skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is nice, but doesn't solve the real problem. Its 2020 and its really hard to find something. Ideally there would be one place to organize/manipulate different information/date providers and email would just be one of many.

For example: If I get a file via email, I might also have a local copy that got updated and is newer. Part of the conversation might not have happened on email but on [random messenger app] and on one of the many [things with a CPU] that I own. Even with a Hey like system, the situation stays almost the same → the user has to remember "stuff" and look-up different places to find what he is searching for → this is sooo 1990. </rant>
That's how it has to work.
Pretty much impossible to stay out of politics these days if you have a platform that can serve public content.
The Zetas weren't the result of disbanding, they openly defected from state security to choose crime!
I think digital skills are as important as the three Rs of traditional education (Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic), and deserve as much attention. TBC, IMHO "digital skills" encompass far more than learning about files/folders and using a word processor, and are probably worth unpacking over a decade of education, much like the other three topics. (though it is early enough to crystallize into a definite formal curriculum -- which makes it difficult to integrate into the current school system)

As people's lives come to be dominated by computing/algorithmic/automation technology, people need to be able to make sense of the world in order to be able to function as intelligent beings with autonomy/agency. Otherwise they will be fundamentally dependent on the feudal lords who control their information+computing experience. Market forces will create apps/services that will cater to certain profitable use-cases, but that is far from sufficient.

Over the last decade, we're seeing adults continue to fail miserably at this -- which indicates that their level of preparation is woefully inadequate. As a concrete example, it is difficult to understand how stupid a computer is (even massively-hyped AI models) till you try to implement a statistical reasoning model and see it stumble repeatedly in an apparently "simple", "common-sense" use case. Once you've gone through that exercise, you will never take the AI-hype or automated ranking/rating/etc at face value. Enough foundational knowledge to tell apart snake-oil salesmen (eg: predicting criminal recidivism from mugshots) is absolutely crucial as these things become ubiquitous and form a Kafkaesque network that determines the quality of people's lives (online shopping, online news/info, social media, credit rating, job-eligibility filtering, smart contracts, digital currency, etc.). Heck, most people currently cannot grok the security-vs-recoverability tradeoff of fully-encrypted information on their phones!

For the literate age, we decided that reading & writing would be foundational skills for almost all human experience. If the computing revolution is as important as the print revolution, we must give as much importance to "digital skills".
Wow, those aren't Catalyst?! They certainly fooled me!

Mind, I'm not sure that's any better: Apple is still setting a pretty clear example for future Mac apps. Mac-specific UIs are out, iOS-esque paradigms are in.
I would have thought that the workers at GitHub would know as much as anyone that restricting access to one Git service would have a negligible impact on ICE. The real impact would be on GitHub themselves, as they would lose any opportunity to help guide policy or technology at ICE or any other government agency.

It may feel better to watch and yell from the outside, and you may have the moral high ground in doing so. But change happens from the inside. We need more companies like GitHub working with agencies to reform their policies.

Also, change is slow. Protests are step one, but there are probably 235 more steps until change is realized. Slow and steady, my friends.

EDIT: To answer the questions about how a company influences policy. Companies influence policy all. the. time. Look at ALEC[1] look at PACs. Look at the fact that Microsoft is not going to be offering facial recognition tech until privacy protections are passed. Not saying ALEC is good, but it exists.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legislative_Exchange_...
That's already the case with sites like Twitter. In order to remove the trending pane in uBO, I had to rely on a11y attributes:

##div[aria-label="Timeline: Trending now"]
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I know. I'm not saying it's compliant.
Not to mention you'd have to know where to aim your neutrino beam...
Is GitHub a hug part of what ICE ... does?

Personally I wouldn't want to work for a company actually detaining people, but call me terrible but I'm not sure I'd feel the same about letting them pay to host some code...
That doesn’t logically follow, the 2A precludes government restriction rather than permitting one owning a particular weapon.
Don't feed the political beast, because once fed, it's never enough.
Will do - will be my first wikipedia edit - thanks!
Western Digital-branded drives not showing on BackBlaze hard drive reliability tables probably left WD in a blindspot for people looking for reliable drives anyways.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1...
Any good analysis on this? My initial reaction is to be aghast (but then I can't believe QI is actually law)

I remember reading something along the lines of "it's because SCOTUS believes the legislature needs to act" rather than "it's because the SCOTUS thinks Qualified Immunity is fine and dandy" but I'd love to hear some informed opinions.
I think that site just popped me a scareware scam?
give an inch and they'll burn down your house demanding a mile
https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1234640048328282113

This is not an email client, but an end-to-end service with clients controlling everything. That’s an immediate no for me. I have multiple email domains hosted by different providers (including myself), they can’t be merged, and I’m not gonna let a single company (Big Tech or not) cannibalize everything anyway. I’m also not gonna use different clients for different domains on each platform (unless work mandates something, in which case I’ll single out work).

Oh, and they don’t support custom domains at the moment.

Some features seem nice though.
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Well a marriage license is not actually a document certifying that you are married, it is a document granting you the right to get married in the state that issued it. You can't get a marriage license in Indiana and use it to get married in Illinois.

Once you do get married, though, the marriage itself becomes a public record of the state that would be protected under the Full Faith & Credit clause. But as I mentioned in my previous comment, Obergefell v. Hodges had absolutely nothing to do with marriage licensing and states recognizing each other's licenses.
Yes, but the statement that simply ignoring the cookie banner will result in no cookies being set is still wrong. The reason being that almost no sites are compliant.
It's hard to know where to even begin with this story.

Yes, it's utterly horrible and scummy behavior. Let's just get that out of the way.

But who on earth could have thought that morals notwithstanding it was even a vaguely sensible thing to do from a personal perspective to undertake a campaign of harassment that you'd think they must have known if it got out would result (in a minimum) at them being run out the company and likely blackballed from the industry.

The article does suggest this may have gone pretty far up which, I suppose, says something about the entire leadership team if true.
There is no such thing as a free account, just like there is no such thing as a free lunch
Ugh, yes, I assure you that some corporate clients will even try to pin the actual leaf certificate; pinning an intermediate or root is almost good behavior for them. (Honestly, the number of times I had to tell our support people that no, we would not support customers trying to pin our AWS-issued certificates, and no, I couldn't promise to notify them even if I wanted to since AWS could just rotate them at will...)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AviSynth ?

[2] http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page

[3] https://github.com/AviSynth/AviSynthPlus/

[4] https://avs-plus.net/

[5] http://avspmod.github.io/

[6] http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=153248

and from there on an endless deep dive into almost bitrotten software, which nonetheless refuses to die, because the concepts are viable, and liked by many.

Also: [7] http://www.vapoursynth.com/ and

[8] https://github.com/vapoursynth/vapoursynth

and recursing deep dive into

[9] http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?f=82
Dupe (I posted this one actually): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23527732
If you're in your mid 30s now you'd be in your early 20s when Avatar the Last Airbender originally aired. Since it's a children's show (Nickelodeon), you wouldn't have been in the target demographic, so I don't think that's unusual.

I'm your age and I never even heard of Avatar the Last Airbender. I'm sure my younger cousins know about it.
I am not someone who disagrees with you, so sorry for that. Agreed that the PE ratio is bonkers.

They were in the right place at the right time. But the landscape is changing quickly, with WebRTC finally solid and more or less ubiquitous. Security and privacy are also top of mind for many, and Zoom has quite some baggage there.
The current plan is to keep everyone in "groups", think friends at a table, small (max 6). The server will maintain peer connections with everyone in the "room" and broadcast the singer via that peering. As the singer changes, the server will simply allow the KJ to pick who is getting broadcast over the other server -> client peer.
Well, there is Coq, the interactive theorem prover. I quite like the name (and the logo, which is a rooster.)
This is circular reasoning.

It was possible to game them because the contracts were not priced correctly.

We know the contracts were not priced correctly because it was possible to game them.
The Imbox: It’s not a typo
How to read a coronavirus study, or any scientific paper
Used Basecamp in school - it seemed pretty cool/well-designed but it wasn't really useful for me
This link gives a 404, the best link I could find is https://pypi.org/project/brunette/ but this links back to the missing github link.
It was initially used to observe proton decay. By not detecting a decaying proton in the water tank, they could place the mean lifetime of a proton above 10^30 years.
> when the authority is indeed an expert.

can someone be a considered authority without being an expert.

edit:

I am using authority from the example in wikipedia

"One example of the use of the appeal to authority in science dates to 1923,[20] when leading American zoologist Theophilus Painter declared, based on poor data and conflicting observations he had made,[21][22] that humans had 24 pairs of chromosomes. From the 1920s until 1956,[23] scientists propagated this "fact" based on Painter's authority"

Painter presumably was an expert. So not sure why you are saying why its ok if the person is an expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
> 2,300 gun deaths a month? Because those numbers have been consistent for decades

This is also a stupid, unnecessary, ongoing tragedy that America insists cannot be avoided despite being the only country where mass shootings happen anything like as regularly.
One side gets de-humanized and shown the door. I'll let you guess which side that is.

This is why I think good people prefer a-political companies.
It is sad, that there are people who have commitments/families, and they are taken hostage by this.
They teach "programming" but it's really making a simple web page.
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There's a big strain of consequentialism running through the modern left - no neutral service is held as neutral if it permits the 'wrong' customers.
> I suspect most systems that still need to connect to the internet trust the ISRG root nowadays.

There are tons of systems that do not -- particularly in the enterprise. I manage web servers for a mission-critical healthcare-related SaaS. We occasionally encounter TLS issues even with Globalsign root certificates -- far more distributed than ISRG.

We ended up switching to DigiCert last year and it helped reduce the number of TLS-related failures reported to us.

We could never switch to Let's Encrypt / ISRG for that reason. Even if ISRG has 95% distribution of their root certificate, that's not good enough for mission-critical enterprise.

I'm not at all surprised that Heroku had to roll back their TLS certificate back to DigiCert -- DigiCert is what you want if need compatibility with the highest number of clients.
Is there a difference between the statements "Remote work works" and "It works for some people, in some situations." It's not like Basecamp said "Remote work works for everyone all the time in every situation ever." They just said it does work, as a counterpoint to the traditional IT company belief that tech is something that's hard to do remotely because of those "watercooler moments". To be honest, they don't even say it's necessarily better than office-based work as far as the work is concerned; they only say it's possible, and morally and economically better. It could be morally and economically better despite producing worse results. That would need to be measured at any given company who tried it.

C-19 lockdown has proven that pretty much every tech company is capable of working remotely. "Remote work works" is true.
This doesn't actually predict weather, though, correct? It just sits on your roof and tells you whether it's raining? So... the same could be achieved by sticking your hand out of the window?
I've worked remotely now for just shy of 10 years in a row and more like 15 years total out of a 25 year IT career.

I have found the biggest hurdles to remote work usually boil down to one thing, your clients or employer and fellow employees, who still "go into" an office, need to buy into the remote worker situation. This usually entails wrapping their heads around fewer meetings (even adhoc ones) and utilizing online tools exclusively...namely Slack, Teams, Skype, etc.

What has helped tremendously is that since most companies adopted a sudden and an across the board "work from home" policy, it's forced collaboration via different avenues. Those of us who already worked from home, now are included in meetings and discussions that we would normally be left out of because our face wasn't physically in an office.

I'm hopeful that we'll see a broader adoption rate even for those that still like the physical office, will be able to work from home on an as wanted basis..sick kid....sick spouse...deliveries expected...plumbing needs fixed..etc.
> I happen to agree with Justice Gorsuch’s majority opinion (the existing law already covers such discrimination, in view of the text and existing judicial gloss on the text).

Could you expand on this a bit? I'm genuinely asking. The article sums up the contention pretty well:

> The legal fight focused on the definition of “sex” in Title VII. The plaintiffs, along with civil rights groups and many large companies, had argued that discriminating against gay and transgender workers was inherently based on their sex and consequently was illegal.

At first glance, I think I agree with Judge Lynch. Its great that these protections extend to more people, but I think the argument is tenuous. A gay man and a straight man have the same sex, so discrimination against the gay man is not really based on sex, but on sexual orientation.

And, as I understand it, the difference between sex and gender is very important to transgender people. Biological sex != the gender you identify as, that's why we say trans_gender_ and not trans_sex_ . How does a MTF trans person who has not undergone surgery / hormone treatment / sex change answer if asked what her sex is? Again, genuine question.

I guess this is a "spirit of the law" situation, where "sex" doesn't just mean "sex", but all sex /gender/orientation/ groupings of people.

Personally, I think it would have been ideal to amend the law and explicitly add gay / transgender people as a protected class. This avoids the possibility of another case in a few years overturning this one. But the current congress would never write such a law.
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I thought the greater implication of your parenthetical was that there is a danger that down the line fewer books of probably less quality would end up being written.

I gave an example in the context of encyclopedias where vastly more articles of at least equal quality ended up being written.

I'm asking for any citation you can give of trends that go in the opposite direction of encyclopedias, music recordings, blogs, citizen journalism, propaganda, to name a few. It's my observation that when the cost to publish and read hits essentially zero the amount of content goes up, not down.
That's a paid account. It's just paid with Metadata rather than dollars.
Doing cheap PR moves like blacking out logos or posting Twitter "support" posts from CEO accounts or announcing the end of default branches named "master" is, as I said, cheap. The real issue is dealing with the elephants in the room, such as the aforementioned ICE contract of GitHub.

It is about time that corporations, with GitHub here as an example, noticed that backing this or that or another minority or "trying" to solve some medial issue only where it suits them PR-wise is simply abusing that minority in yet another way; it is a means of using that minority, and all the people who constitute that minority, as a tool for public relation stunts and political "but we support X, see?" newspeak that brings no actual change.

I'm genuinely curious if GitHub does support Black and Brown people enough to actually make that support noticeable for everyday lives of these folk.
What I take away from this is that soon it may make sense to invest in unicorns! Initially investing in money losing companies was a contrarian investment strategy. Then everyone piled in, making it an even better investment strategy as assets became overpriced. Think Uber. And authentic opportunities became scarce, think Zume.

The Indie.vc model is contrarian and probably doing well. It will continue to do well as it becomes imitated. And then the cycle will repeat. So keep your eye on unpopular unicorns!
I'm arguing from the point of view that 'VRAM to VRAM' (or maybe "shared I/O RAM" in Amiga's case) is a subset of 'RAM to VRAM'. You seem to be arguing from the point of view that just "RAM" in this context means non-video RAM. That's a fair assumption, and I understood it from your last post, but I don't think the difference is significant to the general point that we've had various forms of DMA-based 2D video acceleration for a long time.
That's the same point though - it's just as "wrong" to match 'ß' twice in Schlu[ß][sz]ene as it is to match 'a' once in [Ä]mpel.

Admittedly German isn't my first language. But it seems odd to be permissive in one case, but more restrictive in the other. In my experience there are two cases for searching: exact matches, like you'd expect an editor's find and replace, and more permissive searches, where you might expect to skip through several matches to find what you're looking for. In this second case, what's the advantage of being more exclusive in one case, then less exclusive in the other? Why not have a more permissive default (as mentioned by the other user's reply regarding Firefox's configurable search), even if it's technically incorrect?
Yeah! Substack > Medium.
So basically we have the equivalent of "millenials have ruined the housing market" in terns of reporting quality here.
Find something negative that happened, and blame it on a weired group of people without checking if the theory is even plausible.

Right up there with "4chan elected trump" and "immigrants have ruined the economy"
i wish someone of these workers quit. Tons of IT jobs even in covid.

If you are not quitting then you are also profiting form ICE contract.
I don't think there's enough information in the article to determine that she committed fraud. What was the nature of the inside information, exactly?
Cops kill about 1600 people total (justified and non-justified combined) per year in the US. There are about 16,000 murders per year in the US. Out of the ~1550 people killed by police in 2019, about 40 were unarmed.

You should be much more concerned about a criminal harming you than a police officer.
What a bummer that workers are publicly demanding this, and (presumably) seeking press attention on it.

I'm no fan of ICE – a very large percentage of my friends in the US are immigrants, and I generally want my country to be a welcoming one. ICE has certainly committed unethical and probably illegal acts (probably true of most federal agencies).

But to expect that a _federal agency_ will be denied service from a private entity, especially for essentially political reasons, is lunacy. It'd attract extreme negative attention from the rest of the government, and great fear from all paying customers that an internet mob could separate them from their code at any time.

We should absolutely be lobbying hard for changes to immigration law, the restrictions placed on ICE, and justice for their wrongdoings.

But I can't see how this helps improve immigration, and it certainly seems likely to cause a lot of negative consequences for GitHub. The employees are putting their employer in a "damned if they do, damned if they don't" situation.

EDIT: Just to clarify, I love the vision of a world where executives don't take actions their workers will protest. I think that in order to get there, the protests need to be reasonable, and I think this one isn't.

EDIT DISCLAIMER: I own a small amount of MSFT stock, which was not on my mind as I wrote this. I use GitHub's free service and have no other relationship I can think of with MSFT or GitHub.
"We show that this architecture gives rise to universal learning capabilities in the limit, with effective model capacity increasing as a function of network size in a manner comparable with deep ReLU networks."

What exactly this statement means?
What for? Your submission has two points and zero comments. There is nothing to merge.

[parent comment asked for a merge, now edited]

Also, it's not a dupe. You submitted a different article.
I use the free version of "PDF-XChange Editor", under Windows. No idea if that is the best choice, but it works fine for me.
Is modern K-pop a South Korea gov psy-op?
> Titles like these make people think that the Supreme Court is “endorsing” or “rejecting” gay and transgender worker protections.

As one of the dissents pointed out, when the liberal wing of the Supreme Court just happens (time and again) to interpret a statute in a way that advances liberal ideological objectives, and the conservative wing just happens (time and again) to interpret a statute in a way that advances conservative ideological objectives, it is not unreasonable for the general public to assume that the Court is indeed endorsing or rejecting based on ideology, rather than interpreting the law.

Here's an interesting analysis of how and when ideology comes into play:

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/supreme-cou...
> "it's because SCOTUS believes the legislature needs to act"

The SC made up modern QI out of thin air on their own, so this feels like a cop-out.
Yes, they have. You see this on a lot of Super Mario 64 videos.

I personally think it looks awful.
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I'm pretty sure github has zero impact on the tech choices made by ICE or any other government agency.