skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dangerous way of thinking and doesnt help to close divisions that are opening up all over society at the moment. He is a left libertarian by his own admission and there are countless examples demonstrating this fact. Because something has some political overlap in some areas, does not mean it is of the same political ideology as whole. Individuals on both the left and right can agree on freedom of speech for example without being considered a puppet of the other side of the aisle. The same can be said on views about gender, immigration ad infinitum. There is a culture war, correct. But he did not pick a side based on its conservatism, rather he picked a side based on postmodernist ideology
They don't want you to landfill it, they want to buy it back for half-market-value so they can resell it or reuse parts and metals. With cheap repairs you'd get your MBP fixed for $300 instead of sell it back to Apple for $300. With upgradability you'd max out ram and storage and get additional years out of a computer that maybe only shipped with 128gb of storage and 8gb of ram because you didn't have a spare $2000 for soldered upgrades on day zero. It all just pushes and guides you back to Apple to return the machine you quasi-leased for a slight discount on the next.
The use of the word “fake” is misleading, they seem to mean genuine certificates issued illegally, not downright Photoshop’d documents.
Photo Finish – The Fully Automatic Timing System for Your Smartphone [video]
Don't forget the 65K in hot dogs.
Plus even when they do need a warrant, it doesn't do much good when there is literally a closed-access secret court specifically for handling surveillance requests which very rarely denies said requests and has a known history of enabling abuse.
it's a shame :( and honestly, i think the whole "if it needs statements, it should be a named function anyway" argument is misguided (and maybe kind of a post-hoc justification of the limitations of Python lambdas). introducing a named function for something that's only going to be used in one place messes up the order (you have to keep the function in your head until it gets used) thus often making the code harder to read.
You mean it costs more and isn’t stable? They’re spending tons of money on software which never ships?

This is a niche feature which a very small percentage of users use even now: AAA gamers usually don’t buy Macs and most of the Windows-only software which people have doesn’t run on ARM anyway — and given how good cloud services are now you’d have to ask how many sales are going to be lost by someone who needs bare-metal Windows or Linux but won’t buy a PC.
> You really can't spend the 30 seconds needed to think about "hmm, maybe be a bit careful about the words I'm using here in case my message gets lost in criticism of my language"?

If I had thought there was a situation where "every second counts" was actually true, it would be human trafficking. You seem to disagree.

> Because it seems to me that using a racist term is more likely to divert the attention from your message, not less.

"Black market" is definitely a "racist" term now? GP only gave it as a potential example, or at least that's how I read it. The point is that wording the message like that is not actually going to divert attention. Except for the few people trying to police speech at every turn—and who will try to harm him over it—even though the message itself did its job (a far more helpful job than the people trying to police speech would ever do, for that matter).
> We need an archive for the archive.

Would a distributed version work? I mean I can't dedicate much bandwidth or enough storage for the whole archive but I could dedicate a few terabyte. Is there anyone working on such a thing?
Gloo API Gateway v1.4 – Kubernetes Ingress, Istio 1.6, MOAR Helm Values and
This whole thing is a catch 22 - to be taken ”seriously” with enterprise IT you need this badge to show that you are vulnerable.

If you’re not vulnerable and don’t need the badge you can’t be taken seriously.

It’s all very amusing!
This, to me, is the key sentence:

> They believe they received the notifications for speaking up about their concerns with working conditions at the plant.

The conversation so far here seems focused on them not showing up after being told they didn't have to. But did everybody who did not show up get these notices? Was it just folks who were vocal about working conditions?

Is this retribution? Why do the workers say so? It's always a danger to take a company's stated reasons for termination at face value. It could be true, but it might not. I'd love to hear more details.
https://xkcd.com/504/
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Not to get meta, but both you and the parent are asking leading questions. I do it too, but I don't think we shoudl I think it's because we're trying to be polite but make a point. Maybe it's just an online thing.
Dark ages my friend. Luckily we know better nowadays =)
I think you'll enjoy:
https://www.poster.pl/pl/artysci_plakaty.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_School_of_Posters
Bad habit, sorry. America doesn’t have the benefit of learning from operating at the scale of cities like Shanghai. It’s hard to avoid politics because China’s system of government is completely different than the US, and incompatible philosophically. But there is validity to what you said - learn from those who do.
> So, to answer your question: they do not try to extradite the foreign operators responsible to the leaks

Do you think that would change if they had more power?

It's like criticizing the response of a super corporation like Microsoft and saying a smaller company like GitLab handles the same scenario better. Probably true, but also if you scaled GitLab to the size and power of Microsoft, maybe they would've had a different response.
> Sticking with Musk, he took an ahistorical appraoch to Tesla's Fremont factory with automation. He learned a very expensive and wasteful lesson that other auto manufacturers had known for decades.

Sometimes things change and the lesson everyone learned is no longer valid. Fools sometimes get lucky.
AP changes writing style to capitalize 'b' in Black
Oracle open sources its distributed KV store: Coherence
NASA to name DC headquarters after 'hidden figure' Mary W. Jackson
Implementations for Gray code encoding and decoding (2019)
Apple is systematically erasing our stories
Presumably we would agree that writing a web app is more economical in Python, Ruby, Go, etc than in C or ASM. Both C devs and HLL (higher level language) devs are well-paid and well-versed in their tool set. The difference is that HLL devs can deliver value at a higher rate than C devs for this domain.

If we can agree on the above, then presumably it's conceivable that the same abstraction principle applies with low code solutions--yes, low code users will know their tool well and earn loads of money, but they will probably move faster than traditional programmers for this domain.

In my mind, this only holds as long as these low-code tools are really more abstract and not just a visual/graphical programming language (I'm sure there are very low-level visual programming tools that would allow you to manage your own memory, etc). It also depends on the domain being amenable to abstraction--if you have to drop out of the tool with some regularity to do things the tool doesn't support (e.g., performance, custom analytics, etc), there's a threshold at which the overhead of calling into a lower level language exceeds the benefits of the tool. I don't know where this threshold is, largely because the domain isn't well defined.

But I do think low code solutions are conceivable for certain domains. I would make the argument that Microsoft Access and Excel either qualify as "low code" solutions or they are at least proto-low-code solutions, and they both deliver tremendous value. I would perhaps even say that Access/Excel are to client-side applications what these new low-code solutions are to web applications. Not a perfect analogy, but I think there's something insightful in there.
This shows how crazy the GTK rewrite was. Not even GIMP was willing to rewrite its code to use the latest version.
> For every choice he had to make on the approach, he made the wrong one.

*As they did. 2 pilots, both ignored the warnings from the airplane, and the initial ones from the tower about approach speed and altitude.
> If your strategy is to get rid of all pretexts for police action, I don't think that is the right one.

Not at all.

> Instead we need to set a high standard of conduct and make sure it is upheld

Yes, but we should be real about what this means. The institution of law enforcement is rotten, which is why it protects bad actors to such a degree. It needs to be cleaved from its racist history and be rebuilt nearly from the ground up. Better training in interpreting results from an ML model won't be enough by a long shot.
So Americans love nothing more than to see the world as a collection of slippery slopes so there'll be the Assange defenders who argue this is an attack on press freedom but... I urge you to look a little deeper.

There are two major issues here:

1. Assange actively participated in the acquisition of classified material. This came up in the Chelsea Manning. Pointing to tools that can be useful. Prompting action. That sort of thing; and

2. Assange was playing politics. This should've been clear from Assange's actions with respect to the DNC emails.

Think about (1) for a second. Imagine the Attorney General had committed a crime. Proof of that was in a safe in his house. Which of the following is acceptable conduct in obtaining that information?

- Breaking into his house to get it;

- Destroying the safe to get at the contents;

- Holding him at gunpoint to open the safe;

- Holding his family hostage until he provides the information;

- Hiring someone to do any of the above;

- Someone offers the information to you without you knowing how it came to be in their possession;

- Someone notifies you of the information's existence and location. You pay them to acquire it. Or give them a gun. Or threaten them if they don't.

The point of these examples is to show that:

1. There is no absolute defense here and certainly not "journalism". The alternative is robbing banks as an expression of journalistic freedom; and

2. If you commit a crime, you commit a crime and the authorities can prosecute you for that.

The other side of this is recent administrations seem to have adopted a disproportionate response approach to dealing with leaks and whistleblowers, likely as a deterrent (they hope).
How to use Google Benchmark for C++ programs
As I said in my other comment, it's clear from the context that by "parts of the Bible" they mean named contiguous sections, and by "not parts of the Bible" they mean topics that are raised intermittently thoughout. So there's no homosexuality "part of the Bible" just in the sense that there's no Book of Homosexuality.

It wouldn't make sense to demand an exact term when you're looking at something that was originally written in a different language (like the Bible, which was mostly written in Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek) because whether or not that word is exactly matched depends on how it's translated rather than something inherent in the original work.
In reopening he broke a local order that was preempted by a state law, which is why he got away with it. His lawyers advised him that he had a strong case before he acted.
That split was always pretty interesting to me. It seemed Andersen Consulting bristled at being attached to Arthur Andersen, mostly because Andersen Consulting had to pay 15% of their profits to Arthur Andersen. I figured that the limited partnership nature of consulting/accounting businesses meant that even individual divisions maybe felt their business was their business.
The breakup started in 1997, but yeah it was ironic that they had agreed to jettison the name right before Arthur collapsed.
It’s a common talking point people use to obfuscate and defend wikileaks.

As you note, it’s irrelevant but also, if true, illustrates how selectively showing true info is deceptive.
I can see only one scenario where it makes sense for Microsoft to buy Canonical: to prevent Amazon or Google from acquiring them and doing something anti-competitive (or as much as can be done legally in that respect) and making life difficult for customers using Ubuntu on Azure.

The comparison of relevance is Github. Microsoft was using Github so much already that the prospect of someone else buying them was an issue (not to mention the joke that buying Github was cheaper than paying for Microsoft's growing use of the platform). In practice, has Microsoft done anything to Github that has limited them in any way? The biggest change is that Github has a super-rich benefactor and they can offer free accounts to everyone now... and their budget for hiring/retaining top talent has been boosted as well.

Microsoft has more than enough money to do the same with Canonical and if they do I think it will largely be a matter of making sure Canonical doesn't need to worry about finances anymore and can hire whomever they need to build and deliver features. And yes, it's possible that Azure Linux applications might be available on Ubuntu first but extending and extinguishing Ubuntu would be massively opposed to making money on Azure -- I don't see Microsoft doing that.
> War destroys progress and is incredibly inefficient.

Please explain the monumental advancements of technology witnessed during both world wars. Even if they were not a direct result of the war effort, they still succeeded in spite of all technically and scientifically advanced nations being on a war footing during those time periods.

> The mere threat of war creates an endless arms race resulting in half of discretionary spending going to defense.

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.

> The reason for submitting to government authority is for protection of life and liberty.

I would argue that ceding some liberty to government is necessary for peaceful defense of life and property (backed up by the threat of collective force) but I don't believe that a government inherently defends liberty. To the contrary I think that liberty must be actively defended from the excesses of government, preferably by building those protections in to the legal foundation of the governments power so that if they are violated it invalidates the mandate granted and provides legal recourse against the government in favour of those wronged by it.

To be clear, I don't support war and I think that there are much better and less destructive ways to stimulate technological and societal growth but I don't hold with weak arguments either.
I think you are doing software engineering at step 2 as well (base case and build recursion for example). The reality is, CS skills are useful even in low and no code scenarios.
>the concept of having an absolutely applicable in all circumstances free speech right is not a concept used everywhere.

It is as a moral concept. I'd argue (as a Canadian) the Canadian legal concept of "free speech" doesn't really resemble the moral concept at all. Which is shameful. Unobjectionable conduct doesn't need protection.
Senators Want to Force Tech Firms to Give the Cops Keys to Encrypted Data
CVE track record for ClamAV is not perfect, but doesn't seem out of line with similar products.

ClamAV: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15657/Clamav-Clamav.html?...

Norton AV: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/398/Symantec-Norton-Antiv...

Windows Defender: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/9767/Microsoft-Windows-De...

It may be safer to say that the CVE record for most AV software isn't great.
Medieval Trade Networks
I don't have any data to support this, but hasn't farm consolidation already happened? In my area, the small scale movement is only growing. That's based on observation and no data.

Edit: I realize that a small scale farm doesn't "scale" like VC business wants so it's not even in the conversation about venture capital. But small business will always (hopefully) be a viable endeavor for somebody.
> others would "know" who you were based on your interactions - thus having skin in the game

That's pseudonymity, is it not? Otherwise why the quotes around "know"?
Except your apps are all built using SDKs that sell your data to the highest bidder and even if that can be mitigated, your cell company is doing the same thing on the network level.

They just brought back the illusion of control.
> Why didn't they just improve the Linux version.

You know, write once, run everywhere. It's programmer's dream :-)
Has it been proven that those emails were real in the first place?

I too was confused by the use of what appears to be coded language, but then thought to myself: wait, is what I am reading authentic?
Right. Let me know when Tesla employees can vote for a new CEO.
Of interest, about that particular NYT journalist: https://medium.com/@garyweiss_86200/cade-metz-pulls-a-deep-c...
I think there is a line that is pretty easy to define there: if the app is an add on to a subscription (the subscription is useful without the app) and someone would actually purchase the subscription without the app, then the app can point to the subscription page. If the subscription isn't useful without the app, then apple deserves their share.
PostgREST is an interesting project, thanks! I will check how good is our support for them. It really depends on how tailored to Postgres they are, if they only rely on the Wire protocol then it should be fine!
It is not unexpected. Annoying, but not unexpected.

Incidentally, since Assange technically helped current president win, I am surprised he is not getting more lenient treatment. With Hillary I fully expected a vendetta.
These people have nothing to do with classical Marxism.

The people who seized part of Seattle are anarchists, which, if you read about the history of the labor movement, broke with the Marxists in the 19th Century over some very fundamental issues of how they view society.

Modern identity politics is diametrically opposed to classical Marxism, whatever its proponents choose to call themselves, because it emphasizes identity over class. In those circles, calling someone a "class reductionist" is an insult.
Agreed. But the main content of the article was more about Covid 19 than the employees, and it seems more like a piece to shape thoughts by reinforcing ideas about public health policy than to discuss the employees’ welfare. More shame than substance.
> first silicon shipping in 2020

I've thought that's the Mac mini for devs?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-mac-mini-will-be-the-first...
I too get what you are trying to accomplish. But the vast majority of anti-h1b crowd doesn't have anything even close to the reasoned arguments and critique you offered. The knee-jerk reaction is largely: h1b = cheap labor = takes away "my job" => I need to bay for Indian blood. Just watch Lou Dobbs or his ilk...

Like with many things today, nuance is all but non-existent in this argument.
TBF, Pilots not being qualified to fly commercially happens elsewhere too [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_English_Channel_Piper_PA-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_early_HIV/AIDS_cas...

"(...) These specimens are significant not only because they are the oldest specimens of the virus known to cause AIDS, but because they show that the virus already had an extensive amount of genetic diversity in 1960.[10] This suggests the virus had either undergone recombination or been circulating for years or perhaps decades in the Kinshasa population. (...)"

Additionally,

Richard Edwin Graves Jr., a 28-year-old World War II veteran who had been stationed in the Solomon Islands, died on 26 July 1952 in Memphis, Tennessee with pneumocystis pneumonia, CMV and what some authors suggest are a sufficient number of opportunistic infections for a clinical course suggestive of an AIDS diagnosis.[8][9]

Sadayo Fujisawa, a sixty-year-old Japanese-Canadian woman, died in Montreal on 28 June 1945 of pneumocystis pneumonia with Human cytomegalovirus (CMV), diarrhea, and wasting, a group of symptoms which some authors conclude would have led to an automatic diagnosis of AIDS in the early 1980s.[6][7]

The virus was already circulating globally in the early 1900s.
OpenAPI: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I am watching this space carefully, and pretty excited about Apple getting involved. Apple sold 58.7 million AirPods in 2019, so if anyone can bring better hearing (for less $) to the masses, it's Apple. There is a longterm accessibility issue when it comes to hearing aids (mostly due to cost), and purchasing a brand new iPhone and AirPods would actually be substantially cheaper than buying new hearing aids. Hopefully Google gets in the game too with their pixel buds.
I disagree. Paying someone else to take an exam in one's place definitely makes the resulting license fake, and definitely makes it not genuine. They just used a different process than Photoshop to produce the false document.

Semantics. I must disclose that English is not my first language.
As of today the server could read all data, but I believe wouldn't be a huge lift to implement E2E encryption with SSH or PGP keys (or something similar).
Hey look, it's one of those spooks who actually eats all the spook dog food. Lol!
Notion: All-in-One Workspace
The US is more of a surveillance state now than it ever has been before. Police have unprecedented surveillance capabilities, and still would even if everyone used unbreakable encryption.

Credit cards, surveillance cameras, cell network tracking logs, targeted advertising, and the rise of social media have all but killed privacy on their own. The police already have access to all that data, and more.

The idea that we need to add more surveillance capabilities to protect historical law enforcement capabilities is laughable.
Goldman Sachs releases new font
My understanding is that Comcast signs a legally-binding contract with Mozilla which imposes the requirements on them [0]. This obviously isn't perfect protection, but it substantially increases the risk of failing to adhere to the requirements. Mozilla claims "We intend to publicly document violations of this Policy and take additional actions if necessary." [1]. Presumably the additional actions include suing for damages pursuant to the breach of contract.

[0] https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/02/25/the-facts-mozi...
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy#Enforc...
He means Trump.

As seen in the leaked Podesta emails (Hillary’s campaign manager that was phished and has a password of “Pa$$w0rd” or such), Hillary Co asked their media contacts to put emphasis on Trump. To give him more coverage than the others running. They literally called him their “pied piper” candidate. They were so confident they could beat Trump that they helped prop him up.

How Hillary skated by with many people not knowing or not caring that in more ways than one she is responsible for the president they hate so much, I have no idea.

Edit: you know the emails are on Wikileaks HN, the chain starts with “Friday Strategy”
While the plane in the background is like ring ring ring ring goddamn cycle that gear lever pretty please ring ring ring ring