skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more like Google harassing you to install Chrome when using any Google property, or, even worse, getting it packaged into every installer under the sun, so if you forgot to uncheck the "install Google Chrome" box while installing a new version of Java, congratulations, you now have Google Chrome.

I'm not defending this behavior, but unfortunately the norm has been set.
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> My personal impression is that the volume of academic publishing has increased so much that it's impossible for readers to really keep up, and making it more difficult for scientific consensus to form completely.

I've noticed this as well, and it just makes me think that quality reviews become more important over time.

Unfortunately, in my experience most reviews basically mirror what a couple recent reviews said, adding a few new papers. This is assumed to be up-to-date when in fact if the older reviews missed some important older papers, it's not up-to-date. And that's what I see: important papers missed by reviews in the past continue to be missed. I don't know if this experience is valid outside of fields other than my own, however. In my PhD I've tried to comprehensively review the literature and I've found quite a few important missed papers.

I think few people actively pick "which truth they want to reinforce, and what truth they want to suppress." My impression is that literature reviews are done more out of convenience than an intentional desire to distort the literature.

> My friends and I discussed just putting the commentary on an online archive, but it wasn't clear anyone would make the connection with the paper.

I think PubPeer is designed for this situation: https://pubpeer.com/
this is increasingly common in (parts of) CS, see openreview.net. they even allow random anonymous comments from non-reviewers.
An alleged spy (or confirmed wife of spy) recently ran over and killed a teenager near a US base (where Americans are regularly seen driving on the wrong side of the road) here in the UK and they managed to claim some kind of diplomatic immunity and run away, they can basically get away with anything in the right place.
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Just for kicks, I tried using internet explorer for a few weeks a while back. It seemed like every Google property was constantly prompting me to switch to Chrome. I mention this not to defend Microsoft, whose behavior here it intolerable, but to point out that this kind of thing is unfortunately common.
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Everything's broken and nobody's upset
I totally agree with you about wanting an updated 2015 rMBP, but just for what it's worth I'm extremely happy with my 2015 15" and don't really need a spec upgrade. I use mine for data science projects and music production, and it's still extremely fast for both. It's basically perfect and you can usually find them for ~$1k or even less. Magsafe alone is too good to give up.
It doesn't achieve much, it increases the risk of revealing methods and sources. It also puts US cyber security personnel at greater risk, some of whom have spoken out against the practice.
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I had the 1080p display and the pepe mod, but backed out and sold it since I didn’t think it would be worth it for my x230.
Yes, I agree that it is exactly like that: completely unacceptable, and it should be grounds for antitrust action.
I'm on the other side of that arrangement. When we got married my wife and I were both on demanding, competitive career tracks. We both made significant sacrifices when we had our first child, but stayed on the same paths. When we decided we wanted to have a second child we looked at the situation and decided the best option was for me to put my career on hold and be the primary caretaker.

There were a number of reasons for that decision, including differences between our fields (it would be much, much harder for my wife to restart her career after a prolonged break) and my own dissatisfaction with the job I was in at the time. We looked at full-time childcare but for the quality of care we wanted in our city it would have been over half my pre-tax salary for the two kids, so it didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Anyway, I'm primarily a stay-at-home dad now. I still do a little work here and there on a temporary/contract basis but my wife earns over 10x what I do annually. I take care of the kids, plan and prepare meals, wash dishes, do laundry, clean the house, buy groceries, take care of home maintenance, and generally keep our lives running. When a kid is up crying in the middle of the night I walk them to sleep. When someone's sick I take care of them and take them to the doctor if necessary. When my wife forgets something at home I load the kids in the car and take it to her at work.

When the kids are a bit older and don't need constant adult supervision I'll probably go back to work, perhaps part time or in a work-from-home arrangement at first. Eventually I expect I'll go back to normal full time employment. Unlike my wife's field I don't expect to have any great difficulty getting back into my career, though obviously I'll be years behind my former colleagues on the promotion track and probably lost any chance of reaching the highest levels of my profession. I never really cared about that anyway though so it doesn't bother me.
Are you andi kleen from toplev ? Used it quite extensively during a summer a few years ago for profiling stuff. Great toolkit.
"sources and methods"
Typically it means "there's some guy" and "SMS".
Success of this will changes a lot of things. USA regaining capability to put humans in orbit. Space proving private companies can safely take humans to space. And overall government's & public's confidence in Spacex for building Starship & possibly providing meaningful transportation infrastructure for Mars colonization.
As the parent of a teenager, I now realize just how hard it can be to get some messages to really land with a teenager. Unless the message that you're trying to get through, no matter how important, is already something that's of interest to them, most things end up feeling like a lecture to them. Upon reflection, I was the same way. As a result, you (the parent) sometimes try to make things "fun" as a way to engage with them and drive home a message. (spoiler: it often turns out lame and not fun...)
For individuals making small sites, it's absolutely overkill.

For my job, with hundreds of developers working on a giant SPA blob with constant feature creep, frameworks like React are a necessary evil to maintain the insanity.
Or to put it slightly differently: culture derives from what you do, not why you say you do it.
"...a company is not cause driven because they sponsor walkathons, donate to charity or give employees paid time off to volunteer[...]Service is not an ornament. It is a touchstone. And no amount of corporate social responsibility is enough to offset or balance the finite focus that may consume the rest of the corporate culture"

- Simon Sinek, "The Infinite Game"

An excellent book that I'm recommending more and more.
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Even if we make lots of adjustments to teach according to the child's needs, I think one glaring issue will remain and it's that we read and write left to right. Which is an issue for left handers no matter what. Pushing the writing implement and dragging your hand over what you just wrote seems inevitable.
Or Brave. Basically Chrome without the spyware.
A reason I haven't seen mentioned is that maybe they prefer macOS font rendering in retina displays over clearType on Windows.

That is one of the reasons I don't like coding on Windows. I imagine people working with text all day long could have strong preferences here.
[2016], previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938039
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> someone who, apparently, was not aware of Rachel by the bay and her wonderful blog.

Is there some other prestige you should know about her apart from her blog?
That's exciting. It'll be nice for NASA I'm sure to finally gain independence from the Soyuz launch schedule and the 1 Russian member that always comes with that, letting them rotate crews more easily. Maybe with more craft we could see an inflatable expansion to the station for more crew berths.
North start metric for engineering team
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$1.9 billion in 1999 dollars adjusted for inflation is $2.93 billion in today's dollars.
Acquired, not Auto.
Important for what? Your home is not and should no be an investment. Investments come with risks. Don't risk losing your means of shelter because you wanted to make money. Compounding gains with loans for real estate investment as a business does make leverage seem important. That is, until a scenario where real estate prices fall, you cannot acquire more property because you leverage based on property price, loans pay your expenses, and you lose your investments. Pay with cash and renters pay your expenses.
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Because of what I do, I am on a lot of Windows 10 machines for the first time. I use chocolaty to push out all the apps needed for systems at work, or my VMs at home.

When you switch browsers for the first time, Win10 will ask like a whiny little bitch, "Are you sure you want to not use Edge? It's really nice."

An anti-Firefox ad on Win10 would not surprise me.
it is a recent change:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103683
Is it really abuse, though? Asking employees to volunteer their time to charity has got to be pretty low on the list of scummy ways to boost motivation and PR.
> What do the Sleepless, who didn't choose their condition, owe to those without their advantages?

I think this is where a lot of discussions about injustices in the world get wrapped up, people feel like because they have/had no choice on the creation of the state of things they're blameless and therefore any adjustments to correct things are unjust. I've come around to the position that it doesn't particular how someone got there what matters is that things are imbalanced and not addressing it will just entrench and prolong the issue.

> And what are the ethics of choosing to have a child with or without those benefits, since the choice can't ever be made with their consent?

That's the thorny ethical issue at the heart of any kind of generic manipulation along with the immediate have/have-not split it sets up.
It is a bad idea to do illegal stuff.
The difference is mainly not technological, but about user experience.

Mac OS doesn't bother users with alerts and notifications [0]. There is no busy start menu with distracting ads and Apple doesn't push ...gems... such as Candy Crush to everyone's computers without asking.

It just quietly works and lets users focus on their jobs.

Windows has come a long way but they're not there yet. For people who aren't interested in tinkering with technology, spending a bit more to get a nicer experience is a no-brainer.

[0] except for the software update prompts
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The incentives simply aren't aligned. The root of the problem is that our economy depends on constant consumption. I'm not sure a company built around computers that last could ever compete.
> People don't remember but, what actually killed Nokia handsets in one stroke was one memo by their then CEO Stehphen Elop where he basically stated their platform as it is was dead in the water.

That's like saying that declaring the patient has pneumonia killed the patient.

Nokia was treading water, and everyone knew it. Their Symbian phones were plasticky slow devices with a stillborn ecosystem. Their Linux devices were plasticky hacky devices that only geeks loved. They were hooked on the feature-phone pipeline and couldn't decide how to face the smartphone revolution. They had dozens of competing models that splintered their development efforts and made them compete, ineffectually, with each other.

Elop told them the truth, didn't find a way to flip the behemoth around in 6 months, and sold the company. There absolutely is valid debate about selling the company, but people underestimate the difficulty of radically changing such a large company to effectively compete with the new existential threat.
My point was they appeared to be providing an observation about the change in size over time, but the wording around the time frame is so ambiguous it could mean anything between one day and one year, plus the magnitude of the change didn't appear to be significant. In other words, those 2 statements in combination provide little to no extra value in understanding the organization.
Except we can't ship them into space.
We've got increasingly worried about giving away my personal phone number for all the online services out there. These services often handle phone numbers carelessly or they willingly misuse this information for other purposes (like building social graphs).

In addition, when your personal phone number inevitably leaks, fraudsters often use this information to hijack sms messages and take over your online accounts.

So, we created Senu. Senu provides you secure, private phone numbers you can use for your online accounts. Incoming text messages arrive to your phone in the form of secure push notifications. You keep your personal number safe. Also, as an added convenience feature, authentication codes are automatically recognized in incoming messages, and are offered in the UI for copy and paste.

Senu does not require your real email address or phone number to sign up. Install the app, start it and that's it: your phone is the key to your account. This way your Senu account is not tied to your email/personal number, meaning even if those get compromised, attackers cannot take over your Senu numbers.

Please let us know what you think!
I don't see how showing "Still using Firefox?" can be seen as anything but a targeted anti-Firefox ad. The title is completely accurate.
That's like saying "anyone who learns about the world is a scientist". Journalism is not only made of information or opinions, at least it shouldn't be.
Usually auv means no cables, and rov means tethered, but they describe their unit as auv/rov.

So not sure of this specific setup, but for most auvs there are hipap integrated acoustical modems with limited transmit / receive rates, for critical status messages and a control link. Everything else is held on hdd until it surfaces.

https://www.kongsberg.com/maritime/products/Acoustics-Positi...

In the event of a comm disconnect, it probably has a limited amount of instructions to continue carrying out (like surveying to the end of the current grid line) and then holding for a limited amount of time before aborting to the surface. If a connection can be re-established, it continues. It's also possible to have navigation connectivity without 2 way comms, so there are different abort scenarios possible.

If it aborts to surface, then you've got amplified wifi, sat phone, and even an eprb type beacon.
Try using any Google property without chrome, or try using any iOS device without safari.

This is pretty harmless in my opinion.
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A cog in the machine did not drive an enormous amount of profit - it's the higher echelon of the company that does it. The cog spent years thinking it's a moral paragon and an example to be looked up to, all the while it's been spinning the greatest spying machine man kind has ever known.
You must have more tact than me. I caught the ire of the iridologist when I asked 'What if we disagree with the chart?' Could not find a more uncomfortable way to spend a morning.
Better: Gaps not trivially fillable...

That is, the point is that the gaps cannot be trivially filled.
Doesn't "whataboutism" mean "don't know about anything else, because it could complicate matters"?
You're thinking about tablets.
Without regulations, the question isn’t “will” but “when?”
> There are multiple ways an anarchist society might respond to a corporation growing too large

I agree, but I believe a firm past a critical mass of size can defend against all of them, and defense breeds the resources for further defense.

> convincing its workers to split or find work elsewhere to avoid economic collapse

Unlikely if the firm's size lets it offer better life than alternatives

> seizing its assets and forcibly splitting or shuttering its operations

Hard if a firm's size grants it the ability to challenge monopoly on violence

> denying it use of supply chains, of debt if the market has currency, etc.

No longer possible if the firm is large enough to have vertical integration
What’s the disease?

My personal experience and the research I’ve read makes me believe you are absolutely right.
I actually don't know. This is based off my own observation of the set of things for which one can end up in jail. Once you really think about the things in that set (shoplifting vs. wage theft) it's impossible to believe the system isn't rigged. To be fair, governments and militaries have always been used to protect the interests of the wealthy. But evidence suggests things have changed radically for the worse since the 70s (in my US-centric view).
If something is free on the internet, there is a good chance you are the product.
You are right, it is a serious problem.
I loved my G1. I didn't think it was that bad.
> According to federal figures, as of a few years ago, the number of non-academic administrative and professional employees at US colleges and universities has more than doubled in the past quarter century, outpacing the growth in the number of students or faculty.[a]

Just as an aside - this does include professional staff, which is advisors, academic support staff, and other student facing services. The problem with higher ed statistics like that is that it makes no effort to separate the assistant to the assistant to the assistant provost from the academic coaches. One of the two of those positions actually provide value to the student experience.
Concur. I strongly discourage people who ask me (I'm a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist) about getting one.
This actually seems very fair. We have an adversarial legal system: checks and balances in it are based on people zealously defending their rights and privileges. Trump has at least given the appearance of anti-Bezos bias in his tweets about the Washington Post. If a President, any president, wants to appear to favor (or disfavor) some entity, that president needs to be able to at least articulate what they were thinking at the time of the announcement of favoritism (or disfavoritism). Otherwise the USA will end up with a merchantilist system, which is inefficient economically.
It's interesting to me to see where, when there is something wrong, people determine the problem is. So in this case there's an implied diss against Disney and probably more generally against consultants. To me, both of those are symptoms and are sure to be supplied by the market wherever the real problem crops up which is a buyer. In this case, GW's president and/or the board.
> Perhaps the most salient example of this ever-expanding bureaucracy is Stanford's shiny new 35-acre campus in Redwood City, which houses only non-academic administrative staff

Is this really a good example of administrative bureaucracy growing out of control?

I mean, if you had to pick a group of people to move off your university campus due to space constraints, it seems like administrative staff would be the logical choice. Moving certain departments off-campus, or letting fewer students live on-campus would both be worse for the academic environment.

In addition, Stanford has consistently ranked near the top of all universities in research output while also providing free tuition to any student whose family makes less than $150K per year. Doing this costs a lot of money. Where do they get that money from? Mostly donations and grants. It takes a lot of people to administer grants (which tend to come with lots of rules on how you account for the money) and to schmooze with donors, etc. But the end result -- funding high-quality research and providing a free education to thousands of students each year seems like a pretty good outcome.
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>Considering how much crap the NSA has pulled over the years, I wouldn't consider this an "act of war".

It may not seem like a distinction to some, but I think there is a difference from hacking by an intelligence agency and directly by a military. Now if you disagree, that is fine, but also each hack would need to be looked at on the merits to determine what would be a proportionate response, if any.
You've missed years of development. Zero-knowledge attestations of name records given a particular blockheight are quite doable.
I am dreading this transition when it becomes necessary for .NET Framework -> .NET Core. On the surface, it's not too different, but then you look deeper, and here is a dependency that changed completely between it's old Framework version and the new Core one, there's a place that we're using Linq-to-SQL instead of EF, there's an SDK that we use that is never going to be updated to a Core version, etc.
Could be 4 colleagues just having some fun time.
What's "everything" and got does it it try to shove it into the cloud?
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OpenSnitch was on HN recently and someone wrote an alternative UI[0] for it with Fyne which is interesting.

[0] https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/issues/257
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I think this situation shows more the incompetence of the US cyber security apparatus, at least when it comes to securing critical systems.

With the OPM breach and the Equifax leak the Chinese have the personal details and biometrics of millions of Americans who work for the government in areas that handle sensitive information.

The Russians have already specifically identified US cyberwarfare individuals before. So, it can be done and has been done. With the information the Chinese already have it is very unlikely they could not do the same, but they'd gain very little from it. (The US doesn't gain much and should probably stop the practice also.)
Can't wait for this college bubble to pop. I must give them credit though, as an alum I can confirm GW does have a negative culture.
Perhaps, but it won’t be Bigelow Aerospace:
https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-sets-sights-on-free-...

Looks like this company may do it though: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/28/axiom-wins-nasa-approv...
> The most common reason people leave companies is not compensation. It's usually about relationships, primarily with the boss but also coworkers

I can fully agree with that. I have only left one job to pursue "better" opportunities (a move abroad). I also regretted it later, as I left a great team. All the other exits were caused by me being tired of arrogant/ignorant managers.

Two out of three times it was about terrible working conditions and lack of a will to do anything to improve the situation.
I have been using Classic Shell for a long time. It's faster and less buggy, searching works better, and as a bonus, I don't see any ads.

No longer in development but the latest version works fine. Anyone is welcome to take over: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8147

Haven't tried this fork yet: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
When the pay is good, feelings are important too. Consider, if you're well paid, your skill set is (probably) in high demand in the industry and getting a similarly high pay at other places is (relatively) easy.

At that point, feelings play a pretty important role in getting you to stay.
> Good. If you get caught committing a crime you should be charged with it.

So any military personnel that kill someone while doing his job should be able to be charged for murder?