skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This investigation was started because the original author was installing the drivers, and was presented with a legal agreement explaining that Wacom wanted to collect some data.

So they are being up front about it, right? I mean, maybe not in layperson-friendly language, but in compliance with regulations and under the guidance, presumably of their legal team.

In the box alongside the tablet, there was also probably a little booklet full of safety notices, warranty indemnifications, compliance statements, and arbitration assertions about the fitness for purpose of the hardware itself - also not written in layperson-friendly language. But the reaction on seeing that was... well, probably to toss it aside and go ahead and plug in the device, not to immediately assume that because the company presented a bunch of dense legalese, they might be trying to get away with something.

You said yourself: you don't trust Wacom not to sell the data to a data broker when presented with enough cash. But all sorts of Wacom business processes had to comply with regulations, be carried out diligently and ethically, and be generally trustworthy for Wacom to have produced an electronic device that you can safely plug into your computer. So I'm just trying to get you to consider:

What is it about their data processing that leads you to all of a sudden question their corporate ethics, diligence, compliance and trustworthiness?
Not worried, blockchain will solve this.
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I'd prefer up/sideways/down. Sometimes I watch things that are brainless, they aren't thumbs up worthy but they are not totally thumbs down either. But if this was hiring a sideways is always down in my book, so I could see why it's not totally useful.
Boomerang attacks on SHA-0 have a complexity on the order of 2^33.
My fear is being realized because the evidence is in plain sight: coral bleaching, ocean acidification impacting sea-life, record heat waves, etc.

Trivializing it by making my comment into nothing more than overreacting to tabloid journalism is insulting.
Already exists. SpaceX launched ~150 sets of cremated remains back in July, organized by a company called Celestis [1].

https://www.celestis.com/
I can't really tell, I had 4 symptoms of past problems suddenly escalating on day 6 last time I took the fast, and since then I never experienced them again (so far), so there might be something interesting going on. It's possible autophagy and fat burning might remove some "memory" but I have no scientific explanation for it. My theory is that as body doesn't have to fight all kinds of pathogens coming in from food, it can start correcting internal problems/mistakes instead with the same processes it normally uses to fight external threats.
Ask HN: What Is HPE's Simplivity?
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/simplivity.html

Having some trouble understanding what the technology stack and value proposition is, exactly.

I understand so far that it apparently includes a portfolio of rackmounted servers which are ideal for virtualized systems, and maybe there's some custom silicon/hardware accelerators included that do depuplication/compression/etc to offload that stuff from the CPU cluster.

Are services included? Subscriptions? or just servers? I presume this lineup competes with Dell's blade portfolio?

Many thanks for the help figuring out the technical / business landscape of this brand.
"On the 1rst Day of Perl-mas..."
Thanks Netflix!

Next feature request:

AUTO-SKIP-ALL-INTROS-AND-RECAPS-WHILE-BINGING
But that’s more about making people click right? So while those experiments serve Netflix well, the old recommendations and ratings served both Netflix and users.
But you need a desk to stand at first.

One company I was at switched to "hot desking" after carefully monitoring the usage rate of desks throughout the building.

Come time to do the switch, and unless you are at the office by 7.30-8.00 it's musical chairs and people end up working in the kitchenettes.

Turns out they did their desk usage survey during the holiday season. So of course there was tons of spare desks at the time.

Also ignoring the fact that developers are going to be in the office every day - they budgeted on everybody being like sales people and out of the office half their time.
Why is it all about succinctness?
Swift has never been about succinctness - it’s always been about clarity, without over-verbosity. Sometimes, it just takes a decent number of characters to describe something. That’s not necessarily a flaw, especially if it makes something easier to read.

Seeing .copy() makes it much clearer to understand that what I’m receiving is a copy of something.

If you want a Button template, either extend Button with a method taking the parameters you want, or write a curried free function or something. callAsFunction adds absolutely nothing to the language, bar confusion at the call site.
> Take things too personally? Try meditating.

How would it help?
Then it should be some kind of python-interop module. These kinds of useless syntax hax shouldn't be introduced into the main language. >99% of swift devs will never ever "interop with python", yet they all have to pay the price of this change.
Now PLEASE give an option to turn off autoplaying the next episode like 3 seconds into the end credits.
> They must know that people use the app less since this change... right?

Whether they make `autoplay=true` default will answer this.
The fact that they were even willing to apply and try to get a good-paying job outside of their hometown is a huge indicator. People are reluctant enough to leave their hometown when the local factory closes and all the jobs go away because of the comfort of home, actively being willing to move is a big indicator by itself.
Ocean Infinity Launches Unmanned Vessel Company
You can rationalize how you'd like, but it's never "just business." These are people you're talking about. They matter more than your company does.

Be decent.
I'd just stopped using Netflix unless I knew exactly what I wanted to watch. When I had to use it, I'd bounce around between tiles constantly to prevent the clips from playing, knowing full well that they must record every interaction you have with the app. For once I was glad they did.
BI = Basic Income?
The only thing they need to do is store the device ID that the data originated from send they'll clearly see every individual user.

And targeting of ads is mostly done by device ID anyway so they're probably already storing it.
I work on a hypervisor that needs much more than the Intel virtualization extensions. All sorts of registers need to be saved, adjusted, used by virtualization, sampled, and restored. It isn't just the normal guest state that needs to be dealt with.
https://github.com/borkdude/babashka#gallery has some more compelling examples. When I wrote https://github.com/cldwalker/clj-clis/blob/master/clj-github..., I found babashka to be useful because it provided a more readable and thus maintainable way to parse cli options and parse a json response
You might be giving yourself the wrong diagnosis.

If you're a great storyteller, talking too much wouldn't be a problem.

If you're gifted and spending all your time perfecting your craft, others will notice your dedication and appreciate it.

If you're intelligent, having your own perspective is interesting and unique.

Do you notice the pattern? You have to be really, really good, at something that brings yourself and other people, value. Lots of accomplished and beloved individuals have had inflated egos and took things personally, just look at Michael Jordan. The difference is, they achieved something.

You can achieve too, because just about everything people do can be vastly improved upon. Find your niche, find what you can help society improve upon. It'll take 10-15 years to get there, so if you want to, you better get going :)

The magic pill everyone wants is 'how do other people like me more' or 'how do I get them to act in ways that I prefer'. The solution is you rise so far above, that they can't help but feel like 'holy shit' around you. That takes 10-15 years of dedicated work, unless you were born beautiful, in which case this problem never arises :)
The supposedly killed it when the Amy Schumer special was bombed.

https://www.whas11.com/article/news/entertainment-news/poof-...
No, people really just don't think rationally. Read Daniel Kahneman. It's been studied extensively.
Finally! Whenever Netflix features a scary show or movie on their homepage and their preview auto-plays, it always make me jump.
It's worth noting that the $199 price tag for this laptop may be inaccurate or temporary. I looked it up on Wal-Mart's website just a moment ago and it shows $279, marked down from $500:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Vega-HDMI-Front-RAM-Rose-FHD-4GB-...

Not saying it wasn't $200 at the time he bought it, just saying that he might've bought it on sale (there was probably a bunch of Linux enthusiasts clamoring, "There's a laptop on sale for $200 at Wal-Mart that can run Linux!"); it doesn't appear to be its retail price anymore.
Tinyscheme doesn't have baked in and complete posix/libc/etc bindings.

Also you'd have to say R5RS -> R7RS is somehow a fall into complexity which makes absolutely no sense.

Scsh hasn't been updated for over a decade.

I appreciate the satire but I think compared to something like Guile, no one has answered what this does better beyond personal preference. And honestly, I don't see that alone as a good justification.

I could have a preference for using Matlab to bootstrap embedded devices but that doesn't make it a good idea.
I think it's nostalgia for an age that never existed, multiplied by a US-based demagogue's campaign against facts.

Journalism has always been deeply flawed and massively biased, yet still useful. The people of the past knew that. You're not smarter than your great grandparents on that front. Tech wasn't some cure-all that opened your eyes but not theirs.

People knew these things.
If every network connection your system makes authenticates the client to the server, authenticates the server to the client, and encrypts the dataflows then you don't have to worry if your routers are hacked.

A typical way to do this is to use TLS, verify certificates, and have a password for the client.
yes, and i had throughput issues when running in full-width G/N mixed mode compared to my previous Tomato/Asus RT-N16 setup. my phone would also drop out and reconnect intermittently with the c7. but in dedicated AC it seems to be doing well thus far. i cannot say for sure whether this was due to DD-WRT or not as i did not do a thorough comparison to stock.

> Another thing I've read is the third party firmwares don't get hardware access to NAT

i read that too :(
I don't really like star systems because I spend way too much time deciding if something is 3 or 4 stars, or 4 or 5 stars.

I much prefer textual descriptions; for example "Terrible", "Don't like", "Okay", "Like", "Favourite", which has the same options as a 5-star rating system, but choosing between 3/4 and 4/5 is much easier IMHO.

I don't really know of any system that uses this, except this one music player I wrote myself (which has "Crap", "Meh", "Okay", "Super").
Keep telling yourself that you are a normal person, just like everyone else. Don't judge others too harshly, we all have a tendency to see others misdeeds as driven by character flaws, but they might just be having a bad day. Meditate on mortality, it's great to be alive and healthy, this will not always be the case.

For me this sort of thinking blunts both the highs and lows of existence, and gives me more empathy for others.

Good luck with your possible narcissism, knowing (yourself) is half the battle!
Acronym, the dark money group behind the Iowa caucuses app meltdown
Yup, same. Was in a 10 year relationship with a narc. Took about 4 years after to figure out what happened. It felt like walking out of a thick fog.

Most of the advice in this thread to cure narcissism is completely useless. People are posting things like go to church, join a group, have a family, etc, but they don't understand the truth that narcissists are truly broken people on the inside incapable of any type of self-reflection.

OP likely isn't a narc because narcs can't see anything wrong with any of their behavior. Everyone in their life could tell them that their behavior is toxic and they will spin it in their heads that they are the victim.

> And for those people who suspect they have close relationships with narcissistic behavior, run if you can.

Best piece of advice in the entire thread.
And they are operating the biggest rocket anybody has launched in like 30+ years.
I like the intros too many series. The intro to House of Cards really set the mood for me.
I started to feel some past problems in e.g. neck area from some botched gym exercises, inside head where I had often sinusitis problems, some left leg issues etc. They seemed to escalate quite a bit, to the point of pain, I was on the verge of breaking the fast but I kept going, then on day 7 all those symptoms disappeared and I haven't experienced them since my last long fast. Not sure if they were of physical or neural (memory?) origin.
It's a good article but there are much easier ways to use binwalk than presented here.

In the first example he uses the "--signature" and "--term" flags, these are unnecessary. Running binwalk with no flags will produce the same output.

To extract part of the file, he also uses dd with the "skip" and "count" options painfully calculated. You can just use:

binwalk --dd='.*' img.bin

and it will extract everything that matches the pattern - the pattern above will extract all found files.
So your argument is that I'm somehow a lisp fanatic and I should be happy that at least one lisp made it into the current fad?
> I'm going to find him something simpler to work on.

Sure, but why should this non-feature which makes code harder to read and reason about even be built in the first place? All to save `.parse` at the call site of a parser, for example?
I Reverse Engineered Byte and Created My Own Byte Web App
Remember that the programming is the easy part. Planning and collaboration doesn’t come as naturally for most engineers, and becomes increasingly important the higher level that you go. This is because large software isn’t built by one person that goes all Superman and codes it in isolation; larger software is done in collaboration.

1. Collaboration is key:

1a. When there are differences in opinion on how to implement something, your desired outcome is that the right thing happens for the company, and that everyone feels like their opinion was heard and legitimately considered. You don’t want to alienate even the most junior engineers even if you have absolute power over them.

1b. You need a good relationship with your business partners/customers, with your boss, and with your direct reports. Make this a top priority. Productivity improves drastically when the customer loves you. You need the upward, downward, and lateral relationships healthy because it’s crucial that you and your people feel safe to talk about the truth and work on solutions together. Counter example: people don’t want to ask for help or talk about what they’re feeling uncomfortable about because they think they’ll be judged as incompetent or a problem child. It’s important that you don’t feel that way when talking to your customers or boss, and that your people don’t feel that way when talking with you and each other. Foster a culture of love, respect, and acceptance to help with this.

1c. Pick your battles. Figure out for example when a design decision really matters strategically and when it can go either way. Give your people as much latitude as you can to give them a chance to learn from their mistakes.

I drone on here about collaboration because some of my larger failures in the last few years are because of running afoul of these ideas. Forgetting these ideas often leads to winning the battle but losing the war.

2. Constantly work to empower your people And figure out how they need to grow. Figure out their target growth areas, keep notes on those, give them opportunities to grow and learn in those areas. Watch how they do, and give them feedback every chance you get about what they did well and how they can do better. Never miss an opportunity to show them how pleased you are with positive things.
> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alexander-acosta-dod...

This is something I had not read before. Thanks for bringing it up.
I believe I read somewhere that it did result in an overall increase in viewership. There's no way they don't have those metrics.

My guess is that for some majority of users who weren't super bothered by it it genuinely caused them to watch more things. Even though a vocal minority was extremely upset about it, the numbers still worked out overall. Of course adding a preference is easy, and people who aren't upset won't bother to change the default, so this is probably a win/win for them.
Bumblebee decline points to mass extinction, according to study
Comcast customer turns Raspberry Pi to watchdog for slow internet speeds (2016)
I was an 'immigrant' from the US Midwest to Silicon Valley. Grew up raising hogs and making hay. One of 6 on the farm.

Four of us left Iowa seeking a better life: two VPs of Fortune-500 companies; one entrepreneur (me); one wandering IT specialist.

Our Iowan cohort we left behind are pretty much driving the school bus, working food service, mid-level office managers.

So some correlation between 'willing to leave' and 'ambitious enough to succeed'?
>They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it.
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As has been mentioned before, there is at least some motivation for doing so. One, it means their originals don't rate below third party titles (as far as we can tell), and two, as they lose content the average rating of what's left will likely fall.
Yep, as much as people hate it, when it comes to recommendation, up/down is all the data you need. Trying to build a system out of a 5 star system just adds unnecessary complexity, and the reality was that people used the star system differently making it even harder. up/down thumb is explicit and cleaner to work with.
> They wouldn't intentionally make their recommendations worse just for the sake of it.

Why not? Every big platform that I know of has eventually done this with either 1p or “sponsored” content (Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.). In this case their incentive would be to push their own content above 3p content. What matters to them is their revenue, not maximizing the accuracy of their recommendations model.
It's the job title the company gave me so I use it. No deeper meaning to me.
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As long as I can stream TV in flight, who cares.
I've found meditation to give me perspective on things. It gives your brain a chance to slow down and reflect.

The effects of meditation tend to last well beyond the initial mediation session and seep into your day to day interactions.

I used to take everything personally and be paranoid about everything all the time and meditation helped with that.

YMMV.
The investigations carried out for unintended acceleration in Toyotas didn't paint a good picture.

https://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintend...
https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/pubs/koopman14_toyota_ua_...
If I browse for more than a couple minutes on my appletv, the UI becomes super unresponsive. I have to force quit the app to return to normal. I wonder if disabling autoplay trailers will help prevent this behavior.
Or the semi-third option; firewall the living hell out of everything with something you either wrote yourself or can read yourself. No guarantee there either but you can avoid the garbage fire that is a lot of this. I'm sure the NSA has exploits for everything tho.
There's a law of conservation of advertisement. It's not like you were going to get away from ads forever when switching from real TV. I prefer the purely interstitial (untargeted) commercials from real TV. With a DVR I can fast forward them, or always at least mute. Having Amazon/Netflix "recommend" things to me through what should be a functional unbiased system is more insidious.
True; more was addressing the point about Netflix regressing from statistical rigor.
Some background, for those unfamiliar with this area. Algebraic geometry grew out of the study of solutions of systems of polynomial equations. This is naturally a question of geometry, which can be studied analytically (using tools from calculus, for example). If you are willing to consider solutions over the complex numbers, and not just the real numbers, you can study the question algebraically, as well. Once you take that step, you can ask what happens when you look at solutions over exotic objects such as finite fields or rational functions.

Alexander Grothendieck pushed for a very general formulation of this algebraic approach, using the notion of "scheme". Together with Jean Dieudonne, he wrote an introduction to this topic, called EGA, which is French for "Elements of Algebraic Geometry". This is one of the foundational texts in algebraic geometry now.

At some point, Grothendieck became disillusioned with both mathematics and academia, quit both, and isolated himself from most people. Not long before his death, he expressed the desire that all of his work cease to be published. He died 5 years ago now, and I'm not actually sure of the legal status of republishing his work, though people are determined to go ahead because of its great historical significance. While I think EGA has largely been superseded by newer sources, some of his later work (known as SGA) has not.
Did anyone else find the tables completely unreadable? Embedding them in a scrolling iFrame without anchoring the headers to keep half the screen whitespace just seems insane to me.
They can totally do it. It's only a problem because they want it to be a problem.

I worked in Australia for a little and had a couple of doctors visits (mole removal, fractured rib). They were able to tell me, on the phone, cost for a consult, removal, xray, check-up, etc. I was able to pay for the mole removal + biopsy with cash...

I'd love to see something like this in the US:

"Assuming a standard hernia surgery, you're looking at $3000 base for the procedure, with another $300-900 for consumables. 91% of surgeries are at or under $3500, 99% are under $4100. Though patients can go home the same day, 24 hour of hospital bed are covered under the fee; additional days in hospital beds are available at [X] rate. In the event of serious complications, consumables, beds, and misc. are billed at [Y]."
Yes, it was discovered that when you had to order movies in the mail, you had different preferences.

If you could only watch one movie at a time, sure you want to make it good. But when it's streaming, people mostly just want to binge watch garbage. Who needs million dollar prizes when you can do just fine recommending 50 different shows, until the user gives up finding anything good and watches a Netflix original.
"continue watching" being deep down is my biggest pet peeve. Nothing gets me angrier than having to scroll and search just to continue watching the same show every single day.

Statistically, if each show is 8 episodes, then 88% of the time when I come to the homepage, I want to "continue watching" not "find a new show". Why the hell is continue watching not always the very first row.
That is an option demonstrated on that very Netflix help page, if I understand your request correctly.
Bless you, OP.
Short answer: Yes

Long answer: No
Bloomberg recently did a great video about this explaining the unit economics in more detail - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2019-10-22/why-space-l...
This is where a strong tech-lead and coding style guidelines are a must on any team. There will always be code ramp-up time for any engineer, junior or senior, even if everything was written in plain old C. So you need to adhere to what you consider readable as a team and discourage cleverness.