skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have an answer for you.

I think any attempt to exfil data not required by the function of the tool should be clearly and transparently disclosed, the use of those disclosures backed by the force of law, and opt-in. This is obviously far from where we are.

Because of that, I would block it no matter what. In a better world, I would selectively allow some instrumentation and such, but as-is, there is no way to trust any of it.

So I'm the wrong person to ask.
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I thought Linux computing nirvana was a high-end Chromebook wiped and reinstalled with a full distro, since the hardware has full support in Linux. Didn’t Linus use a Chromebook Pixel as his daily driver for a while?
That's the brand! Love the Zinus, very satisfied with it.
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Raphaël! Thanks for sharing. "Staff" hoodies are misleading, then. I think I've seen at least a dozen of those this year, and (wrongly) assumed that these were made for FOSDEM staff in the the common sense of the term.

P.S. Thank you for starting such a successful endeavour.
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I am not convinced the explanations we’d get from these models would be interpretable enough to drive their conceptual improvement. Deep nets just don’t learn nice interpretable features, nothing in the training objective makes them do so. E.g. they make use of really dubious features [1], and might not actually learn “hierarchies” of features as we thought they were [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.02175

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00760
I am pretty sure that if instead of parental leave you gave a bonus equal to the salary of that leave, thats what would happen. Because that is what happens.

Somehow it is egregious to say that you will get a 50k Euro/100k dollar bonus if you have a kid, but somehow if its paid by not working it makes sense?
This is a mostly anonymous forum which is slightly more open to controversial ideas than the average media outlet. Any person openly questioning the effectiveness of treating men and women as exact equals is usually treated as some sort of ultra conservative or fringe figure in the media.

People in general have a hard time understanding the idea that there are different scales of value. The old Einstein quote about a fish judging itself to be stupid because it can’t climb a tree is relevant here.

I’m also referring to American society. I don’t know how Sweden is.
> Where do you stop? Is Google Analytics evil too?

Absolutely.

> What about Twitter feeds?

In what context? Including/embedding Twitter cookies and/or Javascript in pages paid-for by citizens, which citizens are required to use to exercise their rights? Absolutely.

As a non-exclusive outlet to disseminate information via an independent site (twitter.com), which anyone is free to avoid and ignore? That's fine.
A chose to not respond as if it were a personal attack (though that doesn't mean I didn't interpret it as one).
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That's a real issue -- and one that seems like it's going to have an actual effect this time around, giving Buttigieg slightly more delegates than Sanders even though Sanders actually has slightly more support. I think the Iowa Caucus worked as designed, despite the collapse of the app, but just like the Electoral College, that doesn't mean the actual design is good!
I'm among the ones who think that the most efficient way to lower gender pay gap is to promote longer leaves (parental or not) among men. 'favouring' one gender with 'benefits' for things like caring for family is only reinforcing established roles.
> And, to put this delicately, but as something that needs to be stated because it's true and important for the discussion: she has a different relationship with our children precisely because she is their mother. The two of us are not interchangeable. There are a million ways this is true. I'm an attentive and a loving father, but the sound of a crying baby is something that I can compartmentalize when I need to. On my wife, though, it is an unbearable sound with physiological effects even. (One that she uses when pumping milk, for example.)

This is a subtle twist you've made to the argument. No one is saying that all relationships a child has are precisely equal. What they're saying is that families should have access to equal leave for both parents when a child comes into their family.

There are many reasons why this might be true. But it also has the nice knock-on effect of not giving sexist employers the opportunity to say "women are more expensive/less productive than men."

> If you are not emotionally autistic,

This little jab is probably why you got downvoted. Please don't make up nonsense about medical conditions or use the autistic spectrum as your synonym for dysfunction. It's not only unfair and uncivil, it's factually incorrect.

> Personally, I find that this "gender equality" push winds up being extraordinarily anti-woman in effect, and whenever I see a man preaching it,

If your argument is, "men shouldn't push an agenda onto women's rights movements" then I'm all for that message. Of course, what you're actually doing is holding a very narrow definition of "woman" and "femininity" and assuming that rights and options granted to women who don't fit that mold come at the cost of your specific image of women. Rights and freedoms are not obviously a zero sum game.

> I assume that he is likely a broken individual in his relationship with the fairer sex, certainly someone that I would care to keep far away from my daughters.

So either you're implying that all people who support broader definitions of women's rights are sexual deviants likely to molest your children, or implying that you are afraid that these freethinking individuals might put ideas into your daughter's head that will make them less friendly to your extremely narrow view of femininity.

Since clearly the former would get you flagged and banned, and we have an imperative to communicate charitably on Hacker News (and of course statistically the most likely source of child abuse is a relative, making your claim wildly implausible), I choose to wish you the best of luck getting over your reactionary fears of letting your daughters choose their own paths in life. I suspect they will thrive even if you try to stifle them.
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You are missing the fact that Enfield council has RTB House , Criteo retargeting , Tru Optik demand side platform , OpenX , Districtm, msecnd , doubleclick , omnitag integrated as 3rd party. This doesnt make sense if the intent was purely to show internal ads. The implementation here seems to be no different to any other news site. As a visitor to the council website , I would expect that the same privacy levels and UX as that of gov.uk sites.
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Friend of a friend needed some web dev work done, which I did very cheap. From this one client I picked up more associates of theirs. I don't freelance much now but I never found a better way of marketing myself than word of mouth. I did some charity work which picked me up a lot of paying clients and paid for itself many times over. Good luck!
LinuxWacom doesn’t provide a configuration GUI that I am aware of, though. The xf86 input driver has knobs you can tweak but as far as I am aware the only official way to do it is CLI.

If you are talking about GNOME’s Wacom settings, then I can understand the confusion: under Windows this would be part of the driver package, but under Linux this bit just happens to be completely unrelated and maintained by GNOME. I realize this does not matter much to the end user but it kind of matters in the context of this discussion; the bugs aren’t inherent, they are probably mostly a result of how the software ecosystem works on Linux...
This is a good answer to a previous thread [1] in which people were discussing promises vs threads for asynchronous computing.

[1] Threads Are a Bad Idea for Most Purposes (1995) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22165193
Well, considering that original post was immediately downvoted into unreadability, it has a bit of point.
Every time I see the words “XYZ Experience Program”, my alarms go off, it's synonym to "every move you make, I'll be watching you".
what is the cost to the employer of hiring another person just for “slack”?

Looks like it would lead to bloat & waste
This is the way to go. Follow the guide at https://serverless-stack.com/ and you should be golden.

I’m an awful programmer and even I found serverless stack to be surprisingly easy to follow and understand.
Mint is written in Crystal when they finish their implementation it will be possible to compile to Windows.
Clearly. I tried to explain binary to him this morning. It will go downhill from here.
>This is argument is complete nonsense. Navier Stokes has a rigorous derivation based on extremely high-fidelity assumptions, such as conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. We understand these assumptions, and we understand regimes in which using N-S would result in catastrophe (such as rarefied gases, relativistic velocities, etc.)

I think you missed the point. Navier-Stokes does not explain lift, nor does Bernoulli's law or Netwon's third. Like the friction under an ice skate, it's a phenomenon we take for granted in science and engineering without a rigorous explanation

>Neural networks require data. The Navier stokes does not need to be 'trained'

But you can, and not just conceivably, but practically train a neural net to approximate navier Stokes to a high degree of accuracy with a fraction of the computation of a 3D finite model. Yeah, it will functionally be a black box, but LeCunn seems to be arguing that it's opacity doesn't make it any less valid than our opaque intuition of flight which does not stop us from flying thousands of jets every day.
What a bad choice of name! I may not be the only one who was thinking of people in yellow "Staff" hoodies as employees/contractors.

There is nothing inherently bad in getting paid, it's just that it's cooler when everyone knows that FOSDEM is a real volunteer-organized event.
We’re building a Healthcare Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) cloud that any data scientist can use to train and publish their models and enable clinicians to use machine learning to treat patients. Our systems are designed in a microservice architecture and organized in a monorepo.

Kubernetes or other containerization software
SQL and relational databases
Deploying and managing systems in production
Python or similar scripting language
Tech stacks, open-source, cloud-native
A corporation's assets are typically worth more as an operating business than as a disjoint collection of vehicles and land, so the buyer would tend to be someone who wants to continue operating the business and would buy the whole thing. In many cases the value of the business would also exceed the liability, in which case the difference should presumably go to the original shareholders. They might then want to use that money to invest in the new business.

That is effectively what already happens. You're basically just asking for the amount of liability for particular behavior to be larger than it is, and then in more cases it would cause the corporation to go bankrupt and have to raise new capital in order to continue operating, because the result would be the same.
Ha, this came up the other day. Non technical guy suggests we just insert 'Test' into the distinguished name of certificates we want to mark as 'not for production'.

We pointed out that one of the many reasons that's a terrible idea is that the Test Valley exists.
No wonder everything is slowing down to a crawl when every mouse driver and their dog is doing full surveillance on every move the user makes.
Also: what if you get different retriable errors every time you re-try: should you have different retry count for each distinct retriable error? When you finally give up, should you report _all_ of the distinct errors or just the earliest or latest retriable error, or ...
> I teach enterprise systems at a university, with emphasis on SAP.... My students complain it is unusable (agree), doesn't make sense (agree), that they can't see the point (agree).

If you agree on all those points, why do you teach it?
Let's not confuse a caucus with anything resembling a democratic free election. Public Vote, time-consuming, low accessibility and so on and so on. Secret ballots with a paper trail are still the best way to do things.
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> Most extensions ...

This is fine for client based blocking, but it not possible for network level blocking, such as using a pi-hole instance as your main local resolver.
If your argument were correct, sole proprietorships and non-LLP partnerships would not exist.
Not to take away from the story, but the thought that only one person noticed is likely wrong. Only one person understood the problem AND made it through the gauntlet of reporting the issue.

Just something that always seems glaring when people discuss things like support volume.
Why do academics choose useless titles for articles and chapters?
C# is an attempt of making Java good, F# is an attempt of making a subset of Haskell popular. .Net Native/Xamarin/CoreRT are UI frameworks. There is nothing there that would compete with C++.

I don't think MS has any interest in improving C++ (look at their compiler). But that's not because of competing activities.
This is one reason why term limits are pernicious. They channel effective politicians into the lobbying industry, rather than allowing them to continue practicing their skills in government.
GA gives Google surveillance over a large portion of the web. Even if the author of a webpage trusts google with their data, they shouldn't be forcing their opinion of Google on others. Trust isn't transitive!

Google receiving browsing histories for a single website is rude, but it probably isn't a serious problem for many websites (although the risk will depend on the nature of the website). In isolation, the fact that Alice read Bob's webpage isn't isn't very interesting, but Google can aggregate that data into s very accurate pattern of life[1].

> Is it not anonymised?

Not for any meaningful definition of "anonyms". At best GA will zero the low 8 bits of the IP address by request of the website. (The opinion of the person visiting the website apparently isn't worth considering) See this[2] post for a more detailed explanation of GA's perfunctory "Anonymize IP" feature.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern-of-life_analysis

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15167059
If anything is sacred, it seems like this would be it.
It looks like Step 2, but it actually doesn't say anything useful at all about what to do in Step 2.

Step 1. Collect underpants.
Step 2: Over five years: Triple, triple, double, double, double.
Step 3: Billion dollar valuation!
Genuine question regarding landfills:
What are the real environmental effects of stuff "piling up in landfills"?

I hear that "land filling" is bad but have never gotten a strong reason as to why. Obviously toxic/nuclear materials sitting in landfill is bad, but for other materials, what's the real harm?

Is land filling a better option, then say, ocean dumping (again, for non-toxic materials)?
That's a lot of videos. What are some that yall would recommend starting with?
Why would Tencent be given this data in the first place?

Seems like clickbait...
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When they made you sign up for an account just to get to the download link a few years ago, I lost all respect for the project.
It's not meant to be condescending, and I've updated my comment slightly to try to clarify that. Thanks for pointing out the tone.

I don't think it's overly pedantic in a conversation about fathers spending time as a primary care taker. I think it's actually fairly on topic.

As I understand it (not a doctor), there is a decent bit more going on with breastfeeding than simply the mechanics of delivering milk. Is there a trade-off being made by bottle feeding a baby? Almost definitely. Is it worth it? Sounds like a topic of conversation we could have.
It's a lot like a religion. Purity tests, dogma, things you can't say, good vs evil, self-flagellation, original sin, kicking people out who don't conform...
Electronic component suppliers (e.g Distrelec) started sending "we're on top of this, promise"-type emails to customers already.

My slightly informed guess: this will have a first peak in march or so, and then a second one in the late summer/autumn.
It's probably a bad idea to switch to read only replicas for reads pre-emptively, vs vertically scaling up the database. Doing so adds a lot of incidental complexity since you have to avoid read after writes, or ensure the reads come from the master.

The reason punting on this is a good idea is because you can get pretty far with vertical scaling, database optimization, and caching. And when push comes to shove, you are going to need to shard the data anyway to scale writes, reduce index depths, etc. So a re-architecture of your data layer will need to happen eventually, so it may turn out that you can avoid the intermediate "read from replica" overhaul by just punting the ball until sharding becomes necessary.
Ah I understand, my assumption is you can disable/ignore the tour and walk around as you wish but I'm yet to have chance to try the mode myself to confirm.
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Lol, comparing visit counters from the 90s to Google Analytics.

GA is used by countless websites. It's likely hooked into the adwords codebase so that they can track websites you visit even if that website does not have Adwords ads on it.
No, it does. You don't think it does because you either haven't looked at what happens if limited liability doesn't exist or you are assuming that we can make these changes with no consequence.

Well we can't just micromanage everything perfectly. If you change this, the liabilty doesn't just magically disappear. You will see firms collapse into themselves, and that risk will move to managers and employees. It moves to managers because they are the only ones who will take the risk (i.e. we have no principal/agent problem, everyone is a principal) and it moves to employees because that system is incapable of bearing the risk (do you understand that wage labour didn't exist until the late 19th century...before that point, you had union gangmasters who were paid by piece and putting out...again, what we would call employees today bore substantial risk). Again, it moves risk from those able to bear it to those who cannot (the system we have is enormously favourable to employees, and very disadvantageous for employers...the reason people think the opposite is because they don't know what the world was like before this).

Srs, this site is one of the worst for people with no knowledge telling you something they have no understanding of with absolute authority. Read a book on pre-20th century economic history...there is a reason why we got here, it is called progress.
In reality, what happens is lots of council services (including police) use twitter as the main real-time source of information for citizens.

Should they use an alternative platform? probably not, because twitter is the biggest and best known, so you could argue you can reach the most people with it.
I agree that all over the place doesn't imply intentional or not. In this case all over the place had a human artistry twist and the final product as a piece was not all over the place but the framerate itself was.

As an anecdote, I remember when I was a kid (early 80s) my uncle who collected old cameras and projectors exchanged with me an old hand cranked pathe-baby projector for a solar powered calculator. The projector was working properly and had a few films cassettes and they were supposed to be played back at variable hand cranking speeds according to the scenes. It was an interesting experience to play those films back to my family in the only room that had absolute darkness, in the kitchen.
Is that 150 tons for the whole wind turbine, or just the blades? Most parts other than the blades should be reusable or recycleable.

Could result in a 1-2 order of magnitude increase in efficiency.
> Why does a device that is essentially a mouse need a privacy policy

I mean, crash logs, but yes -- defining question for our time

drivers shouldn't connect to the internet unless that's what they're for. crash logs should be managed by a third party thing that the user can configure
Security measures, especially those that protect the users, don't make money.

This is why the government has to make regulations with teeth in this space (of course, the government could be the "unprincipled in charge" you referred to).
Looking at the rest of the thread, it was hard to get a rhetorical vibe from your comment. But I get it now.
How is that a downside?
Yes, it does. Limited liability protects directors of a company as well as shareholders.
As I was reading the page, I kept thinking this feels very similar to Elm, but without the functional programming part. I assume that was on purpose to not scare people away.

Anyway, nice job! The language looks really clean.
Instructions for assembling furniture. Man those suck.
Would you have taken 6 months off without pay to do what you are doing now?
My understanding is that by HN policy, you should only post this in the monthly "Who is hiring?" thread and not as its own separate thread.

That thread for this month is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22225314
> Your argument is the same as saying I didn't eat a nourishing home-cooked meal because I heated up last night's leftovers for lunch today.

Not exactly. My argument is more akin to saying that leftovers aren't the same thing as having a home cooked meal at the dinner table with your family. There is much more going on at a family table than simply nourishing your body.

> It's still way better than fast food.

Agreed!
You aren't virtually assured your money will grow over the long term, especially if you only invest in companies that make mistakes on the scale of Exxon and Boeing. It seems like your post is based on this premise, which isn't accurate.

Also, I don't think anyone misunderstands what the author is saying, as it's very clear. It just makes no sense, isn't supported by the examples she brings up, and the proposed solution would do significant harm.
What did you do with the paper you used between the two computers? Did you toss it or was it filed somewhere?

If it was filed, my guess was that it was an internal control measure. They wanted to make sure there was a paper copy of every transaction for audit purposes, and what better way to make sure of that then requiring the paper to move the order forward?

If you tossed it, then it sounds like they were just too lazy to implement something other than the default config. :)
...compared to what...you have lost 100% of what you put in. Any other system is about wealth transfer...it is generally not advisable to attempt to transfer wealth this way, there are unintended consequences.
It make sense to have such restriction if the goal is the break the culture that allow/force women to spend time raising the child and allow/force men to spend time at work in order to support the child.