skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used the wrong word: I meant "personal life" as opposition to "work life". I don't think personal life should be done in private.
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Don’t know if you ever worked as a lawyer but “solidarity” isn’t a core value.

Solidarity to the profession. They may squabble amongst themselves but they’ll never compromise the general prestige of lawyering. Nor tell the client that what they do is easy and anyone can learn it, even if that’s true.
I think the harm done by long, painful, dangerous releases and complex onboarding or different experiences and expectations for how to effectively test and get a good dev feedback loop going in various components of a system (usually these things occur together, because the same things that cause the latter also cause the painful, slow, dangerous releases) is badly under-accounted for. It murders agility yet companies wander their way into it in the name of agility then don't ever fix it because the fix is slow and dangerous since everything is slow and dangerous.

[EDIT] to be clear, quick painful dangerous releases are no better, and (pretty much necessarily) come with the same pain in onboarding, jumping between repos/projects, undocumented "oh sometimes you have to re-install that to get it going" works-on-my-machine bullshit, getting a good feedback loop going, et c.
That's weird and funny to me. Doesn't the UK have its own foreign policy that's distinctly different from the US view? Isn't there room for some selective divergence? Consider, for example, Ukraine, Syria, or Iraq. I wouldn't trust US sanctioned intelligence at all in those areas. Chinese influenced info might (sometimes/often) be more neutral.
Indeed, I feel like keybase is on the right path to solve provable identity on the internet, and they should focus on that by giving third-party an easy way to integrate it, give application or service makers a way to delegate authentication, and it would be a damn success.
Contrary to your experience, I find many patches have a narrow sweet spot where the transients created by a overdriven filter produce rich and mesmerizing textures.

Turn up Q and try again? :)
It is. Ludicrously cheap. Not just in capital expenditure terms but also in terms of operating costs, as they’ll run it all for you, if you want. There are lots of possible reasons ranging from business pragmatics, to work practices through to the tin foil hatted. As far fetched as any of these might seem, none are as far fetched as that they’re giving you a great deal out of pure kindess.
The master plan of the entire real names thing juuuuust landed.
Even if the language understanding were better, you would still have the issue of the "toxicity" classifier reflecting the personal opinions of the people who built the model and not the range of acceptable behavior for the public at large. These labels aren't objectively measurable statistics: they're personal judgements. The tyranny of algorithmically reified personal moral judgement is far scarier to me than bad keyword matching.
I assumed it was so they could write other European languages, but being Mexican, I didn't consider Catalan needs grave accents. Makes sense, indeed.
I'm not sure where you're getting this. moralestapia never said he didn't understand it. (In fact, in a parallel branch of the comment tree, he said that he did understand it.) He said that if you use category theory on a project, now nobody on your team understands the code. But that "you" probably doesn't mean "if you are on my team and do that, I won't understand it". It probably means more like "if one uses category theory", that is, if you use it on your team, this is the result, if I use it on my team, the same result happens.

And if you mean dahart, he said (or at least implied) that he didn't understand geometric algebra, but he didn't say anything about understanding category theory.
There’s a lot of speculation in the comments here around exactly what the UK is or isn’t doing, and why. The NCSC’s Technical Director has laid it out in detail: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/the-future-of-telecoms-in-.... The linked article points to the blog post, but then largely ignores the points it makes.
ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity
Owning a business is a literal definition of ownership of the means of production.
This needs to be enforced better, because all these pop-ups with "Accept | click 175 checkboxes to opt out" are illegal.

The adtech/publishing industry is beyond belief. Instead of reducing 3rd party tracking, they've just added another 3rd party used to track whether they have consent to track you. And then they still track you even if you don't agree, because all that code is crap and/or they don't care.
I like the goal and the product seems good apart from some subjective styling nitpicks, but your blog is terrible. Why can’t I click on any of the titles or/and a “read more” link?

After figuring out how to get to a single post, I noticed your blog uses the product, perhaps that could serve as a nice low-effort demo? Firing up an editor and trying out the code snippet is too much work for something you haven’t even seen yet, imho.
The one on the exit ramp from the 210 doesn’t count
Finishing a Game (2010)
Millennials are the biggest – but poorest – generation
> There's hardly a critical mass of takedowns by people who've been found 3 times by a judge to have sent fraudulent takedowns.

Because those rarely go in front of a judge. Torrentfreak [0] gets many takedown notices where for example their reporting on a leak gets targeted with a DMCA request. If those companies had to fear someone challenging these (in this example an easy win) and making them lose their ability to send them out at all, that would change a lot.

[0]: https://torrentfreak.com/all-dmca-notices-filed-against-torr...

> In previous years we’ve received erroneous complaints from the likes of Amazon, Electronic Arts, Disney, Entertainment One, Vertigo Films, Magnolia Pictures, NBCUniversal, Paramount, and even BBC Worldwide. This year we can add more.

> According to Google’s Transparency Report, in 2019 Google received a further 11 DMCA takedown notices targeting our domain, sent on behalf of Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures, and sundry others. All of them were completely bogus.
They’ve managed to be broke twice in the last 20 years despite receiving three of the four largest donations in higher education history. I wouldn’t put it past them.
> ...in the US in which private interest groups wield significant power...

AFAIK, those interest groups don't actually wield very much power, but they've been very effective at promoting the fatalistic attitude that their favored polices are inevitable and permanent.

For proof, look at the current president who started a major tariff war that was very much against a major leg of free-market policy. What paused it wasn't those interest groups, it was political uncertainty caused by retaliation that targeted farm states by the other party in that war.
it is not just political priorities. either the onshored industries would have to be as competitive as those in asia and europe, or they would have be subsidized. these are not trivial matters.
Well if it made VOIP a great experience instead of an so-patchy-you-have-to-survey-users-after-every-call experience then it might be a big deal.
I don't even know what to say about this. I'm speechless.

This is so, so, so, so, stupid, yet it's presumably being used to curtail some people's job opportunities in a society where you basically need to be employed by a corporation to be a first-class citizen.

There need to be laws against arbitrary background checks. If only our government had a real interest in protecting its citizens.
Farmers Got Billions from Taxpayers in 2019
LGBT-free zones are places free of LGBT ideology and not LGBT people. Totally different meaning.
Imperfect people creating imperfect systems to judge others that change the course of life with no means of appeals is specific type of hell.
My friend and ex-neighbor Tim has worked in a blue collar machine operator near-minimum-wage job his entire life. But he's frugal as hell, never buys new things, considers coffee a waste of money. At 55 he has two houses and upwards of a million in cash and investments. It not at all uncommon.
Or drug-sniffing dogs.

These things all serve their purpose: providing cover for your preconceived notions.
Sales of Manhattan’s priciest apartments plunge almost 40% in fourth quarter
I'm curious about something, would most of the people who are aghast at this be as aghast at it if this had flagged someone who was racist, sexist, transphobic, or homophobic?
I would be, but I wonder if I'm in the minority or not.
This pilfering of your digital history is on the order of what's needed to get a security clearance - where it's at least somewhat justified. There is no case where I can see this being justified for normal employment.
> You are not Google scale.

I don't know, I think I was kind of Google scale when working as a Google SRE.
Different dimensions of analysis, I guess. I’m not surprised the author isn’t talking about business drivers.
The problem is that they are abusing a statute that we all know is harmful more generally and creating precedent for others to do it.
5G's very high bandwidth and other features help to solve the following issue: when you get a huge population close together all communicating, (as in stadiums, conventions or during emergencies in very dense population centers) the airwaves become too congested to get more than a few KB/s with older tech.
They claim machine learning, but I'd guess their workhorse is a "grep -f badwords tweets.json | makepdf | send boss@employer" kind of thingy.
Are you planning to make it also work with Firefox? Does someone know, similar extension for Firefox?
If we're solely talking about political ideology then yes the US is without a doubt much closer aligned with Europe than China. On trade, however, it gets more complicated. With the increasing mercantilist attitudes in the US and attacks on say, German car manufacturers there is a real issue of Europeans being dependent on the US. If the US increasingly sabotages international institutions and throws its weight around for what appear to be short-term domestic gains it will become more and more unattractive to cooperate.

China, while diverging much more on political or humanitarian issues, is a much more globally connected economy. The Asian-European trade already dwarfs the European-Atlantic trade, and that is only increasing, and China has very little incentive to change that deepening integration. I'm a sceptic that liberal values alone (which also seem to be in somewhat short supply today) outweigh the deeper trade relations between Europe and Asia.
Boeing build planes the are backbone of our society. Wework employees brings zero value to society and already they are better paid than all these workers that deserve your respect.
I can imagine breaches of e-signature images being used in various ways. Another piece of personal info to consider.
Yeah. It's pretty interesting that popular culture like Dateline, 20/20, Forensic Files, etc, never digs into things like "talk to my lawyer", polygraphs or drug dogs. They tow the line of "cooperate with the cops or you're guilty". They regularly position this sort of thing as an admission of guilt.
Why do 3D models on the PlayStation 1 “wobble” so much?
I don’t believe I proposed that the UK “blindly follow” the US, nor did I even say it’s a-okay that the US might engage in espionage against allies. I said that the US-UK relationship is absolutely nothing like the UK-CCP relationship, and therefore US efforts to project power are in no way comparable to Chinese efforts (as far as the UK is concerned).

However, if you really want an answer, there are two reasons that the UK ought to align itself with the US (and vice versa). Those two reasons are Russia and China. We are fortunate to be living in an era of widespread peace, but that is not guaranteed indefinitely. Should, god forbid, widespread warfare break out once again (as it has since tribal days up until the last 80 years or so), any westerner with a modicum of understanding of Putin’s or Xi’s ideal world ought to be on the side of the US/UK.
Looks like Hire Right (https://www.hireright.com/) uses this. And a lot of the FANG tier companies use Hire Right. That'd a exclude a lot of the tech companies.
These paintings are awesome. The artist has brilliantly adapted primitive 19th century American style (I'm not sure I agree with calling it folk art), but with more vibrant colors and his own style. Respect.
Would you be happy with a wrapper in each framework around the native library, and how would you use it?
> ”I can stream Netflix on my 25mbit/s. For personal use I absolutely don't care about 5G.”

I can stream at 25 Mbps just fine on 4G+/LTE too. At off-peak times. I’ve even seen it hit 70, 80, 90 Mbps occasionally.

The problem happens at peak times, usually starting around 6pm, when the network slows to a crawl and I can’t stream things reliably despite having 5/5 signal strength, because my carrier (Three UK) has sold too many cheap unlimited data plans and their 4G network is highly congested.

5G is needed because it greatly improves the data carrying capacity of given blocks of spectrum, meaning more users and higher speeds in areas that currently suffer capacity constraints.

And honestly, 5G’s 200 Mbit+ speeds would just be nice to have to speed up things like downloading multi-GB OS updates and the like.
Net worth would be more instructive than 401(k) balance, particularly since many people do not have access to a 401(k) for much of their career. I know more than a few people with meager 401(k) but large taxable accounts, real estate, business, etc portfolios.

It is a mistake to conflate retirement accounts with investments accessible in retirement. This is no different than the "Americans have no savings" trope, which conflates having savings accounts (which are an anachronism that many Americans have no use for) with having access to cash-like liquidity.
A Persian friend told me about the historical use of underground tunnels to transport water from the mountains for irrigation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat
> and that's very little overhead for then.

Do you actually know this or are you making an assumption? The App store seems to me like it would have some significant overheads both in cost and executional complexity.

This[1] article posits that Apple made $4.2bn p.a. from app store revenue share in the period 2008 - 2018.

Here are some of the things I would put into the cost lines for Apple's app store P&L (the company operates a combined P&L):

1. Multiple data centres dedicated to the app store and routing third-party notifications. That's both hosting of the apps and ongoing cost associated with e.g. push notifications, software updates. Each of these data centres has energy, staff, hardware costs. That is to say: there is both opex and capex here, which means Apple isn't only netting ongoing costs from revenue but also thinking about the cost of the capital invested in infrastructure up front.

2. The card processing charges associated with customers buying the app in the first place, and subsequent in-app purchases.

3. The cost of Apple's App Review Teams (three dedicated offices: Cork, Shanghai, Sunnyvale). That's 300 people.[2] There are costs behind them, too (for example: recruitment, HR, management).

4. Product and engineering costs associated with the team Apple has working on internal systems and services dedicated to app review.

5. An apportionment of costs associated with customers seeking technical support in-store and online due to third-party apps.

6. An apportionment of costs associated with the development and maintenance of services and APIs which Apple develops and makes available to app developers. (For example, sign-on with Apple.)

In 2018 the app store had seen 130 billion apps downloaded[3], with an average app size of 38mb[4]. That's 4.94 exabytes of data excluding updates.

Microsoft for many years charged Xbox developers for certification of games and patches, in part because of the bandwidth costs of distributing those patches to its customers, but also because providing this sort of service is mired by multiple perilous overheads -- which, I have to say, people on the web tend to misunderstand/ignore/dismiss.

I think what you might mean to say is that the app store is still a wildly profitable endeavour for Apple. I actually don't know if that's true or not. I know that Apple doesn't usually do things for free or at break even, but equally they run a combined P&L because breaking out the profitability of every single revenue line is very difficult.

In this instance, you could say: iPhone is a very profitable product, and app store is part of that. But dismissing the overheads or complexity of delivering a consumer app store on this scale seems clumsy, at best.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/20/18273179/apple-icloud-itu...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/how-apples-app-review-proces...

[3] https://www.appannie.com/en/insights/market-data/data-behind...

[4] https://sweetpricing.com/blog/2017/02/average-app-file-size/
>The idea that you can assess someone's workplace performance based on automated screening of their tweets is utterly absurd.

It's not about "workplace performance", it's more about "can PC nuts target our company for hiring this person because of something this person said/liked? Let's cover our asses like cowards and not hire them if so".
I don't even know the level I should answer.

To cut it short. No, those databases are not stored in base stations, not even close. They are part of core network.

In LTE your handset talks to base transceiver station who talks to eNB who talks to MME who talks to HSS where the data is physically located. MME (Mobility Management Entity) is already part of the evolved Core Huawei has no access to that. Even MME keeps data just temporarily. This all happens in control plane.

If Huawei supplies transceiver stations or eNB's it's nowhere near the point where it could store and distribute user information or track them and not be noticed immediately.
No, shipping is such a small component of most product costs that it can never have a huge effect. (Except perhaps for heavy, bulky low value goods.)
Netflix focusing hard on original content while simultaneously fighting against the discovery services built into my Apple TV is mind-boggling.

I have shows I’m watching on Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, as well as ones I’ve purchased from the iTunes Store; all of which show up nicely in my Up Next list. It’s the first thing I go to when I fire up my Apple TV to watch something, and as a result unless I have been binging something recently anything on Netflix gets put on the back burner because I have to go elsewhere to look for it.

The Apple TV app already shows results for Netflix content, but without better integration I have to remember to go back to pick a show up. I actually cancelled Netflix at the end of December because discovery was such a chore, I just resubscribed last week to check out The Witcher and watch Altered Carbon when it returns, after which I’ll likely drop it again.

As an aside, I got a year of Apple TV+ free when I activated my replacement iPhone XS. I am rather surprised at the quality of content Apple has put out and the rate they are expanding their library. I may we’ll keep this one around if they keep it up.
> The people who designed, built and are responsible for maintaining and updating the system should be on call if something goes wrong.

In my experience, the devs were somewhere in the US west coast, and the SRE teams were geographically distributed to cover the 24 hour period during local daytime (nobody likes to be paged in the middle of the night). As an SRE in Zürich, I got paged in what was the middle of the night for the Kirkland people, dealt with the emergency (using the playbook), root-caused it (with the assistance of the playbook), and filed bugs to be looked at by the dev team when they woke up.

The systems stayed up, everyone could sleep at night, working as intended.
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The previous chief executive was "contractually entitled to receive $62.2m in stock and pension awards" that was accrued over 35 years at the company, but "he did not receive any severance pay or a 2019 annual bonus".

How this is relevant in connection to the loss of jobs due to production interruptions is not at all clear. My impressions is that it's only made as clickbait in the hope that the reader would believe that he got it as severance or bonus payment.
I agreed with you except for

>that's no way to live.

You know it's still well within the range of possibility to live a healthy, fully actualized life without a named online presence, right?
The guy behind this language is Leaf, who also runs the indie gaming site http://itch.io. His twitter account is https://twitter.com/moonscript. Really cool guy and he often adds stuff to Itch after people request it on Twitter. Moonscript is what enables him and one other person to run one of the biggest indie sites on the web. (Small potatoes compared to Steam/Epic/Blizzard, but still much more impressive than that you might expect out of a two person team.)
You don't have to define a type for Json data in Haskell if you don't want to. Defining a full type is only norm/preference.

With Aeson, You always have the option work with a map directly and pull out properties by name.

That is also especially useful when you can't predict what keys or shape the data will have
What VPs at any company stray from the unified front when doing PR?

The lack of an external signal doesn't mean that everything is fine inside.
Even if the Swedes did do it, I'd prefer them far more than the authoritarian CCP.
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The median US household has $1000/month left after all ordinary expenses. Investing even half of that is enough to fund a reasonable retirement.
Encouraging others to ask questions. Forcing myself to ask in meetings as an example even though the questions look "stupid". It's uncomfortable but we've mitigated several implementation mistakes over the years. This sounds like truism but still rarely happen in practice.
No, it's OK if it happens to "bad" people.

People who have bad opinions should not of course have jobs. They should die on the streets, as untouchables...

Of course this holds as long as "the good side" has the power to make companies fire people for their tweets. If and when conservatives get this power (like e.g. they did in the Hoover or McCarthy era), this practice would be wrong again, and it should all be about "freedom of speech" and right to work, etc.

/s
It would be prudent to push secure protocols that didn't require these things. eg scrap the IMSI, rotating ephemeral IMEI, network-independent VOIP, and blinded bearer tokens for payment.

But governments intrinsically see surveillance as an unquestioned good and likely wouldn't even approve such protocols for overt telecom use, never mind helping to develop them. The public has already been pwnt by design - this whole topic is just squabbling over who gets the proceeds.
No, the 2019-nCoV genome doesn’t seem engineered from HIV