OSX since the initial releases apart from say the iOS look & feel refresh and gestures to support iPhone X.

So for the iPhone alone Apple has changed the 1. look and feel to be more “modern” (which means showing less accordances), 2. fashionably removed the very affordable home-button for no functional reason and 3. replaced it with non-discoverable, complex gestures.

Pardon my math but to me that sounds like ignoring 3 core design-principles just to appear trendy and have something new to sell.
ABS is a system to prevent you from locking your wheels when you step on the brake. It doesn't prevent your car from breaking traction.
Burning Man Sues U.S. Government After Getting Charged $18M for Permits
It’s being downvoted not because people love being tracked but it is technically not feasible to use much of the modern web without JS.

That’s about as helpful as saying the best way to avoid being tracked is by not using the web.
Pooping in the Manger – Catalan Tradition
But... it just runs shell commands. It doesn’t encourage you to do more complex things, especially compared to other CI systems like Jenkins.

My point is your complaint seems more general than Gitlab itself.
Golden Secrets That Help Product Makers Stay Motivated
The functionality is no longer being maintained [1].

Notice: Not all features of .gitlab-ci.yml are supported by exec. [2]

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/2710
[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/commands/#gitlab-runner-exec
Ah there it is, the ol' modified limited hangout[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
Does fast & efficient = fun?
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I don't know if Bryan Cantrill has done any speeches this year, whenever i see some speech featuring him on youtube I watch it regardless of the year.

That man is a gold mine. And I always learn something interesting.

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