skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the harassment has moved beyond the workplace, and someone is stalking you at home or wherever, then call the police.
As long as it's still at work, the easiest thing, and probably best choice for your career, is to find a new employer ASAP. We're talking about software engineers/devs here: this field is hot, and there's lots of demand. GTFO and find a better place to work. Just look at the women who's the subject of this article: she blew the whistle publicly and now doesn't even work in the field. This, unfortunately, is generally what happens to whistleblowers; I've seen it before with someone close. She saved lives, but now can't work in that field any more.

After you've found greener grass, if the company is large enough, write an anonymous review on Glassdoor.com calling them out for their toxic environment, so others will know to avoid that cesspool.

It's really a shame that our society shits on whistleblowers so badly.
Nah, they'll just kill the project when it fails and move onto the next buzzword
The Democrats aren't a bunch of mindless hicks like the Republicans. They are far more intelligent and sophisticated. I'm sure they'll have this fixed in no time.
Yup, that machine had literally no notion of a process. You could say it was strictly single-process: whatever is in memory is what gets run...a fork bomb would require breaking out of the VM.
I knew it. I suspected the Waymo cars were literally driving on eggshells.

They’ve been peddling that these Level 5 Waymo cars were just around the corner. But they refused to disclose how the cars actually worked, and kept saying that their black box is so mysterious, that their scientists themselves couldn’t understand it, so there was no point in having the rest of us, mere mortals, try to understand it. Lies.

We are a long ways away from being able to trust a robotic car with our lives.

But to their credit, at least they realize that requiring a human to take over vehicle controls in a microsecond, is unrealistic. Ahem! Looking at another car company that thinks this is acceptable.
Big fans. Thanks for creating Helium!
Isn't that the point though -- that the issuer of currency should manage the system? It should simply be part of the currency just like physical cash is.
It's unclear but the article mentions they went for a hike and when they came back, the car wouldn't start. I don't think they can shut down the car while it's running.
Might be down to costs.

How much does hosting per account in Ireland compare to USA hosting?

Even if a few pennies/cents, at google's scale - that makes business sense and if they can, they will.
What tool? That's windows' behavior. I would agree that locking a file and preventing deletion is good or possibly queueing a file for deletion when it is free, but windows does not handle this scenario well.
This kind of false equivalence is what drives me nuts about the modern media environment. Presidents meet with people all the time, sometimes when playing golf. No doubt Obama had similar meetings (links or no) with Google execs on multiple occasions, right? No one cares when Trump golfs with people.

Clearly running a political fundraiser sits at a different level of influence peddling. We literally have laws to regulate that and disclose the activity (where disclosure of routine meetings are, in fact, protected by law as executive privilege)!

It's different. It's not the same. Saying "Trump did a favor because Ellison drove $2M to his campaing" has a stronger basis than "Obama did a favor because Ellison let him win at golf."

And I'll just say it: at the end of the day, people who believe "everyone is just as bad" are the ones who are likely to excuse the worst corruption in government via "well, at least it's my candidate doing the cheating".
https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-chinese-regime-deplo...

Chinese regime deploys 1600 internet trolls to suppress information on Coronavirus.
Because it isn't relevant and e-krona has nothing to do with bitcoin, certainly isn't trying to beat bitcoin. Neither is it trying to solve the same problems as bitcoin.
Ammon, a 15-year-old kid who used the internet to pay for college
> disingenuous

Don't think that's the correct adjective here.
The LAN Party House is for Sale
Where did people unearth this "platforms" vs. "publishers" argument from? It looks like a political tool someone with a dark agenda diged out of some dark swampy corner of polytics...

Everything is both!

Of course you'll have more and more proprietary-algos / blackbox-ML/AI-systems filtering content. And of course the content can't be manually reviewed (because SIZE) and you can't have the platform be responsible for it (what does it even mean to "be responsible for content"?!).

It's sad there's not much we can do to regulate away some of the toxic infos (like the "platform vs publisher" meme currently floating around...), but here it's actually a case where doing nothing and stomacking some of the bad consequences is 1000% better that doing something! Because that "something" whatever it may be will limit fundamental freedoms simply by having something exists in this space!
It's not Github for data, but if it were, then one of the main issues is handling GDPR requests. Git is by construction averse to deletions in its history, so incompatible with hosting sensitive data. On the other hand it could be great to have deduplication in storage and versioning for datasets.
Globally-distributed serverless app with infrastructure in 100 lines of code
Garbage Language: Why do corporations speak the way they do?
Please elaborate on the details of the case. You seem to be keenly aware of the nuances.

I haven’t been following the case, but please let me know why you have reached the conclusions that you have.
> conspiracy theorist

In my opinion, a possible connection between fundraisers/golfing and political outcomes doesn't necessarily rise to "conspiracy theorist".
Congrats on launch!

What are some of the selling points compared to more mature OS solutions like Matomo? Also, isn't the enterprise version the opposite of your thesis? I.e. "it bothered us how we needed to send our users’ data to 3rd parties", but then provide a hosted version which would do the same thing? How do you think about that?
No they don't lose anything. Kickstarter can't claw back their wages. Unlike, a factory worker, they can easily find another job.

They get paid a salary to do a job, not to protest business decisions. If they want to protest something, they can, but they shouldn't expect any protection from being fired because they're literally refusing to do the job they were paid to do. Do you think a book store employees should receive protection for moving all the books on evolution to the fiction section?
I don't know about this; it isn't completely unheard of for female managers to proposition male subordinates, it just doesn't happen as often obviously. I think it's wrong and abusive, no matter which sex does it (and to whom; (gay) men propositioning other men happens too), but I have a hard time seeing how this is "sexist" or only harmful to women, though obviously, due to inertia I think (more men being in positions of power), it negatively affects women more. I will grant you, however, that it can be argued that it contributes to keeping the gender-unequal status quo.
> In a statement, the bank said: "We always intended to listen to colleague feedback as part of this limited pilot which was intended to tackle issues such as individual over-working as well as raise general productivity."

Riiiight.
70-90% of all existing coral reefs expected to disappear in the next 20 years
External Auditing. I can't audit the central bank's server but I can audit the publicly published blockchain.
Fred Brooks wrote a book about complexity, accidental and essential. Essential complexity is the lower bound to which you refer, and the hard limit that prevents major advances in programmer productivity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet
"Now that we can safely detect the critical objects around us"...except if they're a pedestrian with a bike. Or something equally unlikely; meh, just run it over, probably uninteresting anyway. /s

That's some massive handwaving.
How else would it rewrite links on every website?
not sure this is all due to self-agency. China has also threatened them over Huawei. the UK is really between a rock and a hard place
Trump Backs Supporter Larry Ellison in Court Fight with Google
As a marketer in a former life, I can't understand why somebody would do this. It's very cheap to get a separate phone number for each inbound channel and there's tons of software that will track which channels are working for you, starting at the low end with an intern and Excel.
They are defining the term "confirmed case fatality ratio" as something different from the CFR that cannot be directly compared. The way they say it is misleading because people will parse it like: "{confirmed case fatality ratio}, or CFR", but they're actually saying "confirmed {case fatality ratio, or CFR}". You can tell because CFR doesn't have enough letters to have "confirmed" in it, and it usually has a different definition. That's also why they never call it "the CFR", they call their thing "this CFR" or "the confirmed CFR".

Their confirmed CFR is not a good measure of anything because the conversion rate to CFR depends on average time between case confirmation and death. It effectively assumes that everyone diagnosed but alive will recover.
Looks pretty sweet. I like the UI for adding event captures.
For those that are unaware, if you live in California the recently passed CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) gives you a lot of new power to force companies to delete your data and let you opt-out of them selling it.

For Comcast: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/ccpa

It's a little tedious since you have to do it with each company, but so far I've found that it largely works.

You can also do it for equifax, experian, and transunion (though when I tried equifax it was unsurprisingly broken).

You can either request the data they have on you, ask for it to be deleted (the parts they don't require for operation), or opt-out of resale.

This website [0] has a bunch of links to the CCPA pages for different companies. The better companies have enabled this ability for all users, but generally the companies you'd rather delete from have only enabled it for California.

[0] https://caprivacy.github.io/caprivacy/
Pooping during work hours, that's like stealing from your employer. Just hold it in like those dedicated staff at Amazon.
If the survival of their company depended on it, they would absolutely figure out a way to pre-moderate content, and almost certainly that would include significantly more low-paid moderators.

They had something like $18 billion dollars in profit last year, you don't think they could afford to hire an army of moderators?
He did not. Ellison has been a reliable (though not particularly partisan) republican for years.
Also, world population in 1918 was about a quarter of what it is now. 50 million dead hit harder then than 100 million would hit now.
Although if you look at the actual text on the UKUSA agreement document HW 80/2 [1], rather than the short synopsis from Wikipedia, it says very clearly that the UKUSA agreement covers only sharing of "foreign communications" where footnote 3 on page explicitly excludes communications of both the UK and the USA.

1. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1153691...
Mathematically valid but misses the business problem :)
Agreed, corrupt(ed) NSA people can do very bad stuff to targeted individuals.

However, adtech companies damage everyone, and fairly significantly. eg concentration problems, addictive behaviours, etc.

That's literally "human race" level damage.

Doesn't seem like a lesser thing to me. :/
It's just a bug. Somebody made a script that appends tracking codes to every <a href=".."> in the document.
Mattress shopping is almost as bad as car shopping. I'll buy a used car to get around the sleazy car sales people, but the wife absolutely won't go for a used matresss.

I'm sure the mattress markup is astronomical, and I'm sure most brands come from the same factories.
Wouldn't contact with water make them unsuitable for future soldering? (some ICs are shipped in airtight bags with moisture indicators. or they are just overcautious?)
Want to invite me as a guest lecturer?
All these kinds of HN comments share the same flaw, in failing to recognize that the primary obsession of hacker news is in discussing the flaws of things posted on hacker news.
This data appears to refute that assertion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

I have little doubt that being poor leads to lots of other problems. (Source: was poor growing up, relative to most here) It's a far greater leap to say that being (for example) black is hugely more important than being poor, being ugly, being short, being aspy, being disabled, having mental health issues or parents with mental health issues, etc.

Beyond that, even to the degree that one is a minority, it's not clear that the well-intended actions taken on their behalf are actually even helpful. If you haven't read Sowell's book Cosmic Justice, it's well worth a look on this topic.
Good point. None of this is new.

I was going to say politics has gotten nastier, but I know that's not true. [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
sorry, I wasn't thinking. I won't do it again.
They would if they could.

https://www.ft.com/content/478fe908-5168-11ea-8841-482eed003...

Sweden raised rates recently, but only back to zero.

Swedish banks - for some reason - simply waited for the NIRP to pass and moaned.

[from the link]: Johan Torgeby, chief executive of one of Sweden’s largest banks SEB, says lenders involved in fixed income “struggled for years” and calls the end of sub-zero rates “good news”. He adds: “We have never really understood what effect negative yields have on [boosting] consumption.”

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-la...

It certainly helps expanding the money supply. That should help increase savings, that then can be loaned out. (And simply increasing savings doesn't automatically lead to more investment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_identity - I know wikipedia is not a proper source, sorry, anyway: "This identity only holds true because investment here is defined as including inventory accumulation, both deliberate and unintended. As such, this does not imply that an increase in saving must lead directly to an increase in investment. Indeed, businesses may respond to increased inventories by decreasing both output and intended investment.")

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecb.wp2283~2ccc0749...

"Given this finding and its robustness when tested using a variety of standard robustness checks, we conclude that NIRP has acted as an empowerment to the ECB’s asset purchase programme (APP). Banks most reliant on retail deposits have the strongest incentive to convert their EL (excess liquidity), created by the APP, into loans - and our results document that they did so."

> Personally I think it's better to err on the side of favouring whatever the "market rate" of interest would be (the rate if the central bank was taking no action to alter the supply of money or loans), and I'm very doubtful that would be negative.

Isn't the problem that the market rate would lead us to deflation?
Why would a serious government not walk through the open door and take what they needed while their agents collect two salaries? It's just a win-win for foreign intelligence. They would be negligent in their duties to NOT infiltrate US companies with open doors and permissive, trusting internal policies about user data.

Then the company can do the liability minimization dance when the FBI comes and points out that they are running a cheap data service for foreign spies. "We, uh, had no idea..."
This has nothing to do with the actual location of the servers holding the data. Which would not be a single location anyway.
Compared to internet UGC, the flow of new content into broadcast media minuscule. According to a random Google search, three hundred hours of new video are added to YouTube each minute. It's unlikely that much new broadcast media is created each hour. And YouTube is just one of many sites. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that UGC is created at a rate of more than 1000x that of broadcast media. That difference in scale, and the difference in economic value per unit of content, makes a solved problem in one medium an tricky challenge in the other.
I replaced all my SBCs with a single Ryzen 3 3200g-machine. It was more expensive, but at about $350 it replaced 2 RPI, 1 odroid xu4 and a rock pi. With performance to spare.

Ryzen 7 2700 are cheap now. If I upgrade the ram and cpu I can make it a nice VM machine for very little.
Whilst Matomo and PostHog both provide analytics, Matomo are more focussed on session-tracking, rather than user/event-tracking. That means they’re better at things like analytics for traffic sources.

The things you can do with PostHog that you can’t easily do with Matomo, are things like pulling up identifiable user event histories, or plotting trends in product usage over time.

The enterprise version is just a private repo we'd give you access to that's still self hosted. We can also provide hosted deployments of any version, but that's really just for people that can't set it up themselves... hosting it isn't our core focus.
true. I never thought about it that way.
Does the Trump administration understand what this kind of law will do to all of tech?
Thanks! This makes more sense~~
Thanks for your questions! So, the actual cost of the regulatory filing part isn't that high in dollars, it isn't necessarily cost prohibitive. The real issue is building a unique insurance product, the underwriting for it, the pricing model, and all that good stuff - and then finding the reinsurance and primary insurance partners that will go to this new place with you. Knowing people helps, track records are important, the strength of your underlying models (industry vets at those companies will put them through the wringer). And then you need to do that 49 more times...
> Accenture is quite famous for developing bullshit solutions for made-up problems, so I guess this is a good fit for them.

Came here to see what consulting firm was behind this tomfoolery.
If I were, would it be good or bad? Would it even matter at all?

Remember the specific thrust of argument in this subthread isn’t to demonise Leave voters it’s just to demonstrate that it’s possible for democracy to give bad answers. Mentioning He Who Cannot Be Named isn’t going to help separate concerns here, rather the opposite.
Seems like this is exactly what we need then?
They didn't really need the investment to plant the spies. He just applied for a job and got it. Any foreign spy can do the same and nothing will change.
What is this even referring to? Google didn't file this petition until 2019. It had previously petitioned the Supreme Court in 2014 before Oracle's appeal. The circumstances were quite different then.
> So an option is to migrate the Android ecosystem onto Fuchsia to rid of the Oracle royalty fees

The better option is the one Google already did ages ago, switch to OpenJDK: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch...

Which is GPLv2 w/ classpath exception straight from Oracle. No work for app devs and no work for OEMs.
Is there any doubt that this is some kind of score-settling? Republicans hate Google. I don't think people inside the SV bubble appreciate just how intense this hatred has become. You know the seething, implacable anger, that bile that comes up out of your stomach when you think of a politician you don't like? A lot of republicans feel that way about Google.

This hatred doesn't come out of nowhere. Google's leaders could have chosen to make the company neutral and tolerant. Instead, they bred a culture of political zealotry from top to bottom. The partisan hatred that the company engendered then leaked into the outside world. The inevitable result? Half of the United States power structure sees Google as an irredeemably biased political project masquerading as a tech company. Is it? Maybe not. But whether this judgement is true doesn't matter --- what matter is the perception that the company allowed its internal activists to create. It was an unforced error, and it's one that I think will become an infamous cautionary tale in the coming decades.

Lesson to corporate leaders: don't encourage politics at work; don't encourage a culture of demonizing a political faction in your home country that wins about half the time; and especially don't hold a company-wide all hands election after this faction wins the election and lament that "we lost".
Are you suggesting that there should be a size requirement before a site has to pre-moderate their UGC? What metric would you use? Revenue? Taxable Income? Impressions? Volume of UGC? # of employees?

If there's a blanket repeal of liability protection for UGC, it's going to have a much larger impact on smaller forums.
In no longer being able to use a customer's data as their own.
Maybe the blockchain is meant for "offline" transactions, when neither part is in contact with the Main Server.

Disclaimer: I dont know
I thought that Kotlin required the JVM to run?
Seems very much a case of "Man we don't know what the rules are / will be and this seems like the best choice at the moment."
> At an earlier stage in litigation, the Obama administration took a similar position, urging the Supreme Court not to accept Google's appeal.

It seems the Trump administration position is not really all that different than the previous administrations.
How about a GitHub for science?
This used to be more common. With the rise of (or rise of awareness of) divorces where the guy gets fleeced, it’s becoming less common.

It used to be, it didn’t matter so much if she made 1/4 of what he did. Now, many guys won’t do that because they know if they divorced, he’ll have to support her at the new higher standard of living.

Income opportunities have equalized a lot in the last few decades. Divorce laws still usually treat women as helpless victims, especially if there are children involved.

Either party can be a victim. When a true look at the behavior of the participants becomes the norm, this may change again.
Whataboutism does not in any way dismiss the fact that Ellison's fundraising efforts for the current administration could play into this. Especially given the behavior of the justice department over the past few months.
Well, I can try. So, are you familiar with the general construction "A is to B what C is to D"? If you're American, you might have seen these analogy questions on the SAT.
It has other options, like GDNative: https://godotengine.org/article/dlscript-here

See for example: https://github.com/GodotNativeTools/godot-rust
Filthy degenerate time thiefs each and every one of them./s

It is almost like Outer Worlds is not a parody, but an instruction manual.
You cannot be serious. MongoDB chose a bad type of license, it’s only their fault.
By your logic, any fork that was successful more than predecessor should be punished.
I'm talking about 40 years of reading articles about Dell; perhaps some old magazines from the 80s may not be online too, but: likely if you use a useful search engine* to look up things like "dell negative cost of capital" or "dell minus 11 days receivables", "dell just in time inventory supplier trucks" etc you can probably look up some of their much-lauded "innovations". I believe the "put assembled product into trucks and drive them through the gate" was a one-time act to meet one quarter's goals, but don't remember exactly, though surely it would have been after they went public (the first time).

* Google used to be the obvious "useful search engine" when all others were terrible, but these days they emphasize recency and celebrity to the point where their search engine is almost useless in looking up old articles.