skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the old VBulletin plugin "Miserable Users"[0].

We also had a community suffering from this problem (during the early 2000's). Bans would take care of a lot of problem users, but would just give energy to those truly out for blood, troll, bored, or very immature.

We had one user get banned over a dozen times while we tried banning IPs, name regex or anything else we could think of. Finally, like you, we found that if we annoy them first, they get bored and shuffle off to some other, lower barrier place.

Some of the nice features from that plugin (via the site) were:

1. Slow response (time delay) on every page (20 to 60 seconds default).

2. A chance they will get the "server busy" message (50% by default).

3. A chance that no search facilities will be available (75% by default).

4. A chance they will get redirected to another preset page (25% & homepage by default).

5. A chance they will simply get a blank page (25% by default).

6. Post flood limit increased by a defined factor (10 times by default).

7. If they get past all this okay, then they will be served up their proper page.

* [0] https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=93258
As you say, Apple's argument is ludicrous on its face (as the court pointed out) because Apple also requires employees to wear special clothing at work, and are forbidden from wearing that clothing off-premises. So employees must carry that clothing to work with them. I suppose that doesn't mean that they have to put it in a container, but that's a real stretch of an argument that the court also rejected.
Another reason was due to the actions of former New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo in 2008 where he got several major ISPs to block access to Usenet newsgroups that were used to distribute child pornography[1]. IIRC, those ISPs discontinued Usenet service not too long after that.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/n-y-attorney-general-forces-isps-t...
Ahh Hackernews, where you get downvoted advocating for the rule of law.

Apologies, comrades.
I might have been more clear, when I recognize myself burning out now I dont quit my job. That's an extreme measure for extreme situations. Instead I recognize what is causing my burnout, and I try to address it. My last bout was a struggle with balancing a new baby. I talked to my boss, Nd we worked out a deal of loosening my workload. About a year later I was able to pick up more.

As for your frustration in lack of agency. It takes time to build a reputation worth trusting. I'd reccomend changing how you approach work. Think about what your bosses goals are, what the companies goals are. If you can find ways to add value, you can earn greater trust, and more agency.
Yeah, it's not like Apple stores have changed or become busier in the past 9 years.
On Syria:

"It's nuanced" is not the message people need to hear regarding Syria. Bashar Al Assad is committing a genocide with the help of Russia and Iran. People should hear the major news upfront (the genocide) followed right up with all the nuance. Telling people "there are many parties involved, here are the interests of all of them" is useful only after we make the primary story very, exceedingly clear. Half a million people have been slaughtered by the Syrian government. Kids have been gassed. Prisoners are being tortured, raped in front of their spouses, and arbitrarily executed. During WWII, NYT relegated the Holocaust to the back of its newspaper. We cannot make the same mistake again.

There is a thread on Syria down below for anyone interested. Facebook and Google/YouTube employees especially need to read it, because their platforms are helping perpetrators of the genocide and deleting video evidence of the genocide, respectively.
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Apps.
Quantization error is irrelevant in modelling so far as the datatype has the appropriate dynamic range. You don't care about the rounding errors, you care about the speed of execution of your model and how able it is to find trends/behaviors. Exact values aren't useful.
Interesting, there is a discussion in this article on whether compassion fatigue is a form of burnout or not. I think it is. It is probably caused not simply by exposure to suffering, but by exposure to suffering coupled with perceived ineffectiveness in alleviating it. It is not like every patient who comes to a doctor has a specific problem that can be precisely diagnosed and that magically goes away after a treatment is prescribed. Many have chronic illnesses, many will get worse or even die despite the treatment. Many require much more time than what the doctor can spend on them for proper diagnosis and treatment.
If you get value out of Facebook for those reasons, why do you want to quit?
Clearly someone thought it was unfair enough to take Apple to court over it.

Workers rights has always been a struggle but this sort of behavior has been trending up over the last 20 years. From the "permatemp" jobs to the new no benefits "gig economy" it's worrying.

I'm and experienced software developer and even I have seen this sort of thing.

I worked for a company out of San Jose. I was hired full-time with benefits and a bonus structure based on performance. But I had to switch to hourly at no pay if I was "on the bench" between projects. Despite a year of solid work, and receiving my performance bonus, true to the agreement when I rolled off a project they stopped paying me. I went 4 months without pay. And when they finally found a new project for me to join I had to take a significant pay cut because the rate for the new client was less.

Passing on risk and consequence to the employee seems to be increasingly common.
It may be common, but it's obviously wrong. It's good that Apple got slapped for this. It would be even better if all other companies that do this got slapped too.
Really? (this is more of a genuine huh than a rhetorical huh) I guess I have relatively low expectations as a customer, but my most recent experience was picking up a laptop fixed up by AppleCare and I had to wait about 5 minutes for people ahead of me, but an employee found a place for me to sit and wait, and directed the relevant laptop-service employee to me when he was available.

It seemed like a reasonable in-store delay even though Apple was fully obligated to service my laptop under warranty (and had to ship it out for a few days to do so).
Not what I was expecting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQmeANdYeM

And Mr Beast follows up with 100 million Orbeez of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TflpIllQHY

You could do a whole blog article on Orbeez and Youtube.

The top Orbeez video is.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7kcMJZY5c Are the long fingernails a important part of the video? I feel like they are.
ved = 'know' in Slavic,
comes from this PIE root:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...
I got 2.3/6 and my burnout risk is "mid", so they probably weight some questions more than others when assessing the burnout risk.
Bloomberg posts plenty of articles in my area of expertise that are riddled with faults.

I find Frontline to be some of the most nuanced, deep dive journalism which is readily available.
Yes they are, atom is in isolation, cell has membrane, we have a body we have isolation and encapsulation in physics/chemistry/biology. In actor model message passing is interaction. Since you mentioned game, check out https://github.com/aeplay/kay, which is the isolation "objects" for https://github.com/citybound/citybound "physics engine". On multiple bank accounts, well an account is an actor, so there is no problem there, please have a look at http://proto.actor/blog/2017/06/24/money-transfer-saga.html
I don't think that sentence actually makes any sense. AT&T and other US carriers probably don't care who manufactures their equipment. They make money on the service they sell.

The US doesn't actually have any vendor for most of this kind of equipment, the competitors here are either European or Chinese.
As long as you are required to be at work and can’t leave you should get paid. With increasing surveillance some smartasses will soon have the idea that employees shouldn’t get paid during downtime when they are waiting for customers.
Seems to me that you could run your own instance, peer with any instances that have videos you're interested in, then enable "redundancy", which pulls their videos into your instance.

It doesn't prevent them from knowing you requested the data, but it provides an alternative explanation.

Really if you want that kind of privacy, I think you'd be looking at Freenet or similar projects.
Or Apple, I guess? It's not like Apple is any better; they're only now going to do the right thing because a judge is telling them to do so.
I don’t know. I feel like the person that wrote this knew exactly what they were doing, and also knew the joke would be completely lost on whoever asked them to do this.
gosh I miss QNX...

(been working with a custom in-house RTOS for the past few years...)

(but I do not miss QNX's build system. Recursive makefiles!?)
I think Apple was only searching bags, not patting down their employees (likely out of fear of sexual harassment allegations than any principled restraint on Apple's part.)
Awarding a perfectly capable competitor (Microsoft) a contract isn't a vendetta. Somehow I think Amazon will continue to thrive with or without the JEDI contract.
And presumably for you to run in public cloud environment you are renting yourself or a private cloud you are running yourself.
if you want to skip jsx, just write React.createElement(ComponentName, props) and your done. jsx just makes it a bit simpler to read, so no one feels tempted by horrible angular like template languages shudder
I can count on one hand the number of times I've noticed it, and I've been on freenode for the better part of two decades. Sometimes people spam, but it's such a minor problem that this cannot possibly be a rational reason for people to avoid freenode.
I'd wager to bet that Apple's inventory is much more diverse and smaller (in physical size) compared to the iphone 3 days. I don't remember Apple having as many SKUs as they do now that are expensive and highly-wanted and very small, e.g. Apple Watch and Airpods.
Funny, I left Facebook yesterday. It got too much as I was connected with many of my customers/users and it was just mayhem. It was extremely complex for me to get off Facebook because our website "Login with Facebook", advertising, pages, etc all are connected to my account, so I couldn’t simply destroy the account itself or risk locking out hundreds of thousands of people from our platform and apps. I manually unfriended 2000 people (which surprisingly didn't take too long).
They generated the lyrics and melodies using AI. Everything else was done by a person, including the vocals.
Can someone explain? Is this just everything in [0, 1]? What’s the topology reference?
This is to determine if your son is a teenager?
Computer generated voice has certain artifacts that makes it a bit distinctive. Auto-tuned natural voice has similar artifacts, so if an artist uses auto-tune, then there's less noticeable difference between their real (computer-altered) voice and a fake computer-generated voice.

A more exaggerated example would be artists that use a vocoder (e.g. Daft Punk or something like that), which would be even easier to synthesise convincingly because the real vocals are also mostly synthesised.
Very good article to read. Not many places these days bother to cover a story like that.

The behavior evinced by the researcher, Murphy, seems typical of the modern technologist. Hubris, plain and simple. A better scientist would be just as concerned with the failures and rejects as with the successes. His ready ties to the military research centers are immediately troubling and suspect to me. The kind of experimentation they have been known to support, (MK series), makes me think this Murphy guy got an all but official blank check for his work.

This TMS business is not quite half baked, not yet. They can talk about brainwaves and frontal lobes all day, but the facts are: the human mind is far too complicated to be fixed by a magnetic hammer, even when applied gently. Surmont's description of the TMS as a "digital narcotic" is probably worth more than any trial the FDA has ever done. Use of drugs and cannabis alongside brute force brainwave manipulation is a recipe for disaster. The problem with these treatments, is they completely fail to treat the real causes of mental instability. Reading through Surmont's life story, he is a textbook subject for mental experimentation. Unknown family history, Lack of a stable home, sexual abuse, military trauma, TBI, on and on. Hes a walking DSM-V. If I wanted someone I could use up and throw away, I couldnt find anyone better.

The real disgusting part about the whole affair is, that it is the same tired failures Ive seen before, in real life with people I know. Here's a secret that they will never admit to:

We have the technology to fix every case of "PTSD" that we get back from overseas. (TMS is not it btw). Being able to make and break the human mind are two sides of the same coin. The ability to thoroughly break and rebuild any human mind has been a trade secret of our intel agencies for about 40 years now. They are very good at it. All it would take, to solve PTSD, is to put the people who run those black projects in a talent exchange with the VA. But they will never give up thier secrets, and so men like Surmont are out there walking around untreated, like aging sticks of dynamite, sweating nitro.

I could go on for hundreds of pages about the sordid history of American military medical experimentation.

Im glad Surmont got a happy ending - somewhere in that San Diego daze, the man upstairs decided to help him out.
Forcing you to query IA at least reduces the frequency of feedback, as they're taking snapshots instead of giving a live feed. You could also shadowban IA. You can also do things like guess based on IP address or browser fingerprinting, or require a login from various IP ranges.

Of course your main point - that this is all terribly imperfect and won't stop a determined, sophisticated user, who has realized what's happening - is spot on. That, however, is perhaps a rare combination, rare enough to simply continue dealing with manually.
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Could not find anything like that, only requests for such a feature.
The most promising seems to be Spotify Search API: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
My knee-jerk reaction was to see it as that, and usually that's the side I take, but the poster really isn't suggesting that learning these things are necessarily bad.

That's probably how most people will take it though, unfortunately.
The public realm isn’t a legal trial. The standards of evidence are different. We can’t subpoena anyone, as presumably a competent attorney would do to verify Mattis’ claim.
relevant xkcd - https://xkcd.com/2264/
The real usage is DNS. I set up a PiHole last week and... Wow. 70% of requests are my fiance's echos (my Google devices, which I am trying to convince her with, are below the noise floor, go figure).

The privacy concerns are real, but I actually use smart assistants a good deal of time when I am at home.
Alternatively, you could treat people like people and give them an actual measure of respect instead of stealing time and money from them.

But, frankly, literally every time without exception that I remember seeing you post, it's been a variation on the theme of "of course they shouldn't be decent, why should they, I shouldn't have to be decent either", so I'm going to pass on being surprised.
Solitude and Sensory Deprivation and Johnny Cash (2019)
99% of companies should be using revenue as their primary metric.

https://youtu.be/lL6GdUHIBsM
(Startup School lecture about KPIs)
It depends greatly on your apple retail store location, many of them are fairly tight run little ships, but some (say my local fashion island location) seemingly are huge groups of people milling about - I waited 30+ minutes so that an equivalent of a retail store clerk would let me buy a computer I had no questions about.
Eyewitness testimony is hearsay. Hearsay is quite often admissible.
I did read the text of TPP and it still isn't clear how it would have guaranteed that signers would not continue trading in large part with China. What I'm looking for is an actual economic analysis showing that TPP would have made it so that not trading with China carried a significant cost benefit in comparison to utilizing its market efficiencies and lower costs. I've yet to see such an analysis from a credible source, so I'm still working under the assumption that signers would have continued trading with China without any significant checks on its economy or policies.
> it is just another business decision, namely reducing cost and increasing profit.

And effectively stealing from their employees.

> I would do the same.

You would steal from your employees too?
This not a true statement. If Obama blocked a Halliburton contract and told his cabinet they were going to screw Haliburton both the press and most of leftists on this forum would have stood up and cheered.
Part of life is shit. Don’t spend the the good parts of life bathing in it.
>> Who in their right mind, given any choice on the matter, would want to lock their retirement into the existence and health of a corporation?

1. Many times the "corporation" is actually a government with the power to tax, so the benefits are very well protected -- basically citizens are on the hook to pay these benefits. In the case of small cities, bankruptcies do happen, but it would be a good bet (IMHO) to say, bet on a pension w/ the City of NY, or with the US Federal government.

2. Many pensions are guaranteed by US tax dollars: see https://www.pbgc.gov/

3. Traditional Pensions were defined benefit plans and very very good deals you often got cost of living adjustments, you could never deplete the funds, you got to start drawing down early and could draw down as long as you live. Modern plans are defined contribution. The only thing guaranteed is what you put in, not what you can get out. What you get out is based on luck on the market, some statistics, and some government policy (e.g., ask retirees living off interest income how live has been for the past 15yrs)

Given how puny my 401k outcomes are compared to traditional pensions, it may almost make sense to roll the dice on a pension, but it is a bet on the company for sure.
This will be kind of sad since this will limit the market for new musicians and new styles. We will get so caught up with preserving the past, that we will ignore opportunities of the present.
Parallel compute middleware is often based on message passing when the parallel computer is a cluster. See MPI.
Some pensions are guaranteed (see: https://www.pbgc.gov/), meaning American citizens are on the hook for them. Joy.
People need to understand that the situation there is complicated before deciding that Obama was an idiot or that Trump’s decisions have been stupid. I submit that the situation is so complicated there that any action, no matter how reasonable or well thought out, will be subject to plausible sounding criticism. So detractors will always have something to decry about the actions of whomever is President. Very little reporting in the U.S. is about what sort outcome would be ideal and how to achieve. How to balance the conflicting desires of the regional powers.

It’s a bit hypocritical to overthrow Assad on humanitarian grounds given the death and destruction wrought by U.S. forces in Iraq the past 17 years. The U.S. had no problem supporting Saddam Hussein while he used chemical weapons against Iran. When he used said weapons against Iraqi Kurds there was token pushback by the U.S.

Just painting the picture of, “Assad is genocidal maniac” is overly reductionist. It’s a message that keeps the average American mired in the absurdly comical worldview of America being the shining light on the hilltop. I would welcome reporting on all these nuances. Maybe then Americans would start to question why we support regimes like Saudi Arabia while decrying regimes like Syria. Perhaps we’d come to the conclusion that we don’t need to intervene and control everything for the sake of short sighted goals of dubious benefit.
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I don't know about in the US, but in Canada, I used to work at Forever 21—a California-based retail chain—and you are required to go through a pat-down right before you leave the store.

You'd have to look for a manager, and ask them to escort you to the front of the store, and have them pat you down.
For those unfamiliar with the acronyms.

DoH = DNS over HTTPS

DoT = DNS over TLS

Very useful apps!
The irony being that the 90’s hip hop sound was largely influenced by MPC60/3000 quantization, amongst other drum machines.
That plugin is the worst thing I've ever seen
https://stackoverflow.com/a/554134/311196
I was asked to wait 45 minutes to pick up a bought and paid for phone.

I left and came back later and found a more reasonable sales person, but still ended up waiting about 10 minutes.

Then there was the time I made a service appointment, showed up slightly before my appointment, and waited 35 minutes for a “genius” to look at my phone.

I don’t know if it’s just my local store, but I avoid Apple stores as much as I can now.
This is a tiny tiny step but feel free to join us at /r/KeepOurNetFree![1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keepournetfree
Less "uncanny valley" affect, because in both cases, you're hearing a synthesized voice.
> It's really just an attempt to lock you into a proprietary system that you cannot export your data out of nor easily move off of down the road.

The GH API covers a lot of what `git` doesn't. GH's strategy has never been lock-in. They provide a good service that's constantly improving. (I'm sure other services have advantages and I'm in no way going to claim that GH is the best in class, but I am continually happy with GH and with its continued improvement.)
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Wish I could use this AND 1.1.1.1 Warp. iPhone doesn’t seem to be able to do both.
It would be helpful if you can tl;dr that article. It's very inside baseball.
Botnet, social media without people
Right, but you need to show that knocking down tariffs like the Vietnam one would actually directly result in more non-Chinese trade. I can pretty much guarantee that even without the 20% tariff, US imports would still be far more expensive than Chinese equivalents. Do you have any economic analysis articles or papers you can point me to that model the expected impacts based on actual market prices and labor costs?
I love how they call it a privilege. This is indeed a boring dystopia.
Thats interesting, I worked at a Forever 21 in the US ten years ago. They policy was that they would "look" (really just glance into) bags, but never actually touch people.
"Know" in the biblical sense.
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Do you have a link on that? I can’t find it in the HN link.
Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true
Anything the current justice department knows is automatically shared with at least two foreign governments (Russia and Israel) along with any other governmental or non-governmental organization smart enough to hack Trump’s completely unsecured phone. Of course the CIA is going to resist sharing information given this state of affairs.
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