skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counter-counterthought: This does not fly; an enslavement or organ sale contract is invalid and unenforceable under U.S. law regardless of whether one may deem that the signer deserves it because we acknowledge that even entertaining the option causes a substantial societal harm merely by enabling the possibility of abuse.

I'm fairly certain this falls into the same vein. Even if not, there is likely no compensation being offered to the employee over and above their employment for what amounts to a "rental" of their personal device, which is not an asset of the company. The proper course of action on the employer's part is to enter into a good faith negotiation with the employee to come to an agreement on terms and conditions for leasing their personal equipment to the company which the employee is free to stipulate concessions and compensation, and dictate T&C's for, or the company pays for hardware to configure and issue as it pleases.

This is not new or unprecedented. This is how stuff has always worked. The difference is the degree to which management are now technologically enabled in terms of their indulgence of their personal neuroses.
The Case for IE11 Mainstream End of Life in Oct 2020
You made a particularly unfortunate accidental word switch up. I imagine you meant "ravaged".

ravished — _fill (someone) with intense delight; enrapture._
Good idea, thanks. The next time I'll replace "us" with "me, and plenty of others".
I don't agree... I think browsers are not the weak link here.
I'll agree they have a large attack surface, but the communication channel needs to be secure regardless of what client receives it.

> the most an attacker can do is to change the content.

Sure , but I would argue, depending on on the content, that malicious content can be just as bad as malicious code. Just ask anyone who has been phished.
I don't trust Any Windows 10 updates anymore. There's always something.
it's too sharp for me. I don't think there's much antialiasing going on.
MTN Business donated 5k smartphones to Covid-19 field workers in South Africa
And what is taken for granted is that it requires time and effort to get people to ask. Meaning, go to market ASAP!
The website doesn't appear to be compromised or registration expired to me. When I visited the site and presented a boring old chrome on mac useragent I got the following page back.

https://i.postimg.cc/D0GxnRdY/Screen-Shot-2020-05-13-at-1-44...

When I followed the link to the login page I got an error trace.
Wow that is really Amazing, I love you
couldn't be bothered to configure HTTPS on their web server properly.
I'm curious what the short and long-term performance implications are for Elixir with OTP 23. Has anyone offered up opinions or benchmarks?
Securing Linux's master sysadmin command: Sudo
The Blender Foundation endorsed Godot as the modern open source option.
I have done the translation from Scheme to Clojure which raises the possibility that some of the typing could be done gradually with spec; I haven't worked with typed scheme. There's a lot of code in the simplifier which is designed to work with S-expressions containing symbols. Changing them to work with an enriched type carrying unit information would be a big undertaking
Read the Game Engine Black Books by Fabien Sanglard at fabiensanglard.net ! They are among the most beautiful books on game engine I've ever read. I read the PDF and then bought them both to support him because he really, really deserves it. The other articles on his website are also really well-written and super interesting!
I'm not surprised. In my region, delivery companies add on something like $10 (~$5 for the actual delivery, $2 for the company's cut, and another >$2 for the recommended tip). Compare that with "delivery native" companies. I pay like half that for pizza delivery for instance.

I can't afford to get $20-$30 delivery food every week, so I've moved to doing takeout instead.
A few weeks back had published on how to build a container in go programming ... In case interested here are the links:

https://www.polarsparc.com/xhtml/Containers-1.html
https://www.polarsparc.com/xhtml/Containers-2.html
Previous discussion on "The DEA and ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427626
I'm mostly concerned about the storage and bandwidth issues associated with this level of detail.

Are we going to download 500GB games on our Playstation 5s?
Before someone develops Alzheimers, they develop something called Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Not everyone with MCI goes on to develop Alzheimers. Though Alzheimers patients may talk about their work for the rest of their lives, they're not going to be able to reliably function in their work ever again. Period.

As far as MCI goes, potential new interview question: "Stand on either foot and count backwards from 100 by 7 please."

Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor.
And don't forget Swift, named after the biggest philosopher of our time - Taylor Swift.
They’re not cameras, they are metal/RF/infrared/whatever detectors used to detect vehicles waiting at the intersection so lights don’t stop traffic for no reason.

Source: I’ve had to call municipal governments to get the detectors rotated or angled properly due to them not detecting cars and therefore not changing the light to green.

Of course it’s technically possible they also contain cameras, but I have yet to see any proof.
There won't be a solution for long. Ai is making great progress on this part of the Turing test. You can only solve this (for how long?) by making the test harder for real humans and that adds friction.

If you want to solve this legal is your best bet. Make the things bots are doing illegal, and then track down the owners. It is hard but the criminal system is the only thing we have.
I'd prob delete this.
"virtual" is the keyword. They do some magic to not calculate or store most of it, most of the time.
The login is insecure and lacks ssl.
> How about you just do a good job evaluating your employees?

Sadly, bemoaning the capriciousness and unfairness inherent to workplace politics does nothing to diminish the presence of politics in the workplace.

The in-crowd gets the good work, the promotions, the clout, and the money. Everyone else gets to maintain the balls of mud that these people crank out as stepping stones on their way to the next position. Certainly a state of affairs which is appropriate to bemoan! And then when you're done bemoaning, you can either ride the train or get run over by it, your call.

You can say the fancy guys, the "10x engineers", the "thought leaders", the people posting on Twitter all the time aren't the real, true engineers, because they don't stick around to see their efforts through. And maybe you'd even be right about that in a lot of cases. But somehow that notion doesn't seem to bother those people very much...
Who said it was simple?

But advisable, sure if you or anyone is not uncomfortable with what they are being subject to/asked to do as part of a job, YES, I would advise them to quit if deemed necessary.

Would you advise them to stay and subject themselves to they type of treatment they did not agree with?
This is awful. I'm going to send GCP support a message with the small hope that someone can flag it up to the right team.
Shameless plug: we've just beta launched a tool to replicate this always-on intra-office chat remotely. Squawk is an intercom that provides effortless voice chat between remote teams and workers. Take a peek at https://squawk.to
In my experience, there is no way you can tell -- even if you are an Admin -- not unless you are highly skilled and technically competent and possess detailed knowledge and understanding of computer and program behavior.
> It's so strange to me that these studies seem to generalize findings (eg results by country) when one of the key biological factors for how we get vitamin D is skin colour.

They bypass skin color by just measuring levels of Vitamin D directly. This study doesn't care how you got the Vitamin D, it just cares how much you have.

There are tons of problems with this study, but failure to look at skin color isn't one of them.
You don't need UBI for that, just a healthy social welfare system, and a health insurance system that doesn't depend on the job.
I was invited by a friend to contribute to a birthday card on it and loved the experience. Great job, will use this in the future!
They did. It's called Fortnite. It's been fairly distuptive.
I loved it. It helped me understand the nitty gritty of containers.

You can download it for free too: https://gumroad.com/l/containers-zine/buyonegiveone

There is an official option to either pay or get it for free. Do support her if you can.
You guys really need to chill out. If you've got something to say, then say it.
In your edit, you jump to unsubstantiated speculation about the motivation of others. There are many possible explanations.
I think the issue with the initial scenario was that verification emails were kicked off manually and took a long, variable amount of time. Verification wasn't the problem, the delay was imo.

I have a <common-name>@gmail.com account and get to see the shitshow that happens when people signup for services don't validate email. Many people screw up email entry and end up with accounts outside of their control.

What I see, every year:

- $50-200 of gift cards emailed to me from a guy in Australia.

- Various memberships for gyms

- Various loyalty programs.

- An active airline points program, which sent a password request in cleartext a few years ago.
BeebEm in WebAssembly
It's already expensive to eat out. Costs can be 2x or 3x versus making it at home (even for simple dishes, such as pastas). I doesn't seem like either the restaurant nor the delivery service has much power to increase prices. Besides, we mostly want to support the restaurant (who lose a cut), so I'd rather just pick it up myself.

Anecdotally, I've seen more people learning how to prepare food at home, since they have much more time. Personally I've dived into bread making. We're also regularly preparing large dinners and freezing portions.
And Hollywood, just like with Unreal, some studios are adopting Unity instead.
I'm sorry but an unreal engine 5 video needs to start with graphics, tim sweeney, or not start at all.
If you graph covid-19 death rate by latitude, all the warmer latitudes (tropics and southern hemisphere) have significantly lower death rate.

I'd say vitamin D is a proxy for sunnier latitudes.
It's funny how something that has been working for decades on a small scale with mom and pop restaurants doesn't scale up even when you take 25-30% of each order.

I guess that paying software developers $100,000+ each plus IT infrastructure plus worldwide marketing is just too expensive in comparison to a landline. Who would have guessed.

The endgame has always been to monopolize the market with aggressive marketing and huge discounts for customers, financed by VC. People are not supposed to order at restaurants directly but use delivery services so the restaurants need to fire their delivery drivers due to low demand. I'm happy that this hasn't happened so far and I hope all those services die fast.
Linux updates are famously vastly more convenient and reliable than Windows or Mac updates. No forced updates, usually no restart required, usually no breaking changes, usually no BS. I can't say that about either Mac or Windows.
This is pretty clickbaity, any chance we can get a more professional source with additional details?
It should be similar to Tesla handled in their Shanghai factory, and probably better considering that the Fremont team is in the spotlight now.
>> What continues to shock me about HN is how many people seem to think there's a choice between casualties and economic harm.

It seems silly to me that people don't think that balance exists. The question isn't weather it exists, it's how do you calculate it. The human side is considered "easy" since they do keep an estimate:

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

The hard part in this case is projecting anything meaningful in terms of both number of people dead under different scenarios, and the economic losses. Both are super hard to estimate, but to think that kind of balance is somehow "immoral" is kinda short sighted. It's a form of the trolley problem.

D-Day was known in advance to be a huge loss of life. People in places of power sometimes have enormous responsibility in no-win situations. We can hope that they have the right motives.
Learning what's dangerous is costly. Social animals lower the price
'Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content from their platforms within the hour or face a fine of up to 4% of their global revenue under a French law voted in on Wednesday.'
Some delivery companies add an additional fee for smaller orders. A sandwich could end up costing $25-$30.
I would imagine the societies we have well documented are better cases for exploring abolishing private property than Aristotle—decent at constructing ontologies, not exactly a sociologist.

I place my heart in writers far more relevant to today than Madison, of all people—the federal government has never looked so sick, the non-representation of our politicians so obvious. I agree that government is fallible; the answer to that is not to revert to locke (or, more likely, a thin veneer of locke over malthus and hobbes).
I'm a (very) long-time Linux user, and somewhat sad to say, Windows often seems like a better "client" OS (e.g., for connecting to Linux servers).

I retry the Linux GUI occasionally, but usually bounce off within a few days. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.
Agreed on both, it is a masterpiece and it is newly relevant. What I love most about it is the elegance: the economics behind optimizing for minimum deadweight loss and the morality underlying taxation of monopoly power over enterprise are aligned beautifully.
My wife and I don’t. Both have our jobs. But we still work until 5-6.
Other Bethesda studios can still use them. I remember Arkane got ahold of id tech 5 for Dishonored 2, and then renamed it "Void Engine" and added a bunch of bugs.
Group Lasso is one of those things I'm really surprised not to see used more often. Great post.
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It is my understanding that typeface hint systems such as those in Adobe Type 1 and TrueType are "programs" for the purposes of copyright law. But I'm not a lawyer, and I would be interested to hear expert opinions. It used to be my interest to deal with typeface hints.
>Windows 10 users are reporting crashes like the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) after installing the April 14th update

Why is this getting posted the day after May's Patch Tuesday? The title is incredibly misleading.
Speaking as a young, single and lives in an apartment person. As an introvert I've often relied on being present among people to kind of substitute for my social life. With that not being present, it really puts focus on the presence or lack of social network. I'm actually grateful in a way that it has forced me to reach out to people in my network, that I otherwise wouldn't have..
I've heard good things about NixOS. In any case, they're usually clearer about what's being upgraded.
The third lesson might be:

Don't pick a name for your service that when googling it results in a full page of links to the coffee style and not to your service. (So how do I actually visit Cortado??)

EDIT: Found it after clicking around to your About page: https://cortadomail.com/

And what's the stack?? :)
Hi, thanks for the link, very interesting.

Indeed the similarity with Ganeti is only on the surface: being a scalable infrastructure management tool, DRBD as a first-class supported disk backend, etc.

The cluster replication and consensus model is very different: Ganeti has a single "master" node that makes all the decisions and replicates cluster state to other nodes.
Senate defeats amendment to shield browsing histories in FISA searches by 1 vote
Added context to original title. It was:

Senate defeats amendment to shield browsing histories in FISA searches
Little known fact: Rich Hickey initially planned to target .Net CLR and JVM, so he wanted something that has "C", "L", "R", and "J" in the name, that's how Clojure got its name.
There's limited places for your eyes to rest. The end scene with heavily detailed architecture surrounded by smooth desert, does it feel more comfortable than the earlier footage?
How doesn't it solve that problem? It's 100% solved it where I work.
Transport for London: The Impossible of Finances of Fighting a Pandemic
A real testament to how many broken business models have been funded by VCs in the last decade... they can't even make money delivering food when the government has ordered everyone into their homes.
Mac updates are definitely problematic, but I honestly can't remember the last time running apt dist-upgrade has ever broken anything on Debian.
Chandy-Lamport Distributed Snapshots
The C++ part is being slowly replaced by C#, written in the HPC# subset.

And then there is always the possibility to pay for the source code anyway.

This is a business after all.
The real practice of what you'll get is that the employer imposes the test, then is hyper-sensitive to cheating.
I am not sure what other people's experiences have been, but of the six food deliveries I've attempted via major food delivery apps, two were cancelled by the restaurant (ordered after 8pm, but before 10pm) and two did not go through because there were no drivers available (middle of day). I am in an urban area here in the bay area which normally has lots of uber drivers so I'm not sure what is going on. Perhaps I am an outlier.

Of the few places in my neighborhood still open for to go, the line is so long that if you order in advance my food is cold before I can pick it up.

We largely aren't ordering food at this point and just cooking at home. I did order a pizza the other day and it was really good and delivered on time piping hot, but it was a time of low demand.
Even if there is an infinite expanse, there are only finite effect ranges. Does anyone seriously think infinity has any sort of physical impact? I've never seen such an idea in all my years of physics exposure.
It’s been six years already. While not necessarily “always”, that still pretty much covers the current generation.
This whole industry is yet another example of “fake markets” that were created by just massively subsidizing something with VC cash.

Food delivery is hardly a new idea. By basically just having VC’s pay for everyone’s food delivery you can create this great market and app ecosystem that people use. Is this a remotely sustainable business model that could stand on its own? That appears very unlikely at scale.

Hyper-local collaboration between restaurants in delivery that kicks out the app company “middle man” could become a thing. I’ve already seen this sort of thing work well in local markets that basically out-competed Uber etc by just getting their act together and hiring a few developers to build a basic app.
Yes, optical detectors are often used for traffic control.

Traffic cameras which stream visible-light video are also very common. https://www.weatherbug.com/traffic-cam/
Traveling for what?
I ordered once when the fast food places opened for deliveries after our lockdown ended and it was bloody expensive.

The prices as listed in the app was definitely more than the in store price and there was admin fee and a 10% driver tip (not mandatory).
It's surprising to me that on-prem reCAPTCHA isn't a service that seems to exist (based on a quick search).

Even if it's not Google's reCAPTCHA - is it so hard to make something like this that only Google can provide it? Surely the big players would want this component under their control exactly for reasons like "we don't want to have an outage due to a provider outage". Or at least, fail over to a less-preferred backup. Like if Cloudflare had such a service.
JPM will offer them 0.5% lower fees. They can do that because they have lower fixed costs. If you're an exchange, 0.5% increases your profit margin by 10%. Hard to say no to that.
Quartz raises $7.75M for computer vision at construction sites
SpaceX is doing nothing wrong.

If California wants to spend money on training people for new jobs and SpaceX participates then the funds are being spent exactly the way the government wants and achieving the government's objectives (increased employment).

California also wants to subsidize electric cars in order to have less pollution and Tesla makes such cars. Those subsidies are being spent by the government and accomplishing government goals.

This in no way obligates Elon or his companies to support government policy in other areas.
Hardware Store Elimination
This is probably an understated benefit a lot of us in tech don't think about.

If you're selling widgets, and selling 100 units a month, there are growing pains on the path to 100 units a day and 100 units a minute that you can't anticipate, and that billion-dollar retailers have already figured out. So I think to the extent that physical B2C sales is pretty constant across industries, you know that if you're big enough to justify the investment in SAP or a similar ERP platform, there exists a process that you'll need 0.5, 1, or 5 years from now that they have and you can't really articulate today.
If the dialect of Lisp picked does not have full-fledged macros, then it's not really sufficiently different from many other languages.
>Personally I've dived into bread making

Why is it bread for everyone? Can't even buy flour these days to save your life...
I have been particularly amazed by the reported deaths in Singapore, which has been struggling with multiple outbreaks. To date, only 21 people have died from the virus there, supposedly, despite over 25K infections. That is a remarkable contrast to many other countries. Malaysia, Singapore's only land border neighbor, has nearly the same rate.
It's say current UE4 games don't match the details of the UE4 demos they showed on release.
Better or worse kludges than this one? http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/roundy.html
Are you thinking of a different Hussein maybe? This one very often seemed like he always did the best he could.
Non profits don't need to make money for investors.

Just enough to pay their workers and themselves.
Two things:

1) Being a non-technical founder is expensive

2) Being savvy at online marketing means you probably were able to figure out that the cost of customer acquisition was higher than the price people would be willing to pay for the product

The reason businesses do inefficient things is because humans are stupid habit-driven animals. To break them out of their habits, you have to assault them with expensive messaging and literally shake them until they realize you have built a better way.
That's why VPNs exist.
And the restaurants themselves don't make money from this. Is food delivery just a shell game?
There are thousands of native bee species in the Americas beyond bumblebees. Including sweat bees, stingless bees, orchid bee, and carpenter bees.

https://bugguide.net/node/view/475348