skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, Patricia Churchland's book "Conscience: The Origin of Moral Thinking" was not by any means perfect, but it is unrecognizable from this review. I had to go back and look at my review in Goodreads to make sure we were talking about the same book. My own take: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3017854235
One surprising thing I learned by working at these large companies (I worked at Google for 2 years): User data older than ~90 days is essentially worthless. Other companies that I am aware of essentially do not use such data for anything except people management (teams with better historical metrics can hire more, etc).
You seem to have a distorted view of America.

You should probably live here before you pass judgement.

Listening to the echo chamber here and the mainstream news that comes out of America is not the full picture.
Google also has been moving to federated learning for their products such as Translation, Keyboard, Voice Recorder where the data doesnt leave the phone. Your point is fair though
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You'd also have to weight it, I'm sure Ram isn't exactly 50% of Dodge's portfolio.
Not everyone snaps a selfie every time they go to the bathroom, so no, a lot of us can’t get the same functionality by mapping photos.

That is not to say your device can’t keep a location history without sending it to someone’s server.
Again not the most ideal way to do things and Mozilla is doing a different approach to Chrome and Edge. and also a concern is that malware can use DoH to retrieve data without logging suspicious DNS queries on Firewall DNS logs which are monitored to highlight of new domains that have not been pre-approved.

DNS should be something that is handled by the OS. I favor DoT which is secure and practical over DoH.
I don't like "back to top" buttons because they take visible space and could be anywhere (if any) depending on the website. I don't like Cmd+Up keystrokes either on my mac.

Instead, it would be great to have something:

- That works on any website

- That can scroll to top, to bottom, and back to the place where you've scrolled from.

- Doesn't alter the websites appearance.

So I've created a tiny Chrome extension that solves all of this: https://github.com/sv3k/topscroll

After some time, you get used to it on reflexes level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_software "when not customized from their original form, meaning that they are used without any customizations or updates applied to them"
> As I keep saying, I'll believe Microsoft "loves" Linux they day they create Office and an AD client for it.

Microsoft is a company, suggesting a company "Loves" anything is a misnomer. I say this because I sort of disagree here, but only kind-of.

Microsoft embraces ("Loves") the parts of Linux which are compatible with Microsoft's strategy. Linux on Azure is getting quite huge, it's the difference between Azure existing as a profitable business for Microsoft and Azure being a cost center. Microsoft does a fair amount to embrace Linux on the server, they support Docker, they do a lot of work with Node, and have a fair number of people onboard doing Linux specific stuff.

Linux AD & Office are only really important to desktop deployments and Microsoft has zero strategic interest in the Linux Desktop. If Microsoft were to port Office & AD to Linux Desktop, it would be an act of charity. If Microsoft is doing charity work, there are a lot of projects I'd like to see them invest in before AD and Office on Linux.
Hiring engineers and following their plans is expensive, if you can skip one or both of those, you can undercut your competitors bids.
That wasn't your distinction, though. You used the term "public figure" and I think it's a bit dramatic to say that he was doxxed when he wrote under his full name until 2013, references those writings frequently and used that full name on the blog as recently as last year.

Either public figures deserve a measure of privacy or they don't.
Why are you certain they aren't talking about pizza?
I also like this feature - it's never been a problem for me. What is the problem is the data that they keep that I don't easily know about. I may be wrong, but this article sounds to me like it's going to delete the data you use so they don't have to store it (saving space) not the analytics data that they use to show you targeted advertisements.
Maybe not so much for a whole band, but for the classical guitar, people seem to tune the instrument slightly different for each piece (in a given key) and sometimes in the middle of a performance! Anecdotally, moving from something in e to d sounds terrible without adjustment.
Using .NET 5 with vs Code on Linux
The foreign aid is being used to purchase political support (largely in the army), as is typical. The issue is political economy, not shortage of money.
China launches final Beidou satellite
A better question to ask is how many of those pilots have progressed in their careers and moved on flying as captains for other world airlines. Having based their privileges on fake foundations.

This problem is ripe in aviation and it’s all over the world except mostly for western countries even though some Eastern Europeans countries have some variation of this.
If it was the plain it was ok
FWIW there are at least a couple of old stories about the world being drowned, in at least one of them it is because of the behavior of the humans. It doesn't however include detergent.
Thank you for the argument. Indeed I haven't thought about the fact that most people will not reach management level, not to mention VP or CXO level.

I guess another way to phrase my understanding is that: if your (possibly unattainable) career ambition is to reach CTO level, you should know that in the past, very rarely is that achieved with 2-year job jumping.

If your goal is to get steady compensation growth, probably job switching can give you that. And that is also probably what most of people should do anyways.
> Please explain why we have not seen a significant drop in defense spending during the periods when the threat of war has lessened. Especially after the fall of the Soviet Union when the world was decidedly unipolar for more than a decade.

But we have. See the second chart, covering Defence spending of the United Kingdom from 1900-2020. https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/past_spending

Spiked over 45% of GDP during WWI, and over 50% during WWII. Took a small bump over 10% that I believe was the Korean War, and has been fairly consistently drifting downward since, and is roughly comparable to 1900s pre-war spending.

The United States has a similar graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_... and while it's still nowhere near pre-war spending, there's been a similar downward trend over the last 50 years.
Why is it called Hey stack?

Why does the "Hey stack" persist to the obsolete Mysql dB engine and not PostgreSQL (opinionated dovnvote fodder, I know, but hey; bring it on! They are valid questions).
Thanks! Indeed we are still light on available aggregations. Right now we are focused on building a fast infrastructure to support them, for example Swissmap / "rosti" for keyed aggregations. Next steps will include multi-pass algorithms. Once the infrastructure is done (and fast), adding functions will be much easier.
This is only for new accounts, current accounts have to manually sign up for this feature.
What weird quirks? First time I joined a meeting I typed the code, clicked join with computer audio and everything worked. Where are the quirks?
DHH (somewhat surprisingly) said he really has no preference between MySQL and Postgres: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1275909837793062912
There's no comparison here. Taxis had a government-enforced monopoly. Uber had to innovate and heavily compete and invest to disrupt that. Uber, simply put, does not have a monopoly and everyone is fairly free to compete with it.
Looks good. The landing page explains the product well. I'm not really into stocks, or I would signup. Stupid question, as an American citizen, can I trade foreign stocks?
Active Directory, Internal Domains, monitoring, blocking, etc.
I feel similar as you do. I haven't taken the steps to go freelance route yet.

My biggest issues as an employee are lack of autonomy to work on my own hours, projects, technology, teammates etc. As freelancer, you may be able to choose your clients, fire them if they are not a good fit etc. Sure you may have to suck up and work with bad clients once in a while. But the idea of autonomy is very alluring to me.

As devs, we usually do have a lot of flexibility but sometimes you just want to take a few weeks off, you cannot do that as an employee. We have deliverable at end of this month and my boss is already talking about next deliverable. If we do freelancing right, after a big project, we would take a week or so off.

And you can start off as freelancer but overtime you can grow and create a consulting firm. I read this book, Developer's Hegemony, it had a lot of good ideas about how to go about doing this.

Anyways my plan is to freelance on the side for a while before quitting the job.
Hydrogen is a backup plan, and a sensible one at that. Germany doesn't have much in terms of lithium and other precursors for batteries, besides we have an awful lot of old rural non electrified train routes where the cheapest option by far is to go to hydrogen.
That was one of the interesting parts to me, how he kept consciously reminding himself he was safe (even though literally under attack) and then leaving the area to make an important decision so as not to be making it under the stress of the moment.
GitHub Open-Sources a Series of GitHub Actions for Automating ML Workflow
In capitalist societies any morality driven endeavor will very quickly be driven to the ground by its amoral competitor. And in public organizations the moral are quickly driven out because they threaten the amoral.

Also, of course, there are cases where regulation fails, and it’s never 100% successful. But the situations you mention are where people refused to adjust regulations as needed.

I’m curious to see examples where morality has prevented undesirable behavior on a large scale.
Funny enough it redirects back to the root domain for me. Probably because of my location.
I'm not an expert, but those look to my eyes like data (cable/phone) wires, not power distribution. A crazy rats' nest, but probably not dangerous?

I'm curious to know how it got to that point. Do they have 3 or 4 competing cable tv services in the neighborhood, all with their own infrastructure?
Probably in-house expertise and experience running previous services. That usually (or should at least) outweighs feature set in selection process, especially for databases.
> The acoustic structure of octaves is always the same: The frequency of a note in one octave is half the frequency of the same note in the octave above

This is not a great definition; our understanding of frequencies came well after we were using the concept. The idea of a "string of half the length with the same tension" is much more natural, and is the easiest mechanical analogy. The discovery of this is very natural because you get sympathetic vibrations -- you can feel the other string moving when you get consonance across octaves. It shows up (along with fifths) in most other instruments -- blowing twice as hard in a flute or halving the tube size, or compressing the embouchure in brass instruments.

While I don't think it's intrinsic in the human brain, it is intrinsic in most musical instruments, and it's kind of intrinsic in the way sound works, so it would be very surprising if it didn't feature in the music made by a culture, and thus work its way into the appreciation of music in general. The tests described here are interesting but might just point to the fact that there is less instrumental music (produced or listened to) in this culture than in others.
I am actually curious how you would go about proving that you are a citizen of the EU. I am sure you need some form of identification to board an international flight even though it might be within the Schengen area.
A friendly reminder that the US government can read your emails without a warrant if they've been stored on a server for longer than 6 months.

https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how...
Was AWS unavoidable?
What I think is even more significant than Hey’s backend stack is its _frontend_ stack. There’s no complex JavaScript framework; it’s all server side rendered HTML with a few touches of lightweight JS (mostly Turbolinks and StimulusJS, afaik) on the client to add basic interactivity. And it feels just as fast—if not faster—than any other modern, well-built web app.

It goes to show that libraries like React and Vue are _not_ necessary to build smooth, modern, and fully-featured web interfaces.

Edit: removed mention of Angular because, yes, it’s a framework, not a view library.
The app is called "Hey". It's not the HEY Stack in the same sense as the MEAN stack or the LAMP stack. It's the stack for the app called HEY.
Cue to Sucuriju in Brazil, that has less than 1k inhabitants.
Yes, "Privacy is at the heart of everything we do" - Never expected this line from Google! Really google, do you want to have that as your opening statement for a blog post!

If the answer is yes, please make us feel confident about it!

Found it amusing because, the Privacy in Google is not straight forward (means not promoted by Google, like Apple), the users have to take the responsibility of their privacy by navigating the Settings maze and turn the knobs to attain the real Privacy!
Curious but confusing. The article begins with stating the breeding drastically changed watermelons of ole-days. Then after showing a very much similarly looking one from the present day and also a seeded w/melon we know now found in a painting from the same period as the one showing the "original" w/melon. Conclusion I make: nature's diversity is amazing, better eat these now before they morph into some cube or rindless-seedless-fleshless-all-year-round powder.
I'd also say that a lot of people expecting to eventually hire on developers don't have to pick the tech stack that will scale to a 30 developer team. I've known a lot of very successful companies where the core tech was rebuilt/replaced as the team demands grow. And a lot of them probably wouldn't have gotten there that quickly if they make decisions around a 30 person team when they were 2 people.
There's something to be said for familiarity - I work in a Postgres shop now, but spent years operating large MySQL clusters in prior jobs. I'm learning Postgres, but still way more intimately familiar with MySQL (and in particular, InnoDB) internals and would probably reach for it for any new project I were architecting on my own.

Major relational databases generally all do the same stuff in similar ways for the 80% use cases, but when you get into the 20% of weird edge cases, operational concerns at scale, and troubleshooting... really knowing the storage engine internals like the back of your hand is useful.
I do wish there was some sort of "1 process per physical core" rule you could apply at the scheduler level to get most of the benefit with fewer risks. Or maybe isolate the handling of untrusted code like browser javascript, pdfs, etc.
Telepresence was incredible, but Cisco completely ruined it with the Tandberg acquisition. They restructured management to accommodate all the new execs from Norway, who just wanted to keep doing what they knew how to do: make more crappy commodity units. Surprise surprise, nobody wants a crappy commodity video chat, especially not a piece of hardware for $ when they could just use skype. Telepresence was best in class, but the Tandberg execs didn't "get it", divested attention into other (useless) areas, and ultimately completely fumbled the ball.
Yes, upon more careful reading, especially this part, I see what might be the issue:

>The workers... said they both received the notices last week from Tesla's human resources department citing their apparent failure to show up and the company's inability to reach them. The workers provided evidence of their continuing correspondence with managers.

Communicating directly with managers is not the same as communicating with HR; it seems like HR opened up a big list of people who hadn't clocked in in x days and sent them all termination-unless-you-say-otherwise notices.

The question I don't see answered in this article: Did HR communicate an end to the unpaid leave arrangement? I won't contend that that should have been clear from the start, since the situation changes by the day; but at least a little bit of "We're starting to wind down the unpaid leave program based on guidance from county authorities about the safety of ... etc, please arrange to resume your work by $Date,"
XMPP in Go
Not only is it mature, but it's his framework. Sure he's not the only maintainer but he's the original author. It makes sense to use your own tools; specially if they're successful.
Reminds me of a story I was told while learning how to design experiments and a/b tests.

In World War 2, some company was experimenting with the kind of material to use for combat aircraft wings. When they did their initial trials, they saw that the planes coated with the new material came back with more bullet holes. Off hand, that would seem like a reason to dismiss the new material. But, digging into the data, they realized that planes with the old material were actually crashing when they got their first bullet hole and the planes that were making it back, even with bullet holes, all were coated with the new material.
It is using some custom elements, though. :D
What does that answer of his even mean? That he prefers mysql ?
In addition to in-house experience, I've heard many good things about Vitess (check out the users at https://vitess.io/).
They don't expose how much information that they have about everyone, let alone what kinds of information. In that regard, they're not wrong.
Except for all the people that die when it falls down...
Maybe it was just preferred? Why is AWS something to be avoided?
It's not a slippery slope fallacy because it actually happens. We get offended by some phrase, so we invent a euphemism for it. Then a few years later, we get offended by that euphemism, so we invent a more vague euphemism. And on and on. Go to YouTube and look up George Carlin's bit on "Shell Shock".

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc
Reading about how to hold your data private on Google's blog feels like learning how to have a healthy romantic relationship from a porn site.
12 books at once seems like more unnecessary hyper-optimization to me.

It's like the people that watch YouTube videos at 2x speed to gain more time for...what, exactly? Reading 12 books at once?

Our society needs to dial it back a bit.
Usage of the word “Quality” rather than “Initial quality” in the article headline makes it all look like some kind of lame hatchet job
Some data could still leave the phone with federated learning. Although it is said to not be stored in the cloud.

> It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update. Only this update to the model is sent to the cloud, using encrypted communication, where it is immediately averaged with other user updates to improve the shared model. All the training data remains on your device, and no individual updates are stored in the cloud.

> https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...
From predictions to NPI prescriptions, and an actionable Covid-19 AI dashboard
Listen to Cognizant’s AI leaders explain how #EvolutionaryAI was used to build an actionable COVID-19 AI dashboard:

https://www.thepulseofai.com/post/people-have-asked-where-is-ai-in-the-fight-against-covid-cognizant-has-an-answer
Why Climate Activists Will Go Nuclear–Or Go Extinct
Thank you, feel free to suggest any changes. I have also added the github link.
I'm guessing you're going to start getting a lot of drone videos after watching this one, too...
The plane in Spain falls mainly in the rain.
Consent is a big deal. It really grinds my gears when companies (or people) try to be sneaky by treating silence as consent.
Yes, fair point, thanks. I don't know that the distinction matters for this discussion, but in case it does it's good to be precise. Mea culpa.
My first sleepy-brained thought was that they charged his parents for creating him.
Would you even bother trying to confirm or deny emails about pizza? I'd consider it an even bigger waste of time than supplying the long form of a birth certificate after someone decided that the short form wasn’t good enough proof of nationality for someone who was by that point already the elected president.
cp = cheese pizza. code for child porn
After this passes, imagine a perfect storm scenario where a widespread crisis--real, manufactured, or blown out of proportion and deemed an imminent threat by the powers that be--affords governments the cover to force everyone to stay at home and completely rely on the Internet in efforts to maintain some kind of sanity during "these challenging times".

Oh, wait...

From there, it is not hard to imagine that compliance with such government lockdowns could be deemed critical for "national security". Suddenly, decryption surveillance on large numbers of the population is done in response to a situation seemingly not even imagined (as far as we can tell) in the creation of this bill. They will not have to publicly ask for people to snitch on their neighbors--they will already know.

"But," some will say, "it is to keep us all safe." Replace a health crisis in the above scenario with...I don't know...maybe your desire to join a local protest over something.

When the LAED Act passes (I am pessimistically sure that "if" does not apply here) poetic justice would be for those "Republican" senators to be the first targets of state-sponsored hackers decimating the personal fortunes they have coincidentally amassed while holding office. To be honest, I am surprised that there is not a provision in the bill to somehow exempt Congress, just like there is with most other garbage legislation they say is best for us.
Yeah, tech stacks are important, but which one is right is so dependent on the specifics of a given project, which is what most of these tech-stack-hype conversations ignore. My small company pays out the ears in so many different ways to run our Python service, but we picked it because certain big companies can use Python at much larger scale than ours. Of course, those companies are mostly just doing CRUD operations to a database and often errors don't matter nearly as much because it's social media or whatever, and also they aren't as cost-sensitive as our business. Instead, we're fighting tooth and nail to keep our requests below a 60s HTTP timeout threshold when they could probably be on the order of a few seconds without optimization if we used a more performant application language like Java, C#, or Go (although the first two might involve some tradeoff on developer productivity; Go would probably improve developer productivity and it would certainly be a significant improvement to the tooling/deployment/etc story).
Results available from audit of Mullvad VPN app
or circa 1966:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali#Exile_and_comebac...
"He was systematically denied a boxing license in every state and stripped of his passport."