skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is reasonable feedback, and the article actually addresses it - I don't think the extension particularly contributes to existing in "a happy state of disinformation all day long." The tweets/posts are all still there, still readable - all of the news remains in your timeline. It's not muting Trump or people who tweet about him. All it's doing is reducing the amount of times you have to see the dude's grotesque visage in your timeline. It was a fun experiment with face detection.
Not awkward at all. Between the capital outlay (and the opportunity cost, and associated risks of that deployed capital), and the work you're doing - it's effort. It's not easy.

Put another way, if it was easy money everyone would be doing it ... and yet, people find other places to put their money in.

>Hoping to stop being a landlord fairly soon

Too easy?
> Government overreach is dangerous too.

SpaceX is currently asking for government handouts:

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-05-12/spacex-mus...

There's no honest fight for truth, justice, and the American way in anything Elon is doing. It's just a company trying to get what it can and give as little as possible back.

Socialize the costs, privatize the profits.
Have you ever personally had a long term career in a corporation that somehow managed the escape velocity to actually become something other than typical? i.e. typically toxic and bound to these laws?
This looks more like another Covid aggregator.

What do you mean by open source platform? The page doesn't talk about open source or a platform
My interetation: This is the point made by Turing.
One can only evaluate input/output. Analysis of methods/structure used by AI can not tell you if that intelligence is real or not, or is there a difference at all.
Could not agree more. As a Fedora user I was mildly intrigued when Podman showed up, I played with it briefly but stopped because most of my projects used docker-compose, which doesn't work with Podman.

When I went to work at Red Hat I decided to really try Podman, and I love it now. Once I discovered that Podman supports Kubernetes Pods (same YAML and all) I realized how clunky docker-compose actually is. Since most of my projects now run in K8s anyway, it's awesome to have the app run as a Pod locally so it can easily be tested with any sidecars in the same configuration.

There are still uses for docker-compose, and I don't expect it to disappear from my life completely any time soon, but Podman does have a great place in my toolkit.
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You don't have to use C++, you have Blueprints, which can control not only shaders, but also game logic and levels.
Businesses are a mix of a bunch of things at once: organizations that provide employment (and so, wages, that people need to live + taxes to the government + spending power for downstream businesses), organizations that pay taxes to the government directly, assets that generate returns to owners, productive capacity for goods (some are essential, some are not, and some are essential for national security), centers of research and development (powering innovation that may improve people's lives), social associations (providing structure and community to the people that work there), culturally relevant institutions (think a locally famous restaurant or factory - Katz's Deli or Tennessee Whiskey) and many more.

So, when a politician wants to pass a bill to help certain businesses, you have to ask which of these are they SAYING they want to improve, and which of these they ACTUALLY improve. If you pass a bill that reduces taxes for capital gains, it's usually proposed as a way to produce more jobs (more capital available for investment), but it may mostly be adding to the returns one enjoys from ownership (in an economy where capital is abundant.) The opposite might be true if the economy is capital-starved.

As far as businesses go, land-ownership and management is clearly rent-seeking, and an unproductive use of capital. Human society doesn't gain new products or services or save labor by the mere increase of land prices. If anything, as we see with the homelessness crisis, it can be totally counterproductive. Using my rubric above, landlords aren't providing many of the benefits of a business (no R&D, not many jobs), so they should be lower on the ladder of businesses worth saving. I would much rather support the bailout of a restaurant with a long history than a landlord.

After all, if returns the fruits of risk taking, losses must be the fruits of losing those bets.
No, that’s not what my comment intended to say. While some exchanges say they will ignore everything after a few hops, blockchain analysis companies can track them fine. Moving Bitcoins between wallet is not anonymity and does not give you plausible deniability against law enforcement.
> After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company: Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes,and record the webpages they visited.

I'm 100 percent positive that I would tell this company to get stuffed if they suggested I put that crap on my personal computer/phone.

This is managerial paranoia. These are probably managers that worked their way up by stepping on people and bumping others into oncoming buses along the way.
I haven't dug into this, and, for the record, I do think vitamin D is likely an important factor here. But I find the two charts to be very worrisome.

Their claim of a very high p value and significant effect is VERY strongly influenced by a single outlier. It's not even close. On this unlabeled graph, I think x axis is vitamin D levels and y axis is deaths per million. They've got ~16 data points in the range of 0-10 deaths, one point at ~20, and one at 65. If you removed the 65 point the line would get a hell of a lot less convincing.
You're thinking about programs, not computation.
Wow, we'll soon be down to only one game engine.

Crytek has financial worries. Plus it's the most difficult to use, because it's almost all C++.

Unity is very accessible thanks to C# scripting, but has bug issues (and no source code).

Unreal Engine looks amazing, is cheap or free for indie studios, and has source code included.

If they can make UE slightly easier to develop for, they'll dominate the market.
Do solar winds do anything to strip these pollutants away?
I spend a lot of time playing with old Macs, and so I’m used to anything internet-related being broken due to TLS or defunct URLs. So, I was pleasantly surprised when installing Mac OS 9 one day that Apple’s NTP servers are still just as they were 20 years ago.
> The H1B hires for FAANG is the global top talent for which companies compete for

If they aren’t wage fixing!
Because the DEA totally has an excuse to own public city weather and traffic cameras.
Industrial chemical polluters are almost unregulated in the US. We can do more
If you're a programmer who wants to write code, you have to use C++
> Unreal Engine 5 will be available in preview in early 2021, and in full release late in 2021, supporting next-generation consoles, current-generation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android.

I wonder if they consider the Switch a current-generation console.
I realize it's not what you're saying, but I don't like the idea that if you can't teach something to others, you don't understand it yourself. Teaching is a skill and it's something that I am aware that I struggle with. I can explain something in great detail to a captive audience and understand it myself personally, but teaching is about getting others to engage with the ideas you're presenting and identifying and elaborating on parts that they don't understand.

Given the content of knowledge sharing sessions that I sit through and the convoluted nature of some of them, I wish that people recognized that presenting information is not all that is required to teach. You can understand something perfectly, but teach it horribly.
The principle would be just nice if it were true, but it has different assumptions that don't hold in quite many situations.

To me, it appears it presumes almost something like Santa Claus existing world, where "everybody gets what he deserves" (where you "evaporate" to some place better for you) which isn't how typically the world functions.

Moreover the concept of "talent" is involved in the principle, which is not something that I would use as the name of the property that I would use for selection of people who'd work on some project.
I would say it's mostly that nobody optimized it (perhaps yet) for that environment. There's generally nothing inherently slow in the VM boot sequence - it's just that this was not a priority, so it's slow. There are some attributes suggesting it could be a good fit for that environment, for example, the VM is generally very small - you can get a full system in ~20MB - and that again wasn't something that was heavily optimized.
>Sometimes websites are just ... present to provide information.

The wikipedia.org website just provides information instead of data input of private sensitive information such as credit-cards. But this doesn't mean high-value targets like Wikipedia should serve plain http.
By 2050—earlier, probably—all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they'll exist only in Newspeak versions, not merely changed into something different, but actually contradictory of what they used to be. Even the literature of The Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like Freedom is Slavery when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
May not affect you, but rather your son at some point in his life.

My mom had a weird case were the Patriot Act's requirements for name construction "broke" the legal name she used for herself (firstname givenmiddlename husbandlastname) on everything. Her driver license was renewed about 8 years ago, and suddenly her DL name was firstname misspelledmaidenlastname husbandlastname. Suddenly her DL didn't match any of her official documentation like her passport, marriage license, and I think all social security / medicare IDs and documentation, plus bank accounts, property records, and on and on.

She couldn't use the DL to change her name with all of the impacted person records because the maiden name used by the DMV was misspelled. Example of the error, DL maiden name was Jordan, but her actual maiden name was Jorden. She challenged the DMV, they pulled up her birth certificate only to find that there was a typo on the birth cert dating back to the 40s. Nobody in all that time caught the typo.

In order to have the birth cert corrected she had to go back to the state she was born in and request a fix. They required out of a list of things, 2 or 3 (can't exactly remember) forms of proof of error. She found one proof easily, but not anything additional. Spent months trying to find anything else that proved she went by Jorden as an unmarried woman. Finally found that my brother's birth certificate required her maiden name and on that she had spelled her maiden name as Jorden. My birth cert issued from a different state did not have her maiden name.

At that point, she was able to apply for a correction with secretary of state, apply for a new DL / passport. Then spent another 1-2 years fixing all SS/medicare, bank, insurance, credit card, property records...

This all happened after her parents had died, and iirc one of the forms of proof she could provide was a birth parent attestation of error. Obviously dead men tell no tales.
The Mandalorian filmed a lot of scenes with UE4 doing real-time rendering onto large LED screens like in that demo. Looked pretty good! Probably more fun and easier for the actors too.
And it's not even effective. There's a quote from one of the more known Total Quality Management evangelists, which stuck with me(paraphrased):

"Don't engage in games with your employees, because you can't win."

He elaborates further explaining that any scheme or incentive system created for a specific behavioral outcome is bound to be exploited or otherwise worked around.
>Just because something is unjustly profitable doesn't mean you want to spend your life doing it

That's not what I said. It is not uncommon for people to claim X is easy or easy-money, when it actually isn't.

>Let me complain about telemarketers, shady supplement makers or aggressive Internet advertises

You can complain, and I'll probably agree. But if you come out and say that you make EASY money running a telemarketer operation, I'll call bull on that.
> I am certain most managers that implement this are antisocial fucks.

I agree.

But the surveillance tools have been around for A LONG TIME, and people haven't really complained much about it.

The thing is whenever people ask questions about how the surveillance is performed and how to respond to it, the answer (in the USA) has traditionally been something like "It's your employer's equipment, they can do whatever they want with their equipment-- don't do anything on it unless you want the man to know."

Now, "the equipment" is at home. I don't think that makes much difference, but yeah, there's some interesting edge cases like turning on camera/microphone in employee home without employee consent.

It makes me wonder about countermeasures.

Is there a way to know if you're being screenshotted or some enterprise shit-ware is logging stuff? Yes, it's always true that it "could happen". I would like to know if it IS happening. Is that even possible?
But someone could MITM your forecast and tell you it wasn't going to rain, leading you to get soaked for lack of wearing rain gear /s

I stopped using the Dashboard weather widget when I realized it was giving me the weather for Minneapolis, Kansas, because it was ignoring the state part of the location, and Kansas comes before Minnesota alphabetically.
You bring up an interesting case.

On the one hand, we have matter of privacy - people presumably request the forecast for their present location, or their travel destination. This may be sensitive information, depending on personal circumstances.

On the other hand, we have usability - in the name of security, people got stopped from using a convenient feature. This seems pretty close to the trouble of planned obsolescence, and seems to be a somewhat common trend, of security running counter to usability and hackability (in the DIY sense).
Absolutely not. It's not about who's hardware it's installed in, it's about abusing privacy, in a completely over-reaching and indefensible way.
How Dolt, a SQL database with Git-like features, shares storage across commits
So Elon Musk can't afford the time to buy a house, but his company can spend the time to make this simulator for kicks.

OK
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Yeah, the reason some company might experience this effect is because the company is managed in a way that makes people want to leave as soon as they have a chance. The problem isn't the employees.
I think we'll see a flip back to VMs once we start seeing a variety of architectures in production - ARM, intel, risc-v.

Managing distributions for a bunch of different architectures is difficult.
Most of the people writing software for the companies listed in this article are freelance workers in lower wage companies. They make close to, and sometimes less than minimum wage for high wage nations.

Startups pay well because speed is so important and faang pays well because their margins are enormous and the risk of those shrinking is worth paying top dollar for the absolute best talent in the world.
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> But in the office, it is much easier to figure out if someone is doing a job well.

I found this odd. The only measure of doing a job well is the output, isn’t it? How is this easier in an office? Plenty of people can spend all day cranking away in Excel or an IDE, with no Facebook or YouTube in sight, producing complete garbage.
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I see the problem: I read the date in American format (mm/dd/yyyy) and it's dd/mm/yyyy. That's a very confusing date format, yyyy/mm/dd is better as an international format.
We blogged about how Dolt shares storage across versions of the database as it changes across commits.
Why do you want to stop?
Maybe you have to include a secure access key with every request? Maybe DarkSky sets a cookie that they do not want anyone to be able to intercept or manipulate?

HTTPS by default is good, because you don't know what could go wrong. What if there's a security vulnerability in the dashboard widget that someone who can intercept and manipulate the response can abuse?
I just tried hCAPTCHA's example and it was basically indistinguishable to me from ReCAPTCHA. I'm unclear on how it's less friction for an end user.
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You know, it's called estimation. Maybe come up with better number?
In the UK, the NHS (National Health Service) recommends a daily vitamin D supplement of 10 micrograms (400 IU). In a previous discussion on Hacker News a few days ago, some posters mentioned this was a low and outdate dosage.

However, the NHS site also warns against taking more than 100 micrograms (4000 IU) of vitamin D. In the previously mentioned HN discussion, some posters stated they take more than this (some have been told to by their doctors).

What the NHS website says:

Taking too many vitamin D supplements over a long period of time can cause too much calcium to build up in the body (hypercalcaemia). This can weaken the bones and damage the kidneys and the heart.

If you choose to take vitamin D supplements, 10 micrograms a day will be enough for most people.

Do not take more than 100 micrograms of vitamin D a day as it could be harmful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23119949
[2] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...
Hah- any chance this was at a large EMR vendor? ;)
I added the option to have classes as an array of strings to facilitate conditional classes. (I then filter out falsy values so I can use a simple

condition && "conditional-class"

At the end of the class list.)
It's not just the US. We've had episodes of this sort of thing in the UK, albeit with clumsier tech, for years. Here's a tale from 2016 [1] about motion sensors under journalists' desks (management later did a reverse ferret, aka volte-face [Edited to add the aka]):

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/11/daily-telegrap...

BTW - "Reverse ferret" is a British media thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_ferret
All you're saying is that IDEA is currently more mature than language server support for most languages. That's obvious, and it doesn't say anything about whether the language server design & protocol itself is good or bad. I don't see anything inherently more generic or extensible about IDEA, they're just further along with more languages implemented.

On top of that most LSP implementations are open source which lowers the cost of entry for developers and avoids lock-in with proprietary IDE's. And the well specified network protocol makes it much more flexible to different dev setups (e.g. run the LSP on more powerful cloud/remote hardware for large apps, use it with docker-based development setups, etc).

So I would argue the exact opposite, the model of proprietary IDE's building walled gardens around so much useful developer tooling for otherwise open-source languages and ecosystems, is what is broken.
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One nice thing about being in a union is that if my upper management ever got a twinkle in their eye about this kind of thing (they wouldn't, because they're cool), I'm 100% sure I could flat out tell them no, AND keep my job.

If I wasn't in a union, I'd like to think I'm personally in a position where I could still tell them no and deal with the consequences. But I know a lot of people won't be in that position.
Connections in high places, and jobs at risk on the ground. For example, in the UK, during the depths of the last recession, a major investigation into secret payments by British Aerospace to parties in the middle east was shuttered by the government after threats by KSA to cancel contracts.

A high court later ruled that stopping the investigation was illegal, but within 2 weeks the House of Lords (who are not popularly elected) overturned the courts ruling in a unanimous vote based on the "public interest".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal#Serious_F...
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I’d be really curious to see what a talented programmer or two could do with the engine by themselves, without bringing an artist on board. Is the Unreal engine flexible enough to do low fidelity, 2D games or are you just better off coding up your own engine at that point?
I don't believe you would be able to get the licensing without the degree so saying the degree doesn't make any difference doesn't seem accurate.
Yep. Mosquitoes for instance.
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> Of course it's worse when the user thinks the connection is encrypted when he actually has no idea who he's talking to.

If a website previously using a self-signed certificate switches to plain HTTP - how will that help me verify the identity of the server the next time I visit?

By removing the self-signed certificate, not only am I still unable to verify the identity of the server, but now my traffic is in plaintext for anyone on the local network to trivially intercept (in addition to whatever stranger I'm sending it to on the other end).

I understand your sentiment, and I know the slippery slope that you are referring to when you say that it's a dangerous mindset to be okay with unverified certificates. Unencrypted communication however, is not a solution to that problem.
That would be interesting, though I wonder whether containers will (sadly) be the answer there.
That used to be the case perhaps, but right now there are two very different parties.

I can totally understand voting third party when the Republican Party is putting forward someone like Romney or McCain. They're not going to rock the boat. Trump is trying sink it, and what remains of the Republican Party is eager to go down with him.
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Somewhat tangential - I was hoping I could download and run a demo to see how things look on my hardware. What are your favorite downloadable graphics demos?
Have the triggers publish to service broker!
> What kind of attack do you have in mind where someone can sniff on the data but not tamper with it?

Passive collection, where you search through the accumulated data after the fact.
Right, because certain things are off-topic and metadiscussion on the is also off topic.
Also important:

• Let users use the product immediately after registration (if possible). Don't make them wait for the verification email. Can haunt them with pop-ups afterwards to get that verification and double-opt-in.

• Support single sign-on via Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, etc.

• When people try to login unsuccessfully (wrong password), send them an email to login via a link. This was a big growth hack for Uber to increase reactivation rates.