skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and my point was that not only is this freedom curtailed by capital and circumstance, deploying capital to modify circumstance requires a shitload of it. Far beyond what is implied when people bandy about the slogan of "i'm free to associate with whomever i want."

I'm just going to quote myself.

_But it doesn't change the point that you still can choose to move to nigeria_

This is like the people who argue that you shouldn't put in a solution that only makes the problem 20% better, that we should wait until it's a 100% solution.

You should probably just curl up in your basement and wait to die since you apparently can't interact with everyone in the world.
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Garden leave is paid, you’re also still essentially employed so no gap on the CV.

You get a new job before leaving, they’ll wait.
Well, to be fair, many American right-wing politicians have supported worse, including Saddam Hussein and Saudi royalties. If we discredit political pundits based on who they sided with, the only people remaining would be total misanthropes. Or those who never said anything so far. Maybe that's for the better...
This is a good point. People have an incentive to act as if they have 100% focus all the time, especially at the workplace, and especially in American-style culture. So, many people also feel as if they are broken because they get distracted. There is probably a significant portion of the population that truly has a disorder, but for the rest of the population, should we really be calling distraction behavior a "disorder" if it's a massive portion of the population?

I think much of the modern issue with focus can be attributed to the Digital Age. How can anyone focus with all these alerts and dings and emails and sounds everywhere all the time? And multitasking is worshipped like it's the modern man's solution to all problems. We're still drinking the 60s Kool-Aid, as if the modern, fancy, carefree Jetsons' lifestyle is right around the corner. It isn't. We're still the same human beings with the same old problems, except now we have additional problems due to the onset of technology.

(Not that technology doesn't solve certain issues, of course.)
By that logic collecting data in America is ethical, because it's not illegal in America
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I have been using Prism for the bill pay feature.

https://www.prismmoney.com/
the metrics that include the privately owned CCTV cameras used by shopkeepers in the same category as those operated by governments?

the UK has issues with creeping authoritarianism in an number of areas, but millions of shops having crappy 2FPS black and white CCTV isn't a particular concern of mine
Ancestry.com has also stepped up its marketing game. Used to be a follower with DNA, now a leader, and discounting heavily.

And, unlike 23andMe which got rid of family tree tools used by genealogists, Ancestry still has a very strong suite of trees and traditional genealogy tools. Some people really want to have both genetic and traditional genealogy accounts under the same provider, and are either unaware or don't really care about the privacy concerns.
I found cell reception to be alarmingly bad in the UK outside of populated areas. Entire stretches in Wales with no coverage. Days on 3G (if you're lucky!)

Iceland had stunningly good coverage; no matter how remote you were, it seemed like full service everywhere. (granted, I did't cross the center of the island).

Had no cell coverage on the Rallarvegen in Norway, which surprised me.

But yeah, it's all nothing like the US.
> All the packages were installed from Emacs package Manager. By running, `M-x list-packages` This should bring up a list of packages available in MELPA. Now, don’t worry if you don’t know what MELPA is, just think of it as a repository of all packages, as in, analogous to the Debian Package Repo in Debian/Ubuntu distros.

Article seems to confuse MELPA with ELPA. MELPA is something you have to add via your init file. Not terribly hard to do, but just FYI for anyone who is actually using these tips from scratch.
The article states that Apple is not pursuing theft of IP or trade secrets.

Poaching employees though... definitely hairy.
COSPAS-SARSAT originated as a collaboration between the US and the Soviet Union (COSPAS is a romanization of the Russian acronym), with several other countries joining shortly after (France, Canada) and ownership ultimately migrating towards the UN. In many ways it's a remarkable example of successful collaboration between not-so-friendly powers in the typically tense domain of space systems.

The EU Galileo system includes an enhanced SAR capability which will be integrated with the COSPAS-SARSAT system. In the future, properly equipped transponders will be able to receive a confirmation message transmitted from Galileo satellites to provide the user reassurance that their call was received.

There are also subscription services available, such as Spot and Garmin InReach which rely on commercial satellite networks. They're not really that expensive (Spot as low as $18/mo) and depending on the provider include position tracking and two-way text-messaging. These extra features can be very useful, but coverage of these commercial providers is not necessarily as good as COSPAS-SARSAT, especially near the poles. This is particularly true since COSPAS-SARSAT is augmented by a small set of geostationary satellites (NOAA's GOES) which provide "worst-case" coverage, while the commercial networks are LEO.
Rolling Range Slider
Most such models tend to fall apart when scaled to 1.4B people
I always think that when people start a comment so aggressively it’s not really worth responding. However, that aside: I’m not “fallaciously” anything!

I responded to a question that was posed “could you explain away depression with a similar argument” with a relevant piece of information.

You seem to think I’m arguing depression doesn’t exist. I am not. Forgive me if that was how it appeared, but please, for everyone’s sake, try to keep things civil.
While I don't dispute that those things were said, they're meaningless without context.

How many people made such statements compared with the number of ministers in India? Are these people still in power? Are they leaders in what they do, or are they on the margins and taken with a grain of salt/ignored by the masses and their peers?

Are the sentiments you list commonplace among Indian politicians, or is this like when one Catholic priest says something wacky and the internet goes crazy labeling a billion people?
How to communicate the user-centered design approach in the workplace
That's really interesting - I've cut myself a few times but mostly just due to impatience or a new blade. But my face also doesn't require daily shaving so I don't mind taking a few extra minutes.

As a huge fan of safety razors you're one of the first people I've heard argue against them.
Sure, if you're a creative professional or Mac developer you are probably making at a minimum 20x the cost of this box. If you're in an office a rack mount helps save a lot of desk space, which more than pays for itself. Also lets you get away from the sound.
With 23 pairs of chromosomes we have 46 dominoes each (ignoring recombination.) This changes the odds of inheriting none of your mother's Scottish dominoes from 1 in a million (2^20) to 1 in 512 (2^9).
Fintech: Is the big idea they are pitching a way for friends to split a dinner bill.
Rich people skew right-leaning. We can imagine many reasons for this, but I'll break it into two groups:

1. The same moral leanings that are identified with right-leaning parties are moral leanings, that when applied to your own life, can help make you more wealthy.

2. Having these moral leanings have no impact on your future success.

Considering that in absolute numbers the rich are more charitable and pay more taxes than the poor, and if you believe that the majority of the rich are strong value-creators (implying that they are generative, and are contributing positively to the economy rather than playing a zero-sum game), then for any portion of factor #1 above that is true, there is a moral argument to be made that adopting right-leaning values leads to a better world for both yourself, and for society as a whole.

All of this is speculative and stated in broad generalizations, but it's an argument that I've worked into my mind as a Pascal's wager of sorts and that I've found very convincing.
I'm really curious as to what technological progress this argument is supposed to refer to. You could build a great system surveilling the masses using cluster and image processing tech we had 15 years ago, what's changed is mostly throwing more hardware and money at something. Research seems to be specifically excluded. The EU job market wont go under because a few legitimate use cases might have to adapt, while blatant privacy violations can be put on hold until more complex legislation can be worked out.
One big thing that makes it not as good as it sounds is that it's just your salary. In the industry, that can easily be less than half of your total compensation with bonus. Not that that's anything to sneeze at, but it certainly adds to the opportunity cost of switching roles.
"Given the paucity of evidence, it is not surprising that it took two trials to find Lee guilty and sentence him to death. The first trial collapsed after the jury was unable to reach a verdict."

Well that's disturbing. If at first you don't succeed in pinning a crime on someone try, try again. How the heck is that alright? This is extremely unsettling.
> I don't understand how you can ban a machine from doing something that a human can do.

We do it all the time.

- Phone autodialers are legal, but particular uses are fairly heavily regulated (in theory, at least).

- Heavy machinery use is regulated in a variety of ways.

- LEOs in the US recently were told GPS bugs (which "just" do what humans can do - taking notes on where a human goes) require warrants.

- Explosives dig much faster than humans. These are heavily regulated.

- Most radios sold in the US will refuse to tune certain bands for legal reasons, even though it is trivial to modify some of them to do so.

Etc.

As far as your slippery slope argument, it simply doesn't matter. The point is to reduce the harm done by a given tech, not achieve some sort of abstract purity of thought.
Exactly, such people who do know would clearly understand my comments are around the allocations of 5G in the tetrahertz range, where the gap is shrinking, instead of uncharitably mischaracterizing my statements in the worst possible light (5G allocations elsewhere in the spectrum).
on the margin, yes, but most people want to retire eventually. income tax is itself a disincentive to work, but people still do.
A longish read, but a good synopsis of the events and findings of the past few years.
Hey all, I noticed a bunch of folks talking about categorizing charges and the difficulties surrounding that. I've been working on an app that makes this a one-step process just by using Siri. Check it out here: https://launch.getreconcile.com/

Sorry for the shameless plug! Thought it would be appropriate to share my solution as it might help some of you out.
It doesn't seem Apple is even claiming he stole IP. Apple's complaints seem to be [0]:

1. "Breach of Contract" in starting a competing business while employed there, which was apparently prohibited in his employment contract.

2. "Breach of Duty of Loyalty", again for starting a competing business while employed there.

There are no claims around theft of trade secrets or violation of copyrights or patents. This seems like an overreach by Apple, but Williams also seemed to be playing with fire by being fairly cavalier in breaching his contract with an employer known to be litigious. It will be very interesting to see where the courts land on this.

[0] https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/12/10/apple_v_gerard_williams.pd...
> as long as they are here to empower women.

This is an extremely vague definition, which is very likely prone to corruption and preferential treatment within the organization.
GDPR is great for coverups of official corruption because corrupt officials can reliably destroy the evidence in the cloud if they get tipped off that an investigation is starting.

Bans on facial recognition means prosecutors of corrupt officials have to rely more on eyewitness testimony and eyewitnesses can be intimidated and have "accidents".
Just don't give the new TV's your network password and you'll be fine.
In my first frontend dev job for a startup, the contract was absolutely ludicrous. I believe it was something like I can't work in a related industry (tech) or with any clients of the company or the specific domain of the tech I was working on etc etc. For a year.

Had a lawyer look it over who said it was highly unlikely to be enforcable, then I got the company to basically remove the parts that didn't fly.
Neo tree was annoying to me (coming from NERDTree). I remapped things to work like NERDTree ('l' for open? should be o!). And then I finally grokked how much simpler it was to navigate directories with hjkl. Plus ? to see how to manipulate files and just keep it there is great. Way more ergonomic than NERDTree or Treemacs imho.

Also since I'm going on here, I've found the key to editor management is to make sure certain basics work across the board (for IntelliJ/, Xcode/Xvim, (space)emacs and even vim - sometimes I use vim for config changes since it's so fast to open, tmux, etc).

C-o/C-i -> should work for navigation
ctrl-shift-j -> should select the file you're working on
; -> should map to : (retrain yourself)
fd -> escape (retrain yourself)
c-hjkl -> c-w hjkl (faster window/panel navigation)
gd -> should go to definition
vim text motion in general should work flawlessly
e.g., @q - should start to record a macro

I use spacemacs + tmux since I like to customize and it's easiest to customize in elisp I've found than in any other IDE or vim itself. And when things don't work and I can't make it work in the editor itself, I fix it in the terminal app (Kitty) or the OS (BetterTouchTool).

Shameless plug for those curious:

https://github.com/p10q/home/blob/master/.spacemacs#L343
https://github.com/p10q/home/blob/master/kitty.conf#L797
Just don't give the new TV's your network password and you'll be fine, and you can enjoy the new screen types, resolution, technology.
I assume the Saudi reference is in relation to recent NYT articles. That's fair. But since you bring up Saddam, it is more correct to say that he enjoyed majority left wing support, not right.

There's plenty of offenders in American politics, regardless of party. Coloring your comment that way makes it seem less valid.
Why should a company be allowed to perform wide scale facial recognition, analysis, and use as its training data the images of people who never consented to that use just so that it can determine whether the face it has in front of it is your face that you gave them consent to use?
In my personal life, I have a habit in the morning of making a short list of things that need to get done soon on the back of a business card. I don't even really have a solid intention of getting all (or even any) of the tasks done that day. Nonetheless, it often turns out that at the end of the day most of them have been done, or at least significantly advanced.

This is even more effective if it's a weekend, and I'm drinking.

Weird.
Unfortunately, once enough people come together they almost universally decide to do something "productive." It's not uncommon for folks from the same church/school/club to go into business together, for example. The same is true for 'feminist' groups as well. Plenty of politics and business gets discussed and it's often deemed "politically incorrect" to criticize such things in the current climate.

Personally, I am pro-groups of any kind. People should be free to associate in life or in business with others who share their views and values. However, I do wish that there wasn't such a negative view of groups/systems men create or join. Another commenter mentioned men's shelters, but that's just the tip of the iceberg on that particular issue.
It looks to me like both of them are an activated carbon filter. They're going to filter the same things.
Are we witnessing the start of the combat iPhone? These devices are staggeringly useful, I guess it just makes sense that they find their way into this aspect of human life as well.

> Squad: the #1 small unit combat App

>What's New in 3.14: Enhanced Scout/Recon route setting- select up to 7 types of perimeter security

>In-App Purchase: Unlimited "Friendlies" List - avoid unwanted friendly fire incidents.
380k Guesses
Hi HN. Over the last 4 months I have collected 380,000 attempts to guess a number on my Amazon Alexa Skill, and wanted to share with the community. Would love to see what you can do with the data!

https://www.kaggle.com/sdobson46/higher-or-lower-game
Doesn't sound crazy at all to me! I do this all the time using multiline editing in Sublime Text. It's the one part of a more modern IDE I have a hard time giving up (transitioning to Spacemacs currently). Will have to try out this script and see if it helps bridge the gap!
Just like with a lot of things we have rules against, it's not just your personal data. Encoded in photos of you is data about your family, too. And in public, your surroundings, people nearby you, your location history, etc is all in the realm of these photo systems. There is more data in your photo than just you - this is a societal safety issue.

Allowing a free-for-all in all new tech that has clearly defined privacy issues at scale can cause a lot of runaway problems. A society who tries their best to reduce harm caused by bad actors using wild new technology that has huge privacy implications is a reasonable society to me.

Automated detection of your face matters to the rest of society, too. It's not just your privacy that is affected, it is other people's too.
This sentence is either missing a negation or correlates "bang" with
"distraction", which is wrong since "bang" is positive and "distraction" negative.
I've lived in India all my life and there has never been a single instance in my life where a religious minority has benefited at my expense. I was never denied admission to a college, a job, or a rental apartment because of my religion.

The supposedly appeased minority, on the other hand, routinely struggles to get a rental apartment.
What about a rackmounted Mac Pro doesn't qualify as a server?
>the electromagnetic spectrum

EMP, signal jamming, GPS spoofing etc.
Sadly it's hard to argue the effect that KR is having is "positive".

KR stood up by working closely with Pivotal who supplied both the Pivots to pair program with the comparatively inexperienced AF devs as well as the deployment platform.

While the means are debatable, the ends that Units supplying devs to KR had to face we're not. Those Units got back programmers completely reliant on Pivotal Cloud Foundary. You would get devs that had no concept of what happens to their code after they run `cf push` and the Units had to face the reality that their devs were ineffective without PCF which costed 10's of millions to purchase and maintain by a team of Pivotal engineers.

Obviously Pivotal is a company that exists to make profit but smaller units that supplied devs to KR largely felt taken advantage of. And after that you had things like SpaceCamp, LevelUp, Platform1, that are very similar to KR just without the heavy reliance on Pivotal or their products popping up left and right.

Now that it's gone on for so long even leadership in KR is getting pressured to actually produce a product ready app for all the money that's been dumped. They have plenty of MVP's but afaik nothing to big AF's satisfaction.

At least from a lowly enlisted programmers perspective you can live in Boston in civilian clothes for 6 months.
The obvious harm in outright bans (I know this specific case is only banning it in public areas) are that it stifles innovation where the technologies are used to empower society.

The reference to smartphone tracking before the one I believe you're referencing in that article details the myriad other of ways to track people: financial transactions, license plates, MAC addresses, heartbeat, gait, etc. You can substitute those in for the fallbacks.
Predicting key metrics better than analysts with alternative data is very easy, the hard part is making actionable trading insights. Alternative data gleamed metrics are only a small part of the overall market price.
This is mostly a listing of packages and very known ones at that.

One of the best features I like is undoing regions. That is, if you know the approximate location of the text that you want to undo, you just select a region that contains that location and call undo. It can be used as a quick git alternative. Say you modify the buffer all over the place. If you want to undo some text that you've modified an hour ago but you did other modifications to the buffer in countless other places, you can undo just that region and you don't have to go back throught the whole undo tree.

Another one that I've currently discoverd and I'm very excited about is yasnippet (the modern variant of abbrev). You can define a string that stands for an abbreviation for an expansion. Everytime you type that string, it is replaced by that expansion. The nice thing about yasnippet compared to abbrev is that, among others, you can specify where to leave the cursor after the expansion. One example: "lt" expands to (let ((_))), where _ is the cursor position after the expansion. This also saves typing of all the parantheses. Or "mcar" expands to (mapcar (lambda (_))). You can expand anything to anything, in short. With time, you can type less and faster.
Your idea about Google probably is hard to put into law, but in the same way that the law requires unemployment benefits for workers below a certain wage, it could (and I'd argue should) ban noncompetes for workers below a certain salary.

Not a lawyer, but I do not think that would raise constitutional or fairness issues.
You are seeing symptoms of fascism not only in India, but pretty much everywhere. It did not sneak upon the world from some fringe underground overnight. No.

The world had 2 decades to wake up, and mop up that political faction.

I honestly don't know where the world is going now.
Which of those contaminants are a actually in your water?
I learned this from the GE repair guy who came out to repair my broken down 2yr old dishwasher.
He also said: "Never buy anything from GE."
Then he plugged an ethernet cable into my fridge and updated the firmware. Mind blown.
I see what you mean, but that would kind of change "equal before the law". Laws should apply equally to everyone. Otherwise, you would have the same kind of twisted lobbying as we have now, but it would be on an uneven field, and the people with money would eventually turn the situation to _their_ advantage. At least if everyone's equal before the law, you can appeal to everyone in trying to repeal or change laws.
>Fascism is gaining in many parts of the world today. But the 'other' this time aren't Jews, they're Muslims.

This calls to mind the recent debates over Bill 21 in Quebec, that banned religious symbols for many government employees. It was clear that it was motivated by anti-Islamic sentiment, but it was disguised as a move toward "secularism".
30 year bay area veteran here.

There is nothing special about the bay area that isn't geography. The density of workers means you meet a ton of talentless people who shuffle along with the crowd and are rewarded for it because it's unnoticed. I'm paid more to be remote than I was in the bay area and my money goes a lot further. I'm also exponentially more productive not being in a sardine can office. Your intuition is shaped by your inexperience of the reality of the situation. The grass isn't greener in my old backyard than it is in my new pasture but I have a lot more of it now.
Who do you work for?