skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. If the game dev agrees this particular collecting mechanism (a discord server) is worthwhile then they've granted an exception. This overrides the "not suitable" aspect by virtue of that granted exception. Cheating communities can still be shut down even with one community having the exception. "Fairness and equal ability to apply an exception to a rule" is not a valid defence in this circumstance.

It would be like saying that police aren't allowed to speed when they have their lights flashing. No. The exception has been granted. You can't use the police's exception when you speed because you aren't operating with that granted privilege.
Question:

I never ever created an account with Samsung. Can I still ask for all their collected data under GDPR for my phone ID (MAC address, IMEI)? I'm guessing something in that phone is probably calling home, right?
Wow this whole story is a lie. The cops actually thought they “seized” the accounts because they knew the addresses, but never had the private keys! What a disaster
4TB/1mbps is 46 days. It’s impossible to use 4TB in a month with that connection.
This is why I recently started doing remote work. I just can't justify commuting/time it takes to go somewhere 30+ minutes away.
If they know the wallet address, any movements will be a giant neon sign screaming "hey, arrest me again!"
You can't create an account with a key on that site, you can only use it to log in after you associate it to the site.
1mbps is 324 GB in a month.
Politically correct answer: No, they are completely independent just like all other fundraising activities.

Reality: Yes, Oracle is openly bribing the president to get the administration to push their agenda.
Having a 10 year exercise window on options helps quite a bit. In most cases there will either be a liquidity event within 10 years or (for companies that are successful but stay private longer than 10 years) the company will have multiple huge fundraising rounds and can allow early employees to cash out some shares in a secondary round.

To be fair the CEO should either eventually push for a liquidity event or should be open to allowing employees to sell shares on the secondary market.
Bash was the first scripting language I ever got "good" with.

(I put "good" in quotes because while I could get basically anything done, I promise that it was not good looking).

However, I feel like it left me a bit brain damaged, I still think in terms of quotation quirks and "sub-shells" even in proper languages such as python or rust.

It also left me a bit weird when thinking about concurrency, because I never consider IPC, I just think in terms of jobs+join so my code ends up performing as a series of bottlenecks as everything rejoins the main thread.

That said; getting good with bash has helped my career a lot as a sysadmin; but maybe this is part of why sysadmins struggle with real programming.
The .org sale was attempted but has been stalled: https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2020/02/19/dot_org_sale_is...
I solved the “eight queens” Problem in SQL once:

https://gist.github.com/adewes/5e5397b693eb50e67f07

Recursive common table expressions are quite powerful.
(1 tb) / (1 (mb / s)) =
11.5740741 days

Ah, I see. mbps v. MBps. Capitalization error!

Also, you're arguing against the past point which is fine because I messed up the capitalization (though the point still holds, because I wasn't doing anything abnormal; it was a two person household with a game console), but not against present use-cases:

4k 24fps video for Netflix is 7GB, and 1080p 24fps video is over 3GB/hr (HD is 720p). How many TVs are you aware of that are under 1080p? A house that has two people regularly watching Netflix in it on a modern data connection seems like it'd blow through that cap pretty quickly.

Why should Comcast be able to sell you a data connection you can't actually use? Caps are only a thing because Comcast oversells every connection.
Optimizing-Public-Transportation
Using public dataset from Chicago Transit Authority we constructed an event pipeline around Kakfa that allows to simulate and display status of train in real time.

https://github.com/san089/Optimizing-Public-Transportation
What happens if you're out walking down the street and stumble, fall, and hit your head. Now you have a brain bleed, and need neurosurgery to relive pressure on your brain.
Best advice would be: don't do this yourself. Hire a lawyer, have them redline your stock compensation agreement. Cost depends on complexity, but regardless of complexity it's insignificant in comparison to getting screwed by e.g. vested stock repurchase rights, or not being able to exercise vested stock if you're fired (which you likely will be, if the situation calls for screwing you out of your vested shares, particularly if you stand to get a lot of them). I paid less than $500 for the review. Initial version of the agreement pretty much guaranteed I'd be screwed under all sorts of circumstances: from leaving on my own, to getting fired for (possibly made up!) cause, to company getting acquired.

If the prospective employer does not agree to the redlined version, walk away. The founders and their lawyers will tell you it's what everyone else signs, but don't believe that for a minute: founders and investors themselves have different agreements, and "everybody else" are idiots if they sign something as important as this without a legal review.

Remember, once that startup is worth something, that's when the knives come out. And come out they will if your agreement is not 100% ironclad, which is not something you can do yourself.
Because remote desktop needs a connection and a remote PC to connect to.
If you can't pay in cash, you're a charity, not a business. At best.
https://www.mayr-arbeitsrecht.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/...
> While decisions should always be public, in order to come to reasonable compromises on issues, it can be valuable for leaders to be able to have closed-door conversations outside of the spotlight, where they don't have to engage in political grandstanding; after all, it's that kind of compromise that allows democratic systems to function.

You described an authoritarian system, not a democratic one. The public has the right to know what our elected servants are doing or saying. That's what dictatorships do, they tell the public the decisions without any insight into the process.

> That's not to say this isn't without peril. Behind closed doors, corruption might happen as easily as compromise. I'm just not convinced the risks outweighs the benefits.

Well if you aren't sure, then it's usually safe to err on the side of principles rather than justifications.
Amid a diversity gap in the VC world, Operator Collective creates a new model
Also eng's typically get way way less grants than VCs putting up cash, so turning those shares to preferred shouldn't be a huge deal. But it is.
Sam Altman did a post with some simple things a couple years ago. Three easy things:

1. Extend the exercise period to 10 years as GP says. Many companies have done this. Literally, all engineers out there, just walk away if they insist on 90 days.
2. Make the option pool bigger. Altman has a very good point, that companies try to pretend that the size of the option pool is something set in stone. The board just made that number up, they can change it, and if the pool is too small to support decent equity compensation, again, walk away.
3. Founders will need to give up more equity. A founder does deserve to make a lot more as they took the initial risk on the idea, but it's bullshit that a founder deserves to make, say, 50x a very early critical engineering hire.

At the end of the day I do believe the market will force a shift. The FAANGs are paying so much, and while it's taken some time employees, especially junior ones, are starting to get better at evaluating their comp offers, specifically because of comment threads like this one.
Dancing with Climate Dissonance
The future of mapping is learned
The UPS or something can take a photo of the product or item they received. They are not verifying what's inside. They are just verifying the weight, a photo from few angles, available only in case of dispute.

Seller can also do that, but a third party doing it with no horse in the race can act like a notary. We are verifying what we saw. A camera box with X pounds of weight.

If seller wants them to verify the inside contents, he needs to Show them the inside contents. Then UPS will be confirming by photos that yes, an item with this serial number is there inside and we packed it.

Its kind of slippery slope. What if its just a empty camera body? What is its a junk camera? What if buyer says these above falsely?
Being Prolific
PGP most certainly _does_ provide data at rest encryption. Efail isn't relevant here - it's a live exploit against an active target, not something that can be used against data at rest for which you lack the keys. And forward secrecy is hardly relevant to the point I made either (other than being a generally desirable feature).

> You need to treat email (encrypted, or not) as if there are copies cached all over the place forever.

That's my _entire point_. Assuming there are copies cached all over the place forever, I would strongly prefer that they were encrypted. How is this not an obviously desirable thing?!

> the moment they do start caring, they can go back and read all of your emails, encrypted or not

I do not believe that this claim is correct. Given a block of PGP encrypted text for which one lacks the private key, I am not aware of the existence of any practical attacks against the algorithm. If such an attack does exist, please point me to it - I would very much like to know about it.
ESPP is available to many (all?) public companies.
Government is anything but efficient, or cheap.

You will end up with multiple redundant bureaucracies overlapping the same areas, spending tax money and blowing up budgets like it's going out of style, skyrocketing our already skyrocketed national debt, and you will lose any choice in the matter.

Good luck trimming those departments and fixing the bloat once it's implemented, because our federal government cannot do that even now.

This article is pie in the sky, it doesn't reflect the realities of the bloat and cost already present in our government.

The most efficiently ran part of our government is the military, and the amount of black holes in the accounting, the cost, it makes your eyes simply boggle.
My max out of pocket spending is $2,600 a year and I can put $3,500 pretax money into my HSA every year which I do. What I am supposed to worried about?
I tried both for about 10 minutes, it seems ClearUrl has rules per domain[1], therefore it can do more than tracking-prevention by remove some common but useless query strings in URL (like 'keyword' in amazon.com), but there is no places for custom rules.

On the other hand, Neat URL's rules apply to all domain, so it won't make short Amazon links, but you can add your own rules.

[1] https://kevinroebert.gitlab.io/ClearUrls/data/data.minify.js...
Well, for whatever it's worth, that registry setting has worked for me for years, across three different versions of LTSC. And it also happens to be the "official" Microsoft way to disable updates.
Actually, pure CSS can be comfortably maintained--if you're willing to limit your project to specific parameters or, simply, use a well-defined methodology (i.e. BEM, OOCSS, ITCSS, etc).

I've read some developers limit their CSS file(s) to 50 lines (max.) while other developers build their CSS on a page-by-page basis dependent on a primary global style sheet (ex: content-sidebar.css is loaded on every static page and post while content-page.css is only loaded on static pages).

Where I currently work at, every static page gets its own CSS if it meets the following two parameters: (1) accessible from the root and (2) not part of a larger (or "nested") set of pages--two rules becomes necessary when you have a team who hates nested pages and prefers an internal taxonomy system. The styles are encapsulated by adding an additional HTML class (usually a sanitized version of the page title and its ID) to the body tag.

For pure CSS websites, OOCSS will be your best friend as it forces serious thought into how you define your style rules. Additional rules also include limiting the use of CSS vars only to elements that have an ID attribute (which is also limited as well).
I learned from his videos almost 10 years ago. Amazing professor, I really need to check those videos again.
But for an engineer they are comparable, because many are deciding between the two. So do you want the bucket of beautiful, fresh Honey Crisps, or 3 month old moldy juice oranges?
I can't see how Jira is similar to Github. Do you mean Gitlab or Stash?
Successful habits through smoothly ratcheting targets
Whether you call the substance of NNs "layers of neurons" or "combinations of (non-)linear functions", I think very often a graphical programming process will be the most ergonomic way to manipulate those essential building blocks.

This is because the building blocks are often "stable" in the software-maintenance sense, and when designing a special-purpose NN most of the hard work seems to be in their configuration and composition. In many projects you'd only ever configure/compose pre-existing functions like "Conv2d" and "Softmax", rather than write them yourself. And the graphical programming model excels at configuration and composition, so it's a natural fit. However, when you have to customize the building blocks, or break away from the "data flowing through functions" pattern, that advantage quickly vanishes.

I'm not claiming that every implementation of a NN would go better with a graphical programming tool. But just like with Audio/DSP tools I can easily see lots of people being able to justify using that kind of thing.
It is under no legal obligation. The authorvis arguing that it has a moral obligation not to censor. Everything you say about 'common carrier' and 'private company' is only relevant to legal, not moral arguments. The author of the paper is arguing that open source projects SHOULD use something other than Discord because Discord is censoring when they SHOULD not. The author brings up no legal arguments.
"Another common mistake iPhone users make is leaving all of their apps open. When you stop using an app without closing is afterwards, the app sits in the background and uses up a small portion of your iPhone’s processing power."

This is entirely false. In fact, closing apps takes more power than leaving them running in the background. This is common knowledge amongst iOS developers.
EU Police Are Planning a Network of Facial Recognition Databases
Do you know that that Net Neutrality ABSOLUTELY allowed for throttling for the reason of network congestion? All TMobile needs to say is we're under heavily load and are allowed to slow everyone down equally. Also network caps were allowed under NN, they're allow to create tiers on bandwidth but not priority.

Are you claiming that T-mobile slowing specific sites or people? Do you have a source for that?
Poor people pay a higher share of their income than rich people.
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that should not be a problem in this case.

the seller is selling a used item and the buyer is searching for a deal.
if lets say ebay offers this protection for sellers and other don't.and lets say all sellers jump to ebay.
all other platforms would lack good deals on used cameras so the buyer if he wants a deal would have to go to ebay and follow the process.
Or that someone found the rod in a landfill and enriched themselves. It would be difficult to prove that it was him.
Presumption of innocence is a right, ie something people, not corporations, have.
Marijuana is a Schedule I federally controlled substance, my friend. Have you no respect for Law?
Tech firms have ESPPs. I first learned of them when I interned at Texas Instruments in 2005.
While I think you're right, that heavily depends on the content of those recordings.

On the low end of the scale someone could have used undiplomatic language that with the right media framing could anger a lot of people, without beeing that damning from an objective angle.

On the other end however you get things that we might want to know about, e.g. when someone in a high office defends a genocide, or says something so clearly evil that the potential damage of not publishing the recording outweighs every individual right.

I am not a fan of Varoufakis, but I could imagine him not taking this decision lightly (otherwise he would have published it way earlier). This points to something closer to the latter category.
The Command Palette
Fairly easy to pull off without any chance of getting caught. Get a tails VM and use some Chinese exchanger to change those coins to monero, veeeery slowly spend the monero.

Odds are you wouldn't be risking any significant punishment either.
I'm not even sure its suitable for gaming based on the criteria from the article. We've set the bar lower each year for what is acceptable service operator behavior. Why should gaming throw away privacy and other basics? Is it impossible to respect simple privacy while providing gaming communications? I don't think so.

Why is discord so delighting in logging everything? Who knows? One low effort answer is: To sell it. Privacy is a commodity that can be sold.

And yes, I use discord for all sorts of purposes.

Hmmm. Might need to rethink things. What alternatives exist? Signal?

The big problem is the ability to create a group chat for text, voice, multimedia sharing, eg images, as part of that chat.
I forgot that MBps is different than mbps. Just a capitalization error.
Mostly correct, essentially all new plans have transfer caps. I still have a vintage Verizon data plan that's bonafide unlimited. Data overage is gotcha-capitalism robbery.
That still means running your own server, and having a machine running 24/7 to host that server. For many, many people nowadays a laptop is their primary and often only machine.
Ask HN: I’ve been falsely accused of an H1B violation, how can I prepare myself?
It may sound contrarian, but I was very, very recently looking at a project that uses three or four different base containers because the people involved can't agree to use the same flavor of linux.

It's more like they are doing the technical equivalent of credit card churning but never closing out the accounts. I have never seen anything like this, and I have, on and off in my career, worked in contexts best described as "software superfund decon expert."
Haven't mobile operators always been free to throttle speeds and create special data classes? I thought net neutrality was only for traditional fixed ISP connections.
I don't get it. Why would anyone wish that?
I’m not skeptical of climate change but I am skeptical that it 100% leads to disaster and the destruction of the earth / human race within 5 / 10 / 20 / 50 years. If the earth isn’t a hellscape within 15 years then scientists will lose whatever credibility they still have with the public - yet another institution that the public disregards. The shrill outrage and climate crisis news pounded at us week after week, month after month means that scientists better be right about this.
You might want to take a look at Haskell (Template Haskell) or Lisp/Clojure macro system. I haven't used Lisp yet, but I am working in Haskell currently.
Here is a presentation that illustrates code generation in Haskell well, although it requires some Haskell knowledge: https://www.slideshare.net/kizzx2/template-haskell-tutorial

Haskell is also a good choice for writing DSLs and embedded DSLs.

Do you have a specific problem you would like to solve?
If they don't have the private keys and use them to move the balance to addresses that only they control, they didn't really seize anything.
It will still cost money to produce and transport even if demand is low so the price will not be negative. Who is going to pay you to take gasoline when they could just burn it themselves very cheaply to get rid of it? Presumably supply will also decrease, refineries will shut down. It may even become more expensive as economies of scale are lost.

In the short term as demand decreases I imagine governments will ramp up taxes to keep the price steady or climbing in order to avoid encouraging people to increase consumption.
How do you earn that much on "backyard" anything?
I don't know, that page seems a bit ambiguous to me:

> New: Just like it sounds. A brand-new, item. Original manufacturer's warranty, if any, still applies, with warranty details included in the listing comments. Original packaging is present for most New items but certain items like shoes may be re-boxed.

> Used - Like New or Open Box: An item in perfect working condition. Original protective wrapping may be missing, but the original packaging is intact and in good condition with minor damage possible. Instructions are included.

Reading those two descriptions, and considering a brand new, never used item, which has had the box opened and then the items re-packed into it as they originally were (in perfect condition, in their original wrap, unused, no fingerprints, etc.), I would definitely consider that "new", not "used - like new". As a buyer I would also have no problem receiving such an item.
Not at all. In the worst possible case, global pandemic, it'd kill maybe one in fifty people. That case is very unlikely.

If you take basic precautions as you would for flu--wash your hands properly, etc.--your odds are even better.

Better to worry about what matters: Quit smoking, use your seat belts, eat healthier, etc.
> Sure, you can stop searching with Google. But Google, being a surveillance company, collects data from many sources besides search.

So choose alternatives to the other things too and/or install a browser plugin that blocks their tracking bugs.

> and buy troves of data from other surveillance companies (Experian, LexisNexis, etc)

The perpetrators in that case are the other surveillance companies. But now we're getting into the real trouble here -- there are places you can get a loan without credit reporting, but you won't get the same interest rate, because the lower interest rate from the places that use credit reporting is a direct result of the way in which credit reporting affects likelihood to repay the loan. So what do you expect to happen to loan interest rates if you make it illegal to set the interest rate based on whether the user consents to credit reporting?

It's problems like that which make privacy regulations hard, and justify applying them primarily to companies that lack effective competition.
I wish this was easier to do as an employee: you see the writing on the wall, they pay you to be an expert in a field, but no one listens to your "we should be moving in this direction". You're met with one of my most annoying phrases: "this is how we've always done it."

The opportunity passes by, now your company is playing catch-up and managers above you are asking how they missed it. If you say "I told you so," you get a reprimand instead of acknowledgement.
So what you're saying is: https://xkcd.com/1831/, except that CS/ML practitioners have a negative impact by trying to contribute without understanding the nuance. I think the next logical question is: how many years of education should you have in order to contribute? 10 years? We'll all be killed by a virus by then :)
They would take pictures of items before packing.