skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The Body Shop plans to expand the practice to all of its retail stores this summer, where it employs around 800 people, and as many as 1,000 during the holidays."

Looks like they ran this as a pilot in the distribution center, and liked the results so much they're going to roll it out to retail.
This kills me. Everything from waiting for the machine to boot (WTF ARE YOU DOING IN THERE???) to waiting for the machine to shut down.

Oberon on a twenty-year-old thinkpad is a better faster OS.

Go try it for yourself:

https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/emu.html?image=Ful...

This is faster in your browser than your whole computer can run the current bloated crap. Click "reset" in the gear menu and watch it reboot. OOoooo so fast.

Oberon OS plus "Gadgets" has never yet been equaled or exceeded by any other UI, anywhere. If you haven't used it you can't know.

Just the separation of selection and (text, not mouse) cursor is so useful, let alone the built-in cut/copy/paste with mouse chords. Don't get me started on the Gadgets system...

But enough about the greatest OS+UI ever made...

(And my computer freezes for a full second when I scrolled down to the broken (on my machine) image. The fuck Firefox Y U so slow!? Junk. It's all junk. Made out of junk, fractal dimensions of over-wrought crap. Redundant computations that burn energy to do nothing but fail to be better than decades-old versions of itself, the fires of a digital hell.)
>unfounded speculation

It's not unfounded in the days of pardons to political donors, political donations to jury members, and firing of whistleblowers and witnesses.

You are allowed to assume bad faith when the entity has time and time again showed bad faith. This is suppose to be one of the detriments to acting in bad faith time and time again.
Those things are true, but not really the point.

1) The entire issue here is about international revenue not US revenue.

2) Your second point is true but this IP was then sold to a subsidiary. The dispute is about the price paid in this sale, not about the origin of the IP.
"Lisa needs braces"

"Dental Plan!"

"Lisa needs braces"

"Dental Plan!"
How do you know? There are lots of commercial products that have no staffing at all. "1 man" might even be above the median staffing.
Some links out to examples on Instagram though.
Do you mean the word 'not'?
Honest question: Why not use olive oil? Since it has been used in soap making for centuries, I'm curious why you prefer palm oil or beef tallow over what to my amateur thinking is an ideal renewable option.
If the fix is buried in a comment or lower answer, far fewer people will see it, especially on the ossified, highly-voted answers where it's often needed. Difficulty moderating proposed edits is a process problem, and comments aren't a good workaround.
So I guess you could say that Harvard and Yale are centers of excellence for constitutional law. Good for them!
One of the competitions in Hack the Machine[0] brings in a copy of the setup of the bridge[1] of a ship and you're allowed to attack in a lot of ways. It was impressive.

[0] https://www.hackthemachine.ai

[1] https://www.hackthemachine.ai/track1/
It's worse than ironic. It's crony capitalism. An inside deal with no benefit to external people, where the transaction will make money for the insiders. It's all hidden because it's corrupt.
Wow, was "burn baby burn" really part of the original source code?!

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...
I am currently an IAM engineer and can I just throw out there how much I hate OAuth/OIDC, I work at a large org and have to integrate with dozens of different vendors and applications and not a single one has the same way of doing OAuth because to quote the spec, wait it isn't a spec it is a "framework" we have to remember that, under interoperability it says

> OAuth 2.0 provides a rich authorization framework with well-defined security properties. However, as a rich and highly extensible framework with many optional components, on its own, this specification is likely to produce a wide range of non-interoperable implementations.

Don't get me wrong, OAuth is still better than WS-Fed and what we had before but we really need to come up with a real standard and spec for authentication, because OAuth/OIDC is a joke. It isn't just me either that thinks this one of the authors of the OAuth spec said as much[1]

Can anyone tell me what their experience with OAuth has been, or have they been able to get it to work across multiple different systems. I would love to believe it is just my org, but it seems like the entire identity space is a clusterfck.

[1] https://hueniverse.com/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell-8eec45...
> The motorized mount is only for pointing optimization during the installation process; it's not going to be constantly motoring around.

Please cite a source on that one. If they're putting a motor on just for installation to point to roughly the right spot, that's a ton of money spent on a motor for a single-use item. That will again point to it not being a consumer product. What's more likely is the motor is making up for the poor scan loss of the cheaper phased array.
There is nothing in the case suggest the international schemes are illegal. Even the IRS is not trying to push for that.

"The IRS argues that Facebook understated the value of the intellectual property it sold to an Irish subsidiary in 2010 while building out global operations"

That is what IRS is trying to sue, on the ground that Facebook Ireland is now collecting substantially large revenue compare to what it was priced.

To me, trying to compare 2010 Facebook patents cost on revenue generated in 2020 is simply absurd. Patents are per user an per revenue based. Facebook 2020 is way bigger than Facebook 2010.
Though I'm no longer a fan of Perl, I like the idea that a reasonably up-to-date version can be expected on modern Linux systems. Disk space is so cheap, it seems crazy to strip it out just to save a few megabytes, except perhaps on embedded platforms.

I spend a lot of time fixing other people's stuff, and it's exasperating to log into a system only to discover that it's missing such basic tools. (emacs and strace are more important to me, but the idea is the same.)
Deno, will this new JavaScript runtime affect the popularity of Node.js?
Yep, if Austen misled people that's bad. I am just disputing the argument that the later practice of using them as collateral for a loan is financially similar to selling them.
The OG Data Scientists – Learnings from RenTech
Taxes are dues for being part of a club. You're free to move to somewhere else if you don't want to be part of that club but you don't get to freeload.
Immigration: No visas for low-skilled workers, government says
> It's a shame your feelings were hurt by whichever leak came out of WikiLeaks

I'm more hurt about the radical transparency he espoused for others while keeping secrets like his relationship with the Trump campaign [1]. I wonder why Wikileaks didn't leak this truth[2]:

> President Trump offered to pardon Julian Assange if he agreed to cover up the involvement of Russia in hacking emails from the Democratic National Committee, which were later published by WikiLeaks, a London court was told on Wednesday.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...

[2] https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offered-assange-pardon-i...
The subpoenas you're talking about were purposely not taken to court.
In many cases they do roll up to legal. HR folks who think they are there for the junior employees get burned out when they get overruled by the senior ones. Perhaps it shouldn’t be, but that’s why it is this way and whistleblowers are so rare. Perhaps also a competitive advantage for an employer that does protect the individuals.
I'm definitely going to check it out.

And slavery, you say? How does this manifest? Are we talking about Somalian pirates conscripting poor people in third world countries or something? I have read that following the collapse of Libya after Qaddafi's overthrow, things degenerated so badly that slaves began to be bought and sold and are even sold there today - but I suppose I've never dug too deep into who's buying them and for what purpose.

And I love a good memoir, especially of a seafarer! That'll be going straight on my Amazon wishlist, thanks!
Taxes are dues for being part of a club. Any club will send security if you stay there, without paying, and refuse to leave.
I would actually say that Microsoft Office suite was really good (up until recently when they started trying to funnel you into their cloud storage). But even with that blemish, the UX is still pretty good. Hitting the alt key let's you access any menu with just a few keystrokes that show up when you hit the alt key so they don't have to be memorized. I can also work a hell of a lot of magic in Excel without ever touching my mouse, and not needing to memorize every keyboard shortcut I need. I wish every app and desktop in every OS followed a similar standard for keyboard shortcuts.

Macros/VBA is still awful, but overall, despite the horrifying computational abuse I put office suite through, it's actually very stable!

And, it's fast enough once it loads. It's still pretty slow to load though.
I agree, hence the link. You are asking me to write out in a comment the information that is presented clearly and accessibly in the link.
Musician plays violin while undergoing brain surgery in British medical first
> They suggested this would take about 4 hours.

Software developers are notioriously bad at esimating.

Personally I have started to refuse take-home tests and whiteboard puzzels. I now use it as an indicator of people I don't want to work with.
I thought it was always pronounced "sequel-ite" personally
I've came to the same conclusion and I decided to build it. It's called Boomla [0]. Every OS needs a killer app or they will die. I decided to create a website builder or CMS as the first product, hence I call it a Website OS. Please cut through that noise when you look at the docs. It is 2 products, the OS and the website builder built on top of it. They will be properly separated in time.

https://boomla.com/
Whitequark's lab notebook [1] is sheer pleasure to read through (if you're int that sort of things, obviously).

[1] https://lab.whitequark.org/
Hard to say. It may very well be that supporting Python2 for the next 20 years could be a tidy gig for a couple of people. I've considered jumping in myself.
You mention that there's value in Lambda's mission, but I'm curious as to whether you believe that Lambda's business model is redeemable.

It's hard to argue that there's clearly a major risk involved in attending a program like this, but at the same time it seems to be working for some individuals. Would these high-achieving individuals be able to teach themselves? Possibly. But I'm not sure that going back to the traditional college route is the right choice either. And how can we better help those who lack the aptitude or enjoyment of programming and find out too late into these programs?
On Artificial Intelligence – A European approach to excellence and trust [pdf]
An interesting quote from the paper:

“There is a need to build bridges between disciplines that
currently work separately, such as machine learning and deep
learning [...] and symbolic approaches [...]. Combining symbolic reasoning
with deep neural networks may help us improve explainability of AI
outcomes.”

To my knowledge, this the first time that symbolic AI approaches are explicitly mentioned in communications from the European Commission.

More information about AI from the European Commission and links to related initiatives are available from:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/artificial-int...
Absolutely not okay. ADHD medication should only be taken if one has ADHD. Which can only be determined by a medical specialist. And even if you do have ADHD, you don't have to take meds. ADHD meds are often misused as drugs, so suggesting this is basically asking you to take drugs. Not okay.

If a manager has a hunch that one of their employees has an unknown medical condition they might tell them about it. If their relationship is good enough.

If, on the other hand, they notice a performance issue, they can talk about that and potential ways to fix this. Which would include a quiter workplace, more interesting tasks or an inquiry of underlying issues.

I have ADHD and would have been happy if I had been diagnosed earlier. But I became a Machine Learning engineer without diagnosis. And while meds are nice, they surely were not the end of my problems. I am glad you don't work there anymore, because the real problem there was this manager.
Indeed. I think politicians understand better than anybody that optics now are a better expedient than results later.

And, to get explicitly political for a second, you don't have to look any further than the events of the last few days to see how little interest this administration has in the rule of law.

Disclaimer: I have no idea why this particular thing is happening, what the motives behind it are, etc. Everything above this paragraph in this comment is meant in the general sense. This IRS action seems to fit a pattern, that's all.
non-American here: how would that extra hardship manifest? and wouldn't that be illegal?
Because grams, kilograms, megagrams, gigagrams, teragrams, petagrams, exagrams etc.
Questions you can ask about compensation
Why do the salary and conditions matter? Either you are ownership or you serve their interests in exchange for money. There is nothing ideological about calling a thing what it is.
The thing I would worry about it replicators that use stronger chemical bonds than bacteria do and can eat bacteria but can't be eaten by bacteria. They would probably have to reproduce much more slowly due to higher energy requirements but if they end up eating everything in the long run it might not matter.
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...

> On the one hand, the IRS said, auditing poor taxpayers is a lot easier: The agency uses relatively low-level employees to audit returns for low-income taxpayers who claim the earned income tax credit. The audits — of which there were about 380,000 last year, accounting for 39% of the total the IRS conducted — are done by mail and don’t take too much staff time, either. They are “the most efficient use of available IRS examination resources,” Rettig’s report says.

https://www.propublica.org/article/earned-income-tax-credit-...

> Since Smick, who is taking classes toward a bachelor’s degree, and her husband, a chef, together earned around $33,000 in 2017, about $2,000 of that refund would come from the earned income tax credit. [...] But no refund came. Instead, she got a letter from the IRS saying it was “conducting a thorough review” of her return.

https://www.propublica.org/article/whos-afraid-of-the-irs-no...

> the same year that Facebook started moving profits to Ireland, the IRS launched a team to crack down on deals like that. The effort started aggressively. [...] But shortly after the IRS showed this new ambition, Republicans in Congress, after taking the House in 2010, began forcing cuts to the IRS’ budget. Over the years, as Facebook grew into one of the world’s largest companies, with 2 billion users, the IRS was shrinking. By the time the IRS finally took on Facebook over its Irish deal a few years later, the agency was in over its head.
If you're looking to leave the country over taxes, why the hell would them trying to tax your assets bother you? You're leaving. You are welcome to leave, no one is forcing you. It's the same argument with bringing jobs to dead small towns. No one ever promised everyone could get any job anywhere, sometimes you have to move. No one ever promised you could live in any country without help paying for the upkeep.
I'm old enough to have done applications that were meant to run on IBM 3270 terminals.

Applications that dealt with text and filling out forms were probably better on the 3270-style interface than they are on most web applications, for no good reason. Several times a week I get bitten by a bad form. Forget to put in my Country, hit submit, and the entire form gets erased with an error message, etc.

That being said, for graphical applications his hated mouse is better than what we had in the late 70s. Doing CAD on Tektronics 4010 light-pen terminals wasn't fun. People still went back to T-squares and drafting tables because of this.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Computer...
I've been looking for a good open-source self-hosted alternative to RoundCube and the likes - even thought about coding my own in Go as well - and this seems both functional and lean (single statically compiled binary vs. PHP "stack").

I'm only concerned that by being hosted on sr.ht it will lose potential contributors due to poor "visibility".

I wish the best of luck to the project!

Some relevant convo in Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/n5g3v6/koushin_simple_extensible_webmail
> The "benefits" were forced upon you without your consent

That's not how democracy works. Many of these benefits only make sense if a whole area is covered (if your neighbor isn't serviced by to the fire brigade, that puts you at risk), so we instituted a voting system where people can elect representatives who set a tax rate and a budget detailing what that money is spent on.

If you feel like the selection of services is to your disadvantage you can also always go to another country. I hear Somalia has pretty cheap taxes, along with an accordingly small selection of services.
About these ISAs: do they require any kind of good faith effort to find a tech job after completing the boot camp? If someone was just interested in tech, but worked in an unrelated field with no intention to switch, how would Lambda protect themselves? Obviously they could probably sue if there was bad faith on the student's part, but do these agreements address this scenario? Do they focus on screening students to avoid this?
Surprisingly much better.

Theory and practice, when done together, is much more powerful than either alone.

Good practice books like "High Output Management", "Influence", "Hard Things about Hard Things" gives you a view of what other people at other (high-functioning) organizations do and exposes you to the norms in industry. They also give you mental models to think about things, and helps you to become aware of the problems you never knew existed. And it helps your normalize your expectations: you may think your company sucks, but reading widely and critically helps you realize even the very best companies deal with the same problems and don't really have significantly better solutions.

Reading a good book is like having a conversation with and picking the brain of a really competent mentor, dead or alive, and of a calibre that not exist in your organization. Internal mentorship is sometimes oversold. Most organizations have managers that have merely adapted to their local ecosystem and don't really have any insight on management as a craft. Managers who learned purely through experience tend to be shaped by the company's culture and may do very well in their niche but lack imagination to go beyond because they have no theory to hang their thoughts on.

Also, books are like travel -- you don't know what you don't know until you've seen for yourself what exists. You sometimes need to peek outside your organization to see what other cultures exist.
If you want to go with LED strips there are a lot of options that are cheaper and better. Actual bulbs are a bit trickier.
I liked this post quite a bit. She gets into a lot of the subtle details that can make pay different between companies.
do you really think that this isn't a case of selective law enforcement?

the IRS is famously understaffed, why Facebook? why not Apple? or Amazon? or will they go after them next??

edit: and google?
Olive oil (pomace) is one of the ingredients I use in formulations. Olive oil is very moisturizing, but doesn't lather at all, and it renders a very soft bar of soap. Tallow and palm are both hard, stable lather-building ingredients.

In short, olive oil and palm oil are not really comparable. They would both be best used in some combination to yield a product with both moisturizing and lathering qualities.
There was also a breaking story about Google acquiring Spotify on the exact same date a year later!
And I thought it was S-Q-lite. S-Q-L-ite makes sense though. Most consistent.
Some were, and based on the timeline provided by the District Court it was clear that it would be nearly impossible for the matter to be resolved expediently. i.e.: before the next election, which the President was alleged to have abused his power to interfere in. It would rely on Congress trusting that the Supreme Court would deviate extraordinarily from its normal process and decide a matter in a very short time.

And on top of this, Congress has the power to grant subpoenas. The Supreme Court has affirmed this right since the 19th Century and it's absurd that defenders of the President keep insisting that every subpoena must be fought in court, all the way up to final appeal, in order to be valid. That is expressly not what Courts have said in the past. See: https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/07/cases-and-controversies-c...
Consider yourself lucky that you've never had a hardware issue.
I could be wrong but isn't Lamdba School a perfect example of destroying a noble idea due to the venture capitalish returns expected from the company ? If there wasn't so much pressure to grow that fast, perhaps they would have done a better job focussing on the quality and outcomes instead of growth at any cost ?
Bootcamps probably need a longer and more rigorous trial period - one thing that students were really pissed about was that they didn't find out that Lambda was bad until after the month-long forgiveness period ended.
Olive oil gives you very soft soaps, (hydrogenated) palm oil and beef tallow give you very hard soaps.
That is the tough bit for sure in trying to tell up front if an IP transfer is just a setup for tax avoidance. You can tell after the fact though just by seeing how much the company claims it's worth to use.

A VAT style tax probably solves that right? It doesn't care how much money you actually make so you can't slip profits out the back door as costs.
> How cute. /s

> EDIT: Lol! Author has completely replaced erroneous explanation with correct explanation, including link to seminal paper about packet switching. Good.

Don't be a jerk. Being right doesn't give you the right to make fun of people.
Nowadays, there's PPPoA (over ATM) which wraps at a lower level, and allows 1500 byte ethernet payloads through. But running the ethernet over ATM at 1508 MTU so that PPPoE would be 1500 was probably out of reach --- when PPPoE was introduced, the customer endpoint was often the customer PC, and some of those were using fairly old nics that might not have supported larger packets.

Sadly, smaller than 1500 byte MTUs still cause issues for some people to this day. It's all fine if everything is properly configured, or if at least everything sends and receives ICMP, but if something is silently dropping packets, you're in for a bad day. These days, I think it's usually problems with customers sending large packets, as opposed to early days where receiving large packets would routinely fail, but a lot of that is because large sites gave up on sending large packets.
Females don't have chromosome Y, they have two chromosome X's.

Therefore they don't get any Y stuff. And a mutation in one chromosome X can be mitigated by a non-mutation in the other chromosome X.
Spot on!

> HN upvote system has nothing to do with right or wrong or constructing a good discussion

Spot on again. You are probably getting a hundred downvotes :(
Which is why your second factor would be a physical key, authenticated locally. 2FA doesn't have to require internet access, it just needs two factors!