skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of inkl's model (no affiliation). I pay a monthly subscription, and they send a few cents to the publisher of each article I read. They aggregate and curate the news (ie. no clickbait) from a few dozen major sources.

Basically, micropayments. First time I've paid for news in a few decades and I finally feel like I'm supporting good journalism.
On a much different scale, I ran into a similar problem once. Not for me, but for a customer. About 10 years ago I did a PC breakfix job onsite at a small business that made trophies. Their main business was bowling leagues and other local sports. The computer I was there to fix was fine. But the computer that ran the engraving machine- the one that they made all their money with- was an IBM PC/XT from the early 1980's. No hard drive, everything was on 5.25" floppies.

I mentioned that they should replace that thing sooner rather than later, but their objection made sense for their use case: The replacement would be many thousands of dollars and this old setup still worked. The computer had one job, and it did it. Who knows, maybe it's still there, still mashing away on its floppies every day. It wouldn't surprise me. If it is, it's being held together by nicotine deposits and luck.
Yes it was I’m one of the ones affected. I’ve done mobile engineering both iOS and Android for around ~5 years.

If anyone’s looking :)
"They are also attached to the places, and do not wish to leave"

That's kind of a distorted way to look at it. People do leave, and then they aren't included in the population that's under the microscope. So the remainder is always being distilled down, no matter how bad things get, until the outside world decides they can be ignored. Same thing with farmers in the 20th century.
guess what infamous shadow inc is using for its job applications forms? airtable. oh the irony.

https://shadowinc.io/jobs/front-end-engineer/
It's a subtle high. Once you notice it you will notice it every time you drink it, and it's very pleasent, but it's subtle. It's about as strong as one beer and the effects don't get much stronger the more you drink.

Im from Hawaii, my parents used to give it to me when I had a soar throat and I never noticed the high. Tried it again as an adult and felt the high, since then I notice it everytime I drink it.
You can have multiple NICs on a single server
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It strikes me as evasive.
I hear they are trying to make it more of a family business.
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I know Redmonk has reasonably believable language rankings, but a recent JVM ecosystem survey says otherwise - https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-b...
One of my best client experiences was advising a surf resort in Fiji, and of course we had to go stay there in order to understand the business model.

Part of their community support is organising a welcome ceremony, hosted by the local village (where they also fund the school) and given to every guest. Sadly for us, no other guests overlapped with our visit and we missed out. No doubt watered down for the tourists, but that would have been my kava opportunity.

I keep offering them a Strategy Review! Next time...
Looks like the DNC has taken over accounting of the Iowa caucus, so I guess they’re really not so independent.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/more-manipul...
More recent JVM ecosystem survey - https://snyk.io/blog/kotlin-overtakes-scala-and-clojure-to-b...
While uncertainties are useful, they are certainly not enough. Eg: I can construct adversarial examples which are predicted incorrectly with high confidence.

The underlying reason why high confidence is not enough is that even strong/confident correlations could be misleading when seen in causal light — a black box model trained to predict credit performance might be very confident in rejecting loans for applicants from “poorer” zip codes and approving those from “richer” zip codes — even though those are not actual causes... therefore somebody could exploit the system by renting an address in a rich neighborhood for a couple of months when taking out a big loan (the analogue of adversarial examples).
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> This software should exist.

You just assert this. I see no justification in your post.
Not all government departments are like that, but too many are, probably the majority.

What I've noticed on the ones that work is that they have a core group of technical managers and architects that hold in their heads the whole system architecture and organization. These are people that for more than 10 years decide what will be done and how it will be done. This seems to happen on the more financially crucial and essential areas of the government (e.g: revenue from resources). It is in the more accessory/non-essential departments where there is rotation of technical staff that the chaos thrives.

Profit centers are usually organized and efficient. Cost centers aren't.
His pet would be an octopus named (mutate! "DNA")

https://www.kavalogic.com/octo-egg/octopi.jpg
When the time comes, they could just order a cheap machine from China to replace it.
And the same coming for California in 3..2..1...
All of the various layoffs I’ve been aware of have included a decent number of engineers. Often it is changing direction or giving up on certain products, so entire product teams get let go. Plus, we’re usually the most expensive.
If NY law was/is blocking DHS from accessing the databases Real ID creates that feds are supposed to have access to, that should be grounds to stop any future TTP/GE patrons and should as well bar any current users of those services.

That being said, i think it's a great thing and i totally disagree with states mandating facial ID databases that the feds have access to. The database they should possibly get access to is for passports imo.
It's not the only reason.

There is also the glory of being the genius leader in your field, and all the prizes, titles and lovers that come with it.

> Preventing your peer institutions from publishing helps you get money for your own. You need to change how research is funded.

Surely removing people's opportunity to veto their competitors publications is a more direct way!
Sorry to hear that, hope you find something soon!
I've had apps ask me to go to system settings myself to enable some permissions because I've disabled it via the said OS prompt.
> What exactly does the DHS need from the DMV for implementing TPP that they don't need for issuing enhanced drivers licenses that are REAL ID compliant?

DHS doesn't issue REAL ID compliant driver's licenses. States do. The States have to comply with certain minimum standards for issuance, but that does not require States to vet each individual applicant with DHS.
I don't claim to be able to look inside somebody's head. Would you claim that motive and character do not, in fact, exist?

And I don't think your argument applies to these characterizations, actually, because I'm talking about two fundamentally different approaches to discourse: in one you are interested in building up your own argument and crushing the other person's (or deciding you actually agree, or identifying subjective factors and agreeing to disagree, or whatever) and in the other you don't give a shit what they're saying, you just want to shut them up and make yourself look stronger. The motives mirror the rhetorical techniques involved.

I'd argue that actually it's fairly clear when somebody's rhetorical strategy falls into one or the other camp, but just like many other parts of the human experience it's not something we can currently express with numbers. If that's your criterion for deciding whether some part of the human experience can be reasoned about, I think you're already overextending yourself by participating in this conversation at all.

And it's fine to walk away from a conversation, or jump into the same old argument for the Nth time with no intention of changing your position, or whatever. But if you are going to attack an argument or viewpoint, you need to attack it and not the person behind it. My previous comment did not cover these bases because I wrote it on a smartphone on the bus. Sincerest apologies.
Whatsapp has 1.5B MAU. I don't think people are interested in adding each and everyone manually. I want to know how that would work for majority of those people and not you personally.
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They could simply require explicit consent, but this is CBP and DHS want carte blanche access to all D/Ls all of the time for all people irrespective whether they're application to the GE and TTP.
Essentially DHS and CBP want to pick up anyone they think is illegal and send them to concentration camps, and because NY has stated that they won't provide such information to organizations not involved in road and driver safety they've decided that they want to try to punish all New Yorkers.
I can't imagine this withstanding any kind of scrutiny - legislation of DMVs have repeatedly been found to be a state right, and the constitution prohibits federal agencies from having different policies for different states (that's why the voters rights act got killed).
So why should iMessage get all of your contacts by default?
"Well I never!"

As it were.

Remember 2015, when nobody could even? We thought they were simpler times. They weren't.
People always report on the layoffs and not the hiring drives. I wouldn't worry too much.
whats the going rate for a plastic face change surgery and a new US passport/identity? Will $500,000 do?

Next step is setup private offshore trust/fund with new identity being the beneficiary. money problem solved.

Ideally have all of the "new identity" paper work done well before it is needed: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jeffrey-...
A virus that disproportionately "culls" the elderly is useful eliminating unsustainable health care costs, and in China's case, the impending demographic crisis (growing old before growing rich). Though ideally that shift happens after 2040. Right now, it would shift voting patterns to bias towards younger generations. Which incidentally goes against Chinese short-term interests since the elder cohorts in HK and Taiwan are the only ones with pro PRC / reunion sentiments. Quarantine also killed the 2020 5-year plan of doubling 2010 real GDP which required 6% growth. I'll leave others to extrapolate what dead boomers mean for western societies.
Rounding errors found in 30% of precinct math worksheets from Iowa Caucus
For the first two I usually do Win+R, paste, Ctrl+A, copy.
> Is there some proposed mechanism for filesystem implementations other than kernel extensions?

Not currently. Not that I can find.
Increasing privacy for residents, and reducing the ability to buy into the comfortable side of totalitarianism. This is a double win!

It probably won't stay this way, but we can dream.
Operator of lots of DNS stuff here.

Hosts files are literally the devil. They break so much shit. Hostnames sometimes change behavior (like an ad server that starts hosting a redirect script for legitimate clicks), kids who are "good with computers" set them up on relatives computers over the holidays unmaintained, malware that uses them to block antivirus updates, etc.

If you want to block ads, fine. Use a content aware proxy or browser extension.
Big companies maybe...
Wadge is retired and his stories are over 30 years old. So perhaps academia used to be in a sorry state. It still is, and it used to be, too...?
To be fair, none of those viruses received nearly the same level of news coverage nor had fear and awareness of them penetrated into popular culture in the way that 2019-nCoV has. And, many people today were only children during the 2003 outbreak of SARS (17 years ago!) so this will certainly help to reinforce it among the younger generation.
Alphabet earnings show Google Cloud on $10B run rate
It's surprising how well that holds up. I feel like I recognized all those types intimately.
I'll bet you're you're fun at parties.
If NYC doesn't like the Federal Government enforcing the immigration laws, maybe they should lobby to change the laws instead of trying to prevent enforcement?
I have this problem sometimes with my software developers. I think because they read too much hacker news and "trendy" news sites they believe the moment they aren't working in a cutting edge code base they are not evolving as developers.

That couldn't be further from the truth. You learn much more navigating a very complex code base, having to introduce changes without breaking the APIs, making decisions about scope and communicating with stakeholders who rely on that API. Evolving a big legacy code base that is generating revenue to the business and supporting the core users is a very hard software problem

Greenfield development is easy, anyone out of a bootcamp knows how to put A+B together from internet articles.. I honestly am not amused when I see CVs of people who keep just playing with cool toys and never maintaining their code, people who never worked in code bases that are 5+ years or stayed a long time in a company.. IMO as a rule, and every rule has an exception, they aren't valuable software engineers. They haven't had to support their own systems until they become legacy... they're fad driven developers.

The best thing you can do is read this book: https://www.amazon.ca/Pragmatic-Programmer-journey-mastery-A... and apply its lessons in your company, in a code base for years.

Whatever framework or technology you're chasing honestly doesn't matter. It's bound to be considered legacy at some point anyways.
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I wish these stories would discuss implications on dosing. Are higher dosages beneficial and safe? Doctors seem to max out at 2g/day.
That was great, but I don't see the connection to Ancestry's recent layoffs.
I know that this is going to sound "flavor of the day," but seeing as how genetics is essentially a large data set of variables and we aren't certain about which of then are indicative of cancer, doesn't this seem to be very strongly correlated with the problem that most ML/deep learning tries to solve?
Xcelerate says >"The best equipment is all meant to be washed by hand (knives, aluminum baking sheets, cast iron and stainless steel skillets"<

Toss the cast iron and stainless steel skillets and buy nonstick skillets, cheap or expensive. When they wear out, replace them.

I've gone through more than two sets of cast iron cookware trying to "season" them properly. "Seasoning cast iron" never works, either consistently or well. It is little more than marketing horseshit the iron cookware industry feeds to foodies who cannot resist the perfect skillet they imagine exists on the far side of the hill.
NYT article: "To find u, we want the product of r and s to be equal to c,"

Why should it be that the product of the y-values of the roots should equal the constant of the quadratic equation?
I would like to have an OctoEgg, old-skool from the '20s

https://www.kavalogic.com/octo-egg/octopi.jpg
> 2) Only in 2019 did the US Nuclear Command transition away from their own 50 year old technology: floppy discs from the '70s. [1]

From my reading of the article, it appears they are still using 1970s era IBM Series/1 minicomputers. It sounds like all they've done, is replaced the physical floppy drive with a floppy emulator. This is a device which attaches to the legacy IO bus, and appears as a floppy disk drive to the minicomputer, but the actual data is stored in flash memory instead of magnetic media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
> The web didn’t bridge Microsoft’s moat — it went around, and made it irrelevant.

Reminds me a bit of how generals are always fighting the previous war.
I can't help but notice that the official coat of arms for Australia contains on it an emu.
It is just government sponsored leave, you can choose not to take it.
USCIS (or US Citizenship and Immigrations Services), and TSA are under the DHS, so I would imagine that it is important that they get that data.

OTOH, I do understand the concern that ICE could get the info under the pretense of being something for DHS though.
There are two separate authentication processes for drivers on Windows: Authenticode, which is used for the kernel-mode driver (.sys) and is strictly enforced, and driver package signing (.cat/.inf installation packages), which has a mutable root storage called Trusted Publisher system store. Zadig works by adding its own certificate root to the Trusted Publisher system store and self-signing the installation packages, but the three possible installed drivers (WinUSB, libusb0, and libusbK) were all still signed by Authenticode.
I just checked, and Facebook is advertising "The Uber of Snow Plows" to me. I can't be influenced because I don't have a clue what it is. Next ad is "Liberty Tax Service", which is guaranteed not to sell me anything because I do my own taxes and am unwilling to pay anything since the Intuit scandal. Next one is trolling for victims of "clergy abuse"; I've gone to church maybe 2-3 times in my life and don't know any clergy. Next is sildenafil, next is State Farm, next is Taco Bell, all of which I am extremely aware of existing and do not plan to ever purchase.

There are a bunch of things relative to my interests as a consumer, because I follow some local businesses. But they aren't strictly speaking ads. The ads are complete garbage.
> Would you claim that motive and character do not, in fact, exist?

No. I'd claim that people aren't able to objectively access those things in other people.

> I'd argue that actually it's fairly clear when somebody's rhetorical strategy falls into one or the other camp,

I also think that the people that think they have "common sense" think that what common sense is, is fairly clear. I also think that we can easily find people that disagree on what is and isn't common sense.

> the human experience

Implying that this judgement of the rhetorical strategies of a group of people is an obvious part of the human experience is immediately contradicted by the observation that the humans you're judging disagree with that judgement. Clearly there is at least something non-obvious about this judgement in some cases.

So then we fall back to the same ol' question. How are we determining that the rhetorical strategies employed in "purity spirals" are an element of the human experience that can be objectively reasoned about? How are we determining that these people aren't hooked into the clarity of sight that you seem to be implying you have?
For anyone interested in some more novel ways of reducing video bandwidth with neural networks using foveated rendering to 'recreate/generate' the high res frames client side.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTUmmW4ispA
Further, they aren’t going to cancel their subscription because it’s blocky. What would they do instead, go out and buy The Office box set, and a optical drive to play it with?
Editing the INF de-authenticates the installation of the driver, which can also be bypassed by adding to the Trusted Publisher root store, which is mutable (as Zadig/libwdi does), but the actual kernel-mode .sys binary still needs to be signed by Authenticode unless the system is in driver Developer Mode. Your method worked for installing a modified INF file, but will not work for installing a modified binary.
Growth in Asian/South American countries with less advertisers and lower CPCs.

There may also be disproportionate growth in branded CPCs, which have a significantly lower CPC (but higher CPM due to high CTRs) than commodity terms.
What are some tech solutions to 700K people getting out of prison each year?
You can drop cookies that are “essential to running your business” without consent, the gdpr tcf 1.1 consent management platforms drop a “euconsent” cookie to store your consent choice lol.
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True, but having to only trust hardware being correctly made is already an improvement over having to trust both software and hardware to be made correctly.
Quality doesn't really matter for the general audience, beyond some reasonable threshold. https://mux.com/blog/youtube-viewers-dont-care-about-video-q...
The latest version of FUSE for macOS, which is still freely available to end users but no longer open source and not licensed to allow redistribution, works on the current version of macOS. The open source code has not been updated in a few years and as such only works on older macOS releases.
As someone who sort of held the view that the incredible inefficiencies in modern computing and 'cloud stuff' was a net negative on the environment, thanks for this comment. I still don't think mindlessly throwing extremely inefficient stuff into a datacenter for no reason is a great thing to do but this gives me a lot better perspective as to why it isn't so black and white of a thing. I forget sometimes that humans have a very high cost to operate too.
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Indeed. At the time, that wouldn't have been an option. And, given their technical abilities (I was there to fix a really minor problem) I doubt they could piece together something that your average maker-type such as us could.
How about trapping people inside their homes?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7960471/Police-BARR...
I don't know precisely what the article means. The NYSE Retail Liquidity Program, which still exists, describes two categories of participants: member organizations (MOs) and liquidity providers (LPs). MOs have retail orders, which are defined as originating with an actual person, ie not a computer. LPs provide liquidity to those orders, ie they take the other side of the trade.

I believe Knight would have been interested as an LP. It is not inconceivable that in some circumstances Knight would have been able to submit retail flow as an MO, but 100% of that flow would have been routed to it from brokerages holding actual retail accounts.

Knight was a trading firm, not a hedge fund, and certainly not an institution which held outside money in retail accounts. But consider an entity which does have retail accounts and also has propriety trading for its own account. Suggesting that the former would become inaccessible if the latter lost lots of capital in bad trading is absurd, would mean that retail-customer and proprietary monies were mingled, and would require the violation of untold numbers of regulations. This did not happen with Knight and indeed has never, ever happened.
I did some contract work for a federal agency in Ottawa about 15 years ago. One day in the coffee room I heard a bunch of consultants reminiscing about what a great project the gun registry had been. Coming from Alberta, where that project was a notorious and spectacular failure ($1B for a CRUD app that was years late and didn't work), at first I was shocked. But it was fascinating to get a window into how the other half lives! They were nostalgic for the gravy train. I'm glad I didn't say anything, but it was a learning experience in how one person's boondoggle is someone else's windfall.
A lot of managers still operate under the assumption that software has a "build phase" and a "maintenance phase" and that they can get rid of most developers for the later. Aside from the obvious problems when they still want new features there's a correlation between the head count used to build something and the head count needed to effectively maintain it, 1 person won't be able to handle the enterprise mess that 100 people create.

So I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was engineers being let go a lot of the time. Especially at non software shops where marketing is bringing in money and the engineers are a cost.
Correct! Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to the second half. Maybe it's a bit more that's necessary.