skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oceans can be successfully restored by 2050, say scientists
> Discovery is also the only way for a case of this nature to move forward. If it worked as you say it did, companies would be impervious to these sorts of lawsuits.

No they wouldn't, you would just need some actual evidence of the defendant's behavior instead of trying to use the plaintiff's behavior against the defendant.

> Your premise is also flawed, because that is not a reasonable claim. False rape accusations approach nowhere near 50% despite the possibility of similar incentives.

Rape accusations where the accuser has no corroborating evidence whatsoever tend to lose (or have the prosecutor decline to take the case), so that incentive doesn't really exist there unless you start to believe accusers without any additional evidence, at which point the rate of false accusations would skyrocket because they would be successful.

Also, how do you know what percentage of accusations without corroborating evidence are false? (That's legitimately very hard to measure.)

> No, this is something that the plaintiff has carried out in response to the defendants actions.

This is essentially meaningless. Many decisions are trade offs where reasonable people can disagree about what to do, so no matter what an employer does, someone can claim they disagree and would have done the other thing and use it as a pretext to organize a strike.

> A smart company wishing to dismiss a low-performer will have a paper trail that can corroborate their actions and get these sorts of frivolous cases thrown out.

That's assuming the employee was a low-performer or that there was a past pattern of misbehavior. Some people follow procedures right up until the point when they decide to stop.

That also rewards the most nefarious bureaucrats who keep the best records on every little thing anybody has ever done wrong so that they have a pretext to justify firing anybody. So then you're losing any connection to meritorious behavior -- a well-lawyered corporation has the paper trail to fire a real labor organizer while an honest company that isn't so distrustful of their employees gets into trouble when a bad employee starts lobbing false accusations at them.
It’s rather different. It doesn’t automatically track what app you’re using in your phone, rather you record things such as when you’re in a meeting, or actively working, or researching, or going for a run, etc.
I had a call with Google themselves. There were 3-4 on each side. Not only was the UI so confusing that everyone kept making mistakes, the quality was terrible.

Quality aside, I was just blown away by how terrible the UI design was, especially after using Zoom for months.

I, too, want to give Zoom time to respond to this shitstorm of issues. Hopefully it will be like the FB SDK, and they'll handle it.
> I call that 'marketing' though

That's fair, but marketing's main job is to find prospective customers. In a successful organization, marketing and sales scale roughly in lockstep, so marketing is generating enough warm leads for sales.

One can debate how warm/qualified they need to be - and sales and marketing teams do - but the answer isn't "They've expressed no interest at all and might not have ever heard of us."

Your comment applies to cold emails to strangers, too: that's marketing, not sales. It's ineffective, often expensive marketing because it's performed by people with the wrong skill set and goals. Generalizing, a company doing that has over-invested in sales and under-invested in marketing.
There are essentially 2 kinds people, the ones that want to decide what to do with their lives/bodies. And the other kind are the ones that want the govt/authorities to 'protect' them from their own stupidity. The latter also wants the same rule enforced for all people. The vast majority of people are of the latter kind.
Tools and tips for remote machine learning work
F# / Lisp (Racket)
Andrew Yang says the coronavirus outbreak shows why we need basic income
After years of trying to get my parents to use Skype, they have willingly adopted Duo.

I'm not sure if it's ease of use, or reliability, or one being associated with desktop and the other with mobile, but they call on Duo even if I say "Skype".
Amazon Prime allows in-app purchases for Apple users
How could Wikipedia become an AGI?
There was some early work to get Swift running in Haiku: https://github.com/return/swift/commit/afca67566b0ed82f80ded...
I have to say that I'm a sinner, I read these articles and think, well, I don't actually care that much, but its good other people do and hopefully zoom improves what they are doing, but it's doing a good job and it's easy for everyone who needs to use it. Heck, my mums using it for virtual meetups wither her friends (all hovering in the 70s age group)
I mean, why not just read the article? It's on the first page of the article (third page of the pdf, after the cover page and the author's note): The "PID" in "PID Control" stands for "Proportional, Integral, Derivative".
2001-2002 was brutal; I'd built a career around a dying language & I wasn't living in a major tech hub. I lived off savings and contract work from a company that was terrible, but had entrapped customers into their terrible software, so they had a steady cash flow.

By 2008 I was in California and had been working for tech giants. When the housing bubble popped I was laid off but quickly landed at a non-profit. Fun fact: non-profits are exempted from H-1B caps; as long as you can get hired, you can stay. I worked for what most San Francisco techies would have considered laughable wages.

On the other hand, working for that non-profit was probably the portion of my career that will have the highest impact on actual humans. Most tech industry jobs are the poem Ozymandias, except everything turns to dust in 4 years rather than 4,000. If you find yourself unemployed, it's probably better to be underemployed at a nonprofit.
The GNU project and the free software movement in general are pretty out of touch with today's computer users. The most recent billion people who joined the Internet primarily use locked-down mobile devices, not machines capable of installing "the GNU/Linux operating system" as in decades past.

The closest a new user might come to using GNU software is if a web service they connect to happens to use one in the background.
> The stacks of ads

Found your issue, go and use an adblocker (or dns-based adblock filtering)

> revenge porn

Indistinguishable from normal porn

> sexual degradation of women

Just because you are not into extreme bdsm it does not mean that it is garbage.

> red pills

Your 2.5 year olds won't be able to read it. If they somehow find a way then you simply have to explain to them why you think that it is wrong.

The only "bad information" are straight up lies.
> Public health experts all over the world have predicted the magnitude of this sort of thing for decades

That reminds me of all of the finance experts that have been predicting a major asset bubble pop for the last 7 years.
Italy’s social security website hit by major cyber attack
Another Submarine Quarantined: Nowhere Is Out of Reach of Coronavirus
"Additionally, there is meta-analytic evidence to indicate that viewing more pornography and viewing extreme pornography is associated with the sexual objectification of women and more aggressive attitudes (Hald et al., 2010)[0]. Some longitudinal findings link sexual aggression and use of violent pornography, for example, one study of 10-15 year olds in the US found that those who intentionally viewed violent X-rated materials were nearly six times more likely than others to report sexually aggressive behaviour (Ybarra et al. 2011)[1]."[2]

[0] Hald, G.M., Malamuth, N.M., & Yuen, C. (2010). Pornography and attitudes supporting violence against women: Revisiting the relationship in non-experimental studies. Aggressive Behavior.36, 14-20. doi: 10.1002/ab.20328

[1] Ybarra, M.L., Mitchell, K.J., Hamburger, M., Diener-West, M. & Leaf, P.J. (2011). X-rated material and perpetration of sexually aggressive behavior among children and adolescents: Is there a link? Aggressive Behavior, 37, 1–18.

[2] Victoria et al. (2016). Identifying the routes by which children view pornography online: implications for future policy-makers seeking to limit viewing report of expert panel for DCMS. Technical Report. Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Not rigorous of course, but copy/paste/cut should form a group like map/fold, algebraic structures are everywhere.
Next frontier in MSFT, GOOG, AMZN cloud battle is over a world without code
I was on AT&T and their roaming charged me $600 because I accidentally left it on, on a Vancouver trip for a day. They did refund some of that, but T-mobile's free roaming with 4G speeds is a game changer.

Overall T-Mobile has the best bang for buck if you live in an area where they have coverage.

Although US carriers are sometimes quite behind what other countries offer. I am constantly blown away at how cheap and fast cellular internet is in India with Jio. Or south korea, or japan.

Asian countries make US look like a joke when it comes to internet speed and cellular technology.
Yes, but what do you know about its security?

Your user name doesn't give me confidence...
It is interesting to me how some systems are easier to emulate than others, and the ease of emulation seems to correlate somewhat with ease of programming model. The infamous example which comes to mind even far beyond the SNES is of course the Sega Saturn, while on the other end of the spectrum, Dolphin has support for multiple consoles at once.
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What do you mean by faith? Faith that Jesus has already paid (therefore forgiven) you for your sins?
> though I've not no idea what they've got to do with it)

It's the name of the TOTP PAM module they use, which was created by Google: https://github.com/google/google-authenticator-libpam
Is it easy or difficult to see a doctor in China?
Rib Newsletter #10 – Keep Calm and Hack More
Countries vary. Travelers buy SIMs when it's easy (e.g. EU). Some countries have more regulation, surveillance, billing or account provisioning glitches.
Apple does the same thing, where they claim iMessage is ETE encrypted, but the keys (so capabilities to read) are stored on their servers.
I'm not sure what FedRAMP is but I work at an FFRDC and Slack is explicitly banned for all ITAR materials. Mattermost is used, though
You used the GPL and then tried to put it on the App Store? The GPL does not allow that and you should know better.
It will never be trivial to verify outside the most basic of programs.
Easily Audit and Fix macOS Security Settings
Debian Buster (which is "stable" now) defaults to Wayland in Gnome, but you can switch to Xorg at the login window, which I had to do this week for screencasting to work as expected.
I know this is going to sound like a stupid question, but how tall are you? How healthy (e.g. weight, posture, etc.) do you look. Do people consider you good looking?

Sadly, your physical presence makes a difference in how others start perceiving you and will probably dictate what approach you take to establish yourself. A lot of self-help leadership books seem to be written by guys who are at or over 6ft tall.

It doesn't mean you cannot be perceived as good leader without a leading man presence, but you do have to work at it differently. Advice for a classically dashing 6'2" guys often doesn't work for 5'4" women. You need to impress the people making that decisions and they often have the look. It sucks, but we cannot see other people's souls. Sorry for your loss, it sucks and is a bummer but don't let it break you, its just their opinion and probably isn't close to the truth.
If you found this interesting, the author's website has a number of informative, in-depth articles about emulator development & console architectures: https://byuu.net/
I stopped going into the office a decade ago to be a home dad. I raised 3 kids at home while doing home duties and casual web dev and server support. It is very isolating and I think a lot of people are going to struggle with it. I have always been socially awkward, I didn't grow up with siblings and have always been comfortable with silence and something to read. But even I struggled a bit. I think most people should make extra time to keep in touch with colleagues and do video meetups and fun stuff with them. It might be disruptive to work and some people might want to do something else instead but I think the effort probably needs to be made.
Zoom's hidden doctrine "convenience over privacy" works really well. They assume their user wouldn't care too much about security and privacy, and sadly, for the vast majority, they assumed correct.
What browser are you using? Ever since firefox 3.6 or so I never had such an issue.
The quality send to suffer when there are a large number of participants.

Which is the reason zoom gets used so much.
See also the debate about adding m68k backend to LLVM.

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-March/140282....

m68k seems to be mostly a hobbyist interest rather than a commercial interest at this point. The problem is, if the person whose hobby it is gets busy and then either the whole project is getting held up by that backend, or it just gets removed.

At least in case of PPC and System z, IBM has a commercial interest in making LLVM work for them – and the former has some hobbyist/retrocomputing benefits as an unplanned side-effect. (System z, much less so – modern System z is 64-bit, whereas most of the mainframe hobbyist community focus is on the legacy pre-1980s 24-bit architecture.)
http://www.workrave.org/

Works on Windows (XP or newer) and Linux. Free.

Configurable time limits for micro/normal breaks, and a daily limit. Flashes a popup when nearing the limit, then blanks your screen and starts the break timer. Option to postpone the break a limited number of times, or skip the break. Tracks your postpone/skip history and overall usage history so you can be disappointed in yourself for skipping breaks too often. Auto-detects when you have been away from the computer and counts that as break time.
What you quoted doesn't actually say anything about what happens when a trap representation is read into a character type. Such a read is still "using" the value at least in the everyday sense of the word, so in the absence of something explicitly to the contrary, as far as I can see the part of the standard that states that using an uninitialised value is UB stil applies.

Per http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/dr_451.htm , the current standard is unclear in some respects, but the latest committee view is that that under the current standard any library function (including memcpy) may exhibit undefined behaviour when called with uninitialized memory, even when the uninitialized memory is of character type or is propagated through values of character type.
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We Should All Be Wearing (and Making) Face Masks
Zoom has also pulled a lot of shady crap under the hood, so regardless of their 'top dog' status, they are getting called to the carpet to explain and remedy their bs.

Articles about factory worker conditions these days are about Amazon...
I was a developer for about 11 years before I started in leaderships positions "by force" (in a fast growing startup). For me as a technical person, being a manager is very difficult, there are a lot of subtleties of people interaction got completely lost to me several times... One time I "gave a rise" to a guy and the way I put it he felt I was conditioning the rise to something else... it was subtle and I did not know until after a year later while talking to him.

People relationships are difficult. Then there is the "game" to play as part being part of a company (once you are at the manager/director/vp level, you have to understand that you represent the company to your peers. I have something very interesting happen to me, one week I was a developer, peer of my colleagues, we joked a lot and had a lot of fun interactions at work. Next week I become "director of Engineering", become their boss, and the interaction changed completely (it was not something I did, it literally changed from one day to another).

Now, on the current state of things, I would not search a lot to what the company told you, regarding why they let you go. At a previous startup I was, at some point we had to make cuts, and all the VPs and C levels sat down in a meeting looking at each of our teams, and then each team had to decide to cut 2 people. It was ruthless, and every manager had to explain to the person why they were let go...

The best thing would be, if you had a more friendly relation with your manager, that now, after the fact, you can have a informal call with him and ask him, what do you think you could have done better in general to avoid being affected by the layoffs in your company.
Telling people not to be "moral policemen" and discriminate against gay people makes me a moral policeman, eh?
Literally an example from today:

updateDescription(image) {
let description = window.prompt(
"Update description",
image.description
);
if (description !== null && description !== image.description) {
actions.doUpdate(image, { description });
}
},
updateCredit(image) {
let credit = window.prompt("Update credit", image.credit);
if (credit !== null && credit !== image.credit) {
actions.doUpdate(image, { credit });
}
},

I waffled on whether to deduplicate it or let it be. What was the Obvious Right Choice?
Right, so you would rather die than risk germ infection?
Perhaps the experts should stop lying to the public.
Are 4 letter brand names making our kids stupid? Before Zoom, products had longer names like WebEx, Hangouts and GoToMeeting. Longer names challenge our children to learn how to spell longer, more complex words, even if they are completely made up. “I fear for the children, and therefore recommend that parents and teachers keep their children from using Zoom.” - Doctor quote from some chiropractor

/s Sorry, I had to call it. I expect the headline next week.
You’re right. At least half of it should be spent making ventilators.
This is really great advice. But it's important to know your audience too. I'm a fairly (very) blunt person. I'd follow this advice to the letter with most of my bosses and deal with fallout when necessary. At least that's my go to method.

But I've found that at times it's better to work within the system a little bit like. IMing my boss if we're in the meeting to check with him first.
I really, really liked Sococo (https://www.sococo.com/), which I used at my previous job. The feeling of presence was so key, and not needing to fire up a room and share a link, but instead, just grab a coworker or knock on a door, was so nice.

Wish I saw people talking about this one :-)

I use Zoom at my current job, and it's fine (except that I can never find the mute and share buttons when I need them), but not magical.
Health, physiology, and beauty is part of leadership, but we don't know much about this person.
08 - Cut all losses and moved into the cheapest possible place to rent in less than desirable neighborhood. Didn't buy a single thing that wasn't needed to survive. Found myself humbled AF yet constantly starving for success (and food!). Worked 60-70 hr weeks between 2 jobs (every single day of the week) for FIVE years straight (no exaggerations) until the storm passed and I was in a better place. Ended up selling the company I formed during that period just last year :)

Learned a ton about myself and the world outside...never been so alive!
Is there any reason to believe reported cases are an accurate measure of total actual cases in any country (other than maybe Singapore and South Korea)?
In response to:

> Fun aside: I’ve always assumed this is why Core Foundation exists—to provide a common interface between Carbon and Cocoa. I don’t actually have a citation for this, though.

This (very enjoyable) blog post from 2006 confirms it: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/bridge.html. I believe ridiculous_fish was working at Apple at the time.
Wtf dude.

Take a breath, everyone is getting laid off. Don't blame yourself, that's a road to hell you don't want to go down right now.
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Experience:

- Currently Lead SRE at a healthcare startup, working on Platform Engineering, focusing on our cloud architecture's security and compliance aspects because we store a lot of sensitive patient information;

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- Passionate about Programming Language Theory, compilers, and the more formal/philosophical aspects of Computer Science;

- Previous experience with managing people and projects, with excellent reviews and feedback from my peers;

- Looking for Tech-Lead or similar positions in areas of R&D, Platform, or SRE, and to help with pushing forward strategic projects of high technical difficulty;

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They sound like terrible managers.

If they are unable to evaluate your actual work, the only way they can evaluate you is based on your verbal contributions during a meeting.

As they are clearly unable to coach you, they are probably relying on you to coach the younger workers.

Just realize that each manager is looking for a different set of things. Some managers would be perfectly happy with you quietly writing applications well.

Nobody knows how to be a manager, and while some with encouragement can learn, some people either don't have the inclination or correct temperament.

I personally would never push someone into management or push the person out if that person was happiest as a individual contributor.

The world needs more makers, not more managers.

All the best!
> but you certainly can’t prove there’s nothing.

Okay, but that's not a rousing defense. That's the kind of stuff you say when you want to retreat and say "stop bothering me."
Hopefully soon! A signal-like group video package that "just worked" with some processes for key verification would be outstanding.
While the BSD userland is very high quality (unlike Linux), the kernels aren't as good as Linux. The performance is noticeably worse, many of drivers are absent, and some kernel interfaces are different. Moreover, they tend to be less flexible than Linux as well. I guarantee that it would be easier to switch to LLVM from GCC or replace glibc with musl than swap out the kernel with any BSD.
Definitely, it is always good to keep in the back of our minds that FOSS is developed by people in their free time and on a volunteering basis. No one owes us anything. No one should feel entitled. I am sorry if my complains come out as such. Python runs the world and it is because of the contributions of many amazing people.
m68k isn't just one person's hobby however - there's a sizeable retrocomputing community around it.

> and then either the whole project is getting held up by that backend, or it just gets removed.

LLVM has a notion of "experimental" backends that's precisely meant to avoid this. Unfortunately it's a bit misused at present, with backends that have little reason to be "experimental" being marked as such for historical reasons, while stuff like m68k (and perhaps this new PPC-based stuff) that could use it gets left out altogether. This should be fixed.
The Account of How Bird Laid Off 406 People via a Dystopian Zoom Webinar