skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty soon you will see telephone companies refusing service, car companies refusing to service cars etc. based on a moral judgement of the customer. Then whey will finish the process of getting anybody accused of wrong-think purged from employment etc.. Hmmmm, where is history was that tried before? What could possibly go wrong?
The original - or the US adaptation?
Has anyone noticed, if you mention chinese, you actively get your point decreased by one point.
OP was in fact not making that argument when I posted my comment.

Obviously I agree that E2E should be the default and that ideally you have no governments snooping. The initial comment was a far less substantive, “US spies too.”
Yeah, bad marketing was: "DEC has it now! But you can't have it."
I'm not sure I agree with the terms you are using.

I get the difference between what is usually called a "bubble" and what is usually called "inflation", but I don't think you can accurately identify a bubble until it has already burst and you do it in retrospect.

"Fairly priced" is strange because every transaction is "fairly priced" in the moment (given the knowledge at the time), but may turn out to be "unfairly priced" if in retrospect it appears to be fraudulent.
This is very anecdotal, but I've noticed that teenagers will often somewhat ape some of the remarks or attitudes from comedians they enjoy. I certainly did so as a teenager, and had peers that did the same.

While a professional comedian doesn't have any power de jure like you mention, I always wonder if their words carry weight in a more implicit way. Society has ultimately put them on a stage in front of an audience, after all. That's not to say that the comedian is responsible for other people's behaviour or thinking, but I can't help but think that the remarks of a comedian are less toothless than your idea might suggest. When someone suggests a comedian look punch up, I wonder if they're engaging with the implicit effect of comedy.
I've been working on diagram.codes, it's not a replacement for Graphviz as my goal is to have a self contained tool that is friendly to non technical users (so flexibility is sacrificed for some diagrams), you may find it useful.
Correct. Why shouldn't they do this? That's why they have the noncompete in the first place.
Did Microsoft's enhancements to Git, particularly the Bloom filter optimizations to git log/blame make it into the mainline?
I recall something like that too, but they worked it a bit like a counter-flow heat exchanger - drain one batch of cells to charge another.
I sold my B2B business and achieved my dreamed...meaningless life?
The other options seem to be the benevolence of Bezos or Twitter condemnation, so not really.
You still occasionally see horses powering boats along canals here in the UK. Of course, they're pulling from the towpath, not actually onboard the boat.

https://www.horsejournals.com/popular/history-heritage/horse...
Some websites accept them when creating an account, but not when trying to log in with that account.
I stopped using multiple monitors when I started using a keyboard-driven tiling window manager. At the time I had a 3-monitor setup in my office. I found that it was more efficient to switch applications by keyboard than to turn my head. I have used a single monitor ever since. At times I put 2 windows side-by-side, but mostly I display a single window at a time.
For years I've been following Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) but I call it the Inverted Pyramid, because I learned it from journalism. Whatever you call it, I wish all followed it.

A lot of people at work, especially leaders, do the opposite: background first. I wonder if they think we'll reject the idea unless they warm us up to it.
Have you looked at SCTP over UDP at all? I use it for this and works great.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs... actually compares them!

If you don't care about initial startup time and FEC you might see zero difference.
Amazon Issues One-Year Pause on Police Use of Facial Recognition Software
I don't know where it comes from, but the distinction's basically 'when a home server becomes home servers', or at least becomes a hobby, as opposed to just setting up and forgetting a Pi-hole once or something.
Alpha 1 build of Ubuntu Unity 20.10 Groovy Gorilla is now available
"No one has ever" doesn't mean "we never will".
Cool idea but no users at the moment, is this new?
I wish I could gift my callouses to beginners. It takes some time to build solid finger tips that can fret consistently at different angles, at the most discouraging part of the learning curve.
If so inclined, support the ACLU:

https://action.aclu.org/give/donate-to-aclu
I was specifically asking because I’d never heard of a robots.txt solution for blocking snippets. None of the responses have included that information.
NYU report calls social media titans to stop outsourcing content moderation
You mean like baking cakes? Conservatives can't have it both ways.
Time for some cloud neutrality.
Javascript is probably not a great example, as it's my goto when I think "this would be better if the language was better".
I can't speak authoritatively about Java, but it looks like map-reduce is available in Java 8 by casting a collection to a stream [0]. Considering the definitions of map and reduce can help one see how they can replace loops/counters:

MAP: Take a collection, say a list/array or a dictionary/hash, and perform some function on each member of the collection, returning a new collection who's members are the return values for each original member. It's a loop, but no loop!

REDUCE: Do the same thing as map, but carry along an output variable, and have your function's output for each member (potentially) mutate that output variable. Summing is a basic example.

I'm not specifically recommending preferring this in Java as a step towards functional programming. It's in, uh, more terse languages like Python and Ruby where the payoff is obvious [1][2]. And among not-functional programming languages, it's not just dynamic languages, either. Consider Dart (and seriously, consider Dart) [3]. Also, Javascript, which has had many features shoehorned-in over the years, has these and related functions.

[0] https://www.java67.com/2016/09/map-reduce-example-java8.html

[1] Double some numbers Python: result = map(lambda x: x + x, array_of_numbers)

[2] In Ruby: result = array_of_numbers.map{|x| x + x}

[3] In Dart: result = arrayOfNumbers.map((x) => x + x).toList();
City defunded the police and it worked
I don't think there is any obligation to do more than follow the law. I believe Amazon is here trying to go one step above and do what it believes is right. Clearly corporations are allowed to put more stringent requirements on itself if it believes that is right.
> have actually been required to maintain a minimum number of prisoners.

All prisons are required to maintain a certain minimum population to justify their operating budget.

At any rate the entire debate of public versus private prisons is laughably flawed because even public prisons are reliant upon commercial service vendors that cater specifically to the prison industry at ludicrously inflated rates to both inmates and tax payers. And both prison types are known to make use of inmates as cheap commercial labor which undervalues the inmates and robs the local economy of manual labor jobs.
Similar tactic on Twitter as well. I'm not even doing it for ad blocking necessarily, just to hide features I don't want like "who to follow" or all those nonstop COVID updates.

In case anyone interested: https://github.com/dawnerd/ublock-filters/blob/master/sites/...
Who Should Engineers Be: Generalists or Specialists?
In the UK we often use the derrogative term "snowflake" to describe people who are usually left leaning & perpetually offended. Judging by Twitter, there are a new generation of snowflakes who are even more offended and angry, they melt away at the first sniff of conflicting opinion.

Whilst I dislike the term, I think life is too short to spend time with people who take themselves and their opinions too seriously. I want spend more time laughing and less time debating.
Tech aims to provide cloud efficiency for databases during Covid-19 pandemic
Harvey and Harvetta, novel computational models for personalised medicine
I reckon the discussion of the history that lead dropbox to switch to a monorepo is more interesting than the git speedups.

The last couple of places I've worked at are large non-tech companies, both orgs were internally using on-prem gitlab/github/bitbucket . These tools make it much easier for teams (or individuals) to create as many new repos as they want without coordinating with anyone else -- for better or worse.

I suspect what happens quite often these days is that people create many repos without consciously thinking about if that's a good idea or not -- because it is familiar and because there are relatively high quality tools/products to let you make more repos.

The small part of the org I currently work in probably has O(200) employees and O(200) git repos.

The last system I worked on in previous company had a single git repo containing all parts of a line of business application (db, API server, frontend, backend servers for batch jobs) but then there were about 40 other git repos containing deployment scripts etc used to deploy just this one system. It made it bloody hard to figure out exactly what version of what script or library was actually used to deploy ( to be fair, a lot of this was a consequence of using ansible modules which expects each module to be in its own git repo, and having a couple of people hack together a lot of ansible modules in a short amount of time without review)
This is already the case today under capitalism. A business may refuse service to anyone provided they are not a member of a protected class (the Civil Rights act and the ADA define a few).
Gofundme.com
你行你上啊 不行别bb（bb=trashtalking/non-favorable comments）

This is literally trash talking Slang in Chinese, because this field is full of young bloated researchers who forget their last name
Personally I am pro facial recognition being used, and believe it is very necessary if police budgets are cut and patrols are reduced. We need a way to hold criminals accountable and bring them to justice. Cameras with facial recognition let us identify their location and send police officers to apprehend criminals, instead of relying on the random chance that an officer spots someone while driving around and matches their face with a list of perps they've seen before.

I haven't heard of any police departments using facial recognition as a definite match. All of them use human confirmation. So basically, the number of false positives does not matter - it's more that facial recognition reduces the total amount of data to a more manageable number that are scrutinized by human eyes.

I don't know why people would be against this. Steps like this moratorium just seem like posturing or an overreaction. The recent policing incidents that have been in the news do not involve facial recognition and there is no reason to tie them in.
Yes, if you refuse to use the features they have that make it easy to just use, it isn't easy to just use.

Why is that a surprise?
Is there an objective way of distinguishing between an activist and a bigot? The CCP can just say that they consider this activist to be a bigot.

Internet platforms should never have been in the business of censorship. Unfortunately, liberals encouraged them to censor their political opponents for short term gain. The result is sad but predictable. Any speech that offends someone powerful is now subject to possible censorship.
While this is true, saying "I got fired from my first and only job in tech. Also I can't provide any professional references because my manager has a grudge against me" can be a red flag for your next employer, or even next few employers (whether justified or not).
Still better in some cases than relying in government taking action :-(

Note that this is a one way relationship, corporations must comply with laws, but can also do other things.
Kelamir, perhaps you are confusing UBlock Origin's policy with that of Adblock Plus.

https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads
I don't think anybody knows how much money the US can 'safely' print. My guess is that we can print quite a bit more, but who knows.

So to answer your question: it's likely that the future probability of safely printing money goes down as more money is printed, thus making that ability a scarce resource.

My intuition is that the federal government giving additional money to the wealthy (as it has done since 2016) is of less marginal value to society than retaining the future ability to print equivalent additional debt.

I could be wrong of course.
I agree with the sentiment in the headline, but want to offer a counter example.

Consider Emacs vs. Notepad++, for the purpose of editing code. Emacs in this example represents "maximal flexibility" for having a configuration interface where almost every aspect of its function can be (re)programmed, and Notepad++ represents "maximal cooperation" for having a configuration interface and limited toolset tailored to the task specifically at hand (editing code). I'm not going to contribute code to either project; submitting patches for a "maximally cooperative" system to adapt it to your use case is just an advanced and inconvenient form of "maximal flexibility".

In my experience this has the opposite relationship to that described in the article. Getting started with Emacs is a significant investment (as per the article, "everything is possible but nothing is easy"), while Notepad++ is pretty much pick-up-and-go out of the box, but over time the extensibility of the former pays off in a better functionality/amount of work ratio.

There is an example of "maximal flexibility" in the article, but none for "maximal cooperation", and I'd like to see one.
Great, but no users :(
The original comment was essentially, “the US does this too.”

That is the comment attempting to constrain the conversation by generalizing it beyond meaning.
In my experience the only time Att or Comcast change your IP is when there is a power outage. I have had to manually update the DNS record for my home computer only once in the last 3 years.
In other screen-related news, I recently ditched my LG 24” 4K display and replaced it with Sidecar and one of my iPads. What a change in perspective! While with the large external display, my MacBook’s internal display felt like an irritating afterthought.

An iPad screen is much closer in size to the MacBook display, and I find I make better use of this more balanced setup than I did my very lopsided previous big monitor and small laptop display configuration. Less can be more.

NB: Sidecar sometimes flakes out on wakeup, so it’s not a total win.
I think the obvious solution is that AVX (or any other extension not in Tremont) will not be supported at all on these CPUs. These are 7W chips, after all.
Seems I misunderstood your previous post, cause everything you wrote I agree with completely.

My only point here is: Currently, people do not trust independent oversight (read: government). And there are probably a few good reasons. So, I don't see how saying "Amazon should only sell this technology with independent oversight" fixes anything as long as the trust problem isn't solved.
> We already made a bundle on this

Closing a profit generating business line is all more difficult than closing an unproven one. Props to folks at Amazon, this a change for the better.

I'm wary about their competitors though. Looks like an opportunity for Microsoft to monopolise the face recognition software market. Can't think of any market force to solve this, and regulation would probably leave a lot of room to game the system.
A Long-Overdue Apology, and Where We Go from Here
Yeah, art was the wrong choice, but you get what I mean.
You can have YT violate your privacy. And you can pay for it and still have them violate your privacy.
In 100% of cases, this is either because someone copied a bad regexp, or they made an explicit decision to not allow local-part wildcarding.

I have in the past normalized email addresses per the rules I know specific providers have to help people login. Did I sign up with mike+hn@ or mike+hackernews@?
It gives proof which I was looking for.
> Rome’s defenses had not been breached in 800 years—not since a sack by the Gauls at the beginning of the fourth century b.c., long before Rome became an imperial power

Every time I am amazed for how long Rome ruled large parts of the world. Fascinating
I honestly think this is a genius idea, think about how easy it would be to expose scams online
Yes, that's the nicer solution, and it seems Apple finally got around to adding support for it as well a while back - for a long time they didn't support it, so name constraints broke validation for Safari and Chrome on macOS.
I wouldn't expect to pay it back in the sense of reducing the debt to zero. A government is (nominally) eternal, and can continue to revolve its debt indefinitely. It doesn't retire or die the way a person does. As long as it pays its interest, it can just borrow again every time a debt comes due.

But it's not reasonable for that debt to grow without limit. It has to be able to pay the interest on the debt, for which it requires revenue. We take in only around $3T a year in total. That's still a large fraction of that $26T debt, but we're also supposed to pay our actual obligations out of that -- which at the moment are over $4T. Eventually the debt service is going to be larger than our revenue, and I just don't see investors being willing to just let that amount ride as new debt.

And yet people will loan us money for 10 years at well under 1% interest. That keeps the interest burden down -- and yet with the debt growing at over $1T per year it can't last forever.
> The blog post goes into this with the long quote about choosing tools and techniques for an appendectomy. How do you capture that sort of context in an email thread?

I mean in terms of our tool, the knowledge is either already in an email or it isn't. It's meant for retaining knowledge that's already being created anyway. You certainly could purposely capture knowledge in email for the purpose of being viewable and searchable in our tool (and some people do), but in that case there may be other better tools.
Yeah, I've had this a few times trying to register accounts for my kids at MYNAME+KIDSNAME@gmail.com
I'm doing something similar. I have a laptop for communications (mainly Zoom, but a bit of Cisco SeeMe as well) and an iMac for remoting into my work machine. Many times I put Zoom on full screen on the laptop, it's great. The screen dedicated to work is not very large (24in), can't wait for a new iMac to be released so I can upgrade. But for the time being, I can function.
My 2 cents: It's a dev job, and you're a dev in need of work so I'd say take it until you find something better.

The unethical part is relative because from that point of view, the people working at FAANG would probably also be responsible for a lot more imprisonments, deaths and destruction than the one you're going to be working for.

Good luck.
With no planning, equipment or preparation, places jumped into trying to something new and drastically different and it failed.

No surprise that it didn't work. But that doesn't mean it can't work. It just seems a bit much to leave out the part about being completely unprepared to administer remote learning in the title.

Perhaps a better title might be along the lines of "Due to complete incompetence, schools failed to implement Remote Learning" Not a great headline, but a better summation of the story.

Also of note, the story clearly was happy with certain biases like “We all know there’s no substitute for learning in a school setting, and many students are struggling and falling far behind where they should be,” said Austin Beutner, superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. There are alternatives that work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_education
MongoDB Realm – Beta
The ACLU used to be on the top of my list of my personal favorite charities, but I've found they've become significantly more reactionary in the last few years, prioritizing emotionally outraging causes over utilitarian causes, so don't donate to them any longer.

With that said, some of their work is still great, and I'm thankful for it.
> main loop example could be done in assembly

'Could' is the word. My example was that it was actually done to have built-in command loops and the building blocks for those (so that they could be used in programs), which could be invoked on demand while a program was running.

> it's pointless mocking a submission for being similar in design

I'm not mocking the submission. The feature is quite valuable and interacting with running software via command loops is great.
> “Because we want to use it as a database layer. Quite risky ah.”

Singapore represent!
I don't really see how this interpretation of what you wrote makes sense.

"Also there seemed to be no substantive discussion prior this about the police using Rekognition until it became a hot button issue."

If you didn't mean that it wasn't an issue that was high in public awareness or concern wouldn't it be tautological that it wasn't high in public awareness or concern until it was a hot button issue? Like, the definition of it becoming a hot button issue is that it's high in public awareness or concern.

Am I misinterpreting something? Did you mean something else and I just got it wrong?
> China stealing IP

Is that relevant to Zoom? In this situation Zoom is competing an open market, and I find it interesting to see multiple world-class apps be innovated in China that compete worldwide. I also find the common over-reaction to being beaten in a “fair“ competition leads to some odd rationalisations from many in the US.

As a software developer in New Zealand, I find the IP laws relating to software within the US and the attempts at projecting those laws worldwide to be rent seeking behaviour at a national level. The US had an analogous issue a while back with the British.
VaR is a fake number for way too many reasons to get into and anyone who paid attention to VaR these past few months would have lost a ridiculous amount of money. I only have experience working for hedge funds and how risk is managed greatly differs from fund/strategy/assets traded. Banks no doubt manage to VaR but banks also supposedly don't have prop trading desks anymore so they function much differently now.
> Independent oversight? So .. like from a government? Cause that's the definition of independent, from the people for the people.

If you do truly hold the belief that governments are "the definition of independent", and that all governments act solely in the best interests of their own citizens...well, to borrow some words from Public Enemy: Can't do nuttin' for ya man.

We're literally talking about the government using facial recognition with no oversight and little public debate and no consent from the public, so you wouldn't have an excuse for coming out with this "government is all of us working together" lorem ipsum even if you were born 30 seconds before the article was posted and didn't know anything about the way that governments actually behave in practice.

You come so very close to getting it, in that you acknowledge that this isn't how governments work in reality, and then you're like "well neither is anything else though" as if that is somehow an argument for a strategy that you kinda-acknowledge cannot work.

And FWIW: I agree, it's fucked, it needs to stop, both in the public and private sector, and anyone that works on such tech should be shunned. But your assumptions are false to fact.